The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

TsE' EXPRESS, TUESDA EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1861.

ought 40 be by a select committee. Without pledging him-
via le a conamittes, be thought then were grounds which
'mob kergelry desirable, and be regretted that the subject
Lad been lemeght pa in the absence of the right lion. gentle •
men t►e Mher for the University of Cambridge and the
hue saabar Ter Kilmarnock, who he knew intended to have
both pessent. He *add postpone say observations be had
to make with regard to it until the hon. member brought
forward the matter next session.
The subject %hen dropped.
GALWAY CONTRACT.

Colonel FRENCH wished to know to what hour to-
i.l ono w (this day) the government proposed the house should
adjourn. The noble lord at the head of the government had
said that he would before the close of the session make •
statement as to the decision of the government respecting
the Galway contract, and he (Colonel French) trusted that
the right hoe. baronet the Secretary of State for the Home
Department would not, therefore, adjourn the house to •
later hour than twelve o'aock.
air 0. GREY said that ample opportunity would be given
for the statement before the prorogation. He believed that
the usual hour for ineetiog was half plot one o'clock.
The house then adjourncd at three o'clock until half-past
one to•morrow (this lay).

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RIPON RACES—Mornay.

Tut Two.Yamt-Ob &Yea Bs et Sows. each, with 25 added;
ache, OA 711• Bst 31b. Winners extra, :ce. The
second to rye his stake. T. Y.C. (8 subs.)
Ur. VI. W. Tbonisab Itetriste.. by Issateou
Mr 11. .1 Wisner. Temptation . ........ 2
Mr. U. nitwit! Tiro W' r..
Five ran.

TM. !ht' Dim PIATE (Handicap) of 50 soya. Winners
after July 27, .511) otitis. T. Y.C.
Mr. Jaturs' Westbaruitrlt, ny %Vaught/slat, .3 yis. Cat sib.. 1

T;erve nun.

Tai NOMIRAT PLATE (Handicap) of 30 son.; for all
Agra. Who Den lifter July 27, 51b attn. The winner to be
'old for 30 Bova., Ike. T.Y.C.
Dkk SwlnUer, 5 Ara, 94 15Ib (loc. 5.1 b extra

Ti,. vas.

THZ Oa►At ST. WILTIID H teDICAP Of 10 DOTS. each, h ft,
sad only 3it declared, with X added ; the second to save
his stab, satra, &c. Two masa (20 subs ; 6 of
whams deolared.)
Mr. Whittaker'• Desmond, by Bandy, t me. 7.t Olb 1
411,1 of tTesterfield, 4 ps, lei alb due bib estra)
Caption 4:ray's Dummy, I; yrs, tut 121 b S
Tee tea..

THE FWD:I:LAMY Putt of 25 eon., added to a swoop.
stakes of :t soya. each, for 2-yr.olda sod upwards. T.Y.C.
wr. Naylor 'a not Banner, by Coatentinrat

THE TWO- YEAR•OLD PLATE (Selling Handicap) of 30 soya. ;
winners after July 27, bib extra ; the winner to be maid for
30 Dora., T.Y.C.
Mr.". Osboree's Old Towler. Tst 7lb
Mr. ti Rtublock's Rose at Raby (toe Masks,
Mr. Fubert u 4 Reilesdale
Nine ram.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CRorDos, Ax:iiusr 5.
CROWN 811)L—(Before Mr. Justice 81E4bl/raj
THE KINGSTON WADER.

