The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-29 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

" The Emperor Alexander," says a St. Peters-
purl; letter, " has just taken a new conciliatory deci-
sion of clemency, which will be received with gra-
titnde by all unprejudiced persons. By a recent
ukase, dated from Novogorod, all fiscal prosecu-
tions against individuals guilty of political offences
siuoe 1831, and consequently liable to the confisca-
tion or sequestration of their property, are to
cease."

INQUESTS IN CAMDEN-TOWN.—At a late hour on
Friday night Dr. Lankester held two inquests at the Ele-
phant and Castle, King's.road, Camden-town, touching the
deaths of Alfred Johnson, aged El, secretary to a benevolent
institution, residing at 24. Caroline-street, Caindeo-tonn,
and John Denny, aged 64, clerk and accountant, in re-
duced circumstances, and an inmate of St. Panora' work-
house. The evidence elicited in thecae. of Mr. Johnson
went to show that on Wednesday, about six Man., Police-
cou.able 3614 S found a crutch and *bat oat the towior
path of Regeot's-oanal, Regent's-perk, opposite St Mark's
church. His suspicions were aroused, and with the aid
of another constable he dragged the canal, and deceased's
body was recovered. Upon his person they foiled three
rings on his fiogers, and a pin in his scarf, but neither
money nor watch, although it was deposed by other wit.
buses that he had both a watch and some half-croons
in hi. poesession when last seen alive late the previous
night before going out for • walk. The crutch
was accounted for by his being lame. The evi-
dence of relations and a friend tended to show that he
did not contemplate suicide, and as nothing could be elicited
to clear up the mystery of how he came in the water, the
jury returned sn open verdict of " Found drowned."
The evidence adduced in the cue of Denny was of •
peculiarly painful nature. Some years ago he left
his employment in Tottenham- court-mad, and took
his family to America, in hopes of improving their
condition, but his hopes were blasted ; for finding the op-
portunities for an easy livelihood were no better (if as good)
than at home, he managed to raise money sufficient to
return to England four year. ago, with the view of obtain-
ing work, and then to send means for his wife end family
to follow. He failed, however, in g theft means, and
despondent and hopeless he was oom to s:ek refuge
in St. Pancras workhouse, where be acted ea • pauper clerk
up to about the time of his death. Lest Tues-
day , week be wu too ill to perform his
duties and was removed to the infirmary of the work-
house, when it was discovered by Mr. lora, the resident
medial afloat, that the hapless man was suffering from
anew in the stomach sod dropsy. On last Monday morn-
ing he was found in a water-closet contiguous to the in-
firmary, covered with blood, with • 'naor in his band, with
which he had inflicted a gash in his throat, and a cut on the
veins of each arm, for the purpose of destroying himself by
bleeding to death. Every assistants was rendered to save his
life, but be died the following morning, pertly from the
disease and the bleeding. Verdict—" heath from dmiey,
aooelenited by exhaustion from bleeding from wounds in-
flicted by his own hood."