The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-02 00:00:00

THE EOAD JEUEDZE.

(From the Western Daily Press.)
We learn that up to Saturday seeming Mr. Kant
had not arrived at Devisee, and that no step bad been taken
to defend the • Co stance Kent. It is, however,
expected that . Kent will attend either today (Mouday)
or to-morrow, and that Mr. Dunn, of From*, his former
solicitor, will again undertake the defence of the prisoner,
bat what deform can be made for her at this stage of the
case it is not easy to &mover.
As may be supposed, the oonfraden Is almost the sole
subject of conversation in Bard and the neighbourhood,
more particularly since the visit of Inspector William-
son and Sergeant Thome, on Friday. The guilt of the
prisoner has always been believed is there. From the
nide' which the Wahiawa had of judging
2Pcthel character and disposition of Constance Kent,
they almost unanimously, from the Ant, regarded her
Di DO other than the murderess. We are now reminded of
termer ineidents showing her stubborn and un-
=Tetemper, even as a child, end we an
a lit
everything since her former arrest has li7ric=
the supposition of her guilt. Mr. Kent had two older
darrlghters, who are still members of his household, but
eines within a few days of her liberation, four yarn and a
half ago, she has never been under her fleber's riot She
was, we believe, first plated in a convent in Flamm, and,
as we know, for nearly two years she has been an inmate of
the Home at Brighton. It m not too much to my that her
eoefeedon hem always been regarded by thou. who had every
opportunity for forming an opinion as being a puede* of
time, and is is amide that those who were intimately
caromed in the former investigations were in nowise sur-
prised when the intelligence of her ocafession startled the
en*, country.
Concerning the mode in which the murder was perpe-
trated very little that is new has transpired, bat it is known
that Inspector Williamson is actively prosecuting inquiries
in support of certain circumstances which have come to his
knowledge, and we believe it will eventually turn out, if
the cathedra shall ever be completed, that there wee little
method observed by the murderess, and that the principal
mystery of the crime tourists in the simple mamas in which
it was carried out. As to the actual tease of death it is
scarcely likely that anything further will be math known.
The medical gentlemen celled in on the day of the murder
—Mr. Stapleton and Mr. Parsons--differed in opinion as
to whether the child was suffocated, or died from the ethele
of the weapon used. Bat it is certain, from the frightful
nature of the wounds, the murderer was actuated by a
horrible ferocity, for, it will be remembered, not only wee
the throat eat almost from mar to ear, but the chest was
alas deeply gashed. The weapon which reused math fright.
ful wounds wee the object of protracted and careful search,
every spot is the vicinity bang repeatedly explored in the
hope of its diecovery. Tweeter Williamson, we under-
stand, has reason to believe that it was a reser which was
need, but the nature of the waled on the chest would
shwa disprove that theory.
Inspector Whither, who formerly charged Constanes
; Kant with the murder, will accompay Mr. Williamson in
. his investigation, and Elisabeth Gough, the nursemaid, will
, be produced as a Interim by the prosecution.
There is (says our Trowbridge correspondent) one fact
which bas sever yet come to light, fe to last, in this
mar. It will be reinembered that the niaaaereant end boys
WINO that who they cleaned the halves and forks in the
pantry on the miming of the murder, Jose 20, all the
knives were there and not one was takelag. Shortly after
the discovery of the murder the local police, in scrutinisieg
the locality of the pantry, happened to take particular notice
at the knife-cleasies mashiaa. They applied. ternserew to
the screws and found them essay yield, aimed the inaohiae,
examined the (aide, and a white handled poultry knife,
with spots as of blood clearly visible upon the blade, was
discovered hidden there. This circumstance, like that of
the stained ;Mee of linen fiend in the boiler flue—whether
important or unimportant is the case we do not sey—was
kept strictly secret, and it was only by stratagem that the
writer cootrived to get an acknowledgment that mho knift,
with such stains as described upon the blade, had bate
found in the knife-cleanieg machine. This knife, when Let
seen, which was about four years sigma in the paresedea
of the polies. Who knows, if disked been predated at the
time, what aid it might have rendered se a Hair in the chain
of evidence in the elacidatiou of the mystic", ?
