The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

THE BRIDEWELLCHAPLAINCY AT

BRISTOL.

The proceedings in :Arena to the recent appoint-
ment by the megirrates of the Rev. Robert Simpson, editor
of the DriWol Predesiant, to the sheplainey of the Bridewell,
sad wheat it was at sae time thought would lead to
leered Gorham altar, have bele set at rest by the Right
B. the Bishop of of sad Bristol refusing to weeds
to the prayer of the seseterial.

ARRIVAL IN LIVERPOOL OF 160 SHIP-
WRECKED EMIGRANTS.

At the Polio. Court, Liverpool, on Friday, Lieut.
Hodder, amompanied by Captain John Thomas, applied to
Mr. Rushton as follows :
Captain Thomas stated that he was muter of the Cushla
Machin, emigrant vessel, belonging to Mears. Rens and
Son, of Oiderey. Oa the 30th of Hank, when sixteen hun-
dred miles from Cape Clear, the vessel was stench bye heavy
sea, and thrown ea her beam ends ; when she was appa-
rently sinking he gave orders to have the three meets cat
away, and other measuree taken to keep the ship afloat.
They hoisted signals of distress, and the Infanta, Captain
Henry Purdy, of New York, stood to, and remained with
then for thirty hours, ultimately 159 of the passengen (one
had died on board), himself, and the crew, wen taken on
the Infanta, and arrived in this port that morning, and they
were now oa the south quay of the Nelson Dock. Several
of the passengers had been wounded by the concussion anp
the whole of them, with the exception of a family, consisting
of eight, in the cobs, were destitute. Captain Purdy had
behaved in the most handsome and humans manner
throughout the whole affair.
Mr. Rushton remarked to Lieutenant Hodder that there
was a shipwreck society in the port, which had a fund of
3,0001., and suggested that the case should be represented to
Mr.

Llentenan
t Hodder remarked that previous applications
had been made, in other eaves, without effect
Mr. Rushton said the present was a case of real necessity,
and the poor people mint be eared for; and, it they were
absolutely destitute, the Overseen molt take charge of them.
He directed Mr. Superintendent Murphy immediately to go
to the Nelsen Dock with a staff of officers, and do whatever
might seem best under the circumstances.
After the case had been disposed of in court, our re-
pester proceeded to the Nelson Dock, where a piteous
and heartrending scene of misery prevented itself.
The Spoor creatures, who were all from the neighbour.
hood of Galway, and the majority et whom are women
and children, were coteeting their luggage bemes* the
shed on the south aide of the dock; the children were cling-
ing to the thins of their mothers, who were suffused with
tears, the sharks employed by the lodging house keepers
having spread a report amongst them that the workhouse (to
which, by the advice of Mr. Murphy, they were to be taken
for a temporary shelter) was in a most filthy state—that most
of the inmates were tying in fever, and that they (the emi-
grants) would be retained there. However, through the
activity of Mr. Murphy and his men, these erroneous im-
pres-ions were, to a very considerable extent, dissipated ; and
the fiends who sought to lead them to dens in which to be
plundered of their little all, succeeded in entrapping but
comparatively few victim, as nearly the whole of the
wretched creatures acted upon the advice of the officers, by
going to the workhouse, several lorries having ben engaged
to convey their luggage.
From the narrative given by Captain Thomas to our
reporter, it appeared that the enable Meares, a ship of
1 294 toes register, sailed from Galway on the 14th of March,
,for New York. She took out no cargo, being in ballast,
land having on board, including the crew, 170 persons. At
half past two p.m. on the 30th of March she was struck by
a heavy ses, wallet off the coast of Newfoundland, and was
town at the mercy of the winds and waters until the 15th
of the present month, when they were descried by Captain
Henry Purdy, of the Infanta, who nobly stood to, and
relieved them as before stated. Three barques and two
brigs passed them before Captain Purdy came up, but
paid no attention to their signal of distrem. The effect of
the vessel being struck was to throw her on her beam ends,
with the main hatches at the water's edge, and while thus
lying, to add to the indescribable state of mind and misery
of the pneengen, their water fell short.
At the time the vessel was strink one of the crew, a yourg
fellow from the neighbourhood of Bridgewater, named
James Aekitt, was washed overboard, and of crone pe•
rished. Biddy Griffin, a young girl 19 years of age, from
Tower Bracken, in Galway, died in consequence of injuries
she had received. Julia Davern, a child 10 years old, had
her thigh broken, and a man, named Patrick Kelly, his
arm, and several other of the passengers were injured.
At the time they were taken off the wreck it was blowing
hard, and it would have been a superhuman thing for the
vessel much toiler to have kept afloat.
The Infanta as the property of Mr. Hawes, of St. John's,
N. 8., and was laden with cotton for Liverpool.
Captain Thomas speaks in the highest and moat grateful
terms of the manly and humane conduct of Captain Purdy,
who afforded to the destitute creatures he had rescued from
the jaws of death, and who were compelled to remain on
the deck of his vessel from the time of being taken from the
wreck to the time the Infanta anivad in this port, every
means in hie power to alleviate their sufferings and depriva-
tions. The pesseugers an unanimous in the same smtiment,
and in return for his intrepid and praiseworthy effort/ in
affording them help in the hour of need, Captain Purdy re-
ceives
the unbounded blessiops of 163 of his fellow-creatures
who are indebted to him to: their present cxatence.

