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The Express. — 1868-05-23 (London, England)

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.  (134 fore the Assiattuat-Judge.)  Mr. Sleigh addressed his lonlahip, and mid AM Wednesday n,•zt was the Derby-day, and a national institution, he presumed the court would not sit on that day. The Assistant-Judge said the court would not sit on that day.  Elizal,rth Fit:aerald. a fine looking women, was placed at tie bar to receive the judgment of the court, under eireurnstanees detailed in our Mansion-house police report of yesterday. . . .  Mr. Pi;yne said his lordship would recollect that this prisoner was brought before him two years ago, when she entered into her own recognisance' to come up for judgmi nt if o died upon,•sed nothing had been heard of her until a sh irt time ago, when some letters were received by the prosecutor, one of which it could be proved was in the prisoner couched in bad language and with filthy illustrations. These letters had fortunately not been opened by any one but the prosecutor himself, but on the 14th of this month it appeared that the prisoner laid in wait for the prosecutor, and when Lear the Mansion-house she walked behind him and shuck him with a stick avi dent blow on the head, which caused a deep and incised wound. She was immediately taken into custody, and put at theisar before the Lord Mayor, by whom she was referred to his lordship to deal with her. He (Mr. Payne) had therefore to sok the judgment of the court fur broken recognizances. The prosecutor was obliged to take that course as the prisoner bad threatened to murder him and wash her bends in his blood. Fur his psrao-,1 safety he came to the coutt to ask its protection lc: toe fixture.  The Assistant-Judge (to the pri.oner)—l took a great deal of troublo when these proceedings were before me, and you promised to Abstain from going to this gentleman's house, breaking his windows, and doing other damage. You promised me then that if I allowed you to go out on your own recogniztuices you would never annoy him again. I want to know what you have to say with respect to committing this assault upon him. The prisoner—I was not insensible of your lordship's kindness, and I was willing to keep quiet and not go near to him, but he would not let me alone. He used to come up to me and smile in my face, and I then scarcely knew what I was doing, although Mr. Lewis, my solicitor, has written to him asking him not to molest me. In July last a quantity of vitriol was thrown over my dress; and he is' constantly annoying me. The Assistant-Judge said if she could find bail in respect. able householders he would release her. He could not again liberate her on her own recogniumoe. The prisoner asked if any one could go and get bail for h.r!  Gordon, in officer, who was in court, said he had known the prisoner some time, when she lived in Gerrard-street.  The .I.‘istautJudge ordered him to make inquiries about her, and she was ordered to be brought up again on Tues. day next.
The Express. — 1868-06-24 (London, England)

MURDER IN DORSETSIIIRE.—Yesterday a young men, a seaman, named George Ivaray, of Poole, was committed by a coroner's jury to take his trial at the next Dorchester Assizes for the wilful murder of Anne Hancock, aged about 16. The fads of the case, as already elicited, are of a somewhat singular character. It appeared that the girl, who earns a living by going out as a charwoman, was keeping company with the prisoner, and, from the evidence given, there can be no doubt that he was jealous of her. Early on Sunday morning last they were icon together, and a man named Sandy stated that about one o'clock he saw loamy with a young woman, who undoubtedly was the deceased, walking across the Quay. They were then talking roughly to one another, end Ivamy said, "Row is it that you do not hide at home." hhe made no reply, and he said, "I have been watching your manoeuvres. I will have nothing more to do with you. You had better go with that bloke where you have been before." The deceased ran away, and the prisoner followed her and seized her. Sandy tin n bays lie walked away and saw nothing more either of prisoner or the deceased. Previously to this it also appears that the prisoner had a quarrel at his mother's house in the Strand, he apparently having been ehi.t