The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDER AT BEDFORD LEIGH.

On Saturday night a young man named Henry
Farrington, whose residence is sear Bedford Leigh railway
station, deliberately murdered his wife. They have only
been married about 18 months. On Monday last the de-
ceased woman separated from him, and went to reside
with an uncle named Peers Stirrup, putting her youngest
child, about a year old, out to nurse. On Thursday he
carried sway the child from the nurse, whilst his
wife was at her work, and in the evening she went
to his house for it, when he locked ber in, and pro-
duced • pistol with which he threatened to shoot her if
she dared to leave the house again. She succeeded in
escaping, but did not secure the child. On Saturday
night, about half-past 10 o'clock, he went to the house of
• person named Riley, in High-street, Bedford, and sent
Mrs. Riley for his wife, when he demanded that she should
return to her home. The deceased refused and wished to
take her child with her. He said he would not let her have
the child, be would swing for it first, and he followed her
to the door, pulled the pistol out of his pocket, and shot
her in the head. She fell on the doorstep quite dead. The
murderer had the infant on his left arm when he com-
mitted the fatal deed, and ran with the child down High-
street towards the brook. He dropped the pistol on
the ground. A bystander named Paul Stones picked up
the pistol, followed Farrington, seised him, and took him
to the police-station, Townhall, Leigh, where he was locked
up on the charge of murdering his wife. The prisoner is 25"
years of age, and is a collier, in the employ of Messrs. John
Fletcher and others, Volunteer Pit, Atherton. The pri-
soner gave • clock and 3s. for the pistol to a watchmaker
named Cheetham, at Leigh, on Thursday last, and made the
bullet himself. Deceased was about 26 years of age, mid
was employed as a silk weaver. She bad two children,
the eldest born some time before her marriage with the
prisoner. When apprehended, the murderer stated that
he did not regret the deed he had perpetrated. An inquest
will probably be held to-day.

ANOTHER SHOCKING COLLIERY ACCIDENT.

NINE LIVES LOST.

An accident very similar in character to that
which recently occurred at Walbottle, produced on Friday
evening a deal of great sorrow and uneasiness at Washing.
ton. Between 6 and 7 o'clock eight men and one boy
were drawn up the shaft in • double-decked
cage, the breaksman having charge of the machinery
at the top, called Taylor, being a man of ex-
perience. Owing to some cause or other a stoppage was
not effected at the proper place, and the omission was
no sooner perceived than the poor fellows who were
exposed to death in consequence shouted and screamed,
and one of their number, named Brigp, made a desperate
attempt to escape by leaping out of the cage. He, how-
ever, fell backwards, and down the dreadful abyss from
which he had just risen. His companions were not so
fortunate as those who remained in their plates when there
was the same calamity at Walbottle, for no sooner did the
iron carriage reach the chocks near the pulleys than the
wire rope, which no doubt was severely tested, broke, and
the entire party of men was precipitated down the shaft.
The miners fell headlong in one confused group into what
is known as the " sump," at the bottom, and were
mutilated and killed. A portion of a pair of trousers,
which seemed to have belonged to the boy, were found
hanging to the framework, as they had been torn from the
body. The brakeman, Taylor, through nervousness or a
man et responsibility, decamped, and had not been beard
of or seen up to • late hour the same night. One of the
sufferers is John Smith, known es the Cumberland hero in
wrestling ; and a second is named Todd. As soon as the
disaster became known to the people in the neighbourhood
there was a scene of lamentation and woe round the pit
mouth. Many of the men were married, and have left
families.— Neromadc Cluvmdr.

It is now announced that Millie. Christine
Nilsson, from whom such great things are expecsed, will
make her Med at Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday
next, in the part of Violetta in the Troviata.

The members of tho Royal Academy will shortly
be ea/led upon to fill up the vacancies caused by the deaths
of John Phillip and Clarkson Stanfield.

The license fur the opening of the cattle market
at Wareham, in Dorsetahire, haa been suspended for the
present by the government.

In the neighbourhood of Glastonbury, in Somer-
setshire, land has oonsiderably increased in value. Pieces
of inferior land about a mile from the town have just
fetched from 100/. to 140/. an acre.

