The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

lets Leary, a dissipated-looking woman, about 30 years
of awe, wee charged with attempting to commit suicide.
William Sloman a careozrer, residing at 23, Haneiegh-
street, Chelsea, raid that, an he ant a companion were re-
turning from work at twelve o'clock on Thursday night, they
heard 'creams of " Murder!" from the water side, near Cor
morns. They hurried to the spot as fast as they could, but
could not get to where the crier proceeded from until they
lied climbed a fence and walked along the Cremot ne-pier.
Wiener* then found the woman visa in about ten feet of mud.
There wee very little water there, because the tide was out.
She wee intoxicated, and after &seeing her out they gave
bee up to the police.
Jame* Williamson. 278 A, said that between twelve
and one that morning he was nn duty nem Battersea-
bridge, when his attention was called to the prisoner, who
was surrounded by a crowd of primes. She wee completely
saturated with mud and water. He asked her what indu.ed
her to go into the water, when she made reply ate bad swam
woes the Thames.
In reply to nue:aims from the magistrate, the constable
said she bad made no other etaterneut since. She could not
have fallen in, end he did not think she bad climbed over the
DEATH OP AN INFANT FROM AN OVERDOSE OP face on to the Cremorne Pier. There wee a walk by the
13v icy r or Part ES.—On Thursday evening a lung inquiry „ side of the Thames which wee open, and she might have
took Ph" at the Weetmiseler Hwpital, before Mr. &dated, ; walked down from the path, but could not have fallen in, as
on the body of Raynor Forme, an intent 18 menthe old. I sloe was 60 or 60 yards from the pathway.
Mrs. Jane Preeman, the mother ,:f the infant, sail—On Defendant in reply to the charge mid she met with some
Chtiatmas Eve the deceased wee very restless on weasel of , frier:le, or rather foes to her, es they gam her something to
teething. I seat a little girl to • altlilbe• for twopenny drink, and she got into the water somehow.
worth of syrup of p-ppiee. This wee stout firs o'clock la Mr. A mold did not think there was evidence enough to
the evening. I gave rte intent two tearpoonfula, but not he- convict bee of attempting to commit suicide, and elm was
meting compeeed, at ten o'clm k the 'awe night, I gave her dircharged.
another teaspo.'nful. We went to 1.41 about eleven o'clock. Mr. Arnold told Slocum It wan, no doubt, owing to him
About one o'clock I locked at my belly, end was shocked at that the woman's life was raved. If he would acospt in.
finding her apparently Wein'. Mr. Riley, a sermon, from the poor-box he should have it.
promptly attended, and pronounced lib to have been Etymon thanked the magistrate.
extinct some time. Mr. Riley, surgeon, of St. Oeorge'e- MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Toed, Pimlico, said he had made a post osortess cow- We have received the following letter
neinetion, and found that teach moulted trout the Demotic
TO THZ EDITOR OF THE EXPILBS/L
which bad been administered to the Infant. fieldmice wee Sle—ln your Marlborough Police-court report of Monday
brought forward to prom the strong@Section of the parents
last, Joan Sherrington was charged with steeling a parse. A
for the infant, after which the jury returned a verdict—•• D:ed ' of the name of Thome, Tayliweame forward to speak
from an overdose of gimp ef poppite, tweed:Feely admisia- pee
,"Tt ort. rho,. odor who desalted
himself os the pro.
tend by the mother, and recommend thst chemists be prohl-priees e HoHomeil„ beg to ray that such
kited from oiling such in small quantities." statement is Ida Thomas Tailor Is :sot the proprietor of
ANOTHER LOLLIERS' 6 flt11:11 IN WEST YORK- I the How. Knee..." Be was formerly ompioyoo
11111111.—The colliers in the employment of Mews. J. Lock ; lector of advertisements, but that occupation has beg since
Co.,and of Kiri, here teem towear" we" tat tha I ceased. Your Insertion of this letter will oblige, yours,
same ten" ea the other men, who IA" gme in at • re- I &a., Foal, and TILT, Mortgagees.-62, Long-acre, Dec. 31.
&mike of per tent. instead of 15 par oat., but ask for an
edema, of 6 per meat. above the rate of wages paid before SOUTHWARK.
any reduction was made In April. The MOMS. Leek re- William el/dridg• and !refired; lirrobjoit:o fellows wet:l-
bw to soma to this demand but oar the same rats of hams to the pollee, were brought Mr. Combo,
wages as agreed upon when the reat of the men went la. A charged with steeling a hamper of pork from the Great
melding of the noalowners of the district wee held on TOM. Northern Railway Terminus, Vag's-craw, the property of
day at the White Horse Hotel, Leeds when It was re- Messrs. Litton and Co., meat taisemen, Nmegate-market.
1014 ii to rapport the Meows. Lon la ratan; the demand. John Brown, police astable 64 M, said that be

