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The Express. — 1867-11-20 (London, England)

OWL" AMONGST THS GU:VS.—Thu Owl, which re-appeared to-day, has the following announcements in its unfacetious page :—" A battle between guns and targets will shortly commence on • large scale at Shoeburyness. The targets sre of several kinds, representing the Plymouth, Spithead, and Malta defences. They cover a surface about 100 feet long and 15 in height. The attack will be made with three guns of the heaviest description. The 15in. smooth-bore Rodman gun of 19 tons, firing 10016. of American powder and an American round shot of -001 b. A 12-in. Palliser rifled gun of 17 tons. firing 801 b. of English powder and a 4501 b. Palliser chilled shot. And, lastly, a 10in. Woolwich rifled gun, firing a 4001 b. Palliser chilled shot with 601 h. of English t owder. It is a curious fact that in this experiment the expenses of the Rodman andWoolwich guns are to be defrayed by government, whereas that of the Palliser gun is to be borne by Major Palliser, that officer having already expended • sum equal to the reward he hu received in previous experiments.—At the representation of Admiral Key and General Lefroy, the Admiralty have determined to replace all their smooth-bored ordnance now in use by similar guns converted into rifle ordnance on the Palliser system. Of the smooth-bored guns there are upwards of 2,000.'52 and 68 ponaders, which will be converted into gin. and 7in. rifled guns respectively.— The 104 in. 12i ton gun which blew its breech out on board the Wivern last week was one of the heavy-wrought-iron guns which were made before Major Palliser's patent breech was adopted into the Woolwich guns in 1$6::. Only three heavy guns whose breeches were made on the old plan have fired any considerable number of rounds. The first was a Pin. gun, which' blew its breech out at Shoeburyness in 1862 ; the second was a 10in. gun of 18 tons, which did the same about two months ago, also at Shoeburyness ; the third being the Wivein's gun. The Admiralty have now decided upon withdrawing all the guns made upon the old syetem' and issued to our ironclads, and replacing them with Pin. guns made on the now plan.—All the English Artillery ' guns at the French Exhibition are being returned to this country, except the Tin. Whitworth, which has been left with the French government for experiment at Vintonnes."  TEE LATE SUICIDE AT kW
The Express. — 1867-04-23 (London, England)

REMAINS OF A GENTLEMAN FOUND IN A RIVER. 90; 96 amt. iatia, all 30 il 31 -MrSTESIOIO4 Casa.-Considerable sensation has again 116,000 10 llll i 12 13 been produced in Colchester by the discovery of human 19.109i100 arenfal met.og ac 111116 37 _ realms in the river Colne at Magdalen washing place, 1.60,006 10 Consolidated Bank (L ) 4 1 lens 60 0001 10 Do. do. New close by the St. Botolph branch railway, and the identifi- d0........1 60 pad22",;0402 ,L.) u _ - ..., cation of which beyond all doubt proves them to be the re. you 60 beg Laden (Limited) 5 31 1 mains of Mr. Richard Wortley Wonrwick, of Ipsvrich, con- uara 36 guersugarbange(Licu.) 5 21 1 tractor on the Tendring Hundred Railway for the forma- 90,000 MI Inglis IS sad Amines& .19 6 3Os Sion of a portion of the line from St. Botolph station 50.006 10 Bag.freak/adeJaneiroL 10 14 10.5 to East Gate and the Hythe, Colchester. The deceased 11.2.02.8 10 .........80111.11811546001-Chwed ,_Il (L) la 10 1 dia 7gentleman, who was late of the firm of Worswick ;374; 1:30 32,4=2222uunk (urging; ilO 1 2pm and Morpheus, builders and railway contractors, Prin. 104600 36 Ottoman llO 21 2 dis cess-street, Ipswich, has been missing twelve months, cou / I all 22 24 , and in .consequence of his mysterious disappearance. CM, II Do. New his affairs have been the subject of investigation teeesol 110 land Mcat.Bk IndiCL) 4 21 Voile 2 116 in the Bankruptcy Court, although it was stated 1000011100 DO-18D0°4061.78711' all 16-.93 MON SO Lon.m.atlierico,no.(L! 20 111 eras ad by his son, who was present at the inquest, that ~ 00, 1,..„, /4.6,,.." alai.. 19 17 ,us the deceased was not in embarrassed circumstancea. From il 42 Do. u 2,2 the manner in which the body of the unfortunate 6, 'lOO Loadontritiverliste(L ), MI 2 cos, 434 deceased wan found at the bottom of the river 52, ;00 Do. New, Ye. at lipm 10 1 pm' 101 with pieces of railway iron fastened to it to sink it, .0.600 26 Do. do. do lO par 1 peel it is suspected to be either a case of determined 52.41.0, .92 1.88 CIL Le __ _3_lll° 0.3 Counll°l4 ;211 LI ird c sii suicide or else of murder for the purposes of robbery. ;i:M, 2"; Dd7so7- New y - S - - 124 1 After hearing evidence on Saturday, the coroner ad- 73.000, 20 r.,326,,2 joist Dud" u 41 63 i 421 324 journed the inquest to this (Tuesday) afternoon at the 16,000 10 London & lionthAtriaia all 111 124 Town Hall at three o'clock, at the same time ordering the to,DxViso Loa. AB. Winlani(Llia.) 36 I 1 dlej river to be pumped dry with a fire engine to endeavour to lA*, 40 London ttEs=) 124 II 10 ithl ,10 92 96 931 ti S find a leathern purse which deceased was supposed to have N.21,:!1(01: ,L,MdcWW Beak ),I 25 15 16 ad, -ad in his possession, as it was said he bad cashed a cheque 6,:ii; Hp -E.. N., received from the Great Eastern Railway Company for wow 50 trarcautuefrEacuanianil 11l 0 708 401.-Erres Herald. W,OOO 10 Metropolitan I all 7 5 I
The Express. — 1867-09-28 (London, England)

