The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

After term 'Stier at Nisi Pries et Weetasinrier.—(Belore
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jar►.)
811111/ F. FRAZER AND ANDREW/1.-EXTRAORDINARY CAB[ OF
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ALLIGED LUNACY.
Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Huddlestow, and Mr.
Prentice were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Serjeant
Petry. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Smythies, and Mr. J. 0.
Drubta were counsel for the defendants.
Dr. Fritoir's evidence in chief. was this morning
resumed—lint the seeming of the 26th of December
I saw Richard Shears, the man watcher, in the
house for the first time. Before that I had
lot the meet remote knowledge of his being there. I bad
seen hint before, sad knew him so • person in the habit of
attending male nervous patients. I a:premed my serprise
at mins him there. I did not pay him for being
there. Within Mn. Synim's hearing I mid to
• "Hallos! what are you doing here. I never
gave him any orders or directions bow be should
treat Mrs. Symm. In reply to my vertices he
said he had been mat for because Mrs. Hill
sad Mrs. Taylor would not remain in the home
=leer they had • man to protect them from • ferocious dog
sod the plaintiff's imbecile brother. I met Mr. Andrews
oo the morning of the 27th, in coesultation, when I saw
Klock, the muse, for the list time. EVie was an utter
stranger to me at the time, sod I had nothing to do with
her engagenieet. The plaintiff that morning was very
much in the same state ; her speech wee • little dearer,
end the tremor, loquacity, and reetlesseess had inerosesd.
As I entered the room I found her struggling
with the nurse as if she was ',dial her hair or seek. On
nosing me. and on my remoostraturg, mho desisted Imre-
diehely. We retired, and the result of our ceosehatime was
'kit as the case was sesamieg a milieus sweet. end as I
leaded to dimostiose my atteednese, I seggested other ad-
vice should be called in, and it wee esmemeeketed to the
plaintiff. I asked her who she would like to have ealledia,esil
she replied, my
badfrieou Dr. Barnes, who bed bees one Ur
before, end promised to Wird at fair o'clock Yet
'broom to meet we arid Mr. Andrews. I spin went thaw
at four (Adak sad met Dr. Berme sad Mr. Ambense. We
saw the patient, sod the. weet up into the di
to commit. We communicated oourtreelmemit teDl7l.=
but he did not suggest the slightest ohmage la It. She
was then in much the same state as in the moral::
the 28th I met Mr. Andrew spin st Dr.
request, at the plaintiff's. She was much hotter, and bed
born moved up to her bedroom as Isuggested on my Out
visit, but she had refused to comply before. She was in •
comfortable bed in a large airy room, sod the
s
were heeler. She said she had had some slesPi=k7ll:o
further remarked that as she had got Dr. Dam* she would
Mermen with my further Woodmen I aprowed ar Min
faction at win her so much beam, nod urged bar to
Maio from the esciesrive me of diesolunted I=l
that I bad so doubt If a did m , ski
be able to got about in • few den bet that if oho did sat
the conasquaiese might be msrioes, not oily to her health
but to her reinai. I funks, added that I should sell
some day as • treed, sad I had se doubt I should Sat
her all mkt, and the. left. On the 31st I coiled as •
!Hood and fazed her voy much better, but she received
me very coldly and was disinclined to speak, wed I took soy
have without mitering into the ales. In J ISIS
I was celled upon repeatedly by the polies and isodiord et
the house to lake possession of it, but I dashes& Some
time in February the plaintiff came hook to Lemke and
she called at my home with Beep wed Hem. I did
not tell her on that ormisim that " it was Asitrews who
did it," moaning petting the keepers into the homa. If I
bad known it I should have searesd to Use said
it. I told bar as was mach indebted to who-
ever did it. After the rest wee paid Barge
mid Mrs. Symm was desirous of giving up porn-
sioe of the home, which Mrs. Symm ooslsmed. I doodled
to take the boom off her Lands, but mid I would ma* •
tamest for the remainder of km term. She
=lnmiltplitint of the people having been pat into bee
been, en what' I told her it was • natter with which I bad
sulking to do, ad that she eight to he such *Hided It
the awe that bed been takee of her. She said the,,
had bon nothing the matter with bar that required
attendance, but aceseh to excite her I told her mho lad
Won •We more cinhat thee she wee sometsmel to
mad that it had tikes snob a powerful aged as her ea to
reader kr isompebt• of Inking see el herself for • short
time. She denied it flame celled to bar stied acme of her
met—the illthy state of the room from emapying it as •
kitehre,pirionroadbedrocesond shoal herself, addmg that I
was ocavineed oho would not bore at end so if she bed been
is her mum at the time. She replied it was so bemire
of mine, that she paid me the rent relderly, sad oho
might Bre in whet room she said, " Oh, esr.
tardy." I sena' hie attention gra.. having tlemiseed be
out her throat as a feet that she was aciapibie of biking
are of herself. She replied, " Had sot I • TX: out my
owe throat if I bled 1" I remarked it mesa
God and we., which those who bed the Wasp 71:sset
were hood to to the shwa of their power. the
replied she we It set hem say ocamees el that kind, and
rose up to leave. Oa going she turned mad tad mid.
" TIM yea deaths to Inks the home off my heads at pro-
mos? I said te which she replied "Thee you% be
sorry for it." and is& I earn dirested espies to take the
&AM* ce emir* of the *WM. aid ea sward immobile
isomplamd daring my attendimse of
_Mies strained, •

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COURT OP PRORATR AND Drirows.
(Mon Um Judo Owlawy.)
issiw port-Mud witlibmi—Biwuen v. Bur-
sa* wad ma
y.h Pritdard Winisww—wice dis-
posed I. Om dada( Oh* Set el divas,. mow to be tried
Nelms. The RAM**, aim win corawissi mai

le the Ihne-trueit vett, lite wart a
peathes, with meetly le the wife et Ctwat ohadeli'atti, 7;
the seeerd h arab • ENNIO WA. Ilia MIL

THE POLICE COURTS.
(TRW DAY.)

TEI LATE PAPAL ACCIDENT AND PALL OE • HO= Al
lIILDIOTOI.
/Ir. lea Lake, JUL,waiter, et Obura-row, Upper.
seet, Mapes, used that • eannaltias of the truism= a
tYpperlabagtea sad it. anishbourbood had beau
breed few • tad base* the raise of the families
d the ass who were injured by the hell of the
=nes ea Thaaley lad, sad she he amiss* the
d the two deemed earpeaters.
Mr. D'_llparealthadeed bow hay were ahead, sad it
ilmay allb imam
Mr. Lanes mill Oat there were two sou died, and area
ware aloud. Para what he bad head this • la
was way to say Oa it was expected that... d the and
Neu add not leacsarries. All bad hislis with as ex-
=rass. Meat ass was named Pala who was
bat la It vas anderelood, supported his mem
and 4.6: of the nese Winced had areaaged ia Away,
who were seaway deposeleat a him for sappeet
dD'llynesart asked what amount it was hada to be
ease

Mr. we sot aware, bat Aetna ems was raked
the ee.miMee el tradesmen, ose of wham was • amok-
dries, weal eel that it was properly admisistered. All
the hadOes amid at owe be relieve& He was worry to
my as* trey al the families were is pod beam, as they
were mainly deadest a the Wad and few support
lb. Maeda maned that anal be miesmary to
aim sliest NHL
Hr. Lykes hoped that the abeerigetes add eash
Sat mom& If is IMO 1110*01111 the sewspapses he had
sedate that the pebble imuld had their assielesee towards
Sr saying rat al the besralent abate of the emearattes.
Mr. D'iyneeert said that he would sew give 54 eta of
letrae.hex tramds the abbot. wassmary Mr. Labs
lb.rytertiekell hi worship for his kimbses, Dad
setae&
TRAMPS.
NOIDNROOS YOWL? BY • HUSBAND ON Is WM
Tama Haddia, a across and determinallookieg fel-
ad 46 years, we broaght before Mr. Wearyab,
chiliad with ramaltisa his wife Henrietta.
The campisimet's fees we terribly dime's's& ad has
en. were swolisa and blackened. This was one of the
most &crowded mass is the &Deals of wife-beetled.
The unhappy couple had bees married 24 rem. and
hare bon Wray dwelling at No. 2, Itassicatarek
men: dead Feet The prisoner is a abase-pipe maker.
He has hem hams* rammed with reselting his wife ad
punished for es doing. 0* one °cassias be was sesteseed
to three nasals' imprisonment for • raciest malt apes
her. llopeated panielimeats hod no depot ie add.' his
btuWitY• This morning a 1 o'clock he came he.. Woad-
mid, briefing with him a disreputable mat ad es
the door bsing opened he and kis wile wt it ib house
sad told her he had briright hone her mistress. The wife
bud her way iota the house apt% as walla the passer
hiss her I. a merge maser der the heal sled bee
with hie dumbed fista. Blow ensmaled blew, ad the
vafortuade
sad mestere fell, bleeding prefuesly has the wee '
loath.
Game Tiara, of Plaistow-musk. &NZ* add-4 "
ads( the cad a the abut mated Thserednet this
retesiag, sad heard the arise of " Murcia 1" " Pallas !"1
The Meow eased the street door of kb dwelling, and
rare* his wife is the mouth, sad spa is the sea. He
also had her, aad said to his wife, " I hers gat 107 Portage
sow—go away." The wife bead her way into ths hoses
Min. and quickly afterwards I heard the nobs el a tree
madam blow. Was the wife mem sad it the loses
sale she was a Nihilist *Y. fie was essered
with blood, asd weld sew eye her epee. I heed the
Primate Tau ; I heueshe hems wry eerie
tress, sed I dm% west ace
lisessal Rawtiage, a pellaiamelable, He. 116 aid —es lead the ftbea es the grad exhaated, ad bind-
lag fro. the aces ad nesulik. fie was Neried to the sta.
sed ernedry week sad abseils& The psiseser
ase takes ist• susledy, ad mid he bad bad thee xesellite
leatimallsed did set wen if he bad 111sessera
he ooskici, e
is debase, said his wife we • dreabard, ad
-7 thv with her.

The wife admitted that she had taken to drinking too
much at times. Her husband had driven her to drown her
sorrows in intemperance.
Mr. Wootry& said the prisoner was a savage ruffian, and
ought to be the ]sat man to oomplain of any intempenume
on the part of his wretched and ill•ased wife. The prisoner
was s. drunkard and a savage, and had the audacity to bring
borne an abandoned woman as vile as himself, and turn
his own wife out of doom. H. never met with a mon un-
mitigated ruffian. He sentenced the prisoner to di months'
imprisonment and bard labour.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OP ARSENIC POISONING.

DROITWICH, Fan AT.

Considerable excitement has been canted in the
neighbouring village of Umbletoc. by the discovery that a
young lady has been poisoned. The deceased is Miss Amelia
Linked, niece of Mrs. Vernon, the wife of the Hon. J. E.
Vernon, curate of Haddington, with whom she bad resided
ever since she was seven years old. She was tweety at the
time of her death. On the 6th of October best she was
seised with Nickname and died next day. No suspicion being
entertained at the time the body was interred in Umbletoa
churchyard, but rumours afterwards got abroad that the
deceased had bees primed, sad that she was pregnant,
both of which tarn oat to be Mts. The =mar coming to
the ears of she ocroaer, Mr. Hughes, he ordered the body
to be exhumed, and a postmortem examination will be
made, the inquest beim adjourned to this day for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the result. Aocordingly to-day the
inquest was resumed at Umbleke before Mr. Hughes,
when evidence haring been given of the desessars Mem
oil the 6th and the dolma oa the 7th October, Mr. Budd,
surgeoa, of Worcester, deposed to the analysable of the
stomach and intestines of the dammed while was mode by
him, with the essistame of Mr. Perrin, analytical chemist,
and Mr. Budd, surgeon. They found the membranes of the
stomach and intestines much inflamed, sad patches of a
yellow substance were fogad ; tlm proved to be weenie.
and is bin opiates there kad been MoiMAred salleisat to
kill dm penmen. Mr. Bishop, Ammo% corroborated the
evidence, and was qoasticaedes to the cartilleate he had given
for the burial of the body. He said that he wee only sent for on
the of the death, that poidd sot go at the time, and
that when want in the evening he found that she had
died just =teethe messenger mass= to him. The symptoms
were desesibsd to him, sad the registrsr mailing a certi-
Seats, he certihed that the deceased had died of bilious
=ohm and snoops. Until he mode the pat marina
examiaation he hd no =whim that the dwesesd was
enoinite, or that she had 00010 by her death by unfair
maw Mrs. Vireos stated that the deceased had al ways
been a wellmoduoted girl, and that she bad no susticson
of her condition. She was mach frightened by the earth-
quake ea the 6th October, sad to that witness attributed
he/alas= Elizabeth Bugard deposed that • rasa lamed
Oak need to visit JIM Hobead secretly, and *Meows'
to limr mot.
George Cole was called. fie is a man of appareetify 90
Hof ag• He
sod as with the de-
onneosmed three sod a half years ago, but
it cowed daring that time for fourteen months—
from January, 11161, to March, 1862. The acquaintesos
was omit. ant it was not approved ofcalb. and Mrs.
Versos. My visits were secret, mad at me I aware
that she was six maths gem with sad I ham
not much doubt that I was the father. She told me she
was in that state in the bsahmisa of hot April. She said
she would swear the child ea me, sad I was wider the
belief that she was is the family-way. She mid
' nee& times that her mutt would blow up, and=
' posed atarrige. She add that would be altogether
her Mood's wishes. I furs sheer her with • riag in May
hat, but she did sot weer it, sad after her death, Mn.
Venom mat it back, through the poet, in omemmeos of
an appliatioe I made to her to relent me the property
there was of mine in the home. I bed given the property
is Wm Babied, bat after her death I thought I was
entitled to it. Deceeeed never said anything about de.
Amine the child's or her own lies, nd I never
syggeonell anything of the kind to her. I newer
feenidted her with any amain, sad sever beard of
any, sad nothing occurred that I know of for
the papoes of procuring amnion. The acre which I took
te .Vernon's merely related to the property, mid there
Imo not me word in it as to the death al the
dememsd, or her being is the family way. flied num to
think she bad taken poises, or been palsomed, from her
madden death, and from Mrs. Verema's sot allowing my-
one to see the body. Mink she either palmed herself, or
that the Vernon@ or her relations did so, to prevent
man her. I have =Aft to warrant easteast• ie
the =mad my owe imsen oa. I never heard her my
she would police herself, or that time was point is the
home.
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—iiiiertateiedet Swim mid be did sot wish to pet amp
gemlike' to the witaen. bat kw was the wily whams who
had adhered to hie first sladellent.
The Corower—l eat afraid that fad will sot leema his
guilt, or mitigate whet he will have to answer for bereeftw.
B a Jurar—The property iwasiated of s wale sad

L reply to • remark by Saperioteadeat Bevan, the
Career rid be did sot think that as y parties el the arse&
head in the cupboard had bra used by the shreased. sad
that the mesas rhea by her was at mollusc kind.
Mr. Jobs HO:sad, the father of ths deemed. was tha
Wiwi, sad said that Yrs. Vince took his duskier aid
adopted ber. She sever illipremed • whh to leave. He had
no rears to @appose All ressird any *say firm the
Vaasa hardy. or was armed is tiny way.
The °comer bring serried teat the opiates el tie
jury via that the=hailps=dsd quite far rough,
ward up the out that under Ur
einuarerasse be thseght that the rely ids verdict for
them to retort Inn that the dearsed died of poises,
bat whether WON by herself or adusisistered to
bur by ethics, Users was se satisfactory orders
to show. The jury coaourred, aed the follnriag vordir
ter relarsed : " That the dressed was several mouths
pre in the family way, sad *led from the effect of &MIMS,
bat whether it was lakes by herself to destroy her own
Ma, or whether it was gives to bars=yotharer= fee
say other purpose, thin is no to
show."
The inquiry !salad mealy sena be.,.

