The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-14 00:00:00

F NEWS It tan. .ad." s the King ad% mbassador, tIL, Du k e s d'Es 6 7,j e t4 :: oun te d'liantr r od sinister to tb ' 1 0 0 Berthois, Sal" es the jOurna-u , 160 sons, the Coto, _ ty self vaccinated V' 'orb Ire b e f ti to Public t i e s • 00 of DePY . .d 211 alvandy n of la t the itjiutu—riues shops of hay.'por >t. Flour, of tit approving mut „ last 0 ", the'j . anus, •vidobsorie and, 11..ure BC' rthe ' elz ; 011 ° ,:fr n the ra l ' r : de I "`' 0: 4 i the viol vioiej courag e ar iraY si) ht of the tohambere the owe :nterior Prall -0 at Madriu9ed rPf who aCCUSpOCPA' se of the fsa leus Teat O. a yin ; d with b 8 arricide, ° P ;o 0 P . lie b a a d ( 1, 11 rpe ri ntAnc e, ,, - 0 , i eased the c';,oo !id that be of that the i _. 0 1 111 ., w ith the , 4 5 I - of sooirLid, et The rai l ' ".- itl I to LeiPV de snow W t j a to no bles An be incree!e( ,e Cotow"ibe propose to_,ije ,wed to P e p e ) 11.150, as the tbe ompanY„,""ll/13 all be AL N as. ~, ame dtiO nsi j stern 10„ b :k of f 3L— cot4 e of the e 'th 'va Mal ° LBO . , 80 d tbe ok isuieg 4( 01 4 lent, ad, etc' Houk rr of • to-0 Li for Al ec w ith Pri MrDibire il ed i n " St. • 111 : Bd -I , Wilt°, ll 'l ster is Eat° • ( ▪ o Led 01, Is- 43 doo r tbe t ,ei.r t :to •;110 ,tit! b , ail' • ree oc t o ba ,cte o e4 . 13 01 er rtiG 4 " (A , I ' , of - ;el l, ' " of": W bert 1, 11 40 - / EAST INDIA HOUSE, Mason 12, 184.5 THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY hereby give notice that on and after the ,-,_ li ! APril, 1845, th e y will be prepared, on behalf of her Majesty's "'llernnient, to PAY the SIIARES of the DONATION BATTA, Granted to the Forces employed in China, under the minute of the l',"1118 CommiSsioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated 26th July, 1844 due to the ofticers and crews of her Majesty's ships, All igator Druid Pyladcs Alx , llo Dido Plover Al, Mine Driver Royalist oi en h eirn Endymlon Serpent 11 'onde Herald Sulphur Co rnwallis Harlequin Sapphire uornwallis hazard Starling Canii,ri nn Hyacinth Thalia Calliop e Jupiter Vindietive Coltnnbine :- Larne Vixen Clio Ctui zer 31inden - Wellesley Modeste Wolverine Chider, North Star Wanderer Curueli o n Nimrod Young Hebe Pelican 40 . all parties desirous of receiving shares of this grant undvr orders, s or h iZtnents, or.powers of attorney, are hereby required to 'suss such assignments, or powers of attorney to be lodged in the Military 12th of the Eavt India House, for registration, before the said April, 1841. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary, [ ER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN m i ing been"pleased to send a Donation of 201, to the Fund now 11; 1 1 ' 4 N in consequence of the late Calamity on the Scroby Sand ; and p°4, Subscriptions already received from several Noblemen, Public 1,44' Dittiies, Insurance Societies, Private Individuals, and others, to •," with the Inhabitants "of Yarmouth and the neighbourhood, noticing; to a considerable sum ; the Committee confidently hope that the benevolent objects contemplated in the following appeal, and Itate,l in th e concluding paragraph, may be fully realised through the "Waged assistance and sympathising liberality of the public at large. AUTHORIS - ED STATEMENT OE THE. C ALAMITY AND LOSS OF LIFk ON THE. SCROBY SAND, OFF YARMoUTH BEACH, On SUNDAY, JANUARY 2:, 1845. To THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CLERGY. AND TO THE. SHIPPING, MA' UEACTURING, AND TRADING POPULA TION OF ENGLAND. It s well known to those acquainted with the Eastern coast of fforfolk, that, during heavy gales, the immediate vicinity of Yarmouth Ronda is one of the most dangerous parts of the entire coast of England. The number of wrecks which occur on the Barber, Cross, Corton, and especially the Scroby Sands, hal; long ago induced a hardy, brave, and intrepid race of men to devote their entire lives to the saving of property and life along the coast. A number of boats called yawls, measuring from 50 to 80 feet long, and from 30 to 80 tons burden, have, at an expense of from 3001. to 4001. each, been built by the joint 'contributions of the Bearhmen, who have f rmed themselves into companies for that purpose. With these they often leave the shore at the moat imminent risk of their lives, not only when the chance of saving property 'folds out to them the hope of a large reward in the shape of salvage, but with no less earnestness and intrepidity when the only satisfaction they have in Prospect is rescuing from a watery grave some of their falow creatures. • • On no occasion is it remembered that this noble and disinterested daring was more magnanimously displayed than n Sunday, the 26th of January, 1845, on which day, during a veryhea'ey gale from N. W. and by W. no less than five brigs were in distres four upon the Scroby Sand and one upon the Barber. In no one of these cases was there, at the time of their condition being discovered, the slightest probabi lity of saving anything like property. Nothing, therefore, but the warm prompting. of humanity could offer any inducement to the Bcachmen to man their boats : yet they hesitated not a single mo ment, but at once launched their gallant barks and set forward to the rescue. Happily their efforts, in four Instances, were sucoessful la saving all the crews. The Caister Beachmen, with their yawl, Storm, succeeded In saving the crew. of the Elizabeth, of Scarborough, nice in number. . The Holkham Company, in their Yawl, the Red Rover, 38 tong, went off to the brig Jane, of Whitby, from which, although the yawl sustained considerable damage, they succeeded in rescuing the crow, nine In number. _ . The Young Company, with their yawl, the Sailor's Friend, of 48 tons, succeeded, at very considerable risk, in taking off the crew of the brig Choice, of Newcastle, also nine in number. The Star Company, in their yawl, Phcenix, went off to the Inn, of Sunderland, from which, after splitting the stem and carrying away the mast of the yawl, they rescued_and safely landed the crew of nine men. . ....... Having thus far been enabled to record the meritorious and suc cessfnl conduct of these gallant men, who, in addition to the immi nent risk of their lives, have suffered considerably in the injury done to their property—for which no remuneration can be anticipated but from the benevolence of a British public, it remains to relate the me lancholy catastrophe which forms the climax to this statement. The Beaehmen of the " Phcenix" having safely landed the crew of the " Ann," and being themselves much exhausted, a fresh crew of the same Company re-manned the yawl, and immediately proceeded to another vessel lying in distress on the Scroby ; the wind was then blowing a hurricane. On nearing the vessel, they found the sea running over her, and made an unsuccessful attempt to reach her ; failing to do so, they let go their anchor and veered down ; unfortu nately the force of the sea drove the yawl upon the brig and dashed her to pieces ; when the Beachmen—with the exception of one man (named Abraham Wetherell), who sank with the yawl—got on board the brig, which was now drifting, and every sea breaking with tre mendous violence over her bull. The accident being witnessed from the shore several men belonging to the different Companies manned the life-boat and flew to their as sistance. The danger of all was extreme, and those on shore trembled alike for the poor fellows on the brig and those in the life-boat. Hap pily she reached the brig though too late for many, some of whom were carried overboard by the falling of the brig's masts, and some drowned on the wreck. Six only of the " Phoenix's crew were saved]; and of the brig's crew, who were in a state of exhaustion when the " Phoenix " first reached ber, the whole perished. Thus in the noble attempt to save the lives of their fellow-men, seven of our gallant beachmen found a watery grave, leaving behind them four widows and fourteen children (ten of whom are under twelve years of age) totally unprovided for, as well as the aged mothers of the three single men. Their na res were Abraham Wetherell (leaving a widow and nine children), James Shreeve (widow and three children), Ganham (alias James) Billing (widow and two children), James Boulton (widow), William Warner, George Points, and James George, single men, but upon whom their widowed mothers, or aged parents, depended for subsistence. To provide a fund to relieve the necessities of the bereaved—to re ward the noble fellows who so gallantly risked their lives for others — to assist in replacing the serious loss suffered by the boatmen—and to form a nucleus for a permanent fund for the relief of sufferers under similar calamities in future—is the object of the present appeal. Subscriptions will be received at the banks of Messrs. Barclay and Co., and Sir B. C. Glynn and Co., London ; and at any of the banking houses in Norfolk and Suffolk. Signed on behalf of the Committee, W. FIIIRRY PALMER, Mayor of Great Yarmouth. Chairman. Committee-room, Town-hall, Feb. 24, 1845. AVIES'S WAXED WICK MOULDS, 6d. per lb. ; Candles, M. ; Botanic Wax Candles, Is ; Ogiebrs Patent Oil, equal to Sperm, 4s. 6d. per gallon; Vegetable Oil, 4s: 6d. Oiiparm, 75. 