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

SUSPECTED CASE OP ARSON.

Dr. Ager, the proprietor of the Collegiate School
at AyMane, has been arrested, on s charge of medic. er•
to hie dwelling-horse at Ayldisna, Norfolk. The Ore was
dimmed breaking throes& the root of the building
directly over the servants bedroom, at three o'clock oe
Saturday morning last, by Thome Bake; coe al the school-
boys, who immediately reed se slam. The fire aged
was quickly on the spot, sod the Are was soon got leader.
The buildin where the Are originated was exathised the
same day by the superinteodent ol the division, who
believed it to ban been set on ere in two
daps,
tee feet spark in the false oiling overZ
servants' bedroom. He took posnasios of s lsw
quantity of partly band mad unlearned material which be
found in both plan, noddies of old lino, and old bode
sad papers, beloogiog to the whoa Dr. Ager's Gooiest at
the Are ie described to have then of the 111104 i extract ciliary
character. He mended the root of the bandits buildisg,
end commenced to tear off the eiles over the Are, ea ea to
create s current of air. He is also said to ban moles •
round to prevent the conductor of Weapse from using
the engine for the purpose of satin • rig the Are. so
moth eo that be told Dr. Agar he would give bias in change
if be pentetod in obstructing him in the execution of his
duty. Men the superinteodent of police wed again to
examine the buddies, 1)r. Ages remerked to him that it was
a bad job, bat the wont of It was that a large qiuintity of his
bills sod rends were burned. Hesaked Dr. Agar wherethey
were wino they caught tre, and Dr. Aver mid they were in •
dentin his bed-room. Hs examised the closet and the bed-
room, and found in the bed-room a large Ale of burned bills,
kerning shard substance toned the wire. Os examining the
closet, • bola was discovered through the ceiling into the
closet, which captained books and papers ; and on a maul
examination of the closet acid its eadents, in the ammo.
of Dr. Apr, the eoperinteedent of pollee was fully Welled
that the file of bills could not bave bees burned in the
closet. Dr. Age, then said, " 1 sew the boned bills where
we found them, but I doe% knew bow they _rem there"
Not spark of Are reached Dr. Agee's bed-ream. A
warrant was enbadeently honed for the appreheosiou of Dr.
Ager, oo the charge of sewn The premiere and contests
wen fully henred. AAn oenned is the bone only two
or three meths alio, cu whist' eseaske 30f. worth of linen
was esnithoel.

SHOCEINO Mogan AT HOLMACH. —The
town of Hotheads Ma been the scene of a terrible affray,
by which a man of the name of Thome Bloom re-
mind such fatal injuries that he died oe Sunday after-
noon at four o'clock. Bloom, who was by trade a shoemaker,
sad also reported to be a night poacher, met an acquent.
sees armed Joins Franks at a low beerhoom slid Me
Brewers' Arm., on Thunday evening, and a dispute arising
over a pme of dominos, they went into the yard for the
purpose of fightin it out After the debt Franks ..premed
• desire to have soother go at Bloom, and then made a most
murderous moult upon his victim, ilflictier several
wound. upon the arm and breast, as wall as pabisg
open the stomach in two or three places, and also nearly
severitig the intestines, some of which protruded from one
of the wounds. The fatal injury was isdictecl so suddenly
that Bloom was not aware he wee hurt until he eaw the
blood oozing oat of his clothes. Franks wu immediately
followed, sad apprehended as be wee entering his fatbar's
ermine, some distance from the tows, and on Baulky
heard the depositions reed over to him in the presence of
Bloom, who daring the nme afternoon died from ex-
haustion. Franke is • labouring man of disaolute habits,
the eon of very respectable parson, his father being a small
ocoupier ia the parish, upon whom the son has mostly been
living. The Kammer since his apprehension has resolutely
refund to receive food. An inquest was held before W.
Edwards, Fn., on Moseley, andj adjourned to yesterday,
when a verdict of " Wilful Murder wu returned. The
magistrates have also committed Franks for the " Wilful
Murder of Thomas Bloom." _ _

