The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, EBB. 3.
The opening of the union of parliament has not
been looked for by people here with so much
interest u need to be the case in former years.
Oar political public is exceedingly apathetic. The
abeerce of anything definite with respect to the
poor law in the Queen's Speech has not much
added to the public satisfaction in this city. It is
regretted amongst the conservative party that the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act is not to last for two
years more. There can be little doubt but that in the
present state of the country his extreme powers can-
not be taken with perfect safety from the Lord Lieu-
tenant.
The Freeman's lotonal of this morning is angry
at the fact of six protestant gentlemen being made
Queen's counsel, and not one catholic named by the
Chancellor. There are several Roman catholic bar-
risters entitled to silk gowns.

Tun Aernam To *Notre Ma. WFADDAN.—MichaeI
Frederick Fox was ea Friday brought up to the Henry.
street polimeollos, ea a charge Cl bag attempted to shoot
Mr. M'Fadden. The prisoner looked gains wakes, and
seemed to take less interest in the ease than did say one pre-
seat. Hs fs a tall, athletic man, &beat fifty Ave years of age,
with a vary ineelligeat countenance. A lady, apparently :
very respectable, attended with the prisoner, but it did not
tressapire who she is. The prisoner, it was stated, is nephew
to the late Judge Foe, of Dahlia. He was rather poorly
dressed, but yet &only, and it was quits apparent that,
he was one of them persons who lad seen better days. It ;
appeared that the prisoner had been a client of Mr. M•Fad. ;
den ;for some yeses, and ler some reason, which did rot ;
transpire he bad repeatedly threatened Mr. MlFeddett ;
with violence, and on the previous evening carried his ,
threat into execution by firing a pistol right into Mr
M'Fadden's bee, and that gentleman had been so much
iujared is the eye that he was not able to attend at the office ,
to give his.evidence. Although every search had been made
for either a ball or shot, none could be found. Mr. M'Fad-
den bad been very kind to him. gave him sums of mosey
from time to time, and had given 31. in the course of tht
week. A gentleman named Virden was then sworn, and stated ,
that between four end Ave °look en Thursday evening ha
was leaving the mate in company with Mr. M'Fadden, and
on stepping into a covered car be observed Mr. You walking
towards the door of the ear with a pistol in his hand, and on
coming up to the ear he put in his hand, when Mr. M'Fadden
got up and put out his band to catch him ; the carman was
at the door at the time, and witness thinks he attempted to
stop Mr. Fox with the pistol but he discharged It right in
the face of Mr. M'Fadden. He was strnek in the eye and
on the forehead. Surgeon Cusack was sent for and dressed
the wound, and gave strict orders that the patient should
not ear for some days. I was cn the seat opposite Mr.
M'Fadden, and when I saw the pivol I veiled at hi u I stood
op to prevent it, as did also Mr. M'Fadden to rush out of
the car.—Mr. Curran (for the prosecution): Did you ever
hear the prisoner ass threats towards Mr. M'Fadden I—Wit-
ness: I did, and apprised him of the fact.—Dr. Kelly : What
did Ita•. B—Witness: He said he would injure him, or maim
him, andythat he would make an object of him dueller his life
He teethe, said he void not kill him, hut that he would make
as object of him for life. Oa another occasion, but I was
not present, Mr. M•Fadden said the prisoner drew a knife
on him.—Mr. Curran : We ran produce letters from the pri•
souse to Mr. M'Fadden acknowledging his kindness.—
Poi owoonstable 19 B said he was passing the covered can
when the shot was fired, sad he at ones, along with Egan
203 D seized on the prisoner, who had a huge pistol
in his hand which bad just been discharged ; they toiled a
large dagger knife and some wadding in his pocket —Dr.
Kel:y said he had evidence enough for a remand, and hr
therefore ordered the prisoner to be remanded to two o'clock
on Monday.
Ate AMDOICADI AND Allllll. or HIGIIWATILIN.—Mr.
Sub-Inspector Basler, having reason to suspect that Andy
Hogan, who disposes of bread from Mr. Egan's Bowes
bakery at the a quer villages, would be waylaid on his
return to Rosana end robbed, adopted the precaution of
secreting Constable Clandellan and two seal .constables in
the bread cart, which is a covered vehicle. Andy proceeded
en his route, with many a noisy " ye ho hap," and singing
saatebee of merry sot go, being in dread he might escape the
notice of his friends, who hal here tofore delivered him
of the receipts of his bread sales. Having reached that
lonely part of the road, bounded on one si le by the range
well of Mount Heaton, two stalwart figures with
disguised bees presented themselves at the bane's
head. One, who was mud with a club, knocked
dowa the horse, at the same time upsetting the cart, little
dresmiug that like the wo 'den horse of Tray, it contained
armsmen. tyke second fehow placed the point of a largo
dagger at Hogan's breast, and ordered him to deliver under
the pain of immediate death. Andy, nothing daunted, pala-
vered the fellows, and beguiled them from the dour of the
car:, still rummaging his pockets and dragging out the
money-bag. While thus engaged the cents:able' emerged
from their concealment. Their unexpected appearance
nearly paralysed the robheis. The ruffian with the dagger
was the first to perceive them, and he betook himself to la].
zeolite eight Before his comrade could tallow his example
he was in the grasp of Subconstable Mirlene, and Fey
gave pursuit to the man with the dagger, and &flee a chase
succeeded in effecting his capture. Their name is Thal y,
and they are brothers, notorious plunderers. There are
three other brothers of the D .oley's, one of whom was trans-
ported, a second had to fly from the country, under the ap-
prehension of a similar tate, and the third boa not been
t earl of since the sanguinary and barbarous murder of Ser-
geant-Major Grant.