6d.; Solar, 3s. 6d ; German Wax, Is. 2d. per lb.; Fine Wax, is. 5d.; Genuine Sperm, 25.; Transparent, 25.; Genuine Wax, 2s. 3d. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and 58s. per 112Ibs ; Mottled, 60s. and 645.; Windsor, is. 4d. per Packet; Palm, Is. 4d. ; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 641. ; Seal ing Wax, 45. 6d. ; Hales or Price's Composite, 10d. ; Vauxhall Compo site, B%d. ; Palmer's Metallic, 7%d. and 9d. For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Mar tin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house. TEA TRAYS, Tea Urns, Knives and Forks Dish Covers, &c., at C. WATSON'S, 41 aid 42, BARBICAN and 16, NORTON-FOLGIATE. Establ;ahed half a century.—A set of 3 Paper Tea-trays, including the largest size made, 355. • very richly ornamented all over, 5.4 Three, . a Set of and up to 14e. ; %h. pnn Tea-trays, 7s. 6d. a Set, and upwards ; a Five Quart London made Bronze Tea-urn 355., with the newest patterns up to five gui neas ; a Set of Si/ patent raisei London made Dish Covers, IS.. 6d. ; but imperial raised, 355. 6d. Set of Six. Elegant silver shape, 525. 6d. Set of Six. - - - Ivory Table-knives, lis. per done, Dessert, es.; Carvers, 3s. 6d. per pair. TABU!. DESSERT. CARVERS. doz. doz. pair. 31-in. handsome balance handle ..• • las. Od. 14s. Od. 6s. 6d. 4-in. balance handle, largest and best made......... ••.. • ........ 201. Od. 16s. Od. Is. 6d. Ditto with Watson's Albata Plate handles, equal to silver.... • • .... 225. 6d. las. Od. Bs. 6d. Forks half the above price. C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current is just published, and families who regard economy and elegance should possess themselves of this useful book, which may be had gratis, and post free, from the above address . Sole inventor of the celebrated Albata Plate, which to so rapidly superseding Silver. THE LAMP WONDER, C. WATSON'S PARAGON CAMPHINE LAMP. The great fault which has proved fatal to the success of the Vesta Lamp, viz., the em'ssion of black smuts and smoke. is entirely ob viated in the Paragon—the brilliancy and purity of its light surpasses any other yet seen, and burns for one half-penny per hour. C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Nortox Fol gate, are replete with every variety. The Spirit, analysed by Dr. Ure, is sold by C. Watson, at 4s. per gallon. Contracts given for Chapels and Public Buildings. AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, NAVIGATION. THE CHURCH. AB. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, 14 , Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank, have finished a few splendid Pieces of PLATE, suitable for presentation to Gentlemen connected with either of the above pursuits or professions, to which they invite the attention of Committees who are in search of valuable testimonials for such occasions. FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH, Price 4s. 6d. Patronised by HER MAJESTY, his Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, and her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of KENT. MR. THOMAS ' S SUCCEDANEUM, for STOPPING DECAYED TEETH, however large the cavity. It is placed in the tooth in a soft state, without any pressure or pain, and will remain firm in the tooth for many years, rendering extrac tion unnecessary, arresting the further progress of decay. All per sons can use Mr. Thomas's Saceedaneum themselves with ease, as full directions are enclosed. ' • - Prepared by Mr. Thomas, Surgeon Dentist, price 4s. 6d. Sold by Savory and Moore, 220, Regent-street, and 143, Bond-street ; Sanger, Ih(), Oxford-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand .- John ston, 68, Cornhill, and all Medicine venders. Mr. Thomas continues to supply the loss of Teeth on his new system of self-adhesion, without springs or wires. This method does not require the extraction of any teeth or roots, or any painful opera tion whatever. At home from Eleven till Four. 64, Berners-street, Oxford-street. ANSWER of the GREAT BRITAIN to E. MOSES and SON'S ADVERTISEMENT. Messrs. MOSES and SON, I perceive you have written A poem concerning myself—the " Great Britain;" And I feel myself flatter'd (believe me I do) To be noticed at all by such persons as you. You say you admire my wonderful bulk, The height and the length, and the breadth of my hulk. But what is my structure, which multitudes mark, When compar'd with the house which you term a " huge barque." The mighty Great Britain is surely outdone By the giant-like warehouse of MOSES and SON. When• I look at your mighty Columbus of trade, On the wide sea of commerce in triumph display'd, My vessel appears a contemptible boat; And, to tell you the truth, I'm asham'd while I float. But, Sirs, I am qualified, nevertheless, To convey o'er the ocean vast cargoes of dress. And here let ins hope that my trips may be run In conveying the outfits of MOSES and SON." Your vast foreign orders across the wide sea, Require a wonderful vessel like me ; And I certainly wish, from the ground of my heart, That my pow'rs coul•i thus be employ'd for your Mart ; • And now, begging pardon for what I have written, I remain, your well-wisher and friend, THE GREAT BRITAIN. A new work, entitled " THE LEVIATHAN OF TRADE," with full directions for Self-Measurement, may be had on applleatisn, or forwarded pos-tfree. X a. d. Beaver Taglionis •••••••• • • • • • • • ..... ••••••• • • • • ' " • 'from • 8 6 Ditto Chesterfields ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • .. ... • 0 10 6 Ditto Codringtons • Ditto Pettbrokes, Atbols, Feltoes, and every description of Winter Coat, handsomely trimmed. • • • Boys' Winter Coats, in every style ... • • • Warm Winter Trousers, lined • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Doeskin • • • Dress Coats, edged, &c • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Frock ditto, ditto... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Rolling Collar Vest • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Double-breasted Ditto Boys' Hussar Snits Ditto Tunic, neatly braided 1 lb 0 ▪0 8 6 •• 4 6 0 10 0 1 0 0 1 3 9 • 17 6 • MADE TO MEASURE. Saxe Gotha Coats, velvet collar and cuffs.. ••••• • • • • • from 1 18 0 Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely trimmed 1 5 0 Milled Tweed Wrappers •• .. Ditto ditto Trousers ••••• • • • • ••• • • ••• • • • •••••• . • • • • • 0 8 6 Buckskin Ditto .. ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• • • Doeskin Ditto, any pattern •••••••• • • • • • • • • • • •• ••• • •• 0 12 0 Best, or Dress Trousers •• • Cashmere Vest Winter Ditto, is en ileac pattern.. •••••••.• • • • • • • .. Dress Coat Ditto, ditto, best manufactured .••• • • • ....... ... ••• • • 2 15 0 Frock Coat ........ • .... ... Ditto, the beat manufactured ••••• • • • • ....• •••• .. • ••• • 3 3 0 Boy's Hussar Suit • .• • Ditto Tunic . . Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the following prices : Men's Suits, dress coat; vest, and trousers •• • • • • —from 1 16 0 Ditto, jacket, vest and trousers.. •••• • • • —.from 0 18 0 IMPORTANT.—Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved of, exchanged, or the money returned. Observe--E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Mino ries, and 86, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church. C UTION.—E. Atoses and Son are obliged to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false hood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They ♦ve no connexion whatever with any other establishment, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to p(drt!nt disappoittment, &c.) call or send to 154, Minories. or 80, Aldgate, opposite the Church. N.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on sunset on Saturday when business is resumed till twelve N. 16,404. LONDON, GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS leave thg Brunswick Pier, rilackwall, at 11, 3, and 5 ; on Suidays at 11 and 3. from Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 9j, 1, and 5 ; on Sundays at 91 and 5. Fares to or from London. Fore Cabin and Second Class Carriage, Ninepence, Saloon and First Class Carriage, One Shilling. To or frola Blackwall. Fore Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ntneponce. Star Office, Graveeend, March 11, 1845. Fill DAY WILSO N'S SCOTTISH -ENTERTAIN MENTS. At the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, REDFORD-SQUARE, On MONDAY EVENING, March 17, at Eight o'clock, Mr. WILSON will repeat for the Fourth time his Entertainment of. WANDERING WILLIE'S WALLET. ' PART I.