The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-01 00:00:00

A LADY POISONED AT BIDEFORD.

On Monday, great excitement was occasioned at
Plymouth by a report that • lady, who bad been on • visit
at Mr. Stephen NViloocks', had by some means or other
been poisoned. The rumour turned out to be true ; andthe
following particulars may be relied on as correct. The lady,
who bad been governess in the family of Lord Clinton. at
Bubb, for upwards of 20 years, came here to spend a few
days with Mrs. Wilcoeks. Some part of their early life had
been spent at school together. The deceased lady, Prance.
Ann Rowland, who was 41 years of age,somplained of disc.
&ma, but attributed her illness to change of air. Mrs.Wil-
cocks recommended • pesecnption which was made up of
tincture of rhubarb and laudanum, and went to the shop of
Mr. T.Grifiths, chemist, and asked for those-pennyworth of
tincture of rhubarb, said three drops of laudanum, stating
at the time that it was a prescription given her by case
nurse Williams. On taking the medicine home, Mins
Borland was engaged at her needle, but told Mrs. Wilcock,
that she felt poorly and would go upstairs and lie on the
bed. When M. Wilcock, subsequently went up, deceased
said that she had been del. Mrs. Wilcocks poured out the
medicine in • wineglass. sod Miss Rowland immediately
, drank it, remarking that it was nauseous. Mrs. Wilcock.
went down to dinner about one o'clock, and about two went
IV stairs 'pin. The deceased said. " I have not been
asleep;" she preferred lying still a little longer, and said
smilingly, "I don't know how people feel when they are tipsy,
but I feel very comfortable." Mrs. Wilcocks then left her.
About three, or half-put, Mrs. Wiloocks went up stain
again, sod when the blanket was removed she observed
that Miss Howland breathed slowly: Her hands were
leach 1, face swollen, and eyes shut. Mr. Wilcock., on
being apprised of her condition, went for Dr. Jones, but
Miss Rowland died. Dr. Jones, at an inquest held yester-
day at the New Inn, before Thomas L Pridham, Esq.,
coroner, stated that the deceased died from a narcotics
poison ; but the jury deeming further medical testimony
, together with a postmortem examination of the
necessary, together
their inquiry at five o'clock until eight
o'clock when it would be resumed.
I Mr. ncledon Bencroft, solicitor, is professiondly engaged
to watch the case for Mr. Thomas Griffiths. Western
Morning News.

HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OT DURHAM.—Letters
received in London yesterday state that the Bishop of Dur-
ham is gradually improving, and that his medical adviser*
now consider him oat of danger. He is, however, in so
feeble a state that many weeks must necessarily elapse be-
fore be can resume his episcopal duties. His lordship has
caused notice to be given to the clergy that the primary
visitation of his diocese, which it was his intention to bold
during the autumn, must be postponed until next year.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE DEA NKRY.-
It was announced some days ago in the Exprear that the
Bev. C. J. Ellicott, 8.0., Professor of DivinitiaisaterXinfe
College, London, had accepted the pommy of ~the
revenues of which are very small in consequence of its
dissociation from the mnonry, which formerly yielded its
chiefemolumeeta. Professor Ellicott, who was also Hut.
. can lecturer at Cambridge, had some hesitation about
surrendering these means of usefulness for the °Limos cum
dignitate of a decanal stall. The Bishop of Exeter has,
however, found some congenial work for him, and has given
the munificent sum of 10,0001. towards the establishment
of a diocesan training college, over which the new dean is
to preside. Colleges of a hke character have been founded
in the dioceses of Bath and Wells, Oxford, Lichfield,
Chichester' and Chester • and the want of a similar institu-
tion in the diocese of Exeter, embracing as it does the whole
of the counties of Devonshire and Cornwall, has long
been felt.

NEW CHURCH FOR ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS.—
A new church for a very poor district of the parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields is in course of erection in Beilfordbury,
and will be completed in the course of a few weeks. It is
from the designs of Mr. A. W. Blom&Id, a son of the late
Bishop of London,and promises to be a very commodious sad
pretty structure. Among the subscribers to the building
fund are her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort, who
contributed 250/.• the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord
Overstone, Mr. and Lady Mary Hoare, the Earl de Grey
and Ripon the Bishop of Loudon, Mr. O. Sclater-Booth,
J M.P., Mr. J. Hardy, M.P., Messrs. Combo, Debtfield, and
Co., the Marquis of Kildare, and a large number of the
leading parishioners. The site, at the corner of the Hop
Gardens, was purchased for 1,9201.. but a considerable
amount bad to be expended in removing the miserable tene-
ments which covered it. Schools of various aorta w:11 be
attached to the church, the ministrations in which will be
conducted by the Rev. Henry Swabey, M.A., of Pembroke
College, and formerly Rectoi of St. Aldate's, Oxford, who
has liberally contributed 300/. towards the fund.
ETON AND WZMAINSTER BOAT-RAC F.—Both
crews are in active training for this interesting event, which
comes off to-morrow. Owing to the tide, the race will be
started at an earlier hour than appears to have been gene.
rally supposed, and the steamer conveying theWestminsters
has been ordered for a quarter to 10, instead of the time
originally fixed. Even then those must make all el eed who
wish to see the race. We mention this fact generally to
prevent disappointment.
DEATH FROM EXCESSIVE HEAT.—Yeatertlay morn-
ing Mr. Humphreys, the coroner, held an inquest at Wap-
plug on the body of William Booth, aged 37. The decease,'
had been in business as a grocer in Aberdeen, but hail
failed, and then obtained a bet th on board the Aberdeen
steamship as stoker. On Saturday last, while engaged
before the furnace, he fell suddenly on the floor in a state
lof insensibility. He was raised and carried upon deck,
when life was found to be extinct. When the ship reached
the wharf at Wapping, Dr. Roes was called, who made a
post otorfent examination of the body. He ascertained that
death had arisen from effusion of serum into the ventricle'
of the brain through exposure to exceptive hest. The jury
returned a verdict in accordance with this testimony.
An establishment lately opened at Philadelphia
"for mialtailil and hething, including the Russian and
Turkish baths, has been named "The Ratak,' iuni and
Physical Institute."