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__ r,_z_ forward them to me 'wherever I may be. His address is' ' Mr. Ilobsoni bookseller, Commercial-road East, London.' This with my name will find me, and I shall either call every day at the shop for my letters, or he will send them t o me. If there be anything of import ance requiring my consideration, you may mention it, and I shall make as little delay over it as possible. "In haste, yours truly, "J. C. "Ile n ext letter was on the 6th, and BELANEY at." that stated th the prisoner's wife was unwell, and attended by two medical Inen, had who app re h en d ed that the same thing would occur that occurred before, namely, a miscarriage. There dWere then two letters addressed to Mrs. Bell, they were ated the Bth and 9th of June, which he would read to h t ,j o ti L rY, first making the observation that the letter of " ' 4l Must have been posted either after five o'clock on .tatu.;_rdas evening, or on Monday morning, Mrs. Belaney, i f o ,. l) '`°!4' recollected, dying on the Saturday morning be -15 tight o'clock. The letter was as follows: " London, June 8, 1844. mbear Mr. Bell,—l have little else to write to the rth ab out at present than to give you (who, I know, ne al l interest e d i n i t ) a very unhappy account of Rachel's t e• I have had her removed from the hotel to private g i ngs, where, with two medical attendants, she re ins e d angerously ill. Symptoms of ;premature labur t ; ltn e cu a few days ago ; but, what is still worse, one of tats Medical men pronounces th e h ear t t o b e di sease d. Of have had some d rea d myse lf . Thi s w i ll alter my then pla ns greatly ; b ut, if she be spared, that will be every g You. .rs • Iloping y ou are well, at I must in haste conclude, sincerely, " J. C. BELANEY. No letters have yet arrived. " M r. G. G. Bell, North Sunderland, Belford, Nor thumberland." t i W ould be f or t h e jury by and by to say what the mo • '4l Lly% w ere that c ou ld i nduce the prisoner to write that ofter. On the 9th of June another letter is sent by the ton er, which was posted before five o'clock in the of e jneon of that day, and befre the prisoner aware he r esult of the post marten: o examination : was " London, June 9, 1844. ha " bear Mr. Bell,—The worst that could be dreaded ki l come to pass. Rachel is no more. You shall know e' r Put the men off work at the new house. As such groatnot be done at the quarry and lime works without the be to the partnership, I shall not desire ta, 8414 0 there lam hardly able to sit up ; but hope de,i'tchable to write . to-morrow more particulars. As her auk , h as occurred chiefly amongst strangers, and so be h e V, an inqutst and post mortem examination will do'n'e This has b een ment i one d to me. O f course I ot object to it.--Yours sincerely, There was another letter to Mr. BeII BEL , which did . not v°n tain any date, but merely June, 1844 : you Dear. Bell,—By the time this reaches you, zntim.:ailtilohriave learned from Hall's letter and my com tra,tWell Yes terday, the awful c ause o f my l oss ; an d can and will feel f or me . 0, G o d ! stot a visitat ion came upon me, like a thunderbolt_ wi.kitahs d olvwhnereup are on allme my in ' the midst of my happ iness summer arrangements gone be ar Ty dear R ac h el ? But I cannot write. You shall ree tit : r rn me immediately. To meet the next pay- Will awn to Thew for the price of the wheat. I ter usual for your supplies. Let no one interrupt you •g o ter usual course. I have legal advice to direct and ettp t :, °ll gh the case for me. I wrote a few lines for r uctio n Clarke to direct him to write you, giving in- Mid 4 11 for you to go on with the business as usual, nth. e L re to apply to for money to meet the pay. I did d e 14 ' of writing you at that time ; but now have %k at ' 21". Besides several other friends who are ttiot t i t r i n, P, and who have known me for some time, I hin t ts 'llte to see Mr. Hunt of Belford. Do go and tell Mme lt o lt has happened, and that I should like him to ~apeamunediately to say what he knows of me. Mr. kirod•;'B'Land several others have arrived. Tell him, for exe ~r'ease s to come off immediately. I will pay all ex 40rwtt must have a few respectable friends to come l low l'd to establish my .character and say what they ‘ 2 ' °f I ne. Oh, God ! I know not what lam doing aYing e e o — • Tell him I shall pay every expense. When l'itl. l . 4l es he must call at Hobson's, bookseller, Commer toiled East, London, or on,at 17, King-sreet, Stepney, at Mr. Clarke's. Yours, ever in hast , ie, rk r Put the men upon the part partnership When required, if they are not already on.' te r ., eat letter was one to Mr. Hall, and was in these -•es " London, June, 1844. i t i: bear Ro l, oh! ... am 1. distracted. I cannot write h nor t Oa kes I have lost my dear Rachel; and, w m a o nil ea the loss so much the worse, it was caused by . e y had it3leglec from leaving some medicine, which Imy s l_f bl e ,, een taking a portion of for my stomach, in a f tu t m e l ' e eln e lv il i s th e top of the drawers at the opposite end o he Poared"ere She was. She had gone for the tumbler, and tt, th - se tae water into it without observing of li q uid in tlie be oledicine being only a small portion of liquid the n c L t teln of the glass, and clear as the glass or water;_ a to Sh e had drank it. Oh! my God, I know not what teed 1. 311 3' dear Rachel is gone, gone for ever from Act etheree' "d all of you, know how happy h ero • I had just gone, leaving her bed, e ! w u n t e s o ea f r t c h h e aulftaziootrerabbaotittieute or so, into the herbooom, i to put the medicine in, for I had broken meantime to Pl eaUr e lle it Was in, and got a tumbler in the Ikl e the the contents in • and she had got _ e out of bed to t able 1 ----- and take 'some salts, which were on the si t , z , ~.Y her bedside, and wishing to take some water elle t i e alts, and supposing the glass an empty and clean kin had gone to the other end of the room, un laer"'legly poured water into it, and, oh God ! have d t ier eY upon us all, she drank a portion of it. I heard G u e ,rY for me in the other room. I flew to her; but, oh 1:1 4,7: it was all over in a few minutes, and I am nowi IS t h e te of mind bordering on utter misery and madness._ eiiik (i sudden shock I knew not what to do or say. itl I N nc.fer immediate assistance. It was brought, but tt 4 :lse. Th e aw f u l occurrence having taken place' li So ger nituation whe re I am entirely unknown, all are tit er ound, and th e people b e i ng much inclined to - . 1 it - ealry stat ement that she was my wife, and every 1` )? h e I said, I a m in a terrible situation. The it % al a ri ght to suspect me, and as yet I have kit, creature found to prove my marriage, or what I or Ir.-1 tt, pr,"'"R) I ani. I have nothing to prove anything . as i.sta to solicitor whom I have employed will either ;avtwoe:erne down t o esta b l i sh my character, and prove 1 1 -* l t _liir e - `:%ed, and th at we were married, or else he will lj al so ‘'elv of my f r i en d s w h o h ave k nown me an d .., n ,Le e .-. 1 °lv 'lne "P f m and testify what they know . of me. how Yell will all do what is required o . h.sAlf.,inregret the most next to the accident, in what %s it --e4 her death. I knew not what I was doing or l 'a il ki ritt !it it y ll i d T ; of course, horror-struck and shocked at my L id atly f . 0 7.. havin g left such medicine there, though it Ot tl t lnd, k t.. , a minute, and the poor dear Rachel was in t "lib "wine. well that the world would blame me 4 4 ( 1 1 ti sdantck) severely for my carelessness . in leaving . k hr c t snehgerous medicine where it was in danger of V% e %It ev il , I did not, until after I became a little r y e eted This, though do aiit ur , , say what had happened. is con do r ati Ets a t at such an awful ju n n o ture, 1 04 4 aas t t rgainst me. Oh, God ! I k e w not what to t h e t is" . 4. eatne upon me like a thunderbolt. If I . were W i t i at b°l,llld write to you all—l mean most of my friends ; tta tc a, r . ese nt I cannot. Go to Mr. 811 and William the(ssi'ttlhtt Alexander Wilson, whoand ofthi e you think fit, s to them, be lt Ze 0 ,, a e Melancholy contents !le t) * th e ~n e t, acquaint them all. As oor Mrs. Stobbs 'att 41 41 " Il lY memorial of dear Rachel I know go to k h ,tay ',T i tre her my respects, and tell her that ' I have 104 4 f • Zised Rachel ; and, although there was not ; 1 la rl o e --s uiP existing betwe . en them for some r sit t t li k il ae better will now exist between u, and that w a s ei o „ t how „,_Ya regard her for dear Rachel's sake. I ma Br ea "''9 l • for I am bewildered, as if in an _u_nc.,o,n -lickl ,ia._' y ~ J. C. BELANE I a nsh . 1 ,, , ,. ours ever, ‘4 3 , r ... esai 17 Illiani Wilson could give you Mr. Tewart's ~is o r - ' l . l ti e ll t c) i Non• is one who knows me, and . would al,..'"s it I , eg for me. Go to Mrs. Stobbs immediately h•l:4,4tr;e.lative, it Hisenly duty ts acquamt hen Tell t rc,i i , I 1_ 1( and all otherS you . think well me of Oh, lam hu., of I ,uPe the Lord will supportunder such V l' c f t 11,4 l ean write to Mr. Simpson, who is the mi %llltst r Parish, I will ; but at present I cannot." n rto li e tter he Would trouble the jury with was a , 44r•8e1l i b %ll o ar 41 "London, June, 1844. k , ! of whr• Bell,—l intended " to you an ac eLlafhttlitat had happened to my dear Rachel, through -9 4 ••Y or inadvertency, and to myself ; but at 'e ll ls ti :ltt -41 ,r lt eable to do so. I have written Hall do of he it, which I wish you to go , h t e a COUllt of IWII I ,tc. peruse, and consult with . him what to :to: l ' ai, nt lt is this ' come upon me like a thunder- I.NMt `a, thsnq not mention the cause of her death to you Ihbli r°ll g ll, a desire to bury the shame and avoid 44 t ,)° , 4 c e . re Proach for my fatal neglect. . Yet I know T 4i, t) a 6 41 account for it under such circumstances ; l 'll ik 4l alit I Can never forgive myself. I would like N t 4 ,Q mot Mr. Simpson and give him the t,, th,qt kZat I have given Of the awful ranee.occurr 'rli .. ronr7;e_inent in getting from Mr. Dornel testimony t 1 1,.