The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-05 00:00:00

THE CONVICT MULLER.

The demeanour of Franz Muller now under sen-
tenced death in Newpte,continnes to be quiet and composed.,
as it has always been since his conviction, after the first
paroxysm of grief which followed his sentence had oared
away. Towards the warders charged with hi safe custody
he is reserved and incommunicative,without, however, being
in the least morose. He eats and sleeps well. Last evening
he had gone to bed about 7 o'clock, and in lees than an
hour afterwards he was sound asleep. He usually sleeps
right through the night and rises about half-past 6 He
attends the morning service in the chapel daily, and is per-
mitted to take exercise in a yard adjoining his cell, attended
bye warder. Yesterday the Re.. Mr. Walbaum, the Lutheran
minister, who he. visited him daily since his conviction,
again spent some time with him, se did also the Rev. Mr.
Davis, the prison chaplain. Copies of the Scriptures, both
in German and English, and religious tracts are sent to him
from day to day at the prison in considerable numbers. He
spends much of his time in reading—the Bible principally.
Yesterday or the day before a member of the German
Society in London called at the gaol and asked permission
of the governor for some ladies to come and pray with him,
but it was declined as being contrary to usage. On Thursday
Alderman and Sheriff Haley paid a visit to the prisoner,
and saw the convict, but only in a casual way, and the inter.
view had no public interest. On the same day Mr. Beard,
his attorney, accompanied by a man, had an interview with
Muller, in the presence of Mr. Jonas, the governor. The
introduction of this stranger is thus explains& It is under.
stood that Muller had more than once said that he bought
the hat alleged to have been the hat of Mr. linage, at the
shop of Mr. Divines in the Royal Exchange, whose name it
bears, and that he bought it of a shopman there whose appear-
ance he described, and whom he thought he could identify.
Mr. Digance, it is uid, has only one shopman, and he has
been in his service for about twelve years. On Thursday, the
shopman was taken by Mr. Beard into the convict's cell, in
the presence of the governor, but Muller, it is said, did not
recognise him, nor did the stranger recollect having seen the
convict before. The interview only lasted a few minutes.

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.-A LADY

DROWNED.

The correspondent of the Times at Richmond,
writing on the Bth ult. say, :
" Upon the Ist inst. one of those casualties which have
attracted to the port of Wilmington, the sea-gate of the
Confederacy, • degree of notice never accorded to this in.
significant town during all its previous years of existence,
startled this community almost as much as the explosion
of Grant's harmless mine at Petersburg two months before.
At 3 in the morning of the lit a blockade-running
steamer, named the Condor, the property of Mr.
Alexander Collie, of London, while attempting to
eater the mouth of Cape Fear River, had the
misfortune, thanks to her blundering pilot., to run aground
in the breakers, within 200 or 300 yards of the Confederate
guns in Fort Fisher. The Coodot was • new three-fun-
nelled steamer. superbly adapted for her trade, with great
carrying capacity, drawing only seven feet of water, and
swift as a sea swallow. She was approaching Wilmington
upon her first inward trip, and brought out from Greenock,
whence she sailed in August last, several English and Con-
federate passengers, and among them a lady named Mrs.
Greenbow, well known upon this continent as
having, at the commencement of the war, conducted
a spirited correspondence with Mr. Seward at Wash-
ington, and as having been imprisoned by that
autocratic attorney. Mrs. (:reeehow had teased
many months in England previous to sailing in the Condor,
and was returning to share the increasing pezils of her own
country. After the Condor took the ground, • Yankee
vessel was seen approaching through the gloom, with •
view to shelling or boarding the stranger. Mrs. Greeohow,
remembering her long former imprisonment in Washing.
ton, acid apprehensive of its repetition, insisted, agaiast the
advice of the captain, upon having • boat lowered, and upon
trusting herself to the tender mercies of the waves rather
than to those of the Yankees. Into this boat she carried
with her the mail bags, and also Professor Holcombe, whom
the Condor had picked up at Halifax, Ind whose name was
last summer brought before the public in connexion with
Mr. Greeley's abortive negotiations with • view to
peace' which were entered into at Niagara Falls. To the
pilotowho had just run the Condor aground, was committed
the delicate task of steering Mrs. Greenhow's boat, which
was lowered into • raging surf. Directly the boat left the
leeside of the vessel she IVY caught, broadside on, by •
hugh breaker, and overturned. All the male passengers
succeeded in clambering up and clutching the keel
of the capsized boat, but in the darkness and amid
the deafening thunder of the breakers, nothing was seen
or heard of poor Mrs. Greenhow. Her body was
subsequently washed ashore near Fort Fisher, and close
beside it • heavy leather reticule, containing 2,000 dole.
in gold, which was believed to have been slung round her
neck when the boat was upset. It is • strange proof of
the strength of that boisterous sea that such • weighty
article as this reticule should not have sunk, but should have
been tossed up on the beach like • bit of seaweed. Upon
the afternoon of the 2nd Sim Greenhow's body was corn.
mated to the grave at Wilmington, according to the rite.
of the Roman catholic church. A general feeling of gloom
in conoexion with the thought of the high hopes with
which Mrs. Greenbow returned to her native land, and of
her having been tossed, • lifeless corpse, upon its inhospi-
table strand, has pervaded this community, which at this
sad moment remembers only bow zealous and enthusiastic
was her devotion to the Confederacy."

