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C.41 . .f STROPHE AT - PORI &MOUTH. FURTHER PARTICULARS. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 16. tut evening, Mr. Hart, the Jew, his daughter; and . r ,. ! phew, were all three buried, as is their custom, before s . ; ;•s: on the day after they die. This was the first proces b;on from the fatal catastrophe of the day before. The "atm Agitation seems to have subsided into a melancholy ; :aa :na shake of the head, unless where they have sus positive loss. The Coroner has held Inquisitions aa 17 bodies, and application at the Dock-yard has been mole for 33 oti:ers, who, with seven who were re cued, make sixty-two, and many more are expected to be Wet for from the surrounding country towns and vil lages adj icent ; for the remark was generally made, on tie marning of the launch, that the people were pouring ; ma t he town in carriages and on foot from all direc c,aa, consequently, many have not yet heard of the ca l:ow:ons stf,ir. Everybody is praising the courage of 6ut H al al Paine, son of the late Mr. John Paine, Mhr h ar peaed to be at the end of the bridge. Nn sooner aAs the commotion of the water subsided sufficient for a baly to the to the surface, than he plunged into the Dock, amongst the wreck of the gates and timbers, and brought out a Mrs. Mitchell, a stout heavy woman, and ultimately saved het from drowning: it is doubtful it she finally recovers of the many bruises. At the same zotnert, a Lieutenant of the Navy, and two sailors who were is ith him, dashed in, and dived about and brought tr p ;:e other s'x. Nobody but those who were there, c.ta adequately judge of the exertions of these kind 'rarzted men : notwiths . anding the blows and cuts they !ea:lyre!, still they kept diving, until they were pre vented by the lookers on, who, seeing how much they were exhausted, would not suffer them to go down after any mole. The two sailors ought to have some pecuniary reward ; the other two are in circumstances beyond this mode of public approbation, and no doubt are pleased at being enabled,by their power of swimming, and by their bciag co the spujust at a time they could render a fellow crearoire timely assiaa u ce, to save their lives. One of she LAdies ha.t risen to the surface and laid hold of a log, a piece cf timber beat her hands off, and she was going down, wh7n one of the swimmers laid hold of her fine head of hair, which was visible to all, and by great and it , :tbual labour got her to the brink cf the Dock— otheis got hold, and when she was being dragged up, Cie Gentleman whose arm she held when passing the bridge, by some chance laid hold of her pelisse, and was thus got out; and when, by proper application, she was enabled to walk, she was carried home. The lass body taken up was that of a Midshipman, a distant relation of Sir George Grey, Commissioner of this Dock-yard. —Sir George Gley, and all the Officers and me cl attics, have done all that perseverance could de in -tis melancholy business of extricating the sufferers. It appears the Camber cannot be laid dry without an Admiralty order, this is not yet received. Mr. Cohen, surgeon of the yard, had completely exhatisted all his strength in the various fie' lions he made to re animate the several bodies first taken out, and Mr. Martell, with the utmost promptitude, rendered his able Assistance. It is well for about forty shipwrights who were in this very Dock half an hour tefore the acci dent, which took place at tt n minutes to twelve o'clock, that it was no sooner. An Officer of the yard told me, the, e were in this very dock, two'ciays before,upwatds of 'four hundred arCzans, besides labourers and convict prisoners, all busily employed to finish a small vessel therein, and clear away for the launch ; had the tide d been as high, the same weight of water against the good-gates must have had the satire effect, and the whole must have perished. The two uprights, or what is mechanically called the hers, are left standing, or fastened on each side the mouth of the Dock ; into these heis, the cross ribs, or timbers of the gates were tenoned. It appears to me all the tenoni into the hers uetweea wind and water are quite rotten, and thus giving way, soon blew up the whole fabric. EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY, 4 ottock, The launch of the PRlNcress CHaatorris has been