The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-21 00:00:00

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CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.
UTURPOOL, THOR/IDLY MORNING.
The steamer North Briton has just arrived.
She left Quebec Oct. 9. She brings 126 pas-
sengers...

New York data are to the 7th by mall, and even-
ing of the Bth by telegraph.
A Washington telegram says the Collins' steamers
had been tendered to government for saviour in the
expedition against Paraguay ; with what result not
stated.

Further details are given of the burning of thel
New York Crystal Palace. No lives were lost. The
loss is estimated at over a million dollars, and the
insurance was only 50,000 dollars, effected to cover
the losses of foreign exhibitors. The property had
recently become the possession of the Corporation of
the City. Among the works of art destroyed
was Bias's famous statue of the Amazon and Mato-
chetti's mammoth statue of Washington.
Portlier particulars are likewise given of the
gunpowder explosion at Havannah. The entire city
was more or leas affected by the shock ; and, as the
gas-works were injured, the citizens were left in
darkness.

Complete returns of the election in the Delaware
show that the Democrats had carried the state.

A Washington correspondent of the Nay York
Herald says—General Jerez, after baring apologised
for the insulting conduct of the Nicaraguan govern-
ment to America with regard to the Bally negotia-
tions and the Martinez manifesto, was formally re-
ceived by the President as minister from Nicaragua.
The Canadian news is quite unimportant.
A New York telegram of the Bth reports cotton
quiet, not quotably lower ; flour heavy ; wheat, le,
to 3c. lower ; corn, also, cheaper ; pork unchanged ;
sugar steady; coffee firm ; spirits of turpentine firm
at 60c. ; rosin unchanged. Sterling exchange dull,
at about 110. The buoyancy and activity advised
per lut steamer in the Quebec timber trade conti-
nues, and large business had oeen done, but without
change in rates. Freights continue very low :
21s. 6d. for Liverpool, and 31. 7s. 6d. to 41. for
London.

Crawl ova

ST. PETERSBURG, Ocr. 13.

One of the most important public works for the
commercial prosperity and development of the
resources of Russia hu just been commenced, with
the sanction of the Emperor. It is the construction '
of a navigable canal from Astrachan to the
Caspian Sea, which will enable vessels of moderate
tonnage to proceed to the former city and thence up
the Wolga. Important local improvements an going
on in other parts of the empire ; thus, the ports of
Lieban and Riga are being deepened to allow vessels
drawing 18 feet of water to unload at once, without
the necessity of discharging their cargoes into
lighters.
On Friday last, immediately after the baptism of
the young Grand Duke Constantine, the Emperor
held his first diplomatic levee since his return from
Warsaw. The French ambassador, Duke de Monte-
bello, was the first to have an audience, and took
leave, being on the point of returning for a time to
France. The new representatives of Great Britain,
Bavaria, and Saxony—Sir John Crampton, Count
von Moutgelu, and. baron Konneritx—delineed
their credentials, after which Sir John Crampton
presented Mr. Bower St. Clair to the Emperor.
The official Gazette of the Senate contains the
Imperial decree for the construction of the railroad
from Moscow to Barstow, which will place the
western provinces of Russia in direct communication
with the towns on the Wolga, the Caucasus, and the
Caspian Sea. The importance of this undertaking, '
both in a commercial and military point of view,
cannot be over-rated.

Amongst the latest local improvements may be
mentioned the Imperial concessions to two new
omnibus companies, each with a capital of 250,000
rouble'', and one for a tramroad to connect this city
with the island of Wuili. In winter the omnibus
will be placed on sledges.

COUBT MARTIAL ON THREE FRENCH

-J17,11.-isl:

We mentioned lately that three French °Moors
of rank have bee brought to $ card martial in Africa, for
embezzlement. Tile following pullsolaro of tee airbus
affair now appear in the Pada arnaspore:
" A greet ameation hex book ceased in French military
Girdle by the trial Ws • chary Wham', Acing at
Blidah, in Algeria, of them enema, Chef ramataa B—,
Captain A—. and Copula At--, who TIMAIS•IaN wolf'
massagers of the let Eralhb, Or hada( soortoillB,lBBfr.,
the property of the government. It emend from the
evidence that the primmer*, ea pegnmenent; lad the alopeciat
of conelderable fonds tor the p
erelune of kirega, end that
they appropneted portions of doom. alvinivien their fraud&
by false soominte. The frau* extended over Mn yews,
and amounted , as am so arida to made
oat, to 14,049fr.altosador by dr dist domitia, 28.007 fr.
by Catgottlgab eml 411,1321re;isiLderrols ;
bat bad ei dr
arm met of trLt film s 4 lOsapoorad, aoln OM-
roe. Wash amok roar altdriamko a/ the tehe. and was
to a tartar Mini 11111.10111618 ie tkra. It ma if asothat
that dos askesdommos emoileareard.
calm Midas to Oa
WM& Imosakt hems Si dr them mi, a &dolt of
skostAllldik. rat Mai Si add. kid It ..uM Mt be pre-
=sgememminel ky mil* at tiom k yes markmal. After
ammad kr tar polomorro. the todomal Bookord all
thros Oft oml esemenal 8— to
army sad dam yowl ; X--
sad ler yam' ; Is maw bars-
doe sail im IMO
ma akar et cis lairs al Tierce, srurs leolopkt, rod
irk wen Mini 0e Wee hiallst easerellene."

