The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1848.

advantages might be pointed out. With respect to ohjec•
dons, it may oe stated that a free government has nothing
to fear from a frugal, industrious, and saving class of indi•
viduals. Such a body can never orm a "dangerous clams."
In order to prevent fictitious voters, imprisonment with
hard labour, besides fining, could be awarded to persons
seeking to create same ; but to be Just, the " tempter and
the tempted" should be punished alike.—ONE WHO 18 NOT
A VOTER.

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INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—DF.ATII FROM SWALLOW- I
INO COAL Gas.—By Mr. Baker, at the Royal Oak, Mar- 1
garet-street, Hargerstone, on the body of D. Chambers,
aged 5.5.—W. Pals, a paper-hanger, said that on Monday I
afternoon, about 2 o'clock, he was at work at No. 2, Bath-
place,
Cambridge-heath-gate, when the deceased called to
repair the gas pipe that communicated from the main to the I
house. Ile had opened the ground about four feet in length
and two feet deep, and had almost finished connecting the
pipe, when he won suddenly overpowered and fell back.
He asked for somehrandy,and stated that he had swallowed
some of the gal. He observed that he had been nearly in
the saute state on other occasions, but that he knew now he
should never recover. Information was sent to the Imperial
Gas Factory, upon which some men were sent and he was
conveyed to his home in Margaret-street. Mr. T. R. Mor-
gan, surgeon, Hackney.fields, a tended on deceased, who
was insensible. Witness prescribed for and bled him, but
without effect, and he died about four o'clock the following
morning. Death was the effect of inhaling the gas, which
produced cerebral and pulmonary congestion.—The foreman
of the jury remarked that whire there was danger in the
cutting and reconnesions of gas-pipes two men ought to be
employed by the company.—Mr. Richardson, inspector of
the out-door department in the service of the company,
stated that the deceased was used to the work he was en-
gaged upon, and that since the establishm,nt of the com-
pany, which had existed 30 years, this was the first accident
that had occurred.—Verdict, "Accidental death from in-
haling a quantity of gas ; and the jury recommended that at
such work two men should be employed instead of one."

not have made head-way against an ordinary tide in
the Thames. The blunder is a serious one for the nation,
(or it has oast in the case of the thrze vessels at least 9,0001.,
and it is the more inexcusable, because Maudslay, Seaward,
and Ditchburn, had previously built iron-screw steamers,
which, with a small amount of power, had averaged seven,
eight, nine, and even in one or two cases twelve, knots an
hour. What the remedy for these errors and blunders is to
be it is hardly within my province to inquire. The facts are
DIN before the select committee, and it is for them to de►ise
such a remedy as will meet the evils thus brought under
your notice by—A DUCILTAILD

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MARCIE 14.

Your Sunday papers would amuse, if the matter
were not too serious for jest. They describe the situ-
ation of Ireland as " most alarming," sad dignify
the follies of the Confederation with the high-sound•
sag titles of " proclamations." Such stimulants may
force readers, but they dishonour truth. There is
really no ground whatever for apprehension, notwith-
standing the magnifying gasses through which every-
thing at present in Ireland is seen at your side of the
Channel. There is not and has not been a single vio-
lation of order in any part of the kingdom since the
accounts of the French revolution.
The address of the Chamber of Commerce to his
Excellency, pledging the subscribed gentlemen to co-
operate with the executive in the maintenance of
order, bears the honoured name of " Leinater."

Preliminary steps are being taken for prosecuting
Mr. Mitchell, the proprietor of the United Iriehnint,
and the affidavits tor grounding a warrant for holding
him to bail are in preparation.
An important circular has been issued from the
Poor Law Commission office. In consequence of the
labour required at the present season for the cultiva-
tion of the soil, and the influence which the continu-
ance of out-door relief might have in the restriction
of available labour, the commissioners deem it ad-
visable to suspend, on Saturday next, all orders for
temporary relief to the able-bodied destitute. They
have written to the inspectors to report on the matter
as soon as possible.
The Orangemen are once more lifting up their heads.
They come, of course, with professions of the most
devoted attachment to the throne and the altar, not
without inclinations to " ascendancy in church and
state," whose days are long buried with the memo-
rials of Orange turbulence. These skeletons of '9B
are creeping out in small clubs, and getting up ad-
dresses to the Earl of Clarendon ; but he has no faith
in their professions, and will not accept the million
men in buckram promised last night in Whiter: iars-
street. The confidence of the community is a beaer
foundation for order than Colonel Phayre's moonshine
battalions.
A heavy record is now being tried at Limerick,'
" The Queen against Col. Wyndham." The real
plaintiffs are the town commissioners of Ennis, who
have brought a seine finite to repeal a patent granted
to the late Earl of Egremont, by William IV., in
1833. The filets briefly are these : By an old patent
to the Earl of Thomend, whose representative the
Earl of Egremont was, a market was to be held every
Monday in Ennis. The practice was, for many years,
to hold the market on Saturdays, and the Earl of
Egremont, like his predecessors, received and applied
the tolls. The commissioners disputed the right to

to consequence sot be disturbed. Should, however, unfortunately,
this nut be the owe, I am well aware of the resplasibility that will be
imposed epos me, and nothing that a sense of duty dictates shall then
be neglected for the suppression of outrage and the maintenance el
public order and tnoguillity.
A numerous crowd of persons had assembled in College-
green in expectation of seeing the procession, amongst
whom were several of the student. of T.C.D., who
walked up and down, in their caps and gowns,
and were lustily and heartily c. eered by the populace.
The student•, haring been disappointed in their pro-
cession to the Castle, pros:soden to parade round the
statue of William 111., opposite the college, and raised the
usual cries. This produced hooting from the crowd about
the green, and the authorities thought it pruper to confine
the students, and c:ose the college gates fur some hours. No
rioting, however, took place. The horse-police paraded
before the college, and at Hee o'clock all was again com-
posed, and the gates were open as usual.

