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The Express. — 1866-03-13 (London, England)

VICTOI HUGO'S NEW WORK.  Several of the Paris journals contain a brief  outline of the plot sod purport of Victor Huiro's new work, "Les Travaillours de la Yea," which was published yes- 11  terday in three volumes. "It contains,' says the Tempe, "two dramas, one representing the struggle of man withthe elements, the other the everlaeting drama of love. (M-EW, the hero, victorious in the former, succumbs is the litter. The scene is laid in Guernsey, St. Maio, and the reefs of the Channel. Oilliett is in love with Dem chat* the niece and adopted child of Lethierry, but does not dare to tell his love. Deruchette to also lover, without avowing and even without comprehend- II iog'fier feelings, the young vicar Ebenezer. Gilliatt is a bold mariner, to whom love gives strength and courage to socomplish a prodigy. The steamer Durande, belonging to Letbierry and plying between Guernsey and St. Mel., is supposed to have been lost on the rocks. I Unaided, and at the peril of his life, he eaves the vessel, I bat on reaching land he suddenly becomes aware of the secret love of Deruchette. In the enthusiasm of his gratitude Lethierry would give Gilliatt the band of his daughter, but the noble heart of the seaman resigns , yt itself to the sacrifice of its own affection. The hasty steps which Lethierry took for the marriage of his adopted ; daughter and Gilliatt, the latter directs to the celebration 11 of a marriage between her and Ebenezer. He is present at 11 the wedding ceremony, and conducts the newly-married I couple in the Cashmire, which was to convey them id from Guernsey. He then takes his position on k a rook, which is exposed tat low water bat I covered when the tide is full, and there he 'awaits bis death while the Caahmire is disappearing from the horizon. He watches the last speck with intense eagerness, and at the very moment that the vessel is totally lost to g view the waves mount over the heed of the solitary Ll suicide. Snob is the simple thread of the sto.y. Thou who ',mid know with what charm, megaifiessoe, and terror the genius of the poet hoe invested his Geese pictures must Consult the volumes themeless. The rememosconteins minute descriptions of local =immerse:ad superstitions which give an additional gnu to the grand scenes which are on- I folded in the work."  " Why," says La Liberte, "should a double sentiment of sorrow be mingled with the admiration which 11 inch works lumpiest? Why should this book be dated from • foreign land ; why should it derive its inspiration from the meditations of an exile— now a voluntary one, no doubt—but the respoasibility of which will not press with a lees heavy weight on the history of our palmation?" N. Jules Jaain thus speaks of the nsw work in the Ditats :—" Travailleurs de la Mer," a poem, history, and legend, an elegy, an 'pops., • war song, a great cry traversing the ocean, and which will traverse ages—such is M. V. lingo's new work. You can no more detach a fragment from it than you can a fragment from a block of trial**
The Express. — 1866-01-08 (London, England)

THE SUPPOSED MI7RDER NEAR DIERTHYR TYDVIL. —On Saturday morning Robert Coe, the young man charged with having murdered John Davies, by decapitation, on the 2nd of last September, was examined before Mr. Fowler at the Police.court. George Davies, the father of the alleged murdered man, identified the body of the deceased as that of his son. Sergeant Hodgson afterwards made a statement to the effect that the prisoner, when he arrested bim, said he was, he believed, the last person with the deceised, but, at the same time, declared his innocence of the murder. Mr. Superintendent Wreon then applied for a farther remand. Elm evidence was not quite complete. Mr. Fowler acceded to the request, end remanded the prisoner till Thursday next at ten o'clock, when be will be taken to Mountain Ash.  SINGULAR Su 'cum-0u Saturday Dr. Lankeeter held an inquest at No. 1, Colebrook-row, Pentonville-road, on Thomas Rice Steel, aged 81, • law stationer. Charles Mills, of 4, Goewell-terrace, said he was in the employ of Mr. Steel, who was * law stationer, and bad offices at 89, Chancery-lane. Os Wednesday witness left the office for few minutes at abut 2 o'clock p.m. The deceased was then in jocular spirits, and was engaged in puncturing some documents with a bodkin. Witness returned in about five or ten minutes, and found deceased lying oo his face in the °Mos. A chemist, who lived next door, was called io, and afterwards Dr. Reed, who pronounced him to be deed. No money or property was missed, nor was anything disturbed. The bodkin before referred to was lying on the floor. Dr. S. Cartwright Reed deposed that he found the deceased quite dead. He had since made a post mortem, and found a small punctured wound two inches below the left nipple. That might have been ceased by a stationer's bodkin. The wound penetrated downwards and entered the left side of the heart. An aztravasstion of blood from the wound had caused death. The clothes of deceased were undone near the injury, the only article of clothing punctured being the flannel shirt, It was his opinion that the isjury had been inflicted on deceased by himself. Dr. Bison, of am, Oity-road, knew deceased, who was eccentric in his manner, for yeus, and be thought that be must hive been in an unsound state of mind when he committed suicide. A. verdict of suicide whilst is an nreosad Ask of naiad wee Mused.
