The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-03 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE LATE BREVET•MAJOR

HARRISON.

The death of the late Brevet-Major Gustavo.
Haulm, which was reported the other day in General
Simpsor's despatch so Lord Paean, has osossimed the
greeted degree of grief to his numerous friends and mlso
tires. This valuable as well as most amiable ofilesr was tho
youngest see or the lac Rev. Wm. Hiram, Cason of
Wizahrttey, and Vicar ee Forams, Hasa ; he was also
nephew to the late Sir Jasper Nicole, some years ago ma-
sander in-aisle( the army in India, sad to whom he was
aide-de-eusp as well as sou-in-law, having married ea of
Sir Jasper'. daughters, sow the bereaved widow of this
most szaaliont oSere, and thus prematurely left with two
inhaling sitildna to mourn has Inoperable Lou.
Maier Harrison, after levies peered unesethed through
all his Indian eampaigas, la the 63rd Regiment of Infantry,
was fortunate oragh to go through Me battles*, Alma,
Balaklam, era lakermeam, with equal good fortune,
though his regiment, the 63rd, suffered with dm green
severity in loss, both as to alms and is... Bowomr, la
the 7th of July, being the held Aker is ousassmd. when
about la enter the tremble. he was struck by a amen ball,
Midi husked him of his Mess, and killed Mu instanta-
neously, leaving behind him a moat hanombla name, aid
indicting a severe lose an his country.
Ha was buried with all due fumal honours os Oatlssart-
hill, mat to the gram of his nosh valued friend and emulated,
who fell by hie sib at the battle of lakermann.

LONDON SOCIETY FOR TE4CEING THE BLIND TO
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wssm, ht it be, bes• found larsithabis.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDIrroNE, Atraurr 2.

11/01R Ml. MIMS WIOSTIIIAJI YID a SPECIAL JUT.
ROWD Y. EALLWIT.

