The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

THE STEPIIET MURDER.

TRITE BILL AC:A rNST mrcuNs FOR THE MURDER

OF MM. EXSLEV.

The witnewsea against David Mullin's, who dun&
chervil with the wilful runnier of Mrs. Dueler, in the
(4,,ri0-reed, Bow•rad, were examined before the grad
jury this marsingoinil sho*ly before I o'clock, the foreman,
with several of the jury. Anie into the New Court before
the Ourisition &donut sod announced that the jar, had
found a time bill ar..iinst David Mullins fur Maui aid
murder.

TAB trial will not take place before Thursday, when it Is
understood the Lord Chief Berm and Mr. Beron Martin will
preside.
Mr. iferjrant Perry, Mr. net*, and Mr. (Midge are
retained to colicket the perrecotits, iusertieled hy Mr.
Mostar ; and Mr. J. M. Best end Mr. Palmer, intrusted
by Mr. Wood, will defend the prisoner.

AFFECTING RUIrIDE THROUGH DISAP-
POINTED LOVE.

On Saturday afterioon, Mr. Harding held an
Wisest at the &tame's Heel Hotel, Healey, 011 the body of
.4 deist& Marlow, a years of age, who Lail committed suicide
by taking oxalic acid the previous day. The deeemed,
a fine yourm woman, occupied a respectable pwtt•o. is life,
au! was very highly respected bye time ei el. of triode sad
aniteint sees. Mho resided with her mother at Etruria Val.,
and eartial busier/ as a dreemiaker. For moms wash..
sho had been its • ilepreamd state .4 mind, mood, it
now turns out. by some unplcomuitneee with her
aweetbesn, a respectable young man, named Steele,
to wLirm she bed been engaged for seven years.
The esgagemeat, it appears, ass objectioaahle--
though on what account has not transpired—to Mr.
strele's friends, which 1.,.1 the effect of inducing
hint ,::her to break off the match altogether or to slight
the lady. Whichever it might have Lees, the fact
preyed upon the mind of the deceased to an eaten
which, there can be an timid, ultimately induced insmity.
awl while under its inlluemo she committed the rash act.
On Friday morning she rose about eight o'clock
sod went into the parlour, when her mother presently
heard her crying, and on guis7 thither found her writing
a Ictier, and appearing t", he in great trouble. In reply to
her neither, she promised to come to bee in the kitoheo is
a fee minutes tike wee Mani crying spin abeetly alter.
want.. and her mother went again to her, receiving the
same reply as before. Pmeently she came into the kitcheu
with a letter in her hand, which she gave to her mother,
and then raid. " (11i, mother, mother, I have takes
po,sm." Her moth w i.irriediately went to procure semi.
mire, sal sent for a doctor. The descried lay on the sofa,
al Lalf an hour afterwards died. A piper labelled
" oxalic acid" was afterwards found ea the floor,
hut it did act bear the name of any chemist, and
every effort since male to ascertain where the poison
vat pnatired has Lilal. The letter which the de-
rmas' ;see to her mother was as follow. :—" I feel my
time diewhig near. I feel quite reconciled to my fate.
I love not the least desire to live; bit, oh, how hard
1...1ie e. young. The only ain I ever committed is
loviez hint v. well. He has ruined no sal left ma to
my shame, after stoma years' courtship. I have hese
true an him, God knows I have ; hut his stepmother
and sisters have always tried to prejudice his mind **mil
me, and they are my murderers and Wa
Look at Lie Letters, sail you will see how he moo
here.' me. Bat he will never he happy, for he will
/easy, have the brand of niunler —murder on his
conscience. I whit von to bury hi. likeness with
nee, said the brooch.. Cool bye, and ble.s you all.
A. Marlow." On the back of the letter was, " Yon
rise show this to avenue ; do not give up his letters."
Ie nspeet to the silhoioas in this letter, fmm which
the melee would incline to draw an inference an-
few.nitshle to the character of the decensed's lover,
eternities to the evidence given at the iuquest, there seems
to be so emend for the stron r expression. n.ede use of by
the deceased, in the muse in which they would naturally be
erpretel.

A 'pia apirroin examination of the body wan sr & ly Mr.
Grim. enor, mimeos, whoatoted that it sbowe•l no vot
of dirge., wheteYer, azal Le warn of opinion that deaf
du.vl by 0t..11.. n. id. The jury returned a verdict of
"Temporary insanity."

PIloath:1110N of C'eiVocaTlON.--(TH DAY.)—
This nestling Dr. Travers Twine, the Vicouttenoral of the
Pi mite e of Canterbury, who was accompanied by Mr.
Frame.. Hart Deke. her thjestv's proctor, proceeded'
to die Jormal;m Chamlwr, We,troinater, for the
peeves, of further proroguing the coevozation of the
prelates end elsre7 of the Provioce of Canterbury, under •
commission from Hai Lord \r.-Lbi.bop of Canterbury,
Primate of all E ngl.wl sad Metropolitan. The Jens/elm
(*bomber promoted • dark awl deetlitte apple 1111WO during
the I,ricf period it was occupied. Dr. Twin read the echo-
Jule, and then declared cosvouition to be prorogued mail
December, but it is umlerstessi that DO business will be
transacted until the meeting which follows upon the mere-
Wks at pirlisassat.
KffransiffixtioN or, Writ •SinieLX. —We hays
not yet beard who is like") to come forward A. the seems-
sot to the jar' of March. Rumour point. to his brother,
Ord Alexander Gorton Lr 'West Sweet haa long
time moldered a " close borough ;" and from the amtbius
state of political at the present moment, a coati.,
is ant very .—Straecr Ade-en.. r.
Knot AT Hontrux.—Thy der tion for a mem-
tor to thin borough, in the place of the lamented Mr.
losho took place yesterday. Shortly before II o'clock a
procee:
elon was seen marching through the principal street
of Ibmitne, preceded by the beadle or .Tier, the ntaynr cud
a imslly number of electors following the aecient
Having ascended the heetiage the hell we. aoutalol, the
writ proclaim...l, end the meal forolelitte• observed. Mr.
Moffatt ma merged by Mr. BProose C... seeeiisd
Mr. Ashley, as aat and p Mroper perms serve the demos
of flotilla:a iu porlianteat. No other readidate being pro-
pouol, bin worship the Mater declared Mr. Moffatt to be
dirty elected, open which the beadle again sounded he bell
and "God save Use Mayor." Mr. Moffatt then ad-
d', • the electors.

CON sERN ATIVE thNNI2 AT WORCTISTEZ. —The
coesereatirie of Woreestor intend giving a grand baisquall
Thueutsy next, at the Guildhall, is bower .4 their ro-
c. amocialsoo. It is expected that at Wall=
guests will he present. sad that the compass will book&
Earl Beauchamp, Earl of 15hrewsbarr, Lord logestrr, Lord
Eltule‘. sir John Pekin?, Hua. P. Lyre, Mr. F. W.
K wrht. aud natty other 'lira' speakers. The chair trill
he filled by Mu. E. A. Lechaisre, al the Ohl &ak—
a

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F►.tiAir. Ell 101ATION TO TARMANI.II.—OIi Satur-
day tlis Aurora Australis, Captain J. Jardine, left Graves-
end for llol.rt Town with 112 single females selected by
the Tssnusian Emiostiow Agency. Mr. John Faulkner
ws• the surgeoe superintendent, Mrs. Hartard Wag the
instr.4l, weistt.l by two tub.maigoas. The woad was
vr4te.l ot loy Mr. P. .l. ThrTuz. and Mr.
Hews,- recouivAtitAt by Mr. Parker, the agency's
ascrrt..ry.