The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-15 00:00:00

FXITESS, FRIDAY )',VENINO, MAY 15, 1863.

oaf:Wily =intelligible, and he hoped the motion for report-
ing progress would be premed.
After a short discussion the motion was agreed to, and the
house resumed.
ELECTION PETITIONS.
Mr. AUNT obtained leave to brim is a bill to
amend the law relating to election petitions.
COSTS SECURITY.
Mr. BUTT obtained leave to introduce a bill to mood the
law relating to the giving of security for costs by plaintiffs
residing out of the jurisdiction of the courts.
PORT ERIN HARBOUR.

The house having gone into oommittee,
Mr. M. GIBSON obtained leave to bring in a bill to
authorise the taking of harbour duet at Port Erin, in the
Isle of Man, in order to provide • fund for the improvement
of the harbour, and for other purposes.
EXECUTION OF DECREES.
Leave was given to Mr. Butt to bring in a bill to make
better provision for the enforcement throughout England
sod Ireland of the decrees sod orders of the Courts of Chan-
cery, Probate, and Divorce.
The different bills were subsequently brought in and
read a first time.
The house adjourned at half-put one o'clock.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALI/S.—TarßaDAy.

Considering that the sporting world ia ea the Sr. of the 1,
great carnival at Epsom, the speculation upon the Derby
cam scarcely he said to be so exciting or so animated as in I
former yeara, although a large number of animals figure in
the return of the betting. An incident has occurred during
the put week which has canard a considerable sensation
among the supporters of Lord Clifdeo, the reigning favou-
rite. 11 'same that a dastardly attempt has been made by
some malicious persons to injure the horse, and "'though
such conspiracies are by no means uncommon, the
late attempt was novel in its audecii.y. Lord Chides, it
is well known, is bruised as Telsconine, near Lewes, sasses,
and in the course of Saturday or Sunday last some scoun-
drels dug holes in the turf upon the exercise ground, and
tilled them up with sharp atones, evidently with the lawn'
tioa of maimurg the favourite. Fortunately the traps were
discovered and ell danger avoided. Lord St. Vincent has
offered a reward of 11.01. for the conviction of the rascals
imp'icated in this shameful Waimea'. Betting this after-
noon was not characterised by any importantoperations upon
the coining struggle for the blue tiband of the turf, but the
room and lawn were crowded with sprat/Wm, and many of
the principal aristocratic patrons of racing. There were
also • large number of country subscribers present, who
have arrived in London for ' the Derby week." Lord
Chiden was still firm, for although 5 to 1 was offered,
anything over that figure would have been accepted to •
very large amount. Macaroni at one time threatened to
overhau t the favourite, but after awhile 11 to 2 was laid, and at
the close the acme price could have been had to any money.
Saccbarometer advanced a point from last week's quotation,
9to 1 being the highest offer, after 10 to 1 had been taken
freely. The features of the afternoon were the advance of
liespodar and the retrogression of The Binger. The former
" came " such • hot favourite in the City in the morning
that after being " pot up " at 20 to 1, he ran to as short a
prioe se 12 to 1 offered. At Hyde-park-corner, however,
he was scarcely in such strong demand, although supported
for " lumps of money" at 16 to 1, at which pm be left off
firm. Tom Fool and King of the Vale were etch in good
request at 100 to 6 (taken). The Ranger began
to exhibit symptoms of "going' early in the afternour,
and in his downward course he found a few supper tan here
and there until he reach: 125 to 1 (taken and offered), al-
though one speculator towards the clove endeavoured in
vain to turn the tide of fortune by accepting 20 " tanners"
about Mr. Savile's horse, National Guard would seem to
have got the coup de grace, u the long odds of 40 to 1, al-
though booked about hunt, were not responded to " kindly."
Blue Mantle, who has been on the shelf since his exhibition
in the Two Thousand, was brought out for a brush, out
offers of 50 to 1 failed to tempt his followers. A whole
squadron of °abiders were introduced, several of whom were
invested upon at ridiculously long prices, while some failed
to tempt backers at any odds. Closing prices

