The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-24 00:00:00

STRIAE AMONGST THE SHAWN OF THE

NORTH.

On Wednesday, three largo meetings of seams
were h•lil in Shields. In the Weapon, shout 11 Oink, •
large provision of seams from Sonderlaad strived in
South Shields, and after defilisg round the marketplace,
assembled in front cf the Town Hall. There were about
2,000 seamen is the procession, and the object of the visit, as
explained by the speakers, was to induce the men of the
Tyne to joie with dune of the Weer la striking for a standing
wages, in the aid trade, of 41. 10r. a London voyage, from
October to April; end 31. 10a. a voyage from April to
October; and 31. a week, and small stores, in the Americas
and Hattie trade. Independent of the strike, the speakers
the expressed their decided hostility to the Mercantile
Marine Sill, which came into operation in January. In
ths afternoon, at 2 o'clock, they met again in the Market
plan, and were reinforced by a large body of men from
North Shields. Tilers were between three and (our
Unwind seamen assembled. The following resolution.
were adopted by Use meeting, "That in the opinion of
this meeting the clauses of the Mercantile Maine
Bill, more *spatially relating to the shipping of and their
spate, an. degrading to the character and feelings of seamen
generally, highly unteceuary is the northern porta, and are
a tax ea oar labour, and will ultimately entail slavery and
miaory ea us re a claw" "Thu in eouseqaenee of the
Menthe& Marko Bill being now brought into full
°pussies, we consider it our ditty to unite with each other
toroth the asemare by every constitutheal means." After
these resolatioas wen adopted, the Sandulend sea formed
=Veels late • gethathemiand themthalatilsg.the
as so the kith -lead of the tows, m etched quietly
hems eggs. The proceeding, during the day were con
dread with perfect order and decorum.
Am ear thernpardent was closing his despatch a large
meeting of thegBttields seamen was being held in the market
pleas. They were determined to join with the Sandarlaod
men Is snarling out for 41. the. a voyage; sad resolved to
march across to Sunderland next morning to meet the
seamen then at • large meeting to be held on the Moor.
The Sunderland mass have been oat sines Saturday eight;
and a large meeting was held in the Town Moor oes Monday.
Atter the saltine, the seen, to the nanther of nearly
2,000, proceeded dons the various gain, docks, is., when
Use resektioas of the meeting respecting the rate of wages
demanded were made knows I. other seaman, who were
not at the meeting. Another meeting was held on Tuesday
evening is the Seamen's Hall in the saes town.
Some owners I. dunderlsod have paid the wages de-
'Beaded, sad sent their vessels to sea; others have seat their
vessels out in spite of the men, with crews at less wages.
With the exception of a disturbance with a peke boat,
everything has been peaceable and quiet. An association,
sailed the Seamen's Friendly Amooktios, for the purpose
of maintaining those on strike, has been formed in Sunder-
kad.
Companies of seamen watch the vessels In the Wear, to see
that no one goes ea board at under wages, bat the speakers
urge the men to abstain from the appearanes of violence.
Communications have been sent to the manse of Hartlepool
end other ports advising them to stand vat.
Letters were received in Shields is Wednesday, that the
seamen of Lynn are also ca strike.

:GRONER'S INQUEST.-AN INFAMOUS

-cliii.

