biglam/hmd_newspapers huggingface dataset:
The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-23

THJEPACKET-PAILCILS QUESTION.

The dispute which the Duke of Richmond has contrived
to bring to an issue in the Itsilways Regulation Bill has,
says the Daily News, been a subject of controversy ever
sinew our railway companisa undertook the business of
carriers; but of late the enormous development of the
inland trade has greatly increased the necessity for the
deepatch of small parcels to traders in the country. Import-
ant, however, us the receipt of these may be to the trades-
men, they are separately of too small a value to bear the
high rates exacted by the railway companies, and it has
been customary for those London houses which supply the
more bulky goods required in the country trade to take in
such smaller wags of other wholesale Arms in the metro-
polis us were for the same customers, and include them in
their own. This practice of mutual accommodation the
Doke of Richmond's bill would put an end to. Besides
this system, there is that of the small parcels companies,
which would also be stopped. By inserting this clause in
his bill the Duke of Rielaroond shows that be has but a
very imperfect acquaintance with the organisation of the
home trade of the country. It is not to be supposed for a
moment that he wishes to annihilate by a stroke of the
pen facilities without which all kinds of business must be
seriously crippled, and some must cease to exist. Packed
parcels are already charged with twice as much toll as
those which are unpacked, and it is open to railway com-
panies to perform the services to the public now rendered
by the agents. As to the proposed interference with the
usages of trade by prohibiting Jackman which are not
paid for, it is uncalled-for and mischievous. In short, the
15th clause of the new bill is calculated to answer no use-
ful purpose, and should he unhesitatingly abandoned.
London, England, 1868-04-23

PIUSTRATED CATALOGUES, containing
owings of the Furniture exhibited In the Show-room,
forwarded tree, or can be bad on application, and which also
enable purchasers to forts an idea of the cost of Furnishing, wi
each drawing has with It a correspondinutce et the article
shown. All goods marked in plain
ATRLNSON and Co., led to fit WWII-67MM BEIDOIfe
ROAD. LONDON.
London, England, 1868-04-23

IRON WINE BINS.—The original manufao-
i. rarer', FARROW and JACKSON, wipe and spirit mer-
chant& empineers, Great Tower-aired, Manseltstreet, and S.
Haymarket, where cellars may be seen fitted in melons ways.
French wine bins 15a per hundred bottles. Illastratial priced
catalogues on application. The Farts lixbibition —"lnflame 60,
Honourable Mention has been adjeidged to Farrow sad Jacksoo,
lg, Great Toweretreat, for Utah. convenient and asmaible iron
Mn,, and for bar ettings."—City Press.
London, England, 1868-04-23

CLARET.—PIOT FRERES have a choice cellar
V of Bordeaux Wines, comprising the finest growths, old in
bottle and in See condition for immedhste nee. Of the numerous
wines examined by the Lancet Sanitary Commission, Plot Prune'
only were proooueced to be thoroughly genuine wine, of delicate
and superior flavour. Bee "Lancet," September 21, Mgt Yrom
lta to 110 a per doses. ISO, liegent-etreet.
London, England, 1868-08-10

..IN ESCORT MURDER IN QUEENSLAND.

Two troopers, named Power and Cahill, while
escorting about 4,000/. in note. from Rockhampton to
Clermont, were shot at their camp, and the whole of the
money was taken. Circumstances attracted suspicion to
J. S. Griffin, who had formerly been a gold commissioner
at Clermont, and police magistrate under the Queens-
land government; and it was ascertained that he
was the last man seen in the company of the murdered
men. Some of the stolen money was also traced to hie
possession. He was tried, convicted on a strong chain of
circumstantial evidence, sentenced to death, and executed
at Rockhampton. He confeesed to the turnkey
that when he was rifling the escort Trooper Power
awoke and fired at him. Griffin shot him dead.
Cahill then awoke and pointed • his revolver, when
Griffin shot him in the stomach. Cahill in falling fired
his own revolver, and the shot went through his head.
The valise with the notes was found near Mrs. Ottley'e,
where Griffin informed the turnkey that it was. It is
sTira
that Griffin wanted the turnkey to aid his escape
and the plunder. The notes in the valise have been
counted, and six more than Griffin stated found in it.
Griffin's grave has been found opened and his head stolen.
London, England, 1868-08-10

AMERICA.

The North German Lloyd's steamer, America,
arrived at Southampton this morning, with 103
passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen ; 40
sacks of mails ; 203,836 dole. for London, and
10,000 dole. for France. On the 9th inst. she
spoke the English ship Edwards, bound west.

(Per America yiil Southampton.)
NEW YORK, JULY 30, NooN.

The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill for
sending in 30-year Six per Cent. Bonds all the
state debts at present existing or becoming due
within three years. The preamble of the bill
declares the inability of the state to pay the
interest due upon the debt.
Messrs. J. Hill and V. Miller (Democrats) have
been elected United States Senators of the Georgia
Legislature.
Six million dollars' worth of timber has been
destroyed by fire in the forests on the north shore
of Lake Superior. The fire still continues.

It was reported in Feria on Saturday that an at-
tempt was made on the life of Baron Heinemann by a can-
totinier in the Bois de Bologna.

It is rumoured that id. Lemoinne is to take the
direction of the "political chronicle" in the Revue des
Ala Houk& Re, St. Marc Girardin, 'Anatole de la
Forge, and George de la Fayette will take part in the in-
auguration of the Polish monument at RapperschyL
The Journal de Rouen reports that all the copies
of last Saturday's lanterns were seised in that city at
half-past 9 o'clock in the evening. This number will be
republished in Belgium for the use of foreign subscribers.
Authentic accounts from Queensland are to tho
effect that the newly-discovered goldfields at Gympie
Creek, the Canning Downs, and several other places, are
yielding abundantly. Many persons are said to be making
rapid fortunes, and thousands of persons are securing
high wages with the usual splendid chances which make
gold-digging so exciting to the imagination. Some very
fine specimens of silver ore have also bean found near
Reckhamptcmos populous town in Queensland, lying con-
siderably north of the capital, Brisbane.
QUEENSTOWN, AUGUST 10.—The Cunard extra
steamer Tarifa, from New York, arrived here at midnight
with 141 passengers. She landed 38 passengers and
despatches, and proceeded for Liverpool at 12.20 a.m.
AB welL
London, England, 1868-08-10

INDIAN RAILWAYS.

