The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-13 00:00:00

known,thelde and out. We haven't a garret hid from 'em.
They may cut us up, and share us catlike cakes. Thinking of
this, I put on my bonnet and victoriz,e, and went out to
taints good look of the town. When I sow that we'd only a
haafhl of guns at West-street, and not so much as a
pocket pistol at Seaford Bay, I said to myself—What's to
prevent the French coming here whenever they like ? Why
—l'm certain of It—when the moon didn't shin*, they might
come over, and let themselves into all the town with latch-
keys; for It isn't likely—so many. lodgers as there have
been here—that they went away without taking false ones.
I am not a timid woman, Mr. l'unda—poor Gerkiton would
always allow that much of me ; but upon my word and ho-
nour I do assure you, when I taw myself standing on the
Marine-parade with not a gun—no, not a single piece of
cold iron, as the words go—between me and France, I did
tremble for Brighton; I did tremble for my Queen (though
her Majesty has left us for the Isle of Wight) ; and I did
tremble for Prince Albert and the re.t of the royal family. I
do hope, Mr. Punch, that you will write directly to Rear-
Admiral Lord John Russell—(who, I have somewhere heard,
once did such wonders when ho commanded the Channel
Fleet)—and beg of him to send two or three hundred ships
always to lie between us and the French. The wooden walls,
sir—u poor Getkins used to say—the true hearts of oak that
grow the laurel ! And moreover, Ido think, if government
would only send down Mr. T. P. Cooke to dance twice
'Alight the sailor's College Hornpipe it would do • great deal of
good to public spirit. However, at least Ido trust that you
will insist upon the heads and branches of families all going
into the Militia. Not that I hope we shall have any use for
them—'specially with the hearts of oak besting in the sea—but
there is always this beauty about soldiers; when they're not
useful, they're very nice to look at. Once I used to think
there was a sort of protection about the royal liveries, that
now and then flamed in and out of the Pavilion. To be sure
—poor things !—they rather looked like the ghosts of foot-
men on board wages, than the stout rosy fellows that, when
George the Fourth used to bathe here, made the place so
gay and handsome. Well, sir, now they are gone. It was
a sad sight, but only yesterday the last footman (with a car.
pet.bag marked in faded worst,d, G. R.') took his long
leave of Brighton by the second train. And there's the Pa-
vilion, u empty and good-for.nothing u a shell that's held
an addled egg. What should be dose with that, sir 2 Why
I'll tell you. It should be worked with loop-holes over and
over, and be filled from top to bottom with brass cannons. If
brass can't be got, let 'em, without owning it, try wood, as
better matching the building. And moreover, sir, as it's the
dull season, I do think—especially as the court's left us—that
government might take all the lodging-houses (the barracks
not holding 'em) for the soldiers. First and second floor for
officers—third, t'or men. Struck by this happy thought, I
send you my card of terms. Ten guineas first floor, seven
the second. Plate and linen found. (Boots not included.)
Address, post-paid, and believe me, your obedient servant,
MART (MIRRINA.—P.S. As at such a time England—a/ poor
Oerkins used to say—expects every woman to do her duty, 1
shall have no objection (for an extra three pounds) to mount
two cannons at my attic windows, if warranted not to be
fired."—Punch.. _ _

INQUSSTS, YESTERDAY.—CHARGE OF MANSLAUGH-
TER.--Before Mr. Baker, at the Jolly Gardeners, Lea'
bridge, on the b,Kly of William Ives, aged 37, a labourer,
who died of injuries inflicted by J. Kemp, who with 1).
Crudgington, is now in the house of detention awaiting his
trial for a violent assault on the deceased in the forenoon of
the 24th of December last, while the deceased was at work
in Cow-lane, Cambridge-road. Crudgington and Kemp,
with another man, passed by, and Crudgington pushed Kemp
against the deceased, who asked the former " what he did
that for." Crudgington, who is a returned transport, struck
deceased in the face with his list : deceased, who had a silo-
vel in his hand, put it up for his protection. Kemp laid hold
of it, and having succeeded in yr, sting it from the deceased,
gave him with ell his power a tremendous blow with it on
his left side. D-ccesed immediately put his hand to his
side, and ever after complained of pain at the injured part.
Crudgington and Kemp ran away. They were pursued by
several persons, and were eventually apprehended by the
police.--Mr. Hayward, the crown soacitur, stated that the
accused were now in the house of detention, and that they
would have been tried at the last Middlesex sessions, but
that the trial lwu postponed in consequence of the dan•
gerous state of decea•-ed.—Mr. B. Clarke. surgeon, Hackney,
said that he atsended the deceased about a fortnight before
his death, he having beta ;Attacked with smallpox. When
he (witness) first prescribed for him, he found some ribs
broken in the left side. Ho died on Monday morning last.
Witness, on a peat-martem examination, found four rith frac-
tured on the left side. There was no adhesion of the pleura
to the side, corresponding with the injuries to
which witness attributes death. The inquiry was
here adjourned at the' suggestion of the coroner.—
DEATH FROM STARVATION.—Ikiere Mr. C. J. Canter, at
the Royal Oak, High-street, Deptford, respecting the death
of Thomas Sturges Nichols, aged 50. The evidence adduced
showed that the deceased at the period of his death was in
an extreme stage of destitution, as indeed tie appearance of
his body fully confirmed. e was known as a jobbing
labouring man, and when in the service of the General
Steam Navigation Company, at the works in Deptford, he
lost three fingers from his right hand. He then became an
inmate of the Greenwich union, which he left about four or
six months since. How he maintained himself did not
appear. Tho pariah allowed him Is. and a loaf of bread
per week, which was evidently his principal support
He was frequently seen wandering about the streets
in quest of employment in a deplorable state of
distress, and often when he received the pariah loaf he
was in so famished a condition as to devour it at one
meal. Oa the 4th inst. he was in so reduced a state that a
person who had humanely given him lodging determined en
taking the unfortunate creature to the house of Mr. War-
man, the relieving officer of the district, with a view of ob-
taining an immediate attendance to his wretched condition.
He was carried to the door of the relieving officer, and on
being put duwa on the threshold, it was noticed that a great
change had taken place in his countenance, and it soon was
evident that he was dying. Mr. Arthur, the pariah surgeon,
quickly saw him, and he was taken into the passage of the
house. The deceased was then quite insensible, and some
warm brandy and water was administered to him. The po-
lice were instructed to procure a stretcher to remove him to
an adjacent lodging house, but of little use, however, for in
a few minutes he breathed his last at the door. Mr. Arthur
made a post mortal& examination of the body. There were
no symptoms of disease, and death was the result of the want
of nourishment and exposure to the weather. The jury re-
turned a verdict ".that the deceased had died from the want
of the common necessaries of life."

