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do so, mad
under a v
annuity. 45 _
olved, and that the judgment
case lathe Court below ought to i..
The Chamber was then cleared,
strangers were admitted, when
flounced the judgment of their
declatatien his Lordship give
Counsel and the cases they had
she Court below, and the application
I versed. It had been questioned whet),
bend could prove under a commission,
Oeo. 11. eec. 7 ; but it would appear 0.
seethe of that Act, allowed to move
lichen recited " that any person wh
any debt due by the bankrupt, shall I
audition of a creditor," Ite. After
drama of the Act, and remarking th
the unanimous opinion of the Court,
therefore ought not to be disturbed.

TRAGICAL EYENT.

FURTHER. PARTICULARS.

(Prom the Taustom eOll ier of Wednesday.]

. .
On Monday last this town was thrown into a state of great con-
sternation and horror, by an occurrence which has overwhelmed •
most respectable family in extreme distress.
About half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, Iligh.mreet became
• scene of confusion and alarm, from a report t.4t the house of
Richard Meade, Esq. the eminent solicitor, had just been the some
of the most shocking events. It appears that Mr. Meade's servant
man, who had lived with him fourteen years, and was about 36
, years of age, had suddenly destroyed himself by cutting his throat,
alter having, in the mast barbarous manner, attempted the murder
I of Frances Towning, a female in the same family, to whom he had
paid his addresses four or fire Tears, and with whom he was shortly
to hare been married, by besting her head most inhumanly with
a hammer ! On the unfortunate girl screaming out for assist-
ance, Mrs. Warren, the mother of Mrs. Meade, ran to her as.
sistance, upon which the wretch struck Mrs. Warren with the
hammer so severely, that both her life, and that of the young
woman to shone aid she had flown, are in a lamentably doubtful
state. _

The further particulars are accurately detailed in the following
report of the evidence on the Coroner's Inquest, which was held on
the body of the suicide the next day.
INQUEST ON THE BODY OF JOSEPH NORMAN.
Yesterday, at half-past treelveo'clock, a Coroner's Inquest as-
sembled at the Dell Utt, in this town. The Jury were of the
greatest respectability, and, after having been men, to
view the body of ti.e deceased. On their return the followinge d evi-
dence was adduced:—
Mr. John Bailey, managing clerk at Mr. Meade's, said—I hem
hanankthe kowed openterla of two years past. I wen twles 040
yesteraay at noir-past two, when I heard violent serearest J lbws-
ed for a moment, and heard the screams repeated. I went item
my office towards Mr. Meade's office, and met Mr. Meads in the
who said, " For God's sake, what's the matterr' Wrz
Ktua7ecT,down stain to the passage leading to the kitchen, the di-
rection in which the sounds came. I saw Mrs. Warren who was
streaming violently, and the eldest of Mr. Meade's aarghtera
There was great confusion. I saw Mr. Meade go so the nursery-
room door, which is on the ground floor. Mrs. Warren's screams
continued outside then t:M:4es door towards the front door t I went
towards the front door, and met Mr. George supporting Mrs. War.
vita in his anat. 111 a few moments I heard Mr. Meade all the by
name, to tome to Magid I went to him : Mr. Meade said, "Fol-
low me." Mr. Meade went to the back stairs, and I followed him.
We.got to the bed-room door of the deceased, and found it bolted.i
Mr. 31. said, " I will come in ;" and thereupon thrust his foot vio-
lently against the door, which hurst open. Deceased had his coat,'
waistcoat, and neckcloth off ; lie snit standing like one in the anti.
tole of shaving, at a small dressing table, on which was a looking.,
glass. Deceased was at that moment cutting his throat ; he was
holding his throat with his left hand, end with the right, which held
razor, was In the act of perpetrating his salt destruction. (Here
the 'vv.e was produced, Ida was,covcred with blood.) In a very
few seconds lie turned round, and reeled towards us, the blood then
gushing profusely from his throat, and deceased fell on the floor,
without speaking a word. I remained in the rooin about ten mi-
nutes, and deceased died in about five minutes after. 31r. I.iddon,
the suzz..oo, Wu in the roam before I left. Deceased did not an-
swer when 111 r. Meade called to hint, 00 breaking open his bed-
room door. The razor was found on the dressing table, and I sup-
pose it dropped front the hand of the deceased the moment he turned
round and fell. I received the razor from Mr. Aclaud.
Diehard Meade, Esq. solicitor, deposed as follows s—Yesterday,
a little after two o'clock, I was in my office, and heard a violent
oeream below, which, at the first,.l thought Mu from the children,
.and dxl not at the moment move from my chair ; bat the shriek.
continuing, 1 rushed out of :ay office, and met Mr. Batley • we ran
down stairs with the utmost awed ; I tried the estsitle ()Om lead-
ing to the kitchen, in the direction of which the shrieks were heard,
and thought at the instant that the door was secured within. I
then, with great force, thrust the dace open, upon which Mrs,
Warren presented herself, shrieking, and trying to force herself on
towards the street. She grasped nit witb her hand, without being
able to speak, and extended her hand towards the parlour, meaning
that I should go in that direction. I thinkahe merely uttered the

