The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-20 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

CLITTINCI AND WOUNDING-MURDSROCS ASSAULT OX

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Mama lees, a middle-aged reepeetable-looking man,
waiter at • largo tavern in the vicinity of this court, was
brought before Mr. Comte, charged with committing a mur-
derous emelt upon Margaret Ives hie wife, and stabbing
her on the right side of her fare with a knife.
The complainant, whose face was much disfigured, stated
that she had been married to the defendant twenty yoars,
end had thirteen children by him. For some time past
he had neglected her and the children for another
I woman, which continually caused words between them.
On the previews night she met him at the tavern, when they
both went home together, apparently very comfortable, but
salmon as they entered the house lat abused her, and struck
her with his fists. He then threw a chair at her and broke
everything ho could lay his Minds on; and, as she was
about to quit the house by the street-door, he ;stabbed her
neat the right eyo with a knife ho had in his hand, and then
she called out " Police" end " Murder." A constable came
up at the time and took him into custody. When he threw
the chair at her he had a knife In hie hand and she then
struck him. After that he stabbed her, but she did not think
he meant to do her any harm.
The prisoner said it was all through his wife's tongue,
which was always abusing him whenever they met each
other. She was jealous of him, and he could assure Lis wor-
ship she lied no occasion to be m, se he had nothing to do
with ether women.
Mr. Combs naked hire what he had to my for stabbing his
wits t

...He replied that it was done by accident when she was
mimaltiag him. He declared that he had ne intention to
hart her.
The wife hare Informed his worship that he continually
ill-need her, but at the same time she did not want to hoot
hint provided he would be kind to her for the future.
Mr. Combo told her he could not allow inch a murderous
assault to pass over. He should sentence the prisoner to ma
months' bard labour, and at the expiration of that time he
must tied bail for six months longer.
Prisoner (laughing)—Tbat'a just what I wont. Th►t'll
serve her out.

A DEFEAT BETTER TITAN A VICTORY.

(From the Examiner.)
The church in Ireland (ever to be distinguished
from the church of Ireland) being in embarrassed circum-
stances, to the extent of 11,5001. a-year, the amount of the
odious and uncolketsble ministers' money, it is simply sad
natarally proposed by the government that the difficulty
should be got over by the help of the accumulation of
church property in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Ceram's-
Gleams. In other words, it is thought proper that the
establishment should bear her own burthens, having fund►
for the purpose, for which it is impossible for the mind of
man, at least of layman, to imagine a more becoming appro.
priatien. The church la not asked to pay 11,50 W. a year
to the public poor-box; the intended subscription is nein-
lively for her own distress; end she is objecting, or her
noble but most mistaken friends are objecting for her, to
the application of her own resources, or rather superfluities,
to her own special uses and °cessions. As to ministers'
money, there ie no use of talking of it ; the people of the
towns liable to it will pay it no more, and the peace of
Ireland deb empire is not to be disturbed by a vain
MOMS Is IMO them. Something must, therefore, be
Hinge err ibe musters will soon come to have no money to
amen them. Either the public, or the church herself
met pay, and when this alternative is stated, the matter
Y disposed of The rashest of statesmen—by which
ex-
paisa we mean Lord Derby, never did so rash a thing
ea Is lit ra proposed settlement of this financially
leffilleg, bee, modally andpolitically most important question.
She were I. take office to-morrow, he would have the same
illkelty to dm] with and he could not by any possi-
bility deal with it in any way substantially different
from the plan of the present government. He might in-
deed pay the 11,5001. a year out of his private coffers, but
Wife be the most popular minister that ever ruled England,
and were he ten times more eloquent than he is, not one
shilling of the money would he ever coax out of the pocksle
of the people of this country. Lord Derby's oppo-
sition in therefore factious in the extreme, and he is deeply
indebted to the minority of five who saved him on Thursday
from a victory which could not possibly have resulted in
anything but embarrassment and fresh discredit to his party.
Lord Ellenborongh sated well in voting for the second read-
ing of the bill, "for the sake of religions pesos," and the
Duke of Newcastle judiciously observed that "it was the
duty of statesmen to foresee when concession was
ins-
vitable, and to concede before agitation made its appear-
ance," His imputation, however, upon the Lord Lieute-
nant, that he bad encouraged the corporations to resist the
tax, was utterly groundleer There is no occasion for re-
sorting to any far-fetched theory to explain such resistance,
the towns subject to ministers' money being these where the
Roman catholies form the bulk of the inhabitants, and
the corporations being naturally end necessarily in unison
with the popular feeling, especially upon such a subject.
It is to be regretted, for the sake of the church herself,
that the only Irish bishop who took a part in the debate
should have thrown his weight into the wrong side of the
scale. The question being one between peace and good-
will on one side, and a few thousand a-year on the other, it
would have become a Christian bishop to have avoided
soother demonstration of the preference of pelt to the
morel and religions coneideratione It might have been
especially prudent in a bishop of the race of Beregford, to
have been leas prominent on tho side of Mammon. Should
the fends of the Ecclesiastical Coromisdon not suffice for
the purposes of the bill, we feel inclined to suggest a
reference to those of the bishopric of Kilmons to supply the
dedckacy. The population returns of the Commissioners
of Public Instruction tell UN that in 1835 there were only
80,998 members of the elitablished church in the three sees
(Kihnore, Elpbin, and Antagh) constituting th►t diocese,
while the Catholic population amounted to 748,471, • pro-
portion of nine to ono against the moon and justice of the
Institution which endows the shrines of the few with the
wealth of the many. Wo learn from the earns authority that
there were at the period mentioned no fewer than 88 parishes
in the three sees containing severally less than 20
members of the establishment. Surely the Right Reverend
Marcus Beresford, this ecclesiastical Cerberus with three
mitred heads, and the patron (as hod's Peerage" sedum
us) of eighty-two livings, ought to be careful hew he barks
either in England or Ireland on the money side of • church
question.

