The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-12 00:00:00

NORTIII.MB!MIAND.

MOIIDER.—EarIy on Sunday last, a murder was committed
at Newbrough, near the Fourstones station, a few miles west
of Ilexhani. The particulars are given by the Nerneastle .Id-
rert iser The murdered man, whose name was Proud, and
who was bind to Mr. Maughen, of Newbrough-lodge, had a
child to be baptised on Sunday afternoon, and after leaving
church Proud and his friends went to a publie.house in the
village of Newbrough. While there, some misunderstand-
ing took place between Proud and a labourer named Welsh
and on Proud and his party leaving the public-house, Welsh
left also, and went in the same direction. Tbe quarrel was re-
newed, and a struggle took place. They then tit paroled, but
they had not gone far up the lane, when Welsh suddenly
re-appeared, and seizing Proud's head, pulled it hack, end
cut his throat so severely that the unfortunate victim
died almost immediately. After committing the deed,
Welsh instantly run off, and called at the same
public-house, where he got a glass of whisky, and having
drank it, he stated to the mistress of the house that
it was the lot time she would see him. Ile then left,
and hastened to the Fourstones station. On reach-
ing it he seems to have been entirely overcome, partly by
the liquor he h►d taken, and the exertions made to Hee from
the locality of his crime. In the meantime intelligence
of the murder spread over the village, and a constable
mounted a horse and went to the Fourotones station, w here
Welsh was taken. An inquest was held on Tuesday, and a
verdict of " Wiltul Murder' returned.

CAMBRIDGE:sin RE.
CI:IMES ALLEGED OUTRAGE AT COTTENHAM.—The
Cambridge Advertiser of Wednesday reports a case which it
describes as one of the most extraordin iry that ever came
under notice. The facts, as elicited by an examination
before the inspectors of police, on Monday last, are these
A married woman, residing in the village of Cottenham, was
(according to her own statement) suddenly accosted in the
public road at eight o'clock on the evening of the 31-t ult.
by some ruffian unknown. llefore she had time to
reply, a plast-r was applied to her mouth, she was
groped by the wrists and legs, and transported
on the shoulders of the mysterious stranger over
hedges and ditches, to a lonely field. There she was
set down, and coolly told that her head would be cut
off if she made the slightest uproar, or attempted any resist-
ance. At the same time no indecency, approaching to felo-
nious violence, woo committed or even offered. The woman
was plundered of her marriage ring, and some money. llcr
clothes were then cut from her person, a portion of her hair
was deliberately cut off', and she was set at liberty. Thus
far the woman's own story ; and whatever suspicions may
hang over it, there appears to be no doubt of the fact, that
she did certainly arrive at the house of a relation, at •
late hour in the evening above-mentioned, in a state
of absolute nudity, with the exception of her shoes and
stockings, and a piece of flannel attached to one of
her legs. I3ut the mystery remains to be told. The woman
had ao sooner blazoned her story in the village, than two
men (one of them a police constable) traced carefully, with
a lantern, the route which she said she had been carried.
The impediments, in the shape of quickest hedges, and
ditches 3 and even 5 feet wide, were such so seemed to render
it morally and physically impossible that any man could have
carried a woman on his shoulders along such a route, with-
out on any one occasion plaring down his burden. The
clothes were found I) ing in the field which the woman hod
indicated, actually cut up from top to bottom, but the marks
of the footsteps leading to and from the field, which were
carefully examined and measured by the light of the lantern,
were those of only one person, and moreover they exactly
corresponded to the woman's own shoes.
OXFORDSHIRE.