MITRIMUI OF • SHIP% CAW BY PIRATIR.—A
, telegram, announcing the perpetration of • horrible
butchery in the China seas, was received at Liverpool Tee-
-1 terday from Suez, in anticipatioe of the Leslie and China
mail. It appears that the Liverpool ship Panama, Captain
Johnson, while on the passage from Hong Kong to Fal-
mouth, bad been captured by pirates in the China seas ;
that the captain, officers and crew had been brutally mur-
dered ; and that the ship was afterwards burned by the
Chinese. Pending the arrival of the mail, we are at proem:
without any further particulars of this fearful tragedy.
The Panama was a new vessel, and was bunt for
the Liverpool and Chiba trade in 1862. She was
owned in Liverpool by Mr. John Malcom, and was •
very fine clipper vessel of 296 toos register, and classed A 1
at Lloyds, for four year.. The Panama sailed on her first
voyage to China on the 30th of October, 1862, and arrived
out Rafe. After loading at Hoeg Kong, she started on her
homeward voyage to Falmouth, where she was to call for
orders. On her lineage down the China seas she was over-
hauled by these bloodthirsty pirate', with the result stated
above. Some doubt existed on the receipt of the telegram
on to the name of the ship. Some said it must he the
Parana, Captain Morrish, likewise from Hong Kong • but,
on inquiry, we fiod that that vessel had called at Mar'reio on
her homeward voyage, and bad afterwards sailed for Europe,
all well, which is °contusive evidence that she ia not the
vessel destroyed.
THE GUILDFORD DisTuRBANcID3. GUILDFORD
WIDNEsDAT EVENING. The town is in II oonsidende
state of excitement. On Tuesday night it was rumored
that the "Guys" would bold their demonstration that
ensuing. In accordance with the intention, numbers of
crackers, squibs, and small caution were let ff, and even •
whole congregation at the Wesleyan chapel, who were liskm•
iog to a lecture by the Rev. Fres. Sheer, were disturbed by
the oohs of fireworks coming against the windows. Other
demonstrations were made and • number of windows were
broken ; hat it was not until half-past 9 that the excitement
reached its highest pitch. At that time three companies of
the 37th Regiutect of Foot (230 in number, North Hemp-
shno)arri red at the 0 uilford railway-station by spiced trnin.
The detachment, which is billeted in the town, is under the
coon:pod of Lieutenant-Colooel Grey. Besides these, coo
troop (50 moo) of the Ist Royal Dragoon Guards. under
Captain Commanding Robertson. arrived about the same
time. The two corps of rifle volunteers (13th and 24th
Surrey) have also bon, with a few exceptions., sworn in to
keep the peace.
THE FATAL COLLISION IN SOUTHAMPTON WATER,—
Captain Henry Summers, the commander of the Lady of the
Lake, was yesterday fully committed for trial by the
niagi4rates as Soutbamptou on a charge of manslaughter,
that vessel having run down shoat in Southampton Water,
by which • fishermen named Fielder was drowsed. The
Mayor of Southampton ; Lord Henry Cbolmoodeley, Holly-
hill, Hants. ; and Mr. C. N. Cooksey sod Messrs. Atherley
and Darwin, bankers, of Soutliamptoo, have wigged to
receive subscriptions towards robing a fund for the relief of
the widow and the seven orphan children of the poor
fisherman. Lord Cbolmoodeley writes to a gentleman :
" Sir, —I can vouch for the authenticity of the deplorable
position of the family of the uefortueste man John Fielder.
whose boat wee run down on the 24th ult. by the Lady et
the Lake steamer. The poor man hu left a widow sad
7 children. 6 of whom are entirely unprovided for; and the
case is rendered still more deplorable from the foot that the
widow has bees for many years In feeble health, and is
quite unable to labour for her own support. Joha Fielder
lived for several years in my immediate seighbourhood, and
was a most respectable and bard.wor king mu.-1 ram*
sirocco, obediently, HENRY CROLSONIMLET."
FM= 12( PATERNOITTIR-ROW.—tart night, about
10 o'clock, • fire that at first threatened serious ewes-
possess, broke out upon the premiers known ma Kendall's
trlieleeale Bible Warehouse aad London Gospel Tract
De .let. next door to the Religious Trace Society's. The Ire,
which commenced is the cellars, rapidly oonsinuaketed to
the shoo, and destroyed • esesiderahle stook of religious
publications. The fire enespe from Cheepside was imam-
diaoly on the spot, followed by two or three empties from
the London Fire Brigade and the land steam-engine, mod,
favoured with a plentiful supply of water, they plied the
hose so emoseedully as to sublets the Sr. within halt an
hour mad prevent its spreading to the seooed sad third
stories, which fortunately were not occupied.