The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

TRAGICAL EVENT.

FRAXLINONLY, 81717011. SATWIDAT.
This ossully quiet district of the meaty Ye beam
threes toss a painful state of ezeilemat Vale eumensees
et a horrible act of murder and 'Weide.
of the sane was • Mr. William Goodwyn. GPM:re
reided with his family in very comfortable eirommasses
in user this town ; the victim being •
fineudis , Lisa Goodwyn, four years old. An
ialematmus peularday before Mr. Wood, the coroner,
whim the hawk* MN were adduced :
On Tinesthey iessideg. tenet 20 minutes to 8 o'clock, the
parer,-by IMO MIMING OS Seeing Um Goodwyn acme
out of her louse and strew, as if ler help. A butcher,
b▪ e Dime, imegleiNg the *se was ea as, rushed
bet Otani Reda* le masa ate sheen as todekly
retemsed. The udietenide wenn was usetbh to speak,
end piloting to the when of a beatsag
the ids door, which wee iliNermi, se theald that own
=rises bed takes phew la the apertseat. Dixon,with
wee, then bone the eistr epee, when a nest
awed mem psessated heat The lltthe-tiel was discovered
Mein sieloc but wee quite dead, a fearful gun
hew lellieted on Mr threat sad as her face. Her
clothing (for she had been dressed) and the door round the
body were covered with blood. A few feet from her, lying
on his left side, and with a frightful cut in his throat, was
✓em Good +ye, who was she deemed. He was alive. His
eyes wen epee, bet he wee enable to ardealate a word. In
the roots was found a reser with which be bad committed
the dreadful act. Mesm,. Wilson and Jeaffersou, sur-
geons, were instantly 'sled in, and proceeded to sew up the
wound which the we man had Masted upon him-
self, bet of little mein is anise his life, as he expired in
the cones of Ise ninnies er • genter of an hour. The
death ef the lids girl was viepeedy, as the carotid n-
osey was eenpislst divided. 'The marines 'amend their
bast thatendeptemiliell both eel% and ibet be must
ban hese anew* el the dm. It appose that be had
hue sebte flight abeiselisa et Weise at times, and
that, se was brined sheet mid brined by the loss
of Me 'tidos we a day or m peeeleedi. The jury returned
• verdict in neendeoco with there Sets. The wretched
Ran has left • really et lee *Ohm

Nam nom MILSOUSNI.-11=wsia plentiful
ben; the old to be sees la the is immense.
This plasels like • fair every daglilik. the arrival of ves-
sels, sod ass along from Ste Os Sunday, at
dispel, met J. A—., • at Kenn. Cabin's,
who bed some dews frees En to psalm goods.
Be bee bees very ssecesdal, err be hew, by the mid-
dle ed sent emisimeir to have Net am* b be able to come
bear spin ad pe e. Brieb sw sew saki See 134 per
Valk asuslisee iota.. 161.; Asir se. lta ; asistnnot long
be bsi far that Bricklayers and slime.wallem receive from
211 a. to lie per day ; mamas,libs ; Ss.; painters
tisleslnsam. lit.. ead ell Mbar Ueda in pro-
; but very little le dab& all this being at
a Mind toe want aI hands. Labourers es the roads get
Wa per day ; wharf ditto, 15e. ; dram's, U. per week
amid their rations. The New Gold Escort Com-
pany are giving their men IL per day and ra-
tions of a superior kind, • bone, of mune, to ride
on, also quarters, whips is tows, equal to °Been', and
many OW young men sow arriving are joining it to gain
imprison, and very many more go of direct to the dig-
ffin Everything is enormously dear here, and fortunes
ireleng rapidly realised by many. The 4-lb. loaf is
2a. 15d. ; the best joints of meat 4d. per lb. (considered
very dear); tea, 2s. ; sugar, Is. fad. ; a glass of ale, 64. ;
• bottle of soda water, Is.; ditto, lemonade, 10d. • ditto
Bann beer, 94 ; and not enough to be had at that. I
have bad several long walks in the country, but bare no
time in this to say much about it, except that in my excur-
sions I have seen many bans of gold, and wished a little
about four miles from Melbourne, bat not enough to pay at
present. I fell in with a district, about eleven miles from
Melbourne, when there win thousands of tons of lead ore
lying on the surfed', some specimens of which I picked up
and took to a friend of mine, a practical assayer, who,
upon submitting it to the crucible, found it contained a
large admixturo of silver: what a splendid spec for an
English company, or for our old neighbours P. and W. Co.
of S. Isase—Correapondast of Me Builder.