The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-23 00:00:00

...tody. She is a very drank= dissipated woman, and
tLrough her bad habits she drove her three sons to thiev-
", and they were each sent to reformatories.
one of these had served his time out and went to
Canada. where he is doing well. The second one also
b_t, served his time and was sent for by his brother, but the
yrieener would not allow him to go and at his own request
he was sent back to Feltiarn to be out at his mother's way.
The prism= has tried to get him away from there. The
charge against her now was under the 'Vagrant Act for re-
fasiug to do the work assigned to her.
The above statement was proved by Edward Everdell,
the constable and porter of the workhouse.
Prisoner said she could not earn her living at oakum
picking.
Mr. Mansfield sentenced her to one month's hard labour.

WORSHIP-STREET.
scorrmErr AND ATMITTED BUICLDE.
I.hn Gothranr, a young country-looking man, evidently
:o mach mental suffering, was charged with attempting

Mr. Peter Sair, a lodger at 52, Mansfield-street, Good.
Whitechapel, said that on Saturday last he
Loud a great disturbance below stairs in an apartment mea-
tiest by Gatland and his wife, on entering he found him in •
condition of desperate excitement consequent upon the dis-
covery that his wife had eloped during his absence and
...tripped the place of nearly all it had contained. Witness
endeavoured to soothe him, and placed him in a chair, where
he covered hie face with his hands, and sobbed like a child ;
suddenly he sprang up, seized a razor from the mental
shelf, and inflicted • wound in his throat, which must
have been of • more serious character had he
(witness) not struck it from his hand. A polioe.oanstable
was then sent for. Prisoner had always been • respectable
person while living in the house, but occasionally had words
with his wife, who assuredly had taker. up with another
man. She had not any family.
Prisoner, who haul this statement without uttering one
word, was remanded. Bail refused.

ANOTHIIt CARL
Adria Kdly, a shoemaker, was brought up on remand,
charged with a double attempt upon his life.
Prisoner called upon a brother workman some weeks
since, and from some unexplained cause, but supposed to be
jealousy, cut his throat in a fearful manner with two knives
used in the trade. His life was despaired of, yet he now
attended out of danger.
0.51 r. Cooke remarked that be had determined upon send.
ing this CAN for trial. So much penitence for the crime,
however, had been expressed to the chaplain of the House
of Intention. and each a solemn assurance given never to
repeat the attempt, that be might now be discharged.
Prisoner appeared grateful

WESTMINSTER.
ATTACK nT A THIEF UPON A POLICE•CONSTABL.
Th..nos D, ndtn, a well-known thief, was brought Won
Mr. Afield cluuged with the following disgraceful attack
upon a police-constable :
Salim Howe, 297 B, said that between 12 and 1 this
morning he was on duty in queen's-buildings, Rnighte-
bridge, when he found • disturbance ooceeioned by
two prostitutes fighting. He separated them,
and requested one to go one way and the
other the other, which they did. He was then about to
proceed round his beat again, when suddenly the prisoner
rushed out of a court and atru:k Dim so desperate a blow in
the month that it knocked one of hie double teeth out.
Prisoner then returned down the court as fall speed and
attempted to escape, but wee pursued and captured.
Mr. Arnold—Had nothing occurred between you before
he struck you . _ _

Prosecutor—Nothing whatever, and the blow was very
sudden. I did not see him until he delivered it.
Mr. Arnold—Wss be drunk or sober
Prosecutor—Perfectly sober.
Mr. Arnold—Have you any idea what could have induced
him to attack you in this way'
Pro.ecutor—l hal been called upon to take him into
custody ol Saturday night for a violent assault, but as it
was not premed be we. liberated. I don't know whether
that bad anything to do with his ►ttack upon me.
Mr. Arnold—Do you wish to ay anything, prisoner?
I sonar Nothing.
Mr. Arnold—You are very well known here, and I find
have been committed to the sessions, tried, convicted, and
sentenced to 12 month.' imprisonment for a violent assault
upon the police, and I shall &pie send you before a jury
to be dealt with.

THE MISERIES OP DOCTORS IN LOW
NZIONBOURHOODS.

An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, the
deputy coroner, last night, at the Reek Hotel. Lower ESA
Smithfield, respecting the death of Anne Y•larlane, aged
15 tears.

The deceased was the daughter of a labourer. residing in
Rose Cottage, East Smithfield. and was a healthy girl np to
hat Saturday night. She then soddenly complained of Si-
new On Sunday night at 10 o'clock, a surgeon was
called. "es it was too late to get a perish doctor," and be
west gratuitously. Deceased took the medicine which he
pits. She died at 4 o'clock in the morning.
John 31•Fsrlane stated that the deceased's death was, in
his opinion, entirely doe to the medicine given. She got
worse after it, and died from it.

31r. J. F. Gant, pathological anatomist to the Royal
Free Hospital, said that he was directed to make a post-
mortem examination. The friends of the deceased
were most anxious to get him to give his evidence
adverse ,to the doctor and they offered to give
him some gin for the purroes--(langhterl —end
" see justice done to them." When he began the
post mortem examination. however, every obstacle was
thrown in hie war ; the lights being blows out, ko., and the
father said, " I would hare let her be killed, murdered,
without saving slaythiag. if T had thought there was to be
this butchery." The result of the examination proved that
the deceased died from paralysis from congestion of the
brain. The present seemed to be a specimen of the hard-
ships to which medical gentlemen were often exposed in
low and densely populated neighbourhoods.
After other evidence,
The Coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict
of "Death from natural causes," and expressed themselves
highly satisfied with the conduct of the medical man in the
owe.

The mother of the deesamed. however. said that "she
should have her say spinet the doctor on another occasion."

Erreer 4W RXCIMITE Joy.—When the order of
reprieve for Salome Marsh arrived at Chester Geol. on
Saturday, the governor went to her. and, with the intention
el breaking the news by degrees, be find told her th►t she
might hope for mercy. upon which she became so terribly
excited th►t he thought it prudent not to tell her more. On
the following morning, however, while she was in the chapel,
the chaplain, not having previously communicated with the
governor, mentioned the fact that the reprieve had arrived.
With a load *brisk the prisoner fainted, and remained in-
sensible foe hours.