The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, ArArt. 29.

The official Gazette of to-day publishes the ap-
pointment of General Pezuela as Captain-General
of Madrid and that of the Marquis de Novalisches
to the post of Captain-General of Catalonia.
In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the debate on
land mortgage banks was continued.
In the Senate the Budget came under discussion.

FEB SYDENHAM
(THIS DAY.)

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fiIIiORDINAET CONDUCT OF THE CULPRIT.
prisoner Richard Bishop, who wee eon-
listed a* they'll swim of the Osedeal Orimissi Oesrt
of the murder of a ease named Alfred Cartwright at
Sydarhara, was executed this morning at 12 o'clock in
front of the county gaol at Maidstone, the offence having
Ma committed is the county of Use., sad the sentence,
according to law, was carried out in the same county.
The offence of which the culprit was convicted wee
committed tinder very aggravated circumstances. The
deceased was a married man, who was employed at a
public-house called the Prieoe of Wales, at Sydenham.
His wife keeps a small shop in the immediate neigh-
bourhood, and the murdered man was in the habit of
going borne to sleep at night. Ile was about to
do this on the night in question, being accom-
panied at the time by his father and mother, but
on his reaching borne he found the prisoner Bishop and a
number of other disorderly people quarreling outside
his house, and the primmer was knocking at his shutters.
The deceased requested him to desist, and the prisoner
abused him and pushed him. He went for a police-
man and returned with one, and the prisoner
then, in thc presence of the ofileer, struck him.
The &yawed gave him into custody, and as
they were going along the prisoner went up to
ff
Cartwright, and asked him whether he intended to
press the charge of assault against him. Upon his
replying that he did, the prisoner drew a dagger-knife from
his pocket, and stabbed the unfortunate man. The
knife passed into his heart, and he died almost im-
mediately afterwards. Instead of exhibiting any
sorrow at the dreadful sot he bad committed,
the prisoner appeared to have made use of
the expression that the deceased had got some-
thing that he would not get over for some time,
and although he himself attempted to make out as an ex-
cuse for hie conduct that he was drunk at the time, and
did not know what he was doing, this was negatived by
the evidence for the prosecution, all the witnesses agreeing
that although he was a little excited by the drink he had
taken, he knew perfectly well what he was about. The
l learned judge who tried the prisons in passing
ce senten upon him, said that it was of the
most deliberate and aggravated mundett hat be
ever remembered in his judicial experience, and
it is understood that upon the Secretary of State colkmu.
nicating with him, as is always done in cases of con*.
tions for murder, in reference to it, the learned judge as
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he could not find any circumstance of mitigation in the
prisoner's conduct, or anything that would justify the
remission of the capital sentence.
The prisoner was removed to Maidstone gaol imme-
diately after his conviction at the Central Criminal Court,
and there appears no doubt that he anticipated a reprieve.
He seems to have conducted himself pretty well until last
Friday, when the warrant for his execution was not down
to the gaol, and from that time he conducted himself very
violently, and is described by those about him as a har-
dened sinner. In the course of conversations he had with
the Rev. Mr. Fraser, chaplain of the prison, he boasted that
I be had committed a hundred and fifty burglaries, sod
was only detected in two came ; but although ibis may
be mere boasting on his part, there is no doubt that he has
been guilty of several offences, and has been four times
under sent nce in Maidstone gaol, the last time being
twelve months' hard labour for a burglary. The chaplain
used the utmost exertions is bring him to a
proper sense of his condition, but they bad very
little effect, the culprit frequently stating that he knew
every one who was banged must go to hell, and that he
thought it would be the best place for him, as he should
do better or be happier there than in H . He always
seemed rather pleased than otherwise to converse
upon the subject of his crime, and he has pre.
Waded all along that he did not know what
he did at the time, and was even ignorant of
the name of the murdered man. This, however, is
known to be false, as he was in the habit of purchasing
tobacco and similar articles at his shop, and lived not
far from him. It was with great difficulty that the
chaplain could induce him to write to Mrs. Cartwright, the
wife of the murdered man, to ask her forgiveness, but at
length he was induced to do so, and she in reply sent
him a letter on Wednesday, in which she said that she
hoped she was not doing her husband's memory any injus-
tice by forgiving him, mullahs would pray for him, and
hoped. be would pray for forgiveness from God for the
great sin that he had committed.
The. prisoner's mother saw him on Monday last ; the
interview was most extraordinary. The prisoner was
very violent, and said be did not want to see her, and he
refused to kiss her at parting. The Rev. Mr. Fraser
advised her to come again on Tuesday, but the prisoner
said he would not see her if she came, end
added that he did not want to see her any
more. The mother went to see the wretched
prisoner again on Tuesday, and although the interview
was of • somewhat more becoming character than the
previous one, the prisoner did not seem in any way
affected, and parted from his unhappy parent without ex.
Whiting the el' htest emotion.
On Wednesday evening about six o'clock Mr. Fraser
parted from the culprit, and told him that if he wished
him to remain with him he would do so all night, but
Bishop coolly told hint that he did not think it
would be of say use, and be need not trouble
himself. Mr. Fraser was unwilling to leave him in this
condition of mind, and he told him that he would come
to see him again at 8 o'clock. He did so, and he found
that the prisoner had gone to bed, and was fast asleep,
having left a message by the turnkey that he did not
, want to be bothered any more.
The execution took place at the usual hour. The cul-
prit mounted the scaffold with considerable firmness, and
when the drop fell he appeared to be dead after a very
short straggle. Them was a atoll crowd assembled on
the emission.

