The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-04 00:00:00

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Ties SISVOOLIWG on TRW COAST or 1410....-
Os Tuesday Jammu Reinrimes, who was found on
the Untermshanni Of the Lincolnshire coast on Also,
ofin rersalsig tobacco, was sentenced by the
Grimsby to be imprisoned in Louth hog, o'
earns** fkr tx easedis and kept to hard labour. AX the
wwws floe the eared sad lee cargo were declared to be for.
fellatio tie wen. Oa Wednesday 3. Van Boven, the op-
t& at tie told. and J. Cowlya, one of the seamen, were
seat satinet to be hapalessoi and kept to bard labour for
efst istiat. Ono d thee poems refused to plead, anclihe
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rikalliCgalladme" the defendents were non'aid, et
WNW reesson with on the day on which the hegira
was fixed, sad, tbstehre, that the magistrates had no
diction in this wafter. The magistrates decided spinet
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Tuesday afternoon a destructive fire broke out at the colt°e
manufactory of Mesas. Mellor and Roberts, new m 111•
seven miles from Stockport, which has been attended wit)
considerable loss of peoperty, but most providentially withont
any sacrifice of human life. It was fortunate that the di..-
aster did not occur at a late period of the evening, when the
hands employed at the neighbouring works had ceased their
labours, otherwise the peculiar situation of the village,wiritl
forms • cluster of factories and houses, rising one abov.
another from the bank of the river Ooyt to the summit e'
the crags, a height of several hundred feet, might have lei
to the most destructive and appalling consequences. Tit.
building in which the fire began, and which is called th.
blowing house, was totally destroyed, with almost all di.
=and all the machinery it contained; and althougl
great exertions of the populace the progress of the
daises was arrested, and the ggrreeaat body of the manufsetort
saved, yet the awake me eidsatly deplorable, as causirq
an inuaselfate supemilon of the works, and consequent di.
employment of • latwe number d the work' population.
The fire was caused, it is supposed, by the frkdon of tii
fans, the immense velocity of -which, together with the in.
flammable nature of the commodity in preparation, render
casualties of this kind exceedingly frequent, end requires th.
utmost circumspection. However well the loss may ht
covered by Insurances, the poor working people of 0..
neighbourhood will be immeebate sufferers by ate culainit
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WINDSOR, THUISSDAT. iiiiiiiiiiiii —Tux EVANGELIC.
ALLIANCE.—A public meeting was hold in the Towiyhal
yesterday evening, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell in tl.t
chair, for the purpose of enabling the Hon. A. Kinnaird.
the Reverends Drs. Patten and Cox, the Rev. E. Biekersteth.
the Rev. Dr. Baird, and others, to explain the objects env
proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance. The meeting we,
well attended by clergymen of the neighbourhood, and Ott
respectable families of Windsor and Eton. The chairrna.
explained that the meeting had been called for the purr.,
of endeavouring to diffuse, throughout the town and neigi.
bonrhood, those principles which had been so admirably it
culcated at the recent meetings at Exeter Hall. The Rev.
Dr. Patten, from New York, the Rev. Edward Biekentett.
Rector of Walton, the Rev. Dr. Baird, a Presbyterian
minister from New York, and several other gentlemen, ad.
dressed the meeting. The rev. chairmen afterwards sekei
for blessings upon all those who loved the Lord Jesus Chrim
in sincerity and in tenth, and the doxology having been sung.
the meeting separated between 9 and 10 o'clock.
THE REOHITEATION.—h is expected that an unesta
amount of business will occupy the revising barrister at
Reading in October, from the numerous claims to vote, one
the more than ordinary number of objections. Nearly Mt
have been posted on the church-doors, on the part of do,
Conservatives. The objections are mainly upon the 10011111:
of an alleged incurable defect in the overseers having omitite
to insert in the Est the numbers of the houses of the wen
pants objected to, u required by the statute. The Lilian'.
however, contend that these objections are fatal, as the Cui.•
servative agent has not signed his Christian name in full
the foot of the notices. Every appearance at present I.
tokens a severe contest, both at the approaching registrat...,
court and election.
BUMEX.
THE FATE OF THE BEN/ETON PAVILION is still 11..
topic of general conversation at that watering-place. Ti.
local paper of yesterday states that the committee appointy
by the commissioners to watch the proceedings conneetY
with the contemplated sale of the palace, having received at
order from the Lord Chamberlain, went over the buldini
and the grounds on Wednesday morning, for the purpose
ascertaining how much of the structure stands upon tlii
road which the town gave up to George the Fourth,
understand that only a very small portion of the Pavilion
the portico, in foct, is buiit over the old road.

KENT.