DR. H.AIIIPDEN'S APPOINTMENT.—MEETING
OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF GLOUCESTER.
GLOUCESTER, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon
about one hundred clergymen met in the chapter-house
of the cathedral, to consider the propriety of presenting
an address to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and the
other twelve bishops who joined kis lordship in the memo
rable memorial to Lord John Russell on the subject of the
appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford.
Rev. C. KENNAWAY, vicar of Cempden, moved the
address of thanks to the thirteen bishops, which appeared in
this paper yesterday.
Rev. Mr. Earcoent seconded the address, and urged the
imperative necessity of a strict adherence to the creeds of the
church, a relaxation in sr hick was favoured by Dr. Hampden.
Rev. Dr. Jet NE, master of Pembroke college Oxford, and
canon of Gloucester, then rose to !nave an amendment, and ad-
dressed the meeting for upwards of an hour and a halt. He
maintained that in convening this meeting the clergy of the
archdeaconry had been placed in a position in which they ought
not to have been placed without urgent necessity. They
would be virtually passing a vote of censure on the other
bishops if they paved this address to the thirteen bishops
who had signed the memorial. lle entered into a history of
Dr. Hampden's career at college, alleging that he had mo-
delled his own mind after that of Bishop Butler, and was
the only man who had fathomed the depths of scho-
lastic divinity. After denouncing the " garbled ex-
tracts " which had been made frem Dr. Hampden's works,
he alluded to the prophecies of Soeinianism which were
likely to result from Dr. Hampden's teaching which had
been indulged in, and asked for the production of a single
instance of perversion or secession produced by him. The
charges brought against Dr. Hampden had been varied in
the most extraordinary manner. The rev. canon went ea
to deplore the recent discussion, which had been the
means of arraying bishop against bishop, and priest against
priest, division in the church was promoted, and the conse-
quence would be, the falling off of many—some to Roman-
ism, and some to dissent. Separation of church and state
would be promoted, or they would have their churches pro-
bably beoomiug national property, and the beauty of its holi-
ness might serve only as a foil for the artificial eloquence of
some methodistical preacher. (Order.) lie wished to dis-
courage this agitation, and therefore moved as an amend-
ment that it is not expedient that any address should be pre-
sented to their diocesan. (Cheers.)
The Rev. F. Ciote, of Cheltenham, seconded the amend-
ment.
Rev. MURRAY BROWNE, rural dean, replied to some of
the remarks made by the mover and seconder of the amend-
ment, and after some further explanations, the meeting
divided, when there appeared—
Fer the address to the bishop
For the amendment
The addrem was therefore carried, and after a vote of thanks
to the chairman, the meeting broke up, having been for five
hours in conclave.

VAN DIEMEL
OF TRANS N'S LAND. —PROP
OSED RE-
VIVA PORTATI
Sir,—l was happy to see by your paper of the Bth
that the attempted revival of transportation to Van Diemen 's
Land had not keen lost sight of by you. Be assur
one who has been very recently a resident in thatunhappy
colony, that your labours were never devoted to a more
righteous end than in resisting the least addition at the pre-
sent time to the criminal populace in that quarter. when
ministers brought forward their comprehensive penal reforms
last year, Van Diemen'a Land was the text upon which they
founded their appeals to parliament and the country. This
moral and religious nation had raised up a community at
the other end of the globe, which we should ransack all his-
tory in vain to parallel, both in the degree and character of
its wickedness. In these days of "statistics," when morals
and commerce are alike reduced to arithmetical expressions,
the gloomy array of figures in the blue books, intended to
elucidate the condition of the colony, affords too tangible a
proof of a fact so discreditable to the nation, and causes men
is England, not conversant with colonial administration, to
lift up their hands in astonishment atthe deliberate polity
a state of things
icy
so
awful and deplorable, resulunßß
from
of the government. And yet thoee blue books fall far short
of conveying the truth in all its reality. There is much
crime which never gets into their columns; while the effect
of such an atmosphere of guilt on the unhappy free colonists
must be left to every man to appreciate as he best may.
Very satisfactory then was it to find Lord John Russell, in
one of the discussions on penal discipline last year, thus