The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-11 00:00:00

bringing the war to a conclusion, is certain to pass both BOWS of Congress. Our difficulty with the Brazilian go vernment has been satisfactorily adjusted. A dreadful steam-boat explosion took place near Mobile OD the 29th alt., by which a number of lives were lost, and sevetal pumas severely wounded. The boiler first burst, and the boat afterwards took fin, and blew up, having some gunpowder on board. The passengers amounted to about 100, of whom it is estimated at least 30 were killed, The kind feeling towards Ireland, and the disposition to contribute liberally to the relief of her fsm;shion population, I rejoice to say, is s;ireading rapidly, both here and generally throughout the union. Money and provisions have already been forwarded, and more will shortly follow. 'The esports of manufactured cotton goods from Boston, during the last month , have been quite as large as usual, thus so far proving the grow:Lakeville al tke fears of our American "protectionists." MEXICO, Jae. 28. The eremites of the country are exhausted, so that as • last expedient the delicate question of the employment of church prop , rty for the purposes of the State, was revoked in the Chambers in the beginning of this month, and, on the 14th, a decree was published authorising the executive ID raise the sum of 13.000,000 piastres by the sale or mortgage of the Blew. de Manosnoterto's. The clergy are now moving heaven and earth to intimidate the people by threats of eteommunicetions. S iota Anna is accused by some of treatise with the enemy; by others of the intention to re assume the dictatorship. lie remain. at San Lure Potosi, and daily sends despatches demanding money. No doubt,, money is wanted, fur we learn that the hospital at San Lois cootaining 500 patients, is entirely maintained by the charitable donation.. One portion of Santa Anna's cavalry, about 3 000 men, lien in detachments on the road to Saltillo, other 8,000 men, under Gen. Valencia, is in Tula de Tamau lipas, forty leagues from San Luis, while the rest of the army, between 12,000 and 14,000 men, with 43 cannon, are in and about San Lois. The fteet before Vera Crux is as inefficient as ever much L said of larger ,eases of war that are expected, but as yet none have arrived. Commerce and trade are completely at • still s and: some hold spirits have suocee led in linable severl rich cargoes at Alvarado ; several houses have e CORM gained considerably, but no public good, but rather the reverse, has bees, the result. The wretched condition of the country must lead to a speedy termination of the war, for the Americana will naturally get soon tired of expending large some without receiving any palpable returns, and the Mexicans cannot prosecute the war with any vigour for seam of mesas. I believe that all hope of a termination of the war homey. able or advantageous to this country, is entirely goals Perhaps some One morning Santa Anna will, upon the pima that the capital is in danger, march upon Mexico with his army, on his arrival publish • manifesto that the WS, cannot be successfully carried on for want of means, and next conclude a ruinous peace, ceding to the Americana all the country beyond the line of the Rio Bravo del Norte as well as California, and leaving them in paned= of Tampico until all money matters are adjusted. EXTRACT FROV A PRIVITR LETTER, J aN. 28.—Thinge have come to such a peas here, that not • day parses on which I do not hear more than once the phrase, " If this cootiese we bad better pack up and leave at once." To be sure, this is only • /scow de porter, but matters ore bad enough. To.day the news arrived by extraordinary messenger (int. prem)—by the bye, there extraordinaries have cost the sum of 92,000 dollars during the last six months—that General Scott had reached Tampico with 5,000 men, end that General Taylor wan also daily expected there at the head of 7,000 men mare. The general opinion is, that the enemy seta in concert with Santa Anna, who will in due time conclude • peace with them on their own terms. He is quite capable of such an act, and the Mexicans deserve no better, since they were fools enough to recal such • man. If the Ameri eons should keep possession of Tampion, Matamoru, and other seaports at present in their hands, commerce in Mexico will assume a very different aspect from what it has hitherto done; for there can be no doubt theta very extensive system of smuggling will be carried on from the coast into the in terior, and honest fair-dealing merchants will have to with draw their capital from its present channel, of course to the peat detriment of the eosustry, or the heavy duties at prevent imposed must be abolished. Already goods have appeared here, in this very city of Mexico, carried by land all the way from the states, which are sold cheaper than we can sell similar goods on which we have paid the duty. If this is the rase now, when the goods have to be carried through disturbed districts, and two contending armies, what will it be when all these obeselye shall be removed? I believe that a number of mercantile bounce here, connected with English, German, or French houses, will soon wind up their affaus and shut up their houses. COLONIAL. JAMAICA.—Tae New Govetwort's TROUBLES .sous.—Sir Charles Grey is already in hot water ; and that apparently without any fault of hie own. On the ith of February, Mr. Mitchell, late costae of Kingston, declined to preside at a meeting of the inhabitants called to address Lieut.-Gen. Berkeley on his departure from the island, on the ground that am he no loops. held :hat office, he had no authority. The chair was in consequence assumed by Dr. Spol ling ; the address duly voted, and presented and ac knowledged. Os the Bth of February the correspondence was published concerning the resignation of Mr. Alitcheft. It hes time out of mind been the practice of the negro,' in Jamaica to celebrate Christmas by drumming& and other commis lies rather obstreperous, and apt to lead to riots. IR 1840-1 Mr. Mitchell, as custom, attempted to suppress them by the strong arm of the police; during the governorship of Lord Elgin, they became, in a great measure, obsolete— whether through the pregreasof education or police regulation does not appear. On the 29th of December last the police, in obedience to general instructions from Mr. Mitchell, en tered a private house to suppress a drumming. The inmates resisted ; a person of the name of Reid was arrested. Two magistrates, Mews. Lake and Smith, held him to bail. Next morning they learned that he had again been arrested by Mr. Mitchell's order, and by that magistrate held to bail to be tried at the assizes, instead of being left to appear be fore them. They complained of this discourtesy to the governor, who called upon the custom to explain his conduct, The reply was a series of letters, enlarging on the enormity of drumming., recapitulating the efforts of Mr. Mitchell to suppress them, and attacking the personal characters of the two justices. On the 9th of January a memorial from cer tain freeholders and others of the City of Kingston was presented to the governor, complaining of Mr. Mitchell's high-handed proceedings, and the danger of exciting a po pular tumult by them. The memorialists were informed, that in consequence of a previous representation, Reid's case was being inquired into. The memorial and reply were communicated to the calicos, who replied by a long and ve hement denunciation of drumming., and personal attacks upon f the correspondence should be forwarded to the Colonial. office. An intimation was sent that the request would be complied with. Mr. Mitchell, according to his own state ment, then resigned the custoe-ship, and a vehement news paper controversy was waging on the subject at the time the mail left. The Legis'atiore had not met again, but the tone of the journals appears to foreshadow a collision between the House of Assembly and the Letrialative Council about taxa tion. A RAILWAY LIBRARY.