Inspector Williamson and Sergetat Thomas an still in
Trowbridp, getting up the ass. On Friday, Mr. Kent
=ed to his solicitor in Trowbridge to get proper
,Philsoce for his nahappy daughter.
Another Journal says:—' Os Friday, Mr. Kest, the
father of Mae Moslems Kent, arrived in Deviser, and had
an interview with his daughter in the oddity gaol. The
meeting was of a most painful character, both 'being terribly
affected. Miss Kent, in weer to her father's aaxious
is-
qui assured him of the teeth of her andseeies, and that
she alone was the perpetrator of the fearful crime. Mr.
Kent, on leaving the prison, appeased completely over,
wheimed."

ANNIVESSAY X161111110.-{PHIS DAY.)
at Tires annual meet. of the friends .
ds and staporlefeirbigh
ems densely crowded. The Earl oi todal
CLUCHZSI7II Mad.
soil woe most ably supported.
Alter the usual devotions,
The Hon. Sioarraar read the report for the pan Per,
width set forth in great detail the varied rearilleatices et
As moiety, sad congratulated it twos the memo
wild& bed stinded its operations. With retinae' le
the statistics of the missioo the report stated that the tsar
bar of stetson is 1862 was 147, wish 266 ; in Iga
140 with 268 clergymen •in 1864 140 with clerreses
and in 1865, 146 stations with 278 clmymen, of when
161. were Kolonseaa mid 77 satins end resstry ben.
imparpssalaystra, sehoehassten, ley ass, its. printamistos,sui
ss; leasalo tembirs, ant suave of
wins, 7 ; satin sad country-bon ostonkts, and Menai
of all Mama, Rot seat boast, 1,983; mutts at
ossmaaakaste. 1860, 19,828; 1861, 21,064; 1037,
5.,161).3 1863, 18,1101.; 1864, 17.7831. The die
turbid abs al New Zemke& has precluded the erserhte
Warne of that mission ; end the latest numbers win
net yet received from ledis. The financial Mato
meet kr lb. year aiding Wenn 31, showed as follow' :-
Lana : Cheers' feed--assiniations, benefactions, legacies.
ket,142,8331. 4e. lid.; fend for disabled miesiooaries. ht.
isTsediA 14.. 4d.; total ordinary income, 144,4641. 18a. 98.
I tare : On amount of the general ellnerte
GI the society at home and abroad, 145,10611. s'. lb;
entstasoconaordwatiyofsidpiemensablsumhed milee"ioearfassiLke..3l, 3,27Sps,tkia. 2..18+
Paid : Salaams kat year, 10,750 i. 7a. ad. ; ressinW of the
Fear, 2,71/' 1. Si. 6d.-43.4621. 15e. 10d. ; prated. bet
The well-known writer in the Timms, " Ham- ant Petgy 4,000& i transferred to ftesuu hied, 9,461‘.
Ms. 10d. Ordinary income of the year, 144,4641.
wok" says 1-" Booth has amomplishad spirt Portant ago. gd. ; =ant from chi.. feed. 3,0191. Be. 614
Licata what Brooks attempted wind Sesaler liamais- I f laths hod, 6bows, 9.4621. 15s. 10d.-167,847i.
Ws lialsappny know how the act of Brooks was appkodel I Is. 11d. ; deficit. 1863.44, 3,5391. 16e. at. • 0,66617,__".
bibs* sexes of the tainnistaity which he bad dimmest& 1 Powdistwo.___, 140.3812. 7e. 3L-131,921L 3w .91 -"gm'.
Let us hope, for the honour of our nature, that sett I isirliZfunwia iiir ididoes4caPital tit 649261p,idud. 1911g2d.r, upon‘rll Teal ha opers.l"6
se salvage on hilioillilly is not to be repeated. I sow se ibe owigy, boa i.4.paudapaly of the neneral:6
simerely wish, sir, that Yr. Kama, oil behalf el I are sot iseheMed la Vie formong stateummt. They •
dm posit be UMW/ to reguenent, bad occupied to about 20,0001. ; making a grand total from all scums al
WNW as this drweigal version a Mils man is az- 184-...4644 addressed the mesh.
gosodug his regret at the murder of Mr. Lincoln, arid a 1.. u. Lb"' Cakilimal "Ting bneal
...a,
Rink km in flail% excuses for its 0302211•NdOIL I hop. -Nu Arebbheop of ciArmousT moved the ~,i,41.. a - 1
that his Will gad is the Statham Sinned of Amok' few the mot* is a Possible eigesek.
