The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-07 00:00:00

1:41W-STREET. - (TIM DAY.)

Thii morning Mr. Fitzjatnes Stephen (wi;.ll Mr.
Payne), instructed by Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe,
to the chief magistrate, Sir Thomas Henry, for a
....wile to couitii.ind the attendance of the porter at the
service 'ltth, to give evidence of the presence in
1,4,1••1 of Nelson, iu furthenince of the applies.
wai r.itit :against that gentleman for the murder
, • Mr. r;,....r4e Wrnimu Cordon at Morant Bay, Jatuaita,
t:t.lsr,

Thomas ty granted the summons.
li.onol Desborough. of 1, Tennyson-
• 'Muth. deposed that he had seen Lieutenant Brand
ar....111 the last few days goingl in and out of Lane's
It a, I. m. -tlhan's•place, Regent-street.
M-. Fitij tines Stephen -.lnd now, sir, it becomes my
to -Ipply fur a warrant against Lieut. Brand. I wish
t • •••• a., that nothing can he further from the wish of all
• in this proceeding than that any personal mmHg-
• 't positively required by law, should be offered to
a; th,e gentlemen ; and iflany experience of those
• Illure familiar with these matters could devise
ro • by which these gentlemen could be spared the
ition of being imprisoned, we should be most happy
te consent to any Comm, that might be suggested.
Thom is Henry -You mean with respect to Lai"
Mr. stepli. at--With respect to bail or with respect to
; 111111 into Ctilitoily on a warrant. I don't know
i..•;:ier any course as this might be adopted—if an
could inform the accuse,' that a warrant was
issued but that if he would give his word to appear it
would nut b, executed, he would not absolutely taken
into custody.

Sir Thont. Ifenry—We could hardly entrust that to the
officer who scrves the warrant.

Itli. steplien—Sir, what we ate doing is likely to be re•
girded as a harshjt is certainly a severe measure, and
t:ere is no wish to add any unnecessary severity to what
the law requires inthe interest of public justice.
Sir Thomas Henry—At this stage of the procce.lin4s I
purposely abstain from expre,.,iing any opinion beyond
this, that I think you hare opened a sufficient ease to call
for further inquiry, and that I shall issue the warrants
you have applied for. And I take this opportunity of
saying, if you will allow ine, Mr. Stephen, that you have
opmied the c.c.*: with great ability and with great fairness.
Mr. Stephen—l ant sure, sir, I wished to open it in •
way consistent with respect to gentlemen placed in a very
painful position awl to the court. And now, so., may I
ask you whether you think it is competent to you to take
Lail?

Sir Thomas Henry—lt is competent, no doubt. It is
not lion! in caien of murder, but then, this is quite an
tt.Apt6acd CAN,. There ix no precedent, I may nay, for
it. awl lion prelegred to deal with it exceptionally in that
..pect, with regard to bail.

Tile No111;1107114 was then issued against 3. Laing, the
port, r at the United Service Club.
About au hour after the issue of the summons referred
to Mr. Horne Payne and Mr. Sheen returned to the court,
nut announced that the porter was in attendance.
.1. Lang examined—l am hall-porter at the Senior
United Service Club. I know Colonel Abercrombie
Nelson, from seeing him there as a member of the club.
I siw him there last on Saturday. He has letters addressed
to him there. Ido not know him private residence. lie
calls for his letters daily when in London. I know no
other place where he is more likely to be found.
sir T. Henry, upon this evidence, directed the war-
rant to issue against Colonel Nelson.

With respect to Governor Eyre it is understood that he
is willing to attend when and wherever required.
loth warrants were then plated in the hand, of the
warr.int officers of the court.

Toe TIITEKARY CorNTV ELECTION. —T wo peti-
tions ratting to the Tipperary county election, one from Mr.
Waldron, are printed with the parliamentary votes. Both
pray that the return of the Hon. C. 'White may be de-
clared null and void, and Mr. Waldron be seated, on the
ground that votes were obtained by means of intimidation,
violence, duresse, and undue influence. Mr. Waldron com-
idnins in Id+ petition "that divers of the Roman catholic
clergy, supporters and agents of the said Hon. Charles
White, exercised their spiritual influence to conir•.l the
choice of the electors, and Cu compel them to record their
votes for the said Honourable Charles White, and to
abstain from voting for your petitioner, and that the said
undue influence so exercised as aforesaid interfered with
and prevented the exercise of the right of voting of large
numbers of the electors of the said county of Tipperary,
who were ready and willing and had promised to vote for
your petitioner the said Lawrence Waldron."

