The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

P. Wood. Esq., Q. C., in the chair. Mr. Lin'Linton ,
said that his cannot was extremely satisfactory, and
left oa his mind sot the slightest doul:t of his success
All his personal applicatims were met by a hearty promise
of support. But while he was this cheered on he
adr
could not but runt the unworthy means by: an
opponent who, in his placards, declared that he Mr. Lash-
ingtonk was • state pensioner and that he h had some
connexion with the deposition Of the Rajah of Sattarah. Both
statements were false Ho was not a state pensioner, and
was not in India when the Rajah was deposed. Messrs.
Coppack, Haggett, and others having addreesed the meeting,
thirty gentlemen volunteered to devils the city of West-
minster into districts, and to commence forthwith a personal
and active canvass on behalf of Mr. Lushingtoa ; after
which, and a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting
separated.
IRISH bLMIGILATION INTO LONDON.—The impor-
stion of Irish pampers, So much complained of in Liverpool
and Glogow, begias to wear a threatening aspect in London.
On Sunday. the Prussian Eagle, from Cork, and the Lime-
rick. from Dublin, landed 1,200 Irish peupen at Alderman's-
stairs, Lower 13•4 Smithfield. The new comers, who were
in the most wretched state of distress, were forthwith distri-
buted over the eastern part of the metropolis. The same
vessel" landed 1,200 Irish paupers on Sunday week.
OeENING Or THE NEW HALL OF THE BRITISH
• "

