The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-21 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

ZDOLiNID'AL SectirY.—At the monthly general
meeting held yesterday at the society's house in Hanover-
square. Dr. Eilvrarl Hamilton in the
Sir chair, the
N. C Right
Hon. Viscount Newry and Morrie, Robert .
Hamilton. Bart., K.C.B. ; The Hon. H. C. Needham,
Lieut-Colonel C. P. Ibbetson, Captain C. Craven,
Ceptain liana Busk, Mrs. L. Solomon, Mrs.
M. A. Todd, Miss M. Wegg, and Messrs. M. Allport,
W. .1. Allen. It. A. Myth, Thomas P. Cobb, F. C. Capel,
}leery 11. Elder, J. Ferj,•useon, A. C. Goddard, E.
Jose Lloyd,
D. H. Johnstone, .1. Hilton, S. Joahea, S. ph,
D. H. Macfarlane, C. Parker. G. 1.. Parkin, Dr. It. F.
Power, W. It. Tegetiueier, A. it. White, and P. A.Wittina-
mann were elected fellows; mid Dr. J. Lamprey, of the Kith
Regiment, Mr. F. Pollen, assistant naturalist in the
Royal Museum of the Netherlands ; Mr. F.
MP. itanissy,
of Dobroyile, Sydney, New South \Vales ; r. Walter
co
Stt, of the Valley of itgllollS, Queensland ; and Mr.
Charles Moore, of theft
otanic I:arilens, Sydney, New
South Wah.s, corresponding members of the miciety.
Thirteen new candidates for the fellowship were proposed
to be balloted for at the next mei:tine in January.
Ti. I.: CHRISTMAS 'HOLIDAY.- • Front the numerous
indications afforded both in London end the provinces, a
genend suspension of business, in retail trades as well as in
other ceilings, ou Wednesday next—Boxing-day—may be
looked for. In the metropolis hunt of the drapery-houses
of the City, the East-end, Kingland, Islington, Holloway,
Tottenham-court-road, the West-end (including Bays-
water), the Borough, Pimlico, Knightsbridge, and the
southern suburbs generally, have made announcements
to this effect. In many establishments it has been arranged
to exempt from business on the Monday a number of the
mash. alit, living at a distance, in order to give. as far as
practicable, an unbroken holiday until the Thursd,,y
morning. In other trades the closing of shops on the Wed-
nesday will be still more general than amongst the
drapers.
\Valet,' Corms's:l'oN OE7We- --The Irish papers pub-
lish a correspondence which has taken place I etc eel. Mr.
de la l'oer, the liberal candidate for Waterford. and Sir
E. Kennedy, Bart. It seems that Mr. de la heir asked
Sir E. Kennedy for his support at the coning election, and
that it was refused on the stated grounds that Sir E.
Kennedy unilerstceml the hon. gentleman was a Ftlii:l11. As
Sir E. Kennedy had since alleged that Mr. de la leer did
not deny the accusation, Mr. he le l'oer demanded a retrac-
tation of the remarks. affirming that lie did emphatically
deny the charge. Sir E. Kennedy replied :—" I would not
have stated such a thing hail I not been quite cert
the filet. I did not hear you deny the allegation. except
on two points—namely. that you were not obliged to leave - -- -
this country for New Zealand on account of your eyttipathy i I L'EXTINCTEUR.—Yesterday afternoon a series of
with the Fenian", and that you hail not ever receed i
highly successful experiments with the comparatively new
12tters from Mr. 011lahony from
from Not only lid I I
tire-extinguisher were made in the grounds of the White
not hear you deny the charges, but from one or more things I
Lion Inn at klackney-vrick. The experiments were by
stated during the conservation, and to which I need not
Mr. E. Caspar, of the Poultry, who has obtained the
now refer, 1 felt convinced there Man some truth in the re- license for the sale in this country from the original
port I heart." Mr. de la l'oer thus retorts :—" After I inventor, M. earlier Vignon. The experiments were
these stements, unless you now by letter withdraw the made in the presence of Captain Shaw, the chief of the
charge von have made, I shall be forced very reluctantly I Metropolitan Fire Brigade, who was accompanied by Mr.
to transgress the rules which should govern a correspon- Hamlin, of theSouthwark Bridge-resd Station, Superin tend-
dr ace between gentlemen, and to say that I consider you 1 ant Mitchell, the engineer of the Kilburn Volunteer Fire
to he 311 R,S,Viill of private character and a base calum- ; Brigade, and several directors of insurance companies,
niator ; and I have yet to beam, by the notice which yon i " and scientific gentlemen from various large firms in the city.
