The Express. — London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

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D. %edamlt and Idles K. OUver.—And Alf AIIPLI APOLOGY. BBITAWNIA. THIS Erving°, THIRD CLANTib F gST CUB& Mama Cranford, Drummond, Bliprood, and Parry; Madames Tarno Xenon, an i Scott.—W,lll.l SHALL I DINS? Mr. J. Rap nada—And 'MK FIRJ3RZW DIAMORD. M 1 8L Caw. HIGH WATCH AT LONDO34IIIIDGZ. TO DAY WAWA& 8R 6es.....Aftensoon, Bb. 381 s. TO4lOllOll Manila OR 140.....Afismak 95. 51m. LONDON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 1. Tsar least conceivable, and yet most common of crimes, the growing frequency of which baffles coroners and appals philanthropists, which in some districts seems to be growing into a ghastly fashion, and which we know to be everywhere more com mon than we can prove it—the murder of infanta —has been illustrated at the present Devonshire Assizes by a case which may well terrify those who boast of our civilization. Two women, one the mother of the child, had at last circuit been put on their trial for the crime, but the jury was usable to agree on a verdict against either, and was discharged, the prisoners being still detained in custody. In the interval tho mother, a young woman of the name of HARRIS, made a confession to the officials of the gaol, and in order to secure a conviction against the other she was allowed to turn Quer:es evidence, and was put into the witness-box. There the story which she told was this. She was a domes tic servant, and had for seven years (being now only 23 years of age) had illicit intercourse with one man, to whom in that space of time she bore two children. One is now alive, and is six years old, the other was born on the 16th of last Sep tember, in the house of Mrs. Gliesos, to which the mother had gone for her confinement. On the 12th of December she went to service with a Mrs. WANSLY at Torquay, and then took the child, which hitherto she had kept with her at Mrs. GIBSON'S, to the house of a married couple of the name of WINSOR It does not seem clear whether this was with the intention that it should be made away with ; but it certainly appears as if some such idea had been in HARRIS'S mind, for when she parted with the child she acknowledges she said to Mrs. WI:4R', "There has been one child picked up "in the country." If it was a hint, it was not lost. Mrs. WINSOR replied that "she wondered " she hadn't got herself into it once before," and added that she had " put away " one child born at her house. The mother had, she said, promised her 31. for doing it, but the price had not been paid. HARRIS asked her how she did it, and she answered that it was by putting her finger below the jugular vein. Continuing her hideous catalogue, she instanced a three weeks old baby she had disposed of for one ELIZABETH SuARLAND, and another for her own sister, who's husband was at sea at the time, but who had received a five-pound note from the child's father, but meanly gave her only 21. out of it, putting her off with a promise to make her a handsome present when the husband came back from sea. Thus encou raged, HARRIS left her baby in this den of blood, with the promise from its mistress that she "would " do whatever lay in her power for the child." But the price had not been yet fixed. A fortnight afterwards, therefore, Mrs. Wunion brought the infant, the unconscious subject of this diabolical bargain, to Mrs. Wsirszy's kitchen, and while the mother dandled it in her arms the chaffering for the rate at which it was to be slaughtered went on. Five pounds was asked, but this was beyond the mother's means, and the bargain was broken off. On sth February HARRIS went to the WINSOR'S cottage, and the proposal was renewed, but not decided on. The 9th February was Haams's " Sunday out," and she again went to Mrs. WINSOR'S cottage. The husband was out; the baby was playing with a girl in the house. Mrs. WINSOR sent her out with a basket to make some purchases. Then she turned to HARRIS, and explained that she had not yet killed the child, for she was determined it should only be done in her presence, so that both might be in equal danger if it were discovered. HARRIS answered that she would never tell if it was never found out ; and asked how it was to be done. Mrs. Witasoit replied, "Put it between the bed "ticks." Then she took the child and carried it into another room. In ten minutes she returned, and bade the mother go in and look, for it would 8008 be dead. She looked, and saw nothing—only a bed made. Then Willson, the husband, came in, and asked " Where is the boy ? " but his wife readily answered that the aunt bad taken it away. The husband soon left on a message, and then Mrs. WINSOR asked her accomplice if she had not heard the child cry. She answered that she had not, but Mrs. WINSOR said it did cry, and she had trembled lest her husband should hear it. rho girl now returned, but was again despatched on an errand, and the two women went to see their work. The child was dead enough. It was put in a box, and the mother left. Four or five days after Mrs. WINSOR brought it in a basket to Mr. WANSEY'S, and insisted on HARRIS giving her some money, but all she got was only one-and sixpence. She carried the corpse away and dropped it near Torquay, but suspicion lighted on her, and the women were both apprehended. The evidence against them was too imperfect to satisfy the first jury, but, fortified by HARRIS'S confession, it led the second jury to convict WINSOI. Haunts, having been QUEEN'S evidence, has not been tried. - . - Incredible as such • tale would seem, there is no ground for not believing it. It is too circum stantial not to have failed in cross eximitiation if it had been false ; it inculpates the relater too horribly to have been an invention for the purpose of saving her own life. It is incredible because we are unwilling to believe that such things are compatible with human nature. But the answer is that the nature which could conceive them could do them. A callousness to every human sentiment appears in the narrative as much as in the deeds. callowness a this whitkis po st hi" The An d c it of su ooessea his infant murder, the invitatio, 41, } 4, m entrust another victim to t epeptor, gaining time after timsjor Aliiiieke of the visits to the cottage where the innocent child was being meantime fed, the presence of the mother when her offspring was deliberately taken from her feet to be slaughtered, her aid in con cealing and disposing of the corpse, are features in the tale of such unimaginable barbarity that they cannot but be true. Well, what can we dot what