This was ma action to recover damages for a litel. Mr.
=ti.rl; 811". Edwina aa ",enl7trer. "ma,
sadf the
Meapp appearedrg for the defendant. Q.C.,
Mr. flerjeast abbe, In his Wier to the jail far the
plegotit geld this he was by preiession • , end he
had for for yeses bald the position ot gml dug, of
the Ckessismadistrictef the Bridge Oakes, near Canterbury.
The &deadest wee a elergyetha of the established Alvah,
he was the view of Pother& is the same neighbourhood.
He regretted to have to lay; much a Bess before tio jury, and
eves sow be was histructed to state that ifthedefeathat would
make as *pokey far the injury which he had sideubtedly
initiated upon the plaintiff, he would be whole satisfied,
sad he had so desire to ask for damages at the herds of the
jury. As there esessed, however, no dolts oa toe part of
the defendant to secept this reposition ha bad so aurae-
ties but to lay before thus tie cdrounstancas wader which
the plaintiff felt himself oempelled to brieg thU smith is
cedar to vindicate his as:setae from the sajustiffible attack
that bad been made upon it by the defendun. The
leaned setjesat then proceeded to state that it appeared
for some tine previous to the month of March last there had
bosh same ill-feeling on the part of the defeedint towards
the plaintiff; and be said it would appear that he
took advantage of some circumstances nut occurred
In the parish of Pelisse about that period to gratify his
rematmeat, and inn at serious injury upon the palatal. It
appethed that it was the of the duties of the plaintiff; as
misihel hither of the anion, to vaccinate the children of the
peer peep* sad ea the 18th of March he perfumed that
=l______Methe °landed of
traretlrise°WftsoilPe °etre named
was egewinainge, sad it was not denied that the Infant in
qthelloo was scrofulous from its birth, and was sill 'flitted
with that milady. The plaintiff, however, took every pre-
castles; he sever entertained the least iateationof making
us of the valetas matter from
othisiZ and he was very
mationtaTies4 epos bh galas hie issue a few days
le the villages of , Pathan and
Waltham, for the purpose of vsesimating the children,
that the whole of the neighbourhood was In •
state of uproar, and that as impression had got abroad that
he intended to make as of the vaccine matter from the in-
fected child. lie deemed it prudent not to emptiest* any
children at Petbsa or Chatham, but at Waltham he did
vaccinate one child, but he said it would be shown that the
operation wee performed with perfectly heathy matter.
Oa the 19th of Marsh, the defendant published the libel
which was the subject of the present settee. It consisted
of two letter, the of which was addressed to he Board of
Guirdians of lie Bridge Union, and the other to the Poor-,
law Commissioners in Lando', and they both centained the
same statement, which was to the effect that the plaintiff
had vaccinated • child that had been agitated with
maul& from Its birth, and that be had afterwards
need the vaccine matter from this child to a healthy
child at Waltham. The defendant is the letter stated
that he was induced to act is this matter solely by • desire
to do his deity as a clergyman in rot/citing his poor &gib-
bous" from such a proceeding, and expressed an opisica
that a medical man who could act in each a MUM was
salt to be entrusted with the charge of the health and the
lives of the poor, and that he ought to be dismissed from his
°Mee. The learned aerjeaat having read the Mel pro-
ceeded to state, that upon the receipt of the sommuniostion
the Poor Law Comesissiosen immediately instituted en ie.
quiry, and the defendant was appealed to, and called upon
to prove the assertions he had reeds. Ile was, hominy,
unable to do so, end as he had positively refused to make
say apology, or to offer any reparation to the plaintiff, be
had no alternative but to institute the pretest proceedings.
Mr. Forth, the clerk to the Board of Cluardisas, produced
the letter which they received from the &fondest.
In answer to a queen= put by Mr. James, the witness
said that the defendant had bees vicar of Pekes for
twenty years. He was formerly a member of the Board of
Guardians, and ha lied always taken very great interest
not only in the spiritual but the temporal welfare of his
poorer parishioner*.
Hr. Garrett Bead, the plaintiff, was neat examined. He
stated that be had been five years employed as studied
°Meer of this union, sod he described the astute of his
duties. He admitted that he was aware that the child
in gnostion and all the family were scrofulous ; bet
he said he had no infertile& of making any me
of tos vaccine matter from this child, sail be
said that, in peist of feet, the operation never
came to anything, and ou the eighth day after, which
was the proper period for the formation of the pustules,
there wm amain bat a slight redness. Upon finding the
state of thing* at Pelham, he thought it prudent, be ssid,
motto thedeste say of the thildren on the 18th of March,
but at Waltham lbe did perform the operation epos as
chi d, bat he insieled that he did so with perfeetty healthy
matter. He said that he bed had sons altercation with the
defendant apes several Calallians is amount of i his inter-
fering with his palest% mai es the kb of Marsh he told
him Sot be weld set pop say Mllmelea to any messages he
left at his waggery at Petiole. as he had occasioned his hay.
lag tide a great =ay mike tmotommerily.
Mr. lame orass-eammthed the *ha at esesiderable
langtk mai it appeared fsem the thesteas given by►
hien that
the alioseation be rammed to some from the defend-
ant tomplethieg of his kadadog that the pamper pa- ,
dents shield p to his own esokreace, five mile, off, when
they wooled be see his, sad remesocrsuel epos the hard-
ship of pate people, some of wheat had only half a crown a
week. anialimmtlefi to go mush • distance. Hs admitted
that I[r. Hanel ea seam etemithe inquired for proper
eases where wimp @Mho& might be mat by Unto the poor
palthts. It also append thee, with Waist.* to the child
Coacher, he had algold a smdbate to the effect that the
vaccination was a weessidul ems, sad he endeavoured to
aocouat for this by saying that it was a mistake, but, altgoigh
he wee premed by the learned judge, as well as by the
counsel, upon the plat, he did mot give say very clear
explanation of the nature of the mistake, or how he came te
represent that the vaccination was a successful one, when,
according to his evidence, the operation hed not bees
attended by any mutt.
This clamed the cam for the plaintiff.
Mr. James addressed the jury for the defeadaat Ina most
able and eloquent speech. Hs said that it appeared to him
that there had bees much more involved in this inquiry
Ikea the mere private rights of
the parties, aad that the
public were also deeply interested in that inquiry. He
smoldered it was the good fortune of this country that there
amid be is every village a kind pastor who was ready to
step is sad retest the poor, not only from many other evils
to which dogteeth subjected, but also from the unkindness
and want of attention of the pariah doctor, and he was pre-
pared to coetamd that no more had been done by the defend-
sat as the present ocossioa, sad that be was perfectly jail-
, Mei In all the promedings that he had takes in this ram-
, Mg, mod that he had dose no more than a Christian pastor
, ought to have does. It had been said that all the plaintiff
required was as apology ; if the defendant had felt that he
bed done anytbieg wrong he would have readily &polo-
, mimed. bet ashe felt that he had not, and that he ha d merely
=dforward to protect the poor people of his neigh-
front the shameful treatment whirb, even so-
,
Mew to the evident. of the plaintiff, they had been sub-
tested to, he could not apologise, tool he would leave it to the
jury to decide between them. The learned home/ then
pro ceded to comment upon the facts, and said It was ad-
mitted that the operation had first been performed upon the
diseased child on the Bth of March, and on the 16th, eight
days afterwards, which was the usual period for the forma-
tin of the vaccine matter, the plaintiff again same to the
wilier, with the intention ofperforming the operation upon
ethic Andrea. It was admitted that the whole asighbour-
Weil was in an uproar, and the withal, of the children
ware magegany alarmed and indigent, sad the plain-
tiff, ehesedhei to his own admission, did not consider it
prothaq keen the state of feeling of the parish, to perform
the sometime upon any of the children at Pelham, but
it sound that he west into the neighbouring village of
Waltham, and did there perform the operation apes one
child, elm as be asserted, healthy matter. /Zs would mot
go so for mto mewl that this was not a true statement on
the part of thepisiatiff, although **Joey might probably
have their own opinion epos the matter. It was not na-
eetsery, however. on the port of the &loathe; to prove
that the occurrence took pleas as repreesated. All that
was required was to show that there was reasonable ground
tee Idea to believe that it had taken place, and that whoa
the defendant +Meths letter to the Poor-law Commissioners
he did so bona fide. sad was not actuated by any malicious
Intention. He submitted that: the evident* sbeadsatly
made out that there had been greet misconduct fa the treat-
ment of the poor people, and that the defeadsat had °sly
dose his duty In making each an important matter known
In the only quarter whose by law redress could be obtained.
At this stage of the Gass the trial, which oommeneed on
Wednesday evening, was adjourned to this morning, when
tt was resamed. _ _

