The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-16 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

Tim TEN ROVES BILL.—On Wednesday night a public
meeting of the managers and overlookers of Heywood was
held, for the purpose of considering the best means of pro-
moting the passing of the Ten Hours Bill. There were up-
wards of 120 of this class of persons present. —A manager
haying been called to the chair, he briefly opened the pro-
ceedings ; after which the Secretary of the Lancashire
Central Short-time Committee addressed the gentlemen
present at considerable length. The meeting was also ad-
dressed by deputations from the Litticborough and Roch-
dale Short-time Committees, so well as by several managers
and uverlookera, who strongly depicted many of the evils
consequent upon the present factory system. Many of them
spoke from their own experience, and contended that, until
the hours of labour were reduced, it was hopeless for them
to endeavour to improve the moral condition of the persons
who were under their care. Resolutions and a petition to
parliament were agreed to.
AT A MEETING OE Mr. BRIGHT'S ELECTION COMMITTEE,
at Manchester, on Thursday evening, Mr. Wilson, the chair-
man, stated that :5,426 voters had pledged themselves to
vote for the hon. gentleman. Mr. Bright afterwards ad-
dressed the meeting, commenting on the speech of Lord
Lincoln, and the proceedings passed oils wits much •pirit.—
The Hon. T. M. Gibson is expected to meet his committee
and the electors generally, at the Free Trade Hall, in about
eight or ten days.
YORKSIIIRE.
REPRESENTATION OP SCAIGIOROEGH.—The following
address has been issued, by the Earl of Mulgrave, to the
electors of this borough:
Gentlemen—Raving ascertained that Lieut.-Col. Phipps la
to relinquish the hope that he had entertained, of becoming aollreed-
remade. of the borough of Scarborough, at the next general election,
and being aware that there is a large and powerful body of the
electors who have uniformly advocated and supported the liberal
interest, I venture to offer myself so a candidate for the honour of
your suffrages. In the hope that the cloeeness of relationship
and the similarity of political principles may induce the libersi
electors of Scarborough to extend to me the promise of that
support which. I have 1110.011 to believe, would have ensured
Colonel Mare' weave. The great decal questions affecting the
commerce of Great Britain appear to be settled, and Um
experience of this year proves how wee was the foresight
which removed prohibitory duties upon the food of the people.
Great Racial and moral improvements remain to be effected, and I feel
sufficient coeadeers in the intentions, of the government to believe
that they will preens =eh plane as I shall be able to support. Web-
ing, however, tele alb as give honest and impartial consideration to
all Wawa:led sewearea I *lntl endeavour to keep myself unpledged
te lap make et a pasty, feeling certain, that should t he fortunate
emagli b bonne year reptrientative, I shall be bee enabled to per-
Bete werastiss te yea, by set* to the best of my judgment, upon
the prat prlesillse delvil end
.eligious liberty, in the conaideration of
sil pettedmi rams
procee I shall immediately have the honor
et enellog epee Os electors Manually,
when I shall be better able
to mew penewilly, than es Mail within the ordinary limits of an
the bind principle. upon which I reek the support and cam
Ildesas. et theeltdors of deubwough. - I remain, Ste. Melons..

-Ire—seb;;Qh. Joe. 14'
Shavattv.—The mayor of Leeds, G. Goodman,
Esq., presided over a numerous asemblage of the iahabi
tante ot Lewis, in the Music-hall at that place, on Thursday
evening, to hoer a lecture on the horrors of American
slsvery, by F. Douglass, a fugitive slave Irons Maryland.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Wright,
from Philadelphia, and by Mr. Nelson, the secretary to the
British Anti-Slavery League, after which some resolutions
were adopted deprecating the existence of slavery in all its
forms and phases.

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SEIZURE Or AN ILLEGAL 90AP FACTORT.—On Monday
last, the Collector of Excite at Newcastle made an extensive
discovery and seizure of illegally manufactured soap, on the
premises of Messrs. Allen, soap-mannfacturers, New-road.
Suspicion had long existed that the returns from the above
establishment were incorrect, but, up to Monday, the
attempts made to detect the fraud had always failed. It ap-
pears that a concealed door led from the part of the premises
legally entered to another secret apartment, where the
manufacture of soap was conducted on a very extensive
scale, upwards of seven frames being discovered full of seep,
three of them in a liquid state, and each of them upwards
of one hundred inches long, by about forty inches in breadth,
the legal dimensions being forty-five inches by fifteen. It is
stated that some soap, known to be of illegal manufacture
by the length of the bars, have been detected in the
pow
sum of parties who have been in the habit of purchasing
from tho above firm. The quantity of soap seized at the
manufactory exceeded twelve taus.

