The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-05 00:00:00

NAVAL

' ADMIRALTY, Nov. Corn-
ntander V. Wane, Master A. Mecum, and Acting-Purser
O. Shamble, to Rapid.

tirorn lut night's Ge.rae.)
ADNIItdLTY, Nov. 3.
Corps of Rota' Marines. —Col. nod sec. commandant J. M. Ptuuna
to be evil. eommandsot, rice W. Powell, to mt. L.p. ; LieutoCut. s.
It. Etiss, Cell.. to be pd. and os e. commandant. Mee Pitcher, prom.;
Capt no: lireeet Ilekir W. CALOIY to be lieut.-mt., vice Vet,
pe' m. ; rage Lieut. J. H. Neu. h. be rapt., vice Calsmy. prom.;
nee. Lieut. it. J. Jeu. to be deg omit., site Mercer, prom.

PRIZE MONEY—THE CORMORANT.—Notice is given
to the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Cormorant,
Herbert Schombcrg, Commander, that an account of
tonnage bounties received fur the under-mentioned captures
will be forthwith deposited in the registry of the High
Court of Admiralty, %ix., Leonidas, Sera, captured 29th of
June, It-o°. Milford and Co., Agents.

Tug GREAT EXIIIRITION.—The commissioner for
the Grand Duchy of Ilesso and Frankfort took his leave of
the commission yesterday. A meeting of the royal com-
missioner' is to be held to-morrow, when the various propo-
sitions and suggestions as to the disposal of the large sur2lus
to their credit will no doubt be further considered. It is
nut at all improbable that at to-morrow's meeting the com-
missioners may give their sanction to one of these proposi-
Mess ; in which case it will doubtlessly be made known
irthwith. Whatever the scheme may be, which the com-
missioners will thus stamp with their provisional approba-
tion, it is likely that the public, who have contributed the
funds, will be allowed to exercise a potential voice before
I any definitive resolution be come to.
I 'DIE FROME NIURDEFL—COMMITTAL OF TILE AL-
LEGED Mr irlieursei.—FlionE, 'lt's:stair Nloll7.—At the
.Inning of the police court this morning, Maggs, Iliad,
Sargeont, and Sparrow, the four prisoners charged with the
violation and murder of Sarah N%atts, at West Woodlands,
on the 21th September last, were placed at the bar. The
magistrates at once proceeded with the ezaininatiun of wit-
-111.,,S in addition to those who have been already produced.
The principal witness was Sergeant Smith, of the London
detective turce, who added much to the evidence hitherto
obtained against Hurd, Sparrow' and Maggs. The limner
evidence having been read and confirmed, the prisoners
were brought in and duly cautioned, but as neither of them
said anything of importance, the magistrates, after a short
consultation, said they fully committed the prisoners Hurd,
Sparrow, and M trsts, to take their trial at the neat makes
fur the wilful murder of Sarah Watts, and that they dis-
charged Sergeant.
THE WEST MOOR COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—NEW-
CASTLE, MoUlltlf KvENlNO.—Since the explosion which
seek Mace on Friday, and killed eight men and boys, Mr.
11 Dunn, the government inspector, has been down the
pit, accompanied by three of tlie workmen, and inspected
Garbally, Oct. 29, 1851. the works and mode of ventilation. Ile, of course, will
My Lord,—As chairman of a public meeting of guardians not report until the adjourned inquest, which will take
of the pour, from the several poor law unions of the province place on Friday afternoon. With the exception of a little
of Connaught, held at Ballinasloc on the sth ir.st., with re- boy, of the name of George Ellison, who is sadly burnt,
rename to the reisayment of advances made by the Treasury there is a strong probability that the other persons who
during the famine, I have the honor of transmitting to your were injured by the fire will recover. Mr. Dunn again rd.
lord-hip a memorial upon the suhjsct, together with the re- mated what he said at Washington, that if he judged from
solutions upon which it was founded, and which were urea- appearances, there was not a colliery in a bad condition in
nimoudy assented to. Your lordship will, I trust, pardon the district, fur, though he was appointed for the especial
me if I take this opportunity of remarking to you that the purpose of attending to the complaints of the workmen re-
additional burden which the consolidated annuities act, if garbing the ventilation of the mines in which they labour,
enforced, will throw upon the pour rates fur the next forty in no instance had he been requested by any body of men,
years, will probably have the effect of disfrauchis- or by one individual, to make an inspection of any of those
mg .many ratepayers who, under the recent act mines.
SINGULAR CILLRGE OF BIGAMY.—The magistrates
for altering the qualification of parliamentary voters,
