The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-27 00:00:00

WALES.

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INQUEST ON THE MARQt.7IS OF BUTS.—On Friday
Mr. Reece, the needier. held ar. inquest at the Town-hail,
Cardiff, on the body of the Marquis of Bute.—Duncan
M.•Callum, valet to cis 'era 'tip, said that he saw his master
leave the drawing-room in a great hurry en Saturday
wet X. Same time afterwards he met Lady Bute on the
landing. She said," MlCallum, I cermet find Lord Bute."
Witness took a c-ndle sad went into his dre,areg-room.
where he found his lanlidjp lying on the bed as if he was
Her ladyship, who followed him, said, " Is he
there " Witness did net answer her, but he untied his
rAckerchief end vest. He then felt his chest, and lCund
that .t was warm. Mr. L,WIP, the surgeon, was
lively sent for, and he attended almost directly.—Mr. James
Lewis, surgeon, raid thu he ewe L ird Bute during the Se-
ta:day afternoon. There appeared considerable languor
abut him. He looked pale :Ed not in his usual health. lie
toad witness at dinner time that he had suffered much du-
ring the winter from an affection of the stomach, which had
weakened his frame. He 45'3 raid he bad become alarmed.
When witness next saw his lordship he was deal.—Mr. E.
Evans. surgeon, had made &post-mortem examination, and
I.e proved that death was perfectly natural.—Verdict,
That the slid John Crichton Stuart, Marquis of Bate and
Earl of Dumfries, on the 18th of March hawse, in a certain
bedroom in Cardiff' Castle was found dead, and that he died
t.y the visitation of God in a natural way.'

PROVINCIAL.