can society do ! It can hang, as doubtless it most justly will, this wholesale murderess ; it can banish from its thoughts and presence the mother who worse than Lady MACBSTH, gave money to another, and bade her to take, the babe and murder it, " while smiling in her face." And this is all that society or the law can do. But thoegh the nation is powerless, surely men and women can do something more. Surely three unhappy girls whose madness and misery make the trade of Mrs. %mines ; surely those erring wives whose flaws must, at any price, be kept from their husband's knowledge ; surely even the murderesses of their own or another's offspring, must be within reach of some hnman in fluence. Can we think of a " Sunday out " spent in such a business, without thinking that there must be means by which Christian charity could reach the hearts in which such ill fancies are loft to breed I It is clear that this terrible and grow ing sin—too doubtful generally for law to act as much of • deterrent power—must be reached, if at all, by individual ministrations. And this must work, not after, but before such deeds are done, by care to keep poor women from the way of falling ; by care to teach them that even so great • sin is yet not absolutely unpardonable, and need not be put away from sight by one so much greater as murder ; and by the fostering, in all chases, of that sense of the sacredness of life, which shall prevent the motives of poverty, or of inconvenience, even where that of shame is absent, from suggesting that it were good if the poor in fant that has brought trouble with it were huddled anyhow out of the world. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY planet 41iTEliolUIUS OA . . i - 4, 1 Y. a, .. ...... t .'' *jult—"="4ll..- 4. 11 wing m hatVeoeived by Reuter's Telegram Company ( ' from R. A. Glass, Esq., Managing Director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company : ON BOARD GMAT EASTERN, TOZIIDLT MOIXLIG. One thousand and fifty miles payed out at 10.50 a.m. Nine hundred miles run by Great Eastern at 9.50 a.m. All going on well. bt Court. OSBORNE, JULY 31. The Queen and Princesses went out early this morning. Prism Leopold oleo drove ont. HARItIAGB IN HIGH LIPS.-(THIS DAY.) The marriage of Lord Henry flood, second son of the Duke of &roc!such, and the Hon. Coolly Stuart Wortley, youngest daughter of the lata Lord What=late, was solemnised this morning at Westminster Abbey, with full choral service. There was an unusually large attendance of relatives and friends, and many distinguished strangers sere admitted into the choir to wittier the solemnity. The company began to assemble at a quarter past 11, and among those present were observed the Earl and Counter of Dalkeith, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord sod Lady Wham cliffs, and the Hon. James Stuart Wortley, the Earl of Mount Edginunbe, the Countess of Durham, Lord and Lady Walter Scott. the Earl Cawdor and Ladies Campbell, the Hoe. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Wortley, the Right Hoe J. and Mrs. Stuart Wortley mad Mies Wortley, Visconti tSydn ey, Lord and Lady Saudon, Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Lady Augusta Stanley and Hiss Stanley, Lady J. Thynne and Him Thysoe, the Dowager-Marchioness of Lothian and Lady Alice Kerr, Lord Shomberg, and Lady Victoria Kerr, Lady Caroline Thynne, the Earl of Mansfield, Colonel the Hos. P. Cast, and Fr►noce Countess Albemarle, Sr' Wil liam and Lady Gomm, he. The bride arrived at 90 minutes to 12, sooompasied by her mother, the Dowager Lady Wharocliffe. The bridal party et once proceeded to the choir, the bride leaning on the arm of her brother, Lord Wherneliffe, followed by eight bridesmaids, all similarly dressed in white, trimmed with blue, the Duke of Bucclench and the Dowager Lady Wharucliffe, the Duchess of Bucoleuch and the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, and the Earl of Dalkeith. On reaching the centre of the choir, the it... Lord Jobs Mynas. sub-dean, uncle of the noble bridegroom, commenced the marriage service. After the ceremony the newly-married couple, with their friends, went to the Jerusalem Chamber, for the registration of the marriage. They left the Abbey at half past twelve. Lord and Lady Wharocliffe gave a sumptuous breakfast at their residence in Curzon-street, Mayfair, to a very large party. Later in the afternoon the bride and bridegroom left town for Dittos puk, the Duke of Bucclenolt's seat neer Windsor. His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian Minister and the Countess Wachtmeistee haws left town for a tour on the continent. Baron Beek Fill, the hear► tary of Legation, will act an chirp:: d'affaires daring his excellency's abuenc'. The Duke of Leinster will leave his residence on Carlton-house-terms on Monday next fur Carton Home, Mayeoeth, county Kildare. The Duke of St. Albans arrived in town on Saturday from a tour in the West of England, during the visite to Mount-Edgcumbe sod Cornwall of their Royal Highnesses the Priem and Princess of Wales. The Duke of Bucolouch arrived at his residence io Belgrave-squate on Saturday from ailkeith Palace, near Edinburgh. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare leave town on Friday next, and will pose a few days with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Treetham, on their way to Ireland. The Earl of Sandwich and Lady Emily Mon tigu will not !ewe for Aix-la-Chapelle sod a tour lo Italy until after the Huntingdon moos, which take piece on the Bth inst. The noble earl bas Melted a distinguished party to stay at Hittohiegbroke during the r►ce meeting. The Earl and Countess Delawarr return to town on Saturday from pacing a few weeks ►t Eastbourne. Lord and Lady Colchester will leave town in a few days foe Tunbridge-wells, where they have taken a residence for the season. Lady Henrietta Allen and the Miaaee Allen have left town for Itydo. The Right. Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel arrived at their residence in White. hall-gardess yesterday monolog from Drayton Manor. Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Bannerman have arrived at their residence in Groevenorplace from Eastbourne. Pelson A xre OVA Visrrro Sours WALss.-(Fscox OUR COZIISPONDIDIT.)—HWANSZA, MONDAY EVIININO.