The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1855.

to UM UT sells woe • jodiciens nurse to follow ; and We
captain did althea a good seaman could be expected to do.
The captain gave order duo all the beets to be lowered, bat'
the sea running very high, and two of the boats bumble been
rendered melees, the beet nurse to adopt wss not to allow
the last boat to be lowered. In his opinion, bad the pas.
serge,. atersepted to land In the boats in the middle of the
night they would have been in infinitely more danger than
they were then in. I urged on the passeegers I. go to the
rigging I slisuld think at least twenty times. The boom
Nab tie greater number of pump,. overboard. Those
dos ems saved succeeded in getting to the rigging.
TM *Mess woe then eubjeeted to every severe re-ezemi-
nails by Mr. Collier, who alleged that he had been icfiu-
eased la siting his evidence in finer towards the prisoner.
Andrew Elder gave similar evidence as the last witness,
sad thought the captain had done all that he Gould do both
prier sad subsequent to the disaster. Wm. Rowe, Edward
yenning, and James Corry, also belosemen, gave evidence
as to the course the captain gave them to take, which was
westwardly. Five minutes before the ship struck, her
core wee alined by the last witness, by order of the cap-
tain to west-half-soutb.
liVilliarn Lowry, a captain in 11. M. navy, was sworn, and
stated that the course taken by the captain from the time she
left Plymouth up to the time of the disaster was utterly
wren . ; but even supposing such a course were takes, it
ought to have brought the ship off the Manacles, had the
captain made allowances for the 'adverts and the state of
the wind on the night in question. This witness was sub-
jected ton severe ones-examination by Mr. Slade,who styled
Lim " a partisan."
Several of the passengers of the ship gave evidence as to
the want of ability on the part of the captain, after the
ship struck, and thought that if he had exercised proper dis-
cretion, more passengers might have been caved. Two of
the witnesses stated that they saw the captain in his bed
after the disaster, ant that he was then sleeping instead of
attending to the went, of the passengers.
Mr. Slade made an able speech for the defence, in the
course of which he commented in strong terms on the evi.
dense given by Captain Lowry, who would have the jury
believe that two-thirds of the shipwrecks were caused by
carelessness, not thinking that venals of his own cloth were
lost as well as those belonging to the merchant service.
Then were many saaccountable shipwrecks, as well as the
one in question, and he instanced the grounding of the
Great Britain on the coast of Ireland ; her Majesty's The-
tis, off Rio ;_ the grounding of her Msjesty's Heals and
Cossack, off Gibraltar and Plymouth. The captain of
neither of these skips bad been tried for man:laughter, and
yet in this instance, for the first time, a jury was empanelled
to try the captain on a very grave charge; because for the loss
of his ship he was not accountable. In ecnclusion,he submitted
that the evidence of several of the withers, celled for the
prosecution failed to show that the prisoner had not done all
*akin could under nab trying cireumstacees.
Two of the owners of the John were called, and gave the
prisoner an excellent character, and said that they had still
the grimiest confidence in him, as being a thorough sailor.
Several private individuals also spins to the like effect.
His lordship having summed up, the jury, after five
minutes' deliberation, returned • verdict of Not Guilty.
The decision of thejury was received with marks of ap-
probation, and several of the prisoner's Irienda heartily con-
gratulated him is court on his success.
With this case which occupied upwards of eight hours,
the amine for the county of Cornwall terminated.

FRIDAY, JULY 27.
CHARGE OF MURDER.

Mary Atte newton. 23 years of age, was charged with
the wilful murder of her male infant, at St. Blaine.
Mr. Bevan and Mr. H. T. Cole unmated, and Mr.
Caner defended the prisoner.
The prisoner, whose appearance was of the most wretched
description, appeared to be labouring under great mental
anxiety during the trial, and seemed to take little notice of
the evidence given by the various witnesses. The facts
sought to be established against her were of the most con-
lanais, character. On the 23rd May last the prisoner was
met, a short distance from Bt. Austell, having a child in
her arms, by a labourer named Cole, who took compassion
on her, hy allowing her to remain at his home for the
night. The prisoner was accompanied by another
woman, who had also a child, which was several months
older than the primmer's. At Cole's house the prisoner
seemed to treat her child very cruelly, and two or three
times was told by Mary Cole that she ought to be ashamed
of herself for striking an infant, who was so young that it
knew sot what it was beaten for. On the 26th of May the
prisoner went to St. Austell, sad there asked a little girl
Gamed Elisabeth Peters if she had found • puree, at the
same time repreeesting that she had lost one containing
20s. The little girl, of coarse, replied that she bad not, and
the prisoner then said that she should look for it, and she
asked the little girl to hold her child • few minutes, to
amble Me to do so. Peters consented to do so, and the
prhemedieft. The little girl waited in the street about half-an-
Mar, end diedias that the primate did not return she became
slanneikomi envied the infest to bar mother's, who resides a
tittle ws~ Moltke town. Pope gam a description of Vie
women WM/ needier, who immediately remembered that
she bad area emit a woman pus her door but a few minutes
seed Wowed ia the direction of Lostwithiel. The
mother wen wilted Mae after her, and alter walking about
two miles, osesseded la 'mini up to her. She said, in
reply to qusetlons, that she did intend to come back after
her child. The prisoner then took her baby, and after walk-
ing some distance with the witness back to lit. Antall, she
lett. Later in the day she was seen at the St. Blain high-
way bridge, which is about five miles from St. Austell. She
was then resting the child on the bridge. The attention
of • witness was called to the child crying very
much, but no further antics was taken of the
matter. In the afternoon a little boy, named
Jaime Combos, saw the body of • child in the river, a
shalt ditalela from the bridge, where the prisoner had been
sees stemdieg • few hours previously. The child was quit*
dead, sad ea an exaraination being made by Mr. William
Pears. emeigesay be gave it as hie opinion that the child
had oast net with its death by drowning or from • blow
which it MI ressived on the side of the head, where some
eatravaadei blood was found. The prisoner was appre-
hended ea the ilellowing Monday, at her brother's hoses, a
ant islaine from Liskeard, and acknowledged to the
pollee that she had buried her child. Several witnesses
were ellage and proved the identity of the child.
Mr. Cuter nada an speech for the defence, eoutend-
in that the paid of illeatity was larafficient to convict the
pamir, bat, eapptaialp that that was proved to the setts-
faction of the fury. he indweitted that there was nothing
mon likely than that the child became troublesome in its
mother's arms, and accidentally fell over the bridge into the
water.
The jury found her Ossify of imaaslaughter, and the
loused Judge transported her for life.