„. v ) 11.1,..ge from Bamborough, and post ,, it to Mr. 17tev kmg-street, Stepney, London. icstit 4 ed ti, ft t ae. "" a t he had now stated in detail all the cit. : t. tl v - " i t li no " of this painful case. He would forbear mak iTitamleae°l2ets on the facts which would be detailed gt ' delit:4 Licause it would be for the jury to form bit a f t fr nh ., rat 4 e,_, and impartial satisfied nothing upon them. If ti k Olo tt ~,nose facts were satisfied nothing was made NU tlii, 'e prisoner, they would, of course, acquit ... f il % op fled tgkrave charge ; but if the . facts proved irre .it. th e e u ern to a different conclusion, the public jus ,'lls'aitht ,euntry demanded from them, however ain- S t ''m th 4 o e , t i_ , nat they should find the prisoner guilty. P /414:estilt efoservations he committed with confidence . °'' this important case into the hands of the r: t ell Iv Oa4 ° 'tag witnesses were then called : ti tl g htiti Mild, rz _ d i; 'ioppingstall examined by Mr. BODKIN -11,4P14‘ 41 11 h - 4 .,"VeS in Green -street, Mile-end Old Town. kl,Nt'il, alrs.-13(4fiune last, prisoner came to our house, at . c at m e k aney was with him. They agreed to take_ te - d ett ln 4 ' ja ck parlours of our house for one week. %i t - by. him half -past four the day after. Mr. Belaney N1!44 Lurnself. Mrs. Belaney did not dine. They oto h a,..il company with _them—Capt. Clarke and , ' il t_o the the r. and Mrs. Belany a went as I under -01-I;slane,:na atre, and returned little' after twelve. sp, g 111 Ppeared very well. On the following AN Wv ednesday) my servant fetched a black w mitl Pel t . s't k. Delan y Shortly after Mrs. Delaney 41 , 1 t0t kr o 'he was so several times during the day. She 1 1 4 -41. : :ek ti p• I saw her s a t night on the couch in the iqe . , t a,„ ornrue appeared poorly. Prisoner went out that ,41,,t0ern-Ltig, afternoon and evening. He was out all 4 1, 1 ev -,.,711. Ca t darkand Mrs. M'Geachy called INkrsdnev3eg, andpsa'w her. e 0 the following morning Lttrh'et y), the took breakfast, e and went out early y N r c o ' n. --V remained out until five in the r ,LI did not see her that day. They Opp e,....iu with their tea. Captain Clarke ether ening with them. Clarke and prisoner went Ong Purchased pickled oakum for supper. -V110111.M! They rose about the usual time on Friday, breakfasted, poison. The proper remedies for prussic acid are and went out before ten. I saw Mrs. Belaney, but did stimulants. Brandy, whiskey, dashing cold water in the not speak to her. I had heard no complaints since Wed- face, ammonia or hartshorn applied to the nose, arti nesday ; on that night she said she was better. They ficial respiration—these remedies ought to be well known returned between one and two on Friday, and remained to professional men. Putting the feet in warm water, about half an hour ; they left again, and returned at and mustard poultices, would be of little use. They half-past nine. I saw her sitting in the front parlour at would be loss of time, but would not be im the table, Mr. Belany was lying on the couch. She ap- proper. Bleeding may be occasionally necessary. peared in good health. They retired to rest shortly Cross examined by Mr. ERLE—Theso remedies I have after. Just before seven o'clock, on Saturday morning, learned not from experience, but from study. After I heard them conversing together in their bed-room. I the death I consulted with Captain Clarke as to the distinguished the voices of both. At a quarter to eight inquest. A post mortem examination was not proposed I was called to the room by Mr. Belaney. He called at that time. out, " Mistress, mistress, come up here, my wife Re examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Captain is very ill." I went up, he was at the bed- Clarke was present at the post mortem examination. On room door, which was open. My servant was smelling the contents of the stomach I made use of the there. The foot of the bed is to the right hand as word " hydrocyanic." That is the chemical word for you go in, and a chest of drawers stood to the left. I prussic acid. Captain Clarke was present. He saw the Behind them are folding doors, opening to the sitting- contents of the stomach put into the bottle. room. There is a wasliCand-stand in a recess to the right By Mr. Baron GURNEY—A drachm of medicinal of the chimney, and a small table and chair near the head prussic acid would be sufficient to produce death—that of the bed. I observed Mrs. Belany lying on the bed, is sixty drops. The dose is from one to two drops. with the clothes all thrown against the NI all. She had Less than a drachm might produce death. no cap on, and was in her sleeping dress. I said she is Mr. T. P. Curling examined by Mr. BoDIuN—I as bad indeed. She was quite motionless, and seemed not sisted the last witness in the post mortem examination to breathe from the upper part of the chest. She was of Mrs. Belaney. The heart was healthy. Deceased was insensible, her eyes shut, her teeth closed, and she was pregnant. The contents of the stomach smelt of prussic foaming at the mouth a great deal. I raised her, and put acid. I handed them to Mr. Garratt, who said, in a her head on my shoulder. Prisoner was close beside low tone of voice, " hydrocyanic." I question whether me. I said, " I have seen my dear girls in fits before, Clarke heard it. The contents of the stomach were but I never saw fits like this." I asked if she had placed in a tumbler, covered with a bladder, and carried been subject to fits ? He said she had had fits to the hospital, and delivered to Dr. Leatherby. They were before, but not like this ; she would not come out examined the following morning, and found to contaia of it. I said, " What do you mean—do you prussic acid. No attempt was made to ascertain the mean to say she will not come to ? Do Something— quantity, for while the analysis was going on I received send for a doctor." He said, "lam a doctor myself. I a communication stating that Mr. Belaney had said she should have let her blood before, but she had no pulse." had taken prussic acid. As small a quantity as twenty He had a lancet in Isis hand. Before that I sent my drops of Scheelie's prussic acid has been fatal. servant for hot water, and I said, "I do not care if you The remedies in cases of poisoning by prussic acid are a doctor, send for another. Send for Captain Clarke are cold affusion and ammonia, and artificial respiration. and Mrs. M Geachy." He said, " Send for them ;" and If you have not ammonia, spirits would be good. The the girl went for them. He said, " She will not come to, poison takes effect immediately upon the brain, destroy it is an affection of the heart. Her mother died of it ing sensation. The breathing would be affected subse nine months ago." I put my hand upon her heart, but quently. I should say that putting the hands could not feel it beat. I put my hand upon her stomach, and feet in warm water would do no good ; it appeared swollen. she was making convulsive mo- neither would a mustard poultice. I never tions, as if she was trying to get rid of pleghm, opening met with a case of poisoning by prussic acid. I saw the and shutting her mouth with a convulsive motion. prisoner in the adjoining room after the post mortem Captain Clarke and Mrs. M'Geachy live seven- examination. He asked what I considered the cause of teen doors off. Mrs. M'Geachy came shortly after. death. I said we had not concluded our inquiries, when I was still holding deceased. Prisoner said she we had done so we should be happy to inform him. was pregnant. Tho girl and Mr. Belaney put Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Mustard poultice her feet in hot water. I ordered some vinegar and water. is a stimulant, but nothing but the most energetic sti- Mr. Belaney took the pail of water from her feet, put it mulants will produce effect. I have often prescribed on the bed, and put both her hands in it. He also put pussic acid for indigestion Prussic acid produces its some of the vinegar on her head. I asked why Captain poisonous effects very rapidly. I mean by artificial re- Clarke did not come ; at last he came, and he got a spiration the same as that which is used on recovering clothes brush, and began to rub her legs. I ordered a drowned persons. I never made any analysis of the mustard poultice to be prepared, which was applied to her contents of the stomach, and therefore cannot say who chest by direction of Captain Clarke. In about twenty ther there were salts or not. minutes after I entered the room she died. She gasped By Mr. Baron GURNEY—As long as she lived and twice after Captain Clarke came in. Prisoner was in breathed I should never have despaired of recovering her. the room the whole time. When Mrs. M'Geachy came Dr. Letherby, examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—I am as in I begged her to fetch the doctor, and she fetched Mr. sistant chemical lecturer at the London Hospital. I have Garratt, who did not arrive until after death had taken made frequent experiments on the effects of prussic acid. place. I asked prisoner what she had taken; he said The effect ofan overdose is to produce apeculiar giddiness— only a little Salts. I saw a tooth glass and a small lam speakingofloweranimals—adispositionitorunround. tumbler on the table close to the head of the bed ; it The respiration is irregular. There is a scream probably appeared to be one-third full of liquid, clear, but before the animal drops. There are two or three expi whiter than water. On the other side of the ratory efforts producing the scream in convulsions. The bed was a paper of salts and a spoon. There animal foams at the mouth, and, after a longer or shorter was nothing in the drawers ; no bottle or turn- time, dies. I have never seen the effect in a human being. bier. There was no broken glass about the After the scream volition and sensibility