The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS; TUISDAT Enia/M, APRA%II, 1884.

SPORTING INTRZLIGENCT.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIX/NIT, Aran 4111.0111?111/2119. —Pay-
ouster W. B. Dutton, additional to We kresistible.
Arakkaatatunsas L Banbury salaam! to Um dead.
Naval MUM (aandn ,atod) 0. ItUss, H. K. L. Pbol4s,
IL Lbsdonay, 11. Y. Lather, W. G. Forts's, and J. G. Pro.
arias.

PORTSMOUTH. Assn la.
The Shannon, 35, screw frigate, Captain 0. .T.
Joao. vas taken wider the elan on Saturday to be dkv
nutatla, and will be paid oat of commission to-morrow.
The Advice, 3, steam-veseel, Muter H. 0. Raymoed,
cemzerder, arrivid at the Royal Ciarsam-yard on Satur-
day. from the Oove of Cork.
n. iladnes, 3, steam-vernal, Muter J. H. 011ard, com-
mander, sailed this warning for Sheerness, having in tow •
watch vemel for omalgoard service.
The 75th Regiment arrived at Portsmouth this monde,
by spaoial tram from Aldershot. The headquarters of the
regiment marched to Fort Grange, on the Gosport aide of
the harbour, and • detachment embarked on board the
Urgent, seem troopship, Captain Sainuel H. liondsrsoo,
for conveyance to Weymouth and Portland.

ROYAL NAVAL RVIIIIVIL—MORSTIA Wm. Purnell
Newman and Wm. Henry Terry ban been appointed to
be aub-lieateaanta.

CENTRAL REUSE PUNA
--*----

A meeting of the Central Executive Committee
was held yesterday afternoon is the Manchester Town.ball.
Sir J. E HAT•SHOTTLIWOIIII wee in the chair, and there
were also promo% Colossi Patten, .115. P , Major Egerton
Mayor of Manchester, Meson. H. B. Patna,
let eke
Ashworth, T. Aaliton. W. Itathbone, jun., M. Boss.
B. Ashworth, B. Hutchinson, Hugh Mean, B. J. liters,
J. Worrell, eed J. W. Moab" hon. sea.
The HON. lawmen reported that 1,3921. Ira. id. had
been readved daring the peat four weeks, and that the
balance in the bank was 47,3081. 11s. 3d. He also pre-
owned his monthly report.
Mr. Fainam. presented his report, 'bowing • demean of
seeking relief is the 27 twiner of the inanufacturing
ea the let inst.on compared with the number re
lamed ora the 4th ult., of 10,563.
The lord Mayor of London and the Lord Mayer of Dub-
lin were introduced to the committee by the Mayor of Man-
chester, and remained in the room for a short time. Before
leaving,
The Lord Mayor of LONDON stated that he and other gen-
tleman occupying the same position had hoean most happy to
lad accommodation in the flansion-Aonee for the trimmer
Hoe of business connected with the Latosahiredietrus fund.
He had only no regret to uproar, which was that the
bassos remaining of the Mansion-hone* food was only some
12,0001. or 13,0001.
The CB•1101•11 said he could not allow Iris lordship
to withdraw without saying that the whole district
had felt that the Mansion-house fond Ind greatly oontrl.
bated to the relief of the operatives of Inornatire. Prior
to his lordship entering the room, the hoc. **notary had
mask a statement in his report respelling the health of the
population and lbs diminution a the mortality of the dig.
Wert, and showing that there bad bees ao Increase of disuses
during the distress, and be (the Chairman) was ware it
would be universally admitted that this gratifying result
was owing to the generous relief which had been received
from London and all other parts of the coustry. Oa
behalf of the committee he must exprem the vary high
seam they entertained of the valuable services rendered by
the Maneion-honso Committee.

Mr. Rua (President of the Manchester Chamber of Corn-
meree)maki he desired to convey the thanks of this 00431.
=Mee to the people of Dublin. There had been co more
generous response to the wants of this district than had
proceeded from the Irish capital. He wan glad to find from
that mu to be presented to the committee that day,
that whilst theca were outstanding subscriptions amounting
to 60,0001. in England sad 4011. in Scotland, cot one aka.
ling of emus erudite from Ireland.
• Lord Mayor of Doisuif said it afforded him great
plenum to beer the statement just made in favour of the
pe trof DuMia.
lordships then retired.

