The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-23 00:00:00

THE PRIVY CODNOIL.

APPOINTMENT OF SIR w. MOLESWORTII
AS COLONIAL SECRETARY:
OSBORNE, JULY 22.

The Queen told a oottnoUnterdty at. Osborne.
The Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G. Grey, Sir Wm.
4.l:olesworth, Viscount Canning, the Earl of Harrowby,
Lord John Russell, Lord Panmure, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Sir Charles Wood ; the Right Hon. C.
P.Villiers, Lord Ernest Bruce, Sir William Mauls, Lord
Dufferin, and the Hon. W. Bathurst, arrived from Lon-
don about one O'clock.

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen, and
resigned his seals of office as ono of her Majesty's Prin.
qiral Secretaries of State.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, Earl Granville, the Lord Chancellor,
Viscount Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir
George Grey, Lord Panmure, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Canning, the
Earl of Harrowby, and Lord Ernest Brune (officiating
:for the Lord Chamberlain). ,
Sr William Molesworth, Bart., was sworn ono of the
Queen's Principal Secretaries of State,and received from
her Majesty his seals of office. •• ~. . : .•
Sir William Mauls, Knt., was,-liyaommand of the
queen, sworn of her Majesty's xnost.lioaourable Privy
Connsil.
The Rou. William • Bathurab was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
1 Lord PalreerstMi, Earl Granville, the Lord Chancellor,
Mend Sir Charles Wood. had audiences of the Queen.
1 The Right Hop. C. .P. Villiers, Judge Advocate
General, had an audience of her Majesty, and submitted
tn the Queen the nroceedincrs of some courts-martial.
Lord Earnest Bruce officiated as Vice Chamberlain,
d Lord Duffertn efs Lord in Waiting.
1 Tee whole of the above noblemen and gentlemen re-
,tureed to :London, with the exception of Lord Panmure,
:who remained on a visit to her Majesty.

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DEATH FROM POISON—EXTRAORDINARY' CASE,—Dur-
ing the last few days some interest has been excited in
the county of Durham by the death of a lady under the
following circumstances :—The deceased, Mrs. Jane
Wooler, was the wife of a gentleman residing in the
village of Burden, near Darlington. She was attended
in her first illness by Dr. Jackson, and during the latter
period by Drs. Hazle wood and Herizell. She became
ill in May last, and it appears that after attending her
three weeks Dr. Jackson became impressed with the
notion from the extraordinary symptoms exhibited,
that Mrs. Wooler was taking small does of arsenic
or other irritant poison, nothing of which, he swore,
6 was over contained in the medicine he supplied.
Mr. Wooler expressed dissatisfaction with Dr. Jackson's
treatment, and the other two medical gentlemen already
mentioned attended conjointly with him. Up to the.
19th of June the medical gentlemen entertained
Jackson
that the poisoning was going on, and Dr.
that date that they fully imparted their
iesruspainc a
n
-
took away secretions for analysis, but it was not. untilinns
to each other, and resolved to
administer
the sub-
tidote. They did not communicate
ject with any of the family, their reasons
attendants would have
necessary change of all the
rs
Mrs. Wooler died on
proved fatal to the deceased.
and, with the
portion of these
the 27th of June of tetanic spasms,. being that the
were fo d i
consent of Mr. Wooler,
was made, and extensive ulcerations . un a
relatives,athweay and Under
a post !nortent examination
twhiethisinattesttihnees knowledgeTliy to took a
coroner, afteerrvatnhtethfiartstindatyh'espirne..
by Dr. Richardson, of
satisfied him of
Newcastle. His analysis.
ed by the s
otqhfueae srts,e n directionti
ch.e y I stvw ofrail t
phreo analysedcv° sa t i
the presence
parish) that no medi-
cines of food no vessels were used from which arsenic
could be taken up, and by. the attendants on the sick bed
's surgery were given
to Mrs. Wooler by them. Mr. Wooler often gave
adjoiningntdhsnsferofmrnmanDr. jacicson
the medicines, and often the injections. Dr. Jackson
deposed that on several occasions he had seen a medical
n(liancleys
butfrie
basket on the premises and in Mr. Wooler's hands when
,anything was required which he had not brought with
him. In that basket there
(Fowler's was a preparation of arsenic
. .
solution,)besides veratine, nux vomica, am,
and he conversed with Mr. Wooler, wbo had some know.
ledge of medicine, of their properties. It was
stated by witnesses that Mr. Wooler exhibited kind
Hess to his wife. He was examined, at the request
of the jury. He complained of Dr. Jackson's treatment
and of the conduct of the other medical men in
keeping back from his family their suspicions, as he
had ample means, and would have made any sacrifice to
save his wife's life. The medicine basket was pro-
duced, but none of the poisons mentioned by Dr.
Jackson were found in it, and Mr. Wooler denied
that he ever bad a preparation of arsenic in the
house. Mr. Marshall, solicitor, of Durham, and Dr.
Robinson and Mr. Bayne, surgeon, of Newcastle, cross-
examined the witness on behalf of Mr. Wooler, and an
application was made to the jury to have the body ex-
humed, in order that other portions of the viscera should
be taken out by disinterested persons for the purpose of
analysis, Mr. Wooler and his friends being dissatisfied
with the manner in which the first portion had been re-
moved. The jury decided against the application, and Mr.
Marshall sai d their course would be to apply totheSecretary
of State. The coroner, in summing up, remarked upon
the mystery in which the case was involved. lie
thought there was no imputation against Mr. Wooler or
any other person. The jury found that the deceased
died from the effects of irritant mineral poison, but how
or by whom administered there was no evidence to con-
vince.them. At the same time they entirely exonerated
the medical attendants from any blame-whatever.