The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-16 00:00:00

DONCASTER. —Oa Wednesday evening a public
meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held at Doncaster, for
the purpose of considering the propriety of adopting peti-
tions to both Messes of parliament on the tubjectof state
education, the remahitionins for the meeting believing that
the scheme as propounded by government mu fraught with
great danger to the civil sad religious liberty of the nation.
The meeting, which was very numerously attended, was
presided over by the Mayor.
BRADFORD.—An extraordinary meeting wee held
in this town an Tuesday evening, which terminated in • way
very different to what its projectors anticipated. The eir
eumstances Which gave rise to it are aa follows :—On Thurs-
day last, the vicar of Bradford convened a meeting of 'reek-
ing men, for the purpose of explaining to them the nature
and ohjectsof the government measure of education. On
that occasion the hell of the church institution, in which the
meeting was held, was crowded in every part, and a strong
and unanimous feeling was exp"msed in favour of the
measure. With a view to counteract this impremion, its
opponents determined on calling a second meeting, and
therefore issued the following placard:
Monition Mao or Rasoronn, way Too HU& awe flumst—The
opponents of the government Mutation invite the inhabitants of the
Mani to boar their esphonation of the miners of mien an edem-
bee,
via meeting to be held in the Temperer* MI. on Waft
evening next, the 13th of April, when quistinborogamMtire Ll=
widow and bearing. of the measure will be ineweret.
hi mimeses at half-peat seven o'clock.
The Rev. W. Score took the chair. He said every Me
felt that know:mien must form the grand materials et free-
dom, virtue, and happiness. (Hear, bear, and :ml=l
But, in order to knowledge being converted into fr
virtue, it was of great importance that it should be commu-
nicated in the right and best way. (Hear, hear, and confu-
sion.) The arrangements of the committee were, that there
should be three speeches explanatory of the government
scheme of education; and after these explanations had been
given, they would be glad to hear any questions that might
be put, sad would be quite prepared and ready to answer
them, The meeting was addressed by Mr. Hamm, the
Rev. D. Fraser, and the Rev. F. Closes, against the govern-
ment plan of education. Mr. Smith moved the adoption of
a petition to parliament in favour of the measure.
A scene of indescribable confusion followed. At last, Mr.
Walton, with stentorian voice, called out, I rise to pro-
pose an amendment. (Increased confusion.) The Chair-
man: The amendment must be put first. You must Rup-
pert the chair, or I'll dissolve the meeting.—Mr. Walton
stated his amendment. It was to the effect that a publie
discussion take place on the minutes of council on educa-
tion ; that each party pay an equal share of its expenses,
and have an equal number of tickets allotted to them. (Dis-
approbation.) —Mr. Smith demanded that his motion should
be put to the meeting. This the chairman refused to do!
At last the mover himself put the motion, and declared it
tarried. The number of hands held up for and against it
appeared to be about equal.
Mr. Watrom wished to submit another motion for their
consideration. (His former one was never put to the meet-
ing.) It was, " That in the opinion of this meeting volun-
tary effort, apart from ell state interference, is all-sufficient
for the education of the people." The chairman put Mr.
Walton's motion, and the result being doubtful, called for a
eeoond show of hands, when it was again equally impolitic
to my on which side the majority lay.
From this time all order was at an end. The ads= de-
clared the meeting dissolved. The announcement wee re-
ceived with groans end disapprobation, hat the meeting
evinced no desire to separate. About 11 o'clock the hall
keeper mounted the platform, and made the wettable
announcement that the ball would be in darkness in ten
minutes. The assembly then very reluctantly dispersed. '
Before this time, Mr. S.-ott and a party of his friends bad
leg the ball, and a knot of the opposite party still possessed
one side of the platform, anxious not to leave it till the origi-
nators of the meeting had disappeared.
RIPON.—DIOCREIAN UOARD 0? EDUCATION ON THE
Mtwterexut Screws.—The members of this board met
some days ago, in the Town-hall at Ripon, under the presi-
dency of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese,
when it was unanimously resolved :
That this hoard regards with the messed ratio/action the pia
proposed by her Majesty's government for the improvement ef
school% as set forth In the minutes of the committee of omen an
education, which hero tycently been laid before parliament.

CfIESITIRE.—A general meeting of the indepen-
dent! and baptists was held on Wednesday night, at Stock-
port, to oppose the government scheme. The meeting took
place in the independent Chapel, Orchard-street, and Mr. .1,
T:Akriage presided. The Revs. Dr. Nolen, D. It. Stephen,
and Mellor, and Mr. Cheetbam, and other gentlemen, ad-
dressed the meeting. A series of resolutions, disapproving of
the scheme, were passed unanimously.

