The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

Tao Tait M= BlLL—Apublic meeting, tea-
party, sad ball were held at °ldeate, o s Tucsday c sentag
ettaiesemorate the warn of the Teo Hours Bill. Mesa.
PluMes sad Cobbott, oandidahrs st the last election tur the
Lerrtaloa of Oldham were the ptiocipal Nearly
dnitraseple atteaded the terparty, and Mr. Field's ad.
the assallilege at cestheraide length, advising them
met to seek so szteasisa or amendment of the act, bet to
bold fast by it, la the event of which it would, be
said, brim them higher wages. lie drew attention to the
agitates which had been going on scainst the - stem,
proems* of taxation, sad sold Mr. Cobden bed now cot bold
of the right god of the stick, to which point he advised the
PVM bin.
TIIIO TUN LITZIPOOL CORPORATE AND Doca
Beravas —Yesterday, at nom, a meeting of the peri*hiiners
of Liverpool woe held at St. Nicholas's Church, ter the par-
=ressiviag a report from a committee appiitthd at the
vowey meetiag, to amidst the notation of subjecting
that corporste sad dock estates to local rates. Results.i.-ns
mere sathimously pried to aientorielise the dal committee
gad the town instant., prey kg theta to lAes the preliminary
Mr fee carrying out the desinsd object.
FATAL FarlAllo2 Or FIRR,DAMP, NEAR LEIGH.—
Os Monday an eaplesion of fire-damp took place at Memo.
Wood sad Co.'s Colliery, Wadley Oren, afar Leigh, by
whisk 'anent weekmea have been dresd•ully burned, and
ire lanais ken already lost their lives. Soon after 6
o'clock in the month , the sea proceeded down the shaft
of the pit E their work. and lighted auk d candles, although
lame had bum provided far their us^. About haltpast
6 ties gee *sited, sad aa ezplosion took place. laying
all la the pit pres•Jete, and by its force driving the
cook mid slack as the pit mouth upon the honk
and ask* the whole of the surrounding bead:
fogo. Portemakely, the, IseadNearing was uninjured,
amid ascend wa, who volunteered to search for the
movltpospin were speedily let down the shaft. Twelve
pawns wen found in the pit. The whole of the work.
pmois had sot arrived at their work, or s much Ismer
aramikeft would have wen down. Four of the number were
load whoa boad. their eseFast being dreadfully mutilated.
The Mk a hey, awned Job* Houghton, wits nave, bat kis
mant:ligettra, and his holy was prnetrattd with a
llentha at handle, nine inches Wee, and about one inch
sad • haltdiamosse, the lone of the eaplosion having nearly
buried this blast isetresse .tin the poor bey'. bony. It was
'stewed by Mr 'hideosity, moron, but he did wit survive
by injuries sore than an hear-and.a t.alf. Thenther paving
IMO Mellor lees 'injured. No time was lost in *xtricating the
mobile ef the weans 170111 the mine. This pit brow was a
mew of lademlibable woe. as the WiTt a saw their dead has.
book and went' saw their dead ehildren, brought out of
the Wm. The following is a list of the killed and wounded.
J Asheroft, 49, left a wire and six ehildrea; R.
Goulding, 31, left • wife and chill; W. Hampeon, 13, a
drawer; J. T'ippl 13, a drawcr ;J. Houghton, 13. a
drawer. Smith* liajan-d : B. Tickle, late of Wigan, 25,
wife salts. children ; 3.0 , 3i, very seemly burned ;
M. Wilk wife sad the.e ehild,en residing at Heywood; T.
DiLlogritired Tattoo. Logue% on the Wilke were
owealag.
wseireular.

