The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.

" number of labourers at 2s. 6d. per day." in
a subsequent part of his letter the Admiral also ex-
presses his belief th►t " the convicts are kept more
" constantly at work, and that they work harder
" than an equal number of labourers." Of course
it may be said that the estimates above quoted are,
from the very nature of the case, open to grave
suspicion of inaccuracy. Where the employer and the
employed represent substantially the same interest,
it is obviously impossible to obtain • guarantee for
perfect accuracy in the statement of account be-
tween them. The difficulty, in fact, is something
of the kind which • man would encounter if he
attempted to obtain • precise estimate of the
services which his left hand renders to his right.
But making all due allowance for the irresponsible
character of the calculations upon which these esti-
mates are based, it is still fair to presume that within
certain limits they are substantially correct. If so,
they certainly present an encouraging picture of the
advantages which may be derived from a judicious
employment of convict labour under the present
system. So long as the services of the convicta
are exclusively confined to Government establish-''
menta, the general public will not, of course,
take any great interest in the results of the ex-
periment. It will be looked upon simply as a
question of administrative detail, possessing no
attraction for the practical statesman beyond
that which it derives from its immediate bearing
upon the expenditure of the year. But there '
does not seem any insurmountable obstacle to
the employment of convict labour even
beyond the limits of her AlsJury's dockyards.
There are many public works at the present
moment, on which gangs of convicts might
be advantageously employed, where no loss of
labour would be sustained by concentration, and
where the utility of their services could be
put to a satisfactory and irrefutable test. That
we shall be compelled to resort to some such
measure as this in the course of • few years,
when the accumulated numbers of our penal
servitude convicts have exhausted the avail-
able resources of the Government establish-
ments, seems probable enough. With this
prospect, it is highly satisfactory to know that
the general tendency of our present penal system
is not only to make the industry of the convicts
more remunerative, but to diminish the dangers
and risks which attend the employment of it. In
bringing about this latter result the discoveries of
modern science have doubtless bad • large share.
Photography and the electric telegraph have so
enormously multiplied, so to speak, our coercive
power, that the chances of successful resistance
to authority are now reduced to a most hopeless
minimum. But the improvement in active in•
dustry, to which the Report bears ample
testimony, is a result which we may fairly credit
to the direct operation of the present system of
penal administration, and to the judicious intro-
duction of reformatory modification. This portion
of the Report, indeed, is reassuring for the put
and hopeful for the future, and is well calculated
to allay the exaggerated apprehensions to which
the abolition of transportation has given rise.

CU Qroun.

BALMORAL. Sart 12.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena,
and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Brace, drove on Saturday
to Altna-Cuithaaach, and went to the Dhu Loch.
Sir Charles Wood left the Cattle on Saturday.
Her Majesty, with the Duchene of Saxe Coburg end
Priam' Helena, attended Divine @orrice at the pariah
church of Cratbie yesterday afternoon.
The Rev. Mr. Stephen, of Renfrew, officiated.

The Duke of Hamilton arrived at his mansion in
Arlington-street yesterday morning from Baden-Baden.

The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and Lord
Albert Larsson Gower arrived at Stafford House, S. James's,
last evening, from the Continent.

The Marquis of Bristol and Lilies HerTey are
among the mrivala at Bvien-Baden.

The Earl and Counteea of Yarborough, who came
to town on Monday lut from Brocklesby, Lino*hake, left
yesterday on a continental tour.

The Count de Comminges Guitaud, French
ambassador at the Belden court, has left the Hotel Mirabeau
for BruggelL

Lord Rendleshani has taken the house of the
late Mrs. Clifton, in Grosvenor-square, for a term of yea. 3.
His lordship takes possession in the course of the month.

Lord Napier, British Ambassador at St. Peters-
burg, and Lady Napier have arrived is London from Rauh'.

. .
Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild has arrived at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent.

The Hon. George Cecil 0. Bridgeman, third son
of Viseennt and Wis.:motor Newport, has just entered the
Ist Life Guards.

Mr. and Mrs. Manners Sutton, with their family,
have left Eoglend, en route for Italy, where they "'tend to
per the winter.

Lord Palmerston will be 80 years old the 20th
of next rconth.

The funeral of the late Duke of Cleveland took
place yesterday at St. Mary's Church, Staindrop, Durham,
and, in accordance with the feel,nge of the Duchess of
Cleveland. there was as little display as was consistent with
the character of the ceremony.

The Preacherehip of A rchbishop Tenison'e chapel,
Regent-street, has been canto red on the Rev. C. R. Gordon,
M. A.

