The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Yesterday, Mr. liemmis gave notice to this solicitor
for the state prisoners that on this day the writs of
error would came from the Court of Chancery. The
profession here think that the only arguable point is
the question of the ten days' notice according to Eng-
lish practice.
Four gentlemen have been raised to the rank of
Queen's counsel—Messrs. Francis Fitzgerald, Hutton,
Andrews, and Waller. The omission of some other
names has caused much surprise at the Four Courts,
and the Lord Chancellor's selection in two of the
above instances has not met with much approbation,
Mr. Francis Fitzgerald abovenamed is brother of the
Professor of Moral Philosophy in the university. lie
is a distinguished lawyer, and was one of Mr. Smith
O'Brien's counsel. Mr. John Waller is also justly
popular with the bar.
The Queen's Speech arrived this morning at half-
put five o'clock.
It seems that the &nu/mitten/of the Newtonbredn
romance has not yet been developed. Fresh in-
quiries have strengthened Miss M•Veagh's claims to
be considered a heroine. The story of her having
purchased blood, as Rudolph pricked his nose with
spear gra-e, to simulate evidences of a sanguinary
fray, and of her having bought a cap of an old clothes-
man and riddled it with shot, le, according to the
Belfast Chronicle, nothing less than the result of a
catholic plot against the veracity of the damsel be-
cause she and her family are protestants. These un-
handsome mystification, have occurred, says the same
journal, chiefly in consequence of the various exami-
nations before the local magistrates having been con-
ducted in private.

