The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA.

Ytmterrioy a mectitig wan hell lk fore his Honour,
Placter Itiehaiii., to conwitii-r the e:aien, of a lark.;.•
t'. . tool ',a-,
. Ir honied, w. :h !Ir. 11. flarri., apiocanal on conn.el for
Y. Wrr•:bie, Cie oatirial usanao:er ; nod Mr. Ihrloie on he-
I Of of of the debenture holler, chiefly resident in
...land, nod who are as toillows : W. Wallace, 2,•ioad.
J.ltoe Many. ;J. Aitene,ai, 2,OWW. ; ffarduer,
kinrahall, 2,000/. ; Her. J. itn•aell, 1,401.1/.; J.
Muir and at btra, 1,,P110/.; Najaf J doiedom, 1,0010.; John
'trotter, .: tW. ; 11. S. Ander...on, :dint ; Anne YAlinot.on.
:" 11. Str4t, :ANN.; Itachil if aylw, Ver,nwoo,
; &Nil.; J. 3001.; J. 117nw,
141.; sal lio•nriett earrutho :1,110111., for whom M0r....r,
y,,nodt n.al 1'.,. A:11.41.1,4/- 1A11.•31111%1SC of ititerost At •i y-r
I Di. remaining impala, o.ince 1811.
A hong di,oacaioni took place as to the moans niarantli,
n!ii.ch audio tit, act of paributient it would h. mo-I
••! t ptinoso, i.e., whether on I,lsalf ..1" the ro-.pective
Ida to ha," thr elail,. ahnitted .imply u. Haim. ,
1.. fore the Master, which world I aable the part... too pro-
, 00l at PIRADO4 law anaiied inditi.luat metal. no of the
• oto.ii any. sr whether, on the utlier hand, too e•tatolloh th
hi the moral a by violence, ot. debt. under the e.t.a,
n:.•I agaiint the I .441,111% And V.Alllllllltollle.. Ily
141144w.r. then aajourned until after The r
nova, to air time for tn.• required roerimuniestion..

~IRELANI).

heat.!,, Ham
TIIE IWNI;AILVAN ELECTION.
The /Amnon rte a suceesso to Mr. Shell in the re-
ps sentation of Ihity:arvan was commenced in doe
airw yistenlay. Thu scene was opened with the
usual mow andupnair ; and alter the usual preliiiii-
wwies. Sir John Power, of Killian., came forward
and imposed the Him. Charles Ponsnilly, eldest son
of lord de Manley, the eandidote who retirement. the
whit; interest, and enjoys the support of the Duke of
Mr..fluonas J. Fitzgerald seconded the nomina-
tion of Mr. Piimainhy, and klr.John Francis kluguire,
preprictor owl editor of the Cork Exanthsrr. was
then put in nominntiim, his into er and set-ander tie-
ing Mr. Mithony, a total merchant, and Mr. Dolan&
n shopkeeper. Mr. E. Lucas, of the Tufkld, was
nisi nominated, for the purisse of giving him an
oppiirtunit) to whims. the meeting.
kir. Ponsonby Own came forwanl and endeavoured
to obtain a hearing. In the course of his elliwts
for that purpose, he was understood to say that
he uppro-ved of all the lilwral measures of the
preownt perliamcnt ; but whilst he did so he could
not help /etude g the enactment of the Nut
Bill Bravo, hear !inn boys. that's tin stuff.") Ile
disapproved of it for many reasons, beams it must
prior either inoperative or Orli • al. If it were
inoperative it would he a foolish tampering with the
ryliginwi Wings of their countrymen; and if it were
tit-mune:it it carried eking with it its own youtkunia-
tioa. (Hear, hear.) Whit the effect of the bill in
rliament would lw he really could not say. but
hitrusted that thee would he spared from its intro-
duction into Ireland, awl pr 'cried from those mortifi-
t ationsand annoyances that it. provisions were calm-
fled toentail upon tlw people. I. ortunately for the late
reprisentative of Dungarvan.he would not be called on
to take any part on the painful and trying occasion.
tivinisithisiug :vibe did with the welfare of Ireland,
he could not help viewing with regret the storm of
indignation which had payed through the length
and breadth of the land. Ile made no allusion to
the tenant question, but his proposer and seconder
dealt in some vague generalit Ws on the rights of labour.
lac.
Mr. Maguire, the tenant league candidate, then
rimy forward, and was received with a storm of ap-
plause. He was still speaking when the mail kit.
It is generally understood that he has no chance of
auceis.. The Very lies. Dr. Haly, parish priest of
)dun act. stands neutral in the contest, and the
withholding of his support from the popular candi-
date is tantamount to a support of Mr. ronsonhy.

