The Express. — 1866-11-27 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT ROCHDALE.—Mary Lowe, a servant at the residence of Mr. George Miller, East-street, Rochdale, became acquainted some time ago with a young man living in that town, and ultimately they became lovers. A short time ago the deceased's sister got to know that Lowe's lover was a married man, and she informed her sister of the fact, but she seemed reluctant to give him up. The married sister last week threatened to acquaint her father with the affair, and spoke to her of the impropriety of keeping company with a married num. On Friday night the deceased had an interview with her lover, and when they were parting she appeared to be in great distress She was not seen after until her body was found on Sunday morn.ng in the canal, at Moss Bridge. CURIOSITIES IN OYSTER CULTURE,—In some parts of Cornwall oysters bred on one side of a river are so coppery that they are poisonous, while those bred on the other side of the same river are wholesome and of delicious flavour. The oysters bred on the coppery beds are transferred to the south of Fogland oyster parks, where they arc kept and fattened, and lifter a while the coppery impregnations vanish, and these oysters sae sought after by  A special meeting of the Trades' Demonstration Committee was held last evening at the Brougham-hall, Fleetstreet, Mr. JENKINS in the chair, to receive the reply of the Commissioner of Works to the application made to his lordship that day by deputation for the use of Hyde-park or the Green-park, for the purposes of huhlieg the reform meeting on the 3rd Decembet next. The SECRETARY reported the receipt of the following letter from Lord John Manners November 26, 1866.— Sir,—Having brought before her Majesty's government the request preferred to me by the deputation of the London trades this morning, that the use of either Hyde or the Green park on Monday next should be permitted to them for their proposed meeting in favour of parliamentary reform, I have to inform you that, fur reasons which I explained at that interview, the government do not feel themselves at liberty to comply with it. In making koown to you their decision, I need hardly say that it is based on no apprehension of disturbance or misconduct on the part of any of those concerned in the demonstration, and is arrived at without the slightest reference to the object of the proposed meeting ; but on the principle uniformly acted upon hitherto, that public meetings on political and controversial subjects, attracting necessarily large crowds in addition to those who take part in them, and thereby leading to possible disorder end disturbance, ought not to be held in those parks. Understanding that the committee have made, and are still making, but hitherto without succors, attempts to secure a suitable place for the meeting by arrangement with private persons, and recegnising the anxiety shown by them to obviate as far es is possible inconvenience to the public, the government authorise me to say, that should those attempts fail, no objection will bo taken to the proposed meeting being held within the enclosure of Primrose-hill. On hearing from you that the committee of the trades have arranged to hold the meeting at Primrose-hill, I shall be happy to give the necessary directions for making the entranoes aveilable for that perpose.—l am, sir, yours obediently, Joe 14