The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-01 00:00:00

CURIOUS AFFAIR.

About two months ago, a person residing at Mac.
clinfield addressed a letter, containing a Bank note for ten
pounds, to an individual who cantos on business in Man-
ithe.ter. Net receiving any acknowledgment, he made in-
quiring respecting it, when he was assured that no such letter
or remittance had come to hand. Of course, the blame was
laid upon the post-office. The number of the note being
known, payment was stopped at the Bank, where it soon
made its appearance; and an officer from the Missing Letter
Office was mat down to true it. It was soon discovered
that, on the evening of the day on which the letter would
be delivered in Manchester, the note which was inclosed ie
it had been sent from a disreputable house to a tavern for
change, and in payment for a bottle of wine. On
making inquiry from the mistress of the house,
she perfectly recollected having sent out the note,
and readily described the person who had asked her to I
procure change for it; adding that she should know him
agate. Whilst thee inquiries were going on, it became
apparent that the person who had got the nom weals a posi-
tion ti her of them, and had become alarmed; for the indi-
vidual to whom the note had been addressed announced to
the pollee that he bad received Us pounds inclosed in a
letter which he produced, and had duly credited his Mac.
teafield correspondent with the mossy; so that there wee
no occasion to carry the matter any further. This did not
satiate the post-tam official ; sad the inquiries were eon-
tinned. As the suspicious of the Mims peiated chiefly to-
wards the clerks is the poet-office, the minus was desired
to look at all the clerks assembled for the purpose ; and,
attic some hesitation, she fixed upon as of them as the
offeader t, ea he happened to be a man of remarkably
good chirseter, sad she was not quite positive respecting
his identity, she wee believed to be mistaken. The
poet-ease distal, finding that Ito could not carry the
matter say further, returned home leaving it in
I the Made of the police, who matiatied their in-
quiries. Somehow or other it was wupected that
the puma to whom the note bad been addressed we.
probably, after all, the man who bad get it changed, as his
person corresponded pretty dusty with the description
given by the woman. It was consequently arranged that a
police officer to plain clothes should engage him in conver-
sation in the street, and that the woman should eau up
and ask him some Indifferent question, and see whether she
could identify him. She consequeatly anus up, and asked
him whether an omnibus passed that way; to whih he re-
plied in the affirmative, and, perceiving that she looked at
him attentively, added, " I think I have tun you before ;"
to which she promptly replied, " Tee, you have, you vil- I
lain; you are the man who gave me the 101. note, which
has very nearly caused me to be seat to prison." The utter
confusion of the fellow when he beard this sharp was very
manifest, and it was by no means shale* when SW caw
told him who he was, and reproaalud blm he hie
ful conduct. It was found,howourt that me minds=
could be successfully profaned wawa Ws. He was ese•
',queasily not token into austail, mg will maps any other
' punishment than the reproaolles at his own conscience, aad
the reflection, l ram bittar, that his rascality
had yielded him no profit—Nowskeefer Goordien.

COTTON MILL DESTROYED IT FIRE.—On Wed-
woodsy • cotton mill, called WORM Mill, belonging to
Mr. Jobs Chadwick, at Oldham. was partiallyi destroyed
by dm The flames were discovered an es • watchman
early as balf•past two Veloric. The boil lag is five stories
high, and about 24 yards long, with short wisp of three
stories at the north and south extremities. The south wing
is the warehouse, and here the Are commeneed, and did the
most damage, There were four firs-engiase procured, bat
there was a scarcity of water for a time, sad the Baum
spread rapidly. By cis o'clock is the morning, when the
danger of • farther extension of the Ere was over, the
south wing and the three upper stories of the main build
leg had been destroyed. Time wee a large stock of twist
and fustian cloth is the warehouse, sad the less in this part
of the building alone will probably be 1,6001 in stock. Of
the machinery, about 17,000 melee were destroyed, but the
cording asebtoes, which were in the lower stories, have
rely bees damaged by water. The meshes were partly
enured by insures*. The origin of the Are is unknown.
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