The Established Church (Ireland) Commission
sat yesterday. The commissioners present were :—Berl
Stanhope, Visoount de Vesci, Sir J. Napier, Bart,
R Colonel .A. Shaft* Adair, Mr. J. T. Ball, Q.C., LLD.,
Mr. E. P. Shirley, Mr. G. Clive, M.P., Mr. E. Howes,
M.P. The secretary, Mr. J. Faviere Elriagtoo, LLD., was
also in attendance. _ _

tinlitisnotr7--dt the meeting of the committee
of the London Financial Reform Association, held ou
Tuesday night, Mr. Richard Moore in the chair, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That
the committee, while condemning the increased expen-
diture in every department of the public service which
has rendered additional taxation necessary, desires to
express its satisfaction that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer has not yielded to the suggestions made to
divide such taxation between the income tax and the
tea duties, but has resorted to direct taxation foe that
PC:ND CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT
CRIDOSIIICII.—LUS evening the emeservatives of Green-
wich called a meeting in the Lecture Hall, professedly in
support of the protestant church in Ireland. Tickets were
distributed amongst their own supporters, and all appli-
cants for tickets were very closely scrutinised. The au-
dience, amidst many dens of impatience, listened for two
hours to three speeches, in which a resolution was
moved, seconded and supported, condemning the resolu-
tions of Mr. Gladstone. As the chairman was
about to put the resolution, the Rev. Benjamin Davies,
a protestant minister of ten years' standing in the
town, went on the platform and asked to be penaitted
to move an amendment. The chairman refund his per-
mission, stating that if he did not agree with the object
of the meeting be had no right to be meant. On some I
of the audiesee insisting on Mr. Davies being beard, the
promoters of the meeting kicked him off the platform,
tore his °eat, atruok him OR the head, and hustled hire out
of the building. When the rev. gentleman was thus ex-
pelled • large number of the respectable part of the audi-
ence rose en incase and left the hall and when he made his
appearancein the street, minus his hat and with his coat
=L in fatten to his back, they escorted him to his
with many axioms:lieu of esteem and respect.
ADDRESS BY THE NEENJIABONS TO THE QuINN.—
The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Ao.
=Masons of England, with the 'mediation of the
Hon. the Earl of Zetlasd as Grand Muter for the
twenty-fifth time, took place last evening in Freemasons'
Hall, Great Queen-street, and was influentially attended.
The Earl of Zealand, after returning thanks for his re-
election, referred to the attempt made on the life of the
Duke of Edinburgh, and moved that a loyal sad dutiful
address be presented to her Majesty, expressing their ab-
liserenee at the crime and their earnest bops that his
royal highness will bei restored to her in perfect health
and safety. The Earl de Grey and Ripon, Deputy Grand
Master, .seceded the motion, which was agreed to. It
was left to the noblemen above mentioned to early one
the *OK
THE CONEEILVATIVE LAND SOCIETY AND THE
I:l3mrsD Lam) COMPANY_ (Luerrien).—Thess two under.
takings, the former sanded under the Friendly Societies
het and the latter ender the Joint Stook Companies Acta,
be& hasteg the privilege of limited liability are now
being carried en with the same staff as that of the s
moiety (now in its sixteenth year), and with the
same executive boards, the company receiving the ad&
tire of two or three new The shareholders of
the el! semi* have lambi lorpel, in the new nom
The bosinems el the taws irM ke, endued to
*demises end loins on sesnrity ; wines the United
Quespony will bay mil every dessription at landed and
levee property, twee
xt=esesiduably **emotion
of the Oseiwwwitive Led
OPINING OP THE 80171111111;1 211:11ANIJOINL—Op
ihnurday sent the members et do Illeirepelidea Beard of
weeks will to the roadie el the lienthern
KM War le Lasl.lh when they will
arrive about o'clookohen the a will be °penal
and they will pass along Vie feetwep senhanknond,
which will then be formally opined I. the palls.

