The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

THE EintEss, WEDNE9tAI -EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1863.

neighbours, Mrs. Story, was awakened by t
a ringing at her bell. It was thus; who,
when the door was opened, said, " She's dead,
" Mrs. Setrrr." On going upstairs, Mrs. SCOTT
saw in the light of the dawn the body of Mrs.
GRANT in her day dress lying on her back in the
parlour, cold and motionless. Her legs were ex-
posed, and the lower part of her dress was doubled
under her. The round table was broken. GIUNT
left the neighbours R ith the body, and first went
and fetched a physician. His next errand was to
the police-office, where he requested that a pollee-
man might be sent to the house immediately. The
police lieutenant on duty remarked that he came
to the office in a clean shirt and neck-tie. On
I visiting the house with him he foundspota of blood
on the broken round table, in the kitchen,
and in the passage from the kitchen to the parlour.
No implement stained with blood was found in
the house. There was blood, however, on one of
the cuffs of Gaszir's coat, and marks of blood on
his trousers. A shirt was found under the bed in
the parlour on which were stains of blood. The
post-mortem examination showed extensive and
severe bruises of a densely livid colour over the
temples and eyebrows, and similar marks on the
thighs and legs. On the left side six ribs were
found fractured, four of them twice. On the right
side five ribs were fractured, three of them twice,
and one of them a third time. The sternum was
twice broken. The right lobe of the liver was
ruptured quite through, from before backward.
The case of the Crown, which did not appear to the
Court to have been stated with desirable distinctness,
was that GRANT, maddened by passion, had struck
his wife with the piece of wood broken from the
table, thrown her down, kicked her, and jumped
on her. The prisoner's own statement was that
on coming home he found her very much intoxi-
cated and quite helpless ; that he asked her to go
to bed, and on her non-compliance tried to take
her to the bedroom ; that while carrying her, in
paving through the room she came in contact with
the foot of the table standing against the wall,.
which caused her to fall ; that he fell with her
upon the small round table, which broke under
their weight, and that in the second fall
he fell upon her. He further declared that
be did not think she was injured, but that finding
himself unable to get her to bed he drew her into
the doorway between the two rooms, left her
there to sleep off the effects of the drink, u he
had done on other occasions, and went to bed
with the children. That about four o'clock on
Sunday morning he was awakened by the youngest
child crying, when he called to his wife, thinking
that by that time she must be sober, to come to
bed, but receiving no reply he went to ascertain
the reason, and finding her cold became alarmed
and sent for assistance. The surgeons examined
were of opinion that the injuries which proved
fatal might have been caused in the manner
alleged by the prisoner.

The jury deliberated • quarter of an hour,
when a majority of them found the prisoner Not
Guilty. It is understood that the minority were
in favour of a verdict of " not proven." The cir-
cumstances relied on by the Crown were, in the
opinion of Lord Nraysa, too weak to sustain the
case for the prosecution. This was, moreover, one
of those cases in which the evidence sa to the cha-
racter of tho prisoner and his customary manner of
treating his wife was of the utmost importance, and
nothing could be more favourable than the testi-
mony given by all who knew him. His nearest
neighbours declared that his conduct to his wife was
invariably kind and forbearing, and expressed their
belief that notwithstanding her faults, which
were such as not only to destroy his domestic
comfort, but repeatedly placed the lives of the
children in imminent peril, be was warmly
attached to her. The merchant with whom he was
apprenticed, the senior magistrate of Newton-on-
Ayr, who had known him ten years, and his pre-
sent employer, Mr. ALIXANDift &maw, of
Dundee, spoke in the hietest terms of his inte-
grity and kind disposition, and the continuance of
their confidence in him. ,The Rev. Dr. brGavar,
of Dundee, who knew both husband sad wife, said,
" I have had frequent interviews with the prisoner,
" and I have seen many marked manifestations of
" his attachment to his wife, notwithstanding her
" habits. lat one time suggested to h;m that
"he should put his wife into the Home, but he
" wept and said he could not proceed to such ex-
' tremities. He is of a very mild disposition, and
' I could not believe that he would be guilty of
each a crime against any person, far less against
his wife."

