The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

COMMISSION IT THE LORD LIEUTENANT 07 AYE-
S/HElL—lion. G. F. Boyle to be Comet, vice G. M. Coning-
'lame, of Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry.
APPREHENDED Riores—Aberdeen and the adjoining
counties seem in an inflammable state. At Fraserburgh
the symptoms of approaching disturbance were so obvious,
that a detachment of soldiers were sent from Aberdeen, who
were, however, countermanded when within lire miles of
their destination. _ .

REFRACTORY PRlNTEns.—Disagreement bat for enure
time subsisted between the muter and journeymen printers
of Edinburgh, and affair. have come to such a cri,s, that the
leading houses have announced that if certain resolutions
published by the workmen are not withdrawn in ten ilv}s,
the whole partier adhering will be dismissed from the various
offices.

TURNIP BREAD, composed of equal parts of turnips and
wheaten flour, has been made in Ayr, and is said to be highly
palatable.
PROVINCIAL.
L INCASHIRE.

ACCIDENT ON THE iILE-7-CHESTER ANn LEEDS RAlL-
WAY.—Yesterday morning, a collision teok place on this
line, at the junction of the Oldham branch, between an
Oldham and a Yorkshire luggage train. The Yorkshire
train ran into the carriages at the rear of the Oldham train,
immediately on its getting upon the main line, and broke
two carriage. to pieces. The engine and the tender of the
Yorkshire train were much damaged, hut the engineer and
stoker escaped, the former receiving, however, several severe
bruises. The etrzineer of the Oldham train had given the
proper signals, but they had not been at'ended to by the
driver of the other train. .

A SHOCKING •CCIDENT took place at Kensley, in this
county, during the night of Tuesday, by which four men
were suffocated. The trustees of the late Mr. Fletcher are
sinking a coal mine at Kersley, and two sets of men were
emp"oycd—the sinkers by d iy, and the Krick-Betters by
night. The four brick-setters were at work on the night in
ques'inn, when about ten o'clock a volume of flame buret
from the mouth of the pit. It was two o'clock on Wednes-
day morning before any men could eafilT descend into the
mine, and then the bodies of the four brick-setters, J. Cow-
sill, W. Cowed], I'. Harrison, and W. Johnson, were found
dreadfully burnt, and they were all quite dead. it is sup-
poeed that a quantity of gas had collected in the mine from a
slight fl-sure in the side of the pit, and had caught fire from
the candles of the workmen. An inquest was held on the
bodies on Wednesday, and a verdict of "Died from suffoca-
tion " was returned.

NOTTINGILtMBIIIRE.
GENERAL DISTREAS IN NOTEINGRAIN.—Owing to the
long-continued depression in trade, and the high price of
provisions the working dames in Nottingham are suffering
much privation. The Union workhouse, originally built to
accommodate nee thousaed indisiduols, now numbers within
its walls 1,014 souls. Out-door relief is given to 3,148 p:r-
eons, but there is besides these a very numerous class of
honest, industrious, and well-deserving persona, who have
large families, and little work to do, whose anxiety to keep
from the parish renders them subject to much deprivation
and misery, fur whom a spirit of commiseration has sprung
up, and is manifesting itself among the wealthier classes. I
A requisition havit.g teen halide': to the !slayer, a
preliminary meeting wan held at the police-office, on
Friday afternoon last, to devise means, if possible,
to meet the exigencies of the case, but a difficulty was
naturally felt an to whether, on a subscript i m being entered
into, the benefit be confined to the house only, as in Radford
and other parishes adjoining the town, multitudes are in •
state of extreme want and destitution. The 'Ledford work-
house contains 109 persons, and the guardians are obliged
to offer the house to a great number of applicants for relief,
as it is found impossible to raise money in the parish to ply
the out poor on the scale hitherto adopted. At the last meet-
log • call of 20 per cent was made for the relief of the poor.
At Mssford there are 321 in the workhouse, and 2,845 per-
sons receiving out-door relief. A committee was formed,
who sat the same evening at the police-office, with a deter-
mination to adopt some course forthwith for the relief of the
general distress with which they are surrounded.
Loc VL DIATEESB.—PERLIC 114 carry:G.—On Friday last,
a requisition couched in the following terms was received
by W. Cripps, Esq., Mayor " We, the undersigned
inhabitant householders of the town of Nottingham, sym-
pathising with the great number of unemployed operatives,
most respectfully end earnestly request that you would be
I pleased to convene • public meeting, at your earliest cense-
mence, for the purpose of considering the distressed situation in
I which hundreds of them are placed, and also to raise a public
auhseription fur their relief." In consequence of this requi-
sition, it was ultimately decided that the meeting should be
held at 3 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon.—The Mayor, in
opening the proceedings, said he should not occupy much of
their time, because he thought that any general remarks as
Ito the necessity of assisting their fellow-creatures in distress,
would be impertinent. After various statements of destitution
bad been made by a. eeral speakers with regard to Nottingham
t.nd its neighbourhood, a lace manufacturer rose and said lie
felt it his duty to state his opinion that the lace trade was not in
that depressed state in which it had been on several former
occasions. It was true that the " happy vale of Lenten," as
it had been designated, was not in that flourishing condi-
tion in which it appeared some time ago; but it was only
fair to state that New Leiden was an exception. Within
the last three years, from 255. to 105. a week had been ob-
tained by the workmen. —Mr. Hurst (busier), begged
leave, as far us hie knowledge went, to bear
testimony to the hosiery trade, as Mr. Felkin had
drne with regard to the lace trade, not being in that dis-
tressed state which had been represented. He did think
they would not be forwarding the commercial interests of
the town by entering into a subscription for the relief of the
poor. Mr. Armtield (turning to Mr. Hurst) . Why did you
not come sooner, and prevent us making fools of ourselves?
(Laughter, and " hear, hear.") Mr. Hurst then remarked,
that the reports which appeared week after week
in the newspapers were anything tut conducive to the
interests of the town trade. Ile maintained that in moat
cares they were exaggerated statements. lie went on
to say that seeing so few manufacturers present, and
PO few individuals who were regularly in contact with
the poor, he thought this movemeLt would be pre-
judicial to the trade of Nottingham. He begged
they would not do the manufacturers an injustice by let-
ting it go forth to their customers and to the public that
Nottingham was in such a distressed state that people might
come to buy goods at almost any price.—Not inghoinshtre
Guardian.