have acquired a right to vote, as apart from unwil- at the police court, Bristol, were yesterday engaged for
lingness to pay what is considered an unjust exaction. The some hours in hearings charge of bigamy preferred against
poor rates in some districts will beset much enhanced by the I a man of the name of John Lorry, a sergeant in the police
annuity, that many will be unable to make the payment of i force of that city, for intermarryiog with Mary Ann l'allin,
the rate which is the condition of the franchise. Your his first wife being still alive. The case excited a good
lordship, lam sure, cannot wish that the Irish constituency deal of interest, partly from the circumstance of the pri-
should be narrowed, or that the most heavily taxed di,- goner being a police officer, but more particularly from the
tricts should, through the very excess of taxation, be unto- novel character of the defence which it was understood
presented in parliament. Neither can it be desirable that would be set up on his behalf by his solicitor, Mr. John
those who, by payment of the rates imposed upon then], Ayre. Mr. Ayre, as soon as the ease was called on, ad-
acquire the right of voting should elect their represents- witted both marriages, and that the first wife of the pri-
tives under the influence of a feeling that wrong has been goner was alive at the time when the second marriage took
done to them at the hands of the government. Thew con-' place; but he contended that by the provisions of the sth
eiderations, I think, warrant me in expressing to your lord- George IV., cap. 76, sect. 22, the second marriage
ship an earnest request that the rates designed for the re- Iw. to all intents and purposes null and void. The
lief of the poor may not be impounded to reimburse to the'
22nd section provides, " "that if any persons shall
Treasury the advances made during the famine until after a knowingly and wilfully intermarry in any other place
full inquiry, as prayed fur in the accompanying memorial, I than a church, or such public chapel wherein harms
before committees of the two houses of parliament.—( have' may be lawfully published, 6:c., or shall know-
the honour to be, &e., CLANCAKTY. ingly and wilfully intermarry without due publication of
The Right lion. Lord John Russell, Re., ite. banns or without a license from some person legally antho-
Garbally, Oct. 25, 1851. rued to grant the same, the marriage of such pertain shall
Xp Lard—Not having hitherto received any ackuow- !
tof a letter I had the honour of addressing to your he null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever."
Now as to the facts of the present ease. Lorry, who had bo-
Wry!, transmitting a memorial from the guardians of the fo
,
erverol poor law unions of the province of Connaught, re refused marriage in the parish church ot Tiverton, wear
Bath, on account of his not being a parishioner, being
agreed to at a public meeting at which I presided on the
lib instant at liallinadoe, I respectfully request that you desirous that the ceremony should be performed in
took apartmenta in that city in order to quality hit%
will do me the favour of informing me whether the memo-
rial was received, al the subject to which it relates is one of as &resident irk a parish there. lie wrote a letter to a Kr.
Hall, in whose house he took the apartments, desiring him
neck interest iu this province, and especially to those who
have to administer the poor low, and many have applied to to publish the banns. That person copied the names, and
into doing he, not being acquainted with the prisoner's
me to know whether any and what answer has been re- handwriting. made a mistake, and, instead of writing
tamed to it. I pray your lordship to excuse this intrusion, 0 Dorer,.. he mistook the "u" for an "a" and the "r"
W la believe me, your very faithful servant,
I for a " v," and wrote " Davey." The paper in this state
The Lord J. Unwell, tic.' &e. CLANCARTT.
Downing-street. Oct. 27, DOI. ,sou landed to the parts' h clerk, and for three succeseive
Sundays the name Davey was called over in church. No star
My Lord,—l received your letter of the 9th instant, to-
per with a memorial from the guardians of the pour of picion of the mistake arose until the parties presented them-
selves to be married when, upon the clerk asking their names,
iles several poor law unions of the province of Connaught.
The memorial has been under the consideration of the board and the prisoner giving his as Durey, the clerk said it woe
wronas the publication hail been in the name of " Davey."
of treasury. A treasury minute has been issued on the sub- .
I his was said in the presence of the female, and the prisoner
