The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-11 00:00:00

MURDER AT GREENOCX IT A LUNATIC.

On Thursday afternoon, says the Greenock Adrer-
timer, a moot shocking and unnatural crime was perpetrated
in Cross Shore sewer, km, about two o'clock. A young
man, named James Scott, aged about twcnty.one years, who
resided with his fatter in the street above named, and
followed the same trade of shoemaking, nes left for • little
in the house with an lariat of about three months old—
the daughter of his father by a second marriage • and on
the mother's return. in a few minutes, it was dilarzered
lying in the male with the head completely steered and
ems ea the floor ; the instrument of destruction being a
razor. The unfortunate wretch, on his guilt being dire
cowered, 11.4 at once, hut wee speedily pursued, and in the
course of the afternoon captured by the ufficees in the wood
adjoining the Cemetery, near Braeholston
A correspondent net the North BritiaA Moil, of Firidry
last, furnishes the following particulars repriling this hor-
rible afar: _ _ .

fliTetO;e of Womack was yesterday ahoonemi Mirth'
by the eommissie• of a nest mid blooded smadoir. TM
p swetrator of the deed is • half-vitMed moseare, named
JUMPS Scott, • shoemaker chest 22 peen Kan, who lived
with his tither, also • inssimakor, residing la Qms.ifiessis.
street. It would teem that shortly begin tee *Welk Mr.
tbeott, and his wife, who is aktgasidiat la
young man, were both about, end had kelt Adria=
daughter of flee months old missy is the mad* is=
of • girl about 18 years of ern named Jane Downy, •
the sou James beim is the beau at the them Janos
had got pommies of • razor, aid was thrilinille
kill bur, whys eke made her escape from the hem.
On immediately retaraisg with 11111i41111011, W NNW of the
infest war fouled lyieg es the dorm, std its body I. the
(ladle, the infatuated maa having literally sevared the
bead from ties body of his hapless little sturnietar. He
immediately ellieted his escape, bat the police were lastaatly
dispatched la all dietetioas se search of him, sad be is pro-
bably in custody before this do.. 1. March bet, he was
charged at the police court with throwiag • beetle eltaeptha
into • bed ski& contained the IMO OM that ho shred
from Om hew previews to the murder et the shill, and
afterwards asinine Are to it. herein the gut sonerely, sad
• u seat 40 dap to prison. The general belief is, that the
maa is mane, sad should net haul bees at laic The oh-
mage el all motive for his preseat clime, Mewed is son-
seinen with mime of kis atom ails, would elm ie imam
%Lis belie

Ws lesos sises dist the U.S was sposolissikd by tbs
stoat six o'clock is OW 'vistas so the sad so
voids.

EXTRAORDINARY SUPEROTITION.-012 WmilMllll7
hat, at the Newark polieresset, aa eldeeweerkm, wbe
ism Me erne so W ii=N4WIS. trar
Newark, a Me. 1111Mmi
haviket, et the ems with make mei sthlwtherillillage
with towel le It empeorod is et&
demo Met Freemen ethos tw been is the den • sheet
time Wen, awd peeped bee seses salad esesed este with
au* .Carp taunmast. whY ISM' es Lind te low
freely; be thesesthesesy. Tim dethwine bibs wined es
to .sawn the awe% made ths Waft etheasothemy
statement :—lkmto Uwe wp the alb Immthetho was Mhos
111 ; she wee newt Is a amegiels thedelea. sod sawed
such paw, dowies rid* the bewsesthy ailed swe sir
pleithat's amis. 20111101 RBIAtIt mf Ile dwegblews was
attached is than essawsz.valsb Wm& lasi amok
tho outraim. WOK emsesseeth be
de by sem et Wird*
hurt, wimp ieth Nth Lf be math by soy mem thaw
DlGuti Item the memelsemet, who woe rapeseed Is Ws be.
witehed his dasobeee, it wont' direly* the eimeth. mid
loth his dththeses "mid pet beam Aratilarh be vs•
paled is thelowee me the Muth Ithelme, seqweemil
the eemmitheest ems dews sed bb desthies the,
however, rearad etworqueme ef the essmiel be hid
tailed about be,. He admitted boob. ism a desks 1
needle same bet arm, mid apse Minn peimembil....ats
enegistrstes, sad said if be Ithimedis sub
summed that be did. sod WOG bomb les Na..lh
each theme a be bed, they well beam i wllaseell
too He was heed 14.. ed. =death.
REMARKABLE CABL—Wbue the elemie Mee
wu Ilyiog at Stnatur quay on Tuesday, the INS
in deems' out the held; whew at the Mordent of
the al,ip, sodomite% the bowo, to Owit allombimmat amid
three flue limbs, doubtless part of a forsemethip. belliedtvgether bellied soma . Hee of the both was Is •
very weak =edition, but tie other twO whew With& sot
showed awe ueely eymptems. They hied bees es beard
the Briton for the sperm of enestath days wittiest thy feed
.bat .

