The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

POWERS OF AD-111-11.A. LET AND PACKET AGENT&

—A short time ethos it. was stated in the Etyma that •
serious disagreement existed between the Post-oaks and
Peninsular Packet Company's sputa at Lisbon respecting
the right to distate the time for the departure of the ma -t
packet from that pet, sad that in smugness* of this dig-
ago anent, sad other privilege* claimed by the latter agent,
the former had Mu ordered to this country, to assist in the
iavestigstion by the government authorities of the subject.
In the Lisboa correepoodence of the Times of yesterday it is
insinuated that Lint Neyrenhans, the Admiralty agent on
hoard the Jupiter, had pat the Lisbon merchants to it:eon-
's-Dien* on the 9th inst. by ordering the mail to be eland
ea ennecessardy long time before the departure of the
steamer. Now the fasts of the ens are these. The Admiralty
agen', according to his official instructions, ordered the captain
of the Jupiter to leave Lisbon at the proper period. The
company's agent asserted a paramount authority, and de-
tained the packet Sour hours later. This was dons., of souse,
under protest from Lieut. Newenbam. In consequeges of
this detention • gnat delay took place at Vigo, when
pratique cannot be obtained in the night. The same autho-
rity was asserted and exercised on the outward voyage of the
Jupiter, and pratique was lost both at Cadiz and Gib-
niter, which caused the greatest inconvenience : pose-
tuality is the departure of the mall packet from
every port is absolutely necessary. The matter, however,
has been again taken up by the British minister at Lisboa,
and this vexations question will non be settled biped
dispute.
Tug EXTRAORDINARY " REBELLION " LITTER.—
Dlr. Thomas Young whose extraordinary letter, dated from
the Home office la 1832, to Major-Geniral Napier, was pub-
lished in the Prensers's Journal, and copied into this paper
some days sines, has addressed the following to a morning
contemporary :—" Bir,—l beg leave to state, through the
medium of your Journal, that a letter written in the con-
fidence of private friendship, and of a gossiping nature,
which recently appeared in your columns as having been
addressed to Colonel Napier in June, 1832, in a moment of
giddy excitement, was written without the knowledge of
Lord Mi. 'bourne who wascompletely ignorant of the matters
alluded to in it, relating to the wild views of certain radical
reformers, with which I did not become acquainted till alter
the crisis in the first or second week of May, 1832. I alone
am responsible for the content' of the letter in question.
The indiscretion of my making (in a familiar note) • com-
munication so inconsiderate I readily admit, but the con-
struction now attempted to be fastened upon my careless ex-
pressions was as remote from my mind, end as ellen from
my servinients, as was the idea of the possiblitv that a
letter so written should become public, and the sub-
ject of aupprous and unfair interpretatioo, after a
period of sixteen years. —I remain, air, your obe-
dient servant, Taolite YOUNO.—London' October 14."
It will be remembered that Mr. J. Parkes is mentioned in
Mr. Young's letter to General Nspier in the following
pump Are you aware that in the event of • fight, you
were to be invited to take the command at Birmingham ?
Porkes got a frank from me for you with that view,
but had no OKelliOS to send it." The last-named
gentlemen Meg thus implicated, we think it right
to give a ems* of his opinions at the time Mr.
Young's letter was written. On the sth of May, 1832,
at a great seism reform meeting of Birmingham and
the midland disinhibit Mn. Parke' addressed the following
r marks teon embed seattitade :—" I appear before you
with mingled Minr• el haps and fear (the Lords had just
passed the ereeed mom of tao English bill), and the pre-
iimies el the Mkt eseenteede my attendance here this
day. The vete em us% ealp to the essoesslon that their
lordship w9l take the niaiengial measure into considera-
tion ; sad whoa I sea the banana state of parties in the
upper Mum of legislature, I swan but discern that we
are yet la the hands of ear political enemies. It
is therein, that I come fanned with a retention in
my hoed. sad although not a member of the political=
Meng lions. es yea Mow, early in this contest
to that Ilmmoliam. alai disliking two governments, pit 1
Amid Ise,' ilegusisi if I did not now admit the mental
gent the ses have produced on the pa bln mind,
sod hew nob is dos to that chairman (Mr. Attwood)
who is their rest patent, and who now presides over a
public meeting, unparalleled, I believe, for numbers and
real polities,' seal amd intelligence. Fellow countrymen,
having mil thus us* of say opinions on political unions, I
will sew tell the peen of the United Empire, that if the
peep mariemel mem, of reknit is ultimately rejected, end
Levi Om bl m from ofike—or if it be mutilated or ren-
amed thspentive, the unions will be trebled and quadrupled
in numbers—l speak from personal knowledge, and I know
that the majority of young men of all classes in this town and
neighbourhood, ant now members, ere resolved to enrol
themselves In your ranks, and to stick by you in the breech.
Friends and fellow-countrymen, God forbid I should ex-
cite you to the nosier neon of a civil and physiesl con-
tention We liberties es Englithaien, or that I should
seek to hgeeam British noblemen by any unworthy or
false herr:got revelatism.
.1. am one atheism who Meese that

