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The Express. — 1847-03-26 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, MARCH 25. The grand jury of the county of Cork having applied to the Lords of the Treasury to adeaace money to enable them to pay the amount of damages awcuded for the lands h.jured by the proceedings under the Labour Rate Act, Mr. Trevelyan has replied for their lordships in the negative. They applied also for permission to present a certain sum "at each assizes to remunera' the parties engaged in aseertainii.g the amount of those damages: This also has been refused.  The Lord-lieutenant has refused the prayer of a memorial of the grand jurors of Cork to appoint • stipendiary magistrate at Clonakilty ; and he has refused to call an extraordinary presentment sessions in that county. The great centre of turbulence is beginning to show symptoms of improvement. The assizes new going on in the North Riding are likely to purge off many of the vicious characters. The transportations will be very numerous. The indications of social improvement appear in the comparative facilities of prosecution. The crown witnesses are more numerous as well as courageous, and prisoners are identified with far less reluctance than in the good days of intimidation. The Nenagh Guardian says, that mach of this improvement is owing to the Catholic clergy and constabulary—to the former, for their promptitude in recognising and candidly admitting the good or evil characters of the parties charged—and to the latter, for their admirable organisation in tracing crime and bringing it to justice. Another symptom of returning social health in the North Riding is the expressive fact, that agrarian outrages since the last assizes have been unusually few. William Foster, of Norwich, who has been engaged in a tour of humanity along the north-west and western bord"r, reports on the state• of the Mayo prison in Castlebar, for its "good order, cleanliness, and general appearance." He suggests—what should be more rigidly attended to in oar county prisons—that the male prisoners, and particularly the young men and boys, should, out of school-hours, be employed in some useful and industrial occupation. Lord George Bentinck, who has been feasted with resolutions and addresses, still revels in the banquet. His pen was scarcely dry after the dashing reply to the Limerick panegyrists, when the Mayo magnates invited him to a renewal of his profound appreciation" of the " warm-hearted nation," &c. Lord George, too, kicks at the " Irish party," which lies not between two, but many stools.  THE RECENT MURVER IN K mar.mtv.—No tort of the perpetrators of the late barbarous murder has since been obtained, sad, melancholy to relate, as yet those miscreants hare got clear off with the blood-earned booty, through the guilty connivance or equally reprehensible apathy of the peasantry. The assauiti who received the lire of the unfortunate gentleman whose murder he was assisting at, still continues to linger on, and some hopes arc now entertained of his surviving the effects of his wound, to pay the penalty which outraged society demands for his crime. —Kilkenny Journal. DEATH or
The Express. — 1855-03-13 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER.  On Saturday night last Mrs. Sarah May, aged 45 years, residing with her husband at No. 4, Eden-place, Old Kent-road, left her home for the purpose of purchasing • bl►ck-lead brush, and not returning up to 12 o'clock, bar husband went is search of her; but though he walked about during the whole of the night, and made inquiries of every policeman he met, he could not obtain the slightest intelligence about her. Early on Sunday morning a labouring man, named Biddles,residing at Perry-vale, Forest-bill, was crossings large field on what is known as Tagg's Farm,when he was attracted to the violent barking of his dog, and on going to the spot where the animal stood, he found the dead body of • female (since identified as that of Mrs. May), with her elotbee turned over her head, lying in a deep furrow or watercourse, with marks of severe siolcue on the countenance and elsewhere. Deceased appeared to have been abused and murdered. The body was at once removed to Camberwell workhouse, and carefully examined by the parish surgeon, who gave it as his decided opinion that death had resulted from violence. From inquiries silica actively prosecuted by the police, it appears that about one o'clock on Sunday morning deceased was teen by • policeman in the Queen's road, Peckham, in company with a respectablydressed man, and both were then proceeding towards Newcross-gate. This is the last time she was seen alive. It was also ascertained that, on hearing of the discovery, two gentlemen had traced the footsteps of a man from a bridge on the Crystal Palace line of railway, and not far from the Dartmouth Arms public-house, to where the body lay, and traces of blood on the snow were then quite visible; but the rapid thaw has obliterated all trace of the footsteps as well as the blood.  The husband of deceased 'toted t ) the officers that he did not know any friend or acquaintance of hers who could be in her company at inch an hour as that described by the constable, 90 P.  Sergeant Quinnear mentions that at the time the body wu found it was stripped of both these and stockings, yet there was lying on the bank by its tide a drawn velvet bonnet belonging to the deceased, not in the least degree soiled or injured; and this circumstance confirms that officer in hie suspicions that the body must have been carried to where ft had been found ; for had the deceased herself scrambled a distance of three miles and upwards, which she must have done through hedge and ditch, her bonnet must have been destroyed or torn to pieces. His impression ia that the violence which resulted in her death must have been inflicted at the railway bridge, and that the body had been carried by the remit whose footsteps had been noticed from thence to where it had been found. Had it not been for the accidental circumstance of the man Biddies crossing the field, and I acing a dog with him, the body might have lain for many days where it bed been found, as it wu a secluded spot, and the body itself could not have been seen from any distance.
