The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-18 00:00:00

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MURDER AT WALSALL.

A young woman, named Sarah Barber, aged 22, him
been arrested at Walsall, South Staffordshire, charged with
the wilful murder of her child, a boy aged about two yeah.
The unfortunate woman would seem, with the utmost de.
termination of purpose, to have cast her child into an

coal pit, which was upwards of eighty yards deep, and had
in it more than twenty-three feet of water. Once she was a
domestic servant in Walsall, but, after her confinement in
the workhouse of that town, she appears to have been with-
out the means of obtaining a livelihood by honest industry
herself being unmarried, and her widowed mother, if dis-
posed, unable to afford her a home. Then the young
woman and her child would seem to have suffered great
privation, until re-admitted into the workhouse, and passed
thence to the neighbouring one of Brunt which she had
left only a fortnight before she committed the murder.
On Sunday last she visited at Bloxwicb, near tb Walsall,
her aunt, a married woman of humble means, named Jane
Whitehouse, and then the child was with her. On Monday
she repeated the visit, when she was alone, and in explana-
tion of the absence of her child said that a young lady from
Derbyshire, visiting a gentleman in the neighbourhood,
having beard it cry in distress, had asked to be allowed to
adopt the child, and that she (the mother) bad coneented.
This extraordinary statement reaching the ears of polies
constable No. 9 of the Walsall police force, be instituted
inquiries at the residence referred to, and finding that the
tale was truthless, made search for and eventually appre-
hended the mother on the evening of the same day at Wal-
sall. Requiring her to show him the spot at which, as she
stated, she gave up her child, she walked with him about a
mile whoa she confessed that she had murdered her child
in the manner stated, appealing at the same time for mercy
to the Almighty. She then guided the constable to the pit
which was situated away from a pathway on Peleall-com-
mon, and which, although long since disused, yet was
fenced by two planks, which lay with an opening between
each, across the centre of the pit's month. Here she pinned
her child's clothes over hie bead, and deliberately cast him
into the pit. The child has been since discovered, without
a bruise upon his person.

BRITISH.
Aberdeen
Belfast and Ballymena
Belfast and County Down
Birkenhead, Lane., & Cheshire
Bristol and Exeter

861
1891
91 f
g

10981
Di
6
201

1,6;41
691

1,610
5,016
1-3,7,1?1

Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead
Cork, Blackroek, and Passage
Cork and Bandon
Dublin and Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath
Dundee,Perth,Aberdeen
Dundalk and Enniskillen

AnglianEast -
t East Lancashire
Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Eastern Union
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth, & Buie,
Exeter and Crediton
Furness
Glasgow and South Western.
Great Northern& E. Lincolnsh
Great Southern & Western(b)
Great Western
Irish Beath Eastern
Kendal and Windermere
Lancaster and Carlisle
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Liverpool,Crogby, & Southport
London and North Western
London and Blackwall
London, Brighton, and 8. Coast
London and South Western
Londonderry and Enniskillen
Manchester, Shelf., & Lincoln
Manchester and South.' susetion
Maryport and Carlisle
Monklands
Midland
Midland Great Western (Ire.)
Newcastle and Carlisle
North British
North Western
Wolverhampton
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Shrewsbury and Chagos
Shropshire IJaien
South Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
Southifork.,Door.aster& Goole

171
283
188
3191
26
101
_9O

781
149
47

47
29
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77

234
131

63
4431
577
240

Stockton and Hartlepool.
Tad Yale
Clean
Waterford and Limerick
Wert Cornwall
Whitelumen Junction
York, New.! Berwick, &Yorl
N. Mid. & Leedallorthert

Dula Maki
Lisps asi
AmMaim
Mambas= sod Troyes
Na li m/ mei ege
Navas= a haws
Orheas gig Owl•

Pais aad Lysol
Paris and Hosea
Paris and Striabargh
Ream sad Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Waders of Fruit*

16,107!
2.226;
3,667;

