The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1848.

not yet worked its coarse), and so the application
was rejected till ordered by the sheriff. Should this
decision be generally acted on, the increasing number
of the unemployed in Glasgow will tell hard on the
funds.
The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has peti-
tioned, with one dissenting voice, against the game-
laws. On the first introduction of the subject, the
chairman held that it did not fall within the scope of
the chamber, as it was not connected with commerce
and manufactures. Mr. Cowan, M.P., maintained
that as game destroyed crops it was lake legitimate
in the chamber to entertain what limited the supply
of human food, and this view was adopted by the
meeting.
A dinner, forming a literal re-union, to commemo-
rate the " days of Ling sync," is to be held in Edia-
burgh on the 29th inst. It is the forty-first anniver-
sary of the gentlemen who attended one of the classes
of the Edinburgh high school during 1791, and the
four succeeding years. Like the title-of
" Waverley," it will soon be " silty years since with
those congenial spirits,and then the members of this
social tontine will be reduced to a fire-side dinner
Party.

LIST or LIIIIITMOVette.—The commistioneri of northern
lighthouses have published their annual list of lighthouses,
beacons, and buoys under their charge, and they insert a
caveat which mariners and shipowners would do well to
attend to, via., that they should never purchase er use any
list except the one for the current year. As the list is sold
for a few pence, owners should see that their vessels are
provided with copies.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HIGHLAND LANDLORDS.—
The following letter, from the Glasgow Constitutional.
gives a conclusive and satisfactory contradiction to the state-
ments that have been put forth as to the alleged difficulties
which the Highland landlords have met with in obtaining
payment of the sums promised to be advanced to them
under the late Drainage and Enclosure Act for floodsmd.
The latter was written by the eterskary of the enclosure gest-
salmis& to C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., one of the under SIM
WIN id** Treasury, and was ben that gentleman forwarded
to the Rov. Noesenith'Leod, D.D., of St. Columba's dearth,
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delay hue taken glees* this ogee.—I am, my dear sir, yours very
truly, H. C. Lunar.

adjoining. The Earl of Balcones, it appears, some time
ago, agreed with him to drive a drift through some land of
has lordship's, to enable him to get the coal under an adjoin-
ing property. In the lease from the earl, powers were re-
served for ha lordship's viewers to go down the mine at any
time and inspect the workings in the property of his lord-
ship, and under this power a surveyor demanded the *t
in Dec. last, when it was found that the coal had been
gotten much beyond the limits prescribed, and that a drift
had been made under the churchyard, and under the parish
church. Rumour had been much afloat on this subject, and
it has been stated that the miners have been heard blasting
in several other directions from the pit's mouth. Last week
a warrant was obtained against Mr. Bleudale, on a charge
of feloniously getting coal belonging to the Earl of Balcarres,
and it was plead in the hands of proper officers for its execu-
tion. Susequently to this, Mr. Bleasdale was seen in the
town, but he has hitherto avoided apprehension, and remains
at large. On its becoming known to the *oiliers employed in
the mine that the officers were in possession of authority to
apprehend Mr. Bleasdale, they quite disarranged the working
apparatus of the pit, not oidy taking away a material part
of the engine, but also the ropes off the pulleys; and like-
wise destroying the current of air through the workings.
All this was done to prevent any person descending the
mine ,• and, in addition the most fearful threats were held
out, that they would throw any officer or other person down
the pit who might attempt to descend. Matters remained
in this condition until Friday, when a person named Grim-
shaw, lately under-looker is Mr. Blearelale, and another
man named Bleadale, an agent and a alai's of the pro-
prietor, were taken into custody as accessories to the felony.
They were the same afternoon taken before the mayor at the
Town-hall, when Mr. Mayhew and Mr. Ackerley appeared on
behalf of the prosecution, and Mr. Hilton and Mr. Leigh for
the defendants. Mr. Tarbuck, viewer for the Earl of Bal-
carres, who had been in the pit in Dec. last, and examined
the mine, proved the nature and extent of the worming,.
Evidence was also given, at considerable length, by wit-
nesses, of different transactions concerning the mine, in
which the defendants were engaged. At the request of Mr.
Mayhew they were remanded until Tuesday last, for the pro-
duction of other evidence. Mr. Mayhew also made an
application to the bench for the attendance of the police
officers to prevent a breach of the peace on the parties pro-
ceeding to examine the workings, which was apprehended
:ram the threats held out —The court said they must have
necessary protection.—Bail wax offered for the defendants'
future appearance, but was refused. Since Friday surveyors
have been down the pit making the necessary explora-
tions of the extent end direction of the workings, from which
important disclosures are expected.

