The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-16 00:00:00

ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE.

A deliberate effielapt at murder and suicide was
nods ea fly aftetneta, of which the following pa-
ckable have Mee /lewd how various sources. The vic-
tim is Mr. Oemoi Oeverbsy„ wine-merchant, of 12, Muk-
ha% asarly eepeehe he New Corn Exchanee. The in-
tended iseanth is Mr. him Ovenstone, who has for some
tizzadnitiserrkd hasiame as an upholsterer in Great
Merjbheee.
It MINN that Overawe was greatly exasperated by an
ezeontiga babe hem seat into his house. Overtakee
beime—ie eselamelha with a Mr. Greiner, the sargnee of a
hanbrope—ammeger el ea kin in Holborn, to whom Mr.
Crawley bad seggined wine sad spirits, and Ovenstora's co-
ma/nee Lilies Kr. Crawley proceeded at law against
him for the ammeat doe to the estate, about 1501.
What may have leamphei halite emit el the skim is not
=Mows, hat it emlala het those ithethaince
aim is =kin the neembeees eliempa Mr.
Crawly is blend to be memerried i Ovowitene has • wife
liDoh arc mash empielled In the dram in
hay awe inkOWll.
• sentement el the eircumelnesse was made by Mr.
Crawley to the reporter of the Weekly CAroniele, at St.
Theemes Hospital, whither he ealfsrer was taken Yee-
tmthwEatardsy ) aftereoee, shad half-pest ko'elock, while
with • friend in the wise trade, my clerk came
0•71;s70 mid that Mr. Ovensbeeet Great Tichfield-screet,
mead is speak to me. I immediately went into my
where I found Mr. pmt, to whom I said,
Mr. Ovenstone, I thilethethil aid you want to see
me ? • He replied, ' Yee, sir, I do.' I inquired what his
basiesse was with me ? Whin be shouted out, ' What do
you mean by doing what peahen dose ? Yon are • pretty
fellow. I think.' My impremba was, that be was alluding
to a sale that had taken place at ide been. I told him that
I had nothing to do with it, that I had kik my ease in my
mileker's heads. I had no gooier attend hale words than
M pat his hands into his pocket, as I eatl hr the purpose
eleawiag eat his bitadkerekiel, bras et which he pulled
oat a plied, preeethed the asolb et the, owl before I bad
time to get away, be diebargeoll the eatande In my face. I
immediately rem est into the street end cried murder, end
afterwards went to Mr. Harris's surgery, and from thence I
fame to this WOW in a ob. Whoa I ran out °neatens was
is the ream, tai I anibeebed hem ray clerk that he locked
him I. be pewee kb Barge What afterwards took place I
do not know et my own laswledge, but I have been told
that Ovonelleme shot himself the moment after I ran into the
street."
The narrative is continued by Mr. Crawley's clerk,
who, when be saw his master was wounded, locked
the attempted murderer in the office, and had hardly
done so when a second report of tiro-arms was heart
Two constables entered, and found Ovenstoae sitting in a
chair, with a couple of pistols near him, and blood flowing
is copious streams from his head and face. They imme-
diately secured both the pistols end Ovenstone, end took him
to Guy's Hospital, where two of the house. surgeons were in
instant attendance. They found that the in:Aries he had
inflicted on himself were of • frightful character: the
ball appeared to have entered at the mouth, passed in
an oblique direction, end lodged over the left temple.
The medical gentlemen hare been successful in extricating
the ball which had lodged in Ovenstone's head, and it
is now in the care of Edmonds, the officer. There seems to
be no doubt about its having been the intention of the
wretched man to kill Mr. Crawley end then destroy him-
self, as, in addition to the fact of his having with hum two
heavily-leaded pistols, a written statement was found in his
coat pocket, which was evidently drawn up so as to give •
full explanation of the several reasons that had actuated him
to attempt the commission of the crime. In it he states that
disgrace has been brought on him by Crawley, far not con-
sulting with him and Cremer to get possession of the Bull
Inn. " One must go for an example, it continues, " to deter

such wretches fraud, log the like. I cannot help saying that
my solicitor ought to have looked into this matter of bond
before be advised me to be an assignee in this bankruptcy,
and which, had he done so, would have prevented all that
has occurred. Death is far more than the dis-
graceful dentin' Crawley has me in, and driven me
le do that whisk I never have contemplated. This
intim will se doubt eau* a good deal of grief to you an
bat you must forget it, as you could never expect that I
should ever know happiness again in this world after Craw-
ley's conduct towards me." The rest of the statement re-
lated to family circumstances of no interest to the public. It
was signed " John Ovenatone," and addressed to " lin. Maly
Jackson and Beatrice Jenkinson Ovenatone, 46, Upper Char-
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square."
Upon making inquiries last evening at St. Themas's nor
ley,t a 1 it al
w to ther
ascertained oldhe s
huf: unfortunate
tet
sufferer, Mr. Craw,:
surgeon to the institution, had made an examination of his
patient, and found that the bullet from the pistol, after psa-
lm through the cheek, and fracturing the jawbone, had
lodged in the antrum. To extract this required consi-
derable care. lie succeeded, however, in doing so, but it is
feared that erysipelas may supervene.

