The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

Mr. Baring has arrived in town from Scotland.

The Archbishop 1)f Cauterbuu has cougented to
preside at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Diocesan
Board of Education, which is to be bold at Maidetaie early
in October. Among the speakers will be the Earl of Rom-
ney, Mr. (-fathoms Hardy, M.P., Sir Brook Budges, Bart.,
M.P., Mr. Betesford Hope, and Mr. Henry Hoare.
Kentish tattle.

The Bishop of Oxford, who has been in Dublin
for some days, preached on Sunday in the Castle chapel. A
large number of persons, anxious to hear the bishop, took
up their position at the principal entrance to the chapel a
coesiderable time before the hour fined for opening the
doors, and soon after they were opened every portion of the
building was filled. Several ladies were obliged to steed
during the service, all the efforts of the vergers to provide
accommodation for one•fourth of the applicants for sitting
room being quite fa vain.
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Captain Walker, late of the Galway line, has
been appointed to the command of the Great Eastern.. .

It ix computed that 12,000 persons visited the
Botanic Gardens, Dublin, on Sunday, between the hours of
nod 7. They went through the greenhomes in reguLar
order, and everything passed off with propriety.

A joint circular has been issued by the City gas
oompanies, notifying that, in consequence of the recent act
for regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis requiring,
under heavy penal►ics, • greatly increased standanl of
illuminating power and purity, winch will neeemarily in-
volve cm increased cost of production, the companies sup-
plying the city of Loudon will iu future charge 4s. W. per
1,000 feet for the onliusry coal gok.

The Amnion Gatefte says : —"The Count do
Ilandre, w•ho is devoting his attention to military studies,
has visited several of our military establishments, and
among them Spandau. Several English artillery officers
are here for the same purpose, mod have attended the exer-
cises of the brigade of artillery of the guard."

The annual meeting of the German judges, now
beiog held at Dresden, has bans this year distiuguisbed by
a manifestation of political sentiment which the public was
certainly nut prepared to witness. By a large majority the
meeting has resolved that the system of common legislation
for Germany would be best attained by the in-titution of a
common parliament; and that, pending the non-existence of
legislative unity, the labours of the learned assembly for the
same end must be very unsatisfactory, and capable only of
being crowned with partial success. The assembly consist.
of WO members, including all the supreme judges of the
variou,, countries, besides twenty ministers of justice.
The Swiss papers record another accident to
Alpine tourist■. The victim on this occasion is Mdme.
Fanny Gamier, of Paris, who was travelling with her hue-
band in the Bernese Oberland, and fell into a torrent called
the Lutechine, at Grundewald, where she was drowned,
in spite of all efforta to saws her.

A Constantiuople letter says :—" To the savings
before effected in the expenses of the palace. I may now
add she suppression of the pensions granted to the ex.
chamberlains. The Sultan struck them out with his own
hand from the registers of the palace, laying that, thank■ to
the ruhantages they bad derived from their situations, they
were beyond the reach of want, and there was no good
raison why they should any longer remain a burden to the
treasury.••