— His Roy al Higbneu Prince Arthur, accompinied by his suite, passed this town at about 4 o'clock this afternoon, on hie way to inaugurate the Welsh national memorial to the late !Mace Consort. The inauguration does not take place until Wednesday, and it wu hardly expected that bin royal highness would visit the Principality until Tuesday. It appears, however, that the visit is not to be oonficed to Teuby. but that the Prince will embrace the opportunity of hie journey into South Wales to inspect some of the "lions" of the district, and will spend a der at Pembroke, where the royal dockyards and shipping will be inspected. His royal highness reached New Milford at 7 • end ors entering the haven, lie wse received by the dockyar d super intendent and • royal slate. SUDDEN Brant or MRS. PHIDERICK Peel.—We regret to announce the death of this lady, which took plus on Sunday evening, at Highsrove. neer Pinner. The deceased, who was deughter of Mr. John Shelley, of Awing - too was married in 1857 to the Right Hee. Frederick Peel, &dabs was in her 27th year at the time of her dettb. Tao BISHOP or WINCHEBYRK ON INCENSE— Some statements have bee° made in the church poplin re lating to the use of incense at Christ Church, Clapham, which convey a wrong impression as to the course which the Bishop of Winchester thought it his duty to take with re gard to the Rev, Bradley Abbot, the incumbent. Amongst other things it was stated that the bishop had distinctly authorised the sae of lecease as high tastiest& His lard. ship has addressed a letter to the John Bull, is which he pointe out that this is • mistake, and adds—" I strongly sod repeatedly umed the lacombent to give up altogether the use of income, as being a practice of the most objeutieh able character, and bringing great scandal on the eiturak. I failed, however, in obtaining from him a treater conies. moo on this point than a promise to confine the see of is te five festivals in the yew" AUSTRIA. VIENNA, AUGUrr 1. An imperial decree has been issued, dated yesterday, enacting the cessation of all pending prossoutiona under the Press Law, and the remis sion of all puniehmente which are being carried out in pursuance thereof, not excepting the cases in which part or the whole of the guarantee money required to be deposited with the government by every publisher of a paper had been forfeited. THE BRAZILS. (By tidepsph from Lisbon.) BaRNOS AYRES, Jima 27. Exchange on London, 491 ; ounces, 2,855. Wet salted ox hides, 33, iwtive demand. Dry hides, American, 22, firm demand. Wool unaltered ; market very firm. Tallow, 141, very dull. Lum ber nominal. Flour, demand dull. Refined sugar, 191, dull. MONTEVIDEO, Joss 29. Exchange on London, oo; to 51. Wet salted hides, 575, ox ; 450, oow ; active demand ; dry American ditto, 460, small supply,; dry German ditto, 480 to 520. Wool unaltered. Tallow, 178 g. Flores has embarked with 2,000 infantry to join the allies. AMERICA. BREST, Antra 1. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Europa, from New York on the 21st July, has arrived here. Her telegraphic news bas been anticipated. The following telegrams have been received by Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany, August 1 : OVERLAND MAILS. MALTA, Jou 31. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAII,S. The Elaine and Ceylon leave here at 3 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 3rd (letters in London on the 6th), and the latter at Southampton on the 9th August. OUTWARD CALCUTTA„CIIINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAiis: The Maasilia, from Southampton July 20, arrived here on the 29th, at 9 p.m., and left on the 30th, at 11 a.m., for Alexandria. The Ripon, from Marseilles July 28, arrived here to-day at 1 a.m., and left at 11 cm. for Alexandria. W.N.W. N.H.& N. N. W. N. N. W. N. N. W. N. W. N. N. W. N. N. W. W. N. W. N.Z. re la's N. Ire 0.00 N.N. rib i oc 1.06 oe 0.27 N.N.W. I o 10.16 LW. re 10.06 M. I bI 00: re 10.08 W.N.W. rb OAS o; 10.ta SAW. ro 0 W. ro r LO° • rco • Go ix-s :: BOMBAY MALL ALEXANDRIA, JULY 31. The Bombay Mail, ex Baroda, left here for Mar goatee by the French steamer yesterday. The pas sengers wait for the Massilia and Ripon. (RIUTIRR IMPRESS.) SPAIN AND OHILL DISMISSAL OF SENOR TAVIRA. MADRID, JULY '2D. A royal decree has been published dismissing Senor Tavira from bin post as Spanish resident minister in Chili. The following royal order has been addressed to Senor Tavira by the Minister for Foreign Affairs : Her Mtjetty (whom God preserve) has been informed of the communications exohaased between your Excellency end the Chilian government for the settlement of the dis agreeable questions new pending. Ommideriog the circom dowel under which your Excellency considered yourself satis fied with the explanations of the Minis:sr for Foreign Affairs of the Ohilian Republic, thus departing from the precise internalises which you received from this government, it is her Majesty's will that your excellency present your self immediately at this court, in order to give an explana. 0011 of your conduct. I make this notification to your excellency by royal order.—God preserve your excellency many year.. MANUIL BEIMIDSZ DZ CASIBO. Sea Ildehalo, July 25, 1555. The Correspo tidineiis de Espana of to-day says : If, u we were informed yesterday from Lisbon, the Mar quis of Taglia-Oune, the Italian Minister to Madrid, will not receive his medentials uotil the 4th August, his pre sentation to the Queen cannot tate place until the return of the court from the Itaique provinees. The Marquis of Taglia-Carne will nevertheless immediately assume the functions of his post in Madrid. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TOILIPAT. A1:101111T 1. II A.Y. Nairn Aberdeen Welt Visigoth Cape .near Liverpool Holyhead Plasma .. end. .... L'Orlent Itoebefort Weymouth Portemouth Weans Vermouth Scroborough Melds tiellreland PZOISAIILZ. CS ilOlll2llllll 711018DIT. W. in — :F.aa ... back, strong, squally. un settled. _ W. WI., strong with squills, showers. roiiierly to W.. WISTII.It. As 'bon. strong, with squalls, rain at times. As nett above. &rnim. W.N.W. to N.N.E., fresh to strong. M.N.