Mcsgum.—Yesterday the new hell of the British Museum
was thrown open. The public instead of being admitted
at the side entrance on the west, now enter at the great gate,
and proceed across the new court-yard to the portico.
THE WOOLWICH CONVICTS.—The inquiry which
has been recently carried on at Woolwich, on board the
Juatitia and Warrior convict bulks, into the condition and
treatment of the prisoners, before Capt. J. Williams, the
commissioner appointed by government, Dr. C. M. Saving-
ton, the medical referee, and Thomas S. Duncombe, Bag
M.P., closed on Saturday evening. The comma &ion sat for
thirty days ; during which, more than a hundred witnesses
were examined, and the inquiry would have lasted for
two months longer had all the witnesses been examined
whom Mr. Duaromhe intended to call. Capt. Williams,
however, expressed his opinion that it was useless to carry '
the ismetigettion any further, as the evidence already pro-
duced had shown the whole system of management to be
radically bad, and that a complete change mast take place
before the establishment could be placed in a state of effici-
ency and order.
LOSS OP THE TWEED.—Yesterday, a meeting of
Merchants interested in the late melancholy loss of the
Tweed took place at the London Tavern, with the view of
raisins a subscription for the muter and crew of the Spanish
brig Emilio, by whose gallant and praiseworthy efforts so
many of the and crew of this ill-fated Teasel
escaped with trer Ills Mr. Pole took the chair. Amongst
those present were Mr. Baring, Captain Mangles, Captain
Chappell, R.N., and a number of merchants connected with
the trade of South America. A statement was made that her
Majesty's government had voted to Captain Camp a gold
medal and 6001.. the committee of Lloyd's a silver medal
to the captain, a bronze medal to the mate, Villaverde, and
201. to be divided amonnit the crew of the Emilio. The
Royal Mail Stuns-packet Company had voted 2001. to
Captain Camp, 1001. to the mate, and to the crew of the
Emilio 1601. A list of other subscriptions was also read, 1
which was greatly increased by the gentlemen present. A
committee of thirteen was then appointed to take charge of
the present and future subscriptions, and to apply them to
the objects intended. Amongst the committee we noticed
the names of Mr. Baring, Mr. A. Colville, Mr. Cotesworth,
Captain Mangles, Captain Sheppard, Mr. Price, and the
Mexican Consul. The business then concluded, and the
meshing seperated.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAT.—THE ALLEGED MURDER IN
Svarnnv.—The adjourned inquiry before Mr. William
Baker, wooer, tools. place at the Greve Maurice,
Whitechapel-road, respecting the death of William
Bridge, a painter, aged 64 years, whose death wan
on Sunday, the Ilth instant, from a rupture of the bladder,
alleged to have been occasioned by a female named Mary
Burns, in the Artichoke beer shop, Jubilee-street, Stepney,
as Thursday evening, the In instant. It was alleged by
three witnesses who were present during the affray that
the woman Barns stamped three times upon the deceased
while he was lying upon the floor, and that she had on a
pair of wooden clogs, with iron round the soles, at the
time she did se. The deceased afterwards complained of
severe pains in hit stomach, and was removed to the
London Hospital, where he expired on Sunday, the 11th
instant. A girl named Eleanor Helmer, sister to Burns,
rotated that several men in the tap-room were very much
ataxicated, and they commenced abusing the de-
mised, who wee eke drunk. Her Mater entered
the room and advised him to leave the house. One man
named Haynes struck her sister, and the deceased also
ntrack and kicked her. He was about to kick her again, and
be fell tideway' over a chair with great violence. She did
names her sister kick the deceased at all, and she was quite
certain her sister did not wear any clog boots that day. Jane
Stacey, of No. 3, Henry-street. Jubilee-street, Stepney,
stated that she was present during the altercation between
the deceased and Mary Berne. The deceased was sitting
in a chair, when Burns entered and endeavoured to eject
the old man from the house. She kicked him on the leg,
and then dragged him from his chair. He fell upon the
floor, end she stamped upon the lower part of his stomach.
Bhe was desired to desist, and she then left the room. In
answer to questions by the Cozener, the witness mid that
the female Holmes was not present during the affray, and
that Burns Old wear a pair acing boots. The Coroner then
summed up at great length, and the jury, after a short con-
sultation, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against
Mary Barns" The witnesses were then bound over to pro-
secute. Burns will be brought up before the magistrates at
liss Thames Police-court, on Thursday next, when she will
be fully committed to take her tri d for manslaughter.—
BODDISC DnArn.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Clayton
Arms, Kennington Oval, on the body of Mr. Robert Arnett,
aced 70, master carpenter of her Majesty's dockyard, at
. Deceased wee on a visit to his son-in-law. On
iiiitit
Ise had been out in the forenoon, and appeared in his
meal . In the evening, about seven o'clock, he was
lbeeltriesis his back quite dead. A surgeon was sent foe, but
it was aft avail. Mr. Arnott's son stated that his father bad
MIS mis Or • change of air, and he thought he had been
dedias. Verdict, " Natural death."—DlAVE Or Ma-
An Aussuovoan M'Anntua. Before Mr. Bedford, at
the Yorkshire Grey Tavern, Piccadilly, on the body of
=Alexander ll'Arthur, lately resident at No. 6,
Picnadilly.—Mr. Palomar, physician, of 23, Nor-
IbillteMatiet, Strand, had examined the body externally an
SMerday, sad meandered that death arose from ungestion
of iles brain.--May Anne Young, deceased's housekeeper
am bar master es Friday morning, when be was in hi;
mad ants of ben*, sad at a quarter past II that night he
of mans biesdp ;ma water, d shortly after retired
rliteted-reens. an
drag a little of the cold, bat seemed
r," used
iringt the next mornie
morning, at about
hobed,
dead.-111r..-Peitgrow, the sursese, of Saville-row,
edam by, was istandierely called in, whir made on en-
amel mandesties of the body , _ sad fie/ieg the minim
parties et the beds. math daserieswel, wed edam speser•
swum he task men him& to webespest manse womies-
eke, Masai smile to do so from the Gomm sr the friend.
of the deceased. • kwg convention task nem epee the
/abject, is whisk tisa Sartmar expressed in *mg toms his
of the mane Mr. Peir led permed ;
=l7:' such a prinks were telsrskr4 the tads of Janke
might rag seedy be delbated, isammek se my seeps
might mats slat mewls, anwiletisa, end thus &any
the moutons of tits dsmasit is die event of it contaialeg
anything at • deismiese aseaster. Mr. Petrignsw this '
pre a Ileemel meimet of Me examinaties he had rode,
and Mier diellt was the meek of a rapi
e
r
s of the maw
miry artier, sof that ikree all Me as& man
have bees about bratesteemea. l=emiewlei Met
kis elpaet la mann the saamisnisa wee te made lb" to
give peeper knimmy at As premet *sky as to the it
One mons stdereh. The tarp et lea retwesed a milist
of "Ifaewel desik."—Sarreees Simms mock LON-
nos-sausas.—By niewreasear, beim Mr. W. Payne,
at St. Mapes' Vestry Lemnos-belie,
eepocti Um
mmysteries' dank of Aran Orititba, 36, late
=Mein if the Welke; if Olesseeter, who was
aappesel le lave mmeekted mink by lespisi from the
=et Abed twelve months aim
be Meth ben hie situates as pasaaa .at
the Waliehend had elites beau mesh steal seed ia einem
Masers. Oa Tuesday last he left the Waimea% Arms,
Pickle Ilambeastre he had with him a mane-beg con-
WM* darns, std he alterwards called at the Whim-Lion,
=am" whisk be left beers 11 Orient peneetly sober.
alorarille a Isnipat. who send set Meek Baikal,
%tin aim to
by the plasma es duty ea imam
ktimenag sips theta mm bed jumped from as
lehe the river ; area was this male far the body
wittiest Abet. bat the deemmed's hat asd esaembeg Ohms
identified) Wen host Ileeny and the Plena/ rearakte,
Wedsqlesbest 7 o'clock, Me be 4 et meared Ille Owed
Wes is the mud, with the Om dewsweek, at the
WSW of LOINSWItISiIe, at the sity side etiandes-bridge.
A peeketbeek asilseme da were in hie pockets, bat
so mosey. Maw sid die mfesemslaar the jury retained a
verdict of " need derma. bat whether by snidest ar mot
than was me ovideme to chow."

