The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

really an appalling statement. Now, will the British public hare
patience with me whilst I refer theta to the Great Desert for an ex-
ample noeutely more improved state of education f Every male
child of the omi: of Ohadames can read end write passages from the
Koran, and every &own man can reed and write a letter. Of course,
you must take my ipse dira for this. But 1 will just add, for the
benefit end enlightenment of those who question the utility of edu-
cating the people, that daring the three months I was residing In the
city of Ghadames I never heard of a single ease of murder or man.
slaughter; I never heard of a serious case of theft. Perhaps this
highly moral state of the p;pulatlce of Ghadames ham soave: connexion
with the state of the education of the people. It would oe well f:r the
people of England to ponder over and over again this perhaps before it
B too late. For myself, lam heartily ashamed of the most deplorable
state of the education of my countrymen. lanes RICILAIUMON.
EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM
THE Sou THAVEST EliN RAILWAY T ERNI IN ITS TO THE
STRAND.—On Monday last a number of men commenced
the extension of the telegraph from the terminus of the
South-Western Railway, Nine Elms, to the central station
of the company, No. 345, Strand, opposite Waterloo-bridge.
The work was begun by. opening the ground in the goods
department of the terminus to the depth of about 18 inches,
and laying down 3-inch cast iron pipes, coated inside and
out with hot pitch. In these pipes are introduced two half-
inch leaden tubes or pipes, also tarred outside, through
which four copper wires, covered with cotton, and water-
proofed, pats, conveying the electric power. The course
taken by the telegraph is along Nine Elms-lane, the Wands-
worth-road, across to Vauxhall-gardens ; thence traversing
Kennington-lane and road, Oakley-street, and the Waterloo-
road; passing beneath the pavement of Waterloo-bridge, on
the west side, up Wellington-street, and so across the Strand
to the central station. The work has only proceeded as yet
a short distance up the Wandsworth-road. The lead tubing
which contains the wires are from 100 to 250 yards each in
length, and the joints are soldered together. After each
joints made, it is proved by a battery and very ingenious
detector, which instantly indicates whether the connexion is
sound or not. When the extension is completed, a message
may be received from Gosport at the central station and
answered in less than a minute. The existing telegraph is,
of course, not at present interfered with.
NINE HUNDRED POUNDS.—StoIen, or lost, from
the coat-pocket of Mr. H. Aldhouse, of No. 38, Mary-street,
Kingsland-road, Shoreditch, between that and Bishopsgate
Church, Bishopsgate-street, a black loather pocket-book,
containing two Bank of England notes for 1001. each, two of
50/. each, 1001. in smaller Bank of England notes, and 4701.
in Ipswich h ink notes, of various amounts, all marked
"H. A." in the corner, making 8701. in bank notes; and
also a cheque for 301. on Alexander's Dank, Ipswich, and a
bill for 291. on Tinney, Clerkenwell, which is overdue, and .
various memoranda.

FIRES.—IMPORTANT NOTICE.—A number of the
metropolitan parishes have, in consequence of the late in-
crease of fires, issued the following notice :—" Whereas the
parish is put to great expense in consequence of fires,
which have been occasioned by the inhabitants, as well
lodgers as housekeepers, in not causing their chimneys to be
duly swept, the parish authorities will, in future, where
any rewards or other recompense shall be paid by the church-
wardens to any engine-keeper or turneock on account of any
fire, enforce the repayment of the amount thereof, in
every case, against the housekeeper, lodger, or inmate,
agreeably to the Act of Parliament of 14 Geo. 111., cap. 78,
sec. 78. _ _