NOTTlNGiinniinsite.
Ncestetes roe Cal sas.—We (frottisseheieJosestat) bare
just had our attention drawn to a number of low establish-
meets in this town, called cofee-shops, winch are described
'tous es fruitful nurseries for a large portion of the juvenile '
delinqueney that forms so iseportaut end so deplorable an
' item in the esienders add polioasheets. if any person would
take the trouble to enter one of these doss to the afternoon
or night, he would see numbers of the merest children—lads
often eight or nine years old and ewe younger—discussing
the beverage which glees a name to the place; smoking
short pipes, and playing at cards or bagatelle. Here they
are taught to rob their genets; to pick pockets; to "snapap
unconsidered trifles," sod, in a word, are systeen:;beliel
educated in all the various branches of crime and blac•
ism. The keepers of these places contrive to set the author
cities at defiance, pretending that they are private housess—
themselves tieing. wilt would seem, such philanthropists, that
from sheer benevolence and a desire to promote the enjoy-
ment of the urchins, find them apartments for their amuse-
ments. It is stated further, that these coffee-shop keepers
are eery eaneenient "plants "—buyers of stolen goods and
no questions asked.
i RIM. Watilltlt

" A LIVELY SENSE OF FUTURE IFEVOCRIL"—The Lin- I
colnehire Chronicle announces that Col. Sibthorp, the mem-
ber for Lincoln, " hal distributed his annual and very liberal
donation of coals earlier this season than on former occa-
sions," to the people of the city. One cannot help being
amused at the discrimination exhibited by the gallant legis-
lator in the choice of the recipients of his bounty, and the
quantity given to each class " every freeman and elector
received a quarter of a ton, and the widows of freemen half
that quantity."

!MIER-SY:MLR&
A Bestoomisermt was CONVJCSIM at Taunton on Thum'.
day last of a shameful assault upon two little girls whom he
met on their way borne from school, and pulled into the gar-
den of his father, also a schoolmaster in that town. His
name was Henry Clarke, his see 20. He was sentenced to
ax months' imprisonment in Wilton gaol.
WILTSHIRE.
EXTWIBIVE BunoLanr—On Monday night last the resi-
dence of Mr. Anthony Kingston, at Shilbourne, was broken
into. The burglars forced open • writing desk, sr,d stole
from it securities to the amount of 5,0001. Amongst others
was a chi que for 1001. upon the DJVILCS Old Bank
(Hughes and (h.), • 51. nom of the Old Marlborough Bank,
and 201. in cub ; also a silver tea-adds ladle.

BUCKINI

lIVCRS MAGISTRACY V TIM GAME LAWS.-At the recent
quarter AMIGA. at Aylesbury. two of the magistrates ex-
pressed their disapprobation of the game laws. The Rev. J.
Pigott " considered them detestable laws, and :ha. they were
incentives to crime," and said, " if he had been a poor man,
he believed he should have been a poacher." J. Lee. EN.,
LLD.. of Hartwell Park, placed the following motion on the
book for the next session " That all expenses incurred in
tre rmiemitinn or tragre-I.rs ollendors shall he yrfd s- the
parties prosecuting, and not by the county ; and that the
clerk of the peace be instructed to give an account of the
number of persons convicted of such offences, with the ex-
petite, relating thereto, from the year 1840 to 1881."
°Asir. PriEsetivisu.—On some occasions of late there
have been more than fiftynight watchers employed to protect
the game on the preserves of the Duke of Buckingham at
and around Wotton.

Ut Brama.
ST. JANIES'S.—The entertainment of last night eon-
fisted of the five-act melodrama called "La Dame de Saint
Trope, ;" • piece which was produced at Paris soon after
the celebrated trial of Madame Laffarge for poisoning her
husband, with the object, apparently, of showing that, not,.
withstanding the result of the trial, that lady might not im-
probably have been innocent ; the principal pieces of circum-
stantial evidence against Madame Laffarge being introduced in
this play, and shown to be inconclusive. Hortense d' Auberire,
the daughter of a nobleman, sacrifices her youthful affee-
dons, in order to save her father, by accepting the hand of
his creditor, while she loved another. This creditor is
Georges Maurice, a plain seaman, of middle age, who has
made his fortune as an arnsaieur. Under a touch exterior
be bits strong feeling, loves his wife passionately, and is
wretched at finding that she has nothing but duty
and gratitude to give in return. The couple live
unhappily; and a villanous relative of the husband,
who Is deprived by this marriage of his hope of
succeeding to his property, conspires with his wife
to destroy Maurice by slow pnisoa, under circumstances
which will make it believed that 211rielame Maurice is the
criminal. The husband gradually wastes away under the
influence of poison administered to him; and is gradually
persuaded that the wife he loves is his murderess. At last,
however, while seated opposite a mirror, he sees in it the
villain in the act of mixing poison in a medicinal potion he
is about to present to him ; a discover• which leads to the
establishment of his wife's innocence, but he laimselt, already
in extremity, dies from the violent revulsion of feeling.
This is the outline of the story, which is filled up with
many minor incidents, effectively conducted, and forming a
drama of extraordinary interest. The characters of the hus-
band and wife were represented by M. Lemaitre and Mane.
C.arisse in a manner worthy of their powerful talents ; and
so deeply were the audience impressed by the force and
reality of the picture, that during the scenes of agony end
passion which terminate the piece, a pin might have been
heard to drop in any part of the theatre. When the curtain
fell, Lemaitre and Mdlle. Clariase were called for, and ap-
peared amid reiterated peals of applause.