The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-13 00:00:00

TUESDAY, SEPT. 10.
The Committee of the Town Council resumed their
investigation, and the following witnesses were examined
this day :
James Smith, plater, of 4, Court, 1, house, Blucher-
street, examined :—I work chiefly for Mr. John Ry-
land, and for Messrs, Blackford and Lawson, Great
Charles-street. On the Bth of July, about nine at
night, I was coming home from work, and was walking
down Blucher-street by myself ; when I got to my entry
end, my daughter, a little girl, said, " Father, your
supper is ready on the table." I was then standing with
my face towards the entry, and my back towards the
street. Two of the London policemen came down
the street whilst I was so standing ; and, with-
out saying a word, one of them struck a neighbour of
mine, named Andrews, who was standinz at the entry
and smokinge, his pipe, with a staff. The blow knocked
him down. I went to pick him up, when the policeman
struck me upon the back with a staff, which knocked
me down ; whilst down, they struck me three times
upon the back. I was disabled from work nine days,
and worked with great pain for three weeks. Mr.
Waddy, my club surgeon, attended me. Besides my-
self, my little girl, and the neighbour I mentioned, I
saw no one else about. Andrews was in his shirt
sleeves, and I believe he had not his hat on. lam quite
sure no words whatever passed between us, or were
spoken by Andrews or myself, before the blow was
struck. I never attended any of the meetings in the
Bull-ring, or at Holloway-head. After the policemen
had knocked me down, theey went away without say-
ing a word. No words passed between us from first
to last.

