The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1863.

i?nngdeso.n"
coonffer,r,
abouthim
t"hken i ghhotni no
enlisted coloured men. We did
" This," say the Abolitionists, " was not the pur-
pose for which we
gu
r" abt lhee nigger
distinction
it to enlarge the army, to increase the number
of our soldiers, to present a more formidable
front to the enemy, to spare somewhat of the
bloodshed to which the white race is exposed,
and to elevate the character of the black race by
admitting them to important duties and responsibi-
lities." This is exactly what Gen. Gilmore does not
understand; neither does Mr. Seymour, Governor
of New York, who is also roughly handled by the
same Radicals for "driving volunteers to other
States"—i.e., putting forth difficulties in the way of
negro enlistment for New York Regiments. The
" American citizens of African descent" quit the in-
hospitable Empire state, and hasten to offer their
services to the recruiting officers in Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and especially Con-
necticut, where coloured people are placed on the
same footing as regards pay and emoluments as their
white comrades, and where a reward of 10 dole. is
offered for every coloured recruit. It goes against
the grain of Mr. Seymour and with many of his
countrymen to have to admit the blacks on terms of
equality with the white. Yet the Americans, since
they will have war, must either fight themselves or
have people to fight for them ; and if the South
ultimately succumbs and victory crown the efforts
of the Federal arms, there is little doubt the Union
must for many years keep up a large army, and
that army must be recruited among the negroes,
just as surely as the Venetian land forces were made
up of the despised Slavonian subjects. The merchant
princes don't like soldiering.

Bible, put an end to, the political influence of France
and of the Polish emigration in Paris upon her
Polish subjects; and unless the French are tho-
roughly determined, sooner or later, to attempt the
re-establishment of a Polish kingdom, sufficiently
large to be able to exist by itself, it is to
be hoped, for the sake of the Poles, that this in-
fluence will as soon as possible cease to be felt.
As long as the Poles look to the Hotel Lambert, and,
through the Hotel Lambert, to the Tuileries, for
relief, they will not and cannot get it from St.
Petersburg. Promises have been made them on
both sides and not fulfilled, and, on the whole, they
have been as badly treated by their friends as by
their enemies. However, nothing in the history of
recent Polish events is more certain than that, when
the Grand Duke Constantine arrived in Warsaw,
he brought good and not evil to the inhabitants of
the kingdom. They, of course, possessed the right
of choosing whether to accept or reject what he had
to offer ; but, as it was, many of the principal men
in Warsaw gave their support to the Grand Duke
at first, and then, as soon as they were assured that
there was a good chance of a foreign intervention,
left him. The resignation of all the principal inde-
pendent members of the Council of State was ap-
plauded by their fellow-countrymen in general as
a protest against Russian rule in Poland, but to the
Grand Duke it must have had another aspect; and,
whether the step was praiseworthy or not, it, at
least, illustrated the immense difficulty of governing
a nation which looks abroad for its guides, and the
unhappy position of a nation which is so guided
from abroad as to be conducted—now, as in 1831—
to a worse position than that from which it had
hoped foreigners might rescue it.
It seems to me, then, impossible that Russia will
make any concessions to Poland on the representa-
tions, however friendly, of France ; and this not-
withstanding the advantages she would derive from a
renewal of the French alliance. She may take some
merely formal concessions during the time that must
elapse between the virtual suppression of the insur-
ent even of the point of being extin-
rgeacitaihoendiaapnpdartehnetlLroanngtehme
prelimi-
naries of a Congress; but if they are to be made at all
we shall doubtless hear of them at once, so that all
suspicion may be averted of their having been caused
by other motives than a sincere, unbiassed desire
on the part of the Russian Government to conciliate
Poland. With regard however to the general signifi-
cation given to the Emperor Napoleon's speech by
the Poles, they, for the most part, conclude from it
either that a Congress will take place and will lead
to a settlement of their position by the sword, or
that it will be found impossible to bring the Euro-
pean Powers together, and that in that case the
Franco-Russian alliance will be renewed with im-
portant concessions to Poland as one of its condi-
tions. It is, of course, in the hope of the former
result that the insurrection is now being continued.

The Supposed Murder at Guildford.

