The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-13 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

COTTON SPINNERS' ASSOCIATION AND SNORT TOOL
An adjourned meeting of the Cotton Spinners' Association
was held at Blackburn on Wednesday last, to consider the
propriety of a continued observance of hhort time in factories,
W. Eccles, Esq., presided. Theeenductof there members who
had violated the short time resolution having been freely
commented on, a resolution was paned to the effect that the
association be dissolved, some of its moat influential members
having violated its rules.
ROBBERY AND journeyman hatter,
named John Ingham Bond, is in custody at Manchester,
on the above very serious charges. The warehouse of
Messrs. Owen and Heaton, extensive hatters at Manchester,
weadisoovered to have been on fire du-ing Friday night, and it
was found that four fires had been lighted by scone incendiary
in different parts of the premises, with the evident intention
of burning them down, but these fires bad singularly enough
gone nut of themselves, though piled up with hat boxes and
comtustible materials. Since then, it was discovered that
Bond bad been to Btaleybridge on Saturday, and disposed
of a quantity of hats which were on the premises on Friday
night. He was apprehended on Thursday, • and taken
before the magistrates, but remanded, the shore being All
the evidence at present against him. He is supposed to
have attempted to burn down the premises to leave no trace
of the robbery.
AMERICAN HON/IYT IN ENGLISH UNIONS.—The clerk
to the Board of Guardians, Knutsford, writes As
regards hominy being • good substitute for potatoes.
I have not the slightest hesitation is saying that it
is the very best article of its kind yet introduced,
solely from its sound nutritious qualities. The hominy
ecouse and pudding which I prepared (being precisely the
same es given to the inmates) for our Board of Guardians to
see, taste, and judge for themselves, gave general mils-
faction on our last board•day—in fact, one and all declared
the hominy aeouse to be a most savoury dish. It was
prepared in the following manner:—The beef, 30 lbs.
weight (being the quantity required as per diet table),
was boiled in a copper by itself; a portion of the liquor
from the meat was nicely seasoned and made savoury ; the
meat afterwards being cut into small pieees—and the
whole, when well noised together, and served up quite hot,
was really excellent, and very satisfying in its nature.
The quantity of SCOIlle given to an adult is one pound weight,
with four ounces of cooked meat, at • cost of lid. per head.

THII CHARTIST LAND SCR/MR.—The estates of W. B.
Cliffs, Esq., which have been so frequently advertised for
sale, were lazily brought to the hammer snd sold in lots by
Mr. Davies, on Wednesday, at the Belle Vue Hotel, Great
Malvern. The freehold and oopybold estates, measuring
600 a. IR. 9r., were purchased by Mr. Feergus O'Connor, for
20,0001. We (Worcester Journal) hear that Mr. O'Connor
has offered 9,0001. for the Brook estate, Leigh.
OLOUCPS.TERSIURE.
DEATH IN THE SNOW. —On ThUTIRISfr last SOON
persons found the body of an old oast 'tag deli k
the snow at Brentry Hill, about threw mike km
the city of Bristol, on the out passage road.
was that of an agricultural labourer, was
having been dead for some hours. A loaf A.,._,.. --- •
under his arm, and it is conjectured that '. h % way 'l..
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home from the village of Westbury, he ••. ,•r .7
.. • -way, and. , ,
got benumbed by the cold. The snow i .8" ,/
of Bristol lies is many places three sad -'l*,.,
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OICtORPSIIIRE.
Tn. FIRS AT CILTDDSSONN PALACE' —We mentioned
yesterday that a tire had broken out in the palace of the
Iguhop of Osrird, at euddenlcn, which, we are howls to
my, owing to the effective means adopted by his lordship's
domestics, aided by the villagcre wet got under without
:=lany
of frost &Londe. 114 fire was caused from the
eating of the apparatus, constructed for warming the

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A CASE or
ported in the Buck, Adrertiser of Saturday.
rAonsluest
was held last week at Olney, on Elisabeth Itivett, 76,
who died suddenly. On the coroner and jury proceeding to
view the body, they were .hocked to find the deceased
stretched on a bed of rags at the side of the room, and en
the other lay the deceased's aged husband, on a bundle of
straw—he and the body of his wife being the only occupants
of the filthy apartment, which, by the glimmer of the
solitary rushlight, presented a picture of extreme misery and
wretchedaew. The jury were satisfied front the medical
evidence that deceased died front natural causes, and re-
turned a verdict accordingly.

