The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-07 00:00:00

THE CODHAII AILIADER.

Robert alias Thomas Paling, the person suspected
of having bees guilty of the murder of Jane Begley, wee
trued by as oiliest of the detective fore', named Johnson,
tp the village of Whitfield, in Olucestershire, where ha was
apprebeaded on Wednesday last. He was at once brought
back to Bromley where he underwent an *lamination
before Mr. John Wells, one of the magistrates of the minty,
riot/edgy.
.The following evidence was taken :
George Begley steted that the deemed, Jane Bagley, was
bit wife. On Saturday morning, the 25th ult., he went out at
20miertes past five to hi work, and returned about seven in
the evening. He loud the house shut up as be had left it
la the worming, and epos listening at the door he heard
eine ate groaning is the mirage. He got in by the window,
and be found his mother in bed weltering in her blood.
Be than went to the room where his wife slept, and found
bee lying dead in the bed, the bedclothes which were cover-
ing ber body being deeply stained with blood. Hiss= was
mitts him at the time, and he immediately despatched him
for asaistance, some neighboun arriving soon afterwards.
He of found the pair of tongs produced in the
kisebee. They were covered with blood and hair.
_William Bagley, the deceased's son, corroborated his
father's evidence. Oa searching the cottage, be (witness)
salaried, atter the murder, a jacket, waistcoat, sada pair of
er Neus. Thaw prod seed we some of the missing articles.
They had been In hie (witness's) pots/melon six months
before the murder, having been given to him by hisbeother,
ibis had entered the army about that period.
Jemmy Freemen, farm labourer, residing at Carthame,
trrthat on the morning of the 25th test. he wee with
men mowing in • field adjorsiag Begley's borne,
whew they saw a as running away from the direction of
the cottage, about twenty minutes past 6 o'clock. The man
wen • dark coat, dark troween, and black kat, and had a
Imes under bb acs. The distance of the man Irons where
they were mowing was about 120 yards. He believed the
primer wee that mu. He wee of just the same description,
lard same height. Genially speaking the prisoner had the
same appears's" as the man who ran acme the clover field
bee Bagley's beam.
The witness was aves-essahted by the plow with
weals sauterne's. The witness, in reply to the aniseed,
said he had seen him (the primmer) before; it was when he
used to be about Cildhase some five or sin years ago. It was
whom be (the amused) was with • man named Denudio, that
be (whine) knew him. That was emu years ago. Gotha
morning in queetion it had bees foggy, but it was getting
very light wiles he saw the man running away frost the
wisp.
William Crane, who was at work with the last witnesses
the morning in question, and saw the man running across
the clover field, corroborated Freeman's evidence, and
ti Idenlisci the prisoner as bearing a stroog resembanos
that man. He did mot see tt e features of the man naming
nosy from the cottage.
Jetnima Blake, who kept the Black Horse pablks.
hems at oiygie's• hill, identified the prisoner as having bees
at the Black Horse, • mile sad a half from Bagley's house,
ea Friday, the day preceding the murder, at haltpsat 12 in
the afternoon. He left the house about twenty minutes
le L
lira. Jane Faint!, wham husband keeps the Fog and
Bounds, in Muth-street, half a mile from Bagley's cottage,
identilied the amused as bavieg been there ea the Friday
before the murder, about 3 or 4 o'clock, and remaining
there two hour. He then left, and she saw nothing mere
51 Um.

Jusee Johnson, police constable, 108 B, stated, fres la-
fornastion he received, ho •ppreheaded the unman on
Wednesday morning, at t►e house of Mark Wheeler, at
Whitfield, near Bristol. The prisoner eras in bed at the
time. The clothes idestiled by the viten* William Bay-
ley as hie, he found amongst the prisoner's clothes in UN
axle room.

Id. William Watkin Edwards, surge,., of Hates, said
M was tilled to Bagley's cottage as tie eesdag of the 26th
wlt $e found that the deceased Jame Beaky bad bees
dead some boon, her death having hest eaard by a snare
isompound fracture of the skull. He saw dripals el temps
marked with blood and haw; but be wooed @Owls% OD
trends about the deceased's fine and walk were set is.
Ilislid with that lionesses, but some instrumeut of a sharp-
pigged aerate. The various wounds on the deceased's
Shwas oremeeidentfy Witted by a sharp iastenseat, and
sot Ito !ha moods wore evidently it. doted duns(
lib tibia the siadas of bind wider the skin, sad other
approrsaies sbawatban.
Kr laspestor fkiwar laissaad the beast* that that was
all she Wiese, to be produced that day %Oast the
viewer. If tba assalad wale remota fee a week,
the boldest' amid be by that dm sampasea.
Tiv Wish oosoldiat
el4tearied asswead.
Mask Wissolse, am bites esstairk who hattoarsd
the ocassed, has bees areastal by the Glostostarehbv police.