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Arau. 18.
Private letters from Connaught state that no efforts
are being made by the landlords to give effect to the
Temporary Relief Act. The government inspectors
are tieing their duty, but find no support tram the
landed proprietors. Refusals, delays, mathua of
every kind are resorted to to withhold relief midmost
the " calamity" of a rate. The west is uncultivated.
bossism the landed proprietors are unwilling If
gamble to assist their tensatry. Government mat.
MOO aad seed depots were the great desideratum Ise
oaltivation ; goesensteat wary and legislative Mkt,
were the mammas, the hada.
A airct hos been Woad bat the War Odes to
the staff °Moms of pettiness. It calla their atten-
tion to a circular of the Newcastle Pensimers
(Limerick) suggesting a sabaaription in behalf of a
gesithassa unnamed, whom the Lanark Chronicle
says is set Major Loynd. The circular state, that
4. se individual is due the merit of remitting the
=fa on pensions, which bas excited the grafi-
the Newcastle pensioners in behalf of the
• gsatlemea in blank," but to the kindness of the go-
vernment. Influenced by the Secretary at War, as wall
" the general good condom of the pensimen them-
selves, and the readiness they have orpreonsd m isP
481161110011 to perform their duties."

As an instance of the looseness with which persons
are placed upon the relief lists as destitute, I may
mention that the list placed before the finance com-
mittee, at Limerick, for one parish, contained 2,900
names, and was reduced to 657 ; in a county pariah
750 names were put upon the list, but, upon investiga-
tion, it was reduced to BO.

