The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-21 00:00:00

',DIN" KILLED AT
!4JI YESTERDAY.

known as the " Female
. to the morbid taste for sewn-
, she was crossing a high rope
. the rope broke and she was
od instantly killed.
local Gazette) seemed to favour the
- morning. The weather was floe,
much interest in the festival,
the proration as it pared. The
aegley Hall before twelve o'clock—
el of them coming from Leicester,
and Brierley HiU, as well as from
disported themselves in their " is-
' regalia," and their green doublets
and starves and horns ; end every-
day of pleasure. The proceseion
Aston Park. and in the earlier
were amused by the volunteer
melodirts. dancers, clowns, and
ascent was watched with interest by
and then all eyes were turned
woman, who was knows to the
9, "the Female Bloodin,* was to
ate. She hsd been advertised in
darned end handbill, as " the only
former of Blnodin's great feats—
' in chair, feet in baskets, blind-

-loped . sack, b.c." Her coming was blielded
itk all the sounding phraseology at the tumid of the
.ter of the official programme aced bee VP•uaaa• as
b. war looked for with eagerness. The crowd pressed
mud the space set apart for the poles and stakes by
duck the rope was supported ; hut the police kept the
Dace clear. At about half-put six o'clock Madame
;lesiva ascended the ladder, and taking the baluespole
her buds, stepped out on the rope with much con-
duce. Stu walked half way across the rope, and then
Sundae she had two very heavy chains tied to her hands
id feet. Her action was not impeded ; for the right font
as tied to the right hand mini the left foot to the left
and, the chains being sufficiently lug to allow her to
eke free lee of hand. sod feet. The chains encumbered
are only by their weight. Arabi she walked along the rope
rithout the slightest trepidation. She walked the whole
earth of the rope, steppiur over the point of the upright
Ele In which the rope was supported in the centre. At
e other end of the rope she received from a man who was
attendance a bag or sack, which she placed over her heed
ted shoulder. Again she went upon the rope, stepping
confidence, and bad only gone about a yard when there
crash, and before the cry of horror had died from the
Pi of the spectators, Madame Geneive had fallen at the
es of her husband, and was dead. The crowd rushed to-
Vie spot, but the polls, were able to keep • small
around the dead woman.
Everything that was possible under the circumstances
done with the view of indudsg respiration by
skid means ; but all was of no avail. Madame Genitive
to have died the instant her body struck the
cud, her death having occurred from eoncuedoa or
re of the spine. She was six months advanced is
eater.
Qum Geneive was in appearloor about thirty years of
She bad, we believe, several children, who are still
mig, and who are of busier veers. The nuns by which
appearance at Aston wag announce to the public was
med. She was the daughter of a men who was formerly
ktove to some people in Birmingham as "Funny Joe."
t was • showman in a small way, and his daughters, of
ora be had two or three—the so celled Madame Geneive,
vs have said, amongst the number—were all reared to
the profession." They were very clever and very Sub
°odd, and out of au income which at least one of them
by risking her life and by losing it at last, they
an allowable to their father during the last few years.

A fortnight ago we mentioned that the 3rd West
1r46 Regiment, which bad lit hen for &fries, we. ogled
ri7 tv,
.fircht with on of the 'Wive tribes a few days after
rt r"0,01. intelligenen hes been confirmed, and
r, black troops now in this Wand, with the exceptioe of
nompanise, will embark to-day or to-morrow for Atria.,
,"4,100 effective tome seems to he necessary to maintain
"wligh anthority.—Jemeicis paper.