The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-05 00:00:00

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said that the Prosecutor am, to their surgery on
• y morning, the 22nd nit., with blood flowing down
4 bead. He found a deep scalp wound, such as might
re teen caused by the tongs produced.
la answer to the charge the prisoner said he received
t provocation from the prosecutor, who not only called
• beestly names but struck him, and he took up the tongs
or protection.
The Magistrate said that it was clear they had a quarrel
abased each oilier, bat the prisoner most be made to
Dow that he had no right to use each a deadly weapon.
s a caution to him for the future he sentenced him to
wo months' hard labour at Wandsworth.

THAMES.
ROBUST IN TEE LORD= DOCK.

Frederick Featherstone, • labourer, was brought before
Nr, part, charged with stealing • pint of red wine and •
aura of Barcelona nate from the ship John in the London
jock.
Edward Ellis, • dock constable, said the prisoner was
wring the London Dock at the principal gateway yesterday
sturgeon, and he looked very bulky. He searched the par .
sow and found under the waistband • square bottle
scandals; • pint of Tarragona wine, and in his pocket'
squirt of Bareslona nuts. He asked the prisoner where
be obtained the property, and he replied that • raw on
baud the ship John gave him the wine and Bute. He went
ea board the John and ascertained that the prisoner had
been at work on board, and was engaged by the captain
for two days. A cask of wine on booed had
been pierced, and • gallon of wine taken from it. Part of
the cargo of the John consisted of nate.
The prisoner, in defence, said that a tailor on board the
John gave him the wine and ants.
Mr. Part untested the prisoner to be imprisoned for
two months, and kept to hard labour.
The prisoner implored of the merstrate to ladiet • fine,
which he could pay, and not send him to • prison. He had
a wife and large family.
Mr. Paget— I can't help that : • distinct robbery has been
committed ; I cannot doubt it at all. If your story is true,
you must have known that milers have co right to give '
away property. I have had • great many of these
woes, and I wish it to be known that I shall not
Jolliet fines for the nalawful pommies of property in the
dock, for that you are charged with, but commit to prises
for a long term all offenders, or else oommit them for triaL
These petty robberies are very numerous, sad in the
sgeregatumuch valuable property is taken out of the docks.
The prisoner—Make me pay a flee,. sir.
Mr. Paget—No. I should be wanting in my duty to the
public if I passed over these cues with fines. The am-
mo is two months' imprisonment and hard labour.

Oa Thursday last the Rev. Samuel Arnett,
clerk, was instituted to the rectory of Rketahall, St. John,
in Suffolk, on the presentation of her most gracious Majesty
1 Queen Victoria.

There was a meeting in Huddersfield, yesterday,
to considered the proposed Reform Bill of the government,
sad what the borough should demand in reference to it.
BASOInIiOI3II were carried in favour of the extension of the
area of the borough, and the privilege of sending an addi-
tional member to represent it in parliament.
Sir Matthew Sauna, who has for the last ten
Tears filled the office of Chief Justice of Bombay, is about
to return home, being entitled to his retiring pension ; and
hie place, it is understood, will be filled by Sir Joseph
Anima& one of the puisne judges of the High Court of the
presidencies.

The will of William Borradaile, Esq., of Worthing,
was proved in London on the 16th ult., and the personalty
sworn under 100,0001. The testator died on the 11th
of No►ember last, at the age of sixty-five. He
has left the following charitable bequests: —To
the Sussex County Hospital, Charing-cross Hospital,
Brampton Consumption Hospital, The Dreadnought
Ship Hospital, the Corporation of Friends of the Clergy,
and the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, each a legacy
of 7401. ; to the female school at Ramsgste for the Daughters
of Naval 061oers, 3004 ; the British Orphan Asylum and
the Cumberland Benevolent Institution, each 2001. ; and to
the Wells Infirmary and Dispensary, the Worthing In-
firmary ►od Dispensary, end the Home for Seamen of all
Nations, each 1001.

