The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

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ELITE!" UNRUH SOUTH OF ENGLAND IP. SIXTUS tint•
TUNS* or LANCASHIRIL —Play in this match, which commenced
on Thursday, on Broughton Cricket Ground, was resumed yester-
day. The wickets of the United tell much more speedily than
had been anticipated. and up to the time our parcel was de-
spatched the following was the spore :--Sixteen of Lancsahlre,
tint Innings, ITO ; Eleven United, first Innings, 169.

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The sloop-corvette Reindeer, 7, 2110-horse power
(nominal), was Boated out of the fourth dock this after-
noon' and placed at moorings in the harbour, where she is
to be completed for commission as rapidly as the resources
of the dockyard will permit. As, however, the new
pattern gnus with which she is to be supplied will not
be ready for shipment until October 3, It will be several
weeks before she will be ready to take her departure.
The screw-oorvette Cameleon, 17, 200-M:m
epower.
fitting for the first-clussteam reserve, in readiness for com-
mission, is undergoing some extensive repairs in No. 1
dock at Sheerness, involving an outlay of about 10,0001.
Her engines, machinery, and boilers have been removed
into the steam factory, where they are undergoing the
n overhaul and repair.
An Admiralty order has been received at this dockyard
directing samples of the iron ballast, in use for paving at
this establishment, to which attention was directed by Mr.
Seely, DIP., in the House of Commons, to be forwarded
to Birmingham, where it will be tested by Messrs. Ryland
and Co., to ascertain its quality and real value.
A detachment of gunners of the B battery 4th brigade
Royal Artillery will leave this garriaoa for Portsmouth,
on Tuesday, to embark for Canada with the other troops
proceeding to that colony.

THE SHROPSHIRE POISONING CASE.—On Wed-
nesday night the inquiry into the death of Harriet Tim-
brell was resumed before the coroner at Oakengates. The
deceased was housekeeper at the Hand and Hammer Inn,
Oakengates, the only other inmates of the house being a
young man, named Sampson Pitchford, brother-in-law to
the proprietor who lives in Wellington, and a servant girl.
On Sunday night, the 12th inst., the deceased went to bed
apparently in good health, requesting to be called early in
the morning, as she had arranged to go to Tewkesbury on a
visit to her friends. At 6 o'clock on the Monday morning
Mr. Pitchford called her, and she was then so ill that •
doctor was sent for. She lingered throughout the morning,
racked by intense thirst and a succession of twitches that
violently shook her body, and at half-pest 3 bathe afternoon
she died. A port-mortem examination revealed the
fact that she had been pregnant for two months,
and the surgeon in his cross-examination stated
that the appearance of the body was only consistent with
death by strychnine. Immediately after death the
body became so rigid that it could held by the head
and the heels without bending in the slightest degree.
In the course of the inquiry it transpired that on the
Saturday preceding the death of Miss Thubrell the
servant girl had seen in her bed-room a jar containing •
little jam, which appeared to have been " mixed up with
something on one side of the jar," and on tasting It the
girl experienced a bitter sensation in her mouth, which
she could not get rid of for some time. This jar was found
washed and put away on a shelf when looked for on the
Monday morning, and none of the witnesses could say who
had done it. It was further shown that the young man
Pitchford had served an apprenticeship of four years to a
druggist, and was well acquainted with the use and
qualities of drugs ; that he slept in a bed-room adjoining
that of the deceased ; that she bad no other acquaintance
in the neighbourhood but himself ; and that a letter had
been received from the sister of the deceased in which the
writer stated that she bad been told by the deceased that
Sampson Pitchford was engaged to be married to her. The
proceedings, which excited great interest in the locality,
were continued to a late hour, when the inquest was further
adjourned for three weeks, to permit of the analysis of the
contents of the stomach by Dr. Taylor.
OUTRAGE AT SHETFIELD.—A shoemaker at Shef-
field, names James Green, is in custody, charged with
attempting to murder • woman with whom he some time
since cohabited. Three months since the woman was sent
to Wakefield Gaol for some offence, and after she took up
with • young man named Alfred Jones, who promised to
marry her, and with whom she has lately been living.
Green seems to have been very much annoyed at this de-
sertion. The other night he went to a model lodging-house,
where the pair were staying, and secreted himself on the
landing, and as they were going upstairs to bed
he attacked them with a hammer. He first struck Jones •
blow on the head, which rendered him insensible, and then
attacked the woman BinneL He knocked her down,
knelt upon her, and inflicted eight wounds upon her head
with the hammer. Leaving her bleeding upon the floor,
he turned upon Jones, who had recovered his senses, and
pursued him into the street, exclaiming, " I have killed
her, and I will kill you." But for another lodger ooming
up at the time, he would most likely have carried out his
threat, as he is • moth stronger man than Jones. The
woman is in • very dangerous state, and her deposition has
been taken by • magistrate.