The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENIVG, AUGUST 1, 1853.

lugs numbees, while thousands of the ishabitaaes joined
their bands, all aimed, and every party nezfilitionalf.
Shindy after it was known that the rebels were in pos-
session of the citadel, a party of foreigners proceeded there
to see bow matters were being eonducted; after being ad-
mitted into the city they were allowed to visit the different
public buldings without the slightest molestation, and while
in the city the chief of the rebel force promised them to stud
a guard to protect the foreign bongs against plunder, which
it was feared they would be much szpussd to at night.
The streets both in and outside the wells are literally
crowded with rib,ls, but no sign whatever appears at in-
jury to a single private house.
A large body of rebels patrolled the streets last night, and
to-day everything appsan quiet ; most of the shop in this
neighbourhood are open and confidence appears returning
among the natives, while the foreigners ars at a lose to ee-
-1 count for the quiet and orderly manner is which the rebels
conduct themselves.

What arrangements the insurgents are above to make for
the government of the place we not know; they say they
will offer the governorship to the late Taow-tai, who, as
before stated, is very much liked, but it is nut at all likely
he will accept it.
To-day many of the rebels are being embarked, it is said,
for TonF-wa.
The ejection of the Tarter authorities from the place has
been affccted with very little fighting. We do not suppose
the deaths amount to ten and the few wounded we have '
seen appear to have suffered much from the explosion of
gunpowder.
We hope the order and quiet which at present prevails
will continue, and that business will soon be practicable;
until, however, the character of those to be entrusted with
the government of the place be known, no opinion can be
formed as to the security of property in the place.

We have had little other events of importance to
notice. The battle of the frogs bra happily termi-
nated at Canton by the French minister apologising
for the outrage offered by the French marines to
Messrs. Taylor and Still, who were kidnapped on
suspicion of being concerned in cutting the rigging
of the French flag-staff, and as a protection against
further depredation iron chains have taken the place
of rope rigging. The screw steamer Larriaton, be-
longing to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., on
her passage front Shanghai to Hong Hong was
totally wrecked on the night of May Ist on Turn-
about Island, near Formosa, passengers and crew
(except 31 Lascars) saved.
HONO-KONG, Joyir 7.
The Malta, with the mails from Europe of the
24th April, arrived this morning, and the bustle in-,
cidentai thereto must somewhat restrict my pen for
the outgoing mail, which leaves at 2 p.m. this day.
Matters here in China are in a strange and excited I
state. Business of almost every description is'
brought to stand at all the ports open for trade. Even
at Canton the utmost alarm prevails; the Tartar,
authorities have taken means to secure the city from
a surprise. All houses near the walls of the city
have been removed, the streets have been barricaded
with bags of sand, the military posts have been
strengthened, and the place put in a state of defence.
Strong apprehensions are entertained that an attack
will be made on Canton in course of a few days}i
indeed, some demonstration meetings have been held II
by the secret societies, and such is the feeling enter-
tained towards the Tartar race, that if the work of
slaughter was commencel front without, the Chinese
within the city would fraternise with them, and not
leave a single Tartar alive. The latter appear confi-
dent that the rebels will not appear before Canton,
but it is clear from the fact of many wealthy persons
removing their treasures from the city that this con-
fidence is not general.
Governor Sir S. E. Bonham has returned from the
northward, leaving his secretary to report progress
of events at Shanghai. We have advices from
Shanghai so late as the Ist instant, but matters
there remain in the same state detailed in my last
letter. The insurgents hold their ground, and are
busily employed in strengthening their position, in
expectation of an attack from the Imperial forces.
The translation of the religious books of the insur-
gents has rapidly progressed under ])r. Medhurst,
and several of them will be found printed in the
Shanghai and Hongkong journals.

MALTA, Jots 24.

Her Majesty's ship Carsdoe arrived this morning from
the fleet, bringing the despatches which her Majesty's
ship Niger brought from Constantinople. We know not
what they are, but the reports from the fleet are, that every-
thing appears peaceable. The Inflexible, in towing a
collier, got on shore, inside the Dardanelles, and was
slightly damaged. She is now in dock at Constastinopl,.
The Retribution and Furious are also at Constantinople.
The rest of the fleet are at Besiks Bay. Lord Carlisle is
staying on a visit en board her Majesty's ship Britannia.
Her Majesty's ship Ardent arrived from the fleet last
evening.

tut erOtlrt.

