The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1847.

which he had been struggling free fivis4ad-thirty years.
(Loud haraghter.) He (Mr. Duncan), therekire, had lopes
that as ens as Sir Robert had flied Lord J. Russell and Sir
Cbarlas Wood with pledges from. which they could not re-
ekte4Zermirrialgeor k for a manifesto from Tamworth, &t-
-enors on the currency question, and
=L• ~comprehensive" plan of redress (Great
i isswing.) AU that was necessary, in his opi-
nion, was, as usequirocal expression of public opinion in
favour., the principles embodied in the resolution which hail
just been read.
Mr. TLYLOI reminded the meeting that before the bill of
1819 gold was a strictly protected commodity, its exportation
being prohibited under pain of forfeiture. A curious story
was told of Rminwm, who, having attempted to take some
silver money away, was stopped: aXDover, and all taken from
him, leaving him so destitute that at Calais he was obliged
to write a book to obtain subsistence. Mr. Taylor having at
some length poblici out the evils of !metallic currency. er,o..
ciuueu oy affirming that a CUITeDeI of paper representing
the whole amount of taxation, and having the guarantee of
the crown and of parliament, would be perfectly secure, and
at the acme time would give the amount of circulation re-
quired for our commercial operations.
Mr. CAPPB contended that the present system had a most
injurious effect on our foreign trade.
A desultory discussion followed, during which several
gentlemen, while dissenting from the resolution, proposed
adjournment. Finally, the resolution was withdrawn, and
another, proposing the formation of a league, but without
pledging the meeting to any particular plan, was carried with
only one or two dissentients.

BANK oe ENOLAND.—The told court of proprie-
tees convened fur the purpose of e eating three directors in
the room of Abel flower and Sir J. R. Reid, disqualified,
mid of Mr. Prescott, who bas been appointed deputy-gover-
nor, was held yesterday. The directors were in attendance
at eleven o'clock, but there were very few proprietors pre-
sent, and discussion was prevented by the reply given by the
governor to Mr. Fielder, a proprietor, to the effect that it
was not usual at meetings for the election of directors. Ac-
cordingly the ballot proceeded, and at four o'clock terminated
in favour of the gentlemen recommended in the " house
list," via., Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Christopher
Pears°, and Mr. John G. Hubbard.
EDUCATION.—THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.—The cotn-
mane of the National Society has recently sent letters to
the various diocesan boards, requesting information as to the
means possessed by them for promoting education by means
of training schools. The answers received subjoined are full
of interest at the present time :—LoNnoir —There being no
funds for the purpose, it is not contemplated establishing any
training establishment et present—Dunn AM.—The train-
ing school in this diocese, partly built by aid from govern-
meet, before the issue of the recent minutes, is capable of
accommodating twenty pupils. The demand for masters has
exceeded the supply in the ratio of three to one.—WIN-
ESTER.—The training school which formerly only accom-
modated twenty students has recentl7 been removed to
Wolvesey Palace by permission of the bishop, who pays the
rates an taxes. The establishment will now afford room for
fifty pupils. The tenure not being in accord with the re-
quirements of the minutes on education, being dependent on
the will of the bishop, the privy council have taken a
tee to remedy the defect in the trust deed. The num-
ber since 1840 up to the date of the reply was fifty-
four, and the reports of such as have been engaged in
teaching are highly satisfactory. The average term of
training is two years, and the advantages of the institution
are not confined to the inhabitants of the diocese, but are
open to all.--flocnEiTEkl—lncluding the greater part of
Essex, formerly in the see of London. It is proposed to
establish is this diocese an institution foe sixty female pupils,
at a coat of 7,5001. (which will inclule maintenance for
three yeses); 3,0001. will be obtained from the committee of
council, and the remainder will be raised in the district. It '
is further intended to unite with the Cambridge board in
founding a new institution for training masters.
BRIBTOL.—The Bristol board possesses at present a large
middle school, a choristen' school, sad a training school
wilted: only five masters are now under tuition, and being
unable, according to their present arrangement, to avail them-
selves of the government grants, the bishop has undertaken to
confer with the Bishops of Oxford and Hereford, and also with
the officers of the National Society, so as to devise the beet mode
of establishing an institution which may come under the re-
gulations laid down in the minutes of the committee of
council—Oxecinn.—The Oxford board report that they
have 27 pupils in their male training institution, but that the
premises occupied are held on lease terminable iu 1843, end
do not come under the description for the requirements of
the committee of council.—Woncluarat—This board
answer, that they have six pupils only at their diocesan com-
mercial school. The want of funds, and the absence of co-
operation on the part of the archdeacons] of Coventry, have
presented great obstacles, but every effort will be made to
overcome them.—Lienrietn.—The Lichfield training
school for mestere accommodates 26 pupils 40 competent
masters have been supplied by it already, chiefly after three,
and in some cases after two years' training. This institution,
considering its limited means, is reported to have been very
prosperous, and instrumental in effecting much good in the
diocese. The board have expressed to the committee of
council their earnest desire to oarry into effect the
measures recently adopted by government, but no posi-
tive alterations have yet been determined on.—Denver.
—Buildings are about to be immediately commenced
for the accommodation of thirty-six pupil.—LlNCO.
. . LN. . .

