The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-05 00:00:00

RE EXPAESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1849.

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41=i* tCsuiratiTesrltircntri; expeeted r. beg.
Therese, Immo et Isterites being' idiot to become
Preeideatet the New& The first preparatory sitting
of the Coto tea phis to-day.
One 01 the Andalusia* merit gives aa amount of
the marriage eta coast-geard oondsinasd to death
for murder, mad who, Wed execution, married a
woman with whoa be bad oohabited, sad who had
borne him a sou. The bride, more dead than alive,
fns brought into his cell in the arras of two of her
female Meads, and combined sobbing in the most
bearttgading manner &Hag
_the weregmay. The poor
mutate then threw hmf into his arms, and re-
mained in clam embrace till it was necessary to
separate them by form.
adebrated Lola Montag is tho subject of many
a parsgraph in the Barcelona papers. She goes to
the pistol gallery every day, and astonishes the
Aare of the garrison with the preesion of her fire.

Om • an going very mush spinet the
'here sums to be much dimatidection in their=
from the want et skill in the cabinet. The friends of
Clen. Taller bays been so entirely overlooked by the
bembof dePaetiaents in making their appointments,
that hi a rebellion against them amongst the
disappointed. Should the state of New York follow
tbs simples of Ohio, Georgia, and Pennsylvania,
OM. Taylor's party will be in •minority. The great
error has been in his suffering himself to be drawn
adds from the mega *mons worse be laid down for
himself. He had friends in all parties, but they do
not appear to have any influence with the cabinet,
and are therefore indifferent to its fate. A general
impression prevails that there will be a change before
Wane af the latest pima of gossip is the story that
Mrs. Fanny Hemble Butler, just before the divert*,
offered bee husband the earnings of her Shakeperian
readings, amounting to 20,000 dollars, stating that as
she was still his wife they belonged to him. Mr.
Butler declined receiving the money.
I am hippy to inform you that Mr. Bancroft has
recovered his health.
Among the pselengers who go out in the Herman
today is Henry Wella Esq., of Wellsgrove, bearer of
derpatches to London and Paris. He is a gentleman
of high reepectability, and at the head of a firm
known in this city for their wealth and enterprise.
At the moment of mailing this there is nothing
to add.
From Canada we learn that Lord Elgin's general
reoeption at Toronto has been very flattering to him.
The anti-annexation memorial circulating in Montreal
has rest, as yet, received many
.signatures. There is
nothing of particular interest in the news from that
quarter.
Last week, a meeting was held of 120 delegates,
from as many parishes in the districts of Montreal
and Three Rivers, to take means for the abolition of
the seignorial tenure. Several plans of commutation
were proposed—and one of reform—the reduction of
the rates of MU et renter to the ancient rates before
the conquest. This, it is said, would be a spoliation
of all who bad bought seignorial property since the
present rates became recognised as lawful ; besides
which the value of money was so much greater then
than now, that the difference is more in name than in
reality. The old rents was two sous per
annum per acre. The present is usually about six
sons. Toe real oppression is not in the rents, for
which every purchaser makes allowance in acquiring
landed property ; but in the lode et renter, a payment
of one-twelfth to the seignior on the value of the pro-
perty at each mutation ; so that if a man buy land
for 1001., erect buildings to the amount of 1,1101.,
and sell, though only at the end of the year, the new
buyer will have to pay the seignior for his dues as
much u the worth of the land in fee-simple. A per-
manent committee was named to fix on the best plan.

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Despatches were received on Saturday at the
Colonial ofilee from the governors of the West India

colonies,.

THE ANNUAL SOIREE OF THE LEEDS MECHANIC§
Insmuttox took place on Friday.—Viscount Mahon took
the chair and addressed the meeting at mime length. The
Dean of Ripon proposed the first resolution, as follows:
"In proportion as the elementary education of the people
increases in amount, and improves in quality, the greater
will be the necessity for institutions like this, to maintain
the instruction that hes been acquired, and to gratify a de.
sire for a higher and more extended knowledge that will be
awakened." E. Bailin, Esq., seconded the resolution,
which was carried. R. M. Mines, E•q., moved the
following sentiment :—" To impart a taste for artistic
beauty, and to give familiarity with the principles on
which it rests, should be one of the objects of popu-
lar education." Mr. Roebuck next sp.ke, and said:
In acquiring knowledge, depend on it that the large
mass of knowledge is acquired by iv ry individual by
himself—lt is not taught him, it is learned, it is acquired.
And, with respect to the class of which my hon. friend
has spoken, I do not believe that the leisure which
they have prepares them so well for the acquire-
ment of knowledge as that indu-try which is of nec. ashy
the portion of the labouring man, and which he brings, in the
hours which he can spare, to the acquisition of knowledge.
And I prove it in this way : Alt the great sdvances of know-
ledge, all the great works which have been done for mankind,
have not been done by the leisure class—(applause)—but
hive been done by the labouring chases, those clams who
have had to work (or their livelihood, and who, after acquir-
ing those habits of industry, bring those habits to the acqui-
sition of knowl. doe ; and using those stern habits in the race
with the dilletanti, preen upon and outstrip them, bemuse he
is as dilatory in his modes of pursuing knowledge as in his
habits of pleasure. (Applause.) Other sentiments having
been responded to, the meeting broke up at eleven o'clock,
the band plying "God save the Queen."

