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The Express. — 1862-12-13 (London, England)

CHANGE AGAINST A CLEROTMAN.—At the Pewees,' (Wilts) Petty Seesione, yesterday, the Rev. Herbert Williams, mate of Tidoonibe sad Posbury, was brought up charged with an indecent assault. It apposed from the statement of the prosecutrix, a respectable girl of 17, that sire is in service at the house of a Mr. Barnes, where the  pp sneer 7has cresiOoesaly;;;iial. o;thei6ti;of November citement prevailed in Brighton yesterday, owing to the Ism he, the girl, end the child she wee cumin were elan rumour that Mr. Lewis Slight, jun., bad committed suicide, io the parlour. All the inmates had gone out. The psi- a report which unfortunately proved too true. He was the sooner kissed the girl, and committed an indecent assault. borough accountant, but had resigned the office oe Moeda, Mrs. Barnes returned about 9 o'clock. wheo the girl told her in consequeoce of the detection of mismanagement of the what had happened. She informed her father oe the fol- Pavilion Funds on the part of another officer whose name lowing day. The latter went to ma the prisoner at dinner- we at preeeutwithhold. tau Wdardsy the following pastime, when be said that if he had done wrong ha was sorry qph iippnund in a local num ;_i• inn mianiiaantand, to for it, and wished be forgiven. The magistrates (Mr. T. baying arias' respecting- the management of the funds E. Fowle sod the Rev. J. H. Gale) committed the prisoner arming from the performances of the military bead at the for trial to the next quarter sessions at Devisee, allowing pavilion, an, main that Mr. Lanni Slight, the annonniana, bail himself in 1C31., and two sureties in 50/. each. The and Mr. J. F. Tingle's, dark to the Town clerk, have prisoner was removed in the custody of the polies. He is tendered their reeigoatieee, which, we suppose, will come a maned man with ote child. before the town council in due eoene.*— Mr. Slight pubGAROTTE
The Express. — 1862-07-12 (London, England)

VYSE'S CASE.—Dr. Hood, of Bethlehem Hospital, writes of Mrs. Vyas :—" One symptomof disease, and that a most important one, wu not mentioned. On my first visit to her at New's*. I learnt that during the latter months of suckling she had been mentally overworked and subject to great anxiety and fatigue. When worried by her business transactions she suffered from a painful sensation seated in the interior of the cranium, on the surface of the brain, and which she spoke of as 'powspiring of the brain'—a symptom often complained of by patients who suffer from mental disease as giving a creeptag, irritating feeling, but never more graphically described than by Mrs. Vyse. It is indicative of morbid action or secretions of the membranes of the brain, which is very manifest by examination die; death. I believe that Mrs. Vyse is suffering from cerebral disease, which rendered her at the time of the murder an irresponsible agent, and, though proper care and attention might have prevented the dreadful tragedy, her life has been spired without infringing one law made for our common safety. The public may well take alarm at the admission of such a disease as impulsive mania, which is so difficult to distinuish from passion ; but they may remember that cerebral disease ought to be first established and irresponsibility acknowledged and then the sudden impalas, or the skilfully-conceived attack, will be looked upon u the effect of insanity, not the disease itself. The impulse to violence may be dormant for weeks or months, and then show itself by • suicidal or homicidal sat ; but such is the result and not the proof of mental disease, and is more accurately described -by the term employed by one of the medical witseises as paroxysmal mania, the paroxysm being the effect of disease of the brain or its membranes, and attributable to its proper ewe."
The Express. — 1862-10-09 (London, England)

