The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-05 00:00:00

THE "SOUTHERNER" IN IRELAND.

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An audacious swindle has just come to light in
Cork. A short time ago a distinguished traveller appeared
in the city of Limerick, who called himself Captain Miller,
of New Orleans. He was about 32 years of age, this, and
of a sallow complexion. He had large plantations in the
South, and he was of count+ an enthusiastic Confederate.
He had himself fought under Beauregard, and he showed
some wounds that he received while fighting against the
Northerners, of whom ha spoke with the greatest contempt.
He had a vessel in the Shannon. he said, with which he
intended to rue the blockade, and he was negotiating
the purchase of others for the same purpose. Among
those who were specially interested in the distinguished
grainier was Mr. Michael O'Loughlin, who met him at
Moores Hotel, and became the object of hie particular re-
gard. He was so well pleased with Mr. O'Loughlin's Sou-
thern sympathies and talents for business that he engaged
hint as his manager, and agreed to take him out with hint
to New Orleans at a salary of 300 dollars, or 751. a month.
Mr. O'Loughlin was deligh.ed with this splendid offer,
and charmed with the chivalrous bearing and generous
spirit
chased of his employer. He sold all he had, par-
an outfit, and prepared to emu the Atlan-
tic. On Thursday last Captain Miller and his manager
arrived in Cork, and put up at the Victoria Hotel, both oc-
cupying the same room with two beds. As their stay in
Cork was to be short, the captain advised his companion to
leave his luggage at the railway terminus, taking the pre-
caution to have itlabelled in his own name. The conversa-
tion turned upon the serious business in which he was en-
gaged on the part of the Southern Confederation. He was
to take out some twenty or thirty. tons of gunpowder, and
several thousand stand of arms, tncluding as many Arm-
strong guns as he could manage to get. In the meantime
he lived at the hotel in a style befitting a man of such
property and engaged in such important transactions.
Everything went on smoothly till Tuesday. On that
morning O'Loughlin left the room to take a bath.
When he returned he found that the captain bad
vanished, having taken with him his manager's pane,
watch, and clothes, all but a great coat. Information was
immediately given to the police, and the tele,-ni. ph was put
in motion. O'Loughlin's luggage had gone from the rail-
way station, and some vehicle must have been employed to
take it. Inquiries were set on foot among the cabmen, arid
with the aid of one of them the fugitive was discovered in
a house in the town. He was arrested, and will be brought
up at the police-office. Notwithstanding the audacity
with which he carried on his swindling operation', it is
said that the moment he saw the police-constable he fainted.
It appears ttat he never was in New Orleans, though he
gave a graphic account of his plantations in that quarter.

THE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT REID'. BREWERY.—
Yesterday morning an inquiry took place before Dr.
Lankester, the coroner, at the Red Lion Tavern, Gray's
Inn-lane, touching the death of Robert Staines, a stoker,
employed in the brewery of Messrs. Reid and Co., Liquor-
pond-street. The wife of deceased, having identified the
body, stated that he left Lis home to go to work, in his
usual state of health, early on Monday morning, and had
not been seen alive since. Andrew iiiiham a stage-man
at the brewery, deposed that on Wedni;eday morning,
about eleven o'clock, he was mashing, and the " liquor"
(brewer's term for water), which was charged up with
lime in one of the mash tuna, appeared to him to look very
bad. In consequence, be took a long rake, and whilst raking
round he suddenly came upon something which, by a violent
effort, he managed to lift sufficiently to the surface, and
discovered that it was the body of deceased. Mr. Smith,i
assistant to the chief brewer, explained that there were
four mash tuns, one of which only was in use at this time
of year. The other three were kept filled with water charged
with lime for cleansing, and not used in any way for making
beer or ale. He thought it probable that deceased, in
reaching over to wash his hands, accidentally fell in and
was drowned. An open verdict of "Found drowned" was
returned.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY.—EarIy on Wednesday
morning the trunk of a man was discovered in the " grip,"
and the head on the other side of the rail of the down line
of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on Eamont viaduct,
Yanworth, near Penrith. The arms of the deceased were
folded, end his body lay in such a position as to favour the
conclusion that death by decapitation was premeditated, and
was not an accident. The body was conveyed to the Castle
Inn, Penrith, and it was discovered that the deceased was
Joseph Richardson, late a railway servant on the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway, a steady man, aged 40, but who unfor-
tunately made so serious a mistake in sigosllinga ballast train
that it was found necessary to dismias hint. It is believed
that this occurrence has preyed upon his mind, and that he
sought suicide in the manner detailed ; this opinion appears
to be supported by the fact that the deceased answered the
description of a man who • few weeks back was found lying
across the down line, on the same railway, at Peurith, when
he was matched off the raga a few moments before the mail
train passed over the spot where his neck was lying. The
man found on the occasion jest referred to was apparently
in a state of stupor; but when the person who found him
came back to the spot to which he had dragged him, while
he looked after the mailbsp for Penrith, he had walked off
across the fields without thanking his deliverer or giving
any account of himself.

