The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-11 00:00:00

:bt Court.

The Choi:maw at the Exchequer has left his
seidesee, Hi khtso-ball, wear Dose stet., on a visa to the
Lilt Hon. Ka liteelP, at his seat, Hiram, Dunk,ld,
hid& it.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
erice in. the L,cl E h C.miaissioner or the lonian
Used,.

De"ltches were sent off yesterday evening from
11a C t orn e fir th•• 0 mum'. Di Canada, and sip for
Ns bowman of the mimic North Americas Colowler.

(From hit sight's Onzete )
Poums-orrics, Accra? Queen has
bra t., emir se of M. Jules Faueher, as consul at
Port Louie, is UN islar.d of Mauritius, for the French rs-
WA&

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Caoint ()rem, ArouAr 9.—Member returned to
sum Y parliam•at for the borouth of &Nutt's*/ • —John
Freheielt Stanfrm 1, Esq., in the room of 1b owes Noon
Tallard. Ity , oho has acts ptsti the °face of oae of the
*dote of Wm ajn•;'s Court of Common Pleas.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN A WORKHOUSE.
An ittpe,t was Seld yestmlay Wore Mr.
Lk., at the Grave Maurice public-house' Igh•strett,
WIVt tt ap I. mach', ei the death of Mr. John James Watts,
Mel 66..efe of the parochial surgeons of B'. Oenrce-in-the.
Ent, lobo died teem the effects of venom, in the Whittchapel
mdthcase.

Slirthetti 'awls deposed that she managed the Britannia
Oilletehowee, in the Whitechapel road. Oa Tuesday night i
Wt. the deceased came to the housii, 'immolated by an
dimly filmic, and ravaged a bed-room for the night. They
weft sheen to a room. and the deceased paid witness 2s. for
ths spumoni. They both appear d quite well and sober.
They tat to he and nothing was beard of them during
the sight. Oa the following morniog, at ten o'clock, wit-
tees, finding that they were not up, seat the servant girl
to beetle at the door She returned directly afterwards, and
said tiers was n teething the matter in the room, for the
man sad woman ware moaning very loudly, and appeared ea
if they wero dyi g Witness instantly ran up stein, and
Wird out to the .:mitased, " What was the matter? " The
dammed 1. lel, answered, "Open the door and come in "
Whimss opened the door, and found the deceased and the
woman lyi, g in bed, and seemed as if in prat pain and very
iLL The room was in great disorder. Witness asked the
deceased if she Owed fetch Mr. Blackman, a surgeon, and
he replied. " N I'll have no other but my rartner, Mr.
Braila ate., who lives in Carnon-street, St. George in the
Eat." Wittiest' immediately went to Mr. Broadwatees,
bit be was from home. Waimea then returned home, and
bend the deceased and the female apparently much worse.
They were both vomiting very much, and witness
sat again for Mr. Bro•dairater, who soon after-
wards attended, Mr. Blackman also attended, and
manually Dr. Allison, one of the parochial sure
peas, arrived, and gave an order for the admission of
the dimmed sad tits halide into the workhouse, in conso-
mme of the deceased refuting to be conveyed to his home
w to an hospital.
By the Jury.—Witness found two bottles in the room,
mataining a liquid, which she handed over to Mr. Black.
aft, and ale, an empty phial.
Mr. W. J. Broilwater, surgeon, said the deceased was
late hit parser, and tad been so for upwards of two mare.
They jointly occupied a house in Cannon-strret-road. The
deem d was one of the parochisl surgeons of St. Georges is
lh. Ram. and he had absented himself from his probe.
atonal dairies for the last five weeks, and witness had never
heard of It bad latterly come to his knowledge that
the dimmed was in the habit of visiting a female n used
Sandi Casio, a widow. The deceased was a married man,
but was separated frees hie wife 16 months after
carriage. This was about 30 years ago. The poor law
lauding hid only lately suspended the deceased
elm his duties., an consequence of kis negligence.
Between ten and eleven o'clock on Wednesday morning last
wham teemed a menage to attend Mr. Watts, at the
Britannia C. ffee-house. Witmer' at first felt a delicacy at
delay n, and said they had better call a medical numbs from
the seiehhoothnxl ; but shortly afterwards a seoond simeesse
PR came to his house, and he then went to the deemed,
whom be found lying in bed with a female, b tth of whom':
were la a 'inking state. They were both vomitiag mod !
'faintly, and complained of excessive thirst. Witness then
mat kr some brandy, which he administered to the &-
timid is eold weer. The deceived bed scarcely any pulse,
Ind the whole surface of the body was cold, with a slate,'
appearance of skin, wt ieh is usually found in persons who
mike from Indere. The deceased had violent porgies
aced toasitine ; end witness at the time considered the de.
stew female la ring from an attack of Asiatic
"'ILL The thermied, after swallowing a portion of the
matly and water, revived a lite., and was just able to ar-
*eat. that he was dying.
By the Cornasr—Arseuie would produce all the anom-
alies! end.' which they were then sofring
Witneas on Umtata? last interrogated !Sarah Craig, who
new bin •a• ger lasiy ill at the workhouse, and she informed
him this .he had been taken suddenly ill shortly before en-
* beg the coffeeehome, and that she obtained some medicine