Downing Blake, ,-
113th inst. *mused or into the eiliptil at the tiepe'et d
to
Let prayer, when ;he were eneisksg, did not
te his we nem; bet fehod, lorkilii tetrads brisk
dleor, es he wee 0 speak bresesebedy; he thee weal
' inward his pew, whit& and war down 'in the middle of
it. The noise he made, onuses/ manner of behaelasit, it.
trotted attention. I heard' take etnnething out of the of
the pew, and place it down leiendy on the seat, and of
riling at the prayer, he sat enli, which made an impres.
mind as being very singulat„. Ott hearing the report y
,
what had happened, It immediately occurred to me, fr
collectien of his behaviour, that the deceased must harem
rani._
Mr. Mande stated, that dleessed was a constant attentintst4p
Unitarian Chapel, and healpesei known him to miss les , I
once was last Sunday.
John iVeolcott Warren,ltrorn—l recollect abint4l
since, deceased entered or ran into the dining_*
Meade's, in which I and mffliket,' Mrs. Meade, we-
addressed himself to us in a vet) strange and incoheran
the subject of his affairs and his prospects in M ; his Inattnerwite
very strange; he was repeatedly toofused in delivering what he bad
to say, and wee frequently at a lees to express hinradf: He Put his
hmid to his forehead several item, tad said, " [luxe, not what I
do; I have not known what Ilosire been doing for the last six
i weeks." /

Joseph Parkhoute, mufti*. efroca—Sold a brace of pivots to
deceased yesterday ntorninet he pdd Me for them. He came once
before I was up, about eight o' d, and in an hone after he came
again. He pet'
price ef them
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going to do
peculiar in
see if the I
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them in the
tops_ home.
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ft was evidently not the intuition of the deceased to assassinate
Mrs. Werren, but that lady being the first who presented herself
to the aid of the unfortunate iervant girl, Mrs. Warren became
the object of his indiserltninatau violence. He was of a penurious
and avaricious turn of mind, and had saved several hundred
pounds in bervice, the greatee. port of which, we arc glad to find,
will go to the first victim Af his fury, if she recovers—the poor
girl to whom be was ahottly to be married, and in whose favour be
some time sines made a will.
It is with great satirfaction we close this melancholy account by
stating. that favourable indiratieos have presented themselves, both
as to Mrs. Warren and the maid-servant, but the situation of
neither is by any means exempt from danger. The hammer used
by the assassin waa of rather a linger aim than is commonly used
foe household it was with the claw part of this instru-
ment that Mrs. Warren wait struck, and it was (Mind to be broken
from the handle by the force with which it had been used on this
eheatlng occasion. The hands of the servant-girl are dreadfully
mutilated. and the wrist bone of one of them, it is feared,
broken, she having endeavoured to defend herself bow the blows
by placing her hands on bee head. It is (unaccepted that the
wretch intenled to stun his victim in the first place, and then to
shoot her; but one pistol tnirisu fire, and thinking it neeeuary to
secure his own destruction si,
the the "'at was we 4
stated in the evidcace. hie as it row unquestionably
shot himself In the moskefter 'the first pistol had 'Maned
f sad
the immediate effect was tender him senseless. ILls subsequent
I struggle •and escape freu his master, and being enabled to repdt
i the distance of his betlm, are remarkable facts; but u the
Inernor at bege was first ht, he had not become much weakened
by the oceerrence, though e was remarked in his mope from the
. nursery to 1,10 10 a bending position.
Mr. cajow, of eirogport, yes the Coroner on this occasion, be.

