The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-25 00:00:00

[NQ, DECEMBER 25, 1847.

THE BISHOP ELECT OF HEREFORD.
It in rumoured that, on the day to which the eleo- '
tion has been postponed, the Dean of Hereford will absent
himself from the chapter meetting, thus throwing upon the
nominated
the responsibility of
What m elng or rejecting the person
by the Q ueen. ums that reverend body
will adopt, we (the Worcester Jottneal) have no means of
ascertaining but it may be safely assumed that, should they
refuse to obey her Majesty's letter miasive, Lord John Rue•
sell will hold firm to his purpose, and will recommend the
Queen at once to exercise her royal prerogative and to ap-
point Dr. Hampden to the vacant see. Whether his lord-
ship will recommend that the contumacious body shall be
visited with the penalties of apromunirs is another question,
and one which we sincerely hope will not require a solution.
We have received the following communication from the
rector of Whitchurch :
Sir,—ln your paper of the 22nd you have inserted a me-
morial, presented to the Bishop of Salisbury against the ap-
pointment of Dr. Hampden. Will you be kiad enough now
to insert in your paper that there has been also sent up a
memorial from some of the clergy of the archdeaconry of
Dorset, in the diocese of Sarum, in favour of Dr. Hampden's
appointment ?—Case Joan OtYre.—Dee. 23,"
We bear that the following address to Dr. Hampden,
signed by between six and seven hundred names, including
dose of fire hundred clergymen, together with those of se-
veral members of the upper and lower houses of parliament,
and a cumber of eminent laymen, will be presented to him
on Monday next, the 27th inst., but that an opportunity will
be afforded for other signatures to be added until the 31st
of December :
Reverend tlir,—We, the undersigned clergy and laity of the church
of England, beg to offer to you our sincere reepeeta and good we=
in the prospect of your advancement to the see of Hereford.
by his late Majesty to fin the dignified and important Oboe of Regius
Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, in trying times of
the church, and under circumstances of singular perplexity, you
have. in our opinion, diacharged the dutiee of that office in a manner
which has completely justified the confidence then reposed in you.
The publie announcement of your religious dews, which you made
when entering upon your owe, and the sermons which you have
I preached before the University an Regius Protestor, and eubseouently
published, as well aa your other official acts, have, in our oddment, fully
evidenced the eoundnove of your theological opinions, and your high
deltas to tea orofeesorial chair. We power ,he fullest confidence
I that, under the weightier reepondbility of the episcopal office, you
I will maintain the genuine principles of the church of England. and
exert your utemett energies to promote the cause of scriptural religion
in this resim. Whilst we thus rely on your Integrity and real, we
cannot bat feel how weak are the purposes of man without divine
' guidance and support. We, therefore, join with you in prayer, that
you may be enabled to evince year Mums for the episcopal office, by
the efficiency of your endeavours to advance the spiritual welfare of
your diocese and ot the universal church of Christ

COURT OF SEWERS, GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday a
special meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers was held in
tree court-room, for the purpose of receiving a deputation
from the Conn of Aldermen, to receive the objections which
that court entertained to certain provisions of a bill which
the commissioners have prepared, requesting' the legislature
-srs additional powers in res”---

to give the commissionc.. powers in respect of the
sanitary sate of the City of London. The chair having
been taken by Mr. Deputy Peacock, Mr. Aid. Wilson said
that hi brother aldermen and himself had been appointed

es a deputation to confer with the commissioners ft:cativo to
the proposed bill. Several of the clauses were objected to
by the Court of Aldermen, and to which he would call their
attention, in the hope that they would be so altered or
modified as to meet the views of the two bodies. The first
one to which be would draw their attention was the 57th
clause, in which the commissioners were empowered to
enfortecertain sanitary regulation'', and if such regulations
were not complied with, then to cause the owners of such
property to attend before the court. By such a elates
the commissioners would be both prosecutors and judges.