MR. Z. A. LEAMAN, M.P., ON THE HOUSE OF

camoirs.

In replying to the toast of the " House of Com-
mons," at a banquet given to the Mayor of Wakefield on
Wednesday evening, Mr. E. A. Latham, M.P., sail ho
ought to assume somewhat of the tone of en apologist.
There might be times when the House of COCODIO4I might
come proudly and boldly before the country, consdou. that
it had discharged with feeders honesty all its high and
responsible functions, conscious that it had honourably re-
preeented the best interests and highest aspirations of the
noblest people on the face of the earth, that it had by
wise and beneficial legislation enhanced that people's
prosperity, and therefore might feel that io receiving the
admiration, and respect and thanks of that people it war
but receiving that which wee naturally and deservedly its due.
Upon such occasions as these a member of that house, how-
ever much be might personally feel that respect and those
thanks, yet included for • time in the great reputation of
that assembly, he might stand op and with • certain ease
and confidence respond to a toast of this description. He
wished it was his fortunate lot so to stand up and so to
respond ; but he felt that were he to do so he should see a
smile upon the face of all around him. It would be simply
ridiculous upon his part to assume for that British parlia-
ment the existence of virtues to which it did not appear to
aspire; but whilst they deplored and deprecated that
state of things let them not forget the moue which had
produced it. For the merits of the House of Commons -
and he spoke DOW simply as a burgess—the members were
not alone responsible ; if they were not such as they wished
them to be, they most remember that they were precisely
the choice of the people, and that if apathy, and lavishness,
and extravagance existed, it was the result of the people's
determination. He did not wish upon a festive occasion
like the present to indulge in somewhat gloomy reflections,
and he must say that he was not one of those who see in
the Home of Commons much cause of despair. A man
who looked forward must now and thou look backward ;
and one who did so would find that it was just those pe-
riods in which the constitution the moat rapidly improved
and the most vigorously flourished which were invariably
preceded by periods of unaccountable and unnatural quies-
cence. It wasjuet one of those periods in which it was
their lot to struggle. They had lived and learned. They
had seen many of those great questions to which as poli-
ticians they were warmly attached, go steadily
backwards under the fatal auspices of • so-called
liberal administration. They had lived to see reforms--
aod he made no apology in an assemblage of re-
formers for naming the subject—of the greatest and most
urgent need. flouted and tabooed by the members of the
liberal party—(hear, bear)--and what was the greatest hit-
' radiation of all—be might say unnatural humiliation—they
had lived to see the solemn pledges of their public men as-
sume something of a character of the public men of Austria
and Frans--a standing jest. Well, perhaps be might have
read history to very little purpose, and he might have
studied the characters of those around biro incorrectly, but
unless he was greatly mistaken in what he had noticed and
studied, they would live to see those questions of reform
amtime gigantic proportions, they would live Was that •
reform was no longer • question of party, but of necessity ;
they would live to see • glorious and imperishable chapter
added to the history of British freedom. The hon. gentle-
man returned his warmest thanks to Mr. Tow, by whose
kindness, he remarked, he was enabled to situ a member of
the House of Commons.

IMPORTANT MEETINGS OP PLOCEMASTERS
AT WARMINSTER AND SALISBURY.

