The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-26 00:00:00

CLERKMVELL.

ATTEMPTED MURDER or A rounacoleareat.s.
Bryant, a fellow well-known to the polio!, de-
oilvd on the charge sheet sa a costannonger, at
;Jon-court, St. Andrew's, warn caused with steampiing
aurder Police-constable Hilchonx, 138 G, is the timer
to of his data, at George-alley, St. Andrew's.
Mr. hicketti appeared for the prisoner.
dcting•inspeetor llaldock, 1 0, said the constable wius
i'l that be wee unable to attend, sad be did not know
when he would be enabled to be examined. He then banded
is the following medical certificate :
" Royal Free Hospital, Gray'rina-road,Oet. 26
hereby certify that pollee constable No. 138 0 was
brought to thin hospital this morning, saffansg from bruises
carer different parts of the body, the result of bloke. He is
in great pain at present and in a very weak elate, sad be is
nuatle to attend the court to-day.
" H. Maaarovr, House Surgeon."
The prisoner, who has before been in custody for assault-
itl.uning a woman with whom he cohabited, was asked
sago away by the injured man, when be said he would
renler him if he interfered with him. He knocked the
,oared man down some step, and then kicked and knocked
by about in a most dreadful manner, and left him on the
stones insensible. When the prisoner was taken into cos-
todt. be said that he had dome it and should plead guilty.
gr. Barker remanded the prisoner for a week.
Mr. Ricketts applied that bail might be taken, but the
application was refused.

WESTYINSTER.
Mimic COUNTER/ MT COIN AT RAILWAY

11.00 MI.

.o,,Pir4n. a yonng woman, was placed at the bar,
ebarged with endeavouring to otter a spurious ss. piece at
Ili. Henry Fisher's, the railway refreshment rooms,
Yio-
toria station, Pimlico.
Ellen Sherbourne, barmaid at the London, Chatham, and
porer terminus, said that last evening the prisoner came
to the bar and asked for a glass of ginger brandy, in pay.
rent for which she tendered • eouuterfeit five shil-
ls: piece. Witness immediately saw it was • had, and
v.l prisoner that she could not give change. She after-
Las told her that it was not • good one, upon which pri-
f;cer said that she was not aware of it. She then entered
14` a long statement of having bad the money given her
bra gentleman near the station, but subsequently materially
Ctered the nature of her statement. Witness sent for the
szpedotendeut, and the prisoner was given into custody.
rrisoner said she was in great distress last teenier, when
she met a gentleman with whom she had been on tams of
:::mirc, who gave her five shillings, telling her be was
ea Brighton, and when he returned, which would be
wedoeeday) evening, he would perhaps give her
She did not know where the gentleman was to
he found.
Mr. Fisher's barmaid said that there had been several at-
vmpti made of late to pass had money at the railway
r:freihment rooms ; there had been no less than three coon.
t,:feit pieces presented to her this week, but:fortunately abe
l ii detected them all immediately.
31!. Arnold remanded the prisoner until Monday, offer.
iz; to accept bail for her appearance if she could get it.

WORSHIP-STREET.
DESERTRit: FAMILIEI.

P •luct Matonty, a French-polisher, was charged before
ereourt with neglecting and refusing to maintain his
wJe and three children.

lr. MeiGef, clerk to the guardian■ of St. Luke's pariah,
erred that the wife had been receiving relief for about 15
conchs, and owed the pariah above 71.
The wife, a very creditable-looking woman, confirmed
tlx. and it was sworn that the husband could earn from
to '2ss. per week, that he bad been sought for doting
tt., past two months in vain, until last night, when he woe
lca i in a lodging-houss.
Defendant said be was afflicted with a bad leg, and could
(sly win the tries of 10s, per week; it could not be expected
the' be was able to support a wife and three children out
cleat, besides, had the pariah or any one else wanted him.
he:T.:ll always be found at the " /3ald-faced Stag," nearly
r mite this court.

D'Eyseoart—What, at a pablie-honee, and Your
6 it sopportod by the pariah ! You will go to prison for
two months with hard laboar.

Winiariss waac1;;;;c1 with a like offence. It was
proved br Mr. Harris, the relieving officer of Whitechapel,
that the wife in this instance had, with her three children,
been on and od a recipient of parish relief for twentyeeven
Vtf it. and that a debt had been incurred of several pounds
—at 'nit 251.

Prienner-1 have been in the militia, and then allowed
ter the wile) lc a week.

Mr. I eErneestrt—What, for the support of herself and
ti.rse children

I can't earn more than 12s. or lee.
Mr. Ii yerourt—Oan you pay the 251.
Pmoner—No, sot twenty-five pence.
Ms. Harris—We will give him time if he will atones take
Lis wife and family away from us and keep them,
Prisoner—Agreed—willing—that's a bargain; and upon
this undersunding the prisoner was allowed to leave.

