The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1866.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Union goverement might cane° the treader provinces of
Mexico to be overrun * American guerillas. That this is
felt in both countries is evident from the anxiety et the
Mexican government; and from the readoess with which
the sews of American interference is believed by all
classes in the Union. But the Timis is still inclined to
think th•t the Federal government will do all in its power
to prevent either forays into Mexican territory or the ass-
eeptaacie of service under Juarez by American dtisens.
Although Mr. Johnson views the mon►rchy with dislike,
and his people are determined that the French shall quit,
there is sufficient temperance of feeling iu the community
to make them bide their time. The publication of the
correspondence between the United States and France
gives further reasons for believing that, in spite of much
excitement in the former country, everything will go well
between the two powers. Indeed, it is probable that a
fair understanding already prevails between Mr. Seward
and M. Drouyn de Lhuys on the subject.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE•

(ircrrzz's ruzaaAm.)

SPAIN.
IiLDSID, Jan. 30, Baum°.
Two Chilian privateers have been seen off the
coast of Spain. The frigate Isabel has received
orders to pursue them.
The insurgents have almost completely disap-
peared from the provinces of Barcelona and Tar-
ragona.
The government has stated in the Senate that it
was desirous of introducing economy in the budget,
but that it would not reduce the army, nor change
1 its organisation.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. the owner of a house, 11, Andover•place, for
sufficient means of ventilation.
(THIS DAY.) Yr. Gifford said smallpox had also visited gor
He said this defendant had large property iv,
bourhood, and there had bees ilium of

