The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRF.SS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14. 1848,

tax go mi.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen on
Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, at-
tended a meeting nt the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in
Somerset House on Saturlay morning.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Bake and Duchess of Saxe Coburg end Count Arthur
Menadorff, honoured the per:ormance at the Lyceum Theatre
with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suites
consisted op the V iscountess Jocelyn, Madame de Waugen.
helm, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley, Captain the
Hon. A. Gordon, and Baron Fritsch.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duke and
Duchess of Sase Coburg, and Count Arthur Mensdorff, and
also the ladies awl gentlemen of the court, and the domestic
househ, Id, attended divine service yesterday in the private
chapel of the palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtney

denim It has brought us to misery, shame, end sorrow. The heart
d man con 11•Mly pity w : only one shed • tear of wooer on ml
misery at my trial—dist was Mrs. Morn 1 wish you to pay some
MU. debts br me. I shall die much hapsirelf you will. I owe the
milkwoman eightsome. Bridget did one half day's work be aim and
likewise Mn. Washington a trine, and the grrommeer be ends I
think 2s. ed. Be sure and answer this directly, and tell me you will
°comfy with my last request. likewise get my marriage Imo fro.
Mrs. Mears; you ma inclose It in the letter; Ii wilt be • satirfactioc
to ill. Now Robert I mast conclude, and that God In mercy may
forgive. blow, and mower you and yours, to the sincere pray... of the
bean that dictated these linen—Fran the unfortunate Hamer
Punk's.
SACRlLEGE.—Yesterday morning it wan discovered
that the Roman Catholic Chapel, Duncamstreet, Islington,
had been burglariously entered, and the silver, ceborums,
chalices, patens, &c., used in the service of the mass, the
property of the Rev. H. Lee, carried off by the burglars.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY ON SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE.—
Yesterday morning, between 12 and 1 o'clock, as Mr. Jooph
Archer, of No. 29, Pleasant-place, St. George's, was pas.ing
over Southwark-bridge, when near the centre he was met
by two men, one of whom, without uttering a word, knocked
him down by a violent blow on the head, inflicted, it is sup-
posed, with a life preserver, rendering him insensible ; whilst
to this state the ruffians rifled his person of two 51. Bank of
England notes and four sovereigns ; on recovering he made
his way to the toll-gate and gave the alarm, but the fellows
had escaped.
THE LONDON-ROAD.—This morning,
shortly after one o'clock, a fire, which. had it not been so
opportunely discovered, would in all probability have been
attended with a lamentable loss of life, broke out upon the
premises belonging to Mr. Nathan, a furniture dealer, at 24,
London-road, Southwark, next door but one to the extensive
floor cloth factory of Messrs. Southgate and Co. Police-
constable No. 24 L, whilst going his rounds, perceived smoke
pouring forth from the basement of the house. Ile imme-
diately sprang his rattle, and after some trouble he suc-
ceeded in making the residents sensible of the great
danger to which they were exposed. Before, however,
he had succeeded in so doing, the fire had gained
head considerably, and upon the inmates attempting to
descend the staircase, they were nearly knocked down by
a powerful body of fire and smoke. The several parties in-
stantly made for the first-floor, from the window of which
they happily succeeded in effecting a safe retreat. The
neighbours of the adjoining houses took the parties, who
were in their night-clothes, into their habitation'. The
engines of the London brigade, tram Southwark end
Waterloo-roads, with that of the West of England office,
quickly attended, and owing to the combined exertions of all
parties, the fire was subdued before two o'clock, but not
until a considerable amount of property had been destroyed,
the less of which will fall on the Phecoix Fire Office.—
Yesterday another fire broke out in a straw-bonnet factory
in Aldermanbury ; and a third at an ollehop in Old-street.
Both were subdued before much damage had been done.
INcturwrs, SATERDAY.—SUICIDE.-13y Mr. Mills,
at the Angel Inn, Highgate, on Emily Richards, aged 18,
barmaid at the Angel Inn. The deceased, who lived seven
months in the inn, became latterly much depressed in spirits,
in consequence of her imagining that she was suspected of
having stolen a gold breast pin that was mined. On Friday
evening she went to Hampstead and purchased two phials of
the essential oil of almonds, returning at four o'clock, when
she retired to her bed-room, emptied the phials into a
tumbler. and quaffed off the deadly poison. She then placed
the phials in the drkwer ot her looking glass, and the tumbler
upon the basin-stand; after which she stretched herself ups
her bed, where the was found dead two hours afterwards. In
her workbox she left a letter directed to her mother, stating
that she was heart broken, in consequence of having
been suspected of the theft, and t she resolved mi
destroy her self. Deceased's mistress g thaave her • meet ex-
eellent character, and wept bitterly during her evidence.
