The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1866.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OP A YOUNG WOMAN IN

THE THAMES.

INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner,
held an inquiry at the Town of Ramsgate Tavern, WW
ping, touching the death of Sophia Griffith; aged 2i
year;the •
Thames. young Welsh woman, who was found drowned
is
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Ellen Bares, • married woman, residing at No. 2, Tower-
street, Westminster-road, said that the deceased
had lodged at her hones for five nights. She
was • domestic servant out of place. She had
bees rattier pert to her nibble's, and she true
dismismed, her mistime refusing to give her
• character. The latter fact appeared to distress her
mind, and on Tuesday, the sth of last month,
she said she would remain out vary late that night,
as she intended to go to the play. She mid she would
return to witssee's hones, bat ohs never came back.
Anne Griffiths, sister of deceased, said that her sister com-
plained to her that her mistress gave her too ranch work to
do during the 14 months that she was at her place.
She was a very sharp tempered young woman, but
she became very when her mistress refused to
give her a character. She had written to a sister living at
Folkestone, bidding her "Good bye."
John 111larthy, • waterman, proved finding the dead body
I of the deceased bloating in the Thames off the entrance of
the London Docks on Thursday last. She was fully dressed,
with the exception of her bonnet. She had evidently been
over • month in the water.
The Coroner said that as so meson had seen the de-
ceased leap into the water the jury should return an open
verdict.

41. o;rdiet of " Found drowned in the Thames" was then
noordod.

THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE COLLIERS.
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BARNSLEY, FamAy Evmisc.

In addition to the Wombwell' Main Colliery, as
the first to depart from the resolution come to by the
Masters' Anonation, to restrict the advance of five per
amt. to May next, the Oaks has given way, and the
imams have agreed to give the five per cent. advance to
all men worlOng in and about the Won together with
weekly wages. Stich being the case, there appears no
reason why the slime course should not be carried out at
the other collieries at present working on the " restrictive"
system. Most of the collieries, however—and amongst
them some of the largest in the district—still adhere to the
resolution cone to by the Coalownsis' Association, and
have refused to concede the five per cent. for a longer
period than May, or to pay wages weekly. In the district
there are about seventeen collieries not connected with the
Masters' Association, where all the men are working fall
time, having had their wages paid weekly, and increased
by five per osnt. Amongst those working on the restric-
tive system, are the Edmonds and the Swarths Main,
Whams:stiffs Silkstooe (three pits), Mount Osborne, Ague
Main, Thorucliffe (four pits), Stratford Main (Silkstone),
Laid Hill, Clerke's Old Silkstone (throe pita), Hut
Gawber, High Roy& and Smithy Bridge. With regard
to the last named colliery, the mess were to meet the agent.
this evening, foe the purpose of endeavouring to come to an
agreement to resume full work. At Darnley Main the men
continue on atrike, !levies brought out their tools last
Saturday. The Messrs. Chulesworth's colliers are working
full time, the demands of the men having been comeded. At
Royberg Hall, Messrs. Cooper's, and Barfield Main, the
men are in a similar position. Some surprise is felt in the
district at a few members of the association conceding terms
which the main body refuse, as it was understood by the
public that a certain course of action had been decided on
and agreed to.

The sentence of death upon Patrick Welsh at the
lad assizes at Leeds, for the murder of • man by stabbing
him in the course of a street brawl. has been commuted, on
the recommendation of Mr. Justice Shoe, before whom he
was tried, to penal servitude for life.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF A DEAD CHILD
IN WOOLWICH ARSENAL,—Inst night Mr. C. F. Carttar,
coroner, held an inquest at the Duke of Wellington public-
house, Woolwich, on the node of the Illegitimate child of
Mary Metcalfe, lady's maid I. the family of Colonel
Campbell, superintendent of the gun factories in the
Royal AreenaL It appeared the Want was found by the
housemaid whilst dusting, concealed in a box. On Col. Camp.
bell returning home, the fact was communicated to him, and
the police were also informed of the affair. Mr. Sherrast,
the police divisional surgeon, saw Miss Metcalf, who ad.
witted to him that the child was born at 6 o'clock that
I morning; that the child was born a month before
she expected it, and that she intended to have left her
I situation. She also said that the father of the child was •
foreman io the Arsenal, aho was instantly dismissed his
situatioo, and who had since written to Colonel Campbell
promising to marry her. A post mortem examination of
the body had been made. No marks of violence were visible,
and the medical testimony showed that the child had never
breathed. The jury returned • verdict of "still born."

