The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

.5110r.`KING MCIZDER AT SALFOED.

A man named Henry Parker,a labourer, residing
at 4.), Ordeal-bane, Salient, was biought before Mr. Traf-
ford, at the Salford Town-hall, yesterday n.oraing, charged
with having murdered his son, Samuel Parker, szed seven
years, by cutting his threat with a razor.

AlieeViesou Lid she lived nt:.t door to the prisoner,
and about ten minutes to six tb..t morning she had
been awakened by a son of the prisoner's, who had asked
her to come into their house. Being in bed she got up,
dressed, and went as desired, when she found the prisoner
sitting with his wife be the kitchen ire. Witness ;inked
what was to do, when kr+. Parker toll her to go into the
scullery. Witness went there, and upon the fluor saw the
dm:eds.:4 with his throat cut, and the blood running from
the wouoil upon the floor. She took him up, and found
that he was quite dead. Witness tAurneci to the kitchen,
and said to the prisoner. " Whatever have you done Y' and
he replied, "Oh Mrs. Wilson, it is done, and it is tow
late.' Witness then went and brought her husband.
Francis Wilson, husband of the first witness, said he
was c died up at six o'clock by his wife, and went directly
into the prisoner's house. Went into the scullery, and
aims the prisoner's child Samuel on the floor, with he
throat cut. It was quite dead. Witness obtained a board,
upon whit:: placed the body. :.nd took it into the
kitchen. The prisoner was sitting by the kitchen fire, and
witness said to him, "This is a bail job," awl the prisoner
replied, '• Yes. it is done, and it is et. bad job." L:y the
side of the child witness found a razor cowered with
and he identified one produced by polite-coistable Wood
to be rise same.

John Holon Parker, son of the prisoutr, mid his
mother had caUal him about a quarter to sin o'clock, and
he went into the scullery and saw hie brother lying there
in a large pool of blood about his head. Ws father then
came down, and witness said to bun. " Wbat were you
thickin; of when you did this :'• The prisoner rephed,
" I c..nztot tell what I was Cduking about; it would
have been better undone." Witness then heard pri-
soner say to hie mother that the rtssor was in the
scullery. The deceased had i ten sleeping in the same
room with witness.—Mr. Trafford : Yau did nut bear
Anybody fetch it out of the room! \Vitt:est: No, sir.
In reply to the clerk to the magiatrwtes and to the
bench, the witness stated that his i.,ther bid been always
" worriting" his mother about not having enough to eat,
and the. there were too many children to be in one
fami:y. could not see how other families were getting
on vs wet! comps:red with his. Mr. Tr.fford—Hre he had
enough to eat? Witness—Yes. Mr. Trafford —lfas he
been ? Witness—No. Mr. Foyster —What has
been his condition as to his spirits ? W.tneas—He has
been very low spirited indeed for twelve mouths.
Polite-constable Wood said he had apprehended the
prisoner, and upon charging him with having inutdered
his child, lie said " Yes." While taking him to the office,
he said " I lost my work and I !ace le ea . And
I have had my harry robbed, and it is done."
Mr. Stocks. surgeon, said he b.,.1 ex twisted the body.
He had found a wound on the left ode of the neck, about
an inch above the collar bone, and mire:lel to it. It was
Sin. long and wide, severing the whole of the striae-
, tures outside, and the neck in front of the vertebral
column, also partially dividing :be vertehia.
Th.! prisoner, on being duly charged, said—" I have
notEing to soy to his worship in nay own defence. I wish
the thin.; could be undone. I Loy nothing snore to ray."
ledn; naked to sign the foregoing 14..truomt, be asked
if it tittered whether he signed it or nut! On Icing told
that it did not, he declined to do en.
lie was then formally constui: tad for Dial at the mime
on the charge of wilful 'minter.
The deceased child was one of a triplet.we are informed,
and Or: other two are still alive. The piiiox.er has still
five children alive.

T:tc GREIT EASTERN.—Thu Itealiltr, now re-
cetvi:,; a thoroufh refit at Liverpool, is appointed
to Mill for New I ork from that port on the '2oth March.
She will loave New York forßrrs: on the :Viol April. and
sail l,tween France and the Unit,.l states doling the con-
tiuu..u., of the Paris Exhibition.

Ai.ti IRALTY. JAN. 7.—APN,INTMEN7S. —C..rn-
iusii,L:t—A. J. Kennedy. to the Lord Clyde, vice Lamar-
disten. Lieutenant—A. Little, to the Charybdis. burgeon
—Dr. .1. C. Messer, to the Charybdis. Assistant.l/4mgeon
—Dr.l*. (*.mu, to the Charybdis. Second Master—C. 11. S.
Dougias iadditionakto the Victory.
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public. The heavy customs duties tui the material that
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varm, s forms, levied by the itit...rmd revenue dew. toge-
-1 Cher with the high prices of labour here, have made the
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The evidences of this at thi present tine are enough
to fri4liteu our publishers, as well as all who are inte-
rested in domestic literature and native industry. Eng-
halt puhliehers rind no difficulty in laying even the
1 heavy customs on their importation of book, to this
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0/ course we could hardly raise our tariff upon foreign
books to sueh a height as would cover this difference;
na,l, in fact. in the interest of American intelligence. we
should think it very bad policy to do so. And so the
book.puhlishing business suffers, and the intellectual pro-
gress of the community is retarded. We certainly think
that Congress, in revising the tariti and the internal re- ,
venue law should make some effort to modify the duties
and the taxation so as to weigh less heavily than they do
at present upon literature and knowledge.—Nice York
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