The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1850.

ROYAL BOTANIC BOCIIITY.

The thin, and last lets of the mama took Owe
yesterday, at the moiety's genet, Bogen". Park, and us-
dee favourable supine, considering that the weather,
dosing the early part of day,wes by so masse promisi-g Of
somisregiag. The gardens wen meet nomernaly attended
sad timmaget the visitors were :—Princ• and Prisms'
ilekwaratiorg. Dak a : Norfolk, Beaufort, Gatos. Bebop
of Wi•olliataf. lassqulees : Ailsibury. kassthhile"
Dowcahlre. Berl of /Ismailia& Vissouutese de lioecorvt,
Bytom do Cioeteatd. Lords: Rood's, Henri Tars*.
C. Flimsy. Ladies : Macfarlane, II ambiances, Lake,
Rose, Maynard, Codriagton, Murray, B. Dawson. stn :
Jobs Cube et, A. de Stook*. General Clifton, Hos. Mr.
Lygos, Limn-Colossi Lawmen:a. Majors: Browses, For-
rest. The Turkish and Perhps's. Ambstaadors.
Notwidistasding the threassaing ewes of the clouds
dogleg the sarong. the is. sessisesd to Woo wlth very
little intormiasios throat:ghost the dames.
Teo Bowen which appeared la richest lexerianse were
the Imbues:sebum, the Caps Maths, salssokass, °noddies."'
plants, funsies, greenhease szalen ilts.; sad sewer% the
fruits there were several verandas of Mass, grapes, peen's.
and other choice pre: Matisse of the iiii•fOO.
We have noticed so assay tin:shunt !itte at them gar-
dens or 'Nowhere during the last few weeks that little re-
mains to be said, exempt that the amabined sttrestiont widen
are usually Wised topther ova these naming oesesiess
were eakibitedyeaterday la all their tone and beauty. The
bends of the Ist and lad Li's Gouda(Blue) were in &mead-
&nee, and their varies pertormeasie produced the usual in-
spiriting amt.

TOWER HAMLETS' LITERARY AND

BCIBNTWIC INBTITUTION.

Last evening a public meeting was hell at the
Town Hall, l'oplar, In promotion of the resolutions agreed
to at a late public mosses of the inhabitants of Pop:••,
Limehouse, and S pney, ftt emoting and establiabitg •
Itterary and *tient-411 institatiou et the junction of the But
lied West ladle Dock rod •
Mr. F. YOUNG, the chairman, expressed the plea-
sure, he felt is presiding over • meeting in a locality
with which he had been connected ell hi. We in favour
bf an object so praiseworthy as this. The ad-
vantages of edusetion were now generally admitted ;
the benefits resulting to • community hem • sosthd
education based on rebates could not be o.er.esti.
matt& The elementary education of the young was bat
one step in the proves.; it required to be followed up by
mental training mid habits of pursuing knowledge In adolt•-
eence and adult age. (Hear, bear.) Were this not done,
the mere education of youth might be pernicious.
Knowledge was power, and that power most be
rightly directed. T 3 th we of the middle &Asses—
shopmen and others—oho wished to extend their
information the way ought to be smoothed; aad that would
Wit be done by institutions like the one proposed. He had
always found that those most sedulous in the discharge of
their duties to their employers were those who were slaloms
in the pursuit of knowledge. (Hear, heat) He hailed
the establishment of this ins i:ution a. • common ground on
which all who were interested in the improvement of society
might units. ( Hear. hear.)
Mr. E. SKILLET, the secretary, then read the pros
palm of the institution, as founded on the resolutions passed
at the last meeting.

Mr. THOMSON HANKEY, jos., of the Bank of Eng-
land, said though be was personolly unknown to most in
that room, as use who had been alt his Ire connected with
the commerce of the metropolis, he felt justified in
appearreg before them to advocate any cause which would be
beneficial to their interests. Every one must see that in an
age like this, when every one sought to promote, not only
his own interests, but those of the community in which be
lived, an institution tending to collect together men fur the
diseeeition of social and reientifie objects must be an east nsial
benefit. (Hear, hem.) Ile moved a /wisteria* approval
of the plan of the institution, and declaring that it was
well adapted to the wants of the people of the neighbor-
hood.
Mr. J. J. FLETCHER seconded the reeolution. This
institution was designed for a population of 130,000 oe
1dt...000. embracing the whole of the ',totem portion of the
Tower Hamlets. (Hear. hear.) So strong was the feeling
for those institutions amongst the working people, that in
many plum' they were getting them up themselves; and
the re could not be a doubt of this institution beicg supported,
If it was properly conducted. (Hear, hear )
Mr. J. H. PARRY said he had been invited to take
part in this meeting. and if his effects could contribute to
its object, he should be moo gratified. He had watched for
many years the progress of institutions like thence propoestl,
and was convinced that they tended tspronrete the union and
to 'dear ce the interests of all ellas2ll. They abountled tercet' h.
out the country • and he could only account fee suck an in.
imitation not being car==er established in this locality by sup.
posing that their benefits bad not been duly considered.
Their object was simply to extend anti carry out the educa-
tion of adults; and wke e was the man who did not feel
himself in want of information on some points ? (Cheers.)
The resolution was then put an I agreed to unanimously.
The Rev. CiEORUE SMITH moved a resAution pledg-
ing the meeting to support the insti ution by taking
shares and using their influence in its favour. He stated
that there hod loog been a literary institution in the east of
Lmdon, in the Commercial-road ; but there had been
mistakes in its management which would be avoided in
the present institution. The committee had determined to
take mean. s ffectoolly to prevent any future misappropriation
of the building; if erected, it would be for the benefit of fu-
ture et orations, as well as the present. Let societies like
thin he establi-hed throughout the length and breadth of
the land, and no fear need be entertained, either of foreign
aggression or intestine disturbance. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. T. ROWKE f T seconded the resolution, and dwelt on
the advantages generally resulting from literary institutions.
Mr. J. PELHAM moved that a third public meetir.et
shtuld be held in Stepney, within a month, in support of
the proposed institution.
Mr. T. PRICE seconded the resolution.
Votes cf thanks were pared to the chairman, and to the
gentlemen who had advocated the objects of the institution.