looked forward to with anticipations of pleasure and delight by the inhabitants of Portsmouth and its neighbourhood, and early in the morning of Wednesday, individuals of all classes in society, dressed in their gayest attire, and with 'joy beanting in their countenances, were 'ten to enter Pertsntouth at every avenue. Alas ! little did they think that that sun, for whose rising they had looked so impatiently, should scarcely have passed its meridian, ere elttir joy should be turned into sorrow,and their merry meetings into bands of mourners. :;rat at the moment whei every eye was directed towards that stupendous vessel, which was about to enter, for the first time, her natural element, arid when all persons were on the tiptoe of e=pee. ration, 'the general joy was damped by a dreadful shriek from one of the flood-gates which divided a dry dock from the basin, but this wail of woe being indistinctly heard in some places, and scarcely understood in others, was lost In the stouts which attended the laut.ch. It was, however, soon found that an awful calamity had occulted ; the bridge, sixty feet long, had, by the force of the flood 2rd the pressure of the crowd, given way, and a nuMber of persons, vJriously estimated front seventy to a hundred perions,were plunged into the duck, which was by this time 15 or 20 feet deep of water. - Immediately British seamen, whose courage is only equalled by their humanity, were seen leaping in to resell. the sufferers, notwith at the danger, owing to the flood driving all before it, and dashing the wretched sufferers with great violence against the sides of the doCk. A Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, another Gentle man, I believe an Officer, and two brave fellows, seamen, by their courage were thus she means of rescuing from the •ery jaws of death -seers persons, who, with the she of the mans recom mended by the Royal Humane Society, were recovered r.d restored to their friends. Nor must I withhold the nteed of praise from the Gentlemen of the Faculty, whose exertions were indefatigable. But much as all these did to lessen the cala mity (and much indeed they did) the loss of life has been dreadful Twenty.five bodies have been taken from the water, in eighteen of whom, all attempts at resuscitation were fruitless; and eke nu memos applications at the Dockyard, shelw that this is not the ex tent of the calamity. Husbands calling out for their wives, and wives, in the agony of grief, demanding their lost husbands ; parents weeping for their children, " because they are not," and children, with streaming eyes and bursting hearts, inquiring for a father or a mother. Such are the scenes which now afffiet the lately cheerful town of Portsmouth; and every hour adds the name of some new buff, rem to this dreadful catastrophe. Alt that could be done by the Authorities here, and by our visi-, ruts; has been done ; and the worthy Baronet, Sir Godfrey f Webster, le as particularly distinguished himself by his active humanity on this J;.casluv a the boats of his yacht alfordios great assistance. A . subscription is about to be commenced for the widows and orphans •f the sufferers, and I trust it w il.be Such as to sustain the character of this country for humanity and benevolence. Ay' Neither of our Correspondents give any list or the sufferers, nor can it be male out correctly, but the following bodies have been taken out and identified : Mr. Hirt, the Jew, his daughter and nephew ; Miss Froggett, aged'2o ; Miis Knight, aged 18 ; Miss Knight, aged 14 ; Stanfield, a man belonging to the Customs; Nineham. a boy, aged 14 ; Mr. Hawse, aged IR ; a son of Mr. Taylor, the painter, aged 15 ; a child, named Bull, aged 2 ; a boy, aged 12; a stry int in livery, belonging to Mrs. Osburn, of Bloomfield ; a man of the name of Showers ; and a boy about 14, whose name is unknown. AU these perished. Of the perscnis who recovered, were Mrs. Mitchell and her daughter; Mr. Sabine, of Portsea ; and a soldier's wife, sister, and child. THE. ARMY. Major-General Sir COLIN HALLETT has appointed Mr. Pinup La Our, late Lieutenant-Colonel of the 63d Regiment, one of hi► Aides de. Camp, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Militia; and to the situation of Inspector of Sttangers in Jersey. Upwards of seventy Recruits have lately joined the 62d Regi ment of Foot, at Dublin. At a Coutt-martial held