The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-19 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD.—Yeaterday, at a meeting
of the Manchester guardians of the poor, it was determin
to appoint a professor of chemistry to the union, to examine
the quality of food supplied, and to offer the appo'ntment to
Mr. C. Calvert, of the Royal Institution. In submitting a
motion to that effect, Mr. Brooks, one of the guardians, said
he had brought the subject forward in February, when Mr.
Austin, assistant poor law commissioner for the district, ad-
vised that they should first obtain the sanction of the poor-
law commissioners, and that sanction bad now been given.
It would be recollected that he had stated at the time (and a
copy of this statement he had sent to the COMMIS ion”r3) that
he had obtained aamoles of the food supplied to the Man-
chester union, and that on a chemical analysis it had been
found there was a mean depreciation, by adulteration, in food
of the value of 12,3581. to the extent of 2,4281. 'lbis, he re-
peated, was the adulteration on articles to the amount of
only 12,0001, whilst the total annw..l expenditure in this way
was upwards of 50,0001. per annum; and he looked to this
appointment, therefore, u one of very great importance and
value.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT OF COTTON SPINNERS TO
DEFEAT THE TEN HOURS Acr.---A meeting of the card-
room operatives of Manchester was held on Tuesday evening,
and very numerously attended, having for its object to con-
sider the working of the Ten Hours Factory Act. At this
meeting it was alleged that an attempt was being made by
some of the millowners (these engaged in coarse spinning)
to render the new act aa little beneficial to the operatives
as possible; and their means of doing this was stated
to be by giving the leisure hours secured by the legislature
at intervals during the day instead of all at once in the
evening. It was stated that some would begin to work at
six is the morning, give their hands an hour's rest at break-
fast, again at noon, and again for tea, thus spreading their
day's labour over nearly the same space as when they were
employed 12 hours per day, with hid hours only for meals—
and that others again employed enly adults, on whose hours
the law placed no rstnction. It was contended that the
only remedy was to go to parliament aeain to restrict the
moving power. The following resolutions were agreed to
unanimously by the meeting :—"Thst we, the card-room
operatives of Manchester, deprecate the foul practices and
tyrannical means resorted to by some of the niillowners to
destroy the good effvcts of the Ten Hours Act, and there-
by deprive those whom that measure was intended to
benefit of that recreation which is necessary fur their bodily
health, and of that mental instruction which is ntctkary for
the proper cultivation of their minds—eome of the mill-
owners not opening their mills until eight o'clock in the
morning, and thus keeping the females and young persona
until a late hour at night, and others keeping them from
their homes from six o'clock in the morning until seven
o'clock at night, which is thirteen hour', allowing three
hours for meals in the interval ; and further, that we coon-
eider such practices to be an abuse of the power of capital
against honest industry, and that we are determined by every
means in our power to resist such monstrous tyranny, and
make the measure what it ought to be." " That this meeting
calls upon the government to institute such proceedings as
may be necessary to protect the factory hands against the
unmanly conspiracy of some of the millowners who are striv-
ing insidiously to destroy the benefice' effects int. nded by
the Ten Hours Bill."

YORKSHIRE.
YORK ELECTION.—A meeting of voters was held
on Tuesday, at which three candidates were named, via.,
the eldest son of Sir W. Milner, of Nun Appleton ; Mr. Cf.
Leeman, ofYork, attorney-at-law and Mr. Roebuck, the
late member for Bath. The result was that a committee
was appointed to select the gentlemen m At fit in their
opinion to be br .ught forward as Mr. Yorke'. successor.
Their choice fell upon Mr. Milner, and last evening a pub-
lic meeting was held and he addressed the elector.
A correspondent says, " Mr. Milner's family has
been connected with the city of York for up-
wards of a century. His great grandfather repre-
sented York in parliament in the year 1722, and from that
period we find the name, as connected with the York elec-
tions, occurring, with intermissions up to 1811, when an
election took place to supply the vacancy occasioned by the
death of the present candidate's grandfather ; who, in addi-
tion to representing the city in arlisment, also filled the

*Paco of Lord Mayor. Mt. Milner states that his political
principles in the main agree with those of the late member.
Ever since he knew the difference between protection and
free trade be has been an advocate for those principles which '
have now become the law of this country ; and, if returned,
his fleet effort will bo to moist in striking off another fetter of
protection, by recording h:s voto in favour of the repeal of
the navigation laws. He is a strenuous advocate for
rots by ballot, being firmly of opinion that we
can never have entire freedom of election wig -
out it. He is decidedly in favour of an exten-
sion of the suffrage, and most anxious for the adortion of
some great measure of 'military ref arm. He adheres to the
game laws, and objects to the endowment of popery out of
tho funds of the country, but thinks something might be
spared by the Irish church without injury to her. Mr.
