The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENINGS SEPTEMBER 15, 1846.

with the number of children in the neighbourhood who were
not receiving any education, and who could not be received
into the regular schools, took a room in the neighbourhool,
and invited them to the school, and were surprised at the
readiness with which their &Ices of instruction were accepted.
The school was open for the first time on the 3rd of alay, 27
buys attended, nine of whom could neither read n a write,
since which time the schools had been in regular operation.
The average attendance had been 35, and the behaviour of
the children had, on the whole, been tole cable. The demands
upon the scl:ool had now outgrown the means at their com-
m it'd, and thin appeal wa, made for assistance. Itemilutions
were reed to, pledging the meeting to support the schools,
non a liberal collection was made.
TILE POLICE AND TII2 GAMBLING-lIOVSES. —For a
considerable time past a number of gaming-houses at the
west end of the metropolis have been placed under the sur-
veillance of the police, a constable being comit.ually iu front
of the principal entrance. This simple remedy has had
the desired ttrlVt, seven houses of this deserlpti.m having
been abandoned within the last few day b in the vicinity of
St. James's.
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REMOVAL OF THE MONET-ORDER OFFICE, CHARlNG-
CRose.—Yestertlay that part of the branch POA-office,
Charing-cross, occupied as a thrting room by the Lindun
district poet letter-sorters, was opened as a money-order
office, wherein future ail such. orders will be issued and yiaid.
CUUNTT OF MIDDLESEX.—SHERIFFS' COURT, RED
LION tiQUAltE.—The following days were yesterday ap-
pointed fir the execution of writs of trial and inquiry in
Trinity Vacation t—Thuniday Sept. 17; TLursday, Oct. 1 ;
Thuisalv, Oct. 15; and Thunalay, Oct. 29. Causes intend-
ed for trial in either of the above sittings must be entered
for trial three days belore the particu:ar sittings on which
they are to be heard.
HACKNEY CARRIAGES.—The number of licences
for hackney carriages at present in use it 2,6.30, of which
only 100 are employed for the old-fashioned hackney
coaches, which are now and then to be seen on the -tends, or
lingering about the railway stations and steam wharfs. The
remaining 2,550 are uoed fur " working" cabs.
NEw IVELcit CHUI:CIL—A new Welch church was
yesterday opened in Aldersgate-street, contiguous to the
General Post Office.

THE LATE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPII.—The Right Rey.
William Carey, Bishop of St. Asaph, who died ou Sunday
last, at his town residence in Portland-place, was in his 77th
year. In 1784, when about fifteen years of age, he was ad-
mitted one of the King's scholars at Westminster; in 1789
he was elected to Christ Church, °shad. lie took orders in
1802. In 1803 he was made a prebendary of York, and re-
ir(ll, in the following year, the appoininent of head master
of Westminster school. The Duke of York intrusted him
with the educational arrangements of the military asylum at
Chelsea. Dr. Carey was consecrated bishop of Exeter in
MO, and of St. Asaph in 1930. Among other appointments,
he held the vicarage of Sutton-in-the Forest, in his native
county of Yorkshire. Dr. Corey published a volume of ser-
mons, f which the only one that attracted much notice was
preached before the llouw of Common, in 1809. The late
prelate was a staunch Tory.
11 fia LTII OF I'ILISONERS.—In answer to a question
put vest' rday by 31r. Wakley to one of the medical officers
of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, it was stated
that the numb, r of prisoners now in that prison was 1,044,
and that only four were on the sick list, one of the-e being a
lying-in woman. The medical officer said that the health of
the prieosers was cenerally goad. Au alteratiea in their
diet, made about a year ar.d a-half ago, in consequence of
facts and opinions arising out of an inquest held about that
time, hail been beneficial to the prisoners.
AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Saturday morning,
whilst Mr. Seabrook, of the Cross Keys, Blackfriurs road,
was busily engaged in the arm:Tomcats of his establishment,
a young man, of g, nilc manly appearance and :nitwit
tercel, and representing that he was about to forward 81. to a
friend in the country, requested Mr. Seabrook to acenmeiri
date him with a cheque on his banker, and he would huud
him over eight tovereigns. Mr. Seabrook, being very busy,
and having, no siispic'on of anything wrong, said he had no
time to do so, bat he had uo doubt Mr. Hawley. the pruner,
living close by, would accommodate him. The applicant
instantly went there, mentioning Mr. Seabrook's name, and
without hesitation the cheque upon his banker was filled up
and handed to the impostor, who gave Mr. Hawley eight
sovereigns. The fellow, on leaving the house, put an "0 "
to the " 81.," and "y" to the " Eight" in the body of
the eheque, and taking it to the banker's, he got it cashed
instantly, thereby making a profit of 721. The gross imposi-
tion soon came to the ears of the above gentleman, who gave
information to the police, with a description of the person
of the offender, and the police are on the alert alter him.
There is little doubt that he has practised similar imposi-
tions on the public.
EDMONTON FAlR.—Yesterday the fair at Edmon-
ton, which, after having been discontinued for twenty years
was recommenced last year, was again held. It was attended
by crowds who e:mjoycd the follies and amusements of the
steno without having engaged in any disturbance up to the
time of our repartee's departure. As a sin of the times we
may mention thatantan was detected t.teeding a "quantity of
piue-apples." A very few years since thi, luxury was CU:y
to be seen at the " rich man's table." Now, however,
" quantities" find their way to fairs.
DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT SWORD AND HUMAN
RENtAiNs.—Yesterday, in the course of making excavations
in West Harding-street, Fetter-lane, a sword was discovered
in the earth opposite Trinity Church. It was at a depth of
about lifteea feet imbedded in ground, in which it is
supposed the owner of it had bete laid, as there was a
quantity of human bones and a skull by the side of it. The
Wale, broken at the point, was about two inches wide at the
hilt. It was much decayed, and broken at the edges on
either side. _

