The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19.

Webers hitherto abstained, smd seal thoosateaca
of the proper tribunal has been peace/aimed, we shall
carefully continue to abates from all comment on the
supposed guilt or ianoceoce of the man who now
labours under the grave !maple fin of beat the prin-
cipal actor in the terrible reysteies of Rugeley. An-
cording to our view of the trotter, a serious responsi-
bility rests on the joarne.list who vesture, peems-
tartly to intrude into these solemn issue of life aad
death, constitating hicasi.li the echo of rumours that
Nay perchaeas prove utterly false, aad the communi-
eator of impressions, plausible but perhaps un-
founded, which it is easy to create and almost im
possible to obliterate. As far, then, as relates to Wit-
tux Pacers, we shall leave him without observation
or remark of ours to the fair trial and jut judgment
which is dee course await him. The same rale of
rejoices, however, doss not apply to the collateral
circumstances which have arisen in the course of
these protracted isvestigations; and of all these cir-
cumstances the most extraordinary appear to bo those
connected with the conduct of Mr. WAPA the
coroner.

It will be io the recollection of our readers that, in
the coons of the inquest ou the body of Mrs. Ewes*,
it transpired that Mr. WARD had rosined from
WILLIAM PALIII/L • kttar, written to him pend-
ing the prior itiquest in Coos's ease, emu-
manicstiog the fact—which at that time
could only hare been legitimately boom' to Mr.
GARDIM, the solicitor for the prosecution in that
see—that Dr. TAYLOR had failed to Hod any trace'
of poisoa in the remains of COOK. The Coroner, it
will be resemben d, admitted that he bad received
such a letter, declined to gine it op to the solicitors
tor the prosecution, but offered to communicate it
to the bons StatZTART. The question of CORM
WOW. bow bad Paters biome possessed of the ie.
formation which he had thus communicated to Mr.
WARD P Serpi/is; fella; &Nos. Cumuli; the
Postmaster of Rageky ; proceediap were insti-
tuted against him by the direction of the Poet-ollios
authorities, and from the result of the investigation,
which led to his committal on Thursday last, we
glean the following narrative, which clears up the
history of the communication from Pals= to Mr.
WARD.

On Tseeday, the 4th December, while the inquest
os Coco was still pending, Dr. TAYLOR wrote, and
posted in Leaden, a letter addressed to Mr. GARDRII,
containing this passage:—" We do not fled in the
body of COOK stryclusia, pniatic acid, or any tract of
(Own." Oa Wednesday manioc, the 6th, this
letter, as the enclosure of which were written the
wards " muss of death," caught the toys of Mr.
CRIBIIIII at the Rogeley post-aloe. CHUB=
says the mickeure was open (it was roily an
adhesive envelope); he admits that ha took the letter,
that he end it, and was " so elated," to use kis own
words, at Audio, that no poison had been discovered,
that, after having re-enclosed and forwarded the
letter to its proper destinaties, he ineteatly sat off to
Piazza% Miss to communism the iatelligesem
So far Mr. Saxon. Comas. Mother witnees,
GEORGE Bare, next carries On the tales—On Satur-
day, the Bth of December—the inquest as Coo= still
standing adjourned—Bs:a goes, I. toessquess of a
message to that siker, to Pataaa's hoses. PALM=
gives him a letter, with direstiees to deliver
it to Mr. WARD, and ales a written ceder
■pos Mr. Pesten, a game dealer, in Stated,
for a Imes of pheasants and a hue, "to be mot to
Deeds." Ttis game Bars is iestrestel by PALM=
to have delivered to him whom', he Oases in
Stated; sad on its being so delivered, to re.iiireet
and Nod it, to—Mr. WAnD. PALIERIM instructions
are exactly carried Out. BAT& deliver the litter to
Mr. Wean, has the game tent by Fasten to the
'motion Inn, eats off the misled dimities, pats eo
a sew one, and sends it by a inesseuger to Mr-
Wsio's °See. This was on bats:day, the Bth. On
Thursday, the 11th, BATS is again eammosed by
PALMED. PALMER, who is ill is had, after assdiag
him elsewhere for one 61. sots and staking him aster-
tale that there is smother fee 601. in the drawer,
le interrupted by a visitor ; Bars quits the MOM,
losing told by Emus net to leave the been, is he
will be wanted again. When he I movie called
up PALMER give, him a letter, tolling him to
put it into Mr. WAnD'. own hands, adding, "Take
are that no as sees you besides Mr. Wain." This
lOW BaTs positively WORM is his first
and repeats on his snood, that he did deliver
into Mr. Waso's own hands between the statics and
the 'nestles Ins.

The megistrates, feeliag„ and very properly feeling,
that this was a sem which Mr. WARD should be
celled apes to answer, adjourned the case far the
purpose of proeuriag his atteudancm Os Fri-
day, the 11th of this mostly Mr. WARD
was personally served with IC summons to
appear beton the bent*, at their adjourned
*lisp last Thursdays on the Monday after this
sammens wee served, Mr. WARD dindad his clerk
to fla an iaquert for 2 p.m. en the very day is which
be bad been me summoned to attend. His clerk
appeared foe his ; apologised foe his absence as
the mond that he was obliged to attend the inquest
whisk be bad so fixed after reesiviag the summons ;
stated that he was assured by Mr. WNW that he
bad never received more than ono letter from
WILLIAM PALMIDI, which letter, ea behalf of his
employer sad by his diremious, he than paused.
This letter, cassidering the /Madre position of the
parties at the time it was written and received, is so
extreerdinery, that we shall reprodate it in esteem.
It beam no date. The italics see Ike writer's own :

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