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SHOOTING A OAMEKLEVER.--lowelet Field al;us
Chance, of Toddingtan, was brought up before the Woburn
bench, on remand, in custody of Superintendent Jebbete, on
• charge of ha ring feloniously shut at and wounded John
White, gamekeeper, in the employ of W. D. C. Cooper,
Esq. The gamekeeper was on his rounds on Monday, the
2ith inst., and seeing the prisoner coming sting the road he
retired into a fid 1 in the occupation of Mr. Philip Holworth,
and knelt down amongst the 'Juicy, which was about three
feet high, to watch his movements. Shortly after the pri-
soner entered the barley field, and teak up his position
stout 28 yards nom the gamekeeper. The poacher bad
not been there many minu'es before he sew something
rise up amongst the barley and suddenly drop down
main. Thinking, as he said, it wee a rabbit, he put
a c'p on his gun and "smacked" it, but the charge
did not go off. The gamekeeper heard the hammer of the
can hit the nipple, but felt certain it was pointed in another
direction. Again the dark object was seen to move amongst
the corn, another percussion was affixed, the poacher raioid
his gun and fired. Making'sure of his game, he deliberately
walked to the spot, and found that he had shot the game-
keeper. His first exclamation was, "Oh dear ; have I shot
you ; " and asked what he could do to assist the wounded
man. The keeper told him to go for a doctor. He did so;
White (allured soon after, and met a large party to whom
the prisoner had communicated the unfortunate circumstance.
Six sluts were received in hie face, two of them just under
the left eye; and nine in has waistcoat; the bulk of the shot
passed just over his head. The prisoner appeared surprised
and sorry at what had occurred, and declared it wan purely
accidental. The policeman of the district stated that the gun
must have been fired at a considerable elevation, as the bulk
of the charge struck the barley about six yards beyond the
place where the gamekeeper lay. In h e defence, the pri-
soner sail he thought it was a rabbit. When he went up to
the spot et which he fired and found out his mistake, White
said ne thought he should die, as the shot bad entered his
brain, on hearing which he (the prisoner) advised him to
think of his pow soul. The Chairman said it was a most
painful as well es a doubtful case. It was impossible to
know whether the gun bad been fired off intentionally or
not; but it was not likely that a person who was in the
constant habit of shooting would shoot six feet above the
ground at a rabbit. The magistrates, therefore, had decided
upon sending the case for trial at the next mains. The pri-
soner was accordingly committed.—Berlford Mast
SMOKING IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—At Tunbridge,
on Monday, Nelson Collard, George Hacker, Thomas Asb,
George Mount, and Edward Culled, described as agents,
were summoned before the magistrates for inunaptiog the
officers on the South Eastern Rsilway Company in the ext.
cution of their duty. This ease arose out of transactions
which took plan on the Derby day. The defendants, it ap•
pun, had taken tickets from Red to Canterbury, by the
South Eastern Railway, in a third-clam caniage, and while
proceeding from the former station to Oodstone, they were
perceived by the guard to be smoking. He repeatedly urged
them to desist, and upon arriving at the Tunbridge Maude
they all five lett the carriage, in endeavouring to reenter
which, after receiving notice from the guard that they should
not proceed any further, a scuffle took place, the guard was
struck, and two of the defendants were evicted from the
company's premises, the other three following of their own
accord. They werethus compelled to hire a conveyance to
take them to their destination. One dams having brought
an action in the Ramsgate County Court for 201. as commin-
ution for loss of time and expenses, the railway company
instituted the present proceedings. The defendants did
not appear, and the case having been proved they
were fined 40e. each, costs 11. 1.55. 6d. en .h.
In the ease of Collard, who brought an action at Romagna
against the guard on the 830th Eastern Railway, for the
illegal detention, arising out of the party, of which plaintiff
was one, smoking in the railway carriage, on their return
from town on the " Derby day," the matter was heard at
the County Court on Wednesday last. The damages were
laid at 201. Several witnesses were called, and the trial
lasted four houn. The main charge involved in toe action
was that on the occasion of pinatill's detention he had does
nothing to warrant it; that if be had been smoking, he de-
slued from it on being cautioned by the guard; yet, not-
witastending this, on his alighting at Tunbridge, and
attempting to reenter the carriage, he was dragged and
pushed from it, treated in a most violent and unbecoming
manner, and prevented from proeecuting his journey that
night. The power of the company to detain Maintiff at !ill
was also disputed. The defence set up was, that plaintiff.
with hie friends, persisted in smoking, after having bent
cautioned, and that he was merely prevented from present
leg his journey by that train, the bye-laws going to the
extent of arming the company with the pow' r to eject any
parties ...trending aßairst their rules. And it was further
shown that plaintiff was much excited, and struck two of
the officials, which rendered his conduct more reprehensible.
—The jury returned a verdict for defendant.