The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-19 00:00:00

WALES.

TRIAL OF A MOSHER FOR HANGING RJR CIIILDRIN.—
At the Amiss Court, Carmarthen, on Thursday, before Mr.
Justice Cresswell, Mary Hughes was indicted for the wilful
murder of her three children, Sarah, Mary, and Even
Hughes. The husband of the wretched woman, who is a
mason, rented a cottage at the foot of the Llanbyther moun-
tain, and on the morning of the 28th of April, when he
left far work, the children were in good health, and the
mother seemingly in her usual sprits. In the course
of the day her sister had occasion to visit the house,
but not finding the unfortunate woman in the
building she proceeded to examine the place, and,
on entering a loft, she was horror-stricken on seeing the
three lifeless children suspended by handkerchiefs from a
large beam running across the root On being called on to
'-'ad to the Indictment sha stared steadfastly at the learned
of

plead to the
judge, and seemed to have no knowledge of what was pass-
ing around. The demand was made to her in Welsh ; still
she took no notice of the challenge, and remained mute.
The judge examined the medical officer of the prison, who
pronounced her to be insane. The learned judge than ex-
plained the law to the jury, sa to the incapacity of prisoners
to plead when their minds were affected, and directed them
to return a verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity,
in her case. This was accordingly done, and the unhappy
woman will, therefore, be detained during her Majesty's
pleasure.
PROVINCIAL-

BIRKENHEAD DOCKS7is;ll7idlly evening a public
meeting of the ratepayers and inhabitants of Birkenhead we,
held for the purpose of considering the present critical posi-
tion of the commissionen' dock bills, and urging on the Coot-
miesionere of Woods and Forests, and the House of Lords,
the great importance of passing the same u they now stand.
The room was entirely filled, principally by working men.
Mr. David Appleton was called to the chair, and having
stated the object of the meeting, mentioned that the petitions
to the Woods and Formts and the Route of Lords had re-
oeived not less than 0,000 or 7,000 signatures' —a very large
proportion in a population of 18,000. Mr. Boyle proposed
the first resolution, expressive of the opinion that the bills
in question were of the districts,portance
theßir kenhead and the nuroanding and thst moat

strenuous efforts should be made by the commisvioners to
carry the bills in their integrity as they came from the com-
mittee of the House of Lirds. The resolution wes carried
unanimously. No opposition was offered. Mr. R. Hughes
astonished the meeting by proposing that every owner of
property in Birkenhead- if.lould, from that day forthwith. re-
' duce the rent of his tenants ISO per cent. till the dock bills
were paned. The proposition was received with loud cheers.
The chairman refused to put it, as contrary to the purpose of
the meeting. Mr. Hughes persisted, and a scone of inde-
scribable uproar, cheers and hisses, for some time ensued.
A resolution was passed, requesting the members of the county
to aid the passing of the bills. Three cheers were given for
Mr. Laird.

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DEATH PROM MORISON'S PILLS. --lASI week, Emma
Partington, aged 30, of Love-place, lisehdale, swallowed
in two days, ss. GI. worth of Moriion'y pill.. After which
her health, which had been delicate, became worse, and she
ultimately died. At an inquest held upon the bialy, the
jury returned a verdict " That she died from an overdue of
the pills."
EMPLOYMENT OP THE POOR ON THE LAND.—A public
meeting was held on Wednesday, at the Town-hall, Mul-
-1 cheater, " to consider the propriety of employing the able-
bodied poor in the cultivation of land, and for deviling the
beet means of doing this effectually, so as to ease the
burthen of the poors-rate payers, and provide an honest,
healthy, and profital le employment to the able-bodied
poor, and thus achieve a permar.ent national good."
The Reverend J. Schofield presided, and in the course of
his adcreas he attempted to prove that an screed. l mil under
potatoes would be sufficient to maintain one man fur 5,625
days, or a little more than .51 men fur one year; that the
produce of an acre of wheat would sustain one man for
915 days, or 21 men for nearly a year; and that the produce
of one fertile acre in puture consumed by tattle and sheep
would sustain one man 72 clays, or something less than
one-fifth of • man for a year; so that it appeared that
the produce of five acres of fertile grass laud would be
required to sustain one man hying entirely on
butcher's meat fur one year ; under wheat it would
maintain twelve, and under potatoes 77k. This.. figures be
brought forward in order to prove the necessity and the
utility of converting pasture into arable land. In Guernsey
and Jersey, be said, one square mite of land supported 1,000
pencils, and theft, begitory, and pauperism wire scarcely
known •, while its Ireland, the same portion of land sup-
ported but 223 persons ; and how great the con east in the
people! Resolutions wi re passed, which, amongst other
things, expreased the opinion of the meeting that the land
held by the church, and that which it was stated had been
• wrested from the people, called enclosure lands, ougLt to be
given up to the people for their maintenance. A committee
was then appointed to carry out the object of the meeting.
CHF..iIIRE.
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A New MACHINE YOUWATELLIEO STREETS has ro•
cently been invented, and is now in operation at Birken-
head. The tient lty consists in its watering the whole width
of the street at once—a recommit ndatiou, whets the machine
has exclusive possession of the road.
_ HERTFORDSHIRE.

