The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

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shall be adhered to as agreed upon between the Port-
land and Montreal companies,
The accounts of the harvest in the different districts
of Upper Canada are very varied. In some sections
the crops are reported to be below an average,
whilst in others they are said to be unusually
prolific and abuudant. On the whole there can
be no doubt that the harvest has turned
out highly favourable. In Lower Canada, wheat,
although it has sustained some damage front the ily,
is regarded as the best crop; the other crops have
generally turned out rather unfavourably.
The telegraph between Montreal and Quebec was
put into operation on the 9th instant.

For some days peat silly rumours have been circu-
lated affecting the monetary condition of the South-Eastern
Railway. We are enabled to give those reports the most
unqualified contradietion.—Morning Paper.

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FALL OP WORKSHOPB.—ESCAPE or SEVERAL
WORKMEN.—About half-peat ten o'clock this morning the
neighbourhood of Leicesteroquare was terribly alarmed, in
consequence of the falling in of the workshops of Mr. Bar-
rett, brasier, of Oreen-street, Leicester-square. Mr. Bar-
rett, jun., at an early hour, bad some misgivings as to the
safety of the shops, and refused to work, whereupon
the men immediately followed his example, and left the
workshops, but occasionally ran in again to save what
tools they could. Over the shops were a women and her
Rosily, who also left the spot ; and scarcely had they done so,
ere the whole fell in with a tremendous crash, carrying an
adjoining boilding with it. Happily no lives were lost.—
HALF-PAST TRIBLYIL—The side of the house of Mr. Roberts,
hair-dresser, Long's-eourt, has also fallen in, and other
bowies are expected to fall. A strong muster of workmen
are engaged shoring up the adjoining house', and a police
force of the C division keeping back the mob of parsons as-
semb'ed on the spot.
DREADFVL SUICIDE IN WRITECROSS-STREET
PRINON.—it is our painful duty to announce the suicide of a
gentleman named Richards, aged 23 yeah, who was eon-
fined as a prisoner in Whiteeross-street prison. He had
been complaining of indisposition for some days. and was
removed from his usual ward to thn infirmary of the prison.
where he showed symptoms of delirium. About 6 o'clock
yesterday afternoon the nurse bad left him for a few minutes
to iftood to soother pliant
iant During her absence he hail
seined a razor and ma, e an incision in his throat; after
which he had risen from his bed, stepping Into the pool of
blood near it, and it appears that he had walked to the
neared window, and on finding it barred he proceeded to
another window, from which he threw himself on the stone
pavement beneath, a height of 30 feet. He was lifted up
by some of his fellow-prisoners and carried to the infirmary,
Where he was immediately seen by a medical gentleman,
who is a prisoner; but in. a few minutes he breathed his
last. The medical attendant of the prison arrived within
ten minutes of the accident occurring, and agreed with the
medical gentleman above referred to that death ensued
chiefly from the injuries caused by the fall. Mr. Richards'
friends are undetstood to be respectable, but it was stated
they had deserted him; in consequence of which be had
not the means of sub-istence during the six months of his
imprisonment, excepting what he received from his fellow-
prisoners.

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