The proprietors of the Mauritius Commercial
Onatte have sent a special correspondent to Madagascar.
He writes from Tamatave that the first martyr church has
been opened for public Christian worship in Madagascar,
and that the foundation stone of a Roman catholic church
has been laid in the island. The Malagasy new year has
been celebrated. The native governor gave a banquet on
the occasion, at which 30 Europeans were present. Toasts
were drunk, and the banquet is described as containing an
abundant supply of viands and an ample supply of wines.
Very rich and extensive gold fields have been
recently discovered in Chihuahua, one of the largest and
most important of the Mexican States, lying immediately
south of the Texas frontier, and between Sonora and
Cobahuila. Armed parties of Americans, from Texas and
other parts of the United States, have recently pssaed
over the frontier and entered upon thin mining region, and
preparations are being made for a still greater emigration
of the same character.

THE HOLBORN VALLEY VLIDUCT.

LAYING THE CHIEF CORNER STONE.
(THIS DAY.)

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ceremony of laying the tint stone of the
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dcentreyiit,viaduct
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the
provided
for the occasion stands the huge block of granite,
and the powerful scaffolding on which the " traveller'
placed for the purpose of lowering the stone has been
covered with scarlet cloth and white. Some display 'nal
been made on the exterior by the use of a number of digs
of various devices. The inscription on the stone is as fol.
lows :—" This chief stone of the Holborn Valley Viaduct
was laid the 3rd day of June, 1867, by Thomas Henry
Fry, Esq., deputy-chairman of the Improvement Com.
puttee of the Corporation of the City of London. The
Right Hon. Thomas Gabriel, Lord Mayor ; W. Haywood,
engineer ; Messrs. Hill and %vide% contractors." With
the exception of the members comprising the committee,
but few persona are expected to attend the ceremony, and;
is even doubtful whether the Lord Mayor will be present. The
proceedings are not likely to be marked by the preseuce a(
ladies, tickets of invitation having only, it is said, been
sent to gentlemen. The coins to be deposited in the vtote
will consist of a sovereign and a half sovereign is
gold, a crown and a half crown, a florin, a
shilling, a sixpence, a fourpenny piece, a threepenny piece,
• twopenny piece, and a penny piece, in silver, and a
peony, a halfpenny, and a farthing, in bronze. A copy of
the act of parliament and of the Times newspaper will also
be placed in the lower part of the vase. The engineer
will seal up the glass vase, which will be deposited by the
chairman in the well of the atone prepared for its
reception ; after which the engineer will present
the chairman with the silver trowel. After ad-
droning the company, the chairman will spread
the mortar with the trowel, and the stone will be
lowered into its place. Mr. James Medwin and Mr. William
Lawley, the members of the committee bearing the mallet
and level, will present the sane to the chairman, when he
will adjust and set the stone, which, being done, be will
strike the stone three times with the mallet ; and the stone
being declared duly laid, the ceremony will conclude with*
prayer by the rector of the parish of St. Andrew.
The following is the copy of the paper to be read by Mr.
Haywood, the engineer:
"The Holborn Valley Improvement consists of a viaduct,
supporting a roadway between Hatton-garden soul the
western end of Newgate-street, and two side streets con-
necting the upper with the lower or Farringdonitnet
level. The line of roadway on the viaduct will be iro
feet in width, and will commence et the western end
of Newgate-street from that point it will be carried in •
straight line to the western side of Farringdom lend,
occupying newly the whole of the space which now or
recently formed Skinner-street, as well as a Lime
portion of the sites of the houses on that line of
thoroughfare, it will include also a portion of the
churchyard of St. Sepulchre. From Farringdon-street
westward it will be carried by a gentle curve to the
end of Hatton-garden, occupying the sites of the homes
which formerly stood on the southern side of Holborn hill,
and the largest portion of the present roadway at that spot;
it will also occupy part of the churchyard of St. Andrew's,
Holborn. From Newgate-street to the entrance to
St. Sepulchre's Church the gradient will be about lis
696, and at this point the eastern approach street from
Farringdon.road will join the viaduct on its northern side;
from St. Sepulchre's church to Farringdon-street tbs
gradient will be lin 153, and from Farnngduo-street to
Hatton.garden 1 in 143 • for all the purpopes if
traffic, therefore, the viaduct may be said to level,
The viaduct in its formation will include vaultage band
each footway, for the accommodetior, of the future hems
on either side of the roadway; outside these truths nl
be • subway for the gas and water pipes, and hotness
each subway, and forming the centre of the visible,
the roadway will be carried on a series of arch,.
The footway vaults at the point next to Farringia.
street will be three tiers in height on each sis
of the road, and they will gradually diminish, both
eastward and westwards, until at Hatton-ga01,.,