Milner was patiently heard, but his reception was not en-
thusiastic. He entered upon his canvass yesterday morning,
and although there are rumours of opposition no other can-
didate had then presented himself. It is generally under-
stood that the conservatives, having one member in the
representation, do not intend to interfere. The writ has
arris-ed, and it is expected the election wi:l take place on
Monday."
CTVINIT/12,1WIRK_

Lt;ICOOTY.I4 man.
THE STATE OV LEICESTER.—Wednesday night
passed without any serious disturbance. The police force,
special constables, and pensioners were divided into six or
eight detachments, and each detachment, accompanied by •
magiatr ste, paraded some part of the town. In the Wharf-
street and Russell-square there was a struggle between the
police and the mob. Some gas-lamps were broken, and
the windows of a glove manufacturer, named Brown,
in Miltou.street, were demolished. The women in
some of the houses in Wharf-street pelted the
police with stones from their chamber windows. Between
Sl and 10 o'clock ors Thursday morning two or three pen-
simmers residing near to Rumell.square were going to the
police station when a great number of persems, among whom
were many women, appeared determined to prevent their
attendance on duty. A body of policemen and a detachment
of pensioners were sent for, and by the time they had reached
the 'pot the mob had increased to a thousand or more .A good
deal of fighting ensued, the mob throwing stones and the police
using their truncheons. A great number of women as well as
men were knocked down by the police, and one woman is
said to have been seriously hurt. About 2ito men went to
work at the stone•yards, hut some of them brake their ham-
mer shafts and wheelbarrows, and threw them into the canal.
These disturbances have caused much excitement at Lough-
borough, II miles distant, :,nd it has been found necessary
to muster a strong body of the county police force at that
plum.
DEVONSHIRE.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND HIS LAW &ITS.—
Entiseriptions have been set on foot to enable the Rev. 0. C.
Gorham to prosecute his suit in the courts of law with his
Once of Exeter. The subscription list is said to contain the
names of the Rev. G. 8. Faber, Shoehorn. Hospital, 201.;
Lord Ashley, 21. ; Earl Waldegrave, ; Sir R. N. Buxton,
M.P., 201.; 8..1. litsherbert, Esq., 51.; and thirty-three
clergymen. It is stated that the Attorney-General will
shortly issue a quare itairedit against the Bishop of Exeter,
in thee, se of the Rev. Mr. Gorham; and that the Court of
Queen's Bench will be moved for an order of costs against
the bishop in the case of the " Queen ei. Learner."
BEDFORDsI I IRE.
A NOBLE CHARITY MISMANAGED.—The town of
Bedford is celebrated for the number and value of its cha-
ritable trusts• but the funds thusl eft for the benefit of the
public have been sadly abused. '1 he llarpur charity has •
yearly income of from 12,00 W. to 13,0001., yet it appears that
those entrusted to dispense this noble fund have difficulty in
keepise out of debt ! This inability to confine the expeudi.
ture within the income has recently led to some discussions
in the town, and meetings have been held to determine what
should be done. A committee was appointed "to consider the
propriety .f applying to the Lord Chancellor or parliament,"
and they reported that after the 21th day of June next the
annual income of this charity will not exceed 12,580/., while
the expenditure of the ensuing year may be expected to
reach to 13,1501. That it appears the provisions, rules, and
directions of the charity are impracticable to be carried into
execution, inasmuch as they authorise and direct an expen-
ditare to a oertain amount in the various branches of the
charity, and the charity funds are no longer adequate to
meet such expenditure. In conclusion recommend
a petition to the L.rd Chancellor, praying for hi.
directions under the present circumstances of the charity
—a step said to be tantamount to spending a thousand
pounds of the charity moneys in law costs. This report led
tomuch discussion, in the course of which various statements
were made, by which it appears that the rents *f the charity
are not punctually paid; that it had been proposed to save
money "by shutting eps the infant school ; " and that an.
other pr posed mode of retrenchment was to supply no more
books for the use of scholars in the free grammar school.—
Mr. Palmave, in seconding s proposition for the appointment
of a finance committee, to ILS4trtlill what fair and equitable
reduction could be made, to bring their expendi•ure within
their income, said if they adopted the report it would make
a great inroad in the affairs of the charity, and we/ of
opinion they had power of themselves to reduce their
expenditure, under the 23rd rule. The committee
laid great stress upon the Warden and Fellows
of New College, Oxford, who had nothing to do
with the charity. All they had to do was to appoint mas-
ters, and send examiners. The committee recommended
• conference with them, but such communication would be
of no utility. The common and ordinary course of men of
business would be to reduce their expo,rl;tnre within thair
Income. There was a large portion of the estate let at an
under rental.—Mr. White said the committee in 1843 only
dabbled in minor matter', and recommended the shutting up
the infant school; but the greet monster source of expense
was left untouched. Their proceeding reminded him of •
story told by Sydney Smith. At some place on the Con-
tinent a committee of high clergy was sitting in the top
room, and • committee of lower clergy in an under room.