The following grant, were made from the (moral fund,
each extending over four weeks : Ashtoo, &W. ; Mids.
field. 3001. ; Hurst, 2001 ; Leas and District, 2004 ; How-
ley, 1004 • Newton Moor, 001.; Staleybridge, 6001. ; Tie-
twisle, 1501. ; /tighten, 201. ; Padihmo, 1001. ; Bury and
Elton, 1501. • Heywood, 4001. ; Halms, 1004 ; &balsa,
101. ; Riosnuiiston 101. ; Glomop and Hadfield, 2504 ;
Orawshay booth. 6tll. ; Becup, 2501. ; Edenfield, 20/. ; New.
church, 201. ; Rewteestall, 601. ; Staoksteada, 604 • Cramp.
toe, 121). • Middleton and Toots. 204 ; Oldham, 4001. ;
Boytoo, 1241. ; Prestos, 4301. ; Salford, 2001. ; Wigan, 3001.;
Higlsam, 201., ; and Tookholse, 101.

TEE DISPUTE IN THE IRON TRADE.

WOLVERHAMPTON. MONDAY.

This morning the several ironmaking firma in the
Wolverhampton district each received a note from the
Mayor of this town (Mr. J. Ford) enclosing the resolution
thimed by the paddlers at their meeting on Saturday, de.
alining to resume work till they bad obtained a pledge from
their maters that a code of rules end a court of arbitration
should be established for the settlentest of future disputes.
The Mayor's note requested the masters to meet a deputa-
tion of the men and himself at the Town-hall on Taesday
forenoon, and his worship desired that the firms addressed i
would reply as to their willingness or otherwise to
be present. It is the Mayor's intention to be
supported dories the proposed interview by the
=qof the town clerk of the borough (Mr. E. J. Hayes).
iont the extensive Brisrly.hill district work is gene-
rally 'rig returned to by the paddlers to-night. At
Messrs. Brown and Freer's, however, there is a little hitch
with the forge rollers, who want a slight increase upon their
termer remuseration. The claim is based upon a state of
things which is under.tood to be peculiar to the operations
el the firm named, and therefore of only limited import.
asoe. Messrs. Brown and Freer have offered to meet their
sofa half.way, and it is believed that if nostigon thia, yet
other
upon some arrangement, the t difficulty
described will be sone adjusted. At hot the forge'
of the Earl of Dudley at Boned Oak all the
puddling furnaces have been " got up," and the
ethatry thereabouts is beginning to assume its former aspect.
The two blast furnaces at Caponfielde, belonging to Mews.
Begnall, are again at work, and three of MOWS. Gruebrook
sad Aston will be soon "on." At Tipton and Banco work
is itentiousd, but at Mann. Gibbs Brothers, at DeepfieLla,
the men decline to resume until the Wolverhampton men
ge on under an agreement with a court of arbitration as a
bans.

The Wolverhampton ironmaiten decline to meet the men
with the Mayor to-morrow, ea proposed. Bang members
of the 'mamma& Animation, they cannot, they state,
act alone in the matter.

A FAMILY DROWHED.—EarIy on Sunday morning
a moot melancholy most took plus at Caythore which re-
sulted in the death of three persons. A few chutes after
12 o'clock on Saturday night, a lockkeepsr on the Rochdale
Canal, Cisytbore, named Thomas Hodpon, heard a scream
like that of a woman. Having gone to bed, be robe, and
draining himself as quickly as he could, west along the
bask of the canal towards the spot where he thought the
sound had come from. In the water, and near the bank, be
found the body of a female child, apparently about two
years of age. So soon as he bad dragmd the body to the bank
end found that it was quite lifeless, be sought the &mist,
moo of a policeman. They together examined the spot,
and soon found, floating on the canal, a I,lOOlllO'S bonnet.
The canal was thee dragged, and soon another body was
found, evidently that of the owner of the bonnet. The
woman also was quite dead. About five o'clock yesterday
minim it was rumoured that a man was missing from a
boat then on the canal. About the same spot whence the
serum had proceeded was found • third body, which has
hese identified as that of William Peodlebury, of Leigh,
who owned the boat from which he bad been missing.
There is strong reason for believing that a double attempt
to rescue one bad resulted in the death of the three penes,
inasmuch as the band of the man, whoa his body was re-
covered, grasped the shawl of the cinfortinate women, his
wife, who attempted, it may be, the mew of the child
that had fallen into the water. The woman and child were
poorly clad, end the pockets of the husband contained a
tobacco-box end 70.—Manchester Guardia*.
Tug LAILCOIRT RAILWAY BRIDOS Ire THE WORLD.
—The proposed bridge which is to carry the South Wales
and Great Western Direct Railway across the river Severn,
near to Chepstow, is, according to the design of Messrs.
Fowler and Fulton, the millwork to be two miles and a
quarter in leogth, aim is to have sofficiest headway to per-
mit masts of ships of 122 feet in lengthto pass under when
the surface of the river is at the level of mean tide, so as
in so way to impede the navigation. The principal epee-
ist which is to cross the low-water channel is to be 600
fut span, being the total width of the Thames at South week-
bridge, or 150 feet wider than the span of the Menai-bridge.
Messrs. Fowler sad Fulton estimate the probable oast of
this bridge at 980,0001., for which sum the eminent firm of
Mauro. Cochrane, Grove, and Co., have undertaken to com-
plete the work. The indients upon this new route will
be Rah as to make the lice between London and the South
Wales coalfields better adapted to • large anal sod mineral
Irak than any other line of the lame length in the king-
dom. The shortening of diatoms and securing the better
pettiests will practically diminish the journey between
Milford Haven, the South Wales coalfields, and London by
about 40 miles.

