The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-29 00:00:00

A':.:IL*LT O.V ROW4.N cursoLic PRIEST.

About tire o'clock on Sunday afternoon the im
hahit..et• of the Immingh of staly bridge, in Lancashire and
t Memo greatly i.xcitel by a rumour that the
Wank* of • Whelk priest bail jag been attempted. The
ehof comstable, sceesaranied by several of his men, or
piini to amertain what troth there mu in the rumour, were
oat by at lean • thousand mason in the greatest state of
excitement, and is a short time, after some trouble, they
were enacted to mewls young was out of the heads of an
infeshard body of men and boys. He was taken to the
whet station, sad restenlay (Monday) wee brought before
the watetrates. He gave bri same as Joshua Wood, a
UctogY ofwmtive, aged Ile was charged with having
salawfully assaulted the Benjamin Clegg, catholic
pima, Stalyhndip. The court wee crowded. and • hundred
pewees at hest were amble to pia admission. The corn.
=stated that be was ping up Leechetreet. in Shay-
about fee o'clock as Similar afteroom, when some
peens rame behind him sad struck him behind the right
gar. He was stooped foe • toocueut, sod nearly felL He
Inined mad, cud then saw a hammer in a mais'a hand,
which gamed him to run up Leuch-dreet. The person who
bed Weak ham followed, awl WA4 about to strike him again
wbea he was honing the rimier into Ilnuseruftatreet,
Mt a mew prevented hien. The .ornplainaot added that be
could mot identify the iwisoner as the Irma who struck him
with the hammer, but he lied bora given to uoderstaail that
the primmer hail Mel ho was dill determined to loir In lion,
sad that Le would Lie his life. The a/insult was fully
',owed by a witness named Joieph L'oeker. It serous the
peewee/ was formerly • teacher in Peter's Catholic
Peboola, ittalybealgo, lost hail left, wad he put in a certitimte
certifying that be Was a Magni., and commuoiians of St,
Jobs •Church 'Church of Ire. Kinfriseil'a in the
same borough. The everiplailant had hail no quarrel with
the primmer, see our be aware that he bad been persecuted
became of the change of ha religious opinions. Mr. Chad-
wick said the pristmer's mother was ia court, and she had
statwl that the primmer weeks a desponding state, and bed
been for some time. The primmer said he was not la a
asmondiag state; he was seem better in his life, The
Isailhowt, lanfrever, said he bed beam very low in his mild for
some time. The miaow planded guilty. He said ho ear.
rt..l the hanuaer beaume he bed been molested oti mink(
Isom charge. The asegietrate committed him to prima for
1... my-owe days with bawl labour. The mayor also said the
pr.oner would be pretested after he came ate( prism sad
gre.1.41 the cathelie prim% to lend their amielemee far the
[swoon, as many Wats bati bees holdall apiellim.

illatXtlrltßY or • CIINTLIDIAN 1:a TAM 83011$ 'r{
Cos 4L—(l'su Dar.)-711 nx.raing, about 10d the
el a see of gentlemaely applanteee was diseevered is
the wake of the ttegent's Cabal, mules the Haggpineisse-
beidirsomas Lialeioe. It appears that some boys were
engaged driggieg die oared for wads and strays. with • sort
of raped made al Soo wire and weighted with lead, sad
sere sorprimed to nod the drag catch io some subdues
dimly en,bedded in the mud. Ilaviog obtained the eashil-
Shee of ...me then, the body of • person apporeatly about 30
`'sass of age, was hauled out sod laid upon the beak. It via
th3t .damn of middle lire. with a full well.formed famiand
A lA...Norm of ',Lek b kir and whiskers. He was attired is
a ~1,• ‘lee.trug coat sued cluth trousers sod black silk
•Ingolar 4r as), there were neither boots Dar
kung.. The pahets qd the trousers appeared as if they
dal hrea turned insole out, and them was nothing whatever
u the body. Mr. Waller, the 0010Uelell fi
ru,..ed the corpse to the Sbneediteh workhouse, wain it wee
e;anueed by Clark. There were totted to las waned
exteuais• injunes no the bead sal body, but sa decamped.
boo had set la, it is as yet impartible to may how they were
med.

lilt RipckAltr.oF THE METItnroLITAN Tirosovoi-
r t et..-I:reat manuals are being made teems= the NO
PLvinc of the maim thorioxlifares which bare under-
Fe..in.; that proems, in order that they may be rendered
• w•sit.le for the enormous traffic c ,wiequeot upon the lin-
tdstioo mane. The blockade of Chancery-Moe, from
11.440 re to !'lest-stmet, which has been most effective for
weeks, to the greet iDCOOVIPOiIIift of the public, is sow
nodal, and that of Drurydane. from Long-acre to Bread"
Blonenslxtry, was yesterday put an end to by the
r.rm.val of the barriers and the free passage of vehicles.
Th., important highway of Holborn. having undergoes es-
t. nave repairs ahore mid beneath the surface, is sow abaft.
' and will doubtless be thrown open torsarrew.
flint
portion of the F.ustoo•road remaining dead an
vault of the work, of the Underground Railway is daily lse-
eg more circumscribed io its extent, the sowings( the
'as as the railway works rapidly advance to
eNapletl. Hanipstead•mad. which has bees mewed with
ratite Welts from its commemeement in the dernosi-rend
to, Mt. Jannis Chapel, was yesterday completed end opened
for tea&
not.thar IN TINS Law COURTS ON TITITSIDAT.
Yesterday the and Judges of the Cherie ef Qesso'ilkorelt,
&damper, aad Cement Fier aeneeneed that then *verb
would eat sit is Mania, out, and that thew weld be e
14 chemises is thin day.