ESCAPE PROM A LUNATIC ASYLUM AND SUICIDE OP THE LUNATIC.  Mr. H. Raffles Wa'thew, deputy coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest yesterday at the Grove-hall Asylum, Bow, respecting the death of Mr. Benjamin Ward, aged 40, a lunatic gentleman, who, having made his from that asylum and been recaptured, committed .:1:1`K According to the evidence of John Hill, au attendant, deceased had been an inmate of the gentlemen's ward for some time. He spoke quite rationally. On Thursday evening last he made his escape from the drawing-room by squeezing himself through anarrowventdatingaperture in the window. He dropped down into the garden, and then went over the lofty wall which surrounded the building. He got clear off, though be was at once mimed and an alarm relied. Next morning he was observed by a barber who was employed in the asylum passing along the Mile-end-road, and the barber, 1 knowing him, spoke to him, apparently dimes:martins him a good deal, and then entered into conversation with him, and brought him back to the asylum. He was given in charge to witness, who amused him the best way he could, and for that purpose took him into the garden. He there said that after be had escaped over the wall ho determined to throw his pursuers out of their reckoning by walking to Woodford, which was about seven miles in the oppositedirection to London, and thus avoid the road they I would be almost sure to suppose he bad taken. When be got to Woodford he took lodgings, where he spent the sight. The next morning, however, be considered that if be could get into London be should be more likely to escape notice, and he accordingly set out early to enter it unobserved. and he should have succeeded perfectly only for the
The Express. — 1862-09-04 (London, England)

HARVEST PROSPECTS IN PERTHSHIRE. —The weather during the month of August has been somewhat favourable for the crops, and they have improved greatly. Whist is rusted to some extent, and there will be • deficiency from this cause on many soils to the extent of a fourth. Spring sown is late, but will be a good sample. Oats, after lea, are to be a good return, and will generally be the brat of the season. Barley is a light crop, but a good sample. The barley bar vest has commenced, sod • good portion will be iu stock by the end of the week. There will be no cutting of oats or wheat for two or three week'. The potato crop has in many parts ripened primaand will be deficient from the want of size. A.• yet there is not much appearance of disease. Turnip, have improved considdrably, and a good yield is now looked for. Pasture has improved under the recent mild weather, but is still somewhat bare.—Edinburgh Courant. EXTRAORDINARY AND HAZE RDOUs FREAK OF A Samoa—This morning, about two o'clock, the attention ot City Police-constable /ro. bed was drawn by two females to a man who, io • state of semi-nudity. was sleeping on the top of the entablature of London-bridge, outside e parapet. It appears that the females, who had seen him climb over the parapet and undress himself, imagining at first that be was about to commit suicide, they became alarmed, but finding that he enscocced himself in as comfortable • manner as possible for a sleep, they sought for a policeman, who, being afraid to wake him without assistance, at last ob' tamped that of • man named Edward Martin, who was pluming, and the poor fellow, who bad evidently been drink's', was yearned from his dangerous position, only exclaiming ea being safely landed, " It was cold." A thousand patents have been lulled by the United States for improvements in ploughs, 750 of which hays been granted within the last Mesa years.
The Express. — 1862-04-15 (London, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  Yesterday afternoon Mr. Payne, coroner for the I City of London, held an inquest at the Committee-rooms, Fountain-court, Minoriee, on the body of John Roseabohn, aged 58, who was found in the water-closet attached to his residence, 16, Somerset-street, Aldgate, with his skull chopped about in a most horrible manner, and his bead nearly severed from his body. Margaret Humphreys said she had known the deceased for about a month. She had been nursing his wife, to whom he was devotedly attached. She bad been an invalid for about twelve years with paralysis. On Thursday last witness had occasion to go into the kitchen for a pitcher of water. She opened the kitchen door, anthem the feet of deceased projecting out of the watercloset, and a stream of blood was running down the yard. She immediately milted an alarm, but was too frightened to go near him. The illness of his wife was as far aa she knew his only trouble. John Rodgers, 45, Giffen-street, said be was a bricklayer, and was working opposite the deceased's house. On Thursday last be was called by last witness, who told him to come and see what was the matter, as she thought her master had been murdered. He opened the watercloset door, and discovered deceased kneeling on his right knee, with his arm resting on the seat of the watercloset, his head banging down, and chopped in four or Ave placer. He hail a penknife clasped in hie left hand. The plaoe was covered with blood. He found a common wood axe covered with blood down the pan of the watercloset. William Floyster, City police-constable, No. 511, said he was called to'the house of-16. Somerset-street, to man who had his throat cut. He found him in the watercloset, as described by last witaam. Mrs. Harriet Davis, servant to deceased, deposed to having heard her master complain of his great trouble—meaning his wife's illness. He was connected with the angar-reilning business, and bad been so for thirty years. He was very sober and steady. Charles Thomas Bleekrnan, of High-street, Whitechapel, said he was a surgeon, and had been attending the deceased's wife for several years. He wax sent for, and when be came he found deceased lying on his back in the yard, where he had been removed to, but quite dead. oe examination he found four severe scalp wounds is an oblique deeps They might have been canned by himself by t e chopper produced. His throat was cut from ear to ear, and his head nearly severed from his body. He mast have died instantly. it was the most determined use of suicide he had ever heard of during the whole of his experience. Verdict, "Temporary insanity."
The Express. — 1862-05-16 (London, England)

