The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1846.

he Mated that the child had fallen out of the bed and hurt
himself. This, however, did not satisfy them, and on exa-
mining the child, it wee found with its mouth full of blood
and nearly choked. The brutal fellow bad introduced some
hard substance or other into the child's mouth, and endea-
voured to choke him by forcing it down his throat, in the
attempt severely lacerating the &ch. Davies immeJietely
absconded, but a wegrunt haring been issued for his apPro'
pension, in about ten d•ys he was taken into custody. Mean- ,
while the child continued in.• eery dangerous state. Davies.
was brought before the magistrates (the Earl of Dartmouth
and J. E. l'iercy, Esq.), atMandsworth, on Saturday week,
but in consequeace of its having been stated by Mr. Deswitt,
surgeon, of West Bromwich, that the child could not be
considered out of danger, the cue wasstill further adjourned.

DIJERAM.
ATIIIIIPT TO ASSIASINATII A POLICSMAN.—EarIy on
Tuesday morning last, a daring attempt was made to shoot
one of the rural police at Ryton, in this county. It seems
that policeman T. Summers was sitting in his lodgings near
Ryton, between twelve and one o'clock on the morning in
question, when he thought be heard a slight noise about the
door. He took up a candle for the purpose of ascertaining
the cause, but the candle was extinguished by the wind. He
turned round to procure another light, but had scarcely got
within the threahhold before a gun was fired at him, err-
, dently not more than a yard from his person, which shattered
the door to pieces, and drove the lime off ihe wall into his
face, depriving him, for a time, of his sight. That the nif-
Rano intended to commit murder seems certain, the gun
being loaded with the largest No. 1 shot. Summers bears an
excellent character ; and the only supposable cause for this
attempt is revenge on the part of some one whom he has beta
instrumental in bringing to justice.

FATAL ACCIDENT 0N TIIIILIkCAATIBR AND CAROMS
RAILWAY.—On Sunday, Nov. 8, on this line, about one mllB
from Kendal, one engine ran against another attached to a
short train that was passing a part of the line not yet opened
to the public. The stoker of the separate engine was thrown
by the collision into the furnace, which he was feeding at the
time, and his head and body dreadfully burned. He lingered
until Tuesday last, when death put an end to his agony.
The driver of the engine had been taken into custody. An
inquest was held on the stoker, whose name was Oarvith, on
Tuesday, and a verdict of " Accidental Death " returned.
It is rumoured that the driver was intoxicated at the time of
the accidtux

CrM BERLAND.
A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR RECENTLY OCCURRED IN
LONOTOWN, which terminated in the death of a poor, weak-
minded mendicant, called T. Allan, a character well known
in this county by the soubriquet of " Willie the Runner," who
has for four or five years past made that town his head-
quarters. A weddingparty, consisting of the bride and bride-
groom and a male companion, drew up on the 6th in a tub gig
at the George and Dragon inn, on their way from Alston to
Gretna. The deceased, as was his constant practice, fol-
lowed the parties into the inn to solicit either drink or money.
The companion of the wedding folks, whose name is T.
Gibson, being much intoxicated and exceedingly violent and
outrageous in his mirth, the deceased afforded a most
opportune subject for the gratification of his brutal sport.
Gibson ordered half a pint of whisky, which was
poured into a tumbler glass and given to deceased,
who drank it, undiluted, before taking the vessel from
his mouth. No sooner had the poor creature swallowed
the dose than the barmaid was called from an adjoining
room : another half-pint was brought in, and in like manner
given to deceased, and drank by him, and in rapid socces-
' son repeated until six half-pints of raw spirits had been
given to the unconscious victim. Deceased swallowed several
of the draughts with all the avidity and haste his brutal enter-
tainer could desire, but during the latter part of the deigns-
ing performance the poor idiot appeared to feel satiated, and
the beverage to become unpalatable to him. Gilson previ-
ously encouraged deceased by saying " he would make a
gentleman of him." He now urged on the old man by
threatening " to knock his head through the bar if he did
not drink up the contents of the glass." There were several
other persons in the same room, who from time to time re-
monstrated with Gilson. They told him "he would most
assuredly kill the man, and that he ought to recollect that
the man had a soul to be saved like the rest of them."
