The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-16 00:00:00

A ifiLANCHOLT STORY.

On Wedrbenday turning Mr. Coroner Hitchena
inieelled upon to lavenders a very melancholy cue of
nig& The inquiry MB Ineaking the death of a youz
=Fenny Cat, a ieneselie in the sem°, of J
k, By at Caelles-ka-Moorland, who, on
rlieu del; geolvered herself is a pond in
illeityled of boa under. The following War in her
beagenteheg, direshei to her lather, was food upon her
We:

"Dar Father, MsMatt, and Sister, —With a teemtding
bins& and a sad lemet, for the tut time I ale tabs up my
pa to write them frellase to yea, hoping they TIE lad ail to
kliter health sad sprltothms they leave tee„ be my heart is
sal WO broken. Tea rem dabassordroark with semis,
alga pa see this note ham yew tom daughter's head; bat
Wise It reaches you I dell lime bend a watery gram, for I
• ha* ths arm to MI Ilia, ft I wee to NT, it would Pupae
bath myself sad pa el; hat, my dearest friends, it weir
ions my Mob. Iwe 61 ontsey, sod it has been mzifflet
be mile pet, bat I new deas lea anyose. Then le see
6 ear here haws kw I ma lied ; neither can I boss the
Moo elk Pin beam le name; but Ire sin menthe gone
Tab aid; se I can me ihedillheanne neyseM nod MI ft too,
amenl email Mar it say Isapa. It TM bee sad Webs for
pen ell; bat de not pine; ben I have grieved myeeM sad it
but me. Tea have tarrEsg daughter; bat it is we who
might la have been bar Amide through the path et youth.
Glee my love to be, andise her to think of me, but not to
de es I lave date; li kr to follow the stops of her dear
Meer awe Yea Iham dome. Shon is a little book is my
boa 116 idyls he me; eve It to her, and tell keit
mos the be well of be der Mater that she should hare it,
gerit; and It le my wish that Edwin &makd ham my
ms benmake from as. I hope you will look opts
so mos at per ova, der he would have been if this dis-
legimar led be ladles S. Se take pity on him, for I do
sottroow low 1 • rempl OR it, for he does sot know tory
moos Art II dim re de. It is not him that Leo dons nee
1116 dlshmem, et I 'odd ham borne it better ; but it wen
OW ad rem mithbet le mu, but @hall not say who. This is
all low•Itty; so err awl re tar r soon aa you this
Ws; let If I we or Mad before this, yon w9l Ind ate st
16 bottom eit the soak-yid. I have no money in my hes.
I ewe lobe Wright /era sew frock that is in my hoz now
tbs. Oil. ; sad I owe Mrs. Ash 2s. 3d. for making rue offs ; sod
Ririe Wads 10e. for doing my bonnet; and Er. Wad* for
be yobs of sew boots; sad I owe Mr. Wibon a bill for
some thlap, hot do sot bow haw much it Is, so I moot
soy. I her yr will theta all. lam afraid I shall sot
be allowod to be brW in the churchyard.**
Edwin Key. who was amok affected while giving his evi-
dent°, stated it was near be o'clock when be left the da-
mmed in the back kitchen. IRA had mid to hint she should
sot 1100 loft , bet he had no thought that she would destroy
brad!. nr had had no words; she seemed ea usual. Hi
wee ignorant of her being in the family way. He had kept
ameray with her for two years, and never hoard of any
eiber yew man keeping company with her. She bad left
him a Utter, and until be had reved it be war not aware
what had beggared. (Letter produced and read as follow.):
" My direst Edwin,—With a trembling hand and a hail-
broken heart, I now, for the fine time, write these few Pees
Is you ; but I know not bow to tell you the WWI. You will
be Isonor-strook with sarpeime to see it from one you have
bed so dm" that I am with child ; but before this note
wives to you I shall ham found a watery gram. It
ewer wen my wish to be is this way. but I was lei astray ;
bet I hope, my dear, you will not think me deceitful for not
balsa yea ; bat 1 meld net beer the idea of parting with
yea till I wee oblW; bet, my doer, I cannot live In this
way any longer. I hope you will go to see them at home
after lam glum to bear them company sometimes. It is
my wish, my dear, for you to have my Bible, and keep it
for my mike. I hem chrei.n my bearers. if IKM allowed to
be Marled 6 the churchyard. I hope, my dom. let me he
baring where I may, you will nano to my funeral, but do not
piers much forms; but if we bad parted sooner I should
have died sooner, for it would ham broken my heart before
mew. No me Insoles the bows I him peeled In silent
plot. I hope you will ham a company keeper to behave
well to yen while you are single ; also when you an mar-
ried, for I am RIM you are worthy of the best that @ceps ;
mad, my dear, I do sincerely wish you well through life,
sod a happy death. I hope what you hem read this you
will forgive me. So good-lsye, and a long farewell From
your's till demh, F. Colon."
Themn retuned a verdict that the death of the deceased
wan caned by heresM, beim at the time of a err mind ;
ma the armor lewd his warmed for her interment be-
Peon the hours of 9 aid 12 o'okek.—Notimpita in Retina.

