The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-19 00:00:00

TAB FOO.-THRSIC LIM LOST.

A lamentable occurrence took plum during a duns
fog which prevailed on Moiadey evealag, is the triWaity of
nachos,' Wiek-laae, at the soatb-oestera eatsessity If
Victoria-pub. Oa the towisippeth of Sir Chew Dookett's
weal, seer the North Leaden Railway arsh, lived a maa
aimed Hayes, who had charge of the lodt. setae, his wife
sad Au @MMus. Os bley aftausaa. a Mn. Chubb,
• wiis of a super is is Si. Jawees-etnet, etemey,
asompswied by Me daegtisor a flee little gist shoat six
years of ego, sailed loses Mrs. Hayes. Moat half pm 7,
the two hmeles awl sled left, sad &Mush the Is was es
these as to peewit the meter his distlaiyalehed from the
lead, they etrascrly slam la yeasiMel sissy the maw
path for the pupas. of semikag Reyes, who at the
(IRS me Tete:slag Gem die upper kak gate.
Nuking more we* sees we board of them seta
yesterday awasiag, whoa their bodies wen Elornowiesed la the
easel. It appease that Hayes mashed kie Mao akw
slants' after they had left Masai seeing sayddeg if
Mem, sad was alma inmeillatily elk& at by leeks of
" Help 1" He sea dews to ewe of the bower Mks, and
issait that a private lutetium, stlesksd lo gene if the
asighboarlag sew web, bed hem We tke suet, sad we.
etraggliag fee life. Hayes, she sums Milmity, set him
oat, wad bed bin vesseved to his *ma bevies, where he
resevand. TIM sight pawed without besting say tidings
of the 'skim wean. At lwerrkewevor. ghat half-
IttI_SIRIM $ an ir ikel'in'ia Si the body
era Mee gist fleadug athe water the leek. ad MMus
pt hat Mumbled it se this of the ekild of His. Chubb.
The dregs weft Ilieu said, sad met the spot. jest midge
the bask, wbsee these woes 7 Nat of warms by the beak,
were fad the Wise of Mm. Mayes sad Clabis. At
this pest of the easel the tuft peek mideedy tuns E.
The pent seestans, me des% maid ast Assess the tam,
sad as walked maybe bee the water. TM hello wen n•
coved to the White Meat plebe lease, OM Illed.lose,
Bow, to await a eaemer's Mused. Mrs. Chubb me far
admase4 It pregassey, sad Um left ave Madras. Mrs.
Reyes Ms aloe left a Waller family.

JILICTITC TILLIOLAPII COMPANY OP INLAND.—
AA as MU la this !Kona at Sao ambers of She
MON el ebb PAK It wee mooted ee lb. Irldebe. Na
oitiolokate. IMO the der sense iri me bees oils to
by mast
thole yooooottlos of leielar osbeeelgehr
Is ply off doe itablitir, etotwattor esseaerZ
easigetroth the orate to wind-op ths eats Manta
Vat to deaf mese. It b switteteed, however, tbM 10
le Wo sedagg.

AN AITBR•DINNBR DELUSION.

The following report end letter have been for-
warded to the Timm for publication :
" (Report.)
" N Diviskm, Nov. 18.
"I beg to report that in the Tinter of Satard.y, the 15th
instant, ander the head of Polies.—Mansion.houre,' Mr.
Palmer. of 55, Ormeeburch-street, stationer, is stated to
have told the Lord Mayor that be was violently attacked by
three Talus on /be night before (Thursday), about tea
*Waft, on Hackney-doom ; that they came behind him
and soddenly seised him, and while one of them placed
what he supposed to he a towel round his seek, the others
streak him, and after straggling bard, and using his stick es
well as he mold, he became insensible.
" Oa inquiry being made by the piker se to the truth of
sea statement, they ascertained that Mr. Palmer bad been
Kedag at Welthantstow, and was drinking at the Crown
, Church-Mint, Hackney, kept by Ur. Star-
nes p.m. until 12 midnight ;he had no marks of
en hillier or person, nor did he complain of having
bees seabed. Mr. Starling procured him two cabs to mad
Umbels*. hen be refused to go in either, and he left a great
deal** wens for liquor. He want up Daistoe•leue, where
he was seen by pollee-constable Ilmsay, No. 307, of the N
divides, to fall down and hart his face. He lifted him up,
sad he then want down the Queen's-road, where he was
afterwards seen by polies-constable Benison, No. 243, to
whom be stated that se had been with a detective officer
sawed Smith, of the City police, and that they bad both
bees assaulted by a man against whom they had been gotta;
up a ease. The sielimiemstable dirested him to the (*b-
lank is the Kiemiland-road, where he took a sob and was
driven home. Nothing was said by him to either of the
weetsbles that be hag been robbed.
"Mr. Starling, the landlord of the bones where Mr.
Palmer bad been drinking, seeing the above statement in
the Times, went to the City on Monday and saw Mr.
Palmer, and spoke to him about the report.
"Mr. Palmer afterwards celled at the Hackney police-
stadia, and wrote the animal statement in the presence of
Impeder lieetsaat.
"Joan BBC/2110W, Birristendeah"
(00P7)
55, Gracechureh.street.
" With regard to the statement made by me to the Lord
Mayor on Friday evades last, it I. evident that I have
deluded myself—having dined with a friend that afternoon
(Thursday), and taken too math wine, and that I was not
attacked as so described.
"I feel extremely sorry for having given the trouble that
I have. " CILLII.IIB H. Peamaa."
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Weehmtve from our report of the cue In Saturday's
Berprwesthat Mr. Palmer was meet anxious, when at the
Manion home, to leers from the Lord Mayor whether
a mad would be jastilled is carrying a revolver for his
prelneltion ? Bad one bees in his possession at the time "he
esetehdy should have, need it " The Lord Mayor, deeply
aenneiese of the responsibility which be would incur by all-
visa lamb • we, observed that " • man would be justified
is Wag violence in NM defence, sod repelling an attack in
the sect effeetnal maw, bat a magistrate could not, he
thespite, advise a men he map a weapon which might be
=ill be the dietneadon of a fellow creature under
of esitappesilMastos and mirake." Hie lord-
'kip beileved that the meat ratio/sal course to be now
aeglled by the gentlessan "had been to desperately
sat*aked" would be "immediate application to the polite-
statics war the spot at which the offence bed been com-
mitted, If impala* bad net been already Med* there,
and as deabt sew wield be taken ley the authorities to
plass whilitimi Am Is the direct."
The appOsen. odd be would take his lordship's advice.
At the same tine "he would not neglect other reasonable
UMW of protesting himself against the murderous email-
ante with when It seemed the metropolis abounded."