The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1862.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

LAW INTELLIGENCK
(TlllB DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
wirtm e, WILA RE AND NARVIT.
Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner, • carpenter in
Pimlico, who bad married the respondent in 1846. The
cohabitation endured till August last, and in the interval
several children bad been born, of whom three was still
living. The co-respondent was • lodger with the petitioner,
and was on friendly terms with the family. Last summer
Mrs. Weare went for • few days to Gravesend, and while
there she wrote to her husband without giving any address.
Her manner had lately been somewhat strange ; and the
petitioner's suspicions being thus excited he made inquiries,
and found that the respondents were living together as man
and wife.
The court made • decree nisi with oasts.
CARPUS T. CARPON AND LANCASTER (OTHERWISI BILITII) AND
NORMAN.
In this case, which was partly heard lent term, Mr. Stur-
geon supplied • defect in the proof of identity, and
The court made a decree nisi, but without cost&

Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Mr. Searle appeared for the pe-
titioner, the wife of Mr. John Egerton Webrter, of Mattis-
hall, Norfolk, and afterwards of West Kirby, in Cheshire.
Dr. Spinier and Mr. Drake for the respondent.
The petition was fora judicial separation, on the ground
of cruelty ; and the respondent, denying the charge, prayed
for a restitution of his conjugal rights. The marriage had
taken place so keg ego as the year 1834, the petitioner
being then a young lady of 19. The respondent, who was about
six and twenty, had a fortune of 8,0001. or 9,0001. in the
Node, ode, on the interest of which he heed. There bad been
six children, the last having been born on the 10th of Sep-
tember, 1858. During the whole time of the cohabitation
(which lasted till near the end of 1859) the conduct of the
respondent to the petitioner was alleged to have been very
harsh and cruel. He frequently beat and kicked her. On one
oocaaion he kicked her while she was pregnant, and caused her
to take to her bed for several days in consequence. On
another he threw • chair at her during her confinement.
On another he drove her out of the home and pursued her
with • loaded gun, with which he threatened to shoot her.
On another he knocked her down with • stone bottle, which
laid her senseless on the floor. There had been one or two
temporary separations ; but at length, after an vault
with a poker, the petitioner left the house, and had ever
since lived apart The petitioner's evidence being confirmed
by several other witnesses, and there being no defence,
Sir C. Creeswell separated the parties.
YOUNG Y. YOUNG.
Dr. Spinks and Mr. Webster appeared for the petitioner,
the wall-known tragedian, Mrs. Charles Fred. Young, who
sought a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of
adultery and brushy. The respondent was represented by
Mr. Pritchard and Mr. Day.
Dr. Spinks said that his client was married to the
respondent at Trinity Church, Launceston, Via Diemen's
Land, in June, 1845. At this time she was only 15 years
.f age. She had ever since been on the stage and had
earned large sums of money., which her husband bad
invested in land in Australia. He was now a man of
considerable means through her exertions, but that had
not prevented him from treating her with great cruelty, as
would now be proved in evidence.
Mrs. Martha Mary Thompson—l reside at present with my
daughter, Mrs. Charles Young, at 23, Upper Belgrave-place,
Pimlico. I was present at her marriage. It took place in
a church. I was not in the habit of attending that church
myself, and cannot tell what service was used there. The
marriage ceremony was an English one. I was married myself
in England— at Gretna Green. (Laughter.) After m
daughter's marriage she went to Melbourne. lat
followed her there. The respondent's conduct was very bad
to her. He constantly called her a and her child • bas-
tard. In the year 1850 she was confined of • stillborn baby.
About ten days after that he came home and began to
" row." I expostulated with him. He was going
.to strike
me. My daughter got up to prevent him, and
he struck her down. She was constantly in the habit of
biding his razors, because he said he would be hanged for
her. In 1855 I saw him paint her eye, moaning over her
while he did it, and saying what • scoundrel he was. He
had blacked it ; and be painted it in the drawing-room at
Geelong Theatre before she wild appear on the
stage. Five year ago we came to England on
board the ship Kent ; and I saw him strike
her on the face at the cuddy table. All the ladies rose
and left the table, taking her with them. When we got to
England, the respondent went to reside in Charterhouse-
square, then in Cecil-street, Strand; then at 29, King-street,
Holborn, then in St. John-street-rosd, Islington • and at
other places. They wertliving in Newnan-street whesshe left
him. I did not live much with them after they came to
London. On the 30th of January, 1860, she came to me
in Margaret-street with her face covered with blood. Had
spoken to the respondent about his conduct. That
was when he told his daughter that he was not her father,
and that her mother was any man's woman. The
letter produced is in his handwriting. [The document was
read.] It was dated on board the Empress of the
Seas, and was addressed to his "dear, dear child."
It denied that when her mother deserted him he
hail not been guilty of wrong to her ; and added
" The crimes I have since committed have been errors of the
head and not of the heart. I have suffered fearfully. Oh,
Dolly, I think your mother might forgive me. If she only
knew what I have suffered she would pity me ; but I sup-
pose I must follow out my doom. Man proposes, but
God disposes.'" The letter concluded by giving the
young lady the writer's blessing, and begging her to ask
her mother at least to bid him God speed on Ibis revise.
[The case was proceeding when our report left.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Wilke.)

