The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-05 00:00:00

IAT EVENDWG, MAT 5,

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1865.

conclude that permanent oourtemartial are among
the institutions deemed essential in that part of the
Queen Christina is now In Paris, and was present
at the last representation of the Atrioairse. An
expectation is entertained that Queen Isabella will
be bare within a fortnight. This rumour is con-
nected with one which I alluded to some time ago,
and which I find gains ground, that a revolution in
Spain is imminent.
The Bourse was a little firmer ; but, with the
exception of a rise of 7fr. 50c. in Mobilier, there
is
hardly any change in quot►tions. The old Mexican
Loan is now below 50.
The Daily News is seised.

OUR OONTSMPORARI&6•

The TiMel observes that the constitution of the
oolamittee In the Edmunds' cue, containing so many mem.
ben of the government, makes its assures fall with =nab-
hag weight upon the Lord Chaneellar. He is tiled by •
jury of his own friends, and convicted on two minute.
"We, like they, abstain from soy speculation as to his
motives ; but when we are dealing with a person of the
greatest ability and the most extended experience, we ere
net bound to seek for motives, because we may feel sure
that such a person must have perfectly well knows what
was the course he ought to rime. A man of much
lees experience and istelligeme than Lied Westbury
wool have felt that It is highly improper for •
person sensed by the report of two Queen's counsel of the
commission of several felonies to be permitted to stifle in-
quiry by nolguing and promising to pay beck whatever
public mousy be had stolen; and It is even massless thetthis
compounding a felony could not justify anyone, much lam
the highest judge in the land, in withholding from the (cm-
mitts* circumstances which diitiaotly proved that to grant
M. Edmunds a pension would be a fraud upon the public-
The eat was cu'pable in Doe!! ; it was committed by a per
son in whom snob culpability is least of all 'mumble, and
we may reasonably rest contented with these hots without
prying Into motive* to which we have no sufficiset due.
Where so act is indifferent it is from the motive alone that
we an determine its criminality ; where it is culpable in
itself all inquiry into motives is IFOIDEADOWN"
The Morning Herold says the mutty will persist in ask-
ing whether it is decent or in **evidence with the dignity of
an English parliament that the House of Peers should be
presided over by a Lord Chancellor who " his just avoided
expulsion hom honour and office by • majority, thrice re.
peaked, of • single vote. and that the vote of a oollesgoo,
himself implicated, on the ground of corrupt preference and
patronage, directly defiant of, and degrading to, the public
law. The elements of the majority, in the Lords' commit-
tee, were composed of four ministers, themselves impugned,
who were sitting in judgment upon their own actions, with
two sworn followers to abide by whatever they might pro-
pose ; and we therefore protest rltogether against their ver-
dict. It is • cruelty to Mr. Edmunds that be should be
thus condemned whin Lord Westbmy, who made a profit
for his family out of Mr. Edmunds's errors, is allowed—with
shame we my it—to misrepresent the dignity of the heredi-
tary house from the woolsack."
"If • Lord Chancellor," says the Ativertiser, " will
shield a criminal, and allow him, with a full knowledge of
his offenora, to be pensioned, when • word from him would
have prevented the Home of Lords from granting him a
motion, we can only say that he is no longer fit for his
post. He Is the wrong man in a plus which above all
things demands • man upon whose discretion and honour
there rest no taint. The committee have in very mild
language declared that be has sated indiscreetly. We may
be permitted, in the interests of public morality, to speak
in plain language and say that he hes forfeited public con-
fidence by the course he has pummel."
The Times hes • purge in one of Its leaden in
which it says : "We enfidently assert that no poli-
tical section, and we firmly believe that no organ
of English sentiment, bin ever advocated • hostile
bearing towards the Federal government." But in
the Herald we read even now, that the President of the
United States " thirsta for the blood of the Confederate
leaders with all the passion of • revolutionist and ell the
bitterness of a rempde ;" and that, "should he succeed,
and the South lie prostrate at his feet, we may expect •
series of murders as atrocious se that of President Lincoln,
and more infamous by reason of that pretence of judicial
sanction by which their atrocity will be veiled. But es yet
the Southern leaders are beyond the reach of the American
Robespierre ; and the inauguration of his reign of terror
must be deferred tin it appear whether the South is willing
to submit without another appeal to the chances of battle."
The Morning Poet urges with regard to the Read
murder case, that even if Comte/me Kent be of unused
mind now, yet her statement may in its main biota be tins.
And although this might not be sufficient to justify her
conviction, it would go far to fix the culpability on the
right person, and by consequence to vindicate all who,
though more or less suspected, were really innovenL "It
is perfectly possible that Mies Kent may have been imam '
irresistible maniacal inflames when she committed the mur-
der, and under no such influence now when she confesses it.
Or she may have been perfectly mistress of her own actions
then, and under unsound influence now. In either CVO
the evidence of insanity most be strictly scrutinised, espe-
cially that which is brought forward to discredit the con-
fession. We ought to be told in detail the history of
Constance Kent for the last four years and a half; and
instances of conduct indicating unsoundness of mind ought
to be produced. It will not do to jump to the conclusion
that she is insane bemuse she bas made this confession, nor
to conclude on mend priori grounds that she has been
brought to a morbid state of mind by the life of religious
restraint which she has reoeatly led. If no proofs of recent
inanity are forthcoming, the evidenos produced by the
police, since it confirms the confession, must pro facto be
taken as true. An inquiry may then properly sum as to
her state of mind when the deed was committed ; sod it is
on this inquiry, and not on that of her present state of
mind, that her conviction or acquittal on the pound of in-
sanity must ult"nately turn."

THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY AND THE PRO-
POSED RAILWAY THROUGH GREENWICH
PARK.
_.-.--

This morning was issued a copy of the minutes
of the proceedings of the Board of Visitors of the Royal
Observatory on the 24th ult., when they met to consider
the proposed when' of the South Eastern and London,
Chatham, and Dover Railways of • railway tunnel under
Greenwich Park. The visitor, were General Sabine, Pre-
sident of the Royal Society, chairman ; Professors J. C.
Adams, Challis, and Stokes, Mr. W. Dame, P.R.A.S.,
Colonel Sir Geo. Everest, Captain G. N. Richards, R.N.,
Dr. Robinson, Sir James South, and Dr. 'Whewell. The
Astronomer Royal was also present, by the request of the
Board.
After • careful consideration of the documeat., ho., the
visitors see no ground far changing in soy way, exoept,
perhaps, in making it stronger," the report which they made
twoyearsago. Theyagreeentirly with thaAstronomerßoyal
in thinking that a removal of the Royal Observatory to any
other site would, by interreptieg the eoutinnity of the ob-
servations, deprive it of its acknowledged pre-eminence
over all other utronomical observatories. Additional evi•
dens, which has been obtained slue the former report,
has confirmed their °puristic& of the inadmissibility of
such projects as those which have been submitted by the
railway companies, onsistently with the maintenanos of
the National Observatory at Greenwich, as well as bloomed
the hopes which the Astronomer Royal may have been will-
ing to entertain at an earlier period, that he might find it
possible to devise means of obviatiag. in part at
last, some of the apprehended iNOISINIGieIIeiI in
raped to the instrnmente which ware then in
nee. To these there has slice been added the Great Equa-
torial, is regard to which the visitors fully concur In the
Astrosomer Royal's opinion, that the evil would be each se
to be altogether irremediable. The oonvlosion to which the
board has arrived, and which they desire to urge most
strongly on their lordships' attention, doss not net on con-
jecture or on a few trials made on as insafiloieet meals.
Os various grounds, which they give in their report, the
board of visitors feel warranted in entreatieg their lordships
to maintain absolutely their former decision, and strictly to
exclude all railways from the perk. In this the board are
confident that they will be supported by the approval of
the whole scientific world.

Lamarrn Etrcnott.—A meeting of the electors
has base announced foe thia evening, at eight o'clock. at th•
feces Tavern. Bennington, for the purpose of meeting Mr.
Aldarmut Lynam

