The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-14 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Arartz,l3.

In to-day. sitting of the Congress Senor Ocana,
the Minister of Finance, read the bill for the esta-
blishment of a Bank for advances on landed pro-
perty. During the discussion which followed Mar-
shal Narvaez declared that the adoption of the bill
was a cabinet :question.

AMERICA.

(13Y ATLANTIC TINIGIU2N, THROUGH NIL FIIITZIN ♦OIiCT.)

NSW YORK, Aran. 13.
The Inman steamers City of Paris and Etna, and
the National steamer Pennsylvania arrived out on
Sunday.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 1381. Sterling exchange
on London, 1001. 3-20 United States Bonds,
1882, 1101; ditto, 1886, 1091 ; 10-40 Bonds, 1011.
Illinois, 142 ; Erie, 89/. Cotton : Middling
Upland, 32. Petroleum, standard white, 24.
Muir, extra State, 10 dal. 100. ; corn, old mixed,
1 dol. 21c.

THE EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY AT
NACKNEYWICK.

Up to yesterday afternoon the identification of
the body of the man foundunder the cimumstances already
reported as that of the lunatic who escaped from St.
Luke's Asylum on the 7th of February rested solely on the
testimony of Dr. Ellis, the medical ofticer of that Machu-
thin. At that time, however, Mr. Heasman, of Great
Percy-street, Claremont-square, Pentonville, viewed the
body, and stated that it was that of his brother, Mr.
B. Heasman, who was confined in the lunatic asylum.
According to the information furnished by the gentleman
who thus identified the remains it would appear that the
deceased, who was possessed of a competence and well
connected, was of very active habits, and extremely fond
of athletic sports and exercises. He was an &desirable
runner! and a capital swimmer, being only second to the
champion swimmer of England, whom, however,
he could never beat. In October, ltviu, it became necessary
to have him removed to the asylum, owing to his having
exhibited symptoms of mental aberration. He was, how-
ever, sane upon all points but one. Hie deluska was that
he had been poismed, and that be was dead. He was
married, and has left a widow and eight children, the
eldest of whom is only 15 yeas of age. In effecting his
escape from St. Luke's, in addition to surmounting the ob-
stacles presented by the six doors which were locked agaiost
him, he was compelled to climb up the lofty exterior wall
of the building, end to leap from the summit to the pave-
ment below, a distance of more that 13 feet. This exploit
could only have been achieved by a person of the athletic
training attributed to the deceased. Thus it will be seen
that the identification of the body by Dr. Ellis as that of
his patient is corroborated by the testimony of the brother.
Ss far the case would appear to be clear enough as to
the question of identity. But in direct and bewilder-
ing conflict with the evidence in support of this view
is the testimony of the person who identified the body
as that of her missing husband, and who is now sus-
tained upon the point by her sisters. This lady, Mrs.
Mary Ann Banks, of 25, York-row, Kingeland-road,
declares that the deceased was her husband, Mr.
Ebenezer Clarke Banks,. a commercial traveller for a
spirit merchant She has twice visited the mortuary and
examined the body. She unequivocally testifies to its
identity with that of her husband, and she bases her recog-
nition not alone on the general resemblance of features
7.75 d 16Thi, lint upon the. existemst a pommy markn
one of the fingers. 11, mirk she
specially deeerneur-to
the mutable before seeing the corpse, and the officer
found it as she described it. Yesterday afternoon she
again presented herself at the Hackney polies-station,
accompanied by her two sisters, Mrs. Williams,
of No. 59, Jamaica-road. Bermondsey, and Mrs.
Seamer, of No. 93, Fairfootroad, Bow, and asked
to be allowed to see the body once more. Some
difficulty was raised, however, on the ground that all
question had been set at rest by the identification of
Dr. Ellis and Mr. Heasman. She persisted that these
gentlemen were certainly mistaken, as it was impassible
she could be deceived relative to the identity of her
husband. By this time the post-mortem examination
bad commenced, and it was therefore impossible to admit
any one. During the two hours which the examination
occupied. Mm. Banks remained outside the mortuary in
a state of evident anxiety and grief, walking to and fro
with her sisters. When they were admitted the appear-
ance of the head was found to have been considerably
changed by the operations of the medical examiners.
Mrs. Banks, however, remained unshaken in her absolute
identification of the body as that of her husband. Mrs.
Williams stated that she could not speak as to the fore-
head on account of the mutilation consequent on the
opening of the head, but that she could distinctly identify
the lower part of the face and the beard and moustache.
She also said that she recognised not only the general
formation of the body but in particular the shape of the
chest and shoulders. Mrs. Seamer likewise declared
that the deceased was her brother-in-law, Mr. Banks.
The post-mortem examination was made by Mr. Gant,
the pathological anatomist to the Royal Free Hospital,
asnisted by Dr. Towels ; Dr. Ellis and other medical gen-
tlemen were also preeents The stomach of the deceased
was removed and placed in a jar for the purpose of an
analysis, which will no doubt be made in the course of the
week. 'The results arrived at so far have not as yet been
made public. The 2oz. bottle which was found secreted
in the cupboard of the house in Elgin-place, where the
body was found, does not bear any chemist's name. It is a
bottle similar to those kept in the surgery of medical men,'
and not of the class used by chemists in the retailing of
drugs. No cork was found. The bottle was apparently
one which had been fitted with • stopper. Some
remains of • yellowish liquid are still in the
bottle and will be subjected to analysis. It is a note-
worthy circumstance that yesterday morning a lady came
to the Hackney police-station, and produced a photo-
graph of a missing relative which bore • far more striking
resemblance to the deceased than did either of the two pho-
tographs subsequently shown by Mr. Hammen as those of
his brother. The pollee, however, 'unrest her that the body
had already been identified, sad therefore could not be
that of the friend of whom she was in search, and she was
afforded no opportunity of viewing it.

THE RECENT MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT IN
rue MERSEY. —Up to • late hour yesterday afternoon,
the bodies of neither of the two gentlemen who were
drowned on last Friday in the Money by the captising of
their outrigger boat had been discoved. Much symraathei
is expressed in Liverpool for the friends of the de
gentlemen, who moved in the highest society. Mr. A.
Hamilton, one of the gentlemen drowned, was only 19 years
of age. His father took a prominent part in the late
civil war in the United States, and he was nephew to Mr.
Prioleau, the Liverpool head of the eminent firm of Fraser,
Trenholm, and Co., of Charleston and Liverpool. The
other young gentleman was Mr. Ward Grundy, nephew of
Mr. Swinton %tilt, secretary to the Liverpool. London,
and Globe Insurance Company. Mr. Grundy was about
twenty-two or twenty-three years of age. 4; is believed
that as the tide was running out very fast at the time
the accident occurred, the bodies of the unfortunate
youths have been carried out to sea.
PREVALENCE OF CHILD MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.
The crime of child murder prevails to such a frightful ex-
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