—Lient•Gen. Berkeley, when about to leave the colony to MOMS the command of the forces in the Leeward Islands, caused 601 to be forwarded to the Mean. Smith, of the Jamaica Railway, as an acknow ledgment of the great convenience it had afforded him while discharging the dative of acting-governor. The Messrs. Smith have appropriated the sum to the foundation of a library for the use of the persons employed un the line; and have resolved to call it the Berkeley Institute. THE EMIGRANT RRIP BAROSSA, with 800 Coolies on board for Salt River or Black River, was wrecked off Port Moran. Mn lives lost. DR CORDOVA'S INTELLIGINCLR states that the pros pects for 1847 are promising. It is expected that the mops will in a great degree exceed those of 1848, and that there will be a greater amount of money in circulation and a larger consumption of imported provisions. GUIANA.—No further steps had been taken in the government prosecutions up to the time of the mail being deepetched. About the beginning of February a Coolie died under eircumsUinces which led to an inveatiga tion before the coroner and a jury. The inquest had not terminated, and of course none of the evidence had been published at the time the packet sailed. The Guiana Times says: " An attempt is being made, we believe, to cast upon government the odium of this unfortunate wret ch's death. If the attempt is unjust, the injustice will beat be defeated by the publication of the whole truth. If blame is attachable to government, it will be beet punished by ex posure." The same jour na l complains that although the home government have resolved to place in the hands of the local authorities the collection of what are termed imperial duties, so sign had beep shown, either by the governor or court of police, that the value of the gift was appreciated, or that the subject was even under consideration. Some very judicious remarks on its importance ate wound up by the following observations : Bat Waldo the pamtary ader fanss the colour,thwe are ebbs tete lab Ye ambit be baba et the tins will be the bet by Owe* a Reba of rebenebe wibseerwassit. we •. o .NVtYt.wewrNls dee ihrib er bet br sem pars yet elletewelkstbewt the hallebbriepernowbbsibeet. 11 . 1 1. 1%he IllailiZgt MUM mum@ seebely la war ewe vs be beer am please —trilime we with the Ma et einees• Is • slept bet we an serillemid at hens es egweseehbe bit is o f It EWOt oh be le but ye with be sisel ssel ear ews It Whir Vibe Balk weserweeset se knew newt es maw= =ere Pebble tellswei ups es emelmay bpi assesdlw IS Is bi lese et ablimee - isidt we lobe lees etas revelerb • liberal midair lime a pewleg yawls b 'a r bebefeeur ewe ebbe, • owl Oki ebbe bet we Mow or al* %Mew, ben heit. Ppablow we dal haw the imelib . bat deer am dell Me rid ether lip. When we bob be low le bilis be sipped Ihe paver erthebb Ihe ems. we *el he es repreintathes et the esegas, to oda etptaditaue raot=aise with oat caesombiast. TRINIDAD.—" We bees bend," says the Port of Spain Gaulle, "from more than one quarter, that th e borW orounittee, amongst o th er reform in the mode of sassaibig tad collecting our island rerenne, hare it under their autionea ennoideration to rutditute, for our present duty on aspects, alma tax. T auLISOISLATCEIL—The counen mot on the lot of Feb.: " from the Port of Spain Grab • Hama of the Prime* Warn bahr• it: vh , Goverwelm Mow may be Orr air letweler • see eon atter' !^r 'r+ • sew teenaged rid= data Mar km to be rd., bta avireseerie, dreier air err; sad di efellleri, • Wry be le le *did ee rer relll64llllllllollooaid rids if the eller ef wadi ri. in to wore Bey embere to tin dere u 1 lm epee le perm; eed brie peer Set. raw raw armorer/ else lbef ewer senri ere& fw the awl el :be terrain of re lore er ef Saosimay lie trot wear re Wi end eggeetetion loaf SINNIIII7III NOM tads of date to hie meow% and now brings It beton the ODURriI. Constituted, filename, as the board ts—and with the fact that Earl Grey net only warmly appro.= of the governor's pin, but has m muck intereeted hintedf la it ma to make suggestions he its improve meat, we may look upon the measure as curried. Whatever doubts we may entertain, therefoce, so to its wordingln effectually—what ever may be our fears that it is • Irette advance of the metal and Intellectual Waldo!, Of Trinidad—it were a rbVtil tummy of time and wisdom for us to proffer I advice or opinion on a measure watch is already definitively srt tied ; and which, whether it sucomdeor ot, *id afford lading evidence of Lord I larris's anxiety to improve the condition, social and polities!, of the inhabitants of Trinidad. Ills lordship hue embodier] with this territorial gamine, his educational measure for this colony. It eppeirs that bin lordship in now of opinion that secular instroction Is all that can safely be undertaken by the government—that whilst the state, in providing the means of secular instruction to the children of the people, doe, se much ea can ba expected ef it, or an 14 in fact, advisable, still it has • right toall upon the other two parties interested the parent and the obtrn•—to their portion of the great duty thus divided between them, and to amertaln br inquiry from time to time that secular instruction and religious education are mooted. log hand in hand. It will be men that the council bare decided that Coolie immigration le to be proceeded with, but on a reduced male., and under different repalatione. The parties employing the Coolies are to pay 21. per head towards defroing the expense of their intro- duction into the colony, and under Earl Grey's regulations, width have been embodied Into an ordinance, and undermine a Mat and mond reading, such further payments are to be made on the renewal of yearly mreemente, or the entering into agreements with Crab partt e ae trill, if three sums are looked after, go far to defray a ma dders portion of the expense of bringing the Coolies hither. [This seems the proper place to notice a charge of plop:- arum brought against the Daily News by the Port of Spain Garet... The three papers in that journal instituting a comparison between Cuba and Trinidad were undoubtedly in the possession of the writer of the article in the Daily News referred to at the time he wrote ; but so also were the annual statements published by the customs at Havannah, the report of the Trinidad agricultural committee, Mr. Burnley's examination before the Lommittee of the House of Commons on the disposal of waste colonial lands in the co lenies in 1836, and several MS. documents. If the articles in the Port of Spain Gazette were not noticed, neither were the other sources whence he derived his information, simply because to have named all . would have been ostentatious, and, to have named one, unjust to the others. The Daily News has suffered too much from unacknowledged appro priation of its own articles to play the same game wirn an able, judicious, and veracious contemporary : and that these qualities are plumed by the l'ort of Spain Gazette is gladly acknowledged.] _ _ • LEEWARD ISLANDS.—The news from Barba does itself is unimportar.t : the intelligence from Tobago and St. Lucia is still the reverse of pacific. TOHAOO.—Ia the House of Arsembly on Tuesday the 22nd Jan., Mr. Rooks brought up the report of the Commit tee appointed to draw up a reply to his Excellency's despatch on the dissolution. The reply, as agreed to, was read. It states that the house is proceeding with the supply and franchise hills, but after they are disposed of it will not pro ceed with say other buamcss until there is a dissolution. Mr. MCDougall thought the governor's communication was a breach of privilege. Mr. Richardson, who came into the house a few minutes before three, thought the governor had acted with great courtesy towards the house. BAHAMAS. GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION. Great excitement has been occasioned at Grand Cay, by a rather injudicious step of the governor. An ez-o ffi cio pro secution has been instituted against the editor of the Turks' Blood Gazette, fee an alleged libel ; and the governor has ordered that the trial shall take place at Nassau, 600 miles distant. By the act of the sth Wm. IV., e. 34, it is enacted, that all offences committed on Turks' Isl and are to be heard and determined at Grand Cay, and by the act of 2 Vie., c 8, this privilege is confirmed to the islanders. A clause in the act authorises certain cases after conursencensent in the ' court at Grand Cay to be removed to Nassau, if there is ' appearance of a riot or public excitement, but it is men- Honed that this case has not even been commenced at Grand Cay. The distance to which the accused is obliged to travel for trial, and the prolonged absence from his business, must press extremely hard upon him. it is said that this is the third or fourth case of ex-officio prosecution under the pre sent executive. This is not the way to reconcile the Turks' Islanders to the systematic injustice of which they com plain. Ight eoutt. The Queen and Prides Albert walked in the plea sure-groan& of Osborne House on Tuesday afternoon. RR.HH. the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, end the Princess Alice, took airings in the vicinity of Osborne House on Tuesday afternoon. WS H. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, arrived at Osborne House on a visit to the Queen on Tuesday, and dined with her Majesty and her royal consort. The unfavourable stated the weather yesterday morning prevented her Majesty and the Royal Family from taking their accustomed walla kin the pleuure grounds and on the beach. The Duke of Cambridge gave a grand dinner yes terday, at Cambridge.house, to the noble directors of the Concert of Ancient Music and a select party, his Royal Highness being the director for the evening. Among the company were the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, and Madame Bunsen; Baron de Benet, Saxon Minister, and Baroness de Benet ; the Duke of Wellington, the Countess of Jersey, the Countess of Minefield and Lady Caroline Murray, Baron Brenner, Count and Countess Eeglowitz, Sir Andrew Barnard, Rev. Evan Repeat), Sir Henry R. Bishop, and Major Stephens. In the evening their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompa nied by the Duke of Wellington and their other distin guished guests, and attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Kuesebeck, went to the Hanover-square Rooms to honour the performance of the Ancient Concert with their presence. H.R.H. the Princess Mary accompanied the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. A deputation on the subject of West India emigra tion bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the British Araociation for the Advancement of Science, waited on Lord John Rus sell, yesterday, at hie official residence in Downing-street, to present a memorial to his lordship from members of Canons scientific societies, suggesting that steps may be taken to secure a due representation of natural science in the Board of Trustees of the British Museum. The Rev. A. Short had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. Sir Charles Adam had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great George-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India colonies. SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETT.—The anniversary dinner of the Seaman's Hospital Society for sick and dis eased seamen in the port of London, took place last evening at the London Tavern. The Earl of Auckland presided. The committee in their report had much pleasure in adding to the list of royal supporters to the hospital, the name of his Majesty the King of Hanover, who had become an annual contributor of 201., also that of his Excellency Keying, the imperial high commissioner to the Emperor of China, whose name had been recorded as a benefactor of 1871. 10e., for warded by Rear-admiral Sir T. Cochrane, commander-in chief in the Chinese seas. The committee had, in ac knowledgment of this act of liberality, enrolled the name of his excellency among the via-presidents. The number of patients admitted during the past year to the hospital ship, the Dreadnought, had been 2,312 ; and advice, medi cines, and medical stores had been provided for 1,629 out patients ; making 3,941 seamen relieved in that period ; and since the first establishment, a total of 79,685. The finan cial statement of the society during the put year exhi bited a progressive improvement. Amongst other items the committee noticed the payment, on the part of Mrs. Some., widow of the late eminent ship-owner, of her portion (one third) of an intended bequest (1,0001.)of Mr. Senses ; and also 3001., the bequest of Capt. J. Locke H.C.B. ; 10 01 . bad aloo been contributed by Mr. T. Wright, of Noweasdoepon- Tyne, towards the hospital. The receipts of the fast year, including 6601. 18s., the balance then was 8,893!. 195.; out of which a present balance of 3801. The Chairman, in proposing the toast of " Prosperity to the Seaman's Floopital," made some general obeernotlons open its utility, no institution being in his opinion more en titled to respect. The remainder of the toasts were of the wind character, the health of the Chairman, and of Admiral Bowles, being the principal. The enhawip tion during the evening amounted to nearly 1,1001. xr. Toole was toast-master. CHURCH FOR THE SEAMEN OF THE PORT OF LON uopc—A public meeting was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishepsgate-street, in aid of the funds of the Church for Seamen of the Port of London, erected in Dock street, Rear the London and St. Katherine's Docks, the sittings of which (800 !unlimber) are to be free. The Earl of Cadogan took the chair. Mr. Lsbouehere, the treasurer, made a general statement of the receipts and liabilities up to the 24th of February, 1847. The amount required to be collected before the church could beopened was 9.8581. In. 4d. Up to Feb., 1847, the sum of 7,8731. was received by subscrip tion. The amount still required was about 2,0001. The Bishop of London moved the first resolution, and concluded by pledging himself to do all he could to promote the nieces of the undertaking, and calling on the meeting to make its merits more generally known. —The Treasurer read a list of subscriptions received during the day, amounting on the whole to about 5001., and a vote of thanks to the Chairman having been passed the meeting separated. - - - ROYAL LITERARY FUND. —The annual general meeting of this corporation was held yesterday, at 73, (heat Rusaell.stre-t, Bloomsbury-square, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart., M.P., in the chah.. Mr. Blewitt, the eecretary, reed the report, which stated that the amount distributed, during the last year, in relief to distressed authors, their widows, and orphans, was 1,4071., and that the total sum thus applied from the foundation of the institution, in 1790, to the 31st of December last, amounted to 33,8301. The subscriptions and donations during the past year amounted to 1,0091., exclusive of a legacy of 100/. from John Harris, Esq., the bookseller, of St. Paul's churchyard. It was announced that the chair at the ensuing anniversary dinner will be taken by Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian ambas sador. The Marquis of Lansdowne was re-elected president. The Marquises of Northampton and Normanby, Lords RUenborough, Stanley, Brougham, John Russell ; Sir Robe. Peel, Sir Robt. Inglis, and other noblemen and gentlemen. were reelected vice-presidents ; and the women and committee were lec with the addition of Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir Percy Sh elley, Bart., and James Prior, Req. BRITISH COLONIAL BANK AND LOAN COMPANY. — The sixth annual meetingof this company was held yesterday at the offices in Moorgatestrest. J. Stewart, Req.. presided. The report set forth that the directors had succeeded in making terms favourable to the company, with the altareholde.s to whom debenture' Wen granted, under which, shares to the extent of 18,20 W. have been cancelled, which has enabled them to write off 3,5601., in port liquidation of the prelimi nary expenees. A further amount of shares, to the extent of 12,3401., has also been surrendered to the company and can celled ; making a total of 30,6901. stock. On the other hind, loans to the extent of 14,1011. ss. 11d. have beet paid off or extinguished. From the money arising from the loans and the seventh call (which has been moat punctually paid) the liabilities have been reduced in the last year to the extent of 10,2001., of which 5,0001. have been paid since the last gene ral meeting ; and the remaining liabilities of the company are in a train of liquidation. The following directors, ac oarding to the deed of settlement, retire from the direction ; but, being eligible, hereby offer themselves for re-election, viz., James Stewart, Esq., Sir Joseph de Courcy Dart., and the &v. John Howard Hinton. A.tvr u short discussion the report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, free of income-•ax, was declared on all the colonial shares, and upon the 6 calls paid on the Bri tiahshares, and on the seventh call from the date of payment. A vote of thanks was passed to the directors, and the meet ing separated. THE STEAM SHIP COLLISION IS THE RIVER. The recent fatal collision off this part of the river, by which the schoonir Rose was run down, and all hands lost, excepting the master, still continues to excite considerable interest. The steamer that occasioned the miachie, the Royal Victoria, arrived off Saint Katlic+. rine'a, from Leith, in the course of Monday, and in pursuance of an Admiralty "lido., she was seized for the damage she was all,ged to have caused the Rose. Bail, however, to the amount claimed hating been duly put in, the order of seizure was withdrawn, and this evening the again left for Leith. The claims for the loss of the Rose and cargo will fill little short, it is stated, of 9,0001. iltiSil TITLE.