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The Express. — 1862-12-06 (London, England)

DEA:. 5. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) A banlom Simpson, 32, potter, JoAnHupites, 42, potter, and Jahn Wardle, 43, potter, were all arraigned charged with the wilful murder of James Crump, on the 19th of August, at Colridge, in the parish of Stokirupon-Trent. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Bowyer and Mr. Brown ; while the prisoners were severally defended by Mr. Motteram, Mr. WMahon, Mr. Keneely, and Mr.  Briudley. The deceased bad been a young man and a policeman. 21 years of sge, statioied at Burstem. near Henley. On the 18th of August, having been told off for duty about nine o'clock, be, going towards a public.bouse at Colridge called the Black Boy, met with a fellow police-officer with whom he drank. In company with another man they proceeded to a public-bouse about a quarter of a mile distant, called the Village Tavern, where they drank together. In the suns house were the three prisoners. The fellow policeofficer, Wells, left about half-put twelve, and soon after deceased, with the other man, also left, followed in a few minutes by the three prisoners. Crump and his oompanion proceeded together towards the Black Boy for a short distance, where the former was left to go on by himself. On the departure of his customers the landlord of the Village Tavern fell asleep, and waking in about half an hour went outside to close the shutters. When about to do this be heard groans, and looking down be observed crouched in the gutter and holding the back of his head the figure of a man, and he found it to be the policeman Crump, bleeding profusely from wounds in the head. With the landlord's aid, he was then conveyed into the house sod properly tended. On searching the vicinity the staff of the wounded man was found near the spot in ' which he had been taken up. Two or three yards distant his cap, cut through the peak and clotted with blood and hair, was also found, and still farther on in the road was seen a pool of blood. Deceased was afterwards removed, and on being examined by two surgeons wee found to have sustained a vertical wound on the eyebrow and a fracture on the back of the skull, through an aperture of which his bums afterwards protruded. Respecting the possible cause of these wounds the two surgeons called differed, one thinking that they must have been canted by a fall upon a rough iron-kerbstone, such as that near which the deceased was lying and the other that nothing save a heavy blow from a similar weapon to a staff could have produced the fracture at the back of the head. Of these injuries Crump expired in • few days, identifying, however, before his death the three prisoners as his assailants. The case was not concluded when our parcel was despatched ; but we learn by electric telegraph that the jury returned a verdict acquitting all the prisoners, there being a failure of direct evidence. The trial lasted nearly twelve hours.
The Express. — 1862-09-09 (London, England)

ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE AND BIS WIFE. David Crowley, James Ryan, and Jane Grady were charged with breaking open a room door, and assaulting James Davey, 28 C, and his wife, Ann Davey, living at 20, Silver-skeet. Mr. fklward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared i for the defence. James Davey, 66 C, said—At a quarter-past 2 this morning I was in bed, and hearing a great noise of singing iu the next room, I opened my door, and asked my fellow-lodger in the next room to have a little more compassion on his neighbours. The lodger said, " Oh, you are a policeman. What's it to do with you? I shall do as I like. Who cares for a policeman'" I then returned to bed, sad heard the persons outside say, " Let's have the out," and immediately after the door was burst open, add the female rushed into the room, followed by the two prisoners. The female struck me in the face just as I got out of bed. The men used me very roughly to get me into the passage. They got me as far as the door post, and I then got back into my room to get on my trowsers. The two men then seized my wife and dragged her into the purge, and the woman tore her night dress from the top to the bottom before all the men, there being about eight or ten persons altogether in the prisoner's party. By Mr. Lewis—A young man lodging on the same floor saw it all. I heard several persons come in about twelve. By Mr. Tyrwhitt—They began the evening at half-past twelve. In SUBWIII to Mr. Lewis,  Davey said he had thrown no water on any of the persons, and gave them no provocation. Kra. Ann Davey, wile of the first witness, confirmed her husband, and said they called her husband a Peeler. The woman tore her nightdress off before all the men, and then *truck her in the face. The woman was drunk.  James Clark, a lodger in the house, confirmed the other witnesses, and said that, but for the interposition of the police, he believed murder would hove been committed. Jo answer to Mr. Lewis, The witness said the only thing Davey bad done was to ask the persons, who were making a great noise, to be quiet. Two witnesses were called for the defence. A third also got into the box, but was not examined, being drunk ; and the witnesses said there was water thrown on the prisoners, and that one of the prisoners' party, a female, was struck with setoff, but this was denied Mr. Tyrwhitt said he thought the witnesses for the prosecution more worthy of belief than those for the defence, as they were in bed, and sober, while the others were drinking and drunk. He did not believe that Davey struck any one. It was altogether a brutal thing for the prisoners to do, and the tearing the complainant's wife's clothes off before the men was atrocious. As there was a little doubt about the woman's conduct, whether it was her that pulled out Mrs. Davey or the men, he should discharge her, but the men would be fined 205., or 14 days each.
The Express. — 1862-01-23 (London, England)

