The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

CANADA. The quarantine establishment at
Thome Isle has been broken up for the season, and patients
remaining are transferred to the Marine Hospital at Quebec.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—We have received
parrs from this colony by mail, but they add nothing to
the intelligence transmitted by our Singapore correspondent
In the Sydney papers we fun d the following horrifying nar-
rative of the crime, trial, and executon of William Fife:
"The trial of the amused emupied two days. The unfor-
tunate person murdered was an Englishman, named Cox,
possessing a small independence a short distance up the
country. known as Kangaroo-point, and the prisoner,
named William Fife, acted in the capacity of storekeeper
and waiter at the Bush Commercial Hotel, belonging to Mr.
Sutton. On the 25th of the preceding month the deceased,
who was a man of somewhat intemperate habits, entered the
hotel in question, and in the course of the evening he accused
the prisoner of picking his pocket while asle•p, whether
justly or otherwise does cot appear. The charge led to much
angry feeling between them. The deceased determined to
sleep there that night, being slightly inebriated, and between
nine and ten left to go to his bed-room, which was in a des
tacked building from the hotel. At a later hour at night the
landlord went over the premises, as was his custom before
retiring to rest, and was surprised at finding Cox lying ap-
parently asleep in the kitchen, wrapped closely up with some
quilts, and the prisoner assuming to tuck him up.' It after-
wards turned out that he had murdered him a few minutes
before, by plunging a large knife into his heart. Two or
three hours after the master had retired to bed, the prisoner
knocked him up, raying that Cox (the deceased) had got up
and left the house, by elimbins over the yard-tens. During
the remainder of the night and the following morning he
was heard at work, and very busily sweeping the yard and
the back part of the house. Not much notice was taken of
the deceased's disappearance for two days afterwards, when
the greatest excitement arose by the discovery of a human
body in the river, shockingly mutilated. A boatman, it ap-
peal, was rowing past Kangaroo-point, when he observed
the lower part of the trunk end legs of a body, with a portion
of the intestines attached, lying on the mud, and, within a
kw yards of these remains, found the upper portion of a
body and arms, with other portions of the intestines attached,
but wanting a head. They had apparently been thrown
into the river, over the hanks, at high-water, and had been
washed down to the place described, where they had been
left by the tide. Upon placing the parts of the body tope.
they, they appeared to belong to the same individual. The
deceased still being missing, it was supposed the remains
were his, which led the police authorities to proceed to the
hotel, where he was last seen alive, and examine the pre-
mises.
They bad not cemmeered their search many minutes
ere sufficient proof came to light showing some foul eked
had been perpetrated in the kitchen. Underneath the floor-
ing was found a shirt shown to be the priaoner's, sad a chest
clotted with blood, and, in a well adjoining, a whitsrhamnal
carving-knife, 'mired with blood, while the water in the
well was also tinged with it, some linen having evidently
been rinsed in it. There were marks and clots of blood dis-
emered outside the house, and by the yard-fence, as if the
body had been lifted over it, the ground on the other side
being saddened with blood. The constables then searched
a field adjoining the hotel, where some long grass grew, and
some distance from the house a human head was found. The
prisoner, who was attending to the people in the hotel, was
tailed to the spot to ascertain if he could recognise it, which
he did immediately, by saying it was Cox's head. He was
then taken into custody, as also was his master (Mr. Button)
and five other persons. The latter however were discharged
some few days afterwards, the charge of murder having been
clearly substantiated spinet the prisoner. His clothes when
arrested were found spotted with blood. The demand's
clothes had been burnt in the fireplace in his bed-room, the
buttons of them having been discovered among the burned
ashes. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentence of death
was passed upon hint, which was carried into effect on the
7th of July. The night helms the culprit's execution he
made a full confession of his guilt"

TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND AND LIBERIA.—Lord
Palmerston has jut concluded a treaty of peace and alliance
with the president of Liberia, who is now in London. The
mission of the president in Europe is for the purpose of form-
ing treatise of pesos with Great Britain and France, and the
recognition of the independence of the new republic of
Liberia. The treaty with Great Britain is on the footing of
the most favoured Redone
TES HRRMANN, whose arrival at Southampton
frees New York, we announced yesterday, was placed
in dock to be repaired. In co • across the Atlantic the
cress head and side levers bees ne and she was
obliged to come 1,200 miles with only one engine. The
damage will take some time to repair. Arrangements have
been made for sending on the Bremen cargo, mails, end
mongers by the Atalanta steamer.
The Wl= INDIA MAIL STEAMER AVON la late,
owiag, it is supposed, to the late arriv-1 of the Clyde at
Havaaaah is consequence of bed weather.