The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-28 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL•

STATE OP THE iiABII.:FACTUItING DISTIITCI74.
Some vague apprehensions hare been entertained in certain
quarters, with respect to the peace of this district under the
severe privations to which the working dames are now, and
may hereafter be, exposed, from the general want of em-
ployment. We (llareeiteeter Owardism) think it right to
state, that so far es oar information extends, there never was
a time of severe suffering on the part of the labouring popu-
lation of the district en which there was se complete an ab-
sence of all tendency to riot or disorder ea then is at the
present time. The working people of Lancashire are per-
fectly well aware that their sufferings are caused by circum•
stances over which their employers keys no more control
than themselves ; and, "generally, duet universally, the best
spirit prevails amongst them. Even in those places where
the cessation of labour hes arisen from an offer of reduced
wages, we have not heard of the slightest tendency to dis-
order. On the contrary, all seem determined to encounter
their privations with patienoe and fortitude, in the hope,
which we trust will prove well-founded, that the extensive
diminution of produce which has taken place during the pre-
sent year must shortly produce its effect upon the markets
of the world, and bring about a revival in the demand for
that labour which is now so extensively in abeyance.
FORGED SCRlP.—Several months since, some spu-
rious scrip shares of the Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Rail-
way, one of the lines of 1847, were circulsted in Manchester,
but although the matter then engaged the attention of the
committee of the Manchester Stock Exchange it is only
within the last few days that a satisfactory clue has been
obtained to the forger. The mode of uttering the forged
scrip appears to have been es follows :—A certain party (for
obvious reasons the publication of names would beat present
premature) would go to a broker's office, purchase, pay for,
and take away a lot of genuine scrip in the line in question ;
in a Saw days after he would return to the same broker,
make some excites for re-selling the shares which he had
previously bought, and deliver to the broker, for such re-sale,
apparently the very scrip which the latter had handed over
to him but a few days before. Not only was the scrip itself
perfectly copied, but all the marks or initials (which each
broker who receives snip places on it when received) that
had been on the true scrip were so exactly Imitated on the
hrged scrip as to lead even the parties who had last placed
their initials en the true scrip to believe that the scrip which
they received was the same they had parted with. The scrip
so returned was sold by the broker, and continued to paws
through different hands, in one instance returning in the
course of business to the very broker who was made the
vehicle of its bane. On a parcel of this scrip being sent te
the office of the Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Company,
in London, for some purpose, the company returned it ea
forged. On investigating the matter the following facts
were the result, and afford a clue to the frailty person. On
taking the same numbers of the forged and the real scrip it
was found that the brokers' marks on both were alike up to
a certain point ; that in every case of forged en ip the differ-
ence in the brokers' marks took place after the scrip had
been delivered to • particular person ; that after that period,
while the forged scrip bore the names of Masehmter
having apparently, an was the ease, been re-sold andb=
hem hand to hand in Manchester, the true scrip bore only
the names of London brokers, haring been apparently sent
up to London in order that the same numbers of scrip might
not be found circulating together in Manchester, and thus
lead to the speedy detection of the forgery. The matter, we
believe, still engages the attention of the committee of the
Stock Exchange, who have decided that the broker who
negotiated the purchase of the fain scrip must make good
the km.

CRUEL NEGLIGENCE OP A MILLoWNER.—At the
Rochdale Sessions, on Monday last, Mr. John Wilson, occu-
pier of Hosted Nook Mill, near Wardle Fold, about three
miles from Rochdale, was summoned, on the information of
ise sub-inspector of factories, on a charge of neglecting to
len off an upright shaft in his mill, by which means a girl
monied' Cothran-, seven years of age, had been seriously in-
jured. Mr. Leonard Homer, inspector of factories, was pre-
sent to watch the proceedings.—Mr. Bower, surgeon, who
had visited the girl, said that her left arm had been torn or
near the shoulder joint. Be had also found two flesh wounds
on other parts.—lt appeared that, on the 11th lust., the girl
went into the mill with her parent's tea, and when there her
clothing was caught by the upright shag.—The child's
mother said her daughter had no busine, a in the factory,
and, an Mr. Wilson had promised to see to her, she hoped
the bench would be lenient with Morner said
nothing could repay the child for the loss of her arm, and the
shaft might have been boxed off for a tew Warnings. What-
ever the bench thought fit to fine the defendant for hie
neglect that fine should be given to the injured girl when
she reached 21 years of age, at least he would write to the
Secretary of State recommending that it should be so.—Mr.
Chadwick, magistrate, said it was the worst case that had
occurred in that neighbourhood, and if another as bed came
before him he would convict in the highest penalty, 1001.
As it appeared that Mr. Wilson had only just commenced
business, he should mitigate the penalty to 401., with all
expenses.
SUDDEN DEATIL—On Wednesday, in the SCwaiOna
Court, Liverpool, a prisoner named Jane Smith, who was
arraigned on a charge of having stolen a mat on the 12th
Oct., suddenly dropped down dead while the evidence was
being proceeded with.