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The Express. — 1864-07-01 (London, England)

EXCHEQUER. The admirable speech which Mr. GLADSTONE delivered on the second reading places this matter beyond a doubt. Upon this ground the whole weight of the Government has twice been brought to bear in order to insure the safety of the Bill, and twice the Government has suooeeded in spite of the most vigorousefforts of the Opposi4on. If the Opposition considered that the Bill contains dangerous principles it was their duty to propose amendments—if Mr. GLADSTO?iE or the ArroarzyGENERAL thought that the Bill required modifications they had an opportunity of giving effect to their opinions in committee. But they have not thought fit to avail themselves of this opportunity. In fact, the attempt to mutilate the Bill was abandoned by both parties as hopeless ; and the question now is what the Government ought to do. It seems strange indeed that any doubt should exist on the subject. If there is any principle which still distinguishes a Liberal from a Tory Government, it is the principle of civil and religious equality. This principle is directly involved in the Oxford Tests Bill ; for its object is to open the gates of the Universities to all owners, without regard to their political and religions opinions, and to place them on an equal footing. For a Ministry calling itself Liberal to oppose such a measure would not only be utterly inconsistent with their professions, but even, if successful, would be political suicide. Lord Pautrasron must be well aware that Mr. Donsox's Bill is not only supported by every member of Parliament who sits on his own side of the House, but has the silent support of some of the most distinguished men on  theother side of the House. Lord PALMERSTON must be well aware that whilst at the Universities the Bill is vigorously supported by eminent Churchmen both lay and clerical the leading Nonconformists throughout the kingdom ►re equally strong in its favour. if Lord Paisizasrox is the head of a
The Express. — 1864-05-28 (London, England)

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (mod ova oivir coanzeroxolar.)  PARIS, FRIDAY Evistso.  This has been a glorious session for the deputies in the point of view of pay. In consequence of, the repeated prolongations, extending the ordinary constitutional duration of the session from three months to seven, every deputy will have received the handsome sum of 17,500 fr. According to rumours, which produced a bad effect at the Bourse and find an echo in the evening papers, the prospects of the conference are less promising than they were thought to be yesterday. The Germans mean to make a great stand about Kiel and Rendsburg as Federal fortresses, and contend that if Holstein and Southern Skew* are to become purely German territory, as the arrangement proposes, neither England nor any power has a right to make conditions as to the use that may be made of any of the ports. Although the Pays gave it to be understood yesterday that France was agreed with England upon this point, some of the papers now affect to believe it impossible that England's desire to maintain her preponderance in the Baltic and prevent Germany from having a navy, can be encouraged. The Nation goes so far as to say that this new question threatens to "'compromise the efforts made by diplomacy to maintain peace."  Rente fell 20c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 66fr. 60c. and 66fr. 70c. Mobilier fell 20fr. There was a sudden and heavy fall in the Mexican loan, which declined from 60 to 581. The extraordinary thing is that the quotation in London is 63k, so that there is 5 per cent. difference between the two markets. The decision of the London Stock Exchange prevents French holders of the stock from benefitting by London prima. M. de Flotow, brother of the eminent composer of Marta, committed suicide last week at his country seat, Friedricbswald, near Blankenberg. He was rich and in the prime of life.  .-(
The Express. — 1862-11-13 (London, England)

HUMBLER. GARDNER had been married seven years. But about five years ago the girl HUMBLER came to live in the house, and GARDNER had undoubtedly carried on an improper intimacy with her. However, about a year ago, HUMBLES married, being then only 18, but in about six weeks after that event she returned to GARDNER'S house, and the improper intimacy was renewed. There is evidence, and it is by no means improbable, that this girl was in the habit of annoying and insulting GARDNER'S wife. Indeed, according to GARDNER'S statement, corroborated by another witness, the girl had notice to leave the service. There is nothing to prove that GARDNER was in the habit of using violence to his wife, although the evidence is ample to show that the girl was very fond of Guernqu, jealous of the wife, and distracted at the idea of leaving her paramour. It appears that on Sunday, the 14th of September, this man GARDNER went to bed u usual with his wife. HUMBLER also slept in the house that night. At a quarter-past 3 a.m. a policeconstable awoke GARDNER, and from that hour until about 8 o'clock he was seen by various persons at various places pursuing his ordinary avocations. About eight he returned home, and found the woman HUMBLER, the doctor, and his wife dead upon the floor. The body lay near the bed. The throat was cut ; the left hand was placed across the chest leaning towards the throat, and the right hand was also across the chest feebly grasping a knife. When the woman HUMBLER went to fetch the doctor she said that Mrs. GARDNER had committed suicide. But when GARDNER came in and saw his wife on the floor, he said, "What is " thief" then stooped down and took tho table knife from the hand. Presently GARDNER looked towards the woman HUMBLER, and said, " You wretch ! you have done this." HUMBLER fell on her knees and protested her inno mice. That the woman was murdered there seems to be no manner of doubt. Both surgeons agree that the wounds could not have been inflicted by the deceased, and that if she " had died " with the knife in her hand it would have been " grasped or clenched tightly. " Nor, indeed, in the subsequent trial was any attempt made to set up a case of suicide. If the deceased did in fact commit suicide, the Judge, the Jury, and the Counsel on both sides have made the grossest mistake—for GARDNER now lies under sentence of death. A foul murder was, therefore, undoubtedly committed, and the only question is, who was the perpetrator of it. Both GARDNER and IlEsinsa were jointly indicted. This course was adopted in order that " certain statements made by one of the prisoners  " might be given in evidence against the other." No one seems to have thought that both were guilty. One certainly did the deed. Which of them was it Y The prosecuting counsel, however, upon the suggestion of Chief Baron Poxxocw, thinking that the evidence against the woman was weaker than that against the man, let her off— but called her as a witness against
The Express. — 1862-09-05 (London, England)

