The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-02 00:00:00

THE EXFRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864.

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THIS Erman*. BORN TO GOOD-LUCE. Mr. D. Murray.
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limber. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester, sad H. Mellon ;
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LONDON, PRIDIY, SEPTEMBER 2.

Arran we have said and heard everything that
can be said and heard about the effect of the drought
of this season on the crops, we meet at every turn
evidences of the effect of a deficiency of water on
the daily life of half the people in the country.
The peculiarity of the case is that we are suffering,
not from a hot and unclouded sun drying up our
rivers and ponds, but from the evils of heat and
cold, each bringing drought. Some of us have no
doubt observed the earth and sky by night during
the periods of east winds, as well as after sultry
days. A dewy night we have found quite
a marked even; and the nights seemed to be even
drier than the days. From many parts of the
country notices have been sent to the newspapers
of ice found in each of the summer months. It
seemed strange enough in June, but in August a
thing scarcely credible, except to those who have
been in the outer air just before sunrise. All the
while, with rushing meteors overhead at night, and
will-o'-the-wisps in boggy places, and a glaring sun
by day, the drying-up of the soil and the streams
and wells has gone on—reminding us of water,
water, all day long. The poor people have been the
worst off, no doubt, for what can they do when the
well is dry, and the pump will not bring up a drop?
One hardly knows which to pity most—the town
poor, who in their close courts and alleys have not
had a full pail of cool water within their doors
for weeks, or the oottage wife who has
to go to the pond first, and next week to the more
distant brook ; and when it ceases to be a brook
to its last warm pools ; and finally to the ditch.
How can the household wash be done It is
hard enough to get enough that is tolerably clear
to make a cup of tea. We must all have been
struck with the announcement of the sale—most
reluctant on the part of the owner—of a flock of
two hundred sheep, for the sole reason that there
was actually no water for them in their own neigh-
bourhood ; and now there are people who are
obliged to leave their homes because they are
under a total privation of water—not annual
tourists who have heard of hilly regions where
showers are plentiful, and the face of the country
is green, but home-staying people, to whom it is
inconvenient to leave their business, and who have
borne all they could to avoid the necessity.
. . .

The interference with business is so extensive
as to constitute a new feature in our summer life.
The difficulty of hatching fowls this year has se-
riously affected the price of poultry, and checked
the hove of au increase of eggs next season. We
may still hope that cider and perry makers and
the fruit-preservers may find it a good year ; but
the untimely fall of fruit has equalled the whole
crop of some years. Nurserymen and market-
gardeners have been at their wits' end to keep their
stock alive.

The house-painters, to whom a dry season is
usually a great boon, have been complaining of the
blistering of their work. Builders and cabinet-
makers have found their new floors and doors,
their wardrobes and tables and bookcases shrink
and crack, and behave like gentlemen's desks and
ladies' workboxes at Sierra Leone or Hong Kong.
We read of railway trains which cannot start
for want of water ; and even of ships
kept in harbour, at great daily cost, because they
cannot fill their casks with water fit for any con-
siderable voyage. If it is true that the Malvern
Wells are failing, that must be one of the strangest
stoppages of business. It makes a great difference
to visitors, and therefore to the inhabitants who
live by them, whether those Malvern Hills are
green and cool and fresh, or whether they are dry
and slippery, but still green, or whether they have
lost even the appearance of grass ; but that the
wells should shrink is • thing that perhaps we
have never before thought of in connexion with
watering places. Far more serious is the actual
suspension of industry in some of the mineral
districts of the country, where the forges and
mills cannot work for want of water. Hundreds
of people are unemployed from this cause, in South
Wales and some other districts. The destruction
of property by fire has been vast, both in
this country and in several continental states.
Rows of wooden or thatched cottages, sheds, bigh-
dried stacks, have been ready to be ignited by
any chance spark, and there has been little or no
water to be had. It has been the season for con-
flagrations on heaths and in young plantations.
A schoolboy's burning-glass, or the ash from a
gipsy's pipe, or that perilous plaything of too many
cottage children, the lucifer-match, can scarcely
fail of kindling where it falls among ling and dried
grass, and then it may take a thousand men from
Aldersbott to stop it, after it has destroyed half-a-
dozen fortunes in plantations and fences, and cot-
tages, and game.

