The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-07 00:00:00

Spring Bank, Stockport, on the 28 It of Februari, 1811 ;
a silver cup, a silver salver, five geld seals, a silver pencil-
case, and silver thimble, from the residence of James Gee,
Beg , Holly Wood, on the 9th of March, 1817 ; a large
quantity of silver plate, from the premises of Mr. James
Hobson. pawnbroker, London-piece, Stockport, March
27th, 1847. I told the prisoner, after reading the
whole of the above documents, that he as
w charged
with purchasing the whole of this property at various
times, from the end of January to the middle of June l
Mr. Howard said, " She called upon me some time ago, and ast.
sold me some plate, at 41. 6d. per ounce, amounting to
31. Be. She gave me her name and address. It was a alma
eases; I think it WWI Surr, or some such name. I never
bought any prate from her except on the occasion I have
mentioned." The books 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7,8, and 9, are the
same which I brought from Mr. Howard's shop. I have
examined them, but can Sod no entry of any patchiest, of DP,
silver from a person named Surr, for which 31. fis. was pr
Mr. Monk, who had watched the case throughout on te,half
of the and made objections to various erestirms
to the witneues, then spoke in his defene..,, main-
taining the evidence to be insufficient to warrant his deten-
tion.—The magistrate committed the prisoner for trial at
the neat Chester Anuses, but consented to receive bail,
which was found in the coarse of the evening, and the pri-
soner was set at liberty.
LEAVING WAGGONS ON va RsIlLwAY.—At the
Hyde petty sessions, on Friday, John Carr, Matthew Nekon.
George Gordon, and Timothy Sullivan were charged with
placing three ballast waggons upon the main line of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, at Woodhoad, on
the night previous, without a signal. The evidence proved that
two envines, which bad been assisting the night goods train
up to Woodhead, were standing on the down line, preparing
to return to the depot at Newton, when the poisoner, John
Carr, came to ask the brakesman what waggons they must
t ru
ready for the tunnel. The brakeman told him not to
' any waggons out of the siding on to the main litre
un • the pilot engine, which had gone through the tunnel ,
with the goods train, returned. Instead of obeying these
instructions, he ordered the other prisoners to run out of the
siding the three waggons, which were loaded with stone. The
consequence was, that the two engines ran into them, knock-
ing one off the lice, and damaging the leader of the fine
engine. The magistrate committed Carr to the House of
Correction for one calendar month to hard labour. The
others ware set st liberty .
WARWICKSHIRE
ScsreNsioN OF RAILWAY WORE& meeting
of the members of the Stock Exchange, at Birmingham, was
held yesterday, for the purpose of taking into consideration
communications received from various provincial stock ex-
change associations, inviting co-operation in a movement
having for its object the suspension of railway calls. It was
resolved :
That, observing the high price now paid for all kinds of railway
material ard labour, owing to the shortram of time in which so our
an amount of we is proposed to be executed, it seems probable
that all works ta be clone may, by equitable arrangement& between
the companies and the contractor., be extended over • more length.
coed term than at present proposed. with advantage to both
and eventually with benefit M the mamas Muses of labourers
artificers employed. That, under melt arrangement& the
directors may make the mils on the shareholders smaller in
amount, sad at pester intervals than hitherto, which, in
the opinion of this sensation, would iced to relieve the
aharemarket from its present state of extreme depreenta.—
That any movement of the kind proposed is a matter of
Indifference to the mere speculator, who has oppartunities,"Wftrigo2
Wrest, to tura ems a constantly declining market to • profitable
account; the pressure tailing upon the steady shareholder, compelled
to see every succeeding call followed by a onereepcmdent fall in the
saleable value of Ma property.—That whilst upon the above grounds
the member. of this association are of opinion that a wellarmeidenal
restriction or limitation of the works now in progress or la
prospect, is highly desirable, and would be glad to render to their
principals any asairemee or facility in their power in fare I
therance of such an object, they do not consider It within
the province of an association of brokers to take a leading part
in the prooseding.—That it appears to this sagem. lion that the existing
law gives to the ehareholders of canionies formed since 1843 the
power to call extraordinary meetings to control and regulate the ado
of the directors. The members are of opinion that requisitions to the
directors of the various railways in this lombty, numerously signed by
the registered sharebotders, would be well received, and as far as is
judiciously practicable be acquiesced in and thee would be glad to see
the larger shareholders of thin town and district ialling a meeting of
their brother shareholders to oonakbr the propriety of netting such re-
quisitions on foot, or of taking such other steps as the urgent nemesi-
dm of the times appear to require.

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EITZWPONEY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—The
annual meeting of this society for the exhibition of agricul-
tural stock and implements, and the award of premiums to
agricultural labourers, and for excellence in the genre! de.
partments of agriculture, was held yesterday at Stewponey.
The ploughing matches came off at noon in a piece of fellow.
The usual awards were made for excellence in stock, plough-
ing, Cke, The dinner took place at the Stewponey Inn.
Mr. Foley, M.P., presided.—Lord Lyttelton, in giving the
health of the president, observed, with regard to agricul-
tural societies generally, that whether or not they were
destined to continue throughout the kingdom on the same
seals as heretofore it was not far him to say, but it
was undoubtedly evident that in many places • growing
indifference had of late prevailed towards them. As
to the general progress of agriculture, and the
effects of these societies, his lordship thought that the pro*.
peels of agriculture were better than they had been repre-
sented,
and that they would continue to improve.—After
some other toasts had been given and responded to, the
chairman gave " The Bishop and Clergy," and congrstu-
lated the Dean of Worcester on the interest which his right
hon. brother (Sir ,Peel) had taken in agriculture, as
evinced by his recent upemblage at Drayton of practical and
scientific agriculturists.—,The Dean of Worcester, in reply-
ing to the toast, alluded to the agricultural labourer as being
greatly benefited by these societies, notwithstanding the
ridicule that hsd been attempted to be parsed on the pre-
miums given to that class.

