The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

WALES.

FIRE AND LOSS or THREE LITHE—NEWTOWN MONT-
OOMERYEEIRE.—EArIT on Wednesday morning last a fire
broke out on the premises of the Queen's Head Inn, and al-
though every exertion was used to stop the progress of the
flames, nearly the whole of the premises, together with the
furniture, were consumed. Mr. Peplow, lanulord of the inn,
the ostler, and Mr. Ferry, maltster, of Clunton, near Bishop's
Castle who was !staying there for the night, were all burnt
to death.

PROPINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.

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THE MANCHMSTIR CHURCH EDUCATION Socirry held
its third annual meeting yestt relay. The Hon. and Rev.
Dr. Herbert, the dean, presided, and in the course of his
opening address alluded t what has taken place in the
House of Lords respecting the non-resident y of the chapter.
He said, having been arraigned before the highest chamber
of the legislature by those (the churchwardens) from whom
they might have hoped the ground' of any discussion affecting
the chapter would have been brought forward in a friendly
spirit, and having been, at their inetigtition, attacked by a
noble lord whose censure was powerful, from his talents and
from his being at the head of a great party in the state, he felt—
though not there to enter into a discussion upon the subject, or
make any observation that would be unseemly in that place—
he felt it incumbent on him to state, that if he were can
scions that the insinuations there thrown out against them
were true, he should not be worthy to occupy that chair.
The Rev. Mr. Richton read a report, from which it appeared
that nine 'schools had been established by the society in three
ream, one of which, the large institution built is the Stret-
ford-road, called the Commercial School, was already self.
supporting; and 33 other schools received pecuniary aid
from their funds. The lice. Canon Clifton, in addressing
the meeting, alluded to the new government scheme of edu.
cation, and spoke of it as one which ought to give satisfac-
tion Toth to churchmen and dissenters, and said that it was
a plan of which this society might avail itself. The Rev.
Hugh Stowell, in the course of his address, in moving one
of the mere formal resolutions, submitted, Etter speaking of
the advantages which Manchester had already derived from
education within his memory, said he felt it due to the
churchwardens to my, that, in the course they had taken in
addressing themselves to the House of Lords, nothing was
farther from their hearts than the slightest reflection per-
sona, to the rev. gentleman occupying the chair of that
meeting. Whether they might have been correct or not in
their views he gave no opinion, but he believed they had
been actuated by the purest motives. There had been an
impression that the charter of that institution was not car-
ried out, and that, from the lapse of years, the original inten-
tion had been lost sight of. Mr. Stowell expremed himself
pleased with the government measure at education, and said
It was an even-handed measure ; but he thought something
more should be done of a coercive kind, where parents were
too selfish, for here the difficulty was not to get schools, but
to get the children to them. (Hear, hear.)
THERMOOSNIC DRAWING. —A scientific friend has
favoured us with the following ingenious mode of trans-
ferring the forms of natural objects or the patterns on
ribbons to paper:—Saturate common writing paper with
porter, coffee mixed with sugar and cream, or a solution
of Achill, then place the objects whose form is to be trans-
ferred on the prepared paper and expose them to the action
of the sun's rays or those of a common fire. Various other
solutions may be used for the same purples, as bichromate
of potash, yellow chromate of potash, &c. When figured
satin ribbons are saturated with such solutions and exposed
to the sun', rays, the raised patterns are given in beautiful
relief in a lighter tint of the same colour as the ground.
The principle is capable of a very extended application.
Liverpool Journal.

FALL OF THE ANCIENT MOAT TOWER AT DURHAM.—
On Wedneeday afternoon last, a portion of the outer wall of
the old round tower, which stood at the end of what was
formerly the Castle Moat, at the beck of Queen-street, fell
upon the roof of an opposite home, the upper portion of
which is occupied by one of the University servants named
Norton. At the time of the accident, Norton and his wife
were seated at their tea, but most providentially, although
the roof was completely crushed, and the room in which
they ware half filled with rubbish, the man escaped without
injury, (and the female with only a few trilling bruises.
Some fowls which happened to be in the room were killed.

