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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.

EARLY in the morning of Wednesday, the 24th
of July last, a woman sleeping in oae of the
houses which border the canal at Limehouse was
roused by screams and cries proceeding from the
opposite bank. The exclamations, uttered in a
strong female voice, " You -, you are murder-
" ing me !" " Murder!" and " They are murdering
" me!" were heard by the listener, who, after ton
minutes' consideration, rose from her bed, looked
across the canal, and then composed herself
quietly to sleep again. Her husband, who was
lying by her side, slumbered undisturbed, and she
did not wake him. A watchman, whose beat lay
in that neighbourhood, hoard at the same time what
be describes as the cry of a woman, apparently
in great distress. "It was a prolonged cry, but
" a distinct one, and it became fainter," he arys,
"as I went along." "It was as if a person were
" being strangled." The witness walked in the
direction from which the sounds proceeded,
and finding that all was quiet returned
to his beat. A third witness deposes to
have heard the same sounds at the same
time. Cries of people in distress, as the constable
explained, are not unusual in Limehouse, since
in that district the people live in a state of license
and violence which is constantly on the verge of
murder, and which may at any moment pass it.
Such cries appear to attract little notice. If the
policeman had discharged the duties of his office,
or the witnesses had fulfilled the obligations of
humanity, a great crime might have been pre-
vented, or, at any rate, the covert in which a
great criminal has vainly tried to shelter himself
would not have been left free to him. Three
hours later, at ten minutes to five, shouts of
murder were again heard from the same quarter as
before; and as the time was approaching when their
own business takes people from their beds, they
this time attracted some attention. They pro-
ceeded from the first of a row of houses called Tem-
perance-cottages, in Lower North-road. The house
was occupied by a lighterman named JOHN WIO-
GINS, by his father and mother, and by a young
woman, Auszs OAKS, who lived with him as his
wife. On the occasion of the second alarm, the
younger WIOOTNN was seen sitting on a chair, in
the street, holding his hand to his throat ; his
father stood undressed at the window crying
" Murder !" The young man presently proceeded
to the next cottage to rouse his neighbour.
His wife, he said, " Had been and cut his
" thread:, and her own, too." When the neigh-
bours entered, the body of Access Omcs was
found lying on the hearth-rug, her head on a
pillow under a chair, the middle rail of which was
over her chin. On her throat was an extensive
jagged wound, four or five inches in length, and
about, two inches and a half in depth. It divided
the carotid artery, both jugular veins, and the
windpipe, and wounded the bone of the spine. At
the time of the discovery of the body, which fol-
lowed immediately upon the second cries of
murder, there was no pulsation of the heart,
and the legs were cold. The surgeon, Mr.
HORTON, who examined it less than half an
hour after the alarm had been given, declares
that when he saw it the woman must have
been dead at least two hours, and possibly more
than that. Professor TAYLOR, who speaks, how-
ever, on the authority of Mr. HORTON'R descrip-
tion, and not front personal inspection, thinks that
the time cannot have been less than from three to
five hours. All the medical witnesses agree that
the principal wound might by bare possibility
have been self-inflicted by a powerful woman
in a state of delirium or frenzy. But
death must necessarily have followed in • few
seconds, during which the woman might have had
strength to move a few steps and to throw herself
forward. The position in which the body was
discovered, its head on the pillow and the pillow
supported on the rail of a chair, was relied on by
the prosecution to rebut the supposition that it
had fallen in the attitude in which it was found.
The blood on the woman's throat half an hour
after the alleged suicide was already dark and
coagulated, and that on her chemise, which was
torn, as also that on the floor and walls of the

