The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-28 00:00:00

A TRAGEDY IN DENBIGHSHIRE.

A ad affair took place at Pentrevoelas, about 20
miles from Denbigh, on Tuesday morning. A woman,
named Jane Jones, had been on terms of intimacy with a
man named Pierce Jones, a farm labourer, but this connec-
tion appears to have been broken off, and the woman was
to have been married, on Saturday next, to a butcher living
at Llansannan. On Tuesday morning, about half-past
6 o'clock, the discarded sweetheart went to the farm of
her parents, with whom she resided, and attacked her
with a knife which he carried with him in his pocket.
Having overpowered her, he cut her throat in a frightful
way, killing her almost immediately. He then went to
the farm at which he was employed, and, after washing
himself, asked his master for his wages, which were paid
to him. He informed his master of what he had done,
and walked coolly towards the residence of the police con-
'noble. In the meantime, the constable got intelligence
of the murder, and proceeded to the house of the murdered
woman, whom he found lying on the floor dead, her aged
parents standing by, struck dumb with horror at the
sad occurrence. The handles of the door of
the house were marked on the inside and the
outside with blood. The officer proceeded, by
means of footmarks and other indications, to trace the
murderer—the indications leading ultimately to the police
officer's own house, where he found the murderer coolly
awaiting his arrival with the intention of delivering him-
self up. Jones was taken to Ruthin. The murderer,
Pierce Jones, is the son of William Pierce, shepherd and
bailiff to Mr. Wright, of Tyn-y-Celyn, near Denbigh. The
difference in the surname of the father and son will readily
be understood by those who are familiar with the custom of
the upper country, where the son usually assumes the Chris-
tian name of his father as his surname, and frequently '
some other, as the name of a favourite relative, friend, &c.
The murdered woman was 31 years of age. The murderer ,
was, some time since, a keeper at the North Wales County
Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh. He appears to have gone on
Monday night to a neighbouring farm? situated between
where he lived and the residence of his unfortunate vic-
tim, to sleep, apparently to enable him to meet her on her
first appearance in the morning. During the time he was
a keeper at the asylum he was considered to be a person of
weak intellect, and exhibited many peculiarities indicating
a tendency towards insanity, which it was hoped would
disappear upon his return to his accustomed employment
in the open air of the upper country. Jane Jones was the
only daughter of her parents, and was a person of very
prepossessing appearance.

We read in the City article of the Times:—" With
regard to the Great Western Railway Company, it is
understood an arrangement is being made with the Bank
of England to open an account there, to which will be paid
from time to time out of the weekly traffic receipts •
sum sufficient to meet the interest on debentures and de-
benture stains." In the City article of another con-
temporary we read :—" It is understood that at the
meeting on Friday • suggestion will be put forward by a
large body of the preference shareholders to pay all divi-
, donde in deferred debenture bonds carrying 4 per cent.
interest, thus setting free the net revenue of the line to
the payment of debentures, matured and maturing, and
so reduce the ultimate debt charge."

A meeting of a number of the leading share-
holders of the Great Eastern Railway Company was held
yesterday in the boardroom. Their attendance had been
requested by the directors to hear a statement from Mr.
Laing as to the present position of their property and the
measures that are considered absolutely necessary for its
immediate protection. These measures comprised plans
for preventing any adverse interference by creditors with
the working of the line, the framing of an application to
parliament for general powers to enable the company to
raise sufficient funds for discharging all liabilities, and a
resolution to abandon as far as possible all projected works
and extensions. The meeting appeared unanimously to
concur with the suggestion made, and the same views were
subsequently brought before another meeting at the West.
minster Palace Hotel, so that action might be taken upon
them without delay.

The Paris correspondence of the Independance
Beige contains the following telegraph :—" You know that
we have in Paris an equestrian statue of Bing William of
Prussia, which stands opposite the facade of the Exhibition
building. This morning the workmen engaged in the
Champ de Mars and the visitors who came early
to the place were surprised at finding th►t a
luxuriant laurel crown had been placed on the head
of the conqueror of Sadowa during the night. The
head commissioners, en learning the fact,did not appear to
be much pleased, for by their orders some workmen got
upon the statue and removed the crown. The incident
caused much laughter amongst the bystanders."

The North German Lloyd Mail Steam-packet
Company, whose ships run between Bremen and New
York, have supplied each of their ships with about 800
oork jackets for the use of the passengers and crews in
ease of diameter.