The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-03 00:00:00

.11714ORDINABY 4711147 WITH BAILIFFS.

A few days ago • most extraordinary affray took 1 es,
place at Lea, near Presto's, between a number of bailiffs
and farmers, Ice. Some time since a parson owning a good
deal of property in Lea died without making a will, and irt.
sines then there has been a deal of disputing about it. ag
Anaoopt the property were eve farms, and the tomato of le
them were ordered to pay the rents to no one until the
question had been settled. The other day, however, a It
person from Ocoee, authorised Mr. Salisbury, sheriff's
officer, of Blackburn, to make a seisms upon the whole as
of the five occupiers of the farms far rent. Mr. Salisbury as
accordingly went over so Prestos, and, usompealed by at
seven bailiffs, proceeded to Lee to distress the farmers. at
Possession sou taken of three of the farms direotbbou at
labourer
an ift.
alarm having been glue, the uric'', farm
at
rushed to the rescue from all points. The district as
for miles was in a regular state of tumult A furious at
slavegle soomedisd. The farmers and their men beat, es
kiokad, stoned, and knocked the bailiffs about in every IS
direction. The latter held their own for some time, a
but they failed to take the two remaining farms, and
eventual they bad to relinquish their bold of the others. as
Oise of the bailiffs was seised and carried through two as
fields • the others were maltreated most mercilessly, and at
the head of them (Mr. Salisbury) was terribly abused, and 81
to mend matters be user afterwards taken, with two of SI
his 0111.4 to Ashton look-up on the charge of felony. The
other bailiffs were dispersed, some of them were rolled ai
in the dirt, and others had their clothes tore. g,
The entire locality woe hs a thorough state of uproar II
for hours. After the bailiffs had bees been beaten off, some
goods which they had removed to a pleas is the die-
trial were re-seized by the native., and taken back. Selis-
bary and his two men who had been taken up remained
in the polies cells instill 11 o'clock at night, and were g
then brought before a dlatriet magistrate, and were ulti- I
stately remanded sad let out, and proceeded to Preston.
Sims then several write have been issued against the parties
who abased the bailiffs, and mused the appreheosioa of
thou referred to.

MR SNOW-STORM IN SCOTLAND.

(From the Scoentert)
The snow which had ceased falling in Edinburgh LI
oa Wednesday afternoon, again came oo early yesterday u
morning, and eentistied falling for seine time. Althoogn 54
the wind was from the north and north-east, the snow- el
storm seemed to be coming from the south, and since Moo- 81
day it had progressed over Badenoch, Strathspey, and SI
Strathdeara, up to lawmen. The fall of snow has been LI
very considerable on the high grounds, drifting in some ik
to several feet, and necessitating along the of
parts of the Highland Railway the nee of the snow- It
plough, which, however, has worked moat admit- h;
ably. The fall of snow was !light in Clsokmarman-
shire sad all aloe( the east coast is comparison with that
Ifd farther up the country. AU the halos on the
Railway were more or lees detained by the snow-
d ' although men were engaged in cutting the snow
where it was too deep forth, operations of the plough. In
some of the more exposed parte of the Highland Railway
the drifts reached & depth of eighteen or twenty feet. A l
iserrespondeat, who was travelling northwards on Wednes
day, says that he saw a man, with • shovel over his
shoulder, leading a horse lade, with hay. Upon inquiry, u
he found that the man was conveying the hay to his
farm in order to keep his cattle from starving. dl
Both man and beset had experienced great difficulty in get- $1
Ling along the road, the guide being often compelled to cut
.t,
• path is the turnpike road for himself sad hia horse. Our ;?,1
correspondent adds that should the storm which had come *
on so unexpectedly be of long dandies, the swears of u
cattle said smell farmers is the higher distriets would ti
suffer much owing to the scarcity of fodder this spring. On h
Wednesday a goods train, which had no snow-plough ll
attached to it, fairly stuck en its way north, t
and after fruitless attempts to push onwards, Al
had at last to be dug out of the drift. The o
snow fences, erected since the great snow-storm in t
February, 1865, at the more exposed parts of the High- $
land Railway, have proved of great service this winter in
breaking the force of the storm—preventing much of the 4
snow from drifting in upon the line. The parts where the ,
drifts were heaviest were at Blalr-Athole and Boat of I
Insoh. Even with the powerful assistance of the snow-
plough, several of the trains were brought to a standstill ;
while the 12.40 s.m. train from Inverness stuck in t
an immense drift about a mile from Dalwhienie station. i
The train which left Perth at 1.50 arrived at Delwhinuia j
station, but owing to the accident above oar- j
raw], weld not go on. A lugs number of I
workmen were despatched to assist in digging out
the train ; and after working for two hours 1
the train was at last dragged to Dawhioeie etat'on. Both ,
the north and south trains bad bees delayed for three-cud- 1
a-half hours. An attempt was then made to proceed on :
their journeys, but lath failed. The north train stuck in i
the snow et the bill beyond Delutinnie, and the south
train in the drift which had proved such a stumbling block
to the north train a short time previous. Several ;mac- ;
awful attempts were made by the official, of both teaks to
proceed, and it was at last decided to allow them
to roma° snowed up for the night. About nine p.m.
the passengers prepared to leave the trains and stay
over the inclement night in Dalwhionie. It was, however,
anything but a pleasant or en way matter for the passen-
gers, unprepared as they were for such a journey, to walk
through such a depth of snow to they did not know what
inoonvenienoes. Indeed, many of the passengers preferred
remaining in the carriages to plongiog headlong through
five or six feet of snow ' • bat after some persuasion on
the part of the officials, who behaved is the most
courteous and obliging manner, those who remained
behind to the comfort of the snowed-up carriages
proceeded at last to pilot their way to the inn sa Del-
wbinnie. The whole of the passengers were lodged
in Dalwhinnie ; during the night at the expense of the
railway company. Yesterday morning great and successful
efforts were made to extricate the train, from the snow,
and they were at last eaahled to proceed at 10.11 and 10
a.m. respectively. The greatest depth of snow was
between Dalehinnie and Delnaspadle, and Delwhinnie
and Struan. Our Frazerburgh correspondent says that
the fall of snow in that district ban reached a depth of
_ _

eight or ten inches, altiongtt the showers of the beginning
of the week melted as soon u they fell. In the country
places the drifts and 'retitle were three and four feet
deep. At Dunbar the snow is lying sir inches deep. but
in the country roads and along the hedges it has driftel
to a depth of three and four feet. Oar Galsaiah or.-
respondent sends a similar report.

The John Bull is authorised to state that the
Bishop of London has appoietel Fr da,., 3iwoh 23, as a
day of humiliation for the eatt'e pla4ne„
In oonsequenoe of a requisition, signed by three

magistrates, a detachment of the 66th Regiment, quartered
at Devonport, will leave the Plymouth railway station this
morning for Tavistock._ The de• RA:l=mA consists of 150