Lieutenant-CoL Fitzgibbon is appointed to the
vacancy amongst the military knights of Windsor.-06
SW Ver.

REPRESENTATION OP LYMINGTON.—Mr. Hutchins,
the candidate for Lytningtoo, in Haute, ie a nephew of Sir
John Guest, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil. Mr. Hutchins, with
Captain Mangles, contested Southampton some years ago,
both of whom were however defeated by the Earl of E'gio,
Governor-General of Canada, then Lord Bruce, and a Mr.
C. C. Martin. The election of the two latter was petitioned,
against, and they were ousted from the House of Commons,
alter a long and mod extraordinary investigation by a par-
liamentary committee. Mr. Hutchins is to be opposed by
Mr. Andrew Stuart on the protectionist Interest.
REMOVAL OP THE VERNON GALLERY.—Saturday
the authorities at the National Gallery received the official
instructions for the removal of the Vernon collection from
Trefelhar.squar• to Marlborough House, the residence of
the late Queen Dowager. where the collection will be opened
to public inspection on Whit-Monday.
THE CLOSING OP THE BRITISH MUSEO3I.—SAInt,
day the trustees issued a notice that the British Museum
will be closed on Tuesday, the 30th day of April, till Toes
day, the 7th of May, for the purpose of the reading-rooms I
and Museum being thoroughly cleansed, when it will be
again re-opened to the public.
THE IJORHAII CASE.—In consequence of a decla-
ration issued by a number of the clergy of the diocese iu op-
position to the resent decision of the Committee of Privy
Council, in " Ile Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter," en ex-
pression of approval of that sentence is now also in course of
signature among the clergy in the counties of Northumber-
land and Durham.—Netrcartht Guardian.

LOAN SOCIETIES. —Oa Saturday was printed •
parliamentary paper of 21 folio sheets, containing as abstrait
of the accounts of loan societies to the 31st December last,
by John Tidd Pratt, Esq., the banister appointed to certify
the rules of savings banks. From this document it appears
that there are 190 loan sedate., all of which, except one in
Wales, are in Ecgland. TOO number of applications for
loans in 1849 was no fewer than 69,642, of which number
loans were made to 66,710.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday lad a melancholy
accident beret the youngest son of William William., Esq ,
one of the magistrates of Northampton. He was out riding
with • friend, and on their return home Mr. Williams's
hone broke into • canter, and finally got beyond the control
of his rider, wbo either fell or threw himself off. The in.
juries he received were so serious that life was almost extinct
when howl's taken up, and he had expired before he reached
his father's house. An inquest was held on the body on the
evening of the saddest, and a verdict returned of " Acci-
dental 7Destb."—Northanopion Morale?.
Tan LINCOLNSHIRE CROl'B.-1110 wheat crops are
looking remarkably well— better. In taking a cur-
sory view over the ten-country, there appears to be a leas
breadth of wheat than usual growing the year; of potatoes
(until lately cooly grown by cottager.) we shall have an
immense supply—many !Armen have planted large
fields. Mitered is still looked to as • winning game,"
and those who possess lands adap'ed for its growth are again
trying their luck to a considerable extent. Amongst the
changes taking place, we may notice • disposition on the
part of the landlords to allow their tenants to break up old
impoverished grazing lands. The labourers are generally
employed at 91. and 10s. • week. The farmers are un-
doubtedly suffering, and causing.: distress amongst those
depending upon them, and the pressure will most likely con-1
tines, until new arrangements shall have been mad*, and
agricultural affairs generally have resolved themselves into
a state promising perman•ney.—tglansforel Mercury.
CHILD MURDER.—ChiId murder, perpetrated by a
mother and daughter, has been discovered at Helper, and •
large amount of money found concealed in the house of the
murderers. The following are the facts of the case :—A
constable, named John Hawkins, living at Heage, near
Helper, having received an anonymous letter, setting forth
that a young woman, named Elizabeth Vicar*, who resided
with her mother, in a small cottage, had ueen confined, and
that the two parties were suspected of having murdered the
child, he immediately went to the house, and, having made
known his business in calling, was told by the mother
that the report was groundless. He, however, apprehended
the daughter and mother, and, on the former being exa-
mined by Mr. Allen, • surgeon, he pronounced her to have
been delivered of • child. The constable then proceeded to
search the cottage, and, finding that • large paving stone
had been recently removed, the cliscovety of the Manning,'
murder flashed acres his mind, and he forthwith took the
stone up, when he (mind the body of a newly-born female
child, wrapped up in as old black apron, the legs being dou-
bled up under its body, and the latter sqw ezi-d quite flat.
The assemble found concealed in the cottage a sum in gold
and silver, amounting to 631.3 e. In another hole • quanti y
of ooppm money was found, which had not been emitted,
but which weighed 37 lbs., and in another place he found
101. 9s. rid. Where they got the money from is • mystery.
Both prisoners occasionally went out begging. The surgeon,
atthe inquest, which concluded on Thursday night, said the
child had been bum ten days ; there were marks of external
violence on the head, and • piece of tope had been tied round
the neck to produce suttees ion. The enure surface of the
'scalp was • mass of besiege, and Wank from a ffused blood.
The injuries WHY inflicted during the life of the child. A
conversation between the two primate, which hod been
overheard in the lock-up, proved that both were guilty, and
the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" oscine
both. who were fay committed for trial,