John Haines, • respectable-looking man, surrendered to
take his trial upon the coroner's inquisition for the man-
slaughter of Thomas Mitchell.
Mr. Metcalfe, who appeared for the prosecution, said it
aesred to Dim, from the reading of the depoeitiona, that
there really was no evidence to support the charge against
the prisoner, and that the unfortunate affair was purely
accidental.
The learned Judge mid be was quite of the same opinion,
and it was therefore perfectly useless to occupy the time of
the jury by examining the witnesses.
The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty and the
prisoner was ordered to be immediately discharged.
George Waite, 40, a tall powerful man, was charged with
feloniously wounding his wife Maria Waite with an axe
with intent to murder her.

Mr. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton was counsel for
the defence.

It appeared from the evidence of a police-constable of the
D division that about half-past one o'clock on the
morning of the Ist of May be was on duty near Carlton.
terrace, in the Harrow-road, when he heard cries
of murder ; and on proceeding to the spot from whence
they came, he found the prosecutrix in her night-
drou, bleeding profusely from • wound in the bead, and
her dress was completely saturated with blood, and in con-
sequence of what she told him, he went to the prisoner's
lodging, and found him io the act of dressing himself, and
whec he told him that he was charged with wounding
his wife, he said it wai a good thing she had gone
away, or it might have been worse. According to
the evidence of the wife she had gone to bed on the night
in question, and about half-past 12 o'clock she got up and
gave the prisoner some medicine, and then went to bed
again, and a few minutes afterwards the prisoner attempted
to stab her with a file in the stomach. She got out of Led,
and was shout to leave the room, but just as she reached
the door the prisoner attacked her with an axe, and struck
her twice upon the head with it. She succeeded in
'actinic downetairs and giving an alarm, and the prisoner
followed her down to the brat landing. la answer to guns.
tins that were put by Mr. Ribton, the prosecutrix stated
that the prisoner had been almost continually drunk for a
fortnight before the occurrence took place, and that he was
suddenly taken ill on the Saturday previous, and that he
was in alvery excited state, fancying that people were in his
room, and he looked under the bed to try to find
them and conducted himself otherwise in a very extraordi.
nary manner. The medical man who was called in described
the Injuries received by the prosecntrix, which were of a
very serious character, and he also expressed his opi-
nion that at the time the act was committed the prisoner
was suffering from delirium tremens, and when be was ques-
tioned upon the subject. he soil that he had had delirium tre-
mens, and he had done it through jealousy, for which there
did not appear to be the least foundation.
Mr. Ribton, upon these facts, contended that the pri-
soner was not responsible for the act he had committed, and
that the jury ought to acquit him upon that ground.
The learned judge having summed up, and explained the
law upon the subject of insanity to the jury, they delibe-
rated for a short time, and then returned a verdict of Guilty
of unlawfully wounding.
lie was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(More Mr.Comninioner. Kerr.)

Williams Claritsgbold, 61, butcher, pleaded= to an
indictment for forging a deed, with intent to
The Commiuiooer, in passing sentence, said that It ap
from the depositions that the prisoner had imposed a
roerigrel lease upon a solicitor, and obtained train
him a loan of 6COI. It was true that he was to pay 20 per
cent. [,xthe loan, and therefore there could not be any
consideration or feeling for a man who so lent his money ;
but that was no answer to the case, and it was a moat
serious offence, and the sentence he should pus was one of
four years' penal servitude.
(Before Mr. Baron Channel].)

Drirer pleaded guilty to stealing a post letter.
Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted, and Mr. Ste'gh defended.
The prisoner, who had borne a very good character, bad
been engaged as an auxiliary to deliver the letters for the
Jennyn-street district, and the letter stolen was a ttst one.
Santee°. deferred.

