The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUNDAY DUTY AT THE POST-OFFICE.

At four o'clock yes'erday morning preparations
commenned for the first Sunday despatch ni letters from the
General Poet-office. St. Martin's le-Grand, to the different
railway s'etiens in London. Up to this time the number of
clerks engaged on Sucdey has been 15 25 additional per-
sons will ',:serdorwnrd be employed. They all volunteered
!foci the it land department. Their Sunday morning labour
commences at 5 and terraieates at 10 e.m. The pay ter the
Sunday work is to be Ga. each for the morning and 4s. for
the atteravon. The gentlemen engaged in the secretary's
department et the Poet-office having made a tender cf their
services on Sundays, they were yesterday thanked for their
Aliaiog nil* r. but informed at the same time that this alai.
tional service would nor bra required from them.

'Ate Stftbatarian party cen'inue W ft, rate the mitatate-
went that tine arrangement will Mame Post-cfEtn Sunday
la'twr g ntra!ly, in faee of the fact that in more than 200
office+ !east ,nor delivery on the Secday will be Owl • Led,
tnd that is rnstny omen the ab,litien will extend to two or
even arc° dr:, r. ries. This change thme willliberate several
hundred provi.iciel officers. Of the regular pest-offices aloe.,
there are n! arty 600 where the time of duty on Sunday will
be reduced, tit • average reduction being Wyly four Lours.
And this a Ldepenclant of the rub-offices of wkieh there
mutt be w.me thousands.

6i'orr.ta ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CHILD.—,
Gnat cziitement hes prevailed in the neighbourhood of
Merthyr si..ae the 18th inetanr, in consequence of the follow-
ing diandical attempt to murder a child having been made
by • single w .mtn, named Ann
i Williams, the mother of
tb, infant. It appears that on the 11th instant, Daniel
Dirks, one cf the gamekeepers to Wm. Carawshaw, Erg.,
whilst ping his rounds at • plan called Gornos, on his
mat tee estate, had his attention *Wankel by a noise which,
he at first intazined, proceeded hem • hare in a trip, but
•
' no ;whir en, re attention, he found it to be the voice of a
child. lie looked round, and, atter some search, he die-
I cowered a p ft km of a child's dress rrotrnding from a rabbit-
hole, which ice enured up with would and leaves. On re-
m:num the rubbish, he found, placed in the bole, head
t remove, a Sae ruhnt child, &hunt ill weeks old. It was
crying streusel!, ni.d As limbs were Neck and blue with
cold. He fnaraer'isiely took the poor child out, and handed
it over to Mrs He. card, the wife of the heed-keeper, who
took it hese, give it a warm bath, and by other
kind, treatment, saved its life, Information having
n given to the policy, they ascertained that •
y-ung hale had kit Dosffais on the Tuesday morning,
I hieing a child svith ber. The child found having been
sho,n to her a.* l.ndlady, she identified it as bring the one
the fens-le left with. Search having been made in all direr
lions Jr shit party, the was at length apprehended by polio'.
constable Mete, at Glyn Cy*, rear Bridgend. Upon the
coca* able i .fer.nieg her of the intim of the charge against
ter, um prerucela t to know nothing absent the affair, but on
her se., irtek to Merthyr she admitted that she placed the
a' lid in eh . rabbit warren, and said her reason for so doing
was that she het no means to support It. The prisoner wee
trivn hefts • H. A. Btu., Bus. at the police court, when
Lesidandis'y 11. 'pilled the child as belonging to the pri-
a so r, and she said her tome was Ann Williams, and that
she lad lodged with her for some time pest. It further ap-
, peered from what the prisoner stated, that the child mutt
hove h, en leR esti wed in the hole the whole of ens night,
.ud the areater D reion of two days. The prisoner was fully
evutitted to take her trial at the nest sores, for aßempt-
lag t 3 murder her Mid.