THE RECALL OF SIR CHARLES LLV:.

Now that motions are impending in both howl
of parliament in reenact. to Sir Charles Datling's ad.
ministration of the government of Victoria, and to 1.4
0011112111/1114001 With the colonial department since hie
recall, he feels that he is no longer called upon to observe
teepee. He has, therefore, addressed a letter to the
Dailp Ann, in which he expresses a th eke
so submit his conduct to the rigorous inve,tig‘.
than of a parliamentary committee. He is per.
loaded that such an inquiry would prove that tile
cause he pursued was perfectly consistent with his
duty and obligations as the governor of the colony; that
the statements made in hia despatches to the imperial
government were true, and that it was his duty to make
them ; and that whether the conclusion us to his intendi.l
conduct in a certain contingency, founded upon a despatch
which he addressed to the Secretary of State, and up cc
which the decision to recall him was principally buss I,
was or was not fairly deducible from the language of that
, despatch, his subsequent proceedings abundantly dcmca.
I etrated that his intention had been misapprehended,

WIATHER REPORT. -(T11 IS DAY.

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N.W.3 j 6 W. , oi
radrvia.o 12544,6 r 50 NW. 3 I S.W. ro ;
lifeseconUo 110.103 r 4.4 W. N. W. 4 ;10 S. W. nn_
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Voloutio '30.121 .s. 4 ,
Cope C1car,30.12( 52 W. 217 W. 1,,,t
s)miti4ll 60.11 r W. 2 5 W. I
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Liverpool —40.04 r r 2 W. 7 ' B.W. ' o :
RoLytom& 30.04 r 40 W.S W. 6, 6 S.W. c:, _ _
Penzance „W.f.:ft 52 W. 4ti W. 3
Brat :7,4 AV. 4 5 S.W.try 4
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Rochefort 130.432:54. W. 9 4 M.S. W. ;re
Plymouth 0021 f 55 W.N.W. 2" 5 W. N. W. Ira O.•V I
Woraoals ,•20.211 54 W. 4, 5 S. S.'fro
Partmonth 1.20.16155 W.N.W. 6 N.W.
London 30.06 57' W. I 7 8 W. b
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Yannoutb 22).1r..2 f 53 W.N.W, 3 21 W•
Sciaboraegla -0.82152: W.N.W. 3 7 W.N.W.
Athrlaa 1W.77450 N.W. 8,3 W. . o
Skudasurs 19.7.3 1,1 Vi.s.W, 6 0/AA.
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Barometer corrected and reduoed to ss deg. at sea ,es oL tie
letters r (rising), I (tailing). a (steady), unllc.te direCU,L,
asetioael thmatercary within lea to hours. Thermometer e,,,sed
la shade. ',Jarman torte, rith itadfreettuo durwg tam :4 :,01.44.
Z.—call. Weather: b.— blue sky; C. clouds detach.... I.
fog: h.—hall; L—llghtnlug• m.—misty (hazy):
(doll); r. —rata ; a.—suer; t.—thunder. Buu.;all, soon or
hall melted), durlaa Met 4a hours.. Sea alsturimace.
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REMARKS. --
ma distribnUon and amount of barometrical pre•-ciiies
