The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-03 00:00:00

AGILICVLTUJUL paostsors.

There has been little opp.rtnnity for any field
work during assist week. The test day was thoroughly
wet, but Moseley proved neer, owl the temperature wee
higher. with the wind retied to the S.S.W. But the
ground was too much saturated, and afterwards rain more
or lees fell almost every day up to Saturday, when a cessa-
tion took place. The wind was then N. W., with a lower
temperoture ; but the barometer was extremely low, and
uo itelieation of a fdvourabh change for the present. There
has been little program on sprier( tillage now for fully
• fortnight, and them fanners who did not make good use
of the Rue weather are becoming anxious ; and on all the
heavy mill some dry time will he required before further
awing can be proceeded with. "The early sownbarley is up,
oral lookieg well, hut much of the end is yet unsown, and
will for some time i.e too wet to work upon." This is the re-
port from the neighbourhood of rieffrou Walden. It is
sot often so much rain falls in March as has been the cam
ewe the lith of the month. So great has this been in wow
000141 ea that heavy floods have taken place, similar to
those which are esperienaed in February after the breaking
up .if frosts and melting of heavy snows. There is, however,
this difference, that at present the grass is in a forward
state, sad has • very healthy appearance, giving great
hopes of • good stop, and of being reedy at an early period.
The accounts of the wheat plant are still generally of a
favourable character, and from present appearances, it does
not seem likely that much more will he planted this NUM
April wheat is ant generally • favourite, although last season
the nursery sown in that mouth succeeded von well.
There is no encouragement in the present aspect of the
markets. The very poor condition in which the samples of
wheat came forward causes the trade to be very dull sad
lauguid. and until drier weather sets in improvement
mallet be looked for. Many farmers will not bring out
the little they hold, in the hopes of some enhancement
taking piece sootier or later. With respect to barley, the
increased demand for malting qualities coming on Just when
• quantity is wanted for sowing tends to enhance its vales ;
and the probability now is that when the seed-time is over
there will be little left. Indeed a thorough eleurinos of
home grain may be reckoned ou. Seeds cannot be sown for
awhile; mod the trade in clover-seed has bean materially
choked by the state of the weather. Still prime of good
qualities have been well supported, pet tieularly floe and
choice white. We again recommend farmers to sow as
much of the better sorts of red clover as possible, either for
a crop or to improve the meadows, where these are to SO-
natio for hay. Spring tare. will be planted to • fair extent,
the qualitybeieg good, and prices on the whole moderate.
There have nut been many Englieh latterly offered, bat
some very gee large foreign and corns superior Scotch
Gore. These are favourites with our Baldish farmers, pro-
duciog so Lunch strong [odds[.—Mark-frane Express.

TOR FATAL ACCIDENTS AT THE EXHIBITION
BOILDING.---Up to yesterday, the total number of warn=
killed while working at this baildin; has been 15. Atwell
60 have been seriously injured. and many of these pima
neatly disabled b 7 the amputation of legs and arms. nit
claims of the families of thaw men are to be brought beim
the commissioners by emus benevolent gentlemen who bars
taken their am in band.

Both economy and excellence are characteriatice
of Dr. de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liter Oil. Dr. Sheppard,
Medical Superintendent of Colacy Hatch Cantle Autos,
obs:r.es thst he has rade ette:lsive use of It, and has gnat
pleasure iu testifying to its suriority over every oth • r preps-
ration, a plat of Dr. ds Jonah's oil bang of awe value than a
coat of any other to ie• met with. ' hold only In capeulod bottles,
ts. Ud.. es. gd , and ga., by the sote wcents. sneer, Hartnett.
sad Co., 77, Strand, linden, and clansista—lAdvallsensent)

