The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-30 00:00:00

gab) intelligence.

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from morning to le.glit from the government manufactory in
Deptford Dockyexd, exactly opposite blillwall. There was
non" no owns ming apparatus there.
Mr. Bodkin,—The government don't vary on a trade or
business.
Ws Ler son's partner—l think they do, and a very good
One. (L ,ustiter.)
HAMMERSMITH.
sr,. Alfred Evan, of the Haveneourt Arms, WostAlmat 1
Ihrimerunith, appeared to answer a stenosoas charging
Itt'n With refusing to pay an omnibus fare.
The defendant said he had brought this matter before his
worship entirely upon public grounds. He did nit corn-
plain
starlit
tillis. omnibusce wss i'fn pa
rom srhtielehr:sotast
andth bosthseores:
tended that theyiP were bound to flash their joerney at that
place ; but instead of doing so, they were ia the habit of
tinishiag some of their journeys at the Broadway, and re-
fusing to go say farther. Ladies, if they lived in the
neighbourhood of the Whits Hart, were compelled to
walk the distance, and very often got wet through in ooa-
I
sequence.
Mr. Alfred Cloud, one of the proprietors of the Run
meramin omnibus*, said there bad been a peneral order of
the peoprieten for several years that the penny of the
last omnibus should finish at the Bteadway. This omnibus
did not reach the Broadway until a qnarter-pest one in tse
mooning, and as hie stables were in Fulham, his men mast
be np half the night if e mnibus had to go to the White
Hart. Ile argued that if ao paseseger was told before enter.
leg when the omnibus would atop, that he could not say h•
was deceived, and that the conductor was not bound to take
him any fanner than the place be had mentioned.
Mr. relator said he was quite satisfied that no driver
Or conductor could break the journey and finish it when
he pleased; but whether a proprietor had the power
*se another question. It was a airy eoubtful question, and
he should like to have time to consider it.
The summons was then sojourned for a week.

MURDER NEAR LLAVBBRIS, NORTH
.WALES.

The utmost excitement has been occasioned in th.
vicinity of the Llanberis Slate Works by the death of •
quarryman, named Richard Williams, who is supposed to
have been poisoned by his daughter, spinet whom a verdict
of wilful murder has been returned, and who now lies in
Cunervon MO awaiting her trial at thu nest Chelsea.
It transpired in evidence given at en adjourned inquest,
e.T bunchy lee, that defused, who was fifty years old,
lived with his daughter, aged twenty, and two lOW, agt a
seventeen and fourteen respectively, in one of the most gruel
and dreary spots in Wales, upon the moustains between the
Tillages of Llandegai and Llanddeiniolen About Set
months ago, the wife of the deceased, who was reputed a
witch, died under somewhat suspicious circumttences,
end since then the family, who are very poor seta
deplorably ignorant, have been greatly isolated, and
have held little intercourse with the few cottegere
in their vicinity. Saspicion of foul play having
been awakened la consequence of the sudden illness
of deceased, who evinced all the usual symptoms of
having taken poison, a postmortem rumination took place.
and Dr. Muspratt, of Liverpool, to whom the stomach or
deceased was sent for analysis, has detected therein the pre-
sence of a large quantity of arsenic, more then sufficient to
saute death.
The prisoner, Dorothy Williams, deposed that the day
before her father's death be remained in bed complaining
of being chilly ; that in tee evening, on the return of her
brothers from the quarry, be rose and partook with the rest
of some boiled bread and buttermilk. He then asked tut
eilere treacle, which she reached, and he put a Uhl' -
sooosful into his cup. He ate little and vomited it directly.
She ate what remained in his cup. Sne bad previously that
day made him a treacle and buttermilk pmett ; and at his
request again made one, collecting some camomile Sweets
that were scattered in • &ewer, and boiling them in it
During the night he complaiccd of great pain, and vomited
constantly. He dted about the forenoon nest day. She ssnt
her eldest brother fur eminence, bet he could not obtain
any until too late.
I The evidence given by David Williams, the sun, differed
coaeiderably from that of his sister, and was given in a
dubious and unsatiafeetory manner.
The jury. alter a brief consultation, returned a verdict of
r. Wilful Murder against D irothy William," It is 4.1-
patted that the body of the deceased's wile will be ezhumed.
As a proof of the lamentable ignorance which prevailed
in the family, we may notice the tact that the prisoner pro-
duced a large piece of parchment covered with jumbled
character, and letterit,forming no words whatever, which bed
been obtained as a charm against other parties obtaining
—.ion of their cottage.

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