cease. A person room. I perceived no particular kind of smell in who had taken it, would not, after the scream, be able to the room. Mr. Belaneygave Mrs. M'Geachy a phial full walk or talk. The most usual remedy is to dash cold of lavender water after Mrs. Belaney's death. Mrs. water over the person. This is taught constantly in M'Geachy sprinkled the room. I was in the front par- medical schools. I would also administer ammonia, . . . lour soon afier she died. I noticed a letter on the table ready for the post, and another one partly written. There was no phial in the room. The phial in which the black draught was contained was brought down on Thursday. The bed-room is rather a small room. A person in one of the rooms can hear what is said in the other. Cross-eXamined by Mr. ERLE—I bad desired Mr. Hobson, the bookseller, to procure lodgers for me. He introduced Mr. and Mrs. Belaney as his friends. He lives seven minutes walk from me. I first saw them on Tuesday passing by the door. I saw them in the room. I heard Mrs. Belaney sick many times in the course of Wednesday. I cannot say if Mr. Belaney on that even ing carried her from the bed to the sofa when the bed was made ; but I think he must have done so. Mr. Belaney called to have the bed made. He appeared very attentive to her. I saw very little of them until I was called in on Saturday morning. When I saw the state she was in I was greatly alarmed, and was under alarm the whole time. When my attention was first called to this, I remember that I urged Mr. Belaney to send for a doctor. I was called upon to give an ac count of it on the Monday following before the Coroner, with Mrs. M'Geachy and Captain Clarke. We were also examined before the - Magistrate. I observed two tumblers on the Saturday morning, one empty, the other containing fluid. I sent them down stairs, and do not know what became of the liquid. The teaspoon was on the table, and not in either tumbler. Sarah Williams, examined by Mr. CIIAMBERS—I was servant to last witness, and waited on Mr. and Mrs. Be laney. On the Thursday befure she died, when Captain Clarke and Mrs. M'Geachy supped there, I waited. Mrs. Belaney ate some salmon. She played on the piano, and appeared in good health and spirits. I waited on them on Friday. They had no supper on Friday, and went to bed about ten o'clock. On Saturday morning, about five minutes to seven, Mr. Belaney rang, and ordered a jug of hot water, a tumbler, and spoon. He was in the parlour and dressed. He was in the parlour when I came to dust it. He told me to go out, for he wanted to write. I saw him get the materials for writing. I left the room. At about twenty minutes to eight I heard him call "Mistress, mistress, my wife is very ill." I and my mistress went up directly, and went into the bed room. Mr. Belaney was there. Mrs. Belaney was on, the bed, her cap off, the bed clothes off, her hair hang ing all about, her eyes and mouth were closed, and she was foaming at the mouth. I and my mistress raised her up, and had some hot water for her feet. Mr. Be laney said he would use the lancet, but he was afraid her pulse was gone. This was before the hot water was fetched. The pail was afterwards put on the bed, and he put her hands in the pail. He also applied some vinegar to her face. I was then sent for Captain Clarke and Mrs. M'Geachy, who came. There was a tumbler on the table in the room. It was about half full of liquid, rather white and rather thick. The water-bottle was on the wash stand. It could not be reached from the bed. I did not take down the small tumbler. After Mrs. Belaney was dead, she was laid out, and directly afterwards, I dusted the floor of the room. I did not see any pieces of glass. I also dusted the parlour, and under the piano I found the stopper of a bottle. It was broken. The top of the stopper was what I found. It was too large for a vial. I put it on on the piano, and have not seen it since. I placed it there between twelve and one on Saturday, and it was gone on Sunday. I saw, on Saturday, some glass on the step door. It seemed like glass from a vial. There was no broken window in the room. I smelt no peculiar smell when I first went into the bed-room on Saturday. I set the window a little open when I went in in the morn ing. I took the bottle in which the black draught had been brought down stairs. Mr. Belaney told me to take it in the kitchen. Mr. Belaney went out between twelve and one on Saturday. It was after he went that I found the stopper. He never slept in the house after. He returned once or twice on Sunday. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I have always been quite sure that I found the stopper on Saturday. Mrs. Belaney's corpse remained in the house until the Wednesday. There was no bed for Mr. Belaney to sleep in. He appeared very kind to her. When she was ill on the Wednesday he took her tea frequently. She vomited, and he ap peared attentive to her. He consulted her as to what she would like to have. I went into her room two or three times on Wednesday while Mr. Belaney was out, and she declined to take anything until he returned. Mr. Belaney called out to me to be quick in making her bed. Captain Clarke supped with them on Thursday. Clarke and Belaney went out together on Thursday after sup per, and Mrs. M'Geachen, his daughter, was left with Mr. Belaney. Clarke and Belaney returned at twelve. On Saturday I should not have gone up if Mr. Belaney had not called. He was much alarmed ; he was crying very much, and had his hands before his eyes. Mr. Belaney asked if I had fetched Captain Clarke, and I said no ; I did not know I was to fetch him. Mr. Mark C. Garratt examined by the SOLICITOR GENERAL—I am a surgeon. On the morning of Saturday, the Bth of June, I was in called to attend Mrs. Belaney. at half-past eight o'clock. Mrs. Belaney was dead when I arrived. Shortly after my arrival I examined de ceased, and said her death was very sudden, and I could only account for it by supposing that she had died of disease of the heart. Prisoner said he thought so ; her mother had died of it some time before. I asked him if she had taken anything ? He said only some salts. I said to him and Captain Clarke that some inquiry would be necessary. He said if I thought it requisite he desired I would take the proper steps. The inquest was held on Monday, and adjourned for a post mortem examination. I made the exa mination at four o'clock on Monday, with Mr. Curling. We found the whole of the organs generally healthy. In the stomach we found about a pint of fluid strongly impregnated with the odour of prussic acid. It was placed in a bottle and sent to the London Hos pital for examination. Prisoner and Captain Clarke called on me at nine o'clock that evening. Captain Clarke asked if we had ascertained the cause of Mrs. Belaney's death. I said we had not finished our consultation. Prisoner came again at ten, with Captain Clarke and Mr. Hobson. He said that on Saturday morning he was about to take some prussic acid, which he was in the habit of taking for an affection of the stomach. He had some difficulty in removing the stopper, and had used the handle of a tooth-brush for the purpose, which had broken the bottle ; that some of the acid was spilled, and the rest he had placed in a tumbler. He said I went into the next room to obtain another bottle, but instead of doing so I began to to write. I heard a scream, went into the bed-room, found my wife, who said, " Oh, dear, I have taken some of the hot drink, get me some cold water," and she be came convulsed. That was the substance of his statement. I asked what he had done spirits, and stimulants. Hot water to the hands and feet would not be of any service, nor would a mustard poultice. It would be too long in producing its effect. So far as I have heard the account of this lady's death, I am disposed to think that if those remedies had been applied she might have recovered. If she lived for 20 minutes there would be better hopes of her recovery, and I should continue the remedies longer. I ana lysed the contents of the stomach on the Tues day. I discovered on the first analysis the presence of prussic acid. On the second analysis, on the Thursday following, I discovered Epsom salts. A different ana• lysis is necessary to do this. The prussic acid which had produced death had been taken into the system, and that which was found in the stomach was over and above that which was sufficient to cause death. I can form no opinion as to the quantity. I only analysed it for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of prussic acid. The symptoms I have heard described are those of poisoning by prussic acid. Mr. Donaghue afterwards furnished me with some prussic acid. It contained rather more than 2 per cent. of pure acid. If it is spilt in a room there would be an odour. Half a tea-spoonful produced an odour which remained in a large room nearly an hour. If it is poured in a glass, there is a slight odour. If half an ounce were poured in a glass and left in a room, it would produce an odour. I have expe rimented with the prussic acid for Mr. Donaghue. I gave a cat 10 or 20 drops of Scheeile's strength, and restored the cat by cold allusion and ammonia. I gave a horse a table-spoonful of acid twelve times the strength, and restored the horse. He was on the ground in convulsions, and apparently dead, and all the symp toms had occurred before I applied the remedies. He was restored in twenty minutes. I dashed cold water ever his head, and put ammonia to his nostrils. Ammonia is common smelling salt. The mode of producing arti ficial respiration should be well known to all medical men. Cross-examined by Mr. ERLE—I isolated the prussic acid from the contents of the stomach. There was a drachtn and a half of water mixed with prussic acid, but there are no data to determine the quantity. There was a strong odour of the acid. Prussic acid is one of the poisons easiest of detection after draught. Acetate of morphine is