out, and the deceased then went struggle to him and pulled him away, upon which a took place between them. About two o'clock on Sunday morning Mrs,. Cuiue, the wife of a pilot, wee awoke by hearing loud ecreame and a splashing of water. She opened the window and looked out, when she still heard the streams, mingled with what she believed to be the voice of a man. Almost immediately afterwards, aiul whilst partially dressing herself, she again looked out of the window. and saw a man whom she could not identify walking very_ quickly from the direction whence the cries proceeded. Mrs. Caine called repeatedly to him, and she was certain he heard her, but he took no notice, and did not stop for an instzut. An alarm having been given, the body was dragged for and found. There were several minks of violence upon it, and it was the opinion of the medical man that demeacd had been submerged during life. The prisoner on being charged persisted that he was at hrme and asleep at half-past twelve o'clock, a statement which was quite contradicted by the evidence. The inquiry before the coroner wits opened on Monday and adjoerned till yesdrenlay, when atter hawing the medical and other evidence. the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful nittnler" against the prisoner. He was taken before the magistrates and 'enameled till to-day. The Tea Duty being rellitcod, Horniman's Pure Tea I. eskl 541. per pound chen.pne. This interesting fleet will, when fully known, awe further immense the demead tor these °hobs kale approved teen They are not gold loom, tog gulp in peckage, mimed "Heaskasai loa." --(Advertisement)
The Express. — 1867-12-27 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Aft extraordinary attempt at murder was made at an old ruin called Red Abbey, near Cork, on Monday night. The abbey and adjoining property is in the care of an old man named Butler who lives at the ruin. A young woman, named Hannah Hurley, a domestic "help," and William Butler, his grandson, 16 years of age, resided with the old man. The girl was in the habit for some time past of giving a few pence per week to the grandson to put in the bank. She had handed him 95. in all, and recently she discovered that he had kept back N. of that amount. Her accusations and threats of disclosure seem to have determined him to fget rid of her by murder, and he went about his work in a singularly determined and premeditated manner. He bad access to the key of the ruin, and up in a part where time has formed a sort of soil he dug a grave about six feet in length by one foot in depth and width. He then waited for an opportunity to entrap the girl, and on her continuing to accuse him he on Monday evening anDonned to her that he had the money buried in the abbey, and if she ascended with him she could get it. She assented to this, and about 5 o'clock they entered the building, Butler carrying a candle to show the way. On arriving at the place he led her over to the spot where the grave was dug, and at his bidding she went into it to take up, as he said, the box that was there containing her money. Scarcely had her feet touched the bottom of the grave than he dealt her a blow of a small hatchet he had concealed about him. It took effect on the right shoulder, and he followed it up by two or three cuts at her head. The candle went out on the instant, and the girl screamed for mercy, at the same time succeeding in getting • hold of the hatchet. He struggled violently to wrest it from her, but she succeeded in retaining • hold of it, still imploring him to spare her life, said he promised to do so if she would never tell what hadoccurred. She made the promise, and under these conditions they left the spot, groping their way to the staircase. As she descended blood came in streams from her wounds, and she was in momentary dread that be would throw her bead foremost down. However, he attempted no further violence, and when they got down she ran into a house covered with blood, and was at once carried off to the South Infirmary, where her wounds wore dressed. Butler made off, and up to a late hour on Tues. day night was not heard of. The girl is wounded on the back of the neck and shoulders, and had the hatchet not been an old blunt one, she would probably now be a corpse, and buried in the grave prepared for her. She is rapidly improving.
