The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, D:

Recommendation of the court—The court beg to moat
send the pilaster to the merciful consideration of his Ex-
cellency tke Coomander-in.Chief on the followieg grounds
let. Ream the prism's! showed a disposition to pay, as
',Weed by his attempt to borrow from 18,000 to 20,000
rupee* from the North Western Bank Agency, on 21st
April, 1549.
tad. Breaum he did not originate the reports against
Captain Da Costa.
3rd. On account of the excellent character Major Cooke
has hitherto borne, shown by the handsome tatimonials
which have been placed before the court.
Remarks by his Excellency the Commanderin-Chis—lt
is with pain that I express insbfl over any just
pounds for disturbing the sentence pronounced by the
court.
(Signed) C. J. N/alll. General.
Commander in Chief.
The name of Major T. Cooke will cease to be borne on the
rolls of the 17th Reg. N. I. Infantry from the date of publi-
be
cation of this order, at Lahore, a report of wto
made to the Adjutaat-General of the Army, and to the
Assistant Adkins:o.o*nm' at the Presidency.
By order ol his Excellency the Commander-in Chief;
Ear. Oatitr,lient-CoL, Adjutakt.Oeneral of
the Amy.

MERCHANT SZAMSN's OifiCe.—Yeaterday a quit--
Gall emote! the ggsweraars of this corporatism, iustituted
the wad sad sawn of Mk, maimed, and disabled seamen,
sad OM whims mad &Mem of such le 'hall be killed, slain,
or drowsed is the easiest sonies," was held at No. 25,
Blreldaluio-I[r. Lindsay in the shah. The minutes of the
het mart were reed, sad a eneameat of me male to Sept. 31)
salmideil. The applications el sperm* af
al le &W
d . anThere
ts for
add mem maddmed, md agesseary aid rde
bedlam daring the hamar *brat 1,400 optimists before
the eammittee, te whom temporary valief err permanent pen-
ekes had been mated.
LEGAL lIIKICATION.—WiI andentand that the
molest ammo of readings is *boat to he resumed at the
MOIL Temple. Iteadisp will be delivered by Mr. Bowyer,
D.0.L., and banister atelaw (who has been appointed to
the dudes of r), on the engine* of the three
crellsrUp la Teem next, the 16th, 23rd. and 30th
JaMewel, is the ha of the Mbidle Temple • and all the
des sad ether marathon et the lane of court will be ad-
Mahood the payment of any fee. to them and the
naleaffma readiags. A favourable malt may be hoped
from theazzing of them meetings to the profession, and
their hem Now Ina to the floe old hall of the
Middle Temple.—Johoi Bum
UNFEELING IMPOSITION.—About twelve Maths
ego • suite of tie town of Wexford emigrated from Liver-
pool he UMW& He wee retremely pose, mad brand much
diSenlty la mislay mfikisat Made to pay hie. passage, his
ape Ida to leave kin ode gad chidren behind
lrlortme, hemmer, smiled ea the poor *emigrant on the
other side of the Atlantic, and he we enabled, shout • month
ace, to remit • sem el 91. to kb wile sad family, with •
view. dist they shoal hia Amarlea. This elan was
ineelidela to embie Who Ilamity to assignee • maw
1.:01, me et the &Mama wee left behind, and 'the e-
a ea edge Milano came to Liverpool, end eseurei
a pewee ea lima ea emit_ ship. nineties and unties
torsi, die met gem= Moat la the kends of a
"mme who keep pease in lliessat-stime.
Altar Aging hef perageemy-liarpereleseleei tike provisions
moomery fee the meg%
_threhlh Mt. *SW of the also•
catetan,the pear womes- ame Habit. Her 'yet was anima
this, ma ea the eve of Ladmartere from bh house, he at-
questa bet to alemma tato the street,, es her prams*
ea balsamlateeasmetedwith the ernege. TM.
was
woman emegliad with the moos', and immediately after
leaving the More she was asked " How mei mosey have
you ?" " Ten shillings," wee tie veoy. Is a moment after
she was istrodmed to the them eta Swam She am desired
to head um the 10'., veld* dm di/ Tim he that &moms
moo thia grimed by the wiemmarhwtoilheogh they werelil
on middy re as the yams, Piangdy 'applied by tho
She wee then esmineull ea beard the in
=rho had engeber paionge,
_whereat a pew in her '
man. A little nfiectios Monimen die peer woman that
she had been victimised ; the tins dm led got for 10e. tuned
out not to be worth half the mosey; and on making her
complaint to a police aeon, who was unable to interfete,but
who expressed kis sympathy for her misfortune, she naively
remarked, " that, amongst ether sztieles, the man-catcher
had bought her a lantern, but had nu left her a fartbiag to
buy a candle tia pat in it." A commission of 25 per cent. is
allowed to this dale of persons by a certain class of shop-
keeper" on the articles purchased in their shops by emigrant'.