LAWREYCC V. LAWRENCE. to get into the Turkish Divan, in the Haymarket, about one Dr. Deane, Q.C., Dr. Wambey, and Mr. Browning ap- this moining, and as they got • large crowd of disorderly peered for the petitioner, Mrs. Augusta Jane Lawrence, persons round them, and refused to go away, he took them who prayed for a dissolution of her marriage on the ground into custody with assistance. of adultery and dentition. Mr. Knox asked the defendants what they bad to say, The petitioner was married to the reepondent, Edward sod they said they were inebriated. Daniel Lawrence, in January, 1852 ; and there had been one Mr. Knox-I wish young gentlemen like you to feel that child, .daughter. The respondent was an officer in the nom- to be found at such an hour in the Haymarket with the misearist service, and in the course of his duty he went out to dregs of society is • far greater punishment than any Hoag Kong. His wife wished to go with him, but he declined trumpery fine lan im I wish you to feel the position to take her. While in China he was guilty of great extrava- you are in, being placed in a dock where perhaps the next puce, and be was ultimately tried by a court-martial, and two Pelson' placed there may be thieves, and also that your cashiered for taking money out of the COMMilliarift friends will know where you have been. Don't come here chest. By threats of suicide he induced his *mak. wife's family to end hie, 1,4001. They el., for. l'he defendants were fined 10a. each. warded him 2201. to take him to Sydney, for he Edward Douglas, a medical student, was charged with said that such was his shame and Limitation he could assaulting Nathan Leech, 324 A, in the Haymarket, but never face any one in England again. He nevertheless the case was ordered to stand back for the attendance of a sailed immediately for England, which he reached towards witness. the end of 1859. About a month after he wrote to his wife, The defendant was afterwards fined 101. Worming her that having lost money in Paris he was again Frederick mareend and Eti.beek Evans were award 5501. in debt, and imploring her to send him more money- with being drunk and riotous in the Haymarket. The first He told her that he fairly loathed himself, and said be was fined 5a., and the bed named, • drunken prostitute, was hoped God would forgive him, but he did not think He ever committed for a month. would. At this. very time be was courting • Miss Brown, The female alleged that she had been intreated by the and sending her a copy of verses, with the title, "If I die police, but there were no grounds for the allegation, and it was first," in which he stated that Heaven would not be Heaven proved that she was a very disorderly person. unless it was shared with her, and promised that his spirit John Collins, a footman, at 11, Bolton-row, was charged should come and conduct her's to the realm. of eternal blip, with being drunk and creating • disturbance at the same (The case was proceeding when we went to press.) place, and was also fined 54. - - --
The Express. — 1862-05-03 (London, England)