&curia putt Calmat RATEB.—On the 13th
3.4 , at 8 why, •rt, Loricaihire, the following property
b loneins to a widow of the nese of Marsh, was seised
fore chum% rove .3e le lOid., via mahogany chain and
ore eery clear, o't the value of somewhere about 61,, On
TuerJey last the isle took plies at the Mart. The day
was d: !y rainy, but a numerous company assembled I
t settees* theopr .c.ceilegs. After a statement of the case
h 1 been made, aml the conduct of the inipector of police
r:rti►lit tf the a oceinnur had reee:ved a merited tribute
of pet at, the form," for the delight manner in which he
; need aet wtrresable duty, and the latter 1w de-
clarldia that he would not receive a single farthing for
floc, the sale c intnenc•d. MI. Lewis then stated that
be was one of a party who had tusked that the property
of the widow should be restored to her entire, and with
I 'Me (Neat in vi-w he would bid for it. He did so, and,
there teeing so other bidder, it was knocked down to him,
and tire sale concluded. Three times three cheers were
'hen given to tl tespector and to the auctioneer, and with
such hearty s• od will that the Mart rang again with the re-
paged hurrahs

LOLA MONTES.
The Asseinblie Nationale has published the foliose.'
ins:—" It was at Barcelona, not at Tomos*, where the seem
between Lola Mantes ard her husband took place whick tie
mentioned yesterday. The following is • letter ad lensed N:
as from oar correspondent at Barcelona, dated the 18th
The too celebrated Lola Mentes is at present in Ibis
anal placed in a very critical position. Madame Heald adds "
o the inter It of it by the manner in which she relates her:-
late adventures. It appears that sines her separation from
the Xing of Bavaria she has received from him an allowame
of 60,0001. a year, and a letter every three or four days.
She affirms that the king has never been to her anything
more than a benefactor—a real father Nothing can be
more remands than the manner in which she relates
the circumstance attendant on Itee marriage with
Mr. Heald. Bbe was living a retired life in London, re-
calving very few vititar., and taking an airing almost
every availing in the parks. One day Mr. X— make to
her of Mr. Hesld, who had followed her every day and
threw towards her the moat ainterous glances. She replied
that she had not remarked him ; she had merely ebeerved
that he had always a very pretty dog in his carnage. On
the following day the v. ry pretty dog way at the residence of
the fair Lola, and then —but you knew the rest. Some weeks
after Lola Moser, after haying refused the most magnificent
offers, accepted the hand of Mr. Heald, • diamond ring
worth 6401., and a life annuity of 25,0001. in reversion to
her children. In contracting this marriage Lola Mantes
broke definitively. with the Xing of Bavaria, and relln-
quished the penmen of 50,000 f. which she received from
him. Yea know the history of the charge of bigamy
which came to disturb the first Joys of his union.
You are aware of the journeys which the amorous
couple took while the proceedings were going on. It appears
that it was during their late residence at Boulogne that their
first domestic disputes took place, and that Mr. Heald, tired
of the burden imposed upon him, resolved to leave his wife.
However that may be, they left Boulogne together for Mar-
es and thence proceded to Barcelone, where they ar-
rived on the 7th inst. I saw Mr. Heed on the day of
his arrival. He is a tall ymng man. thin, and fair ; he ars.
pears very weak. Five days sinew Mr. Heald called on the
English consul, and said to Wm, ' I am come to ask your ad-
vice. I have some friends here who recommend me to aban-
don my wile ; what ought Ito do ? lam afraid of being
assassinated or poisoned. At Perpigran she stabbed me. (He
' then showed • waistcoat stained with blood.) The consul
replied, ' I am astonished that, after the attack you speak of,
you had not laid • complaint before the police at Perpignan
' and that you have since lived with her on sash intimate
terms. But if you wish to abandon your wife, I have no
advice to give you.' He offered, however, to ruff his pass-
port for any dire Lion which he might think proper to take.