& to W.N.W., EAorrox. As neat above strong to a gals to places, showers. - • Noethern=SooUsad. Westers....Trolsad, Wales, sad sulfa amass Southern .Faiglish Channel ►nd Bay of Hleo•1. isstornwisstrrard Nardsad and North Bea "The Emperor is following at Plombilires," ears the Courrier &Vosges complete worse of treatment ; he takes bathe regularly every day, and flab himself won. derfully well, although he does not Mlle from 000stant work. His Majesty has deigoed to aooapt an inritatioe to a ball to be givso on the Wlst, is the saloons of the Hotel Napolioo, by the visitors sad the notabilities of the depart ment." VISIT OF JAPANDOE TO BEDFORD. —On riStllltlay surge party of Japanese, sat over by Prince Satsuma, to nits a knowledge of the sericulture and Oillaufactsres el Great Britain, paid a vat to the Beitarde Ironworks, at Bedford. They were accompanied by Profaner Williamson, of the London University, by the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Glagow Uoiversity, sod other eminent mientifio men. After spading *bout three boars at the worts, they took luncheon with the Mawr of Bedford (Mr.J. Howard). and proceeded to atmer the steam plashing on Mown. Howard's farms at Clapham. & reaping mashies which was at work was quic kly haadled and cleverly managed by them. They an neatly visited Bildentam, for the papas of viewing barks Howard's ostebrated short-horns and sheep ; sad, afar dieing with the mayor, they left for Laden by the last trate, expressing their unhanded delight at whet they hod sees. Cowsmawcz Mowirr. —The sums remitted to the Measlier of the &almoner by smeary persons for eon , science mks is the financial year sliding with NW* If 65, , amounted to 7,1841., very weds the same se 1E Use p* siege year. AUGUST 14111ir ) 41 •AND CITY Bamipsy.-(nus .41)14 DAY.) -o The ball-yegdy meeting of the shmeitolden of thip compan y held this day at their offiore, Rego:led er**. j lifr. T. EMI Forms in trit i ebak. The of the directors stated the. • comperes bill in parliament last session received the royal assent pa the 19th June, and immediately thereupon the compeers aolioiters wets Instructed to oonimunkate with the solicitors of the Great Western and Metropolitan Railway Companies with s view to the preparation of the deed for formally affecting the transfer to those companies of this company's undertaking, in accordance with the terms of the arrange ment approved at the MR-yearly meeting in February last. In conformity with the immoral practice in similar oases, the deed is being drawn by the purchasing companies. So soon as it has been settled by them, and approved by the solicitors of this company, your directs= will lose no time is eoneeeing a meet's, for the purpose of submitting it to the proprietors. In the meanwhile, the arrangement has practically taken effect situ* the Ist of January led ,• and your directors have received a remittanee from the Great Western Company to meet the stipulated payments fee the half•year ending the 30th Jane. Tom directors recommend accordingly that a dividend for the half-yea[ be declared, leis income tar, at the rate of 5 per omit. per seam oe the amounts paid in respect of the 5 per cent. preference shares of the 14th of April, 1864 ; and at the same rate on the original stock of the company. The de beaters aoapons are already in course of being paid off. The acconnts for the half-year are annexed. They show that the amount received on capital account is 315,3381. 3s. 7d. ; and the amount paid, 312,6141. 13s. lid. ; leaving a balsam, of 2,7231. 9s. Bd. Your directors regret that they were not successful in op posing the application of the London and South Western Company for a loop line at Hammersmith. The bill, as passed, will enable the South Western Compare to rue certsin trains direct from Kensington to Richmo nd without sommenicetieg with the Hammersmith Railway. The South Wsstera Company are, however, still under obliga tion to make another line, welch will join this company's railway, and will admit of an interchange of traffic at Hammersmith ; and this company's mooing powers over the line to Richmond are preserved. Your directors posed the the Fulham Railway Bill alluded to in the last half yearly report, in consequence of the short branches pro posed in the plan as deposited for connecting the in tended line with the London and South Western Company's Kensingtou and Richmond line at Hammersmith and the resin lire at Battersea, which might have opened • emend railway route from Hammersmith towards the City. The opposition of this company had the e ff ect of inducing the promoters to do away with the connecting links objected to. So modified, the project appeared to your directors to become favourable to the interests of this company, and your directors accordingly supported it. The bill pursed, and the line, as now laid out, cannot fail to be of consider able advantage to this company, as it Is practically an en imam., by independent partite, of the Hammersmith sod City Railway from Hammersmith to the Thames at Ful ham. The CHAIRMAN said he had little to state, except that the Great Western and the Metropolitan were substantially carrying out their agreement, end had remitted to them the half-yearly dividend to the Ist of July. In parenanoe of the usual oustom, the purchasing company had to prepare the deed; which had not yet been executed. but no greet delay bail occurred, as it was only since the 19th June that the Metropolitan bad been in a position to act in reference to this matter. The shareholders, however, need entertain no apprehension, as they weld in receipt of just the same dividend that they would be in receipt of if the deed were executed. There was only one other point to which he would call atten tion, end that was that from the character of the soil on which the railway was constructed there had been a certein subeldence, and the traffic had to be stopped for one or two days. That arose from two awes, one the character of the soil and the other from some alight defeat in the workmanship. It appeared oa investigation that Mr. Rimniins. the coutracter, was not liable after the 13th of of June, bat like an honourable man as he had always shown himself to be he said he was quite pre pared to do everything that was thought right and fair and to put the line in good order at his own expense. (Hear hear.) The Fulham Railway Company, as men homed in the report, had got en act to make their line which would in fact be a line joined on to the Hammer smith. That line had been promoted by an independent company, and would be constructed at that independent company's expense. The Great Western and Metropolitan would In all probability take up that line as they had the Hammersmith, and he believed that from it there would be a greet secretion to the traffic of tine line. In concluhoe, the Chairman moved the adoption of the report and statement of amounts. Cotoael Cancer wooded the resolution, which was agreed to. as was another declaring a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum oa the preference, and 5 per cent on toe ordinary stank of the company, lees income tax. THE PEABODY GIFT.