The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

WALES.

THE FIRST STONE OF A NEW CHURCH Wag laid on
Monday last, at Pembroke Dock, by the Earl of Auckland,
First Lord of the admiralty, who, with the other members
of the Naval Doard, visited this dockyard on a tour of in-
spection. A procession was formed on the occasion, consist-
ing of all the military and naval offi .ers in the town and
harbour, with the children of the National School, and
others.
EDUCATION IN WALES.—Sir,—In your paper of Saturday
last, under the head of " Facts for tle Friends of National
Education," you observe, on the authority of Mr. H. Grif-
fiths, president of Brecon College, that there ought to be
250,000 children in school in Wales. This statement is very
far from teit.g cermet. The population of Wales at the last
census was only 911,321, and at present it is certain that it is
considerably below one million. To c xpect 2.50,000 scholars
out of such a small population is anything but reasonable.
Yet Mr. Griffiths does not stop at this extravagant point,
but states that little more than 70,000 children an, actually
at school, and adds, " Do what you will, there is no getting
rid of the fact, that nearly 180,000 immortal souls are at this
day left to run waste amongst us for want of an adequate
system of training!" I presume such statements carry with
them their own refutation.—l am, &c., A 1311r.coxissr.
[Dr. Griffiths' statement, al quoted by us, was that " out of
250,000 children who ought to be at school there were 70,000
who did not attend any school at all." On turning to the
enumeration abstract of the census taken in 1841 we find
that the number of persons in Wales at that time, between
the ages of five and fifteen (the schooling time of life) was
233,114. Allowing, therefore, for the probable increase of
population since 1811, it appears that Dr. Griffiths's state-
ment is not so exaggerated as a " Breconian " supposes.)
PROVINCIAL.

MANSLAYOHTER, IN LIVERPOOL, OF A WIFE BY HER
HUSBAND.—On Monday evening, a manslaughter was per-
petrated in Thomas-street. Owen Tully, and his wife,
Catherine Tully, the deceased, kept a small provision-shop.
The man was a journeyman tailor, who worked for various
tradesmen in the town. Monday being an idle day with the
tailors, Tully took a long walk into the country, and on re-
turning home aho:..t seven o'clock in the evening, he accused
his wife of being drunk, and an angry altercation took place
between them. Eventually he struck her with his clenched
fist in the forehead. Whilst reeling from the effects of the
blow, he kicked her in the lower part of the abdomen, and
repeated the kicks in that dangerous part so often and so
violently, that at length the woman was attacked with
hemorrhage. He seems then to have ceased from his barba-
rity, and to have looked for a while on his bleeding and
dying victim, as she lay stretched at his feet on the ground.
Bloorhouse, of Cleveland-square, was the first profes-
sional ;man to arrive, but when he came the unfortunate
female was a corpse. When Tully perceived that there was
no chance of his wife's recovery, and that life was rapidly
ebbing to its close, he appears, almost unobserved by the
affrighted persons with whom the house was filled, to have
made his escape. He is described as a man about 40 years
of age, five fret seven or eight inches high. On Wednesday
an inquest was held upon the body, when a verdict of man-
slaughter was reterned against Owen Tully, who yesterday
gave himself up.
WORCESTERSftIRE.
ELECTION MOVEMENT AT EVESHAM.—On Tuesday even-
ing last there was a muster of about 3:5 electors at the Rose
and Crown Inn, High-street. The °hie et of the meeting appears
to have been inlay the foundation of a strong opposition when-
ever a dissolution of Parliament shall take place. This was
done, says the If Chronicle, by the aid of two
rounds of beef and sundry other materials, both solid and
liquid, after the old fashion. It is understood that about
thirty persons signed a document pledging themselves, as
" blues," to vote for a man of their own. The " blues "
are now represented by Mr. Peter Borthwick !
DAMAGE DONE ET GAME.—The following agriculturists
of this county gave evidence before Mr. Bright's committee
relative to the damage done to their produce by game: Mr.
Wen. Woodward, of Pirton, near Kempsey, in Worcester-
shire, who holds 500 acres as yearly tenant under the Earl
of Coventry, and 200 acres more of his own land. In 1844
he lost 2001. by game on Lord Coventry's farm. He also
stated the amount of injury done to other farms in the neigh-
bourhood.—Mr. Watson, of Spetchley, had the damage of
—lOO acres of corn, in 1814, valued at 1201.—Mr. John Wood-
%ward, of Pisham farm, had lost 60 bags of wheat on 30 acres,
and he had five acres of ',etches totally destroyed.—Mr:
James Bullock, of Bisford, on 13 acres of barley, had 100
bushels strayed by game ; and he loses 501. a year from
Tame.—Mr. Thomas Bullock, of Pirton, estimates his yearly
a amage from game at from 601. to 701. —Mr. Henry
B ullock, of Cuddy Croft Farm, in Penhore parish, on a
ea Id of wheat, which should have grown 10 bags per acre in
Big '4, had only two bags per acre. Three or four years pre-
via, may, he had only 10 bags of wheat on the whole of that
field containing 10 acres. This destruction was caused
chief. 'y by rabbits.—Mr. Badger, on an adjoining farm, also
value i the damage he yearly sustains from rabbits at 501.
004 , me of the above witnesses received any compensation
for don sage by game.
SCEN E AT A RAILWAY STATTON. —On Saturday night
last, abe at half-past nine o'clock, a number of passengers,
many of whom belonged to the regiment of yeomanry who
had been
attending the review at Worcester, booked them-
selves at th e Spetehley station for Birmingham. After wait-
ing a consii 'erabie time, they were informed that the train
bad been de. 'eyed at Defford by the breaking of one of the
axles, and we 'tad net be up for some time, an announcement
which was not
• calculated to give much satisfaction to the cx-
pectaat Unveil One gentleman demanded the money
which he had paid for his ticket, stating that he
would return t a Wereester, but the demand was re-
fused; and wor •la running high, the person in charge
of the office pre veedel to eject the applicant by force
from the station. The altercation, as may be supposed, i
attracted the attention of the other passengers, who rushed '
to the rescue, and a f_reat commotion ensued, in the midst of
which the ticket manager thought it prudent to take refuge
in an adjoining office. After waiting several hours the mail
train from Bristol came up, and the passengers began to
felicitate themselves on the prospect of being at length for-
warded on their journey ; but to their extreme mortifica-
tion, they were informed that they could not be allowed to
travel by that train, although there was abundant room in
the carriages. The result of this complication of mishaps
sad ennecemary annoyances was, that they did not set out
from Spetchley till nearly one o'clock ; and instead of
arriving at Birmingham at half-past 10, they did not reach
their destination till Pact two in the morning, while the pas-
sengers destined for the north lost all chances of pursuing
their journey, and were obliged to stop for the night in
Birmingham.
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TYPIIV9 FEVER. L tBi;I:I7I7icORMATION. —As this
malignant dig.... is rather unusually prevalent, the simple
relation of the following facts may be of use. An occasional
correspondent of the Birmingham Advertiser called at the
office of that paper on Wednesday, to say that the fever
had twice visited the house pf a neighbour of his, and their
medical attendant stated that it :esulted from the erection of
a pigstye by another neighbour, in !Bch a situation that a