Martha Bradal., 42, married, was charged with the wil-
ful murder of her step-sister, by cutting her throat with a
mop She was also charged with the mar offence upon
the coroner's inquisition.
The prisoner, who is a tall powerful woman, was very
well dreamed, and .he pleaded not icuilty to both the indict- I
meat and the coroner's inquisition to a firm tone of voice.
Mr. Robinson conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Ribton
and Mr. Hume Williams were counsel for the prisoner.
Mr. Robinson. in opening the case to the jury, said he
was quite sure that it was unnecessary for him to bespeak
their most careful attention to the painful and distressing
inqniry into which they were about to enter. The prisoner
at the bar was charged with the crime of wilful murder, and
he believed there would be no doubt whatever that it was
by the hand of the prisoner that the unfortunate de-
ceased, who was a young woman abouktwenty years old,
and the step-sister of the prisoner, met her death, and the
only question that in the result they would have to con-
eider was whether at the time the act was committed the
prisoner was an accountable being, and responsible for her
actions. He was bound to admit that there did not appear
to be the slightest motive, either of jealousy or anger, for
the ooramission of the crime; but at the same time he thought
it his duty to iuform the jury that the evidence
did not appear in the slightest degree to show
that the prisoner had exhibited any symptom
of insanity either before or after the transaction, and
that although he undoubtedly appeared to be • good deal
excited after the act had been committed, the jury would
have to comider whether this might not be fairly ascribed
to the natural remorse that must always follow after the
commission of such • dreadful deed, and cot as a proof that
the prisoner's mind was affected.
The evidence was thee gone into, and the facts
deposed to were quite conclusive to prove that
the prisoner had destroyed the deceased. It appeared
that the prisoner was the wife of a sergeant-major In the
3rd regiment of Surrey Militia, the head-quarters of which
were at Kingston, and occupied the barracks in that town,
and the prisoner and her husband had two rooms on the
pound floor, one of which was used as a bed room, which
was entered from the barrack yard, and the other as a
sitting. room. The deceased, who had been employed as a
domestic servant, was out of a place at the beginning of
March, and the prisoner had invited her to come and pass
a few days with her and her husband, and she slept in the
inner room, upon a bed made up on a sofa, and had done
so for about fourteen days at the time the fatal occurrence
took place. The murder was committed on the morning of
the 26th of March, and it appeared that shortly before
seven o'clock on that morning the husband of the prisoner•
g:Lreis and went out, leaving the prisoner in bed, and the de-
o also in bed in the adjoining room. The pri-
soner would seem, from the evidence, to have
got up almost immediately after her husband left her, to
have taken • razor belonging to him from a drawer and gone
into theroom where the deceased was lying, and inflicted a
fearful wound in her throat. There is very little doubt that
the unhappy young woman was asleep when the prisoner
attacked her, but she rose from her bed, staggered a few
feet into the adjoining room, and then fell down dead.
Immediately after the dreadful occurrence the prisoner
went into the barrack yard, accosted one of
the sergeants, and said to him, "I have murdered my
sister • oome along with me, and T will show you where
she is," and she then went to the pump and washed her
heads. Dr. Cary, • medical gentleman residing in the town,
was sent for, and upon his arrival the prisoner mid to him,
"Oh, doctor, this would not have happened if I bad taken
your advice;" and she afterwar.s became very ex-
cited, and exclaimed that she mart have been mad.
or she could not have done what she
done to a sister she loved so well. It appeared
from the evidence that the prisoner and the deemed had
always been on the most affectionate terms, and there had
never been the slightest quarrel or ill-feeling between them,
and them was not the smallest sesiguable motive suggested
for the commision of such a dreadful act. It was stated,
however, in the course of the use that the prisoner had
been in India with her husband, and that she had suffered
from the climate, and Dr. Cary, who had attended upon her,
had ordered her to keep herself very quiet, as her brain was
likely to be affected by any excitement.
Mr. Ribton made a most able address to the jury on
behalf of the prisoner, in the course of which he particu-
larly observed upon the absence of motive on the part of
the prisoner for the commission of such a dreadful crime,
and said that the only answer he was instructed to mike to
the charge was that at the time the act was committed the
prisoner was in each a state of mind as not to be criminally

responsible.
Several witnesses were then examined whose evidence
went to show that one relative of the prisoner had de-
stroyed himself, that another had twice attempted to com-
mit suicide, and that the mother of the prisoner was also
insane. Evidence was also given that the prisoner at the
time of the melancholy occurrence was in a peculiar condi-
tion of health incidental to women at her period of life,
and Dr. Hood, the consulting physician of Bethlehem Hos-
pital, a gentkinan of great experience and skill in these
cases, stated that women in this condition were peculiarly
subject to sudden attacks of mania, during which they
would commit actii of violence and hotnicids without being
at all aware of the character of the act, they were com-
mitting.
The learned Judge having summed up the whole of the
evidence, the jury at once Acquitted the prisoner on the
ground of insanity, and she was ordered to be detained
during her Majesty's pleasure.
The prisoner, who appeared perfectly calm and em-
rend whelexhibited no emotion during any portion of
td 'rial, was then removed from the bar.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—frewicH, Arcusr 2.

