The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

HONDURAS.

BALM, JULY 13.-lAsnWesimei of the wey they admi-
nister Justin is these latitudes, we extract the following
from the Watchman of the IStk : " Oa the 3rd instant
the Summary Court (at Ruston) was held, and several petty
cases disposed of. On Tuesday, the 4th, however, the 8 -
press Court was convened, whoa his honour, the self-elect/
Chief Justice Fits-Oibboa, formerly editor of the Honduras
Oksrver, took the chair, and delmend a very serious and
impremire charge to the constables ow the aeceesity of keep.
lag order, std warring the inhabitants to attend to the
setae, se otherwise he would be ander the disagreeable ne-
cessity of imposing heavy fiats on them. and be eon-
paled to put them is the stocks. The venire being
called over, Maria Batson was pieced at the bar
Merged with having stoles a ring, of the value of 6d.,
from the Chief Jetties. His Boon, Fitz-Oibbon, the
said Chief Justice, declared his 'trivialness's to pro-
mote this ease, and very magnanimously offered $
mnie
, whisk was, that if the girl's mother would ea-
tar U ghind tunas her to be Ihr seven years,
M weahl matee He premestimpuiremest Yawl and
"WWI empumelso was, be Madeseteed, mode shot belied
pnviewely glom kw• toggisg,getreeed bee a t la
the stooks. TM meeker having to tke , •
jury was amipanwellad to try Me Sidesteps
of the yoremeadiegp, twelve mem outsold the mart, declaring
that Hula Ulm should net be Isomported without triaL
The Chief Judea Mend them aY to be passed fa the stocks
for duing to leseadwe ; the mos, Weever, MINI met .to be
frightened ; homed of the esestables net le toads
them, otherwise they mild break their seeks. osa.
stables, not wishing emsk a fate, took advise—whew the
Chief J Mime, salmi MB OASIS 1111111411111414 to, declared he
would redo, and sae rises the ishpeont.seat. The inks-
blasts, whet none anenbled at Oho deer (numbering about
WV, aliened Ws to get oat, end have a fair slut, whoa,
WIM booty 411=itathej gave sham, which foe upwards
M ISO yards was t. Thu closed Fits-Gibboa's
nt
grist Molted= satertaised at the commencement
gg w go4raz, of loge aeestltin et shill, have been
mak, bossed des widllienal quantity, not
MOP Miss the meal quoit, km Ma taken—which
"dime pay the met of the gala, to say nothing about the
arelb msd ma employed ; it ie worth t to 6 61a. per lb.
km. HAVANA.
Bayou, Ant 17, moth. Oa
sklip_Albany strived
is the early part ef the moth. Oa the 104 k est. the U.S.
Ammer Vises, hay* Commodore Maris es ksord, arrived.
The Crothisesiprimemise were liberated ow He seas day, an
meat mem days before, sad they INN mat day
ea tiered 17.11. frigate Cameos. Tea pelmeases are
detailed es hosed el the Spanish estestrher ,
epos the plea Illet Huy win the=emod tke vestals,
sad subject to pselawati It is that they, too, will
in eves up 000sinelly. se the pail ethane appears to be the
Malt to the Anodise tag, is Nibs dee Mimes and pro-
peety while Is • Millileltoplrt. It siniteled thasatorndater:
laws. The sittimilars arrived two
4148ariesea 14the whole snit of eddies this diple.
seeds teselle. Coeuieder• Winos/ had dose the led-
nose hobo Ilia, sod is 'elided la sho IMPT Move M Imam
la die oak, me • it b.
The Osmoreas. I
teed is
b destined for Rio. Two misso-
deem am ma mated is me pert. The peimers went os
loud this Ildpte with gnat elealty. The steayspengled

I lassie gave ow Ws to thew mid slam Azle skis teeth
bave ben shows la poet. the; hays ell plead woottorfaUy.
ekNot a does *so of the primers *ME Iltmg their isearotro.
.

The yew hue bee bees ea board the Genuetowe,
S( dis go& Oa Ilse lli, ie cam wan repaint&
"Amill4 arar,that of the seem' leautessuat of amines, *a-
ft ea bowl the %spew The fever wu brought oa
by impeu‘sire In eating. He hes, however, recovered.
pima, hue been tesaserruel to the Albany, and
will The
lie seal Maw The Negress is ea her way to Rio.