THE PETERBOROUGH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA-
vox held its annual meeting on Monday. As regards the
display of stock, and in some other respects, the show was
decidedly inferior to its predecessors. There were not 20
head of cattle altogether, and, with few exceptions, they
were not worth exhibiting. Some of the extra-stock were
unquestionably very Ike animals, and one of them was
a perfect model of corpulence and symmetry. The
stock of sheep was still more scanty, hut among them
were some exquisite forms. The prize ram could
have carried upon his back, with perfect security, an
ample mirror of plate glass. The pigs were remark-
able for nothing but mediocrity, and were also limited
in number. The display of implements was consider-
able. This was the redeeming point in the show. Few of
them were absolutely new, but some of them manifested
great ingenuity of improvement. A chaff-cutter, with safe.pr-
fever, the work of Meson. H. Smith and Co., of Stamford,
attracted particular notice, but did not gain the prize, which
was awarded to Mr. Stanley, of Peterborough, for a similar
implement. The superior merit of Mr. Stanley's consisted
in the greater expedition of its operations—the merit of that
of Messrs. Smith and Co. in a safety lever, by which, in caw
of accident, it could be instantly stopped ; and for this a pa-
tent he. been procured. A new dibbling implement, or
seed-planter, the invention of Mr. R. H. Nicholls, of Thorn-
ley Orange, Bourne, Lincolnshire, likewise attracted much
notice. Mr. Stanley's improved linseed crusher was pro-
nounced the best • and an ingenious linseed-boiler,
the invention and manufacture of the same maker,
attracted especial notice. The linseed compound
tub has a graduated scale affixed, that the weight
of water may be at once Teen; a jet of steam is
introduced, which stirs it up much more effectually than can
be done by hand, and thus makes it an employment for one
man or lad instead of two; again, by merely turning the
steam-cock off or on, the boiling will be carried on more or
less rapidly at pleasure ; and by turniog quite off, will be
much more effectual, cleanly, and convenient, than by rak-
ing oat the fire, which can be used at the same time for other '
purposes. The same tub will answer admirably for steaming
chaff, potatoes, carrots, and all root., and for boiling water
even for domestic purposes, much more economically than by
the common method, forty to eighty gallons of water being
boiled by it in twenty-live minutes. About forty of the
principal agriculturists afterwards dined together at the
Angel Hotel, Mr. J. M. Heatheote, of Coonington, presid-
ing. The usual number of premiums were awarded.

A FATAL ACCIDENT occurred yesterday, at Clifton,
to it young lady named Welsh, who, while standing on the
highest point of St. Vincent's Rock, for the purpose of
viewing the scenery, was accidentally precipitated to the
bottom, a depth of near 300 feet, and was dashed to atoms.
kiss Welsh, who was about 20 years old, was in the habit
of walking on the downs for air and exercise. On Tuesday
she was seen at the point of the rock by several parties, and
one gentleman, who thought she was ia a dangerous situa-
tion, intimated his opinion to her. She thanked him, and,
without leaving the spot, drew back for a short distance, and
he left her. She must, however, have incautiously returned
to the edge of the precipice, and the grass there being, in dry
weather, exceedingly slippery. must have missed her footing
and fallen headlong overthe cliff. • youth named Eynon, who
was walking in the sig-zag walk, and aquarryman who wasat
work at the bottom part of the rocks both saw her fall, and the
former states, that while descending he saw her stretch oat
her hands and endeavour to grasp a mass of ivy which ad-
heres to the face of the rock. She did not succeed, and was
dashed from point to point of the rock until she fell to the
bottom. A coroner's inquest was held on the body before
Mr. J. B. Grindon, coroner, at the Rownhsm Tavern,
Clifton Ilotwells, and the facts having been detailed as here
given, the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
The melancholy event has cast quite a gloom over the
neighbourhood of its occurrence.
A CIIILD BURNED TO DEATH ON A RAILROAD.—
An inquest was held on Monday, in Gloucester, by Mr.
Lovegrove, the coroner, on the body of Ann Williams, a
little girl eight years of age, who mot with a frightful death
on the dock branch line of the Bristol and Gloucester Rail-
way, Some portion of the line passes along a public tho-
roughfare on a level, no fence or gate being erected to pre•
vent the public incautiously wandering on it. The deceased's
death was ocrasioned from the dropping of burning coke
from the fire-boss of the engine, which the child ran to look
at, and, on stooping down, set fire to her clothes. When
discovered, the poor little creature was completely enveloped
in flames. She survived the injuries but a few hours. 'lb*
Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," accompany-
ing irwith a recommendation to the company to the effect
. that nO engine should be used on the branch without an salt-
box attached wit
NORFOLK.
COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.—The
Bight Hon. John Lord us Sir W. Jones, Bart., T
't.iivans, --
B.