The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-10 00:00:00

OXFORDSHIRE.

CoMMISSIONB BY Tiii—iZI;;;I;;TYYSIYAIIT.—Major J. W.
Fane to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Bowles, promoted, of Oxford-
shire Militia; Major the Right Hon. F. G. Baron Churchill
to be LituL-Colonel, vice Bowles, resigned, of Ist or Queen's
Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry.
WILTSHIRE.

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AVESTBORY ELECT-TUE.-111 consequence of the sudden
decease of T. H. H. Phipps, Esq., of Leighton House, on
Sunday last, all operations were immediately suspended in
reference to the contest for the representation of Westbury,
which have been actively prosecuted during the last three
weeks.

MR. GRANTLET BERCELEY AHD THE ELECTORS OF
WEST GLOTTESTERSIIIRE.—An extraordinary address has
just been honed by Mr. Grantley Berkeley. It u addressed
"to the electors of the western division of Gloucester, and
especially to the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean," and
runs thus:—

FTien~le and constituents,—The time is arrived when we ought to
meet together. The freedom of your elettive franchise reattached and
attempted to be oppressed in my person ,• and if we du not stand
shoulder to shoulder, your independence is lost. The interests of re-
ligion, the fair and even righui of civil and religious liberty, arc in
peril, by the proposed government plan of education. We must not
slumber at our posts. I have much to tell you, and but little time to
say it in; I, therefore, propoee to be at the epeech bowie on Monday
next, at 3 o'clock, p.m., and if you will attend me there I will address
you on topics in which I deem you all to he deeply interested.—
thearerrxr F. BEILIV.LIFf..._.

PRICE OF LAND NEAR BOETON.—The Great Northern
Railway Company have lately made purchase, of houses
and gardens in Skirbeck quarter, and, for little more than a
teeth of an acre, they have given 3001. The inhabitants of
Boston exhibit some anxiety where the railway terminus
is to be : the above purchase' point out that the terminus of
the Great Northern ltailway will not be in Boston, which
it is said will save the company at least 60,0001. rounds,
shillings, and pence, have considerable influence, even over
railway empanies.—Lincolnshire Times.
THE CHOPS.—Notwithstanding the severe weather, the
young wheat plant looks healthy in the district around Lin-
coln. On the very low lands the plant looks here and there
starved, but on the whole we may pronounce the appearance,
so far as we can judge, to be promising.
DEVONSIIIHE.

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FELONY BY A RICH FARMER.—At the Exeter Sessions
on Wednesday, a "gentleman farmer," named Trowt,
living at Askull, near Ilminater, Somerset, and who rents
land to the amount of 4001. a-year of one person, was in-
dicted for stealing • veil, value 2s. 6d., the property of
Elizabeth Rundle, of Plymouth. The prisoner on the Ist
of April was at the terminus of the Great Western Railway,
in a second class carriage, which had just arrived from
Newton. William ',arrant, one of the Great Western
porters, told him the train did not go any further until
half-past-five. Seeing a veil lying on the seat, the porter
I said he would take it to the office as he might get an owner
for it, but the prisoner interfered and asserted it " belonged
to his lady." It was given up to him and he left the car-
riage. Shortly afterwards the prosecutrix, who had come
up from Plymouth, rid Newton, in the carriage where the
veil woo seen, came to the station and made inquiries about
it, having discovered her loss on arriving at her hotel. The
inspector of police, being aware of the circumstances, sent
for Farrsnt, and he soon afterwards pointed out the prisoner
who had by that time returned to go by the half-past five
o'clock train to Taunton. The inspector then called Mr.
Trowt on one side, and asked what he had dune with the
veil. He took it from his pocket, and said. " Here it is, and
if any one wants it they can have it." He was taken into
custody, and he subsequently stated that it was only a slip of
the tongue, and he should not have owned it but he thought
the porter was going to keep it. For the defence it was con-
tended that the prisoner was "fresh "—(this was denied by
the porter)—and that he owned it, thinking Fermat was
about to appropriate the property, not intending to find any
owner, but in the flurry of going to meet the train he forgot
all about it. The jury were locked up for four hours, when
they agreed to a verdict of Guilty, and at 10 o'clock on
Wednesday night the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned
in the House of Correction for ens month, and to be kept to
bard labour.