The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-10 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

r and when the line to Piabgnsrd wee abandoned, nothing 09-
malued but to maks& sharp tune from Haverfordwest to Nay-
land. Had the line to Milked to be made over again, there
is little doubt that it would be carried to Pembroke and
Penthroke Dock, with their population of 11,000 souls, and
not to Neyland, which has only its hotel and ac•
commodation for a few railway officials. It la diffi-
cult to conceive why the South Wales Company did
not carry on the line to the town of Milford,
and start their boats thence to Waterford, Instead of stopping
short at Neylend. This neglect on their part is about to be
remedied by Colonel the Hon. R. Falk. Ormille, the prin-
cipal proprietor of the lends about the town of Mind, who
with great spirit end rare resolution has commenced on his
own behalf the formation of a junction line from Milford to
the South Wales line at Johnstone. The ruse enterprising
individual ales contemplates the Idea of enclosing the Milford
coast from Newton Oyes to Hokin Point, and converting
this vast area into dock accommodation. This work would
seem to be too large for the grasp of an individual, though, if
accomplished, it would undoubtedly secure for Milford the
importance and pro-eminence which such energy should
deserve. Above Milford the channel narrows considerably,
and midway between it and Penner Bay there tea mud bank,
called the Pwllerochan Flat, which still more omit:acts Its
navigable width. At the same time it mist not be
forgotten that the Waterford mail-boats par thresh at
night without the least difficulty. Au isesaveniest
tmpedl-
mut, however, which may not be ruck Isit is the is.. d
a limited traffic, might become an intolerable obelneffice
were the trade of Milford to develop itself to the proportions
which some are sanguine enough to anticipate. Within a
mile of the opening of the Inner Hawn, and on these:Ahem
side, stands Mingle Bay, which, at high-water, has sufficient
depth to float large vessels. This is the point at which
many well-informed pawns committer the docks should be
formed, in connection with a branch line to the South Wales

Railway.
The idea of making Milford a great naval and commends'
port ia by no means new, for in the year 1767 • petition from
the merchants of London end others interested in the trade
of the country let forth "that the pet of Milford,
in the county of Pembroke, wee a safe and commodious
harbour, capable of receiving at all time the whole Royal
Navy and trade of Great Britain, and was most conveniently
situated for the resort and security of mesebant ships when
they cannot easily eater the English Chemed" The naval
and commercial men of the present day *peer to take the
same view of the capabilities of the Haven ; though, strange
to say, no serious effort he yet been made to render than
available for commercial purposes. The port of Milford
would naturally form the outport on this side In connexion
with the proposed western route to New Zealand and Sydney
by Panama; and situated as it is in proilosity to the an-
thracite coal mines and the iron districts of ktiethyr,Dowlais,
and Newport, there is no mein why, with the aid of • little
energy, enterprise, and capital, it might not become one of the
great termini on the British shores for the American, Aus-
tralian, and Mediterearean packets. There is ample evi-
dence on the part of Ameriosa traders, who may be supposed
to be wholly disinterested in this matter in favour of Mil •
ford-haven as a first-class shipping port. Their evidence
goes to show that it Milford were the port of departure from
England there would be an immense saving In wages of
men, In Mesa-tugs, in provisions, light dues, risks of colli-
sion, inseam sad that one trip more to America in the
year could be scoomplished. As a proof of the extent to
which the traffic of the constry bee been developed eves by
the imperfect railway ersonunication which now
exists, it may be absented that the total traffic
on the South Wales line, which in the half- year ending 30th
of June, 1163, wee 72,7871., meented up to 1501,7711. itur the
half-year ending the 30th of June, 1856. A line to Man-
chester would be a necessary appendage if Miliord were as
elevated to the position of a ant elms port This could be
effected by a juomion at Llanidlore, and it appears that such
• line is warmly supported by the landed interest of the
localities through which It would run. Milford-haven
would then be connected with the east and north of England
es Wei se with .Losdon, and mails could be almost eimul-
L semelydaYemsd Is the greet centres of basins's, so that
sepffiles meld ee.plain of priority of commercial
Valk
T bine =de no allusion to the important naval dockyard
set rem, sr es It seems now to be more generally called, Pem-
leis Reek, or to the defences of the Haven, a few words
SI which may not be Inappropriate. The dockyard stands
es a large block of land on the south of the Raves, the east
ani west nods ban preened by Inertial° towers. On the
la ahem the peed Mete is a strong fort, which commands
ibaphee fistlltighir up, sear Robb's Point, there are hut
Weeks, which contain at present about 700 men, under the
sae reand of Colonel Raymond. The disityard consists of
Italie', out of which some of the largest and Anse specimens
lof naval architecture have been launched. The Windsor
Castle,whioliwie untie I epairotad waslaunched about tea days
ago, when the Admiralty authorities were here, is still in the
iffeek the is anything but a sightly vessel is the water, and
eleteles sadly with the more elegantly proportioned easels
as Mud from the decays/de. The Terrible, the Eagle,
the totem and some mailer war weft, are also in the tur-
bos'. There are at present sia verde in counts of omen°
Yen, vie.:—The Rows, 130; the Revenge, 10 ; the lamer-
kitty, the Aurora, Melpomene, sad Greyhound. These
geode are in venous stages, and the work seems to be oarried
with ardour. Several of the 'him had to be lengthened
Is order to meet the requirements of the modern style of
meral architecture. Great eldltlons have also been made to
the vagatiemy. New and mote powerful saw
-mills are about
Is los ended, and the yard everywhere gives evidence of
astivity and leased power. There are about 1,000 men in
the employment of the goverment, end about half that num-
ber employed by the contractors under government. The pre-
sent superintendent is Captain Ramsay, a relative, I believe,
d Land Femurs, and, I understand, very popular with the
ow tad inhabitants of the town. Is addition to the M-
ises immediately surrounding the yard, I should mention
that Than Lend, a lofty isolated rook just within the
llama di the harbour, has for the first time been
ma that Ws Promontory Is also now being fortified.
