The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY A MILITIA STAFF-

SERGIAN T.

On Friday night a daring highway robbery was
committed near Derby by Joseph Whyman, one of the
staff of the Derbyshire Militia. WEyman had met during
the evening a private of the 95th Regiment of Foot, named
George Jeryis, who had corn, over to Derby on furlough,
and both having served in the same regiment in China,
they went to a public•house and had a glass of grog to-
gether. Jervis was making his way to the railwaystation,
intending to visit some friends at Sheffield. Whyman
volunteered to accompany him to the station, but instead of
taking him the nearest way, he went up Osmaston-read,
and when they had reached Litehereb-lane he suddenly
knocked his comrade down, and swore be would have
money and his life. Jervis having his knapsack on his
back, could scarcely make any resistant,-, and he told him
he might have what money he had got about him, if he
would oily spare his life. Whyman replied, with an oath,
" I'll have your money and your life too," and gave him a
severe blow on the head. Jervis called out " Murder," and
a fearful struggle took place between them, but eventually
Whyman, hearing some one spprosching, ran away, taking
with him 18s. abstracted from Jervis's pocket. Jervis
raised the cry of "Stop thief!" and directly afterwards a
railway policeman, who was on duty on the Derby and Biz-
miagham line, close to where the assault and robbery took
plat*, came up to his assistance, and they went is pursuit,
but did not succeed in capturing him. Whyman however,
wee apprehended shortly afterwards, and he has been com-
mitted for trial at the next assizes. Whystan, a sheet time
ago, purchased kis discharge, in order to become one of the
permanent staff of the Derbyshire militia.

