The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

NAPLES.

A letter from Salerno, of Sept. 2s, states that the
t rial of the prisoners accused of taking part in-We
late insurrection "commenced that day. The Nea-
politan government professes to desire that the
greatest possible publicity should be given to the
proceedings.

WEST AFRICAN MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, TErRADAT MORNDIO.

The Candace, Royal African Mail steamer, arrived
this afternoon from the West Coast of Africa, with
mails, passengers. &c., bat the weather is so
boisterous that she has not been able to communicate
with the shore.

GMT WESTEILV ALM WAY OP CANADA.

(THIS DAT)

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors took
Place this 'Darning at the London Tavern, Biahorygstt
street: Yr. Out in the chair.

[TIIO raped end entemage, which had been previously pub-
Weed in the Arra*, ware taken ee read.]
lit. GILL mid that the report waa ao fall and explicit that
It Mimed him train making any lengthened etatement in
seelagtbedepfka The present wee a mat critical time,
end the patios of bends of &edits at this moment
was anything tut an enviable eon Nemetkaime,ke thought
the position of their compay wee eery eadstedery. They
had nailed their alarm at s premium; and they had paid
for the two first half years 6 per mt., for the nest three 8
per cent., and for the next 9 per cent. For the COMA
b,alf-year they propeed to pay 6pm Dent. That wee surely
• peat prof et the ...indium of their undertaking. They
had come into a potion of distress which wee anon en-
paralleled. The crieis impending at New York would pro-
bably be the moet severe they had ever known; and Canada
war too near not to be affected by it. He had never 'mown
a railway which under the cirenmetancee had kept up its di-
vidend in a manner equal to the Great % astern of Canada.
Nut only had they paid the per centsges he had named but
they bad contributed to the sinking fund • rum equal to
another per mint ; so: that in point of fact their Let divi-
dend was virtually • 10 per cent. one. The stoat of the
company wee nearly all held In this country—in fed, not
more then onmhalf per cent. was held in Canada,
and the directors bed therefore thought ft right
to add Mr. Reynolds to their number, and to men
him oat to divide the rasponaibility with Mr. Brydges. lie.
Brydgee would continue to superintend the line, and Mr.
Reprakie would take charge of the books, which,
he thought would he the beet forts of audit
it win possible to have. As the government had
behaved so liberally to the Grand Trunk Railway, the board
bad thought it eoly right that they should also put in their
claim. The government had behaved very handeemely to
them, and bad agreed to let them pay off at par their bond.,
which were at 9 , 10 premium in the market, and it had
given them two yearn to do it. Whether they shauld rain
the money by prefixes,* stock or on bonds was • question
he hoped they would not call on the directors to answer at
that moment. Another important matter wee with referenos
to the Detruit and Milwaukee Railway. The financial Morin
across the Atlantic bad "smidgen thtt company, and it had
fell= into a deed lock. Now, the flame*e of this company
were at intimately mil .1 up with their own that It
would become an important question of policy, whether they
should not hold out to the Detroit Company a helping band
end theta enable them to Open their hue .by which 'hie com-
pel'', would receive a stream °keel, from a and sage
seemly NUM to their own. They proposed tar lard them
180.000/., and tho re urity they would receive would be
ritually stoat to b mug =mews, in ponession. 'lbex
term haying been agreed to he did ant hesitate to 'ay that
they would have neglected their May if they Led not given
the ahaseholdem a hence of accepting or refusing the pro.
portal. (Hear hear.)
After some conversation the report was adopted, and the
dividend of 6 per cent war declared.
The arrangement with the Canadian government, and
with the Detroit Railway were formally auctioned, and the
retiring direrrors reelected.
Complimentary rotes to Mr. Heyde, and to the Beard
then concluded the Madams of the meeting.