DERBY.
sto 1 apt Lord St. Vincent's Lord Clifdes (off)
11 to 2 Mr. Naylot's fdaoesroni (t aed off)
9 to 1 Lord Strathmore 's Secoharaneter (off—
t 10 to l)
10 to 1 Sir F. J °butane's The Gillis (t)
16 to 1 Count F. de Lagrange's Hospodar (t)
16 to 1 Mr. F. Brayisy's Tom Fool (0)
100 to 8 Baron Rothschild's King of the Vale (t)
25 to 1 Mr. Savile's The Ranger (t)
40 to 1 Mr. Wattes National Guard (t)
40 to 1 Mr. Bryan's Fantastic (t)
40 to 1 Clonal Bowlers GUM thil Finn (t & off)
50 to 1 Lord Glasgow's Light Bob (t)
11 to 1 Mr. Cartwright's Scarnander (t)
BO to 1 Mr. Whittaker's King of Utopia (t & off)
50 to 1 Mr. Bowes's Early Purl (t & off)
50 to 1 Captain Lane's Blue Mantle (off)
50 to 1 Mr. H. J. Smith's Avoodale (uft)
1000 to 10 Mr. H. Robinson's Donnybrook (t)
100 to 1 Mr. Bruce's Trojanus (off)
100 to 1 Count liatthyany's Tambour Major (off)
1000 to 5 Lord Palmerston's Baldwin (t)
1000 to 5 Mr. B. H. Jones's Staokmiut (off)
1000 to 5 Mr. J. B. Storky's Bloodia (off)
1000 to 2 Mr. Sale's Safeguard (t)
OAKS,
5 to 2 apt Lord Stamford's Lady Augusto (off)
Bto 1 Mr. l'Assou's Borealis (t)
8 to 1 Mr. F. Watt's Mime Annstreag (t)
9to 1 Mr. Bowes's Old °mop Girl (t)
12 to 1 Lord St. Vincent's The Orphan (t)
2D to 1 Mr. Perry's Fantail (t)
20 to 1 Mr. G. Fitswilliam's Tornado (t)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TinnesDAy.

DERBY.
9to 2 mist Lord Clifilea (t)
11 to 2 Maecatoni (off)
10 to 1 Poorkurometer (t sod of)
12 to 1 Galin (t and a°
14 to 1 Ranger (t and off)
15 to 1 Hoepodar (t )
13 to 1 Tom Fool (of)
18 to 1 King of the Vale (t)
25 to 1 National Guard (t and off)
40 to 1 Fantastic (I)
50 to 1 fleamooder (off)
50 to 1 Light Bob (off)
66 to 1 Blue Mantle (t)
1000 to 1() Donnybrook (off)
MOO to 2 11%4141.0)
THE OAKS.
3 to 1 apt Lady Augusta (t)
8 to 1 Mat Armstrong (inutted)
14 to 1 Avondale (t)
35 to 20 Lord Stamford'a lot (t)

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 14.—Arroninixens.—Cap-
tains the Hon. F. A. Foley, to the Revenge ; G. P. Horuby,
to the Edgar, vine Foley ; and F. S. Trentlett, to the Im-
perviable.
Commiuxlers F. H. M. Martin, to the Buzzard, vice logram
promoted ; W. Arthur, to the Landrail, vice Martin ; H. D.
Grant, to the &OBI* vice Graham, superseded at his own
request; F. Harvey, to the Steady, vies Grant; H. C.
Majendie, to the Albert, commissioned ; T. Le H. Ward, to
the Columbia.. comrainicoed ; and W. F. Irwin, to be in-
specting commander of the Coast Guard, vice Warren,
whew) period of service has expired.
Paymasters W. E. L. Veal. and F. B. Moore (assistant),
k.

