The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-03 00:00:00

12NCITION 07 HE BY REID .4T LITBRPOOL.

The following account of the execution of Henry
Reid for the murder of his wife at Stanchest*: is from the
Liverpool Journal of Saturday evening :
/diary Reid, the unhappy man who wee convicted at the
law Nantes of the murder of his wife, wan executed at noon
to-day, at the north-west corner of MAW, Gaol. When
the wretched man, along with Auguste Wilhelm, who was
also aenteoced to be hanged for murder, wee left for execu-
tion • general feeling prorated that the extreme penalty
would not be inflicted upon either of the culprits, and that
Impression remained to a considerable extent upon the public
mind up to yesterday afternoon, when it became known that
a respite in favour of Wilhelm had been received, and that
no mention warn made of Reid in the COMMUIIiC44IOII from
the Home Secretary. From that moment it became a Axed
belief that the murderer of his wife would expiate the crime
of which he had been found guilty by the forfeit of hie own

From that moment step ware taken by the authorities for
carrying out the execution, and about one o'clock yesterday
the barricAdie were commenced which surround the
corner of the gaol to keep off the crowd. This operation did
not seem to excite mach attention; and, although small knot*
of idlers were to be seen from time to time inspecting the grim
CLLegs, little interest appeared to be taken in the matter.
same may braid of this morning. Up to ten o'clock
thin were few people on the ground ; towards hall-pest
elms • considerable crowd, amounting in all to pro-
bably four thousand, had assembled. The greatest
quietness and order, amounting alarm to decorum, per-
ended the crowd; and four of the town mirionaries,
Messy& Bannirs, Lancaster, Holgate, and Word, d-
immed lbs crowds on different parta of the ground,
ezbortiag their bearers to abstain from erase in drinking,
and to subject their protons to the control of reason.
Pingthe crowd many remarks were made as to the alleged
ry which those speaking affected to me in the respite
accorded to Wilhelm, asserting that it was owing to
his being • foreigner, and not to his presumed innocence.
The same parties also affected to see that the execution of
Reid wad more on account of his being en Englishman then
because of his extra guilt. Of course we offer no opinion oa
these comments, but give them merely as matters of occur-
nook The ground was kept by a party of 160 Le number of
the borough police, under charge of Chief-superintendent
Ryde end Superintendent Sibbald ; but therein' no occasion
for their interference, as the utmost propriety Of order was
exhibited by all who were present.
At 10 minutes to 12 o'clock the doors leading from dr
gaol to the platform were opened by re of the
peal officials, end • murmur ran throgh the crowd;
but this was merely momentary, and, or &ere berg
establiehed, the reading of prayers was distinctly beard
from within the geol. About half • uders takes twelve
o'clock the unhappy more appeared on the smiled, attended
only by Calera, the executioner, who bed arrived on Friday
afterscon. Amoco ying Reid, whose arms were strongly
&laud, he ii his hand • rope. Redd was poorly
attired, in • dark green velveteen shooting coat, and trousers
of • amulet colour—ln (set, the clothes he wore at his trial.
Os reaching the scaffold the wretched man, who seemed in
good health, and rather florid in complexion, cast a look, half
wondering haUarions, on the crowd ore eoi sled, and the scene
before him, on which he wee never to look again. He did not
and Calcraft immediately proceeded to draw •
it'aVtOsp over his face, and pat the rope round the
convict s neck, which he admired with the utmost
otesoehalasce Daring this brief period the voice
of the chaplain was distinctly beard reading the envies
appropriate to such an occasion, and at twelve ;o'clock pro-
mealy the drop fell. From some cause or other death was
not produced rapidly, and the poor wretch struggled with
agonising convulatunese for fully three =looter, after which
his struggles ceased, and he swayed slowly in the light wind
• Wakes corpse.
We may state on authority that the unfortunate man did
not make any confession of guilt, and, so fat as we can learn,
did not assert his terrace. The chaplain did not administer
the sacrament, but he was most attentive in ministrations.
Reid was moat tractable, and spent much of his time in
reading. Last night be slept well and soundly for several
hours, and this meaning be seemed perfectly resigned to his
fate. He is described es • man of a 'try low order of intel-
lect—rather erre-minded, and very docile.
This morning the culprit had a letter from his son, a lad of
• tonere, at present engaged in a foetory at Manchester.
There ace two children braidep, inmates of the Manchester
Workhouse. He was visited on Wednesday by the mother
and brother of his deceased wife, for whose murder he this day
suffered the extreme penalty of the law.
We may state that Reid had been seven times peer ions
to his conviction for murder amenable to justice. Six times
tomes summarily convicted for minor creme, end at the
Manchester Sessions, in 1864, was found guilty of felony—
✓eeling • counterpane—end 'eaten°, d to four years' penal
servitude, the full term of which he was kept in prison.
The body, after hanging tor the usual time presented by
usage, was cut down, but large numbers lingered about the
prison for a long period afterwards.

ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH LONDON HAILWAL

Yesterday, throughout the neighbourhood of
Caandes-tows and the northern districts of the metropolis, a
painful =Mien woe mated by a rumour that on the tre-
eless eyeing (fisturday) an accident bad taken place on the
line ciao Raab Leedom Railway near Camden Station, by
which an engine sod train lied been thrown off the line, and
that several pmeengen were seriously, if not fatally, in-
jured.
It ►appears that the down train from Fenehurelo-street left
that station at its usu.' time (5 o'clock) on Saturday evening,
drawn by No. 17 engine, driven by John Savage, an old and
experienced driver. TM train proceeded as usual until
after Jul arrival at the Caledonian-reed Station, on the
meters side of which is situate the cattle siding and layers
for cattle brought up to the new cattle market. At
the time the traia bad reached this point • very
fine heifer belonging to one of the sale/men
escaped, and made its way down the line towards
the Camden Station. The decimate of the night prevented
the Mem seeing for any great durance, and on the arrival of
the train within about 70 or 8U yards of the bridge, which
crosses the King's-road, at St. Peas-terrace, the engine
came in collision with the animal, Metier it to the ground,
the engine and train noosing ever It, and cutting it to pieces.
The result of this wee to throw the engine and tender
off the line, end although the steam had been shut off, it
want along some forty or fifty yard', but fortunately whoa
within about thirty feat from the bridge referred to, it dashed
down the embankment some euteen or seventeen feet,
followed by two of the carriage., and became deeply
embedded In the earth. The two carriages inner
diately following the engine were much shattered, and
the first had one end completely thrown up into the air.
It is stated that there were but two tarn passenger. in this
carriage, and that they were much contused. In the mooed
carriage there were several female, and one women
with • child in her arms, who were mach sheken, while'
the other pa/Angers were more or lees bruited. The
scene of alarm may be well imagined, not only amongst the
but even the officials participated in it, from a
M.:l=of the fact that the down express, which leaves
Fenchurchmtreet, et • quarter•paat live, was doe within two
minutes at the Camden Station. I'itt, the guard of the
disabled Main, ran beck with all speed to place
fog signals on the line, and the telegraph had only just time
to communicate what had happened to the Caledonian-read
Station, when the express arrived, end was stopped. Had
this not been effected, the lees life would in all probability
have been fearful ; tor, had the engine not turned cff tut it
did down the embankment, but run come 30 feet further,
nothing could have prevented the engine and train gulag
over the bridge into the
Information of the occurreure we. at once telegraphed to
the Camden Station of the London and North Western Com-
pany, and Mr, Harry Chubb, the secretary, Mr. Adamson,
locomotive superinteudent, and other officials, with large num-
bers of engiueere and workmen, were speedily on the spot. It
wsa then found that the ralls of the down line were tom up
for • considerable dimmest. The passenger. having been got
out, the men sot to work to renown the embedded enfpne and
carriages. By dint of ecrew-jecke sod other poreeftd
machinery the carriage. were got op on the line during the
night, bat the engine and tender, all in one, weighing some
25 tom, had become so deeply embedded in the earth, and so
low down the bank, that it war not until about 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon that, with the additional aid of two
powerful engines, it was got up on te • siding. This wee
effected in the presence of hundreds of people, and great ex-
citement prevailed. The down line was blocked, sad the
trefile had to be curled on on the op Has during the whole
of Saturday night. It could not be aacertalned whether any
allen)111 injuries were inflicted.