eomewhat from Oro.' of yesterday inerning . there
Im lease in scodzief, the Oman:lwo takinz plane
afternoon having been succeeded by a rayri inerenee lc,
night. Readings in the booth show a ;ICC:VW. 7he inin o-;,.,:
between Kahn and Biarritz is still O.il iu. : anti the 1.--1 in;
at Studeares is very low. Temperature
in Scotland : ou other coasts it is
Ou our nortnern and eastern coat UUrili I..!ct
strong wind from the westward prevailed, inereachi:,r• :,1,:.t
several stations. The gale has veered to nosh we-4 aid„ -nil
blowing on our eastern coasts, stud at Bruseeis there i• a -.can,
westerly gale, (In the Irish coast and in the Channel the
fresh from the west, Bog and mist have prevailed in the w, .t
and south. Ile sky is now generally cloudy or overcast.

Mr. Hardcastle, on the Bth, will move, " That
It is expedient that the position and circumstances pt
many of the Turnpike Trusts Act now expired, but
hitherto annually renewed. sl..uuld be submitted to the
consideration of a select committee of this house ; and
that, in order to give time for such inquiry, the annual
Continuance Act for this year should be introduced as
speedily as possible."

The Earl and Countess of Dudley (says the
Worcestershire Chronicle) have just returned to Witley
Court from a visit of a few days' duration in the noble
earl's I eautiful property in Merionethshire, on the banks
of the Dee. The earl and countess were received at the
boundary of the estate by between 60 and 70 of his I. rd.
ship's tenantry on horseback. A congratulatory address
was presented and duly responded to. Upon their
de-
parture the countess ordered tea for about 400 'chat
children, and the earl left substantial gifts to be distri-
bused among the poor.
Mr. Darby Griffith intends to move in com-
mittee of ways and means, as an amendment to the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer's second resolution, to leave out
all the words after " authorised to," in oi der to Mart the
words "suspend so much of the payment of the termin-
able annuities created in 1866, till the year as may
amount to the difference of the annual payment made on
their account, and of the interest of the 21,000,P00/. stuck
for which they were exchanged, that is to say, a vain of
1,006,000/."

The chair of Biblical Criticism in the University
of Edinburgh, vacant by the death of the Re%. Dr. Robert
Lee, has been conferred on the Rev. A. H. Ch.krturia, M.A.,
Glasgow.

This morning was published an abstract of the
statements of all monies received and expended on account
of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of each of the
different municipal boroughs, made up to the latest period
of audit preceding March 1, 1868. The total receipt'
amounted to 3,183,1)62/. Is. Cal. ; and the expenditure to
3,076,539 f. 3s. 100.

