The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-15 00:00:00

M A KLBOItOUGII-BTREET.

Char!is Brows, maw et Brown's stove warehouse,
Cranbourn.street, Leicesteraquare, was &amid before lir.
limn with indmeatly assaulting two little girls about 12
sea r of age, named Alias Better and Anne Melia PeMr.
filbert Beam, 134 C, proved taking the prisoner into Mo-
ody, and mid he made an attempt to is away.
Burnes, the gaoler of the court, said that if his worship
would allow him be could give some particulars of the pn.
:oiler's history. The prisoner had treated about twenty
little girls in the neighbourhood at St. Ilartia'reenrt ia a
similar manner, and on one occasion • companies of the pri-
soner sea fined 51. for selling an indecent paper, and then
the prisoner paid the fine.
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial, sad said that
the statement matte by the gaoler could be made to the
;tip.
Mr. Sayer asked that bail might be takes, but Mr. Baez
refused.
SOUTHWARK.
sINGOLAS CHADOR OP APITJCPTID SUICIDE.
Nor/area Snarls, a resprotableloolOßS married women,
wee placed at the bar before Yr. Barcham, charged with
attempting to commit suicide by taking • quantity of oxalic
acid
Yoliocconstable Weaver, 124 L, said that about a quarter
to 7 o'clock on the proviom monies he was celled iato
a bones
at No. 5, Robert 'a-place, Gikson Waterloo.
road, when he ww tbe prisoner lying on the.pound,
partly insensible. A child was lying by her oriug,
one of the neighbours told him she had taken poison, as
two papers were lying by her marked oxalic acid, and one
contained • quantity of it. Witness immediately proctored
a esb and conveyed her to St. Thomas's Hospital where the
„soma pump was used, and nearly all the poison elected.
The house Gorgeous told Intone that, fortunately for the
rnsoner, she had not taken quite enough to destroy her life.
Mr. Burnham asked if there was anyone in mart who
knew anything about her.
Witness replied that he knew her to be a sober, respect-
able. and industrious married woman. Her husband was at
work at the time, and could sot account for the wicked act.
One of the lodgers was is court who took some of the poism
from her.
Mr. Burnham directed him to step forward.
The lodger said that he lived in the house, and was passim
prisoser's room when he saw her mix something from a paper
in some water. One of the children exclaimed, " let
mo•ber drink it ; it is poison." Seeing " Oxalic acid" on
the paper, he knocked the draught oat of her hand as she
an, about to drink it, and then she fell on the floor keen-
s.ble. Witness then called in the police.
The husband of the prisoner said that they bad been
Turned 20 years, and had six children, which she bad
brought up with great kindness and prudenoe. She never
attempted such an act before, and be was certain that she
would never repeat it.
The prisoner declared that she would never do so via.
the could not account for it in any way. She hoped his
worship would let her go home to bar family.
Mr. Burch= suitably admonished her as to her wicked
conduct, and ordered her to be given up to her husband.

:•lIOCKING MURDER OP TWO CHILDREN NEAR
HAM M.

Yesterday morning, about a quarter past 9
o'clock. a dreadful double murder was committed in the
quiet village of Restrict, near Halifax. The horrible mime
was committed by a respectable Irishwomen named Mary
Ann Dyson, wife of William Dyson, a mason, upon her
two children, Mary, aged 2y years, and Archibald, aged
re mouths. For some time the unhappy woman has
at intervals given sign. of great depression of spirit., asd a
short time ago she said to her husband that she would
-make away with herself." She was passionately food of bee
children, and has, during the four years of her married
life, lived on the best of terms with her husband. About
ti o'clock Yesterday morning, her husband left her in bed
with the children, and at the hoar above stated else took
a razor from the mantelpiece, and appears to have planed
the eldest child on the floor first, and cot its throat almost
from oar to ear, the child at the time having a pins of bread
in its hand. Whilst the little girl was expiring and weltering
in in blood, Mm. Dyson laid her infant on the door also,
ant almost eat its head off, placing the razor behiad the
infant's head. The woman then ran out of her boss*, and
meeting a young girl, who resides in the adjoining h!uset
she screamed an the words that she had "murdered
her chEdres." She then west to Police-constable Bracewell's
house, shrieking and tearing her hair, telling him that she
had " killed her poor innocent children." Subsequently, on
being told by the policeman that she most go with him, she
washed and dressed herself with the greatest composure,
and did not make the least renal...see to being taken to
prison. The unfortunate woman bears an steeliest cha-
racter among her neighbours for cleanliness and industry.
She is 'a {good looking woman, only 23 years of age, an
has had a superior education for a MOOD in her position.

.WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

Fanur, Aria 11. • a.m.

