The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

A telegraphic despatch from Southampton an-
nounces the arrival this day of the steamer Dee, with
the West India mails and news to the following dates:
St. Jago de Cuba, Oct. 21st; Jamaica, 24th; Hayti,
26th; Demerara, 20th; Tobago and Trinidad, 22nd;
Barbadoes, 24th; Grenada, St. Vincent's, and St.
Lucie, 26th ; Martinique, Dominique, and Guadaloupe,
27th; Antigua, Montserrat, and St. Kitt's, 28th; St.
Thomas's, 31st; and Fayal, Nov. 12th.
Tobago was visited with a tremendous hurricane,
which lasted from noon on the Ilth of October to 6
a.m. on the 12th, destroying half the crops. Report
says, that 510 houses were destroyed, including the
church and parsonage at Scarborough and Methodists'
chapels at Charlotteville and Betsy's Hope ; 224
houses injured; 17 people killed; numbers injured; six
vessels wrecked. The tornado passed Barbadoes and
Grenada, was felt at Trinidad, and between Ber-
muda'and St. Thomas's. by the barque Young Queen,
put back, much damaged. Great excitement existed
at Jamaica, in consequence of the prevailing dis-
tress. It was rumoured that on the opening of the
house the supplies would be voted only for a short
period, unless relief had been Brat obtained from the
mother country.

THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNORSHIP OF GUERNSEY.
—Major General F. Nopier, C. 8., the Lieutenant Governor
of Guernsey, has resigned his appointment.
GOrialeSiserat BENEVOLENT INSTITHIII,...
terday a general meeting of the donors and subscribers to
the above institution was held at the Hanover-square
ROOM., for the purpose of electing three annuitants of 161.
fads per annum, frem a list of ninety-one candidates.
Thomas Hunt, RN., presided. The result of yesterday's
election would make a total of twenty-two annuitants. Tho
reprrt stated that the society is increasing in prosperity.
Since the last annual meeting several hundred eases of dis•
trees have been investigated, and temporary grants made in
the majority. 10,0001. has been funded for the providing
annuities to aged governesses. A provident fund, for securing
deferred annuities, on the governesses' own payments,
amounts to 32,7331. Its. Id. A home has been opened in
Harley-street, at a cost of, lease and furniture, more then
2,0001., for the reception of the disengaged and unprotected,
where they are maintained at a small weekly payment for
board and lodging. Books of registration are also opened
for engagements free of charge. Land has also been par-
chased at Camden Town, and the erection is about to he
commenced, for an asylum for aged and infirm governesses.
The academical proceedings of the " Queen's College" (so
named by royal permission) commenced last month, under
the most eminent professors, for granting diplomas and cer-
tificates of qualifications to governesses, and where the less
competent can obtain an adequate and orderly preparation
for their work. It was also announced that a fancy ball, in
aid of the funds of the aged asylum, will take place in May
next, under royal and noble patronage, in the grounds of the
Royal Hospital at Chelsea.
OPERATIVE BAKERS' SOCIETY.—A public meeting
of master and journeymen bakers, supporters of this society,
which has been established to obton a diminution in the
hours of labour, and the abolition of all night work, was
held last evening in Lawson's Assembly Rooms, Gower-
street. Lard Dudley Stuart took the chair, and mentioned
that he had the honour to belong to their body, being a
member of the Bakers' Company of the City of London.
He was glad to bear that the meeting had not been got
up by the journeymen bakers merely, but that many
of the masters were co-operating with them. He
considered that that co-operation did them a great
deal of honour, and ho hoped that things would soon be
placed on a proper footing, in order that the journeymen
bakers might be raised from that state of degradation which
had reduced them almost to a state of slavery. The evil had
attained such a magnitude that he considered they bad a
right to go to parliament and demand an inquiry into the
system ; and should it be found to tend towards the general
good, then let a measure be brought forward to remedy the
evil.—Mr. Reid, the secretary to the society, then made a
' statement setting forth the condition of the trade for the last 60
years—Rev. J. Weir, minister of the Scotch Church at Isling-
ton, moved the first resolution, which was to the effect that
the present system of night-work and unlimited hours of
labour was destructive of the health, morals, and mental
improvement of men employed in the baking business, and
that while it deprived them of necessary rest and recreation,
it was of no benefit to the public or their employers—The
resolution was seconded by Mr. Wightman, a master baker,
and carried unanimously.—Mr. Charles Cochrane then
moved the adoption of two petitions to parliament, re-
spectively from the mantis, and journeymen, setting forth
their grievances.—Mr. M'L win, a master baker, seconded
the resolution, which was also carried ; as well as another,
by which the meeting pledged itself to carry out their oh-
jests.—Thanks were thee voted to Lord Dudley Stuart for
his assistant* in the cause, and the proceedings terminated.