and at Newgate-street, they will be but one tier in
height. The general height of the subways will be abort
11 feet 6 inches, and their width 7 feet ; they sill be
constructed of brickwork, excepting where they .re
carried over the London, Chatham, and Dover Fail.
way, and at that point they will be altered in loan
and be constructed of iron ; the tops of the subways
will be but • small depth beneath the footway pave-
ment, and at larringdon-street and Shoe-lane vertical
shafts will be formed, to enable connections to be made
between the pipes in the subways and those in the
streets named. In each subway provision is made for water
,
gas, and telegraph pipes, all of which will be so placed
that their joints can be inspected, and repair rued.)
without difficulty • the subways will be well ventilated,
and tubes will 'be left between the sub-ways sal
the vaults of the houses, for the introductim of tie
service pipes to the various premise.. At each end of the
sub-ways, as well as beneath the bridges at Farringdree
street and Shoe-lane, there will be entrances forthepurpore
of admitting work-people, and taking in any materials tilt
maybe needed. Immediately beneath the subways are seem;
drains from every alternate house vault will be con-
structed to these sewers at the time that the viaduct
is built, and the mode of construction of sewers, drains,
and street gullies is such, that it is believed it will never
be necessary to break nei the surface of the viaduct,
when it is once formed, to repair or dense than.
The central vaults beneath the carriage way. will be
formed by arches springing fromcast to west; they
will be ventilated into the carriage-way ; the level of
their flooring will be such as to enable carts and truck. to
be easily drawn along them ; they will be commolins,
dry, and have a uniform temperature, and, itis anticipated,
will be valuable for many purposes of trade and commerce.
The entrance to these vaults will be in the ahutments of
the bridges over Shoe-lane and Farringdon-street.
On the top of the footway vaults and the subways the
footway pavements will be laid, and the carrriageevray will
be principally laid over the large central vaults. FM**
don-street will be crossed by a cast iron bridge of as orna-
mental character ; it will be in three spans, supported by
piers, one row being on the outer edge of each footway
these piers, as well as the outer abutment piers, are to be
formed of polished granite ; the height of the bridge mit
to the kerbstones will bell 6 feet, and in the centre the mini-
mum height will be 21 feet, which isconsiderably more than
sufficient for the traffic. At each corner of this bridge tligiits
of steps will be constructed, to enable pedestrians to par, be-
tween the upper and thelower levels ; these will be enclosed
in stone structures, amplefight and ventilation being gitere
to them : these structures will be aimed up some stories
above the level of the viaduct; beneath thew:lloos
space will be appropriated as shops or ws,
and above the steps the floors will be elieihis
for offices, or for general commercial purposes. Shorten',
which at its northern end is now but 14 feet wide at cot
spot, is to be made 30 feet wide ; the viaduct will be car
mad over it by a girder bridge. This lane is to be contituei
northwards with a 30 feet width to is junction with tla
new street, which is to be formed from the corner of HAWe•
garden to Farringdon-road, and which will presently be d"'
scribed. The western approach street will start hysjuncio
with the Viaduct at Hatten.ganlen, and be carried in a vitt
easterly direction to Farringdon-road ; opposite to it
new street leading to Smithfield Market will comrocee,
the two streets will therefore together form one etraigh
line of thoroughfare, 60 feet in width, giving direct eri•
to the market and to the north-east of London. T-a
eastern approach street will begin at Farringdoe-11.4
about 130 feet north of the point where that thoroughfare
will be crossed by the viaduct ; it will be carried neat
parallel to the viaduct for some distance eestwarde
will join on to it with • gentle curve by the aide of .4.
Sepulchre's church ; this street will form
junction with King-street, and will therefore P"
another line of acmes to the new market ; tha
lower end of this street will take the place of ths,..
thoroughfare which is now known as Snow hill'
whole of which will be absorbed by its firm""
tion, or by the buildings te
side of it. Farringdonotreet or road, at a short distiece
southward of the bridge, will have its levels altered. us
will be carried with • gredhase of lin as be as to
West-street, and from that point northwards with a vit7,
slight inclination, until it again falls into the present I
of the road ; this alteration in gradient will enable tb,e
streets to be formed with gradients of about 1 i
In the approach street sewers will rim throughout
5t
hew
entire length, and above the ?ewer in the western trs.,
a Rahway is to be constructed, which will connect !.a.
the subways on the viaduct. In the year 1963, the (.°T
poration of the City of London pretiortil and depes.:vo..ti
p•rliament plans for this improvement, and in 1v4.4 the
• are t.oe imbed. t
be erected on either
was passed authorising the works whichi
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Messrs. Hill and Keddell are the contractors."