—It will be remembered that rather more than three years since—in March, la 62— Mr. Peabody, the American merchant, declared his inten tion of placing in the bands of certain gentlemen whom he named Si trustees the munificent gam of 150,0001. for the benefit of the honest and industrious poor of the metropolis, I and recommended that a portion of the money should be appropriated for the purpose of providing improved d well ing,houses for the working Accordingly it was determined to purchase the site of a pile of buildings known as Ward's-place, lower-street. or es it is now called, Essex-road, Islington, at that time densely occupied by a community for the most part consignee of thieves, pr.:sin ning, and come of the worst &erecters in the metropolis, who herded together with knits or DO attention to morality or decency. The old houses were speedily levelled, and the erection of the handsome structure which in now rapidly approaching completion was forthwith commenced. The budding is substantially constructed of brick, and is from a assign by Mr. H. A. Darbishire, the builders beiag Megrim Patman and Fotberingham, who have also received orders to ergot similar dwelling-houses, like wise the gift of Mr. Peabody, in Love-lane, Sbadwell, end Commercial-street, Shoreditab. The model buildings consist of four blocks of houses five stories in height. which will be let out in tenement, of one, two, and three rooms, at an estimated rental of 25., 3a., and 6s. per week respectively. Each block will afford accommorletlos for GO families, or 240 in the aggregate. The rooms are each of them to be 9 feet wide and 12 feet long, and of a suitable height. The attic of each block is paved with tiles from the Isle of Wight, and Is surmounted by • • hand some ornamental turret. There is also acoommodatiou for washing, drying, &c., and at each end of the buildings Is • cistern 12 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, capable of containing 1,760 gallons of water. Everything has been done to render the sanitary arrangements complete in every respect. It is contemplated to erect workshops for the ac commodation of the tenants on the east side of the blocks. These, however, although of course under the control of the trustees, will be irrespective of Mr. Peabody's gift, and will be let at a very moderate rental. Numerous applica tions have already been made for tenements by men whose wages average from 18s. to 20s, per week—the clam for whom they were intended by the benevolent donor; but none will be taken whose character does not bear the strictest investigation. CAPTURE OF A DESPERATE BUROLAR.—Within the lost three weeks there have been no lees than five robberies in the neighbourhood of Mailing, two of which have been burglaries. Oa Saturday Superintendent Hulse heard that • burglary bad been committed at Bradbouroe Court, the residence of Mrs. Twisden. A domestic, on coming down stairs on Saturday moraine, found that two large barns, four ribs of beef, and a quantity of clothing had been abstracted from the house daring the night. Superintendent Hulse. knowing that a ticket-of-leave man, name I gloom* wee in the neighbourhood, and suspeotiog him of the robbery, summoned his whole force, 17 in num ber, together, with four or five keepers in the employ of E. L Betts, Esq., of Preston-hall, and on Sunday and Monday instituted a thorough search for Eleombe, io all the wood. in the neighbourhood. Oa Monday afternoon P.-C. Millet, who was in plain clothes, discovered the man is • wood at Niewhithe. He bad made a bed of the gram on which was lying some of the stolen property. Mille. asked him who he was, and to whom the property be longed. Eloombe stated that his name was John Arnold, that he cams from Chatham, and the property was his. On Millen tellies him he was • constable, he attempted to emape, and a desperate struggle ensued be tween them, Etowah* fighting with • bludgeon, and Millen using bin staff. At length Eloombe was brought to the grouad, and the handcuffs pat on him. With the aid of some labourers, he was conveyed to West Melling. In different parte of the wood the rowed* of most of the rob. bevies were foetid. While in custody, primmer told Supt. Hulse that he bad hidden a gold watch on the Hermitage farm, acid he was conveyed to the spot, that be might point out the place. It was • covered hole in the ground, which contained • box, is which prisoner said he had pat the watch. On. opeoisg the box, however, nothing but a heals and • saucer were faggot There were indications of • firs not far off, and it is believed that some Minion who bad encamped near the spot had accidentally discovered the watch, sod substituted the mribenemre in its stead. Primmer was brought up before R. Tamil, Esq.. cad re madd. Eleven years ago prisoner was convicted of sheep steeling, and in the year 1840 he was traced to • wood when the proceeds of fifrees or sixteen robberies committed in the neighbourhood of Orenhrook, were found. • He was then convicted and sentenced to six years' penal servitude, but obtained • ticket-of-leave on the 7th June last. He has lately bees living near the house of Mr. Cohms, of the Sandlisg-road, Maidstone, when • serious . Irobbery was committed daring the excitement of the late election. His father, it is stated, was gardener to Napoleon Bonaparte, during his exile at Se. Hairs.—South Masters Graretie. PRODUCE Or TAILS. —MUMS just issued for the Bsasdal year ending with March, 1865, present the fallowing statements of the net prawn of taxes in the Is land Revenue Department :—Os pr-stiates of wills, adsni nistrw.inns, I-genie% and successions, 3,849,154/., an increase of 125,9224 over the province scar ; es inhabited hostess, 916,8061., an increase of 18,5321. ; on servants, 211 2444 an increase of 2,414/. ; on dop, 210.3291., an iceman of 5,0001. ; of exchange, 769,3091., an increase of 103,191/. ; Inked Revenue penny stamp on receipts, draughts. kc., 500,2501., an Increase of 23,0541. ; on rail ways, 439.332 E, an in.,.... of 3'1.7071. ; on gold and silver Os* 62,3641., as bereave et 2,7991.; on armorial bee rop e 111.4191., an incense of 1,3171. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (TIM DAY.) COURT 07 BANKRUPTCY. (Wore 11g. Begisbur Winslow, es Commisioser.) I! RI IM/11.—PIMINTION ARISING IMO= • TRUST DUD. We Honour said this wea an applieattee by several ereditom for the eases of summoning sad examining the trust** under a deed with regard to the sdmisietration of the atata. It was the duty of such trustees to Five to creditors full information as to their receipts and paysteMe under the deed ; and if not gives, the oust of obtaining such information would prethbV be thrown upon them. The deed is this case was dated is May, 1864 ; several pawed and written appikatiess to the trades foe information were disregarded, sad several summon's' were honed, all of which be imaged with cm tempt. At length thesauri was compelled to issue a warrant ; this brought him to hie senses ; and he undertook, if ris. loosed, to furnish the amounts sad give the informstios re tie had rime furnished an account sad been ex arm• load en the items of it. Having offered no sufficient exams for his refried, he mat pay all the costs of these procesdinp penoselly, with the exception of the coats of the sitting, at which he wee actually examined, sod also the costs of ore or two 01111110111111. whisk were informal. TU rouus 0011 BM (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. CRAW! OP MANOLACIGHTII.