room, was dry. The statement of the prisoner is, I
sith. r T—l-
his
that on the morning on which " the accident hap-
" pened " he was lying down asleep on the hearth- I nec--411t-a.
rug. His paramour, with whom he had been
living unhappily, and to whom he had refused
forgiveness, was sitting behind him. She had
promised to call him. He was awakened by find-
ing her sawing at his throat, from which blood
was flowing, with a knife which she had in her
right hand, while she held him down with her
left. He pushed her from him, receiving in so
doing a slight cut on his thumb, and entering an
adjoining room, gave the alarm to his father and
mother. He then went down stairs, but hearing
his mother's voice crying, "My boy, she has cut
" her throat ! " returned, and found the deceased
sitting against the wall. " Blood was coining
" from her throat as thick as his thumb." Ac-
cording to one of his statements she had the point
of the knife in her throat, and was in the act o:
turning it round. The prisoner's wound, which
was not of a serious character, right, or
might not, the medical witnesses say, have been
'elf-inflicted. The red handkerchief which he
wore was cut through in more than sixteen folds.
But these folds were meet of them bloodless. If
the bloody knife, as it was drawn back, had passed
through the handkerchief, it must have transferred
the blood to it. The fo'da must, therefore, accord-
ing to the testimony of all the medical witnesses,
have been cut when the handkerchief was not upon
the prisoner's neck. Indeed, they were on a part
of the handkerchief which, when it was folded.
would not have covered the wound in his
throat. The one or two drops of blood which
were there must have been dry, Dr. TAYLOR
alleges, when the folds were cut. All these
things, the first cries of distress, the rigidity
of the deceased's body at the time when it
was discovered, the attii.ndo in which it was
found, the fact that the blood in the room was
dry, and the circumstance that the prisoner's
handkerchief seems to have been deliberately
pierced for the purpose of deception, are incon-
sistent with his story ; and between his story and
the theory of the prosecution there is no third
hypothesis conceivable or maintainable. The con-
jecture that ho may have slain t*.,,e woman in
passion is unsupported, and affords small palliation
of the crime. Passion seems less a feature of the
man's nature than stolid brutality anu low cun-
ning. As gratuitous is it to suppose that the fatal
blow was given in self-defence. The recency of
the man's wound and the pierced but b'oodless
handkerchief militate against this theory, which
sacrifices a second time the fame of the victim to
her seducer—the murderer at once of her repu-
tation and her life. A reasonable motive fur the
crime, or strong provocation to it, is not discover-
able. Their absence increases the enormity of
his guilt, and does rot throw doubt on its reality.
Unhappy feelings had arisen between the wretched
pair, and he had trea.ed her cruelly. Revenge
and hatred might more justly have been enter-
tained on her side than on his. But it
is as true now as it was in the days of
Tscrrrs, that men hate more those whom they
have injured than from nhom they have suffered
wrong. The prisoner's guilt results from the refu-
tation of his own deence. A worse murder has
seldom been perpetrated. Cruel as it was, the
attempt to throw the reproach of a double crime
upon the unhappy victim was as cruel. The
odious cunning of the contri /since. which occupied
the two or three hours that intervened between
tL.e black deed and the false alarm deserves a high
rank among the moat diabolic ingenuities of cold-
blood wickedness. No human eye can discover
extenuating circumstances in the Limehouse
murder. The recommendation of the jury to
mercy deserves regard rather as a protest against
capital punishment, than as based upon anything
mitigating the enormity of the crime.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

DAY.)

The nnits thinks it more than likely Garibaldi
reckoned on the contingency of his arrest ; though had
Rattaui not interfered with him he would by this time be
at Rome, alive or dead. No 'theme could be more pro-
pitious to him than an early convocation of parliament
which is spoken of, as his cause is the cause of the Italian
people and their government. The enormity of the An-
tibes Legion, and the recruiting which is done by the
French bishops, would all be considered, and a revision of
the September Convention be proved essential.
In another article the Times, refening to Working Men's
Conservative Associations, suggests that conservatives
might render some service if they would find out principles
of union something better than mere abuse of Lord
Russell and the whigs. University extension and the con-
dition of country workhouse are the other topics discussed.
If Garibaldi has gone to Caprera voluntarily, we may be
sure, the Daily New thinks, that he has received assur-
ances, probably by the mouth of the Minister of Marine,
who made the journey to Alessandria to see him, that
the cause of the Romans shall not suffer thereby. The
Italian government can only hops to escape irons its per-
plexing position by procuring such a revision of the Sep-
tember Convention as will obtain for the Romans the
right to support, reform, or remove their own government
independent of foreign control, or it will be constantly ex-
posed to danger of civil war. If M. Rattazzi is unequal to
the occasion he will soon have to =render his position to
some one else,

Discusaing the later Alabama correspondence, published
by the New York papers, the Daily .Y, s.. points out the
favourable view which is now taken in the New York press
of the progress of the negotiations and to other indications
et a healthy tone of feeling in America. The only point
now remaining is the reference to an arbitrator of the
conduct of the British government in recognising the
secessionists as belligerents. If it appears important to
Mr. Seward to insist on that, the Daily New believes the
British public would be prepared to say—loaf him insist ;
let him go before the arbitrator and make what he can Cf
his complaint.

