The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.
BOLTON ELECTION.—Mr. Peter Ainsworth has re-
tired. Mr. Richard Gardner, lately unseated for Leicester,
and Mr. Richard Ashton Yates, have been spoken of in the
liberal interest ; and it h probable that one of them will be
put in nomination.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LANCASTER.— Between
eight and sight o'clock ou Thunday evening lam a fire
broke out in one of the extensive establishments of Mean.
Dann and Co., railway carriage manufacturer* Lancaster,
which raged with such fury from the combustible lemur, of
the materials, that all efforts to save the budding and its
contents were useless, although, in addition to the public
and private fire-engines of the town, engines were fetched
from Preston, a distance of '22 mil. e. Tne Hamm were
subdued about two o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, after
causing damage to the suppr sad extent of between eight and
ten thousand pounds. Messrs. Dean and Co., ore reported
to be heavily insured, bet not to the full alumna. Nothing
but the Wakened walls of the fabric in which the fire ori-
ginated were left standing. The glare of the confi Testi=
was so vivid as to be visible at the distance of several miler.
Five railway-carriages ready for removal and an immense
quantity of expensive timber were among the property de-
stroyed. There is reason to believe the fire was the act of an
incendiary. In consequence of the frequent disputes of the
sawyer with thew employers a steam saw-mill has lately
been established in the town, to which Messrs. Dunn and
Co., in common with other master" resorted. Many or the
sawyers have, consequently, been thrown out of work, end
it is supposed the destruction of Messrs. Dunn and Co.'s
premises was revived on in a spirit of diabolical revenge.
The police are actively investigating the agar.
APPREHENSION OP MORE CHARTISTS.—At Hyde,
near Ashton-under-Lyne.on Wednesday, Mr. Little, special
high.cor.stable, apprehended a number of chariest dubbin'
upon wsrrmita charging them with having taken part in the
riots on the night when Bright, the Ashton policeman, was
shot. Their names are Peter Maddox, Thomas Schofield,
Samuel Shaw, Peter Collier. and Robert Markham. Charles
Sellers was also apprehended on a charge of drilling. They
were taken before the magistrates at Hyde on Thursday, and
were committed for trial at the next Chester anises.
Da. REYNOLDS, ONE OF TUE CHARTIST LEADERS
of Liverpool, has, it is said, successfully eluded all search,
and shipped for Averica.
CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST • RBOISTIAR OF
BlZTlth.—Yeaterday C. Chubb, jun., of Vauxhall-road.
Liverpool, the registrar for the Great Howard street district
in that town, machined before the magistrates in the first
instance, with having obtained mousy under fidget pretences.
• The government inspector, we believe, was *truck with the
much greater proportion of births, alto., in the district over
which the prisoner was registrar than in say ether, and,
thinking he bed laid hold of a curious statittleal feet, he
' made inquiries, the result of which was the apprehension of
the prisoner on a charge of manu'aituring seines for the
purpose of obteming the fee payable by the parish for
each birth registered. The charge against the pri-
soner resolved itself into one of felony, under the
eard section of the Registration Act. Mr. Snow-
ball said he had been instructed by the solicitor
of the Treasury to appear in support of a ohm's
made against toe prisoner of having made various false re-
tries in his registry book. The 28th section of the set of par-
liament (the 7th of Wm. IV.) said that" every persoa by
whom information shall be given of any birth or °oath, 'hal
sign his name, occupation, rnd place of abode in the register."
The charge *grin/I the prisoner was, that in several instances
(seven of which he intended to bring forward that day)
he had made false entries. The whole of those seven
entries had been made in one day—the fled of August ; and
all, with the exception of marks, in the prisoner's hand-
writing. He thought that, upon inspecting the marks
in five of the PAltt'S, Mr. Rushton wou'd be of opinin,
from a peculiar bend they had, that they had all been
made by one individual. The registers book, taken from
the prisoner that night, contained instructions from the
Registrar-thmeral, ass of which was, "Every entry is
to be made at once, the registrar and informant signing in
presence of each other." On the 22nd el August., in the pro-
sent year, seven cousecutive entries of births had been made
in the book; the names had been pat down by the prisoner,
and the number of houses also given. He (Mr. Snowball)
would show that there was not a single individual of the
name alleged living in those houses, in.d that not a single
birth had occurred in any of them. Four of the cases were
put down as having occurred in Raton-street, at numbers
which he would prove did not exist in the street. With
respect to cue of the cues there was this ipeculiarity. It
was entered as 11, Eaton-street; in Mote-court, be-
hind that street, a woman, tut down as Elizabeth
Id•Renna, had been confined on the 21st of July.