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ACCIDENTS.—TIIREE LIVES LOST.—On Sunday
evening, a pleesure boat, called the Miriam, went down the
river to Etith, on an excursion. She was managed by
Joseph Leonard, a Waterman, of "Rockwall, and another
man conversant with the management of pleasure yachts.
There were three gentlemen on board, whose names have
not transpired. The wind freshaned in tho evening, and
while the boat was coming up the reach one of the men
went up aloft to reef the gaff hal) ard, and while he
was doing so a squall of wind caught the sub, and the top
weight of the man caused the frail barque to calzvize. Two
of the party almost immediately disappeared. Leonard clung
to the hatches for some time, but ultimately sank before
assistance could reach him, and also met with a watery grave.
The other waterman and one of the gentlemen were saved.
The unfortunate event has created a great sensation among
the owners of sailing yachts mad pleasure boats on the river.
None of the bodies have been recovi red. Soon afterwards a
boat, containing seven persons, which had been down on a
pleasure trip, was capsized by a squall near the same spot;
six of the party citing to the boat while Robert Hamil-
ton, a waterman, swam towards a sailing barge at anchor,
and made kn Avti the danger of his companion.. The barge.
men immediately put off in their boat, and saved the whole
of the party, who were sent up to London in a steamer.
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NtIVESTB.—DEATH IN PRISON. Mr. Wakley,
M.P., held an adjourned inquest in the House of Correction,
Culdl.ath-fields, on the body of Richard Homer, aged '23,
cab-driver, sentenced by Mr. Combe, of the Clerkenwell
l'olice Court, on the 29th ult., to 15 days' imprisonment fur
not-payment to his employers of its. Juhnliomer, brother of
deceased, and also a cab-driver, said that on Saturday, the
29th ult., deceased left home to attend the Clerkenwell
Police Court, to appear to a summons on the part of Mr.
Soliman Isaacs, of Great Ormond-yard. He had signed a
paper, the witness believed, to pay I.lr. Isaacs fourteen shil-
lings per day for the hire of a cab. Ile was committed by
Mr. Combe for non-payment of that sum, and fur two
shillings expenses. (The warrant for commitment was here
produced; it was not accompanied by any other document,
and the signature to it, stated to be that of Mr. Combe, was
not capable of hang deciphered by any one in the inquest-
room.)—The Coroner (to witness) : What is your practice
in hiring cabs from their owners ? Do you sign an agree-
ment ?—Mr. Isaacs' men do. We pay when we come home at
night. If we do not pay we are liable to be imprisoned,
should there be an agreement in writing, not else.—The
Coroner : Cabmen, according to this account of the law, are
treated much worse than any other species of debtor. I
thought that the act of 1844, abolishing imprisonment for
debt for sums under 201., applied to these individuals. The
warrant is issued under the Hackney Carriage Act of 1843,
but I think the debt a simple contract one, coming under
the provisions of the act of 1844, and I do not think an
magistrate has the power of committing to prison in such
cases. The warrant is here, but it is net accompanied by the
agreement between the parties, nor has the governor of the
gaol the agreement ; and if Lis proved that deceased diedfrom
the effects of confinement, some one may be guilty of murder,
for I do not know whether the commitment is legal or not.—
Mr. Hutson, a solicitor,who attended on behalf of deceased's
friends, went to the Clerkenwell police-court, to see the
agreement or the depositions which led to the deceased's
sentence. On his return he reported that having made his
application to Mr. Combe, the latter said, " I suppose you
are come for food for an action. Bring your action if you
like." He would not give me any information, nor allow
me to see the depositions or agreement—Several prisoners
proved deceased's death, which happened suddenly in the
prison infirmary on Thursday last, and also that both de-
ceased and themselves had every requisite medical attention.
—Doctors Smiles and Boyd, who had opened the body, said
death resulted from suffocation, caused naturally, and pro-
bably by spasms of the glottis, the effect of mat-formation
of the upper part of the spine.—The Coroner (to Dr. Boyd) :
Do you in the slightest degree connect the death of deceased
with any treatment he has experienced in this gaol ?—Dr.
Boyd : Not at all.—The Coroner : That is quite sufficient.
—A juror : e are perfectly satisfied on that point, but
I think we ought to express an opinion on the subject
of his coming here.—The Coroner: I think not —After
some further observations by Mr. Wakley, the jury re-
turned the following verdict :—" That deceased die d of suf-
focation, and that the cause was natural." The" appended
to it the following words : " In passing this verdict the jury
express their regret that the law should afford to any magis-
trate reason for considering that he could send drivers of
cabriolets to prison and hard labour for debts under 201.,
when the almost universal public opinion exists that impri-
sonment for debts under that sum is abolished ; and at the
same time they express their regret that Mr. Combe, one
of the magistrates of the Clerkenwell police-court, should not
know better what is the courtesy due from one gentleman
to another, and from one judge of the law to another, than
to send such a reply as he had done this day to an application
from the coroner's court by John Hutson, Esq.,solicitor, and
they agree in considering the answer of Mr. Combe to have
been in every respect improper, rude, and undignified."—
DEATH FROM DROWNI:IO.—By Mr. W. Carter, at the
Bull's Head public-house, in the village of Barnes, on the
body of George Strudwick, aged 44 years. Deceased was a
carpenter residing at Barnes, where he had a wife and seven
children, and had for sune time givenbimself up to drunken
and dissolute habits. On Friday last be went over to Ham-
mersmith, from which place he wrote a letter to his mother,
expressing his intention to destroy himself, and on his return