—The Minstrel—Hey the — bonny breast-knots—The Core nanter's Lament—Hama came our gudeman at e'en—Bessle Bell and Mary Gray—The Bonny House o' Airlie-0 Bothwell Bank thou bloontest fair—John Grumlie. SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S NEW MEDICAL BILL. . _ A PUBLIC MEETING of the ASSOCIATION of GENERAL PRACTITIONERS is MEDICINE, SURGERY, sad MIDWIFERY; will he held at the Ilanover-square Rooms, on Fainsir NEXT, the 14111 Instan , to which every General Practitioner is specially invited, Sro the purpose of receiving the REPORT of the PROVISIONAL COM- M ITT EE, and of adopting such resolutions thereon as may be deemed R. R. PENNING f ON, Esq., in the Chair. The Chair will be taken at Six o'clock precisely. By order of the Provisional Committee, JAMES BIRD, . Honorary HENRY ANCELL, 5 Secretaries, 4, Hanover-square, March 11, 1845. P ARTS AND LYONS RAILWAY, (C. LAFFITTE'S ORIGINAL COMPANY.) DIRECTORS, Monsieur Charles Laflitte, Paris. James H. Attwood, Esq., 13, Upper Seymour-street, Portman square, London. Comte d'Alton Shoe Pair de France, Paris. John Moss, Esq., Liverpool. The Right Mon. G It. Dawson, 15, Upper Grosvenor-street, London. Wm. J. Chaplin, Esq., Adelphi-terrace, London. Monsieur E. Simons, Administrateur des Missageries Royales, Paris. Monsieur Alexandre Berignieres, Administrateur des Messageries Generale!•, Paris. Charles Devaux. Esq., 62, King William-street, London. Hardman Earle, Esq., Liverpool. Monsieur Ed. Blount, Paris. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P., Loudon John 3fasterm - an, jun., Esq., Nicholas-lane, Loudon. Aionsieur Morena Chalons, i'aris. Matthew Elxielll, Esq., 62, King WiMain-street, Loudon. The Provisional Committee of the Paris and Lyons Railway Com pany having ascertained that , it is the intention of the French Govern ment to lease the line to a company able and willing to reimburse the State for all expenditure hitherto incurred, and to undertake all fur ther outlay which may be required for the entire construction of the line, have determined upon increasing the capital to the full amount necessary fir this purpose. In conformity with the terms of sub scription contained in the circular of the 10th August last., which con templated such a contingency, they have resolved upon offering to the Shareholders Two New Shares for every Old Share, sub ject to all the liabilities ofincrease or diminution hereafter, as in the fernier case, and subject also to any further sail which may be found necessary. All Shareholders who may wish to avail themselves of this option are requested to apply at the office, and to produce the original receipts, between Tuesday, 11th, and Saturday, 22d inst. Notice is hereby given, that all parties not applying within the pre scribed thee will be considered to have waived their claim to the ad ditional shares, which will be otherwise appropriated. By order, ID. AIMS, secretary. 6!, King Wllllam-street, March 6, 1845, THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE WORRIN6, COMPANY, Esher-street, Holywell-street, Milbank, Westminster (established 1821), are enabled, with their PATENT MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Moauments, Tablets, Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and reduction of eost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere. The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-ROOMS, containing the largest stock in this country. The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks, or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order. Please to be accurate in copying the Address, to prevent imposi tion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish ment but that in Esher-street. LIFE ASSURANCE MER CHANT' S, TRADESMAN'S, and GENERAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE &NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY. PART IL—Hail to the chief who in triumph advances—Why left I my hame?—M'Leod of Dutivegan, a curse lies upon thee—l gted a waefu' gate yeatreen—Hersel he highland Shentleman—Watty cam' out on a moonihiny night—Cudo night and joy be with you a'. Tickets, 2s. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. l'rivate Boxes for Six, 150 for Eight persons, 11. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. In daily operation, a Curious MECHANICAL HAND, on a person who has lost his natural hand. PRILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, Illustrated by Dr. Ryan in his daily Che mical Lecture on the Morning and Evening of MONDAYS: --A iiOYles of LECTURES en ASTRONOMY by Professor Bachhoffner, on the Mornings and Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, daring Lost, accompanied by Dr. Wallis en BRA/11"3 CALOTONB. Working Models of New Inventions are daily explained. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, including the SHRINE of the NATIVITY. CHILDE'S CHROMATROPE. THE FHYSIOSCOFE. • 311- CROSCOPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER, Sec. Sec. Adnilsaloa, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. VAUXHALL COMPOSITE CANDLES, ss. 6d. por doe. PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES, 100. Bd. per dog, GENUINE WAX CANDLES, 28s. per doz. These three sorts of Candles are all precisely alike in their burn ing qualities, hut the Vauxhall Composites are rather softer than the Price's atent, and thence -the difference in price. liven those who are compelled to study economy alone, should. burn them in pre ttrence to Tallow Dips. . . . Patent Cocoa Nut Lamp Oil, warranted meal in every respect to the finest Sperm, 4a. par gallon. Wlkl. MARCHANT, 263, Regent-circus, Oxford-street. saw the priemer on the following day, between the hours of ten and twelve, and he asked for two drachms more. He said he had had a misf.n . tune, he had broke the bottle. He had the same quantity as formerly in the bottle he had originally bought. He bad been frequently to the shop before that time. By Baron PARKE—He might have sold him prussic acid before, but (lid not recollect perfectly. The prisoner said lie had been an apothecary and chemist. lie was in the habit of covering these phials with leather. Witness first gave information that the prisoner had bought prussic acid on the Tuesday following. lie afterwards came down to Aylesbury on the 13th, and he was told on the day following that the prisoner was in the gaol. Ile there saw the prisoner, and at once recognised him. Cross-examined by Mr. Krta.v—lf lie covered the phial at all, it was with leather and not with paper. • He had no doubt that the prisoner was at that time affected as he stated with varicose veins, lle did not believe that Scheele's prussic acid could be taken into the stomach and yet sot ascertained by the smell. He had mixed thirty drops of Scheele's with eleven ounces, or nearly a tumbler full, of porter, and the smell was slightly percepti ble. The bottle does not contain the quantity of eleven ounces. It is the property of this acid while it is volatilizing to give out a smell. He was aware that apple-pips contained prussic acid. He -saw fifteen small apples tested by distillation, and then with sulphuric acid and sulphate of iron. The quantity of prussic acid that re sulted was ono grain and one-fifth. Mr. Smythe, clerk to Barnett, Hoare, and Co., examined —The prisoner had been in the habit of banking with them. On Wednesday, the 'tit January, he came between two and three o'clock,, „an . d. dxcw....a.gheque for 141. .Paiel „him in gold._ Hiiaccount was overdrawn at. that date. Ile believed-the , paper shown him to be his handwriting. (The paper re ferred to was a prescription for varicose veins.) Cross-examined —There was not the slightest objection to his overdrawing his account. A letter was handed to the witness, which he thought was in the handwriting of the prisoner. The letter was addresses' to Mrs. Hart, 93, Crawford -street, Portman-square, and was as follows . " Dear Friend,—l wish to inform you that I expect to be at home in a fortnight and therefore you had better not write to me.—Your friend, " A. HART." Mary Ann Moss—Witness lived with Sarah Hart, 'at 93, Crawford-street, Bryanston-square, about four years since. She was pregnant when she went there, and a child was born in March, 1841. The only person who used t) visit her was the prisoner. He came about once in six weeks, or perhaps oftener. The deceased lived in Crawford-street about twelve months,' and then went to Farringdon-green, where she lived twelve months. She then went to Bath-place, at Slough, and witness called on her about eight or nine months before her death. When the prisoner first mine to Crawford street, hi asked if there was a person living there the name of Hart. She heard him, and said " Here lam ; it's all right." She had, at first, a back room furnished, but she aftewards bought furniture herself for the front- room. She saw a parcel once come to the deceased, and the prisoner called afterwards, and asked it it was all right." Witness observed that she had got some blankets. When Mrs. Hart was confined, the prisoner called upon her, and went into her room alone. The last time she saw the deceased was in October last. She had not seen the prisoner for a long time before. Mrs. Bacon, the wife of a carpenter in Gray's Inn-lane. She knew Sarah Ha r t b e f ore s h e wen t into the prisoner's service, about six years. She was taken upon witness's re commendation to nurse the first Mrs. Tawell. She then went by the name of Hadler. Witness noticed that when she lived with prisoner after his wife's death, she was in the family-way. That was in April, 1839. Witness recollected that once at tea, in Mr. Tawehl's house, the deceased sat down by the side of her. Witness said, " I know what you are going to say, and you had better begin." The prisoner said he was about to be married to Sarah Cutmore (his present wife), and it would be greatly against him-to have the affair of Sarah's being in the family-way spoken of. He bid Sarah not to excite herself, and she said that from that day she would be dead to the world—no one should know anything about her—not even her own mother. Grace Hadler sworn—The deceased was her daughter, and was, when she last Saw her, living with Mr. Tawell. She never heard of her after leaving Bridge-street till this occurred. 