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FAIONTPUZ BMWS OP A YOUNG WOMAN. LAW INTMLIGENCE.
INQUEST.—(THIII DAY.) (THIS DAT.)
At noon to-day Yr. Jahn Rampbsaya, 3addlimaz .--•--
oorossr,hild in WIWI)" at the Glob* Teveer, 431"66 Aar(- COURT 07 PROBATE AND DIVORCIL
street, Hostas, respalling the 'Wide of Emma Burrell. (Bohm the Judge Odium.)
aged 20 years. COUST C. 000 IS.
Bas}anala Hardwick «id that drama& Vt.& ia
his boom. She woo a funiage shop 0, Kr. A. S. 1101 for thzrtioasr, Pilo Court 4.•
.geMia
wso maa's isrvant. Be the raspoudist is
last
podgy evening she came in, asylak_thst she lin ; and is um „km„ I. wen aim, with his "ksmmi
roaster (114
vaterZeinotalatot tit bolst rep to reztr=il.:, bin edock Whitson, 11.11.), she committed Multsry wigs a "oldie? 1111
WHIM= (oared her lying on the Is the bare alaileberrj jibe was
garden with her Mad samlied TY wiadow Dome ow.
EMU O. mat MID IZMIR.
of bar room jut above wee open.
_sarri.t was Mast that
she bad fang herself out and killed bona Thin was so Xg. Blick tar the 11•4friia"r•
distress to occasion her to commit midi* sad she we' net Tb• r:l6-144.7114"1miTki. I° 1851 TIM kept i pores
„ ts Derbyshire, add they lime to.
keeping company with anyone, bat her mother had ban far about tva man. The romeadoat, Ys
Me.
Mks Orwell, a friend oe dens d. said that the liable of a
ut pubikan, b
ad contresloll Wampum
mai, during the last six weeks, alto to Oahe that site wee smodwidleas
eaasusroardeomwollio • mElliriewithbY_Rasm,ll thed.aihsrantisows,
is a distroomd state of Wad for she meld poi do as mil
sa the other shop girls, and could sot don es well ea Am Isallstsumborrtut redbm=dest• I:..aarril!se.:::,.. ..n.. . earobi_
did. Elbe said that if she maid kill besesittemrfsekinoes: Ism for ea
not to be laughed st, she would do se "items..
tried to " chaff " her oat of the sotto % add thellellithiA she , "I"leassertialiDimmillawlie:=llB.B.l„,,,ligt r°ll;dit°
ties
detention
°f
WI
would sot do each • thing. Whams did net words at the
poor girl's going mad, for she bed cassaba endure frees her BUM e. ELITISM.
father and mother to drive sayone sub kr adodgattat De. ai"ks. for the 141iti"m's tbe Wife a 3"1" 1361,61
• ostanotmaker, who sought • divorce es $4
she was 15 earsy old. Her mother died in Casey
Kr. JardWe proved that &smelt! wm laid by the fear- of bipmy. Be had married Joao llialsop g
tot injuries so her head mossiossd by the fall. Witimrch in Ink sod lived with her till 1816, when to
The jury rstnnied • verdict " that cloomood oommitied dtt6•4 111,.•"- be wr dt•r"l4._ aid married.
4 hate
I enbilde by throwtsg herself oat of • snood floor whitlow with Elisabeth 'jag. wain no
' I while of unsound misd. Deems aid with costs.
MOMS V. 1110171=, MT; AID MIII•lt.
Mr. Rankly, Q. 0., sad Dr. figoks for tho_petitioseL
The politicos' wee the son of the Rev. WM. Preeto.
bieumbent of Doskibgtoe Northumberland. Is hi%
1863. he hot Jest somisded lit coma at Oambridgeo tine
satin mtishatiots of his Meads He had pissed a mbeho
ship sad as oxhibitim, sad his mama st tali Wow*
bed been examdligly moderate—aot moseding igg. o
yaw. He lad, however, °Detracted an sequin's;
with • vrocom at the sown amid dormaah Sikh&
sad bolero galag home be took hor le Lmsli,
hid amnia her at fit. Pancras shosh. Be Mil
latesdad for holy ordain, and had b 0 am d
his ova, ke hie wife with smse
asoall ream ac
he could posh out of his pocket mo,
tlo themerin October his father became s,o d
in aad armed to allow the reemehat •
• walk provided that she would madam
for a time sport from her linabuid, sad Ear
her Maas for her mow position by laid* a rimoddia
Ida Elbe appal to thisarrsngement, sad • deed men.
muted embodnag these stipulation'. like did not, boy.
mar, bog faiti them, sad information was obtained •
which to found the presses snit.
[The am was not oesslntlad when we west to pa)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. 1
(Belem Mr. Commissioner BeWO.)
IS SZ LOUIS OTTO StISTZ•IXTS.
The bankrupt wee a merchant in Great Bt. Helm's, lag
she a member of the Arm of Itunteasis and Co. cl
mitts. This was the sitting for dasolnaMon sad dishes%
The wenn* prepared by Mr. Bened, show an
liability of 87,0001.. upon which there would appe:fre,
faideasy, dso Ism then 84,0001. The we now ern ea
har headed before . r Holroyd
del anniqemeall owingdr the easemimiene ef J. E. F. 14111
(meatioeed immediately below), being deo added
ler We day, sad Use two bankrupts having had lams him.
sided together. The largest item ca the debtor die el
Ale bankrupt's account, 68,8941., messiah liabaltin els
jest to deductions In respect of Mattes shipments to
emit&
Mr. Bargee!, for the griper (who were the swish
both eased, staled that Mr. Registrar Window bed gime
his sanction to the we of Bees being heard befam
Helroyd. The liabilities were exceedingly large, 87,0d1.
in one SlSlP6apati for farther
82,0001. in the other. The born
had been well but the assignees wished
aocennts, sad de for
o an opportunity to make Monde r
to the probable sante of the Cabinda house, which ins aim
winding spin the lasolvent Court. An ample adjournedt
would therefore be seceepary.
Hie Hawser digested that the adjournment should ad
he loaner than two months in the Ant tedium.
An adjournment was ordered accordingly. It se oleo
directed that 'Rapp for examination and for ordo of Xe.
charge should bodies's muddy.
IS Is J. Z. P. YAM
This bankrupt we. ads deseribed as a mashant d Great
Bt. Helen's, In fact, the parties had occupied the ism
(Moss. The Habilitate in this case are stated at 32,9001.,
with • deficiency of 22,0001.
Bergeod• behalf of the amigos's, made the isme
=dim is this case, and the same adjournmedour
No one appeared for either of the Wakes*
Mr. James Cooper accountant, has been appointed an.
sager under each s':etate. The adjournment in each ow Vol
made to the 26th of May.
II U JAMS DAVIS
The bankrupt ouraarsooll4lootlo, 01 Old Wadi&
street ; liabilities, about 7201.
Mr. Sargood opposed. The bankrupt had had an actin
=plait him by Mr. Jackson, on the reeved al
tlyrepresenting the value of his badness in whisk
Mr. Jackie' berme a partner. The adieu wee hid
sad a verdiet for 2701. given on the 23rd Febnazy
last; on the 3rd of the following month the bask.
rapt presented his own petition. evidently for
the sake of &death% Mr. Jacksoe's jadgmsat.
Now it appeared that Mr. Jackson's judgment had not him
dried till the 14th of March ; his debt bad communedf
been improperly admitted, and must be expunged ; bat
ea
the bankrupt would be lett exposed to the judgment per.
bane the hideous(' would be to have the petition dismied.
Mr. Becky, on behalf of the bankrupt, contended del
the error was not his, and that he ought not to infer.
His BOSOur thought that the best course would be to
annul the petition, and let the bankrupt present another.
He should adjourn the ease else die, leaving the tanknot
to take such steps as be might be adrieed.
Mr. Bayley asked for a month's protection, which our
given.