MILITAItY.
ease Ai.riar by rhath in the armies of India, reported
sin -e the departure of the mail on the 3rd Feb.
Bomber Army —Colonel .1. Sheriff,27th N. 1., at Coo-
nonr, on his way to the Nellgherriai, on the Feb.—
Lieutenant J. P. Knowles, sth N. I. 1., at Bombay, on the
11th February.
Bengal Army—Major and Brevet Licut.-Colonel E. S.
Lloyd, 49th N. 1., at Nagoda, on the 2ith Jan.
APIPOINTMENT4, PROMOTIONA, ae.. in her Majesty's ,
troops, announc..4 *inc. the despatch of the last Overland
Mail on the 3rd February :
pro-
-Irtth Re.gt., Ensign J. E. Swindle" pro.
rioted to lieutenant, without purchase, from 22nd Dm.,
rice Minter, decease.l.-2ith do., Lieut. T. M. Orcenaill
has qualified a, int...rpreter.—Zilst do., Ensign and Adjutant
A. A. Clever, promoted to lieutenant from 22nd Jan.,
by purchnae, vice Feats, deceased.-57th do., Ensign Amos
4(4,1 promoted to Ensign pending her Maji,ity's
prowl!. With do., I.ieut. 1.. C. Travers has obtained an ex-
ten.don of his leave to 15th Jan., preparatory to proceeding
to Europe.-96th do., Lient. C. C. E. Wilmot has been
allowed leave to Calcutta from 7th Jan. to 7th March, and
to England for two years.
E4TAlll.lbll‘ll:ll.—Assistant-Surgeon J. S.
Furlong has obtria..d leave to Calcutta from h. to
31st March, and to England for ilia months.

tab) *Manama.
EQLITY COURTS.—YMERDAY.
Isamu TIM Lout al VIIVILLOL
D•oTLL F. WRIGHT AND OTAKEA."-311111 TALDOT, •

MID or Cot's, Li PALM.
Mr. Writ asked that a petition piesented to his lordship
in thi. ease alight he answered on an early day : it was a
petition Im behalf of Miss Augusta Talbot, a ward of the
court.
The Lord Chancellor said he war MIMIC of the general
nature ~f the rase. Were there any s;nrial eireuntstances
that rendered it necessary to advance the petition for hear-
ing out of its turn ?
Nr. wa. a petition on the part of a ward of
court, and ti. o',js-ct was to carry out directions that were
given hr hi. lordship's predt CC01....11r (Lord Tottenham).
The Lord Chancellor—lf there was nothing to Ow pecu-
liarity to the ease—nn proposal for a new scheme—
Mr. Holt—There is no peculiarity at all in the matter;
the petition prayed a Tererencv to the Master to approve of
LI heme fur the residence of the young lady during the
coining season. It was merely following up the directions
gis, n on a former erasion by his lordship's predecessor.
The Lard Chancellor assented to the application, and an
earls day was named for the hearing.
[The circumstance. of Mis, Talbot's situation are stated
in the case of " r. Wright- in col. 4 of •.tt hie and
Craig's reports.)