SHOCKING COAL PIT ACCIDENT.—An inquest was
held yesterday, at Pendlebury, near Manchester, by W.
S. Rutter, Est., county coroner, on the bodies of two
colliers killed at the Agecroft Colliery of Messrs. Knowles,
on the previous Thursday. The deceased, Robert Beckett
and Robert Hilton, had gone to work by themselves in the
pit on Thursday morning, and it is supposed that early is
the musing they had been buried by • fall of earth from
the roof of one of the workings. Their wives went in search
of these at seine public houses on Thursday evening, sup-
pain that they had left the pit as usual, and were stopping
an tie way to drink instead of returning home. Neat
ewninngg they inquired at the colliery, and then it was re-
eaUeeted they hat sent no coal out of the pit after
about nine o'clock on Thursday morning. A. search was
man is the pit, and then their dead bodies were found
Wiwi under a fall of earth from the roof. Verdict, acci-
dental death.
THE MURDER ON BOARD THE REINDEER.—The
widow of Captain Wilson, who was murdered on board the ,
Reindeer while navigating his vessel from Valparaiso to
Monte Video, has received the following note from the
I Board of Trade :—" Office of Committee of Privy Council,
&e., Nov. 19, 1853.—Madam, In reply to your letter, I am
directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade to acquaint you that four prisoners belonging to
the late crew of the Reindeer, of whom one wee • British
@object, have been arrested by the authorities at Buenas
Ayres, on suspicion of being concerned in the murders on
board that vessel, will in all probability be tried and dealt
with according to the laws of that province.—Your obedient
servant, LOUIS Bovril."
THE GREAT FIRE IN THAMES-STREET.—The ex- ,
ertions of the differeat brigades did not succeed in com-
pletely extinguishing the fire which broke out about mid-
night on Saturday until noon yesterday. The damage is
even more extensive than was feared, but very little of the
property destroyed was insured. Meson. Saunders are not
insured at all, and Messrs. Goeriefi and Co. axe, but to a
very inadequate extent. The property of Messrs. Otley and
Co., which occupied the lower stories, was not materially
Mr. Albert Smith boa been ascending Mont water. The accident is attributed to the overheating a one
injured try fire, but the basement is several feet deep in
Blanc, conversationally and pictorially, until his entertain- of DEATHst°°°° .
riot in
ment has become one of the institution of the country. PROM r ElOHE.—intring a recent riot in
Whendt commeneed will soya be beyond the recollection of Kirkcudbright, a young woman of the name of Mary Bar- '
the oldest man about town ; and when it will end, the clay was so much alarmed by the noise in the street, that
yOttagat in his most sanguine moments dares not to anti. with a shriek she leaped on the floor, and her reason for
Even at the present period, when its popularity ever fled. She died the following morning.—. North British
bee sot seem to have reached its height, it has been found Mail.
neemeary (according to the programme) to make THE " QUEEN'. LETTER." Means, it would
Made and Persian laws restraining the impatience appear, have been found of mollifying Lord Palmerston, and
of the audience, preventing loungers from interfering with of enabling the Globe to come forth, though tardily, with
listeners, banishing bonnets from the stalls, end securing the declaration that the statement that the Queen's Letter
seats for provincial admirers by post.effice orders, electric has been refused to the Society for Propagating the Gospel
telegraph, or some process of the kind. wants truth," and that the Royal Letters will issue as
Last evening—the commencement of the third season—a usual. Although the authority we had
received for the
great impetus was given to the original entertainment by fact was of the highest order of respectability, the fact itself
the addition of various novelties. In the first place, the seemed nearly incredible. But we have since been satis-
decorations of the room are entirely changed. The interior fled that the original statement was literally and strictly
of a Swiss chalet has given place to the exterior of a Swiss true. We believe that the Globe of Friday and
village—with cafés and rock-work, and everything charm- the Times and Chronicle of Saturday did not give any
tirade and complete, the front of the proscenium (which contradiction of our statement, simply because they
could net be improved) still looking mystic with its water could not. In • word, up to Friday night things
and water lilies, portable gas, and so forth. remained in the position in which we had described them.
The material of the entertainment is also chinned. It is On Saturday, however, we apprehend that a change win
divided Into three parts, the first and last of which—every- effected, and then, and not till then, the Globe was enabled
thing, in short, but the actual ascent—being almost entirely guardedly to give • contradiction to the story. We say
new. The first part is occupied with " The Bermes* Over- guardedly, for a more meek and gentle contradiction we
land." The route from Boulogne to Basle un- never saw, all that is ventured to be said is merely that the
dergoes a rapid description. Our old friend Mr. story is not true now, and that the Queen's letter will
Pringle turns up at Zurich : he has "come to issue. Every word of our first statement may have been
fish, and brought his flageolet with him "—need we say strictly true when it was written, and yet the Globe's state-
more ? Other old friends also turn up (including the per- meat may be quite true now. All that is needed to Tuna-
former of the " Moulin du Village," and the undecided cite the two statements is merely a change of mind. In •
Mr. Parka, formerly of Cairo), in the midst of talk about word, we believe that the facts alleged by us were literally
William Tall, the fall of Romberg, and other matters. The true, and that nothing has occurred sines but a little Minti-
ng that concludes this part—" The Feat Man "—is new, terial vacillation.—Morning Herald.

IRELAND.

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Draux. Dzc. 5.

Serious riots have taken place in Sligo, for the
purpose of presenting the exportation of potatoes
trout that port to England. The Sligo Journal gives
the following account of the proceedings, from which
it will be perceived that the rioters succeeded in their
object :
Mr. West, of Carter's), having a large quantity of pota-
toes of his own produce, purposed shipping them on Monday
morning, and the carts conveying them had arrivid at the
rob Market, whea a mob, who had been awaiting their
arrival under Mr. Martin's mill, sallied out end endea-
voured to turn them, but the police consiag up, prevented
the execution of tine plan, after a struce:e, in which some
hard knocks were exchanged. The carts proceeded, amid
the yelliag and hentiag of the crowd, towards the Ballast
Bank, and it required the most strenuous efforts of the
police to repel the repeated attacks made by toe mob.
On arriving at tie Ballast Batik, the crowd gained a
considerable accession to its numbers, and there
seemed to Ors • settled determination en the part
of the roob to present the shipping of the
potatoes at any hazard. losroe planks, wheelbarrows,
empty egg boxes and crates were quickly thrown together,
and • regular barricade formed to intercept the corm. The
polio were ordered to fix bayonet., and Head Cosa:able
Power warned the people of the danger of penistiog in their
o;.pessition; but they still pen;sted, and some parties had
their clothes pierced by the bayonets of the constabulary.
At this juncture some persons behind the shed commenced
to fling stones, and the position of the police was becoming
every mom at more dangerous. The stones fell as thick as
hail, std several of the men were struck, while the mob
renewed their attack on the carts. Under these circum-
stances Head Constable Power, who acted all through with
e .urage and forbearance, ordered the police to load, but Mr.
West interfered, and intimated his intention of returning
with the potatoes. This was hailed by tho mob with loud
cheers, and they accompanied the carts through the streets,
shouting vociferously. Oa Tuesday the drivers of two
tarts loaded with potatoes, belonging, we believe, to Mr.
Munson, Knox'retreet, were very roughly handled, and
threats were held out against the owner if he persisted in
exporting. We understood that • regularly organised body
of spies are kept constantly watching those parties who wish
to export their own produce, and that • subscription
has been set on foot among the humbler classes to support
them.

