The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

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T III: POIsONISii I/ SUICIDE Sete PTICATON. —The
inquest was resumed on Mandan upon the body of
Fanny Leadbeater, aged nine viarit,who died from the effects
of poison supposed to have been administered by her mother
to the deepened, and to four other children, on Friday even-
ing last, the mother afterwards being found drowned. Par
ticulars of this case appeared ha this paper yesterday. Thos.
Moore, a surgeon, of l'reston. slid, he knew the deceased,
Mrs. Leetibeifter, mother to the child who had been poi.
coned. He had known her ever since she was born. She
was confined in an asylum about six ears ago. He had
seen her several times sines, and considered her insane.
When in a convalescent state on one occasion, walking in
the neighbourhood of the asylum, in the charge of keeper.,
she jumped off one of the bridges into the canal. When told
she had drowned herself he was not surprised, rind would
not have been had one clone so twelve months ago. .letter
consulting (or u short time, the jury returned the following
verdict—" That the deceased, Mrs. loadbeater, administered
a certain deadly poison called laudanum, to the deceased
Fanny Leadbeater, she I Mrs. Leadbeater). bring at the time
in a state of insanity."
THE Herren STI•II.T or COTTON.—An influentiol
meeting of the matoufactutera of Manchester was held yes-
terday, at the Town Hall ; the Mayor in the choir ; when
resolutions were moved and seconded by the following,
amongst other gentlemen : Mr. T. 'lucky: President of the
('bomber of Commerce, Mr. 1.. Williams. Mr. J. etershaw,
and Mr. Simi son t and the following petition to the House
of Commons was agreed to:
That an abundant And cheap supple of cotton is one of the chief
Memel*. towards the prosperite of the trade in which your peti-
boners Are engaged. And the well-bring Of threw whose uileihitence
depends upon the employment w hich It provides. That tbonglithbionum
try maresarlly receives its whole .unplv of the. imp +rant article from
foreign sowers, yet the coati, at Om. of it Is not el/alined to oneetou it 7 or
to one hemisphere; it for centuries teen pi:winced in India, but
owing to the infenotity ot Indian cotton, the pushiee of our pos.
omeions there rthoot be lard in the ureat bull. of the inanufietturc
of thin country. 'Mat your petitioners believe that if the i)tilitv of
Indian cotton were improved it would enter brandy into lintish eon- I
anwptiem, rind thus confer recipnaul benefits in son butt countries.
That your petitioner. have heard that attempt. at improved cultic,
boa have been made in India with varied but withent
euutunnenea.. either in the qudity or quantity .ent to Great Bri-
tain: and the caper imentv made have evtahlo.ii .1 the cipability ot
Intik, to wortnee gout cuctou, and have proved the willintrnms of the
Iliudtn Populetion to receive imtruction, your petitioners humblv
think it now becomes the duty of t our hotioumble home to investf-
gate the muses which prevent the on'ompli,limestt of an object which
ki of the utnsort imroctsurie tubed% countries. and they therefore
humbly pray that your honourable tome may forth. ith appoint a
select committee to make a full and uurclitng inquiry b.to all the Mr-
eurnsteuee. wldch ;Meet the cultivation of errton at
YORK:WINE.
'toe T. tTl.rata LC 1.1 The
Leeds lattice officers have sus:waded in rupturing the two
men who wets in company with Joshua Melee on Friday
afternoon last, when they attacked Heald, the niecoen 1
I.lr^itni. Brandling's coal mines. at Middleton• near'
and robbed him of about 1721. Their names are Joseph
Brook and Joshua Gill. Yesterday, thc three prisoner.
underwent a brief examination at the court-house, Leeds,
when they were remanded.
A FonEtt.:SYK ens trees tit TI‘tIVINI: the good people
of
Hull. On Friday he was finally examined before the
magistrate*. He described himself asConnt Finek. of Finch-
enstein; and it is amusing to sec how his careful country.
men have waisted the police iu his exposure. Mr. Bright,
the Prussian vice-consul, Hull, stated, that when last before
the magistrates. he had a long interview with the prisoner,
who mid he would put him in possession of such facts as
would confirm the amertion of hit being Count Finch. lie
then handed to the witness the names of too parties. and he
(Mr. B.) undertook to make the necessary inquiries, not of
the parties. directly, but through the official channels. The
prisoner also forwarded a letter addressed to a clergyman,
at Halle, the purport of which was, to request him to write
and state who he (the prisoner) was, and likewise to forward
him some papers, which he would find at a certain place.
Mr. Bright had received two letters in reply to his cow-

ntunieninstr, thy AM of vidallt LtM Ilan oannt Von Dou-
hog; Major in the Pnaginil en* E 011,P, end WWI u
follows ;