She had gone, it appeared, to the prisoner; her name
appeared In the signature book, but an untrue register
had been made. The child called James was regi-termi as
Patrick, and the father's name James was pat down as
Thomas. She had never signed the register book, wig the
entry of her mark, therefore, was of itself a forury.—Mr.
Radium said he supposed the attempt was to defraud the
overseers.—Mr. Snowball answered in the affirmative. By the
act of parliament the registrar was entitled to halea.crown
each Ter the entry of the first twenty births a the commence •
meat of every year, a shilling each .afterwards.—On the pri-
inner being asked what he had to answer to the charge, he
stated that he had been called away nit xpectedly by the
officer Lat morning, and had been utterly unable to have
professiosel advice. He added that he utterly denied ray
fraud or dishonesty.—He was remanded, bail being refused.
PUNISHMENT OF A RAILWAY SeaveNT.—On
Wednesday, u a train en the Ashton and Stalybeidge.braneth
of the Lanciehire and Yorkshire Rail* ay was passing the
Ashton station, by the neglect of W. Howard, the pointa-
man, to lock the points which should have allowed the train
to go forward to Stalybridge, it ran into a siding. The
engine and vane carriages were injrared, but there was no
lose otlere or serious injury to the pusengers. Howard wee
, takes before the magistrates at Ashton next day, and eons
mined for trial at the amnions for neglect of duty.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Thursday evening, be-
tween tbjrty and forty railway labourers on the Bury branch
of the Lincathire en' Yorkshire line were returning
I gone to Heywood, their place of residence, whe t esm
atonable practice was resorted to of pushing 04-0 •rp
• along before the engine. without linking thin& •
as incline about • mile from Hey wood the
end paw, when the carriages in front west fort .
the melbas, till, coming in contact with some dier • •.*:
in the way, a collision took place so violent as
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maim oat Oae °Mete, W. Tailor, had both legs ncarl,
severed, so/ died yesterday morning. The others, though
such braised, were not aerially hurt.
TES BO fat ICO or THE OCEAN MONARCH.
Tbrough Mr. Ladner, the Bemetary to the British Mamas,
Man Recanbere, a Dutch artist, ha. forwarded to the Liver
rei mriamittea for the relief of the millirem by Orr Oe as
March, it large oil painting, repremating Ore burning
et that Militia skip. Toe committee antemolate patting
it up fa raffle, gad in the meanwhile it b being exhibited is
the ilsehange 11010.100U4
TORK9IIIIIE.
Tate CUAZTIIT PRISONERS AT BRADFORD.—
Yeerrds wr the day appointed for the lather r marina-
Men of tar twelve men who stood resandrid on • charge of
sedition at Bradised y but a the bomb was eng tre! fur
mama Mara biter* the entail• aloe marmenied la moiling
a Brewster ormioes, no decision with regard to any ate of
the prawn had been come to wheat oar expires parcel wee
gent of Oar arreepondent, who was is attendance, adds
the( the etaminatiuna were ag iin takes la the private resat
of ins magistrates, and that lariats and WI parties net car
mad in the cats were strictly excladed.
DEVONSUIRE.
pinworms Firs.—(la Weannday a fire broke
out at the Belford Mills, Ashburton, occupied by Mr. Cam.
ter, oltaatid • mile hint Ashburton, In a woody valley, to
the north oaf the tow.. Eagan were quickly on the spot,
bat the dame bad gained sash acesadasey, that the whnl
el the bandage, with the machiaery. were quickly at-
Mreyed ; the dwelling•bease was mai, *ad also t e iat
mare water wheel. TM nuance, wit insured, but out the
buildings.

WORCISSTEI lithilt AL VIDITIVAL.

WOROViith, F 11.10•2 Ereitilffo.—The come ot
last night peodeeed ma extraordisary deems of emiteniont.
The demised far tieketa was migmatite:sled. Crowds were
mesentried at the doors before they opened, and the e age:-
sees to obtain admission was sou that seswithetandina the
exertions of the police to preserve order several accidents
marred, though none of them wen of • serious nature.