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(Before Mr. Justice Willis.)
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THE MURDER IN SOUTHWARK.
George Crane, 46, a ruffianly-looking fellow, described
as a labourer, was charged with the wilful murder of
Anne Carr, by kicking and otherwise illtreating her.
Mr. G. Griffiths prosecuted. The prisoner was defended
by Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Straight. i MARLBOROUGMSTREET.
The learned counsel for the prosecution, having briefly I THI CHARGE OF CAUSING TRH DEATH or As_
adverted to the serious character of the charge against the ' Charles Fisher, cab-driver, charged oak ..„:1,
prisoner, and urged the jury not to allow anything they had death of a man by knocking him down with [44._g lle
heard or read in reference to the case to operate upon their cab, again appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt, t.,_. enieln
minds, proceeded to state the circumstance* of the charge. on bad since last week.
The prisoner was what is called an omnibus tout, and he ; The evidence showed that the deceased while is s
cohabited with the deceased woman at a house in George- of intoxication stepped from between the robe Ng*
street, Southwark, and she passed as his wife. On the in Tottenham-court-road, when he was Wow,
9sh of January the deceased appeared to have come home the accused's horse and cab, and was afterwards'
somewhat the worse for liquor, but otherwise in good ' Police-constable Nichols, 89 E, to the Uz
health and spirits, and she was singing. She went to bed • where he shortly. expired.
and shortly afterwards the prisoner came home and sent Nichols now informed the magistrate that
one of the lodgers fora pot of beer. After he had drunk had beenheld, sad a verdkit of •, accideataidnue
soma of the beer he went into the room where the de- Mr. Tyrwbitt said he was glad the jury big
creased was in bed, and almost immediately afterwards the view of the matter that he had, ea he felt ft
prisoner was heard to say, " Get up you drunken —, or I that it was an accident. He should thirefoi,
will kick your guts out." Directly afterward; the the accused. He considered the coestalde big
poor creature was heard to exclaim, "Father, don't kick properly in the matter.
me, or you will kill me." All this was heard by the ROBBIRT AT THE MARLBOROUGH CUM
lodger in au adjoining room, and on the following John Donovan and Margaret Donovan es
morning a woman named Phcebe Saville asked before Mr. Tyrwbitt with stealing two silk
the prisoner what he had been doing to his wife on the value of 22. from the Marlborough at
the previous night. He replied that she was drunk, street, Bond-street, and the male prisoner me ...
and he had beat her. The woman replied that if she with assaulting Police-constable William Owes,
was drank, he ought not to have behaved so brutally to her, George Peckham, the head waiter to the dab.,
and the prisoner made use of a foal expression, and said that as be was ooming out of the ooffee.roma es Its
1" he was hotrod to kill her." On the following morning night, about half-past 11, be sew the prissum
the deceased complained of being in great pain, and dread- umbrellas from the corner of the hall sadism
fully cold, but the prisoner left and went to his work as door. He went out, and saw the male own'
usual. He was sent for by the unhappy woman, and he was them to the female prisoner. He then took hold
told that she was dying, to which be replied that male prisoner, when the female gave bia hark t
it she was dying he could not help it, and it brellas and walked away. He held the maa alb
was no good his going to her. He did. how- earns up, notwithstanding his struggles to
ever, it appeared, go home, and he found then gave him into custody. The umbrellas;
the deosased in dreadful agony, and upon member of the club and his friend.
his asking her what was the matter with her, she made Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, proved going is
use of the expression " You know what it is, George, it is house in consequence, of hearing cries of ' pail
' through your kicking me last night." The t
srisecer replied seeing the last witness and the male prisms sat
that it WAS • lie, and when be was en uently told togeth,w. Having ascertained that a female
that death most be the result, he answered " t will be a with the man, he went after her, handing gal
good thing." The unhappy women after lingering a to a mutable. On his return with lb
very short time expired, and upon a postmortem examination the man threw the constable en his -
being made, it was found that her body was almost covered tried to bite him is a delicate
with braises, and her intestines were very much inflamed, person, and became very violent., It
end one of them was ruptured, and these injuries were in- urge, and kicking and trying to bite. He bee
dabitably the cause of death. When the prisoner was told male prisoner from a boy, and he had been r
that his wife was dead and that he was &canoed of having convicted.
ceased the death by the brutal violeoce he had in- William Cane, 35 C, said the male
flicted upon her, he said that she was drunk, and threw him, and tried to bite him as dincrh
had fallen out of bed upon a box, and that geant. The language made use of by the
this was how she bad received the injuries. The was very bad.
evidence of the surgeon, however, was utterly opposed to Mr. Tyrwbitt remanded the prisoners.
this suggestion, and according to his opinion the injuries THAMES.
that presented themselves in the person of the deceased
A BAD CABE —BREAKING A POLICE-COMM
could not have been occasioned by such a fall as the psi- Dolby Brookfield, a rigger and stevedore,
goner described, but were the result of kicks or blows. t„,,,_ _.. the ,5,_,,, ....„„_ ~____ ,_
These were the principal facts of the case, and the only 7,11(1; 11;1 "'""of""nic:i'oh I "h• his "m". "ot17:1k i:'
(prestos io reality was, whether the prisoner was guilty of golo
ecl with assaulting William Bader, e
the crime of wilful murder or of the reeler offence of man- No. K, and breaking his left arm
slaughter. The constable, who is a very wellmodneled Ina i
Several witnesses were examined for the prosecution,
been in the metropolitan force 28 years, make
and among them was the daughter of the prisoner, a girl great suffering, having his left arm in OMB.
about 12 years of age, named Mary Jane Crane, who, it
that he took a man named William Reeves is w
appeared, slept in the same bedroom that was occupied by night, for amaulting another man, named Go
the prisoner and the deceased. She was there when the
He was taking Relives towards the station-hem
prisonara%Do.l.byy.Burookshfisueld, wnhotomthLekeknebeimuilanr. prisoner came home, and her evident* went to give
very strong confirmation to the testimony of the and .
other lodgers. She said that when the prisoner ok"': .
nig hand sway from the person in carte&
came into the room, the dimmed was in bed, end the "'"
%it away, and a scuffle with the prisour Wprisoner said to her, "Get up, you drunken —, or rii
bilge be was on the ground the prisoner e
kick your guts out." She then went on to speak of of his left hand, and " screwed" them tria,
the brutal violence that was used by the prisoner towards
hand' He called out to the by-standee, "He
the unhappy woman, and said that notwithstanding her my Wm, he has broken my arm." He bear
earnest entreaties for mercy, he kicked her repeatedly as and he believed the people took the primate f
she was lying on the ground. ral tried to assist him, and others ma aft
It should be stated that the daughter of the prisoner ~,„ woo broken.
whose evidence, when she was examined before the coroner,
Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeoe, of ti,
was to the effect above stated, owe the present occasion road, Poplar, said the constable's left sr
gave her evidence very reluctantly, and ehe materially , was not a dislocation.
and could not have
modified the statement, she had formerly made, and it '''
twisting the arm as described by Butler. II
was evident that she was unwilling to say anything more
done in the struggle, or by the constable I
than she could help to the prejudice of the prisoner. when he was thrown by the prisoner. Ti
She was eventually examined by the learned judge, and the bones of the forearm, was fractured.
he succeeded in eliciting various facts that tended to sup- would be unfit for duty for three months
port the case as suggested by the prosecution. must have been great violence used.
At the close of the case for the prosecution, The prisoner, in defence, said the
Mr. Sleigh proceeded to make en able address to the jury of him by the ear and dewed him roan,
on behalf of the prisoner, and he contended that under the him oa the shoulder, and asked him to
circumstances they would be justified is acquitting him of
Reeves. He never intended to hurt the constabft
the more serious crime of wilful murder and finding him Mr. Brownfield was re-called, and desired tor
guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter. prisoner's ear. He did so, and said " I new
[The trial was proceeding when we went to prase, and on the outer aide of the . _ ,_ __ _
was likely to emu considerable time.] prisoner • oar, use f
below. There is a slight abrasion above
those. They are certainly not old. Thr
been produced by violence. There is a m
behind the ear and a scab on it of the same
After a long investigation the prisoner we
trial.