the Evangelst,
posisetehr:rYtwies!nocthrdfcoltmeusahmeyeih,,eperearctl:rhebhy-eroilitopooisfsdstrtox..jdpoeo The cameo u
rgoocino:k ,
labourers and hilieinersiokat;oreffiithtlet.
same clam The district assigned to the new churcehdh isthse
church will, when completed, afford accommodation for
650 persons. All the sittings will be free.
Dean Stanley has consented to preside at the
dinner is connection with the annivtraary of Chesbunt
College, and the sermon will be preached by the Bev. T.
Binney.
A SHABBY MANO:UVRE. —The House of Com-
mons was very near being counted out on Tuteday night
in committee at the instance of a tory member. It wss
between 12 and 1 o'clock ; the debate was fairly worn out,
and the house ought really to have been dividing. It .uits
the tory party, however, to protract the speaking, and
then, when members have gone home weary and disgusted,
to try said bring the debate itself to an absurd
and futile termination. If on this occasion
there bad been found fewer than forty menu
ben in the house, the committee on the Irish Church
would have come to an end ; the time spent in Abacus/big
the resolutions would have been thrown sway; and parlia-
mentary government itself would have been made ridicu-
lous in the eyes of the whole world. The pat Hamada.),
reports of yesterday did not give the name of the lumber
who proposed the count out. We believe we are correct in
stating that the manoeuvre was executed by Sir Percy Bur-
rell, Bart., ILP. for Shoreham ; but whether be claims
originality for the conception or acknowledges the inspira-
tion of a more fertile mind, we are unable to state.— /mite
News.
MS GOVERNMENT AND THE TELBOIAPI/ SYSTEM.
—At the monthly meeting of the council of the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, an minuted discionon
took place upon the question of the government taking pos.
assison of the lines of telegraph in the United Kingdom.
Mr. P. H. Rathbone pointed out that many of the railway
companies, who were connected u qual-panners with
some of the telegraph companies, were preparing to opj'el
the government bill, their plea being that it was not for
the public good that the government should interfere
or enter into commercial enterprises. Mr. R. A. Man
said that if the government did obtain possession of the
telegraphs they would simply cork them tot the public
oonvenienos, and cot for the sake of profit plons. Sir.
Muspratt said that the government in their bill proposed I
uniform rate of ls. for twenty words. That was far too high
as compared with continental rates ; and thsFreoch gore ID.
ment, finding by experience that a low tariff of telegraph
led always to increased buainess, were now considering the
advisability of reducing the cost of telegrams in lino
towns to 25 centimes, or 2t.cl. the 20 words. Mr. 11411.1i01
said that a uniform rate of sd. or half a franc would suit
both England and France, and the stamps could be then
freel interchanged. Mr. Clarke strongly aborted to so
high a rate as Is., and thought 6d. would be found noel
remunerative. The council finally adopted a respolutace
that fkl. would be a fitting uniform rate for 20 words, ex-
clusive of the address. The council next agreed to a re•
solution, moved by Mr. Maass sad seconded by Mr.
Rawlins, to the effect that the lines of telegraph, if
worked by the government. should not be
n. used as ,ourrft
of profit, bat only for the public advantage. The reiolu-
bon (which was carried weeon.);l:l=ted that the
rates should be redwood as often as
Anceirra. 'URAL EXHIBITION SoltrY.—Yester-
day than was a private view of the designs and drawimp
whighwlll form the present year's public exhibition of this
la their room in Oosdnet-stieet, Regen•strest.
The object of the society, of which Mr. Beresford Hopei
ALP., is the chairman, is to illustrate the progress which
is being made in the important iprofaesion of architecture,
mad meal ci the principal architects of the country have
on lbs premt occasion sent be cantaihntiona This is the
eighteenth exhibition which has basal lteld and the best
proof of its increasin==sce the fed
that them are 450 this year, as compar
ea ed
thbitcia-Lacklo:awlettei
hiLiand'beensureproriora:ounsinaMancoisaass."6llll4,lo4l' th.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

EQUITY COURTS.
(nature Vice-Chaaedlor Stuart.)

fafr HENRY ALFRED JONEPH DOINNHTY TICHHOENE HART.,
AN my ANT CYDER THE AGE Of 21 YEARN (BY THE
HONOCHABLE LADY TEREAA MARY JOSEPHINE DOCUIITY
WIDOW, HIM MOTHER, AID NM 1111DIND
r. THOMAS CASTRO.