TEL4 DAY.)  This morning an inquiry was held at the Black Horse Tavern, Kinpland-road, by Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, touching the death of Mm. Clan Bateman, aged 24, who committed suicide last Wednesday morning under very singular and painful circumstames. Mr. H. W. Bateman, 58, Shrubland-grove, Dalston, said that deceased we. hi, wife, and bad recently suffered a good deal from neuralgia. Lest Tuesday they both passed the evening at a friend's, and returned home late. They had only been in the house a few minutes, when she said that she would go out again, but he paid no attention to her statement, an she bad frequently said the same before, and after hiding herself would bounce out and laugh at him. He shortly afterwards found the street door open, and not being able to rind her about the house, he ran up the Queen's. road, and upon arriving at the bridge he was informed that ;lady bad thrown herself in a quarter of an hour previously, so that she must have run all the way. He could only amount for the act on the supposition that her neuralgic affection had upset her reason. Mr. Byrnes', said that on the night in question he heard screams an he wan creasing the bridge, and saw a lady fully dressed struggling in the writer. He ran for the drag., but before they could be got she mak, and some time elapsed before the body was recovered, and she was quite dead. The poor lady had not even taken off her gloves. The medical attendant of the family stated that he had known deceased from her infancy, and she was of a very cheerful disposition, but was subject to smite seersigie pains, and he had no doubt in a sudden excess of these she became distracted and put an end to her existence. The Onruner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."
The Express. — 1862-05-03 (London, England)

EDWARD D. WARREN. P.S. I can write no longer. To Mr. G. West." The in• quiry was adjourned for a few days. Yesterday morning information was forwarded to Mr. Humphreys, of the death of Janice Lye, • cabioetmaker, residing at No. 4, Devonshire-terrace, Poplar, who had committed suicide. The unfortunate man fired • shot at his breast, but the bullet had not entered, and it is thought that be then loaded a large pistol, which was toned on the ' bed, with powder to the muzzle, and placing it in his mouth, ' shattered his head to atoms. A powder4hisk was found on the nantelabelf. He had become reduced in circumstances, r owing to want of employment.  FIRM) AND LOW Or THRIM Lava—Yesterday morning, shortly before 3 o'clock, a dertruative fire broke out on the extensive premises of Yr. Bristow's cooperage, Dockhead, Bermondsey. It was discovered by the police, and before the alarm was raised the flames shot high, and the land steam engine was shortly on the spot, followed b the floating steam-engioe of the Southwark-bridge, as well as the land engines from many other places, but the flames spread with rapidity—and although a good supply of water was obtained, many thousand pounds, worth of property was destroyed. The cause of the fire is unknown. The loss will fall on the Union, Atlas, and other offices. Another fire, attended with the loss of three lives, broke out on the premises of Mr. Kent, Berkeley-street, St. John's. lane, Clerkenwell. The discovery was made by Mize H. F. Kent, who immediately endeavoured to arouse the inmates, which was done with great difficulty. Nineteen persons were on the premises at the time of the outbreak. They endeavoured to escape by the staircase, but were driven back by the flames, and then made their way for the windows. Four of them were rescued by Mr. S. Hedges, of the Ship Tavern. When the flames were extinguished, the bodies of Mies H. F. Kent, Idiom Kent, aged 14 years, and Arthur Kent, aged 13 months, were fou in the tack room on the second floor, burnt to ashes. Shells were procured, and the remains conveyed to the workhouse. The cause of the fire ia unknown. The loss will fall on several insurance offices. Waorts OF
The Express. — 1862-06-12 (London, England)

THE EXFRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1862.  FATHER, it would be this great International Nxhibition of cardinahi, bishops, and priests assembled under the guard of French bayonets to declare the necessity of the " independence "of the Head of the Church.  Such an exhibition is an irony which the genius of atheism might have invented. To celebrate the martyrdom of poor Christian missionaries who lived and died in the spirit of their MASTS; by a grand apparatus of political intrigue, and a pompous and elaborate conspiracy against the rights and liberties of a people, and at the same time to deplore the oppression of the Church—to insist on the independence of the Holy See under the guard of a foreign garrison, is at once sacrilege and suicide. Not only the common sense, but the conscience, we will not say of the Catholic, but of the Christian world sickens at the sight.  ebt Court.  WINDSOR CASTLE, Joys IL  Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Alice, and Princess Beatrice, drove out in a carriage and four yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Churchill and MajorGeneral Seymoor. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alice, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Princess Clotilde and Princess Amelia of Saxe-Coburg arrived at the Castle yesterday, and left today. Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg visited her Majesty. Earl Rummell arrived at the Castle and had an audience of her Majesty.  On Monday, the 9th, Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, paid a visit to the Viceroy of Egypt, at his val., Maim House, Wandsworth. On the same day the Marquis of Aiksbury, Master of the 8e,.., also paid a visit to his Mishear. The Viceroy paid private visits to the Great Exhibition on Tuesday and yesterday, and upon these occasions his Highness was accompanied by the Hon: Charles A. Murray, who has been appointed by her Majesty's government to attend upon the Viceroy during bis visit to this country. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone have returned to their residence on Carlton-hoaes•terrace, from Bowden-park, Chippenden. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.offioe from the Governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar and Meta  Tai ALBItT
The Express. — 1862-10-18 (London, England)

