The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

WALES.

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The Govensatesr:have at length issued the CostsitsstoN
to inquire into the STATE of EDUCATION in WA.'.En. Mr.
Henry Vaughan Johnston has been appointed so North
Wales ; and it is understood to be his intention to co.mmence
his inquiries in Anglesey forthwith. There are thre.' com-
missioners. The object of the commission is to ascertain, as
accurately as circumstances will permit, the existing number
of schools of all descriptions, for the education of the citil-
dren of the labouring classes, or of adults—the amount of
attendance, the ages of the scholars, and the character of the,
instruction given in the schools ; in order that the government
and parliament may be enabled, by having these facts before
them, in connexion with the wants and circumstances of the
population of the principality, to consider what measures
ought to be taken for the improvement of the existing means
of education in Wales. It is expected that the result of his
inquiries will enable the commissioner to form some esti-
mate of the general state of intelligence and information of
, the poorer classes in Wales, and of the influence which an
improved education might be expected to produce on the
general condition of society, and its moral and religious
Progre•
NOTICE appears in last night's Gazette of an intended
application to parliament fur a bill to enlarge the powers
green by various acts relative to the formation of a harbour
at Port Madoc, Carmine°. Power is sought to erect certain
projected works " within the parish of Ynyscynhaiarn and
on Traethmawr," and to authorise the levy of tolls and duties.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.

ALLEGED BRUTALITY OP • WOIIKHOUSE MASTER.—
On Saturday a young woman named Catherine Comerford,
who was in so weakly a state as to be almost incapable of
supporting herself in the dock, was charged before Mr.
Rushton, at the Liverpool Police Court, with having con-
cealed the birth of a child. The prisoner went to live as
servant in Hart-street. On Thursday night she complained
of pain, and retired early to bed, and on the following morn-
ing the dead body of a child, lying with its face downwards,
was discovered under the bed-clothes. The surgeon could
not hay whether the child had been born alive or not. The
prisoner said she went to the workhouse on the Wednesday
before she went to Hart-street, but that she was turned out
next morning by the doctor, who said she was too far off her
confinement, and that she would only be an incumbrance if
kept until she was delivered. Police officer 164 said : When
I went up to the workhouse for the prisoner this morning,
for the purpose of bringing her down to the court, there came
on a very heavy shower of rain, and as the day was so bad,
and the poor woman very weak, I asked the governor for a
cab to put her in. His reply was, that they did not keep
hones at the workhouse for such purposes; that she was, he
believed, a bad woman ; and that, if she committed murder,
she ought to be executed for it. He came out with a great
deal of that sort of language. Mr. Rushton : Let her be re-
moved in a car, and on Monday let the governor and also
the surgeon of the workhouse be in attendance here. The
case was not, however, brought forward again, in conse-
quence of the prisoner being too ill to be brought to the
Court —Liverpool Standard.
AN ASSOCIATION of Menbants and Shipowners is forming'
in Liverpool, having for its object the reduction of the pre-
sent exorbitant duties on tea. The intention of its originators
is to adopt effectual means of bringing the merits of this
question before the public, with a view of showing the
evils which result to the community from duties amounting
to from one hundred to six hundred per cent. on this great
article of consumption, which has now become one of the
first necessaries of life, and which, viewed commercially, is
the only medium of exchange by which we can hope to ex-
tend or even retain our trade with the Chinese empire.