The board in this diocese possess a commercial school for
sixty pupils; a few master are trained here.—BATH AND
WELLB.—An institution was established some years ago, but
abandoned two years since. It is intended to join with
another diocese to found <large establishment for training
masters, and ono at Wells for mistresses, where the demand
f 4. the latter is very great.—Ex ETEll.—The Exeter train-
ing school has admitted, since 1640, forty-nine male and
twelve female pupils; eighteen of the former and four of the
latter are now in residence. The demand (or Woollen is far
greater than the supply.—CnicurArEn.—The training
school, new established seven years, has at present twelve
pupils. When the new house, for which funds are provided,
is built, it will accommodate 24. The period of training is
two yeah.—Yoga AND RIPON.—The institution for masters
will accommodate 56 students. There are, however, but 4u in
residence at present. The establishment for females will ac-
commodate 32—there are only 12 at present. The demand for
schoolmistresses exceeds the supply in the ratio of 10 to 1.
—BANGOR AND ST. ASAPH.—The Carmarthen training-
school for South Wales will be shortly finished, and will ac-
commodate 60 pupile.---.-CHEHTER.—There is accommoda-
tion for 70 students in the institution at Chester. The de-
mand for masters is double the supply. At Warrington, in
this diocese, 36 female pupils can be accommodated.—The
CONlAldliell Mike National Society have resolved that grants
&NM be sand out of the special fluid towards the este-
MiblllOOSOrteaining institutions in those dioceses in which
thiOnSiOnomiderable mines and factories. That such grants
ibedibe lei • rats varying from 101. to 261. for every student
ale VW institution can accommodate and train; and that
elbe &odd be in force for two years.
TIM MOOT DIRTILESSINO FAILPRE OP ALL.—We
NMI to state that the house, or rather the attic, of Mr.
DUMP has suspended its payments. We have seen aetate-
IMO st the liabilities, which are not large, though rather
Mamas. Mr. Dunnp's paper was in the hands of his
swam , by whom it had been held as a security for a debt,
tit sines it came into his hands, for binding. Mr. Dunnp's
largest creditor—his laundress—holds security, in the shape
of two shirts ; but the realisation of this security cannot be
effected in the present state of the market—Rag Fel:—
without 'a sacrifice. Mr. Dunup 's credit had been a good
621 shaken lately by his knocker, which has been going
iloasisiell4 he the last fortnight. A creditor had it in his
Mob Ilia the suspension of payment was announced—
An* *a letter-box. Mr. Dunup assigns " the state of
mollemis Or City " as the primary cause of his failure, but
be sapid= bitterly of the general want of confidence.
He bee announced to his creditors a hope that he shall soon
be enabled " to mune ;" but they say, they " hope he will
not," and ask what is the use of his " resuming," when his
goings on hitherto have ended in the present predicament
Mr. Dusup's affairs will be easily wound up, for his watch is
understood to be the only thing he has got remaining.—
AcwA.