at Sangor, hi the East Indies, a native private in the 4th Battalion of Artillery, named Gtirscalt Sinj, was found.giiiity of the. murder of a native comrade, named Suwul Sing, , and sentenced to he hanged. Detachments of the 2d, id, 6th, 2./th, 30th, 38th, 41st, 44th, 45th, 46th, 54th, 59th, and 87th Regiments embarked on the Bth inst. at Cowes, on board the Industry transport, for India, under the command of Lieutenant WARNER. The 'Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry assemble on the 22d inst. for six days' duty: Tuesday the Depot of the 2d Foot, donsisting of about 100 men, marched into Canterbury, and took up their quarters at the Infan. try barracks. Tuesday, the Sussex Local Militia assembled at Chichester, to be trained in military tactics for twenty-one days. Nearly ►ixty of them are from Brighton. DAVIS'S STRAITS FISHER T. Extract-of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Hull, dated 15th of September : This morning a letter has been received from Captain latch ingman, of the Caw, of this port, dated South 11.1y, - July 3, from which I have extracted as follows :—' The Cato is clean ; we have received some trifling damage to our foreground, by striking upon Fortune Rock, in South-east Bay, which is now repaited, and we are warping out, intending to proceed north west. The Estridge, of Dundee, is lost, crew saved.' The ships belonging to this port (29 sail), had then only 22 fish ; several of the ships were stove, bitt only one of those belonging to this port. Na list has been scut. ' We fear the fishing will not be successful." NA VAL INI ELLIUENG E. Arrived off Dartmouth, the Hanover, from Rio Janeiro. Off Dover, the Tertius, Lavrrr, from Teneriffe. The Fame, Rmrar, from Miramichi, was driven on shore near Wexford, during a gale, on the 11th inst. Crew and materials saved. FALMOUTH, SETT. S.W.—Sailed the Jane Stewart, M`Kasims, for St, Domingo • and Hope transport, for Cork. PLvstooru, Sen. 15 . — Wind variable.—Arrived the Hope, NORRIS, from New South Wales. On the 24th of April, off the Ray of Islands, New Zealand, spoke with the Master and part of the crew of the brig Mercury, having been boarded and taken pos. session of by the natives of Whangarroa Bay, and with much diffi culty escaped witb their lives. Vessel and cargo entirely destroyed —Master and crew returning to Port Jackson in the Pocklington, Captain JONES, all well, with about 130 tons of sperm oil. Sailed the Henry Davidson, —.--, and Georg e , DAVIDSON, for London. Poarsuouru, Se 16.—Wind S . —Passed by, the Ganges, LLOYD, from Madras—sailed 26th March. DEAL ' Sm. 16.—Wind S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Moraleja, Wrung, from Bombay ; John, Sin, from Jamaica; Wilson, ---, from Quebec; Nestor, WaA man, front Honduras; Roiimrs, from ► Rio de Janeiro; Coventry, PURDY, from Jamaica; Peter Proctor, BROWN, from Dominica ; Baltic Merchant transport, from Cowes • Aurora, BOATMAN, from Bilboa ; Lustre, WOODFORD, from Que b ec ; and Ann, Smonseas, from Oporto. Sailed the Castor, GRANT, for the - South Seas; and Kingston, Balmer, for Halifax. LisourrooL,.. Sen. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Gleaner, BLANSHARD, from New York; and the Quebec packet, DITCHIURN, from Quebec. OLD DAILEY-TIM DAY. MURDER.- Cornelius SoNivel*, aged thirty-three, was indicted upon the Co toner's Inquisition. for the wilful murder of Jane Earl, with whom he cohabited, on the 2d of August last. Mr. ADOLTN us stated the case for the prosecution, and called Nary Mikis, who stated, that the prisoner at the bar lived in White Horse-court, Tumulil-street, Clerkenwell. On the evening of the 2J of August, the witness saw the deceased and the prisoner come up,when he knocked her'down, and kicked her several times, in the street; on the deceased recovering herself, she went into a chandler's shop at the corner of the court. The prisoner dragged her out by the hair of her head, again knocked her down, and jumped on her twice. Witness said, " Pray Con. don't kill her." Nothing material was elicited in her cross-examination. Charlotte Davis, a single woman; lives near Tutnmill street, she corroborated the last witness's testimony. • Cross-examined—Has known the prisoner about a year, and the deceased much longer; she did not fall down the steps, neither did the prisoner stumble ; the witnessbad not drank anything that