The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-30 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASIIINe..
REPRESENTATION or MANCEP-STER.—On Monday night
Mr. Bright addressed • meeting of the electors of the Ard-
wick district of the borough, at the Shakspeare Inn. The
room was very crowded. Mr. Henry Rawson was called to
the chair, and said the nomination of Mr. Bright by the
Reform Association had been confirmed by a great general
meeting of the electors, and by eleven district meetings, and
their selection of a candidate thus endorsed must of necessity
exercise a powerful influence on the result of the election,
come wit, nit might. Mr. Bright then spoke for upwards
of an hour, and in the course of his address saidhe had been
charged with inconsistency in nowlcoming forward as a party
candidate after so frequently, as an advocate of league
principles, advising the abandonment of political cries.
But this was not an honest version of what he had said.
Both Mr. Cobden and himself, in 1842, when,their trade was
almost annihilated, called upon the people of these districts
to abandon party-cries and family nicknames, and to unite
in driving the common enemy from their doors ; but they
never imagined that the agitation for other great principles
of reform was to cease afterwards. What a libel upon the
men who hud fought and suffered those nciples for
forty or fifty years past to suppose so.or
The same broad line
of demarcation existed between parties now as ever.—The
hon. gentleman was loudly cheered throughout his speech ;
and a resolution was carried unanimously approving of his

nomination.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE LIVERPOOL RAILWAT.—The
pointaman on the Bolton line, through whose misconduct the
accident reported in the &press of yesterday occurred
at Manchester, has been given into custody by order of the
directors of the Leeds hoe, who are now the lessees of the
Bolton Railway, fur prosecution for neglect of duty. It is
understood that the Leeds directors are most anxious to pre-
vent accidents on their lines, and the late fatalities on the
Bolton Railway have induced the consideration of several
measures of a preventive character. Amongst others, an
" officer of public safety," whose duty it will be to travel
constantly over the line and give assistance and advice where
it is necessary, is to be appointed.
Tun LATE MR. DILLoN, of Liverpool, who died on the
15th December, has bequeath( d the sum of 5,6001. to various
charitable and religious institution.. Amongst the bequests
are the following ;---To St. Francis Xavier's Catholic Church,
1,5001. ;to St. Anne's, Edge-hill, 1,5001. ;to the Catholic
Female Orphan Society, 7001.; to the Catholic Blind Asylum,
7001. ; to St. Anthony's School. 1001. ; to St. Joseph's School,
1001. ;to St. Mary's School, 1001. ;to Copperas-hill School,
1001. ; to Seel-street School, 1001. ; to St. Patrick's School,
1001. ; to the Hibernian School, Pleasant-street, 2001. ; to the
North Dispenaary, 2001. ; to the South Dispensary, 2001. ; to
the Night Asylum, 601.
Tx' LAW or MARRIAGE.—We understand, says the
Liverpool Times, that Mr. Aspinall is collecting information
in this town, on the subject of the law of marriage, as relates
to marriage with the sister of a deceased wife. This sub-
ject, it will be remembered, gave rise to a trial at the last Li-
verpool Assizes, in which a person charged with bigamy, de-
fended himself from the charge, on the ground that one of the
females to whom he bad been married, with every for-
mality required by law, was the sister of a former de-
ceased wife, and therefore that the marriage was null
and void. It has been ascertained, by actual inquiry,
that the number of marriages of this kind, among people
of every class, is exceedingly large, as many as fifty
having been found to exist in a single town, among per-
sons in respectable circumstances. Mr. Aspinall is
collecting information for the purpose of showing that
the opposition which was made to the motion of our
late representative, Lord Francis Egerton, now Earl of
Ellesmere, on the ground that these marriages were few
in number, and therefore that the evil was insignificant,
is opposed to the fact. This is, no doubt, with a
view of bringing the subject again before parliament,
with an eye to the alteration of that law, which those
who are opposed to it contend has no foundation either
in scripture or reason, and is calculated, so far as it is obeyed,
to prevent the formation of the best possible kind of second
marriages, namely, those in which the second wife may be
reasonably expected to feel a warm interest and affection
in the children of the first marriage. They further
contend that the prohibition of marriages of this description,
is a mere regulation of the:canon law, originating in the med-
dling and rapaciousepirit of the Church, in those times which
the Fuseyites are so anxious to restore; that its chief object
was to extort money or confirm power, as they were never
indisposed to grant dispensations to persons dispo'ed to
contract such marriage., provided they were able to pay
the proper . price. There being no dispensing power
• in the Protestant church, it is contended that the law
works with greater hardship in this country than in the
countries from which this portion of the canon law was
• derived; and therefore that all uncertainty ought to be
' removed, by declaring all such marriages good.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AND APPREHENSION OF THE
SUPPOSED OFFENDER.—On Monday night, a young man of
fashionable exterior and a somewhat foreign accent, who
gave his name Francis William Schultze, and who had been
staying a short time at the Royal Hotel in Leeds, was
apprehended by Mr. Read, chief constable of Leeds, on a
charge of having been concerned in the robbery of the
University Life Insurance office, Suffolk street, Pall-mall
East, Middlesex, whereby a sum of money, exceeding 1,0001.,
was abstracted from a drawer in the office on the 22d inst.
The money was chiefly in bank of England notes-2 for 501.,
Not 14,743 and 14,744 ; 27 for 101., from Nos. 89,620 to 89,646;
and 64 for 101., from No. 16,787 to 16,850, besides 751. in
gold, and Si. in silver. It appears that he had made various
small purchases in the town during the day, in every in-
stance asking change for a bank note, and when his person
and luggage was searched, a sum of 7001. in sovereigns and
501. in silver was found, besides a number of bank notes,
answering the description of those stolen. He was brought
up before the maktistrates at Leeds yesterday, pro forma, for
the purpose of being remanded till witness could arrive from
London. It was stated that yesterday no fewer than seven
101. notes, which the prisoner had changed with various
tradesmen, had been traced.