A PORTRAIT OF -TIE EARL OP lIAREWOOD,
Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding, was presented
to his lordship, on Tuesday, in the Town-hall, We-
therly, by Mr. Lane Fox, and the other members of the
Bramharn.moor Hunt, in token of their estimation of the
manner in which his lordship has conducted the hunt for
several yeas put. In connexion with this event, the an-
nual bell, given by the members of the hunt, took place in
the Town-hall, at Wetherly, and was vary numerously
attended.
CHESHIRE.
INQUEST ON • SUPPOSED FOLLOWER OF WILLIAM
van Tnian.—On Sunday lest a man named Appleton per-
ceived a human skull embedded in the clay near the shore of
the Mersey, between Sescombe and Liscard ; on further ex-
amination he found it was a part of a skeleton,which he Con-
veyed to the Seecombe Hotel. It was inspected by different
medical gentlemen, and information having been given to
the coroner, au inquest was held on Monday. The skeleton
was produced in a hamper. The thigh bones were each
about 1 foot 8 lathes in length, indicating that the deceased
must have been a tall person. The upper and lower arm
bones were in proportion. The vertebra of the spinal column
were produced, but loom. The skull was nearly perfect in form.
The bones generally were quite blackened. The teeth were
perfect, of a good colour, and firm in the sockets, showing
that the deceased at the time of kis death was, in all probe-
bility, in the prime of manhood. There was no appearance
of flesh adhering to these remains. The body had been ap-
parently buried in a north and south position. Amongst the
hones found near the skull was a queue, or pig-tail, very
neatly plaited, and tied with black silk ribbon. The hair
was black and long. Close to the skeleton were found, and
also produced, portions of wearing apparel, apparently
silk front facings of upper garments or coats, rounded,
in the olden court style, from the lappet to the bottom
of the skirt, and each perforated with numerous
well-worked buttonholes. There might be about twenty
button-holes in each. No buttons or buckles were,l
however, found, so far as we can learn ; otherwise a date
might possibly have been arrived at. Some coins were,
about a year ago, found near the spot. These were
guineas of the reign of Charles 11., and nineteen of I
them were acknowledged to be found. Some of them were
sold at 38e. each. Some few ancient copper coins have also
been picked up in the same locality. Various are the con-
jectures amongst the posies in the neighbourhood as to the
identity or quality of the deceased—some conceiving that
he was one of the nobles in the retinue of William 111., when
on his passage to Ireland, just before the battle of the Boyne;
and it will be remembered that William embarked at " the
Leasowes," near Hoylake. Some of his retainers, it would
appear, landed upon and embarked from various points
In the Wirral peninsula. The King himself, it is recorded,
slept at Wallasey, about 24 miles distant, on the eve of his
departure. This, however, as well as other speculations as to
the body, rests upon grounds too vague and uncertain to be
seriously tenable. The jury, at the inquest, returned the
only verdict at which they could arrive under UN circum-
stances,—to the effect, that the remains were those of a man
unknown, but how be came to his death there was no
evidence to show.
SUFFOLK.
THE PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY, IPSWICH.
—Mr. Palmy, of the Butter-market, has recently printed,
fur private dUtribution, a foe simile of two rentals of the
priory of the Holy Trinity, at Ipswich, which were acci-
dentally discovered by Mr. W. P. Hunt, of that town,
whilst searching among the muniments at Christ Church for
nape" to enable Sir Francis Burdett to establish his claim to
the dormant barony of Salesmen,. To these rentals, which
ere in a tine state of preservation, no dates ass affixed, but
they are both in the hand of the thirteenth century, and a
comparison of the names of the tenants shows that a single
gen, ration had passed or nearly pseud between them. Mr.
Hunt says in the preface, that " the first was probably com-
piled about the middle of the reign of Henry 111., just be-
fore the baronial war, and the second seems to belong to
the earlier years of the reign of his successor, when Sir
Oliver de Ingham, who is mentioned in the title to it,
lived. Sir Oliver was summoned to attend that King on
his expedition into Wale*, and died soon after, and was
buried is the priory of the Carmelites, at Norwich, in 1291."

