The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-12 00:00:00

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ful, and talk about " hostility and persecution." Verily,
this is as bad as " Godless colleges." We are confident, how
ever, that political animus must have its influence in pro-
ducing such wayward behaviour.
PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
CURIOUS DISCOVERY or A ROBBERY.—At Liverpool, on
Friday, Samuel Hickey, • sailor, was charged with having
stolen a purse containing 581. 10i. the property of H. J.
Royal, half-pay captain, formerly of 60th foot. The pro-
secutor stated that he was a passenger from Quebec, on board
the Louisa. In the storm of the 19th, 20th, and 21st of
September, while off the banks of Newfoundland, the ship
was dismasted and rendered unmanageable. Her pitching
was so violent, that every thing of a moveable nature was
sent flying in all directions--his trunk among the rest;
and which, he said, was sent to and fro along the cabin like
a weaver's shuttle, until it was broken to pieces, and the
contents strewed about the floor. The most valuable portion
of the pr ,petty—a small black silk bag, tied with a piece of
shoe tape, and containing 581. 10s., which he had deposited
in his trunk for safety, could not be found, although he
publicly, there and then, offered • reward of ten pounds to
any man who would produce it. On the 22nd the barque
Lord Sandon fell in with the Louisa, and took off the captain,
passengers, and crew, arriving in Liverpool on Wednesday
night last. Thursday afternoon he (the prosecutor)
went on board the Lord Sandon, to look after the remnant
of hie property, when a policeman asked him if he had lost •
purse, containing money, during his passage across the At-
lantic. He replied that he had, and was then taken to the
Bridewell, where he was shown the purse and the prisoner.
He at once identified the latter as one of the sailors of the
Louisa at the time of her wreck, and also the purse as the
one he had lost. The purse, when taken from the prisoner
(who had merely been taken into custody for drunkenness),
by the Bridewell keeper, contained 521. lt—Committed fur
trial.
SUPERSTITION AND CRUELTY IN 1846 !—William Tom-
linson, farmer, and Geo. Haworth, carter, both of Oswald-
twisle, and John Garden, of the Guide, farmer, were charged
at the Haslingden petty sessions last week, by William
Hindle, with having committed a most violent and unpro-
voked attack and assault upon him, on the 21st September
last It appears that Hindle, by some ignorant persons, is
considered ' a witch." Hindle happened to be in the Black
Dog pablic.house, in Oswaldtwisle, on the 28th of September
last, where the defendants, were. Garsden, on seeing Hindle,
asked him if he was not a witch, and immediately jumped
upon Hindle's belly, and swore that he would put his brains
together, and finish him. Hindle then left the house, when
Haworth came after him and pulled him back, and kicked
him severely, and tore his clothes. Tomlinson swore he
would kill Hindle, and stuck his fingers into Hindle's eyes,
and said he would tear them out, and afterwards kicked and
struck him severely. The defendants called Hindle's brother,
w'io, they said, would give the complainant a bad character.
Bindle's brother said that he had heard. and believed it to be
true, that his brother could witch ; and that if he went into a
ahippon where there were several cows, by touching one of
them he could witch the whole, and make them unwell. The
defendants were fined 21. and costs.
STOLEN PROPERTY CLAIMED BY A Tniay.—At Liverpool
on Friday an elderly man, named Monaghan, was
charged with having stolen a hogshead. It appeared that
Peter Ticle, clerk to Mr. Taylor, a coal-merchant, observed
the prisoner iu the act of rolling the hogshead away. Having
seen the same tub in Tyrer and Glover's yard, he had the
prisoner apprehended. It was the fourth time Monaghan
had made an attempt to steal the same hogshead. Prisoner:
" No; it's not the fourth time—its only the third, and I
think, when I suffered • month for it before, I ought to have
some claim to it now." (Laughter.) Mr. Rushton : " You
ought to know that stealing it before gives you no claim to
it now." Prisoner (scratching his head, and looking inno-
cently): "I thought it did, sir:" (Laughter.) Ile was
committed for trial.
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APPREHENSION OP A RUNAWAY CLERK.—On Saturday
se'nnigkt, Joseph Clay, of Cheetham-hill, clerk, at a salary
of 2001. a.ycar, to Messrs. Schuster and Co., near Man-
chester, not appearing at the office on Monday and Tuesday,
suspicion was excited on its being ascertained that he had
drawn at the bank in the name of his employers, but without
their consent, 4051. The police were despatched in pursuit,
and he was arrested in Liverpool, having taken his
to America, under the name of Johnson, in a vessel=
should have sailed on Sunday, but was delayed.