Thomas Baker, law stationer, of N 0.7, Upper Temple-
street, says :—I have passed through the Bull-ring twice
when the meetings were holding, about a week before
the 4th of July. The meetings were composed of about
500 or 600 persons, principally workmen. I did not
hear the speakers. There was no obstruction offered
to passengers. The principal thoroughfare was open.
On the sth of July I was passing down the Bull-ring,
about a quarter before nine at night. The military
and London police were stationed at the avenues I:ad--
ing into the Bull-ring, which was pretty clear, and
scarcely the ordinary traffie going on. When I arrived
opposite the end of Philip-street, I saw a working man
carrying a horse collar upon his shoulder. He appeared
to be resting against the wall. One of the dragoons, in
a very rough manner, ordered him on. The man said,
" Well, allow me to rest a moment, and I will go on."
The dragoon appeared excited, and said, " Go on now,
sir, or I'll cut your head off," and instantly, without
giving the man time to escape, spurred his horse on to the
pavement, and drew his sword. He made a cut at the
man's head with great force. The man suddenly stooped
to avoid the blow, and the sword struck the shutter of
the shop at the market corner of Philip-street. The
dragoon then sheathed his sword, and spurred his horse
close to the man, with an apparent endeavour to trample
upon him with the horse's feet, or to crush him against
the wall, which he was prevented doing by the man
getting behind a projection. There were no persons
near the man at the time this occurred ; and had he
resisted the orders of the dragoon, or been guilty of
any breach of the peace, there were several police-
men and soldiers within call of the dragoon, who
might have taken him into custody. The blow of the
dragoon was so aimed as that it must have struck
the man, had he not instantly stooped. A dragoon
who was stationed near, and observed what passed,
ordered his comrade to desist, and he then fell back
in his place, and the man moved off. It was the work
of not more than a minute, and I was standing within
a dozen yards. On the night of the 15th, at half-past
eight I left my offices in Upper Temple-street. I went
along New-street, and down High-street, towards the
Bull-ring. There were several groups of persons
standing talking together in the Bull-ring. I passed
through them to the corner of Moor-street. I saw a dense
mass of persons at the commencement of Digbeth ;
they appeared stationary ; and I went towards the
palicc-office to see what the police were doing.
The police office gates were open, and I saw about six
of the London, and several of the Birmingham police,
patroline in front of the office. In the gateway I saw ,
about a dozen other London policemen with the inspec-
tor.
There were aegreat -nuinber of persons passing
up and down Moor-street. No molestation or menace
was used towards the police. Two men met opposite
the police office, and began conversing together, when
one of the officers ordered them roughly to move
eirpe'rkey. did not immediately do so, and one of
p/V6rian across the street, and collared one
of them, and gave him several bloWs with his staff
across the head and shoulders. My attention was par-
titularly directed towards them ; and there were no
wbrds of insult or menace used towards the police.
They were decent looking men. When the police
ordered persons to move on, they did so. Up to this
time, which was about twenty minutes to nine, I had seen
no resistance offered to the authority of the police. The
man whom I have described as being struck by the po-
liceman, moved onwards towards Dale End. I returned
to the Bull-ring, and stood opposite Messrs. Bournes'
shop. I saw a great number of persons coming up
towards me from the direction of Digbeth. They had no
flag or banner. There appeared to be three or four
persons who headed them, and were a little in ad-
vance. The multitude were generally armed with
hedge or fence stakes. I should say their number
was not more than 400 or 500. The ringleaders were
men ; one of them I should know again. The mul-
titude generally consisted of stout lads, from twelve to
twenty years of age. I observed no weapons but those I
have mentioned—no cutlass,.pistol, gun, or crowbar. A
few appeared like mechanics, a few were in flannel dresses
like colliers, but the .majority appeared to be idle per-
sons, having no regular occupation. There were, be-
sides this mob, various groups standing about, looking
on, as if from curiosity ; and as the mob approached
they receded, some of them as if alarmed. When
the mob approached the end of Moor-street, they
halted, and the leaders looked up Moor-street, and one
of them flourished a hedge stake, he had in his hand,
round his head, and shouted loudly, " Come on, my
boys, they dare not face us." The mob hurra.d, and
the whole, with the exception of about a hundred, went
up Moor-street. I had not left the front of the Public
Office more than five minutes when this occurred.
I immediately left, and went up High-street towards
New-street, expecting every moment that the mob
would be driven back by the police. Those who re-
fused to go up Moor-street at the call of the leader, ge-
nerally threw down their sticks, as if alarmed, and went
in different directions. All the shops, as far as I can
recollect, were shut, and the street lamps were lighted.
When I got half-way up the hill, I turned round, and
saw the mob issuing out of Moor-street into the Bull-
ring, they were not running, and appeared to have
come back of their own accord. I pursued my way
to the end of New-street ; when there, I heard the
clatter of glass upon the pavement in High-street, in
the direction of Moor-street ; I turned down Worces-
ter-street, and along Philip-street, towards High-street ;
the mob were then breaking down the shutters of
Messrs. Bournes and other of the shopkeepers. There
appeared to be two hundred or three hundred engaged
in this work. They did not appear to be under the direc-
tion of any particular person or persons. They used the
stakes in their hands, and also threw stones at the win-
dow shutters ; they afterwards used what appeared to
me to be iron rails. I saw a boy strike the shutters of
Messrs. Aston with a stick he had in his hand. Some
persons cried out, " Not there—Savage's." The boy
then threw the stake up at the upper windows of the ad-
joining house. There were many sticks or stakes thrown
at the upper windows of the houses. Several shops
were attacked at the same time, but the first broken into
was Messrs. Bournes'. The mob tore down the shutters,
and then, with the edges of the shutters, broke through
the windows. Several of the mob then entered
the shop. The shop appeared in darkness. No op-
position was offered them, as far as I could see, from the
inside. The house appeared to be deserted. Just about
this time, another portion of the mob effected an en-
trance into the shop of Mr. Leggett, which also, was
undefended. The mob brought out some bed ticking,
and unrolled it in the street, not far from where I was
standing. They gathered it up again, and took it
towards Nelson's Monument. I then saw a flame, as of
a bonfire, just below the Monument, and ne irly opposite
Bournes'. Ido not know how the fire was obtained.
I saw the mob then carry some shutters to the fire.
Some men carried back the shutters in flames to Messrs.
Bournes' shop. From the time the demolition first
commenced, to the time when the fire was first carried
into Messrs. Bournes', was about half an hour.
The mob did not appear to have increased. No one
remonstrated with them, or endeavoured to resist
them. Messrs. Bourne's shop was quickly in a blaze
The houses of Mr. Leggett and Mr. Belcher we-.0 also'
speedily after in a blaze. I saw a boy come out of
one of the shops, I think Savageie., with his pockets
stuffed out. I heard a person.standire near me, who was
looking on, say to the 'ou, " What have you got there ?
that is not ";,,at we want, we are too brave for that,
and we find any one stealing, I will be the first to
strike a dagger through his heart," or words to
that effect. The boy immediately emptied his pockets
into the street, mid ran away. The man was not
armed, and had not taken part in the demolition. I
then heard a cry of murder, and saw a powerful man
running along Philip-street towards the Bull-ring, and
a man running after him, who knocked him down just
as he got to the place where I was standing when
down, he kicked him several times, and he rolled over,
crying " murder." He got up and ran back the same
way he came, still crying " murder," and followed by his