poison. There is no smell from it after death. Prussic acid is detected by the smell. The scream is the indi cation of volition and sensation having gone. The swallowing of prussic acid is not attended with a shock. There is a taste with it. I have tasted it. I have had it spilt on me, and applied to my nostrils, so that it has produced giddiness. This effect is produced in about thirty seconds ; then faintness comes on. It would depend upon the quantity taken whether a person would have time to call out and say anythirg. If prussic acid were taken immediately after some other fluid, that would have the effect of diluting it and making its action slower. I am not ac quainted with the effect of prussic acid on the human subject. Re-examined by the SOLICITOR - GENERAL—There is no acid taste in Sclecile's prussic acid. There is a bitter taste. There is no hot taste. At the conclusion of the examination of this witness, the Court adjourned for a few minutes for refreshments. On the re-assembling of the Court, Dr. Anthony Todd Thompson was called, and exa mined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I am Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at the London University. My attention has been called to the effects of hydrocyanic acid upon the system. Hydrocyanic acid would produce such symptoms as those under which Mrs. Belaney is described as labouring. but they would also be produced by any other sedative. The smell of prussic acid is very peculiar. If any be spilled in a room the odour remains a considerable time, unless there is much movement in the air of the room. If it were in a tumbler the odour would be strong—if it were lifted to the top the odour would be perceived. The effects of taking it are those which have been so clearly explained by the last witness—giddiness, faintness, convulsions resembling those of tetanus, or lock-jaw, and screaming. When the symptoms have advanced to a scream, the powers of volition are gone. After the scream it would be impossibe for a party to talk so as to describe what happened. The remedies are well known in the medical world; they are stimulants of all kinds, ammonia, effusion of cold water, and artificial re spiration, and chlorine applied in the form of vapour. I have tried experiments on the effects of those reme dies on animals. I have tried ammonia, cold effusion, and artificial respiration. I have known no cases in which artificial respiration alone has ;succeeded. Warm water to the feet and bands are of no use. Mustard poultice would be too slow in its effects. If a person lived twenty minutes after taking prussic acid, the pro bability would be in favour of recovery, if remedies were applied. Bleeding has been used in cases of strong plethoric people, but with no good effect. Cross-examined by Mr. ERLE—I have seen cases in the human subject, in which large doses have been taken so as to produce fainting. It might have been a quarter of an hour after fainting had occurred that I was called in. The person recovered in consequence of the remedies. I hare taken it myself in sufficient quantities to produce uneasiness. A person would scream from any extraordinary or strong sensation. A person might immediately on taking the acid feel an un comfortable sensation in the mouth and might scream. The evaporation of the acid is very quick when it is spilled, but the smell remains for a considerable time. By Mr. Baron GURNEY—Ammonia is a powerful re medy. Chlorine is more powerful, but is not so easy to be obtained. The first thing I should call for would be a smelling-bottle, hartshorn and brandy, and I should also use the cold affusion. (The trial was proceeding when we went to press.) with the bottle ; he said he had got rid of it in some vacant place. I asked him why he had not mentioned it before. He said he was so confused, Mr. PRENDERGAST—Why, what is the meaning of these tricks being played with the Court ? Mr. PAYNE—What do you mean, Sir, by that ? Mr. PRENDERGAST—Why, you said at first you would not go on, and then you say you will not consent to an acquittal. This I call playing tricks with the Court. The COMMON SERGEANT here directed the witnesses to be called, but, as they did not answer, the prisoner was discharged, and the Learned Counsel quietly sat down. THE BOMBARDMENT OF TANGIERS. The following letter has been received at Lloyd's this morning : " Gibraltar, August 8. " In my last dispatches of Ist inst. you'll have per ceived that I did not anticipate in the pacific opinions expressed continually in the papers, though I believe they were from a high source. The result has proved that I was not mistaken, as the French Admiral, Prince de Joinville, bombarded Tangiers on the 6th inst., from eight o'clock in the morning till five P.M., at which hour the Moorish flag was still flying over the walls and has continued so ever since. The latter defended their batteries with great bravery and little skill—few killed and wounded on either side. The fire on the part of the French appears to have been chiefly directed to the fortifications, as the town has not suffered much. Our negotiator, Mr. Hay, returned to Tangiers at mid-day on the 6th inst., in the Vesuvius, from his mi=sion to th e Emperor atFez, and had the mortification to find that his mediation had been abor tive by the premature commencement of hostilities four hours previously. Tetuan has been spared, and likely to continue so, owing to the locality and distance from the sea. The French squadron, it is said intend to leave Tangier Bay, and from a source which I consider worthy of credit, I believe the Admiral intends to batter down all the defenceless sea port towns on the west coast of Morocco, as far south as Mogadore, inclusive, by which measure private property alone will suffer. Some of the British subjects here trading to that part of the coast have applied to Admiral Owen for the protection of their interest in that quarter, and which his Excellency would endeavour to comply with, as far as possible, though the means at his com mand are extremely limited, b e i ng only one or two dis hpatch steamers, and no small sailing vessels of war suitable for that service. I believe Commodore Lockyer, of her Majesty's ship Albion, at Tangiers, will be in structed to send the Hecla (steamer) to pick up the British Consuls and subjects along the west coast of Morocco. (Signed) J. L. CO WELL. P.S. Aua. 11.—I am enabled to add a few lines to say, that from the best information received up to the hour I write it appears that most, if not all, the French Adv e m s i t r a c l o a a l s l u t d o e d f t B o a i r n b t a h r e y , p r c e a c r e r d y i i n n g g . Morocco by the French will g i ve a severe e q uvtr u t e a tirih d eee r o boo n lerocdwu a ep r rt e asot o iouo n fnrti t itof the es e British commerce, already completely ex cluded from Algiers and Oran in consequence of the heavy duties imposed by the French Government on ar ticles of our own manufacture. I have also to bring to y ca o v u a r l noticery, and t h a e r a t s l s i e e r m y in o gof a about Spanish t a 40,000 menr m y n i n o f u a r n ry, im mediatetack on n the e ig i b o o o u r r s h i o n o d c , o a n lie concert t C ( e s u o t report e , p destined ) f o w r it a h n t a h t e - French forces. I believe this is to be increased to 20 or 25,000 men. J. L. COWELL. alarmed, and ashamed, thathe — did not know what to do, and he was sorry he had not communi cate it earlier. Prussic acid was the cause of death in this case. If prussic acid has been spilled in the room there would be an odour of bitter almonds in the room. I did not observe any peculiar smell of the kind in the room. I do not think the win dows were much opened. The smell of the acid would become weakened by the window being opened and a person might not perceive it. I ani acquainted with prussic avid medicinally, but not as a THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, NEW COURT. Henry Wheeler, aged 21, bracemaier, A r th ur Ri c h man, aged 18, and George Richman, aged 10, also brace makers, were indicted for stealing twenty-four brace lengths of silk India rubber web, of the value of 285., the property of Benjamin Wigg Hickling. They were also charged upon several indictments with stealing a quantity of tools, the property of the same prosecutor. Mr. Payne appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bal lantine and Mr. Prendergast appeared for the prisoners. The prisoners were engaged in the service of the pro secutor as bracemakers. The articles named in the indictments were part of the stock of the prosecutor, and the prisoners were discovered disposing of similar articles. In the course of the evidence, however, it appeared that part of the property was found in the pro • secutor's premises after the present charge had been in stituted. Under these circumstances, The CommoN S ERGEANT stoppe d t h e case, and directed an acquittal to be entered in favour of the prisoners. They were again indicted for stealing some tools. These tools belonged to the prosecutor, and the prisoners were discovered, after the tools had been missed to have pawned them. The jury also acquitted the prisoners in this case. There was another indictment against the prisoners,'but Mr. PAYNE said he would not again dare the glorious uncertainty of the law. The prisoners were accordingly a cq uitted on that al so . Mr. PAYNE said he would not proceed further. John Wheeler was again put forward on another in dictment. Mr. PRENDERGAST inquired what was meant by the prisoner being put forward? Mr. PAYNE said he had not been instructed, and there fore he could not consent to an acquittal. FRANCE AND MOROCCO. - . The line which this country has to pursue towards France, under present circumstances, is a d e li ca t e one, but not the less clear and straightforward for being delicate. We have to be spectators, and spectators only at present, o f a qu arrel which is going on be tween two independent kingdoms ; but