The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-10 00:00:00

ere numbered in the invoice from Ito 320. As Odessa is
about 400 miles from Kieft; the machinery on reaching the
consignees, will have to be forwarded to its final place of
destination by means of carts drawn by oxen.
THE INUNDATION OF THE COLLIERIES AT WIGAN
will, it is now calculated, says our correspondent, throw
nearly a thousand hands out of work for months to come,
and a new and fearful interest has been given to the eaten
strophe in the neighbourhood by an opinion given currency
to by some of the more experienced miners of a possibility
that the ill-fated workpeople in the nine may be still alive !
ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday
evening another of those fearful calamities to which the
workmen in these mines are so constadtly exposed occurred
at a ool:iery a few miles from Wigan, by an explosion of fire-
damp. One man was reported to here been burnt tedesth,
and several others also severely burnt; but our correspond-
ent up to last night had not obtained the full particulars of

the occurrence.
CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A CAPTAIN.—At
Liverpool, on Monday, Mr. Michael Chesty, the muter of
the Eliza, was charged with having caused the death of a
tailor, named Patrick Crean, on the outward voyage from
Dauguyan to North America.—Jame. Matthews ( whose evi-
dence, which war now read over, had been taken in Ame-
rica), deposed as follows :—I am a seaman, and have been
sent home by the authorities of Halifax in the steamer
Cambria. I arrived in Liverpool in the steamer on the 16th
of Nov. On the 20th of August I sailed in the brig Eliza
from Dungervan fora port called Bucktooth, near Richf-
bucto, in North America. The primner was the master of
that vessel. A few days prior to sailing from Dungaree°,
I saw the captain, Patrick Crean, and Crean's wife,
go from the Eliu to the shore in a small boat. Crean
was a tailor belonging to Dunerareen. A day or two
after we had put to sea, he (Crean) was found con-
cealed in the forecastle; he wished to go out as a passenger,
and had concealed himself in order to evade the payment of
the passage money. When we wire four days out, the cap-
tain said—" We must have a lark with the tailor ;" and ac-
cordingly the captain called for some rum, and gave me a
glass, the second mate a glans, and Crean a glass. The
captain then gave Crean the jug containing the remainder
of the rum (about five glasses), and told him to drink it.
Crean refused to comply with the request, whereupon the
captain took out a knife, and said he would cut his throat if
he didn't drink it. Crean then complied, and soon became
very much intoxicated. The captain then made one of the
hands (Martin) to spar with the tailor, and he induced
ethers of the hands to tar the man, who was then beaten by
the captain with a fiat piece of wood :cheat the thighs. One
of his whiskers was ghee, d off by the captain with a razor,
and he was left lying upon the hitchway all night, wrapped
round with a sail. There was no blood observable about
him at that time, but the next morning there were appear-
ances of blood and corruption on the sail. The next day he
complained of having had something broken in his inside,
and four days afterwards he died and wss thrown overboard,
the funeral service being road by the mate. Ile crawled once
on deck before he died, when the captain (who said he had
got the fever) administered some castor oil to him, mixed
with punch. The captain alto gave him some fish end pota-
toes, and also some pancakes, and the man's bowels were
seriously affected. The captain was constantly drunk during
the passage. Tits Tema arrived at Bucktoosh in the mid-
dle of September, when witness went before tl.e magistrate,
and told him all that happened with reference to Crean's
death. The magistrate promised to write to a hibher power,
and in some days after witness, Martin, and the second mats
ran away from the vessel into the woods, sod they were appre-
hended subsequently at about ten miles distance from the
shore. Then they were sent to St. John'', N. 8., to Fre•
derickton (where they saw the governor), to Halifax, and
back to Liverpool. The captain was taken into custody at
Richibucto, but, being discharged from gaol,•he sailed home
in the Eliza, and, on her reaching Bristol last week, be was
apprehended at the mouth of the Severn, by a constable of
the Liverpool police force. In the course of his cross-ens-
minatien by Mr. Davenport the witness admitted that he
bad quarrelled with the captain at Bucktooth, because
there the captain bad taken his clothe; and the cloths be-
longing to Martin and the second mate out of the fore-
castle, fearing that they meant to run away and desert the
ship. They arriv, dat the pier at Bucktooth on a Satur-
day ; on Monday the clothes let re taken by the captain ;
on Tuesday they went before the magistrate ; and, in eight
days afterwards, they ran away into the woods. Prior
to leaving the yowl they sent word to the captain by the
cabin boy that they wanted to go ashore to prefer a
charge against him (the captain) to the magistrate, and
they were permitted to go. They told the magistrate all
that they had told Mr. Rushton that day, and they would
have gone to the magistrate if the clothes had never been
taken. They were sent to prison for fifteen days for run-
niug away, and the magistrate who sent them to prima was
the same magistrate to whom they had told `hem cum-
stances attending Crean's murder. There was g deal
of fun going on when the rum .was drunk, and the captain
appeared us very good humour. Martin's evidence was next
read. It was similar in substance to that given by Matthews,
except that he did not see the knife or hear the captain
threaten to cut Crean's throat with it if be did not
drink the rum. John Power, the cabin boy, denied that
Matthews bad sent a message to the captain to the effect
that he wanted to go ashore at Bucktooth, to prefer a
charge against him to the magistrate.—Stephen Cuddy
was the next witness examined, but as he did not see
the circumstances on deck, his evidence was unimportant,
except in this respect—that he had heard Martin,
Matthews, and the second mate say, on the passage, that
they would desert the ship at Bucktooth. In reply to Mr.
Rushton, constable Bates said the only entry made in the log,
relative to Crean was, thathe was sick three days, and that he
died on the fourth. The prisoner, upon being called on far
his defence, said that he was as innocent of the man's death
as Mr.Rushtoa was. He bad given Crean two table-spoonsful
of rum and castor-oil, and ho was net aware that the man was
afflicted with a loathsome disease until after he wee dead.
He (Crean) was ill all the time he was on board, and for
seven days prior to his death he had not eaten any victuals.
Mr. Rushton said he disbelieved the story 'gland the captain;
and the contradiction between the two witnesses, Matthews
and Martin, was so great, that it was matter cf regret the
captain should hare been brought to Liverpool at all. The
authorities here, however, had no alternative but to investi-
gate. Having then pointed out the discrepancies in the evi-
dence, he ordered the captain to be discharged.
CHESHIRE.
LYNCH LAW IN ENGLAND.—A woman having
endeavoured to corrupt the honesty of an errand-boy in the
service of Mr. Booth, grocer, Halton, the lad presented her
with some parcels of sawdust, made up to represent the
booty which she coveted. No sooner was she in possession
than three stout men, armed with holly branches and sting-
ing nettles, who had been stationed by the boy's muter,
rushed out and inflicted summary punishment upon her,
concluding their assault by dragging her through a horse-
pond.
WARWICKSHIRE.
EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY AL`CIDENT.—On Wed-
nesday, u the Leeds train, which left the terminus in that
town at a quarter past one o'clock, was approaching Rugby,
and within four miles of that station, an umbrella behind the
private arriage of Earl Zetland took fire in consequence of
a spark from the engine falling on it, and presently the im-
perial on the roof and the upper part of the carriage were in
a blase. Seated within it were the Countess Zetland and
her maid. The train was proceeding at the rate of forty
miles an hour. Under these circumstances, her ladyship and
maid descended from the carriage to the truck, when, despite
the caution to hold on given by a gentleman from a window of
one of the railway earnages,the maid threw herself headlong
on the rail and was speedily lostsight of. On the arrival of the
train at Rugby an engine was despatched along the line,
when the young woman was found severely injured,j and
taken to the infirmary at Leicester. Lady Zetland remaiaed
at Rugby, where she was joined by his lordship and the
family physician in the evening, by an express train from
Eustonageare. How long will railway companies delay
establishing a means of communication between passengers
-ward ?

ENFRANCIIISEBIENT.—A correspondent
of the Worcester Journal says ,—After a trial of six years,
it is quits evident that the Enfranchisement Act of 1841 has
proved a complete failure, though no other result could be
reasonably expected, when its object could be defeated at the
will of the Lords, whose interest it was to throw all possible
impediments in the way of its enactment& ; because, under
the prevailing system of Anew, fees, and other manorial exac-
tions, they got more than their due from the substantial
owners of the land. Fortunate it is, however, that in this
country abuses are soon reformed or abolished, when once
the voice of public opinion, backed by true statements of
facts and grievances, an he heard; and in a town and county
like this, in which eopyhold property abounds, there
can be ao scarcity—the united testimony of widows,
heirs, mortgagees, and vendors, and the legal profes-
sion, could (on em much mistaken) produce a an array
of these as would convince the most incredulous that the
existing system has produced a total of want end embarrass-
ment scarcely to be believed by those who do not power or
deal with property of this tenure. Surely the example of
other townawill destroy the apathy which has so long existed
on this subject, and some influential person will all a meet-
ing to lend a helping hand to fellow-safferers here and else-
where. It is believed the Real Property Commissioners are
favourable to "compulsory" enfranchisement; but "pres-
sure from without" is seoemary to give effect to their views.
None need fear a measure trenching too much on proper
manorial rights; the tardier manors are a sufficiently power-
ful body to take we of themselves, and know well how to
do so. Alithat is needed is combination to procure " com-
pulsory" enfranchimenent on fair and equitable terms for
both parties; and to attain that end, I trwa the support of
the oopyholders of Worcester and Worcestershire will be
given to their brethren at Wolverhampton and other placer.
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A SPECULATOR IrIFORN.—A few days since the
are of John Hooper, late of Heniton, nurseryman and
market prdsaer, esmso leader consideration in the Exeter
Court of Haaloraissey. The 'meeting being simply for the
choke el sedgeeek there were no creditors present to exa-
mine Ida, bet some qemtleas put by the commissioner
elialted the alleeriai extraordinary trayln Kay lea, aud-
ios Made see, bed d aomiton, and denied by the stories
whialt IMO WU ham d Infanta rosined in the corn trade,
iss ri'ote'd « thaw fa his net for a share of the good
*hap gad to riiit this whole of him available capital in •
inoculative *yip * the United States. He therefore
drew out of the Prallosal Provincial Bank, is Exeter, very
nearly 9004 whisk was paid to him all in gold. He was
obliged to totre gad. berme they would not give him notes.
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