The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-29 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

MunDueore A..161.1.:1.T. W. Brown wee charged with an
enault upon a finial',
Sarah Smith, who cried very bitterly, and seemed reluctant
to gi-e her evidence, raid she had lived with the prironer for
several peen past as his wife, end she had bad a I;rge family
by him. He was in the habitof ill using her with ut the
slightest provocation, and about one o'cl Jck this morn-
ing, he was very much intoxicated, and, while sitting
before the Ira, the conversation turned upon a rutin
who bad behaved very ungratefully to the pus met. Wit-
noes said, Never mind; ' and he replied, " You t.k. his
pert," and immediately took up the pelt r and • reek her •
violent blow upon the bead. She was cot quite sure wb..
thee he rip:it'd the blow, but her head wee cut very mesh.
Poline-constable, 83 B division, Paid, when the proticultiz
came to the station this morning she wag bleeding profusely
from wounds in her bead, and was colored who blood dour
to her waist. Her baby was in her ums, and that wee also
covered with blood which was then streaming from her

wounds.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was i,toxieated, and
that he did rest take up the poker with the intent of doing
her any injury.
Mr. Boreal sentence d the prisoner to psy a free or 51, a d
la default to be committed fur twu mun. Cs, Lisa to Had good
sureties to keep the le-ee.
The prisoner was then locked up.
The prosecute: said she freely forgave the prisoner, 'ad
that she only wished him to be bound over.
The eag:drate would not listen to tt.is, and abe -hen en-
deavoured to exculpate the prisoner, and t'ot,w blame
upon the pulse-constable.

LW:VA COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—Yes te• day a quar-
terly court of the governors was held at tbo hospital, in
Portugal-street, Lincolate-ina.fields, to receive a report of
the state of the hospital, and to slat a new president and
ties-president. Lnd Redstock in the chair. The non
stated that the number of patients admitted into the hospital
daring the six months ending Sept. 29, 1849, mounted to
864, and the out-patients to 11,588. It also appeared that
the number of in-patients eines the opening ot .he Inepital
(in the year 1840) was 11,437; cut•patients, 133,772;
making a total of 145,209. The financial statement
showed that the subscriptions and donations from
the lot of January to the present time amounted
to 3,6921. 71. 51., and the expenditure to 3,8711. Os. 74.
The expenses of the lest quarter, as compared with those of
the corresponding three months in the previous year,
showed an increase of 3001. ; and this increase war
attri-
batable to the prevalence of the cholera. A letter from the
Duke of Sutherland was produced, announcing his grace's
resignation as president of the institution : hut it appeared
that circumstances hail prevented the appointment of a suc-
cessor. The Eon of Carlisle having expressed his willing-
ness to become a vice-president, his lordship was elected by
acclamation. The routine business of the day having been
gone through, the proceeding' laminated with a WA of
thanks to the chairman.
FIRE AND LOSS or LIFE.—Let evening, shortly
before five o'clock, • fire, involving • cons:derable deetruc-
tics of property and a lass of life, broke out on the premises
in the occupancy of Mr. Sullivan, a lodging-house keeper,
doe., coning on business in Great Wild street, between
Orange and Lincoln courts, Lkooleeednu-lields. The pre-
mises were of considerable extent, and, notwithetsnding the
most strenuous exertions on the part of the firemen, the
whole of the upper portion of the indicting was destroyed,
the flames not being extinguished until after nine o'cLek.
Daring the mourns of the fire, an alarm was raised that an
old men had remained in tub house, and every effort was
made, but without effect, to make him aware of his danger.
As MOD as the pima was sufficiently cooled for the firemen
to enter they ascended, by means of the scaling ladders, to
the upper part of the house destroyed, and alter
earsehing
for emu time they at length foand the 1 felonbod the
poor man who was 'Medea. He was lyiog on his face on
the second floor, sad from the contortion of the features it
was quite clear that the unfortunate men ha 1 died from
suffoeatioa. His name, it :s understood, was James Oliver,
and it is stated that he was a pensioner in the royal navy.
A shell was immediately procured and the body was placed
therein and removed to the workhouse, where it awaits a
carouse's inquest. Respecting the orisia of the fire, nothing
that can be depended upon could be ascertained, but the
prevailing opinion is that the poor fellow who has thus pre-
maturely
been hurried into eternity was the cause of the
unionize*, through gawking tobacco in his bedroom.
THE REPRESENTATION OF TEE RAPE OF
Bautsia.—John Shelley', Esq., late of lionha.n, but now
of Avington, sea Winchester, has c.me forward for the
Rape in the liberal interest, and is, we hear, to be opposed
by Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, a preen colt from the
Goodwood stable. Rally this Lennox is insatiable. He
has one eon bestriding the county and another is saddled on
Chichester. If this greediness be tolcatod, we shall pre-
sently have " six Richmonds in the field." The; mud bee
beaten back. Lord Alexander anus forward, of course,
under the auspices of the Protection Society that reeks to
humbug the farmers end uphold high rents.—Brsq Al on
Glaardeali.—A eorrespondent rays: " The corAtituency is a
peculiar one. Though the two members for Shoreham are
clawed in the house as borough members, the) are in reality
members for the division of a county, the constituency
havisg, in oessequence of the corruption which existed in
the old borough of Shoreham, been extended to all 101.
householders in the rape of Brusher, which covers a large
ponies of the western division of Sawa. A few landlords
(and in this district they are mostly motectioniete) have a
predominating influence, and the chances are that if Lord
Alexander Lennox starts he will come in the winner, the ugh
it is sot improbable smut jealeusy may be evinced by the
other landlords at his Grace of Rmond attempting to mo-
nopolise so much of the representation of the county, he
having already ono sun in for the county and another for
the city c 4 Chichester."