The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1847.

PROVINCIAL.

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EDUCATION AND REPRESENTATION.--A petition is in
course of signature at Manchester to the Rouse of Commons,
and has already received some highly respectable signatures,
calling upon it to make education the stepping stone to re-
presentation, as an encouragern,nt to the voluntary system,
and in preference to the government measure. The petition
'IL your petitionem are deeply imprewed with the advantages to
be derived tress the wide extension of educition smonipkt the people.
That they mjahe in the voluntary cum.:ion. which have been made
for the attainment of this great object. That they fear that the effect
of • government Interference may be to retard the proem-s of colun-
; tary effort, which is gradually advancing to the full supply of calome-
-1 tional wants. That they earnestly desire to are the intelligent and in-
. duatriou. claws of the community more fully represented in the
Home of Commons. That they fully believe, that If an tat were
pawed to confer the elective franchise upon all males who can read
and write, and have attained the age of 21, the people would educate
themselves without the aid of the Mate. They therefore pray your
honourable hour to make such enactment, and thus promete at owe
and the same time the education of the people and their better repre-
"entail. in parliament.
THE MANCHESTER yaw RACE COUR.SE, it is said, is to
be twenty yards wide and a mile and eighteen yards in
length The turf is spoken very favourably of, and will not
he so hard and injurious to the horses an the ground of the
late course. The new course is nearer and more convenient
to the town, being only about a mile and a half distant from
the Exchange. Measures are about being taken for the im-
mediate erection of booths and a grand stand.
WEALTH OF LIVEKPOOL.—It se stated that nearly ORE-
half of the half-yearly dividend of the London and North
Western Railway Company is payable in Liverpool. It it
now in the course of payment, and the portion to he received
by the Liverpool proprietors amounts to 220,0001. every six
months.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thunday morning two of the
workmen employed at the St. George's-hall, Liverpool,
named \Yawn and Loughlin, whilst engaged on the scaf-
fold at the highest part of the balding, wiuting to receive a
atone, the bolt of the shears broke, and the poor fellowe fell
from the scaffold to the bottom (more than 100 feet). and
were frightfully smashed. Their death wee instantaneous.