FAITIRN AND SAMPLE POST.—With re-
forests to thereviied rules of the inland pattern and sample
peek which were palifiabad oe the 27th ultimo. it has sow
been decided to modify Use rule No. 6. and to wait the
tritamnisaioe of samples of sada, ho., Wooded fee delivery
militia the United Biescloin, ia bap entirely cared, pro-
vided that me hap be tramper's', ao that the touters of
the departmeet may be able to satiety tbsemetme as to the
nature of the contests. It is to be distinctly understood
that this modification relates may to the hiked patters sad
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COVRT OF BANKRIIPTOY,Anus. 10.
(Beare Ma Registrar Muni.)
rat BB 1U 1111LIALUL

The bankrupt WM • diSMOOII 1111411011111. Lilainhen•
stelae. This Wee • &waked a The lirlidilkoe ere
about 90,00 W lt ~ sad wad dread there was 4,0004 la
band. no 1111611 i raidulise sae

Mr. Langford appeared ter the pecseratioe ; and Xt.
Sleigh &boded the =ow.
The evidrace on the part at the peementbre
declared Lb. hob the eaae to be time r—The presaseter,
• lad 12 or 13 pen at the sea at • trageeme weeth%
be the meal hidersa eg and Brealf=idusheLMls
bran seat by his father to • neighbouring
return a bottle width had been bet with beer •
for the eoneempao. of bb lather era other
• bergentes. The lad wee rearming &areas • field, is whisk
ha eserraterra the pawner, who wee out with a log mid
gra. The primmer charged the lad with attempting
entice the dog away. This the lad denied, span which tiepD
Boner streak him a blow ea the eyes ad roes, kaooked
down, and while dove toped epos bra. passeseter
mired hiroaelf up, aid „ armies a ditch tilltaNd the low-
lagrath on the bask of meal, ad took up • acme with •
ROW to protect himself from further violence on the part of
the primmer. Oa rang this, the primmer, who hed fa-
lowed the prosecutor eloolly up to the edge al the ditek
told him that if be threw the door, he (the primer) would
ire at him and "shoot him deed." The lad did threw
the stole, and at the ere imbue the
a=a
who had robed the pa to his &Molder,
the weapon, and the shots lrapd in the apt aide at
the prosecutor's feet, isjuries his right eye, end the other
&hob taking ailed ca the right arm aid shoulder. The
evidence of the house supra, Mr. Phelps. at St.
Mery's Horaital, Paddlopoe (to which the woraded lad bed
bum kouPt dim the rream), showed that ao
era 25 shots bad bees eocoaram by eted him, are shot sall re.
mu sing in the liad'a right eye.
The teetiniray of two labouring meth earned Abbett and
Allem, who bed witnessed the traumatic., folly corrobo-
rated the evidence a/ the prolocutor.
In his croraezemination of the lateness, Mr. Sleigh
'rayed to elicit from them that the discharge of the pa
&roes from &cadent, while the primmer was attempting to
cross the ditch to mob the bran-path in pursuit of the
proerautor, but this the witseamodeared. It wee, however,
admitted by them that the prisoner declared it was ea air
eident, sad expressed the deepest eratritioe for what had
unfortunately ramrod.
Mr. Sleigh addressed the jury on behalf of the primmer,
on whom behalf he reiterated the fa:price the deepest
regret that the prosecutor should hare adored bodily berm
hum the wounds accidentally indicted spa him. The
learned conceal further urged that the *erase was lIMI-
Floyd to watch the lend by the owner, sad therefore bed •
legitimate right to De there, while, on the raker head, the
praoner wee a treepamer, and when warned off by the
Namara, reload to go, sod Mace the peramal straggle
Mtwara them. Witt regard to Grim the gun, he should
call • witness who would prove that it was purely aecidentel,
sad be should also preeent witnesses who would speak to
the priscoer's good character far kindness of disposition sad
htunesity. _ _ _