The court of aldermen felt satisfied that such an enactment
would be regarded by the public with jealousy and suspicion.
—Mr. L. Jones said that it was not the intention of the court
to act as magistrates. Supposing the sanitary measures were
not adopted, and the parties attended, the information given
in nine cases out of ten would have the desired effect. Should
it be necessary to enforce the penalties, then they would be
summoned before the sitting alderman.—This clause was
retained.—Mr. Ald. Wilson said, amongst the court of alder-
men a very great objection existed to the 92nd clause u it
now stood, which gave the commissioners power to license
slaughterhouses. At the present moment the corporation
was indicting some which had been presented by the ward
of Farringdon Within as a nuisance; and at the late ward-
mote he had directed his inquest to present the 'laughter-
houses in the ward to the court of aldermen for the purpose
of being prosecuted.—Mr. Deputy Peacock: If that
is done, it will ruin half the ward.—Mr. Alder-
man Wilson said he should be very sorry to do that,
but private interest must give way to public good.—
Mr. Deputy Peacock doubted whether they should obtain
the power they asked.—Mr. Alderman Siduey considered
they ought to proceed with caution, for the House of Com-
mons viewed the powers asked for in many of the
clauses with a great deal of jealousy, and he thought they
had far better exclude the clause as it at present stood.—Mr.
Deputy Merriam defended the clause.—Mr. Alderman Wil-
son expressed confidence that the legislature would
not give them a power to legalise a nuisance which in sum-
mer was intolerable. He said that in such a city as this the
building of new slauehter-bonus would not be permitted;
the above, and the 96th clause, were expunged. A discussion
ensued on the 109th clause, relative to the existence of melt-
ino-houses, which was ultimately retained.—Mr. Alderman
Wilson said that the court objected to the 172nd clause, pro- ,
hibiting advertising vans coming into the City. It would
have been a very useful clause had it been properly worded,
but as it stood it was a dead letter.—Mr. Alderman Sidney
sod Sir C. Marshall argued in favour of the clause.
—Mr. Lawrence thought it ought not to have beam
introduced ; it was in no way connected with the Mai*
tary regulations of the City, which was the object of the
proposed bill, on which the clause and the following one were
expunged. A long discussion then followed as to whether the
names of the aldermen should stand in the bill as Eurasia(
part of the commission, which being strongly objected to In
the commissioners, and as neither of the aldermen would
take the sense of the meeting the clauses against having the
names of the aldermen is the bill were retained.—Mr.
Alderman Wilson said that the deputation had now per-
hewed the duties which had been entrusted to them, and he
hit bound to say that he should report favourably to the
aseamittee of aldermen as to the courteous manner in which
they had been received. He should net retire perfectly
mdsfied, although he should leave with very different and
ter more favourable feelings than when he entered the room.
ivarything that had taken place should be laid before the
aldermen. The deputation then retired, and the court shortly
Aar broke up.
THE ARANDONED SHIP, LADY KENNAWAY.—The
damaged bark, Lady Kennaway, Captain Avery, with a
valuable cargo, from Bombay, was abandoned in a storm in
the Bay of Biscay, on the 11th of November, by a crew of
36 British seamen, and picked up on the 19th by two vessels,
manned in all by 24 Danish seamen, who possessedeufficient
skill and courage, with subsequent assistance, to work their
own ships, and bring the Lady Kennaway, with her top-
gallant yards across, esfely into a British port. This feat,
without explanation, might appear highly discreditable tin
the national character of British seamen, and the impala
of the Lady Kennaway has very properly published his
statement of the circumstances under whie.h it occurred.
