The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

LONDON. TUESDAY .EVENLNG, OCTOBER 11, 1859.

THE 80CL4L SCIENCE ABSOCL4TION.

Conseil of the International Mono Sedan and of the official
sad other deputies from other countries now yeast, be ap-
pointed to represent to the President of the Connd4 the &s-
-meltery for Foreign Alone, the Chancellor of the Bithequm,
sad the President of the Board of Trade, the readiness mini-
fated by the Russia, Belgisn, Portuguese, and other go-
vernments to enter into an understanding with her M■jeety'a
goverunient for the furtherance nt the object."
It was then ammunced that IL Chevalier would give his
address this day at two o'clock.

REMARKABLE CASE OP CONSPIRACY.

Margaret Gallagher, or Boyle, John Boyle, James
Boyle, and Charles Kerr, weal at Glaagow, on Friday
evening hat, found guilty of oonbplracy, assault, and
PRJury
. . . . . .

The charge against them was that of having entered into
a conspiracy to decoy Mr. Patterson, the prosecutor, Into
the hones of John Boyle and his wife, for the purpose of
making it appear that he was attempting an smelt with
latent to ravish Mrs. Boyle.
After the delivery of the verdict, the circuit court, in
which the case wee tried, adjourned until Saturday morn-
ing, when
Leed Ardmillan, in pronottncing sentence, said en offence
more wickedly and cunningly devised, and more wickedly
and determinately executed and tereemed in, It wee very
difficult to Imagine. Up to the last all the prisoners at the
bar more or less persisted in maintaining their false accusa-
tion, and the jury were oompelled to consider whether or
sot the assault had been committed on the female prisoner
by Patterson. Ile had been tried at the local police•court,
and eses maiden* by discerning twisting*. Be might ,
have been tried for that offenos in this court, and If the
charge had been laid under a different denomination, and he
had been convicted of that most serious crime, he would have
been transported to penal servitude. " Then en your oath
you all supported that false accusation. Yon swore before
Almighty Ood, es you would answer to him at the great
day of judgment, all those lying and malicious perjuries.
A more grave offence than that of perjury, and of conspiracy
by perjury to ruin an innocent man, could hardly be
conceived. You ought now to have gnat thankfulness
that you have been found out. What would you have
fdt had that man been convicted of this offence falsely,
on your evidence ? That great judgment day to which
you have pointed in your oaths must come to you and
me, and every one of us ; and you have reason to thank
God that this most impious crime has failed In its object.
You ought to be thankful that the justice of man has
traced and discovered the crime before that awful
day comes, when the solemn and attain judgment will be
pronounced upon you which you impiously invoke. This
affair must be visited by a seven sentence, but with some
little difference, in regard to you. The originators were you,
John Boyle, and your wife. The other two prisoners were,
as it apneas from the evidence, brought into the matter after
it hail been started, and, therefore, although both present at
the sessult upon the unfortunate gentlemen, yet the same
guilt does not seem to attach to you as to the originators of
the offence. The sentenoe of the court is that you, Meg
Boyle and John Boyle, be sentenced to peal servitude for a
period of seven years, and that you, James Boyle =dandle
Kerr, be matenoed to penal servitude for Ave years."
When the sentence was pronounced, load cries, raised by
female einem, interrupted the court. The cries proceeded
from two girls, daughters of the prisoner Boyle and his wife,
who were seated among the audience. Their exclamations
of " Mother, mother ! 0 mother 1" were pitiable, and the
audience were much affected. When Lord Dees alluded to
the nature of the mother's offence, the cries of the poor girls
were agonising, and hie lordship herd to stop till the girl
were removed from court. Darfur this scene not the slightest
symptom of emotion was exhibited by the female prisoner—
her countenance a:plowed the utmost indiffareects.
Lord Deem, who was on the bench during the parlor; of
the sentence, said—Those four parties had entered into a
emeMracy to decoy this unfortunate person Into the holm
of the prisoner and his wife for the purpose of making it
appear that he was attempting an assault with intent to
ravish Mrs. Boyle. The ether male prisoners were waiting
sear for the purpose, as it would appear, of proving that
=Wed 'weenie When Mr. Patterson oame to her
Mrs. Boyle forcibly held him down, and exposed
her person, by keeping up bar clod:deg, in order to
make it appear that Paterson had been attempting to
make an assault upon her with intent to ravioli her. The
pasties then gave information to the police, and had Patter-
son apprehended and tried en that most serious charge in
the vitae court ; and, as his brother on the bench had re-
marked, he might have been tried at this court and con-
victed on the !dee testimony of the prisoners. One and all
of you have been guilty of this offence by the unanimous
voice of the jury. I cannot conceive of a more atrocious
offence than this. In time mown it is worse than at-
tempts against the life of an individual. It strikes at the
very root of a man's character, and may destroy it in the
eyes of friends, and as a member of society. It strikes at
the very root of all law and justice. I therefore cannot
/imitate for a moment to concur in the judgment of your
lordship, sad think the 'sentence is most lenient in the

