The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-13 00:00:00

mzzAxcHozr DEATH OP 4 BARK MA'AM&

On Tuesday Mr. Osirdord, coroner, held an in-
quad at the Berkeley Arms, Berkeley, on the body of Mr-
enry Williams, sped 33, =DWI' of the Berkeley Bank,
who was found drowned on Friday morning on the banks of
the Severn. The event created a painful feeling, and
rani-
oaw rumours were in circulation, bet the IMAISPII clearly
showed that prior to the lamentable occurrence the de-
ceased was suffering from aberration of mind. The house-
keeper and accountant of the Berkeley Bank were examined,
and stated that the last time the deceased was seen alive at
the bank was on Thursday wising. B. went to bed about
11 o'clock, sad the next morning be was miming, having, it
appeared, left the premises at an early hour ; he had not
slept in his bed that night, and wee heard going up and
down stairs. The accountant, Mr. Clark, said that finding
the deceased did not return, he became uneasy, and Mr.
Carey and Mr. Adams came about 11 o'clock, sad from
their information he had iron to believe that deceued's
mind was affected. He therefore seat for Mr. Barnes,
manager of the bank at Disley. Had not suspected de-
ceased to be of unsound mind prior to that. On Thursday
morning the deceased told him ha had not felt so well for
some time as he did thee, but he complained of a head-
ache,
and said he had suffered the mine the day previously '
and could not account for it. He was a man of temperate
and retired habits. He had left a cheque for 1,5171.
19s. 6d., which represented his own balance at that
time in the bank. Cold to that amount was miming
from the till accounts. Other 'witnesses deposed to see-
ing the deceased on Friday morning at • farmhouse at
Hinton, where his conduct and emrisreation denoted that
he was under the inflames of some morbid feeling of
hallucination. A Mr. Bryon went in search of the deceased,
who was described to have left home in • flannel dram. He
vent to Mr. Harries. Mr. Harding went to Wa
where he met Mr. Barnes in his arrive, end moo=
him to Sharpness Point, where they sew Thomas Lusty in
• field, and the latter pointed out the footsteps of • man,
which they traced to a stile leading out of that field to the
Severn Pouf', A little way from that stile they saw the
footmarks on the mud. About twenty yards on the mud
they saw where they entered the water, ae the footmarks
were filled with water ; and presently witness saw • person
lying on the mud, shout eighty yards from high-water mark.
011 led Thomas Lusty, and went down to the deceased, end
found him lying on his face, with his arms doubled ceder
him, and his face buried in the mud. Turned him on his
back, and found that he was quite dead. Searched him,
and found in hi right band side pocket the bag which he
now produced, containing 1521. in gold, 11. 13s. in silver,
and lid. in copper, all in • bag. The manager of the bank,
Mr. Barnes, mired that all the bank money was correct.
The deceased bad made an appointment to see him oa
Thursday evening, but failed to keep it. No letter was
found to explain his going off, and it could not be socamted
for. The coroner, in summing up. remarked on the foci
deposed to by the witnesses as in hie opinion indicating
temporary insanity. The jury, after some delibeistion,
returned a verdict to the effect " That the body of the said
Henry Williams was found drowned in the Severn, but how
he bison drowsed there u no evidence to show to the
satisfaction of the jury. They also express the opinion that
at the time of death be was • lunatic, and of unsound
mind."— Cleheutian Sinister.

ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE "SATURDAY
REVIEW."

At the recent anniversary meeting of the Bath
and Wells Diocesan Societies, held in the Chapter-bows,
Wells, coosiderable amusement was caused by the intro-
ductory portion of Archdeacon Denison's speech. The ven.
archdeaconpiecd highly the journal with which his name
is •fed, tee ChurrA and State Review, and smartly
condemned the Saturday Review. It was known to most of
the persons present that a contributor to the latter paper
was in the hall, and the archdeacon's hearty castigation was
on that account received with extraordinary hilarity. The
archdeacon introduced the subject by stating that his in-
dictment against the Committee of Council on Education
had bees reprinted from a certain review called the Church
and Seek Review. He then west on to say—There may
be some very *soonest people here who are unfortunate
enough not to see the ChurrA and State Review. If so, I
can only my that they labour under • gnat misfortune,
and I compassionate them—(laughter)—they save six shil-
lings a year, and gain • greet loss. (Renewed laughter.)
An excellent friend of mine said to me the other day,
" Yours is a find-rate review, but very dull. flatillhter.l
It is not like the Saturday Review—that is what I mean.
(Continued merriment.) Some people have great admira-
tion for the Saturday Review—l have never been so
affected. (Great laughter.) Count Mostalembert was
standing the other day in a room in Loudon, does to the
door, when the editor of the Saturday Review came up
with' his little boy—the little boy, twelve years oki, bad
just come from Eton for the bonder'. The Count shook
the youth by the band, and said to him, "I suppose
you have not mach to do now—probably you write • good
deal io the Saturday Review." (Loud laughter.) Ido not
think dram-drinking and stimulants good for the moral
1 stamina of man. Indiscriminate abate of anything people
I have hitherto thought honest, decent, and respectable, I.
not, I think, good food for the English mind. (Hoar, bear).
I think I shall put in the hands of the reporters a quaint
mine for making • lively periodical upon which I stumbled
the other day. It is a very curious thing, undoubtedly
I old, and bean some tram of later adaptation. I am in-
II dined to think a dull review Is the best. (Laughter). Any
man not quite an idiot, nor wholly ignorant, can, with the
aid of the helps mentioned in the recipe of which I have
spoken, write very well In the Saturday Review, but it
I takes • man of some parte and information, dears% charac-
ter, and repute, to write in • dull review. (Great laughter.)
The recipe alluded to by the yen. archdeacon in the fore-
going remarks, was handed to the representative of the
Bath Chronicle, and we give our readen the benefit of "the
curious thing," verbatim et titeratiis :