The IV,,ril annonne.,s, on the faith of et Paris
letter, that the eco,inl plenipotentiaries of the treaty of
Paris will had a congress in the French capital IA Novem-
ber, to settle the question of the Principalities.
Tim SILENT STSTTif.—When the "silent @Ts-
tem" wan first tried in this country, the House of Correction
at Wakefield was chosen for the experiment. Being desirous
of knowing all things from setael observation. we proceeded
N that town, and ware accompanied by the excellent and in-
telligent rurgion •if gist prison, to ascertain for nureelves the
effect of the new diecipline. In the workroom, of the men
there appeared the oiliness of the gram, so far as tho ab-
sence of the soind c.l the human Biro warrants the compari-
son, The overseen in scab r tom nitre themselves criminals;
but their pat, as spies on the actions and conduct of their
Iria rewarlol bye remission of all manual labour.
and by a mere than u.uel allowance of a hater kind of food
than the ordinary dietary of the goad. Animal motives were
the only ones addressed under this system, as they had been
under sway other for them overseers were he to their
rigid dory by the idkneee and comfort they obtained, and by
the fact that, if they allowed any of the prisoners at work to
interchange a few words, the reporter of any such lan disci-
pline on the part of an overseer would lead to this conse-
quence—they would exchange places: the overseer would
have to take the work of the informer. and the latter would
sesame the rank and inwidions ration of his predecessor.
It at. something &maul to contemplate so many automata
working without a purpose, with moulding faces and vacant
minds ; and when the numbed is page to their dinner,
making no ether emd than the alight one produced by the
motion of their bodies, with their pile end laded faces un-
moved and uninterested, it was like a precooks of the deed,
titarally and poef=billing 2/.—Aiorned of Alehologi-
ad Naga«, for

At twelve o'clock last Tuesday night, while Boris,
a serpent of the N divans, mason duty in Half a-pend.read:
Rawl/ankh. heard toed sem= of murder proceeding from
the house No. 11, Derst4wr et, and an lie reached the 'pot a
woman acmes the mad, and fell against the wall
apponte7tairtght h.r it 'Ah arms. and her held fell back,
the blood gushing from a wooed in the throat, extending
newly from oar to ear. She did not .perk, and died in-
stantly. At the 'natant of the outcry another otgcer, named
! Holliday, of the IMO division, ran to the 'pot, and remised
from the hands of a man in the of the house No. 11
•n holding • white-handled razor In his right head.
U. was covered with blood, face, hands, and clothes, as was
the weapon., from blade to haft. At this moment Inspector
Langdon rode up, and directed the presumed murderer to be
taboo to the Kingsland station. Dr. W resident in
the neighbourhood, and three °theologian]
quickly in attendance, but the woman_ was, as stlne,7,
beyond mortal
admitted shaeid;.At
his „du.he
sad
adr.zain in caw
ask( " I have known you ems yore, sad wish so
speak to you about this." Ha remind the usual caution
ia each cams, but persisted in making a statement as fol-
lows ,—" I had been to Peckham Rye with work, and took
my wife with me. On returning I filched beer and some-
Abg for supper; then words ensued between us, and then
It was dons Instantly. It's • bad job. She was a good Info
sad kind creature a ever lived or walked. I did net do It"
vWhoa charged 'eighths wilful mod, this Ws, he beams
low and appareally thoughtful.
spars sad inters found at his reeldenos make It mimed
that kis wile was of • respectable funny in Dareetaldre.
He was by trade • ealpiater, and they had only me child, •
girl shout fear years of age.
Lodgers in the home state that they heard a quarrel
between the man, whoa. name is Thomas Robert Davis. and
his wife, and that he threatened "to do for her." It woe one
of time lodgers who, running down stairs justafterward'
in
fund Davis the purge, and gave him into the bends of
the policeman.

EXAMINATION OF, THE PRISONER THIS DAY.
This morning having been appointed for the
easzolastion of Thomas Robert Doris, aged 39, a dirty,
inleersble-looking fellow, a carpenter, residing at No. 11,
Dorset-irtreet, Ws Pond-road, St. Mary's, Islington, who
stands charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Mary
Davis, at his residence in Dorset-street, tho approached to
the court, notwithstanding tho untoward state of the
weather, were densely crowded. When the prisoner was placed
atgtheibar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, he appeared in • zry
dull sad thoughtfulu3 stain of mind, and he Warned to
been weeping a great deed. Since he has been lockedA—gi
the Kingeland polico-station, where he has been aide. r tsi
charge of Inspector Laagdon, of the N division, he hiiteis
very reserved, and said but little.

