The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-21 00:00:00

21, 1862.

tome by their opinions, others by their renown, and all in
general by thelegood faith. The evil is serious, the remedy
is urgent; it is now or never that you may achieve your
own welbre. Mexicans, hearken to the voice of
the allies, an anchor of safety for yon in the
midst of the tempest by which you are encompassed; trust
entirely in their good faith and their genirous intentions ;
have no fear of restless and malevolent spirits your reso-
lute and decided attitude will suffice to confound them
during all the time that we shall be impassive witnesses of the
grand spectacle of your regeneration guaranteed by order
and liberty. Such, we are sure, is the light io which the
matter will be seen by the supreme government to which
we address ourselves ; such will be the views of the illus-
trious men of the country to whom we speak, and in which
good patriots will be forced to agree ; it is, that instead of
having recourse to arms, it is best to give the lead to reason,
which alone ought to triumph in the nineteenth century.
Vera Cros, Jammu 10, 1062.
(Signed) CHAIM= LINN= W TVA HUGS DUNLOP,
E. Joins( Ds t.a Ganvrent, Dunous
Di SALIDA; the Count Ds Blum

WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS INTO HER
MAJZSTY'S POSSESSIONS ABROAD.

The following is a copy of a bill just presented to
the House of Lords by the Duke of Newcastle :
" Where the Court of Queen's Bench at Westminster
has lately decided that it had jurisdiction to issue and it
accordingly did issue a writ of Wise corpus, directed to
the sheriff of the county of York in the colony of
Canada, and to other venoms in the said colony,
commanding them, for the purposes therein mentioned,
to !have before the said court the body of a certain
John Anderson : and whereas there were and are lawfully
established cootie of justice within the said colony of
Canada, with full powers for the administration of justice
throughout the said colony, including the power of issuing
the said writ of habeas corpus, in all cases arising within
the said colony, as fully as the same power is roesemed and
exercised by her Majesty's superior courts of law at Wirra-
-1 minster within England and Wales : and whereas it is not
expedient that writs of habeas corpus should issue out of
England into any colony or foreign dominion of the crow n
where her Majesty has a lawfully established court or
courts of justice having authority to grant and issue the
said writ, and to ensure the due execution thereof through-
out such colony or foreign dominion ; be it therefore enacted,
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal'
►nd commons in this present parliament aseembled, and by
the authority of the same, as follows :
" 1. No writ of habeas corpus shall issue oat of England,
by authority of any judge or court of justice therein, into
any colony or foreign dominion of the crown where her
Majeety has a lawfully established court or courts of justice
having authority to grant and issue the said writ, and to
ensure the due execution thereof throughout such colony or
dominion.

"2. Provided that nothing in this act contained shall
affect or interfere with any right of appeal to her Majesty
in council now by law existing."

WEATHER REPORT.

Finn, YWCA"? 11, $ LIL

V. I C.

JAW INTELIIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before the Lords Juetieee (sitting in lunacy) Knight Bra...e
and Turner, at Liacoln'm Inn.)

IN RE
.W..P..WINDIIA/d.-:-.THE WIN DRA-11 cane

__—
This celebrated case, which has obtained ri mich
notoriety during the protracted inquiry under the
commission de lunetico inquireuclo issued at the hi...tante
General Windham, Lord Henry Hervey, and others, as to
the sanity of Mr. Windham, of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk,
before Samuel Warren, Q.U., oneof the Masters in Lunaey,
and a special jury, which resulted in a verdict that be w,.4
of sound mind, and capable of managing his affairs and
estate, came on for hearing before their lordship.
Mr. W. F. Windham hail, in consequence of the 6odin;
of the jury, presented his petition to the court praying the.
so much of the order of the 23rd November, 1861, made by
the court as orders that all persons be restrained from in-
terfering in the affairs and concerns of the said William E.
Windham, and from interfering, using, or disposing of
any property they might have in their pouesaion, or aim+.
might come to their bask* or in any way interfering with
his estate, without the authority of the court, be discharged.
The petition then proceeds with the most material gees.
tion, praying that the coats of Mr. W. F. Winlhatil of
opposing the petition for the inquiry, the commission
thereon, the costs of the proceedings before the court on
the 11th, 12th, and 18th of December, and consequent
thereon, as also the costa of the trial, be (paid by the isti•
tioueni, Major-General Windham and others, or one nt
them. _ .