Tollsreivlers to the 22•4 Nairn the idea that the
sow asp .111 he eanelderably lees than was satielpated at
the beak( eithe leases. Both &mind and prim were
norsky, hat enggibe were testricted, notwithstanding thee,
kainellantliois Pa an tita great Militia' fir briagisg the
wade Mmarker. Mesh satiety Is npor.ed to exist saes,
the giantess en aseount of the progress of cholera, sad the
Want k easy mines epos the next and subsequeat crops.
Me ekes this liken swat unfounded, for though the dis-
uses la mg beam lit continues to spread, sad its
rims. hems YYhays been appalling. The period
of Ike pies k ant Mumble for meeting the dhow, sad
the met sadist beads see generally the victims. The lose
is thus bresperable, ow/ft le the isaperibility of replacing
the deesesed its se redgMeg 'thee Meer.
Anomie hew Os milealprowkg Melds& ars store
hematite g hue Me
them ass be issestrued Into
lay WWII. that p will be large or even
ea ammo was. The Yvon k seedy noted sad
quoted us assitredial faction to the ushvourable ones
already sent over. It cannot, however, set aside
the fact that the average date of bloom did not take place
beim the Mk fast , which la 20 days later than the latest
seem enteeseed; nor can it obliterate the renumnbranoe that
in an twee he. • less bloom produced • laml crop.
HAVANNAII. JULY 29.—Brosi.—intire,1 l tolo dais •
las awl shies etas, les to vials; yellow, SI to 7 dab ; emporia;
yawed% Is se tp Me; hoses. si to 31 risk; dab. Tha hat sale of assimaa was at 2 flair, bed there le sboa,
eeryl Heck 2400 to Ma atertity off wank. The boalnews la toes Is very
ti
int* wo Amnion wank in port, and nat.
thee of theta To Pt &arbors were at U. 17a. dd. kw
Spaakit Pei In wall • parka, and to Antwerp dined.
Exertanos.—On Larks, 10a to per pm prom ;MP York and
Boman, pr.

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FRENCH WEST INDIES.—A letter !cora Cay-
enne of the Bth of June, says :—" The lest accounts
sent from our unfortunate colony represented that
there had been a notable depreciation in production,
and that there had been a suspension of work. This
situation, far from improving, has beer,me still worse.
Labour becomes more and more abandoned, because
the planters have no more money, and cannot pay
was. The harvest in sugar will. scarcely amount to
600 casks, that is, the tenth of what our colony ex-
ported every year; and the v.-ant of money having
prevented the renewal of plantations, it is unfortu-
nately too probable that we shall not derive from
the cane sufficient sugar lo supply trade. Scarcely,
indeed, will there ba 'sufficient for local consump-
tion."

SOUTH AMERICA.—We have intelligence from
Venezuet.s to Lune 12. The approaching election of
Presids.nt was the subject of general excitement. The
candWaste of the military party is General Monagas, a
broener of the president now in office. The civil can-
diesates are Hendon, a senator from Cumuli, and
Guzman, the present vioe president. All the candi-
dates claim to he liberals. They were opposed to the
party of Gen. Peer. The officers of the government
steamer which conveyed Gen. Parr from Cumana to
St. Thomas, were immediately discharged from the
service on their arrival at Porto Cabello.—The first of
August is the day appointed for the presidential
election. The newspaper published at Porto Cabello
in opposition to Geo. blonagss has been suppressed
by the authorities. The present incumbent of the
executive chair is very unpopular with his fellow-
citizens, and is obliged to maintain a guard of fifty
men at his private mansion in Caraccas.
NATAL—Accounts from this colony state that the
dispute with the emigrant, had been settled. An
additional drawbrack of 51. is to be allowed to each
adult emigrant, and they are to receive their allot-
ments on the lands of the late cotton company, which
have been purchased by Mr. Byrse's agent. This
decision had given general satisfaction. The emi-
grants were industriously employed in breaking up
the ground and building houses, and they appeared
determined to carry oat at once the object of their
emigration. There bad been several arrivals of
emigrants, also, from the Mauritius, who purposed
commencing the cultivation of the sugar cane, the
nature of the soil and the climate being well adapted
for the purpose. One of the persons alluded to states
that he has seen as fine canes along the Omgeni
River, and also at D'Urban end Pietermarits
Bay.: as ever grew elsewhere, and the success
of the intended operations was looked upon as
certain. A local paper says, "the sugar cane grows
remarkably well at Natal. so much so as to astonish
old and experienced West India and Mauritius
planters who have found their way to the colony.
With cotton and sugar as its staple., Natal cannot
fail to advance with rapid strides to influence and
wealth." A local bank was about being established,
with a capital of 50,0001., in shares of 101. each. The
number of vessels which entered inwards at the port
daring the year ending Jan. 6, 1850, was 40, of 6,905
tons and 415 men; whilst the clearances outwards for
the same period was 99 vessels, of 6,066 tons and 400
men. The total declared value of the staple articles
of the colony exported in the year 1849 was
11,263/. 65.; and the total value of the goods
imported into the colony, from all parts,
55,9211. 14s. 11d.