litttiituL PMILIAIIENTART B.ZOISTSII.--Ws (Brit.
tot Mercury) aosereediste the liberal peaty adds
cn the pre-ersiesst peeitles width day weds berg
registrr. After all the aide of Ivey egasts—their
ealeubiectisss awl 1114sended oldew—they haw sst
tended is weellelsi •iseaselle eyes es the yew. Mb re-
sult was were* me hew teeni spddaste4 ereellsehi Art
they sere repined ee have sipieleil ten vegan Ike yews.
It ...aid wan, however, that the eseedese tibia VMS
not niesifeeteill jleesll were mr88,4 r 88s03. Tory
regultainni bee sew cured Ifee, set_ lee MO 111111111111 to
say, then thst albs Minsk tbsegli Is • eraser;
sad the prod in. that "Whelks letter limbo= sielseiessly
sad pissed ea the liss, is Preview YokS every
alitible ma whew they wed lid, they base mem s ma.
of 10 was their eggeseste es that vary yesee
tostles width " Taw Mae" see se et se salewpB •
. The estkeeiteded rls 171 aerateaerateet rthey New 164410 173 ;
ads 427. Tbe llbesel ebissesd Is 470 Weer atreskagge=
male elder es WWI 1111Ased ssaldwd 187 ; 8111Prert•
gels 457. Dpisst the Amer hen die taw pia, Gad the
nettle We wasipsitg. 1.1114.•1 fe emir
waseiney le view Seel Ilium tessesies with the
semben 'shed at the het shed= le be @waived; that two
Mend Sessikiese MB. be die /stare, be permanently re.
teasel hr !di&

Ta 811.11 SWIM 01 LITEILLTOII.--A sorros:
pottiest seta ••• d tbs "lowirws" of lers W•ittg
Mowers (oobsbor &lbws is • sowissisossollymosorino
twenty-her ad • ladflier ! Tlio "wise questiin is
writiss with tlis Melia of owobbiss Lord J. Resod' for
hi. *web at took sod of passim tint pro•ostis• will be
Infallibly reeterei. Min sleek& mid* MNwwsWss it the
letter subject by lii. CI. T. Tow% iron the "lima fats
liiwass," slog the owls Oho yew, ii s weeds teethe;
Tosiebbe wbisb, sowordusi to tbsi orootay's own
aissisis " Is* WI pert oat of Woo swags to get
art"

HEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHE-
MIME JUNCTION RAILWAY.