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.

THE FUNERAL OF LIEUT.-GEN. SIR T. ARBUTH-
NOT tcok place with great 'military pomp and ceremony, at
St. Philip's church, SAllord, on Saturday. The 30th Foot,
the 4th Dragoons, and the royal artillery at present in bar-
racks at Manchester, assis'ed en the ceremony.

'WEST RIDING DINNER TO MR. COBDEN:Seven
gentlemen from Leeds, Bradford, and Sheffield, had an inter-
view at Mancheuer, on Thursday, with Mr. Cobden, the
member for the West Riding, when the honourable gentle-
man accepted an invitation to a j üblie dinner from his con-
stituents, to tuts place as soon as the arrangements can be
made. It is probable that the entertainment will be given
at Leeds, as the principal town in the Riding, and within
two or three weeks. We are certain that the free-traders
and liberals of the Riding will rejoice in this opportunity of
meeting their distingeshed represeutstive, to unify their
gratitude for his pint services, and their sympathy with hie
present labours en behalf of peace and economy. Mr. Cobden
appears to be in excellent health and spirits.—Leeds Mer-
cury.
THE RE-ELECTION OF MR. BAINEL—The Hall
paper says Mr. Baines will, in all human pre bability, be re-
elected to the seat which he has vacated by an aceerance of
the responsible office of President of the Poor-law Board. The
election is fixed to take place on Wednesday nest, and we
believe Mr. Beines's return will be altegether unopposed,
INTENDED MURDER AND ROBBERY.—At the Leeds
court-house, on Satur.ay, three men, named Charles Raw-
son, Themes Spooner, and John Orange, were examined on
a charge of having wanted an old man,named John Simon,
on the night of the 17th Jan., with intent to roh him or do
him some grievous bodily harm. It appeared that about
nine o'clock on the night in queition, Rawson and another
man writ to the house of Simms, who lives stone, to pur-
chase some coals, and whilst he was stooping he was struck
on the side of the head with a hammer which was left behind,
and which was proved to have lean lent by Spooner to
Rawson on the preceding deo. Whilst Simms was
struggling with the man who had felled him, and
who he swore was Reason, the other man
ran up stairs, where it had been rumoured that Simms
kept a bag of sovereigns, worth 1,5001., under he pillow.
Simms, however, was able to give an alarm, upon which
the man he was struggling wilt ran away, and the man who
was up stairs became alarmed, and he too started away with-
out any bcoty. All the prisoners live within a short distance
of Sixams's house, and some evidence was given that the rob-
bery was to have been effected early in the morning, but that
filloconer declined, because he thought that one of the gang
would " split." The magistrates discharged Orange, but
committed Rawson and Spooner to the amine for trial.
THE MURDER OF ANOTHER GAMEKEEPER was re-
ported in this paper of Tuesday last. On that day we stated
the dreadful fact that within four days of the discovery of
the murder of May, one of the Duke of Cleveland's game
watchers, in the preserves of his graces estate at Baby
Pork, the northern counties were again startled by another
dreadful amassiemion under similar circumstances, perpe-
trated at Hutton Moore, the estate of the Earl of Ripon.
In oonaequenoe of the press being excluded from the coro-
ner's investigation, held before Mr. Bind. ale, at Hutton
Conyers, on Monday and Tuesday last, we are unable to
give the exact details of the evidence. What we stated,
however, was confirmed. A gamekeeper, named John
Harrison, in the service of the Earl of Ripon, left home to
watch: the sreesrves, having with him nothing but a walk-
ing dick, which he usually took on his perambulations
while on duty, and was no more seen alive by his fami'y
Being missed, a search was immediately commenced the
next morning, end in a short time his corpse was found
lying in the preserves, with a dreadful wound in the breast,
evidently frees a gumehot. Suspicion fell on a poacher
named Mather, who was apprehended, and folly committed
to York Castle on the coroner's verdict for the wilful murder
of the unfortunate man. The deceased bad Dot long been in
the Earl of Ripon's service. He his left a wife sad seven
children, the eldest WORCESTERSHIRE ten yesof e.
JENNY LIND.—The concert at Wateeater in behalf
of the local infirmary, at which Jenny Lind gave her serviette,
came off on Friday night at the College-hall. All the tickets
were taken early. It was the meet brillisat affair of the
kind that ever took place at Won:eater.
NORFOLK.
THE STANFIELD HALL MLIRDERB.—The bolding
of the assize for this county having been now fixed by Chief
Baron Meek and Mr. Bann Rolfe, the trial of Rush has
again become the subject of muchconversation in the county.
Bore, the claimant to the Stanfield Hall estate, Thomas
Jenny. and John Lanier, are to be examined at the trial.
These poor men, it may be remembered, had a narrow ts-
etse of being placed in a very serious position in connection
with the murders. Rush, by artifice, having got them down
in the neighbourhood of Stanfield Hall a short time before
the assassination took oleos. Fortunately, however, they
left some days before the crime was comavted. Lamer,
and a preen of the name of Reed, who acted the part of a
friend to them, and whose signatures were attached to the
documents found in Rush's house, have been discharged from
Calvert's, the brewers, in Thasnes-mreet, mainly in come-
enlace, it Is said, of the name of that firm having been iced
vertently published in the papers in a statement which ap-
peared relating to them. It is only due to the men to state
that they have rendered much aid in dialoging facts that
have materially assisted the ends of justice. Rush is watched
with great we in Norwich Castle. He appeals rather mere
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than when first charged with the crime.