MURDER AT DUMFRIES.  The Dumfries Courier of Tuesday contains an account of a supposed murder in the Valley of the Glenkins. It appears that the name of the murdered woman, who kept house for her two brothers (farmers), was Ann Hannah ; and the woman apprehended on the charge of murdering her is Mary Timany, the wife of • labourer on the roads. From the medical examination, it appears that no doubt'existe that the deceased died from violence. The Courier says "The amused is a woman of about 27 yet! G....1m black-haired, of active habits, and not nap in 'appearance. She is a Sootchwornan ; her bus is an Irishman. They have four children, the two eldest being daughters, of ten and seven years of age respectively. The deceased was a powerful, strongly-built woman, with whom, in a fair eroouuter, the other would have had no chaooe whatever. The house in which the accused and her husband resided belongs to the Hannahs, and it is believed that the occupants were about to receive notice to quit on Whitaunday, as the two women were often quarrelling. We believe the authorities are in premenirn of • considerable amount of evidence, showing that on repeated exasions the prisoner had threatened to take the life of the deceased. It has been alleged that the prisoner was jealous that her husband was too intimate with the deconied, but on what authority we have not ascertained. On one occasion when deceased refused to lend some tea to Mrs. Timany, the latter is said to have threatened that she would one day give her what she would of recover from for seven years ; and at another time, when speaking tea visitor of Ann Hannah, it is said that she used the word', 'lll dee for her yet ; 11l gang in and leave her a corpse some morning.' The visitor thereupon told her, `To nee her tongue and hands as she liked, but to take no weapon.' This last story is not quite credible, bat we gave it es we have heard it. One point that tells strongly against the accused is, that while she alleges that on the day of the murder she had not worn • tartan dries found stained with blood, and hidden away oa the loft of her house, it can be proved by at least two witnesses, not of her own family, that she was peen wearing that very dress on the morning of the 13th. The malice rities are actively engaged in the investigation of the, ease, both at Kirkcudbright and in the neighbourhood of the scene of the murder. We believe that on Friday night the chief constable proceeded to Edinburgh, and after coaxalnation with the crown agent and Sheriff Hector, placed in the hands of Dr. Douglas Hardman various of the productions showing stains of blood, with • view to their being ecientifleally examined and reported upon. The prisoner still resolutely denies the crime with which she is charged, and in the meantime her children are under the surveillanee of the police. While heiag conveyed to Kirkcudbright, the prisoner's principal anxiety appeared to be as to who should look after her pig. The funeral of the deceased took place on Saturday)," and was numerously and respectably attended. The body was interred in the church, yard of Daley."  °
The Express. — 1862-11-27 (London, England)

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 14, EvruNo. Money easier. Gold, S 2 premium. Exchange, Bankers' Bills, 146 i. Stocks improving ; New York Central, 1021 ; Illinois, 76 ; Erie, 611. Cotton very firm ; middling upland, 641. Breadstuffs heavy. Provisions quiet. Coffee advancing. Sugar very firm. Molasses steady.  have conveyed to the latter an erroneous impression of our force and intentions, for the Taepinge began to move about the country more freely, and burn down the hamlets as usual, plundering and murdering on all sides. They came to the town of Taze-hee, but were completely repulsed by the shells from the Confucius and the Hardy, and by Ward's Legion. On this occasion the Taepingz left 700 killed on the field and all their flags. Ward was viewing the fugitives through his glass when a bullet struck him in the stomach ; he was brought down in the Hardy, and died the following day in Dr. Parkes's Hospital. He retained his senses to the last, and made his will, leaving Sir James Hope and the Hon. Mr. Burlingame as his executors. - •  From the Yang-tare, the only news we notice is contained in the following paragraph from the North-China Herald : The difficulties attendant on the navigation of the Yangtam have been painfully exemplified during the past fortnight, in the first Instance by the total loss of the new steamship Kate, Messrs. Harkort and Co. It is reported that, whilst steaming up to Hankow, she took the ground near Plover Point ; when backing off • strong tide took the vessel on her broadside, she [ell over, filled with water, ' and went down. Five Chinamen (paassagers) are miming, but the captain and crew were picked up and brought to Shanghai by the Shantung. And in the second, by the stranding of the American steamship Hu-Qaang, on her second trip up the rivor, abeut2smilesfrom Hankow, on her upward voyago. Several attempts have been made by steamers on the river to haul her off, but, as yet, without success. The J. T. Wright arrived with the above information, but she br;ngs nothing new in the state of trade at Hankow. At Canton, three officers and 42 men of her Majesty's 99th and Royal Artillery are at present quartered at the heights ; their business in Canton is to drill Chinese troops for the protection of the city against the Taepings, who were lately found to have conspirators at work to produce disaffection and internal disorder in Canton, and so, probably, prepare it for easier capture. The Chinese troops are said to take kindly to their drill. It was mentioned some time ago that intelligence bad been received of the murder by the governor of the province of Kwei-chow (in the south-west of the empire) of two Roman catholic missionaries and some of their "converts ;" and we now learn that the Pekin Gazette contains an imperial edict, removing the governor, Tien-Ring-shoo, from his post. General arbitrariness of conduct is alleged, in this manifesto, against the official in question, in addition to his persecution of the Christians, as a reason for removing him, and directing tho superior boards to decide upon an appropriate punishment
The Express. — 1862-08-11 (London, England)

