Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO POISON A MOVIER.

At the Clerkenwall Police-court, on Wednesday, Ann
Burke, a reepectab'y-dressed young girl, aged 17, was
• placed at the bar, on remand, charged with feloniously
attempting to poison her mother, Mrs Ellen Burke, by
administering to her a quantity of laudanum. Fromethe
evidence of the several witness's?, it will be recollected
that a few days lad ire the prisoner was given into custody,
Aber mother sent her for some rum and beer for their
supper The prisoner mixed the ram with some water
and give it to her mother, who, shortly after partaking of
the mixture, was taken very ill, and vomited nearly the
whole nigh'', at the same time havi.g a burning serration
in the throat A few days afterwards, it was said the
prisoner boasted that 'ha had purchased twopennyworth
of poison and had administered it to her mother,
and as that was not enough she would give her another
dose. Upon this policeecenstable Glover, 417 N, was
called in, and when the prisoner was given into custody
she adartted the same thing. Last week when she was
before Yr. Corrie she treated the matter very lightly, and
the magistrate in remanding her expressed a hope that
the remarks of the prison chaplain would be of servici to
her. On the present occasion the prosecutrix did not at-
tend ; bu, the demeanour of the prisoner was very much
altered. One of the sistereoF the prisoner stepped forward,
ani said she telieved her sister had been dealt vary
-harshly with, and that what she said was mealy out of a
frolic or bravardo. She wag certain that her sister had •no
,intention to injure her mother or any one else ; and the
imprisonment she had undergone would be a lesson to her
for the future. Mr. Corrie: Then you think it was a mere
idle threat. Sister : Yes: and really believe that she
has never purchased any laudanum in her life. Mr. Corrie
said there certainly was no proof that the mother had had
laudanum given to her, as no surgeon was called in at the
time ; and, for aught he kaew to the contrary, what she
was sick of might have been the rum and water. He
-hoped it was really as the sister .had said, that it was a
-mere idle threat, and in discharging her he warned her to
be cautious how she acted for the fature, The prisoner
was then discharged, and left the court with her friends

'The Essex Herald says :—" M.jar Warburton, M.P.,
,has taken advantige of a b ief visit to Harwich to deliver
_a lecture, at the National School-room, on Heroi,m.'"
AIR AND EXERCISF.—A young man should walk iu the
,open .air six miles every day. A young woman three or
four. When still we use 500 cubic inches of air in a
minute. If we walk at the rate of one mile an hour, 8.10 ;
two miles an hour, 1,000 ; three miles an hour, 1,600 ;
four milts an hour, 2,300. If we run at six miles an hour,
3,000; trotting a horse, 1,750; cantering, 1,500.—Dr.
Radelee Ball.
!SMOOTH WATERS RUN DEEP, or " Still waters are deep,"
(Dutch),—Stifle waters hebhen diepe vronden.—As still
waters are not tanning waters, the title of a favourite play
at the Olympic, Still waters run deep, is a little absurd.
"There is no worse water than that which sleeps"
IFrecch),—/1 n'y a pire eau que l'eau .dort ; i e
three is none vaori diagerous. These Proverbs have de-
ceided to us from the ancients. We read in Q flatus
-Carting (lib vii.) that it was a saying among the BActri-
Ans, " The deepest rivers flew with the least sound,"—
Altissiina ilamitta mininro sono labuntle,r,—Readings in
Proverbs, by W. K. Kelly.
Div:szoss AMO a ROMANISTS IN NEW YORK.—The
Romish Church in New York is by no means a unit.
The Ultramontane party condemn the timid course of
Bishop Hughes, and demand of the pontiff an assistant,
that shall make a public demonstation of the Papil faith,
-in parading in processions, and in the celebrations of
•festivals, with pomp, banners,and martial music. Bishop
Hughes is a son of New York. He knows our people well.
Let our Sabbath bocome a gala day—let the hallowel
'Caws be destroyed by mortis' music, drams and
trumpsts—processioas of priests and nuns to the church,
with the discharge of artillery—`or such is the demand—
an -I the hostility to Romanism would be unlimited.—New
York Correspondent of Boston Journal. •
A SP, RCURE CHURCH LIVING FOR SALL—Amongst a
cloud of bacefices advertised for sale there is one which
must present unusual at' ractions for a clergyman who
is not fond of hard work. It is "a sinecure r, ctory in
:the Isle of Wight, the auttral amount of the tithe rent
charge for the last five years being £350, with 31 acris of
glebe, with two cottages, producing £2O per annum, the
present incurc-bent in his 58 h year." The benefice thus
.offare I for isle is the rectory. of Shorwell, near Newport,
the patron beim?, tidy St. John Mildmay. The present
,:rector is the 11-:v. C. A. St. Jo fin Mildmay, who, in
addition to enjoying the sinecure, is vicar of Burnham,
ZISBX, worth L7OO a year, a rector of the populous town
!of Chelmsford, worth £BOO a ysar, an.' a rural elan 0! the
diocese of Rochester.

YODDEI la AND kiwi ,t,D'.IKG AT Bit aDF,)IID.—At the
Bradforl Boraugh Court.hoase on Tuesday, a young
man, who had been brought up a stltioner, va-ned
'Th(tarie Dave, a =ria of the no`o-ions murderer, Wthism
Dove, of Leeds, old another young MAD, named Andrew
Bohan, an Irishman, and described as a gentleman, were.
At'aargee with having, through forged documen!s, purporting
to hays heels written by Messrs. Newsome and Lennox,
staioners, Leeda, and t`te responsible servants of the Lox
Moor Iron Comp-my, s vindle 1 Messrs. Dale, Mr, Charles
Stinfi id, and Mr. Mawson, bo )kstilers, out of various
quantities of note paper and sheers of postage stamps,
Dove bad served his apprenticeship as a stationer with
Me:srs. Newsome and Lennox, of Leeds, and was subse-
quently an assistant to Mr. &andel), who is also stamp
distributor fur the district, and was thence partly
acquainted with his cnstomeri, and the way in which he
transacted bushes,. Mr. Btacfield, Mr. Dale, and Mr.
Mawsrn, all gave evidence of having received the notes
land delivered the goods, while Mr. Woodhead, f r the Low
Moor Company, and Mr. Lennox, of the firm of News)me
and Lennox, pr,,ved that the orders had not emanated
from them, and the prisoners declining to say anytting in
defence, were committed for trial at the assizes: Fiona
their own confession, it appears they had intended to
operate largely upon some of the stuff houses in the town
in the course of this week. Both are old off. ndere,
I-"e having been already imprisoaed for obtaining goods
on false
pretences, and Bohan under a conviction for
stony.