ANOTHER ENGINE-DRIVER KILLED ON THE EARTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY.—An inquest was held on Satur lay, at
the Black Bull, Brosbourne, before Mr. Sworder, coroner
for the county, touching the death of Thomas Parker, aged
23, the driver of the engine, numbered FA, belonging to the
Eastern Counties Railway Company.—Thomas tiorrold,
fireman in the employ of the company, stated that on Fri-
day he was with deceased, woo the 'urine, at the time,
they were pausing Manner's-bridge, near the junction of the
Hertford with the Cambridge line of railway. They were
going to Wisbeach with a luggage train. At the moment of
passing the bridge, which is technically denominated "a
truss-bridge," deceased was reaching over the side of the
locomotive to look at the feed-pipe, when the centre truss of
the bridge caught hint, and knocked him off the engine on to
the line. In consequence of the width of the wood-work of
the bridge, which forms its main support, sod which rises be-
tween the up and down lines of rails, the deceased had not
room to turn out of the way of the engine, the wheels of which
passed over him, crushing him in a frightful manner. Medical
assistance was proems 4 w itbout delay, but deceased was dead.
—S. Barrow, an officer in the employ of the company, said that
within the last twelve mouths th-re had been an accident
on the same bridge. At that time one of the servants of the
company had his legs cut off by the wheels of an engine.—
Coroner : Do you think the bridge is dangerous ? Witneds
I am sure it is; it ought to be altersd.—lt. Reese, driver, in
the employ of the company, expressed a similar opinion as to
the dangerous construction of the bridge. He, and others,
had complained of it to their superior officers, but no notice
had been taken of it, and now he (witness), and some ul the
other men, had determined to memorialise the board, co that
it might be removed. Deceased was •steady young man; he
had left a wire and two children.—Thu coroner having
summed up, the jury, after a brief consultation, agreed to the
following verdict : ' We find that T. l'arker was accident-
ally killed by Manner's bridge, on the Eastern Counties line
of railway; but, before we separate, we wish to give our
opinion, derived from the evidence in this case, that such
bridge is dangerous, and that it ought to be removed, and
we claire the cot oner to send this our verdict to the directors
of the said line."—The coroner agreed to do so, adding, Mat
if no notice was taken of it, he should fed it to be his uuty to
bring the matter before the Commissioners of Itailwaje.
BUCK LS9IIAMSHIRE. . .

THE GAME LAW:::iiVlTl:l7ll7tltecounty business was
being transacted at the Bucks Midsummer Sessions, at
Aylesbury, the attendance of the magistrates being more
I than usually numerous, Dr. Lee brought forward his motion
(notice of which had been given at the former sessions), that
• petition be adopted by the c iurt, and presented to the
House of Commons, in favour of the total repeal, or of •
considerable modification, of the present game laws. Dr.
Lee contended that the question he had the honour of sub-
mitting to his brother magistrates, was most important in
all its hearings to every clam of the community, cud that the
enormous expenses which were caused by game prosecutious
ought not to be thrown upon the county, but borne by the
preservers of game and those who were sticklers for the en-
joyment of the sport. The motion, which Wai seconded by
Sir Harry Verney, was lost.

