The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additional.)

mod mimosa meottmed above. meek for themselves ; bet
we my mention that mimeses, sad readers fired
pas by tura ; now flied Royal Artillery, thee fired
whiskers, aid the bitter sent their shot right through the
Lola which bad been made by the former, never in • single 1
lestance showing nasteadinsu of aim or unreadinms in
tiring. The putties will be continued day by day until the
anal demolition of the tower bee beta achieved ; bat yea.
terday's Axing was quite mmednice se to the comparative
merits, at long ranges, of the old and new ordnance. it is I
consolatory, however, to learn that inasmuch as the
exiling veseels have not been entirely stspemeded
by the steamers, neither is the. smooth bore likely
to be put altogether out of communion by the rifled
gun. It seemed to be the general opinion on
the ground yesterday, that with MOO&
although thirty-twee may as well be given' up ariAgaint
stone walbi—very gond practice may yes 1* eies‘s IV ass/
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gighte at abort ;engem . It is ouPeidgredthal ;Mir thew
guns, when fired from • dieteuce set toovshat to .agnit gto
aim, the &hot will so shake the walls as to do' more ocean-
give mischief than the conical projectile, whit& goes tight
through. But it must be admitted that it it eery doubtful
whether any enemy possessed of riled mugs would IA our
honest aid sialtynight• ram enough to diegiajithsir peculiar
• gaosiltehous. • '
It is not believed that the &strangles a my more mar
Mlle town will be necessary, esoagt may b• im
the condition of that which is thaw . it BerbilL.
This is so far satisfactory, as thy gm • bogy of Bathos'.
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aillatrailddis as a means of-Foinaselatg a Instils Wall s&
audit is further considered that, it awned mil with am
Amami gu on a traverse, flop. would effectually pra
vent anything like a surprise by a batik army. Another
plaa for their preservation is that each cost the country
3,0001.,—a rather considerable sum to be pounded sway in
a day'h eupsrimental ering.
A eagsaat's party from the photographic departmenb of
the Royal Angiutiars was b anteadesioe, and took improw
skins ed the effect of each shot mad slalL

JrLECTION INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK.-MEETING OP MR. FAWCETT'S.
SUPPORTERS.

Yesterday evening • nneterotei and influential
meeting of tie Maude sad inapporkas of Mr. Fawcett,
Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, was held at the Royal
Oak, Malily-street, Deresedeey.

Mr. Kai:mu was willed to the chair, mad without
=reamlf to support Mr. Fawcett, hoped the meet-
jjive him a patient hearing. Na introduced Mr.
Fawcett by reeding the following letter from Lord
Brougham
" Grafton-street, Nov. 8.
"Dear Mr. Fawcett,—l have just received your letter jand
I heartily *mos to find that there is some Rasped of the
good muse of liberal opinions, and generally at serial pro-
gram, receiving so great an advantage u it must have by
your return for Southwark upon the preseffitessedion.
was Mach struck, and I will may touched, by yam speech at
tieHlasgew congress, and it was the puma feehng there
thetyoar coming forward upon that occasion ought to en-
?omega you in again lending youramuitaiwe to thee. engaged
in promoting the great object of human improvement.—
Behove me, sumerely yours, " H. BROUGHAM."

Mr. H. liawcarr, who was received with ebeers,i after
referring to some general points, expressed himself In
favour of an extension of the franchise, particularly of
lodgers. The ballot also would receive his earned support,
which be justified by the ex eons of the Aunttalian
parliament. Although a number of the church of Eng-
Lod, he cordially supported the abolition of Aura
rates. If returned he should devote his earnest
attention to the national expenditure, in twasaptenos
of which taxation premed so heavily oe the people. The
reduction of the national expenditure to sixty million
would enable the government to take off the income tax,
and the duties on tea, save, and paper. In referring to
the volunteer movement the speaker viewed it as rendering
this country secure against foreign invasion, and enabling
the government to reduce the cost of the army and lacy.
He commended the alterations of the bankruptcy and in-
, solvency laws as laid down by the Attorney-General last
seseina. Lookieg upon the nalieation of the poor-rates as
a national as wan as • local Mr. Fawcett also re.
viewed at Ms lay" the quads, d the law of settlement.
The worthy candidate resumed his seat amid much cheering.
Fawcirrr replied to various guidons pat by the
electors, and a vote was pealed e that his qualifica-
tions were deserving the careful .araboa at the con.
Advocacy. The procasdinp than terminated.