socauazas.a.• masa.
REPRESENTATION OFREADING: It is ramoured
in Reading that a vacancy may shorty cosy in the repro-
mentatiun of this borough, by th• elevation of Mr. Serjesnt
Talfoord to the judicial bona, in the place of une of the pro-
sent learned jade's, who is about to retire. Suould such a
vacancy occur, it unilktly that Mr. C Russell, Clawirr
man of the Great %Vc,tern Railway, one of the late sitting
members, will again come forward es a candidate.
•I•laontilltie

~Aaron...
THE PORTSMOUTH ELEcriom is fixed for to-mar-
row (Tafelay), when Sir F. Suing will, no doubt, be re-
elected without spposidos.
....pn.n.mnr

LEOMINfiTER ELECTION.—The nommation is at".
pointed to take Ti.aee to-morrow (Twill!.) Mr. Prodeick
Peel (son of Sr flobc.rt) has arrived, and it is not expect, d
that any other candidate will appear.

DEVONSHIRE.
Sours Davom awrioN.—The Wester!. Wows •
says : —This election will be Seed foe the 13th of Feb., we
understend. Sir Ral,ph Lopes will be proposed by Sir
Traytem F. B. Drake, of Nutwell Court, and be seconded by
Mr. Stroud, we believe. We do not hear that any oppotition
is likely to arise, as sines Mr. Kekewich has been wittdrawa
from the field, the endowment party havenothad the courage
to present another man "
ACCIDENT ON THE 80ITTE DEVON RAILWAY.—
Last week, soon after the pining of the down mail train, as
immense stone or Piece of solid rock fill down from the al
near High Head, Teignmouth, pitching directly on the rail,
thereby causing a delay of an hour or so to both op and down
trains. A number of men, however, were set to work, and
after great labour it was broken to phones and removed. Not-
withstanding the immense sums o; money which must have
been expended in cutting back the cliffs near
eeciot, the
danger of falling fragments 119'111 very great, es •s especially dur-
ing rain and frost Considerable portions of the cliffs be-
tween Modish and Teignmenth have recently Wien. One
night bet week after the uptrain had emerged front the gust
Temantouth tunnel, the brakes were put on and the alum
sounded. The train was detained 35 minutes on account of
the quantity of earth which had fallen, and on the following
night a still greater delay areas from the same cause.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
OXFORD, FEB. 3.—isafts COXIXO2.—A. fellowship, be-
longing to one of the six comities of North tt ales, to be euppll,l by s
person out of the echoes, of Baum:* of the Isle of Anglfesey. of
:ifomnfoared Bangor
been fixed for
the lorfel being went, Ind day
ALTERATION or THE EXAM:DIATOM OTAItTIL— proper =
the
teem Ills expected that the proposed &Beretta* In the exain&r=
statute will be submitted to Convocation by the Board of Heads of
Houses. It is stated that the new pl in embraces three public
examlnationa, butted of two; one after the fourth term from
matriculation, another slier the ninth, and a third after
the twelfth; indeed of the present, one after the sixth, and
soother titer the twelfth. It is also stated that honours should he
awarded at both the mond and third examinations, sod that the
names of all who obtain their festantur, whether In homers or not,
shall be published. The second examination to to be chiefly &JIG.
=with the Introduction of algebra sod pure math, maths, is
ft to Euclid; and id the thirdexaminatioe, that for degree.% four
distinct echocis are to be established, six., in Literis 1 houanioribus„
in 'mathematical and physical science, in natural philaeophy, la
modern history, philosophy, do. 'I he public exatlinerships, instead
of heleg in tae gift of the vienahsncellor and proctors as be
will be nominated by public boards, eompoecd by the si(ekelfl
and promote, and the problems of these brumbes of literateuei
edemas
a which are the sultiects of eau:ldeation in the respestive
school