THE GREAT EASTERN BLOWN OFF THE aRIIHRON.
—(ruder the pressure of the gale yesterday morning some
of the anchors drew from their holdings, and the Great
Eastern drifted from the gridiron to the eastward—that is
to say, nearer the centre of the Mersey--and grounded on
the soft mud, where the receilMg tide left her, it is said," in
couirarative safety." Various estimates are given as to
the distance the chip dragged her anchors, the master of
one tug asserting that it was at least 150 feet, and another
shortening the distance to 40 feet. It is matter of con-
gratulation that the casualty was not more serious, for it
is hardly possible to estimate the fearful amount of
damage which might be occasioned by so ponderous
vessel drifting amongst the shipping at anchorage in the
Sloyne.

A correspondent of the Mourhester Otrarcliam
says it is believed that Sir William Erle, ex-Chief Jos-
tke of the 'onnuon Pleas, if waisted with those whom it
is proposed to associate with him in the task, will act as
the judicial president of the Commission on Trades'
Unions. Lords Lichfield and Elcho and Mr. Roebuck are,
he adds, amongst those designated as his colleagues. Sir
l'rossley and Messrs. Mill and Hughes have likewise
been invited to act.

The case of Ecrc v. Sadleir has been decided at
Dublin in favour of the defendant. The action arose out
of a tranxiction in which the late John Sadleir was one of
the principals, the disputed bill of exchange having been
given in consideration of land purchased by him for the
plaintiff.

Mr. Mayer, the Mayor of Liverpool, has deter-
mined to present his splendid collection of antiquities and
works of art to the town. The only stipulations which
be has attached to his gift are that the collection shall hear
his name and that it shall not be dispersed. The collec-
tion is valued at many thousands of pounds, but, in an ar-
tistic and antiquarian point of view (says the Lin !pool
q.rrory), it is absolutely priceless. No amount of money
could replace the Fawcett collection of Anglo-Saxon anti-
quities, and many of the illustrations of ancient and
naedbeval art areequally unique.
The government of Hesse has just accorded an
indemnity of seven florins per day to the deputies who
shall represent in the Cerman parliament that part of
crindlnical Hesse which is incorporated in the northern
union.

General Enrique O'Donnell, brother of the
marshal, has just received a passport at Madrid to leave
Spain and go abroad. The ex-Minister of the Interior, M.
Escositra, has likewise been handed one.
llf the 4,,i8 candidates fur matriculation in the
Bombay rniversity only 92 have passed, and great is the
lana-.cation of young limulniy. Of who went up for
th. little-go,- 21 passed ;of eight candidates, three ob-
tained B.A. ; and of three candidates, two passed the
nr-t examination in civil engineering. The only two can.
did des for the LL. B. degree passed.
1 Plea: OF IRON IN .t MAN'S EYE FOR TWELVE
corresvonilent informs us that James Paterson,
ixn r maker, at present working in Messrs. Earle's ship-
yirl, was euttrii out a countersink rivet from the shell of
qc,,a•vessel, ledng built in the yard of Messrs. Scott and
Clyde, in the beginning of May, 18.55, when
of the rivet broke off, and after stnlcing a plate
aisive his head, buried itself in the centre of his eye,
,Iryiug the sight in an instant. The wound healed,
:d at tir..t the eye was not much disfigured ; but it gra-
!!: ,Hy shrunk smaller, and last week a very small point of
ir.A, was seen protruding through the surface of the hall,
ii,or the place where it had entered. On Weitnes-
dc. 1.-1. at the General Infirmary, Paterson was success-
..lwrated on be Dr. King. The piece of iron, which
1• rlp resembles in shape, is of an inch in length,
nI ail inch in breadth, and 4 of an inch thick.—Eastern
C raid.

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