Tar. OAHE Laws.—Committed to the House of Correction at
Ashbourne, for three wattles' William and Richard more, wa-
ckier' of being In the pur,nitof game, in the parish of You!mare,
in the night. Joint Burdekin, tor the same period, conincted of
haviag is his poasessiou a hare.—Derby Paper.
M JEALOUSY.—On Monday night, the 111th instant, a serious Do=
cum= took place at New boeinton, near Nottingham :—Thomas
Whittaker, a bricklayer, being prepossesses' with an idea that a
young man, named Trueman, was his rival in the affections of a
female, took the opportunity to give hint the meeting, when, with-
out any previous intimation of his purpose, he presented a pistil st
him, and pulled the trigger, but fortunately the instrument
lire. Trueman, being alarmed, immediately took to his host=
Pan; but befoul be could get inside Mr. Godbrea gates, the=
Al ushand at him • and here he had a snood wipe from a
sindr, as the bail passed by without doing him any injury, and
struck against the wall. Whittaker was soon afterwards secured,
and lodged In safe castotly.—,Derby Mereary.
A er M mysterious and alarming circum.l
'stance took place on Thursday bat at 3loroinpide, in the neigh-
. .
no in-
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lihnutiptiol—'trul srld4 a few as
rillirlhi=ntanTft Oath& lOW the ;as ar et
rie,, where his meth. isidepoirwthe Peewee er
tkiteier. Dvalea tilea ev.lea. Min
ems pun from tbe*Ltret tbe coach ; when=
in
4=1,1: bentb:leleithetarteetiri_a_wlsfillit ~....crebz.4.,,biele, =ma,
....,...==z Lees ---.,,.„14b1ii naiad, as she. he
ei the peshilisei it may hp people be °heave that the body
opened the day Moe his dee*, 'ad the knife found in dieleet
which, with dauber of the wham, was in a state Or Wm*
and pagreem The Wine of the knife (which was
vas Meowed, as likewise a considerable portion of the
a so powerfully, indeed, had the knife been acted upon by the
of the'stomach, as to impress very forcibly on the minds of
medical men who opened the body, a belief that had the man
aentinued at Carlisle, and beta kept in a quiet state, the whole
of the knife aught have been disadved, and the ease terminated'
favourably: The knife will be forwarded to Sir Amity Cooper,
together with a more minute account, which will ptokably ammo
in some periodical work. The public prints having stated titstWir
Astley Cooper had recommended an operation fee sauseting the
knife, we deem it but justice to the above..mentiened to
state, that they bar the man only about three boo -riot to his
death, when infltrunation and mortification had aireadyenameneed.
—.Outer Courgol.

