The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

A RAILWAY RIOT.

The right of possession in the refreshment-rooms
at the Worcester station, on the West Midland Railway, has
been the cause of something bordering on a slot. The matter
came before the Worcester magistrates yesterday, when amen
named Thomas Jarrett, in the employ of the railway com-
pany, was charged with a violent assault upon Mr. Walton,
the tenant°, the refreshment rooms. The facts which gave
rise to the charge were briefly these :—For some time • die-
puts has elated between Mr. Walton, the tenant of the
refreshment rooms, and the railway. company, as to the
terms of his taking, and matters were brought to • crisis on
Sunday last. The rooms were locked up as usual on Satur-
day night, and on Sunday morning, on the attendants going
to open them, they found the doors and windows barricaded,
and • pore of railway workmen stationed to pre-
want ally Ingraat to the rooms. Mr. Walton was at once
communicated with, and he thereupon got together some
20 or 30 men, and armed with as axe he was proceeding to
cut down the barricades to effect an entrance, when the
railway men advanced, and Jarrett, selecting Mr. Walton
for attack, aimed a blow at him with • bludgeon, knocking
him down senseless. He was carried away from the scene
of action, and • general fight between the two parties
seemed inevitable, when a body of police arrived and put a
stop to the fray. Jarrett was taken into custody, and on
Monday afternooa appeared before the magistrates. (The
Mayor, Mr. Sherriff, being the manager of the railway, did
not set.) A medieal certificate was reed stating that Mr.
Walton was too ill to attend before the bench, and Jarrett
was accordingly remanded for a week. A great deal of popular
feeling appears to be excited. The railway officials on
leaving the ball were hooted and mobbed, and had to he
escorted by the police through the town. The refreshment
rooms were still closed yesterday, to the inconvenience of
travellers.

THE BItEaDALBANZ StalltsslON.—The Dundee
Adrertirer says :—.` A rumour has obtained circulation
with regard to • new claimant to the title and entailed
estates of the late Marquis of Breadalbane which seems i
almost too romantic to be true. It is asserted—oo what
authority we are not aware—that the marquis, a few hours
before his death, married a woman with whom, before his 1
engagement and marriage to the late marchioness, be had bad .
an-affectiorate intimacy, and who at that time had presented .
him with an illegitimate son. By his lawful marriage with I
the pious and amiable Eliza Bernie, of the Jerviswoode
family, he bad no children, and it is generally understood
that he regarded with considerable aversion the suceession
of Glenfalloch as heir of entail, which seems to be attested I
by the fact of the Duke of Buckingham succeeding to the
large entailed property and appearing at the marquis's •
funeral as chief mourner, Campbell of Glenfallocb not even
being present. The existence of such a feeling between the
marquis and his recognised successor gives in the meantime •
an air of probability to any rumour indicating a desire to
change the descent of the Breadalbane property, and
lawyers are already discussing what would be the effect
of such a marriage as is alleged to have occurred in Swit-
garland between the marquis and his supposed first love."
Tun FORDINOMUDGE MC alien.. --On Monday
last, as a man named Parker was engaged in removing a
portion of the thatch from the roof of the cottage of George
Jacob Gilbert, who was executed a few months mince for
the murder in June last of Miss Mary Ann Susan Hall, of
Midgham Farm, near Fordingbridge, be discovered, hidden
in the thatch, the trinkets worn by the unfortunate
young lady on the day she was so brutally murdered.
These melancholy memorials of the murdered girl were
taken to Midgham Farm by Parker, the finder, who was
liberally rewarded by Mrs. Hall, the stepmother of the
deceased. Her father, Mr. Hall, it will be remembered,
died a short time after the perpetration of the crime.
Tan Mouetorm.—The Mormons have been hold-
ing their annual fair and conference at Salt Lake city, and
the attendance is said to have bees the largest ever seen
since their first organisation. Visitors from the east who
happened to be present declare that the exhibition of wrii.
cultural and mechanical products would have been credit-
able to any of the old states of America. It is • mistake to
suppose Utah to be • desert ; it may be true of the small
portion which is of volcanic origin, bordering upon the great
Salt Lake, but the slopes of the extensive valley beyond are
capable of producing is abundance all the great staples of
that latitude. The collection of fruits and vegetables at the
fair consisted of the fluent varieties, and indicated a most
luxuriant growth—with the exception of grapes alone, fully ;
equal to those of California, which is admitted to be the •
best fruit-growing region in the world. The cereal @pea-
mena were also of superior quality. The product of wheat i
and other grain in the present season in Utah has been
enormous, enough to supply the people with breadatuffs for ,
two years to come, besides making a liberal allowance for
immigration. Fine samples of tobacco, flax, and cotton
were also on exhibition, as well as domestic mauufactnres of
the latter, such as cloths and counterpanes, equal to the '
finest fabrics of the eastern stated. The mechanical arts ,
are the forte of the Mormons, and coming, as many of them
do, from the great manufacturing district, of Europe, they
are probably the meet ekilful artificers in America. Cotton
' of excellent fibre is of easy growth in the valley, a large
surplus of which, for export, has been raised the present
year ; and, as thepriee of factory cloth is now 60c. per yard
in that remote region, the saints are about to engage largely
in the cotton manufacturing euterprise on their own ac-
count. To that end they are preparing and with); up ex-
tensive machinery, and expect by the time the Pacific Rail-
road is built not only to supply with their fabrics all the new
settlements east of the Roney Mountains, but to compete in
the California and Oregon markets. The fair lasted ten
days- Before the adjournment of the conference the people
voted that Brigham Young should have the entire direction
of their labour throughout the territory, foe the better de-
i velopment of the resources of the country, and a better
• equalisation of labour. Up to the present time the great
i majority of the immigrants have gone into wheat raising
I and farming in a general way, and the consequence was a
• superabundance of certain canals and a great absence of
II others. In future Brigham is to my where they shall go
and raise cotton, where las, and where every other thing.