The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-16 00:00:00

ruining the ps up.. It was double-massed by No. 7.
wIA leg
i• We wad " halt " was peen, and
out, each 'IL
whim he Mess, to see the seer of
Use shot. I have the same duty as co this oar.
Men several hair from this gun r well se others,
rid it was rained hew on Thursday In the sire way am
• ether ooreseres. There is a difference in the force
required to ram here different gun., but this gun warn very
eaoly rammed. The man who leered the vent and pricked
the tortrike gig sot ay oat, or we should have roamed
Sergeant John Matthews, ot the Royal Artillery, quar-
ried in Dover —I amirtioriag sergeant to the Dover
Irdniseer Caps, and was as day when the corps
meet at Archeliff Port far the purpose of pm
genus
on Thursday rears. The stores
as usual from the sliwarcom, and the
pus wen searched sad the vent drifted as is usual before
eirenerscing to ire. The commode, gere the word for
the detackarear to load with round shot. No. 7 brought
the aura* out in • cylinder se reel and placed it be-
tween hiss& and No. 3 The sponge was bonded to No.
I, wig agimmd the pa est, sad i was the looliod. I saw
the earoriegs get in and afterwards the shot and wad,
whka Inn property erred hems by No. 2 and No. 3.
The vest was prepedy sweet The practice then yaw
immeed as senelfrom right to left, Mel so went on till the
osielarl lisrposed, et tie fourth mod of No. 2 gun.
After the esomanding Aker pen the word to fire, I
steal In • sense oat of the Top, abesaht sad forty feet
frees No. I pea Mier the gas wee I found myself
mewed with dirt sad WIMP. I t, knowing the
helinatiou of the gum GM somothing must be the mat-
Hooked to mg Maid sew No. 7 who had tired the
gem with his heads up env his heed sad the blood running
dews his farm and aa Ors* my eye to the gun I found
ere had bees an I married "My ()ad,
their* is an ezpknion, sod some men are ova into the
ditsh." I then went to the battery of No. 3 gun and pve
the alarm, when every man left the gun amid went to Nader
assierce. I thee got upon the parapet and Masi mar
isSe the trench, where 1 saw Mr. Thompson and Serpent
both lying there. 1 consider that every man at
No, gun knew his duty and did it. We had not a young
bend at the gun.
By the Forerun—l did not see the shot alight, ray Mks-
tin hems taken up by the accident.
John Leigh, silk mercer, Snargatearest, Dever--4 sin
:rZain the Ist Cinque Porte Volunteers. I was told
s evening cf the explain se me of • reap=
Megient Oottenll was with sm. We isseseded to
spares cuff and stationed osneives • few riadsamet the
brow of the cliff. Our duty wee to take as to
the range of the ahot, sed Dote whether it shat or
west beyond the tsegek We were lassiediatisly abreast of the
target, which was • good quarter of • mile from the shore.
The shot from the exploded gun fell 100 yards from the
target. Three other show were she 1110 yards dieter.
The shot from No. 2 gun, prior to the discharge with
which it exploded, went within two yards at the target.
We were not aware from any abommlosseee that as wel-
der had takes plass, and remain' cm oar Motion till It
was quite dark. The following are the direaces at which
sick of the twelve discharges fell :—No. 1, 108 ; No. 2,70 ;
Nu. 3, 90 ; No. 4, IC3 ; No. 5, 70 ; No. I, 100 ; No. 7, 8 ;
No. 6, 2 ; No. V, ; No. 10, 6 ; No. 11, 100 ; sad No. 12,
25 yards.
Lieut. Whale Reef" loyal AirrUry, inmained—On
the evening of Timm* but 1 elemided We princtice of the
volunteer saiiihry in eosrysrns,. of as mar 1 had re-
ceived. Three rem& were led without mysecident, but
en the fourth repel the seem' gun from the right burst. I
maw it boded and We manien of the gun all performed
their duties dendlly sreseseselp.
By the joy—I bed slionded tie radios of the salon.
teen twin before, and la my ?pinkie dile gun was loaded
quite as well as it had bee previously.
James Stilwell, solicitor, rending in Dover, and • Beate-
sant •
in the let Magus PortAzty.. Voluntesen-4 was in
the battery with Orrin Wolloar an the mere( of
Thureday lad. I was ordered by Captain Welborn to see
after No. 2 gun, the wood gun from the edit.
em Mine
naiads were fired from it. The rot two at 4 devo-
tion, sad the third 41. That was the which las
been described by the witness Leigh as going so dem to the
target While the gm was being lasted the berth lima I
Maid almost laterally with the muzzle of the gss. Muse
that it was properly loaded. The two NM who soIiMMI
home the charge did their duty very well. Then was sio
dificalty in ramming the gun as there messlimm is. The
Pap went Mese easily, sod from the mode wide& the
ramming was done I should my the charge was well hems
No. 4, whose duty it was to pack the lape, did M. and
made so obeervatioa. 11 the cartridge led nee bees home it
would have bra his duty to cry wt, Net home,* aed
the man at the maser of the gun would have thee rammed
spin. He did not do so me this canals, sad therefore I
presume the charge was hare. Mr. frier, who was No. 1
at the gun, began laying it at 41 degrees ; bst Mr Slider Is
riurtunately rather short - ted,sed meld red ampler
the laying. I therefore it far him.
By the fray—The wad fitted well. The &Swear of
ream between 31 and 41 damns Mention would be from
300 t• 30 yards. A gar et 41 &gran of iddirelio• hardly
✓equires • wad.
The Inquiry was then adjourned aril Tarry art,whes
aciaric • - as to the cause of the explosion will be
adduced