—M. Soler has been nicknamed by the Nib, " The broth of a boy."—Penh. IN LIVFATS.—DESTIT CTION.—On Tuesday evening an inquest was Feld before Mr. Baler, coroner, at the World's End, Mile-end Old Town, on the remains of a poor wowan, named Mary Ann Eastham, aged 51 years, who died on Saturday last, for want of the common necessaries of life. The first wieners was James Eastham, a bey about ten years of age, who said he was the son of the deceased. He could neither read nor write. 1115 father had been dead several years. His wother had, ever since the death of his father, obtained a scanty subsistence by making up slop work. During the last twelve months his mothers eyes had failed, in consequence of her constant application to her needle, and she was unable to work any longer. She applied to the board of guardians of the Stepney union, who allowed her two shillings per week. She paid 9d, per week for the small room which the jury bad visited in Nelson-street, Stepney. During the late severe weather, his mother and himself were frequently without food or coals, and they suffered much from cold and want. His mother was advised by the neighbours to go into the work house, but refused ' • and said if she was compelled is enter the Union it would break her heart. The coroner asked the boy if he had sufficient food. The boy replied in the nega tive—he never had enough. his roomer ;often used to cry over him, and regret that she could not obtain victuals. His mother quite starved herself, and gave him the hest share of the food she obtained, During the long winter, himself and his mother slept on the bare boards, with nothing but an of I hearth-rug to cover thaw. His mother frequently crouched up in a corner of the room, in a shivering condition, because she could not obtain fuel. They had not eaten any sort of meat for upwards of nine months. They considered themselves well provided for if they could obtain one ounce'of cocoa and one halfpennyworth of bread per day. Oa Sunday last they had one herring and a halfpennyworth of bread, which his mother shared with him. She always gave him more than she ate herself Their principal fare was dry bread and cold water, His poor mother had frequently complained of ill ness during the cold weather, and expressed her fears that she could not live much longer. On Sunday evening last he observed an alteration in his mother, and thought she was dying. He went out for assistance, and when he returned, his mother was quite dead. Mr. James Horton , surgeon, stated that he was called upon to attend the deceased. He attributed death to natural causes, accelerated by privation.. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. The coroner handed to the foreman of the jury a half sovereign, and de sired him to provide for the wants of the boy. The jury said it was a very melancholy case, and followed up the ge nerosity of the coroner by a small subscription.— ACCIDENT AT AN ENCIINEEIi*B. By Mr. Baker, at the Masons Arms, Poplar, on view of the body of John Smith, a labourer, aged 40 years. The deceased was in the employ of Messrs. and Co., engineers, Millwall, Poplar. On Tuesday last he was engaged with several other labourers, in raising a bran screw propeller, weighing upwards of six tons, from one part of the (artery to another. They had succeeded in raising it four feet from the ground by means of the crane, when the chain soddenly broke, and the mass fell with great violence, striking the deceased on the back. He instantly fell, and, when raised, life was found to be quite extinct. Verdict—" Accidental Death." THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1847. COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION. The following appears in the form of a letter in the Leeds I ntelligencer The authority of this 'nominee of education le limited to the distribution of the partlementary grant, and M that administration is regulated by Mae minutes sod orders of council, which are all pre sented to parliament Woe their lordships woad to set wpm them. The ineructions Is the henieetore of reboots desire the mode in which the duties of Wan errs are performed. 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We mentioned yesterday, that the inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men killed by the explo sion on the Sth instant, at the Oaks Colliery, at Ardsley, was commenced on Monday. Before viewing the bodies, the jury finding that the room in the White Bear Inn, at Ardsley, wee very inconvesient from its limited dimensions, mastedto Mr. O. D. Barker, the deputy-coroner pre siding, that the further proceedings should be adjourned to the court-house at Barnsley ; and the suggestion was as to. After all the bodies had been viewed and identified, the inquest was proceeded with at three o'clock, at the court house, Barnsley, to which place it had been adjourned. Mr. Marshall, solicitor, Barnsley, attended on behalf of the friends of Peter Day, and other friends of the deceased per sons, and Mr. Mance appeared for the proprietors of the colliery. The coroner briefly addressed the jury, and said he wished to call their attention to a few points in the inquiry, which, in his opinion, would most require their particular notice. The first woo, as to whether the pit was in a proper working condition, properly ventilated, and wheth ryre quisite precaution had been taken to ensure the safety of the workmen employed in it; secondly, the cause of the accu mulation of fool air, and of the explosion; and, thirdly, if any and what person was culpable, end to what extent blamable for the calamity which had happened. He soli cited their serious attention to the evidence which would be given, not only for the purpose of arriving at a proper con clusion on the ease then before them, but also that their in. vestigation might operate beneficially in preventing the occurrence of accidents of so deplorable a nature. The first witness called was Joseph Northrop, who on being sworn said lam banksman at the Wks pit in Ards.. ley, and attend to the cones as they come up and go down, and I see the men employed go down to their wort and come out. I saw the deceased persons go down into the pit on Friday morning the bth inst. I was in the pit till about three o'c:oek en the afternoon, when an explo sion took place in the pit. After the explosion I saw several dead Ludic' taken out of the pit, which ballet the jury have viewed. The witnese then identified several of the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers. The witness in continuation said there are two shafts ; one is used as a drawing shaft. There was some scaffolding let down the other shalt about s month or five weeks ago, which was circular, and nearly the width of the shaft, sad was let down for men to stead upon to repair the shaft. It was in the theft at the time of the explosion, and is there now. Two men were working on the scaffolding at the time of the explosion, one of whom was killed. The fireman, Joseph Littlewood, goes into the pit before the men in the