AN AMERICAN ABDUCTION CARL—Met= Bern-
stein, who was compelled on Friday last to obey the order of
the court and return to her relatives, from the companionship
of Joubert, has, it seems. been (ally satisfied of the falsehoods
by which this men gained her. On Saturday last, wrought
up to teensy by the disgrace which he had entailed upon her,
she undertook, with the aid of relatives and friends, to wreak
a summary revenge. She vhited Joubert at his store, corner
of Julia and Tuhoupitoulas streets, and invited him to walk
with her, stating at the time that she had escaped from the
custody of her family. The father of Joubert, suspecting
danger, Insisted that he should not leave the house, but the
fellow declared that he would face the world if Rebecca were
with hint, donned his beet attire, and accompanied her. They
lroceeded to the comer of Annunciation and Rise meets, fol-
owed at a short distance by them of her friends, who were
there to aid her in case of an emergency. During the walk,
Joubert communicated the fact that he had offered 1,000
dole. to an acquaintance, if be would assist him in again
taking her from the guardianship of her family. While thus
conversing, Rebecca suddenly threw off her bonnet, up.
braided him in violent terms (or his infamous source, told
him that she waa neighed of the falsehood of his solemn oath
that he was not of a negro blood, sot a married man, and
then, with a motion too gawk to allow his retreat, she drew
a pistol from her dress, presented it, and fired, the ball pene-
trating his cheek and shattering the teeth of be left jaw.
Joubert staggered, but the desperate girl finding ter work
but partially done, instantly drew another pistol and plant-
ing It direcy is his face, palled the trigger. The weapon
failed to second her intention. It snapped, sad her Mends
fearing violence from Joubert, Immediately ease up to her
aid. One of them, pistol in hand, advanced to the
wounded man and offered a fair combat ; bat Re-
becca, declaring that she would vindicate her own cause,
snatched the third weapon and again essayed to shoot the
Late companion of has flight. Joubert retreated as the lieu-
pieta girl advanced, and he owes his life te the fact that she
could not, with her Ignorance of the weapon &charge the
load. A parlay here ensued in this singular stair, sad Jon-
bort, before the awe of perms assembled, deelared that
slier Reheats had left her home be bed bat two interviews
with her, both in the premise* el ethers. He emprered him
self mom penitent for his intended aims and past decep-
tions, and avowed that ha had received but his deserts.
These statements appearing satisfactory to the parties. they
drove off in a carriage, leaving Joubert to seek relief for his
ground. Oae of the polio same upon the spot at the clew
of the stair and attempted to arrest the girl, but we under-
stand that Joubert said that he had re amps to make, and
had merited all that he had received, yen whisk so further
effort was made to detain bor.—Nets Orkin§ Bee, July 16.
COTTON FROM INDIA.—A vessel fad arrived from
Bombay has brought the large number of 3,710 bales and
25 half bales of cotton, as part of her cargo, of Bast India
production, sal another vessel arrived on the same day
from Goaaives, a port of St. Domingo, has brought 69 halm
of cotton, the growth of that island.
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Nair AdINUITS° TO PARISH MZETTNOL—
Aa art of parliamont has last tame into form (13 & 14
Viet, a 67), by which the domwation of sharable, in
lading parochial meetings, Ina lat prevented. It is datlared
that the holding of vestry or other parochial atoning@ is
tiabh church or chapel, or in the vestry room
is productive of gnat scandal to religioa, and
other great laaravesisase. The Pan law Ceendealeaen
anew sespewered, upon the application of sharshwardens,
&a, of any pariah where the popalatioa erase 2,000, to
mak. sa seder to enforce this act, and on the expiration of
naiad's, *Main meetings emaeend with parish natant
are to be prohibited from being bald, except is oases of
mew, sad then with the pnekes sanetioa of the Poor-
law Commissitaen. Places may se prodded sad mousy

borrowed, to be 'barged en the boor istee, li, the pulped
of !t up seetisi mode, to., for the trumesden of
badness.
Tlu POTATO.—The potato crop is u yet quite
safe la this dieing*/ Tipperary up to this sionsine
have not seen a diseased tuber. We have heard resew
and fears expressed ; but we have not seen sufficient evideedi
to warrant us in sonsludiag that the crop will be led, ad I
indeed do we flask that it will be injured to say series 51
extent. Our 'whet eteaSsues to be abundantly suppled
with prime potatoes, which are edliag at dd. and 6d. per
stone.—Clorusel Chronicle.
A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER PARAORAPIL—The Lod
ITerald states that " while a party wee mei* ail lie
Star Tap, is this city, oa Tuesday evening, a brink wee as
SO more, sad forthwith up sprang a large mane. r

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1850.