Some hungry fellows were crying out for food, and the
committee looked out of the higher window, and said
it was a pity they should starve, and promised them
something to fill their bellies; so they ordered the
food to be taken from the lower clergy and given
to the hungry men. Let them not, then, take
away every poor men's benefit, hut overhaul their accounts,
and cut off from their large expenditure, but not where it
could be least afforded. The salaries in the grammar school
had outgrown all calculation, and they should boldly use the
pruaiag knife. The salary of the head muter was 9441. 64.3 d.,
exclusive of house, taxes, &c. The second muter's, 6951. 95.,
and they were progressing every year. If the college have a
prescriptive right, the trustees might make up their minds
that they would absorb the whole charity. It were better,
therefore, to stop now, and he would suggest that the head
master be allowed 8001. a year, and the second master .5901.
After the cessation of the present exhibitions he would also
propose that they be cut off altogether. He should, therefore,
support the amendment, and tnired they should haves com-
mittee who would fearlessly do their duty.—Mr. S. W. Hill
said he should support the views of Mr. Hyne. In the first
place the rents not being paid up was a bad habit. If a dif-
ferent practice were insisted on they would all be paid up to
a day. A former committee, it was said, had tried their
handset retrenchment and hail failed ; but why ? Because
they had not taken the burl by the horns, and left untouched
the salaries of the enormous and extravagant head masters.—
Mr. Hill showed that the difference between the salary of
the head master in the year 182.5 and in 1846-7, were
6311. 6s. 3d., and in the second master's in the same years,
4951.95. The sa'aries of the masters in the grammar school,
besides their separate handsome residences, in 1846-7 was
also shown to amount to 2,3471. 9s. 9d. The head-money
under the former act was limited to 601. per annum for the
head master ; and (said Mr. Hill) it win never contemplated
that such an amount should be absorbed by the gram-
mar school in salaries. They might save by cheese-
parings and candle-ends, but such a monstrous and
incroasibg expenditure would involve the charity. lie
should cheerfully support the amendment of Mr. Hyne.—
Mr. Barker said by last year's *cermet the expenses of the
grammar school were 3,3131. 94. ld. The expense to this
charity was monstrous, and instead of nibbling at other ports
of it, this one department, the grammar school, ought to be
looked into i.arrowly.—Mr. Barnard said if they maintained
a determination to deduct 10 per cent. throughout the War-
den and Fellows of New College, Oxford, would bring
them into Chancery. The fact wee, it would be
impossible to go on with an excess of expenditure of
4001. a year over their income. Some course must be
adopted. It was hard to be taunted by saying they were
trying to curtail the benefits of the poor. Their portion of
the charity was 6,7001. a year.—Mr. White : They ought to
have it Barnard: The money paid to pensioners
was 4001. a year, which was thrown away. An observation
was made by Mr. White that it was proposed to shut up the
infant school. The building of that school had brought
them into all their d;fficulties ; and he (Mr. Bar-
nard) had proposed the closing of that school until the
debt should he paid, and then open it again. Nnthing
could now be done unless they went to parliament or Chan-
cery.—The Rev. E I. Lockwood said the observations made
en the grammar school he heard with regret, and he thought
its general advantages to the town were better appreciated.
It wu spoken of as if no benefit was conferred. The
terms used, " monstrous establishment " and " mon-
strous expense, " were unfair remarks. The ex-
penses of the grammar school were one-fourth of the
whole expenditure, while that of the poor exceeds one-half.
Whatever reductions might he pointed out, the masters of the
grammar school could claim their salaries without reduction.
After some further discussion, it was decided that a finance
committee should be appointed, carefully to go through the
expenditure of the charity, with a view of ascertaining what
bust, fair, and equitable reductions can be made, not only to
rine the annual expenditure within the income of the
chanty, hut also to pay off the great debt which at present
exists, agreeable to powers contained in the 23rd section of
the let schedule of the act 7 Geo. IV., cap. 29, and to recom-
mend the same to the board of trustees for adoption.

