The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

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WARRINGTON ELECTION.—The Manchester Guar-
dian says' " It is talked of in this borough, by persoas who
are likely to know the truth of the matter, that it is the in-
tention of Win. Alcard, Esq., who contested this borough at
the late election on the liberal interest, to petition against
the return of his opponent, Gilbert Gretnall, Esq., en the
ground of gross bribery having been resorted to in the for-
warding of ihe interests of Mr. Greenell."
GILMOUR, THE SWINDLER, who has been commit-
ting so many depredations upon Liverpool tradesmen, has
appeared in Manchester with a similar object for the benefit
'of that locality. His character, however, being well known
to the police' a leech was put upon his actions, and as he
issued forth day by day, to distribute his orders amongst un-
suspecting tradesmen, two clever officers of the detective
police accompanied him in all his rambles. Fast as he gave
Lis orders (which he did with a liberal hand) a policeman fol-
lowed after and apprised the parties who he was, so that the
ordi rs, which varied from a pair of boots to 1,0001. worth
of yarn, were never executed. Nothing daunted, however,
Mr. Gilmour would, no doubt, have remained in the town,
but for a visit which he received a few days since from Mr.
Resnick, the superintendent of police, who advised him to
leave the town. At first, Mr. Gilmour took his advice in
high dudgeon, but ultimately admitted that it would per-
Imps be the best course, and he promised to leave Maa-
chester the next day, when he accordingly departed.
FALSE PRETENCES.—At the borough court of Man-
chester, on Tuesday, a Mary Jane Loyd was charged with
obtaining goods under false pretences. On the 14th of
August the prisoner, in company with a lady whom she
represented to be her sister, ailed at the shop of Mrs. Came-
ron, upholsterer and furniture dealer, of No. 8, Albert-place,
and there bought a sofa, for which her sister raid. In a day
or two afterwards the prisoner visited the same shop alone,
informing Mrs. Cameron that she wu about to settle in
Manchester, and that she would require her house furnished
throughout. She stated that she was a Mrs. Leyd,
widow of Captain Loyd, late of the 10th Hussars, who had
fallen in the war of Affghanistan. She spoke most
affectingly of her sufferings in the East, informing Mrs.
Cameron that she had shared the captivity of Ladies Bale
teim
and M'Naughten, and, along with her husband, had e
enced the vicissitudes of that sad and disastrous cam
She also represented herself as in the receipt of a of
701. per annum, as a captain's widow, and sta r that ler
daughter had been allowed a pension of 501. Added to this
she said she was entitled to about 7501. prize money, due to
her deceased husband. She told Mrs. Cameron that she was
not just then in possession of any money, beyond what
would suffice for her immediate wants, and under these cir-
cumstances asked for credit. She produced a number of
papers and documents in support of her story, stating that
she had been recommended by Mr. Maude, a stipendiary
magistrate, who had himself bought some chairs there, sad
thought them exceedingly cheap. On the faith of these 1.-
preseatations, Mrs. Cameron undertook to famish the home,
when the widow selected and gave orders for furniture, &e.,
to the amount of 1501. The orders were executed to
the extent of 12.5 t., which was to be paid by instal-
ments. Considerable delay ensued, and Mrs. Cameron,
being at length unable to obtain her money, ap-
plied to Mr. Beswick, the superintendent of police, who
recognised the " captain's widow" at once, not as the com.pk
nion in captivity of the heroic Lady Sale, but as the wedded
wife of an humble bricklayer, d
now living. He had, it Ap-
peared, had the widow to deal with before, and knew her
from the description. When apprehended and told the
charge against her, she confessed that all her representations
were false. When brought up in the dock witnesses were
called to disprove her story ; amongst thereat Mr. Maude, who
disclaimed her acquaintance, and she was fully committed
to the sessions, to answer the charge before a jury. On Sa-
turday last she sold the whole of the furniture in her house
for 441. to a broker, from Bolton.
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THE. DEATH ON BOARD THE DUCHESS OF KENT
STEAMER.—A letter from the poor-law commissioners to the
clerk of the board of guardians at Rochdale, states that the
commissioners have had under consideration, the report of
Mr. Austin, end the evidence taken by that gentleman at
Rochdale, and noticed that there were several omission, of
duty on the part of officers of the Rochdale union, occurring
through want of a proper apprehension of those duties, but
state that, "There is no reason to suppose the boy Duignan
(one subject of enquiry) did not receive every proper care
whilst he was a patient in the hospital, or that he was not
in a fit state of bodily health to be removed to Ireland before
he quitted it. During the journey to Liverpool from the
hospital he was not neglected. The attention of the commis-
goners has also been directed to a resolution in the minutes
of the proceedings of the guardians, which shows that the
board were desirous of the Duignsn's being removed to
Ireland in the company of persons who would take proper
care of them.
DIeTRESS IN ROCHDALE.—A deputation of influen-
tial rate-payers met tke poor-law guardians on Monday, at
the board meeting, to concert measures for alleviating the
distress under which the labouring cluses of the borough
are suffering, consequent upon the depression of the cotton
trade. James Heald, Esq., M.P., was the chairman. The
interview was a private one. It turns out, however, that the
board insisted upon their competence to relieve the prevailing
distress, if tke rate-payers would supply them with the means
of doing so. The deputation called upon them to effect this
object at any cost. Another meeting of the influential inha-
bitants was held, by adjournment, at the Court-house, that
afternoon, and the result of their conference with the board of
guardians was communicated to them by Mr. Heald. There
was a prevailing disposition to enter upon a public subscrip-
tion' but the board of guardians had apparently discouraged
that measure. A committee was appointed for the purpose
of investigating aggravated cases of distress, and bringing
them before the guardians from time to time; and any gen-

