The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1848.

Such was the substance of the memorial laid before
his excellency, and rather unfavourably received. A
long correspondence ensued, in which the " constitu-
tional society " offered to send a deputation to confer
personally with his excellency. The interview was
declined. It strikes one, on reading the terms pro-
posed, why the constitutional
.farmers of the Cashel
union should not carry out their offer without insist-
ing on the equivalent of a poundage. If peace, and
progress, and employment be good things with •
poundage consideration for securing them, they are
equally good without it. This view did not strike the
constitutional association.
The state of the country has not improved much
since the proclamation, which has fared scurvily
enough at the hands of the peaceful in Tipperary.
The " boys" have torn it down in several places, and
as if in defiance taken to the old work of plundering
arms. The King's County Chronicle states that rob-
beries of that nature abounded last week. In the
county the threatening notice has been on the wing.
The lady of Colonel Westenra, in the absence of her
husband, received one, threatening her with death if
money was not given to some person or persons. A
Mr. Tyre, a benevolent Englishman residing near
Tullamore, received a similar notification. His crime
as a landlord was a suggestion that a rate of seven
shillings in the pound be levied on the district. lie
of course prepares to emigrate until better times.
The first registration of fire-arms under the late
act took place at Ilirr, King's County, on Mon-
day ; Major Priestley, with two others, acted as
licenser. The applications were numerous, and the
inquiries stringent. Fifty licenses were issued, many
to well-disposed farmers for the protection of them-
selves and properties. The poaching class claimed
the privilege, but the major laid an interdict. The
disarming process could not be more beneficially
exerted than in checking such incentives to crime and

idleness.
The Thurles guardians have adopted three resolu-
lotions :—lst, that they be allowed by law to attach
50 acres to the workhouse, whereby a thousand
pounds' worth of food could be raised annually ; 2nd,
to apprentice their young boys and girls to trades, or
other useful occupations; 3rd, to afford remunerative
employment outside the workhouse to the able-
bodied destitute. Tke same resolutions have been
adopted by several other boards.
I stated on Monday that the Galway board was
on the eve of dissolution. Since then the final order
has arrived, and they are replaced by paid officers.
Roscommon has also been added to the list, and
Athlone looks in a very tottering condition. Seven
boards are now represented by paid guardians.
The Bank of Ireland yeaterda7 reduced the rate
of discount to 51 per cent. on English and Scotch
bills and advances on stock. Irish bills remain at 6
per cent.

police- The prisoner Garnett, who had been admitted as a
witness at Heywood on the day previous, was recalled, but
no other witeeses were examined. The jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful murder against James Tetlow, aged 48.
The other two_priione re, however, also remained in custody.
ALLEGED CABE OF NEGLECT BY AN UNION OFFICES.
—An inquest was held at the police-office, Bolton, on Tuee.
day, upon the body of Thomas Fiddler, whose death, it was
supposed, had been caused by the negligence of Mr. Matthew
Daniels, one of the relieving officers. The following are the
circumstances of the case, as explained in evidence: Grim
thaw Livesey, of Duncan-street, Great Bolton, deposed that
the deceased (Thomas Fiddler) was • weaver, and aged 49.
He came to ledge at my house eeren weeks since today. He
worked as a handloom weaver. Hewes taken ill last Friday
but one. He complained of pain in the head. His breathing
became bad last ‘A ednesday. He had no surgeon up to that
time. Last Friday Matthew Daniels, relieving officer, came
to my house and saw deceased. Daniels said, " Is
there • man here sick ?" I said, " He is in the
other place." I showed him decemed. He mid, " What
ails you ?" Deceased was some time before he could
speak. Daniels said, "Cant you tell me what ails you, ?"