The warmest congratulations awaited GRANT on
his acquittal, the entire audience having, it seems,
become his friends during the progress of the triaL
The value of a good character has rarely been
more strikingly manifested.

Ebt Court.

BiILYORAL. San. 21.

Divine Service was performed yesterday at the
C 4114111 by the Rev. Mr. Stuart, of Edinburgh, one of her
Majesty's chaplains.
The Queen sad Royal Easily WWII presant.
The Prime and Princess of Wales, Prince Alfred, and
Prisons Halms shoo attended the service at the panels
church of Crathie.

Ha Majesty has taken daily drives in the neighbourhood,
sod has visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Alm-
'oldie.
The Prince and Princess of Wales come moot days to visit
bee Majesty end the Princeeses.

Despatches were received yeatesday at the Coloni►l.ofos
from the Governor of Canada, sad from the Lord High
Commiasioner of the lonian Islands.

The Duke of Somerset left bie official residence
at the Admiralty yesterday foe Maidea Bradley, Willa.
The duchess left the day pn►ioea for the family see&

The Counters of Gifford left Dufferin Lodge,
Highgate, a few days ago for Paris, on her way to Genoa.

Lady COUBtal;Ce Grosvenor and Lord Albert
Lerman Gower left yesterday to jolt' the Earl Grosnwor
at Homburg.

The Duchess of Buccleuch and Lady Victoria
Seott are expected to arrive is town AR the close of the
week from Germany.

On Monday the Earl and Countess of Derby
arrived at the Midland Railway station, Nottingham, and
proceeded to Codling Lodge, where Lord and Lady Chests.,
field have tarrived from Doncaster; Lord Stanhope, from
Bretby ; and Prince Edward and the Princess of Saxe
Weimar. from I overuses.

Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Mias
Thesigar, who bays been staying is Paris for soma waste,
leave that capital today as a tour in Switzerland.

Lady Ehury and the Hon. Mina Groavenoe hare
tat tows for the Cootisest for s far weeks. Load Amy
is making a tow of visits.

Lady Moletwortli is entertaining a large party
of chstiogoiehed company at her beautiful soak Peoaarreer,
is CerawalL

The Rev. W. H. Churning, of Washington, de-
livered a lecture last evening, in the Core Exchange, Man-
cheater, the purport of which may be gathered from its
title —" A free united republic." The lecturer predieted a
veedy termination of the American war, and the abolition
of negro slavery. There was a large and enthusiastic
►udieooe.

Ministers have introduced in the Tasmanian par-
lissom's. a "Deserted With sad Children's Maintenance
Bill," the second reading of which has been agreed to.-
4,440a/son paper.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

TILIGIAX)
QUEENSTOWN, Szrr.
_ .

The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, from
New York on the 12th inst., arrived bore at 1 a.m.
to-day with 119 passengers and 488,893 dollars in
specie.
She landed 27 passengers and the mails.
(Per City of Baltimore.)
NEW YORK, Sere. 12, Mommte.

General Rosecrans reports that the movement
of his troops is progressing on the enemy's flank
and rear, while the tail of the enemy's retreating
column will not escape unmolested.
The New York Tribune says that the weakness
displayed by the Confederates at so many points
strengthens the impression that General Lee intends
making an offensive movement.
A meeting has been held at Paola, Kansas, at
which 3,000 armed men were present. The recall
of the Kansas troops was urged if the government
continued its offensive military system in Kansas.

The proprietors of the Baltimore Republican have
been sent South for publishing disloyal poetry.

The draft is to be enforced in Obio.
The trade of New Orleans with Cairo' St. Louis,
and the cities and towns of the Upper Mississippi,
Missouri, and Ohio, has been declared free from
military control.
The Adriatic has arrived out.

