The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE DIMAND6 or THEFOCHL,;;;;; THE SOUP-KITCHEN&
or MANCHEBTER bare not abated. No soup was distributed
on the fast-day, but oboist 3,000 loaves were given away.
On Thursday the quantities were 1,300 gallons of soup, and
about 2,000 loaves ; Friday, 1,000 gallons of anp, and be-
tween 1,400 and 1,600 loaves.
THE PUBLic BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES IN IkIANCIIESTER
increase in popu!arity. Upwards of 500 person bathed last
week. So many as 114 women, too, availed themselves last
week of the means supplied by the wash-houses for cleans-
ing their clothes. A very agreeable feature to be noticed,
is, that there has not been the slightest disagreement of late
amongst the women. Formerly there was impr-oper language
and behaviour, too, among them, which, if suffered to con-
tinue, would have had the effect of deterring the peaceably.
disposed and well-behaved from going thither. The refrac-
tory individuals, however, were suspended for time from
participating in the benefits of The institution, and this
appears to have had a good effect.
YORKSHIRE.

PETITtONINO ANTI-EDUCATIONISTS.—A person wu ob-
served, on Saturday, writing several names to the petition
against the governinent mescals for education ; and on
being asked, by a casual passer-by, why he was filling up the
list in so wholesale a style, he answered that he was signing
the names of two or three men standing by, who were un-
able to write their own names. We trust that each of these
persons, so much indebted to their public-spirited amanu-
ensis, affixed " his mark " to his name, so that they might
appear in their real condition ; for we cannot see that any
parties can more properly be admitted to petition on a ques-
tion of education than those who cannot write for them-
selves. Such persons, in signing against education, show
that they are contented with their ignorant* ; or, at all
events, that they do not wish their fellows and equals to be-
come more accomplished than themselves. Their petition-
ing on the other side would, however, have been every way
more decorous and rational.—Leeds Intelligencer.

LECCOLNSHLRE.
RRPRZSENTATION OF Too SOUTHIRS
William Parker, of Hanthorpe-house, near Bourn, has
written a letter to the editor of the Stamford Mercury, de-
nying the troth of the rumour adverted to in this paper a
dew daya ego, to the Abet that he intended to offer -him-
self es a candidate at the next rowel elostion, its slyer SO
the southern division of the county, in the event et Mr.
Tumor's retirement. In the course of his letter, Mr. Par-
ker says :
As, in they days of presumption, there is rarely anything too
absurd fora man, if he be inflated with ambition and folly, tortempt,
It may be believed by some, r breed the Dad! News espressos It,
that this rummy has bees set forth, and of mune at my isatmee,
as a keler." I deem it, therefore necessary to star that I haw
sever even in the slightest manner hinted to any mods* I Maas a
esat in parliament, nor has such as Idea ever missed
hs of iaisilni.
A correspondent, well conversant with the the
" powers that be " in this county, says :—" Mr. arker is
in all probability the very last man whom the landed aristo-
cracy would select to succeed Mr. Tumor : he is personally
obnoxious to many of them, although an exceedingly able,
man, mid • most excellent landlord. It is believed, however, I
that the lord-lieutenant, Earl kßrownlow, has his eye on the
constituency for hie second son, the Hon. Charles Henry
Cust, who wee so ignominiously beaten in the Lindsey divi-
aion of the county n 1841, which he contested with the pre
sent Earl of Yarborough."

Tea MII /DER AT C_
Cosv:cr PLarre.—Thir criminal, since his conviction, has
been in the condemned oell of the county gaol, where le
has been visited by the Rev. George Pickering, the chaplain
of the prison, who urged oa the convict the propriety of
making a confession of bin guilt. On Sunday (yesterday
sennight) he attended divine services, and in the after part el
the day ha wrote to his mother, sister, and brother, previous
to which he made an unreserved and full confession of the
murder. He stated that he was present when it wu eon-
mitted, and that he was the principal party concern. d,
al-
though be did not strike the blow by which the unkrtonate
man, George Collie, was stunned and rendered imensfhist.
He next proceeded to implicate Morley as taking an active
part, and divulged the name of a third person,
which, as a matter of course, has not been suffered
to transpire. The circumstances he narrated were es
follows: Pieta and Collis, the deceased, spent dia
Sunday afternoon with Morley. Collis was plied will
drink and inveigled into Platte' shop in the shambles ands
pretence of settling the account, and he was then murdeeed.
The object of Plates and Morley was plunder, fur it was con-
jectured that as Collis was about to marry Ellen Bereeford in
the West Bars, ke bad saved a gam of money for this pur-
pose, which he carr about with him. Thu young woman
gave testimony en the trial. After the perpetration of the
murder the body was mutilated, and on the Monday eight
was deposit ti in the sack by Morley and the convict, and
carried across the market-plue to the cesspool, where it was
accidentally discovered. Dozing the day, Plans had pro-

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