THE RECENT FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE HELL AND
SELBY RAILWAY has given rise to much eonvenation
in this county. The Hull Adrertiser says—" We have
received several complaints from parties who were
pae.engers by the mail train at the time of the
accident, and who express great dissatisfaction in not
having an opportunity afforded them of giving evidence
on the inquest. One gentleman states that he felt the °sell-
lition of the train soon after it left the !lull station, and that
full en hour and a quarter elapsed before any eminence was
rendered from the suthoritite at the depot. A letter, of
which the following is a copy, has been forwarded to the
Secretary of State:
Hull, Feb. 25.—Sir On Sunday evening last I was proceeding by
the mail train from hence, whets an accident of a serione enure oc-
curred, by which one man was deprived of life, and another died the
following day from the effects. The whole of the peeengers were
mayor Ids injured, and net one of the carriage, and trucks of which
toe train remised left on the line. I wee wishful to attend the inquest
as a witness, but when informed solo, n and where it wan opened, it
was too late, It being all closed and done, bringing in h verdict
of accidental death, instead of adjourning it till some of the
Penengers were able to attend (rain here, it bring held at these,
tire mile, from this, by E. li. Conyers, Eat., of DI Meld.
I should, therefore, take it as • great favour by your
requiring a further and stricter invistigation into the real
cause of the accident, If it falls under your dena, Sneak than seems to
hove taken place during the short time of the Inquest, by which much
evidence coit
ear pans olfilwrii=ael gives, erxcept not c.,by the cortrisoo.own,naairieantent
the hon, the oommlseloners of the Board of Trade on the above sub-
' Ject. Any farther information yon may requite I shall be happy to
furnish, and have no doubt of being able to produce such as to show
n,cligenee on the part of the company's servants. If the foregoing
request does not belong to your deportment, may I crave the favour
of • reply to whom the communicat es should be addressed.—l
remain, Geo. Bee,.
THE Tam HotEa litirt.--A memorial to Lord John
Russell, thanking him for bin advocacy of this measure, has
I been framed by the Huddersfield Short Time Committee,
and signed by the chairman on its behalf for presentation
this week. A similsr document has been forwarded front
Leeds.
A FATAL ACCIDENT took place on Saturday evening last.
Mr. George Whitelock, of Cogden Hall, on his returning
from Richmond market, in attempting to cross the river
Swale at a ford opposite his dwelling, was drowned. The
hody was found next day about three miles below.
DEATH ST VIOLENCE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUNL—On
Thursday, an inquest was held at an asylum, Great Helms-
ley, on the body of John Fowler, an inmate of the institu-
tion. It appeared from the evidence of two of the keepers,
named John Kettiewell and Frederick Topham, that the
deceased was put to bed on Moeda), night between six and
seven o'clock, his left hand being confined by a strap to pre-
vent his breaking the windows. The keeper fastened, as he
expected, the bed-room door, but next morning it was found
open, the lock having slipped. On going into the room the
unfortunete man was laid on the floor, quite dead, and co-
vered with a little straw. There were several marks of blood
both on the floor and on the wall of the room. On an in-
' Tee:lotion it was found that a patient named Wood, who
slept in au adjoining room, exhibited marks of having been
engaged in a violent struggle, and marks of blood were ob-
served on his shirt, and his hands were much swollen. Mr.
Atkinson, of Renwick, surgeon, examined the body of the
deceased, and found extensive injuries, especially on the
bead, which appeared to have been inflicted by repeated
l blows from the hickle of a strap which was found in
Wood's bed-room. Wood's account of the transac
Lion was that the deceased had gone into his room,
and made an attack upon him, when he ( Wood) seised
the deceased by the hair of his bead, and dashed
it against the wall, and that he used the strap to make de-
s:nosed lie still, and left him in his room covered with straw
snarl a rug to keep him warm. The jury returned a verdict,
" That the deceased came to bis death in a violent struggle
with a certain lunatic named Wood, confined in the Great
Helmsley Lunatic Asylum, who inflicted divers and severe
wounds upon the head of the said John Fowler," and the
jury recommend that the lock of the door in which the de-
ceased was lodging, should be replaced by a more efficient
one.
DAIIINO ROnnERT.—On Friday afternoon, as • man named
Heald, a messenger in the employ of It. H. Brandling, the
owner of the collieries at Middleton, was returning from the
coal depot in Leeds, where he had been to receive money to pay
the wages of the collier', he was attacked, on he wee walking
along the tram-road connected with the pits at Belleisle,
very lonely place, by three men, who assaulted him meet
furiously, and succeeded in robbing him of • canvas bag
containing 1171. 10s. in gold, 501. in five pound provin-
cial notes, and 51. is. 2td. in silver end copper, after which
they decemped. One of them, named Exley, previously
known to the police, was apprehended near the spot, in con-
sequence of the Asian's given by Heald, Exley was examined

before the •utaatr on Saturday, and Wll2 remanded for a
few days, in the hope that his cora-rogoes would be appro.
hendml.

A HINT FOR OTIT•• PLACED.-:lizroitYlNG • Faze-
Ileitoot.—An outline of a scheme for the future manage-
ment and control of the lands, possessions, and revenues of
Dorton's charity, has been scat to Loughborough within the
lest week, by a Master in Chancery, for inspection by the
elturchwardent overseers, and select vestry. Th, scheme
provides that the trustees shall be empowered to borrow a
maatof money-not eareeding 6,0001., out of which two new
selsonls are to be built, one for boys and the other for
&is, with houses for the head master and head mi-tress.
When these are completed, the bn's at present taught
1 the Grammar school and the High school, are to be
moored to tke one for boys, which is to be called, The
Free Grammar School of Loughborough." In this, and
' doo in the present free school, there is to be an annual
examination of the boys, and prizes are to be awarded
to the meritorious. The instruction is be given in the frog
school is to consist of reading, writing, althmetie, Engliek
grammar, and such other matters u the trustees and master
of the school shall consider proper. The boys are each to
pay a sum to be fixed by the trustees, not to exceed two.
pence a week, except orphans, who are not to be charged
anything. The boys in the grammar school are to be taught
the Greek, Latin, and French languages, mathematics,
general English literature, composition, sacred and profane '
history, geography, reading, and writing, end such other
'moves, arts, and sciences, as the unite, a from time to
time may tee expedient. The head master of the grammar
school is to be a graduate of some univer-ity of the United
Kingdom, and approved by the muter in chancery,
to whom the case stands referred. In the girls'
school the instruction is to consist of reading, writing,
arithmetic, English grammar, geography, biogrcrizt
history, astronomy, a knowledge of botany, singing a
Mg to the plan of Mr. Hullah, and such other branches of
education as the head muter and mistress shall think fit,
Every girl is also to he taught needle-work, and to make up
her own clothes. The sum to be paid by the girls is to he
fixed by the trustees, and not to exceed threepence per week.
As in the boys' free school, orphans are not to be charged
anything. An annual examination is to take plate, and
prizes to be awarded. The trustees, it is proposed, shall let
• portion of the land in plots to be formed with public walks,
provided that the income of the charity he nor decreased.
The public are to have the privilege of using such walks sub-
ject to rules to be made by the trustees. Provision is nude
for the repayment of the money to be borrowe I for building
the schools, and after such payment, the trustees are to be
empowered to build twenty. alms-houses on the site of the
present alms-houses. The ululates are to be selected horn
the poor and aged, and are each to receive 101. per annum.