Cle;rts F7A. Howe, to the Embalm ; sod A. N. lame, to
the Comet.

Amistant Clerk F. B. Gilbert, to the Orlando.
Engineers C. J. lorhee, to the Leaoder ; P. Butler, to
the Columbine ; and H. Woolley, to the Alert.
Amiatant-Engioeets J. C. Gray and J. I. Rose, to the
Columbine ; C. 0. Hyde and H. leCakill, to the Alert.

THE SPITFIRE D FOREL —While the Charleston
attics has proved, what scarcely needed proof, that if ves-
sels can be detained under the fire of forts, they will coon
prefer to retreat, it gives us very little help towards solving
the problem bow to keep an eeemy's vessel out of range of
Peetunouth dockyard. What is successful for coos fa a
narrow, shallow channel, cannot be relied so for a perma-
nent security in a broad sod deep estuary. Now the fatal
blot in the theory of the Spithead forte is this, that if they
cannot utterly exclude the enemy's vowels? they are useless
sod delusive. If any ship can succeed in running put
them, it reaches at once an " area of invulnerability," in
which, while practically safe itself, for such time as its
SuZserequires, it can at easy nage pitch shells into the
ard. It an only be stopped from this pastime by
being attacked and boarded or sunk by an equal or superior
naval force. If, then, we are to keep at Porten:math a
naval force sufficient to keep us quite safe is the event of
such so encounter, it is clear that the forts are supergeous.
If we are not to keep such a "efficient naval force, the forte
will not 'apply its place ; and if, confiding in them, we per-
mit a possible deficiency of naval strength, they axe tree-
cherous.—The Mirror.

The reoonciliation between Mr. Windham and
his wife (ate Agar Willoughby) is empire. Oa Wednes-
day they were walking through the dress' of Norwich
together, followed by a reside/able number of persona and
the =has sleo been observed in Mr. Windham's coach,
or °melbas. On Tarday eight, Mr. and Mrs.
Windham rayed at Captain Cholmondeley's, at Orilla.
seer Norwich.

Dlt. DS JoNoia's LienT-Bsowx COD LIVIIIL On.
—Cue great recomnindatian of Ws ell la Mai • very small
ar
dose wen prods** more tailrfeekr7 trials than the Impat
the ordinary kinds. Dr. Dam mg• phyvki, to the
gnaws. Dispense Ty, states .—•• I have been la the haldt of or-
der%r so other then Dr. de Amyl% Ligbahrowa OM liver OIL
I seldom presarlio ahi dos rasa • Meer& ipxstst, and
consider that • tea spo..fad la equal to Its affects to • table-
spoonful of the pale oll."—Bold only in cemaled bottlakrzd.d.,
Mas ~ and IS. by Dr. d• Jonah's wits, Amer.
I. Landes ; and chis—(Advailleurast.l

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
Jaws de Mato Mew°, 44, Peruvian soldier, was charged
with the wilful murder of Manuel Rodriguez Silva.
Mr. Daly prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the
prisoner.
This charge was preferred cruder very peculiar circum-
stances. It will be remembered that 011 the 20th of March
last a very serious affray took place between the seamen
sad military belonging to the Peruvian corvette the Aram,
lying at Blackwell, during which seven persona lost their
lives. The deceased, who was • youth about 17 years of
age, bad, unhappily for him, gone to visit his brother, who
was an officer belonging to the Areo, on the day the affair
happened, and he was in the cabin when the prisoner, who
was one of the crew, was alleged to have rushed in with
• drawn bayonet in his hand, and in • very excited
state, and the deceased, snook with terror, and with • view
to avoid what he eoaddered imminent peril, jumped out of
the cabin window with the inteetioe of swimming on shore,
but he was,
eaoll.szop ily, drowned. Upon these facts the
h
prisoner was with the crime of wilful murder, upon
the legal assumption that the prisoner, by his violence, sod
at the same time armed with • deadly weapon, had reused
such a well paraded apprehension of violence in the mind
of the deceased, that he was responsible for the consequences
of this feeling. The evidence of identity was not at all dear,
and it will be seen that the cue for the prosecution meted
entirely upon an assomptioe of law.
After one or two witnesses had been examined, the jury
expressed au opinion that the evidence was not by any
means of a character to sup pat the charge, sad they there-
fore at once returned a verdict of Net °witty.

