The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-02 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

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RtILWAY FROM PADDINGTON TO THE THAMES.-
On Saturday Sr P. Laurie drew the :attention of the vestry
an shred' ement calling a pubic meeting for the purposeof
keeling a railway along the bed of the Regent's-canal, from
Paddington to the Thames. The proposed railway would
ruin all the property in the vicinity of the Park. The vestry
lot year succeeded in terrifying the shareholders of the
railway from paying up or going to parliament, and he was
atisSed that the vestry would, by following up that opposi-
ton, also deter the proprietors from resuming the scheme.
He moved the appointment of a committee to watch and re-
port the proceedings of the proprietors, and, if neceisary, to
wait upon the Home Secretary and the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, to enlist their opposition to it.—Mr.
I reminded the vestry that the railway would interfere
'- rates to the amount of 34,0001. a ear;y and that,
' solemnly bound to watch it. The mo-
n. con.
:mous Fittest) OP THE POOR.—The vestry.
letter from the anonymous humane gentleman
. to subscribe 5001. towards the comforts of those
having. seen better days, were, through reverse of for-
: 'to become inmates of the workhouse. The
. surprise that he had received no satisfac-
aication from the vestry ; and, in conclusion,
the vestry did net avail itself of his offer, he
it to another board.—Mr. Daniel regretted to
er read. The offer, which was a princely one,
.... condition that others made the sum 1,0001. Up-
-1501. had been ridded to it, hut the board of
, when called upon to avail themselves of it, would
Some years ago, 2,0001. was expended in build-
workhouse apartments for the parties for whose
:5001. was now given, but after the outlay of that
subject was lost sight of, and allowed to drop. He
nothing so harrowed the feelings of respectable
to were the inmates of the workhouse, as their
compelled to associate with the depraved characters
found there. He moved that the letter be referred
of guardians.—Mr. Granger seconded, and Mr.
ed the in- tion.—Mr. Bell said that as example
n 'anger, they should themselves contribute
it fund.—Mr. Ridgway said that he would do so,
to rector offered to add to it 501., left with him for
Nurposes.—The motion was carried. The vestry-
. that during the week 6,319 paupers had been
and that there were in the workhouse 1,749 in-
after which the vestry adjourned.

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GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-
CSE.—The Lord Mayor gave a most splendid entertain-
'on Friday, in the Egyptian-hall of the Mansion-house,
Well 180 and 200 guests. The Lord Mayor and Lady
• will give a grand ball at the Mansion-house on the
. The grandest preparations arc being made for
1, and some of the first people in town are invited.
ICHAELMAS TERM.—This being the first day of
2erm the judges will breakfast with the Lord
and afterwards proceed, in state, to open
at Westminster. The procession will be mar-
Francis Smedley, Esq., the High Bailiff of

GARDENS AT CIIELSEA.—The company of
have appointed Mr. Fortune, the late plant
Lie Horticultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick,
just returivd from a horticultural expedition to
'-ich he was engaged for three years, as curator
at Chelsea, in room of the late Mr. Ander-
.s.
GREAT BRITAIN.—The plan proposed by Mr.
.h, for floating that leviathan ship, is, it is
be tried. it has been thus explained .—There is to
s of stones in a half circle placed at a short distant
of the vessel, and some hollow iron shells in a
with gunpowder, besides a few smaller
zed along the course to which the ship is
driven. Upon the semi-circular train being
.., of the usual galvanic appliances, the water at
the ship will be lifted with such force as to loosen
bed, and immediately set her afloat, the conti-
. the wave being accomplished by the firing of the
charges, while the tug steamers are towing in
It is calculated that the water will be agitated to
,nt. not more than equal to the force already
the Great Britrin when at tea, and that a COT-
:of casks deposited in the engine-room will give
it buoyancy. The grand point must necessarily
such a precise arrangement of the explosive
to prevent any untoward injury to the ship and
time to accomplish a simultaneous action of the
auspicious event come off, and the
afloat. We have seldom known
excite more interest here than this
since the trial of Warner's Long
the Great Britain will not become
ty way not easily reparable.
