The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

BRISTOL, March 3.

Sroct EICI ANOI.—WO again experienced an active
and arm marlo.t, with picot still on the nee. linnet and Esetera
o emit! at 25, and let n at Sal en cm at Winton, which
opened at aU, closed arm at 221; the New 17/. kh.tres of the came
company were done at It MkUsuala at 1;4 ea die.; emith
rweterits, 27.

THE ITUNTEDIAN MrsErM.—A copy of a resolu-
tion passed by the trustees of the Iluntenun Museum, in
February, 1816, relative to the means of enlarging the
space thy receiving anti exhibiting the collections, has been
laid before the house. The resolution moves that the Mat-
(lids of Northampton and the Bishop of London be re-
quested to submit to the First Lord of the Treasury the
claims of the Ilunterian Museum to .ine provision
whereby it might obtain an enlarged area for its contents,
and be enabled to maintain itself worthily "as the great
national depository of the branches of kilos ledge which it
has been instituted to promote. '
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THE IKCENDRRISM AT BRENEHLEY.—OH Satttr-
day last Jabez John Brider, who had been but a few days
liberated front gaol, for the 2lth time, WAS charged be-
fore W. 11. Yaldwin, E. with setting fire to a wheat
stack, the property of William Austen, at Bogs Hole Farm,
in the mwish of Brenchley, Tuubridge.—William Friend
deposed that he was a baker, at Five Oak-green, Capel.
On the evening of Feb. 22 he was going home at about sir
o'clock, and when near Wheeler's barn, he saw a wheat
stack on fire. Ile did not see any one about the premises.
The fire was too far advanced to he rot out.--John King,
labourer, demised that ho lived at I:tiding. On Weelnee-
day last he was going from Puddork Wood to Pernbury,
when he saw the wheat stack on fire. There were thirty
to forty people standing about. Ile staid about five
minutes, and on going towards l'embuty he now the
prisoner standing in the turnpike-road about forty rode
from the fire, at about seven o'clock, uho toked hint whose
property the stack was, and said he thought he knew the
party vi ho set fire to it ; he said it was a chap who had
been a good deal in the union and was out of work.—Wm.
Windier, fanner and constable, deposed that he lived about
thirty rods from the stack. It was nut alight on Wednes-
day evening at sir o'clock. Shortly afterwards he found
that it had been set on fire, and on proceeding to it he
found William Friend trying to trace some footmarlut lead-
ing from the stack. He placed a tub over the marks, and
set a mart to watch. He went in pursuit of the primmer,
and apprehended him at Penibury, and delivered him to
Superintendent Gilbert—ltielianl S. Gilbert deposed that
he received the prisoner from the last witness. Prisoner
began to make a statement, when he cautioned hint. He
said, " I don't care for that ; it was I that did it, and
nn one else but me. I came down the road, and went
through the gap above the stack." He said he knew it
belonged to some farmer, and he supposed to one who
had emptied him at the board last Friday week, and an
he thought he would give him a warming. Ile had 14
black mark near his ear, as if searched by the fine
John Wheeler, constable of Tudeley, deposed that the
prisoner was given into custody by Mr. Gilbert on Wed-
nesday last; he took him to the hing's Head, Five Oak-
green, and had charge of him all night; next morning he
took off his boots, and eon pared them with the footmarks
near the stack, and they corresponded; they were quite
plain this morning, when he again compared them, and
they fitted exactly ; the prisoner said he set the "tack
alight, and had a good mind to set Mr. Luck's stacks
alight, only they were too near the house ; he said he had
a great difficulty in getting from the fire without being
burnt, and that he threw away some pipes and Weiler
matches. Thomas Taylor deposed that he found a pipe, a
piece of paper partly burnt and a match, on Thursday
morning, on the right hand side of the road, about 40 rods
from the fire. William Austen, farmer, Bugs Sole,
Brenchlcy, deposed that the stack which was burned 'lowa
was his property. The prisoner said he was driven to it;
he had applied to the board on two Fridays, and they had
refused to relieve him ; he did not know to whom the stack
belonged, but supposed it belonged to one of the guanlians;
he did it from malice.—Committed for trial.

VERDICT OP NIANSLACCIATER AGAINBT A MAWR-
TRATE —On Saturday last Mr. Taylor, deputy coroner,
held an inquest (by adjournment from the 15th ult.) at the
Blacken Arms lon, Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury, on the
body of a boy named Clegg, aged 4, who on the 14th ult.,
whilst on his way hmno from school, was run over by some
empty waggons on a tranuroad belonging to Joshua
Ingham, Esq., chairman of the West Biding magistrates at
the quarter sessions. There was a compound fracture of cash
leg of the deceased, and the surgeons who were called in
considered it adviiable to amputate both legs, but the
' child died the same evening. It appeared from the evi-
dence that Mr. Ingham has been in the habit of personally
superintending his extensive collieries, and that coal had
been sent down the tram-road. which crosses the highway
on an incline, to a canal in waggon+, which thaw up the
empty waggons. When the empty waggons were affixed to
the rope at the bottom, a twin hoisted up a white signal-
board, and then attended to other work. Afterwards, when
the loaded waggons were att.iehed to the rope at the top,
they were all set in motion liv means of a lar..re drum, and
could not be stopped until th..y reeched the end. No person
had been appointed to watch the ?lace where the train-road
crosses the public road, and there is no protection. The
jury, after deliberating about three-quarters of an hour,
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Mr. Ing-
ham, for whose apprehension the coroner issued his war-
rant.

FALL OF TWO iiotlBF.B.—This morning, shortly
before 11 o'clock, two houses, Nos. 8 and 9, Gray's Inn-lane,
fell with a tremendous cra,h, carrying with them a Large
quantity of scaffolding which had been placed in front. It
appears that the houses, which aro of !•rent age, have been
undergoing some repairs, and wore unoccupied at the time,
there being only four workmen engaged a ho, hearing a
crackling noise, at once mad,: ',hair eseape. Workmen are
now engaged in clearing the road and shoring up the
premien.

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EXTRAORDINARY FATALITY. On Wednesday
morning, shortly after the bayakfast hobr, four prisoners,
who were regularly employed sheet the prison grounds,
under the superintendence of an officer, in scavenging,
lighting, and attending to thy furnaces connected with the
heating apparatus in the different departments of the prison,
were discovered lying in a state. Of *asphyxia on the floor o
the furnace-room connected w:il• the cast wing, where they
had been placed by the officer in gae‘tion, until they had
breakfasted. Medical aid one instantly procured; when
after assiduous application of the miens sae:nested by,
and under the immediate superiatendence of, the me-
dical officer, for upwards of throe hours, three of the indi-
viduals were resuscitated, but not the tourth, in whom no
appearance of vitality WJAS obsarsable from the first. This
lost, it appears, was found lying on his face among some
coke, placed there for feeding the fires when required, mud
may thus possibly have beau exposed to the heavier and
more deadly of the gases, carburretted hydro osen.—generateal
from the imperfect combustion of carbonaceous matter ; but
be this as it may, it would appear tie blame is attachable to
the officer in eliarge, it ....." etearanary to place the
men so employed there at meal helm, without apprehend-
ing any evil consequences.—Glevoto Daily mail.

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