It is a season of vicissitude for birds, In some
places. It has been a glorious year for the rooks
where turnips and mangolds are grown. The feast
of grubs has been enough to gorge the whole tribe
where there has not been rain enough to baffle and
annoy the larvae and the caterpillars which infest
our root crops. Where the country people have
destroyed the small birds, which are our defence
from insect pests, they must suffer for their igno-
rance. Boobies who have been hanging birds and
eggs in strings and bunches over their persons, to

cut a figure in the eyes of their sparrow-club, must
bear to see their gardens ruined, under swarms of
enemies almost as bad as locusts in the East ; but
our rookeries are tolerably secure in the old English
attachment to the bird ; and the country owes
him much this year, by all accounts. Some of us
think that the wasps deserve a remark to them-
selves this year. In some parts they may really
remind us of the grasshoppers in the Mormon
territory, and now in the region of the Red River
settlement. The soil in our gardens cracks ;
everything cracks which is capable of being dried
up ; and wherever there are cracks, it is well to
look for warps' nests ; and strange are the places
in which many have been found this year.

The topic of health, in connexion with the
drought, is too serious to be treated lightly.
There are bad accounts from the Fens, as might
be expected. In Lincolnshire, along the banks of
the drains which have for some time been nearly
stagnant, there is cholera, to which some reporters
have given a bad name. The medical men are
anxiously looking for a flow of water, to stop the
poisoning of the air. Complaints arise from sea-
bathing places of bad water, foul smells, and the
abominable practice of turning out the sewage of
the place upon the sands. Where this has been done
in reliance on land springs which have failed, the
inhabitants will surely take the hint, and mend
their ways.
While these incidents of a dry season are oc•
curring here, it is interesting to read in the
American newspapers of the far stronger pheno-
mena of excessive heat which are presented there.
We have no sufferings worthy of mention in
comparison with those which are endured even in
the Atlantic States. One incident may be worth
noting : while the armies in the field are suffering,
as was anticipated, from chronic, diarrhaa, the
usual precursor of cholera, an earnest appeal is
made to the people of the Northern States to re•
member the army during the short blackberry
season. It is considered an established fact in
that country that the juice of the blackberry is s
specific for the particular ailment, and tons of the
fruit will be preserved in one form or another, and
especially as a concentrated medicine, and sent
down to the troops beside the James River, and in
all unwholesome places.
There seems reason to hope now that the drought
is for the most part over. If we have the com-
fort of seeing our springs and wells fill ag►in, we
must not forget the lessons of the dry summer of
1864.

THE organization for raising a monument to
SHAKESPEARE has got back to St. John's,
gate, Clerkenwell, where it originated, and
where it would probably have been suc-
cessful, if it had not been seduced into
fashionable society. That was a bad day when
the humble• plan of the Urban Club was taken
under the patronage of Dukes and their followers,
and a Corinthian capital of showy names was raised
upon a very slender and blown-out foundation.
Though SHAKESPEASE is not for a parish, but for
all time, it would, perhaps, have been better to have
begun honouring him in the parochial fashion. The
proposition to raise a monument to a poet and an
actor in the public streets was too startling to be
received with universal favour. Though the poet
had been dead for nearly two centuries and a half,
such a proposition required a year or two's further
consideration. We are not a hasty and impulsive
people in raising statues to literary men and
artists. We have very few precedents. A
parochial statue to Sir HUGH MYDDELTON was
raised the other day, after he had been dead
only two hundred and twenty-six years ; but then
the person so prematurely honoured was an
engineer, a practical man, and not a mere fanciful
scribbler. We have very few pedestals, and they
are nearly all occupied by fighting men, imported
kings, and ground landlords. Dr. JENNLII once
stood in Trafalgar-square for a short time, but he
was quickly removed to a lumber-room to maks
way for a military celebrity. In Paris the Doctor
occupies a post of honour in front of the Louvre ;
in London he is now banished to a leafy solitude
at Kensington. Our only two metropolitan monu-
ments of any size commemorate a national misfor-
tune and a national disgrace. On Fish-street-hill
we draw attention to a vast destruction of pro-
perty ; in Waterloo-place another "tall bully "
immortalizes an insolvent debtor.