' well-halanoed miaibf-as assuredly Ist will fiat mom to This Rey. Oescia Ill'lnma, of Liverpool, strudelthy t /
laglaol-who will see la this hideout eat the ' neomesey tradialp%. white wal carried ""im"sq.
of Looms sad the Rev. CI•2011 0•Efoll PI
. 04.1•1,4 ell anything bat the most detestable sowswiles ft... etweat.ganuo. this dartummd the ;miming On • .
la Wilb".l.' 2168 ham* ot goo Poolok of Wow& his mostatims eakociag the duty of raking the ^moat et
bon theingleest with the cause of freedom. It Is a moms*. seivikibstion.
able fact that the mamas a lb. Ikeitbstu reuse ban, 17100 .11:L. ..Dlvinn Firs. ~,,..ILL ..fr kcal lbw •
twisp.. tonevsupporter "phradthsirt.wicesillws.a ft...To ray"lsladinslallithat it ibmiliiill trom.l".....l;;;;lmitgb74lPsksmsdie-- sossd—"llwri-r—teillhloglobl-resml77l4blrMaril' elisb""s".
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Is a stedulvie tort of the real ptspatilmose of pith* -- —.-. -
*aim The actin el the &gbh gortmassat, for whisk Tint utes Ihamorzeir Ofeeine,Dvis ow Reim. :,
1 =woe isillaeoli whims sae be held nepossilik. WI Wm -A. seisms laseert serstee was ethsttedislemotsolociogglis :
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bra Menai abhor ale Mk weeds al porrosetima employed ' 7,....1i'"r3n7;,... ,312°Inasniiii „wombs ~,,4 west ''..,
, hip froospossOds gosems wbkh bed hitter be kreetbm sad ii. 7.74,6. imiiis'aiges a tbesillsers and Rooks g '''
• figgina. LA them bat Udall it 110 inn se Prodded ' peomot la Undo& Ste Dem /dm Parra eflrleheL •
tiiieeeb." PAIS/WO/VIOL Ml7Ollllll, Ronne RlOlll3llOlOlll II
The Mast& ezpedtticat to Dram& /Wog 1 ---Rowistr of Mikes for the musk wake Apra Eh 1441
Aguas. pesteblellp te kat his &sad oksgey. WA is gbog 4 waseber dose Its yaks al Ohs museum bee nuw i,
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towered with two nine. ortemssegg igives.lo.l* mg *A ~, niagilittlnitilltSitrAltroarim, oLimo ruirz=: ...0
poles, !aeons far down toward the equator mad fa umay TlMeriff• N.-"NUMber a Patiaki• for lb. "'''
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COURT OF QI7EIWI3 BENOH.
BVOOO. —Wore Julius Blackburn sad Shea)
ishie Blackburn sapenewed
ik..f this morning that the
psf Joshes sad Kr. Judge Keller were uhavoidshil
togic
gas, WWI% but he hoped they would be able to
awed isreortaw.
nal at 190061 Mir day.
IIiCKHOVVS V. HAW.
AI WV raining the question whether a guarantee
opliniary guarantee wider the 4th neetioe of the
,Tija9o Vic. e. 97, known as the Mercaetile Law Arnold.
01, Thegurantes was given by Meru. Bell. ship.
MN, of Sunderland. It appeared that cheeses bad
iWp plea in the members of the firm from time
to on. awl it was outeuded that as there was
row that the guarantee should continue to be bind-
fo
kg paviihstancling sue& changes that the parties amid not
ppm era QC., with whom wu Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., and
gr game, nutended that it wu intended by the partite
dot W Forlietee should be a °oakum' ash
Lodi, Q.C., for the defeedut said the Mercantile
Len Asseedmeet Au did not alter the COMM law of Reg-
lad pith !denote to guarantees. The law was that a gnar-
we. pees to a firm was at as sad if a chugs
OM in the firm to which it was given,
oa was stated to the eentrary ea the face of the dun.
op. There was nething to show that this was intended
se be a motioning guarantee.