The Express. — 1867-07-29 (London, England)

ADDITIONAL]  FRANCE.  (111,011 OCR OWN  PARIS. SATURDAY EVIZINO.,  The Grand Duke Constantine arrived in Paris I this morning from Stuttgart. The King of Portugal, accompanied by Prince Poniatowski, paid a visit to Rossini yesterday. Prince Amadeus, the Queen of Portugal's brother, left Paris yesterday. Prince Auguste de Broglie died at his residence in Normandy a few days ago. A gas explosion, attended by disastrous consequences, occurred yesterday evening at the Card ' Garen, at the corner of the Passage Joufhroy, on' the Boulevard Montmartre. A warning detonation, not louder than a pistol-shot, alarmed the numerous habitudis of the add at about 9 o'clock. The gaslitter of the district was sent far, and he, accompanied by a secretary of a police commissioner, made a minute inspection without discovering anything dangerous. He was going away, when two violent explosions occurred, which shook several houses in the passage like an earthquake, dames a great deal of property, and wounded eight persons, including the gas-fitter and the police secretary, who were about to report the cafii in a safe state. This is the fourth gas explosion which has occurred in the P Jouffroy. The, last, a very serious one, was in 1 . The " instruction" on the mysterious Floutaine-• bleau murder, which has fasted an sinusuelly long time, is now concluded. The accused, Madame Fregarci, is committed to take her trial before the assize court of the Seine and Marne. M. Lachaud is retained for the defence. The hearing is fixed for August 10. M. Dubarle, of the Imperial Court of Paris, will be the presiding judge. An unreportable case of an offence against public decency, in which a priest named Abbd Daniel, vicar of Saint-Pere-en-Retz, and a girl of previous good character and respectable family, who kept the licensed tobacco shop of the commune, wore concerned, was tried by the correctional: tribunal of Paimbceuf on July 25. The corpus delicti occurred on board a ferry-boat on the Loire, between Lunges and Painib(euf. The priest, who after being arrested was released on bail, continued to say mass in his church, and he was authorised to go to Nantes to consult a medical man about a disease in his eyes, on giving his word of honour that he would surrender to take his trial. He was, however, advised to abscond, and took the advice. The trial as to him took place "by default," and he was sentenced to two yeage imprisonment. The girl, an interesting young person, obtained " extenuating circumstances," and got off with one month. The Assize Court of the Cotes-du-Nord has convicted the late director of the Comptoir d'Escompte (who has absconded) of fraudulent bankruptcy, and sentenced him to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour. His clerk, also tried by default, is sentenced to ten years of the like punishment. At the Bourse the rise of yesterday was more than obliterated. There was more uneasiness than ever about foreign affairs. Rents fell 90c., both for cash and account, closing at 88.85 and 68.62. Italian fell 40c., closing at 48.75. Mobilier fell 10( ; Credit Foncier, ;and Comptoir d'Escompte, 7.50.
The Express. — 1867-09-16 (London, England)

KELSO-MONDAY.  ARRIVALS.—Lord 'listings. Treasure Trove, Stella, Gleaner, Polecat, Guloam, Fairwind, Mandrake, Tyned ile, Minter Bell, Knight of Donne, Limber Magna, lone, Minnie Warren, Challenge, Lady Bird, Duloet, Staghound, Bandmaster, Epigram, Rob Roy, New Guinea, Aurora Leigh, Lord of the Isles colt, Honey, Vanguard, John Davis, Redcap, Miss Havelock, Black Prince, Cuckoo, Pride of Erin, The Avenger, Jungle Queen, Belerophon. Others expected, and most of the hunters are trained in the neighbourhood.  with violently assaulting Jane Brady, who appeared in court with some contusions on her face and arms. _  The prisoner has adopted an English name. He is well known to the police ; keeps a questionable coffee-shop and lodging-hours 81, Ratcliff-highway ; sell spirits on Sundays while the licensed houses are closed, and has been engaged in other illegal transactions. Among the unfortunates attached to his house is the complainant, over whom he hail exercised great tyranny, and would not allow her to retain her inunoral earnings. He took Ca. from her, went outand spent the money, and returned to his infamous den intoxicated. He asked the complainant whj, she did not scrub his room and clean his place. She said it was no business of his, on which he abused her, struck her with • bottle, and after knocking her down kicked her about the body and jumped on the side of her face. An English sailor named Robert Russell, staying in the house with another female, named Ellen Kemp, said that treatment to a woman was neither fair nor manly, pulled the prisoner away from her, and compelled him to desist. The prisoner took up another bottle, struck the woman on the shoulder with it, and broke the bottle. Some of the glass fragments struck Ellen Kemp's arm, and cause it to bleed profusely. The prisoner then threw the complainant Brady on the floor, and re-commenced kicking and beating the wretched woman a second time. The woman screamed " Murder" and " Help." Russell again interfered, and after a general fight in the house among foreigners and English, in which the former got the worst of it, the prisoner was given into custody. Mr. Joseph Smith (solicitor), who defended the prisoner, said he was instructed that the complainant began the affray by striking the prisoner and abusing him. He called two witnesses, who did not materially alter the complexion of the case. Mr. Paget said the prisoner was not content to live upon the earnings of the wretched outcasts in his house, but he must beat them. A more detestable creature than • fellow who got his living in such a disreputable manner could not be conceived. The prisoner narrowly escaped being convicted of committing an .i,ggravated assault, and he would in that case have sentenced him to six months' bard labour. He was not satisfied quite that an aggravated assault had been committed, but a very brutal and dastardly one had been, for which be sentenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. He was sorry the law did not give him more power to punish the prisoner.
