The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

THE CONVICT MICHAEL BARRETT..

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Gathorne Hardy re-
ceived at the Home-office a deputation which presented a
memorial praying that a respite should be granted in
order that an inquiry should take place into the soundness
of the evidence advanced on the part of Michael Barrett
at his recent trial, as also into the conclnsivenesa of that
offered on the part of the orown. Mr. Bright, M.P., The
()Donoghue, M.P., Mr. Baker Greene, the counsel for the
prisoner, and Messrs Lewis and Breton, his solicitors,
were present.

Ths; Hour Ssceirmir stated that he had already
recognised the necessity of such an inquiry, and had taken
steps to secure one. He had also applied for the Chief
Justice's notes of the trial, and assured the deputation that
the matter would receive his most serious consideratkn.

Tics MURDER OF A STATION-MASTER AT DOVER.—
Yesterday afternoon Thomas Wells, railway porter, was
placed at the bar in the Town-hall, Dover, before Mr.
Churobward, the mayor, and a full bench of magistrates,
charged under remand with the wilful murder of Mr.
Edward Adolphus Walsh, the superintendent of the Priory
station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, by
shooting him through the bead on Friday last. Mr.
Cleather, solicitor to the railwey company, prosecuted,
and Mr. Minter defended the prisoner. Mr. Squire Martin,
superintendent of the eastern division of the railway, and
several other officials were present. The principal wit-
nesses in the case were examined on Saturday last, and
the proceedings to-day were principally of a formal cha-
racter. The prisoner was fully committed to the county
gaol on the charge of wilful murder. The funeral of the
murdered man will take piece at Drompton Cemetery at a
quarter to 11 to-morrow. The deceased was a man of supe-
rior education and connexions, having been educated at
Westminster School, the late Duke of Kent and the
late Duke of Cambridge standing sponsors for him at his
baptism.

ARREST IN DUBLIN.-At an early hour on
Tuesday morning, on the arrival of the Liverpool steamer
at the North-wall, Dublin, it was boarded by two officers
of the detective force, who made a rigid search
amongst the passeogen, and eventually arrested a mill-
tary•looking young man, who bad apparently spent
some time in America. The prisoner, who gave
his name as Michael Gorman, was searched, but
at firat there was nothing of a auspicious charac-
ter discovered with him, and he was not armed. The
officers brought him to the Lower Castle Yard, to await
examination before the Chief Commissioner of Police,
Colonel Lake. Whilst in detention the police officers
made a rigorous search of the prisoner's garments, and, it
is stated, discovered, sewed up between the linings of his
clothes, a variety of documents. Re was subsequently
brought up before Colonel Lake and privately examined,
the result of which was that he was sent on remand to
Richmond Bridewell. The prisoner is a young man of
good address and gentlemanlike manner..—Freeman's
Journal.

THE MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT.—The
friends of this movement have established and opened a
printing office and home (48, Langbam-street, W.) to pro-
vide suitable permanent and remunerative employment
for the better educated class of fallen women, who have
not been used to household work or the labour of the
sempstress. To those who may be deemed suitable objects
for admittance, it is intended to teach music printing (as
well as general printing), as a previous acquaintance with
music will prealiarl adapt them for the speedy acquire-
ment of the art. For this branch of labour there is a
continuous and increasing demand. After the first year,
with perseverance and industry, worcen can earn from 20s.
to Ms. weekly; and after deducting 14a. per week for board,
lodging, and washing, the balance is paid to—or accumu-
lates for the permanent benefit of—the earner. From the
day of a woman's admission until such time as she
is able to earn the weekly sum of 145., the whole
expense of her tuition, board, lodging, and washing, is
defrayed out of the annual subscriptions. After the
second year, as proficiency and speed are attained, still
larger wages might be calculated upon. All the subecrip.
tions and donationetreoeived have been spent in buying
printing materials and in fitting up the home. The com-
mittee are sorry to say that they have to ream many ap-
plicants, simply because they have not sufficient printing
materials at their command with which to employ them,
though they have sufficient home accommodation for
then'. To raise the money necessary for increasing their
stock of type and buying another press the present ap-
peal is made to the Christian public to aid by patronage
and contributions in .this new field of labour.niM
visitors of the institution are Mr. J. Stabb, hon. secretary
of the Midnight Meeting Movement, Colonel Sandwith,
and Mrs. Anne Vernon Harcourt.

Tisasxsorriso SERVICE.S.—In the absence of
any intimation that the government propose to appoint a
day of thanksgiving for recent national mercies, the Hon.
and Rev. R. lAddeU, of Bt. Paul's, Knightsbridge, has
caused the following notice to he ached to his church :
"On Sunday next the congregation of this church will be
invited to return humble and hearty thanks to Almighty
Ood for great national mercies of late vouchsafed to us, In
the preservation of a Royal Prince from assassination, and
in the signal seem of our army in Abyssinia. Are
Dens will be sang (or said) at the conclusion of the
evening semis..

" After baring been severely afflicted for over
two years with a distressing nervous debility, arising from
excessive bleeding at the nose, which reduced my frame,
and fixed an oppressive pain on the heart and side, soma.
panted with &maces of sight and lased appetite, with no reet
day or night, enduring more than I can describe ; sod after
using an the means prescribed by the best of the faculty
with no benefit. I bled your Pain Killer and am perfectly
oared.—lsaac Pnumrs, Dudley, Jan. 17,1880. To Perry
Davis & Sou, 17, Southampton-row, Holborn, W.C." None
genuine withotit their trade mark. "rA IN lILLE 2,"
en the govt. stamp. Bold by all medicine vendors.--(Advt.j