A case of considerable interest to railway com-
panies was brcught to a conclusion in the Court of
Common Pleas on Saturday evening; Mr. Henry
Anderson, a well-known horse-dealer of this city,
being the plaintiff, and the Chester and Holyhead
Railway Company defendants, and the action being
ono for an alleged breach of contract, by which the
plaintiff stated that he had sustained considerable
damage through injury to fifteen horses which the
defendants had contracted to convey for him in horse
boxes on their line within a specified time. On Mr.
Anderson's arrival in Holyhead with the horses he
found that there were no boxes ready for him to go
on with his horses, nor were there any to be had
until a late train, the result of which was that he
did not reach Shrewsbury (his destination) until four
o'clock on the morning of the fair, when it was
found that the horses, which were very valuable
(and varied in price from 301. to 601.), were all more
or less deteriorated from fatigue, &c., and were con-
sequently not in good saleable order. The al-
leged deterioration in the value of the horses was
considerable, and the loss sustained by the plaintiff
was from 2001. to 4001. at the very lowest calculation.
On the part of the defendants it was contended
that the railway company never undertook to con-
vey those horses except on the usual terms they con-
veyed everything which was carried, " subject to
unavoidable accidents and delays." They no doubt
were paid for carrying Mr. Anderson's horses, and
would have sent them on by the nine o'clock a.m.
train on the 29th February if they could, but they had
not the means. A special contract was relied on to
convey them by that particular train ; but it was con-
tended that no such contract was ever entered into,
and the receipt given to the plaintiff for the money
he paid stated on the back of it the condition,
namely, that they conveyed them subject to acci-
dental delays. The cow occupied the court during
two days, and at a late hour on Saturday evening
the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 2301.
damages and lid. costs.
There has been a fair business in produce this
week, but no degree of briskness. The Stock and
Share Markets have been very dull and depressed,
and the same may bo said of the Corn Market, which
gave way materially on Friday. The weather has
been damp and foggy through the week. From the
country accounts are good, and the farmers are in a
better position than for a long time past. Trade is
here on a healthy footing, and we do not anticipate
any bad results from the apparently increasing
money pressure, as far as our mercantile circles are
concerned.

NAVAL.

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ADMIRALTY, DEC. 3.-- APPODITMENTB. Pay-
master W. L. Inch, to he Secretary to Admiral Fanshawe.
Surgeons W. Macleod, M.D., to the /irrosnerse, 14, sloop,
at Devonport ; and A. Muirhead (1838), to the Victory,
101, flag ship, at Portsmouth.
Assistant Sergeons G. H. Ryan (1842) to the Agamemnon,
91, screw steam ship of 330-hone power, on the Mediter-
ranean station ; and W. T. Wilson (1816), to the Princess
Royal, 90, screw steam ship, at Portsmouth.
Acting Assistant Surgeons T. H. Wall, to the Leopard,
12, paddle wheel steam frigate of 560-hone power, at
Portsmouth ; D. Campbell, to the Racehorse; T. Ceghlan,
to the Royal Growls, 120, screw steam ►hip, at Sheerness;
and C. D. M`Carthy and J. Hudson, to the Victory.
Naval Cadet A. M. Fairlie ; his first entry.

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY.

