The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-09 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

DORSETSIIIItII.—The nights daring the last and the
beeinning of the present mouth have beta very rild and at-
tended with frost, which has seriously checked vegetation. The
early potatoes came up out of the ground well, bat an now
cut down by the fres,. The wheat plants, which at the
beginning of the month looked strong and healthy, have
been nipped by the frost, and present • sickly appearance.
Barley also is looking yellow. Still if some fine genial
showers, attended with wean sunshine, follow there my
yet he • good crop ; bat, on the contrary, if the present
weather should continue, the growing crops must be seriously
' injured. There is • general complaint throughout Donor
shire of the shortnese of keep. The y mug grasses were
stocked early, sod in consequence of the severs weather
they have grown but little. It is feared that the frosty
nights will also seriously effect the hay crop. Prices of
stook have enstiased kw. Cora has remained also at the
sass low prices. The fruit trees have beat very much
inj reed by the frost.
60111111411T1111111/I.—Corn, with very little exception, is of
good odour, and, if anything, too thick in the amend, with
law complaints of wire-worm. Beene and peas have come
up very well ; bat for them, se well as the barley, there has
been for the present enough rale. Except bad. y and oat
sowing on the moor, corn crops were ally in during
April, and potato planting, which has been very extensive,
was the greater pert brought to • conclusion.
DIVONSH IRII.—The young wheat retsina a promising ap-
pearance. The potato shoots are strong and healthy, but it
as much too early to predict anything respecting the dreaded
disease. Probably much depends on what the weather may
be during the summer. Grass is pl-ctiful in the warm
meadders. In the orchard districts there has been • partial
show of blnesones, in some orchards they being plentiful, and
fa others but • scanty sprinkling. A good deal of danesge
kiss been done by the Wets of the ►alt four or five nights.
Toe potato crops have also 'uttered from the same cum,
and present the appearance of having been struck wit► the

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KENT —Compared with that experiflaced at many come-
spondikg winds of the year, the w.afher has been fine
during the 'miter portion of last month. In its early part
the temperature was mild and vegetative, and the tine rains
had am at favouraftle effect Rpm the crops. Towards the
close, however, vegetation, from the wind having chiefly
blown from the north and east, made but little progress ;
hrle a, secenate, ae respects the appearance of the
wheat Vaal", are eery satisfactory. The sowing of all
.pring e as, including wheat, was br night to a clioe trim the
land had g dry and friable, much earlier than usual ; sad, at
fly prt sent time, all out-dour laboun are in a very leeward
state.

egeronnentha.—The weather of late hu cot bun fa-
vi,urable to vegetation. The cold north-east winds, with
rathur sharp night frost., have cheek.ld the growth of the
wr ss, and ofml the early garden crops, the potatoes parti-
cularly suffering.
!Ancor...an HIE —The wheat crops are locking remark-
alily well—sever better. In taking • cursory view ;sett the
fen country, there apusrs to be • le s breadth of wheat
then usual growing this year. Of potatiies (until lately
only prows by cottapus), there will he an immense supply ;
many farmers have planted loge fi -Ids.
STA V*Ulllo4llllll Weeping skier," true April weather,
eltarecterised tte early d iya of the pest month, and vi gets-
the procee4ed rwpidly . fres, nights and the prsvAlesice of
• sad north easterly wind have ebang d the memo, and
vesisididi m item • rally has made little or so preeme darning
the last fortnight. In appeuartes the what crop has im-
proved ; bat still there is complaint of it.. of plant, aad the

