The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK,

HIGHWAY RODBEHT.—T. Luxqlbril wa% chanfrd
being concerned wbh two others, nut in en, ody, in .wt
Matilda Know and robbit g her of a banal, of

Promentriz stated that list ev nine she wont',
from several lamilies to wash, and, baring tC1•111

bundle in Trinity•rquare, she proem-tied ioano Inr h
the square, and, as she was in thane of knocking a• the
three men rushed upqn her and ke“cke4 h. r .1 ma
of them %hatched the bundle fr in her, and th.
away. Witness bad no chance of keirg the Teen's
she believed the prisoner to be the man who .1, era
bundle from her,

llr. J. J. Eli, &gentleman rrtiding in toe en ighboul
gaud that be mu pawing tne corner of Sam serer
Trinity-street, when he • aw the nerarcutris rice Ira
ground, and call out " Stop them," et the same time
men rushed past him, one of whom had •
possession. H. pursued the latter, and, ati.l ► imart
✓emand him and han.ltd him aver to a pata constAbl
had, however, thrown the hundl,, away.
Police constable 216 M said he took the pvi-ever iai
tat, and afterwards picked up the bundle now prude
The proeccutrik identified the articles contAined in
The prisoner denied having soy connect w.
other man, neither did he know anything abut the
Mr. A'Beckett committed him for trial.

OxFoßD.—The High Sheriff of the cowy,
Hall, &q., has, upon a requisition numtrowly
eluding the names of the Duke of Marlborough 'he
Abingdon, the Earl of Maoclestield, she Lord V. n
convened a meeting of the freeholders of thf
on Thursday, the 2od of January neat, at 12 o'cisek.
County Hall, to take into consideration tha recrot -
tion of authority on the part of the Bishop of ro•,
that they may unitedly determine upon o
her Majesty, u the defender of our Leith,
adopt measures for repulsing the vaunted usur..ati
Queen's supremacy and prerogative, aid the grl,
to our protestant country.
EWAN& OF A NUN FROM TILE CoNv

IMlLT.—There was an escape of a Nun" ir
man Catholic ettablisbusent in this town,' th
sayethe Banbury Guardia*. It appears that the
who took an opportunity of withdrawing rem tit
was one of the Sisters of Charity, and was chi II!
in the school where a number of childr. n are du
She was known in the establishment u Starr Au,
there Is some uncertainty as to what het *uneasy
She is by some said to he highly connect.
at Banbury is not the first at which she has been
lie.. she has been in a similar estiblisbment in
at Nottingham. Her dissatislection eidt nC. sate
was first made known, out of the bonne, by ;eat
she contrived to have conveyed by children in 0
to persons of the protestant faith in Banbury.
glish New Terament, which by some chin r
her possession, disturbed the opinions in whirl
been 'educated; she determined on gettine
St. John's, and melted to do 10 early on *doe
ing, and again on Tuesday morning,
hut At t
the contemplated escape her heart failed her. Silt
nine o'clock, the school hour, on Tuesday, whole
inmates were engaged, she took an oppoinvity
away unobserved ; and, for some reason, instead o
the parties in Banbury with whom she hod be'
ganaication, and who bad offered lirr, 'tither, she
the road for Orford. At Adderborr, three poi-'
bury, she became tired, and inquired lif a
minister; she was taken to the noose of the
Crickett, an independent minister, where she a
received, both by Mr. and Iles.Crickett, and writ
was remaining yesterday. She has been snot
clothing ; and the garments peculiar to the itsr
which she went away, have been returned to
Before she left St. John's we believe an ape:
made by the parties with whom she had been
to
nation to a neighbouring magistrate for hi' aid
her, and he wrote on the subject to Sir (leder.
Suntan of State ; but she did not wait for the
nos, but took the opportunity of acting alone,
described.
THE CANDLESTICK QUESTION.—For ret
canaries the perish church of Seaford his been wt
altar, and the Anglican services as adopted in the Et
ward 6th have been employed without Ins or hint It"
within a few past years, when, from some most sr legl
mental influence, the church was found to be deie 1
usefula, ea unless two unlighted tallow candles • be!:
upon the Communion Table, which, as might h
created no small sensation is the pari.h. At Set the
might have been asked why she had been o u .
her duties uto leave them there ? She ought I
ed
them on one side after she had no Inger use to s,Ada
her answer doubting was that she hid been 51 ,
times of the Eetormation, end she found it grief
by the rubric of Edward • The Sixth that ,71;
candles were to be need" oat the altar, at
as there war now no altar, she was determined
the rubric, and therefore put them on the comm. It'
which, while it satisfied her in her duties, put n;
the parishioners, who still thought it wrong, at
three hundred years their forefathers hid been • ItS
churchwia In
tilt tairvichegmthbeee e ca c
After o
titutmely.mhbeowli,,te.c.tho, lonsiawl
doubted, as the instructions referred to a Sign a it. !,
there being no such place, they still thought thew 1,?! °:,
the past was b
quite equal to the pessopentr's know Kr:,
the present, and they argued thst, with the /mots
of
high altar, which took place in December, 1550, the,
n,!_' t
the two candles was also taken away, anu that the re_l;
question was obsolete and inapplicable to the pryseht,r"—ttbd
of the church. In this they were douhtleis nth,' t•
could not satisfy the pewopener, who was, true to bet
*betas
a stickler for old customs, and she did not cores seXl*°!...o
the altar existed or not. She knew from tredittee in_
once was an high altar, and that it steed near sbchtl!...
the communion table now stands, god, therefore, 00
dies ought to be there. It was useless to tel heti;
the rubric about the two candles referred to 1517, ie
isbrogated in 1649 by Edward the fish by thee.
" Further, that no minister do counterfeit the Pelms°77,
by setting light, upon the Lord's Board (the reougn;;;
'table sot the altar) at any time again. Th., 0°
ina
maintain' lights, candles, altars, or any such &bantttt
superstitions." In vain the pew opener has
Edward the 6th denounced the candles as su
EdwardPe";os
things. She says that'. all nonsense, she will giclL,ty
rubric, even if it have no applicable existence; 10d
it has none, for subsequently we find, in 1569, 'h_
up of candles was expressly condemned. 11 the le
is still determined to have her two candles illedtl.,se
parishioners will doubtless look about them, gnat:ll_77:4s
they cannot induce our respected pastor to int '072 the
matter, or if it be beyond his reach, will eall
bishop to direct his archdeacoos to investies!..
question of her extraordinary pertinacity. We ~.ge
ioubt then that this subject, and all others
the novelties and superstitious intr.duced by the ~...101
will be found unwarranted end adverbs to tbs..'
spirit of the rubrics of mar church, without ta
any convocation of the clergy, called for the rich "
Of these velationsly disputed matters. Surrey Stow"