The Express. — 1855-08-14 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, Avousr_l3.  A meeting has been convened by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, to take place on Saturday next, at the Mansion-house, for the purpose of urging government to carry into immediate effect the improved postal and passenger communication between London and Dublin, contemplated by the act passed in the present session to facilitate that important object. The requisition addressed to the Lord Mayor contains the names of all our leading bankers and merchants, and the subject is one which excites a very lively interest among the respectable portion of the citizens. The glorious weather of the last few days still continues, with every prospect of holding up for the remainder of the season ; and never, perhaps, was there a more teeming harvest to be saved in this country than that on which the sunshine of the next few weeks may be expected to bestow the crowning blessing. The sickle has as yet done very little; in fact, almost nothing of the general harvest has been saved, but the work will ba gin in e truest to-day, and the golden fields will ripen much more rapidly than the farmers will be able to find hands to gather the treasure. On Friday last some companies of a souther& militia regiment were on parade near where fertilisers were at work, and during an interval in the drill they divested themselves of their red coats, seized the sickles, and in an inconceivably short time laid the field of oorn prostrate. It would be well it more of their brethren would follow their example during the next two or three weeks. The quantity of corn lodged by the rain and wind is considerable in some places, and the black crisp ot the potato blight has made its appearance to some extent in perhaps every field in the country, without, however, having yet caused any very serious alarm. A fog of extraordinary density visited the river of Cork on Friday evening, to the great risk of the shipping, which, however, suffered no injury. Corporal Thomas Haydoo, of the 11 rh Hessars, walked out of a window at Newbridge Barracks the other night, while in a state of somuambulism, and cow killed on the spot. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant has approved of the appointment of Joseph Boyce, Erg. (Lord Mayor), to be deputy-lieutenant for the city of Dublin. The Very Rev. Dr. O'Brien has been appointed Roman Catholic Bishop ot Waterford by his Holiness Pope Pius IX. A respite during her Majesty's pleasure has been received by the governor of uthin Gaol for Margaret Devito, convicted at the assizes last week of the wilful murder of her illegitimate child by drowning it in a canal at Llangollen.  The directors of the north Eastern Railway Company have agreed to me:mini:ad, at the epproactiog beltyearly meeting of the shareholders a civiiend at the rate of bi per cent. on the Berwick shares ; of 2 per cent. on the York shares; and of 6 per cot. on the Leeds Preference Warta shares.
