The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-19 00:00:00

CANTERBURY RACES.-W. ZDNEBDAY.

TB■ CRT PLATE (Handicap) of 50 soya., certain winners
extra. Round mile.

31;.-8. hewn' isieilit, by Mentor, aged, Est ,car Sit 41b)
(J. (looier) 1
Mr. Swindell's Simla, 3 yrs, 7at Sib (Holder) 2
Mr. P. Darling's Smut. 3 yrs, Sot 12Ib 'Reeves) 9
Mr. T. Brown's White Ways, 3 yrs. 74 121 b . Jimmie) 4
Mr. J. Mors Mercury, 2 yrs, bit lilb (car 64 10Ib)
(Chapman) 6
Mr. )linington's Dove, 4 yrs, 74 Mb (Mills) a
No betting. Won cleverly by a length, a bad third.
Tea Lour MOT HANDICAP of 5 more. each, 3 ft with 50
added ; certain winners extra. About two miles. (17 subs.)
Mr. (Abb..' Sailor, by Alarm, I yrs, est 41b ;Preach) 1
Mr. Mines' Remnnerator, 4 yrs, 74 Mb (W. Sharpe) I
Mr. 8. Jacobi' The Don, 3 ym, RR "Milln S
The following al.o ran :—Joekla, Fly-by. Day, Philomela,
and Crinoline.

Betting : fi to 4 agstJeeirin, 2to 1 agst The Don. Won
after a fine race by a head, throe lengths between the second
and third. Philomela fell.

'I"HE BRUME tirss cm of 10 sore. each, 3 ft, witji 50
added; for 2-yr olds, fiat 12Ib • three, list 91b ; WWI/ penal-
ties and allowances. (7 subs.)
Mr. Melllsb's Rupert, by &dards. 2 yrs, Oat 1210 .. (Mills' 1
Mr. tiewland's Astarte, 2 yrs, Sat 12Ib Moaner,
Mr. Mundys Wee Polly, 2 ynt, eat 121 b tawny) 3
Mr. (holding's fby Autocrat-0 Nyfowe, 1 yrs, est 121 b
, 4
Mr. 14wIndell's Ihneflower, 2 yrs, Sat 121 b {older (trenchr 5
Betting : 5 to 2 on Rupert, who won by • head, two
length. between the second- and third.
ROYAL AGRICULTCKAL PLATE (Handicap) of 100 sore. ;
winners extra, he. About one mile and a half.
Mr. Lamberts Clydesdale, by Annandale, b yes, 9at 211,

.
• -oater
Mr. Xerrldge na Precursor,4:43l
nr, yrs, Eat MD (Hornsby I
Mr. Lemon $ Iletnntn. )n. 7st (French 3
The following also rnn :—Marwell, Soapy Sam, and Smut.
THE BARHAM DoWiia STAKE, a sweepstake.; of 3 suss
each, with 25 added. Optional selling weights, &c. Round
mile. (6 subs.)
Mr. Jones' Emotion, by Alarm, 4 yin (301.% Sit 61b scarf& I
Mr. 5111nos' VIIIIRCOLIthe, 3 yen :3012:, 7st 516
Mr. Roes Nuggett 3 yrs Wt.?, 7st .B!Tflare;
Mr. P. Harting's 80-Peep. 5 yen 501.., Out 216.... :Kidwell, 4
Mr. Swindell's Little Bob, 2 yre Mi.', let 540 ,car. Bat 7Th)
French) 5
Mr. Watts' Soapy lam, 6 yen (501. ) gat 4th 'Bherrard) 6
Betting : 6 to 4 on Little Bob, 2to ! Agit Fanscombe,
4 to 1 agst Emotion. Won by a length ; three lengths
between the second and third. The winner was sold to
Viscount St. Vincent for 54 guineas.
HER 1411J1511TT'S PLATE of 100 guineas • 3-vr-olds, Bst 21b;
four, 9st 416; firs, gat Sib ; six and aged, fist 1116. About
two miles.
Mr. Hazon's Defender, by Melbourne, 4 yrs, OM 416
Mldgley 1
Mr. G. Lambert's Clydesdale, 5 yrs, 9st Mb.... floater.
Mr. Newland's Philo onels, 3 yrs. Est Sib sharpe 3
WeatlnTbound also ran.
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Betting :6t04 on Do fender. Bon by six lengths, a bad
third. Weitherbound bolted.

