The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

FILAIMIN OP NEULECTING TO MAINTAIN A win.

John PfxrA, a tall respeetably-dressed man, about 30—yeers
of a who was deerribed sa en auxiliary idler clue, to
Clapham,ge was brought befogs Mr. Hayman en • warrant,
charged with neglecting to maintain his wife, Ilardet, and
ebilif, a little girl seven yews =
as
they bad bo-
ttom chargeable to the pariah of C
Mr. Herring, the relieving dicer, said the wife apptlad on
Wednrsday, stating that her husband did not give- her any
support for herself and child, and he then relieved her, sad
suloequently took out the warrant.
The wife was then called. and stated that she lived in
James-street, Clapham. Her husband holds a situation se
letter-carrier at Ito. Bd. par week. She irked him for money
on Monday and Tuesday, to get POlue food for herself and
child, and he refused to give her any. She had to go to
work without any dinner, and if it had not been for ber
neighbours she did not know what she would have done. On
the Wednesday morning she applied to bee husband at the
plot-office in Clapham, sad be then refused to give be, any
money.
Tbo defendant positively denied having neglected to main-
tain Ids wife, and maid ber object was to get a Crone, or an
allowance from him._

lir7l)Orna---n ;Oldhe bad no power to pat a divorce.
The wife said she wanted to have an allowance from her
hinhond, so ohs could not think of living with him again.
I lie hod no love for her, end he nu in the habit of going
oiler other women, and did not return home until three and
four o'clock in the morning. eke fogad a letter in his pocket
addrim.4 to her husband from Mae yang woman.
Mr. Minna. upon Makin at the letter said it was a-
dmired to Kr. Finch, at the Poet OM*. There might be a
gnat many more Mr. Finch's in Clapham than tho de-
fendant.

The wife said it commenced, "Dery John," and wee
written in very agent innate mime. Her busbend's name wee
John, and that looked very auspicious.
The defendant said the letter was the caws of their quarrel.
He had told his wife that he did not know the young
woman, and that the letter was intended for some other Mr.
Finch.

The Wife—Yon know, John, you (lewd me for other
wow.,

iloCtsfiedlint mid ke did not. Ile wooly laughed and
joked with the wryest girls, which wee e common occur-
rence in their bonier. (Laughter.)
Upon the reconmendatien of his moihip, the husband and
wife retired tutu the waiting-room with Mr. Herring, and
upon their return to court, the defendant proclaimed to snow
hes wife 6s. per week, which arrangement the wife comentad
to accept.
The warrant we. then diechargel, end the defendant pen-
alised to indemnity the perish for the expenses incurred.

We (Carlisle Journal) regret to hear that Mr.
Marion, the reopened secratery of the Caclkeneouth and
Workington Railway, whose severe sear*. from the acci-
dent when the election train rend the We, excited such a
bray begrime has vain been prostrated upon a bed of oirk.
am. He had eallkeently nonmed to attend to his duties,
and • week ago, after once hours, was takieg exercise on
hoteeback, who, his horse either fell or threw-him, re-frac-
turing his arse and otherwise injuring
TIM MURDER AT CIIINGFORD MATCTl.—Yesterday
Mr. C. C. Lewis, coroner for Rase:, concluded the inquiry
held at the Dun Cow, Chingford Hatch, reentering the
deeds of Miry, White, boueskeeper to Mr. Small. The de-
mooed, it will be recollected, was mustered on the 21et
while Mr. Small and Ma wife were absent at church, Mr.
Cony, surgeon, of Woodford, mid .inoo the body had been
exhumed he had made an examination, and found a wound
' ion the throat, extending from the lett to the right ear, which
had revered the trachea, mho en incited wound on the left
side of the frontal base. The brain and other membrane.
of the body were perfect) y healthy, and in the opinionof
witnees there was no doubt thaedeath had resulted from lose
of blood from a wound in the throat. The coroner having
summed up the evidence, the jury refused a verdict that
Mrs. Mary White was nundirsd by acme prams or parsons
unknown."

KRIM CRILDRXN DROWNED.—Mr. Herford held
an twiner, at the coroner's court, Manchester, yesterday, on
the bodies of three little children who had been found
drowned In the AAA= Canal. Their names wave, Prole-
ri,k Ruin, Elisabeth Rider, and William Cowes; they eves
each Hine yews old, and ths children of labouring people.
The evidence was very awagre, abowWg newly that the
children bad been allowed to leave their baso as the per
evening, that they ware awn yawing together on a
landing-place fur parte( straw, at the aids of the canal is
Mill-street, and that they were all band la the water, when
life was extinct; and there being maxim( beyond the pep
poitirin that they had slipped in to account fir their fate,
the jury returned a verdict of " Pend drowned."