The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.

Sis.,—Allowineic send an extract from a
private letter from a gentleman resident on the coat of
Somersetstire, the truth of whose assertions may be en-
tirely relied upon, and is on a subject of national import.
secs. I trust you will think it worthy of publication in
your paper.
"The Channel used to be fall of herrings for many miles.
Every cottager within reach of the sea bad one, or two, or
three note, and could take with them as many herrings as
two men could carry away ; bat all this was at once put •
stop to by the petty of fishermen at the little fishing town
of Lynmotith discovering the spawning bed, which they
have ever since, and still continue to draw their nets over
' in the months of .ianuar►, February, and March, whilst
the herrings are in the act of spawning, filling the whole ma
and their hosts over shoe tops with the spawn which they
break up from the bottom, and which is running out of the
herrings as they lie in the brat, to the almost total destruc-
tion of the herrings, and which are of very little value
themselves, being poor, and most of them shotten, as the
fishermen call those th►t have lost their roe. This is
absolutely a Debora' loss, and it would be an admirable
thing if the gentlemen could be persuaded to put a stop to
this wanton destruction ; we should then soon have the
Channel full of them again, though I have every ceases to
believe it would not be accomplished without the interven-
tion of the government., and constant watching day and
night, and during the darkest nights most strictly, so deter-
minedly do they pursue this destructive practice."—l am,
S.
Nov. 12.

HEALTH OF LONDON. —I t appears that the re-.
turns of London for the week that ended last Saturday
exhibit a great increase iu the mortality. The deaths,
which had been in the two previous weeks 1,409 and 1,454,
rose last week to 1,:a6. The deaths of young persona, iris.,
under 20 years of age, rose from less than 8)0 to 877 ; and
those of persons (a) years old and upwards rose from leas
than 230 to 280. The avenge number of deaths for the
f,,rty.tifth week of teo previous years, 1854 —O3. is, with •
correction for increase of population, 1.279. The actual
number is, therefore, in excess of the estimated number by
.ul7 deaths. Bronchitis and pneumonia have chic*, cootn-
huted to the sudden likens.e on the assaults of former weeks.
The former disease was fatal in 204 macs (the corrected
average being' only 122) ; the latter in la:, cases
against au average of 98. Phthiais was less
fatal in the week then either of those diseases, and
did not exhibit a similar increase. The deaths hom it were
140. Smallpox was returned in 14 eases, acarlstina in 81,
diphtheria in 15, typhus in 78. Twelve deaths from scoria-
tins/ occurred in Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich.
The daughter of • watch.6oisher, aged 11 years, died on the
6th inst. at SS, Bath-street, City.road, of "haemorrhage from
typhoid fever accelerated by exposure, want of the neces-
saries of life, and of proper readied &Steadman." (Inquest.)
And • female, a bootbinder, aged 48 years, died on the 3lot
alt. at 5, Newctreet, Aldgete, from "pleurisy, accelerated
by wain of noorishmoot." Ihiquest.) A boy died from the
late of • dog. Last week the births of 1,003 boys and 991
girls, in 1111,994 children, were registered ip Loudon. In the
toe oorreepoodiog weeks of the yam 1854.63 the avenge
camber (ccarected) was 1,917.

It is announced that a great religious fete will
take place at Avignon on the eve of the anniver-
sary of the Immaculate Conception. The Pope
has authorised the translation from Rome to
Avignon of the remains of St. Felicia, the martyr.
Several bishops are to attend. On this occasion
Dr. Pamard, the mayor, who lately congratulated
the public in his own journal on the "excellent
relations which existed between the chief magis-
trate of the town and the Emperor," may be
expected likewise to patronise the Pope.
The Bourse has again been extremely heavy. The
fall in the Rente to-day, coming on the heels of
that of yesterday, is serious. The turning figure
of 65fr. has been lost, the latest quotation for
money being 64fr. 90c., with a fall of 15c. For
account the fall was 10c.. the last price being War.
Mobilier fell Mr. In railways little business was
done. A failure of an important house was spoken
of-7,000,000 of franca being mentioned as the
amount of its liabilities.

The Epoca says :—" According to news which we
have received from Loudon. it is certain that a sum of 100
millions real has been obtained in that city to meet the ne-
cessities of the ffPanish Treasury. A like sum has been
offered by several Pease►h capitalists."

The well-known French writer, M. Feria, is
.boat to estabrith a sew looms!, to be Celled r.deatir, the
.fiat numbeg of which will appear, it is expected, an the
15th of next month.