According to a blue-book published this morn-
ing, it appears that during the year ended on the 31st of
March last, upwards of 9,000,0001. was added to the
capital of railways in India, making the whole amount
76,579,000/, of which 75,071,6001. has been expended.
The length of open line has been increased during the
same period to 3,943 miles, by the completion of 349 miles ;
and there are 1,665 miles now in course of construc-
tion. The gross receipts for the year ending
30th June, 1867, wore 4,875,112/., as compared with
4,537,235/. in the previous year. The net reoeipts were
2,337,3001., showing an increase of rather over 30,0001.
Ten years ago the net revenue was only 111,4461.;
last year A amounted to 2,336,8711. " But
what is more remarkable," observes Mr. Mend Danvers,
who drew up the report, " although the capital had in-
creased from twenty to seventy-five millions, and the
guaranteed interest in proportion, the net amount paid by
the government for guaranteed interest in the two years,
18.17-1867, was about the same, viz., 700,0001. What will
be the condition of these undertakings ten years hence, it
is not (adds Mr. Danvers) within my province to predict,
but while the material improvements which these facts
indicate are going on, and while the country is being, as
it were, garrisoned from north to south and from east to
west, a great social change is taking place which cannot
but have • most beneficial effect upon the people at
large."
London, England, 1868-08-10

THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE.

THE arrangements for laying an Atlantic cable
between France and America approach comple-
tion. An Anglo-Franco company has been
formed for carrying out the work, with the Right
Hon. ROBERT Lows for chairman, and a capital
of 1,200,000/. The cable and its laying will be
based as far as possible upon the successful opera-
tions of 1868. Sir SAMUEL CANNING will, it
is thought, be the engineer-in-chief of the
expedition, and will be surrounded by the well-
trained. well-skilled staff he has led on to sub-
marine victories in all quarters of the globe.
The cable will be practically of the same
manufacture as those owned and worked
by the Anglo-American Company. The Great
Eastern has been chartered for the laying
with Sir JASLEB ANDERSON as captain, and
the making of the new line is entrusted to
the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company. The chief authorities upon electrical
science have been retained as professional ad-
visers, and after a great number of suggestions
for improvement in the existing forms of cable,
it has been determined to revert to that the prac-
tical value of which is proved. One of the neces-
sary consequences of a variety of professional men
being employed upon the same scientific undertak-
ing is that suggestions should be offered and con-
troversy arise; and it is satisfactory to know that
it is only after grave deliberation and dis-
cussion that an almost similar form of
cable has been determined on to the one
now doing its work so nobly at the bottom of the
Atlantic. It will be observed that the capital of
the Anglo-Franco Company is to be double that
of the Anglo-American Company; and this is ex-
plained by the immense difference in distance
between the two routes. The new line will run
from Breit to the Island of St. Pierre, and from
thence across 800 miles of shallow water to the
London, England, 1868-08-10

ATTACK OF A BRITISH GUNBOAT ON

SUPPOSED CHINESE PIRATES.

The last mail from China brought an account
of an attack by the British screw gunboat Algerine on
some Chinese junks, which were supposed to be pirate
vessels. In reference to this account the Straits Tinsels, of
the 4th July, makes the following extraordinary state-
ment:

" A very painful discovery has been made in connection
with the engagement the Algerine lately had, as described
in the last report, with a fleet of Chinese junks, suppoeed
to be pirates, down the west coast. One of these, it will be
remembered, was captured, and brought into Hong Kong.
It was here ascertained, after a while, that the fleet had
not been a pirate fleet at all, but had simply been com-
posed of Canton trading junks, on their way to Hainan,
which had been sailing in company for their own pro-
tection. It must be understood that the trading junks
are almost as much in fear of the Chinese government
gunboats as of the pirates. Latterly in particular these
revenue cruisers have been levying black mail at sea over
and above the regular duty which the Chinese merchants
have paid on their goods. Of course such proceedings were
utterly illegal, but the victims had no remedy at their dis-
posal. To resist the cruisers they had, it seems, deter-
mined to sail on this voyage strongly armed and in
company. Of course it is very painful to think
that a British gun-boat attacked them with round
shot and grape, and slaughtered immense numbers of inno-
cent jiersons.- That the junks brought their misfortunes
on their own head by pertinaciously ref unn to show their
papers, is but an imperfect consolation. The Algerine
had a Chinese mandarin on board, by whose authority she
attacked the junks, and whether he was misled as to their
character, or deliberately made use of the English gunboat
as a tool with which to wreak vengeance on the native
merchants who had succeeded in escaping from the govern-
ment squeeze,' is a question not easy to answer."
The same journal gives an account of an attack by
pirates on the North German barque Lesmona, while on a
voyage bom Singapore to Saigon :
" While becalmed in the Gulf of Tonquin she was
taken—actually captured, looted, and then scuttled—by
Chinese pirates. The vessel seems to have had eight
double-barrelled breech-loading muskets on board, and a
large quantity of ammunition, but the crew refused to
fight, and allowed themselves to be taken by one pirate
junk, and boarded by only 20 or 30 natives. This is the
AM instance in which a European vessel has been
attacked for considerably more than a year."
London, England, 1868-08-10

THE GREAT EARTERN RAILWAY.