aid in liquidation of aromas, at..? • •
..s. turllZ • lray. Derby .11fermery.
- iii bad, all and kidded- in safe eat
PLATT cited marl caw 00 behalf efilertaindij and ~..... gii, •I" seine Auto iattimment. He was bleeding much, and AT TZWITT At M v apts.—A mysterious and alarming circlets.
i that he was not liable. The quad" oak *ls fhb, thU9 wan no puisatieb. il rewired whit Mtn a very few minutes, stance took place on Thursday last at 3loroinpide, in the migh-
t any ausdiuse, kering roved the mks if lell'elleldtl Roder_ and sang nothing cadd rider*, IWI bib', to render airs' tance bond and of this city. A young gentleman, son of Mr. Pickard,
mimeo, subsequently preened_ veinal dm and his to the safesere below. .1 raw him afterwards, and examined the had gone to the stable about seven in the evening, to give 110100 in.
ri Age . . t wood tow 'that „ • , kw mu*, but dirt, might stractioes to a servant, and on his return he was met by a man,
Enke. at the amowy, : . * from • • ilo liaeh fon .. • ho-kneked him down, nedtminediaisakefter artisal at his
and cite. eavoirtet •ii , • thaw 1 4.... ,e• t• ellptialitAiiperst, Nit PA sat roma olf,sarkbplhls
a eommisaim—because he mild net fee the h amid not -,
.• . - .s. ...0 t . U/ etreumetence his Mb was eared, as his hat received the
wont , but • Ito •A • • 3,46 is. ' .
ty. Be then proceeded to ahem tint•dm litiedmige OS ab. aly di. men about on duo ' .. at,bio - . ' ' 'le of the charge. /t is evident the assassin bad determined to
I, and that the judgment which had bowspessamseed an the and thought he was . • e sire of his victim, as the musale of the pistol had been Ovoid
it the Court below ought to be affirmed. and food that • . -, . soo, . . - • •
• —.oll`. '`.ll
..rool )•••• . dose to the hat that the flash from the powder burnt the nep off
• e Chamber was then cleared, and after OW fatty mining otos& mg the ~ _ . - the
.. - - . " . ' Yon the size of the ball it appears to have ban a Brasil Odra,
11
teas were admitted, when Lord Chief Justice 0171•0111) }td tna-tho fuuritubte ow , •, ea • ••• . math,. . ' -t-, - - ~.,. • The assassin immediately made his escape, no deubt
ed the judgment of their Lordships. After Waring to the Aims mita Thaw ' thiceht if onineptteara e kimi he had completed his murderous intention. L'nferu.
Men his rdship gave his opinion oa the arguments of Mende% children. Ha • the demised fhb lest ten '' . - , from the darkness of the bight, and the suddenness of 'be
tel and the cases they had cited. The anise had been tried in and gimp tbuuubt hivamaturelievtiaugi g• , fit bijou, • .P. can give no distinct deseriptiou of his assailant.—
'ourt below, and the applicatioa was to have it:4looft it. dud ; sheaved lai. h-hil ,• 7 it 14W. - • - Mef CM Ty.
I. It had been questioned whether a minty to an annuity aim of malt ;aimed • . 2010)6 miscreants, in the right of Monday last, cruelly stabbed a
could prove under a commission, by virtue of the Add 9 whoa. had rot wow dopdg se gamey ,_ „ :1"0""k , . ' hems belonging to farmer Amory. of Staptwore. The poor mi-
lt. see. 7 ; but it would appear that *nudes were, by the Bth yentoldat; •shoat those 74-in , '
~ ' . '•' ''',- • sea found-dead yesterday memiug. It is earnestly to be herd
nof that Act, allowed to prove under circumetanees--bersese event o,4igueg, and hie 4"""v"' dot thediabeheal perpetrator a this wicked and most malicious
s• . •
re recited " that any person who was surety for, or liable for, Imbrues...a about • • ' . • may be discovered.—Tusit(os Courier.
ebt duc by the bankrupt, shall be considered to stand in the tbelditii, a =ig • , . 0, do Tiled ir....i err C. A. Dosereete—'llils unfortunate man died
Lion of a creditor," Nee. After referring to a variety of other thinse h, o a .sa ' anon ad from aat Iffuldlertcb, on Friday the Ith intern. The public will mag-
aof the Act, and remarking Menton, his Lordship ire it ae a aeleacelea. •• • ' -. 4 ' ' ' lea, that in stain) pg sane joggling tricks at Cvlisle, be era.
wiimous opinion of the Court, that the verdict was eight, and Emu, D, *O4 op Age,* tz_ou 4.444, tot bowl .s:
nee ouoht not to ha. distewhael•-• • - t - ' . -

le polhis hand on a brace of pistols, and asked me the
Item ; I told him 255. He said be could get them at
a pound ; which I denied. He did not say what be was
lo with them ; I did ask. I did not observe aty thing 0
n his vomiter. He if there was a ball Imelda, to 0
bells would fit. Hrt laid be was going to Mr. Elver- h
desired to hart I out; and I east him two, which 0
the pistols, ontainto bet without powder. Herat I
M bogs In rather • sneer. as if he was anxious
se.
nspested_dtw ebtilletbeis rennesolPess,i
adewed while the deliberating, who, after a s
wake, returned a et "Insanity."
to Coloner's inquest terminated, Mr. John laden,
led by his brother, . Henry Liddon,
,egagsined the d
le deceased in the p of I. Itinglte The tongue a
tinged with gunpow , end a gmore formed on the t
t where the bullet PILO along rough the soft I
id had finally lodged on the anterior part of the first vet. a
he bullet was flattened to nearly the extent of hall* its
by the force with wig& it was driven into the bone of the I c