The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-16 00:00:00

Till POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

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!KAYLA.
£ThPT AT AVIVIDT.
Aa A NNTOIAN• soma girl, about 1$ Jean of age, whose
.b. r. a poor hut respectable woman, is Itwellitig at No.
hoses Heed-eourt, Iligh•stmt, Shoreditch ; awl
r•ae awerst. sge•l 41. • roamed woman, of No. 12,
t. a:batreet, Whitechaial, were brought up on remand
Mr. lielfe, charged with attempt's( to commit
ink,.

the magistrate had remanded both prisonen to the
...rk.•nwell 'louse of Detention fors week, to give them
Cc repentance, to meditate oft the foolish acts they
and to receive the eteellent advice and
. t.tsu. of the worthy chaplain of the poi. who has
mu. Ii good. The primeer Murphy hail thrown
•.. :t into the Ilermitage.ksck of the London I rock+ a few
• ...t• 'incr. The water is 24 feet in depth shc moT"`"Y
drowning, and was saved by the exertions
.1 a polioe.constetik seined Jark. Ito H. When
.h. came to her semen ate said it was all
Jobe. It appeared that since she bad
ft h..r Lust situation he had carried on an illicit inter-
with a fellow named John Neale. She met him by
.4.1...0utuu•0t on the night of the Ath inttaut, near the
Vosument, and another young woman, OD, 111,1:4 preeants
chimed John as " her young man," on which the pneuner
straightway proceed ed to the Ifermitage•lock, and at.
teng4.+l G. drown herself. The prisoner now anal she was
eery '417 fm what she his! that the kind.
heisted chaplain of the House of Ingintion hail promised to
ili.uo a situation for her, and that the would not repeat
tie ittermit on her life for John or any other young man.
Mr. Selfe read her a lecture on her l ily, and suffered Lee
to depart with her mother.
The old woman Barrett was nett arraigned before Mr.
Selfe. She hail silvery hair, and :ippeired very ill. After
a quarrel with her husband the took up it knife and cut her
odt ann in a frightful nianuer. Hatton, a police•constable,
No. 1.4 11, saved her from Weeding bi death, ))lased her
undpralasinal nuatoieut, and then brought her before the
arefto.
4,44.- rid a young paim had just been discharged by
him attempting self 4hAtructios. The prisoner was an
oil goose. He was somn.al to and a woman lA./ years of
a.. 1 so wickedly and foolishly.
Ilation mid the prisonee was almost coatioually iatord-
rat.d. Ile had mown her mum of eight years. cad had
Ds v. r nee her mbar more than tine limo in the canna of
thit period.
The pria.Dlet mid that her husband was beating her for
two or three days, and is a pesetas the cut his arm.
Mr. Sidle-1 don't wosiler at your husband beating you
if you are ruatinually getting drunk, and larking your home
uncondurtstile and wretched. 1
The primmer wee discharged with an admonition not to
repeat the offence.

WANDEIWORTH.
cuff. CON. IN HUMBLE LIR

Aran,. lailty,a;;;:;••-•brouTiliZ in nodally from
n Zara. Dittos. chancel with stealing a number of article.
I.togias to aa. rand Thome Wilson, of Johnotreot,
irli•nnid. Dottorson.

ream tie- 'widens of the prosecutor and Atergerot Mitchell,
it .ippeared Net the primmer bad been lodging with Wilma
pro., warn aim a labessnr) up to Saturday last, when he aud.
doily left without giving say wake. On Moaday inonnog,
it. parocistor lilt home after breakfast to go to work, and
at that hour Isis property, aid also his wife, were is their
rwer plena When he returned house to .lia-
rs he we. asteeislied to tad that his wife had
ahwooled mad hie place was stripped. He made
Miseriss, aad ultimately traced the jn.oeer to Thames
ISOM. He was thee 'marls; ow of the prosecutor's band.
arrcharfa round hi. rock. Ifs at once claimed it as his pro-
p sty. and the prisoner admitted that it was, and said it hasl
bere rives to him by his (Wilma's) wife to keep his neck
emus Tlie promecutur thee saked him where
hie wife we., aad all the answer he received
was that she was all right. Wiliam then took hint
to the polieestatioe. rod gave him it charge, and another
haedkerchief belonging to the pproosseeceuutor wee foetal in his
pskets. Sergeant Machin is aseempeliied the
primmer to hL lodgings, rod foiled a number of other thaw
which Use preemator said belonged to him, bed were part
a the property he mimed wbro he missed hie wife.
The primes, acasAisiaised Wilson, who denied Net he
toward her oot oa Sagunto, night. He also denied b=
it•oed his wife. He ialniitted that his wife bail ac
...f sleeping with a young woman, but he said there wee
it., truth is it, and it was only vial the pneciaer bad told
her

The prisoner said if the wife was present she could peeve
that he had threatened her, awl had locked him up.
*natant Mitchell sand the wife was not in court.
The prisoner was then remanded fa inquiries.