The Tiaras mainly attributes the change in the pros-
pects of the above company to the potent energy put
forward by Lord Salisbury, before whose accession to
power the company seemed to be sinking into irreme-
diable insolvency. Partisans of the old board may
plead that the concurrence of the two facts is a mere
coincidence, that Norfolk cannot have despatched
more farm produce to town in deference to
Lord Salisbury, or engine-drivers been more careful
of their passengers' lives. Exactly in the same way
a victorious general might have his share of the glory
of a campaign pared away. In fact, the energy of a chair-
man is contagious through the whole staff of the company,
from his brother directors down to the smallest station-
master ; and a railway's trade is flexible enough to vary
no less with the conduct of its officers than with the needs
of its customers. The embarrassments of railways have
never arisen so much from want of traffic as from their
own financial mismanagement; and a chairman who will
not consent to "make things pleasant" by deceiving the
shareholders, but frankly communicates to them, as
partners in the concern, the principles on which he means
to manage it, is able to exact from them the present self-
denial necessary for its permanent prosperity.

ENTABLIMIED

The Herald says it has always held with the Libera-
tionists and tho Roman catholic that the abolition of the
Irish establishment is an irrefragable precedent for apply-
ing the same measure to the church of England, and it
also holds with them that Mr. Gladstone is logically
bound to be the pioneer in that crowning work of his new
policy. He disclaims all intention of playing the part
for which he is educating himself ; but even now he sees
that it will be thrust upon him, and that he will not be
able to escape from it; and already he is framing an
apology and a justification for "cutting away" the church
of England—another horse to the wolves.
London, England, 1868-02-21

LAI

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end astenderat r the proprietor of the
°nudism, and the nation was benueht
'lodisation of the plaintiff's character and net
purpose of obtaining damages. An sixdoii
alined, and the gilaintiff's counsel, in g
said he wu then ready to accept an openinayolog;
the defendant. The libel complained of spewed
article headed" The End of the Year," and puta,i
the Nerd Guardian on Saturday, Deo. 28 last.
ring to the distress then prevalent, the writer at.te
one, for instance, with • heart to feel for other
can read of the disbar@ at the East end of London
feelings of deep repel and commiseration 1
starving poor ; and not only for the poor, but for
Not only for the now starving wives and clack::shipwrights, shipwrights, whom ILT. Potter and other trade
tyrants would not let work at 6s. Bd. per day,
'
have been idle ever since ; but for the shipbuilder
selves, whose ,toot-in-trade deteriorates daily trot
use, who have lost profitable Jobe, whom henna to
elsewhere, in whose yards the me and the hull
silent, and who have to pay Manua rates for th
of those who were not allowed to earn 3'e,. per
their dockyards."
The plaintiff was celled. He denied that he he
way directly or indirectly interested himself in o
any part in anything connected with the ships!,
the rut end of London. He denied that he wu a
of the men in reference to trades unions : he frt
advised them, and he only supported trades uniou
as they were lawful and right.
Evidence was given to show that the distnss
Eut-end among the shipwrights did not acme fr
strike, but the depression of trade.
Mr. Serjeant Benguela, made a humorous sneer
jury, in which he urged that the article was
criticism of • public matter notorious to the world.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

?MATHER REPORT.-(THIS DA!

FRIDAY, FILBSCART 21, 8 A IL
London, England, 1868-02-21

AMRRICA.

(3? MANTIC TILIGIAIIi, nizotum Ni. merest Aciarcr.)
NEW YORK, FEL 20.

Closing prices :--Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange
on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1111; ditto, 1885, 1091 ; 10-40 Bonds, 1051.
Illinois 1381; Brie, 721. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 241. Petroleum, standard white, 251.
Flour, extra state, 10.40. Corn, old mixed, 1.28.
London, England, 1868-02-21

EMS FOREIGN MAIL&

DISTANCE or INDIA, 61IINA, AND AIDITIALIAN
Msit.s.--Sarnissirros, Fu. 20.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamship Nyanza, Cspt. Weeks, sailed
this afternoon with mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, China, Australia, ko. She
took out 77 tint and 30 second class paseengen, and • full
cargo on freight, including rovereigna, 7,5001.; gold plate,
1101.; gold thread, coral, and jewellery, 2,1:03/. ; dollars,
4401.; and watches and jewellery, 2,7 U. Amongst the
paasenprs are Lieutenants England, Baldock, Rogers, and
Cooke ; Captains Hyde and Lutonn ; Majors Morley and
Long, Lord Bangor, and D.-A.-C.-General Smith.

THE BOMBAY (Hinter) MAlL—ailinnunn, FED.
20.—The Syria left at 2 p.m. to-day. All welL She may
be expected at Southampton about the 23th inst.
London, England, 1868-02-21

GREAT EASTERN.

The report of the directors to the half-yearly
meeting, on Tuesday, has been issued. The accounts
show a gross revenue from all sources of 1,031,2271. • t
a gross revenue of 996,2931. in the corresponding -year
of 1856. The increase has been, consequently, 34,9341.,
or at the rate of 31 per cent. The working expenses have
been 511,1941. or shout 49j per cent. upon the gross
revenue. In the oorresponding half-year of 1806 the work-
ing expenses were 508,740/., or about 511 per cent. on the
gross revenue. The net revenue is consequently 509,1981.
against a net revenue of 483,b771. in December 1800, show-
ing an increase of 25,521/. ; which is an Increase at the rate
of 5 1-3 per cent. The " Net Revenue Account" explain
in detail the distribution of this balance. The leased lines
and the interest upon debentures absorb 238,6351. A further
sum of 12,076/. is required for the payment of interest
upon the Boating debt. The remainder is sufficient to pay
the half-year's dividends of all the preference ebareliolders
falling due on the 31st of December, and also all the
arrears due for the previous half-year to theee preference
shareholders whore dividends were not covered by the
revenue of that half-pear. The anticipation, therefore, ex-
pressed by the late chairman of the company, that the
revenue of the year 1357 would be sufficient to meet the
preference dividends for that year, has proved to
be correct. A slight Wanes of 7.7371. remains over.
The auditors certify that the accounts contain a full
and true statement of the financial condition of the corn-
rainy, and that the dividend or interest proposed to be
declared on the guaranteed and preference stocks and
shares of the company, as shown by the accounts pre-
sented, is bend fide due thereon after charging the re-
venue of the half-year with all expenses which in their
judgment ought to be paid thereont.
London, England, 1868-02-21

OUR PARIS LETTER.