we must be, at the same time, in a state of readiness to act, sup posing we should be called upon, i.e., supposing this quarrel should take a turn which involve our own interests. Perfect quietness and neutrality up to this point, but armed quietness, armed neutrality— the position of a watchful stander-by, ready to strike a strong blow the very first moment his ow n r i g ht s should be i n f r i nge d—thi s i s the situation in which we now stand to our French neighbours in the Medi terranean. But matters have not come to this pass yet; nor should a state of preparation for striking a blow, should it be wanted, make us at all fussy and anxious to strike it. We should not be one bit the more bel ligerent, either in temper or conduct, because we should be prepared for war. Watchfulness is not a shadow of an excuse for irritation and interference. So long as we are at peace with France, and France does nothing to violate that peace, so long we ought not even to expect that she will violate it. We should have a friendly expectation that France will act fairly, till she shows by her actions that she does not; and all that we should attend to is to be ready to act, supposing this just expectation on our part should be deceived. The French have bombarded Tangiers, but they have not taken possession of it. This is the distinc tion which should decide the question of our inter ference. The bombardment and the occupation of a town are totally different things, though some alarmists would make us believe they were the same. We may permit the one. but we sho u ld nn no a o ooun t permit the other. We expres s ly guar d e d our selves, in our remarks on this subject the other day, against being supposed to allow the smallest concession to France, w ith res p ec t t o th e occupation of Tangiers, or of any other port o f the Emperor of Morocco's dominions. Some of our Contemporaries are far mor e generous and b ounteous in their concessions on this head than we are dis posed to be, and seem ready to give up the whole empire of Morocco to France, if s h e wou ld lik e t o have it. We think differently. The possession of such a line of coast as that of Morocco would give France a preponderance in the M e dit erranean th a t that o would be quite incompatible with our i n t eres t s . A n d w attempt on the part of France nc seriouslye to it would be as respecta ble a cause of war as almost any th a t h as ever se t na tions together by the ears. But France does not occupy eith er T ang i ers or an y any part of the coast of Morocco as y e t, an d s he w ill ta take assert , possession anyf not be allowed to do so. O ur G overnment h ave , we have no doubt, not failed to intimate their objection to even a temporary possession of that town by the French. The it Prince . de J o i nv ill e h as i n d ee d bom barded it, and is difficult to see on what principle of international law he could have been prevented. But the French bombs are the only French occupants of the place as yet ; and the Emperor of Morocco has only got what he deserved —a g oo d p e ppering for his obstinacy and unfairness. A n d peppere d h e pro bably will be till he comes to te rms . F rance i s whip ping his Majestyinto better behaviour, but she has not yet picked his pockets o r str i pped him of h i s coat : she is the disciplinarian hitherto, and not the high way robber. If she should assume that vocat i on i t i will be time for us to interfere._'limes. AQUATIC CLUB. THE WESTMINSTERAQIUAAQUATICS. T ICS rieahcegahilidwothers connected with highly respectable club rowed gentlemen engage d i n o f t h t e h and numerously attended by 'the which their scratch match yesterday, was well contested, friends of the several aquatic sports. The distance from Vauxhall to Putney, the competitors thus escaping (?..3 parties The he incon venience they might other Wise have much . of the in sustained from the steamers and craft moored Lambeth-reach. All being in readiness they got away at about half-past six. Messrs. Hudson and Scott ... Messrs. Plunket and Johnson ********************* ( Pink ) 1 Messrs. Darby and Andrews * ............... .. ..... (Red) 2 Messrs. Duplan and Young ............... (Light Blue) 3 The start was well effected, and . ii; (Green) 0 oar and oar for a few strokes ; Lighte whole party were in advance, Pink being second, aidthe Blue then showed of each other. Shortly after the start, other two . abreast of the race was fouled by a heat. Green in the . heat which was in their course, and in consequence of this she took so much water in at her stern that her occupants leave her, having thus lost all chance i were obliged to the gasworks Pink went up to Lightnßtlhe match. Off couple of minutes' sharp rowing went by them,ue, and after a re taining the lead won by about fifty yards, . and Light Blue gave place to Red in the lower part of Chelsea -reach, THE NAUTILUS BOAT RACE.set-reach. A very excellent race came off yesterday members of the Nautilus Club, Bankside. amongst the gentle men who contended in this, as in the above, weree drawn by lottery, and the award of victory was two silver.cups. It was started about half an hour after the 'Westminster Aquatics, on the same course, and was not unequal in interest to the one which had preceded it. Messrs. Smith and F. Chantler (White) 1 Messrs. T. Plempton and E. Plempton ..... (B Messrs. E. Chantler and A Corbold .............. i lue) 2 ed) 3 Messrs. Carmichael and Dawson ..................... .The first mile and a half was contested withen) 0 spirit, and exhibited not only much skill, but great considerable game and power. They all got away together im mediately afterwards Blue took the lead, and heidhut.it right up the reach, pressed throughout the distance o by White, both setting to their work and rowing with much f spirit. On nearing Battersea-bridge White drew ahead their opponents, and kept the lead right to the winning post a , first passing through Putney-bridge by half ninute. The wind set heavily against the tide , and the whole of the party shipped a great deal of water in their way up, Green, indeed, so much, that they might have been con sidered out of the race ere their:arrival at Wandsworth, where they were almost swamped. SCULLERS' RACE AT PUTNEY, Six young watermen, two or three of whom could not have exceeded 17 years of age, rowed yesterday - purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the residents at l' ' ra Put ney, Roehampton, and its vicinity. It is unnecessary to say that it created but very little interest, and th a t only amongst the parties themselves or those nearl related. It was with six co m petit o rs, in three heats, andwas won by Charles Green (stripes.) THE HARVEST.—Thedry winds, accompa n i e d b y sunshine for the last few days, have in a great measure counteracted the injury done to the outlying crops, b y the heavy rain which fell in the course of last week. In many places the greater part of the grain is already stacked, so that upon the whole, as far as these districts are concerned, we may look forward to an abundant har vest. The turnip crops this year are excellent, and an abundant supply of food for cattle. At the Ipswich Lamb Fair, which will be held on Thursday next, good prices are expected to be obtained for all kinds of beasts, sheep, and lambs.—lpswich Express. SUMMARY OF NEWS Vubltr Optttion. 4 Wh o rune may read." FOREIGN. The France says everything has been finally arranged for the visit of the King of the French to England, but that his absence will not exceed a week. The Gazette de Metz mentions a report that two es tafettes have been sent off by the Duke de Nemours with orders to stop the movement of the troops who were arriving for the camp, the heavy rains that have fallen having retarded the harvest, and prevented the clearing of the ground for the encampment. The Minister of Public Works arrived on Saturday at Havre, where he was received on landing by the Mayor, and the engineers and officers of the port. The trial of the Legitimists accused of sedition is to come on at the end of the present month. It is said that several curious documents will be produced at the trial, among which are letters of M. Berryer's and some other Legitimists, and projects for a Legitimist rising in La Vendio. Marshal Soult has returned to Paris and resumed his functions as Minister of War. The ad interim nomina tion of Admiral Mackau arose from the necessity of the ordinance dissolving the Polytechnic School being signed by a Minister charged with the war portfolio. A London paper having announced that Mr. Pritchard is expected to return to Otaheite in the Coiling wood, to resume his functions as Britannic Consul, the Paris Gbbe gives a decisive denial to the statement, adding that it only notices it because the gobe-mouches of the Opposition will not fail to enlarge upon it, by giving it as a certain fact to their credulous readers. An interesting ceremony took place last week at Val de-la-Haye, near Rouen. A subscription of 5,000 f. having been entered into for a monument to mark the spot of the first resting-place on the river, on the occa sion of transporting the remains of the Emperor Na poleon to Paris, the inauguration took place on the 15th, in presence of the authorities and an immense multitude. A letter from the camp at Batna (Algeria), written at the end of last month, represents the country to be de voured by clouds of locusts, which alighted on the ground to the height of above a foot, and covered the roofs of the barracks like a thick fall of snow. They seemed, however, to be inclined to take their flight to wards the desert. One of the receivers of taxes, &c., of VendOme (Eure et-Loir), vrho absconded a short time age, leaving a de ficit, it is said, of a million of francs, has been arrested at Brussels, at the demand of the French Government. This deficit, however, will, it is understood, affect only private individuals, his accounts with the Government having been regularly paid up. The