The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-22 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

PROOAT.BB OP MANCHISEITETZB A BONDING PORT.

—The following tables, obtained from the Manchester Cur
tom-hates, were quoted from by Mr. W. Oibb, at the meet.
ing of the Commercial Association:—Statement of goods of
general consumption received under bond and wareheused
in Manchester, from Ist Jan., 1847. to Ist Jan , 1848:
Wines, 44,133 gallon. • brandy, 17,697 gallons; rum, 24,982
gallons; Geneva, 228 gallons; tea, 882,682 lbs.; coffee,
1451,567 lbs. ; sugar, 3,822 cwt.—Statement of the quan-
tities of each description of goads, wares, and merchandise
remaining in the bonded warehouses at this place on the 6th
Jan., 1848:—Bottles, 248 ewe , 2 qrs. ; cheese, 92 cwt., 3 qn.,
411134 cocoa, 8.P., 5,418 lbs. ; ditto, foreign, 3,438 lbs.
—8,858 lbs.; coffee, 8.P., 184,860 lbs.; ditto, foreign,
208,311 lbs.; total coffee, 393,171 lbs.; West India
rum, 16,783 14-16 gallons ; vatted ditto, 687 gallons ; East
India ditto, 4,752 gallons; vatted ditto, 1.482 gallons; ditto,
East and West India, 192 gallon; total 23,876 14-16 gallons;
brandy, 13,684 5.32 gale ; Geneva, 62. 23.32 gals ; cordials
6 gals. ; Cape wine, 2,832 gals. ; French, 3,314 1-6 gals. ;
Madeira, 1,127 gals. • Portugal, 26,7041.6 gals.; Rheaish,
359 3.6 gals. ; Spanish 27,824 gals. ; not enumerated, 1,264
gals.; total, 63,424 gals.—Water cologne, 624 flasks; to-
bacco (unnianufactured), 5,135 ; do. manufactured,
3,769 6-16 lbs. Account of duties for the years ending Jan.'
5, 1847, and Jan. 5, 1848, shows a decrease from 132,0101. to
172,1681.—Statement of duties of customs received at Man-
chester
at each of the years and quarters ended Jan. 5. 1847,
1818:—Tear ending Jan. 6, 1847, 187,9221. 13s. ; do. Jan. 6,
1848, 177,4171. 11.. Id. ; quarter ending Jan. 6, 1847,
38,8231. 19s. ; do. Jan. 6, 1848, 41,1901. ss. 9d. ; being an
increase on the last quarter of 2,3661. 6s. 91., but a decrease
on the entire year of 10,5041. 10s. 2d.
DESPERATE AEFRAY WITH POACTIERS.—For some
time back the grounds surrounding Crosby-hall have been
much frequented by poachers, and though every effort has
been made to detect them, they have always succeeded in
making their escape. On Wednesday morning last between
three and four o'clock, Martin Billington, the head game-
keeper, in going along the road from Little Crosby church
towards Rainford's public house, heard the discharge of
guns in the game preserves. He returned immediately 8
the hall in order to get assistance and proceed after the
trespassers; with that object he called up three of the
other keepers, Thomas Fairclough, Edward Makin,
and William Halewood. The party, four in number, I
then proceeded to a wood inside the park, whence
they had reason to infer the firing proceeded. After ad-
vancing a little distance they perceived two men, whom
they judged to be in the pursuit of game. Billington called
out to them, asking what they were doing, but received no
answer, and one of the poachers then made a sort of signi-
ficant sound, as though in token of defiance. The two
poachers were then joined by two comrades, and en dim*
was made on the gamekeepers. The poachers threw large
stones. The keeper Fairciough was struck on the head with
a gun, and liallington received several blows. The
other two keepers, Halewood and Makin, who had
been stationed to keep watch, then came up, and
the contest became desperate ; the poachers using
their gun-stocks and bludgeons with which they were also
armed, and the keeper, laying about them with strong
heavy cudgels or sticks. The struggle continued for about
twenty minutes, the poachers getting decidedly the worst of
it; and when they found they had little chance, they ran
away, but were pursued, and one of the three, Richard
Brown, was secured ; the others made good their retreat.
During the struggle a gun was fired, but it did not produce
any effect. The wounded man, Tudor, who was lying on
the ground in a state of insensibility, was then conveyed
to the hall, as well u his companian Brown. The ser-
geant of police, James Pye, was sent for soon afterwards,
and at his suggestion Mr. May, surgeon, was called nal
Ho examined Tudor's injuries, and administered whatever
remedies the nature of the case seemed to him to require.
Tudor had a serious wound in the head, which bad been in-
flicted by one of the keepers' clubs, besides other injuries,
and his recovery is considered very doubtful. The other
man, Brown, had several cuts and bruises, but not of a dan-
gerous character. The gamekeepers sustained very little
damage from the assaults of their opponents. Fairclougls got
a cut on the head, and one of his companions was wounded
in the arm, but neither of the injuries is of a serious cha-
racter; the rest escaped with only a few bruises and scratches.
On the ground where the affray took place a bag was
found, and three hen ph. asants ; also two broken guns.
Brown was taken into custody by police-sergeant Pye, and
conveyed to Kirkdale, where an examination took place
before James Lawrence, E.g., one of the county magistrates,
and he was remanded for further examination. Oa cumin-
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iog Tudor's clothes several stones were found in his pockets,
with some shot and a few gun raps. The other two men
have not been taken, but an active search is going on, which,
it is expected, will lead to their discovery. Brown is well
known as a poacher, and has been frequently tined and im-
prisoned for trespassing on various estates in the pursuit of
game in this neighbourhood.