' ss, 14n. 12, 11111. -1401101,6 s pre Seas et the Ith inat,
I beg to say that, m December Mak ■ Sintglinnthe d isquiris ere
br a Mr. Frausken, a .eriesus sadrops MASI 1••
through Aerie. chaaiwls, I gas sassoad et des=
standing of the pone taus. et At; setoff Idessit 012•11.•
stein. This amount, bawd upela awed -of des grill of
that name, of the minister at War, lIMA pair as sesesid
• an in siitotaisce as follows :-Theginitgannli• not Se KO le grand-
son of a tient r.d Count IMebatrlY, 1r Illos la no ipmind of this
wane, and has not been tithes das itasO WSW w. fL Y sot °aunt
Pincitenstein at all, tar there is no ningibt, weadsg is Sete family
edele, ninth is not nose''y ad sift kept In v,esr.
Ile has not fled on anoint at a dirk tor oar laws on
that head are on tlir whole ere well. et it is utterly unlikely
any one 'Woad, for e °within: Ids sitessia, Ida Ilainizryttlbout
clothes or worry. Ile is not • PVIIIIiII .11f, the
Waraillke, no one In the army is WOO" billtb Or My way.
The only remaining alternative, MPS ISA ass, diasstan, the
one I enure...l-that the vow mrs Y grandat.astreigt emu
t ,etore at 11011, wild hare isetrianb igha ma l • ... is no
Count rinekenftteip linberloilallg. sad OM - dam limatmerial
no Count Finetisisteln has reed la Os Pneadsa
I hire urn. keen In seugseltsaip wW amselon at the
family in question. They woo W praselsee et the swind-
ling preset 'en of the reed alai. 11111111 Ws loess which
be had addremed hither, WIN NB teened awe, both of
whkli are evidently writes via ON d glen' kis-
sed' the appearance, num the 1111111•1111•, at basing eon-
nexions and rehdlons here, .Melt •seedest aIL The tea' of
Fiorlonstrin here diviner the yew um se tweets ; are much
annoyed at the alai. of their gams omits( les any be dealt with es
severely as the Laws will pressik
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Mr. Bright next read a lettrz fromatho olargyznas of Halle,
in whieh it is stated that the um ants primmer is Albert
Ebert, and that he is the aavt et a eek manufacturer, of
Halle, the latter of whom was repremnied se an honest and
industrious man. It was able Masi Ant the prisoner bad,
prior to leasing Halle, maimmerarsilf private lessons
and self-instruction to acquits Mk as he deemed
necessary, preparatory to a=orirer; that he subse-
quently entered a corr. , bet was obliged to
lease the service, his father Wog milk,. so_pply the means
useessary for his extrasagmaimMilh et The clergyman
likewise stated that the grimace mat s• The
father, whose
feelings were very much hum at his am% amduct, for a sum
of money, but he hod not the mom of sly= him • •
(luring the reading of them left" " who had,
on his previous essininatiossombiblisilestlnsms solubility of
speech, remained appareetly bssepiNe of ollering a word ;
and when asked if he had anything to eay he answer to the
charge, he merely shock his head . prisoner was
oommitti-d for trial at the steefene.

wAstmlainiMlL
FouotuY.—At the Pahlie Oeso at iiratinsibwa yester-
day a young man. named Cl:altos, a 'lark iri the office of
Mr. W. James, accountant, was ostamittod for trial oa a
charge of having forged hia witatees wept to a cheque for
50!. upon the Birmingham &Aire Oongsay.

Coumosiox irr THE Loup Lurrmitmer—W. F. Bridge.
man, gent., to be cornet of Quirt's Ow* loyal Regiment of
Staffordvbire Yeomanry Cavalry.

