The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

WALES.

A MAN DE9TROSIID IN A FCRNACE.-011 Banally se'n-
night an accident of the most terrible description took place
at the Newport works. T. Jones, one of the men engaged
as assistant tiller, while throwing a basket full of cinders
into the furnace, b► some means or ether overbalanced him-
self, and fell into the funnel of this heated crucible, and in
about three minutes was entirely consumed. The materials
in the furnace were not more than five feet below the level
of the chirging plate. The blast was immediately thrown
off : yet notwithstanding every effort to save the unfortunite
sufkrer, not a fragment of the body could be found. No
person can state positively how it occurred; but it is gene-
rally supposed that the basket must have caught in a por-
tion of his clothes, ar in one of the leather handcuff's, and
that the sudden concussion caused by throwing the basket of
materials into the furnace, jerked him in. It is remarkable
(eats the Monmouthshire 3lerlin) how this family has been
afflicted by accidents of a lamentable description. The for-
mer husband of the mother was burnt to death from an ex-
plosion of liquid iron at one of the neighbouring works. The
present husband, or father of the deceased, lost an eye and
narrowly escaped a similar fate from a similar cause. Some
time ago one of his brothers was most awfully burned to
death on a cinder tip; and another brother had his foot
burnt.
Tur. Norr lffoxruezyr.—ln reference to this memorial
the Carmarthen Journal aays ; Government has very con-
aiderar.dy offered sufficient metal for a statue in bronze of
the late gallant General Nott but it is doubtful if the com-
mittee ran avail themselves of it on account of the great ex-
pense of the casting. Lord Ellenboreigh has shown himself
partic;darly zealous in forwarding the erection of a fitting
nionuinsnt, and has expressed his intention of visiting Car-
marthen in order the better to be able to give his opinion as
to the ir.tended site. Colonel Trevor still seems to think
that Llangtineor Hill, facing the town, is the proper place;
but to look anything at that distance, it should he a column
of cons:derable height and of imposing appearance, and the
amount collected precludes anything of the sort. The com-
mittee in Carmarthen decided, it will be remembered, that
the statue should be placed at the Cross.

PROVINCIAL.
_ LANCASHIRE.

A SCHOOL FOR FEEDING. AS WELL AS TEACHING Dzs-
SIITTE CHILDREN 19 ABOUT TO BE ESTABLISHED IN
MANCHESTER. A committee was appointed some time
ago to organise a Ragged School in that town, and
hail taken steps for the purpose, but learning the
success of the experiments of Shenff Watson, at Aberdeen,
they inquired further into the subject, and now report in
favor of an institution to be called The Juvenile Refuge
and School of Industry." It may be well for the promoters
and supporters of this benevolent scheme to know that all
the good effected in the model institution at Aberdeen has
been done without any expensive building or showy offices.
The hungry and ragged children have been fed and taught in
a large white.vrashed garret, which costs tome thirty shillings
a year rent. If this is kept in mind at Manchester, the very
first subscriptions may he spent in fulfilling the object in
view, the chief requisites brag some large room, a teacher,
and an order to the police to bring youthful vagrants to the
refuge to be fed and taught, instead of handing them to the
gaol to be punished. The committee in their report to the
inhabitants of Manchester, say:
" on behalf of thin inntitution, they now appeal tothebenevolenee
and Christian principle of their fellow townsmen for a hearty and
liberal support. Even on the ground of social economy, the support
of a training school of :his kind would be a wise and prudent measure,
Destitute as these children are,—hungry and naked and dirty—they
are Mill maintained, Some, indeed, die early from hunger and neg-
lect; but the most are, at least, fed at the expense of the public, and
this in the mom wasteful manner. The expense of the food which
they procure hr begging is much the leant part of their mainten-
env... The public, in one way or other, bears the cost of the depreda-
tions which they commit, of the police employed in looking after
them, of all the means by which they arc brought to the pollee-
court, monecated, and punished. The public team also the cost
of the crimea which juvenile vagrants commit, when they grow up
into adult criminal.. The thefts and other offence, which these com-
mit; the measure, of security adopted againnt them; the police to
watch and control them; the courts to prosecute and try, and the
prisons to confine them ; the convict ship to convey them from our
shores, and the soldiers to guard them when arrived in the penal
colony ; the necessity for all these originstas, is a large extent, from
the fountain-head of juvenile delinquency, and lib is a ootuitant
result of juvenile ragraney. So far as this is diminished, so far will
Its effect. cease. At present, the criminal class is one whieh conti-
nually reproduces itself. The neglected juvenile vagrants, who may
not become delinquent., can hardly serape the fate of growing up