r.—Tel.,

MUNICIPAL ELP.CTIONe.—NEW MAYORS. —Ap
pleby—John Hill ; Beaumarie—Thomaa Williams ; Banff—
William Scott ; Beverley—Richard Hodgson ; Birmingham
—Charles Geach ; Bedford—Captain Henry Leech ; Bun-
staple—H. T. Gribhle; Bradford—Robert Milligan ; Bury—
°. Thompson ; Berwick—Capt. W. Smith, R.N. ; Bridge-
north—Thomas Deighton; Boston—John Noble; Chippan-
ham—John Wilson ; Chester—Richard Philiped ones, M.D.;
Carlisle—W. Sturdy ; Cambridge—Charles Finch Foster;
Carmarthen—William George Thomas; Cardigan—R. D.
Jenkins; Cupar Fife—Robert Nicoll; Coogleton—W. War.
rington; Coventry—Richard Caldicott ; Carnarvon—Thomas
Turner; Dumbarton—William Risk; Denbigh— Dr. Lloyd
Williams; Deal —H. W. Harvey ; Droitwch John
Henry Bradley ; Durham Mark Story ; Falmouth
—J. B. Cox; Grantham—John Wilson; Gateshead
John C. Potts ; Godmanchester John Lancaster ;
Grimsby—W. H. Dsubney ; Gloucester—David Mowbray ;
Hull—John Lee Smith; Hartlepool—George Green, M.D. ;
Hertford—Alderman Dayies ; Helston —Thomas Rogers;
Huntingdon—Charles Musette; Honiton—John Honey-
wood Townsend; Haverfordwest—William Walters; Inver-
ness—Mr. Simpson; Kendal—Alderman Mschill ; Ludlow
Russell ; Lanark Dr. Fleming; Lancaster T.
Howit ; Liverpool—T. B. Horafell ; Liverpool; Thomu John-
son ; Linlithgow—Adam Dawson; Laanceston—R. Pethick,
M.D. ; Lynn—Edward Everard ; Mar-
shell; Leicester—John Biggs; Muavlburgh—Archibald
Hope; Monmouth—Thomas Swift • Morwth—Aathony
Charlton; Newcastle—Alderman 'Dunn has declined;
Neath—Henry Thomas; Newcastle-under-Lyne—John
Richard Hallam; Oxford—Alderman Godfrey; Penzance—
R. Pearce ; Penrhyn—J. B. Read ; Pembroke--P. Butler ;
Preston—Thomas Birchen ; Peebles—John Stirling ; Perth
—David Clunie ; Peterhesd—Roderick Gray; Ruthin—
Robert Lloyd; Ripon—William Williamson ; Richmond—
Leonard Cooke ; Stamford—William Law ; Ssffron Walden
—Joseph Leland Taylor ; Sunderland—Sir Hedwortk Wil-
liunson, Bart. ; St. Ives—Matthew Trowhella ; Stockport—
Edward Marsland ; Scarborough—John Help ; Stockton-
on-Tees—J. Eeles ; St. Alban's—F. Wheeler; Stratford-on-
Avon—W. Sheldon; Shrewsbury—C. Lloyd; Stirling—J.
Dick ; Stamford—C. Parker; Tamworth—E. B. Hamel ;
Truro—W.T. Chappel ; Wisbeach—H.Leach, re-elec. ed third
time ; Warrington—Wm. Belmont, re-elected; Walsall—
Frederick Thurstan ; Warwick—Henry Blenkinsopp ; Yar-
mouth—P. Pullyn; York—Sir John Simpson was fined.
DOUBLE IDENTIFICATION OF A DEAD BODY.—
During the past two or three days much interest has been
occasioned in Hammersmith in consequence of the following
singular circumstance:—On the forenoon of Friday last,
Henry Pearce, a fisherman, living at Strand-on.the-Green,
while fishing in the river, near Chiswick, diecovered the
body of a gentlemen. Me immediately rowed to the spot,
and found that the deceased was quite dead, although
the body was still warm. He then also observed a
hat lying in an osier-bed. Having procured amid-
ance, he conveyed the deceased and the hat to the
Old Ship, Hammersmith. Police-constable Lowe, T 60,
on examining it, ascertained that the deceased was about
Si yeas of age, and five feet eight inches high. On
Thursday last Mr. Mills, the deputy coroner, opened an
inquest on the body, when Captain W. Booth, of the Mall,
Hammersmith, deposed that, to the best of his belief, the de-
ceased was a natural son of Lieutenant-General Sir Brent
Spencer, who was an officer in the same regiment with the
witness, and whose mother, a Mrs. Pelham, was, some two
or three years ago, prosecuted, at the instance of the baud of
guardian, of St. Luke, Chelsea, in which parish she lived,
for illtreating her son, by confining him in a filthy and dirty
state, he being a lunatic, to whom his father had left 3001.
That evidence was in some measure confirmed by policeman
Lowe, lied was still further confirmed by that of Mr. Perfect,
surgeon, of Hammersmith, who had opened the body under a
warrant from the coroner, and who deposed that immediately
on opening the brain a medical friend who assisted him ex-
claimed " This is an insane man," and the witness explained
certain appearances of the brain which were evident signs
that the deceased could not have possessed a sound mind
during life. The deputy coroner then said he considered
that, under the singular circumstances of the case, it would
be right to adjourn the inquiry for the purpose of obtaining
witnesses who would more fully identify the body. The jury
being of the same opinion, the inquiry was adjourned.
Since the adjournment of the inquest the body of the
deceased has also been identified as that of Mr. J. A. I'ol-
land, of the firm of Messrs. Pollard and Hopewell, army ac-
coutrement manufacturers, Leedenhan-street, City, who hag
a country house at Woodford, Ewe x, and who, two or three
weeks ago, received a legacy of 3.0001., since which time he
had been staying at Woodford until Wednesday lut,
the 10th inst., when he was first missed. His relations and
friends had ever since been searching all over that part of
the country to find him, but could gain no tidings of him
until, upon making some inquiries at one of the metropoli•
tan police-stations, they heard of the body in question having
hub found, and came there to see if it was the person they
were in search of. It still further appears that the son of
Sir Brent Spencer, whose body it was supposed to be, has
been ascertained to be in pare care at the Lunatic Asylum,
where he was placed by the committee appointed by the
Lord Chancellor ; and it is stated that the description of the
deceased more nearly resembles that of a brother of that In.
,