THZ CONTEDZILATE Caursza SHE7IAYDOAII (LATE
Srx limo).—We received a letter yesterday front part of
the crew of the Sea King, who returned to England in the
African steamer Calabar. The men state that the Sea King
is now called the Shenandoah, and that Captain Semmes
was pointed out to them nether captain of the vessel. They
state also that the Sea King hoisted the Confederate flag,
and that one waa offered 184 per mouth to join the ship.
After making inquiries we find that the 3G men who re-
turned in the Orbiter hold discharges marked V. O. (very
good). Many of the man are members of the Total Absti-
nence Society, and therefore the charges of drunkenness
cannot apply to them. We understand several of the crew
•of the Laurel were dieekanced for intemperance ; bat we
believe the crew of the Sea King behaved themselves cre-
ditably in every respect. The men who have returned have
been well treated, sad have been recompensed for their see-
vises. The whole of the 36 men who returned in the
Calabar did not go out in the Laurel, but shipped on board
the Sea King hem Lonclon.—Lirerpool paper.
THE Rev. NEWNAN HALL ON THE Awweiciw
WA R. —A lecture was delivered on Monday evening Di the
Surrey Chapel before about two thousand working men and
others on the present aspects of the American war. The
rev. gentleman droved that the triomph ci the South
would be the perpetuation of slavery, sad its indefinite
extension west of the Misimippi, while that of the North
would bring universal freedom to white end black. He
concluded :—Let as then prey for peace—not a peace which,
breed on wren!, would 'extendy long enough to enable both
parties to equip themselves for the renewal ci the strife on
• still deadlier wale,buta peace which, being righteous, shall
be permanent too. Let us hope that a brighter day will
soon dawn ,when America, really united and free, because
united in the maintenance of freedom for all, shall again
take her place in the front ranks of progree, and when, all
mean rivalries and jealousies buried, that country sad this
shall only vie with each other which *ball best promote the
glory of the universal Father, in developing His gifts, sod
diffusing light, Litany, Lid happinem throughout the
world. _ . _

WIIIJAMS' LIBRARY.—At the Lord Mayor's
Court yesterday, before the Recorder and a special jury, the
cue of the trustees of Dr. Williams' Library and the
Metropolitan Railway Company was heard, and oerupied
several hours. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C. appeared in su of
the claim, and Mr. Lloyd, with whom wee Mr. Hopport llway,
for the company. The premises were near to Whiteevose-
street Prison, and were required by tie Metropolitan Rail-
way Company for their extended live from Farringdoa-
road. Several witnesses were called for the claimants.
The sum in dispute was a large amount. After a lengthened
investigation the jury assessed the amount of compensation
at 10,200/.
"THE SOCIAL EN-IL" IN Livitaroor.—There are
in Liverpool, at present, 777 reputed brothels, 164 of which
are kept by men and 613 by women ; 61 "houses of ac-
eonimcdatioe," end 68 prostitutes' lodging•housts, which are
not brothels. The member of women known se prostitutes
is 2.343, of which number 27 are under 16 years of age ; and
there are 132 men living in brothels. Daring the last
eight year. the number of houses and women of ill-fame
he. largely increased. The total number of prostitutes in
custody during the year was 1,479; and the number of
apprehensions of prostitutes was 2,905. Of these 1,180
were summarily convicted for disorderly deduct ; 250 pros-
titutes were proceeded against by indictment for various
offences ; and 2,580 were summarily convicted foe various
cerLAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONS OP ENGLAND.-
The following gentlemen, having undergone the neosesary
exatniestioes for the diploma, were admitted members of
the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the
15th inst., viz.:—Mean. John Lowe Price, Wrexham ;
Sedley Wolfenta London,Plymouth • Alfred
Square Cooke, Olotmester, and John Aatley Bloom, Rua.
sell-square (students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital);
George Edmund Legge Pane, L.S.A., Regent-street,
Westminster; Frederick Pooley Rehm N.B. University
Loudoo, Huntingdon, and Dudley Howe Ryder,
Greenwich(of the Westminster Hospital) ; Philip Burnard
Chenery Ayres, Bedford ; George Jackson, Plymouth; and
Archibald Henry Foley Cameron, Edinburgh (of University
College Hospital) ; Edward Bryan, L.S.A., Frisby-on-the
Wreake, Leicestershire ; Albert Weymouth. her Majesty's
Dockyard, Deptford, sod William Follett Montague Laid-
man, Exeter (of the Middlesex Hospital) ; Joseph GrOve.,
L.S.A. Newport, Isle of Wight, sod Richard Hake Bush,
York-terrace, Regent's-pork (of Klog's College) ; John El-
liot, Stratford, Eaux (London Hospital); Charles Edward
Saunders, Clapham (of St. Thomas's Hospital; James Wm.
Smith, Whitby (Gm's); Thome/ Wirnpeeny Omen, M.D.
Glasgow, and Itawteustell, Lascadive ; Thomas
Davies, Abergels. North Wales; David Wright, Edinburgh;
Daniel Hudson, Rocester. Staffordshire; and Albert John
Clapp, M.D. Quest'. University, Ireland, Cork.

