The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The majority of the smaller foreign exhibitors
have now elsared from the Crystal Palace, hut a great deal
remains still to be done by France, Belgium, and the
Zolverein States, which were the largest contributors. The
former has sent off a portion of its goods, and a great deal
remains behind ready to follow. A large portion, however,
of their heaviest articles, such as the machinery, seems to be
still untouched. The Russian goods are almost all packed
up, and the Swedes will be shortly iu a similar condition.
The Northern nations seem to do better in the call weaVier
than their more southern neighbours. The tall Sw,dish
vase was packed up yesterday. The welbknown Bavarian
lion has likewise departed without a giowl, eaen though
swathed in the coarsest of eativiui. When Simoni's " Godfrey
of Bouillon," and the Vieille Montagne Company's statue
of hi r Majesty are removed, the nave will be well nigh
stripped. The three great organs still contibuo to hold
thew ground.

MR. WTI. WILLIANIS AND IDS CON-
STITUENTS.-130R0t7GIL OF LAMBETH.

In accordance with a promise made by the hon.
member for Lambeth at his election that he would meet
the electors at the termination of each ses.sion sf parliament,
to render an account to them of Ilk conduct st their repre-
sentative, and to seek a renewal of their confidence, a cir-
cular was issued by the hon. gentleman, poonnonina a
meeting of the constituency at the Horns Tavern for last
evening. Shortly after the hour named in the circular
(half-past 7 o'clock) Mr. Williams, accompanied by several
of the most influential members of the liberal party of the
borough, entered and took his position on the platform
amid loud and general cheering.

The Chair was taken by Jolty DOI:LION, ES(I., who
observed that it was a novelty in that borough to see
their member coming forward at the close of the session to
render an account of his stewardship, and he hoped that
the motive which had induced hint to take that course
would be appreciated. (hear, hear.)

Mr. WILLIAMS then email forward. lk rail he
had not been one day absent from the House of Commons
when it met last 3cfrion, and he had been present at every
division upon any matter of importance. (Hear.) The hon.

member proceeded to pass in review the Principal measures
and debates of the session and the votes he had given
thereon. Ile had opposed at every step the government
bill for the removal of Smitl field market, because it was
unjust t.m make the butchers on the mouth side of the water
buy their cattle at a market so distant as the one stout to
be held under Highgate-hill. Ile had also opposed the go-
vernment bill to consolidate the water companies, and
wished to see the water supply the the metropolis placed
under the entire management of a lolly to be elected by
the ratepayers. Ile had supported the tepeel of the win-
dow-tax, but had opposed the imposition of a house-tax, be-
cause thousands would havu to pay the house-tax who were
exempt from the window-tax. lie had voted in favour of a
bill fur secular education, on the ground of the impossbility
of hitting upon any system of religious instruction agreeable
to every one. With regard to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill,
he had received no petitions to present against that bill, and
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no representations were made to him 'from the borough
against it. On the contrary, he received a great many peti-
tions in favour of the government bill, and he hail sup-
ported the government in is, believing that it did not affect
the religious rites of the Roman catholics. He, however,
opposed the extension of the bill to Ireland. (Being inter-
rupted by a cry of •. Come to the Sunday Trading Bill,"
the hon. memlier shortly afterwards applied himself to this
subject. lie had attended several public meetings while
canvassing the borough, and at all the question was put to
him, whether he would support or introduce a Sunday
Trading Bill ? Mr. Pearson, whom he succeeded in the re-
presentation, had brought in a bill on the subject the year
before, and, being a stranger to the local feelings of the
borough, he considered he was acting in accordance with
tke wishes of the inhabitants in pledging himself to support
such a bill. Be it understood that this was a purely local
question, for the bill wis confined to the metropolis. 110
was attacked in the House of Commons and at the clubs un
account of this bill, but never by any one in Lambeth. He
was entreated by members on all sides of the house to
withdraw his bill, after it had passed a second read-
ing, and to substitute one more perfect for it, but he deter-
mined that the house, which had supported him on the first
and second reading, should either pass it or reject it. The
bill was thrown out and lust. (Cheers.) For himself, he

