The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-10 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL EDLTATION
SOCIIITT, considering it highly important at the present
juncture that the church should make great efforts to
supply the country more adequately with duly qualified
teachers, have recently sent letters of inquiry to the
diocesan boards in order to learn who foret the church pos.
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Tenet, is liXaly !Wu so possess, in the ueparsment of
training institutions. The following are amongst the
answers returned : from Worcester, the board answer that
they have six pupils only under training at their Diocesan
Commercial School ; but they era anxious to establish a
larger institution, as originally projected in 1838, and
only abandoned for want of funds. Their main difficulty
consists in the want et assistance from the srchdeaconry
of Coventry, which has net hitherto co-operated with
the Worcester archdeaconry ' • and it is not thought that
"the old diocese of Worcester leg alone is competent to
form a large institution." " Great as are these obstacles,
the attempt will be made to overcome them." The Lich-
field Training School for muter accommodates twenty-six.
pupils ; and forty competent masters have been supplied by
it in years past, chiefly after three, and not lees than two
years' training. This institution, considering its limited
means, is reported to have been very prosperous, and instru-
mental in effecting much geed in the diocese. The board
have expressed to the committee of council their earnest de-
sire to carry into effect the measures recently adopted by
government; but no positive alterations have yet been deter-
mined on. An institution for training schoolmistresses is
projected at Derby, to accommodate thirty-six pupils ; and
the buildings are about to be commenced forthwith,
under the management of the Derby Archidiaconal board
and the general diocesan board of Lichfield. It appears
that the institutions at York, Chester. Warrington, Dur-
ham, Winchester, Sarum, Chichester, Brighton, Reading,
Oxford, Exeter, sad Lichfield, continue to be efficiently con-
ducted, according to the wishes and the means of their re-
spective bishops and supporters. Three of those institutions
are about to be enlarged (Exeter, Winchester, and Oxford),
and five new ones (Derby, Bristol, Carmarthen, Cambridge-
shire, and Ruder:dabs), on a sufficient scale, will, if the
putties milord adequate support, be ere long opened. The
committee of the National Society having considered the
' facts, and the importance of stimulating the costa-
-1 sat of church training institutions on an adequate
male agreed to authorise endeavours to raise a fund for pro-
mpting the establishment and enlargement of diocesan train- I
ing institutions throughout the country. They are resolved
that grants should be offered out of the special fund towards
the establishment of training institutions in those dioceses in
which there are considerable mines and factories ; that
such grants should be at a rate varying from 101. to 251. for
every student whom the institution can accommodate and
train ; and that this offer shall be in force fur the next two
years.
T 111TPAGITITTIS

QUBEN'S HETCRN BY FLEETWOOD:A se-
cond edition of the Liverpool Times of yesterday says: We
have just lortnt that it is the intention of her Majesty to re-
turn from Besdand by way of Fleetwood, from which place
she will pressed, by railway, to London. The following
letter on tlda "abject has just been handed to us by a gentle.
man conneeted with the Presto' and Wyre Railway
Fleetwood= 11, 1017.--All ibetweed h cashitgri cite, saber
WOGS Ins ed her intent/aa et Fleetwood on.
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Peals sod Wyrs Railways, SIMS de Saw gemeadis an
address with the Rev. Viand Defighey, the levrabser et !helm:ed.
Her Majesty will land on the eseend who; ties where a covered
platform will be laid to the larrage, premed lase of the state
carriages to the station. She eerie reams eerrimge le to arrive this
day. Captain Becchey left lab is he het Willis, se that Satur-
day or Monday can only be the Err Plestwood is "T gisand will
no doubt be very full it these le ady la Es Welker the
and steamers to arrive. Remy mweendere • latiadedlel
the public in order to allow them le see bar met {realer Ifterey.

