The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

TO TRH EDITOR 01 TH2 HIPHESS.

Sta,—l hear on good authority that the Governor
and Deputy-Governor of the Bask of England were both
opposed to the increase of the rate to 3 per cent., but the
measure was carried against them. Is not this rather sin•
gala t S.

Loss or ANOTHER LIFE BOAT.—The Rhyl life-
boat went out on Saturday night to assist a vessel which
was wrecked on the Hoyle-bank; nine men went out,
but the vessel was abandoned before the boat reached her.
On the boat returning she capsized, and all the men
were obliged to make the best for shore; six met with a
watery grave, and three were saved. The boat is a new one,
sent by the Royal Benevolent Shipwrecked Mariners'Society.
The names of those who are drowned are : —David
George, married, with four children ; John Evans, married,
with two children ; Philip Jones, married, with one child;
Thomas Jones, married; William Parry, single; John
Edwardes, single. Saved,—Owen Jones, master, with two
others.

SHOCKING MURDER IN CUPIIII.—It is Our pain-
, ful duty to record an instance of this awful crime which
has occurred in our community. The victim in thi+ case is
a boy of five or six years of age, and the perpetrator of the
horrid deed is his own mother. It appears that Janet
Keddie or Johnstone had been drinking hard for some days
previously, and on Tuesday evening, in a drunken frenzy
(irritated, it is supposed, by the refusal of the child to go
for more whisky), she seised and maltreated him till the
poor child died under her treatment, as he was found in
bed evidently strangled. The wretched mother is in the
hands of the authorities, and in due course will be tried
for the murder. At present she is still suffering from de-
lirium tremens. Her husband and the father of the boy is
a book distributor, and was from home at the time of the
murder. We understand that the woman Keddie has
oftener than once already, when under the influence of
liquor, attempted to take away her own life.—Fifs Herald.
NEW ADMIRALTY AGENTS.—Lieutenants W. H.
Payne and Robert Reid, R.N., have been appointed Admi-
ralty agents on the Southampton station.
TYNEMOUTH DOCKS.—This undertaking is, we
understand, to be opposed most strongly on standing orders.
The object of opposition on standing orders, and its effect
when successful, is not to alter or amend any clauses in the
bill, but to throw it overboard altogether. Among the
opponents of the bill in this stage, we find therefore appro-
priately enough the name of John Clayton, Esq., Town
Clerk of Newcastle, but we canfess we were not prepared to
find in juxtaposition with it the signature of C. U. Laws,Esq.,
the resident agent of his Grace the Duke of Northumber-
land. His grace's name does not appear as a petitioner, but
it is impossible to conceive that the attempt thus made by
his agents to strangle a measure of such great public utility
does not receive his grace's sanction. Alas ! for the town
which has such patrons and protectors.—North and South
Shields °acetic.

SIR H. DARELL.—We have to announce the death
of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Harry Darell, Dart. This melan-
choly event took place at Cagliari, in Sardinia, on the 6th
inst. He had been shooting with Captain Payne o.illwey,
in the Agliutra mountains, where be was seized with feu:
on the 31st of December, and died alter siz dap' illness, in
the 39th year of his age. Tl.is gallant officer served with
much distinction in China and at the Cape.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—Mr. Humphrey Brown,
M.P., has the following notice of motion in the House of
Commons: "To call the attention of the house to the la-
mentable loss of life incidental to railway travelling, result-
ing from the absence of better regulations, and the necessity
of a direct interference on the part of her ?daj.lity's govern-
ment, for the purpose of correcting tee irregularities and
disregard evinced by railway companies to the public
safety."
Olt DIT.—It is currently reported in the political
circles that from the observations recently made by a es r-
uin noble Scotch lot.: on the hustings to his cons:itin.nte,
and charging a right hon. gentleman and ez.Secr, :try with
having used undue iuflusuce at ricer.' election., a
message had been se. t by tl.e latter to the forma; but tte
result of the correspondence which has taken place we or.
unable, at the present moment, to lay before our readkre—

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