CITIMAL PALAM-SRILLING DAT.-611.7. 6.
94101181••• ea papaw; 9,667 s ditto W mom Wks%
14.1....Te55i, 9,310. Corropestai day last year, 7,864.

the niewritains. Above, below, and around us, thick mien
closed in and impeded oar steps. The glacier was mush
broken up and neva/led. We VDTs tied together, and
took the lead. Many an apparently impassible crevasse
was mooed by some narrow snow bridge, or had to
be doubled at considerable loss of time to our-
selves. After a time it began to snow, so we began to pitch
oar tent and to spread our blanket is the midst of a vast
wilderness of snow. There were no signs of life but in our
little bustling party of six. All argued woo cold and still
as death, except when some oecesional crack, resounding all
along the ice, told of the oontinual progress of the glacier,
or some roar u of distant thunder marked the fall of an
avalanche over the rocky precipice. But we wars not in
the land of avalanches, so though we heard them we did not
see any on this occasion. Our boots being hung, all wet,
bee the roof of our tent, and additional clothing for the
night pet on for warmth', sake, the •lauds were produced
said plead in the midst, and as our ten hours' walk had
met fu say way impaired our appetite, a considerable on-
Ishught woo speedily made on our provisions. A spirit lamp
and mamas gave us water from the fresh snow, and
a little wine poured Is, with sugar, made it a very palatable
drink. We then wrapped ourselves up in a blanket, and
I slept sa well as we could ; but I can enure you it is no easy
matter to sleep when the mind is excited with past exer-
tions and future hopes, especially when six an 'rammed
into a spies adapted for three or four at the most. You will
sympathies with me when I toll yes hew difficult I found
it to stow away my long lege. There were about two pairs
of ley upon mine, and a heed reclined against my side,
as I laid mine upon some one's elm s►oulder.
We were so leaked together that when we tamed
the w►ole sesehinery had to be set in motion; add
to this, bivouacking on mow at a height of 12,000 feet, is, to
say the least of it, rather Geld sad comfortless. The follow-
ing mussing the meal was repeated, end we set off is the
fog with a vain hops of its clearing off. With gnat perito-
neum we rucked the third pint of Mont Blanc, occa-
sions! openings in the fog revealing our route, and giving
us hopes of the clouds rising iron the mountain. But now
all hops of this vanished, and dispirited, though in no de-
gree tired, we retraced our steps to our tent, shouldered it
sad the blankets and provisions, and, after a sixteen hours'
walk, made our wsy hook to Centimes,. Disappointed u

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re were with this result of ell our preparations wad rreer-

Lions—entirely in conseqsenes of the weather, net of the
will or ptomaines of the party, we determined upon
making another trial frogs St. Gervais*. Lest yea two or
three ehamois hunten suoseeded in reaching the summit
from St. Glavalm, and returned the following day. Ws
planned • similar expedition, but tagged of returning to St.
GefTSlllll resolved to make a pea of the entemit, and asto-
nish **geed people of Ckasoa•ix. In this we happily
sureseded. Again we made free as of porton, who only
cod us An francs each, and we engaged three chamois
Laden to ge with us to • aortae point, some five hours
from the suait, is case any ef our party should wish to
rears. laded, one or two persona astrompanied us with
a view of reaching • certain past, and experiencing •
sight's easapaga on the rocks. This was to our advantage,
as they shared our expenses. We had no guides, but
persons ezperiesad is glaciers would Sad bat little difficulty
is the last Am hours of Mont Blanc, Wass they were out
of madition, and foiled the labour too great. Ws had
almost invariably found that goldes were as much •
hindrance to as es a help. Mat Baglisbnies will best them
la a Mug walk. I shall not again trouble you with the
details of another night's encampment. It was much
pleasanter than the last, as the reeks are warmer; besides
that, we provided ourselves wit► charcoal for a fire, straw
for • bed, and dour, ailk, and eggs for • hasty goddess.
Chocolate, chickens, pears, rallies, and other dales-
else being added, we pasted • very comfortable
night is the midst of avalanches which thundered
about to la all directions. We were, however,
is safe quarten, and the night was lovely. Tee spot
sainted for our bivouac was close to • rained hut, without
a roof, with walls &best our fest high, which, sixty years
ago, De Sa•ssure, the philosopher, built for his scientific

