The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-03 00:00:00

MURDER OP AN INMATE OP THE GREEN-

WICH UNION.

Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held st
a protracted incjuiry at the Greenwich union-house, last CO
night, into the mrciumitances attending the death of Samuel
Barber, an inmate, aged 71.
It appeared that the deceased, who was described as a re- 100
mutably. quiet and well-behaved man, had been an inmate 10
of the ninon-home about twelve months, and on the day la
prim hug Cbristmee-day be left the establishment on three
days' leave leave of abeam to visit his son and son-in-law, :t
poor persons living at Deptford. On the following Friday fa
afternoon, at four o'clock, he left his son's hove for the at.
LTof returning to the union, distant about two miles, se
, 'then In perfect health and cheerfuL He arrived at at
the union, as shown by an entry in the porter's book, at et
five o'clock. On the Saturday he got about as usual ; but Elt
on Sunday afternoon be complained of being unwell, and
he was taken to his bed b the wardsman, who observed To'
that his eyes were consi ly swollen. The deoesaed, at
at this tune, declined to have any medical attend- as.
ante, saying he should be better in the morning ; but at•
on Monday, being exceedingly ill, Mr. Kilby, the master Ea-
of the house, was sent for. In answer to quo 8t
time put to him by the master, as to how the injury to his 84
Las was occasioned, the deceased replied that he and as.
another man were walking together on the afternoon of his BR
returning to the borne, and that when within a few yards of 20
the union two or three drunken navvies knocked him into 22:
the read from a the footpath and ill-used him, as also the 88
man who was with him, and who then went on to Wool- so
wioh. Medical aid was then rendered, but the old men as
became wens, and died on Wednesday afternoon. The re- ili
salt of a post "writes examinatiou showed that deceased
had sustained injury from blows to both eyes, an ;0`•
Arneson of the skin on the lower jaw and also on the as.
posterior parts, and that the spleen was ruptured. The as.
cause of death resulted from this latter injury, which, at
aoeording to the medical evidence, could not have been o ica- at
aimed by deceased falling, but arose from a kick or blow in
the abdomen or on the spine.
The Coroner went very carefully through the evidence, alt lI
and remarked that it was decay clear, from the state- Sl
meat made by the deceased to the witnesses who bad been et
examined, that the deceased had been grossly ill-used out-
side the union-house on his returning to the union.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict as.
of " Wilful murder against some person or persons un- Ilt.
known.°

NOBLE LIFEBOAT SEETIOES.-RESCUE OF ix
ix
TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS.

BRAIJNTON LIGHTHOUSE, NORTH DEVON,
FIDAT NIGHT.
I have to report (writes Mr. Lamping, the light- ea
house-keeper) that some noble services ware performed this at•
afternoon by the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat 'ratan- fa
lion es this station, to the crew and passengers, consisting fa.
of 28 persons, of the ship Louisa, of Appledare. The vessel ge,
was bang towed over the bar by two steam tugs. In the 10
Mari" b., Wall running the towing warps parted and el
the drifted headlong amongst the breakers. The life- et.
beat the institution was instantly launched and rescued IA
28 persona, including the master's wife. It is expected tti
that the ship will become a total wreck. gl
The poor people wee brought to the ootnmoclions life- at.
boat-house just erected by the institution on these deserted et
meads.
This valuable lifeboat bag, on a previous occasion, yen-
deed important serves in a gale of wind to • shipwrecked s‘
Brew.

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strong to fresh, some
rain.
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fresh to strong,
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The Viscount de Vougy, director-general of the XI
electric telegraph throughout France, has invited several
scientific members of the National Institute and some of rs
the chief clerks In the telegraph department to assist at 111
experiments about to be made with the typo-telegraph in-
vented by the Chevalier &milli. The typo-telegraph of ft
this scientific engineer can print 500 despatches of 25 words
within an hour. According to the system of Morse now in ip
use, it would require not lees than 20 wires and 50 clerks to 1111
accomplish a similar work. Should the experiments prove 11
satisfactory, it is add that the government will concede to te
the Chevalier Bonalli the working of the line from Paris to I:
Lyons and Marseilles. se

Mozart's " Requiem" is to be performed on
Monday next in the church of Notre Dune, Paris. is

The musical writings of M. Berlioz are in pro-
green of translation into German by Herr PohL IN
We (Athemmunt) learn that it is the intention of
several ethnologist* of the more advanced liberal school to SO
found a new society, to be entitled the "Anthropological
Society of London," upon the model of the Societe Anthro- to
pologique de Paris. The support of many of our beet ethno-
logists has already been given to the new plan. _

A vary successful experiment was made two days
sham at Hans with a gun, invented by Count Haudetot,
for throwing a rope from the shore to a ship in distress.
The rope was retried a distance of 240 yards by a shot
weighing tea pounds. The inventor says that the greatest
distance to which a rope has been thrown by a similar
instrument is 200 yards, and that the shot used weighed
twenty pounds.

Weirs
Aberdeen
Leith 2.12.22
Ardrosean —TAIT 41
Portman lane 41
delver :119.47
Valentla
129.53
olp2as=d7 ,20.48 42
Liverpool 19.51
Teenbrote _19.57 el