• 11.M0.11/1.•
CHARTISM AT BRADTORD.—This town has been
WSW, trangall sines the capture cf James Helliwell and
elaht or Mille ahem at the " Emmett s-ction" room, in Vie.
• folereleastoa the sight of Widnosdiy, the 23rd ult. These
=SO Ie haw given the death. blow to chording in
Ilig dMsiatr as Isom tar • time ; and, indeed, this stew to
belie splodge as She party, fee one of their 'toilets, who is
Metes es Moe isms la the receipt of twa guineas a w•sk fur
owdem Me smasher ago " imi.roved" the " death of
assethwr hy • home to witch th public wore invited by
a pass ginned losadnit a bLwAt border ! The }lssuers are
tele Imethea *mambate-del.
WARWICKSHIRE.
DOMED IffOrnal.t.nas' Paarscnom ASSOCIA-
-1011/o.—Wilmsaw, mosibere of tLe liirmiagham breach
MOM, inallignies ild their annual dinner is that town. In
Am eddy poet of the day lir. Ald. Phillips laid the founds-
Mensisem of as swim tor aged and decayed masher of the
sonsilinn wish mash ceremony. in the pesernee of Mr.
MAW" M.P.. est
Dwag a Was consomme of perions. Co
of
f7rMeese, Murray Adgertiser, end one or t Cwo lead
Jim&
aftswere delimited in a cavil in the hundatioa. The
haw his te the Blisabethnn style : It will eon.
sit of els bosomrid will forst altogether an impcsing
stisstsrs. la the maks; the members of the association
sad their invade dined together at the Vauxhall Tavern,
ander the protideney of C. Challt 13- the mayor.
THIS NSW ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATE, Dr. Ulla-
thorns, was enthroned is St. Chad'. Cathedral, at Binning.
ham, os Wednesday, us bishop of the new Roman catholic
sheers of Birmingham, in smordasre with the rescript m-
eshed het week from Pin. 11.

CoiturfTSL or Tars; —Burns FOS MUSD'S
Yesterday, at tit. Alben's Dennis Satiny, Thomu Sweeoy,
Michael fieresey, and Thomas lladi.m, were charged who
the wilful lased. rof Edward Swaine. It may be remess-
. bend that guessed wan killed dun., a riot in a public.
less, where seine Esslingen were attacked by a number
of Iri•k reapers. The magistrates determined on committing
tho four prasesors for tail on its capital charge.
miasmas
A STEAMER WAS LAUNCH= on Wednesday, Bun
the buildiag-yard of the Mows White, of Cowes, amidst
• the cheers of numerous spectators. Tills reamed was, we hear,
originally built for the Peninsular sail Oriental Steam COW
any's service, but owing to elreuestanees has now been
mold to the Sicilian poverameut. She ki named the Inde-
pendence, and will be tespl.yett as a war-st. emu.
oLoucistlit,:mas.
Tea RSPIISSENTATIOS OF CIIELTINUAH.—A meet-
ing of the friend. of Mr. Grenville Lennox Berkeley, the
literal candidate fir the representation of Cheltenham. was
held on Wednesday, in a spacious meadow, at Keys/ham.
bank, near Chen. nham. Mr. T. H enemy, a Usgiewste of the
sounty, is the chair. Mr. Craven Berkeley, ex./lumber for
Meat la, explained that he had called the useetieg is pu-
mice of a promise that be had made to introduce to them ne
gentleman he nod eau cd as a eanilidate, and to hear an unix
eittioa of his political priomples. His cousin, Mr. Oreuvilte
. Berkeley, woe the peewit trimmed him in the representation
daring the tempoarry, s.d, he hoped. short time, that bea
spike) was held to be disqualified by the nest
Ilsceies that any let of swot ever pawed. blr.
Q. Berkeley obsened that in caning haws than
• oak for their suffrages he pledged himself, ea ths
weed of • gen&eau and a nun, that when the poinsettia
termisatiJ er Mr. Craven Berkeley was 'gal in a position
to repremat them, he won:d retina the trust into their
hands Ile had been a liberal, wee then a fibers], and
hoped to die • lilr raL He nee:ared hinrelf in favour
of fru-trade earned out to its fullest extent—
:resat ballot—ea exteosion of the suffrage, the
g of pulauseste, removal of the Jewish din.
•
Wiles, ea equalisation of tax ttion, sad abolition of
skunk wee. it was resolved, " That the straightforward
vsy Is which Mr. G. Berkeley had announced his
• p slid pelt tapirs was empty sufficient to show that It• is
a It ton present the town, and the meeting pledged
• to Ire Os beet enilesvaurs to wenn She mem.' Mr. B.
EMU, tormerly member for Winchester, is expected to
gene ferward in the conservative interest.
A FRIULI Botts DM:Evelio' Leslie, otherwise
Mlesik settee wise Villiers wee about two ye in since tried
WI the Weed See lone for having fraudulently obtained a
• pine eon Mr. Cultism which she shortly af.erwards eo:d
st helkwies. She wan tiles arAuitted, end some time after
meg* to °imam. r when the same perms, whose real
sass Is Villiers, ban been brought up in the custody of the
vim before the city magistrates, charged with having
esocosl art elm of wearing 'ppm!, under false pet-
• lam, into Hes. Hewett, staymaker, of Southesilmstrest•
• A peat deal of lemma app and to te manifested by • large
111111MbIR of automata to hear the examination, many of
' Ikea bowleg been the elapse of the prisoner to a greater
ormailzgares. Tbe eiresnetasees of ate cue will be better
If we detail theft to the hOM of a brief
; sworlithe. About a month sines the prisoner west to the
MAIM gins limey, Idle keels Ike Nadeau &heel as