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Yesterday afternoon Mr. Capron, the borough
coroner, resumed, in the Council Chamber, Guild-
ford, the inquest on the body of Elizabeth Waterer,
the young woman found in a bedroom at the Coach-
makers' Arms beerhouse, North-street. The ser-
geant, Mahaig, who was found lying by her side
with his throat cut, was present. Ho was exceed-
ingly weak, and looked much dejected.
The evidence taken at the former sittings of the
Court was read over by the Coroner, who asked
Mahaig if he wished to propose any questions to
the witnesses, to nod or shake his head. He, how-
ever, declined to ask anything.
Professor Taylor, of Guy's Hospital, who, at the
instance of the Secretary of State, had made an
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analysis
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the stomach, was then examined.
He said that on the 19th of November he re-
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in either. On Thursday last Mr. Phillips met him
at Guy's Hospital, and he showed him the results he
had obtained. They applied an additional test, and
the result wag that neither by chemical test nor by
the microscope could they detect strychnia. In order
to judge whether their premises were correct, they
introduced a very minute quantity of strychnia, and
the result was that it produced all the usual chemi-
cal changes, showing that strychnia would have
been detected had it been present. Mr. Phillips
handed him a sixpenny packet of Butler's " Vermin
Killer." It weighed 15 grains, and he found on
testing it that it contained strychnia without crys-
tals. He had since made a farther analysis, and
found it was chiefly composed of flour and soot, and
two grains of strychnia. Four grains was sufficient
to kill a woman. He had analysed these packets
before,.
and he found them to vary greatly. He
found no soot in the stomach of the deceased. A
person might die from a small portion of strychnia,
and yet none would be found in the stomach, as
some portion of it would be taken into the blood by
absorption. The poison which kills is usually not
that which is found in the stomach, but in the
blood, where it mortally operates. The large quan-
tities of food in the stomach, rapid absorption, and
other causes would
prevent in some measure the
operation of poison on the stomach, and of course
it would not be so visibly perceptible in the stomach
itself. He had heard what Mr. Phillips had said
about an indication of the presence of strych-
nia, and he could account for it. One of
the tests for the poison gave a very strong colour to
the organic matter in the stomach, and led to the
presumption of the presence of strichnia ; but they
also applied a colourless test, which indicated no
such presence. From the general state of the organs
of the body in this case, as described, he should
think that strychnia had probably been in action ;
at least the contracted state of the heart, the con-
dition of the tongue, Sec., were compatible with
such a supposition. The state of the heart and lungs
was the chief point they looked to for indications of
this poison. . He should not consider that death
from suffocatio enoud produce such appearances as
those here preted. There did not appear to be
any escape of blood from the seats of pressure on the
neck, the marks on which he could not refer to any
violence of that kind. There might, indeed, be
gentle pressure, so as not to produce marks of
violence, but he should hardly be inclined to assign
the death to that cause. In two recent cases of
murder by strangulation there were clinched hands
and marks of violence. The non-rigidity of the body
after putrefaction was not an evidence of the absence
of strychnia. In answer to the Coroner, Professor
Taylor
said he summed up the result of his exami-
nation thus :—That the condition of the heart and
lungs of the deceased are more consistent with death
by strychnia than any other cause he knew of ; that
the absence of any indentation or laceration of the
neck, the absence of effusion of blood in the parts
corresponding to the marks seen on the outside, and
the absence of any signs of resistance of the body
when alive, are adverse to the supposition that the
deceased died from strangulation ; and that the
absence of congestion of the heart and lun is also
adverse to the theory of suffocation. Professor
Taylor added that, though he did not wish to make
any suggestion, yet he thought that all the facts of
the case as detailed in the evidence might be ex-
plained by the supposition of the deceased havulg
ing
taken about one-fourth of the powder. She c?
not have swallowed much of it, or some colouring-
matter must have been detected in the stomach or
its contents. He could not believe that she died a
natural death. as
Wm. Humphreys, recalled, identified Mahaig
the man whom he had seen in Elizabeth Waterer 's
company on Sunday evening, Nov. 1.
The following letter from Mahaig to the sergeant
major of his regiment was then read:—
Guildford, Nov. 3, 1863.
Sir,—l presume in sending you these few lines, as I know
you are always a good friend. I send you this as a
about favour.
I hope you will accept the same for me, as lam to
take my departure from this world. And I hope you will
take care of yourself as regards company, as it has brought
me to this ruin ; but I give no blame to them. I conclude
with my best respects to all the sergeants.
JOSEPH Maunio.
My medal I will forward to the colonel. Good bye.
The next letter was found in the bedroom of the
beerhouse