.6E.—The revenue authorities
.neir minute of June, 1836, by which
baggage warehouses are authorised to
to passengers, respecting their effects,
port from the continent after four
and being of opinion, in order to
accommodation to passengers, that
,r in his absence the landing waiters,
warehouses, should be authorised to
.ons, whether during or after the
,g the public business of the depart-
issued for the revenue officers at the
a in the port, to govern themselves in
accordingly, and for a proper form of
from passengers, previously to the de-
English horses, carriages, .and plate,
furnished to the officers for the pro-
extension of the privilege of per-
the continent to make the required
their effects, before the examining
hours of business have closed, allowing
be observed within the legal hours, or,
...a times, instead of obliging the, in many
-respectable parties to attend at the Custom
will be duly appreciated, and the
very opportune period, when fami-
others are returning from their tours
rendering it of essential and imme-
to the public.
—The Leipaic catalogue just
titles of 5,283 works, which have
Germany since the Easter fair of the pre-
about immediately to appear, and 381
,maps, plans, Bre. OEthe 5,283 works in
have been printed at Leipsic, 514 at
Attgardt, 163 at Vienna, 117 at Munich,
and the remainder in the various other
No less than 358 are exclusively cones-
movement in Germany.—Atheneum.
--,us—Tituurrs, Ocr. 20.

that the steamer Ariel, now on the Mar-
to that via 'Trieste, belongs to the Peed's-
Company, and it la far that Componletior
government why they are
despatches from the Wench Coor= Alex-
), Sze and carrying no portion el IL M.
Gove.emeent or the Hon. the E UAW
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was bunt under esserset, to stem ea Ye me-
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Odor osalos, so I vik ths know lot, odd • bad of
odd odd to do Arley, Ism aodisot that all I Sore Jaunted will
be accomptlehad.-1 remain, sir, la., TISOMAII RAONOIM
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. The following
extensive improvements in the vicinity of Leicester-square
will commence, it is expected, early in the present month.
The whole of Upper St. Martin's-lane is to be demolished,
sad a street, 101 feet wide to be formed, to be ultimately
carried through the heart of 'the Seven Dials to Tottenham-
eourt-road. A new street, to he funned at the junction of
St. Martin's-lane, Cranboans-street, Newport-street, and
Long-acre, in a line through to Singegreet, Covent Garden,
and the Strand, the south end of St. Martin's-lane, Rear the
ehunh, will also be widened by throwing back the houses at
the corner of Hemming's-row, and a communication opened
between Coventry-street and Oxford-street, by throwing
down the pile of buildings separating Rupert-street and
Berwick-street. The cost of these undertakings will be
120,0001.
HEARTLESSNESS OF RELIEVING OFFICERS.—It is
really time that some measures should be adopted to prevent
the starving poor from being left to the caprice and defective
judgment of workhouse officer. Persons almost perishing
for want daily apply to the magistrates for redress and
assistance; yet they, in all probability, form but a small
proportion of the miserable objects who, turned ruthlessly
away from the doors of workhouse's, have not the courage to
complain at a police office. On Saturday no fewer than five
cases of this sort of inexcusable cruelty came before the
magistrates at different police courts. At Guildhall, Rebecca
Allen, an emaciated and sickly woman, with a child in her
arms, applied to Mr. Alderman Hooper for his interfereuce.
She had presented herself to the officers of Cripplegate
parish, to which she belonged—had explained that no
food had passed her lips for some time, and that,
having no home to shelter her, she was in danger
of perishing in-the streets from want ; yet she was turned
away unassisted-. The chief usher told the alderman that
at Cripplegate workhouse, poor creatures were refused assis-
tance without the slightest explanation. It was an every-
day occurrence ; the magistrates' orders were quite unheeded.
