The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

THE LATE OUTRAGE AT BARNSLEY.

At tho recent amine at York, two married men
named Giles Wilmsley, 37, and Thomas Ellis, 33, employed
at the Barnsley GRI Works, were sentenced to be trans-
ported for life by Baron Martin for having, at Barnsley, on
the 30th of January last, committed a rape upon a married
woman, Ellen Johnson, 40 years of age, and the mother of
eight children. On the night of the occurrence the husband
of the prosecutrix abused her so much that she was obliged
to seek shelter at a late hour of the night, and being near
the gas works, the prisoners proffered her shelter for the
night, and there succeeded in committing the capital of-
fence. The case for the prosecution was proved upon the
evidence of the prosecutria, two constables who heard her
scream, and the surgeon who spoke to the appearance of
her person after the committal of the outrage. For the
defence, William Woollen, the constable of Wath-upon-
Dearne, deposed that the prosecutrix had frequently
been at that place, and had conducted herself as a common
prostitute; and that she attempted to prefer a charge
against him for having taken an improper liberty with her.
He further stated that she had cohabited with other men
besides her husband, one of whom was a man of col our, by
whom she had had a child. Woollen being an inspector of
lodging-house* there, had frequent opportunities for observ-
ing the prisoner's conduct. Hies lordship, in passing sen-
tence, observed that he should cause inquiries to be made
into the truth of Woollen's statement, and if he found it to
be true, he should advise her Majesty to pant the prisoners
a free pardon. Lord Palmerston having communicated
with the magistrates at Barnsley, an inquiry has been going
on, under the direction of the counsel for the defence.
Facts, mainly substantiating the evidence of Woollen the
constable, have been proved; the promecutris and her sup-
posed husband have absconded ; and it is believed that after
the evidence has been laid before Lord Palmerston, both
prisoners will be discharged.

THE RAILWAY COMPANIES AND THEIR SERVANTS
—We described the course taken by the London and North
Western Company, with their goods, porters, at Manchester,
and it now appears that the other companies in that town
(with one exception) have had conferences with their ser-
vants. The porters of the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and
the East Lancashire Companies have made common cause.
They have held two meetings during the week, and asked
for en advance of 15 per cent. on their present wages, desir-
ing an answer by Saturday. On Thursday afternoon Capt.
Laws, on behalf of the former company, and Mr. Eborall as
manager of the other, met a deputation from the workmen,
and after hearing their demand, said that the companies
would concede a rise of 10 per cent. The men held another
meeting subsequently , at which they decided to accept the
10 per coot., providealtheir prase: hours, 13 per day, were
reduced to 12. The men disclaim any intention to strike.
The men of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway are reported to have had meetings on the question,
but have not yet made any formal demand.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday last, a
man named George Burford, was killed, by a savage cow,
in the Gloucester-road, above the village of Swamswick.
On the preceding day, a sen of the deceased, James Bur-
ford, a lad, about 16 years of age, in the service of Messrs.
Chalker rind Singer, butchers, of Bath, had charge of two
cows, which he was driving from Oldfield-gate towards
Bath. On arriving at Pennsylvania, one of the animals
tossed and injured a young woman, inconsequence of which
the lad left it at the Swan Inn, Cold Ashton, and drove the
other to Bath. The next morning he was ordered to fetch
the other cow ; and, being afraid to go by himself he asked
his father, the deceased, to go with him. On Friday last,
an inquest was held before B. Fry, Esq., at the Bladud
Arms, Swainawick. The jury returned as their verdict,
" That the deceased, George Burford, was accidentally
gored and killed by a cow, and the jury are of opinion that
Messrs. Chalker and Singer are greatly to blame for allow-
ing a dangerous animal to travel on the road, more part:-
elderly after it had gored the young woman, of which they
hod reccired information from the deceased's son."—Bath
Chronicle. _

LARGE•4T PEARL IN TILE WORLD.—The Panda
Star says that the largest pearl in the world is in the pos-
session of Victor Plise, E.q., of Panama. The pearl is
Intuit the shape of an egg, without n single N tw in its en-
tire formation ; in colour tt is what judge, consider perfec-
tlm, and it weighs 1541 grains. It is valued at 5,900 ,
and ii a match could he pr >cured for it the pair would he
' considered almost invaluable. Mr. l'liee has a large same
trent of lrautlful peseta, all of which he has collected at
his fishorics on the P. arl Islands.

IRELAND.

PUBLTN,APAIL 1.

