The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

12, 1863.

Cross-examised-1 have known Mr. Birch Dearly fourteen
months. The Degotiatioas between us commenced about
the middle of May. 1868. and his engagement early is June.
Mr. Barrett—How long after be uttered your family did
• misunderetaading arias between you?
Witeem—Ho MAMA his duties to my satisfaction far the
ant three or four months, sad then by degrees he become
remiss. 1 objected to his line of conduct, and finally the
determinatios on my part to procure another tutor took
plaoe in June last. The engagement between us was broken
off simply on sooount of the runtioderstaoding between us
ea scholastic matters, not from family matters.
•Mr. Pawle said that if his friend persisted io thin line of
cross-iixaminatioc, he must remind him that the summons
was token out under the sth section of the act, not for pub-
liabiog a false, but a defamatory libel.
Mr. Barrett said he was perfectly aware of that, and
proceeded to ask whether the diaagreamente between them
did not arise from the relation in which the orimplaioant
stood to a member of his family, to which witome replied,
" Cartimalynot."
Mr. Barrett—Were you not co-respondent in a case in
the Divorce Court lately ?
Mr. Pawls again interposed that such a question was to-
tally irrelevant to the charge, in which opinion Mr. Arnold
coincided

—Mr. Merrell urged that he simply pot the question to
show the animus which hod actuata Mr. Taylor in pro.
wean net hie cheat. Mr. Birch denied writing the
mood letter.
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Mr. ;mold observed that could sot be. It was clearly
shown by goad ordains, including that of an expert who
was theroughly coevereant in inch motion, that the tutor
was in the defesdaat's bandwritiag ; therefore he could sot
ace that say question asked as to the motive which actuated
that latter could have anythbig to do with the question
before him, which wee simply this—Did the &deadest or
did he not write that very scurrilous aid infammu libel
which the letter of the 24th of October contained!

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Mr. Burets observed that Ito pleaded " justification " for
that latter.

Mr. ATOold Tamarind that Mr. Baron could not do so,
for making could justify snob a "booking letter, especially
was it was remembered that it bad besa written by •
chromes of the church of
Mr. Banat then said if tbe= of the 24th of October
was to be deemed the wont feature la the came, be should
ask •wo to put I. the letter written by Mr. Taylor to
line.tb Mr. Cress, which wee eisaiseamlaa.
Mr. Arnold onand, wren ea it to be so, he °mild
sot admit it as ',idioms, alas r. Barrett produced it, in 'I
order to show straw provocation for the libel.
Mr. Pawls urged that even then that latter should not be
admitted there, bat before another tribunal. Atter mane
onversation, however, Mr. Parole wined his objection, sad'
Mr. Barrett read the latter, which wee as follows :
" 42, Sin's-toed. Bjightoo, Oct. 23.
" Bev. Mr. Cree, —Dear sir,—The • criminal' who is the
author of the ascuyinous latter saldnesed to the Rev. Mr.
Sharps that I have meat you. my aoliaikor (who till to-day
for the lost week pad has ben a Ireland) smuts sae is.
be broupt adore • bur of *Ott a: Ware a orimilial
bake shall be brought. Were garter a sae'
I amid be soareely justified in sg i Were you,
although you are specially alluded to; my own right ern
is anus to prated me ; I am quite sure that the
head of evea7 perish bee monk to tax his aaasties sad
prude:we. Bet this is not a anemia sutler. The • mein
mans ' who by this at declass that he ham a piennes
against m•—he knows Le has nuee—retaliates Dot at ma
bat a poor bumbles youth. He walrld if be could ekes
to my children the paths of virtue. sad. if be could, would
cowegnsotly open upon them the floodgates of via. If
this, I will not may man bat, `thing profane to
he a clergyman, bow awful his mime! What•• bideas
blasphemer is he! Many a culprit who has suffered cm
the gallows may be proud that be was act such.
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must have been the potation that nerved his palsied hand
or, if, from fear of oonvialies, he did sot wribmit, his c
beet, when he compiled ifte Gingen' oosuPosition that wet
to destroy the prospects, so far es la him ley, of two
dles's welfare, bare sad hereafter. Ban the idadnems to
nod the anonymous off imam to my moliciten without loes if
time: to 7, New foe, Strad.
I am, dear sir, yours faithfully, " F. 'Linos.'

Mr. Arnold observed if that letter had been pet in to
show provocation, it had signally failed. it enetatned
strong language, no doubt, bat if Mr. Birch had not wellies
the anonymous letter of the Mb flotober, why need be ham
Indited that bearing date the 24th ! The letter written to
Mr. Ores did sot say anything abou► Mr. Birch, Goose-
quently that gentleman received no provocation for
witting the letter ef the 24th. and if be omosived the
letter written to Mr. Crest to be libellous and scurrilous,
he admitted that he hod written the summons letter.
The expreedoos contained is Mr. OreesletAer were strong,
he repeated, no doubt, bat In bit (Mr. Arnold's) opinion,
not one whit too strong against a paten who meld writ*
such an anonymous letter.
Mr. Pawls having intimated that be had closed his ewe.
Mr. Barrett irked for a remand. es his clisat bad so re-
oently inetnaeted him that he knew very little about the
matter.

Ir. ArDoki postal Um moat, sod romandod the ems
for • week, sot:opting 000 surety is 50/. for Mr. Mob's re-
appousoco.