Guilford, 3d of the 10th month.
Dear Mother,—l think it rather strange your not
answering my last letter which I sent. I.think it very un-
kind in your not doing so. In a short time you will send
to me a long farewell, as I am about to go with Joseph K.
Mahaig, of the 3d Regiment at Aldershot. I think my
time will be very short in this world, as I am very much
attached to him. I blush when I intimate this to you, but
as a mother, you must know what youth is, As I have made
up my mind rather than part with him to partake of some
deadly draught. But do not blame him. for this; as you
will see in the news of tho 1 ones or hear of both our names.
Very likely he will get the blame for this ; but I hope as
regards my declaration you will contradict it. Dear mother,
I now kindly bid you all farewell, and as we will not meet
in this world I hope we shall in the world to come. My
boxes are at Guildford railway station, there is two in num-
ber. If you will go there you can have them. There's also
a dress at my place, which you can ask the
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conclude at present. Good evening, w
to all inquiring friends. May God of 1113 infinite mercy

direct you all is the wish of your ever loving and affection-
ate daughter, ELIZABETII WATERER,
Another letter produced was from Mahaig to the
coroner, written last Friday at the union workhouse :
I do not know what to write about what you may ask for.
Shall I put this day the 26th of the month? Where am I
going to after that ? I may let you know that we both par-
took of the poison at the same time, but the poison that I
took that she gave me she got at another shop. It had a
blue cover. Half an hour afterwards she was dead. I think
it was on the night of the 3d. We both said, as she would
not leave me, we would die together. She died in my arms.
On the Tuesday evening she had a rope cord on her neck
when I came upstairs. At night we both took the poison
in some gin at 5.30. We both sent, at least left, a letter to
both our mothers on the table. I don't wish any one to see
this. Dear friends, Ido not care. I wish to God I had
gone with her. JOSEPH MAHAIG.
This being all the evidence, Mahaig made the fol-
lowing statement in writing :
Sir,—On the evening of the 3d the young girl spoken of
seemed to be in trouble. About the hour of 530 I went
downstairs for some ale, and when I came up I found a cord
rope wrapped mind her neck. I took it off, and before going
to bed we both partook of some poison. She afterwards died
in my arms. That's all.

JOSEPH MAHAIG.

The Coroner then charged the jury, who retired.
They returned into court in an hour and a quarter,
and recorded the following verdict :
We find that the deceased, Elizabeth Waterer, destroyed
her own life on or about the 4th of November inst., and
that she was in a sound state of mind at the time. We fur-
ther find that Joseph Mahaig is guilty of aiding and abet
ting in the same.
The witnesses were then bound over to appear at
the next Sarrey assizes in the prosecution of Ma-
haig on the charge of wilful murder.
At the rising of the court the street was quite
impassable from the crowds anxious to see Manaig
removed to the cells of the police station.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

