The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22,

THE ST. KATHARINE DOCKS COMPANY.
Yrststasy the half-yearly 'Reefing of this company
was held at the Dm k-house on Tower.till, for considering ant
a dividend, end on other busitoes.
The chair was taken by THOMAS Tooze, Eeq., who said
that ad soon as the revrt was dspoied of a lets' meat would
be laid before the meeting, showing the po. ition of the
company In respect to the dispute with the Board of
Customs.
bir JOHN HALL, the Secretary, then read the following
reett
The account, of the receipts ard expenditure of the cons
pang for the year analog the 3111 D.:ember tut, have been
accessible for in proprietor, by the propritlo daring the lest
14 der., and copies el them ere now upon the table. From
these mounts it appears that the grow eathiage of the com-
pany, for the liar ended the 31st December last (omitting
fractional parts) were 231,5521., which, es compared with
those of the year 1849, ante noting to 2'21,012/., show au in-
crease in the gross canines of the pest y; it, of 7,5401.;
but, from the eztrithrdinary expenses the company have
been subjected to during that period, a considerable portion
of which Sae been otos:ousel by the Froccediess of the cost
toms in these docks, the charges under the head of expendi•
tore in 1830 hive exceeded chops of the preceding year by
6,3351., which, deducted from the increase of grad earnings,
leaves the n aa in 1850 exceeding that of 1849 by
1,20.51: . . .

" The proprietors will doubtless recollect that at the het
half-yearly sleeting the directors announced to them that it
would be necessary to write oil certain rums for bad and
doubtful debts, as also for loans, outstanding rites, rent,
sod charges upon goods sold by the company, which have
not realised the amount due upon them.
"These sums, winch were estimated not to exceed
20,0001., would, it was rated, when a written off, reduce
what was then considered as the rest, standtog at 48,5831.,
to about 28,5001, subject to a fur her deduction of 1.3181,
determined open at that meeting for the purpose of makiew
up the amount it guired to pay a dividend then declared, at
ths rate of 2 per can.. for the half year.
" The result of an examination into the accounts by •
special committee, a:Totaled by the court of direcort,
established that the sums to be written off, atti r takinn credit
f,r some other items standing open, amounted to 15,5354
instead of 20,0001, si el that therutore the balance in favour
of the company was 33,0481., instead of 28,5001. as had been
previously estimated...

" As 'leather result of the exaction:ice referred to, it hes
been deemed advisable to adopt a system cf accounts which
ehould ►how at onto the eunings and liabilities of ,each year
respectively, and for this important purpose the bateau
sheet of the ye sr ended the 31st December, 1849, has been
remodelled accortingly.
" The t ifect of this remodelling has been to charge the
year 1849 in addition to Lau debursementa of the twelve
months, with trawl of a third hell-year, amounting to
28,1851., which, bet .g payable in 18.10, would, according
bs the time which has prevailed in this establishment since
the e.nim.nement of besintas have been charted to that
year, het sow, being deducted from the 33.0481. before-
mentioned, eaves, azeordiug to the re-modelled term of
&ascent, a final balance brought forward on the let of
January, 1880, of 6,64 31. 13s. 31.
" A statement explanatory of the eff,ct of this re.model.
ling upon the belanc,theet of 1819 accompanies the ae.
count., from which it ia apparent that the diminution of the
sum reprise ntiug the balance his not ansca irom a decrease
in the net earnings el the year.
" The net income of the company for the past year wee
71,6131., out of which wee paid in Juiy las: a d.eidend of 2
p.r cent., atomising to 38,6051. ; the diffetenee, together
with the baritone brought meant on the Ist of Jamsry,
1860, amounting, seededing to the rentodel.ed account, to
8,563/. 13s. 3J., caniututea the preen: balance 07
30,6711. 18.. 21., which is appiicable to dividend.
" lhe prdprittoeswill remember that at the half-yearly
general meeting, iu July leas, it was resolved, for the per.
pose of making up ;he dividend to 2 per cent , to take from
the balance the sum of 1,31h1.
0 A divide ad et the same rate for the put hall-yetr would
involve the neeeuity of farther trenehiae upon the b►ltnce,
and the directors therefore recommend that the dividend
now to be atelier. d ba at the rate of 11 per cent. for the
hall year coded 31st 11. member last, which will 'Mile them
to restore 1/1 tue balance a pomon of the 1,31b1. above-
meatioried.