weak is
saw show themselves semosially upon Ulna=
sandy sedle. Spring con km bees sown under fav
idreametemse, sad treferring besot
to the weather in March,
and the waist appearance of the crops upon the heavier
drsaippoa of soils, osto may gather a favourable opinion
dam future produes. There has rarely been • more
favourable season for the preparation of turnip fellows, and
wherever the ridge system is pursued, the benefits of • tallow
wi'l be secured during the whole summer; whilst a crop, and
that fa all probability a gmd omisonwingripm %Ingram&
BARISAL/T. MAT &—Ws have had several weeks of wry
dry weather, sosempenied by cold easterly winds, which
has retarded the growth of all kinds of vegetation ; end the
want el rain and more genial weather has bun meth felt in
this locality; so much so. that wheat and spring corn had
begun to ban a very yellow sad sickly appearance. Tim
wgetables in the gardens are very late. On Sunday night
we had a fall et rain, hail, sad mow ; and on Meads fore-
noon the Middop end Leapet moors were covered with
snow. Yesterday we had • thorough rainy afternoon, with
an euterly wind; and tc-day the wind continued cold,
blown' from N.N.S.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.
Baron, Its. BAWD A LDSZMON AND Ms. Jinn CIDUIWILL.
THE FORAM creole vies Ruin or RUSSIA.
The prolamin Federman, Gordon, and Lawril were this
spurning again placed at the bar.
Mr. Baron Aii.enon them delivered the judgment of the
mutt upon the demurrer. He said then were two questions
which the court had to decide—first, whether the demurrer
should be allowed; and secondly, whether, supposing that
the (nun should overrule it, they should give final judgment
upon the prisoners. After carefully considering the matter
and the diffirent authorities that bad bees adduced. the
judges were if opinion that the first set of counts lien good
in law, and that the demurrer, thereiore, should he overruled.
With regard to the second question, they were of opinion
that upon ell the decisions that had been given the judgment
should be final, and judgment would, therefore, be passed
upon the prisoners in the cause of the session.
The prisoners were then removed.

FOROZD TRINITY CIIRTIFICATIII.
F. E. Tose/tech, who pleaded guilty at a former session
to a ehorge of uttering forged certificates to the Bard of
Examinen of the Trinity-home, was brought up for judo-
Rent, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment

A WWI KILLIID BY Eli IirIIBMID.
A. Moir. 46, baker, wm indicted for the wilful murder
of Susan Moir, his wife, by striking and beating and kicking
her.