SCOTLAND.

EDlNnunctt, MARCH 14.

Ever statistical, the Glasgow prison authorities
have been catechising the late rioters entrusted to
their keeping, and the information elicited throws
. . _ .

ate light on the origin of the late divturbancea :
Number of prisnnen 64, of whom 20 have been convicted,
and 44 are untried. Ages—eighteen and under, 14 ; above
eighteen and under twenty-fire, 27; twenty-five and under
thirty, 11; thirty and upwards, 12. Nativity—Scotland,
24; England. 2; Ireland, 36; foreign, 2. Married, 20;
Single, 44. Employed, 38 ; unemployed, 26. Occupations:
labourers, 23; weavers, 10; shoemakers, 5; blacksmiths, 2;
tailors, 2; joiner, 1 ; moon, 1 ; cotton spinners, 2; miscella-
neous, 18. Education—Cou read well, 2i; can read with
difficulty, 19: cannot read at all. 20. Religion—Protestant,
34 ; Roman Catholic, 26 ; Unifarion, 1 ; none, 3.

MrRDISIL OP A CHILD HY ITS FATHER.—A young wo-
man, residing at loglismaddie, had been the unfortunate
dupe of a man named Robertson, a fle.m servant, to whom
she had borne two children. The mother being unable to
support both of them, Robertson undertook the charge if the
youngest, for whom he said he had procured a decent person
as nine, who resided at Craieend ot Careston, a small hamlet
close by Findowry. With this assurance the unstop. cling
mother consented to part with her child, and brought it to
the house of one of Robertson's sisters, where he was in
waiting. He immediately carried the infant away, under
pretence of going to the nurse. A week or so alierwards
the mother felt anxious to know how her child wee doing,
and made a journey on purpose to the person whom Robert-
son bad named as having charge of it ; but the woman nei-
ther knew Robertson, nor anything of the child. The
another then requested of her seducer to know with whom
the child was living, when Robertson, taking the poor
woman aside, made the awful disclosure that he had mur-
dered the infant, and buried it in a drain near Findowry.
After Robertson's fearful disclosure of his crime, the mother
and her brosher hurried home to Inglismaldie, and set the
police to search for the body, which they, as Robertson had
described, round tolled among a qu.intity of straw, and
stuffed into the mouth of a field drain. Robertson was
arrested. He is • young man from 26 to 30 years of age,
and has rather a prepoesesaiog appearance.—Montrose
Standard.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCAHIIRE.

PETITIONS AGAINST AN ECCLESIASTICAL COURT.—
Yesterday, at the Manchester Town Council meeting, peti- ,
lions were adopted by a majority of 23 to 11, to both houses
of parliament, praying " that no ecclesiastical court may he
established in the new diocese, with jurisdiction to grant
probates, or letters of administration ; or in causes for uthes,
rates, or dues of any description, or matrimonial causes, or
for the punishment of what is called heresy, or for defame-
tion and (or the establishing of civil courts instead of eccle-
siastical courts, for regulating and deciding cases of the de-
scription above enumerated." The majority (says a corre-
spondent) would have been much greater, had it been atoll
meeting of the council ; and the minority would have been
smaller, but that some of the minority objected to the exemp-
tion of Manchester only, and expressed an opinion that other
dioceses should be included. or none.
THE LATE RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS AT MARCHES-
ren.—YeAterday, the adjourned hearing by the magistrates
of charges against the parties apprehended for the late dis-
turbances in Manchester, took place, when one of the pri-
soners was discharged with a reprimand, three were required
only to find bail for future peaceable behaviour, and four
were committed for trial at the neat sessions, for an assault
on a policeman.
A LABOUR SUBSCRIPTION.—The inhabitants of
Patricruft have lately erected a commodious and substantial
building, to answer the purposes of a mechanics' institution,
of day schools for boys and girls, and an infant school ; the
total cat of which amounts to about 8.501. The greater part of
that sum has been raised by subscription among the friends
of education ; but still a debtremained of about 150/. with-
out any apparent means fer discharging it. Uu Friday last,
the nuns, roue workmen in the engineering establishment of
Messrs. Nasmyth, Gaskell, and Co , Bridgewater Foundry,
held a meeting, for the purpose of devising the means for
liquidating the debt, when they came to the resolution that,
with the consent of their employers, they would work a
quarter of a day overtime each day during tie fortnight
following, and hand the proceeds over to the treasurer of
the building ; thus at once evincing their hearty sympathy
with the object of the institution. The ins itutvin will, by
this praiseworthy act, be at once cleared from incumbranee.
'IIIE STEAMER BANSHEE.—This vessel, recently
built in London for the royal mail service between Holyhead
and Kingstown, arrived at Liverpool on Saturday after a
rapid run of four hours from Holyhead. She made the pas-
sage (ram Milford to Holyhead in seven and • half hours. It
in said that the Admiralty intend in a few days to place the
Banshee and the St. Columb on the station between Liver-
pool and Kingstown, in lieu of two of the present steamer-,
which will be sent to Woolwich to refit, and that then will
continue to carry the mails until the wooden jetties and other
improvements now going on in Holyhead harbour for their
accommodation are completed.
WORCESTERSHIRE.
COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—Major
T. C. Brock to be Lieut-Col , vice Coo • T. Clown' wj E.,
late captain in the Bth or King's 'tent. of'Foot, to be Major,
vice T. C. Brock ; li. Giles, gent., to be Ensign ; H. Gil a,
gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Jeffries, who resigns the
Assistant-Surgeoncy only—in the Worcestershire Begt. of