FIRE AT THE 131.1101' or Oxrinsn's PALACE.—A COT-
revondent, who dates his communication " Oxford, Thunsday
afternoon," says Information has just reached this city
that the Bishop of Oxford's Isidore, at Cuildeedeir, is on fire.
An express has &nixed for the city fire-engine, which has
just left; but, according to the rate of speed it was travelling
through the streets of Oxford on its way, the pa/ace may be
burned down before its arrival, unless other assistance is
obtained."
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MORE ALLEGED SECRET Dunmow,
on Wednesday, Sarah Bright and David Grey were charged
with poisoning their illegitimate child, David Grey Bright,
aged seven weeks. The following facts were elicited from
the several witnesses examined —lt appears that up to the
12th ult., the deceased was considered to he a healthy child,
but on the afternoon of that day, wheat lying in the cradle,
it was taken ill, as if in a fit, and turned black in the face.
It rallied for a time, and was again mixed in a similar man-
ner, and expired in the course of the following morning. An
inquest was held, and the coroner adiourned the proceedings
in order that the contents of the stomach might be strictly
analysed. Mr. Bell, a surgeon, of Felstead, detailed at
some length the post mortem examination of the body,
and he was dearly of opinion that the child had
died from convulsions. Opium or any narcotic might pro-
duce them ; the symptoms might also have arisen from natu-
ral causes. A phial, which had been found in the female's
room, he ascertained to contain 120 drops of a dark liquid,
which proved to be soap liaament and tincture of opium.
It was submitted to Professor Taylor, at Guy's Hospital,
and, an being tested, the result was meconie acid and
morphia. He should say the quantity would contain one
grain of solid opium, nth grain of solid opium would cause
the death of such a child as the deceased. From 20 to 30
drops of the mixture found would cause the death of a child.
Mr. Anderson, the superintendent of police, visited the mo-
ther's house after the death of the deceased. He asked her
if she had given it anything ? She replied that she bad
given it three or four drops of some medicine she got from
Mr. Miller, at the Chelmsford Dispensary. In answer to
further inquiries she remarked that she did not know what
it was, but it was some medicine she had made up for her-
self. She added, that she poured it out of the bottle into the
palm of her hand, and gave it the child. She then told him
the physic was up stain in the room where the child was
lying, and he went up and took possession of it. After
many boars' investigation, the jury found a verdict to the
effect that the deceased died from convulsions, but how
produced there was no evidence to show. A more
serious verdict was anticipated ; and, on the court
breaking up, the coroner admonished the mother of the de-
ceased : he told her tbat'shehad hash very narrow escape, and
he hoped her conduct for the future would be more correct
In a few days afterwards many additional suspicious ru.
moan get afloat respecting the affair, and one or two of the
jurymen who presided at the inquest communicatedwith the
magistrates in the neighbourhood on the subject. Mr. Su-
penntendent Anderson was instructed in the mattes, and the
result was the spprehension of the parents of the child. On
Wednesday they were, malready stated, brought up, and the
facts previously described were repeated. Professor Taylor
was examined; as, also, Dr. Miller, of Chelmsford; the lat.
ter spoke to having furnished the female with a different
medicine to that found in the phial. Several persons de-
posed to some remarkable admissions made by the prisoaen
in the course of conversation. The magistrate committed
the prisoners for trial at the ensuing sums on a charge of
" wilful murder."

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
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by *Men. of R. Richard Venable% D.D. R. S. Johnson to West
Itebeaor It., Sunacx, dio. Chicheater ; value tall.; Inge. lA. Chant.
Rev. IL Lath= to Fitikmorth Sussex, the. Chich. • rem 371/. ;
lute. Chwhest. Bev. F. T. Itibbans toe mastership in the Northers
Church of TATUM school. Iles-, R. W. Erma, V. of Revers/am,
Westmoreland, to be Dean Reel of Ileveretam.
VACA9l.ll.—LarrOtall R., Suffolk, din. Norwkh, 13x1., with mei-
deuce ; pair. N. L Acton, Eaq. • by the death of the Itcv. N. Colvile,
D.D. Alaska V., Ste. ; patr. the D. and C. of Chichester and ',luau.-
V.' 1301. • patr. lie Bp. of Chichester; Mth in the county of
Name: end dtw ot McAlester, and Timm by the promotion of the Bev.
11. Latham

