The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-14 00:00:00

total, 36. Feb. 5, 10 passes ; 13, 14. 20, 6. 24, 12; 27, 1 :
total, 43. March 303 pewee ; 6. ; 10, 7 ; 12. 7 ; 19, 2 ; 20,
; 2f, 12: total, 48. April 3, 8 passes ;9,17 ; 16, 28 ; 17,
8; 20, 3; 23, 16; 26,13; 30, 10; total, 103. May 3,5 passes ;
5, 6 ; 7,7 ; 14, 18 ; 17, 6 ; 21,16;25, 6; M, 7 ; 31, 3 : total
72. June 1, 4 panes; 4, 11 ; 8, 8 ; 11, 13; 16, 11 ; 18, 9;
72, 4; 23, 3 ; 25, 9 total 72. July 2. h parr ; 6, 11; 9, 7 ;
12, 11 ; 14, 7 ; 16,11; 19, 15 ; 22, 12; 23, 16; 27, 29 ; 28,
16 ; 31, 23 • total 166. Aug. 4, 15 passe'; 6, 12; 9,8; total
up to the 9th inst., 35. Total 602. The cost of each pass is
Is. 6d.; the total cost will, therefore, be 165& 11s. The
paws granted in the months of May, June, or July last
year, show a small number in comparison with the above
the number for May, 1846, being 15 only, for June 6, and
July 13 ! The number of Irish poor coming from Liverpool
is now considerably less than heretofore, and a considerable
decrees* in this expensive and disagreeable process msy be
be expected.

A FR.4I.:DULENT BAiigajeT7lon Tuesday James
Dealtry, formerly of Burslem, was brought to the Guild-
hall, Huddersfield, charged with non-surrender to the
Manchester Court of Bankruptcy in 1844, after being
cited to do so. From the examination it appeared that in
that year the prisoner was carrying on the business of a
grocer, at Buralem, under the firm of James Dealtry and
Co., when a traveller of Mr. Whittingham, wholesale tea
dealer, of Manchester, named Ratcliffe, called at the shop of
' the prisoner, and received from him an order for goods,
amounting to 92/. On the traveller calling again at the end
of a month for fresh orders he was surprised to find the place
entirely shut up, and all the goods sold up. He imme-
diately informed his employer of the circumstance,
who caused a fiat in bankruptcy to be issued against
Dreary, which was filed in the court at Manchester,'
on the 31st May, 1844, and a notice issued to the bankrupt
to appear at the court in June, and also in July of that year,
in order to be examined touching his estate and effects,
which notice had been entirely disregarded, and be never
surrendered, and had never been seen by any of the rartics
until Friday last, when he, in a state of intoxication, entered
the shop of Mr. Ratcliffe, in Huddersfield, and the latter in-
stantly knew him. The prisoner wanted to borrow some
money of Mr. Ratcliffe, who refused to lend it that night,
but requested him to call again in the morning and in the
mean time information was given to the constables. They
ware unable to apprehend him until Monday, when he was
locked up in the cell ; but during the afternoon he contrived
to escape, and was soon afterwards re-captured, concealed
under a large mash-tub. He was committed to York Castle
for trial, and bail positively refused.
CRESHIRE.

MR. COEDE.'49B SRAT YOItSTOCKPORT.—Since the
return of Mr. Cobden for the welt riding of Yorkshire was
announced on Saturday last, the dying embers if the late
election have been again finned into a flame. On Monday
last a meeting of electors took place, when it was decided
that a townsman, Mr. Cephas Howerll, should contest the
borough in the event of Mr. Cobden creating a vacancy for
Stockport. The Stockport Advertiser says: " Mr. Kershaw's
friends have also been on the alert during the past week,
and we understand that a requisition to that gentleman is in
course of signature. In his politics, Mr. Howard is under-
stood to be a conservative-whip, neither obstinately preju-
diced in favenr of old institutions, because they are old, nor
bent, like too many politicians of the present day, on de-
stroying and altering the old constitution, merely because
they found it established. His opinions on the subject of
free trade are precisely those which have now become so
universally popular in this great commercial community."
WARWICKSHIRE.

ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN A RAILWAY TRAIN.—An
extraordinary case was heard on Thursday before the magi-
rrates at Birmingham, namely—On Monday evening John
Gardiner, who was drinking in a public house with some of
his companions, expressed a wish to speak with one of them,
an he had something on his mind. On going to the door
Gardiner confessed that on the night of the 4th of August,
1844, he bad, along with another man, deliberately endea-
voured to overturn a passenger-train on the Midland Rail-
way. lie expressed a wish to be taken into custody, and a
constable was sent for. The substance of his confession was,
that on the night in question he and a man (since dead) went
to a spot on the line, not far from Birmingham, and put
bricks on the rail, four or five inches apart, and a few feet
further on they placed a hurdle. They hid themselves by
the railway till the mail train came up, which they expected
would be thrown off the rails and upset. It was not upset,
however, and they ran off. They had no motive, except the
gratification of a love of mischief. The prisoner was fully
committed to the sessions on the charge,
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terworth have been bestirring themselves to obtain an open
space, for what they are pleased to call a "recreation
ground." A committee appointed for the purpose waited
upon Mr. Fitzherbert, steward to the Earl of Denbigh, and
stated to that gentleman the serious inconvenience under
which the population of the town laboured, in consequence
of the entire absence of any place where the public could
bathe, without going upon trespass, and requested Mr. Fitz-
herbert to grant the use of "Gelder's Meadow." The steward
said that he should be happy to promote so laudable an object
as the deputation had in ♦iew. The deputation next waited upon
the Bevil. Johnson, the rector of the pariah, to whom they re-
presented the desirableness of obtaining a piece of ground for
recreative purposes, such as cricket playing sad gymnastics.
The rev. gentleman fully entered into the views of the de-
putation, and expressed his readiness to let the committee of
management have five acres out of the " Parson's Leys," a
piece of ground adjoining the town, and admirably adapted
to the purposes intended. The rent required for the use of
the "recreation ground" was guaranteed by Mr. Reed, of
Bitteswell, and resolutions for the immediate carrying out of
the above objects were passed at a meeting held for tha
purpose.
T NM. VOVITIS