" Another noon the director have for recommending this
CAUTSIFI is, that, although Ile prospects of the company r
reepews augmentation of bushing are far .ura:.le, they deem
at prudent to provide against the conungency of some
diminution of income that may arise from a reduction of
rces upon sere ml of the principal articles of impatation
recently determined upon to the port of Loneloo, while at
the s.ms time en increase of ezpenoiture mart ne contem-
plated as areeing out of the 'troceediogs of the custom..
The foil-wing returns of the quantities of goods landed
and in warehouse, and also of the snipping and tonnage, that
have entered the dear during the pars 1848 and 1840
reeptetiv,ly, slaw a general imprivement during the put
3 ear its the various herders of btvistess in these Oche :

T. JLATHAIII4I DOCKS.
Almtreat—Cl .ods and &pipping, 1849, 1850.
(io els lauded.

Durimmi. I lel: Ilkr4l,`°°:„ I °"` 1699,
on 31st I)ecva, net et the foil wing years:
Durum, r. 1,49
t36:41521 tom la 1030 over lent,
titaipvieg, 1975, 1849, 1860.
1816. 1841. 1820.
SU" Toss. Mips. Tons. Ships. Tens.
Entetwit with 643 155,002 675 133,932 703 131,048
Enteretlirisit
to load. 223 33,907 253 41,637 259 48,621

Total b 72 1119,0 N 92s 193,789 9,2 200,670
Marlin in IPSO over Mill 90 Alp 11,441 ton%
0 1930 , 1949 19 „
PORT OP L'uNDON 016mliRAL RETURN.

" An account et the number of atom* with tam amount of
their tonnage, that have intend the pin of Lyndon iron
foreign north in the yean ended 6th hammy, 1850 and 1161
11130. 1831.
nip. Taw. Ships. Tons.
6,91/ 1,414,311 8,197 1,379,233
3,013 463,923 3,413 347,174

the enstoms cr to the cause of justice, could result from the
postponement. But it the directors thought in July lest
that put cause existed for dissatisfaction at the delay in
britgieg to • decision such • grave charge egainet the
servants of the company, it may be judged how much more
is now tteir ground for complaint. when it la stated that
after due roues of trial, in the Court of Queen's Bench,
havieg been given in November kit, naiderable expense
incurred In prepanng for the defence, briefs delivered and
witnesses eubieelatd,the Customr,on the very day appeinted
for trial, unreel, rolicitor, and witnesses blies; present in
courr, withdrew the record at the very last moment without
assieeing any reason for to (Litt.
" The earliest p rind at which the trial can now take
place is in the beginning of next month ; but the same course
of proceeding may then be repeated—the rtes'( ?my be
?gain withdrawn, and the tri may thus be ind, ioltely
postponed, without the accused Mein? any trews of expo,.
diting •he decision of the charge of felony, which is thus
kept suspended over theta, and without their lot 7•„ g any
redress lot the expenses incurred, lheatlnch ea the crown
pays no costs.
"Be Os possibility could, under ordinary eircuesstancts,
such a delay as that which has occurred in this esee in
eons:quotes of the extraordinary privilege of the crown'
take ;dace in the trial of a pri•oner at the Central Criminal
Court. In that court, if a prosecute.? is not prepared to sub.
standete his cheap, or to assign some reason which shell, in
the opioioo of the judge, be sufficient for the thisy, the so.
cased is peat on his trial, and or count acquitud.
"Proceedings have also been taken by the Customs
against six other of toe servants of the co:npany for penalties.
These pr ceediep are supposed to twice out of • charge that
pods have been removed out of the docks without payment
of duty, by being concealed in a dust bin and taken out in
concert with the dust contractor.
" The six men who were charg.d with being concerned in
this all,' 4 robbery were arrest. d and taken to Woitecross-
street prison, but were afterwards Lberated on pr-,curing
friends of their own to put in bail for their appearance.
"10)112186one have been filed ageinst them, the trials
upon wkich cannot come on haat February.
•• It is proper to add that the company have not in any
way made the:treeless responsible for the penal-he (it such
should be recovered), irasmuch so, if suck roobery has been
committed, the company isles much interested as the crown
' in bringing the offenders to justice; hut the direc ors have
reason to believe that there will ultimately be found to be
no tenth is obis char e.