SALE OF WATER-COLOUR DRAWINCF.—On Wed.
▪ dirr end yesamday, the °bolos end valuable collection of
weler-eolour drawings, homed by Charles Priatbsrlcm leg.,
EMI H. L. Paxley, Eng , were sold by auction by tleMmera.
Peelier, at the gallery, Pall-roall. The collection of the
Rams included the two celebrated verb of
Vort Web.," by Turner ; Apt werp, by D. Roberts,
R , and seamy other gas pictures which weve in the Mb-
elarver Art Treasures Exhibitioa. Among the pictures mold
en WednZwere Cows—noon," by T. 8. Cosw,
. 68 ; " The Spirit of Chivalry " D. Iteei,
11.A.,160 "Portsmouth Harbour." C.Sniatield,R.A.,
131 glasses ; " in the Ilitier Days of Charles I ,"
, " later, of Brewers Hall, Antwerp," Louie
t 36 geleeee . Turner's two pictures of " Virginia
Woof, sold for 184 guineas tad 163 fraineen. "A grasp
et " a higblyhuithed pencil drawing by Rem Mem=
bee, BirLed the high price of 36 guineas. The taller, wee
asealed with the leading buyers end two,sad the Mr
iii. manse 3..63/. ha Oa the weed MD of do
Maim the " Vim " a heratibi sew b bobs
d the origami la the V by dwasod, Flamm,
br Tbe vie spkitsd, end the
of the semi We si. eiesaseed to 1,2431. 6e.

---- Lwz or ma LAST Sli HENRY LAIFIPXRCE.—
! We beer that Colonel Harbert Edwards bee undertaken the
Risk et becoming tbe bkigrapler at the late Or Henry
lawmen who.. hinds mad relatives in this asentry bawl
elliewly
elek supplied Coked Edwards with tbs requidte rants-

TSB PAM DUTY..-DEPUTATION TO THE

IiIKLIEL

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Yesterday the Earl of Derby received at his OA-
dal residimee, Downing. street, • deputation—inelodieg_Mr.
M. Oitmee, P. dr. BriOt, M.P., Mr. Aimee, MP,
Mr. as lagredt, M.T., Mr. Cranford, ; mem& Col-
heedst "leigatiggi=dreraes a": Ira 10411dmis k. 1";
Mr. flat
atm via (Birreinghmai,:rMitirAldermea Towle (Oxford),
Mr. Handl, Mr. Garrett meaollsoterer), Dr. Watts
(limeheeter), and Mr. T. (Ifeereastl)—to make a
elefemeat to him ia ismer el the repeal flaw flail caps
Mr. M. Gilson, it bizePlatise the diesstudow, fan
W waited spot the sale earl ha reihnete to going he alll
Cdrineellor of the Iffskripar, berme :=emeldovell the
=a ea being me of pone lbws me el
He wield net, bower, go the gemeral we-
", as th• amenery of the Society for the Papua of the
Tams as Leads* wadi reed a ntoteorlal embodying the
general the venation of the pryer duty.
Mr. D. alaltried a manorial, he width it wee
*Wed to the paper duty that It horded lestreetke, Ida-
dared the extension of the manufacture, sad wee leierloos to
as revenue. In the second part of the neseserial COW
plaint was made of the enactments of the law der which
LT:establishing newspapers are required to give security
t of Inas sr penalties to which they may bir
come Bander the law of Hbel.
_

