The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

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LANCAslllitr.
THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT PRESTON.—Much
dissatisfaction having been exproled at the verdict of the
jury who sat to inquire into the cause of the explosion at
the Brunswick Mill in this town, by which seven person.
lost their lives, it has beau decided to bold a public meeting,
for the purpose of memorialising the Secretary of State to
order a further investigation, and a requisition has been in
course of signature to the mayor to call such meeting, which
will, in all probability, be held this day ('Tuesday). The
verdict of the jury, it will be remembered, was " accidental
death," attaching blame to the engine tenter, who was one
of the sufferers, and to the manager, for working the boiler
at a greater pressure than it was calculated to bear, although
it was distinctly stated by more than one witness that the
manager had been warned of the risk which was being
incurred.
PftIsONERS FOR TmAx.—The summer 61111dEefi for
South Lancashire will open at Liverpool on Wednesday, the
16th inst. The calendar of prisoners for trial will be of the
usual magnitude, end a considerable proportion of those to
be tried are charged with the gravest Lg.:nevi known to the
law. The total number of prisoners, up to the present time,
out on bail or now in custody in Kirkdale gaol, is 104. Of
these sot less than 5 are charged with murder, 1 with at-
tempt to murder, 5 with mewl tu,ehter, 8 forgery, and not
less than 20 are charged with stabbing ; 19 are charted with
buralsry ; 1. There are also 14 Mint caws. The
chartist leader, Dr. M'Douall, is the party who will be pieced
in the dock oa the charge of sedition, the seditious saiti-
menu alleged having been tittered at a meeting held at Ash-
ton-undenLyne.
THE ORDER OF FORESTERS.—The executive of
this body are holding what they call their Annual High
Court," this week, at Manchester; the first sitting of the
council latiug held at Carpenters' Hall yesterday. The
meeting is to hear and determine appeals from various lodges
and make any alterations that may be necessary in the laws.
There are about 200 delegates in Manchester, and the total
number of members of the order in the kingdom is state d at
90,000. Mr. Scott presided, and in the course of the pm.
eeeilings Birmingham having been fixed upon for the next
annual court, the usual officers were nominated as the coun-
cil for next year. _

Tae NORMAN KEEP AT NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
—The interest attaching to the ancient fortress which con.
stituted at one period the chief protection to the town of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne is daily augmenting, since the pro-
gress of restoration proceeds wick extraordinary rapidity, and
the buildings by which it has been so long obscured have
been removed in order to carry out railway improvements.
Tha Newcastle Journal says :—" The chapel and the beau-
tiful Norman doorway 1 ailing into the great ball are com-
pletely finished. Though less important in an artistic point
of view, other changes have likewise been made, which to
the antiquarian and the public generally will be of the
greatest interest. In its former condition a large portion of
the most curious part of the Keep was more or less inac-
cessible to the visitor; but during the put week every part of
this most perfect Norman edifice has been laid open. The
g .11eres of defence surrounding the great ball can now be
traversed all round that tine apartment, while by the open-
ing of not leu than seven windows, which were previously
bricked up, this great central chamber, formerly so dark and
gloomy, is rendered nearly as light as in our more modern
mansions. The most curious portion, however, is the
chamber which has just been re-opened leading from the
guard-room on the ground floor to a sallyport in the western
side of the eastle. The tortuous windings of this passage
from the salt) port, placed a venal feet above the ground, till
it enters the guard-room near one of the windows, show
how seal roily and yet skilfully our Norman ancestors pro-
tected the approaches to their last stronghold.
CUMBERLAND.
MURDER AT BOWSCAR, NEAR PENRITIL—On the
evening of Friday last, considerable alarm was excited in the
neighbourhood of llowscar, the scat of Mrs. Col, Youngson, '
in consequence of the report of a gun, which was preceded
and succeeded by the skrieking of females. Mr. Collin, a
farmer, repaired. in company with his son to the spOt, and
found J. Jackson, the coachman, lying 'deities on the ground
and weltering in a pool of blood, and soon ascertained the
fact of his having been shot by Jcseph Todd, the
gamekeeper. He came round frem Jackson's (whose house
stands near Mrs. Youngson's), entered a yard behind Bow•
scar, where he discovered Todd coming out of a barn.