The Mandan'. en the awns subject, indulges M.
Seward with latkoage formerly reserved for Mr. Glad-
stone. His reasonings are almost impudently perrerse
and untruthful, his comparisons el►borately insulting. It
is to President Johnson that England owes personal grati-
tude. America as a country has done far less than her
duty.

The handcuffing of the Manchester prisoners is referred
to by some of the papers. The Port ridicules the objec-
tion. The T,tacroph says that if the aim of Mr. Coning-
ham and Mr. Ernest Jones bad been to let their clients
escape by means of a rescue—if they had wished the court
to be the scene of another Fenian outrage—if they had
been determined to make blood again flow on the streets
of Manchester, they could not base acted differently. As
for Mr. Jones, the only good that he did to his clients
was to retire from the defence ; for the barrister who could
so misconduct • case would go far to have hanged even
innocent men through sheer mismanagement. The Star,
on the other hand, thinks the practice of bringing a pri-
soner in chains before an English court is revolting, and
rejoices that Mr. Jones had the courage to rebuke the
bench for departure from established precedents. The
presence of military officers on the bench, the Star con-
siders, was an unseemly spectacle.

seem.

which, while it nowhere asserts the lafialibility of gyp'
ture,ldoes:strennously assert the felinity of the church
itself, and of Its general columns.

The September Convention having been rigidly observed
by Italy, it Is now the turn of France, the Saturday Re-
view says, to observe it herself more rigidly than recent
performances of French generals have seemed to promise
on her behalf. If Lord Stanley is indulging himself, as
would appear from M. Renter's dreary telegrams, in letter-
set:Vag on the subject of Rome, it is desirable that be
should remember that Mr. Diareeli's theories on the sub-
ject of Italian unity are not opinions which an English
House of Commons will for a single instant permit its
Foreign-office to express. The hour is not come for Italy
to take Rome, still less for General Garibaldi to march
thither to the sound of a cheering mob ; but the catholic
and separatist policy of France is one in which English-
men take no interest, and which a tot/ cabinet, unless
it has gone mad mince the prorogation of parliament, had
better not touch even with the tongs.
The issue of a Lambeth encyclical, condemning this error
and refuting that heresy, would be so foolish an act, that
the Saturday Renew is sure the English bishops will not
accept such a mischievous course. The bait is rather too
staring and coarse. If the bishops have neither the power
nor the inclination to wield the crozier of Athanaaius and
to settle all religious differences in three days, they are at
least wise enough not to pretend to this superhuman folly.
If they do little and conclude little in conference, so much
the better. AU first steps ought to be tentative; we
must expect false starts.

The Examiner describes the Treaty of Prague as already,
though only a year old, antiquated and obsolete. The
span of its vaunted life has proved more brief even than
that of the elder born of the same p►rentage which came
into the world at Villafranca and at Miramar. At Salz-
burg the Imperial Confederates failed to infuse new courage
into one another ; and after many artious whisperings,
agreed to part smiling, with hands behind the back, and to
say, if asked, that they meant nothing. In a tone of in-
effable cynicism, Count Bismarck quietly observes, " He
hopes so," and provokingly hints that they must see how
foolish it would have been in them to attempt the excogi-
tation of any new anti-national device.
The Chronicle says that the Fenian in Ireland have
resolved not to rise again till an army, fully equipped and
armed, stands on Irish soil to assist them. In all the
counties of England, Wales, and Scotland the association
is much stronger than would be readily supposed. The
Irish support it in larger proportion than at home, and
there is also an English Republican Brotherhood to coun-
tenance and amid it. A severe policy, the Chronicle
thinks, would be useless at borne, and would raise
Fenianism to a pitch of prosperity abroad. The true way
of dealing with Fenianism is to detach popular sympathies
from it, and this can only be done by effecting a complete
change in the condition and the government of Ireland.

