The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.-THIS DAY.

At half-peat 12 o'clock thin day Mr. W. Cartnr,
the coroner for East Surrey, assembled a jury at the Wind-
mill Inn, Wyndham-road, Camberwell, to inquire ' '1 the
circuu.stancm attending the deaths of Emily Fawcett,
aged five years and a-half ; Frederick Fawcett, aged twenty
months ; and Anthony Fawcett, aged 43 ; whose melan-
choly end on Tuesday morning last has created such a sen-
sation.

The jury-room was densely thronged, and the immediate
neighbourhood was in a state of excitement long before the
opening of the inquiry.
The jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view the
bodies, and upon their return,
The Coroner, in the course of some introductory remarks
upon the nature of the case, observed that be had been in-
formed by Mr. King, the surgeon, that the widow of the
deceased, Anthony King, and the daughter Mary Ann, who
escaped with severe injuries, were not in a fit state to be
examined to-day, and, after hearing some evidence, it would
be necessary to adjourn the inquiry.
The first witness sworn was Sophia Fawcett, who de-
posed: I am a single woman. My age is 10. On last
Tuesday morning I was at Oxford-street, working as a
dressmaker. I nad been there two years and a half. I was
fetched from there to come home, in consequence of what
had occurred at home. I bad been at home on the Satur-
day, and went away on the Monday morning. We came to
live at No. 1, Queen's-place, Wyndham-road on Saturday
last. I have not seen my father nor my brother and sister
since their deaths.

The Coroner.—Do you think you would be able to bear
going to see them ? I would not ask you, but I must have
the deceased identified.

Witness—l think I may.
The witness was then taken to the house by Mr. King,
the surgeon, and upon her return deposed as follows: " My
father was a porter at Mr. Bridgeman's, the confectioner.
Ho was 42 years of age last January. Tho eldest child,
Emily, is my sister, and she was five years old last April.
Frederick is aged one year and eight months."
Sarah Saddler, sworn—l am a widow, living at No. 7,
Alstead•place, Camberwell. I was coining out of my house
on Tuesday morning last, about eight o'clock, when I saw
a female at the door of No. 1, Queen's-place, opposite my
house. She was knocking at the door. No one answered
her first knock, and she knocked a second time. She
peeped through the key hole and said, " My dear, open the
door." At the time of the knocking I heard no noise in-
side the house. The woman, I suppose, was addressing her
child, who was inside. After the knocking the door was
opened in about four minutes. When the door was opened
the woman screamed out. The door was opened by a li'tle
girl, who said, "Oh, mother, go up stairs." I ran up stairs
into the back bed-room, where I saw the female child on the
bed, covered with blood. Two men then followed me up, and
they said the child was dead. The blood was gushing from
a wound in the side of the neck. I then went into the
back parlour, where I saw the male child lying dead, with
his throat cut. There was a slice of bread by his side.
The inquiry was going on when we went to press.

IRISII SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—The half-
yearly meeting of this company was held in Dublin on
Tuesday, J. E. Redmond, hag., in the chair, when the fol-
lowing report of the directors was read, and, alter some dis-
cussion, adopted Since the last half-yearly meeting the
directors, as intimated in their last report, have carried out
the wishes of the proprietors, by removing the offices of the
company to the terminus of the Great Southern and West-
ern Railway, at Kingsbridge, and they have reduced the
cost of that department within the smallest limits, by
which arrangement the entire expenses of offices and
management will not exceed 5001. per annum. Al-
though the result of the traffic revenue since the open-
ing of the line has not hitherto been as satisfactory as
was anticipated, yet the proprietors will observe, by the
statement of accounts, that during the past half-year a con-
siderable improvement has taken place, showing that al-
though there was a loss in working the line during the first
four half-years, yet the returns of the last six months leave
a surplus of 8911. 13s. 041. This result is principally owing
to the reduction in the working expenses, to which object
the attention of the board has been anxiously directed,
and they hope to be able still further to diminish those
charges, feeling convinced that on their reduction to the
lowest possible scale mainly depends the prosperity of
your line. The management of the traffic department,
and Ithe care of developing the resources of the line,
is now in a great measure confided to the Great Southern
and Western Company • and the board taking into'
consideration that upwards of one-third of your capital
is vested in that company, and aware of the experience
and intelligence of their officers, cannot doubt that
their best exertions will be directed to fostering and in-
creasing a traffic in which the interests of both companies
are so materially concerned. The permanent way conti-
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prevent the capital .ceount being closed, bat the board will
their constant attention to that desirable object:*
FSCAPE or FRENCH CONVICTS.—Aa the govern-
ment schooner, the Alarsouin, was last week taking some
convicts from Toulon to Brest, it put in for some hours to
the harbour of l'aimbecut There, one of the prisoners con-
trived to get rid of his irons, and was preparing to go over
the side, for the purpose of swimming to ehore, when
one of the sailors endeavoured to prevent him. The con-
vict was persisting in his attempt to escape, when three
shots were fired at him. Two pistol-shots missed ,him, but
the third, from the musket of the sentry, laid him dead. He
was buried the same evening, at raimbwuf.