The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-08 00:00:00

"The following is a telegram received this morning by
Mr. Henry Grinnell :
" On board the George Henry, St. John's, N. F.—Henry
Grinnell, New York :—I am bound for the States, to
renew my voyage. I have not prosecuted my mission to
the extent proposed, on account of our craft, but thank
God, He has empowered me to do something. I have de-
termined the fate of, probably, two boats' crews of Sir
John Franklin--solved the mystery of 300 yeses relative to
Sir Martin Frobisher's expedition under the auspices of Queen
Elizabeth—have learned the fate of five men captured from
Frobisher by the Esquimaux—found and identified the exact
place of their landing and prior account of Warwick's Sound
therefrom—Frobisher's attempt to plant the colony of 100
men—recovered a large number of relics of said expedition,
and bays explored over 1.000 miles of coast,- including the
so-called Frobisher's Strait, which I have discovered to be a
deep bay, terminating in lat. 63 deg. 48 min. north and lon.
70 degrees west.
" I have also discovered a great glazier and a mountain of
fossils between Hudson Strait and Bay of Frobisher.
" The Grunts Henry was about to depart for the States,
18th October, 1851, but thick ribbed ice kept her entombed
until August 9, 1862. The ship's company subsisted mostly
through the winter by the 'generous hospitality of the Esqui-
mans. I have with me a family of these people—man, wife,
and child.

" The records of my work north exceed 3,000 mei.
Details of the expedition will be reported to you on my
arrival. " O. F. Him.'

ACCIDENT AND LOSS OP PITT LIT= AT
MONEWEAIIMOUTIL

SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY.—This morning, about
ten minutes past midnight, a shocking accident occurred at
Monkweannouth Colliery, by which five men lost their
lives and two others were injured. Some time ago the A
pit of the colliery was seriously damaged by the bunting
of a feeder in the aide of • shaft, which ceased flooding
of the working. Since that time the A pit has been laid
in, and operations have been carried on for thoroughly
securing the shaft for the purpose. Scaffolding bad been
put up at the Mandskin seam, 210 feet below the surface,
and another at the depth of 180 fathoms. In the upper
scaffolding the stone at the side of the shaft had shown
symptoms of giving way ; and in order to prevent
danger, the shaft had been filled in with stones and debris foe
eleven fathoms above where the scaffolding was placed. This
morning • party of six men were employed in repairing the
stone waling of the shaft, in a cradle fixed about ninety-four
fathoms from the surface, when the scaffolding below them
I suddenly gave way, with the eleven fathoms debris which
had been placed above it. The whole mass fell down
the pit, carrying with it the scaffolding at the Maodakin
seam. The strong current of air caused by the falling
body drew down the cradle, upon which five men were
buried at the bottom of the pit by the rubbish which had
fallen with them. Another man, who belonged to the party,
was aheeet a few minutes at the time of the accident. The
names of the men who were killed are—Robert Laing,
aged 21, married, but without children ; Robert Hayden,
aged 38, leaves • widow and three children ; David Macrae,
30, leaves a widow and child ; James Hall, 31, leaves a
widow and four children ; and Charles Wright, who leaves
• widow and seven children. The bodies have not yet been
recovered ; and owing to the difficulty of reaching them
from the debris with which they are envied, it is probable
that they will not be extracted for some days. In addition
to the loss of life, two other persons, Michael Quin and his
son, were considerably burned by the flames from the fur-
nace in the Mandakiu seam, which is placed about 60 yards
from the shaft, having been blown upon them by the cur.
rent of air which was caused by the falling rubbish. Their
injuries however, are not of a dangerous kind. The mouth
of the pit has been clewed to prevent ventilation being dis-
arranged through the absence of the scaffolding by which
the passage of air down the shaft was prevented.