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ISQUESTB.—REPUGNANCE TO NIATRIMONT.—By
Mr. Mills, at the British Queen, Sussex-street, Tottenham-
court-road, on the body of Rosetta Brown, aged 22, servant
of Mr. Jenkins, surveyor, of 22, Huntley-street, who cut her
throat on Tuesday afternoon.—Mr. Jenkins proved finding
deceased, about five o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, lying in his
cellar, to which he went attracted by the cries of one of his
children, with her throat cut, and a carving knife grasped
in her right hand. He sent fur medical assistance, but de-
ceased was dead before it arrived. She had latterly been
much depressed in mind. On Monday last she said that she
would rather die than marry a man named Payne, whom
her sister urged on her as a husband. It further appeared
that she had been long engaged to Payne, but that during
the last year his visits ceased, and during the interval she
received the attentions of another suitor. This person,
whose name was mentioned, was accused by deceased's re-
lations of destroying her peace of mind, and preventing her
from having married Payne on Monday last, whom she had
finally, however, resolved t, marry, but wished that the day
should be deterred. Whilst labouring under this dilemma,
she committed the act above proved. Some of the jury, con-
trary to the opinion of the coroner, wished to make inquiries
concerning the man represented by deceased's relations as
the destroyer of her peace of mind, but at length became con-
vinced that such inquiries would be irrelevant, and returned
the following verdict, " That deceased destroy .al herself, but
in what state of mind there was no evidence to prove."—
A LARGE FAMILY.—On the body of H. J. Battersbee,
aged 46, a poor shoemaker, of Walmer-place, Lisson-grove,
by Mr. Mills. A cab proprietor, named Cooper, proved
finding the body, on Tuesday morning, in the Regent's-
canal. Deceased's wife said they had eight children, and
that at her last confinement she gave birth to twins. This
circumstance increased their difficulti a and deceased's
anxieties, who was an excellent husband and father. On
Monday last he sold some goods of a lodger, for rent due,
without the assistance of a sworn broker, and the lodger
threatening legal proceedings, deceased said, on Monday
night, that what with one trouble and another, there was
enough to drive a man to do that which he would be sorry
for: The same night he produced several accounts due to
him, and gave her instructions as to their recovery, and
when she heard of some one having been found dead in the
water, it struck her that it was her husband, and
that he had destroyed himself. Verdict, " That de-
ceased drowned himself, but in what state of mind
there was no evidence to show."— FIREWORKA.-
-Before the name coroner, at the Hawley Arms,
Hampstead-road, on the body of a young man un-
known, apparently about twenty years of age, who was
drowned in the Itegent's-cansl. On Monday afternoon,
about five o'clock, the deceased, at the Islington-tunnel,
'eked permission to ride in a coal-barge as far as Paddington.
Ile was the worse for liquor, as was also the master and
steersman of the barge, as well as the driver of the horse
which towed it. On arriving at Hawley-lock, Camden-town,
deceased got off the barge, and asked the lockleeper to give
him some Inciters as he was going to light a tire. They were
given to him, when getting on to the barge again, which
then went on, he commenced discharging fireworks, and
about thirty yards from the lock-gates, while in the act of
throwing a lighted squib into the air, he slipped on one side
and fell overboard into the water, the body not being found
till twenty minutes afterwards, when life was quite extinct.
Nothing was found upon him to show who he was, but he
looked like a groom, being dressed in a brown cloth jacket,
fustian trousers, and blue and yellow striped waistcoat with
livery buttons, bearing the crest of a pelican feeding its
young. His linen was marked J. W.—Verdict, " That
deceased was accidentally drowned by falling into
the canal while discharging fireworks."—The body
and clothes were subsequently removed to the work-
house, where they remain to be identified.—
KILLED BY A ROLLEIL—By Mr. Carttar, at the Coach and
Hones, Blackheath-hill, on the body of Mr. Jno. Scriven.—
Edward Cobley, son-in-low of the deceased, and a floor-cloth
printer in the employ of Messrs. Cobbett and Co., Deptford-
, bridge, deposed that himself and others were engaged in
raising a piece of floor-cloth, by means of tackle, when the
rope slipped and the roller fell against another roller weigh-
inir upwards of four cwt., which forced it against deceased,
who was knocked down, and the entire weight fell upon
him. Deceased was conveyed home in a chair to his house
in the Blackheath-road, where, notwithstanding prompt
medical and other assistance was rendered, he died on Mon-
day night from internal injuries.—lt appearing that the
is.-murrence was purely accidental, a verdict to that effect
was returned.

WEST GLOUCESTER REPRESENTATION.
[From the Bristol G azettrot last night.]

The subjOitted Circular, sent to between 200 and
300 of the Electors of West Gloucestershire, forms the best
introduction to the Report which follows;
"Recent events, affecting the representation of the Western Divi-
sion of the county of Gloucester, render it necessary that the hide-
=electors of that division (especially those of the middle dames
Liberal principles) should take an early opportunity of meeting
together. Such a meeting would afford them an opportunity of con-
ference and expimation among themselves, and they would be
enabled then to take their present position into consideration,
and also to adopt such steps as they may think necessary to secure a
unity of action in case of a dissolution of Parliament or other Yummy
in the Representation of thatDivision.—The undersigned consider that
such a meeting among themselves would enable them to take such
steps as would beet advance the public interests, without entering into
extraneous matter, which would be totally irrevelant to the purposes
of the sleeting. The meeting above alluded to will be held at the
' lunge Head, at Gloucester, on Tuesday, the 3rd of November next,
a.. half-past twelve o'clock, at which the favour of your company is
requested, and to which this circular will be a ticket of admission."
,Kred by
12 gentlemen.;
In pursuance of the above, the meeting was held on Tues-
day (yesterday), at the hour and place mentioned.
J. HUNT, Esq., of Almondsbury, was called to the chair
I Every elector its that room, he said, must be fully aware of
certain publications materially affecting the r, presentation
of the NI estern Division. It was clear to those who took an
interest in the matter, that their fellow-electors ought to
confer together respecting the position in which they were
placed, and it was felt that unless some one took the first
step, in all probability it would not be taken at all. The
result of private conversation led to the calling of the pre-
sent meeting, a call which had been so influentially
responded to. The requisitionists had convened the meeting
to afford an opportunity for mutual conference and expla-
nation. They had not come prepared to prejudge any mat,
ten, or with any ready cut and dried resolutions to force
upon the meeting. It was their object to obtain a free, im•
partial, and full expression of opinion. He recollected when
a boy, hearing the remark that a spoonful of honey would
catch more wasps than a quart of vinegar. The advice it
contained was valuable, and he hoped would be acted on that
day, and if any of them had come to the meeting with their
tempers a little ruffled and inclined to be waspish, he trusted
that they would, whilst they firmly discharged their duties,
avoid any asperity of language. (Hear.) In further ex-
planation he would state, that when the parties who had
convened the meeting, were considering the desirableness of
so doing, the question naturally arose, " What has given
occasion for such a course ?" (Hear, hear.) It was most
important that gentlemen should keep their attention to that
point. (Hear.) Now, it appeared to the conveners of the
meeting that there were three parties, whose proceedings had
rendered the present step necessary. First, the Earl Fitz-
hardinge, who convened the meeting at Gloucester on the
15th of Sept. last; next the nine gentlemen who attended
that meeting and passed certain resolutions; and, thirdly,
the Hon. G. Berkeley, by the observations he had published.
It warn the object of those who called the present meeting
to 'produce a great moral effect on the county and tha
country, and they could not, of course, expect to do so,
unletp they made it apparent that nothing but the most fair
play had been shown ant their part. They thought that
if they invited any of the three parties to whom he had
alluded, they must invite all ; they, could not ask one and
exclude another, without justly laying themselves open to the
charge of unfair play. (liear.) The requisitionists considered