The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.
DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN COMMERCE BY MEANS
OP RAlLWAYB.—iesterday, • meeting of merchants and
manufacturers and others favourable to the prosperity of
India, took place in the Town-hall, Manchester; the mayor
in the chair. Several resolutions were passed in favour of
the growth of cotton in India, and especially of proper means
being provided fir its conveyance to thu ports. The chair-
man having said kit+ words in support of the objects of the
meeting, Mr. Thos. Beery, president of the Manchester
Cbamber of Commerce, moved the first resolution. He said
India was much behind the intelligence of the age in having
no railway or othcr efficient means of internal communica-
tin. He might take • rapid suing of the trade between
this country and India. Having a population of 113,000,000,
though our experts had increased within the last few years,
they only amounted to 15d. per head per annum ; turning
to Brazil, however, they &zonated to 6s. per head. India
was, therefore, far below the standard it should occupy in
the scale of consuming powers, an evil increasing by want of
efficient means of bringing cotton from the interior to the coast.
Tne remedy to be propo.ved was a railway to c immunicate
with Bombay and toe other ports, from the interior, and
especially from the cotton district& lie believed there were
no fewer than five hundred individuals in Lancashire who
were ready to talc.: twenty shares each : 50,000:. being thus
nisei' in support of the undertaking, it would certainly had
to its successful accomplishment —Mr. Bright, M.P., then
came forward, and, in a speech et great length, supported
the obeerrations of the preceding speaker, end &defined to
te le :shameful delay manitested by the sstAndia Company in
furtherance of railway projects.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
COMMISSION BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT. —T.
Wells, Gnat, to be Adjutant in 2nd RegienentofHoyal Bucks
Yeomanry Cavalry.
ESbEX.
HUMAN SKIN NAILED ON CHURCH DOORS.—Regent
investigations at the College of Surgeons. in Lincola's-ion-
fli lee, have curiously confirined some traditions Img revs-
lent in Eisen and in Wi.rcestershire. The church dor of
Iladrock, in the former county, displayed for generations
what was said to be the skin of a Danish pirate who had
been flayed alive as a punishment for sacrilege; his skin
being stretched and nailed on the door of the edifiee he
had robbed. A similar strange acid terrible store was
told ab-gut Copford church door, also in Essex, rind
the locel hia.oriens do not fail to repeat the legend
that explained how sacrilege was punished in old times. Bat
the Saying of church robbers wee, it appear, not peculiar
to Basta, for at Worcester • piece of skin was some years
ago taken from the north door of the cathedral and be-
queathed to the Society of Antiquari,s in London. It is
now preserved in Somerset-house with the deseririon that it
had once belonged to a man caught in the fee! of Meshed
the &enema be...tom:he hign altar. These old store,. have
recently been verified in a manner which shows how modern
science may at times be useful in the elucidation of doubt-
ful historical saw Ilion.. A small Portion of the supposed
kin taken from liadatock church-door in leiG by the Rev.
C. Townley was sent to the College of Surgeons and
submitted to examination with the powerful rni-
ero•copes there in use by Mr. Quekett, when that
practised auatomist at once recognised the tkin ss human—
" that of a light-Laird person, in a 1 probability taken from
the back." This was proved by the character of a few hairs
that still adhered to the skin, after the centuries that must
' since it was nailed to the door. The

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Yesterday Mr. Edmund Denison, of Doncaster, paid his property of the churei as t now stands, or increasing the
tons and Willummes,' as if by_mutual consent, divided hays eNlayP"dore„,su,—, and another how copfewi were likewise
personal respects to :he elector; of the West Riding resident taxation of the people, which was already large enough.
"power tat a hundred
the douba of ieciqiCal antiquaries, and proved how church
in the Leeds polling district. The boo. gentleman was met With respect to the education of the people, he wee the representation. In 1841 there was deillned to ciearly shown to be human. The
loon ware sometimes used to toe " good old times."
at the Royal Hotel by a party of gentlemen, embracing in favour of the continuance of the parliamentary g-ants be a contest. Sir William Clayton's votes towards diameter." of the microscope at the college bas thus mobbed
many members of the old whig section of politiciins,by whom foe *et purpose. If they meant ever
.to be good subjects, they the last days of the Melbourne administration had
be was swotted, about ten o'clock, to the ColourbdCloth Hall. must make the boys religious ;if religious, the) must Le not been of the most staunch description. It was
At eleven o'clock Mr. Denison mounted the steps in the area moral, sad they would not fail to begs d. With the cdu. 80111181.
of the ball, and wes briefly introduced by cation which might under the new arrangemenis be afforded, oug t, latX, th lt rd. .4 that he •ht be induced to n
. in y, ling - ,OLLI•ION 0$ Tilt lIIIIOHYOW AND SOt!TH
Mouday, A. Rows train which had leis Brighton at hall-gait
breed nes.
Mr. Gorr, one of the leading merchants in the town. He there Ins ao reason why the son of any seoebing malt might divide with the opposition upon the c...1e q Coast Bartwa.T.—.l,c-Lieion took place on this line on
said : I have the pleasure to stind before you to introduce to not become an archbishop, a lord chancellor, et a je..p. Lion of confidence in minister& Persuasion was exer-
it was ineffictual ; but still there seemed to be tie for For:mouth was stopping
you Mr. E. B. Denison, who comic forward to solicit )our His (Mr. Deoison's) grandfather was a Ter) hunible 14., ; deed ;
iwhiuelitlfft Brmigill'ilitonra"traflvierigh on, whe, a paeseng. r train,
at the Kingston :salon,
Totes as a candidate to fill toe vacancy in the representation but he worked his way to a good position ; h!. son did the irresolution. Some over-ztaious young man at the
of the West Riding. Wt live in times, perhaps, without a same ; and he hoped that he (Mr. Denizen) did hot occupy Carlton
parallel in the history of the empire or of the world, when go a eleapicablteution. The celebrated person wb ite name thought a threat mi ,ht do—the threat of aw - mina es past .even. Came ill,. • ..wl
moments are OVerttrh.rh, institutions destroyed, and large he bore, J Denison, roes from the w tkingeelasa in contest at Great Marlow. The blood of the elections '
%Sough the imp signals were exhibited and a eel light waved
i, , ti intim.ite iinwhia lit
edanger, tne train ran into the q oils
masses of the people reduced to misery and ruin. At such a Leeds; he walked to London because he had not money to was on 6rein a moment; and " the colonel " vottv, train with great violence, smashing some of the carriades of
time as this how necessary is It that the British House of take him there, and be became a jud.e. Mr. Denison with tb e government. the latter. Several of the passengers were hurt by the sh. ck,
Commons should consist of men of sound judgment and clanked the audience for the patient hearing they had given Tb.e Carlton were wroth to a degree. They worked and some bled, but nuns auralued serious injury. Toe lino
discretion, men in whose hands we can safely trust the vast in- him. (Cries of "0o on.") He was told that they might .
twists, oat only el this empire, but, we see woad to say, refuse him a bearing, and at now they tel.: hi., to iv 055. nPrJa , e
h W 11, i Ames ; they declared they would have Heats war strewed with the wrecks of broken e•Tria PP rod two
of the world itself. At such a time then, t take it the. Be thanked them; he had nothing fttker to add; but 'that Clayton "out. The IVilliemses scarcely wanted pbe
elapsed besot' the trafficcould 1 • be resumed John
lem rton, the driver of the passenger train, w'.s er•re-
tame who w^ald advocate what is celled popular prove a, would be happy to answer SAT Tuitions that nit6trt be tut, a contest any more than the Clayton's but they C0u1.4 headed auti brought up before the magistrates bitting at the