(Before Lord Chief Justice Bile.)

Maria Payne was charged with disposing of the dead
bo of her child, with intent to conceal the birth.
Mr. Orsidge wan for the prosecution ; Mr. Metcalfe de-
faulted the prisoner.
This was a bad case, and somewhat difficult of proof,
much of the evidence being circumstantial. The prisoner
in December last was in tho service of a gentleman living at
Clapham, anti, complaining of illness, the medical men at-
tending the family was ml led in, who, after examining her,
pronounced her pregnant. She left her situation, and re-
turned home to Ler father sad mother, respectable people,
living near Hadleigh, in this minty, where she remained
till the latter end of February, when she returned to London,
having procured another situation. On the *.irci of June • la-
boater, passing a pond adjoining her father's house, saw what
turned out to be the body of a female child fall grown,
nesting in the water. It was taken out, and some list was
found tied tightly round the throat, but no butane were
dineraible, decomposition having set in from the length of
time it had been in the water. The pond ws• dragged, and
two Moose of linen were fled, which were parte of
chanties, and were marked 'M. 1"." in cotton. The
mother of the girl said they wen like the marks on her
daughter's linen, bat that she knew of no child baring been
born in her home. The prisms, wee apprebeedled, sad on
being told the charge, denied having been confined there ;
but it appeared that in the early part of February the
mother ma away from home one day, and on
her return, after an absence of some hours, found
her daughter up-stairs lying on the bed. and
complaining of beiag cold. There wasa fire in the kitchen;
bat she aid she hail gone to her room (where there was no
Ire) for warmth. From that time till she left for London
she wee very weak and unwell.
The learned Judge summed up with great eau, and the
jury retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of
one boar, they returned, finding her Guilty.
His Lordship said he could not help thinking the prisoner
bad been most properly convicted, nor could he lose sight of
the very awkward fact of the piece of bit round the throat
of the infant. The sentence would be that she be kept to
hard labour for six calendar months.

him the half ere in the full belief that his represents•
Pon of having the NqMoria Crou was true.
The court sentenced him to sir months' hard labour.
George Steed, 35, home-keeper, and Helm, Britton, 25,
labourer, were indicted for stealing three truss., of hay,
the property of Henry Home and another (Chaplin and
Borne), the masters of Steed.
Mr. Smith prosecuted ; Mr. Park defended Steed ; and
Mr. J. E. Palmer:defended Britton.
. .

The cue wu clearly proved, the jury convicted both
prisoners.
Steed was sentenced to four 1:11011tilll addition to two
he had already undergone, making it y si; and Britton
to 3 months' Lard labour.

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)

George Howse, 29, botcher, of Holloway, and George
Tanner, 35, drover, were indicted for stealing, and also for
feloniously receiving, two bullocks, the property of George
Moo. This was • came postponed from the last sea ion.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Bosley were counsel for the prosecu.
tion, instructed by the City solicitor, on behalf of the cor-
poration ; Mr. Metcalfe defended Howse, and Mr. Cooper
Tanner, instructed by Mr. Beard.
The facts of this ease have been recently before
the public, and it will be remembered that the
prosecutor, a salesman at the New Cattle Mar-
ket, had two bullocks, out of a drove of 97,
stolen from the layers at the market, on the night of
the Saturday preceding the 21st of June. Two were missed
on the Monday, and they were traced to a Mr. Fielding's, a
slaughterer at Holloway. The prisoner Howe, when
charged, it having been ascertained that the beasts had
been sent from his place to Fielding's, said, in answer to the
superintendent of the market, that he superintended the
killing of the beasts at Fielding's, and that he had them of
" Barker."- When asked who Barker was he said he did
not know, he was a stranger and had never seen him
before. The superintendent said it was strange he should
receive two bullocks from • person be did not know,
have them killed at another place, himself being present,
and curious that • stranger should bring, two bullock. of
good breed and condition to his " tin-pot ' place. Oa being
asked what he Lad done with the carcases, he said he had
sent one to Chandler, and the other to Dodds and Stowe
sidemen in Newgate Market, and that they realised
28f. Ws., which sum he gave to " Barker," who also re-
ceived the skins and the offal. Howse said to a person
who remarked to him that the two beasts were good
ones, and asked who he bought them of ; that he
did not know ; and Mr. Fielding butcher, at
Holloway, said that the beasts were brought to his place on
the Monday by two men ; the prisoner owe' came there
when one was down, and said they were his, and had been
sent to him by • man to make the best he could of them.
Howse took away the bide' and the fat at night. Tanner, it
was alleged, had taken the beasts to Howse's, and thence to
Fielding ~ and he and Howse went with • truck at night,
and took away the bides and offal. By the direction of
Howse, Fielding cut off the clods and sticking',
and • part called the " horee's head," and they
went to Howse's shop, which it appeared was not
usual in the ordinary way of slaughtering bullocks for the
market. Tanner and another drover took the bullocks from
Howse's yard to Fielding's, and it was proved that Tanner
and Howse had been frequently iu the company of each
other.