DERBY.—THE ANTI-EDUCATIONISTS.—The Derby
Mercury rays :—" We gave a report ef the meeting which
took place on this subject in the Mechanics'-hell, and men-
tioned that it was adjourned for the purpose of hearing ether
speakers : the vote to be then taken. On Tuesday evening
(sennight) many of the supporters of the government plea
went to the Mechaoics'•hell, intending to deliver their opi-
nions, and were disappointed to find that the promoters ef
the first meeting, who had caused its adjournment, were
absent, and that, in fact, they had run away from the con-
templated discussion. The consequence was, that, as there
was so one to contend with—as the Revds. Messrs. Claw-
thorn, Corbin, and Perty had failed to appear at their poets
—there was no meeting, and the friends of the measure re-
turned home. It turns out, however, that, after all, there
wax a sort of hole and censer meeting held by the anti-edu-
cationists, bwt that no one was admitted except their own
friends, and that, until it was over, no advocate of the go-
vetnmeat plan knew that it had been convened; the Rev.
Mr. Corbin, who did not think it prudent to risk an encoun-
ter with the friends of the measure at a public meeting,
having called a number of hie flock around him in the vestry
attached to his ewn chapel, and there delivered hie harangue.
And so, fur the present, has terminated the hostility of the
dissenters of Derby to the government scheme."

IRELAND.

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The Jamestown ship-of-war has arrived in the Cove
of Cork, with a cargo of provisions from the people
of Boston. She left ou the 28th alt, and reached I@
the 12th inst., thus making the voyage in fifteen days.
Not being able to sail up the harbour on her arrival,
in consequence of a stiff gale from the north, she
anchored at Whitebay at five o'clock. At eight
o'clock the surgeon of the vessel landed at Cove, with
despatches for the Lord-Lieutenant and Mr. Labon-
chere. The steamer Avenger towed her into har-
bour. Another American vessel, with a cargo of con-
tributions from the States, arrived also yesterday. The
Jamestown brought advice' of great importance from
the seat of war in Mexico, which I forward to you.
The accounts are brought down to the 26th ult.
The failure of the party" to realise the
" promise of their spring," as well as the lowering con-
dition of the country, are about to bring together the
heads of all parties again. There will, I understand,
issue a requisition in a few days for a grand demon-
stration, with such names as Smith O'Brien and John
O'Connell—Sir C. O'Loghlen and Alderman Butt—
Young Ireland and Old Ireland—all in temporary
harmony.
Persons unacquainted with our social condition
were shocked at the immense litigation which filled
our local courts in Ji last. " The Irish -
beaver -
der in '
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CLERK EN W ELL. ATTE is ern> MURDFIL John
Pout, a German, was charged by Mr. John Alfred Haye,
tobacconist, of No. 34, Red-lion-street, Holborn, with having
attempted to shoot him. The prosecutor deposed that on
Wednesday night last the prisoner entered his shop, and
purchased a cigar. He had a pistol in his possession. lie
continued to walk backwards and forwards opposite his
(witness's) shop for a considerable time in a very auspicious
manner, and in consequence of his having on former occa-
sions threatened to have his life, he became greatly alarmed,
and on proceeding to the door to watch his mancouvres, he
saw him concealed in a doorway, about three houses off, on
the opposite side of the way. Witness gave information to
two po!icemen, who were on duty in the neighbourhood,
and requested them to be on the watch. At a quarter to 12
o'clock, when he brought out a shutter to commence closing
his shop, witness heard the click of a pistol, and saw the
flash from the pan. The two policemen came up and
seized the prisoner. The pistol was taken from him.
Mr. Ilaye said the prisoner was 6 or 7 yards off when he at •
tempted to fire off the pistol. On examining the pistol it was
found to contain gunpowder, wadding, and a small stone.
On searching the prisoner, a quarter of a pound of gunpowder
was found in his possession. When in the station-house, the
prisoner said, lam very sorry I did not do it long ago ; I
know Mr. Haye hu been my ruin."—The prisoner wan
fully committed for trial. The case appeared to have origi-
nated in a love affair.