_fbIUME.
UNIVERSITY Or EDINBURGH.—Mr. Donaldson, the
professor of music in this unisersity, having invited all the
young clerical students to attend his lectures gratis, has at
present, we understand, about a hundred of these gratuitous ,
students. The professor's object, in adopting this liberal and ,
praiseworthy course, is to cultivate a taste for music among
these young men, who afterwards, on obtaining livings, will
be able to propagate a lose for the art among their pa-
rishlonen, improve the psalmody of the churches, and give
an additional impulse to moose in general. Supposing
(which we have no reason to doubt) that these students are
Tightly instructed. they cannot fail to be very instrumental
in the advancement of musical taste and knowledge through-
out Scatlaod.—The very discreditable dispute respecting the
expense incurred in fitting up the musical class-room, which
we noticed some time ago, remains unsettled. The conduct of
the University authenties in this affair, and, indeed, in every
thing relating to the Chair of Music ever since its establish-
ment, has produced great and general indignation. The
University has come into possession of a fund yielding a re-
venue of three thousand a year, bequeathed by a deed of
trait, which expr2ssly declares the primary object of the
testator to be the establishment and liberal endowment of an
Academic Chair fur instruction in a science to which be was
enthusiastically devoted. The University has fulfilled this
trait, in the first place, by fixing the professor's salary at
MI. a year, the sum mentioned by the testator as the
minimum; and, in the next place, by throwing every ob-
stacle in the way of rendering the music class efficient, and
capable of affording the professor an adequate remuneration.
The L.tre MR. KEARNS.—The untimely death of
this distinguished musician anti respectable man, having left
his widow and nine orphans without support, and in most
distressing circumstances, it has been Tel to make a
p tblie concert for their benefit.

VNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
Comm; gsa. IL &notAaannw.—The Inewalawettint
Ina given nada that an &aka of two petiolate open en Ibmilation
will take preen Fridareb IL That the rashes of my sot.
lege (maga Ilaes l nod Many Han), awn we anyanala of
Me ware batmen the emmenenmemt• of 180
LhomilYgr. In emirs. The eendliken regileg he daily
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Lain monde, be Meneten stellorlig tbemseto lme as sr bare lgunim Feb .12,
le mmented emit ef the Menem Mr ere
The Timammegarpt=. Minot, Begins Ptehmer ef DIMIM • D.
Gelder; of the coil Lew • Dr. Leg, Imeniall.Pro-
tenor ; NTS Tebbe Orator. The emMktenten ma emmmtee
hicerfay.ll I,at S Mkek In the Itematits lectedwernMedbeme.
Omatideles will be emeetedi to bets with Me
the wilb ble mile) a entilleate tom Ni saw•• of tb Meal
admifelmonel ef term UM be Ms MS.
TM Wang sodas Ni Jug bun lamed ...7nrbersin tt la highly
**Oar to the good arbor eng allmlellne of the Unimmity that
Militias dm" be GOMM to weer ia deb
siefeitrf to ematwith
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without Meeat.
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loop enemas d molt Nadas herb Wee. if say she
or Metandlor abell be Smobill:e wee-eguar es bane pea
InOrr the date mr 4.les "WWI le sm.
treat • debt he Min se weeding the met of lm
gem" Mama tb• Inewildge sa7ieleent of the Nit of eni
genes. WIWI be Mew of Ina llama. Alas that awry stones
wiltmlnm lay pew is Asir pviliari *WI bineaftnr
MOW de fa wine or abigt be mintred to
sand min of So me mot of Zieri=tere and at ma
le 1M mime saedtbe person ea tmleggel, es Mk of =
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mind to vend nodes dtbit meant Ogle em.al the mdel miry
marten to the eogam teem et Me pima mlndebted, my" of
babay piaisbod by inemeenning or adoonifis, so to the NlinClana•
mar mil bur is of aglow ebell mem" Abe, that If eny *Nor,
*MEAL Inillmos. &Oar sr edam dial Ni Dem a perms
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mar of Me Bums, by oinansmang. sr to the
Chamiller and Medi of warn "II seem Itt. TIM Mite is Maid
D. FWD% Viee.Chancellor. and by 13 caber univenty diem

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Warss Fax. llama has preeexted the Rev. W.
Omen tho chunk sad van* et Gina& the
Dal seszty of Ayr, vacant by the death of the Rey. P. Ilael=te"

BWITOP or OMPOID been presented (days the Orford
Cireniotr) by the Queen and Prises Albert, and the Archbishops et
Cmgorbary and York, with kw. windows of Kilned glass tor the
IMO midst hie lindahip has erected at Cuddesden for the
Wes/ lie leassoldiL
l'assommrem—Ber. o.. Trevor, 'S.C.L., to All Sainte, York, R.
war ; pollem,Lerd Mane. Vacant by death of Rev. W. Flower.—
yr. S. W. )remit to Towemey V., Weeks. die. Osford ; patron, R.
BraF—Pay. A. Cortina to Broaden R., Lin.m. dio.
MILL wise Om, with resident. ; ImtronZ.Pierrnt. a P. Clir6*-
LMBto St Dunstan's-in-the-Fag London —Rev. C. Ibbot.
am Ili lbEnd C., Olomeatereh.—Rev. L to Wiltoughby Water.
Ism 1., ea Pestling Magna V., Lineolaoh., dio. Feted,. ; value SQL,
wtsbasoldenee ; patron, represent. of J. Miles—Rev. E. R. Mares to
Bropiej V., Kent, din Cant. ; mine 781. -Rev. R. K. Sampson to
Rymer, C., Ittetz.—Rev. H. Walters to Glyn Corwg and Bleeegerraeh
C, Olansorgamh.—Rev. W. Aright to St. James's C., Jersey;
vans aft