MADRAS riutraarzoN arrD CANAL COMPANY.
(TEM DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the ahoreholders was
bad et 1 o'clock, at the London Tavern, Mr. Jame Tampon
is Um Asir.

the repeat having been taken as read,
The Commas sowed its lidOpthel. He said the wad=
of lamer was the gnat &Malay which the eoramay had
new ha meet. The sanest seen of eseldlled labour in
India was far from losing us guest as had been sup-
posed ; and the fleet wag greatly to delay
megrims la a week Maud that is w Isiah
trerEcitTrignifea,Pa:dere "hoped the result would 7,1:
to it. 1b isbaer paling employed dining the lass
efs seseethe did net mesa ea the average 18,4100
tea ; gad sward lobes.in India were ouly
leguil es ems many la Eagkod. The want of
ea alma% lap* of Wow would somewhat in-
seam the met of the onderteldag. 148 MIDIS were under
iszesstive ementias. and then wee ankh% but the cense
Mid ineatieeed to delay the period al eampletion. lip to
Awn last sheen osethird of the rocky ezearatione were
casapieted and about half the earth- work ; and there wee
roma to hops that the fret 148 lathe Todd be finished
seat year, and a large tract of lead pied under irrigatace.
He dm spoke of tb• operatics beyond the 148th mid,
sad expreend ecalletenc• that so obstacles would be
istermeed them by either the Madras or the Mysore
goverment. The cud would be sufficiently strong to
renisitui7=prossore to which it could possibly be subjected,
lad of local draiaege, alder the strongest mad
Meson
After mum &nudes the report was adopted, sad the
maths senansied In the sad maw.

ACCIDENT ox ran SOUTH WALIDI RAFLWAT.—OR
Thursday monde( the down mall train on this line was de
'eyed for nearly four bones in consequisme of a collision
between a coal train and a goods train, which took plus
about four miles from Chepstow. The mall was stopped at
Smiley and a serious cataatrophe averted. as, bud it beets
allowed to proceed, it would have encountered the debris of
the smashed trucks which completely obstructed the line.
The dump done by the collision is onsiderable, but pro-
videntially no one wasinjured. It woefogad impossible to
clear the line within any reasonable the.. A telegram was
therefore forwarded to Newport for a fresh train, into which
the mils, pamews, sad luggage were transferred. They
arrived at Newport amt 8 inetead cif 3.50.
Reawae TRAFFIC Racaires. —The traffic receipts
of railways In the United Kingdom snouted, for the week
wain the 21st of November, en 11,028 alias. so 565,7601.,
and for the corresponding week oil hit year. on 10,678
adios, to 520,2371., showier; an increase of 450 miles, and of
48,0)31. is the receipta. The gross receipts ea the following
15 wilways amounted, in the wrap* on 7,790 mike, to
461.4061., and for the mrresporathag week of 1862. on 7,396
mils, to 419,8021., showier an incomes of 194 miles, sad
RAM in the receipts. The biomass ea the Oeledoalea
emanated to 1,2081.; on the Great Eastern to 3,0091. ; on
the Great Northern to 4,007 L ; en the Great Soothers
rad Western to 39/. ; on the Great Western to
KEN. ; on the Lascashim and Yorkshire to 2,871 L ; on
the Leaden sad North-Weird to 8,3441. on the
ILoam and South-Western to 2324 ; on the Manchetter,
Sheffield. and Limoinaire to 1,3312. ; en the Midland
, to 2,9071. ; on the Nora British to 1,2131. ; on the North-
' Easters to LW/. ; sod on the South-Eastern to 8181.—
total, 31,6371. Bet from this mast be &domed 334, the
&teem on thsLoodon, Brighton, sod South Gout; leaving
the Morsies as above, 31,6041. The goods sad mineral tralc
ea the lime ameasied to 289.7221. ; sad for the earn-
' melanin week of 1882 to 233,5771.. showing imam of
AUX The merge for Vii, puede, ha, sainsted
M MAIL, spied 188.2251., @hewing an harem el
15,41111. The teal& maids ea 63 other Vase ameantelt
ea 3,1/8 irks, to 114.3564 mel fee the eeneepowling
week of fast year, en 2,11111 miles. to 100,4354, shrimp
an Imre= ef 156 silo. sad of 11,9111. la the estpts.
The tidal secelpte of the past wee err ea Immors el
MIK es aempredi with tined the proming week,
Iha 14th UGC and as sentare& wish the erre-
week of lad year • andimahle rinses Is the
toads of the country.

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