WILLIAM ROBB.

Sian we drew attention to the case of this nnfor-
tonere man, we have had communicated to us the
results of further inquiries. They tend materially to
streagthen the owe ia his &your.
Oar readers will bear is mind that at the trial his
sister►it-law, Martha Buckley, stated that she had
sot employed Rom to purchase arsenic for her ; and
that as he asserted she had, her testimony west far
to shake the presumption established in his favour by
his having taken a witness with him whom he pur-
-1 chased the poison. It now appears to us established
beyond a doubt that Martha Buckley did employ
Rom to purchase tunic for her, and that she got it
from him.
Mr. Gleorge Gill, a chemist, of Ashton-under-Lyne,
has made &Merit upon oath that about a week or
tea days before Whitsuntide last a female came to his
shop snit asked him to sell her two pennyworth of
arsenic [marlery]. Re told her be could not sell it
her without a whines. She said," I live in Moseey,
and how can I get a witness? I know where I can
est it without one." Mr. Oill adds in his affidavit
that he subsequently pointed oat Martha Buckley
among a group of females to Mr. Thomas (Medals,
superintendent of polioe, as the woman who requested
him to ern the arsenic.

Jane Roes, the sister of the prisoner, distinctly
affirms that when William RIG§ was going in',o Ash-
ton with her, Martha Buckley said to him " he would
save her the trouble of going tato Ashton if he would
get her three penn'orth of arsenic ;" and that she gave
him sixpence and told him to bring, her threepence
change,
William Burton, of Ashton, stays :—" I acnempa-
nied William Ross to Roughtown from Ashton on
the Friday previous to Whitson-week. He said to
me, You can stand hers while I leave a small parcel
with Martha Buckley, that she desired me to bring
from Ashton.' He went into Martha Bnckleyre
house, and returned in about Ave minutes."

Ann Platt, wife of an engineer employed at Cru-
sh-mill, Moseley, declares that a few weeks before
Mary Roes died, Martha Bockley said to her, "I
went to Eli Wood [a druggist in Moseley) for some
mork'ry, bat he refused ; but I did get some."
With this unconcerted; concurring testimony of
four witnesses (one of them upon oath) before us, to
Martha Buckley's anxiety to pro2are arsenic, to her
employing Ross to get it for her, to his carrying
something to her from Ashton, and to her declaration
that she had succeeded in procuring arsenic, it is dif-
ficult to withhold belief from his account of the
manner in which he disposed of the arsenic he
bought before a witness.
It was asserted at the trial that all Roes's drawers
were locked up. Jane Woracep, a neighbour, de-
clares positively on the contrary, " lam sure only
one of the drawers was locked up, for I opened all
the others to find something that was wanted."
It was stated at the trial that Ross had not
brought a medical man to see his wife before she died.
Moses Jackson declares :—" I was at Dr. SchoSeld's
the evening Mary Row died. The servant girl told
me that Ross had been for the doctor, and beanie
her master was not at home they recommended him
to go for Dr. Helkyard." The credibility of this wit-
ness is strengthened by the declaration of Mr. Isaac
Butterworth, a druggist, at Ashton, that when Mary
Roes was ill her husband come for medicines to him
two or three times in one day, and said, "I don't
mind expense so that you can do her good." Mr.
Butterworth states that Ross brought his wife to him
the Sunday before her death and had medicine for
her. He also says that he hes known Rose for twelve
months, and that from what he knows of him he can-
not believe him guilty.
Snail Wonnep, of Roughtowe, gives an account of
• conversation she had with Martha Buckley on the
day of Mrs. Roes's death. Sarah Worsuep, in answer
to something said by Martha, observed, " I would not
have given her any drink." Martha replied, "I'd
give her anything to eat or drink while she lived;
them that are up let 'em tarry up; them that are
down let 'em dee."

Ann Platt declares that on the same day, seeing
Martha Buckley at her own door, she asked her how
her sister was, and was told she was dead. In the
course of the conversation Martha used the following
strange expressions: "Our Mary is a d—d bad 'no,
and he's no better." She added, "I have been there
this morning for the rest of the swill."
These additional inquiries appear completely to
establish the fact, that but for the absence of Ross,
confined on the charge of murdering his wife in
York Castle, his mother-in-law and brother-in-law
would have had a true bill found against them by the
grand jury for breaking into the home of Edward
Andrews, and stealing several things from it. A
greet number of witnesses concur in representing
William Ross as having lived on the host terms with
his wife, and as mach affected by her death; Martha
Buckley as utterly callous on that occasion, and as
using immoral language respecting her both before
and after her death.