--Lsveyool Chronicle.
A MODERN JACK SIIEITARD.—OW Saturday
rennight a man named John Parker was apprehended at
Dridgnorth, sad transferred to the county gaol, there to Un-
dergo a mouth's bard labour adjudged to him by the magis-
trate', in September last, for apple stealing. Parker, though
now bat 16 lean of age, has been so unworthy imitator of
W seemthed Jack Sheppard. He was convicted of felony
about Sour mars slam, and through the intercession of some
gendomes of this lowa, his native place, instead of being
ramseeml INNa tyeesatsy he was ant to the Milbank Pe-
niteatissy, where it we hoped, from the disciples and in-
struction he would receive, his vicious propensities might be
corrected. However, he had not been long in the Peni-
tentiary before he effected hie escape, and placing himself,
unnoticed, in a railway carriage, got to Birmingham, and
thence home. He was again taken back and again escapee ;
and actually achieved a third escape from the institution
after this, and was a third time re-captured ,• but the
authorities of the piton ending that no device for his ucure
custody at their command would av declined te have
any further trouble with him, sad he was turned adrift as
incurable and incorrigible Since then he has been con-
nected with a gang of thieves and dissolute characters, tha
pest of this neighbourhood, and nodoubt
if the at the
fetexpiratand
ion
of his present period of imprisonment, ters
bars of the county gaol ere inch as to hold h found
im
fro so long
against his ingenuity and he will again
AMMO thou.—Won:stet

SUPPLY OF WATER TO LONDON.
On Wets, May lasts nn esme Moen was ha
at the Mop Ism, Wank 0m the perms. s giving the
Mishima en owsnantAyel espeeesiag their epistolist the
1 fp... Iry Winer Bantreey '" sod she to rtaskier
If 6011.1188 Ws r;reeties is the mooed
IMM s
ag .wt et a dons to Mdancnity abs bilimn
ihr ley (*joy they my sesta hem the sail ermemy. 1
Ilie &dr wes takes by C. W. 1100113, Req., ke
erste& theyeeseediege by realm the pale amiss whaled
been Iliodalled in the tone kr catarcakrs the nmetieg. A
ed
Me gengirsembie bed melted a Meentsot Mem the Boeing
WON • Mash they bat remelt him pis
Me eirily
It surveyor. With this mto slit he
Mt not Mink It mime te empty, Ma he
MI mob& the wags 4 the Me-payees, ea
alias& Mona en arcaborag 4 riprarstag their lighten
Open the with
them Ibis t ested inroz=g the stmerlis
Misr He itadeesteed that
were to be mink In the Wished ma Balm modom
a
Now. be wee set 'eaglet enmesh ee Mos them wing
ma be the ollsot dem Mlle mph the
in le they n& Mlle nialiel= etile
Mons in Oh sifter; MM. his e hi the em
dry bed lera derived of luny privilege. *sough *dr
omespimies_ead ImitivitY. If dlei=suslina vow
fres their nolaismesess,
_they (the •). it.:
=.. isibbilauls MIS it ;at any, Me they set
them le my Memegiense bytnlethe 111- ( 1
Ht time • Mem Meld be insets& m the et et
which do mown imily hoped *Ms
Mr=erswates min, rommesedeft theatres any b
ar the
Wm Mae sinlein by the Onsilllnes weeks. (Hear.) Re
suggested Me repristy ef epointeg a osmittee
to mesh Me
em of the parieltionste, sod
if neeeargy, Moil emedior palls meting at some future
peeled. end meet the ma if their taboos. The Merman
contami lry ezresiug • by that whatever &Mem ef
°plan might esist es to the eztodiemy of the
*chem. every speaker mid De allowed • WI, tair,P:nerhen.a
potetiating. (Load alsoen)
MM e. F. Doom, Culls, Ballard. leer. &tetra were
appointed a essessittee to watch the Warta el the pa*.
Mr. PATIN mid there would be no abeam isthe part
of the di:sten to the indemnification NON& As to Me
Proposed phis,
_le said the patty of the Misr was Meow.
tidied ea ea beau est the mode of wavers, it through
pipes to Loam Is east that no costamisaties ma possibly
take place. With moat to quantity, he would rehe back to
1633, v .