The steam packet Cimbria, from Jutland, in pus-
abs load are Maar% brim same late ool-
beatbat Meath* sammeee, leasesdipieb ash. Pant-
ihe peragers IMO ark bed the rep wes lost,
today!WM& were ta board.
BrdiAomiso • BIILLIT.—A Hishkad shepherd,
widist as • emelt build beaver his teeth=
misty bed is amgellemestmes, sal dip is the
Rs areal immilly he Ism bears. die WWII he had
die* laccm•mismes breed a Wale searissel dry
meek till the milidised the kliewing day, whoa be was
rightkd with shirthsa_beellesise. sad deep pla k tbe
rig side of the as& The *rain mei header& asser,
bat the pen coatimed, sad *was wasishely damp Oa
the inane of the dada* be wee sem by Dr. Kamm Wks,
bra satisfied el timi Istipmat ei the "divested tbe
Ira to be strapped se m* le • 111111111.11111 disk that he
night be malty seeped* Mee the es el the roof with
hi. bled dowtiourds, he mike that bis skeet might be or-
! namely sham by • mid seisseeia el rasa smart
jerka, and that dm wale* ad *a ballet alai* brew its
eseap hum it* sir lakes kap." Is was bop =mg,
se law se he aril MIMI ark ea msemelterdis
sod &No k Ike hed=illlo dat •kw alarm
to net, be was lung up aisle.
Lira hike iskagirenea Mail lime be desedbed the pek
ia his heart a nerd arm la the kip rd lie as.,
and dabs the dad sapeadat be j seskieeed,
"t bsede4-11mak.‘ I" (" him eser—k IeINN r k
the Ora leasimp). Olt Mart draw mil
• kw ceavdebre retake sith or the MO her
from his moath.—" Siambeid ; es, Mate eaßrac-
paths."
BURGLARY IN NORTH LINCOLNIZIRIL—The
W. le. Dare, reser of West Beira, sad ithe ad Kiss
Draw wen gristly alarmed, err hell-pea swam &dock
a liatarlay ',yang last, by a burglar eateries their haws
end dams** The meth
bleared face,
was dressed be a .white Waft Min, with •
red head-dna ask red sea, he which wise pieced a rag
dopier sad a Naha sad, be *Pisa to them kr-
addable warms. be ;wird a rad is ark MAL be at
atm in kora Keel* kesedesed se a Sepoy, and
pretsoded Mat be bad eras to anaptbs wrepethis ear-
tryomo. Yr. Dye*, in des abeam et ell sedatemee. awed
him WA purse, which asearael ; bat ade
was indlipmetly rejected by the etha
said *waited park, sad mot ; rrrizei
rforeka his dossed., plead his pistols la lose
to the breasts of kr. Drake sad bis Wally, until at illiN
a ,tale of great alarm ad agitation, Yr. Drake gave
111., was all the money he had In his pomades.
Th• burglar, who had entered by the back door, than ordered
the kirk servants to let him out by the trout asentace,
and as be let, he soured there that if any alarm were 111,1111,
he would return with his " blank uwa" sad minder the
whets of the family. This extreordleary affsir has created
great excitement in the quiet ma secluded atighboarhod of
West Halton.

•
TEE FATAL 7182 AT SEW WICIL-THE
A.D.TOUBNBD INQUEST.