On Saturday an extraordinary- general meeting of
this company vise held at the Mooksferry Hotel, Birken-
head. convened (or the porpoise of taking hato ecosideratiow
the terms proposed by the London and North Western
Railway Company, sod to direst the company to swept
the same.
Manly after one o'clock, Kr. Iltxcitorr, chairman of
the directors, took the chair, and the Secretary having
read the advertisement eallint);tlse
The Clammiest( said that Awe proceeding to exrlain
the object of the meeting, he would meatiest an incident
that had lately taken place. It had been intimated to him
!cost night, that 030 of the shareholders. Mr. Winch, wee
applying to the everts for an injunction to restrain this
company from entering into the
_proposed agreement with
the London sod North Western Compsuy sad ten minutes
ago the tlneument WM served. Ho mmailemenaly state that
it weld have SO 'fat apes the Ward. He malkd on the
so:leiter to read the &cement.
Mr. J. Beek LLOYD. solicitor to the mousey, read the
injunction, which was issued from the Court of Chanery,
at the suit of William Winch, ea behalf of the shanbolders
of this company, against the directors of this company, the
London sad North Western Company, the Oast Wrst,rn
C ,nipary, the Shrcushury and Birmingham, and the
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company.
The eIIAIIINIAN sa,d the, that injunction would cot in-
telefax. a ith that n eeting at all, as the meeting was for the
purpose of considering a proposed agreement with the Lon.
don and North Western Railwey Company. No agree-
ment had been prepared, and nothing but a verbal agree-'
meat between the boards existed. and the propositions were'
now going to be laid before the shareholders. The terms
offend by the Land, n end Ninth Western Company were
4 per cent. upon their line, and enter into an agreement to
secure them that until they should get an act of parliament
pawed to sanction it. Shareholders would see at once the
transaction, end it they wee. willing to take 4 per ant.
upon the amount of their property, the proper ar-
rangements would be earned out. It not, the
whole proceedings would fall to the ground. He
would abstain, end would advise the pripricton to abstain,
front saying anything irrelevant to the subject of the meet-
ing, and the directors would also avoid entering into litiga-
tion it possible. He would submit the following to the
meeting :—.` The chairman having reported that in an in-
terview with the directors of the Laden and North West-
ern Railway Company, they have expressed their willing-
ness to take, under the authority of an act of parliament
a lease of the undertaking of the Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway at a rest
equal to 4 per cent., with the option of redeeming the rent
by a purchase of the undertaking at par; and that until an
act of part:manta obtained, to enter into a contract with
the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail-
woy Company for the division erapponionment of the tolls
and charges to be taken and mode upon the respective rail-
ways tor the trate peeving over tie wane : Resolved,—That
this meeting approves al each an arrangeacut, and autho-
rises the directors to dreamt' it by • formal agreement or
agreements, and to affix the company's common seal
thereto."
Mr. Biome emended tie media.
. .

Mr. lisox said for the first time in the history of that
company they were called upon to grant such extraordinary
pewees to the directors. He mid it wee of the utmost =-
peewee to shareholders that their line should be sufficiently
mewed, and submitted that the agreement should be pre-
pared and laid before the proprietors before the seal of the
company was abed to it. He accordingly moved as en
amendment that the agreement be printed and circulated
among the shareholders, and that the meeting do adjourn
to Saturday, the 23rd inst., when the said agreement should
be laid heft= it.
241 r. Roy wooed the INlNSlblant

After emus disseminate
The CH•11111141 putinsedmeek flee which, however,
esly Mmes. Leay livioni a dna anstehoWn held up
their heads. The ended nein ties nes put, sad
carried by akW twi wish the sairmi.g :
" That the directors sad lmesby aniterieed to
apply to pediment la esise einellameat, la
conjunction with the Londrth Wane Cempany,
for as set to authorise the sale or Wee of the many an
property holmium to this emptily to the Lowden and
North Western Railway Compact on Inch terms and coo-
ditious as shall he metals, t or sires
mate es to be entered My_

Mr. Bcanows_ seconded the resolution, which wu car.
rigid, but three dissentients holding up their hand in oppo-
sition.

Mr. Ham. moved a vets et thanks to the chairman,
wbicb wee wooded by Mr. Kinn, and, it having been ac.
knewledged by Mr. BANcitore, the atsiiting separated.

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%weak, cloud.

THIS DAY. Noon.
Qom of w_. nvonool of Vlin& Non in kno Wootbor.
N. Gann Brom. Rao.

The retararfraa the k 6 .wig plane did Ree reach thin
Age ia tine kr publication ea Bowery ; they therefore
tedisate the elate of the weather es Friday amain at
eine o'clock.

1 Bram i °mast
illeme I Cloudy

Elms Tom OP nil ELECTRIC TZUKMAPII TO TIN
Its or Wtorn.—TM layisi dews the ellgreill WWI.
Maven fkonlimeaptea sad Lynam /taw, war able Om*
is impalas avidly. Then en to he bre bdopeadem
elfi~ haulms the tw• teem Ness Beedrabsea
=II• be Deableter Itenwey, the wires see bM
the reed is eselberaware Ass Pullet
boo Aled to mobs the ef
esteedbe die aisaregb to balms, is the ef
1
IaNIE... dews s who ea the bed of the O&M
M beneath. aMe esettoweitees aid of the
efigfie. Tho ellepopide bush has lisatheemses
W lasiegles la timeline; Ilk*
be
Lloydsto he ef bey peas le•
g=iThew^ nem eesdee iMil•
f A be MM.; thee ebbe eIA Melds el=
il embemple• sod Ludes Al be Aimed et Me
et be NAN ef the besestred betted be pubs here
she Medianisees, Pooliable. 17eited IlleVzterelebee.
b mai Me Owe dead Mere ; ad bet
ri•• m
ilddisee A he pleseil is implealeaselle Ilellinine:
des air Mena efableamist.

