The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-08 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Flouted tr • CotraTictvstAT :—.l/are Ann Simms was
cbarged with rubbing W. F. Garrett of 11. 45., • snug''-box,
and a scarf.
The proftru'or, a native of Wilthshine. unacquainted
with L ottlnn or its ways, went into a public haute on Friday
nigh: in the Broadway, Westm•ster, when be fell into
etnversati, n with the prisoner, and after treating her to
some liquor aceompanied h• r home, where becoming drowsy
he went to slrep, end on awaking shortly afterwards, dim).
vertd his cimpanion had made her exit with
h a m. ney and other property also mentioned.
Upon prisoner's being apprehended, while en-
joyinr herselt at a beer-A.lp with som-re ddiere, the snuff.
but was f..unp up= her person, wren she pretended she
had ben looking far the prosecutor to give it back to him.
slim scarf was also found at her Icr,eings.
Prisoner, who in the course of a long, unconnected s'ory,
denied km pile, was committed for trial.

DEATTI oF• IUAJOR-GENERAL Ellt E. K. WILLIAMS,
H.C.B.—This distinguished Peninsular ottie.r distlyesterilay
b egrd 70. He entered the umy as an ensign, in
the year 1799, and was actively employed the same year in
Bland, where he was present in vs actions of the Yard and
6th October, aud c.n the latter oemsion the ensign was
wcun led. In 1806 Lisette ant Williams was present in
t:.s battle of Heidi. In the followir g year he obtained

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his company, at.d in 1809 was engaged in the takisg
of the island of Ischia. off the css of Napier. He
afterwards eased in the Peninsular war, and llf% prtsent on

the following occasions In the battle of Busaco,twhere he
wee wounded ; at the siege of Bedajoa, in 1811 ; the
battle of Salamanca, when h. wan twin wounded;
the Mtge of Surges, the battle of Vittoria, the action of
Tolosa, the siege of St. Sebastian (including the three see
"sults), the passage of the Simi 1114 S, the battle of the Nivelle,
the pump of the Admit, and the investment of Bayonne,
in which last action this gallant officer was again
wounded. For his a evicts he was, in 1813, tominete d
a knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, and in 1815
a knight ermounder of the Bath. Having for scan 'oars
remained on the hall-pay as an unattached lieut.-cel., he,
in 1827, became a lieut.-col. in the 41st Foot, which repi
runt Le comniaudel in the Madras preeidency for 10 years,
Fitim 1837 to 1841, having exchanged from the 41st to the
9th Foot, he served as a lieutenant colons: in the latter regi-
ment in the Bengal presidency ; but, in November, 1841
having been promoted by the brevet to the rank of major:
general, on the occasion of the birth of the Prince of Wales,
Sr Edmund, of c .tuse, pave up his lieutenant-colonelcy. In
1842 he was appointed major-general on the staff in the
Madre. presidency, which important post he held until hie
ieturn to Eneland in 1848. The colonelcy o I the 80th
regiment, in the October of that year, became vacant,
and was given to Sir E. K. Williams. This diAinguialted
officer had rec. ived a cross and one clasp for his eminent
services in the Peninsula, besides which he had received the
silver medal for Maids, Bacieje z, and Nivelle. The
colcatlcy of the 80th regiment is by his decease
again at the disposal of the llorse Guards.
VISIT OF Mn. COBDEN, M.P., TO LEEDS.—The
long-anticipated event has now been fixed for Tuesday, the
18th inst. OIL Thursday afternoon a meeting of the heads
of the reform party in the locality was convened by circulat,
to devise the best means of giving • &et to the occasion.
The it fiance of the meeting may be judged from the fact
that Om circular was signed by • hree eximaynrs, namely,
George Goodman, Esq., F. Carbutt, E'q., and Darnton
Lupton, Esq., who are also magistrates of the borough.
The reit is expected to be cue of great interest. It is de-
termined to give every possible neon to it, and to make it
subservient to the promotion of the freehold land movement,
in which You kshire has not hitherto taken so prominent a
part as its importance demands.
BATHS AND WAsIIIIOUSES FOR GREENNEICII.—A
very large attendance of the ratepayers of Greenwich met
in vestry on Thursday evening for the purpose of ests'ilisto
ing baths and wahhcreses in that town. A suspicion exist-
ing that some opposition would be offered to the adoption of
teach diairabl accommodation for the poor, a number of the
inhabits:As of the borough heel previously formed themselves
into a committee, and so well organised their plan that the
resolution was almost unanimously carried, only two hands
being held up against it.
WOMAN SHOT AT ROCHESTER.—We are informed I
that the poor woman who was shot at Rochester met her
death by accident, and sot by the act of the coachman of
Mr. Lee, the p. non who Lad the misfortune to raise the
fatal weapon being, it is stated, another servant.
THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.—HeRring no
complaints against the potato disease fur some past, we take
it for granted the virulence Lf the disease ceased with the eon-
camp' ion of the early planting. In those at present bronchi
to market, ono tenths scarcely present indications of the
complaint. We are not at present in a position to form an
idea of the quantity of potatoes 'apposed to be in possession
o' the farmers of this county, but suppose they must be con-
siderable from the facts of the present market price ranging
over the county from 3d. to 4d. per stone, the latter being
the market prim in Cutlebar.—Caitlebar Telegraph.
THE DEARS or BORNEO.—Thu following extract
from the diary of an int iligent traveller, relative to the
Dyaks of Borneo, hill confirms Rajah Brooke's statement,
that the Dyaks of the Suebu tribe, " from their great dread
of fire arms, way be kept in subjection by a comparatively
email body of Malays.' "The sound, Rajah Brooke states
(vide " Capt. R-dney Mandy's Journals of Rajah Brooke,"
vol. 1 page 237) of musketry or cannon, was enough to put
the whale holy to flight; and when they did run, fully the
half disappear:cl,retoriratg to their own homes."—The fol-
lowing is the pamege referred to:—" What these
pull* meetly dread is the musket; it is incon-
ceivable what a 'mention of fear comes over
the bravest of the Dyaka when they have an idea a few
muskets may possibly be brought against them ; no
inducement will prevail on them, however numerous, to go
forward; hence the Bugle, with a handful of men, act to
wards them as they think proper, making them deliver over
not only the produce of the country for a trifling exchange,
but a certain number of their children yeah-, whom they
sell as slaves. Seigle can bring at least 12,000 fighting men,
and yet the Bogie, with 60 muskets and a hew boat-swivels,
will not hesitate to meet them ; the fact is, they no sooner
ken the report of a gun than they run deep into
the jangle ; if they are in boats they leap into the
water, and, atter
.gaining the shore, never stop until
they are out of hearing of the report. The most 'entail'
of the Dyske have a superstitious idea of fire arms;
each man, on heating the report, fancies the ball
is making direetly,towards himself, he therefore ruts
thinking himself safe as long as he hears the explosion
of gunpowder : thus, a mat hearing the report of
a swivel five miles off, will still continue
at full speed, with the ante trepidation as at first. They
Live not the least conception of the ranee of gun-barrels.
have been frequently oat with Seigle and other chiefs, shoot-
ing monkeys, birds, ite., and offended them in refusing. to
tire at large birds at the distance of a mile or more; they in.
variably put such refusal down to illoritere on my part.
Again, firing at an object, they cannot credit it is 'flirted,
although they see the bird fly away, but consider that the
shot is yet pursuing, and it must fall at last."