The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-28 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.
FLORENCE, APRIL 27, 9.25 P.M.

Very great astonishment prevails here at the un-
doubted and extensive military preparations in
Venetia on the part of Austria. There have been
no Italian military preparations to justify such
demonstrations. There is now a general especta-
tion of war.—Time (second edition).

(REUTER'S TZLEORAM.)
ITALY AND AUSTRIA.
PARIS, APRIL 28.

The Conatitutitoe/ of this morning says :
" The danger of war beereen Austria and Prussia
appearing to be removed, Austria should not main-
tain her armaments in Venetia. It is not probable
that Italy would alone attack Austria."
The Constitutionnel proceeds to deny that Italy
is arming, and adds :—" Under these circum-
stances, it is io be supposed that Austria will not
delay replacing her military arrangements upon
their former footing in Italy, as well as in Ger-
many. This is necessary in order to restore to
Europe real confidence in the maintenance of peace,
and that tranquillity and liberty of action needed
for the development of her prosperity."

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 28.

The extra Inman steamship City of Dublin,
Captain Eynon, from New York on the 14th inst.,
has arrived here.
Her news has been anticipated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings in Banco.—Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and
Justices Willes, Keating, and Smith.)
STANHOPE, APPELLANT V. TFIORESET, RESPONDENT.
This case was disposed of yesterday afternoon. The
appellant, Mr. Banks Stanhope, M.P., wrote a note to a
neighbouring magistrate stating that the cattle plague had
reached within two miles of the place, and asking for a
license to remove some fat cattle, in order that they might
be slaughtered. The magistrate granted the license, and the
cattle were removed. The orders of quarter sessions
authorised a magistrate to grant such a license if he was
satisfied that the cattle plague was not within a mile, but
it turned out that in the prrcent cave the plague wax
within about half-a-mile, though the owner of the
affected cattle did not believe at the time that
they had the plague. Under these circumstances,
Mr. B. Stanhope was summoned for having in-
fringed the orders of quarter sessions, and the magistrates
who heard the summons tre..thil his licence a • a nullity,
and convicted him of hxtv'ng removed the cattle without
a license. This conviction was row appealed a,ga'ast.
Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Hannan appeared for the ap-
pellant ; and Mr. Manisty, Q.C., and Mr. Stephens for the
respondent.
The Lord Chief Justice said that the justices who hail
convicted Mr. Stanhope found that there was nothing
like intentional deception or violation of the law on his
part, but they considered that they had a right
to inquii e into the quant;ty of evidence upon
which the magistrate acted in granting the licence.
The court, however, were of opinion that they
had no such right; and, therefore, that the conviction
must be quashed. Thi3 cowl wished also to say that while
Mr. Stanhope had no intention to do any wrong, the ma-
gistrates who c invicted him had acted under a determina-
tion to do their duty in • tine of considerable danger,
when prompt and decisive action was of the highest im-
portance to the public interest.
Conviction quashed.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
GIBSON T. 'item.

Dr. Twins, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey for the plaintiff ; Mr.
It. &Make, Q.C., and Dr. Spinka for the delendant.
This was a question relative to the will of William
Brocklebank, late of Silecroft, in Cumberland,
who died in June 1364, leaving property worth
about 3001. By the instrument in dispute he
gave a life interest to his wife (who only survived him till
the April following), and then a lire interest to his sister,
Agnes Gibson, with remainder to another relative named
Walker. It was drawn by an attorney named Myers, who
was a coroner and a clerk to a board of guardians in Cum-
berland, and who was appointed executor. Probate had
been taken out in common form, but it was called in ques-
tion by Gibson, who alleged that the will was a spurious
one.
On the one side Mr. Myers swore positively to the ex-
ecution of the document, but the attesting witness, Henry
Myers, a publican, and his (laughter, swore with equal
positiveness that their alleged signatures were forgeries.
The cane has not yet concluded.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERICENWELL.
A BAD riTORT.

