The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-05 00:00:00

"PIGEONS7I4Ltns.

One of the most savage and murderous attacks
upon policeman that has amened wield' oar experience
was committed yaoteeday asensuigt: =brew *W-
aifs sod Dana, by a gang el Neste"
mouths past tke farmers living is a radios of • dens miles
from Sheffield bays bad (request ammo to sanplais at lob-
bogies of their pigeon cotes ; sad two or three iartenese of
desperate esconstere between pongee's and pipe
dein' have boas reported. Yesterday morning, about
belted 6 o'clock, two of the borough police faros,
named Swift sod Howldea.wer• oe duty wear Sleirland-lons,
adjoining theNandaseter, Shallald. sad Lehealnabire
way, whew they ebserved three men egraing 'towards *am
slam the Yes. The elms wee up de moot the mss, who
tamed aside into • Geld, and Mos inedinned the suspicions
in the Wade of Um Akers that they had bees on some ea-
lawlelazpolilica.:wallowed the see, who, seeing they
were mus and
ed, being eedident that they could
beat off the pollee, to preen ter the encounter by
throwing off • hay samba of pions, with while Vie
pockets of ell three were lONIIIIML -EWA come up to them
tint, and • lees consist karma liahely bops. Usforeastely
for himself. the pellesesa wee meet osly with his staff,
whilst one of the pguadg oppose to him was armed with
• sad sheep katshet, whisk he mod with fandel
Not the odds wing hisa. Sett closed with
• neen. who gawk fens* at Ida heed. The beteliet
cut through the Wok hot he was wearing, sad just touched
h= but the lees of the Paw lad been so much
o te4 in did get Pine Ma. He rained seat to
Mora lie blow, he his eakipeedet agate Lisegb at
him, the /low sang else epos his sight bed, sad lite-
rally dialog off tweet Ide Inge" sad &sole( as So the
brim at Ido emenidehand toadied hit heed. The
neholimelmomoom we by the blow, e
he fen leo wegemagely Masi by the elier ego. AS
had ehen *so fn a few restask asenawhiiii.
had gat up to the Aose. Atter a short
me who had the bate aimed a blow at ilowleiZr head.
which mask hid it When east as I iseentheri./ have
lolled him nee We apse. Forlasalm4, he merged ellatly
se be saw as blew egedag, Wein fade' wagon seven im
as the his its et the seek, sad Maned a wound see
inches la lsugtk, laying bags, be fortunately not severing.
the carotid arwry. The wound mess • vomy dreadful as..
sad Howldre fell to tho posed eel moats& Jest at
that 1111211111•11 Swift repines nob etdi:eu the ream*
kicking his oespealso ea y is he ea the ground.
The eacenater had oat imacakied. • labourer who
was weekhe is as ad Lid hid.es Abeam ewe So
ma whoa Meg were poised by the elem. He saw Sheen
turn upon their penmen, and at owes left hie work sad
weal to the place to seise thepelia, Pat ho ins east by
the suss nine who bad uaaWd thepalise. reedned
• heavy blow with the hatchet as the meek, 'Maltz
Mated him, mad mimed him great oulforlag. The ag
thou ark of, the primal* mobs, loarteg tics
as the some of the steeple. They had ekes
e
mesas So premed farther permit, for sot me of
opponents enable to follow them. Swift, Aydin himself
beaming vary week from lace of blond wed the *are hie
wooed, made Me way with great didlouity to Mr. T. 'Tar.
tan's bees, where laminae" were given to htm, and he
thee premeabel to Ms home In atterreliffn ffewldel; on
rower* his sews, was toasted dome lee the village by
the labourer mee timed above, pad all thee ware speiniey
pet der the are el Mr. drew, engem The women ea
Howides's use is a very doggers= 1108. 'WIWI. is OW
dada that Swift al ko th
to his head. Theer baked. a deW arced to iesr
ben at ems at tbe pensioner agerielnined in Me fleld krone
of the railway oaken at Darman. The valise we
in investigating the affair. sad we hope ealsA
sacesed to apprehendier Ur nines. th

