The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

WWI whirled tato the air. Great tier Ago was ale do" to
esmeal vessels on the coast.
A WOMAN lIANOILD.—itm coroner it Wig= has
been orsuoird me. an Investigation respecting the
death of K'" died from strangelation on the
metuing Or New .. vernrilay. When the inquest was sow
wissoad it wee Pr wally 'apposed that the deceased bed mum
tabled suicide i 'rat at the woad Avarua inquiry • fresh
atriaß tar oviivrae was prodneed. Novara peaces in the la-
' mediate vicirity spoke to hearing cries of " Help!" and
" G,d save me !" proseedieg from the kitchen whom the
body ems subesquestly found. Is eoasennenu Otitis *M.
gnu tie heOaad was takes into custody, end weaned in
prism. He was placed Is a sell along with a wan nested
Joseph Masada* who, last night, spas being sworn, said
that he know nothing of the husband until he was placed
is the cell, wheu he told him that he had pushed his wife
flows stain, and bad afterwards had her. He also said
it would rut lave occurred it Mr. Thieknesse had gran'ed
the favour Lie wife has *eked ix. Wham believed he
Oa& it to souse rent which was due.—Mr. Kay, a tailor,
LIMN: neat door to Kaye, said that, ea the morning of New
Tear's Day, he heard terrible sumo preeeedteg from
Xeres resldraoe. He got up and went to the abutters.
whoa he distinctly heard cries of" Ludlum mercy on me!"
and " • san, get up!" (Beasts lodged in an upper room
in the iohua how.) The voice grew fainter and fainter,
until it c .ot sway. He then traced a light going up the
stairs, and the mum who carried it had no shoes on. He
heard two w ices one was in an angry tone, and the other
was lithe:ring kw mercy —Catherine Turner, D. Griffiths,
anti hi. so- Samutl, all proved having heard the .creams
peateeditg !tem ay,'s house, sad that they went to the
&oar a.. ko.e a. d, but co one mug re them. —Mr.
La'ham, proved that death bad r.,ta t. d fru +dew-
galaqui, end Me 'equity, after lasting to nearly oat o'clock
en Friday morning, was again adjoume.l lar addition;
evide nee.
TOUNIMINA
FATAL FLOOD.—During the night of Saturday lest
some wry heavy rein fell in various parts of Wot Tal.shire
by which the hurt were much swollen. Owing to the tore:
of the current between Brotherton and Cutleford, a lit'ls
below the contineue of the rivers Aire and Calder, a Tomei,
laden with wont and a armorial cargo of drysalterire, sect gro-
series, named The selishireman of 'Sandford, and belenaing
te Mr. W. td us bead/ord, broke from her mom Cage during
the &Muer of the wager en share. She wee seMed some
distance down the river with great inspetuceity, and was
eventaally sank, the captain's wife, who was lee advanced
in preunailey, and two children who were also on board,
being drowt ed.