THE LATE ACCIDENT ON Tug LONDON, CHATHAM,
AND DOYEN RAILWAT.—The circumstances connected with
the alarming accident on the London, Chatham, sad Dover
Railway, near Beakabourne, on Thursday last, were inves-
tigated on Saturday before • full bench of county magic.
tratea, at the St. Augustine's magistrates' clerk's of at
Canterbury, under the chairmanship of Mr. William Plum-
mer, when the platelayer in the service of the company,
Henry Haynes, was placed at the bar, charged with having,
through negligence, caused a train. consisting of two engines,
seven carriages, and • break van, to be thrown off the line.
The evidence having been concluded, the prisoner made the
following statement :—" I wish to say that my watch
bad stopped. I looked at my watch at half-past
seven, and I thought we should have time to do
a little more before the train was doe. The train
came on us all before we were aware of it. When I
came up to the Beakshourne station I found that my
watch was just &quarter of an hour late. The train was
never • quarter of an hour before its time. We tried to get
' the jim-crow off, but it was fixed so fast, as it had not had
any oil for two or three days, that we could not move it.
We both tried to unscrew it, but could not for • moment,
it was screwed so tight. The train was then so close, within
20 yards of us, that we were obliged to leave it, and junto
out of the road. It is not very often that we put a flag
out when we are straightening a rail—not once in ten times
—for a small job like that. As to having a time table, I
have not had one, but if I had I could not read it, as I am
unable to reed." He was committed for trial at the next
quarter sessions.
GIEAT RANTERN RAILWAY.—The Wisbech branch
of the East Anglian division of this systems, which was
closed by the recent Middle Level doe& has been reopened
for tra after undergoing the necawary mains

Rudolph Volta ;L German:;;;charged with stealing
eighteen engravers] diamonds' value 121., from the Manse
Town department in the Great Exhibition, the property of
Ernst Winter, an exhibitor.
The diamonds were missed from the case on the 20th ult.,
and they were afterwards found at a pawnbroker's in the
Blackfruirs•road. The pawnbroker had advanced two
guineas upon them to the prisoner, but, upon hearing that
they were inquired for, he at once gave information to the
pohoe.
Committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.
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William Hodam, a young man about 19 years old, who
was tried at the Old Bailey during the last sessions for de-
frauding various stable keepers and attempting to sell the
horses he bad hired, was now charged with uttering several
forged cheques on the Union Bank of London (Temple-bar
branch),anddefmuding various tradesmen of money aW goods.
The prisoner was taken into custody upon being acquitted at
the Old Bailey.
Mrs. Dodge, the wife of a coachbuilder in the Black-
friars-road, stated that the prisoner and another young man
had hired n horse and chaise each from her in June ;last,
and in payment for the hire the other man offered her a
cheque upon the Union Bank for 12/., drawn in favour of
Mr. Horrocks, and they asked her to hive them a few
pounds till the Monday following, as it was then Saturday,
and too late to get the money at the bank. She advanced
them 10s. on the faith of the cheque, and they took away the
chalice. At night the prisoner returned with his horse and
chaise, and said his friend had got drunk and had left the
chaise at a livery noble. He then asked her to advance
him 10a. more upon the cheque to go off and get the chaise
back, which she accordingly did. On Monday morning wit-
ness went to the bank to get the cheque cashed, when she
was told it was a forgery, and was at tint taken into cus-
tody, but afterwards released. She heard nothing of the
prisoner until she attended at the Old Bailey Sessions, and
there recognised bias. The other young man calling himself
Horrocks had not been heard of, and the horse and chaise
were found at Vauxhall.

A clerk from the Union Bank proved the cheque to be a
forgery. The form in blank had been originally lamed to a
customer named Kenmore, who was now deed. in 188.
Mr. H. Languish, a tailor, said that on the 21st of June
the prisoner and another young man came to his shop sad
selected a waistcoat of the value of 7s. 6d. The other man
banded him a cheque drawn on the Union Bank in favour of
Mr. Horrocks for 5/. 17a. 6,1.„ and asked for the difference.
The prisoner maid it was all right, and that his friend was
clerk to a merchant in the City. In consequence of their
apparent respectability he was taken off his guard and gave
the other man 51. 10s., and they left the shop. The next
morning, on presenting the cheque, it turned out to be a
forgery. There were three other similar charges against the
prisoner which were not gone into, and he was committed
for triaL
Evidence was given by the police that the prisoner had
been tried in 1858 at the Mansion-house, under the Criminal
Justice Act, for stealing a piece of 'ilk, and sentenced to
six weeks' hard labour.

Mary Marshall and Caroline Ward, two fashionably
dressed women, who absconded from their Lail in April last,
and were recaptured on Thursday, were finally examined,
charged with stealing a purse containing 16e. from the per-
son of Martha Mason, in an omnibus, on the 25th of April.
Upon the prisoners absconding their hail were wrehended,
and in default of paying the required amount were com-
mitted for • month each to the House of Correction, which
time they have served.
Mr. Combo said it was a clear case, and unless the pri-
soners pleaded guilty he should send them for trial.
After a short consultation they pleaded guilty, and were
sentenced to six mouths' hard labour each.