To-day her Majesty tho Queen of the Nether-
lands leaves the Grove, near Watford, where her Majesty
has been staying with the Earl sad Countess of Clarendon,
for Knowsley-park, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
Derby.

The Earl and Countess Russell on Wednesday
went to Portlaw, county of Waterford, to examine the
extensive cotton and linen factory of Messrs. Malcolmson,
and the buildings erected in connection with them for the
improvement of the workers. They were ac.ompanied by
the Earl and Countess of Beasborough, Colonel Tighe,
and Lady Louisa Tighe. They also visited the Mayfield
National Schools, and tested the amount of knowledge
acquired by the children. The factory, which occupies a
picturesque site, was erected in 1825 by the late Mr. David
Malcolmson.

The Bishop of London entertained on Thursday
at dinner, at Fulham Palace, the Archbishop of Dublin.
the Bishops of Salisbury, Norwich, Worcester, Llandaff,
St. Asaph, Chester and Mrs. Jacobson, Lincoln, alouoes-
ter, Aigyle and the Isles, Orange River, Coadjutor of New-
foundland, Honolulu, Jamaica, lowa, Assistant of Ohio
and Mrs. Bedele, Arkansas, Indiana, Pittsburg, Tennessee,
Barbadoes, Kilmore, Jerusalem, Christ Church (New Zea-
land), and Anderson, Archdeacon Sinclair, Rev. IL TweUes,
Rev. F. G. Jackson, Rev. E. and Miss Spooner, Mr. John
Hansard, Rev. A. Martineau, Rev. F. G. Blomfield, Rev.
W. H. Fremantle, Rev. E. H. Fisher, &c. Covers were,
AI usual throughout this week, laid for 40 in the great
hall.

The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcoto, Bart,
M.P., has left town for Balmoral, to mioc-ed the Right
Hon. Gatborne Hardy, M.P., u minister in attendance on
the Queen.

The Right Hon. Horatio Waddington has ar-
rived in town from Brighton.

Mr. Pope Hennessy left town on Thuredayeven-
log for Labium, ria Marseilles, and will commence the
duties of governor immediately on his arrival.

The Belfast journals announce that the Lord
Lieutenant will arrive there on Tuesday. Next day his
excellency will proceed with the Harbour Commissioners
for the formal opening of the docks, and atter that cere-
mony will go on board one of the Channel steamers, with
the Harbour Commissioners slid Mends, to inspect the
harbour. In the evening his excellency will be entertained
at a banquet. On Thursday his excellency and suite wi"
be entertained at a dijedner by the mayor and corporation
in the Blusic•halL In the evening his excellency wall be
present at a grand ball to be given by Sir Thomas and
Lady Bateson. On Friday his excellency leaves Belvoir
Park for Belfast, on his return to Baronscourt.

A party of Japanese now in this country paid a
visit to Chatham Dockyard yesterday, by special per-
mission of the Admiralty, and were conducted through
the various establishments by the officials connected with
the several departments.

A new fashionable watering place is about to be
formed at Boldnor, at the south•west corner of the Isle of
Wight. About 100 men will shortly be set at work making
roads and laying out the grounds for the erection of villas.
It is proposed to form an esplanade and a pier.