The funeral of Sergeant Monger takes place to-marrow,
sad the demonstratioas of respect and sympathy ere ax-
prised Ur be oe as enemas, male.
The sulfaren are p, mss as favourably. We saw Hal-
low, the gutsier, who applied the match to the exploded
gee, this isorning. He carries his arm in a ding, owing to
W salary be received in hie hand, and the whole of the
right ode of hie face sad mirk is speckled with mark. of in-
jury hem the gravel or tee shingle blown from the plat-
forms ea the gun eapandis&

Lab initUignue.

COURT OF BANKRUPT:ff.—Ai:raver 16.
(Before Mr. Commiesioner Asa)
Ix O ZOLISOW.—OCIIOO4 CAMP OP SUKIDIL
Mr. C. IL Lewis, d tl e firm of Harrison and Lewis,
No. 6, Old Jewry, made the following application in this
matter. He amid George
.1101 brow W•• • =VW
Claremarket, Linixin's-irm-fiebb, who this
court under the arrangem. it clause( He wed to make
this statement publicly, in puler that the meditate might
not complain of an -thing lie did in tle ems, it being one of
peaulier character. After the petition was pre-
be (Ir. Lewis), on behalf of the petitioner and at
the lewd of some of tho cieditors, thought it right to
seed the into puis•ision. Unfortunately, a day
or two tlkerwnedl, the petitioner committed suicide, the
effect of which lewdly wee to withdraw the cam from the
jurisdiction of ibis court. bemuse there ham* bees no
adjudication of bankrupky male, tb, estate had sot been
vested in the hands of the court The memenger. how-
ever, Mr. Austin, had been good enough to remain
in possession for the tut three or four days in
the • interest of the creditors. A asettag of meditate
would shortly be held,. and administration would then
be takes out. In the meantime they wired to mad •
ppeeetoonnwho node:Mood the business into peermaiou, and
it was &skald, that Mr. Audio, the wesesoger,
Amid withdraw.
71111 001113166011.1. (to Mr. A nstin) —ls it &nimble ?
Mr. maa-ok re, air, I should Wok it was highly
cheleabie.
The Cossolmioser-11 en let it be in.

Yr. C. IL Lewis—The :dicci.fameteHese, Yr. Wawa, has
nesived sow 9001. or 3001., and will keep peuessice of
that amount until the creditor., have determaed open what
coons they Will pursue. I wi.lied to make this sistensent
pabhely, so that the creditors should not have any cause
for ausapprebeosion.

they had some drink. At this period there was
a itrike amongst the brickmakers, but beyond the
fact that each an event had taken placedt did not interfere
with the ease, exce t that the deceamed was dressed in the
ems garb as the brickmakerr, and beam it might be that
he was reataken fee one of that elms. A boy named Ker-
shaw wee assisting them in the field, and went with the two
prisoners to the public-howe. After being in the tap-room
for • short time, the deceased, who Wei pasmg along the
reed, was galled into the public-house by tits prisoner
Minya, and asked to have a glass of ale. He laid be had
no objection, and • glass of ale area handed to him
while he wee in the at drinldag it, the glass weeaast
out of his hands by Iflntyre, he was knocked down,
kicked about the head and face, and received so&
injuries, that he died on the NM off July of lock-jaw, from
the effects of the wounds he had received. The lad
(Kershaw) swore on the present occasion that it
wee the prisoner who had knocked the
deceased down, and that the other prisoner (Brett) had
kicked him about the head end face while he was es the
ground, but in orOSlMlZAMillildiOli the witness admitted that
on a previous occasion, when before the magistrates, be bad
sworn that he did not know who had struck the deemed.
The jury retired, and after being in consultation for three-
gamier) of an hour returned • verdict of Nut Guilty against
each prisoner.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Blimheth Weekstead, 30, was charged with feloniously
attempting to drown her child, /Miry Anne Weekstssd,
with intent to murder her.