Tea MARRIAGE LAive.—The injustice of the pre-
sent marriage laws was proved in a remarkable manner in a
use beard before the Comity Court judge at Boston, on
Thursday. A man named Mark Gibbs, tea hawker, some
few weeks since filed a petition of bankruptcy, and the
officers of the Bankruptcy Court took poasermon of his goods
and were proceeding to Pell them for the benefit of his cre-
ditor", but the man's wife claimed them as her own pro-
perty, alleging that though she was married to the bank-
rupt the wan not legally his wife, being the widow of
his deceased brother, to whom the goods bad ori-
ginally belonged, and that they were therefore her
property by right of inheritance. At the public in-
vestigation in the court on Thursday, this wife of two
brothers attended, and proved that she was the widow
of Georm Gibbs, brother of the bankrupt, and that
though she had since married Mark Gibbs, and lived with
him as his wife and bore him children, she wu in the eye
of the law only his mistreu. She said the goods seized
were formerly the property of her first husband, and that
she bad not since his death sold or disposed of them to Mark
Gibbs, although they bad continued to use them since their
marriage. The judge said that a more remarkable case had
never come under his notice. There was no doubt that the
claimant, though twice married, was in the eye of the law
a widow, and that her second marriage being illegal in no
way invalidated her right to her first busbaW's goods. The
second husband, in fact, acquired no rights by his marriage,
and be might leave his wife and children any time, and they
had not the slightest claim upon him. This was the law,
and he was bound to administer the law aa he found it. The
woman having sworn that the goods were left to her by •
former husband, and there being no oviduct' to the con-
trary, it was his duty to declare the goods were her pro-
perty, and the creditors of her present husband (who legal
was not her husband), had no claim on them. Ths goods
must be restored to the woman.—Leeds Mercury.

MARKET BARBOROUGH, SATURDAY.
The inquest was resumed this morning. After
healing additional evidence, the jury, accompanied by
the railway officials of both companies, went to the
station, where a train consisting of the same number
of carriages as the second excursion train did was
waiting for them, and they proceeded in it to a
short distance beyond the auxiliary signal poet. The
jury placed themselves in the ninth carriage from the en.
gine, in order that they might be at the same distance from
it as the witness Mr. Imp, who bad spoken to having seen
the signal some 200 yards distant, and the spot was marked
at which the signal could be perceived, bet it appeared to
be only some 60 or 70 jards distant. The jury then re-
turned to the court, and

The Coroner proceeded to run up the evidence. He
said, the questions they had to determine were—first, by
what means bad this unhappy man come to his death ;
secondly, did it happen by any culpable neglect of any of
the persons employed on the line ; and if so, who was the
guilty party! As to the first point there was no doubt ;it
was perfectly clear that the death was caused by the col-
lision. The second point was attended with some difficulty,
but it lay within a narrow c •mpaia. The blame lay between
the pointsinan at the signal station and the driver of the
engine of the second train. It was the duty of the signalman
to put on the signal at danger, according to the rides, and it
was the duty of the engine-man to attend to that signal.
l'hs learned coroner then read the evidence of the different
witnesses bearing on this point, and impressed upon the
jury that it was their duty to be guided by the evidence
and the evidence alone, and that they should not take a
partisan view in favour of either the London and North
Western or the Midland Railway Company.
The jury then retired at a quarter to four o'clock, and re-
mained in deliberation till a quarter-past eight, when they
returned into court, and
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The Coroner inquired if they bad agreed on their verdict?
The foreman replied that thirteen of them (there were
sixteen altogether) bad agreed to the following verdict :
•' We find that the death of Thomas Stinson was caused b
the collision of excursion trains at Market Harborough
station, on August 2s, 1862. We find that the collision
was occasioned by the culpable negligence of Ezra Stubbs,
driver of the second, or Manton train. We consider the
Midland Railway Company highly censurable in permitting
two large trains of excursionists to start within so short a
period without sufficient break power."
The Coroner said that was a verdict of manslaughter
against Ezr► Stubbs, and he forthwith issued his warrant
for his apprehension.
Stubbs, who was in the neighbourhood, was brought into
court a minute or two afterwards, and formally committed
to take his trial at the ensuing assizes for the county of
Leicester, but the coroner admitted him to bail on his own
reoognisaoces of 1001., and two sureties of 501. each, the
' sureties being Mr. Needham. the superintendent of the
Midland Company, and Mr. Marigold, the solicitor.
An acknowledgment is due to the officials of both the rail.
way companies for the facilities afforded by them to the re-
presentatives of the press ; and to Mr. Lowe, the clerk to the
magistrates, and Mr. Riff, the superintendent of police, for
the excellent arrangements made for the accommodation of
the parties attending the inquiry.