The Chaplaincy of the Ironmonger's Company
be. been conferred upon the Rev. Henry kfartyn Baker,
Theological Auociate of King'aCollegef Loudon, LW curate
of Newport, Monmoutbib;,e.

A drinking fountain has been erected at Black
Gana, at the back of the Isle of Wight, dedicated in an
inscription "to the memory of Shakespeare." The
fountain hu bees erected by M-. Letts, a gentleman
residing at Black Gaog.

A number of rams, bull., and stallions were
exported • few days ago to the Cape of Good Hope in the
mail steamer. A ram worth 51. or 6/. in this count 7, and
the freight for which, by the steamer, is about u much,
will fetch 50 or 60 guineas at the Cape.
Partridges are more plentiful this season than
they h►ve been for many years past.

Admiral Keppel, of Manor House, Bishopstoke,
Hants, through whose garden a small branch of the river
Hellen rune, has commeoced an extensive system of breed•
log trout. He has already leered some thousands of young
trout from spawn.

The Ist Battalion of the 10th Regiment, under
command of Major Barlow, sail:d on Tuesday morning
from Kingstown, on board the Mary Sheppard, for the
Cape of Good Hope. The numbers embarked were 11
officers, al•= non-xnnmiesioned officers and rank and file, 15
women, and 17 children. The officers were—Major Bar.
low, Captains Lucas, Stammer, Armstrong, and Rudge ;
Lieutenants Scott and Armstrong ; Ensigns Palmer, Cotton,
Austin, and Hood; and Auistant-Surgeon Dunlop. The
Mary Sheppard is a sailing vessel of about 800 tops burden,
and, judging from the time she took in coming to Kings-
town from England, her voyage is not likely to be a rapid
one.

TUE TAMWORTH CHrRCR-RATE CARE.—The well
known church-rate relating to the borough of Tamworth has
at length been settled. The rate in dispute was the amount
of 1/. 14s. 141. The chcrchwardene, considering that this
sum was justly doe by the person upon whom the claim had
been made, and the latter refusing payment, entered an
action at law for the recovery of the above named amount.
Through some legal flaw the defendant gained the day,
nevertheless he has to pay 3501. for his ohatiouy. The
churchwardens, though thus accidentally losing the suit,
have sustained the mum of church-rates. The costs, alto-
gether, amount to 2,0001. Deducting the amount which bu
to be paid by the defendant, it will be perceived that the
churchwarden are liable for a large sum. An aimed has
been made to churchwardens in ths dioceses of Lichfield and
Worcester, and a considerable sum has been raised.—
Wotterhawpron Chrunick.

LETTER PROM MRS. STOWS.

The following letter from Mrs. Stowe has been
published :

"Northampton (U.S.), August 16, 1864.
" Dear Sir, —I have delayed answering your letter of
July 9, suclosing a certificate of F.C.E. stook for beton of
Freedman's Aid Society, because, being at a watering place,
I could not immediately find the address of the treasurer
of the Boston Society. I have this morning trans-
mitted
to him an order for the money, requesting him
to acknowledge it to yoo, end to forward to you such
documents u may show the progress of the society
for the year. Never were • pimple more peaceable,
more industrious, more hopeful in all !impute, In the
army are no truer soldiers, more exact in discipline,
more docile to command, more fearless in battle. My
brother, Colonel James C. Bomber, commands • regi-
ment of them, and he speaks in the highest terms of
their bravery and docility. The camp is also a school,
and spelling-books and testaments take the place in
leisure hours that is often given in armies to worse
things. Eventually America, England, and the world
will be of one mind on these subjects. There has been
a great diversity of spirits, throughout the world, in this
our controversy, but God will show the right, and when
the right is shown all will acknowledge it. So now we keep
silence sod wait ; but when a brave heart sees things be-
fore the times we rejoice in it, and when the hand of aid
comes to us from a true Englishman, we bail it as • fore-
runner of the time when En land and America shall be
knit together in one heart and one mind, as they seemed to
be before this conflict, only the unioe 'Mall be a true one.
The taking away of this accursed thing slavery will bring
moral healing and soundness. One great thing that has
corrupted the world will have sunk like a millstone
never to rise. When I think how this mewled
system of fraud and cruel tyranny has sunk and is still
sinking, every event of our long and cruel
.straggle sending
it still lower, I am reconciled to our sufferings and sorrows,
to the shedding of such precious blood and loas of such pre-
cious lives as we are giving ; and not long are we, I hope,
from the time when the amendment of our constitution
will finish and perpetuate the work, and make it impos-
sible to hold a slave on American ground, as now on that of
England.
" As I have changed my residence, and hope at some
. .

future time to have pleasure of hearing frac; you again,
I inclose my address (Mrs. H. B. Stowe, oars of Dr. C. E.
Stows, Hartford, Conn., I.7.S.A.)—Vary truly yours,
H. B. STOWS."

