The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

THE "FEMALE BLONDIN" CATASTROPHE AT
ASTON PARK.

The following letter from the Home Secretary
(says the BreinizAent Daily Pa!) baa been received by

" Whitehall, Zdth July, 1863.
"Sir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to
acknowledge the rwwipt of the memorial of the clergy,
magistrates, banker', merchants, manufacturer', and other"
residing io Birmingham, urging the importance of adopting
immediate measures to prevent the recurrerw of pwfore,
anon by which life is endangered.—l have the boom' tab%
sir, your obedient servant, " H. A. Beet.
" W. Seholefield, Seq., M.P."

In a letter enclosing the above to Mr. Alderman Ratites.
Mr. Scholefield °Monne " from what has passed balsa*
Sir George Grey and myself I bare every reason to believe
that the question involved in the =mochal is under his
serious consideration."

THE LATE MURDEROUS ASSAULT IN A
RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

At a apecial neasdon convened at Newport Peg.
nett, yesterday, Micheal Lyons was brought np on remand,
charged under the Ilth section of the 24th and Vith of
Victoria, esp. 100, with assaulting with • clasp knife,
and wounding, with intent to murder, James Worked
and Peter M 'Clean in a certain railway carnage on the
London and North.Weetern Itailwv, between Bletcbley
and London, on the night of the 1 th day of July, 1861,
It will be remembered that the prisoner was charged oft
the lest occasion under the. 20th section of the act with
haying unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous
bodily harm, the punienment under which was,
as • miedemeanour, three yews' penal servitude;
but on mature consideration Hr. Powell, the clerk to the
magistrates, considered it advisable to alter the charge to
that me& in the II th section, which made the offence aim.
milted a felony, and the penalty penal servitude for ten
years. Mr. Charles J. Rawlings, solicitor, Romford, and
59, Bishopegateetreet Within, attended on behalf of Messes.
M'Lean and Worland; Mr. Jones, of Aylesbury, ap.
peered. as on the former occaaion, for the prisoner, who was
brought up, as before, by Mr. Superintendent Thont at Breay,
from Featly Stratford, where be has been since the remand
on Wednesday week.
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Mr. Rawlings said he appeared before the bench to prose-
cute the charge against the prisoner in the dock, instructed
by Mr. Peter 11'Litan and Mr. James Worland, as it was
understood that the railway authorities did not intend to
interfere in any way or take say steps whatever ire the mat.
ter, boiling it as not being any affair of Me company, He
(Mr. Rawlings) could not help coiling the attention of the
bench to the fact that their worships had been occupied for
along time in the investigation of scam of pocket-piclueg at
the Bletchleyatation, and their polioasergeant had chugs
of such a case, which the company apparently deemed of
far more important* than the murderous attack which was
charged quoit the prisoner. He deemed it right to notice
the fact, that the public might know, through the medium
date prom, what course of conduct the company thought fit
to pursue in the matter. The learned gentleman then detailed
the facto as given in evidence, which only went to con-
firm the amount which we have already presented to oar
readers. After the evidence several communications were
read, which went to show that the prisoner's mind was
affected. He was, however, committed for trial, the deface
being reserved.

THE REPRESENTATION OF PONTEFRACT.—There
are already two candidates in the field for the represents-
tion of Pootefrect, vacated by Mr. Monekton Milers (Lm
Houghton). Sir E. W. Head, late Governor-General of
Canada, has issued an address, in which he says that while
he is devotedly attached to the laws and constitution of
England, he has ever been convinced that progress is the
truest conservatism, and that we best maintain our insti.
tutions by cautiously improving them. He continues—
" Whilst I acknowledge the claims of the established
church, I admit in the fullest sense the righte of
who dissent from her creed. I shall ever be jealous of all
extravagance or waste which increases the bonbon of the
people; but at the same time I shall sheik
from any vote which may compromise our good faith or risk
the loin of our national honour." Mr. Samuel Waterhon^
who appears as the conservative candidate, has also issued
an ILMTCOS, in which be says :—" I shall ever be ready to
promote wise and salutary reforms, bet recent sad even*
so destructive to the happieen of a kindred people, afford an
additional proof of the superiority of English institutions,
and I am strongly opposed to the creed of those who desire
that the constitution of old England shoull be fashioned
after a transatlantic model." The writ be. been received
by the Mayor, and was publicly read at five o'clock on Wed-
nesday afternoon. The nomination is fixed for Monday.
Sir E. W. Head addressed the electrum on Wednesday night.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SVROEONS OF ENGLAJD.—
The following gentlemen, having undergone the neoessary
ex iminatioes for the diploma, were admitted member of
the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the
30th inst., viz. :—Measrs. John Craven Robinson, Sear-
borough; John Loans. Dock•ateees. Whitechapel ; Alfred
George &eerie, Thoruhilberinare ;
_Frederick Bond Eaton,
Lansdowne-road, Notting•hiU ; Edward Hyde Witney,
Oxon ; Samuel Morton, Sheileld • ChrietopberJobe Weir,
M.D., Trinity College, Dublin ; Geom. Oliver, Stookton-on.
Tees ; John Amos Woodhaaa, Lamberhunt, Bent ; John
Bette, Norwich ; James Cooke, Stretford, near Manchester ;
Joseph Moorhead, Clones, county Moosighaa • William
Hopkin norms, Maesteg, Glamorganshire • Edward James
Pollock, Hutton, Hounslow; John Trigle, Torrington
Devon ; Frederick Stubbings Taylor, Greenwich ; Georg;
Eugene Yarrow, L.S.A., Central-street, Old-etreet ; Hugh
Taylor, Norwich ; Francis Vinceot Hogan, Dartford ; John
Henry Edwards. Llarigefrii, Anglenea • Francis William Blow
Wicksteed, M.D. St. Andrews, L R:C.P., London, Royal
Mint • Philip Sheldon Fenton, Eglnun, near Sheffield ;
Sheppard Thomas Taylor, L.R.C.P., London, Dilaham, :Tor.
folk ; Charles Holman Parke, Bt. Columb, Cornwall ; sad
James Gerhard Reid, the Cape of Good Hope.