- COMO:PM 1011 TRILL. John Milton • respectably-dreseed man, described as a ladies' bootee:lpar, wee diarged on remind before Kr. Alderman Challis, with feloniously killing and 'laying Mr. William Vernon. Charles Greenwood rid—l am pot at the Queen's Head publiekonse, in Water lase, Blackfriars. On Monday night, the 24th of July, at about 25 minutes to 11 o'clock, I was sitting in the parlour having my supper. The prisoner was there, and • man named Vernon. There were also two other men in the room—the prisoner was sitting opposite Vernon at the end of • table by the fire place. They were about two feet from each other. Every other Monday sight a club is held at the house called the St. Pure Benefit Society. Vernon was the chairman, and the prisoner is a member. The club broke up about ' half-past 10 o'clock, and the prisons sad the deceased were having •dispute about a fine which bad bees inflicted on the prisoner ' when he said to Vernon, " I rather think you are too fast." The deceased replied, "I am too fart for you, and he called the prisoner a humbug, on which the prisoner got up and struck the deceased on the side of the head, saying, "Foe celliog me that, take that." Vernon Use dropped his bead, end seemed to be groaning. The blow eouaded like • slap or a box on the earn. I saw it struck, but I cannot say whether it was with the fist or the open hand. Prisoner said he would serve anybody else the same who called him such names as that, for he did not deserve it. This was said two or three minutes after the blow was attack. The deceased never spoke atter the blow wee struck, Prisoner left the house about ten minutes afterwards. A doctor was sent for about a quarter of an hoar after the blow was struck. I had served Verson with four pint. of half-and-half between twenty-five minutes to nine and Ulf-past ten, and also with half a quarts= of gin and cold water. Oily Polio* Sergeant Henry Mnotagne —I apprehended the prisoner, and told him that he was charged with causing the death of Vernon, and he replied, "lam very sorry. I know I did strike the man, bat I did not do it with the intention of hurting biro." WM. Hairy &audios said—l am a surgeon. On Mon day, the 24th of July, • fe• minutes before 11 o'clock, I was celled to the Queen's Heed publio.house is Water -laps. I found a man named Vernon there ; he was then lifeless. About 18 hours after that I made • post-mortem examiw tics of he body ; there was no bruise on the head. There is no doubt he died of sanguineous spoplexy, ceased by ex citement. I believe the blow did not cause death. It might have contributed to the excitement. I cosine say that it accelerated his death. I found a rupture of a vessel on the brain. Drink would predispose to apoplexy and aggravate its effects. Crow-examined by Mr. Beard, for the prisoner. I had seen th!deosseedbefore but had not 'Melded him pro- fesslo;;Ily. His heart was healthy ; the stomach wee not very full, but when I commenced the post modem exami nation a good deal of beer rah out of his month. There was no solid food in bin stomach. The prisoner , after tM meaal motion, uid he reserved hie defence sod he was thee fully committed to the Old Bailey for trial. BOW-STREET. COWARDLY ASSAULT ON A WOMAN. _ ..___.. A young man who said hie name wee Henry Cassius, and that he was a sawyer, living in the Colonnade. Great Comm-street, was charged with assaulting Emily Walters. The complainant, a good-looking young woman, said she wise sampan's, living in Gloster.street, Queen's-square. About half-put 10 o'clock last evening she wee going home after delivering some work, and stopped to shelter from the rain under the portico of the Lyceum Theatre. The pri• sonar and another man came up and raw agaiast her, so es to push her against the wall of the theatre. She asked him what be did that for, upon which he made a blow at her, bat she avoided it, a nd mu away. He followed her, over took her in the Strand, and gave bee a violent blow upon the mouth, knocking two of her teeth out. She ran into the Strand Music Hall for protection, bat he still followed her sad struck her again inside. A policeman then came to her assistance. Sergeant Wilkinson, F 11, said be was on duty in the Strand, when • gentleman came up to him and urged him to harry to the Strand Music Hall, where • man who had violently assaulted • woman was again about to attack her. He hastened to the spot, sod arrived just at the moment that the prisoner had over taken the complainant, sod was striking her the moon& time. Witness took him in cask:dr. He said she had attack him first, At this moment the prisoner's com panion attempted to strike her, bat trite's, guarded off the blow, and in doing so knocked the man down upon the steps leading to the balcony of the concert room. At this moment he was holding the prisoner with hie right hand, and it was with his left, which was "disengaged , " that he knocked the man down. He soon jumped up and took to his heels. Witness then took the prisoner to the static's. He was tipsy. The prisoner said the complainant stopped him in the street end spoke to him. Mr. Flowers said it she did it was • brutal sod cowardly thing to go after her end strike her, especially with such violence as to knock oat her teeth. Any ordinary man would have cued nothing about her speaking to him, and would be slimmed to get into a passion shout it. The pH. sonar might be a respectable man when sober, but in this case he had behaved disgracefully. The prisoner said she struck him with her umbrella and knocked his hat off. . . Mr. Flowers did not believe It ; bet, even if true, it would not escose his knocking her teeth wet. Re mast pay a See of 51., or be imprisoned for two mouths. . - MARLBOROUGH-STEEET. VIOLENT ASSAULT.