THE BRIGANDS Cavz.—Another brigand refuge
has been dismvered at Csglimo (Calabria), near the
house of an old peasant. This man's premises were
searched, but the inmates, consisting of himself,
wife, and a young girl, denied all knowledge of
the men of whom the royal troops were in search.
The officer in command observing, however, that the
girl always remained close to a large stone near a door
leading into the garden, ordered the soldiers to examine it.
This stone, upon being removed, discovered the mouth of
a cave, and a discharge of musketry from those con-
cealed within drew all the detachment to the spot. The
brigands within—for such they were—resisted
for some time, until driven forth by burning sulphur ap-
plied to the mouth of the cave. The brigands here
captured included the chief Corso and his companion
Rosario Mancuso, and the brigands Dsrdano and
Troilism. Corea and Trapani°, both guilty of a long
list of crimes, including several assassinations, were
tried towards the end of December. The former frankly
confessed the crimes of which he was accused, while Tra-
pani), not being able to offer a denial, endeavoured to excuse
himself. Soutanes of death was passed upon them, and car-
ried into execution the following day. The woman Mancuso
was condemned to 20 years' hard labour ; Dardano's trial
was deferred.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS. The traffic receipts of
railways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week
ending the 30th of December, on 12.299 miles, to
646.1051., and for the corresponding week of last year, on
11,889 miles. to 586,3301., showing an increase of 410 miles.
and of 59,775/. The gross receipts on the following
fourteen railways amounted in the sggregate, on
8,808 miles, to 339,50.51., and for the corresponding
week of 1864, on 8,489 miles, to 492.7591., showing an
increase of 319 miles, and an increase of 46,7691. The
increase on the Caledonian amounted to 2,4011. ; on
the Great Eastern to 2,145/. ; on the Great Southern and
Western to 1,249/. ; on the Great Western to 1,7271. ; on
the Lancashire and Yorkshire to 6.092/. ; me the London
and North Western to 6,170/. ; on the London and Brighton
to 1,232/.; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire.
to 3,1191. ; on the Midland to 6,9804 ; oo the North
British to 2,675/. ; on the North Eastern to 11,5751. ; sod
on the South Eastern to 1,7751.—t0tt1, 47,1401. But from
this must be deducted 3491., the decrease on tbe Great
Northern, and 25/. on the London and South Western,
leaving the increase as above 46,7664 The goods and
mineral traffic on those lines amounted to 298.520/., and
for the corresponding week of 1864 to 268,3611., showing
an increase of 30.1564 The receipts for passengers, parcels,
la., amounted to 240,960/., akainst 221,3951., showing an
increase of 16,5651. The traffic receipts on 60 other lines
amounted, on 3,401 miles, to 106 5801., and for the con.
respoodiog week of last year, on 3,400 miles, to 93,3711.,
showing an increase of 89 miles and of 13,0091. to the re-
ceipts. The total receipts of the pest week show a de-
crease of 114,331/. as compared with those of the preceding
week, ending the 23rd of December.
Dtvonce is INDIANA.—In Indiana, which has
witnessed so many of these experiments, the law of divorce
is almost as " advanced" as the most radical atfinitarian
could desire. The husband or the wife, wishing to be
divorced, has only to leave his or her partner in another
state, repair to Indiana. re.ide there six months, then
swear to an " incompatibility of temper" between him or
her self and the said partner, and swear—what are lovers'
oaths 7—that the object of the suit is not to form another
marriage, and the divorce is at once ordered. Practically,
one who desires a divorce goes to Indiana, gives his caw)
with a certain fee to a lawyer, and is presented with his
decree in seven months from his arrival. la travelling
' through Indiana! have often seen lounging about the
hotels and in the fields, reading novels or carrying on flirta.
tions with prospective divorcees, these wandering forms of
a dead past, waiting to be borne over to the Elysian fields
of single-blessedness. In the old settlements of the
eastern part of America, "going to Indiana" has as signifi-
cant a meaning as " going to Coventry ;" but in the Far
West there is little doubt that the Indiana law marks the
direction in which the tide of popular sentiment is setting.
iodised, now that a divorce dole not, in that region,
involve the ruin of the character of either party, it is re-
markable with what equisnimitv either learns that the other
has. io the phrase of the place. "filed a hill." A distinguished
politician and senator of Watts, becoming interested
in the movement for making Katmai a free state, left his
wife and repaired to that territory, intending to return
soon. Becoming, however, identified with the struggles of
Kansas, the senator stayed away very long. His wife at
length demanded his return. He wrote beck that it was
impossible to return. His wife waited a little, and then
wrote, declaring that, nem he returned by a stated time,
she would sue for a divorce. The senator made no reply,
but ganglier a glowing account of the patriotic movements
in which he bore an important part. The next letter he
received was from the elm* of a court is Indiana, informing
him that his wife had filed a bill, with another front a
lawyer offering to defend him. The senator wrote back
so the lawyer as follows " Dear Sir,—Tours to hand.
My wife says she will sot stead my long absent*. If I
were she I would not stand it either. I shall offer no op-
positioe to her suit.—Youre, he., —." Two senator,
whim the divorce bad long bees granted. this re.
towed to Washington as tbe matte of tbe free state of
Kansas, visited his old boom in Indiana, sod toned Ins wife
still blooming and handsomer sinvonded hy admirers.
With the rest, he visited her from time to time, became
tly the aeospied loser, sad wag remarried to her.—
=r's 3(oga:int for January.

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