All this, however, was unheeded, except so far as a
laugh evinced that he heard, but disregarded the caution.
The witnesses differed in their statements of the time occu-
pied in the scene, most of them limiting it to 15 minutes,
othersto 20, and one to 30. It was also stated by some that
the last half pint was mixed with water, and that some part
was left in the glass. Deceased was then turned out of the
room by Gibson. He was able to walk as far as the passage ;
there he became overpowered, and fell. Medical aid was ob-
tained, but he died the same evening. An inquest com-
menced, but was adjourned till Monday. The facts as above
given were proved.—Gibson, in his voluntary statement, ex-
pressed his sorrow for what had happened, but denied hav-
ing given decea-ed any drink.—The jury, after deliberating
about half an hour, and there being a difference of opinion
amongst them, ultimately adopted the opinion of the majo-
rity, and found that deceased died from excessive drinking,
but without implicating any one.—Many tourists will re-
member old Willie, in his rags and unshorn beard, bare-
headed and unshod, galloping for miles by the side of the
public coaches, most frequently on the Carlisle and Penrith
roads.
AGRICULTURAL WAGE4.—In the northern counties, the
hiring' for agricultural servants take place at Martinmas
and Whitsuntide yearly. At the various hiring places wages
have not been so high this term as they were at Whitsuntide
last. At the following places, the following wages were
given, namely: At Carlisle, Brampton, Keswick, Maryport,
Workinaton, Cockermouth, Wigton, Penrith, Appleby,
Kirkby Steven, Kendal, Ambbside, good known men ser-
vants were hired for the half year at wages ranging from
71.165., Si., 91. 10s., to 111. Ils. Female servants met with
masters, their wages varying from 31., 31. 10*., 41., and to 61.
Young lads and lasses received from 3/. to 51., and 61. A
large number of servants remained anhired.
WARWICKSHIRE.
REMOVAL OF PAUPER LUNATICS.—A singular case arising
out of the alleged improper removal of a pauper lunatic was
heard before three magistrates at Birmingham, yesterday.
A charge was preferred by Mr. Wright, a solicitor of Bir-
mingham, on the part of the guardians of the poor of that
town, against Wm. Phillips, master of the workhouse in the
parish of Kingsnorton, Worcestershire, for having without
lawful authority procured the removal of a poor female named
Rood, from out of the last-named parish to Birmingham,
with the view to make her there chargeable. Mr. Wright
briefly stated the provisions of the law relative to removals;
but this case derives much of its importance from the fact
that it is the first of which public notice has been taken since
the passing of the act in the last session of parliament, with
respect to the irremovability of paupers out of any
parish in which they may have passed an industrial
residence of five years. This act, however, might
have been easily evaded, because the parish in
which the industrial reddence had taken place might,
by force or persuasion, procure the pamper to go
over into an adjourning parish, where the privilege of irre-
movability would not exist; the act has, therefore, provided
that if any officer of a parish, contrary to law, and wi.h in-
tent to cause a poor person to become chargeable to another
parish, shall remove, or cause to be removed or conveyed, or
make use of any threat or bribe, or offer any facility to in-
duce any poor person to depart from the parish for which
the officer acts, and if in consequence of such depirture the
poor person shall become chargeable to any other parish,
the officer shall forfeit a penalty of from 40s. to 61. It ap-
peared in the evidence to support this charge, that on the
st of October a woman named Sarah Hood hail been in the
Kingsnorton union workhouse in state of insanity, having
with her two illegitimate children. On this day a man
named Motteram, holding some subordinate situation in
the Kingsnorton workhouse, conveyed the woman and
children to the police-station at Birmingham, where
she had a brother a member of the force ; he
said that Mr. Phillip., the muter of the Kingsnorton
workhouse, had told him " to take her and deliver her
up whsle she chose to stop." The brother asked her why
she had come there, but she was quite incepalb
of giving any rational answer, and merely uttered panne
wild and incoherent expressions; she was afterwards
conveyed to a place where she had formerly lodged,
and whilst there additional symptoms of insanity were fully
niaaifested.—Mr. Docker, who appeared for the defendant,
contended there was nothing to show that Phillips had gives
any directions for, or been a party to, the removal of the
pauper ; and on these grounds the magistrates dismissed Me
case.