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PARIS, THURSDAY EVINING..

The Pntrie contains the following paragraph,
which clashes to a certain extent with the ex-
tremely peaceable tenour of the news which has
prevailed for the last few days :
We give under all reserve a piece of nun which
comes to us from Ibraila. It is said that Russian troops
are concentrated at /Congas, Roppeck, Tabaka, Viatolka,
Tuitions, and Semliki, villages near tho Beraarabian and
Moldavian frontier. These movements of troops, the
motive for which is unknown, have the great inconve-
nience of giving an apparent confirmation to the stories
told by the committees who seek to stir up the epithetic
populations of Bulgaria, by souring them that u soon as
they rise Russian troops will come to help them. We
think the Russian government would be extremely wise in
avoiding everything which may afford an cause for such
falsehood.

It should not be forgotten that the Patrie
affirmed the other day in a stately article that a
gunpowder train had been laid between the Danube
and Constantinople, but that the vigilant Western
Powers had broken it up. Does the Patrie now
mean to say that a new train is laid

Some of the students who mado a row at the
Caen the other night during the performance of
Alexander Dumas Kean, formed a procession after
the play and marched down the Rues de l'Ancienne
Coniddie and Dauphine to the Pont Neuf, where
they were stopped by a body of server's de rifle.
Four young men, out of several others arrested,
are to be prosecuted for " resistance to authority."
M. Creppo, whose arrest at Lille I mentioned,
has been released on bail. Ho is to be tried for
the offence of introducing prohibited books into
France. There was found upon him coming from
Belgium a single copy of M. Maurice Joly's
" Entretiens de Machiavel et Montesquieu."
At the Bourse the rise of yesterday was fully
maintained in the Rente. Italian rose 25c. ;
Mobilier, Gfr. 25c. ; and Credit Fonder, 21r. 51./c.
London, England, 1868-02-21

THE ELECTION for the UNIVERSITY of
J. CAMBRIDGE terminates on MONDAY, the 24th Inst The
Poll will be taken each day (except Snoday), front 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. and from 2p.m. to pm.
Supporters of lir. !Weston:l Rope who have not reretwed
Voting Paper are requested to write Immediat.lv to the Com-
mittee, gig leg their addressee, or to apply personally at the Lon-
don Committee Room
-

Voting Papers may be executed this day and afterwards
during the Election. Magistrates tar Middlesex will be in at
tendanee for the purpose of attesting voting pa rich day this
week from 10 a m to 5 p.m, at Mr. Derestord Hope's London
Committee Boom, British Hotel. Cockeyeretrest.
London, England, 1868-02-21

THE PP.ICHTFUL SUICIDE AT THE CRYSTAL
PALACE.

INQUEST.-THIS DAY.

At Upper Norwood to-day an inquiry was held
relative to the death of Edward Thomas Lea, aged 17. A
smith employed at the Crystal Palace near the north
tower said that on Tuesday evening he heard
a crash, and found the deceased lying quite dead, about
ten feet from the tower. The other evidence proved that
the deceased's skull was crashed in, and his arms and
legs broken. The height was about 2N) feet, and
the deceased must have climbed over • balustrade,
tour feet high, before he leaped. He was a drapers'
assistant, end had gone to a situation on the previous
day ; but his new employer, who was one of the
witnesses, said that on Tuesday he had been obliged
to tell the deceased his reference, were so ansatio-
factory that he could not remain ; and it was clear
that the distress of mind thus mused led to the
suicide. It appears that this reference was given in
mistake, and that the person to whom it
referred was another man of the same name. The gentle-
man who wrote it deposed that the deceased was really •
person of irreproachable character. The deceased called
twice to learn why this unsatisfactory account of hint had
been given, but the gentleman was out, and the poor
fellow then went off to the Crystal Palace.
The jury returned a verdict " That deceased committed
suicide by throwing himself off the/north tower in the
Crystal Palace grounds, while in • state of mental
derangement."
The Coroner said that he hoped it would go forth that
the imputation on the unfortunate young man's character
was quite groundless, and arose entirely through a mis•
take.
London, England, 1868-02-21

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday
at Guildhall, at which the LORD MAYOR (Alderman
Allen) presided. Tho proceedings commenoed for the first
time at 1 o'clock, instead of 12, which is the usual time
for the assembling of the court, and it is understood that
in future the later hour for the meeting of the court will
be adhered to.

AS/HISSMENT of PEOPIIITY IN TIM CITY.
Mr. JONATHAN THORP then brought forward the fol-
lowing motion:—" That in the opisioe of this court it is
desirable for the convenience and security of the inhabit-
ants of this city, that there should be one general wean-
ment of all property in the City, which should be the future
basis for all imperial taxation, u well as municipal and
local rating."
The following members of the court were appointed
the committee to consider the subject :—Alderman Wil-
son, Deputy De Jersey, Mr. Thorpt Mr. Baniro,
Deputy Obberd, Mr. J. Sewell, Mr. Rgby, Mr. Put
and Mr. Dasher.
London, England, 1868-02-21

Sift Court.

OSBORNE, FM 19.
The Queen drove out, accompanied by the
Duchess of Athol. and Mies Macgregor.
The Duke of Richmond, MG., arrived at Osborne, and
had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal
Family.
Fan. 20.

