The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

lANCASI I I HP:.

Tilt CAMP AT EVERTON.—The camp not only re-
mains at Everton, but it has this week received a numerous
accession to its occupants. The 46th regiment, which re-
placed the 9th, numbers about 800 men, and to these have
been recently added three companies of the 81st, two com-
panies ot dragoone, and • strong force of artillery. In all,
there are at present stationed in this neighbourhood some-
thing more than 1,000 men, and it is expected that the whole
of the 81st regiment will pitch their tents with the 46th. The
L;rerpool Journalsays: "The presence of such a body of
mi eary ha', of course, set at mat whatever apprehensions
migi.t have h-en entertained of the insurrectionary animus
of a ;onion of the Irish pimuls•ion ; while, on the other
hand, i seas turnished a revel sight to all those who disbelieved
in thee'. neer, and twill quration the propriety of the recourse
to such a •teti nee. The district around the field' at Everton
swarms e. ce day with v.sitors, the heavy rains of the last
week si enfng to have very little effect upon the movement
front the town in the direction of Shaw'sbrow, and the
ground occopici by the, encampment itself has at all times,
from mid-day to dusk, the appearance of a fair. The can-
teens are in perpetual activity, and itinerant vendors of bad
nuts, worse cakes, and peisonous lemonade, throng every
approach to the spot, and energetically compete with each
other to disturb the cigestion of her majesty's forces. Swing.
boats have even been established, and all the other modes of
amusement familial V. the haunters of race-courses have nut
failed to be presented. The soldiers themselves are, how-
ever, the objects of attraction, and it is needless to: say that
the gentler sex, accompanied by countless children, are the
persons most frequent in their attendance upon the charms
available in the vicinity. The weather has broken up the
ground, and the crowds who have perambulated it have, as
might be expected, destroyed whatever verdure the depre-
dations of Whi...om nomadic droves of Irish sheep and pigs
may have left on the domain ; and it has been found that
the surface of seeking mud thus created round the tents has
seriously diminished the comforts of the men. Their cover-
ings do not seem to he waterproof, and a glance at the inside
of the frail dwellings in which they are compelled to sleep
will show that colds and catarrhs, if not worse diseases, will
shortly be attached camp followers. Drains have been made
Around the tents, and the foor of the tents themselves is
raised about a foot above the field, but this is only a slight
preventive against dampness and the innumerable as
which come, and not in single file, thereafter. The
men seem to be rather bard worked on the parade
ground, but they take care also to secure to themselves
plenty of compensatory play. Amusements of all sorts of
al fresco descriptions are pursued in the evenings. One
party monopolises a corner of the plain with cricket; another,
an the opposite direction, are engaged at quoits ; here is seen
a vast circle of spectator. eieflian and military, intently
watching a succession of boxing matches; and not unfro
quently two-thirds of the regiment ansev be noticed chasing
one another round the fields in a proicinged and laughable
game of leap-frog, or foot-ball, made all the niers exciting
by the number of the falls and the agility of the summer-
saults, These athletic sports, with the perpetual:7 reCulTing

allilMt to occupy the whole of the time of the men,
and in way that section of the public who flock from
unknown region' to Mverton, hod quite 'efficient to wonder
or to laugh at, in "the camp."
OUIOIAM.
COURCII I'HOPF.V.TY IN DrltllAM.—The Gateshead
Observer thus confirms the allegations we lately made re-
specting the minsppropriation of church proper! y by the
clerey in this diocese. " There is no district in the kineedum
more fertile of facts to justify the immediate interference of
the legislature in the capacity of protectors of the church
frost the rapacity of its parsons. Jobs of the blackest hue-
a, black as coal, indeed—disfigure the binary ecclesiastical of
the patrimony of Saint Cuthbert. The tempe.ral and even.
recent character of church property has been nowhere more
clearly exemplified than between the Tees and the Tyne;
fur, piecemeal, it has been diminishing in almost every parch
—in some, indeed, it has utterly and wto fly disappeared.
Aries after acres of coal—tons upon tons of atone have been
alienated without mercy, the proceeds deliberately pocketed
by the parson of the day, and not a sixpence invested for the
benefit of those t y whom the holy spoliators are to be suc-
ceeded in their sacred` duties." •
UCESTERSIIIIIK
REPRESENTATION or LEICESTER.—A local COtTe-
apond. rat buys that an extensive manufacturer resident in
Leicester, and a gentleman possessing a considerable amount
~1 railway propert' , and resident in the neighbourhood,
will after themselves as candidates for the Tepees, ntation
rat
that borough as soon as the writ for a new election is issued.
Both gentlemen are derided reformers.
RUCKINGSANISIIIRE.
Tint SALE AT STowE.—Notwithstanding, the pre-
cautions taken at Stowe some of the valuables have been
stolen. The light-fingeredigentry appear to have been sue-
cesstul in making abs;ractions. the number of visitors in-
creases daily, The aide begins to-day.
COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Saturday a commission
wart opened at High Wycombe, before Commiesioner Win.
slow, reletive to the sta!e ot mind of J. Brand, Eiq , a resi-
dent of tnat town. From the evidence adduced it appeared
that the unfortunate gentleman had 'or several year b.en
effected in his mind, but ever since the period of Mr. bin•
rack's unsuccessful content for High Wycomb, had become
imbued with peculiar delusions re halite to that gentleman,
from whom he imagined all good and evil was to come,
and
Mao that he lived in that gentleman's house, and was sup-
ported ny him. He also believed that his attendant was Mr.
Disraeli ; in fart, the name of Mr. Di.raeli was constantly in
his mouth, while, from the time of the election alluded to,
he bad occasionally indulged in a propensity for smashing
his own windows, as welt as those of several tradesmen in the
town. The unfortunate gentleman, at the c' nclusion of the
evidence, was introduced and examined. He appeared re•
markalny cheerful, frequently indulging in immoderate
laughter, but his replies bore out the evidence, and a verdict
was returned, dating unsoundness of mind from Oct. 1, 1842.

F.S EX.
EX FTUTTON.—Yeeterday mnroing, Mary May was
hanged at Springli 111. Gaol, for the murder of her brother,
at W ix. It will lw remembered that she poisoned him with •
urvnic, for the purposo of ohtnini,g an allowance from •
burial club at Harwich, in which she had entered his name
without his knowledge. A great crowd assembled in front
of the gaol, including, as usual on those occasions, • large
number of females. The prisoner, during the preparations
for death, continued to moan dreadfully. When the
drop fell, being a large, heavy woman, she died apparently
with only a slight strucele. Though exertions were made
to sue the pri,oner's life, it was on the ground of general
opposition to capital punishments. Fur the culprit, indivi•
dually, it is said that little commiseration was felt, so there
were strong suspicions that, in addition to the crime for
which she suffered, she had poisoned see, ral of her own
children. It is 10 years since an execution took place here.
and more than 40 years since a female was hanged. It is
stated that the convict denied her guilt to the last.