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Several horses were backed for the Derby, but the busi-
ness that was transacted did not present any feature of im-
portance ; most of the investments were only to small sues.
The principal bets were 2,500 to 100 apt Acrobat, 1,260 to
SO sgst Ruby, 675 to 25 and 2,000 to 60 apt Hesse Camel,
2,000 to 60 slot Boiardo, sad 1,000 to 20 three tante apt
Old Noll.
550 to 25 was laid asst Autocrat winniog the Derby and
Meteor& the Oaks. King Tom was " quiet."
The quotations at the ease were SS follows:
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLECHASE.

5 to 2 sgst Mr. 4711ason— .s43sest
CHESTER CUP.
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500 to 10 optiir7FritVsfont (t)
2000 to 30 Mr. E. R. Clark's Mr. Sykes (t)
DERBY.

13 to 1 agst Lord Derby's Dervish (t, 14 to 1 abo
lakl
25 to 1 Mr. J.) Adkins's Ruby (t)
26 to 1 Lord Derby's Acrobat (t)
33 to 1 Lord Derby's Boisrdo (t)
36 to 1 Doke of Bedford's Hesse Cassel (t)
36 w 1 -- Mr. Clarkson's Neville (t)
35 to 1 Mr. J. Scott's Meteors (40to 1 slaw laid)
1000 to 20 Mr. W. Smith's Old Noll (t)
1000 to 20 Baron Rothschild's Middlesex (t)
600 to 10 Mr. Newland's Bracken (t)
600 to 10 Mr. Walter Day ns Belgians (t)
2000 to 20 Lord Clifden's Alembic (t)
1000 to 10 Mr. Overflies Bobby (t)
22 to 1 Autocrat winning the Derby and Me.

terns the Oaks-(t)
The room was very thinly attended.

SALE OF BLOOD STOCK.

The following bones in training, the property of • rus-
tiness', were told yesterday at Tattersall's ; Port Philip,
2-yn old. by Melbourne, 2U guineas; Helmet, 2.yrs old, by
Cowls—Minena, 234 noineu ; Br yearling colt (brother So
Royal Hart, by Venison—Ked Roes), 410 guineas ; Br
easing colt, by Colliagwood—Tanlla (no engagement),
100 guineas. Br yearling filly, by Pompey, out of ill.hrose's
dam (no engagement), 15 guineas ; Nene, lyre old, by
Charles X ll—Jeannie (no engagement), 16 guineas ; Rata-
plan, 3. yes old, by the Baron—Pocahontas (no engagement),
650 guineas.

A LARGE St/AMER.—The Persia, to be built by
Kr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow, for the Cunard Campos,,
to ply between Liverpool and New York, will be about
46 feet Woad ia the beam, and *stead in length to 360 feet;
and the teenage will be 3,060. The engines will be bun-
dred•inch cylinders, with a tan feet stroke. Althea/0 no
part of this immense vessel has yet been set up, the frame-
work is ia rapid prove= ; and it is believed that she will
be ready ia twelve months heap.—Glavoto Sentinel.
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT AT LIVERPOOL, AND Loss

OW LI7I.—LITIMPOOL, bloxmot.—About 3 'o'clock this
aftersoos a distressing occident occurred in South John-
street (es tke earner of Atherton.street), which resulted is
the deaths et ese sea and two boys, one aged 11 and the
ether 3 years. TII• accident in question arose from a high
wall, enclosing some ground where the building of tents for
Australia was envied on, having fallen out into South
Joha.street, Das of the principal thoroogbfares of Liver-
pool. The wall extended from Atherton-street to King-
street, and with it 101 l a lot of bar iron, which had been
built up against it, which in all probability caused it to
give way. The persons killed were passing along South
John-street at the time, and are as follows: Mr. J. H.
Hind, merchant, King•street ; and John and Thomas
Beers, brothers, residing at No. 4, Court, Castle-street.
An inquest will be held to morrow.
TUE (Its EXPLOSION AT CHATHAM,—Yestetday
the coroner's inquest was held on the bodies of the two
unfortunate men who wore killed by the explosion of the
gasometer at theism works on Frida sight last. The
jag retuned a simple vordiet et " death."