John Buckley, Esq., a justice of the peace, and
Henry Buckley, a retired police-officer, concur in re-
presenting the Bottomleys, Dyer, and Martha Buck-
ley, the principal witnesses against Roes, as utterly
unworthy of credit.
It will be perceived from this brief abstract that
the evidence collected since the trial goes not only to
' exonerate William Ross from the charge of murder,
but to throw strong suspicions on Martha Backley,
and to suggest a belief that Roue has been the victim
of a conspiracy. Into this recriminatory charge we
have no desire to enter ; we have no call to accuse any
one. But after a deliberate and dispassionate scru-
tiny of the evidence collected, our firm belief is that
William Ross is innocent of the crime for which he
has been condemned to die.

The late Sir Robert Peel has, we bear, left full and
specific directions in his will for the early publication
of his political memoirs; and has ordered that the
profits ;wising from the publication shall be given to
some public institution for the education of the work-
ing classes. As already stated, he has confided the
ta'k of preparing these memoirs to Lord Mahon and
Mr. Cardwell. Their duty will, however, be compa-
ratively light, though delicate, from the admirable
and orderly state in which Sir Robert has left all his
papery.

WILFUL DESTRUCTION OP THE ORDNANCE MAPS
OP TEX METROPOLITAN CONNIPTION or flawzae.—A
most linnet sot of wilful destruction of a eon iderable por-
tion of the Ordaattee map of the metropolis has namely come
to the knowledge of the metropolitan coaunimiestere of
sewers. After the neosmery levels sad other taftwatatioa
had bees taken by the offlows of the Ordain*, they were
regularly deposited at the District Sewers Office Is Hatton-
garden, ander the roperintsadenoe of Kr. Joseph Smith,
who bad been taken se • sergeant from the corps of Sopron
sad linen for that !tarpon. From the informatiea se ob-
tained Mr. Smith ordered the snaps to be drawls
to their being engraved, sad several of them for tie
crowded districts of the metropolis were completed, sad ISM
to the chief office in Cinrk•etreet. Oa the day the ceps
were so removed, several of the officers of the esta6rsi•
meat saw them placed in drawers with great ears, with
the azespdos of some that were elready in large tia tams.
Tome being some ocesalon shortly afterwards to refer
to them, ea opening the drawers they found the greater
part of them saturated with some powerful liquid,
so mach DO, that a good deal of the work was
oempletely illegible. An immediate inrestigatioa was
then mode el them in the tin ewes, and these append to
have bow injured is a similar manner. The appointment
m liesjeast Smith to this eltaation appommi to lne jives
iggesS awn to roe or two parties whisk MS meaiisaed
Wolf eh many occesioas by a 'clisinelkatioa to obey his
imlowition. The commidomas tharehom with a view to
a *mph familpdhout of Ms
_lnste. is
tie Inds el Mr. Ibid. of tbe Maud Nearly 20
of the Awe have bees eh ile es the dream•
mouse, aid the remit lowilonia the eloominies of the art
apse two parties who had hem privies* omputed. An
analysed= of the liquid ued has been made by Mr. Parry,
of the Polytechnic Institution, who declared It to be nitrate
of ether.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO BERWICE...-MT. LEVEY"
of York, was in Berwick on Moaday, with the view of soaking
arransematts for the oureseony of the °peaks, Mike railway
bridge over the Tweed by her Majesty and Priam Alban
ea the 29th, aad these we aadentand the dialling of the
railway have resolved shall be en the meet t
male. Their desire is that her Majesty will et law
ohms here, and should she @mat to Me, a *mild
marquee is to be erected ea the she of the melon mita. •
triumphal melt le to be ~.seed la the emirs of the bold..
Mr. Lemma and the mayor of the barons* out air=
Grey at Alawiek on Tuesday, to obtain Wormed=
ing the royal intsatica.—Berevith Adeorther.

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PRINCE ALBERT AND THE FELEENASONIL—We
ASENEAME *at the Gnat! Lodge afireesseses of Noshed
W ses le the reaolettoe that the Mates Wise mast
wok Y.MetdM at the laying of Se lbeedadereleee
the Moak is the Mb, Niue Allis as kis as of the
of
eel as
ample. Suit Sig MISS& Theo, see
et the ositieet lestrie el the QOM'S Ilat el MO will be
See easy eltb. The beelhes. se le dim el
thsk fimpielhe surilesse es Ile evades hi geseliss.—
Mehrot New.