" TM third subject to which tba direet,rs deem it nee li-
my to allude is the seizure by the Customs of sweepings,
Scrapings, and other pods.
Os the 14th of September last the company received •
letter fre m the Secretary of the Customs, stating that it web
the Intention et the commisaioners that the goods under
seizure in these docks should be returntd into the Conn of
Exchequer, and a notice on the part of the company was
sh,rtly afterwards serc d on the Cimino, that toe company
claimed the goods so seined.
'• On the 4th November then goods were returned into
the Court of Exchequer. On the 11th of November, • for
tura claim to them on the pert of the company was put in,
sod on the 22nd of the same month that claim was perfected
by the performance of certain formalities required be law.
The text stip on the part of the Customs was the itlinz of
intirer.atioris to the Court of Exchequer, and this might
have been done immediately after the 22nd November,
when the ctmpitny'e claim was perefeired, but none of such
informations were filed until the 21st D.oember.

The directors consider it to be of importance to no.ies
here the dilatory nature of three proceedings, as an etu myt
has been made through some of the crwspapers to lead the
public to believe that the Customs were fully prepared with
their case, and that the delay which hes occurred in bring
ing these proceedings to • determination has been oteaaimud
by this cmirtry. Instead of suds being the fee, the trn'b
is, and it admits of being proves, that no eelay that lass
taken place is attributable to this company ; whereas, on
tie contrary, tome of the ensures having been made by the
Customs upwards of a year ago, and they in every inetin.ce
'laving been tho initiatory parties, with theta the delay has
rrated. The trials on these informations cannot now take
place until the month of February.
"IA the present state of the pree.edinua, the directors pur-
posely abstaio, from obvious reasons, from entariog upon
the subject of the merits of the taizurer.

"The only remaining subject between the empty and
the Customs is a claim on the part ~1 the latter for arrears
of duties spread over a period of ten years, for w'.eich an
information has been recently filed against the company. As
no claim had been made on the comp iny for any arrears of
Jul prior to the Hang of this information, nor any kind of
iodination given that such information would be filed, nor
any inform.ation afforded of the apet.fio fartocharg.d, the
uttioen of the company are at a low to commute upon
wh.t ground. this claim for arriam of duties is made

"There is one circumstance mor, which the directors
have t imen•ion as beiaa cheese:Met/4ot the Ve1%1i011,4 nature
of the proceedings of the Ciistotts towsrde the docks. Net
SAtiFfied as It ehould seem with the results of the rigorous
karninati in which Ice ma many te.onthe the often of the
revenue hat been earning on throughout the dock premises,
the commissioners suddeoly, on the dad October, tamed an
order for taking stock in all the company's wareheuses and
vaul's, in which at the time upwards of one million of
packages of goods were deposited. This atoekteleine, which
has now been going on for several weeks, end may last many
more, is attended with very great 'epeeist both to the mown
' and to the dock.. And independentiy of the expense, this
process invades* the liability to injury of the yrarrty sob.
jeered to it by &melte to the packages and tt, ten ration of
the goods from unpiling and reptiles, end the cosoquest
inertia* of sweepbge and cute ; and it has hitherto, to the
best of the information the directors have been able to
obtain, failed of eliciting a single feet to justify the imputa-
tion of fraud which has been assigned as the tenon for these
unwarrantable proceedings.
In corelusion, the directors cannot but strongly &pim-
ento the ye:Views and harassing I rocredinge adopted by the
Castoras towards this establishment, proceedings which
unavoidably in'erfen wi h the ordinary octuotions of the
r filores and servante of the company, and to a great extent
impede the usual business of the dock,. Tee directors,
however, firmly trust that the deeisnme on these proceedings
will be such as to put an end to the aggressions of the
Customs' authorities, and to moiety the public how little
reaaon there was far the erraordinery measures which have
Men adopted towards the company and its servants."
The CHAIRMAN enntessed the: the only remedy for
thins was tr get the natant* brought before porliement,
when he hed no doubt it would be abated. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BUCKLE having eulogised the conduct of the dine
tors and re.retary, and condemned the vexatious mode of
I proceeding of the Board of Custom!, moved a vote of thanks
to the board for their cervices during the past year.
Mr. All. FARNCOME seconded the motion, which was
passed with acclaim ion.
The unclog then adjourned.

