The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, NOV. 12. APPOINTMINTS. Mr.
Plains, Q.C., to be Counsel to the Admiralty and
Advocate of the Fleet, vice Collier, appointed gol.-
Commanders Edward Hay, to the Harrier, vice !Sullivan,
promoted ; John Mashy, to the Arias, via Moore, prom.
Lieutenants Edward Berkley, to the Havoc, vice Poole,
promoted ; Thomas S. Gooch, to the Flamer, vies Boman.
quet, promoted.
Master H. 8. Ley, to the Cumberland for the Caledonia.
Paymaster John Doyle, to the Shannon.
Assiatent Surgeons Arthur H. Kelly (additional), to the
Victory; Deis McCarthy (additional), to the Royal
Adelaide.
Chief Engineer Charles Icely, to the Cumberland for the

Oeledonie.°
Assistant Engineers .Trines:Roee, to Ile Satellite • James
Catcall. to the Stromboli ; Thomas M'lotoeh, to the Alecto;
James Great, to the Tritoo ; R. G. Foster, to the Doterel ;
A. M. lirareage, to the Victory for the Sprightly.

WOOLWICH, Nov. 12.

Her Majesty's iron-clad screw frigate Caledonia,
of 35 guns, was this day towed by the Monkey, Bustler,
and Widgeon steam Teasels, from the Victoria Docks to
Sheerness, to be completed for commission. Eighty-live
mea from the Fiagard Sag skip accompanied the Osledonis
down the river to be employed in her completion, and when
about to embark on board the Bustler from the pier one
of the men, named John Smith, unfortunately slipped from
the plank into the water, and was drowsed.

Last evening Mr. W. Outer, coroner for Surrey,
hem se inquiry at the Anchor and Hope Tavern, Soathamp-
ton•street, Camberwell, respecting the death et Km Mary
Watson, otherwise Garman, aged 56 years, alleged to have
been murdered by burglars under very estraordinszy circum-
stances.

The deceased was the reputed wife of a pailaisa known
as Captain Watson, a letired officer, bring on his property.

Cs in Webster Wedderburn mid that be wee formerly
captain in the 4th Royal Web Dragoons. He sold out, and
wu now living on his weans. He resided at No. 13, Ad-
dington-square, CemberwelL Hs bad lived with deemed.
She was his housekeeper for twenty yam Bee name was
Buy German, and she was 66 years of age. Latterly she
was not living with him ea his wife. Os the evening of the
27th October he was out. When he returned home he
found the home in the poseessiou of the police. He bed
only been absent about an hour. He knew nothiag of the
occurrence. Deceased was lying on the sofa ineusible.
Min Watson wee in the room, as were also two pollee cos-
stables. Miss Witten was the daughter of witness arid de-
ceased. Deceased had a terrible contusion ois the le=
' sods severe black eye. She had no such usjuries
witasss went out. Witness sad deceased lived es Mr. sad
Mrs. Wagon. _

Mils Ellen Mary Garman said that she wee daughter of
last witness. Oa the evening of Tuesday the 27th October,
she returned home at about six or half-pad elm delook. She
had bon out all the afternoon. Witness In about tea
minutes after her return home went into the honk garde%
accompanied by her mother. They noticed • light in the
both roam upstairs of the adjoining house (No. 14), la the
occupation of Mr. Grieves. It was Mr. and Mrs. Grieves'
bedroom that the tight wee in. Deceased imagined that
Mr. Grieves sad family hod returned home, and eh* mid,
" It is strange they did not dank me for looking after their
booze while they ware ont.'"TheGrieves's had *eked her tolook
after the house while they ware absent at the fused of •
relative. Witham knocked at the back palings dimiddeg the
two gardens, bat no sewer being returned deemed laid
she would go to the front. She went away for that per-
mclosing the door after her. Witham ramothed is the
Some little time after a boy knocked at the deer,
and told witness that her mother had fainted. Witham
closed to the door, as she did not believe what the boy maid,
her mother being so well a moment bofora. Shortly after
a nog of the bell caned her to open the door. Her mother
came in sad said, "Stay with me or they will murder
me." She fell down in the paaage. Witness saw that she
was very ranch coofused and was almost ineemilde. Witham
ran next door to Grierrei's-gat.. She saw • policeman there.
He and another returned with her to dammed, and they
lifted be. oa to the sofa. She was inemisible, and breathed
very . bird. A doctor was seat for. The seat
morning witnees saw that bar mother had a bad
black eye. Deoeseed aid that whoa die knocked
at Mr. Grieve?' door she beard some PM emus
downstairs. She thought it was Miss Grieves, and she said,
through the keyhole, " Its only me ; don't mind coning
down. The door waa thee opened, sad two men knocked
her down. They did it so instantaneously that she bad no
opportunity of seeing who they were. became
"gain unconscious on the following Saturday, and remained
insensible till her death, on Sunday last. ILe front door of
Mr. Gneves's home war: • few yards down • kind of pewee
leading from the froth garden gate. Witseis bed so rela-
tives in England. She had • half-elder in Fazio and • heM-
brother. She sew the latter about six weeks ego. The
family were not CC good terms with him:
The Coroner—Did your mother at any time MAO a
remark which would lead you to think she knew who
struck her ?

No sir; °Mainly not.
Captain Wed:Wham wee here asked to leave the court.
Comer (to witaises)—Are you quite sure that the lost
time yea saw your brother was six weeks ago?
Wiles= said that she did not know what she might have
said cm the night is question, as perhaps she wee a little
a:OW from drink and from the eireausstaacias. But she
did no4see her brother for six week' befars. He was a
married man.