pursuer. I asked who be was, who was knocked down,
and persons about me said he was a London policeman
in disguise; they had seen his staff. No one but
the man I have described struck him, or took
part either way. The persons around me seemed
shocked, and said it was " dreadful work." The fires
were now raging, and had reached the upper parts of
the houses, and the people cried " powder," as if afraid
of the ignition of gunpowder in some of the premises.
The fire at Miissrs. Bournes' appeared to have crept
up regularly from the bottom to the top of the house.
About this time, which I suppose to be between half-
past nine and a quarter to ten, a fire engine came up
High•street, towards New-street, with several fire-
men
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to the firemen, or any shouts of exultation at its going.
I concluded it must have been taken away in conse-
quence of some molestation offered by the mob. I
was about twenty or thirty yards from it when I first
saw it, and it was then in motion, and continued
so long as I saw it. In about five minutes
after this a cry was raised of " the soldiers,"
and I saw the dragoons enter High-street from Moor-
street, with their swords drawn. The mob then ran in
all directiens. I cannot say how many people there
were then in the Bull-ring, but I should think less
than five hundred. I then left, and went along Philip-
street, Colmore-street, and got into the Inkleys, where
the mounted soldiers were scouring the streets. I then
went to my residence in Islipgton-row, where I arrived
at a quarter past ten. I was about a quarter of an hour
in getting there from the Bull-ring.

The Governors of George Ileriet's Hospital, by
a majority, have resolved to admit reporters to their genertil
meetings —Edinburgh Observer.
It is said the subscriptions for defraying the ex-
pense of the grand entertainment given to the Duke of
Wellington, at Dover, were not sufficient for the purpose,
but have fallen short to the amount of more than 1,0001.
We have received a well-written letter from a
correspondent complaining of the demand of a franc at the
episcopal church of the British Embassy made on entering
to every person who has not previously subscribed for a
seat. Our correspondent is not aware that the church is
private property, built at the sole expense of Bishop Lus-
combo, and that neither the British nor the French Go•
vernment contribute anything towards the maintenance of
the e.lifice. Previous to 1833 the service used to be per-
formed in one of the rooms of the British Embassy, and of
course from the sin of the place no adequate accommoda-
tion could ha anrded to the large British population of
Paris. When, therefore, the present edifice was
erected, it was found to be of great advantage by all
visitors of ar.el residents in the capital, and the Am-
bassador declared his intention of attending ser-
vice in the new church instead of in his own
residence. Until lately those persons who had not sub-
, scribed for sittings were expected to put something into
the boxes at the door, for the support of the.edifice, whets
they quitted it, and it was always understood that the con-
tribution of each person was to be one franc. We know,
too, that scats were allotted gratuitously, and in the most
delicate manner, to persons whose circumstances did not
allow of their contributing to the church as they could
have wished to do. But—we are ashamed for the sake of
our cmintrymen to say so—it was found that a large propor-
tion of persons who frequented the church without sub-
scribing paid nothing at all on going out, and that some
gave only afew sous, while the expenses of keeping up the
edifice were so considerable that title, if any, return was
made for the outlay incurred by its erection. This, we
believe, was the cause why it was judged fairer for all
parties to adopt a method of payment in common use in
various towns in England.— Galignani.
Harvest has commenced in this district, but
scarcely anything more. Every day during the week
reapers have assembled at the Cross, and on Tuesday a
considerable number were hired. The state of the weather,
however, has prevented the cutting of some fields consi-
dered ready. The wages of reapers may be stated at two
shillings per day, or twopence-halfpenny per hour under
broken time. Should the weather prove favourable, har-
vest will next week be general. The late rainy weather
has laid a good deal of grain ; but this has not yet, at
least, been productive of much injury.—Paisley Advertiser.
INTOXICATION.—The French say that cab-
bage is a remedy for the intoxication from wine, and it
also has the power of preventing it. English experience
shows that any green vegetable has a tendency to excite
intoxication.