The Express. — 1856-05-13 (London, England)

ROME, MAT 3. The Romans are still anxiously discussing the "to be or not to be" of political ameliorations in the dominions of the Pope, through the mediation of Prance and England; I cannot say that they are sanguine upon the subject, and my own humble opinion is that after the first brunt of inquiry or suggestion, or whatever other form of interference Of any at all) the foreign powers may adopt, the Ecclesiastical Court will successfully mystify them once more, and prop up the dilapidated fabric of the double sovereignty a little longer with all its infallible right. and privileges. The priests themselves are gradually recovering tram their alarm, and feel that they have a powerful ally in the person of his Apostolic Majesty the Emperor of Austria, with whom the recently pacificated powers of the west an hardly go to loggerheads upon such an intangible question. The only recent changes to be signalised in the itd. ministration of the country are the removal of the restrictions hitherto existing on the export of corn, and the doubling of those fees hitherto levied by the police authorities for the vim of passports and permissions to aside.  The late exploits of the brigands in the neighbourhood of Rome, especially near Velletri, have induced the authorities to show a little severity by way of warning. Two of the famous band of robbers that haunted the same locality three years ago have bad their heads cut off and exhibited to the inhabitants of Velletri, amongst whom many of their old associates were spectators in the crowd. Fifteen or sixteen cues of proved robbery and murder, in which these malefactors were concerned, appear in the printed 'eaten:a now pasted upon the walla of Rome, as is customary after cases of capital punishment. The Council of State had another deliberation on Monday with regard to the final award of the line of railway from Rome to Bologna. The Spanish company, and that represented by the Marquis of Moonier, are the rival pretendants. The Frascati line is actually to be opened to the public in a month's time, when a great festival is to take place in that town, as customary every hundred years, in honour ,of Bt. Roch. Between the antiquity of the saint and the novelty of the railway, the directors expect all Rome to be backwards and forwards for some time, The locomotives, carriages, and machinery requisite foe working the line arrived at Civita Vecchia in the beginning of the week, in the British vessels Nepaul, 1,000 tons, and Mary Aon, 500 tons. Prince Turlonia, the Colossus of Roman bankers, hu left the Eternal City for Naples, whence he proceeds with the princess, hie family, and suite, to Paris, and it is reported that his establishment Me will be broken up and the firm closed. The non. renewal of the salt and tobacco contract and the enmity of Cardinal Antonelli are said to have disgusted the prince with Rome. Exchange on London, 473; Roman Consols, 841.
The Express. — 1846-09-10 (London, England)

THE PUNJAUB.  JULLIINDIIR Do.lll.—The British provinces in the Punjaub appear to have been visited by deluges of rain: the country was new and the climate unknown to us, and we seem to have been but indifferently provided for many of the contingencies of an unusaally wet rainy mason. A large mamine had been established at Phullasr, and was being filled with military stores. One thousand rounds of cannon shot had been provided for each gun, and five hundred of musket ammunition for each soldier. The Seikhe were enlisting slowly and reluctantly in our regiments: they are described as very fine and,powerful men indeed. The people on the Noorpsor frontier were said to be mustering in strength, with a view of assailing us: the wonder is that such rumours, whether true or not, have nothitherto been rife. The name (Punjanb) may now be restricted to that portion of the country of the Five Riven remaining in the hands of Dhuleep .Singh. The Lahore Government does not seem to be making much progress in strength or consolidation., or in the affections of the people. The Vizier seems an italorrigible reprobate, with many of the word vices of the dtbauchee, despot, and upstart, happily combined. He is said to have expressed a wish for the retirommt of our troops I so loon at omenienti and they aro not INaly to Main be.  ?sod the time originally prescribed. How soon they may spire to return remains to be seen. But few of the disbanded soldiers had been paid up the arrears which were due to them: they were grumbling and threatening fearfully, and went not likely to stone without a struggle. The Mooltan Chief had become bolder in the spirit of disobedience, and seemed disposed to throw off the mesh and assume supreme authority over the province he ruled in subordination to the Maharajah. Goolrub Singh was said also to threaten to become troublesome; but he seems so entirely in our power, and so closely bound to as, that from this quarter at all events no danger need be apprehended. There were rumours of the descent of the Affghans under Ukhbar Shan on Peshawur; but these appear to arise continually when any season of turbulence is at hand. The Birder seems to keep the whole of these countries in awe, and when any unusual alarm occurs, or is intended to be created, the cry of Ukhbar is coming, is enough. ,I It was the same thing in Europe with the name of Booneparte some thirty years ago. A man had been convicted of murdering no fewer than five females at Lahore for the sake of robbing them of their jewels. He was subjected to the severest torture, then roasted on a slow fire, and finally blown up with gunpowder as life was becoming extinct. Some severe accidents had occurred cii • he rivers, which had become suddenly swollen from enormous falls of rain. Dr. Cox narrowly escaped with his life on crossing the Beas ; six men, who had been in the boot along with him, were drowned. A party of forty natives, who had gone to sleep in a ferry boat, were all swept away and lost, from the sudden rising of the stream.
