The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

uses of the Lord Mayor, oessionalty, end citizens of the City
0( Loudon , emote them to cony into effect the snot parLia-
meet far further improvements in the City of London, pawed
in the sac 5. mion.—Mr. Wire presented a petition from the
Bt.Bet 001-bnilding Committee, lidensfield-street, Borough-road,
George's, Southwarit, for a gnat of money. Referred
to • committee.—Yr. Dixon presented a petition from the
inhabitants of the ward of Langboune, for the widening of
Limestrort and the improvement of Leadenhall muket.
Referred to a committee.
After the transaction of some business of no public inte-
rest the court adjourned.

BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION AND
Atirteu.—Yesterday evening a meeting of the board of
directors of the above institution was hold in Patent:ober-
row. The report stated that the satiety's progress was
encouraging and satisfactory. The applicants for relief have
been extended to a greater number and variety than in any
preceding year, but, notwithstanding the large calls upon
the funds, they have been able to add tothe permanent fund,
which now reached 16,0001. The " Retreat, for the recep-
tion of aged and infirm members, was opened in July last
year (on which OCCASi et 8401• was collected, increased since
by a bequest of 6001. Three per Cents., under the will of the
late Mr. J. Harris), and is situate at Abbott's Langley, and
connate of seven houses, of which there at present only two
wastes, The amount of assistance granted to distremed
members of the trade, their widows, and asaistanta, since 1840,
has been about I,SOOI.
LAMBETH PENSION SOCIETT.—nis praiseworthy
institution, whose object, the granting of permanent pen-
sions to aged and decayed, housekeepers of Lambeth, has
been alluded to, and whose proceedings have been recorded
in the Erpress, held its annual dinner yesterday, at the
Horns Tavern, Kennington, It, Forrest, Esq., the treasurer,
acting as president for the woolen. About eighty of the
leading members of the society, including Me. C. Pearson,
the new member for the borough ; the Rev. C. B. Dalton,
the rector, and the majority of the clergy of Lambeth
parish, and several of the county magistrates, were present.
Tne eiotoreary tribute having been paid to loyalty and
patriotism, the " Health of the Patrons of the society, the
Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Winchester,"
was given and drunk with due honours. The chairman
next proposed the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the
Lambeth Pension Society," and in doing so stated that this
institution was an offshoot of the City of London Pension
Society, the Lambeth members of which, finding it impos-
sible to get their own candidates placed on the list of the
charity, determined, in the year 1826, upon instituting a so-
ciety of their own. The great object of the institution was
to excite a feeling of self-dependence in those whom adverse
circumstances might in their old age reduce to poverty,
and to induce them to avoid the appeal to the work-
house. So for had they been successful that of
the whole amber who liad been recipienta of the
charity, two only had applied fur or obtained parochial re-
lief. For some time the expenses of the society had far ex-
ceeded its income, and then—that was up to the year 1845
it was due to the Walcott Charity to say that they had come
in and relieved the Lambeth Pension Society of forty-thus
pensioners. Since that time the prospects of the society had
been improving ; and he was happy to inform them that a
legacy of 1,0001., which hut been left by a Miss Smith of that
pariah, would be shortly added to the funds.—The list of
subscriptions for the day was then read, which included a
life subscription of 51. ss. from Mr. C. Pearson, M.P. ; 51.55.
from the Rev. C. Kemble; 51. ss. from Mr. S. F. Young,
dc. The health!, of the clergy of the parish, the members
for the county and the borough, the magistrates of the
county, and the officers of the society, were subsequently
given and duly responded to.
AN EXILIBITION.—Yesterday at a meeting of the
Worshipful Company of Cutlery, an exhibition to the
University of Oxford, in the gift of the company, was de-
dared vacant, and a resolution passed to submit it to public
competition ; all candidates to declare themselves before
Jan. 18, 1848, and the election to take place in February.
LNQUF.STS, YESTERDAY.—CHARGE OF WILFUL
Mvnnoa AGAINST A BOY.—Before Mr. Baker, resumed
for the sixth lime, at the Committee-rooms, Church-street,
Hackney, as to the death of Mr. Samuel Helene, a gentleman
of fortune, resident is Grove-place, Hackney. Mr. Hellen-
tine attended as before, on behalf of the grandson of the de-
ceased, Wm. Allnutt, who stands committed on a charge of
haviog stolen the decessed's gold watch and other property.
—Mrs. Allnutt, the daughter of the deceased and mother
of Wm. Allnutt, deposed to having lived with her father and
mother-in-law since the death of her husband, teat Septem-
ber two years. Her third son, Wm. Allnutt, lived with them.
For eight or nine months witness had observed a great de-
viation on his part from a proper line of conduct. She could
make no impression upon him as upon her other children.
In September last he bought a pistol, with percussion caps
and powder. He told witness that a man whom he met in
the street had persuaded him to purchase it. When the de-
ceased was tired at in his garden the boy was charged with
it, but he said he had not then got the pistol; that he had
given it the day before to the man who advised him
to buy it. The pistol was subsequently found wrapped
up, lying among the grass in the garden. Witness believed
her son was aware of the: deadly properties of arsenic.
and that be could have obtained access to the bureau in
which deceased kept some of that poison. Witness further
described her father's first falling sick alter taking some
gruel, and corroborated at length the evidence given by her
mother-in-law at the last sitting of the jury, touching the
less of the sovereigns before the death of the deceased, and
the watch and other property after that event. Mrs. Allnutt
added that her sou had been subject to walking in his sleep,
and he sometimes complained of hearing voices in his head.
—ln reply to Mr. Ballantine, the witness said her husband
died two yearn last September, having been subject for two
years previously to epileptic fits. He was never placed under
restraint, but he died quite insane.—ln answer to a juror,
Mrs. Allnutt said she did not suspect any of the deceased's
servants to have administered arsenic to her father. Be-
lieved her eon had said that he thought his grandfather
would die suddenly.—Mr. Superintendent Waller being re-
called, said : When he took the boy William Allautt
into custody on a charge of stealing the watch, he
said, " Pray forgive me —I was tempted to do it."
I asked him who bad tempted him. He said
no person : some voice had appeared to him and
said, " Do it, do it; you will never be found out."—
The Coroner charged the jury on the whole case, comment-
ing at length on the circumstances, and quoting from " Ray's
Medical Jurisprudence" various cases of moral mania,wher•
a propensity todestroy formed an unaccountable desire even
in young persons. lie did not think, looking et all the evi-
dence, there could be much doubt that the arsenic had been
mixed with the sugar by the boy Win. Admin. After read-
ing over the whole of the evidence, the jury, after half an
hour's consultation, returned into court with the folilow-
lag verdict: "We, the jury, are unanimously of opinion
that the late Mr. Samuel Nelme came by his death
by partaking of arsenic in sugar, which arsenic had
been feloniously mixed therein by W. N. Allman,
spinet whom we find a verdict of "Wilful murder."—
DEATII CALSED BY A FALSH ACCUSATION.—Befor•
Bedford, at the Charing-cross Hospital, as to the death of
Henry Wilkins, aged 40, an omnibus conductor. Mr.
Bibles, of Cecil-court, St. Martin's-lane, stated that on
Sunday, as he was coming front Poplar in an omnibus, be
noticed a cape on the back of the conductor which a friend
of his of the name of Bent had loot some time before. He
applied at Somerset-house, and found a notice had been left
of it there, and it was arranged that he and Mr. Bent should
meet the coaches at Channterose, when, the colic* being
informed of the circumstance, witness! and Mr. Benteez
the roof, and there they saw the cope. Mr. Bent t
eaed to give the driver and conductor into custody. Mr.
Bent, however, having got the cape, they walked av,.
when the deceased (the coaducter) staggered and toW
and had apparently burst a blood-vessel.-411c. Geer.
Bent, of '2l, Great May's-buildings, who sketwilual
himself as a gentleman of property, gave the HEW moult
of the matter, and said, although he threatened to give him
into custody, he did not, and had offered le. 61. to any one
who would return the cape to Poplar.—A solicitor, who at-
tended for the widow, said he could prove that the
was wholly unfounded, and that the deceased was =
conductor when the cape was lost.—Hittingsle, the comb-
man, said the cape was carried about in order to return it to
Mr. Bent, as he had not left word where to leave it, and that
neither he nor the deceased were on the omnibus when the
cape was lost. A threat was made to give them both into
custody on Tuesday, but the police would not take the
charge.—The deceased was dead when taken to the hospital,
and from a subsequent
, examination it was evident it arose
from aneurism of the aorta.—The jury returned a verdict
" That the deceased died from a rupture of an aneurism of
the aorta, accelerated by excitement; and the jury are also
unanimous) y of opinion that the charge against the deceased
was groundlw."