Universal German Gazette states that letters from Singapore, of April 11, have been received at Leipsic, giving a very satisfactory account of the commercial ex pedition sent from that city to China. A royal decree has been issued at Madrid suspending the further sale of church property. The King of Prussia arrived at Vienna on the 11th inst., and immediately proceeded to the palace at Schcenbrunn. The Prince de Metternich was expected on the 12th. LAW AND POLICE. Mottram, the bankrupt, who had carried on business as a wholesale warehouseman in Wood-street, Cheap side, passed his final examination on Tuesday. At the close, Mr. Thomas applied for protection on the part of the bankrupt. Mr. Commissioner Fane—lf he asks at once for his certificate, and an early day to be named for that purpose, I shall grant him his protection ; but if not, I shall leave him entirely to the mercy of his cre ditors. Mr. Thomas—The bankrupt states that he has no fear as to his protection, and does not apply now for his certificate. At the Liverpool Assizes Mr. Aldis, formerly an artist, but now a clergyman, obtained a v e r di c t against an attorney of the name of Gardiner for negligence. Damages, 3001. Octivins Clarke, the son of a late highly distinguished divine, was fully committed at Worship-street, charged with committing numerous depredations in the houses of gentlemen connected with his family, and with whom he had been on terms of intimate friendship. At Marylebone, David Garrow, a boy about fourteen years of age, in the service of Mr. Salter, a butcher, carrying on basiness iu Church-street, Portman-market, was brought up for re-examination, charged with having driven over a respectable elderly female, named Sarah Bath, who, from the very serious injury inflicted upon her, was unable to attend. 'The prisoner was bailed by his master and his father, who undertook that he should be forthcoming on the 17th of next month. At the Greenwich police-court, Charles Reeves, an upholsterer and furniture dealer, in Church-street, Greenwich, was charged with disorderly conduct in the Clarence-hall concert room, Greenwich, by letting off fireworks in the midst of about one hundred and fifty females, whereby he caused great alarm, confusion, and danger to the premises ; and was ordered to pay a fine of 20s. Henry White, a powerful man, a coalwhipper, who had been in custody for three weeks, was brought before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police Court, for final examination, on a charge of assaulting and wounding an aged couple, named Robert Reay, a crucible-maker, and Sarah Reay, his wife, whose lives were despaired of for some days. The prisoner, who had previously made a defence that he was first attacked by Reay and his family, and that he was beset by numbers before he struck a blow, wished his witnesses to be called. Mr. Broderip said he had already informed the prisoner that he could not hear his witnesses; but he could call whom he pleased at the Central Criminal Court, to which place riactelail.e was about to send him. He committed him for C OTTILT—PILBIIIONA.B roll: The anniversary of Prince Albert's birth-day, on Mon day next, on which clay his Royal Highness will enter d r, o willb rr e h c e e r l e e b w ra il t l ed b e a t a t h g e ra C n a d s t d le isp w l i a t y h nightfall, opposite the windows of the oc u of p n o fis n i rde h e- i rw s a 0 2 b rl 6 ek t 6th ss p 3 al , e e tn a royal apartments. The Earl of Aberdeen, from the heavy press of public business in his department of the Government, does not leave Argyll House for Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, so soon as expected. The Noble Earl purposed going to Scotland at the close of the month, but his departure is now yostponed. Viscount Melbourne is expected to return to South street, Park-lane, to-day, from a visit to the Venerable Archbishop of York, at Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, whose hospitable mansion has been full of company during the last fortnight. The Duchess of Leintter and Lady Jane Fitzgerald have returned to Carlton House-terrace from Brighton. The Duke and the Marquis of Kildare will come over from Ireland at the close of the week, having been to Dublin to attend the annual meeting of the Irish Agri cultural Society. The Marquis and Marchioness of Qneensberry and Lady Douglas, Countess of Cavan, Countess Farnham, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Hon. Captain Byron, Sir William and Lady Jolliffe, Sir C. Anderson, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Spalding, &c., are among the late arrivals at Anglesey Ville, Hants. The Marquis of Huntly last week left town on a con tinental tour. The Marquis of Douglas and Marchioness (Princess Mary of Baden) are on the eve of leaving town for Scot • land. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, who are at the family seat in Suffolk, shortly repair to Hamilton Palace. The Earl and Countess of Wilton were honoured with a visit from the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, at Binstead Lodge, their marine residence at Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Thursday last. Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., and family, after a tour of the Rhine, have returned to this country. The Earl of Craven has returned to Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, the Noble Earl having gone there to be present at the marriage of his sister, Lady Louisa Johnstone, and Mr. Oswald, M.P. The Countess of Craven is nearly recovered from her confinement. The Earl of Stradbroke has been appointed Vice- Admiral of the coast of Suffolk, previously held by the late Marquis of Hertford. The Noble Earl is visiting his estates in Ireland. The Earl of Falmouth left Tregothnan, his seat in Cornwall, last week, and is now at Woolhampton House, his seat, near Newbury, where the Dowager Countess is residing. Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden and the Hon. Miss Maude have arrived at Manby Hall, on a visit to Lord and Lady Worsley, who have arrived at that seat for the autumn. The Duke of Montrose does not leave Buchanan Castle until after the races at Stirling, for which the Noble Duke is the principal steward. The Duchess and family continue at Cowes, Isle of Wight. The Marchioness of Hastings and family, Captain and Lady Selina Henry, Sir William B. Folkes and family, Sir William Snmersfield and family, Sir E. M. Dods worth, Hon. Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Stourton, Hon. Mrs. Hawke, Dr. and Mrs. Whewell are among the residents at Scarborough. DIESCELZ.IIIITEOUB. Captain Warner has announced to the Government that if they will anchor a line-of-battle ship at the back of the Godwin Sand, he will from on board of another ship destroy her at a distance of five miles by means of a projectile. He requires a guarantee of 300,0001. in case he succeeds. A fire took place at Richmond on Tuesday morning, which destroyed property valued at 4,000/. It appears by a parliamentary return that the total amount of the land-tax in England and Wales in the year ended 25th March, 1843, was 1,858,9241. 6s. lid. The proportion redeemed amounts to 724,463/.195. 24d., the un-redeemed to 1,134,4601. 6s. 10id. The accounts to the 25th March, 1844, arc not yet completed. The present sittings of the Insolvent Debtors' Court have been appointed to the 11th October, and orders for hearing have been granted to the 3d of the same month. The Court will sit for bail cases and other matters, on Tuesday week, Sept. 3, and the hearing of cases will be renewed on the 26th of Sept. There is to be a performance at the City of London Theatre on Saturday evening next, "in :id of the funds for assisting the Jewish Poor." Mr. Braha,m has generously offered his services on the occasion, and will sing " Molly Bawn," the " Death of Nelson," and play in The Waterman. The Italian Opera closed last night for the season. The new Police-court which has been lately erected at Stones-end, Borough, in lieu of Union-hall, has just been completed. The operations for the fountains in Trafalgar-square are in a great state of forwardness, and the top of the engine-house in Hemming's-row, at the rear of the Na• tional Gallery, has been surmounted by an iron tank capable of bolding 30,000 gallons of water. To this 1644. building is attached a tower, at the top of which another iron reservoir v ill be erected. De brings for water have made great progress, having been carried down to a depth of upwards of 200 feet, and a plentiful supply of water is now obtained to about SO feet below the surface. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA. VISIT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. The Prince of Prussia, with his Grace the Duke of Wellington and suite, arrived at Strathfieldsaye from Basingstoke shortly before seven o'clock on Monday evening, and the same night the gallant Duke gave a grand banquet to his Royal Highness and suite, at which were also present the Earl and Countess of Westmore land and Lord and Lady C. Wellesley. Yesterday the Prince rose early, and at seven o'clock was walking in the grounds attached to the mansion, in company with his noble host. At a quarter to eleven o'clock the whole party, with the exception of Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, left Strathfieldsaye for the Reading station on the Great Western Railway, en route for Oxford. At the Oxford station, which was reached at ten minutes to one o'clock, the Duke of Wellington's state carriage was in attendance to receive the Prince, who entered it together with the gallant Duke; the Countess of Westmoreland and Chevalier Bunsen proceeded direct to the residence of the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Philip Wynter, in St. John's Coll ege . The carriages entered the garden of St. John's Col. lege at ten minutes after one o'clock, where, upon alight ing, the Prince was received by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. Wynter, who, it will be recollected, is also President of St. John's College. The Duke of Wellington introduced Dr. Wynter to his Royal High ness, and the illustrious party then proceeded to the principal saloon of the Vice-Chancellor's residence, where coffee was served. The royal party subsequently proceeded to the robing-room, where the gallant Duke attired himself in his undress robes as Chancellor. The Prince, who received his degree as a Doctor of Civil Law upon the occasion of his visit to the University of Oxford with his late father, in 1814, wore the scarlet robe and black velvet cap of the order. The Earl of Westmoreland was also similarly attired. The lateness of the Prince's arrival in Oxford had the effect of preventing the illustrious visitors from reaching the schools until nearly two o'clock, at which time his Royal Highneas came, accompanied by the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor, and attended by the members of their suite in two carriages. His Royal Highness, having passed under the great gateway, paused at the entrance to the quadrangle, when the Duke of Wellington, in his character of Chancellor of the University, advanced towards the Prince, and read the following address to his Royal Highness, which had been unanimously passed at a Convocation held on the previous day 41 TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA. " May it please your Royal Highness, " We, the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford, beg leave to express the satisfac tion with which we hail your Royal Highness's arrival in this scat of religion and learning. " The visit of your Royal Highness, in company with your august father, immediately after the restoration of the peace of Europe, is not forgotten ; and we bid your Royal Highness welcome on the present occasion with the greater pride and pleasure, because we have already had the honour to inscribe your Royal Highness's name on the rolls of the University. " The mutual respect and good-will which have happily long existed between Prussia and Great Britain have been refreshed and strengthened by the recent visit of the reigning Monarch to our beloved Sovereign. " And we rejoice to regard your presence among us this day as a further token of the continuance of such feelings, no less than as a proof of the interest which your Royal Highness takes in the promotion of literature and science. " Given at our House of Convocation, under our Com mon Seal, this 19th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1844." His Royal Highness, who had listened most atten tively to the address, then read the following reply in English with a very correct accentuation : " My Lord Duke and Gentlemen, " I thank you for the kind reception you have given me, and the cordial welcome which has greeted me in this venerable place. " I have not forgotten the solemn day when, visiting this country with my father, the late King, I had the ho nour of being associated with him in having my name inscribed on your rolls. "I am thankful that the peace of Europe—the happy re-establishment of which brought me to this country in my first youth—has been preserved during these thirty years, and that the mutual regard and friendship be tween the two countries has been maintained without in terruption, and strengthened. " I am sure the King, my brother, will learn with the greatest satisfaction the continuance of feelings which he so fully appreciates, and which he warmly returns. " I congratulate you on the flourishing state of this ancient seat of religion and learning, and pray for its continued prosperity and glory. " And in particular I unite my fervent hopes with those of this University, that it may long continue to be presided over by the hero who, after having acquired the highest military honour and glory, has known how to in crease both in the time of peace." The Royal party now proceeded through the Divinity School to the Theatre, where portraits of the father of his Royal Highness, George IV., and the Emperor Alexander, are suspended. Thence they proceeded to the Bodleian Library, where a superb quarto edition of the Holy Scriptures was presented to the Prince by the noble Chancellor. After inspecting the picture galleries, the illustrious party proceeded to the Ratcliffe Library, where thirty years previous, on the 14th of June, his Royal Highness had, in company with his father, the late King of Prussia, the Emperor Alexander, George IV. (then Prince Regent), the late Duke of York, and many other royal personages, partaken of a magnificent banquet provided by the University. Upon leaving the library the Royal party proceeded to All Souls College, then to Dr. Buckland's museum of geology. Magdalen College, Merton College, and Christchurch, were subsequently visited. Upon leaving Christchurch the Royal party returned to St. John's College ; after having inspected which they sat down to a splendid dejeuner, provided by the Vice-Chancellor, in the Hall, to which all the principal members of the Uni versity were invited. At live o'clock the Royal party returned, and entering their carriages, drove off in the direction of Nuneham. It was generally remarked that the Duke of Welling. ton was looking much better than upon the occasion of his last visit with Prince Albert, three years since. The Royal party were to dine last night at the Archbishop of York's, at Nuneham, proceeding this morning to Stowe, thence to Rugby, and on to Derby to-night, where it is expected the Prince will sleep. / ,~ •/ ~ i COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen W and infant Prince continue well. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out early this morning deer shooting. In the afternoon his Royal Highness drove out in a carriage, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken an airing in a carriage in the forenoon, and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal went out on a pony. The Royal Family were again taken airings in the afternoon. Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde has relieved Lieutenant- Colonel Bouverie in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The American Minister, with Mrs. and Miss Eve rett, left town yesterday morning, on a short tour to the north. A deputation from the Metropolitan Association for improving the dwellings of the industrious classes, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yester day, at the office of the Board of Trade. The depu tation consisted of Dr. Southwood Smith, John Fin laison, Esq., T. F. Gibson, Esq., Charles Gatliff, Esq., John Dunlop, Esq., J. W. Tottie, Esq., and W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. The Earl of Lincoln has left town for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Dispatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were received yesterday afternoon at the Colonial-office. In the forenoon dispatches were received at the Co lonial-office from the Governor of Canada, and the Governors of the other North American Colonies. lIAmnuRGH, AUG. 16.—A short time back the pro prietors of the steamers plying on the River Elbe, be tween Hamburgh and Magdeburgh, in order to offer an inducement to the pleasure-seeking folks of the German inland towns, chartered the General Steam Navigation Company's large steam-ship Monarch, for an excursion from Magdeburgh to London and back, and as the fares charged were exceedingly moderate, a considerahlenum ber took the advanta ge o f th e opportun i ty to visit the " great metropolis." The last mail from Hamburg!' brought over a splendid silver tankard, cover, and stand, to be presented to Captain Morris, who commanded the Monarch on that occasion. Thi s elegant token of the acknowledgment of his serv i ces by th e United Ham . h e uro h and Magdeburgh Steam-p ac k e t C om pany wa to Captain Morris on bo ar d o f th e Trident, of which *Fesnred r ship he has now the comm an d, on the Edinburghan,l London station. A dinner was given by the Junior United Service Club, at their house in Charles-street, St. James's, on Monday, to the hero of Jellalabad, Sir Robert Sale. Sir William t Nott was also invited, but we regret ,o say was unable to attend from indisposition. CITY AND BOROUGH REGISTRATION.—Those per sons who have been omitted from the list of vot ers , and objeetors, are informed, that by the new Registration Act (6 Vie., cap. IS, sec. 16), any person whos e name i s on the list, or who has claimed to b e on the list of voters, has a right to inspect the rate-book, and make extracts therefrom, without the p a y ment of any fee, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, from the 10th to the last day of August. It is only necessary that a request b e ma d e to the overs eer, or the person having the custo d y of the rate book for the time being, during the period and within the times specified above. The list of voters can no longer be seen on the church and chapel doors, nor need the overseers allow an inspection of them at their own houses ; copies of them may, however, be seen on appli cation to ally Reform or Registration Society within the respective city or borough. Claims must be served on the overseers, and objections served both on the over seer, and on o r at t h e place of abode of the party ob jected to, on or before Saturday next. THE VACANT SEATS.—The inhabitants of Hey wood, Middleton, and Tonne, comprising 20,000 persons, are in the field f or t h e representation vaunt by the dis frar,;,Lisement of Sudbury.—[Will Chorley not be stir ring in this natte r n —Bolton Free Press. ~A J ,7 MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING I'AFERS OF THIS DAY. Cir TUESDAY EVENING. go lci.7t Paris is 9k per mine,Tl LIES.--The premium on . 3/. 17s. Ikfit per , gives an exs eliange of 25 which, at the English Mint price of ounce for standard gold , n at short 39 ; and the exchange at Paris on Loma, being 25 47 1 , it follows that gold is 0.33 i ; s er cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold 4.4.c:A per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. ICliti. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 94 ;; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at shore being 13 94, it follows that gold is 0.11 dearer in London than in Hamburgh. A good deal of uneasiness continues observable at the Stock Exchange on the subject of our relations with France, and the fluctuation which has taken place to day in the value of the public securities shows that the market is liable under present circumstances to be rather' severely acted upon by speculative sales. Although the public have bought freely within the last week, exten sive operations for the fall have also been effected, and these having taken place quietly, their real effect upon. prices has not yet been discovered. Consols opened at 982 for money and the account this morning, and an attempt was made to mark them 99 ; but as the broker for the Commissioners only gave 981, it could not be ac complished. At this point there seemed to be much firmness in prices till the speculators again came in as sellers, and various reports having got into circulation— one to the effect that M. Guizot had left the French Cabinet—they gradually gave way, and finally left off heavy at 98i. SU N.—Specula*ive sales were made this afternoon in Console, which caused the market to close heavily, the rates being 98f 1 for money, and 98f 1 for time. The New Three-and-a-llalf per Cents. declined to 101 ; and the Reduced to 102 ; - the Three per Cents. being 99f k. Canada Debentures were done at 1111. The Foreign Market continued flat also. Spanish Ac tives were 22-k ; and_the Three per Cents. 33 to f. Co lombian steady at 132 Venezuela were 41 to 1. . The additional transactions in Railway Shares have• been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New, 10 Bristol and Gloucester, 15 ; Chester and Holyhead, 1 ; Dublin and Cashel, 31 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 3i ; Hull and Selby, 16i ; Birmingham, 1241 ; Ditto, 'l'hirds, 36* ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1* ; Greenwich Preference, 3f ; Lynn and Ely, 3i ; Manchester and Leeds, 531 ; Ditto, Quarter, ; Manchester and Bir mingham, 142 ; Ditto, Quarter, 3f ; Northern and Eastern, 132 ; South Eastern, 51 ; Yarmouth and Nor • with, 11 to 2; York and North Midland, .57 ; Ditto, Hale; 281 to 22 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2; Paris and Orleans, 162 ; Paris and Rouen, 17i to 17; and Rouen and Havre, 81 premium. Brighton have been 21 ; and Greenwich, 32 discount. There was an advance generally in the rates of the foreign exchanges, usually quoted under this head. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion for the week ending Thursday last : Gold coin to Rotterdam 380 ounces. Silver coin to ditto Silver coin to Hamburgh COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 4i Gibraltar Ditto, at sight l2 2 Leghorn 3O 50 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Genoa 25 85 Antwerp 25 85 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 13} Venice ..... Altona l3 14 Naples ... 391. Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 °Palermo, per oz llBl Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon s4i Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 23 Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldyssight Vienna, effec. f 1.3 M 952 Philadelphia Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9 Cadiz Bilbao 36 New Doubloons-- 0 0 0 Barcelona 36 New DoHars 0 4 10 Seville BANK ISSUES. _ The Gazette of last night contains the following re turns under the new " Act to make further provision relative to the Returns to be made by Banks of the amount of their Notes in circulation." The period is twelve weeks prior to the 27th of April last, and the average amount in each case is certified by two of her Majesty's Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes : Abingdon Bank, at Abingdon and Wantage—H Knapp 29,316 Andover Bank, at Andover—W. H. Heath Ashford Bank, at Ashford—W. Jemmett and V Pomfret Aylesbury Old Bank, at Aylesbury, Chesham, and Thame—W. Bickford and Z. D. Hunt Aylshanp Bank, at Aylsham—R. and G. Cope- _ _ man - 5,854 Bedford Bank, at Bedford—T. Barnard 34,218 Birmingham Bank, at Birmingham—Taylor, Lloyd and Co 38,816 Bland ford Bank, at Blandford—P. N. Bastard and W. C. Oak 9.723 Boston Bank, at Boston—Gee, Gee, and Wise Bridgewater Bank, at Bridgewater—H. E. and J. Seeley 10,028 Brighton Union Bank, at Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer 33,794 Buckingham Bank, at Buckingham, Stoney Stratrord, Winslow, and Brackley—G. Par rott and T. Hearn Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow-market Bank, at Bury St. Edmund's, Mildenhall, Thetford, Sunbury, and other places—Oakes, Bevan, Moor, and Bevan 82,362 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, at Cam bridgt, St. Ives, Royston, Ely, and New market—E., C. F., and G. E. Forster Canterbury Bank, at Canterbury—Hammond, Plutnptre, Furley, Hilton and Furley Colchester and Epex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, at Colchester and Witham = Bawtree, Errington, Bawtrec and Haddock Diss Bank, at Diss and Harling—Oakes, Fincham, Bevan, and Moor Doncaster Bank, at Doncaster —Tew, Jackson, and Leatham Hadleigh Bank, at Hadleigh, Suffolk—Bawtree, Erringtoe, and Bawtree Hemel Hempstead Bank, at Hemel Hempstead and Watford—W. Smith & E. F. Whittingstall 23,842 Nuneaton Bank, at Nuneaton—J. Craddock and W. Bull Oxford Bank, at Oxford—J. and B. Morrell Peterborough Bank, at Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 12,832 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, at Peter borough, Oundle, and Thrapson—D. and C. F Yorke 12,545 Thornbury Bank, at Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, at Thrapston and Kettering—J. Yorke and G. Egland Union Bank, Cornwall, at Helston—Vivian, Grylls, and Kendall Wallingford Bank, at Wallingford—Wells, All natt, and Clarke West Riding Bank, Wakefield and Pontefract Bank, at Wakefield and Pontefract—E. Tew and W. H. Leatham 46,153 Winchester and Hampshire Bank, at Winchester —Wickham, Mant, Bailey, and Jessett Wirksworth and Ashbourn Derbyshire Bank, at Wirksworth—P. and C. Arkwright Wisbcach and Lincolnshire Bank, at Wisbeach, March, Chatteris, Whittlesea, and Holbeach— Gurney and Co aistk 59,713 THE ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.—SOIIIO curious statistical details descriptive of the present state of this extensive fraternity were laid before the metropolitan lodges, at the late anniversary meeting. It appears that on the Ist of April last (when the returns were mad& up) that there were, in England and Wales, 3,840 lodges, and 325,000 members, being an increase of 450 lodges and 23,000 members over the preceding annual return. The subscriptions for the year amounted to 352,583/. ; the expenditure to 300,000/. ; leaving a balance of 52,5831. in favour of the associa tion. The whole amount of property belonging to the order (including pictures, banners, flags, official apparel, and other insignia) was estimated at 700,0001. Amongst the names on the books are 130 Members of Parliament, 629 ministers of, various denominations, and 9,000 honorary members who make no demand on the funds. If the members were to contribute only one halfpenny per week, it would amount to 34,126/. per annum ; and were they to walk in procession, two and two, one yard asunder, they would extend 92 miles and 580 yards. If they walked three miles per hour, they would take 30 hours 14 minutes to pass any given spot, 10,214 passing every hour. The chief item of expenditure consists of the charge for medical aid afforded to indigent brethren of the order. FATAL EFFECTS OF a SLIGHT ACCIDENT„—Mr. lliggs yesterday afternoon held an inquest at the Prince's Head, Princes-street, Westminster, on the body of James Pricker, aged 70, a porter, lately employed at Mr. Gold smith's ale stores, Margaret -street, Westminster. On ' 1 Saturday fortnight deceased hurt the little finger °lbis right hand by getting it jammed between two ale casks. The injury not getting better ho became en out-door surgeon's patient of Westminster Hospital. On Thum - day last he could not swallow, and next day he was ad- , mitted into the hospital as a physician's patient. It Was then found that he was labouring under a severe attack of bronchitis, from having got wet through a week pre viously. He died on Sunday, having been attacked by - lock-jaw a few hours before his death. Mr. Tebay, the/ surgeon, said deceased must have died in a day or two of inflammation of the lungs, even had ho not been attacked by lock-jaw. Either disease would have proved fatal. Verdict, " Died of disease of the chest, accelerated by lock-jaw." THE PHILOSOPHY OF GOOD CLOTHES. NO marl 1 acquainted with life can be ignorant of the improvement which genteel apparel produces in the carriage, tone of with thought, and principles of an individual. It givesam a his confidence, self-respect, and a sense of equality companions ; it inspires him with energy, independence, delicacy of sentiment, courtesy of manner, andt an elevation~df of language. The face becomes m T an h l e y r , e be is k no slinking through the brow open, and the eye clear. through narrow lanes and backstre steps outb utets,h a i o t n the dete con trary, the smoothly dressed man ruination not to spare the earth, or to walk as if ho tro.l• on knives or razors. No, he brushes onward—is thol, first to accost his friends—gives a careless bow to this, ta, bluff nod to that, and a patronising " how d'ye do" to sk , third, who is worse dressed than himself. Trust me, kind reader, that good clothes are calculated to advance a man in life nearly as well as good principles, especially in a world like this, where external appearance is taken as the exponent of what's beneath it.— Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, f