A NEW PLANET.—A letter appeared in the Times
on Saturday, from Mr. Hind, to the effect, that at half past
9 o'clock on Friday evening he noticed what appeased to be
a star of the 8.9 magnitude, in the 19th hour of right &WM-
sion, not marked upon Wolfer's map, and which he never
saw before, though he had repeatedly examined that part of
the heavens during the present summer. Micrometric ob-
servations have shown it to be a new planet, evidently be-
longing to the group between Mars and Jupiter.
AN ADVANCE IN THE ART OF ADVERTISINO.—A
mercantile house at Berlin has proposed to all the railway
companies of Germany to supply all their carriages with ilk
blinds for nothing. They 'imply propose to reserve to them-
selves the right of changing the blinds as often as they may
please, and they rewire the companies to engage themselves
not to accept, during 50 years, either for money or gra-
tuitously, any blinds but theirs., Their object is to cover
the blinds with advertisements.

THE CHEAPEST MUSIC EVER PCIILISHED.—Some of
the tradesmen of Manchester have had printed on their
wrapper paper many of the most popular English songs.
Thus, tea, coffee, sugar, snuff, figs, and other common-place
articles are associated with the choicest sentimentalities, and
the beet music. Should musical taste spread, which it
doubtless will, in proportion to the ease with which sonp
and glees are to be procured, " Merry " England will cease
to be the misnomer foreigners declare it to be.

SHAKSPEAKWO House.—Mr. Payne Collyer writes
to the Athenaum on this subject—upon which few can write
so instructively—as follows :—" With you, I hold it to be a
matter of comparatively little consequence whether or not our
great dramatist actually first saw the light in this abode. It
is unquestionable that it was the property of his father,
John Shaltspeare, in the early youth of the poet; and just as
certain that the latter never parted with the property, but
transmitted it by will to his sister, in order that it might
descend in the family. As lately as in 1791, the Maidenhead
Inn, next door, was the property of Thomas Hart, the sixth
in descent from Joan Hut. It was called the Maidenhead
Inn as early as 1647. it. strong fact has been omitted in
what has been hitherto written on this subject, which
shows that John Shakspeare was certainly an inhabit-
ant of Henley-street u early as 1552. He was then
fined by the Bailiff's Court for not cleansing the
highwal. before his door there. In the autumn of 1656
(not 1006, which was the year when he was pro-
ceeded against by Siche for 814 he became owner of two
copyhold houses, one of which was in Henley-street but he
bought the freehold house in queatioo, next the Maiden-
head Inn, in 1574, whea our poet was ten years old. There
is, however, as Mr. Knight observes, no evidence to show
that he had not resided in it long before—perhaps at the
very time of William Shakspeare's birth. Malone supposes
that in 1571 John Shakspeare removed his family to the
house which he then bought: but for anything that appears
to the contrary this was the house in Henley-street, which
ha ha l occupied as long before as 1552. He may have been
tenant to Edmund and Emma Hall anterior to the purchase
of the house from them. If our great dramatist were not
'born in the house, he, at any rate, lived in it for eight or
nine years prior to his marriage."

BOATS RUN DOWN ON THE RlVER.—Yesterday
afternoon, as a sailing barge was proceeding off Lambeth,
while tacking she ran down a boat, containing ten men and
women, who were all immersed in the stream, riding right
over them, staving the boat. Assistance was rendered, and
the whole of the party saved. On Saturday afternoon, ■
boat containing five persons was run down between Vauxhall
and Westminster bridges, by one of the above-bridge steamers.
They were all saved, but two men were severely injured,
one.of them having bad his back broken.

INQUESTS, SATURDAY.—CURIOUS DEATlL—Before
Mr. W. Carter, at the Northumberland Anne, Holland-
street, Blackfriars road, on the body of Sarah Sims. The
deceased was employed as housekeeper to Mr. Rickman,
bottle-dealer, of 4, Holland-street. On Wednesday night
last she retired to bed with her grand-daughter, and the fol-
lowing morning she was missed from her place in the bed,
end, on search being made, she was found with her hoed and
arms in a water-butt quite dead. How the deceased got into
the butt, which was standing in the back kitchen, no one
was able to tell. Some of the witnesses were of opinion
that she had got up in the night, and had goes into the
kitchen to get some water, and had been gamed with a
fit.—The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased
was found drowned in a water-butt, but how she came
therein, whether by accident or of her own accord,
there was not sufficient evidence to prove."—FATAL
LADDER ACCIDENT.—Before Mr. Payne, in Bartho-
lomew's Hospital, en Daniel Murphy, a silk dyer, aged 61.
Constable 28.5 N deposed, that while on duty in Essex-street,
Kingsland, he heard cries of distress from the premises of
Mr. Shadrack, dyer, about 12 o'clock on Thursday night.
He found the deceased lying insensible at the bottom of a
ladder, from which he had fallen, one of the rungs near the
top having been out of its place. Deceased was brought to
the hospital, where it was found that his skill was fractured,
from the effects of which he died on Friday. Verdict, •• Ac-
cidental death."