THE FORGERY ON THE STOURIRRIDGE BANE.—At
the public office at Birmingham yesterday MORRIS Williams,
a youth 17 years of age, and T. Clarke, a hawker, aged 23,
were brought up on a charge of having uttered a forged note
for It, purporting to be of the bank of Messrs. Rufford and Co.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullen., appeared on be-
half of the bank. The facts, u they appeared in evidence,
were shortly these :—On the 23rd of August last the prisoner
Williams went to the shop of Mr. Hyam, a clothier in New-
rtreet, Birmingham, and purchased garments to the amount
of a guinea, in payment of which he tendered the note in
question. An assistant in the establishment took it to the
Midland Bank, but the bankers refused to change it, and
ultimately kept possession of the note. Meanwhile, the
youth had decamped, leaving his purchase on the shop
counter. He wu missing until Sunday last, when he was
discovered in a low public-house in company with the pri-
soner Clarke, and both were taken into custody. There
was not sufficient evidence against the latter to connect him
with the transaction, and he was accordingly discharged. Wil-
liams was committed for trial at the next Warwick assizes.
It is believed there are a considerable number of these forged
notes in circulation.

A POLITICAL DINNER took place at Newcastle•on-
Tyne on Wednesday evening, to commemorate the triumph
of liberal principles m the late election for that town. About
300 assembled at the Turk's Head Inn, and as that number
included many gentlemen from neighluring. boroughs, and
others identified with the popular cause in the northern
division of Northumberland, the gathering assumed a gene-
ral interest and importance. Mr. It. Carr, of Houston-WI,
presided; the vice-presidents were Sir John Fife, Ald. Leah,
Mr. Geo. Fenwick, end Mr. John Blackwell; and then
were present—Mr. Ord, M.P. Mr. T. E. Headlun, M.P.,
Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. S. C. H:Ogle, M.P., and Mr. Wawu,
M.P. A very general expectatMn prevailed that Sir George
Grey would be one of the guests ; and the right honour-
able baronet, in a letter expressive of regret at
his inability to be present, stated that the circumstance
war occasioned by the necessity of his being in town as the
successor of Lord Palmerston, now in attendance upon the
Queen. Alter the formal touts had been disposed of, the
healths of the liberal members for Newcastle were pledged
amidst loud cheering, and those gentlemen returned thanks.
—Mr. Ord, M.P., in the course of his observations, adverted
to the commencement of his career, under the leadership of

Fox and Sheridan, and contrasted the position of the liberal
party then and now, to prove the strength and kudos of
their principles, and to afford encouragement to continued
exertions in behalf of reform. He dwelt upon the success of
the free trade experiments, and congratulated Newcastle on
the removal of the stigma which attached to it so long as
it, a commercial town, suffered its legislative voice to be
neutralised by the return of one member to support free trade,
and another to fetter the very commerce on which it thrived.
—Mr. Headlam, M.P., expressed a conviction that, bower's
great was the triumph which the liberals of Newcastle had
achieved, it afforded a small measure of rejoicing compared
with that which arose from the return of' Sir G. Grey fat
North Northumberland, involving, as it did, approval of
free trade by an agricultural constituency, in defiance of the
efforts of tory landlords. Looking at the elections generally,
he (Mr. H.) thought a marked advance was visible, and he
predicted that the new parliament would be characterised by
vigorous legislation in behalf of the best interests of the
community.—The health of her Majesty's ministers was
proposed by Sir John Fife, who laid that toryism had lest
its unblushing effrontery, and now sought to identify itself
with long discarded liberalism, whom advccates,
to be useful and consistent, must continue on
their onward march. The recent elections had die
-
played the high moral character, excellent conduct, and
great intelligence of the non-electors, and he hoped that the
ministry would not go oat of office without proposing the
enlargement of the elective franchise ; and he also felt that
the ballot and the repeal of the Septennial Act were
to secure the liberties and affections of the people.fril_ ,
Blackett—whom it was originally proposed to bring forward
as the second liberal candidate for the town—gave the
health of Earl Grey, as lord-lieutenant of the county. It
was impossible, he said, for a meeting of liberals to paw over
the toast without expressing their admiration of the states-
man whom thoughtful eloquence in the House of Commons
had often called attention to abuses which existed
in our social organisation, and to defects in the
colonial system over which he now presided. They
could not forget that Lord Grey, as a whig aristocrat,
boldly denounced the great injustice of the Irish church,
and that, as a landed proprietor, he was the first of hisorder
who voted for the total repeal of the corn laws. A number
of other toast, were afterwards drank, including the healthy
of Messrs. Ogle, Hutt, and Wawn, who severally returned
thanks. Commercial freedom was the burden of the Bong.
Incidental reference was made be nearly all the speakers to
the return of Sir Geo. Grey for North Northumberland,
which evidently afforded as much satisfaction as the event
more immediately connected with the meeting. The t last
to Sir George's health described him as the ammeter and
establisher of the independence" of the division, and the
enthusiasm with which it was received proved that he was
so considered.

