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The Express. — 1857-08-01 (London, England)

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1857.  DISARMAMENT OF THE NATIVE SOLDIERS  IN AND NEAR CALCUTTA.  The following was published by government on the 14th of June:  " At an early hour this morning (Sunday) the govrennvent received intelligence from Major General Heaney, commanding the Presidency Division, that be had good reason to apprehend a rising of the native troops at Barrackpore, and had in consequence taken every precaution to prevent it which he could do with the means at his command, and bad sent for the 78th Highlanders from Chinsurah. " Orders were instantly jawed in pursuance of which a large European force was concentrated on Barrackpore, and the safety of Dam-Dum amply  "At 6 o'clock this afternoon the whole brigade at Rarrackpore were quietly and peaceably disarmed, simultaneoualy with the entire native force in Calcutta."  It is stated that the elms of the 70th Regiment at harrackpore have refused all food, en acutely do they feel the disgrace of having their arms taken from them. About 120 men from that stition went off at night on the 15th. It is to he hoped they will be watched, and prevented from plundering. When the sees regiments at Barraekpore were disarmed, their huts were also searched for arms, and a large number of tulwars taken away. The arms found in the huts were not, however, all tulwara : some of them were of the most murderous description, as for instance swords with serrated blades, two-handed swords, battle-axes, poniards, yataghans, and weapons of various other de-cripdons, far more worthy of being called instruments of torture than arms which a true soldier would wield.  The Bombay noes says : " The disarming of the troops at Calcutta, Harrackpore, and Mooltan was simply a meseare of prudence called for unquestlenably in the present emergency, and probably  hastened at the two former places by governmental intelligence which has not been made public. We simply know that the ex-King of Oude is implicated in the basilica, and has been arrested by the government, and all his retainers, some 700 or 800 men, disarmed. A fakir who wan sentenced to be hung in Calcutta for tampering with the troops, is said to have made the revelations which have led to this important conviction." With a view of tranquillising the public mind we (say. a Calcutta paper) beg to state that there is a sufficient military force at hand to suppress any attempt at a rise by either the Ilihomedan or ilindoo I inhabitants, or both. There is the 63rd Foot in Fort William, of 000 men strung ; a wing of the 37th Foot encamped on the glans, 500 in number. A company of the 3rd battalion Madras Artillery, and No. 2 Horse Field Battery, together with 40 men of the Royal Artillery recently arrived from Ceylon, and our Volunteer Guard, consisting of four troops of cavalry and five companies of infantry ; a wing of the 35th Foot, about 330 men, guard the disarmed Barrackporeans, and the 78th Highlanders are at Chinaurah, ready for any duty.
The Express. — 1854-01-06 (London, England)

POISONING IN BERMONDSEY.  Yesterday morning, Mr. W. Carter and a highly respectable jury re-assembled, for the third time, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Bermondsey, to investigate the extraordinary circumstances connected with the death of James George *Pump, aged six years, the son of James Trump, a plasterer, residing at No. 9, Princes-road. It will no doubt be recollected that on the 21st of De cember last the deceased child died, after partaking of • paste prepared by its mother, in some bashed mutton, and that the whole family were afterwards seized with very violent sickness, and from several suspicious circumstances the inquiry was twice adjourned fir the purpose of an analysis of the stomach being made. It may be as well to state that an infant, aged It months, did not partake of any of the paste, and was not taken ill. Yesterday it was proved by a medical gentleman, that the stomach of the deceased contained arsenic. The same poison was also found on the remains of a pudding, of which the deceased had partaken. It also appeared by the. same evidence that both father and mother had partaken of the poison. The Coroner, in summing up, acid—Since I have been in office, I have never had such a case before me. There is no doubt that a great wrong has been committed, but where to attach the criminality lamat a loss to xey. Yon, gentlemen, must consider where the suspicion lays. The father buys the flour, and the dumpling is made by the mother. The flour has no doubt been tampered with by some person. The mystery is not the death of the deceased, bat the fact of the mother being taken ill, and arsenic bong discovered into their vomit.  By order of the Coroner, the court was cleared of all es("opt the jury, and, after about an hour's consultation, the public were re-admitted, and the mother and lather were Called into the room. The Coroner, addressing the father and mother, said—lt has been found by the jury that your son Las died from poison, but by whom administered there is no evidence to prove; but I hope that it will not be long before the matter is brought to light, for whoever has administered it has been guilty of a moat heinous murder. From the evidence there is no charge against either of you ; but I can only repeat that the We is fraught with the grea'est suspicion, and that a most foul wrong bas been done. The jury hue also requested ma to read their verdict to you, and it is thit—.. That the deceased child died from poison, alt being found in the food of which he partook ; but we have no satisfactory proof how it became mixed therewith.” At the conclusion of the inquiry the Coroner said he hoped the police would not lose sight of the ease, but endeavour to bring to justice those who had committed so foul a mime.
