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The Express. — 1851-11-27 (London, England)

WNW. This no doubt saved the life of the rev. gentlemen, as the noise iearnsed his a...silents, and they. Ulide their escape. The rev. gentleman was picked op in an inwseible state, and Liken to a surgeon's, where it was found that the wounds he bad received were not so severe as had holm anticipated. The instrument with which the attack was made seems to have graced along the kit jaw-bone, um!, instead of entering the side of the neck, as was doub:;ess intended, entered the buck part of the shoulder, WO struck against the bladebonc, indicting a flesh wound. His face was greatly .disfigured. After his wound was dressed he was removed in a cab to the Mai.' deuce of the lit v. Mr. Kyne, in Hyddelton-square, Rosa. tnan-street, Clcrlsenwell. It is supposed that the attack woo made in consequence of sonicipasasges iu a sermon deliver, d b) the rev. gentleman at Rosoman.street Chapel on Sundae lust. Great prejudices against the school appears to hai:• canted in the minds of some Italians fur some time . past,n 'add made n. ff other twopeatitielciiki. cofonaneehrtetdalwliti:uif.: have lately f which the two fehowing are instance.: On the arrival of the two Caput bin friars in London the Her. Dr. Faa, an Italian elergynisn, to whom they were known, engaged lodgings for them in Dove-court, leather-lane and on calling to see them a few days afterwards he was knocked down by two or three ruffians, who violently assaulted him. On that meosiou, as upon this, Cc delinquents escaped. Some few days previously one of two balks (Sisters of I.rey) who teach at the LeopariCs.rourt School was also attacked in the viciney with such violence that she burst a blood reset', and now lies in a very precarious state. SUICIDE AT CAltaftl tLTON.—Yesteniny, an inquest was held before Mr. W. Carter at the Grajhuued Inn, Canhaiton, Surrey, as to the. deathl of Mrs. Hannah Mary Ann Orgill., aged 2i years. The deceased was the wife of blr. Honert Orgill, the proprietor of the Queen 'ravens, Carshaiton, and for ',me time past bend been labouring clothr a delusion that the neighbours believed she had negheted one of her children. Ou Saturday morning last the deetneed got up earlier than usual and W 1,4 discovered in the lower part of the bowie by her husband wandering about in her night dress. He directed her to r,Gre to her room, and shortly afterwards he heard a he.try full. Ou going to her bedroom, he found the decease.' bleeding from a wound in the neck, and Laving called a neighbour, aster. tarried that deceased had cut her throat with a razor, which was lying on the dressing table. Medical aid was procured, but the deceased died from the effects of the iejuriet. Ver.. dirt--- Insanity."
The Express. — 1851-09-18 (London, England)

FRANCE.  PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evasiso. The French government has received official intelligence. through the telegraph of Madrid, of the defeat and death of Lopez and his companions. They were not executed like the prisoners taken at sea, bat killed fighting. The ronstilistionnel states that the French government is about to communicate a note to the cabinet of Washington on the subject of the affairs of Cuba. The British government on receiving notice of this resolution, has replied that it entertains the intention of making a similar communication to the government of the United States. M. Francois Hugo and the gt,rant of the Erenement have appealed to the Court of Cessation against the sentence pronounced by the Court of Assizes. The appearance of the Prince de Joinville in the field as a candidate for the presidency, which most now be regarded as authentic, has been discussed by the Bonapartist and legitimist papers in a tone of supercilious levity, which is calculated to mislead the public as to the, real weight of this candidature, and its ultimate prospect of success. From what I can gather from calm and important observers, the new name is making rapid way in the departments, and is ttatherino numerous adherents among the buergreisie, who regard the rule of Louis Napoleon as launched upon a career which must confirm, instead of mitigating, the repressive government called into activity by the revolution. The statesmen who support the Prince do Joinville form by far the most important, although small, fraction of the Assembly, in which they have earned for themselves the title of the parliamentary party. It is absurd to think that the new phase of their policy has been adopted without the most deliberate calculation, or will be extinguished by anything less than an overpowering force. The grand argument brought against the Prince de Joinville's candidature is, that thereby the party of order is divided, to the great hazard Of defeat by the socialists. M. Thiers and his friends would answer this argument in two words. Theywould say that it is better that the party of order should be divided, than commit suicide by being united in favour of a candidature which must remain Winged with illegality. They would say that the fear of a socialist majority is perfectly idle; and that the socialist candidate could not possibly, under the present electoral law, scrape together two millions. The division of the party of order is, therefore. simply reducible to referring the question of the election to the National Assembly:lt is evidently the object of M. Thiel.s to bring the presidential contest into this field. Whatever the fiat of the Assembly may be, it will, in his opinion, not only  (By Electric Telegraph.)
