The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

LET SECOND SPRING
MEETING.

(By EkeJte Tekirspb.)

THURSDAY.

MATCH.—St. Ann beat Saddle.
MATCH.—Retail beat Czarina.
HANDICAP of 601. New T.Y.C.
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THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND " THE TIMES.•

The Monitore .Romano (official paper), of April 21,
publishes the following contradiction of the reports
which have gone abroad, and the assertions made,
regarding the works of srt at Rome :
o combat the opinions of others with loyal weapons is
appropriate to sessions and courageous minds; to meta/
them with calumnies is the work of cowards ; and bsfore all
honest men, we accuse .the Times of Me vilest calumnies;
for, in its paper of the 9th of April, it does not scruple to
wart that the provisional government of Rome, after
having exhausted all the precarious matures of confiscation.
had had recourse to selling the manuscripts of the Ithearies
and the statues of the museum', end that the Apollo Belvi-
dere is about to erns the Atlantic, and the other atif
d'riv'es to find their war to adorn the pekoes of Wade&
We have hitherto respected the opinions of the Tunes, bola.
ever opposed to our own, became we believed that its writes
were honest men. We looked upon the Times es a jotting'
of character sad sobriety: to our great surprise, we find it lb
be a before chi ',Mira, a vender of lying goosip. It
desires to make us pass before the world es barbarians;
and we feel it to be our duty to say that it is Nell the bar-
barian, that its calumnies nee worse than those of barbarians,
that they are iniquities of which barbarians themselves
would not be capable. Neither the men of the Times nor
their contemporaries will ever have the opportunity, as long
as the Roman republic lasts, of seeing in Landon the statues
of our museums. They ere our treasures, sod the government
of the republic does not dream of alienating them, because it
knows et itself, without having to learn it from the writers
, of the Timm, that they are among the most beautiful onus-
meats of our city. We will not expend more words on this
impudent accusation. In the name of the government of
the republic we declare these assertions of the Times to tos
vile untruths, and we have only referred to them in order
that their inventors may not escape the wall-merited mi-
-1 tempt of all honest men.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.
OLD COMOL—Defore Mr. Jude* Cornwg.

11/TRUING A FOROID OILDBIL lOg DELIIIIIT or GOOD/.
James Mills, 23, a private in the Ftuider Guards, was in-
dicted for feloniously uttering an order for the delivery of
voda, well knowing it to be forged, and with intent to de-
frandCharlas James.
The progenitor lea grocer and clutesernonger in the New.
cut, ea on the 25th April the prisoner, who was in his midi-
tasy dress, went to hie shop and said that he had been de-
puted by the ceasamading dim to engage him to same
the lett Bank battalion in the Fusilier (Ault* with
and he then gave him an order for a large quantity El=
of different deweiptione, and at the request of the prowentor
tat:tete:eel put his name to the paper upon which the list ail
was written, and left the shop. In about throe-
quarters of an hour he returned, and said that there was
some mistake with regard to the other order, but he had now
brought him the proper order, signed by flerjeant Di'lntosh,
who had authority to order the goods required for the regi-
ment, end he then produced an order, apparently signed by
that person. The prosecutor then took the prisoner to a
publiw house, and gave him some refreshment, and the
lamer told him to remember that it was through
him he hail obtained the order, and asked him to give him
something, and he handed the prisoner haltwcrown. Tao
prisoner again went away but came back in a short
time, and said that he given the half-a crown to the
cooks of the regiment, sad he wanted another half-crown
for himself. The prosecutor declined to give any more
money until he was paid fur the goods, and at this moment
a shopman to another grocer in the neighbourhood came up
and told him his matter wished to see him. The primed
upon hearing this, ran of, and it turned out upon inquiry
that the whole transaction was a trick on the part of the pri-
soner' either to pt posmasion of the goods, or else a bonne
for introdminit so goad a trade, and that several other gropers
in the same adithourbood had been served in a similar
manner.

The ranter mode no defence, and, the jury having re-
turned a verdict of Gully, he was sentenosd to be kept to
hard labour for six montns.

MR. HUDSON'S HROTUER-IN-LAW.—An itiaseet
was held yesterday atteraoon, at the Burtonstone
Clifton, Yorkshire, before Mr. Wood, the coroner. on the
body of Mr. Nicholson, which was diroorered in the river Oast
on Tuesday night, as stated in yesterday's Express. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased wee last seen at
nine o'clock on Tuesday evening, walking by tke side of the
river, and when found, at ten o clock, was in a standing pe.
skim in the water, quite dead. The jury retumd a verdict
of " Found drowned."

CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETT.—The annual
meeting of this society took place on Tuesday, at Exeter-hall.
Lord Ashley presided, and at tome length vindicated the
usefulness of the society. He stated that if the number of
the clergy were three times as groat as it was at present it
would be wholly inadequate for the great work of evangelis-
ing the nation. The report stated that the receirts of the
past year amounted to 32,0001., showing an increase on those
of the preceding year of more than 6,000/. The expenditure
had been 29,0001., thus leaving a surplus of nearly 3,0001.,
but as the society, during the previous pier, had exit eded its
income by nearly 4,0001., a balance still remained against it
of 1,0001. The support which the society had received had
been greatly increased. Upwards of 200 clergyman had
auded their subscriptiots to the funds, and 400 new lay sub-
scribers had contributed to the parent society, besides a still
greater number to the branch associations. The society
now aided 289 incumbents, intrusted with the cure of
2,094,521 people, making an average of 7,247 souls for
each. These had an average income of 2021., while 160 cf
them had no parsonage-how'. The society had now erected
or kept open 140 churches and chapels, and they defrayed
the expense of 155 rooms licensed for the celebration of
public worship. The report then went on to give a
minute account of the society's operations throughout the
year. Chancellor &tikes moved that the report be adopted
and printed, bearing testimony to the immense benefits con-
ferred by the society upon the diocese of Chester. Mr.
Colquhoon seconded the resolution. He found that there
were circulated weekly throughout the country about 500,000
copies of penny publications, conducted by men of consider-
able ability, who attacked in the most vehement manner all
the great institutions of the country, from the throne down-
wards. Yet the poor, in the midst of all these incentives to
outrage cut amongst them, and with great physical suffering
and want to endure, ware patient amidst all,—and why ?
Because they knew that wealthy and earthly prosperity were
not all, nor were they the great objects of life. He was sue
that the labours of the society were doing more for the per-
manent interest of the nation than all the efforts of legisla-
tion and statesmen. The motion having been put and car-
ried, the Rev. Mr. Brooks and other gentlemen addressed
the meeting in support of resolutions founded on the
report, and after the usual vote of thanks to the chairman
the meeting terminated.
ALLEGED IRREGULARITIES AT CAMBRIDGE.—We
(Bury Post) understand that a gentleman of the University
in a distinguished position, has been letting hie brother, an
andagraduate, have a peep at some examination papers be-
fore the proper period, whereby he was enabled to walk off
with the first prizes in both classics and mathematics. Ru-
mour also says that forty undergraduates have signified their
intention of leaving the university unless the case be summa-
ril dealt with.
FEMALE EDUCATION IN INDlA.—Yesterday the
first annual meeting of the London Auxiliary Association, in
connexion with the Female Society of the Free Church of
Scotland for female education in India, was held at the
Music Hall, Store-street ; Charles Cowan, Esq , M.P., in
the chair. The meeting was but thinly attended, and the
majority of persona were female,. The proceedings com-
menced with a long prayer, part of which was chaunted.
The chairman having explained the objects of the meeting,
• gentleman on the platform read a statement, which the
secretaries hoped would be received instead of a formal re-
Itport. stated that duricg the year 601. had been
subscribed on behalf of the association, and had been trans-
mitted to the treesarer of the parent society in Scotland.
When it was borne in mind that 31. 12s. per annum was
taking to provide for the board and education of a girl at
the society's institution at Calcutta ; and that 61. per annum
served for the entire maintenance of • girl at any of the
stations in India • the promoters et the association had no
doubt that a larger number of ladies would be disposed to
contribute to the funds. Forty girls had been received as
resident boarders at Calcutta, and 12 had been admitted into
the Christian church by the rite of baptism. The convert
girls, notwithitanding the temptations to which some of
them had been exposed, were all kept steadfast in their
Christian preludes'. The report (which concluded by an-
nouncing that 151. had been subscribed in addition to the 601.
already mentioned) was adopted, end several resolutions
Tau:seed in furtherance of the objects of the society.
were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting
equated.
ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE
ONIZDRIN.—Last evening the 64th anniversary festival of
the above charity was celebrated in Freemasons'-hall, when
sheaf 800 of the brethren of the craft attired in masonic
eistrame, sat down to an elegant repast, at which the Earl
of Letlead, meet worshipful grand master, presided, sup-
, terW by Lord Suffield, Lord Milford, the Hon. 1). Dundee,
Bold's, Req., Alex. Doble, Req., &c. The usual
loyal and patriotic besets having been duly honoured, fol-
lowed by the weenemmed courtesies to the chairman and
dams, the noble en
thetoast of the evening,
" thews to the
_Regal
_Freemasons' Female School," and
aided that the hisliletien was founded in 1788 by Che-
valise Sculled. vhesegiest benevolence reduced him to coin-
parades dielrem, and that two of hie grandchildren were
now in the miunti. is whisk were at t 65 girls. Out
of the 000 eitildren educated hi the iacgtadon all had turned
est *Sam good girls. After eulegkdag the matron, who
MI WM that ease 60 years, the temt was given and drunk
• rest emenwhien. The etweementa of the evening
were salivated by the vocal efforts N Mrs. Newton, Mir
Thornton, Yeses. George, Ranched, he., and also by a
hymn, excellently sung by the children. The collection of
the mob; osoasiod to about 6801.