-I;.LillSycoTscrucesdthe prosecution.
This oars was one of a very dreadful character. It ap-
peared that the prisoner was as Irishwoman, and that she
was • soldier's widow, and received a pension, and that the
child in question ear an illegitimate one, five months old.
On the btb of July the prisoner received her pension, and
she came home to her residence in Hooper-street, West-
minster-road, in • mad state of drunkenneas, and
behaved very violently to several people who were
in the house, and also threw the child about in
her own room. After this the child got into the
yard at the back of the house, and it began to cry,
and the primer exclaimed, "You bastard, I'll do for
Yost* ad pod oat of a window into the yard, and took
apOis child and threw it with great violence upon the
A young man named Patrick Wall, who lived text
sea up and picked up the child. Before she threw it
down the prisoner struck the child • blow with her clenched
Ist as the bead, and when Wall had taken the infant from
her, ale asked him to give it to her, and said she would
take it indoors. He gave her the chid, and the moment the
prisoner had possession of it, she ran to the water.butt that
was in the yard, and in which there was about three feet
in depth of water, and threw the child in head foremost,
end walked away. The child was rescued imme-
diately by the witness Wall, and the prisouer exclaimed,
" Bring the young in, I'll do for it on the quiet." The
prisoner then fastened herself in her own room, and it was
broken open by a female neighbour, who found her lying on
the ground with her hair all about her face, and upon her
inquiring what she had been doing to the poor child, the
primmer rushed at her, and stabbed her in the fees with a
knife. Evidence was also given that when the primer was
delivered of this unfortunate child she said that she only
wished it was dead, and she appeared to be afraid that her
having the child would be the means of cawing her to loess
her pepsins. The infant, it appeared, had not suffered any
material minty from the brutal conduct of the prisoner, and
it was stated that it was thriving and doing welL The wit-
nesses for the prosecution admitted in answer to questions
put by the prisoner, they Lad not seen her in any way
ill-use the child before this occurrence, and that she geor
tally treated it kindly. The officer who apprehended the
primmer said that she acted very violently, and appeared
like a mad woman. He took the child to Mr. Wagstaff., a
surgeon, and observed that there was a lump on its head as
larp as • hen's egg.
The prisoner when before the magistrate made • state-
ment to the effect that she did not know what she was
about on the day in question, and she now put in a written
paper, in her defence, in which she stated that she was the
widow of a soldier who lost his life in the Crimea, and that
she received a pension from the government as his widow.
The child h. question, she said, belonged to another soldier,
who bed promised to many her, and would have done so if
his regiment had not been ordered to India. With regard
to the offence of which she was accused she said that she
went with some other soldiers' widows to get her pension,
and they induced her to drink some spirits, to which she
was unaccustomed, and she became mad drunk and did not
know what she did.
Mr. Justice Williams summed cep, and the jury returned
a verdict of Ovally but recommended the prisoner to
mercy on account of her previous kind treatment of the
child.

The keznedJudge, in passing sentence, maid that it wee
most melancholy case. The prisoner appeared by drink to
have knadomied herself from a kind mother into a wild
beast, sad, notwithetandirathe recommendation to mercy
of the jury, he felt compelled to peas upon her a wavers
mentemes, and to direct t she should be kept in panel
servitude for the spare of three years.
T'he primmer, when the sentence MSG pronounced, com-
menced aereaming and howling, and wanted to know
Mother her "dear child" would he allowed to be with
ter, and she was forced out of the dock by the gaolers in
sttesdaaew
. . _

Mary Allen, 40, was charged, with unlawfully and mali.
dowdy assaulting Caroline Lefem. In other *mite of the
iodictment the prisoner was c with assaulting the
prceecutrix and musing her bodily
Mr. Lilley conducted the prosecution, and in opening the
case to the jury he said the facts be should ham to lay
before them were of such a mature as moat nacawarily mxoite
the sympathy of every one who heard them, and be there-
fore requested them not to allow their feelings to prevail
unfairly against the prisoner, but that they would look
calmly at the evidence that would be laid before them, and
give their verdict uninfluenced by the prejudioe that must
naturally be excited by some of the facts that would be
"Qadto.
oircumstances of this case have been very recently
endear, fully laid before the public. The prisoner was a
schoolmistress in itecicrisis-etreet, Southwark, and it ap-
peared that about three years ago Caroline Lefevrs, the
=eta child nine years old, the daughter of a
' the service of Messrs. Barclay and Co., was
seat to the prisoner's school, and atter being there about
two year* AO espressol a desire that the child should not
' any longer come to her ass scholar, but that she should be
with her as a oompamon. From this time there appeared
to be no doubt that the prisoner had treated the poor
child with the greatest possible enmity, that she was in the
habit of beating her with a cane, and a thick stick,
which she actually broke while assaulting her, and
which stick was found in the prisoner's house with blood
upon it; and upon one occaaion, for some trilling fault, she
burnt her on the hand and the neck with a hot iron. When
she was taken away she was in a most dreadful state, her
body and arms being covered with bruises and wounds, one
of the latter at the back of the bead being of a very eaten-
dye character.
. . .