(111 ILDNILLO

CHESTER MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

CHEST= CUP. About two miles sad a quarter.
Stampedo, Caller On, Fairwater, Chen Antis, Wild Rose,
Royallieu, &Mk, Zodiac, Rhombus, Prince of Denmark,
Zuleika, Wessel, Pilot, Vest c, Tim Whiffler Allez-y-
Rondement, Caractacas, My Mary, Tommy Jones, ,Sillootone,
Sappho, Hadji Stance, Brighton, Jung Frau, and Astarte
are here,.

Peen FORMIT.-01dminder, Brown Dunham, Umpire,
Petra, Black Prime, Walkington, Portland, Joey Jame
Rubicon, Willie Wright, Heyerbeer, Muter Fenton, and
Herculaneum.

ENTRY FOR QUEEN'S PLATE Three mike.
Dusk, &weeder, Lacher* Koutaford, Kill or Care,
Defender, Doncaster, Chance, Marmioe, Royallieu, Coro-
net, and Sweet Jammiee.

Z7O HANDICAP PLATE. Half a mile.
Mousetrap, Mies Jolla, Everhisticg, DMus, Hetty, Lord
of the Manor, Euptian, Lanais, Paradox, Eidol*n,
Leonora, Jacob, BriMart, and David Ana are here.

THBEE•YEAR-OLD BIENNIAL mums.
Pareeeeuae and Hare are hers.

ARRIVE).—Lady Evelyn colt. Yin Lucy, Marmion,
Epicene; and Sybil.

LATEST BETTING.

CHESTER CUP.
11 to 2 apt Fairwatear(t)
6 to 1 Zodiacs (t)
8 to 1 Stampado (t)
8 to 1 Siliceous (t)
10 to 1 °tractions (t)
10 to 1 Badii Stance (t)
100 to 8 Wild Rosa (0)

20 to 1 Collar Ou (ii

THE BODY OP A CHILD POUND IPA RAILWAY-
CABEJAGE.--SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.

INQUEST.-(THD3 DAY.)

This morning, Mr. W. Payne, the coroner, held
an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of • male
child, which was found in • second-class carriage of a train
front Woolwich on its arrival at the South-Pastern Railway
station at London-bridge on Sunday night last.
It appeared from the evidence of William Clark, who lain
the employ of the South Eastern Railway Company, that on
Sunday night, on the arrival of the 7.45 train from Woolwich
at the London-bridge Station, after the passengers had gone
he searched the carnage., as usual, to ascertain if anything
might have accidentally been left behind. In the cameo( his
march be observed under& sett in a second-class • 'black
japanned leather bag, which he took to the Lost petty-
office. The porter in charge there placed his hand on the
bag. when he stated that he could distinctly feel • child's
head, and eventually the bag was opened, when the body
of • fine full-grown male child was discovered. The bag
was a very small one, and considerable forte must have been
used to press the body into it.
Dr. James Palfrey, M.D., of Wellington-street, London-
said he was seat for by the station-master at the
bSon :Eastern Railway Station, and saw the body of a
male child, which bad been taken out of • small bag. He
found a considerable portion of the skin, from the neck to
the back, rubbed off, which was done, he believed, in either
forcing the body in or out of the bag. There was a, large
swelling on the right side of the bead, end the umbilical
cord was not tied, but • piece of white thread was
put loosely round it. There was a quantity of blood
round the lips, the left foot was turned and very
rigid, but the right foot was not so much
so, which led him to believe that the child had been placed
in the bag before or immediately after. death. There was a
considerable quantity of blood on the surface of the body,
and the hair was also matted with blood. He made a post-
mortem examination of the body, and on removing the scalp
he found upwards of two ounces of blood effused from the
rupture of some of the vessels, but he observed no fracture
on the skull. With the exception of intense congestion, the
brain was quite healthy. He opened the chest, and
found the lungs perfectly inflated and in •
healthy condition. As the umbilical cord was
shrivelled up, he believed that the child bad been
limn at least 36 hours before he saw it. The lungs and the
whole of the viscera were quite heel. The heart was very
healthy. In the stomach he found about an ounce of a
watery fluid, but no milk. The effusion of blood under the
scalp might have been the result of external injury, caused
by • blow after birth.
The Coroner—What conclusion have you come to in your
own mind upon the examination you have made? Do you
think this child was wilfully destroyed, taking all the cir-
camstancee under which it was found, or do you think that
its death might have been caused accidentally?
Dr. Palfrey—lt might have been produced by a very bard
labour; but, on the other hand, I am of opinion, from the
condition of the head, that it was the result of violenoe. The
head and face were very much congested, which strengthens
my belief that the child was placed in the beg before death,
the head and face presenting so great a contrast to the ap-
pearance of the other parts of the body.
The coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict, "That the body of a male
child was found in a railway carriage, but how its death was
occasioned there was not sufficient evidence to show."