TREATMENT OF A DYING MAN.  Mr. Richards, the deputy-coroner, held an  8 Loaf , „airy .ot night, at the ugarTavern, Church‘t. Mile-end New.town, touching the death of John ?I:a ray, aged Ali years. Murray, the widow of the deceased, said—Last • 14,t I clept in the street. I had no home. My husband a fellowship porter, and he had bought the freedom • tat: City cf London. lie got consumption, and lost I, k. Nine weeks ago the doctor told him to go into ti. workhouse. We went into the Whitechapel Union, 1 prayed very much to come out. He had worked .4 he could, and he sold paper hats made out of t' .• rims of paper-hangings, for a penny each in the streets. 1k could hardly creep about. When in the workhouse be Anne, 111 newel die here." I said, "You shan't." .1 6,• doctor said, " lie is not fit to move." He came out en Tuesday. Coroner-- You brought him out to die in the street. Witness -He had his wish. I should have had it on 1.. y conscience if he had died in a workhouse. We went to Ift. I korge-street, Spitallields. We went to bed. At I o'clock he woke up and said, " Anne, pray for me. live we a light." Ile died shortly after. Tao witness wan cross-examined, and she admitted that a'. n she and her husband left the "house," they went to a t_,vem and spent cal. out of Is. lid. that they had. She but also refused to put a mustard poultice on her husband when a doctor ordered it. She said, ' What is the use of putting a plaster on a dying man. He is nothing but bars houo sus:, . . .  A pulice sergeant said he knew the witawn as an habitual druukard.  A jar r said that she used to go into publicdicaumes and r.,1l for .pints, and then rush out and pay for them. ste but been imprisoned fur drunkenness. Edwin l'erry, deputy at the lodging-house, said that the aV aan was drunk when her husband was dying. She 34noyed him very much, and although be was dying he took up a shovel to try and defend himself. He struck ter three times. After her husband's death she remained up until the public-houses opened. Margaret Sennett said that when the deceased was dying he cried out to his wife, " For God's sake leave me alone ; let me die in peace." She would not let him lie and he was compelled to strike her. ►lr. S. Syer, surgeon, proved that the deceased died from inflammation of the lungs. He ought not to have icon taken out of the workhouse.  The coroner addressed the wife and said, "You have helped your husband into the grave. You leave the court dis;race to your sex, and if you do not give up your la.astly propensity for drink you will either end your life by suicide or you will go to the gallows." He then told the jury that he thought it would be useless for them to formally censure a wretch of that kind. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from inflammation of the lungs."
The Express. — 1867-11-02 (London, England)