He wiz d him, and on his na‘king some little resistance
Collin threw him on his back, and, with the a,sietance of his
son, succeeded in tying him baud and toot, and he was con•
veyed to Penrith. On being pis: into the conveyance at
Baw-car. Todd said that it was a bad job ; the trigger had
caught the door-,neck, and the gun Lad gone off acciden-
tally ; " but mind," said he with einphasis, " no one saw me
shoot him." On Saturday an inquest was held on view of
the body, when it apirtared that Todd had wanted to ingra-
tiate himself into tae favour of Elizabeth Dobson, Mrs. Col.
Youngson's housekeeper. Mrs. Youngson and her son.
Lieut. Wm. Youngson, were from home when the murder
was committed, and Jackson was emoowereil to see
that everything was properly conducted during their
absence. On Thursday night Todd and Jackson
slept together in Jackson's house, and, during tae
night, or at an early hour in the morning, Jackson heard
the report of a gun. In the morning ho went to Mrs.
Youngson's. He found no one up except the conk, who
told him that young Nicholson from Plumpron had been in
the house during the nigh., and that he had tired the gun
on his departure. In a short time Elizabeth Dobson got up.
Jackson accused her of having allowed Nicholson to be in
the house, but she de, led it, and said that it was Todd WllO
fired the gun. Jackson knew this was not the case; but
he wen, back to hie own house, and told Todd what she had
said. Todd appeared as if much dissatisfied, but said little
He soon atter went out, and did slot return till about 8
o'closk in the evening. Dobson was in Jackson's house
when Todd returned. Jackson and his man were loading a
cart about 17 yards from the house, when Todd passed, went
into .J at d seized htr by the throw, and threw
her on the II or. Mrs. Jackson came in and tried to
lane his grasp, but to no purpose; site then remons rated
with him, and entreated ham to let the girl go, after which
he left hese. Dobson then ran wit. Todd sat down fur two
or three minutes. and raid nothing. He then got up, appa-
rently in a-violent passisn, struck furiously on the tab,, and
said, "CL shoot her this night " Mrs. Jackain ran out and
-told her hasbread what Todd had sakes. In the meantime,
'Todd, who always kept his guns loaded, went into another
loom, and come out with a double barrelled one in his lett
head. Tone are some deeps up into Jackson's house, and it
was on the highest step that Todd and Jackson met. Jack-
son said, " Oh, Todd, what are you going to do ?"
I'll shoot her this night," was the reply; "let 01.1 go."
Nonsense," said Jackson, "give me that gun," at
the name raiment putting his arm across the
door to prevent Todd from getting out; upon which he
(Todd) stepped hack, raised the gun to his arm, awl fired.
Jackson jumped up went down the step, reeled about six
yards rose the door, fell, and never • d more. ThS, gun
was loaded with shot, such as is generally used tor shooting
game. The contents entered Jackson's body, below the
adder-bone, and in th,ir course had swept away the Iced
ing veins esuiected with the heart, broken three sibs
in the left side, passed through the lobes of the lungs,
broken roe tibia the. tight side, and pasted woad near to
the spine of the back. Jackson's daughter, who was in the
houso when her lather was shut, is the meat imp artist v vi-
deos She could not swear that she saw Todd pull the
trigger ; but she saw his right hand on the top of the barrel,
and saw him step back and lift the gun to his left arm be:ore
he fired it. The gun was examined during the inquest, and
was found to be of such a make as to preclude the possibility
of its going off accidentally, as there is a spring in the butt
which has to be pushed up, and the trigger pulled at the
same time, bef.re :he discharging of the piece can be
effected. At the conclusion of the coroner's inquisition,
which occupied nearly five h .urs, the jury returned a vex,
diet of "Wilful murder" against Joseph Todd, who was
removed to Carlisle the same evening.