Between one and two o'clock on Tuesday after-
noon, Richard Bailey, a journeyman painter, was at work
pinting the balcony of the mansion in Carlton House-
terrace, on the eastern side of the Duke of York's column,
when a portion of the cornice-lpilaster, and basement,
against which was resting a ladder upon which he was
standing, gave way, and, dreadful to relate, the unfortu-
nate rc.an fell on to the spikes of the railing of the area,
and was literally impaled alive, one of them entering his
head just behind the right ear, another about two inches
below the armpit, and a third just above the hip. He was
removed in a dreadful state of suffering to Charing-cross
Hospital.

WORCESTER HOPS, SEPT. 11.—The duty
upon this plantation is advancing, and from the reports
which we continue to receive the estimate is likely to be
realized. We have no business doing in our market, and
only three pockets have been weighed since our last.
Prices about the same; if any alteration, say a decline of
from 5 to 10 per cent.

CAPTURE AND CONVICTION OF SIX ENG-
usti THIEVES AT GLASGOW.—BaiIie Robertson, the sit-
ting Magistrate in our Police Court, was engaged for
abont two hours to-day in the investigation of charges
against six men, of having attempted to pick pockets
in Argyle-street, Jamaica-street, Clyde-street, and Max-
well-street, upon Saturday night last. The prisoners
were likewise charged with being thieves and vagabonds,
and following no lawful employment. The prisoners when
brought to the bar were well dressed, and answered seve-
rally to the names of Edwin Hughes, John Wakely, Sa-
muel Simpson, George Hamilton, James Allison, and
Robert Wilson. Hughes, a boy about 15 years of age,
pleaded guilty; all the rest not guilty. The evidence
given by Captain Millar, George M'Kay, division
officer, No. 4, Mr. Robertson, and another witness,
went to prove that all of them, with the exception
of Hamilton, had been observed by the police, as
suspicious characters, almost upon their arrival in Glasgow.
Circumstances occurred, such as meeting in a particular ren-
dezvous, and being seen going there in twos from different
directions; and separating in the same manner, which tended
rather to strengthen than to destroy the suspicions enter-
tained, although nothing had been observed upon which any
charge could be founded. Subsequently they were traced to
the Tournament and Ayr Races, and at the latter place were
seen frequently in conversation, and taking up what one of
the witnesses termed a very advantageous position at the
winning post. From Ayr, where they met with Hamilton,
they were again followed to Glasgow won Thursday last,
and every one of their movements particularly noted last
Saturday evening, when they were proved to have at-
tempted to pick the. pockets of several persons in the
stn, ets already named in the charge, and followed
to a well-known tavern in Hutcheson-street, where,
between twelve and one o'clock yesterday morning, the
whole gang we'e taken into custody. The prisoners,
with the exception of Hughes, appeared very indignant at
the charge, and condescended to cross-examine the wit-
nesses very little. The Magistrate considered the evidence
quite conclusive, and sentenced Hughes, in the first place,
to sixty days' confinement in Bridevvell, at the same time
advising him most earnestly to drop the career which he
had begun, and when at liberty, as a first step, to give up
his present associates. For the others, Baillie Robert-
son said he was extremely sorry that his powers were so
limited, otherwise be would have awarded a far greater
punishment ; as it was, he would sentence them to the
longest period of confinement which he could inflict—sixty
days in Bridewell._Scottish Guardian.
At the Assizes, in Liverpool, it came out that
clay had been used, of late years, in the manufacture of
soap ! Some makers, it appeared, introduced as much as
50 per cent. of clay
In the Sheriff's Court Yesterday morning an
action was brought against Lord J. Churchill to re-
cover the value of certain picture frames supplied to
him. The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations in
bar to the action. Witnesses were called, and proved the
delivery of the articles in question, and that they were deli-
vered within six years. The case, however, was barely made
out, as had another month elapsed before the commence-