Fates.—ln Wit.wourn, a fire broke oat in the
cabinet and techt nd manufactory belonging to Messrs.
Fussell and Son, Trafalgar-street, Walworth. The flames
began in the worksbons, a range of premiees upwards of GO
feet long and 30 wide. Th 'y were filled with goods of a
vastly description, and owing to their inflammable charact-r
but few minutes elapsed ere the entire property was wrapped
in one sheet of flame. Sev,rol engines were speedily set to
work, but in spits of the utmost exertions of the tire-
me* the fire continued to spread, and it was not until the
lapse of two hours that the damn could be extinguished, and
not until the whole of the workshops, warehouses, and their
contents were levelled with the ground. 2d.ssrs. Fussell
were insured for only 3001.
INQUEST, VESTEELIAT.—ALLEGED NEGLECT GE
AN IDIOT IN ST. °LAVE'S WOILICIIOI.IIII.—BrIOIS Mr. W.
Payne, in the Vestry-hall of St. John's, lionleydown, re-
specting the death of Ann Gardner, aged 34, an idiot,
who died In the workhouse of St. °hives Union.—Mary
Ann Ede said that she was an inmate of the St. Olive's
workhouse. Deceased was taken ill about eight weeks ago,
and was placed in the sick ward. Mr. Pettigrew, the
• NAPLES, JAN. 24. surgeon, attended her. Oa the 12th ult. witness was in the
As the opening of the chambers approaches rumour sick ward, when she saw the surgeon examine the decc ..-ed,
is active as to the design of government in calling and witness believed from his manner that he wr.e
at
bees long
ditrithyotr
to
her
re
bed
dasw
itif .
fever,Decess d
hthem together, and as to the length of their duration. disgusted
No one appears to me to consider ministers as sincere ,e,;:ig.seer prlseeented themselves on her hips. IlPorr
in the Performance of their promise. To-day there is laces were ordered, but instead of their being regularly
a report that four of the ministers have tendered their changed at certain intervals, they were allowed to re
ruignatioas. I should not be surprised at it, though mein on for three or four days together, until the stench
it is a report that needs confirmation. That there became quite offensive. Since her attack deceasel had been
has been adi • fference in the o pinions of the ministers unable to get in or out of bid • Me therefore required cost-
ae to what was to be done in the present conjuncture stout attention —Rebecca Russell, an inmate of the work-
house, confirmed the evidence of the previous witness, and
is, I believe, not to be denied, and perhaps now that it said that deceased, had been greatly neglected. She bad EDIN:It Ruti.
is decided to open the chambers, a regular split may known the pooltioes to be kept en lOr days, which made tie In Kelso the cholera, after declining so far as to be
sores get larger. About three weeks ago she was left in the one day without a single case, broke out again with
have taken place.iedetold Jantulio,
di.2.-
ts:ialdan witness
Despatches were received yesterday by Admiral bed
three
ooar feeceleidaydee together,
ti more violence than ever, and has since been going on
Bandies from Marseilles, in consequence of which the laud
reftvde
and the
stench ,
in the ward at length becamei mat at the rate of a dozen casts a day,which, in a population
admiral went to Gaeta. This afternoon the Penguin oppressive. The mistress of the workhouse, whenever she of some four thousand, is a high average. A remark-
came in from Gaeta. The Vengeance has not entered came to the ward and inquired if the deceased had able instance of the eccentricity of the malady is, that
our port yet ; it is supposed that it is becalmed out- been attended to, was always answered in the stfirma- whilst extending its ravages in eastern, westerr, and
side the bay. tive. There were thirteen sick persons confined in southern directions, it hu not yet gone northward,
Yesterday morning a court-martial was held on themwerdary iiVet
partieseoren:geresareweer,sai :Ver"beriwlsniugnrinese: I scarcely a single case having occurred north of the
board the Howe, to try Lieut. Maynard for alleged diately opposite that of deceased, who rema'ned in bed for Frith of Forth, notwithstanding the constant inter.
disobedience of Orders. It seems that the lieutenant nearly a week without being taken out or washed. Mr. course between both sides of the estuary.
was indulging in same remarks in the gun-room to Howard, the surgeon, came every day to the ward, and Mr. The great rise in poor rates has set invention on
the disparagement of the vice, when ho was ordered Pettigrew onee • week. The sta. n
echn These vde r y tail,,,, but
way edge, and one method of keeping down the cost of the
by the commander to desist—on his continuing, how- takenHowarodfftoticirek no nteoatir
tofert. W
h paint non
off the iron work, poor has recently been received with some favour. It
ever, he was told to consider himself under arrest, and aid the steam arose as it would from a copper. is proposed that paupers, instead of being immured in
this prosecution was promoted. The malt is, that Mr. Pettigrew, surgeon to the workhouse, said that be a building in Edinburgh, where they are totally on-
Lieut. Maynard is placed at the bottom of the list of never heard of any complaint being made against any of the productive, should be loc,ated in the neighbourhood
lieutenants, and dismissed his ship (Bellerophon). nurses in the ward. The immediate came of death was waste grounds, and be made to labour at their i
hatution from the bed sores. He had known of similar •
The admiral started this morning for Paestum. (er
in the la h s 'tali. Suppaing that every word the mation. Another employment that has been 1 ..
The Antelope, therefore, leaves fax Malta to-morrow Born
110:1 stated were true, they would convey to his geeted for them is the supplying of pests or to . 1 . .N, .
or the next day. Five per Cents., 131! on the 23rd Jan. mind a notion that the death was hastened by the neglect of from some of the numerous mosses in the Tic . - ( •
tatik,.l2

DEATH Ow Lttyr.-Cototsms, VAUGHAN JACKSON.—The
Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday contains the following:—
" With profound regret we have to announce the death of
Lieutenant-Colonel George V. Jackson, D.L.,:of Carramore,
Mayo, Inspector of Ennis union, at Carmody's Hotel, in that
town, where he yesterday evening fe'l a victim to typhus
fever, after a short illness. Captain Cronyn, his predecessor
in office, died also offerer last October. Colonel Jackson, of
the Carabir.earr, came down to attend the sick bed of his
nephew, Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson. The flub/ n Even-
ing Post adds :—" Colonel Jackson had been tit+ chairman
of the Swint ford Beard of Guardian., and during the terrible
famine in Mayo had been distinguished for his active bene-
volence or. b:half of the poor."

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