The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-17 00:00:00

THE CASE OF GENERAL M'NEIL.

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(From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)
As yet the government has made no sign as to
what it will do in the case of General !life& The follow
log from • fit. Louis correspondent of the Columbus GO.)
Oriels gives a new aspect to this case :
"The man for whom General shot ten some time
ago, and which wu noticed in the Crisis. has returned
home alive and well, and his wife, before the execution of
those men, went to him (General N'Neill and pleaded with
him to wait and see if he had been killed before he
ailed thane men, and the brute spurned her. I can write
no more."
The return of the missing man alive and well really
neither adds to nor takes from the atrocity of the murder
of the ten men, but it brings the matter home to the dullest
and most prejudiced *apprehension.
(From the New York Times.)
There can be no possible justification for such • butchery ;
and our government owes it to itself, to the country, and
to the sentiment of the civilised world, to mark, by some
prompt and distinct action, its reprobation of it. Whether
it has any such jurisdiction over General M'Neil, or quasi
the military organisation with which he is connected, as
will enable it to punish as it deserves this most barbarous
sad inhuman act, we cannot say. But whatever power it
has in the ow, direct or indirect, should be promptly ex-
ercised. not only to prevent the threatened .retaliation of
the rebel President, but to remove from the Union cause
the damning stigma which such acts are calculated to
imprimis upon it.

Oprosrnox TO HilarmiliktVialx RAILWAYS IN
PADDINGTOIL—At a meeting of the Paddington Vestry,
held yesterday, at the Vestry Hall, Harrow•read, the
Mew. Neon Boyd in the chair, notices were received and
eisealdered, of several bills which are to be introdnoed
la the next aeries of parliament, for subterreasse
rail-
ways the parish of Paddington. The first of
ea
then railways, reported by the vestry clerk,
was the Pimlico and Paddington Railway, to corn.
mance at the Victoria Station. aa to pus through Bt.
George's, Henoverequare, Hyde-park, and Kensington.
gardens, entering Paddington at • point opposite Lebow
ter.gste, and terminating at the station of to
Meet
Railway, opposite the Great Western Hotel, the
whole length to be oonstructed by tunnel, at a depth of
only one foot from the surface to the top of the tuned.
Another proposed railway, called the Kensington. Knights-
bridge, and Metropoltan Junction, was to commecios at the
Metropolitan station, near the Great Western Hotel, (ran
thence down the Grand Junction-road, entering Kensington-
gardens, westward of the ornamental fountains, theses
skirting the western hank of the Serpentine to the bridge,
g=
out into the Knightsbridge-road—a second lies to
ar near the Serpentine, yawing westward throe*
Keasiegion-prdeas to Kensington. An animated dim-
maims on these projected railways took place, in which
the general opinion appeared to be that a petition should be
presented against the bills without delay, with a view to the
interest* and rights of the ratepayers sad the parish
=illeelaieatly protected. On the mottos of Mr. G. Mills
Roche a resolution was adopted, referring the subject to •
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against the bills,