The Express. — 1851-06-04 (London, England)

TILE TRAGEDY AT KINGSTON.  On Monday evening, an inquest that did not conclude till a very late hour, was held at the Anglers, Town's Eud, Kingston-upon4hainea, before Mr. W. Carter, upon the body of Mrs. Mary Rebecca Pratt, aged 22, thew ife of Mr. James Pratt, a eheesemonger and buttennan, carrying on an extensive Meanest at No. '2, Angel-terrace, Hammersmith, who committed suicide on Friday last, by throwing herself into the river Thames, at or opposite Kingston. The decreased was a remarkably handsome young lady, highly accomplished, and had only been married ten weeks. Thomas Jetfriea, putinan at the Auglen, said on Friday afternoon, about one o'clock, he heard some boys raising an alarm, and looking towards the river, saw tho deceased Boating in mid-channel. Boats were procured, and the body taken out and removed to the Anglers, where appropriate resuscitating means were employed for three-quarters of an hour under the direction of a surgeon, but in vain. The deceased was attired in a straw bonnet, purple silk visite, and red silk gown; she was wearing a gold chain, attached to which was • locket, a gold bruoch, a wedding ring. and two other rings. Ou searching her clothes he found a German purse, containing a half-crown piece, and loose in her pocket a Boris, Its. 4d. in silver, :31d. in copper, and a hunch of nine keys, as also the letter produced, which was addressed, " Mr. Pratt, 'L Angel-terrace, Hammersmith." The Coroner, at the suggestion of the jury, read the letter, which was as followa, and was written in a very neat, ladylike manner, and not with • nervous hand : Kiugatou, Friday.—James,—For the last time I address you. May God forgive you as Ido for the wicked accusations you have bruught against me. When I took an oath to you last night it was quite true, and all I said afterward) ahe prompted by the fear of being murdered. May every wife do her duty as well us I have dune, even though she has a drunken husband. Good bye, I never expect to meet you again.—Your broken hearted wife, HART It.
The Express. — 1851-08-11 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN NORTHAMPTON GAOL., —Francis Wright, horse dealer, formally years well known at Stamford Deeping, Peterboro', and other towns in thi neighbourhood, committed suicide in Northampton county gaol on Tuesday, ,the 29th ult. At Northampton assizes held last March, Wright was convicted of having committed a brutal assault upon Samuel Walton at the Dolphin Inn, (indle, on the 20th of February, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. From the evidence at tho inquest, it appeared that Wright had been excused treadwheel labour in consequence of a recommendation by the surgeon of the gaol, but he had been employed at the hand-labour machine for some time, until it was found necessary to order him into the infirmary, he having become more than usually eccentric iu his habits, and having laboured under certain delusions. On the 28th deceased was in much better spirits, and early next meriting, on being served with his breakfast, nothing unusual was observed in his manner ; but shortly afterwards, during tho temporary absence of another invalid prisoner and the attendant upon them, Wright succeeded in hanging himself in his room. On the previous day lie had complained of pain in the head, and the surgeon ordered a blis.er to be applied to the back part of it, giving Wright some bandages to enable him to tix it: one of these bandages he hail used for the purpose of depriving himself of life : after making a noose he put his heal in, and tied the other end of the bandage to the bell-pull, and he was found by the warden of the gaol quite dead ten minutes after he had been seen apparently in good pirits. The bell-pull wag only 5 ft. 6 in. from the floor, and Wright was:, ft. 11 in height: he was found with his feet upon the Hoer, his knees projecting forward. Verdict of the coroner's jurT• " Temporary Insanity."—Lincoln Mercury.
