The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-24 00:00:00

ge was quite willing to live apart, and would take the
(meet children. He knew some person who would take
macerate of them illtaa she.
Complainant implored that such might not be the case.
sse wanted the children with her.
Tba magistrate ordered him to find two sureties in 301.,
mai ester into doable that amount himself to keep the
moos for six months.
"Complainant wept much, and said that they must all go
Isla the house when her husband was locked up. She
ward a gift from the poor box ; but waited outride the
wart to say " Good-bye" as he left in the police van.

WANDSWORTH.
INHUMAN CONDUCT OP A MOTHER.
A young woman, who gave the name of Catherine
lieloard, and stated that she was without a home, was
in the dock on a charge of wilfully abandoning her
Want, whereby its life was endangered.
for Usher V division, stated that at 9 o'clock on
y evening be was on duty at the station, when a
my named Richard Davis and his wife came in with a
boy between four and five weeks old, and informed him
that they found it in a field among some cabbages on Wands-
worth Common. The child was shivering and appeared
io make immediate attention. It was dressed in a frock
-ad flannel. He immediately sent for a person to do
jet mg for the child, and he afterwards had it removed
to the Union Workhouse. He subsequently made in-
-Otis.. which led to the apprehension of the prisoner,
who admitted that the child belonged to her. She stated
that it was destitution that caused her to leave
the child on the common, and she was very sorry for what
she had done. She further stated that she had been in
Lambeth Union for a week, and she left on Friday morn-
ing, as she did not receive sufficient food to support the
bay.
The prisoner said she left the workouse on Saturday
morning.
In reply to the magistrate, the inspector stated that
neither Davis nor his wife had attended.
Other evidence was given, to the effect that the prisoner,
who was sent to the workhouse after her apprehension,
stated to the nurse who gave up the child to her to suckle,
that she left her baby on the path, as she thought some
person would pick it up.
Inspector Usher said he believed the prisoner had been
In inmate of a lunatic asylum.
Kr. Ingham remanded her until Tuesday next to give
feß time for inquiry.
inspector Usher wished to know whether the magistrate
lased send her back to the workhouse, where she would
be properly secured.
Itr. Ingham thought it would not do the prisoner any
harm to send her to prison in the usual way.
The prisoner was then removed to the cells.

GREENWICH.
HOllBl "COPING" AND DRUGGING.
John Fielder, a well-known horse " Doper," of 11, Rail.
lostgrove,New-crose, Deptford, was brought up in custody,
clamed with being concerned with another man not in
custody. in obtaining a mare and a horse from Robert
mars, of 15, Hales-street, Deptford, with intent to cheat
sad defraud him of the same.
Er. Brooks, solicitor, attended for the prosecution, and
mid the present was only one of many similar cases that
bad recently occurred, in which the same parties were
concerned, in different parts of the metropolis, and re-
specting which applications had been made at this and
other police courts. He then called
Robert Morris, a young man, who said that he ac-
companied his father, on Friday last, to the Cattle
*eke, at Islington, for the purpose of selling two
horses. The horses remained unsold, and at half-past 5
he left the market with them, following his father who was
in s cart. His father told hini that if he could sell the
horses on his return home he was to do so. On arriving
opposite the Fire Bells public-house, in the Old Kent-road,
the prisoner met and stopped him, and asked if the horses
were for sale. He told the prisoner they were for sale,
and the prisoner then asked him to come round the
corner to a gentleman who would buy one, if not both,
d the horses. He went with the prisoner to a " gentleman,"
who asked him the price, and on telling him 10!., he
offered him IC Witness said he could not take that
amount, and he was then offered 91., which he agreed
to sell the horses for. The prisoner then asked bins to
have a glass of ale, and they all went together to the
Vittoria public-house. At that time he was perfectly
sober. He had a glass of ale, and the prisoner then
asked him to have another, which he had no sooner drunk
than he became somewhat stupefied. He had left the
horses outside the house in charge of a boy, and
seeing the prisoner get on the horses and gallop
away, he called to him to come back. He did not
know what became of himself for a few minutes
bat on recovering a little he remembered having
a piece of paper put in his hand, and which he placed in
Ilia pocket, being told it contained two sovereigns, and
that he could obtain 71. for the paper in the morning. He
remained in a state of stupor about a quarter of an hour,
and on recovering consciousness and examining the paper
in his pocket, he found it contained only one sovereign.
(The paper alluded to was here produced and purported
to be a promissory note, at seven days date.)
Sergeant Turner, 35 P division, said he apprehended the
prisoner in the High-street, Peckham, and on telling him
the charge, he replied, " Oh, then, he means to lock me
up." The prisoner also said he had got the money at
home, if he could get at it. From information he
subsequently obtained he went to a public•house and
found one of the horses in the stable, the landlonl saying
it had been left there by a man to whom he had lent two
sovereigns. The other horse had been brought by some
one, and tied up in the yard of the last witness's house.
Mr. Traill remanded the prisoner till Tuesday nest, re-
fusing his application to be admitted to bail.

