The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-10 00:00:00

CHARGE OP ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE.

BATH SATV&DAY.

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This morning the young man, Thomas Tattoo, who
It esspected of hawing administered repeated dome of anemia 1
W his father, Mr. Charles TWIG'', as auctioneer and a
.ember alibi Bah Town Commit, wee brought op for his
Bs* essmissillos spas the charge of attempted murder. A
MVO *wed hod assembled wooed the Central Police
Shiliiiik mid epos the primmer being removed in a fly, they
bilsteed his to the County Magistrates' Office, where the
sliselissties was takes—Mr. Tattoo's residence being just
I.Cdthe limits of the borough. Toe court was crowded.
pehmter, who is about 24 years of age, is well knows
bifida city lot his very .. fast" habits, and on being placed
Atha bar be manifested no concern for his position; hat
wato treat the proceedings with the greatest cooleem.
... notes of the evidence.
gala Weeser, the servant of Mr. Tattoo, son., detailed
ot peat Smith the facts of the ease, as they have already
bens 'onset** the Doily Now.
• solicitor, Mr. Wilson, bad bees retained by the pri-
mmer's friend., but he declined hie services, cad proceeded
* mom mantis* the witness at great length.
Mr. Charles A. Bemis, the servos who attended Mr.
Tattoo, was seat esantinsd, sod proved that the illness of
biz padant had bees ooeseioaed by arsenic.
Jaime Ryan, a detective oilier of the Dublin police, de-
Between 4 sad 0 o'clock on Wedatedsy, the 6th
bet., the *imam same to the detective sake. Lower Castle-
pied, Dublin. I wee sot molest at the Use, bat was seat
for, sad • newspaper wee handed to me by Mr. Supertig-
ht.** O'Neil, wieitainies some particulars of as attempt
Is poises Ms. Charles Tinton, sad of the absence of hit
NU. After I had read • few words, the prisoner
said, "I as the person who is referred to in that.
I will Witt II letter to the The.. sewspaper this morning
Amin; the whole rut. a the saw.'. I then obtained
Ile Polies Gamete, sad found his description Is ie. I
eked. " Is year same Tattoo ?" sad be replied, " Yes;
Theses." I told him he was described under the bead of
" Wilful Murder:" sad be the. asked me if his fa her was
deed. I said, " I believe sot." "Oh. well," said he,
"when I get the other side I'll make ell that right." I then
his, sad found es his one halfpessy and two
; sad •• potties of •• letter whisk he said was •• copy of
ee he bad seat to the rlll,ll. I telegraphed to the
Esam
'Seer of the police at Bath, aid remind so answer to
Wog his over. Os board the boat, on the way over from
=lllito Heipbesd, the rinser said, " Shall I sot be
santere the miegimesess wises the ems is being tried ?"
I Wilda 1 bed is• Ewald the eassiontes would hear what
be bad to sag. Be thee sold, "If pen say nothing epithet
am* Aimee. yes shall be weli treated in Bath." I told
his asytidsg I had to my I should give it is evidence, let it
be for or ageism him.
Crees-examisesi by the prisoner—Yes were not drunk
gezient were es board. I multi my melting against you
what I have sow stated. I hod sot sees the case is the
Poke Gum* at that time. You did may that you had
written to the Tines, bat I do not recollect your saying
that yea had written home, and that you had surrendered
unelf immediately yes saw it In the paper There was •
fora copy of • latter us rear psnon, sod you said it wee a
*spy of your letter to the Time
Mr. Hughes then applied for &remand till next &Wedgy,
Vies he seid he should be prepared to complete the case.
After • short consultation in private Mr. Norman observed
that the case was one of a very grave character, end as it
would be necessary to receive the evidence of Mr. Herapatit
sad other important witnesses, the magistrates had resolved
to adjourn the further eaamia•Uon until Satordsy neat.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

MAlD•lolll.—Pickieg has commenced. The duty
b iseasidered to ae overrated at 100.000 L
Rtantsto —Nair% has commenced here. We shell
✓ob* a good crop, and et fair quality. Thera is a little
moeld is gnat pommels.
Bauxon.ur.—Pieliing eosisterseed in this parish on
Saturday, the lit instant. We are quits Ws for as