KENT.

ANOTDER FIRE AT 6111..ESEND occurred on Tues-
day night. The fire was dircovered about twelve o'clock,
and by half-put twelve the whole of the premien known u
" The Compassee," a public-house in Bath-street, in the occu-
pation of Air. Downes, were in a blue. After Nome little dclay,a
plentiful supply of water having been obtained, the town
engines played with much effect upon the flames, which,
however, were not subdued until an adjoining house, in the
occupation of a fishmonger named Lawrence, kid caught,
and, with the Compasses, been entirely destroyed. During
the early part of the fire an express was despatched to
Rochester for the engines there ; but a countermand was sent
after it, as they could not have arrived in time to be of any
serviee. Four other houses, to the right and left of the fire,
were more or less injured, although not very seriously. The
estimated damage could not be ascertained, and both houses
are said to be insured. The fire broke out in the cellar of
the Compasses, but its origin i Fast present unknown.
ESSX.
TIIE FRIENDS OF SIR E. N. BUXTON dined together
at Romford on Tuesday, to celebrate the return of the hon.
baronet for South Essex. It was resolved that at the next
vacancy for the county, whenever that vacancy might occur,
Mr. Charles Buxton or Mr. Charles Gurney (von of Mr.

Samuel Gurney, the hankie) shall be put in nomination e
with Sir E. N. Beaten.
A CASE OF ALLEGED DRAM FROM REMOVAL
IPPON • HOSPITAL occupied the attention of g coroner's
jury at Colchester, on Wednesday. It appeared that Sarah
Kerridge, a nurse at the Colchester and Essex Hospital, was
seized with typhus fever, while suffering under which she
was ordered to be removed to the union-house, in doing
which there was very considerable delay and at her death,
the second day afterwards, public opinion was roused on the
supposition that her end was accelerated by exposure to the cold.
From the evidence it appeared that a message had been sent
to the workhouse that the woman would be there in •
quarter ot an hour, and as the master demurred to admitting
an infected party into the house, he repaired to Mr. Abell,
clerk to the board of guardians, and took from him • letter
to the hospital setting forth that the woman had no title to
admission—that her being taken there would endanger the
health and perhaps the lives of 200 inmates—and that as all
her necessities could be applied at the hospital, and as she
had an undoubted claim upon them as her employers, she
ought not to be removed. After despatching this letter steps
ware taken to private lodging, eo that in case the
committee at tne hospital insisted on oar removal the pauper
inmates of the house might not be exposed to infection ; but
the arrival of the master with the letter at the hos-
pital found the woman already in an open cart
about to be removed, and his statement that he
had no power to admit her without an order, together with
the contents of the letter, induced the house-surgeon to order
the cart to stop while he went in search of Dr. Williams, the
physician, under whose order the removal was taking place.
This, it wog stated occasioned • delay of at least half an
hour, during which the woman remained in the cart, the
wind, it was said by one of the witnesses, blowing very cold.
As soma as Dr. Williams could be found, he ordered the
patient to be conveyed without delay to the union-house,
where he was waiting to receive her; but here another
stoppage of tea minutes occurred, while the relieving-officer
was sent for to grant an order of admission, ma the master
melded to take her without that authority. Eventually she
was placed in a part of the building used for parties supposed
to have contemns disorders, and attended by Mr. Clark,
the units surgeon, till her deed', which took place
on the Saturday evening following.—On the part of
the hospital authorities it was stated that, by the
36th rule of the institution, patients showing symptoms of
infectious diseases were not mitered to remain ; that they
had acted ender the advice of Dr. Williams as to her being
in a tit data to be removed ; and in belief that the union
loam had • Omer ward.—Mr. T. Taylor, the house surgeon,
depend mat be saperintended the removal of the patient,
ander tbe ameba of Dr. Williams, and to the delay being