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Your report in today's paper of the execution of Franz
Muller is entirely correct, with the one exception that the
unhappy man declared he was Innocent not while, but before,
the Seersiniwit was being administered to him. Soon after
entering his cell on the leak morning I asked Muller again
whether he was guilty of this murder. He denied it. I
then raid, " Muller, the moments are precious ; we must
turn oar minds wholly to God ; I shall question you no
more about this, but my last words to you will be, ' Are
you Innocent" He remained silent for a minute or two,
but presently exclaimed, his eyes full of tears, and duping
his arms round my neck, " Do not forsake me ; stay with
me to the last." I waa so struck with this that I consulted
with Mr, Jonas, the governor, whether the final question
should be put in the pinioning-room or on the scaffold. We
decided for the latter.
The manner in which this crime was committed will never
be known. My own firm conviction, derived from the client
punnet intercourse with the prisoner, is that murder was
not premeditated ; but that Muller, in want of money, and
yielding to a sudden temptation, attacked his victim for the
sake of robbery, sad finished, in the despair of the moment,
by killing him either with his own hands, or causing
his fall from the railway carriage. I recollect par-
tinier?, on one ocesuon, when I represented to him
the crime as likely to have taken place in this way, be an-
swered not, but gazed at me intently, and impressed me at
the time with the belief of the correctuns of my supposi-
tion. I have generally observed that Muller was most
sanest in protesting his innocence when directly charged
with murder. Statements such as never having been in •
North London Railway train he made only in answer to
pointed questions, and, it seems, in order not to contradict
previous similar assertion..
His manuer—simple, gentle, and apparently open and
truthful—was such as many to deceive even experienced
observers, and the wonderful self.ponession of this most
remarkable character was never more strikingly manifested
then by his fencing with words, the rope round his neck and
the white cap over his face, when about to confess his guilt
at the very last moment.
His lasi two hours were all prone and prayer. He re.
posted what he had said before, " If I had died six months
ago I should have been lost, but now I entirely rely on
God's mercy ; I have done with the world and am ready to
leave it." He stated all recent events had at times ap-
peared to him like • vision or a dream, adding that
he bad paned in solitude through many terrible hours
since his arrest in America. He was fell of tontines
and resignation, forgave freely all his enemies, re-
'quested me to write to his father that he should die •
happy and repentant man, and spoke in terms of affection
and gratitude of the prison officials, particularly of the Rev.
Mr. Davis and Mr. Jonas, the governor. And I desire to
confirm his sentiments towards all the OffiCOTI of the prison,
and cannot sufficiently express my admiration of the firm-
ness, combined with touching kindness and tenderness of
heart, with which Mr. Jonas fulfilled his most trying func-
tions. It le • blessing indeed to have such officers is smolt a
Fins,
In oonclusioo, I feel constrained respectfully to call the
attention of the proper authorities to what seems to me a
cruel and crying evil in Newest& Again sod again on
Monday morning in those last solemn moments our prayers
wen interrupted by the savage yells of the multitude
assembled to witness the execution. Cannot the condemned
cells be placid in a position where the noise of hammering
and tke shouts of the mob do not reach the ears of the
mineable culprit ?
I have the LOOM' to be, sir, your mad obedient servant,
Loin CAPPEL, D.D.,
Minister of the German Lutheran Church,
Alin-street, Goodman's-fields.
4, Primrose-hill-road, Nov. 15.

BELFAST RIOTS.

THE BELFAST SPECIAL COMMISSION.

BELFAST, TeL4DAS EvIMOG.