The Express. — 1846-09-15 (London, England)

THE HORRIBLE MI:RDER AT CHESTERFIELD.—Connected with this horrible affair an opinion prevails that the deceased's body was cut up and carried away in parts to the cesspool, in which his mangled remains were discovered. This idea, however, is not supported by the surgeon who examined them; be clearly ascertained that the virat vertebra, which connects the head with the spine, had not the appearance of having been separated by any violence, as it was found complete. But it must be borne in mind that the second and third vertabne are not to be found, and, if the head were separated from the body after death, those bones would be so broken up as to be undistinguishahle afterwards. The : • sited remains were interred in St. Thomas's church-yard, Brampton, on Monday last, followed by a large party of friends and relations, including Ellen Beresford, and attended by an immense concourse of spectators. The prisoner was removed to Derby gaol on Friday morning, in the custody of Sharpe, an active constable of Chesterfield ; a great number of people congregated at tho railway station to witness his departure ; he arrived a short time before the train, and made a request to sec Mr. R. Statham, butchcr, by whom he was employed, with whom he conversed, seemingly without reserve, and did not seem in the least unnerved ; when the train arrived, he was hurried through the crowd to the carriages, upon which he appeared pale and agitated. He shook hands with some acquaintances, and bade them good-bye. lie also told Mr. Statham that he was innocent of the murder. There was some groaning on his proceeding to the carriage, otherwise there was no strong feeling multi sled by the congregated throng. He is a very diminutive man, being only five feet one inch in height, stout built, active, and having a repulsive countenance. Among the fraternity he and his brother, in derision of their small stature, were known by the names of " Cog " and " Magog." A few days ago he addressed a letter to Mr. It. Statham, which contained little more than desiring his respects to his acquaintance and assertions of his innocence. He did not, however, forget his old friend "Nero," a favourite dog, to whom he sent " his respects." Prisoner is described by his late em ployer as being remarkably temperate in his habits, and a rather timid disposition. Collis, the supposed murdered man, was a good-looking person, twenty-six years of age, about the middle size, dark hair, and light whiskers, and well known and respected in the neighbourhood. Ellen Beresford, the young woman to whom he was betrothed, is a pretty and respectable-looking young woman, and her case has excited much sympathy. as it is stated to have been the intention of Crllis to marry her had he lived. A number of benevolent individuals, fi eling that she was deprived of a husband, and her child of a father, by this tragical occurrence, have laudably determined to raise a subscription in her behalf, and there' is no doubt lous their praiseworthy object will meat with the success which it merits.— Derbyshire Courier.
