The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

SINGULAR CHARGE OF MURDER.

A youth named John Finnigan, 18 years old, who
is dumb, was brought before the magistrates at Manchester,
yesterday morning, charged with the murder of James
Shanley, aged six years, of Taylor's-court, Oxford-street.
The evidence was very meagre and unsatisfactory. It was
stated that James Shanley, the father, missed his boy on
Saturday evening, and as he could only learn on Sunday
that he was last seen near the Rochdale Canal, in Oxford-
street, he went and had the canal dragged. After consider-
able trouble the body of deceased was discovered in the
easel, having been apparently without life for many hours.
A playfellow of deceased's, named Angus Thorley, was sub-
sequently found, who said that be was playing with de-
ceased en the canal bank in Bellhouse's timber yard,
Oxford-street, on Saturday, when the prisoner came up,
and threw deceased into the canal. The prisoner had •
man with him, who also attempted to throw Thorley in.
Prisoner sod the man ran away, end Thor's, says he ran
after the prisoner, and saw no more of Shanley. The case
was remanded until Wednesday, that the police might
make further inquiry. Finnigan is apprentice to • joiner.

THE WAGES MOVEMENT.

PRESTON, MONDAY.
Whilst, on the one hand, the manufaoturers of this
town appear firmly resolved to clews their mill., the opera-
tives on the other hand, emboldened es they are by a large
measure of euppart from other places, seem no less deter-
mined to persevere in their object. Yesterday there was a
delegate meeting held in Preston, the deliberations of which
occupied from ten in the morning till six in the evening.
About 70 delegates were present, representing as many
manufacturing towcs and district', all of whom promised
pecuniary assistance. A yes 'intim, previously passed, was
confirmed, to this effect—That the turn-out weavers, win-
der., and loomers, should be allowed Gs. per week, and
teeters 3e. That amount was this day distributed
amongst the operatives of six mills in this town now on
strike. The spinners of four other establishments have
given notice of their intention to quit work on Saturday
next. It is only fair to state that in 1 cues the hands
have struck in consequence of a mere fractional differecce
between the concessions made and the advance demanded.
This morning an address from tins power-loom weavers to
their emplo)ers appear upon the walls. Replying to the
manufacturers' manifesto ot Friday last, the weavers' com-
mittee mention the names of seven firms who have refused to
give the required advance of ten per cent.; " two of them
have not even offered one-eighth of that amount;" and one,
besides ;refusing to make the concession, " treated his hands
with insult." The committee assert that they never asked
more than ten per cent on their present wages, and that
that increase was demanded by the weaver, of their respec-
tive employers without any foreign interference. They
maintain further that the weavers never made fresh de-
mands where the ten per cent. has been conceded.
TWA morning an open-sir meeting, attended by the
turnouts, and addressed by delegates and others, was held
on the Marsh, a vacant plot of ground in the suburbs of the
town. The chairman (E. Swinglehunt) exhorted the
assembly to be peaceable and orderly, bet at the same time
firm and united, adopting as their motto—" Tan per cent.
and no surrender." If ever they had friends the mayor
and magistrates were their friends when they prohibited
their procession on Thursday last. In the week previous
the contributions of the working hands in Preston for the
support of those on strike were 1611., this week they
amounted to upwards of 2131. A Stockport delegate an-
nounced that the own he represented yesterday sent Pres-
ton 1001. as its subscription for the week ; that amount
would be doubled and trebled if necessary. A delegate from
Blackburn made a similar statement. Blackburn had sent
1001. yesterday, with an intimation that another hundred
was ready if wanted. The manufacturers of Blackburn
having conceded the ten per cent., were anxious that the
operatives of Preston should persevere until they obtained
the required advance of their employers, who were paying
• penny and twopence per cut less for the same fabric than
was paid in Blackburn. The manufacturers of both towns
having to meet in the same market, the interest of the one
party required that the other should not possess an undue
advantage by the payment of lower wages. At the close of
the proceedings the hands repaired to the appointed places
to receive their week's allowance in lieu of their wages.
There is to be another open air meeting to-night. The
threatened " lock up" of the mills is the all-absorbing
topic of conversation.

LOSS OF THE HONOURABLE COMPANY'S
STEAM FRIGATE dIOZUFFER.