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Yesterday afternoon, at one o'clock, Mr. O. I.
Carter, coroner for West Kent, resumed the Inquiry, et the
Concert-room of the Ross and Crown Tavern, Greenwich,
into the origin of the late fatal fire at Greenwich.
Mr. F. Bcodamors, solicitor, and Mr. E. London, secrete,"
to the Kent Fire Insurance Company, attended to w the
prcceedinp on behalf of the cowpony ; and Mr. Ingle, kg.
citor, of Hibernia-chambers, London-bridge, appeared on he.
half of Mr. Roper.
The wart was, sa on previous occasions, occupied be
large numbers of retpebk inhabitants of the district sha
the coroner commenced the proceedings by observing, thet
on the last tendon the inquiry was adjourned at his ova
request in order to Isom the attendance of a most important
witness. He had seen this witness, but from circumstances
which had transpired he believed it would be necessary te
have other persons in attendance, and he should therefore be
compelled to adjourn the proosedings until 6 o'clock.
The coroner and jury re-aseembled at the hour named,
when the hollowing witnesses wee examined :
Mr. NOSIEDin Savage deposed—l am landlord of the
Saracen's Head Inn, Bt. John's-etreek Bedford. oh the
evening of Friday, the let October, about half-past 6 o'olock,
a who I did not know amt to my homes, red sekei for
a bed. He was told thee he 'odd be secoesmodee", ead he
then embed for a sheet of note paper sad an envelem with
whielt he wee supplied ; sad he then sat down end Wrote
lector, which he west oat and putted before he wee to bed.
He slept at my house on that night. and on the following
morning he mane downstairs about 8 o'clock, and piled for
a gimes of ale, which he drank of and then let the hone"
The man was attired in a suit of dark clothes, wee about 6
fee 10 inches in height, had sandy whiskers, and fee his
general appearance I thought that be wu a traveller.
By the Coroner—l know a perms at Balked need
Layton. He in a boat-builder, but wee not at my hems etthat night. I had no conversation with the men. at the
time I took him the sheet of note paper I also took him
newspaper. It wee either the Bette if the Weld or the
Bedfordshire Itedepeedent, as these are the only two papers I
take. My house le the first house front the railway station io
which beds are let. I have seen severely who lure
Nee pointed out to me at Greenwich this out have net
Id entified the man who slept at my hones. man use
the tap-ram, and ma he did not answer quickly when spoke
to, oonaidered that he wee deaf.
By 11r. Ingle—l remember your coming to my home,
You read a letter, which you said had been received Iran
George Layton, Saracen's Heed, Bedford. You also soil
that you led seen the chief dither of the pollee. Maas I
saw you at Bedford, this officer has called swiss as my hours,
but had taceived no information about such • person u
=rue."
servant, ?ti the employ of Mr. Roper,
was now re-osll.= deposed that four gee burners were on
her masirses premises, viz., two in the shop, ens in the par-
lour, sad ens is a hack room. She remembered that one of
the glees bells over a bursar in the shop was broken by the
elsoOoy. This took place on Fr.day evening, eight days
before the fire. It was the glass belonging to the banter over
the counter.

By the Jury—Whin amused from my bed by the dre I
opened the door and saw a mass of dames at the bottom of
the stairs. After I went up stairs to bed I did not return to
fetch anything. The door of my room was bliatered with the
beat inside. My mu was bn. at by opening the door, bat
scarcely know how it wee done.
Robert Morris, shop-boy, in the serrioe of Kr. Roper, was
re.examinsd, and deposed that a glass bell bakers's to a
gas burner over the counter in his master's shop was broken
about a mouth before the fire. No other glass was purchased
foe this burner.

By 31rTIngle—I wu In the habit of cleaning the glue
bells, and after I had done so they were glued in a bin. Oa
ewe maul= when I took the glasses from the bin for use I
found that one was broken. This wu about a month before
the Ste.