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Nabs && W.
Aber&Um '20.75 47 &
L01a'2.6h49 & L
Ardmore 10.66 48 &8
Greenenatia 29.70:41 W.N.W.
Galway 29.60 49 B.W.
Valencia 2982.47 N. N.W.
Cape Clear 49.7942, E N.L
Quassia/ma 24.6646 W.
Liverpool 99.7046 B.H.
Holyhead 29.69 47 W.
Pembroke 29.09 41 N.
Peimanoo .. !9.7649 N.
Brost '99.76'50 N.W.
Wriest 119.7!.5. W.& W.
ocbefort 1111.76 65 N. W.
71yeaouth 2.7141 8.8 L
Weymouth 9.7964 W.
Portansousl. 29.71 91 &L
Loudon 9l 76 47 1.8.1
Dover 99.7951 LILL
Yarmouth 2.8447 8.8. L
Fearbmough 2.7844 LK
Weida
20.07 40 &L

SATURDAY. ACRDAY.
W. to .N W. atadback, ON NORM= &W. AO N.W. and N.,
frrsh to strops, with OOLIS. fresh, sho
showers.
W to N. and back,
trash, squally, with
showers.

Ai above.

s. E. to and N.W..
fresh. showers fa
pi. ea
E t.S.W aa4 N.R.,
tiwsa, generally dm.
Nartheru..--Soadaad. Wadera=lrelmad. Wake, and M-
isread'a h ern .inglislt Camas' and Blow day. Sailors
=Eastward England and .Nceth Boa

W. S. W. to N. N. W,
fresh, some showers.

Iturcur.

As oast •Dove.

BARNsTA PLR ELECTION COMMITTEE.—(THIS DAY.)
—The committee met shortly before 2 o'clock, and pro-
ceeded with the scrutiny, far the purples of striking off a
sufficient number of Totes to place the petitioner in a
•
rusywity.

FoREIGN BILLS OF EXCHANOF..—It appears from
a parliamentary return issued this naming that the
amount of duty received for stamps on foreign bills of ex-
change was 215,601/. 14.. 9d. io 1860. 235,666/. 6s. 7d. in
I*.d. 231,7411. 16s. Id. In 1862, and 531,877/. 161. 10d. in

THE NrstsElt or PARLTANNNTARY ELECTIONM IN
EN.LAND AND WAtits.—A parliamentary return honed this
day states that the total number of electors for cities ad
boroughs is Eastland and Wales was 468,966 is 1862-3, and
4,7104 in 1H63.4. The total another of electors far coun-
ties was 534,085 in 1462.3. and 5zi3,788 is 1961-4.

A Paris correspondent writes :—" The British
poets seem destined to pass through the heads of the
libretto-oaken for the magical stage of Paris. Not log(
ag we had Lolfah ArAlt cooked and mined up with sauce
I. 'ante for the hatitisea of the Open Conine, whim to
the original deformity of Pedladeen were added all the in-
conzruities which the Preach traducer' drew from his own
resources. Fur some nights put we hare seen at the
lame theatre Lara, the ' Lan' of Byron, ' traduced' with
an ingenuity hitherto unsurpaned."
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A bill to unite Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
and Priem Edward's Island under one government and one
tnidature passed the House of Assembly of Nova Ocotis
thanimonsly ea the 28th alt.

THE BlitHOP OF PILTERBOROUC H. —WC regret to
to announce the sudden and serious illness of the
flirbop of Peterborough. His lordship was oat of doors on
T but on the following day was prostrated by
revere attack of Mooching. The physicians in atteodance
temeely expected that he would last through the night,
~0,1 toe absent members of hie lordship's family were
atones sent for. On Thursday, the report of the medisal
oleo was a little more favourable, the bishop having peered
rod night gad slightly rallied. His condition, however,
:.!I,l,,itises great uneasiness to his friends. He is in hie 84th
year. god wee advanced to the see in 1539.
PI: E,ENTATION OF COLOURS TO THE 92ND REM-
IgrxT. —Yesterday the 92nd Regiment (Gordon Highlanders)
seat pregeoted with new colours by Lady Macdonald of Dal-
rbosoie, wife of General Sir John Macdonald, Colonel of
:Le regiment. The ceremony took place on the castle
“olatiade. io presence of a large assemblage of spectators.
rot Courane.
Wo.II.WICH, APRIL 14.—A review of the troop,
In xarri.ion will take plain to-morrow afternoon, and it in
.tated that Gemini Garibaldi is expected to be present.
A Si Nr:riaa Dlextrroft.—The following appear, in
tho In reformism to the statement in your paper of
". day, under the head of General Garibaldi,' that the
Vrasosular sod Orieotal Steam Navigation Compaey's
l rent of directors bad pared a complimentary resolution,
onoected with the ooricessioo of a fres parsge to the
reo-ral and suite • unaoiroocuily,' I 'ball be extremely
,a4.ged by your itigerting this declaration that f, for ewe of
t!, directors present, desired that my vote to the contrary
.ff•et might at all events be recorded.—l have the losteer
to be, sir, your most obedient servant, Count De Tow-
-21, Devonshire-place, W., April 1.2.”