hem a chemist, some of which she had tithes. Whams wee
amebae to fad oat whether the deceased bad takes ae of it,
or wallas else. She afterwards informed witness that the
dowsed obtained sane ether " stuff" frees some other elm.
mist. From her statement it appeared that they bad both
tees loaning hem the want of the common necessaries of
Ith„ which bad produced an attack of olarthos. They had
SO sapper on the Tuesday night, sad the deceased pabl the
led newsy he had Is. the use of the bedroom at the coffee-
NSW
Milk= Challis, • labourer, said Sarah Craig was his
=metiltea hearing of her illness he eluted her at the
en Thunday last. She thew told him that the
immumed lid gives her three glum, isentainiag • liquid,
she dedand her to drink it. She did ea, sad directly arter
nude she beam very ill.
Mr. Joseph Nash, surgeon to Whitsehapel workhouse,
111/ the inneeed, together with a Mode, were brosEht in
chest li dolga on Wednesday evening. They were taih
eneselegly M, sad hum their appesessees he treated them
In Addle cholera. The dunned wee sinking id, and died
at leMpeet 3 o'clock on the following meenleg. In the
cum Of the same afternoon witness examined he female,
and while he was &doing so, one of the nurses
headed him a packet of powders, which she had
found in the deesand's clothes, and some of which
ecetaised oseggelet sublimate, an acrid poison, and one was
labelledgekes. H. had since made a post monism exami-
nations/Ihp help. sea be felt no doubt that the deceased bad
died hem the a saes eta mineral poem. The contenteof the
stem& and the hamlets had since been analysed b Pro-
forma Letheby, lecturer on chemistry at the London Uospi
tal, eke detected the prewar* of oxalic acid, and mew sive
subtlest*. Witness had also been informed, that es the
Tamely evening the diseased had procured a small tomtit,
el keeede acid at Mr. Blackman's shop.
Mr. Broadwater here mentioned, that the deemed nests
the habit of taking a few drops of pried, odd 01111111664,
he *ems. of the heart tinder which be lsibeneed.
th.roroner—Witnem would not underteheteegy whet
the kewsle was suffering from, bat she was in a very due
gum state and the did not expect her to arrive.
The Coroner remsrked that the cats was wrapped in
ftesesey, and he should advise the jury to return an epee
reelist. It was just possible that the female had poisoned
the deceased, and if anything should hereafter transpire, she
mould be charged before a magistrate, end the verdict would
sot interfere with the ,lamination. It was one of the most
extraordisary wee that had come under his notice fur some
time, and he bad not the least d uht that the d. ceased had
endeavoured to destroy the female's life, and had succeeded
in killing himself.
The jury returned the following verdict—" That the de-
ceased died from the effects of poison, but bow uric what
manner administered, or whether takeu by the deceased, or
otherwise, these was not sufficient evidence for the jury to
say.'
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