Sarah Wigley, 25, was charged with the wilful murdered
her male illegitimate child.
Mr. Poland'prosecuted ; Mr. Cooper defended the prisoner
through the kind instrumentality of the sheriffs.
This was one of those painful miss in which the mother
of an illegitimate child was charged with having wilfully
destroy. d its Ede in order to avoid the shame sad exposure
coosequent u its birth, • elms of offence that would
appear to be, pon
unhappily, but too frequent. The prisoner
appeared to have been a respectable girl, and she was en-
gaged as domestic servant with a family residing in Great
Queeneinet. On the 39th of March she we. (mod in the
kitchen in a very weak and almost fainting state, and it
was very soon discovered that she had bees recently
delivered of a child, and, iedeed, she did not appear
herself to have denied that this was the ores. Upon
a search being made on the following day, the dead body of
a male child war &wavered in the cistern, in which there
was about a foot depth of water, and it was found that a
ligature bad bean tied tightly twice round the neck. Mr.
Bennett, a surgeon, was promptly called in, and from the
examination he made of the body, be came to the ooeclusion
that the infant was full grown, and that it we. born alive
and that its death resulted from strangulation, occevionol
by the ligature that was tied round its seek. He, however,
admitted on crow-examination that nearly all the appear-
ances upon which be founded his opinion might have pre-
sented themselves without the child being boi a alive in the
ewe required by the law to support a charge of wilful
murder.
Mr. Cooper made a most feeling appeal to the jury on
behalf of the prisoner, and after the learned judge had
summed up, the jury found the prisoner Not Guilty of
murder, but Guilty of endeavouring to conceal the birth.
She was sentenced to six months' bard labour, and the
unfortunate young woman was removed from the bar shriek-
ing violently, sod apparently suffering great mental agony.
Harriet Goodlife, 35, a married woman, was charged
upon an indictment and by the coroner's uisition with
the wilful murder of her child, James Goodlifte.
Mr. Taylor prosecuted ; and the prisoner we. defended by
Mr. F. H. Lewis.
. . . .

The evidence in this cue was very short, and it con-
clusively established the fact that the unhappy pri-
soner had deliberately caused the death of one of
her children by dropping it out of the window of a
room she occupied on the second floor of a house in Blossom.
street, Norton Foliate. It appeared that the prisoner and
her husband, who le a borsekeeper in the same neighbour.
hood, had three children, the youngest of whom was about
nine months old, and it was the death of this child that wry
the subject of inquiry. From the evidence of the landlord
of the house where the prisoner lived, it appeared that oa
the morning of the 25th of April the prisms: was very
violent, and her conduct was such ea to lead to an
impression on his mind that she was ineaue. She was
quieted by him and her husband at this time, but
about one o'clock she again became violent, but
at length she calmed hermit, and her husband
went to his work, leaving the prisoner in the room with her
three children. Nothing more occurred after this, until
about four o'clock, when an alarm wu given, and the pri-
soner was seen to lift up the window and drop, or throw,
the child into the street, by which act it received injuries
which caused its death very shortly afterwards. When she
was taken into custodshe did not attempt to deny having
committed the act, but on the contrary she said to the
policeman, " I have done it ; take me. I did it through
distress." There was no doubt, however, that at
the time she acted in the way stated the prisoner
was in an unsound state of mind, and the persons living
in the house stated that for several days before the occur-
rence she had acted in the most [extraordinary manner, and
she was so violent and talked so incoherently that her
husband would not let her go out ; and Mr. Tender, a
surgeon living in the neighbourhood, who uw the prisoner
two days before the occurrence, expressed his opinion that
she was at that time insane. He also said that, in his
opinion, she was progressing towards the condition of not
being able to distinguish between right and wrong, orto koow
what she was doing. The witnesses for the prosecution also
stated that previous to the occurrence taking piece the pri-
mmer always acted as a kind and affectionate mother to bar
children, and Mr. Gibson, the surgeon of the gaol of Nea-
p* stated that be had paid attention to her since she had
been in confinement, and he was of opinion that at the pre-
sent time she was in an unsound etate of mind.