REPEAL OF THE MALT-TAX.--On Saturday, a
meeting of forums sad others wee held at the Lim Hotel,
Cambridge, to discuss the question of what measures should
be taken to procure the repeal of thq malutax. A emend
edisUm of the Cambridge Independent Prost affords us the
feLoiriag partici.' sr, —Mr. J. Witt weaselled to thi- chair,
sad said, it was right to state how the meeting originated;
it was at the iastanes of the Faname• Club that steps might
be taken to bays the malt-tax takes set or to adopt other
means to twist the sormulturel interest. The duty on sore
was now about to be repealed, sad • post Mlles:
might be reastcably meets& The spieultersl M-
um' was sow la a vary depressed cosditoa, and
the ropes' of the malt tax would act only be a
bona to the egricaltural interest, bat to the community
at large. H. then called an say geattsetem to introduce •
metion, or make any ebeenctions on the subject. —Mr. E.
Poetess said Imbed remind a letter from Mr. Cobden, asking
Uhe themint the maw y constituency would co-operate with
the Lir, rpool Reims AseoCM ties, as that was the only way
to eist :id ut the malt tax.—Mr. *ylee said they Ware not is
a peal a to place themselves in the arms ut Mr. Cobden.—
The chairmen thought the farmers bad better set for them.
levee, sad not coalesce with Mr. Cobden —Mr. Foster said
Mr. tritium. at the Yorkshire similes, stated he was will.
log to give the principles of free trade • fair triaL—
The chairing& raid as wee going to read a petition. He
merely .übmitted it for Sher emeideration, as no one
ales bad dose an He knew that ft was asking an enormous
boon hunt the government to repeal the malt tax ;_ but why
should not the toreign corn pay somas duty to enable the go-
vernment to assist the Wiser, ? There was, he knew, a
division among them upon this point; tome said, " Let us
condor oureelna to the malt tax, and let the Chancellor rat
the Exchequer get on as well as he can." But would it not
be more siovisable to &eh for the repeal of the malt tax, and
he a small duty on foreign corm, that the revenue might act
staff kr the total lore of so large • scam of
Meows as would be the result of the repeal of
the melt tax The chat eam then read the petition.
—Mr. *lies said he objected to petitionimr. It was no
me phials pipe pellem at the House of Commons.—The
Chairmes Beid, in adopting that petition, we ask for a repeal
of the malt tax, sad Worm the Chan senor of the Exchequer
how ne ma help himself. It was said the Chancellor of the
Ex, begun i ad placed himself in a fix, lot him neip himself ;
but we mast have a good government. —A Vow Why
Could we not, al farmers, have &song reform ?—Mr.
Wylesaai'l thvy onakt to pass • resolution not to porkies, but
to state that the malt mx must be repeal. d ; and such a re- '
=terra ought to be mat to our cowry members, so that
the might know our feelings sr d support oar views. The
revolution did not go close enough to the point.
It required something more imperative —Mr. Johnson
(Wickes) mid he thought we mg to go st ones
to the malt tax We meet hers in a different
palace to what we ever did before. Free trade is
triamphaot. We have been defeated, and must fight se-
mode gl). Let hes tittle princip!ea be fsirly tried.
Let us strive to see those principles carried out in all things.
if we .et the repeal of the malt tax, and then find that is
not sufficient benefit to asks up her our hoses, let us try
something else; but it was not for them to dictate to the
Chaseellor of the Exchequer. He (Mr. J.) recommended the
aojournesent of the meeting tot a tortaighr, and that public
aotiee should be given of it in the county papers.—Mr. 8.
Jones eeecomed the resolution —TheCltsirman hoped nothing
would be construed as disrespectful. The olject bought by
the pi °motets had now been accomplished, viz., the patting
the, question in motion —Mr. S Jonas revmmended that •
committee 'could be formed to prepare some resolutions,
and the form of a petition.—The Chairman then put Me
Johnson's resolution, which was carried unanimously, and a
committee was appointed to amuses the future meeting.
OXFORDOHIRE.
Tug CHOLERA has found its way into Oxfordshire.
Two ease* have occurred at the village of Oarsington, distant
about f ur mil. stunt ice city COxiord. Thr first case proved
fatal im Saturday lest, whelk an inquest WAS held on the
Indy of the girl, whose name was Ncate, and who has even
in the habit of brie is •urnip greens to Oxford mark. t.
She wee there oa Wednesday last in her usual good health,
but after • few hours' illness she died. Verdict Died of
.11..tattc. cholera." The other case was that of the girl's
/mother, who was rakes ill on Sunday, and died in the even-
ing The coroner was again applied to to hold an inquest,
but believing it to be aaother case of cholera, thought it not
err client to du se.
—.—.---.