A quantity of sprats, mullet, and mackerel 4013'
caught on the Doreetshire coast last week.
OPHNING OF A Naw CHURCH IN Cantu:N-I'o'4'i'
—A new free Christian church was opened totenisy
Camilen•town, the inaugural service being ionductedbf
the Rev. J. J. Tayler, RA., principal of Manchester. Noe
College. The church is a temporary iron building ?" th
St. Paul's-road, on a strip of land adjoining the Ma
Railway, and has about two hundrel ~ittings. At a ie. t-
ine of the congregation, held after the service, Able:Tad
Waterlow presiding, it was determined that the olfertorf,
system should be introduced, and that all the scats 51n.,14
Le free.
Musznexprr Bronurr.—The late Mr. Wootton,
of the Brewery, St. Clements, Ovfoni, has. we underi
stand, among other bequests, left the munificent Sam o
10,0001., the interest of which is to be appropriated f
ever among a certain number of poor penons o'6l'
and at Launton, near Bicester, where lie had used W
rr
side, so that each may receive a sum of 14s. per week.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

-.ltinzs in Banco.- (Before the Lord Chief Justice and
Juqicee Blackburn, Mellor, and Sine.)
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• THE NIIIPLAND ANI) WESTER24-.JUNCTION

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ItAILWAV.
Mr. Hawkins, q.c., with whom was Mr. Barrow,
on behalf of the company for a rale calling upon
i:rown to show cause why a certiorari should not
for the purpose of bringing up the inquisition in
t: ca.,• with a %kw to its being quashed on the
—awl of excess of jurisdiction on the part of the
i :Art °sheriff of Midilleses. It appeared that Mr.
1:. own was the owner of about twenty-five acres
,f land hounded on one side with an access
iv the Harrow-road and the other by Sawyer's-
I :tie. in the parish of 'Willesden. The London and North-
We.tem Hallway Company, in constructing their line,
diverted the highway in Sawyer's-lane, and carried the
over the line. The Midland and South Western Rail-
• v t%utipany. in constructing their line; have cut off at the
where the North-Western made the diversion about
lo acres. depriving the claimant of access to his land from
tle• Ilarrow•road. The sheriff's jury assessed the value of
the land taken by the Midland and South Western COM-
valy At 7:01., which was not objected to, but they had also
,se.se I damages for non-access to the land at I,BOW.
The learned undersheriff told the jury that they must award
onsge+ as in a case where access to the land was entirely
stopped. which it was said was inviting the jury to ex-
v,l their jurisdiction, bemuse there was a means open to
the Join:int of going before justices and gaining somas to
the lati.l The compensation if the lTuder-Sheriff had not
a. di. ected them, would in all probability have been con-
ia.lerahly less.
Vide granted.

RINNKT P. SIR P. H. PYRE AND Litt:T.-COLONEL

EVELYN..

Mr. Prentice, Q.C., moved on behalf of Lord Romney
I nil, calling upon Sir P. H. Dyke and Lieut.. Colonel
Et, lyn, chairman and director.; of the Sevenoaks Railway
rompany, to show cause why an attachment should not
i.iue against them for having declined to make a return
to a mandamus to take up an award of 5,0001. for land
acquired by the company belonging to the applicant.
Ride granted.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Sittings at Nisi Prins as Middleses.—(Before Mr.
Juatice Ryles and a Common Jury.)
GIBBONS r. STANDON.
_ .

This was an action to recover damMee for a serious
injury suet Lined by the plaintiff whilst In the service of
the defendant.

Mr. Grantham appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pater
fur the defendant.