GLOCCES rkaism RE.
THE FL NERAL OP COL. LORD JOHN SostmlazT took
place in Bristol Cathedral on Friday. Immediately preced-
ing the coffin walked the Serjeant Major of the district, hav-
ing at his side the sword which le rd John wore at the battle
of Waterloo. The coffin was borne by eight serjeants, some
of whom had the decorations on their breasts which indicated
that they also had served with the deceased attlie memorable
battle.
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TILE PORT or BRISTOL.—A correspondent has favoured
us with a tabular statement, extending from the year IEO6
to 1846, inclusive, of the tonnage rates, and the rates on
goods, paid in Bristol, in disproof of certain statements which
appeared in a report in our journal on the 7th instant,
indicative of a great and growing decay in the trade of that
port. It must be observed that the report in question was,
and professed to be no more, than a notice faithfully abridged
from one of the Bristol papers of the proceedings at a public
meeting there, at which many leading merchants,
bankers, and members of the Corporation were pre-
sent. For the correctness of the facts stated by the
various speakers we cannot, therefore, he held responsible
further than as to the fidelity of our transcript from the
report. Our correspondent would have done well to have
attended on the occasion, when, with his figures in hand,
he might better have rebutted the assertions made. The
table transmitted, (which is much too long for insertion),
undoubtedly shows a great increase in the trade of Bristol,
as between the two extreme points, but for terms of years
successively that trade was painfully stationary, as the table
demonstrates. But progress is comparative as well as posi-
tive. To form a proper judgment, it would be necessary to
collate with his returns those of other ports, such as London,
Liverpool, Glasgow, Hull, &e. His figures, too, on proper
dissection by skilled hands in Bristol, might be explained
into different or qualified results. We may just state that
his table gives a total aggregate receipt of tonnage and
goods rates, for 1806, of 11,3°31., which had progressed to
29,6841. in 1846, the years in each case ending with the 30th
of April, although rtes were remitted in 1831 and since,
to the amount of from 8001. to 1,0001. a year.

DURHAM.
POBT.OPFICE Ws.' s.—The Gateshead Observer thus
states the complaintsof some good folks in the north : " Sun-
derland wants a post-office .—the only place it now has
appropriated to the whole of its post-office business, is a
room about 18 by 15 feet, in a dwelling-house--the other
portion of which is occupied by the post-mistress. It wants
a post-master :—the lady who is presumed to superintend
the extensive business of the office is far advanced in years,
and ought to be placed on a comfortable retiring pension.
It wants a more efficient establishment in every respect—a
distinct department for money orders, constantly accessible,
from 9 till 6. At present the money order office opens
at 9—closes at 104 on the arrival of the south mail—opens
again at a little past 1 l—closes for the making up of the north
mail at 11—opens again, for half-an-hour, sup
o It then
closes for the south mail—reopens at 34—and remains open till
about 41. It is then dosed again for half-an-hour, when it
opens a little past 5 till 6 o'clock. A pretty amount of accommo-
dation for the " greatest shipbuilding place in the world ! "
" the fourth post in the kingdom ! " a borough represented
by the -' Railway King," and possessing a population of
nearly 60,000 inhabitants! Sunderland also wants earlier'
arrivals and later despatches. The first south mail is nearly
f'A hours in reaching Sunderland from London. It sleeps
all night at Newcastle. It comes with news which is no
news, because 12 hours stale—the " rail " bringing the daily
papers the night previous, ready for every gentleman's
dinner, tea, or supper table, as he may be a late or early
diner. Sunderland wants the circumbendibus system of
post-office travelling to Hartlepool and Stockton reformed;
so that, instead of on the third day, as at present, letters may
be answered from these places os the same (or, at furthest,
the second) day. Why not? Why should there not be a
morning despatch to York, Leeds, Manchester, and Liver-
pool, so that letters might arrive and be delivered the same
day, and answers if necessary, returned the following day?

RAILWAY FARES AND CHARGES FOR PARCELS.—There
arc many anomalies in the rates for passengers and goods
charged by railway companies. Frequent comparisons are
made of the fares of the Hudsonian Lines," and those of
other companies, and the charges of the London and Bir-
mingham Company are often quoted, to the prejudice of the
Midlands. But there is one fact which is against the
favoured company, their charge for light parcels (not ex-
ceeding 141b5.), from London to Leicester, is Is. 3d. Of
this amount the London and Birmingham take ls., and the
Leicester agent takes twopence for delivery, thus leaving
the Midland Company one penny for twenty miles' comae,
and the trouble of keeping accounts ; and to attend to We
work, clerks are engaged day and night. To keep up a
monopoly of this traffic, it is so arranged that parcels con-
signed to the railway. carriers, cannot he delivered till the
second day, or we might get parcels of 501bs. for Is. There
is no doubt that the London and Birmingham Company
could convey them for half the present charges, and pt
ample profits.
NORFfiLh.
A Sysrms or QUACKERY has just been exposed in this
county. About six weeks since Mr. Myhill, farmer,
Horsey-next-the-Sea. died. Owing to a report that Mrs.
Myhill had administered something to her husband which
she had requested the servant to say nothing about, an in-
quest was held on the 24th ult., and adjourned to Friday
last, when it appeared that Mrs. Myhill had obtained some
medicine of Thomas Staples, a " horoseopical ehymist,"
at Reepham, but on examination of the remains in the phial
and a postmortem examination, proved that nothing del.-
Serious had been administered. In his evidence
the coroner, the quack chymist said he was accustomed
to prescribe fur people, according to the nature of
the disease, which he found out by " the rule of
science and the rule of study," which enabled him to
prescribe for persons whom he had never seen. He
neither wanted to know the name of the party, nor yet to
know the nature of the disease from the person himself. He
could tell a person's age and where he was born, and had
practised this for more than twenty years. And such was
the credit given to his pretensions that at the close of the
inquest people flocked to him for advice, and there were
from 20 to 30 persona in the inn ready to put themselves
under him as patients. Surely the schoolmaster is wanted
in Norfolk.
Am SCHOOL is about to be erected at Yarmouth.
' has been devoted to the purpose.
SUFFOLK.
DEED OF THE LATE PREMIER.—The following
Sir Robert Peel's unobtrusive benevolence was
- Mr. Wilderspin, in the course of his Lecture
Mechanics' Institution, on Tuesday evening.

A RAOOIO 13
A sum of MI. 1
A. GOOD DE
instance of Sir
mentioned by IS
• at the Ipswich