The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

REPRESENTATION OP ROCHDALL—The statement
to the effect that Mr. Crawford is about to Mini from the
mpreeestation of the borough of Rochdale has bees con-
tradicted.

PaOTLSSIONALCLAIMS AGATNSTMON-PROTESSIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS IN CORONENSEIPII.—Mr. Chapman, the
coroner for the borough of Manchester, bu been compelled,
through declining heath, to resign his office. The remune-
ration averages about 4501. per annum. Nearly • dozen
candidates eases into the field almost at ones, all of them
either lawyers:or doctors, and there seemed to be every pro-
bability that the thing would result In a contest merely be-
tween the rival claims of the two professions, u to which con-
fers the best qualifications for the office. The vulgar
aphorism that " there is nothing like leather" was put for-
ward with equal confidence by both, and no one seemed
likely to dispute It for a time. Mr Prentice, for many years
the editor and proprietor of the Memehostor Times, who had
recently retired from business, has now stepped into the lists,
and changed the character of the contest. The clear logical
mind and masculine common sense evinced la his writings ever
a long period of yearn seem to be universally recognised as qua-
lifications more than worthy to be pet in competition with
mere professional trainist, and it seems not unlikely that all
but one competitor will have retired before the day of elec-
tion. Mr. Prentice urges that if the mutant has been to
make the office subsidiary to the business of a professional
man, " its emoluments in this borough are swirly sufficient to
assure the undivided attention of • competent person." He
says : " If conferred upon a lawyer, and be joins with it his
legal practice, he has a great temptation to neglect his public
for his private duties. The same temptation is offered to a
medical man. The condition of the coronimhips generally
throughout the kingdom I. Plustrative of the mischief of the
anion. It has been the observation of a learned judge, that
the evidence under inquests has ohms bean reported in so
slovenly • manner as, in almost every case, to be
utterly useless. T,is may fairly be attr.buted to
the confliction of private interest and public duty.
The town council has now the opportunity of
placing the office In a higher station in public usofulnt us, by
searing it upon onewlso has no need to seek any additions to
his official emoluments. And it is not merely that the duties
of the office have the chum of being neglected when private
business is conjoined with it, but there are °cations wheal
" great firmness and independence are required. The
coroner malt not to be in fear of the logs of a client or a
patient from the conscientious dbehirge of his duty." He
further contends, that U legal training is urged as an indis-
pensable requisite, the argument would be of equal weight
against the appointment of a non-proleesienal mayor or
ats, though these appointments are daily conferred
rritutit serums.' to such considerations. Certainly in all
inquisitions of a serious nature, such as MIN of man-
slaughter and murder—and these are of chief importance—
the inquiries before earner., like those before magistrates,
are only of a preliminary character,and there is much force in
the argument. The question is exciting much interest, more
especially as Mr. Prentice has great claims upon the com-
munity fee past gratuitous services in public ounces.
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LEEDS MEETING YOH FINANCIAL Rzronat.—A
requisition is in coune of signature in Leeds, calling
upon the mayor to convene a public meeting of the
Inhabitants of the borough, to petition parliament for
ninth larger reductions in the estimates tbaa those en.
nem:el by tha Chancellor of the Ifiebequer. The requisi-
tion has already received above 400 signataria.