irLevis was about to addrem the jury upon these
note, when they intimated that they con►idered it unne-
cessary for him to do so, and at once returned a verdict of
'Nor Guilty on the ground of insanity.
The prisoner was ordered to be detained in custody during
her Majesty's pleasure.
ElizabetA Heeky. 19, a morose, determined-looking girl,
was charged with feloniously setting fire to the workhouse
belonging to the guardians of the parish of St. George•in-
the-East, the irdietment alleging that at the time the act
was committed a number of peewits were within the
building.
Mr. Poland conducted the prosecution.
It appeared that the prisoner had been for nearly two
years, on and off, chargeable to the parish of St. George,
and on the 17th of April she was in the workhouse, and in
consequence of some misconduct Mr. Hughes, the master of
the establishment, ordered her to be removed from the
ordinary paupers and placed in the vagrant ward. In this
ward a quantity of straw is kept for the persons who are
placed there to lie down upon. and about seven o'clock in
the evening this straw was discovered to be in flames. It
was ascertained that the prisoner bad obtained possession of
a inciter match, and it appeared that she bad ignited it and
' deliberately set fire to the straw, and when she was taken
into custody she in the most impudent manner avowed
what she had done, and said she would do it again if they
did not give her her tea. Fortunately the fire was extin-
guished before any further mischief was done than the
breaking of some of the windows and the charring of a
portion of the wood work of the ward, but it appeared that
the sleeping room of the assistant matron was directly over
the vagrant ward, and there were eight hundred inmates in
the workhouse, and the consequences of the mischievous
and wicked act committed by the prisoner might have been
very serious indeed.
The prisoner did not my anything in answer to the charge,
but handed up a written paper to his lordship, Use contents
of which did not transpire.
The jury, without any hesitation, found the prisoner
Guilty, and
The Learned Judge, after commenting upon the wicked-
ness of her conduct, sentenced her to be kept in penal servi-
tude for six years.

NEW COURT.
The trial of Randent; the fraudulent bankrupt, was re-
named yesterday morning, and has not yet been brought to
• close.
The Recorder sat in the Third Court during the day,
trying two men, named Crowther and J. Graham, for con-
spiracy, but as the case for the prosecution bad only been
partly roe into when the court rase we defer a report until
it is finished.

ATKINS AND ANOTHER v. BOUCICAULT.

BRITISH HOME POE INCURABLES.