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That was the case for the prosecution. The iurymen were allowed some short time for refreshment. On their re-assembling, and their names being called over, Mr. F. KELLY commenced his speech in defence of the prisoner, appearing to be much affected, for tears stood in his eyes as in a low tone he declared that he rose to address them under a pressure of responsibility which he was scarcely able to bear, and he hoped that they would pardon him, if, feeling that deeply, he betrayed anything like a momentary weak ness. He trusted they would pardon him, also, if he ven tured to say that they themselves had to discharge the most important duty which, perhaps, had ever devolved upon them, and that they must proceed to the discharge of that duty under a weight of responsibility more awful and terrible • than even that which oppressed him. For, if he had not misunderstood the solemn and important case before them, it he should not be able to impress them with what be conscien tiously believed to be the true nature of that case, they would feel that they were called upon for the first time to send to his last account one who stood at the bar a living and breath ing man before them, not upon sworn evidence, nor upon the truth of any facts whatsoever, but depending wholly upon theory, or resting wholly and entirely upon what was to be found loosely and inaccurately reported in books. Ile would show them that if they acted upon-such evidence, they might commit one of the most fatal mistakes, one from which they would shrink with horror, when called upon to deal with the life of a fellow-man. It was not for him to vindi cate the faults of the unfortunate man at thehar ; while on the one hand he was deeply unfortunate in many respects, on the other he was equally blameable, his conduct being such as it was impossible to justify. But while he made that ad mission, he implored the jury, as they regarded their future happiness, to beware, lest, that for want of a just distinction between right and wrong, they should confound facts, how ever blameable, with one far exceeding them . in horror and guilt, and from which he hoped, after he should have brought the facts under their review, they would acquit • him. Al though the honourable care and caution of his Learned Friend had led him to abstain from anything that 'night press unfairly against the accused, the jury must have learned from the public newspapers that he bad committed in early life an offence against the laws; but since that he had atoned for his offence by a life of indu Ary, kindness, and bounty. That fact was the key to many of the subter fuges and evasions which had marked his conduct in con nexion with this charge. Having been banished from his country for his early offence, he had recovered his standing in society, and down to the present moment enjoyed the respect and esteem of many friends, while he had acquired Some amount of Worlilly-,,13:ea1th.. lie (Nr.sjielly) would show that .the alleged motive tor"cfommitting.the crime of murder, that of embatlassed .circumatauces.and inability to continue a pecuniary payment, did, not exist. .Ile would show, also, that witnesses for the prosecution came prepared to support mere matters of theory, speculation, and opinion. and that their evidence, although given under the sanction 01 an oath, was not of any weight. He would show, too, that the indefensible language and conduct of the accused, in connexion with this case may be accounted for on other grouods than that of his having been guilty of murder. Before the prosecution could call upon the jury to condemn the prisoner to death, it must be proved that the deceased died of poison, and that that poison was prussic acid taken into the stomach. The evidence was not only defective, but entirely so divested of that certainty which s hould be infused into the mind, but which must become part of the constitution of the mind itself in a case of this kind, that the jury must pause before they thought of convicting the prisoner of the crime of murder. He quite agreed with his Learned Friend that direct evidence could not always be expeettd to prove a charge of murder; but, upoi: the question that the woman died of poison, the jury were bound to demand positive and direct evidence. In the case of murder by strangling or wounding, circumstantial evi dence might suffice, but not in a case of poison. Formerly convictions and executions had taken place for the murder of persons afterwards found to be alive. Now, that could not be the case; the jury must. be madecertain of the fact ofdeath by irrefragable evidence. It was the duty of the prosecution not only to prove the death, but the cause of the death, in a case of this kind ; and upon that principle he called upon thejury to have, before they sent the prisoner to a horrid and ignominious death, evidence that the woman died of taking pruseic acid. What were the jury 'celled upon to be lieve? A woman in health, as it appeared, had died suddenly, and the prosecutor asked the jury to take away the life of the prisoner on the suppsition that she had died from prus sic acid, and not from any one of the numerous causes of sudden death. If ever there was a ca.se in which the blessed principle of our law should be repreled, that there should be positive proof of guilt, this was the case. Suppose it was stated that a person was poisoned by laudanum—would the jury convict, or the judge suffer the case to go to the jury, when they heard from the witness for the prosecution, " never knew a case of a person dying from taking that drug?" No, they would ask for some one who could speak of the effects of laudanum upon the human system of his own knowledge, and not from what he had read in books. Those witnesses were irresponsible ; yet they called upon'the jury to sacrifice that man upon the ground only of what they had read in books, and not upon that of actual experience. Unhappily this country was not without experience on this subject. It appeared that of 39 cases, in no great length of time, poisoned by prussic acid, only two had been charged with murder, and of all the medical men who had seen and examined all these cases the prosecu tion had brought one. There were many of such witnesses who could have deposed, to whether there was a smell of not a smell after death, or whether there was a scream or no scream, or gorged lungs or not; instead of being left to the uncertain opinions of Mr. Champneys, Mr. Norblad, and Mr. Pickering, three very young and inexperienced men, of little practice, whose opinions did not agree with each other, and who never saw man, woman, or child 'who had been poisoned by prussic acid. It appeared from their evi dence that there were doubts, only doubts, as to the quantity of prussic acid necessary to cause death, and as to all th e effects and operation of the poison, the opinions of the wit nesses not being derived from experience, but being founded on books, containing conflicting opinions and partially re ported experiments. There was no positive evidence of the ' quantity of poison in the stomach of the deceased, nor of the source whence it was derived. What was the quantity suffi cient to cause death? 