will take of this communication, whether, in addition to The principle of the Extincteur is very simple. It cons
two
ists
the above, the stain of cowardice shall not be attached to i of a small vessel hermetically closed, holding from
your name. This letter will be handed to you by my
to three gallons charged with a mixture of bicarbonate of
friend, Mr. Mansfield, who will await your reply for 21 I soda and tartaric acid. By this means a pressure is ob-
hours." taint within the machine of from 431bs. to hOlbs., con-
CRUELTY IN RAILWAY TRANSIT.—At petty set- I sequently by turning a handle a stream of the liquid is
Mons, Edmonton, on Thursday, William and Charles Low, projected by the mere force of the pressure to a distance of
berm slaughterer, Cambridge, appeared to answer a charge 1 some 30 feet, acting in the same manner aim the hand pump,
preferred by the Royal Society for the Prevention of while at the same time such an amount of carbonic acid gas
Cruelty to Animal", for causing to be conveyed from Cam- is evolved as completely extinguishes the strongest flame.
bridge to London two horses in such manner as to give I One of the experiments of yesterday Ras
really marvellous.
them onne,eaeary pain cads uffering. The secretary to ! A large wooden tray, mine 12 or 14 feet square, was
the society stated the facts. On the 3rd into. the defend- i covered with pitch, tar, oil, petroleum, and other inflani-
. ants hired a cattle truck at Cambridge, into which they I mable materials, and on being set tire to a body of flame
put two old decrepit living animals and two dead horses, I rose some 2) or 25 feetehigh. But upon a small jet of the
and consigned them to Atcheler, knacker, London. Upon i composition from the Extincteur 13eing thrown on it,
arrival at Tottenham the animals were seen struggling on the fire was completely extinguished in about a couple
the floor of the truck, the shunting and mition of the of minutes, whereas it was stated by those practically
train having caused them to fall: and while in this peed. I versed in the extinction of fires that if water had been
tion they injured themselves and each other by plunging I applied it could only have bad the effect of spreading it.
and kicking. It was contended that the cattle truck was iAn
away[etet:porised staircase was also set on fire, and blazed
an improper vehicle for n
th • conveyance of animal, ems- i at s great rate until • jet of the composition was
Mate 1, and put together without dividing partitions, and thrown on it, when it was reduced at once to a piece of
that unnecessy defendantsd suffering must follow such a charred wood. In like manner a sort of outhouse stuffed
course. The pleaded guilty. and promised riot with shavings and tar barrels, was ignited, and,
to repeat the offence, and in future to kill their ola aml I produced a fearful body of Mime, which, however, was
discarded horses at Cambridge before sending them to I just as easily extinguished. The great merit of the intim
. London. The magistrate said—This practice was not only a I tion appeared to be that in the event of a fire breaking out
very cruel one to the horses, but fraught with danger to I in a. warehouse or other buildiug it would be in the power
other animals, which might become thfected with lof any man to snatch up one of the Extincteurs hanging
glanders and other contagious diseases. It must be about in the usual place of the fire buckets, and by direct-
. stepped, but this being the first offence against the de- I ing a jet of the composition on the flame at once to
Pendants, we shall only fine them 31., including costs. extinguish it. It was admitted that in tile event of a
ADMIRALTY, Dze. 20.—ArPotirrttztrra.—Naval i house being thoroughly on fire the Extincteur would be of
Cadets (nominateill-14. G. W. Thorold, H. H. Moore 1 little use; but it was quite evident that in the event of any
,
B. 0. Cochrane, F. F. Bone. T. F. Abbott, J. Knowles, flame in a room or building any one by
sudden outbreak of
- R. 11. Newland, W. H. L. Oslo, W. C. Armstrong, J. W. the aid of this machine could extinguish it.
.Mr. Caspar
Andrews, A. E. Blake, H. E. Baker, C. G. F. Boothby, R. himself stated that when assistance was required for the
de Lisle, It. \V. Fraaer, R. F. 0. Foote, Hon. E. R. Gif- outside of a house the Extincteur would be no good. The
ford, Hoe. F. G. Kay, G. Hodgkinson, W. C. F. Irons, experiments appeared to give the greatest satisfaction.
. D. McPherson, A. It. A. Mends. O. J. Majendie, A. B, A. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAY.—
Stock, E. H. Peel, W. Powell, M. H. Smyth, C. Thomas, THCESDAT, Dec. 'lo.—Admissions on payment, 476;
and J. Windham. ditto by season tickets, 1,252. Total visitors, 1,728.