ment of the action, the plaintiff must have been nonsuited.
The Jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the
plaintiff for the amount claimed. Another action was
brought by a coachmaker, named Smallbridge, against a
gentleman of fortune named Arundell, to recover the
sum of 15/. for the hire of a phaeton. The defendant bad
agreed to take the phaeton for a twelvemonth, and at the
end of that time to purchase it if approved. He wished
some alterations to be made in it, which''sere'
done by the plaintiff; but it was afterwards found
that the vehicle could not be used with safety, He de-
manded a certain sum, the payment of which the defendant
resisted, on the ground that the phae!or, had been of no
uAe to him, s'ld he had been obliged te nire another. After
the exaraination of plaintiff's witwaesses, the Counsel for
the Zwiendant contended for a bonsuit, on the ground that
the phaeton had been hired for a year, and that the action
could not be brought until the end o f that time. The
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the Under-
Sheriff retained the issue of the writ until next term.
The harvest is nearly closed in this part of the
country. There is little in the field but beans. All the
crops are well
got in. The hops have suffered since our
last from the high winds, and they have been favoured also
with bright sunshiny days. Picking partially commenced
last week. This week the pickers will be pretty generally
engaged. Some of thegrounds are very bad from the in-
jurious effects of the mould. The duty remains at about
200,0001.—Kentish Gazette.
The Governor of the Castle of Guevara has
murdered all the officers and men in that fortress belong.
ing to Maroto's party. In another Carlist garrison all the
Castilians have been assassinated. It is said, too, that
the families of all the Guipuzcoans, who have entered ,
into the convention, who were at Tolosa, have been car-
ried off to Navarre, by a Navarrese force sent for that
pt.rpose.

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much oat ofithe common course to allow of letting him
go down to his grave without a volley. Our readers
all know that the Admiral was a Bcstonian. He loved
ersonage too
to speak of the times when he was "a dirty-f,:ced little
rascal, licking molasses with the boys on Long Wharf."
This was before the revolution. The veterans say that
his family, which we have always heard was rather cf
humble condition than otherwise, resided in Pro-
vince House-court.
Isaac was not destined, however, to he always licking
molasses. There was a spirit in him which yearned for
activity and adventure, and we find him in the British
navy at a very early date. In this service no man more
thoroughly earned that advancement and reputation
which are both so hard to he earned. He went regu-
larly and rickTrously, we believe, through all the ordinary
grades:, till tie reached the fourth step from the summit
of a list which is always long enough to discourage the
hardiest aspirant. During this long service he must have
lived over strange scenes. Indeed, we know very well
that he did so, and can only regret that we hear no-
thing of a memoir appearing which should embody the
spirit of these things.
At one time the Duke of Clarence was under
as midshipman, we believe. William got grealy
attached to his Commander too, who, though "rude in
speech" sometimes, had vet, as the Indians say, a soft
heart, and a large one. As Duke and King, the middy
afterwards did all he could for Coffin's promotion, nor '
was he content to reliquish his society after coming to
the throne. It is about, three years since William in-
viting him to dine, was informed by the Admiral that
the gout, his great enemy, had wholly disabled him ;
he was obliged to be trundled about in an easy chair..
" Well, then, come with your easy chair," was the royal
sailor's response to his old comrade ; and go with his
easy-chair he did. He had long before Luis received
a splendid medal from his Sovereign's hand.Gis he
carried with him on land and sea, and he had it when
he was cast adrift on the Atlantic ten years ago or
more, by the burning of the Boston._ It was the only
article then saved from all his chattels, but his happiness
was complete when it was held up to him on Captain
Mackay's deck, while the helpless hero lay there flat on
his back.