Mr. llostanad,the registrar of the Cheatham di. let.
predeisset the wirdisate referred to by the learned enamel,
while repreeenesd that the vaseinattra of Gusher's dead
was a esecessfal ass, .ad said that he received it la the et-
Mealy emu's et buds's', he amid not whether
fay
lbws ohs Wad se plaintibatff or not, and he ask ea emery
is Ids beds is assordesse with it.

Ti. Rev. IrliSi;7Zadmat. woe ant essatised.
Heald that be kens the plaintiff u the medical case, of
the dhlekt, but he declared that he had never entertained
=reit ill-feeling towards his, sad he was sly
l, ass in this matter in conseqsses of the informs-
Ca No wee gives to his by poor women who ware his
peridasses. He said that on the 16th et Mash he was in
the Silage of Pettus, when a wens eased Beam case
ap te him sad asked his if she was misspelled to has her
Slid segued Tres $ bed "abject, and he told her cer-
tainly ass. /he then told him that she had pee to Mr.
Boors with her child, to have it vassisted, and
that Ms. CwMar sass is with her child sad said that Yr.
Seed lied lid bee to Sim it in seder that vaccine setter
sight be taken doses tzatadd she said this she had broaght
Ist that acny cps lashthis, sa at an like to has
it vosieeted bins ends whist Teo Sher wens
sada a skills elelnemat M htss. sM deerft etleeverds
Ms. Pubs ems to his and SU Ma SS M. Bed had
divested her to bring the child, that he take cassis
natls bass it. Mrs. Coeds, subsegnee told Ms that
the WNW bad takes matter from the and nadir
than he fait it his duty to esklisinieste with
the bead of and the Poor-lay thstinhelosen,
in ads to passel the
asperzeilbseenZweela risks.
Casistmleadi—,Me hem the ,atioe he
resolved ben these doses, and ly was
%get tit Ibistif disainsd beet rapplelmat. /1*

THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1855.

irtatevw with tin plidmiff, sot did
wlOO.

Mwk foray bowels I lean.
The women =Sr brriletemlent were also ea
seined, and they animal Ide elateutent as to what
eccarred, and the representations made by them to him
upon the eabjeet.
Mr. Locke haring seamed up the ease toe the defendant,
Mr. Serjeaat Ibis mode a forcible reply on the whole case,
contitading that the defendant was not justified in the mime
he had taken, and that before be wrote a letter of snob a
'hamster, which stu calculated to utterly ruin sad destroy
tM pisdnUfidse ought to bare taken some step to saaertala
whether there was any foundation for making so 'Mow ea
ettemation spinet him.
The learned Jades having lontmed up, the jury after deli-
berating a short time in the box, said they should like to be
informed how the pleal. tiff was remunerated for his
estrieee ?

