The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Mary Ann Crisp, a very respectable-looking young
woman, was charged with attempting to poison herself by
swallowing a quantity of red powder, in the Roebuck beer.
house, Southwark-bridge-road.
Police-uneatable 84 /11 said that ►boat 11 o'clock on
Saturday night he was on duty in the Southwark-bridge-
road, when he was called into the Roebuck beer-house, where
he saw the prisoner lying on the ground in front of the bar.
She was very much excited, and rolled about apparently in
agony. He saw an ale glass on the ODIUM" which she its .1
recently used, and which contained ►t the bottom some red
powder. Being of opinion that the had taken poison, he
took her to a doctor'■, who administered au emetic, and
afterwards conveyed her to the workhouse, where she was
carefully attended to.
The prisoner here fainted away, and was carried out of
court. On her return.

.hne Heath, her sister, got into the 'amiss box, and said
that she was married as well as the prisoner, and she
could not account for such • rash act. She was not living
with her husband. She was, however, in a very comfort-
able position, and she saw her at seven o'clock on Saturday
eveoing inpod spirits, and complained of nothing.
Mr. Woch asked the prisoner why she attempted such
a rash act. _ _

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The prisoner replied that she did not know. She had no
reoollection of anything that occurred.
The landlord of the beer-home said he recollected the
g into his house about 11 o'clock on &tar-
riTonT;ht, antrbeing served with • glass of ale, but he did
not see her put anything in it. He saw her fall down sud-
denly. and then saw the red sediment in the glom and seat
for a constable.

Mr. Woo'rya' remanded her for a week, to aneertsis the
state of her mind.

Tae " WRONGS OF Ismaxo."—Tbe Opinion
Nationale, the organ of the democratic and violent anti-
catholic party in France, publichee' with great satisfaction,
• pamphlet, entitled "A Brief Expositioe of the Wrongs
of Ireland," which, it states, has been communicated to it
by persons calling themselves " The Irish National
League." It is signed "by the honourable Mesas.
Martin and O'Douo-'hue, members of parliament. "The
Opinion Neimtak declares that, faithful to its name and
it. principles, it considers it a duty to publish the docu-
ment. It moreover declares that the Irish are far from
being the blMd soldiers of the temporal papacy, but
the victims of an oligarchy which, • under the
mask of • lying liberalism, tares to its own profit
and reduces to despair a people of six millions." The docu-
ment contains • long list of what it calls the " wrongs of
Ireland;" and after recounting many curious things touch-
ing the tyranny and oppression exercised by England over
Ireland, it ocrociticies with "congratulating the French
people on not being subjected to the oppression and misery
as just mentioned," and prays that " Divine Providence
may ever preserve to France its liberty and its national
power, and save it for ever from what Ireland suffers
under a ri-ninr adorned with the same of a free constitu-
tion !" The Frenchmen who know England and Ireland
as well as their own country bare rend this mani-
festo with a derisive smile, particularly at the com-
parison established between France sod Ireland.
The Frenchmen who know only their own country express
their astonishment how, if England were the ruthless tyrant
she is described, Irishmen, subjects of the British mown,
would venture to publish such a paper, and not unreasonably
conclude that a government which permits it cannot be so
tyrannical as Mews. Martin and O'Dono‘hue state. They
smile, too, at the idea of Jules Fevre end Gamier Pages
affixing their names to • paper of the kind against their
own government, printed and published in Perim. They
suspect ti at in spite of the greater amount of liberty in
Fracce than in Ireland, according to Messrs. Martin and
('Donoghue, it is more than probable that Cayenne would
be their destination. It is really too bad to expose • whole
people to the laughter of foreigners who, perhaps, think
that they are really represented by the two persons who
have signed this toper.—Tireer.

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Rebecca Bruce, niece of Michael Bruce, the poet
of Lochlevee, was buried on Monday in the churchyard of
Port/mak. A few days ago she bad lain down before the
fin, sad when ea' of the neighbours went into the house,
'befoul:id the woreaa's clothes on fire. She used every effort
to extinguish the flames, but was unsuomeaful, and got her
own bands severely boned ; she thee ran for a neighbour,
by whose assistance the flames were put out ; but Rebecca
was so severely burned that she lingered only for a few
days. She was buried by the side of her uncle. She lived
in the little rinse of Kinamwood, next door but one to
the house where Brme was been. A great number of the
villagers followed the remains to their lest resting plass.