The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-19 00:00:00

TO TUN EDITOR. OF TUB DAILY !CMS.

Stn,—lour contemporary, the Times, is now be-
ginning to disprove all that it has for the last four years
been proving about India—viz., the excellence of the pre•
sent system of government, and the existing state of India;
and is repeating almost verbatim your remarks on the
Pisani s e me, made in the course of last ummer.

You have, however, in your article of yesterday, scarcely
done justice to the Sixam's native troops, the great object
of the Company', slanders; for they it was who came to his
pecuniary aid on this lest occasion. The native capitalists
of Hyderabad voluntarily enable hi:n to pay the first in-
stalment ; the native army enable him to meet the second.
This, surely, is a tribute in favour of his highness ? Sub-
lefts don't %vitally advance money to save a prince from
destruction whom they hate and detest. The truth will
ooze out at last ; all the faster because of your truthfulness
and liberality.

I am, Sir, your faithful servant,
Dec. 18.

A. NAIR.

EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF MURDERS BY AR-
BRNO: IN FUANI E.—DEFENCE OT TUT. MUUDIMESS ON
l'ititeBoemitear. Cistousrus.—Oste of the most extraordi-
nary cases ever brought before a criminal court has just
been tried by the Court of Assizes of the Ille.et-Vilaine.
The prisoner was a female, named ilelime Jagado, who fur
several years past has been a servant in different families of
the department. She stood at the bar charged with several
thefts committed its and since the year 1814, and with
seven murder% by arsenic in 1850; but the evidence showed
that althouah only seven cases had been selected, as more
recent, and therefore more easy of proof, not lest than 43
permits hail been poisoned by her with arsenic. The
victims were either her masters or mistresses, or fellow
servant., who had incurred her hatred. In some cases
no motive of interest or hatred could ho assigned. The
prisoner appeared to have been actuated by a thirst for de-
struction, and to have taken pleasure in witnessing the
agonies of her victims. The suddenness of the deaths in the
families where she was a Servant excited the greatest sensa-
tion, but for a long time no suspicion as to the came, for the
murderess appeared to be very religious; she attended in
many instances with apparent solicitude on the persons
whom she Mid poisoned, and so successful was her hypocrisy
that even tku deaths of the mother and another relative of a
physician in whose family she lived raised no suspicion of
poison in his mind. Thu frequency of deaths, 110ITeVI r, in
the families by whom she was successively engaged excited
a suspicion among the peasantry that there was some-
thin iu her nature fatal to those who were near her, nal it
was customary with them to say that her liver was white, it
being tellered in that part of France that persons who are
dangerous has,: white livers. The prisoner herself fre-
quently esti dined, alter the death of a victim, " How un.
happy I um; wherever I go, death follows me." The cases
ce. which she was brought to trial were established by the
evidence beyond the possibility of doubt The prisoner,
throughout the tri.d, which lasted ten days, constantly de-
clared that she was innocent, and seemed to anticipate an
acquittal on account of there beim; no proof of her having
had arsenic iu her pOTKS4:OII. It was proved, however,
that in ono of the families in which she was a servant
some years ago there was a large quantity of arsenic, which
was wit locked up, and that it had suddenly diempeared•
This arsenic hail, without doubt btcu tab, a by the pri-
soner, and hail serval for the commission of the successive
murders. The only defence set up fur her was founded
on phrenological principles. It was contended that the
organs of by pocrisy and destructiveness were developed to
a degree wideh overpowered the moral faculties, and that,
although it would be' unsafe to leave her at large, she ought
not to be condemned to capital punishment, the peculianty
of her organi-ation rendering her rather an object of pity.
'Phis defence failed entirely; and, the jury having delivered
a verdict ssitlvnit extenuating circumstances, the court
condemned her to death.—Gfagysi.rni..,

STATES or TILE CIIURCH.—TIIC Bologna Gazette, of
the 10th announces that another band of brigands has
been talon by the Austrian troops in itoinagna. Ilny have
all been tric4 by court-martial and shot.
EXTRAORDINARY ALMON FOR FALSE IMPRISON-