THE ELECTIONS.

D (NORTH).
The official declaration of the poll took place at Alnwick
ea Friday morning, when the high sherifi announced that
Ike numbers polled by the respective candidates stood thus :
air George Grey, 1,366; Lord Ossulston, 1,24;; Lord
Loraine, 1237. The sheriff, therefore, declared Sr George
Greypuid Lord Ossulston to be duly elected.
Sir G Bono e @SY then addressed the electors, amidst
repeated cheering. He was entitled, he said, now for the first
time to address them as one of their representatives; and, in
that capacity, be duct duty wet to offer to them
lie YEW dram *lt the honour they had conferred upon
MM. awl kir tbs amideseit they had been pleased to repose
k kik The widen in which they had placed him
me lie poll had Ye mailed the sanguine expectations of
sasses with whist he ventured to address them on
Saturday last. He might say they had more than realised
his mom sanguine expectations. (Loud cheers.) He felt at
the soma time that his thanks were due in his
Illereimie—ha lard ha now say to thins who
belly were lb the tempo* and spirit in
which they had the aisle& The battle had been
awfully and onmillnienally fought; the victory had been
nobly WWI. (Chasm.) That was not the occasion on which
ha should dear., because it wee as ammeary, to introduce
voiti.os' which could load to esatroversy or difference of
and he therefore carefully abstained from saying
swift which could tend to disturb the harmony of that
Mestiag. They had shown that they knew how to moha-
ir& their principles at the proper time, ant he hoped they
wand never find him, as their representative, wanting
la his daty when the priocipke which he bad professed were
seshimed. (Cheers.) He weld only therefore say that he
simpled the trust which they had done him the honour to
wpm to him with a kip ma et Its importance, sod with
hgnormiikdr• t• himmdf worthy of their confider.
• elebes eel dieshargo of the duties which eb
tube Se the din with whisk they bad invested him, sad by
• emisteat adherence to these principles which had Unmet,
ban the guide of hie political conduct. (Loud cheers.)
Iced Oseutsrow, in addressing the electors, observed that
although he was grateful for their generous exertions la
electiag him so arse of their representative*, he had no feel-
ings of exultation • for he felt that the battle which he
had fought for his principles and his friends he had lost, or
at least it had been shorn of one-half of its lustre and
triumph to him. (Hear.) He had bat his companion is
arms, who had fought with him a glorious fight, and whose
high qualities and generous conduct were appreciated by all
who knew him. But it was a good old English fashion,
after • fair stand up fight to shake hands ; and, for his part,
now that the eontest was over, he willingly gave the hand
of good fellowship to the right hon. baronet, who had been
chosen for his colleague. He trusted that from him the go-
vernment would receive no factious opposition in matters
that did not Infringe on the principles he had avowed.
Lord LOWAINE briefly vindicated the coalition which had
existed between himself and Lord Omulston, and acknow-
ledged that his expectations had been belied by the r. salt.
lhanks were voted to the high sheriff; and the crowd,
after giving cheers for Lord John Russell, Lord Moment,
and Lord Frederick Fitsclareaos, dispersed, to be re-formed,
however, almost momentarily, iato the processions which
accompanied the members elect in their progress through the
town

NORI

WARWICKSHIRE (NORTH).
The election terminated on Saturday in the return of the
two tory candidates. Nevertheless, the affair is a great
triumph for the liberal party; there never was, perhaps,
• contest conducted under more adverse circumstances.
Up to Monday last, not the slightest preparation had been
made by them, whereu the tones had quietly canvassed the
whole division ; but, notwithstanding the aid of this and
other appliances of a discreditable character, Mr. Spooner
has been ►ble, according to the admission of his own eons-
mittee, to poll 153 votes only more than Mr. Leigh. The
registry of voters has been found to be in • wretched state ;
hundreds have been suffered to remain upon It who became
dispossessed of their qualifications years ago ; and there is
good reason to believe that the system of Impersonation has
been carried on to a great extent by the tones. All these
-things will be amended before another election ; the Bir-
mingham liberals will take cue that there are plenty
of new claimants, so that the division, with a little
management, will be completely in the bands of that party.
The conduct of Sir Robert Peel his been noble ; in addition
to plumping for the liberal candidate, it is pretty generally
understood that he had a personal interview with Mr. Dug-
dale, for the purpose of endeavouring to induce him to
forego his resignation. The hon gentleman's fears had,
however, been so worked upon by the repr,sentations of some