Verdict—" Deceased destroyed herself: but there was no
evidence of her state of mind at the time."—ReelOVAL OP
A DYING CONVICT FROM GLASGOW GAOL.—Before Mr.
Bedford, in Millbank Pinson, touching the death of Patrick
ill'Ginty, aged 26, a convict who had been removed from
Glasgow gaol, being at the time in the last stage of a disease
under which he rapidly sank and died.—Capt. Williams, owe
of the inspectors of prisons, was present by direction of the I
Secretary of State, to watch the proceedings, and was at.
tended be a shorthand writer to take notes of the evidence.
—Capt. Bohn Richard Groves, the 'governor of the prison,
deposed that the deceased was received into the prison on
the 21st of January lest from Cilaegew gaol, having been
convicted at Glasgow on the 2.13.. h of the previous September,
of
eortati assault anThed robre were several
other ntenced to
prisonseven years' trans.
on.prisoners brought
with the deceased, the whole bring under the charge
of one of the Sheriff of Edinburgh's officers, and
his assistants. The medical certificate which accompanied
the prisoners, and which was signed, David Gibson, M.D.,
set forth that they were all free from mental or bodily
diseases, and that their healths would not be endangered by
their removal to Millbank prison. Two hours afterwards,
however, hie attention was particularly attracted to the de-
ceased, in consequence of a certificate from Dr. Baly, me-
dical superintendent of the prison, stating that the deceased
was in the last degree of debility, suffering from severe
internal scrofulous disease, and witness thereupon ordered
deceased's immediate removal into the Infirmary. On
asking him what medical comforts and diet he had had
in Scotland, he said, principally gruel; no wine,
ale, or beer, but once a little gin war given to him.
Deceased rapidly sank and died on Thursday last.—. Anthony
M•Ginty, a prisoner, but no relation to deceased, who was
, chained to him during the journey from Scotland, said, when
leering Scotland the dammed seemed very bad and weak,
and said he thought he should die. The food given to pri-
I mere in Glasgow gaol was broth and bread, and porridge,
essueed of Indian corn and oatmeal. They never tasted
=lag food. They came to England by railroad and steam-
' beat, in which latter deceased was so ill as to be obliged to
keep his bed, witness being chained to him all the
time. Deceased was so weak that he could scarcely
occasionally get up. but he said he should be afraid
of complaining at Millbenk prison, for fear of being
cent back. Deceased was very poorly clad, and com-
plained bitterly of the cold. There was no medical man on
board, and the men in charge of them gave deceased some
tea and beef, and mutton, but he could eat but little. They
were examined by the doctor three or four days before
leaving Glasgow gaol, but not on the day they leg.—Captain
Williams here said that the whole circumstances of the case,
se far as had then transpired, had been laid before the Secre-
tary of State, by whom he had been authorised to say that if
the coroner and jury required any evidence from Scotland,
every facility would be atforded them for obtaining such, by
corresponding with the Lord-Advocate.—The Coroner said
the imp irtance of the inquiry rendered it imperatively ne-
cessary witnesses from Scotland should be present, and on
that subject he should communicate with the Horne-office.
—The investigation was then adjourned for a fortnight.

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Sir W. C. Ross, R.A., has bad the honour of at-
tending deity at Buckingham Palace, by command of her
Majesty, taking sittings our a miniature of the Ducker of
Saxe Coburg.

A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock on
Saturday at the Foreign.uttite. It was attended by Lord J.
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Viscount
Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Eitzheguer.
the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hubhouse, Lord Campbell,
the Mryais of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. H. Labou-
chere,a iacount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B.
Macaulay. The Council sat two hours.
Count de Reventlow, the Danish minister, trans-
acted business, ou Saterday, at the Foreign-office.