o;orrvaticoas. We found the cabin faU of MOW sad to,
which we shopped sod 'levelled away; and as architect of
oar party employed two or three of us in building a roof of
imp flat stems. The teat went oar all, lugs steam Wog
laid apes it to prevent its being blows off, as the wiad was
severe. We started at daybreak, and reached the Dome de
Gm% one of the summits, in three hours and a half. Here
we were left to carry oar ow. knapsacks and provides, for
five hewn more ,to the real sessmit. The difficulties compered
up by were meceseively vanquishecloond that without
violeateisknees or hemorrhage. The dreadful If sr-de-la. Cott,
• to whisk ba had to cling fee his life, sod down which, bad
he slipped, he would lam been dashed from as. icy erag to
soother, till his mangled remains wire entombed Jr the hor-
rid depths of the glacier !' Whet:would he say if we were
to tell his estimate that we bad ventured to dewed this
dreadful part by an ordinary glissade ? How emsllsot were
oar appetites—pears, fowls, load bread had little Mane,
with Ave huegry Englishmen. The most admaturous part
of our jemmy sow mummaced. We wield, Mated of
retasniag to St. Ommise, to desesad the asseeesia as the
Chamomile side, To us, of WWI./ it woo sew
fortilled though we were with Albert 's
wrest, and that of other emesseeful encreataineers. Yet ia one
plum skim did we Infilkaill say dtiswlty ; it was in
ereming from see *wise to saishee below the (Mad
Melees, whose peep& Ishii. Oily Wahl% weed= is the
'asst. I oseast dessrlbe the .stein we MI to own-
Nes Crevasses, exteuding la all dfrostlim. Lab up the
glades: crag was heaped es orig. We had to WM. by all
me el sane+ ledges at les, &se saw %adios ef doubtful
stoma. Mops It ad la esadaealtyat with wet
Eon opd then he
she. • guide maid have hew it say&se sr,.
sot es help as over dilloult plea& bet to show es she stud
route hen me to the ether : Moak time would thus lam
boss saved. At keg* Um ether ado wee gales{ sad
with some degree of ealiihstles we sit foot is arra
Jima. TM& hewn' Mak , woe still belies as,
sad yet is MN ea laws the ass maid set Aosertiagly
tie sheet taillihts's& elpht Mod es talletrieg the sorrow
goal task width pram thoslipi the piss woods hi the
=Vof esoesft. Alfloupft klidy ha the
IM ham* *OW AI the de NB tb
day we laid awastese dews So is, Mae Se treas. About
aidlit sem me sarsimeal oesposall thetas we had lift
• edsi.l wily • short way up, we sheeM Moms was steps
aid oe. if we meld dad say sosommiotils Shwa To ear
toy we dissoamd • hayloft with sone hah My ha
the it, sad
Amy Mew doped MM. say et le awoke hen weal
sad raboshist shop we than ibtaised. Cur hover mace
lorseght ei to Clatoomis. sod we on Kew Mee."