jest of the repayment of the loans advanced in various parts
af Ireland. As I feared, • single ackhowlssiginent of your alluding to his former disappointment, said " I suppose we
shall be done again now." A conversation ensued, and the
letter might be complained of, as it has been in other cows,
minister was sent for, who said as it was Mr. 11411's mistake
I have waited till the government could make a decision on he would alter the name in the banns book, which he did by
lies nalsiect. I have no doubt your lordship has seen the altering the a and r into o and r. The marriage then took
MIIMOIO a treasury, by which the poor law commissioners place, but he (Mr. Ayre) contended that it was ins situ, in-
TM be guided till the meeting of parliament. I remain,
nuked. your lordship's obedient servant, asmucn as there had been no proper publication of the
banns which the act of parliament required. There was a
The Earl of Clanearty. (Signed) Rs:tette. caw rejiorted is Hoggard's Ecclesiastical Reports, Vol. 111.,
lof "%% nitshire L. ].'vine," in whi h the case was not so
laisrmetve FoaoLRIE3 ON THE OLD DANK, strung as this. The Christian name of the man was Henry
Avialevar.—Aytzusvar, TVILSDAT Moasiso.--Consi. Jelin, hut he was married as Juhu only. The cam was
.
derail, excitement has been occasioned in this town, owingudmnut said,
argued before Dr. Lushington, who, in giving j , . -
to ties lisernery of an extensive system of forgery having after referring to the nature of the case and to the quire
beef momitted on the bank of Z. D. Hunt, known as the mints of the statute, " Now, whatever might be the con-
Old link, Aylesbury. From what has already transpired, one of the parties knew
strucuon of ibis section, when only
it appears that on Saturday last a young man, of very re- of the false here there is sufficient to show that
speetable appearance, arrived in the town, and engaged both the man and the woman were aware banns publication,
that the
apartments at the house of Mr. Blood, and in the course of bad been published in a name calculated to conceal the
the evening, after the bank was closed, he made a visit to identity of oue of the patties. The omission of a cltristian name
the shops of the various tradesmen in the town, and ,„„n.. ' may operate as a concealment as much as the omission of a
Mg small purchases of articles, and paying for the mine' surname. Looking to the whole of the evidence, lam daL9-
either with a .5!. or 10/. note drawn on the above bank, re- ' tied that, in the present case, the publication was control),
eeived the change and took his departure, leaving the it. ( to the section of the act of parliament, and that both parties
titles to be sent to his loelgings. This was successfully prise- I were perfectly cognisant, before the marriage, of the viola-
tiled at the shops of no Ins than thirteen tradesmen, none lion of ita provisions. I pronounce the marriage noll and
of whom hadthe least s'asp.cion as to the genuineness of I void."—Mr. Ayre submitted, upon the authority of this
the notes, so exceedingly well were they executed, and it case, that the Gtfenee of bigamy had not been completed;
was not until yesterday, when Mr. Quelch, a draper of this and he called witnesses to prove the accident in copying the
town, who always pays his money into the bank on the name, and the subsequent alteration at the church.—the
Monday, went there for that purpose, that the forgery was magistrates adjourned their decision, to give time to prucuie
detected. The news spread like wildfire immediately the attendance of the clerk and minister of the church, but
afterwards, when it was discovered that a regular in the meantime they discharged the accused upon men'
system of plunder bed been carried on. The police Meaner'.
were soon on the alert, and last evening a telegraphic 6711 DRAGOON GII.IRD3 (CARABINIER3).—We last
message was received that n man answering the descrie- month intimated that the Ciuubiniers were to go abroad,
tion of the pet son alluded to, and who had been at- and, as a preparatory measure, that they would in all
tempting to pass one of the forged cotes, had been stopped respects be clothed and I quipped as Light Dragoons. We
a tradesman tradesman at Oxford, who formerly carried on busi- have just ascertained that the destination of this regiment
sea at Aylesbury, whither the police and Mr. Blood, of is India, as was surmised. The regiment will not be ready
warmth. apartments were taken, have gone to identify him. for embarkation before 1852.

The subjoined correspondence has taken place 'be-
tween the Earl of Cianearty, chairman of the late
meeting of Connaught guardians at Mahoutsloe, and
Lord J uhn Russell: