The Express. — 1851-07-25 (London, England)

TUMID.— Miami' 3 and 4 o'clock yestert.lay morning, 1850, he effected an insurance with the Essex and an extensive ere' broke oat in the most densely populated Suffolk Insurance Company fur the sum of 3001. for =2.• of Spitaltii lds—Bacon-strect, Brick-lane —end un- stock and fixtures is his shop. The fire, which tidy resulted in the destruction of several ituildinp, funned the subject of inquiry, took plate about halfmost of them the habitations of industrious families. From past three Welork on the motmng of the l7th November all that du since transpired in respect to the origin of the following, and a few days after the prisoner made a claim fire, it is not improbable but that it will become a anle:set sf upon the company for 203/. for loss of stock in trade and it before the magistrates. When first 011•881"4. 331. fur dataree. This led to the usual inquiries in suck it appeared to have commenced in a kind of doable how"ee cage., sad as the result the prisoner was taken into custody the portion occupied by a clothier named Ba ant' and etinmitted for trial upon the present charge, and the e other by • greengrocer of the Dame of ppliams cue wield have beendisposed of at the last spring anises, Almost immediately on the slum leis nised, the times %:,ut apse the application of the counsel for the prosecution burst forth from every window in the 1.11,....._intil diem a e trial was postponed to these assizes. The evidence being no party-wall to protect tie eke" „nowt tie prisoner wax of the same character usually quickly caught are. The positions( briaise=e laser eoldavel to support charges of this description, and con inetenve. extremely perilous, bee inn* ea peamet edha thud A` • variety of minute facts all tending to show, THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN ON MoNDAT afforded by the poliee, no lives ging gasalied; the soma ht the first place, that the fire was not an accidental :agcy.—Professor Airy, the astronomer royal, left the and rceitement among the peer weateoes wesuer . One ; and: secondly, to exclude the supposition that the Vittoria Hotel, Hull, on Saturday evening, .pier Courier they rushed about the streets amen ands. By is ' act could go .7e been committed by any other non than moonier, en route for Gothenburg. It is nes^ra to gay the engines arrived the an bad seared as a vast mint ; the ',hisser. It was shown that about the time the fire that the profemor's object is to obtain a favouraZde peaition the houses mentioned were on Gm ems the Vera so the Weir wets the pt ;loner and his wife and children were in the for a scientific observation of the solar eclipse, u'llich will rook and the fronts of half-a-dem home ea ihs appear radon of their loose. and one of them was heard to say— be a total one in those longitudes. Mr. R. Cloamb.ns, the side of the street were in • blur eapedeges .., 'hey.. will be nfor,•ted," or words to that elect; and it well-known publisher, of Edinbuigh, and Mr. R. C. Car. weed to bring the engines to pry Ili the bonds, agg—,o4,c that aitba,igh there were three water butts rington, of the obeervatory, Durham, with a pany tod' 4.4, property ;it use WON fte bserseor the flee was naffs rill of water in the yard, the prisoner made no astronomers, left in the same steamer for Gothenburg sheeted. The atrial roper ef the bripeiss sa the Ems. us tlhasa, and did not nt.45 any endeavour to extinguish Rome of the party will go forward to the North Cape, fa Ism by the disedhee lea hewer lowesiel sal the Ike, which at that tills mild easily have been order to obtain the most favourable point for observation. Wilt spree dims pletho whoo woo la. dew, es the fireman gyb.:4otd it very speedily, Professor Airy will leave an assistant at Christiania, and =Pit kw WE AB hardly sa the beardsp. mew Air whoa they arrived. It nemesis, that the pre- will himself prover& to Bothenbard, the object being, of leaser ilharlesa lhelllsa, thy barks MI every =lbis of sswer's skint tor loss very he es. the value et the emune, en neempere notes "as to appal:awns at the two hodlume thy ipanseL popery thee we• darned. esd ft was paired AM the pleces.—Sestsre Cowries Sonia  George Rhodes, of Worksop, innkeeper, saw Battersby at his house on the morning of the 6th of May, and ho observed he had not seen him for a long time, when Battersby ✓aid it would be longer before he saw him again as he was charged with murdering a man. Witness said he hoped it was not true, and in reply the prisoner said, " No, I'm as innocent as you are." The prisoner did not mention the murdered man's name, but said his death occurred on ' the previous Saturday night. Meson. Wright and Carr, surgeons, practising in Sheffield, described the injuries received by deceased, which consisted chiefly of fractures of the skull, and were quite sufficient to cause death. There was also • wound in the threat across the windpipe, which, in their opinion, was inflicted after death, and with the purpose of amusing it to be supposed that deceased had committed suicide. . ..... .  Ann Wilkinson, the deceased's daughter, identified the shirt and Crowson, also the stockings found in the oven, and the knife, as belonging to Battcrsby. This closed the case for the prosecution. Mr. °reread addressed the jury for the prisoners. Mr. Justice Williams having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter. llis lordship having commented on the very heinous character of their offence, and of the merciful view taken of it by the jury, sentenced the prisoners to be each trans. ported for life.