The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-06 00:00:00

THI DIVINING ROD.

The sera disieraortio, or divininc rod, is fat
non amassaaly samiayed is oar minis, Marine be the
&wenn of Mem hewers thsa le geserally sepeseed.
la Carswell, set do the Wean theeselnehrzebusarott
goddess, la whet um =ay Warn-
gest sue empty ate Naming nil, sr enipp the is
gonna foe Weisel wealth on Oar eases. Is Leaseshlre
sad Canbeeleed the belief la tbs pewees of the aegis red ie
widely weed._ That,
_at this Use of day, should be
the case, is a Ireals sample ef the Messiive character
of early ideation. The dion led le a larked twig of the
hesel.tree, is of the white them The masa lade being
.rooked, an se be bold is the booth. is • pedals ist or pa-
rallel to the hariaa, awl the upper pert at seeleveden hung
ea eagle to it of about 70 demos. The s.d nest b. pad
snugly said steadily, sail nee no eganter
the geosod ; whoa be mew a lade its bandieg is supp:ev:
to iadlcate the protease thereof. The positiee of the heads
is beidlag the rod is a soutrased .es -It Is set easy is
describe tke result I. that the blade wearlane
speedily 'edema is the enselesieel the leis of the twig
yet sore rigidly, sad thus is the egutedeos beati-
ng. The ~mesa of the eel mei tsble-tnnuait
are of the sane sharester, art Wit an minable
to se mantis+ settee resaiarg eon s
new el idea. Thew szperinents with the &Wang red are
alwaysenade is a diarist karma to be seetelllihnees, tad the
cheeses therefor* are greatly la favour of its beating over or
near • mineral lode. Let us hope that with no eateseios
of education, sad with turned habits of observation, all
there malt esposimeste will be plena is their proper
positios, carious es 'Tideless of payettelegitel taileseess,
bat useless to the leaned, sad dawns. to the 'gurus.—
Ranee Rosins, September, 1866.

THE TREADMILL FOR A TRIFLE;
OR, A /LIED CASE FOR CATNACII.

(ham Puna.)
"Ls of a ease of hardship so you shall quickly kw,
Of cruel prosecution and punishment seven,
Related by John Collis; his age is fifty-two,
Of his too moss seat to Chelmsford Gaol for atteodiag •
Iteview.

The es* is Thomas Collin, the other George by mine ;
Goorp Collin I a married an, sad Thomas is the same.
George CoUia he has one child, sad Thomas be has live,
Whom a Reverend Beak for fourteen days of their fathers
did deprive.
John deposition, sworn to and taken down,
Nelms that ha and his two sous wets at work for Joseph
Brown,
Of Boyden Hamlet, Bases--a sheep-jobber is be—
And likewise a small farmer of petty mean dogma.
'Twos on the fouth of August these two young men did say
To Mr. Church, Brown's foreman, that they wasted half a
day,
To see the Esser Yeomanry reviow'd on Nosing-mend,
Whereto the foreman neither objected nor agreed.
Upon the following Monday, John Collin said sad swore
That be and his two sons got up as soon as half-past

four,
Which wee More their regular thus, their matter's work

to a.,

go that tits, obouldit't wrong him by their going to Re-

visw.

They work'd till ow o'clock, whew Church bads there to

ewe to mow,
Then Thomas ..to Nezing-sad imustedistely did go,
George Collin followed after in about another boar,
Not thinking of earrondgeone, nor of leek Priests in
power.

Oa Tawley sad ea Weebteedey they week'd se they vet

Oa Thanday Mr. Joseph Brews ward thou auto ammo,
Mors a rsversad asagistrato, Warp Heausiag is his

11.11.,
Who gave these poor nes fourteen days' hud labour—

what a shas•! -
Oa thesßeveread George Hearatag did Farrar Brows pre-

To give these basest min sea a 'Weight is Cholas-
ford geol.
load with rogues sad moundrels of base and wished
lives,
To work upon the treadmill torn from their families and
wins.

Is mia did Major Palmer their bard ease repromot ;
Tbe lione-oSee would oat omit their wad paatalimeat
hood:, on the eabjeet baying bees, bo flis George Grey,
Of Puma Heron* mad*, to beer *fat be had get to my.
Time grouts for Parma Homing sad three for Fuser
Boma ;
And I 'look I sea throe seareerowe paraded through the

taws ;
flea is a basin ►laass, with a mall of pitak sad tar.—
♦ Parsee sad a Farmer, sad his Mabag tks Csaz.
Had Ise is awry webbed Make sad all uabappy mew,
That +saki diasauaga las pug assa from pus is

emiewe ;
Likewise he meey Justice, wlestbet &dad ft lay.
That bads them mils petting my bistrasse is that way

DA.T.--SErr. 5.

moss% MN ; diele by mem dams,
816.—T.Maa, 9,762. Cwitiorsanyids, lrtyew, 6,491.