The publication of this statement has, in some measure, re-
deemed Captain Avery and his crew from the amount of
blame which previously attached to them. Nevertheless,
from all the information which has transpired, it ap-
pears that the crew of the Lady Kennaway were not in
that organised and disciplined condition which is de-
drable and necessary on board all British merchant res-
eals. Captain Avery says that he proposed to lighten
the 'tween decks, but his crew, one and all, protested
against it. A crew protesting against their captain's
wishes, is very much like refusing to do their duty. The
three principal reasons alleged for abandoning the
ship were the lose of the rudder, the leaky condition of the
vessel, and the state of the weather. Of the last, few persons
but these ou board could judge ; and it is a reason which
might be brought to overrule all comment now. The lose
of the rudder is an undeniable fact; but it is doubtful whe-
ther Captain Avery's carpenter and crew exerted themselves
as they should in this matter. With reference to the alleged
leaky conditicei of the vessel, a greet mistake was made
somewhere. The ship was not leaky when found by the
Danes seven thy' after, and she hue never been leaky, so to
M since. The pump, used to suck at 12 inches. On the
18th of December they sucked at 16 inches, and from 8 in
the morning of the 18th to 4 in the afternoon of the next day
there were but 20 inches in all in the well of the ship at
her moorings in Plymouth. It is therefore evident that the
crew must have misinformed Captain Avery on this point.
The original rudder had an iron spindle, say 10 to 14 feet
lon running from below the main-deck to above the poop
deck. It was this part of the rudder which first gave way.
Capt. Avery's people went down into the after•hold in the
lower deck, and, the vessel being put head to wind, they
opened one of the afterporta and made an attempt on
that level to ship a tiller into the rudder, but the rudder
was carried away altogether while they were there. It was
by the insufficient fastening of the port-hole thus opened
that the lives of the Danes were sob eequently endangered.
The temporary rudder constructed by Captain Avery was
made, as he says, from a spar off the boom, and worked like
a steer oar, in a semicircular socket cut in the taffrall.
It had two chain guys from the tnizen chains, and two
5-inch rope guys leading through the aftermost porta OS
each side, to the canatan, by which it was turned ; bat
as Captain Avery relates, the gear did not hold, and he
was compelled to cut away this rudder altogether.—The
last rudder made by the severe was constructed of a spin
lumnast having 19 feet inside the ship, and about 88
I het outside, at the end of which was a subpar 15 feet long
fear the tallest that flanched off nearly 4 feet in all treat
010 outer and of the topmast. Favourably for them, when
• se Deem maw on board, they found the cabins lad webby'
Weer of ealfrely cleared away by the vessel's Aft Ahoy
Loolooi, ilmoolore, of shipping their rudder
poop the torten
.tbey eat a bole through the stern of the
.ataela mem powerful for steering the ship, being—say eight
Oat nearer the water's edge, and at the same time more in-
beard. They then ingeniously removed the wheel from
*haft the reizen on the poop deck to before the mizen on the
Min deck, and worked their rudder by talkies carried from
slim side of the ship to the barrel of the wheel—the
Wham* instrument for the purpose. To allow space
ON the upward play of the inner end of the
rudder they cut a hole in the poop deck, twenty feet
from side to side, and ten feet fore and aft. In all
their early operations the Danes, probably, had more favour.