MURDER NEAR DURHAM.  A murder of a moat atrocious and horrible chancier was perpetrated at Nettlieworth, about four miles from the city of Durham, on Sunday morning. About two hundred yards from Nettlesworth colliery are two detached cottages, called Nettlesworth New Houses, in one of which lived a woman of the name of Halliday, about sixty years of sge, and in the other an Irish pitman, named Conon, and his wife. The cottages belonged to Mrs. Halliday's husband, from whom she had been separated twenty-two years, sad who keeps a public-house in the adjoining village. Mrs. Halliday was allowed to live in the cottage rent free, and her husband besides allowed her a sum of 3s. per week. Between) three and four o'clock on Sunday morning, Mn. Cocoa went to Halliday's publiehnuee, and said she had beard Mrs. Halliday crying out during the night, and she was afraid she must be very ill. Mr. Halliday's house keeper and some other penons then proceeded to the house, wheo they found Mn. Halliday lying on the floor, covered with blood and bruises, and Cocoa in the act of raising ber up in his arms. She was at that time •pp randy dead, but on being lifted on to the bed she suer` wards recovered her consciousness, and in sowers to yew Lions which were asked of her, she said she bad been I shamefully used by the Irish. She made a number at I gesticulations, bat her articulation failed her, and those who were attending upon her were unable to obtain anything more specific as to her knowledge of the persons who had oommitted the terrible outrage upon her. Between five and six o'clock the poor woman breathed her last. A coal•rke and • of tongs were found covered with blood, and the dseesed was cut in a most dreadful manner on the right temple. Other wounds were found upon her head, and her arms were fractured sod covered with a mane et bruises, as if she had done all she could to ward off the murderous attack. Strong circumstance of BUSPiCkoll nark upon Colon and his wife, who have both been apprehended, and are now in the county lock-up at Durham.—Lceis Mercury.  THE MIDDLE LEVEL,—An official report just drawn up respecting the recent destruction of the Middle Level outfall sluice states several fade of interest. The report observes that although inundations such as that which hes just taken place are of rare occurrence, yet they have been found to prove beneficial to the crops in suom=big years. The expenses incident to the disaster already paid and incurred are estimated at from 23,0001. to 25.0001., to meet which 20,0001. has been taken up by way of tenspo easy In reference to the further drainage of the level, Yr. wkshaw, C.E, having been requested to *amides the subject, has recommended that for the next 12 or 18 months, in addition to such drainer es can be obtained through Salter's lode elnioe,syphon pipes should be laid over the recently-coostructed colfer-dask and that nothing should be done as to the erection of • new sluice until the syphons have been fairly tried. The expense of 15 syphons, with sir-pumps,
The Express. — 1858-08-31 (London, England)