—By ats Coroner—l de not think that I had cleaned the
glasses during a fortnight before the fire.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Inspector Barry wee
sent to the residence of Mr. Allwright, appraiser, Lewisham-
road, to request his attendance for the purpose of explaining
• portion of his former evidence. Oa hie recurs heel:one
Barry stated that he was unable to find Mr. Allwright.
The Coroner—lt is too bed that he gives us so much
trouble, and apparently keeps oat of the way. We seat to
him three times yesterday, but he was not to be found. •
This being the whole of the evidence, the coroner pro-
ceeded to sum up the case to the jury. lie must first deb
attention to the fact that the fire took place on the 12th of
September. The inquest on the bodies of the two chfidtm
who were burnt to death took place on the next day, and the
jury would remember that at that time no suspicion whitener
attached to Mr. Roper, but, on the contemn the sympathy
of the public was generally expressed far Me as arreweat sl
the bereavement ha had seb The bigwig was then
adjourned for a week, end during thattlee comer)
received such information as had led 40 err
pasted adjournmenta, and grave Mr.
Ropr. The evident* given by the witassms Correll,
and Abbott was most contrediotory, end it was perfectly Mee
that they had endeavoured to keep seek the tenth. When
Mr. Roper was first examined, he stand most distinctly that
the whole of his furniture had bees consumed, but it was
soon found that a very lam amount of property had been
removed daily before the fire to the house of Cowell, sad
that other valuable property bad been pawned. The very
after the tire took plea a most complete inventory of
alleged to have been consumed was made oat by Mr. All-
ht, at Mr. Roper's dictation, and this document was so-
lazily concocted at the home of Cowell, and thKelieserty
remaining at Cowell's house, in addition to that pa wen
included in the inventory se having been et
the fire. After referring to the large amount el deck claimed
for, se compered to that consumed, the meaner alluded
to many ineidente of the case which were
=as. The jury would remember that a wit
bit removed from Roper's house. This desk remand
at the house of Mrs. Cook, Roper's eleesr. It had bee
elated by Folios-Inspector Wilson, and yet Roper bed
thought proper to open the deck and remove its connate
without the presence of any competent witness. With re•
Bard to the statement made by Roper that a foes days bebe
the fire a stranger had called and paid him 21. on amount of
the business, it certainly did appear strange Mat a man who
knew nothing of a business should agree to pay 1301. fork
The letter seta from Bedford, and purporting to be from the
maa who paid this money, had thrown eo light upon the
subject ; sad If such a man wee in existence, why did he
net emu forward and prove a matter of so much importance?
It wee ear midnight before the coroner completed his re-
view of the evidence.

The fury deliberated until a quarter-past three o'clock WM,
and even at that hoar many hundreds of persons ewe
anxiously awaiting the verdict, which wee delivered to tie
coroner by the foreman of the jury in the following teen.:
—" That the jury end that Isabella Coroline and Eats Joe
Roper, on the 12th of September, 1858, were burnt 4 death
by fire in the house, 8, Royal-hill, Greenwich, which house
was burnt down by fire, but how or by what mesas the
maid fire originated, there is not sufficient evidence
Wore the jury to prove. The jury cannot return
this verdict without expressing thidr decided cowrie-
tion that the origin of the fire is involved in great doubt sad
mystery, and grave suspicions exist in their minds that the
fire did not result from accidental circumstances, and it ie
only from the went of strkot legal evidence end proof that ffie
lacy feel emptied to return this open verdict. And the
jury is further of opinion that policeman Harzaft, 691 I,
end fiesert, the pariah firernaa, did not exhibit proper why*
et the time of the fire, end that the medial of Sewn ought
is be folly investigated by the perish authorities."

RAILWAY AOCIDINT.—A serious accident, ad MN
which might hays been attended with fatal
en Tuesday mamba at ties Suter Medea orlitaig
sad Resler Railway. It appeased that the SOSO ads
arrived at the Exeter platform at 3.21. Ties engine, 'Pei.
silos tender, &o. were taken off in the mod way, Mid all
mashie was on the South Devon bridge, psalm( IV
platform the Post-015os tender, when a trails
soldiers on their way to Plymouth approached the
an mammal weed. The serif etyma, fearing that •
was inevitable, signalled the mail engine le go And. $
say further precautions could be tablet heetezriO
train ran into the mall train carriage', wide
et the platform.
brii The earrings' were drives ea le
Devon and agate came fate oasis wit imirmt•
Mies tender te. , The otieseinenee wee that emes.rotoo,
—mug when were three oneviele, • heelgomMis• •
midlier—romived °ceramics% bet none of a ageism riteMeim
Mailed ainizzosz was aosn peeeneed, end wry alleles
was * to ova the lojarod by the et
the eselle
_Kr. Mean. No blame ca blear !I
of ell
leis of the fit. David's station, to
stasis mese all showing danger at the the. the imp nit
errivell, end the switchmen were at tisk plea The
segimodriver and stoker of the troop tale Mk* SS tiWi
to Say one. As, however, they can give as
esseant of their cooduet mimeos to the essilemil=
searear to be the culpable persona. Mz. Nem tai
them in onotody en bigotry Ash lave WO
THE ATITIIPTSD MURDER AT EITIMELD.--.4
to two era.* Ate (WetorwAY)
saint woe eld alive, carefally mashed to W
cawed of IA iliew-wortmea. When Champh•
to the teems* he mated %hafts mei aggrat ono'
him to andee Ma of tem& Be apparel
llltesetteinie utile be WI esemelth
oka
otrilli
Ant the me heel bought the IAO
thmemiveg.-811401eid relogrejek.
BOUM EXPLOSION AT GODLISY.--AhOld ANON
antes II eight o'aioak
et ayeneeda
b . ttgrief&L
erm pewee wales ll
soil Amer at seer 11 amirlillet
, Indio Off the
ham NM wee l'hilfp Dawn% the bale
abeam am of the is.. wee Aims to atm ger, Ira.
bon fini beton thet the inikers pr
smiled isneftekney ewes&
A SKIMS= DhoUgh.—A wegineith
nentoll Mr. David Adislogr
he why • shiplood, mid who for • keg dot ,1.112,11
hem la the Vale of Lethee*negmeemeMil
beim eterfai Wee Weber alt tie le 01a.'
gary and Begmebellew, whim le kat Spa ISO
the river, mernee drowned. Mien fled es
lase, he had as lb pima abed 1801.—Dzss1ls dizzztair•