CLERK ENWELL. pond near the spot was, by order of Mr. &pain- ft 1100 South Lateen --- - 67 an On RIVAL cieiTithilONOtica. tendent Webb, of the Y division, dragged, and a large es 141 19441666•W46114, 62 4 Robert Haokins, aged 27, a costermonger. of 8, Cromer. cavalry pistol bearing the Tower mark got from it. Near 10aa 11l ,TairDe.Valec ..-- --•--, 145 1_47 .... 7 _.. ,trea, St. Pancras, was charged with assaulting James the spot also there was picked up two ball cartridges, le idd lwamagord 'a ifirlaar .. - 6-- Taylor, in Chapel-street, Soruer's-town. Mr. Webb, with several detective officers are making le • t waterier. * Wlllil. -..The parties are rival costermongers, and both stand in diligent inquiries into the matter. The lalllady of the eij 18 1 718} 1 114 131 131 for money. the same street. Before the complainant could get to the Prince of Wales beer-shop, Boundiegreen, in the locality usual spot on which he puts his board, the defendant had where the occurrence took place, said shortly after the BRITISH Pun5lll5lllONE. taken up that position, and when the parties met a regular affair two men came in and had a pint of ale, and then sa 1 ALI nanwara I Clods' prima. I *ma fight took place, and such a mob assembled that the traffic left hurriedly. They both appeared very excited, and one La, , all uue,..tm.u.,..., at le _ in the street was fora time suspended. On the police- was carrying a black bag. SL 'lOO Sam Bar. AC. In Ochs 1024 1081 1034 i 1 1 i constable coming up, be found the complainant on the The supposition as regards the horse is that they untied 10 !14 Do. P Mara.- - par }pm ground bleeding from a wound in the nose. He said be it from the gate, that both men mounted, and after riding ete all einem et Lake Huron 8} 4 did not wish to hurt the defendant ; all that he wanted some distance turned it adrift. 16 all Do. Preference 5 I e• was that he should he bound down to keep the peace. 100 100 linfl,BreatoMioderich - The defendant said that he was first assaulted, and 6 per cent 1871.3-4 sp. a g - - what he did was done in self-defence. THE SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT THE DALSTON Mr. Barker ordered the defendant to enter into his own
The Express. — 1867-10-23 (London, England)

ROYAL BANK.  The Royal Bank of Liverpool wu established in 1839, and did a large and profitable business until the panic of 1847, when it succumbed to the commercial storm of the period, principally owing to the failure of the great firm of Barton, Irlam, and Higginson. It was, however, resuscitated, owing chiefly to the exertions of Mr. Samuel Holme, and all went smoothly until the suicide of the manager, Mr. J. Chaffers, who was succeeded by Mr. H. A. Withers, the present manager, whose policy of seeking " large" accounts is, of course, now much questioned.  In the course of yesterday the Union Rank of Manchester transferred their account from the Royal Bank to the National Rank of LiverpooL  The foundation stone of a new church for the district of Kennington was laid yesterday by Mr. Cazenove. It is designed to relieve the pariah of St. Mark, which contains a eery large population, and has but one church. The new building will be dedicated to St. John, and an ecclesiastical district will be assigned to it.  The Devon House of Mercy, at Bovey Tracey, in connection with the Clewer Sisterhood, was opened yesterday. Holy communion was celebrated by the Hon. and Rev. Canon Courtenay, and the sermon preached by the Rev. T. T. Carter. The Earl of Devon presided at the ,luncheon.  The barrister aita to-morrow (Thursday) at Radler' Hotel, Bridge-street, Black friars, for the revision of the lists for the parishes and places within the City of London: and this will be the end of the revision for tho county of Middlesex for the year 1867.  Dow:emu-waxer' Oc-r. 19.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. James Terrence Fitzniaurice to be inspector of prisons in the Island of Ceylon. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint LieutenantColonel Roland Macpherson, HA., to be colonial secretary for the Straits Settlemente.—Gazette.  SOCIETY or
The Express. — 1867-03-18 (London, England)

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER OP THREE CHILDREN AT HALIFAX.  On Saturday, a man named James Whittaker, a wool warehouseman, living at Wheatley Bottom, near Halifax, poisoned himself and three of his children. The man was 57 years of age, a widower, mid lived in • cottage with three children, twins, a boy and girl, 7 years, and one 13 years of age. From the statement of the children it appears that he opened some powders, the contents of which he wanted to spread upon bread for then, to eat, telling them that it war medicine. One of them objected, and asked to have the powder mixed with meal and water to drink. He, however, appears to have mixed it in • cup of water, and the three children drank it. He also drank something out of the cup after. He then went upstairs and laid upon the bed. The children became ill, and vomited much. A neighbour becoming aware during the evening that the children were ill went into the house, and was informed of what bad taken place. Other neighbours dropped in, and on going upstairs the wretched man was found lying on the bed, but unable to speak. He died soon afterwards. The policeman of the district was informed of the occurrence, and he gave information to his superiors at the Town-hall, Halifax ; and Mr. Wright, the police surgeon, visited the family. The signs showed unmistakeably that the father had died from poison. The children he found in • hopeful state. On examination, he found • sediment of poison in the cup, which was taken possession of by the police. Some white papers were also found, which had evidently contained the poison, but there was no printed label upon them. It is supposed that the powders were similar to those sold for the destruction of vermin. The surgeon is of opinion that the children escaped on account of the father nut having sufficiently well mixed the powder. Having prescribed for the children, the stourytLn. left, and when last Decased was until ofn ttyheiwwere.vearllblltkelz consequence of impaired eyesight, his employer, Mr. Appleyard, Wheatley, provided him with more suitable work in the wool warehouse. He has been a widower about three years. His house is a scene of great wretchedness.  THE QtrZEN AT
The Express. — 1867-08-07 (London, England)