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk prosecuted. The prisoner was
deteeded by Mr. Salentine.
The counsel for the prosecution briefly opened the eau,
and the following evidence was then adduced :
John Johnson deposed that he wee a journeyman baker,
and in March last he was apprenticed to this prisoner, who
raided at 2.5, Beyelges.street, Covent-garden. Oa Friday,
the 22nd March, he went to the bakehouse in the evening.
The bakehouse was under the shop and parlour. The pit
sonar slept in the parlour with the &mewed, and the other.
put of the house was occupied by lodgers. Willem was
bolted into the bakehouse by the prisoner, to that he could
not get access to any other put of the house, and it was his
duty to call the prisoner at 3 o'clock in the morning. After
he had been a short time in the bakehouse he heard a noise
in the prisorer's parlour, and the deceased screamed very
iud, and continued to co so time after time, until about three
o'clock. They were screams as of a pinyon is pain. He also
heard a noise as though one person was dragging another
upon the floor, and this continued for about twenty minutes.
The person who was dragged along, whoever it win, app. ired
to stream. It was a woman's voice that screamed, and he
had no doubt that it was the deceased While this was
going ou he heard the prisoner speaking very loud,
but could not distinguish what he said. At three o'clock
he awoke the prisoner by knocking on the ceiling, and the
prisoner came down to him, and staid in the bakehouse about
an hour and a half, and then went up again, and witness
remained in the bakehouse. He sew the deceased about
eight o'clock the next morning in the shop. Her face
was very much swollen and bruised, and there was a
cut by the side of her left eye. Witness then went
out with his bread, and saw the deceased again be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, and she appeared
very heavy, and as though she was not well, and
she continued in ihe same state the whole of the day. In
the evening the deceased was trying to take some bread out
of the wir.dow, and as she turned round she tell on the Heir.
A person named Mary Acn Bryant asked the prisoner to
assist her to get his wife up stair., and he said, "Let the
lie there till she comes to benefit," and he refused to assist her.
end she was raised from the ground by Mary Ann Bryant,
sad witness sever saw the deceased again alive. On the
next day he asked the prisoner how his mistress was, and he
said she was in a very bad state, and had been so all night,
and he did Rot expect she would live, and he was astonished
that it had lasted so long as it had. Witness had only been
one week in the service of the prisoner when this occurrent.
happened.
My Mr. Ballutice.—The prisoner's family consisted of
his wife and two boys, aged 7 and 13. They only occupied the
ground-floor and the bakehouse. Wiener. was the prisoner's
journeyman, and it was a mistake when he said that he was
his apprentice. It was the custom among bikers to bolt the
journeymen in the bakehouse at night. Witness ones saw
the deceased the worse for liquor. It was in the middle of
the week, and either Wednesday or Thursday, in the after
part of the day. The prisoner wan not at home, and one
same down to him in the bakehouse, leaving no one in the
shop. He discovered by her speech that she was the worse
for liquor. There were no marks of violence upon her at
this time, except a black eye. He did not observe that she
staggered as the went away. The children sometimes
used to serve in the shop.
Mari Aline Bryant deposed that the deceased was her
second cousin. The /Rhona and hie wife flew in a room
behind the parlour, the shop, parlour, and bed-room being
all on the ground floor. She remembered calling at the
orioonee's shop about one in the afternoon, on the 23rd of
March. The prisoner and the deceased were bola at home,
and the litter appeared very ill indeed, 'rom being knocked
about. lier neck was swollen, and her hands were very
much bruised and discoloured. Witness assisted the deceased
to cook the dinner, and when the prisoner, who had gone
out, returned it was nearly ready. One of the children said
that the other would not carry out a bating, as he had been
ordered by his mother, and the prisoner then swore at the
deceased, and struck her on the back with his ha', and boxed
her ears with hie open hand a dozen times at less'. The
blow, were very violent. and almost enough to have knocked
a person down ; and the prisoner said he would make her
remember not sending the man with the baking instesd
of the boy. The prisoner replied that she thought
she should be wrong in sending the man, as he
was making York biscuits. The prisoner sat down to his
dinner, and alter laying that the gravy was better than the
et).* the deceased had made the day Wort, he got up and
beat the deceased again with his open hand in the side of
the face. He struck her three or four violent blows
upon this occasion. The prisoner soon afterwards threw
a piece of bread at his wife. Before he sat down to dinner
the:lnds-mu told her that he had b- en very much put out
by his wife, that she had got intoxicated on the Friday be-
fore, and had nit shut up the shop as he had ordered her';
end when he did come home and shut up the shop he went
into the parlour, and the deceased told him she was glad ho
had come, as she had got some nice fish for his supper. He
said that he told her he did not want any fish, and sat down,
and then he saw a bottle under the pianoforte, arid on taking
' it up he found that it was full of gin, and he was very much
vexed. On the same afternoon she also saw the prisoner
kick the deceased repeatedly with great violence,
in the bark part of her person. He did this at the same time
that he boa. d her ears. The kicks were upon the bottom
of her bark acid upon her legs. After the bread was thrown
at the deceased she got up from the table, and did not want
to finish her dinner ; and the prisoner got up and said, if eh.
did not sit down and eat her dinner he would send fora rall-
ies-pin and force it down her throat; and he went to her
arid kicked her, and boxed her ears three or four
times. The prisoner atruck with his open hand, but rave
very sev. re blows, and the deceased exclaimed, " Man alive,
don't beat me a ; don't kill me." The prisoner replied,
"I will not murder you outright, but I will kill you by
inches, so that the law shall not touch me ; for I can cheat
the devil, and I'm it I don't think I can cheat the go-
vernment over you." The deceased then went into the bed
room, and the prisoner sat down by the fire, and told her
he thought he had hurt the head of the douses d very much,
end he oialud witness to get some water and bathe it fur
her. Witness west into the bed-room, sod looked at the
heal of the deceased, which she found in a dreadful state,
and by the obis of the ear it looked like a piece of liver, and
the whole of the head was swollen very much, and there
was sauteed blood upon her hair. Witness fetched some
warm water far the deceased, and told her that her head
wee in such a dreadful sate that else could not bear to look
at it, and she 'oust bathe it herself. She then went to the pri-
.ner and told him he had better let her go to bed, as the was
in a dreuilfol state, beyon I all rtes ription, and he replied,
that he could not spare Pm Irmo the atop then, as it
WWI Saturday. She saw the dee- amid again about live
o'clock the same day, and she then appeared very stupid, as
though she had been drinking. The prisoner at this time
asked her if she had sent a loaf to some customer, whom he
named, and she replied that she bad not; and he then
a•ked the 'lime:question with regard to another customer, to
whom a number of loaves were to have beta sent, end she
Rave the same answer, and said it bad not been brouzht up
fries the bakehoues. The prisoner upon this said it Wags
shame, cod he boxed the deceased's ears, and told her
to put the bread in the window. The blows were
violent, but she could not say on which side of the
head they took affect The dammed tried to put the bread
in the window, and fell down as she was attempting to do
e a,id witness übstrir..d blond H ming from her ere. like
said to Ito prisoner " Good Go f, u-.cle, she is in a Mt!" and
the deceased exclaimed, " Yee, I am in a fir, and a bed one ;
Air .'a sake, May Anne, don't leave me." Woolens
asked the prisoner to assist her to pick pp the demised,

