The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-31 00:00:00

BRAZILS.

PORTSMOUTII, FRIDAY.—The following important
intelligence arrived at Portsmouth to-day, per elec-
tric telegraph, from Liverpool, and which had been
brought to that port by the Emprers, merchant vessel,
which arrived there yesterday. The advice, brought
by her are from Rio d. Janeiro to the 18th, and
Bahia to the 26th ultimo. Her Majesty's steamer
Cormorant had gone into Paranagas, taking in folk,
slave-vessels in tow, and as she was passing the fort)t
she was fired into, killing 11 men and wounding
several. The Cormorant then dismissed her prizes,
and, with her heavy 84-pounders, demolished the
fort. Great excitement prevailed in Rio. The
!louse of Representatives had orderod higher duties
on British ships and manufactures.

PROVISIONAL ORDERS OP THE GENERAL BOARD
or iIiALTIL. On Monday next, the 2nd September, several
elections of local boards of health will take place under the
set of the late swain, for confirming certain provisional
orders of the General Board of Health. At the following
please local boards of health on that day will be elected :
Serstforel upon-Avon. Dartford, Newport, Brecon, Harrow,
Derby, Dover, Ckelnuford, and York.
MANSLAUOLITHR AT BARTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—
On the evening of Monday, the 12th inst., a man named
Jets Sandersoa was awakened by some persons throwing
something at the windows. Both he and his wife got up and
opened the window. They then saw two men standing at
the corner of the little garden in front of the house, and
when they spoke to than to go about their bonnets they
threw several handfuls of dirt and stones at them. Sander-
son again desired them to go away, but they refused; he
told them it they did not he would come down stairs and
make them. This had ao offset upon them, and he there-
foes pat on hie trousers and shoes and went down stairs.
Before he got to the street door ha had to pass the tire-place,
and in order that he might have some weapon to protect
himself he took up the poker. Re unbolted the door, and
immediately the man ran off round the corner of the street.
&admen punted them with the poker in his hand, and
immediately afterwards wise of " murder" were heard by
the neighbour.. Mr. Moss, landlord of the Waggon and
Berme, with other*, hastoood to the spot, when they found
a man sensed Robert Thompson lying on the ground, and
blood flow* profusely from hie bead. Sanderson was
needing • few yards from him with the poker in his kind,
and when he was asked by Mr. Moss if he bad murdered the
man, he said, " What would you have done. They have
smashed my windows in—have had me down, and they
would have killed me if I bad not had the poker," Toe
wounded man died on Wednesday morning. The jury
returned a verdict et " Manslaughter" against Sandersoa.
DEATH ON • TRAM-ROAD.—A melancholg acci-
dent occurred on Monday afternoon to Mr. George inns, a
member of the Society et Friends, on the Bowling Iron
Company's tram-road, IMF Messrs. Ripley's dysworks,
Bowling. About three *Week Mr. Blass was crossing the
trans-line in BOAR Wind, when a tale of 13 waggons,
loaded with coat, an their way from Dudley Hill to the
Bradford Coal Stacks, cams down upon him, hurling him
to the ground. Four of the waggau passed over his body,
killing him upon the spot. From the INWOOD given at the
'squat it appeared that the tootpatk leading from Bradford
to the kiln of Bowling, fa a eanda-easterly dimities, on rho
west side of this tram-read, hen bees meetly broken by an
embankment of earth, whisk forms port of the works of
the Inasseshin and Yorkshire Railway Company, passing
ever it; no that, is order to regain the road thus discon-
nected, pardee have at this part es pass up one
.ide of this
trearroaL 'The path bea, essesquently, begone sapeoiallt
dangerous. The jury agagannod the souse which the rail-
way eompany had takes, Is *slag the old footpath, and
several of the jury uttered renatkaemadataashory of the cir-
cumstance that trains of are permitted to pass at all
boon along that tram withest any or thing to
guard the crossings, over which bre ead themes& of
persons proceed ever, day. Oa, of the jury also said that if
the railway people ware obliged to plans gates end rasa at
their crossings, it was equally obligatory on the part of the
proprieson of the tram road to do the saw. This le not
the arse fatal aosideat that has happened at than crossings.
The jury returned a remain " Maitland death," with
the expression of an *aim that the way woe renderedex-
ceedingly dangerous by the *ld hot path being covered
over, sad whisk had deshilem led to the preesat lamentable
accidipst. The wooer recommended the friends of the
dawned to preened nadir the float an for compensation
against the parties who hadetopped up the old footpath.