THE MURDER OF MR. BRIGGS.

A large meeting of Germans, members of the
German Legal Protection Society, has been held at Seyd's
Hotel, Finebary-square, Mr. Laker in the chair, when, after
a lengthened and animated discussion, it wee resolved that
one of the committee, with Mr. Thomas Beard, of No. 10,
Buinghall-street, London, the solicitor to the society, should
proceed to Liverpool to meet Muller= hiaarrival et that place,
or that they should be at Enstonaquare, as might hereafter
be decided upon. It was also determined that eminent
legal assistance should be rendered at the trial, in the event
of Moller being committed by the magistrate. The services
of a leaned serjeaut or Q.C. will be secured, the general
feeling being in favour of Mr. Serjesnt Ballantina with
whom will most probably be associated Mr. Harding.
Giffard and Mr. Orridge. The members of the society, in
their zeal that their unfortunate countryman should be
properly defended. are only anxious that he should
have the means of proving, if possible, his in-
nocence, and the observations at the meeting of
the utter abhorrence entertained of the foul
crime and its perpetrator exhibited an anxious wish that
should the guilt be clearly brought home justice should
have its dae. Mr. Beard is raid to have obtained a great
deal of evidence favourable to the accused, bat it has not
yet been determined what course will be adopted, as much
must of course depend upon the result of the interview
which Mr. Beard will have with Muller upon hie arrival in
this country, and the information then imparted by Muller
as to his whereabouts on the night of the alleged murder,
and his explanation of the possession of the articles found
io his trunk by the police-oflicer when he took him into cus-
tody on board the Victoria.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

Wrnli/BDAT, MITTC3IBIB 14, 8 LM.

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Nara. —
Leith
Avdroew 19.22 57
Greencastle 29 22 54
Galway 29.42 55
Cape Clear
Queenstown 29.26 66
Liverpool
Holyhead
Pembroke 29.45 fa,
Pomace
Bred
49.90 es;
Rochefort
Plymouth
Weymouth 29.70 601

PorieOnll;.: GT)!
Loudon 29.76 59
i9ter 48.84 641
faimocith
taarhorontrA 29.60 54
®ldle 29.48 36,
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Cautionary signals drum on all emits this (Wednesday)
morphia.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HUMBERT OF
Iretr.--Viscount Palmerston, between 1 and 2 o'clock
yesterday, paid a visit to his Royal Highness Prince
Humbert at the Italian Minister's residence in Grammar-
street. Ilia Excellency the Portuguese Minister, and
M. Santos, the Marquis de Carlon), the French Charg4
d'Affaires, together with the Viscount de Conte:des,
Viscount de Virel, and Count Moutmarin, the Consul-
Geoeral of Italy, Mr. J. B. Heath, kn., paid visits to
his royal highness. In the afternoon the prince,
accompanied by the Marquis d'Areglio and • limited
number of his suite, took a drive round the out-
skirts of the metropolis. The prince first visited the
Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park. On leaving the
darling the Prince and party drove by St. John's-wood,
Westbourne-place, and Hyde-park to Grosvenor-piece,
through St. James, epark, down the Strand by Wellington.
street and Long-acre to Groavenor-street. In the evening
his royal highness honoured Viscount end Viscountess Pal.
marital with his company at dinner, at Cambridge Hausa,
Piccadilly. The royal prince arrived shortly after 8 o'clock,
accompanied by the Marquis d'Azaglio, the Italian minister,
the whole of the prince's suite, and the personnel of the
legation. There were also present to meet his royal high-
ness the Marquis de Odom Lord Napier, the Right Hon.
W. and Mrs. Cowper, dm
WINDSOR CASTLE.—During the last fortnight a
number of workmen have been engaged in excavating • por-
tion of the road and footway on the north side of the
Castle-bill, near the eastern end of the Royal Tomb-house,
or Wolsey Chapel, which is being prepared as a memorial
to the late Prince Consort. In this work the men have
laid bare a portion of the ancient fouedation of the chapel,
which consists of a bed of chalk concrete some feet in thick-
ness, hard and well laid. Leading from the chapel up the
hill near the Lord Chamberlain's-office • deep trench has
been cut, and in digging this portions of an ancient build-
ing have been disoovered two or three feet below the level
of the roadway opposite the deanery. These remains
consist of what appears to be two stogie jambe forming •
small window, which probably lighted • narrow staircase
leading underground. Clam by a vault has been discovered
and broken into. This vault lies under the garden of the
Deanery. It is built of red bricks, which retain their fresh•
new of colour, while tram &small opeotog in the roof the water
from the surface above would seem to have been constantly
trickling, as the vault is exceediagly damp. It is, however,
stated that the position st this vault, though not generally
known, was accidentally discovered some years back. The
floor is paved with red brick, arid on being struck with a
hard substance gives forth a hollow sound, as if there was
yet another vault beneath. The north end, which would
sewn to lead beneath the Deanery, is bricked up, and the
only present entrance is that in the bottom of the trench.
There is also at the north end of the arched roof •
small trap-door the wood of which wee rotten with age and
damn.

