The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-04 00:00:00

THE BURIAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL.

Robe the beautiful for the tomb—
We -,
may no longer stay her ; '
She has pass'd away in budding bloom,
In vestal white array her.
One single auburn tress we crave
Before her face ye cover :
Why should the cold and grasping graft
Take all fr.in those who love her
Bear the beautiful to the tomb
While yet the sun is shining,
Ere the shadows and evening gloom
Denote the day's declining.
Bear her softly and slowly on— ~L;E; C).:11.7
Disturb no placid feature; :1 a
Deep the sleep she's fallen upon,
The last of a mortal creature. ;r;:
Lay the beautiful in the tomb, . q.i=J•l'l
Beneath the weeping willow ;
Let the maiden have sleeping room,
And softly spread her pillow.
Angels hasten from realms of bliss,
Their watch above her keeping :
Dear to the heart of the Father is
The place where a child is sleeping.)
Leave the beautiful in the tomb;

There may be others fairer;
Haughtier heads may wave a plume
With glory to the wearer.
Eat so beautiful and so good—
Think they who dearly held her—
Earth in its loveliest sisterhood
May never have exeell'd her.

A TALL DOCTOR BEATEN BY AN

INDIGNANT HUSBAND.

An exciting scene occurred in a Silth-avenue eel.
A young, sprucely-dressed and very tall doctor, who
has an office in Cottage-row, suddenly found himself
thrust into noteriety and from the car at the same time.
It was the work of a moment. A burly-looking man
seized the compounder of drugs by the coat collar, pulled
him from his seat, led him to the platform and, jumping
off, hauled the doctor after him. The inmates of the
oar looked on wonderingly. There was that, moreover,
in the countenance of the man of burly figure, plainly
indicating the end was not yet. Several leaped flora the
car, anxious to see the winding up of the affair.
.4 large crowd quickly gathered, and followed close
upon the heels of the tall doctor and his conductor. In
a few moments the two central objects of interest—the
doctor and his leader, the former as servilely submissive
to the latter as is the mammoth elephant to his puny
keeper—entered a house in Christopher-street. The
throng, not being allowed to follow them into the house,
lingered in front.
" Take that," " take that," were soon heard from
inside, in a tone carrying striking meaning with it.
Simultaneous with these utterances was also audible a
voice supplicating mercy, in a tone like to that in which
the ancient Roman importuned Cassius to rescue him
from the watery depths of the chafing Tiber. In a few
moments the door was opened. The tall doctor came
tumbling down the steps. The uprising of a boot was
plainly perceptible in the vista. There was blood on
the doctor's face and on his clothei. He looked chop-
fallen to a remarkable degree. Silently he moved away,
and a crowd followed till his form disappeared in one of
the houses in Cottage-row.
Such a scene as that related could not well occur
without creating a good deal of exeitement and inquiry
into the facts. The doctor had insulted the wife Qf the
man who beat him. The husband who took the method
of vengeance described is a Well-known butcher in Jef-
ferson 'market. We suppress the names of the parties
for obvious reasons. It is believed the taLl 'eLdelor-75he
stands six feet two inches in his stockings—has not sus-
tained injuries of a lasting character; but the lesson'he
has received, it ii to be hoPed, will prove of lltsting
service.—American Paper.

HUMAN LIFE.—Hope writes the poetry of the boy,
but memory that of man. Man looks forward with
smiles, but backwards with sighs. Such is the wise
providence of God. The cup of life is sweetest at the
brim, the flavour is impaired as we drink deeper, and
the dregs are made bitter that we may not struggle when
it is taken from our lips.

Old Adams, the great California huntet, has arrived
in San Francisco with 150 living animals of his own
capturing. Among them are seventeen dancing and
performing bears, buffalo, elk, two 'California lions,
tigers, lynx, cougars, snakes, condors, vultures, eagles,
&c. It is probably the largest exhibition of the kind
ever collected by one man.
The Irish exodus this season—if the reports are not
exaggerated—is likely to be as marvellous in its ettent
as that which followed upon the terrible, fainine of.
184 G-7. The provincial papers teem with the subject,
and the farmers remaining at home• have taken the
alarm at the almost certain prospect of a scarcity of
labourers and the consequent enhanced price of labour.
INTERRUPTION OF A PRIZE. FIGHT.-At, the Walsall
Petty Sessions, David Welsh was charged with having
been the cause of a number of people assembling at the
Three Crowns Inn, on the Sutton-road, for the purpose
of witnessing a prize tight with the view of committing
a breach of the peace. Chief Superintendent Carter
deposed that, having heard that there was to be a
meeting of the nature complained of, he went. ou Sunday
morning at six o'clock, to the house named, and there
saw the prisoner with a number of others. On seeing
him they went away, the prisoner making his escape,
but afterwards being taken iu a cart, under the seat of
which he had hid himself. Mr. Carter produced Bella
Life, a paragraph in which announced that Joseph
Ainos, of Bloxwich, and David Welsh, of Walsall, were
engaged to fight on Monday, the 30th of April, within
twelve miles of Walsall, for £lO a side. Mr. Ebsworth
contended that there was no evidence whatever that a
breach of the peace was intended, and after a brief
deliberation, the bench decided that the evidence was
not sufficient to prove the case. The summons was
accordingly dismissed.
COURT MARTIAI, O. A MARINE.—CIIATHAM, April
30.—After an exceedingly long interval, the infliction of
corporal punishment was resorted to at this garrison
this morning on a private of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, named Joseph Waketleld, for a gross act of
insubordination. The prisoner, who is a man of
exceedingly bad character, was tried a few days since for
desertion and making away with his regimental neces-
saries, and this morning the whole of the officers and
men of the division were assembled on the parade
ground of the Royal ]lfarive Barracks to hear the
sentence promulgated. The prisoner having been
marched to the centre, the decision of the court was
read, the prisoner being sentenced to be branded with
the letter " Do" and to he imprisoned 168 days. The
moment the prisoner heard his sentence, he shouted out
at the top of his voice to
.Colonel.U'Killop, that " he
would be it' he would do it, and he might do it
himself." As this flagrant case of insubordination
occurred in the presence of the entire division,.Colonel
Rea, the commandant, determined to make a prompt
example of the prisoner, and ordered a " drum-head".
court-martial to assemble immediately, to try the.
prisoner. The officers accordingly assembled, and sen-
tenced the prisoner to receive 60 lashes, which sentence

