The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-12 00:00:00

PROFINCIAL.

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CONTLRIMCII OF ELltyrolta or LEllles WITH WILLIAM
ALDAM, Est., M.P.—On Friday, a body of voters, headed
by Mr. E. Baines, waited upon their representative, Mr.
Aldan., for the purpose of presenting a memorial requesting
him to oppose the government plan of education. Having
listened to the explanations of the gentlemen present, Mr.
Aldam said,
it ls always with extreme regret that t differ with tome of my
constituent. to whom I owe the honour of the seat which I have
in parliament. My feePng r the mere painful whenever the
difference is on a point which can be made, and a con-
sidered, a poist of ['ancients.. I do not think it would be his-
ocerdng in me now to enter at length into this question.
I think I have come here rather to bear the opinions
of others than to avow any opinion. I may entertain
myself on the subject but It would 4uncan.lid in me to say that I
have not been able to *mince myself of the truth of the argu-
ments which have been so only advanced, and which are surnoiled
by facts collected with great abt.ity, in favour of the purely voluntorg
support of ea hook The opinion. which I held are those which I
tsprewed at the election, and which I held strongly then, and have
eld strongly since. I should have preferred a scheme very coned
derabiy different from this that *A been put forward by the go-
vernment. I should have preferred the scheme whirl the liberal
government put forward in 1839-echo-.M in which persons of
different religious denominations hare hero brought to-
gether ; school', in which the Bible could be toed, leaving religion
to be taught by the mini.;ere of the different sects; yet' even
though I may not altogether approto of the sperm now ad-
vanced by the government, I cannot pledge myself
it, if it should turn out that it is the snly one practicable. "There
are some thing, in the minutes of mono which I eamedingly regret
to use, and which I disapprove of, especially that portion of them to
which the inspector is made to conduct an examination in the Church
Caton:Won and the doctrines of the church. That has made .s differ-
ence in the church schools, as compared with dissenters, which 1 m-
ince W are. I would have left the religious 'der:anon entirely in the
ham* of the managers of the school, with which the inspector or the
privernromn ought not to have interfered. Supposing bee dcu-ity'a
government should persevere with their plan, I hope and raped it
will receive condishls modifleationn. I cannot expect, front the ex-
pressicesZesia I have hoard today, that those modifications will
make it to the majority of smattlemen here presort. The
ground w they have taken is ma which admit. of no
compromise whatever. I regret that extremely, inasmuch
co having • stmscropinion that ssillmedsmielance Is nrcensary for the
efficient SIMMS& of the wodifog dames. I am extremely sorry
that that pukka Ms los tam. I ass as lamely oppred "ss an
ea is to goraosmoltlikeholoo Is the management of schools. I
I think the millisormirt at seboelsoisibt to be entirely Independent of
govaenmmt-millako regret loses any system in which the go.
verwerst rsis=7more than contribute the national forme
lowaide slsels, the sobstre for the purpose of seeing that
the gamsrat resesitime yes at there sehools wee oidiciently
sad *MOM ce entitled le mertan, without intorfer-
racc74in any arm with the management of the reboots
themselves Inot ha begrethatainintesof council ronaident-
bay moditicd.llems ars some other Lana which I think obretiona.
Me. Government have papn.ag to confer offlors—encurenten's
offices, I Mind—upon students our dlatiuguish themerlres. I think
it was unneassmry her the geriesmsat to take any such part. I think
that the amobiloo pupil teachers to receive a good sound education
was ansig siient, and that bolding nut any indo ement of the
kind margined In the minutes was objectionable. I do not anticipate,
front wltabsis hem rated by government, that this plan, supposing it
to be Santa WM oiled at all, will be carried into effect fur some years.
The putwktik papoose,' to take this year in the grant of
110,1001, *mom as woo Was hot year. I see no Prospect of any
coreiderrible pant bibs mho Oar moo time to come ; and it in my
conviction that, balm Yr peat Is wok so very large no to produce
the greet rails expels& hem Itot orrsiderable modification
of
the eystsm wall take pima Allhoork these are view, which are
comislost with thesplikilis I moramed at the election, and
:Zchreli have bees always toady Is sapesae, I cannot ripen that they
will meet with the apprised= of the maihanty of the gentlemen here.
It is the more painful Is no kanfogloia elected by the suffrages of
the gentlemen present, sad VIM of them having exerted them-
selves strenuously la ay beat; NM I ha ono regret in differing
with them in opinions • Marie of our Importoose. I shall VIVO
this memorial my but salooliso; and estreorty that can.
not hold out the hope el paw to the lint of the principles which
are expressed in IL