Mr. Alderman Hooper requested the chief clerk to
furnish the unfortunate applicant with some silver, so as to
meet her present wants. He then desired the officers of the
court to convey to the authorities of Cripplegate his peremp-
tory order for her relief.—At Westminster John Matson,
a wretched-looking man, wilfully broke a pane of glass.
to obtain the (to him) luxury of a jail, because, though in a
starring and destitute state, he was refused admission even for
a night in St. Margaret's workhouse; to his great satisfaction
be was committed to prison for twenty-one days.--At
Marylebone Court, Thomas Mosley, a miserable object' was
else charged with breaking a lamp. He had applied for
temporary relief at St. Pancras workhouse, was refused, and
gained a fortnight's board and lodging in the House of Cor-
rection by his misdemeanour. Four other persons were
committed for a similar offence for the same reason from the
same court.---A destitute woman, named Jane Webb, had
been refused admission to St. Saviour's union, and was taken
before a Southwark magistrate.
A FEMALE By RGLAR. —On Saturday, Hester
Elizabeth White, 23 years of age, about the middle height,
dark hair and eyes, and fashionably dressed, was accused before
George Bernie, Esq., amagistmte, at hisresidence, the Grove,
Hanwell, Middlesex, charged with having committed a dar-
ing burglary. On the night of the 20th inst., the house of
Mr. Jones, a gentleman of property, residing at Woodland
Cottage, Ealing, was burglanously entered and robbed of a
writing-desk, with a Bramah's patent lock, containing four
101. Bank of England notes, 10/. in gold, and 201. in gold and
silver coin, consisting of guineas, half-guineas, and seven-
shilling pieces, several trinkets, a miniature of a gentleman
in a morocco case, and a pocket-book containing wills,
deeds, and other papers. Information of the robbery, and
the numbers and dates of the notes, was immediately for-
warded to the police and to numerous bankers in town,
through whom they have been subsequently traced to various
shopkeepers in Regent-street and Oxford.street, who had
changed them in the sale of muffs, boas, and other articles 'f
dress. One note was traced to Miss Warren, a stay maker,
carrying on business at No. 1, Hanway-street, Oxford-street,
who stated that she changed it in the purchase of two pair of
stays for a female who gave the name of Miss White,
residing at No. 20, Crown-court, Pall-mall. On Fri-
day Inspector Loxton proceeded to that address, accompa-
ni by Sergeant Tull, end found that such a person lodged
there, and on going into the room shown him he discovered
the prisoner in bed, apparently very ill. On searching the
room the stolen writing-desk was found under the prisoner's
pillow, broken open, but still containing the ancient coins
and other property, except the Bank of England notes and
sovereigns. In the prisoner's box was also found a parcel,
done up in brown paper, directed to " Mr. Jones, Ealing,"
containing the wills, deeds, and other papers. The prisoner
was removed to the station-house at Ealing, and while there
she stated that she formerly lived in service with one of Mr.
Jones's female servants, and by that means had obtained
access to that gentleman's house. A short time mince she
was down there for a week on a visit. On the 20th inst. she
went down there for the day, mid left there at nine o'clock
at night, and was accompanied by Mr. Jones's servant, and
a servant at the next house, to the Ealing station of the
Great Western Railway, who witnessed her departure by
the last train for Paddington. Before she left the house,
she managed to raise, unperceived, the bar of the kit-
chen window shutter out of the catch. On getting
out of the train at Paddington, although it was a drenching
night, she immediately returned on foot to Ealing, and
waited until the family of Mr. Jones had retired to rest,
which they usually did at half-pest eleven o'clock. When
she found all was quiet, she climed over a wall, six feet high,
at the side of Mr. Jones's premises, and, throwing the kit-
chen window up, had no difficulty in lifting the iron
bar of the shutters, which, having accomplished, she
got in, and in the dark went up to the front draw-
ing-room, and stole the writing-desk, taking her depar-
ture with it the same way that she entered, after which,
regardless of the pitiless rain, she retraced her way to town,
end reached Crown-court, Pall-mall, about eight o'clock in
the morning, in a very exhausted state, and soaked to the
akin, her stays having been saturated. The parcel directed
I to Mr. Jones she intended to send back, the articles being of
no use to her. She was remanded for the attendance of the
necessary witnesses, and in consequence of her illness from
the cold she had caught in the commission of the robbery,
she was sent to the infirmary of the Westminster Bridewell
for re-examination when able to bear it.