Par. Superintendent Beastlier' and Itupector Landon, of
the N diviaion. attended to vita the man

Mn. Sarah Stamp, a lodger in the same hour, stated she
heard a grumbling noire about eleven p.m. on the night of
the Mb inst. in Mrs. Davia's apartment. She heard the prisoner
say to hie wife, " I will do for you." The wife replied, " You
rogue. you de going to kill me." She then called her husband
and bA I him the prisoner wee going to kill his wife. Her
her husband got out of bed, ran down stairs followed by
her, end then they saw the prisoner .7100 out of the bed-
room, followed by the &if cued, with their child in her arms.
She staggered in the pamege and ran into the street.
Mr. John Stamp, the husband of the lad witness. a
laborer, geld, be wee in bed and heard his wife say, " For I
God este, Jack, do go down stairs, for Davis says he will
antrderhia wife." Reheard screams of murder. Upon proceed-
, lag down stabs he saw Davie standing in the purge near
the bed-room door, with a taxer in hie hand, coveted with
blood. Mr.. Davis, the deceased, was running along the
Witness said, "For God's sake, what have you
dote, Dane °" He replied, "I have done the deed foe
her this time. Come en, Jack, I will give myself
up to you:' Witness said, "But what a foolish
man you must be." Prisoner replied, "I do not care;
I em a happy man now, sad I will die for her." Witness
took the rario- from him. Pulite-constable Holliday, 518 N,
then came op, and witness gave the prisoner into custody
for killing his wife. He at the arm gave the police-con-
stable the razor, which was coveted with blood at the time.
Mn,. Sarah Day, said she hard the prisoner end his
wife come hare about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night.
When they were In the purge the prisoner need an
offensive term to the deceased. She replied, " No, Dula
do not lay that; I have enough of you, end I went
so more." They then wont into the bedroom and
shut the door, when 1 gun heard grumbling. and
herd the prided say, "You —, I will fetch it."
Prisoner then locked the bedroom door. The wife:shortly
eller called out, " You rogue, 'you ere going to minter
me." Crier of " murder" ahe then heard, and upon running
down stain, she saw the prisoner funding at the bedroom
door, with a razor half shut in his hands. She then saw the
wife dagger along the parse, with her child in her arms,
and blood wardreaming from her threat. Prisoner said—
" I have done it lam a happy man I I here done for the
Mr.• James Williamson said was a and when
he was called to re the deceased, he found her lying on the
ground, She had • handkerchief tied round her throat, and
her dress mu covered with blood. He found a vritip
wound extending _from ear to ear. The wound wee
on the left Me. The windpipe wee almoet cut throngb'.
wound had divided the superficial jugular veins on both aides,
on the left aide it had divided the deep one. The wound
war the canoe of death.

Hr. tirwhittWaa the wound such • one as might be
ended by • razor f
Wilmem—Yee.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then nothing could be for done for her f
Witmer—No . she was quite dead.
Polka constable liolliday, 518 said he heard screams of
"Police," and upon ruing to the spot he saw the deceased
lying cm the ground bleeding very much. When he took
primmer into custody he made no remark, but esemed very
*eh eztited. _ _

Police•iergesn t Boots also went to the spot, when the
placer sent for him throe times. On going to him first, he
mid— Wall, sergeant, shake Lade with me," and I did so.
The second time, he did the same. On the third time. he
meld—" Well, sergeant, what am I charged with r The
enfant replied with wilfully murdering his wife, and he
then cautioned him as to what he might say. The
'pnaoner was drunk. Poisoner then said—" I with I was
in India, and I would 101 l some of the black —."
He afterwards said that he wished him, the sergeant, to take
are of ell he had got, m he should want all he had got foe
counsel to defend him. He then pointed to a workbox and
told him to take are of the marriage certificate which was in
the box. On his way to the station he asked if his wife was
I dead, sad
It informed that she was,
w said it woos •
bad job, cabeingnnot be helped now. It ashe all done in •
moment."