DEFEAT OF THE ANTI-EDUCATION PARTY.-0E Thurs-
day afternoon, a electing, called by the anti-education party,
wu held at the court-house, Barnsley, but at the hour ap-
pointed not more than fifty persons were present. The
bseaine-s of the meeting, however, began by Mr. J. Wood-
ruff taking the chair.—Mr. Murphy, an operative weaver,
rose and said the concoctors of the meeting had designedly
appointed it at an hour when they knew that the working
men would be at their employment, and he should, there-
fore, propose its adjournment until Monday evening, at
seven o'elock.—Mr. B. Parker said he quite agreed with the
proposition made, for the measure was one of such vital
Importance to the country, especially to the working classes,
that more time than what had been given the gentlemen
opposing the government boon ought to be allowed,
in eider that something like statistics connected with the
town and district might be coma at.—Mr. Beddow, in
answer, said, that so far from the meeting having been got
up designedly, so as to prevent a full gathering of the work-
ing clause, the as
would have been held on the Mon-
day, but Mr. Flint, of Leeds, could not be got, he being
engaged in that quarter in giving lectures in opposition to
the government measure.—Mr. Flint nue for the purpose or
speaking ; but the operative portion of the meeting pre-
vented him by their repeated calls of "Get back to Leeds,
and lecture there, we herant forgotten thee *beget corn-
law, and factory bill !" and he was compelled to sit down.
The affair at last came to a division whether the meeting
should be adjourned until Monday evening, at 7 o'clock, or
that the meeting should go on. The adjournment was carried
by an overwhelming majority. The anti-party, finding this,
said that having invited Mr. Flint to coma all the way from
Leeds, they hoped the meeting would agree to his giving
them a lecture. This being allowed, Mr. Flint slid that he
felt somewhat indignant at several espreesiona which had
been made to him, but nevertheless he would comply with
his friends' desire, and give them a lecture; but before doing
so he begged to have ten minutes to himself, as his speech
would be two hours long. (Cries of " Thou'et paid for talk-
ing, but we are not paid for standing.") Mr. Mint con-
tinued "That's my time ; but if anyone in the room can do
the matter jostice in less time they are welcome to begin."
The Leeds lestelligeneer says : " We are given to understand
that the anti-education party, feeling the effects of their sad
defeat, and fearing another, have wisely abandoned the idea
of holding a meeting on Monday."

APPREHENSION OP SUPPOSED MURDERERS OF MIL
RILEV.—This unfortunate man, it will be remembered, was
murdered on Jan. II last, wide on his road home from
Sheffield to Grimeathorpe lase. On getting into his
house he exclaimed to hia wife, " Mary, they have nearly
murdered me ;" but he could not identify his murderers.
The deceased was attacked on the Monday and died on the
Saturday morning following. Early the next day his watch
was found wrapped up in some cloth, in his garden, whither
it had been placed during the night. From information re-
ceived by Mr. Raynor, superintendent of police, he caused
two men, named Challiner and Bradley, of Grimesthorpe, to
be apprehended on Saturday morning. It appears that a
Sheffield man has been discovered who purchased Mr.
Riley's watch of the prisoners, but who hearing of the
murder had gone and placed the watch in Mr. Riley's gar-
den, ea before described. This man, it seems, had kept the
secret until Friday last, when he admitted the facts of having
purchased the watch, and placed it where it was found. The
prisoners were taken before the mayor and remanded, ia
order to complete the evidence against them.