ACCIDENT.—Many of the subscribers to the Daily
News who got the it copies by the train leaving Padding-
ton at 6 o'clock, a m., did not receive them at the ordinary
hour, in consequence of the following serious accident which
occurred to Clayton's newspaper express: The driver, a
careful man, was proceeding rapidly along a street leading
to the station, when, turning the corner, some mischievous
persons set up a loud shout and clapping of hands. The
horse shyed, ran the chaise against a projecting stone, over-
turning the vehicle with a fearful crash. The driver was
thrown many yards over the horse's head, but providentially
escaped, though much bruised. But his companion, a young
man in the employ of Messrs. Marlborough. pitching, unto,.
tunately on his head, concussion of the brain was produce&
He was immediately conveyed to St. George's Hospital,
where he remains in a precarious state. From the Strand to
the Paddington-station is considerably over three miles; this
is frequently accomplished in 12 or 13 minutes. Taking into
consideration the number of turnings on the road, and the
darkness of the mornings, this performance is equal to many
of the extraordinary feats paraded in the columns of the
sporting journals.
Isgursrs.—The following were held on Saturday :
—DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Before Mr. Mills, at the Vine-
yard public-house, Clerkenwell, to inquire concerning the
death of Charles Miles, aged 28. On Wednesday last the
deceased was employed as an undertaker, to drive in the
funeral procession of a gentleman who had been killed by a
fall from a chaise, near Brighton. After the burial, the de-
ceased and his fellow-servants partook of some refreshment,
which in a alight degree inebriated him, and when returning
to town through Morden, Surrey, with his coach, he was
suddenly missed from his seat by Samuel Meetings, the con-
ductor of the hearse, and his mangled remains were dis-
covered between a wheel of his vehicle and the splinter bar,
his face being downwards close to the hoofs of the horses,
which, at nearly every step, must have come in contact with
his head. When extricated, he was removed with all pos-
sible haste to the residence of a medical gentleman, who pro-
nounced him to be quite dead, and by his advice he was at
once conveyed to London in the hearse, and left at his home,
No. 7, Wood-street, Spaftelds. The friends of the deceased
expressed themselves satisfied that he had met with his
death from accidental causes, &lathe jury returned a verdict
to that effect.—SVICIDE FIT A BANE CLERK.—By the
same coroner, at the Old Queen's Head, Lower-road, Isling-
ton, on the body of a gentleman, named Marshall, who at
the time of his death was a clerk in the Bank of England.
Mr. Roper, of America-square, Minories, a fellow-clerk of
the deceased, gave evidence, showing that the unfortunate
man, through some domestic differences, had become very
unsettled in his mind, but it was not for a moment supposed
that he would do an act to injure himself. On Thursday
he complained of indisposition, and by Mr. Roper's recom-
mendation did not go to the bank at the usual hour in
the morning, and about four o'clock in the afternoon he
left that gentleman's abode, and was seen at dusk to drown him-
self in the river. Verdict : " Found drowned."—Setteine ,
AT Torrexuese —Bv Mr. W. Baker, at the Victory, Totten- '
ham, on the body of Mr. D. Greene, aged 83, lately residing
in Union-row, in that neighbourhood. It appeared from the
evidence that deceased, on Friday week, had been accused of
stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and ever
since he had been in a very low and desponding state of
mind. The butcher, it seems, stated that he had suspected
him for a period of ten years. lie acknowledged having
taken away a piece of beef, and on Wednesday lut, whilst
he was out taking a walk, a boy upbraided him, and said,
" Well, old chap, how did you like the meat ?" He shortly
afterwards returned home, and, on going into the yard, he
said that the boy had driven him mad. A daughter of the
deceased said that for some time past he had been in an im-
becile state, and he was not addicted to thieving propensi-
ties when in a proper state of mind. She had no doubt that
the accusation of having stolen the beef preyed upon his
mind and caused him to commit suicide, for the same morn-
ing he was found hanging in the stable, by a rope, which
he had passed round his neck, and afterwards fastened to
one of the rafters in the roof. He was cut down, but life
was quite extinct Verdict—" That the deceased destroyed
his life whilst of unecnind mind."