The Queen drove out, aocompanied by Prince Leopold,
and her ➢fajesty afterwards walked with Priaosse Louisa.
The Duke of Richmond left Osborne.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of
Sutherland, and attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel,
was present yesterday at some experiments mad* by Mr.
James Faris, in the application of Dick's patent portable
self-acting firs engine called l'Estincteur.
The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the
Countess of Morton.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
Natal, St. Helena, and Malta. Despatches were soot to
the Governor-General of Canada.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian and suite honoured the performances at the
Theatre Royal Adelphi last evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Christian let t Windsor at 10 o'clock this morning for Vaux-
hall, en route, it was understood, for Woolwich.
His Excellency the Swedish minister and
Baroness Hochschild had a dinner party yesterday e►ening
at the Swedish Legation in Great Cumberland•street. A
select company assembled after dinner.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
and the Mimeo Maxwell have arrived at Rome from
Nice.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady
Emily Villiers are expected home at the end of next
month from Rome.

Lord and Lady Houghton are not expected in
town until after Euter. They us at present staying at
Menton.

The Earl and Counteas of Granville, on leaving
Critohill, where they have bean staying on a visit to Mr.
Henry G. Sturt, M.P., and Lady Augusta Start, proceeded
to Badminton, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort.
London, England, 1868-02-21

METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE
STATISTIC.%

Returns were issued this morning, for the infor-
mation of Parliameot, by Superintendent Kittle, of the
Metropolitan, and Colonel Fraser, of the City Police, re-
lative to the numerical strength of those bodies, and the
number and =Um) of the atomic' committed against
them.

The strength of the metropolitan force in the year 1867,
was 6,999, exclasi►e of the detachments employed in her
Majesty's dockyarda. The number of persona ar-
rested for assaults on the police or for ab-
et:tiding them in the execution of their duty,
was 2,246 ; the number of policemen sneaked, 2,229 ; of
men temporarily disabled, 191; of killed or permanently
disabled, 4 ; of persons fined for assaults on the police,
1,236 ; of persons imprisoned for assaults, 795 ; of polioe
granted pensions during the year in consequence of in-
juries recei►ed in the execution of their duty, prior to the
commencement of the year, 20. Of the four men killed
or permanently disabled, one was suddenly attacked in
Bloomsbury, stabbed in the right temple and shot in the
right knee ; another was se►erely kicked and beaten shout
the body when apprehending a man for larceny; to
third was knocked down and braised about the body and
legs, and had two of his teeth kicked out by a drunken
nun whom be found lying in the street and assisted to
walk ; and the fourth wee shot at, and his left hand
shattered, by a man who was in the company of another,
and whom the officer suspected to be an improper
character.

The number at the City police in 1867 was 688 ; of per.
sans arrested for swank and obstruction, 206 ; of eau-
stables arminited, 190 ; of constables temporarily disabled
by arimults, 3 ; ot parlous lined for assaults on the polio.,
66 ; sad et persons imprisoned for amanita, 100.
Thor returns wore 1110•11111 for by Mr. Michael Bum

The general committee of elections have selected
the follewhis mix toombozo to servo se &sinus d sheiks
osounittoto tar the prom. wagon :—Moossi. H. Aditr,
W. Bete, Mahal Davao:cabs, Sir P. Gm Igortwa, T.
W. Nram. 'ad Z. Bowes.
London, England, 1868-02-19

THE ATLANTIC CABLES.

The annexed memorandum, which is from an o}l•
cial source, niers to the increasing auras of the
Atlantic Ca1.,1,-; as a commercial aptculata n.
This success is the more gratifying because it is
found to make greater progress in proportion is
the company's tariff is lowered:

The increased activity in the Liverpool Cotton Market
has had a remarkable effect upon the "takings" or
receipts of the Atlantic Cables, the reeeipts for the wen
days of the past week having been as follows :
February 9, Sunday.... £614 Fetraaryl3, Theralay„ [1
.170
• 10, Monday... I,t Id 14, SWlsy Leit
11, Tuesday... 1.734 „ 15, ddurday 1.441
„ 12, 11 edneeday 1,793
Total fur the week
Or at the rate of 1,3701. per diem, including Runday, but
taking the sit working days an average of 1,101.
The average daily receipts from the opening of the Lie.
graph line from the 28th July last to the nth Febraary
instant bavebeen 1,034(, but from Ist December, when the
alteration in the tariff of charges was made, to the l'alt
February instant, the rate has been 1,173/.; whilst from the
lit January but to the 15th instant the rate per day Ins
been 1,2651., thus showing a very large increase of receipts,
and the best possible assurance of the takings of die
future. The daily takings in the first half of the moth
of February, 1867 and 1868, are especially interesting. and
show the great political, commercial, and social neport•
once of the communication between England and the
United States.
1467.

February 1 :7 0150 7
a
S Sal 1
4
5
.
• 7
8
9
la
U
„ 11
. U
• la
• 15
These results give a daily I
15th February 1867, of 927/.,
sponding period of the preu
1 increase at the rate el 3271. i

February 1 1:761 7 3
2
„ 5
4
5
8
799 ,
n 8
9
I :10
11
1,701 0 0
:.
13
11
I „15
Wing* from the I,t to the
, against 1. on the ‘Orre•
lent year, showing a pnseat
per day.
London, England, 1868-02-19

HELSTOIV BLECI7OII.-(Tall DAY.)

TRURO, WIDNIESDAT.
Mr. Brett was elected to-day without opposition.
No show of hands asked for.

Mr. Henry Roger. and Mr. John Lea were proposed and
seconded, but retired. The madame liberals would not
support either.
The proeeedinge lasted four hours.

STOKE.UPONTRENT ELECTION.

NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.)
(11T TILLOILILPH.)

STOYE•UPON•TRENT, WznirsnAT.