Other witnesses were to be examined when the report left,
bet it wv exerted that the prisoner would be remanded
until after the inquest, which I. to be held by Mr. Baker to-

The Paris Rgaro announces the melancholy news
that M. Gunned, the composer, the author of Sappho, the
Wertister Xtrt, and the choruses of Ulysert, is for the pre-
sent deranged, and that his friends sent him to Dr. Blanche's
, lunatic asylum at Paley on Monday last.
Thu ALBANIAN M tusncs.—These marshes are n
paradiee for ornithologists. Wild-fowl of every deecription
riot in clouds on all :Ades unt of shot while the coots and
small cormorant., conscious of safety, scarcely trouble them-
I selves to move at the sound of a gun; plover' of all kinds
whistle mound, and down at the sea are docks of huge gro-
team-looking rol,cana with a sprinkling of .now-white
egrets; slowly :lapping over the reeds are innumerable
marsh harriers • merlins, peregrines, and bright blue hen
harriers dash along above, and high op in the air the great
Egyptian cultures (seeming pure white as you look up at
them from below) soar slowly round, or rise elnagiehly from
their feast on some mow at your feet. Eagles are as nu-
merous as hawks in a deer forest in Scotland; ties different
kinds (I am told—l am no ornithologist myself) are fre-
quently seen. la the woods the great eagle owl (Or y.r 66t40)
is not uncommon ; and then is no lack of four-footed ani-
mals—wild boar. roedeer, *We, foxes, and martin cats
abound; ocensionally a wolf iv seen, though they more com-
, monly keep to the -side.;hil and among the high moan-
, tame in the int,:vior arc beers, rol-deer, and chamois.—
Froser's Afegasiers, fur October.

MOR tt HERTTAGE.—In ertion as we advance
cp in experience. we cannot but ore the ignorance of men,
especially thme who are restaged the instruction of youth.
Because they have taken high scholastic rank—became they
know Greek and Latin, and have a certain funky of divining
the ordinary intellectual and moral status of their pupils,
they consider themselves competent to direct their lifiecareer.
Yet there rarely perm a year in which pupils leave the
public institutions of whom their minters have neither !ex-
pected the talent, nor the destined renown. But this is not
the Tendon—that with which we chiefly reproach them ic,
that they ignore completely the physiology of man—that
thee have not the ken knowledge of hereditary inflame,
and that they believe when they tlpnellittpz.toil idle, captions. or
rebellious, that the remedy is yto punish. Tho
ern thing ought to be to ascertain the evil proceed from
constitution, from education, cr from hereditary causes. In
this latter can ell chastisement, far from correcting, will
only Nauseate the evil and hasten the explosion of the dia-
ease.--Joinael of Pathological Ifida,ne, for October.

TrtEMOUTM.—A meeting of the inhabitants of
this borough was held on Monday evening in the Town-hall.
Wm. Walker, Esq.. Mayor, in the chair, to ewes' sympathy
with the autt.rers in India and to commence a subecriptiai
in their behalf. Several of the leadinc Inhabitant. were pre-
vent. The speakers were, Alderman Pow. iron minas&
tom , J. Straker, Esq.. ccalowner ; the Rev. J. Sumner;
Alderman Popplewell, Llorrs agent; Edward Potter, Esq.,
coalowner, and other gentlemen. A very liberal subs...tiption
was roads to the nom and a committee was appointed to
morass the borough for subscriptions. On the Fast Day
ooll.ccions would be made in all the chapels in the town on
behilf of the sufferers. A meeting will be held in South
Sbleids shortly.

fieT,E47.itilli7irisonWlZtia parcel fn 000 head
and an umbrella in the other when I took him into custody.
Sir Peter Laurie—l shall give the prisoner the benefit of
the good character he has received and discharge him, but if
be resll bee been runty of the robbery he may be taken up
at any time If any fresh evidence ahould be obtained.
Janus ills charged with absconding In June laid
with If. 15e., !ukase:lg to Mr. Croker, of Cloth. r.
The lad, ft appeared, bad been entrusted with the money
to purchase wire to make cap springs of, but having been
badly treated at home, he appeopriated the amount, and did
not return until yeaderdaY; when be pve himself into
custody.
Remanded till Saturday.
John McCarthy Ina brought up on the charge of amok.
Mg the officer and obstructing him in the execution of his
duty.
Police Constable Bred, 174, said-4 was called to an na•
finished building in Wood Street to remove the prisoner who
war drunk, and fighting with the other men. I tried to
induct him to leave the place, but he dm& me a violent
I blow an the chart, and had I been a little to the right, I mast
have leen precipitated down a hole twenty feet deep.
Sir Peter Lurie fined the prisoner 61., or in default seven
dap imprisonment.
Thome. Chard, who at first refused his name and addreso,
Mary Octteker, and a young woman of the name of Blhatt,
were charged with stealing a watch from the person of a
torten named Smith. _ .

