The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-30 00:00:00

THE BICIRDBR AT BRISTOL.

Yesterday the inquiry as to the death of Melinda
Payne, of whose murder at the Boise*lls, near Bristol, the
outlaying have been previously given, was resumed before
Mr. J. B. Griadon, the coroner. The ingaest-room and all
the approaches thereto were densely crowded. The coroner
informed the jury that a jar, supposed to he that given to
deceased to fetish the bear in, had been found since their
last meeting; also a stone, with stains of brood upon it.
Both of them had been (mindsetse distance from where the
body was discovered. Them were the only important dis-
coveries which had been made, and therefore, after cumin-
iog a few witnesses, it would be better for them to adjourn
for another week. There was nothing to point to any
particular party.
Police-officer Gregg, of the Clifton division ; Sarah Payne,
mother of deceased; and one or two others, including Wil-
liam Skinner, a lodger in Payne's hruse, were then eta-
mined, but their evidence did not detail any important facts
other than what ►ave been already published.
Mary O'Connor, landlady of the Cook's Folly hen-
house, proved that the child left her house with the beer
at about five minutes to 7 o'clock ; and another wits's'
depsed to seeing her shortly after proceeding towards her
home.

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Charles Lovering. a ynutti, produced a eaes•koifr, worn,
and stained with blood, which be had found on the Sunday
*fur the murder in a wall in the walk leading from the Hot-
wells to Clifton.

Mrs. Payne stated that her husband came in from work
about 6 seolock, pulled Me shoes off, and nursed the baby,
and never put his shoes on Of went out until he went to seek
for the deceased shortly before 9 o'clock.
The lodger stated that he left home soon after 7 o'clock,
and did not return till 12 at night, so that he amid not
throw any light on the matter.
The inquiry was then adjourned.
Some of the jury suggested that a reward ought to be
offered.

DEATH OP CAPTAIN HAT, OP THE METROPOLITAN
PoLim—Captain William Hay, junior commissioner of
the metropolitan police, died on Timothy evening of bron-
chitis, at his residence 67, Cadogan-place, Chelsea. De.
ceased, who was very much respected by the officers and
men of the metropolitan police, entered the 16th Light
Dragoons as cornet in 1807, afterwards exchanged into the
15th Foot, and served throughout the Peninsular war, for
which he woe in possession of a medal and three clasps.
Be was always among the guests at the I Waterloo
banquet at Apeley-house. Deceased was in his 67th year.
HURRICANE IN BELOIUM.—A violent hurricane
broke over Brussels last week, and eateoded to the adjoin
leg districts. Between Mechlin and Termonde, and on the
side of Flanders, north and west of Brussels, the whole
country bears testimony to the fury of the elements. Large
trees have been rooted no by hunoreds their branches
snapp:d off like twigs, and earned to incridible distances.
Hailsunes were picked up weighing three ounces. At
Brussels the tosses have suffered considerably. At Aloet,
six leagues from Brunel*, the rig of the hailstones was
extraordinary, la some eases as large as walnuts. The
roads were eueumbered with fragments of trees, huge
atones, &c. Not only the capital, but Ghent and Antwerp,
to the hicks of the Rhine, were visited by this storm. A
letter from Antwerp says: "Never 1 the memory of man
has the ttenoepher• appeared so much on fire for upwards of
an hour ; torrents of rain mixed with hail fell, accompanied
with violent gusts of wind. and terrible claps of thunder.
After having partially ceased about midnight, the hurricane
hr ke out atresh about one is' lock, end for upwards of two
hours continued to rage with nearly equal fury. Several
mills in the neighbouring villages have been unroofed, and
roesidetable damage done by the hail." Calais and St.
Omer were also visited by the same storm, and considerable
mischief was done to windows sad skylights. As at Bros.
gels, glaziers were at a considerable premium. The wind
also blew with great violerete.—Goltgitast's Messenger.
ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—
Yestorday afternoon an accident of • fatal character hap-
pened on the London mad South Western Railway, close by
the Guildford Station. Two children, whose parents reside
is the town of Guildford, were out playing together,
when they strollid upon the line, and, whilst there, a goods
train came along, and the driver of the engine was in the
set of shunting the train from the principal line of rails,
when the locomotive knocked down one of the children,
and literally cat it in two. The other child, who was play-
ing with deceased, had • most miraculous escape.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT LlVERPOOL—Yesterday
afternoon a man named Rice went Into a eookshop in Park
lane, Lir, recto', while is a state of intoxication, sod asked
for something to eat. Owing to his being drunk the owner
(James Fenwick) termed to supply him, when he announced
his intention not to leave the premises until he was served.
Fonwiek then went round the counter, seised hiss by the
arm, and Sung him oat of the door. 'I he poor man fell
with hie head against • lorry that was pawing, and re-
bounded against the kerbstone, his bead arming in contact
with the pavement. He was immediately picked up, but
life was extinct. Fenwick was immediately taken into
untidy.
TUE CROPS.—We have bad most spletdid weather
for the harvest, and a considerable portion of the crop has
been got together to excellent order. Upon tome farms it
will be finiehed this weeks—Bra/4ton Gazette.