ENEMILS' GOODS IN NEI;TRAL VESSELS.  The rillUJ recovers from its surprise at finding Mr. Mill opposed to relaxation from the miseries of war, to challenge his arguments on the right of neutrals. The concessions we have made have had their fair equivalents. We have learnt by experience,though at first we were very slow to believe the fact, that it is quite possible for a foreign war to be waged between first-rate powers, and yet for us to take no part in it. We have not the slightest wish to attack anyone, and why should we seek, in favour of belligerents, to repeal the rule, and so make the position of neutrals almost intolerable ? The Timis is glad to see that Lord Stanley evinces no inclination to yield to Mr. Mill's views. The declaration of Paris may not be capable of holding its ground under all that may occur, but that is no reason why we should not take advantage of it as far as it goes. Indeed, every restriction placed on a belligerent, and every facility accorded to a neutral, has a tendency in favour of peace. The security of neutrals operates as a fine on the belligerent, by withdrawing one Bourse of his wealth, and it is a reward to the pacific, to whom it transfers the profit, which, in their mutual hostility, nations forego. Having entered into this agreement, moreover, we are bound to maintain it. We have derived very considerable advantages under it, and have as yet suffered no injury.  The Herald and Standard are delighted to applaud Mr. Mill for his speech on tho declaration of Paris. According to these papers, that treaty is for England political mutilation, if not political suicide. The Standard has ever believed, with the great body of the conservative party, that the famous " Clarendon capitulation," made in Paris at the close of the Crimean war, was one of the grossest and most fatal blunders for which whig diplomacy is responsible.  - The Star agrees with Mr. Mill that we cannot stop in maritime war with exempting private property in neutral ships from capture, but what then is the next step ? On. ward, the Star says, in the path Mr. Cobden so long pointed out—the path which the United States were willing to follow—to the exemption of all private property from capture at sea during war by armed vessels of every kind. Backward, says Mr. Mill, to the system which searched for your enemy's private property wherever it might possibly be found, and dripped him of It.  The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. George Long, of the Chancery bar, Secretary of Presentation' in Erof Mr. LUlhillgioll, whose resignation was announced  The Bishop of London was able to sit up on Monday for the first time since his recent attack, and to dress hunself.  Taa lisavarr sx Awznica.—The harvest in Minnesota will allow her to rapist 1%00,000 bushels of Pain.
The Express. — 1867-11-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT A CITY BAWL—Yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. Payne, come er for the City of London, held en inquest at Messrs. Willis, Percival and Co.'s banking-house, No. 76, Lombard-street, on the body of Mr. Charles Brooks Woodcock, aged 46 years. From the evidence of Mr. Alfred Johnson, a clerk in the bank, it appeared that the deceased was second clerk. He was always considered to be somewhat excutric. About a month ago, a new junior clerk being taken, he became very excited, and asked the witness whether the firm were not going to send him away. There were no grounds, however, for any such apprehension. On Saturday last he was very excited in his manner, and was so restless that he left his books sad went out to walk on London-bridge. He slept that night as usual at the bank. On Sunday morning, a little after nine o'clock, he sent for a cup of tea, and immediately afterwards he was found by witness lying on the door of his bedroom with a shot through his head, and a pistol by his side near his right hand. He was quite dead. Another pistol, the cap of which had been snapped, was found in the room. Mr. Frederick Woodcock, a solicitor, residing at Gloucester, said that the deceased, who was his cousi n,gotinto pecuninry difficulties a few years ago, and he was so much affected thereby that it was at one time a question whether be should not he put into an asylum. Fie was in debt 5001. His friends assisted him, and be became more calm. His accounts were quite correct so far as the bank was concerned. Mr. T. Franklin Lloyd, M.R.C.S., 46, Finsbury. circus, said that he wee called in on Sunday morning, and he found the deserted lying dead in a pool of blood near the bedroom window. A pistol bullet bad entered the head in front of the right ear, and had paned out three inches over the left ear. The wound was self-inflicted. fury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound
The Express. — 1867-09-10 (London, England)

