The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-08 00:00:00

Tika PIPRESS, TUESDAY

his guilt, declared that "he Imew isiarite than
" child how or when be did it.' The wom:1
lingered till the next day lard fie died, Tar,
being present for an hour and a half before her
death. There is room for difference of
opinion respecting HALL'S intentions when
he invited his wife to accompany him on
the night of her death. That his mind was in a
state of intense agony appears from all the evi-
dence. He must also at the time have had the
deadly weapon in his possession, and if he had
used it against his own life or against that of TOY,
his friends would have been less surprised than
they afterwards were. For though just after the
event he said to one and another, " I told
"you I would do it," the fact appears to be that
nobody had ever heard him say anything of the
kind. As Mr. Justice Brum observed to the
jury, the wife voluntarily followed her husband,
no woman's instinct teaching her that his mind was
intent on murderous thoughts.
Upon the whole, we think few will be of opinion
that this is a case in which the sentence could
be carried into full effect without weakening those
feelings of respect with which the administration of

the law should always be guarded. We are far in-
deed from suggesting that motives can properly be
pleaded in extenuation for premeditated crime. But
the terrible provocation which Grogan HALL re-
ceived from his wife, who even taunted him with
her infidelity, appears to have quite bewil-
dered and demented him. It is worthy
of mention that even now he retains the
respect and regard of his wife's relations. They
knew how honourably and sincerely he loved her;
how often he forgave her, how ready he was to
receive her again after her wanderings. Jiia
Surra, the poor woman's mother, and JANE
WILTON, her grandmother, have joined in a me-
morial expressing their conviction that but for
MARTIN TOT, HALL would have made an excellent
husband, and praying that his life may not be
taken. We trust that these facts will be carefully
considered at the Home-office, and that Sir
GLOBAL Gary may be led to a decision in which
mercy to the unhappy prisoner may be harmonized
with the interests of justice.

gbe Court.

WLVDSOR CASTLE, Itasca 7.

The Queen drove in the grounds this morning, aocom-
panted by the Princess Helena. Her Majesty received the
Countess Waelmeister, wife of the Swedish and Norwegian
minister ; Madame Comps, wife of the Spanish minister;
and Barone= de Blouse, wife of the Hanoverian Charge
d'Affaires, to-day at Windsor Castle. They were severally
presented to her Majesty by COWAN/ Russell.
Prince Arthur, ►ttended by Major Elphinstone, left the
castle for Greenwich-park.
Earl Granville also left the castle for London.

The Duchene of Cambridge and the maw. mu, vimi,d
the Prince sod Princess of Wales, at Marlborough-hones,
yesterday rooming.

The irises and Prince= of Wales, attended by the
Countess De Grey and Lieutenant-Col.* Kappa, left
Marlborough-house at • quarter before 5 o'clock in the
afternoon, and went to Windsor by the Great Western
Railway, on • visit to the Qoees.

A deem tation from Windsor bed an interview yeetedsy
with the Right Hoo. William Cowper, at the office of her
Majesty's Commisaioners of Works and Public Building',
Whitehall-place.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Singapore.
Is the list of presentations made to the Prince of
Wales at the levee held on Wednesday laat, the name of
Captain Horne, 25th Regiment, was inadvertently omitted.
Captain Horne was presented by Major-General the Hoe.
A. A. Dalzell, commanding South East District.

PRESENTATION TO THE PRINCE OF WALES. —The
Basle, Prayer-book, sod lectern subscribed for by "Gentle-
men of the United Kingdom," will be presented to the
Prince of Wales ►t Marlborough Rouse on Friday out.
Prince John of Glucksburg, younger brother of
the King of Denmark, will arrive to-day in London, to
represent King Christian IX. at the christening of the
infant prince. The prism is attended by Baron Gulden-
crone.

The Earl and Countess Spencer, by the last ac-
counts, had arrived at Alexandria, and fully intended to
ItMUD to England by the early part of May. They were
both in good health.

The Earl and Countess of Zetland left their reel-
deem is Arliegtoa-street, Piccadilly, yesterday, for Asks
Hall, Yorkshire.

The Countess (Dowager) Cowper and Ladies
Cowper, who hare been on a tour in Italy since early in
the past autumn, have lately been resident in Home and
Naples, and are expected home in the kanne of the ensuing
month, or early in May.

Lord Llanover has left town for South Wales,
and will not return till after the Easter holidays.
Lord ClArence Paget will proceed with the navy
estimates in committee of supply oil Thursday next.
On the 18th Mr. Osborne, on the motion for
adjournment till after Easter, will call the attention of the
House of Commons to the atate of our relations with Dan-
mark.