INcrognlmusit.—At an early hour on Sunday''
morning it wee discovered that two barley mows and one
wheat mow. belonging to Mr. Paaphlia, o; Queen's Charlton,
about five miles him Bristol, were on fire at one and the
same time. In a short time the Keynsham fire-so-gine wee
cm the spot, and was immediately followed by several ngines
from Bristol. The col.fi igratiou by this time had r. ached a
great ight, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the
ar. men succeeded in preventing the extension of the flames
to the homestead. About thirty sacks of wheat and eighty
sacks of harts y were wholly consumed. The property, *Etch
belongs to Mr. Pasphlin, was bully insure i. It is said that
Mr. Pausyhtin has rendered himself obnuxi .us by the intro-
duction of an improved system of agriculture, and on this
very day the grain which has thus been cestroyed was in-
tended to have been threshed out by a Revel thrashing
machine.

DELIBERATE SUlCl7.E.7:Wereported the fact that
ea elderly gentleman had thrown himself front the break-
water at Plymouth. The followiag additional particulars
bay* bets reignited "Deceased was about five fret as
Melee high. rout', built, fair complexion, white whiskers,
sad bald. A letter pisued into kis groat cyst (left on skive)
was add/weed to the Postmaster, Plymouth from its Ina k
it appeared to contain other letters, probably'for hie meads.
114 N this, there was a man bench ir keys. annul pence,
and two varerlopeg eddreoed R. N. A'rr, Req.," use of
which wag posted at Derby, Sept. 8, 1841, directed to the
Eastern Pavans', Tick, and the ether leased at Cork, Jan.
4, 1849, sad directed to the Plymouth. At the
ingest held ea Monday, it was ilepeeed by Mr. Markt*, the
=t, that the name of the depressed was Richard
o Alger, that he was 66 years et age. and et one
time roomed °tiaras 'Ferny, which he hadloat. Verdict,
Temporary iagawity
CHANNEL ISLANDS.

RZFORTED DIETII.:CTIOn OF GOVEIINXISNT WOllll4.
—The Lk of Alderney ken for some years pest been renarded
by the war authorities as a place where ermaive fortifies.
hme o ght to be erected, since, in cane of a war with Franc*,
we should be alas to commend from that Wend • great por-
tion of the coasting trade of France. For the Ism tit. es
years, Merrier', • large number of workmen ham been
ileisied in exteneive geremosent works at Alderney ; a pier
sad breakwater were taming, in the completion of which
considerable progress had been made. Intelligent:* bas just
ruched floutoompoon that the wheat, of them extensive Irmo,
together with a number of metals that were near Awe ware
entirely destroyed daring* hunicsas which raged in the
Channel daring Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last.

OW&
ST. JAMES'S THIATP.I.--OPERA Conicam.—Mr.
MirkaWe pancreases of Freseh pier ceessieseed at this
thane lest realm. Per the UMW rut of the sessoa a
and areepeay hes ban malted, fey the pupae
:71predastert a swiss of eerie opens; sad laic sight's dienct
leers se teen to doubt that dine persawasees wis be
highly agrestale as well as easseedel. The curl conissay
contains two diainguined Priam armee hen thy Opera
Consique—M. Coedit° and Min amble, brali et whsal,
It will be resterbered, were wirshen et the Brussels eons-
patsy at Drury-laas a few swum stow The names of the
other peefeeisees sr* am W es. Mat of them
appear to ban lam draws hen the prbicipr French pro-
vincial thrum sad, hike!. hen the nearerinAthich they
sftwitted themselves last nab& the err to have b en
seleerd, sad to min as and,. assenble. Mr
too, has paid dos sheaf its to that oast imparts/It
witargary the rehears, whisit Nunn of about Oh parlor
Meek seadaeled by Mr. Chaffee Mamas, the unbent rho/
terasslre of the Peva& *seize. Wimps h the nis
ei* Tina. sad we (Awned Deicer, Pilot, iinseet, Less-
en. Q. Sayer, buret, Masnana, Chip% and Mawr
eniswt jaimakertilkig. 716* psdkoramens burn with
" Le Mettle de Obspelle," by Prr, the UN sotapswe of the
Its Khasi of *a kat artery. Tie run amdadieas,
ems" sad medal I way venial to the ear, bat deadest