VERDICT OF 3001. AGAINST THE LONDON AND NORTH
WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—On Wednesday, a writ of
enquiry was heard before the Sheriff of Warwickshire, in the
shire hall, Warwick, to assess damages in an action in judg-
ment by default., brought by Mr. Haywood, attorney in
Birmingham, against the London and Birmingham railway
company, for injuries sustained by his wife through alleged
gross negligence of their servants. The damages were laid
as 5001. A jury having been sworn, Mr. Partridge. a whole-
sob dealer in London, Mrs. Laud, mother of Mrs. Haywood,
and Messrs. Crompton and Jones, medical practitioners,
I were examined for the plaintiffs. The first and second wit-
, names described the acct lent, which happened at the Coven-
try station ; the second, third, and fourth described its per-
mainent effects upon Mrs. Haywood. Mr. Partridge said :
After stopping a short time at Coventry, preperatory to ban
moved an to the London and Birmingham line, a tresoendoes mom-
side took Owe; a blow came as from lisednd us. That was occaskrael.
as I was informed by one of the aseeents. by some carriages king
forced sgatrot the points. I was dtting with m back towards the es.
gine, and Mee the skit lbw Mambo into the air. There
was a dm ink lOW smods, Rem %maw caw, I presamed,
se asmissaid the gest I was =,:goeuts.arid. Mrs. Illywaxl
wr
me greatMß
I. that draViiimovated her seat; she hat tams to do that before the se.
mid Moak, mad dauber heed led ea oblique direction, and fen lathe
Iliillesedoe doloof the wooden singe which separate the seats. Is the
edam of a manta, I seated bee; abe was in a state of considerable
• degaussed at fret, end to a bistbisudbion. else was fearfully
atemed. dam help M out of the menage, I doe he my arm Into
I the waling roted, and she quite *edgiest Her he. ma forehead
Wm; sat the side at leg hod was severed with blood.
=g*m the dada, was iamb *ma, Ind severed with blood.
BIM mg bordering at tnimMOHY. OM was he a very
fasidwa. As lobs as she ma someidat towered,
Mat a surgeon tram •Oarattry shedd be gent 11rr because I thought
the admits so linuidaide as di ropier Wiee ; but Mrs. Haywood
aid' gie home ; Illve the of Birmingham,
MI I will go to my buslieml* quite peremptory,
was retaken to a carriage, and I Mr into the custody of
her Paha, to wbega IWM dn. eery whim I Moot ride
ha the same wedge dm Comity be bat I mimed
bar Is Mr husband. She alp, aired VIM at Wmatrham. as if a
saw was as la. think she ad mismand what was said to
him at litildsgham, it was just en Mw wt she did. The child was
throws am the nurse's lap with g threat Mbatty into the seat opposite,
mad was ingeMbieke a few selnuteu I fen much Injured.
lam Lard eaeroberated Palimony, and added—
She kept her bed lhr severalthis
days, bet sofa for • beg time.
She wet daimied by Mr. C 2611101111. the surgeon, • immediately. I
have bean mentandy with her Mee, with the exception of a snort
abeam. lam Nora to say three are ethereal the collision to be seen
now. the bui Mt Use proper awed' sedan from that eye which was
• injured ; she has tad her same or smell 1 perceive, and that In the
great grief, that there is ',deterioration of the mind ; she can't write
without feeling exceedingly ill afterwards for the whole day. It is
quite sot of the question, also, for het to superintend her domestic

ftli Ms Was tiss=tmeseilher person to take
et War. us at unsid pewee width
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pa We aassientibinesidelissi Ikese-Whaelleaw Wu ansemps-
WA* WWaZs/rWweekatlg st Akin bas emplained et pommel
Ws* Flu thobeeas eel amen sod preeene.
triZa Sam that Wu I lave Urn obliged to seem. tantliii
fresapiscle place, it bent &detail that she should be cameo about
Tbieftedmony was corroborakd by the medical gentle-
bun. After Mr. Serjeant Allot who conducted the cue for
the plaintiffs, had concluded, Yr. Xaranlay, us behalf of the
defendants, desired hinsto reuse the corregnadente be-
tween the parties.