The Express. — 1861-01-04 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER.  On Christmas-day morning Samuel White, the horsekeeper to Mr. (heave% of the Rutland Arms Inn, Bakewell, on going to his stable found a female dead in one of the stalls, six horses being in the place. She could not have been frozen to death there, though the night was severe. Information was given to the police and a surgeon called in by Superintendent Rust. Thi; body was removed to the union, and the coroner sent for. A strict investigation will take place, as no doubt remain, but that this female has been violated and died from foul wane. •Two navvies have been detained at the Bakewell lock-up, and seine has been obtained which it is hoped will bring this painful case to light. Great sensation has been reused in the town through this sad affair, many persons thinking this female bad been brutally used and murdered. An inquest was held on Thursday, before Mr. W. Bennett, the coroner for the High Pratt, wises some strange revelations were made, inioatin five or six men living in Bakewell in a very serious &arge. The evidence against them being very meagre, the inquest was adjourned, in order to give time fur the FlOllOB to thoroughly investigate thecae.. From the medical evidence of Mr. Walters, surgeon, who had made sport saortem examinational tke body, Superintendent Rust as to the state he found the body, and other collateral evidence, no doubt remains as to the utiility shown to this poor creature. Acting Sergeant Holmes proved her name as to him when she applied for a vagrant relief ticket, as Vary Ann Wilson, lately coming from Chesterfield, but of the Potteries, being a married woman, seeking her husband, working in the lime-kilns at Longstone or Buxton. On Friday • special meeting of the magistrates W3ll held at the Town-hall, by Mr. R. W. IL Nesfield and Mr. William All. card, when Superintendent Rust laid before them a state. ment of the case and the attendance of Mr.Walten, surgeon, proving beyond doubt the violence, and an information was laid against some suspected persons who could be shown to have been at and near this stable, and the persons, together with one remanded, have been in the custody of Superin. tendent Rust, and are now awaiting further examination. The case will be thoroughly sifted by the coroner's jury and the magistiatee—there being strong presumptive endeuce against the men in custody. At present the names of these men remanded are withheld, five of them are Bakewell persons, one being • navvy. —Notti agham Journal.  Two melancholy incidents which haw taken place in the neighbourhood are recorded in the columns of the Mniu•Aester Examiner of this morning. The one of a poor travelling fiddler, who was found frozen to death on a haystack, in Stockport-road ; and the other of a person belonging to Newton Moor who was found deed on the railway, near Gorton. The poor fellow last•named had been knocked down by a railway train. His legs were severed from his body, and the &oddest appeuis to have been discovered the morning after it happened.