Though no committee—large or small, working
or ornamental—can hope to compete with the
Duke of YOWL'S monument, a good, strong, ser-
viceable SRAXESPRABE statue may easily be raised,
which will mean much and cost little. SHAKE-
BPIARR may not want such a monument, but Lon-
don requires it to show that we worship something
higher than railway viaducta or practical celebri-
ties. Such a statue the so-called " working men's
" committee," with its "honorary council," are
pledged to raise, according to an address which
appears in another part of our columns. We ob-
serve that Mr. MACRE/WY, Mr. PHELPS, Mr.
CRYSWICK, Mr. GEOROR CREICIEBRAICK, Mr.
Geoaus GODWIN, and other influential profes-
sional men, are on this " honorary council," and we
hope their presence there means something more
than a passive approval of the movement. We
have seen too much of this passive patronage of
Snsicrspr.saz to wish for more of it. The work-
ing committee is large enough and strong enough
to collect two thousand four hundred pounds in
pennies and small sums, if it only starts with a
good, honest system. One paragraph in the ad-
dress appears to suggest • want of faith in the
small subscriptions, but those who have this doubt
had better leave the committee. This is to be a
peqny-wise, and not a pound-foolish movement,
like the former, and when the penny Sus's-
SPEARE statue has been erected, it may be that the
guinea statue will soon follow.

DEATH OF SIR JOHN RATCLIFL-BIRMINOHAN,
THURSDAY Evmuo.--Sir John Retellf died at his residence
Wyddringtoe at noon to-day, after a few weeks' Mimes, the
immediate cause of death having bees diabetes. The de.
ceased was mayor lot this tows three times consecutively,
and on the occasion of the Qaeen's visit to one. Aston Park
be received the honour of knighthood. Ile was for many
years engaged in trade in the town, and realised a large
fortune.

THE PEEWEES Loris or lirssz.—The profesaion
will learn with great gratification that Professor Priestley,
of King's College, has been appointed to attend the Prince's
Louis of Haase at Darmstadt in her approaching oos6ee•
merit, which is expected to take place about the latter end
of October or the first week of November. We have much
pleasure in congratulating Dr. 'Priestley on the honour
which has been thus awarded him. We have before re-
marked on the admirable manner in which our court ap.
pointments have been bmtowed, and we think the present
only another instance of the happy selection exercised by
bee Majesty's sdvisen In professiooal marten.—Mestical
rime.

Tas DEPARTURE OF TER PRINCIC AND PRANCERS
or WALES TOR DREMARL.—Ws understand that Provost
Parker, of Hyades, has officially received • telegraphic
menage anoonaciag that the Pricer and Abscess of Wales
are to embark at Dundee for Denmark on Saturday. Her
Majesty's yacht Osborne arrived io the river yesterday fore.
wog, andooals and stores were being put on beard from the
Medusa, which came in here on Mooday evening. The
other semis of the squadron are hourly expected. The
royal train is tuned to reach Dander at 3 o'clock, sod orders
have been received on board the Osborne to be in readies..
to mil atd o'clock on Saturday. There is to be a meetiog of
the Town Conceit to-day, when arrargements will be made
for the reception of their royal highossees. The volunteers,
it is said, will form a guard of honour on the occasion.—
Scotsman.

tax gout.