AN INSATIABLE BOG.—The railway between Shipley
and Keighley is progressing rapidly, with the exception
of that part near Bingley Church called the Bingley Bog.
Sixty tons of earth and stones are cast into this bog every
hour of the day. The earth and stones on the east end are
conveyed by steam from the Nobwood, and from the west by
horses. Notwithstanding this immense quantity being
dropped into the gulf at bolt ends by three lines of rails,
all is swallowed up every morning; the heavy matter
sinking thus, forces the lighter up, and makes a black spongy
embankment on both sides. It is a question at what
time it will be compactly filled up. When the line shall be
finished from Shipley to Skipton, it will be one of the finest
rides in the West Riding. On the north side, between
Shipley and Bingley, stands the old Meek Romilies' Moor,
extending almost to Stipton ; and on the south is the St.
Ives estate. with its fields and:woods, with here and there a
villa half hid among the trees, North-west of Castle Fields,
at the distance of a few hundred yards, the lines cross tho
river Aire. The river at this plate presents a fine appear-
ance, being as broad and as deep as it is at Leeds. The line
then runs forward through the small villages called Marley
and Thwaites, near lieinhley.
Lt N;COl2inifiltE.

THE HIGH-STREET, LINCOLN, NOT A PUBLIC ROAD.—
However startling this may sound to the ears of the citizens,
says a correspondent of the Lincoln Mercury, yet will it
Pprove to be not far from the fact when the London and York
oop and the Lincoln and Rosen railways are opened; then
the High-street will cease to be a public thoroughfare, and
will become a pt./rote rind, to be opened to the public only
when it is not required by either of the companies. That
they will want it pretty often a reference to the time-table of
any important line will show: upon a moderate calculation,
thirty to forty trains will cross the street every day: give '
five minutes so the average time the genii will be closed for
each train, and the result will be that the Queen's highway,
Lincoln High-street, will be closed against carriages or cattle
for three or (our boon every day. It may be denied that so
long a time as five minutes will he taken ; but let it be
remembered that the gate. close at the time the trains
ought to arrive and depart, in order to prevent the possi-
bility of accident; and the great irregularity of trains,
every ono who has travelled by rail knows from experience.
No produce of any description, no person, however urgent
his business, however important every minute may be
to him, can by any possibility pa-s whilst this homer is
across the street, cutting off completely all communication
with the important districts south of the city. Let any one
count the number of vehicles and sheep and cattle which
enter Lincoln on a market.day, and then fancy their waiting
outside the gate—carts, waggons, gigs, horsemen, beast*, and
sheep, all crowded together in one mass—and on the other
side, carriage. and horsemen wanting to leave the city—and
let him say whether he can submit long to so intolerable a
nuisance. The street ought to be bridged over; and, if it
be made long enough, it will not be so steep as to be much
of an annoyance ; but if it prove a little inconvenient, that
would be as nothing compared with what will come upon
the cite if it be not built over. As to the great cost of such
a briar, the citizens have nothing to do with it—they have
to look to the enormous loss in their local trade, and to the
decrease in the value of their property, which will assuredly
follow if Lincoln High-stmt cease to be a thoroughfare."
WARWICKSHIRE.

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THE RAILWAY COMP/MIMI AND Till CARRY'S° TRADE.
—MEETINO AT BIUMINOHAM.—Yesterday ameetin of the
manufacturers and others interested in the trade of Birming-
ham, took place at the Public-office in that town, the pur-
pose being to consider whether any, and what, measures
should be adopted for averting a monopoly in the carriage of
rods by railway companies, and for preserving and 'mg-
mg the means of canal communication. J. Bourne, ~
the chairman, remarked, that the present meeting was dis-
tinct from one of a somewhat similar character which had
been held in that place a few months previously, and which
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