The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-08 00:00:00

OONCENTRATION OP THE COURTS OP LAW:

Yesterday, a deputation from the Law Amend-
ment Society waited upon the Cfitancellor of the Exchequer,
at his official residence, Downing-street, to suggest to him •
means whereby the public puns might be protected from
any additional burden in the event of the new law courts,
es proposed to be erected on the site between Bell-yard,
Ourey-street, and the Strand, coeting more than the esti-
mated sum. The deputation consisted of Mr. Field, Mr.
Hastings, Mr. Edgar. kc.
The eIi4NCIILLOR of the ExcHeQUER, in reply, stated
that he had never contemplated altogether exempting the
public purse from a portion of the cost of the proposed
ooncentration of the courts, but he thought it better still
to keep that an open question. With regard to the concen-
tration scheme item( it was a question on which he was in-
competent to offer an opinion, 'adapter u he could do so
he gave it no reluctant, but on the contrary, a cheerful
concurrence. Still, were he to propose it to the House of
Commons his advocacy of it would do it more harm than
good, for the house would very naturally ask why he, whose
business it was to scrape up money, should interfere
in • matter so foreign to his department. It should pro-
perly proceed from the legal organs of the government, and
then in the event of the financial objection referred to being
again urged against it, be might, if furnished with the data
on which the society had made its calculation, reply to it.
He supposed that the proposal to confine the tax to suitors
in the common law courts proceeded on the ground that the
Court of Chancery, through the Suitors Fee Fund, would
contribute its share to the cost of the undertaking. (Mr.
Hastings assented). He thought the proposed tax a very
small one, and did not doubt that the suitor would save it in
cab hire. The House of Commons had said by its react
vote that it would not 'auction • scheme which entailed heavy
expenses on the public. As far as he was concerned he
should not take soy niggardly view of the case on public

grounds.
A long conversation took place, but nothing definite was
settled with regard to the object the deputation had in view,
and when it terminated the gentlemen composing the depu-
tation thanked the right honourable gentleman for the
patience with which he had listened to the explanation oi
their views.

THE MURDER IN TIPPERARY. --• The corre-
spondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing from Carrick-
on-Suir on Tuesday, says :—" Again has Tipperary been
stained with blood! and spit, I am sorry to say, land is
the undeniable cause. This time, however, it Is not the
landlord who has been amassinated. To-day I record the
cowardly and bloody murder of • respectable tenant-farmer
named Maguire. The alleged and believed cause of the foul
outrage was that he recently became the tenant of • farm
from which the previous tenants were evicted. To-day,
about 12 o'clock, while passing along the road near Glen-
boVer he was barbarously murdered. The police at oace
received the intelligence, and immediately made arrange-
ments for a vigorous, and, it is hoped, • succes-iul search.
The inquest will be held to-morrow by Mr. Shoe the same
gentlernao who has only just concluded the investigation at
Rockwell on the body of Mr. Thiebault. The murdered
man's name is Michael Maguire. He was murdered on the
high road at about 1 o'clock, at the foot of Slieve-na -Mon
Mountains, near Glenboyer, where the police barrack was
attacked in 1848. The farm he had taken possession of was
about 30 acres in extent, and the tenant who was evicted
was Michael Kennedy."
SINGULAR DEATH.—Yesterday inquiry was held
by the Middlesex coroner, at the Grasshopper Tavern,
Charles-street, Whitechapel, touching the death of Michael
Lsnghan, aged 99, a coalheaver, who died on Monday last,
from an injury of • singular character. Mr. Lichin, •
lodging-house keeper, said that • short time since de-
ceased, who was a lodger of his, was standing in the par-
lour, when • deaf and dumb man, under the influence of
liquor, came in and pushed rudely against him. A quarrel
I ensued, and the deceased dealt the intruder • heavy blow
lin the mouth, and thus laid his own knuckles open in a
' fearful manner, they having come fully in contact with his
adversary's teeth. Deceased's hand shortly afterwards
swelled to • large size, and he became seriously ill. He
was therefore removed to the union infirmary. Mr. A.
Coeteasmineys, divisional surgeon to the union, said that de-
was admitted suffering from wounds in the knuckles
half an inch in length, which bad been poisoned by the
teeth of the man whom he struck. The poison went over
the whole body and limbs, and the legs mortified. The
arm and the face were attacked with erysipelas. In
answer to the coroner, witness stated that human teeth
were undoubtedly poisonous. He understood that deceased
had been in an underfed condition at the tame of the oc-
currence. The immediate cause of death was the legs be
coming gangrened. The coroner having summed up, the
jury returned a verdict of " Death by misadventure."
SUEPECTED WIFE MURDER AT COVENTRY.—A
middle-aged man, named Frederick King, • weaver, living
in Much Park-street, is in the custody of the police on sus-
picion of having murdered his wife. It seems that the
prisoner, a fellow of drunken habits, has for • long time
past indulged in the practice of beating his wife. On Moo-
day morning, at an early hour, the prisoner called two
neighbours into his house to look at his wife, who he said
helloes taken ill. They found her in • state of stupor,
in which she continued till • few minutes before
nine o'clock, when she exred. There was so
natural appearance to account for death, and the
woman was in a perfectly healthy state on the
previous day, when she went to the police to complain of
her husband's ill-treatmeet. The countenance of deceased
was discoloured la several pieces, ea if from the infliction of
blows, and there was • math is the nean, as if strangulation
had taken place. A sespicioe of poison has
been raised on
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account de. packet of nux comic* being given by the WOOSn
the day previously to the police, with the statement that her
us hband had given it to her on Good Friday, re at
the same time that "he should like to see her
with it." The medical gentleman who examnied the
after death is understood to confirm these suspicions'_ in
fact, he pre the information to the police which hoe NI to
the priemer's apprehension on the charge above mentioned,
The Coroner (Mr. Carter) opened the inquest on the body CPO
Monday, but no evidence was taken. The inquiry was
adjourned.—Birminghans Doily Post.