Tl3ll WELTER H.INDICA r of 40 WTI. Certain "Hellen extra.
Gentlemen riders. Professionals Glb extra. About a mile
and a half. (11 sults.)
Viscount :,tt. Vincent's Emotion. by Alarm, 4 yrs. 10,,t,
.Captain Carter' t
Mr. P. Halley's Romeo. surd, Itet
Mr. Charke's Mansell, 4 yrs list fib In. 61b eitra .. 3
The following also ran :—Estella, Longrange, Pilot, and
Dutch Drop.
Betting : Even on Romeo. A deed beat ; liarwell a bed
third. For the deciding. beat Plumb was substituted for
Captain Carter on Emotion, carrying 611. extra. The betting
was Gto4 on Romeo. Won by a length and a half.
Tl4l GalUtD4oll Sraltlin of 3 sore. each, with 30 added,
114 each. About one mile and a ball. (4 subs.)
Captain Anderson's Dumb) Bairn, by Annandale. 4 yrs.
list Maptaln Weather:UP I
Mr. Foringtmo's Dove, 4 yrs. list 'Owner, 2
Tie following also ran :—Brends, and Dutch Drop.
Won easily.

CRICKRT. —M. C.C. AND GROUND T. ELZVLW Corps.
This match was brought to a conclusion vesterday at Lord's ;
the Colta winning by 17 runs. The following is the score :
Cotta, lit innings, 171; 2nd innings, 70. 11. C. C., lst
ioaiuys, 108 2nd innings, 117.--Eluiturr r.
The •; ia the result of this contest, finished on
Wednesday at Brighton : Surrey, let insinp, 284 ; Sussex,
lit inninp, 19; 2nd innings, 142.
LAND rot' Rine Psecrics—Tho following is
the chief clause of the new set fm facilitating the acquisi-
tion by rile volunteer corps of grounds for ride practice :
" Any rifle volunteer corps may purchase or acquire by
such peon as are hereinafter mentioned any land for rids
practice, anti for the erection of butts and other accomoda-
tions for the We of the coma when practising with rides,
subject to the following restrictions : that the anent of
her Majesty s principal Secretary of State for the War De-
partment for the time being, hereinafter (silted the and
principal secretary, shall be obtained to the pa/-
chase of any land under the powers of this a
or to the grant of any laud by any person or body of
person, in pursuance of the powers hereinafter given:
that, in addition to such anent, the sanction of parlia-
ment shall be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned,
before it shall be lawful for any volunteer corps to put ha
force such provisions of the acts hereinafter incorporated me
relate to the purchase and taking of lauds otherwise than
by agreement."

.G, JUL'

lab) *ateMacrae.
EQUITY COURTS.—Jtax 18.
Wore ilareburnilor Mr IL T. Hindersley.)

FAWCETT W. UV= AND OTICIIIL-TILL UNION BANE

Mr. Glasse and Mr. Bateemoued for an injunction to restrain
the Umbels, the direeten al the Union Bank of London,
from making or way dividend to the shareholders,
the hill alleging that 1,1.. a. of George Poillogeri by
which • lom of 952,0001. had been sustained, had arisen
through tlis wilful neglect and default of the directors.
The hewing of the cam was not concluded, but will be re
sumed tomorrow (this moaning), and we therefore reserve
• more detailed report.

INSOLVINT DIEBTORS COURT.—JOLT 18.
(Before the Chief Commierioner.)
U JOHN HINVENS—JUDONENT PHI MAUD.