MEM MID 1111110111 TOWN RATLWAY.—The bail
Narawdlis dtkis egamay wee hold at the teredage la
as Ilatardep ; lb. A. B. CANS IN*, chair. The
erred et 60 &ems% which was adopted ea the emsdea.
sedge me Mega Is solgaitdas the ebbed damemis
be the baled idled 31st Avast betm the diresters have
tpiregre le report that ths mak mtpls hr the MU-
peer hme mosetadM die sem et TUNA Mc li. beteg
as ism= wpm the rsolible et the essempsailles peeled et
mellable babies* et tbs
seassat 1111,31111. es. 9d., set et which ths
67-1417101;iiNiarit a dividend et 6 per mat. ea 276,061,
beteg the lamesed peiboLespital ef de esuperi wW
gal lows a emplus et ft to be genied te the
add et mat ease a. The Clisteme. it vsomfai the
ellsedis et disbar thought he was Nailed la
WAkls :sr it was ermataly belit4
_ bated* depatelite them ea the eforaibp mead
dblea ed the ammo at Me posesat thee. Oa eresperbitbe
seselpts sad espeadters the balkear jest past the
:=6=ssoftli:dig Weathri "Ida tProillr." *at
a
There wag aim seem laisesse is their eapswittare, the de.
tails of whist weld he bil beeise them at their 31st
rewstimp Mb bases* bed pertly alma Itga espouses
led6edel to their imesessi dais ; pm* hem ea tamale
et their Mores, end else friss mooed hapeoyeassts
cede ea the Ilse. Not Of this, bogeys:, Ned the
eiremilse• of their Isaviwg laid hi toward.thei: ant
ammo what they esesidsmil as mpis balsam
they led domed dm pm seat. Whoa It gee Isms
la Med Oat d thin caplet slosh wee is easelleat Misr,
that tits remiss st their pour haat way kept maple pme
with it. wear—that their Malliese, lodges, and seer per-
manent weals wen is amnia widow? esedldsa, be
considered that the sidemeat et their elhiss riesotod
that day WY of a lila meg linegitelde dranalat thaw
that of almost say other mom eta similar astute with
which he wee acquainted. Their peaporty was quite a.
good now as it had ever Idea, seed w fett they had no ra-
no to believe they had over plead an exaggerated value
apses it. lie would conclude by moving that the report
just read he received, adopted, sad circulated amongst the
proprietors.

IMANSIIec ADVANCE Norte.—A am bee been
beard fa the Cilheriff's Court on that batiks source of
dispute and libation—the edveamoasta gyms, the dis-
continuance of w ich we have besa sh. essisonwading.
It is eertsia that while it remiss s pen et ear neeitlree
web, le leas will it be a seem el effieleyenee le 'kip-
ulnae esti their agents; sad we ere caly eaterbal that
say puma ewe be foss I to seems ea seta
queitioanble @sanity. The whole amend at Is the
coos la quads. was
fla 2L Hoge we End kidlea
(sa we ouppoee) awi
TifrmiamK
Tbe Menem weerettie plealtifhieb peels* Net
lies se sash as the wen be p be the egyessimeet, If
we
mac It follows, list where the peeks
of time was is maw el mil Imasderss__ Apswietiqs,
they waft be beirebe se a way essaliseable Memo
oasis* the 'Wm The &psis& pilot. !giber
mine ase—aweely, whether the Drewa Greetemal, it
Leedom woe to be emileted the pen leptilare et a
vessel 'Aar beta Lewis.. It eiefektly velebei ems in
enmity to diumar se also quoin kirtati=y.
nowever, am hip way /emery bedded is
Louden, sad set either Deal it OteveseaL-4,40*9
06144.