1,996
5,129
10,125
4,359

180
1,109
1,295
1,162
668

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METALS.—Mr. Monte'. circular states that in
mils purchases are act so easily effected as of late; each
succeeding mail from America bringing fresh erden. The
number of bills for British lines paired this session, which
are not mere bubbles as in 1845, but grounded upon the
urgent wants of the localities for which they are designed ;
and the roads now ash* in Canada, Spain, Switzerland,
Italy, Sweden, sad Deenamit,will cause the demand during
the neat year mho maposedented, unless any great political
convulsion takes lime in Use meantime—ia addition to
this, the requirements Man great projected line in Russia,
from St. Peuseebsegh to Odessa, plsues the English iron
Sulam in an independent position for some time to come.
&mesh pip are la good rapist. The Welch houses are
bazdleemry largely in assiegerms of the dissatisfaction
es mean their men,—sad the demand for pipes has
never minalted. There are large order. in course of
eleestion far the provincial local boards of health, and
new gas and water companies, besides the large wants of
the old companies, as the state of our streets will testify,
witit h must all be laid by October neat; in addition to
which, there are on hand lugs orders from the Continent
unsieruted, among them, one from Genoa for 10,000 tons,
ltl ancl.2o-ineh, the whole to be delivered at that port by
the end of September, so that Scotch pig iron may not by
any moms be considered a dangerous article, either for
capitalist sr speculator. The market has fluctuated during
the past week from 50s. 6J. to 545. for mixed numbers; it
leaves off at 525., with strong buyers. The deliveries have
been at the rate of 25,000 tons per week during the last
four months, while the production his barely exceeded
11,000. Several Scotch iron masters are buying iron to
nuke good their deliveries.

DISCOVERY OF A DRAGON.
(TronateisSa.)
The geologists are aware that in Donetahire, from
time te time, there have been discovered the fossil remains
of saurian' hitherto supposed extinct. They will perhaps 1
be not a little astonished to learn that a variety of these
reptiles has continued in existence from an early period to
the present time, in the neighbourirg county of Hants. It
may be described es a species of pterodatt lite, or flying
lizard, of so monstrous a character as fully to correspond
to the common notion of the dragon ; and it has been ac •
eordingly denominated Draco-Eleensosynarim, or the
Charity Dragon. This dragon has for ages subsisted on the
property of tie Hospital of St. Cross, near Winchester, de-
vouring an enormous quantity thereof. Within the pre-
sent halteentury it is said to hare consumed more than
46,0461. of the revenues of that institution. It has entirely
bolted and swallowed up a whole establishment therewith
connected, called the House of Noble Poverty, thereby
evincing a power of deglutition which tends to authenticate
the feats of that sort ascribed in the ballad to the Dragon of
Wantley.
To form some idea of this dragon's voracity, it is requisite
to know that the Hospital of St. Cross was founded in 1157,
by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, for the lodging,
clothing, and maintenance of 13 poor men, and to the daily
feeding of 100 other poor men ; whereas the greater part
of the maintenance of the 13 poor men, and the whole of
the provision for the 100 other poor men, have bean de-'
round by the dragon.
At what precise epoch the Draco Eleemosynoxiass of St.
Cross made its appearance, is not quite certain ; but its
production is a curious example of retrospective develop-
ment. It was originally an individual of the human race,
appointed under the title of Muter of St. Cross, to al-
minieter the charity which it now eats: and thus owing
its origin to De Blois, has been traditionally said to have
been created by the Bishop of Winchester. Subsequently
it has degenerated to that low point in the scale of organiza-
tion which it at present occupies, having descended from
a warm•blooded and charitable, to a cold-blowled and
rapainous animal.
The existence of this dragon was long unknown, becauso
its habits were extremely retired, and it was accustomed
to prey quietly, and in the dark. It has at length, how-
ever. been detected and esptur 1 and is now to he seen
exhibited in the Bolls Court of Chancery; when ea experi-
seat is la come of being tried upon it, wish a view to
noes it to (Weep part of what it has gulped,