INFRINGING THE FACTORY ACT.—At a special
session, held at Colchester, on Thursday, Messrs. S.
Brown and J. Moy were called on to answer an informs.
tMn for having infringed the Factory Act, which limits
the labour of females to eleven hours. The information
was laid by Mr. J. Bury, sub-inspector of factories. Mr.
Cooper appeared to support the information, and Mr.
Philbriek attended for the defendants. The first case was
an information for having employed Eliza Ward thirteen
hours in the silk factory. Mr. Cooper stated the cue at
some length. After alluding to the former acts upon the
subject, he said, the third and last act to which he had
, to advert did scarcely anything more than enact that, after
I July, 1847, the time these parties might be employed in
I &aeries should be reduced to eleven hours, which, after
I May is the present year, would be farther limited to ten
hours. He must here mention the fact that during the
three years the 7th Vict. was in operation no attempt was
made on the part of the mill-owners to put a different con-
' struction upon it, but since that period their ingenuity had
been exercised to obtain the benefit of twelve hours' la-
bour, notwithstanding its provisions. Among other devices
was one of which they would hear a good deal to-day—
viz., the system of re-lays, or bringing a fresh body of
labourers into the factor y at a different hour from what
he should contend to be the only legal period during
which such labourers could be employed at all. It was
against this system of re-lays that the present information
was directed; and be was here to contend that such a
system was completely illegal. He should observe that
from a correspondence with Messrs. Brown and Mop, the
factory authorities had mean to believe that their email). '
lishment would be conducted on this system; and on Mr.
Bury coming over in the early part of December he found
such to he the case, and that a number of persons were
employed from six to half-peat eight in the evening, when,
acoordiog to the printed notice suspended at the entrance,
as required by the act, the hour of six was the period in
which their factory operations ought to have ceased. The
information charged the defendants with having employed
this woman more than eleven hours; his friend on the other
side would admit that she did work from six in the evening
till half-past eight. Whether she was employed previously
to six be did-not know or care, because it would be his duty
to contend, and he hoped successfully, that by construction
of law that was virtually an employment from half-past
five in the morning (the hour at which the business of the
factory commenced) till half-put eight in the evening; and
unless this construction was given effect to by the decision
of the Justices, the present act, like the one which preceded
it, would be a dead letter.—Mr. Turner thought it ought to
be proved to the bench, either by admission or otherwise,
whether this party was employed beforehand, or merely from
six to half-past eight in the evening.—Mr. Cooper said,
it was no part of his case to show that, but he was quite
content that his friend should arum it to be so.—Mr. Bur.
tree remarked that the effect of such evidence would go to
negative the imputation of inhumanity, though the act
might be equally violated.—Mr. Philbrick said, that was
precisely what he wished to have shown.—Tbe facts of the
case being admitted on the part of the defendants, no evi.
dence was tendered by Mr. Cooper ; but, by desire of Mr. I
Philbrick, Mr. Bury, the sub-inspector, was sworn and cross.
examined as to the reason why this case, occurring within
their jurisdiction, had not been preferred before the borough
justices. Mr. Bury said, it was in his discretion to lay it
before any bench within five miles of the factory, and he
was not bound to give any reasons for his selection of the
county justices.—The Chairman thought the question was
irrelevant —ln answer to further questions, whether the
female named in the information was employed prior to the
evening, Mr. Bury stated that he did not know the fact;
but he believed she was net.—Mr. Philbriek addressed the
bench for the defendants, submitting that they had in no
way violated the law; and, so far from deserving to be
attacked as belonging to a class of persons devoid of humanityy,
or uoppressars of the poor, they had, in point of fact, only
done that which was an advantage to society, by furnishing
employment and good wages at a time when work generally
was scum and provisions dear; so that, as standing before
them to defend Mesas. Brown and Moy, he thought he had
a fair right to complain that his friend should have gone at
all into the question of humanity, of which there was not
the slightest pretence for charging them with any, violation,
because, although the prosecutors of this information hardly
liked to admit it, in point of fact, *ens people only worked