NEW 00IIRT.
(Before Mr. Justice Slim)
MANSLAUGHTIR.
George Ringwood, 36, painter, was indicted for feloniously
killing and slaying Grace Ringwood, on the 9th January
instant. The prisoner was alto elixrged on the coronet's
inquisition with a like offence.
Mr. Collins and Mr. Streight appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Mettaalfe and
Mr. Butler Rigby.
The evidence in the ease disclosed these facts :—The pri-
soner andhiswife(the deceased) had been married 15years,
and had lane nine children, the prisoner being • sober, in-
dustrious, and well conducted man, while the deceased was
addicted to habits of drunkenness. On the evening in
question, about 9 o'clock, the deceased entered a beer shop
kept by a Mrs. Beeson, in Dean-street, Paddington, and
she was then intoxicated. In about half an hour
afterwards the prisoner came io, and for some time
everything went on peaceably. The deceased sang • song,
and after that the prisoner began to speak of a good con-
tract he had made that day, upon which the deceased inter-
fered in • most insulting way, and told the prisoner
that • beershop was not the place in which to talk of busi-
ness matter'. She used most obscene language to him, and
called him • thief. The prisoner bore this sometime,
but at last the deceased threw • bottle at the pri-
soner's head, but by stooping he avoided the intended
blow. The prisoner at last said " I will put • stop
to this," and taking up • knife from the
table, rushed at the deceased and stabbed her in
the neck. The blood (to use the language of one of the
witnesses) rushed out like water from a tap and her death
was almost instantaneous. When the prisoner saw the
fatal effects of his act he became deeply affected, and
expressed the utmost contrition. He was taken into
custody, and stated to Inspector Steer that he knew what
he had done, that it was done in the beat of passion, and in
order to protect himself.
It was elicited by Mr. Metcalfe in his cross-examination
of the witnesses that the deceased was • very drunken and
violent woman, of great muscular power, and that she
had often been charged at the polies-court with assaulting
the prisoner, who had paid the fines rather than his wife
should be sent to prison.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of manslaughter, but
strongly recommended him to mercy on account of the
provocation he tad received.

THZ OPENING or PARLIAMENT BT Hat Ilia
ON TURSDAY RM.—lt is now finally settled ail
Majesty will enter the House of Lords by Whit
trance in Palace-yard, and not as heretofore by mph
the Victoria Tower. The royal gallery, fee Ai
tickets had been prepared, but not assist ud m
questly not be passed through. No aikido awe
with the house will have the privilege of poles Vat
to view her Majesty and suite on their estrum is
the house. The bend of the Guards will be Attired
Palace-yard.
The Earl Granville (the Lord Presidend
Council) gave the anneal banquet for the "Oise,
sheriffs yesterday evening at his residence in Ibises
The following ministers of State, kc., wen penat:-fe
Russell, the Earl of Clarendon, the Lard M 1: 1
Duke of Argyll. the Chancellor of the Erskips
Charles Wood, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Beakarik
Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Edward Cardwell, Kneader
Villiers, Mr. J. P. Goschen, Viscount Sydsey,fx
It
Herm, and Mr. Help
The Earl and Countess Russell annealed
Excellency the Austrian Ambassador. the Counter 00
burgh, the It;ght Hon. Bir George and Lady Gni*
Admiral J. W. and Mn. Drummond. Hon. lir. NM
and Mr. W. Harcourt at dinner on Monday wristi
their residence in Chesbarn-place. The Orates 101
will have an assembly on the ith proximo.
The Countess de Grey will have evening poi
at her residence in Carlton-gardens un the 54 art flg
the ensuing month. The intended party on the
Hate
been abandoned, in consequence of Lady Staley d
lie
ley's occurring on that date.
The Countess of Yarborough was uff)l"
livered of a son yesterday, at her residues 17, Arkit4P
street.

