The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-06 00:00:00

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The .Rdforow says : Oa Saturday all the prisoners
detained at St. Pelagic, whir are to be tried by the
High Court, received at 6 o'clock the order Is be
ready to leave in half an hour. They were placed in
cellular vehicles, like forests, without having ham
able to take any of the mamma =der
such circumstances. On arriving at thaigaete
each of them was placed in a cell of the monewest
dimensions, and, what is difficult to be eaneeived,
they have up to this day been refused, in spite of
their demands, a table ar.d a chair. Thus, then, there
are six men, who are threatened with the severest
condemnations, but who cannot even take a note to
Kr:Xtheir defence. The six prisoners are citizens
ma Lebon, A. Banns, Pays, Frabonlet, Dafelix,
and Lemaitre.

matters, and spend their money freely—two very im-
portant 'nth! To give you an idea of the severity
ezereised with other foreigners who are not Neapo-
litan, I will mention the ow of the Count d'A—, •
Lombardisn, who has been anti rel to quit the king-
dom of Naples, where he has been a resident for some
months past. This nobleman is of a very mild cha-
racter, and every one knows that he took no active
part in the revolution of Milan. Another Lumbar-
dian, Count B—, was refused admission at the
frontier. This city enjoys the most perfect tranquil-
lity.

The Momteur contains a report from M. Dufaure to
the president of the republic, setting for h the neces-
sity of establishing in the department of the Seine a
commission of prisons, foe the purpose of promoting
all objicts likely to lead to the material or moral
amelioration of the prisoners in that district. Accord-
ing to the ordonnances of April 9, 1919, and of June
23, 1823, similar commissions were ordered to be
nominated in all towns having one or more planes of
confinement; but in the department of the Seinel
these ordonnances were never carried properly into
execution. It is to fill up the void so left that the
minister of the interior now maku his proposition.
The report is followed by a decree from the president
of the republic, appointing MM. Baroche, Horace
Say, Berenger, Debelleyme, Rebillot, and 16 other
men of eminence to compose the commission pro.
posed. Another decree regulates the duties to be
levied on the canal of St. Quentin, which came into
the pins scion of the state on the 14th of July last, in
consequence of the period of the concession having
then expired.
M. Robert, the representative of the Yonne, and
member of the Mountain, died on Monday evening
at his residence, in the Rae Cuimir Perier. _

The commission appointed by the ministry of com-
merce to examine and upon the new process
of making sugar, of Mlairtsens, met yesterday at the
ministry of the interior. It appears that the experi-
ments made before several members of the commission
in Belgium were not sufficiently conclusive for the
commission to give a decided opinion as to the merits
of the process, and that in order to do this M. Mil-
an's sjstem mast be tried on a large scale for a long
period.
A ministerial circular has just directed that no gun-
powder can be sold, unless on an order from the
mayor of the commune. In case, however, when a
sportsman happens to live at a distance from the
mayor's honer, a reasonable quantity will be delivered
on presentation of the sporting license, the mid quan-
tity being marked down en the back of the docu-
ment.

The President of the Republic, on leaving Meaux,
amongst other marks of his munificence, left 1,0001.
to the bishop of that place for the poor of the arron-
dissement

" It is announced," says the Patric, "that the cosn-
cil of state is engaged in the preparation of a law
relative to the transportation to Algeria of the pri-
soners of June who remain at Belle Isle. The council
is also engaged in a general law regarding trans-
portation. Mayette is still spoken of as the place for
persons condemned to be transported fur political
offerors."

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1849.

which they suffered latterly from the want of any
regular supplies of food. Harassed by forced marches,
and exhausted by hunger, before the catastrophe at
Viliffogi they were dispirited to the last degree.
Without either bread or meat, the soldiers spread
themselves over the fields to piek up such fruity, ripe
or unripe, as the earth casually presented. The Pesth
papers heighten the colour of these reports with facts
drawn from the region of the fabulous, and dish up
anew the story of Abyssinian cookery and raw rump
steaks.
used ett on
ThePesLtlo73ld dWnsii e
tzen s, railwa

The Path and Waltzer' railway was expec'ed to
'pen on the 31st ult. The steam company &dyer-
. the opening of the river navigation to Essig for
30th. Steam communication with Vienna porn.
maenad on the 25th. Csanyi, figemere, and Buko-
wich, three of Kcesuth's ministers, were imprisoned
together at Grosswardein, and strictly guardtd. The
most suspicious circumstance about Gcorgey's surren-
der is the capture of so many important chiefs cf the
Mossuth Party. Besides the three ministers men-
tioned, Duschtk, the minister of finance, is als3 a pri-
soner. A great portion of the deputise of the Diet
have also been arrested.