THE COAL TRADE AND NAVIGATION LAWS.—The
Gateshead Observer of Saturday says: The freights to!Lon-
don continue miserably depressed—reduced, in short, to a
dm* which renders swanneration to the shipowner impos-
sible • yet we gad the latter exerting what little energy is
left gins, not In remonstrating against the timber taxes, light
taxes, pilotage taxes, ballast taxes, harbour Wu' and the
thousand other evils to which he is exposed, bat in agitating
spinet any alteration of the navigation laws which shall
enable the foreigner to compete with him. ' Protection 'is
what he wants, and what he heists upon having ; and this
at the very moment whea he is sailing his skips in the mai-
tre/1e at rates of freight at which no fortiener could live. U
the shipowners could only protect themselves against the
compeddon of each other, they might do IMO good ; but,
Wm the opposition coach owners of the olden time, they
would ma e moor teeny of them) carry coals for nothing,
than keep their weeds safely and snugly at home."
THE AIXIDENT to the express train on the
York and Nowemeile Railway, by which an engine driver
eased Jobs isese, lest his life, and hie stoker nearly shared
a similar his, was the suldset of a lengthened investigation,
at lignteaa Wednesday, before the district coroner.
The Linden down express train, on the 3rd LW., was tra-
velling about 50 miles en hour, between Ayeliffe and Bead-
Wiry, whoa the engine, with great violence, left the rails,
LieleWader and earriages sing with it for nearly 100
livrer the deems end genus eat way. The result wee
the sesideat ha qualm. Verdict. " eaddestal death."
_ WARWICKSHIRE. _

PADITM DEATH DAUGHTER.
—Late as Friday night, Ilr. 121. C. °runway bald ea inquest
at Kenilworth apes he bodyj( Miss Ana Stewart, aged 111
years. Join Posh, coschasa to Oea. Stewart, said that on
Thursday 11111 MINIS, between two wed three o'cleek, he
heart et his heeler% n =shift Oh
UM saboneles, ad imyweeesdla es aies thither be ham& Ks*imseise in
Stewart
wider the beim The animal wee Medi% den by the side
onIM and the deemed wee babied q wader it. The
heed was hen the head et the Sessoesd, and there
his a large soli of blood in the Maim The deceased need
*hod the bosh hesiemelly_f_amd it woe remarkably shot,
hi need to sky mith ler. Inheres *aka wee that h-
emmed was the been him be palled her bonnet .e
inWi playlma, sad* threw it es the ground, sad that he beams
sad kneekies low dowa kicked ha cm the howl,
es be head lb. Whet ea the Seer the dab* *ad the et
UM beg et the ha.. ens homed with heed. When be
get
Mud
ent mitiart—Tbe jury hemmed a hr.
diet of "Arelleatal isseb."

RIOT BY Wonaum—Daring the peat five TAU
the beads aged at the Leleatet nth and dims
puts of thelune-inig trade, bate boa ia strike Ow nu
abases n warn and submiption ban beta opened he
rargthin =tansy maid Ands *e abases sought
ebe tkis pedal • lase mom have ems to week at
Deliemzd the et Tinntenew pve the too very
ea the net tbe worknak hat the ugly mie-
=her up 00 thi pignut week was the Imelda( ota few
wheaten hamplag; Mt the who reenenneed 'mk-
tg. at the did= Oa failnet a man read Dilely,
win Mil el the eabegiipliga nieed. want to work,
eats nil he bed gel the adman dritawni. His fellow
liniment, did not Wen bin, and as Kinky morning
'task Wda and hoe Erma want to hie ekrziandtioan
waded him to wine oat. The When
tin two entered and oonuaneed g him, sad was
obliged to defend himself with ea hen rod. The parties
Ugh( departed, a crowd of between 300 and 400 persons
went to • hone
thenept by • pass aened Onrins. An effigy
was carried by sob, sad eneral abets were And at at.
The mob next And into Ouria'a window, but fortunately
without atrial') their man. Various other ants of outrage
were committed, and ultimately thirteen of the rioters were
takes up and own for trial.

