The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-26 00:00:00

WALES.

I)F.ATE or AN ANGLER. The SI/ter/an dm.; re-
tr•rzs a onetsnecd ca.e of death from drow„ing : J. R.
E. at liolints, , of Llangoetit'4..t.e, nOtCOIBY •ire,
!cy :ase—h.ring • %weeded nt the mcrnin: in catching a
-almon —was indu,d, a'.out 7 in the evenhat, to appr, .ch
the banks of the Kiser Wye, with the ampoule cap. c.,.tion
of tat:jog another. lie wet atttead by his g • m• kc;p• r;
bus r Limed( nor his strvar.t knee. 12.. w wits NI, Ile
..rararke. per sat upon the Lank, 111010 fifty yard► la law,
.emu yu .I.g a 4,1., while Li. tu..ter wa. ,adst,,,c the °saw
„bor... It that to this oath terc it a ettAth g
r ck nod. r eat rr, u.dins in a p,:rP•,l::.c .r ill of Alva:
10 feet, to:ming the line of the C. 0...., 1 of the raver en the
Breconshire side—towards thi• nrccip;cr• the reek takm a
ur+rp.l,,lar.tin , fill. 'Wn.n I,t s en, NIL Ile'rees
4.1,1 cud sto.o.,,trt.,qliag of watt,, in
to -la.• endeavouring to
s4cent; this inei ne, down :.o nt,:zt Lure suCcnly
Ilis efforts warn onay.iling, and, when s en, May
1./111 011 the very c4r, of thi; deep heti,' ui d .rk water,
which he was itamedi.dely drawn. He sank, and was ro
more sets. Al this was okeereed by Cept.in de Winton, of
the Royal ArtAltry, who wag B.hiag on t.!e Rednorthira
side of the river, b the coachman of Mr. Holmes, by the
eihik.arat ad by tir, Pasegsbin lama amid

Powell. The coachman and Captain de Winton,
with all baste, dashed into the river, dived and
swam about in all direction, all to no purpose. The river
was fearfully deep ; the colour of the water so murky the',
the eye could not penetrate a font into its depth. rhea
coachman, in a distracted state, finding all his efforts ;,effe,
twit, reached the castle, and loudly ditel°l4 *tee event
soon summoned araund him Mrs. Holmes and
ae domestics
of the establishment. Luiders and ropes o ere soon by the
river aide. The create! part of theta ot e.
. pent in en-
deavouring to recover the body of e- Holmes, but it was
not until eleven in the follonino `menee* nib„ the =bete-
nate gentleman was brou"nt r.e•
Loss of Six I_,Lviss. -On Friday last seven quarry-
men ne. ,e' crossing Ole, the lakes situate in the beautiful
Pass of aaanbarfa• la nen in the centre of the water, by some
seems, the boat wu capsized, and the whole of the men were
precipitated into the lake. Exertions were made to save
them, but in mae instance only were these efforts successful,
the six others being drowned.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE..
LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—
Following up Section I, the allowances to her Majesty, this
association tavo now taken the next step in their progress,
and introduced as Section 11. of their aim the following pro.
posed reductions in the allowances to royal personages
Propowd
Branches of the Royal Fondly. Present future
allowance. allowance.
Duke of Cumberland, now King oillanover .C21,100 Nit
reuses of Saxe Coburg, row Ktng of the Belgians se,coo Nit
rower Allota of Cambridge, now Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Statlits
The Duke of Cambridge 27,0e0 15,000
The Ducheesof Gloucester.— 16,000 10,000
The Duchess of Kent
Prime Albert of Sane (them and Getha.....
H.M. Adelaide, the Quern Dowager lOO,OOO 50,000
Raving now stated the reductions in this allowances to her
)l,lcjesty the Queeu, and the different branches of the royal
familv. which the Financial Reform Association considered
to be alike by the exigencies of the times and by
a strict stnse of justice, the inquiry is to be forthwith ex-
tended to the pension li.t, sinecure offices, and other offices
that might he dispensed with by better arrangements.
THE CHESTEIt AND LIVERPOOL CON MTS. —lt will
be rec ilected that, since the sentence of the men at Chester
for attempted robbery and murder, one of them made a con-
fession inculpating himself and fellow-convict as the parties
who had previously committed a daring robbery on the Rev.
N. Germon, near Manchester. This confession, it believed,
would have had the effect of
nlongrdinvestigation, exculpating the two convicts
setenc at Liverpool for the latter robbery. Afte
a longed investigation, however, it appears that infor-
mation has witched the Mayor of Manchester, through
the Home-effice, that the sentence on the convicts
will not he disturbed. In addition to points in the
evidence at Liverp .ol irreconcileable with the confession, or
pretended confession, of the convict at Cheater, it is ru-
moured that the position taken by those charged with the
investigation just ti rmioated is fortified by disclosures made
by the Lverpool convicts, or others connected with them
(being eathol eel, at the private confessional, the disclosure
of which, it is said, led to their apprehension in the first
place.
VOMSUMS.
MURDER OF A MISER.—In the village of Warthill,
about five miles north-east of York, an attempt at double
murder has been perpetrated. The unfortunate victims of
the brutal outrage were an inoffensive, and respectable
widow lady, named Newlove, upwards of 70 years of age,
and her eon, Thomas Newlov.s, an unmarried man, between
40 and 50 years of age. They were pos-essed of considerable
property, and adopted the foolish plan of being their own
bankers. as much as 1,5001. being kept in their miserable
abode. They lived in a most penurious manner, and seldom,
if ever, retired to rest until their neighbours, in the
natural course of things, would be getting up; the
object of their strange life being to watch their
hoarded wealth. About eight o'clock on Monday
morning, a labourer, who was in the habit of milking the cow
and doing other work for Mrs. Newlove and her son, called
at the house as usual. The back door was opened, and on
entering a passage leading to the front kitchen, be was hor-
rified on perm iving her lying on the ground apparently dead,
and a quantity of blood about her. The man immediately
raised an alarm, when, upon the neighbours assembling, a
search was made for the son, who was shortly afterwards
found in the water closet, outside the house. Ills bead was
sadly beaten in, and blood was copiously flowing from the
wounds. Medical aid being procured, the extent of their
injuries was in some degree ascertained. An iron candlestick
was found in the passage, which had evidently been used in
the mureereus affair. It wan covered with blood and
Bair, and had apparently been bent by the force of the blows
inflicted with it upon the beads of the poor creatures. On a fur-
ther exanination it was quite clear that they had made a vigo-
rous effort to escape from their diabolical assailants, which
the state of the passage confirmed, pools of blood being
visible in several parts. Mrs. Newlove in some degree sub-
sequently recovered her senses, and from what could be
gleaned from her the ruffians were three in number. They
had contrived to obtain an entrance into the house by a
back window. The son, with a view of escaping, it is sup-
posed, got into the watereloset, and the robbers believing
that he had fled to the villageto give an alarm, decamped
without obtaining any of the hoards they coveted. The
police, however, discovered 1,3001., chiefly in notes, in differ-
ent parts of the house, and 1701. secreted in a shaving box.
In one of the rooms were several rolls of nota tied round
with thread. On Saturday, the police received intelligence
of the death of Mrs. Newlove, who has sunk under the in-
juries she received. No trace of the ruffians has yet been
obtained, although the police have been scouring the country
for miles round.