regular paupers, and thus the burden of poor-rates and other mea-
sures of relief is vet y largely increased. On this ground of pecuniary
economy, we may safely assert, that every penny devoted
to the support of a school of industry will be well employed.
• • The course which a far-seeing economy and feelings of
humanity dictate, is still more imperatively enforced upou by the
obligations of Christian principle. It is not doing as we would be
done by, Mallow these victims of poverty and neglect to go on, un-
aided and unchecked, in the dark career before them. That, as-
suredly, is not the way they should go, and in which we ought to be
endeavouring to train them up. By the adoption of such means as
have been proved appropriate, we may certainly bring about a very
improved state of things in our town, and especially among its juve-
nile population. Juvenile begging may be done away with. Industry
may be substituted for idleness, and innocence for vice. The effects
produced on the children will not be confined to them, but will spread
to their parents and acquaintance. The community will derive in-
creased power, order, and prosperity. The ponibility of doing away
with juvenile vagrancy is no dream of enthusiasm. What has been
done in Aberdeen, under many disadvantages, may be done with
greater case in richer Manchester."
ACRES Fata.—On Friday the mayor and corporation of
Manchester, for the first time in their new capacity of lords
of the manor of Manchester perambulated the limits and
proclaimed the holding of this ancient fair.
CHURCH BUILDING IN LIVERPOOL.—We (Liverpool
Mail) have extreme satisfaction in being enabled to state
(from authority) that the sum of 10,0001. his been subscribed
up to yesterday (Friday) for providinz free parish churches
for our overgrown population, particularly for our poorer
brethren—in furtherance of the laudable project originated
b 7 the bishop and rectors. Considering the shortness of time
since their " 20,0001. subscription" scheme was first mooted,
we conceive the progress thus far augurs well for its eventual
realisation.
THE Naw LAW POE THE SCPPRESSION OF NUISANCES
is likely to induce the best result, by the exposure of various
sources of disease and misery hitherto entirely overlooked or
neglected. Thus, in reference to the unhealthiness of Tox-
teth Park, the Liverpool Mercury of Saturday says: " It
may well be so, and Mr. Harbord pour ell be dismayed at
the calamities affecting so many of the poo, who are diseased
and dying around. Mr. Rathbone has just shown us a sketch
of a row of cottages situated near the south-west corner of
St. John the Baptist's Church, where the tenants must be
inhaling bad air day and night. Poor Rose Rooney in the
furthest of these is miserably placed; a sink runs along the
side wall ; a pool of stagnant water occupies the vacant land
close by, and right opposite her door is a huge receptacle of
accumulated night soil. Reptiles, a specimen of which may
be seen at our office, of the lizard species, which are generally
found in the neighbourhood of ponds and stagnant water,
crawl about in this poor woman's house, and over the beds
of her children. We suppose there is no drainage in the
neighbourhood, and that the lungs of the people must con-
tinue to be filled with pestilent vapours till the authorities
set earnestly to work to save the lives of their fellow-creatures,
and to prevent contagion smiting themselves."
CoNvicriosie FOR Low' Cnisixays.—On Monday, 28
parties were summoned by the town council of Salford for
non-compliance with the orders of the council, enjoining all
chimneys used in manufacturing or other business operations
to he at least thirty yards high. Mr. Gibson, the town clerk,
said the cues were brought to try the question of the powers
of the council under the Salford Improvement Act, which
had been transferred to the town council. This regulation
had been made in virtue of the powers thereby vested in the
authorities to prevent nuisance from smoke; the act enjoin-
ing one month's notice, and a penalty of 40s. for every week
the order was not complied with. Mr. Greene, if::r several
of the defendants, craved delay till he made himself better
acquainted with the case, which had only been put into his
hands a few minutes before. After some conversation, the hear-
ing of several cases was adjourned till Thursday, and the court
proceeded with those which thespartics concerned wished dis-
posed of at once. The first was that of the Manchester and
Bolton R'ilway Company, for a chimney adjoining the en-
gine-house near Oldlield-road, not being more than 20 yards
high. Mr. Simpson, on behalf of the company, said that
after the amalgamation with the Leeds Company, there was
a likelihood of chimney and the works altogether being
removed. Mr. Gibson was satisfied with this assurance, and
the court imposed a fine of 40s. per week since Aug. 1, with
coats, end a further fine, to the same amount, if the chimney
was not removed within two months. It was understood
the live would not be levied if the nuisance was abated.—
T. Toy, copper-roller manufacturer, Cook-street, fcr two
chimneys; information withdrawn, defendant promising to
heighten them before they were used again.—T. Bury,
dyer, Blackburn-street fined 40s. for every week since
Aug. 1, and costs.—J. Smith, baker, Chapel-street, said that
if he could not use his chimney as it was, he must give up
the baking trade altogether. Having declared his deter-
mination to that effect, a conditional fine of ss. a week
and costs was iinposed.—Several other parties were
fined in the statutory penalties under the conditions
stipulated in the first use; one was withdrawn upon a tech-
nical objection to the description; two cases were delayed,
and two withdrawn, the necessary alterations being now
completed. The remaining cases were disposed of on Thurs-
day afternoon, in ten of them fines varying from 40s. to 10s.
per week were imposed, in other ten the summonses were
withdrawn, and two dismissed on technical grounds. It is
said that in reference to the case of bakers' chimneys, the
council will not insist on enforeing the provisions of the act.
YORKSHIRE._ _