considered that he was merely acting ministerially in regard
to the bill, and that it was not necessary for hint to have an
opinion either for or against that question. Ile took it up
as a local question, but he told those who were favourublu
to that bill that there was no hope of its being carried unless
it were taken up by the government, and after the defeat of
the bill he asked to be absolved from taking up the ques-
tion again, and he now stood clear of the bill. Ile had
made that bargain, and he hoped he had now made his
peace with those who wen: opposed to it. (Cheers.) Mr.
flume and himself had divided the house nu less than
twenty-two times against votes in 'moldy, and the reduc-
tions they proposed amounted to not less than three mil-
lions sterling of money. While centralisati,in was going
on in the government, the City of London were keep-
ing everything to themselves, although they only in-
cluded one-twentieth part ol• the population. The inhabi-
tants of this metropolis ought, in Pia opinion, either to have
corporations in their respective boroughs, or to have a single
corporation for the entire metropolis. (Cheers.) The rate-
payers ought to have the management of the millions
about to be laid out on public markets, sewers, cemete-
ries, water, lighting, and public improvements. (Hear.)
The ministry bad promised the people a new Reform
Bill, and he did not believe Lord John Russell would
bring forward a paltry measure, to bit rejected and
scouted by every one. Ile (Mr. Williams) would do all
in his power to obtain a measure of reform which should
embrace the principle of giving a vote to all householders
and occupiers of property rated to the poor. (A Voice,
"No, let's have universal suffrage !") lie had uut the
least objection to it, if he could get it. (A laugh.) The
new measure should also include triennial parliaments and
vote by ballot, and should make a compkte smash of those
small rotten boroughs where, as in St. Albans, six-seventh,
et the constituency sold themselves. (Cheers.) The high
priest of corruption bad told the public that he knew what
was going on ill these places, and that St. Alban's was only
a sample of the smaller class of boroughs. If the new bill
did not sweep away these sinks of corruption, it would be
better to sell the seats by public auction and put the money
into the treasury. (Laughter and cheering.) The hon.
member, in conclusion, begged the electors to judge him
not by this or that particular vote of which they disapproved,
but by his general conduct, and resumed his seat amid
cheering, after inviting any elector to ask such questions as
'sigh occur to him.
Mr. Monks, Mr. Flower, and other electors having put
questions to the hon. member, which appeared to the meet-
ing to he answered satisfactorily,
Mr. JONES, the chairman of the Lambeth Reform As-
sociation, then moved a resolution, declaring that the meet-
ing was fully satisfied with the conduct of the hon. mem-
ber, and that they regarded him as eminently entitled to
the unabated confidence of his coustituents.

Mr. WEBBER seconded the resolution, eulogising Mr.
Williams's parliamentary conduct, and especially the plan
he had adopted of rendering an account to his constituents
every year, giving them as be did all the advantages of
annual parliaments. (hear, hear.) lie regretted that the
bon. member's colleague (Mr. D'Eyncourt) whose great
ability he freely. acknowledged, was not equally regular in
his attenduace in parliament, and equally zealous in the

cause of the people.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously,
with loud and prolonged cheering ; and the hon. member
having briefly acknowledged the compliment, too meeting
separated.

LIEUTENANT-COL. GRIFFITHS this evening to be
wetted to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the 10th Royal Hus-
ain, with a view to his being appointed to command the
cavalry depot at Maidstone. The vacancies created by the
brevet in the infantry regiments are to be fined up this
evening by promoting the seniors of their ranks in their
respective corps.

GENERAL ORDER.—HORSE-GUARDS, Nov. 8, 1851.
—The Commander-in-Chief begs to announce to the officers
of the army that it appears by a communication received
from the Director of the Museum of Practical Geology in
Jermyn-street, London, that they, as well as offlcer.i of the
navy, and of the Honourable last India Company's Ser-
vice, are entitled by the regulations to admission to the
coon. of lectures about to commence at the Government
School of Mines, and of Science applied to the Arts, in
connexion with that institution, at one-half the usual
charriTaßy Command of Field-Marshal the Duke of
Wel n, Commander-in-chief—G. Brown, Adjutant-
Gener .
DEATH OP LIEUTY.NANT-COLONEL PAYNTER, C.B.

—Lieutenant-Colonel Poynter, who lately retired from the
command of the 24th regiment, died at Bath on the 13th
instant, in the 40th year of his age. He was dangerously
wounded in the unfortunate battle of Chillianwalla, is
January, 1849, when, it will be remembered, the 24th
suffered great less of life, particularly amongst the °Seen;
the wound which he received on that occasion was in feet
so severe that he never recovered entirely from its edicts,
end to it is 'scribed his death, at the age of only 39 wean.
This gallant officer entered the army in 1828, carved as an
ensign in the 68th regiment, from 1828 to 1833, in which
latter year be was appointed lieutenant in the 24th; he
obtained his company in 1842, his majority in 1848, and,
for his services at Chillianwalla, was promoted to the
lieutenant-eoloneloy of the 24th on the 14th of January,
1849. He was also, the same year, nominated a Companion
of the Bath.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTL—ADMIRALTY, NOV. 17.
Clerk J. B. M'Avoy, and Second Muter T. A. Hall, to
Hastings ; Master's Assistant H. Goldsmith, to Rapid.