A very large and influential meeting of the prin-
cipal flockmasten in South Wilts was held at Warnmister
on Saturday List, for the purpose of heanug from Professor
Simonds (who bad been requested to attend, in his official
capacity in connexion with the Royal Agricultural Society,
by Mr. Pain, • member of the council of that society), •
distinct statement of the nature of the disease which has so
unaccountably shown Reel( in several flocks in the neigh-
bourhood of Devine, and the best mere. to be adopted to
prevent its extension and lemon it. fatality.
Mr. F. Lan (of Salford) having been requested to take
the chair, the Rev. Prebendary Fan addressed the meeting
at some length, arid in order to bring the matter emeti-
cally home to the comprehension of all who were present,
put • series of questions to Professor Simonds, which he re-
quested that gentleman to answer consecutively, without in-
terruption. This the professor did, with a clearness and dis.
Widnes. which showed • thorough knowledge of the disease
from its origin through all its various stages. One question in
particular was—what means the professor would recommend
flockmasters to adopt to secure them against theprohabilityot
heavy losers? To which Mr. Simonds replied that he would
advise all flockmaateea to sell at home, where they could do
so, rather than take their sheep to fairs ; but if they did
take their sheep to fairs, and could obtain a fair price for
them there, he would advise them by all means not to
bring them back. In the case, however, of sheep returning
home from • fan, he recommended that they should be put
into quarantine for a fortnight or three weeks ; cud in the
event of an outbreak of the disease, immediate recourse
should be had to inoculation of all the flock in which the
affection showed itself.
The principal object of the meeting was to allay any im-
pressioo which have got abroad that the flocks in South
Wilts were affected with the disease ; and for this
Professor Simouds wss requested to inepect all the CV:
and around the neighbourhood of Allington (near Salisbury),
and report the result of his inspection at another meeting
to be held at Salisbury on Tuesday.
Professor Simonds promised to do so ; and another large
meeting was accordingly held in Salisbury on Tuesday, over
which Mr. F. Long again presided. At this meeting Professor
Simonds entered at considerable length into • description of
the first symptom of the disease, its progress, and the course
to be adopted to arrest it, which was listened to with marked
attention. He then stated that he had inspected all the
large flocks in the neighbourhood, and that he was prepared
to certify that they were in immediate health and quite
free from smallpox or any other infectious disease. He
added that he was ready, and would most willingly give
every assistance to any, veterinary surgeon who wished it,
with the view of showing the manner in which inoculation
should be effected and the general treatment of animals
attacked with small-pox.
The disease in this neighbourhood (of Devizes) has made
no progress since our last. Of the 400 sheep in Mr. Har-
ding's flock at Etchilhampton 92 have proved to have taken
the disease caturslly, and of these 10 have died, and several
more are likely to follow. Of the 318 which took the disease
by inoculation, not one has yet been lost, and there appears
no immediate prospect of death &moo; any of them. The same
results have manifested themselves in other flocks in which
the disease exists. in fact, every can shows more and
more forcibly the necessity for mourn to inoculation the
moment the disease appears in • flock, as the sorest means
of mitigating the severity of the attack, and thereby of
lessening, if not of entirely preventing, mortality.
We may mention that Mr. John (lunges, a professor at
the New Edinburgh Veterinary College, has arrived in
Devizes, with the view, it is stated, of obtaining an inepee-
tion of the different flocks supposed to be diseased, and of re-
porting the reemltof his inspection to got ern men L. Under what
authority Mr. Gamine undertakes this office we are unable to
say, but we muchdoubt whetherthe farniersof theneighbonr-
hood will choose to have their flocks overhauled for such a
n-
Mr. Gamgee, we believe, obtained an appointment
the medical department of the Privy Council some
time since (when so much stir was made by Dr. Letheby
about the influence of food upon the health of the country),
to inquire into the sanitary condition of animals intended to
be brought into consumption ; but that appointment gives
him no authority to inquire into the condition of the Llds
of flockmasters.—Derims Ga:ette.

DEATH OF MR. HEARD, EC-M.P.—The e.ri;
Examiner announces the decease of Mr. Jobs Isaac Heard,
who for many years held a prominent position in the county
of Cork. Mr. Heard was a man of large property in the
town of Kinsale, and of great influence in the locality.
During the edit, portion of his career he was an ardent
politician on the whig side, and always took a leading part
in the elections for the borough of Kirundi,. He was him-
self elected member without opposition on the retirement
of Sir Benjamin Hawes. At the last general election he
resigned the seat, which was occupied by Sir John Arnott.
Though be has occasionally between that period and his
death taken some part in local matters, be has not Appeared
prominently in public affairs.
NARROW EI4I'APF..--011 the evening of the Ist
instant, Mina Alice Bass, second daughter of Mr. Bass, M.P.,
wbo is residing at Tuleken, Craigellechie, N. 8.. hal •
narrow escape. She was chitin Mrs. Bolden, when the
breechtand broke ; the horse ran away, kicked and plunged.
Miss Alice Baas jumped out to avoid a precipice, and was
dragged by her dress for some distance. Fortuostely the
horse was stopped, or the coosequeuces might have been
serious. She happily escaped with some severe bruises and
ecmtchea.—Derby Rrporfer.
As Accommemen THlEF.—Yesterday aftvro,..ll
information was circulated to the various police 'talkie, that
• robbery had been committed by • well-dressed man. sir
called at the residence of Mr. George Barham, St. blielaiel r.
place, Brompton, and, representing himself as a well-known
comedian, in search of an old relative, who formerly was a
tenant of Mr. Barham's, he was kindly received and eater.
Mined. His ooeversational powers engrossed the attentive
of all present, End when he was about to leave he received
• pressing invitation to call again. Before his departure.
however, under some pretence he left the parlour and
quietly entered an apartment adjoining, from • drawer is
which he stole a considerable sum of money and a quantity
of jewellery. The loss was sot discovered for some um°
after the delinquent had disappeared.
CHARGE or FORGERY AGAINST A CLRROVNICN.--
At the poliosatistion, Nottingham. yesterday, the Re.
Thomas Cartwright, 8.A., one of the curates of St. Man's
Church, was charged on remand with forging • bill
exchange for 2W. The mosey was alleged to have been foe
literary servioes in connection with • periodical. of which
Mr. Peter Drummond, of Stirling, was the publisher, sal
Mr. Drummood's name was forged ea the acceptor. The
bill was uttered by the prisoner to Mr. H. Hodstori!, a
bill discounter, of Nottingham. The ally witness examined
yesterday was Mr. Drummond, who said the signature via
not in his handwriting, and that be bed not authorid any
one to affix his name to the bill. The prisoner, who wag
greatly affected at his position, was committed for ti nu at
the next anises, bail being refused.