Mr. Mae:inlay sold, that if the Isamal estleant bed mot opined to
Ilasery that the London and Ness Waters Company bed never
hsa~any Sanndasa is mat the belay Is a quirk bale and
conspewstion, (11r.116~ sled& sw
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par tbst sonespaninse. Maas" nr)tiat bed Inbenalk hag
tirades sashed their sesperelka es die maw of the bums 1006 sands
of Mr. ma Wesalarreabin pastleeket sod Orebro be 04,114
thought that, three* Weir seneasi *me individuals Win brood
to p adage the neraspandena mina they bed called upon the de-
le
a
ts,
ury by thrust anise, *be prepared to do.
The j found lie the plaintiffs—Damages, 3001. ; costs, 40s.
In a second ease, In width We. Haywood alone was plaintiff,
to recover expenses to which he Ina necessarily been put by
the illness of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling,
tee., a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for
701. ; costs, 40e.
THIUTY NEW INTANS SCHOOL! YOH BIRMINORAW.—The I
Church of England at Birmingham, having succeeded in
planting ton new churches, as chapels-tit-ease to the previously
existing parish churches, and created a day-school in con-
nexion with each new church, has resolved to establish thirty
infant schools. An attempt wax made at a recent meeting
to place the movement on a basis broad enough to admit of
the co-operation of every denomination of Christians ; but
beyond an assurance that the plan of operations would leave
the schools " open to ell who wished to participate in their
benefits," nothing was conceded to Evangelical Daunt. The
subscriptions of the public generally are to be solicited ; but
" the whole management is to be vested in a committee," to
consist of the patron and president of the association when
formed, and of the archdeacon, rural dean, first and second
masters of King Edward's School, and all clergymen being
subscribers to a certain amount, with " at least an e%ual
number of influential laymen ;" and, " that all applications
should be first sanctioned by the parochial minister of the
parish or district."
ornostroonsrrnv

MR. WEALS AND THE LEICESTER BOARD OF GUARDIANS.
—At the meeting of the board of guardians at the union-
house, Leicester, on Tuesday, Mr. Weale, the assistant poor
law commissioner for this district, brought the subject of
paid nurses before the board. It appeared that on a former
occasion, when Mr. Neale was in attendance, a complaint
was trade to him relative to the treatment of, and conduct
towards, the pauper patients entrusted to the care of a man
named Innocent. Mr. Weide 'made an inquiry into the cir-
cumstances, when he was so satisfied of the incompetency of
Innocent as to lead him to suspend the latter at once. Mr.
Weale made a minute of the course he had adopted, in the
board book, but, greatly to his surprise, so far from the
guardians supporting him in the course he had thought it
necessary to take, they acted in direct opposition to his re-
commendation, by reinstating Innocent in his former office,
without even communicating with Mr. Weale upon the sub-
ject. The merits of the case will best be learnt from Mr.
Weale himself, who said :
I am anxious to draw the attention of the board to the case at
Innocent, whom I suspended same weeks ago from his situation as
nurse to the infirmary, in consequence of harshness to the sick
NOW. As I was going through the wards, my attention was drawn
to the man innocent by a nurse, who said he " was behaving ILL and
cruelly to a sick man." Finding this to be the ease, I felt it was only
doing a necessary duty to suspend such a man from his situation; and
I thought the guaruians would have been glad that I had so acted.
Sines then, however, I have received notice that Innocent has been
restated to his office. I met, at the time, with the medical idiom of
the house ; and upon mentioning the moo to him, that gentleman add
he "had not had any direct complaint against the man, but be was
cross, ill-tempered bid fellow.' I thought, therefore, that I was eels
performing an act of kindness to the sick, and a real service to the
union, in removing such a nurse from his poet. My especial object
day is, that more efficient and responsible parties should be
as nurses, and this can only he secured by having paid nurse... Mgr:
this the more strongly as the man Innocent himself is • paralytic, and
it in well known such parties are frequently intolerably peevish and
ill-tempered. I make the suggestion I have brought forward, so that
this union may not be added to some others, where such nurses as
Innocent have been guilty of the greatest cruelty to the sick poor.