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warn on duty in the Blackfrisre-rued about seven o'clock
that morning when he saw the pewter's turn down
towards Herbrst's-building, • place abounding with
thieves and other notorious characters. Perceiving that
Aldridge waming • large and apparently heavy
limper, he them, and stopped them in Webber-
street, when Payne said he was • porter, and that they had
bath hem employed by • carman in Newgate-market to carry
the hamper to the Walerleo-road Railway station. Witness
took them into custody, and found that there was no dire°•
dam ea the hamper, but than wee a note in it addressed to
Mann. Litton and Co., meat salesmen, Newgatemarkst.
Re then gave the necceeary information to the latter.
Yr. Thomas Williama, inspector on the Great Northern
Railway, said that the company were carriers for Masers.
Litton, of Nete-market. There was an entry in their
hooka on Thory of a hamper ooming from Eiggleswaide
for them. That hamper had been missed.
Yr. Comte sated the prisoners whether they would plead
guilty, or go to the mama P
They eagerly pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to six
meths' hard labour.
Drawls if &hooey, a young fellow' about 20 years of age,
dreamed in the workhouse garb, was brought up for final ex-
amination, charged with cutting and wounding the master
of St. Olave's Union Workhouse, Horselydown, with intent
to murder him. . _ _

Mr. Corner, the solicitor to the Guardians of the Poor,
"rnarfor the prosecution.
ridition to the evidence which appeared in this paper
yesterday, the meeter of the workhouse, who seemed to have
recovered in a great measure from the efforts of the wound
indicted on him, said that the prisoner had been • burthen
on the parish for nine years. He was quite right in hie
Intellects, but very unruly. On Wednesday morning, about
11 o'clock, witness had occasion to go towards the sick ward,
and when neer the top of the stairs Its sew the prisoner, but
he took no notice of hint, and when andeavounng to psis
him, he struck witness a heavy blow on the left ear, which
caused him to fall spinet the banisters. As coon u he
turned round and was recovering himself, he saw the prisoner
with a knife in his hand, which he fleshed about, end swore
he would murder him with it. . .

..31;760117611toT;r1Zorho saw where he took the knife
from ? . .

Witness—Yes, air ; from his cost pocket. It wee a table
knits belonging to the house.
Mr. Con:be—What did the prisoner then do?
Witaers—He made several attempts to cut my throat with
the knife, and in warding the thrusts off from my throat, I
mosived several cuts one on my right arm end shoulder,
and then I toll on the stabs. As soon u I reoovered myself
I rushed downstairs, when the prisoner followed me, and
made another desperate attempt to cat toy. throat. 1 put up
say left hand to parry off the blow, and in doing so the pri-
soner nearly out off my left thumb.
Mr. Combe—Did he make use of any threatening language
them?
Witten—Yes, sir ; he said " You —, I'll murder you."
I managed to get away from him, and went Into the surgery,
when Dr. Mackintosh shut the door and dressed my wounds.
Mr. Combe—Can you account for this attack on your life?
Witness—The only thing I can imagine is that on Friday
last he came to me, and wanted clothing to leave the home,
and on account of his previous misconduct I refused.
Mr. John James Mackintosh, M.D., medical officer of
Saint Olave's Union, said he was in his musty shortly before
12 o'clock on the morning in question, when he saw the last
witness rash in with his left hand opined with blood. He
closed the door to prevent the prisoner coming in, and on
examining the master's left hand, he found that be had a des-
! perste cut at the lower side of the thumb. There were also
cuts on the right shoulder and arm, all of which he dressed,
and directed the master to keep him room. He new consi-
dered that there was no danger. The knife produced was
such as likely to have caused the wounds.
Mr. Comte ricked whether there was anything the matter
with the prisoner's intellect P
Mr. Mackintosh replied that there was not, and he was
quite strong and healthy.
Timothy Crowley, a tailor, said hewed into the workhouse
to lee his daughter, who was in the sick ward, end on pro-
m? the slabs he distinctly sew the prisoner make
thief: listinct stabs at the master. Wawa went to his as-
sistance, when the prisoner turned on him, and the master
rubel down into the
Joseph Vallacott, the surgery UM when be took the prisoner
into custody for stabbing the rustic of the workholum, he
said "he meant it." The knife was found on the other side
of awall where he had thrown it.

w.fheini;oner, who legh;;lntild reserve his defence, woe
committed to Nongete for trial.

THAMES.

Charles 11.1.aehlas, a assume was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with deserting from her Majesty's ship
Hannibal.
Dunaway, a polka-constable, No. 129 H, stated that he
went to the house, No. 10, Old Gravel lane, Bt. George-in-
the-East, that moraing, and found the prisoner there, who, in
answer to his questions, said his name was M'Lachlan, and
that he formerly belonged to the Hannibal man-of-war, and
left her at Malta two year* ago, soon after pesos was pro-
obtimed. The prisoner exactly answered the description of a
man who deserted from the Hannibal.
Mr. Yardley—But tha Hannibal Ss out of commission
sow? . . .