The boisterous weather which the equiliox never
fails to bring having tarried some days beyond its
time this season, we were beginning to hope that we
had for once escaped it, but the storm of last night
showed how vain that expectation was. The gale set
in about six o'clock last evening from the south,
blowing with it a deluge of rain, which seemed to
descend in an unbroken sheet. During the night it
raged without interruption, blowing a great part of
the time with a fury which appeared to shake every
house iu the city to its foundation ; and veering
gradually round to the west, at which point the vane
stood at six o'clock this morning. The violence of
the storm has considerably- diminished since daylight,
but it still continued to blow with great freshness.
The railway steamer arrived ut Kingstown at half-
past ten last night, but the mail steamer of this
morning will probably bo some hours beyond her
time. No account of any damage caused by the
storm has been vet received.
It is stated that it is thC intention of the Mayor
of Liverpool to invite the committee of the Great
Industrial Exhibition of Duban to a grand banquet
' in the Town-hall, to he given about the end of the
present month.
The Irish Tenant League held their adjc.urrwil
meeting yesterday, the saute three Irish members,
Messrs. Potter, Lucas, and Dotty, and the same score
of priests and laymen who figured at the meeting of
the preceding day, acting as the drunia:is pers,oue
on this occasion alas. Several of the other Irish
representatives arc in Dublin or its neighbourhood,
but purposely absented themselves front the proceed-
ings of the league, with the exception of Mr. 'l'.
Kennedy, who, it appears, as,isted for a while at the
meeting of Wednesday, while it sat with closed
doors. A letter was read at yesterday's meeting,
from Father Redmond, the parish priest of Arklow,
in which that reverend gentleman, so well known in
all Irish agitations, begs to tell the league that "he
is greatly pained at being constrained by his hu.nble
judgment to differ with the great majority of that
body ;" and ho adds :
A, the government can't bring forward a measure of its
own on tenant right until the select committee shall Lave
made its report, so I am for suspending my judgtnvnt till
that event; anti should the ministerial measure be found to
fall short of the substance of Crawford's bill, then, and then

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only, in my opinion, can the members of the pledged Irish
party be imperatively culled on, us men of honour, to place
themselves, not only by their votNi, but by their rositian in
the house, in opposition to, and to hold themselves indepen-
dent of, the said government.

Dr. *Knight, of Belfast, protested by letter
against the secrecy of the meeting of 'Wednesday,
which he had been led to expect would be a pabLe
one; and he also tells the impracticables of the league
that:--

After the protracted discussions of that day ho could see
little use in labouring to convince gentlemen who seem to
have adopted foregone conclusions with regard to all the
main topics under consideration; and hence he merely for
the present requested them to place in the hands of the
council at i•a public sitting, his formal and clacida d
protest against all proceedings which may be taken in pur-
suance of a system of policy wholly isdefensible in itself,
and calculated, in his judgment, to damage, if not to dc-
stroy, the cause in which they had all been united with the
happiest effects, and of whose triumph at no distant period
there could hardly be a doubt, were their counsels ucder
the direc'inn of wisdom or of common prudence.
The Evening Post nays :
The Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have
awarded M. W. Savage, Esq., barrister-at-law, late Clerk
of the Council, a retiring allowance equal to two-thirds of
his salary, as compensation for the abolition of his office.
The award is accompanied with a recommendation,
grounded on Mr. Savage's "age and capability of rendering
good service to the public, that the Lord Lieutenant will
avail himself of the earliest opportunity which may oiler for
his re-employment in some suitable office."

ST. CLEMENT DANES.—Yesterday a vestry meet-
ing of this parish was held ; the Rev. W. W. Ellis, the
rector, in the chair. Mr. Win. Lane was elected senior
churchwarden' Ind Mr. W. H. Willeter, jun., churchwar-
den. Mears.. B. Cogswell, C. F. Smith, 11. Mason, and J.
G. Taylor, it was announced, had been appointed overseers
for the year ensuing. The retiring churchwarders pre-
sented their accounts, by which it appear, 41 that their re-
ceipts during the past year had Wen 1,19 G/. Ge. 3d., and
the expenditure 1,0271. 7s. 10d., leaving a balance to hand
over to their successors of 1681. ISs. sd. A vote of thanks
was voted to Mr. T. Brachim, the retiring churchwarden,
for his valuable services during the past year. which was
ordered to be inscribed on vellum and presented to him.