MrSB6l.
DEFALCATION AT A SAVINGS BANN.—Tbe com-
mittee of management of the Brighton Baring. Bank have
bees engage for some days pre in a very arduous Wet=
t the rithemduct of their estuary, Mr. B
aTletline mapielea of anything wreag was raised seen allot
the bile easual general ineeg, whim a direrepancy 01001.
was 0110111 red 'reread " ontraprolits," and which
MOW, as being called upon, staid set explain. Other
dissospanoies Wen also detected with the mate result, and,
at it ..mini of the committee, •ausember was about= move
a reeshoties deeming the reteney of Mr. Swivel' (who
had net attended ) ter Me as actuary, when a timer
was handed in Irma , wlveli he admitted
that there ,Weate .dedikations In the account., but appealed
to the opmisillso for mereihd ecesidoration on account
of We innocent wife and family, and offered to make up
any debit Nam his private property. The caw now mounted
a more grave aspect, and a warrant was immediately
=said to secure: the attendance of Burke% but which, up
to the present moment, has not been executed is consequent=
of his shrew. The accounts were fouled to have been kept
is a most =infused manner, some accounts being shoed
which were still mum; and entries mad*
liasth=
poa ral
(u which the retdrus are motto to t)
which did not wee with them of the class and the
depositors' books. Upon the examination hitherto made,
there appears a deficit of abet= 8501. ; and of course a
large number of accounts remain to be examined. Under
these eirmisrances, a sub-committee was appshited to
proceed to London to map tilt with Mr. Tidd Pratt, and
see the eamptrollerieneral of savings banks, and the ad-
vice of this latter gentleman was, that no further der
posits should be received or payments made until the
amounts had been thoroughly inspected. The corn-
latter, dossequently, at a meeting held on Friday after-
noes, paired • resolution recommending the managers
to does thellinek:for:depositisod payments until this hasboen
dose, and to sail in the books of all the depositors. The de-
positors, however, says the Brighton Herald, need be under
no alarm on this mount. The position of the b.nk is such
as to secure them from loss. The amount of deposits is about
120,0001.; and the bank has the sum of 110,0001. invested
in ;government securiies, and there is a further sum of
1,7001. arising from the accumulation of " extra profits,"
and which will, of course, be applicable to any deficiency
that may not be covered by the prisperty or sureties of the
defaulter. The amount of security given by Mr. Buckoll
Is, we understand:Bool., and his sureties are the London Gua-
rantee tkwisty. It cannot be denied that the managers of
the bank have not shown that are and vigilance which
were required of them, or this unfortunate state of things
could not hairs arisen.

THE MURDER OF MPS JEFFERIEw at Bristol con-
tinues to farm the main topic of conversation in that city,
and the interest excited by it was on Saturday much in-
creased in consequence of it becom;ng known that a little
girl had made some isommunication cf facts alleged to have
become known to her, which, if true, are calculated to throw
additional light on the mysterious and horrible affair. The
child is represented to have stated to some neighbrurs of the
deemed some particulars of a conversation which poised
within her hearing by parties whose names have (ss a matter
attention) been kept secret. The effect of this conversation
is understood to be that the parties in question, accompanied
by a soldier stationed in the neighbourhood of Bristol, had
been drinking at a public-house in the neighbourhood of
the deceased lady's residence ; that towards morning they
resolved upon going to the old lady's house, to which they
obtained access by getting over some back premises ; that
they then demanded some tea of her, which she would not
give them, and that they then picked a quarrel with her, and
beat her about the head with a stone. The old woman,
they said, then cried out three times, upon which the
soldier polled out his sword from the scabbard, and
held it over her head. She did not cry out any more, but
the blood flew out of her head and she died, after which
they took something and went away. The child states that
when she heard the men they were tiger, and one of them
(whose name she gives) lay down on the Auer, and had a lot
of gold in his waistcoat pocket. This statement has been
communicated to the police, by whom the girl has been
taken into custody. She has been subjected to a cross-ex-
amination by Mr. Herapath, the magistrate, but the par-
ticulars have not transpired. As she has not been yet dis-
charged, it would seem that her examination has not yet
been completed. It is further understood that the ',resat
girl has made a statement, alleging that a girl who had
formerly lived in the house rushed into the house on Satur-
day and killed her mistress with a stone, and then gave her
the property found upon her not to tell.