NAVAL.
Pin Aid Venom—By a parliamentary return just lamed it appears j
that slime some steam remels have been hid down since the let of I
Jan., 1140. 01 this number four, the Termagant, Desperate, Arra-
oat, sod Inner, are not yet finished. Slime the name date 10 ships
ire bra elated he screw eteararels : eight of them, the Ajax,
Biereir Getebargb, HAIM It:writes, Forth, Most* Sahara, are
to fat kr deem gerM The numbrr of inn rartrenie hal
arra era pardrer the bet de years is U. area at der
weaves, Fr. IL—The Antelope e. v., belt at kr by War
Dlidare erlYsre,willmaretomo-iteree pre Wafers. Pena.
peerie der the item we
ALS. Asmara Opt. Sweimerisy to try Iva Geed. The
erre metro et irlaisikes a 28, erre averepoperttli row.
Pairetwe6Pea. 12.—Htria& rd
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ea the Mk let, Will. by the pia, Pr, and Wear
podia% wind at the elewit perry.
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Vietwith arlart rare Ned yr narre thealUit
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la alreate to the Pager at the sort we arra tram Ovine any of
lbe eilkase.
Ilemerree a Has Maine's lemma—MALTA, Jere. 118.--011100,
Is leave in a few daysittzsTed ; Balk, c.;aport.aetta,
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patiagatelt Marie at the eth aw the Orr et Area. area
re Nam peed Ole Out to the eastward cm the Slat en.

MILITARY.
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matron% amkerb is Ara next ki al• CV OS" arir IM.
=MOW We mad batbaina as trandem oniony
ea MOM In Ns aspic at Waft ban, aniambai yinartatay at
an Writhe Omalar, In easserpme atm mar team the
Imre or &dram reaeirkai them to MONIS' 12101PM111417. This
mins embarkation lir= WOW, 101e1P•eted.

taW ihttatona.
EQIIITT COURTS.
Before the Lord Chancellor.:
Ise an linsnm. AN ALLEOIIII LUNATIO.—RIGHT TO
ATTEND THE EXECUTION Or THE CONNISSION.—A cons-
minion haring been issued to weir/rain whether the party
above named is of unsound mind, Mr. J. Parker supported
the prayer of parties who petitioned for leave to attend by
their counsel, at the execution of the commission, at their
own expense, for the purpose of cross-examining the wit-
sense ke the party who had the carriage of the commission,
and also producing and examining witnesses of their own,
with a view to fix the period from which the unsonadnees
aloha, if found, should be dated. They were all parties
interested under deed, executed by the alleged lunatic, and
it wee cif great importance to them to have the date of the
insanity truly found.
Yr. Stuart, on behalf of the heir-at-law, who had the car-
riage of the commission, submitted that, although the peti-
tioners were willing to bear their own expenses, still as the
inquiry, protracted necessarily by their interference, would
bring great additional expense on the lunatic's estate, they
ought not to be allowed to attend, unites they were willing
to be bound by the finding.
The Lord Chancellor said it was not to be expected that'
parties would submit to that condition. What his lordship
proposed was, that all the petitioner interested in fixing the
pened of the lunacy might attend the execution of the oom-
inimion by one counsel or set of counsel, at their own ex-

pewee.
Tai RLscralc TELEGRAPH Comr mew V. Norr.—AL-
Lae= PIRACT.—Mr. Stuart proceeded, on behalf of Mr.
Nett, to show that all the parts of the machinery consti-
tuting his mode of constructing the electric telegraph were
estunially different from those of the plaintiffs.
The Lord Chancellor rose at twc o'clock, when the further
bearing was adjourned.
Deface the TiosAllsasetkor of England.
IN IN TIM NEWPORT, ASSEOATENNT, AND HRRE-
-7010 RAILWAY COMPONT.—A petition was presented in
this ease, praying that a sum of 30,0001., paid into mart and
new standing in the name of the Amountanneeneral. mien
be kid out in the purchase of 31 per ant. sad 3 par
amt. Annuities, either wholly or in part, in either of the
said ssearitiea, at the discretion of the petitioners, to sums
of act less than 5,0001. each. Mr. Bagshawe, in support of
the polities, raised a question as to whether under the Rail-
way Ad the court could authorise the investment of the
mosey in Bank Annuities.
The Vice-Chancellor thought there was clearly no objec-
tion to web en investment, but be could not allow the peti-
Weems to have the option of laying out the mosey in any
hods they 'night think fit: the selection must be made at
tam, and form part of the order.
Before Vice-Chasedlw Light insp.
Pirimaza. P. PETINOLLL.—ABINVITT to •
la this Ws etas a testator had left 501. a year he Um kaM of ads
more with a direction that her shoes eauld be Won 44
and she shield be kept in some park in Imilsad
sad, under an order made in this cause wade time back, the
ma if lomat. bank i"Ouities bad been set *Part for the
aktlewleatiened purpose. petition was now prelNOlted on

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