day. Susan Welsh stated. that she saw the prisoner run into a chand ler's shop, and drag the deceased out by the hair of her head ; he then kicked her, and pulled her down some steps, and then dashed her within the door of their residence like a dog; he shut the door and broke a chair beating her ; he gave her many blows as many as nine ;it was a light chair. While be was beating her she was on the ground, quite senseless; she was in that state when be dragged her down the steps. Witness ran after him, and advised Jim to govern his passion, but he threatened to serve her the same. Witness was looking through the key-hoJe when he was beating the deceased ; he also attempted to strangle her with a handkerchief. Stephen Hound, a respectable looking man, proved that be kept the chandler's shop in Turnmill-street, alluded to; about half past eight o'clock on the evening of the 2d of August, the deceased rushed into his sbop in an agitated state, as if anxious to conceal herself; immediately after the prisoner followed, and pulled her out; hearing a scuMe outside, the witness went out to protect his windows, when he saw the deceased stretched on the ground, and the prisoner stamping on het body ; the prisoner then took the de ceased in his arms, and carried her away. Robert Smith also saw the deceased kicked and ill-treated by the prisoner. Mr. John Cooper, a surgeon, deposed to the deplorable state of deceased, and described the extensive bruises, &c. on the body. This closed the case on the part of the prosecution. The prisoner was now called on for his defence, but declined saying anything, and left it to his Counsel. Mr. Justice Uri-I.2°mA summed up the evidence; and the Jury consulted for some time, and at length found the prisoner Godly Manslaughter. The prisoner was then called up fur judgment, and the Re colitis,' sentenced him to be transported for lite. Yesterday, Patrick Welch, aged 24, and Lllen Lyons, 26, were indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Welch (wife of the ptisoner Patrick), in the parish of St. Giles, on the 26th of June last, by striki-g her on the head with a hatchet. There was another count, in which the prisoners were charged with causing the death of deceased by throwing her down a flight of stairs. Mr. ANDREWS stated the case to the Jury. The Leal ned Gentleman, with great minuteness and per spicuity, detailed the whole of the circumstances CDR• netted with this very curious case, and called the fol lowing witnesses to •support it. Mary Donovan, ex +mined by Mr. CaEswint, —I am a married woman. I live at No. 19, Church-street, St. G les's. My husband is a wood-cutter. I knew the de ceased many years She wits married to the prisoner, Patrick W. lch, about *is years ago, in Ireland. I was present at the marriage. They lived here as man and wife. 1 knew them living at 20, Chun ch-street ; they lived happily together ; I know Ellen I.yons; si , e came to this country from Ireland al i:int five months ago ; she was a first cousin to Alm Welch; are came and . . . death, the prisoner told me that he and deceased had been walking down stairs, and that she fell and was hurt. James Hodge.—l am a journeyman carpenter, and work for Mr. Thomas. of Bloomsbury. Welch also worked for him. On Tuesday, the 28th of June, the prisoner came to his seek at Turnstile. This was the house where he lived. It was Mr. Thomas's. He came to me and asked, if I was afraid to see a sick person?— I said, no; and he took me up stairs to the attic, I there saw a woman, whom he described tctillt as his sister. Si:e was lying on her back on the bed. I thought she was dead. He took hold of her hand, which was clenched, and opened it—it closed again. I asked him if he had any medical assistance? and he said that Mrs. Thomas's doctor had attended her.-1 always understood from him that this woman was his; sister. He told me that his wife had gone to Ireland that his master hid advanced him some money for the purpose of sending her there. He did not tell me of any accident having happened to the woman I saw. Welch told me that he had told his master of his sister's illness, and that he would call to see her. On Friday, when the woman died, Welch was sent for. When he went up stairs I heard a noise, and on his return, I asked hina what that eras? and he said it was among the persons in his rcom ; that they had found a "scratch in her (the deceased's; pate." and that they talked of sending for the her Ile. He said that they (meaning the women up stairs) had found a paper of &stir, which he had got from his mistrea to stop the blood.