morning. George Armitage so bottom steward. Mr. George Wilson is manager. I know nothing of the bottom working, I attend only to the top. Joseph Littlewood was the next witni as presented. Before he was sworn the coroner inquired of him the nature of his duties, and told him that as the result of the inquiry might affect those persons hating the management and contra of the pit, he wished to explaiu to them that they need not give any evidence that might criminate themselves ; but if they tendered their evidence after that explanation, he (the 1 c-ironer) would receive it. Shuttleworth having stated that he wished to be examined, was sworn, and said : I am fire- 1 man at the Oaks pit. My duties are to go down into the pit first, to see that it Is in working order, and fit for the men to work in. I usually went down about three o'clock in the morning. There is then no man in the pit, except a man who attends the cupola fire in the pit. The fire is about fifteen or sixteen yards from the air-shaft. When I get down, I go into the first man's hole nearest the bottom, and take a safety lamp with me to try if it is safe. I hold the lamp before me. If ft fires, it is not safe; if it does ' not fire, as an additional teat, I take the top of the lamp off, which exposes the air in the hole openly to the flame of the lamp. I can tell from the flame if any foul air is in the hole. There might be foul air in the hole to show an appear apes when in contact with the naked flame, although it would not fire, and although no erpearanee of foul air might show through the gauze of a safety lamp. I found, on rpplying these two tests on Friday morning last, no appearance of foul air in the first hole. I tried every hole in the pit in the same way. I found no foul air where the men were is 1 1 work. I found foul air in the old workings, and in which men are not now employed. The depth of the seam of coals is:about eight feet two inches, and the break or hole when the coal is gut will be about the same depth, twenty to thirty y ards wide, and from seven hun dred to one hundred yards in length. The break* are propped with props, puncheons, and packs. I found foul air in some of the breaks on Friday morning last. I went down at twenty minutes past three, and ex amined the men's working holes, as I have stated. I make this examination every morning, and have examined the pit in the way mentioned every morning for about a year and • half. There has always been foul air in the breaks where the coal has been go.. The reason there is foul air in the breaks which have been worked, and not in those which are being worked it., that in the breaks which have been worked the roof has fallen, and the air cannot get thoroughly into them; the props and puncheons in the old breaks are " borrowed," that is, taken away as the workings proceed. When they are borrowed, the roof left will fall in. When the roof lolls, it will have the effect of driving any foul air in the break.; out into the pit. When the men working in the new breaks want proper packs, they are sent down from the top. There is a bye-man at the bottom of the pie, his name is William Charlesworth, who is burnt and bruised by the explosion, but is alive. His duty is to do any work he may be required to do by George Armitage, the bottom steward, and myself. He has to get the " chocks" out of the old breaks. The colliers get the puncheons. The bye-man is not • collier but s labourer. A puncheon is made of wood and goes from the floor to the roof. The " chocks" are pieces of wood used as wedges; one is put on the other en the coal is got. The puncheons are left when the coal is got, and the chocks are carried forward. The roof will not fall until the puncheon, are removed. When the colliers working in the pit want puncheons they get from the old breaks and take them to those In which they are working. If they cannot get those (tom the old breaks, they can get them from the top, but they must try to get those in the old breaks first. After I had been round the pit last Friday morning, I considered it safe, and I gave the signal to the top, and the men began to come down to their work. I staid in the pit until a quarter before three in the afternoon. My duty, after I have been round in the morning, is to go round the pit, and see that all is safe and right. I go to the most dangerous places. I go about from one to the other to see that all ie safe. The depth of the shaft is about 280 yards. There is an air shaft about the same depth, which is about nine feet from the drawing shaft. The sir shaft has • cupola, in which a fire is constantly kept whilst the pit is working. There are no other means of ventilation than the air shaft I have mentioned. The furthest part of the workings are about half a mile from the shafts. The shaft is unusually deep. Find air will accumulate very look in breaks of the depth of eight feet, and the roof is more likely to fall after the coal es got than in • smaller scam. The men have worked in this pit both with candles and safety lamps. I have told the men to work with can dles in the breaks, where I have found it safe, in my opinion, so to work, from tryieg the place with the safety lamp, with the gauze on, and also with the top off. I have told them to work in the breaks near the old breaks with lamps. I told them this, because I found the air in breaks they were to work in fired at a safety-lamp with the gauze on. They might go a little into the breaks where the lamp fired with the gauze on, but not too far. If they went too 6r, from the frequent firing of the light the gauze would get red hot, or burst and ignite the foul sir. The lamps are cleaned by the colliers themselves at home After their work. They are not locked. When the men go down the pit in the morning they bring the lamps back with them. The lamps are found by the proprietors. They are not examined when the men go into the pit to see that they are clean. Thin is left to themselves. The lamps burn with oil. If there was say oil in the gauze of a lamp, and a man took that lamp into a break such as I have mentioned, to work where the air fired, the oil would take fire and cause an explosion. If the lamp was not clear from oil an explosion would take place where the men had been in the habit of working. There would he about one hundred hands in the pit at the time of the explosion last Friday. They were in different parts of it, and I only know one of the number who has escaped without some injury. The explosion has extended through. outthe whole of the workings. I think all the foul air in I the pit has not exploded. I went down the pit between four and five o'clock the same evening the explosion happened. I found the wail or partition between the drawing pit and the air-shaft blown down. The safety lamps used by the men are not got out; they are covered by what has been blown down by the explosion in the breaks. There is a scaffolding in the air shaft for the purpose of repair. I don't know how long it has been in. I should say the space between the scaffolding and the sides of the shaft is about two feet. The shaft is about nine feet wide, end is circular. Before I come out, George Armitage, the bottom steward, came out. There was no person in authority down when I left the pit on Friday last, nor when the explosion took place. I can not account for the explosion. When I find foul air in a break where the men are to work I lay a shovel across it to signify this. They know then they are to take lamps in and not needles. The men ought to go into the breaks with lamps first, and if they see no shovel they may take candles. When the men work with lamps the burners do ; they hurry with candles where the men work with candles. The harriers have in some places to pass the old breaks where the foul air is whether they are working with lamp. or candles. I laid shovels es usual on Friday morning last in seven or eight breaks in which the men were to work that morning. When a fresh man canes to work, he is told this signal. It is possible • man might wise to work and I not know. He would not know the signal until he was told. He might work awhile before I saw him, and he, not know. ingS the signal might walk over a s hovel with a lighted anal° in his h;nd. The repairs to