• violent revelkka in this country might destroy public
credit, might depose the boroughmongers, and utterly de-
stray their wished alliblatiOn. But, my countrymen, the
I
mass of the potpie West be_plunged into the most woful
want and puma Mk. Who can think of the channels
of hidu.Yy shekel up is this vast ocean of manufacturing
labour f Wise tan etabimplate a complete cessation of the
demand kr labour, without discerning that this generation
would make a tremendous eaarilice for the liberties of poste-
rity ? But I do solemnly wars—l implore the Houle of
Lords net to fern the reformers to a civil contest. I all en
the peas to open their closed eyes to the revolution which
for Ss maks,
_since their fatal rejection of the bill in Octo-
ber lqatesonffled the public mind on the subject of heredi-
tary and spiritual lords. I ask them whether an
insane ndispeshion to this great renovation of the British
goustitutics will not produces certain sad ultimate disaffec-
tion to, and dissolution of, our Mated form of government."
COPIES OF INDICTMENTS AND LISTS OP JURIES
sax POLITICAL Touts.—A Scotch solicitor writes as follows
to a contemporary, in reference to the continual altercations
whisk take place in the erirsksal courts of England and **-
and on this etthisct " I think," he says, "that the law of
Scotland may be copied with advantage is all celatinal trials
in your mushy. Our law Is—that a prisoner shall, fifteen
free days before that on which he is to be tried, be served by
• messenger or mem (bailiff) with a Friars& copy of the
indictment, to which there is maned a list of articles (if
any) to be produced and founded cm in the trial, such as
article' stoles, instruments by which murder has bean com-
mitted, forged dos:mesh, dia.—a Ist of the witnesses
against the and of the jurors, out of whoa IV
teen are to 'be selectedktprisoaer, ed by ballot to try liim—and • citation
for him to apEmiar at the time and place matiomed in the
indktineat. This list io ompossd of persons kma three
counties, sad is divided into 'pedal and INISMIKIS. The
kismet has the power of challenging absolutely two special
and three common, and of mine, on tam skews, any
number. The crown ham the sam power. Ths jury is cited
by a maw, from a list made up by the sheriff clerk el
each county,a who takes the name in rotation tram a list
of all the wore in his county. A majority of the jury
convict, we have three verdicts—guilty, not guilty, and
not proven. The mkt regularly appoints agents sad
wake: for the poor, out of whom • per Is entitled to
supply himself, and the agent is bound to sits witnesses
for the defence, and, in fact, take the same abuse as if he
were paid. We have no private promoter in criminal
mans, the crown, in all cases, by the lord-advocate or
prmustorElaeal, bring prosecutor If the crown delay trying
• prisoner, he can " ran his letters ;" that is, adopt pre-
endings bearing that name, compelling the prosecutor to
put him oar nisi within sixty days, by indictment, or in
lorty days farther by criminal letters. If ha does not, the
prisoner is liberated.
THE OBSZIIVATORT ox THE TOP or ST. PAUL's
Cammick.—Testarday markag, the sippers end mitten
having amgkied the esdies survey of the aselsopsik gess-
aseseed ismsliehleg the elierratesy ar " mow's Best,"
which has ezdted mesit atteatisa, en the sammit of St.
Paul's Cathedral. The epsnaisa was etearesd at different
points by great amino 'Swans, sad ths alma heedless
way the men walked abort the unprotected pietism was
calculated to MVO holier of apprehenelen fir their slaty.
INQUEST, TISTEIDAT.—THE CORONER AND MA-
OtaISATI —At the Gibraltar public-hones, St. George's-
road, beton Kr. W. Payne, by adjournment, toneldng the
death of Hobert Woodrow, • boy of 14 years of sea, who
died from this effects of a blow given to him by another lad,
seated Adolphe. Salida. The case well be of se "Mile
interact but for a disputed point of inflationism whisk seem
Oa the 9th of last month Solids gave the deemed a blow in
the beck of the head, near the hit es,, width masa esash
masa and ultimately death slvaral womb Oar. Preview to
dissolution Mr. Norton, the of the Lambeth
po-
lice-court, acoompanied by Kr. the eidef Mk, took
the deposition of Woodrow, and this Rinsed a poe-
tic* of the depositions apes whisk the yeadt Solids was
committed for toe ea a charge of insaskissester. Yr. Payne,
the wow, subseicasatiy_ sent far visa Empseltisa of the de.
erased youthwhith Kr. Norton &slimed es/Am bat at cite
same time pigmented that Mr. Pans well awed at the
court for a kw Mama, sad show if he maid, by say room.
post wailmalig, 16 dila to the egotistic At the last
inquiry it was seggestai by a mesdieal whams that the
lagoon might be adjoined to some hour, mid-day, when
the eeremer (the dimness being short), might wait upon
Mr. Nertsa, sad some to same understanding in the matter.
This saggeMiut Mr.Pagme tested with much indifferent*.
sad istacid a snmagee diremieg the attendance last evening
at the iensest-resse of Kr. Noma mad Mr. Perry, his chief
clerk. The latter *sly was la atteadienes, with a clerk from
'he Ace of the Clerk of the Arraigns at the Old Bailey, who
having predated the depositions Mimed in the case. We
Coroner reepultsd Mr. Perry to read to the jury the derma-

don Woes alluded to. He did so, and explained to the
Coroner and jury that Mr. Menlo had no intention of throw-
tug the slightest impediment In the way of their inquiry, but
acted upon what Ds cansoited be be the law in the ease. The
Coroner, however, went IS Ili seine length to exclaim spinal
what Ito salle,d the atemigt en tho putt of Mr. Norton to
frontal. the ends of jullie.—Mr. Perry assured the Coroner
that Mr. Norton bad used only under the Bret auviction
(sad that opinion was istlihd by ths opinions of other
polios ssagiurates) the& Iftsdeskithilen ia question was only
•thaduible in 'videos* Were the wart sad jury before whom
the coos must sventnelly be tried.—Witneues having been
ezartabsod, ths Comer sussed up, and the jury, after half
en hour's delibentlea, returned a verdict to the effect
"Thou w dessesed ease by him death horn the effects of a
blow Minted by Arielplith Sends in a childish and inno-
cent lananer."