The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-04 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

MAR LllO Ito 1.4 111-ST REET.
lIC,VANI. AWL, wilt.
Abirphy, a labourer, was brought before Mr.
Knox on a warrant charged with assaulting his wife,
Mary, residing in Cooper's-court, Windmill-street.
1 lie prosecutrix having fainted ust before the case was
called ou, she was allowed to give her evidence seated, she
appearing to be very ill.
On being sworn she said, in answer to questions by the
inagistnite- - I do not wish to press the charge. It occurred
at 12 o'clock yesterday; but 1 don't wish to press it. Don't
put any more questions to me. He has been a good hue.
band to me. Let him go. Grant me my request. It
wool happen again. He'll be a good husband for my sake.
Mr. Knox-- How long have you been married!
Prosecutiiir- Twelve years. Its all through his parents.
Mr. Knox ordered the prosecutria to be assisted out of
court, she appearing to be quite overcome.
Paice (one of the warrant officers)—The prosecutrix is
not in such a had condition as she pretends to be.
Barns (the gaoler)—l have known the husband for years,
and lie is a quiet, well-behaved man.
Mr. Knox—Did she appear in such a condition when
she yesterday applied for the warrant ?
l'aice—No, sir, not half so had.
Mr. Knox--Then it is got up by her to deceive and en-
tertain the court?

Paice—That is so. On going to take the prisoner into
custody last night she way rushing about the room, and
the neighbours said there was six of one and half.a-doxeu
of the other.

Mr. Knox—Prisoner, I am inclined to think your wife's
fainting and all that is only to deceive me. I will take the
case as one of " no prosecutor," and discharge you, and if
your wife wishes to attend again she can do so.

W MTN! NSTER.
STEALING A H..H,E, CART, AND HARNE,S.
n, IVittiont AWataiids, 21, and Sophia
Gil, r, 20, were charged with stealing a hone. cart, and
harness, value NW., the property of Frederick Coton.
Mr. Alfred H. Jarrett, superintendent of police of the
borough of Hertford, said from information he received,
lie went on Saturday morning last to the White Swan
public-house at Hertford, and saw the prisoner Green
holding a borne outside the door of the house and asked
him to whom it lielonged ; be said ho was holding it
for a loan inside, and, directly, Edmonds came
to the door, and offered Green a pot of beer. Edmonds
said the horse and cart were his, he used them in his
business. Witness was not satisfied with the account he
gave, and took him and the other into custody for the
unlawful possession. They were taken before the borough
ningistraten and remanded till yesterday, being then
charged with stealing. At the public-house at Hertford
he received a receipt (produced) wet with ink for W., the
prisoner Edmoniln hating sold the horse and cart to a man
named Parkins for IV.

Evidence having been given of the sale by Edmonds and
his confession of the robbery, and three convictions having
been proved against him,
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

FEARFUL SCENE IN A MINE.

FIVE LIVES LOST.

A sad accident occurred in North Levant Mine,
St. Just, on Monday. Two lumen were 'toping in the 70
fathom level, going east, and knew that they approached
part of an adjacent mine, Wheal Maitland, which had
not been worked for 30 years. They did not, however,
anticipate danger. The two miners were using hammer and
picker in soft ground when the water trickled through to
them. It momentarily increased, and then all at once
gushed out from a gap 3 feet long and 9 inches wide.
Thomas Oats and his son and James Nicholas ran for their
lives a distance of 40 fathoms to Wheal Game shaft, and es-
taped. The stream, which must have beenthe outpour of the
accumulated waters in some of the winzea, rushed seven or
eight fathoms to a wince which led downwards to the 85.
East of this Henry Thomas, aged 53, his son William, 22,
and James, 20, were at work. The father and younger son
were swept from their work instantly. William scrambled
up on a piece of wood, and, remaining quiet, was saved.
The father was hurried at least 50 fathoms and found quite
dead. James haul not been discovered, but of his untimely
fate there is not the least doubt. William remained in
peril for a quarter of en hour, than descended, groped his
-way in the dark over the place where his father lay dead
and covered with debris, and escaped up a shaft. Between
the 5.1 and the 100 fathom levels were two sons of
Captain Thomas, the resident scent—damea, 22, end a
lad of 13 ; they were in a winzo thirty fathoms east of the
engine shaft. They were washed down to the 100, and
' along it nearly to the engine shaft. As the torrent tore
along this level, carrying with it loose and splintered
' timber, stones, and rubbish, it threw from the tramroad
a wagon dung it across the level, and this formed a
barricade, aguunst which the brothers were hurried. James
was found breathing, and was speedily raised to the
surface, where Mr. Richard Quick, a surgeon, who resides
near, aas in waiting, and Captain James Bennett, the
other agent, bad restorativee, blankets, kc. He lived
twenty minutes, but was speechless. His weaker and
younger brother was fearfully maimed. Nearly every bone
in his body was crushed, and the splintered wood had
pierced him over and over again. John Humphries, jun.,
and Andrew Angwin heard the rush of the water in the 100,
escaped to the shaft, came up it against a heavy fall of
water, and escaped. Richard Warren, an experienced
and cool miner, who has seen death in every form,
was, with William Warren, his son, a young man of 21,
and his nephew, aged 17, at work in the 115 fathom level.
They were 30 fathom from the winze down which the water
streamed. He beard the torrent coming, urged his younger
companions to be prompt but collected, and sent them on
in (runt of him. They crossed under the winse, down
which rushed the stream, and, of course, were at once in
darkness. As they approached the shaft, Warren passed
his eon, because he knew the level and its junction with
the shaft. At this time the water tumbled around them
four feet deep. Warren could not find his nephew. He
bad not many days recovered from a fever, and was weak.
He went down in the stream in the level, or fell into
the shaft ; at any rate, he has not yet been found.
The escape of Warren and his son, two powerful men,
was wondrous. The rising waters drove them from the
level into the shaft, but here the water which fell from
above was so weighty that they could only cling to the
ladder. As their enemy rose about them, however, it
was n to ascend or perish. The father led. In
the level t ey could just bear each other. The son
wished to give up what seemed to him a useless struggle,
and to prey during their last minute or two. The father
dragged him to the shaft, where the falling water drowned
all sound of voices. By a kind of instinct, as they ruse,
the son placed each hand on a ladder-stave, under the
father's foot. At the expense of swollen and excoriated
hands the son was thus assisted to keep his hold. With
his bead he propped up and pushed the father, who felt •
weight rushing down upon him which he described as at
least 5 cwt. Slowly and painfully they moved upwards,
step by step, 14fin., and saved themselves. By this sad
accident five lives are lost. Three bodies have already
been recovered. One poor woman has lost her husband and
son ; u widow, with six young children, has lost the eldest, 1
her main supporter; and Captain Thomas has losttwo suns.