demons was, of counc, left to his option of relieving indivi-
dual suffering. One of the methods of relieving the claims
upon the guardians will be, that every religious denomina-
tion will attend to the wants of their respective congregations.
This in all the progress made by the town, in answer to the
memorial of the unemployed to the mayor.

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SELLING ADULTERATEDunasaaas FLOUR AT LEEDS.—Yes-
terday, Samuel Vickers, and Elizabeth his wife, who stead
remanded on a charge of having sold flour adulterated with
Paris white and plaster of Paris, underwent a further exami-
nation at the Court-house, Leeds. A number of witnesses
were examiaed, who proved that within the last four or
five weeks they had purchased flour at the shop of the
defendant at a cheap rate, and that after having partaken of
bread made from it, they and the members of their families
had been taken ill, having pains in the head and
chest and constipated bowels.—Mr. W. West, F.lt.S., stated
that he had analysed portions of the bread in question, and
that he found it to contain carbonate of lime ai,tl sulphate of
lime, in proportions slightly varying, but amounting in the
aggregate to one ounce in 14, or about one lb. in every atone.
lie had also analysed portions of the flour taken from the
bins in the defendant's shops, and they gave the same re-
sults.—Mr. Naylor, solicitor, who appeared for the defend-
ants, urged that what the female prisoner had done she
had done as the wife of the man, and on that ground she
should be discharged.—Both the prisoners were remanded
until this day.
CHESHIRE.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE BIRKENHEAD DOCK
COMMlBBloNBRlL—Yesterday. an adjourned meeting of the
Birkenhead Dock Commissioners was held at the rooms,
Hamiltonaquare. Mr. Was. Potter presided. Mr. Wain
read the minutes of arrangement between the Woods and
Forests and the Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, and which
were 18 in number :

1. That the land granted by the crown to the Birkenhead Dock
Commiseioners for the construction of the river wall, and comprising
about 16 acres, should be re-invested is the crown free from all re-
strictions, to the intent that the crown may have the entire frontage
to the river Matey, and not be interfered with about dips, or stairn,
or wharfs, or whenvise.-2. That In consequence of the improve-
ment in value of the property above-mentioned, the crown
shall bear the exilic cost of constructing and completang the river
will, and the cost of excavating the foundations of the said wall, and
the crown shall reimburse to the dock commbselonern the cent of con-
structing ouch portions of the wall as are now completed, and which
amount, to 21,10071. lea. ed., the money so reimbursed to be applied
by the dock come:Melon.' in further prosecution of the works of the
great tidal hamin.-3. Full amounts of the expenditure incurred in
milding sock portions of the river wall as shall be rendered to the
Commissioners of Wood. and examined by them, and It any question
about the expenditure crises , the same shall he subject to • reference.
—4. The crown Mall defray the eon of continuing the wall from the
point where it is now completed to the river front of the crown re-
scree, and the cost of the foundation of the same, and also the cog of
backing it to keep it from damage ; and the crown then stipulate to pay
the sumof 46,Me1. —5. The Commissioners of Wood., Muting that the
Birkenhead Dock Commie oven obtained rock at klaybrick-hill, free
of royalty, and that rail. arc Did down from the hill to the dock, for
the conveyance of rock, a continuance of the privilege of obtaining the
rock free, and of using the mile free, was expect.] to be granted to
the crown. The crown further stipulated to have the ricer-wall
built under the superintendence of their own engineers, in cam they
should be dile-Matted with the engineers of the dock commiesioners ;
and if the work were executed by the dock commissioners, then proper
eetimatm of the same were to be rendered to the Weeds, and app: Dyed
of by them, tind full accounts were ales to be rendered periodically
and at short Mt.-vela during the progress of the works.-6. The mil
excavated from the tidal basin shall be deposited equally far the pur-
poee of hacking the river wall and the other works extending to the crown
reserve, and nliallbe levelled and sloped under the direction of the crown,
by and at the expertse of the dock ounimissioners.—The seventh speci-
fied the slips and openings which were to be made at the cost of the
crown.—The eighth provided that the absolute property in the river
wall and the content over the same, should he vested In the crown.
—The ninth specified that the rights and privileges of the ferries of
Woodside, Sze., should he protected by a on tale proviso—The tenth
was, that the crown should advance to the dock commissioners teams
not exceeding 13,innit. to be applied in the construction and comet.
lion of the great tidal basin and the walls of the basin, ite. —The
eleventh was that the crown should have priority over all
other charges for the money so advanced and the interest
thereof.-17. That the dock commigionere should call in
the moneys due to them by the Birkenhead Dock Company,
the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Railway Company, and
the township; and all moneys so received are to he expended by
them in the continuous prosecution of the outer weak., including
the graving docks.-13. The crown shall be empowered to me in the
name and on the behalf of the dock commtwioners, if the tansy
altould fail to enforce their just demands.-14. All warmth for
works shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests.-1.5. All amounts to he rendered monthly by the dock
conenisnoners.-113. That the constitution of the dock trust Mall
be remodelled, and be composed of thirtevn commiseionere, who
shall be named in the act, and continue In ofßoe until the
works are completed, and Ave years after. Of these thirteen
oorumiseinnerei, the chairman shall be nominated by the crown;
six nhallbe nominated by Birkenhead; three by Wallasey, including
&menthe; and the remaining three by the holders of bonds of the
dock commissioners; all nommations of commissioners, original or
nubsequent, to be subject to the approval of the crown.-17. That the
Commissionets of Woods and Forests shall have a genera] control and
superintendence over the execution of the works, and may appoint
inspecors or surveying otlicers.-18. That the dock COMM/4.)MM
shall not now or hereafter, so long as any part of the crown advance
remains unpaid, lease or part with powession of any part of the
dock', tolls, or other property vented in them, or transfer to, or de-
pute any other person or persons to execute their powers er authori-
ties without the consent in writing of the Commi.seioners of Woods.
Upon the motion of Mr. Pike, seconded by Mr. Greene,
the whole of these minutes of arrangement were confirmed.
It appeared from the conversation which followed, that
the commissioners, in consequence of the absence from town
of Lord Morpeth, were unable to say whether the bill sanc-
tioning these arrangements between the two bodies would
be made a crown measure or not; but, by the advice
of the dock commissioners, the necessary parliamentary
notices for promoting the bill next session have been in-
serted in the Chester papers, and will appear in Friday's
Gazette.