The Illeser which was lest night gives to Messrs. Pewees
and Qelesean took place at the Victoria Hotel. Nearly 100
pleas were present. They consisted chiefly of the gsNie-
prd the locality, though there were deo premed gene-
men Beet Hull, Masobeeter, and other pleas, se well as
Mee el the piessegers by the Prince Alfred. Viscount
1110. TX, M.P., who" is manacled by large posiesektes with
Ile keilise, padded; ad on his right and hit sat the gusts
`llll len mak& Now& Pearson and Corium. Colonel
Mosolls aaeapkd she eke-chair.
ex, after the usual loyal toads, eoposed that
sitill=zro the enterprise of Messrs. Pearson and the
Istercoledal Royal Mad Stem-pecks eirvioa."
This was responded to by Mr. Pitelt•On eel Mr. CATS.
The toast of " Prematurity to Milford Raves " wee spokes
Mr. A. F. RIDGRAT, of London, who, as a New Zee-
ygd spat, end as • native of Milford Hams, has
I takes a lively Interest `the teprovenest of this poet
Mr. M'Clean (a masker of the Town Comma of Pem-
broke), Jounce Blelemey (of Aintree), Cokmel Gee-
vile fed Mr. Merritt (min
of this neglibeishood),
mid Mr. Robertson (nisi sad Lloyd'. asset), *dimmed
the ceirpmey.
Bees fiewor tomb were peoposed and duly acknowledged,
offer whisk the goers retired.
It ameba to be momillossi dog the Prise Alfred Is a reseal
ef sposeshmehme soll410.1kors• poorer. She takes out Moat
110eresserre,amengst gleams otiose of the army and navy
tad attars who ere otbervise eituseetad with the Imperial
gewirsororat. This is the toed wed which Mastro. Peres
and thisees have despedisik Os sew* service. The a-
geism am en the engulerMnek prissiple; and on her voyage
ben Leaden to Milford, her emenmetion of coal de mot
saved 41b. per horse-power per hour. The managing
seglaser of the company, Mr. Topknot, accompasied the
vessel to Milford.

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• my limpet prosist to Mr. Loma, of the Pars steraseaNs,
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; the bre is • mist Dawn sad the
tress of the see,:ts bright sad ironed silver. 17bre.=
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trots it. This shell is to WA lowers. The ip
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cos ebb of the Deg the odours of ZIO Pesmnottf mad
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fel " franstal to Mr. B. Las, of the
P ler= sad Orkstal Compels? s ship Tars, by the am-
bers of the Rows of Cosmos. with their Bog 14610 sad
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TEE ALLEGED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT
TOLMONZ

The Edinburgh Daily Express furnishe• the
following further particulate of the very distraelng osse at
Polmont, an outline of which se published yesterday :
Ann Taylor, • domestic servant in the house of Mrs. Reid,
Smallburn, neer Polmont, was taken violently ill on Sunday
afternoon, and becoming gradually worse during the rest of
that day, was visited by Dr. Myrtle, who had been sent for
on Monday forenoon. From what she could be got to tell
as to what was the matter with her, Dr. Myrtle concluded
It was only an ordinary case of bodily derangement, aid
treated it accerdingly. The girl, however, appeared to let
gradually worse, and would in all probability have died
without disclosing the real muss of her illness, had
it not been for one of those extraordinary inci-
dents which, occurring as they do in cdronmetneoes like
the present, almost stagger belief, and make truth seem
stranger and less credible than fiction. The girl's mother., •
widow woman living in the suburbs of Linlit4ow, wee dis
turbed on Sunday night by • dream that tartlet:ware' In a at
times &suffering intense agony from some came or other. So
deep an impression did this dream make upon her mind,
that though entirely ignorant of the condition in which the
poor girl was she started off for Smallburn the next (cr-
aws, end arrived there to find her fears only too nomeoly
oonfirreed—'for her daughter was by this time racked ler
mediating pain; and fast sinking beyond the hope of
recovery. he doctor was at • lose to account for the
aggravated symptoms of the case, end but little in-
formation could be elicited from the girl herself. At see
time she spoke to a young woman who was attending her la
a way that led her to believe rebid earthing of importers
to osnuatiodost• ; but William Rod, her mehleeme eon, a-
geingl: room at that moment, she remained Art. Whit
same, however, she made, amording to the old
women's story, a clean breast of the whoa affair ; eormsed
that she was enceinte by Reid, and described the treatment
she had been subjected to in order to procure abortion. Dr.