Yesterday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at
the Goat and Compasses, New-real, St. Pancras, on Julia
Cooper, alias Jane Lochlaw, aged 19. The inquiry, for
reasons developed by the subjoined evidence, excited deep
and automat interest in the neighbourhood. The jury
viewed the body at 67, Fiisroy-street, Fitzroy-square.
S Iphis Dudley, who &seabed herself as • widow, end
the =Memos of 67, Fitzroy-street, deposed that for the last
ten years she occupied that house, and that three was its ego
she fetched deceased, whom she thee knew for the first time,
from Brighton. The occupants of her house were "ladies."
Deceased told her that her name was Jells Cooper, but
once her death witness heard that her nuns was Lochlaw.
Witness fetched her from Brighton to make night gowns
and shifts, and to be • kind of companion. She died at ten
o'clock oa Stodgy morning, in the presence of Mary
Rutledge and several other females. Mr. loses, sur-
geon, was also present at her death. Deceased suf•
feud from a severe cold for the previous two weeks.
A few hours before her death deceased complained of molest
pains in her stomach and chest, for which wham adminis•
tared brandy and every remedy that suggested i self, but she
had no idea the deceased was dying. When eke wee called
to breakfast on Sunday she compassed of illness, fur which
she got such remedies as she required, and witso69 persuaded
her to go to hod *gain, which ate did, and died at eke hoar
mentioned. Diseased had no acquaintance to Londoe, nor
did any one Malt her daring tee three weeks the was In
witness's house. Whams understood the deceased had •
father somewhere is Scotland ; and on the morning of bar
decease witness was informed that she had • friend in Chelsea
College, whom witness acquainted with her death.
Miss Mary,Ratledge, a fashionably dressed female, covered
with rings and displaying a splendid watch, stated that she
W.:n Mn. Dudley's house and was an unmarried lady
h demote lived in the same house witness seldom
spoke to deceased, as the latter seldom left her room. De-
ceased had a cold for the dares weeks site was I. the house.
She complained of paios is her aide and stomach, and of
shortness of breath. She sent for witness on Sunday morsiog
and told her that alas had been very ill during the previous
eight. On Saturday night deceased slept by tigrish. Mrs.
Dudley was very kind to deceased. Witness dined out en the
Sunday on winch deceased died. Witaess was in the habit
of vi s ll ng the nurse every morning, to sae bow her (wit-
nem%) baby was going on. (Surprise.)
Coroner—Why, you have sworn that you are a single
lady and now you asp yon have a baby. How is that t
Witams (perdy)—O, yes, I have a baby ; I had it ten
months ego. It'e no reason, because lam a single woman,
that I should not have a baby.
Rumination resumed—When witness sew demised oa
Sande,' morning she told Mrs. Dudley that deceaged wee
dyJames Wilcock, a Chelsea pensioner, who wore on his
breasts Waterloo medal, and wee deeply affected daring his
evidence, stated that deceased's name was Jane Lochlaw.
She was the daughter of very respectable parents at Dundee.
Her father was alive, but her mother (here witness burst into
tears) died soon after she gave birth to deceased. When a
mere child dewed left her home, and witness adopted her.
lie brought her up morally, educated her, and apprenticed
her to • milliner in Brighton. Witness had no idea that
she was in London, until Mn. Dudley informed hissed bar
death. Deceased visited him at Chelsea College, sad always
called him father. He loved her as • father. He test sew
her slam amen weeks ago, when she visited him at the'
college. The same night she returned to Brighton by the
train. He had no idea that she was in London. H« had a
deal of property belonging to his chill, which she left in his
care. She made so will, and he would not keep it, for to do
so would be diehosearable, se she had • father. (The veteran
pin wept.)
Coroner.—What hike amount of the property ?
Witness (produeleg • bank book containing deposits
exceeding 1201 )--Hin it is. sir.
Coroner.—You aro • brave, honourable man—(" hear,
hear," from all sides of the eourt)—and it would be only
right for you te keep it.
Several jurors highly landed the gallant old soldier, whom
feelings were so overpowered that Mr. Davie, the sum-
moning dares, had to help him out of the court.
Mr. J 141114 surgeon, was called to visit deceased on Sunday
sondes. She complained of pains all over her. He sant,
sinned stimulants, slur taking which she Minted and
died is eight miautes. Hs pa/termed • post mottoes exami-
nation. The body was bloodless and emaciated. She died
of disease of the heart aid not of poison, as might have been

en
rorlit.—The surgeon's evidence settles the question. It
was my opinion. up= looking at the body, and .tter hearing
a portion of the evidence, that dimmed ditd of poison. which
opinion wu strengthened by certain capon *prised regard
lag the house in which deemed died. But I am now utisfied
that she died from natural causes, sad that she met with no
foul play.
The iary fully concurred with the coroner, and returned a
nudist or Natural death."

A Fits= CRIMINAL BRNTINCED To UPWARDS
or 100 Tien' nOtariouiforfat, named
Lendais, was three days ago tried before the Court of
Ateials of the Orne, for robberies and attempted sassatina.
Men. Although aged only 31, he, is 1836. was condemned
to five Imre imprisonment; in 1840, to fifteen years' bard
labour at the hulks; Is 1843 be escaped from the &sane,
gad ambling remptured was eondemned to twenty years of
the same penalty ; in 1846 he mode soother mope, and
Mooned a Saratr condemnation to thirty years at the
hulks. Is )Lay, 1850, although placed trteler special surveil.
lam:odes again contrived to escape from the bagne of Brat.
A month later be, in the spare of four days committed ft or
mideeloes robberies In different villsgn is the department,
and also broke into the church of Easy, trots which be took
away every moveable thing of value. Oa the 28th Jose
be asked a druggist of Betties, on two oatmeal occasions, to
change him a gold piece of TO , bet the dragrriat refused.
This demaad bevies excited suspicion, the garde ehonnoetre
and the druggist went after him, and asked him for hie
passport. He gave a false name, and as they were not
satisfied they called on him to follow them to the mayor. He
pushed the tradesman rudely aside, and seeing that the
garde cAampetrs was about to seise him, he drew a pistol
from his pocket, and seem he would blow his brains oat it
be approached. The garde, ►owever, continued to advance,
and the Jo►cot snapped Ms pistol, but at t►e same moment
he stumbled against a heap of stones, sad the ball fortunately
mimed the man. It, however, whizzed close to his heed,
and his eyebrow was singed by the powder or wadding.
The jury declared the second guilty on every count in the
bah:tenet , sod the court, for the robberies. attempted
aseaminatiou. and escape from the bagne, eonderened hint
to 40 yenta' hard labour at the hulke. Added to lis previa,.
condeasuatioe, this make, upwards of 100 years.—Cali-
inane/ Messenger.