BALMORAL, Aostrirr 3L

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena,
Prisons Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Ltepold, with
the Doke and Duchess of &x. Coburg and Gotha, arrived
at Perth at 8.45 a.m. yesterday, and was received by the
Lord Provost, the Hari of Mansfield, Visooont Strathollan,
Lord Dopplic, Lord Kinnaird, the Hen. A. Kinnaird, he.
At 9.45 her Majesty proceeded to inaugurate the statue
erected by the inhabitant' of Perth to the memory of the
Priem Consort at the entrance of the North Inch.

At the termination of the proceedinp the Lord Provost
received the honour of knighthood from her Majesty.
Her Majesty, though a good deal fatigued by this great
exertion, has not suffered from it, and was much gratified
by this mark of respect and admiration paid by the city of
Perth to her beloved consort.

The Queen expreesed her high appreciation of the status
itself to Mr. Brodie, the sculptor.
The Queen then returned to the Station, accompanied as
Wary, and at 11 o'clock preceded on her journey to Bal-
moral, arriving there at 4.30 p.m.
The Prince and Primers of Wales received her Majesty
at the Castle, and dined with the Queen last night.

THE PRINCE AND PE/NCI9B OF WiLLS' VISIT TO
DENILLEZ.—The Fart Spews, as groom of the stole to
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, left Althorp-hall,
Northamptonshire, yesterday, for Bootie:id, to acoompany
the Prince and Princess of Wales to Copenhagen and St.
Petersburg. The countess has gone with the noble earl,
and will accompany the royal party to the Baltic.
THZ CROWN PRINCESS OP PRCSSIA.—Sir Charles
Looock, who has been commissioned by the Queen to at•
tend upon the Crown Princess of Prussia in her approach-
ing acoonchement, arrived at Berlin on Monday evening. It
was intended that Sir Charles should proceed to Potadam
at the end of the present week, end reside is the new palace
occupied by the Crown Prince and Crown Princess.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
left Cambridge Cottage, her fOlideDoll at Kerr, yesterday
for Scarborough, Yorkshire, when her royal highness la-
tends to reside several weak,.

The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, French
antbsuador at Loodoo, is at present on a visit to his
brother, the Archbishop a Booms.
Louisa Marchioness of Waterford has arrived at
Farranee's Howl from the Continent.

The Earl Spencer, as groom of the stole to his
Royal Riglines the Prince of Wales, left Althorp Hall,
Northamptonshire, yesterday. for Scotland, to accompany
the Prises and Priooool of Wales to Copenhagen and St.
Peteseburg. The Countess Spencer has (000 with the
noble earl, and will accompany the royal party to the
Baltic.

The Earl Annealey returned to London early in
the week from the Continent, and the day following left for
Bretby Park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chester-
field daring the Derby races.

The Countess de Grey will leave Studley Royal,
neer Ripoo, Tockshire, this =rein, in order to joie their
Royal Richneeses the Prime sad Princess of Wales at
Dundee. The countess, as lady in waiting to the Princes',
will accompany their royal highnemes on their northern
tour.

The Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Derby, Lord
Wharacliffe, and two other gentlemen shot over Long,
shave Moor, near Hathersage, on Tuesday and Wednesday-
and had good sport. Oa the first-named day the five guns
produced 3091 brace of grouse.

A Chesterfield paper says :—" We regret to hear
of the serious indisposition of Mr. W. P. Thornhill, M.P.,
for North Derbyshire. The hon. gentleman,who is now on
the Ooatinent, will not, we understand, under say circum-
stances, allow himself to be again nominated to represent
his present constituency."

