The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-21 00:00:00

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COMM-RATE CONTEST *e GREENWICH. - A
tfOlPded aseetiag of tin ratepayers of Oneewich was held ou
Friday evesiag, for the parr:wad saskiag echos:A-rate. The
Rev. W. A. Soomee, Ow mow, took the choir ; sad the esti-
metes having hem reed. ',hewing that e sum of 4261. 7a 61.
was 'mailed, fur which it errs yropneed to levy • fete of Id.
ate the potted, Mr. Sew. wiliatur sari clerk to the Orsatairkk
Voted .10asediaas, objected to the item is the adman of

" abirot fral. for repairs:" sad moved the adjournment of tie
meeting for rix racks, ken more explicit estimate to be
'tarnished. Mr. Tanner amonded the owtioo. TO* Chair-

man declined to put the motion, for two macaw
rat, bemuse its object was to defeat the rats, which
could be dune by voting against the proposition;
sad. second, because it would not be binding in law,
es the chwchurchina could call a 112,0611 K for the
parpos the very seat wade. Mr. Saw quoted authorities to
show that the chairman wu wrong in hie hie, and maid he
weld band la a protest against any rate being ranted until
the eatimealss wets ounanded, end requested that emit protest
be shred on the minutes. The vestry clerk ruk,l that in
law as written protest could be entered on the minutis.
Ilaw wain urged that his motion should be put, and lila pro-
test Wend, bat the chairmen declined. A ratepa)er oto-
*lard of an item of 121. 10e. rot down for weeding the
church. and and for bell rrooppeses. A rate of Id. In the pound
wee then proposed end aeenaded, when about 30 Muria were
held up for. and at Lost 300 against it. A pull was flied for
the 29th end 29th hut.

Sr. JANTs's-TAN.K.--The metropolitan public and
the general rabbi. of Great Britain must be greatly ohligod
to Sir B. hall fur the excellent improvements made in St.
Jernee's.perk sod the metrepolitan parks generally. lint
what ran have induced Sir Benjamin to place se abominable
puffing, snorting, lenaing 1.141-pfteellfe stem-copra) ou
the oreantestal Wand at the toot sod of the ornamental
wain? To pump water from the sew well for isse in the
Wm," may be the reply. Tint fresh water Is necenary JI
writ allow, sad few will find fault with say saving of money
between the percenteon of pumping and the former con of
purchasing wafer from one of the water coespanin, If the
gaspine can be carried ea without noise and without smoke ;
Y. present %turmoil end filth never ran be sanctioned for
meginiiance. Fortunately neither the noise nor smoke is
asesesan. A compound impute (high-preerrure and con.
ilimaing) will Sable the power of tho stem, work gritbout
guise, end save half the fuel , and coke should be timed, not
mai. It gwewameat will nut attend to clanking.. and cum.
trek eaei a Swan St. James's-pwIL how as the public
be mewl te ohms the nuisance of mile, sad smoke In masa-
thelming dieting f— The Builder.
APPIPINTMENTS.-I,ord Clarendon boa appointed
Mr. Philip Waterhouse Currie, of the Forrigni,fflue, Perris
lirrittr, in the room of Mr. F. W. It. Cavendish. Mr.
Beery Major Cooke, of the Western Circuit, is appointed
litecorier of Poole. Mr. Tajlor is appointed li.patrar ul
Joint-Stack Beaks, In the recur of Mr. Whltnisralt,
owenest. Mr. Taylor, es depalyvenetrar, bee tranracted
the elkief batistes of the depannent rirb core and allenfeey
fur ...rat yure, sad own his promotion rrVircly to hie
merit in the public servire.-04.rter.
Tux Pgastas Au &VISA DWl—llia Excellency
lad suite; attended by Commodore Lynch, C.D., of the In-
. dies , snivel ea Saturday night at Claridge's Hotel.
The Amaredow kit Paris at S s.ni was received at Bon-
Woe by the Bettie .anal aid ensei4 from there to Dover
lithe mail packet Prime Frederick William (antler tbe au-
periaMsfinge of caress ll•althett), specially °Mend re, thk4
sleek* la one Wm eel dl minute'. At Dover his excel-
lency arse nano! by Clifonan M'lhwains, the Admiralty
osperinnudent, Mr. Chartherard, the contractor for the
mill packet Nevin, &c. After dining at Birmingham'.
Ship lintel, the unbeseedor new up to Leedom by emend
train. Hie excellency rehires fa shoat a fortnight..

Tice EXIT= HALL SERVICIS.—Last evening the
Mel the nantantortnist services st Rueter nail, designed
*e the ham& of the working clamor, wee conducted by the
Rev. William Lambeth, niMister of the baptist chapel,
Regent'apark. The services win clops nest nundey rem-
' leg, ow which occasion the preacher will be the Hog. end
Bev. Beptim Wriothealey Noel, MA., ministor of John-
West ck.pel, Bedfard-row.
VICTIMS OF VIZ INDIAN MUTINT.—The
lugh Wawa elates that the We Jedge Robertson. Chief
Judge of Ilsrvilly, who was craelly rirarM there after the
workers of a trial in the month of Hey hat was the son of
Major Oavld Robertson, late of the lion. E'aat India Corn.
ray's service, sad of Caroline Lockhart, of Cambuanettutn,
en Lanarkshire, who hese to lament both her hio.bend and
her am. The latter was born at Agra, June 28, Ixll. It ls
ksown that when the Indian mutinies wire imminent on the
north-west, Bareilly was me of the diet I.lam where the
strwitios wwweseed. On the morning of the outbreak some
moped (ems the station, bat Mr. Ephraim., with
• few others, hoping ageismet hope that they would be able
to keep the restless spirit. mound them in check, continued
et their porta, and fell victims to the mutiny. Mr. Robert-
alla IMO put to death by • rebel chief, not with torture, bid
fa mode which wen designed to be Igsonlislous. His last
letter to his wile was written the night before he was killed,
sad up to that time no gentleman had left the elation. The
next morning, when the signal gun woe Bred for the mutiny
to commence. many having their harms ready saddled, ampe4
bat unhappily Mr. Robertson did not avail himself of the
snort ssity. The late judge am a maw of literary taste,
ad was distinguished ea • friend of the Free Church in
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