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They mentioned one case in si Lich so small a quantity had killed a person ; but that case they read in Taylor, who copied it into his book from some other quar ter, and the statement of the case was full of errors. Ile would call their particular attention to the part of the book referred to by Mr. Champneys, who had no more prac tical knowledge of the quantity of prussic acid that would cause death than ony one else in Court, and with whom, as with the other medical witnesses, it was nothing but guess work. The part of this work on medical jurisprudence by Mr. Taylor referred to stated that a person having taken dilute prussic acid by mistake to the amount of one and a half drachm of Scheele's acid, spasms and tetanus were pro duced, from which the patient did not wholly recover for thirteen days. It also stated, that " admitting the strength of the acid to be as represen:ed, this is the largest dose known to have been taken without causing death." Would it be just on the supposed validity of an opinion such as that, found in a book respecting which he had not the power of putting a single question, to ascertain whether or not there was any error in it—would it be just on such testimony—the book itself saying, "if the strength of the acid be correctly represented"—to condemn a man to death ? If the strength of the acid were not correctly represented, the deduction was incorrect, and ; that being incorrect, the whole basis of the medical testimony tumbled down. The same authority, after referring to some cases, stated that he considered be.wmild be justified in believing that a dose of .Setreeles acid of about 20 grains, which would contain about one grain of the pure prussic acid, would commonly destroy life. Well, in addition to Taylor, they had the authority of Christison referred to. In page 770 of his work on poisons, he stated that it was important to fix, if possible, the smallest fatal dose of hydrocyanic (prussic) acid ; but that it must . vary with particular circumstances, such as the strength of the individual and the fulness or the emptiness of the sto mach. Then, quoting the case of a person who was killsd from swallowing two-thirds of a grain of the acid, he_ went on to say, that repeated instances of recovery occurred where a larger quantity had been taken than two-thirds of a grain, which he (Mr. Kelly) was prepared to show was more than had been proved to have been found in this woman'sltomach. They had, therefore, no sworn evidence whatever to clear up the doubts which existed upon the question of what quantity of prussic acid would cause death; they had nothing but a reference to these books, which contained nothing but.specu lative opinions. If he had the authors of them on the table to examine, he might, perhaps, be able to arrive at some more definite conclusion ; but, without that, he maintained that the whole basis of the medical evidence fell to the ground. Then, with regard to the question of smell, the Learned Counsel contrasted the evidence of the medical men, showing in it great discrepancy. Mr. Champneys fancied in one case and proved in another the existence of the smell of prussic acid from the contents of the stomach, while Mr. Norblad, notwithstanding his acute powers of smell, could not discover it at any period. Mr. Champneys, who was very candid, first. of all admitted as a gene ral principle, taken from Taylor, Christison, and other authorities, that the odour of the acid was always to be found, but that that principle was subject to exceptions, and the exceptions given were three ; first, the case of the seven Parisian epileptics, in which it turned out that is was in no less than eight days after death examination had taken place, and that even then, although six persons could not discover the odour, yet that two did. The second and third cases turned out to be but one, and in that Mr. Champneys thought that as there was no odour found in the blood there was none in the stomach. This was shown to have been an error —one, however, which Taylor's language warranted, for he said in speaking of it that "the body was examined," leading Mr. Champneys to suppose that the stomach was included. This was an error which, if not detected, might have proved fatal to the prisoner, but one which showed how awful was the degree of danger, however learned the wit nesses, and however diligent their search into books of au thority, of relying upon such evidence as they had received from the chief witness here, Mr. Champneys, which he him self believed to be true. It might be undissolved apples, bitter almonds, or anything else containing prussic acid, which was present, and yet no sufficient smell arise to attract the attention of Mr. Cooper or the other malicel witnesses; but how, upon the whole of the evidence of those witnesses, deduced from books, it could be concluded that an entire grain of prussic acid, the amount stated by Mr. Cooper, could have been present in a free state or in a liquid, such as porter, and yet not be discovered by persons of acute smell, like Mr. Norblad, or after the liquor had been subjected to a boiling heat, and then smelt to by the chemist, he (Mr. Kelly) was at a total loss to understand. When combined with bitter almonds, it was reasonable enough to believe that it could not be smelt ; but in a free state, such as it is in Scheele's acid, where it was continually volatalizing and flying off— how was it possible that it could be subjected day after day to these experiments, and particularly to a boiling heat, and yet not be discovered by its odour, by that proof of the presence of the acid which was acknowledged to be a matter of common occurrence, and which, as in the case of the seven epileptics, was discoverable by some persons so long as eight days after death ? The Learned Gentleman then applied himself to the evidence of Mr. Cooper, respecting his exa mination of the contents of the stomach, which examination he had admitted to have been incomplete, and also to his ana lysis of apple pips, which he also admitted to have been in complete, as he was not able to say how much prussic acid he had obtained from the pips of 15 apples. He wished to impress upon the jury this, that, next to bitter almonds. there was no substance which contained more prussic acid than the pips of apples, the quantity differing according to the nature of the apple ; some descriptions of apples con - - taining it in a great quantity, and in such a form as, in the human stomach particularly, if swallowed whole, or but slightly masticated, would render its smell imperceptible. Then NIT.. Cooper had not told them what quantity of apple he had found in the stomach, not having attempted to as certain that fact. The jury were also in utter ignorance of how much of the acid Mr. Cooper extracted from his first and second experiments. He was unable to tell them. Accord ing to his recollection, fur he spoke only from recollection, he hail used about two-thirds of the contents of the liquid brought to him within his first, second, and third experi ments, and that from the remaining one-third he extracted 28-100ths of a grain of the acid, or a fraction more than one-fourth of a grain. lle attempted to deduce from that, that the entire contents contained a grain of the acid, but they had no sworn evidence of that fact. The opinion of the witness upon the point was purely conjectural. Now, even admitting that conjectures upon the point should go to the jury, he (Mr. Kelly) maintained that in this case the conjecture should not weigh with the jury the 100th part. of a grain. Mr. Cooper concluded that, because he extracted one-fourth of a grain from a portion of the contents, the rest of the con tents contained it in the same ratio, that the acid was equally diffused through the whole, and that if he was right in his recollectieu of the quantity he had used in the former experiments, that a fourth of a grain would prove the exis • tence of an entire grain in the entire contents. Now, seeing that he only spoke from recollection of the quantity, and seeing also that he had admitted in his evidence that he found very little of the acid the first time, more the next, and still more the third, thus showing that as he got nearer to the bottom of the contents lie got more of the solids, and of these portions of the contents that. would produce prussic acid,--observing these things, ~which he . (dl,r. K„elly) ; begged of the jury calmly to do, lie did think it was not evidence upon which they could agree to take away the life of a fel low-creature. In opposition to this evidence, the Learned Gentleman replied on that given by Mr. Thomas, in which that witness admitted that he had extracted half a grain of prussic acid from the pips of fifteen apples, and on the pos sibility of accounting for the presence of prussic acid in the contents of deceased's stomach by the fact of apple and other substances containing prussic acid having been found in those contents. Supposing that the pips of the apples produced a fourth of a grain, —suppose there was some little in the cake which she had eaten,—suppose there was some in the saliva which she must have swallowed in a large quantity when masticating the apples, and which was known to contain much prussic acid,—suppose there was some in the animal substances, arid, although it was stated that they would not yield prussic acid without being subjected to a greater heat than they had been subjected to, yet it was known that, when undergoing decomposition, prussic acid was constantly being evolved,—suppose these things, put together all these probabilities, keeping in mind that they have had positive evidence that the pips of fifteen apples produced half a grain of prussic acid, and he asked them Ilow they could, if they did not wish to commit murder themselves, convict the prisoner of that crimp ? If there was not enough of prussic acid in the stomach to account for death, there was an end of the case. But of what did she die ? It was not for him to show. But it was said her screams indicated death by prussic acid. Vi here was there ever any evidence to prove that such a death was attended by a succession of screams, instead of a single one, called trie "death scream," after a convulsion or two ? Had the heart been paralyzed by prussic acid, or otherwise, the blood could not be received back from the