the shaft might have ben done at night when the men were out of the pit ; and the scaffolding might have been taken out in the day time. The shaft which is now used as an air -shaft, has been originally used as a drawing shaft. The shaft is level with the ground, and there is no chimney or other brickwork above the ground. If there was a chimney or brick-work above the level of the ground, the draft would be greater. A proper air shaft is one sunk down to the coal and walled up from it with a chimney, and made for the purpoee. At the request of Mr. Hence, some questions were put to the witness, who added: The men are cautioned not to go into the old breaks either with or without lamps. The air shaft, I should say, is nine feet across at the top ; it widens towardstbe bottom. _ By the Foreman—There was no fine fora man working in the pit with a candle where he ought to nee a lamp. About a year ago I found a man named Walton, and who is now amongst the killed, working with a candle when he should have been using a lamp. He was then threatened to be turned off, but was not. The gauze of some lamps is finer than others. They are both equally safe. I use coarse gauze, because I can see the foul air sooner. It being now between eight and nine o'clock at night, and as the coroner thought it desirable that time should be given for further inquiry, the inquest was adjourned until Tuesday next, the 16th instant, at nine o'clock in the morning. Just as the coroner and jury were leaving the court-house, intelli gence was given to them that four more bodice had bean taken from the pit. The coroner they announced his in tention of remaining all night, awl requested the jury to meet him at Ardaley, on the following morning, at nine o'clock, in order that the bodice might be viewed, and in terred without delay. ARO/SLIT, TO/MOAT, MAara 9.—The coroner and jury assembled this morning at the White Bear public-house, where the bodies of the four sufferers mentioned above were lying. Three of the four stood in the relationship of father and sons, the latter two fine youths, aged 18 and 16 years. rho names of the tour deceased are James Whiteley, Wm. Whiteley, George Whiteley, and John Riley. After the jury had viewed the bodies, this inquest was also adjourned to the lame tithe sad ;thee me the last. The coroner and jury took this opportunity of risking the pit, and viewing th: position of the shafts, die., a maser which appeared of the greatest importance in the inquiry in which they were engaged. The bodies of three men are known to be still in the pit, and it i■ more than doubtful that oue o f them will never be recovered, such a vast quantity of the works having been blown down upon the pleas where he was employed. All the men in the pit were either kited or injured, and amongst the latter we regret to say are same of whose reco veghveefrz,,alrigah,t a te te e s I ., r a e , entertain ed . t a e l Ltf a in y e d ■beady ;toted, took place on Monday. The train of coffins and mourners of those buried in Barnsley extruded nearly a mile. The lamentations ap- peared to be universal. All busbies' was suspended, sod grief and sorrow were seen in ors ry direction. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MAr.cn 9. The Right Rev. the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath. Dr. Cantwell, has addressed a letter to the Chief Secretary for Ireland, upon the subject of Lord John Russell's amendments in the Poor Law Bill for this country. Dr. Cantwell complains of Lord John's altered determination as regards the landlords, and he warns the noble lord that his concessions to their demands a ill be unpopular with the country. Ile says the unequal system of rating will be very unjust to wards the towns, and very encouraging to landlords, to " clear" their estates, and the augmenta tion of the e.r-offieio guardians he pronounces to be a handing over of the people to the mercy of a set of men who have never mani fested pity or humanity, either now or at any former time, towards the poor. He instances the relief com mittee of his own neighbourhood, where the magis trates appointed on it refused to subscribe a shilling while the people subscribed 6801. Dr. Cantwell praises the Labour Rate Act—notices that the land lords are not proceeding with reproductive works;' eulogises tie exertions of the clergy of all denomi nations as edifying to the public and beneficial to the poor," but warns Lord John that his amended poor , law, if passed, " will be the heaviest curse a united parliament ever inflicted upon Ireland." Government for some time have been collecting stores in that part of Leitrim adjoining the Shannon, to distribute to the relief committees when the hopes of supply from other quarters had diminished. The season has at length arrived, and the government stores at Carrick-on-Shannon have been just opened, from which oatmeal is now sold to the poor at 3s. per stone. The local paper is loud in its applause. of the conduct of the authorities. It appears a third school of design is likely to be established in Ireland, in addition to those of Dublin and Belfast. Mr. Labonchere's reply to the Cork Mechanics Institute, that the formation of such institutions was under the consideration of the President of the Board of Trade, does not fully re cognise the claim; but ea the Cork Examiner, with becoming pride in the reputation of the native artists I remarks, " It would indeed be strange if the second city in the empire—a city which has produced a Barry, a Hogan, a Maclise, and a host qf others, cull- I rent in the arts, should be passed over." The Cork workhouse is far the most fatal one in the kingdom—the causes are referable to other than the usual elements which accelerate mortality, and are more clearly pointed out in the reports of the local physicians. The number of deaths for the week end ing Sunday the 7th, was 143 ; and for a single day, Sunday,3l; an immense mortality beyond all question. The number of interior an d exterior patients was 1,178. Total in workhouse, 5,681. Outside the workhouse very great distress prevails, of which the government ie not unmindful. The treasurer of the district relief committee received on Friday 1,9001. from Commis sary-general Hewetson, a donation in aid of the local subscriptions. Nzotgor or TILLAGE.—Two letters in a Dublin morn. ing paper of to-day, confirm the fact that in Mayo all tillage is neglected, In the neighbourhood of Castlebar, one writer, • Roman Catholic clergyman, states that there is no more tillage in his district, or preparation for it, than if it were " the middle of winter, and not the middle of spring." Another writer states that, in his locality, Louisburgh, the property of the Marquis of Sligo, there is every probability that neat year there will be famine also. The cork Examiner represents the state of things in that county as not much more cheering. Little progress appears to have been made in sowing the crops, and the small farmers are represented as " more intent on realising their available means and hastening to the seaports." The landlords are said to be perfectly " bewildered ;" but, it is added, that neither for that class, or for the large farmers, can be offered any excuse for their neglect, while the jour nalist contends, that as regards the former the government ought to " compel them " to attend to so obvious a duty. I was assured yesterday by a gentleman in,the employment of the Board of Works that he passed on Saturday from Encistymon to Ennis, and did not see one dozen men em ployed on spring business ; it is utterly neglected there, and the misery is extreme. Mlt. SHELL AND RELIEF AT DUNI/ AETON.—SiF,—Haviog seen it repeated twice in the Expres2 that the suffering inhabitants of Bungee/on were much indebted to the lion. R. L. Sheil for a supply of free farinaceous food, accom panied by an insinuation that his political and ministerial influence had been exercised on the occasion, we beg to state that the only vessel announced to have arrived at that destination in the Mary Reynolds schooner, which was loaded here at the expense of the relief committee, and con veyed about 200 tons of flour,•bitcuit, pee-meal, &c.; and that it was despatched to that locality at the suggestion of the British Association, which we are convinced would not, more than our own committee, have been influenced by any political hiasin the distribution of funds most liberally raised in the spirit of Christian chari ty .