The Express. — 1866-01-08 (London, England)

THE BATLEY DOUBLE MURDER.  Eli Sykes, who was condemned to death for murdering his sweetheart and her mother at Batley, and who subsequently attempted to commit suicide, et Armley gaol, Leeds, by throwing himself over the second gallery on to the stone area beneath, has succumbed to his selfinflicted injaries. In his fall he slighted upon his feet, and his left foot was so seriously shattered that it was found necessary to remove five small bones from it. Excessive hemorrhage set in on two occasions, and the medical men contemplated amputation of the foot, but abandoned it in caasequence of the convict's exhaustion. At the same time. It was considered that if a third return of hemorrhage should occur, Sykes could not possibly survive. About six o'clock on Saturday after. noon this crisis occurred ; but es the surgeon to the gaol, Mr. W. N. Prim, was then present, the Sow of blood was immediately, though only temporarily, checked. Sykes then appeared to rally, and though at times he was somewhat violent in the language he used towards the warders in attendance upon him, at other periods he °ravened freely about the treatment be received is the Dewsbury lock-up and the Wakefield gaol. The last change came about half-put 9 o'clock, and though the convict appeared to be suffering severely, his consciousness was retained until within a few minutes of his death. He was attended in his dying momenta by the chaplain, the Rev. C. H. Middleton, and the governor. Mr. C. A. Kees*. The Leeds Mercury says :—" On one delicate question connected with his trial a few words only will be necessary. Few who were present in court when sentence of death was so impressively passed on the prisoner by Mr. Justice Shee, will ever forget the painful scene by which it was prefaced. With tears rolling down his cheeks and almost choking his utterance, the prisoner threw himself on his knees, and besought forgiveness from Heaven for the crime he bad committed. It is to be regretted that his subsequent eonduet has led many who were interested in him to doubt the sincerity of the words he then tattered. The callousness and indifference be has lately exhibited to the ministrations of religion must have been very psinful to the chaplain of the gaol, Mr. Middleton, sod to ail whose duty it was to take charge of him. We believe, however, that within a short time of his death be uttered expressions which gave greater hope as to his state of mind—listening attentively to the chaplain, and joining with him in prayer."
The Express. — 1866-06-05 (London, England)

CLERKEN WELL.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Jane Swine, aged 36, of 3, Ann's-place, Hoirseyeed. wee charged before Mr. Barker with attempting toe** suicide by taking poison. The unfortunate woman was so weak and ill Si. * effects of the poison and the excitement omega* • her having only lust left the hospital, that she le led into the court, and supported even whilst Nested au* the hearing of the case. It appeared from the evidence of Police-sergeant Tyne end, 1.2 Y , that he saw a mob round the defendant's**, and saw her open the window and throw out a bet* labelled " poiaon," exclaiming, " I have done it—l bee done it." lie went into the house with her lister, el! found the defendant apparently in • dying state, fel„ was more than four hours before the 'urge* seest her sufficiently' round to enable her to be removed* hospital. Before she was taken to the hospital theist Waste woman handed the police-sergeant a rasor,ol* a shudder, said she could not do it with that. Mr. Barker asked if any reason could be **peak* defendant making such a determined attempt on ber blip Police-sergeant Townsend said that a week or me es her husband very much ill-used her, and when is* brought to this court by order of the magistrate, *re sent defendant was examined, and so bad were her WO that the husband was sent to the House of Caudill four months without the option being 0 paying a fine. The next day the present defeso bilk naseeet to the court and tried to beg off her bulimia. hee5...... she failed, and she then asked if she could not to serve the term of imprisonment herself, and thlet,: course, she was refusal. Her husband's inceneeu•' seemed to prey on her mind, and hence the rash _, on he life. Mr.r Barker remanded the defendant to the Reste.it Detention for a week, and it was with the ref.' culty that she could be removed to the cells.
The Express. — 1866-12-29 (London, England)

THE INQUESTS.—(THIS DAY.) EDMONTON, f3areslax. At 11 o'clock this forenoon the Co'roner for the Ducthy of Lancaster, Mr. W. J. Payne, opened an inquiry at the Cross Keys Inn, Lower Edmonton, relative to the murder of Timothy Gudgeon and Elizabeth Gudgeon, by their mother, Anne Gudgeon, who afterwards committed suicide. The jury, having been empanelled, proceeded to view the bodies of the three deceased persons which lay in the little parlour of the house where the tragedy took place. It was remarked that the two children WWII characterised by great placidity of countenance. They appeared as if they bad never awakened out of the quiet sleep in which they were murdered. Tim face of the mother was quite blanched, and wore an expression of pain and anxiety. The first witness was William Gudgeon, husband of the deceased woman, and father of the children. He said as he was only at home ono day in the week, he had not seen much of her ; but on Christmas • Day she complained of being bad in her head and throat- ra. When ho went to bed he noticed a change in her ea manner, especially in the look of her eyes, and ga spoke of it to his brothers. He fell asleep, and knew no Na st more till the murders had been committed. se. The girl Selina Gudgeon spoke also of a similar strange- lOD nem, and said that her mother was fond of her children. tug . She described the circumstances of the murder with thrilling simplicity. St. as. A police-sergeant deposed that deceased was a very gL decent respectable woman. A rurgeon, to whom the deceased had been corn- ri.• plaining of her throat, said she seemed to be at, laboung under some temporary insanity. She complained ea ri of her throat, but there was nothing the matter with it. gt. The jury returned a verdict "That Timothy George at. Gudgeon and Elisabeth Gudgeon had been wilfully murdered by Anne Gudgeon, and that Anne Gudgeon core- et. witted suicide by cutting her throat while in a state of unsound mind." ad s.
The Express. — 1866-05-31 (London, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A SAILOR  INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Payne, the City coroner,beli an inquiry at the Old Parris Head Tavern, Little 10, Rider-street, touching the death of Jonathan SimpsOP 27 years. Wickfield It. Simpson said that the decease. his brother. He was a sailor, and a fortedl3 he returned home after having made a to Melbourne and Peru. He stated till 7„, ship was paid off at Antwerp and that hut; board his living wan very bad as his captain was 6°4 s man, and he appeared to fret very.much aboutthebedhl. On Monday he went to the shipping office to get spy to his surprise he found it closed in coasels.:.„ of a strike for higher wages amongst the sailors old* t" of London. He spent money amongst the sailors WHO, and he returned home in the evening very s•—A• •sl in order to cheer him up, brought a newspiPer thought to entertain his mind with the sate g things in the City, and he read to him an o"' the stoppage of the Consolidated Bank. Witness t 0 asked him to go to the Olympic Theatre, and he got rail go, but he suddenly disappeared, and witness went ";, out him. After returning from the theatre witness informed that the deceased had committed suicides tioi Mary B. Simpson, mother of the deceased, tual her son was found lying in a pool of on the floor of a cellar underneath 0° „"-ol His throat was cut, and an open razor lay on the dl near him. He had entered the cellar unperreifedds brother when they were leaving the house to theatre. He was a very excitable man, but he , became very desponding. He spent a great deal of on i in drink. When he was coming over in the WlO4 fr. Antwerp the captain of the steamer took :sheltie es :•• from him and threw it into the sea. On Monday 10_11 much depressed about the strike, and he said he dispose of his clothes to relieve his fellow sailors- , b,,a Mr. W. G. May, M.R.C.S., said that the deceased A expired from the effects of a deep nelf-intlicted the throat, which had divided all the large "aim' death must have been instantaneous. orns" The Coroner having summed up, the jury ret verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."
The Express. — 1866-06-26 (London, England)

THAMES. LOVERS' QUARRELS.—ATTLICPTED SUICIDE. Matilda Naylor, a very pretty, fair-haired girl, with 150 great simplicity of manners, was brought before Mr. Paget, 100 charged with attempting to commit suicide in the waters of the Regent's-canal, at Limehouse. 34 A police-constable of the K division stated that he was34 on duty at the top of Salmon's-lane last night and beard 20 that a female had plunged into the canal filth the bridge. Fjt. He found the prisoner on the bank. She had just been 50 taken out of the water, and was nearly insensible. She 100 said she had been quarrelling with her young man, and 100 that caused her to make the rash attempt on her life. St. St. Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she had anything to say, s 4 and she replied in a simple and artless manner—l guar- So relied with the young man I have been keeping company St with. Mr. Paget—And that caused you to commit this wicked  151 sicus ....  102  59 G 2 100 102 84 80 80 88 98 100 98 19 1 Oidiai 17 99  act ? The prisoner—Yes, sir. John Wallace, a youth, said be had been keeping com pany with the prisoner for three months. He left her at the corner of the Dog-row, Mile-end, last night, at a quarter-past 10 o'clock. They had some words, and she would not let him see her home, and said she would go home by herself. The mother of the prisoner was desired to enter the witness-box, and she said-1 know nothing about it at all. My daughter left home very comfortable yesterday afternoon at half-past 2 o'clock. Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week to the Clerkenwell House of Detention. Mr. Paget at the same time directed the another of the girl to attend the court when her daughter was again brought up. The Mother—Please sir, can I see my poor dsughter ? Let me see her. Mr. Paget—Yes, you can see her. Speak to the gaoler. The prisoner was removed from the court crying for her mother, with whom Roche the gaoler soon arranged an interview.
The Express. — 1866-01-17 (London, England)

GOSCHEN AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.  Last evening, Mr. Gosehen, who was amongst a number of guests entertained at the Mansion•honse, in returning thanks for the toast of the House of Commons, proposed by the Lord Mayor, said he did not wish to join issue with any one as to whether or not the House of Commons might properly be called an anzuat assembly, but be was obliged to take an exception to his beteg selected to return thanks for an assembly of which he was (for the present) no longer a member. (A laugh.) The Lord Mayor bad forgotten that he had placed him in thedelicate position of having to speak for a body to whom he hoped to belong, though from whom be was for the time disassociated. How could he return thanks without betraying matters that most come before the citizens of London before many weeks elapsed! Nevertheless, in the name of those with whom be worked in the last parliament, and with whom he hoped to work in the next, he ventured to thank the Lord Mayor far the way in which he had spoken of the House of Commons. Their work was now before them, and bard work it would be. It was a very different thing to stand on the hustings and to stand on the floor of the House of Commons. There were many drawbacks, as there were many pleasures in the life of a member of the House of Commons. He bad had to take a decision which he could not take without some perplexity, for speaking there in the Mansion•house, and in the company of the chief magistrate of the City of London, it was no slight thing to say of himself that he had elected to give up the occupation in which he had been engaged for many years, to leave the fruit on the boughs for others to gather, and to surrender an interest in a firm which had taken half a unitary to build up. (Hear, bear.) He had been called on to make his election, and be bad preferred the prospects of political life. It remained for the citizens of London who first returned him to parliament to say whether they would endorse his decision. As a merchant be had committed suicide under extenuating circumstances. (A laugh.) And lif he wu able to devote his undivided time and attention to the service of his constituents and his country, whatever others might say and think, be did not think his friends in the City would undervalue the importance of a step which separated him, not from the representation of commerce or from those who were engaged in it, but from the memories which cling round ton years of active life, and would separate his name from actual buboes, end sever him for ever from Schedule Cof the booms tax. (A laugh.) It remised for hint to say that be intended to devote himself to the best services of the State, bat not es an ofilaireseker or an idler, and he thanked them in the name of the House of Commons for the compliment they bad been pleased to pay them. Some other toasts followed appropriate to the oeusioe, sad Kr. Charles Dickens having with charectoristie pace proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress, the ems. pony separated about half•put ten o'clock.  OiMAI. Pares. Offs Efiutuso
