The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-02 00:00:00

court, ire as retnarkablo as ever. One of the
puisno lords has bad 416 eases carried to
h'in while another has only had 87. The first
division had of reclaiming notes 209 ; the second,
71 Plethora in the ono and attenuation in the other
brings about, as might be expected, unpleasant speci-
mens of the law's delay. Causes set down in the de-
bate rolls of the outer house in March, 1847, and causes
ripe for bearing in January, 1847, by the inner house,
had not been heard in January, 1818. The remedy
is not easy—a compulsory equalisation of duty, which
has been proposed, being a remedy about as bad as
the disease.
'the free church assembly closed its proceedings
this morning, about 1 o'clock. There were twenty-
three different items of business performed yesterday
forenoon, but all of them of a technhal character. lu
the evening the chief business was the duty of tak-
-I.g advantage of the present openings for the evan-
gelisation of different European states.
EDINIIVEOI4, JUNE i.
It is rumoured that Mr. B. F. Primrose, receiver-
general of the Edinburgh post-office, and one of the
sons of the Earl of Itosebery, is to succeed Sir T. B.
Lauder as secretary of the board of trusters for
manufacturers.
The Lord Advocate has consented to several modifi-
cations in his Lunacy Bill, chiefly in respect to the
extent of interference with the larger asylums, eon-
fessel ly nn der effect v e management. It is doub t ful,how-
ever, if concessions in matters of detail will be sufficient
to satisfy the opponents of the measure. J udging from
present ems. trinces, nothing lint the suppression of the
proposed board, and the transference of its functions,
somewhat narrowed, to the poor law board of super-
vision, will do that. Perhaps an assimilation to Lord
Ashley's nets for the regulation of asylums in England
would be regarded as an improvement, and repre-
sentations have already been made to the Lord Ad-
vocate, that the inspection and regulation obtained by
the English system would be welcomed, while to the
transference of the property and management the
most strenuous opposition will likely be afforded.

rll I'lt~l.rt 33;15 1110111WAV ROII26HT IH AVRSHIR6.—
As two y.e.iie men from Kilmarnock were out, it is thought
en a peach:me excursion, early on the morning of Se' urday,
they found ly mg on a road, between the parishes of Dundons
aid and Rec...rton, the body of a youth, who bore distinct
vacs* that he had been foully murdered. The fee-
tuns of the ilLfated youth were covered with dotted
blood, and his body was cold and stiff. A bundle,
hich belonged to the deceased, was on the road rear
him; but with tho exception of Lis cap, which was
gone, there was no evidence of maternal spoliation.
The r.eighboering formers aed their servants were im•
niedively informed of the occurrence; while. at the
some time, inf emotion was forwarded to the anthorities.
Mr. Grose, procurator-tiscal. and Superintendent of
the eons,abulary, were early on the spot. In the course of
their ineuiriis, it transpired that the young man who had
thus come to so violent and an untimely death was James
Young, 17 years of age, son of John Young, farmer,
in Gateside, near Riecarton. He was • farm servant
to Mr. Smith, in Forticres Ho left his employer's
residence on Friday, which was " terns-day " in Kil-
maruock ; and having received his haltyear's fee,amount-
ing to about 31, be had parchastd with this sum
el Articles of wearing apparel. He sidted his parents
at Gatesale in the course of the afternoon ; snit after
having spei.t • few hours with them and other relations, he
left his f.eher'a Init.', about half.; ast t n o'clock, on his
return to Fortaeres, which could only have occupied
him an hour's walk, end which he was destined never
to each. From the manner in which the Neely was
found, it is La:ejects:red that the murderer had either lain in
wait or overtaken his victim for the purposeot effecting a rob-
bery ; and that he had felled him to the ground bye blow
with a some on the heck part of the head. The youth, per-
baps, having identified the roNr r and given alarm—though
na nue head a env in that mighbourhood on the evening in
question—the ruffian, the more effectually to ncomplish his
porpase,and ti disconeect ar.y chair of identity, accceiplished
the terrible crime by driving or foreirg a joiner's chisel
into the neck of the ttnhstunate youth, beneath the left
ear, chide:Lig the carotid artery, amid thereby causing
instantaneous death. The murderer must then, nestle.
leaved, have robbed his victim, taking away a silo, r watch, •
few shillings of money—for, considering the purchases of the
c.uld have had only a few ehillines in his pocket
—and the ban..tt which he 1/0133. The chits I with which the
decd w..s committed was found about tens yards off, in
an edjoirieg pasture field. It had been thrown
Over by tic murderer; and when found, on Super-
intendent Penny's arri •al, was still wet with blood.
It is a large and de.dly-looking instrument, and does not
seem to have been used for carpenters' purposes, hut
chiefly far eccasional jobs. The authorities have been assi-
duous in tie pert rme-ce of their duties. Drs. Haldane,
of Ayr, and Paxton, of Kilmarnock, made a post «torten
exatnivation of tho body oar Saturday; and Sir. Sheriff
Robison and Mr. J. F. Murdoch, procurator.fiscal. re-
newed their investigations at Fortacres yesterday. From
the vigilance of Superintendent Penny's force, we have no
doubt that Haire will speedily be a clue by which the perpe-
trator of the bloody deed will be brought to justice.
Since the above was in tyer, we (Ayr observer) are happy
to stale that an Irishman, against whom strong suspicions
exist as being the murderer, has been taken into cestoely,
and securely lodged in Ayr jail. It appears that the 1
prisoner arrived in Beith in course of Saturday; and 1
hatieg oblsined the assistance of an acquaintance. who
pawned a watch corresponding with the one worn by the
murdered youth, receiving 11. for it, be took his departure
by en aft (noon train for Johnstone. He however, went out I
at Lochwinnoch, and committed, it is reported, another de-
predation by breaking opi n a chest in one of the toll-houses
in that di.v.r;:.. The police afterwards got upon his trail, and
succeede i in apprehending him in Paisley, from whence he
was brought, by the railway train, to the county prison this
morniug.