The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-21 00:00:00

I'.•lice•.crgeant Reeves asked f••r a rearm!, übe wu
afraid that there were other persous injured.
Mr. I) ncourt said it was a very @tenons matter, and
ren,Andml the prisoner for a week.
The prisoner, who treated the matter with the greatest
todlitfel ewe, asked to be admitted to bail, but that was re.
fused.

WA N
THE CAAE OF NITCHCMATT AT WIMBLEDON.
Mr. Mutt,. the Superintrodent of the Wandsworth or
V ammo° of police, waited upon Mr. Dayman with We-
nner to the case of N. /VIM Steti,h, the young gipery
...man, who stsuils remanded on the charge of obtaining •
ou.l some nioney from Mrs. King and her two sir-
.aida, at Wimbledon, under the preteoce of telling Oasis
fortunes-
It appears that the bottle of "stuff " which the pneemer
offered Mrs. King for MM. three drops of which were to be
put in every cup of tea drunk be that lady's husband, sad
whom the primer stated would the at the end 0111180 Mal,
was taken be /Sergeant Davis to Professor Taylor. of (hie
Hospital, to analyse, but he had refused tatil Ls we
assured that hi•teciaalars would le paid.
A letter from Prufeavor Taylor was handed to Mr. Day-
non. is which hr aimed that the fee for the mark
would be tier guimma, and another lee of hero piens for
attending to give hie evidence, besides other orgasm he
might pot to. 11.- complained of fees in other earn not
having )..en paid, awl thought it mu time that they were
properly defined. The niamatmtee had refused to.pay
Inner fete only became they bad no fund at their
dower',
Mr. Mutt said that if his worship pee an order for the
b ,ail t. le analyavd he should have to apply to Sir Richard
hr. and be minld hare to inbuilt it to the Secrete!), of
Mn, Daimon thought that the liquid contained nothing of
a fatal character.
Mr. Butt said that was the general inipreirion. The pri-
soner had offered to drink a bottle fun of it.
Mn. Daytime said they could not allow her to drink any
of it. for in cam she were poisoned they would be acces-
sorise to bar committing seiride. He was under the
tm-
pre.eus when be reerteded the prisoner that Mr. King
...old base tam the duty of analysing the liquid.
Mr. Butt miggestod est the matter should stand over
unit the primer was neenemimid.
Mn. Daytime observed that the ordinary course is each
a rose. in whisk It wee stated that three drops of a liquid
...ea to Iw Omni. end the brashead would die in a mouth,
to have it analysed, hat be thought that if they went to
that ',trove, they would dad nothing in the liquid to
Is
fix gumbos of airbag; the liquid warn allowed to stand
es,r.

LoNDOS AND NORTH trisgrzity RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

The half lead?. meeting of the. shareholders was
ball at woo. at Luster Stairs: Mr. RICHAILU Moos in
the cl.a.
The report sal accounts, which had bona previotudy pub.
litho'. hiving been taken ma reed,
The riiAlitVes moved their silo.gion. He maid them was
a sew triter. to the scants. The revenue amounts had
bona 1.1,1 oto two puts. which would aid the proprierin in
fortutmg pla.:IIIEOL The brat division' showed what hod
bees earliest the word showed the duper! of all that had
bore rvcane,l . end be sad him odic...goes regretted that the
result wee sot a lir,:er dividend than 41 per cent. The
working *spear bed been inerraaol by various
Paseo Is the locomotive power the board had
sand bottoms 10,1;l01. ad 12,0;.W. The 4um
la. ell roe I materially effected that item. h
essighheur did we think it desirable to reduce the speed,
awl se theirs was, generally speakrog, the sboartemt route,
the' root sot he the firth to Tooke any diminutive. The
asevelaados trait"- hal iocreasal to the intent of 13,0 a.
no the lot 44 January they took into their coo beads the
working o(Can, ins sultans, sod othetstatioos which had berm
Imbed., worked by caritas agent., and that would so
doubt pros a. seemoralsol change. He then spoke of the
mare pressure en railway companies of the law with re-
prd to railway occideato. sod maid the directors were
ming with ether boards to obtain a satisfactory
chatty. la the prasset sessloo there were so Imes than
lot m bilb applied bie which 'fleeted the interest, of the
Louden mid North Waiters Company. It was almost Ito-
pemble for them to avoid the aapeaditani of large sums of
=to their owe defeoca, but be hoped that • check
be. gives to composite,. DAMN% by enemy of the promo-
ters berm left to pay cars without Isaviag attaiool
thew object. He the. entered into details with regard to
several of the bills referred to, enotendian that they were
quite oneecerary for the politic. The board had aueeladed
as eposweat with the Lanarhir• sod Yortakire Cempaay,
who. b would at the same time secure proper acceenmo&tion
to the p.b ie, sod sere the two companies is foetus from
needthes espouse while! they had hitherto bees obliged to
isms.

