The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-20 00:00:00

independence of their eiounry—Waehineton, Tell, Hofer,
Kosciusko, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Robt. and Thome.
Emmett, Wolfe Tone, Hamilton, Rowan, the Shores, and
James Joseph Macdonaell."—Mr. Dohenny responded.
FORGERY OP BANK Or ENGLAND NOTES.—The
Liverpool Moil warns the public against a well executed
Tries of Bank of England notes which are forgeries.
The water-mark is perfect, though perhaps rather more
strongly developed than in the genuine note. They are
numbered hi L. 60395,—datcd 16th February, 1846—ap-
parently issued from the branch bask of England at Man-
chester, and are signed "H. Bogdan." So well has the
forgery been executed, that one of these notes was taken by
a Liverpool bank ; by. the bankers it was paid to a firm, who '
again paid it to a foreign mercantile house ; and it was only
upon the note being presented at the Bank of England, in
London, that the forgery was discovered. The only ap-
parent defer in the forgery was the incompleteness of the
figure of Britannia in die left hand uer corner.
OtterOher
notes (one of which is in the pervasion of the police),
same date, and evidently from the same plate, are in eircu-

OUTRAGE ON A LADY OF FORTUNE.—A very daring
outrage was committed last week, oa a widow lady of for-
tune in the neighbourhood of Kendal. The lady in ques-
tion is Mrs. C. M. N. Bateman, of Cowwan Head Hall, and
from the statement she has made, it appears that on Tuesday
she had been on a visit at the Abbey. near Stavely, with
Mrs. Wilson, the lady of J. Wilson, Esq., of the Orange,
Sussex, who is staying at that seat. She left rather late in
the 'voting, for the purpose of returning to her own resi-
dence, which is about four hundred yards distant, and had
scarcely got half way before a man sprang from a side
hedge, and violently seizing her by the arms, threw her
on the ground with much force, saying, " Now, your money
or your life." As soon es she could recover herself,
Mrs. Bateman called out with all her strength for help,
but her cries were not heard. The ruffian maintained
his grasp of her, and with an eath exclaimed, " It you do
not hold your noise I'll draw my pistol and shoot you
through the head." The terrified lady supplicated his
mercy, and being allowed to get up from the ground, she
endeavoured to find her purse to give him, but from fright
or some other cave's she could not account for there was
some delay in her giving it up, and the fellow again threw
her on the ground, and kneeling on her cheat, in most dis-
gusting language vowed he would do her horrible injury did
she net deliver up all she had upon her person. Alter
much difficulty she succeeded in finding her purse, which
she handed to him, antknovooner had he possession of it than
he filled her mouth with dirt and palled her bonnet over her
face, so as to prevent her screaming being heard. The wretch
then dragged her across the road to the entrance of a field.
Here his object was apparent, and a desperate struggle en-
sued. Mrs. Bateman having recovered her self-possession
to some extent fought with her assailant nobly, and being •
powerful woman, she resisted for some time his abominable
attempt'. At length, however, he hurled her again to the
ground. her bead coming in contact with a wall, and with
increased violence he endeavoured to overpower her. Her
strength had never failed her, and in the most energetic
w.ahner, considering her distressed condition, she continued
to struggle with him, and beat him off'. After nearly an
hour's conflict the villain decamped, and the unfortunate
Indy in a dreadful state of suffering reached her residence.
Mr. Hurstall, the chief constable of this town, having ob-
tained from Mrs. Batman a full description of the perpetra-
tor of the outrage, has succeeded in capturing a man named
John Caradine, who answers the description given by Mrs.
Bateman. There wer. scratches on his neck, and his trow-
sees were torn and covered with dirt. He has been taken
before Mrs. Bateman, and being identified by her, he is re-
manded by the borough magistrates until she is able to
attend.
RENT.
MONUMENT TO HARVEY.—The Mayor of Folke-
stone convened a meeting at the Town-hall last week, for
the purpose of ascertaining whether the prop,sed erosion of
• monument to their distinguished townsman, Dr. William
Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the b'cod, would
meet with the approbation and support of the townsfolks.