Mr. Melly was proposed today by Colonel
Roden, Mayor of Hanley, and seconded by Mr. Meld's.= ;
Mr. Campbell was proposed by Mr. C. Fenian, and se-
conded by Mr. Heath, in:smatter.
The show of bands wee six to one in favour of Mr.
Melly.
A poll demanded.

SSBIOUS FIRM AND LOSS OF MSS.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning, shortly before 3 o'clock, • fire
broke out in the premises of Mr. Henry Dowry, situate at
No. 66, Stepney-green. Itappears that the fire broke oat
on the second floor, and, although owing to the exertions
of the fire brigade, the fire was confined to this pert of the
bonze, yet upon the entry of the salvage eons, it was
found that Mr. John Leathwalte, a man eighty-one years
of age, bad been burnt to death. The body was removed
to the dead-bouse to await a coroner's inqueet.—About
two hears later another fire broke out in the premises of
Mr. C. louder, a linendraper and .ilk-mercer, carrying on
a large business at 5, Java's-place, Bath-etreet, City-road.
The discovery was made by a pollee-oonstable of the G
divisiou, who raised ea alarm, and the inmates
with assistanos, to get out of the burning .
n:Sbnid Numerous engines of tbe Metropolitan Brigade at ,
but the firs could not be extinguished until the valuable
stock in trade was nearly destroyed. The total loss is very
considerable, and will fall upon the Imperial Fire-oilloe.—
Another fire also took place in the premises of Messrs.
Virtue and Co., publishers, but, owing to the timely
arrival of auhrtanoe, the fire was confined to the dertrua-
tion of about four reams of the Art Journal and slight
damage to the building.

1 ELECTION OF CORONER FOR WEST MIDDLESEX.

THE NOMINATION.-(THIN DAY.)

At noon to-day the nomination for the vacant
ooronership of Western Middlesex took place at the
huatinp greeted in frost of the Town-hall, Brantford, Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Bros' presiding.
Dr. 000 PER. in a brief speech, proposed Dr. Wm. Hard-
wick as a fit and proper person to be coroner for Western
Middlesex. He urged that a medical man was the fittest
to fulfil the important and peculiar duties of a coroner.
Mr. W. J. Fealuit, of faleworth, seconded the nomi-
nation._

-11i—BAannn, deputy-chairman of Mr. Walter's cora-
•
tattoo, proposed Mr. WALTER, a solicitor.
I A show of hands tram takes, and declared to ho in favour
cif Dr. Hardwick, bet a poll Will take place es Friday.
The proceedings were of a my demonstrative character
ithroughost.
London, England, 1868-02-19

SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED, AND EXCITING

n 81),
SCENE ON~THB LIRE.

This morning between 9 and 10 o'clock great
excitement was caused by • passenger train running over
an embankment between the York-road (B•ttersos) statioa
and that of the Clapham Junction.
- . . . .

The train in question belonged to the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway, and left the Victoria station at
9 a.m. for the Crystal Palace. It was due at Clapham
Junction at 9.2 i, but on arriving about 100 yards from the
Pope Arch Junction the engine left the metals, ploughing
up the grareC tearing away the sleepers and feats*.
tically twisting the permanent way. The train prooceded
rocking and jolting for another 100 yards, when tbe engine
and tender ran down a sloping embankment of thirty feet
in height, drawing the train after them. One earrisge
followed on the steep descent, but owing to the engine
turning on its side further program was stopped.
On the train coming to a standstill, the pamengere
rushed out of the carriages, and took refuge in the field
at the bottom of the embankment.

The •:teat of iajaria thaiai;paesengers bare received
has not been aseertained bat they were very severely
shaken. Some were attended by Dr. Cornish, who is
attached to the company's staff, and it is said they all
were suabied to be sent either to their residences or to
return to Victoria for another train to convey them to
their destination.
_ _ _

William Harrison, the driver of the engine, wes preci-
pitated on to a fence of the field at the bottom of the
embankment. He was carried sway by men in a severely
' injured state. The fireman, George Green, also was in-
jured, bet as far as is known not so severely as Harrison.
It is said that there wu a third man on the engine and
tender, who is abio injured.
The officials of the company were very prompt in pro-
viding medical assistance to thus who were shaken and
injured, and in affording speedy meets to those who were
able to proceed to their destination.
The train undated of eleven cerrisges, including two
guard.' vans, together with en engine of 30 tons weight,
and the tender. There were three Ist class carriage. two
composite (let and 2nd), three 2nd, and the remainder
were 3rd clue.
London, England, 1868-02-19

SECOND EDITION.

EXPRESS OFFICE,
Wednesday, 4 o'Cloek.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
When the boon met, at noon, Professor FAWCZTT give
notice of motion relative to Indian appointments
recommen=m4examinations to take place in Calcutta,
Bombay, and in order to give the natives; a chance
of competr&
mr. HARY, in reply to Mr. Nrsrit, said that the
whole question of the regulation of coal mines was in
aberance•
The second reeding of the Bank Holidays Bill was then
moved by Sir Coutur O'Loorthaii, who wu followed by
Mr. CAVIL
Mr. GOSCHEN thought great inconvenience would
arise from the bill.
BARING saw no ground for appointing a eon.
mittee. The proposed change would lead to greet un-
certainty and rodeo= ; and trade would not be bene-
fited by inereasing the number of compulsory holidays.
Alderman SALOMONS believed the bankers of the City
of London were anxious to relieve their clerks as much as
possible, but doubted the expediency of altering the rule
with regard to the payment of bills. He approved of the
bill being referred to • select committee.
Mr. kr LAItEN opposed the bill.
Mr. BARNETT was in favour of an inquiry.
The motion was withdrawn, and the 6311 referred to a
select committee.