bet he refined, and mode use of had language, and
said that she was drunk, sad she might lie then.
Winne wee faint, and wont away for • short time, and
when she returned she found the deceased steadies by a sink
la her bed-room, with her head resting on her hand, and she
slid down to the ground, and her head rested upon astep, and
ehe appeared to be quite insensible. Witness "eked the pri-
loner to help her to lift the deeened upon the bed, but he
tensed, and said she should never lie on • bed of his again.
He went to her and tried to rouse her, and kicked her eine
val times, saying " You drunken pt
Witness's husband came to the house soon afterwards, and
Ise got some warm water and washed the deceased's face, bat
Ike continued insensible, and eeeee came to herself again.
She wee placed upon the children's bed, and witness
re-
pesadly asked the prisoner to send for • donor, and
he said—Oh no, there ie no occasion for • doctor, and no
donor was sent for that night up to twelve o'clock, when
witness and her husband left. Witness went again to the
prisoner's house the next morning, and found the deemed
is the ease elate, and she told the prisoner he had better
send for a doctor directly. The prisoner said he did not
know what to do or who to send for, and witness advised
him to end far • gentleman named Pritchard, bat he said
his did not know where he lived, awl Mr. Watkins was sent
Om. The deceased remained insensible all day Sun-
day, and died on Monday morning about eleven o'clock.
She wee very unwell when she wee before the magistrate,
and wee hardly able to give her evidence at all.
Mull" Menses deposed that at the time in question she
std her husband lodged in the prisoner's house, and own-
fielre first ii•or. In the afternoon of Saturday, the 23rd
, she was coming down stairs, and, as she passed the
wino essopied by els• poisoner and hie family, she heard
the Seamed crying violently, and at the same time exclaim,
"Oh, you will kill me; you will kill me." The prisoner re
plied, "I will murder you ;" and one of the children called
" Oh, oh, don't father; you will kill my mother "
Alexander George Moir deposed that he was thirteen
years old, and the prisoner was his father. He remembered
the Saturday before his mother died being in the parlour at
dinneetiene, and he saw his father throw bread at his mo-
ther twice, and he said at the same time that he could mar-
der her at once, but:he would not do it direct, because of the
law of the country. but he would do it by inches; and he
also said that he could cheat the devil, and he thought he
could cheat the government. Mrs. Bryant was present when
this WM said.

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By the Cond.—The mother had always been in bad
health.

