The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-17 00:00:00

THE POET-GEV= AND THE PARCEL COMPANIES.—
TilliadaY, by otmenend of the Postmeateeteneral, an order
tw cireniated awe nest the ^ receivers" ef post letters and
mempagem le She mihegelis, to the due that any of them
wire en new te take in parcels for the " London
Pats& Delivery .y " the ' Parcel Mail," or the
Pam. Peet," NO busediitely to give up such connexion
sr ewes te be " ressiven" of letters fur the Post-office. This
wrier km caused a emMisrabie deal of consternation among
ef receivers, r many of them, in consequence of
the antiewitise net laming signified their disappro-
fieffienef the shoe seuria,qp that they were in any way
webs le kw, re seheeitatingly become receivers
of paresis fer his above companies.
CHURCH Retie+, KENSINGTON.—Yesterday, a ques-
tion relating to the division of parishes for ecclesiastical pur-
poses, wee mooted at a special sessions of the local magistrates.
of the perish ef Bt. Mary Abbott', Kensington, held at the.
office of Mr. Hall, vestry-clerk of Kensingtoa, on the
heating of a summons, tassel at the instance of the church-
wardens of the district parish of St. John, Notting-hill,
against Captain Hood, R.N., charging him with haying
refused to pay the sum of twelve shillings, at which he was
duly rated to a church-rate for the said parish. Mr. Ray,
the solicitor to support the summons, opened the pis-hunt-
ing', and stated that the rate of twopence in the pound
having been carried, it was made upon the principle of the
poor-rate of the whole parish, the amount of the assessment
on Captain Hood being twelve shillings no a reatel of
seventy-two pound.. Atter Mr. Ray had called witnemes to
show that the rate had been duly levied, and that Captain
Hood had refused to pay it, Captain Hood entered into his
defence. Ye said be had paid ten guineas toward the erec-
tion of the church for which this rate was claimed, on the
express condition that that church should he supported en-
tirely by low pew rents, which conpact with him and the
other contributors bad in both instances been violated.
He submitted also that the summons could not be main-
tained, inasmuch as it *et forth it was hued under the 55th
of George 111., cep. 137, when before the magistrates it was
stated to be wider the 53rd of George 111., cap. 127; that
Mr. Medley, the other churchwarden, was not present, and
no =Mini certificate produeed to show his absence was
oo:sinned by indisposithu • that one of his (defendant's)
names was incorrectly stated in the summons; that the
moral compact entered into by the trustees with the contri-
butors had been violated ; that the church was to have con-
tained 1,500 sittings 4OO of which were to be free, but that
it only contained 1,21)0 sittings, and 313 poor seats, the
remainder having been taken away to provide scats for the
rich.—Mr. Ray replied, and called on the magistrates to
overrule the objections taken by Capt. Hood, and to Late
their order for the payment.—Capt. Hood laid before the
magistrates a copy of the church deed in proof of the truth
of his statements---The Bench "aid that proof having been
given before them sufficient to show that the rate, which
had not before been dispu4d, was a legal one, they had no
doubt as to their jurisdielioa, and felt themselves bound to
make the Drier required by Mr. Ray for the payment of the
rate.—Cape. Hood said that being the decision of the bench,
he would carry the matter by appeal before the quarter
sessions.
ROBBERY OP 10,0001. IN THE CITY.—A robbery of
no less a sum than 10,0001. in Bank of England notes was
effected yesterday in the vicinity of the Royal Exchange. A
clerk in the semi* of Strahtn, Paul, and Bates, bankers in
the Strand, had been collecting in the course of the morning
at several of the City banks, and the last place be called at
was at Deacons' hank, in Birchia-lane. On inning he care-
lessly deposited his leather case, containing the above amouut
in notes, in his coat pocket, without a chain or any security
being attached to it. It was raising at the time, snd during
the confusion that existed in that crowded neighbour.
hood, one of the expert swell mob managed to ex-
tract the case and get clear off. On the clerk dis-
covering his loss he instantly repaired to the Man-
sion-house, and gave information to the Forrester, who
in a short time succeeded in obtaining an accurate list of the
notes and their numbers. They are as follows
dated 13th Jane, 1846, No. 68,670; 1,0001., No. 68,787:
1,0001., No. 68,850; 1,0001., No. 70,652; 1,0001., No.
70,665; 1,0001., No. 70,666. 5001., dared 12th March,
1846, No. 5,339; 5001., name date, 52,276; 3001., 11th
May, 1846, 57,107; 2001., 10th March, 1846, 38,362; 2001.,
same date, 39,888; 2001., same date, 40.488; 1001., 9th
May, 1846, 84,172 501., Bth Oct , 1846, 40,152; 501., same
date, 43,560. 201., sth Oct., 1846, 83,274 ; 201., 83,275.
61., 2ad Dec., 1846, 35,910; 51., 13th Jan., 1847, 59,650:
and U., No. 94,426. There can be po doubt the clerk was
watched from since to place. Late last night, Marrs.
Bush and Mullen', the solicitors for the association of
bankers, forwarded by the mails a list of the notes, not only
to every town throughout England, butane on the Continent.
A reward M5OOl. is offered for the restoration of the notes.
SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER IN BARTHOLOMEW'S
HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday morning, the deed body of a child
was discovered in one of the water closets at Bartholomew's
Hospital. One of tke patients observed something at the
bottom of the water-closet which induced her to call for
assistance, and Mr. Wix, the steward, went, by which time
the porters had succeeded in raising the body of a very fine
fall-grown female child. It was conveyed to the dead-
home and seen by the surgeon. It had all the external ap-
pearance of having been born alive, but the body has not
et been opened ; but Mr. Payne, the City coroner, has
ditocted that it shalt forthwith be done. The umbilical cord
had not been fastened, and there is reason to think the de-
livery took place in the water-closet. No discovery has been
made se to the parent.
ATTEMPTED BURGIARY.—On Monday morning the
family of Mr. Forman, a tradesman, residing at No. 16,
Surrey-row, Blackfrian. were alarmed by burglars. It ap-
pears that about half-put five o'clock, Mr. Forman hearing
a noise in the room where he was lying, suddenly rose up in
bed, and was much alarmed by seeing two men walk into
the apartment. He leaped out of bed, but the thieves
effected their escape, leaving much valuable property behind
them, which thee had tied up, ready for carrying away.
They left behind awn a skeleton key, a quantity of lunkr
matches, and various implements used in housebreaking.
The policeman was looked for, but, as usual, was not to be
found when wanted. This is the second attempted burglary
in the same street.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY.— DRATH FROM SINFOCA-
rIox.—By Mr. Mira, at the University College Hospital, on
the body of Edward Franklin, aged twenty, who,together
with several other persons, was -buried by the illing of a
dust heap.—Edward Brown mid he was a dustman is the
employ of Mr. Richardson, dust contractor, at his wharf on
the banks of the Regent's Canal, Agar-town, in the rear of
St. Pancras wotkhnuse. About seven o'clock that morning
(Tuesday) witness and the deceased, together with twelve or
fourteen other persons, were engaged in sifting under the
edge of a dust heap, about twenty feet high, when suddenly
the tipper pert of the heap gave way, and the whole of the
peruse employed in silting were buried more or less under
the mss which fell ; some were fortunate enough, however,
to be only embedded app to their waists and necks, and
having extricated theeeeivm every exertion was used to get
out *gee who were ism hetemete ; three or four poor fellows
wen may reemeneljest In selkient time to 'eve their lives.
The nelbehmete deserved heft at the time of the fall nearest
ander the blew tithe duet wee covered by such an im-
mense that spat the betty recovered the deceased
appeared and on beim/ swaveyed with all possible
rto Unimmity College Weepiftl, the medical officersof
est:heist peemeancedlibm dead. Some of the other saf-
fron were aim Ulm to the Ittepital, but recovered speedily
after their adliirisa.—ln answer to the coroner and jury,
the WW2= gam it as their *aim that the dust heap had
not boa undwreeiessi la any way, but that the cause of the
fall numbed from the rettesubilell of the upper portion of the
heap, emesquese en the moat fall of snow and the sudden
thaw. The house sumps. having given evidence that the
deceased had died hem the Mims of suffocation, the jury
immediately returned a mediet of " Accidental death."

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Fin. 15.
The statement of the Young Irelenders, that the
repeal candidate had had a majority on Saturday
evening is not borne out by the fact. The numbers
officially announced on Saturday, at the close of the
poll, were—
Mamba& 295
071altarti
Mr. O'Connell has appealed directly to the electors
in favour of Mr. O'nerty. The circumstances of
his doing se are these the Pilot is supposed to
speak seatineents similar to his own on all public
topics. ()a Wednesday last a letter appeared is that
journal, arid "An OM Repealer, in which
A was stated that the writer, though a
repealer, sad continuing to remain a r_t"Junley
would vote for the Solicitor-GeneraL Nothing
to the contrary appearing in the same learner,
it was very confidently stated in Dublin and Galway
that Mr. O'Connell was privately not averse to the
Solicitor-General's return. Mr. O'Connell seems to
have himself supposed this would have occurred; for
to-day, we were somewhat surprised by the publics!
lion of a letter from him, which reached Galway on
Saturday, and which appears to have been written
on the moment he saw the letter in the Pilot. In
this letter Mr. O'Connell dissociates himself from the
opinions of that journal, and says : " Nothing but the
return of Mr. O'Flaherty can vindicate Galway's
honour and integrity."
The state of Ireland presents no new features.
In some districts, the mortality has been greater than
the average rate. In Sligo, for instance, the deaths
from starvation, during the week ending Saturday last,
were fifteen; and in one lamentable district of the
same county, the number of corpses awaiting the
coroner's investigation were forty. From another
quarter of the county, a policeman writes to the coro-
ner that " half-a-dozen deaths from starvation had been
reported to the inspector that evening," and
awaited inquiry. In Dingle, at the other extremity
of the island, a poor-law guardian writes: " Persona
are to be seen at all times going about with plates,
collecting_ money to pay for coffins. There is not in
this world a more neglected or more destitute locality
than this. The darting people go into the tillage
fields and re-dig them, for the chance of finding an
old and rotten " And yet there are 40,000
elc.Plored Oa works in Berry.
The he share the fate of men. Provender is
'MO oats too precious for horses when it
and hay is insufficient to pro-
animals are overworked ea the

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