The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

FRUITS OF THE GAME LAWS.

LORD BROUGHAM.—A letter from Cannes, of the
19:h inst., in the Monitore du Solt, says: " Lord Brougham
has been making some interesting experiments on
light
here. which are just terminated. At eleven o'clock at t irht,
on the 14th, Liu members of the Royal Society of London
cave to our popuht.on a ravishing •pectacle ; at the top of
the towers of the noble Into the .pperatus 01 the el• ctri'sl
light was placed, and at Me same instant a luminous point
sh one from he Ile delete Margutrite, and its hielliant
line
displayed tot all ey. P the beauty of that exchenteug sit..
same rays were afterwards directed en the a.agniflcent
misery of the Csp-R .p
d us, and on the picturesque roadeteed
of Agai. The cautesil at such an hoer was so beautiful
that applawe suddenly broke forth from all parts. The next
day Lord Brougham, in the midst of a numerous aid chosen
Lucie, gave a detailed and very interesting account of
experiments on light."
THOMAS 'NIOORE.—The poet is in the enjoyment of
good health, physical and intellectuel. at his coney., at SI IFF.
erton, takes his daily walks along the tenses which borden
his pretty girder, end driv, r. as usual e.ch day in a email
pony carriage ; he is not living in more than t
en he ordineightary
retirement in which he has posed the last se or
years of his li.e.--Arto/ournol.
THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER'S STUD has beer re-
moved to Carlton House stables, and will he exhibited on
Friday at Tattersall's, previous to being brougnt tc the
bete V er.
THE MISTERIOUS CASE IN OXFORDSHIRE.—The
sudden disappearance of Elizabeth Stanton, of lencett, att.
vent to Mr. Coates, fernier, of Mdistan nrcott, and whose heel was
found in the fiver Ray, shortdistance below Fey was
on Wednesday last, has already been mentioned in
This paper. An inquest was held on Friday. before W.
Brawler, Esq., at the Crown Inn, Chaidon O
on-ttmoor,
and, after a protracted inquiry, the jury retuned a verdict of
" Found drowned."
ACCIDENT AND SUICIDE.—A frightful accident
occurred during the last week at Sobre le Chateau (R 4.1),
in the sugar menutactoey of M. Ruttier. A lad, 12 years of
age, employed in the factory, approached too clue to a por-
tion of the machinery, when his head was wneht by a cog-
wheel and the body drawn into the machine. The head was
fearfully crushed, and several other limbs fractured. Strange
to say, the lad
Whenuv end hopes are entertained of
his recovery. the lad's father, Philipp Fonteville,
an merrier, was told of the accident which his son had met
with, he was seized with a kind cf melanchdoly mani
on a, and a
few days afterwads he coolly sought hisdeath the
ep 4 on which his son had been so dangerously wounded
lie placed himself in contact with the very same wheel and
was instantly seized by it, drawn into the machine, and
crushed into a lifeless maw.
QUACKERY AND SUPERSTITION IN THE NINE-
TEENTH Cum:me—A correspondent says : " A shockicg
ease of death of a child has just occurred on the borders of
the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, through
Some the pre
chys-
lent* of quackery, superstition, and ignorance. il-
dren of a shoemaker named Revue, living at East Dean,
were at play together, when one of them, 'MOPS, aged 4
years, heated the tong.,
;and seized a younger sister with
them by the neck, burning her seriotsly A proper ap-
plication of fiour, linseed oil, , was used, and the
wounds were pealing, when two quack doctresses, named
Mrs. Milliner and Jane Temen, persuaded the parents to
let the child be under their treatment. Milling applied
some ointment spread on cabbage leaves for two days,
but this caused great inflammation ;and then Tinian took
the case in hand, professing to have a miraculous power of
cure by the pronouncing of ' a charm.' Accordingly ber
sister, Ann Bradley, prepared • salve which Temen ap-
plied, at the same time pronouncing the following impious
chum'
Three owls came out of the what,
One cries fire, another Host.
To Father, Nen, and Holy Ghost.
