The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-18 00:00:00

POLlClL—Tisnanat.

MANSION-HOUSE. —inn 13nmest MuTtar. Ear
ORATION ARSOCIATION.—Lieut. Loan, R.N. her Majesty's
emigration agent for the port of London, waited
upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of com-
municating with his lordship on the subject of the
application made at the Mansion house, relative to emi-
gration, on Saturday last —Her Majesty's agent raid : My
lord, having seen in the newspapers of Monday last en ac-
count of some proceedings here with respect to an emigra-
tion awcciation, I beg to state, in my position as emigration
agent for the port of London, that the project of emigra-
tion to Texas has not escaped her Majesty's commissioners.
They have considered the subject, niter having obtained the
best information as to the prospects of individusb, who may
emigrate to that place, and they have mule an order to
issue c oculars, of which I shall read one :

cal-i;:;r—asi6Tin;i;mT.7ic;;;i;r...—Exo*maul are
warned that hair Majesty's vice-oossal at Galveston, in a despatch,
dated Jae. GYM. clefs, that hasthe experience of eke years' reel-
dere Is Tim. be due sot Imitate to premennes that certain state-
ments whistileuresesellappearad reuesting the salubrity or the
chart% the Itedllyef the ma, awl the deems at the mineral pro •
dueller it Twee erepeatigammormaK sailthst there la a metal,
ebelyeddlused the both the askeryered try may of the emi-
ruin athisits6 h the Gansu_Mulgretten dosedereso. He farther '
Jae CaTimheythwt sial=ei&ta,Vit,l!
lien.—ity ceder her M=7 loot and amtpathin coni-
adishmsee, 6. W.suoorr,
It hr bees aseertained that in the majority of cases of ezni-
grades trims Europe the nalbetunate emigrants will have to
encounter distress, misery, deszitutien, and death. I have
been highly gratified at the public notice which your lordship
has taken uf the proceedings of an association which, in the
teeth of such authority, hold out delusive promisee to the
industrious population of the empire, as I am convinced that,
coming from such a source, and after so minute an inquiry
u I am informed your lordship has instituted, it will have
the effect of checking the sanguine spirit which such repre-
sentations are calculated to encourage. It must be most
satisfactory to your lordship to be assured that numbers of
people were preparing to run the hazard of emigrating to
'NW, who have, in consequence of the tone in which your
lordship has spoken from the magisterial chair, altered
their determination to break up their homes upon se dan-
gerous a speculation. I can add nothing to the force
of the caution which I have reed, or to the very
effective manner in which you have denounced the
attempts of those who were interested in the emigrating
enterprise.—The Lord Mayor said, I felt it to be my duty to
obtain the most accurate information before I uttered a word

zirmetthe subject ; but having ascertain.d the nature and
or of the emociation, I did not for a moment hesitate
to denounce it. I have, aisles the statement of what took
plats here appeared in the newapapera, received several let-
ters confirmatory of the result of my Inquiries, and I rejoice
at the appearance of the government agent in support of my
view, for I am convinced that if there were any poor people
who hesitated, their doubts upon the matter would be com-
pletely settled by the publicity which I dare say will be given
to this interview.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Tien Bscirra or TKB MILS
TRAWL—Henry Stanley, in the service of Mr. Nokes, •
farmer at Btifferd Clays in Ewa, and contractor for the
supply of milk to the Bethnal Green Union, was charged
with robbing his employer.—Mr. Fairfield, the master of the
workhouse, stated that for the last three months the union
had been under a contract with Mr. Nokes for the supply of
new milk, and in order to ensure its being of a superior
Fquality, the present contractor received Bd. per gallon more
or it than was paid to the preceding purveyor. The milk
was daily sent up by the Eastern Counties -Railway to the
contractor's dairy in town, and thence transmitted to the
union in tall tin cans, secured at the top by a padlock to
prevent adulteration. The witness had had occasion for
some time past to make frequent complaint to the contractor
of the inferior quality and excessive thinness of the milk,
which was sometimes so greatly impoverished that it turned
into curds on attempting to boil it for the children and sick
In the establishment, and in consequence of these
complaints, the contractor employed two of his ser-
vants to watch the prisoner on the way from the
dairy with the milk on the preceding afternoon. About mid-
way the prisoner made a stop at a turning in Bethnal-green,
had having been followed up an obscure passage, was seen
to tilt up one of the cans, containing about 84 gallons, and pour
into another can, through the air-holes in the lid of the
Larger, several galena of the milk, which he secreted behind
some cooper's butts, and was hastening away, when he was
pounced upon and taken back to the dairy,on reaching which,
and being confronted with his employer, he admitted having
stolen large quantities of milk on previous occasions in a simi-
lar manner, and diluted the residue with water to make up
the fiditienley. Several witnesses having confirmed the pie-
ceding'statement, the prisoner was celled upon for his de-
fence; and so far from denying the charge, acknowledged
and justified it, by stating that other milk dealers were in
the habit of reducing their milk in a similar manner
every day, and mentioned the name of one who con-
stantly so acted. In confirmation of this strange declara-
tion, a middle-aged person, who bad exhibited great in-
terest in the prisoner's behalf, and who was described to be
• milkman in considerable business, earnestly assured the
'maguUate that the practice complained of was in daily use ;
and that not only was it customary, but absolutely neces-
sary, to reduce by water the strength of the milk, which was
at some seasons and slate of the animal's health of
so rich • quality when it left the cow, that the
oscillation end perturbation it sustained in the course of its
transmesion by cart or railway would be aertain to churn it
and convert it into butter or cheese before it reached the
mouths of those who had bought it. (Laughter.)—Mr.
Broughton Why, do you really mean to say that the milk
is too good to be supplied to customers in its original purity,
for that's what your statement imports?—The witness inti-
mated an afiltrastive conviction, sod Mr. Broughton said,
that although pure milk might perhaps be considered too
good for sick paupers in a workhouse, he strongly doubted if
the adulterated article would be ventured to be palmed upon
• gentleman's family in Grosvenor-square. He took so
wholly ailments view of the matter from the list witness,
and csoikend it of so much Importance that the young
and the risk is eke workhouse, who could not help them
selves, amid be more honestly desk by, than other persons
not so naketnnetely situated, that he was resolved to make
an example of the offender in this ease, and should order the
prisoner to be fully committed to Newgate for trial for the
robbery.

CLERK ENWELL.—Ronsaltr kr • BsttrArtr.—Mory
Monk/omen/ was limed at the bar charged by Mr. Wm.
Lashbrooke, of No. 6, Livemeol-terrace, Liverpool-road,
Islington, with stealing a cash-box containing la 10s., a
raluakle gold swab, sad other paaperty. On Tuesday night,
about eight o'clock. the prisoner war observed by puha,.
constable 396 N walking mu., pinonbury.flOds, I.linaton,
without shoes or stockings. and FM' head wrapped up in her