A deputation of members of the Society of Friends
had an interview wills Sir O. Grey, on Saturday. at the
Home-office, on the subject of military defence.. The depu-
tation Is as composed ot J objets Forster , Peter Bedford, George
Stacey, Samuel Gurney, Richard Barrett, Robert Forster,
and John Hodgkin.
Mr. Barkly and Mr. Higgins had an interview
with Earl Grey, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation of the Airdrie and Bathgate Railway
Company, consisting of Mr. S. Nisbet and Mr. Deans, had
an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Saturday at
the office of the Commissioners of Hallways in the Board of
Trade.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a committee meeting on Saturday.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Van Diemeo'sleand.
The Speaker of the House of Commons gave a
grand dinner on Saturday evening at his residence in Eaton-
square.
Sir John and Lady B. Johnstone and Miss John-
stone arrived at their resideme in Grosvenor-square
mt
Saturday, from Ha:knees Hall, Yorkshire.
Viscount Nevill arrived in town on Saturday.
His Excellency Mons. Bedini has just arrived in
this country from Home, on a special mission to the British
government, from his Holiness the Pope. His excellency
It's had an interview of the Secretary of State fur Foreign
Affairs, and was among the per,-wages of distinction at Via-
countess Palmerston's reception ou Saturday night. The
presence of his excellency engroeoed considerable attention
among the distinguished company that crowded her lady-
ship's saloons.
Lord Brougham is expected to arrive in London
at the close of the present week lrom Cannes, his seat in the
of France.

DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Gilbert is ap-
pointed Consul of Great Britian at Alexandria. Mr. Bed-
worth Williamson, son of Sir IL Williamson, Bart., is ap-
Anted unpaid ateach to the British Embassy at St. Peters.
burg. The queen has appointed Dr. Allen Thomtson to
he Prot nor ot Anatomy in the University of Waggon. Mr.
Dodd, solicitor-general and member of the executive council
at Halifax, Nova Scotia, is appointed a Judge of the Supreme
Court of that colony, vice Wilkins, deceased. Mr. Jennings
is apnointed Chief of Police is the Island of St. Lucia. Gen.
the lion. Alexander Duff is appointed Lord-Lieutenant of
the county of Elgin and Moray. In consequent of the
lamented death of Sir Charles Dalbisti her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to appoint Lieutenant-General
Alexander Woodford to be president, and Major•Goiaral
the Hen. Henry F. C. Cavendish, First Life Guards, to
be the cavalry officer of the Acting Committee of the
Board of General Officers for the inspeaion of Army
Clothing.—Obserstr.

A FLOURISHING COMPANY.—DEAR AND CHEAP
Gas.—The beneficial effects of a well-timed competition in
the all-irapertant article of gas were strikingly exemplified
in the meeting of the Woolwich Consumers' Protection Gas
Company, held at the George the Fourth, Woolwich, on
Friday evening. For many years the charge made for gas
by the old pany in Woolwich was Lis. per 1,000 cubic
fret, a charge which, after considerable agitation, was re-
duced to 13s , and ultimately to Ile. Beyond this point,
however, the existing company refused to move, and it was
not till a new company had been actually formed that they
consented to reduce the gas to 91., contending, at the same
time, that this price would be ruinous to the shareholders
who embarked their capital in the company. Remonstrances
being found vain a few of the tradesmen resolved to form a
new company, and commenced by charging tbe suns af Bs.
per 1,000 feet. As soon as this company commenced opera-
tions the old company, although they bad previously stated
that 9s. would be a ruinous price, reduced their charge to
Os. per 1,000 feet. The tradesmen, however, preferred paying
Si. to the new company to paying 6s. to a company of whose
conduct they had had such strong reasons to complain. By
the deed of settlement of the new company no material
reduction in the price of gas could take place till the guar-
antee fund realised 1,0001., and to protect the non-consuming
shareholders the dud provided that any decrease in the
price charged for gas should be accompanied with a corre-
sponding increase of dividend on the paid up capital. At the
meeting held on Friday the directors reported that theguar-
antee fund had reached the sum of 1,000/., and they declared
their intention of reducing the price of gas, on and after the
;net of March next, to 55. Gd. for 1,000 feet, and of iacreuing
the dividend to 6 per cent. upon the paid-up capital.