MAIL ROBBERT.—Yesterday, the young man,
Henry Norris, detained oa suspicion of robbing die mail
last wash, was again taken before the Bristol magistrates
for further examination. Mr. Peacock, the solicitor to the
Post-aloe, attended, and stated that the prisoner bad for-
merly bees employed at the Post-Wilco at Bridgewater as a
clerk. He was Mteson in 1847, and discharged in 1849.
`He was men to poet a letter at Bridgewater on the night, of
Lisaatbsay= postmaster, and he was also seen in the
on dies4oliewing Wednesday morning; it
lintOboosiom thowskt, advisable that the prisoner
amid be lomovidamilm tertharanee of justice to Br4e-
waassi onsisalasitisadrallorit the county magistrates. This
filmMairehis itimiloaterbiptho, bench, and• he will cease.,
briars's& tisk to-morrow morning..

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Yesterday, as stated in last cvcniug's Express,'
Thomas liar:, ,who w... es eget! on Itinilay week with the
wilful inerder of Louisa Here, his wife. by inflicting upon
her vanity. wounds on the it: a.i slid body with a triangular
saw 6k, was again placed at the bar. Tie prisoner, upon
alighting from the gournnent van in Paradianstrect, lead- t
ing to the back of the court, was loudly hissed and hooted '
at. Ile walked along with a tremulous step, and endea- 4
toured, as much a. possible, to shrink from the gaze of the
inultitu4c.
The tint witness who gave any evidence not previously
deduced was Edward Braitun, a boy seventet n years of
age. It will be remembered that lie was brought for-
ward upon the tint inquiry to give evidence, but that be
could not he sworn, Mastituch as lie stated that he knew
nothing of a future reward or punishment fur good or
evil deeds. He was now questioned by the magistrate, and
as hi. rep:ie. were satisfactory, he was sworn —1 live with
my mother in lintels's-gardens, Bagnigge-vrells.road. Two
women lodged there—one a then. went by the name of
Ilands, and the other that of Nott. When they left, I eon
tied two kites for them to 33, North. street. This was
three wet its back last Friday. East Saturdly week my
mother told me to go with the prisoner to the house where
I had carried the boxes, and to ask Mrs. Hands for the
room-door key, which she had carried off. Prisoner and I
went together, and un the way we drank at two or three
public-houses. We arrived at 33, North-street, at about
h ilf-past seven o'clock. (The witness having stated that
he had preciously asked for the deceased woman by the
prisoner's direction) went on : The prisoner (then about
eight o'clock) knocked at the door, which was opened
by the landlord, and prisoner said to him, " I am given
to undertantl that you have some bolus here which are
my property." Ile Irked fur Mrs. Bare, but the landlord
said be knew no such person ; and on his mentioning the
same of Nutt, a balg. r, he (prisoner) raid, "That's her.
That's my wife." We rem imed in the parlour, and while
sitting there the primmer sent me out fur a pot of beer,
which was drunk. The landlord then sent me out for an-
otlu pot, and as I was Winging it in >ln. Bare followed
me. Sit' went up stair., and the landlurd said, " That is
Mrs. Nutt" (the 1141/1111 by which the unfortunate deceased
was known at the time). The landlord begged of the pri-
soot, to be quit t, hut he (prisoner) went up directly, taking
a lighted cootie with hint, and I remained in this patriotic.
la the course of tic- minutes he called out to me, " Now,
my lad, come up stairs and fetch these boxes down." I
went into the tint ii hack room, and there saw the
woman i nil the prisourr standing close to the window. The
primmer said to me (bawling a box), "'fake this away, and
when you have dont so, fetch the other."
Mr. Ltnniehem—Lrial she make any objection to your
taking the bit...
Womm—Nunm at all, sir. I took the little box away,
sad was going out of the room when I heard • terrain, and
when I got halfway down stairs there was • cry of
Lodgers emit( to the direr, and said to
the primmer, "03. you Onion to el use your wife like
that. I put the hos in the parlour, and was going up
again when I mi t the prisoner coming down at a rapid
rate, end be said to m's," Make haste and bring that other
hoc down stairs " I went up and laid hold of a large box,
and as I was coining down with it 1 heard stone groan., and
1 saw the poor creature, the prisoner's wife, lying over the
are-plan., with her fare °trend with blond. 1 put the box
outside the door and looked about for the prisoner, hut he
was gone. When I rust heard the woman scream, 1 mid
"'Atm% hit In r like that," and he told me to mind my own
busier.. 1 ran down into the street us soon as I could, and
saw the prisoner stand by a baker's shop. I rushed acmes
to him, and seeing blood upon his right hand, I said to him,
" You must come leak ; you have murdered your wife."
lie soil, "No, I have not; but if I have you tan tell the
policeman." I then spoke to • °unstable, and pointed the
primmer out.
lu reply to questions by the priemier, witness said—On
our way to North 'treat, I and the prisoner went together
into • gin-shop in Holborn, he (prisoner) thinking to meet
his wile, as be had torn her there, as he alleged, on a for-
mer occasion.

The 'alone r croseeexamined the witness, endeavouring
to show that his wife and Mrs. Ilanda had been in the
habit of drinkn'os together continually.
Inspee tor Jarkson, Dili vision.—On the night of Saturday,
the nth inst. about hall-past 9, the prisoner was brought
to MarylibiUne.lane station, in custody of Uott and Dray.
two. (iolt said the prisoner hail been stabbing his wife,
at No. 33, North-street. It was not known whether the
woman ens dead or alive, and a surgeon had been sent for.
I enticed that both hands of the prisoner were bloody. I
elaniused his right hand, and found it covered with blood
to the wrist. Seeing a mark on the second finger
examined it, and I asked the prisoner if it was cut. and he
wul " No." I mid, "This is a very serious charge." The
prisoner replied, " Yes; is there any blood on my face ?" I
mud, " Yes • there are several spots oia the side of your face,
as it blood had spurted on it." The prisoner then wetted
his pocket handle /tibia and partially wiped the blood off.
Ile then asked me Mallow him to wash his hands, which re-
quest, fur a reason I lead, wan nut complied with. Previous to
this l had sent a constable to ascertain if the woman was
dead. While he (the constable) was absent thin prisoner two
or three tames asked me how the woman was, and requested
oar to let him know as soon as 1 bail ascertained. lle then
asked for mine coffee, which I let him have. The prisoner
was very much agitated, and decidedly under the influence
of drink. I shortly alter received information that
the woman wan dead. I told Min of it directly after.
The prisoner sod, " Dead!" and nose himself up, upraised
his Minds ovi r his heal, and mid," Goal ! Christ, Almighty!
dead --dyad !" This he repeated several times. He was
excessively agitated, and leant his head on the bar of the
dock. Ihe prisoner afterwards eielainted, "I wish you
mold kill me now ; but you have not the power. Oh, that
I could be hung this moment ; hot, thank Goil, I
am now at rest." 1 asked him if he had any family ? Ile
• " Yes, two ehildn n." l asked him if they were with
the wife ? Ile said, " No, the boy was with him ; but the
girl was unfortunate" 1 then asked him his name • and he
mid, "Thomas flare, and his age sou 43." Ile also; said he
haul no home. I mid, " You must have a home somewhere,
because vine have the boy." The prisoner then said 1 should
find the hn'y at a beer-shop in trumer•street, and that he
was 111 bed. Ile (prisoner) said he was a pipe-maker ; and
on my asking him if deceased was his wife, he said, "Yes;
they hail Is en married 20 years." Ile asked mu to see to
his boy, and l said l would, when he uttered the words,
"'tell any boy that I have killed his poor mother." (The
prisoner here sat down, and crying, buried his face in his
hands ; hi- sobbed audibly, and w.ia evidently fully aware of
the awful situation in which he was placed.) After the
prisoner was lurked up, imagining that a proper search had
not been mule in the hest instance, 1 searched him, but
found nothing particular upon him. The prisoner exclaimed,
" It's tae late now, or I would have provided myself with
something, and then I should have saved you and every-
body else trouble."
lisp rho Jackson produced a bon and other wearing
opu.arl, which had 11.111 on the deceased when she Was mur-
dered. articles alludes! to were handed to the magis-
trate by Smith, the messing' r of the court. They were
pi emitted in various plans, evidently with a triangular
nutriment, and they were saturated with blood. Some
pawnbrokers' tickets and other papers were produced by
the inspector, and amongst them wan a certificate of the
marriage of Louisa Nott with the prisoner at St. Martin's,
Leicester, in 1531.