A second mentoriel against the paper duty from certain
mer.dnianniaoturers in the West Riding of 1 orkahire was
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Dr. Warm Mddrellold some remarks to the noble earl in
illustration of the .on. ht whisk the duty on paper ope-
rated to the prejudice of the sonedricturer by the vexations
character of the excise
Mr. Alderso• Towtmil=ocampleinisg not only ot
the general lid et the duty, and the main regulations, but
also of the Wooden at levying upon the coarse selllticard,
made from tie mhos of the dunghill, osoisely the ass
amount of they as wee pied seen the Suet writing paper.
Mr. Volume Moot te the wed= of the security gives
by publishers of sswepepere ; ma, as on Mostestisn it the
isipebey el the posse% mean headed ti weed cape
" • heroine nefont," mil soma •
MAIMIOOII elerseter," the joblithers of w=oPits: not re-
quired to give esourtty.
Mr. Isaiah aid he was the gresOst ocerstmer of paper
in London, and found that the &ley mitl mein aro=
mute compelled' him to charge the mans • meek
prig than he would otherwhe have ha de.
Mr. Alderman Hamann said tbs., although a radical—
(laughter)—be sad hie friends liked the present government
better than the hat, became ter wen governing the country
more cheaply , and that course, if continued, would enable
them to repot' the paper duty.
Mr. J. Comet., as the proprietor of several cheap publi-
cation, of an educational tendency enforoed the necessity of
repealing the duty se a means of improving the moral and
intellectual character of the people.
The Hari of Dauy (who had listened very attentively to
the long addresses of the deputation, and occasionally throw-
ing in a Orly boa mot?, said the question was cot at all •
new one, although it had them been so fully gone into, sad
the deputation oould not expect him to follow them through
all the points of dalmatian whisk they had brought before
him. But there were two very different potato upon
which they had fixed his adsollea. The first was with re-
ference to the security le be ghee Jar newspapers, and not
for pamphlets, and whether it vas posible or impoolbie to
draw a distinction between lbw tee mem Into the =ft
that question he would testlra agar. The other
point affected the duty as ippet, awl he wee lau
to
go a long way in what bee bass mid by
spas this subject, for he Sought that in point of a
goad deal was to be old outlast a duty on such an=as
pepee,_and an doubt the regektione of the acts added to
the di/WV la the war of epessises to the trade. At the
ems dole he wet rewind its areiellea Set although, as
was Weld to the uweeel, the musk eof Ed& was Ire
this dowdy the sermdestare of peer bed Swessed, sad
the Jeerers li the aurabir of m• Wes warp to be re-
ferred to the general Oedeney, in a high sties ef
of large cepltallies te swallow mall He found by
Mares thet the quatlty of paper paid duty in 1838
wee 96,000.1111111 e, elide /1117 It wee 171,000,0001 U, so
preinetlon bet welly howeed during the last 20
mos, Nod be weld not think the paper tostrefactwere of
Ilds Flaweeld be retard quite so rigidly as had
be= by some mambos of the deft&don_ . How-
ever, adenilisi that if the mu= goversumert had suo-
coded to as overbowieg tresuoy, so am to be elk to provide
for the sellgemies at the ,esmory Wised of le slate of
affairs whisk mimed ea laseseed
sithoseh he bested dist would be cely"==y,al:se=
approve very meek of a proposition to Ohs of the ditty em
page. It wee Dot for him to anticipate thehs bat when
ammiles of the lizabsper reeds out bin Weleweret, and
found that that dety sweeneed be mire thaw 1,100,0001., ter
worth* =I wry mask to the Ywldea etki heerwald ban
to west, wed he (Lord Derby) wee sisid that ihr Se present
yew he add net hold out any kip ef re regniefthe duty;
but after a yew or two, when the emery hl had the ad-
watts* cd a conservative governmeol—end he was fled to
And they led already gained the reputed= of (Wenn to
mere eiresply—(lsughter)—he edoitesd that it was a tax
idea belk prisciple and detail me to grave 4WD-
time, end whiek it would be most to repeal.
The degoleidon then withdrew.

DISPUIEB BETWEEN MASTERS AND
WORKMEN.