Berkeley, and a presented that she was ht ribber, be %heti.'
she hoped in • law :aye to obal.itt. Shoal .n as i turtirif la I
the county gaol at Otosseemer. Mho Mosey, who bad bees
acquainted with the fam•ly of the *Amer Ate morel yews,
Immediately allow. d her to reside at heehaw. sad she yr
Maimed there until Saturday week lest,
whoa she went out
ea as email for her hombres, tekieg with her it Bab girl
who lived with that lady. Instead of reteru%et,
however, she went to the railway station, sad cased W.
Ivey, the Meth, fee a relent taket for 01011111SUlf sayieg
that MIN Noisy would pay Ire it. Mt Ivey, begot we
IbilkStiatlld with Miss Mogey, gave dm primmer the
sad the left fa tee nest train, alter keying seat the
little girl bask win to Berkeley. Tlss ssspietoae of Mies
Mew, wow aroused ott hearing of this, and oa examialeg
her drawees she foetid that Mee or tea artistes of
apparel were Wiring. In the train the primmer sic=l
to serape up an acquaintance with a person who, on arriving
to Gleaseester, secompsnied her to Dawes's soffewhouse, sad
requested Mr. Dawes, to whom he was keown, to pay the
greatest w tent on to the I .sly. Os the warner:is of the Sow
day lallowilig a My. Wittr.m. an acquaintance of Mr.
Dawes, called at the house, and Mr. Dawes, seeing that the
prisoner appeared lonely, kindly introduced Mrs. Witham to
Her, end they walked out together. In the 0011110 of the
at, ernoon the prisoner represented herself as being about to
be married, awl mounted Mrs. Witham's advice as to her
choice of tradesmt n, expreseing her determination to reside
in Gloomier. The result 01 this was that the shop of Mr.
was mom ended for dtesses, and the next day
the primmer traded epora Idr. Foxwell in company with Mn.
Witham, and made choice of an acwranent of dreams. This
wee foUoced by an err. r to Mr. Stratford, cabinet. maker, Mr
Watts, tarnishing ironmonger, Mr. Isolate, perfumer, sad
several ether purely, ; iudet.d we believe orders to the ex
tent of more than true thousand pounds were given to the
various tradesmen in Gloucester. • house Ins taken by the
prisoner is the Spa, to which the tnings ordered were to be
seat, sad the pri,oner was to have powession on Saturday,
but asadeposit of 404. was required, sod the money not being
forthooeung, she had never had the keys. She tweeted to a
gentleman in Dublin, but on being written to no such person
could be found, and this, c-uottal with other circurestanom,
led to her arm hensiow A pair of gloves was found in her
roma" w hub Mr. Foxwell alleges were stolen from his
shop, and alto a quantity of papers which throw some light
on her history. cud show that she is related to some bightl
respectable lamina is that neighbourhood. As the felony at
&amity was the dearest case aroma her, she was herded
over to the county magatestee, rind by them committed to
the sessions.

CLERICAL.
P aaaaaa rot —Bev. W lloyes. to Bt. Potreo Elwortb
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NAVAL.

Wommtos, Aro. et-sloop, was decked
yethnlay to kV* ter d. feels wade food.—Advics, Lieut..than.
e„ A. Path, end the Ads ice, a-v., Aettog Mager-Cam. J. IlAnnound,
ban reliantly • spluytti .0 the with muter at renthethe, will be paid
~f on lioharday. • Itoullnk, ,•.t.onnty, launched on tiatwday la to
be towed op to tho knot hallo Ducks this a.ternews, to have her ma-
'blowy Stied.