Mr. J. Watkins deposed that he was a surgeon. He was
called in to see the deceased on the morning of the 24th ef
March. He found her lying one bed, and upon examining
her he found her head, face, and neck were covered with
contusions; her face was swollen and her features very much
distorted. She was quite inunsible. The case mu evidently
a dangerous one, and the deceased d. on the following
morning. He made spoil martens examiLation, and ascer-
tained that her death resulted from compression of
the brain, caused by extravassted blood under
the dura meter. The contused condition of the
head, face, and neck, would have caused the 'Misuse-
tion of blood, and those contusion, were such as would be
received by repeated blows of the open hunt upon the head.
The brain mu rem irkably healthy, and the abdominal vis-
cera were also healthy. Upon examining the body, he found
that the whole of the back mu bruised, from the heed down
to the very lowest part. The head was in a perfectly pulpy
state, He could not discover any alcoholic smell in the
viscera, end he was pt rfectly ratirli Al that the deceased was
not a cot Armed drunkard, by the healthy appearance of the
liver and the o her organs.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. &Sutras then addressed the jury for the defeat*,
sad he urged upon them that, although it eras impoesible
to attempt to palliate the conduct of the prisoner,
yet that the offence he had committed did not,
under the circumstances, amount to the crime of
murder, and that he ought only to be convicted of man-
sl inghter ; and he said that he should not attempt to
struggle against a conviction fur that offence.
Baron Alderson summed up, and the jury retired, and had
not returned a verdict when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.

MANSION-HOUSE.

FORGED GOLDSMII He. hALL•AAnIC.—A. Moyer wasp.
amused, charged with having hid in his porpooton certain
gold watches, bearing • meek purporting to he the Gold-
amithe'-hall mark, the same being fo-ged.
It appeaied on the former esamiiiation that the watches
had b. en stopped at Southampton for some irregularity in
the Custom., and were tent to London, when it win found
that the marks upon the whole of them wero forged, as also
the maker's mare. Tne prisoner denied that he had Hen
one of the watches before ; they had been in his possession,
therefore the charge had beenbrought against him.
Mr. Prideaux in stating the eau., said that, however nn•
pleasant to Mr. Mayer, it was lucky that that gentleman had
been taken into custody, as by that means an extensive fraud
for a long time practised upon the pudic had been brought
to light. America, he believed, was full of such watches,
bearing such forged marks. Mr. Maser had no guilty know-
ledge of the forgery. He (Mr. Prideaux) believed the
watches emanated from the hong, of Men,,. Ziiite, Brothers,
of Hamburg, who had sent several letters to London eon-
aiming them. He hoped this exposure would put a stop to
so extensive a fraud upon the commercial interests of the
Country.
Mr. Alderman Gibbs was happy to esy that Mr. Mayer
wee perfectly exonerated from the charge, and left that court
wahout a cain upon his character.

WORDSWORTH 4 RPTI:IBLISHRD POEM AND MO-
ORAlPHY.—Wordisworth hae left a poem descriptive of his
lite, reflections, and opiaionr, with directions that it shoull
be published after his decease, togethir with suck biogra-
phic il notices as may be requisite to illustrate his writings,
under the editorial care of hie n. phew, the Ray. Cnristupher
Wordsworth, D.D., canon of Westminster, wlsim he has ap-
pointed his literary ex'cutor. Toe Deem, most of Won,-
worth's admirers will remember, is more than °Lee relerred
to, and quoted Ir.m, in his published works, under the name
of "Toe Recluse," of whice, as the poet himself tells us, the
" Excursion " part

Bitomrros HrosrtTAL.—From the report of the
cmemittee of management and of the special building ester.-
sion fund it ap,)ears that there are at preset t no less than 141
patients awaiting their turns of a.linissien to the wards
of the hospital. It has therefore beau prof -sed to raise the
sum of 10,0001., to be applied to the elevation of the enutern
wing, in sums payable by three 'quit annual instalments.
Several friends and supporters of the charity, including the
Rev. Sir Henry POUICP Bart., Philip Hose, Esq., John Ball,
Esq., and others luiv.• already consented to subscribe 1001.
cite upon condition that 6,0001. is contributed before their
subscription are called for.