OSBORNE, 1tm.Y..0.

The Queen and Prince with the Royal children
were out in the grounds at Osborne yesterday.
Sir James Clark arrived from London yesterday and
returned this afternoon.
JULY 31.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Royal and
Princess Alice, attended by On "doubloons of Ely and the
Hon. Mary Seymour, drove out yesterday afternoon is an
open carriage. Col.' Bouverie attended on horseback.
Prince Albert and the Prams of Wales, attended by
Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour, rode on horseback.
The ltev. H. G. Liddell, Head Muter of Westminster,
arrived yesterday evening, and had the honour of dining
with her Majesty.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Robins,
and Mr. Clowes (Equity and Law Insurance Company),
and Mr. Bigg Mr. binedley, Mr. Lyon, and Mr. Dial.
(Law Fire Insurance Company), had an interview on
Saturday with Sir William Moleswortb, at the Office of
Weeks and Public Buildings, in Whitehall•place.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial•
ernes from the Governors of the Cape of God Hope, the
Mauritius, Labuan, St. Helena, Malta, and the Lord High
Commissioner of the lonian .Islands. Despatches were
seat en Saturday to the Governors of the Gold Coast, the
Gambia, and Siam Leona.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
I Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. The ministers
Pr: seat were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John line-
al', Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyll, the Mar46l! of Lansdowne, Viscount
Palmerston, the Earl of Claren:..m. the Duke of
Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Ent:henna:. Sir
James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hod
Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat four hours.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The last rumour
states that Parliament will be prorogued by the Queen in
person on the 18th, or at farthest, on the 20th August.
RUMOURED ACCIDENT TO TILE EARL OF ABER.
(Globe) are happy to announce that there is no
Math in a paragraph which appeared in a morning con-
temporary. The noble premier is in excellent health, and
hong with no accident whatever.
'MATH OF THE CO'JNTESIIe OF MINTO.—We regret
*bon to announce the demise of the Countess of Benito,
mtiell melancholy event took place at Nervi, in Piedmont,
ea the 22nd instant. Her last moments were peaceful, and
free from pain. Her ladyship, who was the eldest daughter
of Patrick Brydone, was married to Lord Minto in 1806,
and was the mother of Lady John Russell.
APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Louis Henry Meurant is
appointed Resident Magistrate of Stockenstrom District, in
the division of Fort Beaufort, Cape of Good ilope.—Mr.
J. Macleroy is appointed Registrar of Deeds at Natal, in
South Africa.—Mr. John Bird is appointed Chief Clerk in
the Office of the Colonial Secretary, and Clerk of the Coun-
cil at Natal, in South Africa.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONB.—The following
Reatiemeh basing undergone the necessary examinations
ror the diploma *sic admitted members of the college at,
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 29th
Messrs. Henry Rut, Sydney, Booth Australia;
Noble, Linton, Herefordshire; Joun yarei,
al!hShemaeldsweJ,
Middlesex ; and Edward Prentice, North W.
THE ASTLEY COOPER PRIZE.—This pOze df 3001 r
founded by the late Sir Arley Cooper, Bart., has Seat 30
001 r
awarded by the surgeons of Guy's Hospital to Mr. Henry
Gray, F.R.S . of Wilton-street, Grosvenor square, to.nni
essay en the Structure and Functions of the Human Sole 00.
THE RAJAH BROOKE IN.sulux.—Our Singapore'
correspondent writes : —Sir James Broolsa arrived here by
the last mail steamer from Europe, and has departed for
Sarawak and Bruri, for the purpose, it is said, of getting up
hie defence for the commission of inquiry which miaisters
have ordered into his conduct and proceedings.
DEATH OF A LADY AT TILE HOUSES OF PARLlA-
sezrer.—On Saturdly afternoon, between 1 and 2 o'clock,
an elderly lady named Sadler, residing in Ebury-street,
Pimlico, having gone with ber daughter and another young
lady to see the Houses of Parliament, was proceeding up
the steps leading into St. Stephen's-hall, when another
party of vi.iters, who had passed on before, ineautiou,ly
allowed the heavy doors to awing back, and Mrs. Steller
being in advance of her party, was thrown down the steps
with great violence, the posterior part of the skull striking
the marble pavement. The police in attendance picked
her up, and some ladies who witnessed the accident applied
such means as were at hand, but without effect. She was
immediately removed in a cab to the Westmiuster Hospital,
where she was promptly attended by the house surgeon,
but the unfortunate lady bad ceased to exist. The body re-
' mains at the hospital for tho coroner's inquest.