The annual dinner of this excellent charity took
place last night at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street ; Mr. T. IlattiN.:, M.l'., occupied the chair, and
among the gentlemen present were Mr. Goschen, M.P., the
Rev. W. Rogers, nil Messrs. V. L. Bevan, R. N. Fowler,
G. Moore, J. R. Hunter, B. W. Horne, William Tarn,
H. P. Hoare, Henry Hoare, W. McCulloch. W. McArthur,
William Holt, James Toleman, 1). R. Harvest, W. W.
Foster, George Stoelc.lale, William Harvey, W. W.
IlaN ics, Archibald Brankston, T. 11. Woolley, J. L. Boothby,
I'. 0. H. Brady, and John Walton.
The report of the board of management, which was cir-
culates' among the guest+, showed that, although the in-
conic of the yeag ISn5 was less than that of Iso-1 by the
sum of 71,4!. 3s. 2.1., the receipts from all sources (includ-
-1 jag legacies) exceeded those of the previous year by 1,0511.
19s. 10d. Especial attention was called to the very trifling
increase of expenditure during the past year, notwith-
standing that 17 additional children had been provided
I for. At the present time there were in the schools 177
1 children—viz., 107 boys and 70 girls.

HOME CIRCUIT..—MAIDSIONE, DEC. 20.
(Before Baron Chatinelll
Tile TunnainnE WELI-9 lei:Rifle&
ARM' Lawrence aged 29, described as a married woman,
was indicted fur the wilful murder of Jeremiah Lawrence,
at Tunbridge, on the 14th of April last.
The prisoner was also charged with feloniously wound-
ing Walter Highants with intent to murder him.
Serjeant Parry was specially retained toessec Mr.ute by
the direction of the Tunbridge magistrat, with
Willoughby. Mr. Itibton and Mr. Onnerod appeared for
the defence.
After the prisoner had pleaded not guilty, a great many
challenges were made by her counsel to the jury, for the
purpose, as it was said, of obtaining a Maidstone jury, en
Impression being very prevalent that the inhabitants of
Maidstoue are generally averse to the infliction of
punishment of death. Whether there are any real grounds
for this impression it would of course be impossible to say,
but the result of the line adopted by the prisoner's coun-
sel was that ten of the jury were inhabitants of the town.
ful Serjeant Parry, in his opening address, described
and
the
carte as one of a very pain and atrocious character,
one which at the same tune involved some very extraordi-
nary circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner was a
married woman, and that she formerly lived with her
husband at Tunbridge Wells, ar.d that a man named
Walter Highams, who was a market gardener and fruiterer,
living at Town Mailing, used to visit them, and became
on intimate terms with the prisoner. Highams was him-
self a married man, but it appeared that about two years
before the month of April last he deserted his wife, anti
the prisoner left her husband, taking with her her child
Jeremiah, the subject of the present charge. The prisoner
and Highams cohabited together et several places, and at
length took up their abode at No. 2, Ebury Cottages,
Tunbridge Wells, where they resided until the 14th of
April lest. At this time a child had been born, of which
thallium was the father, and this child was about two
months old. There seemed to be uo doubt that the pri-
soner was jealous of her paramour, and that she suspected
he was connected with another woman at Town Balling,
and this frequently led to quarrels between them, and the
prisoner repeatedly wade use of threats of violence to-
wards Highams, and the only suggestion on the part of the
prosecution was that the dreadful crime was com-
mitted during a paroxyisin of anger front jealousy.
A day or two before the murder was committed the
prisoner was sent to Loudon by Highams to pur-
chase some carrots, and during her absence he
seemed to have gone to Town Melling, and remained there
all night, and when the prisoner returned she reproached
him with having stayed all night with another woman, and
they had repeated quarrels between this time and the fol-
lowing Saturday, when the murder was allegedto have been
committed. The prisoner and Highams went to bed at
their usual time on the Saturday evening, the deceased
child, who was five years old, sleeping at the foot of the
bed, the baby being in the Led with the prisoner and
Highams, and nothing particular seemed to have occurred
until between 4 and 5 o'clock on the following morning,
when Highams was awoke by finding the prisoner in the
act of chopping at his head with a must formidable instru-
ment called a bill-book. He held up his hands to endea-
vour to protect himself, but the prisoner continued chopping
at hint until she appeared to be exhausted, end then went
down stairs. Highams went down soon afterwards, and
the prisoner then renewed her attack upon him, but some
persons came to his assistance, and the prisoner, who had
thrown the bill-hook among some hop-poles,was taken into
custody. At this time it was not known that anything
had been done to the child, but upon the police going up-
stairs to the bedroom they discovered the poor little boy
Jeremiah with his head nearlysevered from his body by
a razor, which was left in the wound. The prisoner, on
being charged with the murder, denied that it was she
who had committed it, and she asserted that it was her
pat amour Highams who had killed the child, and she
said that it was on account of his having done so that
she had made t'ue attack un him with the bill-hook,
and she persisted in this tatsment when she was taken
before the magistrate, and this was the defence that was
set up for her on the present occasion. The learned tier-
jeant in the course of his address said that there was not
the slighest doubt that a most foul and horrible murder
had been committed, and that the only question for the
jury would be whether the prisoner or the man Highams
was the guilty party.