lungs into the heart it must remainin the. lungs, and gorge them. But the witnesses had declared that there was no congestion of the lungs. Mr. Champneys, however, after a reference to the books, admitted-that the lungs were slightly congested. Was that evidence upon which to decide a case of life and death ? It was far too doubtful to justify the adverse ver dict for which the jury were asked by the Crown. Again, there was the fact that the woman was in a state of syncope, and that she was choked by her neighbour pouring water down her throat. Again, how many causes of sudden death were there? The late Sergeant Andrews, in a moment of aberration of mind, cut his throat. The wound was sewn up, but a few days afterwards the wound burst out afresh, and he died. Who could doubt that the cause of kis death was the cutting of his throat? But, on investigation, it turned out that the cause of death was the rupture of a bloodvessel. Suppose a person had been tried for inflicting that wound, and the coincident fact had not been revealed, would not the person have been in danger of being convicted of murder? Therefore, the jury should be cautious, and take it into con sideration all the coincidences of this case. He now ap• proached some other points with pain. Enough was known of the former life of the prisoner which imglit create a pre judice against him; but he implored the jury not to be led ?way by that to suppose that the prisoner had ever been guilty Of any unkind or cruel act towards any individual. 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The Drapers' Company have contri-1 buted 301. to this great charity, as well as ten guineas to the Mansion-hOuse poo r -b ox . • - The Earl of Cavan, accompanied by his sister, ar rived in London on Thursday afternoon by the General Stearn Navi gation Company's steam-ship Wilberforce, from Havre. MURDER AT SALT-HILL TRIAL OF JOHN TAWELL. AYLESBURY, THURSDAY. (Before Mr. Baron PARBE.) The Court resumed this morning at a few minutes before nine o'clock. The entrance to the Court-house was crowded to a dense degree, and it was with considerable difficulty an entrance could be effected. The prisoner when placed in the dock seemed particularly nervous. He paid maiked attention to the evidence, and particularly to the cross-examination of the witnesses by Mr. Fitzroy Kelly. Mr. Cooper, the chemist of London, was the first witness called, and he was examined at considerable length by Mr. Sergeant Byles, with referen c e t o hi s experiments on the contents of the deceased's stomach, which had been sub mited to him in order tO test the existence of poison. He found in the stomach of deceased the pips of some apples. He discovered in the seeds of those apples a quantity of prussic acid. He did not think that any balance could measure the quantity of the poison. There was just as much as would colour the bottom of the phial. To the best - of his ability the bottle originally contained more than a grain of prussic acid (the bottle con tained the contents of the stomach). The quantity was a grain at the time of the second examination of the bottle—there might have been more at first. The pro bability was, that it would be so. The bottle was tested for the second time on the Bth of February, about four weeks after the first. He was not enabled to say how much prussic acid bad been originally introduced into thsatoinacik , before the contents were removed. A variety of circum stances might tend to decrease this quantity, as absorption by the system, Scc. Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—He had never before that time examined the contents of the human stomach where a person had been killed, or wh ere p russ i c ac id had been taken. Ile had had a good deal of experience of the chemical proper ties of prussic acid. -It had a peculiar smell, whether in its strongest state as concentrated acid, or in its weakest form. It affected the back of the throat in a peculiar manner. He had met it more frequently in a diluted form, when combined with water, than in its concentrated stat e . He had no per sonal experience of the quantity that would kill. His know ledge was drawn from books. Baron PARKE—The least quantity that would kill was that he thought mentioned yesterday in the case in the French hospital. By Mr. KELLY—He began his investigation with the view of ascertaining the presence of oxalic acid. When he tested the contents of the stomach he took various portions for the purpose of discovering the presence of various poisons. (The witness then detailed his mode of testing it.) He did not discover the smell of prussic acid en first testing the con tents of the stomach. The smell of beer was the most pre dominant. When his experiments had failed to discover the other forms of poison, he directed all his skill to discover the existence of prussic acid. On the second examination, on the Bth of February, he took a great deal more care than on the previous examination. This was a test of quantity, not of quality. The quantity actually obtained was one grain and forty-three hundredths of a grain of prussic acid. One hundred and thirty-six grains of cvanite of silver was equivalent to twenty-seven grains of hydrocyanic acid. The stomach of deceased contained some undigested flesh, the apples he had already mentioned, and a pulpy mass, of which he could make nothing. He did not see the apple pips, but knowing that that tribe would yield prussic acid, he after wards tested them. He was not aware that sweet almonds would yield prussic acid ; the bitter almond certainly would. He made an experiment, on two separate occasions, on different kinds of apples, and ex tracted a little prussic acid from both. The test was simply placing the pips in a retort with water, and distilling it. He then added to the distilled liquor a little sulphate of iron, and the contents of the other phial on the table was the result. He did not think it necessary to crush the pips ; the distillation was the only test. He thought that no substance contained pure prussic add. Mr. KELLY—How do you reconcile that with your former statement respecting bitter almonds? Witness— His opinion was that prussic acid was so extremely volatile, that if it existed in a free state it most be centi rually evaporating, and it could not therefore exist unless combined with some other substances. Animal substances contained prussic acid. He would not sayjhat it was likely to be produced by a change in organic matter. As far as he was aware of, he was himself the first discoverer of prussic acid in apple-pips. He was not aware that if apple-pips were macerated, that they would yield more hydrocyanic acid. Mr. KELLY quoted from "Taylor on Poisons," to the effect that the odour of prussic acid was present when the poison itself was not existent. Did Mr. Cooper agree in that opiniOn ? Witness—l do not. By. Mr. BYLns—Before the trial he communicated to the prisoner's solicitor what his evidence would be. By Mr. Baron PARE.—After all the experiments he had made, he had no doubt of the presence of prussic acid in the stomach., The absence of smell might be accounted for by its dilution, or by its odour being covered by that of other substances. It did nut follow that the prussic acid should be in the form of salt. He had never stated that it was in the form of salt. In his opinion it could not exist in the stomach as a cyanite of potassium, where another and more powerful acid, as muri atic acid, was present in the stomach in considerable quan tities. He was not of opinion that prussic acid could be formed in the contents of the stomach by putrefaction. Joseph Cooper, jun., was son of last witness, and had been his assistant for four years. He smelt the prussic acid in the course of these experiments at the time his father did. Charlotte Howard—Was servant with Mrs. Gilbert at Streatham. She was at Salt-hill on the 26th December, 1843, and became acquainted with deceased. Witness was in the family-way, and had a child at her house. Daring the time she remained there (four months) Tawell came there twice. At the end of September in the following year she was there to see herchild, and Mr. Tawell came there. Mrs. Hart let him in. She did not see him. She know his voice. He remained about ten minutes. She was told by Mrs. Hart to go and get a bottle of stout. She brought it and Mrs. Hart afterwards came out of the room and told her to go for a sheet of paper. She went and returned with the sheet of paper. Mrs. Hart was then in the back room and Mr. Tawell was in the front room. She went then into the room where ho was. He went away in about a quarter of an hour afterwards. She saw Mrs. Hart again soon afterwards. She was very ill, and said, " Oh, I'm so iIL I was obliged to tell my - master to go, for I can scarce stand." She looked very pale and sick. She looked dreadfully ill. She was very well all day before witness went for the paper. She retched very much, and went up stairs to bed. She retched there very much. She said "she had drank only a little glass of porter and it made her very sick." Witness then went to the room b e l ow an d found 13 sovereigns, which she took care of. She saw on the table some of the porter she had fetched ;it was not quite gone. She and the children drank the porter that was left in the bottle, and it did not injure them is the least. She (Mrs. Mart) remained in bed and complained of her head. By Mr. KELLY—There were three children in the house, two of Mrs. Hart's and witness's child. Mrs. Hart was not receiving medical advice at the time. Edward Weston Norblad, surgeon at Stroud.