The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-27 00:00:00

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' MARTLEBONE VESTRY.— BATHS AND WASH-
soures.—On Saturday, at a meeting of this vestry, Mr.
Nicholay in the chair, a deputation waited upon the vestry
to present a memorial, signed by 300 rate-payers of All Souls
district, to the effect that the memorialists, being duly im-
armed he the conviction of the great benefits to be derived
?ions bats and wash-houses, ropyettolly requeet the bard
to select some site in the district of All Souls for their ere -
tion ; firmly persuaded, from the details that can be fur-
nished, that the parish will be put to no ultimate expense,
but in addition to the great comforts conferred on those not
able individually ti assist themselves, they may be made a
self-supporting and profitable institution.—Mr. Edwards, as
the spokesman of the deputation, observed that the memo-
rial would have been much more numerously signed had
time allowed. The district of All Souls exhibited not only
a greater amount of mortality than any other district
in the parish of Marylebone, but he believed a greater
amount .of mortality than any other district of a
similar size in London. This was a proof of its
unhealtliness, and of the necessity of introducing
cleanliness and sanitary improvement. The vast prepon-
deraace of the inhabitants of All Souls were workmen and

mechanics, whose families were literally piled one upon the
other. They were just the class of persona who would be
benefited by the establishment of baths and wash-houses, for
they were not so high as to be above it, or too low to dis-
regard the advantages of cleanliness. The memorialists
were the friends of local government ; but unless local go-
vernment kept pace with the necessities of the times—unless
lord authorities were prepared to do what the government
prolapsed to do, particularly with regard to the adoption of
sanitary improvement—then the rate-payers would prefer
general to local government.—On the withdrawal of the
deputation, Mr. George Daniell, said the eoinnaissionen
had made efforts to pidgin a cite in the district
of All Souls, but they had fiiled in their attempts
to conic to terms with his Grace the Duke of Portland.
After a slight discussion, ?dr. John Wilson mdved that the
memorial be entered on the minutes, and be referred to the
Baths and Wash-houses Commbeioners, with a request that
they would take such steps as they might deem necessary, to
carry out with thejeast possible delay the wishes of the Me-
momliitg. The motion being seconded, was put from the
chair, and carried /1..'!//4. COM —S LATE OP TILE PAROCHIAL
FINANCEL—A communication was received from Sir Claude
Scutt and Co., the bankers, to the vestry, stating that a
I cheque had been presented for the sum of 5,0001., whereas
the assets in their hands belonging to the parish only
amounted to 1301. They expressed a hope that such a course
would not be adopted again without previous notice being
glvea.—Mr. Flood, the vestry clerk, explained that it was
necessary in order to enable the vestry to pay the demands
upon them for county rate.—After some discussion, a reso-
lution was proposed, approving the course adopted by the
vestry clerk, and soliciting the favour of cash for the cheque
in question, and 2,0001. or 3,0001. additional, for which
cheques were drawn, but which would not be presented for
two or three weeks. This resolution having been forwarded
to Sir Claude Scott's husking-house, an answer was returned
that the firm would be happy to accommodate the vestry.
After some other important business, the vestry separated.