Soictuz.—A gentleman mimeo Fallon, a surgeon, com-
mitted suicide by shooting himself through the had, at the
Northumberland Hotel, in this city, yesterday. It is said
the nthappy gentleman was moved to this act by disap-
pointed love.
STATE or TIIII COUNTILY.—The principal intelligence
from the provinces, to-day, is received through the Linn rick
paper, and is by no means of a peaceful or pleasant cha-
racter. Outrages are perpetrated both in the day and in the
night,—most generally successfully, but one recorded to-day
has happened far otherwise. On Wednesday right en
armed party appeared before the dowse of a man named
Crowe,• tenant on the agate of Lord Stanley, at Cappamore,
on the borders of Limerick and Tipperary. Having
made their appearance, Crowe asked what they
wanted, to which they replied, " Arms ;" and he
rejoined: "Yon meet have them." Crowe proceeded to his
room, as they supposed, to set the arms, sad hand them
out ; he, however, only retired a little to load two guns, one
of which he handed to his sorvant. Both then approached',
a window, andCrowe asked- "Are you there, boys ?" " Yes ;"
was the reply; uponwhich Crowe end his servant fired in the
direction whence voices where heard, and each shot took
effect. Thu one fired by Crowe was fatal to a man nomad
Pindy ; that fired by the servant to one named klieg -raid.
Having fired, both master and man rushed out, and the
remaining assailants, two in number, ran away. Fitzgerald
WY given into custody of the police, and has been recognised
as an old offender.—There are other censor outrage recorded
in Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary. In one instance, a far-
mer's house was attacked, robbed of a gun, and, it being
day-time, they insisted on having dinner prepared for them,
waited while it was being cooked, partook of it and departed.
In another case a conspiracy was discovered for the murder
and robbery of a pay-clerk, and one of the conspirators, a
man named Meany, has been committed. In another in-
stance it is recorded that a small 'hooker, flour-laden, was
plundered in the river Fergus on Tuesday last.—The church
of Kilaseedy, county Limerick, was broken into& few nights
since, and a ton amen' deposited there was stolen.
SCOTLAYD.
EDINBURGH, Aram 17.
The sentiments expressed by the Rev. Mr. Guthrie
at the meeting of the Edinburgh Free Church Pres-
bytery, noticed in my yesterday's letter, are sub-
stantially those of the great body of the laity of that
church, who appear surprised as well as vexed at the
result of the vote in the synod of Glasgow and Ayr.
At the recent re-election of Mr. Macaulay, some of
the leading lay members of the body deemed it ne-
c to disavow all connexion with his opponents,
aenscririthe clerical hostility to the education scheme
goes much farther, the laity will most likely be again
compelled to speak out, which they will do if driven
to it, more emphatically than they cid on the occa-
sion referred to. Much of the vacillation in the Free
Church has arisen from the interminable dissertations
in the Witness and Scottish Guardian, the leading
newspaper organs of the party. Had the former
spoken out boldly at that, or would it even yet avow
explicitly, the predilection for the measure which it
obviously entertains, the decision of the general as-
sembly would be materially influenced ; but as Carlyle
says of the age, " it has no faith, and yet dares not be
infidel," so the organ of the Free Church continues
" infirm of purpose." The presbytery discussion
brought out that the members had been communicat-
ing with the Lord Advocate on the probable bearings
of the measure so far as Scotland is concerned ; and
it seems that, with the exception of some alight modi-
fications to adapt it more nicely for operation in Scot-
land, the essential features are to be the same; but
the present endowments of the parochial schools are
not to be reckoned equivalent to the voluntary funds
raised for other schools, so as to entitle the former to
the proposed government grants. Connected with
this subject, the statement made to Lord J. Russell,
by the Free Church party, regarding the chapels
erected by subscription before the disruption of the
Church of Scotland, may be briefly referred to. )his
document declares that the number of places of wor-
ship so erected amounts to 173 ; and that by far the
largest share of their expense (30.5,7471. 11a 2id.) '
was contributed by the seceders. Messrs. Macaulay
and Craig having declined to support the prayer of
the Edinburgh anti-petition, its presentation has been
entrusted to Nfr. Bright.
The late storm produced disastrous effects in Wick
and the more northern districts of Scotland. It raged
there with destructive fury for about thirty hours.
At Wick, a Glasgow brig was wrecked, and five of
the crew perished, the mate having effected an extra-
ordinary escape by climbing up an almost perpendi-
cular precipice, nearly 300 feet high. A less fortunate
companion was washed down, when the perilous
anent was half accomplished. The Wellesley, of
Shields, is said to be lost with all hands, so is also the
Lesdbetter, and it is suspected with an equally me-
lancholy result. Three vessels are also on shore on
the west coast of Sutherland; crews saved. At In-
verness six men have been lost in a fishing boat; and
as the fragments of wrecks are numerous, the full
extent of the casualties cannot yet be ascertained.
The weather, which has for some time past been
cold and bleak, so as to arrest,wegetation, changed
lag night for the better, and we have had since then
a soft steady shower, which, promising to be followed
by hest exercise a most beneficial influence on
the crops.