" It is announced with some parade," says the
Spectator, " that the bread of the episcopal communion
service at Lambeth was made of Bethlehem corn and that
the wine was•product of Jerusalem grapes. We conclude
that this is to be understood as • sort of characteristically
indirect protest against the high semi-transubstantiation
doctrine. It could be no object to thceiewbo believe that the
elements are changed absolutely isto the body and blood of
Chriat, to attenuate as it were the chasm over which this
miracle of transformation carries them, by getting corn
and wine invested with sacred Palestinian someratiom.
If the communion service is held by the bishops to depend
to any appreciable degree for its sacredness on the mere
ise,ciatiOn Of ideas, they approach much nearer to the
Zwinalian conception of It than to the lifulanist.
THE COURT AT BALMORAL.•-011 Monday after-
noon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove
out a few miles in a pony carriale, unattended save by a
footman, who rode behind. This is, perhaps, the first
time since the Prince Consort's death that her Majesty has
gone so far so meagrely attended. On Tuesday forenoon,
her Majesty,acoompanied by Prinoess Louise, and attended
b Lady Churchill and Sir Thomasßiddialph, left Balmoral
Castle, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Rich-
mond. The royal party drove on the road that crosses
the Gain, water to the north, past the old Castle of Cor-
wff on the banks of the Don. At a bridge numed the
Dock Bridge, which crosses the latter stream, the rope,
travellers left their carriages, and mounted ponies that
were in waiting, sod crossed a low chain of the
Grampians, under • smart gale of wind. After eight miles
of billroad thus traversedher Majesty arrived atTon.intoul,
• straggling and not over clean Highland village, and drove
thence through Glenfiddieh, to the Duke of Richmond's
seat, where she was received by the duke and duchess.
The visit will extend to three days, and the
royal party will arrive at Balmoral on Friday evening. On
Tuesday Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold drove through
Btllater to the Vale of Croniar. and paid a visit to Sir
James Clark, late physician to her Majesty, at his seat in
Tillypronie. They arrived at Balmoral late in the after-
noon. The same day Prince Christian went out deer
stalking in Glen Gelder, and had a successful day's sport,
haring brought down two stags. He was accomed
the Princess Christian. On Wednesday, Princepani Chribs-
y
tian, accompanied by Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold,
went out deer stalking in the forest, near Lo
pager, and had • good day's sport. Princess Christian,
accompanied by Princess Louise, his Excellency Mr. Van
de Weyer, Mrs. Van de Weyer, and family, from Aber-
geldie Castle, and Lady Biddulph, went out picnicking on
the heights adjoining the deer forest, The day was ex-
ceedingly fine, and the distinguished party enjoyed them-
selves very highly. Prince Arthur, it is expected, will
leave Balmoral next week, to prosecute his studies at
Woolwich Arsenal. Her Majesty, we believe, will not
visit Blair Athole this season. The return of the court
from Balmoral is at present fixed for the 19th October.—
&Oise's*.

LATEST I N TELLIGENCE.
AIISTRiiN INTERVENTION FOR THE

POPE.

According to information received by the Avrnir
Nutiosta/the Austrian government has actively in-
tervened with the cabinet of Paris on behalf of the
Papacy. A confidential note from M. de Beust
sent a short time ago to Paris recala the engage-
ments which the Emperor Napoleon entered into
at Salzburg for the maintenance of the temporal
power. According to the same note the Italian
government had decided if it were left free
to put an end to the temporal power. It wished
to act by itself, without the aid of Garibaldi. At
Florence an early rising was expected at Rome. I
General Nunzianto has received instructions in
anticipation of such an event. He will enter the
city under the pretext of watching over the
safety of the Pope ; but, once installed, he
will remain there, and the Roman state will be
administered in the name of the King of Italy. All
that will be left to the Pope will be the Vatican
and its environs. This little domain will be neu-
tralised, and will remain under the exclusive sove-
reignty of the reigning Pope. His Holiness's
successor will not keep even this shadow of power ;
his authority will be exclusively spiritual. Such,
according to M. Beust, are the designs of Italy, and
he calls upon the Emperor to counteract them.

(sauna's ruzGßAms.)
ITALY.

FLORENCE, Sm. 27, EVEVING.

The Official Gazette of to-day says that Garibaldi
having expressed a desire to return to Caprera, and
that intention conforming with the wishes of the
government, the ministry at once agreed to it, and
the general left this morning for that island in a
State vessel.

The same paper also explains the circumstances
of the delivery of 21 Roman citizens to the Papal
authorities by the Italian government.

TURIN, SErr. 27, EVENING.

A demonstration took place this afternoon to
present a petition to the Prefect demanding the
release of Garibaldi, and Rome as the capital of
Italy.
The Prefect received the petition, and replied
that ho would forward it to the ministry, where-
upon the demonstration broke up.