TRADES Movastatsr.—An union of the various trades
has lately commenced in Willenhall, having for its object
the establishment of a fund, created by weekly contribu-
tions, by almost all the masters and workmen in the town,
and which is to be available to any of the branches of trade,
in the absence of a demand for their particular manufacture,
and, as far as possible, to render assistance in such times to
small manufacturers, who, for want of capital, are compelled
to take orders at any sacrifice. It also limits the hours of
labour.

DERBYSHIRE.
THE NEW GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT CHESTERFIELD is DOW
approaching completion, and will be open for the scholars in
I.ebruary. The general appearance of the building is excel-
lent; its gables fronting the Sheffield road, its high-
pitched roof, its quaint but chaste carpentry work, and its
clock tower, present the beau ideal of a able tore of
the time of Elizabeth. The school forms an integral portion
of the building, and consists of two noble sized and well-
proportioned rooms, the one on the basement story, the other
immediately above. These two rooms will, when complete,
contain 26 desks, and furnish sittings for 110 scholars. The
tire-places in both are of fine gritatone, carved in the early
English style, and having stone fenders, formed of massive
sandstone. The building contains also a bell chamber and
clock tower, with a stone dial on the exterior. Without
going more into detail, we may say that the whole structure
is in every way calculated to answer admirably the bene-
volent and noble purposes of its original founder and present
supporters.
WILTSHIRE.

A MEETING OP THE WILTSHIRE PROTECTION SOCIETY
was held on Monday, to consider the propriety of agitating for
a repeal of the Malt-tax, and for commencing subscriptions to
the Richmond testimonial. The meeting was very thinly
attended, and little enthusiasm displayed. Resolutions, ap-
proving of the above objects, were unanimously adopted.
OXFORDSHIRE.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.—T.
K. Story, Gent., to be Lieut. of Militia.
GLOVCEsTERSHIRE.
COMMISSION SIGNED HY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.—F.
M. Callaghan, Gent., to be Lieut. of Yeomanry.

Mine arts.
PANORAMA, LEICESTER-St/UM:E.—Mr. Burford 13 a
practical annihilator of time and space. During a halfhour'e
visit to his three panoramas, now on view, you cin make
yourself acquainted with the Held of Subreon, its land-
scape and its combatants; with Constantinople, its bluest
of blue waters, and its noble ecenery for miles around,
on both the European and the Asiatic side ; and with
immortal Athens. The picture of the Battle of Sobrann
is a spirited production, full of energetic variety and ex-
pression. The grouping is excellent, the figures of the
horses admirable. The leading incidents of the glorious
day, as described in the despatches, are here described
on canvas, and in a manner infinitely more instructive to
civilians. while the views of the two great cities of the
Bosphorus and the ~Egean give the spectatrrs a far better
nation of the places than they would derive from reading half
a dozen books, however graphically written.