THE DISTRESSING HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL.—The
cotones's intrust on the body of Mr. John Frederick
Bippert, of whom death, under peculiar circumstancea, some
particulars *mom in hloaday's Express, was resumed
that day at the Llandoger lion Tavern, King street, Bris-
tol, and veined to excite even a larger amount of interest
than on the preceding Saturday. The jury re-sasembled
at 11 o'clock, but owing to the crowded s.a.c of the room,
seine ,onsialerable time elapsed before the inquiry could be
proceeded wi Stone, of the west. ro circuit, ap-
peared, with Mr. Brook, Smith, for the accused, Mr. Philip
Alexander.—The first witnesses called were Mr. Long and
Mr. Lansdowne, two of the medical gentlemen who had
attended the deceased, and by whom, in company with Mr.
Wiltion and Mr. N. Smith, the post mortem examination
had been made. Mr. Ling was examined at considerable
length, and detailed all the particulars of the illness
and treatment of the deceased. There was no
doubt that the death was caused by strangulated
hernia, which was of recent standing, although when GA could
not say that itmight not have existed for weeks, or perhaps
two mouths.—Mr. Lansdowne having given a 'Oathr opi.
nion, James Panes, a Pf.l pilot, who was on b .ord the
Adolphe at the time of the allege d smelt, was examined,
but gave his testimony in ao unsatisfactory a manner that
it was difficult to understand what he r. ally meant to say.
We believe it was, that Mr. Alexander and the deceased el-
bowed each other; that deceased was thrown down by " •
kind of shove," and got up almost immediately without as-
sistance.—Joseph Carrot, a waterman, who was on board
the v.uel, said the deceased, Bippert, was standing by the
companion on the quarter deck, and on Mr. Alexander
cueing on board he said to him, " You are too late ; I have
got the ship's papers." Mr. Alexander told him to mind his
own businue and not interfere with him, and then put
his foot on the companion ladder to go down into the
cabin. Diceued elbowed him, upon which Mr. Alexander
said, " I will go down; I have as much right here as you ;"
and elbowed him again. From the companion to the brink
of the deck was about 18 inches or two feat, audit was about
the same depth from the poop to the main deck. Deceased
tell over the deck, and then got up again immediately and
went into the cabin. Mr. Alexaader said, "If you put
your head on me again, I'll knock you down, If it costs me
201.;" to which deceased replied, "I will meet you as a
gentleman to-morrow."—John Henry Smith, a soliciting
agent in the shipping line, stated the: he went on board
immediately before Mr. Alexander. Deceased was standing
by the companion, having his hands on it trona side to side,
and he turned round and said in French, with •
sneer, "You are too late, air," Mr. Alexander went to
go into the cabin, and pat his right arm against deceased,
who prevented his going down by retaining his hold of
the companion, and putties out his elhow to obstruct him.
Mr. Alexander said, " Don't push me, air," aod gave him
a kind of shove, and he staggered back a few paces. Witness
thought he was going to get something to strike Mr. AI, :-
ander, but he tell over the deck. H. immediately got up
and said, " What did you do that for ?" when Mr. Alexander
said, " VII do so again if you interrupt me in my business."
Deceased replied, make you pay for it."—Fred. James,
clerk to Meure. Alexander, deposed that he went on board
with Mr. Alexander to present a bill which the captain had
drawn on the bras at Nantes. As Mr. Alexander was going
into the cabin, Mr. Blatant pushed him. Mr. Alexander
pushed split with his right elbow, and caused de-
ceased to tall, but he got up again almost im-
mediately. The examination of the deceased taken before
the magistrate and in 'hien be are that Mr. Alexander
struck him with his fist without provocation, sad knocked
him from the poop deck to the main, thus causing the in-
juries of which he died, was then produced and read; alter
which Susannah Bippert, his widow, was called to prove
that whet he went out on the 4th of December her hus-
band was quite well, and that on his return be was ill and
complained of having been assaulted. The inquest was
than adjourned till Wednesday.
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RtILWAY.—
Traffic for the week ending ha. 18, 1851 : —Number
of passengers, 11.180; passettgen and parcels, 5191. Bs. led.;
goods, 3371. 12s. 91. band, 8571. 0.. 101.; correspondingwoek 1650, 8321. ; 114.

MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
ME LATE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN
CHESHIRE.
SIANCHESTER, JAN. 21.
The inquest on the body of the late Mre. Mtry
Kinder, of Hatt,rsley, a village on Werneth Lowe, Cheshire,
who wu murdered on Thursday evening lent, wu held yes-
terday minting, and the prootedings listed till a rate hour
of the evening. No further facts have teen elicited by the
inquiry, and the eircumatancis of the murder are shrJude.i
in greater rayresy eince the investigation, if pcnsible, then
beture. Many people had (spewed that disclosures would
coma out at ttit inque.t ti,..torinF Josiah 1,45, thz sarv.ht
maul but &mita', the iejAlti to ire. him
from ail tuspicion. His demeanour at the ihqu, at, and his
etraightiorward statement. ha asawer to the coroner, et
counting without reserve for the whole of hie time anil
movements throughout the day, at ono. appeared to disarm
suspicion, even it the probability that he knee where to find
the money which the real plunderer of the house
overlooked did no. point to some other torrent.
The is.quest was held at the Stamford A sae lon, Hatters:oy,
about a mils and a half from Um .cone of the murder,
before Charles Hudson, Elq., coroi.er for the northern
division of Cheshire.

isthe evidence adduced at the leeriest:
Bost Kinder was the first witness She paid the deceased,
Mary Kioder, was my mother. Her age last birthday wet
77. See was t' •wi eow of Georg- Kinder, Ist* of Mitt.,.
lie was a Cushier termer, and chid eight years ago. We
011120 to live at Hatters ey above: a year after his death. My
mother, my sister (Mena), and aneclf, came to live there at
a farm belongine to my mother, ',lied !Mocha Feld.
We lived there toot years in the house before
we canmeoc.d farming. We let the laud during
the toot years to Mr. Jacksen, my brother in law.
Far the last four years my mother has famed the land.
Jonah Fox and Sarah Fox lived in the house, hisidee my
mother and sister and salt. 'vitae Fox is the farm servant,
end came to live with as when we began to tarn,' four years
more. lie bad previously lived with .lukson, my brother-in.
law, eight )errs. Sarah Fox, wee es his wine, bas lived with
us nearly five years. These were Man trusty and confidential
'eremite. Ths y hue with the family, and we got our meals
together, and both of them would know all our Miasmic and
private &dein and the 'Mies of the ready. O s Thursday
lett myself and Bitter left home to go oar a visit. We left at
the same time, between half-put nine and ten o'clock in the
morning. We went to Arufleld, to speed the day with a
.istir. It is five miles or so meant. We left Saul Fez is
the house with my mother. Jcsiah was about, or lam not
sure if he had not gone with trio milk. We left n.y sister's,
at Arufield, to walk home, about halt pest seven the same
night, and were met, about a mile god a half front
A ',title, a: a lice called Mill Brook, by James Wit.
bamsen, who came in a spring sari He told us first
that my mother was poorly : he did not know that she was
led when he left home. We returned home with him in
the spring cart immediately. We Maud cur mother dead,
sad Mr. didtbettem, surgeon, end ether p opk were in the
home. I and my siater nave searched the house so sea it
anything was miming, and there may be something gone,
bet the only things we mite are one two purses. lam not
tare there are two, but there is ens miming. It was a netted
purse with a gilt deep at the top. It was of drab and scarlet
alit. Lett time 1 saw the purse I had it in my pocket,
