The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-15 00:00:00

cottage to remove his tools. Upon going there, he
wee rather utosished at not (lading any member
of the family up. Ile, however, waited at the door
for nearly an hear, when he commenced iusucking,
bat not receivieg, en answer, he got a ladder and made
to the bedroom window, and on looking through, be saw
the inmates lyirg in bed. He called to them, hut no one
answered him ; be therefore foioed an entrance, when he
found the mother lying on the bed quite dead, cud In hus-
band wuat hvr side perfectly ingernulv, ir. unit av bed
he found the idiot boy lying quite unconscious, and in an ad-
joining bddrocm he found the youngest sou need and cold.
Medical aid was instantly sent for, but the husband, who was
80 pan of age, died during the evening without !wing able
.o relate any thing respecting-this viol 14.• Ate r.,us affair.
The idiot has reouvvred, bat no amount can be obtained
from him as to the probable cause of the d, anon—The Coro-
ner said it would be impossible at present to close the juju et.
He should like a post IPlOriern examination of the bodies to
be made, and the contents of the stomach', =siva d.— Mr.
Lester, a surgeon, having been appointed to make an ana-
lysis, the inquiry was adjourned.
WORCESTERSHIRE.

SERIOUS CASE OF Bl(Rift —On Thursday
Henry Bianton l'ske, solicitor, was hr, utett before F. E.
Williams, Esq., a. th • County Magistrates Office, Pal.ce-
yard, Wore( Ate on a charge of marryihe koeunor
Mots, of that coy, during the life of a 'twiner wile. It ap-
p and that he originally liv. d at Newport, in Moomouth-
shire, of which place his father is still an alderman. He
alt re artts prac ised ns a 00IaMOT iu the county of Norfolk,
where he become acquainted with Miss Emma Itilwra:d
Howlett, of Mersham, a young lady of mud re,neetable
connexions, to whom In was married on the 4th August,
1824 He lived with her, but nut very up the
year 1838, when ha was tried for folgery at Norwich, end
sentenced to li!teen years' transport own. His ill h..ilth
and ooh r circumstances procured tor him a cemmut orlon of
that saidence, aid he was liberated after an inigriemment of
two years. Imn,ediately upon his rel.,. he left the c.ty,
md his wife never saw him attain. Nevin* outaintd a
situation as aseistant clerk to the magi/test, sat Stourhridge,
ate was arcustemed w visit Worcester tr, queut y, and thus
became acquainted with Mint Moss, third daughter of Mr.
Mom, of Great Malvern, a young lady of considerable per-
sonal att., actions, to whom, alter pay ins hi. addrrbst. toe
some twelve months, he was marled at Clante., on the 12th
March, 1814. They lived terdher shim; tse a yeiirti, when,
in on &eget nee of the exhaustion of his nnaiita s, she was
obliged m return home to her father's h us.. &nue tme
afterwards he sent for her to London, where he very shortly
deters, d her. Since that time he had be, n hat sight ot,
but the fact of his prier marriage became known to Miss
MOra's lan111) and i. (parka were made about Lieu He was
at last ateit.entally suecovered in Livtrpte 1 by one of the
unfortunate lady', own sister', who was wending wish the
lady of the home where she resided, when a letter from
Pike was fielded to the latter, offering to take pert of her
house as .odginits, and idyll g the ham, s 01 hie e tiptop-vs
to rt for. es. As soon as his place e ..h.,de was known in
Worcester, and the necessary intormstions "nein be sworn,
a werant h r his -,ppreheneion was pieced in the hands of
an off e r named Lloyd, who proceeded to Liven...id anti had
an interview with hie employers, Mrslll. Low ode,. Robert-
son, list sou, and Lietudes, solicitors of hi b stunting in
that town. Th y were admixed at the int, Iligehet• which
Lined brough• Blom, end seemed not a tittle te,rry at being
obliged to part with a sextant who had been so useful to them,
and in wiedu they had alw•.yit phicee RIVAL I. itinilel.oo.
Pyke was not at the office when Lloyd cello., awl the officer
proceeded to his lodgings, where he found him sitting at his
tin le with a couple of dec,nters of wine before bun, atid
living in first rate toyle. When Lloyd to:d him his errand,
Pyke seemed thunderstruck, but said ho should give
to trouble, a,:d begged him so to ce.epott himself as to
spare the feelings of a lady who was living with him,
and of whom he took an affectiundo parting, telling her
that pr. piing hu in.'s required his abemee from home for a
few dais. Si ee he has been apprehended lie Imo msnifeated
the deepest distress and misery of mind, but has in no way
attempted to deny the truth ut the charge brought a.•auist
him, as the prof.i of hie guilt ere complete. At the eared-
cation ou hunelay, Mr. It viten, hr., M rot the prs. n r's
first wire, proved the tworriage with hi. sister, he tiaitioa been
pm sent at the con many ; anti Mr. Moss, lather of hi. second
bride, and wl o was present at the reeniage at Chin es, 0
course gave satishectory evidence of this fact. He made a
s of de fere •, arti, vs sewed as.. fo
tie at the eitsumg March assizes. ilia first wile tad n
family by him ; his a cond has cue eddid.

4111 f eim. •
DlsrErffiloN OF THE GhIAT NATIONAL COLLEC-
TION AT V Y.,lce —lntelligence has irt reacoial us that Otis
of the most cetennved galleries inEurope is WI the eve of
he dispersed. V. nice is about to lease out of her greatest
gbiries. TO supply means for their struggle 2K.lnit Austrian
rule het inhah tat.ts are about, it is auto, to dis pose.l the
Reed national c011....1i0n in the rooms of the Academia dells
8..i1e Ante, allCl.,ntly the Convents, &Ha C..Gu. The pur-
chasers are a numher of persons who have h.rmi d themselves
tutu a company for the investment of the o. cen,ary capital.
It is hot impu able, then, looking to the •yelled and unset-
tled condition of the various other Bump. au empires, hod
their c trisect, east want of means, that we mar, pre long, ace
In this island an " Assumption," by Titian, a " Miracle of St.
Mark," by Tintnret, the Giorgioaes, Veronese+,
Cat mot um, an .t other great works which bay • so tuna en-
chanted the w rill. Should this to turn out it is to be hoped
that ollf government will not tail to make such Minot tent
acquisitions. Lot Willa hear of straitened v ...um. a and diffi-
cult time ; a postcoy of the sums eut.ually ili.huroal by the
Board id Woods and Foress--rsr.ly for =ati nod embdliah-
tarots and seldom on national art—may for nom he well ea-
pend..l in securing some of those mumbles, treasures.—
Atheneum.