THE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRADFORD.  Great excitement continued in the neighbourhood of George-street, Bradford, on Wednesday night till a late hour, and a mob, exasperated at the reported conduct of Ryan, used him rather roughly. He was chased many miles through some of the streets of Bradford and Bowling, and was at last protected by the police from their violence. Yesterday, Mr. C. Jewison, coroner, openerlau inquest on the body of the Ryaus, at the Britannia public-house, in Dryden-street. A large crowd stood iu the ativiet at the time. Mary Costello was called and sworn. She said—The persons who are lying dead in the room upstairs are Mary Ryan and her two children. The name of Mary Ryan's husband is James Ryan, tailor. At one o'clock yesterday Mary Ryan came into my house. She had both the children with her. She had the young child, Mary Ann, in her arms, and the other, Patrick Joseph, she held by the hand. She said, " Now, I have brought the child to his father." She had been apart from her husband fur one night. She had been staying with her mother. I told her to go home to her husband. She said she was afraid to go home, and would never go in, for she dare not do so. " What for?" I asked her. She said, " I am afraid he would kill me. will never live in the lonely cellar with him again. I will not live with him unless he will go into lodgings." At that moment her husband wont past us and went into his own house. He first stopped at my door and gave his eldest child, Patrick, some money—lid. and some copper. The wife called to him and said, "That money is of no use to me : give me my bed out." He turned round and took the money out of the child's hand, and said that nothing should leave the house till the rent and other debts were paid. She asked me if I would go for the child's chair at the cellar, for she could not do without it. She said I was also to bring two pieces of carpet and a hood for the child. I went for them, and James Ryan got all the articles up and gave them to me. As I was coming away, he said "Stop," and then he said to me, " Give her that," and he gave me sixpence for her, and he also gave me some waistcoat patterns for her, saying that she was to make them up and sell them for her own use. She took them. He told me that he would not take her back to hie house till he had got the lent and his debts were paid. She would then be welcome home. This was about half -past 1 o'clock. At that time • woman called upon me, and I did not see the children again alive. She was crying, and was greatly distressed. She said she would go to the " hostile." She had told • woman she would drown herself. I believe the husband would have taken her home if she would have gone. The cause of the quarrel was that the husband stopped out late at night drinking. By a Juror—He was sober yesterday. I did Dot bear any disturbance on Tuesday. fie told me that he had beaten her with • stick °lithe head. They quarrelled • few weeks ago. I can't tell what happened, but he then broke some of the panes. The Cormier then adjourned the inquest till Saturday.
The Express. — 1868-12-29 (London, England)

RELIGIOUS SUICIDE.  HORRIBLY incongruous as the words are, it has often been necessary to conjoin them, and it is necessary once more. We are told by the reporters that somewhere in the provinces (it is not pleasant to be too precise about anything so very painful) a married woman, with a goodly family, has strangled herself because she could not live under the pressure of the idea which had taken possession of her, that she had committed the sin against the HOLY 01108 Tor, or, as the reporters phrase it, "offended " the HOLY °non." The first misfortune is, that religious teaching should be in such a state in this country that now-a-days any human being can possibly get the idea of such a sin into his head. But that is a gigantic mischief which we must have. There is another, and a more vulnerable evil, namely, the extreme ignorance, the dulness of observation, and the weakness of imagination which fails to find the right prescription for the commencement of all such cases of " fixed idea." The great point, as in so many cases of chronic illness, is to break the tradition before it becomes too strong; in other words, to divert the mind by as near an approach to a countershock as the case admits. How much have the young suffered, and how much do they still suffer at the hands of parents and guardians who do not know that, very often indeed, all the lecturing and admonishing and praying and thrashing expended upon a fault which the poor child appears unaccountably inclined to go on repeating is just the very process to make him repeat it ; to turn a half-hysteric impulse, or something put into his head over and again by a playmate or a servant, into a Axed idea. In the same way, when a person has got into his head that he has
The Express. — 1868-08-10 (London, England)