Cants's)Oa —The wind has blows from the north and ,
Not with eomiderable violence, and the hope have not
ands that progress towards perfection which might bays
boss sapeotod—ia fact, they have dose but little sines our
bast meet. geese of oar glowers have put the his is their
pleatetleas of Ooldicp. and 60 far they • once down well."
Tli• dist will andonnedly be high, bat we sticuld not foil
saepsbe~if the duty is found to be over-rated. There is a
spread of red net oe mould observable is some grounds,
which may operate materially in dimiaation of ditty, es
haps so attacked will net attain onfectioa.
Loose.—Goiag ea very well; picking will be pretty
pawn nest week.
MARDS/I.—Tee prospect, on the whole, is less favourable :
Ili some grenade the bane la he very yellow, and in others
els bops have been injsrni by the wiad.
°num.—The winds of the past week have blown the
Ups about eossiderably, particularly is exposed sitastioni,
brains% them, sad damaging the colour. The weight will
bit illiamaisbe I, sad no quantity lemesed. We have a little
aneald la some of the Golding plaatatioes. Picking ossa-
ameased as Friday last, and will be rowel by tlas be pastas
et swat week.
Toxsaiboa.—The hays is this parish aro .airing at
giaterity, and are soaalelored to be toes from disease, sad
tall of =indite.. Pickup will soussesos is a few days.
TICKRIIIIST.—P4IIIOI hr 11011ISSINSO I in this perish, bat
will an be genial until seat week. The quality appears to
Neal oat @spoliation&
WaTIJUNGIIOIIT.—Oar hops looked magnifiseatly tip to
within the lest fortnight ; hat, owing to theteriady weather
we Me. lately had, they hen received ommidenble
damage.
WSIOINAN (Lows. DIVISION OF.) The hop pleats-
Yeas la this district still mainteia the same character with
!upset to busty and profasioa.

YAWING AND Wear FAILLNIOIL—The weather duties
Ile past week has bele cold sad wady, sad the hops hive
audiered Mesa ; assay are mesh braised, sad the cold has
'hocked the baskward hope (rah as Colrgatee) ia their
growth. The dry earl aid weather is preentsrely h+atw-
fig the pleat amide maturity ; aad nest Injure the qui-
nt,. WI kiwis the quantity. We shag, however grow
loamy good hope where they ease eat early. Picking bee
lava, bet to a. eatea. Mould bas aadecaased ; tad red
Is added to whits.— Madame Jesewal.

CZYSTAL 8111111:1/0 DaT.-81PT.
S.—Wsiuiass Oa MONO. Ili; dies by sew tidies,
MO; 2,4ll.—Consseadiai day Ise raft 1,107.

Ireaisiday I west down into our own advanced
Womble. sad hem the fifth parallel, the most for-
weed ef theta, a good view could be had of this
latest of the enemy's "improvements." Without
the aid of a glass, I could ste crowds of peopat pass-
ing and repulsing from the north and south sides el
the harbour, whilst workmen were busily essegod
about the middle of the bridge is sew
pletiog it. Some fifty or sixty yards
the corner of the dockyard lay the bugs Twelve
Apostles; and, about midway between her and the
broken Besot the mast heads of the sunken ships,
runs the bridge--apparently some 20 feet in breadth,
and protected on either side by a low handrail. Sail
beatified bargee, laden with various kinds of stores,
were plying between the two sides of the harbour ;
and altogether, as looked at through the rifle loophole
(rem which I viewed it, the whole scene appeared as
undisturbed and industrionsiy busy as if not a French
or English soldier had foothold within the realms of
the Czar. From within revolver-shot of the Redan,
a very prolonged or complete survey was, of course,
not convenient ; but even with such glimpses of the
place as could be had from the parapet, I saw enough
to show me that, whatever may be the state of the
besieged's commissariat, they are as active as
they could be it fed upon the best. Is
the open, some 50 yards from the parapet,
which sheltered me, poor Yea received his death
wound on the dimities& 18th of Juae and all
round were strewn the sacrificed hundreds who fell
on the same memorable morning. Fifteen or twenty
beyond rues the low broken hedge of stakesf=ta
g the sheltie, stretching down the slope
Sowards the similar defensive barrier in front of the
t Malakhoff. As seen at a distance of about
a undyed and fifty yards, this obstructive line
eppears, at first sight, as if it could offer little
kbdranoe to an attacking force; but a closer
as utiny of it shows it to be just low, intricate, and
strong enough to check assailants, whilst an extra
discharge or two of grape could be poured
into them from the black muzzles bristling
in terrible array some seventy or eighty
yards beyond. On the 18th, however, very few of
our poor fellows reached even thus far; the desolat-
ing storm of the enemy's fire having swept them
down before they could cross the intervening space.
Beyond this hedgerow of stakes runs the line of
earthworks which connects the Redan with the Ma-
lakhoff hill ; and, a short way higher up, as the eye
trams the ascent of the slope, are seen the mixed
plisse and sandbags which form the inner lace of
the of the new French trenches in treat of
the At first glance the distance between
the (most advanced of these saps and the Round
Tower seems not more than fifty yards, but it
is in reality above a hundred, and that a
space,) too, of the most broken and difficult
ground over which attacking troops could
have to move. Narrow also as is this belt
of ground between the besieged and their aseailsots,
the former have very boldly occupied a portion of it
with their sharpshooters, and from these deadly
marksmen the French suffer heavily. The Mamelon
Ow upon their hiding-places with grape and shell;
hat under cover of the inequalities of the ground, and
the additional shelter which they have managed to
throw up for themselves, Cosy hold out, end daily and
nightly play havoc amongst our ally's gunners, both
within the Mamelon itself and the battery in advance.
The surface features of the ground in this direction
have been so often described in your columns that I
need not at present repeat the sketch ; with the aid
of a glass the whole can be seen from far behind, say
either our own Twenty. one Gun Battery or the French
Victoria Redoubt, with quite as great clearness as
from this nearer and lees safe point of observation
with the asked eye. This fifth parallel being the limit
of our approach towards the town, one's optics can
only be exercised from it through the confined and
rather unsafe 'outlet of a rifle loophole; and even
through this inconvenient opening the survey taken
must be rapid and spasmodic enough if one would
avoid courting Minie compliments from the sharp-
eyed and watchful sportsmen some hundred and fifty
yards -kesd. These loopholes are small portholes,
a to speak, through the upper portion of the parapet
of *bout four inches square, and so distributed as to
be rendered as far as possible indistinguishable from
the accidental openings and inequalities between
the send-bags along the top. Narrow and
seasealed as they are, however, many a death-
Wend has been received through them, and
dog the sides of not a few are to be seen traces
af Oka leads' 'libellee from the enemy's pieces. Still,
be. time w men keep up a pretty constant fire
lute Ifs SMIIIIIISsres of the Roden, and upon the
Incldft gimes of the riflemen in its front—protected
se the brow ars by the thick network certain of
rope which hangs over each gun, it is rare, however,
that a bullet can penetrate, unless it happens to
enter through the very limited opening left for aim-
ing the gun.
A walk through these parallels and their connect-
ing zigzags is much more exciting than easy, since,
in the first place, the average lamas of the parapets
compels a constant stooping, which, as an . Irish
soldier remarked as I passed along yester-
day, " bedad, sir, is mighty sore upon the small
of the back." To be sure, " there's fine 'bootie',"
as the samelively observer added, by way of apology
for the ultra= ; but for those who, like myself, have
a essetitatiosal dislike for gunpowder in all its com-
Meatless, the "sport" has but few attractions, and
awe heble chase of knocking over a Russian could
hardly ever reconcile me to the fifty set-offs of being
myself knocked over before I could accomplish that
praiseworthy and patriotic act. Eels, however, are
said to become reconciled in time to skinning—
though I could wee believe it—and custom appear
I. like maser to reader ors iris Bible to the @Weida;