WRECK OF THE STEPHEN WHITNEY.
TILE FOLLOWING STATEMENT OP ONE OP THE
SOILVIVORB, W. 6)(ITII, IMMO, from Baltimore, has been

Published :
The Stephen Whitney, Capt. Popham, left New York on
the 18th of last month. She was advertised to sail on the
14th, bat we did not sail till four days after. The crew con-
sisted of the captain and three mates, steward, two cooks,
two stewardesses, a doctor, twenty-two men, and two boys.
There were, besides, seventy-six passenger!—six in the after
cabin, seven in the second cabin, and sixty-three in the
'temp. I wee one of the crew. We had very good wea-
ther tall Monday last, that is two days before the wreck. It
was then thick and hazy, with rain, and the wind was high.
On Tuesday and Wednesday I might call it stormy, for we
were under close-reefed sails. On Wednesday. at two o'clock
the captain supposed that we were puma the Cape.
At half-past nine that night we saw a light
(Creokhaven light). We thought that it was the
Old Head of Kinsale. We had passed the light
ten or fifteen minutes when the ship struck. ' Land " was
sung out, as soon as it was seen, and immediately the helm
was put hard-sport, and all hands called on deck; I ran on
deck, but she struck before I could get up. The captain was
on deck then. The captain and mate took the light we had
seen for the Old Head of Kinsale ; we did not see the Cape
light in wnaauenos of the fog; it was covered with it. A
few minutes alter striking she went down. We had all the
necessary boats : we had a long boat, two whale boats,
and a life boat; but there wee no time to get them
down. The stern boat was cut by the captain's orders,
and dropped. A man got into her to try to get a line
on to the rocks, in order to save some of the people,
but she was swamped before any one sloe could get Into
ker. The vessel did not go on her bow. They put the helm
down, and she missed stays ; she stewed around, and her star-
board side struck the rock. She gave three heavy rolls then,
and at the third roll the main-mast went over the side—the
larboard side went out with it. When the aide went, the
bales of cotton fell out, and some of the people, thinking they
were the rocks, jumped on them and were drowned. The
captain was one of them, and one of the passengers named
M'Clexkey, who had 270 Porereigns in a belt round his body,