--- -----
LIFE POLICIES NOMINATION BILL.
Mr. LEFEVRE moved the second reeding of this bill,
the object of which, he said, was to enable persons to
nominate on a policy the person to whom the money
was to be payable.
The bill was read a second time.
COMPULSORY CHURCH RATI ABOLITION
London, England, 1868-02-19

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

MARK-LAN/.—(IMB DAY.)
Coestwinr, as well es by rail, the receipts of wheat from
Brea and Kent were very moderate and mush out of cos.
dition. The demand was inactive for both red and white
parcels. Nevertheless, Monday's quotations were sup.
ported.
There was • full average supply of foreign wheat cm
the stands. The transactions were of a retail character, al
previous currencies.
Far floating cargoes of grain there we. a moderate de.
mend, on former terms.
The supply of barley was rather limited. All descrip.
!ions moved off slowly, at late rates.
Malt was doll, but prices were supported.
Oats, being scarce, commanded very full prices ; but
the deensad for them was by no mews active.
Beans were quite as dear as on Monday.
In peas sales progressed slowly, at late currencies.
Flour was in fair request, on former terms.
Linseed and rapeseed were dull. Cloverseed moved off
freely, and there was • fair demand for fine trefoils.
Otherwise the seed market was quiet. Cakes were firm is
value.

iTtiIYALB Or CIATIS dc.. T 1.47.0 LONDON BY WAS=
London, England, 1868-02-19

GREENWICH.

Mary norms, aged 11 years, of 4, Russell-road, Peck-
ham, and El imbeds Dunn, aged 10, of 4, Bayard-road,
Rye-lane, Peckham, were produced at the court by their
parent.; on a remanded charge of obtaining contributions
from the public under false pretences.
Sergeant Fox, in answer to the magistrate, maid he bad
made inquiries since the last examination, and had neer-
tained that the appeal in the book carried by the prisoner's
Thomas had been written tt her request by a shopman
employed at &groom's, at 163, Highditreet, Peckham, and
that both the name and address of the person for whom
the contributions were supposed to be collected were false.
The Rev. Andrew Drew, incumbent of the perish in
which the parents of the prisoners reside, said that geeing
the account which had appeared in the papers of the
previous examination be had thought it his duty to
make inquiries into the case, and on visiting the
house of Mrs. Dunn he found the woman for
whom the collections were being made, and who
wee known about Peckham as " Crazy Jane."
He believed that Mrs. Dann had meant well in what she had
does, but was afraid that the prisoners had been taught
badly, and had gained a knowledge of the mode of beg4ing
from a practice which was only too prevalent in the neigh-
bourhood of Peckham, of sealing children about to obtain
subscriptions on behalf of some " Lifeboat Fund," er for
&today School purposes, and that the prisoner Dunn had,
one previous occasion, collected subscriptions for a life-
best, in connection with the Congregational Chapel at
Peckham.
Mrs. Dunn said it was not her daughter then in custody
who bad been so er.gaged, but another daughter.
Mr. Mande said he had received a letter from the father
of the prisoner Dunn, who complained of certain observa-
tions he made at the first examination, implying that his
wife had teen guilty of *ending her child out to obtain
contributions from the charitable public under false pre-
tences. He would repeat that, under a recent Act of Par-
liament, the mother had rendered herself liable to be
charged for so doing, for what did he find in the written
appeal in her child's book, and which she (the mother)
acknowledged having written, but the name of a person
who was not to be found at the address stated? The case
bad gained that publicity which was desirable, in order to
put the charitably dispoeed upon their guard, and the pri-
soners would now be discharged.
London, England, 1868-02-19

SPAIN.

MADRID, Pas. 18.
Rumours aro current that a Carliat band of
about 60'men had made their appearance in Na-
varre. They are said to have had a skirmish the
day before yesterday with the Civic Guard, in
which several were wounded. The p01:c43 in
Navarre have seized 3,000 copies of the portrait
of Don Juan's eldest son, whom his partisans de.
nominate Charles VII.

BOMBAY, Fn. 15.

7lbs. shillings, sr. 6a. ; 8111*. dittio, 6r. 4.. ;
40's mule twist, 101—market unchanged. Cotton
unchanged. New Oomrawuttee, 180 r. Shipments
of the week, 23,200 bales. Exchange on London,
Is. 104 d. Freights to Liverpool, 675. 6d. The
latest London data is the 10th inst.

Q 0.01/211., Fn. 14.

71be. shirting*, 6r. ; 811 be. ditto, Or. 14a.—tend-
iug usid. wards. Cotton, 16. Exchange on London,
le 1 Four per Cent. Government Securities,
02} ; ire per Cent. ditto, 10D1, Fire-and-a-Half
per Cent, ditto, 1141. Freighis to England, lin-
seed, Ms.
MI Trieste.)

CALCUTTA. Jas. V.

Great dissatisfaction is felt with reference to the
departure of the weekly mail from Calcutta on
Sunday.
The Chamber of Commerce has presented a me-
morial to the government of India, signed by the
chief merchants and bankers, praying the govern-
ment to favour the scheme of direct overland tole-
gisPl?-
Brigadier-General 'Stuant,, with the last Bengal
brigade, left Calcutta for Abyssinia on the 10th of
Jan
. . . . .

Bhootan continues in a most disturbed state, the
chiefs contending with each other.
Emir Shere Ali has retired to Herat, and aban-
doned Balkh, which baa been peaceably occupied
by Abdul Rahman.
BOMBAY, Jay. 29.
Nearly thirty vessels have left Bombay for Abys-
sinia during the last fortnight with troops and
animals and the third brigade Hold force. The de-
Laguof the fourth brigade is indefinitely de-
d7 Great and successful exertions have been
made by the Bombay Commissariat to meet the
requisitions of the Commander-in-Chief for more
animals and stores. The task has only been accom-
plished through a great strain being put upon the
executive branch department.
Over 13 million pounds of cotton were shipped
from Bombay in December.
The new lighthouse was brought into use on the
15th January.
The prisoners in the Janne Gaol recently rose
against the gaolers, but were overpowered, and
three of them were killed.
A largo gang of Walther prisoners overpowered
the guard of the Rtnagherry (1) Gaol, and escaped,
after killing and wounding several, and arming
themselves.