A man called M'Dermott was tried, at Preston
sessions yesterday, for several remarkable impositions. He
swindled • captain of the 90th Regiment, lying at Fulwood
Barracks, out of 51., several of the non-commissioned officers
of the regiment out of smaller sums, • landlord of Preston
out of board and lodgings, and • sovereign, and a paws.
broker's assistant of the same place out of a watch and I
guard. Eventually, he was found at Colchester, pursuing
the same game, was captured, brought to Prestos, and sea-
kneed to 15 months' imprisonment.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. JOHN INNEN. —ME, I
John Dineen, R.N.. inspecting officer of the steam branch ,
in the department of the controller of the navy, on leaving '
the Admiralty, Whitehall, on Wednesday evening, was in
crossing the road knocked down by a hansom cab, and sum- j
Joined such injuries that he was at once taken to Charing-
cross Hospital in a cab. It was found that be had sustained I
a slight cut on the ear (which was dressed by the surgeon in
attendance), and an abrasion on the forehead. He left the '
hospital in • cab for his residence in Montague-street.
Yesterday morning, we understand, he was seized with
serious symptoms, and died, it is believed from concussion
of the brain. Mr. Diener' was senior inspector of machinery
afloat, and had been on the books of the Fisgard since the
Ist January, 1863.
THE BATLEY MURDER. —CRITI CAL CONDITION
OF ELI Sti KIS. —We understand that the health of Eli
Sykes, now lying under sentence of death in Armley Gaol,
is, consequent upon his recent attempt to commit suicide,
in a very precarious condition. He progressed favourably
until Tuesday lut, and strong hopes were entertained of
his ultimate recovery, but on the morning of that day
secondary hemorrhage of the wounds in his foot took place,
sad the loss of blood from this cause left him in a very
weak condition. In the afternoon, whilst the visiting
justices were engaged in the gaol. another attack of
secondary hemorrhage ensued. Mr. Nicholson Price, the
gaol surgeon, and Mr. Wheelhouse were immediately
summoned, and everything was done to relieve the unfor-
tunate sufferer. At • consultation which followed, how-
ever, the medical gentlemen considered it inadvisable to
amputate the foot, the probabilities of his surviving such
an operation being very slight. Yesterday, his condition
DM very low sod critical, and should a third attack hake
place it is feared he will sink under it. The mother of the
convict called this week to see him, but on amount of his
health she was not admitted. The Bishop of Ripon has
not yet paid the visit which he promised a short time since.
About the same time as Sykes attempted to commit suicide,
Mr. Kerne, the governor, received an intimation from the
Under Sheriff that the 15th of January had, as we have
already stated, been fired for the execution ; but no further
communication had since passed on the subject.—Leeds
Mercury.
ITALIAN 0 F FIC I ALISNI. —The old courts of Tuscany
and Lucca were overlaid with peosiooera They were of
every class and condition—from the noble who drove four-
in.hand to the camcini, to the fourth cousin of the cook who
dressed the grand-ducal maccaronL These all devolved
upon the new kingdom. So that, io reality, when people
talk of the burdens of the country, and advise the reduc-
tion of the army and navy, the stoppage of public works,
and suchlike, they are forgetting that the real ulcer which
is eating into the bowels of the state is the overwhelming
number of idle dependants who have come down as bad
bargains from the former courts ; the myriads of do-nothing
people—a sort of lay priesthood, lazy, bigoted, disloyal,
and intriguing, not • wit above their shovel-hat colleagues
in either morals or intelligence. Now, if they were all that
they are not to the new kingdom, in good faith, loyalty,
and allegiance, they would still be • heavy burden on the
country for which they do nothing. The eleven thousand
virgins at Cologne are about as virtually useful to the cause
of Prussia as the eleven thousand professors—that is the
number—to the wellbeing of Italy. Italy wants one, or at
most two, universities, and the mass of these lecturers with
four hearers should be sent to seek their fortune in more
busy careers. As of the universities, so of the palaces. The
first wise retrenchment will be to reduce the staff of idle
men who, whether learned or unlearned, render nothing to
the state. There is plenty of outcry against the friars—he
would be a bold man who would say a word for a Benedic-
tine or a Carmelite—but there is • clue just as mendicant,
just as leer, and just as great an anachronism to our eye as
say bare-footed Dominican of them all.• These are the
fellows I want to see discarded. The first Napoleon seat
the monks to dig at the intrenchments of Antwerp—are
there no shovels left for the es-chamberlains of Lucca? an
lobo ly find a wheelbarrow for a master of the ceremonies
It Parma!—Blarkicood's Magazine for January.
T H ACK ERA Y'S EARLY WRITINGS. —He wrote
many things then that were neglected, and were norm alto-
gether forgotten. One of them was " The Second Papered
of Napoleon," of which probably not one io ten thousand of
the readers of his Magazine ever heard. And yet it was
pOliihed in due form and in decent duodecimo, by Mr.
Hugh Cunningham. a bookseller whose shop was at the
earner of St. Martio's-place ' • he who also first published
the " Paris Sketch Book." It was illustrated with some
woodcut, of no great merit, sod thereto was added the
famous "Chronicle of the Drum," which the "leading
Magazines " had all refused to print. And as the able edi-
tors of the time rejected the ballad, so the intelligent publics
of the time refused to read the account of the ' Second
Funeral of Napoleon." though it bad all the allurement of
being written at the time and in the presence of the event
it commemorates. The gentleman who seeds us the original
MS., from which we reprint the long-forgotten narrative,
4171 :—" The ' Letters on the Second Femoral' were a
failure. I had the pleasure of editing the tiny volume toe
Mr. Thackeray, sod saw it through the press. And after a
while, on the dismal tidings from the publisher that the
little effort made DO Impression on the public, Mr. Thank-
tray wrote to me from Paris a pretty little noes commie-
So your poor Iltmands has made another fiasco.
Bow are we to take this great stupid public by the ears
Never mind ; I think I have something which wBl surprise
them yet.
.' This wee evidently an allusion to
trinity Fair,' which he had begun at that time.—Cornhill
ilfainzane for January.