1i1.4. Tailor, surgeon, raid the post-mortem examina-
tion showed the marks of a severe injury over the right eye.
Corresponding to that iejary was an effusion of blood coagu-
lated on the bride. The cranium was not fractured. A
oomiderable quantity of blood flowed away from between
the dont meter and the brain. A blood-mad had been
ruptured by the violence of the blow ea the eye. The ether
organs were healthy. The cause of the death was, in
witness's opinion, the blow which bad bees inflicted cm her.
He had no doubt that her death arose from external
violence. The body showed sips of deceased having been
in an imusnally healthy condition.
By the Coroaer—The blow indeed to have beea struck
with a fist--at all 'vests not with a very hard weird. He
did sot think the demend's fall could have produced the
injury.
The Coroner add that the ease was so far adz, the de-
mised was proved to have died from violence, sad now it
only remained to Bad out who the guilty parties were.
Mid Mary Grieves said that she lived with her tether sad
sister at No. 14, Addington-square. On the 27th of last
month whams mid her father left home at haltlast
11 o'clea. Her sister was at the resides= of bee late
brother, sad they all went to his funeral. Witham locked
op *shoes& The front pte was looked, and the windows
were fecileoed, but the shutters were not shut. Witmer tools
the keys with her. She returned at lOo'olook,and found that
the house bad been entered. The front Wailed door were
open. A pass of glom was broken in the back kitchen
wiodow next to the drop catch. A person could have en-
tered these, but those that examined the paemrse believed
that no entry bad been effected there. Witaem heed that
a variety of shims had been removed. Some ring, brooches,
trinket', and silver spoons, and some olotbiag bad been
taken. She had seen nose of those articles eines. A hat

and a jemmy were left behind by the persona. fey were
found in the garden by a policeman.
By the Corour —Wile= told deceased that ahe wu
going from home that doy, end requested be "to listen at
the back" toes that anything happened. Whams did sot
think that there was any acmes from on. garde. to ano-
ther. It a person bad entered the boom from the beck he
could ham anfutesed the front door from the roads to let
himself ost. The lock might have bees picked from the
outside. Witmer found some Brazil nuta under the broken
window.

Miss Carman, meddled, laid that else bad thrown the
Brazil ante at the window, to make the Grieves bear. She
might have thus broken the window.
Tba court we. then cleared of all bat Inspector Worels
and some detectives. After the tapes of some time the
public were readmitted, when
The jury, without an adjournment, returred a verdict of
" Wilfal murder against some penal' or persons unknown."
The proceedings then terminated.

TIM MOHO= OF Mi. TRIM; llf LIVZIMOL.-
Yeatortlay the coroner's inquest in reference to the death by
?Weaned Mr. Trashy, an officer of her Majesty's Customs,
in Liverpool, fanciest...l in the jury returning a verdict of
" Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown,"
no clue as yet having been discovered as to who perpetrated
the murder.

-11AN8L1.1:701iTIR AT CHATHAM. —On Wednesday
evening, Mr. Thomas Hills, the district coroner for Chet-
hem, opened La inquiry at the GoHen Lion Tavern, Bramp-
ton, into the particulars connected with the death of a
young woman named Margaret Joon, who bad died in sou-
seaman of Om Cavan ill-treatment she had sustained at
the hands of James Palmer, a mechanic employed os the
iron frigate Achilles, at Chatham dockyard. The body of
the demand lay is the boon in which the uefortuoste
woman had died, and on being viewed by the coroner and
jury preheated a shocking spectacle. It appeared front the
evidence of the several witness examined by the mealier
that the dimmed was 73 years of age, and was the wife
of a corporal of Royal Marius, but had born separated
from him for some months pest, and appeared to
have cohabited with the accused, Palmer. Os Saturday
:ithyt they took ledgiop in a house at Broad-
Brosoptoo, and on the following mersisg the
doomed got up and went to a funeral, huts' Palmer at
home. Towards evening the soused went to a lodging-
house, kept by a man named M'Lmaglalin, to iambs for the
deceased, and was then heard to make nes of language of •
very violent nature as to what he would do 'hes she re-
turned. he deceased shortly afterwards cement* the
hones, and was met by Palmer, who commeoced• NaTlite
attack on her, and she was afterwards found lying on the
ground senselees, with her face and bead bleeding profusely.
On regaining oonaciousuees, the donned left the house
with Palmer ; but is about an hour they both returned,
when the deceased upraised her intention not to go beck
' with the accused any more. On bearing this Palmer
knocked her down senseless, and then left the house. On
the following day the deceased was found to be dying, and a
surgeon was snit for, who ordered Palmer into custody ;
and on Tuesday the demand expired from the effects of
the blows given her by the awned. By direction of the
coroner, the inquest was adjourned, for the purpose of
obtaining the evidence of Mr. Seabrook, the surgeon, who
attended the deceased and made the post-mortem exami-
nation.

GSLZ AND Loos or Lire IN THg CRS/CM:L.—
The western portson of Cornwall was visited by • severe
gale on Wednesday. The weather in Devonshire was rough
and stormy, but below Trims it sashed to a barrio's*. At
ltedruth, Helatoo, Camborne, Hills, and other plansh OM"
sidiselis damage was done to houses and buildinp ; bat
it was at ass the most terrible disasters took plain. On
the southern aide of the Land's End emend ships foundered,
and the mews of many more had memos to fear for their
safety. Seldom was the want of a buboes. of refuge at
St. Ives more painfully apparent. Off the Gurnard's Head
• French lugger was wrecked, with the laws of four lives.
Near the same plane the schooner Londos, of Plymouth,
fritsdarod, and bar muter, Mr. Cluesrm, and mew of six
last their lives; sad also neer the Raise pleas • Padstow
schooner mat • similar sad fate.—Watern Morning News.
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