The O'Donoghue, M. P., has been entertained at
a banquet at Cahisciveen, county Kerry. His health was
drank with much enthusiasm. In responding to the toast
be discussed Irish politics. He denied that Ireland had I
anything to hope from the English parliament in the way
of the removal of her great grievances. They would never I
be remedied until the two countries for legislative purposes
were separated. That, he said, was the opinion of O'Con-
nell, and it was tlit firm belief of the Irish people. The'
speech was received with a good deal of cheering.
The new chapel of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, which is being erected from the designs of Mr. G. G.
Scott, is to receive an important alteration, from the muni-
ficent liberality of Mr. Henry Hoare, of Eleetstrest,
formerly a distinguished student of the college. Soon after
the work was begun it was suggested to Mr. Scott that a
massive stone tower, as a substitute for the fiche, or
wooden spire, would bee great improvement in the design
of the building. Mr. Scott warmly espoused this idea, and
prepared a design for a tower upwards of 160 ft. high, and
open within the building to the height of the second set of
windows. The authorities of the college, however, finding
that the proposed change would involve an additional ex-
penditure of between 5,000/. and 6,0001., decided that they
could not in prudence adopt it, and resolved to proceed with
the work according to the original design. Mr. Hoare has
recently proposed to the college, in a spirit of princely
muniSoeue, to erect the tower at his own expense. The
offer has been accepted by the college, and the requisite
changes in the plan of the building have beec already
oommenced.

Mr. Richard Evans, for some time well-known in
the Eon, died lately at St. Helen's, in Lancashire, at the
age of 86. A correspondent of the dtlaturum gives front
penonal knowledge the following particulars of his life nom
retiring from London :—"Mr. Evans was formerly in ' the
Row,' and succeeded sufficiently by bookselling to induce
him to retire from business ; subsequently he and his sons
beestos colliery owners, sod last year, when I dined with
the old geutleman, who oould tell his story and cut his joke
pleasantly, and who warned absorbed in the book he road,
the fun owned some twenty-fee locomotives, waggons by
the hundred, pits by the donne, houses, farms, schools, sad
buildings, as though they were primes. They paid in ems
to Sir R. Gerard 5,000/. a year, and to Mr. W. J. Leigh
4,0001. a year; their machine shop for repairs was large
mough to embarrass many a machine-maker. I was fairly
bewildered with the magnitude of everything around me.
The old man died much respected; one of his last site was to
make a provision to build a handsome independent chapel
at Haydock. Fortunes are made in the Row, but not
always to such an extent as in this lostance.”

The story entitled " Margaret Denzil's History,"
which is understood (ears the Pabliaters' Circular) to be yb
Mr. Charles Allston Collins, will be concluded in the neat
number of the CornhitlMagazier ; and Mr. Wilkie Collines
new novel will he commenced in the following number. Tb.
Englishwoman's Journal, incorporated with thedlesaudre
Magazine, will from September mist be published by
Messrs. Jackson, Walford. and Hodder.

A recently published statistical account gives the
following carious details m to the division of trades in
the States of the Zollvemio :—" There are 58,518 master
bakers who make bread ; 54,262 hatchets who famish
meat; 10,583 liehermen who supply fish ; 14,027 barbers
who shave the male population, to which number must be
added 966 tauter hairdremen, for throughout almost the
whole of Germany the two laMmentioned trades are dis-
tinct, sad when a person eaten • hairdresser's shop to have
his hair cut, and also wishes to be shaved, a barber is seat
for, who comes with all his apparatus, razors, soap, NOW,
Sic. Over the same extent of country there are to be forted
We enormous number of 189,006 master shoemakers,
minted by 127,875 companions, making • total number of
316,881 employed in that businms. When one thinks of
the number of Germans who exercise that trade abroad, it
may be seen that shoemaking is • business held in high
homur in Germany."

• A singular trial bay taken place at Madrid. A
soldier was cited loot week before the police-court for hay-
ing stolen a gold clap of considerable veins which bad hew
placed as a votive offeries on one of the numerous alien
dedicated In that city to the Virgin. The soldier at once
explained that he and his family being in great distress, ke
bad appealed to the Holy Mother for assistance, and that
while engaged in prayer sad eoetemplatioe of the four
millions' worth of jewels displayed on her brocaded petticoat,
she stooped, and with a charming smile, handed him the
golden cup. This *splenetic,a was received by the court in
profound silence, and the seas banded corer to the ecologies-
tidal commission, to whom it at once occurred that however
inconvenient the admission of the miracle might be, It would
be highly impolitic to dispute its possibility. They there-
fore gave the cup to the soldier, at the same time solemnly
warning him for the future against defiler farmers from
images of any kind, and impressing him with the conviction
that the Virgin required profound silence from him as a
prod of his gratitude.