.A.WZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yohis, M Allen 19.
Tax enballOr. or Mtwara AT Tnemzof..tvm.
Mows own—Berne Ma. Pons rtorr.
Jqihn Firth, aged 25, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Mother, George Firth, on the 24th of January last.
Mr. Wis., fir. Hall, ant Mr. Boothlty ;appeared
for the prosecutions; and Mr. Serjeant Wilkins and Mr.
o,:rend defended the prisoner.
it appeared, from the opening of the learned counsel for
the prosecution, that the case a,aiinst the prisoner de...mini
entirely upon circumstantial evidence. .the prisoner and
the derearal w• to: brothers, and were the sans of Joseph
Firth, who lived at Ilarnsley-farm with his family, consist-
ing of his wife and two daughter. and the prisoner. The
deceased was a person who had contracted low habits, and
who lived nt a place rafted t"obbler'.-bottom, near a cool.
pit, called Ifullin-dyke l'it, in which he worked liq a hank.-
man fur his tither. Thew circumstances of the family
had's.; been detailed, the learued contused stated the facts
he intended to prove.
A gnat number of witnesses were called, from whose evi-
dem: it appeared that an engine-tenter, oatmeal Rostock,
wa• going to his work, about ti o'clock in the atoning of
Friday, the 11th of January, and in doing MI he had to
errs a held and a stile which had stets, and that ut t few
yards over the steps he found tile body of the 010 ecaseol laid
S4l his left side, with his fare on the footpath, and his cap
by hi. feet. Ile asked him if he were glint to gee up. Ile
said ° Ay." The witness :and a person named dennitage took
him to his house, about 100 yard. from where they found bins,
took his key. out of his pocket and opened the door, and
pLesl him in a chair, and then left him. They thought
he was drunk. There was a pool of Mood where they had
found him. About 7 o'clock, a witness name., Smith Ilugue,
who lived in the neat house, heard a noise in the deceassd's
dowse. She went iu, and founol him lying on the Hoar. She
asked him if he had ken at Simpson's, and ire mid he had
licen At Bariedey, and that he did not know how hi, accident
had happened. There was Mood uu the floor, and she gave
him Witte water and beer. She asked him if he had fallen
ou the steps, and he said he did not know. Ili: father
fume in the afternoon, and he said, " Father. pray for me."
Ile dirt at half-past 6 moat morning. On Sunday the
father and the prissier went to the house of the deceased,
where he was 1* Mg dead. The prisoner stain ore the stain.
and would not go. into the room to look at hi. brother, say:
I ion not much versed iu looking at dead people.
The prisoner and the father then went bark to the house of
a witness 113Mekt Mary Perry, who stated that the father
aid to her husband, us go to the step and see if we
can make it out." The primmer stayed belied with her.
She cud to the rimmer, o What pity it is that (home
e
has oom such an end." 'the prisoner mid, " Yes, it
was, and oho y might say that he had done it, and had run
all the sec holts• to het home by the tint,.'' She had men-
tioned to loan that the reestahle had been and said, .` It
would go hurl with John (the prisoner), as he had been last
with the deceased. A Witle.ll named Charles Sublens spoke to
having heard the deceased complain at his father's on the
Friday, of his head. Ile said he had fallen off the Ocpit.
Mr. PAW. of Silk :,one, surgeon, proved haling eisited the
deceased MI Friday, the 2lth of Jan., about It o'clock in
the marling. Ile emonineol him, and found he had two
lacerated wounds on the rigid aide of the link part of the
head. There was one per6.rated wound through the scull,
thnnith which the brain protruded. One wound woo un
inch and a half from the other. He asked the deceased bow
hr got his injuries., and he raid smoothing about having
• fallen over the step.. Ile thou understood, and could
speak. Ile said, "Don't hurt my head, it is sore all
user." Ile Mao complained of hi. shoulder. Wittiest pre-
' seritied for him, and never saw him again alive. On the
25th ofdatittary he made a pod-mortroa examination, and
found undo r the right eye a contusion, and another a little
lower. and .some scratches on the bets. Whit In might have
arisen from a fall. Ile opened the skull, and found a Icaoleu
slug under the orbit of the right eye, behind the bone of the
forehead. Thr slug had entered higher than where it was
fonnol, and had taken a downward course. Several portions
of the skull had been driven up. lle took out the bullet,
which, in his opinion, had caused the death. Such a
wound might have been occasioned by the discharge of a
I walking-stick gun. 'the other wound might have been
caused by wadding or some hard substance. The two
wounds might have been caused by a double-barrelled pis-
tol. both 'iamb fired at once, and one bullet glancing idr
This es iolctice was corroborated by Mr. Thomas Wainwright.
of Itarn,d,y, surgeon. The skullcap of the deceased was
produced. with a small hole broken into it. Had the slug
been tired from an ordinary gun, it was the last witness's
opinion it would have gone through the skull. A coludable
named itirkenshaw proved having attended an inquest on
the hotly of the deceased, and produced the deceased's cap.
. . .