LANCASHIRE.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ANTICIPATED.—The
distinction which the Dui.' News has won so repeateely in
Landon, by ant icipatice al, the other daily papers in its foreign
news (and especially in the past weak, when it was tire t an-
nounce the revalidate in 1, teens and Berlin) has not been
sr well appreciated in Manchester and other distant Cowes, in
coreecaence of the impel-ex:it information being transmitted
'0 these places by the electric telegraph long before the paper
itself arrives, and from tee circeenateuce that the authority
whence the telegraphs derive the sewn is rarely vitami-
n:et:ed. On Ziaturclay, however, the telegraph itself wee
anticipated. The Daily News haying vale been the first to
announce the establishment of a rereblie in Cracow, in a
second impression of is evening edema, the Express, copies
of that impression arrived in Manchester early on Saturday,
and were on sale at eLeS7i. Wheeler and Sons , news *gents.
For some reason or other, the managers of the telegre ph did
not get hold of a espy of to paper in London, it is to be pre-
sumed, tilllate on Saturday morning, or the news did not
catch the rye. aped it was not transmitted along the electric
wires till nearly eleven o'clock—hours alter the Express
paper had circulated it through the city.
CONFESSION OF MUISIDER.—It is currently reported
iu Manchester that a man in reepeciable circumstances, now
or formerly a publican, has cont. seed on his death-bed the
commission of a murder. Right years ego—on the 10th of
February, 1840—a mister builder, named Charles: cho-
field, had been to a dinner in Manchester, gin at
oce of the large ions in honour of her Majesty's marriage
en that day, and be lete at a tete hour to return to his home,
is Erery.street. His family never saw him again alive,
however, and it was not tee nearly a month afterwards that
ire deed body was ticked up in the river Irwell. A coroner's
jury was aseembnd to inquire into the cause of death, and
met a second time by aejournment, hut no evidence was
obtained to trace his whereabouts (rem the time he left the
dinner to the time the body was found in the river, except
the statement of a poor man who spoke to having seen him
in Salford on the night of the 10th, so fax wide of the
deceased's road home that little credit was attached to the
statement. There were some brutes s about the body, hut
the deceased's money had not been taken, and as robbery
could leave furnished the only supposed motive for murder
it was thought the evidence as to violence was too slender to
Lund a verdict of that nature upon. Accordingly what is
termed an open verdict wee given, of " Found drowned,"
and from that time to the pi eent the cause of the untertu.
hate man's death han remained a profound mystery—and
except probably by his family the occurrer.ce was nearly ter.
g eten. The present rumours have served to revive the
painful sensations which i.osl thee slumbered, and to aaken
perhaps even a deeper ihie est in the case. The rumwour is
that Mr. Schofield, according to the confenion allude el to,
watt into a public.house, the landlord of which, and his son,
were quarrelling, and wee induced to interfere. The cud
was, that he wens killed by the father—his body carried into
the cellar, and concealed there for seven or eight days, and
thence removed at tie dead hour of night and thrown into
the river. If there i- 3,1 truth in this strange story, it will
probably engage the attention of the police in som 'hope Sr
other. and the facts be pieced in a more authentic form be-
fore the public.
YORKSHIRE.
COMMISSIONS El THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—(i.
Stapleton, Req., and I. B. Headier, Here, to be D. puty
Lieutenants.
EXECUTION OF A POACHER. On Satueday,
at noon, Wm. Thompson au .red the penalty of death
for the crime of murder, in trout of the County Courts,
Durham, in the presence of an immense concourse of people.
A. third edition of the Newcastle Guardian of Saturday
says, '• It will be reniemlormi that Thompson and a man
named Wm. Dawson and Joseph Oilfield, were indict.d at
tee last Durham assizes fur the murder of John Shirley, a
gitne-watcher, employed by the Duke of Cleveland at Ratty.
Tne caw excited great interest turoughout the county, and
geheraiey throughout the kiagdoco, t ,asinuch as it arose out
of the sanguinary ehars,ttt r of the game laws. It appeared
from the evidence that. on the evening of Wednesday, the
2nd of February, about seven o'clock, the deceased and
another watcher named Cotten.). heard firing in the pre-
serves of the Duke; on hearing, this, they proceeded to
the house of a keeper named Richardson, for the pur-
pose of obtaining his &sentence, es they concluded that the
reports proceeded from men engaged in poaching; Richard-
son was ill in bed, and they th..refore went together to a
place called the 'Willow Beds, Crum whence they thought
the firing proceeded. They her. abeerved Thompson, Dow-
aboutn Oldfield, advancing towards them. Whenewithin
ten yards, these men, observing the watchers, turned
off in another direction, but Corer!! end Shirley followed
them, and when they war.: wider: three yards of each ether,
Thompson exclaimed, • lel shout. I'll shoot,' and Howson
said, Stand back, or fire.' As soon as these words
were uttered, Thompson d acharged bis gun in the
Orrin ion of Shirley, who immediately cried out, ' I'm
shot in the arm.' eta this Shirley stepped forward
and struck Thompson a meet violent blow on the front
of the head. Howson, who had a double-barrelled gun, in-
stantly fired both the barrels, but the charges ferttinately
passed betels en Shiriev and CotteriLl. Cotterill then sprang
forward and seized didfield, who was at ehat time
with a very heavy stick. They struggled together, when
Oldfield called for assistance, maitre/ that Cotterill was too
strong for him. Cotterill perceived at that moment that
Shirley was down, and Thompson and Howson continued to
beat Shirley severely; and at ...Lath Shirley called out to
Cotterill, ' Joe, for God's take come to my usistanc• if yos
are not shot, or I cannot survive many minutes.' • Cotterill
then re quested Oldtieln to at** over, pushed him back, and
made towards Shirley. Oldeeld 'trucking' violently with hie
bludgeon upon the right eye, infiesting a deep wotind, end
also on the right side of the head, which stunned him for a
short time. On recovering his sewn, he maw ttheney ?a the
pron~, sad Degas* besting him over the bead leech begun.
heardt the pul broken OM Shirley. Oa the Cotterill