MALX6II- those left in charge of the Foreign-office are uncertain how much he might deem it expedient to impart to the public, and wait for his return? Aceneding to the Journal de St. Potersbourg, the Russian Ambassador concluded a special Treaty with China relating to the frontier of the Aisne, on the 28th of May, and • general Treaty on the 13th of Inns.l The American Ambassador subsequently concluded a general Treaty with China—the date not known. The French and English Treaties were signed some days later, between the 19th of June—on whioh day Baron Le Gitos wrote," The Treaties have all "been concluded, and partly signed"--and the 27th, the date of the Russian Ambassador's despatch. It seems pretty certain, therefore, that the whole of the Treaties have been sealed, signed, delivered, and await only the ratification of the respective Governments.  As he as we can collect from the very imperfect materials before us, the substance of these Treaties is nearly u follows :—By the Treaties with France and England, China has bound herself to pay oonsiderable indemnities to these Powers. The Chinese Government has, moreover, promised that the murderer of the French missionary shall be punished, and his punishment announced in the Gazette of Pekin ; but whether this has been made a Treaty stipulation does not appear. Russia has ob- ' tained from China, by the Treaty concluded on the 28th of May, a cession of all the territory between the Amur and the former boundary line of the two Empires. In other respects the Treaties which China has concluded with all the four Powen are identical. " Nearly the whole" of the Chinese Empire is thrown open to commerce. The laws against Christianity are to be abolished. Missionaries are t, be admitted " everywhere." " Diplomatic  " agents may reside toseporaray at Pekin:" A:Chinesa  Ambasiador is to be omit to Paris. Whether Lard ELG t bee deemed it necessary or expedient to etipalate for a similar miaaion to Loudon we have yet to learn.  This is the sum total of our knowledge; and it  Laves ample verge for uneasy questioning. "Diplo" matie agents may reside temporarily at Pekin.* In other words, the Chinese Oovernment has only conceded to the three Western Powers the privilege of occasionally sending a special Minister to Pekin; the privilege of maintaining a permanent Resident 1 Mission there—which boa long been enjoyed by  Russis—is still withheld. The Chinese Government, in fact, hays only conceded the abstract principle that Ambassadors may on certain occasions be sent to Pekin; the question whether on any special occasion it msy be necessary or expedient to send one, must in every case be made a matter of previous negotiation. In other word. the matter of direct communication with the Imperial Government—instead of with officials at the  outporte—stande apparently pretty nearly where it did. Again, "Missionaries are to be Admitted " everywhere." Bat will the Imperial Government have the power to protect them? In every province the local authorities and the predominant factions
The Express. — 1858-02-09 (London, England)

OUR READERS.  A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published on SATURDAY NEXT, in order to allow of a full report of the important debate expected to take place on the introduction into the House of Commons of the government measure relative to India, fixed for Friday evening.  Taus is a passage in the second clause of Lard Psummurrum's Conspiracy Bill, which throws an inadnotive light on the insidious character of the =samara. The Bill purports to be merely a Bill to swam= the penalty attached to the crime of ...'Bracy to commit murder. Yet in the second obese it is declared that any person " who shall " pervade, instigate, or solicit any other person '" • • • to commit murder" shall be guilty of felony. This is to extend the range of offences hitherto classed under the designation " con"'piracy." " Conspiracy" means a series of  acts in concert, perpetrated in order to bring about a certain end. There is in it a common understanding, a persevering effort to accomplish $ certain purpose, which is not necessarily implied in the mere act of a single individual who seeks to "persuade, instigate, or solicit" another to commit s certain offence. Conspiracy necessarily implies deeper and more deliberate malice than • mere isolated act of persuasion, instigation, or solicitation; it is, therefore, more criminal, and requires to be subjected to a heavier penalty. The second clause of Lord Po.uantrroto's Bill tamales two offences under the same designation that have not been hitherto regarded as identical by the law of England. It assigns the same pinishmeet to a minor as to • major offence. There is another objection to the clause upon which we are commenting—the vagueness of the words " persuade, instigate, or solicit." Any hasty and inconsiderate expression that occurs in an address to a public meeting, or in an article in a newspaper, may be interpreted to be an " instigation " to commit murder, and will consequently be a felony under this bill if allowed to become law. The prosecutor cannot be called upon to prove complicity in other respects between the speaker or writer and the assassin. This clangs therefore may hereafter be wrested from its apparent purpose and converted into an engine of attack upon free discussion in the press and at public meetings. That this insidious extension of the penal law in regard to political offences is intentional, not accidental, we are warranted to infer from the whole history of the bill. That measure is presented es an instalment of Law Reform—it is in reality as sot of obsequious sycophancy to a foreign despot. It is brought forward by a Cabinet whisk is truckling not only to the Emperor of the Plum but also—untitterable degradation —to the Sing of Mania. Bad though the Bill be in itself, it is worse in its accessaries. It is the thin end of the wedge : if allowed to be introduced, the thick sad will be driven home. The pupil and colleague of CASTLXIIAOH and SIDNOTITH is ions, ing to Mad us back inssesibly to the legislative 1 principles of the Biz Ads.  •••-•