LINCIIL-ISIIIRE.

TIII GOYA:1070E8 or THE LINCOLN LUNATIC ABTLUM
have issued a thick pamphlet, containing a report of the
Commissioners in Lunacy, with the reply of the board to
that document. The board still contends far the association
of patients as far as practicable, so that lunatic life may as
nearly as possible approximate to life on the outside of the
wall. ; and the modifications in the system of nut-door
classification are stated to have been attended with great

WAR

THE WHATIMR. correspondent
writing yesterday says :—" Another fall of snow has taken
place during the night. The cold was this morning most
Intense, and now, 11, a.m., the mow in two inches deep upon
the ground."
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PRINCE ALPERT HATS7OIIII,IED 1118 INTENTION of lay-
ing the foundation stone of the new hospital, to be com-
mented early in the ensuing summer in Portsmouth. The
building is to be erected on land liberally granted by the
ordnance. Her Majesty has graciously bestowed her
patronage on the institutbm.
.I,•VoTTUCtIt 1-•

BRISTOL.—The final examination of Miss Onteridge on a
charge of setting tire to five rooms in the house of Mr. Lang-
ley, Cumberland-street (the particulate of which have
appeared in this paper), took place on Saturday, when
evidence was adduced in favour of the accused, which tends
greatly to increase the mystery of the atreir. A main point
relied upon for the prosecution was that of the accused hav-
ing entered the front parlour while a lady named Johns and
the housemaid of the family were la it, and having
remained there for a short time alone immediately before
the window-curtains were discovered to be on fire. The
evidence brought forward on Saturday disproved this state-
ment. Miss Johns denied having seen Miss Outeridge in
the parlour at all, and not only so, ant a respectable trades-
man of the neighbourhood, named Lewis. proved that the
amused came to his house immediately after the third room
was tired, and that when the small drawing-room and the
front parlour wire set on fire, she was sitting iu his shop.
The magistrates considered that this testimony materially
altered the case, and they discharged Miss Outeridge from
custody.
THE PAUPER INVASION from Ireland, so heavily felt at
Liverpool and other places, has extended to this county. The
Gloucestershire Chronicle of Saturday says : " A great
number of Irish are now passing through our city. Most of
them come from Newport, to which place they were attracted
by the hope of obtaining work in the construction of the
South Wales Itailway,while others are wayfarers from Bristol,
Manchester, Birrainghavi, and Liverpool, pursuing the im-
pulse for wandering which is • trait of destitution. The daily
average of twenty poor wretches are now provided with food
and lodging by theaty authorities, vino have resolved to fit up
a temporary refuge for the applicants, instead of giving
them money to pay fur Indgiugs. A stove is, therefore, to
be placed in one of the large sheds in the cattle market, and
the destitute will be allowed to rest themselves there for the
future."
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IN NW BIAOISTRATES.—It is stated that S. Brown, Esq.,
of Bedminster, and K. .7. P. King, Esq., have been added
to the Commission of the Peace for the City of Bristol, by
the Lord Chancellor.
REPIZSZSTATION Or WEST GLOUCHSTERSHIRE.—Mr.
Clrantley Berkeley has issued another address to his con-
stituents, containing an account of the political delinquen-
cies of his forefathers, and some further particulars re-
lathe to the representation of West Gloueesterabire.
To the independent electors of the western division of Gloucenter.
shire—Gentlemen,— From the wenclui that have hien put forth
affainst me by the Castle party of late, I find it impon.ible to remain
silent, or to refrain from carrying the war into the ramp of my ene-
mies. I have been falsely accused of all tarts of political delinquen-
cies, and, as you know, commanded by lard ettabardinge to give up
my seat for the county in favour of hie nominee, Mr. Grenville Berke.
ley. The enemy carry their mock inventgation into my former
conduct in pariiament ; let us look at the political education and pro-
bable conduct of the nominee they wish to represent you, or rather
the Ilsgattalf of the Carrie ; for se no hag turned more completely
round than the man from whom Mr. Grenville Berkeley may ham
hem suptated to have seabed his polities! bias, the Idea dais airy
representatien" la not an Inapt one. In the mat cornet fur your
counrybetween Berkeley and Chester, me father spent about bouord,
in returning his brother; he proposed a Liberal or Whig candidate
and supporter of Mr. Fox'. principles. The Tory adversary spent a
like sum, and terminated his life by his own hand in consequence.
Admiral Berkeley, therefore, eventually came in as the Whig repre-
eentative of the county, at the enormous cost afforded by my father.
The very moment he reached his scat in the house he turned round
on Ids brother and his party, and at once became the avowed sup-
porter in soy vote of Mr. Fitt. This Is matter of fact; but it might
have slept in oblivion, save from the vile and false attacks which are
every day made on me. The elder brother of Mr. Grenville Berkeley '
le a Tory in every Senile of the word, thouth a better soldier or gentle-
man I tea not think by any ponsibility exists. You, my friends, should
therefore be carefelhow you trust a roan, his pre eon and himself, at the
moment time alike open to suspicion. For years Mr. Grenville
Berkeley has been dodging at the feet of Lord Fitzhardinge, to be
returned for wane place sr other. I well to hear the information
from Lord Fitabardinge. If is political line to be whatever his lord-
ship dictated. When there was an apparently serious and violent
difference between the present member for Cheltenham and Lord
Yitshardinge, and when the latter palmed we strong an opinion an the
political capabilitice of the former, I expected no leas than that, at the
next election, Mr. Grenville Berkeley would have been nominated to
the borough. The member for encitenhatn's quarrel bang nude op,
the nominee is to be (avid on the county instead ! I run assure you,
my friend., it mine me thus M be forted to me the lash, but if Ines
wfll assail no they must expect to meet with a return. In everything
I have dated to you I have hem borne out by truth and sincerity. Lamy
former lettere, when I alluded t o " the advice I bad given respecting
the clearance of the old family mansion at Sprisig-gardens, ere Lord
Fitshardine n present establishmeot wan domiciled there ; toy co-
partner in that advice, Mr. lime, could hare tome me out in all I
stated. Nothing that I hare advanced has been dewed; therefore,
for the present, it only tamalna for me to assure you, gentlemen, that
If I am still further constrained to requite my sasailants, it is yet in
my power to clinking transactions ea base that &don could not add
to their defonnity.—l have, Ice., Gaertner F. Baartemr. Beacon
Lodge, Feb. 21.
nornsnam IT