SOUTHWARK.—BURGLART.—Ifenry Smirks, a cab-
driver, was charged with being concerned, with two men
(not in custody), in the plundering of a house in the Dover-
road, and carrying off 65 pieces of silk, and some articles of
plate, in his vehicle. Between 5 sad 6 o'clock that morning,
the policeman on duty in the Dover-road was informed by a
stranger that two men were observed to come through an
aperture leading from the lower part of the house of Messrs.
Clarke and Co., linen-drapers, with bundles. He, the police-
man, hastened after the men, and on arriving at the corner
of Kent-street, he saw a eb driven by the prisoner going in
the direction of Long-lane, and a man without his hat run•
ning by the side of the vehicle. The cab was stopped in
Long-lane, and inside of it were found 65 pieces of silk, toge-
ther with some plate. The prisoner, when questioned, said
that he was hired the same morning by two men, whom he
should know again, and they desired him to drive
them over to Kent-street, and to wait for them.
He waited about a quarter of an hour, and
they came back with the bundle of silk, and, placing
it inside the cab, desired him to drive to Bermondsey
church, and to wait there till they came.—One of the part-
nen in the firm stated that the premises were entered by
thieves through an iron grating which led into the lower
part of the house, from which they had aeons to the hall-
passage, which was divided from the warehouse by a thick
wooden partition, through which the thieves cut a hole, and
by that means obtained an entry into the place where the
silks were deposited, and plundered it of 6,5 piems.—The
prisoner gave the same account as he had previously done
to the policeman.--Mr. Seeker said that there appeared to
be so much suspicion attached to the conduct of the prisoner
throughout the transaction, that he felt bound to remand
him until the apprehension of the other parties concerned
in the offence was effected.
THAMBS.—THR SWELL Mon.—Thomas Tasks? and
Ethonrd Trews were charged with assaulting a French-
man named Alexander Marne, and robbing him, particulars
of which we gave yesterday, were connuited for trial to
Maidstone jail.
GREENWICH.—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A NEWLY-
MARRIED COUPLE.—Yesterday Henry Thomas Maimed
20, and Louisa Dyer, his wife, aged 20, a good-100 • and
well-dressed female,were brought before M r. Traill for further
examination, charged with taking poison on the night of the i
9th inst., at the door of a house in Greenwich-market.—Henry
Bowles, an importer of French fancy baskets, deposed that
the female prisoner is his daughter. She had recently been
married to the prisoner Dyer unknown to witness. He found
them both at the doorway of his haute on the night in ques-
t tion. They both, on being questioned, admitted to himthey
had taken poison. Witneia's daughter said the cups from
which they had drunk the poison were under a cart in the
market, and there the cups were found. The male prisoner
asked his wife to wash out the cups and get him some water
to quench his excessive thirst, but she could net, being in
such fearful agony at the time.—Elizabeth Bowles, wife of
the last witness, deposed that the prisoners told her they had
purchased the poison at the shop of Mr. Harriman, a
chemist, in Park-row. The male prisoner gave her a paper
on which " poison" was written from his waistcoat pocket.—
Dr. Sturtoc, of Nelson-street, Greenwich, said he attended
the female after takingpoison,and prescribed for her. Hehad
examined the cups sines, and they had contained poison, but
as they had contained beer also, he did not analyse the in-
gredients.—Mr. Train said he should remand the final hear-
ing of the charge until after the tests had been tried.—Mr.
Harriman, chemist, Park-row, deposed that the prisoners
came to his house on Friday night, between nine and ten
o'clock, and asked for arsenic. Witness asked what it was
for, and they said to kill rats. Witness suggested nux
vomica for that purpose, and they agreed to take some. lie
supplied them with twopenny worth. The female asked how
it was to be used, and lie told her to s'read it upon bread
and butter, or to mix it with meal. He put it in paper,
and wrote poison thereon—the paper produced is the same.--
Elisabeth Wilson, of Jubilee-Ore, Greenwich, identified
the cups. The prisoners visited her on Friday night, the 9th
instant, and asked for pens, ink and paper. They each
wrote part of a letter and went away. Mired the cups next
day. The following is a copy of the letter alluded to,
written by the female prinsner
Dear Mother,—l write to tell you that it ie my with sad Henry's
to be buried together, both at one time.—From your loving daughter
and eon.

By the male prisoner :
Mr. howles,—l hope now that you are suite /labelled that me and
your daughter is out of the world by the time that you twelve this ;
and my lot wish le, that you and my mother have not one moment's
peace in the world that you have driven u. from. Fare you well.
Mother, it is my wish that you let the ring which is on my wife's
hand remain there, and let us both be buried together. Farewell;
and kW Mary Ann for me when you see her. She little thought that
I should be dead before she mw me again. 11. T.
lo Mrs Liver, Royal hospital, Greenwich.
—Mr. Trail' said he should remand the ease for a week. It
wu a very serious charge of aiding and assisting to commit
• felony, both accessories to each other's acts—a grave
offerer, which he should eventually sand to a jury.

HONEY JURIST.
TH IMIDAY EVININO.
The settlement of the account on this the winding-up
day has been a much more quiet affair than was anticipated.
For the magnitude of the transactions this account has been
almost without parallel, for many yeses at least, bath in the
aggregate and singly. But the science, it so it may be dig-
nified, of stock dealing and speculation has become so aim-
• puttied and improved that, although business may be
nominally done for the account, which represents a credit
for so rainy weeks, the operations are frequently balanced,
so far u making up the books, before the credit expires,
when all that remains to be done is the payment of differ-
ences, or the passage of the stock bought and sold. Tlic
variations of prices during an account afford the opportunity
for realising profits, or checking leas, by counter-operstions,
and thus facilitate the arrangement of a masa of transactions
spread over a surface; of time, which if left to the last day
would necessarily be the cause of much complication and
difficulty.
This casting up of accounts appears to have created a sort
of pause in speculation. Business for the account now
opened was not entered upon with the alacrity, and something
almost like recklessness, which might be remarked of the
account now closed. The beginning has been so far of a
slower and more limited if not more wary character, and
the fluctuations ofthe day's prices were scarcely more im-
portant than in ordinary times. Consols opened at 861 to
money, and 87 to I for the new account. They left off 861
money and 87 for account. Reduced Threes, 851 to' d.
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 871 to d. Exchequer Bills
3 discount to par. India Bonds, 5 discount to par. Con-
arils Scrip, 24 discount Bank Stock, 193 to 5.
The fluctuations during the account now closed, with
alight temporary reactions, have bout erst to last been in a
downward direction. At the elm of the ioet account on the