The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-07 00:00:00

COMMTITAL OT A Norowocus BIGOING LIMIER LWPOSTOB..

41KeTletavards,;dirty-looking female, who gave a false
address, was charged before Mr. Mien:sour& with mdse.-
' votaries to obtain money by false and fraudulent pielaseise,
ander the following circumstances
The Rev. Mr. Land= Maud. residing at 14, Branewiek-
square, stated that the prisoner came to his house, last
evening, the worse for liquor, and asked for relief. She
afterwards altered her story, and stated that her hus-
band was lying dangerously :!l; that she bad •
letter to get him into the hospital, but that she
could not get him there, as sbe hod no money to pay for •
cab. He refused to amain ber, seeing the state she was ia,
and walked away with his wife, when the prisoner followed
and abused them. He gave her into the custody of • con-
stable, and at the 'tattoo she gave the name of Mary
Edwards, 7, Bt. Andrew's-street, Saveodials. He thee
recollected that the prisoner had about ten months before
obtained mosey from him under precisely similar circum-
@tenon, and that he had made inquiries and found the whole
of her story false. Since he bad relieved her he had neer-
nand that she had obtained money from a friend of his
(a curate) ander the presence that her child was ill.
Police-covetable Garrett, 141 P., said he had made in-
quiries, and had ascertained that the prisoner MN a drunken
dissipated woman. She had given • false address.
Hr. lYSyncourt asked the prisoner what she had got to
my to the charge, and whether her husband was iIL
The prisoner said she had given a false address, and as for
her husband, he was all right and in the ooantry ; it was
her first °Rene.

Tiel47.kfr.Mand raid he did not wish her paniehed
""relMr. Hanford, chief officer of the Mendicity Society, said
he bad known the prisoner for about four years as the com-
panion of the most notorious begging-letter impostors and
thieves She was lately up at the Mansion-house charged
with dosing a coat from a house where she had been to
ask for charity. He was not aware that she had been con-
victed for begging.
Mr. D'Eyecourt said that it was a case deserving of no
pity. He thee sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and
keps to bard labour as a rogue and vagabond for two calen-
dar months.

DRIAD/171. Diem—An accidental death, a-
Goofed by edrcumelanoes of an *Dreamily painful character,
connived at Longwood, at the commencement of the pre-
sent Week. The anfortuoate subject was • girl of 17,
weed Ames Maria Balmforth, daughter of Joseph Balm.
forth, joiner, residing at Cliffeeiod, Quarmby. Death took
Vyaeaz Monday morning, and the inquest was held by Mr.
on Tsceday. It appears that the girl bed been suffer-
ing front a add which defied ordinary remedies, and her
mother, by the edema' a neighbour, resolved to administer
a hot bath'. This resolution was carried into
effect ore Baeday last. The deceased was enveloped in
blanketing in the usual way, the hot brick, accordiog
to custom, was placed beneath her, bat instead of being pat
in cold water to produce the vapour, it was placed is water
at the boiling pellet The result may be easily imagined.
The girl soon began to feel tLe vapour unbearably hot. She
was told, however, to bear it ; and this she did with noble
endurance as long as she could. The hest, however, grew
more intense, until at last it wee unendurable. The girl
cried out to be released, but, unfortunately, the old woman
left in temporary charge was deaf and did not hear her
entreaties; sad, after otee or two vain appeals, the girl
swag frees bar trammels with a shriek and rushed to bed.
It was them towed that her whole body was dreadfully
• scalded, exe 'seek so that the skis acme off with the slightest
tom& She lingered is great pain till Monday morning at
7 deieek, elms she died, to the great cooeternatioo of the
hisily.—Medderaklel iseanailer.
• MI OONVICT Won.—Yesterday (Monday), the
mply of Ids Paosilesey the Lord Lienteeast to the memo-
rial of the primer, Daniel Ward, was received by the
governor d the pd. His excellency declines to interfere
Is the carrying out of the sentence, and says that the law
mast take its asses. Immediately on receipt of the Lord
Liseteseare y. the intelligence was conveyed to the
wretched *owl,* who exhioited no symptom of despsir,
mica ea the dreadful sews might have occasioned. The
ezmeatioa will take place between 8 o'oloek and 12 o'clock
em Wednesday oast—the prudes hour not Wee yet fixed.
The comelet still adds W pot.'—Northers Whsg.