The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

STATISTICS 0? WOIMROcAft,
Ntszarav,—Externs reltevul in the must week, 11,759; imitate.,
1,391 ;in bespital, 200 ;in Esser, 89; died, 20; see first per head,
2s. iid. Number 690
Ardee
Ita.un‘rt
„ 1320 —Average 1 9
~ 1 111
„ 791
1
Ca,. ll3ll .....• •. . „ 2
0
2 01
Nevi
In Cavan more tsar 18,600 men are employed on public
works.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The country journals of this morning contain accounts,
almost countless, of petty thefts, roMeries of food of various
kinds, and killing of sheep and cattle. There are no outrages
of a personal kind worth recording, and none of any peculiar
magnitude or atrocity of any description.
The Cork Examiner, come to and this moment (four
o'clock p.m.), states that an outbreak occurred at Clonmel
on the 16th instant, when three sacks of flour were taken off
some cars which were passing at the moment. But damage
was done to a great many others. The correspondent of
the Examiner says:—The out-kirts and environs of
the town presented a more alarming and determined
appearance • large masses of men and. women peramtu-
lated the different roads leading from it in every direction,
and levying contributions off every carrier of provisions.
They commenced by attacking and abstracting 17 racks of
flour from some cars on the Cahir road, two of which, by
the activity of the police, were subsequently recovered ; but
there ISM no account obtained of the other 15. This
moment a party ef the " Scots Greys" have marched into
town, as a reinforcement to the garrison of Clogheen, and
two mounted pica
of the same regiment, accompanitd
by infantry, have marched out, a Logistrate h.ving ridden
into the barracks for their aid.
HORRIBLE DETAIL,—T'ue following shocking tale of hor-
ror and woe is contained in the Weekly Register of this day.
I have reason to know that it is the relation of a Roman
Catholic clergyman: Skibbercen, Weduesday.—The entire
country is covered with sno times we are going
through are beyond description. Tho deaths daily in the
town far exceed the worst period of the cholera. Yesterday
the police were told of a house outside of the town, which was
remarked to be closed for some days. When opened, there
were seven dead bodies therein in a state of decomposition.
Oct-DOOR AND IN-noon RELIEF.—At the last meeting
of the Thurles Board of Guardians, amongst the paitlis ap.
plying for admission were several women e
with ch
workildrens.
,
whose husbands were employed upon th public
They urged that the weekly watles of di. a week paid to
labourers was, at the present prica of provisions, no more
than adequate to afford are meal a day to each family.
Several guardians were far the admission of these parties,

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MAne or OVELDRZ.—The arrangements of the 'North il
British Railway require the demolition of Trinity College 1
church, Edinburgh, a fine old Gothic building, erected in 1
1462, by Mary of Gueldres, wife of James 11. of Scotland, '
whose tomb and remains are deposited within its walls.
With laudable zeal the Commissioners of Woods and Forests
have ap; lied to the magistrates, iu osier that these relics
m..y be saved. Her Majesty died in 1463, so that unless em-
balmed, of which we have no account, she must now be,
like " imperious Cm:ar," turned to clay. The tooth, however,
remair-s in tolerable preseivatien,and whilst one cannot help
regretting the rude utilitarian spirit which consigns venerable
ent;quity to oblivion, it is so far consolitory to had a public
board solicitous for the salvation of particular monuments
front the general wreck. Like many other characters in
Scottish history, the reputation of Mary of Gueldrcs is not
allowed to pass unchallenged in Mr. Tytler's poets ; but Lir
beauty, Boadieean courage, and her endowment of a church
and hospital, which have been of much service to posterity,
quite entitle her ashes to be rescued from the unhallowed
pressure of railway trains. The hospital was demolished
some years since, to make room for the terminus.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE-
MR. BatcaT, AT MANCIII:9TER.—Me. Bright has yet
more than a week's work before him to complete his yieits
to the different districts composing the borough of Manches-
ter. His prospects seem to become the more er.couragiug
the more this kind of canvass proceeds. Oa Friday night he
met the electors of Cheetham at the Mile House Inn, and
there was one of the largest and most influential assemblages
that has yet taken place to receive him.—Wm. Evans, E.g.,
of Crumpsall, was called to the chair, and in introducing
Mr. Bright said the hon. gentleman did not come before them
with so high a character for courteousness and polite de-
meanour as his courtly opponent, but he hat all the more
sterling qualithe to tit hint for the representation of a bo-
rough like this. Tho first consideration with their oppo-
nents teemed to be, to induce a candidate to time forward
at all rides, and, accordingly, they were asking for signatures
to the requisition to Lord Lincen, with au understanding
that the requisitionists were by no means thereby pledged
to vote for hi. lordship. He did r.ut quarrel ARIL :thus* who
conscientiously thought Lord Lincoln a fitter man to repre-
sent Manchester than Mr. Bright, but it did appear ti
him extraordinary, after Manchester had taken sneh
a distinguished lead in great public questions, that
they should put aside the men who had conducted
those questione, and go in forma paul. ris to the
Duke of Newcastle, on the plea of qualifying his ion
for a more important position in the House of terde. Id
chester had receeetly been engaged in a great struggle for
commercial freedom, and, after eight v.ars' canfliet, the
enemy was driven into a corner, and obliged to yield ; yet,
strange to say, it wits sought to crown with laurel, not the
brow of the conqueror, but the vanquished! Th:s was so
ridiculous, that the whole country could see it, and
were laughing at the absurdity. A borough like th'e wanted
not the qualifications in its representative which fitted for
the drawing-room, but a man of independent mind, having
the ability and the courage. fearlusly to speak out his
sentiments, and advocate the Interests of his cor.stitut nes—
reed such a man was Mr. Bright. All the oth. r classes
of the community were repreeented—too well repreoentied—
why should not the commercial interest be represented ?