Alfred MlTeeTdiie;e7l-a.151,;g;;;d l=furylid, wns
indicted foe fekedously elreliat at Elba , with
intent to murder her, and in other counts his intent was laid
to be to do grievous bodily harm. The prisoner was also
charged with intending to commit the mime of murder with.
oat stating upon whom.
Mr. Robinson and Mr. Harry Gifford conducted the pro-
secution. The prieoner wu defended by Mr. Ribton.
This case created considerable interest, on account of
the youth of the prisoner and the circumstances under
which the crime of which he warn accused was alleged
to have been committed, and also on account of the
prosemtrix having been subjected to an attack of the same
description about two months prior to the occurrence that
was now the subject of inquiry. She was at that time in
the service of • gentleman named Leke, at Chobbam, and
one evening as the was passing across the dining-room, her
master and mistreat being both in the room at the time,
• gun was discharged through the window, and the bullet
broke a large chimney glass, but fortunately did no other
injury. The prisoner, it append, bad been forting his
attention. upon the profeeutrix, but for some reason or
other she refused to receive him es a suitor, and there was
so doubt that he committed this eat of violence in a fit of
jealousy and passion. Sufficient evidence, however, could
not be obtained to justify criminal proceedings being in-
stituted against him, and the prosecutrix, as it would
appear, left her service, in order to avoid the chance of a
similar outrage being committed, and went to live
with her father and mother at • village called
Sutton, about five miles from Chobbam, end it was here
that the offence was committed that was the subject of the
present inquiry. The daring character of the crime, and
the evident determination of the prisoner to do some serious
minishief to the trix' cannel a great deal of excite-
meet in the bourhood, and through the instrumentality
of Sir Denis Le Merchant, who modes neer Woking, and
Mr. Lake the girl's muter, Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor,
was Instructed to conduct the prosecution, and take the
neeeniuy steps to bring forward all the evidence that could
be procured is support of the present charge.
The learned counsel for the prosecution gave • brief mans.
tive of the tante he proposed to lay before the jury, and the
following albumen were then examined :
Eliza Dewbury, • rather plant-looking young woman,
said—l am a single woman, and live with my parents at
Sutton, near Woking. I have known the prisoner for some
time. He wished to keep company with me, but I ob-
jetted to it. I was in service at Mr. lAke'e, at Chobbam,
until December, and when I left I went to live with =I
father and mother. On Sunday, the 9th of P
was at house, aed I maw the prisoner go by the houstaaaite
did not came in. On the evening of the 13th of February
I was minim is the kitchen with my mother, end heard the
report of firearms, and directly afterwards I saw two hobo
is the wall. I was sitting between the table and the wall,
and there was a candle as the table. The blinds were
down, and the bullets went through the window. I found
a bullet in the room on the same evening. It is the some
sow produced. Any person standing outside the house
where we lived could see through the window into the
room.

Cross-examined—lf I wustanding outside the window the
bottom of it would be nearly aa high as my head, and the
floor of the room would be level with the ground outside.
My head would not have been concealed when I WY sitting
down. I have met the prisoner accidentally in the
several times, but he never asked me to meet him. flvellOaig;
asked me once to let him keep company with me. redline
was two months before he shot at me. He was always very
polite and kind to me, and we never had any quarrelling. The
table at which I was sitting was directlyopposite the window.
There was • white blind to the window, and anybody outside
could see whether there was any one in the room or Dot There
were no guns in my father's house. My brother was
somewhere outside the house at the time the shot was
fired, and I saw him the moment I went out.
Reexamined—My brother is sixteen years old. He is
not here as a witness. At the request of the policeman, I
and my mother afterwards placed ourselves in the positicus
we were in at the time the shot was fired. When I refused
to keep company with the prisoner be did not seem either
angry or pleased.
Jane Dewbury said— I am the step-motber of the last
witness. I know the prisoner. He called at our cottage
on the Sunday before this happened, and inquired if my
daughter was at home, and in consequence of a ootiversa-
tion I had had with my daughter 1 told him she was
not. My daughter was at home, but she did not
wish to see him. On the Thursday following, about half-
past 7 o'clock in the evening, 1 and my daughter were sitting
in the kitchen,when a gnu was fired. an immediately after-
wards two bullets struck the opposite wall. The table was
in the middle of the room, between the window and the
wall that was struck. I picked up one of the bullets after-
wards, and gave it to Lambert, the policeman. The holes
made in the wall by the bullets a ere exactly on a level with
our beads.

Charles Lambert, one of the Surrey constabulary, said-
-1 produce the bullet that was given to me by the last wit-
ness, end I examined the window sod saw two holes in the
sash, and there were corresponding marks in the wall, bat
they were rather higher.
James Miller proved tbat he bad measured the distance
from the Boer to the window sill, and the bullet holes in
the window, and he gave the different measurements ex.
planetary ri the position in which the person whoever he
was, stood when the gun was bred. He also proved that
while the proaecutnx and her mother were sitting in the
room in the situations they occupied on the night in ques-
tion, he stretched a tape line across between the two boles,
and it passed within half an inch of the bead of the prapecu-
trix, and one inch by the aide of the bead of the mother.
The blind was pulled down, and wham the light was on the
table the shadow of one person sitting at the table could be
seam distinctly, and the bullet line wee completely within
the shadow.