THE LATE SHOCKING AND MYSTERIOUS
MURDER AT BRISTOL HOT WELLS.

3111111TOL, Barr. 5.
Te adjourned coroner's bursitis tbo body of the
murdered girl, Neliada Payne, was asensasd this day, at the
Rawahant Tants, before the dip waroser, J. B. ()nudes,
En. The inquiry &gala suitsda dell of interest, and
the inquest-room was greatly
Tim most minute seaseh was reemeday made of the path,
of the discovery of which I nut yea man pa:denials is
my last panel. • party of detective atom and others
wen employed is esusisisg it, and trued it in the direc-
tion whirls it wee supposed to take from the spot when the
body was dheonrod buried Month Moose, to the bath of
the house In whisk the father line. Tim march failed
to realise the ho pm entertained is regard to it.
No tram, of blood could asywhere be found Meng
its course, nor is Mete say back-let to Pyre's home. The
position of a large patch of nettles, sad their beim' matted to
• roof, morning the police, too, that no see had made kb
way neatly bona the side of the house, sad that if aeons
was gained to the pan at all it most have been by a path
some ten yards or or oa the Bristol side of the house. Tin
detwetive caws ere 'seined to believe that the body was
sot Carri.d kr that path at all, as, had reek been the cam,
em ~amieraa.d. morn trues of blow wwar s all mat itzer
aim i ppm=
Nary rains whisk have fallen eine the aegis onarrenee
would have removed say marks at guilt had suit been left.
The jury hay* reeesembled,
The COMMIT said, notwithansellng the *active exertions
of the pollee aigiselly Mg the sontiosed anxious
inquiry by the eleghtesees. had less eiliitsd of se
decided • obaresist N osuipst to him a geemes Name of
examination. He shush dais. Iturover, that the 'aegis.
Mates Ind felt It to be tholr day be empby upon the is,..
titration two; addittesel dieteedete of great
skill sad upsilons, is miming 11111101/8. Beinwontiestioas
had bus mode to him (the esesese) i relbeesee te the mat.
ter, bet he did sot deem le ediebehl• to same thus, u it
would at present he rams, sad it might probably
be mieshievous to name rumours which might
tan out to be groundhogs, or which might, on
the other band, if proper time were allowed for
their elucidation, assume bye sad bye some tangible form.
If the jury wished it, ho would put day questions, hat his
own opinion was that they had better adjous for • lout

Juror 'shad whether it area trail that the hair' had
been Wanted ?
Mr. Inspector Attwood =emend is the motive ; sad ia
reply to another juror, said a woman bad been fostd to
ant Brat the statemeat of Mr. Handy ea to the father hulas
bees seen to go up the pally at between 7 sad 8 o'clock.
The faunas then said the jury fully coaearred is the
view which the comer had expressed, sad the Inquiry wan
adjourned till the 17th instant.

HUMAN MONSTROSITY.

The twin negro children, who are joined together
at the lower pert of their batiks by a t of flesh sixteen
inches in eireareferenee, were peMerMp shown to • swab=
of anted gentlemen end penes eneeseed with the prima,
is the saloon of Drury-leas Timone. There cen be no desk
of the genuineness et this nee phydelegical ended%
aiding bitis a n aeretteMswbtinrepaklysxhibete.
of it on sari icy enkuMkteneaE The obildese,
it nut be newedigmlirlase seen et an the wens
in health, ineslignes, er leggione, for the enemy-
Mean leendlege in whisk icy have beset viand
by the =pries of Nature se this birth.
piMi
run to and fro, they telh, laugh, and eel lin
with the settee of straneve. One of nen ezeleined, in
answer to • remark she nerbeerd, "I den's look like •
nigger." Their hair is weeny end cieleplezion a dusty
brown. They will be fin yeas obi ant swath, end are
both girls, on bens mean " MLUi," sad the other
" Noy." We believe they mane to be uuninsous, es it
is desirable they should be, upon all their =easements, and
they will kiss sash other with muck sisterly finnan,
although it is net very easy far then to turn their As= eti as
to look at nee ether. Their eaten do sot beat together,
and all the Wen= =gene are believed to be quite separate ;
end it is sandesesey to learn that there may yet be
• asses of siring the., before they grow up, from
the insevenisse silwatiou is which they now en. It is
end that then pen= are aspen in slavery, In one of the
ad that the Int Feats their exhibition
iliesSriksla he dented le panne* the libeiratite of
the mad nether.