To-day Mr. Orme was re-examined by the com-
missioners on some points referred to in his evidence of the
previous day. Head-constable Rankin and Constable Can-
ning were examined as to the nature of the outrages com-
mitted on the Oth and 9ch of August The sexton of Friars
Bash and hie son gave evidence on the same sub-
ject, and deposed to the attack on the catholic cemetery,
and the efforts to obtain admittance to it for the purpose Of
burying O'Connell's effigy. Some of the mill workers'
girls, who were beaten, were also examined, and stated that
when they appealed to the local police for protection, they
were laughed a► and insulted. Captain Ramsbottom and
Mr. M'Oarthy, 5.1., certified to the general character of the
riots, and the me cures taken for their repression. On the
subject of O'Connell'a funeral, the letter gentleman dis-
tinctly stated that it was worse than imprudent to have
allowed ends a procession to proceed at such a time through
the most public thoroughfares of the town. He also said
that the authorities had available on this occasion a sufficient
foray to do anything they plowed with all the stokes corn.
bind.

NEW GIMERAL Owns IN BANKREPTCY.—The
following new order ham been made :—" Friday, Nov. 11.
—Prom and after theist 'day of LAWerobet next, numbers
47 and 51 at the eels sad orders made is pursuance of the
Bankrupt Law Cossolidatine Act, 1519, and dated the 111th
day of October, 1862, shall be, and the same are hereby re-
winded, and it is ordered es follows :-1. That thence-
forth no messenger or usher if the Court of Bankruptcy In
London, or of say DUSAN Mart of Baakreptcy, or soy
dark or other pence esardoped la say department of siting
of such courts, shall make say office *spy or other copy
of any petition, affidavit, order or other document or pro-
ceeding filed in inch courts, or of any bill of costa left
with the meter or with any segistrar thereof for taxation.
2. That In the ono* in London all office copier of every 'soh
petition, affidavit, order, document, or proceeding afore-
said, and of every each bill of wets eforesaid, shall be made
ander the direction and enutrol of the chief registrar
of the court, sad that is the distriet courts all such aloe
copies shall be made under the dinctioa and control of the
respective registries thereof, and no office copy whatever
shall be made or &Leered out, except on a written requisi-
tion by the solicitor or party requiring the Name, addressed
to such chief registrar or other resilient aforesaid. 3. That
all office copies shall be made by such person as the chief
registrar or other registrar ',world shall appoint, and shall,
except as to figures, be fairly written at length, and shall be
sealed with the seal of the court, and delivered out by the
person so appointed, without any unnecessary delay, and in
the order in which they shall have been bespoken, sad not
more than three halfpence per folio of 110 words shall be
charged or paid for say Ake copy so made and delivered
out. 4. That no fee shall lie allowed for attending to be-
speak office copies, or for attending to receive the mane.— '
Weirrauar, C.; W. S. Amos, T. B. H. AnaAmtu."

Dgapus.&TE ATTEMPT AT MURDER. —Oll Satur-
day night, John Potter, a groom, residing at Thrieptone, in
Leicestershire, attempted to warder Sarah Ann North,
in the Market-plan of Whitwick. It appears that Potter
had kept company with North for several years. During
this time be had been very unsteady, and often bad struck
and shamefully treated the guL About twelve months
ago she affiliated a child to Potter, who neglected to pay
the allowance granted by the magistrate. On Thursday
North went to Ashby-de-le Zonch to take out a warrant
against Potter for anears of payment ; but being too late,
did Dot obtain Os*. Potter heard of this, and on Saturday
night came up to the girl and said, " This is a nice thing
for you to tail a warrant &genet me after we have kept
company so long." She replied, "I have not taken out •
warrant against you ; and if I had done so it would not be
my fault. I caul afford to keep your child, and my father
and mother won't." Potter then wanted North to take •
walk down • dark lane leading out of the main street, but
she refused. lie saki, " Well, it you don't have me, you
shan't have anybody else." He then went to borrow •
razor of the woman who kept the tollgate. Being re-
fused one, he went into a barber's shop, and haring laid
hold of a moor, ma out of the shop with it. North, in
company with • female (need, was looking in the window
of a doper's shop in the Market-place, when Potter
stepped babied her pat his arm round her head, polled
it hack, sad drew tie user Brut over brachia, Ono over her
throat. North rasesed herself from his grasp, her kauckke
bang cat by the essor. Potter ma away. He called at the
tollgate, sod told the weans be "bed ben doing something
to Sal." and if 'aquaria were made about him, she was not
to ray which way be bad gotta When captured at Thing-
does, he said, " Well, if I banal dope for her now, I will
de." The wooed received by the yams women is not likely
to prove fatal.
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