The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-24 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

31CRDEB.—A trial for murder took pla'e on
Friday lest, at the Circuit Court of Justiciary, at
Jedburpb, before Lords Mackenzie and Ivory.—James
Deary, or Derry, and Daniel O'Rourke, or Rook or Rork,
Irish railway labourers, were pieced at the bar, accused of
the crime of murdering, in Roxburgb.atreet, Kelso, William
Fairbairn.—The prisoners pleaded not guilty. Several wit
attars were 'retained, who detailed the particulars of the
riot which took place in KOIII3, which led to the murder.—
James Ferguson said there was some disturbance going on
between the Irish and the townspeople on the 29th of De-
cember last. Had • brother in the crowd. Heard he was
struck, which caused kiss (tritium) to go into the crowd to
assist his brother. Knew James Deary. Saw him
there. Diary was standing speaking in the crowd at
the time. Saw him squaring with his hands at the time.
Knew the deceased William Fairbairn. Saw him there
is the crowd at that time. Furbaina told witness to take
care of himself, as the Irish were not to lippen to. Saw
Delay when Fairbairn made that remark, Dewy being at
that time within a few yards of him. (Witness here showed
the attitude that Deasy was in when be was sparring, show-
ing particularly how Deary held his left hand over his right
breast, from which peculiarity he believed that he held some
instrument in his hand—that was his impression.) The
crowd moved up the street atter that. He observed the
Irish make • stand. Did not see Fairbairn there—only saw
him moving up with the crowd. Shortly after the
stand was made, he saw the Irishmen run away, and
Diary amongst them. He thought the man who struck
Fairbairn was James Deary, but could not be rare.—
William Hetherington said In saw Fairbairs come out of
the crowd, who exclaimed that he had been stabbed, and
the man that had done it had dirty trousers.—Alezander
, Watt said that he saw James Deary, who was roaring for
any man to come forward and fight with him, strike
Fairbalsn when he was stooping down, and then heard
Fairbairn cry out on being struck that he had been stabbed
with • knife. Witness pursued him, and saw him enter
Stowart's shop.—Other witnesses, chiefly policemen, were
*remised, who narrated circumstances connected with
Derry's apprehension at Stewart's house, two of them
swearing distinctly to marks of moist blood being on his
waistcoat at the time, and also that the back of his
trousers IMO much dirtied. Lord Mackenzie having
summed up the case, the jury retired, and, after an absence
of 20 mimes, returned, finding the charge against O'Rourke
not proves, sad Diary guilty as libelled, with a strong "-
commendation to mercy. Lord Mackenzie having mused
the black esp, pronounced sentence of death.
MURDER BY POISON AT LEITII.—A woman has
been poisoned at Leith in that part of this town called Leith
Walk. The accused party is William &nelson, a dresser
of metal castings, in the employment of the Bkotts Iron
Coss y. He is an Irishman, between thirty and forty,
married to his deceased wife for about eleven years. She is
a native of Paisley. Their only child, • girl of six years of
etre, is still alive. The scene of the murder is an old-
fashioned tiled house in Stead's-place. Bemieon and his
wile occupied the second flat, which cookies only two
apartments; but entering by the same passage, and form.
tag a kind of left wing to the building, is the house
of Alexander Milne, a cripple from his infancy,
who is well known to the frequenters of Leith Walk,
where he sits daily in a cart drawn by • dog.
Mn. Beaaison, after, it is said, partaking of some
gruel, became very ill, the symptoms being violent pane ia
the stomach, accompanied by severe vomiting. Oa Monday
the unfortunate woman breathed Mr last. The sudden
death of the dog, so indispensable to poor Alexander Milne
in drawing his little cart, together with the hurried inter-
ment, tended to excite surmises. It is stated that Benison
requested a neighbour's servant girl to empty into the sheet
the contentsof a vessel, containing what had been voided by
hie deceased wife. Its owner let oat the dog about two
o'clock an Sunday afternom, as was his meal custom. It
wee admitted again in the evening ; and was hoard to
retch and vomit daring the night. The body of the dog has
bees eenwfad to the Burmese' Hall, to have the contents of
his etomesh saalysed. It appears that about seven weeks
ago, &maim purchased a quantity of arsenic from a drug-
gist's In the Kirkgate, Leith on Me pretence of killing
rats. These verse", however, have not, it is said, been
seen about his promisee for three er fear years, and
no rat holes could be /mad is the hams. Bennison
admits the purchase of the poises, but mistake that it
was by the request of his wife for Os pupas ke mentioned
to the druggist. On sulphas=
Naand raised dhidhaving
poisoned his wife, he sailed IS requested
kiss and his wife not to smmliim that he purdmeed the
anemic. He even prod he a written &Ma of the fact,
adding that there be we head in his wife's
stomach, but, so help (thud, he did not pat it then.
Oa the Monday previous ft her death, it is said, he enrolled
her name in a benefit satiety, by which, on her death, he
was entitled to a sum of 61. The disowned and her husband
wen members of the Wesleyan body, and bore an excellent
charade, for piety. Bemieos professed to be extremely
zealous in bsbalf of religion, and was to the habit of
administering its consolatioas to such as would accept of
than. His gifts of vamps" prayer an said to be exten-
sive—Edinburgh Cowan(

RAW futtlltgenct.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Yatras.DAT.
Cones's Meows BILL.

Tho how teat soon after 4 o'clock, Lord Campbell ss
Speaker, to boar evident* la support of this bill.
Mr. Winooski and Mr. Willows attended as coattail for
the petitkaor. There was ao counsel or spat for the
wife.

Frees the statement of Mr. Whitely and the evidence of
the vitamin, it appeared that the petitioner, Thomas
Cobbs, is • barrister of the Inner Temple, and waa married
in 1838, before he was called to the bar, to his cousin, Miss
Aiello Anse Cobbs, at the parish church of Itollesby, in
the gluey of Norfolk, when her family rebided. Mr.
Cobbs wee the son of an Irish gentleman of property. After
the 'marriage they reeidid at No. 12, Queen Anne.straar,
Cavesdish.equare, London, from 1839 to the year 1847, and
up to the month of May or Jane, 1848, they lived together
oa Me most affectionate terms. 'There was no child of the
marriage. Among their visitors and intimate friends was
Mr. William Talmadge, • speeded pleader in the Temple.
He bad been a college completion of Mr. Cobb*. He yes
received at the house in Qs's. Asn.street, as the most inti
mate friend of Mr. and Mn. Cobb., and wee frequently
their gust Mr. Cobb. wee called away daily between
aim and ten o'clock in the moraine to attend to hie •
Masai datho; Mr. Talmadge vied to sill osss omalrj MU