— Nothing farther passed then ; hut on the same day he told me, that on the Sunday before he had get a little more to drink than usual, and that he lay on the bed, and that whilst he was there, his cousin (Lyons) awoke him, and told him that hit sister (the wife) had got his coat on and gone down stairs, and he went after her, and in bringing her up, she kicked against the stairs, and threw herself and him hack on some tiles, and that that was the cause of the scratch on her pate. I examined the tiles one by one, and found some of them broken, but I saw no blood on them, nor did any blond appear to have fallen on - the stairs. The prisoner Welch also said, that his sister had spoken to him that morning, and said she wished him to follaw h:r to the grave, as he was her only friend, her husband being abroad. 1 asked him was deceased a married woman ? and he said she was, but she had parted from her husband. Antoinette Pinario.—l am the niece of Mr. Stewart, who keeps the Ship wine-vaults, in Little Turnstile; I went to see the deceased the day before her death ; she was very ill, and told me she was very poorly ; she did not say she had fallen down stairs ; I always took her to be prisoner's (Welch's) sister ; he told me so. On the Thursday evening I asked him whether the woman up stairs„avas his wife or his sister? he said his sister, that his :wife was in Ireland. When I was up stairs I saw no blood in the room. Anne Waldie.—l am a servant to Mr. Thomas ; I remember the Monday before deceased's death; I saw the prisoner Welch ; he said he was going id Mr. Thomas to ask leave to go home for the day, as his sister (the deceased) was very ill ; that she was taken very ill after Ineakfasr, with one of her fits—that in onel of her fits she had scratched her face, and hit herself. On the next morning, he said to me that he had had the parish doctor to her; but he said it was too late— that she was now dying, an i he could be of no use. On the Friday, before twelve o'clock, lie came to me and asked ft* to - give hilts .a little flour to stop the bleeding of the scratches; be had told me before, that one of the scratches, was on her cheek, and the other on her tem. plc ; I gavehim a small quantity, about a spoonful, and he . said that would be enough. On any of those occasions he never ,mentioned her saving received any wound in the back of the head. Thomas Kennedy—l am landlord of the Black Horse .public house, St. Giles's, and brother to Mrs. Donovan (the first witness); in consequence of what I beard, I went to see the body of the deceased on the day on which her husband was going to have her buried; I put the lid of the coffin on one side, and put my hand to the back of tile head, and it went into a large cut, and my hand was quite bloody; I then said to the hus 'band that there must be something wrong, and that I would forbid the funeral; the husband said that it was no affair of mine—that his wife had slipped down the bottom of the stairs and had hurt herself; the next day' I examined the stairs most carefully, and saw no trace of blood en any of them; I examined the sacking under the bed, and found it stained with blood, and flour over it; there was a great deal of blood on the bolster and on the cap; there was flour over the blood on the bed, but none on that on the bolster ; some of the clothes of the deceased were found stained with blood; there was also blood on the floor. The beadle who examined the place along with last witness, and who took the prisoner Welth into custody, corrobrrated his statement as to there being no blood on the stairs, but there being strong . marks of blood on the A )or and bed; he added, that it appeared to him that the laor had been washed, and flour laid on it between the sacking and bolster a jacket was found stained with blood, and two woman's caps covered with blood; in a cupboard, covered with shavings, I found an old cloth, which appeared to have been used as an apron; it was stained with blood; in the same place, and under the shavings, I found an iron hammer, and in the cellar below a hatchet ; there was no mark of blood on either ; the sacking, the jacket, and caps were now produced ; they were all marked with blood. Mr. Blair, a surgeon, residing in king-street, Bloomsbury, stated, that he newer attended the wife of the prisoner in Turnstile. (Pri soner bad stated that be bad Mr. Blair to attend her.) Mr. Andrew Tweddale—l am assistant-surgeon at the St. Giles's workhouse. On the 3d of July I exa mined the bOdy:of the deceased. There was a wound at the buck a the head about two inches long. I exa mined it more particularly the same day, and opened it. There was an extensive fracture at the back of the skull, beginning at the left ear, and extending across the head, and terminating at the base of the head on the opposite side. This was in addition to the wound I have mentioned. The wound was an incised wound as if cut with a sharp instrument. I put my finger to it and examined it. The axe now produced would have' inflicted such a wound. It was not a wound that would have been inflicted by a fall down three or four stairs ; such a wound, if given with force, would be likely to have produced such a fracture as 1 have described. I f‘uticl an artery of .the brain cut by a part of the bone of the skull being driven in; there had been an effusion of about four oencet of blood between the skull and the dare mater. From the appeal'ance of the wound, Ido not think it could have beets inflicted mote'than twenty tour. hours before death had ensued. I dissetted•the head ; the injury I have describe., was the cause of death. I opetued the Body, aid found no organic dis ease ; there WAS some slight disorder in the bowels, but lived with them at Church-street; Y can't say whether they 41 slept in the same tied or not; froth 'etinich• street they went to Little Turnstile, Holborn; iilshflinea months before Mrs. Welch's death ; I called on her the Tuesday before her death . ; she hid been ill before Utis. I had asked her what was the matter wi.h her? she complained of her head, and I heard the cleigyaban say she was deranged ; she old me she was jealous of Nell Lyons, her cousin; I told this to the husband af terwards, and he told me she did not knew what Ae was saying, a; she was folish I tr l I him thit the wished to go back to live in Church-street, as she Was jealous of her cousin Nell. He told me not to notice what she said, as she did not know whit she was sayirig. On Friday I heard of her death. I went down to Turnstile, and I saw the body. It was on the bed. This was between one and two o'clock. I saw Mrs. C •rkorey and Nell Lyons there, (she had lived at M. s. Corkorey's, in Church.street). I helped Mrs. Corkorey to wash the body ; when I went to the head, I found the cut. I asked Nell Lyols how it happened ? and she told me that she fell down czai-s on the Sunday night. and I said I would not wash her any further till I says , Welch. I wished to have the head moved a liter higher up on the pillow, but Lyons kept her hand cm it, and said, it was very we'l as it was. I asked her why she kept h , r hand there? she said she (the deceased) was pwging out of her mouth the' day before. I then sent her for Welch. He came, and I asked WM how it happened? and he told me that he was drunk on Sunday night; that she (tine iseJ) had followe I him down, that he was trying to carry her up, that she put her foot on the stairs and fell back with her head on the tiles, which were lying at one side of the dcvr. I after this assisted in washing the b idy. I found a cut on the head. with a piece of lint laid in it. There was blood in the hair. It was on the back of the heat°. I said I would go and alarm the " searchers." Nell Lyons said the blond had come from her head on h.t Sunday night when she came up stairs. There was the appearance of flour on the head. I was present when the searchers came next morning. Lyons was present also. —The scare ers asked Lyons what was her illness? and she said that she had been ill a long time, but she did not know what was the matter with her. She did not shew them the cut. I went on the Sunday to attend the funeral, but it was prevented by Mr. Kennedy; he went to the coffin, and put his finger in the cut in de. c.