ANTI-GOLD LAw LEAGUE.—Several gentlemen
who take a deep interest in the currency question have
formed an association under the above name which is to
meet in congress for the first time next week in the metro-
polis. It win be attended by gentlemen from all ports of the
country. The congress ia expected to sit for several days,
and will prob thly commence its labours on Thursday next.
Several of the gentlemen who arc to be present and take
part in the proceedings are members of respectable banking
firms in the province., and others are partners in mercantile
boos. s of high standing. There are, we are told, some differ-
ences of opinion among them as to the precise footing on
which the currency of the country ought to be placed, but all
are agreed in the propriety of an immediate and entire
repeal of the Bank Restriction Act of 1844. The great
majority are for a recurrence to a paper currency and the re-
issue of one pound notes.
FATAL COLLISION ON TILE SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—On Saturday morning, about 4 o'clock, a colli-
sion occurred between the up-mail train arid a portion of the
goods train, which resulted in the destruction of three or
four of the trucks of the goods train, and the loss of life of
one of the guards of that train. The occurrence took place
about 300 yards on the London aide of the Wimbledon sta-
tion. A fog prevailed at the time, and it appears that the
up-goods train, due at Nine Elms terminus between 3 and 4
o'clock, had, when it arrived at the above spot, been stopped
by an accident. The carriages came uncoupled, the engine
proceeding on with about three-fourths of the train, and,
leaving nine or ten tracks and vans behind. It is said that
the engine-driver proceeded straight to Nine Elms before the
fact was noticed, while another statement is, that those car-
times were necessarily left behind, the engine not having
sufficient power to propel the entire train. In one of those
left behind was one of the guards, named W. Sawyer,
who is supposed to have been sleep. At nearly four
o'clock, the Metropolitan police on duty near the rail
way, heard a loud crash in the direction of the hae,
followed by .hri:ks and cries of human beings. Sergeant
Golding, 30 V, and a body of constables were soon on the spot,
and having roused up the station agent, policeman, and porter,
who were iii bed, they hastened to the scene of the accident,
when it was found that the up mail train, which consisted
of nine carriages, propelled by the Hornet, a very powerful
engine, had run in upon the vans and trucks with such
velocity and force, as to almost double up and crush in the
end and two following ones, and strew the line with frag-
ments. Neither the Hornet engine, the driver, the fireman,
nor the guards and passengers were, singular to state, in-
jured ; but on tho vans and truck, being searched by Mr.
Bradford (the agent), the guard (Wiiliam Sawyer) was found
bent double against a chest, with a load of goods bearing
him down. The poor fellow had evidently male desperate
struggles to extricate himself, but was unable to do .o, and
was crushed to death. The body was removed to the Dog
and Hare, Wimbledon, to await an inquest. The deceased
had been a guard about twelve months, and was 20 years I
of age.
THE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS'S RANK.—RE-
Tthulte WhlsrjEthNe °nTot:.—
.I:linchSailaurddtyeeint wstoaskannzumnelthat
Rogers and Co., had by the hitter firm been paid into the
Bank of England, the amount being upwards of 40,0001. The
robbery, it will be recollected, took place in Nov., 1811, and
cash to the amount of nearly 2,600/. was stolen' in addition to
the notes, the numbers of some of the latter not being known.
The particulars, as described in the vast number of hand-bills
which have been from time to time circulated, offering a re-
ward of 3,0001., must be fresh in the recollection of the
public. Since the period of the robbery, Isaacs, and several
others of the City detective force, have been actively engaged
in endeavouring to trace the property and the perpetrators
of the robbery, but without effect, for although some of the
suspected parties, or (it may be said) the known participa-
tors have been long under surveillance, and have been
most eksely watched yet nothing occurred to warrant
their apprehension. It was, however, expected, on one
occasion, that the officers had ascertained where the booty
was concealed, when luacs and his colleagues discovered, at
the house of a party in the Lower-road, Islington, no less
than 600 sovereigns hidden under a bed. No notes
could, however, be found ; and the gold, of course, could
not be identified. The guilty parties, it would seem, have
been waiting all this time, tepee' ing that a greater reward
would be offered, one of the partite actually telling an
officer that he knew who were in it, sad they could
wait for three years, sr until they could get 5,0001. Ulti-
mately, all the notes of which the numbers were known
were returned, the thieves keeping the other notes, and all
the cash. How the whole has been delivered has not trans-
pired. It is scarcely necessary to state that not any portion
tithe gold hal been returned.—Sunday paper.
ROBBERY.—On Saturday a robbery was discovered
to have been committed at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street.
On the previous night a fashionably-dressed man, between
35 and 40 year' of age, entered the hotel, and, having par•
taken of some refreshment, asked for a bedroom, into which
he was shown. At an early hour on Saturday morning, on one
of the servants going down stairs, the front door was found
unchained and unlocked, and an examination of the premises
being made it was found that the " gentleman" had disap-
peared, leaving behind him a small carpet bag containing
some things of little value. It was also found that he had
stolen from a box in a sitting-room on the first floor, belong-
ing to a gentleman of the name of Marsh, staying at the
hotel, eleven Bank notes for 201. each, a gold watch a gold
snuff-box and two foreign notes, one for 1,000 and the other
for 500 franca,
FCNERAL OF MR. WEsToN.—The remains of the
late lamented W. R. Weston, Esq., surveyor-general of her
Majesty's customs, who lost his life by the late disastrous
accident on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, were in-
terred on Saturday is a family vault at St. Dunstan's in the
East, near the Custom House, in the presence of numbers of
his brother officers.
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—About nine o'clock on
Friday night a policeman, who was on duty in the high road
leading from London to Croydon, found the body of a gen-
tleman quite dead lying on the road side. Having procured
asaistanoe, the body was removed to the nearest house, when
it was ascertained that the deceased was Mr. Walters, the
proprietor of the King's Head Tavern, Poultry. It appears
that the deceased was on his way to a country house belong-
ing to him near Croydon, and that be was perfectly well
when he left the Poultry. It is supposed the deceuecl was
attacked by a fit, as no violence could be discovered on his
person.
FIRER.—INPORTMAN-SQUARE.—Yeeterdaymorning
at a quarter before three o'clock a fire broke out at 17, Sey-
mour-street, Portman-square, occupied by Mrs. A. J.
Podium, a lady of property. When the police entered they
found the whole of the bedding and drapery in the 2nd floor
front in flames, and the night clothes of the unfortunate lady
wan owned the building were also burning. Several engines
arrived In quick succezielt, and the Premen having
set to
work most vigorously they succeeded in getting the mastery
over the flames, but unfortunately not until Mrs. Pochin was
most frightfully burned. A medical man was promptly in
attendance, but not the least hopes were entertained of her
surviving through last night. The premises and furniture
were considerably damaged. From the fact of a book and
candlestick being found in bed it is supposed that Mrs.
Pochin was reading in bed, and that she must have to
asleep, and until she became surrounded with the flames was I
unconscious of what had happened. The escapes of the Royal
Society for the Protection of Life from Firs were very
epmdily.rin the spot.—ln THE KENNINOTONT•ROAD.—On
Saturday morning about four o'clock a fire, nearly attended
with fatal results, broke out in the lower part of the premises
occupied by Mr. E. Low, pastry-cook, No. 2, York-place,
Kennington-road. When discovered the cellar and shop
were completely in a blaze, and the occupier saved his life
by leaping from the top room window. Several engines
were soon on the spot, and there being an abundance of
water, were set to work and the fire soon extinguished, bat
not before the lower part of the building and its contents
were destroyed.—AT KENNINOTON, lest night, shortly
before 11 o'clock, a fire, attended with considerable destruc-
tion of property, broke out in the private residence belong-

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The royal dinner party at Osborne, on Friday,
included the Duchess of Kent, Prince Ernest of Leiningen,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Sir George Cowper, and Col.
the Hon. C. B. Phipps. Lord John Russell arrived at
Osborne on Saturday afternoon, from his residence in ltich-
mond, on a visit to the Queen. Sir James Clark also arrived
on Saturday. The Marchioness of Douro left Osborne on
Saturday. The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe arrived on
Friday, and has succeeded the Marchioness of Douro as
the Lady in Waiting on the Queen. The royal dinner circle
on Saturday included the Duchess of Kent, Prince Ernest
of Leiningen, Prince Lowenstein, Lord John Russell, Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir James Clark. Her Majesty
and Prince Albert attended Divine Service yesterday morn-
ing in Whippingham Church.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended divine
service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Countess Brawn-
low and tha Earl tlowe. AntOng the nobility present were,
the Earl and Countess St. Germans, Lads Cfeefend and
Ebrington.
The Duke of Saxe Meiningen, the Duchess Ida,
Prince Gustavus, and the Princesses of Saxe Weiner, at-
tended divine service yesterday morning in the German
Lutheran Church in the Savoy.
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess
Ida of Saxe Weimar, took a drive in a carriage on Saturday.

Baron de Brannow, the Russian Minister, trans-
acted business in the Foreign-offioe on Saturday.
Lord J. Russell left his residence at Richmond on
Saturday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight, :on a Tint to the
Queen.

GENERAL TOANKSGIVINO.—A general thanksgiving
for tho late bountiful harvest will be ordered by the Queen
in Council, at Osborne, on Tuesday neat, when the form
will be proclaimed and the day flied, after consultation with
the heads of the church. So much has been urged as to the
propriety of selecting Sunday for the solemnity instead of
appropriating a week day as formerly, that her Majest will
oomply with the wishes so expressed. Hither the 10th or
the 17th of October will most likely be the Sunday decided
es.—Observer.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1847.