The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-08 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.

FINAL REPEAL OP THE CORN-LAWS.—Mr. George
Wilma is to preside at the great banquet at Manchest•r en
the 31st inst., to celebrate the final repeal of the corn-laws,
and about 400 gentlemen have already consented to the
placing of their names on the list of vice presidents and of
the Committee. Among the vice-presi tents are John Bright,
Esq. M.P. ; R. Cobden, Esq. M.P. ; Alex. Henry, Esq.,
M P.,' • the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P. Jas Kershaw,
E'q. M.P. ; J. B. Smith, Esq., M.P. ; and Sir Joshua
Waiouley.
JENNY LIND AND THE LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL.—On
Saturday, at two o'clock, one of the most brilliant audiences
ever assembled in Liverpool graced the Amphitheatre with
their presence. en the occasion of Jenny Lind's concert in
aid of the enlargement of the Southern and Toxteth Hospi-
tal. All the available space of the theatre being secured by
the holders of tickets, these orders gam rose to a premium,
and, on Friday, as much as 21. was frequently offend oa
'Change and in other places, for the stall and lox admissions,
which were first purchased at a guinea. By the generosity
of Madill.. Lind, one of the most mein', and benevolent in-
stitutions in Liverpool will be benefited to the extent, we
learn, of about 1,6001. After the concert, the ,enastress
went to dine at the house of Mr. Yates, the president of the
hospital, where she met a number of guests; and in the
evening she attended the Amphitheatre, and witnessed Miss
I Cushman's performance of Mey Merrilies, and was after-
wards introduced, at her own request, to that gifted emcee.
A GOOD SION.—The walls are placarded in Man-
chester for power loom w . The mills being now fully
employed, any further extension of machinery will Maori,
all hands accustomed to such employment, at full wages ; so
that chars is en all but certainty that good wages and cheap
provisions will be the lot of the working classee for some time
to oome.
CASE OF CHOLERA IN MANCHESTER.— A came of
cholera is Elizabeth.strcet, Manchester, terminated fatally
on Saturday, and as this is a locality much inferior, in a same
tary point of view, to that where a former case occurred, the
greater fears are entertained that the epidemic is likely to
remain in the city.
THE WIDOW ROBBED BY HEE BROTHER-IN-LAW.
—The man Oregson, apprehended at Burnt( y, on a charge
of stealing 200 sovereigns bequeathed by a deceased brother
to his widow, as stated in the Express of Saturday, was
brought before the Manchester magistrates on that day, and
committed for trial at the next visions.

DONALLY, THE RECEIVER OPSTOLEN GOOD:3, at
Manchester, wham apprehension was mentioned in the Ex-
press a few days since, when it was stated that he had in his
poPession a set of stolen oil paintings worth 1051., for which,
according to his own account, he bad given only 21 165., has
boon tried at the Manchester borough sadons, found guilty,
and sentence,! to 7.yeare transportation. The *got
less than 18 robberies were found in his
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BILCUTION AT LIVERPOOL—The extreme penally
of the law was iall'ateil ea lieverday upon Jas. !Cooly. coo-
elated at the assizes at Liverpool for the warder of E tit
Fa'hoer at Heaton Norris. The execution took place at
Yirkdale poi. There was as isisease member of persons
present ow tie emssion. The criminal was only in his 24th
year. His victim, it will be remembered, was a yawl%
wallow with whom he had had ma latimacy. Her friends,
bolo some cease, were opposed to the connexion, and com-
pelled her to discontinue it. He WS 10 exasperated that he
sought as interview, sad deliberate:y tot her throat with a
na knife. The criminal was employed sea mill-winder, the di-
mmed as a pareel.pbtetr. From the mensal of the murder
he terms to have bora maiden with the &septet remotes—a
heeling which toatiosed op to the assist of lus execution.
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EXECUTION AT YOWL —Ol &tardily the lad
Malkin was hanged at York, he the murder ol lather la.
MILO, at Look A third =idea of the YerkrAiri Gazette
of Saturday, says The Isles of strangers from Hamlet,
Leeds, and other parts of the West Riding was very great,
sad these eonsiMed for the most part of persons who had frvi.
dandy been walking daring the sight, and who entered the
Siq at an early hour, evincing unmistakable signs of the
elect which the severity of the weather bad bad upon
them. Long before the prescribed time, groups of
win to be seen wending their way to the scene orrizent"•
tier, and by twelve o'clock them could not be less than
12,000 people assembled at the sane At that hour the youth-
fal erimiaal (his age wee only 17), accompanied by the Bev.
J. 11. Settee, was brought on to the platform over di, drop,
sad he there knelt down, and prayed with great fervour,
which be evinced to the end of the awful sate. The rev.
'esthetes baviug performed his last sad offices, he shook
the lad by the head, and having retired the county bangs=
proceeded to the &whine of his duty, end in a few mo-
ments the bolt was drawn, and the culprit's snort bat un-
happy career is this world was dosed. After bassist' the
usual time, the body was reseoved, and will be interred, in
accordance with the coosiadieg terms of his awful maltase,
within the precincts of the geol."
DEATH /EON EXCESSIVE DRINKINO.—A circum-
stance occurred at toe Meebroach station, on Tuesday List,
which has resulted in the death of one sea, end a seeoad
Ilse in a very dangerous state. A cask of gin having been
sent by railway, was about te be put into a wappon, when it
aneepectedly roiled from the truck, and one end of the cask
was broke a. Joseph Asada and a man of the name of
Lowden, two platelayers, instantly fell to work, not to pre-
WITS but to drink the gin, sad duly were joie= by a pti►
than eased Scott. Aglaia drank so freely that he died tag
mate night, and Longden was wi kraal dileulty prevented
thering the mate fate. Oa Wednesday ea impost wss held
ea the body of Austin, when the jury returned a verdict of
"Died from ap iplezy ;wedge= by drinking ardent spirits."
aeon was taken before the magistrate. at Rotherham and
!hied 61. for neglect of duty, and Longden remains almost
without hone of surviving the effects of his debauch ; bat
should he recover, he will most likely be prosecuted and
Led for neglect of duty.