This we have from a spectator of the scene. Our
neighbour Osgood, the artist, was on board the Boston.
He describes the fire (lightning in a cotton-ship), and
the whole scene as terrific. The sea ran mountains
high, and it seemed (Lubtful if a boat could live, vet
the Admiral never blenched. He was disabled, and his
companions were very anxious to save him. Mr. 0.
says that as several were about to go below for that
purpose, they encountered the veteran at the head of
the cabin stair,:. He, having heard of the danger, had
ascended thus far, by the assistance of his servant, and
with great and painful exertion. A mattress was laid
in the whale boat, which was on the quarter. Oa this
he was placed, with his servant by his side, while a man
was stationed at each tackle. He at the bows seemed
well aware of the critical situation in which
they were placed ; but the man at the stern
took out his knife, and when the wave rose to
the boat, cut the tackle, so that when the 'attest
rose again, the other end being fast, the boat was half
filled with water, and the sailor at the stern thrown unto
the deep. By this time the bow tackle was unhooked,
the boat cleared from the side, and the old tar taken
half drowned from the sea, to receive a pretty severe re-
primand from the fearless man whom he had so uninten-
tionally immersed in a cold bath.
Thus this scene went on till all were afloat in boats
300 miles from the land. One soon died of exhaustion ;
1 the rest were on allowance of a third of a biscuit and a
gill of water a day. The Admiral not only shared all,'
but he alone kept up the life of the company, giving
them every encouragement, and winding updaccasionally
with one of his hest songs. " Off, my lads," he roared
out at one time, "don't look so eagerly at my old car-
case. " Here's a young painter will make a much
better meal." Fortunately this lasted but a night and.
i day. The passengers got into this port not long
after. The Admiral went to the Tremont again, Just
;Is if all was not lost. Moreover, lie sat to the artist,
and paid him double price. lie also gave Captain
Mackay, who rescued the company, a dauceur of 500
dollars and a splendid gold watch.
This is a long story, but it shows the whole man.
He was a sailor of the old school. Smollet would have
gloried in him, but he was too good for Smollett.
With all his little eccentricities, andill.diseiplined as he
was, there was a sound sense and stern Yankee spirit
at the bottom, which slid kept him erect, and sent
him a-head. Yet, to his shrewdness was added a gal-
lantry and generosity that flinched from nothing. His
impulses were noble, and he yielded to them. He once
commanded a ship when a man was knocked overboard
in a gale ; his comrades hesitated, but not Coffin ; in
five minutes he had the fellow on deck again, heels over
head. " Al), you blackguard," he cried, as he shook
the water out of his trousers, " you've cost me a new
hat."

At another time he had a fire suddenly discovered
below, which proved to be close "to the magazine, and
even the old sailors were so frightened that sixty of
them swam ashore. The Admiral, howefer, led on
the rest to the rescue, and the fire was with great exer-
tiogs extinguished. As to liberality, Isis character is
well known. We see that he has lately been publicly
thanked as a leading benefactor of the Naval School.
Everybody knows that the Coffin school, consistit,g
chiefly of persons of that family, has long been flourish-
ing by his beneficence, at Nantucket, where there are
said to be at least 500 of that name. The old man
loved America best after all. There was nothing litre
Boston to him. Much more might be added to this
gossip, but enough. We hope that some of the Ad-
miral's contemporaries, who are qualified, will let us
hear from them. Meanwhile, as we said before, they'll
excuse this " volley."