THE CHARGES AGAINST THE MASTER OP TEE LEWIS.
HAM UNloN.—Yesterday at the meeting of the Boar,'
of Guardians of this union a lengthy document we•
received from the Poor-law Commissioners, containing the..
judgment upon tech of the charges preferred against Me.
Burroughs, the master, by Mrs.McCellan, the achooleni..
tress, for gross misconduct towards several of the female ie.
mates of the union workhouse. The Poor-law Comm;
fierier& stated that they had received from Mr. Hall his re
crriter the inquiry recently made by him into charges pr.
again t Mr. J. T. Burroughs by the schoolmistre.s
In* regard to that relating to Caroline Atkinson, they fine'
* es she left the workhouse in March, 1844, and the alit
plea of her intimacy with the master rested only on re •
pub, unaccompanied by any statement of fact, the Commis
gassers think that Mr. Hall did right in not pursuing the
inquiry into the case. As respects the case of Caroliut
Halliday, who is 30 years of age and deaf and dumb, it ap-
peared to the Commissioners that the circumstances alleges
by Mrs. McCallan in support of the charge are slight and ie.
conclusive, and are sufficiently met by Mr, Burroughs'.
explanation, and that an examination of Caroline Hahida'
was therefore unnecessary. In the cue of Margaret Steven-.
the charge rests entirely on the statement of the woman.
herself, made to the medical officer about eighteen mond.
or two years ego and repeated to his assistant on the 3rd ult..
This statement the woman, when examined on oath before
Mr. Hall, positively contradicted, and she also denied that
she had ever made such a statement. These contradiction-
show Margaret Stevens to be unworthy of credit. Admit
tinF, therefore, that she made to the medical officer and hi•
assistant the representations alleged by them, no confidence
CAR be placed in her statement, and as the charge
founded solely on that statement it cannot be considered to
be substantiated. The case of Ann Hone is one of more die;
eulty, the evidence of the woman herself is to a certain ci
tent supported by that of Sarah Boddington, who deposed t.
her being told by Ann Hone that Mr. Burroughs was the
father of her child, and also that he had offered her five
pounds to leave the workhouse. It is also corroborated be
the testimony of the schoolmistress, who deposed to havini
beard Ann Hone, in speaking to Mr. Burroughs at the time
of the death of her child, incidentally allude to an offer o'
money made her by him. Taking, however, into account
the bed character of the two witnesses, Ann Hone and Sara).
Beddington, the denial of the alleged conversation with Mr.
Burroughs by the latter and by Mary Ann Dean, who were
both present on the occasion, and the length of time that hat
Awed dare the alleged occurrences, and the testimony eves
of the Wiftelnel bought in support of the charges to the
general deportment of Mr. Burroughs towards the inmate.
of the workhouse ; and also considering that the charge is
metal the part of Mr. Burroughs by a p chive denial of it
in every particular on oath,. the commissionersarc of opi
nion that although the came es not free from doubt tke charge
is not satisfactorily proved, and that Mr. Burroughs is then
fore entitled to an acquittal upon this as well as the other
charges.--Such being the decision of the commissioners, the
court unanimously resolved that Mr. Burroughs be forthwie)
reinstated in his office as master .
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF CANTERBURY are already lie
stirring themselves to obtain the establishment in that cit.
of one of the Local Courts under the new act. "It is
very important matter," says the local paper, " as to whether
the citizens shall have a court, and all the business he
carried on at their own doors, or whether they will have ti
journey some miles to recover a debt ; besides the sitting of
so important a court will be a great benefit to Canterburs
by causing a large sum to be expended annually by suitor's.
wit serer, attorneys, sad others."
REPRESENTATION OF ROCHESTER. —On Wednesday
evening a numerous meeting of the electors was held for tie
Mof agreeing to a requisition to Ralph Bernal, Esq.,
eir former representative, requesting him to betook
a candidate at the mit general election. Donald Mcßee.
Esq. banker, was called to the chair, and after mous
speeches had been made, a deputation was appointed to
wait upon Mr. Bernal.
IMPROVEMENTS AT FOLKESTONE HARBOUR.—For seve-
ral weeks uteraive operations have been carried on by a
party of divers at Folkestone Harbour to deepen the em-
trance so u to enable the steamers to eater and leave at al.
hours of the tide. The work, which excites coasiderable
interest, was designed by Mr. Barlow, the acting engines
of the South-eastern Railway, who has personas y superin
tended the operations. Alrudy has a large mass of the rocks
that blocked up the entrance of the harbour been brought
is by the divers. It is intended to farm a commodious sta.
tun on the wall of the upper basin or backwater, to whiel
passengers will be brought by the branch line to the qua)