This suit was instituted by the above•named plaintiff
who by himself, or his trustees is now in possession of
the Tichborue' piopertyl against the defendant, who is
Netter known by his assubied Daum and title
of Sir lt•ager Charles Ticbborne, Bart., to re-
strain him from receiving, possessing himself of
or intenneddling with the personal estates and effects of
Lady Henrietta rebate Tichborne (who died suddenly un
the I•2th March last, intestate), pending proceedings in the
Probate Court touching the grant of administration of the
personal estate and effects of the said intestate ; and for a
receiver to get in and preserve the said estate and effects
pending these proceedings. The suit is only ono of
several connected with the claim made by the defendant to
the title and estates of the Ticbborne family, and sought
no other relief than that above stated.

Mr. Barton, Q.C., and Mr. Chapman Barber appeared
for the plaintiff in this suit, and brieSy submitted
that it was the constant practice and, in fact, the duty of
this court, in cases of pending litigat'on, to great an in-
junction and receiver, as prayed by the bill (and now
moved for). The bill stated that the identity of
the defendant with the Sir Roger Charles Tich-
borne, who was the eldest son of the late Sir James
Francis Doughty Tichborne, and Lady Henrietta FeHaiti,
his wife, who left this country for South Ame-
rica in 1813, where he duly arrived, is wholly
disputed and denied by the plaintiff in this
suit, and all the members of the Tichbeene family.
In support of the present application it was submitted that
at this stage of the various suits the evidence as to the
identity of the defendant was really immaterial.
Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., for the defendant, Thomas Castro,
insisted that that question was not immateriaL This
court only interfered in the way proposed, when the pro-
perty in question in the' snit we, in danger, which was not
the case here ;and moreover,if he could prove, salts would,
that Thomas Castro was the Sir Roger Charles Tichborne,
and the eldest and only eon of Lady Henriette
Tichborne, he—and he only—was the person entitled to
the ;mat of the letters of administration. He then read
a m.os of evidence to prove the latter position. Mr. C.
Lmock Wells was with him for the defendant.
The Vice.t'hancellor, after uharvini that it was the
COPi'lloll and established practice of the court to interfere
in eases of pending litigation in the Frobate Court,
to protect the property in question, said that
this was eminently • ease for the intervention
of the court. Without entraining, and, indeed,
sax kusly avoiding, any intimation of an opinion on the ex.
traw.linlry evidence adduced on behalf of the defendant
ir. • l• suit, the Vice-Chancellor granted the injunction,
awl ,de an order for the appointment of a receiver, ac-
cordial; to the motion in the MOM

(Before Vice•Cheaecllor Gifford.)
LYON E. HONE.

At t_' &chefs to-day Mr. Matthews continued his ad-
dress on behalf of the defendant Home.

11c proceeded to say that the estrangement which took
pl..ce between the plaintiff and defendant threw a
very important light on the question of the
alleged delusion. Commenting on the plaintiff'■
letters to Wilkinson, be said they plainly ahowetf the na-
tur.tl workings of her own mind. The suggestions of what
Drat opened Mrs. Lyon's eyes were, first, the reading of
Chevalier's book, the other, the denial of Home that the
spirits had scything ►o de with the matter. These sug•
!tedious, Mr. Matthews argued, were unfounded and
false. The gradual change of feeling which Mrs. Lyon'scon.
duct exhibited was inconsistent with the sudden discovery
a fraud. (in the first occasion she had the advice of
ilfr. Hall, on the second the advice of Wilkinson and Mr.
lencken.
The Vies-Chancellor drew attention to the circumstance
that on the occasion of the gift of 24,0001. to Home, she
spoke of giving him M,OOO/
. .

Mr. Matthews said that nevertheless she withdrew that
intention. and the circumstance was a confirmation of Mr.
Hall's testimony.

Mr. Matthews will probably oonclule his speech hi the
COUI,O of the day, when he will be followed by Mr. Fitzroy
Hal), for Home. The defendant Wilkinson's case will
then be opened, Mr. James's reply will follow, and,
possibly, on Friday, but more probably not till the early
pa. t of next week, the hearing will be concluded.