The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

LINCOL\BJIIRE.

ARILANGEXENEB.-11; says the Lincolnshire
Times, an early delivery of a letter from Lincoln to Sleaford
is desired, the bat way to secure it is to send it to a friend
in London, and request him to put it into a Post-office in
London, as, by a strange facility in travelling, it can go 309
miles in a shorter time than 18 miles !
WARWICKSHIRE.
THE EDUCATION QUESTION.—Our Birmingham corre-
spondent writes : " The government measure of national
education is daily exciting more interest here. The dissenters
are endeavouring to stir up an opposition to it, and during the
last few days a requisition has been hawked about the town
requesting the maybe to call • town's meeting for the purpose
of petitioning parliament and taking such other steps, with
reference to the measure, as may be deemed expedient. As
this movement has originated with those who are known
to be unfriendly to the government massive, little disposi-
tion has been shown to sign it ; and up to this (Thursday)
afternoon but very few of those who have hitherto been
considered the leaders of the popular party here had affixed
their nanits. Meet of the dissenting ministers have signed,
and, amongst the other persons who have done so, there
are many who dissent from those who would oppose the
measure really on sectarian grounds only. It is remarkable
that all the newspapers published here have ably ad-
vocated the government scheme. At a meeting of
the clergy of the establishment held here on Tues-
day evening, the Hon. and Rev. Grantham M. Yorke
(brother of the Earl of Hsrdwicke) in the chair, a resolu-
tion was passed to the effect that the clergy whilst
declining to pledge themselves to every part of the
proposed measures, accepted the minutes with thank-
fatness, as • greet advance in promoting the educa-
tion of the people. Out of the large number of clergy-
men who attended, there were only two dissentient
voices to this resolution; and prior to the meeting separating,
a committee was appointed to draw up a memorial in con-
formity with the resolution Since the above was written, I
have ascertained that • meeting of those who have taken an
active part in getting up the requisition above referred to,
will be held this evenint, when the question will be die-
cured as to the propriety of presenting it to the mayor:
there seems, however, good reason to believe that it will fall
to the ground."
SALE OP FICTITIOUS BANE NOTES.-011 Monday last a
respectable bookseller, carrying on business in Birmingham,
waited upon the magistrates, in consequence of an intimation
he had received that he had (unwittingly on his part) sub.
jested himself to heavy pains and penalties by the exhibition
in his window for sale of fictitious bank-notes. These " pro-
mises to pay" have of late become an ordinary article of
fancy stationery. They are printed on paper similar to the
genuine note, with the word " five" on the left-hand corner,
in white letters on a black or sable ground, the letter " "
being platted before the " five," and the word " pounds"
being introduced in the body, so that on the first glance, or
to an ignorant parson, it would appear to be a genuine 51.
Bank of England note. It was evident to the magistrates
that the party who had exhibited these notes for sale had
done so merely as an ordinary article of merchandise, and as
a specimen of art, without being aware of the consequences
to which he subjected himself. He was, however, informed
that in doing so he had been guilty of a felony punishable
with fourteen years' transportation, according to the pro-
visions of the sth sec. of 52 George 111., chap. 138. —Bie-
irsirsphom Journal.
DERBYPIHRE.
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MOIL TOR TUNNELS.—The works at the High Tor, Mat-
leek, feendig the apjrosshae to the intended tunnels, under
the emilleelli NNW VINAIMN/10 and toadetone above-named,
Oletialle 10 progress satisfactorily. At the centre portion
of the narks a mass of limestone was raised from its bed by
mechanism' power alone, without the aid of gunpowder, of
the extraordinary dimensions of twenty-fire feet in length,
air feet in breadth, and about one in thickness.
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DETACHED DARD3RIB.—At the Gloucestershire esedans,
last week, a resolution agreed to at the Weecorstershirs sea.
sides was laid before the court, in reference to a peonoeed
arrangement for rating the outlying parishes lis
intermixed on the borders of the two counties; on the basis
that Worcestershire parishes, locally situated within the
Gloucestershire police boundaries, should be assessed to
the pnlice.rate for Gloucestershire, and subject to the police
jurisdiction of that county ; and that a similar rule should
e applied to the Gloucestershire parishes locally !situated
within the Worcestershire police boundaries. The parishes
to which the proposition would apply were Twining and
Kemerton, Gloucestershire; and Bruton, Overbury, Sedge.
berrow, and Broadway, Worcestershire. The magistracy of
the latter county declined to enter into the arrangement, on
the ground that, as the Gloucestershire police-rate was
heavier than that for Worcestershire, it would be an unsatis-
factory impost upon the ratepayers, and also on the ground
that the arrangement was originally suggested to meet the
case of the parishes of Marone and Little Waahbourne,
which parishes had now been conceded to Gloucestershire.
No further proceedings were adopted by the Gloucestershire
searions.