The man said, " Too much ails me." Daniels said, "'here
do you belong I" Deceased said, " Listle Bolton." "Where
did you live ?" and" Where have you lived before ?" He
asked many questions as to where deceased had previously
lived, and I then said, " What makes you ask those ques-
tions ?" Daniels said, " It is on account of what officer he
will require." My wife said," Cannot you remove him ?"
lie said, " I shall not do." She said, " It is hard we must
pay great rates and this chap sick, and him lying on our
hands ; we have as much to do as we can do, and there's a
workhouse for such like folk, and it is nought but right that
the town should take him." He said," He moved himself
here, and he must move himself away. I'll not remove him.
You Great Bolton folks do not like paying extravagant rates;
if I remove him the expense wiil be thrown on Great Bolton.
I'll relieve him with a ticket for a shilling's worth of stuff, and
he must go to Mr. Openshaw'a for it." I replied," I will not
take it ; it is net meat he wants, but • doctor, and a doctor
he is like to have; and you must remove him, for I cannot
do with him." Daniels then said : " You have taken him
to get something out of him, and as he has turned to bad
rase, you must make the le et out of him you can." I
acid; " You'll not remove him, or allow him a doctor?' He
replied " I shall do neither." I said : " You can pee the
man is sick, and like to have some help; you'll be like to
remove him." Deceased died l esterday morning, about a
quarter before four o'clock. He had no doctor to the time
of hie death —Cross-examined by Mr. Daniels : I did not
throw the ticket at you. I asked you particularly for a
doctor. I said the man owed me 10s., and it was not likely
I should keep him. You did not ley von must have an order
from the board before you could remove him—Re-
examined : Deceased was an asthmatic subject, and coughed
and spit !very badly. The deceased asked Mr. Daniels to
send him a doctor.—The jury having consulted, returned •
verdict " That the deceased died from natural cause. ;" they
at the same time expressed an opinion to the following effect:
" We think Mr. Daniels has neglected his duty in not order-
ing a surgeon when requested."
YORKSHIRE.
FURTHER CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER REID.—
On Thureday a respite of the sentence of death passed upon M.
M'Cabe, upon his conviction, along with Petrel: Reid, of
the murders at Mirfield, was received from the Secretary of
State, by Mr. Noble, the governor of York Castle. It will
be remembered that Patrick Reid made a confession of his
own guilt, and in general terms exculpated M'Cabe of parti-
cipation in the murder. On Thursday afternoon, however,
Mr. Jackson, M'Cabe'e solicit. r, waited upon Reid, and be
(Reid) then made a more detailed confession, which was re-
duced to writing and signed by him in the presence
of witnesses, and in which he denies the correct
ness of the testimony of some of the most ma-
terial witnesses examined on the part of the prosecution,
as more immediately affecting the prisoner M'Cabe. We
have been favoured with an inepection of this document,
which has been forwarded to tho Secretary of State, who
doubttese has recommended to her Majesty the respite of
M'Cabe'e sentence in order to allow time for further inves-
tigation. The following is a copy of the more detailed con-
fession—
CONDEMIiiII Cele, Yoke Caere; Dec. 30, 1847.—1 Patrick
Reid, now lying under sentence of death for the wilful murder des-
rolitte Ellis, at Mirtield, near Dewsbury, in the county of York, on
the 12th day of May laet, hereby acknowledge the Melia of the sen-
tence which leas been pa ned upon me ; and I do hereby Nolemnly, and
sineerely, and as I expect shortly to appear before God, declare that I
alone am guilty of the murder of Caroline Ellis, James Wraith, and
Ann Wraith, and that Michael M'Cabe, now also 'yew under sentence
of death for the murder of the said Curohne Ellie, bad nothing
whatever to do with leer murder or the murders of James Wraith
and Aar wraith, arty or either of them. About • month previous to
the murders the thought suggested noel( to my mind that I would
rob his house, having frequently conversed with the servant girl
abut the money he was posse:reed of. I got up about 0 o'clock on
the morning of the 12th May, and thinking it was Dewebury (sir, I
would not go a hawking that day. 1 afterwards changed my mind,
and went out about lu o'clock to Kilty's house, which is distant Fran
my father's house about 40 yards. I saw Mrs. Kitty, and I then got
the soldering iron from her. I never saw Kitty that morning. I
then went home, and got my basket reedy to go • hawking, and put
the soldering iron wetter the papers, at the bottom of the basket. I
had then resolved to rob and murder the family of Mr. Wraith. I
then went over to Mirfield, and called at several places on my way.