co:mimed by the statement of the master of the union and
the letter of Mr. Abell. In answer to a question, he said
that previous to her removal he had offered to give up hat
room, which was detached from the main building.—A Jury-
man: Then did you consider it dangerous to remove her ?
Witness replied he was not in a position to say.—The Jury-
man : But you probably have an opinion upon it?—Witness
Certainly, but I am not bound to give it —The Coroner told
him he was bound to do so; and as be still declined, he
intimated en intention of committing him unless he
answered the question.—Witness then said he did not
consider her in too dangerous a date to be removed,
but he did think the chances of recovery lessened.—
Dr. Williams, after being cautioned as to the serious posi-
tion he would be in should evidence be given of the de-
ceased's death being accelerated by removal, was also ex-
amined. He said he advised that the deceased should be
removed under rule 36, and because he considered her re-
maining would be dangerous to the other patients. He or-
dered a cart because he thought a cab might bring on faint-
ing. She was removed in her bedding, and otherwise well
wrapped up. When she reached the gate of the union
house she told him she was warm and comfortable. On the
Master refusing to take her in, he warned him that he would
be responsible for the consequences. He made that remark
from the delay which had already taken place, and which he
attributed entirely to Mr. Abell's letter. —By the Coroner:
During the ten years he had been physician to the hospital
them had been two previous cum of fever which were not
remored. The reason for its being done in this case
was that the symptoms were of a much more serious chaise-
ter. Had he supposed such a delay would have taken place
he should not have directed the removal till it had been all
arranged ; he considered that if a party presented himself at
the union gate the master was bound to admit him or her
immediately, and inquire afterwards whether such party was
entitled to admission ; he did net consider the union inmates
would be likely to be infected, because he thought there was
a fever ward.—Mr. Clark (who in order to assist him in
giving an opinion) had been directed by the coroner to make
a pest mortem examination, in conjunction with another
medical man, detailed the appearances presented, and then
gave his opinion that the woman died of typhus fever—The
Coroner Do you consider that her death was accelerated by
her removal ?—Witaess : It is impossible for me to say, not
having seen the patient before she was removed.—
The Coroner: Then you decline giving an opinion?—
Witness am not in a position to do so.—
The Coroner said this was just what he expected. The wit-
ness, prior to his summoning the jury, refused to tell him
for his guidance in the matter whether he coasidered the
woman had been improperly removed, and now he shrank
from the consequences which might ensue from his giving
such an answer. No doubt it was right towards the public
that an inquiry should be instituted into the conduct of the
hospital and union-house authorities, but it was not his pro-
vince to make it except in connexion with the cause of
death ; and, if Dr. Clark bad previously given the opinion
he had just delivered, he (the coroner) should have had
no occasion to all them together.—Dr. Clark defended
himself against the charge, and retorted that the
coroner bad no right to ask his opinion, ex cathedra,
and, if a similar case should occur again, he should still
refuse to give it.—The Coroner told the jury it was unne-
cessary for him to sum up, as the case was taken out of their
hands.—The Foreman said he supposed the jury would be at
liberty to add some remarks to their verdict —The Coroner
said it had been laid down by the judges, with regard to the
Hounslow case, that such remarks were altogether incom-
patible with the duti-4 of a jury, therefore he should de-
cline to receive any but a simple verdict ; but no doubt any
recommendation they might make would go to the public
though the press, and so answer the end they had in view.
—The jury then consulted, and returned a verdict—" That
the deceased died of typhus fever; but the jury regretted
the removal from the hospital, arising from the circumstance
of that institution not having a fever ward."