At ten o'clock Mr. Wood ;et thip vestry. The learned
asesseor opined the proceedings by mediae his appointment
and that portion of the act relining to the particular busi-
ness is hand. There are to be 18 vestrymen for every
1,000 householders rated to the relief of the poor of the
parish; if over 1,000, 24 vestrymen; and 36 vestrymen
if the ratepayers exceed 2,000; and so on in proportion
at the rate of 12 additional vestrymen for every thousand
toonsetiolden. The insumbent and churchwardens and the
district rector, at presses constituting soy part of a vestry,
shall cooties' to do so. Where the number of qualified
vestrymen is below 18. the vestry is to cousin of as many
as may be qaalified. Parishes with more than 2,000 rated
bouseholden are to he divided into wards; no ward is to
contain less than 600 rated householders, and the whole
umbra of wards is any perish is cot to exceed 8; and their
limits are to be defined before the 10th of October nest.
Should the population vary fa a future censor, the number
of vestrymen may be altered sceordingly. The qualification
of a vestryman is to be rated to the poor soon a rental of
not less than 401. per annum ; bat is a parish where the 401.
assessment is not more in the whole than one 'nth of the
entire rating, then 251. rated rental will be sufficient, and a
joint occupancy annuatiag to M. each occupier will also
qualify for the above office. The fiat election is to
take place next November, between the first and
twenty fifth days of the mouth, when the fell
number of vestrymen are to be sleeted; sad future elec-
tions will take place in she mouth of May every year, the
churchwardens giving previously 21 nays' nuke. One-
third of the vestry will go out of dike every year, and the
first and second years are to be determined by lot among
the whole of the vestry as to thaw who shall retire.
Valencia' can only be filled up yearly, sad the persona
sleeted shall go out of one. in the same order as those
parties would have dose whose vacancies us supplied. The
testators of parish accounts will go out of office in the same
way as the vestrymen. A member of the existing vestry
was told that assess:seats were based upon indivi-
duality, that is, that ea owner of booms cannot have
votes for the houses, hat only for his own rating, sad
that it was a question not yet determined in what way
the railways wen to be represented in vestry. In
remedies to mark the outlines of the wards from toe
of maps of the parish, the usemor said that the object
to be attained was to squally apportios the representa-
tive power throughout the parish. When wants were of
small extent the number of vestrymen would be small also,
in order that the ratepayers of a poor or small woad should
be as well »preowned, not according to their wealth, but to
the number of qualified ratepayen only. The learned
assessor them proposed to divide the perish into eight wards,
as follows .-No. ward to be bounded on the north by the
boundary of the lowish ; on the west by the same ea the
south by Mansfield road, to the boundary _ westward; and
on the east by the Kentish Town road. No. 2 ward to be
bounded= the north by Newfield road ; ea the west by the
parish boundary ; on the east by the:Kentish town read, to
the obelisk opposite the Mother Rod Cap ; and on the south
west by Pancras vale. No. 3 ward to be bounded on the
north east by Gloucester place, Kentish Town, to the
parish boundary ; on the west by the Kentish Tower road,
High strut, to Oloseester place, Camden Town;
on the south by Gloucester pleas to the work
house ; and on the east by the King's road to
Oxford street over the canal, thence aloes the canal to the
parish boundary. No. 4 ward to be bounded on the north
and west by the palish boundary line, and on the east and
south by Pancras vale, High strut, Camden town, South.
Renton street, Moraingtoo cresceot, Crescent piece,
Serpentine road, Augusts' street, Cumberland market
(north side), Cumberland street west, and Albany
street, to the boundary of the parish. No. 6
ward to be bounded on the north-west by Southampton
street, Morningtes enuest, Crescent place, anon
the Railway bridge, Serpentine road, Augustus
strut, north side of Cumberland market, Cumberland
street west, Albany street, Oanaburgh terrace, Osas
burgh street, to the New road. Oa the south, by the
New road to Ruston square (oast side), and on the
east bilyßuston square (east side), Seymour street,
Upper moor street, Crawley street, Oakley square (west
aide), an Rvenholt street to the sad. No. 6 ward to be
bounded on the west by Busies square (east side), fey-
molar street, Upper Seymour street, Crawley street, Oakley
square (west aide), E,enholt street to the end. On the
north by Kleenex", Russell place, Tioney piece, Wane-
ford place to King's road. Oa the east by King's rood, to
Oxford street, along Oxford street. to the Canal, and slang
the west and south aides of the Caul to the parish boun-
dary, and then along that boundary to King's cross. On
the south, by the New road to Banos
New
aide.) No. 7
ward to be bandedon the worth by the New read from the
parish boundary on the west to lutes square (east side). Oa
the east, by Woburn pima, Upper Woburn place, Tavistock
square (east side), to the parish boundary, and upon all
other sides by the perish boundary. No. 8 ward to De
bounded on the north by the New read from Ruston square
(seat side), Upper Wara place, Webs!a place,
Tania-
took square (east side), and all other sides by the parish
boundary.
The above unofficiala are subject to each eorrectioas
as may be determined on afterward'. and the learned
assessor adjourned to a future day, for the purpose of fining
the assessment for the respective wards,

ST. 01010 R, EANOTNIt MUM.
At tea o'clock Mr. Allen attended at the °Moe of Mr. T.
B. Chappell, vestry clerk of the parish of St. Georg*,
lissom square, for the purpose of potting the intentions
of the act 'stoops/Mice.
The assessor. is the coarse of his Inquiries, ascertained
from Mr. CheppeU was already divided into wards seder a
local sot, when it wes agreed that tb should rentals
as they aro. They are so follow : Dover, Curses, Conduit,
Brook, and Grosvenor wards, which form the inwards.
The two outwards, Boightabridp sad Piralkm. Bo thea
proceeded to ermine the books, in order to apportion
the numbs, of vestrymen for oath ward, which will be
according to tbe number of permits rated, end the aggre-
gate amount of the sum at which they are rated. Oct of
the whole wards, 1N everyman are to be elected to form
the vestry of the parish.
During the proceedings not ass member of the vestry was
present, and but two or three ef the parishimers at-
tended.