The correspondent of the Indtpendanee Bake, dated
the lst inst., writes from Vienna. that the Emperor
of Austria has granted a inn pardon to Ocergey, who
will take op his temporary residence in Styria, to
which province be is now proceeding.
The last report of the Vienna Bank showassastallio
reserve Of 27,769,787 florins, to a note circulation of
257,998,399 florins. On the 31st of August, of
27.510,966 florins, to notes representing 259,349,940
florins. The Exchange was steady and rising.
WURTENIBERG.—The national guard of Niirtin-
gen have been dissolved by order of government, on
account of their participation in the recent riots in
that town, on the occasion of the return to it of a
leading democrat who had just ben Weasel from
prison.

FRANKFORT.—The vicar of the empire, the
Archduke John, arrived in Frankfort oaths afternoon
of the 3rd instant, and expmienced a cordial recep-
tion on the part of the authorities and the inhabitants
in general. (It is believed in well-informed circles
that in a short time he will resign his post.
BADEN.—The prisoners in Rastadt are forced to
work at the improvements in the fortress. The ge-
neral impression is, that in a short time it will be
garrisoned tby Austrians. Meantime some 18,000
Prussians are still quartered on the inhabitants of
Baden, a burthen which, if it long continues, will
bring thousands of citizens to ruin. The advantage
of increasing the gendarmerie throughout the duchy
is strenuously upheld by certain parties.
Letters from the Rhine announce the speedy reduc-
tion of the 00-called Rhine duties,—onerous imposts
on the navigation of that rivtr. The central naviga-
tion committee, composed of deputies from the variuus
states (including France), interested in the trade on
the Rhine, will shortly meet in Mentz, and it is un-
dtrstood that the majority of the commission are
favourable to a reduction to the extent of 75 per cent.
of the existing duties. The reduction will be of
service, indirectly to England, although not to any
very considerable extent.

By Mr. Beiscasa—l did not observe a broken shovel at the
same time tail I saw the new one.
&rand Main Lockwood, surgeon, described the appear-
saes et the body of the deceased when called upon to make
a sled swam examination of it in conjunction with Mr.
The skill w fractured in more places than one,
sadas
Bastogne must have been made by a blunt and not
a sheep bigamist. These fractures were sufficient in them-
selves to cause death, but he found a bullet in the front part of
the bend just over the eye, which was also sufficient to have
sawed death. He had that bullet still in his possession. He
else leek a set of teeth from the deceased's mouth, which he
gave MN:. Charles Slow.
Mr. Charles Slew, summoning *Moor of the parish of
Bermondsey, produced the seta teeth which he had received
from Mr. Lo&weed. He gave no ether evidence, and was
desired to retain careful possession of the teeth.
Mr. Wing, the surgeon, was then called, but not being
present he wee sent for, which caused a delay in the pro-
ceedings. After a pause of 16 minutes, Mr. Olding not
alltilatestNalahe' 'a friend of the deceased, said : On the 18th
August ke saw edeed body in the back kitchen of Vas house
3. Miner-place, which be then recognised as the body of
Patrick O'Connor. He had been acquainted with Mr.
O'Connor since the month et Aril last, and bad been iu his
oompany two or three times a week during that period. He
had not the slightest doubt upon the identity of the body.
Bhe bad visited the Manning* in his company about four
times. On the last occasion, which was on Wednesday, the
Bth, he called there with him in the evening. and found Mr.
and Mrs. Manning. Mrs. Manning said she had waited
dinner for him for en hour, and wondered he did not ooze.
After conversing with Mrs. Manning about a bill, and after
some general conversation, the diseased, who had been
smoking, together with Mr. dinning, got faint, and Ia
upon the sofa, when Mrs. Manning got some brandy and
water for him, but he refused to drink it. He left, in com-
pany with deceased, about eleven o'clock, and parted from
him about a quarter-put eleven near Whitechapel.
By Mr. Binns—Mr. Manning had no conversation with
the deceased on money matters. His temarks were addressed
to Mrs. Manning.
By Mr. Solomon—The deceased was on very friendly
terms with the Manuings. It occurred to me somewhat
strange that Mrs. Manning should seem to know so muck
about Mr. O'Connor's business. He was quite saber when
he left that evening.
George Odling, surgeon, said he saw the body in the grave
which had been dug for it in the back kitchen of the house,
No. 3, Miner place. It was covered with lime—the result of
which would cause more rapid decomposition. There were
18 wounds on the back of the head which appeared to have
been inflicted with a heavy instrument, having a cutting
edge. He took sixteen pieces of bone from the skull. He
also discovered the bullet In the front of the
head but he
could not say in what precise spot it entered, as it might
have been though any of several of the fractures

