The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER AT DUDLEY.

On Friday morning last, the body of a man
named Oberlin Montgomery wan found dead, under a cinder
wall, at Netherton, near Dudley, under circuoistaness which
left uo doubt that he had met with foul treatment. Two
men ars hi custody upon enepielea of being concerned in his
death. Their names are Peter Shaw, beerhouse-keeper, of
Netherton, and Edward Parkes, also of Netherton, sinker.
From what has at present transpired, it would appear that
ou Thursday night the deceased was drinking at Shaw's
house. At the time he left be was indebted to •
trials' amount for ale. About 12 o'clock at night, two
youths who had been carol singing (earner Bloomer and
Mos) saw Shaw dragging • man, who was groaning, by
the leg, from his boom into the hone road. H. had then
left the 111111 D, sad upon axing the two youths he shouted to
them to take the man home, as be was drunk. They, however,
were frighteued, and went Lome as speedily as pceeihie.
About 4 o'clock in the morning a woman unwed Sarah
Parsons, living next door to the prisoner Parkes, heard a
wise which induced her to listen. She Lear Park s say, " I
won't kill the —, but if there's water enough in the pump
171 drown him to death." Poisons got up, and on look-
ing through the window saw Parkes pumping water into •
bucket, and then take it past her window. She heard the
water thrown, and the voice of a man crying out from the
entry, sayim—" Oh ! I couldn't serve a poor creature like
this. The men repeated this twice, and Parsons heard the
water thrown three times. The body of the deceased has
bees identified by the two lads as that of the man that Shaw
was desolog into the road. At the time the body was
fisted part the clothes of deceased were discovered some
distenes from the place where be was lying. He was
covered with mud, and the clothes he bad on were
saturated with water. The two men were brought before
the sitting magistrates at Dudley yeaterilay, adre-
matded. Au inquest was also opened before the coroner
(B. Robinson, Esq.), sad adjourned for a poet marten ex-
iuuinatim.

ROYAL HOIT7CULTUALL SOCISTY.—An ordinary
general meeting of this society was held yesterday in the
Cmiocil.room at the garden, South Kensington, C. Went-
worth Dabs, Req., Vice-President, in the chair, when about
Ifty candidates were elected Fellows. The chairman ad-
dressed the meeting on the great loss sustained by the society
in the lamented death of their President, his Royal High-
s/se the Prince Consort, and read the spontaneous and gra-
cious communication from her Majesty the Queen, through
Sir C. B. Phipps, which we have already laid before our
readers. He also read an address at condolence to her Ma-
jesty, which bad been prepared by the council and forwarded
in the usual way. The cordial thanks of the meeting were,
on the motion of Judge DesMarres, seconded by the Her.
Joshua Dix, tenderd to the council for the promptitude
with which they had acted for the society on this melan-
choly occasion. The ballot for Fellows was then proceeded
with, and amongst those elected we noticed the follotviug:—
The Earl Browolow, the Countess of Shaftesbury, the
Dowager Viscountess Ashlwoolie, the Lady Claud Hamilton,
Lieutenant-General Sir G. Bowles, K.C.8., Major-General
W. LG. Williams, Captain Seymour, Dawson Darner,
IL P., Captain Allmon Cuninghame, ho

A COA.D BATH UNDER DISAGREEABLE ent,CIIII-
STANCES. —Two lovers at Dover in humble life were taking
am evening walk one frosty night last week, and in the
course of their ramble the couple reached the trio of planks
that places both aides of the Dour in communication with
each other. They had pined about midway of the tempo-
rary pump, when the loving swain decided, in ao unpro-
pitious moment, to steal a kiss. However slight the
resistance offered to hie wishes. it proved sufficient
to destroy the equilibrium of the parties upon so
narrow a bridge for two, and both were plumped into the
stream. Of the gallantry displayed by the young gentle-
man in rescuing his fair lady, of the woful appearance pre-
seated by both when they reached the bank of the river,
sod of their speedy disappearance from the seems of action,
we seed sar nothimg. We understand that both are con-
tented with their single essay in the swimming art for
this meson, and that a repetition is not desired.—Maidstone
Journal.

ARM= OF A MURDERER IN FRANCE.—Dupille,
the man suspected of murdering the postman at Beauvais,
and for whom the polka have been for some time on the
look-out, has just been arrested in the hamlet of Trou-
Jurnel (Oise). Two carters in the employment of M.
Tourly-Godia, residing in that place, went to •
shed on the afternoon of Friday last, and were
surprised to find the door fastened on the in-
side. One of them said to the other in a joke—" Perhaps
Doodle is in there." On looking through a crevice they
saw • blouse, several shirts, a pillowcase, ands sack of
charcoal lying on the ground, and also a six-pound loaf.
Busparting something wrong they sent for their master,
who sous Caine with his eon and some other men, end,
on forcing open the door and searching the plats,
found Dupille feat asleep under some straw. They
did not disturb him, but left the shed, fastened the
door on the outside, and then sent for the gen-
darmes. In the meantime, Dupille having awoke, and
finding from the noise outside that he had bees discovered,
took a razor from his pocket, and inflicted three wounds on
his throat, but none of a dangerous character. On the
gendarmes arriving he was secured, and niter undergoing
an interrogatory, daring which be avowed his own guilt
and that of his accomplice, Chainoran, already in custody,
he was conveyed to the prison at Beauvais.