DEPUTATION TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.
_. _ _

Yesterday, a deputation from the executive com-
mittee of the National Amectation of United Trades waited
upon the Right Hon. Mr. Henley, the President of the
Swrd of Trade, with referents to • bill which It was pro-
reed to Introduce in the House of Commons, for establish-
tug courts of conciliation or arbitration between workmen
and their employers.
The deputation included Mr. G. A. Fleming, president;
Mason. Winter, Green, &a.
The Earl of Donoughroore, Vice-President of the Boerd
of Trade, and Sir Emmenoon Tennant, Secretary to the
Board, were ale) present and took part in the proceedings,
Mr. FL= trto explained that the principle of the bill was
to great power to her Majesty or her Secretary of State for
the Home Department to enable them to rent licenses to
any number of mamas and workmen in any town, city, or
other place within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, to form councils of conciliation for the adjust-
ment of all disputes between masters and operatives, except-
ing the dung or regulating of price@ that shall in future be
paid br a given amount of work to be done. By the drat
clause It was proposed that all the power and authority
granted to jurrlces of the peace, arbitrators, referees, and
others, under the act 6th Geo. IV., cap. 96, and the Ist Vic.
cap. 67, shall be given to councils of conciliation, except the
committal of refractory witnesses and others to prison, and
the issuing of distress warrants. The second clause would
extend the act Bth and 9th Vic., cap. 128, to all trades
and occupations. This act was for the more easy re-
covery of wages, the delivery of tickets with the
work, and the prevention of mentors making dednetions
from wages earned under the plea of defective work, unless
the said work had been arbitrated upon. The third clause
proposed to give power to her Majesty or her Secretary of
State for the Home Department to grant licences to cotuteils
of c methadon upon a petition emanating from any number
of masters and workmen. The bill also provided that each
court could consist of three masters and three
besides a chairman, and that each council should b elected
for one year. The executive committee believed that the
bill they had drawn could not be objected to with soy degree
of force or reason, seeing that they would costly be established
upon disjoint request of roasters and workman, and world
not compel any one to go before them if the parties had more
faith in a magistrate. The speaker concluded by informing
the right hon. gentleman that Mr. Mackinnon intended to
move, on the 20th or 27th of the present month, for looms to
bring hi the bill.
. _ _

biro WINdTIMI having explained in detail the provisions of
the propose coniettre,
The Right Hon. Mr. Hictiotr, who bad listened with
beret attention to the statement of the deputation, admitted
that the subject was one of the greatest importance, and
*Nerved that If a practical remedy for the rade complained
of could be devisee, it would be of great public benefit sad
advantage. It wee clear, however, from the failure of psi
legialation on the subject, that it was one of verygreat 'M
adly. When the bill was Introduced by Mr. Meth noon, be
would glee it his most careful and attentive consideration,
and if he found that its provisions were such as were Fltely
to effect the object in view, he would have no objection on
the part of the government to its introduction ; but if, on the
other hand, it did not appear to him likely to answer that
end, It would he only trifling with • subject of reel import-
ance to proceed with a measure which could not ultimately
pus into law. If the objection were merely to details, end
did not involve the principle of the bill, they could be con-
sidered in committee.

Lord Du N °VG liMuite Naked some questions with reference
to the oonatitution of the proposed boards of arbitration,
which haying been answered,
The deputation thanked the right hen. gentleman for his
coartsey, and reared.

TUE OUTWARD AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Simla
left Suez on the 27th tilt, with the Australian mail of the
12th ult. Within a quarter of en hour after she bad started
It wee found that her propeller had been Injured , she returned
therefore to Sues, and her mails were transferred to the
Clued* which wee lying there. That steamer left Sues on
the 2nd instant for Point de Gale, where the Australian mail
A
will be again transhipped to the ustralsaian, and taken on
by her to its destination. The Australian mall lost nearly a
week by the break down of the Simla. The Simla was ow
her last trip with the Australian nisi! when she broke down.
The Alma and the Simla, two of the Bunt an the
Indian station, are now disabled in the th. ig bee
been already announced that the Calcutta sad Madras mile
sunk in the Ava have been recovered. It warn hood that
the letters would hare been so damaged as to be alobies.
This, however, appears not to be the rase. Sow ci the,
boxes have been opened, and the Wien in them were ant
injured.

The subjoined was pasted at Lloyd's yesterday :
A mall bundle of papers, one of which, dated 30th January,
Ng, hi addressed to the chid mate of the Matosha, and le a
Hod of certificste signed by Osorgs Anderson,lnrgson sow.
intendent, has been picked up on the &Norton bsaak , sear
Ismonth. (Mem.—The datodia, Captain Sterna., WWI
hen the Donis on the 20th March for Purl Phillip.]