Mr. Rowcliffe (on the pert of the petitioner, Mr. W. F.
Windham), without going into any statement, said he wa,
instructed to ask their lordships to allow the petition to
stand over. _ _ _

Mr. rkeOn, Q.C., who appeared for the respondent, Major.
General Windham, mid he bed no objection to offer to the
petition standing over.
Their lordships said if it was not objected to, the petition
might dead over es asked.
Order accordingly.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

Sitting at Nisi Print at Guildhall.—(Before the Loal
Chief Beene and Special Juries.)

MEW AND APOTHEM e. THE RAILWAY rassitrawas A.L.a
BANC* COMPANT.—" • XI 811111.10U8 DIAAPPEARANCIL"
This extraordinary ems, part heard yesterday, was rt.
'timed this morning.
Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Mr. Francis, and Mr. Holland, were
counsel for the plaintiff. Mr. Serjenot Ballantine, Mr. Lusk
Q.C., and Mr. J. 0. Griffiths represented thedefendanty..
On behalf of the plaintiff, William Hue, carpenter,
of Brighton. was recalled, and deposed that ha
knew Frederick Damon }Borns ten or twelve
years, and they had lodged together. Hiorns carried
his luggage in a carpetbag. He identified that, and
the clothes which he had worn on the occasion. Hioms had
been ill before he went to Brighton, and was getting better
when he made his will. He identified the signature to the
will as that of Freak. Damon Hioma. .

Mr. W. J. Scott, the plaintiff's solicitor, yea next called,
and proved the correspondence which had taken place
with the defendant's company with respect to the claim made
against them by the plaintiffs for the payment of the 210/.,
for which the life of the alleged deceased had been assured
A letter was then put in from the plaintid
to Mr. Mullen, of Brighton, with reference to the article
belonging to the alleged deceased.
Mr. Mullane was recalled, and deposed that in the latter
then produced there had been a piece of paper in which was
written the number of Hiorn's watch, which he had handed
to Superintoodent White.
This Haled the plaintiff's case.
(The trial was proceeding when our report left.)
COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
WRITE V. WHITS AND CATO.—(PAST HEARD.)
Some additional (widowe having been given on behalf of
the plaintiff,
Mr. Macaulay sddreesed the jury for the defendants. lie
commented on the absence of the plaintiff, the widow
of the testator, from the witness box. Copal.
deriog the plea which bed been placed on the record,
attributing to her undue influence, she might naturally
have bees expected to feel some anxiety about clearing
herself from the charge. In the year 1845, when she was
at the age of 30, she bad married a man 40 years her
make ; and probably she thought that she should not ham
had to wait any exorbitant time for the jointure of 2001.
year settled on her at the time of her marriage. Nothing
' maid exceed her impatience to secure possession of a more
abundant provision. It was clear that the deceased must
=„y have been a shrewd man of bashing, but the
went to show that since 185 G he had been
utterly incapable of managing bis monetary matters. It
was proved that though he lived in au inexpensive manner,
he had latterly muddled away a large portion of his income,
in a way of which no explanation could be given. It was
under these circumstances that Mrs. Cato was called in to
readjust his affairs. She found that the interest on his
mortgagee had been allowed to remain unpaid ; his house-
keeper's accounts were considerably in &Mar, and
the ordinary tradesmen's bills for keeping hie
property were undischarged. Mrs. Cato's aid was
gladly accepted by the testator, and it was expressly
arranged that his daughters should also take charge of his
house. " Him hire lachrytna." This wee the reason of
the soreness which had arisen on the part of the plaintiff
and the quarrel which she had fostered between her husbead
and his daughters The learned counsel contended in
conclusion that the testator had
serious intention of depriving his daughters of his property.
He had made a series of wilts from 1847 downwards ; and
it was remarkable that the benefits he intended to confer on
his wife gradually diminished until they came to the dere.
taint before the court in which the daughters wholly
disappeared, and the plaintiff took their place. The learned
counsel submitted, therefore, that the instrument in die.
puts did not contain the real will of a sane testator, but
must have been procured by undue influence.
(The learned counsel was addressing the court when we
went to prem.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner olroyd.)
IN RE LAURENCE, HORMONE, AND SCHRADER.
The bankrupts were the partners in the well-known
firm of Streatfeild and Company, leather factors, of
St. Mary Au. This was an audit sitting. The
proceedings were entirely of a formal character. The °As
cial assignee has about 20,0301. in hand, but there are various
pays euta to be made out of this, so that the amount
applicable to dividend cannot yet be accurately ascertained.
The dividend sitting is appointed for Wednesday next.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