After the meeting it was unanimously resolved by all the
shareholders present to appropriate the sum of 251. from the
surplus funds of the company to purchase a suitable piece of
plate, to be presented to Lewis Davie Esq., through whose
exertions the company was first started, and by whose un-
tiring assiduity it had since been upheld. Mr. Davis, who
was absent when the vote was passed, On his return acknow.
ledged the compliment in suitable terms. A subscription ,
was also commenced amongst the directors and shareholders, 1 --
'to increase the value of the testimonial, which has been al- IRELAND.
ready augmented to nearly 501. DUBLIN, Fan. 12
THE GOVERNMENT CHARGE FOR ADVERTISENIENTS. Dr. Kennedy, the Roman catholic Bishop of Kills-
-Liberal statesmen are eloquent rn the blessings of popular lone , has been called on to deal with a case of den uncia-
education. It is, we say, their theme in parliament, at
philanthropic meetings, at athenteums, at mechanics' ineti. tins from the altar by one of his clergy—the Rev.
lutes. Cleanliness and education are the mouth-exalted Mr. Nolan, P.F., )lasses. An ejectment had been,
handmaidens of social dignity and happiness. And soap is in carrying out the instructions of th courts of law
taxed, and light is meted out at a certain price, as the excise- in Detain, nailed to the door of thee chapel of Mr.
man metes out alcohol, gauging heaven like a liquor-cask, Nolan's parish. This was done because resistance to
and paper is taxed, and a fiscal stamp is levied upon the per-
miesion to ask for work!—" As wet nurse, a respectable service in the ordinary way was deemed dangerous.
young woman "wants a place. " Eighteen-pence," says the Mr. Nolan denounced the bailiff who posted the pro-
Chancellor of the Exchequer ; " eighteen- pence pen to the state case and the policeman by whom he was accompanied,
before you can advertise 'a Rood supply of milk' in on the] ensuing Sunday, from the altar. The lan-
the newspapers."—" As needlewoman, or to wait upon ,tter was reported. Mr. Nolan's bishop was
two or three young ladies;' is the desire of humble 6 to,
appealed who appointed Thursday last to
honesty to earn her daily bread. " Very proper,"
says the Chancellor ; " nevertheless. eighteen-ponce, if you investigate the ease. On that day, the Rev.
pleay. for leave to advertise your needle and thread." "As Mr. Nolan having arrived in Nenagh, " submitted"
good pla'at cook in a gentleman's family," is the desire of a says the locnl paper, and acknowledged he had used
middle- aged woman without incumbrances. " t mk," the language attributed to him. What further step
cries the minister, " the necessary, the inevitable eighteen-
Dr. Kennedy will take I cannot inform you, but the
pence, ere by means of the newspaper you Can get footing
in a kitchen." Wherever industry would ask for employ- effect of this example must be useful in restraining the
meet—if asking through printer's type—the hand of the exuberance of discourse of some of his reverend bre-
state, the brazen inexorable hand is held forth for the thren, not alone in Tipperary, but other places.
eighteen-pence. To be sure, vans see untaxed; and we 'the United Irishman appeared to-day according to
wonder that hitherto no inventive speculator has started a of promise. It has had a run, but it seems a tame
sort of " Want Places " vehicle, whereon the
qualities
each advertiser might be stated in brief, with the further enough publication to those who expected it would
recernmendation, a daguerreotype portrait of "A. B. C." or have flashed forth a second " thunderer."
"X.Y. Z. in want of employment. For vans, though large Judge Keatinge and Mr. Kyle have retired from
as mansions on wheels, are free—a chartered nuisance canvassing the electors of our university. No candidate 1
in the highway. Now the newspaper the beneficent
; remaiiis save Mr. ly
Napier. Mr. Robinson is hardy
sheet that liberal statesmen love to eulogise, is thrice taxed
looked
taxed in paper, in stamp, and in advertisement, ere it be
upon RR one.
permitted to enter our houses. Dead walls are free to be Poison has been diseove.ed in the remains of the late
disfigured. Warren may from brick or paling ask a thought- Rev. Thomas Maguire, as well as in those of 'his bro.
ther and sister-in-law.
fail people to •• try " him, using his paint or chalk gratis.
