The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-16 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

383 men of all ranks of the Bth, 19th, 20th, 23rd Royal
Welsh Funnier', 24th, 29th, 55th, 63rd, 64th, lath, 82nd,
84th, and 90th Light Infantry, to embus* for Calcutta;
4 officers and 166 mat of tho 7th Punkas, 62nd Light In-
fantry, 61st, 70th, 81at, 94th, and Nth Regimante, to (m-
-ina for Hmrsase ; sad I °Mow and 106 non-comma-
sicaod elionsand mead the 18th Romyjel= Slit Light
Infentry, 83rd and 86th Essimenta, to to the Bora-
ibmodKprosidenoy. The whole of the roements ordered to
are to be equipped with the Enfield rifle, in which
weapon they have undergoes a complete mores of Marna-
dom. Tito ndnforramenin •
willembart at Gramored as noon
ne the useustry trews hes bean taken up for them.

1411117111W4T-COLONRI, CHARLES F. WOODFORD,
tithe Rifle Brigade, whom death is reported at the 28th of
November, in the action with the °wallor issurgewte, was
son of General Sir Alexander Woodford, Lient.-Goversor of
Chokes limits!. The deceased officer entered the Ride
Brigade se second lieutenant February, 1840, sad shortly
afterwards served as aide-de-camp to his father, the
Governor of Gibraltar. During the seventeen years be had
berm in the army he h►d seen much active service, having
taken part in the Kaffir wars of 1848, 1847, 1862, and 1863.
At the outbreak of hostilities in the Beat he was appointed
Deputy-Assistant Qsarernasker Glows' cm the staff of the
array, and athsehed to liswi-cpuirters until his promotion to a
majority in February, 1866, whim he rejoined his regiment,
with which ha served to the close of the war. He was men-
tioned by Lord Eaglen in his despatch from the Alma, and
was wounded at the attack on the Baden on the Bth, when
he commended a covering party of the Rifle Brigade, and
wee appointed a brevet lieut-colenel for his services. He
received a medal for the Kaffir war, and a medal and four
dupe for the Crimean campaign, as well as the woes of the
Leib. of Honour, and the Sardinian and Turkish orders.

Major General Lord George Paget, K.C.8., has
!te.mppotated Inspector-Oof Ceval Indic His
laiship prom& there at once. Colonel Maine, late of the
7th Guards and now of the 14th Light D r
aggeirled Brigadier of Cavalry at the Bmbayirrect
&may ; aad Colonel Campbell, of the Queen's Bays, at that
of ?moll—United Service Gazette.
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Ablr-eshoECii-bi.;;;Lin g the penitentiary of the
Militia. Begimants which exhibit ineuboedinatton in their
own looalitim are sent to the map to be drilled into proper
subjection. They cannot there attack the unarmed inhabi-
tants of towns, seeing that there ars one to attack. The
100th Dublin Militia is at Aidershott, paying the penalty of
its freaks at Bradford, Ashton, and Bentley.— United &r-
-ein? Gasst4o.

Last Taht's Gazelle contains a despatch from
Colonel I. Cum Wilt the 62nd Light Infantry, dated Jul-
lundur, Dec. 2, a nominal roll of the non-comaeseloncel
acme and men of brave corps who have been killed or
woundsel or have raccumbed to disease since the out-
break of the Indian mutiny.
iiThe 62nd took a leading put
in the einsult of Delhi, at Flee ote, and the Ranee, and has
Baird severely. We have the roll lin type, and will find
room for-it on Monday.
There will be a grand review at Woolwich on
Thursday next, the 21st instant. Three battalions of the
Guard; several militia regiments, with a considerable force
of artillery and cavalry, will be on the ground.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left
town at an early hour yesterday morning for Aldershot; to
Inspect the militia regiments in the camp.

DREADFUL MURDER AT DdRIVEY.