SHAKEPILA IL6 IN THE Nzw WORLD.—A corre-
spondent of the Liverpool Mercury says;—" As a sign of
the improving taste of our tranea•lantic brethren, we are
glad to have to chronicle a rather curious shipment, made a
few days ago to America, is the shape of 800 mete of the
head of Shekspeare, taken from the monumental bus' of the
poet in the church of B.ratford-upon-Avon, by Will Warner,
the artist of that town. They are consigned to an eminent
firm in New York, and being designed and got up in a very
arti.tie manner, they will, we have no doubt, meet with
great demand on the other aids of the water."

CHILD BILLED BY ADMINISTERING LAUDANUM.—
Oa Wednesday Mr. W. 8. P. Hughes held an inquest at the
Swan Inn, Whittington, on the body of an infant, only
seven weeks old, named Mary Ann Wilkins, the daughter
of labouring people living in that pariah. On Monday th.
mother was going out to wash, and therefore left the child
in the care of a neighbour's daughter, but as it had been
very resume the day before, and she feared that its nurse
would not be able to keep it quiet, she put into the boiled
bread and water which had been prepared as its food four
drops of laudanum from a large eottle which had been
procured from the shop of Memn. Lea and Perrins, as
medicine for the ho•band, who was taking it under the
prescription of Mr. Walsh. She said her sole ob;eet in
putting the drops into the food was to keep the child quiet,
and though the word " poison" was labelled upon the bottle,
yet she professed not to know that laudanum was poiren
ous, or even a dangerous drug. About eleven o'clock the
child was brought to her suckle, sari it then seemed drowsy,
and did not suckle properly. In the evening when she re-
turned home she found the child in a state of stuvr, and
becoming alarmed, she brought it to Worcester, and took it
to a drußobt ; be referred her to a medical man, and she
called upon Mr. Walter J,•nes, surgeon, Colleg--yard, who
however found that he child do milting to nave the child,
and it died the next morning. The mother's Perim' con-
duct seemed entirely to free her from the suspicion of having
had any improper motive in the administration of the lands-
num, and the jury in their verdict so far exculpated her,
while they blamed her f r administering so deadly a drug at
ill without proper medical advice.— Worcester Herald.
Sum' O'BRIEN's Cerros.—William Holme died
suddenly on the 27th alt., at the White Chimniee, near
Lott, aged 28. The deceased was the carat. of Smith
O'Brien, for which he received the government reward of
5001.

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HEARTLESS ROBBERY AT BEVERLEY.—On Sunday
*vestry/ week, at the time that Mrs. Symonds, the widow of
Mr. Symonds, lea of Beverley, who bad died suddenly, was
attending • funeral airmail to the memory of her deceased
husband, at the Walkergete Chapel, some burglars broke
Into her house, and stole her own gold wedding ring, six
elver tea spoon', and a Assn and • half of German silver
ditto, besides rematching the house from top to bottom The
cottage is situated on the Qaeea's Gate-road, about half •
mile from the town; and it appears an entrance had been of
tooted by forcing the front doer lock. It is sincerely to be hoped
that the heartless villains who could commit a premeditated
felony under such aggravated circumstances will not long
evade the sevesest punishment which the lew can t,
especially es it appears to, probahle that they must have
been ne very great semengses to the ideality.
EXPLOSION Or FIREWORKS 111 FLEET-STREET.—
On Saturday an alarming ezplesion of fireworks occurred in
the third firor of No. 115, Feeet-street, in the tenure of Mr.
David D'Lara, lithographic printer. It appears that during
the absence of Mr. D'Lara two of the apprentices were en
gaged in making fireworks, and whilst one of the lids was
sealing up some serpent@ • spark fell from the candle he was
silos UP= the fireworks, when the whole exploded, tearing
the flesh off the boy's hand and frightfully burning his race,
so much so that he was obliged to be taken to the hospital.
Tres et- glues of the Brigade and West of Ragland were sent
f r, hut fortunately no damage was dote to the premises to
moire their week:es.
THE TEA PUNT.—The cultivation of the tea plant,
which was undertaken by Mr. .7. Smith, near Greenfi de,
Sleds Carotin.% in 1848, has so far proven highly sow steel.
In the fall of 1848 about 600 plants win received from China,
via London, and in December they were planted is his
garden. A coosiderabls quantity of tea seed was plug d
at the same time. Notwithstanding the severe winter and
spriest, the plant, which were left to take care of themselves,
were unharmed, and are now in a flourishing condition.
Ssveral specimens of the green and block plant are in bud.
The tea plant buds one year, but does not fruit till the
nest. :Neat year Mr. Smith caper* to pick tea, although
his greet object fur some time to some will be to inert ass
the quantity of his plants. The tea seed was plan ed
at • wrong season, and did not amount to anything.
Mr. Smith estimates the annual ceeenemption of tea in the
Ueltsd States to be 11 millions of pounds, in Europe 60 ;
total, 61 millions. China produce@ ever 900 millions of
pomade, of which the °Waste export only about 70 millions.
Au acre of land will producer 6471 he.; consequently the
wattivation of 10109, aerie of land in the 14 loll.BV.Witill
teases Will supply the present consumption of the United
States. To supply lame would require 91,411 acres of '
land He .opposes that there are fourteen of ear states that
would grow tee, and that 111,520 acres of land eultinated
as tea plantations, averaging 7,055 for each of the fourteen
states, will stipple the eoneumption of the article both for
Europe and tete United States. Tito eaperinsent Mr. Smith
is sawed in is • highly interesting one, and will be attended
wi.'n'vsat benefits to the country it ounpletely stoesseful,-+
American paper.