The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-25 00:00:00

THe; CLERGY AND THE TEMPERANCE
MOVEMENT. .

Archdeacon Sand-To-rd-,—at-a--temperance meeting in
Leeds, on Tuesday night, said he beard only the other A SLOW POISONING CASE.
.lay f tho Archbishop ot Canterbury that he hal
pondered ovtr the report of the committee of Con- A married woman, named Isabella Covill, is in
vocation on iitteniperahce until he Was thcroogitly at custody at Castletowo, io the Isle of Man, one charge
.no with ham (the areltdeaciih) M this great tines of attsmpting to poison her husband. The woman,
tion. From some clergy hien, however, he had who is ab-ut forty years of age, is Bahl to have formed
received anything but assistauce. hue write to BAY an improper ihtimitcy with a WWI employ ed at the
that lie did Out think the question was oils with works at the new breakwater at Port Erin, where her
a hicli the clergy foil any thug to 410. Another, a Mn i 1-./am.i was aim employed.
wow!' of the Chia, h receivitig £1..004.1 a year f" The man Covill has, since the early part of the
eating white soup and doing nothing, wrote that pressot year, frequently sought medical advice, but
P,. had no time eirmi to give the addresses of the Dr. Wise, of Castletosin, whom he coneulted, could
differeht clergy in his rural deanery. A third —the not for soihe CM, underßitand his symptoms. At length
nephew of an Irish arilibislem—tle,mmt mgc his clergy he began to toispect that the man was being slowly
A. el r better eni; loyed in their parochial duties than iii poisoned, and comninnicated his suopicions to the
answeriog the inquiries. Another enclosed the in-
, I ical au, horitiea, and inquiries were made which led to
Whew% iii an envelope ailiireased to the •• Reheat the disco, cry that Mrs. Covill had on two or three
ArClidese,n oi foe- Mry,- and declined to have any different oc,,asions purchased white lead, hod once
co 11111 l °ldeation with hint at all lie knew tow to face tried to buy some arsenic from a druggist at Douglm,
a• 1 these ilitlicUlti,, RIM he load gone 1•I . with these ins who declined to serve her, and had induced a milliner
rpiitiss Mitil he had secured the s)moatliv of the most to give her some oxalic acid which the woman used to
ii fl ieutial mettib,rs of the Eitglisti Church, and her inuiiirm. A tel who lived next door said that she
when lie had the Archbishop of Canterbury to had seen Mrs Covill take some white lead out of the
hack him he dud not very ninon Care what treatment cupboard, and put it into some tea, which she then
he received at the ban Is id Ihe scaler fry. Bit he took up to her husband, who was in led. Dr. Wise
did tremble at times for the future if the national said that the man's aymptonis were such as would be
establishment, if the clergy and the ntembers of the pl winced by poisoning with %chit, lead.
Englieh Church did not learn wismim in ti .e ; and if I The woman has been committed for trial
they Ihid not see the real strength awl etability of the
E-t. ablisliturist Was not in the favour if princea, and
in the patronage of the wealthy and the great, lint, in
the affectiohs and esteem of the English people. Well,
that wis what some penile C died It Bdil•alistri, and if
that were so, he was a Radical of cutiree ; but he he.
Feted lie had indicated the wily hope of the English
(hutch as a national institution.
BASES FOR AN IRISH LAND BILL.

The Tablet suirgests the following as necessary bases for an
Irish Land BM:—
I. Security to reclaimers of waste land, and to
tenants who have made improvements, for the fruits of
their labour and their capital, although the previous
adaeot of landlords may not have been expressly
obt ,i, ed.
2 Fixity of tenure, including (I) leases for long
terms, or equivalents of edich leases ; (2) Waiiition of
bo &ord.' power of arbitrary evicti, ; and (3) redtric-
tion of landlords' right of raising rents to cases of in-
me wed value (not due to tenants' improvements),
' shown by public valuation.
3 Lunn Mate new valuation of poor lands with a
view to a general redinition of their rents.
4. All to necessitous tenants awl farmers in general,
including the benefits Is tb of Mr. bright's scheme
for lending money f.r porchase of freehoidd, and of
Lord Mayo's plan for waking advanced for improve-
ments.
5 And lastly, simplicity of details, and cheapnessin
the forms of processes to be required for acting under
th,, new law.