Kr. Tyr ati bar lisalisad had does it 1'
Palmr--11•; is said sir bid doss it basalt
Tr• defaming la reply to lbs dump said. 'Me the
Weis of temper, aril did it through over excitenseet, and
through drink. Her husband said site could not, and did
trot dare to oat Ism theme.
Brßaset Marna, 20 8, end he was ea duty at the police.
Watson when the dalhadant was broegitt in Tim basbead
came in, aad his toaduot wee very brutal aad diegransfel.
The baskead spoke very harshly to It's wife, saying, "You
bad ast earrege enoogli—why did yen sot do it effectuallyr
Hie areiket was eo molest, thst he (Sergesat Mersin)
thought he WY drank, sad had bias ramoved Irma the
Meas. Mr. Bagley, surgeon, of liaston-road, attended,
sad bead that these were tares cute, though not deep ones,
as has Woes

The beehr•ptwe7•ll7tistar, ot Stoke Newington. This
melee we apposed as the blaring.
Hie Meow sew pm jedgemas. 8e said It woe oh-
jetted to the bankrupt obftissag hie 011ndkalf4 that he had
oompoladsd with his modltor• to 1864 ; earl that,
bdag without canon, his mina( meet be ose.
@tiered reeltises. It was Mao altered the the
bankrupt bad stated t• • unlike then be would
Pd 7 his the debt be we. Pr if Ir has •ea of
maw dee from • opener' fur baudlel.hows, The sr
posing crofters bed nomad the ociusS•thay were,
thertdore, well aogenatal win the • dream-
and they did riot got any written ty Gem lath
It that the bankrupt Ind ponies& we of
sham wed= to pay him oat et • semi
which be newel by earag that he wee
to pay wages. 1 do sot think that this; is sea-
ant irridnes of • tread. It I. tan the benk-
rapt did sot keep his promise, bat that is the
rue with almost every bankrupt. The creditors alai appear
so bare bon searialated with the keine lielinet woe
carrying a; sad I ream from sherreeetaille thethey
did sot mender he was keg on • nithee bedem.
I therefore think that, exadiel to the Melehre of the 1
Cale of Appeal, the bankrupt say have • wad-eless
arreloata attar a empiasise at di eases tree the he
ernoteation, with peeinelen.
Hr. Chalky yea kr the emispease, and Ms. Dada kw the
hiskrupt.

—WIMPY* *Need dr husband was
would in attend=
end betas aswerad la Se mealish mid be
tie deleadmi mid Warsaw mut. It wee frightful to
see • wows etlespilus to &Amy bawl! sad a little mom
would ham Med bar. All be (Kr. Tyrwkitt) oarwl about
MIS to Some the deleskat's left. If Om husband would
set aviitsd, • ousems would be pasted to compel his.
The delmelost, who temied to Ird bar pranks very
embely, .tha resimed.

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THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, ocTg.

SHARE LISIS-ZHIS DAY.

Two o'CLottit.
The railway share market opened this morning
with firmness • but, since the breaking up of
the Back Court, and the decline in Consols, the
market her become fiat. The principal
decline is in Great Western stock, which,
after being marked 661, has fallen to tin to I.
Lancashire and Yorkshire stock has declined
per cent., being noted 964 to 96. In seve-
ral of the other leading descriptions a reduction
of about f per cent. has taken place. London and
North Western stock is now quoted 9011 to 911 ;
Midland, 971 to 98; London and South Western,
931 to 94 ; Groat Northern, 26 to 1 per share ;
and Eastern Counties, 12 7-18 to 9.16.
Lombardo•Venetian old shares remain steady at
41 to 41 prem. and the new at 21 to 3 prem. Greed
Trunk of Canada and Great Western of Canada
shares, together with East Indian Railway stock,
have met with a fair inquiry.

MONEY ILL:MET-TWAY I)4Y.

Two o'OLocK.