—He had practised for ten years... • On Thursday, ~the ,2d of Janiarv, he went with 'Mr. Clitimpneys to Mrs. Hart's house. lie saw the body of the deceased there'- He had heard the evi dence of Mr. Champneys, and he would infer the existence cf poison if death had suddenly followed the matter taken into the stomach. He would attribute the very sudden death of this person to one of two poisons—either prussic acid or oxalic acid. Ile was present at the two first examinations of the contents of the stomach. Mr. Cooper had correctly stated the tests he had applied, and he (witness) agreed with him in the inference he drew there from. Oxalic acid must have been detected if it contained that acid. He had no doubt that prussic acid was in the stomach, and he attributed the death of deceased to that cause. Ile had heard the account of the last witness of what took place in October, and the symptoms were such as would be on the whole of the animal creation. It destroys life in the same manner in all. He had himself tried experiments upon animals. He had seen goats, cats, and dogs poisoned. He had especially tried experiments upon clop. He had administered to two dogs, some hours after feeding them—to one of them beer containing half an ounce of Scheele's, and to the other one drachm of prussic acid. He gave it them at seven in the evening, and the effect was, that in 50 seconds the dog which had received the smaller dose fell, and in ten minutes he died. The second died in half the time. He opened the bodies of the dogs eighteen hours after death, the same period at which the deceased was opened, and he could ascertain no smell of prussic acid. On opening the stomachs of the dogs the prevalent smell was that of some beer. The food was but half-digested. Ile should have expected a smell of prussic acid in the case of a person who had died in a quarter of an hour afterits being administered. He attributed the absence of smell to the admixture with the stout. He had examined the body of Mrs. Hart, and he would on opening the body have expected to find the cause of death, and if prussic acid had not existed in the stomach he had no doubt he could have traced some other cause. The body was perfectly healthy. He was much in the habit of opening bodies, and he was satisfied that less than ooe grain would cause death. Cross-examined by Mr. KELLY—He had never attended any one who had taken prussic acid. When taken as a medicine, the ordinary quantity was, of Scheele's, five minims, or drops. Prussic acid, he thought, might with advantage be used in varicose affections. lie agreed with Dr. Thomson, of London, that., ex ternally applied, prusSic acid might be found useful in cance rous diseases. He had the sense of smell very acutely, and he could not detectthe smell of the acid in the stomachs of the dogs. Tho dogs were kept in an outhouse after they were dead, and before they were opened. He tried these experiments on the dogs on tie 18th Feb. succeeding the death of the deceased. Headache and vomiting frequently followed a disorder of the stomach occasioned by something being taken into it. The quantity vomited bore no proportion to the quantity taken into the stomach. He had given medicinal doses of prussic acid to allay irritation of the stomach. Mr. KELLY—In the whole course of your experience did you ever find vomiting produced by prussic acid ?—I have seen dogs affected to vomiting. Mr. KELLY—I speak of the human being. Witness (emphatically) —Th e stomach of the dog is ex actly similar to that of the human being. Mr. KELLY—You speak very dogmatically, but I would wish a plain answer to a direct question. Have you, Sir, in the course of your experience, seen vomiting from the stomach of a human being induced by prussic acid 2—No ; I have not. Two witnesses were then examined, but they established, no important fact, and added nothing new to the evidence already c dduced. llenry Thomas, chemist, Bishopsgate-street—He remem bered Wednesday, the Ist of January, perfectly well. Ile saw the prisoner on that day between twelve and two, at his shop. He asked for two 'drachms of Scheele's prussic acid. He brought a half-ounce phial, labelled " Scheele's prussic acid." He gave that bottle to put the prussic acid in. The phial had a glass stopper. Witness could not get the stopper out, and was in consequence obliged to give him ri stopper of his own. He thought the prisoner said, " Ycit - need 'not put . a label on;" but the circumstance was so common that he did not pay any attention to it. He said he wanted to apply the acid externally to a varicose vein. (The book in which the entry was marked was produced.) Witness ( ~,~~< a husband past sixty yoess of age, whose wife ebe hap heat four years, if he had been a cruel and hard-hearted man. "We had no letters by the twopenny post. Poor Suttees hes been but poorly all day long, but hopes to be able to kts to morrow. Richard Squire called here this afternoon,, and chatted a while, and Hannah and Dorcas are now with us Darling Harry has been very merry all day, and looks ea sweet. Sarah Chase called to invite Eliza to dine with her off turkey. Some young men were to be pr esen t. Sh e de clined the invitation. Oh, how I long to hear what the Syd ney papers say of the state of things there. My poor mind rises and falls as I . see how these vicissitudes affect thee; and I find it hard work to attain to that wise resignation which becomes us under all the decrees of a wise Providence. I think I could bear up better if the whole burden was on me • ulone; but that is impossible. Ido hope, my dear husband, vou will bear up. The year has opened with a lovely day. 1 hope it is an nmen of the future which await us. . . Fare well, under every circumstances thy beloved wife." The Learned Counsel shed tears once or twice while reading this letter, and then proceeded to say that no man could receive such a letter as that and do an act which would make his affectionate wife a widow ai.d his children fatherless. What the circumstances were to which the letter alluded he did not know, but it spoke volumes for his character as to kindness. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to contend that the prisoner had supposed -the deceased to be acting when he left, and that to alarm - - him she might have pretended to put something in the stout, cam phor, for instance, of which one of the phials found in the house smelt. But the covering of a bottle bad been pro duced which, instead of fitting the bottle of prussic acid ob tained by the prisoner from the chemist in Iliehopsgate street, was proved by that witness to be neither of the same size nor substance as the coverings he was in the habit of using. That was a great failure in the link of evidence against the prisoner. The cover produced was calcined, and who could tell that some bottle procured by the woman for the purpose of acting might not have been thrown in the fire by her and burnt ? Not that lie meant to imply that the woman had poisoned herself; for he did not believe she had died of poison at all, but from sae. one of the 'many causes of sudden death. As to other circumstances, his run ning, for instance, why it was a cold night. His going to Herschell-house was a circumstance of no consequence; and though tracked about he was found to have gone to public places only, and in a dress which could be easily .recognised. True, he evaded, and when he did not evade he told a direct untruth. But was that evidence against him of having committed murder? He had an affectionste wife at Berk hamstead, with whom and his children he was living happily, when the police-officer challenged him, and - he for the first time heard of the death of the woman, and it was natural for him, coupling the recollection of his former life with it, a life upon which he could not fall back, to deny any knowledge of the deceased. In common justice, while they could not justify his departure from truth, it would be un charitable to conclude on that account that he was guilty of murder. True, he bought Scheele's acid. Why ? Ile suffered from varicose veins in the leg, and it was prescribed for him. Besides, he had been in the habit of purchasing it at the same shop fur more than a year. There was no proof that he had that prussic acid at Slough. He informed the chemist that he lost the bottle. Was that false? The prosecution had not proved it to be so. After commenting upon the open manner in which the prisoner had gone about from place to place, the Learned Counsel complained of a previoue.i%ideet, the sickness of the deceased woman on the 30th of September last, having been brought against the prisoner to his prejudice upon this occasion ; but the jury would