Ia answer to a question pat by Mr. Bibton this witness
said that he did not hear anything about the boy being out-
side on the night the occurrence took place.
The mother of the prosecutrix was recalled, and she ex-
plained that the lad in question came home from hie work
about the time the shot was tired, but said Le did not
arrive until after the alarm had bean given.
Henry Moir, • baker, at Ohohem, proved that on the
night of the 13th of February, about six o'clock, he saw
the prisoner at that place. He appeared to be
from his father's house, and be went in the directionci
Sutton. He had something under his coat which appeared
long, like • gun, but it was conceded under his coat, and he
coaled not say positively what it was.
Jane Elliott deposed that at a little after six o'clock she
maw the prisoner going in the direction of the proisecutrix's
residence, and he was carrying a gun.
Emma Tucker said that on the evening of the 13th of
February she was passing the promentrix's cottage about
twenty minutes past seven o'clock, when she saw the pri-
soner stand* opposite the window with something is his
hand, which looked like • long pistol, and when she had
gone on about 15 yards, she heard • loud report. A young
man named North came up, and she went back with him,
and she then saw the prisoner in the act of running away
towards Chobham. The prisoner was shown to her on the
following morning and she rocognised him immediately.
Several witnesses were then examined, who proved that
they saw the primmer at different places on his way toward,
his father's house, and that Mbad something like a inn
concealed under his mat. It was also proved that upon
searching the home of the priemer's father three grins
were tenni, one of whisk had been recently discharged, and
the primmer admitted that be hod discLargd it on the
molar evening, and be mid that be had shot at eons
rooks. When be was told that be WY charged with shoot-
ing at Elise Dewbstry, with intent to murder her, he made
no reply.
Charles Barker, an immetor of the Surrey constabulary,
depend that shoe the *NEW was committed for trial ken
took him in the train from Guildford to lioreemeeigerlane
I Gaol When the train had ions • short distance from
Gabbed. as they were crooning a road, the prisoner asked
Lea that mid did nut lead to Batton. and be told him it
Md. The rimier then said, " It is a had job, but if the
mother of the girl had let se sae her on the Sunday it
would have been all right. Whatever made as do such a

Joseph Brows was brought up on remand, charged with
stealing a quantity of jewellery from the shop of his em-
ployer, Mr. Ulman, jeweller, Ureat Russell-street, Blooms-
bury.
The plaintiff was formerly employed by Mr. Übnan as
Amman, but about • fortnight back was dismissed from
that situation, and engaged as a commission traveller. It
was hie duty to collect orders, for which he received 5 per
cent. commission. On the 23th ult. Mr. Ulman missed
a quantity of jewellery from the shop. In the course of
that evening the prosecutor found the prisoner in • coffee-
home, and charged him with stealing the property. The
prisoner acknowledged that he had taken goods to the
amount of 504 and upwards, of which he gave a list. They
were pledged at various pawnbrokers'. A great portion of
the property was found at the pawnbrokers' indicated, and
identified by the prosecutor.
The prisoner now alleged that the prosecutor bad ex-'
triroted the coafersioa by a promise that he would not pro-
smut&

iii:trbaaa said he had told the prisoner that it would
be better for him to tell the truth, and that if be (Mr.
Ultima) recovered the whole of the property he would not
prosecute.
The prisoner said it went further than that. Mr. Liman
took his hand, and said upon his honour he would not press
the matter if he (prisoner) would tell him where the goods
were. After that the prosecutor gave him half.a.crown,
and told him to call again the Belt day and arrange the
matter, adding that he (prisoner) could repay the money if
be got another situation.
The prosecutor did not think be had used the expressions
mentioned by the prisoner. He certainly gave him halts.
crown, as the prisoner said he had no money to get his
breakfast the next morning. The prisoner said he had de•
strayed the tickets, and he was to make declarations in
order to obtain new tickets, and call with them the next
day.
Mr. Henry said the prosecutor was a foreigner, and pro-
bably did not know that the English law would not allow
• prosecution after such a promise. The prisoner must be
discharged. The prosecutor had done something very like
compromising a felony. He should make no order on the
pawnbrokers to give up the goods.