FRI.AfTFII. CoLLIERY ACCIDINT.—On Monday
ti,ht the greatest alarm wait caused in Newaestle-tio-Tyne
atJ the district by a report that Hinson colliery had fired,
and killed a number of the pitmen, but fortunately each did
tot turn out to be the case, though a frightful accident did
or-sr in that pit on Monday. It appears that about 36 OM
wen! down the Eppleton Jane pit, for the purpose of going
t) work, and to reach their work they had to travel three
r.des from the shaft underground. They got into a train
of dropsy waggons to run down the incline to the face of the
workings and they were set away. Unfortunately, owing
to the guides to the break having sustained an injury, the
waggons ran amain. Some of the men leapt set sod some
Vero pitched out by the waggon getting off the ways, and
one of them (Thomas Lawins) was killed, while several
often had their 6p broken, their collar bones broken, or
etre otherwise seriously injured. The whole of the men
Imo/ to have been more or lam hurt.
Sroi Feums. —A debate took place at the
&dee and South Hants Farmers' Club last week, as to
the rest mode of keeping stock, with referee°, to the &fil-
m:ties arising from the great deacisecy of the root crop.
After the debate it was resolved that " it is the opinion of
tt3 dub that every means should be employed on flock
fens for keeping the usual amount of stook during the
e;.roaching winter, sad on grazing farms, as much as cis-
admit. That it in recommendedlll th in cedar
to edict this object on stock farms, to •0300176• e roots
kr airing only one-third or one-fourth of that usually
pea, and supplement it with such mixture of corn, cake,
and at6w as will supply the requisite quantity of dry
_.utter, and the proper proportion of nitrogenoaa and carbo-
ra:eoui elements as is found to be advantageous in ordinary
her'

!NA. tI E FRO: .R acITY. —A Mlle Of BCaf-dOSEITIC-
tAt, singular at least as to its cause, occurred in the
s:.cibe of Paris the day before yesterday. The unfortunate
5-..dtie was a stone digger named Ferdinand P—, aged
a Dative of Lyon., who was afflicted with what medical
tea cull balimv, or insatiable hanger. His earnings being
amother insufficient to satisfy his enormous appetite, though
tette scarcely say ISM, but bread, his fellow workmen used
t.c.ntribute towards his support ; but, wearied with thus
tarienise his friends, and worn out by his sufferings from tit ;Turn:. of teat* which aggravated his h ,he at last
can: to the desperate resolution of hanging himadfs and
E.-,coreiled in effecting his purpose. rhs annals of medicine
mild many Ontario*a of this disease, both in auk" and
r.,10r0 times, but the most remarkable case of late year.,
es; :hat of a woman named Anne Denies, who died in Pans
C!.l. *4 few refill since. This unfortunate was
,1 !t, with 'Milani,: front her infancy, and while still •
ToTinz coal to devour as much se 10 pounds of bread
Thrice)] not in indigent circumstances, she was
Lola arry.rad for stealing tread to eatiefy her
the rue at length admitted into the Sal-
k tar re. sod placid under the treatment of Drs. Pequirol
55d Amuseet but to no purpose, for she left the
Sslp,tri,re as voracious as ever. Her hunger varied in
intermit,: at ordinary times she could manage with 12
Muds of bread per dsy, but for three or tour months of
tht year she would eat from 20 to 24 polio& ; and for 10
c(,:fmtive years her appetite was greatly aggravated is
,;cog. Ou one occasion, when she had thought of keeping
I Friday as a fast-day, she ate more than 30
Kutils of food in 24 hours. As she advanced
I, rears her appetite became depraved, and she t:.< • ing to grass and flowers, especially
b..ttsr.cure, of which ohs would gather and eat
:mmense quantity. To relieve the cobra canoed by this
auroral food she used to drink brandy, of which she
inordinately fond, and at last died • few hours
°ler tilde* a whole litre at once. Whets on her deathbed
at ankh], to take food. the begged her sister to coma and
F' =ar her, and her last words were—" Sines it pleases
G'` that Ishall sat Do more, let me at least have the plea-
•.f seeing you eat." It is a remarkable fast that on a post
examination her stomach was foetid to be exceed-
.' qsall. while her liver was unusually large, and all her
vVixen quite sound an d of norm
IN EVal
..F A GABLE IN EUROlL—Yesterday
between 2 and 3 o'clock, a large Past at the labial
h4irie io the Lawn-market of Edinburgh, known se
."°lel'htlaed." fell with • heavy crash, startling the
h.ight surhood. The building, which is geese stories
t, had been ordered for demolition by the authori.
t•-• •.o accetact of instability and decay, end the inmates, '
of • large number of families, had all been re.
b• •.ome months ago. The adjoining house to the west
bees taken down shortly after the calamity in the
,treet three rears ego, and the west wall of • Gowan-
-155d " looPfsed by great beaus, extending from the
•-• further west rhe windows of the hugs Wild-
-42' "50 of the biggest, cad cartaioly the ugliest, In the • "D. 41 been taken out • it had ideo bean pedlar lit-
reol..l. and the work of Caking down the walla hod berms
It was the south half of the west gable that fell, pert the
!lr-set
. cradling the boarding erected in frost and terming a
pile of rubbish. The inmates of the higher stories of
'se b, +.O to the west were warned out, owing to the
44stesitir state of the north pert of the gable. It wall
e.t.tremely fortunate that the fall did not take pleas in the
mle. when there is usually a great deal of traffic in tile
stregAr.