it engages nun more ueeply iu "" """'"e'"7 row for isrosoithae, on a VMS be ibama •
policy ; and it will do him personal credit as a man pairamiaa. denim ana one ror•u rAm
desirous of attaining the ends of the war by Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are about
plated, will, adwrding to the description given, be one of the Tun Frame( PROBS.—A new senn-omeint puma.' doom,
most • rtaat 'Deed works ever executed i• Europe. bout to be tablished in Turin. It will start with a earamitteedowillt i•eiwofiows to petition --against the !heed. A -
policy _
ner
the • sad that report b• piths& and a cony sent to esels ' 'tats the Inca was in asked who did it. whoa the lair
humane and peaceful means rather than by blood- to repave a sucomelou of • .tews Beeadlaada The canal be '4'l3 milcalong, navigable by ships drawing fisapaitia of 200,00016. and it is tosame BM as the =obi, et the visim sag ee the oseopiers of she mine laid be did it, and would give himself up. The o.beer
shed. But for all this, we do not think it is a Admiral Bowls left town yesterday for Broad- 24 feet of water, and will shorten the dideace from Am- Perim-raw& The mina has not yet been decided upon. see tarsi is IM imbed sdrresoe• loolooß mod the room to see what weapon hid be"
measure very likely by itself to achieve its end, Lade, on • vidt to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. denim to London,' and all ports south of the Taxa, by Rumour mye that there atobe • fusion between the lepPero 138 Fawn. TOR nal GROAT RIMIER wed, and found again(
boot of the prisoner's right foot, In
or to hasten the termination of the war. We Mr. G. Towline, M.P., entertained a chit about 80 miles, and enable vowels to get to sea within • and the Discossione, and that the two PiPsrs when united Ramway.—lt appears flat the train eureka of this tom. easialal..Wdbe
he toned it s Imbed all over blood.
do not believe that sL►very will succumb to suchawl iat
tiognished party, last week, at Orwell Park, near Nacton, few hosts, where's they now seeereuy spend three days, will bedews the organ of Sigma Ilattesd. A new journal at .pupy is about to he aoss=the
wrovedt...6in.
To
dub, , was a sawn boot, p
I mid the sides coves• The prisoner made use or
blandishments as these. Suffolk, thee,isitrs Melndiag his Royal Highness the Duke and often s walk In that Peewee. Florence is also spoken of, which is to bear the name of that this object some =Pratwife " The
wheels see to be employed, singable oi ettaising ea aa wow- the ~k• "He dm" cot coma &tier my the station,
wily any blood on it, be: en,.
of Cambridg the Hannsis of Clanricarde, Lord FAoho, &o. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer city. Like tbe Napoli of Naples it will be an organ of ths ot t nom nu hour The ewe. yews prisoner was taken into custody, and taken to
Mr. Li moms, like most Americans, is unwilling Is ss. dais a party ;of gentlemen killed 1,010 pheasants. Ifooltea will. leave for on the 20th ins' t., to supply reactionary party. Some of the former functionaries of the 1/66eire b afteeuer— so "via
7 there wed
to perceive the greatness of the social and besides harm and partridges. the plow al the lost marl wait Colombo. ex-Ormid•Dnke ere to be Urn political directors. and Niwwielt is abouavot
haurs.—Buty and Norwich Post. I ceased, sod when the inspector on duty asked if
the—joarris. y between Lopata where be was charged with violently assaultiog the de•
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my witnesses to the assault, the prisoner replied, ;:let
there are none. I did it." The injured man mu
in a cab and conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, and rt was
discovered that, in addition to the wounds upon the head
And face, two of his ribs were broken. The wounds smeared
to have been inflicted by some taunt instrument. The de-
ceased died on the 20,1 Deoember. A post mortem euminatien
was afterwards made, and it was found that the nasal bones
were broken, and the bone under the eye was also fractured,
~nd the servos was of opinioe that death was the cone-
Vence of the injuries he bad received. the prisoner, when
before the magistrate, made a statement to the effect that
the deceased man had on two or three occasions decoyed
his wife from him, and one common had cohabited with
her for a twelvemonth. He had forgiven her, however,
,red moved from where he was living ; but thei deasseed
found it out, and went to her when he was at work.
is moved nein, but on the night in question
le met the prisoner with his wife. They went into • pub-
ic-house together, and he remembered no more about what
Nippened until he saw the deceased at the bottom of the
Rain.
In answer to Mr. Sleigh, the house-surgeon of the hos-
pital stated that be did not think the wounds on the face
ad bead 'mild have bees caned by falling downstairs,
dthough the ribs might have been tinctured by that. He
aid not see the inside of the deceased, and could not my
whether the ribs had penetrated the lungs or not.
Mr. Sleigh, in his address to tbetjury for the prisoner,
urged that the act had been committed under the indiums
of crest provocation, and he also urged that it was probable
that a quarrel and fight had taken place between the pri-
soner sad the deceased, and that he had fallen downstairs
accidentally.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended
him strongly to mercy.
He was seatemeed to nine months' imprisonment and hard
labour.
Salome Newman, 17, an unmarried Yount( woman, was
indicted for the wilful mauler of her female illegitimate
,