ATTACK ON AN ANEItIOAN BBlr as PIRATIE
The following is ail extract from • private letter, dated
Singapore, September 17 : " By the mail that brings this
you will hear of the loos of the American ship Africa, in
the Straits of Ompar. They were surrounded by pirates •
few boon after striking, and only that two wells:mad
Dutch ships mine up and 'Mod by them, they would, no
doubt, have all had their threat. out. The Dutch ships
seat a part of their crews to help them, but after trying
every expedient, they were forted to abandon her, and they
were landed bete m the 9th iast. The Dutchmen aided
moldy by Captain Jardan, and theca:Jul here is about to lay
the case before the home jovernment, and I have no doubt
but their services will be acknowledged in no mean way.
The ship was burned before the captain got out of sight
of bee ; hut, whether set ea fire by the pirates, or
whether it was by the coals getting wet and taking fire, I
unknown."
HoRZORS AT MEXICO. —.Sad deeds of late have
been perpetrated within the very precincts of the capi-
tal Mr. Lander, • gentleman of the highest respects,
bility, who refused to coatribute to • famed ken, was
throws into solitary confioement, and subsequentlyeremoved
to • dungeon one and • half yard long, and one wide, filled
with loathsome excrement, the stench from which was so
great that he could only preserve his existence by breathing
through the keyhole. Another person who made& pathetic ap-
peal to Miramon (the bead of the church party) to grant
the country peace, was dragged to prison and sentenced
by Minmon himself to receive 500 Whet at daybreak
the following morning. When 350 had been administered
Miramon was informed that the man wee dying. " Let
the remainder," he said, "be given on the dead body
my order meat be carried out." But a still more horrible
tale remains to be told. "A poor women, endeavouring
to favour the escape of her husband taken by the press.
peg to serve as a soldier, was ordered to receive 100
lashes ; although in the family way, them lashes ware ad-
ministered without pity or remorse. The poor creature
sive birth to a stillborn child, and died in the most emu.
dean agonies." This monstrous deed, committed within
the very peeeiecta of the palms. is too horrible to dwell
upon, May the name of Mtnuaon and of Concha, his wife
—for she ie no better than a tigress—be so indelibly im-
pressed on the memory of man, woman, and child, in every
eivtlieed oriummailly as to insure to these minereaste the
punishment they &mare should thiv dare at any future
Drito take refuge in Europe.—Letrer fruit lAe City of
ele,d Oat. 15.
' DASTARDLY 011TRAGE.—CLONMEL, SUNDAY.—
Abost ball-put nine o'clock last evening, • special rods
train from Limerick was thrown off the rails on the swathed
erceshm at the Clonmed station. The engine was projected
from the rails into the embankment, drugging the tender
with it. The driver end fireman had a narrow escape. The
former was thrown forward on the onsdensing dome. The
latter was flung several feet upon the embanloneat. Oa
examining the rails, it was &smeared that some person
had placed • stone between the points of the switch which
caused the accident. One or two persons are suspected.
The mile, notwithstanding the efforts of the engineers,
has not yet been replaced on the mils.—Feseincos's Aurae/.
CHELMSFORD NOVEMBER STOCK FLEX—Them
was a good attendance of farmers and dealers at our fair
yesterday (Monday), but on the whole the trade in all
bads of stook ruled dell, and late priors were barely
maintained. The show of keests was inferior to
that of last year, both in point of quality and num-
bers. and trade was very flat, but few lota changing.
bands, notwithstanding that the prices asked were
in many instances lowered to meet the demands of
buyers. The show of sheep was also smaller than that
of last year, and the quality of meat inferior. The
highest price obtained for Wf-bred Cotswold lambs was
355., and the lowest 18s. tid., the average price raked
ranging between the two sums. Oa the whole the
trade in this department may be said to have been dull.
Foe some pens of down ewes Tde. was mired and oh-
' Weed, and a few lots were disposed of at between 365. and
335. In the hone department the.. was but a middling
exhibition ; for heavy art-hone high prime wer• asked,
and but few animals in that depastioist Cessipil binds.
There was a good average exhibitioa of agricaltattel imple-
ments by the principal local makers. Wain. Coleuses and'
Iless bad, es meal • good display of their well-haewn
likeessalk including their lamas entlindeen ; Mr. War-
Nos of Da, exhibited among other impismants a am-
bra his patent expanding ploughs; sad M. Bewle,
of bad also a good show of ,Imments, The
pleasant far, which on the whole exhibited a greater num.
bar sad variety of attractions than usual, was well attended
• faveallse, as well as by " childreo et a lazier growth."—
gam Herald.
MMUS( or PATENTS, 80DT8 KENNINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Nov. 10, Z 416 ;
total Dumber since the opening of the museum free daily
(May 1.,1868), 291,929.

