The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TuESDAY EVENISG, DECEMBER 28, 1868.

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ism mangier. She showed him the child,
him she wanted help, asked what he intended
to do, and what she herself wu ID do. The
sapid must be given in the poor girl's own words.
"He said he did not ogre what I did. I amid do as
" I liked ; he should not give me anything. Ha put
" on his coat and went out with the person that was
picking a fowl. His ester said it was now for
" me to wait, as he might not be home till eleven or
"twelve. I wag destitute of a farthing, and I walked
" about to see if I could see him. I saw no tidings of
"him. The temptation was very great to lead me to
• do what I did ; he so frowned upon me and the dear
*baby. He knew it was his'n. It drove ms to do
*what I never thought of before." The utter selfish-
ness and cool barbarity of the cowardly wretch who
had betrayed her, drove the young mother to dis-
traction. Through him she had lost her place and
her character; she had been six months in the
workhouse ; she stood in his shop utterly destitute,
with his child upon her arm es the shadows
of evening gathered in, and he turned her into the
street, without a penny, without one kind word or
friendly look. A kind word or • promise of help
would have eaved her; but FRANCIS, instead of
speaking either, so " frowned on her" and " the
" dear baby " that her whole nature was sad-
&only changed, and black despair swept her with
resistless impulse into unnatural crime. She wan-
dered hopelessly about the streets for awhile, but
there wu no help or shelter anywhere. It was
midnight when she turned away from the twos and
walked through the ling's Meadow to the brink of
the river. Here she undreamed the child for the kat
time, took a wild fmewell of it, and cowered away
into the shelter of a hedge till morning. Then she
found her way home, where she was evidently
miserable enough ; and when arrested, the next day,
in her bitter grief and remorse she made a fall coo-
-1 fession of all that she had done.
It is for the mime committed under these circum-
stances that MARY NiwILL now lies tinder sentence
of death. That it is a great crime we do not wish
to deny. Bat while the legal guilt falls wholly on
this poor girl, the moral guilt of the murder lies
meet heavily at the door of her seducer, WLLLIAII
Pianos. The mingled cruelty and effrontery ef
this man are almost incredible, and altogether into-
lerable. After delving her into crime by his cruelty,
he appeared in the witness-box and gave evidence
against her in a manner so hardened and revolting
that Mr. Justice Eau, in him gemming up, as,.
emphatically, "if his conduct to the prisoner was
" the same aa it had been in the witness-box, it must
" have withered up her whole soul almost." Though
this man has escaped the letter of the law, he
has not eluded the rude justice of popular indigna-
tion. As our readers are aware, the populace of both
Beading and Wallingford have driven him from
their streets with execratiocm and something more
than empty threats. While he hides himself in
merited obscurity, his victim must however be cared
for by the public. It is not right that she should bear
the whole penalty of a crime in which he so largely
shares. It is pre-eminently a cam in which mercy
ought to temper justice, and we have no doubt that
the memorial about to be presented will be gnome-
ftd. And we cannot but express our hope that
the capital sentence may be commuted into a milder
penalty than penal servitude for life.

AT this Christmas time the Lord of Misrule is
absolute. It is a season of metamorphoses, contra-
dictions, inversions, and tricks. Tens of thousands
last night flocked to enjoy the Extravagant and the
Impossible; and a page of our paper this morning
describe, the revels of Friars, Fairies, and Foresters,
Diamond Prisms, end Spirits of the Lake, in •
world turned upside down. Bat in whimsicality and
downright Hibernian absurdity we despair of see-
ing surpassed the amount which Sergeant CLZAZY,

H- 8, gave last Friday to Mt. HAMM!. at
Worship-street Police-court, of what be saw at
an unlicensed theatre in Bethnal-green. It is six
o'clock in the evening ; the bill of entertainments
promises new ringers, new dancers, and a new piece-
Sergeant CLEARY goes with the crowd ; bat why
does not that ornament of the H division wear the
blue of the Service? What mean those highiows
and that dustman's long-flapped hat? and why labia
right eye blackened, as if fresh from fierce encoun-
ter ? To come to the point—" CLEARY, what's your
" genie ?" CLEARY'S game is not his, but his mas-
ter's. His Superintendent has sent him to pay his
penny, mingle with the unsuspecting throng, and
mem to share its pleasures, meanwhile taking secret
note of the extra-legal entertainment presented on
the stage. He tells us he had been ordered to
attend there several times, and had before seen The
Robber's Wife played; but this time it was The
P rofti gat* Neap : or, the Disinherst.ed—the career
of the money-spending, governor-clefyiug ecapegraoe
of quality being always a taking subject with a
population like that which abounds in Bethnal-green.
There was a song, " Paddy on the Railway," and
then a sailor's hornpipe by a "lady in tights." Then
these was the laughing-gas that " did not affect any-
" body ;" and then we come to what the worthy Ma-
gistrate deigned to distinguish as "the legitimate."
The Profligate Nopkolo is, it seems, a plowed &singular
kind—a ballet with dialogue. The act drop, CLEARY
tell. ne, wee an " Italian sketch—the margin of fair
" Zurich's waters;" not so bad a glues, considering
that Zurich might have been in Italy bat for the
Alps. Cleverer men than the Sergeant have made
greater mistake.:
Hers gay dmorfteloa Egypt glade with shown,
Or gives to Zenith halts, to Ewe towers.
Then, to make it all quite regale: as a theatrical
performance, " there were shrubs and other 1111011111."
The Uncle, or " old 'tin," wee provided with
wrinkles, and Hamm ma Raciness, a " most
" determined villein," wore big boots and pistols.
The Uncle is going to Dooton' Commons, or Apothe-
' caries' Hall, the Serpent forgets which, to disin-
herit hie nephew, the profligate Nut, but a little
' bit of violence by the reties= in big boots pit-
' vents this transaction, and the piece is about to
terminate " uneatidactorlly," according to Set-
o past CLEARY. way of thinking, when suddenly
an unrehearsed abet, whet we may call the
beginning of the transhrmatiens, samoss. Bud-
' daily, all the policeman is revealed In our dust-

4masquerade after, Twelfth Night. Pelops II would
be *ell to abridge even that short period of license.
It say be necessary at times to veil the motion et
the la► but the studied and artistic Mersin of its
agents, especially for petty ends, has something
about it which will always be repugnant to English
feeling.

Cte Court.

WINDSOR, Dec. 27.

The Queen, with Princess Helena, walked out
this sserslag, sad visited the Primes Lainiagea at Frog-
Mee.

The Prises Common went oat @booting, soccenpanied by
the Prism of Lablagea.
The Prince of Wake Bede on horseback, attended by
Colonel the Hos. IL Braes.

Major-General Pool ldt London yostorday for Window
Castle.

Despatches from tha Governors of the North Americas'
PRMAIJEII WON received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

BERVIA.

The Austrian Correspondence contains an article
in which the revolution in Sonia is strongly con-
demned. It declares that the rights of the Porte
ought to be guaranteed; but, at the same time, it
recommends negotiation.
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Despatches from Belgrade state that after Prince
Mike& was proclaimed head of the state, Garu-
chanin and Starks Ugricia formed a provisional

government. All military counter-revolutionary
movement was prevented. Prince Alexander, who
remains in the Turkish fortress, has protested
against the proclamation for his dethronement, and
the senate has protested against the election of
Milosch Obrenovitach by the Skaptchina. The
despatches further say that a communication was
expected from Constantinople, and that Austria
was remaining neutral, but was sending reinforce-
ments to her troops on the frontier, near Servia.