I called at Lockwood'. house about half-past 12, and proceeded
from there down the footpath to Mr. Wraith's house. I went
into the kitchen, and eat on the table, talking to the servant girl
(Caroline Ellis) who was cleaning the fender. After I had been in the
house gee or ten minutes, I took out the soldering iron and struck
her on the head. She shrieked out and staggered to the door, which
she tried to open. I prevented bee, and etruck her spun, and she I
then fell. I then went in'o the peonage and met Mr. Wraith coming
out of the cellar with some beer In the t-ifter tankard, and struck him
• blow with the soldering iron. The iron flew out of the handle. Mr.
Wraith staggered intothe parlour. I met Mrs. Wraith coming into
the theatre to see whet was the noise, and I struck her with the iron
part of the soldering iron. I then went into the kitchen and got the
poker, and struck them each two or three blows. I then riled the
pockets of Mr. wraith, and took his watch, and the ring otf Mrs.
Wraith's linger. I then heard a knock at the &or, which I thought
was Caroline Ellis getting up, and I went to the kitchen,
bet she was quite still, and I returned to the parlour.
I then went to the kitche odoor, and opened it ajar, when I saw a
person whom I did not then know, but who is the prisoner M'Cabe.
*Cate inquired if I 'rented anything in his way. I answered, " No
sir." I thought the man would not know me; if he had, I should
have murdered him too. 1 then shut and lotted the Igor, and ran-
sacked the drawers, and found in one of them a razor-ease, out of
which I took one, and cut the throats of the three parties. I then
washed my hands, and wiped them upon the towel. I then quitted
the house, locked the kitchen-door, and threw the soldering iron and
key into the well, near the back door, and then went home by the
footpath. The amount of money which I found in Mr. Wraith's
house was between 8/. and 9/., which was all I got, besides the watch
and the wedding-ring. When I got home I put the watch between
the rafter and slates, but I do not know where it is now. I never was
in the garden at all, as sworn to by the little girl, nor in
the oattleld; nor did I stand at the laith end, aa sworn
to by Decjanrin Morton, but went the direct road home, shortie
after M'Cabe had been at the house. I had no hat on when I left the
house, but the same cap winch 1 had when I went ; nor did I bring a
hat out of the house with me. PATILICK BElD.—Witaess, J. Noble,
keeper of York Castle.
Previous to the last trial, M'Cabe had suffered much from
anxiety of mind and depression of spirits ; but, since Reid
has made his confession, M'Cabe has been much relieved.
Reid, being a member of the Roman catholic church, has
been regularly visited by two ministers of that persuasion.
The execution is fixed for Saturday, the Bth inst.
LI SCOLNSIII RE.
THEM ORDER OF A FARMER AT K I RTON.—The follow-
ing additional particulars appear in the Lincoln Mercury of
yesterday: The verdict of Wilful Murder against Josepk
Travis was received by him with apparent indifference.