REFORMATION OF CRlMlNALS.—Yeaterday after-
noon a scene of much interest was witnessed at the London
Colonial Training Institution for the Reformation of Adult
Male Criminals. The occasion was that of an emigrants'
farewell meeting, preparatory to the early departure of
seventeen reformed criminals for the United States; their
reformation being attributable to the benefits they have
received, and the habits they have acquired during their
stay at the institution. The chair was token by the Duke
of Montrose in the school-room, and, besides the emigrants,
there were present all the inmates collected from the in-
dustrial shoes in the building, which form so important a
part of the machinery of reclamation. After the singing
of a suitable hymn, letters were readily Mr. Nash, the
secretary, from persons who had been previously sent to
America or Australia ; their tenour was extremely antis.
factory. Sir John Warrender then made a practical fare-
well address to the emigrants, which was listened to by
them with deep interest. Similar addresses were delivered
by Mr. J. Payne, the Rev. Mr. Malone, incumbent
of St. Matthew Westminster, and the Rey. Mr.
Rogers, chaplain Of the Westminster Bridewell. The chair-
man observed that he had come then) almost by accident,
and certainly without the least design of taking any part
in the proceedings • but he was extremely gratified with all
thathe had witnessed, and bad no doubt that the institu-
tion was extremely useful and well worthy of more exten-
sive support. Many of the emigrants stood up and ex-
pressed their gratitude for what had been done for them ;
and, together with the other inmates, they sang, apparently
not without feelings of devotion, the words " I will arise
and go to my Father." Before and after the meeting, the
workshops were inspected by the visitors. In these shoe-
making, carpentery, tailoring, and printing are taught se-
parately, and it would appear, from the letters read, that
what is acquired is afterwards used as a means of gaining
an honest livelihood.

TUE SCREW STEAMER OsmANLL—The following
notice woe issued from the General Post-office yesterday:—
" The screw steamer Osmanli, under contract with her Ma.
jetty's Postmaster-General, will be despatched from Liver.
pool on the 7th instant, with mails for the Cape de Verde,
the Cape of Good Hope, South Australia, Western Australia,
Victoria (Port Philip), and Van Diemen's Land, and all
letters for those place. reaching Liverpool previous to her
departure and not addressed to be sent to by any other
vessel, will be forwarded by the Osmanli. These letters
will be liable to the packet rate of postage, but no charge
will be made on newspapers, except for those addressed to
the Cape de Verde, upon which a rate of 2d. must be taken
in advance."

DISASTERS AT BEA-LOSS Or LIFE.-LIVERPOOL,
FRIDAY.—The Ebba Beebe (Haling), which sailed from
the Hersey yesterday afternoon, went on shore on the East
Mouse, between Point Lynn and the Skerries, at 10
o'clock the same evening. Sho got off at two
o'clock this morning, very leaky. One passenger and
one of the craw landed. Considerable anxiety was felt
during the day as to the fate of this fine ship, as she had
about SOO smile on board, bound for Australia, and was one
of the largest meek afloat, being nearly 1,1100 toot register.
Happily, however, she made her appearance in the Mersey
this evening. It blew a regular hurricane from W. to S.
cff Holyhead to-day. A small schooner went aground off
the Head. Three of the crew took to the boat, which upset
as she neared the shore, and the men were drowned in
sight of persons striving to render them assistance. The
whinier was freighted with tin. The schooners Mary Ann
and Domestic, of Bideford, were both disabled and towed
into Holyhead bay, and the railway bast; Cambria reports
several semis riding very awkwardly in the bay A vessel,
name unknown, went down off Baffin Island to-day ;
crew saved.
FOREIGN

VIA SOUTHAMPTON.—
A correspondent from Havre states that attempts are mak-
ing there to secure an earlier arrival of French correspond-
ence, brought by the Southampton mail packets. At pre-
sent it appears that all the foreign correspondence for
Havre which arrives in British packets at Southampton is
forwarded to London, and reaches Havre by way of Paris
instead of being brought to Havre direct by the Southamp.
ton and Havre steamers. This, it is understood, arises
from the circumstance that foreign mails are not sorted at
Southampton, the same as at Liverpool, Dover, and Ply-
mouth. The British government has hitherto obtained a
monopoly of the carrying of the foreign correspondence
belonging to France. If that monopoly is to continue, the
English authorities must facilitate its arrival in Havre.
The cause of the demand for the establishment of a French
ocean mail service, is not so much from the revenue which'
dm English nation derives from the conveyance of the
foreign correspondence of France, as the delay of its
arrival in Havre. The extensive correspondence for,
Havre from the West India Islands, Mexico, California, the
Pacific, the Spanish Main, the Brazils, and the islands in
the Western Ocean, is landed at Southampton, and instead
of being brought across the Channel direct by the South-
Weatern Company's steamers, is sent by the cir:uiteus route
of London, Dover, Calais, and I'aris.
AvoTilEctatiEs' HALI--Nnmes of gentlemen wh3
paowd their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise.on Thu,, lay,
March 31, 1853:—Samuel Job, Martin Biwtrey, Torii.
! shire; David Conway Evans, London; Thomas Tomlinson,
Mal ltn, li sex; J.) • ;e: 11 r:, r. Dorlisim ; Ileary William
I Alextueder C r, ; M. hard Thooon on, Unhurt,
'Lombard ; Aupaiiine Lamptun, Oxon; William
Brown Peplor, Tinehead, Wilts; Richard Henry Thomas,
Ibstock, Lr icesterAire ; Alfred James Dale ; Brataby
Ileberts; William James Shone, Loudou.