THE LONDON AND EASTERN BANC—Wong
Tucker, of the Bengal Camlry, has addressed a letter to the
solvent end payisg shareholders of this bank, urging them
to 240 what srningenients can be come to with Its credit=
by which, on any of the shareholder.. triedceisig the present
WI in full, with, say 201. per cent. additional (IW. per Pans),
the said creditors shell give him a release in MI, sa against
all future demands on their part. He says the solvent shares
holders who have already paid in full, but who bars 1.:.•
*Aced no ?clears from future domande, would probably, in
almost every instance, gladly pay the 201. per cent. additional
to the call, and thus be gait of the affair for ever. Again,
such large shareholders sa • • • • and many others
would probably be immediately sided by their friends and'
Motives, if the letter raw that by op sacrifice, however,
large, all futures ponsibility mild be got rid of. At pro- I
mast we are positively forcing honourable men to have ne-
course to all sorts of device., to make the wont of thole
affairs, in order to be In a position to efface compromise,"
and get a " release In fall." No friends will at preset
come forward to moist in paying the call in full," because
by so doing they would actually inflict an injury and piss
their relatives is the same unenviable position we now Do-
copy. By the plan proposed. I feel assured the greater
portion of our largest ahareholders, and all the smaller onse,
including all those in fedi*, would at once Sod the means of
moist. It is Us future rintertainty and responsibility
dish sow weighs as a millstone snip& our seeks. flex
preaust creditors see airily the or four joint stock banks,
rod k Y tally mooch to their interest as it is to Pre to pt •
Viseltismost, even at a nominal sacrifios ; for, in truth,
es sow rerfeciag implies sums in tom of interest
gem awl Patel probably gladly come to term*, seeing this
=.of Immediate payment appeared so good. The lessor
of whom there are very few indeed, might Wattled
'Mb et oboe.

Law lattlitgenet.

METROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS.
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Wltertirifeek nua ',the —Mou4A,r, January 3, sad tam
followlag days.
MAlilLeal Maryirbone rowl—Moodat, January 1, and two follow-
ur:
now. Wlitawadalroto —Tat...W. Jaunt, 6. and following
day.
How, Tilrgeld.rwid—Torday. January 4.
Lamina. Quoterwonnswroat—Tursiay, January 4, sad two tot-
Dosing
CrrY oda
ry.. Lorna,. Oulldhalltsaldlags—Prlday, Joann 7. sad fol.
lowan day.
Oauswica—Nonday. January 3.
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INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—ILN. 1.
(Wm. Mr. Commissioner Phillips.)
♦ elitism BROICEII.-tx EE Imes, coximr..

This insolvent, a city broker, applied to be discharged. He
wed opposed by Mr. Dowse for the assiguese of Mr. Rolfe, a
bankrupt. The ooeoplaint was that in April last the besot-
yea obtained a quantity of Canadian timber, value 730!., to
dispose of at a eel he we about to have, but instead of melt-
ing It, he on the same day he received It pledged the dock
warrant with a Mr. Purina= for 460!. The insolvent de-
elated that he received the walnut from Mr. Rolfe for the
express porpoe of raising money upon It, but this statement
we deeded by that gentleenan.
The learned Commissioner adjourned the case for the
sttemdance of Mr. Formant and other witnessed, refusing to
enlarge the sureties.

IN R 6 JAIIIRA HWIDERAHN.-A HARD CASE.

This insolvent, a master mariner, applied to be discharged.
lb. fiergood we. instructed to oppose, but a eatislactory ex-
planation induced his clients to withdraw.
Mr. 0. Lewis, of Ely-place, said this was a case of great
hardship. The insolvent had been muter of the stesm•ship
Alice, trading to Smyrna and Constantinople. He had drawn
bills upon the charterer foe coals and necessaries supplied to
the snip, under an authority. These bills were refused
acceptance, and the insolvent was arrested on account of
them, and had been three weeks In prison, although he did
not owe a penny on his own 'mount.
The learned Commissioner expressrd his sympathy with
the petitioner, sad ordered him to be discharged.

IN Ili 11. S. 7IONIR.
T is frolvaltt, a seeravender, at Bow, was oppond by Mr.
Yams, who Instituted as exuateation into the &you' of
property.
Ultho•Oily !helm*lvent wrdiseharpd.

SHERIFFS COURT.—JAN. I.
(Wm Kr. Pristiorpal, Q.C.)