The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

THAMES.

Charles Emmett was brought up oo remand, charged
with felooioualy appropriatiog to his own use divers sums
of money b• bad received for sod on account of the Mill-
wall and Cubitt-town Omnibus Company.
In the tint examination it was proved that the prisoner
had been in the service of the omnibus company fur three
months, and that his receipts for some time averaged 31. per
week lees than the receipts of a second omnibus belonging
to the same company, travelling over the same ground, and
making therms number of journeys doily. A witness earned
John I:lark, watchman in the servioe of the St. Katharine Dock
Company, proved that on numerous journeys he had made in
the omnibus of which the defesdant is conductor, a larger
number of pawners had been carried than the prisoner
had amsouoted and paid for. The witness, however, ad.
emitted that he did not see all the passengers pay, but be
had no doubt they did, as there was no disturbance or dis-
pute on any of the jourasys.
The Magistrate said there was no morel doubt of the pri-
soner's guilt, none whatever, but in a legal point of view the
case could not be pursued—sat mast fail for uncertainty of
payment. The passengers who had paid hlm were not pre-
sent, and of mimeo they could sot be found.
Mr. Stoddert—lt is a very hard case oe the company I
represent. They have beer cheated of 31. per week by the
pneocer.
The Magistrate—However great the hardship, we must
act on fixed rules of law. You had very good cause for
giving the prisoner into custody.

THE SUSPECTED POISONING AT —The ex-
citement mimed by the arrest of Mr. Richard Oka Millett,
charged with the felonious administration of poison to his
brother, Mr. Jacob Curnsw Millett, is rot coutioed to
Hoyle, when those two gentlemen resided. They appear
to have family oconexione in many towns between and in.
cludiog Penance aid Plymouth. Nor will Thursday's
examination teed to quiet the previous agitation. Several
wittiness were examined, but some of the most
important have yet to come, including Dr. Taylor,
wbo has been entrusted with the analysis of the
contents of the deceased's stomach. We cannot be sus-
pected of a desire to forestall the decision of the magistrates
in saying that as yet there is no ground whatever upon
which the use could be sent to a jury. The decanted, who
was an invalid, dined with the accused and two friends,
and having eaten heartily of a plain dinner and of some
Inked apples by way of dement, retired, as customary, to
his room, was shortly after eased with vomiting and
other symptoms of severe illness, and died in the course
of fifteen hours. The circumstances detailed by the around
to a brother medical man at the time do sot differ materially
from those now deposal to; it has not been shown that the
deceased died from other than natural causes, still lees that
the accused administered poison. The examination of the
whiteners on Thursday was particularly close as to the
bone-radish eaten by Mr. Jacob Millett with his beef, and
elicited that the bedroom in which he died could not be
reached from the part of the house in which the servants
slept without pawing through the chamber of ,the accused.
Mention was made of tome deeds belonging to the de-
ceased which are now in the possession of a solicitor,
brother to one of the vitamin, mid of a will. It is believed
that it is upon than pasts, and with regard to the contents
of the stomach, that the evidence yet to be gives chiefly
beam The inquiry is to be resumed on Saturday.—
Wearers Morning New..

The Open Church Association, established for
the purpose of abolishing the pew system is the chureh of
Eoglaed, held its enema meeting in Manchester on Thurs-
day. A number of clergymen sad Lymes attended, and
the maims of the sew useeeseest els declared to be emir
fastery.

1864.

ANHER rddlA '0 ILL-rlsArriNT of AN
A BOND LUNATIC.

