The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE PARIS NEWS IN THE PROVINCES.
Each post brings additional recognitions of the
(act that the Dallt; Ann was the first London paper to com-
municate the important intelligence of recent events in Paris.
Hum..—The Eastern Counties' Herald ssys:—" Since
the outbreak of the French revolution in February, we have
had frequent opportunities of noticing the successful exer-
tions of the enterprising conductors of the Daily News, in
giving to the British public the earliest intelligence of conti-
nental movements. At the outset, it was some hours a bead
of its contemporaries, and it has continued to maintain a
leading position, notwithstanding their keen rivalry.
On Monday last, for instance, we received from the
Daily Nttos office copious accounts of the fresh insurrec-
tion in Paris, to a late hour on Saturday, being not less than
eleven hours before any of the other daily journals arrived
with the same information.

Yonx.—The French news up to Saturday evening, for-
warded by express of the Daily News, reached York on
Monday, several hours in anticipation of the other papers,
and was posted at the news-rooms and other public places.
DOWNPATRICK.—The Recorder, on Tuesday, published
an extraordinary edition, containing the latest French news,
commencing an follows:—" We hasten to issue this bulletin, in
anticipation of the paper, to pat our readers in possession
of the dreadful collision between the troops and people in
Paris. Owing to the kindness of the spirited proprietors of
the Daily News, who have forwarded us the intel-
ligence received by their extraordinary exprets, our accounts
(up to six o'clock on Saturday evening,) are thirteen hours
later than those contained in the London papers received
this morning, which were only up to five o'clock on Satur-
day morning.

Aye.—We (Ayr Obserrer) are much indebted to the
enterprising publishers of the Daily News for a copy of their
Extraordinary Express of Saturday evening, giving particu-
lars of the revolt in Puis. The express arrived by last
night's mail from London. Such proofs of industry and en-
terprise on the part of this branch of the newspaper press
merit the highest encomiums.
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Similar paragraphs have reached us from Dublin, Bir-
mingham, Wolverhampton, Chester, Whitehaven, and other
places.

TORKSHIRL

A PRISON BREAKER.=6l2§itiurday a burglar who
Nome time ago escaped from Kirkdale-gaol was recaptured
at Manchester. On his way, in custody, to his old quarters
he thus described the mode by which he got out of prison.
Being tired of his situation, he said, he made an attempt on
t,aturclay night, the 10th inst., to destroy himself by hang-
ing, but was detected in the act. He then determined to
make his escape from the prison. On Wednesday night,
the 14th instant, in pursuance of this determination, after
a sitting on h stool until nine o'clock, when it was becoming
dark, he began his work by taking off his number plate.
After this he unscrewed the screws that fastened the ventila-
tion plate, which is a large square piece of iron. This he
said was a work of considerable difil-ulty. This being done,
he took out two panes of glass, and then wrapped
hie floor-cloth around a portion of the iron win-
dow frame. While the clock was striking eleven, he
tried to break the iron frame with the ventilation plate, but
did not succeed. He waited until the clock was striking
twelve, and again tried to break the frame. This time be
was successful so far that he broke two of the iron bare
whilst the clock was striking. He next tore up his hammock,
and made a rope with the shred', by which he let himself
down from his cell (which was in the third story) Into the
yard. He walked about in the yard a little while, and at
length found a ladder which would reach half way up the
outer wall. This ladder he placed against the court-house,
which is near the prison wall. By means of the ladder he
got on the windowsill on the second story, where he
was in a dangerous position, having to stand erect and pull
the ladder up in front of him. When he had got the ladder
up, he placed one end of it on the window-sill, and the other
against the prison wall, and by this means got on the top of
the wall. Seeing on the outer side a cistern which pro-
jected through the wall, he lowered the ladder, which just
reached it, and descended upon the cistern. He again
lowered the ladder, which he found to be exactly the same
length as the height of the cistern from the ground. By
this means he arrived safely on the ground outside the
prison. He next went to Liverpool, and got on the
Warrington-road, intending to go to that town. In passing
through Prescot, thinking he should be detected if he did
not change his clothes, he entered a house by the back
window. He was prevented from effecting his object by a
dog, which put him to flight, leaving his prison.eap in the
house. At Kainhill he saw a pair of trousers hanging over
a gate, and exchanged them for his own. He arrived in
Salford the following day at noon, and, after changing
his clothes, he went to • lodging-house in Manchester,
where he stopped two nights, sleeping with hie clothes on.
fterwarde he went to ',cede, Huddersfield, and various
of Yorkshire, returning from Hudderefiehl on Friday
st:e WM evinced on the following day,

CHESHIRE.
DEATH FROM FIOFITING.—On Friday, Joseph Sher-
lock was committed front Birkenhead for trial at the neat
swims, for having killed a man named Thome' Brans, in a
fisht last week at Greasby. S. rownall, W. Minehull, and
W. Sherlock, were at the same time committed for aiding
and abetting in the offence. The parties were committed by
the coroner.

