The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-06 00:00:00

ATTFMPT TO SUPPOCAT 4 F.4.111LE

1t the meeting of the Kesteven magistrates,
La hl at lanc..ln esterday, a woman earned Fanny Moore
ea., marred with' having on the previous satunlav eveuiag,
half.peat 12 o'clock at night, wilfully attempted to Huar-
d. r lir .ufforation a man named Ilialmee, hie wife, and four
children, who reside in au adjoining house under the seine
tool. at Itimiegtians, near Newark.
The coinplvisent said that he was in Vol on the night In
whee he was stmtled by brimstone fumes
as.. hi. lOW. out of another room, under which ale one
he the defendant, who had previously tbreatened
that she "would do for all the ----•" He gout up
awl me for the police officer, and his children were
oorio.l down stairs by hit eldest ann. He afterwards went
their coon ant mw 'tome lainutaise in an utatail near
the door. Ili. son, a young man,':: ye-..rs of age, mid that
Le carried the two children downstairs and took them out
ef.l.ms: they appeared to be partly suffocated. and never
quote until thee had Leta in the open air a fee/ minutes.
Hell said that from information he re-
c. aid be went with complainant, on the night in question,
to h homer. Ile Iseult brimstone very strongly, and after-
wr la went into Moore's house and told her that it was
1.7 wr.ng of hie to resort to such practices se that, to
shich the replail that the should not have done it if they
Lad sot paired so much wxtrr Mtn her room.
The ...man, in reply to the magiatrates, denied baring
eanuittoil the .Renee. and Mad all the blame upon her hum
lead. who wax also present.
As there was not sufficient evidence to place them on
td.ir trial for attempted murder, it was only left for the
r.tnites to bind the husband over in his own recogni-
MN'. of 11W. for the good behaviour of his wife for ilia
meths, sad to pay all the exposer. incurred.

THE MYT4TERIOI7II MERDEM AT ROAD.—There
to 110 t.. 11.11 it, hope that this mysterious crime will be
do....vei.d —at any rate through ordinary means. The
smell Ilurnher of persons who composed the
howliold on the fatal night are fit being separated.
I.l.ribetla Gough is at her home is the embarks of London.
Mee Condoms Kist is on the poiat ef Maria; for a
whol in Fromm, her brother V. illient is already from
hew, sad the rest of the family will leave Haul Hill
llou.e in a .lay or two, whither is not generally known ;
bet it is believed they introit Unveiling for SOTO
The contents of tbn now celebrated Louse will shortly be
offend for public sale. and doubtless the public will avail
themselves of the privileges of an auction day to gratify
a .unosity a. much felt to view the sees. of the =yr
tenons mutter. The rot, from which the ill-feted child
was taken to his cruel death, will mat be sold. The 1••••
sal grounds are for ode, but there doe. sot seem to he
inch dispositam cm the part of anyooe to 001111rf MO
fastens *residence. As to the crime itself. w• believe it
awn. given up as icing among the things which am too
mysterious to 1.. *meal into. —MaWheatr Gailmhasi.
STRAXiII CONDU.7 Or A CLEKGYMA.N.—A respect-
a•le yens( tuse lamed Atkinson, clerk in • inerchaist%
Ohms h West fleetlepoa, is • member of the chair of
Christ ('hurch, of which the Rev. J. G. Rows is hamm-
iest. About fear months ago Mr. Atkinson took to him-
self for a wife a respectable youog woman, soil the mar-
rags was duly siiilseinnal at the registrar% office, in the
mood farm proscribed oy law. Since that time he his
roatiutial 4, diesel the choir as usual, and lies in every
y csialuetal• himself in a prover and becoming menage.
Iseiglise his surprise as 'weir*, • day or two ago, •
letter of wli.e.h the following is a copy ;---•" West Hartle.
pool, Marrh 18G1. My deer Kir, —1 Lave hemsl to my
mat ••rrow the other day that you had lately formed a
sawn at the minims. odice. As such unison, whatever
may be in die eye of the law, is no marriage in the
eye of the rhumb, you will are how impossilde it is with
my propriety for tun to retain your place in the choir.
shall, therefore, inform Mr. lluwvd the choir master)
fiat you will Ho longer attend ; hut I shall not ensign
ow memo ez,ept you wish. l am lode sorry for y.u,
laving hoped that you would not rush into a solemn ego
mgesnant like this utterly regeolless of God's blessing.
lisy Gad being you loth 5.. sae your set.,, sad that such a
oda of union, though fitting tor the nalldel, cannot befit
the aniation. Vet I sot now'_ and always shall be, our
tell washer, J. Howr_—Mr. Alkinmet."—Su
B.•

Tel h LATE PULNIDENT OP dratted.—James
beekeen is corrupt. uoacrupnlous. end feeble ; from the
Ss' s( his ...t be has shown neither capacity,
nniple, re dignity ; he be been altogether no evil Lod
tainethy man ; oothinc so prior lau yet set in the
chair. He wee elected measly on the ground ot the
Manifesto." aml his uoderstood subserviency to
s,ause of " shivery exterisiie," and comesped &ones/i-
-t...au the teeth. He did all he eouhl to redeemLis
V,*s. He connived at the filibusterieg expeditions of
..Aer to Nicaragua in the moat transparent manner; he
that mess., when arrested and brought back ;
sat silent eel when the sin', limn was received
ovations in the chit( cities of the union. He
''...ssourssl to pervosil. 'nogivoi to trove him with thirty
a ..es of dolhas wherewith to purchase 'ula from Spain
.s! on Woo:: slressli resented the proposal as a &grant in.
stl eel intimated in his nireinge that if wit odd. it
swat melees he ratins. He got up the Central American
'Leste with flees% *Rae with the view of obtaining wile
teem' over the Isthmus and the &Opining territory. He
secoureguil awl assisted the hooter ruffians of
.useen in the most open manner in their lawless violence@
Int EWING • he actually eniployed the United &able
18 es il4 pidthbi down the degititnate eelf.elefesee of their
' -4ated victims ; url en.leavourel to fermi through Coo-
''. to legalise awl confirm the proceedings of the
.-c'.lseklia,; name of Leoomptori-sein throughout Hot
• • •ILnr, not as the chief magistrate of the rvpuhlic,
""t " the elianieless nomisee of the slave extentionista •
'I • through the dimness of the freesoilers, laded.
1:1 • through
iv sow o fr,v state within the Union. It ia be-
""st mind. scareoly dewed. amd almost proved -that he
%el hi, eloveino mainly to corruption exercised in en an-
smally retie= sad eat ter/Knot &aline in his native Mate
....rssituylvsnia. Its nos•rious that briliery el all Made,
Made, we awl assemblies, has became fess.-
'" 14 :uner adminetratice. . . . Of the mingled
al weakness displayed by the retiring perident
"V araumi relatiag •to the IninNlaull movement there is
...,"••4 list we should meek. Irmluhly went crew w.a
3.7 bat ta r ...
i.e. foe rotemetil
rlde and uadignalled a meaner.
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