The following are the particulars of the loss as
sent by a correspondent who was on board at the time of
the wreck. llu jotter is dated Rangoon, the 22nd July
" After leaving the Sandheads we crossed the bay all
right, and everything was going on pretty well, with the
exception of the weather, which ems thick and foul. We
first touched at Khyouk Phyoo, and took down from there
the pilot, who was well acquainted with the Arracen coast,
in the navigation of which the captain and officers of the
ship were inexperienced. We had remained nearly two
days at Khyouk Phyoo, where we were joined by the
Zenobia,and the two ships embarked the African Battalion
for Rangoon. On leaving the port and getting to sea, we
soon left oar consort bull-down, and held on down the Ar-
racan coast at a rapid pace. The first night it blew half a
gale, and we insist have been going at a very high rate of
speed, but, I believe, that the ship wu only allowed nine
knots an hour in the dead reckoning and the log. The
next day and night were so foul and overcast that no obser-
vation could be taken, and the conseciuenos was that on
the third day the captain was necessarily ignorant of the
ship's position, and no one else on board wu better in-
formed. On the fourth day land was seen, but as it pre-
sented no known peculiarity, and every thing was murky
and indistinct, we kept off and on, endeavouring to make
out where we were, until at length approaching too close,
the ship took the ground. At low water we were high and
dry on a line firm sand bank, the people from the vowel
walking about and taking a full and leisurely view of the
poor Mozuffer, from her keel up to her hammock netting,.
But her fat sl hour had not yet arrived, for that night at
high water she floated ; we backed off the bank and anchored
in safe water. Next morning we got up our anchor and
set off again on a voyage of discovery, and bad not made
much run when the leadsmen sang out 41 fathoms from the
chains. At this moment the captain was busily intent in
catching with his glass the Palmyra trees at the month of the
Rangoon river, and did not hear the cry of the leadsmen,
who presently gave 31 fathoms, and almost immediately after
21 fathoms—and we were aground. There was a kind of
Veluti-voiced boy to pale on the soundings from the leads-
men to the place where the captain was, and I suppose that
the rquealing of this fellow could not have been heard, or
we should never have been allowed to shoal in this rapid
and fatal manner. In all probability this fine ship would
have been saved had a broad-chested, full-voiced fellow
been the medium of communication. The Palmyra trees
were made outjust at the moment we took the ground, and
it was then obvious that we had overrun our estimated course
and the mouth of the river considerably, by the great speed
at which she had been going after leaving Khyouk Phyuo on
Monday, the 11th. This time, Friday, the 15th, the ship had
taken up a fatal position on the Shoeing quicksands, 11 miles
to the eastward of the Rangoon river, with all the fore part
of the vessel, from the engine-room forward to her bow, on
the bank, but a considerable depth of water astern. At
night she was nearly off, nay, I believe was actually afloat
again ; but the backing of the engines was, as it would
seem, stopped too soon, and the tide immediately drove
her on the bank again never more to float. At the time
she was actually backing off, there was such infernal noise
and confusion on board that the captain weld not hear
the announcement that she was going astern and the
water abaft deepening, and so her only chance of escape
was lost. She now began to evince unequivocal symp-
toms of dissolution, for on Saturday morning one of
her boilers wu forced up and the steam pipes de-
stroyed in consequence, and at ithe same time it was
obvious that her bottom under the machinery was seriously
injured, as the engines began to evince strong symptoms of
a desire to part company, and there were tea feet of water
in the ship, the orlop deck where the passengers' baggage
was stowed being by this time under water. This day,
Saturday, we started off the ship's gig to Rangoon, some
4-5 miles or so distant, to give the authorities there
intelli-
genee of what had happened, and of oar position and con-
dition, and fortunately the boat made that piece the same
night in safety. Oa Sunday morning we had the pleasure
of hearing our guns answered, and before long the Pluto
and Zsaobia hove in sight, and it being high water, the
termer ran alongside of us, the Zanobia anchoring at a
short distance from the wreck. We were not long in shift-
ing everything we could gave and our precious selves on
board the two steamers, and we reached this place (Ran-
goon) on Sunday night, fatigued, haraseed, and dirty, as
you may easily imagine. Had Saturday night been blowy
than is no knowing what might have occurred to us all ;
but the weather favoured our escape. They were busy
after we left in getting everything they could out of the
Mocuffer, and for a short time entellained the idea of en-
deavouring to float her by means of empty casks, but the
futility of such an attempt soon became obvious, far she
began to settle in the quicksand on which she grounded, sad
is now abandoned, and, I believe, invisible."

NAVAL.

(HT ILICTRIC TILEGILAPEL)

FALMOUTH, MONDAY.—Taz ADMIRALTY TOUR OF
INericrioN.—Her Meaty's steamers the Banshee and
the Black Eagle, with the Lords of the Admiralty on board,
arrived here last evening ; and after inspecting the dock-
yard they will proceed westwards.
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 19.—APPOISTMENT. Mid-
shipman R. Linesay to Arab.