The poor child gradually got worse, the sloughing and in-
flammation increased, but the infatuated parents, believing
in the supernatural powers of Torten, and puving implicit
faith in the charm, suffered their offspring to linger is tom-
tut e for five day! longer, when the little creature died. At
the inquest the jury hesitated whether they should not return
a verdict of manslaughter against the three women, Teruo,
Bradley and Milling, but returned a special verdict finding
all three guilty of rashness, and especially Teman, for per-
sisting in her ' impious and presumptuous charm.' 'l6e ;
jury also blamed the parents of the poor child for their eredu-
lity, and 'erased a lupe that this occurrence might lead to j
a discontinuance of the system of quackery, which greatly
prevails in the Forest."
IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITION OF TREPEOPLE. I.
—lt affords us great pleasure to state that, during the 'airs
season, there has been a most abundant ply of fish alg
the coast of Donegal; so much so, that it eurede anythinoug
heard of for the last tan years. We have lately been in•
formed that the potato disease has scarcely affected • tuber
in many parts of the county, and that owing totem Mecum
stances a great changi for the better is taking plue in the
social condition of the people.—BanyeAannote Herald.
ATTACK ON DOVEHILL Housz.—A party of seven
or eight armed men, on Friday night last about the hour of
nine o'clock, went to the residence of Joseph Crawley. Earl ,
at Dovehill, near Thomastown, and demanded admittauce.
When Mr. Crawley heard the' knocking, he went into the
hall, and having asked what was wanted, he was told to open
the door ; refused to no so, and was then ordered to
charge from his employme.4 his present workmen, and to
employ ethers ; ease he did not comply, they told him
they would find him at another time. At that moment, Mr.
Crawley fortunately s epped gems the hall, nod two op three
shots were fired through the door; the contents shattered a
table, a clock cue, and tare railings of the stairs. About the
hour the attack was rode, it WAS Mr. Crawley's habit to
accompany his herd.tO see it the stock was all safe.—King's
County ChronMlr.

A OAMILIZPIR Snot NEAR LOWTTIER.-
Aaothey 0: those shackle, emote, entitle out of the opera.
time of the vote laws. of which we have had such fatal es
lately in this part of the country, tack place near
night last. A gat.likeePer. peened Colitallbr
Lows
Col',
the sest of Biel of Lormiale, on Mooday
meat of Lard Lonwide, was shot at, anf, it is feared, fatally
in the emploe-
wouaded by seine peee,:ken. Try.e men belonging to Pen -
rich, named Nelson, Vickers, and Varab, were apprehended
4,11 TuaSOay, charged with the crime. On their essmins•
dos be.ore the magistrate', it was gloved that they had
been ow p met i oo Monday niaht, and for this offence they
were committed to Appleby gaol ; but there wee no
ctor's:re to show that they bad shot at the keeper. Anothe r
peewee has siuee been taken into custody charged with being
concerned in the disk. Dr. Jackson, of Penrith, who is at-
tendieg the gamenseper, has, we are glad to hear, strong
hopes of his recotery. A cotrespondent hes furnished as
with the Jul/emit/8 details :—About midoight on Monday,
the day pr. ceding Chnstmas day. Lord Lonsdale's game-
keeper. were on the alert, having neard the reports of gent
in different pare of his lordship's extensive domain. At
about the time a,tokret of, two of the lie pen came up to a
roue el fire p ocher's, neer Bemy Gill, each carrying la gun,
with two degs tanning near them. Two of the poachers being
a little .ay operated from Meer companions, the two
keepers made towards them, when one or them deliber-
ately levelled his gun, fired, and shot Orphan, who fall
pauseless to the ground. The other keeper made towards
them, when the other poacher levelled his gun, and wart
about to fire, when the keeper celled out to hint and said,
" Yon will surely not be such a coward as to fire at a man
summed." At this remark the poacher lowered his gun
and took to his heels, together with his companions,
turning row and then to three stones. Our turning back
to Orphan, who was shot, more keepers came up, and he
was taken to his home. One of his eyes was eh an shot
out, and the side of his face much mutilated. He still
lives, and ropes are entertained that he will recover, but
at present hie life comet be welled for. Mr. J. Been,
ou being made acquainted with tr. e sad catastrophe, gal-
loped off to Penrith and roused the constable*, who pro-
ceeded to the different inlets into Penrith, in order, if
from Pe rich, to apprehend them. At between two and
three o'clock on Christmas morang three men were ap
pretended at Himont Bridge, and on searching them five
pheisauts and two guns were found upon them. Their
names are hiNtekers, Nelson, and Vat.h, the two former
notorious pothers. It turned out, however, that there
bad been two distinct sets of poachers, one from Penrith,
and the other from Bolton, near Appleby. The party sppre
he nded are from Penrith, and were to Botkeaut Wood with
three or tour more The Raton parry .re the party wee
shot the Ile per, and who have been apprehended also. In
Beckham Wood, which isnorth of Lowther Castle, two more
of the keel en cerise up with are or *even of the pots hers with
guns. They succeeded in capturing It'Veckers, but the
party seeing there were but two keepers, returned and
rescued their comrade. A parley then matted between the
keepers and the poachers, curing which two of the poachers
k.pt their guns levelled at the keepers, close to Mr it breasts,
so dote tb.t one or the keepers had to tinted it by several
times. Tine parley ended in the poachete saying tbat if the
keep nvoted err pur ue or nuke them they would walk
off toe grout d. This they did, aid three el this party were
taken by the Penrith c• eatables, and hair reties been inden•
titled and contented to the gaol at A ppiety for the t &um.