NAVAL.
DevoNenar, Ffll. In —Medea. a. v., Com. T. 11. Mawr, arrived
yesterday from Falmouth, and bar been. taken into dock, having
touched the ground on coming out of that harbour. Sir G. Hamilton
Seymour and family were on board at the time of the 111i411.111. On
their way to la,bon. Avenger, a. v., Com. J. M. rotbury, arrived
thin morning from Cork with defective engine.; and the Conliance,
0. tug, tuo, been ordered to bring her Imo harbour. Comtance, 50,
tkipt. Sir Baldwin W. Walker, arrivel at Valparliao on the lath of
Oct., all writ, after experiencing a 'ever storm whiten rounding Cape
Horn, m wh.ch this Teasel behaved admirably.
l'arogonoNs..—Aintnuary, Fin. I Bond to be Minster of Hop.
per dockyard tinge at Devosport ; Gunner 11. Outland advanced to
let clam. Am...man:NT, —Cterk's-.V.Mtaal Bright to k .1°,10.41;
Sicond-Engineer G. Brown to Fearless; W. Tooky to be foreman of
emitha, at Deptford-yard.

SPORTING.
TAITERSAWS-Tuv

Nrwataaner lIALLIIICV.-100 to 6 art Sir Martin ;t); 25 to 1 art
Humdrum (t); 30 to 1 art Dulcet Al. Nuntoem very slack, and.
judging from appearances, likely to Cont.. no.
Mientorourate Hakinese.-16 to 1 art Lady Sarah (C. 10 to I
art I•ink Bonnet.
Two Titar.,,l, Grist. Sturm-4 to 1 art Conyligham (t frly);
150 to 100 iigst Kent's lot (I).
CHM,. Cur.-25 to I swat Mendicant, 25 to 1 art the iamb
(t), 30 to 1 agat the flitch, 30 to 1 apoq Camera Obecura, 31 to 1
apatite Antler, 33 to I art &Wain, 40 to 1 art the Duke of Rich-
mond (t), 40 to 1 art Princess Alice. 45 to I spat nickeY Free, 1,000
to 20 Ant Intrepid (t, afterward" offered), 1,000 to 20 art Bourton
(eh 1,000 to 20 art Sir Tattoo Ssho, (1,000 to 15 laid once:, 1.000 to
15 art Illtitallen (t), 66 to 1 art the Premier, 3 m (t), 100 to 10
art tipom (Aegis and Bit Nibble (t). Very little doing, and no change
elirept to Princom Alice, who was backed freely at 50 to 1„ and cloaca
at 40 to I, layers; 5,000 to 200 art Mendicant in one bet, but no
blow struck. Even noisy laid between 2/ and the field.
T.. Dinay.-15 to 2 mist Van Tromp A 6 to 12 to 1 eget F.pirote
(E, 14 $Ol got Planet, 20 to 1 art Glenna (t and eft ottip,2.l to 1 art
Conynalkon,33 to 1 spat Bed tun 3), 44 to I art Morn of Chow (I).
I 40 to 1 awn Lunedule, 50 to I art Dedham 50.0 1 art Project* (a
1,000 to 15), 50 to 1 omit Will o' the Wisp (t 1,006 to 15), 1,0100 to 15
art limestone (t and aft odd), 9,000 to 45 art Mack Dwarf, 90 to
150 Epirote and Planet (t), older* to take 5 to 1 about Kent'. lot.
Epirotc was Main in force, 13 to 1 baring born taken to between 700 f.
and and subsequently II tot;
eopmermence ; nor were the backers of Glentalt so fond ea munL Apart
from dine movement", the beitinf was Bat and unimportant.
Dake.-11 to 1 ama The Farmer a Daughter (t. to 30014; 0 to 1 apt
Ckmentina (t. 9 to I); 20 to 1 art Ellerdee (t. to 1000.

The following horst., in addition to thaw already pub/lobed. have
lately received names w-year olds: c. by inheritor, out of Ca.
lypw, Enchanter; c. by Inbernor; out of Inly-pao's dam, Ulpura;
f. by Aacot, out of Languish, Letburgy ; r. by the Augtau, out of
Mona, st. Runge; c. by llettnan Plata', out of Velketeen, Veronitz.
Two-year old*: sister to Intrepid (half-bred), Reality; t. by I la% out
of SP•ngie. Glitter; c. by Levan* or Commodore, out of bloblne.
Lle..lau (bugle ; r. by Charica Xll., out of Moea4, Omar.