—HARROW LOCATE. Edwin Dickso•, 19. a painter, living at 97, Desnertreet, Bobo. wen charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on • warrant by O'Shaughoemy, one of the warrant °Moms, with violently assaulting his step-sister, Emily Tarrant. The evidence of the proiscatrix. a young woman, was to the effect that while she was °onion her baby the prisoner, a lazy, idle fellow, threw a knife at her, the effect being that she was wonoded in the neck sod bled a great deal. In answer to AG% Tyrwhitt the prosecotrix said she bad given the prisoner no provocitioo, but that he was always threatening her that he would have her life. The prisoner said he felt aggravated at something the proascutrig had done, but be Vim sorry he had ►art bor. Mr. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner that he might consider himself very lucky that he was not at the Old Bailey for murder. Re should commit the prisoner for throe months with hard laboar. WANDSWORTH. BATIIINO IN TIM THANT& ----- - James 0111, an engraver, of Doke-street, Mee Britain, appeared before Mr. Nyman to Leone a ahem for lad. molly exposing himself in the river by bathing. Inspertor Dale, of the Thames police, stated that at ball ast 3 o'clock on Sunday aftereooo, he warn on duty in a police galley near Nine Elms. when be saw the defendant naked, and standing np in a boat. Witness rowed towards him, and he then toned round, facing several females and children, who were standing at the water-side. Witnem request.' him to dress, and told him that he should charge him with indecently exposing him's'', to the aanoyance of steamboat paneengers. The defendant cud he bad been bathing, and he was not aware that he wan doing wrong. 'week. Dell said there were two other persotui in the bait and a boy in the water. The defendant said be did not expose himself inten tionally. Mr. Damao observed that he could not 'indent/ad bow anions could hope to bathe in the Thames without ex posing themselves and without being seen by all sorts of people. limpeetor Dell said there bri been great complainta, and he had been appointed Racially for the last throe weeks to prevent the bathing. Mr. Daman pointed out to the defendant that it wan impossible to bathe in the Themes ',Moat exposing himself ►o the observation of hundreds of peewee. The defendant said be thought be was too far off to be sees. Da mac told him that to unarms os the river was just se bed as doing it in the Strout. The detsodsiat's common NOW might to have prevented him. He had been guilty of sa exeeedlagly improper than, covieterieg the crowded state of the river, but al be did nothing to attract attention he should vastest himself by ordering him to ester isto hie owe recriguiesstae to the sum of 101. for hie pod behaviour for the mixt three mastbe. CHLEZMANEOUP OF yen azaay Wormed Iten.- WAT.—It i. Meted (gays the Af?rsiag Peal Shit thee is • possibility of a• early thane in the etteinnaeship of the Great Western Etsilway, Ooreosey, Kr. Potter having ex resod hi• iateetioe to retire is Ise• r • eueoester eau be chore. Mr. Watkia, LP., his boss mood is likely to 11l the rm. • ~ EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE TRROUGN DELUSIONS. Imat night an inquest was held by 31 7. Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, at the Lod., oh p ew, resprtieg the death of Thome Bailey, sod g 4 who committed midi* nadir the following Soma Bailey, of 39, Charlotte-street. Wit "lll u , that the deceased was her husband. lie was • myn fallow, and had eves way to kakis peruse. He had become embarnisead sad pecuniary difficulties. He alas lehoneed t w o - . &looms and imagined that a number of r oot after him to do him some harm. Oa Friday the deceased did not go to bed, but gloat on th,, =t the intense heat of the weather. Ahost in the morning she wee moused by i ft d m o m whoa . abe up sad a d odhe. - Ike thee ffismvsred the me deemed lying 00 , d oor in a pool of blood. The demised exclai* r I have cut icy throat.* • sharp knife was toted os h hia bead. Witness &lad for • lodger, who slat fors., goon and the police. The ameneed had bow of yew, leek for some time past Dr. William Godfrey ot the Montt, Whittehapd.,* said that be found the deceased dead, with a d eep tin left elde of the and other breaches see k, which divided the ctrii &AN on " of the neck. Polio' constable Morph, 963 H, said that he r d . the 4. mes a os Friday sight sear his , when &mod WI to keep so eye on the hoses r o be expected soli . after him. He afterwards heard doomed bad red throat. . . fheooroner remarked on the ud nature of the - 71; jury retuned • verdict*/ "Suicide whd/pf 4"141 FIRES LAST NIGHT. ---4-- An exciting scene was witnessed last "i r k through the outbreak of a very destructive fi re et "Z workshops and manufactories, belonging to Yr. builder. shoat* at No. 12, Graham's-terrace, road, Kiegalaed, adjacent to one of th e horse depots of the Gemmel Omnibus NWT where there were at the time more tbai 200 hen The names burst forth with prodigious force, sad seen almost from every part of London. When thaw*, reached the spot the neighbourhood around preseet, seise of the wildest ounimion, arising from the tacit/0w the horses in the stables of the Ceneml Cia i g n Company bad been turned into the street kes, e g were galloping from place to place in a frantic cell . maddmied state. It appeared there was no f a n alternative than to release them. The long rasp stabling bad caught fire, and the destruction of the hit lags weenie( Inevitable, the animals were rot hew ail dnvsu oat A large somber of the company's wiwa ft which were standing in the stable yard were also 'New oat into the street to lave them, blocking up all the w , promises to the fire, sad thereby somewhat the operations of the brigade. Amid the wi t ' meat a saloon omnibus reached the fire het town crowded w ith people, and in making as effort inter the ponderous vehicle capsized, throwing the red joiner to the pavement. There was a great deal of sommig, but now of the passenger, sustained mach w ww The fire was extinguished about midnight Cuphi Shaw, in his official report of the damages to he fire offices furnishes the extant of the mischief as follow A brick building, 60 fest long by 30 broad, omseirytwk belongior to Mr. J. Hodges, builder, No. 12, d i g li TZ' terrace, Kiogeland, burned down, and contorts dishes, The property lammed in the Atlas office. The premises and stables belonging to the Owed O• mhos Cowplay, damaged to the roof by fire sad brae* lasers:lee neknown. It is represented that the Caw Omnibus Company, in the mums of the night, mimed most of their horses, bat twenty-five, it is said, an y missing. About the MMe time that the above Ronal another fire broke out on some premises 'that to the residence of Mr. William Attwood, the bade situate at Dalwicb•hill. It appears to have wkieww ■ the stables and mach-bouses, 80 feet long by 20 Era{ f a thew were suddenly found to be to flames from sod I* at The fire extended to the lausdry, and probably would try soon Toothed the mansion but for the arrival of the sedan. Insured in the Phenix Fire-ofleee THZ BOIL Zll EXPLOSION AT MILLWALL—Lass PoartetiLaita.