Meim byem aa ert
ase km the Mem MOsesmsee, Mr.
Telfordinen eagterst, wee resteda by the goon-
Mene le ads eimply ewe water-a am ether seem
1 tIME the Those. which bed proved to be Minton. to die
hob& of the people, and bed been ceedemed by the gm
stmleme appointed by the mem in the water 'Dotty. Is
Ilk. Tamil Mal tonort, he ear ; " Having received
Meadem hem dm Lea Counimiesers 41 his Majesty's
TmomMee egret es the best mass of supplying*. inetzt.
pills Vs* pore water, I sound at WatMd Mill, in the
setrata of 1833, being the driest mos es regards the supply
of
riven experienced during *it last seatury. that the Vets-
boa river produced utterer& of 30 enbie test per second, and
the river gage at Hunton-bridge, three miles north of Wet-
II bed. in the same dry stews redoes* 42 sae lot re
mond ; south tide of the Thames, the va
ry dry
the Riot titheras
e same extraordinary dry seem of
1833, were
(Hear, hear.) It thus appears that these three streams
maws& upwards of three millions of Rallies of water
dilly, by means of sprier toned through the
opening Mares of the chalk by the great prestos of the
lower waters, and then from a very small pawn of the
chalk formation around London. This was at a season of
unparalleled drought ta fact, at • time when all the upper
water had flailed. Can we want a greater root es to quan-
tity ? Mr. Stephenson was correct when he stated in his
pamphlet that, independent of the overflowiag springs
in this small portion of the valley, there ere upwards of forty
millions of gallons of water forcing their way daily is
underground entreat*, which by • simple and comparauvely
inexpensive plan might be Made &Imitable tor the health and
mann of thousands of our fellow creatures, lastesd of pass-
ing through dark caverns and continuous streams, and find-
[outwit way into the sea. (Cheers.)
Mr. HUMBERT said he did not speak as an opponent
to the proposed company, but he wished to pat before
the metier a few suggestions. Mr. Paten had jot Meted
that there is • great gond, of water in the river Colas, bat
he would remind there eeting that this was not the wets?
ohieh the issespeny posed to use. From their shaft they
would pulp the water from many feet below the level of 1
the river, gm reducing the quantity of water in the chalk. 1
1111 i ONISIVINgIy lowering the wells. The water level rises
M% in 14 miles, the distance to the point at Which
1 the sir outcrops at the Chiltern Hills. A large quantity
1 ef won taken from the proposed shaft would therefore cause
I gm water to percolate through the chalk more rapidly than
lOW from its highest level to supply the lammed ssed.
j TIM wells therefore 14 miles distant where the were Wei
1 is shoot 200 feet higher then at the river Case, weal bet
1 ragetve the effects tit the company's operatics& The dist
arm the river would be equally certain, but more elm.
lb. Paten had asiorld them that there was an immense
quantity of water In the chalk. This was quite Me, bat
still he (the speaker)
_believed it would be possible to pomp
it all out, and lie wished to assure the meeting that the fib-
etrestAes of so large • Quantity as would be required by the
eftwarkyr; could not fail to lower the water level, and probe,
the depths of the existing wells. As the projectors
:Xlie scheme an witted Mat existing interim moot be
they mold not probibly object to the insertion
IMI tittryposed bill of pose such a clause as had been
eserinfria. lie earnestly advised the meeting to adopt soh
moseures as they might consider would protect their existing
Utterer' from the Moms of injury. (Loud cheers.)
After a desultory conversation, a vote of thanks to the
chairman was agreed to, and the meeting broke up.
_ - -- --- _
THREATENED ATTACK UPON THE HUDSON'S BAT
Couraxv.—Yeaterday Chief Constable Henderson arrested,
at the Commercial Hotel, Mr. Jobs Idolottn, • young
gentleman, m, st respectably connected in st, who had
lately returned from AMAMI. on a warrant signed by Mr.
Justice Coleridge, eharag him with having attempted to
extort money irons the Directors of thpublishing certain e Hudson's Bay Cstate-
om-
pany, by a West of printing and
ments derogatory to their character and conduct. —Wad

RAILWAY

Yis;inat.
