The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

TER EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4,185 g.

alarm, but raising none himself, and did not stop
t ahe got back to the house at Ballinderry. There
be found CAMPION writing, and told him that
his aunt was shot. CAMPION rushed up
at once to proceed to the spot—" Don't
"go, Mr. CAMPION, they will shoot you—they
" are there still," exclaimed the courageous Mr.
Grottos &writes. " You dirty coward," was the
very proper rejoinder, and away went CAMPION to
the scene of the murder. Arrived there, be found
OR the spot a man named FLOOD, who had previously
warned both him and Mrs. KELLY that it would be
most unsafe far either of them to make their appear-
ance at Ballinderry. To this man, with the corpse
lyingbefore him,CAMPION esid,as STREVENS came in
sight, " This is the man that got it done ;" and to
SvarseNs himself he said, when he came up, "Well,
"Mr. STREVENS, how was this job done? where did they
" come from or where did they go to ? When you
" say th.y did not pursue you any more" (STRE-
YENS had told him this at the house) " you were
" not the man they wanted to shoot." These were
the words which formed the subject of the action for
slander. It was alleged that by these words CAM-
PION had insinuated that BTREVENB had conspired
with the two unknown aassasina to procure the murder
both of Mrs. Baur and of himself. The latter
part of the insinuation CAMPION denied: the former
he freely admitted, and declared it to have been his
solemn belief at the time the words were spoken.
He declared this with a passionate earnestness and
amidst a bunt of agonising tears called forth appa-
rently by the vivid recollection of the horrible scene
in which he had uttered them—the bloody corpse of
his benefactress at his feet, the object of his terrible
suspicion quailing, as he declared, beneath his
fixed gaze.
Such was the cause of action ; the words and
their imputed meaning being admitted, the only
question was as to the measure of damages, and this
turned entirely on the point whether CAMPION, full
regard being had to all circumstances of place and
time, had given vent to these expressions from a
malicious desire to injure, or from a sincere conviction
founded on probable ground, though not necessa-
rily correct, that STREVENS had been an accomplice
in his aunt's assassination. The CHIEF BARON pre-
sented this question very fairly to the mind of the
Jury. What they had to determine, he told them,
was this : " Whether at the time, and regard being
" had to all the circumstances, there was reasonable
" and probable cause for CAMPION to form a belief
" that the plaintiff was implicated in this unhappy

transaction. It was not for them to determine

" whether anything existed in the case to fix
" suspicion upon OzonGE STIEVENS." The answer
of the Jary was a verdict for the plaintiff, with
sixpence damages and sixpence coats. In other words,
they found that the words had been spoken as
alleged; they found that they had been spoken with
the meaning imputed, but that at the time when they
were spoken such reasonable ground of suspicion
existed that the character of Mr. SrazveNs had
only received sixpenoyworth of damage by the open
and public expression of that opinion. In this find-
ing of the jury we think all attentive readers of the
evidence will emphatically concur. The secret of
Mrs. KELLY'S assassination has not yet been
unravelled, but the character of her nephew's con-
duct, as the unresisting witness of that foul crime,
has undoubtedly laid him open, however unde-
servedly, to the meet odious of suspicions.

SOUTH NOZTHAMPTONSTIIRE ELECTION.—As yet
no conservative hes publicly announced himself In apparition
to Lord Healey. The name of J. E. Severne, Esq., of Then.
fold, bee beet oublished u likely to come forward, but
without enfbcient warrant. After due deliberation, a con-
servative candidate has been selected in the pigeon of Colonel
Henry Cartwright, son of the late Win. Ralph Carhrright,
EN., who /ono y years represented the county. Colonel
Cartwright will have the full support of his party, and the
battle will be fought in earnest.