to the Barnes side of the river he threw himself into the
water. Verdict, " Temporary derangement."—K ILLEII BY
A Ditty.—By Mr. Carter, in Lambeth workhouse, on the body
of Frances Clara Watts, aged eight years, who was killed by
a brewer's dray, on 'Friday last, in Regent-street,
Lambeth. The particulars appcired in the Express
of Saturday, Verdict, " Accidental death." —By
Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on Elizabeth-Sayre, the
second little girl who was run over 011 the same occasion,
and carried 4r the Hospital, where she died. The verdict
was the same.—Dram Fans( • CAET.—By Mr. Payne,
at the same hospital, on John Ryan, nine years old, who was
run over on the 29th uit., while playing in Park-road, Peck-
ham, by one of the c:rts belonging to the Parcel Delivery
Company. Verdict in this case also, " Accidental death."—
DEMO F/LOl.l EXHAUSTION.—By Mr. Carter, on the body
of Mary Ann George, aged 38, who died in the workhouse
of ;it. Mary, Newington. The deceased lived in Burdett-
street, Wulworth-common, with a family of six children,
ever since the death of her husband, which took place on
the Ist of May; and there was much want there, for besides
five loaves and half-a-crown a week allowed by the parish,
the mother and eldest daughter could bind but six pair of
shoes between them a day, and for which they gg& a
penny a pair. To use the daughter's words, they were " Men
short, but then her mother went without to give their humble
fare to the children." The mother was, unfortunately,
enceinte, and was taken, with the family, into the work-
house . On Thursday night a child was born dead, and the
mother also Med. The surgson was of opinion that t'ue
death was caused by exhaustion, consequent on her state,
and that the child bad probably been dead for two or three
days. Verdict " Natural death." -- DEATH ratan
DitOWNINO.—By Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the Golden Crone,
Upper East Smithfield, touching the death of William
Kitchin, aged 16, an apprentice on board the Indus, lying in
the St. Katherine's Dock, Oa Sunday afternoon deceased
was playing with a large dog belonging to the brig, on
F. quay, in the St. Katherine's Docic, when he fell into the
dark and was drowned. The faithful animal immediately
plunged in after and succeeded in recovering his cap,
but was linable to save the deceased. The dog remained
there watching fur scl eral hours afterwards. Verdict—
" Accidental death."

COLLISION ON TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—Yesterday, as an excursioa train, consisting of thirty car-
riages, impelled by two engines, was on its way to town
from Ipswich, it came into collision with a truck which had
teen hilt on the rail, and caused serious injuries to three
persons. Mr. Taylor, the chief of the locomotive depart-
ment, was on one of the e:i3ines, tl:e train being unusually
large. On retching the Brentwood incline, the gradient of
which is I in 90, the drivers, on account of the immense
weight of the train, shut off the steam, but had got only a
short distance when they observed a truck standing upon the
up-hoe. The breaks were applied and the engines reversed,
but the weight of the train was so g: eat that it could not be
stopped and the col:ha:et invented. The min upon the
engine having done all in their power, thought of their own
safety, and jumped off the engines, which utmost immediately
aftercame in violent contact with the truck, which was I
smashed to pieces. Ily the check many of the pasinngers
were thrown from their seats, but none of them were
seriously injured. The men who jumped off the engine
were not so fortunate. Mr. Taylor, and two of the engine-
drivers, were seriowly injured ; Mr. Tujlor's thigh being'
fractured. 'they were court yid. to town, and it is hoped
may recover. The plate-layers it appears brought the truck
containing the plates out of a "siding," and lett it on the
Hoe in.tead of taking it back again. Information of the
accident was forwarded to the terminus, at Shoreilitch, and
several of the principal officials of the company pew* eded in
the afternoon to the spot, and after a most minute investiga-
tion, they felt it their duty to give the parties who lest the
truck upon the line into custody.