'War Minister Roon, a host of European mill-
rtary officers, officers from Egypt, Persia, and
Turkey, and a numerous staff, from some rising
ground. An enemy's corps, 30,000 strong, was
supposed to have approached the camp and
entrenched itself. The Duke of Magenta undertook
to drive the intruders back along the road by
which they had arrived. He succeeded in doing
this with 30 pieces of artillery, which opened a
heavy fire on the enemy's works, by driving in his
skirmishers, and finally outflanking his position.
The forces with which the marshal accomplished
this object were the Ist and 2nd divisions of
infantry, who were formed in line in contiguous
columns of battalions left in front ; the 2nd divi-
sion, which was in reserve ; light cavalry protect-
ing the right wing, and the two attacking divi-
sions ; a division of dragoons supporting the re-
serve and artillery. The different movements
were followed with great interest, and it was
several hours before the foe was compelled to
retreat.

UTMOST. MIDST.
S. to W., drone, squally Of NOnglllllll &W. to N.W. freak a
to moderate, some OOMML Cow elieweri.
rain.
W.& W. to N.N.W. and Wiergall. W.&W. to N., fresh to
back, strong to mode- moderate, generally
rate, tome rain. Ilse.
&W. to N.W., strong BOVSECIMN. As next above.
to moderate, with
rain In places.
As next above.

KAMM. 8.3 W. to N.N. W..
fresh, showers to
places.
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Northern.Soothoul. Woolonsmlrelaad. Wan, and ad -
jacenAeo. Soothers=loch& almost and Hay of away. Santoro
&Award ragland an North 800.

The Journal de Frankfort states that Cardinal de
Gemmel, Archbishop of Cologne, Is seriously ill, sad that
pavan have been ordered up for him recovery.

A Roman journal hue the following, which is
copied by the Opinion Nationak :—" The Emperor Napo-
leon has jolt received from the *min Pope the Lace
which wee in the tomb of Charlemegae. Asa Christ=
relic that object ia of incoeteemble value."

Galignani records the death of M. Enfantin, so
well-known after the revolution of July as the bead of the
St. Simonises. For many years past the deosased was
extensively oonneoted with railway and industrial under-
takings. •' Whatever," says Gelignani, " may be thought
of the deceased patlemaa's religious and political erred,
he has always bees regarded as a most upright and honour.
able man. He woe in his 69th year."

The (hide Mail says :—Tbe most striking illus-
tration of the wing that the pith of a lady's letter is in
the postscript, which we have heard of, was that of a young
lady, who, having gone out to India, and writing home
to her friends, concluded with the following words :
" P.S. Yon will see by my signature that I ma
married."

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT
ABERGELDIE.—On Monday the Prince of Wake west dear-
stalking, lent killed nothing. In the evening the dineer-
party, besides the ladies and gentlemen of the suite. con-
sisted of °metal Briefly; do. The Princess of Wee
drives oat every day, and takes great pleasure is walking
about the grounds and garden. On Tuesday the Priam
of Wales, ualso the primmer and the mamba., of their
suite, remained at home until afternoon, whim they west
to meet her Majesty, who with her mite, arrived at
Balmoral at t3O p.m.—Ditedee Advertiser.
LATENT MODE Or TAKING SALIM/C—One even-
Jug last week, Mr. teleran, heed forester, laveroaakl
Forest, while on hie way ham* •10•1 with a few of the
ghillies, observed a beautiful same lying in the pool
the Bridge of Dee. In sport he essually o
" How would ft do to try • abot at the EERY erode,* r
aed suiting the action te the word, be immediately lifted
his tide sad bred from the top 01 the pareS a distance of
at least sixty feet, mangy, of Ave feet of water in
which the objeM of kis aim lay. The t was, • dee
tab of something over 10Iba. weight turned up quite dead.
—Dania Advertiser.

tilrocu-Ixcaurros ENsisms. —A room just com-
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frescoed, the metre pies, repreesstise the Oalam of
Podium emptying s miser el cob' spas the hes& of • bell
sod e beer—the letter is the sot of hassisc the phew to
the earth, while the farmer Mass titers is the sir.

