The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

LINCOLNSHIRE.

A LINCOLNSHIRE SX ItTCItOEI/lELINCOLN " FREEMEN."
—The way in which Colonel Sibthorp has been besieged
during his visit to Lincoln races by shoals of ragged and
drunken freemen, renders it not at all surprising that he
shonld so seldom occupy Canwick Hall, and that Ti, vaca-
tions are spent at a distance. Upon the race-course they
tracked all his movements, hunting him from the stem ardee
stand to the grand-stand and back again; at the Saracen's
Head they stormed him like a swarm of locusts, and teemed
ee if they would not be repulsed by threats. When he has
gone into the city since the races, they have followed his
carriage wherever it gees: and at the bank the ether day
some score of those drunken hangers-on watched it for two
hours; and at last the gallant member had to escape from
his besiegers by a side door, and the carriage was driven off
empty. Cm:muck Hall has been visited daily, the vagabonds
going up by the sc,re, stopping outside the day through,
and vowing that they would net go avrcy without some-
thing. Such is the price paid for represeatative hoaours.—
Stamford Mercury.
WARWICKIffIRE.

UTILITY OP THE ELECTRIC IELEGRAPH.—A man and
woman were taken into custody at Birmingham last night
(Thursday), in consequence of information transmitted by
the electric telegraph. They had absconded from Derby
with 4001.

A DREADFUL EXPLOSION occurred OR Monday at the ex-
tensive iron-works of Messrs. Lock, Wilson, and Bell, situate
on the river Tyne, at Walker, about three miles below New-
castle. Three person+ were killed, one by the force of the
explosion, and the other two by inhaling the impure air
before the explosion took place ; and several others have
been seriously injured. The Walker iron-works are the
most extensive in this district, and give employment to up-
wards of a thousand men. They comprise the various pro-
cesses of manufacture from the ironstone whence the ore is
extracted, to the completion of the mechanism for which it is
designed. The eccident appears to have arisen from an ac-
cumulation of foul air in the reservoir, and the pi
signed to regulate the blast. On examination,
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and the blast escaping from the orifice. In the course rf the '
efforts of the workmen to remedy the evil, an explosion took'
place, by which some damage was done to proper.ty,. in addi-
tion to the afflicting loss of life and personal injuries above
stated. As inquest on view of the bodies of the unfortunate
sufferers was opened on Tuesday, but only one witness teas
examined, when the inquest was adjourned.
NOS XOIIAMSIIIItE.
FEVER RAVAGED IN NOTTINOIIAM.—The fever in this
town and neighbourhood is still spreading with fearful
rapidity, and many individuals have been attacked within
the last seven days. By the returns from the hospital up to
Wednesday last, it appears there have been admitted as in-
patients—from Lenten, ; Nottingham, 4 ; and the country,
4 • making 15. The nut-patients have been—from Lenten,
12. Radford, 12 ; Nottingham, 37 ; and the country, 3 ;
making 64 ; which, addeti to the 15 admitted into the holm,
will make the total amount to 79! These, with the 318
cases enumerated in the last number of the Nottingham
Guardian, as having occurred since the commencement of
the disease, will make the great total of 427. There have
been only four deaths in the hospital arising from fever, but
this my be attributed to skilful treatment, rather than to a
want of virulence in the disease. So badlyu the town gene-
rally affected, that in several districts whole rows of house,
almost without exception, have some of their inmates suffer-
ing from that malady, and in a few instances whole families
arc confined to their beds.

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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
PEACE MEETING AT ATLESEGILY.-011 Tuesday evening
a meeting was held in the County-hall of Aylesbury, Bucks,
to consider whether arbitration might not be advantageously
substituted for war in the settlement of international dis-
pute,. J. Lee, Esq., LL. D., presided as chairman. Mr.
Macnaniara moved the first resolution to the effect—" That
the Peace Society was deserving of sympathy and co-opera-
tion." The objects of that society, he said, were to abolish
war, to s.ive human life and treasure, to rescue thesoul from
the pollution of military crime, and by substituting arbitration
for war, to assert the supremacy of mason over the brute
violence and blind accidents of the battle-field. He quoted
Vattel's approval of arbitration (" Law of Nations," B. 2, c.
18), where he says, " Though the strict right may be mis-
taken by the arbitrator, it is still more to be feared that it
will be overwhelmed by the fate of arm... . . War is the
last remedy against injustice. . . . If men were always
rational, they would terminate contests by the arms of reason
only."—Mr. Henry Clapp, of Massachussets, seconded the
resolution. He said that a solder was a slave in mind
and body; that he might not think, speak, act, or even
worship, as his conscience dictated. When on a visit lately
to Chatham Barracks, he was told that the soldiers were not
permitted to receive tracts in favour of peace.—The Rev. J.
Jetllrson moved a resolution in support of arbitration. He
explained that Judge Jay's plan, adopted by the society,
was, that States should enter into treaties among them-
selves, by which they should agree to refer to the arbitra-
tion of a third nation such disputes as they could not ami-
cably arrange by negotiation. The army and navy esti-
mate; fir this year exceeded 16,000,0001.. independently of
the interest of the national debt.—Elihn Burritt, the
"learned blacksmith," seconded this resolution. He wished
many more Americans were present, to show Englishmen
ho 4 like their brothers they are. It was a blessed thing
that both nations spoke the same language—the strong old
Saxon tongue, by which they could commune with each
other. Their brethren on the other side of the Atlantis
wore subject to like sympathies and like passions. They
had all the power and energy by which families of the
Anglo-Saxon race are distinguished. He had had the
privilege of bearing friendly addresses from America
to England, and lately he bore one to Exeter signed
by 3,426 women of Philadelphia, in answer to one
from 1,600 women of Exeter. The scroll containing the
names was forty feet in length, having three rows of signa-
tures, and as it was unrolled loud cheers erase in the Hall at
Exeter. This was a great fact—a social movement of im-
mense import. Unless the governments of this world took
the lead in the abolition of war, the people would do it for
them. They would extend their hands to each other under
the iron arms of threatening governments, and their friendly
grasp would not easily be loosed. Monuments were raised
to great heroes, and their fame was published in history, bat
what did the people gain by fighting ? Ask the mutilated,
broken-down soldier, who might point to a medal of plaster
of Paris, cr pewtcr, or brass. Ask the poor man ground
down by intolerable taxation. Ask these to point out the
national glory of war. It delighted him to meet on this
evening those advocates of peace, whom he regarded as old
friends, though he had never seen them but in their writings.
Mr. Burritt was loudly and frequently cheered. The resolu-
tions were carried unanimously.