The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

.BUBSEIL

A HINT FOR HOTEL-KZErEINI. A person of fashion-
able exterior, calling herself the Hon. Mrs. W—, who
had been staying several days at one of the principal hotels
in Brighton, took her departure somewhat abruptly on
Friday last, without paying her tavern bill. She had
wormed herself into the confidence of some of our trades-
men, (one of whom, a stable.kceper at the eastern part of
the town is minus about &IL by her patronage !) by a free
use of the name of a distinguished planate wbo has recently
, returned from the continent te resume her professional avo-
cations in Brighton. The lion. Mrs. W— has also recently
returned from Paris,:where she went by the name of Mrs.
It—. It was there she accidently met with the lady in
question ; but we are informed that her conduct was so un-
becoming that she was ejected sans n:rimonie from the
hotel. She then came to England, selecting Brighton as
her next place of abode, and having made herself acquainted
with the tradesmen of Madame —, succeeded in incurr-
ing some bills, which afterwards she forgot to pay. She
assumed all the manners of a lady of fashion, and acted her
part admirably. She went off very suddenly last Friday by
one of the trains, and nothing has since been heard of her.
—B—Brig/don Gazette.
Ite.
SUFFOLK.

THE NORMAN Towea, Bury, has now undergone the
experimenitim crucis. The great eastern arch is re-
moved, and the centre of that front is supported by shores
until the arch can be replaced. The jambs and pillars
to support the new arch being completed, the hideous
breach was effected, and the shattered state of the ashlar and
core fully bore out the statements of Mr. Cottingham as to
the peril in which this part of the edifice had stood until the
precaution was taken of inserting the temporary centre. A
chasm is now presented, about fifteen feet wide, and the same
height from the spring of the arch, in which the massive
structure, eighty feet high and nearly six feet in thickness,
has no other perpendicular support than the shores above-
mentioned; but the sound union effected in all the fissured
parts above, and the immense power of the iron tics by which
the tower is bound together at four stages, probably rendered
the buttresses at the angles sufficient to hold up the centre
without the additional precautions which have been pru-
dently taken. The insertion of the new arch will be com-
menced immediately, and proceeded with as expeditiously as
consists with the solidity of the work. The process excites
much interest, even amongst the commonest observers, and
the surprise is very great at the restoration having been thus
carried on from the top downwards, nothing of the masonry
remaining to be done above, but the addition of the coping
to the psraott between the turrets.

REWARDS FOR VIRTDE.—Yie annual meeting of the
Dunmow Agricultural Society was held on Wednesday.
The proceedings commenced with a ploughing match, which
took place in a field near the town. The ploughing was
extremely good, notwithstanding the unpropitious state of
the weather. There were seven prizes in this class, the
highest being clothes to the value of 3d shillings, descending
to a garment valued at is., and each of the unsuccessful com-
petitors received a largess of Is. After the ploughing had
concluded rewards were given to labourers and servants
for having practised those virtues and self-denials which
according to the printed programme they are supposed to
practise in an extraordinary degree. To enumerate a few of
these:-1. A prize will be given to the labourer who shall
have brought up the largest family without any, or with the
least, parochial relief (the wages being et present Bs., and in
some few cases 9s. a week)—a chest of drawers, and to the
next a pair of high-shoes. 2. To the mac-servant or labourer
who shall have had the care of a team of not less than four
cart or plough horses the longest time, on the same farm, or
with the same employer, an American clock. To the
labourer under twenty years of age, who shall have sub-
scribed the longest time to the Dunmow Friendly Society,
clothes to the value of 65., and the next in merit will be
gladdened by garments to the amount of is. To the thresher
who has had the care of a barn not less than ten years, a
smock frock and a waistcoat, and to the next in merit a pair
of high-shoes. The labourers' widows were not forgotten : to
the widow of a labourer in husbandry who had brought up the
largest family with the least parochial relief, was devoted a
scarlet cloak ; and to the second in degree were presented a
wash-tub and clothes-basket. Filial affection was not un-
rewarded : to the labourer who had voluatatily supported
his parents the longest period exceeding one year, clothes
were given to the value of his., and to the next, 10a.
Filial virtues having been so nobly rewarded, parental
duties were not forgotten ; for to the married couple, the la-
bourer and wife, who had brought up the greatest number of
children with little or no parochial relief, was given, not a flitch
of bacon, as was formerly the case, but a gammon thereof.
The redeeming part of the performance was the exhibition of
the cottagers' allotment and garden produce. The samples
of fruit, vegetables, and flowers, with few exceptions, were
very superior, and highly to be commended. Thirty-four
appropriate prizes of agricultural and garden implements
were distributed amongst the contributors ; and of these
, one deserving of especial notice, was a round of beef weigh-
ing nearly oOlbe, given by Mr. Martin, the manager of the
seciety for improving the condition of the labouring poor.
INCENDIARISM.—At the Brentwood sessions yesterday,
three miserablehhalf-stavedrved looking lads, named W. Mason,
J. Clegg, and W. Smith, were committed to Chelmsford
gaol, to take their trial on a charge of having set fire to five
stacks of corn at Great Warley, on the 19th inst. The lads
were unknown in the neighbourhood, and were seen in the
vicinity of the fire about the time it broke out. They
offered no other explanation or defence than saying they
were not guilty.
KENT.

THE GRAVE-YARD NVISAHa is, it seems, to be perpe-
tuated in Canterbury. A correspondent of the Kent Herald
says, " Can it be possible that any persons should be so be-
nighted as to wish to extend this crying evil of burying in
densely populated cities? It would seem that the parish of
St. Alphage must be a century behind the rest of England,
as they propose, at a great cost, to purchase a very small
piece of ground close to the church, and to go to the great
expense of consecrating (heaven save the mark !) that minute
piece of land. Why, the whole country has now determined
on abolishing the unhealthy, indecent, practice of city inter-
ments ! The government measure is far advanced, which
abolishes all burials in towns, and will become law next ses-
sion. Are there no friends to improvement in the city-who
will protest against this unwise proeeeding ? A special
vestry should be called, and the order suspended, or an ap-
plication to the Home-office be made by the authorities of
the city. It is well known that nine tenths of a human
body decomposing evolves in the form of gas, and this parish
of St. Alphage is in the heart of a crowded city."
DEATH IN HON01:11.—OH Friday Mr. James Barnes, of
East Wickham, near Bexley, Bent, was found dead in his
bed. The deceased had been fifty-two years parish-clerk of
Wickham, and was seventy-two years old on the day of his
death. A few days previous to his demise, it had been re-
solved by the majority of his parishioners to celebrate his
lengthened services by a jubilee. It is said he had not an
enemy jp the parish or nesghbourhood.