The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-11 00:00:00

TUE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MY 11, 1866.

she wax dmit,its, her proper course was to go to the work-
house. She. been cold so repeatedly, and had even
been sent to the workhouses, but ohs would not stop there.
She preferred to go about the 'frosts bagging, and to get
drunk upon the money thus obtained. 41+ her conduct on
this occasion was not quite so bad as usual, he should miti-
gate the sentence to one month's imprisonment with hard
labour.

WORSHIP-8111ERT.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBERY.
Emily Wilmot, a pretty looking and well-dressed person,
22 years of age, was charged with Melding 131., the motleys
of Joseph Bishop • butcher, in business at 15, Birdcage-
walk, Hackney-rein.
Prosecutor represented that prisoner had been • servant
in his employ, but left five weeks since without
apprising him of her intention, and taking with her
the money in question, ten pounds of which was in the
pockets of his trousers, thirty-five shillings in a bag, and
some packets of farthings, the two latter amounts lying
on the mantelshelf. In acoounting for the prisoner's appro-
priation of this money, he swore that on the morning she
decamped he was sleeping on a sofa in his parlour, and his
clothes lying in the same room, that he opened the door of
the apartment when the milkman rang at 7 o'clock. That
she passed through, as was necessary, to get to the street-
door, returned lit the fire, and retired. That he then
dressed;
himself, and immediately missed the money men-
tioned. On inquiry for her she was not to be found, nor
had he seen her since that morning until yesterday, when
finding her at a shop in Holywell-row, Shoteditch, he gave
her into custody.
Langley, 93 H, said that prisoner denied the charge
when he took her, and one Martha Dadford, living oppo-
site the prosecutor's house, swore to having seen her leave
his premises between 7 and $ o'clock on the morning in
question, with a bundle.
Prisoner admitted this to be so, the bundle consisted of
her own clothes, the wrapper was her master's, and the
only article or property she had taken. Under the impres-
sion that he was a single man she had cohabited with him
until she disoovered otherwise. He had not paid her any
wnecutor declared that he had.

Priaoner who cried while making her statement, was
remanded by Mr. Elision on her own recognisance'.

GREENWICH.

ASSAULT OX sromus—IXPRISONSENT WITHOCT FIX!.

James GrffiMa, shipwright, or 3, Ravens:lXurns :sireet,
Greenwich, was charged on a summons with assaulting
Jozh Gibson, foreman of shipwrights at Mews. Rennie's
shipbuilding yard, Greenwich.
. H. Pook, solicitor, of Pountney-hill, City, and
Greenwich, attended for the defendant.

It appeaWd that the defendant bad been employed as
leading hand of shipwrights at the works of Messrs. Rennie,
and in name of a slackness of work he was informed
by the comp t that if he continued to be employed
he must accept a lower position than leading hand. The
defendant then left his situation, and had since been
employed at the Thames Iron Works. A few evenings
fawn the defendant entered a public-house at Greenwich,
and where the complainant and several others were drink-
jug, and some winds ensued in consequence of defendant
having trod on the heel of thecomplainant—the defendant,
as alleged, seizing the complainant in a narrow pamage,
and striking him violently over the head and face with a
walking-stick.
Mr. Pook, on behalf of the defendant, denied the
assault, except in self-defence, and then not by using a
stick. He then called witnesses to prove that complainant
bad not only challenged one man to fight for 51., but had
also challenged the defendant into the back yard of the
public•house, in which the affray took place. One witness,
Mrs. Ann Matthews, also swore that complainant met
her, and told her that be meant to injure Griffiths (the
defendant), who was working under his nephew at the
Thames Ironworks, all he could, and that he would make
it " so hot " for him that he would be obliged to leave
London altogether.
Mr. Maude said after hearing the evidence of the various
witnesses, he believed the defendant, smarting under some
feeling in losing his position as leading hand at Messrs.
Rennie's, had assaulted the complainant. If foremen of works
were to be liable to such outrages, merely for carrying out
their duties, there would be no protection whatever. For
the assault the defendant would be committed to the
House of Correction for 14 days, with hard labour.
An application was made for a fine to be inflicted in-
stead of imprisonment ; but the magistrate refused, and
the defendant was removed to undergo his sentence.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE HITCHIN
AND CAMBRIDGE BRANCH OP THE GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY.