Mr. Iltirsut tveasidered that the divides'', although
with one oe tweetseptiose the smallest the proprietors had
ever owerved, was he. essatiefactiny than many asticipe-
ted. (Hear.) A very bugs portion of the Wainer was
worked at unremosenitive rates, mod it was sot thepaucitio:
b 00..., Ist the want of • right principle of miteagsmot,
which mole the result so umatiefactory He was inclined
to that that • hags arnunst of the mineral and cosl trade
was catriol oe at an actual lose lie admitted that it was
ditticult to avoid that in all cases ; but a foibles
per ton per mile for coals could hardly pail the
expense of Inlitioating the wheels. (Hear, lessr.) As
regarded the proposed augmentation of capital, hi then&
the tune had arrived when the opinion of the peepriskes
should be takes ois that subject. With • line ohs& was
the very backbone of they wets coatianally he*
asked to go into •.4120 remote district. (Hear, brise.)
two iris came. of &preemies were the wain of proportion
between proem awl melee sal the cassias, aussiestatios
of capital, mid be heossl the atteation d the proprietors
soski be directed to ;bow subj.:Pi.
Mr. WaIt:LET was out satisfied with the explanations
gives by the hoard, front time to time, of the want of an
silequate raters. /4.4netinies It was • frost, sometimes a
war, or something else. There was always mosso special me-
son why the hope. .4 the proprietors bad been diesppointed.
He was sot one of those who laid down a dogged rule that
the tweets' should sever he Mermaid, bat be believed it
bed bees angenented utioemoseily. Within the last fee
years the mei-ease of capital was equal to Jot per
met. • the diatiursemeote bad within the lame
period increased 124 per cent. The effect of all this was
that they gave 1i.,400.1., the money increase in the
espenees, to earn ?..W040., the gross mosey immune in
the receipts. The grim charges between December, 1656,
awl December, lvi i. bad risen from fat to 79 per cent.
The traffic increased faster thus the capital but, unfortu-
nately for them, the esiemes increased in • ratio fearfully
greater they caber capital or traffic. (Hear, bear.)
He believed there wasno mss more anxious than the chair.
non to bring about a thir.TrOt state of thiep—(cheers)—
bet then was no chalice of that being done while the pre-
nest principle of Otatsa,:toteut coutiaual in operation.
Nees were 1,117) miles of railiciy, and the directors
weaned utterly Unable to grasp or comprehend that huge
machine. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. H Atte complai lied of the dismissal, or rather the false
✓eeignat)es, of Mr. M sooticil, locomotive superintendent,
and said he lielievol there were differences on
that ae well as other onestioen—.ono of
which had been decided be the casting vote of the
chairman. lie mei:grated that there should be • con.
imitative committee worm the director. might consult
with on questions upou which the directors were almost
equally divided. _ _

Teo. or rhreo SHABEHOLDERM contended that areater
atteutioos *honld Ire dovotod to the development of third.
atm trollk.

titer some remarks from the CItAtELKAS joreply, the
report was adlopterl.

FLikAING IN THE AIINV AN L. 11ituri.t.—A par-
lianwutarr return lamed this morning shows Mut in the
year PIM, % perecom wen, flogged in the infastry, receiving
4.647 lashes arnompit them. Forty-owe were flogged in
revelry, the total number of lashes being 1,971. In the
I:syal Artillery 41 islsous wore flogged, receiving between
tiwet I,9solasbes. In the Royal Engineers one man re-
ceived 2.3 lashes for desertion. No ease of flogging in the
militia is repined. to cavalry, the Military Thin sal the
I Ith Hower, show tie most eases ; in the infantry, as many
24 Cr perlitin wore ti.,..z4ed in the 11th Foot alone. " in-
being given as the offence in most of the
in•lalocrs.

1...818,1t PI'BIBIIIIVIIT. —This morning a re-
tare I. parliament, cou4oting of 1110 rage% woo issued d
•• all eaorie In whit corporal punishmeat by whipping hos
I.e-n lolliet..l ULMitt the authority of the act. of the 10th
sail 11th year. of V.l..rin, chapter 82; and the 1316
0..4 14th years of Victoria, chapter 37, or either et
tie,ni. sal the Jr. of each portion pasiallied, (non the
14 day of January, 18:84„ to the bill day of Jassary.
1.4 ; operating the porticalar offences fee which. aad
roan 01 the
loilticer by WON • LIA eta of them bed
ei teen onniari y actitea the date of eta
coasoirtne sail puoiobiaeat, the mohair et beim la
_sieve
ea. owe, soil by what ladeemeekssoll slam of aerie'
woo pelmet wheal the pro sieliwese was islieed.' The talal
onniher of mem in obeli this peeiskatest wee 10111sisd
harm; the term merlin..a eras 1,746. They were divided
.B.B.tst the iliffereot • ouatiee, au follows o—Seleford o—
hrithirii, 7 ; ; Bucks. 2; Cambridge, 11; laic d
1.1., 'beater. $; losehy, 18; Dims. ws;
I,erhs,,„ ; Ewes, 20; abater 10;
Ileref ea. 2 ; thwart!, 4 ; LibarlY et 88. si 2;
Warmer& 4; Kent, 114; Line tic. 3MI; Wrote; •
I.; ; Middlesex. 3011; Nerawearth. 21;
Niel- 4k. ; Northareptoe. 4; Liberty elf Mere,.
18.04 3, Noothuatlierleiml. 77• Notesetwai, el ;
9; ffialop, 7 ; Somerset. 30; deelliesapiss, 113;
..tarbeel. 61 ; rtuffolk, 2; *lam, 160; Soars.
lic.rwick, 44 ; Weetneirsbtad, 2; WM, 8; WBloloBlB'.llol
4.ea. 14.3 -4044 1,712. W1..:--ereses. 1 ; Qrdlpa,ly
tareereea, 1 ; laraherh. ; Olsterk 19 Pholhowkw.
Total. t:sidaad mad she. 1.f4&
II etetre C..LLICKY Rsuir FUND.—TM total
&yeast oehocriheel op to bat essolgs, is aid if the ad-
by the late aeridest at the Bat* Oollisey,
• Is, low.. which about 400. we received during
Wedeasilay sad yestardsy.