SUSSES
HORSHAM ELEcTlON.—Yeeterday the nomination
of a burgess to supply the vacancy in the representation of
this borough, caused by the unseating of Mr. Jervis, took
Place.—Mr. Frederick Cooper, solicitor, as the agent of
Lord Edward Howard, handed to Mr. France, the under-
sheriff and returning officer, a notice which it was afterwards
explained declared Mr. Fitzgerald ineligible in consequence
of bribery and treating at the last election, and requested
him to read it to the electors. The returning officer, how-
ever, refused to do so.—Mr. J. Agate then proposed Lord
Edward Howard as a fit and proper person to represent the
borough.—Mr. H. Agate seconded the nomination.—
Mr. Lintott proposed Mr. Fitzgerald. who was se-
conded by Mr. T. Lee.—Lord Edward Howard then ad-
dressed the electors. He said he had been requested
to offer himself, and on being assured of the retirement
of Sir Percy Shelley, and told that the franchise of the
borough was in danger, he had come forward to assist the
borough. If ever there was • time when the responsibility
of representing • constituency in parliament was more
onerous than at another, it was at the present moment. In
these times it behoved them to look on what was pawing
around them, and to take precautions that this country
should maintain that prosperity for which it was pro-
verbial, and that the poor man should have as great
prosperity as was poesible. It was the commerce of
this country, and its wonderful constitution that had
ao doubt preserved it from the danger that had afflicted
other countries. He would never be found to depart
from that constitution ; he would always be ready to do
what was best in his judgment to develop it, and to
act up to its intent and purposes. Thera was a question just
now very much bruited with respect to reform in parlia-
ment. Any measure of that kind should always receive
from him the fullest consideration, and if he considered it
was for the happiness of the country and the prosperity of
its inhabitants, he should be always found to be one of the
first to accord such • measure. (Cheers.)—Mr. Fitzgerald,
in addressing the electors, referred to the question of the re-
form of the representation. He expressed his decided op-
position to the depriving old time-honoured boroughs of their
privilege of returning members and transferring it to upstart
manufacturing towns. He conceived that the representa-
tives of the people should attend more to ameliorating the
condition of the lower and middling classes of society than
to any theoretical principle of government, and that the evils
which affected them were to be met by serious attention and
endeavours to remove them, rather than by jingling before
them the mysteries of the ballot box. It was to an improve.
meat of the sys'em of taxation that a practical mind should
look, and not to measures of parliamentary reform, which
could only produce dissatisfaction. If he were honoured by
their choice, he should, irrespective of party, when he
thought ministers were right, give them his support, and
where he conceived they were wrong they should receive hie
meet determined opposition.—The show of hands was then
taken, and was declared by the returning officer to be in
favour of Mr. Fitzgerald. A poll was demanded on behalf
of Lord Edward Howard, which will take place this day
(Thursday). A correspondent says: " There is every pro-
bability that Mr. Fitzgerald will have a majority on the
poll, but the supporters of Lord Edward are sanguine in
their expectation that a committee of the House of Commons
i will declare Mr. Fitzgerald to be ineligible, and consequently
that his lordship will be declared by the committee to be the
sitting member."
11,cen.a.ros