able weather than the original crew ; still it seems unfortu-
Mute that so valuable a ship and cargo should have been
abandoned by a full complement of Englishmen and reco-
sued by a handful of Danes. The Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, following the example of other IC
nations, have establiahedboards of examiners, throng=
masters and mates, voluntarily applying, may procure certi-
ficates of °uglification. The form of application eon
eludes by declaring that the applicant subjects him-
self to tl a withdrawal of his certificate under the

r regulations of the examiners. Few officers have
yet obtained certificates. If Captain Avery and his chief
mate have done so, they can now place their casein the hands
of a properly constituted tribunal, and receive an award
which would be likely to satisfy the public. It is understood
that Captain Avery is • considerable loser by the Lady Ken-
newsy, cm board which he had • private venture sad valua-
ble outfit.—Morning Paper.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAT.—SUDDEN DEATH AT A
RAILWAY STATION.—Before Mr. Wakley, at 1110 Royal
George, Drurasnonctstreet, Eustousquare, on the body of
J. B. Storiker, aged 55, • retired captelk in the merchant
service.--W. BuOseridge, hank rider at the North London
Railway, deposed that, on Thursday last, the deceased was
seen to stagger suddenly on the arrival platform, and-
fall immediately. Witness ran to the place and found the
deceased foaming at the mouth. He was quite insensible,
and witness left him in charge of policeman King while he
went for a surgeon, upon whose arrival the deceased was
found to be dead.—This evidence was corrobersted by
King ; and it was proved by Mr. Edward Pascall, the eon-
in-law of the deceased, that he had been for years sub-
ject to disease of the heart.—Verdict, " Natural death."—
Suspicious DRATll.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Lord
Nelson, Nelson-square, Bleckfriareroad, on the body of
Jane Phillips, aged 30.—Mr. A. Crawcour, of Nelson-square,
said that the deceased had been in his employment for five
or six years. On Tuesday afternoon witness and his wife,
whilst sitting in the parlour, heard the deceased and the
cook talking very loud, and Mrs. Crawcour went down to
the kitchen, when the conversation ended, and she returned
to the parlour. About ten minutes afterwards witness
called to the deceased, but received no:answer. Mrs. Craw-
cour said she would go up stairs and see whether she was in
the bedroom, and said to witness ; " I wish you would come
with me, for my heart fails me." He did as requested, and
as soon as he got to the first flight of stairs he beard a crash,
when Mrs, Crawcour, in her fright, ran down stairs and into
the street. —The beadle of the square was called in, and in
the back yard the deceased was found lying upon
her face in a pool of blood. The house was five
stories high; every window at the back was fastened down,
and there was no outlet to the roof. Witness was unable to
tell how the deceased met with the injuries, unless she had
entered one of the adjoining houses, and having got upon the
roof, had passed along and thrown herself off.
There was a ladder found against the yard-wall.
—Leoai Weil said that she was in the service of
Mr. Crawcour. On Tuesday last the deceased had
few words with her mistress about a silver keile which
had been missed. Mrs. Crawcour on that afternoon gave
the deceased warning. Shortly afterwards she told witness
that her mistress had threateuned to give her into custody
unleas she produced the knife by twelve o'clock the next
day. She then told witness that she would snake the place
as clean as the could, for she did not think she should live
much longer. About four o'clock the deceased came into
the kitchen and &aid, "Cook, I won't live many minutes
longer." Oa witness remonstrating with her, she
replied, "It is no good speaking ; " and witness
went up stairs. In about ten minutes she returned to
the kitchen, and found that deceased had left, and
about four minutes after witness heard • noise like glass
breaking. She bad on one occasiou said that she would
commit suicide. She used to have a man come to see her
in the kitchen, during the absence of Mr. Crawcour. He
was a potman at a neighbouring public.house. She told
witness that she had been secretly married. E. Pool stated
that he was potman at Mr. Phillips's public house. He had
known the deceased for some time past. He was not mar-
ried to the deceased, and she had no ground fur supposing
that he ever intended to marry her.—Mr. J. Hutchinem,
surgeon, said he was called in to see the deceased on Tues-
day night last. He found her lying on the stone flags, in a
pool of blood. There was an extensive fracture of the
skull, which had caused her death. His impression was
that she had got upon one of the adjoining houses, and
thrown herself off the roof. There was a broken fiowerpotly-
ing on the ground, and one of the squares of glass inan
window was broken, leaving the inference that in coming
from the roof she hod turned over, and her feet or head had
come in contact with the glass.—The servants in the ad-
joining houses were sent for, but none of them bad seen the
deceased on the afternoon in question.—The coroner having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict—" That the de-
ceased's death was caused by a fracture of the skull, but how
that fracture was occasioned there was not sufficient evidence
to prove."