Their opponents pretended that the eld landmarks of party
I were to lie done away with, but the line of demarcation be-
tween the Tory and Reformer was surely as broad as ever.
The Tory was still the advocate of old institutione, and the'
Iteformer was still for progressive improvement and the',
removal of abusea.—Mr. Bright was then called upon, and I
eeplained conaidreable length his politica! vie NS, after
which some questions were asked and answered, and upon
the metion of Mr. A. Prentice, a resolution, pledging the I
meetihg to support Mr. Bright at the next election, was
carried. unanimously.
TentlielintE.
M't. 1117)st:tat, M.P., gave a sumptuous official dinner, in
his character of lord nviyor of York, on Thureday, to a
numerous and aristocintic company ; amongst whom were
the Duke of Leed.:, Mr. Stedien•on (the engineer), and
Lord G. lientinek. The latter, in speaking respecting a
tcast, said:
It !ma been remorse I by the gteat minister ofFrantie that railways,
nest to the art of printing, have been the mast powerful instrument
that the ingennity of man ever defied for the civilisation of the
And it my right hon. friend cannot claim for himself the invention
which he hue carried out, at least he can claim more than any other
man in the world, that he has carried that hivention into prae-
tiee. Who is there hero that does not feel the atliartage
which the invention of George Slete.eneen, atrried out by
Ccorge Hudson, I,t predated: We all remember the state
of distress that cast a gloom over the entire cffP'.re P.l fee 1
and 1510. 41,1510 able-bodied labourers were In the workhouse, the
revenue was falling oil, and th.ro facie Letto,eue paupers upon the
pour-L.le. Railways were at a dis.munL My right bon. friend
rlepped forth,. and set a nobie ex.:mole. Ile roused the talent and
dodnant energas of his countrymen die urged thee, to action -and
it is ia the greatest degree, to big erertior.s that rails ~;a have bees
since constructed, which ate chile 'riving employment to .21)0,000
labourers, ut wages averaging 225. rid. per week. Heuer the pros-
perity of Cie last few years. But that is not an. we have he I
to-day what the cite of York has gained In the article of ccel
think ores.M
We hear much of cheap justice at every mania door, but.t
ill:: inclement seas Oil of the year. when winter has bid her fiusty
heed upon the earth, we must all feel that cheap fuel for 0- poor
man's heath is at pre. ent a far greater Mersin/ than any other that
can be roam,' upon him; and it 1. to my right he,'. frimal that
the pour of the city of York are indebted foe the bl. wina.
Where they once paid, OA I have been told, Ins. id. per ton
foe their coal., before railways were established, they now pay res.
The telvantage also extrivis there rich ; and here we are todlity from
1.-..nilosk Naylor breeefastei thre by daylight, and been brought in
daylight, to, to a Ices sum of money than a few year, ago it wadd
base cost us to have paid our postb...,s and the turnpike tolls on the
road. Rut then we are told that my right hon. friend necks nothing
but his own protit. Why who but the mod niggardly-minded nein
ran do othisrwise than repiee at the inetulitt fortune tie nu.. ',emceed I
Talk o! commerce or enterprise without profit. Why profit is the
aliment—profit is the very breath of enusrprise an:l commerce. Deny ,
to commerce and enterprise her just profit, and few years will elapse '
before the enterprise of Englund will subside ; and instead of being at '
the head, we shall be at the tail of all the nations ol the world.
.Most intimately allied, inseparably blended, with the ,nterpries
my hon. ftientl Is the great Inventor who honours us with his pre-
sence today—one whose name will live in the pages of history, when
the names of warriors and of kings—unless it Is of him who stands
beside me—shall have passed into oblivion. Nut at this day only, but
in all thee to come, the name of G. htephenacm will be remembered)
and honoured. It will be revered toy hen whose lot Is to 12xkur, :dad
who obtains his fuel cheap. It all be remembered by every farmer,
whose corn is carried to market for
every merchant am-
mercial man who profits by the Invention of railways.
id It will be re-
memlrred by every country that has an army to be pa to keep the
civil peace, fur we have been told that railways have in this ueintry
made a little array to do the work of • greet oor. I think, then, when
we look at all these things, we must agree with the minister off caner
that the art of printing alone surpasses the invention of which G.