Mr. Henry—There is no occasion for
Wallace—There is occasion, sir, when a man says such
things. I wonder how he can stand in that boz sod take
his oath upon his Bible to what he knows to be false.
Mr. Henry—You will have the opportunity of taking the
opinion of a jury whether be is speaking the truth.
Wallace—l hope you will settle the case here, sir.
I have not denied a word of what Ackrill says, and this
man's evidence has nothing to de with the case. But I could
prove that man a liar. I could take his coat away, and I
would only for injuring myself. I never saw the Exhibi-
tion in my existence. I've never seen the budding since it
has been a building.
Mr. Henry—You can offer any evidence you please be-
lore the jury.
All the prisoners besought Mr. Henry to deal sum-
marily, but
Mr. Henry refused, and committed them for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ROBBIJIY BY A SHAM CABMAN.

Ofonge Allen was charged with the following robbery :
Charlotte Loader, a young woman living in Eueter.street,
Lisson-grove, said that on the morning of Wedoesday last,
about one o'clock, sbe saw the prisoner standing by a cab
in the Haymarket, and believing him to be the cabman, she
got into the cab with a friend, and handed him a half sove-
reign to take the fare. He walked away with the half
sovereign, and went into a public-house and never re-
turned. Shortly after the real cabman ceme out of the
public-house sod told her and her friend to get out of the
cab. This morning she saw the prisoner standing near the
same public-home, and she gave him in charge.
Mary Burkland, a friend of the prosecutrix, confirmed
her, both stating they were positive the prisoner was the
man.

Morridi Pike, 51 V, said, on taking prisoner into custody
he said he knew nothing of the half-sovereign.
Prisoner said he knew no more of the coin than the book
on the table.

Inspector Charles Bowles said that at half-past one in the
morning of Wednesday List the two females spoke to him,
and said they had given the prisoner half a sovereign. A
search was made for the prisoner, but he could not be found,
although on other mornings he was there until 4 o'clook
assisting cabmen.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

Caine, Overstone, Gipsy Girl, Royal Stag, Lufra, Mar-
mion, A voudaie, Lennet, Golddust, Zara, Cabin, Chaff,
Hilly Grove. Mountain Doe, Moose. Tourist, First At-
tempt, Cobbler. Idea, Trumps, f by Kingston—Fontenoy,
Golden Drop, Fitz Ruyter, and Barrister are here.
STAND PLATE. Three-quarters of a mile.
Sherbert's, Fitz-Avon, Doncaster, Birdhill, Nativity,
Prophet, Astarte, Grey Hen c, Tarragona, Peignoir, David
Ann. Gazelle, Hopeful Duchess, Margery, Lord Stanley,
lisliverne, Plum, Strawberry Leaf, Repose, Flash-in-the
Pan, Prince Frederick, and Consternation are here.
MEMBERS' PLATE. One mile and a quarter.
Sherwood, Shepherdess, Turn of Luck, Soothsayer,
Saracen, Prince Frederick, Violet, and l'ot l'ouri are here.
GOLD CUP. Two miles and a quarter.
Bolero, Lord Stanley, Atherstone, Doncaster, Malek,
and Crusade are here.