Ir. isstioe Wightmen said be did not see that this had
anything to do with the case, bat he suppoeed there was no
objection to the inquiry being answered.
The plaintiff said he received 10e. per annum for every
adult patient, and half-a•orown per annum fer attending
upon the old and infirm.
The jury then retired, and after being absent about a
quarter of an hour, they gave a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages 601.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WELLe, JULY 31.
ClOl3l COVIIITe-WOlll 1113. .11J111101 WILLIMS.

ATTIMPT TO 11011111/i.

Charles Crieldle waa ludicted for attempting to murder
his wife, Susannah Criddle, at Cheddar, in this county, on
the 26th of June last.

Mr. Leigh prosecuted ; the prisoner was undefended, but
Mr. Hodges (at the request et the learned judge) watched
the miss for the defence.
It appeared that for some time put the prisoner and
his wife had lived very unhappily, end on the day in ques-
tion they were living separate and apart from each other.
The wife supported herself and two children as best she
could by her own exertion. the prisoner not contributing
anything towards their maintenance. On the 26th of June,
the prisoner's wife was at work in • field at Chedder with
some other women gathering peas, and between 3 and 4
o'clock in the afternoon et that day, as they were sitting
down to rest, the prisoner came into the field. He bad pre-
viously borrowed • gun, and had bean to a shop at Ax.
bridge, where he purchased some powder, shot, and cape,
and was particular) enxiona that the ceps should be
good. Having pure those articles, he went to the
field where his wife was at work, and on coming
to the spot when she was sitting with the other women,
be told her with en oath that he intended to do for her,
recommended her to say her prayers, and prepare to die;
and for that purpose ha said be would give her Ave minutes.
The wife got up end ran away, screaming out, when the
rinser mewed the gun at her and snapped it, but it
aid not go off. He presented it • second time, end
snepped it egaic, but it did not then go off. He then said,
If I can't do it one way, I will another," and pursued his
wife and beat her with the butt end of the goo, so much as
to break the stack in pieoes. Leaving his wife insensible on
the ground, the prisoner came back, end with the barrel of
the gun he beat Ann Wolfe, whom he met, and left her
also insensible. The screams of the other women attracted
the attention of a man who was working in • neighbouring
field, end he came up, pursued the prisoner, and appre-
hended him. The stook and barrel of the gun were deli-
vered to the A:bridge constable, by whom the charge was
extracted, and the shots were found to eorrespond with those
purchased by the prisoner shortly before the attack wee
made on his wife.

Tliepriso•Wcrose- examined his wife and some of the
witnesses, with a view to show that the women who were
working with his wife had been aggravating him, but they
positively denied having done so.
The prisoner declined saying anything in his defence, and
his lordship having summed up, the jury d a verdict
of Guilty.
His lordship, in parsing sentence, said that what the real
history of this dark transaction was he did not know, but
this he did know, that tr.' conduct of the prisoner was more
like that of a brute than • man, much lass a Christian. It
was impossible to consider the case as any other than one of
the meet aggravated character, and the sentence of the
court was that the prisoner be transported for the term of
his natural life.

J. Wasters, the 'wagger, was convicted of as attempt to
Murder.

Mr. Bedard, of Tolland, having :mired a quantity of
wheat from his barn,esttwo of his men, named George Ward
and William Connibur, to watch. Oa the night of the 7th of
Kay, while so engaged, the prisoner's father wu caught In
Kuban, and was being taken to Mr. Endures house, when
Ws son attempted a fINCLI4. Connibur warned him off, and
struck at him with the butt end of a gun ; but Western at-
tacked Centaur with a billhook, and inflicted several
wounds about his head, from the effects of which, in the
opinion of Dr. Edwards, he would suffer for the rest of his
life.

The prisoner was found Guilty and 'esteem of death re•
corded 'gaunt him.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-NEWCASTLE, Am. 1.

CASON AT 111011.111 SHIIILDS.