He said he should meet with an honest jury at Lincoln. The
inquest lasted nearly five days, hut the most material evi-
dence was comprised in our summary of last week (already
published in the Express) embracing the first three days
and part of the fourth. Among the features of inter,st
which came before the jury afterwards may be mentioned
the production of the coat and waistcoat worn by Travis on
the Saturday, and the positive evidence of Mr. H. George,
surgeon, of Kirton, that there were spots of fresh blood on
them, particularly on the coat. Mr. G. stated that there
were several marks of blood, but only a few upon which he
could pronounce certainly that they were fresh, as
upon them the fibrine portions of the blood remained,
and would rise from the woollen by friction. In
those instances the blood must have fallen on the coat in a
warm state, or it would not have coagulated. On the lining
of the right sleeve there wan also blood, but not equally cer-
tain to be fresh, as the fibrine had been removed by friction,
but it could not have been there very long. The coat and
waistcoat, which appear likely to form so prominent • feature
in the evidence, were delivered up by the prisoner'a family
without any hesitation, and the first examiostion of them,
being by candle-light, and the cloth being black or dark-
coloured, the spots of blood were not perceived by the jury,
who returned them to Travis' mother. This was on the first
day of the inquiry, and before the case against Travis had
anumed muck of a definite shape. It appears almost heron-
sistent with the idea of • consciousness of guilt, that when
on the following morning, from the new circumstances
which had transpired in the interval, the clothes were
re.demanded from the family, they were again readily
delivered up. As to the Demers also, the prisoner
seems to have been frank in describing those which
he wore on the Saturday, while his mother, on the
constable's claiming them, positively denied his having such
a pair. She produced some dark drab troweers, but as to
the light kerseymeres, she exclaimed, " Joseph is mistaken
—he has no light ones ; he must be crazed." When, on the
following day, these were delivered up, it wasin some de-
gree voluntary, on the occasion of Cheney and a constable
'earthing the outhemes--when George Travis (the oris
boner's brother), on their telling their errand, said, "Oh,
I can show them to you," and took them upstairs to his
room, showing them the drawer which contained them, but
in which, it is said, they certainly were not when the same
drawer was searched the day before. On being asked to
explain this before the jury, he could give no other accouct
than the having found them lying on a chair in his room,
from which he removed them to the drawer.—Mrs. Travis'
servant girls positively denied the knowledge of any
washing or cleaning of cloth-s during the eventful
Saturday night or following • •eneing, er that they
found any remains of fires or otL, r indications of washing ;
one of them, however, who slept
_in a room adjoining her ,
mistress's, and who got out of bed to give her a light (as
mentioned last week), deposed to the fact that her mistress
did not, while she continued awake, return to her bed : the
two rooms having only a alight separation, so that the light
of a candle showed itself through the crevices, and the occupier
of one room was quite cognisant of movements in the other.
—On the occasion of some evidence being given as to the
tiowsent having been apparently sponged or partially washed
at no very distant time, the prisoner interposed a remark
that he bad frequently sponged them from diet gathered in
the field by kneeling, &c., and rubbed them with straw.—
The constable described the spot where the struggle seems to
have taken place to be some few yards north of where the
body lay (or nearer to Kirton); and here it may be ob-
served that, as no blood was found on that spot, it would
seem, and such is the general inference in the neighbour-
hood, that after the struggle for the money, tbs. de-
ceased had been allowed to resume his way home, and bad
proceeded some few yards, when the thief, seized by some
sudden impulse, mrang on him with murderous intent, to
which the intoxicated state of the deceastd made him an

MORTALITY AMONO PIIYAIGIANS.—The Galway Vitali-
calor thews the position of the medical gentlemen of that
county to be extremely dangerous. On the 23ril, 24th, '2sth,
and 26th Dec. respectivrly, in different parts of the county
Galway, four medical gentlemen fell victims o fever. They
were—Dr. Seymour, Xileounel ; Dr. C. Donellan, Anna-
down ; Dr. Bodkin, Clifden ; and Dr. Lambert, of Gran-
more. Two other phyacians in other districts of Galway
are ill of fever—namely, Dr. Idulrille of Gort, and Dr.
Ilynes of Kinvarra.
SOUTH TIPPERARY.— This division of the county, which
has been immemorially less disturbed than the north division,
of which Nenagh is the centre, seems emulous of the had
fame of its " worse half." The Tipperary Free Press to-
day has a long array of robberies and plunder and slaughter
of cattle, malicious burning, cow stealing, and, to crown all,
a case of desperate assault is recorded, which nearly ended
in a double murder.