The Express. — 1867-08-23 (London, England)

ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 22. APPOINTMENTS. Paymaster—C. S. Hill, to the Barnicouta. Assistant Paymaster—F. Pittman, to the Cumberland. Clerk—J. Barnes, to the Formidable. Naval Cadet (nominated}—F. Hilton, to the Molesworth. Engineers—G. F. Williams, W. J. Warren, and S. Lawton, to the Zealous. The Western Morning Netes learns on good authority that the government have decided that the mils from the West Indies conveyed by the Royal Mail Steam Company's vessels shall be landed at Plymouth on the return of the packet which will leave Southampton on the 2nd of September, and will be due on the 14th October next. The packets will moor in Jenny Cliff Bay, where =7=are laid down, and in the Admiralty ground re is sufficient room to admit of it.  A meeting, called at the instance of the Stourbridge Freedmen's Aid Society, was held on Tuesday evening at Parkfield House, the residence of Mr. Wm. Akroyd. The chief object of the meeting was to receive and hear the statements of Win. Forster Mitchell, lately from Tennessee. It is expected that the anniversary meeting of the National Freedmen's Aid Union and of the Birmingham and Midland Association will be held in Birmingham, on October It, when Mr. Lloyd Garrison, the apostle of American abolition, and other gentlemen, have agreed to attend.  —Dr. Lankester, the coroner, at a recent inquest, said he had long been trying to find out how much working men drink in a day, but he had never been able to ascertain. He had once asked the landlord of a public-house frequented by nitwit@ how much a man had drunk in a day, and his answer was he did not know—he had only served him with fifteen quarts of ale in a day. The next day the man was dead. Working men could stand more than others, because they worked it off. Harries could stand moat of all.  At a Sheriff, Court, at Chester on Wednesdayk Captain Charles Talbot, late of Aston Park, Preston Brooi near Frodaham, was demanded under a writ of alicia ezigi facia:, at the suit of Charles Lindley Page and Frederick Fletcher Lofts, iasued out of the Court of Exchequer, and as he did not answer, juigment of outlawry was pronounced against him. Tile Co:oiler Bairrzw.—A petition praying for the reprieve of the Woolverton murderer was presented to the Right $Oll. G. Hardy on Wednesday. The Governor of Taunton gaol, Mr. Oakley, has also come to London, having, it is said, had an important communication made him by Britten, tending to glee weight to the paragraph in the petition, which states, " Immediately before the crime was committed circumsturces occurred which were calculated to arouse the jealous (although probably unjust) suspicions of the prisoner." It is reported that Britten now admits that be saw a man leave his house as he entered on the evening of the murder, and that while he was remonstrating with his wife the same manpassed down the road, whereupon some kind of signs], passed between the man and Mrs. Britten. This maddened Britten so much that he seised something heavy off the mantel-shelf—another report says the clock weight—and struck the deceased repeatedly,
The Express. — 1867-05-13 (London, England)

MANSLAUGHTER BY A SOLDIER.--On Saturday morning Peter Byrne, a private soldier in the )rd battalion of the 60th RifillS, who has been 11 years in the regiment, and who bears two good conduct stripes on hie arm, was brought up at the Guildhall, Winchester, before the mayor (Hr. W. Fielder) and a full bench of magistrates, charged with the wilful murder of William Brown, of the same battalion (who had only joined on the first day of the present month), on Thursday night, in the barracks at Winchester. The prisoner is a line-looking man, and has an open, intelligent countenance. The first witness called was William Colley, who deposed that be is a private soldier in Winchester barracks, and at about live minutes to 10 on Thursday night was in bed in Nu. ll I room. There were four other soldiers there besides the deceased. The deosased wan sitting on witness's hed-cut, when the prisoner came i oto the room and asked th e deceased if he could fight, to which be replied " No." The prisoner then locked the room door, and after taking off his belt and jacket went back to the cot to the demised, and asked if he could fight, when the deceased again replied " No," and added, " You ha better be quiet, or I will tell the colour-sergeant." The prisoner then struck the deceased I with hie fist under or on the left ear, and knocked him down upon witness. The blow was a violent one. The prisoner then turned