The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-12 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF VISCOUNT FORTH.

The following is the conclusion of the evidence
gives at the inquest on Thursday :

Mr. R. W. dravee, F.R.C.&, said he had personally at-
tended Lord Forth sod the lady since the end of July.
The gentleman introduced himself us Captain Drummond,
' but he subsequently had reason to believe that he was Lord.
Forth, and that the lady was not his wife. He wits up
with Mrs. Drummond until three o'clock on Tuesday
morning (having attended her in her confinement), and at
five o'clock he was again called by a masseuse, to come
to her. He proceeded immediately to the hotel, and on
the way met Lord Forth, who was in • fearfully excited
state, and said, " Graves, my deer fellow, she is dead."
As soon as they got to the hotel they found that Mrs.
Drummond bad met breathed her last lie threw himself
upon her and wept bitterly ; then be went on his knees at
her bedside and still wept; and then he stelileuly got up
and drank nearly half.a.piut of brandy at a draught. Mr.
Graves took the bottle from him and led hint to the
drawing-room. He was then in a state of frenzy, and
suddenly snatched up a large knife and made a dash at
his breast, but Mr. Graves prevented bin injuring himself.
Mr. Graves took the knife from him, and unseat with
him as to his cowardly conduct. He replied. " What am
1 to do? lam perfectly alone and friendless. My father
has deserted me, and now the only friend 1 dual left is
dead." Subsequently he became calm, sod promised on
his honour never again to attempt his life, but to leave
that day to go to Brussels to his father, the witness having
previously told him he knew that he was Lord Furth, and
that the lady was not his wife. He then left, giving instruc-
tions that he was not to be left alone. Mr. Graves described
the mansures he took to restore the deceased after he
hail taken the poison, and the subsequent post murtem es.
aniMation, the result of which was that had the deceased
been perfectly healthy he would probably have recovered,
but hie system was so much impaired by intemperauce that
death resulted front the action of the laudautun on ii frame
already dimmed.
A discussion arose as to the necessity of an inquest on
the lady. Mr. Graves said her death arms from natural
causes, entirely unconnected with her contiumneut, and
that both be and Dr. Evans were prepared to state that
no inquest was necessary, while an inquiry into her history
could only give pinto her family, who lived near Glou-
°eater. _

Tie Coroner said he should make s pirate inquiry, and
if he thought an inquest necessary he should hold one.
The room was then cleared, and the jury returned a ver-
dict, "That Lord Forth died train poise., taken wLfle he
was suffering from temporary insanity.'

THE PORTS OF Coss.—A notice in list night's
Gazeue states, that the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from the Spanish
hliuistor for Foreign ABA" announcing that in consequence
of representations made byherldajesty'sgovernment as to the
hardship of exacting fines from vessels to ballast presenting
themselves in the ports of Cuba, without being provided
with certificates from Spanish consuls, the Spanish govern-
ment have seen fit to remit the fines levied on certain
British vessels, but it is expressly stated that those remis-
sions are to be considered as special acts of grace mid not as
pmcedents fur future cases. It is important therefore that
all British vessels proceeding to the ports of Cobs should be
provided with such certificate,.

•
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--OD Thursday even-
ing, as one of the trains of the Maucbester and hh eth e I
Hallway was about to stop at Guide-bridge, Susannah
Mayas, one of the passengers, met with an accident. from
the effects of which she died 110011 afterwanin. Itinyile,
a resident at Huddersfield, had been no visit t, Salford, and
from thence was on her way to see a niece at Ashton-under-
Lyne. As the train was slackening speed at tluidedwidge,
where she had to get out, she unfortunately had not
patience or prudence to wait until the wheals had ceased to
revolve, and in alighting fell with one of her legs between
the train and the platform. After the accident she acknow-
ledged the fault was entirely her own. The injuries
sustained were lacerations and a fractured leg.
A CANDID Dmoviatsa.—The (heal Times and
Gavtte, in commenting on Sir L. Bulwer's " Strange
Story," relates the following anecdote :—" Nearly ten
years ago, a most distinguishd surgeon, of grrat endow-
ments in mechanical and physical science, called on the
writer to show him (besides some curious inveutions which
arc now in use). a machine he had invented fur measuring
the force of the electric currents excited by muscular action.
There were two cylindersito be grasped, wires, &c., needle,
galvanometer, as usual. On grasping either cylinder, the
needle was deflected, and so on. 'lam on my way,' mid
our friend, •to show it to Faraday.' He departed. Soon,
however, he returned, with a kind of honest satisfaction
beaming in his face—' I have shown it to Faraday, nod he
has convioced me that the electric currents are duo. not to
the muscular action, but to the friction of the hands against
the cylioders. So I shall go home, 'and say no more almut
my muscular electrometer.' lay all inventors Lye as
grad a conscienoe."

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