The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-25 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE

PARKS.

Mn. Ann Hicks of 7, Grays Street, Manchnter square, Lon-
don To Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, Ranger
of Hyde Park, &c.
May it Please your grace to remember you advised
me is A note dated 30th of october last to give up the
Poesesion of my cottage at the east end of the serpeatine
river in Hyde Park in whi.h myself and family had resided
7 peers, having had permision to erect it granted to me. I
parted with all my ththee, my Bed from under me, and had
to take up 3 loans and likewise to get very much into debt,
and had always hoped to have Raided io my cottage all my
life rest free it having cat me one hundred and thirty pound's
to erect—on the eleventh of last mouth I was compeld to
leave my Cottage et the east end of the Serpentine River in
Hyde Park, and have not received any sort of remit-
! ration for the materials and only five shillings per
week for twelve months to pay my rent, which I have paid
off one of my debts, and at this present hour myself and
family ere quite &notate of food or the means of Procuring
any—your grace having &pried all the poor people trent
gating thin liveleihood Insetting Cakes and fruit in Hyde
Park from and after the 11 day of last mouth—and which
has caused us much ant rieg and want—instead of thousands
who will visit Hyde Park next year finding us there to serve
them with cheep and wholnom refreshment, and enabling
all of those who have got there living in Hyde Park so
many years to get WWI SKITS comforts for their poor family'
we shall suffer the greatest want,and myself soul family are
greater suffares then any others, as by having bad to give up
my cottage I am compeld to live with all my family in one
small kitchen—and even that I have no mein' of paying
the rent of, having had the Priveledge gran ed to sell cakes
end tic. at the East End of the Serpentine Ricer, in Hyde
Park-23 years last march, on the death of my father,
which said Priveledge my father had injoyed 49 prove—l
most humbly introit your grace to grant me leave to open
my stall once more at the East End of the Serpentine River,
Hyde Park, and that your gran will obtain me some re-
muneration for the lona of my cottage in Hyde Park, so that
we may not be compeld to enter A workhouse, or see my
Children starve to death throgh loosing my only means of
&sooting my family. I have written two letters to your
grace stating my great destitution, But I am certain your
grace could not have received either of them—as I have not
had any answer or other kind of aid. all 1 have stated le
strictly true, and humbly depending on your graces Henan-
lence—l Remain, as in duty Bound, very grateful for any
assistance you may send me, ANN HICKS, 7, Grayest:see,
Manchester Square. December 24th, 1860.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —An accident, at-
tended with the 100 of three lives, occurred on the Leeds and
Selby Railway on Monday. The place where the fatal on-
current:* happened was not far from the Milford junction,
where the Leeds and Selby line joins the York and North
Midland line. It appears that a heavily-laden luggage train
had proceeded from Leeds, and that on arriving at a rather
steep assent on the line called the Milford Bank, the engine
was found incapable of dragging ft up, or the speed
at which it would be able to accomplish the ascent was
so slow that them is charge of the train deemed
it advisable to divide it into two pare. With the former
hat they proceeded beyond the commit of the back: intend-
ing to return with the engine for the portion left behind.
That portion, however, by its own momentum, or from some
ether cause, was set in motion, and want bark with in-
creasing velocity down the incline, where it came into
collision with another luggage train proceeding from Leeds
on the same line of rails. The collision was so violent that
the engine and tender were smashed to pieces, and the
ee~tineman, the stoker, and another man (emploed as •
pointsman) were all killed, or received such injuries as
caused their death the some evening. Two of the whir-
, Waste men who lost their lives, if not all, were mewled,
and have left widows and children.

TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION AT THE QUITMAN
MiLLs.—One of the most denseness confiagsatioss
known fee many yews in the county of Bent broke out Man
early hour on Monday meeting, involving the destruction of
highly valuable property, sad throwing some 130 or 160
weekpoople out of employ. The scene of this disaster was
the extensive paper 'Kills of Mean. Weatherby, situate at
Chartham, shout three miles from Canterbury. The pro-
misee were MO Net In lennth, end of proportionate width,
and were divided into generate buildings used severally for
belling, drying, rolling, &c. Large stocks of paper finished,
or in various of manufacture, were of band. The
fire was first aodisnWly discovered by the workmen who
west to pt the mealtime into gear, and it was at first
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