ROYSTON, TUESDAY.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. F. Barlow, the county
coroner, held an adjourned inquest on view of the bodies
of Andrew Hewter and William Clarke, driver and
stoker, in the service of the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany, who were killed by an accident on the Hitchin and
Cambridge branch line. Captain Tyler, the government
inspector, attended to watch the proceedings ; and Mr.
Wontner, with the superintendent and other officials,
appeared on behalf of the company.
Arther Nash said he rode in the train, and on the
carriages coming to a stand-still, be got out and saw what
has been before described. He examined the permanent way,
and he found the rails had been torn up for a distance of
40 or 50 yards. He noticed sonic of the sleepers, and the
wood seemed to be rotten. He traced the starting point
of the accident, a defect in the rail. There was a chip off
the corner side of the rail at the point, and he expressed
an opinion that the engine was sent off the metals at the
point where the chip was found in the rails.
Henry Rayner, the guard of the train, said they left
Hitchin at 10.2 h, and travelled at the usual speed, .30 to 35
miles an hour. He rode in the break van at the rear of the
train. He hail no cause to consider the line was unsafe.

Joseph Taylor, inspector of the permanent way, sai.l he
could not say how long the sleepers where the accident
happened had been down, they might have been a few
yaws. Thousands of sleepers had been put down within
the last three months.

Other evidence was given to show the condition of the
line where the accident happened, and that it had been
examined a short time previously.
Captain Tyler stated at some length the examination
which he had made of the line, and of a defect at the
points of a joint, and he described the way it would have
a tendency to cause the engine to leave the rails. He also
explained the work that had been done, as lie had been
informed, towards keeping the road in a good condition.
Some discussion haying taken place as to the desira-
bility of not allowing the trains to run at any great speed
over the branch ; and it being intimated that the time bill
for the branch would be altered, the jury returned a ver•
diet of " Accidental death."

THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY.—We understand that
the amended charter of the Queen's University, which
received the royal signature about three weeks since, only
awaits registration at the Hanaper-office here to be in
force. Its leading new provisions are, that all exclusive
connexion between the Queen's Colleges and the Queen'.
University ceases ; that all students, Irrespective of the
place of their education, are equally entitled, accord-
ing to merit, to degrees and all other university
privileges ; and wile the existing senators retain
in the main places on the new senate, several
new names are added, thus—Right Hon. the Earl of Dun-
raven, Right Hon. Justice ()Hagan, and Professor W. K.
Sullivan (catholics), and Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Mala-
hide (a protestant), whilst the existing graduates of the
university are entitled to appoint another member in con-
vocation. We understand that Dr. Mapother, Mr. Cannes,
and others are spoken of as candidates for the position
The catholic members on the senate before the recent re-
vision of the charter were the Lord Chief Baron Pigott,
the Lord Chief Justice Monahan, Sir Dominic Cor.igan,
and Sir Robert Kane.—Frubian's Journal.

AN ENOLISH AMATEUR WITH GARIBALDI.—ThO
special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph with Gari-
baldi, describing the recent action, writes:—" At one
time there was probably as much confusion in their ranks
as in the trenches at Sebastopol after the first unsuccessful
assault on the Redan. The officers, who appear without
exception to have acted irreproachably, did their beat
to allay this confusion and rally the men. Gari-
baldi, of course, was here, there, and every-
where, endeavouring to infuse fresh courage into them,
and I have heard that an English gentleman named
Bullock, following the expedition as an amateur, behaved
with great gallantry, and has been personally and cordially
thanked by the general. Mr. Bullock got on horseback,
and although in civilian clothes, and unarmed, did much
solid service in r►llying the men, and cheering them
on. A man with the pluck to ride in advance, wave his
hat, and cry • Avanti,' in the midst of • heavy fire, need
carry no very formidable weapons. He does as much good
as though he had a whole arsenal of blunderbusses, sabres,
and revolvers at his saddle bow."

The Paris Eremement has received the following
" communicated " note :—" In your number of the 6th
you assert that the Prussian needle•gun was presented to
the Emperor Napoleon two years back, and that his
Majesty merely thought fit to place it amongst his
curious arms. The gun in question was presented to the
Emperor six years ago, and immediately the committee
of artillery, by his Majesty's orders, engaged in the task
of comparing together all the guns which load at the
breech. Upwards of 100 models were tried, and it Well
only last year that an arm wan adopted, far superior to
the Prussian one. The troops at the Camp of Chalons
will in a short time receive a great number."
NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—This festival will
commence on the last Monday in October, and will last till
the following Friday. Among the works to be perfermed at
the festival, which will be honoured with the presence of
the Prince and Princess of Wales, are Bagman and Israel
as Egypt.