The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

CORONER'S COUR l'. -YESTERDAY.

THE CASE OF THE THREE CHILERFU, SUPPOSED TO
HAVE BEEV POIS MTED.—Sorno few days ago, we gave the
details of the facts connected with the above case, which must
be fresh in the recollection of our readers. The inquest was
adjourned to yesterday, when Dr. Edwards, professor of
chemistry, was examined, and stated that ho had submitted
the stomachs, Bcc., of the three children, William and Thomas
Wallace, and Ellen Davies,lo a careful chemical analysis, and
discovered the presence of arsenic, a metallic irritant poison,
in the tissues of the stomach, in the tissues
of the intestines, in the liver and kidneys, in sufficient
quantities to indicate the absorption of a fatal dose of the,
poison. The jury on this found a verdict of died froP:, the
effects of arsenic, but how, when, or by whom ads-roistered,there was no evidence to show.
The next inquest was on the body of
!(ward Braithwaite%
a ship keeper, who was engaged on koard the ship Frankfort]. in the Nelson dock, and whq f.. 11 into the water by accident,. and was drowned. Verdict accordingly.
The adjourned bluest on the child named Blanchard MO
resumed yesterday, and on medical enquiry, it appeared that
death was the result of natural causes.

A Tipperary farmer, who had carried away several
hundreds of pounds in gold from the bank in that town%
under the recent panic. hid it securely in some part of his
house, became ill, and died without being able to reveal
the place where the treasure lay. His family have searched
in vain for it, and the probability is that it may not be
discovered for ages.
A TERRIBLE TALE TOLD ROUND A CHRISTMAS FIRE.—A
sickly looking young man, who gave the name of Walter
Booth, aged nineteen,
at
fm
presentorsoy a an inmate of the
placed a
Islington
waikhouse, but who wast
butcher, ryas the bar of the Clerkenwell police court, charged by James
Arnault, a pauper in the same establishment, with com-
mitting a murder under the following extraordinary circum-
stances 1— On Christmas day the inmates at the workhouse,
sitting round the fire, had agreed to relate terrible stories
and adventures. The prisoner, during the relation of a
murder story, seemed to be much troubled in mind, and
being pressed to account for this, he said he had committed
a most horrible and atrocious crime, and that the rechllec-
lion of it haunted him night and day. Pressed to narrate
the particulars, he told a tale of horror—his going forth
along the banks of the Regent's canal—his determining to
assail the first person he met, and have their money—his
meeting and murdering an elderly gentleman by stabbing
a.
him repeatedly with butcher's knife—his rifling the body
of gold, notes, gold watch, chain, &c.—and his throwing
the body into the canal. This story, with all the attendant
expressions of horror and remorse which
.Booth uttered,
induced Arnault and the other inmates to apprise the police.
The evidence made it clear to the magistrate that
the whole
th'ng was a mere romance, The prisoner, who is very ill,
and in a consumption, said,
in defence, that it was only a
terrible tale which he bad told round the Chrismas fire, for
the amusement of his companions, and he never thought he
should be given in custody and locked up for it. lle was
entirely innocent of the charge of murder. Mr. T.) rwhitt
said, after a long and patient examination, that there was
no foundation whatever for the charge. It was evidently a
Christmas story, and be should discharge the prisoner. The
prisoner then left the court with his friends...

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AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

We have just received our New York and Boston
advices per the Royal Mail Steamship Canada,
Capt, Lott, to the end of December. The Canada
left Boston on the 31st ult., and Halifax on the
2nd inst. She reports the Europa at New York.
She brings fifty passengers, the United States
and Canadian mails, and specie on freight to the
amount of 270,689 dollars.

The s.s. Kangaroo, hence for Philadelphia, the
17th December (p.m.), arrived out in the Delaware
on the morning of the 31st December, after a fine
run for the month, of less than fourteen days. The
U.S.M S. Fulton, left Southampton the same day,
had not then reached New York

The news by this arrival is four days later than
that brought by the Anglo Saxon.
There is not much political intelligence of mo-
ment by this arrival.
Congress met after the Christmas holidays, but
had agiin adjourned till after New Year's day.
No action had been taken upon the Kansas nomi-
nations. Judge Lecompte's friends were preparing
for a vigorous assault upon the administration for
hiS removal, but it was said that his successor would
be confirmed by the Senate. General Smith has
been nominated and confirmed by the Senate, as
the new Brigadier created by the last Con-
gress. It was expected that General
Shield would have got the appointment.
President Pierce's proclamation of the convention
between Austria and the United States for the
extradition of criminals had been issued.

Aceounts from New Orleans report great alarm
and exitement in Mississippi, growing out of the
apprehended insurrections of the slaves. Many
negroes had been arrested.
We perceive that Huntington, the notorious
forger, had been convicted and sentenced to four
years imprisonment and ten months.
Further help to General Walker had sailed from
New York for Nicaragua on the 30th ult. Among
the passengers by the Tenessee was General
Wheat. The General took a shell with
him of a novel and peculiar construction.
which is expectei to pi ove a formidable weapon,
in the hands of General Walker. The United
States authorities did nol, interfere or show them-
selves at Penn when the bt earner left. The
steamer Texas had left New Orleans on the same
day for San Juan, with 500 recruits for Walker.—
The remainder of the wrecked passenprs from
the packet ship New York had reached New York
in a most deplorable condition, lacking all
necessaries of life. At last accounts the
was in a had condition, and the lighters sent to
her assistance had not been able to reach her in
consequen3e of the high surf which was running.
The intelligence from other quarters of the
Western Continent does not possess much, if any-
thing at all, that would interest the European
reader.