Brunel' is busy with the preparation of the fetes
which are to take place on the occasion of the marriage of
the Count of Flanders. Superb and costly presents will
be offered to the young flesittOr, and the palace which is
now getting ready for her will be worthy of her rank and
beauty, having been ceded to her by Count d'Alcantara, and
which is now being embellished in the most elegant and
gorgeous style.

On Monday night the steamer leaving Dundalk
for Liverpool was crowded with emigrants, all of the farm-
ing class, and apparently persons in a comfortable position,
being well dressed, and having with them large heavily
laden boxes. The scene at the departure of the steamer
was affecting. The deck was crowded. There were at
least 120 persons, young and old, and numbers of them
were bitterly weeping as they bade a last farewell to their
friends on shore.

DEATH or Mx. C. H. BENNETT.—We regret to
reconl the death of this remarkable artist, who, after a
brief illness, expired on Tuesday morning, at his resi-
dence in C.iversharn-road. His premature decease is a
real low to art. Mr. Bennett, though his talent for
caricature was great and exceptional, had made his mars
by work of original and picturesque character, and his
illustrations to Bunpui and other authors are full of
vivid power. But his rich fancy, and command of the
grotesue, found, during the latter portion of his too brief
life, their best scope in the pages of Punch, which he
enriched with large contributions of the most wildly
humorous kind, from single figures to the most complex
and elaborated allegory. His faculty for likeness was ex-
traordinary, as his groups from the politicians, the acade-
micians, and the philosophers testified, and he had also
what may be termed n Rabelaisian instinct, which gave
vitality to the most ludicrously unpromising subjects.
He was in possession of his full powers, and had been at
work within about a fortnight of his lamented death. A
more amiable and gentler nature it would be impossible
to find than that of Mr. Bennett, and be had deeply en-
deared himself to his artistic and literary colleague'. A
widow and a young family mourn his loss.—The Day.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(DI TELEGRAPH.)
BEDFORD GRAND NATIONAL HUNT
MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

GRAND NATIONAL HUNT STEEPLECHASE. 4 miles.
Thorganby, Gelert, Yarborough, Emperor 111., Hippo-
lyte, Vencedora, Morpeth, King Pippin, Bicester,
Nimrod, Mayflower, Stoneham, Wilverley, Father O'Leszy,
Sir John, Chit-Chat g, Tuscola:nun, Marley Hill, Fairy
Land, Sensation, and Golden Fleece are here.

KIMBOLTON CASTLE STAKES. 4 miles.
Atalanta, Cortolvin, Lincoln, Liston, Bishopton, The
Tavern, Charlie, Tusculnnate, Despatch,Shangarry, Green-
land. and Golden Fleece are here.
SELLING HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. 2 miles.
:ayhurst (sold for IOW.), Gorsehawk, Lincoln, Monitor,
and Tartar (sold for 501. cull). All are here.

N. W.
W. N. W.
N. W.
W. N.W.

Cape l9ear 3011 60 N.W.
Llverpool 151.94 54' W.
Holyhead 10.51 49 W.S.W.
Penance •30.18 51 W.
Ems& 30.U50 N.W.
Lorlent 90.24 52 W.
Rochefort 30.38 52 W.
Plymouth SO 11 5.V, W.
Weymouth 30.00 Ill' W.
Porlamuuth 30.05 50 W.
London 20.94 61' W.
Yarmouth tube 50 W. N. W.
Scarborough ?8.60:0 W.
Shields 29.61 50 N.W.
Helder —

-. i.
Nairn
Aberdeen
Leith
51ra —1
Ardreeean itoB4 48
Greene:matte 129.77 50
Valentin 10.12 50