William Smith said—l woe walking along Barbican
with • female on my arm, when a man came
up and insulted my female friend. I remonstrated with
bun and Man instant about a down men and women sur-
rounded its sad hustled me about during which my watch
was taken from me. I saw the male prisoner in the crowd
bat he had a great coat over his uniform.
Catherine Donohue mid I was with the last witness, but
walking behind him with my mother. My nets, was walk-
ing with the poescutor. I saw • tall young man take the
watch from the pecetscator's pocket. I only se* one of the
women than. _ . .

Mary An; Douches mitl-1 -- walldag with the pro-
locutor, said sew the stale Omar among the crowd that
came around to. I loot my eer-riap et the time, and
locket.

Mir Peter Lawio--Did they take the aivringo out of par
ISM

—Witnees—Yee, eir—l had them in my ears when I wet
Into the crowd, and when I came cot they were goes.
Policeman 162 mid—When I wee called to Ruble= I maw
the male prisoner and Elliott com•ng away. I know him as
a convicted thief, end the name be has gone by for the
Let three yeas is Johnson. I know nearly the
whole pug, and I think I shall be able to apprehend the
man who took the watch, from the description I bare re-
ceived of him. He aat present in the Enfield Rifles.
Another officer said the male prisoner had been in the
Royal London Militia, and wee expelled on account of his
bed character, being known ea a convicted thief.
A pane wan found on the prisoner in the name of George

Remanded till Toteday.
WORSHIP-STREET.
OMISTIBUS 11103311.7. ANDO!NOCLA

Ifni; 1,;;;•;, ii,;;•eh;;g;rlinioie with
wilsofully possesdng 18s. 7d.
Sergeant Webster, 48 N, stated—" On Tuesday bat, I
wax et the Britannia Theatre, in Helios, when one of the
ehni-taker. told me a girl in the .tans was in possession of
several sovereigne, which she kept counting I celled her
to me and queetioned her. She produced 'four eivereigns
and four shillings from her right hand. I eked if that was all,
mho eaci“yes." At the station I found in her hand 3 sovereigns
and 14.. She informed me, that she had found it in the Mile-
end-road. She carried a dark leathern reticule, and it was a
dram bottle and glees. I noticed ehe was partly intoxicated.
On the same day I learnt from our " informations " that a
lay had been robbed in an omnibus; and when I inquired
of the person who had sat near her, she informed me a gill
about fourteen yams old, carrying a black bag. The lady is
present. On the prism= I fused an omnibus correspondence
ticket. _ _

Emma Mayhew, • widow residing at 8, Bainabury-
Street Islington, dowsed —On Tuesday Bet, about four
o'clock in the afternoon, I entered • Paddington omnibus
and proceeded to the Bank, then got into a Hethoey omni-
bus. While is the latter I distinctly law a young girl sit-
ting neat me on the side where wasapockst containing& pone
with a 61. note, eight eovereigne, two Amp, and some
memoranda. I cannot positively swear to the prisoner es
that pereon, who was much heftor dressed than the
prisoner, tut I can almost swear to the bag. I don't know
when the irirl entered or alighted, nor did I miss my pro-
pprty until at a gentleman's residence in Durham-lamas,
Hackney-road, at eight o'clock in the evening. I gave infor-
mation soon after to the police.
The accused, who insisted on having found the money,
and with • portion of It got some gin and peppermint at •
publiotheen in Shonditch, wee remanded.

SOUTHWARK.
TWPCIMIT 101.11111 Y OF A CARPI,. 800.