The Express. — 1851-05-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT BEIGIITON.-011 Friday evening, as the revenue officer at the Black Rock station was pursuing his beat, near the cliff beyond the Aliergacooly Arms Tavern, at Kemp Town, his attention was drawn to a gentleman who was walking along the edge of the cliff, at this place more than 100 test high. Seeing his perilous position, he railed out to him " For Goal's sake don't go so near the edge, sir." The gentleman made no reply, but muttered something to himself, anal went on a little Ituaher, anal sat down on the edge of the cliff, with his feet hanging over it. The coast-guardsman immediately went towards him, but, just as he came up to hint, he either lost his balance ur precipitated himself down the precipice. As he was falling, the officer made :1 grasp, anal succeeded in catching hold of a stick which he held in his hand, This however, broke with his weight, and the wretched man fell to the bottom of the cliff, almost dashing himself to pieces. cheeN?Aana jb cod; strl‘ah. inan l l At, been)r Arms, When taken up, life, of course, was found to be extinct. Ibiof o the lei remains e fi ll% t .e ew Indiaiedr were Company'sn tr eifinic. s Lll to ethose resident at Brighton a short time. It is understood that the state of mind of the deceased major was such ns to leave little doubt that the catastrophe was not the result of accident. He had seen much service iu  PROGRESS OF LOWESTOrt.—In the year 18 11 tho population of this town umoutited to 1,8.32. The result of the e istings of the seven enumerators' districts, a. taken on the 31st of March, shows the present number to be 6,08 airings's iseret- of 1,8211, or nearly 78 per cent. during the pa.t ten years. In that portion of our town dcnonunated the Beach, there are—inhabited houses, 218; uninhabited, 2; building, 9. Males, 582; females, .33; total, 1,115. This is exclusive of Ncw Town and Wateringplace, which hare sprung up so rapidly on the south side of the harbour within the lazt few years.--Vorteidi Mercury.  .'"'"•'4,ol•‘  T  • 1141)3) kl_lttitillenCt• I OUItT OF Il.tNliltel'lVY.-S.art-rtyaT. nrrole , '0uwa.....•, 4,11 1,, IMPORTANT 1)Ec.1..1..5.-lirrr. al. of 1:III IVO as P. Ili+ Ilostour gave judgment tlais morning i.a tit, of Matthew and lam:. lot Row landuuti, draper+ and uph.d.. aterers, of Whitctel-roml, wixoe application for their certificates was heard a week or two ago. Th., eine, lie • observed, was one of great importance, not on'l to the two bankrupts themselves, whose prospeets in life de;andeul to • great extent on the result, hut as involving rer:ain prin. tittles connected with the administration of the bankrupt law. The bankrupts had carried on • cousiderahle fur vane time with
The Express. — 1851-04-02 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY.— Yesterday Mr. 11. M. Wakley held an inquest at the mei&nee of br. Semple, 8, Torrington-square, on Captain Rdward Harris, Butterfield, R.N., aged 41. Jane Bradley, the housemaid, deposed, the deceased was her truistic', brotherin-law, and that he had resided in her master's house six months. Last Saturday she last saw deceased alive as he retired to his bedroom. Instead of eating Iris 'nipper as usual in the parlour, he had it in his bedroom. For the last month he was very melancholy, but why she could not say, as he was on the best possible terms with all his family. Ilse never eat down without falling asleep. At tea on Saturday he complained of pain in his head, and therefore went to bed earlier than usual. At half-past eight on Sunday morning she knocked at his door to call him, without getting an answer, when her suspicions were aroused, and she culled her wister (the conk), with whom she entered his bedroom, when they found him quite dead in bed, with his throat cut. She immediately informed her master of the dreadful occurrence, and he sent fur Drs. Cooper and • Browne. Deceased never threatened to destroy himself. Dr. Hobert Hunter Semple, brother-in-law of deceased, said that on Saturday night witness imagined that he went to dress himself to accompany him and his wife for an hour's recreation oat of doors; but instead of doing so deceased fell asleep in his chair, and when awoke complained of illness, and refused to go out. lie sufficed from liver disease and congestion of the brain, and had been such a martyr to illness for the last two years that nothing could sooth him. Some years ago, while capturing u prize, he sustained a severe injury of the head by the boom of the prime falling on him. In witness's opinion the disease of his brain and liver wan caused by lung residence on the coast of Africa. Although deceased was eccentric, he was not so insane as to require being watched. He would fall suddenly asleep, and as suddenly start up, as if frightened, and would take a dislike to persons whom before he I°,o, Some further evidence seas given ; after which the j paturued a verdict of" Temporary insanity."  ~i ,  \--s! ,m;