three or tour doys age, and I believe I put it into a drawer
(one of a chest) se the bedroem over the house (sitting.
room) : that was in the badmen) of myself sad sister. I
c meet thusly reunlect what was the day. There was some
money in the purse, but I cannot say wee het I took the
money out before I put the purse in the drawer. I know I
ask some m. ney out, but I am not sure whether I teak it
ell out. Triero was another pure, belenging to my meter,
but we are not Matte whether that is gone till we have aearetcd
further. That is a blue .ilk aetteo puns.
&rah Fee sworn—l am 23 years of age. lem not mar.
tied. I have lived in the home of Mr said fur the last eve
years and a bait, but the first year and a half I was servant
to William Jackson, Mr.. Kind* 's sthein.law, and only
slept at Mrs. linicier's. Willie= Jackson lived near. For
four yearn 1 tiara been Mrs. Kinde. uremia On Thursday
lest the two Bliss Kind. re went to Artfieid. Myself sod
brother and Mrs. Kinder wire lett et home. In the
truly pert of the day, and nearly ell the day,
was seeing. I was sewing in the kithen' Of
sitting room, slung with Mr,. Kinder. My bra.
ther was about the farm beatings till a little before
coon, and then he went to Maple Mills. He um* bath in
the afternoon. I c tricot just ley at what time, but it was
beton dark. He had not his dinner with us. We had tea ,
a little before d,rk, I Lick, but lam not safe and ail.
•rtes, myself, and brasher were ell in the hi use at the time. li
l am nut sure limy brother had not his dinner with his tea.
r tea I sat with Mrs. K.e.ds r in the kitchen, towel,
ill a little before 1 went a milking. My brother left the
home after tea to go to the farm 'millings. He would not
have to get the cows up, braise they were in the klippen.
We generally milk the c awe between 6 and 7at night.
Alter tea I was sawing, and t hie wee: oat to the car:house
e n tee oppente side se: the road tor some coals, weich I then
threw on the fire. I next re MGT. d a cloth.. mei .en from
the room, where Mrs. Kinder and I had b. en sitting. irtothe
(Lazy. I then returned into the attitig room with
the key of the dory. 1 meet oat that time by
the front door. My brother wee out of doors.
My brother had the key of tho door of the dairy it his
Nike: when 1 went out with th. insidvn, and I fou'd him
and received it from him at the pigeon • doer, seralv opposite
the dairy, tan neer the shippen. Ai that time be must have
taken three of the milting cans to the dairy, tor there was
only one can kit on the stuns at Use deity deer. I teak the
other can to the dairy myth... I west out that time by the
back (gebl-) door to the shiepon. Weea I put the key into
the kitchen wineow, after taking the maiden into the dairy,
I entered the house by the front door. I die not see Mre.
Kinder as I peesid through the sittiag.roent, where I ha,
lest tier. Wain I left Kr,. Kinder Ido not thick she was
Maki anything. i du not *now what time I went
to milk. We had a eleck in the parlour, but
it was somewhere about en hour too fast. When
I went ln.o the shippon my brewer was tither at the
shipeoa or stable door; I minuet soy welch. He had a
lantern and lighted cendle with him. There were three
cows to be milked. My brother bad not then begun to mile
the cows. I milked two come, and be one. When he hod
done milking he Wok the cows del./ ik Kase, but he did not
leave the *happen, and I left Lim there when I took the
milk to the deify. I carried tat milk to a stone bench at
the dairy door, and pet It down there. I then went tato