—JOHN Mitts and V. HELLMAN, Ron. Secretaries, Committee-room, Council house, Bristol, March 9, 1847. IMPROVED FISHERIES. - - - ------.. Ste,—While some are labouring to discover apeman for all the ills of Ireland, I would rather recommend that every one should do his part in some particular department of improvement. It is, perhaps, • necessary attendant on an au of general circulation of sews, that too many minds are occupied with vast general questions, and too few with the personal and practical question--what shall I do ? The general question is, just now, how shall a large, starving population be fed ? I, by no means, would presume to give any general answer. Irish pauperism arises from • complication of causes. Is it not by a complke tion of remedies that it mast be removed ? Among these remedies are mentioned the employment of labourers on works of public utility ; the devoting the land to con and other cereals, instead of to the precarious, ruinous note.° ; and the raising of human nutriment from every available source. Under this last head I would, once more, endeavour to call public attention to the subject of improved fisheries. In doing this, I may sum up the remarks which have already appeared in your paper. The various views taken of this subject may be comprehended under a few questions : Is there a store of fish to repay the cost of proposed improvements ? Are such improvements practicable and valuable ? And, could markets be found for an increased supply of fish ? To the first question we may say yes" without any deliberation. For every fish taken, hundreds might be taken. The fishing of the Scotch cotter tenants who merely go out during about six weeks in the year, and take the fish that come to their hand, affords no example of what might be done in a systematic way by men enabled, by the support of good capital, to devote their whole time to the fisheries. The her ring fishery is well known to be precarious, as it is dependant on the unexplained m • grations of the shoals that visit our coasts; bat the deepma fishin g, which I recommended in a former letter, would afford • regular and profitable employ ment if maintained in steady operation by sufficient capital. The banks en the southern and western coasts of Inland abound with fine fish. Success there has nolimit in nature but is limited by the inefficient means in the hands of poor fishermen. Yet, even with these inferior means, the success has often been such that, in some seasons, large quantities of fish have been thrown on the land as manure, for want of • ready market. Ireland, with abundant stores on her own touts, has been in the habit of importing about 200,000 barrels of herrings from Scotland end Shetland. Why ? Because the fisheries of these coasts were under better management. I dismiss, without further remarks, the question of a plentiful supply. The second question regards the practicability' of improve ments. These improvements respect both the extent and the mode of fishing. As to the former, it is evident that • company with capital, can carry on fishing against diffi cultism which would suspend the work of scores of small fishermen whose hopes may be rained for months, by the foundering of a boat or the decay of nets and lines. With regard to the employment of steam-tugs as a protec tion and assistance to fishing-smacks, former remark' may suffice. On another improvement suggested, a move de tailed explanation may be given, as it appears to have im portance. Of mune the chances of means are increased according to the number of hooks kept in the water. But the long line used at present has this disadvantage, that it keeps the fish on the hooks, often for several hours, by which their quality is deteriorated ,• so that fish taken si ngly by the band - line fetch a higher price, To remedy this, and to combine the advantages of both hand-line and long-line fishing, I recommended an apparatus certainly more ex pensive than that used at present, but which might 'rosily be employed by e fishing company. It is simply a long line (say from half a rails to more) floated on the surface by Gorki, and anekored at each end. Its potion would be marked by troop. From this line be sus pended a number of hatted and baited lines, each having a separate float, so that one fish might be drawn up as soon as caught. A number of boats, according to the length of the line, would attend to the floats, which would not preventthe boatmen from wing hand-lines at the same time. By this means it is evident that one fiaherman might do the work of several, and this is only one of many improvements that might be made. Next comes the question of finding ready markets. Would • supply of hatter and cheaper fish than we have at present widen the market 1 It may be noticed hen that the plan of par sal curing, to keep fish for • few weeks, would itßtate the extension of markets. Fisheries must be conducted with a regard to the mesas of carriage, especially (be extension • f railwe)-s ; but as those means of quick carriage are multiplied, and inland markets are opened, fisheries itso may be rater:did along our coasts, giving employment to considerable numbers of the poor, and increasing to a great extent the 'tack of food for the people. To conclude I thiuk it a very desirable thing that gentle men of intelligence and honourable motives should direct • their attention to improved fisheries, not only with regard to Ireland, but including Scotle•td, England, the Shet land and certain i•lands, where the land cannot flunky the whole of the pupulation. Though once a fisherman, I prefer the land to the water, and • would not call away one peasant from the plough to a fishery ; but among other means of employing the unera- • ployed, these now slag :god may take a place. I would add a hint, which may be laughed at, th ough I cannot r e any absurdity in it. I should like to see some of the enterpris ing among the aristocracy, who have estates on our coasts, engage in improved fisheries, Apart from consideratioal of profit, it would he a generous amusement. The progress of population r. aily seems likely to drive our !porting whin to the are, and make them adopt old Isaac Waiton's motto, . Let us go a-fishing." The noise of a piscatorial aristo cracy may be ridiculed ; but worse sdsice might be given than to forsake the pheasants end follow the fish. It would have the great advantage, that such em ployment (regarded merely as sport) would require no such waste of land and of nteans of subsistence, as is now required to insure a bonne of pheasants. The absur dity lies, not in my proposition, but in the present sporting habits of the aristocracy contrasted with the frightful desti tution that is extending. The time has come when every thing that can be dune to afford honest employment, and to increase means of human subsistence, must bo done. As one part of this great work, I am glad that you bane given me an opportunity of recommending improved fisheries. Ar 4 OLD FISHERMAN. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, MAitcw 9. _ _ _ The latest accounts from Howl-shire show that food rioting still prevails to a dangerous extent. A new irethod of preventing the shipment of grain is to break open the granaries and mix the different kinds of corn, &c., a plan which has twice been resorted to in the above county. Dingwall has hitherto been the chief scene of disturbance in that quarter, and, ac cordingly, 100 men of the 27th, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Goodman, have arrived there from Inver gordon, ca.