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PORTSMOCTff.—AFFRAY WITH SMUGGLERB.—Soon
after 12 o'clock on Tuesday night, two of the Portsmouth
harbour preventive men were rowing in the harbour, when
they perceived a bustle on the shore at Flathouse, and imme-
diately made for that locality, where a cart and horse were re-
ceiving a number of deal boxes containing tobacco, from' smell
vessel. The parties engaged in this work departed instantly
on seeing the approach of the officers, but they soon returned
with a considerable number of desperadoes, who attacked the
officers and best one of them about the head till they
thought he was dead, and were then about to cut his
throat, when the other officer exclaimed, " Mind, I know
you," and they desisted from completing their dreadful aim.
The second officer was compelled, alter having been severely
beaten, to jump into tho water, and only escaped by
swimming a very considerable distance (more than a mile)
to a merchant ship, on board which he knew there were
officers of the customs on duty. Having got on board, assist-
ance was rendered, but the cargo had been rescued and
carted away, excepting one case of tobacco let, on board in
the confusion. The wounded Aker was found lying on the
ground in a dreadful state, and carried to his quarters,
where he remains in a very alarming condition. The
vessel and case continue in the hands of the authorities.

INTazew Cospuer oF A YOUNG LADY.---)11 the
afternoon of Saturday, the 24th, two young ladies were walk-
ing along the beach at the back of the Isle of Wight, near
Black Gang Chine, the sea running very high, when a vio-
lent squall gave such a sudden impetus to the ruing tide
that they were overtaken by the waves, which, in their re-
flux, dragged in the younger female, and in a minute she
was floating in deep water, at least twenty yards from dry
land. The first impulse of her friend to rush in to her rescue
was checked by her self-possession, which told her that to
obey thtt impnleo liras *attain death to both, she, therefore,
with heroic calmness awaited the returning wave. Twice
she saw the body sink beneath the surface. As it rose the
second time she watched it borne on the crest of a sea
towards the shore. Seizing the second of time that inter-
venes between the bursting of the surge and its recoil,
she advanced up to her waist in the water, clutched hold
of her exhausted and nearly insensible friend, and dragged
her up the beach. There was really so little time to spare
that both were again submerged. Another desperate effort
placed her out of the immediate reach of the waves, but she
had, clinging to bunches of grass and rushes, to climb with
her burden up a steep bank of slippery green sand, the ap-
pearance of which almost belies the passibility of such an
ascent, before they were in safety.

CHELTENTIA3I ELECTION.—The nomination of Can-
didates for the representation of Cheltenham took place
yesterday in Sandford Mead.—Mr. J. C. Straford, the
returning officer, having opened the proceedings, F.
Monro, Esq., nominated the Hon. C. F. Berkeley. There
were two candidates, he eaid, before them—Mr. Berkeley
end Mr. A. Gardner, the conservative candidate. He would
briefly refer to their respective qualifications. Mr. Berkeley
was a tried man, and Mr. Gardner was not. For fifteen
years, and in four successive parliament.), the former had
been their representative, until the last election, when by
means of gross bribery some of his friends and supporters
were induced to swerve from their promises, and thus the
opposing party obtained a victory, which was, however,
short-lived. A searching investigation took place before
a parliamentary committee, the result of which was that
the election was declated void. He (the speaker) met a
gentleman belonging to the opposite party, a few days back,
who told him that they had gained a great moral triumph.
Was it not fair, by these means. to judge what the emissions
of the tory party were with regard to morality ? He wished
them joy of their moral victory. The speaker then described
Mr. Berkeley's parliamentary career.—T. Henney, Esq., a ma-
gistrate for the county of Gloscester, seconded the nomination.
Fenton Hort, Esq., nominated Mr. Agg Gardner. It had
been stated that Mr. Berkeley was a tried man, and he con-
sidered it a great misfortune that he was not a tried man.
With regard to the petition against the late member (Sir
Willoughby Jones), it was not bros!ht by Mr. Craven
Berkeley, but Mr. Craven Berkeley's friends sad supporters,
by which all inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Craven Berke-
ley and hie friends was entirely obviated. (Cheers.) Mr.
Hort declared himself lobe a conservative whig—was brought
up in whiggiam—was by conviction a whig—and hoped to
die a whig. But the circumstances of the times had changed
the names—they had not, however, changed the principles.—
Mr. H. Dario seconded the nomination. No other candidate
was proposed, and Mr. Craven Berkeley and Mr. Agg
Gardner briefly addressed the assembly; both had, however,
great difficulty in making themselves heard.—The returning
officer having called for a show of hands, which was declared
to be in favour of Mr. Craven Berkeley, a poll was demanded
on the part of Mr. A. Gardner, to commence at eight in the
morning and close at four in the afternoon of the next day.
Thanks were then voted to the returning officer, and the
meeting was declared to stand adjourned to five o'clock this
afternoon.