The annual general meeting of the governors and
members of this institution leek plane yesterday at the
London Tavern, Bishopegaterstrest ; Colonel the Bon. P. P.
(Just in the chair. A report wee read, which gave • very
satisfactory account of the condition and progress of the
institution. The building, at present in the oectpatioa
of the British Orphan Asylum at Clapham-rise, Lad sow
become the property of the trustees of this charity. In the
course of a few days they would enter into pomades, end
would have the gristificatios of opening it very shortly for
the reception of patients. The remsioder of the lease (30
years) had been purchased for the sum of 2,5001. ; audit had
hem estimated that for the necessary alieratioss, purchase
of fixtures, furniture, As., • further sum of 1,5031.
would be required. In addition to this the board
had thought it advisable that a sum of 2,0001.
should be invested to meet all demands for annual
repairs, and payment of the ground rent of 201. per annum,
Ss.
.; the general funds being thus left uomnburassed and
pplicable to the current expenses of the charity. To obtain
amthee=ireTdhaemount
board .(6i,oool.shed i)tatospbe:ial food bad
tood been mart-
from that help which was afforded to the out-patients) the
institution was in every MEW of the word a home, and no:
simply a hospital. At the three elections which have already
elected. The
14 out-patients amid 4 in-patients had teen
The annual subscriptions to this date had !lean to
1,0701., and were daily increasing, a result which might be
considered • subject (of oosgratulatiou, net quite two yeas
having elapsed sauce the charity was founded. The finan-
cial statement showed that the sanest subscriptions received
from the let May, 1862, to the 31st March, 1863, amounted
to 9381. 94. 6d., and the donations for all purposes M 3,5641.
16s. fid. ; 5,5501. bad been inverted in approved securities •
and the ialanos in the hands of the treasurer was 6921.55. sd.
The report wee adopted, and ten patients were elected—via,
6 in-patients and 4 for a pension of 20/. per araium—from a
list of candidates numbering 60.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Considerable excitement prevailed yesterday at
Woolwich. in coovedueoee of the suicide of Mr. George
Richard Roberta, a muter baker, for many years residing
in that town, the act having been committed under ciimun-
Mance, of a painful end extraordinary nature. It appears
that a young woman, named Frances Eliza Pastas, for some
months servant at the residence of Mr. Roberts, surrendered
herself to the police, on her own confession, of basing at-
tempted to poison her mistress on the previous Sunday,
stating that she bad been instigatee. to commit this act by
her master, between whom and herself an improper intimacy
had ex;sted. The young woman WU removed
to the Woolwich police-station, at noon yes-
terday, and, subsequently. Mr. Inspector Linvell
had an interview with Mr. Roberts, informed him of the
serious charge made against him, sod requested that he
would voluntarily attend the police court at 3 o'clock, in
order to be premot at the examination of his accuser,
Paxton. To this request Mr. Roberts readily amented, bat
about one hour afterwards he was found suspended to the
beam in the roof of his stable, having committed suicide in
a determined manner. Yesterday afternoon the you=
woman, Frances Eliza Paxton, aged eighteen, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Traill, charged on her ownconfession with
attempting to administer to Elizabeth Roberts • quantity
of vitriol, the same being deadly poison, with intent to com-
mit murder. The only evidence adduced was that given by
Police-Inspector Jas. Laird], of the R division, who said that
on that morning he went to the residence of the prisoner's
father, at 3, Charles-street, Woolwich, and saw the
prisoner, whom he asked if it wee true that she bad =-
premed • wish to make an important statement to the
police? The prisoner said it was, and witness cautiowed
her in the usual manner. The prisoner then made • state-
ment to the effect that on the previous Sunday evening her
mistress was away from home, and her master sent her for
two half pints of beer, which she obtained in two separate
mugs. On her return she bad her supper and drank one of
the half pints of beer, the other being intended for her
mistrees. During the time that the prisoner was having
her supper her muter was conversing with her, and com-
plained that his wife kept such late bourn. Her master
took • bottle from a shelf sad gave to the
prisoner, saying, "That will settle her." The
prisoner then, in the presence of her mister,
poured a considerable quantity of the liquid from
the bottle into the mug containing the beer, and afterwards
went to bed. The prisoner also stated that her master had
seduced her shortly after she entered his service. Inspector
imtvill now produced the bottle, which was labelled
"vitriol, poison," and contained a quantity of that fluid.
He also stated that on returning home Mrs. Roberts was
about to drink the beer, but rejected it in consequence of
its unpleasant taste, and kept it until the following morn-
ing, when it was banded to Dr. Stuart, who at =de stated
that it was mixed with poison. The prisoner was then
remanded, and the magistrate directed that the beer pm.
duced should be subjected to analysis. Mr. Cartier,
coroner for the district, will bold an inquiry relative to the
suicide.