A LADY AMONGST " N 000119." The sort of
material upon which this lady (Hies Harsh) bad to work
may be conjectured if we give the idea of heaven which
entered into the mind of one of these roughs. " I wonder,
Bill, whether it le tree what they say of heaven being so
happy—whether, now, it can be happier than sitting in the
public over • good jug of ale, with a Sidle going? I don't
know a niftier* ascomes up to that." Another honest fellow
fancied that heaven must be very like the sitting room of the
lady who bad been so kind to him ; the description is delight-
fully simple —" She had me into • sitting-room, and it was
just like heaven; such a sight of books, and Rich a large
dinner-table." The &whores' went among these people,
invited them to tea parties, read with them, gave
them Bibles and Testaments, wrote letters for
them,, wrote letters to them, and attended to a
thousand little wants u women only can. Oran-
ally these uncouth navvies were tamed, were re-
formed, left tiestoiqic-house, came to the church,
end both while at the Crystal Palace, and when
afterwards markt( the hardships of the trenches,
before fiebeatepti, showed what noble English hearts beat
under the unwieldy frames that contractors and casual ob-
servers regard rather as machines than as mm. One poor
fellow gets a Testament, and he is so overjoyed that he
makes • vow. "Now, ain't it a rare beauty ? cover
it with a slice off my ;met red choker." A semi of them,
having been at a tea party, think themselves bound in honour
to go to church. "It would look so es if we only came for
tea and cake." These tes•partke have their little quartele,
however, which end in rnunanimous reconciliations.
Paget tells the lady how indignant he is with George,
" because he said at the works as I stole a medal off
your Christman tree that last tea patty you vs
ne." George defends himself by saying, What
had he to say that I drank ten cups of tea and ate seven
bits of cake at your tea-meeting? I didn't say he stole the
medal. I said I seed two medals in his hand, end never
seed him put down neither." So these simple fellows break
each other's hurts, and shake hands again, better friends
than ever. A few pages further on we come to another
scene, in which the lady is requested by a navvy to write
to his wife, with whom he has quarrelled. She wrote from
his dictation three or four pages of explanatkin and remon-
'trance. He then paused, and the lady asked if he any-
thing more to say—" Nothing more, ma'am, thank you."
"Then bow wont.' you like to conclude?' "Not
to conclude yet, if you please. Please, ma'am, would
yea work up her feelings a bier A great weber
of these navvies seemed to be quarrelling with their
wives, and one of them (a bachelor) gave his idea of matri-
mony in unmistakeable terms. The authoress had been pay-
ing to some men money which they had entrusted to her, sad
said, " You see what a good thing it is to save your
instead of spending it recklessly." " Yea," said Ed=
" if I had laid by, I might have had enough to have bought
a wife with." " Ifs woman is to be bought, Edward, she is
not worth having." " Ab, that's true ; and Solomon says
they are all vanity and vexation." It is in such unreserved
Intercourse with a lady, whom they at once respect and love,
that the navvy shows to the beat advantage, and we hope
that in giving these snatches of conversation we indicate in
the most effectual manner how completely this lady won the
confidence of the taboo:ere, end how worthy the art which
she practised is of being followed.—Thera.

STARVATION POINT.—If wo cannot with any
precision say bow long starvation will be in effecting its fatal
end, we can say haw much waste is fatal. From the cele-
brated experiments of Chorea on Inanition, it appears that
death melees whenever the waste reaches an avenge
portion of 0.4. That Ms to say, suppoeing an to
weigh 100 lb., It will succumb whim Its weight is reduced
to 60 lb. Death may, of course, ensue before that point
I. reached, but not he prolonged after it. The average
loss which can be sustained is 40 per cent. ; sometime'
the kiss is greater, especially if the animal be very fat: thus,
in the transactions of the Linnsasn 8o iety, a came is re-
ported of a fat pig which wee buried under thirty feet of
chalk for 160 days ; his weight fell in that period no leme than
7.5 per cent. Curiously enough, as an illustration of whet
wee pat said respectiag time not being an index, fishes and
reptiles were found by Chart to Isaiah at precisely the
same limit of vreiebt as warm-blooded animals, but they re-
quired a period three-and-twenty times se long to do it in:
thus, if the experiment be performed of Marring a bird and
a frog during the warm weather, although both will perish
wiman their loss of weight reaches 40 per cent., the one will
net survive a week, the other will survive three-and-twenty
weeis.—Blsektreed.

Wtt..l.4,ii:Lthe will of the Right Hon. Baronets
Lisle, of Millbrook, Southampton, wads proved la London
under 16,0001. personalty. Admiral Thome' La liarahast
Gosselin, 60.0001. George Braithwaite Lloyd, leg., beaker,
Paik-hill, Yardley Woroester, 30,0001. Joseph
Good, Esq , Kensington Palace-green, 25,0001. F=
Maws% Ksq., New-maare, Lincoln's-Inn, 20,0004 Charlet
Craddock, RN. Cliapelidaoe, Cavendish-square, 30,000 i.
John Schofield, 'Esq , Old Kent-read, 25,0001. Miss Yes.
tie, of Combridmetsrrece. Hyde-perk, 14,1001. ; and has
bequeathed to the loyal Foes irpthil, 3001. ; Sellars'
Home, 3001. ; Mendlcity ,20W. ; Cruelty to Animals,
2001. The personal gads is of the late Duchess&
Neuman were administered to =doe 12,0001.-111estrated
New.

fax Court.