IRELAND.

Doar.ix. JAN. 23.

In eocaplianos with a requisition, supported by a
long list of the most respectable mercantile signa-
tures which could be obtained in Dublin, the Lord
Mayor has called a meeting to be held at the Royal
Exchange, tomorrow week, for the purpose of peti-
tioning parliament to establish a transatlantic packet
station at some suitable port in Ireland. The merits
of particular ports will be kept out of view, and the
importance of the subject in a general point of view
alone discussed. Tale appears to be the light in which
the question is now most generally viewed by the con-
tending parties. A Limerick paper of yesterday
states, on what it describes as " sufficient authority,"
that the question is already decided, and that Holy-
head is to be the permit...en% terminus, and Cork a
port of call.
The Irish tenant league bolds its public aggre„ate
meeting this evening. A large number of the pro-
vincial members are in town, and have been sitting
in close conclave for the last two days, preparing for
the public proceedings of this evening.
The Marquis of Londonderry has addressed a letter
to Colonel Donne, M.P., on the Irish Viceroyalty
question. He says:—
it is with wan* joy mit aha wee eangisinklopea tia4
have sees the very able .es of Mr. Cutest], and
the central eOlallitttle that has been appointed for the
furtherance or measures to arrest the evil, and this day's
post has announced to me the apparently overwhelming and
unanimous addrew of all classes of the wash's, import's'',
and station of the city of Dahlia, to the respected and most
deservedly popular chief magistrate to coacene a mating for
ohs purpose of addressing her Majesty and both houses of
Parliament, with a view of averting the insidious blow. I
my "insidious" advisedly, became' I believe it was inteadod
last session to press it forward, without even the Irish mem-
b•lll who then voted for it, or the country, or Dublis, who
wen to be the victims, knowing the extant of the mischief
that would ensue. It will be a source of failing pride
to me that I was (against all advice) alone found arrest
and willing to broach the di operate evils is the House
or Lads, and I hope my resolution moved there will stead
ea a mord of my humble efforts, and show to posterity
that he whose name I bear never imagined, when he
carried the Union, that Ireland was to be deprived, espe-
cially after 60 yean' duration of that act, of her sapital, her
MOM of law, her institations, and, by oae general swamp, to
redeem the first city of our Emerald Isle to the level of Cork,
B.llsst, Limerick, Ac. It does not surprise me that the
jealousy of thew towns prompt them to get journalists to
argue and write is favour of what they imagine ma y turn
out more to their local benefit sod advantage. But I never
can believe (sad I would ardently desire it could be proved
in this way) that the mass of our countrymen would vote
foe so shameful and degrading a proposition. The result, if
pat to such a teat, would auimdate to the majority of
levee millions to one, as the event in France of Louis
Napoleon's election. You may depend upon it, my dear
colonel, that while I hold the most irrefragable prools in
my possession from his papers, that my lamented brother,
during the dismusions, deliberations, end considerations it
the progress of the act cit Union, never for one moment
contemplaved lousiest, if not so insane an aft as Lord John
Russell is meditating, no possible effort in my very humble,
but very determined, power shall be wanting to aid to crush
for ever the teaks that may be sow scotched, bat is not, I
' fear, yet quite killed.—Believe me, my dear colonel, yours
very sincerely, VANS LONDONDERRY.
Colonel Duane, M.P.
P.B.—Lord (Bengali is here, and entirely concurs in all
my feelings and sentiments.
Mr. Cooper, of Markree Castle, writing to Mr.
Long on the same subject, says:
I em desirous to unite with those who have forwarded a
requisition to the Lord Mayor to call a meeting, at which
they may he enabled to exert", their sentiments of opposh
tion to tee abolition of the Viceroyalty, and the eontiousnoe
of that system of centralisation to which I was, I believe,
the first to call public attention. I regret to say that I can-
not otherwise view it thin u a system tending to an name-
stloothmal exercise of cabinet power, and founded on any
expediency which is the offspring of selfishness.

INUNDATION.—On last Friday, after the recent
heavy rains, the Foatord river rose toe most frightful dears*,
overflowing its banks, and rushing through the streets of that
town, doing considerable damage to the out offices and
baggirds of the houses situate in the neighbourhood of the
river. Fortunate) y no hoes were kst. The flood did not
subside for several hour.—Moro Corutiturices.—The low.
lands surrounding the City of Limerick are in a complete
sea; the banks having broken down, and the grounds, for
any gricultural purpose, will be takes' for a considerable
period• _ .

!ADMIT oval TUE RIVES Bows—lt u intended
that the metre span of this monster bridge will extend MO
feet, and the spies on either sire 125 feet. Its height over
high water mark will be 90 feet, to allow remelt to pass to
and from the quays of Drogheda. It had originally been
contemplated that a pathway would be formed for the public
on the viaduct, but it has been definitively settled upon that
inch will not be the cam.— Newry F,aarrisner.