The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-04 00:00:00

WARWICKSMRE

TRR OVRILLAND MAIL —THR "DAILY News" EXPRESS,
—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.—The exprsas edition of the
Daily News, containing the intelligence received by the
overland mail from India, arrived here is-day, shortly after
one o'clock, anticipating ull the other papers by several
hours. The carefully-arranged reports of the Indian money
market, and the state of the exchanges, formed a topic for
much conversation amongst our commercial men; and a
general feeling of satisfaction was evinced at the circum-
stance of the Daily News having again attained a victory
over the combined press.

THE EAST WORCESTEHAIIIHE ELECTION is fixed for
Monday. the 11th instant, at Droitwicb, when it appears
Capt. Itushout will he returned without opposition. The
gallant candidate visited Pershore on Tuesday, and paid his
respects to the electors, without regard to their political sen-
timents. A letter has been published from Sir John Pa-
kington to the constituency, on the subject of a charge,
direct or inferred, brought by Mr. J. A Taylor, against the
Conservative Association meeting at Droitnich, of having
slighted his position as one of the members fur the division
in the recent arrangement with the liberal party. Sir John's
letter is considered to establish the f,ct of Mr. Taylor hating
intimate.: his resignation under one, circumstances.

LAW POUTRE RICH AND LAW rots THE Poore.—On the
29th November, George Grazebrook, Esq., and an humbler
individual named George Smith, bought a horse each of two
strangers, at the Malt Shovel Inn, Stourbridgc. It turned
out, after the sellers had gone away, that the horses had
been stolen. Although the sale was made in the presence of
several persons, and without concealment, or collusion, a
man came to the residence of Sin th, in the field adjoining
the Ma't Shovel Inn, owned the horse Smith had bought,
and took it away. About ten o'cloi kon the same night,
policeman Bray took him from his wife and six small
children, in custody to the Stourbridge prison, where he
waa locked up for the night. On the following day he
was taken before the magistrates at the public-office,
and remanded till next day, when he was released. The
day after (Friday) being Bewdley Fair, Smith desired
policeman Bray to accompany him to the fair, hoping to
meet the man from whom he had purchased the horse. They
went. but did not find the party, and Smith returned to his
home. On Saturday Superintendent Burton accompanied by
the owner of the horse, took Smith ag yin into custody, and
locked him up in prison till Monday, when he wan taken to
Warwick, without having been taken before a Worcestershire
justice, or any warrant for his apprehension being in exist-
ence. At Warwick he was taken before &justice and remanded
till the following Saturday (Dec. 19). On that day Smith
was brought before the same justice, and once more
charged with stealing the horse. Howes remanded for another
week. Oa the 26th Dee. the man was again taken before
his worship and again remanded till Saturday, the 2nd Jas.
Smith did no more than his richer neighbour, who also
gave up the horse he had bought, but was troubled no more
about this matter. We have copied these facts from the
IVorcesler Journal.

INEQIIALITT OF LOCAL RATTA.—A Lincoln correspond-
ent says:—" The parish of Stow has • population of 406,
cowries 1,428 acres of land, and has seven mites of road to
repair. Normanby and Stow-park, two hamlets of Stow,
have a population of about 40, with 1,300 acres of land, and
very little more than one mile of road to repair. Sturton
and Bransby ore two townships in the parish of Stow ; they
have a population of 497, with 2,034 acres of land ; but they
have 13 miles of road to repair. Coates, • little parish ad-
joining the parish of Stow, has a population of 47, with 1,000
acres of land, but very little or no road repairs to effect. The
above comparimens show how very unequally local taxation
presses upon property; and were general at itistical returns
obtained, both the road and the poor-rates would be found
oppressively heavy in some eases, whilst in others large
parishes are nearly exempt. Is it not time that both the
road and the poor-rates were paid by an equal tax upon all
property ?"
WILTSHIRE.
FOUR TOUNO MEN Lost THEIR LIVES by venturing on
the ice last week in this county. They had been drinking
at Stanton, and afterwards ventured on the Kennet and
Avon Canal, 'dun the ice broke, and they fell into the
water. AU was silence directly, and a fifth, named Ship-
man, who was with them, saw no more of his com-
panions. In sinking, he caught hold of the edge of
come old ice, and remained for a time in this po-
sition, till, at last, with much difficulty he raised
one leg on the ice, and after more delay and great
effort he was enabled to get up the other, and then he
crawled to the bank; but it was a long time before he could
stand, being very cold and weak. Afterwards he went to All-
tannings, which he reached about ten o'clock, and gave
information of what had taken place. Several persons
immediat.ly went to the spot, where they saw the hats of
the deceased on the water, and returned in the morning,
when the bodies were taken out of the canal. One of the
sufferers,lienry Withers, was found in an upright position,
and hie hair was frozen to the top of the ace. N erdict—
" Accidentally drowned."

A PCBLIC MEETING, to take into consideration the die
tressed state of the highlands and islands of Scotland, was
held at Torquay on Thursday last, Lord Sinclair in the chair.
Several gentlemen spoke, and a committee, consisting of the
principal residents of the town and neighbourhood, of all de-
nominations and parties, was formed, for the purpose of ob-
taining contributions in aid of the object of the meeting. It
was further suggested, that collections should be made in
the various churches and chapels. Several contributions,
including one of 201. from Sir C. E. Smith, were received on
the spot.

Tua DAILY NEWII."—SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2.—The
Daily News was received this morning, containing, exclu-
sively, an extraordinary express from India, via Trieste.
This news came most opportunely, just previous to the de-
parture of the West India and Ent India mail packets.