Lady Stanley of Alderley will have ere
parties on the 10th and 17th of next month, it let I
deuce is Dover-street, Piccadilly.
The Lord-Lieutenant held the first levee fa'
season at Dublin Castle yesterday. It was MY II
rously attended, upwards of 1,000 pergola beist
The Haytian Minister at Paris, M OD"
gave a concert last Saturday at his residsece is tit*
Elysees, to all the notabilities from Hayti now is Pia
well as to the elite of the Parisian world. 1015
Mr. Bigelow was present. The effect of the eistol4
black and white races, each in full restorer, g"
The hotel was once the property of the Dyke dAtes
Madame Sylvia and Madame Peonage", lees/011
race, sang with SaCC?BII. Mdlle. Warns, 4411'.,._16
wealthy merchant of Port-an-Prince.performolow7!
A ball concluded the entert iinmeat, which dOd

CLERKE.N WELL.
TES LATS MIT AT PINTONTILLL
A disputation waited on M. Barker to ask for assistance
under the following circumstances. A calamitous fire broke
out on Thursday morning between the hours of 3 and 4
o'clock, on the premises of Mr. Spikins, 69, Southampton-
street, Pentooville, whereby 14 working mechanics (turners)
who rent shops for the convenience of the steam power fitted
no by him to drive their lathes, have lost the whole of
their stock, tools, and made-up materiels, plunging them-
selves and their families into the greatest distress. The
deputation stated th.t the smallest donations would
be thankfully received towards alleviating the distress
of the poor sufferers.
Mr. Barker subsoribed 51. out of the funds of the poor-
box towards the object in view.

MA RYLEBONE: up till an early hour in the morning.
PITTS DEM DI PADDINGTON.
Several summonses, taken out by Mr. Giffard, sanitary
inspector, against the owners of house i ropertv situate in Moods), ow :-" Yon know that there '''.,--,
A Paris correspondent of the 1410/41,..11.4
Church-place, Andover-place, and Carlton-place. Pad- some talk of an oppraaching ma-risge a ~..-^
dington, were heard.
bar. Fuller, solicitor to the vestry, attended see 1k" 6.8
to prosecute, sad from his statement it would to marry the young dere. We may.
appear that Paddington, in some quarters, had bean eagerness with which they discuss the h
Indeed it appears that the P.risin public aro be
severely visited by smallpox, more particularly the a Russian prince, now a Spanish inarquis, illd lin.
places above described, owing to the dirty and over-
crowded state of the premises and want of proper ventila- prate
assure you that co this occasion, as on P
tion. In Andoverplace dating last summer scarcely a • la I
the one at present, a great French noble; ton '
house escaped the dreadful scourge of small pox, and in the news is entirely without foundation.
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Church-plum the overcrowding has been to such an extent people will have to wait for a long time, W. /IL
as to require the utmost vigilsnee of the sanitary &litho- kapa, for the marriage of Mane. Patti. it is Or'
Min. In one instance Mr. Gifford found 44 persons is I d of the Italian Theatre is not old enegil in
one house, and amongst those were the unfortunate v „...___, ,a,„ Li,.
thanks to her delicate 10110
man Ringwood and family, in
the ten in number I "le """""""1" """." int.'" is .;4,4 be 0
and who were obliged to quit owing to ir dissipated and i her almost infaatine manners, persist ''' I
dirty habits. It was also further reported by Mr. Gifford .20 years, and even 19, I will tell you in a„,L a
that in ea underground room of small dimes siona in the her age Is quite 23. However, Mane Pow ~' „a
same street at present exists a man with air in family, the ! rein„,.. she ;„ „ gn.n;.,l and in seat worn es'"
eldest daughters being one eighteen and the next sixteao, the ' --- ' -- - -r---"" r fan., or '
latter sow recoveriog from fever. Under these circuits- 1
stances he would ask the magistrate forhis prompt montane ' dies will sot be of ege under two year,. Ti" 7:„' ,---,
taia their majority until they are 25. It
in support of the local authorities. I rather inaigelfloast at first sight, dodos Pint 7.,.;
The first summons was sgsinet Marko Trended& No. 2,
Church-plan, in which Mr. Gifford said he visited the from M°
ontract made by her relatives with M. Straboult. t
premises, and found the basement in a most filthy mid fool the singular position of Mille. Patti. II '"--
condition. In the back kitchen win found four pip, nut ia-law, her ■gains are divided into throe anigiel; I
up from daylight by the windows and doors being barri- of which goes to her relatives, wed Ow "7,dmil
ended, to prevent their grouting betraying their where-
abouts. The front area and cellar wore strewed with de- kee her f
owe ertune, of which she will kes 111111 W
composed vegetable matter. The drains were slopped. In e___ her.
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Strakesch, while the third is invested at boo
the yard was kept a miserable horn in stabling, ea well an "yin insPrlnY• f wri age nit
a number of hens. Pour familial lived in the house, meat OggirraL Pautog. Ogg 8.---- igal a
of them being employed in the neighbourieg dui-yard. TUISDAT. JAIL 30.-Adminioas ea Inrim,,,,:' ..- -
The snood summons wet against Mr. Ailoard floral, by seas= debits, 1,161 ; total ',Won, lw' .