THE ATTILEFT TO MURDER A WIFE IN PADDING-
TON.—At a late hour on Saturday evening it was ascertained,
from inquiries at St. Mary's Hospital, that the impiouswoman,
womAn Honor& Barkley, who was shot by her husband, in
the public thoroughfare, in front of her mother's residence
in Stanley.street, Paddington, on Thursday last, was lying
at the hospital in a moat precarious condition, with but
faint hopes of ultimate recovery. It was at drat believed
that the act of the husband, who is now on remand from
the Marylebone police court, was simply one of attempted
manslaughter arising out of a domestic quarrel; bat it now
appears that it was a most determined sod deliberate attempt
at murder, solely arising from the refusal of the victim to
live any longer with him, or to give him any money, in con-
sequence of his cruel conduct towards her at various times.
She had lately resided with her mother, who keeps a
chandler's shop in Stanley-street, and was, at the time she
was shot, standing in the street, superintending the closing
of the shop. The nature of her injuries consists of a wound
in the upper peg of the chest, of considerable depth, from
which Mr. Smith, the house•surgeon, extracted a bullet, the
collar bone broken and splintered close to the sternum. Mr.
Smith has since taken out some of the splinters, and dressed
the wound. The lungs are not injured.

FATAL AFFRAY.—On Friday, a party of men,
women and children, hop-pickers, in the employ of Mr.
Coleman, arrived in a waggon at the village of Udimere,
near Rye, Sussex, from Heathfield, and soon after were met
by a party of Irish reapers. Some vulgar abuse was inter-
changed, and two of the Irishmen struck one of the hop-
pickers named Robbins, when a regular melee ensued. The
Irishmen used their sickles, the hop-pickers defended
themselves as best they could, the women hurling stones
at their opponents. Henry Speen, the driver of the wag-
gon, had his arm nearly cut off. They even attacked the
horses, and wounded them. The horses bolted, and two of
the women was knocked down and run over. A number of
the county constabulary at length arrived, and stopped the
fray, when it was found that • woman, named Ellen
Haloue, had been killed. One man, named Robert Lynch,
who, it is stated, killed the woman, was apprehended, end
lodged in Rye Gaol. Several of the persons stabbed are in

dANTSTAIs PALACZ:ONZ SHILLING DAY.-BArus-
DAY, Som. 6.—Adointoos m psytount, 7,170; ditto by
mom tido*, 1491 ; told, 8.461.

COTTON GOODS.—MaNengureir, Swr. 6.—We bad a
very excited market at the commencement of the week, and
prices advanced 3d. and 4d. per lb. on yarns, and 2s. to 3s.
per piece on cloths—an advance quite unprecedented in this
trade. In both yarn and cloth there was a very large busi.
ness done at these advances, but it was nearly all for specu-
lation. Ordinary merchants, like the more prudent manu-
facturers, have withdrawn from the market for the present,
and regard the wild speculation which showed itself on
Tuesday as little less than madness. Since Tuesday there
has been a quieter feeling here in consequence of the tame.
yeas of the Liverpool cotton market, and prices gave way a
little in cloths on Thursday and yesterday morning, but
there was; better feeling again at the close of business yes-
terday, and prices are firm again. some of the holders of
cloth having, indeed, advanced their quotations. There is
very little business offering, however, buyers showing an in-
disposition to increase their purchases for the present.
Yarn, have been steadier than cloth, and for home trade
yarns business has been done at Id. told. per lb. higher
than Tuesday. The market for both yarn and cloth closes
quiet.

WOOLLEN CLOTII.—LkEna, Seer. 6.—The brilliant
weather to-day has exercised an animating influence upon
this morning's markets, which were well attended in both
hallo. Several good parcels of 60. inch tweeds. meltons,
diagonals, and other fancy coatings changed hand in the
Coloured-hall. In the White market also a better tone of
feeling prevailed. There was a spirited demand for witneys
in various styles and other autumn fabrics, and also •
greater inquiry for plain cloths. Rates remain firm.