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON,
CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.

CORONER'S INQUEST ON THE BODIES OF THE

BIJFFERER3.

FAVERSHAM, WIMNTBDAY Mmumm.
This morning, at a quarter past 10 o'clock, Mr.
Thos. Thorpe DeLamm, the coroner for the eastern
division of the county of Kent, and the jury re-
assembled at the Anchor Inn, at Oapringe, about
• mile from Faversham, for the purpose of in-
vestigating the circumstances attending the deaths of Mr.
William Crockford, a merchant, of Chatham, aged 63 years,
James Stratton Plumb, axed 40, • commercial traveller, of
London ; and William Harris, a porter in the store depart-
ment of the company, who died from the effects of the
severe injuries they received by the frightful accident
caused by the 7.10 morning mail train running off the line
and down the °spring° Bank on the morning of Friday last.
The inquiry created the greatest excitement, and • large
number of the most influential residents of the district were
present.
A large number of legal gentlemen were present on behalf
of the company and the friends of the deceased and the
injured persons. The company was also represented by
several directors, and all the principal officers.
The jury having answered to their names, they were re-
sworn as to the death of Mr. Crockford, who expired on
Monday morning after the inquest had been formally opened
on the other two bodies, and evidence of identification was
taken.

The enquiry wuproceeding when the last available train
left Faversham, and owing to the number of witnesses to be
called wee expected to lest several days.

DEATH or THE HON. FRANCIS J. R. VILLIERS.
—We have to announce the death of the Hon. Francis Vit.
lien, intelligence of whose decease has been received by the
Countess (Dowager) of jersey by telegraph. We are in-
formed the deceased gentleman died at the close of the past
week, in Spain, in which country he bad for the last few
years lived in retirement. The Hon. F. Villiers was the
youngest of the four sons of George fifth Earl of Jersey.
He, after leaving Eton, entered the army, the 23rd (Royal
Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment, in August, 1837, and obtained
the rank in 1843. He was for some time iude-de-camp to
General Sir Colin Campbell, Governor and Commander-in.
Chief of Ceylon, and afterwards, in 184:1, he proceeded to
Madras to relieve Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, K.H., 14th
Dragoons, as military secretary to the then Governor, the
late Lord Elphinstone. The deceased gentleman, who was
in his 43rd year, represented Rochester in the House of
Commons from July, 1852, to February, 1856, In conse-
quence of his unfortunate speculations on the turf he was
involved in inextricable embarrassments, which led to the
sad necessity of self-expatriation.
HEALTH OP LONDON.—The Registrar-General's
return states that the deaths in London in the week that
ended on Saturday were 1,249; they were less than they
had been in many previous weeks. The average number of
deaths as derived from the returns of corresponding weeks
in ten previous years (corrected) is 1,224. The mortality,
therefore, still exhibits an excess over the ntimated amount ;
but in the present instance the excess is not considerable.
The births in the week exceeded the deaths registered in the
same time by 697. The fatal cases of scarlatina declined
from 53 in the previous week to 39 last week ; while those of
measles rose from 28 to 41. The latter disease found two-
thirds of its victims in the east district'. chiefly Spitelfields,
St. George-in.the-East, Mile-end Old-town, Bow, and
Poplar. But scarlatina prevailed for the most part in the
mouth districts ; and its chief seat continues to be the sub-
districts of Lambeth Church, in the second of which there
were 7 deaths last week. These 7 deaths, added to those of
five previous weeks, give a total number of 70 in that por-
tion of the Lambeth district. Seventeeen deaths from
typhus occurred In the London Fever Hospital. Four from
typhus in the Marylebone Workhouse. The total number
returned by the London districts as having been caused by
this disease in the last week is 89. Eighteen deaths were
from diphtheria. Eight children died from syphilitic' dis-
ease. Seven nonagenarians were returned, the oldest of
whom, a widow, had attained the age of 97 years. Last
week the births of 1,015 boys and All girls, in all 1,946
children, were registered in London. In the ten corn-
spoading weeks of the years 1652-61 the average number
(corrected) was 1,861.
A MODEL LANDLORD.—The Duke of Devonshire
has made a timely reduction of rent to all holders of lead
on his Irish estate (who have not already received an abate-
ment) on the half-year's relit due the 29th of September
lest, equal to 201. per cent. on the year, where the annual
rest does not amount to :001., and. ■ reduction of 15 per
eeaL to holders whose rents amount to and exceed 1001. per
'Datum. The reduction is as timely as it is gratefully re-,
wired by the tessatry.—Dablin Estaisp