A Lane AND .s BAILIFF:A odour oillarr, named
Felton, who has been in seerekei a Mks Crosainghani, of
Ungar' during the het four amiallia, ea Thursday last sue-
ceededby stratagem in musette, her either ewe house. He
then left her in charge of his essietaal while he went for a
chaise, but the lady.prisoaet be a obtaised permission of I
the officer to go to her bed-ream, breediately jumped out
of the window, and alighted apse the roof of an outhouse,
thence descended upon a waterbed* fa the adjoining yard
rind made her escape. The Gem end ethers gave the view
halloo nerves the garden and adds, bat *weld not encored in
capturing the fair and fleet fugitive.
flee llonse-Buithen.' —The trial sad conviction of
the knacker Bendy for killing a hone by suffocation hes
led to some enquiries near the eider where he lived. The
results are -toted in the I:um Hared of yesterday. Many'
facts have been elicited as to the mama to which the extra-
ordinary crime has been carried, sad dm suspicious con-
siderably strengthened as to the still mare extraordinary
purposes to which the egresses et sense of the hones
slaughtered have been applied—asasely, that of human food
in some of the low districts of the reetrepalia. It has been
before stated that ae many me 24 his., had been suf-
focated in this way, there is now se doubt, by the'prieoner,
A list of the animals is given, anderk value is stated to have
been 3791. Besides these victims a cow belonging to Mr.
Tuckwell was strangled, and wee mid to Heady for 265. It
is extraordinary, that although this awalver of horses was
slaughtered in the course of slid menthe, most of the suf-
ferer", being comparatively nallbeers, eeswpicion seems to
have hen excited until the mama" was detected in the fact.
It was noticed in many case., dal there were no signs of
struggling where the horses had ham, that the bodies of
many were much swollen, and Mr. Cheat remarked, when
he saw Bently open his, that there was a great deal
of froth• in the throat ; but it deer aot appear to have en-
tered their minds that the enamels bd fallow by foul meatut.
The prisoner generally killed the hums se as to suit hie own
convenience; having secured cos be weeny managed to fall
in, as if accidentally, with the prim she had had another
dispatched in the same way, ohm a flew AMU on his road to-
wards London, when he bosom the perelueser, and took
them both up together. Attendee was termed to the manner
in which the animals had been Messed el. A police con-
stable, named May, spent several days la enquiries at the
different knackers' yards, but he mall only find truce of
Mr. Borrodell's, Mr. Dale'e, Boaraa's, sad Mr. Sal-
mon's, which had been sold at a profit of from 11. to 21.
each, so that if all were disposed of at the seine rate, the
prisoner pocketed :V. to 401. by dm merilke of nearly 4001.
worth of the property of the farmers et the neighbourhood.
" A =s stern prevails," says the lamas Harald, • of disposing
of three dead animals to rasa a few miles from London,
who resell them to the Muslims, tams defeating the
registry which the at of parliament rapine Probably the
prisoner avoided going too often to the same mart, lest the
fine healthy condition of the berm shoal& excite attention,
which seems to have been the ems la sae instance. There
is also very good reason for hefievfag that the youngest and
best horses were taken to low pogo el the metropolis—to
Cow-Grose for instance, and sold by weight, to be afterwards
salted end sold for food. Without rufweswe to the crime of
which he has been convicted, the psalm had had their watch-
ful eye upoa Wilily for some twasthe. He was suspected to
be a receiver of sheep and poultry, Plain In the neighbour-
hood, which it is now believed be was in the habit of con-
veying to town, in the caressive of the dead horses, thus
supplying the Londoners with Mints mends from these
novel pucka es. In fact, this ma Mburether is as disgust-
ing as it is extraordinary, and add smiths? singular chapter
to the history of crime."
Tue. (flue. Lows.—On Saturday arming, two keepers,
employed by the Rev. J. B. dame, of Perot Hall, High
Ongar, encountered some powders la a weed near Norton
Hall. A desperate fight ensued. • gwa was fired, foeta-
-1 marls- without effect, but both peat ewsee severely wounded
by bfows inflicted with the butt end of theEins with which
they fought. A dog bel-oging to the pen seized e
poacher and nearly tore out sae of e. The delin-
quents were captured, and weals ea the same day examined
and committed for trial' for shooting, with latent to murder.

KENT. --
Tate Coors. —The 1 faidltome Anima of yesterday states
that the ploughing and Fowls, et Lent eorn, with other
field labour, has proceeded to a nub treater extent than
has been usual in this month, and boos the very fine con-
dition of the land, there is great nem& to hops that the
pre-
sent year will be a more abundant sae then the last. The
wheat plant on most farms & laildsg healthy, but, from the
frost that set in to early this wialsw„ it is set by any means
strong. There is, however, so compiMat of want of plant.
Much of the young closer it westly, sal from the dryness
of last summer, much of the moil that was sown did not grow.
Tares have suffered much hug the hest mad cutting winds,
but still the plant is goodnessh beetwent. lioginghas
made great progress this shastly the weather favour
able both for carting out 110/11/* Ed raft 11111 poles.
Sheep have fared very well from Os wsinir et to sips and
the abundance of hay, up te the premed *as; but we are
sorry to say that the tunas have rotted ss hst, that tears
are entertained that bheep will bs very short he the ensuing
month. The store betoor will cams oat, meet of them, in
good sndition, from :their gees& healthy Mate and the
abundance of hay.
EMBEZZLEMENT 11T A POOIIeLLW 0771CIAL.—Joasph
Exhall, el ,rk to the Tenterden bassi of gsardiaas, his been
committed fur trial for embesellag the hoe entrusted to
his charge.