The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

REPRIEVE. OF TILE CHAKTIsT MURDERER.—WR
are informed that Radcliffe, sentenced for execution at the
late Liverpool assizes, charged with the murder of police-
constable Bright, at Asliton•under-Lyne, in August, has
been reprieved. It is said that Constantine, at first tried
as an accomplice and acquitted, but afterward% found guilty
under another indictment and sentenced to transportetton,
has made disclosures of an important kind, in which he ea-
ulpares Ru.cliffe from all participaion in the crime, and
fines it upon a person still at large.
A TtsTIMONIAI. WAS PRESENTED TO JENNY LIND
on Monday last by the committee and other supporters of
the Manchester It iyal Infirmary. It consists of a very
handsome dressing case, of Coromandel wood, chastely and
elegantly fitted up, and with silver mountinirs ; and a beau-
tiful necklace of pearls, with elegant diamond clasp or
centre. This rich and appropriate ornament is firmed of a
single row of 69 pearls, with a vi ry handsome centre, com-
nosed of a cluster of diamonds, suspended from which is a
large pearl of pear shspe. Tnis oiamond centre, with its
pendant pearl, can be detached and worn as • brooch. Upon
• silver shield, inlaid in the d 'nu ease, is engraved the
following inte•iption :—" To Mademoiselle Jenny Lind,
through whose gratuitous services at two conc. rts, on the
19th and 21st of December, 1848, the munificent sum of
2,5121. 18s. 11d. has been realised towards the en whin of an
additional wing to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, this
dressing cue, together with the accompanyii g necklace of
pearls, is presented by the committee, as • sincere token of
gratitude for her generous services, and with their hset
wishes for her future welfare and happintss.—Manchester.
Jan. 1, 1849."

ALLEGED MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER Hutt-
ISAND.—On Tuesday morning, about 10 &cloak, a man
named David Wiseman, coachman to Dr. Charles Bell,
lately residing in Ardwick green, hut whoa.: presentresidence
is in Moolerratreet, Manchester, went to the police-station,
at the Town-hall, and inquired or Mr. Sawley, to whom he
Laid he had an important mater to communicate. The man
then stated that he war coachman to Dr. Bell, and was, with
his wife and children, living in and taking care of hie mat-
ter's late residence in Ardwick-green ; that on Monday his
*ifs and children were permitted by Dr. Bell to go to that
gentleman's house in Motley street to take tea ,• but be leered
that his wife was tipsy, and he at at her and the chidren
home again. Between 6 and 6 o'clock he also went home him-
self, smarting under the disgrace she had brought upon him
at his master's house, and seeing she was still intoxicated, they
I quarrelled, and he struck her once or twice. He then re-
turned to Mosley-street; but on going home again, about
hallpast 7 o'clock, be found her still worse for 1 quor ; they
hsd some more words, and he took his boot off end struck
her with it. He then took the children up stair., and went
to bed, leaving his wile in the latch, n. He awoke about five
in the morning (Tuesday), and finding that his wife was not
in bed, he got up to see il she was in the chLdren's bed, not
seeing her there, he went down into the kitchen, and after-
wards into an out house in the yard, where he found her,
bleeding very much about the head. lie took her
up stain and put her to bed, then fetehed Dr. Bell, but she
died aeon after his arrival. He ( Wiseman) was also into:-
elated. The man, after making this statement, was about
to go away, saying that he should be found at Dr.
Bell's, if wanted. He was, of course, detained in custody ;
and on searching the house his shirt was found, the sleeves
of which Weill saturated with blood ; the deceased's bonnet
was broken to pieces, and her gown stained ; and also va-
rious other articles of lines, which had been hanging to dry,
had spirts of blood open them. It we also found that his
boot was not the only weapon which appeared to have been
employed, as a piece of fiat wood was found which was
enteued all over with blood except the part where it had
been held by the hand ; to the edge of it there was also some
hair adhering. The inquest was held on Wednesday, when
it appeared from the evidence of Dr. Belt that toe woman
died' not from the woundsinfiicted by the husband, but from
cold and exposure to the air at a very low temperature
during the night. Another surgeon corroborated this
statement, but said the effects of the cold had no doubt km*
aggravated by the wounds inflict el upon her. Two of the
prisoner's children were examined, but there was a dints-
piney in their evidence. One said the father Ind dragged
deceased out into the yard before he went to bed, and left
her there; the other (who was the eldest, and nine years of
age) stated that when they went to bed the mother was left
sitting by the dresser, in the kitchen.—The jury found a
verdict that the deceased died from exposure; but the Fie
'over was brought before the magistrao a yesterday, when
he case was further investigated, at considerable length.—
Mr. Maude, the magistrate, afar a patient hearing said
bough death was not direct:y and immediately mooed by
he violence of the prisoner, yet morally speaking he was
nifty of causing it, and be did not see how he could exo-
nate himself to his sown °osmium'. However, he had
soaped the law, and must In discharged.
ham AT THE PRESTON SESSIONL—At the Prey
on Bessi-ns on Wednesday an unussai scene occurred. A
woman,niused Mary Richardson, was abutted with stealing.
at Charley, a half crown from a labouring man sassed Nor-
ris. The prisoner was undetended. The facts of the case
were briefly these :—The prosecutor was drinking at a public-
hoses called the Fox and Goose, in Charley. Whiles them
use pyjama and two other women came in, and he treated
them to some drink. Alter a time he went out to the stone
in front of the house, being somewhat " fresh." Before
gong out he had halts crown in his left-hand
—of this, he was certain, having looked at it pocketi
at the stone he felt a hand put into the pocket
where the balf-crown was, and on putting his own
hand in immediately after he missed the half-crown. The
prisoner was the only near him at the time,
and she was on kis left . He took the woman into the
public-home, and charged her with stealing the money, but
she denied the theft. However, he gave h. r into custody.
A quarter of an hour afterwards the haif.crowa was found
to • passage at the end of the house, about two emds trim
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