After some forutalevidence had been given, Walter Hig-
hams, the person referred to, was examined. He is an
ordinary labouring looking man, about 45 years old. He (Before Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistant-Judge.,
detailed the nature of the connection that existed between
Hiniiwny ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT THE IMPoRIf
himand the prisoner, and said that they lived pretty coma
DEMONSTRATION.
fortably together down to the month of April, but a
day or two before the 14th of that month the prisoner was JanuiMann, 20, a rough and determined-looking fellow,
very an,Try with him for having stopped all night at was indicted for stealing a watch, value Si., the property
Town Mulling, and she threatened that she would do of Cornelius Butler, from his person.
him some violence, and they had a quarrel on the 13th Mr. R. Harris prosecuted ; Mr. Palmer defended the
of April. The deceased child, the baby, and witness and prisoner.
the prisoner went to bed on Saturday night, the 14th, The prosecutor, a respectable-looking man, by trade a
and. about five o'clock on the following morning he found smith, and living at No. 3, North-street, Edgeware-roae,
the prisoner had got up and wsa dressing herself. He as a member of tbe trade society wart present in the
asked her why she had. got up so early, and she replied reform demonstration at Beaufort-house, Fulham, on
that she was so troubled in her mind that she could not Monday, the 3rd of December, and when the ground be.
sleep, and she said she would get up and make herself a came full, ••consultation took place amongst the leading
cup of tea. She left the room, and he turned round and members of the committee
b, ande
deputed to go it was thought
and advisa
meet
ble
went to sleep, and be was awoke by receiving some violent that a person should
blows on the bead, and on looking up he saw the prisoner that part of the procession that had arrived,
bolding a bill-hook with both hands and chopping. at his and to inform them that it would be uselessproceeding
head with the instrument. He put up his hands to We further, as Iteaufort-house grounds were already full.
his hesd, and the prisoner continued striking at him, and The prosecutor was selected for that duty, but had no
wounded him in both hands, and she chopped off two of sooner got to the entrance to the grounclethan anumber of
the fingers from his right hand. While she was doing " roughs" surrounded him, and he distinctly saw the
this she exclaimed, " I have killed one, and I'll finish prisoner take bold of his watch and break it from the
killing you, and I will kill all three." While the prisoner guard chain. He seized the prisoner's hand, upon which
was striking him he let the baby fall into the bed, and he stooped down, and some of the prisoner's companions
after a short time she went down stairs, taking the bill- called out " Sling it, sling it (throw it away). The
hook with her. Witness was very faint and weak prosecutor saw his watch thrown away, but he still re-
from loss of blood, and after the prisoner Lad gone he got tabled his hold of the prisoner, and while this was going
out of bed and slid down the staircase to the lower room on the prisoner's companions truck him about the head,
and found the prisoner there, and she seized him by the smrohing in his hat, and trod upon his fingers to prevent
hair and knocked his head against the wall, and *gain said him from recovering his watch. 'the prisoner then gave him
thst she would kill him, and that she intended to kill all • violent blow in the mouth, the force of which knocked
the three. The prisoner at this time struck him on the out one of his teeth ;be then bit the prosecutor's hand and
shoulder with the bill-hook, and then went out of doors kicked him in different parts of his body. He retained his
and threw it away, and some persons who bad beard the hold of the prisoner until be became exhausted, when be
alarm and cries of " Murder" came to his insistent*, and was obliged to relax his hold, and the prisoner twisted
he was taken to the infirmary at Tunbridge Wells, where himself away. Just at this moment the prosecutor's son
he remained fourteen weeks. At the time he left the bed• came up, and seeing the condition his father was in went
room he was not aware that any injury had been inflicted to his assistance and secured the prisoner.
upon the child Jeremiah. A razor was shown to him with A Mr. Henri Blanchard, • sawyer, corroborated this
which the child's throat had been cut, but he was not able gatemen!, and said he and
the prisoner with other men
to say whether it was his razor or not. He had a razor surround the prosecutor, and observed the prisoner pull
which was la a case in a closet down stairs, but he bad noi his watch ant el his pocket, leaving the chain dragging.