The Express. — 1851-06-02 (London, England)

ISIS. The old Diet exists again, in the same shape, and in several instances in the persons, of the same worn-out, toothless, pigtail-wearing diplomatists of the old school. The figure's of several are in truth so ridiculous and uncouth, their garments smack so completely of a byegone age, that the spectator is compelled to laugh at the ides of their being capable of founding, still less of maintaining, a vigorous rule in Germany. Such as they are, the thirty-four representatives of the government• of Germany are at this instant sitting in soletuu conclave for the lint time since they committed suicide iu 1818. The commencement of their second career is an apt illustration of their nature. They will to-day receive the Dresden resolutions, which are a perfect nullity, and the plenipotentiaries to the Diet 'rid, without hesitation or consideration plunge, boldly into the discussion of the papers which accompany the following resolution, the last of the Dresden conferences:  •• As the governments of Germany have all sent repre sentatives to the Federal Assembly, and, as thereby a univer.ally acknowledged organ of the allied states of Germany has resumed its powers, and as the labours of the commissions of the conferences are concluded by the presentation of their reports, and as, moreover, the protocol of the present sitting (of the I.sth) establishes that fact that all the states of the confederation are aired as to the points of departure and object. of their effort., but that the immediate sanction of the whole to all the details of the propositions made b 7 the commissions eoul.l not be given, it is considered advisable to close the sittings of the conferences. In doing so all the federal governments declare that they generally agree with the views which have guided the commiasioae is their propositions,
The Express. — 1860-07-04 (London, England)

TILE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. ATIIXPTID.BUICID6 TIIROUOILLOVIL  A very respectablydressed and lady-like young woman, something over 20 years of age, was charged with attempt, ing to commit suicide. Police-constable 461 said—About 12 o'clock at noon on Sunday week I was on duty in Queen-street-place, when I heard some one jump over Southwark-bridge. I made haste to the spot and there saw the prisoner in the care of three men, who had taken her out of the water. I bad her conveyed to the hospital, where she has been ever since. Sr It. Carden—Has she been so dangerously ill, then? Witness -There was ouly about two feet of water there at the time, as it was low tide. Sir R. Carden—Well, what have you to say to this? The prisoner held down her head, and murmured "Nothing." Sir 8.. Garden—What could induce you to do such a thing at your time of life ? What caw') heel you ? Prisoner-1 was acquainted with a young man for three years, and now be has married another. This made me very sad, but I am sorry now for what I have done. Her father, who was is court, said she was a very good daughter. He had never had, or heard of, any cause of complaint against her. Sir R. Carden—Do you know this young man of whom she speaks? Father—Yes ; be lives at Peckham, but I have never taken much notice of him, and she was never out with hint an hour in her life. Sir R. Carden (to the prisoner)—Well, you are much better without him, because it is quite clear that a man who could gain the affections of a young woman and then leave her in this way after three years must be a worthless brute. But whatever reverses you meet with, remember you have no more right to take your own life than that of anyone else. The prisoner proinived never to do such a thing again, and Sir R. Carden discharged her, telling her that she had two causes for luippiness—first, that she had escaped marriage with a worthless fellow ; and secondly, that she had failed in her attempt to destroy her life. She thanked Sir }When, and quitted the court with her father.