A WATERMAN'S FAIT;11::A correspondent at Devonport
states, in the United Service Ca:ette, that, a few clays since,
two boatmen were engaged by two sailors belonging to the
Brazilian frigate Constituceo, to carry them off to that ship.
The " double fare" Rag being up, the bontmen are supposed
to have demanded more money than the Brazilian seamen
chafe to give; and we are informed that they went on board
the frigate with Oil view of getting that to which they were
entitled. The two watermen, instead of obtaining payment
of their fare, were seized up and flogged with our dozen
lashes each, and at 9h. 30m. p.m., turned adrift in their
boat.

NORFOLK.
Toe LAMBING tirosox has commenced in the eastern
counties with a good 'promise of productivenePs, though in
some districts the number of stock ewes is not equal to the usual
a . It is feared, however, that there will he a scarcity
of food for the flocks as the spring advances. The turnips
were affected by the severe frosts that occurred when there
was no snow on the ground to protect them ; and there are
now eomplainta amongst the farmer., more particularly in
Norfolk, that the crop is rotting. Since the thaw, the state of
the young wheats has excited much attention ; but it is the
opinion of the best practical men in that district that they
have not been seriously injoredby the severe winter.

EITIISSITE ROBBERY WJEWELS AT BllollTo,l.—On
Priday evening last, the house of Mr. Alderman Wilson,
No. 3, Eastern-terraec, was entered and robbed of jewels
the amount of cool. The robbery wasl ratdiscovered by
the lady's mad, who, on asendlni IhC slairclst• heard the
wardrobe 494 X in Dm mieteeet's room treat. 9n g•iag into

the room she saw no one, and on 100ki..,g into the wardrobe,
shit perceived that the 'hellion whir's the jewels were usually
kept was empty. She instant's; communicated this to her
mistress, and Aldi r.nan Wils,o sent for some men from a
neighbouring mews, who eiationed themselves round the
house, aced while they ware there, two men, who had a boa
with them, and no deviiot were the thieves, walked out of
No. 2, passed through the midst of them without question,
and got clear off.
KENT.
TNCENDIAIIMIN.—On Sunday evening, between seven and
eight o'clock, a lugs stack of wheat, belonging to Mr. I,
Thomas Mace, farmer, at Strood, is Kent, was discovered
on fire, and was 'ebony consumed before assistance could be
rendered. The stack stood in a field near the road, and is
valued at 20W. A man, respectably dressed, gave himself
up to a policeman as the author of the mischief. Ile is a
perfect stranger in the neighbourhood, and refuses to give
his name. lie stands remanded till Wednesday.
BUCK INGIIAIISIIIItE.
ANOTHER VICTIN.—An inquest was held at North Mar-
stun, on view of the body of Thomas Walker, aged eleven
weeks. The deceased was another victim of that child-
destroying narcotic Godfrey's Cordial, which was incau-
tiously administered by en ignorant mother, to prevent its
crying. Two tea-spoonfuls of Godfrey's, and a dec ietion of
poppy beads were duly given to the unfortunate deceased,
who became emaciated and ill, and, on the previous morn-
hug, woe found dead by its mother', side. The evidence
went to show that the parents had otherwise treated the
deceased very kindly. Verdict—" Natural death." The
coroner begged of the mother (who appeared much dis-
trewed), if she had any more children, never to give them
" Godfrey's," and urged her to warn her neighbours against
its pernicious effects.

ALTCHATION OP Abingdon, on Mon-
day, a meeting took place in the Council Chamber, which
was largely a:tended by farmers and corn-dealers, to discuss
the propriety of changing the day of holding the corn-mar-
ket, which the tradespeople of the town did not consider
it necessary to oppose. The Mayor, in opening the meeting,
said the charter had been looked into, and it was found that
the market-day, as therein fined, could not be altered; yct„
as it was a farmer's question, it was for them (the farmers)
to determine whether they would meet on any other day.
—W. Graham, Esq., stated briefly the circumstances under
which a change would be beneficial to the town,
and W. Aldworth, Esg., proposed a resolution, sin.
" That in the oAnion of this meeting it is desirable to este-
bli.h a market for the buying and selltng of corn, cattle, ai.d
other commodities, on the Tuesday in every week."—After
a short discussion the Mayor declared the resolution carried.
ft is stated the committee appointed to carry out the propo-
sition will tin on the second week in March, when the
farmers will assemble on Tuesday, and sa continue to do.