The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

CHARGE. OP BIGAMY AGAINST A RESPECTABLE. FEMALE.
—On Friday a very respectably-dressed female, named
Lydia Tyson, the wife of Mr. John Tyson, the proprietor of
an extensive shoe shop in Tithebaru-street, Liverpool, was
brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of bigamy. The
prisoner wore her black veil so much over her face, that it
was with difficulty a glimpse of her leutures could be gained.
She seemed to he about 40 years of age, and remarkably
well-looking. Mr. James Tyson deposed that he was a
bookbinder, and that the prisoner was his sister•in-law. He
was present when she was married to his brother, John, on
the 30th of October, 1827, at St. Mary's Church, Edge-hill,
by the Rev. Mr. Swainson. Witness signed the register of
the marriage, so also did his sister, Mary, who was pre-
sent at the etremony. The prisoner continued to live with
his brother until within the last bur or five years, when
they separated. His brother had a house in Bootle, and he
still had a shop in Liverpool. In cross-examination, the
witness stated that the prisoner had not had a family to keep.
J. Simpson, clerk at St. Martin's church, stated that he had
not known the prisoner prior to the morni.lg of thelOth inst.,
when she called nt the church and was married to a person
of the name of Thomas Holmes, by the Rev. Mr. Harper,
the curate. She stated herself to be a widow, and gave her
maiden name, Lydia Martin. Witness produced a copy of
the second marriage certifirate.—Constable Vo.yd proved the
apprehension of the prisoner, at her residence, to Richmond-
row. Holmes, the second husband, took to his heels, when
the officer entered. The prisoner, who declined to say a
word in her defence, was committed for trial.—Liverpool
Chremick.

YORKSIIIRF..
PARDON TO rnr. Cotevier DONOVAN.—On the occasion
of an Orange-Catholic affray in the streets of Bradford,
at 'Whitsuntide, 1844, a person was killed ; and a man
named Daniel Donovan was tried for the homicide, con-
victed of manslaughter, and sentenced for transportation for
life. It was always strongly protested by his friends that
Donovan was innocent, and that an alibi could be clearly
proved in his favour. When Lord Morpeth was last iu Brad-
ford, evidence on the subject NT2s laid before his lordship, who
engaged to bring the case under the consideration of the
Heme Secretary. This having been done, Sir George Grey
has communicated his decision to Lord Morpeth, in the fol-
lowing letter, bearing date Whitehall, 2nd Nov., 1816:
My Lord.—Having had under consideration the application which
I hail the honour to receive from yuur lordship in behalf of Daniel
Ikmovan, Mho was convicted at York As.iZa. in July, 1514, of man-
'daughter, and sear:need to be transported for life, 1 beg to acquaint
your luril=hip, that, under all the eireunistancas of the care, I bit
warr..ated iu taking measurer' for the grant of a pardon to this con-
vict on condition of his not returning to the United Kingdom, should
his conduct have been good blue his arrival In Von Diemen's
Land.
The intelligence has been received with great pleasure by
Donovan's friends, and has of course been communicated to
his wife and family, who are living at Cork.
MR. OASTLER is still agitating the short-time question.
One meeting has been reported iu this paper ; a second took
place at Halifax, and a third was held on Friday at Brad-
ford. At the last meeting J. Psalm d, Esq., a local magistrate,
occupied the chair, and was supported by the Rev. Dr.
Scoresby, the vicar of Bradford; Rev. 1%. Randall, and
others. The first resolution was That this meeting
deeply sympathises with the factory workers of this district,
who are compelled to labour in factories for twelve hours
per day, which is incompatible with the development of
their phrical strength, and the cultivation of their minds."
Mr. (tastier, in the co urse of his address tot he meeting,
said : We were now told that the factories are better than
they wire. So they are, but who have been trying to
hinder their improvement all the way. through? '1 here is
still much to be done in the way of improvement. Read
the evidence given before Stuller's committee, end if the
most eminent physicians and surgeons are worthy of being
believed, you will find that to work a child more than
ten hours a day is to murder that child. The factory
system is, therefore, a system of death yet. And,
therefore, we can never submit to that system. That
the ten hours' system was just did not admit of a doubt ;
no one now disputed its justice, and his principle was,
whatever the political economist might say, that that
which was just would and ought to succeed. He hoped
the opponents of the cause would now see that all future
opposition was in vain ; that the friends of the Go-
vernment, who have hitherto thought that the principles
of political economy were more stringent than those of Holy
Writ, would perceive their mistake ; and that the honest
people, with the clergy at their head, must prevail.
It was said that the diminution of labour sought
would reduce wages one-sixth, but as the mills of England
never worked ten hours a day on the average, he could not
see how that result could follow. He had stated at Hud-
dersfield, that a certain person who had frequently gone
with him to advocate a Ten Hours Bill was now going about
the manufacturing districts endeavouring to persuade the
workpeople to go for an Eleven Hours Bill. He (Mr. Out-
let.) had been told that the person he alluded to was the Rev.
Mr. Stevenson. In justice to that man, he begged to say
that he was not the person alluded to. A petition was
agreed to before the meeting closed.
CRESIRRE.
Tna lIIRRENREAD DOCILE are now progressing very
rapidly, and it is expected that one of them will be ready to
be opened for business New Year's Day.
NORonTHUMBERLAND.
TRADE OP NEWCASTLE.—At the late dinner of the
Chamber of Commerce, Sir Cuthbert Sharp gave the fol-
lowing cheering testimony to the increasing trade of the
port:—He would, he said, commence with the beginning of
the year 1945, to the 10th of October in that year ; and then
take the beginning of 1846, to the 10th of October last,that
being the most recent period at which the accounts had been
made up. On cheese, brandy, and sugar, the amount of
duties had, during these periods,shown a decrease of 4,8621.
A worthy friend of his ha told him to remind the meeting
that the quantity of sugar had not fallen off, but only the
amount of duty. The quantity had, in fact, increased
from 30,966 cwts. during the former period named, to
35,227 cwts during the latter period. In brandy there
had been a reduction in the amount of duty, but the
quantity bad increased from 25,434 gallons m 1845 to
32,337 gallons in 1346 ; therefore, on these two articles,
a decrease of duty was accompanied by an increase of quan-
tity. There had been an increase in the amount of duties
on coffee of 3,1471.; on corn, 8,5621.; on currants, 4,0941. •
on rum, 5,6171. ; on tea, 7,591/. • on wine, rather a singulai.
increase of only 251. ; and on timber the amazing increase of
22,7971. Dunng the same period in 1815 the number of
foreign ships delivered was 750 ; during the same period in
1816, the number of foreign ships was exactly 1,000. The
amount of duty received from the sth of January to the 31st
of October, 1845, was 337,630/. ; the amount from the sth of
January to the 31st of October, 1846, was 393,7971., thus
showing an increase under all the circumstance, of a most
gratifying nature. Had that increase been of a rapid nature,
they might have conjectured it had arisen from some false
fluctuations ,• but instead of that it was steady and progres-
sive, and fully justified them in believing that the trade and
prosperity of the port were graduall_y advancing.
DERRYSIIIR&
AN EAGLE CArour.—On Monday last, Ms. Hallott,
keeper to the Duke of Devonshire, caught a very large ege
in his Grace's preserves, at a place called Bunker's-hill.