THB ST. ANDRIW'S CHAIR or NATURAL PRILOROPHT
AND Ma. AD*llll.—The united colleges of Bt. Seimam., St.
Leonard, and St Andrew's. have offered their vacant chair of
natural philosophy to lit. J. C. Adams, Fellow of fit. John's
College, Cambridge, the celebrated theoretical discoverer of
the new planet Neptune. We understand that there are ten
or twelve candidates for this chair.

PROVINCIAL.
EDOCUTION.—A NEZTIA 0 took place at Coventry, on
Friday, to discuss the government plan of education. It
was held in Sc. Mary's-hall, which was crowded in every
part. T. Cope, Seq , one of the magistrates of this city, was
in the chair, and by his fineness and impartiality secured for
bedt pude* a fair hearing. The business of the meeting
emeeered by reading the shiestm of the couacil, after
thee the fellowiee rmolutice was proposed by C. Bray, Eq.,
ead esseshist by Ur D. Buckney :
Paserwri—rtist this meeting wisdom to learn that the romniment
,Iblespipimpsersol with the duty of aiding the mammy means of
*Ogg a onnml morel end intellectual Macedon to the Wldrim of an
damn of re psylq without regard to creed, sect, or petty, as peo-
pled it the eduetee of the caousittee of the privy council.
This neoletion, after lour hours' debate was carried
amidst loud cheering.

A MIMING or PARI74IIsTAVOURABLI TO TUN °OVERD-
O:INT Scants OP EDUCATION WAS held on Thundsy at
Plymouth. The meeting, notwithstanding the notice (or
holding it was not put oat before Wedaseday, was nume-
rously and most respectably attended, and a petition to par.
liament was agreed to.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF 11178ICIANIL—The one hun-
dred and ninth anniversary festival of this old and most
valuable eseimety was held yesterday in Freemaaons'
Lord Bahasa was In the chair, and shout 170 gentlemen,
including may et the most eminent profeasionat 11141416;111
and eineeerrheet*we

—Thaisble WasTiMst filled ihe chair with his usual
cordial menseig; mat, on his health being proposed
by Mr. Henley, sod drank with cheers, expressed the
warmest Interne in the welfare of the institution. Among
the pieces ameba
zt :I.
performed were Henley's beautiful glee,
" Come Geode yr ;" Knight's ballad, " The Soldier's
Daughter," meg Miss M. Williams ~ Spofforth's five-
part glee, " Coma May ;" and Pasta's madrigal,
Down in • Ifieneery Vii.." &sham sang one of his
spirit-stirring dram it hear yeses, and wits rewired with
tranaports of analtniatim. A large amount of subscriptions
aid ilenaliams mu announced; and the whole proceedings
et dm wean mew rattling, as showing the Mall growing
INIOUIMIS sail•ltaiwasy of du assist,.