easy prey. If the murder was actually perpetrated with so of the college—the Vice-Chancellor of the University
weak a weapon as the penknife, the broken blade of which (Dr. Phelps); Lord Hardwicke, lord-lieutenant of the
was found in the pool of blood, It is hardly credible that it county ; Right Hon. Sir H. J. Fast ; Dean of Bristol;
could have been premeditated ; and it should be stated that Dean of Ely ; Muter of Christ's; Master of Catherine-
Mr. H. George seems in his evidence of the examination of Hall ; Master of Jesus; Right Hon. H. Goulburn, M.P. ;
the wounds, to have felt a doubt whether the larger ones Hon. Mr. Law, M.P ; Mr. A.dair, M.P.; Serjeant Talfourd;
scald have been made by a penknife. The wounded state Professor Sedgwick ; Professor 011ivent ; Professor Starks;
of the poor dog led to a hope that in the contest the mar- Professor Blunt; Professor Clark ; Professor Schelefield;
doer would carry away some marks of his teeth so far, Professor Heaviside; Professor Challis; Professor Wills;
however, as Travis is affected, no such traces have been Professor Miller ; Mr. Turner, M.P. ; Mr. Fisher; The
found. It may be mentioned, before diunisaing the evri- Regiatrary of the University; the Mayor of Cam-
dance, that Hodgkiss, the railway clerk, whose changing of • bridge ; Dr. Alderson ; Dr. Paget; Dr. Respell ;
sovereign for Travis was noticed en our last week's mammary, and Dr. Wyatt ; besides many other gentlemen con-
deposed to the fact that Travis had called on him, saying, "If netted with the University and the college. On
they call you up about thatsevereignyou changed for me, you the withdrawal of the cloth, the usual loyal touts were
must say it was a half-sovereign, for I have to.d them it was given by the president ; these were followed by the health
I half-sovereign." The prisoner then hastily went away, of the Prince Chancellor, the Master and Fellows of Pens.
before witness could make any reply. The evidence being broke (responded to by Dr. Ainslie), the Members of the
aloud, the coroner told Travis, who bad no legal or apps- University (acknowledged by Mr. Goulburn), the Lord
Neatly any other adviser, that if he wished to make any Lieutenant of the County (acknowledged by Lord Hard-
statement, the jury were ready to hear him ; on which he wicks). The whole affair passed off in a way calculated to
delivered himself as follows :—" There are certain spots of enhance the existing credit of the venerable institution
blood on my coat and waistcoat, as lam informed : I cannot within whose walls it took place.
account for them, unless they have come on from my nose
bleeding, which I am subject to three or four times a week.
I have bled twice since I have been in the prison. I cannot
account for the blood on the knees of my trowsen, unless it
was by kneeling down in the yard where we hal a foal bled.
I was kneeling down and taking up some thatch pegs from
the corner, and I might kneel down amongst the blood. I
washed my trowsers on Saturday night at the well-trough in
the yard, with a wisp of straw, after I came out of the turnip
field; I dried them a little at the fire, and went up-bill
in them damp as they were. As for the charge I stand for,
lam as innocent as • new born babe—l know nothing of it.
The lest time I saw him was against the Red Lion, talking
to • woman and a man at the corner. I never saw him
after, till he was brought in the cart. Gentlemen, I leave it
to you to decide as you wilt lam innocent, anil not afraid
to meet any one, and before any one. (The knife was pro-
duced.) I had one like it, or the same, I cannot tell which,
three weeks ago. I lost it out of my pocket, with a half-
crown : I believe the hole is in my pocket now. I bad a
bunch of keys, which only partly went through the hole,
which made me feel for my knife and half-crown, and I
found they were gone. I'll take an oath I never BIM it
since till it was produced, if it be the same, on Tues.