Margaret Paekreall,; res---pecta dressed person, whose
hair and features plainly showed that trouble had done
more than its fair share of work, and who described herself as
a married woman, residing at No. 2, Hastings-street,
Somers-town, was charged with taking a quantity of poison
(precipitate powder) with intent to destroy her..elf, at the
Crown public-house, Goldington-cmcent, St. Pancras-road.
It appeared from the evidence that Police-sergeant George
Parry, 11 was on Tuesday, the 17th inst., called to the
above public-house, where he found the defendant appa-
rently in a dying state, being attended to by the Miss
Greaves, who managed the business. They informed
him that the defendant had taken poison, and in proof of
it pointed to an empty paper by the side of her
labelled " Poison," that Mr. Watson had gone for a
surgeon, and that in the meantime they had admi-
nistered to her an emetic. On the arrival of Mr. Butt,
the house surgeon at St. Pancras Workhouse, he also ad-
ministered antidotes, and gave it as his opinion that had
the Miss Greaves not acted in the prompt and kind man-
ner they had the defendant would have died. As soon
as the defendant had sufficiently reoovered she was taken
to the infirmary at the workhouse, where she had remained
until this morning,' when she was brought to this
court. The defendant had stated that she was in-
duced to take the poison as she was tired of
her life in consequence of her husband having
deserted her and gone away with another woman.
He (Sergeant Parry) had made inquiries, and had ascer-
tained that the husband was cohabiting with a young
female, that since this occurrence he had left the neigh-
' bourhood, and at present no trace could be found of him,
though, if a remand was granted, he had no doubt that he
should be able to get some tidings of him.
. .

The defendant, who see.neeoverwhelmed with grief,
said that she now deeply regretted that she should have
attempted so foolish and wicked an act as that of destroy-
ing her life. It very much preyed on her mind that her
husband should have deserted her and left her to starve
whilst he kept another woman. Hers had indeed been •
life of trouble, but she would never let trouble any more
lead her into such a dilemma as she then was in.

Mr. D'Eyncourt said that the defendant's was a sad
story, and remanded her to the House of Detention for a
few weeks, and directed that she should be seen by the
chaplain.
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GREENWICH.
EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF A FEMALE SERVANT.

Sarah Meade, a respectable-looking young woman, who
stated her age to be 25, but who appeared much younger,
was brought up for final examination, charged with rob-
bing her master, Mr. Barger, an architect of 22, Circus-
street, Greenwich, of money and a large quantity of mis-
cellaneous articles, including 31 water-colour drawings.
The particulars of the case, as disclosed in evidence, and
from inquiries instituted by the police, are of an extraor-
dinary character. At the age of 11 years the prisoner was
found by the police in the streets of Whitechapel in a de-
plorable state of destitution, and as it appeared she had
neither father nor mother living, the Society for
the Protection of Young Females was communi-
cated with, and she was sent to the society's
training school in the neighbourhood of Brighton. 1
There she remained until of sufficient age to enter
service, and a situation was obtained for her in the
family of a lady at Brighton, where she remained for some
considerable time. She received a character on leaving,
which enabled her to obtain another situation, but from
this period she appears to have remained but a few weeks
at different situations she filled at Finchley, and
other suburbs of London. In November last she
entered the service of the prosecutor as nurse, a written
character being received with her. In consequence of
various articles being missed, including between 6/. and 71.
in threepenny and fourpenny pieces, contained in three
linen bags, she had notice to leave, which notice ex-
pired on the 31st March. On the evening of that day,
prior to leaving, the prosecutor expressed his intention of
having her boxes examined ; and on this being done the
water-colour drawings named in the charge and a variety
of other articles, including one of the three bags which
had contained the threepenny and fourpenny pieces
were found ; and a grocer in the neighbourhood
deposed that two months since he exchanged three-
, penny pieces to the amount of 10s. for the
' prisoner. Whilst the prosecutor was consulting a

friend what he should do, the prisoner abruptly left
the house, leaving her boxes. On the following Mon-
day she applied at this court for the magistrate's
advice as to the beet course to pursue to obtain possession
of her boxes, and was referred to the County Court.
Nothing more was seen of the prisoner until a few even-
ings since, when she called at the prosecutor's house and
demanded her boxes, and was given into custody.
Mr. Illackett, draper and outfitter, of 31, West Smith-
field, City, now attended, and identified a large quan-
tity of articles, consistilj of silk dress pieces, children's
clothing, books, ke., found in the prisoner's boxes, as his
property, the prisoner having been six weeks in his service,
out leaving in August last.
The ruaais, tmte declined to deal with the cage sum-
marily, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial at
the next Old Bewley Sessions.