Myrtle having been immediately informed of these its-
elevens, found that she had been operated upon se she had
Mated, and delivered her. After this the unfortunate
nooses sank tepidly, and another medical men, Dr.
Otedwoed, sea., was sent for, but before he ar-
rived she was dead. Ott the following day a
rmortise examination of the body
_wee made
Dr. Forrest, Stirling ; Dr. Hamilton, Falkbrk • and Dr.
yetis, Pelmet. The report made by these gentlemen, and
which is in the bads of the authorities, haa of course been
kept private ; beg we understand that it was to the effect that
the eases was lima to have been pierced in two places, or
oa esti side. ley saes instrument, and that death bad been
owed byre szatedu hezeorrage produced by these wounds.
The areol was about 23 years of age.
We fur dome to the mooed part of this chocking ease—
the saki& of Dr. Oirdwood, jun ' the son of the Dr. Gird-
les** who was called in to attend the woman at the last. The
sews of AIM Taylors &eh, tt was observed, threw young
Girdwood into a state of great excitement. He was seen
ea the Monday evening *ohm about apparently much %p-
-feted ; and about nine o'clock at night went to • public-
honee in the High-street, kept by • man named M' Naughton,
where he called for writing materials, wrote a letter,
end having put it In an envelope, said it was not to be
posted Odom ten o'clock the next morning. At the same
time he sent to Mr. Cochrane, the druggist, for 4 or. of
laudanum, which haying been got for him, be told
or Naugh!on he wanted to go to Linlithgow that night and
despaired him to hire a cab. One was procured at the
Railway Hotel (Hutton's), and Oirdwood, along with
li'Nughton, whose company be insisted upon having, set
off for Linlithgow. The label on the laudanum bottle
must have been torn off by Girdwood at the Railway
Hotel, for it was afterwards found on the door ; and
It is supposed that he swallowed the poison upon
realm into the cab. Soon after they had left
Falkirk he fell into a sort of enemy sleep, and
was heard moaning and muttering to himself. When
they got to Linlithgow Free Church, 11'N aughton think-
ing it proper to awaken him before theyeeme to their destina-
tion—which was the house of • family in that town with
whom Oirdwood was acquainted, and to one of the mem-
bers of which he was engaged to be married—got his lifted
out of the carrisge with the help of the driver. This roused
him from his slumber, and all at once be became violently
excited, shouting and creating such • disturbance that they
were glad to put him back into the cab again. They then
drove to the house where Oirdwood said he wished to ail ;
but as it was by this tires about 12 o'clock at night, and as he
continued to conduct himself in the same disorderly and excited
manner, the people in the house would not admit him • . and
turning the brae heads, the party drove back
to Falkirk, where, as be hod by this time shown
unmistakable signs of being seriously Dl, he was taken to
bi•Nsughton's and laid upon a sofa id re of the rooms.
The cab was at once ant for his father, who retesed to the
hots*, bat only that his son wes dead. The letter
which the )firliteftese nal Oft 11111 vow* • elms
be died, and is now in his father's possession. It is un-
derstood to be addressed to the young lady to whom he
was engaged to be married; but we cannot tell Its par-
pmt The unforttmate young man was about 28 years of
age, had the reputation of being a very skilful practitioner,
in midwifery cases, and, although of somewhat
Irrerier habits, was very popular in Falkirk and its
Tinnily. As may be supposed, his death, connected as it
is surmised to be with the death of the young woman, has
made a deep 'sensation in the district.
