The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-04 00:00:00

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FORGED BANK or ENGLAND Nom. Owilag to
the Tierra of the Nottingham pollee, a man
Brauer, pod 31, has been apprehended on a charge
Mg Bank of England notes. Brazier is neurally sew
netted, and reader on Park-hill, adjoining the town or Not-
tingham. He was apprenticed to Mr. Nunn asee • mite-
tato of the bonnier, but formerly a chemist sad dove& in
Brisllesmith-gate, and at the ago of 21 booms poised of
property to the amount et 3,0001. Hie father being assilmadly
killed by falling from a bone, he took his father's berfeetsey
at Bloomegrove: where he continued in hnsineestUll2 months
ago, when, having got through his property and involved
himself 2,0001. in debt, he became a bankrupt. For some
time par he has been suspected of passing forged Bank of
England notes, and at length sufficient evidence her been
°brined to cause his apprehension. He was taken befor
the magistrates on Friday, and remanded. Un Wednesday
he was brought up again, when several depositions were
taken, in which he was charged with uttering a 61.
Bank of England note, on Monday, the 26th of July
last, at the shop of Mr. Palethorpe, droplet, Car-
rington-street, where he presented • written order
for one gallon of sperm oil, for Megan. Walsh and
Windley. He received 41. IL. in change, with which he
left the shop. Evidence was given, showing the order to be
in the handwriting of the prisoner, and not sent by Messrs.
Walsh or their agents, and that the note wits a forgery.
There being depositions to be taken on another charge, the
prisoner sou again remanded. The note purports to be
issued from the Birmingham Branch Bank, fur 61., bears
date April 1846, and is signed "J. Roberts." Ten other
forged 51. notes, all from the same plate, have been pared,
and evidence is collecting whisk will implicate other parties
as well ea the prisoner.
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DIOCESAN EDUCATION.—Upwards of 40 school-
rumen and echoolmictremes of schools in union with the
Derby Board of Education have been assembled in Derby,
under the instruction of two organised masters from the Na-
tional Society, daring the lest three weeks. On Thursday
evening, the tesehen were assembled at a maxneeting, when
*evens! perfermantiee of you music took place, arranged by
Yr. Ranh, whose symenttnd fuming toetiM Mime) b.
explained, and Mr. Latham delivered set adding'. If.ender
these forty masters and miatremea returned to thilir
ns
live homes, to communicate to those wader their tierge=
improved method. of instruction they had mitered • • and
no one (says the local paper) who sow the cordiality and
good feeling which formed as distinguished • feature of their
conduct during thus liort time of companionship, can fir •
moment doubt that
Vise meetings co.tfer gre it and per-
manent benefit. Wesyenture to predict that these re-unions
will every year become more popular, and be one of the chief
means of placing the education of the children of the poor
upon • setii.factory founation."

BALLOON IN A TIIONDER-STORM.—(From • COM-
spondent.)—ln a letter from Mr. George Oreen, son of the
veteran aeronaut, to a friend in London, dated Aug. 25,
from Frankfort-on-the-Maine, he says, "that during my
visit to the continent I have only made nine assents this
season. Several persons have ascended with me. The weather
has been very unsettled and strong, and I have only had
three fine days out of nine ; the last, however (Sunday,
Aug. 74 was the worst of all—the wind blew almost a
hurricane from the S.W., accompanied by heavy thunder
and lightning nearly the whole of the day; isdeed, it was
generally believed the secant would be postponed, but,
being anxious to keep up my reputation, I commenced
the inflation. Cho ascent, which tails *ace at a quarter
to five, excited great alarm ant astemishment., because
just after • violent peal of thunder', the balloon rose
almost immediately under the clouds from which the
storm proceeded, when, at about fear thousand five bun-
dred feet high, and on a level with them, several electrical
discharges occurred, which afforded see the Log-wished-for
opportunity of observing the ease of lightning upon the
air, as the clouds and the balloon were sToing abreast of each
other at only a few hundred yards distant. The air was
very much disturbed; it seemed Ballot eddies, which agitated
the balloon a good deal. Every fresh disharge oornesani-
aged a vibrating motion to the balloon, and caused it to
oscillate considerably, while the rain falling op the earth
made a noise like a waterfall at a great distance. In de-
scending, we fell with a current blowing a few points more
to the north, which bore us away from the dorm, and, after
being up about an hour, I demanded at Wiadeelunt. At
the ascent I was honoured by the presence of the Duke of
Cambridge and the princesses, which I eonsidered very kind
to thus patronising a countryman. Many other distin-
guished persons were present, but I cannot remember their
names, except the Baron Rothschild and family, who ex-
' pressed themselves highly gratified."
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THE EXPLOSION OP THE CRICKET.—Upon
in-
qutry last night et the Charing-cosy Hospital, as to the state
of the surviving sufferers in the recent fatal explosion on
the river, we were informed that the patients were fast re-
covering ; and, indeed, there are but nine left out of the
original number, three having brooms quite convalescent,
and gone away. Mr. Sisman, one of the unfortunate parties,
left the hospital last night; and Virgo Birks, whose leg was
amputated, is going on moot favourably.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Poanth short time ago a
man was cutting ling or heather in Papplewich forest, in this
neighbourhood, ter the purpose of being manufactured into
besoms, when having slipped between two pieces of fallen
timber, which lay concealed beneath the heather, be broke
his right leg. Being unable to extricate himself from his
position, with a desperate resolve he mixed the handbill
which he bad brought for the purpose of cutting the ling,
and chopped the leg clean off. Though thus liberated from
the confinement under which he had previously suffered, he
found himself, of course, unable to make his way over the
forest on one leg, when he deliberately sat himself down on
a large stone and, placing the entire leg on an adjoining
block, without more ado chopped it off level with the other
broken leg and trudged his way home, more than two miles,
on his stumps, with his amputated legs under his arms ! It
may be just necessary, in order to mitigate the horror which
the reader may be apt, very naturally, to feel at the above
extraordinary recital, to inform him that both the legs were
wooden cones.—iVottingiiam Mercury.