The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-22 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITANT.

roarsmoura, Nov. 21.
The Bristol, 39, screw frigate Can Leveeon
B. H. &menet, miled from Spithed oe Urasy morsiog
for the meat omit of Africa. but pat Inch again in the
evening, owing to the heavy weather which prevailed in the
ChaoncL bin carried away her jib-boom, end will also
esquire to make good eome defects in her forward
dote nod
rte
before Me oowresume her voyage. bat will Dot be detyn

keg.
A tbueder•storrn pared over Portsmouth shoetly after
4 o'clock this al temooa. dowels a strong wind from S.S.W.,
pan
and accomied by &heavy 'spun of rain.
CHATHAM, Nov. 21.
The ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1,000 horse-
power (uoroinal), is ordered to mount tan of the 313.
pounder 12.t0a shunt guns, the whole of which are to be
worked by means of the new machinery inveetel by Mr.
Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, by which each gun
can be trained by a couple of men. Every exertion is to be
used in completing the frigate for sea by an early date, as
the Revco's', a new and improved ironclad, is forthwith to
be commenoed at this dockyard.

THE MURDERER SOUTHEY ALIAS FORWARD.—
The trial of the men Ernest Southey alias Forward, who
murdered his wife sod child at Ramses* after murdering
three children at • coffee-house in London, will take place
before the special commission which will commence its
sittings at Maidstone on Saturday, the 16th of December.
Sines his committal by the coroner and magistrates at
'tempt°, Forward (which is his real name) has bees in
the custody of the governor of Sandwich GUI, sod has
maintained himself with the utmost composure, reading
occasionally, but being more generally engaged in writing.
He has produced some elaborate statements with regard to
pompous rcumstances of his past life, all of them couched in •
and vaioglonous style, and has prepered • large
number of letters, many of which are addressed to persons of
high rank in the country. These he has often expressed a
wish should be forwarded to the persons for whom he
intended them, but his request hes not of course been
complied with. He has been allowed to communicate
with bin London solicitor, but it is at present doubtful
whether he will be defended by counsel on his trial, unless
indeed the court, at its sitting, should of its own motion
assign to him one of the gentlemen of the bar. The en-
dears, against him is so clear and cooclusive that
it
should
there is
hardly likely to be a failure of justice, except
arias out of the well-known fart that in the neighbourhood
of Maidstone a strong objection exists to the infliction of
capital punishments, juror there having been known to
declare that they would return a verdict which would
render a man liable to be hanged. Mr. Inspector Tanner,
of the London detective police force, bolds a warrut for
Forward's apprehension in connexion with the triple murder
in London, and should he escape at Maidstone he would on
that warrant be brought to trial at the January sessions of
the Central Criminal Court.
THE ALLEGED MURDER IN Lissow-onovE.—The
grounds for the peragraph which appeared yesterday were
that O'Flannigan quarrelled with a fellow lodger, nairad
Jones, on Saturday night last, and ultimately they came
to blows, but were separated. At ten o'clock the same
night, O'Flannigan went to his house in Nightingaleotreet,
being very drunk at the time. On arriving at the top of
the first flight of steps he overbalanced, and fell down the
stairs bead foremost. The sound of the fall brought the
assistance of other lodgers, who conveyed the man to
St. Mary's Hospital, where he died in a few minutes after-
wards. Dr. Woodward, ea examination, found no out-
ward marks of violence, save a slight abrasion on the left
side of the bead, and that the cause of death was fracture
of the collar bone. The wife of Jones was, on Monday,
examined at the John-atreet station, but was not detained
many minutes, there being not the slightest evidence to
implicate either her or her husband.
THE Howirox POISONING Cass—The adjourned
inquest was held on Monday on the body of William Ash-
ford. Professor Herspath gave evidence that he bad found
arsenie and strychnia in both the stomach and the liver of
the datelined, and he bad no doubt those poisons were the
cause of death. Other evidence showed that the deceased
bed once made a will, leaving his property to his brother
and other relatives., to the exclusion of his wife; and though
he afterwards executed a will in favour of the latter, tee
first will was a subject of contention between them. Pratt,
the supposed paramour of the woman, was subjected to a
strict examination, but he made no admiesioa tending to
connect him with the crime. The jury consulted for fifteen
minutes, sad returned a verdict al wilful murder against
Mary Ashford.
Tan Houma or EMPLOYMENT ON RAILWAYS--
Yesterday Dr. Lankester opened an inquiry at the Univer-
sity College Hospital as to the death of Jams Clark, a
shunter, employed on the London and North Western
Railway, which occurred accidentally on the 16th instant
while peeing a truck from one line to another by means
of a toro.table. One of the witnesses (a lad of about 16
years of age) staled that deceased, himself, and the other
men worked from 6 one evening to 7 the following morn-
ing. The accident happened during the but hour of work.
That morning they had had one hour and a half's rest is
the stables. Some mornings they had three hours and a
half's rest. Emma Reeves, a young woman, wile appeared
on behalf of deceased's wife, who was ill now, created
a great sensation in court by declaring that for
two nights and one day before the accident, de-
ceased had been at work on the railway with-
out intermission. Witness went with deceased's wife to
get the week's salary, and there were two and • half
days' overtime credited on the bill. Several of the jury-
men expressed themselves warmly on what they considered
the monstrous conduct of the company, in allowing • man
to work two days and one night without intermission. The
ordinary hours they considered very diagnoeful for night
work, and they would not return a verdict until the
statement as to the number of hours deemed bad worked,
was proved or disproved. It had been maid that the eccideet
happened through deceased scotching the wheels of his
track before it was fairly on the turn-table if that was
the ease they (the jury) were not surprised, after the m aaaaa
in which the man 'bad bees overworked. The coroner said
the jury had nothing whatever to do with the number of
hours during which the man worked. If • men worked for
• great number of hours it was at his own option, and he
was sore that they as Englishmen would be the first to re-
jut with indignation say law for compelling a man to only
work for • certain number of boon. The jury still ranged
to return • voided. sad after • leagthemed conversation, the
amour adjourned the inquiry for the production of the evi-
dence they required.
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