day. That is all I have to say: I leave myself to you,
gentlemen, only I can't bear confinement: it's as much as
I can do not to destroy myself—l've never been used to
it." Being asked if he had any witnesses, he replied in the
negative, adding, "lsaw no one from the Red Lion till I got
home ; as I went down the bill, I saw a light burning in the
window ; and as I was going up the paddock, I knew it to
be my mother's chamber where the light was. I thought I
would not call any one else up, as she was awake, ro I threw
some pebbles at her window ; she let me in, and I went to
bed dsrectly. I generally leave my coat and waistcoat down
stairs on Saturday night, as she takes are of them ; I left
her in the kitchen, and don't know whether she took them ;
if she saw them there, she would, which would account fur
the girl's not seeing them. I went to bed, and saw nothing
more till I saw Mr. Cooper (the constable) bring deceased
away from the place. I hat is all I can answer for the de
ceased from seeing him alive to his death," During
the coroner's minimum up, the prisoner occasionally inter-
posed remarks, the matter of which, at hie request, was
added to the preceding declaration ; in one instance, pointing
out an apparent discrepancy in the evidence of one of the
constables. His demeanour in the jury-room was quiet and
becoming; his anxiety and depression on the concluding day
of the inquiry evidently increased, and a sense of his fearful
position seemed to overpower him when the coroner, in be-
ginning his address to the jury, bespoke Vale most careful
attention to the mass of evidence he was about to read, in-
asmuch as they must be aware that the charge involved was
one which might affect the life of the prisoner. In the
course of his summing up, the Coroner alluded to the foot.
marks, to which much attention bad been directed. That
kind of evidence, be observed, was considered as of the
weakest dug ; and, as an illustration of its uncertainty, he
added that several of the jury, during the inquiry, had
tried their own footmarks, and found that they could
seldom be sure of two impressions being alike. It was,
however, important in this case, so far as giving proof that
the murderer had returned towards Kirton ; and on measuring
the strides, they appeared to he the same in going and coming.
It would be well if this fearful tragedy might be the means
of exciting attention to the moral and spiritual condition of
the district. Among the causes of its low state, some com-
plain of the multitude of paupers who arc thrust upon the
town of Kirton by the neighbouring parishes; the ;ee-
totallen point to the 16 public houses and beer-shops—cer-
tainly a large allowance; and they might include the
establishment of Mrs. Sarah Barker, from whom it was ex-
tracted at the inquest that card-playing was done at her
rooms at 2d. each per evening. Those who make light of
public reading rooms and mechanics' institutions might, one
would think, at least prefer them to such places as these.

THE DEAN OF HEREFORD.—We are this morning in a
position to state, upon the highest authority, that Dean
Merewetber did apply to the Queen for the Bishopric of
Hereford. This explains the mysterious expression which
the Dean used when he asked her Majesty " to appoint some
alter person."—Church and State Gazette.
ARCHDEACON HALE'S PROTENT.—The Tractarian pre-
test of the Archdeacon of London against Dr. Hamp-
den, which has been lying at Sion Gillette for sig-
natures now nearly a fortnight, we are informed, has
not more than fifty signatures to it, end those mostly of the
" clique," while the address for London, presented to Dr.
Hampden on Thursday last, had nearly seven hundred sig-
natures—lbid.
MR. NEWMAN arrived in town last night; and will
preach his first sermon in London, in the character of a
Romish priest, on Saturday_ (this day)e--Ibid.
THE NEW BISHOPS OF MANCHESTER AND HEREFORD.—
The Rev. James Prince Lee. who bee been appointed Bishop
of the new diocese of Manchester, will not be consecrated,
it is generally stated, until the first week in March. it having
been deemed advisable that this ceremony should he post-
poned until after the conclusion of the trial " Leo r.
