The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-30 00:00:00

THE AIUIDER INGLE,R.sruST
QUEEN-SQUARE.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning, Mr. Wakley, the coroner for the
western division of the county of Middlesex, reituesi Qui
inquiry on the body of Charles Canty, whoee death resymt
from the wounds inflicted upon him by Edward Tombs,
Am soon u the jury had sae ambled and answered to thaj,
name*,
The Coroner addressed them. He said that oil the hit
occasion of their meeting the jury had unattimoull
agreed to a memorial to the Secretary a
fait the Horns Department, in which thq
reined a request to the right hon. gentleman, that be vnxgi
caw the accused Edward Tombs to be produced UN,
them at the present adjourned inquest. In aeocedaute Irk
the wish of the jury he had forwarded their uirstetsja
the Home Secretary with the following expleamary
Sob:
"To the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpay,
Majesty's Seceetary of State for the Home Depsnaiiii7
" Sir,—At the request of the jury, whose name in
attached to it, I take upon myself to forward to yrs the
accompanying memorial, entertaining in this ors the wt.,
oonviction that it will receive from you every seguid.,
Should you comply with what appears to me to is. rasa-
able and proper request of the jury, I hereby aigertiks
that Edward Tombs shall not be discharged by ch, ths
custody of the police, and that he shall be sent fa* th
adjourned inquest to appear at the police-court at Clerko,
well, at the time stated in the warrant for his rinsed_
namely, 12 o'clock on Tuesday, the 30th day of Nonni*,
—I have the honour to be, &c.,
" TMOKAIII W•ILLBY, COMM' for Middies,"
To this he had remind the following reply:

" 27,
" Sir —I am directed by Mr. Secretary Wain& b
aoloiowledge the receipt of your letter of the
instant, and to Inform you, upon the whin
you enclosed from the jury sae to bon
touching the death of Charleo Canty, • Waoths t,„
formed the Commissioner of Police that his
consistently with their duty, take Edward Tomb., 'Mimi"'
cm remand, charged with the murder of Charier Cu % b,
fore the adjourned inquest on Tuesday next, on the iv
the police-wart, for the pwposs of being Mended. gm, I
am to add, Mr. Instructions In this mann hate
be. id, to the po upon the strict engagement Inds in
your letter that they shall afterwards be allowed to noon
the prisoner in performance of the obligation which the he
clearly imposes upon them to take him before the might*
at the time fined by the warrant of remand.-1 an, air
your obedient sernint, " H. WADDINGTON."

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In accordance with this permission, the police twos*
Tombs to the bonne of the inquest, and he wee beceight
belay the jury. Lie is a short, stout man, with black
whiskers, and of somewhat ferocious upset.
Mr. Lewis attended to defend him.

Mr. Stagged!, the surgeon, of Queen-square, who had
made a port mortem examination by direction of the come,
aid-1 consider that the deceased died from the Minns of the
wound in the throat. Thu external and Internal jugular
vein on the right aide were divided. On the left ride the
external and internal jugular vein and the carotid artery
were divided. The trachea and larynx were divided. There
were no outs about the hams, and the lungs were mach
diseased. _ _

Elizabeth Hodgkin, the servant, wee called, and identified
Tombs as the person who murdered Canty in the kitchen ef
17, Gloucester-meet.
lire. Bell, the landlady, was also recalled, end made a
statement similar to that of last week. _

Police-oonstabla If 110, Sergeant H. Brown, and Inspector
Witham, described the cirruzustaeces attending the arrest.
The coroner said that the evidence had been repeated
before Tombs. He bad able legal assistance, and Mr. Lewis
would advise him properly wucther or not he should say
any t biog.
Mr. Lewis said ha quits felt the power of the coroner's
remarks, and parodying that the Home Secretary would
ao3sds to thevery reasonable request which thejory had made
to hays Toob before them,be read well considered the whole
of the circumstances. Combating the nature of the charm
sad that this could be no doubt about the parson who com.
ladled the murder cc by whom it was done, sad emiskiaring
morrover that everything would depend upon the stets of the
ma's mind at the time, he could not ruminantly ask any
jury to tabs his statement of Ida/ ma a truthful history dths
tramsesioa. trader these circumstances he should advise
him not to make say observations.
The prisoner was than removed in the custody of the pollee
toClaricsnwall Police Court.

—tie; orirtm7rsurameitithe eridenoe, and dwelt mom the
systematic nature of the proc,edings which Tombs bed
adopted, end remarked that Mr. Lewis not having raised the
state of mind of the awned, the jury would have sod* is
do with that emotion.
The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder molest
Toe b*. and tumnimously agreed to a vote of thanks to Mr.
8. H. Walpole for his considerate attention to their newt.
The proceedings then terminated.

The prisoner wee !subsequently taken before Yr. Cerris,
at the ClerkeswellliJe-usurr, and committed fur trial.
The prisoner seemed like a man who had tem
awakened out of a sleep, and when asked to have=
would not allow the polite to touch him, but at one araf
with Turner the gaoler.