SERIOUS FIRES AND LOSS OP LIFE.
(THIS DAY.)

This (Tuesday) morning, shortly after 1
o'clock, a dreadful fire happened in the premises belong-
ing to Mr. Hooke, a boot and shoemaker, No. 3, King-
street, Kensington. The discovery was made by a man
tamed May, who succeeded in awaking the occupier and
his wife. At that time there was a boy aged seven
Fears on the first floor, and the father made
Several attempts to get to him, but in so doing got
bully burnt about the head and face. The mother saved
her life by jumping out of one of the windows. Conductor
Mason quickly attended with the Royal Society's escape,
sad alio Conductor Green with his ladders from Notting-
kill. Mason made several attempts to enter, but the
Zanies broke through the roof and out of the different
windows so as to render it impossible for him to reach the
slut. The engines were set to work, and the firemen
eventually succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but not until
Mr. Hooke'e premises were totally destroyed, and those next
door belonging to Mr. J. Simpson, a plumber and glazier,
were severely damaged. As soon as the rains were suffi-
ciently cooled Conductor Mason entered the place and
found the body of the child with the top of his head burnt
off as well as his hands. The body was remoa ed to the
workhouse to await an inquest.

Before the firemen had time to leave this fire they were
Called to another which had broken out in the premises
of Mr. Cutliffe, a silversmith, No. 12, Devonshire-ter-
race, Notting-ha The two escape conductors promptly
attended, and worked energetically till the engines came.
The fire was extinguished, but the damage done was con-
siderable. The origin of the misfortune could not be
ascertained.

A fire also happened in the premiaea belonging to
Kr. Garcia, a haberdasher, No. 9t, Walworth-road.
The fire waa extinguished, but not before the stock-in-
trade was partially destroyed. Insurance not known.
The salvage corps, under Superintendent Cooper, arrived at
the same time as the engines, and took charge of the
Selvage.

A Lyndhurst correspondent writes to say that
the cuckoo was heard and the blackthorn was seen in
blossom at Loperwood, near Lyndhurst, on the ith inst.
White. in his natural history of Selborna, says that the
7th April is the earliest period the cuckoo's note is heard
in Hampshire.

EXECUTION OF THE DUNHAM MURDERER AT
CHFATEII.—The criminal Griffiths, sentenced to death at
the last Cheshire assizes for the murder of Isaac Newport,
at Dunham-o'-th'-Hill, Cheshire, on the 26th of February,
was executed at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, at the city
gaol of Chester. There were about 2000 persons present,
and their behaviour was very orderly. The prisoner
was exceedingly humble and penitent, and, in the
• peens-room, stated that he was convinced that his sins
were pardoned, and deeply regretted not having followed
• religion during the whole of his life. He prayed for his
family, as :tido for the widow of the murdered man. He
was attended to the scaffold by the Rev. Mr. Rowe, who
: administered religious consolation to him, but no church
Service was held. The drop fell at the second stroke of
eight. He struggled • little, but was soon dead. After
• hanging the usual time, the body was buried in the
precincts of the city gaol.
MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT. —On Sunday
morning four young men, in the employment of the Lan-
caster Waggon Company, went for an excursion on the
river Lune in a small skiff. They rowed to Gleason-
dock, four miles from the town, where they remained
until 4 o'clock. They had not proceeded far on their
homeward journey before they ran into what is termed •
e"chopple," or current, by which the boat became half
filled with water. The men instantly stood up in the
bat ; and one of them, William Hardy, being a good
swimmer, determined to make for the shore, which he
reached in safety. By his sudden sp • • out the boat
wes capsized, and his companions, James ewitt, George
Wood, and John Grant, were precipitated into the water.
After struggling for a few rninutesiClewitt and Wood sank,
Grant clung to the bottom of the boat, and was rescued
In about twenty minutes. Clewitt was a native of Man-
chester, and was married. Wood's friends reside near
York. They were both about 25 years of age.—Man-
Chester Guardian.