Dunaway—Yee, sir, it is. The prisoner la a ten years
man, sad he admitted that to be en. The prisoner said be had
formerly given himself up at the Rendezvous, on Tower-hill,
some time ago, and the people there would have nothing to
do with biro.
Mr. Yardley—Take him to the Rendezvonir, where be per-
haps can be identified, end then convey him to the receiving-
shop a the Tower.
Dunaway raid that when he brought the last deserter
from the navy before his worship he was directed to convey
him on beard the Crocodile, but the commanding officer
on board said he would have nothing to do with him. He
then to..k the deserter to the Rendezvous, on Tower-hill.
and the pe,pin there laughed at him android they
not receive bite. He saked where be was to takes.
from her Majesty's ship, and the reply was, " Take them
where you like." He rhea took the deserter to Woolwich,
and the Commodore said be was glad the polio, were looking
after deserters from the navy ; they were the very sort of
men that were wanted, end would be punished when
detected.
_ . .

Yardley—Take this man to Woolwich.
It appearing that the prisoner had been diochsrged from
a schooner a fortnight ago, when be received a balance of 91.
for his terriers on a voyage to the West Coast of Africa and
back, and that his clothes were detained by a lodgiag•house
keeper, the magistrate requested Dunaway to obtain the man's
clothe., and said If they were not delivered to him be would
grant a summons.

ROMANCE or CRIME.—The singular event of try-
ing a man, already wider sentence of death for murder, on a
charge of swindling, occurred at Paris on Wednesday.
Paean, who is awaiting execation for grommly outraging
and murdering his niece, was accused before the Tribunal of
Correctional Polio, of having taken from the Raviug. bank,
and appropriated to hid own use, a rum of 2000., which had
belonged to • German women named Misty, almost an
diet, who had lodged in his hone. and who is now dead.
It was alleged that the money had been taken from the bank
by Parang, and that to obtain it he had made the woman
sign an nthorisatioe, though she did not know what it
meant; it was also alleged that it was with part of the
200 f. that he bad gone to Olson to bring his ill-fated
niece up to Paris. It was further said that after the fraud
he had turned the poor idiot out of doors ha the night, and
that ehe had wandered about the streets until arrested by the
police. But it appeased that at the time the authorisation to
withdraw the money was alleged to have been signed the
woman was in the hospital of La SalpFtriAre, and the nurses
of that establishment swore that they Mid exercised each
strict surveillance that it wee impossible mhe could have
signed any document without their perceiving it, and that
they bed never seen her use pen end ink ; besides which they
did not helloed that Paring had ever ben admitted to see
her. The tribunal decided that the proof of the man's guilt
wee not sufficiently clear, and ft acquitted him. Parang'a
wife was tried tar alleged participation, and was likewise ac-
quitted.
THE LATE CATASTROPHE AT TOROUAT.—The
adjourned inquest on the belies of Mr. and Mee. Hamblin,
who were killed by the fall of • high wall upon their dwell-
ing, at No. 4, &moon-terrace, in this town, on the night of
Monday, Dec. 20, was held at the Town-hall. on Thursday,
before Mr. W. A. Cocksy, the coroner. Mr. Tanner, one of
the survivors, who resided at No. 2, Beacon-terrsee, was
pre...int and gave his version of the catastrophe, but no ad-
ditional facts were elicited. The workmen who were en-
gored by Mr. Jacob Harvey in rasing the wall which fell
and in laying out the intended garden behind, stated that,
although it was only .Intern inches in thickness, there was
no reason for sppreliending danger. There was no evidence
to show that any one hut previously regarded the wall es
insecure, and the coroner, in summing up, recommended the
jury to end a verdict of " Accidental Death," ea there wee
evidently no blame attached to Mr. Hervey. The jury,
however, after forty minute.' deliberation, headed in the
following °pm verdict: "That Edward Rambling, and
Louisa Rambling. his wife, on the 21.1 day of December,
were killed by the falling of a oertain wall. The jurors con-
' eider that proper precaution was not used In the construction
of the wall, and that the old veal was not in a fit state to re-
ceive the addition."
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A STARTLING FACT.—When the pueenger 'hip
Isaac Wright wee on lire a week agu, and all bops of saving
her had been given up, she was towed up the liver to the
Sloyne, act that she might be scuffled, out of the way of the
other ships. Some of the guns of her Majeetra frigate
Hastings were tired into her at a short range, with the view
of aiding in the aMking ; but avenge to say, now that she
lire dry, it ia apparent that not a single allot penetrated her
hull. This being the fact, the question naturally suggests
Walt, of what use are such gnus in naval warfare, and more
particularly when war shios are built of stouter timber than
the merchant movie° ? With regard to the Isaac Wright, no
good can be made of her hull, and she will have to be broken
up.—Liverpool feet.
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