—(Tats Dar.)—This morning the thin a fortunate men who were so severely injured by the sok sion of the steam boiler on the premises of the Ong Steam Shipbuilding Company's Works, Milled, tan still in • very critical condition from the me* of their isjuries. A number of workmen were bras m to work alter the sad ansurrenne, and the boners d th company is progressing as usual. A searching *AT el be made to ascertain the cause of the calamity. THE ODD FIILLOWS' Firs AT THZ CRYSTAL PAWL —(Tnts Dar.)—Notwithetandieg the lowering of the dal with occasional showers of rain, the thermometer bag* dueed from 75 to 64, and the barometer iodinating os rain, the Odd Fellows were determioei not to be lip at home by the state of the weather. At as WO boor this morning pleasure vans and almost OW, at, sort of vehicle could be seen conveying members I. Crystal Palace, and the various branch lines of the nine leading to that destination were crowded with the WWI and their friends. Upwards of 8,000 had mina lb Palace by n oon , and the company continued to flock le lb place. The procession was not t, begin until the sham CZOTDOIf UREAT SKIMP AND CATTLE FAIL (TaIe Dar.)—The great August sheep aid cattle hi annually ►held at Croydon, was °panel this manias. TY WY a luge attendance of buyers and an exceedingly fie show in the cattle enclosure. The number of Amen th peas exceeded the average. Buenos. was extremey dui and high prices were realised. Choice young sea fa stock brought 265. to 30,. • head ; ditto South Dolled mouthed. Ms. to 445. • head ; four-toothed withers kid condition, 45e. to 52e. a head. There was • geed Owed rams, which sold at prioce varying from three game seven godsons. The following were the selling prime bilk cattle field:—Short horn mulch cows from 181. Ohl; small dairying full milch cove, 141, to 181. ; Welch int 81. to 121. ; fat boots, 151. to 221. ; oxen accustomed! nib yoke, MI. to 401. per pair. The show in the horse trir vs good, but law sales, except for animals fit for sgrisami puToess, were effected. OPENING OP A New CILYST/L PALACE &tea —(Tate DAY.)—Tbil morning the London, Obatham,, Dover Railway Company's new dation et the Osymi Pages was opined to the public. The visitors Wale lag to the palace by this line were set down within 20 twe of the great centre transept seminal, and upon the Nel level, so that they alighted on the le eel of the poise* There is • covered way from the station to the [wheelie. and prewar, may on wet days enter the building try out the aid of umbrellas. he verdicts of coroners' ingest found that there were 1,337 suicides in England is there 1864, 978 men and 359 waven committing sell murdiai Os ao average of the six years 1858-63 the proportion of snails in England was 67 so a million of the population. Eves tit matter admits of the application of the principle of urn/4 and an order is observed which can be expressed ix het In none of the Ifil yetis did the number depot from di average to the extent of more than three to a milliard a population. 56 persons shot themselves decd in 844841 the year 1863, and if it wen to be assumed that the rem number did the like in such of the previous five yell tit assumption would not be far wrong ; the numbers use a 54, 59. 59, and 54, the deviation from the average el 9 extending only to three, or 1-19 h, either way. If, as lit W. Farr thinks probable, the number of suicide. I par stated (as in the cue of persons found drowned), 19410 0 law doubtless extends to errors. It ezteede MIS to tit manner of stlf•murdwr. In the year 1363 the 66 saki& a million nt population were by thee. methods-9 hanging. 13 by stabbing or cutting, 12 by drowning, 6 bf poison, 3 by shooting, 4 by other way.; sad the Mane for the previous five years show subetutially the -etas . - Progssiiol. GOIAMIJNICATION BRTWRRN GUARDS AND PINT' GIODA—Yr. W. H. Preana's plan for enabling rand et•,_ sew= to communicate with the guard has bees pit • operstioa as regards the exprese trains on the Bed Weatera lies. The original proposal was that whes a ess meager pulled a string it should cause a small gemooo arm to project from the carriage, producing an &Mho" rent which would ring • bell is the guard's ma. Til however has been modidad. A mail clock.like eat bli is placed in each railway compartment If • pasisil• within to 001MMUDiMill with the guard he kids 5 plate of glens and moves a small handle blame. This protium the electric (=remit which AP the guard's belL The guard thee loots out, sod if qor , rise is off the line he communicates with the engine him immediately. and stops the train. He will prohibit ••• Ins attention drawn to the cordage from whence the =a proceeded by some weenier putting his arm, ...., umbrella out of the window, arid at the next stn s.. •• guard =quires into the mese of the alarm ; and . w ig 01 always led the carriage from whence his bell wee the broke@ glue. It has been slaked why the 111 , 101 7 ° 4111 not be planed wt ere he coo command a view of all the er rives. But a guard has to attend to sortie( P•• / ' lad °moot always be on the kokemt. If • ,•• were employed on each train merely to look eat. im ••• mom additiood expense would be inourred. No fewerie 1 30Dtrains rue daily on the South Western ties. Disown= feet that the murderer of a judge on a French Ire! ,re• tame ago escaped be the very owns which had been deed s ' to enable the guard to inspect the train while in 0. 1 ' It would be impossible to prevent such a crime sell. committed by Muller, except by adopting the = plaa of bowleg a guard's thoroughfare tiaroegh the and this the narrow/pees of Klaglish railways, endear etel✓ love of seeliteiou while trovellieg, would reader =Med. his. Mr. Treace's plan cimbioed with the one alreed4 es the Booth Wasters lies, of • small window wh i ff Ira. eft •theeerteseet to another, would bowed° great eseatith for railway travelling. A Sox FISH. —A large sun fish has jail 11.16 Z tteso dby some fishermen at 'Leahy. The lab Imo Kt ' ea exciting chase, bat they ultimately r selmo la capturing it with gaffe and boat-hooka, and Al l= towed on shore to the beach. The weight of the ad •lir about 12owt, and it was 5 feet in diameter. la _..., it terns epees itself like a wheal, which rendsee •"; difficult to esteb. Th e dab, it appears, gees!, toveropi W dee as 1.20.. in diameter, sad &boat one ton in is to be feud la nearly all seas. LA' ] B 1 ' sits 410 0 i Sill - Sad Am le