The Express. — 1860-12-27 (London, England)

AND AITRAIITI DM4I'47OT AT LONDON-BRIDGE Vory Miarat, a deesed-looking woman about '4O curs of age. was broweht Ware Mr. Comte charged with attempting to commit mickle at Londonbridge. l'olice-einetable 163 M said that about 4 o'clock on itemise massing he was on duty in Duke•street, London-I.rel;e. whew his ardente°s was attracted to cries of "Police," receding boa the bridge. He instantly went towards toe platl. front whence the seise came, am! saw the prisoner in 0r5..1 the reeseies, awd a maw had hold of her and he told lum that she bed attempted to jump off the bridge. The man told him that be was muting aliin7 just as the prisoner was climbing the pivot and be pulled her bark, but she saki ,Oie was deterwdsed to commit suicide. Witness took her to the workbags*, sad es the way there she told him tbe•amr.  combo asked if she was sober The eoustable replied that she was, hut she cried eery each sad was sx,....e.lingly weak, so that they kept her in the vri.rklionvea until this morninc. In a,l.Wer to the charge the primmer said that her father ail mother Ivied at Nn mlry, m Middleeee, and latterly she keil Lida quarrel with them and left them. Ir Combo- Why did you leave ahem? Hail you mixyountelf 7 .. • _ _  - - _ Itemiser (hesitatingly) No, sir. We quarrelled, and I kft home to seek employ, but being naiads to get any, I &tibial' of ....I-omitting suicide. The eountsble here informed his worship that the pri. aster was t Arceste, and he anaemia.' from her that she Lel horn seduced.  Mr. fresh. (to thsorooseri—la that tote? Prtioaer Yes, or, sod I was ashamed to own it to my parents. Mr. l'oeulie —I must ostler some inquiries to lie made al•ott you roll shall renood y until te-asorrow. la the moastime the chap Lam of the pet will see yea, sad .1,1.101 too with tha eft:quay et thiamin yea bays  MARLIN tItOUGII.4ITIULIT. nosnro
The Express. — 1860-07-11 (London, England)

TUDIDAT. The proceed, of the ogtrance fen to the show yard vesterday have astonished enaiaj of the sanguine promoters of this year's meeting. The entire sum taken at the doors (notwithstandipg that4a-lkl. was charged for admission to the grenade, and • wool fee of ss. for entrance to the cattle depeetnient) only amounted to 2151., while at Warwick, s.r, the find day's receipts exceeded 1,4001. Tirday. toyer, there was a fair attendance, embracing most of th leading families of the county, and visitors from all parts of England. One uniform char,,,e of now admits to every part of the exhibition. Independently of any further awards, but for the purpose of displaying the powers of steam-ploughing, and bringing than prominently before the public to-day, some trials again took place of implements. The grand ploughing . match. however, in which the attention of the entire . county of Kent is just now concentrated, is the leading topic of conversation, even in the cattle-yard. The field on which this local wilte d. is to take place to-morrow (Wednealay) is a very large piece of tableland on the top of a hill that has beau mowed this year. It is • very old sour swan! that has not been well farmed or ploughed for very many years past. This will prove a very severe test for the ploughs.  • HEALTH OF Lownow.—The weekly Mutt of the Registrar-General shows a very satisfactory decrease in the deaths for the week that sled lag. Saturday. The total number was 919; that of the previteur .week 1,001. For the corresponding weeks in the ten yam 1850-59, the average number, after correction for Mere'se of population, is 1,115. The deaths in last week were therefore lets by 196 than they would have been according to the average rate of mortality in the first week of July. Summer weather has not been without good effect in the improvement of the public health. There were 17 deaths from smallpox in the week. The number is not great, and it is not drawn spedaily from any quarter of the metropolis. There were 46 from measles, which at present prevails more than any other aymotie disease. Of 33 from scarlatina, 4 occurred in St. Clement Danes, sad 3 in Hampton'. Twelve death. were caused by dierrhus, and 1 by cholera, which occurred to a gentleman in Albert-square, Claphantroad, after six days illness. A case of manslaughter wax returned, and 4of infanticide; also 12 of suicide. A lunatic was sect&Welly choked by food. Two children were fatally scalded; 3 deaths occurred from burns, one of which was that of • child whose clothes caught Are. Last week the births of 879 boys and 788 girls, in all 1,667 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59 the average number was LW.