A Clack TO MEKDICANCT.—At • meetieg held at
Bristol lest week, it was resolved to form a society for the
g= of preventing the impositions practised by street
, and relieving the deserving poor. The Rev.
Heaphrey Allen, of Clifton, who took pert in the proceed-
ings, mentioned, among others, the following instance of
gram • : Boma time since • benevolent gentleman
west $ a at Jacob's-well, pointed out to him as the
residesses of a bed-ridden woman. He found a little girl on
the stairs and inquired for the unfortunate inmate. The
child, with much simplicity, replied, " Please, air, she
bent come yet." It seemed that this lbed.ridden woman came
at 10 in the morning and went away at 4! It appeared further
from calculations which bad been made, that from 12,0001.
to 15,0001. a-year is given away in Bristol and Clifton
to characters of this description. The necessity indeed for
societies of the kind mentioned above throughout the coun-
try is manifest from daily occurrence., of which we may
mention two:—A few days ago an inmate of the Hereford
Union Workhouse raked permission to visit her friends,
which request was at once granted. Instead, however, of
ring home, she commenced a courts of begging through
the town and succeeded in obtaining money from several
individuals. For this conduct she was sentenced to 14 days'
imprisonment —Last week a party of Irish called at the
Lydney Inn, on their journey from Chepstow, and were
" relieved " by the benevolent lsnd'ady. Accidentally,
however, one of them dropped and left behind an old linen
rag, which on being opened was found to contain five sove-
reigns ! A servant was sent after the party and the money
was restored to them, but not without a severe and proper
reprimand for the imposition which they were practising
upon the public.

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INSPICTION Or STSLM VEBSEIA.-It understood that
Mr. Coming, Lloyd's surveyor at Plymouth, Mr. J. Pope,
merchant, and Mr. J. Mare, engineer, proprietor of the Ply-
mouth Foundry, have been appointed Surveyors—(the two
that named gentlemen for the inspection of shipwrights'
work, and the latter the engine department), by the Lords of
the Privy Council, in pursuance of the 14th section of the
act passed last session of Parliament, for the regulation of
Steam Navigation. This act requires that on or before
the 30th day of April and the 31st day of October in
every year, the owner of every steam vessel shall trans-
mit to the Lords of the Privy Council a declaration, in
writing, from !Furman duly authorised, of the sufficiency
and good condition of the hull and of the machinery of their
vessel*. The met of such inspection and declaration, to be
defrayed by the owners of the vessel, is foLevery vessel of or
exceeding 360 tons burthen, 1/. 10s. ; IF those tinder 330
tom, 11. lc By the act it will be observed that all steam
vessels will have to be surveyed and reported on twice every
year—a wipe and salutary regulation. This forms part of
the enactment 9 and 10 Viet., which came into operation en
the let of Jen. last, by which all steam vessel* are compelled
to mrry a certain number of boats, of certain dimensions,
according to their tonnage—particulars of which we pub.
lished at the commencement of the year,

A Monti Eastertn.:rord Harry Vane, M.P., who has I
recently become the proprietor of the great portion of the
land in Ashton Keynes, has authorised his tenants to destroy,
in what manner they think proper, the rabbits they may
hereefter find on their respective farms. For such a proof of
his lordship's liberality, not only the tenants themselves, but
other occupiers of land, will feel grateful. This parish,
like many more, has from time immemorial been infested
with the destructive vermin now condemned to destruction.