4--
THE NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS.
The following is an official list of all the plans and sec
tions for new railways deposited in conformity with the
standing orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons with
the Board of Trade up to eight o'clock last night, yesterday
being the last day for receiving them :
Alford and Mablethorpe, Avon Valley, Antrim and Down
Counties Junction, Aylesbury and Buckingham, Ashford,
and Faversham Junction, Aberystwith and Welsh Coast,
Annandale and Sol way Junction—Alton, Alrewsa, and Win-
chester Extension—Aldborough Pier and Railways, Angle-
sey Central.
Belfast Central, Bristol Port and Channel Docks, Bour-
ton-on-the-Water Extension, Blyth and Tyne (new works)
Bromley, Blyth and Tyne (additional powers)—Belfast,
Ballymoney, and Ballycastle—Banbridge Railway, Tram-
way, and Pier—Belfast and Northern Counties—Becken-
ham, Lewes, and Brighton—Bristol and South Wales
Union (additional lands)—Buckfastleigh, Totnes, and South
Devon—Brecon and Merthyr-Tydfil Junction—Bristol Port
Extension, Brecon and Merthyr Junction (No. 1), ditto
(No. 3)—Bodmin, Wadebridge, and Cornwall Junction—
Blackpool and Fleetwood, Blockley and Banbury—Brid-
port Harbour; Railway, and Pier—Bangor and Llanberis
Direct, Bristol and North Somerset (Bat'u Extension),
Brighton Tramway, Bristol Central Station and Railways,
Bristol and North Somerset Extension—Blackfriars Em-
bankment, Roadway, and Railways.
Charing-cross (Western); Chichester and Midhurst,Corres
—Crief, Methvin Junction and Branch—Chipping Norton
and Banbury, Carrickfergus Tramway, Chichester and Mid-
hurst, Clifton, Carmarthen and Cardigan Branch, City of
Glasgow Union, Ditto and Hutborn Tramways, Caledonian
(Glasgow Harbour), Ditto (Bredisholme and Tennochside),
Cuckfield, Chichester, and Midhurst—Crystal Palace (new
lines)—Cheadle, Didsbury, and Manchester—Carnarvon
and Llanberis,Cannock Chase and Woverhampton,Charing
Cross (additional lines), Central Wales and Staffordshire
Junction,Chard Railway and Lyme Regis Harbour Railway,
Crystal Palace aud SouthLondonJuncti )n,Carmarthenshire,
Charing Cross (Northern), Carnarvon and Llanberis, Cowes
and Newport.
Dublin, Rathmines, Radgar, Roundstown,Rathfarnham,
and Rathcoole—Devon (North) and Somerset—Dublin,
Rathmines, and Rathfarnham—Dublin and Baltinglass
Junction, Dumfriesshire and Cumberland (Solway) Junc-
tion—Dover, Deal, and Sandwich—Denburn Valley,Dublin
Trunk Connecting—Dudley, Oldbury, and Birmingham—
Daventry, Dublin Metropolitan,Drayton Junction—Dublin,
Wicklow, and Wexford—Dublin Grand Junction, Dublin.
ExeValley,East Glocestershire_Edgware,Highgate, and
London (branch to the Alexandra-park)—Exmouth Docks,
East and West Junction, East London (Thames Tunnel),
Edinburgh and Glasgow, East Norfolk Railways, Erith
Tramways—Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton.
Farnham, Aldershot, and Woking—Flintshirc—Finch-
ley, Willesden, and Acton.
Great Eastern (St Ives to Ramsay), Great Western (fur-
ther powers), Glocestershire and Wiltshire, Great Northern
Nos. 1,2, and 3, Guildford and Leatherhead, Glasgow and
North British,Glasgow and Paisley, Great Eastern (North-
ern Junction), Great Northern and Victoria Station, Gar-
stang and Knot-end, Glendevon and Crieff, Great Eastern
(Highbeach Branch) Ditto Junction—Glocester, Chelten-
ham, and Oxford—Glocester and Ledbury, Great Southern
and Western and Midland Great Western Junction of Ire-
land, Great Eastern (Metropolitan Station and Railways).
Hadleigh and Lavenham,Helston and Penrhyu Junction,
Hammersmith and City Extension—Holywell, Hayling,
Halifax and Ovendon Junction, Hammersmith and Wim-
bledon, Hoylake—Hereford, Hay, and Brecon—Henley in
Arden—Hounslow, West Drayton, Breconfield, and High
Wycombe—Halifax, Huddersfield, and Keighley—Ham-
mersmith, Midland North-Western, and Charing.cross

Junction.
Ilfracombe.