—Carlisle Journal.
DaerxwTe AFFIL&T WITH PO•CitettS.—On Christina'
day three poachers named Jobe Jones, John Price, and
John Morris, colliers, all resident at Ma. step, were brought
to the police-station, at Bridgend, having reien found on the
fright art cite 24tu instant to the hlsrition preserves, arm. d
with loads r guns for the purpose et killing game. It ale
pear. that on to above night the Kann k a 1 era were w etch-
lug the game, when they heard the ri port of guns; they
,eeet in the diteetim of the sound. and sew the three above-
perems, each corryicg a gun The poechers then
...tempted to rue, when the keeper. toll° sce. John Jones
tuned and said to der keeper William litubhs,
Stand b.ek, or I will shoot 3iiu,'• The keener still
pressed towards him, and he then teamed round emit
rau awe• tied rig the keeper was gaining upon him be
turn u soon .—plieced his gun to his ehuulder and fired
being wi. bin tire yards of his pursue r- —the charge ludged
in a stick which the keeper held in his hand—oozed has
huge re and some of the powder ..nit scut Truck him in
his face, esusing blood to flow freely from his mouth.
The atelier then knocked the fellow down with a stick,
took his gun from him, and tuck him into custody. Upon
szausisi-g him he totted the poacher's arm had been
broken II tae affray. At the came time one of the
w ',where ...reamed towards John Muni-, who finding
'oneself ariout to be taken, rose his gun over his heed tor
tee purpose ut striking the Wat Cher, who thereupon imme-
oiately struck him to the ground Tait, y closed and fought
Wept' at. ly up and down tor some time ; at last et e
keeper overpowered his man ante took him into custody.
On taro:wiling his gun the lock one found to have been
receutry Moen off, aed on searching the prisoner it was
round in ha pocket. The other men, Price, wan taken
weenut trey eminence. and his gee goterom him. They
were all plentifully tarnished wide powder, shot, caps, and
Jour. bad in is possession a store marble and a lec'.en bul
ler. On the 26th inst., they were brought before the Rev.
It. K ight, Rev. U. L. Bless*, and Richard Franklen,
at liridg. na. Jones and Morris were committed to ti
Segues. Rouse of Correcti n fur three months, with hied
labour. Price eva• committed for tie werks, with hard la-
bour—the oriole of them to find euretres, at the expiration of
their imprisonment, nut to be 'privy ot the same offence foe
twelve months; in default to be teethe r imprisoned ter sin
months. John Jones was agoin charged with felouiowly
shutting at W 'llion Stubbs, with intent to do him a grieve ue
bodily tone, and tul:y committed to take his trail at tin
neat wiz sto be holden at Swansea. A ph:usent was found
dead the where/trig monies/ the
near spot un which the affray
had talc n place.—Cardier Ouardime.

IRELAND.