" SZNIATION" LEADNILS. —RUMOURS AND PAM.
—The Standard of this morning anteing the follosing
letter :—" To the Edits —Sir —Bevies Jost read the
esimatioe' leaden is your waif edition of hi-day, est in
the Morin Star of yeeter6n, udder the above harbor, I
am compelled to beak silence by declaring, aa the soliellor
for the rwomedest, that I believe the table of the elate-
noon is the *Ain to be sine, se my cheat solemnly
declaims them to be. As to the noble co-resoodeet, herein
highly esepeetabte bands, who are quite able to take care of
their Alas henoert end I should set have tbedgbt
it ememary to ray a word as Wall of the reepesides=
for the manner mwhin the are bee bees most nej
bly eennamd oe the faith of the mere Meg of a petilles,
of wideb set one wood lee ben er (se I belles) set be
' proved to be tree. nine hese always taught that omens
justice demanded as atiesste of comment on • cars until
after the trial. Hew bee it bees observed in this instance!
Now, sir, to Winne, to your leader of to•day.
I would beg to aelc you whether you eta in any
way justify veer referees to the co-reepoodeet es
'the Aoary defender at 1' The very words men to seelnie
guilt cm his part. Thee yea gay '• respectable free
of solicitors vouch that the pending suit in the Divorce
Ooert will under no circumstances be compromised.' Now,
first, who are the respectable Arm of solicitors? Are you
aware, sir, that the ' firm,' otherwise the attorney to the
petitiont, is Me Mr. Wells who dolly advertises relief 'To
the embenmeetr by mans of the coon, is coeseetin with
a Mr. Weeks, who I Inkwell aa ationonhant at the game
address? Mr. Wells advertises that be will obtain 'pro-
tactical from 51., payable by Melakeente: and
oat peblicas P Also, that ' divers seas an reneAdeatied p
reoriented.' The present case seems ' coaltdetitially noire
to the whole world, ea Mr. Wells at see rushed tato petit to
inform the pehlie that se oompromis bad bees made le the
case. Now I should be 'led to know who est the report
of a compromise ellen at all. Most saguredly not the
reepoedeet sor her solicitor. She emphatically de-
nies ell the allegation in the petition ; .Mr.
Wells, in his letter of &Mal, might and el
to have ridded that so ostspromiee, or suggestion el •
compromise, had come to him tress the .-pendent er her
advisers ; she will quietly await the pritilloger's spans of
Aimulelj; when the case mar into court. I have only to
state in conclusion that the petitioner Seiner Is a clergy.
was. as stated, woe (to see your. wade) does he wise the
robes 'of the Christian Inane, ; but, if lam not ink-
Wormed, he is now in the service of the Weston alluded to
in Mr. Wells'a doily sanitising programme.—l NU, sir, your
very obedient servant. CRAWS' BOULST, solkitor to the
respondeet. 2, Staple-ice, Nov. 4."
PaIIVDO-STED:fO MINDID WOMEN AT DUCVIIN.
If she is all mid thin, the odds as she wears black lace
mitten down to her knuckles, and fingers, se unlike the
ray tips of Aurora as possible, beyond. If smaller is ma-
ture, sod larger la balk, the affects bright colour,, bnids
her hair low upon her teenier, collect& her permit bsseath
her chin. and emmouate it with a large and dentin
brooch. In either case her dress assumes folds that iiriply
sedentary habits, and a cerelereses of appearance; while
her hoots, gloves, collars, handkerchiefs—ell those ktivial
niceties of detail which her sex usually singe so skilfully,
sad which are indeed the small-arms of their warfare—
demote as utter abuses el that quality called Taste, which
modals eueatielly in a nice perception of the theses of
things. You sit next her at dinner. sod rniu the gentle,
half-shy courtesies entailed by the present voluminous sty le
of dress; little preludes to sioquietesce, which rise into
convereation as the fish disappears aud the champagne cornea
round; you venture on a remark, perhaps a sufficiently
trite osseetablishieg the dullness of the season or some
equally incontestable propceition, mod she deliver, such a
home-thrust down your throat in reply es shut■ you up
like • book of sermons, till you have had recourse to
stimulants for year recovery. If • young man, put/la
super Wain's, you retire gladly from the modest, sod sub-
side into the contemplation of the timid damsel or the
"frisky matron " oppsite. Pail's, these, you no always
devote yourself to the real bus:mese of the entrrtainereet.
But if middle aged, unobtrusive, and • little n. nous, like
ourselves, you experiese a horrid fascination that compels
you patMetly to submit, end eves offer !myself a willing
victim to the torture. When the ladies leave the dining-
room, you feel conscious of having hoes subjected to The
Question in its most appalling form. You are also aware
that the unconuected and incoherent nature of i our replies
must have cased your sei;Abour to form the lowest
opieioe of your intellect nod attainments, while convincing
her at the same time of your total want of siooerity. and
general insensibility to the beauty of truth. You make a
ruemorsedum to avoid strobe 'Moan women for the net of
your life ; and, rennin to the drawing-room. are glad to
observe that your tormentor has fastened os a mild clergy-
man and a rosy muster of hounds, neither of whom, though
they lists patiently nod respectfully. seems to understand
on word of what die is say mg. —Froser's Alaganse for
November.

---fliE----" EXTRAORDINARY CLERGYMAN."—CON.
VIMION FOR ASHAOLT.—h will be remembered that two
er three weeks ago a mu named Richardson obtained •
, summons spinet the Rev. R. Henniker. is curubent of
1 Ceuldoo, Stafford. for an emelt ; that the rev. geolletnan
failed to appear; sod that roesequeatly the Leek magi'-
1 testes issued • warrant for his apprehension. About the
I time of the issue of the warrant Mr. Heouiker soot out
of the way, mid the police were suable to find him.
However, an Friday eight be came to Leek. moil, through
his solicitor. intimated that be would surrender nu the
following morning. The police were not sidistied with
this assurance, and •ceordrngly Mr. Heoeiker we. taken
into custody the mama night, at the Red Lion Hotel. Ile
Saturday he was brought before the Rev. J. Sneyd and
Mr. J. Russell, charged with the assault on Ri.hardsoo.
The primmer, through his solicitor, pleaded guilty. Eli-
des°, was given of the assault, from a bich it appeared that
ou the anemone of Sunday. the 4th Orbder, Is fore service
commeseed. the oseophilaimit was is Osoldoo clinrcheartl,
.
, obeli Mr. Hensiker ordered him logo out. and iaoadi•tely
afterwards kicked him on the less met shies. It sea urged
for the defame that Mr. Hesaiker was labouring under
azoltement at the time. The magistrates iathoted the full
penalty of U., which was immediately paid. and Mr. Hee-
-1 siker then left the ci.urt, followed by • ta•etderable crowd.