II ILI MDBIIetT.
The bankrupt, a stationer, of Basking-chnrehyard,
plied for his order of discharge.
Mr. Goa libi supported. The banknot wrs Mond ca
the ground that two days before his failure he received
794 and bad not satisfactorily accouuted far its dismal
HOW*. were 1,2801.: no meets.
Honour did sot think that the cam was
within the act, though the chirp would bare bees 111=
is
one under the former net. Order granted accordingly.
II Is LOAD MN= ooIIDON.
The bankrupt was described as a tobacco aid
colonial broker mid merctunit, trading in panne&
ship with George Newton, at 9, Grameardt-
eke* nailer the firm of Newton, Gordon. id
Co., and residing at the Palace, Hampton Court. nit
was the sitting for examination and dieoltarge. The Wk.
rapt owes 6271. to numerated creditors, and 8201. te
three holding security. The meets are staled
at 8901. in property, and 7501. property taid
as security. The property comprises ea WM
of 3001., the value of an annuity of 504. Magi
under the will of the late Dowager Duchess of ilsminas
oleo a bond of the General Provident Insurance Company,
raised at 4504, Ism a claim thereon.
[The case had sot bora called on when oar report left]

TB FOLIOS COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

NANSION-HOUSE.
VIZ ALLZOLD INAIID6 ON WINJIIANCZ OFFICE&
W. Barry Brothers, sad their three emplaffife
Sedgeweek, Arnett, and Thorne, surrendered this morn*
a mower to Wiz reeersimmass, in order that the dope&
Um tikes against them on the charge of defrauding siva
inestrenee cases of large sums of money might be car
plated.
The Num leaned enamel were present that appeared ofi
the previa. caesaions.
No fresh evidesos was adduced, it being understood on
QS bet mession that the case for the prosecutiou am
Wetted.
After mate foamed matinee had been emispleted.
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whole of the defendants were committed for trial, the mut
bail being taken ea as the previous ommioss.

