The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

THE PERSIAN WAR.

(PROM LAST NIGHT'S OALVTTR.)

The following notification has been received from
the Governor-General of India in Council, in addition to

'trooes"pvul:l7;liain—tl; Loedon Gazette of the 11th inst.

NOTIFICATION.

Fort William, Foreign Department, July 1.
Sinee the notification, No. 140, dated the 18th ultimo, was
published, the night Honourable the Governor-General in
Council has received n despatch dated the 27th of May,
1867, from Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram,
bringing to notice the services of certain officers attached to
the expeditionary force, whose names were not before the
government at the time the notification above referred to was
issued.
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The officers now noticed by the Lieutenant-General are—
Captain Pottinger, brigade major artillery at Bushirc ; Cap-
tain Graves, 3rd Light Cavalry, who brought the regiment
out of action at Buahire ; Captain Aitcheson, brigade major
infantry at Bushire ; Brevet Major Sibley, bngade major
infantry at Buahire ; Captain D. Hay, acting brigade moor
infantry at Buehire; Brevet •Major Baynes, commanding
20th Native Infantry at Buehire; Surgeon Stovell, super-
intending surgeon at Bushier • Brevet-Major Hartley, aide-
d..-camp to Brigadier-General Havelock at Mottumra ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Hutt, C. 8., commanding artillery at Ma-
humra ; Captain Worgan, commanding mortars on the raft
at Mohntora ; Captain Douglas, brigade major artillery at
Mohnmra ; Captain Bouverie, brigade major infantry at
Mohumra ; Captain Mackechnie, brigade major in-
fantry at Mohumra ; Lieutenant-Colonel Le Grand
Jacob, commandings Light Battalion at Mohunira;
Major Boileau, commanding Madras Sappers and Miners ;
Lieutenant C. Clerk, Madras Cavalry, node-de-romp; Cap-
lain Lucas, sasistant-comenisaary-general; Lieutenant Have-
lock, assistant-quartermaster-general; Surgeon Mackenzie,
superintending surgeon at Buehire and Koosh-ab.
To all thew officers, no lac than to those who were ho-
nourably mentioned in the notification of the 18th 12tIm
Lieutenant-General Sir J. Outrun, K.C.8., has ex
his obligations; and the Right lion. the Governor-tiZenti
in Council has great pleasure in offering to them his cordial
thanks, and assuring them that it will be his care to recom-
mend their services to the most favourable consideration of
her Majesty's government and the Honourable the Court of
Directors. G. F. Hotroxstomr.
Secretary to the Government of India.

SCSPECTED POISONING AT PONTEFRACT.—After
• lengthened inquiry, repeatedly adjourned, before Mr.
Poster, coroner of Pontefract, • young woman. named
Fanny Speed, has been committed to York Coati* for trial,
on • charge of having murdered her husband, John Speed,
by administering to him a quantity of manic. The prismer
and the deceased had been married only about eighteen
mouths, and were both about 28 years of age, though the
format, who is of mild. repossessing appesimnee, looks
much younger. The deceased was a labouring loan, and was in
the enjoyment of good health up to the morning of Wed-
nesday, the 22nd of July, when, after partaking of some cur-
rant pie which his wife had provided for his breakfast, he
was seized with sudden Hines, of an alarming character. A
doctor was called in and treated him for diarrhea, then preva-
lent,but the patient grew worse, and died in great agony about
two o'clock on the Saturday sites the first attack. A poet
modem ezamination of the deceased was made. and the con-
tents of the stomach were analyzed by Mr. O. Morley, sur-
geon of Leeda, who discovered a considerable quantity of
anemic both In the soft tissues and the solid portions of the
body. The evidence against the prisoner is entirely of •
ci rcumstantimi character. It was shown that she was on too
intimate terms with her condo, a sailor, named Benjamin
Wilke, who bad been away at sea two or three yams, and
wham she Lad to marry when he mme back. It
was also that the prisoner had • short time before
her huabend's illness wished " he was dead and GUS;" that
she lied predicted to a neighbour that he would not live •
fortnight, though he was then in good health, and he ac-
tually died within • week after; that she had endeavoured,
though inefieneally, to obtain poison at one or two places in
Pcatefraed, Wigging diligent and contrudictory masons for
wanting it, and that site was strongly opposed to the
ora
mole= manination of the deceased. The
sonic by the prisoner was not traced, but on Vanes:sing of
her linsbeadre death as
hes
into am made to her slater-in.
law about putting some ashes into the privy led to an sza-
nilaation of the soil pit, wherein was found a nearly rotten
Pam of paper. and in it some arsenic. The pelsosor wallet
tried at the nut winter amine at To&