Kent Coast, Kilkenny Junction—Kew, Turnham
green, and Hammersmith—Kingsbridge, Knutsford, and
Warrington—Kington and Eardisley—Kingston, Toot-
ing, and London.
Liverpool and Central Station—Launceston, Bodmin, and
Wadebridge—London, Brighton, and South Coast (addi-
tional powers)—Londonderry and Lough Swilly (exten-
sion)—Lancashire and Yorkshire, ditto (additional powers)
Lancashire Union, London Low Level—Leeds, Bradford,
and Halifax (new works)—London, Brighton, and South-
Coast (Kemp-town station and lines)—ditto, Tonbridge
(western and south-eastern lines)—ditto (new lines to Bat-
tersea)—London and North-Western (additional powers)
—Ly mington. Harbour and Docks—London and South-
Western (Kensington, Hammersmith, and Richmond)—
ditto (North Devon extensions), ditto (Chertsey extension),
ditto (additional works)—Llanidloes and Newtown (land),
London and Blackwall (extension), ditto (Great Northern
and Midland Junction), Llynvi Valley and Ogmore, Lon-
don, Brighton, and Southcoast (Ouse Valley line)—Lime-
rick, Foynes, Tralee, and Killarney Junction—Llanelly
(No. 2)_-London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 2) —Llandilo
and Teiffy, London Main Trunk (underground connecting
branches), London Union.
Manchester and Milford (deviations and new lines),
Metropolitan (extension to Trinity-square, Tower-hill),
Metropolitan (additional powers), Metropolitan and St.
John's-wood, Midland (Chesterfield to Sheffield), Marple,
Newmills, and Hayfield—Monklands, Mid Wales, Mistley,
Thorpe, and Walton—Metropolitan (Notting -hill and
Brompton Extension), Midland (new lines and additional
powers), Macclesfield, Boddington, and Marple—Midland
(branches to Bath and Thornbury), Macclesfield and Knuts-
ford, Midland (St. Pancras Extension), Macclesfield and
Cheshire Midland Junction, Mayfield, Market Harborough
and East Norton, Market Harborough and Melton Mow-
bray, Maidstone and Ashford, Metropolitan and Grand
Union, Metropolitan District.
North Kerry and Limerick Junction, Newark and Mans-
field, Newquay and Cornwall Junction, North Durham,
North Staffordshire (Silverdale, Madeley, and Drayton),
North-Eastern (Leeds Extension), ditto (York and Don-
caster), ditto (Leeds New Central Station), ditto (additional
powers), North British (Carlisle Citadel Station), ditto
(Abbey Holme and Leegate, ditto (Perth Branch), North
and South Junction, North London (Tottenham branch),
ditto (additional powers), North Staffordshire (new works),
Newry and Armagh (Extension), Neath and Brecon (new
lines, Neath to Swansea), ditto Extension to Central Wales,
North and South Staffordshire Junction), North and South
London (High level Junction), North and South-Western
Junction, North and South London Junction.
Okehampton, Deviation, Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whit-
church—Oxford-street and City.
Paddington and Charing-cross, Parsonstown and Por-
tumna, Portsmouth and Portsea Extensions, Pembroke and
Tenby, Purbeck, Prestatyn and Cwm, Peterborough, Wis-
bech, and Sutton ; Pulborough, Storrington, and Steyning ;
Portpatriek, Petersham, Peterafield, and Bishop's Waltham;
Poole, Bournemouth, and Wimborne.
Redeuth and Falmouth Junction, Reigate and London
(West-end Junction), Royston and Hitchin, Ribbesdale,
Hyde Station, Rhymney (Cardiff and (Caerphilly), ditto
(Junction with Merthyr Tredegar, &c.), Ramsgate, Ross,
Forest of Deane, and Monmouth, Rickmansworth, Amer-
sham and Chesham (level crossings).
Stamford and Essendine (Sibson Extension), Salisbury
and Yeovil (additional lands), Stonehouse and Nailsworth
Extension, Surrey and Sussex Junction, Swansea and Oys-
termouth, South Wales Mineral, Scottish North-Eastern,
Scottish North-Eastern and Scottish Central, Scarborough,
Whitby, and Stathes ; Shrewsbury and Potteries Junction,
South Cheshire, Southampton and Netley, Scottish Central
(Dundee and Newtyle), ditto (extension of station),
Shrewsbury Bridges, South Wales, Tenby, and Milford
Haven Railways; Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon
Junction; Staines, Egham, and Working; Sunningdale
and Yorkshire (with extention to Aldershott) ; Sheffield
Chesterfield, and Staffordshire ; South Eastern (No. 1),
ditto (No. 2) ditto (No. 3), Stafford and Uttoxeter,
Sunningdale and Cambridgetown, Somerset and Dorset
Railway (Cheddar Valley and Yatton), ditto (extension to
Shepton Mallet)—South Yorkshire (branches, &c.)
Torbay and Brixham, Tooting, Merton and Wimbledon,
Tendring Hundred, Thames Viaduct Railway, Tunstaand,
Tewkesbury and Malvern (additional lands), Tottenraten-
Hampstead Junction (Alexandra Park Extension),
ioanm ),
Totten-
ham and Hampstead Junction, TeignValley7
Kitt-
kill, and Cailington—Tottenham and Farringdon-street,
Thames Tunnel_Totness, Buckfasti eigh , Ashburton, and
Newtown.
ell. Victoriramway.a Station, and Thames Em-
Vale of Crickhowbankment, Ventnor T
Worcester, Dean Forest, and Monmouth (Glocester Ex-