The Express. — 1857-11-03 (London, England)

VOICE FROM AN AUSTRIAN PRISON.  The following narrative has been written by Captain Szarmary, one of the three persons whose escape from the Austrian prison of Joaephstadt, in Bohemia, we lately reported: " I was thrown Into prison chiefly on account of some inconsiderate speeches, with reference to politics, which I had uttered against my denouncers—l may say, against my calumniators—both of wham, although by their speeches in reply to me the 7 had compromised themselves in that matter more than I had done, have nevertheless remained secure and at liberty ; and after having undergone a confinement of fourteen months whilst awaiting the result of the examination, I was sentenced to twenty years' further imprisonment in irons, which was imposed upon me notwithstanding the fact, well known to those who passed the sentence, of my suffering from gout. " In spite of the general amnesty which was proclaimed, I remained with four other prisoners in the dungeon; and since neither I, myself, nor Dr. Schutte and (late lieutenant) Herr Wimps iler, who were of our number, could endure the additional pain of this disappointment, we conceived the design of bestowing an amnesty upon ourselves, to which resolution I was the more impelled by a motive of self-preservation, mainly suggested to me by the excruciating pains of my gout, aggravated as they were by the pressure I of the irons which I wore. This project, by the manifest favour of kind Heaven, we were enabled to execute. " The two prisoners left:behind are, first, Herr Kofler (late Lieutenant Koller), who at the outbreak of the revolution, being then in his early youth, was taken prisoner in the first conflict at which he was present, and now remains a prisoner still; second, Herr Fogarasy, front Siebenburgen, whose father aid mother had been murdered by the Wallacbians, stirred up against them, and his brother, who yet survives, had both his feet cut off by them, before he took up arms. In one of the fights at which he was present, the village where he lived, together with all his own property, was destroyed by the flames. Notwithstanding this, he was accused of being the author of the conflagration, and for that reason imprisoned. This arrest took place exactly at the moment of his young wife's first delivery. Hebeggedto be allowed to stay with her at least until this event should be passed, since the grief she must feel would cost her else her life. 'I his petition was in vain. When she was brought almost to the verge of her grave petitions were sent to the Auditor by Fogarasy's friends, entreating that the husband and wife might be permitted to see each other once again; but still the prayer was denied, even though a person of distinction went so far as to fall at the Auditor's feet and beg him to grant the unfortunate pair one last interview : his reply was, that ' he had to deal with men, and not with women: That child, which has scarcely ever been looked on by its father, is still alive. How long must he continue yet to pine before he looks upon his child again ?
The Express. — 1861-02-19 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR RYDE.  A man named Henry Lacy, who occupied a mall farm at Weatridge, known as Old House Farm, situated about • mile and a half from Hyde, Isle of Wight, is in custody on the charge of murdering his wife. He is the sea of a labouring man in the neighbourhood, but becoming possessed of some means by his marriage he was enabled to take this farm, which he has ucocupied now for ten or twelve years. Lacy is a giant both in size and strength. The farmhouse is situated in a lonely spot, there not being a habitation within half a mile of it, and the only inmates I were Lacy and his wife, and a niece of the deceased. In November last a summons was issued against lacy for en assault upon this woman, but the matter was arranged without magisterial interference. Lacy is said to have been of very intemperate habits, and had been drinking freely at Newport on Saturday, which place he had visited accompinged by Susan Wilder, the niece. He returned to the farm about ten o'clock at night. All that is at present known may be stated in a few words. The poor woman had bees confined to her bed for some time, and on Sunday morning Mr. 011ard, her medical attendant, was called upon by the farm.ceater, and requested to visit his patient, as she had reel with an accident by falling down stairs. When that gentleman arrived he found Lacy in a violent state of excitement, and evidently under the influence of drink. Lacy refused to allow Mr. 011anl to see his wife, and the answers given by the niece respecting the condition of the woman were by no means satisfactory. Mr. Oiler/ at once communicated v ith the police, and on his return he was accompanied by Policeeergeant King, a constable, and Mr. Pillager, a surgeon. As soon as Lacy saw the police. officers he made a furious attack on the constable, but the puliceeergeint immediately closed upon him, and after a short struggle the handcuffs were placed round his wrists. On proceeding upstairs a most horrible sight presented itself. On the bed lay the body of the unfortunate woman, her features presenting the strongest evidence of her having been brutally murdered. Her head was one mass of bruises, and there were wounds on various parts of the body, which was reduced by disease and want of nourishment to that of a mere skeleton. The nightdress in which she had been murdered bail been taken off, and was not to be found. The corpse had been carefully wosbLd and laid out. Sergeant King. finding Lacy likely to offer great resistance, returned to Rile tor A carriage and waistance. The officers were compelled to strap his legs, and it was with great difficulty he was brought to the station. It was not till the following morning that he became conscious of his awful situation, Au itopost will be held on the body this day.