Notwithstanding Mr. Weale's conduct in attempting to
relieve the board of guardians from the odium incurred by
boards of other unions, in consequence of positive cruelty
exercised towards the ur.fortunate inmates of workhouses,
the Leicester board, without attempting to excuse its con-
duct, deferred the further consideration of the case till the
following Tuesday, when it could quietly discuss the matter
without being influenced be the presence of Mr. Weale.
GLOUCWERSIIIRE.
NON-SETTLED AND NON-RESIDENT RELIEF TO PAUPERS.
—The Board of Guardians of the Gloucester Union have
ordered the following circular to be addressed to the clerks
of the different Unions in England and Wales, with whom
they have accounts :
Gloats ater Union, Nov. 10.—Sir.--I am 'directed by this Board of
Guardians to state, that since my circular of the 2;th ultimo was
addressed to you, they have given the guillemot non-settled and non-
resident relief their more mature consider dion ; and entertaining, as
they do, much doubt whether the Attorney and Solicitor-General
have put a correct construction on the 9 di 10 Viet., c. 66,--ouch eon-
struction being evidently contrary to the intention of the legislature,
and the ordinary meaning of the words used in the drat clause,—
Instead, therefore, of acting upon the resolution communicated in
such circular, and in order to avoid litigation, and the mischief likely
to arise from uncertainty, the board proposes to the Guaidlass of
such unions as have authorised relief to their paupers reading within
this union, and also to the guardians of such unions as, under the
authority of this board, have administered relief to paupers
residing in their unions, but acknowledged to be Nettled in
some parish of this union, that, with the written concurrence of
the guardians of any sr either of such unions, the payments hitherto
made to paupers residing out of the parishes where they are legally
settled, shall continue precisely as they did previously to the passing
of the above act, for six months from this date; in the course of
which time, it is probable some legal interpretation will be
given to the statute, or an explanatory act be introduced ; and for
that limited period the former payments to continue to the respec-
tive paupers, to be repaid by the union which authorised such pay-
ments: and that as regards such unions as have revoked their autho-
rity, this proposition shall have a retrospective effect, so far as such
revocations were intended to owed*. It must, however, be clearly
understood, that any relief given by this board, in consequence of
the peeing of the above act and the opinions thereon, must be ore.
side red as temporary relief; and is not to prejudice the parish re-
tiering in any question an to the party relieved being removable or
otherwise. May I beg to know immediately after your next weekly
meeting whether your board will agree to this prop Mel 1-1 am, sir,
the., S. Maven, CI, rk to the Board.
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY has just been made by Seale
workmen whilst excavating the earth in the field around the
old abbey of Lantheny, near Gloucester, and close to the
present dock. Five old pillars of the Norman period, in-
cluding the base and about four feet of the shaft, and believed
to be of the same date as those in the crypt of Glouce.ter
estheeral, were dug up. Some old Norman encaustic tiles
were also found.

CORNWALL.
WRECK/NO.—More than twenty persons have been sum-
marily committed to Budmin gaol with hard labour, for from
three to five months, for plundering from the brig Samari-
tan and her cargo wished in by the sea, wrecked off St.
Brat, near Padstow, during the late gales.
FALMOUTH.—At the election of Mayor it was found that
Mr. J. H. Lake, bookseller, stood at the head of the poll.
Mr. Lake, however, declining to take the office, paid the fine
consequent on the refusal, viz.' 301., and Mr. J. B. Cox,
ironmonger, was elected in his stead.
Sr. Ives.—The quantity of pilchards taken in the last
round, which are all secured, may now be estimated to be
about 17,000 hogsheads ; out of that number it is proposed
by the adventurers that oneofirch part shall be kept at home
for colonial and home speculation, so that the whole quantity
that will be this season exported to the Italian market will
not exceed 13,600 hhds., with the exception of a few hun-
dred hhds. taken prior to the last catch.
DEVONSHIRE.