On the same day the parties had the quarrel which I men-
tioned yesterday, but the stab of the poignard appears to
have been an invention of the parson who related it. The
scene was confined to reproaches and insult,. On the fol-
lowing day (the 18th) Mr. Hasid sent his passport to the
r English Consul, begging him to give him a new one, and at
hell-past 4he had disappeared. To-day LolaMonbereeeived
an anonymous latter in English, beginning with these words—
Use dueretion, or you are lent.' It iafermed her thst her
husband still loved her, and hat if she would go to join him,
I she was sure to bring him round to her. Lola was on the
I point of leaving, and had even taken a place in the mail,
when it occurred to her that it was perhaps only • trap laid
for her, end that when they had got her into Frames • de •
mend might be made for her extradition. Many people
• blame Mr. Heald. But why should he new be blamed?
• His fault was long since committed. Others pity the lovely
Lola. They little know the sips we live in. The celebrity
• of the lade Is a fortune for her, and we relate these 'iciest- .
t tildes without applying to them the sacred name of mis-
f atue, and without feeling any uneasiness as to her future
Yam."

THE RELAY 8 ISTEM.—The hearing of the charge
brought by Mr. lone., sultiespector of factories, against
Messrs. Hiroyd and Son, worsted spinners and manufac-
turers, of Lomeshaye, near Burnley, which was aejourned
by the magistrate six weeks ago, was resumed on
Wednesday at Coln. before Edward Parker, George
Stanifield, W. 11. Wood, and A. Parker, Ewe. Mr. Earle,
of Manchester, again appeared for the defendant.. At the
former hearing the magistrates concluded that it was de-
sirable, in consequence of the conflicting decisions which
have limn 'isms, to take the opinions of counsel, and re-
quested the inspector would direct kis solicitor, in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Earle, to prepare a case, after which they
would name the counsel to whom it should be rubmitted.
This Mr. Horner declined doing, and also refused to fussish
the magistrates with a copy of the opinion of the crown
lawyers which he had referred to,u is hie judgment deciding
the law of the case. Mr. Earle, therefore, by direction of
the magistrates, prepared a case, upon which the opinions of
gentlemen of great legal emiaeesce have been taken; and
the bench, after a most patient investigation, with an evi-
dent desire to anmicister the law with the strictest impar-
tiality, announced the decision of the court not to convict.
—Bradford Observer.
THE COLLIERIES.—VIOLENT RESCUE By PITMEN.
—The pitmen of several collieries in the counties of Durham
and Northumberland, are at present cn strike, and some dis-
turbances of the public peace have occurred. On the night
of the 18th icst. two policemen apprehended Fronde Smith,
a delegate from Leadgate Colliery, as he was returning home
by coach from attending a delegate meeting. They placed
him in a gig, and were proceeding to Shotley Bridge, when
they were met by a large body of the pitmen belonging to
the neighboorhood, who bad herd that their delegate had
been captured. Toey d mended his instant liberation,
and proceeded te we ak summary vengeance on one of the
pdieemen who was employed hy the owners of the colliery.
His name his John Connell. He received some very severe
injuries, and is now lying in a very precarious state. The
other, Sergeant Baster, was a county policeman. He met
with no personal violence, but was compelled to give up his
prisoner. Warrants were issued for the apprehension of
various parties implicated, and upwards of 20 peptone have
been taken into custody.—Suuderlarta Herald.
PUNISHMENT 0/ DEATH.—Mr. P. Edwards, a de-
putation from the Anti Capital Punishment Society, has just
finish.' a lecturing tour through Cornwall. He has ad-
dressed public meetings in Truro, Liskeard, Falmouth, Bt.
Ives, Penzance, liay.e, Camborne, St. Austell, and other
places. At all those towns petitions against the gallows
have been numerously srgnetl. " Cornwall, which has been
almost silent (says a correspondent) on the question of
dee& punishments, is now Tanking out, and Mr. Ewart
will find when he again introduces the subject to the atten-
tion of tho House of Commons, that the western counties
wig strengthen his hands in his jut and politic appeals,"