on the b.ck of his h;ad. kip should not suppose that the
ball was propelled with very great force, otherwise it would
have been m .re battered. Inside the head there was an ap-
parent's of discharged gunpowder. The other vital organs
were is a sound and healthy state. The wounds on the
bark of the head would produce immediate intangibility.
WILY' Keating, Clerk at the Examiners' Office, Customs,
and a friend of the deceased,ssid, that when in company with
a Mr. Graham, on Thursday, the 9th of August, he met Mr.
O'Connor, about a quarter before six o'clock going in the di-
rection of Minver-;.lace. He stopped and spoke to them on
London-Sridge, and showed to Mr. Graham a letter to which
he (witness) saw the signature of "Maria," and some
other name, he could not say what. He had to return to the
office, and ilia not go with Mr. O'Connor. He never saw
him after. He went to Minver-place with Mr.
Graham on the Sunday following, and saw Mrs.
Manning. He asked her if Mr. O'Connor had dined
with her on Thursday, and she said "No." He said that
Mr. O'Connor was seen coming over the bridge at half.past
five o'clock on Thursday, but she made no reply to that.
He also said he heard she bad been to Mr.
O'Connor's lodging on Tnursdey, and she said that
she had • that Mr. Manning said it woe very un
gentlemanly of him not to come at live o'clock, as he pro-
mined, and she went to his lodgings to inquire after him.
This he had forgotten to state go, the Wrest. He said he
wished to see Manning to ask him about O'Con nor, and that
he would call again, but she said they were going out to tea,
and would not be at home. _ _ _

[THREEPENCE,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Tan DAY.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
Biro's Ka. ColmarNam* Fans,
THE ITALIAN OPIRA Donn, CovEra ()ANDRIC.— ;
IN as DILI/YIELD.
To-day was appointed for the last examination of this
bankrupt, late lessee of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden.
Mesa,. Banks and Son, the accountants under the fiat,
put in the balance-sheet, which was very voluminous, In
consequence of which it bad bean impossible to file it tea
days previous to the meeting, and consequently an adjourn-
ment became necessary. The balanee.theet commences 7th
Nov., 1846, and ends 12th July, 1849, and shows debtor to
creditors unsecured, 33,3371. lee 6d.; do.. holding eecurity,
3,0371.10 s ; liabilities, 2.9361.85.4 d. ; capital, 92,3821. 21.106.
Profits, 14,1641. es. Id. Creditor, good debts, 31. Wei ; bad,
1001. Liabilities, 2,9341.85. 4d. Property not valued. Do.
in the bands of a creditor, 3,0371. lea ; outlay at Willow
Bulk, 8,5361. ss. ed. The expenses of the opera-house ma-
son, 1848, 78,7661. Is. 9d. ; receipts, 44,0081. 124. lid. Sea-
son, 1849, 54,8621. 6e. 104.; receipts, 29,4071. 10.. Total,
81,3551. 19s. 4d. The outlay on Willow Bank, 1,6361. 66.64.
was expended.
There were • great number of proof. admitted, and the
examination was adjourned.

RAILWAYS IN INDIA.-THE DEARTH OF

COTTON.

[From the Nasehater Eraininer.]
The gloomy accounts relating to the cotton crop of
1849, which have been received during the last fortnight,
naturally canoe many of oar Lancashire readers to tura with
renewed interest to the subject of cotton cultivation in
India; and ones more we hear, as on many former monsieur,
innumerable expressions of regret at the apathy whirl the
people of England have displayed with regard to all the va-
rious modes proposed, from time to time, for making us Ism
dependent on America for the raw material of oar staple
manufacture. Little more than hallo century ago, we im-
ported about as much cotton from our own colonies in the
West Indies as we did from the United States. Daring the
first hall of 1848 and 1849 our imports from these countries
respectively have been u follow : _

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1348. 1849.
United States, belts 875.367 .... 1,170,132
West Indies, bales