G.LIERIC EN W ELL.
SEIIIOOII CHARON OP SCALDING SIX PIRSOYS.

3opkAa Benaßr, aged i 7, the wife of a labourer at the
Imperial Gas Works, residing at 14, Ashby-street, King'e
cross, was placed at the bar before Mr. I)'Eyncourt, charged
with violently assaulting six persons by throwing boding
water over them, at Ashby-street, King's-cross.
The case caused a great deal of excitement, and long
before the hour appointed for the removal of the prisoners
from the Platt-street station, more than 1,000 persons had
assembled to catch a glance of the prisoner, it having
been announced that one of the persons scalded
bad expired during the night, This fortunately
turned out not to be correct., although one of the
children is so ill and in such a dangerous state that she was
unable to attend at the court. Had it not been for polior
sergeant Reeves, 14 8, who had charge of the prisoner,
putting her in a cab, site would hava been seriously mal-
treated. As it was she was hissed and hooted and had
several missiles thrown at her.

Inspector Fraser, of the 8 division, linbded in a medical
certificate which stated that all the parties were suffering
severely, and one was unable to attend. The mines of the
parties injured are Sarah Collins, ago] two mouths, head
and face severely scalded; Martha Conine, aged 11, right side
of face, neck, and shoulder severely scakled ; Kate Dunhurst,
aged 6 years, head and face severely scalded (this
unfortunate child is io a very dangerous state,
and cannot at present see, and it is feared that erysipelas
will set in) ; Hoary Samoa, between 7 and 8 years of age,
severely scalded about the head and face ; sod Helen
Howell, aged 9, face and neck scalded. Mrs. Mary Ann
Cox, of 10, finffolx•street, had also sane of the water over
her arm, but fortunately she was not very much hurt.
From the evidence it appears that the prisoner is known
in the neighbourhood as a very violent woman. Yesterday
ahe put a broker in the mom of one of her lodgers for 4a.
rent that was owing. That canoed a great excitement in
the neighbourhood, and a mob assembled round the house.
A fight ensued between the broker's men and some one
in the house. That caused the boys to hoot and throw
mod and stones at the windows. As the children were
coaling out of a neighbouring school, they also congregated
round the harem 'This appeared to very, much memento
the prisoner and she opened the parlour window and ail
that if the children did not go sway she would scald their
guts out. Almost suiting the action to the word, she took
up a tea-pot filled with hot tea, and bolding it by the spout
threw the contents on the children. The tea leaver adhered to
the chlldretulaces and theiremearna were dreadful. When the
prisoner was spoken to about the inatt.r, she said it was •
good job, and was about to throw a kettle of water on those
rernaiaing, but was prevented. When Policesergenn•
Reeves, 14 8, took the primmer In custody she denied the
charge, and called the broker to prove that fact ; but he
was the worse for liquor, and said that he did not know
what she had done. On the way to the police-station she
was pelted with all kinds of rubbish, cud she narrowly
seamed being severely maltreated.
The primmer in asewer to the charge denied the throwing
of the water end said that she was assaulted, and while she
had the tesitet in her hand some one shook her and that
caused alit& of the Lot water to come out. It servedthera
right. Ms had a witness who could show that she did ace
throw the water.
A woman of the name of Black wax called by the
weer to prows this statement, bat she only said that the
prisms, yea annoyed and threw the hot water over Ow
children Is get them away.