the house by the back door, and fetched the milk sieve, and
also the key teem the window bottom, where I had left it,
after taking the maiden into the dairy. I then went into
the house (let° the se ting-rieth), where I bad left Mre.
Kinder, for a light. I g.t a light from the tiro; there was
net a candle lighted. I had not left Mrs. Kinder with a
candle horsing. Mrs. Kind• r was not to the room when I
win: fur the light. Her reeking-chair was in its
usual place. The frost doer wee client. The
door inter the parlour was wady shut, hut not quite. Atter
lighting the thedle I went and sieved the milk in the dairy.
I went out by the back (gable)door. After sieving tke milk
1 loektd the deity uoor, and went toned into the house by
the back door with the milk. I put the milk cans down in
the litti, bask kitchen. I then went into the holm place
(or sitting room), and as I did not see Mr.. Kinder there, I
went into the putout to look for her. I bad a candle In my
hand. The parlour doer was a little way open. I pushed
the dour epee, and saw Mrs. Kindt r lying on the floor. She
ley on her ace, wr h her feet towards the deer. I thought
the had fallen in a et. She has none that before. I clapped
(put) the candle down on the table, against one of the walls.
I then get hold of Mrs. Kinder, and heaved her tuft
way up. I saw she was dead, and shit there was blond.
Tier face lay in a pool of blood. Thu body was
quite warm. I placed her da the eller again, and ran
down to the shippon, and called on my brother to come.
My brother, when I went there, was in the thippon cutting
straw, or something. I then went back, going and returning
this time by the front door. Tee front door was only
latched, it was closed but not fastened. fly brother followed
close lifter me. He said I most run for Diet. Wil-
liamson, and f told him he must go, and he went.
Mu. Williamson is the neatest neighbour, and lives
very near. Sue came back with my brother, end I
then went for Mrs. Andrew, 'nether neighbour. Mr.
Andrew sent for the constables, and he and my brother
watched the window. and deers till the constables came.
By the foreman of the jury—My brother before he began
milking gave the cows their licking, and then left the lan-
tern with me and went out, saying he would go and put the
horses in the stable. When we went to milk, the horse.
were at the well in the fold. I cannot toy that I did hear
him in the stable, for I was meleng the furthest cow. Hs
was not above two minutes out et the Amino, and began
milking the other cow. I did not hear the dug bask.
Mr. Ralph Silebottom, surgeon, a: Mottle= stated that
he was called ia to the deemed on the Light of murder,
and had since made a past mortens examinetion. His tun
many was to the effect that the only mark of violence was a
fracture on the left side of the head, extending sums the
temporal, parietal, and occipital bones of the skull. The
wound was about fire lecher long and t ree broad over
tee ear. (treat violence must have been used, and from
the nature of the wound it was thought it must have been
caused by en instrument with a broad prejectiog unlace,
which entered the skull, and in emerging dragged after it
' the rough broken Ogee of the skull, and left them handing
by the scalp. It web% hive been done with a hammer, I
mallet, or a heavy plea of timber, but not with a poker,
or anything of that kind. This was the cause of death, and
its edicts would be instantaneous. Sims of the fractured
bones were driven into the bass of the brain at least two
Lathes. .