On resuming the adjourned debate on " Ques-
tion,—That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair for com-
mittee on the Government Annuities Bill," Sir Minto
Farquhar will move—That the bill be committed to a
select committee,

It is now definitely arranged that the Easter
Monday Volunteer Review will take place ou Farley Meath.
Colonel Witold° went down to Guildford yesterday =rain,
accompanied by Lord Truro and Colonel Buxton, and exit-
mined the ground for several hours.

-----
The report of Mr. J. W. Bazalgette, engineer to
the Metropolitan Board of Works, on the bills for railway
sad other schemes sow before parliament hes jut been issued.
It is a voluminous document, occupying 91 folio pages, sad
gives an elaborate amount of 63 railway schemes within the
metropolis. Tables are gives allowing the interference of
these schemes sith the rsrioue streets and sewers to e
serious extent. These schemes Involve, in the aggregate,
the construction of 258 new lines of railway and branches,
of 417 A miles in length, with 11 bridges over the Thames
and two lines passing through the Thames Tassel, the total
capital proposed to be raised being about 70,000,0001.
Ample accounts of these schemes have already appeared.
ARMY EIAMINATIONS.—The examiustiun fur ad-
minion to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will take
glace ou Thursday, the 18th of June ; that for the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich. on Monday. the 4:h of July ;
and that for the Staff College on Monday, the 25th of
July. No day has ss yet lona fixed for the next examine •
tioa for direct commissions.

Tfl E CRAWLEY COURT MARTIAL —An approxi-
mate return from the War-ofilce has been published, show-
tog the expenses occuicoed by the court martial, distil).
knishing the proportions to be defrayed from imperial and
Indian reveoue respectively. The account is as follows :
, Coot of transport for witnesses, die., from India to England,
5,324/. IN.; travelling expenses for witnesses, &c., in Eng-
land, 436/. 44. Id.; pay and allowances of witnesses.
9.283/. 1.. 7d.: estimated cost of transport back to India.
2.9011. lls. 10d. ; expenses of Deputy.JudgeAdvocate-
General. and of certain witnesses, telegrams, cabs., &c.,
1271. 17s, 3d.; Messrs. Gurney and Sons. for transcripts of
evidence, dw . 212/. 17s. 3d.; fitting up club at Aldershot,
fuel, light, end repairs at furniture, 54/. 18s. Bd.; incidental
expenses, 171. its. 4d. ; total, 18,3,8/.175. 6d. The whole
of the above expenditure will be defrayed from imperial
revenues.

THE SHORTEST BILL OP THE SESNION. —MT. C.
Forster has laid before the Houma Commons a bill notable
for ita brevity. The formal prefatory, " Ile it enacted by,
he.," is actually longer than what may be deacomitated the
bill itself, which is fact consists of the following 31 words
—" From and after the passing of this act oo conviction of
fake,' shall muse a forfeiture of the lands or goods of any
person so convicted, any statute or usage to the contrary
notwithstanding."
SoCut Knwerwinow Mrsacm. —During the week
ending March 5 the visitors ham been as follows :
Oa Monday. Tuesday. and Saturday, free days, open from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7,142; a. Wednesday, Thoss&y, end
Friday, students' days (admivion to the I abbe 6d.), open
from 10 am. till 5 p.m., 1.381 : total, 8,t27. From the
opening of the nemesia, 4,470M1.

LATIBT

•
111 Z BLZBWIG INVASION.
No great change has taken place in the situation
of the opposing forces at Duppel. The belief is
that military operations will shortly be urged on
with vigour. The Danes have, it appears, in
the redoubts of Duppel, nearly 200 pieces of
cannon.

A letter from Flensburg states that Prince
Frederick Charles wished to make an immediate
assault at Duppel, but the general-in-chief was un-
willing to expose the Prussian army to a check,
which would have been all the more annoying as
the Austrian soldiers have hitherto borne off the
honours of the war. It is no longer doubtful that
Duppel will be attacked in a regular siege, which
may be of long duration.
According to the latest despatches the Prussians
are not satisfied with strongly establishing them-
selves at Kolding, but are every day approaching
nearer to Frederick. Their march is slow and
methodical, but continuous. After having raised
a great number of field works round Kolding, they
have advanced towards the small towns of Brande.
rap, Treelow, and Houneberg, having had in each
movement engagements with the Danish cavalry,
which was forced, in spite of its courage, to fall
back before an enemy superior in number, after,
however, having caused the invaders considerable
losses.