WINDSOR, SAX. 2.

Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included
the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge and the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Leiningen,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Geraldine Somerset, Lady
Caroline Barrington, Lady Augusta Bruce, Major-General
the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir George
Cooper, Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., Major Home Parsee,
Colonel Tyrwhitt, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. Glover.

The band of the Scots Ftwilier °nerds was in attendance
in the Castle, and played during dinner the

Grand March, L'Enfant di ;France" M. Daises Bright.
Overture,': Die Fauberflota" Mozart .

Val" ".Marlis" Ciongl.
Balratioe, "PPM" Bpobr.
Polka, 'Portia"
. Bultag.

Matta, " La Traysta"

The following had the honour of being invited in the
evening :—Lord and Lady Rokeby, the Hon. Mrs. Welles-
ley, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Mira Barrington, the Hon. Mrs•
and Mies Phipps, Kies Sayer, Mum Knollys, Mrs. Bathurst,
Lady Coupe, Mr. and Mrs J. Cooper, and Lieutenant
Cowell, R.E.

Her Majesty's private Land performed in the drawing-
room the

Overturn " La Bayadere"
Solo violin, Master J. Sine, air Tarte,
No. 6
Aufforderunn gum Tana
Finale, " Die luatigen Wilber Von _
__ _

I - - -
Otto Nicolal.
Seine de Dann, " Le Bayaders" Auber.
The Queen, with the Princess Royal, drove and walked in
the Home Park Ibis morning.
The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Duke of Cam-
bridge and the Prince of Leiningen, went out shooting.
The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary took leave
of her Majesty and left the Castle, in the forenoon, attended
by Lady GeraMiee Somerset and Major Home Purees.
The Duke of Oarabridge returned to London in the after-
noon, attended by Cekniel Tyrwhltt.
Prince Alfred arstved on Thursday from Alverbankt
attended by Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., and returned again
to-day.

The Bishop of London arrived thla afternoon one visit, and
dined with her Majesty in the evening. The party oleo in-
cluded the Ditcher of Kent, the Princes, Royal, Lady Anna
Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Brut*, Lord sad Lady
Rokeby, the Dean of Windsor and the Hog. Mrs. Wellesley,
Sir James Clark, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C B.
The bend of the Royal Horse Guards played daring dinner
Overture, " Tatman "
Selection, " Trovatre" Verdi.
Vales, " Primrose
Duet, " Maris de llama"
The Queen's, private band played in the Drawing-room
Overture, " Zwelkampf "
Romance, " Joseph" Mahal.
Souvenirs de la France
Jew. 3.

The Queen end Prince Consort, the Prince of Wal s,
the Princess Royal, Princess Helena, and the Duchess of
Rent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic
household, attended divine service this morning in the
private chapel. The Bishop of London preached the
sermon.

Despatches he the Governors of the Mauritius, Ceylon, and
Hoag Kong were sent on Saturday from the Colentil-dam

PESTIT:IL DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL ENTRE-

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

RUSSIA.

' Pd. 13107YERIO mid he did not desire to irritate the priest-
hood, bat to control It. He wee glad that the clergy had
returned their partisans, for the fact had aroused the country
from its lethargy and forced the ministry to march in the
path of progress. The clergy had abused the name of
heaven and the authority of the gospel to weigh
upon the elections, and had endeavoured to establish
a theocracy in the country. The conduct of the priests
brought them within the purview of the Civil Cods, articles
1,196 and 1,199, against violence and threats to intimidate
electors. He concluded by an impaaaioned appeal to the
ministry to put itself at the head of the movement against
the action of the clergy.
After a few words from Canon SOOOl RI, the debate was
adjourned.

A telegram from Turin states that a motion of
Count Cavour's, for an inquiry into the conduct of
the clergy daring the late election, was carried by a
large mnjority-88 votes against 35.