This insolvent, • wine merchant in George-street, Port.
manageare, appeared for judgment. Mr. Way appeared
on • former occasion for Mr. John Reed Wright, distiller ;
and Maws. Jenkins, cigar makers, opposed in person. Mr.
Macrae re
The ocenStri the part of Mr. Wright was that the
insolvent increased his debt by • vexatious defence to
his action ; and it wee complained by Messrs. Jenkins that
the insolvent had obtained 1431. worth of cigars from them
in &fraudulent manner.
. . . . .

The Chief Commissioner reviewed the principal fea-
tures of the case, and pee • general judgment of five
months ; and at the suit of Mr. Wright, a judgment of
nine months for • vexatious defence ; and at the suit of
Messrs. Jenkins, a judgment of twelve months for fraud.
The judgments are concurrent from the vesting order in
March.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRMIT.—CoiLmsroRD, JULY 18.

Cnown urns—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)
Jaws Bowk,U, 23, labourer, was charged with feloniously
diverting and altering a signal on the Eastern Counties
Railway, with intent to obstruct the engines and
travelling upon the line, and to endanger the safetYlare
Mr. prosecuted prosecuted on behalf of the Eastern Counties
Railway Com y.
It from the evidence of • signal-man named
F ^ at the Cheeterford station, that at forty minutes
past eleven at night on the 13th of March, a meat train from
Norwich arrived at that station, and he put on the red
light, or danger signal, as • warning to all other trains not
to come up while this train was at the station. The rival is
worked by a wheel, and, very fortunately, shortly afterwards
French heard the wheel creak, and so it to be one
of his mates who was moving it, he ed out that he had
put on the danger signal, and went towards the signal-post,
and he there saw the prisoner in the act of moving
the signal, and he bad already changed the red
light, and had put on the green, which denoted caution to
any approaching train. The proper signal was immediately
replaced, and the prisoner was taken into custody ; and on
his being asked how he came to meddle with the signal, he
made no reply. It appeared that within • very short time
a meat train from Peterborough, a second meat train from
Norwich, and also • mail train, would have been due at the
Chenterford Station, and if the alteration of the signal had
not, providentially, been discovered, the most du/Axons
conaequencee might have tinned. The prisoner did not
appear to have even attempted to deny that he committed
the act imputed to him, or to have given any explanation
of his reasons for it. It was the opinion of the witneeses
that the prisoner intended to have put on the white, or
all-right signal, in which ease any approaching train would
have dashed into the stationary train and caused serious
mischief.

The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, replied
that he had nothing to may.
The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, called the atten-
tion of the jury to the statute under which the indictment
against the prisoner was framed, and said that whatever
their opinion might be of the wickedness of his act, or
the serious consequences that might have resulted from it,
still they could not convict him, unless they were of
opinion that the evidence made out that he committed the
act with the intention to obstruct the trains, and to do
mischief. His lordship then called their attention to the
evidence, and said it was clear that while one train was
stopping at the station, and the danger signal had, very
properly, been put up, the prisoner had lunged the sigmt4
at a time when several other trains were expected ; and be
said he could not understand what other reasonable infe-
rence could be drawn from each a proceeding than an in-
tention to cause mischief ; and if the jury cants to the same
opinion, it would be their duty to convict the prisoner.
The jury, after • short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guilly; and evidence was then given that the prisoner had
been convicted upon a former occasion of housebreaking,
and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
The Lord Chief Justice, in passing sentence, said that
the prisoner bad been convicted of altering and diverting a
signal light upon • railway, with the intention of causing
injury or damage to the carriages or the persons travelling
in them, and it seemed to him from the evidence that the
act could not possibly be assigned to any other motive than
to cause mischief. His act might not only have been the
means of causing great destruction of property, but also the
destruction of human lif and he could not imagine what
had iuduccd him to be guilty of such a wicked sad malicious
proceeding. He felt it duty to pass such • sentence u
was likely to deter others from committing such an offence,
and one that would also give him the opportunity of reflect-
ion upon the wickedness of his conduct. He then sentenced
the prisoner to twelve months' hard labour.
Mr. Justice Blackburn was engaged yesterday in trying
special jury cases. The two fleet were questions of right of
way, both of which were referred. The causes that were
disposed of were utterly devoid of interest.