ANCIENT GERMAN COINSFOIIND AT NAWORTH.
—During the progress of the works of Naworth Castle, •
number of German coins have been found, from time to
time, by the workmen employed in clearing out the rubbish
caused by the fire. They are of copper, very thin, and
somewhat smaller than a shilling, and are mostly in good
preservation. The inscription of one of the beet preserved
of them is, on one side, " Gorr-acumar-DIE-Enst-asci "
(" To God alone the honour be ") ; and on the other,
HANNO•KRAVRINCKEL-IN-NVn" ("John Krauwinekel,
in Nuremberg "). These coins are supposed to belong to
the period of the Reformation in Germany, when the town
of Nuremberg played so prominent • part; and their pre-
sence at Naworth is probably to be accounted for by the fact
that, in the wars with Scotland, Henry VIII. and his suc-
cessors employed numerous bands of mercenary troops—
some of whom would, doubtless, be occasionally quartered at
Naworth and the other border fortresses of the Deere family,
the head of which was so frequently invested with the office
of Lord Warden of the Marches. Sir Walter Scott, it will
be remembered, is the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," makes
Watt Tinlinn, in enumerating the advancing foe to the Lady
of Breaksorne, speak of
The Clerman hackbet.men,
Who have long lain at Aekerten;

and the Protector Somerset, writing to the Lord nacre of
Naworth, Warden of the West Marches, on the 27th of
September, 1549, says The Almaine, in number 2,000,
very valiant soldiers, shall be sent to you shortly from New-
castle, together with Sir Thomas liolcroft, and, with the
force of your Wardenry (which we would were advanced to
the most strength of horsemen that may be), shall make the
attempt to Loughmaben."
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PROGRESS OF TIIE ASIATIC CHOLERA.—On Toes-
day evening a meeting of the Worcester town council wea
held, at which Mr. Councillor Arrowsmith read the follow-
ing communication from Falmouth :—" A cue of cholera
on board a ship from the Black Sea has occurred here ; ship
placed under quarantine. Another ship arrived with a foul
bill of health ; under quarantine." This fell disease being
now at our very doors, the speaker brought the matter be •
fore the council with the view of taking some steps to be pre-
pared for the event should the scourge visit Worcester. The
following resolution on the subject was unanimously
adopted That a committee be appointed with a view to
consult the medical gentlemen of the city so to the propriety
of forming a board of health, to adopt ouch precautionary
measures as may be deemed necessary, to consequence of the
' threatened approach of the Asiatic cholera." A committee
with a similar object was appointed by the Gloucester council
on Friday hat.
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DEPRESSION IN THE CARPET TRADE.—The Ner-
eastk Advertiser tap, in consequence of the great depres-
sion in trade, the firm of Mews. Winpenny, Middleton,
and Co., of Baroardcastle, have suspended their works for
the present, and a great number of; hands have been thrown
off work. Several of the workmen belonging to the other
manufactories have not had a single job for several weeks
put, the remainder are only partial employed. (heat dis-
tress prevails in the neighbourhood.ly