The Dean of Chichester has recently presented
to each of the workmen engaged in the restoratino of the
cathedral, a moaning card, containingtwo resolutions pined
at the witeating held in Chichester, Feb. 26. The nee ac-
keowledgeo the goodie's of the Almighty in sparing life,
sod the other returns thanks to Slime intruded with the
work for their exertions to avert the calamity.
Tian LAT, Ma. RoISEILT BAaaL—At the COM-
stilton meeting of the Central Foramen' Club. on Monday
last, it was rewired, on the mono, of Mr. Tretheiry, that a
portrait of the late Mr. Robert Baker, of Writtle, as "The
Tether of the club," be painted and plead in the club
rooms; and further, that the expense at this be defrayed
by pirate subscriptioo amongst the sasnahene, not to ga-
med Ili. each. A number of gentlemen at awe put doers
their names • while subscriptioas are still being received by
Mr. Corbet;the secretary.
111.118TMONCRUI CASTLL—Durin4 the last few
days a portion of the 'mint ruins of Hirstrameoeux Castle
have fallen down, more especially the vaulted kitchen or
Ml/1/4130112, the cover of which was constituted of • brick
arch. This is entirely destroyed ; also the chimney of the
maw has partly fallen, and more is likely to follow. The
exterior mimics is the awe position. On the afternoon
before the brick arch fell several of the children of the
Rev. Mr. Chataway were at play in the kitchen. A great
manypl tons of bricks have fallen altogether. —Smear
Exrss.
MUNlncirr DoS ATIONA —Lieut. J. Stoddart
Douglas, R.N., of Chaste!' Park, Maidstone, has become •
life governor of the Royal Naval School, New-crusa, in
virtue of • liberal donation of 15001. ; and has given the
mine maned to the Royal Naval Female School
A (lunar PllTtrlti IY Duna—Mr. Holman
Hunt's
.picture of the " Finding of oar Saviour in the
Temple" having bora replaced in the German Gandy, we
evulte.l it, with • view to ascertain what injury, if
any, it had received from the effect.' of the ere reported to
have taken plat, shortly before New Year', Day lad. Not
the slighted mischief befell this work, beyond a trilling stela
upon the sky men through the open door of the Temple, des
mainly to the passage of smoke beneath the glass, we
°Pine. Dar* the recess, while the picture has been in
the engraver's heads, Mr. Holman Hunt has repaired
the &neap, and it is now impossible to tell that eves so
minute an injury had been inflicted. It is certain, mesa.
thelms, that a great risk was incurred of the total destrue-
tem of the picture. This occurred through the deepen
employed to moderate the light admitted into the
exhibition room becoming ignited from the lighted
PC The blase soon ran round the apartment, to
the terror of the viaitois and the attendonts. One
of the last, mounting • sort of cornice above
where the picture is suspended. endeavoured to extinguish
the flames, which were almost surroueding him ; be sp-
ored...l to the drams who remained in the room for some
cloths or like fabrics with which to extinguish the burning
haegings. A lady immediately took off a valuable
India @bawl and threw it up to the person abOTO.
Ile aided, he pot out the Ire ; sod in • short time
every danger was over. la. lady, whose generom sacrifice
is all probability waved the remit, of Mr. Hunt's five year's
labour, gave her name, or it was given fur her, but owing to
the contusion of the monism the sttendante only recollect
the title of " Lady" attached to it. Mr. Holman Hoot,
that he may acknowledge his greet obligation, and the
Phoiniz Issurance Office, that it may replace the costly
shawl, have mid...moored to discover the lady to whom they
are so deeply indebted, but without effect. It is to be
Loped some person, if not the lady herself, will inform the
parties interested of the name of her whose magnesimoue
saved a great picture horn destruction--Alamo WIC
Stiolor. AT A RAILWAY STATII/N.—A painful WU-
otion was created among the officials and passeagen at the
Ladrot Ma'am. on the Great Western Railway, on Than.
day morning, by the discovery that a respectably dressed
Peron hail committed suicide by cutting hie throat in one
..f the rooms at the station. It appears that a trein arrived I
atabidcot from Oxford at the usual time (9.56). and among
the passenger was a persoo of respectable appearance, who
solemn.' to have a vacant look and to be rather strange
in Lie ilemesawar. Ile male a few remarks t.o one of the
turds, whirls...tidied him that hewn. Dot quite right in his
truitt. The guard, thinking it desirable he should to out of the
way of excitement, reerenniended him to 4o and .it down
in a room, and maim quiet until the tram should arrive
by which ha wished to proceed on his journey. The strange
Pannier west into the room as suggested, but when the
nerd watered the same plan about tee misdate or • quarter
.4 se hoar afternaela les found the man lying upon his
tack, with lie timed fearfully cot. sod surrounded by • pool
04 blood. He was alive, but insatedde, awl evident!y biilcwa
ell recovery. In • very few minutes he expired. The wooed in
the throat was indicted by a penknife, which was stained
with blood. and lacked up from the boor Dear where the ea-
t eignatei deroastal was found. The ticket found upon hire
0,...,4 that be had come fon Oxford. and. Mas a.
etwee.
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instantly instituted, it wee uneetwined that
,e Ile. I :de, a sad., and weight mosufacturer, *any-
is; ,a Moises at Oxfoed. As inquest was held the see
evening, before the .over for the Diderot division of the
'"in'Yof Berks. and evidence was adduced that Mr. Gale
al latterly given strong symptoms of • disordered intellect ;
will, mow of his friends viewed him as at all likely to lay
vwleot hairdo upon himself. and be was DM Owed midst
ley restraint. The jury returned • verdict that the de-
ceased indicted the f. wooed while labouring under is-
'weite. The heady of Mr. Gale was removed to Oxford yes-
trriaa (Friday) aborting.
The wed-rmai diem and chaplain of her
ship Jean d'Acre have forward/dee additional
loud ontributioa of 71. 110 , per the Rev. B. Ring, to the
1414 Natives' Life,ced, Inetitufaue.