THE LATE POISONING CASES AT BRISTOL.—VEJI-
DlCr.—The coroner's inquest upon the body of the late Mr.
Hill was brought to a close yesterday. The lint witness
called was Mrs. Hill, mother of the deceased Mr. Hill. The
coroner produced to her a note in the handwriting of her
son, which had been found in his chiffonniere after death,
and was addressed to a young lady, respecting whom thine
had been a rumour that he was paying his addresses to her
soon after the death of his wife. The letter was as follows:
My dear MiP,—Mter more reflection on the subject of your taking
the oversight of the children in the event of ray decease (which I
regret not having given it before), from your swing the serious
smountot responsibility incurred, &n., tam, I think it too much to
burden you with, and I have made other arrangements, thereby re-
nerving you from being at all connected therewith, and for which I
have no doubt you will feel thankfuL—Yours most truly, F. W. KILL.
—I am guiltless in the matters that may be alleged. They can be ex.
plained. My mother, on a future day, will explain to you by an ap-
obi:salon to he.
The witness was pressed to give the explanation to the jury
referred to in the letter, but she said she could say nothing
whatever as to Mr. Hill's death, and did not know what her
son alluded to, unless it was to the charge of the children, or
to rumours which were about concerning him and the young
woman to whom the letter was addressed. The policy of
insurance wee then put in by Mr. Thinton, solicitor to the
assignees of Mr. Hill. It waa for 2,9991., and was effected
on the 15th of Jane on the joint lives of Mr. and Mrs. Hill,
to be paid to the survivor, the annual premium being
1171. Evidence was adduced with • view to show that
the means of Mr. Hill did not warrant him in
undertaking to pay so large an annual premium ; and Mr.
Elliott, a clerk in a solicitor's office, and a Mr. Vaughan,
were called, from whose testimony it appeared that in June
Mr. Hill applied at the office of a Mr. Whittington to raise
2001. upon mortgage of two houses. He stated that he
wanted the money to effect an insurance on his wife's life for
a largo amount, and pressed to have part of the money ad-
vanced before the mortgage was completed. 1501. was ad-
vanced to him on the 10th of July. It was further shown
that Mr. Vaughan advanoed him 2001. on mortgage of
other property on the 31st day of August, at which time he
also stated that he wanted the money to effect an insurance
on his wife's life. After her death Mr. Vaughan saw him,
and reminded him that he benefited by her death, to,
which he said. " Oh no, the policy was not effected,"
and added, that the lawyer was so long drawing the
mortgage that he was too late.—An old woman, named
Elizabeth Collins, was called to prove that some twelve or
fourteen years ago Mr. Hill told her that he had been trying
experiments with ;Amory ow al4.hey a (Aryl or a clog.—Mr.

