The Express. — 1860-08-24 (London, England)

COLD. and its tribulation The accounts received this morning from Kent and Flex represent several of the marshes as having the appearance of cast lakes, many 'sheep having been drowned. The Ravensboutne is overflowed, and much damage done to ground upon its banks ; and on the biota of the retuay a large number of cheep were drowned by the overflow of the marsh land.  CHI LMSFuItD G &Hoot. AND Tim Dtsnsirrgan, The governon of this school, it will be learnt with eitisfaction in the district, in accordance with the spirit of the recent set, have laid the foundation of a vast extension of the noefulneso of the institution by opening the door for the admiesion if the children of disarm sad others who do not conform to the ritual of the established church. Hitherto, both under the old management and by the new scheme, it had been closed against inane of thew, as one of the regalatisor was that the pupils should attend public worship in the perish church every .Monday, to which, of course, most of the dissenters objected. Since the passing of d referred m act referr to, declaring genes-Ay the opening of theressehools, but leave octo theauthorities the mode of the revitalises by which it should be accomplished, the matter barn been several times under the conxideration of the governors, sad wresdoelly they have passed a resolution the effect of which I. that air dissenter, on intimating to them (the governor.) an ohiectien to his sou receiving the presentee! religious instruction of the school and attending church, may have him exempted from this, while he will be admitted to the full hese& of the classical, mathematical, and general eluceitine of the institution, divinity excepted. Thus we have reached a result which has loos been desired by many in the town. The school will henceforth he regarded as the school of all ; petty jealousies on the subject will ci•as,* and it may fairly be hoped that churchmen and dissenters, fairing thus studied together on the some form, aid teed in the same classes, wiU be brought together in after life in a more friendly mid harmonious spirit. Vicheolosl Chnmsdr. A WWI( n St • rzawrrnov. —One superstition at least prevails in Stamford. When • smith wee being made on Monday to recover the body of a young woman who conmittell suicide, an attempt was made to bring the labours .1 those ,inittwil is the search to a speedy termination by throwing into the water Revers! leaves abreast, the belief briug that the breed will out goat beyond where the body of the drowned japan lien, but that it will remain above it. She o+l It mar,. A 11.4WTH rt. L Hgao.—The silver medallion of the Royal Humane Society was vests/day presented to William Platters% It years of see, of 9, Horton-street, Deansgate. Hainisester. for his iotreHisl exertions to save life ow the evening of November _rah, 1.45 e. Emit* mantle's of his own danger, br encoded twice to a MOM on ere in a 14.1.1ng•hotaw in Spinuitoi. 1.1, Manchester, the lint time lenn,ing not two mfant ediildren, and the second their mother, all of whoa were rocirded by Limos, which he subsl to extinguish. The rhibirvn did sot bog survive, hut their Heather twos-ere& We are informed that about N. was solocribed L.r glattery by the watch committee of the lianclooeter core- mien, at the Woe the above named testi. /MAW was premised to brat.