HARDWARE.—DIUMIGHAII, Seer. 6.—The trade of
this town maintains the increased animation first apparent
about a fortnight ago ; the factors' travellers report more
favourably of the prospects of basilica after the harvest,
and the order-sheets which they are sending home at this
moment, though they are not quite up to the average, are
better upon the whole than they have been at any former
period of this year. Manufacturers generally admit that
business has improved ; the exceptions to thin are some of
the fancy trades, in which there is still a good deal of
languor, but in most of the principal staple trades the men
employed at the largest manufactories are making full time.
The lamp and chandelier makers report an increased supply
of orders; the tube makers and edge tool makers are
tolerably busy, and the gun trade continues remarkably
brisk, the rolling mills are also at work full time. In the
adjoining district of South Staffordshire and East Worces-
tershire most of the manufacturing trades are more active ;
such is the state of things at the foundries, and for railway
fittings there is a better demand. In the neighbourhood
of Dudley there are some complaints that trade is dull, but
nowhere in th►t locality are there many men out of employ-
ment, ar.d certainly the labour market is healthier than it
was a couple of months ago. At Bedditch the needle trade
is brisk ; some of the manufacturers have more orders in
than they have bad for a long time past.

Sgrr. 6.-We bad a large supply
of new wheat at to-day's market, and prices again gave way.
Wheat, red, 50e. to We. • white, 60e. Barley, 345. to 36e. ;
oats, 245. to ; baus. 40a- ; Pm, 40n
CARLISLE. Sm. 6.-Then was a limited supply of
wheat, fair of oats, and very smell of barley at our market
this morning. Wheat met a good demand, and in conse-
quenee of the small supply last week's prices were main-
tained. Oats dull, about 6d. per Carlisle bushel lower, a
considerable quantity being unsold. Barley unaltered in
value. Wheat, white, new, 225. 6d. to 24a. Od. ; old,
225. 6d. to 245. Od. ; red, new, 20s. Gd. to 225. 6d. ;
old, 20s. 6d. to 22a. 6d. Barley, new, 15s. -, old, 13e. Gd.
to 14s. 6d. Oats, potato, old, lls. to 12s. ; do., com-
mon, old, 10s. Od. to 10s. Gd. Rye, 14s. Od. to 15s. Od.
Coccazarze, SEPT. 6.-A fair supply of wheat, the condi-
tion of new better than on any previous day ; value un-
altered. Some samples of fine quality were offered. Bat
little barley, beans, or peas on sale ; prices firm.
GUILDTORD, SEPT. 6.-There was only a moderate supply
of new wheat to-day, on which buyers wanted a considera-
ble reduction. This was resisted; and it was afterwards
taken at from Is. to 2s. per qr. under last week's rates.
Old wheat maintains its value. Wheat, new, 545. to 625. ;
old. 665. to 60a ; peas, 40a. to 41a. ; rye, Ms. to 395.
Per V-
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HZITPORD, SEM 6.-k rather larger market than of
late, the white corn harvest being now pretty well secured.
Old wheat fully maintained former rates, and new was no
lower for decent samples. New barley came to band in
good condition ; new oats also of fair quality. No change
in price of any kind of grain. Red wheat, new, 365. ;
old, 3gs. per load ; white, new, 38s. ; old, 40s.

. .
Lver.erra, SEPT. 6.—.'.t to-day's corn market there was
a fair sprinkling of new sample, of wheat ; old was in short!
supply, and taken at late rates ; secondary new sold at 'h
per qr. decline ; new sots sold at 565. to 60a ; old red, 5%.
to 60a. • old white, 60e. to 65e. per 36 stone. New barley
stet a steady domed, and prices very firm-355. to 42.
per qr. ; feed aorta, 28a. to 33a. per 30stone. There was •
tolerable show of new oats, and prima were in buyers'
favour ; old, 265. to Ms. ; new, 22a. to 275. per 24 stone.
Nswessms-crow-Tres, Scrr. 6.—At oar market this ,
morning we had a very moderate show of wheat from the
Fellers, but from abroad the snivels ate to a fair extent,
but the weather proving fine vary few transactions re-
suited, and those chiefly in new; Norfolk and Suffolk red
commanding from 58s. to 605., and white about 61s. 6d.
per 5041 be. respectively, old native samples at the same
time selling with difficulty at a reduction of Is. per qr. ;
from our own neighbourhood no yew was offered. Old
foreign may be called la. lower, but in limited reimant.
New fully 2a cheaper, capital red Seal being ellerad %-
effectually at 60s. per tel Flour, fie very
moderate supply, was sparingly dealt in.
lee' inquired for. For malt the demand is kit
only the choicest qualities oso be moved off. Lit*