The Express. — 1859-01-07 (London, England)

MEER INMATES OP 4 NEWG4LTE CELL.  Ex-Under-Sheriff Rote, urging, through the columns of a cotemporary, the reconstruction of the part of Newgate appropriated to women, observes In one room I have seen confined In Newrite a woman—Mary Ann Alice Step by name—who had beaten her stepchild to death under circumstances of unparalleled barbarity. The process of murder occupied some considerable time; but I CSIIDOt write the details, and it would be sickening to read them. She was a clever, minting woman, well educated, and with a very competent knowledge of the law relating to prisons, with which she often favoured the officials, and fall of erievances Sir George Grey, the then Secretary of State for the Home Department, would not remove her from Newgate on account of a suppoeed delicacy of health, and the most effectual stop to the outrages committed by this woman in prison was a threat to get her removed from Newgate. Confined with her was one Celestine Soroner, also well educated ; convicted of cutting the throat' of her child, 10 years old, in a coal-cellar, with a carvingknife, and whose conviction was secured by the evidence of a servant girl, Rachel, who slept usually in or on a bed in the kitchen, through which the mother and daughter pealed in their way to the shambles in the mel-cellar, and who, awakened that night, heard the butcher in the act of murder informing her victim that she would . teach the to tell lies.' That servant girl—her nervous system strung in an agony of fear—became many years older that night; for her mistrem, carving-knife in hand, came to Itschel's bed to turn her over and see whether she was asleep, which she pretended to be. I did not go to sleep, said this witness at the trial; ' I lay awake all night.' The softening influence of prison sesomations on the heart of Celestine Stunner may be imagined when she informed her convict companions that she was sorry she had not finished the servant as well as her own child. The last of the three companions was a woman who, by three different men, had had three children, who, wishing to visit a paramour in the country (whether the father of any of her offspring 1 forget, but I think not), and finding the expense of moving them all more than she could afford, deliberately took two of her children down to • canal, and held them under water until they were dead. This woman before her trial trumped up • deliberate lie with elaborate circurnatances against the policemen who took her into custody, which she adhered to after trial and conviction, bat, in :he imminent proapeot of the gallows, the adroit Led the whole to be false. 'Them three were associated together in one room—vain of the attention they excited and received—as such eliminate tonally are, the more so, the worse the crime and the more notorious the criminal. They were attended by the doctor, the clergyman, the governor, the matron, the visiting megistrates, the sheriffs, the under-sheriffs (to say nothing of visitors), who are privileged, some daily and some weekly, to wait upon criminals to hear a statement of their complaiata and grievances. More, much more might be added ; but this is enough to prove that Newgate wants further improvemeot."  THE LATE SUICIDE OF A BRIDEGROOM AT %ETT•ntl.O.—The death of the young man, Frank Baxter, by bra own hands, on the eve of the thus appointed for his wedding, is still the subject of much conversation in the tows. Various motives have been assigned for the oommies don of the rash act, but the most prevalent opinion is that de destroyed himself in coneequence of his father not giving him the money taken in the course of business on the day preceding the melancholy event, instead of allowing him to retain It for the purpose of defraying the wedding ripeness!. The funeral of the deceased took plsoe on the 30th ult. Os arriving at the grave the young lady (to whom the unfortunate young man was to have been united) seemed overcome with Wimp of poignant grief, and trembled cononisleety es the Rev. F. Tattle slowly and distinctly read the solemn and sublime burial Reeving, over the corpse of her unfortunate loser. All present appeared impressed with emotion, end many were moved to teary especially when the agony of the bereaved maiden became: so violent that she had to be conveyed away in powerful hysterics. She was lakes through the garden and lawn of the rectory adjoining the churchyard, and thence to her parental abode. The saw in all its bearings will not won be sewed from the memories of Owen who were spectators on the melancholy ocopion.—Ntomford Mercury. '