Immediately on discovering what had been these to Ann
Taylor, Dr. Myrtle gave notion to the police ursine% and
suspicion falling on Reid as being concerned in the affair, •
was at ones issued for his apprehensioa. As our
Term will remember, this young roan, along with a
stark, was was convicted list autumn of having_ abetted the late
Mr. Salmon in his embeselemente from the Falkirk Comtner-
cisi Bank, but was set at large before the expiry of the term
of imprisonment to which he was sentenced, on a straw re-
presentation having been mode to the Secretary of State by •
large number of the inhabitants of Falkirk. Since his libe-
ration be his been residing with his mother at Smaliborn, and
it Is supposed that he had taken advantage of Mrs.
Reid's absence from home on Sunday forenoon to
perform the operation on the poor girl which re-
suited in her death. What shore In the deed is to
be attributed to hint, and what to Girdwood—by which of the
two the instruments were used, Is, of coons, shrouded In •
mystery, which may possibly, however, be dispelled by the
evidence
evid of the girl's mother. From the ragged nature of
the wounds, it is inferred that they were the work of an um
Allied hand ; and hems rumour seeme to attribute them to
Reid himself, sad to limit Oirdwood'a guilt to supplying the
instruments. Be that as it may, however, • warrant was, as
we have mentioned, issued on Monday night for Reid's *p-
tion. This was placed in the hands of Superintendent
Waeld Serjeent Crawford, of the Falkirk police, who im-
mediately went to Polmost and ford that Reid, who had
spent the day in Falkirk, had gone home towards evening,
pared up a few clothes, and started by tke 9.33 p.m.
train far Glasgow. In ceder to lose no thee in putting
themenves on his track, tbey &topped by • signal the
goods train which peewee Polmont towards midnight, and
proceeded by it to Olesgow. Arrived there, Inspector Shaw,
eidaldsg It not improbable that Held would paw the night at
mouse station outside the city, in order to go on by morning
train to Begird, went along the Caledonian line as far as
Carthis, but without finding any trees of the fugitive. He
then vetarsed to Glasgow, whore he placed himself at the
tarsier of the Caledoutan Railway. He had not waited
there hug when he sew Reid coming
_up the street towards
the statics,
_sr at more apprehended him. It appears to
have bees Reid's intention to proceed to Liverpool by train.
and probably to escape thence to Australia or America. The
priacmar's Magus was found at Mr. Joeez's Hotel, Quer-
elle*, where he had taken a bed the previous evening.
and where he bad prod under the name of Hardy—the
same name being on hie portmanteau. He was or-
Toyed back to Falkirk by the afternoon train; sad after un-
dergoing an examination before Sheriff- Suketitute Liston,
and emitting a e declaration "—which, it le mid, was simply
that he declined to state anything—he was lodged fa Stir-
ling Gaol the same evening. We understand that Mr. Had-
derwick, writer, to whom ids defence was entrusted at the
Bank trial, has been engaged to act for him on this woke
she.
Report mys, that on the Monday • friend met Reid fa
Falkirk, sad told him of the girl's destisizpo? which lw
seemed derma to treat it lightly: es Oh, Teen
(meaning young OIrdwood) did it ; an that his friendront
at
owe udrg. him to make his escape while be could. F
the biePy respectable nature of the family comierreeol
both Reid and Ouclwood and their wide Par le
of scram-
team, the greatest ametienent prevails is Falkirk and the
neigliboarhood in regard to this ear which is truly one of
the most shockiag sad painful that could be itesgined.

FIRE IN TAR DOTER-ROAD.—Yesterday morning
aan broke antis the printieg-offlce belongieg to Mr. B.
William% sites. at the rear of hie dwelling-house, in it.
Doelesread, near the turnpike-gate. The workshops were
aserfy easwessed. The mien of the fire is unknown.
EXPLORION AT TAR INDEPENDENT OASWORIP.-.-
yeseiday fig, st • few minutes before 11 o'clock, an
sesteelm touk rime at the Independent G. factory situate
aliaseeeen. Whilst a amber of men were at work in
mono pm of the balding, en temp of gee tech piece
bow ere al the pest mina In the valve or regulating shed,
end blare say attempt amid be made to stop the defect in the
etztosiosthe oat so flestzkytheend in tinchthiipmetkies that
spinet the o ammhe'f
teMead and t sitrr stria* re-
sembling the discharge al a piece of oedemas% end the two
asp Were in a regular sheet of fleas. Fire of the week-
em WWI terribly injured, and were taken to the
hoepitel, where everything that megkal skill amid devise
wee done to relieve them, but there seems not Isiah Mamma
of their recovering, end one poor fellow was given over Met
meniSg. The are engines were rat for, end eventually the
linkage in the vales was stopped end theirs
atfsgatrkede
but sot until the valve shop and the safthe shed, estrerthsi
forty feet is lag* were burned ont. The loos moat be
somewhat admable, so neither the buildbyp nor cos-
iest. were bowed.