Less than thirty years age our imports of West India
cotton wore equal to one-• ends of what we received from
America, bet since that period they have very rapidly de-
creased. Year after year have the receipts from our own
colonies dwindled away, while the quantity imported from
the United States has been increasing at such a rate as to
render us almost entirely dependent upon them for supply-
ing Lancashire with the chief material required for its in-
dustry. Comparing the progress of the woollen hide, dur-
ing the last thirty years, with that of the cotton manufac-
ture, as regards their dependence upon the importation of
the raw material employer' in both, one cannot help remark-
ing the singular change which has been going on in each of
these two great branches of industry.
In 1922, our woollen manufacturers depended chiefly upon
Germany and Spain for the large quantities of foreign wool
they required in the manufacture of cloth. At that time the
whole of our imports from our own colonies did not amount
probably to more than 200,0001 b. a year. In 1818, out of
62,103,0001 b. of foreign wool consumed in Great Britain,
nearly 40,000,0001 b. have been imported from the following
British colonies : lbs.
New South Wales 22.091,481
East India
Van Diemen'. Lard 4,965,968
Cape of Good Hope, to 3,497,260
South Australia
West Australia
New Zealand

Total 39,629,2n

By Mr. Bins.—l have seen other letters from Mn. Man-
ning besides that I have referred to, with Mr. O'Connor, in-
slung him to dinner. I heard there was a letter sent to him
on Wednesday, the Bth. I have Been and read letters of
Mrs. Manning to Mr. O'Connor, and could state the tenon,
of them.

Mr. Baldwin objected to his doing so, and it wat not
pissed.
By Mr. Solomon—l know nothing of any trataactions
between Mr. O'Connor sod Mrs. Manning.
[TU iaquizy was proceeding when we went to prowl

Tux ISLAY TONTINE—Since the purchase of the
estates by the promoters of this plan, it appears that 'change
has been made in the plans of the association, namely, the
adoption of old instead of young nominees. This has been
done on the ground that the revised plan is not only more
attractive tt the ordinary investor, as tt brings the chance of
a very large benefit, and the final disposal of the property
within the compass of one generation instead of three, but is
much more beneficial in the way of a provision for children.
A nominee of GO being selected, sad the share assigned to
thechild, there is the certainty of a return, according to the
period or periods survived by the nominee, of not less than 60
per cent of each share, up to 60, 100, 160, 400, 2,000, and'
24 000 per cent. Moreover, the ultimate possession of the
whole or part of the estate is brought within the probable
lifetime of the tarty moat interested, and the parent of the
fortunate surviving shareholder, it is affirmed, will himself
aibeafibtilylive tose
guaranteed earehiOnchtged ascosmuempit7ot that thien.reTntahel
sustains no improvement, and that only 3 per ant. interest
is made of surplus capital; but a government grant of
30,0001. is now being expended on the property, and as the
lasses lapse they are said to be invariably renewed at an en•
heaved rental. No calculation, of course, is pretended to
be roads as to the probable profits from the general life ',ent-
rance business, which it is prcposed to found upon the basis
of the 12,000 nominee insurances.

PRIZES FOR CLEAN HOUSES.-00 Monday a
public meeting was held in the under hall of the 014 Wynd
School, Glasgow, for the purpose of awarding prizes to com-
petitors keeping the cleanest houses in the east aide of Old
Wynd, the New and Bock Wynds, and the north side of
Bridgegate-street. The meeting, which consisted for the
mut part of females, successful and unsuccess.al competitors,
who exhihited a very clean and orderly appearance, was also
composed of several of our liberal and benevolent citizens.
Bailin Smith was called to the chair. The meeting was
shortly addressed by the chairman, Professor Lorimer, and
Mr. G. W. Muir, on the importance of cleanliness, both as
regards the moral and spiritual condition of man ; and there-
after the premiums, consisting of five of 11., ten of 10a., and
twenty of 65., were awarded. Mr. G. Heron and Mr. W.
Brown followed up the swirling of the prizes with a few
remarks by way of inciting those who had been unsuccessful
on the present occasion to continue the MUM they had
begun with so much credit to themselves.—Glasgow Herald.
DISCOVERY OF COAL IN I',GYPT.—The Journal des
Dards publishes a letter from Grand:Cairo, of the date of
' the Ist of August, which announces the discovery, by a
French civil engineer, of a stratum of coal in the vicinity of
the Nile, towards Upper Egypt. This is a most valuable
diuovery, inasmuch as it will Relieve the government from
the onerous tribute paid to England for the purehu• of this
indispensable article. Two engineers, an Englishman and
a Frenchman, wet, employed to investigate the lands in the
vicinity of the Nile, for the discovery of coal, about three
years ago ; but these superficial inquirers reported that
there was none, and that, moreover, none would be found.
The French engineer first mentioned, more diligent and
more skilful than his predecessors, has completely over-
thrown this bold assertion. The samples have been referred
to a commission, and the excavations will be continued on a
large scale.