MENT.—Simu Thunellay last the Lord Chief Baron of the
Court of Exchequer (Dublin) and a special jury hare been
engaged with an action for tare imprisonment, brought by
a young pe utleman named ?lather', against Dr. Harty, the
proprietor el a private lunatic asylum near that city, and a
Mr. Stoke... The plaintiff, who had been unacquainted with
kis parentage, was taken nail, r the guardiauship of Dr. II arty
at an early age., and placed at school near London. Subsa-
quently he had been at that el,. schools in this country, the
expenses of hir education hay ilea been defrayed by t lIP defend-
ant. Some ye:eras:me he entered the University of Dubliamnd
read for pixarallio, which he succeeded in obtaining on the
second attempt. Afterwards he read fur scholarship ; failed
at three examinations, but obt tined this distinction on the
fourth trial. Hard study fee both left him in a nervous and
debilitated state; and occa‘iumilly, during such close read-
ing, he appears to have suffered from pecuniary difficulties.
The plaintiff accepted an engagement es tutor in the family
of a gentleman near Londonderry, and subsequently. went to
reside in that city. Whilst there he was present with some
friends at a theatre, and allowed himself to be persuaded to go
upon the stage, and sing " afloat." The second defen-
dant, Stokes, arrived in Londonderry; awl, by direction of
Dr. Harty, induced the plaintiff to return to Ifuhlin, where
he was placed iv, Swift'. Lunatic Asylum. From this insti-
tution he contrived to communicate with his friend in col-
lege, and WWI after he was allowed by Dr. Harty to return
to college, in which he has since cordiuued as a scholar. The
plaintiff, luring his lengthened examination, gave his evi-
dence ire the must collected manner • and his tutor, the Rev.
Dr. B,ulher (son of the late provost), and other gentlemen,
who had the best opportunities of observation, gave it as
their opinion that he neve r had exhibited any symptom of
mental derangement. The ground of de fence w, that Dr.
Harty had treated him with kindness, end that he had been
elated in Swill', asylum on account of mental derangement.
A sensation was produced by the declaration of Mr. Mordev,
counsel for the defendants, in his address to the jury, that
Dr. Harty is the father of the plaintiff; and that gentleman,
in his ezamination subsequently, stated the fact, with the
audition that the mother of his ill, gitimate child was a Mow
mouths!:ire lady, who died in Oa. After occupying the
court for S•rfell days, the case was brought to a close yester-
-1 day evening, when the jury returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff for 1,010/. damages. 'I he verdict was followed by loud
applause from those present in court, and tho cheerinr was
echoed by the crowd who had assembled outside to learn
the result of the trial. The Chief Baron expressed his dis-
pleasure at such an ebullition within the court.
TUE VICTORIA TOWER AND TUE ALTERATIONS IN
ARINGDON•ATHEET.—On last Monday, several men com-
menced to pull up the causeway, and to cart away the
rubbish underneath to the depth of three feet, in Abingdon-
street, for the purpose of giving a bet:er effect to the
Victoria Tower. The C2CATatiOll% have commenced nearly
opposite the site of the porch of the old House of Lords, and
preceed down in front of the l'arliamentary Paper Office, to
a point a little below the offices of Messrs. Gurney, the
short-hand writers of the Lords and Commons. The exca-
vation has already progressed to the depth of two feet; and
when it will be finished to the depth of three, the effect will
be very great, judging from present appearances. The
work will be completed before parliament meets, as it is
her Majesty's intention when she opens parliament to enter
by the Victoria porch, the largest in the world. All along
the west aide of Abingdon-street, an iron railing is to be laid
down, and steps placed at convenient distances, to give in-
gee,* from the street to the pavement, which will then be
a very handsome terrace.
MYSTERIODI DEATH. ALLEGED MURDER.—
Under this head, an account appeared in the Eaprus
of Tuesday, of the examination of William Thompson, a
mechanic, at the Manchester Borough Court, who was
charged with the murder of his wife. A coroner's inquest
was held on the body on Tuesday last, but no further facts
were elicited, except that a post-mortem examination had
been made, which showed that deceased's death was caused
by concussion of the brain, but whether this was the result
of a blow or a fall, there was no evidence to determine.
The police, however, through the exertions of Mr. Beswick,
the chief superintendent of the detective department, have
been enabled to carry the matter further. The prisoner
was brought up again before the magistrates on Tuesday,
when a Mrs. heightley, who lives next door to the prisoner,
stated that she was awoke, some time duriug Satur-
day night, by a noise in the prisoner's house.
She thought she heard screams, and then some
one fall down stairs. She afterwards heard a man's voice
and footsteps in the house, but he soon afterwards went out
and shut the door. Mary flail, of Ward-street, liulme, the
back door of whose house and that of the prisoner nearly
adjoin, said she rose about 20 minutes before one o'clock ou
Sunday morning, and she heard some one at the back of her
house say, "Oh, don't! don't !" and then a back door was
slammed to. TUC prisoner was remanded till yesterday, in
order to allow time for the depositions to be taken, and ho
was then committed for trial at the assizes.
COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS.—We learn that Lord
John Russell has declined, on the part of the government,
after consulting Sir George Grey, to undertake the introduc-
tion and the conduct of the County Boards Bill in the en-
eaing Aession. The measure will, the refore, we presume, be
again under the care of Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P.—Mars-
cer Examiner. •