Mr. Joeepl. Little, special high constable of the Hyde
division of county police, said he bad searcoed the premuses
and neighbourhood, including the river Etherow, and the
ponds and fields, to: the instrument of murder. In the
nouw obut
both wece3irs
rustyK,i er
notand warew
markallih.crormsetalir andnean
in anyaway
showing recent use. He had obtained no trace of the amp
defer.

Several other witnesses, including Josiah For, the farm
servant, were examined, but their testimony thew no light
whatever on thin mysterious &Bair.
The Coroner h.sving recapitulated, the jury returned a
Tar ; iot of " Wslful murder against some person or persons
unknown."

UNSAILED ARegt3.—yesterday Mr. Co' llyer, late a
stranger at the Mamba House, proceeded is the Clerken-
well County Court against Mr. Davey, a builder, who had
left the areas of some newly-erected houses it Ryder-street,
New North-road, without the protec ion of a raffial. The
plaintiff was proceeding along the street ore zooming last
Septembir and was lied :Pota.ly p tried cl,wo into the area
by the throng of a fair held in the neighbuirhood. His leg
was broken by the fill, and he wee rendered permanently
incapable of discharging the duties of his situation. The
court awarded damps 01,, the tall amosat claimed.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK

[From the ()nett' Report

The number of deaths registered last week in Lon-
don amounts to 1 037 ; while in the tea ceoresp.ending
weeks of the !ears 134160, it varied from 960 in 1841, to
1,401 is 1848, and the average was 1,149. This average,
if it he augmented in the ratio of ptevieui increase of
:.)pulation (1.65 per cent. per annum) up to the present
time, becomes 1,253, compared with which the present re-
turn exhibit: a great deer.sac; bat it wilt be borne in mind
that violent ep:demice, which muhiplied the deaths or eha
period from which the avenge is drawr, have alto left •
less poyeletina liild a tallier contribution of morality.
It the two t.tisras of the last fortisf,•"• ""^—^-^'
. - •• r.
errors till" easy ended coiucide as regards
the tidal :umber of • detaLs, they differ is the
proporions in which prevailing diereses have proved
fuel. The alsolia class of disesaes numbered 173 *death'
in the preceding week (siding Jan. 11), bat in the lad
week they roes to 196; whereas "diseases of the respiratory
organs," under which were previansly enumerated 270, have
sow declined ro 202, thonitt it will be teen that tin num.
bees from phthisis (which U not included in the latter clue)
have remained almost precisely the samf, or about 120. Is
the previous week 47 children died from " convalsions ;"
last week the number rose to 60, mare than belt of these
being infants lees than three months old. Smell-pox was
fatal last week to 21 persona, of whom 6 were adults. With
regard to three of thy children who died, and two men, aged
respectively 19 and ;/9 years, it is mentioned that they had
been prui..tudy vaccinated. The registrar of Mile-end 04.
Town 101,11 T, was informed by the father of a farafq, that
two of his chit:rem hac 1). en suffering fr.in small. poi ; that
one aged 3 y. are, who had been vaccinated at the age of
3 months, epporentlywith effect, died, end another, who had
not been vaccinated, was in the way of recerry. A
house in Wiii:echspel a also mentioned where then eh eldren
were tactic:mg from the disease, who had all been vaccinated.
Ted aie.tdet e etas to be rife in this neighbourhood, and
one ul the medical men eaten that he has cow 29 CMOs
under his core. The Registrar of Christchurch,
lteryL-
bone, reports, /bat "between the beginning of Nevem. er,
warn small vs suddenly brume prevalent, in his district,
and tee rid of the year, 27 person, died of the disease, and
in oily two a thew Casts bad vaccination been pert,..emed,"
BLit in order to settle the respective rates of mortality among
the protected and the unprotected, it is obviously none ary
to ascettaire th. number in each el:tali:ring in any district.
In the routea• of last week eves localities are complained
' of as damp tran want of draw* or lowness of situation,
or ethereal: spew...A:some ; in two of thus emilatine had
been fatal to the children who dwelt in them; in three
others pneumonia had been the unit of death; in one a
child dirt tram " cholera infants's." A Cate of chorea, is
a girl of 14, wha h..d been 111 two years, terminated fatally
on the Eldi. A man and two women died from int, mperanoe.
The birth. t 815 nye and 784 girls, is. all 1,699 child:en,
wan registered in the week. Ihe average of su °nevi:head-
ing week, en 11,4•e.-50 was 1,395.
At the 1[1,1,1 Otwervatory, therewith, the mean reading
of the b..r00 e.er wu 29460. Toe mean reading of the
therm:unit was 43 deg., which is 8 deg. above the average
of the some weak in 10 years. The recess of the doily mean
tea:venture 'ben the ge was on Sunday 11 6 deg.,
on Monday 9.9 deg., on Toc.cloy 7 deg , on Wunesday
8.5 &Jr, on rhursdey 6.9 deg., on Friday 8.8 deg , and on
&teeth/ 4.1 deg. the wind was in the south and south-
TS est.

ABOLITION OF THE TAXES ON