FATAL AccIDENT AT WoOLWICH.-01:1 Thursday
night, about 10 o'clock, • fatal aecideot occurred on board
her Majesty's ship Supply, Statf Commander Bawden, in
dock at Woolwich. A corporal of Royal Mariam, named
David Buchanan, on duty on board the Supply, after
having gone the rounds with the officer in charge for the
night, left the lower deck with a lantern in his band with
the intention, it is supposed, of getting • drink of water
from the cooking galky in the forecastle. Ao able seaman
and a lad, who were walking the deck, perceived the man
go into the galley, but instead of doing so by either the
port or starboard doorway he was sees to force himself
through an aperture cot in the after part of the galley, and
which is about ift. ron. wide, used with benefit for the
purpose of ventilation in warm clim►tes. This, it is sup.
pownl, was the only entrance then open. A very short
time elapsed when the unfortunate man was seen to make
his appearance outside the galley without his lantern, sod
to fall headforwmoet into the hold, • depth of 19ft. Oae of
the boilers had been removed fur repair, and the hold had
been carelessly loft unguarded, • ruere ledge of timber about
IPS inches broad remaining betiviseu it and the cookhouse on
the main deck, and from which he fell over, Besides va-
rious other injuries, the poor fellow bad sustained a frightful
wound at the back of his head sufficient to cans, death,
which happened at 2 a.m. ♦esterday. He was a steady,
temperate man, and of good character. _

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUIT 1;1A RAILWAY CAR-
WAG& —Yesterday morning • man was apprehended at
the Bishop Stratford station for the following extraordinary
conduct. A number of men, women, and children were
in a third-clam carriage, travelling by the down parlia-
mentary train due et Bishop Stanford at 8.30 a.ni.,
and when between the Stwbridgewortb and Bishop
Stanford stations, one of the men, in a very cool
manner, commenced to undress, and divested himself
of every article of dress. He placed his clothes in a
corner of the seat, and laid down at full length on the
floor. Oise female, who had joined the train at SAW•
bridgeworth, was so shocked and alarmed that she ven-
tured to get out of the carriage before the train stopped,
and the other passengers also quickly made their exists.
Inspector Ryder was coniniunicatel with, and the man,
after being dressed, was handed over into custody. In coo-
sequence of the prisoner's strange warmer, Or. O'Reilly was
called in, and he gave it as his opinion that the man was
suffering under excitement resulting from a continued
debauch. He stated that his name was Charles Spicer ;
that he was • stablemas, and had ber n coachman to the
I hike of Devonshire ; that his father lived at Newmarket,
rind was in the employ of a Mr. Goading at that place. In
reply to • question as to why he undreased Monet', he said
that the Almighty had ordered him to do so. Ile is at present
in enotody.

LOATH FROM GUNPOWDER.—On WedneWay last,
while some workmen were "blasting" at the quarry at
Markfield, a stone, about a ton in weight, was blown into
the sir by the explosion, and, felling upon a but where four
men bad taken refuge, killed one of them, named Brother.
hood, on the spot, the others eseaving serious injury. It
seems the charge of powder was placed in trout of the stone
(instead of underneath, as is usual), and the fusee
Osettig been lighted, the men took refuge in a but
about SO yards otf. Whether the charge wan too great we
hams not been aide to learn ; but the explosion shout the
whole village, alarming many of the inhabitanta. The
stone Lein.; thrown sideways, instead of norpentlimilarly, it
alighted on the but, as stated abort'. The stone fell on the
head°, the deceased, smashing it in a frightful manner,
Brotherhood was a middle-aged man, and has left a wife and
family to mourn bar unfortunate death,—Lehieterehire
0,1,1411*.