fur VOLTA Wee 1.111 01 CAPOIDATZI for Responsions, whirl ens.
mem* on Wednesday next, was publtabed Ibis evening, Ti..
Cbtutes—Meerret J. ADken, C. K. Crawley, 11.0. Hare, C.
D. RIM, G. T. Sankey, C.O. garage, C. R. Sowell 0. Fosere.Cole,
T. H. K. Wyatt, and O. H. Teedernaker.—ltatuot --E. P. Alder.
atm. J. E Areterdon, IL Wendy. T. F. Fremantle, J. C. Erma EL
Krenedry, Ewar, tad J. C. Ikalth.-IVmmun—C. A.
Allagton, J. Brock, E. R. Girdlestgas J. liodgion, 3. D. Kelly, H. L.
C. Lye, P. Rowden, and E. K. Yeasuntd—llsonsum.nau.—C. 0.
Andra:wan N. G. Ikek, U. O. Clams, J. P. Emerson, U. Hacking. J.
ll.Jephson, H G. Lee, R. C. Pascoe, and J. Turnock.—Coarua
Cinuert.—F. Archer, E. Hyde, and E. Thoreld.—Woacm.
ma—U. P. Balimat, 11. F. Cary, J. D. M. emits, 0. E. Green, H. P.
Lee, 8. J. Owen, T. P. 8. Rawlins, F. likewell. S. K. Moth-at, 11. P.
Thompson, and G. Valentine.— Ustruurre-8. E. Bankm,
G. Bradley, A. Lesinnetels, C. 8. Parker, U. Tayka, P. The.
man, and P. E. Torre.—Laitoms—H. 0. Bent and J. Palmer.—
engin Cnuacm.—T. 0. D. Means, G. Carpenter, A. Oolqutomm,
I P. O. Drake, 8. R. Gardiner, H. GI e. E.G. Gorden, F. D. Hot.
land, A. W. J. Johnny. IL 0. Kinnear, E. B. N. Lae, C. B. Phu.
grave, H. flandlord, L A. F. elhuldium, E. UMW% and J. IL Wood.
—Sr. Jonies. —J. Brooks, A. T. Brown G. T. Warne, and C. J.
Weethington.—Bassmors—R. G. Busluton, .1. i.. Firittrtaa,
0.0. 0411111111, end K. U. JOCIPOIL—Iir. Amen Usu.—A. Iturd
and C. P. Sparks—Quazirs Cowers-0. D. Cato, IL Hare, 0.
Hildebrand, J. Hartland, F. Newman, J. Robinson, G. A. Rumell,
J. It. Shaw, T. Wafts. and N. 8. Yenge.—Br. ILUIT-OLLI.—E.I 3.
Coleridge, Fteming, G. C. J. aortae, and H. C. Pok.—Prit.
ORORK —F. E. T. Drake. G. IL nutria**, G. Plows, J. J.U. Raker,
11. O. Walters.— hatra—O. C. VAlroankis D. Griflitbe, G. A. Jones.
IL G. Lewin and J. Prim—Daum. —F. Green, B. theme, E. B.
Lamer, J. P. Parker. T. F. T. Itmenshaw, E. ether, L ttoutheemb,
C. L Vaughan. G. Wiliam*, and 1.. Wo vdward.— Dan 11T.--0. G.
Heinen, W. H. Helyar, U. J. LIMN A. T. Marshall, C. 8. Money.
Kyrie, 11. Prentice, md It. T. Wee,.—Au, Sotan—J. Henn.—
Maaostue.—lL 1L KnatchbulL—Ntrw—lL F. Footman and G.H.
Turle.—Sr. Packer.—Murrox.—Hon. C.
Talbot and F. Moluey-Wheter.

SEQuESTULTIOX OF Ali INCUXBENCY IX THE CITY.—A
motive has been sated no Lite doors of dm church of St. Mary's, Wood-
street, Cheapside, that, in consequettee of the decease et the late in.
etunbent, and no appointment haring been mole, thelslem of Lou-
don has stquestered the tithes, profits, Ste., and nominated cestath
persons as lel luestrators.