The Express. — 1861-10-07 (London, England)

TRAORDY.-The last sad tribute of these met asteady sale at last k ri wee_'s p_cee, but other kind; ft-Baromerer corrected and reduced to fie deg. at mean sea I set • very pasenisiag one, and little interest weill aitach to I door let into the larger door of the cell, through which pet. bad been not I - 'nee one of the Woken of Newigato. respect to the memory of the victim was paid on Friday, in were hardly '"' dear i malting, Ma to 40• Per (Po i ilriedinfli level : each 10 feet, of vertical rile, musing about onenunilredth and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., cawing the sport, except on account of (Oilier Ou being likely to sown are supplied with food, km Pissiog his arm through T ' t was kno mg siSpee Tb idler& Adams the of • large concourse of people-a commune so 2lls• to 30e. Per 30 stases The iogluiry for oats was steady, of an inch diminution ' wn as L emu ult nearly three.hundeedtha Increase. E.-Expeeed thermometer perform es two or tkree egisteets, the Caleduaidi Cup, two he milled the catch of the larger door off the staple (the wee not known to have any alias. Osborne was one Jambs. great that it appeared as though the excitement connected and the show beiug tolerably good prima were without any In shade. 11.-Molstened bulb (for evaporation and dew levees's Plates, aad the Whip (whkh have yet to be mitered door not being kicked), and got into the yanL A couple of aliu Roberta. Evans had two aliases, viz , Griffin mad withthe murder had temporarily left the locale of the crime important change ; the best samples made 245. to 26e. ; iu- point). D.-Dlrection of sind (true-two points kit of magferl• Meagretty eegtalo te tillapt her : alla iii• has also the km'', ""^d e°dl"44' enabled him 4° teach a water-41mi' Clara the latter being the eof the voUng wo be in order to visit Dudley. The family ot the unfortunate tenor irreguler in value. Good Mans were mime* sad petit* F.-Force Ato 12-estimated). C.-Cloud (1 to S. 1.leileUle lep alma* et lesr merey.-1 am, ke. sad so gain the roof. He has not yet been captured. It ila miaowed • - • this with. Sometimes manpassed by the mime of deceased have • vault at St. Thomas's, the pariah church of brought extreme rates, 4ele. ; inferior were in slow roped Initials : li, blue sky :c. clouds (detached): e fog :h, hail ,I. MCTEOL senuased he would endeavour t° get •P°o • veseel as audius. Dudley, and, therefore, it was naturally determined Minter at 43e. to 46a. per qr. Fine dour, 425. to 445. ; seconds, lightning; m. misty (buy) :o. overcast (daU) :r, rain ;5, allow ; ' the river, and make bits way to Goole or Hull.-Leedit Ar 375. r sack. The principals of numerous loan meiotic,. Were prexent at him with hie relations. The funeral notorious, which in- Mat to 40s. : WI-. Pet, thunder. IL-Beadlstarbanes (1 to 9). Z. PR; IC RAM M E OF BKDFORD RACE& Merrere. . this esaminatioo, and moat ef the prisoners were recognised eluded simply a house aud two mourning coaches, started Nincsontt-titmo.Troo,
The Express. — 1861-04-17 (London, England)

CHILD BY TWO  BOYS.  A child two-and-a-half years old, named George Burgess, whose parents reside in Sageleystreet, Higher Hillgate, Stockport, has been murdered by ruff°. cation in a brook of running water, by two boys, one named Peter Barrett, aged eight, and the other of the name of Jaimeßradley, about the same age, residing in Middle Hillgate. It appeared the deceased was playing on some vacant land near its own house, early in the afternoon, when the two boys, without any previous acquaintance, took it awav with them about half a mile, towards the suburbs of the boiough, to a place called Hampshaw-lane, and thence into a footway to a brook of water at a secluded part of some fields behind the barracks. They were seen to drag the child along the place naked, but the circumstances did not attract more than a passing notice. One of the boys got a thorn out of the hedge and beat the poor little fellow on the boot and legs in a merciless manner, until they got to the water, where, having deposited the clothes hither up the stream, they absolutely forced him into the brook heed foremost, and beat him about the head and body until he was dead, and left the body there. The next day (Friday) at noon, the body was discovered, but there wan no evidence forthcoming to show how or by what means it came there. Two boys had been seen with the deceased in the neighbourhood on the afternoon, but the deed could not then be fixed upon any particular individual. A coroner's lamest was held on Saturday, and, after receiving some preliminary evidence, it stood adjourned till yesterday evening (Tuesday). In the meantime the two boys, Barrett and Bradley were apprehended. The coroner's jury re. assembled at the White Horse, Harnpshaw, last evening. Police-countable Morley mid be went to the house of the prisoner Bradley, in company with &wrath, on Saturday evening, and charged them, in the presence of BroMey's father, with being in company with a little boy, in Hampshaw.lene. on Thursday. and they mid they were. Bradley then said, in answer to the question where they went to, "That they went on dowo Lovelane till they got to a hole with somehmter in ; that they both undressed the child, that Peter pushed it into the water, and then they commenced beating it on the back and head until it was dead ; and they did not leave it until it was dead." No threats or promisee Were made to induce either of them to confess to the crime ; and on comparing the clogs of Bradley and the shoes of Barrett with marks in the soil, near the brook, they exactly corresponded. The evidence of the surgeon (Mr. Nosey) was to the effect that the wound at top of the head bad produced congestion of the brain, aol consequent insensibility. The immediate cause of death was of course "death from suffocation" by immersion in the water. Neither the parents nor the pnewers, who appeared very indifferent to their awful sitestion, asked the witnesses any questions. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder' against Peter &matt and James Bradley, and they were committed for trial at the next Chesiro assizes.