The gallery wee tilled to overflowing. It was found
subsequeatly that the number of tWuts collected at
the duon was doss opals 1,200. The great attraction of the,
impedes wee the selection from Weber's opera of "Oleroa,"
a product Les abiding is pas of the purest water ; and it
speaks well foe the muical taws et thls locality that the inks
Wants slunk' with one commit have *sleeted this as the
eencen dike fifties'. But in addition to the opera, which
loomed the lest part of the emcee, there was a 11•62ti011 of
snags aid concerted pieces from the compositions
of the first mission, Mozart, Rossini, Deniulti, he.
Of the "Oberon" we shall have little to say. A critique of
the work—so well known to nesekal anutmers—would be
anything bet sew in these days: im amities was usagni-
bast, and espetially the instrameatal department. The
contort and introductory chores of tallies, "Light as fairy
loot cia fall," gave the maut delight to the Wureestershire
sattiure. The &otos of spirits answering the behest ot
Pack, and the succeeding symphouy el‘scripuve of the storm,
were listened to with profound &uteri- a. Mr. SMis It
excelled himself in the brilliant sone, "0 'tis a glorious
sight to see ;" sad Madame Casullatt and His. D doy gave
the dui " Ali ! happy maid," with great delicacy. Miss
Dolby is an old knurlier of the Worenter people, and
Madame Catania haa, daring the festival, bemenC exceed.
ingly popular here. Tits chorus of mermaids and fairies,
" Merrily let us sail," wee psi fict ; and the ter ind march
which fellowed it deserved its ti:la in eve:). sense—
It was grand in coronation as it is in design. In the miscel-
laneous portion of the concert (the second part) idellte. Alberti
appeared to rimer advantage than she had hithert, done
daring the festival. Her dilivery of the mooting from
"Ls Deans del Imgo"—e. Etna; oh to, del° &Moral"—
elicited • uunienzus encore, as also did her favourite Tyro-
Benne, "lie quests simpliee." The Du Pasquale serenade,
"Cosa' f' gettil," with harp nblioato by Hr. Perry, was
much admired. The Mise.s Williams were sa effective as
ever in their dui of the Swiss =Metals, "O'er the wild
reeky Alga;" and Madame Casten= wa. warmly applauded
is Wm ex. maim of the air from "Linda di Chemuni,"
" 0 lase di quest' anima." The buffo duet, " Oh,
guardrail else flours," was given with groat humour by
Aleoui sod Loblsche, acd ut COWS, was encored.
This moralism the musical portion of the festival was brought
to • close by the preferment.* of " The Messiah " Tine
oratorio, though performed at every meeting of the three
choirs of Wmeester, Gloucester, and Herelord, never fails
to draw a numerous audience. The attendance this morn-
tag, though it did not reach that of fuesday, wvi nearly
double that of Monday morning, the number being be-
tween 1,100 and 1,::00. The principal solo parts in " The
Messiah " were taken by Madame Cutellan, Miss Dolby,
the Misses M. and A. Williams, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr.
Bohinsor, Mr. L sekey, and Mr. Mullin. The thorium
were not perhaps quite so steady as meld ham been
expected, seeing that the music must have beta tonsillar
as household words " to the performers. It was this
very familiarity which, no doubt, created carelnenem
on the part of the chorus singers, and lid to the
ansteadioess sometimes observable. The " Hallelujah"
chorus formed as exception the complaint, and was
delivered with an overpowering effect. la a suhuquent
patios
eof the oratorio it was repeated, in coloptiance with •
very generally upeessed. Madame Ceetellon de-
limited the amine air, " Deemer that my Redeeni-r liveth,"
with a feeling seldom produced ,r expected from a fi feigner.
Miss A. Williams (who first took port in thief:nat. rio at the
Worcester festival et 1842) sang the sat' parts allotted to her
with great ability, and the other principleingers were a qually
eerect. The oratorio was brought to a rim about three
o'clock. The collection at the doors today amounted to
2131. to. 2,1 Oa Thursday the amount collected was
1611. 13s. 4d. Among those by whom platen were held
were the Lord I.lMhop of Worcester, Mts. Monk (lady of the
Bishop et Olonceuer), Ledy Blount, and the t..esn of Wor.
enter. This evening there will be a grand full dew ball
at the Otti:c1k111, which will wind up toe fessival week. Al
together the meeting has passed off exceedinoly well ; and,
independent of the receipts for tickets (which are appro-
priated t
oo defray ex ), the charity benefits to the ex-
tent of tay 1, .