Richard Piehtt, • smut looking young fellow was
brought beforeMr-Burcham charged wth being concerned! with
others in stealing a carpet bag, containing wearing apparel
and other propirty of considerable value, belonging to Mr.
Andrew Eag, a gentleman residing at 76, Hatton
Garden.

ItiePrcmecutor stated that he had been staying for • short
time at an hotel In the Bridge-road, Westminster, and on
Tuesday he removed from there to his own residence. Pre-
view to he engaged two men to remove his luggage to
• cab. His consieted of a large heavy carpet beg, •
trunk, and • few trifling articles. When he got Into the ceb,
he missed the carpet bag and the two men. He returned to
the hotel, end not finding his property, he prooreded to the
pAiee-station, and gave information of the robbery. On
Wednesday, he wee sent for at the polioe-station, when he
sesrtheprorner in custody with hie carpet beg.

Mr. Bambara asked hiM whether the prisoner was the esaa
be engaged?
Mr. Eagleson replied that ho could not exactly rinse to
u it wee dark at the time.
John Maumee, 160 L, said that on Tuesday evening,
about twenty minutes to MM, be wan on duty in the
Waterloo-roadi when be saw the prisoner end another man
turn eharply into Herbert's-buildings. The former was
carrying • homy carpet-beg. Witnees followed bim, and
having stopped him he sated him where he got the bag
from? Ife replied that ho met a gentleman in the Westmin-
ster-rnad, who asked him to carry the bag for him to the
Obelisk in the Blaekbiara-road. In passing along there was
an etatrartion in the road, where he mimed the gentleman.
Mr. Bureltant told him if such was the fact he should haws
taken the bag to the station-house. Instead of that be was
going
in en
opposite direction, and quite away from the
Obak.
The prlsoner said be intended to have taken It to the
+sedan-holes, but he thought be would hays his tea
(Laughter.)
. . . . .

The constable raid he bdieved the prisoner to be connected
with a gang of thieves who drc.rd themselves as porters,
and loitered about railway. and hotels, to pick up travellers'
Lumage, and if he V. remanded, no doubt he would be skis
to obtain further evidence.

Mr. Burch= accordingly remanded him until Monday
ant.

WANDSWORTH.
ROBMINO A
.ftr.FORIUT.OIIT.

named Wits. Oderthorne, who has been frequently
ennvicted, was brought before Mr Dann.. charged with
absconding from • &sformstory Asylum with the clothing
of the iirtiturifti, and embezzling 3s. Gd.

Mr. John Leyland, the superin
ntendent of the Bridge
Home Kt lormatory Aaylunt, in Woodworth, stated that the
prisoner wea admitted on the 26th of April last, from
linnemongrr-lane Gaol, at the instance of Mr. nutlet,
the magistmtc, in conoequence of his having been
convicted to frequently. The rules of the institution were
explained to him, namely, that he could leave when he
thought proper, but not with the clothes of the asylum. The
priaoner's cloths*, which were in a ragged state, were taken
from him, end a snit of clothes beiwging to the institution
woo given to him in their place. He continued in the v)
lam until the 2Sth of July feet, when he abeconded with the
clothes of the institution, in the company of another inmate,
Witness true In town at the time, and his 'moisten; not
knowing his (the prisoner's) character, sent him out with
another boy to take some wood to tradesmen in the town,
which had been ordered. The two never returned, and
absconded with the 30. M. they had received in payment for
the wood. Hs plaold a notice in the //w and Cry for their
apprehenairm, and the prisoner, who hod since born to Wol-
verhompton, was apprehended on Friday evening last at
Stoawellirmai. The prisoner then stated that they had
both sold the clothes of the asylum on the following day in
Pettiaost-lane.

The prisoner is defence, raid the clothes of the aryl=
wine not new, and belonged to a boy who died, and were
patched. He also denied taking the money. The other boy
took the stoney.
The superintendent said tho clothes were quite new, and
were taken from the store when he entered. There was a
constable in court to prove at least ten conviction' gamut
the prieoner.
Mr. Nyman said he should remand tte prisoner for the
' depmitions to be taken.