DUOLIPI, DEC
Th. position of the Irish prottc.ionists is, I believe,
much worse than the public generally suspect. In-
deed, what was conjecture a few days since, now
amounts almost to a certainty, and I have no hesita-
tion in saying that the promised demonstration in
Dublin on the 17th of next month will, if possible, be
avoided. Swine of the party already regret hav-
ing committed themselves to the invitation; ana
Lord (Lowell feels himself excessively awkward
in the position of leader into which he has
thrust himself ; but they have gone so far,
and the requisition has obtained such publicity,
that it will be difficult to escape from getting up some
ostensible show of a meeting, Public discussion is
the thing thy fear. Unfortunately we have no
leading men of very conspicuous ability to take a
eland ag-iost the protectionist orators; nor is there
any " organised" opposition whatever prepared
against them ; and yet they perceive that it would
be impossible to awaken public discussion on the sub-
ject in Ireland, agricultural though it be, without
eittir beaten out of their position. Hence, it the
meeting of the 17th take place, it is sure to be a close
one, where all the votes must be one side.
The Evening Post says:—
Now, when tne pronectionists of England talk .o much
about the Irish moveast nt, let the people of England be made
acquainted with its real chancier. There it, uodoubtechy,
a great landlord movement in Ireland, and if it wars
dabie sup-
ported by the tenants and the people, a very formi
movement it would be. But it receives no such support.
On the contrary, tie counter-cry 's raised fur a reduction lit
rents, and an absolute abolition of fiat's, known at pr. sent
in this country by the name of rent-charge.
'the following letter from the Earl of Rome, in re-
ply to Lord Glengall's circular, is important, and will
be read with interest in England as well as in
Ireland

Parsonstown, Dec. 27, 1849.
Mr LORD—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your lordship's letter of the 2lst, enclosing a petition to
her Majesty, to which I perceive many landed proprietors
of hiih rank, and great influence, have already. attached
their sigaatures. Concurring with the petitinners ia many of
the leading facts, I feel bound, in common. courtesy to your
lordship, to make some statement of the grounds upon
which I have felt reluctantly constrained to withhold my
signature.
Had the ; etitioners confined themselves to • simple
statement of facts—for instance, had they said that there
was great agricultural depression—that large tracts of d
land e
were lying waste—that the breadth of land prepare fo
corn was much leis than usual—frets, I believe, perfectly
notorious-1 should have at once affted my signature to
the petition as an additional witness. If, as a matter of
opinion, they had stated, that, the present prices eon-
tinuinr, it would be impossible to raise cerea
ld l c
verops
way upon
the poorer lands, that corn rowing wou gi to
grazing. that the race of farmers and laboweonrs
of the best
would gra-
dually dwindle away—that being the opini
practical men I have met—l shoal at once have assented to
it ; and if the petitioners had added, that the question war,
rather a farmer's and a labourer's question than a landlord'i,
to that I should have been dispose/ to assent, seeing that
there are several proprietors in this neighbourhood who bold
large treats of land in their own hands, and can
realise!, by
acarce4
said to have corn or tenants, and yet have
grazing, rents about the same as others.
I cannot, however, concur with the petitioners who say
that Ireland is unable to " compete wi.h the foreigner ;"
further evidence is wanting. My present opinion is, that
prima will gradually improves, and that upon the average
they will be fairly remunerative. Tnat opinion, however, I
sin bound to say is based coon the opinions of others ; as I
do hot pretend to that intimate acquaintance with the con-
dition of the core-growing countries whinh ailswjustify
me in firming an independent opinion I have visited
them ; and, regarding the corn law question as one to be
substantially decided, by the Rouse of Coto:nons, I have ant
given up the time which would he necessary thoroughly t
master the published statistics. No dotebt the leading men
in the Douse of Commons who adrocastad the repeal of the
corn laws yknowiog well that theta is no principle of pol a
i-
tical economy which can safely be acted upon without
careful reference to other tionsidsarations to which that prin-
ciple is often second in :importance) took care, as it was their
bounden duty to d;, fully to assure themselves that corn
could not on er,erage years be sent from the corn-growina
tautly" at troth a price as to throw the poorer lands out or
zultivation , and ruin, as a class, the farmers and agricultural
labourers. It was clearly their conviction that prices wi
be fairly remunerative, sad, as yet, I Sot no sate-tent mown.