Gutteridge." The confirmation of the bishop elect cannot
take place until within a few days previous to his consecra-
tion, which ceremony is essential to the validity of his ap-
pointment. The election by the chipter of the Cathedral
Church of Dr. Hampden to be bishop of that dine, se, ob-
viates all the difficulties which it was first imagined would
stand in the way of his appointment, unless indeed the
Archbishop of Canterbury should refuse to consecrate him, a
course which it is not expected the most reverend prelate
will adopt. The probability therefore is, that Dr. Hampden
will be confirmed and consecrated Bishop of Hereford
before Mr. Lee is oonfirmed and consecrated Bishop of Man-
chester, in which case Dr. Hampden will take his seat in the
House of Lords, while Mr. Lee will be excluded, although
Mr. Lee was first nominated to a bishopric. The Bishopric
of Manchester, our readers are aware, was crested on
condition that the number of lords spiritual should not be
increased, the clause of the set creating the new see running
to the following effect " And be it enacted that the number
of lords spiritual now sitting and voting as lords of parlia-
ment shall not be increased by the creation 6f the bishopric
of Manchester, and whenever there shall he a vacancy
amongst the lords spiritual by the avoidance of any one of
the sees of Canterbury, York, L ,ndon, Durham, or Win-
chester, or any other aft which shell be filled by the transla-
tion thereto from any other see of a bishop at that time ac-
tually sitting as a lord of parliament, such vacancy shall be
supplied by the issue of a writ of summons to the bishop
who shall be elected to the same see ; but if such vacancy be
caused by avoidance of any other see in England or Wales,
such vacancy shall be supplied by the issue of a writ of sum-
mons to that bishop of a see in Eneland or Wales who
shall not have previously become entitled to such
writ, and no bishop who shall hereafter be elected
to any see in England or Wales, not being one of the five
sees above named, shall he entitled to have a writ of sum-
mons, unless in the order and according to the conditions
above prescribed." By the translation of Dr. MIligtSTP, then
Bishop of Hereford, to the Archbishopric of York, a vacancy
occurred amongst the lords spiritual, and had Mr. Lee been
confirmed in and consecrated to his new appointment as
Bishop of Manchester a writ of summons would have issued
to him, but as such is not the case the vacancy is still unsup-
plied, and Dr. Hampden (as he will in all probability be
confirmed and consecrated first) will succeed by right tea
seat in the House of Lords in preference to Mr. Lee, e
new Bishop of Manchester. Mr. Lee, it is said, will be con-
, secreted by the Areibishop of York on the first Sunday in
• March ; the new Bishop of Hereford (Dr. Hampden) will be
consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the course
of the present month.
PRETERMHNT.—Rev. J. T. Fisher to Stutten C., Suffolk.

NOITYINGIIAMSIIIItE.
NEWSTEAD ABBEY.—We regret (says the Notting-
ham Review) that inconsequence of offence having been given
by certain foolian remarks of a Sheffield contemporary, Col.
Wildman no longer allows viaiton admittance to the Abbey
grounds. Mr. Emerson, the author and lecturer, inspected the
place on Monday last, but only by particular favour. It is la-
mentable that inconsiderate persons at a distance should
have thought it worth while to cause the Abbey to be inac-
cessible to the public; and trust that the gallant proprietor
will not continue to deprive them of so inestimable a privi-
lege on account of the silly remarks of a Sheffield paper.

CAMBRIDGESIIIRE.
ROBBERY BY NAVIGATORS.—In a lane leading from
Wiabech to Peterborough, near to Thorney toll-bar, in
Wishech Fen, there is a retail beer-house, the sign of
Speed the Plough, occupied by William ..er and his
apt' wife, and this house was early on the morning of Sun-
day last the scene of a daring robbery. About twe o'clock
on that morning the inmates were aroused by a loud knock-
ing at the door. Thinking that it was a neighbour, the old
man descended by the ladder front a trap-door in the floor
of the bed-chamber, and on opening the door, three eica-
vetoes rushed in, and immediately commenced an attack on
Foster, forcing hint up into the chamber, where they se-
cured the aged couple by tying them to the bedstead with
ropes. After securing the trap-door above alluded to, the
thieves ransacked the premises. taking possession of 7/., a
silver watch, and a large hoard of farthings. The burglars
then regaled themselves with the viands in the louse, wash-
ing all down with beer, and then they decamped. Notwith-
standing the constables were early on the search, and gal-
loped up and down the highway for three or four miles, they
could not find the thieves.