was carried out to-day.
DEATH AT LEWES FROM OVERDOSE OF PRUSSIC
ACID.—F. H. Gell, Esq., district coroner, has held an

inquest at the Royal Oak Inn, Lewes, touching the
death of Thomas Holmes, a lad of 17, who. was appren-
ticed to Mr. Low, chemist, Lewes. From the evidence
adduced at the inquest it appears that the lad left his
master's shop at eight o'clock, and returned about half--
past nine, which was not an unusual thing for him to
do. About three minutes after he entered- the shop he
called out to his master, who was in a room upstairs.
On Mr. Low going into the shop he saw the deceased
sitting On 'the step leading to the •sitting-r6om, and
seemingly in a fainting state. His master had seen him
in a fainting state before, but' it did not eleite much
alarm; but as deceased did. not seem to &et -better, his
mother, and afterwards the d?c,tor; ware fetched. The*
drawer containing pripsic acid wait. also.. noticed to be
open, and the best antidolal means iverelhen used, but'
without effect. The: wafOrtunate youth never rallied,
and be died in abOnt twenty minutes. It Was elicited
that the deceased had been. for some time. past in the
habit of taking small doses of prussic acid, for the pur-
pose of alleviating palpitation of the heart, to which he
was subject. On the day of his death he had his usual
cheerful demeanour, and a short time before he left the
shop he was chatting in his usual manner to Mr. Low.
The jury returned a verdict that the deoeased 'Met 'his
death from incautiously takir,:g an over-dose of prusiic
acid, which he used for, medicinal purposes. Mr.-Low
said the deceased's habit of taking poison Was entirely
unknoien to him, and without his consent. As it was
not often used, a small quantity taken now and then
would not be missed.

RVSIARICABLE DEATH.—Atk investigation has taken
place before Mr. Wakley, the coroner, 'at the Univeriity
Hotel, .9taft<in.t.street, Tottenham -Court-road; '' in
reference to. the death of an unknown •female, aliCut..66
years of Age, under the subjoined very singular ciroum-
stances. . About one o'clOA in the ..afternoon, a house'
painter, at work on the premises, Nos.'39, Woburn-Pliiee,
Itussell-spare, noticed the deceased sitting on the door-
step of 'No. as, with -her heed resting ,upon one hand
and.a basket .of lace by her side. After the lapse-of a
quarter of an hour,-- he went to her, and finding her Pale,
unable to speak, and apparentiv.dying, he sought for a
polieeman. Within half an hour atter the poor woman
was first noticed to sit on the doer-step she ;dad expired:
She was, renioted' to the University College Hospital,.
where a lost-mortein ey,amintition, to ascertain the cause
of'death, was performed by Mr. Andrews, the resident
medical otileerl who discevered the cause g death to. be,
from the piercing of a fish-bone thro4ll the substance
of. the heart. He had fund eight wounds in the
diaphragm and perioardium, thren4) which, strange
to say, thaUne had passed liefo,w..it reached the heart.
01 a rigid search, he Clisco,Yeredthe blunt end of a fish-
bone, one inch and three quarters in length, ae sharp as
. a needle, protruding through the staunch, piercing the
heart. The immediate cause of death was the loss of
blood.—The coroner ha.Ning remarked on the singular
nature of the wise, the jury returned a verdict of
" AcCident4l death,"
A LITTLE CHILD AT PRAYER.—A child at prayer—
a beauteous sight! Dimpled hands clasped - eyesllfted
heavenward imploring a blessingl9cln the y.o4thful, one.
An orphan of six summersr:-Goit; help the orphan—
though not one word was. breathed; -het looks would .be
eloquent enough. An orphirif.'sireet 'Child, like a frail
bark upon the -,;,riceilzeia sea of life; to battle with the
wares, o£. sorrow and disappointment.- 'But a mother's
spirit watches over you,• and though the canopy of
heaven rail bev from view,
yet she is a talisman. The
evening hour bears upon its fleeting wings your orisons
to the shrine of heaven—envois there the recadwrite.
Who could harm you? Who could cg,one unkind,
cruel word, when they gaze vpon yoh and reflect that
you are indeed an orphan ?- An orphan! What does
that word coriey? It is but a tame, alas ! of too
man): throiii upon the nnfeeling world, trusting to
to be
F.,ftoeunn4. frolle'VeZBpliet
kindness
,j;38.5 i,, zet seem an example bidding me
711 en [
you from all harm; „
way, and.strew sweet rt9Vel's 1 Ai I wateh you on your
iolittpleluicsk
ii go and 46 I,llteWise.' And as the sweet words, " Our
Father; i'
beaded knees)
41 iibm your lips, angels are the listeners.
Let it breathe its simple prayer. He who he..th aaid,
"Suffer little children to come unto me," i.ll bear yo4r
voice, sweet one,—Leisare .Atcp.r.,,,,