The Express. — 1861-04-22 (London, England)

VISITATION OF THE ABOHDE/..09N8Y OF MD DLESEL—(THIS DAY.) -This morning the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, LA., Archdeaoon of Middlesex, commenced the visitation of that portion of the diocese of Loudon. The clergy and churchwardens were cited to appear at St. Paul's Church, Covent.garden and there was • very large assembly. The ordinary business with the churchwardens having been disposed of service was performed in the church, prayers being read by the Rev. Henry Hutton, A. of %Ahem College, Oxford, rector of the parish. The Archdeacon having taken hi, seat within the rails of the communion table proceeded to the delivery of his charge, of which • condemnation of the " Essays and Reviews" formed the chief part.  Mr. Francis Cavendish, of the Foreign-office, son of General the Hon. Henry Cavendish, who met with such a severe accident on Tuesday last, is recovering. The improvement, though slow, is satisfactory, considering the serious nature of the injuries he sustained.  A letter fromYokuhama, Japan, after describing the murder at Yeddo of the secretary of the American minister, says :—" After this murder, after the repeated 'warnings of danger given to the ministers by the Japanese government, and after the most convincing proofs of the utter inadequacy of the means adopted for our security, the foreign ministers, with the exception of the one who ought to have been, or rather was most concerned in the matter, the American, determined to leave Yeddo, sea to reside at Yokohama (near Kanagawa), until matters could be saustactonly settled. Her Majesty's ship Encounter brought us down to this place, about 18 miles from Yeddo, on Saturday, the 26th of January, and we have taken up our quarten at what was formerly the Yokohama Hotel, but now her Britannic Majesty's Legation. A guard of a dozen marines has been pLused es the premises. We are thus, thank Heaven, rid of those Yakeuins, who are not of the slightest use in case of emergency. They do remarkably well for clearing the road of little urchins and old women, but in no single instance have they defended a foreigner when assaulted ; to may that they are cowards is to use too mild an expres. sion. The French Chargé d'Affaires came down with us. The Dutch Consul.Geoeral left several days before us in a  Dutch war brig. The American Minister remained at Yeddo, Imagining that, by his conduct, he will impress upon us his own belief that the murder of his secretary was an accident."  Mr. West, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed attorney-general for the Duchy of Lancaster. A meeting, very numerously attended, was held at Willie's Rooms on Saturday, for the purpose of bearing an address from the Rev. Mr. Mooyratt on the subject of Ceylon, and for assisting in rising the funds necessary for the construction of a church at Point de Galls. The Bishop of Oxford presided, and there were present Lord Lyttelton, Bishop Jackson, of Colombo, the Rev. Daniel Moore, and several ether clergymen.