The plaintiff was a cab driver, and the defendant was a
cab owner. Thirty years ago, the plaintiff had the lower
part of has right leg cut off, and afterwards walked with a
wooden leg. On the 26th December last, he entered the
service of the defendant, and he went out with a four-
wheeled cab, drawn by a horse known as " Peter-
borough Jack." About 4 o'clock in the afternoon
he took up five people in the Waterloo-road,
and proceeded with them down the Rlackfriars-road ; the
horse began to kick violently. He tried to start the horse,
but in vain. The animal got the cab upon the " left
lock;' he kicked the footboard away and struck the plain-
tiff once or twice, and drove him from his seat on to the
roof, from which he fell on to the road and broke his right
thigh. He remained in the hospital until the latter part
of February, and had not been able to work since.
The case for the plaintiff was that Peterborough Jack
was a kicker and not safe to drive, and that the defendant
was liable for the consequences of letting the plaintiff
drive •uch an animal. It appeared that the plaintiff had
previously been in the defendant's employ, and he ad-
mitted that about Christmas, 186 S, he drove the animal
for two days.
For the defendant it was said that he had bad the house
since 1862, and during that period he had been driven in
cabs and in a fire engine, and was a quiet animal. It was
further said that the plaintiff knew the horse, and when it
was offered to hint he said it would do.
The jury after considering the matter for a few minutes,
found a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron, and
Barons Martin, Bramwell, and ChannelL)
eoonrrr T. HOWARD AND OTHERS.
This was an action by Mi. William Cobbett, who has so
often been a litigant at Westminster-hall, against the de-
fendants for having deprived him of a right of
common in the royal forests of Epping and Hain-
ault, to which he alleged he was, as an
inhabitant ratepayer, entitled. The defendants demurred
to the declaration on the ground that it did not state
what particular right of common had been infringed, and
the matter now mine on for argument.
The Solicitor-General and Mr. were in support
of the demurrer, and Mr. Cobbett appeared against it, and
was heard at considerable length.
The Lord Chief Baron said be was of opinion that the
declaration was bail in substance, as it did not state what
right of common was claimed, and the defendants could
not go down to trial with such a declaration unless they
were prepared to negative every description of common
right which could exist under the laws of the country.
The other barons concurring,
Judgment was given fe or th defendants, who are the
lion. Mr. Howard, the First Commissioner of Wood/ and
Forests, and the Rev. Mr. Maitland, the lord of the manor
of Loughton.
A rule which had been obtained by the defendants to
set aside the declaration, was discharged without costs.
Mr. Cobbett observed that he thought he had justice on
his side, and that the decision had only been against him
because his declaration was unintelligible.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN RE FRAMPTON AND FUTON. —THE VICTORIA ?RR/ITM
The bankrupts in this case are Frederick Frampton, of 29,
Walcot-place East, Kennington-road, and of the Victoria
Theatre, Waterloo-road, and Frederick Fenton, of South-
ampton-street, Camberwell, and of the Victoria Theatre,
,I,,scribedas theatrical managers. The adjudication was made
on May 16, on the petition of the bankrupts themselves.
They ascribe their failure to insufficiency of profits occa-
sioned by depression of trade. The debts are about 5,000 C,
f which 3,260/. is stated to be doe to Mr. W. F. Ross, of
1).11ot-terrace, and 500 f. to Mr. Fortune, solicitor, of Ber-
jeant's-inn, for rent of the theatre.
This was the first sitting. The proceedings were purely
formal, sad a day was appointed for the examination and
discharge.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(THIS DAY.)

The June general sessions of the for the county of
Middlesex commenced this morning apeacet the Bessions-bouse,
elerkenwell-green, before Mr. Bodkin, assietantludge.
Hr. J. Payne, deputy-assistant, and the following magis-
trates were on the bench—CoL Elsey, Mr. Tanner, Dr.
Jervis, Mr. Henry White, Mr. Ashley Dodd, Mr. Gould,
Mr. J. D. Fletcher, Mr. Rankine, Mr. Twentyman, Capt.
Redmond, Mr. Figgins,andMr:John Bentley.

THE CALENDAR.
The calendar contains the names of 70 prisoners com-
mitted for trial--00 being indicted for felony and 4 for
mialenteanour. There are also several cases in which the
persons accused have been admitted to bail. The offences
with which the prisoners stand indicted consist of robbe-
ries in dwelling-houses, robberies from the person, lead
filing, maliciously damaging plate glass, embezzlement
°Y servants, robbery from the London and North Western
kailwar, assaults attended with bodily harm, maliciously
wounding, &c.

JURY.
Mr. Rumbelow, theTHR officer GRAND
of the court, having sworn
tl.c grand jury they were briefly addressed by the Assist-
aut•Judge, and they retired to their room.