The court uncured iii that opinion, and gave judgment
kr the defendant.

COURT OF FACREQUER.
Onois Bano0.—(Bolaro Lord Chief Baran end Barons
Mattis, *sew*. end Pigott.)
to we o. LING.
notioo wu brought by a farmer spine* • shags
War in • tan and amps mine in Oorawell„ for a
puss, end at the trial Wore Mr. Baron OhietsX at the
ipt swims at Bodmin, the jury returned • verdict for the
uistiff--demaps 10i.
00114 OM the park of **plaintiff, now moved for an
limation to resins the delendent from continuing the
Sao* The pleihtiff become posemed of a small lon*
WI farm at Chstiewater„ Cornwall, adjoining the mine in
gestion. One of the process of the mine is the rusting
fie, end the mend/Marlow of arsenic. There wee a
up butting hoes that evolved arsenical vapour, with
iis• prising • oonaidensbie distance along the ground, in
mai of which the arsine was precipitated. The anise, as
lipoid into the air in the shape of • vapour, deposited
julf on all colder entetances. Subsequently to the
ertentering upon the farm the burning-
en* a Seek of chimneys, was brought oodor•My
lox posited and the result was that the areenind
urn Wolf on his fields, *tips, and mops, aod
permed his cattle. One of the facts relied upon was that
atop of carrots was cut up as chaff, and given the plain-
Ws hens, and that one of them showed symptoms of ar-
ming poles, and ultimately died. Its stomach was
Wks out and submitted to the examination of an
smakition' 1 chemist, who detected large quantities of arsenic
is it It was also distinctly proved that the hone died
boo arsenical poison. Evidence was also given to show
that other cattle of the plaintiff's had been poisoned, and
a portion of the gram on the plaintiff's firm, on being
anahed, was found to contain eoweiderable quantities of
anew. Prof. Taylor was smug the witnesses called for the
plaintiff, and all the witnesses examined on the other side
were employes at the mine, hot one of them admitted after
hung made as expethuat with some furs that he bad
alienated traces of amnia, although Professor Taylor said
Smiths mode he adopted in testing it we* the best way not
to tad ammo. The plaintiff had *timed an injunction in
bin writ and also in his dealanitios.
Mr. Baron Bramwell—Have you any affidavits stating that
the salsas is continued ?
Mr. have not, because the noises is so recent
that we did not amid. or they were necessary.
Mr. Baron Bramwell—The effect of the verdict may have
less to stop the onisanee.
The Lord Chief Baron—lt is important we should have
Aisne in that point.
Mr. Cole— We are prepared to make them if your lord-
ship considers them neceuary.
The learned counsel was then allowed to renew his
embodies.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Winslow, as Commissioner.)
IN RI ?AMICK PUll.
The bankrupt, an umbrella manufacturer, of Milk-street,
had his certificate refused under the old act, and now ap-
plied for so order of discharge under what iskuown u " the
three yens' clause" in the act of 186 L His debts were
upwards of 7,9001.
Mr. Milkier opposed, for the assignees. The certificate
had been refused by the late Mr. Commissioner Farm on
the ground that the bankrupt had traded fraudulently, that
In fact his operatics. amounted to swindling. The present ap-
plicatios wee opposed under the new act, on the ground that
the bankrupt hadcontraekel debts without probable means oft
payment, and had traded on fictitious espitaL After being
bankrupt is 1853, and paying no dividend on 1,2001., he re-
commenced business in 1858 with a borrowed capital of 3004
and was again bankrupt in 1861. In his former examine-
lion he bad admitted that be was insolvent as early as
Oetobee, 1858 ; he afterwards took a partner, who brought
h 1,5001. ; this wen &Most.
His Honour, in giving lodgment, said that the case wee I
set nose than many of those in which orders of discharge
tad been granted otter three years' suspension. He was of
opinion that the bankrupt had been sufficiently punished,
and the order would, therefore, be granted.
II Es a. H. 7. HATLiII.
The bankrupt, described as a manufacturing silversmith,
d Red' Lion-street, Clerkeowell, came up for examiostion
nos amounts (by Mom Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and
Lea) showing an inclebtedeme of 16,203 i. ; against pro-
petT given up to smidgens, property in bands of
whims, 8001.; sad good debts, 7701.