REPILEsiNTATION OP-14;;T-1111TEVON.—We have heard,
from a quarter on which reliance can be placed, that it is the
intention of Sir Thomas Acland to retire from the cares of
parliamentary life. We are not aware who will be chosen
to succeed him in the representation of North Devon, The
liberals of North Devon, rem►mbering Lord Forteseue's
early services, and arduous battles in the cause of the people,
look to his house for a representative. But they are
not unmindful of the services of Mr. Buller, and would
rather have both than neither. We do not, however, anti-
cipate that any difficulty would arise in selecting a sue-
eieasor. The cordial unanimity of the liberal party in
Devon is not likely to be disturbed by any contingency of
this kind. In giving this rumour, we give it merely a,such.
Lord Ebringtoo is member for Plymouth; • post of great
honour in itself, one indeed to which any public man might
wire. In referring, as we have done, to the here of
Fortescue, we have only recorded the grateful recollection of
past services which the yeomanry feel, and the desire which
some of them express to acknowledge their obligations, by
honouring the son of their old leader with their confidence.
—Western Times.
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FEMALE POACHERS EXEMPT FROM PENALTY. A de-
cision, which opens a wide field for the exercise of the
ingenuity of female poachers, was come to, a few days mince,
by the magistrates for the Reading division, Meting in petty
sessions, in: the case of a woman named Mary Egerton,
who was charged with having taken game enigma a
certificate. It appeared from the evidence, that Oh her
husband was leaving his cottage in Padworth yank
to proceed to his work, he observed in • field by dr
road-side • fine hare snared. The man, who k
would appear from the result was not wholly U.
ware of the omission in the art of parliament under whisk
the information was laid, returned home for his wife too
the needful, via, to walk off with the hare the honied
himself quietly walking off to his work at the sour
The woman, however, was seen by • third party tstrbtb
hare from the wire, sad return with it to her TM 1
'magistrates, after hearing the evidence, and Mr
the act, dismissed tho case, upon the ground that, as no
Notate only related to male offenders, the information
Lainsa female could not be sustained. The wow ait , w
diseharged.