PAZIRLIDGEI 11! TRU LONDON IdAAIM& —Tester-
day io the Nov/gate sod Leadeoball markets putrldies to
flos cceditise told at sa. 6d. a brae.; the resoUsr binds
were sold at 3s. 6d. sad 4.. a brace, sad there were several
hampers at 3. 6d. std 3s. a braes. Hares were dos, and
fetched from 3.. 6d. to fo. each.

THE SUPPOSED MURDER OF A WIFE IS

HATTON-GARDEN.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This forenoon, Dr. Lankeeter, coroner for Central
Middlesex, resumed, at the Three Taos Tavern, Cross.
street, Hatton-garden, the investigation into the circum-
stances of the alleged murder of Eliza Wilkinson, aged 94
years, by her husband.
Lem
_crowds of persons, principally of the female am
assembled in the street outside the court in consequence of
its being known that the prisoner, Henry Wilkinson,
I would be brought up in custody under a warrant from the
Home Secretary, and great anxiety was evinced to get a
view of him as he was driven up in a cab.
Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared on behalf the accused ;
and Inspector Potter had the management of the case on the
part of the police authorities.
The prisoner, • respectable-looking young man, wearing a
beard and moustache, was brought in to the court in ,o•
tody of police-constable 69 G.
The Marquis Towashend, the chairman of the Satiety
for the Protection of Women and Children, was present.
Oa the last occasion the evidence adduced showed that on
Sunday night last the accomd returned home drunk to lie
wife. with whom he bad bad a quarrel some hours presi-
oaaly in consequence of her allowing a young man to kiss
her, although be bad himself told the individual to do so.
and assaulted bee savagely ; and while she was imploring
him not to kill her be gave her a kick in the stomach that
ruptured her spleen and caused her death in an hour. It
was proved, however, that he bore a good character gees-
rally, and that he was devotedly food of his wife, and ma
very kind to her when be was sober.
The Coroner now addressed the prisoner, and told him
'that he would read over the evidence already taken, sod
then would give him the opportunity of offering any expla-
nation of the facts deposed to.
The depositions having been read,
Sarah Turnbull, of Cruse-street, was called, and she said
that she had known the deceased for ten mouth,. sbe
and her husband frequently quarrelled. He was always tipsywhen they quarrelled, and was always sorry when it
was over. He used to may be was very sorry, and he wished
someone would come and knock hie head off. He was
often tipsy. Last Sunday evening witness was very poorly,
and west to bed at 10 o'clock, and said to her niece, Sarah
Collier, that if deceased was shut out of her room during
the night she should send her (deceased) into witoess's
room. Deceased mom into witness's room about 12 o'clock,
and about half-past 12 o'clock Wilkinson came in and asked
if his wife was there. Witness awoke and found her
ey her Mile in the bed, and the told Wilkinson
" She is here." He told her she ought not to have left her
home. He pulled her out of bog lie was in a great
passion. Mrs. Collier came in directly after Wilkinson, and
tried to part them. Witness heard great scuffling, tut saw
no blows struck, foe her niece was between her and them.
There was a lamp burning very low. Witham directly alter.
wards saw the deceased on the floor. Mr. Wilkinson and
Mn. Collier lifted her up, and carried bee across the room,
and took her downstairs. Wilkinson seemed Yen much
cut up, sad rid, " Do try and bring her round—bathe bar
face, and he ran for a doctor. The whole affair did not
occupy 10 minutes.
By the Jury—Wilkinson used often to turn his wife out
of his room and leave her to sit on the stairs, when lie was
drunk. He used to fall asleep and forget she was there.
but he was always sorry in the morning. She mid
that the was afraid to go in. Witness expected that she
was likely to be turned out on Sunday night, and that was
the reason why wittier offered to let her into her room.