OXFORD CIRCIIIT.—WORCSSTER, JULY 17.
(Before Xr. Justice Hill.)

Davie r. DOWTORD.—BILLACH OF PROMIBL OP MARRIAGE.
This was as action for breach of promise. Mr. Serjeant
Pigott and Mr. Gray for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Ruddleston,
Q.G., for the defendant.
The plaintiff, a good-looking young woman, daughter of
• cordwainer at Worcester, sued the defeinLint, a young
farmer, for breach of promise, under the following circum-
stances :- -The parties met by accident at Worcester Races,
in July, 11456. Mr. Bomfoid, smitten by her appearance,
addressed her, and politely asked to be allowed to make her
a small present. With some little coyness she assented,
and he then gave her an embossed card, with the words
" perpetual constancy" on it. This led to a sinallfiirtation, and
the defendant asked her for her address, at the same time
giving her his. She declined at that time, but ultimately
furnished it to him. On the 12th July, about • week after
the first meeting, he wrote her a letter requesting her to
meet him at the railway station at 7.40 next evening. She
went, accompanied by bet father and mother, whom she in-
troduced to him, and they all went to the parents' house.
From that time frequent letters plumed between them, those
of the defendant gradually increasing in terms of endear-
ment, beginning "My dear Fanny," and vegetating to " my
dearest," "my own sweet life," and so on to the use of double
superlatives. These contained the usual ardent avowals of
infatuated lovers, were full of expressions of the hopes,
fears, pains, pleasures, sorrows, and joys of love,
with "thousanils of kisses," and so on to the
end of the chapter, which lasted just • year.
In the later of these epistles be expresses his fear of "the
governor's resistance to Lis suit, and in the last be
requests the plaintiff to meet him on the Sunday next after
the 4th September (1857). She met him, and at that in.
terview he informed her that he had told his father that he
bad broken off the suit, and gave her back her letters,
asking her to return his, that he might show them to his
father to convince him that lie had given her up. She de-
clined to do this, however, stating that if she did so she
would have nothing to remember him by, and it would be
giving him up altogether. Soon after this the young lady
saw him paying marked attentions to another woman, and
sent him a letter on the subject, at which he took offence,
and finally broke off the acquaintance. This was in DIM,
and the defendant in December last married a young lady,
school governess, on which this action was brought.
The witnesses called to promo the above facts were the
father and mother of the plaintiff, her brother, and a
fourth witness. . .

The father and mother deposed to actual promises of mar-
riage made to their daughter by the defendant. On crow-
examination they admitted that the plaintiff had been pre-
viously " engaged" to Mr. Skinner, a young tanner, of
St. John's, near Wormater, and that having at the end
of that time broken his engagement, an action was com-
menced koinst him, whirl, he settled by a pnyineut 1.4 541
for damages and costs. The match with the " old love"
was broken off only three mouth. before the lady was "on
with the new"—i. e., three months before Worcester Races
of VIM',

Mr. !lurid(erten, for defendant, contended that the court-
ehlp (he denied any actual promise) had been broken oil
by mutual consent of the parties. He called no witnesses.
The jury, after a abort coniultation, returned a verdut
fee the deteDdist.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yonx, JULY 18.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron Wilde.)
THE NULL MURDER.