-ased's head, and then said the funeral should not take place that day ; Welch said, he should not prevent li'm from burying his own wife. Kennedy then went for the beadle. When I went to see the deceased on Tues day, she was speechless. Cress-examined by Mr. BARlM—Prisoner had lived happily with his wife as far as I saw ; I saw her only twice after she left Church-street ; the mai Jen name of the deceased was Mary Connor. I don't know that it is a custom in Ireland for married women to be bur;ed in their maiden name ; they sometimes go by their maiden name after marriage. I never heard from de ceased that she had got an illness in her head in her lying-in. 1 think deceased was a little flighty. It is'a custom in Ireland, in many places, to bury in two days after death, and sometimes the next day. Re-examined.—Deceased always went by' the name of Weleh since she was married. ----- --- Margaret Corkorey.—l have known the prisoner Welch for more than a year. He and his wife lodged at my house in Church•street; they appeared to live happily together ; Nell Lyons came to live with them about March last ; I and my husband slept in one bed, and the two prisoners and the deceased slept altogether in another bed in the same room with us. I saw no disunion between them before they left my place. I called to see deceased the Sunday befnre her d ath.— She had called on me about a fortnight before ; she was in a low state of health; she appeared to me to be a little out of her mind ; it was about four o'clock .on Sunday evening when I called ; Welch met me and my husband, and he asked us to go to see his wife, and we went ;we found her sitting up an the bed. She ap peared a little better. Welch was tipsy. On a former occasion she told me she was jealous of her cousin Lyons. She was out of her mind then. I saw her on the Tuesday before her death. Stir was then speechless.— , Lyons was present. In lifting her up we found a hand kerchief round her head ; Lyons said it was pt round her head, because her head was light ; she did not say a word at this time about her having met any accident on the Sunday; I went on the Friday ; the husband sent for me; when I went, the dec.astd was speechless; she was " in the last minute;" I was there when she died; Lyons and the husband were in the room when I came; but he was not present at her death ; I sent for him when she died, an I told him that she was dead; when washingthe body, we saw the cut on the head; I asked Welch the cause of it ? he said he was tipsy on Sunday, and was stretched on the bed.; while he was lying down, his wife gat up. and Gwent down stairs, and Lyons followed her, and called him to bring her up ; he caught hold of her vs bring her up, but she kicked against the stairs, and fell back against the tiles; I saw a spot of blood on the neck of the deceased and on the bolster, and Lyons said it was caused by her having purged out - at the mouth; while we were washing the body, Lyons kept her hand on the back of the head ; I wanted to turn the body, but she said there was no occasion; on this Mrs. Donovan (the first witness) turned the boJy, and found the cut. She then called out that the woman was murdered, and fainted away. There was blood on the cut, and in the hair. We then refused to wash the body until the searchers were sent for. They did not come till the next day. Before the Friday neither Welch nor Lyons ever told me of any accident havisig:happened to d. - ceasid. They said nothing 'abouv,st 431 I discovered the cut. Cross-examined by Mr. BARRY-• 4 was in the habit ;n h a e ws llTb s n in a dart a e ff r e t c h t e io y n i at it e of visiting I W sa el w ch sb a . n i d h h e is w w as if eg e my house; he appeared anxious while she was ill ; I attended the deceased on two occasions of her lying-ia; she had a still-born child each time ; she was never very well from that period. James Stack—l am acquainted with the prisoner Welch ; I was in company with him on Sunday, the 96th of Jane, the Sunday before his wife's death ; he was not very drunk, bpt was in liquor. He came to Corkorey's, and asked me out to take a pot of beer ? we went, and from thence to Wekh's house ; he asked me I to go and see Mary (his wife)? I saw her; she was very ill in bed; Welch and I then went out; he told me that he and his wife and Nell Lyons used to sleep in one bed together, and that he thought Nell was with child ; I did sot ask by whom, but I supposed it must he by himself, as they slept in one .bed togethei,— (This produced a titter among some of the delitati fe males whortmained in Court during the trial, in which the prisoner 149nsjoiPed).—On *44erday after her - • , r