Rebecca Linon, 81, Friar-street, Blackfriars-road, de-
posed that a man, whom she believed to be the prisoner,
purchased of her a saw file.
The tile found in the room where the woman was mur-
dered was produced, and wanen had no doubt with regard
to its being the implement which she sold to him.
Mary Robinson, wife of Samuel Robinson, 3, Half-moon-
passage, Alelcrsgate-street, aeid,-1 have known the pri-
soner and his wilco fur rat years, and at various places.
1 have fretiurntly seen bruises on the poor woman, and she
has 4.44.1 me that they were caused by her husbaucrs cruel
treatment. She also told me that he had broken her ribs.
A gre.t deal of other evidence crimmatury of the pti-
MUT was prune into, and a most important witness was lien,
64 11, whose evidence clearly showed that the prisoner ad-
mitted having killed his wile.
The prisoner, who cross-esamined some of the witnesses,
but without shaking their evidence, was remanded till
Monday next.
Some hundreds of persons had congregated round the
van in which the prisoner was conveyed to the House of
Detentioo, Clerkenwell.

Mg.. TUACKERAT AT Oxman.—The outer world
'knots the existence of a Mr. Thaekeray, whose name is a
household world" in England and America, India and
Australia, only second to that of . Mr. Dickens, who is •
graduate of no college, not even that of bother surgeons,
while the subject of our narrative duly mitrieulated at
Trinity after -being • Carthusian. The Wawa delivered
at Will o s Rooms are not quite effaced from the terwary of
the intelligenee, ask, and fashion of this onbagolis, while
their pupa Sew on the wings of journalism laths Maw
whim of the Aagieseutori nniveree. Pftriallit
ing the espial of Scotland and other crest aemmnaLYe
eras empire and the United States with • repetition of
lam masterly recitals of biondsd wisdom, wit,
ad Madly humanity, the isetuar bethought ktmaslf
of eideentse thew to the raw youth of on, two peat
wieweiss et die netienal mini; end It Ins nasseary, hears
at Oxford, abash' the of the antherities
—aeeffirjtatolable arreaanset, of wares. PteU Nembal
the Doke of Wellies/Ws is the Chasaler la shape of the
leaned gashes ea the asks of We, and assped te
would denhens law unthawed at met theand his
lesines. The ash, ken le the Weed eattsphere of the
owardzweeM, mid a stiff of the Seek ham" is in a
et Waken C. tat his dspety at Oohed is
re‘ise-Chuwellor, and D.D., the Rev. is.inoh Chaim
Ilumptre, on whom the moan applicant waited with sod
MEW bow, presenting his mod. Pray what an I de to
save yes, sir, inquired the Wad functionary. lify am is
Thashoray.--So i see by this tad. I seek amain' to
brow within the pinions. Ah ! you am • lectures= what
rajah do you undertake—T*l*ose or political ? Neither;
I ass • literary lass. Have you written anything ? Ten,
I'M the author of " Vanity Fair." I presume, • dam-
too—ins that any connexion with Jobs Da 's heek?
Net ezastly ; I have also written " P " him
heeed it *SOS works, bat so doubt they are prow halts
I ban she mutriband ha Punch." Pima I 41 I ban hoard
it that; is Ii net • 'Hind publicans ?" The spat of
' this dear diabgeo between the goat panic mastet
an pee sad the Mew of IJaiventry Whim Oren, we.
the of a ..oalbreass as le Annette " from this ftesedmeef the who, is deep sea-
- seleetann ef his essepenatia in the yams'
Of sweall alrea. Waft ewe soma a ldepatkerhe
neMendt Intl le he the hiaspas==.6llentsel ',Machete, width

This case Caine on upon demurrer. The plaintiffs are
trustees of the Newport District Benefit Building So-
ciety. The defeadiust was formerly a vice•president of
the society, but has seceded from it. He was employed ea
" trustee" or " agent" of the society to purchase an estate
called the Fair Oak Estate, consisting of 76 acres, and on
their behalf he had purchased it for 6,0001. 55.. and the
society had advanced OWL Rh., which he had paid as a de-
posit on the purchase money. The society had 4,0061. in
the hands of their bankers, who had agreed to advance
them by way of loan 2,000!. additional, in order to enable
them to complete the purchase ; hut the defendant had
borrowed money and procured the estate to be conveyed to
himself, and he refused to convey it to the society. The
bill therefore prayed that defendant might be directed to
convey the property to the plaintiffs as trustees of the so-
ciety. The grounds of the demurrer were want
of parties, want of equity, and that the transaction
was an illegal one, not being within the objects
of the society, which, as stated in the rules, were
" to enable each shareholder to receive from the funds of
the society the amount or value of his share or shares
therein, such share not to exceed the sum of 501., to erect
or purchase one or more dwelling houses or other freehold
or leasehold estate, to be secured by way of mortgage to the
society."
The Master of the Rolls gave judgment overruling the
demurrer.
Mr. Roswell and Mr. Miller wars counsel for the plain-
tiffs; Mr. Ituundell Palmer and Mr. Rogers for the de-
fendant.