The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-29 00:00:00

.LINCOLNSHIRE.

LINCOLN Coax EXCHANOE.—After an agitation Oftseatiy
two years. this project is at length so far in progress that the
plans are drawn, and tenders are advertised tor. To the back
of the present Cornhill, a handsome three-story building,
with Corinthian capitals, is to be erected, containing various
public rooms • to the rear is the corn exchange, to be lighted
from the roof with skylights; this spacious area will afford
a site for large public meetings, and there is to he a balcony
at one end, the access to which is from the public rooms,
which will afford a commodious hustings. In the basement
there will be a series of vaults, so well as a !Arne kitchen
range of oftl.ies. The rest of the site is to be occupied on the
south side of the newly laid out street by a covered market,
and on the north by an open one.
NOTTINGII\IIIBIpIIP-
. . .

ELOPEMENT.—The Nottingham states that grea
distress has been occasioned in the family of a gallant M.P
residing in thin county, by the clandestine departure of his
daughter. To aggravate the calamity, her husband is on
bed of sickness, and her young family will severely feel
lose of a mother.

SeolLeo ORAlN7fh:'7:in.C;g;:g;;:clry complains that
a large quantity of grain was Intel y destroyed at Peter-
borough. The writer continues—" The public will not be-
lieve that it is the wish of that great and good man, Earl
Fitowilliam, to have one grain of bread corn wasted the
question then is asked by the inhabitant', by whose autho-
nty does Mr. Gibb, tke bailiff of his lordship, thus act in
housing wheat for years, until it becomes entirely useless,
and is a nuisance to the neighbourhood, in causing a deluge
of rata, mice and insects, to the no small detriment of the
health and domestic comfort of those who live near the plaoe
where the granaries are situated. Those who witnessed the
removal of this wasted corn, can testify the effect it had on
the minds of the people, most of whom are obliged to give
4s. or 4.. 3d. per stone for flour, and receive the scanty pay
of 12e. or 14e. per week for labour."
WLLTSHIRE.
CONIIII3BIOII Hy MB LORD LIEVTIMANT.—T. Gaisford,
jun., Esq., to be °apt., vice T. 8. Mills, res., of RL Regular
Militia.

BERKSHIRE.
COMMISSIONS BY THY LuaIi•LIYUTYNANT.—A. H. Pop-
ham to be sec. lieut. ; E. Morris to be cornet, Tice J. Mat
thews, res., of the Hungerford Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry

THE RIOTOUS PROCIEDINOS in some of the towns in
Somerotskire, and in Devon and Cornwall—particulars of
which we reported—have entirely subsided, tranquillity and
good order having succeeded these outbreaks. Several
meetings have been held withia the last few days, and large
sums of money have been contributed, for the purpose of
enabling those upon whom the pressure of the times has
more particularly fallen, to obtain bread and other provisions
at a low rate.
TEE RAPID INCREASE OF EVERY SPECIES OP VEOE-
-1 TAHLE Guewrit, within the lest new days of saperb weather,
affords gratifying assurance that the food crops of this county
will not be so backward es it was, until lately, feared they
would he. The wheat is everywhere looking levilthy mid
luxuriant, and every other description of corn is in excellent
condition. int early potatoes have in every instance sue-

twined the most sanguine hopes of being perfectly exempt
from disease, and, as yet, no symptoms of mischief have ap-
peared in the late and general crop.
THIS ABI:OR ors YCBLIC CHARITY has Mused much
discussion recently at East Chinoock. The charity lands
there consist of Ha. Ur. 20p., besides houses, and produce
upwards of .501. per annum. The complaint of the poor
people of the parish is that fur years past they have been •
kept in total ignorance of the management of the funds de-
rived from this property, and the existing ingirty was in-
stituted in consequence of some time since forcible possession
being taken sf a portion of the property. On Wednesday
the amounts were gone into. It appeared the feoffees had
erected, at great expense, certain premises, which are
now called the "School-house." These premises are not
consp!etcd, and have never been occupied; no estimate
bad been obtained of the coat of the erection, but a
surveyor had gone over and valued them and considered
them worth just the amount which had been drawn out of
the funds for the purpose of building them. At this meeting
the feoffees agreed to have an audit, and annuaUy to publish
the accounts, and to distribute every year whatever balance
might be in hand, and in every respect to carry out the ori-
ginal intention of the donor with respect to the trusts. "It
is however worthy of remark," says the local journalist,
" that the feoffees at present acting have no right whatever
to administer the funds of this charity. They are, beyond
question, merely trustees to hold the same to such uses and
purposes ' as seven of the most discreet men of the parish-
ioners shall from time to time appoint.' No such arpointment
by the said seven aim men of East Chi:mock has ever been
made, and the present &Mims are purely self-appointed
ones."

PORTLAND BRRAILWATZIL—We (titherborue Journal) are
happy to state that this national work is now about to be
proceeded with. Mr. Bendall, the engineer, has been in the
island during the week. 'fns laqd to be used for fortifica-
tions has been surveyed and is now marked out, and we are
pleased to find that they are to be of such a nature as will
Justify its being called a national undertaking. The works
' are sufficiently extensive to give permanent employment to
• large number of individuals.
Tue Diutuours or Macaw:Let within the past week
have been unprecedentedly abundant ; upwards of three
hundred thousand have been landed on the beach between
Portland and Burton. Seven thousand were shipped on
board one small malt on Monday evening, fur Seuthampton,
the owners hoping to be in time for the first morning train
Irons that place to Lon. Ma. So Large have been the guanti-
ties landed that spectators were permitted to lake with them
as many as they chose gratuitously, the beach Laing strewed
with