tiVtOPENCE.

TM: BOAD CHILD AftIADBI.
FROMM, MONDAY.
The proceedings now being taken before Mr. T.
B. Meanders were resumed this miaming et the Temperance.
hall, Road. Mr. Saunders appeared, and the examination
began with tolerable pnacMgity, there being present
throughout to-day a score of Wleiduale, including the
police, reporters, and M. Penalty, Mr. Field's detective
doer,

—flie'proceeditip to-day emitted entrely of a long speech
by the president. He commenced by referring to the pn-
oda meeting of the Wilts magistrates at Bradford-on-Avon
on Saturday lost, the partied.= of which be stated he was
not at liberty to dieldge. The warm they had adopted be
iratuated wee era whieh rendered it oeceesery for him to
detail all the preosebep which be had taken in connexion
with the affair oboe he began to take so active in-
terest in the ease_,
_including his interviews and commu.
airtime with the Lope Chaseellor, the Attorney• General,
the Home ; Mid other highves".°DageL Having
thine thiourea in which hard a repetition of a
Vera 86•1 Midi whiskthe public is familiar, lair. Saunders
'tetra that, at • smooths( at the town hall a month since,
M the monthly petty sessions), when four, only four, 13111-
girtsates of the dish** were present—vie., the Ret. J. H.
aradney, Rev. J. Wilkins, and E. Edmonds, Esq., sod the
speaker—a consultation was taken oa the sehreet of the
wilder, respecting which no notes were taken and no
, pliedige of secrecy was given. *other magistrates then
having heard the relish of the =trims letters and visits he
bad received, written,. andd mat rtb"Twid c. 611
eurupTilieebi,Pri%ld the=lvesusbireadineen toottoer obey any c that ;rudueuure
he might see fit to give. A subsequent meeting was held
at. which some other magistrates in addition were
' • Maredlith, although having other
-70,0111.1 epos to be present.
sod Mr of a ehies half-bow's cossultatton had
been that Captain Meredith had offered to place himself and
all his force at the dieposal of the Bradford bench, and to
offer every facility to and to attend an investigation which
Mr. &undue might institute. It was due to the magis-
trates to state that he bad communicated to them the fact
that from whet had occurred he bad Dot the slightest con-
fidence in the chief constable of Wilts, or in any leading
=Gusher of the force under his control, and therefore he
had placed himself in communication with Mr. Hughes, the
chief of the Bath police, who, acting under proper autho-
rity, that of the then Mayor of Bath, bad placed himself
trader hie direction, sod had attended at his investigations,
sitting by his side, for which be was exceedingly grateful.
Thus, whaterar might have been said tothe contra'', in these
proceedings he had been eating under the direct oeuctirrenee
and sanction of four magietzake of the county, and by every
word he had rpoken in that room or written elsewhere he
was prepared, ass man of honour and property, most fully
to abide. On Saturday last the magistrates had held a
meeting at Bradford, in the county of which a resolution
had been adopted, the contents of which had not appeared,
but which, he might so far anticipate by saying was to
express their non-approval of the course he bad ;dented.
This being the case, he must now leave it to them, cis
gentlemen of honour and integrity, to inform the public
how far they had' sanctioned him, what, is fact, they had
dose and bad said lathe matter. All that he had done had
been done milady, and, at all ;events, with their know
ledgg. Ceder these aircumstanoca it warn that they would
see he wee there today unsupported by a single member
of the Wilts coestabulary, in consequeme of an intima-
tion which had been sods to Inspector Pitney and the
other officers that they were not to attend is tuture
any Investigation he might hold. He could not close these
proosedinge, " unusual " and "extraordinary "as they had
been called, without expressing an earnest hope that the
statements which had been made as to the fact of Mr.
Erat's having bee= seen in his grounds so early as five
o'cl k the • d the murder should be fully sad
satactuorau • y cleaned up Hs believed there was a person
mend Lenedown whohad something to say in the matter ;
sad he asked if be was =bend
Polioweenstalele Ural (Senwireat
1104 ham told Mr.
Saunders that this whams wee at Te • ord.
Mr. &radars again appeakd to those present to speak on
the subject if they could give any information. Receiving
no reply, ha said he wished it clearly to be understood that
ail be had endeavoured to do was to bring before the public
nay farts rad witnesses that hail not previously been re-
(mato. Hamm= adjourned the proceedings until Wed-
hooday at 12 o'clock.
H. Pollaky's =Were, it baa transpired, has no can-
' =mien with the discovery of the murder, but is simply to
watch Hr. Saunders is his extracirdinsra proceedings.