MURDER OF A WIFE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF
THE MURDERIIR.—PRINTOS, TUBSDAT.—Between 5 and 6
o'clock this morning a dreadful tragedy was perpetrated by
a man named William Berry. miller, of 29, Ormskirk•rosd,
in this town. Since Whitsuntide the men has been in a
despoudiog state. particularly through bulimic affairs and
to some extent through certain family matter,. He seems
to have been jealous of his wife, although, we believe, he
had no reason whatever to suspect her in this respect,
On Monday Berry and hie wife took lodgings is Orme-
kirk-road, and their children, two in number, were re-
moved to 10010 of their relatives. Early this morning,
Berry's wife was heard screaming, and it was subsequently
discovered that she had been stabbed in several places about
her breast. and that her throat bad beau cat near the
centre. Her windpipe was cot completely through, she
bled very profusely, and died shout half an hour after she
was found. It seems also that Berry made as attempt upon
his life. He was found sittiegon a bed in his lodgings, with
his throat cut, and the latest reports are to the effect that
he is not likely to survive. He has beau visited by Father
De Pietro. He expressed his sorrow to the reverend pe-
dal= for what he had done, sad said that he knew be
had committed a murder. The deceased was expected to he
shortly confiner] of a third child. The inquest will take
place to-morrow (Wednesday).

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW•STREET.
♦ 81111NGI STORY.

Mary Clark, a well-dressed young woman, was charged
with stealing three half-crowns from a young gentleman,
named A. F. Belt, in Regent-street, on the 6th inst.
The case had been remanded from a previous day.
The complainant said he was a gas-engineer, residing in
John-street, Westmioater. On the evening in question he
was walking towards home, when the prisoner came up to
him, and striking him in the stomach said, "I know you, we
have met somewhere before." She then walked by his side
from Regent-street to Waterloo-place, when he missed the
money from his pocket, taxed her with stealing it, and
gave her into custody in Pall-mall. He had felt the three
half-crowns in his pocket only a few minutes before the
prisoner spoke to him. When he called the policeman I
said he bad lost three half-sovereigns instead of three half.
crowns, but he corrected himself afterwards at the police-
station. I made the mistake in my confusion at the moment.
Mr. Lewis, jun., who appeared for the prisoner, said
there must be some mistake about the whole matter. His
client was a respectable married woman, and her husband
was now present. Her husband had lost sight of her for
some days, sad was surprised to hear that she was in cos.
tody on this charge. It was highly improbable that the
prisoner could take the money from the prosecutor's pocket,
without his having felt her hands at hie waistcoat.
The prosecutor, on being cross-examined, said he had been
to a petty io Regent-street, and it was about half-past 11
when the prisoner accosted bin,. A man and woman paused
them before he missed the money, and she might have
passed
it to them. It wee not toned upon her.
Mr. Vaughan said it was a case that must go before a jury.
The prosecutor said he would rather not have to go to the
seado s, sad the prisoner (bursting into tears) begged of
the magistrate to dispose of the mat at once, and she would
plead guilty.
Mr. Vaughan—lf the husband is present, let me speak to
him. . . . .

A young man then stepped into the box, and said he had
been married to the prisoner eight months. He lived iu
lodgings at 1, Archer-street. Shoreditch, and was a "corn.
mission agent." On being pressed for more explanation, he
said he was agent for Delapierre and Co., woollen-dealers,
of 1, Rue St. Monorails*, Paris.
Mr. Vaughan—lt is a strange story. I commit the pri.
sower to three months' imprisonment.

CLERK ENWELL.

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