In 1920 out of 161,672,000 lbs. of cotton wool importik
into Great Britain, 89,999,000 lb. were from the United
States. Last year, out of about 740,000,000 lbs. imported,
not lees than 640,000,000 lbs. nearly seven-eighths of the
whole quantity consumed, must have been from the United
States. Had the increued production of cotton wool is our
own colonise since 1820 been going on at the same rate as
that of sheep's wool has be, we should now base been lll-
portinft only about 800,000 bales from America, in addition
to 1,200,000 bales from the Eut Indies, Australia, Port Ha-
tal.and other !atonic" favourable to its cultivation.

TUE POIEON SHOP.—Soehe : the shop of Mr.
Upas, chemist and druggist; Bottles, his assistant, behind
the counter.—Enter Widnw Woman, with infant in arms,
seemingly in great distress.—Wieow (much ',hated):
Threepenn'orth of laudanum, please sir. Bottles : Lauda.
num, ma'am ; yes, ma'am. Sixpran'orth, I thick you said,
ma'am.—Widow (sighing): Tnreepenn'orth. Threepence
is all I have in the world ! Bottles : Sorry for it, ma'am.
(Serves her.) [Exit widow frantically.] Enter Little Girl, and
several other persons of squalid, wretched, and sinister sp-
pearanoe.—B.ettles: Now then, little girl, what's for you?
Girl: Mother says, please will you let her have as mach
arsenic se you can for twopence-halfpenny, to kill raw—
Bottles: Rats l—eh ! Father belong to a build club ? Oirl :
Yes, sir, please, sir.—Bottles: So I thought. (Delivers the
arsenic.) [Exit little girl.] N .w, sir, what can I do for
you ? (To a stranger with his face nritlied, and his hat
over his eyes.)—Stratiger : Thank'ee •' I'll wait—Bottles (to
several customers): You for arsenic?—you ?—you ?—all of
you arsenic ? Sin arsenics. And you ?—oh ! one corrosive
sublimate. (Serves them oat packets ready made up.)
[Exeunt with the poison )—Stranger (having watched them
all out) : I want some of the strongest poison you have
got. Bottles: Well, sir, I think prosaic acid will suit
you better than eny.—Stranger: That smells, don't it?
Bottles: Why, yes, sir. Probably strychnine waled answer
your purpose t—Stranger: Is that pretty willish ?—Bottles
(smiling): Ob. yes, sir! I should be sorry to take two
grains et it —S-ranger : LA's have half.an.ounce.—Bottles
Half-an ounce, sir ? (Weighs it out.) What is the next ar-
ticle, sir ?-Btranger: Nothing.—Bottles: Allow me to tempt
you with a little belladonna; very killing, air, I assure you.
Or would you try our digitalis? I could recommend our
colaltheheic,umtillrw.—S?tran_sgewro:BeNroiwniot h ! t.:lott
he
,Or anything
you. The strychnine will do the jen. Hand it nver, will
you, and make haste.—Battles : Directly, sir. (Folds and
presents the packet.) Thank you, sir. (Takes the money
and sweeps it into the till. Bait Sitranger.) Ha! a pretty
good morning's work;—and if the undertakes don't get
a job or tw, cut of it—and pethips bck to-, —I shall
be utonistml rayther.—PsescA.