ENGLISH CHURCH SBILTICEB IN WAYNIL—An act
of parliament has just been printed to empower the bishops
of Welsh dioceses to facilitate the making provision for
English cervices In certain parishes in Wales. Wherever any
ten or more inhabitants in any pariah, district, or place in
Wales shall certify in verities to the bishop of the diocese,
that they are desirous of having Divine service performed
and the sacraments administered io the English langwe,
and that they will undertake to provide a building and a
clergyman who may officiate therein, and mall apply to the
bishop for the license, it shall be lawful for the bishop, if
it shall appear to him that sufficient provision is not already
made for such English service, on the nomination of the
incumbent of a tit and proper person as mit:deter of such
chapel, to license the building for a tern not exceeding two
years, and also to license the minister to perform the mer-
cies& la the event of the incumbent not nominating then
the bishop is to appoint. The hemmed building is not to be
a parochial chapel without the assent of the incambent, and
the act is not to affect the incumbent's rights as to fees sod
emoluments, ho.
Law BUSINENS.—The fee fund accounts of the
superior courts of common law show a falling off in the
receipts from 51,1561. io 1861 to 46,416/. in 1862. In the
legal /ear ending with the long sacation of 1862 the writs of
summons issued in the superior courts were leas than in the
previous year by 10 per cent., being 103,564 against 114,301.
The numbers were 32,531 in the Queen's Beach, 27,997 ia
the Common Pleas, and 43,016 in the Exchequer. The num-
ber of causes actually tried before the superior courts was
2,202 in 1861 and 2,295 in 1862—namely, 1,179 in London
and Westminster, and I.IIG at the assizes. The sums for
which verdicts were given amounted in 1861 to 301,7361.,
and in 1862 to only 234.88(N.-128.2984 at the wires, acid
106,58'14 in London and Westminster.
HOIIR/BLE DEATH IN A MILL PROM CRINOLINN,
AT LET.DB.—Mr. Blackburn, yesterday ghureday), held as
inquest at the Town-hall, upon Harriet oat y, aged 22, the
daughter of a shoemaker in York-road, and whom life had
undoubtedly been menaced to the senseless fashion of
wearing large cricolines. The deceased worked at Mr.
Hotling's cloth mill, Millgarthetreet, and on Wednesday
afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, she was standiog on
the top of the fourth storey of the appareatly
waiting for a companion. & widow named Cudworth, who
was employed at the same mill, saw her turn round, as if to
make way for some one, and immediately afterwards beard
an agonising scream. Mrs. Cudworth ran and found the
deceased bad become entangled with the shafting, which
continued to revolve. The foreman at once ordered the
engine to be stopped, but owing to the absence of
the fireman and the inability of the man left in charge
to control the machinery, die shafting continued in motion
for ten minutes or a quarter of so hour, every revolution
dragging the unfortunate deceased closer and tighter
to the machinery. When at length the eugiue was
stopped she was frightfully mutilated. her cheat Icing
in-
jured and her bowels protruding. Her dress had to be cut
away io Messes, and as six thicknesses of crinoline steel en-
circled the deceased and the shaft, it was some time before
She was removed, and she expired five minutes after her
extrication. Mrs. Cudworth believed that the decessed's
crinoline had flown round and caught in the shafting. She
had out, she said, considered the shafting &sacrum& "but
then," she added, " 1 never wear crinoline, and would noi
allow a person who wore one to work in a milL" A discus-
sion worn d amongst the jury respecting the advisableness
of the sivitliog being protected, and eseutually the ioquest
was adjourtied until to-day to enable the factory inspector
to atteud. —Leeds Mercury.

FatGarry'. Guys ACCIDENT AT ASHDON.-An-
other melancholy accident by the in...muttons handling of
I firearms occurred at Aabdon on Friday last, to a lad named
' (horse Miller, 16 years of age, io the service of Mr. slater,
' of I,`„ckette. The boy was employed in taking woof lambs,
sod at the same time had a gun for the palpate of scaring
birds. On Friday morning he was taking his dinner, whea
a young man named *leery Fisher, io the service of Mn.
Hosier, of Newobam came up, sod taking up the goo
for the purpose of sitting beside the other, threw it past
bim, when it exploded. and its contents carried away a large
portion of Miller's right thigh. Mr. Caslake, the relieving
officer, who wee fortunately passing by, conveyed the poor
boy borne, and Mr. Jones, surgeon, of Saffroa Walden, was
speedily in atteedanee. The wound is of such a frightful
nature that, under all circumetauces. there is little doubt
that if life is saved amputation of the limb will be found
necessary. —CArfnutfoi d