A good deal of excitement has been produced in
Stow', by a somewhat mysteries. discovery which was made
a few days ago. In a skeet leading eat of the town resides
a member of the medical profession, wish his wife sad
family, and in the same house has lived for many years a
maiden sister of the wife's. It wee known that this lady
had lived here, sod had not been known to leave, and the
neighbours sometimes wondered why she was never abeet,
and she bad not been seen out of the house for eleven years.
It doss not, however, eeew to have ocoured to say roe that
she might be improperly confined until the meant discovery
of aims confined for years by his brother in Oorn wall gowns
known, when the ommealment of this lady began to be
talked about, and several persona appear to have formed
the impression that she might be in a similar tion. This
coojectum ultimately led to an appliestioa to the magistrates
for a warrant to investigate the circumstances, and a few
days ago two magistrates of the neighbourhood and some
polies *Moen entered the house for that purpuee. They
found the lady in a frost upper room, sitting on a straw
mattress, her limbs drawn ekes together, and ter
body leaning forward on them, with but little covering
on her, and looking as if she had been iediffereetly
fed. The room had all the appearsoos of a room whim'
had sot been entered for a down years. It was
covered with dust, dirt, sod cobwebs. Under the bedstead,
and even on the bed for rather mattress) were piles of dirty
plates, altogether about forty, on which the occupant of
the room had had her meals served, and on which were
bones, some of them yellow with age. She held • bone,
which bad been polished by Soho& tightly gripped in her
hand, and was with difficulty mitered to Ist it go. The
mattress wee dirty, se also was the scanty clothes which
covered her, and the equally scanty bedclothes. A sheet,
which bad not been in the washtub for • Imo time, partially
covered her, and in the corner of the bed was • dingy blanket,
moth-eaten, and appearing to have lain there unused for
many months. The person of the occupant of the bed wee
very neglected, end showed that her ablution. had been ram
and not recent. Her hair was matted., sod a compact mass
of it partially covered her face. Rev tee-nails had re-
/nailed uncut so long uso be quite • curiosity in their
way. They had grown to a length of about three *whoa,
and were curled somothiog in the shape of • corkscrew,
with sharp points. It is said that the only way of reducing
them to their proper proportions will be by sawing
them. The finger nails were not so bad, the lady,
no doubt, having kept them short by biting them. It
is stated that the unfortunate woman ha. been *moaned
to this room for ten or eleven years ; but there
are persona who have seen her within • much more recent
period, and in the opinion of those who are likely to be
acquainted with all the circumstances. she has not been
confined for more then about two years. The strangest
part of this strange story is that the lady herself is sod to
have chosen her retreat, sod those who know her peculiari-
ties are disposed to place some amount of endemism 111 the
story. She appear" to be about 48 yeses of age, and to have
been all her life known by her relations as • person of "queer"
disposition, and ezoindiogly uosociable and roomed, and is
rod to have been "craned in love" IA her younger days.
She had a strong objection, it is stated, to the marriage of
her sister with the gentlemen in whose house she had been
living, and has always showed a great &Tarlton to him.
Whsle the many socentricitio of character she seems to
have possessed may in some measure aocount for her seclu-
sion, sod go to indicate that it was self-chosen, there an-
imus to be no doubt that she was much neglected, and
allowed to remain in • stets which was scarcely that of a
civilised human being. She has been removed from her
prison, cleaned and comfortably clothed, and is, we learn.
now being carefully attended to. It has been suggested
that she winsome, but that does not appear to be the meg.
An inquiry into that matter, however, will prolmbly be
made. I. is reported that she possesses some little pro-
perty, in 0044nm:tam with her -in-law.—Birsting.
dais Deily Pod.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COABT
RAILWAY.