But it is useless to repine over what might have been.
The only task that is left for us now is to improve the op-
portuui i a which still lie before no. Ia looking over the table
of imports of cotton from 1820 to 1848, we find that in 1841
we imported no less than 100,104,51016, from East India,
which is considerably more than the whole of our average
annual import from the United States, in the five years
ending in 1824. But in 1848 our receipts of American cot-
ton were nearly double what they had been its 1841,
while those from East India had sunk to lou than one-
half of what they were seven years ago; and yet
how easily might it have been otherwise ? Had the
East India Company merely spent oie-fiftieth part
of its enormous
constructicia of railways and other works for facili-
tating the transit of goods, we might at this moment have
been re ceiving fr ma Bombay one-third of all the cotton we
couninve in which We, not to speak of the greatly im-
prove,' demand which would thereby have been created for
the twist and cahoots of Lancashire, we should have felt
comparatively easy as to the probable estimate of the Ameri-
can cotton crop of 181 J. Now, that the railway system is
about to be introduces into our Indian empire, it remains to
b• seen whether the Court of Directors will so bestir them-
selves in promoting its rapid development, II to give them
something more of • claim upon the legislature for the ,re-
newal of their expiring charter, than they could venture to
' urge at present.

LA I'L ATA.—There see dates in Liverpool front
Buenos Ayres to the 11th July, but then is no news of im-
porter oe.

THE IMMIGRATION INTO TILE UNITED STATER
continue" on the increase. For the first seven months of
the present year the arrival§ at the port of New York alone
amounted to 143,222 immigrants, ■gaiest 110,404 immigrants
for the same period in 1848 3 102,118 ditto in 1847; 80.220
ditto in 1846; 48,500 ditto in 1846; 34,866 ditto in 1844.

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GIRL LOST IN THE 3fooss.—On the 7th inst., a
young woman, about 18 or 19 years of age, named Isabella
Paton, left St. Colmes, a village about four miles tr. the *sat
of Fraserburen, with the intention of proceeding to Pennon,
about 17 miles distant. It is not known at what time she
left St. Colmar, but she did not reach Peanut that evening.
On the following day, she was met about a mile and a half
frem Pennon by the party to whose house shown going, and
who describes her as being then "quite cheery and happy."
It will be remembered that this was the day on which the
heavy fogs of the week commenced ; and whether she had
lost her way in consequence, or had gone out of the road on
purpose, it is not known ; but it is mat probable that the
former was the case. It is known that on the day she pur-
chased sixpenny worth of bread from a woman selling it by
the way; but from that time till Monday morning, nothing
was seen or heard of her. It is conjectured that she had
continued walking the whole of Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, during which the fog continued, and on which
days, owing to the fog and the nature of the country—which
is wild bog and deep glen—it would have been extremely din,-
cult fir her to have made her way to any house- But whether
she walked or not, it is certain that, hoeseleu and unsheltered,
she encountered all the fury of the terrible thunder storm of the
Saturday arming, a thunder-storm which, for violence, has
seldom been exceeded, and exposed to which, in the circum-
stances in which the girl was placed, was not unlikely per-
numently to injure the intellect, if it was not affected pre-
' viourly. As we have said, she was found on Monday
morning, the 13th instant. When discovered she was lying
on the moss of Kinbean, and was found by some of the ser-
vants belonging to the farm of that name, which is situated
on the property of Troup, in the parish of Gawie. Having
been fur six nights exposed to wind and weather, and with,
so far as known, no food, save the sixpenny-worth of bread
already mentioned, she was in a most dreadfully weak state.
Her clothes, which had been drenched, had begun to dry
upon her, and her boots were perfectly worn away with wan-
dering in the mots. Every effort was made to restore her
exhausted frame. She is so fat recovered as to be able to
speak, but it is evident that the mind is affected. At times
she takes fits of raving, and gives utterance to the most ex-
traordinary statements.—Banifshare Journal.
A PRISON ESCAPE AT ABERDEEN.—One of the
conv:cta effected his escape in a very remarkable manner
from the West Prison on Monday night or Tuesday morn-
ing. He had behaved very violently towards the keepers on
Sunday, and received some wounds on tho head, which go
far affected his health that it was considered desirable to
locate him, for the sake of the free air, in one of the upper
cells, lighted from the roof. The skylight appeared per-
fectly secure, en much so that, independently of the apparent
impossibility of passing from the roof over a strong Merano
de frue, and descending from the height of five storeys to
the ground, the Idea of his effecting his escape, especially in
his apparent condition, was dreamt of. In the morn-
ing, however, his cell was found empty; aid it appeared
that he had forced himself through the narrow aperture by
which it was lighted, and, passing over the iron spikes, by
means of hie bed cl,thes had swung himself down till he
reached an iron funnel that passes up the wall on the west
side, and by that perilous passage descended to the ground.
The outer wall is high, but, after surmounting impediments
of such a character as thou he had encountered in his der
sent, it was scarcely to be thought that it would have steed
much in his way. The convict's name is Weellum—
Ifontros• Review.