ALLEGED CD:ILD•MURGER AND BURNING

of TUE BODY.

On Saturday, the 'e,:tention of Mr. Ingham, the
presiding magistrate at the IChames police-court, was called
to a charge entered on one os the police sheets against
Sarah Eiepman, a Jewess, of No. 32. Cable-street, Well•
close•square, for wilfully concealing the birth of an illegi-
timate child, and destroying the body thereof by fire.
Police Serjeant Foay, No. 7 0, an officer of the detective
force, said, the prisoner was only delivered of the infant on
Friday, and that she afterwards burnt it ; and he found a
portion of the remains is the fire-place in her parlour. He
took the woman into custody on Friday evening, and, by
direVion of a surgeon, who examined the charred remains
of the infant, he conveyed her to the delivery ward of St.
George's workhouse, in o.d Oravel•lane, St. Oeorge's•in•
the-East. The woman was in a very weakly condition, and
it would be some time before sho would be in a fit state to
appear.
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Mr. Ingham marked off the police-sheet "sent to the
workhouse," and directed Foay to bring the woman before
him on her recovery, and collect the necessary evidence.
The prisoner Liepman is the widow of • Jew, and the
mother of three legitimate children. For many years past
she has dealt in old clothes and kept • " dolly-shop."
Her neighbours had lately observed her altered condition,
sod suspected the cause, but on being taxed with it by her
acquaintauces she stoutly denied it. Her only servant and
attendant was a poor Irish girl, named Bridget Toomly.
On Friday morning, Dirs. Liepman appeared in much pain,
and occasionally groaned heavily. Iler servant proposed to
call in • doctor, but she refused to receive the visits of a
medical attendant. in the course of the day she frequently
sent her servant out on frivolous errand.,, and appeared
very uneasy. About 9 o'clock at night, Mrs. Liepman again
sent her servant out upon an errand. The girl returned
sooner than ha mistress expected, end upon entering the
parlour, was horror strut* at observing the head of • child
roarkting on the top of the fire. Her mistress, who was
greatly agitated, begged of the girl not to divulge what she
had seen, end offered to give her half • sovereign to keep
the secret. 'the girl, however, left the hove almost itllolt-
dively, and communicated what she had seen to some ac-
quaintance. The police were iinmedistely apprised of the
affricand Sergt. Foay proceeded to the house,where on enter-
ing the parlour, he discovered the head and other parts of the
body of a child partially consumed on the fire. Several pieces
of human flesh adhered to the coals. Foay lost no time in
collecting the remains of the iufant. The bead was burnt
toe cinder, but the features can be distinctly traced, and
some portions of the skull are perfect. the small pieces of
flesh adhering to the half-burnt coals would not weigh more
than three or four ounces. Two pieces of the child's skull
were found on the hearth-stone below the grate. Dr. Ryan,
a medical gentleman, residing in Leman-street, Whitecha-
uel, was sent for, who pronounced the head to be that of •
child, and upon an examination of the woman Liepman,
discovered that she bad recently been delivered of a child.
Foay immediately took the mother into custody, and, in
consequence of her weak state, she was conveyed in a cart
to the workhouse. The cart bed no sooner drawn
up at the door of the prisoner's house than an
eager desire was manifested by a mob of 400
or 500 yersons to take summary vengeance on the
woman ; and she was no sooner brought out of the hours
by the officers than a loud yell was set up by the people,
and stones, bricks, and other missiles were thrown, and she
would, doubtless, have been sacrificed to the fury of her
neighbours, if the police had not zealously exerted them-
selves to save her. A large stone, thrown at the womse,
struck Sergeant Foay on the head, and inflicted a severe
contusion. The cart drove off amidst the groans and exe-
crations of the bystanders. On Sergeant Foay acquainting
her with the tact that she was charged with the wilful mur-
der of her child, and destroying the body by burning it, she
made no reply, but soon afterwards said to him that she was
tired of her life. It appears that about nine o'clock in the
morning the cries of a child were heard in the prisoner's
room, and it is supposed that she gave birth to the infant
about that time, and afterwards murdered it and Placed the
body on the fire, with tho view of consuming it, and
destroying, if possible, all evidence of her guilt. Dr. Ryan,
on being called in on Friday night, said he was of opinion
that she had been delivered of a Guild about twelve homes
previously.