Mr. SUIT appeared for the assignees; Mr. Bargood sup.
Feted the bankrupt.
An adjournment was ordered for inquiry.
II BE CAM.
The bankrupt, who was described as • gentleman of
Argyle-equate, 8k Pesetas, and elsewhere ; formerly of
Rennin Manor, Cork, spin cams before the court upon
mean* showing as aggregate liability of upwards of
70,0001., and assets of a very doubtful charaeter.
Mr. Flews, for the bankrupt, asked for an adiournmsat
priding the completion of the arnagemeste now in pro.
per fad paying • composition of 4a. in the pound to midi.
hh, and superseding the bankrupt. The necessary funds
here expected to he shortly received.
Hr. Harrison, for the mangoes; and Mr. Bomb, and Mn.
Griffiths, ant objecting to the application,
Hie Honour granted an adjournment.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DIY.)

liAßLßortoucm mon.
in auxin 01 WILIUL *WIDER 01 a GUILD IT ITS MOTH=

os.

ilizabeth Safer, the young woman, charged with the wil-
ful murder of her female child a mouth old, by drowning
in the &matins, was again brought before Mr. Tyrwititt.
The prisoner seemed in great agony of mind, and cried all
the time the was in mat.
Mr. Johnson, inspector of the Hyde-park constables,
"Pendell to watch the sass
The evidence taken on the former wagon was that of
Plia-congtable Lloyd, 97 A, to whom the prisoner ad-
mitted nothing away with the child, as a woman to whom
the bad taken it would have nothing to do with it.
Matilda Suter, of 9, North-staid., St. Mark's-plats, West
bream, sister-in-law of the prisoner, said—The prisoner
r Thursday week lived with her, and had a child about six
weeks old. Prisoner went out on Thunday week, saving
the was going to take the child to the workhouse where the
had been confined. She returned the next day without the
eithl, and said she had left it at the workhouse.
A little boy named Phillip Golding, living at Botuli-
sm West, said he was at the Serpentine, and saw some.
akq floating in the water. He got it to the water's edge,
sad Wu told the park tamable. It was a baby.
Hyde-park constable, lb (Richard Hoary Lacy), said that
ea Friday week his apathies was called by the last witness
Is the body of a child in the water. He took it to the i
deed-house of Mountstrest Workhouse., sod on examining
the body be fond it to Its that of a fatale child. On one
of the article' it wail wrapped in was the name of " R.
Sate e
Ann Marsh, nurse at the St. Marylsbor Workhore. said
the prim:ant woe delivered on the 16th Mark in the work-
house of a female child. She remained is the wishbones •
fortnight and left of her own accord, taking away the
child. She saw the body at the workhouse, and recopied
by a particular mark on its forehead and eyes. She was
rear it was the same child.
Dr. Christian, of Thurlos-place, Bromptes, proved radar
the body of the child at the workhouse. He found it im-
p:amble to state the canoe of death. There were no external
Narks of injury whatever. He had made • post mortise
examination, and the body was blooding' is the extreme.
The prisoner, who put no questions to any of the 1111.•
rage's was then retired by Mr. Tyrwhilt, and asked if
the wished to say aaytinag.
She replied that she bad nothing to my, and she was
Sea committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial.
WANDSWORTH.
CLIP= 0111,701111 OP norm
Three young men, who gave the WWI of 1/1111114 Coe.
tCharles Woke, sad .foAs napes% Wen *cad the
before Mr. Ingham, charged with being 'weer teed is
anutheing the following dieing rokibegy
Ma. Elias Pearl, a baker sad grocer of New Mader
alassCibas the prisoner Corday entered her shop is the
dternota, and canoed hex 10 Mai 10[00 braider dome
wart the pretence of boyiag ma, he stand's' by kr sidli
ea thous. The bailee, however. did sot suit, mad la •
kr tastes after he had left the shop she missed he=
arrooksi two breathes, throe onveraigss, and owe
nos_ lew pocket. Shoeraa after him. hut ite ernalki =
a bat Peeped late a ant in whisk there woe two
Mk ad 11 woe drlvia elf at • rapid rate.
reply to the plisor Cordery, the preessalaisedd sir
Mari swear to him by a broken tooth in his month.