SURREY. I
SURRItY FARMING. A correspondent of the
Gardeners' Chronicle says: My time et this beautiful
spot has not been wholly occupied with viewing its sylvan
beauties. Here the agriculturist may make a tour through
the chalk, green sand, gault, and sin alden deposits, and olss I
serve the agriculture of each ; descending front the chalk
hills near the town into the vale of the Mole, he will come
upon land that they will tell you requires no manure—the
green sand combined with the lower chalk, containing pro-
bably the phosphates that Mr. Paine, of Farnham has
so well described. Then ascending the southern slopes
towards Leith-hill, he comes upon apparently clean sand,
and descending the ridge on which Mr. Barkly's seat stands,
arrives at the stiff clays spreading over the great forest dis-
Wet. What a scope for the scientific farmer ! what a
field for the scientific men of the Royal Agricultural College.
I trust erelong some of these students, ripe in practice and
in 'elem., will act se nioneers in this district, where they are
muck wanted. What, sir, do you think is the rule in this
naturally fertile district ? lam compelled to may the rule is
bed farming, There are exceptions, but creditable as they
We, the very beet lumen here weak the proper implements

and the scientific knowleda,, comhined with praeice, that
alone will draw forth the riches of the land. What do
you think, sir, of lands which, if cleared of timber and
drained, would produce an average of 0 bushels of
wheat per acne, and every other kindat 10s. of p
rodanduce in
proportion, not cow averaging 20, let 15a
per acre ? I wish his Grace of Norfolk would let me
I,tto his preserves on the clays where every enclosure
is small, every hedgerow full of oaks, all the subsoil full of
water. I did not think his grace had been a teetotaller.
Why, the blood ot his broad acres is thinned with water. The
spirit of the sea cannot invigorate that which it scarcely
shines upon, nor the spirit of the air prepare the soil for roots
which it can never reach. Man, animals, and vegetables
are the victims ; health cannot bless either under these cir-
cumstanees. I wish this noble supporter of political liberty
would enfranchise his lands ; I promise him success if ho will
agitate the trees and the subsoil. I promise him he will have
mere golden harvests himself, and that the ti nant and the
labourer will equally with himself be benefited. It is our
own fault if glorioua days are not in store for Eoglaad for all
her sons, for the noble in his hall, the tenant on his larm,and
the labourer on the land.

{fun Arts.
PICTURES BY MODERN FRENCH ARTISTS.—The
endesvours made of late years by our French neighbours to
improve landscape painting—a branch of the tine arts 111
which England reculiarly excels—have borne good fruit.
The crude facilities of Coignet, and equally crude finish of
Dupre, have gradually made place for more pleasing and
natural efforts ; and amongst the young school of French
land cape painting, Uoguet, Troyon, and others, bin fair to
compete with our beat painters. Marilhat, whose death,
under very painful circumstances, took place some time
s:nce, was, however, the most promising and delightful of
the French ,painters of landscapes, and lie had already
attained great and di served celebrity when inn-
ni• y supervened, and he was lost to the arts.
The collection of r. Arrosmith, now on view
at No. 1043, Bond-street, of whichw we obtained a view yes-
terday, contains, amongst a number of other pictures, se
venal specimens by Iloguet and Troyon. The firmer is in
oils what Bennington was in water-colours. He is a good
colourist, and his style. whilst reminding us of Stanfield,
may be called. as the French say, plus gra, than that
painter's. Troyon is an imitator of Constable, but has not
yet reached even the low point of finish which that master
possesses. Two sussed' by him are of powerful effect. The
chief picture by Baguet is a mill at Belleville, near Paris,
which scarcely bears off the palm from a small sketch in
water from nature of the same subject, Dias, the original
colourist, who in Paris a few years since " awoke and found
himself famous," is represented by the picture which brought
him first into notice, " Gipsies in a Glade at Fontainebleau."