off the pa. Witness lifted up the deceased, who said "I am dying." Sergeant Marshall then came to the door, and it was opened to him, and the prisoner was reported. The deceased was taken to the guard-room, and thence to the military hospital. Witness saw the deceased at 11 o'clock the same night, when he was dead. He had not heard of any quarrel between the deceased and the prisoner. The prisoner did not appear to be drunk. Privates T. Cause and Henry Jones corroborated this witness. Sergeant Marshall deposed that at about five minutes put 10 o'clock on Thursday night he knocked at the door of No. 11 l room, and was admitted, when his attention was called to the d-ceased by the witness Jones. He was lying on the floor between two cots. Witness took him to be drunk, and ordered him to be taken to the guard-room, where he was put in • celL Soon afterwards in the guard-rnom witness was told that the deceased had been struck, and one of the guard said he was dead. Witness then felt him by the aide of the neck, where it had been said he had been struck. The sergeant of the guard ordered deceased to be taken to the hospital, and witness went with him. This was about 20 minutes pest 10. The prisoner was afterwards ordered to be confined in a cell. He was then drunk—not fit for duty, yet capable of taking care of him. self. The bench committed the prisoner to take his trial at the next Winchester Assizes for manslaughter. Ile also stands committed upon the coroner's inquisition on a similar charge.
The Express. — 1867-06-17 (London, England)

THE BIRMINGHAM RIOTS.  It appears from the Birmingham papers of today that the disturbances caused by the No-Popery lee. tures of the person named Murphy, whose visits in the large towns are usually followed by a breach of the peace, were of a very serious character. Twenty-six persons, men and wouien,were to be brought before the niagistratesto-day for amanita on the police. Three policemen were wounded, and there are some dangerous cases in the General Hospital of labourers who have received sabre cuts, the police having been obliged to use cutlasses. Mr. Murphy's ad. dresses, as reported, are of an extremely fanatical character. Before he had finished his lectures, he said,  he would prove to the people of Birmingham that every Popish priest was • murderer, a cannibal, • liar, and • pickpocket. (Applause.) They knew him, and they knew that he could prove what he said. He was prepared to meet any Popish priest, from Bishop Ullatborne to the biggest raga:lloin in the lot ; and if ever there was a rag and bone gatherer in the universe it was the Pope himself —(laughter)—and if what he said were not true, let them prove it. Friends (said Mr. Murphy) asked him why he was going to risk his life in Birmingham. His answer was simply this, his life was in the hands of God. (I voice : " Ah, it is.") He was eternal until his work was done. His confidence was not in the arm of the flesh, but his confidence was in the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He would never let • hair of his head be touched without His permission. His answer to his friends was, Christ to the right, Christ to the left, Christ behind, Christ before, Christ over, Christ under, and Christ within, then he cared not for the devil or for man, as Christ was his all. (Hear, heat.) They might threaten him with bludgeons and with sticks, but when the bludgeon. and the sticks were going to be fired at him, the Great Eternal I Am would direct them another way ; for God was stronger than the devil. That God had raised him up fora purpose he believed. (Hear.) They should walk over his dead body in Birmingham or he would have his five weeks' my. It is stated that three of the priests at Birmingham went among the crowd exhorting them to be peaceable, but their counsels seem to have been of little avail. The prisoners are all Irish of the lowest class, and are all most violent in their denunciations of Murphy.  The operas announced for the present week at Covent Garden Theatre are the Huguenots today—(a morning performance); Fang (Tuesday night—with Mille. Ellison); La Trarnita (Thursday) ; and La Fora del Destine, Verdi's St. Petersburg opera, and his last dramatic work but one (Saturday—first time in England). _ .  For the current week we are promised at her Majesty's Theatre Lvria di Lammermoor (with Millie. Patti to-night) ; Don Carlue (to-morrow night) ; La tarorites (with Mdlle. Moos, Signors Mario and Graziani, Thursday) ; La Sonnambutrt (Friday) ; and again DoeCarios (natardar. Meanwhile, M. Ciounod's last opera, Borneo e Giulidte, is "in rehearsal."