The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-29 00:00:00

BALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

An How. 011711113 CAN, on behalf of Sir W. Lawson,
rave notice of his intention to bring in a bill to prevent
'he sale of intoxicating liquors within:certain districts.
The house then adjourned to Tuesday, February 16.

8110C1I1110 .ACCIDENT ON d RAILWAY.

ty, TUISDAT.

A shocking accident occurred at the railway
•cation here hurt night. A passenger was standing on the
'dge of the platform watching a pealing train, when his
:not slipped and he fell upon the rails. Eight carriages
used over his body, which was dreadfully mutilated.
The unfortunate man died-hi a few minutes.

ALLEGED Will MURDER 47 LANCASTER.
A shocking affair hisaaist taken place in Lan-
-tuner and has ended . A woman named Jane
Martin was found by Dr. , who had been requested
to attend to her, with her eyes closed apparently from
repeated blows, her mouth horribly disfigured from a like
sum, she herself being in an insensible condition. She
lied yesterday without being able to give any account as
• • how she received her.injurim. Her husband, Thomas
Martin, a wheelwright at the Lancaster Waggon Works,
Is been apprehended charged with causing her death.

Gazette states that "Mr. Butler
.hnbtone's health is such that his physician has ordered
.zo to the south of Frr.nce."

Para'. Pout ESS.—At the last consistory the
''ape, in speaking of the interference of the Sing of Italy
u behalf of Ajani and Luzzi, who bays been bestowed
death, is reported to here qualified it by the word
.(.-caters—" impudence."

The Belgian journals contain accounts of a
violent storm which raged in Belgium on Saturday and
• Aday. A good deal of property was destroyed.
Sorrnaairroft, DEL. 29.—The St. Maio mail
;Like! arrived here this forenoon, and reports the New
rk mail packet Borussia as still in Portland Bonds
waiting for favourable weather to proceed on her voyage.
11. e boisterous weather here has ceased.

Foreign ppm) is now becoming a regular article
r I consumption in Paris. Per sftries not less than
4000 hares arrived from Germany. besides a quantity of
slid boars, deer, and chamois, with • variety of the
fathered tribe, from Transylvania.
DEATH OF Ma. CRALYEIta.—We regret to re-
ecrd the death of Mr. Chalmers, the inventor of the
thahners Target, which took glee" on Saturday morning
last. Mr. Chalmers has lett behind him works that can-
Lot but make him remembered and regretted by the
tritish public. He has been cut off just as his target
_is
slout completed and his Channel Railway scheme likely
to come into notice. It is hoped that them labours of his
lila for the public weal may not be slighted by those in
I ositiois to reward them. Mr. Chalmers leaved a widow
with two daughters and two eons. The blow falls the
ro,re heavily upon his bereaved widow and children on
to,,unt of his two sons being in New York.
DEATH or Ma. JOHN HIIMPHERT.—This gen-
t *min, the eldest son of the late Mr. Alderman Hum-
I I,,trv, di,4 on Sunday lest at his residence, after • severs
Hail of paralysis, brought on, it is supposed, through
.111;111111TO mental study. Mr. Humphery was probably
:LOS largest wharf proprietor on the banks of the river at
1..4.10n-bridge and illwall. He and hie brother ((now
Humphery, Bart.) married the two daughters
• f the late Mr. Alderman Cubitt. Mr. Humphery was
4 Lis Und year.
CHRISTMAS DINNERS FOR Till POOR. —OR
gaieties' Eve a distribution took place at St. John's-
-o.ood congregational church of dinners for 426 poor
tanilies. Upwards of lOW. had been contributed for the
I urpose,
On Cliristmea-day nearly 200 boys and girls
sisesablal at the Reformatory on Wandsworth-common
ktlytaki, of a good dinner of hot nest best and plum
"1"111. The Wen, of this undertaking is maul due
t‘ the niertions of Kr. Bickerdika and a few
the asigiabostrikood.