,aams.....
A STORM.—Oa Friday afternoon at four o'clock a
heavy storm of wind and r►in passed over Portsmouth, and has,
says a correspondent, continued more or le-a, up till this
hour (5 p.m. Sunday). Tho ships at Spithead have struck
their top gallant masts and made all safe. The gale on
Friday was the cause elan accident whereby two lives were
lost. Captain Danner, with two of his men, belorging to
the Prussian brig Dido, was in a boat under sail, when she
capsized, and the captain and one man was drowned; the
over man was saved. A boat belonging to the Powerful
was also upset in Hauls lake, but by greats sertions by boats
from the convict hulk all hands were rescued.

SUSSEX.
REPRESENTATION OF HORSITAIL—The writ to
supply the vacancy in the repress utation of this borough
having at length been issued the leading men of both puo-
- parties have commenc d operations to secure the return
of their respective candidates. Mr. Fitzgerald, the unsuc•
caesfui candidata at the last election, comes forward again in
the conservative interest, and Lord Edward Howard is the
liberal candidate. Election contests in Hlesharri generally
ran close, four or five being considered a good majority.
HUNTLADONSIIIRE.
THE RAPID INCREASE OF PAUPERISM in the
parishes comprised in the Huntingdon union offers a
melancholy example of the rapid decline of a rural
population in comfort and respectability. The Huntingdon
union embraces 83 parishes, with a population at the last
census of 18,229. By the quarterly return made at Lady-1
day it appears that nearly one-fifth of this number were re-
ceiving parochial relief, namely 3,416, which is an increase
over the same period of 1844 (four years) of upwards of
1,300. The parch of Ramsey, with a population of 3,679,
stands conspicuous in the increase; at Lady-day 1844, the
number of their poor receiving in and out door relief was
46.5; at the same period in 1418 it was 1,410, making consi-
derably more than one-third of the while population in a
state of pauperism. The four parishes of Huntingdon at the
same period exhibit an increase of 140 in a population of
Imo, whilst Godmancheater had increased from 228 to 412,
the total increase in the expenditure in the Lady.day quarter
1848 comnari d with that of 1841 bring about 8001., or 3,2001.
per annum. In some of the parishes of the union this in-
crease in the number of paupers has not been made, the
clearance system having been adopted, to the injury of leas
fortunate parishes ; thus Conington, with 3.000 acres of land,
has only 14 poor, which is 4 less than it had in 1844; Ab-
bots Ripton, with 5,400 acres of land, has only 37 poor as
compared with 79 in 1844 ; whilst G ninsaachester, with the
same number of acres, has 412.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
ELEVEN COLLIERS WERE KILLED on Wednesday
lest et the Victoria Ironworks, in this county. It appears that
the men are lowered into the iron-pits by machinery, of a
rather complicated kind. While one batch, consisting of
eleven miners, were descending the pit, some injury was
suddenly occasioned to the machinery by which they were
being lowered. The balance-chain was snapped, and the poor
fellows were at once precipitated to the bottom of tho pit,
and were all killed.