.....
Thomas Kiektrood, 30, was charged with the wilful mur-
der of Elizabeth Ann Parker, at Hull, on the 2.3 rd of April
Mr. Thompson endldr. Lewin; prosecuted ; Mr. Seymour
and Mr. WoOdy defended the prisoner.
Kirkwood, when arraigstedi pleaded "Not guilty" in a
firm voice, but was evidently itupremotl with a due *came of
the awful position In which ho wan planed. During the
proceedings he held his head on his 'breast, and scarcely
looked up during the whole of the trial.
The prisoner is a soldier in the 29th Regiment of Foot,
and in April last, the time when the murder took
Owe, be was staying at Hull, absent from his
mgintent on furlough. The deceased, Elizabeth Ann
Parker, was a widow, and livnl with her mother, him.
Sleight, in Dasisy.coart, New (George-street. The mother
and daughter were acquainted with the prisoner, and for
the first period of time that he was in Hull he lodged in
their house. In consequence, however, of the pri.oner'a
lengtlitned absentee from his minuet Mrs. Sleight was
appreilit naive that he had imiesed his period of furlough,

1860.
,

and that in consequenoe al width she was liable to be pa•
naked for harbouring • deserter. Sbe was therefore
anxious to get rid of her, and he accordingly, in obedience
to her expressed wish left her house and went to live with
a person named Taylor. After he left the house of de-
Onlfilld's mother, end went to lodge with Taylor, be
still continued his visits to the former. There was no
reason to believe that the prisoner went there for the
purpose of paying his addressee to Mrs. Parker, it was
merely to peas away his time. On Monday morning, the
23rd of April LA, Kirkwood went to the house of a
neighbour of Mrs. Parker, and there stayed a short time,
smoking a pipe of tobacco. This was about eleven o'clock.
A short time after he left the house in question and pro-
ceeded to that of the deceased. A little time after be did
so a woman, named Bowman, who resided near the house of
Mrs. Parker, had her attention aroused by hearing a noise as
of scuffling going on outside. She opened the door and then
pteosived that the prisoner and deceased were struggling
together, the latter calling out "murder" es loudly as she
could. She also observed that the hands of the deceased
were smeared with blood. The prisoner, after • slightly
prolonged struggle, succeeded in making his escape, and
reached the house of Mr. Taylor. An alarm was of course
raised, and on examining the spot where the struggle had
taken place the blade of a razor was found covered with wet
blood. The haft was &Doreen's fnund, and from
this circumstance it would be proved that the razor
was the property of Mr. Taylor, who had lent it to
the prisoner on the previous day to:- the purpose of shaving.
Extensive wounds were found on each side of the sed
neck, from which the effusion of blood was very great.
The bleeding was stanched and stimulants administered,
but the shock to her system, together with the loss of blood,
was so severe, that she died about two o'clock on the same
day, having first made a statement, which would be put in
as evidence against the prisoner. The prisoner left his
lodgings at an unusually early hour on the morning of the
murder, and he wee nut seen until about eleven o'clock, the
time when the deceased was wounded. When he returned
to Taylor's house it was noticed that he had a bloody hysd-
kerchief bound round his left hand, and his right
also was covered with blood. When taken into custody
the primmer appeared affected with liquor, which he seemed
to have taken freely of after the murder. The state in
which the prisoner was when taken into custody increased
to such a degree of wildness that he had to be kept in con-
finement until he bad recovered his senses, and was in a
proper state to be taken before the magistrates. The i-
smer had expressed considerable ill-will to the deceased, in
ocusequence, he alleged, of • slight she bad put upon him.
Witnesses having deposed to the above facts,
Mr. Seymour addressed the jury for the prisoner, urging
that at the time the fatal act was committed his mind was
not in such • state as to render him responsible for his actions.
The prisoner had been for years in India es • soldier, and
bad had • sun•stroke, and also • fever. During the whole
time he was in the army be was considered a strange being.
He bad been in the habit of rising from a sleepless bed,
fighting with unseen enemies, and had on one or two occa-
sions suddenly seized persons and threatened to murder
them, when they had been sitting quietly in his presence.
All these circumstances the learned counsel put to the
juicy tes conclusive evidence of the insanity of the prisoner.
Witnesses were being examined for the defence when our
parcel was despatched.