Dr. Clerks said that deceased bed a mark of a blow on the
upper part of the abdomen. But there was no mark of a
blow near the spleen. A severe blow would haws left •
mark. The spleen was diseased, and such being the cue
slight blow would hem raptured it. A blow such as would
be far from destroying life in • person of ordinary health,
would produce death when the spleen was diseased.
By • Juror—The damn of the spleen could not have
beat produced by the prisoner's previous ill-treatment.
Fatty degeneration of the spleen would not be caned by
pummeling on Unnamed) every day for a mouth.
Inspector Potter said that he bad witness* that could de.
pose to former severe ill-tinge by the husband.
The Coroner said that that had nothing to do with the
death of the demand. _

Ann Chadwick, 13, Baker's-row, Clerkenwell, said that
she bad ka3Wl2 the &owed for two yeam. She often con,
rutted of
ved io
would
ill:usabter, buto
sibs never
t he rid
gaveshe
her all his wages after • quarrel to make it up.
Last Sanday evening she told witless, that she had been
with him and her niece aad the latter's young into to the
Underground Railway, and that he bad kissed her niece and
said to the young man, " Kiss in, young woman—nerve all
alike." She said that 'ben her niece was kissed its (de-
ceased) coloured up, and because of that her husband
tasselled with her, and gave her a blow on the eye.
deceased went !home to Cross•street at 10 o'clock,
quite well. She said she would sleep with Mrs.
Turnbull to keep out of her husband's way until he was
asleep, and then she would go to her own room.
Francis Cock, 116 G, said that on Monday morning about
1 o'clock he saw the door of 9, Cross-street, open. There
was a light on the stairs. As no we came to faster it, wit-
tier west! upstain and found the deceased dead in the back
room. Two children were in bed, and a doctor and some
females and the prisoner were in the room. Witness said
" How were those marks caused on the deceased's facer
The doctor said, " I think it is a case for your intrfere•os,
ecustable." The prisoner said that he had had a quarrel with
his wife on the Friday, but be had not struck her since.
Witness cautioned him and took him into custody. Witmer
totted a chemise torn to pieces.
Mrs. Collier said that when she entered her aunt's room
after Wilkinson, she found Nis. Wilkinson naked on the
floor. Witness never heard Wilkinson say be would have
his wife's life.

George 13;ldock. 1 G, said that prisocer was brought
into the Bagnigge-wells station at 1 o'clock oc Monday
morning. He said, "It is not what I did to-night, bat
what I did on Friday that tamed it." He asked to have
a telegraphic mamma sent to a friend. Ha appeased per-
fectly sober. He was not so cut up about the affair as one
would *apnoea a man would be that bad killed his wife.
Inspector Potter said that it eould be proved that the
deceased was a very sober, industrious woman, who took
great can of has cluklreu. There was no compliant made
against her.
Mr. Lewis said that he would reserve his observations and
the examinatios of mitered..

The Coroner,hTsuMMiag up, said that the facts disclosed
In the evidence showed the necessity for such • society as
that represented by the Marquis Townshend. In cues
where 'within and ill map way coetinually occurring,
an application to the Society for the Protection of Women
and children might prevent fatal results. In the present
case, if the jury were of opinion that the accrued inteedld
to take the life of he wife when he struck and kicked her,
the case wan one of murder ; but if they believed that i• •
quarrel he assaulted her to the beat of passim, they might
reduce the offence to one of manslaughter.
The jury they withdrew to deliberate on their verdict.
After an abase,» of half an hour the jury gamed into
court with • verdict of "Manslaughter against Haag
Wilkinson." _ _

The foreman said that the jury bad taken into considere•
tion the fact that the prisoner had evidently no intention
of causing his wife's death.
The Coroner then issued his warrant for the detention of
the prisoner in Newgate until his trial at the Central
Criminal Court.
The prisoner was loudly biased by the dense mob in the
street as be was being removed hem the court, and the
women, who appeared especially indignant, shook their fists
at him.
The proceedings then terminated.