THE NEW PLANET AND "PERFIDIOUS ALBION."—
Some of the French papers insist IN strong and virulent lan-
guage that " Perfidious Albion" claims for her young astrono-
mer, Mr. Adams, of Cambridge, the honour of discovering the
new planet. Mr. Verrier favoured at first this delusion by his
published letters, especially that to the Guardian. At last,
howev-r—we find by a letter from the Astronomer Royal, in
Saturday's Atheneum—the real discoverer of the planet
has discovered his error, and along with 2d. Arago, and the

Daniel reminded the vestry that
with their rates to the amount o
erefore, they were solemnly be
;.n was adopted ,tem. con.
AN ANONYMOUS FRIEND OF
rk read a letter from the anon
ho offered to subscribe 5001. t
who, having seen better days, w
tune, compelled to become enrna
'ter expressed surprise that h
.ry communication from the
id that if the vestry did net
ould make it to another board
car the letter read. The offer,
made on condition that other
ards of 130/. had been midi,
eardians, when called upon to
.got do so. Some years ago, 2,0
• gin the workhouse apartmcn
netit the 5001. was now given,
money the subject was lost sight
knew that nothing so harrowe
mots who were the inmate
ing compelled to associate w
t were found there. He mos
the board of guardians.—Mr.
'ewell supported the an-tion.—
was better than precep', they s
wardsthat fund.—Mr.
and that the rector offered to ad
charitable purposes.—The moth
clerk stated that during the w
• lieved, and that there were
tea ; after which the vestry a
GRAND ENTERTAINMEN'
HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor gave
cot on Friday, in the Itgyptia
between 180 and 200 guests.
ayoress will give a grand ball
h instant. The grandest pre
.e occasion, and some of the fir
MICHAELMAS TERM.—T}
liehaelmas Term the judges w
hancellor, and afterwards
e Courts nt Westminster.
hailed by Francis Smedley,
" eatminster.
PHYSIC GARDENS AT Cll
potbecaries have appointed 'A
• nager of the Horticultural S
1 who has just returrvd from
hint, on which he was engage
f their gardens at Chelsea, in
'on, F.L.S.
THE GREAT BRITAIN.—
acintoah, for floating that
id, to be tried. it has been t
• a ridge of stones in a half cif
one the stern of the vessel, am
'ke circle charged with gunpov
barges being placed along the
apected to be driven. Upon
ed by means of the usual gall
c stern of the ship will he lifti
c sandy bed, and immediate
seance of the wave being actor
slier charges, while the to
. Vance. It is calculated that
given extent. not more than
ithstood by the Great Britrin
a number of casks deposited
r sufficient buoyancy. The
to ensure such a precise al
terials as to prevent any unt
the same time to accomplish
steamers should the auspi
ble ship be once more allow
.7 nautical occurrence excite
s, and certainly none since
ge. It is hoped that the (
ed or damaged in any wt
PASSENGERS' BAGGAGE.-
ring adverted to their mi
e officers in the baggage
• 'rater declarations to pus
ho may arrive at this port
'clock in the afternoon, and
ord greater facility and ace()
e landing surveyor, or in h
t the several baggage wareho
• 'ulster such declarations,
hours of transacting the
ent, orders have been issued
sal baggage stations in th
e matter in future accordi
eclaration required from p
. very, duty free, of Englis
~ to be provided and turn
~ • purposes. This eaten
tting passengers from the I
e.claration with respect to the
'ter, after the legal hours o
e same practice to be obaei
• other words, at all times, i
• stances, highly-respectable
: ouse for the purpose, will
er has been made at a ver
es of distinction and others
the continent, thus rend
to service and benefit to th
THE LEIPSIC
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TRIF.STE MARSEIL
I beg to inform You that
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themselves to so doing. It apse
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