The hall was well and respectably filled. The meeting was
addressed by Dr. Bateman, who, in expatiating en the great
worth which Harvey's di.covery had been, is, and will be,
said that not all the deeds done by heroes could compare
for usefulness to man, with that discovery of Harvey. Mr.
Minter read a letter from Earl Radnor, wherein his lordship
ins the committee liberty to choose any piece of ground on
his estate whereon to erect the memento. Mr. Smyke, Earl
Radnor's architect, has offered his professional services gra-
tuitously. It was proposed that the town be divided into
districts, and that certain of the committee be appointed to
collect the donations of the inhabitants ; and when that
shall have been done, to make appeals to other towns, until
the sum requir.d be obtained. Several persons, before leaving
the hall, became subscribers.
DEATH OF A LITERARY MAN.—The Dover Chroni-
cle revs: " With regret we chronicle the death of Mr. W.
Mad ford, lato proprietor of he Kentish Observer and Can-
terbury Journal. Mr. Mudford was a high church tory and
rotectionist, and by his death that ant-quated party have
Post one of their ablest advocates. He was at one time editor
of the Courier, a contributor to Blackwood's Merga:ine, and
latterly he was editor of the John Bull, in conjunction with
his Canterbury papers. Deceased has left &widow and seven
children, whose almost only means of support will be the
Observer and Journal; and we trust these papers will be
patronised in such a manner se to produce ample support to
the bereaved family ofa tdented conttisporary."

KV, AU., a no. Inc.
Tilt: VACANT SEAT.—Copt. Somerset has issued an
addre,s to the 'lento's of Monmouthshire, again offering
himself as a candidate for the representation of that county.

'nu arts.
"A SOLDIER AND APEAR'D r—A curious revela-
tion is made in the Athenawn if Saturday, respecting the
treatment of an artist by a committee of the United Service
Club. It seems that Mr. Marshall Claxton painted for the
Westminster Hall competition a picture, the subject of
which was the burial of Sir John Moore. Not having found
a purchaser Mr. Cloxton very handsomely presented the
work to the United Service Club; and it was to all appear-
ance eagerly accepted. Having been presented and rec'sved,
the members of the club seem to hay, thought that
with the painting they had a further right to the artist's
services. First they request from him • key to his pic-
ture—and this Mr. Claxten sent. Then they expressed •
wish for an alteration in the costume of the officers; and
that Sir David Baird might make way in the picture for some-
body else, on some small point of chronology. Their next
demand coolly suggested that the light should be altered—
the light of the picture, he it observed—to adapt it (we sup-
pose). to its puce, the billiard-room, instead of the library,
to original desuuation—instead of the usual plan of making
the Plats suit the light of the picture. Next, Mr.
Claxton is informed that " some gentleman had
proposed covering up the face of Sir John Moore!"
Lastly, Mr. Claxton is desired to take his picture back again.
" But," ears our contemporary, by far the richest bit re-
mains behind. The club will never get over it. The reason
assigned by these soldiers for finally requestiost the with-
drawal of the picture exceeds anything we know of in farce.
The chairman of the committee Informed Mr. Claxton that it
wax to be removed because some of the members objected
to sit in the room with a picture of a dead body ! It would
scarcely have keen more ludicrous if such as objection had
come from Surgeons'-hall. The fop described by Shake-
peare, who loved civet and could not bear to have ' an un-
mannerly. ce rpm,' brought ' between the wind and . his
nobility' is intelligible ; hut a soldier uneasy in the pre-
sence of a dead body (it being hie Wade to make them). -yea,
more, at the mere picture of a dead body—is a suggestion
which would have exceeded the limits of carieature.
What do you come frightening delicate females with your
nasty corpses fort' says the old woman at Sairy Gamp's door
to Mr. Pecksniff ' you are old enough and ugly enough to
know better.' This endatn burst of conscientious confession
throws • new and unexpected light on their desire to have
the face of Sir John Moore covered up."