Sometime on Wednesday afternoon, a murder of
the most shockinAlascription wee perpetrated at the large
manufacturing " man,, Dairen, neer Blackburn.
victim wee an elderly named Robert Kershaw, and
there is bat too much reason to suppose that he met his death
at the hands of his eldest son, with the knowledge and oom-
at the insdgation—of his own wife. On
Ordaa;trenag, the body of the deoeseed wale found, by
the police, burled ta
rn
*heap of coals in the celhir of him own
house, his forehead galled with repeated wounds, and still
covered with blood. The scene of this dreadful °rear-
med Is a cottage In Wood-street, where the de-
ceased lived with his wife, two grown-up eons,
end four daughten, not so old. He had been
a small farmer at a place called Tockholes, and having met
with misfortunes, came some years ago to live at Over Dor-
' war, where all the children found employment in the facto-
risa. The old mm, who was in hie 60th year, is boron to
have remained at home for some time past, and, has
does so ever since his removal, it being cons'
necessary
that scone one should always be in the house with. Mn. Ker-
shaw. For some she has been " dighty,^ if not
in her talk, usually able to to her holt:ha:a
duties. On Wednesday morning ell the children went to
their work as =mai, but Than= the eldest, left Mr.ttlriamete
factory where he wee employed, at nine o'clock, saying he
wireentlio Blackhon, and did not return dueller ti'is day.
AB y, except Thomas, were et home to dinner at
woos, and when they returned to work their father and
mother appeared well and comfortable. About 3 o'clock
in the afternoon Thomas was nom to enter bile lather's
house. One of the girls, a child about 12 yeses of age,
was the first home from work in the evening, and came in
between six and seven o'clock. She found her mother alone,
sad, on addng about her father, was told he had gone out.
Soon afterwards Thanes came in, and (as the child 1111711) at
once went down to the cellar and " began to shovel thereto."
The other son, whose name is Robert, came home about 'wren
o'clock, and not melee his father mods some inquiries, but
says neither his mother nor Thomas would say any.l7
about him at first. Afterwards, when he again
because his father's absence was something so unusual as to
give him great surprise, Thomas replied that he knew nothing
about his father except that "he went out long since."
Robert's further statement is, that Thomas afterwards
primed him very muck to go to bed with
and when he had slept a short time Thomas
wakened him and said, " rme something horrible to tell
thus; but thee mustn't tell nobody about it." Robert asked
what it was, and Thomas said, " When I came home I
found father dead in the house. Mother did it ;• but we'll
all get token up for it." Afterwards he added, " I took the
=cam's stain and buried it in the coals." Then be asked
"Don't you think about four or five o'clock in the
morning we could bury him in eon= place where he won't be
discovered ? Then our best plan would be to make for Liver-
pool, and there we can find a ship to go to America." Robert
jßpd out of bed, saying, " Stop where you are a bit," and
ran down to the coal cellar, where he " found that the story
was true." Instead of returning to his brother, however,
he sr be slipped out at the back doer, and ran to Ids uncle's,
not far off, and knocked him up, asking him to send some one
for the police. His uncle, whose name is Keareeley, sent
his KS to the police-office, where Mr. Inspector M'Donald,
in charge of the police at Over Darwin, was alone. He rates
that It was about half-past ten o'clock on Wednesday night
when, hearing a noise at the outside, he went to the door.
He there found the youth Kauslej, who exclaimed, " My
uncle is dead ; and his son, Thomas, has killed him." After
answering a few questions, the lad, who was much excited,
ran away : and Mr. M'Donald went to Kershaw's house.
He found the eons and some other persons there. Thomas
was leaning against the fiee-place with nothing on him ex-
cept his shirt and trousers. Looking round Mr. M'Donald
suspected he saw marks of blood on the floor, but, rang
alone, he sent a man to collect four or five constables, and
then locked all the doors. His assistants having arrived, he
took a candle and went to the coal cellar, calling to Robert to
come and show him the place. The young man followed with
Sergeant Atkinson. The officer seeing something which
like the elbow of a man protruding from the hap
2Pe:oneefs, Mr. M'Donald assisted him in an attempt
to pull the body out. They were obliged, however, to shovel
away about 2 cwts. of coal before the body could be removed.
The old ma's head presented a horrible sight, for it was sp.
patently one masa of blood and wounds, each of them deep
enough to be fatal. and of course it was frightfully blackened
with the coals. The body was taken upstairs and washed as
soon as possible, Mr. B. H. Wraith, surgeon, being sent for
to supenntend and make an examination In the meantime
Mr. M'Donald observed that Thomas Kershaw appeared
much agitated, sad seemed watching for an opportunity to