tr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
defended by Mr. Orridge.
It appeared that the prisoner was • domestic servant in
the establishment of • family at Dalstoo, and in the month
of August it was suspected that she was in the family
way, but she emphatically denied that this was the came.
In the following month of October the prisoner warn
Lr taken very ill, and • surgeon was sent for, who
was satiated, from the appearances that presented
themselves, that she had been delivered of a child,
and he stated so to the prisoner, but she still de-
clared that it was not the case. She continued very
al, and was removed to the union workhouse, and a
search was then made in the house of the prisoner's
mistress, and the dead body of • child was discovered
in the chimney of one of the rooms with a still/co
tied so tightly round the neck as to cut into the skin ;
and it was alleged that this was the cause of death.
The evidence of the surgeoe was to the effect that
the child appeared to be a healthy, full-grown child, sad
the principal question io the case was whether the child
was born alive, and whether its death was canoed bp. the
wilful act of the prisoner. Witamees were examined who
made out the facts as above narrated, and two medical
gentlemen, Dr. White and Dr. Gant, expressed •
positive oploion that the child was born alive ; bat then
' was sonic doubt whether the staylace was tied round the
• neck of the child before or after it had • complete said
independent existence.
The jury acquitted the prisoner of the murder, but found
her guilty of conesaling the berth.
She was sentenced to lff months' hard labour.
Wiffiase Cairns, 62, pleaded guilty to • charge of man-
slaughter.
It was stated that some of the shopmates of the pri-
soner were engaged in " larking." and throwing pieces of
wood at each other, and one of the pious stamck the
priaouer, . and be snatched up a chiral sad threw
it at the deceased and loilicted an injury that caused
his death. The prisoner had expressed the deepest regret
at the occurrence and it appeared that he had been 32
wars in the service of his muter, and bore a most excellent
character.
Judgment was postpand.

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

. MARLBGROUGH-STEEET.
PRIBOIIB PRIFTRABLIC TO WORKROOMS.
Mien linran, ma lama. of St. Martin's-workhouse, lens
charged before_ Mr.lytwbitt u folfows :
Mr. Jaiuss loom* surgeon, 2, Salisbury-street, Strand,
temporarily acting se surgeon at the St. Maetia's-warkboase,
said thak en the psevious afternoon the Framer, while is a
state of istoiman, came into the ward where be was at-
tendlog the patimits and made use of very had
calling him an old and making a great dist=
Bbe was then given into custody.
Richard Randle, the porter at the workhouse, corrobo-
rated Mr. Leonard in some respects, and rid the primaar
was drunk. . .

Prisoner said that when she went into the workhouse
with her three children they were clean and perfectly
healthy. Before long they were infected with a loathsome
disease and removed to the fool ward, where one of them,
a girl eight years of age, died. The other two were still in
the ward. . . . .

I;.firwhitt said it was very foolish for her to go on in
the way else had acme, because the children must be cured.
Prisoner said that her children were put to sleep in the
same bed with other children who were badly diseased, so
that there was no chance whatever of their being oared.
Mr. Leonard said they were put in the same place as an
those with infectious diseases. . . . .

Kr. Tyrwbitt said be was not a doctor, but be did not
ON how a child could be cured if put to sleep with, and
tubbed against soother child labouring under an infectious
disease. They might brimstone the child as much as they
liked, but he should think with very little effect. It was
not to be wondered at that persons in workhouses' should
complain, and it answered the question asked, "why pri-
sons were preferred to workhouses," when gaols were so
clean and comfortable. The prisoner bad been proved to
have been drink. He should commit her for seven days,
betas to the children he should suspend his judgment en.
tirely.

TRANSPORTATION.