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISON-

ING AT HERTFORD.

A good deal of interest has been caused at Hertford
recently, on account of the death of a female named
Susan Woolmore, at a beer-shop in that town, under
circumstances of such a nature as to induce a very
strong belief that she had come by her death by unfair
means. It appears that the deceased lived with a man
who passed as her husband, and a boy of his by a for-
mer wife, at a beer-shop in Peg's-lane, Hertford, and
he was frequently in the habit of ill-using her, and was
seen to kick her and beat her in a most brutal manner
on several occasions. About ten days ago, the de-
ceased was taken suddenly ill ; she vomited dreadfully,
and expired in the course of the next day. A knowledge
of these facts having been commmutiicated to Mr. Long-
more, the Coroner for this division of thecounty gf Herts,
he directed that an inquest should be held upon the body,
when the above facts were proved in evidence, and
Mr. Shillitoe, a medical gentleman, who had been called.
in to attend upon the deceased, expressed an oplion
that, from the circumstances it would be advisable that
a post mortem examination should take place, and the
inquiry was adjourned for that purpose. Upon the net*
investigation the medical gentlemen stated that -upon ex-
amining the body they found the stomach Lighly in-
flamed, and from the result of a variety of tests to
which the contents of the stomach were subjected, they
had no doubt that the death of the deceased
was the effect of oxalic acid. The step-son of the
deceased was examined, and he said that he had never
seen his father ill-treat the deceased, except upon one
occasion, when he struck her a slight backhanded blow
which gave her a black-eye, and this was about a fort-
night before she died. He, however, gave his evidence,
in a cautious manner, and evidently attempted to
conceal the facts with which b'e was acquainted, and
the Jury in consequence exprevied an opinion that there
was very little reliance to be r,laced upon what ho said.
The man who passed as tlre husband of the deceased
was questioned, and he di dared that he was married
to her ; and said that they had lived happily together,
and denied ever having s:d-used her. He also. said that
he knew nothing of her having taken poison ; and
on the day she \vas so sick, he boiled her
some eggs, and !she ate one of them. He
also said that a sb ort
.time ago he had purchased
some salts at a:chemist's. in the town, and took
them himself. Ike couli. give no reason why his wife
had taken
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away
never h hearderse herf. ex-
press any
After a long investigation the Jury retrtrned a ver-
dict " That th.e deceased's death was occasioned by
oxalic acid, but. that there was no evidence to show
whether she tt ok it herself, or whether it was admi-
nistered to ber by some other person." They at the
same time said that they did not believe the story told
by the husband, and expressed their opinion that he
had treated the deceased before her death with very
greatinhumanity.

DISCONTINUANCE OF SUNDAY TRADING.—
Yesterday the butchers in Newport, Oxford, and Grosvenor
markets, exhibited large printed placards, announcing that
or, Sunday next all business will be suspended at their
slnios. A meeting was also held this morning in St. Paul's,
Covent-gard en, for a similar purpose, and resolutions to the
same effect 'were agreed to.
ALARMING FlRES.—Yesterday morning a few
minutes before four o'clock, the premises of Mr. Cook
butcher, Peter-street, Westminster, were discovered to be
on fire, and engines did not arrive for nearly an hoar after..
wards, when the flames had gained such an ascendancy,
that the premises were reduced to ruins. A valuable horse
fell a prey to the flames. At half-past one yesterday
morning, another fire occurred on the preroikea of Mr.
Grant, hatter, Mill. street, Lambeth, which burnt furioudy,
but by the prompt arrival of the engines it wris got under
after doing considerable mischief.
On Wednesday morning, between eig, At and nine
o'clock, William Arches, a journeyman slemaker, iore-
siding in Bride-street, Clerkenwell, was on, a platform on
the roof of a house, flying pigeons, when in endeaiouring
yard. He one, he oyer-balanced himaelf, ust
was conveyed to the 'hos hal in so
mutilatedfill
he a
state that no hopes are enteritainePel bee'
into
o catch
the
recovery.

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