PROFLIGACY, DRINK, AND SUICIDE.  A painful inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, the deputy-coroner, last night, at the Black Horse Tavern, High-street, Poplar, touching the suicide of Eli Short, aged 22 years. Rachel Stewart said she was the wife of a carman living in Poplar, and left her husband six months ago to live with the deceased, who was • stone-mason. After she went to live with him he took to drinking, and lost his employment. Lest Saturday afternoon when he had been drinking rum she was with him near the bridge at the west end of the south dock of the West India Docks, and all at once he ran away, crying out, " Go on." Witness was sober.  John H. Woodland, 1, Upper North.street, Poplar, a postman, said that the last witness was drunk at the time in question and tried to drown herself by leaping into the dock, but he caught hold of her and prevented her doing so. The deceased rushed to the edge of the dock and leaped in. He was drowned. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased was drowned in consequence of throwing himself into the water while suffering from delirium tremens."  Mr. Job Smeeton, a tenant of the Hon. F. Villiers, who had notice to quit his farm in consequence of him refusal to pay a church-rate, has rewired an intimation that he may continue to occupy it in consequence of there having been some irregularity in connexion with the rate.  The first prize thoroughbred at the recent agricultural show at Dublin has been the, described in a newspaper :—" He was certainly in the upper story a complete combination of stamina, strength, and motive power, though from the knee downwards rather light-looking; yet this was to a great extent compensated for by his short shins and the large epiphyses! developn.ent of his phaLumeal bones!" PLOUGHING Mann Es. —The first ploughing match of the season came off at Iticester, in Oxfordshire, last week. The champion prim was won by a local man, ' H. Jackman, with • Howard's plough, John Goodwin, another local man, taking the second prize, also with a Bedford plough. Before the commencement of the plough, mg match season Messrs. Howard announced to the various , agricultural societies their intention not to enter their own experts at these competitions in future, but to leave the prizes, so far as their firm is concerned, to local ' ploughmen.
The Express. — 1867-06-22 (London, England)

ILP. This being established her petition was dismissed; jbat on the suicide of Lord Furth in I .4;1 age was married to her paramour, who no. petitioned fur a dissolutionon the ground of her ad &try with Captain Blakely, the inventor of the ordnance which goes by his name. The respondents both denied the allegation, and Captain Blakely also charged the pet'. tioner with connivance. The parties continued to live on good terms with each other till 1866. It appeared that the Derings and tls Blakelys (for the co-respondent was a married man) were on intimate terms, and that there had been an elopement,,,,,. which led to the present suit. Captain Fesron proved the marriage, and jetmed to ' the terms upon which the parties lived together. They appeared to be very happy till the assent events occurred. Also knew Captain Blakely; be bee connected with the Blakely Ordnance Company (Limited). 'The parties went together on a yachting expedition laid rotir.ie He had seen Mrs. Blakely at the petitioner's , On the:ilst of May witness saw the co-respondeat at an hotel in Conduit-street. He told vitae* that he I had received a telegraphic message from Mrs. Daring to the effect that she was coming to town, and that, as he could find no one else to meet her, he had met her hita self, but he bad done nothing beyond conducting he, is her hotel. He gave witness his word of honour that h, would not see her again. Witness had told him that he, husband was willing to take her back. Hail never ova any undue intimacy between the respondents. 8,,e, Mrs. Tiering in the course of the same afterneoe, at the Great Western Hotel, in the presence of the Hon. Mrs. Caned, her mother. Asked her hip back to her husband, and told her that he was willies to receive her, and treat her with kindness. She was excited and hysterical, and said she could not go back to her hat band because she had deceived him. She insisted on seeing Captain Blakely, and went in a cab to his house, Nix 1, Park-lane. Never saw him again. Mr. Bering seem edvery much " cut up" by the loss of his wife. Was a common friend of tlut Parties, and should not say there hail been the least connivance on the part of the petitioner. Formal proof of an adulterous cohabitation at the United Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's, and at the Great Northern Hotel (where Captain Blakely had passed se Colonel Felloweis), baring been given, Sir J. Wilde made a decree nisi with costs, and strongly censured the conduct of the co-respondent in putting so insulting a plea as connivance on the record, and not giving a particle of evidence in its support.