CHINA.

HONG KONG, Jiff. 25.

Grey shhtinga, 6i catty, 196 dol.'. Water
twist, 16-24, 123 dola. Tea advancing. Szchimgo
on London, 4a. 3/d.
911ANOILig, JAN. 20.
Grey shirting., 61 catty, 2.25 taols. Tea,
Congoe, limited Mumma. Silk advancing—No.
3 Tsatlee, 540 tads. Settlements in fortnight,
2,000 bales. IC:change on London, ss. 11d.
Freighta, 31.
London, England, 1868-08-17

SURREY AND YIDDI6BEX V. ENOLL2fD.

This great match, which was fixed for the bene-
fit of that popular and sterling cricketer, Julius Ccesar,
commenced this day at Kennington Oval, in the presence
of a large company, who, notwithstanding the unpro-
pitious state of the weather, assembled to witness the
play. The toss was won by England, who began the
hitting with Ricketts and Summers, the bowlers
being Southerton and Howitt. The first wicket
(Summers) fell when only a single had been
scored. The next (Ricketts's) went for 3, and the third
(Mr. Money's) for 5. Then Mr. W. G. Grace
and James Lillywhite got together, and by dint
of good hitting and some luck they raised the score
to 50. Here Hearne went on bowling for Howitt, and
Sontherton in his next over bowled Mr. Grace. Silcock
oined Lillywhite, abd they hit the score to 72, when
Griffith bowled at Southerton's end. At 2 o'clock, when
our despatch left the ground, the score was as under :
ENGLAND.—First Innings.
Summers, at Pooley, b Boutherton
Ricketts, b Hewitt
Mr. W. B. Money. et Poole', b Southerton 2
Mr. W. G. Greer, b Southerton l4
Jaw. Lillywhite, not out
Silcock, not oat l2
b 1,1-b 2, w 1

-

RAILWAY, MINING. AND OTHER
SHARR&-(THIS DAY.)

[Closing pnces to 1 p.m..,

COLONIAL 00VZ-RNMENT-ElltotrlaTlES.
New South Wales, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1871 to
1876, 1001.
1168 to 1896, 99g.
Do., redeem. by ann. draws. from 1867 to 1876, 1001.
New Zealand, 6 per cent., Jan., April, July, and
Oct., 981.
Queensland, 6 per cent, 1891, Jan. and July, 104 1.
Victoria 6 per cent, April and Oct., 1141.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.
Great Eastern, 383, 7f.
Great Northern A (A receives no dividend until 6 per
cent. has been paid to B), 1031.
Great Western, original, 491.
lancaahire and Yorkshire, 130 f, 30.
London, Brighton, and South Coast, 52:, 31, En.
London, Chatham, and Dover, 191.
London and North Western, 1161.
Loudon and South Western, 901, id.
Metropolitan, 112, 111, x all.
Do., New Redeemable, 91.
Midland, 107, 1.
North Eastern Stockton and Darlington), 131.
South Eastern, 51, 6, 51, 1,
PREFERENCE SHARES.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent., 1291.
London and Brighton, 6 per cent. guar., No. 1, 118.

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.

Midland, 5 per cent., optional to convert to ordinary
stock, Sept. 1, 1869, 19k.

BRITISH PO&SESSIOIM.
East Indian, gua. 5 par cent, 1071, xn.
Grand Trunk of Canada, lat.
Do., let preference bonds, 471.
Great Indian Penineala, guar. o per cent., 107..
Great Western of Canada, 13, 6.
Madras, gas. 6 per cent., 1061..
;kinds, Delhi, gua. 6 per cent., 103.
London, England, 1868-08-17

CONFLICT BETWEEN TURKS AND
CHRIETIANE.

A sanguinary oonflict has taken place at Scutari,
in .Albania, between the. Christians and Turks,
prodwed, it is said, by the oppression of tho Chris-
tiana, The Turkish troops had to interfere, and
many, persons were killed and wounded.

(Tintouou aaoraa•l AGExcr.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, kuotrar 17.

The Minister of Finance has provisionally fixed
the amount to be refunded to subscribers of and
above 3,000 fr. in renter, at nine-tenths of the
deposits on their subscription to the new loan.
Repayment commenced upon the 14th inst.
The Moniteter contains a lengthy circular, signed
by the Minister of the Interior, concerning the
execution of the projected parish roads.

BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, Atrourr 17.

The Mon iteur Beige of to-day publishes a bul-
letin signed by the physicians of the Prince Royal
stating that his health had become considerably
worse for some days past, but was in a less alarm-
ing state sine Thursday.
London, England, 1868-08-17

SPAIN AGAIN.

SPAIN is giving trouble again. Like some dis-
orderly incorrigible, well known to the police, she
presumes upon her rank among the nations of
Europe, and exults in inflicting petty out-
rages, satisfied that they will not be resented
because of the degraded position of the
offender. This seems to be the reasonable
explanation of the story we quoted on Saturday
from the Gibraltar Chronicle. According to that
journal a British schooner, the Fanny,l was
boarded three times by a Spanish guardaoosta in
June last. In the following month, when laden
with corn and about five miles off the coast of
Carthagena, she was brought to by a revenue
boat, the Amalie, and taken possession of as a
prin. In vain was the British ensign hoisted and
the vessel's papers shown, the only notice vouch-
safed was an order from the Spanish com-
mander to his men to make ready to
fire ; and eventually the Fanny was con-
veyed into quarantine anchorage by the
government boat, four seamen from the
Amelia being sent on board as men in possessipn.