The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.
TEE MURDER OE MR. LITTLE.
The adjourned invectigation took place at Capebstrcet
orrice today. Boom new evidence was adduced, the moot
important being th d given by Jomph Spollem, the second
son of the arcuced, a boy under fourteen years of age, and
which was considered to have strengthened the pee for the
prosecution so far as being corroborative of the moo parts
of the testimony given by Lucy Spilka, the daughter of tho
prieoner. James Spollen, the cldect son, was elso examined,
but his evidence we. not conaidered to be eels materiel.
At Nix o'clock the Iwe wee brought to a conclusion, when
it wee arranged that the prisoner was to be remanded, when
the DO, information. will be read over and the formal appli-
cation made to commit Spollen on the charge of wilful mur-
der. Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C., conducted the care to-day fur
the crown.

DEV.RMINF.D SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, Be
p lira eenatalde 310 M woo on duty in Itvgenea-park, ho
heard the teport of a pistol. He went toward the spot from
whence the sound tattle, sod found s man sitting on the aide
of the canal with his feet in the water. There was a pistol
by his ride, and a part of his head was blown away. The
deceoocd, who appears to bo a Getman, was taken to St.
Panerao workhouse. He had in his pocket a card with the
name " Jeruiett" open it. There was no money in his
pocket.
FATAL FIGHT AT SIIEVINGTON.—On Saturday
afternoon loot, a young men named Henry Ashton, 19 years
of age, who we, employed O.A a boatman onthe heeds and Liver-
pod Canal, wax killed in a tight 'Pith Henry Webster, another
atrnian, at Sbevington, near Chorley. For some time
put a grievonee bad evicted between the two men, who
were mustn't, and on the day named they opted to settle the
dispute by n stand-up light. In the third round Webster
struck Ashton a blow in the region of the heart Aehton
fell to the ground from the etfeet of the blow, rose again,
and died itemeilianly. Webster was deeply affected at the
fatal result of the quarrel, owl gave hinisrlf up to the police.
An inquest was to lee held on the body of Ashton yesterday
(Monday).
A WOMAN SUBSISTING FOR A WEEK SOLELY I
ryes ATEll.—Early on Thursday morning a woman,
named Mary Smithy, was discovered by one of the servants
of John Crossley, Esq., in a little dark bole con-
nected with Mr. Crawley's reitlen, Manor Ileoth,
Ilalifax. The poor woman presented a sad elatinken and
emaciated appearance. She was taken into the house,
placed by the lire, and woe treated with every consideration
and kindness. When she was emaewhat restored, she woo
confided to the care of one of the county constabulary, to
whom elle told the following melancholy tale —She weld
that, ten years ago, she was married in ftitmehestir to an
itinerant violinist, end, until hie death, in February last, at
Halifax, she bad tenet-lied with him about the country sing-
ing to the strains of his violin. Sinee her husband's death
she bal been compelled to go alone singing at public-honoro,
lien earnings were, however, eo small that they were in-
etiMeient for her subsistence, and at last ohs erawled into the
plate in which she was found, to end her existence. She
had been there a week and a day, and during that time she
Lod not tasted of anything but water, which oho procured
from a top in the yard near her biding place. She crawled
to the top at night after all wee locked up, and again in the
early morning before anyone woo stirring She had no
friends or relatives, and thought to die, but could not. She
wee broucht before n nutgistmte, who greatly etimutioerated
her, end by bio orders she was conveyed to the workhouse.
The hole in which she was found woe in the rear of the out-
buildings, and its exiotence was unknown to most of the
servant o.—Nendateter Guardian.

ATTEIPTED Suit IDE ox A RAILWAY.—On
Wednesday evening lad, a moat determined attempt at self-
&at nict ion was made by a man named Thomas Moss, • hone
dipper, of Whitechapel, by placing his head on the mils of
the I.:Were Counties line, near Bamford, but was fortu-
nately prevontid. It appears that about seven o'clock in
the evening John Bennett, a labourer in the employ of the
railway company, was at work en a piece of ground naor
the Whnlelonne:bridge, when he saw something lying be-
tween the line of rails, and on approaching it discovered a
man lying with his head over the mina of the down line, his
eyes bandaged with a handkerchief. lie immediately raised
him and took him to Chadwell Heath, where he stated that
his name was Moss. Bennett then gave him in charge at
a police-mm*ode. The discovery was most fortunate, as
had Moss not bean WS he riot have been killed, the dos.'
6.110 p.m. train being nearly due. On Thursday he wee
charged before James Reeve., Esg., with attempting to de.
"troy himielf, and was remanded for surgical examination,
Mora declaring that he wee drunk on the previous evening,
and caukl not tell hew Its came in the situation in which he
was lunad.—loss Herat.