THE LATE CATASTROPHE AT SOCTII SHIELDS.—
We understand (ow the Daily Mail), that a subscription
paper has been left at the Exchange in behalf of the widows
and children left destitute by the late accident at South
Shields. in which the mew a one of the life-boats were
lost. The rell f required is for 17 widows and 46 =Harem,
left fatherless by this great calamity. We need sanely say,
that the crews of the Tyne life-boate have timed the lives of
away seamen, at, eels fatally illustrated in this (esteem,
great risk to %impassive' ; and therslore a general subscri
tion will, we trust, enable the Shields emandttee to provide
foe ell those families, without reducing them to the
of receiving parochial aid. Hen wbe hazard their Ereittii::
humane purposes should be relieved from that feu.
THE LANDLORDS' ROAD TO RUIN.—" The tale
of misfortunes which have occurred in great families during
this century is very uniform in character, and may be briefly
narrated. The father lives beyond his income, incurs a
debt, and is prevented by the wady-extended duties of his
position, public as well se private, a Perbar by veldt, or
isles pride, or bye want of energy, or of a 00110 a knowledge
of the state of hie affairs, from making a reduction in his es-
tablishment and expenses. The son comes of ego, asd le
resisted to saddle the inberitar ee with the 11sabees dabs.
He in his turn imitates his father, constantly eseseas Ms
CAN
M-
eow
to toed the
, augsents the debt, and persuades the grandson
men inheritance. But if the son or the grandma
had peassesed the power of selling • portion of his property;
if either of them, when his judgment had arrived at matu-
rity, mold have relieved himself from that Irresistible temp!
taboo to exposes which shim from the melons of teloeld
poessosiesokore would have been at lent one additional
chance of nesse in the rood tnruin."— Lank) the Right
Has. Sir Charles Wood, upon certain Laws affecting Riga'
Bow. Frederic Calvert, Reg., Q.C.
Dins BY Danwanio.—An inquest was held on
Wednesday last, at Rowley Regis, on the body of a yam*
woman named Elisabeth Cochin, about sixteen years of ege.
Oa the movioas Sunday evening the deemed left thehouse
of her uncle, Mr. J. who =espies a wail form en the
Haden-hill estate, for the purpose, as was her
tom, of attending evening envies at the
Chapel at Hales Owen. The path fres the tome he Os
public road lies across the dam of a large fills peek and
into this she must have walked. Her screams were bend I
by the in of a house dose to the spot, sad litres
times they endeavoured to take lighted mail= but the
density of the fog instantly extinguished Insrigatistlei
extraordinary darknese made it impossible be
anything ate band's breadth distance. A torch was speedily
procured, but it was too late ; the poor girl bad sunk in
more thus tea fed of water, and upwards of an hour had
elapsed before the body could bs recovered by the aid of
drags. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with
these cireanstances.—Biessinhans Mercury.
EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT WALSALL.—Henry
Russell and Samuel Smith, alias Humphries, two notorious
characters, were charged before the magistrates at Walsall,
= Wednesday, with breaking into the dwelling-house of
Henry Onosill, retail brewer, and stealing therefrom the
following article§ —Five large hams seven cheeses, one
ma, four pounds of tobacco, one moookfrock, part of a fl
of bacon, the contents of two money drawers, consisting of
between two and three pounds, and a large quantity of
wearing apparel. The prosecutor stated that be went to
bed about eleven o'clock 011 the Ilth instant, and upon
coming down the next morning found the house had
been broken into, and the articles above mentioned stolen
therefrom. Mr. Rofe, chief constable of the boroughe polenter-
ice,
stated upon being examined that, from saspi.Uon h
tained with regard to the two prisoners, he watched them for
several nights, in company with Police-sergeant Welch, in
disguise ; and from further information he received, he pro-
ceeded to a rnbliz-howee and captured the two
most d prisoneter-
ers,
the prisoner Smith. alias Humphries, making a
mined resistance. He then went to the house occupied by
the prisoner Smith, accompanied by Sergeant Welch, and on
searching the premises found a gun, one whole cheese, two
es large sieves one pair of shoes, and a large quantity of
wearing apparel, the whole being identified by the prose-
cutor. They were both committed to take their trial at the
next Staffed assises.—Bireeinghace Mercury.
SWEATING hionsv.—A man and his wife have just
been arrested at Belleville, charged with being engaged in
sweating five franc pieces. At his residence were tound
files, graving tools, and other things necessary for carrying
on his process. He confessed that he earned abc.ut 301.
and
a
week by filing down the rough edge of five franc pieces
restamping Me letters. A money changer in the Rue St.
Martin, to whom the filings were sold, has also been ar-
rested. The purchases were regularly entered down in his
books, but without the real address of the seller being ente-
r nistand.—Oaligesoni.