EDINBURGH. The Marylebone, it may be remembered, had once a " legitimate " reputation under the management of the late Mrs. WARNER, and it obtained even more notoriety under the management of that Mr. Werra who robbed the Globe Assurance Company, dabbled in playhouses, aid committed suicide within the space of a couple of years. The Marylebone, standing in Churchstreet, Paddington, was originally started to provide the north-west suburbs with a good local theatre, but the experience of a few years seemed to prove that the neighbourhood required nothing but a minor house, managed on what we may call transpontine principles. In its second or transition state it was very ably governed by Mr. J. A. Cevz, and it is now about to return to something like its original character under the direction of Miss An SEDGIVICIL One of the anomalies of our licensing system is shown in the dramatic license of this house and that of the Bijou Theatre—a little place at Bayswater, about a mile further west. The Marylebone is licensed to perform stage-plays by the Loan CiwsIIKRIAIN, but the Bijou has to go to the magistrates at quarter sessions for a similar authority.  Lady Leith, of Weethall, has deducted 10 per cent. from the rent of gram parks lot by her this season, in conaequenoe of the drought.  There were (says the Northern inig) some circumstances in connection with Lord Downshire's death which are worth noting. He died on his 56th birthday, having been born on the 6th of August, 1812, and died on the 6th day of August, 1868. His father, the third marquis, was also 56 when he died. His grandfather, the second marquis, died at 52. On Thursday morning last, the foy.bells of Hillsborough were rung in the morning to celebrate his birthday, and in the evening the same bells tolled to announce his death.  Two assize sermons, preached at Winchester by the Rev. Mr. Young, the father of the celebrated author of "Night Thoughts," have been presented to the public library at Winchester, and an ♦byrinian stroll of prayer found in Magdala hes boss presented to the Winchester Masers.
The Express. — 1867-05-02 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN LAMBETH.  INQUEST.—{THIS DAY.) At half-past 12 o'clock to-day Mr. Wm. Carter, the Surrey coroner, held an inquiry at the Ship Tavern, Fore-street, Lambeth, respecting the above case. The Coroner said that the case was a very serious one, and it having been alleged that the deceased had been killed by his mother, he could not take any evidence tendered by the father of the child, for a man could not give evidence against his own wife. He would investigate the case with great cAre, and he would bent every witness except the husband. As the jury had already investigated two cases at great length, the Coroner gave them leave to retire for the purpose of taking refreshment. . . . . .  l'pon the re-assembling of the jury, at 1 o'clock this I, afternoon, the first witness called was Anne Jacobs, who said that she was the wife of ' bricklayer living at No. 26, Royal-street, Lambeth. The deceased was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Belcher, who lived in lodgings at the same house. They Awed in a back room upstairs. On Tuesday last at half-past 5 o'clock Mr. Belcher came downstairs to witness room and said. "My wife has cut her throat and the child's too." Witness told him to call some one in, and Mr. Collard, a neighbour, and they went upstairs into Mrs. Belcher's room. She was lying on , the bed, in a very weak state, and her throat was cut. The baby was lying dead in the bed by her side. The child was dressed, and there was blood upon it. After hearing a good deal of evidence, The Coroner summed up. He said that be believed from the evidence that the mother had cut the child's throat before she had cut her own. If another person had attacked her, the probability was that she would have called out.  The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Elizabeth Belcher.
The Express. — 1867-10-14 (London, England)