THE BATBAORDINABY
_OCCTIAUNCE AT

-152E8-1011:

Yesterday the inquest on the body of Hanna
King whose death, tuner extraordinary carausetawees,
b reported in the drpresa
o of yesterday, wee rewound
efore Mr. Baker, at Me Cmpasses Tavern, Daher&
The Coroner, with the jury, proceeded to view that pet
of the bridge over which, as staud at the former tetpdry, ohs
deceased was thrown, and also that part of Me ties by 0e
side of which the deceased was found, the two spots Wog
about 300 feet from each other. _

TheC;roner caked ,f if there Was not a piece of km is had
of an engine, with a book attached to it, by which a prima
might be dragged that distance ?
The superintendent of the line observed that thee wee a
straight pieta of iron, Galled the " life-guard," bat by k a
person would not be likely to be carried so tar; end if the
dammed had been so carried, she would have received most
serious injuries.
Sarah Sophia Bailey, of 6, Frederick-place, Tottinbia•
rod, West Hackney, was thee called. Bbe said thmile
missed's mother end father lodged with her. Last Saha*
fortnight, about half-past teckek, deceased called to sat
her mother. When thawed lett, which we soon arm, she
cried bitterly, and said, "1 will never roue back say tome
Deceased was a most indueniows girl.
By the Coroner-1 do not know what led the deceased Is
make the remark eke did. 1 did not hoar any angry wale
pose between deceased and her mother.
The deceased's mother said that when bar daughter cad
en the Saturday she (witness) read • letter to her from hr
brother, who Is in Australia, when she cried very much, ma
soon after left. She at first thought, when celled apes by
Sergeant &wee, N 1, that her daughter had caroming
suicide; but after her statement to the medical gentheamt
and chaplain of the German Hospital, and to her Mom
witness, and her aunt, which account was to the mate eflue,
wittier believes that she had hem drugged, and that she was
afterwards plated on the line.
A friend of the family in whkh deceased was a sereet
said that her MIMEO'S liked the deceased very much, and diet
she appeared to be comfortable In her situation.
After mom remarks born the coroner, who observed that I
anis altogether a most mysterious and extraordinary Woo
mad that it was not likely that the person with whom i
ceased was on the &utuday in question would be fond,
The jary renamed a special verdict, which was to the
effect that the deceased was discovered wilh mortal *tufts
to her legs by the north Ade of the North London
and was taken to the German Hospital, where the died, bet
how sad by what UM= the injuries wen mimed than
was no evidence before the jury to snow.

RETOLTINO WIEDER IN IRELAND. -- An
ireesa• ruse Mary ll`Coart, who had socumulatel
Hale eammk, and who kept a buster's shop at C
ht the county of Louth, was strangled on Tuesday algldidli.
A little grandchild aged three years was in the hewn Mil
wee heard crying at three tiolook next day, wire lb! daV
which had been ft:Piked—the key nut to be hs4 trmede
and the old woman found dead, with marked sempaylshosa
on her neck. The inquest watt held yesterday em.s.
brothers of the deceased woman, who cams fate Dudek
nod presented a beak book at the damn beak Inge taraileg,
but as they said they took the book out of the abet Olio
ceased attar the dox had been forced, to proem* nosy II
defray the expenses of ber burial, they ware Illseatele.
Newry Arunitter.
MR ATLANTIC CABLL —The cOrTetpoisdeat
the Train CAraniel• writing from vskada, swam dot ill
Friday the weather wan so flue no farther pretext WM be
advanced for not proceeding with the layYlg Nee d 41*
shore end of the cube. The weede sewely peeceedleds
me, and enomeded In submerging the fes =the d now
cable, end in usakfai • splice with the deep NM podia abed
flee talks at Denke-heed. This operades was cede So"
Wreak ate it fa sash to be revive datt the reseided
ewes sidles of 11110111 obis left at erased& vim se beeesit
hire sod added to the part now laid down. Had ILA 150
done, there k no doubt but the result would be sedishabne
This is more widest from the feet that attar park( the aptl
where the aber• sad; torcuinutert some of the sun. fa
work. M easdithe the under running ol' dm
cable, diesevseed • "kink,' having the ettaduedildi
towiresconerstantto, thet conwardueTclingenaperibreed ibehdualirivir6
The defective pert wsa immedevely cut out. But the lustier-
sunning was immediately discontinued, though it le protobla
that other defects of the kind would be disooverwi had tbi
preceded. There is so person here capable of tented she
shore end of the cable, so that there Is nothing knows pf the
present coaditlim of the cable, or whether lb {eying down el
the portion of shoes end ties materially Improved Ito coil-
tios, as the office has been shut up shim the let lest., emi
the ear, with one exception, &ebarged (non removed eli
Leeks, as has been arerted).