ONE WAY OF PREVENTING CRIME.—At the re-
cent meeting of the North Lincolnshire Agricultural Asso-
ciation held at Spihby, W. Hutton, Esq., of G►te Burton, is
reported to hive said, " Nothing is so expensive as crime;
and I believe no amount of money expended, no number of
police employed, is so effective in preventing crime as con-
stant work and good wages." Every one in the neighbour-
hood of Gainsboro' knows well that the above is not merely
a sentiment for an after-dinner speech, but a principle of
action by which the conduct of Mr. Hutton is guided in his
own neighbourhood, where there arc no poor, because every
man has " constant employment and good wages."

RAILWAY DEVELVPMENT.—We (Essex Standard)
have on several occasions alluded to the altered appearance of
various parts of our county, produced by the formation of
the Eastern Counties Railway and its extensions. Stratford,
from a place of minor importance, has now become a most
important one. The hitherto quiet marshes near the
Thames are now in a state of commercial bustle
and activity. In this locality the most extraordi-
nary metamorphoses have been produced. On them
marshes, which, about three years since, were used exclu-
sively for depasturiag cattle, there is now a steam-boat pier
I opposite Woolwich, and a railway skirting the banks of
" Old Father Theme, ;" at Blackwell, near the creek, is
another pier on which are erected several steam-engines for
raising coal from vessels brought alongside, and for other
purposes ; a large chemical manufactory, a rift number of
coke ovens, high chimneys, and various other erections.
Around the station at the Barking-road a new town is being
formed; roads and streets are laid out, and about two hun-
dred houses are in course of erection. The semi-detached

pain of modal cottages oa the south cads of the Barking.
road are greatly in advance of anything we have seen pro-
duced as dwellings for the industrious and deserving, although
bumble classes, and when we reflect on the number of prema-
ture deaths and loss of health occasioned by residing in badly-
constructed and imperfectly ventilated buildings (as shown
by the reports of the Health of Towns Commissioners), in-
depesdent of the demoralisation produced by huddling
eor the old and young of both sexes, we hail the desire
to vs the health and comfort of so large a portion of
satiety as an act worthy of imitation. Each of these cottages
peewees a garden back and front, an entrance porch, a
eillittroom, kitchen, and wash-house fitted up with oven
and boiler, and above these rooms three bedrooms, fitted up
with handsome painted iron bedsteads. At Stratford the
Hodson New Town progresses rapidly, and the health and
erreetart of the poor have also ben attended to here, and we
hope Neill continue to be attended to.
IMPB.O7MLENTS IN FARMING.—NearIy a hundred
aagriculturists met last week at Tiptres Ella, to
t hems which its proprietor, Mr. has bees
IlMisamong to improve. Speak:keg et We ga-
thsabg, the lbri•issee Bsionne says : "iIY him has be-
nne eseyae of bawd Ikea sees& meek First, be-
canoe Mr. Medd, having been ampwat is bade, and sot
received the sappered reqalhs testridisa, sabred upon the
business of for Ming as a amiss; ssandly, that the soil and
dimities of his bra were mint staled. eal inhospitable ;
thirdly, that bele • Asada adwasts eito &this
harddy, that Ise preeder whet I brsia thlariag."
That the soil feel a very inferior elaresterwM be
Its mimosas* elaserrer, although it
ever moo bear y=et, whoa =
=isits dr mad exposed to the
it hewer %Ira. Medd, like many
sibs }seance, bes soared tlis per pedal boas the Will-
man sad the severity of the weather. Mao some of hie
crepe are Ala. That deep draining boa smowered well with
him =not be doubted, and we heard with ranch satisfaction
that several poems who had followed bb example in trying
deep draining, on a small scale, bad bawd It answer so well
as to have determined to adopt it exteimeively. Where the
wheat crop had been put in good mama, and had escaped
the ravages of insects, and which sedwased the bulk of the
crop, the ears of wheat were bugs awl fine, giving promise
of an abundant yield from a bullet elated per acre. A larger
quantity of seed was given to tee ewes in one of the fink*
and the difference was seareedleameserpelble ; inderd, it was net
discovered without much • . Oas field sown with Nix
pecks per acre was menifeetly than where a bushel
had been used, but the ears were smaller ; and some persons
doubted whether the quantity per awe would be more than
where the smaller quantity of seed bad been applied. The
land wee remarkably clean, and gileing evident proof of good
management. Mr. idea. pliedshbanspel-warrel four feet
sprat in the rows; and contends thee by so doing, intl.-
=of the advantage from being able to horse-hoe well
them, be obtains a heavier crop than if they were
closer. He has swede' alter rye cut green, which are making
far and are in drills three feet apart. Mr. Mechi
his visitote over the farm, and explained the
for the respective crops, and pointed out the
improvements he bad made. In erasing the field of
MOW, he remarked that he had no doubt the roots met
across the intervals between the rows (three feet). This was
doubted by all. One of the party selected a plant about six
imam high, and having cleared away the mould, traced a
)sews) root to the length of twenty-two inches. The doubt
was dirgaided, bat all were astonished. This circumstance
gave the to many important reflections in reference to the
growth and cultivation of the plant, when it is found that, at
so early a stage of its growth, the root& will extend so far to
search of food."