The Express. — 1866-01-27 (London, England)

BUICLIM OP ADMIRAL PAWL.  The Daily News, after pointing out that Admiral Pareja eras a hero of the Spanish type, depicted by Cervantes, in • Duel Quixote," observes that the choice of such au officer for this particular service was the most wantonly and culpably imprudent one that could have been made, due probably to the evil dream of nuns, confessors, and court favourites of destroying the ancient colonies of Spain, sad " revindicating" the rights of the crown. The poor admiral threw into the enterprise all the ardour and experience of a personal and hereditary feud, and all the fanatical tenacity of • axed delusion —namely, that the opaque t of Chili was indispensable to the restoration of Spanish enpreme/y in the Southern Ocean. When at the scene of the crusade he found the Chilies' laughing at his blockade, Peru making common cause against him, the naval powers of Europe opposed to his pretensions, and the Milted States flag hailed as a deliverer, no wonder he confidently admitted to the American Minister that he had made a mistake. The capture of one of his blockading squadron just after his boasting proclamation to his fleet overpowered him ; he retired to his state-room, and shot himself through the heed. What the next episode in this sorry business is to be will depend perhaps, should Spain unwisely persevere, on other agencies than hers. The Pose is at • lose to understand why the Madrid press should furiously insist that the character of the hostilities with Chili must be seriously changed because an armed despatch boat has been lost. Madrid seems to be unanimous in demanding that some terrible act of vengeance should be visited on the Chilians for their presumption. The Pose trusts that the governments of England and France will not neglect to address such representations to the Spanish government as may induce it to rest contented with those coercive measures by which, until now, it has sought to obtain redress. The Telegraph hopes that O'Donnell will resist the choleric and petulant outburst of resentment which the destruction of the Covadonga in Chilies waters, and the suicide of Admiral Pareja have elicited from his ignorant and excitable countrymen. For Spain at this moment to court foreign war would be an insanity which O'Donnell's proverbial common sense will teach him to combat and eschew.
The Express. — 1866-07-12 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN MILE-END.  An inquiry was held by Mr. Humphreys, coroner, at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, Charles-street, Mile-end Old-town, last evening, relative to the death under very singular circumstances of two newly-born children, the illegitimate offspring of a young woman named Emily Warner. Jane Warner, a widow, residing at 8, James-street. Mile-end, said that the two deceased were the children of her daughter Emily, a bead-worker, who was in her 20th year. On last Sunday night between 11 and 12 o'clock witness, her daughter Emily and her youngest daughter, Hannah, aged 10, went to bed together in the same bed. 'Witness did not know that the elder girl had gone wrong. During the night Emily asked for a drink of water, saying she did not feel well. Witness gave it to her, and fell asleep. On Sunday morning when she awoke Emily said that she could not get up, for something had happened. Witness then found the two deceased children in the bed dead. She put them at once in an empty pail and fetched a doctor. In cross-examination by the Coroner, it was elicited that witness had suspected something was wrong with her daughter, but when she positively denied that it was so witness believed her implicitly. No baby clothes were prepared. Witness had not heard anything during the night and the children were certainly dead when she awoke in the morning. Witness knew that her daughter kept company with a young man named Richard Waits. Hannah Warner, a little girl, gave similar evidence. Mrs. E. Lane, the landlady of the Warner family, said that she heard nothing of what happened for several hours afterwards. She believed the family to be steady and respectable. Mr. F. J. Riley said that the girl had had a miscarriage. If either of the children had been born alive he should attribute their death to suffocation or strangulation, but he could not undertake to any that they had been born alive. He hardly thought it possible that Mm. Warner could have been in the same bed while the children were born and have known nothing about it ; but there was one case on record in which such a thing was said to have occurred. An hour and a half was the average time that elapsed between the birth of twine. There was no reason why the deceased children should not have lived. The jury retured a verdict " That the deceased children were found dead in a bed, that there was no reason why they should not have beenborn alive ; bet under what circumstances they came by their deaths the evidence failed to prove."  SUICIDL FROM A STEA3f-