After our report left yesterday,
The CH•IRMAN, in reply, said that as far as be could re-
collect them, he would answer the questions seriatim. First,
with respect to whet was called the "Beckenham contest,"
there was no doubt it was a very serious matter for them to
consider. The charges were sot all made up yet, and be dad
not know what they were ; but his individual opinion wee
that the expense incurred in defending the common property
ought not all to fall upon the present shareholders. (Cheers.)
It ought not to go into a reduction of dividend, being for
the protection of the whole property, sad therefore be coo-
side red should be placed to capital account. (Hear, hear.)
No express pledge had been given about the ibis. Valley
800, but the scheme from Beckenham to Brighton was pro-
duced before the committee, and it wee certain that the
Load-Lieutenant and other landowners would not have sup-
portedth onn company, exceptthe understanding that that
e iahould be introdoeed. The principal question pro-
pounded by Mr. Mitchell wee the policy at the reduction of
the tariff at fares. He had explained in bin opening state-
meet that they did not adopt that tariff without due con-
sultation and advice, sad it the hon. proprietor bad been in
the committee-room day aher day when the contest was
carried on, acid he•rd all that peered, and afterwards
heard the advice given by their eraioest counsel
in private consultation, be was sure he would be of
the same (opinion as the directors. The slum-
holders must not for a moment suppose that the reduced
tariff was adopted voluntarily—(mar, hear)—without refs-
tepee to the position they were in. They were compelled
to bow to the pressure of circumstances. If the opposing
Beckenham scheme had bees carried they would then have
bean obliged: to 'reduce the fazes, and still be subject to
the opposition ; and looking at the situation in which they
would have been, and having the opinion of the first
mongol io the country, who knew what parliamentary
contests and parliamentary committees were, they were
bound to onme to the conclusion that they most reduce the
fares. He did not agree with the boa. proprietor, that the
reduction of the reveal'', was entirely, or even mainly
attributable to the redaction of the fats; but it erase in
part from the circumstances to which be had alluded, in
the unfavourable weather, and so on. A glance at their
statistical account would give acme of the causes. For
instance, the traffic to the Crystal Palace had fallen off
I,loo,ooodurieg the last half year. aid therefore they might
come to • conclusion as to what ea increase they most
have had to the other pert o: their system.
They were precluded from addle' to their regular fares. but
it would appear most c inclusively that thesuburban return
traffic produced 70 out of 100 per met— the charge being
a fare acd a shelf, while the main line Warn traffic, also
taken at • fare and a half, only produced 40 per cent. of the
100. What be advised was quietly to prime the source
they had chalked out, under which they had gam oe in-
creasing their traffic day by day, and especially to encourage
that traffic which brought residents on their line. That
they were doing that was proved by the large amount of
swots tickets taken, which had increased in 1863 from
14,913 to 6,026, the increase in reverse, singularly enough,
being the same number of pounds. Nothing, could be more
favourable to the coo.ieued prosperty of such a
railway se theirs than the, continued memos in
the 'gumbo's of permanent residents on the line ; and
with respect to the aggressions of other companies,
all he could say was, that d they did not take up arms
and defend themselves, they would soon have the whole
of their traffic 'tole* away from them. He assured the
meeting that it warn no enviable position be ocerpied,
when, after they bad been so much esgaged in averting
mischief to the company, they bad to come before the pro-
prietors only to be found fault with. (No, so.)
In reply to further questicem,
The CHAIKSIdif stated that the cost of the Essex ex-
tensions together scold be 750,0004 It was impartible
to answer the question about the amount charged to sun-
dries, as the items weroll small, and °cosseted of debts due
to the company paid within a month of their being in-
curred. With respect to the question put about the par-
liameotary pledge as to the reduction of fares, it was is
fact an agrsemeat before the committee to reduce them,
and they could not now be raised without going to par-
liament _ _

The formal motions having been pat. the report wee not-
niniousiy adopted, and • dividend of 21. 10a. for the bait-
year declared.
On the motion of Mr. MITCHI/11., Mr. Filcher was meal
mously re-elected auditor.
Mr. HIRAPATH asked if it was not the fact that the com-
paey were now charging up to the maximum of their paths-
Neater! fares.
The CHAIRMAN replied that they were.
Mr. Mrronia said that in that case it was useless to
press his resolution, and therefore he withdrew it, bat he
expressed • firm conviction that the sun of their prosperity
bad set, and that they would never see per cent. any
more.

The motion baying been withdrawn,
Colonel YOUNG moved a resolution against Sunday traffic,
which wee seconded by Mr. COPELAND ASHUEST, and on
beieg put to the meeting wu lost by a large majority.
Mr. ASHMORE then moved, and Mr. MITCHELL seconded
a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and directors,
which was carried by acclamation, and the proceediep
terminated.