The Commuter/an (Mr. Cooper) opseed the business
by isforming the meeting that as it was absolutely ',pessary
the promodiage should be adjourned, be only proposed to
ask a dew qualm, so es to furnish him with data to found
the neesessep pares sum. which be should leave with them
to AM up sad Imam to him before the meeting again as-
sembled. The parish would ban to be divided into wards,
and be shodd esquire some laformatiost as to the number of
bums he the parish, sad the number of pumas rated.
The Taints CLini said them were at proem, 10,700
hews mewed.
Mr. Coosa said, for the purpose of metiag out the
welds, regard must be had se the number of persona
assessed.
The VISTST CLM—Thu sambas of persons rated are
1.900 in Camberwell, 2,903 in Peckham, 352 is Dulwich,
2,301 in St. George's. making in all 7.469.
Mr. Cooraa wished te hum bow many were reddest
householders I
The several parochial dims laving 'remised their
books. it was found that the total number of persons who
would be entitled to vote wider the ate for the wire parish
amounted to about 6.000.
Mr. Cooraa the& requested that the parochial *Mews
should suggest to him the number of wards they would
like to have ; be tuneful, should sot like to give them more
Shea six.
The Vorrit CIA= ass& the &Ow of the *Seise
wee Meier of berides tbe *Moe of Oe geelehismers
bedews they shred ire pied i sad the modes thud ed.
*med.

IT. MARTIN IN TIN MUNI.

Yesterday ntoon".. i7g7;estry..—Zeiftig nee held hr tie
purgers of resolving the report of the esnunittee appointed
on the 29th of Monk lost to watch the of air Boa-
loafs Bare Bill for ths Bettor Loral t of the
1 M.06/9011/4 sad to rassigte die muse is M Moping to

With the exception of a few slight showers yester-
day and this morning, there has been no interruption 11
to the line weather of the last week, and it must now
be confessed that we (Enid scarcely have had a finer
season thus far for gathering in the harvest. Under
such circumstances, as might be expected, our agri-
cultural reports continue favourable. The following
is from the Belfast Mowry of yesterday :
A Belfast gentlemen has just eompleted a business tour
through the counties of Armagh, Monaghan Tyrone,
Cavan, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Deny, and Antrim, and
he favours us with the following result of his observations
of the crops during his journey. The potato crop, be stater,
universally looks well, and although disease, or indications
of dimes*, have been shown generally is the tops, the
tubers are everywhere spoken favourably of, which is not
the case in the South of Ireland. There is • great deal
of light sets, est generally speaking it will probably
produce • fourth less than last year, and in some
places • third. Last year, however, was one of
the most, if not positively the most, productive of
mint years as regards oats. The best crops that
he saw were in Sligo, about Derry, and between Colo-
rant and Ballymena, and is those districts also the potato
plants are gait* gross. The wait oat crops he obeerved
anywhere were in Tyrone. Flax is rather poor. So small
a crop has been seldom seen, especially in Dosage]. Every-
where the cora is ripe, in some pleas too ripe, and reapen
cannot be obtained is sufficient numbers. The wages paid
to harvesters is very high, in sou., instances tour and fin
shillings a day. To the above we append the following
»poet tram the respectable fire of Bourke, Bros., Cork ; it
is dated Saturday ' The early part of the week was ax-
trowel, wet, but the past few days have been fine. Wheat,
oats, and barley, have suffered as mouse of injury which
a COMi01111111S• of the most favourable weather would not
remedy—they are expected to turn out unsatiefaetory both
in yield and quality. The sondition of what has come to
market has -bees only very middling. New wheat briaga
38s. to 40s. ; hero barley, He. ; sad black oats, 14e. 84. per
barrel, with brokerage.'
The Kilkenny corporation ban followed the exam-
ple of Limerick, Drogheda. and Cork, in declining to
act for the collection of ministers' money in com-
pliant* with the recent act.