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amasses& He le hi
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Anse amiesdast bad I
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demparitasak
imia mehe ewe soft to
tik a elediar qtr.
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&Waeterem I nay thou
mime sends the daime
a obeli may slat
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W without came.

erreerrea vas owe
Aso Jo*" • '1•61
wile* *Ore m' to b
peeejLa Bear-yard.
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bozwo aloe
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lowted to tba ho
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sad towed bee ia the
defies lame weal
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let* s few veristl
seeway, bat attainfr•
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beirpteext2i.
aweebed tied. was
brawl the raseistri
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with these=
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one oil& is her ei
it sot be nearly t
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guitaislerafroravit
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oseerved owe
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aided that the eld
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tow able to dead,
MITROPO

The usual
OM baud was
palms ; Mr. J.'

The cash state'
oa April 29,
ISCL0111:11

The following
Committee :—"
wuLhom owned
It would
he :elation to t
Mom in end
now, in parsoano
heywzgoveunathe
y and
the babying rem
the ePPrc""
highly dedesb
sod
sand sale
ties and sale
nnemehmed ; and
of the meson
they my he del
tuan to be Men
sell mirk pm
edam pewees:
Mr. Comm
whisk atter sot

MADJ

The annual
at 1 o'clock, et
it tbe

The report
tea&
The Giamatti
log amotared
able, both e•
tioa thing the
tnfile oa the
Ile this wren
the severelteill
added that the
sad tworth-wea
sow spend an
ant month to
It no
that Morale
west Low IMO
380,0001. to be
then would ai

recpiireseeste <
Led beer tie
&bah:diking, r
ra tiro report.
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WORSHIP-STREET.
ILLILMIA CASE.
Mrs. &wok Sou* the wife of • trackma rotk
was elmrpd at the rowboat) of Kr. Saperia Yost,
et the Gloat Restore Railway, with unlawfully •
second elam rarrieg• on that Use while the kale ma
William
Usy. • porter at the litile-ead statism, stated—.
Oa Saturday, the Sth alt., while the 7.15 train frees Wesh
wish was rousing taut the station. I soaked the de ltaadmii
at the window of a 'woad-class carriage. Naafi
.ardst2her Mks* the door shut. She made so reply, bat
isetugly stepped oil Mthe platform, wee knocked down
by Steam ef the carriage she had left, fell with her knd
towards Leedom, sad, had I sot caught hold of sad palled
hat sway, would meet probably the mist testae' have talks
between the rails sad platform. She wee appease* burn
I seated is tildes her late the Aloe of the statioa.martwi
when she was Weeded to, sad seat home is • cab.
By the asegistaste—l don't know who opseed the doer
tke amiss' Ole sot the practios of porters to opts Win
seal the Lima ham quite stopped.
Mr. Yest—The company have no desire to Win 101
ateruthea a somisal penalty, sad that merely as a tastiest

toes.
Kra. Smith--1 deny that any person °Paned 11111
doer ham beside the earrtege. I tltiok that go
eerier (bet wirers) did so se be vaned wit
"Xlis.ead"; beside. the train had stepped. whop
Isereatyent. as I econsideved safely, bat UN caresses
jolted iw I was doing so, rod 1 fa. sot I believe
ea platform bat between it sad the 01411
try aderwietbing was eat talents by I as
greatly Injured ea eve of say Ado, 116147
reeeverinir, feel maddest I shall safer for yews if I live
so keg. I did not hear the porter sty anythiat aboat the
I deer.

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appears fro
that *a ml
last year smoi
Mum aad 1
hag as the ds3
asissimed ott
from Wallahs
without la
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pave, sad
to ululate 1
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liaaation of
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boa ern,
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July, 1960;
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water ea the

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Kr, goat —She made a different otationent to tits rta-
gornown. Ho in how
iodsrlok Cant—l am the @tattoo waster at hillo-sed.
Aiw dekodial bad ben picked situ ho told ate that the
smogs door wan wooed by a boy ng alone by it In the
cempartrosat, also that she had we'd wrongly, and
vid take owe not to alight from a roam, earrisg• again
s sloiffir maser.
ss. Smith—l was leery mob injured. that I know.
liflatoror I may than have rid I don't know ; bat Mk now
.ate the door was would ban theentoide, aid that
otatomeat 00ITOOk
Kra Smith was flood, under the eiroarnotanow, is. only,
sad without costa.