AccIDF.NT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAIIA At.—Yesterday a collision took place on the shove
line of rrilway on Sutton incline, near St. Helen's junction.An engine and break van, and also a oods trio, were going
up the incline at a little after Dine o'clock cm., when the
passener train from St. Helen's junction, leaving the junc•
tion at 5.59, came up. A dense fog prevailed at the time,
which prevented the driver of the passoger train fr. m
seeing before him. That train in consequence ran into the
goods train, fortunately without occasioning any serious
results. One passenger, a gentleman, had bit forehead cut,
and a lady was slightly injured. One of the carriages was
dmnrgeal. No injury wan done to the permanent way.
We regret to say that an accident, fortunately
not of • serious nature, happened to the lies. Orson
Stowell. at Matlock, on Thursday night week. The rev.
gentleman bad bees stating at Walker's Hotel, and had
slept in a bedroom on the ground door. Os Thursday it
was arranged that he should have another bedroom on the
tint thior. Forgetful of the fact that the room eau sp.
pros:bad by three stairs, the rev. canoe, on lassies the
mobil in the evening, fell down the steps and displaced the
cap of his right knee, and it is feared has broken nee of the
tendons. It is sot long shoos be sustained an injury some-
what similar to his left leg. We are glad to be 'mailed to
announce that the rev. canon is doing well, and that the
most serious result of the injury will be a temporary
lameness that may possibly for a time incapacitat• hits
from active duty.—thropsdire Courier.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittiop in &taco. —Bofors Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,
and Justices Crompton, Blackburo, and ,r.)
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JEFiSON V. ➢[LL.

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Mr. Mosby, Q.C., said this wss an action for good,
and delivered, toed before Mr. Justice Blackburn. at L.:.
when the jury returned a verdict for the .41.-1, t•
He moved for • rale for a new trial on ti
ground that the verdict was against
plea was never indebted. The plaint:tf w.i a dn.*.
carrying on business at Leeds, and the defeielsut
corned on business there u a retail drusgist, hot .
1858, coveisautiog not to carry on the cc, kind of i,.
in Leeds. At the end of 18.58, defendant's ••
business in the same line, in Leeds, under the ,a 4..
James S. Bell and Company, the tatter
ft for him. In 1859 the sou dealt with t.
plaintiff, the 11•1139 as the father had don.•,• ,
in May, 1861, the son being unfit for the business, Mt
and had never returned. Before leaving he execute,l .
sigoment to his father for the benefit of the ere Lt•
father to carry it 03 until it could be disposal of.
vember the business was advertised. The plaintdf, boa... •
was ignorant of it at the time, and the questiot, , •
ther the goods after that time were supplied ~,
credit of the son or the father. Ihe
swore that he gave credit to the tither, L,•
latter swore that was not the understanding when t!.. •
in December, 1861, when a fresh arrangement was
the payment of goods subsequently supplied. The
were, however, always made out to J. S. flail cod l
learned counsel contended that when the father •..
assignment for the benefit of the creditors he
Bell and Co., and was liable for the amount. Th., ~.
other evidence he contended (the plaintiffs ha,k.
showed the understanding of the father to pay.
The Court held that the father was not liable •
assignment, and unless he had in December inlet
personally liable the plaintiff could not treat him
cipal. There was a direct conflict of testimony ie.
point, and the jury were the best judges of it.
could show that the father ordered the goods on
amount he would of course be liable, but if the ..r.
supplying the goods knew he was not carryiti4 on t
ness on his own account, and supplied the goods to
Bees, the defendant was not liable.
Mr. Oleasby urged that after the change of leksitP • •
came known to the plaintiff he could elect against st. Ls
would proceed. Being ignorant of the assignment, th
tiff had a right to treat the assignee who ordered the ,
as the principal.
Mr. Justice Crompton differed in opinion fr r..
learned counsel. Here the question was whether the t
was given to the father or the son, and the jery I. ed :
to the son. The father had never pledged ht. . ::t,
and therefore there could be no election. That en. Ll
be done where an swot had not disclosed Li, ;1 :
Here it had been done, and the father was ie,ii.;
agent of the son.
Rule refused.