E. Symes, of London, surgeon to the National Loan Fund
Assurance Company, was also examined to prove a conversa-
tion with Mr. Hill after his wife's death, in which his
answers as to his means of paying the policy were not satis-
tactory.—The Coroner haring summed up the evidence at
great length, commenting as he proceeded on the facts ad-
duced, the jury, after a lengthed consideration, returned a
verdict that " "fhe deceased died from the effects of arsenic,
introdmvd into her food or medicine by her husband ; "
being a verdict of wilful murder egainst Thomas Wellington
Hill.
DEVONSHIRE.
SUICIDE OF A LADY.—At Bideford, on Wednesday
last, Mrs. Mary Madeline Bourmaster Douglas, aged 39, wife
of Major Douglas, of the Royal Infantry, daughter of the
late Gen. Sir William Dixon, fell by her own hand. She
had been married to Major Douglas about 21 years, and the
fruit or their tuition was ten children, seven of whom survive
their ill-fated parent. The deceased had been in India with
her husband almost ever since their marriage, and only re-
turned to England about twelve months ago. Major
Doug'es landed at Southampton some three weeks
since, and posted immediately to Exeter, where he
met the deceased, with whom he repaired to Bideford, and
engaged a suite of apartments in the High-street, where they
were lodging when the fatal event occurred. Nothing par-
ticular happened, at all conneeted with the sad catastrophe,
until Thursday se'nnight, when the deceased lady called at
the shop of Mr. Joce, druggist, and asked for a poison to
destroy cats, mentioning prussic acid. Mr. Joce had not a
supply in stock, but sent out to another druggist from whom
he procured an ounce bottle, with which he furnished her,
at the same time informing her, in answer to her questions,
that it might be mixed in milk. On this bottle there was the
usual printed label, " Hydrotianic acid: Scheele's strength "
On Monday following she called at Mr. Jose's, stating that she
had accidentally dropped the bottle and spilt its contents,
and asking is be supplied with a second quantity. Mr. Joce
again rent out, and obtained a similar bottle, which he sold
the deceased. This bottle was labelled as the other, but on
neither did the word " Poison" or " Prussic Acid " appear,
nor any caution as to the use of its deadly contents. The
deceased had appeared as usual up to the afternoon of Wed-
nesday, although the person with whom she lodged deposed
that she was frequently seen much dejected, and that her
manner often suggodid to her doubts of her perfect sanity.
The family had all dined together (Major and Mrs. Douglas
and three of their children), and deceased seemed in good
spirits, and talked with her husband with apparent pleasure
of their proposed emu siltation for India in October.
Soon after dinner deceased rose from the table seadenly, and
went upstairs to Iv r dressing-room, and after the lapse of
about half a minute came hurriedly down, and rushed into
the drawing-room, where she immediately fell senseless on
the floor. Major Douglas called for assistance, and the
domestics were instantly in attendance, and raised the unfor-
tunate lady to the sofa. Messengers were despatched for a
surgeon, and within five minutes Mr. Smith was on the spot,
and found life net quite extinct, but death occurred within •
minute of his arrival. The major showed the surgeon a bottle
which he had taken from deceased's dressing table, and on
looking at it he immediately pronounced that it had con-
tained prussic acid. It was almost emptied. Mr. Smith ap-
plied the stomach pump, and the fluid dislodged from the
stomach sufficiently indicatel the cause of death, the pecu-
liar odour of that deadly mixture being strongly betrayed.
On going to the dressing rocm Mr. Smith found on the plat-
form of the looking glass upon the dressing table a pair of
scissors and the stopper and covering belonging to the bottle,
so that there could be no doubt that the infatuated lady ran
from her husband's presence and instantly repaired to the
fatal drug.

MR. HAT:sMANN'S CZ;;;CbRT---. This eminent vio-
loncellist gave his annual concert last night in the Princess's
Concert Room. It was a classical entertainment, and
afforded great pleasure to a numerous audience, especially to
the lovers of the violoncello, an instrument which is more
and more cultivated by amateurs. Mr. Hausmann's princi-
pal performance was a concertino of his own composition,
accompanied on the pianoforte by M. Benedict. lie showed
great judgment in consulting the true character of the in-
strument, which is always heard to the greatest
advantage in strains of broad and vocal melody,
and not in rapid fiddling passages in which solo
players on the violoncello too frequently indulge. His
tone and expression were admirable, while, in the exe-
cution of some brilliant embellishments, tastefully iutrm
duced, he showed great command both of the fingerboard
and the bow. Lachner's pretty song, " When midnight's
darkest veil," sung by Mr. Locke'', with Ilausmann's obli-
gato accompaniment, was loudly encored. Madame Dulcken
played Ries's pianoforte solo on Swedish airs, with quintet
accompaniments, one of the best works of that composer.
Miss E. Lucombe sang Beethoven's famous scents, " Ah,
pertido !" This young lady, who is just re-
turned from Italy, whcra she has been pursuing
her studies, premises to be one of our most dis-
tinguished vocalists. In the execution of Beethoven's
arduous composition she exhibited not only much
vocal power but great truth and force of expression.
Paesiello's air, "II mio ben," a charming specimen of the
pure and simple style of the old Italian school, was beauti-
fully sung by Miss Bassano; and Miss A. Williasss'a clear
soprano voice and facile execution of florid passages, acre
advantageously exhibited in the great air " Non me dir,"
from " Don Glovanni." A manuscript quintet for the flute,
violin, two tenors, and violoncello, composed by Molique,
was performed, the violin part twilit( token by the composer,
while the flute (the principal part) was very finely played by
M. Pratten. This quintet is a most masterly composition, of
a very different description from the music generally written
for the flute, and calculated to raise the character of the in-
strument. There were also a solo on the violin by M.
Molique; a portion of a duet of B. Romberg, played by
Meters. Piatti and Hausmann ; and several other vocal and
instrumental pieces.