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HEREFORDSHIRE.
COUNTRY CHURCH ON FIRE.—On Christmas-day,
about half-past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in the rural
church picturesquely situated on the lawn a few yards
from Croft Castle, some mike from Leominster, in this
county. When lint discovered the flame was blazing a yard
above the roof of the edifice. An excellent smell engice kept
at the mansion was immediately brought into re
quisition, and did effectual service, the neighbours
and workmen partially lending assistance. As, how-
ever, the castle appeared more in danger, it was
deemed prudent to despatch a messenger to Leomin-
ster for the larger engine, at which place be arrived
about half-past eleven o'clock, and the engine was imme-
diately not off with four horses attached. By the time of
its arrival, however, the fire had been almost subdued. It
appears to have broken out in a pew attached to the castle,
where the pipe of a stove having been overheated ignited
the wood-work, and set the place occupied by the singers in
a blaze. The greater part of the roof and tower have been
destroyed, and the edifice now presents a ruin, even the clus-
tering ivy having fallen a victim to the conflagration. When
the flames had been subdued those who had so actively and
properly assisted in checking the fire were hospitably enter-
tained at the castle.
CHANNEL ISLANDS.
GUERNSEY.—The Star, of Wednesday, sa4 6:—
Sir S. Lushington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty,
arrived here this morning by the Courier steamer front
Southampton. The ostensible object of the learned gentle-
men's visit is, as we have already stated, to adjust the affairs
of Elizabeth College; but it is considered that a functionery
of his high rank would not come to Guernsey solely for so
small a matter as this, and it is conjectured that an inquiry
into the state of our ecclesiastical law may form an object of
his visit.

ffint ens.
THREATENED REMOVAL OF THY. ROOD SCREEN AT
CHRIST ClataCll.—Tbe contemplated destruction of the
celebrated stone rood screen at Christ Church, in Hemp
shire, has drawn from the committee of the Archreological
Institute the following reasons for its preservation Be-
cause the amount of space in the neve and transepts allotted
to the congregation is more than sufficient at present, and
the removal of the rood screen, and the conversion of the
nave and choir into one large auditorium, would be practi-
cally inconv nient, inasmuch as the clergyman, who is now
Imperfectly heard, would be wholly inaudible to many of the
congregation. 2. Because the church shows the most per-
fect arrangement of a conventual building extant, being
complete in its nave, aisles, transepts, chancel, Lsdye
chapel, sacristy, chintzy chapels, and Reredos, which re-
main undisturbed in their ancient proportions ; further,
that the stone rood screen exhibits, even in its shattered
state, the remains of certainly the most beautiful rood screen
of the time of Edward 111. in this country, its double tier of
niches being chaste in design, and of bold and
masterly execution. 3. That the removal of this screen
must necessarily disturb the return stalls of the
OhOM with its peculiar arrangement of prior and
prier's seats, besides rendering too conspicuous the unequal
widths of the nave and choir, the awkwardness of which is
at present skillfully concealed and overcome by the position
of the rood screen, which now separates the nave and chan-
cel. 4. That the conversion of so large a measure of the
building into; one area was never contemplated by the
founders of the church ; that the stalls, the high altar screen
with its unrivalled genealogical representation of Jesse, and
the Salisbury ebantry, are objects teen to the best advantage
from a moderate distance ; that their effect is the best when
the choir is entered from the door of the:rood screen, while,
if viewed from the west end, their details ~ould he altogether
confused and lost. The reasons thus properly urged have
been transmitted, we understand, to the Earl of !filmes-
bury, the lord paramount in this important matter. His
lordship surely will feel the sense and good taste of the
several reason' put forward for its preservation.

UNWERSITY AND CLERICAL.
CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 31.—A grand festival, in commemo-
ration of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Pem-
broke College, was holden this day within its walls. The
College-ball was most pro; wely deeorated. At five
o'clock the Master Ainslie) mitred the ball.
The party present included all the resident members