Tanner denied that he helped Howse to take away the
skins. They were found in a pond in Highburyfields, and
were recognised by the witnesses u the skins of the beasts
which Tanner and the drover took from Howse's.

The learned counsel for the defence addressed the jury
for their clients, and after deliberating for some time, the
jury found Tanner Not Guilty, and Howse Guilty of felo-
niously receiving.
His lordship sentenced Howse to nine months' hard
labour ; Teener was discharged.
Mr. Healey applied for the costs, and said, the corporation
had had no other feeling in the matter than that prompted
by a souse of public duty, depredations of tkis kind being
frequently committed in the New Cattle Market, both cattle
and sheep being taken away.
His lordship said he quite concurred in the verdict of the
jury, and thought the prosecution a very proper one by the
City authorities. The costs were allowed.

WESTMINSTER PALACE HOTEL COMPANY.

The eighthhalf-yearly meeting of the shareholders
was held yesterday at the Hotel, Victoria•street, Westmin•
star, Viscount CHIMIZA in the chair. The secretary, Mr.
Jeer* read the report, which has already appeared in our
columns.

The Caittuaair said the directors had much pleasure in
meeting the shareholders, with their back turned on all the
Twiny difficulties they had hitherto encountered. The report
spoke for itself, but there was one point in it which he
thought it necessary briefly to notice • he meant the in.
eurance, the amount of which was ridiculouslyi small, and
which the directors would have increased but for the great
expense attending it. If there was no objection on the part
of the shareholder, it was now proposedto increase the insu-
rance as follows :—On the building, 15,0001. ; on the furni-
ture, 5,0001. • and oa the stock, 1,0001. If there was no
opposition to this the directors would take the proposition
as agreed to. He begged to more the adoption of the report.

. _
Sir QUALLS RUMELL, deputy chairman, seconded the
motion.

Mr. Conniver objected to any stun being set apart for
reserve fund at present. Be thought all the profits for the
first three years ought to be paid as dividend. He also
thought the expenses were too huge for the business done,
sad recommended a strict economy on the part of the
board.

Mr. binwnsitcn also thought the expenses too heavy,
and said bad it cot been for the rent derived from the India
Board, sa oocup'iog part of their premises, they would not
bays had anything fur a dividend.
- - -

Sir C. RI/88UL defended the account.. He said it li
must be recollected that the =panes of the first half-year
of an undertaking of this sort wore exceptionaL They had
at once to commence with a full establishment, and for the
first two months the takinp were only 1,200!., while in the
Wt three they had exceeded 5,0001., and would go on im-
proving. He had so fear of competition. Ihe company were
gradually extending their OOODUIOD, and the acknowledged
excellence of the mansgemeat and arrangement. of the
hotel were becoming known throughout the country. They
had also a good future source of revenue in the ground at
the rear of the hotel. Their law claims bud all been com-
promised, and they were now entirely free from all !evil
axses
The report wee, after some further discussion, received
sod adopted, and a dividend having been declared in word-
awn 'with the recommendation of the report, a vote of
thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings.