The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

NAVAL.

ADMIRALTY. AUG. 26. APPOINT/LE:in.—Mid-
shipman H. J. Apreece, to Spartatt ; Navel Cadet K. L.
Cox, to l'resident.

IiORTSMOUTII, At GVST To-day being the
anniversary of the birthday of I'rince Albert, a royal salute
was fired a: 12 o'clock by the garrison from the platform
battery, and in a few minutes after by the Victory and
Neptune, 120, in harbour, and the London, ; Blenheim,
60; Magicienne, 16; and Vesuvius, 6, at Spithead. The
Prussian corvette Amazon, at Spithead, also saluted. The
Odin, 16, paddle frigate, Captain F. Scott, sailed from
Spithead, yesterday afternoon, for Lisbon. The weather
to-day and the latter part of yesterday has been of
a very boisterous ch, carter ; the wind blowing a
gale, and accompanied by very heavy showers
of rain. All communication between the shore and Spit-
bead is suspended, the sea being too rough to allow of boats
putting off. This morning a small boat belonging to the Pru-
ssian man-of-war corvetteAmazonwascapsized in the herbs ur,
but the men in her were saved. At the present hour (6
p.m.) the gale appears increasing rather than :ctherwise.
Several vessels have run into St. Helen's Roads and the
Motherbank for shelter, among them a large screw steamer
believed to be an Australian outward-bound emigrant ship.

CABS AND MEASURED MAPS OF LONDON.

TO THE !MIME UP THE Ell.llllBB.

SIR,-1t will be a great advantage to the public
should the plan of making the distances of streets (proposed
last year) he carried out. Take Oxford-street from the
Park down to the end where it joins Holborn, and continue
the line to the end through Snow-hill, Neu-gate-street,
Cheapside, &c., as far as a straight line runs ; mark from
the Park on the left-hand site 1,1, I,:lraile, If mile, If, 11,
2 miles, &c. ; mark on the left-hand side, beginning beyond
the East India House, 1,1, t, &e. Thus, near the Park,
or right-hand side of Oxford-street, you will see the extreme
distance from the East India House, and at or beyond the
East India House on the right-hand side you Kill sec the
extreme distance from the Park to the East India House,
&e. All the streets—Fleet•street, Strand, Regent-street,
Tottenham.court-road, &c.—to be so marked?, mile, &c., to
be marked at the height of about 12 to 15 ft. irons the ground.
Then there should be a snap of London on a large scale of
2 inches to the mile in 4 parts, with a scale f 176 yards, or
1-10th of an inch. Let the distance he marked on the long
streets in the maps, in fact, in all of 176 yards long. If any
one wishes to move about in a cah, he can look at the part
or parts of the map for the particular streets he will move
by and through. One single sheet would not answer; it
would be too large. Mark the distance 1,1, &c. mile in
the centre of the sheet. The police courts are to have one
of these maps, it is said, and Lord Palmerston measured a
disputed distance the other day by compasses. The map
must be large enough to havo distances inserted. I take
176 yards for the scale, as being 1-10th of an inch. We
shall be is decimals in all accounts soon. W. H.
Oriental Club.

LIBERAL BEQUEST TO THE MANCHESTER ROYAL
LUNATIC HOSVITAI. —Thc late Mr. Saha Schwabe, mer-
chant, has left a bequest of 3,000/. to this institution. Tee
announcement was lirst made at a meeting of the board of
the infirmary held on Thursday morning.
STONEMASON) WITH MOUSTACHES.--It bee been
long known that the dust which Hies off in tho working of
stone is very injurious to the lungs ; but it is only recently
that the retention of the moustache has been suggested re. a
remedy for this annoyance and danger. Numbers of masons
in Liverpool and neighhouthood now allow the hair to cover
the upper lip, and a knot of stout handsome fellows—
masons are generally well-looking men, though perhaps,
owing to the cause alluded to, not long livers—at work in
Birkenhead have, by this addition to their attractions,
created quite a furore amongst the softer sea. It would be
well if not only stonemasons, but all who are engaged in
1
dusty occupations, or in trades where disagreeable and un•
wholesome odours are evolved, were to adopt the mous-
tache, for surely would they find in it one of the best pro-
' teCtOrS Of the lunge that cettl4 be called into play.

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Mt ROAR AND SCAMS IN GOODMAN•.
YARD.

yi.gerday, Mr. Baker, tlr coroner for East Mid-
-46,04 L I I an inquest upon the unfortunate Cunha°
whither she had been
Whir, at th.• Loutbat IL
i,es,v,datirr te...asoige .itt.o;:i had been !mule epee 1".7
by her husband, which resulted in her derth, and where
~Ity.lst in artiereo 1•440144, and under the C:4•11
eu,todi 01 ti•C city police, the ruthless perpetrator of the

•,net 6mm:eat/mem hare recent!) come to light in coo-
n, si •ti with this event, which irmot it with a milanchilly

Thr ilecrAted it apptare Lwd uuly bees uutted to

the n. a about twelvemonths, he being at that t.me a
vndor.r a.th four puny children. She meats to have
enjoviil but a very brief period of domeatil bappineu, fur
oi.ih the nun was kind and affe.ctiou.ite in his sober

us..sat nts intervals were of rare
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and

morel; &month had elapsed Mier their wedding before his
wage ill-treatment commenced. Alleged ill-treatment of
to. (barren and intimacy with a pi lieeinan, were the
meteets t,r Lit savage conduct, but so for as the
evidence has gone both charges were grounilltm. She was a
q t W014,01:1%44. and strictly sober woman. Neverthe-
less, the treat:neat which she experienced at the hands of
her husband almost exceeds belief. She hail frequently
thr oten, rl tone, k the pomeetion of the law, but had never
muster, d up resolution 'Wittiest to make her caw known
to the u.agietratts. An undetino/de terror, and, perhaps,
also ...env remnant of affection, always intervened at the
last moment to prevent her appealing to the tribunal of
)udo- . Oil the eery day on which the murder took place,
o was her intention to have applied to the Lord Mayor for
a separate maintenanc:.
Hobbs, the murderer, was not quite so well yesterday as
on the previous Mohr, having been etc irked in the interval
with bronchitis. Still lie is progressing as well as can be
expected. see knife had completely severed the larynx,
and his bodily health was nut generally good, in conse-
quence M his intemperate habits.
The first witness called yesterday wet John Iliardon,
who deposed as follows —I live at No. 7, Enoch-run, with
my
father who is the landlord of the house. I um a ma-
theinaticel instrument maker. Deceased and her husband
also lived there. It is a house consisting of three floors,
and one rwm ou each floor. My father and I lived on the
groonil if fur. Hemmed and her husband lived on the first
door, and a Mr. Lancaster and his wide lived above. He-
mmed was the wife of Nathaniel Mobile, • jobbing wine
cooper in the employ of Walter, Howell, and Co., wine
meraliants, of Water-lane, Great Tower.street. I have
known M itilse and his wife 11=3 lest Easter, at which time
they t oae. !o live at our tweet. They lived very unhappily
to:ether, and were constantly quarrelling. I saw the
deevoea the wove for liquor while she was there, but
Moto. was frequently drunk. When in that state he very
often used to beat his wife, and was co " riotous" in his
maduct towards her that we could not get any sleep
lee nights together. In consequence of his brutal
madam towards her, the neighbours called him General
llamas. I 'ever saw him beat her, but I have seen her
after she h been beaten, The two black eyes which she
has now she has had for some time, and I have seen her
with black eyes before. 1 last heard them quarrelling
together on Tireeday night—the night before the toed. his
pretest for beating her was that she stopped out all night
and talked to the police.
The Coroner—Did she ever do that ?
Witnese—l know that he treed to beat and turn her out
of the house very often, and I know that the last night she
was stir in the house he turned her out, and told my
father net to let her in. I heard him tell her rope!' to
be a out of the passage and not to come in his sight
spin. That was about hale past nine o'clock at night, and
she went out alai stoned et No. 4in the court. He did net
know where she had gone, and went and sat upon • step all
night at the end of the court. About five o'clock the nest
1110i13114 a little girl from No. 4 was seat out fur something
tad die went up to Mobbe to ask him w hat time it was, nut
knowing at the moment who the man was. When she saw
it was Mobto she became alarmed, and ran back to her
house. Hobbs suspected from this that his wife was there,
sad rushing in after his little girl, found he: sitting down
is the room. Ile wes very violent, and to.d her to go home.
Whin they came in there was • great scuffling in the pas
sage; hut I dropped off to sleep, and it appears that Hobbs
weut to his work in the morning as usual. Ile came
home to his dinner about two o'clock, and I was
then at work at my master's shop. About haltpast
two I beard it stated in the shop that • men
bad cut his throat at No. 7, and I immediately bee
tined home. Directly I got to the top of the stairs I saw
the men lytee on his back across the doorway with his
throat cut, and a brown table knife in his right hand
He tumid oser, and tried to get up. In this he
partly succeeded and he laid hold of my arm, but
I rotted him off. He looked at me and tried to
speak. but I could not understand what he said. At that
time there was nu one else in the room, and I knew
nothing about the woman. I was not aware that she had
rue down stairs with her throat cut. Them was a
great quantity of blood about the room, and there were two
distinct pools, one where he lay, and the other more in the
metre A policeman and other people then came up-stairs,
and we raised him from the ground and placed him in a
chair. A medical at en also attended, and having examined
the wound and giveu directions so to the way in which his
head should be held, ordered his removal to the London
Hospital, whither I aceempaaied him in a cab.
By a juror—l have frequently heard deceased and her
husband quarrelling and scuffling, but I never heard him
use any threat of vengeance towards her, and I never
thought 'hat he would have done such a deed as this.
Esemisetion continued—l did not handle the knife, and
do not know what state it was in. Hobbs dropped it when
he tried to get up as I have described. The deceased was a
very quiet woman. I do not know that she aggravated him
in any way, but I know that she had a good deal to put up
with. Hobbs was not quarrelsome with other people. I
do not know that he objected particularly to her being at
No a. No policeman lived there ; but Hobos was a very
unreasonable man, and he did not know how to be satisfied,
whether she was in the house or out of it.
Frances Lancaster was next examined, and deposed as
follesis—l am the wife of John Lancaster, and reside at
No. 7, Enoch•eourt, on the second floor, immediately above
the deceased and her husband. We have resided there
since March, and the Hobbs came to live there about
Easter. I have frequently heard them quarrel, and the
dreadful cold under which I now labour is in consequence
of a fearful grime' between them about six weeks ago—just
a week after my confinement—when I was so alarmed that
I got out of bed. My husband went upon that occasion to
separate them, and she then turned against him. I never
saw the deceased otherwise than sober, but her husband
was frequently drunk, and when so was always very violent.
About 7 o'clock on Saturday week last there was • quarrel
between them of a serious nature, but I did not see it•

There were plenty of people in the court, however, who
did see it, and I know that she had two black eyes
afterwards, and has had them ever since. On Tuesday
last, iioout 7 in the evening, I heard the children calling
after him " General llaynau "—a name that he was genet-
ally called, on account of beating his wile, I believe. lie
was then coming down the court. I looked round
my room, and saw Mrs. Mobbs standing at my door.
I to gged of her to go down stairs, and she said, " Oh, it's
very cruel of y u to turn me down stairs, for he's sure to
ill u.e me." My husband then told her to stay, and she
did stay till past nine o'clock, until it was quite dark. My
fear was that if she remained up stairs my husband would
get into a quarrel with Mob's', because my husband is
rather a violent man, and he frequently said that if he saw
Mohlis ill treat his wife he would give him a good biding.
I always :ock the door of my room at night, and frequently
used to hide the key, so that my husband might not get A
and go down stairs. About half-past nine o'clock my hus•
band wanted to go to bed, and as we had but one room I
asked Mrs. Mobbe what she was going to do. She said she
would walk about all night, and would get the protection
of the law neat day. I lent her my cloak, for sh 2 had no
shawl, poor thing' and she then went away. De-
emed and her husband often quarrelled when be
was drunk , but when he was sober he was
a quiet civil man, and frequently used to come after
a row and beg my pardon for the noise he had made•
I raw no mire of them un'il neat dsy, when I was walking
in the court with three other women ; and about 2 o'clock
I heard an exclamation from the deceased in a feeble voim
of '' Murder, murder.•• I immediately sent for a police-
mw, and one of the women ran up stairs and kni eked ■t
the door and asked what he was doing with his wife. I
then heard a box witadrawn from the door—the bolt and
irk had been broken in former seuMes—by means of
which it had been closed. Mrs Mobbe dashed out of the
door with a heavy step, her head slung from side to aide ;
her hair was dishevelled and hanging over her shoulders.
She looked at me as the passed, but could not speak, and I
Vile that her throat was cut with a frightful gash. The
ye ungest child, four year• of ore, was in .he room all the
time sitting in a chair. I went up stairs to fetch my
baby, and on the way op I MT Mo'hq lying in
pool of blood, end hie little child sitting in a high

chair. I did not ohservis that lie ha.l a knife in
his hand, but I hurrie.t put, because my anxiety was to
get my baby. There are other women in the court who
know more ablut this matter than I ilo, but they are not
here brew.* they were not sumin,ned. Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Scott both know more than I. Mrs. Jones it was who
annekid at the door when the it..c...userl called " murder,"
and I believe ;lc lacz...ra one of them say something then,
but I don't know what.

The Coroner said u that wai the MA, perhaps it woula
Fe well to aThurn the Mg iiry f,r the present, more par-
ticularly a. the state of the man appeare I to be eatr..nse'y
douhttul. Olcourae, if the tam should die the inquiry
would auume A aery cliff,rent form to that which it would
take if he su '4, because in the event of his death the
power of the law, so far as he was concerned, would be at
an end.
The jury concurred in this view, and fir the reasons
stated by the cirmer actinieseA in an adjournment for a
few day..
The proceedings were adjaurned accordingly.