ROYAL ITALTAN OPERA.—. Luerezia Borgia " was
performed at Covent Garden loot evening for the first time
this season. The cast was the same as last year—Oriai, as
the terrible heroic., was as powerful as ever. Mario, though
apparently suffering from hoarseness, which rendered his
voice somewhat husky, sang beautifully ; and Tamburini's
Duke of Ferrara was effective, though he fell short of
Lablache in the dark and gloomy sternness of his persona..
tioa. Alboni, who seems now to have recovered all her
powers, sang with surpassing beauty; her anacreontie, "II
segreto per Hoer felice, ' was received with acclamations and
had a double encore. Alter the opera, the last scene of" La
Sonnambula" was performed, in order that Madame Visrdot
Garcia might sing the finale, Ali, non giunee," which she
did with exquisite finish and the utmost brilliancy. It is
strange, though this celebrated performer has been here
some time, that we hear nothing of her appearing in one of
her grad characters. It is no fitting employment for her
to eke out the entertainments of a Thursday evening by
singing a scene from the " Sonnambula."

ama.
•
LTCEUM.—A newlrbe one-actM piece WWI produced at
this theatre last evening under the title of the " Fast Man:'
The dramatis personas were Mr. C. Matthews and Mr.
Ituckstone, who, under the names of Simpson Slowcoach
sod Jack Stunner, were put upon the stage to renvey to the
audience the author's idea of " Life in London " in the year
of grace, 1848. As, however, the life of the duo-drama
itself was exceedingly short, we are spared the pains of try
ing to describe ma much of the author's idea as o e e mid
unravel. The actors went through their task with a melan-
choly prescience of the tate which awaited their efforts -a
fate which the fall of the curtain stave the whole audience
the opportunity of awarding, by refusing even to listen to
Mr. C. Matthew's pleasant endeavours to induce them to
listen to his announcement for its repetition.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL
OXFORD. MAY 18.—In • convocation holden this morning
the hon. degree of 11. :.1.. IMO conferred on the Right lien. Alexander
F'orties, of Brasencee. Grand Compounder : Mahon of linotain,
ticothiad.
In • congregation hello immediately afterwanla, the follwlng
Vern were rearmed viz. : Rev. C. Marriott, lieu,, and
Fellow of lute!; Rev. 11. Comb. and Rev. A. It. Starkey, Fellows of
St. Jodi -M.A.: W. I. lownilea, Oriel ; Rev. J. Sexlgwick, Demy
of Magdalen ; 1t.,... C. Hartley, St. John'.; end W. Thornton, ~eve
Inn Mall. -8. A.: 11. Cunlllfe, lwlli.d ; J. Anon, 11. Algal.. C. Bick-
nell, and C.J.Mewn, Exeter; F. Older, and V.. Richard., held ; J.
Hope, C. M. Preston, and 11. W. .%mo drin, Queen'.; F. Mather.
F. L. 1.. Philippe, grand annitotinder, and It. M, Brmellone;M.
Rockhold, udent, Chilton. and .I.' Milt.,
llaker, Christ CIL ;
St. J .hr's; It. I. Bartlett. Wadhant ; A. F. Panama, and G. J.
Curti., Woreeater; 11. T. Furrier, and J. Adam., Magdalen Hall;
anil A. Carden, New Inn Mall.
Ina convocation holden yeNterday, it wee unanimously ',greed to
affix the union oily Ped. to a dutiful and loyal address to her Msfeitty,
On the Wald a primers.
The examinations for honours commence on Tuesday next. The
number of candidate. amount. to 55.

PRWVEltliesrit.—Rev. It. B. Donde., to Ilarpolo It.,
Nortiteruptmohire, .I°. Peterb irough ; 5291., with reitidenoe ;
For! Ides Ohm. -go'. W. It. Moore, to the chaplaincy of 'Cathy
Li.icoitetahire. dio. Peterborough.-.lion. d Her. IL tionion,
to (beat Marmon- It., Middles, dio. London; VOL, with resi-
dence; pat., the Marquis of Abercern.- Ker. W. J. FAlss, to Hart.
hill C., Warsick•hire, dir. Worcester. -hey. W. V. Lankier, to I tot.
ton C., Somerset, dio. Bath and Rec. T. Sanctuary, to Poor-
stock V., te Weat Milton C., Dorset, dlo. Salisbury ; with ro
pidenoe; pat., D. and C. of Salisbury.-How. T. Younger, to
Peter C., Preston, Lancashire, dlo. Manchester.
VACANClTS.—Blaenprnal, P.C.; $41.: pats., tho Earl
of Lisburne and R Price, Eq. ; and Oartheiily P.C., 601.; pat., the
P.C. of Liandetri, Cardionshire, din. St. Ostrill'a ; Rev. V.. Evan%
dec. -Burctsobc, South, r St. John (In Wilton), Wilts, dio. Saha.
bury; nr., pat , the Mager of St. John • II mono!, Wilton, Hey. C. K.
lb vey, nwigerd. -Woolwich, St. John, Kent, dio. London; tat.,
the It. 01 Woolwich, Rev. O. W. Sandra, der.