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IMPROVEMENT OF THE WORKING CLASSES.—Last
night we attended the first of a aeries of lectures which the
committee of the Society for the Promotion of the Religions,
Moral, and Intellectual Improvement of the Men employed
in Manufactories have determined shall be delivered to the
working men of London, in connexion with the several
branch societies established in the metropolis. The commit-
tee oould scarcely have devised • better mode of promoting
their object than that of a well-selected course of lectures.
The subjects comprised in the series to be delivered in the
Lambeth and Vauxhall Auxiliary Societies include elec-
tricity, chemistry, vocal music, poetry, astronomy, the
croseAks, Joan of Arc, and London as it was and
is. Exception might be taken to some of these,
if we did not know that, in the hands of a skil-
ful lecturer, almost any subject may be rendered in-
teresting and profitable. The lecture of last night was de-
livered in the school-room, George-street, Lambeth, by Mr.
T. Covens, " on the property and laws of electricity.' The
room was tilled with mechanics and working men, who took
great interest in the subject, to which the clear and simple
diction of the lecturer and hie direct manner not • little con-
tributed. We understand that there are at present nine
libraries in London in connexion with the society, the books
of which are widely circulated among the workmen of
various manufactories. To the society which helps them on
the way we cannot but wish programs and prosperity.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAL—MELANCHOLT SUICIDE OF
♦ Maitenarr.—Before Mr. Watley, M.P., at No. 10, Tun-
bridge-terrace, New-road, St. Pancras, on view of the body
of Mr. A. Reynolds, aged sixty, who committed suicide there,
his late residence, under the following melancholy circum-
stances The deceased, who was a merchant, carrying on
business in the City, a short time ago lent a large sum of
money to • person who became involved during the late
commercial crisis, in consequence of which the deceased was
fearful that he would not be able to meet hie engagements,
though his affairs were not complicated, and that he should
come to want. His attention seemed to be chiefly on the
money which had been borrowed. On Sunday night, as
usual, previous to retiring to rest, homed the family prayers.
The following morning the female servant entered has room,
the door of which was unlocked, to leave his shaving water,
when she found the deceased suspended from the bed-pest
by a silk handkerchief ; he was cut down, when it was
discovered that the unfortunate gentleman had tied the hand-
kerchief in four knots, which he had placed under his chin.
Mr. Judson, a medical gentleman residing opposite de-
ceased's residence, was pent for, who stated that life had
been extinct eome hours. Verdict, "Temporaryioeaatty
Mr. RICHARD WALTER.—Before William Carter, Esq., the
coroner for Surrey, at the Purley-oaks farm, Sandhurst, near
Croydon, the residence of Mr. John Walter, as to the death
of Mr. Richard Walter, aged 50, for many years the landlord
of the King's Head Tavern, in the Poultry.—W. Lewis, a
servant in the employ of Mr. John Walter, stated that on

IFriday evening the deceased left his mastatos, the Purley-
Wm, about ten o'clock, as witness supposed to return
to town. The horse which he was riding was steady, and
the deceased perfectly sober. Witness afterwards want out
near the Castle, when he saw • horse with a bridle and saddle
on in a deep gravel pit. There was a road out of which they
had been drawing the gravel, and he went round by it to get
the horse out. It then struck him for the Bret tline that the
horse belonged to his master's brother, the deceased.
! While he wu is the act of getting the horse out
he saw a gentleman lying by the side of a ditch in the road,
with his heed doubled up under his shoulder. The deceased,
who teemed quite dead, was conveyed to his brother's house. '
—Mr. Burncastle, of Croydon, surgeon, who was called in,
said that life had bean extinct some time. lie had, '
direction of the coroner, min;‘, epos: "forlorn examilutirn, ?es
thebody. On looking at the body, he was shown the hat,
which was lying by his side, and that was quite crushed in.
On the heed of the deceased there was a slight abrasion of
the skin. Ile found the viscera internally quite healthy.
On removing the skull there was a discoloured patch of the
size of a crown under the abrasion; but there was no effu-
sion on the brain or rapture of the vessels. He was of
opinion that the deceased bad fallen from his horse, and that
concussion of the brain had been caused,which produced death.
The coroner further inquired as to the cause of the melan-
choly death, and it appeared that there was a mark on the
bank, which had been broken down as if by a horse, and it
was supposed that in going from the green to the road the
horse had trodden on the edge of the ditch, when deceased
was pitched off, and the horse thrown into the gravel pit. A
verdict of Accidental death" was returned.