PORTSHOFTH.—The late assistant-surgeon of the Conway,
Mr. Thomas Hart, committed suicide in Portsmouth on
Thursday morning, leaving a cote at his hotel that disap-
pointed hopes of his promotion had been the cause.
THE REVITAL OF THE SALT AIANUFACTURR at Lyming-
ton is being urged in that locality. Tbc mode bee been
examined by Mr. Young, late consul at Palestine. He ton-
side, s the plan which has been so tested and approved by
the corporation of Lymington to be the beet epplicalion of
steam tor the purpose he ham cyst. seen, nod only wonders
that such • plan :or the regeneration of the slut trade in,
Hampshire should have been no long neglected.
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AN INSTANCE OF ESCAPE TKO% DaowNlNo, through the
gallant conduct of a clergyman, occurred on Monday week.
On the morning of that day, W. Patty, a labourer residing
at South Pool, went down to the Saloombe river t., get •
boat, which was moored in the tide, beyond his reach. He
stripped himself, but not being able to 'mire, he collected
two or three cars, a spar, and a gang-board, whirl. he pieced
under his chest, without lashing them together: then pad-
dling them with bin hands, endeavoured to reach the boat.
The moment, however, he got into the run of the tide, out
of his depth, the timbers parted company, and he was at
once left to his own resources. For a moment or two ha
continued above water, but just as he was sinking, for the
second time, the Rev. E. L. Davies, of Holwell ileum, who
had arrived at the spot, plunged into the water with his
clothes on, but before he could reach bins the drowning man
had disappeared. Mr. Davies then took one of the oars
which was floating, pushed it down upon the man, whom he
could see moving to and fro, and the poor fellow grasped it
and rose to the surface ; sufficient life was left to enable him
to keep his bold, till Mr. Davies gained the shore, which he
did, towing the man after him.

lint Mts.
THE EXHIBITION IN WESTMINSTER-HALL—Go-
vernment, it is said, has just concluded the pun ham of Mr.
Cross's fine picture of " Richard Cceur de Lion," for the
sum of five hundred guineas, and Mr. Pirkeregill's " Burial
of Harold" for the like amount, Mr. Watts's " King Alfred
Repelling the Danes" has been also purchased, for 2001., the
artist not having asked more, iu consideration of his having
obtained a 5001. premium. The sea-fight, in which Nelson
is sees boarding the San Josef, by Mr. Knell, has, we hear,
been likewise purchased by government. These are, of
course, intended for the decoration of the new palace at
Westminster. Mr. Armitage's " Battle of Mceauce" has,
we learn, been purchased by the Queen for her own collec-
tion. A long list of subjects, which the commissioners intend
to offer as matters of future competition for the decoration
of particular rooms in the new houses, will shortly be an-
nounced.--Atheturunt.

THE STATUE IN MARBLE OF PRINCE ALBERT
subscribed for by the merchant., to commemora'e his having
laid the foundation-stone of the Royal Exchange, has been
placed in the vestibule of Lloyd's. The momument of Hue-
kisson ,culptared by Oibeen, and presented by the widow of
the statesman to the town of Liverpool, is at length to be
placed in the north area of the Custom House there.
PROPOSED STATUE IN LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS TO
YES MEMORT OF LORD WILLIAM RVIRELL.—A prelimi-
nary meeting of rate-payers and other gentlemen has been
held in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, for the purncse
of taking into consideration the propriety of erecting a mon u-
ntent to the memory of Lord William Rumell, on the Prot
where he was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields, on the 21st
of July, 1653. Mr. J. R. Taylor took the chair, and es-
planted the object for which the meeting was held. Several
gentlemen having expressed their opinions upon the subject,
• subscription of one guinea each was proposed, and an in-
tention expressed of calling a public meeting to advance the
object in view at the earliest opportunity.

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HER MAJESTY'S TREATRE.—OR Saturday evening
the meegreneu of the operatic branch of the entertainment
—consisting of Verdi's " Lombardi," performed in the man-
ner we have already had occasion to describe—was made up
for (at least in the eyes of the fashionable ltabitue4 of this
theatre) by the richness of the " choregraphic" exhibition.
In addition to the pretty ballet, "Lee Etnniene," the memo-
rable " Pas de Quatre, which made such a sensation two
years ago, was danced between the third and fourth acts of
the opera. The performers were Toglioni, Carlotta Orisi,
Cerito, and Rosati—the same as before, excepting the sub-
stitution of Rosati fur Lucille Orahn. It woe, so before, a
warm but friendly contest fur the palm of • "
and, as before, each of the fair rivals ...-
with tokens of favour as her l•
exerted themselves to
displaying her on-
attraction, se'

groups and u.
pas dr quatre
furore during
fortunate

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t friendly contest fur the palm of public. favour
fore, each of the fair rivals was as amply rewarded
tis of favour u her heart coutikeltsoop. They. all
iemselves to the very . pet) adi; hi
r her own individual ..t. cbaneetarestio Mielj"rOi
, and then forming in .4,- 'cum the niosti
cely
id tableaux that it , tat
uatre would, as form •;,..0 here beettlibm of
icing the remainder • a meam, but for ibm od
tr.
circumstance of the ' el Carlotta-Orli
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