A P112111:`
fja
,„Ar PAND NOR
oSP'

00 Sunday evening a
the onsibern divistoo tool
before taking any Step in
tl
Oros and firemen on the
wince the authorities
inted for that purp
Iseeppo
Last evening, at a late bo
and firemen of the soothe'
st tbe Railway Tavern, in
stn not
by deputation ft
sten of the Etstern Conntie
The chair was taken by s
end be stad tat at the la
ond a depatihon to Mr. 1I
Western Cutompany, to is&
wine-drivers on the recei
Workmen in the north.
present, and they would
Object.
statement of the opt
The
the tollowina effect : The
spos Mr. Glyn, but be
opted
Mr. beContrell, chief
opted that it never wee
oysters as bed obtained on
ha remained when he w
Trevethick sheik' not e
posited that fair reps
wade to thee t
An ettgin•-driver, one
Counties, stated that th
'ILWwwolduld
liti jose'enel knew waP°:ihrelainit that C C gYhu
htaifydeta le
wh. men
kns°
tr etsul from
fie
be was convinced, under
Iced their aid to an oppri
This statemeot was er
into which at present it
$o resolatioos were y
M'coottat's offisiel Ins
more *specially as the ro
Tat received the ultimat
ems ol ilk' HAD. The pe
modwilikt.

COSIOYS on
RALILLIWAY.—SEK

Last evening, duel
'owns heePsusa on lbe
serious lujary to a aaa
the ua• woe opesed.
trsins was never experi.
hourhood of Stratford
to discern object. •
the consPenf adopted
twilit of the veils,
to take of a *amber
all the ellind I"kts
eztentive n•e of I
then be carried on.
two teeing were ran in
d.
o
hit
en
ree
E
tsbatisd
itledliwnhaelth I..eb r
is s:
fTdßi,,ye lienhoi zih
ne. Te drif" trainteostfher h first
GPI"
Hertford,
bete:ee
u ne:re.ciEnemdat...ll:ll tors
lle
s
t
rear
et
for
and el if to add to thei
steam and smoke of
position of the unfortt
row• staff of oflicers at
Immediately on the P
ere they could all be e
the chief portion of tho
left hart. Having
of the station, and
been sent for, it we
to the London ilea
attended to on the
Terns. Amongst tho
conveyed to the ho
female. . , _

The second collider
0010 to the Brick lan,
up from Colchester, d
was proceeding at • 1
time after leaving the
the Norwich express.
train was • third
rrgets on a Chri
So great wu t
sides, were demolist
gen escaped mortal i
of them were bleedir
parts of their body,
shy of the atmuspho
germ in other parts c
and in one unions
opposite the write
contact with earls o
bleeding copiously.
gate, many more WI
Hancorn, a surged

had bean called •
ny
'ions occasion, Ira,
services alleviate

SUPPOSED 'Bt:
man giving the Ur
magistrates at Mei
ing a young man
ago. The prisoner
wu d
epliZt in at
aI
three 'cthe
to force the hack
nstely. He looke
and saw two 011
threatened to fire
and Tyrell having
to
that the.
his alarm fired
ously attempting
claimed, D—n
prisoner did not
time, but called
done. Heigh, i+
shoulder, and we
penury for some,
that the perfors
wound, hut 'tea
ate: s. The negi
be will recover,
gentleman who
sutrender. Hsi
The prisoner wt
etch.

DEATH OF A

BUILNING.—A 1,
Haohy, on Sam
Ann Parker, tl
Parker and his
people, returnee
some time sit
down on the se
the fire mini
o'clock, the ma
when to his co,
enii.loped In fie
thaguishing, ibu
hands. The
poor infant sur

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=ether dying I
ni‘-ther, while g
doze, When a p

comMuniested;

ST. MAIGA
—Ln the ft•porl
guys, " that the
.vet's-cherrhy
houses of pathos
that o these off
hour+ of the nip
i. frrgurntly to
Issuing from th
here, la order t
followed their
with such state
ever much into
tollarving, the
referred to.
do the inhabit
for another "
traverses the
appears to be a
94 quits not
inch t octopi,
where the colt
breaking up.
tees little srlaiv
thins ensues a
which it will
further (Awry
to pick up s
nigger, and ti
however, to tt
This ground a
'0 Pare it lava
an atter calm<
I suet say, ha
adorned with
'fleet would t
uneven stoma
Its surtice,-1