PREVALENCE OP DISTRESS IN DEVONSHIRE.—The fol-
lowing letter has been addressed to the Home Secretary, by
the magistrates of the Axminster division, on the subject of
the distress now existing amongst the unemployed labourers
in that neighbourhood.—
" sir—The undersigned magistrates for the county of Devon, in
the Axminster division, basing been repeatedly and earnestly ap-
pealed to in behalf of the able-bodied labourers in their immediate
vicinity, who were represented to them as already suffering great dis.
tress front the low rate of wages, the failure of the potato crop, and
the total imbility of many of them to find employment of any kind,
hare, by means within their power, endeavoured to ascertain
the red eeadinoa of this elms of men, not only with a view of afford.
Mite& hismethate relief, bat of meeting, if it were possible, thelr
Ineressiag neissides. Having is
themselves
that • swanderable mow= of &nom and suffering aetu-
oily did mist in the lowish wherein they reside, arising
oat al the above rte. Old whisk in their opinion, admitted of
od
Plnebild madar their fit= step ass to bring the subject under
die [moldered= the itaingefers, and to urge, upon them as forci-
bly as they mold, the hamediate weeenty of deriving some means or
others f 1 MseesUg the
_editing rate al wages, and of finding employ-
ment for the ~oohed labourers who were then out of wort, with
every prospect of wordeleg se dud= the ensuing winter. They re-
presented to them two lieu which admitted of no dispute whatever.
First, that Is. a wash, the existing rate of wages in the parish, was
Inadequate to the =apart of a labourer's family at the present ad-
vanced price of prmisitems. detemily, that the able-bodied latoswers
out of employmept were either throws private charity, and thus
rednoed to a state= Wormy, or OW with their Amities
into the Uoloriosso, by they madding thronsalves still fur-
ther degraded, sod In preference to which Amy et *ant Mil submit
even to the dame demo at want and edged= ; the indeoleg, too,
habits of dishonesty and immorality, width wieht not min wore em-
fic=witildn tOde reach. The magiisan Own sspasnod that the
of the Mira mans Moat le astir SOW operation
the sect. le oldie 3 sada W. 4, o lost dim Om& la
OM the general
=ittef tlds act =a impeded* Ink of Misr porlshos in the
allurloood by thedo having bom be. Pam hossmorlel sabdivi.
ded into tithing; so that as ewiloMing cob hood b maintain
its own highways, no general ndin meld lo ivied la tit wish for
the production of additional label& 'To sea a moseee. If it bed
been peacticable, there seems* tar as s to moan, but the
rate-payers were unwilling to resort to owy whereby
weistaoce and relief might be to Oto n
et Mowers
out of work, and thus, in the 'et the ninglitrates, it
matters are suffered to remain Inegar el ete, evils ad
a serious magnitnde are bat Wealthy 10 aelim dietteee b
obs stlll
more widely extendedr=oll end Mt' soldl=
They therefore meet
immediate adopted to Mtn cliNraitlee tbe 4111 d °Lam-
beth, 'That the churhgoer.= sea work al sok peso=
having no means to maintain theal, mod see crew" dahy
train of life to get their own ltvtag...--(Nmsed) WELIAAX Taus,
Coryton-put, Taints Reni., FL INEARns, C. A. MAGUalren.
DORfiRIBRUtE.
REPRESENTATION OP WETMOUTIL—Me. Robert Gordon
having most explicitly declined to stand for the seat for this
borough, which Mr. Bernal, M.P., will vacate next electiin,
the Liberals have obtained the consent of Colonel Freestun
to come forward in the liberal interest, with Mr. W. D.
Christie, M.P. Colonel Freestun is said to have seen some
service, especially during the late Spanish campaign. He
recently marriedn lady (Madame Pratt) who has been a
great heuristics:sato the charitable institutions of the town,
and as he himself has a yacht there, and has identified him-
self with the am of the place, he is rather popular.
Col. Freestun has battedtha following address
To the Dream ovfiiiitsath sod M.= ae-Regis.—Cientiewe
Mr. Basal baba slialast his Intention or returning, at
the *eat elect/dm to his ecnotitosnes at Rochester, I presume 50
' offer myself as • asedidate for the seat which be will vacate. My
vliotiT4e.
,sviews tel jez,,erfiL• rordance with those which
and
I shoddier:Zs the opportrueMtywsalristee, place Ymseupiri°the ;woad
pthitien Poor rooresostatire, you will and rue ever ready to sup.