If, however, lie approach the newspaper desk for the pub-
~ The vacancy in the crown prosecntorship of this
licity of newspaper ink, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
from behind the counter cries out " Eighteen-pence... In Lunnaught circuit has bees filled np—no appoint-
fact, the advertisement duty is a mischievous and annoying mint being yet made for Galway. Mr. Peter
spirit ; haunting all places, and distressing all manner of Nl.Keogh has obtained three counties, Roscommon,
Sligo, and Leitrim, and Mr. Isidore Blake, Mayo. 1
people front the auctioneer in his counting-house, to the out-
Galwar was prematurely assigned to a Mr. (non
_ll,-
of-work tempuras in her back garret. It is a tantalising
imp that still cries to the unemployed, " seek work througß
the readiest channel, but first—eighteen-pence before you sin. the general opinion of the bar is unfavourable
ask for it."—Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper. to the splitting up of the circuit, which was formerly
ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS.—At the held in its entirety by the late Mr. Hickman. The
18th annual general meeting of this institution, held at the same course was pursued in the home circuit, and the
highest authorities declare that the division has not
office in Welbeck-street, Cavendish.square, the Rev. Dr.
Spry in the chair, it was stated that no fewer than 2,206. new contributed a more effective administration of cri-
minal justice. It is hard to reconcile this opinion
deposits had been made in the last year ; 18,119 deposit ac-
counts remained open on the 20th November last, of which
13,437 held balances averaging less than 31. 7s. Id. each. with common sense, which suggests that a number of
At that time upwards of 301,6631. was invested with the active and intelligent officers can do the Waimea,
Commiedone re for the Reduction of the National Debt. better than one.
THE CON vICT HARRIET PARKER.—The following The Skibbereen guardians are doing their duty
letter appears in the Sunday papers. It is said to be from fairly by the poor, and ministering the law according
to itsintent andspirit. W'thin three months
the wretched woman who now lies under sentence of death
1
for the murder of the twe children of Robert Blake, to between e
whom it is addressed : eight and nine hundred
persons have bean
Dear irober4—vpi,, is the last time you will ever receive advice brought before the magistrates under the Vagrancy
from inc. My days see numbered; ran dafintrinight I 'II be Act. Last year has touched the poor with a strong
silent in the grave. Take, therefore, these few Into consideration: . „
near again trine with &woman as you have with me. Promise to prejtmice against the workhouse. In Killarney the
guardians have substituted money for the food rations
forsake ;lel ointb,pers,ur abtectUng—thotie
wife
eagr
yoturo hbelsembo ought tonobilmd fit:
sh.,t I sineerelv wish. I have deeply injured her, and eon ease you. to the out-relief paupers, at the rate of fourteen pence I,
faster. then. after this, have your herr ard purest affections. Oh per stone of meal. The auditor has approved of the 1,
Robert,had we parted long since. as I requested, my life, ariddthat of change.
those who were near and dearto Pg. a
tar awful fate, and God give me etrenwomuntohlgovethroubeengTraleld; aind,,,z.idiare The Commas' ioners of Fisheries have issued a
Robert, play that when the bitter cop has passed I may be notice to the landed proprietors of the south-west of ,
by Him war drank a more bitter ooe than mine to saw us all. God
in mercy forgive us! I freely forgive you all your snoop to me. I Cork, to meet them at an early day at Clonakilty. I
urb! The object is to enlist them in some practical scheme
thee prayed tut lie will fit
vetoyu for the heavy trial I have bil.)„,
upon you : and, oli,may we meet in that land in which KV _ sac .i. revtving the dee.,
sea
fishing
along
that
coast.
misery will flee away ! I only ask that you will sometimes shed Isete ua
tear up pity and fotTivenses over my unfortunate lot. Tou may . Y ---
be happy in this world with Y.ether. lour innocent children I TER ECCLESIASTICAL BOARD AND IRISH CLERGY.—
t 111 heaTes. Ts ioto me great comfort, and I pray that it may The ecciniutiai eemetimitmete some time since refused to
be to you. Awful as my fate is I would rather die than live again the supply certain church requisites, acting no doubt on a prin.
wretched life I bare done for the lart ti
months. be ciple of just economy as well as influenced by the great in-
unwed, Robert, and remember that *ore who break the sacred
ten. board. in the number of places of worship supplied by the
rat P= three eirallisalmeana tGerifywtoilltbnerriribiTtrso 'bymbitter en. board. Among the other requisite' disallowed was wine for