(From the Tines.)
NEW YORK, Sm. 12, 11 A.M.
_ _ _

The Tribune states that the evacuation of Morris
Island was solely the consequence of General
Gilmore's engineering operations, Admiral Dahl-
gren's Monitors and ironclads being for the
most part spectators of the contest, and the
problem of water approach to the city is still
unsolved. Matters have now reached that stage
when the efficient co-operation of the Navy De-
partment seems to be indispensable to future pro-
gram It is necessary also that it should be
prompt. Every day's delay but strengthens the de-
fences of Charleston and increases the obstruction
to its approach by land and by water both. The
army has done more than its share, and it now re-
mains for the naval force to do its portion of
the work to render the reduction of the city certain.
The Richmond Examiner of the Bth says :—" The
Yankee troubles have not yet commenced, nor will
commence until they get into the harbour."
The universal belief at Charleston is that Wagner
and Sumter will be taken, but that Charleston will
not be, and that if the ironclad. once enter the
harbour thoy will never get out again.

The Confederates have mounted at Charleston,
but in what exact position is not known, two KIO-
- Blakely guns, recently arrived from Eng-
land, with which they expect to do fearful execu-
tion to the Monitors whenever they come within
rang..

General Burnside and General Roeecrans officially
report to General Hailed& their occupation of Chat_
tanooga and Cumberland Gap.
. . .

It is stated that General Burnside with his des-
patch tendered to the government his resignation
of the command of the department of the Ohio,
which it appears he has long meditated.
General Rosecrana, in his official report, pub-
lished on the 9th, of his operations in Tennessee,
commencing with his occupation of Murfrees-
borough, states that his captures were 59 commis-
sioned officers, 1,575 non-commissioned officers end
privates, three rifled siege guns, many small arms,
89 tents, 89 flags, and 3,500 sacks of corn and
meal, and that his total losses were 85 men killed,
462 wounded, and 13 missing.
General Schenck yesterday arrested and sent into
the Confederate lines the editors and proprietors of
the Baltimore Republican, for publishing in their
issue of the evening previous a piece of poetry,
entitled " The Southern Cross."
The two branches of the democracy in this city
known as the Tammany and Mozart parties have
coalesced.

Governor Seymour, in a speech made at the

convention of the United Democracy, said of the
conscription that New York had given volun-

tarily upwards of 136,000 men for the war ;
but he ventured to 'predict that the government
would not get 6,000 men under the infliction of

the draft In conclusion, he declared under no
considerations would he consent to the dissolution
of the Union, and he was convinced that it would
be ultimately restored with the rights of the States
unimpaired.
Tho troops continue to leave New York. A great
portion of them have been sent to reinforce the
army of the Potomac.
Gold, 129.
The City of Baltimore takes out 298,492 doh,. in
specie.

(ieurn's mecums.)
SPAIN.

MADRID. Bin. 22.
The rumour current here that the Under-Sezre-
tary of State for the Interior has reigned is
untrue.

The reply of Morocco to the demands of the
Spanish government has not yet arrived.
The King is about to proceed to the baths at
Alamo..

amendmeuts—one to the effect of granting to
Austria free trade with the Zollverein (without a
customs union)—the other expressing the desire of
the contracting parties, if they should persist in
maintaining the liberunt veto, that is to say the
unanimity of the resolutions of the Zollverein,
to consent, iu the act for its reconsti-
tution, to a reduction in the tariff. M.
Wolff, of Stettin, the representative of the
free trade party of the Baltic, strongly opposed these
►mendments. M. Wirth said that the people of
central Germany would take up arms rather than
see the Zollverein dissolved, and that it was unwise
to come to any decided resolution when there were
yet two years before them, during which time a
comproinise might be effected. K Jules Faucher,
a member of the Prussian Chamber, said that
free trade between Austrian and the Zollverein
was the talisman before which all difficulties would
disappear. The first amendment of M. Sonneman
was lost, but the second was almost unanimously
adopted. The questions of "taxation' and
" octroi duties" were fixed on for discussion at the
next Congress. The proceedings were terminated
by a banquet. In the evening K Schultze ex-
plained, at a meeting of 1,000 members and friends
of the National Union, the tendency of the reform
projects of the German Princes, and concluded
with recommending, amidst loud applause, the
Constitution of 1849.