Stephenson is the great author.
NORTIII:3IIIERLAND.
ENCHANGF. OF COMPLIMENTS HY ELECTRICITY.—On
Thursday night, when the Mayor of Newcastle, J. Archbold,
Esq. was entertaining his friends in the Assebehly Rooms,
"'he Health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the
City of York" was drunk a little before 10 o'clock, and a
message sent over to the Gateshead station to communicate
the fact by telegraph to his lordship, who, at the same time,
had a large party in the Mansion-house at York; and in
about an hour, despite the interposing snow, an answer was
received in the Asremldy Rooms at Newcastle, to the effect
that the civility had been reciprocated, and the health of
" The Mayor and Corporation of Newcastle" been drunk by
his lordship and his guests.
WEiTMORELAND.
A FATAL. EPIDF.MIC is very prevalent in Kendal and the
neighbourhood. it has been unusually. destructive among
young persons. The whole dtstrict is in a very unhealthy
sate, area the expectation of improvement from the frost has
not yet been at all realised.
CHESHIRE.
REPRF.SENTATION STOCI:PORT.—MF. Cobden, it iS
said, will be opposed in his seat for Stockport at the next
general election, the Conservative Tradesmen and Ope-
ratives' Society having resolved on starting a candidate.
NORTltaMMONetlifte.
Tar CORICCIL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
OF ENGLAND have defiaitirely. arranged that the annual
country meeting for the ensuing year shall be held at
Northampton. tnless prevented by the appointment of the
county atsiees, the mencipal day of the show will be
Thursday, the 15th of July.
LLNCOLNSITLP.E.
REPRESENTATIO!C OP NORTH EINCOLNSITIRE.—SiT Mon-
tagu J. Cbolmeley has at length issued an address offering
himself as a candidate for the parliamentary seat vacant by
the successioa of Lard Worsley to the Yarborough peerage.
It hu been far some time past understood that Sir Monta-
gu had been solicited to allow himself to be put into nomi-
nation ; and it amounts' almost to a certainty that he will not
be opposed. It is expected the election will take place as we
have before stated on Thursday the 31st inst.
Moue MISCHIEF FROM FIRE ARMS.—The Lincoln papevs
contain the following:—On the 3rd inst. an inquest was held
on the bode of Millicent Dixon. a servant ref Mr. Harland,
of Branston Fen. Her death was occasioned by the die- I
charge of ears, whilst in the hands of Alfred Harland, a
youth 13 yaof age. The deceased was shot in a dairy, the
charge having perforated the door, which is three-fourths of
an inch tidies. For come time the evidence was most un-
suisEsetory ; nothir.g could he elicited except that the gun
went o that the girl was shot ; but why the deceased
went intend the ddry remained an enigma. The
they, on being
examir.ed by the coroner, stated that he had gun in hie
hand, but how it went off he did not know; that he was let
aware of the presence of the deceased in the
un dairy, butne that he
instantly ran there to see what damage
the g hadwhe
he found the deceased, lifted her up, and ran for assistance.
This statement being at variance with ocher facts elicited
of , the
the
coroner remonstrated with the boy upo Lis disregard

la Susannah Horne tier...,
P+ Mr. Woakes on the Mon lay morning, when the apprentice „
•
,er said that he had fonad the bottle which he could not tind rate bill to parliament, in wmca p*.•
before. It contained a dark fluid not a white one. Mr. Vic , cap. S 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 69, and the 9 Vic., cap. 4, OCT-0001i
kego Woakes came into the shop, but witness did not see him which have for their object the execution by the Board of of the Thurles Board of Guardians, amongst me p.--tii‘v
ke
nn take any bottle from the shelf. This concluded the evidence Works of drainage works of a more extended description, in plying for admission were several women with children, hand, but how it went Oil no
nd on the part of the to moat cases involving the Mterest of several proprietors, will whine husbands were employed upon
.the public i.tware of the presence of the deceased in the dairy, but thatle 5,t,77: B
cr. Fanny Plummer was then called by r• Day : She be consolidated and simplified, and such amendments will be They urged that the weakly wa:les of us. a week paid to I instantly ran thereto see whatdams,ge the gunhaddone, when F Tuoij
ras stated that she had known Miss Allen six or seven years. made in them as the occasion may appear to require. labourers was, at the present price of provisions, no more he found the deemed, lifted 11,2 up, and ran for assistance. •/..a.-,--trthits.r. jot v 347
Went to school with her. Had corresponded with her. The loans which have hitherto been made limn the Pub- than adequate to afford ere meal a day to each family. This and being at variance with other facts elicited, the or,ufge st. 8,„0...._pi0„0..._0( (word
F a Deceased wrote very singular letters. Had Perceived that lie Works Loan Fund for this object, have been made at the Several guardians were for tho admission of these partici', coroner remonstrated with the boy upon Lis disregard of the C. farcbrother, C. L., New Ina Hag; J. Frit i; (WWI;