TILE WORLD'S END IN OALlClA.—Accounts from
Galicia state that disturbances have lately taken place on the
Russian frontier. The peamants, believing that the world
was about to corns to an end, gave way to numerous excesses,
and were guilty of encroachments on other people's property.
The authorities were compelled to send to Lemberg for troops
to put an and to the outbreak.
THE PRUSSIAN USIVERSITIIia.—The eight univer-
sities of Prussia—Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Greitswald, Halle,
Koenigsberg, Munster, and Unna—had for the winter half
year of 111.5414 5,741 students, of whom 2,276 were at
Berlin. Of the total, 993 studied protestant and 650
catholic theology, 1,422 law, 1,090 philosophy, 756 medicine,
the remainder other branches of science.
The number of young persons at Milan who
pigment themselves to receive ecelesiuticid orders has fallen
this year from 70, which was the average, to 32 only. This
Is ascribed by & correspondent of the Indeptridance Beige to
the disrepute into which the priesthood has fallen since the
Austrian eoneerdat.
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A hundred electric clocks are about to be esta-
blished in Bruneels. The municipal authorities hare ac-
quainted the inhabitants of some of the streets that the wires
will run along the top of their houses, and call upon them to
allow the workmen to make tho necessary arrangements.

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THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. —M.
Emile Persist (says a Paris letter in the hidep9idasee of
Brussels) has just terminated a great affair, which low only
awaits the approbation of the government. He hos, on the
part of the Southern Railway, concluded arrangements for
the purchase of the famous canal of Languedoc, executed by
Rimed. The Emperor Napoleon 1. eetablished on this canal
detonate for several of his ministers and high dignitaries of
the empire, and ems for women who °minuted to marry
wounded to amputated soldiers. The number of shares
created by the -Emperor was 1,296, and each was of the
nominal value of 10,0. About 580 of the slimes are still
held by the parsons to whom the Emperor gave them, or by
their 6mM es; the rest belong to the Oarsman family. The
revenues of the canal were so large that in certain years each
share produced 1,2006. A competition between the Southern
Railway mad the canal would have been fatal to them both,
andft Witt nothisarY botoo to en understanding.
The place elite,' in the apartments of the
Grand of the Lefton of Honour, for the Legion
Mika' MAW. • year tr.an the canal. After a lengthened
szassiristka of all wastehos occluded with the affair, it was
wind that Om mot should Tocsin 1,120,000 tr.
easielly shin up the