remember that a witness, while he swore that the symp toms were such as would be produced by prussic acid, admitted that he had never seen such a case. But, had that been the case, it was very unlikely that the prisoner would repeat the same experiment of poisoning with prussic acid in porter three months afterwards. As to the real cause of the death of the woman, that, like many other things, might perhaps ever remain a mystery. If the prisoner had evaded and de parted from the truth, he hoped the jury would not on that ground conclude that he had committed murder. A man might commit an offence in•early life and retrieve himself— he might, under painful circumstances, be guilty of subter fuge; but he rested the defence of the prisoner mainly upon these confident grounds, that there was neither motive nor temptation to so horrible a crime, and that the jury would not be the first to break through that great and blessed prin ciple of justice, that where there was a doubt the accused should always have the benefit of it. The Learned Gentle man concluded by again urging upon the jury the considera tion of their responsibility if they erred, if upon subjects so difficult to those accustomed to them, they did an act which one day they might wish, almost to the cost of their own lives, they had not committed. Looking to the mature of the case, and the doubts and uncertaincies with which it was surrounded, he did confidently expect a verdict of acquittal. The prisoner seemed affected at several points of the Learned Gentleman's appeal to the jury. Mr. GUNNING called the following witnesses, who gave the prisoner a good character for kindness and humanity :-- Henry Lane, of Berkhamstead, rector's churchwarden ; Joseph Gomm, master builder ; John Tornkins, coal mer chant; and Joseph Baldwin, currier, all of the same place. They had all known the prisoner about four years, being the time he had resided at Berkhamstead. Also Henry Castle, timber merchant, of London, who had known him abroad in 1832 and 1837 ; John Richardson, of Dover, cashier to his brother, who had known him both at home and abroad sines 1827 ; Abel Salter Trew, who had known him in Sydney for several years ; Captain Chevalier Dillon, who had known him for 30 years ; and John Gover, of Great Dover-street, London, retired from business, who had also known him many years. At the conclusion of the evidence to character, Mr. Baron PARKE glanced over the Court, and said that the question then was, should they go on in the darkness which, despite the aid of the candles, he feared was still too great in the Court, or adjourn till to-morrow. The case was a very heavy one, and it would probably be better to adjourn. A juror cried out—" Oh Igo on, my Lord, go on. We have no objection to finish ; we will sit. until we finish. Mr. Baron PARKE—In so important a case, gentlemen, I fear that I cannot fairly undertake to wind it up to-night. I think we had better adjourn. A juror—My Lord, shall we have beds? Baron PARKE—Certainly, gentlemen. Beds! of course. Several jurors—Why, my Lord, we could get no beds last night. — Mr. Baron PARKE turnectto the sheriff, and requested that beds should be provided for the jury. lie received some ex planation regarding the inconvenience of the preceding night, which was not audible. The jury—We would rather sit to• night, my Lord, and finish. Baron PARKS—This case, gentlemen, is too important to be pressed to a termination, and 1 tear I could not see suffiCiently well to read my notes with the attention requisite. The Court was then adjourned to eight o'clock on Friday (this) morning. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA.TTERSAtt;,&-YmTERDAT. TIrE CITESTEIt Cup.—Business was unusually dull, aiil beyond advancing Obscurity a point on Monday's quota tions, was utterly void of interest. On the Derby it was a shade better, and from the spirit with which Clear-the-way and Old England were backed, and the repeated and unsuc cessful attempts to back Idas, was not altogether unimportant, taking it as a whole, however, it was flat, and, except in two or three instances in which the " market prices" were set at nought, unprofitable. We give the average odds at the close, of the few horses noticed iu the course of the day : CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst The Irish lot—taken 8 to 1 ngst the three yrs ohl—taken 15 to 1 agst 11r. A. Johnson's Obscurity—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour 33 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy—talcen 33 to 1 agst Mr. Davics's Yheonnto-ac-Knuck—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Foig-a-ballagh—taken 10J0 to 10 agst Lord Stanley's AIII bition—taken 66 to 1 agst Mr. Araistong's Advice 9 to 1 agst Obscurity and Winesour DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—t. to 200'. and aft. off. 13 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's ldas 16 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt—taken and aft. off. 18 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-way—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip e—t. and aft. oft. 30 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken 30 to 1 agst A. Irorarraster—All in; taken 40 to 1 agst„Mr. o.l(lEngland—taken to 1501. 40 to 1 agSt Mr. A. Johnsoii 4 s Annandale—taken 40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen—t. 50 to 1 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy 50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken 1000 to 20 agst Colonel Craddock's Jinglepot—taken, and afterwards offered 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken Mr. Sc.ott, a member of the Subscription-room, was thrown by a run-away horse on Tuesday last, and taken up with concussion of the brain and other serious injuries. Ile lies at St. George's Hospital, in a very precarious state. WARWICK RACE-COURSE.—WARWICK RACES. THEILSDAY AFTERNOON, IiALF-PAWT Two. The ground being covered with snow, six inches deep, and the jockeys objecting to the parts of the course which have been swept as very dangerous, the Steward has just decided that the races shall be postponed until to-morrow (Friday). //22 THE YARMOUTH, BOATMEN. MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.-Mr. Hardy, M.P. for Brad ford, has, we understand. with his accustomed liberality, sent to the Mayor of Yarmouth 501, and Sir E. Ker rison, Bart., M.P. for Eye, 201., to be applied to the fund for relieving the necessities of the four widows and fourteen children, left totally unprovided for by the loss of their husband, who, after saving the crews of four vessels wrecked on the Sands opposite Yar mouth, on the same day perished in attempting to save the crew of a vessel on the Scroby. We heartily hope a sufficient fund may be raised for the objects contemplated, namely, not only to provide for the desti:ute widows and children, but to assist in re placing the serious loss of the boat (about 2000, and also to form a noel, us for a permanent fund for the relief of the noble-spirited boatmen. Some of these fine fellows annually perish in thdr efforts to save the crews of vessels wrecked on that dangerous coast, and yet never hesitate in the attempt, notwithstanding there is not the slightest probability either of their saving property or obtaining any reward. We have ascertained that the Yarmouth boatmen, on Sunday morning last (Zara 9), at eight o'clock, saved the crew of the Princess Royal, of Newcastle, totally wrecked on the Scroby sand, under most difficult and dangerous circumstances. SUDDEN DEATII or PROFESSOR DAMEL.--,-Last night Mr. Higgs held an inquest in the Counsel Cham ber of the 11 ,, yal Society. on the body of Mr Daniel, Professor of Chemistry, King's College, and Fotbeign Secretary to the Royal Society, ag, d 55. Tho jury having viewed the body, the following witnesses were examined. Mr. W. Bowman, assistant-surgeon to King's College Hospital, was present at a meeting of the Council of the lioti al Society this afternoon ; at twenty minutes past four o'clock, was seated opposite Professor Daniel ; when he came into the Society he appeared in perfect health, hut shortly afterwards his eyes became fixed, and his breathing deep and laborious. Wituest ex , kilned, " Professor Daniel is surely in a. fit," and im mediately every one got up to render trwistatice. His breathing became more and moredifficuir, and there was a great fulness of the vessels of the head. Then with the concurrence of the medical g.entlemen present, I ,Tenert the jugular vein. The Wool HoweTl freely. The opening was subsequently closed as he npp , ared to be rapidly sinking. He died in less than five minutes from the first attack. Various other witnesses were examined, and the jury returned a verdic', " That deceased died of A trig oy• 7 . _ . . THE SD APWICK MURDERS.—Sarah Freeman, the woman charged with these frightful atrocities, and now in the gaol of this town, is not likely to live until the approach ing assizes, a series of epileptic fits having daily led to the expectation of her dissolution.— Taunton courier. 1.0 0 ja Tig e ex! [ t in the lterat en cx duo' has the fiery' , unite d, Fl the :•