A youth, who ;pave the name of Onset, bet who tweed
out to be a brother of the prisoner, was thee celled, sad
Led' that on tLe
Adz is quotas he was with
prsoser in the earl was present whoa
the altereatioe took pace between hie brother
and the prosecutor, after the latter had refused
whoa requested to leave tat ground. Alter the Wiqpile
the prosecutor used very bad language, adtook off ha
cost challenging the isomir to tight. At lest be went
away woos the ditch, the primmer following, sad while ea-
tempting to pursue him the gas, which the primmer had
never minid to his shoulder but carried ander his arm, went
off by accident.
Several trauma' pee the prisoner a good character for
humanity and kindness of dispositioo.
The Common Serjeant is summing up ocastraded the eel-
deem of the painonees brother with the testimony of the
iedependent witnesses called in support of the prosseutioo.
The jury, after • loss ornseltation, returned a verdict of
Guilty of tielawfally wounding.
The Common &least told the prisoner that the jury
bed taken a very linnet view of his case, and if the verdict
had been ass of =evades of the higher offset, of felossy,
he (the Common Serjrant) ebeald Peat felt it his duty to
pia upon him a isestance of peeel servitude for a length-1
seed period indeed, the prisoner ought to be thankful that
be was not in the Old Court steadies os his trial for wilful
murder. For the awes of which the jury lad convicted
him, the melanin was that be be keen to hard labour in the
House of Carreoticie for twelve Weeder awaits.
Margaret Redeem, ales Bradley, alias Smith, and having
adopted a dozen other aliases, pleaded guilty to an indict.
meat charging her with attempting by false pretences to
obtain mosey from Mr. J. F. CM-ay.
Mr. Poland, admitted by the dilutes of the Mendirity
Society appeared for the prosecutioe, and stated to the
court that the feet. were these. Early in the month of
February bat the prisoner presented Windt at the aims of
Misers. Christy, the well-knows bat manufacturers in the
City, and heeded in a letter, of which the following is a
copy :—" St. James's Pa/smogs, Clapham, 3rd Fob., 1886.
—The Rev. G. J. Collagen prenente his respectful oomph-
meets to J. F. Christy, Fag., and begs to submit to him the
enclosed memorial for that gentleman's charitable perusal,
trusting he will add a mite to the list of subscribers. As
users per bearer will oblige." The memorial seamed in
this mite purported to be signed by Mr. W. A. Freaks, the
vestry clerk of Clapham. and was in them terms :—" I am
instructed by several inflneetial seotlemen in this parish to
draw op this memorial en behalf of Mn, Eliza Hadfield,
widow of Mr. George Hadfield, formerly a respectable trades-
roam in this parish, who died in embeet.ssd eircumstanom
in August last, he having been for early three yeses previous
to his death severely satiated with rionsumption. The
pm port of this spinal is to raise by voluntary contributions
the sum of 32L, in order to pianism the good-will aid fix-
tures of a laundry, to be diapason! of for that =toast. I
therefore recosernend the ome to the mike of the bemire-
lent, imams& se Mrs.Hadliskl has a leanly of aix children
dependent epos ban for support." To this memorial were
appended the signatures of the Rev. Weatworth Bowyer
the rector of Clapham, the Rev. Mr. Collins.., Mr.
(a magistrate of Surrey), and several other clargynase sad
gestlemen, of
names, it was needless to say, tensed oat
to be all forgeries, as was also the mote purporting to bs
written by the Rev. Mr. Collasce, as well as the Idigollilne
of Mr. Freaks to the manorial. Whim the primate brought
the documents to the office of Masora. Christy, she wee
desired to call again the next day. She, however, weer
came again, but information was give to the
police, and shit was taken into custody. He
(Mr. Poland) might add that the peacoat bad
commenced her career of fraud in the year 1841 ; the had
been apprehended for offences of this kind 24 times, had
bean convicted 22 times and discharged tides ; in fact, of
the last 24 years she had spent six years, *levee months,
and three days is prime.

The Common &desist said it would be idle for him to
address any observations to such a person as the prisoner,
who, luckily for herself, had not suooseded, in this instance,
in obtaining any money from Mr. Christy. or the sentence
would have been much more severe ; as it wee, eh* stood
oonvioted, on her own confession, of a misdemeanour, and
the sentence wee that she be imprisoned in the House of
Correction for two years, and he regretted he was not
empowered, by law, to add bard labour.

The remainder of the 'halm was occupied in deposing of
Mint prosecutions, which presented no feature* of novelty
or interest.