ACCIDENT ON THIS LEEDS AND BRADFORD RAILWAY.
—We regret to have to record the occurrence of another
accident on the Leeds and Bradford Railway, which in this
instance has proved fatal. It appears that on Saturday last,
when one of the morning trains from Leeds for Bradford had
arrived near Kirkstall Forge, the engine driver perceived a
man walking on the line at a distance of eighty yards in
advance. He immediately sounded the whistle twice, but
as the man took no heed he let off the steam and reversed the
motion of the engine, yet all was to no purpose ; before the
train could be stopped, the man was knocked down, and the
whole of the carriages passed over him. His death was in-
stantaneous. He proved to be a labourer employed on the
line, named John Johnson, about 33 years of age. The de-
ceased, from the nature of his employment, must have been
aware of the usual times of trains arriving in that vicinity.
An inquest was held on the body the same day before Mr
Blackburn, the coroner for the borough of Leeds, w hen a ver-
dict of " Accidental Death " was returned.
EXTENSIVE FIRE as Wm: tinv.—We have to record one
of the most extensive conflagrations of farm property which
has taken place in the East Riding for very many years.
The sufferer is Mr. James Watson, of Waudby, about ten
miles to the west of Hull, and four cast from South Cave, a
gentleman who has long been known throughout England
and on the Continent, for the superior character of his
horned cattle and sheep. There appears to be not the
slightest doubt that this great destruction of property is the
work of an incendiary. Fourteen stacks, containing the
whole of the wheat and hay, and nearly the entire crops of
an extensive farm, were destroyed. The leas in money value
is about 2,0001.
WARWICKSHIRE.
THE COVENTRY SCHOOL OF DESIGN appears to be in
a prosperous state. The attendance at the convents:limn
on Monday evening exhibited a cheering indication of the
interest which is felt in the welfare of this institution by the
influential and intelligent classes of that city. On Tuesday
evening above five hundred persons, including a large pro-
portion of artisans, attended the exhibition of the school,
to inspect the varied specimens of art exhibited on the
occasion.
WESTMORELAND.
THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OP TUE APPLEBY AND
KIRaBY STEPHEN AORICCLTURAL SOCIETY took place On
Saturday last. The show of cattle was large and of excel-
lent quality. At the dinner which formed, of course, an
important part of the proceedings, the chairman, Mr. Alder-
man Thompson, M.P., said, in reference to the position of
the English farmer since the repeal of the corn-laws,
" Although you will have to meet and compete with the
cheap produce of the foreigner, by no means despair. The
landlord, the farmer, and the labourer mast feel their interests
to be martial. The landlord must open his purse-strings
wide. (Cheering.) He must enable the tenant to drain his
land. (Renewed cheers.) He must instruct him in the
benefit of the tank system by which he may. save the liquid
manure—which I am sorry to see, not only in this country
but in other countries, running down the gutters instead of
being received in the tanks. (Hear, hear.) A gentleman,
whom I am always proud to call my friend, Mr. J. Harris,m,
of Low-field, told me that when he had his stock tied up he
produced no less a quantity than six tons of liquid manure
weekly. Now what would be the trivial expense in the
formation of the tanks c-'mpared with the benefits which
would result therefrom ? I state from the experience which
I have had of the skill, the energy, and the indomitable per-
severance of the British farmer, that Ido not despair. You
may expect lower prices and increased competition, but if
you have your land well-drained and dry, and take care of
your manure, I doubt not but we shall still have the plea-
sure of seeing your wealth increased, and peace, happiness,
and contentment prevail."

•
THE REMAINS OF THE LATE COMMODORE OF THE ROYAL
YACHT SQUADRON were on Thursday deposited in the mau-
soleum at Brocklesbury. The coffin was borne by the seamen of
his yacht, the pall by the officers. The old Earl is laid with
his fathers, and the Rentrel being no longer the property of
a member of the Roy al Yacht Squadron, will return to Cowes
under the red ensign, will be dismantled, and laid up. The
office of Commodore will be executed by the Vice-Commo-
dore till the next general meeting (May next), when he will,
it is supposed, as a matter of course, be offered the commo-
dorseship of the squadron.