THE CONDEMNED MO11.161;;;;, FOOTER.—APPE iL TO
THE QVIIIN TO !PARE HER Lien.—The most strenuous
endeavonn are being made to obtain a remission of the sen-
tence passed on Catherine Foster, whose execution, for the
poisoning of her husband, three weeks after marriage, is
ordered to take place next Saturday: Three memorials on
her behalf are in course of signature in the-county; one
recognising the general principle of capital punishment as
unchristianlike, the second praying for mercy in consequence
of her age and sex, and the third address to her Majesty by
the females of Suffolk, earnestly soliciting the Royal cle-
mency to the wretched convict. The three have been for-
warded to the Secretary of State. She has made two dif-
ferent confessions of her guilt. At • first she attempted to
palliate the offence, by stating that she had been tempted by
an offer from some person, who had given her a
powder, the nature of which she did not know.
By the entreaties, however, of several clergymen who have
visited her, and Mr. M.cintyre, the governor of the jail, she
declared her readiness to write the whole truth, and it is
understood that a confession has been made or takes in
writing, which she begged might not be published until
after her decease. The purport of it has, however, trans-
pired. She stated that ebe alone committed the deed ; that
the statement winch she previously made, of a person having
induced her to go away with him, was utterly unfounded;
and the rumours of her having been provoked by her has-
band giving her any cause of jealousy were equally so ; for,
en dr contrary, he had been uniformly kind to her; but
Nut As never had any love for his, sal bad Only married
Mu Mille wish of her mother, wises New area constantly
argils r muds bar; sod tire eilkor *air the
fee of dislike gm ikon eye. Me
the ideeet Undid not emitorion
the day on which she eemsnitted the deed, when she wowed
the poison at a shop in Sudbury without any difficulty. It
was white arsenic," and not a dark powder, as stated by
her brother before the magistrates ; and it was not true that
be ata any of that dumpling. The dislike she here mentions
she had to her husband, does not reconcile with the evidence
ohloced at her trial. It was there shown that from child-
hood they had been partial to each other. Their courtship
sincere on both aides, and marriage was apparently
by=red
both of them. In the confession, she aside, that
' her husband was most kind lad tender to her It all time*,
and had never done or said anything that could give her un-
easiness. As before noticed, owing to her prepossessing ap-
pearance, she had a great many admirers.

vnursinaz.

Dmzu.—A meet dialsea;iniTinamaance has just oc-
curred in this neighboured. B. F. Colston, Sm., of Round-
way.park, wee found on Friday morning last drowned in a
IlshpowL The water is not mote than a yard deep, but has
vary Msep:batsas It
wu qlsites gisdosed he had
whey been in the water
und. Deceased
a sagletr•te of the cou, and pomemsd very extensive pro-
perty. He wee much sad deservedly reapeotod. An inquiet
held on the body.
OXFORDSHIRE.

11.11,11.6 IMITATION 07611.0111 ClTT.—Rop•rta are still
provelrat that the use. T. Stoner will be bm4ht forward
at the met dories wt-this city, by as lewd *lectors. No
podia re as yet taken pie" thew* all are on the
Oa rim Ara aremeindra wberarre nek • Ineeting shall
he wile& His siiSiina6th. ikekkes et rt. abbe, fit.
end beg en very simerrour. We
POM Heralaryt, ffti the gestialun who pre-
sented Lord Candle *widest of plate thee the route*
in will b• drinfts• .0114. leseer's connidttee.
HAMPIIIIII.
Rerbtessrmicar or ilriseaurrea.—Wr .(HomprAire
Otrosicli!) are andterbmil englidtlyto contradlin the rumour
of Sir James Eases Isliallee le withdraw from the repre-
sentation of Winebrinee,
New BLRRACIM—The Town Clerk of Portsmouth has
announced that the statement in the Times of the 6th inst.,
representiag that the Admiralty had made an application for
the purchase of the borough gaol se a site for new barracks,
sad that the corporation were averse tat the same, is hew-
n*. No application hat been made to the corporation on
the subject.

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