The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-06 00:00:00

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Ean:arsiu, Oct 4.
Mr. Kay Shattleworth is expected in Edinburgh
this week, but on what precise educational miasien he
visits the north has not yet transpired. Were lie to
convene a congress of Scotch educationist. the discre-
pancy of their opinions would surprise him, for iota
the preses of the parochial schoolmasters, who adds
the pariah schools consolidated as props of the chin*
down to Mr. William Chambers, who wishes dim
annihilated as ecclesiastical adjuncts, all kinds AI
opinions will be found prevailing intermediately be-
' tween these two extreme points, and it were perhapa
well were Mr. Shuttleworth to avail himself of the
means of inquiry with which his visit will furnisl• him.
True to the information long ago furnished by, the
Roman correspondent of the Ezpresg, the llev.
Alexander Smith, of Airdrie, was yesterday con
crated coadjutor to Bishop Murdoch, of °lmago% v.
There was a large attendance of priests from all guar •
ters, and the ceremony excited considerable interest.
Edinburgh is at length to erect a new fever
hospital. All the suburban boards have been con-
sul ted, and with the exception of a delegate from
the board of St. Cuthbert's, who seemed to think
that ,as the Caledonian railway required to knock
down tilt. Cuthbert's Hospital, a new and improved
edifice ,a•ould be given in lieu, which would exonerate
that parish from all necessity in co-operating for the
immediate star. of the epidemic. The parochial divi-
sions of tow.'s is one of the greatest nuisances of the
day. Here is a sensible citizen laying the flattering
unction to his soul that he is doing all that in him
lies for thwarting! fever, because some months hence
accommodation will be provided for patients drawn
from certain arbitra,7 divisions of a crowded city.
One side of a street is in St. Cuthbert's, the other in
Edinburgh Proper; the St. Cuthbert patients are car-
ried off to infirmary wails, bat it does not seem to
occur to the authorities of that parish that if fever
rages on the other side of the kennel, their vocation
is likely to be somewhat permanent. At whatever
cost, those foolish lines of city demarcation should be
abolished as soon as poesible, and a complete assimila-
tion effected dell municipal cal and ecclesiastical
burdens. In Paisley, as in Edinburgh, fever is dis-
tressingly prevalent.

account fur his lordship's haste to leave Campbelton
without waiting fur the jury at the late CiltUit.
IMPROVEMENT.—In the cornyard of the farm at Petty,
Morayshire, there are 101 stacks of corn, each stack averag-
ing 13 quarters of grain. List year there were only 88
stacks in this yard, and of a much small, r size. About 30
years ago the farm was tenanted by a number of small
cottars, and their whole produce would scarcely average 10
small stacks.

PROVINCIAL.
YORKSHIRE.

A GREAT CALAMITY OCCURRED AT REIDeIII 011
Sa-
turday, involving the almost total destruction of the newly.
erected promenade-room, and also the goods office, at the
railway terminus. The goods office, at a cost of not legs than
2,000 L was rapidly approaching completion, when it was
visited a fir,, which, it is feared, will render its being
taken entirely down a matter of necessity. The workmen
employed upon the building left it, sensual, at twelve o'clock
is go to their dinners, and within a gun ter of an hour the
alarm was given. It is an extraordinary fact that in
ltedcar no fire-engine is kept. The consequence war that
in leas than an hour the interior of the building was nearly all
destroyed, the roof having fallen in, and there being nothing
but the walls left standing, so that en engine, which was
sent for from Stockton, arrived only in time to play upon
the burning rafters, thus preventing the fire from extending
to the station. The origin of the fire is a matter of specula-
tion. It seems, how,vir, that some of the workmen were
using an open fire-grate upon the balcony of the large room,
and it is generally supposed that a spark or cinder had fallen.
Oao poor man, whilst assisting in the endeavour to cane-
tinguish the fire, fell through a window front the top of the
premises into the station, and broke his arm, and was other-
wise seriously injured.
FATAL STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION.-1n the after-
noon of Monday, just as the workmen employed at the
works of Means. Smith, Beacoek, and Tannett, machine-
makers and iron-founders, called the Victoria Foundry, in
Water-lane, L,ede, were about to resume work after dinner,
their labours were interrupted by the explosion or blowing
away, with a loud rumbling noise, of one of the steam engine
boilers. The boiler-house, which was fitted up with two
boilers, for the working of an engine of about sixteen-horse
power, was completely levelled with the ground, and the
boiler which bunt was blown over an adjacent building
from fifteen to twenty yards high, to a distance of about
thirty yards from its bed. The adjacent boiler was alio blown
from its seat and turned upside down, with the ends
reversed, the engine itself bring almost wholly de-
stroyed, and the building over which the exploded
boiler was blown, considerably damaged iu its proven.
The engine-man, named J. Newton, was so severely injured,
that be died almost immediately. A girl, named Harrison,
about I I years of age, who win peening along a footway which
adjoins the external wall of the premises, and over which the
boiler was blown was so severely scalded, that she survived
the accident but a short time. A person named J. William-
son, who was employed in the works, was also so dreadfully
scalded that but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Three other persona also reecivi d some severe scalds and
Contusions- Owing to the death of the engine-man the
cause of the. accident will probably be never satisfactorily
determined. At present it is supposed to have been occa-
sioned kiy the engine-man having allowed the boiler to become
overb eated, from an insufficiency of water, and that when he
added water, on his return from dinner, the heat of the
b,iler generated steam too rapidly. It is estimated that the
damage done will amount to nearly 2.0001.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
A PUBLIC DINNER WAS GIVEN TO HENRY
MrreaLez, End., at North Shields, on Friday, as a mark
of respect for his services in parliament as the late member
for the borough of Tynemouth. Nearly eighty gentlemen
eat down on the occasion, the chair being occupied by
Robert Pow, Esq. The usual toasts were drunk, and Mr.
Mitcalfe's parliamentary course commented upon with con-
siderable approbation.
OXFORDSHIRE-