THAMES. Caroline Day, aged 20 years, was brought up on remand before Mr. Benson, charged with wilful and corrupt perjury. On Wednesday last, the prisoner's sister, Martha Bur. ridge, a married woman, was the defendant, and Susan Smith of No. 56 Johnson-street, St. George's-its.theEast, wee the complainant on a summons heard in this court. Mrs. Bumdge was charged with knocking at Mrs. Smith's door, and abusing her on the 2nd of the present month ; and four witnesses clearly proved the case against Mrs. Burridge, who was tined 40s. and costs. The prisoner Day, however, swore that her sister, Mrs. Btu ridge, was not in Johnson-street at all on the day in question, and that she (Day) bad lint been there for three months. It was satisfactorily proved that Day and Berridge were both in Johnson-street on the 2nd of this month, and that Day took an active part in the outrage. Mr. Benson, on the tennination of the case, ordered Day to be taken into custody, and long investigations took place on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday the prisoner was again brought up. Mr. Pelham crossexamitted the witnesses, and urged the youth and inexperience of the prisoner, and that she bad no inserested motive to serve in stating what she bad done. Mr. Benson—Yes; to save her sister from a paltry penalty of 40s. The amount of perjury is quite horrifying, and can only be stopped by severe punishments. I shall commit the prisoner for trial. Mr. Pelham then tendered bail, and the magistrate agreed to accept the prisoner's father, the owner of six houses in Bale-street, Stepney, as surety to the extent of :ail. for his daughter's appearance at the sessions.  THE CONDEMNED Musunsess.—There appears to be now very little doubt that the law will take its course on both the condemned murderers, John Wiggins and Louis Bordier, and it is understood that a communication has been made by the Home Secretary to the Society fur the Abolition of Capital Punishment, to the formal effect that he sees no circumstances connected with either of the cases that will justify • recommendation to the clemency of the crown. The Frenchman (Bordier) was visited on Thursday by his three children. The interview was of a very painful nature, and the prisoner was much affected. Wiggins still maintains that he is innocent of the murder of Agnes Oakes, and asserts, as before, that she committed suicide. The culprit was visited for the last time on Saturday by his parents. The exertions that have been made to procure a commutation of the sentence of death in his case have been fruitless, at least up to a late hour on Saturday night. No instructions had then reached any of the officials at the Home-office that the Secretary of State for the Home Department will interfere to prevent the sentence of the law being carried into effect in both cases as originally fixed, on the 15th.
The Express. — 1867-10-18 (London, England)

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1867.  EXPRESS FROM PARIS.  (FROM OUR OWN COI  PARIS, THURSDAY Entrinta.  The ministers assembled in council at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Palace of St. Cloud, under the presidency of the Emperor, all the minister; except M. Duruy being present. There is no truth in the statement of an evening paper that a meeting of the Privy Council had been called.  With regard to the prolongation of the existence of the Universal Exhibition, which the Libert4 and some other journals stated was to remain open to tho public until the 17th of November, the Etendard says that no decision to that effect has yet been come to, at the same time intimating that such a step is in contemplation, and that the question will shortly be determined. Yesterday a young lady of rare beauty and distinguished manners, about 18 years of age, comm suicide by throwing herself from the summit of the column in the Place Vendome, and died in a few minutes. In her pocket were &reactions, written in pencil, that she should be conveyed to her mother, whose address in Paris was given, and the unfortunate girl at the same time bogged that the said catastrophe should be broken to her parent as gently as possible The cause which led to the rash act is not known, but it is said to be connected with a love affair. This is the second suicide within six weeks from the top of this lofty monument ; and it is somewhat singular that the unhappy lady fell precisely on the same spot within the rails where a young man who preceded her in the terrific leap was dashed to pieces. I The Bourse was much agitated to-day. The market opened badly, and went on from bad to worse. Tho action that would be taken by the French government in Italy was the subject of very general and excited discussion. The Bente, which opened at 67fr. 20c., closed at 66fr. 05c., a decline of 80c. Italians began at a fall of 70c., and finished with a further depreciation at 43fr. 40c. The value of all securities went down, without exception.
The Express. — 1867-11-06 (London, England)

THIS DAY.)  This morning Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Bridgewater Arms Tavern, Maccleatield•street North, City-road, respecting the suicide of William Parker Howell, aged itri years. Eliza Howell, 13, Maccleatield.street North, a fancy trimmer, said the deceased was her father and a writer by profession. He gave that up, and he took to keeping a general shop. His wife died, and he became v,ry desponding. The trade fell off, but he would not tell his daughters anything about the state of affairs. Ho has often said, " I'm tired of my life. If I knew my fate in the next world I should end it here." Witness thought he was jesting when he spoke. An execution had been put into the house last week, and he paid it out. He was in debt. The execution was for poor's rate. Coroner—That was the climax to his misfortunes. How was be on Monday Witness—Very sad ; on Monday morning he came to my roots and naked fora candle. That was at 7 o'clock. I gave him a light. At 9 o'clock I went downstairs, and in the parlour I saw my father lying on the sofa in a pool of blood. His throat was cut. I saw blood on his shirt. That is the knife. Oh—ithe witness here fainted, and her examination ceased. tlhe was removed from the court). The Coroner said that he had noticed that twice the usual number of eases of suicide came before him in the months of November and February than in any other month in the year. The only way he could account for such a singular fact was that the atmosphere was very heavy and deprwaing in consequence of the fogs. The present case made the second suicide which had been brought about by fear of poverty within the last week. The other was that of the man who threw himself under a train at Balaton.  The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."  SUMPF:rTED