WIPE BEATING AT

•Yesterday

George Turner, a tailor, living is Caroline-street, Hulme,
Blanchester, was charged before the city magistrates with
beating, kicking, and stabbing his wife. The wife, a poor,
emaciated creature, however, refused to give evidence. The
policeman who brought the charge said she had been
stabbed by the prisoner with a knife in one arm, and her
body was covered with bruises inflicted by his kicks and
blows. Mr. Kennedy, magistrate, asked the wife to tell
him what the prisoner had done. The poor woman re-
plied timidly, " i don't want to say anything against
him." Magistrate: You must give your evidence. Wife
Well, I provoked him. Magistrate : And what did he do
when you had provoked him ? Wife : I don't know—he
stabbed me in the arm, but I don't wish to say anything.
Mr. C. J. S. Walker, one of the magistrates, then addressed
the prisoner, saying, as his wife would not give evidence he
would be discharged, but it must be a warning, as they
should certainly have committed him for six months had
the case been proved. The prisoner, who displayed a sullen
demeanour throughout, left the court without a word.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT TUE ITCHEN FERRY,
SOUTHAMPTON.-0a Saturday evening, as the son of Mrs.
Gore, of Gamble Cliff; Southampton, was driving home in
his dog-cart, accompanied by a groom, the hone, in passing
the railwa, took fright at the noise of an engine, and
started oft at a furious pace down the steep bank of the
Itchen. The tide being high, the animal was in a moment
out of its depth and speedily drowned. Mr. Gore and his
servant were picked up, when nearly exhausted, by the
boat's crew of the Arrow yacht. Much interest was excited
among the numerous spectators on the shore, by the endea-
vonn of a large dog, which swam out after the carriage,
to save its master and extricate the horse, even after the
latter had erased to exist.

THE REGISTRATIONS.

EAST SURREY.

Sir Walter Buchanan Riddell, Bart., the barrister
appointed to revise the lists of voters for the eastern din
sion of the county of Surrey, commenced the revision yes-
terday at the Court House, Croydon, with the parishes of
Addington, Beddineton, Canhalton, Calerhans, Chidden,
Cheam, Chelsham, Couledon, Croydon, Farley, Mitcham,
Mordon, Penge, Sanderstead, Sutton, Titsey, Wallington,
Warlingham, Woldingham, and Woodmansterne.
Mr. Corner and Mr. Jeans attended on behalf of the
Ent Surrey Reform Registration Society, Mr. Burgon for
the National Freehold Land Society, and Mr. Drummond fur
the conservatives.

In most of the above parishes there was little or no alte-
ration made in the register, and except in Croydon and
Penge no objections were made by the conservative party.
In the following parishes the reformers and tories sus-
tained the subjoined number of objections, viz.

_ .
Reformers. Tories.
Carshalton
Chum lO
Croydon
Mitcham 4
Pule l4
Wallington 4 0
In the hamlet of Penge all the objections nude by the
conservative party failed ; they had objected to a great
number of persons chiefly claiming to vote for land bought
of the National Freehold Land Society, but the objector,
John Mesunger, had given his addrcu in his notices of
objection as of Croydon.
Mr. Burgon objected to the notice, that it did net give
the objector's place of abode as described on the register,
nor with sufficient particularity. He himself had been put
to some trouble to find him out, having looked for him in
the Croydon Directory without finding him, but be found
him described on the register of voters u residing in the
Marketplace, and after some difficulty he had found out ho
bad removed to Printer's-yard, Croydon. Mr. Burgon
contended that the place of abode should be the same as
appeared oa the register, and he cited a cue in the Court
of Common Pleas where such • notice was held to be
insufficient.

Mr. Drummond, in support of the objector, said the ob-
jector baring changed his abode had sent in a new claim,
and his name appeared in the list of claimants, which Mr.
Drummond contended was sufficient, as the act only re-
quired the objector's place of abode to be given, and not his
plate of abode as described in the register.
The Revising Deventer, after considering the act of par-
liament, and the case referred to by Mr. Boron, decided
the notice of objection was not sufficient, as it should have
I given the place of abode on the register, to enable the per-
son objected to to ascertain the objector is on the register to
identity him. And if the objector had changed his resi-
dence, it would be very emy to give his old as well as his
new place of abode.
Mr. Drummond said the objector had given his true
place of abode, viz., Croydon, which was all the act re-
quired.
The Revising Banister—l think it might be questioned
whether Croydon only is a sufficient plaice of abode for this
purpose; but that was not the question raised, and I think
the itotise is not sufficient.

In Croydon parish list sixteen Totes for rent-charges was
struck off, having been granted some Tears ago by a gen-
tleman who has since changed his opinion, and has been
obliged to re-purchase the rent-charges which he had
charged upon his estate.
Tne overseers of Addington not being in attendance
throughout the day, although frequently called, were
fined 20s. each, and ordered to attend at Reigate on Wed-
nesday, at ten o'clock, this not being their first offence.