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE OXFORD, WORCESTER,
AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.—An accident, attended
with fatal consequences to a young man named George Ay-
land, happened on the works of the above line of railway at
Norton on Saturday, and has just formed the subject of a
coroner's inquest here. It happened that the deceased was
insisting a Samenetshire labourer named Henry Hooper to
" tip " the waggons on their arrival at a certain place where
their contents were lodged. While so engaged he tripped
and fell upon the rail, close in front of an advancing wag-
gon, which passed over his body, Riding him instAntanoou,ly.
The occurrence was witnessed by Hooper and another man
at work there, but before they could render the poor fellow
ay assistance the waggon had passed over hiss.—Verdict,
".6Accidental death."

KENT.
THE CASE OF DROWNING AT ROCIIESTER.-011 the
night of Saturday, the 4th of September, the body of a
young female woo observed floating in the river a short dis-
tance above Rochester-bridge. From circumstances which
have since transpired, it appears that her name wan Wise,
e.nd that she had been living with her brother, en eating-
'house-keeper in Fore-street, London. It would an in, from
a letter found in her box, that divappointment in her affec-
tions led to the fatal termination of her life. Beyond the
following letter, her frieads can assign no reason for this act
of self-destruction :
Monday, Aug. 30.—Mies Wise—l am sorry to inlbrm you that,
alter ulster ell things into serious onusideration, I hare made up my
mind to drop the acquaint:nee that has been between us; bat, at the
mune State, I shall sot forget your kindness to me dm nag the short
time we lwe known each...thee, sad if it ever lays In my punt. to
retina It I would do so with the greatest of pleasure, and should we
ever meet again n may be as Meads only. If you hare anything to
say, you eon write as ham., sad I will avower It.—Youra, respect-
fully, Aural. Koss..

JENNY LIND appearod at Exeter on Friday and
Saturday, reciting among the townspeople the enthusiiirm
which bee now become a matter of course. Tke prices of
admission to the sutwtription rooms were 11. IL, and
10s. 6d. Some espett thieves were busy in the throng on
the first OCCIIiOC, and several robberies were effected. One
.centlesan lost nearly 21., another 31. 10s., and a lady up-
wards of 1001. Certain parties, it is said, speculated to the
amount of 3001. worth of ticket, width they were ultinntely
glad to dispose dat 6s. each.

A LAMENTABL/SWVII.TLENCE took place at the
Dada Infirmary during the night of Funday last. About
a seek since, a man named John Roweliffe, • fly-driver by
trade, was brought to the house for treatment, labouring
under severe inflammation of the lungs. Towards the end
of last week hie mind showed symptoms of being affected.
On& aday his faculties wandered and in the middle of the
night he jumped out of bed and tried to make his escape
from*. ward. The night-nurse endeavoured to prevent
'aim, bat he escaped from her and ran into the passage. She
pursued him for some distance, and at length finding his
craarrested by the presence of an iron door, he ran
i:iin towards the staircase. The nurse made a second
effert Meteors him, seized him round the waist, and called
kv assistance, and two other nurses cams to her help, but
the poor follow broke from her again, rushed down stairs,
dashed through a window into the street. The house-
aurgools andothers were called up and hiutened outside the
buialiog, but they found him quite dead. A coroner's in-
quest esis held on the body, and the jury returned a verdict
that he dostmed himself whilst in a state of lunacy.