David AWDovsell (22), chemist and druggist, described in
the calendar as of superior education, was charged with
unlawfully setting Sr* to a certain dwelling house, the
propert of Wm. Linskill, En., at North Shields, on the
21.1 of July.
Mr. Davison and Mr. Fowler prosecuted, and the prisoner
was defended by the Hon. A. Liddell.
The prisoner carried on business at a 'hop in Bell-street,
North Shields, where • fire broke out about 2 o'clock on
the morning named in the indictment. Just before the fire
broke oat, two policemen, who were on duty near the pre-
Ofi/00, heard a noise in the shop as of breaking glass, and
by the fanlight observed a moving light in the shop, and
the shadow of a male person moving with it. The pri-
soner, who did not then reside on the premises, wee seen to
put his head out of • passage adjoining the premises, and
then go back again and run away. The fire broke out
directly afterwards. Evidence was giving showing that a
cart load of goods bad left the premises on the Monday pre-
ceding the tire; that the shop was found to be empty of,
stock, with crates and wicker baskets piled one upon cash
other, seized up with loose straw; and that, when the
policemen entered the premises, • keg of naptha, open at
the top, was blazing furiously near the end of the counter.
Prisoner, when arrested, stated that he had not been in his
shop, or in Bell street, since be closed the premises between
11 and 12 o'clock the previous evening.
The jury, after an absence of two hours, found the pri
sonar Ow' yon the second count, which charged him with
having set fire to the premise. with intent to defraud the
Norwich Laminae Company; and his lordship sentenced
his. to fifteen years' transportation.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.—RIrraug, JULY 31.

CHILD 111111D111,.
Margaret Davies was charged with the wilful murder of
her illegitimate child by drowning it in a canal at Llan-
gollen, on the 10th of March last.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had,
about six weeks previously, been confined in Corwen work.
house, which place she left under the plea of going into
service, stating that she should leave her infant at the house
cf her half brother, whose wife had promised to take charge
of it. Prisoner, on arriving at her brother's house, was
questioned as to where her child was, when she
stated that it had died in the workhouse some
weeks previously, and had been buried by the authorities
there. She also gave • detailed account of its funeral.
Several witness, deposed to seeing prisoner on her way
from the workhouse with the child alive and well, to the
prisoner being seen lurking near the canal, and to the body
of the child being ultimately taken therefrom.
The judge carefully summed up; and the jury, after half
an boar's absence, retuned with a verdict of Guilty, with a
strong recommendation to mercy.
His lordship, having most feelingly addressed the accused,
passed seatisse of death upon her in the usual form.
The prisoner alone, a good-looking young woman, re-
ceived it with apathetic indifference. The recommendation
to mercy, the prisoner havieg evinced much sorrow for the
child, will be forwarded to the proper quarter.

We are apprised of the arrival in London of
Colonel Bi'vino Olivieri, who, in the last war of
Monte Video against General Utquiss, oonmunded the
Italian Legion named " Valente " (Valarous). We pub-
lished a letter of his on the state of the republic in the
Ds* News of the Bth November, 1863. Colossi Olineri,
while travelling in Italy, was arrested and esidesesed to
eighteen years at the galleys by the Inquisitind Tdbinti
et the Sacra Console at Rome, on the pretext of pendia
gams& He ham lately been released at the instance of its
risen purnment. The colonel distinguished hissed[
War, measly in the service of the Argentine Republik
but previesdy in the Italian War of Independence.
THE ZOOLOGICAL &MIT LONDON.—At the
iiisthly general meeting, held yesterday, at the society's
week in Hanover-square, the Right Hon. BM George
Qs*, Bart., in the &sir, the Bart Vane, Lord Reveng-
ing*, BM M. W. Ridley, Bart., bln. Richardson, Miss
peep, and Main. B. C. Taylor, F. S. Gosling, W. H.
mann, J. Gray, F. Carry, J. Reeve, C. Blisset, W. Wil-
liams, J. Browning, and Major Hepburn, were
awn Fellows, and M. Le Preetre as • corresponding
.ember ot the society and Mies G. A. Richardson and
Kam J. Dunes and Louis Huth were proposed as sem-
tans for the fellowship. The report of the council con-
Misfile In of venous births in the muainrie. Among the
nano, bv prebase are the first pair of the 111115.100•9 of
Northers(aiseerweee woissolossee) which have
ever been beewebt to Berope.
Tun Caws At Woacurnannus—Th, appearana

of the ems he ihip part of the ennery Is melt ii to excite
polo et a deadest harvest. The thousan-
ds= w"Mhesuiste ll
ed deny; the nisht of Monday week
laid the palas•My, and the heavy rains which have fallen
every day slam have uuderod its usages still more de.
passable. Keep el the wheat fields leek as Ifs hard of
wild settle bed pm* onino Om, ond tromplod down navy
gnaw.— Woresse Obroodsk.
Tin LATE KAlLltuctuAis—The greatest etz
dose by the late shock of earthquake wu at
Valais) in Bwitasrland, whne an hotel wu thrown down
the paean wbo wore hi it osoapsd with didindey.