The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-31 00:00:00

WALES.

RIYELESENTATION OF ANOLESEY.—The North Wales
CArotatele sap Sir Richard Williams Bulkeley, Bart., has
been announced to stand for the county which he for some
yearn represented in the House of Commons; and as the
Hon. W. 0. Stanley, the sitting member, has stated publicly
his intention not to relinquish the representation, them to
chance of a contest at the next general election, and a divi-
sion of the Whig interest. It is said that a vigorous canvass
is being carried en.

PROVINCIAL.
BEDKORDSIIIRE. _

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THE BEDFORDSHIRE ELECTION took place yesterday,
when Lord Charles James Fox Russell was returned without
opposition. In the course of an address to the electors his
lordship said:
Reny simmitst you are the advocates of voluntary education. go
am I; but it is • • oluntary education for which I contend which Is
contradntinguished from education mask compulsory. lam ea dm.
ate fora feet and full dim ibution or that blessing to the poor ; but I
am averse to compulsory methods, let who roar employ them. My
,oluntaryiem, therefore, is of a very different kind to that of those
• who my that they deprecate government interference, 112 they call it.
The edecation such advocates urge is misnamed voluntary ; it ought
to be called fortuitous. It is my belief that It is the duty of the
grovernmant to provide a secular education for the people. This
education ought to be based upon religious principle,
and in unison with the sentiments promulgated in the
established church of the country. Dissenters I consider are entitled
to equal rights with churchmen with respect to a there in the govern.
meat grant -;hear, -and the right o minntain their schools without
inspection, so long so they do not participate in the money granted.
One of the objections urged by the voluntary party is of an eltraordi-
nary character; they say that the measure is not necessary, midi ea.
unitive strides having been recently made in the way of educating the
people. Is it so What, then, mean the reports from the chaplains
of our semis, who tell as that the multitude of the prisoners are in a
state of beethenism! (Hear.) Prom indisputable details of a statis-
tical suture, it appears that in 1593 there were receiving education,
1,276,917 inkvid aide; while in 1546-this teen years afterwards -tht re
were but 1,076,917, laving an increase of not more than
100,000 in that long pe Md. 1 am really surprised that
those who I know to be the feat friends of education,
should use such an erMirnent. Had it come from my old friend.
the Turf., I mean the Torte. of the old school-those men who think
the world always stand still-I ouuld have understood it. lum told
that by the contemplated ineseure government behead to interfere.'
with the educational efforts of those who in some degree differ from
the Establehed Church. Now thie is o mimepresennition. The fact
is that the government have no wish to interfere. It is not intended
to compel any body to receive the grunt; but where such grant is
taken, government has reserved to itself the right of inspection. And
what out this be called but a wholesome superintendence ! Is it
right to call it inter(, fencer
TORILIMIRE.
Tits PETITIONn IseT.ATOUR OF THE GOVERNMENT PLAN

or EDUCATION have been forwarded from the borough of
Leeds to W. Beckett, Esq., the member for the borough, for
presentation to the House of Commons, signed by 25,127
persons, including 3.54 superintendents and teachers of Sun-
day schools, and nearly eighty of the clergy, magistrates,
aldermen, councillors, &c. of the borough of Leeds.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.—In consequence of the uproar
and disturbance created by the opponents of the govern-
ment plan of national education at the public meeting of the
inhabitants of Wakefield, held on Monday night week, the
friends of the measure determined to held a meeting, to
which their sentiments could be expressed without inter.
ruption, and the meeting was accordingly held in the court-
house, in that town, on Monday evening last, the admision
being by ticket. The meeting was addressed by 0. Saun-
ders, Esq., the chairman, Mr. J. Westmorland, Rev. T.
kilby, Rev. E. Higginson, Rev. W. Tait, and other gentle-
men when resolutions were adopted approving of the plan
proposed by government.

LORD CARTILUPE has announced =self to be a candi-
date for the eastern division of this county, in place of Mr.
Frewen, who has signified his intention of refiring from the
representation.
NORFOLK.
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MORE MURDRR we POISON.—MORWICW, MONDAY.—
The dreadful and insidious means of destroying human life
by poison has again been resorted to, and the object has been
accomplished to a frightful extent at Tibbenhatn, 14 miles
from Norwich. On Sunday evening, March 28, Mrs. Pear-
son, the wife of a farmer, invited a Mrs. Everett, the wife of
another farmer in the s►me village, to take tea with her.
The invitation was accepted, and these females and other
persons of the family, took tea together. Soon after, each
of the above females, and several others of the party, were
taken ill, and, we regret to say, Mrs. Pearson and Mrs.
Everett are dead, and others are lying in a very precarious
state. At present, we have no knowledge whatever of the
means by *hid. the poison could get into the tea, or by
whom it was administered. Mr. Pilgrim, one of the :,croeuan../
coroners, will hold inquests upon the bodies of the d
to-morrow (Tuesday). Tibbenham is a large agricultural
parish, with a ►tragging population of only 709 inhabitants.