obelus and contingencies attending a twenty•four
beta tutu in thew trenches before Sebastopol. With
dap ballets without number " pinging " over their
belle—sad, not seldom, into them—round shot
bowling thibugh them, and shell bursting on
every aide, afar man lie stretched out along the
bottom of the. trenches, some sleeping, others
spinning bole yarns or cracking reseltokes, whilst
ethers again, attentive to the sug • of a wall-
=:appetite. .are clustered round small fires
offes or superintending extemporised stews
or resste—all with as mach sangfroid as if they were
picnicking at Chobbam orAldershot, instead of doing
daty within fifty porches of the Round Tower and
the Raw.
On Sunday night the French works in front of the
Maraelon were the sane of another brisk attack, but
this has now become a matter of such constant
nightly recurrence that I need do no more than re-
mark that it we. as usual bravely repulsed. A sally
was also made early on the same night upon our
own trifling sap in front of the Redo, and our
matries driven in; bet
.toullsats- wawa
y tacit au? vy fire of shell,
and boelyeetics weever, kept up upon
cur trenches for the greater part of the night, and, I
regret to say, with considerable effect, as our total
casualties for the night amounted to sixty-five, of
whom, I believe, the 90th regiment alone lost thirty
bur killed and wounded. Yesterday afternoon, again,
a brisk fire was interchanged between our own and
the enemy's batteries, the latter taking the lead
while it lasted. As I was leaving the trenches shortly
after this episodic cannosede begus, a round shot
fired front the Redan at our third parallel richochetted,l
OM eateries anesthesia* of the 21 gnu battery, car-
tied the had off a pier sailor just as I turned out ofl
the covert way leadilig into the work. Lest night,
however, the report now Ma then of an odd mortar,
Sad a few dropping musketry shots, were all that
disturbed the quiet of the camp..
From the Tcheruaya there is nethiag new ; but
the Highlanders have again moved dews from the
Wet to the plain, to be in readiness fen anything
diet may turn up. Their removal has owthisrably
added to the trench labours of the Light and Sewed
Divisions, with whom and the brigade of Guards
they shared thew heavy and fatiguing duties. Besides'
the more obvious and probable motives which may
have influenced the enemy in their recent essay
upon the Sardinians and French, camp gossip
is at pesent giving circulation to another
which is worthy of the worst popular spes.
°options of Ras ls° character and policy, but which
I am disposed to think exists only in the lively ima-
!Outdoes of those who advocate its likelihood. Ac-
cording, however, to thew interpreters of the Russian
general's design in the attack of the 17th, his main
object was to get rid of a few thousand months for
which the Sebastopol commissariat had no provision.
The authors of this explanation give it so far in detail
as to say that, having at present nearly 200,000 men
in the neighbourhood of Sebastopol, with pumps
for only half that force, Prince Oortcbakoff
graphed to the Csar for instructions, and was di
in reply to reduce the number of conga
placing them within reach of the
meson shot and bayonets. However us
hemsey with popular notions am to Muscovite
ballisrleas, I need hardly say that this theory of ex-
planation is without probability to support it; for a
It;across the harbour to the north side shows us
of stores in every way sufficient to meet the
present wants, at all events, of any foxes our oppo.
cents can gather round the neighbourhood of the be-
sieged town. But I just mention the myth as one of
the last which the caterers for camp gossip have put
into circulation. I may add to it mention of another
etwerted fact, which meets with more belief, and
which has great likelihood to rest upon—namely, a
mutiny which deserters declare to have broken out
within the town during the early part of last week,
and which was only put down by the summary
fusillading of some ninety or a hundred of the
disaffected. The report rests only on the statement
of deserters, sad I give it for what it is worth, and
no more. Before pawing from the previous allusion
to the affair of the Tchernaya, however, I may mike
a passing reference to the general order which which
was issued front heed-quarters last week, with refer-
ence to the plundering subsequent to it. It appears
that a day or two atter the battle, a party of some
half dozen assistant surgeons and juvenile ensigns,
raw from England, proceeded to the scene of the
fight, and set about collecting some trifling relics
of the struggle—such as picking up broken weapons
and cutting off buttons from the coats of dead
Russians. Some Frenchmen who were similarly, or
more seriously. engaged, demurred, and finally made
complaints which reached their own commander, who
referred the matter to General Simpson. The latter
immediately fulminated the General Order to which
I refer, and which deprecates in pretty strong terms
the conduct complained of, intimating that the most
summary punishment will be inflicted on all future
offenders. Now, lam not close in considering that
in this instance the general has" made too much of
the thing"—considering its intrinsic triviality—
in deference to the Not very reasonable pro-
test of our allies. For every sake let as
not show themselves wanting in self-respect by
magnifying our trifles into crimes, at the instance of
every greedy Zonave or Chasseur d'Afrique who
chooses to consider his perquisites encroached on.
With the atrocities of Kertch standing on record,
let nothing be said of such " plundering " as I have
referred to, and which General Simpson has chosen
to visit with the terms of condemnation conveyed in
his Order of the 20th. Silence would be more be-
coming.
Lord Stratford came up in the Telegraph on Satur-
day, and yesterday invested the new K.C.B.'s, with
grand ceremony, at head-quarters.

CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, 800 28.

No event nt importance has occurred in the short I
interval which has elapsed since the mail left on the
25th instant. The concentration aid close approach
of the Riesian forces have led to the belief that an
attack was contemplated, and messiares leave been
adopted to meet it. A new disposition of part of
both the French and English troops has been made.
Several batteries of field artillery of our allies have
been placed in so central a position that they could
be transported in the shortest spans of time to any
point where they might be :nuked. Oar cavalry are
ready to act in any direction to the plain at a mo-
ment's notice. So much confidence is felt, not ooly
in our strengh but also in the advantages of our
position, that nothing is more generatly desired than
that the enemy may undertake the movement which
It I. suspcted the Russian generals are contem-
plating.
According to a story said to be brought into camp
by spies, when the news of the check received by
the Russians was telegraphed: to St. Petersburg, the
reply returned was, " Make the attempt again, Bala-
klava must be obtained at any cost." There is no
expression of doubt anywhere among the allies, thof
if the attempt should be made it will be attended
with as little success by the enemy as es
the last occasion, while, from the measurer
taken, in all probability their loss will be
mock greater. As to the British force, our
numbers, and the number of our guns, were never is
so efficient a condition as at present. Though their
services were not called into requisition on the 18th
instant, our cavalry which moved into the plain num-
bered 3,200; and nearly 50 guns were taken into the
field without at all diminishing the force necessary for
the protection of the front.
Captain the Ron. Robert Drummond, of the Cold-
stream Guards, who was dangerously wounded in
the sheet by a rifle ball, en the night between the
• 24th and 25th instant, has withstood the effects of
his sever, Wag' much better than was anticipated
; his medial atteadents. Be symptoms aro

The police of this camp—thanks to Osman Paths,
who not only allows but supports his own servants
in acts of the most daring brigandage—is becoming
every day worse; and I doubt if Omer Pacha's pre-
sence will mend it, as, judging from the affair at
Laspi, he considers any complaints as attempts to
damage the " honour" of hi soldiers. Our tent was
robbed a few weeks ago of a puree and money, and
sloth's; this was followed up by an entry into Cap-
Ida Dymook's, aide-de-carnp of Colonel Simmons,
and the abstraction of his watch; and last night three
Turk soldiers entered the tent of the wretched
Jew, to 1110110U1 I have before alluded id connexion with
the ex ploitraf a bashi-bezook, who keeps the canteen.
One threw hiimelf on his body, another proceeded to
strangle him, and the third dealt with has servant
who managed, holstein., to scream so lustily, that the
assailants ran away. All this is dose under the
eyes of innumerable iMatinels, who think of
interfering between MuMiman and giaonr. In
Captain Dymoc.k's case then was one at his tent
door. Oa complaining to the Pacha, the hoja, or
priest of the battalion, oomes forward, and pow
kite satisfaction, offers to cause the Nailty party to
burst like a bomb—certainly a very mammy and
desirable way of punishing the thief and Perorating
the property ; but up to the present moment prayers
and incantations have alike been in vain ; no 'tidier
of the Sultan in our neighbourhood has explode& or
in my opinion, ever will explode, as long as they
live so temperately as at present.