--43irolineIsifevre, the poor child whose treatment was the
subject of inquiry, deposed to the various acts of cruelty
she had received from the prisoner, one of which was of
voters too filthy to be described. She also stated that the
=not only struck her with the cane and the stick,
she also struck her with a poker and a fire shovel.
The prisoner inquired of the witness how she came by the
injury at the back of her head
The child in a most artless manner replied, " You did it,
governor." She then burst into tears, and evidently enter-
tained a strong feeling of terror for the prisoner.
Mr. Justice Williams, to the praescutrix—Why did you
not tell your father when you west home bow you were
treated

116riPplied—i was afraid to do so, bemires I kasw 'bed to
go heck to my governess.
Several neighbours of the prisoner were szszelned, and
they proved that upon many °commons they bad seen her
best the poor child in a mud brutal manner, and that when
labs bled from the injuries she received, the prisoner told
her to go end wash herself at the water-tap.
One of the witness* was asked by the learned judge
why the did not apply to the authorities or give some infor-
mation se to the conduct of the prisoner towards the child,
awl she replied that the neighbours used to talk upon the
subject, but they appeared to think that if they interfered
tbey should ouly be told to mind their own business.
TIM prisoner when called upon for her defence put in •
mitten paper, in which she asserted that the prosecutrix
wee • very naughty child, and addicted to thieving and
other bed habits, and that she punished her in order to cure
her of her had propensities, hut only did so moderately.
She admitted that the child was burned one day, but maid
that she wee unclog at the time, and the child persisted in
pulling the mat upon which she rubbed the iron away from
her, and eke was accideutally burned while doing so.
The jury found the prisoner Uuilty of the whole charge
contained in the indictment.
The leaned Judge, in passing sentence upon the pri-
soner, said that in all his experience he did not remember
any mac where one humeri being appeared to have acted
with so much cruelty to another as she appeared to have
lasted towards this poor child. He therefore felt himself
called upon to indict the full punistimest toed by the law
for such an offence, which was that she be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour fur three yam.

THIRD COURT.
(Bohn Mr. Commimioaer Ken.)

Mohamed AU Khan, 34, described es a labourer, pleaded
guilty to a charge of having attempted to destroy himself.
The prisoner s the Indian who it will be remembered
attempted to cut his throat during a morning sitting in the
House of Lords. He had, it appeared, same claim on the
Nawab of Junior am hereditary officer, and laid that claim
at 2,0001., end had come to this country, having ant been
at Bombay, where he was offered to be put into
the native police by the British authorities, who
had no power to interfere in consequence of
Juneger being en independent principality. From India
he bad walked through Persia to Mosisow then to Vienna,
and to the port where the Hamel Steam Navigation
Company's hosts returned from, and one of the captains
broughtm to this country about two yeah ago, and the
East India Company had done all they could for him, as
also had the authorities of the !kungen' Hume; bat
although they killed and cooked the food after the Na-
homedan style, he objected to stay there on amount of its
' not bsiss la scondsass with tbs enlss of his wt.

M rry'T!.l • `,Tir-'-'77"1.. ••:_""rr'lrcf
THE EXPRESS, TaugSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1860.

A gentleman from the India•hogne said that they had
wished to send him back to his own Nawab, but he did not
wish to go.
The Commissioner—That I can well understand. If he
went back them his claim would soon lose him his life.
The gentleman said the company had dared sad tried to
get him to go beck to his primes.
' The Commissioner— And if you had succeeded you would
to my mind have been guilty of manslaughter.
The peer fellow, upon hearing about being sent home,
expressed by masa that he should have his arms out of,
and tLen his throat cut, aud, putting his hands together, al
if supplitatiyg not to be sent, in an earnest tone ad-
drawled some remarks to the her who were nearest to him,
and painted to the jury and the bench.
Mr. Cooper said that he understood the prisoner to mean
that if his petition was seen and agreed to by the jtuy and
his lordship, he should Lave justice done him, and be eds.
After some further conversation, the commissioner said he
thought the poor fellow's claim was just, and he should
respite judgment to sat what could be dome with him.