INSTITUTE OF THE FINE ARTIL—At the evening
meeting on Saturday, the chief attractions were a large land-
scape, by the late Mr. Constable (very much improved sine*
we last saw it) ; an unfinished miniature of the Duchess of
Marlborough, her nurse, and child, by Sir William Rom
(pretty in point of compo-ition, and all the better for its
want of finish, and the quiet look of its plain oak frame); a
kit-ket portrait, Cy Mr. lliidge, of T. Uwins, R.A. (like but
bard); and a volume of clever pen-and-ink sketches by
E. M. Ward. A.R.A , who appears to work at all times with
equal seal, industry, and to
THE NATIONAL GALLERT.—The little Guido, "The
Coronation of the Virgin," bequeathed to the nation by the
late Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, has just been added to the collec-
tion at the gallery. It was a favourite picture with Sir
Thomas Lawrence, who was forced to part with it to pay a
debt of honour incurred at the gaming table. The morning
after his loss he wrote to Mr. Wells (so the story runs) offer-
ing him the picture for a thousand guineas and Mr. 'Wells,
who had long wished to possess it, closed at once with the
great painter, and wro'e a cheque for the amount. As a
work of art its merits are considerable, and in a private col-
lection would make an important NW!, white in the Na-
tional Gallery (even p or as outs is) it ie ra'her an addition
to our numbers than ane accession to oar strength in what is
actually first-rate.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
OanmAnoNs will be holden on Trinity Sunday by the
Archbiahop of York, the Bishops of London, Bath and WAIN artiste
(if necessary), Chichester, Exeter, Gloucester and Bristol, Lichfield,
Lincoln, Oxford, Peterborough, Rochester, and Worcester; and by
the Bishop of Winchester, July 9.
Pnerzasentsrs —Rey. J. B. Adams, to South Cadbury
C., Somerset, dio. Bath and Wells—Rev. W. Borbary, to be second
Miter of Shrewsbury school ; pats, St. John's Coll., Camb.• sloe Rev.
P.. H. Giffind, prom.- Rev. P. W. Douglas, to Portlimd 6irLet! C.,
Both ; dio. Bath and Wells.—Rev. J. Formby, to Chatham A C.,
Kent ; dlo. Rochester.—Bev. H. Goodwin, to St. Edward P. C., Cam-
bridge: dlo. Ely; 661. ; pats., Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; vim Rev.
E. Pickard.—Rev. Mackereth, to ~•ftinghsm P. C. • co. and li-
do. 'fork;lmer, 831. ; post. V. of, F. Watts, Eaq.; via Rev. J. ble'skerstb,
Rev. P. Pa Felmersham, Beds, to be chaplain to tbe otheriff
of Bedfordshlre.—Rev. H. Pourtney, P.C. of St. John, Mot...rump.
ton, to be official iprlueipal et the Royal Pemilare of Tettenhall, Mat.
fordahlre.—Rev. T. H. Ravenhill, to Lymingtou C., SornereetaWre ;
din. Bath and Wells—Rev. IL Smith, late C. of Naunton, Gloucester-
shire, Ito ibe chaplain to the Hon. FM. India Company.--Rev. W.
Thorpe, to Mason V. Notts, din. Lincoln ; 8594 with residence ;
pet, the Lord Chancellor.—Rev.— Weare to be chaplain *of the bo-
Galtmol of Leicester.—Bev. O. Wright, to Little Felon, P.C.,
dio. Lichfield ; 1801. ; pat., the V. ofilt. Alkmuisd, Derby.—
P. Ilekeeald, Em., of Watery, tobe principal registrar of the dim
and Episcopal Considory Court of serum ; pat., the Bishop of Bails.
MITT ; Lieut.-Gen. W. D. mum.
VAcurcus.—Burow-on-Homber V., 00. and dio.
Lti-
cola ; 3481. with residence; pat., th• Lord Chancellor; Rev. O.G.
EVIRI2OIIt, dee.--Claxton, or "Lawson, Lem, V., Leicestershire, din.
Peterborough; 1051.; pat., J. Palmer,u Ph.: Rev. T. Hoe,
Elnmsoo.upaa-Soar P. C., Sons, Mo. Lincoln; 801.; pat., E. Btratt,
Req.: Rev. V. Barton, des.—Kinoulton V., None, dio. Lincoln ; 1601.
pat., the Archbishop of Tort : Rev. T. Hoe, den—Ripley It.inTgiuki
,yrk.
shire, dio. Chester ; 6401. with residence; pat., Sir W. A.