The Express. — 1861-10-01 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY AITZIIPT TO SHOOT A MAN ON THE CLVDN.—About half•past eleven o'clock oc Saturday forenoon, the smack Janet, of Furnace, was proceeding up the river, having her small boat in tow, and when nearly opi mite Duuglees Castle, a small boat, in which were two men, ran foul of the smack's boat, which one of the men clung to, for what purpose is unknown, but he thereby nearly capsired he' own boot; to prevent which the master of the smack, named Neil Henry, belonging to Dunoon, threw a small piece of coal as the man to induce him to let go, which he ultimately did, and immediately after the second man (Stewart) presented a double-barrelled fowling-piece at the person of Henry, and fired the two barrels deliberately in succession, one of the pellets (No. 4 shot) wounding Henry on the left ear, and the body of both shots riddling the &LI of the smack clone to the persons of Henry sod his assistant. The assailanta then proceeded down the water, while Heury in the meantime landed at Bowling, and proceeded per train to DumVarton, and lodged information with the county police. Superintendent Dunbar, haying despatched two constables to reconnoitre on the north side of the river, readily obtained the assistance of Sergeant Gordon of the burgh police, and went out in a boat towards the mouth of the Leven, where they descried the men and boat wanted. On seeing the officers they ran their boat into shallow water; the officers of course followed, but their boat grounded when within forty yards of the men. Dunbar and Gordon, however, leapt into the water and secured the two parties, notwithstanding the threatening attitude assumed by one of them armed us lie was. The man who fired the gun at Henry in this murderous manner is named John Stewart, a shipwright by trade, 46 years of age, married. and ban a family of ails children. His companion in named Henry Morrison, an engineer by trade, 27 years of age, and married. They both reside in Govan, and were both under the influence of drink when apprehended. They will be brought before the Sheriff of Dumbarton for examination. They had a quantity of whisky in their boat, and they state that they were out for the purpose of shoot. ing sea-fowl.—Nerth British Mail. DR. DE JONCiet4 LIGHT DROWN Coo LITER (his —ITS ETYMA,' IN serton:LA.—All who have prescribed this oil have unanimously acknowledged its virtues In every form of scrofula, and bestowed upon It the highest praise. which has secured it the first place amongst antiscrofuloms remedies. The celebrated pit) .leinn Drefeld says, "There Is no remedy which at all apprnahon its therapeutic properties in scrofulous disease. It adonis relief a here. to all appearance, the disorder was beyond the reach of medicine." Dr. de Jonah's Light Drown Cod Liver Oil la cold only In clpanled Imperial half.pints, W. ed. pints. ; imuarts, us, by his sole consignees. Amiss, Sarford. and Co.. 77. strand, London: and by respectable chemista.—{Advertiesessai. I
The Express. — 1861-04-01 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY MURDER OF TWO  CRILDAZIN.  SUDBURY, Santßoar. A painful sensation has been created in Suffolk by the murder of two children by their mother, at Edwardstone, near Sudbury. The name of the wretched murderess, is Harriet Salmon, and she is the wife of a coal carter residing in the village. The victims are Elisabeth Salmon, a child of five years, and Susannah Humphrey. an illegitimate child of the woman's, three years older. The children were taken by her, together with an infant, a distance of half a mile, to a thick wood where there is a large pond 10 feet or 12 feet deep • and here the two eldcst appear to have been forcibly held under water until they were drowned. The infant was destined for the same fate, but souse boughs stretching into the water below it. little supported it, sad it was not sufficiently submergedr to have its existence terminated. The woman herself then walked into the water up to her peek, and taking the children out laid them on their faces on the grass by the side of the pond. She afterwards walked hems and told a neighbour that her three children were drowned, but that she believed one was still alive. At first it was supposed that the children had met their deaths accidentally ; but the woman herself subsequently made the following statement to thegliee constable who was called .' I took the little (the youngest and surviving child) and threw her into t e pond, but she could not sink because she hung on the boughs ; and as soon as I had done that I saw the two other little dears in the pond, and I rushed in after them. As soon as I had got into the pond the cold water struck me, and I came to my senses and iged the two children now lyin dead out. The little one I took out last. When I got it out I saw it ,breathe." She also said she did not know which way she went to the pond, or which way she came home, adding :—" If I did do it, I don't know &aything about it." It will be seen from this that the poor creature's language and demeanour is incoherent, and she has boon, it seems, in a high state of nervous excitement for the last six months, imagining herself, without any adoquote reason, to be labouring under various diseases. The youngest of the two dead children bed a contusion on the forehead, and the arms appeared to have been squeezed • there were no contusions on the other one, but similar mark, were observable on the arms as if they had bees premed or sipped. The Irate doted above have been hives' tigated by Mr. G. A. Partridge, the local coroner, and a verdict of "-Wilful murder" has been returned spinet the woman. A warrant for her committal to the county gaol at Ipswich has been made out, and she now await/ her trial at the Suffolk summer arises.