SUSPECTED POISONING IN DISITOPSOATS.
Last night an inquiry was held by Mr. Hum-
phrey', Middlesex coroner at the Three Cranes Tavern,
Brick-bine, Spite Melds, ambits the death of ape John
Warren, aged 39, who it wee rumoured bad bees palmed.
So great was the feeling *timed in the neighbourhood that
a young woman named Allot Ilumford, who was appa-
rently as object of avapicams, had to be amorted to tad
from the toad by the police.
Sergeant Gee, 14 H, "stated the atm fat the Commis-
gotten of Polies.

The fieldmice Wires was may voluminous, and may tbus
be summarised :—Decesstal was a coatermooger, whale wife
left him four weeks ago, w he threatened to chastise her for
her drinking habit.- bat Friday night he called at No.
10, Wilma-place, Spitalfields, sod asked a young woman.
Alive Numford, who lived with his mother, to accompany
him to a piece in Mehemet*. She agreed, awl they west
to 16, Mostagnevourt, a house of ill•fame in Bishopepte,
kept by a woman aimed Goan. They resided there until
Monday morning, when deceased died. He bad been pre-
viously is perfect health.
lira Cm, who said that she was the keeper of the
bows in question, after repeated emitrarlictioca and denials
admitted that she sent for a doctor after demand was dead,
sod by plowing him got him to give her a certificate that
"deceased bad died, to the beet of his belief. from natural
cause*: there being no cause of suswiciou that it should
be otherwise." She positively swore, however, thit she
did sot pay the doctor 21. 2s. for the certificate. She
owned the body to be forthwith removed to his brother's
home.
A moo named Richard Lewis deposed that the last whams
bad stated to him that it oast her 21. to get rid of the body.
It was stated by others that two guineas bad been paid by
ber for the certificate.

Dr. Edmunds, 35, Flashetry-cirens, maid that he had made
a post-mortem esamioMthe of the body of the demand by
order of the coroner. The deceased appeared to have bum
is perfect health. All the blood in the system was la a
fluid state—that was moat singular. Such • state of the
blood would be produced by either of two causes—namely,
poison or suffocation. There was some liquid in the
stomach. He lad put the stomach sad its coateots in • jar
for the pumas, of having them analysed. The lungs were
coogested, but be could not rive that as the cause of death,
wiles it were proved that the dammed had not been
polsooed or suffocated.
The girl Rumford made • statement that the deceased
drank some beer the night before he died, sad that she per-
took of the same beer. He was, she said, ill the previous
day. He said that he was spending money looking out for
his wife to get her back.
The Coroner said that the sinister rumours afloat, and the
circumstance that the decaped, • healthy man, should die in
such • peculiar nummer, at a time when he was believed to
be about to riders to his wife, made the case one of grave
suspicion. He should adjourn the case for a chemical
analysis of the stomach sod its anthem.
The court was accordingly adjourned.

Poenos &supAtros.—Of the possibility of
a conversion of a considerable proportion of the old postage
stamps into a condition to pass any but the eloeest and
most incoevenient scrutiny of the sorters and stamper. of
the Poet-ofßee, and tho probability of large numbers being
thus fraudulently re-used, we have recently received -
tie* proof from specimens before us, some of which se
setuidly bean posted, and in the ordinary mums delivered
at their respective addressee. The promisees—for Were are
more than one—of obviating the cancelling marks are simple
and effective, several, we are informed, hayloft been so
transmitted by way of experiment through the Post-rimes,
after due warping, without a single failure, and subse-
quently forwarded as evidence to the authorities, by •
pro-smangensest with the Secretary of the General Post-
office, whose sanction we. previously obtained by our in-
formant. Thin discovery, it is explained, was the result of •
suspicion entertained by the experimenter of the true mo-
tive of the pereeveriog collectors of old stamps in such large
and unlimited quantities, the pretence for which, for a loos
period, has been unintelligible upon any other reasonable
hypothesis than a fraudulent object. That this investiga-
te), will lead to an improved method of defacing the stamp
we cannot doubt. To what extent during several years the
revenue may thus have suffered it would be useless to ma-
culate, but we may reasonably Wee that, where fraud
deemed impossible and the letter sorter, rendered unburned.-
iog. a safe business in this petty species of forgery has bees
carried on by the initiated, to an amount in the aggregate
which may have been material, since It applies no lege W
the larger denominations of postage stamps than the lowest;
whilst, until detection and public exposure, the Whoop is
ow which will have been, by its impunity, in all probability
quietly spreading by communication amongst the dishonest.
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NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Nov. IL—A? II zrz.--Captaia
W. H. iHdpirses, to be opals eepariatencleat of Otathas
Dookyard, vice Peoshatre, preisoted to be rear•edathal.

The Officer's Match between the West Middlesex
and the 2.d battalion Queen's (Westminster) took yea.
ymterday at Worm wood terubbs. The more showed • tow
for the West Middlesex range,, end for the cienen'i of 446,
with seven shoe at mob 9OO, 500. and MO rad& The
weather vim fair, end the mutest wan seven; the Wesa
Xiddiewas obtained the lied at ICO yards and releined it .t
500, but lost it fora time at 600, winning by sums Sal
shooting is the last few rounds.
The annual supper and entertainment of the
13th sod 14th 001111p60101, St. division, of the 22w
Hidden: (Queen's, Wastmitster) Bide Corps, took plies
lad evesiss et the Freemasons' Tams. The Hight Hon. the
Berl De Grey sad Ripen to the ask.