LONDON HIBERNIAN ISOCIETV.—The annual meet-
ing cf this society, which hes been established for the pur-
pose of aiding the Church glue Won /32ciety in Ireland, was
held yesterday in the Hanoveratquare.rooms, at twelve
o'clock ; the Marquis of Cholniunuely in the chair. Near
the nubie marquis. on the platform, we observed the L
Bishop of Cashel, Lord Viscount It ritsrd, Lord Teignmouth.
the Rev. Dr. O'Selllvan, Mr. J. Napier, M.P., S,. It
appeared from the report Chet the number of &Artois under
U.s patronage of the society amounted to 1,b70, at
which children of all religious denominations were per-
mitted to attend. There were in all attending muse
schools 111,952 seholon, of wh.tin 58,533 were children of
the members of the church ; 15,562 the children of protest
ant dissenters, and 37,867 the children of Moulin catholic..
The reveler's of the society during the pest )ear exceeded
three received during the preceding year; and the com-
mittee cangretuleted the meeting that the society was pur.
suing • career of usefulness and prosperity. The report
was unanimously adopted, and resolutions in furtherance of
the objects of the society agreed to, atter which the meeting
separated.
&RIMY DlSPENSAltY.—Yesterday the annual fes-
tival in aid of the funds of the above charitable institution,
was held at the Bridge House hotel, when about 100 gentle-
men sat down to dinner. The chair was taken by J. IV.
Freelitield, Esq., high sheriff of Surrey, who on giving the
west of the; evening, '• Success to the Surrey Dtspenssry"
enlarged un its widely extended sphere of usefulness. He
stated that 6,600 persons had been prescribed for during the
last year, of whom 4,800 were cured, and praised upon the
company present the absolute duty of supporting so valuable
a charity. Tne expenditure of lest year had been 1,2831.,
and the rec. ipts 1,260/., so that they would have been left in
debt het it not been fur a small balance in the heeds of the
treasurer. There would be • further d, liciency of 3501. by
Midsummer neat if the subscribers did not come forward and
help them out of the difficulty. The secretary then read •
.eat of subscriptions, and a collection was made at the table
eountin ! in all to nearly 3001.
J CRATON-STEM RAGGED SeIIOOLS.—LSOI evening
the truth annual meeting of this 'mitt), was held in the
school-roam, Jumble street, Lambeth, Lurd Ashley in the
chair. The report set forth that the total attendance from
S.p.mber 1849 to April 1840 was 1,065 ; and that reroute
iieduattial and reading dun. had been estehlished, end were
well attended. The Rev. Mr. Sherman, the lt. v. Mr.
Bracch, an,. other gentlemen, addretated the meeting in sup-
port of resolutinne sslculat. d to forward the objects of these
schools, concluding with • vote of thanks to the noble chair-
man, when the meeting separated.
HEATING Tllg PARISI! BOUNIIARIES.—Thin being
Holy Thursday, the annual custom of heating the pail
bounds by the charity children wee gone through in the
morning iii nearly all the metropolitan parishes, much to the
aMnsem.,nt of the 's boys" and muse 'tient of the pedestrians.
In meanie instances the a %woos is exc. eilingly annoying„as the
boundary et the pariah =ay be habit!, uf &dwelling house,
and there muse the charity buys, with their long wicker
wand*, I ea' for some stc,nds, much to the damage of any
Non pe;ter wiles too, h.., en the will, and the annoyance of
e icmat, a. Da en -lane Tio ate. bad this ntoriiing to be
three,' etft n to the you, g gesatlsouen or St. Pour., Cereme-
nt...eft n, en that they migot " strut their [ma-hunt" Olt the
Magee whilst Winn Ore pariah boundaries.