The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

A cantors AFFRAY tows place et Cheatham-hill, near
Manchester, on Saturday night. Two men had gone out to
fight a pitched battle, accompanied by a great orb of the
disorderly people usually attendant ox suck scenes, when a
county pulite-Aker interfered, nod desired them to desist.
The parties present attacked the °Meer with stones and
sticks, wounding him severely about the face and head, end
threw him into the Itoebdalo Canal. Mr. J. H. Wenklyn,
a county magistrate residing near the spot, rode up on hurse-
lea k, and w ith some servanls rescued the policeman, begging
his 'militants to desist. As the magistrate was leaving the
spot, a number of the men who had been beating the police-
man tarew stones at him, and he was cut en the forehead by
one of the tnuailes, so that it was necessary t• call in surgical
aid, but he was sufficiently recovered yesterday to appear on
the bench at Salford, when nine of the mob who had been
active in the assault were brought up far examination. The
ease was adjourned till Wednesday, that some other of the
parties ewere d in the affair might be apprehended.
FATAL ACCT DENT FROM FITIII•ARXS.—On Friday last, as •
party of atntltmen were shooting at Parrox Hall, near
Fleetwood.on-Wyre, the seat of D. Elletton, Eel, one of the
company, Dr. Elletson, of Fleetwood, shot a rook which fell
among the branches of a tree out of his reach. He held up a
boy to get it for him, and with the butend of his gun was push
ing the lei higher intt the tree, when the gun wasdischarged
and the ov:oaten's lodged in the doctor's breast. Medical atsist-
ante was procured, but he only lingered until fire o'clock on
Saturday morning, when he expired. He was a gentleman
much esteemed in Fleetwood and the neighbourhood.
YORKSIIIKE.

WAKEFIELD Enet-rt7s72Si;idward North Buxton,
But., visited Wakefield on Saturday last, as a candidate fur
the suffrages of the electors at the ensuing election. The
hon. hart. met from 30 to 40 of the leading gentlemen in the
liberal interest, in order that they might determine whether
it would be advisable to put him in nomination. Sir Ed-
ward declared himself to he a free-trader, in favour of an ex-
tension
of the suffrage, but not of universal suffrage ; and
he thought the necessity had been made out for the interfer-
race of government in educational matters. Several goes-
Lions relating to these matters were put, sad the answers
generally speared satisfactory. It WES. agcsed that the
" liberal" portion of the constituency should be tailed toga.
they on Mond iy Oast) evening, in order to hear Sr Edward
fully avow his political sentiment,.
ORTAININO ONE lIUNDRED POUNDS BY FALSE PRE-
FENCE vans LORD O. BENTINCK.—Two persons have
been in custody in Hull for several weeks, upon various
charges of obtaining money under false pretences, and the
facts elicited by the vigilance of the Hull polies make out a
else of strong suspicion of an extensively organised system
of fraud, earr:ed out by means of terged facsimiles of
the haniwr'Vng of parties in various racks of life.
The two prisoners are known in Hall as Henry
Adamson and Bridget Adams.. On Wednesday the pri-
soners were examined, when W. G. F. Cavendish
(commonly coiled Lord Geerge) Bentiack deposed: On
or about April 19, I received in London, a letter dated from
flail, and signed James Turner. I answered that letter and
destroyed it. The letter purported to be from the master
and owner of a sthooner out of Lyon, on her first voyage,
and bound for Sunderland. It stated that he had lost his
mast, his rudder, anchor, and cable, in the last gale. He
stated that he had not money enough to pay for the repairs,
without breaking into his cargo, or the sum of money which
was designed to pay for his cargo of coals, and that he would
be obliged to return to Lynn without making • verge at all, '
unless he was assisted. He enclosed at the tame time a letter
purporting to be from Mr. R. Beggs, of Lyon, and a list of
subseriptioio, amounting to 801. or thereabouts, which was
perfectly insufficient to meet his requirements. Mr. Haire •'s
name wu down for 201., and another gentleman for 30!.
'lt was Mr. Bagge's letter that took me off my guard. I
thought I could hare sworn to his hand-wri,ing. The
tenor of it, too, was just such a letter that I thought Mr.
Bagge would have written, stating that he knew I was
so much engaged he could not think of troubling me
at that period ; but it was addressed to Turner in the
second person, and concluded, " but you ore at liberty
to make any use of this you think proper." It was the
half of a note, So that there was no post-mark upon it.
I was so entirely without suspicion, that I lid not
examine it minutely ; but I am quite tan there was ne
poet-mark. The writer request, d I would return him the
enclosures, and answer his letter by return of post, which I
did, and endued him my cheek for 1001. This is the cheque.
I stated that I could form no opinion of what the cost sof •
rudder, mast, and cable would be, hut that I enclosed 201.
as a gratuity, and the remaining 801. was to bo repaid at his
earliest convenience. I know of • John Turner. I was
aware that there was a Turner who was the master of a
vessel at Lynn, but I am not acquainted with any Capt. Jas.
Tuner, of Lynn. His lordship retired, and the proceedings
wets adjourn: el to the Town-hall. where Mr. M-Manus ap-
plied for a further remand until Wednesday next (to-mor-
row) to produce ether witnesses.

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