CHARGES AGAINST THE BISHOP OP BRECHIN.—At
the meeting of the annual synod of the biehope of this
church, held at Edinburgh last week, a presentment or ae-
cuestas was made spinet the Bishop of Breehin for teach-
ing unsound doctrine on the question of the Eucharist. In
particular, It was charged that the said bishop taught and
maintained, contrary to the 31a Article, " that the liticha-
riatio sacrifice is the same substantially with that of the
crow," and pronounces that "no words of man can
strengthen the tremendous and absolute identity of the two
sacriticee." Several other charges of a similar kind were
made against him, and he was allowed three months to pre-
pare and lodge with the clerk of court hie answers to the
presentment, which is forthwith to be ceennonatated to the
party ; and the synod flit to meet on the 7th of February next,
to hear parties in the case.
TILE Evsau AM COMMISSION.—The Vicar of Eyna-
ham has been served with notice that the commission of
inquiry into the charges alleged against him by the late
churchwarden, Mr. Joseph Drum, will be held at the public-
bowie called the Red Lion, in Eynsham, on Friday, the 14th
instant, at 11 o'clock a.m. The vicar, under the provisions
of the statute, has Intimated to the commissioners his deter-
' mination that the proocedimp shall be public.
atICIDE ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL-
WAY.—Let evening Mr. C. 3. Center coroner for West
Kant, held an inquest at the Trinity Anne, Church-street,
Deptford, on the body of Mr. James Herta, aged 64, a mu-
ter builder, residing at 72. Queen Elizabstb-street, Homely-
down who met with his death under the following frightful
citamiseanole. From the evidence given it appeared that the
deceased had for some timo exhibited such symptoms of in-
anity, arising out of a Chancery suit, that two persons had
been employed to keep watch over him. On several occa-
sions he had threatened to commit Nokias; and on Friday
morning last he tried to cut his throat with a knife. At 10
o'clock the same morning be left home, saying that he in-
tended going to Forest hill, Sydenhain to see • tenant,
which he did, afterwards calling upon ha brother-in-law,
also residing at Forest-hill, sad whose invitation to stay
to dinner he declined. He then left, apparently fir
the purpose of returning home, and was next seen by
Clayton Smith, driver of an engine en the Croydon line, on
the embankment about 700 yards distant from No. 6 bridge,
below the New-cross station, where he was observed to place
his head AMPS the metal. The Hastings express train im-
mediately afterwards came along, the driver of which, Ben-
jamin Fowler, on coming through No. 7 bridge, raw the de-
,eased about 50 yards distant, lying down • he then dragged
hicnerlf along, placed him head on the asetalla upon which the
train was running, and looked up. Fowler immediately
sounded the whistle, but before be could reverse his engine
the wheels caught the deoesseee head, cutting the scalp
from the face, and severing the right arm between the elbow
and /boulder. Mr. Hall, surgeon, of Horaelydown, having
tapered to attending the deemed profsealoaally, and that he
was deranged in his mind, the jury returned a verdict that
deceased committed suicide while labouring under temporary
insanity,
THE WAR PANIC IN AUSTRALIA.—The war plink
has materially 'subsided. Exams is followed by avec-ties ;
and those who previously betrayed the most fright, will pro-
bably be the loudest In deriding the idea of danger. Amongst
most people of sound j tidgresnr, however, there is a conviction
that the defences of Austmlia require strengthening.
Avoiding equally the extremes of panic sad of vain con-
&knee, a large party are intent upon placing the colosies
beyond the reach of the perils which might result from the
outbreak of war. Irrialleg expressions and comparison*
are judiciously eschewed, but • great deal of attention is
directed to the strong attitude latterly mourned by the
French in their naval settlement of New Caledonia. The
French ships of war have certainly • knack of showing them-
selves just at the time and pleas most likely to induce •
notion of their übiquity. When the news of the ern battle
gained by Napoleon 11l over the Austrians reached Sydney,
a few days prior to the departure of the mail, the French
frigate nabs wee on the spot ready with be triumphant
salute—Australian Mail. _

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BIRMINGITAII.—WO are informed that it is the
intention of his trllow•citisees to entertain Sir John Ratcliff
at • public dinner on the Sib proximo, on the °omelets of his
retirement from the mavoralty of that town, the duties of
which he has dhoti/algid with Ito much 'bit, sad public
spirit foe three saocessics rare.
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agp. trt 4 011. no, it, In lib,. 110.. anJ 11.. packet. Eseb {mast Is
Istellid 'Joan Noe, itisoressatim cetera Loadea—