The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

NAVAL

ADMIRALTY, NOV. 10.—APPOINTSIIINT6.—To
tiapctb—
Navaleadet: G. J. Parcel!. Fisord —Naval cadet: F. R.
Blackburn,. Bangalo, e—Surgeoo.superiatencient . W. H.
B. Jones, M.D. Impregnabk—Acting as,:Aant-eurgcon
W. 5. Love.

FIRE AND DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—LIet night,
between 9 and 10 o'ellek, a fire broke out in one of the upper
rooms at Mr. }Lupe% No. 2, West•street, Soho. The en •
gin.. from the Crown•street station were. quickly on the
spot, and on the firemen making their way into the premises
they extricated a young man, named Jame. Para ms, who
was burned severely, in conse quart* et a quantity of tur-
pentine that he had been using having been upset over hie
clothes and on the fire. He was removed w,thont loss of
time to Charing cross Hospital, and is rot especte,l to sur-
vive. Tto fire was confined to the apartment, which was

cesa_pletely burned out and the furniture destroyed.
EXCULPATION OP • RAILWAY CLERK PROM A
Chamois or Fnattri.—A young men of highly respectable
appearance, named Broadbent, a clerk at the Salford cation.
of the East Lancashire Railway Company, was charged
before the Salford m tgistrates yesterday with attempting to
defraud the co p spy of a small amount of money, the sub-
stance of the charge being that the defendant ha I retained
in his hands 3s. (an exam of fare paid to another clerk by
a passenger), without entering it in the compsny's b mks
or otherwise accounting for it. The charge was supported
by Mr. Hocking, the general manager for the company,
and was pros ed with somewhat of severity, since the cue
Guild not be called one of embezzlement or of absolute fraud,
es in eases of this kind where an amount of money over the
ducks is observable, a memorandum is generally made,
though it is not entered in the comp iny's books, and the
money is generally devoted to a benevolent fund ; but in all
cues where money is deficient, the clerk is held responsible
for suck deficiency. Mr. Traff.;rd, the stipendiary magic.
trate, displayed a good deal of generous warmth on
the ocestion. He *aid there was not the lout
evidence to prove that the money ever found its
way into tha defendant's pocket; that he was not
near at the moment it was paid, and that there
was no evidence to show that he did not intend to retina it
to the passenger before mentioned on the first occasion he
might meet with him. The Mayor of Salford, who, with
Mr. Trafford, was on the bench, expressed, as his op'nion,
that it was unnecessarily severe on the part of the company
thus to bring forward such a case with such evidence, and to
attempt to ruin a man for life by fixing the stigma of crime
upon him when toe charge was so totally unsupported. Mr.
Broadbent, the defendant, was most honourably acquitted,
and retired from the court amlst the congratulations of his
friends.
MORAL BUT ILLEGAL EXFITLMON PROM A FEMALE
MINIM Socretrv.—At the Guildnall, York, last week,
Mary Ann Whincup appeared as a complainant against a
benefit club in this city, called—" The Female Friend Grand
Lodge," for having unlawfully expelled her. Mr. Wm.
Walker appeared on behalf of the club, and stated the foie-
masts:len under which the complainant had been expelled.
The complainant become a member in Jose, 1843, and con-
tinued a member until she was excluded on the 12th of
September last. It was alleged that ahe had not complied
with the rules, inasmuch as she had been re-
ceiving relief during pregnancy; the result of co-
habiting with a married man (the result of which was
'she had had a caild), the members were determined
to maintain the respectability of their society, and expel the
offender There was a doubt, however, whether the society
bad the power to expel the complaiaant under their rules,
which are certified by Todd Pratt; and if the magistrates
thought that the expulsion was illegal, he should then ask
them (as the members were determined to keep their society
respectable) to award such a sum as they might think proper
to the complainant. After Mr. Walker hod made this state-
ment, Mrs. Whincup said that the man in question had been
living with her parents, end she did not knew that be was
married, but saloon as she discovered the fact she would have
nothing more to do with him. Shothought it very hard that she
should be excluded from the benefits of the club, as this wan
the only fault they could lay to her charge, which charge
dm attributed to a malicious feeling. The subject was da-
mmed by the bench, amongst whom there Was no doubt
that the expulsion was illegal, but as three was every possi-
bility that the future connexion of the complainant 'nth the
club would be attended with unpleventn.ss, they urged
Mrs. Whincup to accept 21. and dissolve her connexion with
the club. This arrargement was agreed to, and the parties
left the court, Mr. Meek suggesting that the club should
have its rules amended to meet such cars as these.—The
Yo ies•arenson states that tide was not the first natural con-
tribution to the populati on the par of the complainant.
THE BONDED DEBT OF BIENENITEAD.—The Liver-
pool Maiteontains the knowing paragraph We learn
from a quarter scarcely likely to be ill.inforined that the
Birkenhead Commissioners have at last hit on a feasible
plan for reducing the bonded debt of the township. They
have no ready cash to I.sy off outstanding bonds; but they
now make this offer to the holders and purchasers of their
bonds t—They will accept the nominal value of those b.tnals
in ' full payment' of purchase of township lands, at the
fixed valued*/ a settled sometime since by Mr. Stewart and
other surveyors. Thus dissatisfied bondholders may either
exchange their bond! for land at a foreknown price, or sell
their bonds to the highest bidder with a view to such privi-
leged purchase."