make his escape from the house. Mr. M'Donald told him
he should take him into custody on suspicion of being the
murderer, on which the prisoner exclaimed, "Before I'll be
charged with that, I'll hang myself." Having secured him.
Mr. M'Donald want upstairs, where he found
Mrs. Kershaw in bed. On his asking her whether
she knew anything of the death of her husband,
she replied, " I've nothing to do with it." Being
reminded that there mold have been no one else in the
home but herself and Thome*, .he said her husband and son
had commenced " • scuffling ;" that she went out, was away
for about twenty minutes, and when she came back saw no
one, but heard a noise in the cellar, as of the moving of male.
She called out bat could get no =wer. To further ques-
tions she gave excited and incoherent replies, end mentioned
that she had "seen some blood in the place." Mr. M'Donald
ordered her also into custody, and both the prisoners were
taken to the polloe-sation.
The Annie would appear to have taken place near the
the-place, which is in the gable wall, the house being the end
one of the row, and this may smart for there being no poise
heard by the neighbours. The traces of blood are near the
fire-place of the "hour-pan" The deemed was
a stout heavy man, but the body appears never-
theless to have been carried acres the floor, down
a flight of ten or eleven siege, and into the dark,
mall cellar, where It must have been almost doubled up to
allow of its being covered with coals. A large heavy rade,
found in the cellar, is the wasp= presumed to have been
used In the infliction of never= of the wounds on the head.
By one of them the skull is shattered for several inches
completely across the line of the right eyebrow, and that
wound must have been instantly fetal. On the left pert of
the forehead there are three great wounds extending from
the hair to the eyebrow, the skull appearing to be fractured
in each instance. Under the right eye, and across the cheek
bone, another deep gash was inflicted, and the eye was almost
brood out and destroyed. No trace of blood has been found
ea the spade, which had, however, been used in
shovelling the coals. Another heavy blow under the
ha side of the jawbone is supposed to have been
dealt with a poker from the grate in the " house-part." The
cellar-bone is also broken on the right side ; there are con-
tused wounds in the neck, and there are five or sic other
wrath on the face sharply incised. It is possible that
these IMO Inflicted with a raaor belonging to the old man,
which was mining from its case on Thursday, and has not
yet been found. The poker is stained with blood.
Although the crime to have been committed in the
" house-pert," the floor had washed before any of the
family returned ; bat near the fire-place there are traces of
larrareratthes of blood. Several shirts and other wearing
apparel
wall found on a clothes-hoer by _the police ; they
were still wet, but not properly ward, and one of the
shirts, belonging to Thomas Kershaw, has great stains of
blood ca the sleeves. These circumstances lead to the =p-
uniness that Mrs. Kershaw mast at least have bean engaged
is removing the traces of the murder.
No edemas motive for the crime has been suggested. Mrs.
Kershaw le ttleel as partially inane, and the mom have
also bees erred singular to then habits and their talk.
They was, however, as well as the old man, sober and quiet
in their conduct. Mrs. Kershaw le said to have alleged that
her husband 111-used her when they were skins, but the
neighbors believed him to be • good, kind, husband. She
has been complainimizeithat her hothead taunted her with not
being to him, but it ia not known that
there rzdZondatlon for this, event sup her state-
meat to be true.. Thomas is understood to have always taken
the mother's pert again all the other children, is believing
her amounts of the deceased's ill swage; but it is not sup-
posed that he wee on •
bad terms with his father, or that
Uwe were any =rim disagreements in the frilly.
TWINS Imlay himself, who is about twenty-two
fts, bar base a really good character.
CIRO neither Whalen nor dissipated. Be has been a
sassahar of the Ow Dare= Mechanics' Institute for • long
lime, end wavenidered studious, having boob of his own.
Aftar his apgaseensisa he was, or pretended to be, demented.
He need nosh sarineneense, and asked for pea, ink,
his baba He is Mut lock= op in a all, and
Tar
wain= Xs% Karebinris eke worked, but • placed in 9ne of
and
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thermos Or polies Gilboa Thwe h mange hob in her
eyes, awl she le maiiinse mash =Mai Oa Thursday
alas wegemsskad.. gbigisalsegif thp:etaiicluNty caahrtablawill. abs"wisandisiWrikliedb7tha .
o patty ; bans than might be Tete& I think."
Tins °errs remain et the cottage Wood-sheet. The
was to he speed yesterday, before Mr. Hergreaves,
riremigontys Ims, Over Derwen. Tho neighbourhood
hos rooms bar bi a state of excitement dna the o-
yq} ea aim the street was crowded with
yegssiand sassy d thevilligt
villagers who had kit their beds at
MseMl nibs eocaranos retried up the whole night.