Ms style exhibits great boldness in the manner in
which his colours ale contrasted. Some of his earlier at-
tempts are also to be f nand here, and show great oriminelity.
He is far more a figure than a landscape painter. We were
astonished to find thet Mr Isabey, who first became known
in Fret ce by hi' sea pieces, nas changed his style, and
started t n a more ambitious track, in which, if not row
pletely successful, he shows great talent. Two works by
him exhibited here bear a resemblance to those of the late
Deveria, whose inspirations were chiefly taken from
Itubens. Two celebrated drawings of Decamps form art of
this collection: one the ‘• Sortie de l'Ecole," which some
years since was exhibited at the Louvre, end excited much
attention, the other equally well known, representing a scene
from the battle of the Cimri. Criticism in the case of
these pictures is needless; they have gone through
the ordeal. Muller, a painter who fur a long time en-
joyed but small notoriety, took a place hit, ly
in
the first rank by his picture of the " Madness of liityclie,"
to which p rsonagi•, in a picture where the figures
are the rise of life, he has given great beauty, as
well in colour as di sign. Whilst we midi eat the rise
of Muller, we must deplore the fall if Tony Johan.
not, whose latest works, some of which are now exhibited,
show a lamentable falling off. A picture by Dupre, highly
finished, has the faults we have alluded to at the commence-
ment of this not A portrait by l'rudhon attracted our
attention by the vague beauty of its colouring. Two figure.
by Vidal are also here, whose works, though known by their
engravings, cannot adequately be judged by them, so perfect
is the delicacy of their finish. Alfred Dedreux is repre-
sented by one of his brilliant pictures of an Arab charger.
Some early sketches by Bonnington are also exhibited.

UNIVERSITY ANI) CLERICAL.
CAMBItt BO K.—CIVIL LAW (LAsnwa, I)47.B.—Class 1.
Brooks' ank, Trio. Hall; fir Boston, Trio. Hall, and ild, Emmanuel
Cull., equal; Colquhoua, Trio. Hall.--Clues 2. einrnils, Tnu. UdL ;
Jatinstone, Trin. Ca. ; tlwan, Christ's Coll.; linubley, Madd. Cull.—
Clam t. Colby, Clore Hall ; Burr, Downing Coll. ; CoU no, Trio. Hall;
Falkner, Trio. Ilan, and itowdd, Gonville and Cam+ Coll , equal ;
Volta, Emmanuel Coll. ; (Exam., Trio. Hall ; Mari Coll.
A. Jllllll.* hen been eleoted u fellow of this
society.

THE NEW CHURCH OP S. PETER AT AY ALSGRN, diom as
of Manchester, was consecrated yesterdAy by the Very Rev. Dr. Lee,
Bishop of Manchester. The site on which the church WAS built was
given by Mr. Crossley, late P.G.M. of the order of Freemasons of the
province, and the we rand ipire have been built at the excemie of
the masonic body in Lot Loimmhire. The funds with which the re-
mainder of the church ha. been built have also been 111111411 by sub-
scription, and out of them an endowment has been secured for the
incumbent of about 13111. per annum. The first incumbent is the
Rev. G. Dowry, provincial grand chaplain of the Freemasone of the
district of East Lancashire. All the sittings are to be free.
PREFERMENTS.—Hey. A. Seaton, to Oreat Wyrley, P.C.
Staffordshire ; dio. Lichfield : pal. the P.C. of Cannock.—Rev. tr. 13:
Sutto., to st. Mary V., Kukdasie'Northam Lantashire ; ClWWter;
N'ACANCIES.—Castor C., P
; Peter-
' borough (3 : Rev. J. P. ,od;naa, preen.— Pocklington Grammar
School Yorkshire, Mastership of ; pat. IP-John's Coll., Cambridge :
Rev. dec.—l'oulton P.C., Wilts. ; diosigalisbury; 131.; Pat.
fir G. Shilruer, Bart., and another : Rev. B. lJiabeny,