WEDDING.  An inquiry was held by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy-coroner, at the Lord Liverpool tavern, Mile-end, late last night, mulcting the death of Richard Thompson, aged 50 years, who expired suddenly on Wednesday last owing to the excitement consequent on the intended marriage of his daughter. Miss Eliza Thompson said that her marriage was fixed to take place on the morning in question, and that when she attired herself in her wedding dress she went into the parlour to show herself to her father. He seemed to become at once greatly excited, and almost immediately fell on the floor, f3he screamed for help, and Mr. Church, to whom she was about to be married, ran in and lifted him on to a chair, and Dr. Tainton was sent for. Witness immediately put off the marriage, as her father appeared to be in a dying state, and he died in four hours. Mr. D. Church gave similar evidence. Dr. Tainton said that the deceased died from effusion on the brain, produced no doubt by the excitement consequent on seeing his daughter in her bridal dream as described. The Coroner said that the circumstances of the death of the deceased were peculiarly affecting. He had lately presided in a somewat similar but more painful case at Tottenham, in which the parent of the bride banged himself in a moment of insanity brought about by the excitement on the evening before the marriage. The daughter, however, did not display the good feeling evinced by the parties in the present case, because she caused the marriage to be proceeded with, and she wakat the instance of the jury, obliged to attend attired as she war in her wedding dress to give art:Macau to the caused her father's suicide.  Tbe jury returned a verdict " That Richard Thompson died from apoplexy from excitement."
The Express. — 1862-08-13 (London, England)

YORININ RAILWAY&  DEMMER= ATTEMPT TO COMMIT BOICIDR. —COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL Wm. Madan., a tall powerful-looking man, aged 52, described as a modeller. residing at 10, Drummond.creacent, Somers-town, was charged before Mr. Barker with attempting to commit suicide by cutting a vein in his arm. Inspector Fraser, 8 division, handed in the following letter, which was found in the prisoter's room :—" I love her. My blood. My wife lives at 16, Exmouth-street, Hampstead-road. It is all through her. God bless her and all the children. Good by to all. God bless all." Police-constable Thompson, 70 8, mid he was called to the prisoner'. room, and found him lying on the bed in a hinting condition from loss of blood. Mr. J. H. Banks, surgeon. was called, and he certified that he found the prisoner bleeding profusely from a vein in the right arm, and fainting from lose of blood. He found that the vein bad been cut with a rasor. The prisoner was only discharged from the Marylebooe police-court three weeks since on the charge of attempting to destroy himself by strangulation. Turner, the gaoler, said the prisoner was charged at this court about three years ago with a similar offence. The prisoner maul he was sorry for what he had done, but it was all through his wife having left him. The wife, a hard-working looking woman, said, in answer to the magistrate, that the prisoner was a drunken fellow, and Lad sold her home and her son's clothes. She was compelled to leave him through his ill-ussge. She thought he was out of his mind. He was always threatening her life. Mr. Barker fully committed the prisoner to Newgate for  Robert Henry Pope, a watormaa, said the schooner was being towed up the river by • steam tug. She was rounding. and came athwart the bargee. He saw the deceased in his boat with the last witness, but never heard an one call out. It was Hood tide at the time, and the deosa had not time to get out of the way of the schooner. By the Coroner—lt was quits right for the deceased to pus between the tier of vessels and the bargee. Richard John Rain, • pilot, of Gravesend, said that he was on board the schooner at the time of the accident. The schoooer had turned round before deceased was crushed. Witness never saw the deceased until after the accident. Heard the captain halloo out to some one, but could not recollect what he said.