HUED= IN vas MERSEY AND SUPPOSED
SUICIDE op nix dURDESER.
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On Sunday afternoon a tragedy of a fearful
character ocentrad on board the Ameriain ship Jennidat
Thompson. Gape& Blake, now in the Mersey, and about
to New York. The crew joined the ship on Sun-
day morning, and among them was • foreigner, whose name
is unknown at present, the victim of the brutality of the
boatswain tensed Keegan. Severed times during the day
Keggan was ars, by the mate and other sailors un board
the ship. stingand kicking the demised, who fell down,
exhausted by the ill-usage he bad received ; and about
four o'clock in the afternoop be died. The body was
then put into a box and sent ashore. About nibs
o'slock • rigger's boat left the ship, pulled to the
Insditlf-sthls. sod deposited on the quay a box some
six feet long and about two feet deep. The police-officer
on duty inquired what the box contained ; be was informed
that it was • box of dry goods, sent ashore by the mats of
the Jeremiah Thompson, with • letter to the captain, and
another addressed to Mr. De Costa, the shipping master,
Waterloo-road. A asthma officer interfered, and said that
he could not permit the box to pass before it was examined.
The boa was then conveyed to the Prince's Dock, and
broken open, when to the surprise and horror of three
present the body of a man was discovered lying upon its
fees. It was that of a sailor, apparently about thirty
years of age. Medical men from the North Dispensary
were obtained, who examined the body, and found marks of
injury es the face, and ono on the back of the head,
clam to the left ear, which was sufficient to cause death.
The police were immediately sent after the summed
murderer, sad detectives Horne and door procisdid to
the ship. They there learned that, about seven o'cloak,
the piste and pilot on board the Jeremiah Thompson heard
a splash I. the water, and looking out, saw a packet which
was prang seenthigiy pick up something out of the water.
Keegan was never seen on board the Jeremiah Thompson
afterwsrds. After • searching inquiry the detective dis-
covered that the packet was the James Atherton, the
captained which statesthat at the time mentioned be heard
a cry for help, and looking out be saw some one rite in the
water and immediately oink, never rising again.
The coroner, Mr. P. F. Carry.~ held an inquest yesterday,
when the mates of the Jeremiah Thompson and several set.
men were examined. The mates declared that they had
seen no violence Mirth& by Yaws, and the second mate
explained that the body was sent ashore in • box merely to
prevent unnecessary objections and curiosity on the part of
the boatmen. Several mikes desatbed Keggan as having
kicked sad Mirk the deosasud seveml times, and butted at
him with his head, but no weapon or belaying pins were
bating been used. The surgeon who examined
spoken
body to as
mid that death lad been csn.sd by • fracture of
the skull, the result of • blow from some blunt instrument.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict to the effect that
the diseased (whose name, it appeared, wee Flatehman)
had died from injuries receivid en board the Jeremiah
Thompson, but how such injuries were received there was
not sufficient evidence to show.