-rying with them thirteen prisoners, of • whom eight were females. Dr. Chalmers has addressed a letter to the Edin burgh newspapers, in which he earnestly solicits pub lic attention to the extent and intensity of Highland destitution. Speaking of remedies, he says: Is it right in the government to abstain from their grants in the hope that we, the public, will do all? We are aware of their loam for the employment of the able-bodied; but we have a very strong impression that, without their gratuities, there is the utmost danger that many in a state of helpless infirmity, or of Metes forlorn widowhood, will be left to perish. It is an utter delusion that the sum we have raised, of about 80,0011., is at all competent to meet the present exigencies of towards half a million people. i And s this the return for our doing thus much that we am to receive at the hands of a paternal go vernment ? Can there be a more direct bounty or temptation for a public doing nothing, or doing little, than to find that where a put lie do much, the return made for it is, that they shall be left to do all ? Would they only do by us what we have been given to understand they are now doing by the relief committees in Deland,—that is, giving pound for pound on all that is raised among themselves,—we verily believe that on the impulse thus given to our future additional subscriptions, we should be enabled at leant to keep our suffering High landers alive. And what, after all, we should thus obtain at the hands of government,_for the relief of our Scottish famine, is certainly not one half of the tithe of what the Irish famine will cost them. But let us never forget that the failure of any one party to acquit themselves of their duty can never exonerate us from the obligation to sequit ourselves of ours. Whether the government will hear sr wiz forbear, it is our cleor and imperative business to see that not one of cur fellow-countrymen, be they men, women, or children, shall die of hunger. A Lseouttro ALAHMIST.—On Monday evening, the Rev. J. D. Smith (one of a deputation from the Irish Con gregational Union),_ delivered a lecture on the alarming condition of Ireland, in Argyll-square chapel, Edinburgh. The lecturer succeeded in keeping his audience in a perfect roar of laughter ; and so much prized wan this mode of treating the subject that they gave occasional rounds of rapturous applause. The reverend gentlemen proved him self an admirable story-teller, and a very saccomful mimic. BIRTH-PIACI or Bra lone Moons.—lt having been asserted that the premises in Argyll-street, occupied by the Glasgow Atheneum, arc part of the house where the hero of Curunna was born, the Constitutional has dispelled the romance of this emaciation, by declaring the true locality to be " Donald's Lend, French linen Close, north side of the Trongatc, a little east from Candleriggstreet, and just oppo site to the Leieh Kirk." Captain Cuttle could not have given the " bearings " more luminously. PROVINCIAL. A FATAL STABBING - CASE Octiirred in Liverpool on Monday. John W. Hines, a young sailor, went to a house of bad repute kept by cue T. Kearns. A quarrel ensued. Hines, it is alleged, drew his knife, and stabbed Kearns in the neck and also in the chest. He then ran home to his lodgings. The wounded man expired in a few minutes. Hines has been arrested, and now awaits the result of tke coroner's inquest. .......- RiPRESENTATION or WAIMALL.--11r. Robert Scott, the present member, retires. There will be a contest between the Hon. E. R. Lyttleton, eon of Lord Hatherton, who stands on the moderate Whig or neutral interest, and Mr. Charles Forster, a barrister on the Oxford circuit, whose father represented the borough in two parliaments, who is supported as a free trader and a townsman by a very nume rous section of the elector.. There is some talk of Mr. Ser. jeant Wilkin's standing on the Conservative interest. The constituency numbers nearly 900, and a large proportion o. it are small nail and other manufacturers, just above the rank of mechanics. The free trade party are stated to be displeased with Mr. Littleton in consequence of his having refused to attend a free-trade dinner which took place last _ _ 801171 R EXPLOBION AND LOSS OP FOUR LlTlO.—Bir mingbam, Wednesday.—lntelligence has been receivtd here to-day of the explosion of an immense boiler at the iron works of Messrs. Davie and Bloomer, Gould's-hill, near West Bromwich. The accident is stated to have arisen en tirely from neglect on the part of the man employed to super intend the working of the engine, the boiler of which is represented to have been one of the strongest ever manu factured; it was, however, suffered to get nearly red-hot in consequence of an inadequate supply of water hence this accident, which has been productive of the most terrible re sults. The foreman and three others were either killed on the spot or have since died. Of fifteen men and boys picked up after the accident had taken place, the majority have sustained such dreadful injuries that it is not expected they can survive. Such was the force of the ex plosion that a great part of the machinery employed at the works was completely shattered to atoms. A CAB! OP DEATH PROM AREINIC hag occurred at Derby, and the coroner's jury, after a lengthened adjourned inquiry, rkturned an open verdict, to the effect that the deceased died from the effects of poison, but how or by whoa administered no evidence appeared. NORFOLK. THIS SPIkDY MEMOVAI,OPNUISANCIIS,—The first CMG in Yarmouth under the Health of Towns Act was heard on Monday at the police court. An information was laid at the request of the Paving Commissioners against J. Mend.. ham, Depot, for having deposited on land in his occupation • quantity of matter of . an offensive and noxious character, calculated to have an injurious effect upon the public health. The matter was certified to be a nuisance within the meaning of the act of parliament by two qualified medi cal practitioners. Mendham at once admitted the fact of the matter complained of being on his premises, but had no idea he war violating any act of parliament by per mitting it to lie there. In fact, the place In which it woe deported was a muck-bin, built expressly for ita reception, and had been so used for a very considerable period. There were • great many other nuisances in the town of a precisely similar description. The defendant had an order served upon him to remove it, and is liable for the expenses attend ing the information, and for the cost of obtaining the medical certificate. The magistrates wished it to be publicly known that it was their wish and desire to enforce the law as ea. tensively as the interests of the public may require. Parties, who have grievances of this kind to complain of, should, they said, at once lay an information under the Paving Act, and obtain the certificate of two legally qualified medical practitioners, when the grievance should be speedily. removed. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. ACCIDINT TO Mr. GUNNlNo.—ibis venerable and highly esteemed gentleman, who is now in his 83rd year, and has held the office of Senior Esquire Bedel for more than half a century, met with a very *emus accident on Tuesday evea tog. He had written • letter at the Philosophical Rooms, and was proceeding with it to the peseoffice, when, in All Saint's-passage, he happened unfortunately to tread upon a piece of orangsapeel, and fell with considerable violente upon the pavement. It was feared, at the time, that he had either dislocated the hip joint, or fractured the thigh bone. He was removed as soon as possible to his own residence at Nownham, accompanied by his friend and relation, Dr. Thackeray. Col. Sir W. R. Cra w yio — n - ,Thart., has issued an address to the electors of Great Marlow, declaring himself a candidate ea the ant vacancy. TIE CHAMIEL IRIANDS. 11'1.110%1mm= Cerdew R. 8., and fair Therms Le Breton, accompanied by J. Walker. Req., peeseedied ea Thursday last to inspect the site or the =breakwater at St. Catherine's Bay. Formal pee the ground where the new north pier is to be balk. ess eyes% the contractors by tie committee of km ' bows, • Walaroday, when than gentlemen proceeded to the s . merked out for the inner line of the harbour. Oa aryl there, Mr. Walker indicated to the orgigeratore the . knee ef Se weeks ; Judge Sisson then Wei mein, and threw ik at nan d into a barrow theerK of the comatkeee did the same, and the • - • out at some &Mance by a labourer. . pm* inert took off dwir hats, end the very leo : ; bluest the undertaking, saying, " Dieu Three cheers were then given by the pergola "• • evege..' pany separated. The work, of the s c SSW , soloed forthwith. All the dis • island can then have ample employment. V sa c • ~~