ANCIENT COINS FOUND.— The excavators employed
between Basingstoke and Sberbourne, on the line of the
intended Basingstoke and Reading Railway, have, within
the last week, found a considerable number of gold, silver,
and other coins, bearing date A.D. 409. The gold coins are
thin, and about the rise of a shilling; the others are more the
sire of a sixpence. The impressions are partly obliterated,
yet they are sufficiently legible to be decyphered. The
chief clerk at the station has several, and it is supposed
the men at work have found many, as some have been
known to part with those they found for beer, in the neigh-
bouring public.houses and beer-shops In this neighbour-
hood stood the old Roman town of Bikhester, where, it is
said, Constantine waa crowned in A.D., 407, two yearn before
the date of the coins found. The ruined walls of the castle
covered with ivy, inclosing a space of one hundred acres,
and fields, positively a maw of broken tiles, alone remain to
denote this apparently extensive Roman station. The streets
crossing the area, sad an amphitheatre at the north-east may
be traced.

EXTENSIVE HOnIIE-STIALING —On SiLW/di), an elderly
man named James Robinson, described u a hone-dealer, but
who was formerly a grocer at Bleekwater, was brought be-
fore the magistrates at Winchester, for further examination
on n• fewer than eight charges of horse-stealing. The pri-
mula' was apprehended at Hammersmith, and after a short
Srsoidestion et the Hammersmith police-court, was sect

down to Wlsebelhe, it being more ionvenientio the wit-
nesses. It appeared Rem the enigma gone into that the Fi-
del] er bad, for the lastthree months, Um in the habit of going
backwards and forward' to the Raven public-house, -kept
by Mr. William Beasely, in the New-road, Hammersmith,
generally staying two or three days in a week, and several
times bringing hones with him. On the 19th of November
last he brought with him a grey gelding, nearly thorongt,-
bred, which he kept there a week. Dazing aniline
prisoner offered it for We to several p ggase ate es,
telling them that he was a small know awl NM it On
the 19th of December, • policeman, while pushy the
Raven, saw the prisoner there with time se Isar pe mite,
and heard one sok him if he had sold his
_gm bees The
prisoner said he had, but had only got 431., elm 1' ‘, ought
to have been 601., er it was nearly lb**oollll.ll. d. The
poolionsan, impeding ressethieg was VIT, spells* . *aka&
lord on the ea bj ert,whe gem hies delariOse mama The
constable immediatelyiessemmitstml theism* ma, to gad,
Mount, T 20, who went to Me gems ea the Mr may
atsaa-
ing, having in the irmentims• eseertidasi f .at a bans
answering the deseripWa
_bed been dohs Si Aa a gab as
Me premise' of Mr. Berman. ersalumen sAim
Andover station, sad questieend the pries jan bk acme
wee Robinson?--if the ow lens was t aaaaarea,
gag
whore he had bought it t The prisoner v ,flmadryaita He
Ratquestioe but made no reply to ,a ober gawk.,
Meat that ;eked lie if the bay bent be maa maw ba,
lowed to him; mei Mhelltee a grey he
.m in Ile satsWl
was his also? The perm e said beak win bk, and
thee le had bee& the odd • her seem hesitation,
added. I name Yoe dm raw to tube ma R. was
thee seemed, sod it wet sworttair ed that is Rey hone
steles tress Mr. Itrienden, whack JIG phew sea had gone
into Yorkshire, mes et the mama Mon Mehiessf Mr. Shackle,
in Oaford-nasal, where it arm snag by mama and wan.
tilled by Mr. Saunders. it,,i4sala wag am ems kg.,
/rad thati• la **Lel
stbole , isnelem mined at
. ems sliably se the Mee 176 Ne-
vember Led. mei wet daim as do jambe,
what the thee ems Rantsind. bat net datedy a Main m
it wen ea he rest me sing, Mr. Charles Lee, et
Coldrey, Ewa, thritiled the bay cart gelding as the pro-
perty of his mother. It led Men shun from his stable on the
Fight of the 140% Dec. last. There were two ethic Meese
in the stable which was brakes ems, het they wire net
taken. A stable adjoining bed she hem heehaw epee, het
the door he.eing a chain las a street deer, the thief meld
not enter ; in that stable were her ealimble hesdien.—Mr.
Webb, of Dagenerhild, identified the grey mum else hand

at the Raven, and valued at thirty guineas, so h orina Nes
stolen from his premises on the night of the 2d of December.
—The bench said it would be unnecessary for shim to pa
into the other cases against the prisoner, as the esideace in
the three cases in which the depositions were taken wire so
clear as to ensure a conviction.—The prisoner was committed
for trial at the Spring Ansizcs.—A summois woe invited for
the attendance of a person named Tinely, of Hanger Farm,
Ealing, who is said to have purchased Mr. Saunders's hors.
at Mr. Shackle's fur 431

A DE4PERATIL AFFItAT took place on the beach at Haat
port, on Friday night, between the county police and same
soldiers. The soldiers were numerous, and left one of Cie
police, named Henry Blake, to all appearance dead, and he
was conveyed in that state to the station-house ; he is still
living, but in a most precarious state. Another wan, one of
the licensed watermeu, named Brazier, who aatided the
policeman, Mak:, is also lying in a most dangerous state.
Two men, named Samuel Lang and Thibba Irwin, were on
Saturday committed by Capt. Samuel until Saturday next,
for further exantinatko, they hating been id. mined!, anti
Lang particularly, es having given what is at present consi-
dered the fatal blow, with a poker, on poor Blake's head.