CASE OF STABBING IN NOTTINCHAM.—On Mon-
day night last, a felonious assault was mode upon a woman
by her husband with a clasp knife, which, however, did not
produce fatal results. The perpetrator of this brutal act is
Mr. William Thompson, butcher, of March-street, in this
town, a powerfulir-built rod rather good-looking mar, 44
years of age, and his victim, a delicate-looking woman, about
the same sge. Thompson was in the hands of the civil authori-
ties the same evening, send was brought heti. the Mayor and
T. Close, Esq., on Tu sday morning, charged with the offence.
The prisoner's own seat meta of the affair was then put in
and read. It is as follows :—I have nothing to ray. I had
just finished my supper, end then we began to have some
wads about her going to her mother's. o!.e said she would
go where she pleased. I got up and struck her twice
with my hand. I had no intention of striking her
with the knife. I had just done eating my bread
and cheese, when she went up stairs and said, " Ohl
William, I doubt you have cut nee," I examined
her clothes with Mrs. Walker, now present, and I asked
Mrs. W. if the wound was dangerous, and if I hal not better
fetch a doctor. She said I had. I heel had three or four
gimes of ale, and I was at home by 7 o'clock." The pri.
inner was then remanded. On floridity morning the MIT
geons who have attended the poor wo:nan (Dr. Hutchinson
and Mr. H. Taylor) stated that 'La was progressing very
favourably, though far from heir g out of danger.—Notling-
Anm Review.

DETECTION OF A GANG OF THIEYES.—The r—
pool polies Court was occupied a long time on Thursday in
the investigation of a cue whiek revealed a mo‘t extenrive
system of plundering °Hoes, which has been going 0.. for
some mouths back. Several merchants counting-houses is
Excharge-buildings, Oak-strut, and the neighbourhood,
have ben enturd, and topcoats, umbrella', and other arti-
cles carried away; every effort was made to discover the
thieves, but, until the present time, without success. The
following ere the names of the pawners who were brought
up charged with being concerned In these depredations:
William Butler Wright, John Owen*, Thomas Jones, James
Wright, Jane Wright, Louie.' Wright, and Elinbctli John.
son. On Wednesday morning offloer Marks saw one of the
prisoners at a shop in Great Crasshall.streat, attempting
to sal a coat, and having sums suspicion that he Lad not
come honestly by it, his movements were watched. A
reeond prisoner stood outside the shop. It appeared that
the person refused to Lay the coat, and the prisoner with
him companion was walking off, when Mark. and another
officer (William) took them into custody. The coat which
had been offered for sale wu found to have been stolen from
an office in Exchange-alley. On further inquiries being
made, the other prhonen were traced out to their residences
In Pontenoyestreet, Batman-street, and the neighbourhood,
where a large quantity of wearing apparel, together with
' umbrellas, pictures, cigar eases, cash boxes, and, in fact,
almost every description of property, was diecovered. It
was concealed in the beds, and in other pluses. The court
wu crowded with claimants, who stat.d that the articles had
been abstracted from their offices, generally in the day Sari.
At the house of one of the prisoners a bunch of keys was
footed concealed in the chimney. SJIIIO portLne of the
etolen property had been pledged at various pawnbrokers,
and numerous pawnetickete were fouad at the houses of the
prisoners.
Tun ESOAPED CONVICTS.—The prisoner Thomp-
son, who, with two others, esseped from the Royal Arsenal
on Saturday last, is still at ltherty, notwidatanaing every
exertion has been used by the police. The two other
prisoners were captured the same seeking at Kidlicook, noes
Blackheath.
DISTURBANCES AT HstroN.—Wo regret to learn
that a riot took plus among the pi.rrea at Hetton onThure-
, day A itemiser of special constables were sworn in, and
the magistrates found it neorsory to repair to the spot.—
Sentoenand Herald.
ANOTHER AGRARIAN MUSDER.-011 Wednesday
right, about seven o'clock, a young visa named Keily was
toot dead in his father's hose., the Ledge belorgiog to RO?3-
house, between O'Brien's-bridge ald Killsloe. The mur-
derer fired through the window and lodged six balls in the
head of the unhappy young man, only 17 years of age. It is
+bought that it was the father the ema sin aimed at. Toe
Keilys are stewards or caretakers for Mr. Digan, of Balling,
and hal lately been engaged for their muter in the dispoe-
setting dune tenants, or driving for rent. Some parties
named kfolony, and their sereantthoy, have :been taken up
on auspiden.—Liaseriat Reporter.