The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-24 00:00:00

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THE NrCOLL PALETOT (Regd. 6 and 7
Vict., cap. 65) WAREItOOMS, 114, 116, 110, REGENT-
STREET. and 22, CORN HILL.
Also for Nicoll's Morning Coat, now in almost universal request
for the Country, Riding, Walking, Seaside, &c. Shooting Jackets
adapted for the Moors, &c.
Many have assumed the use of the word PALETOT, but Messrs.
NICOLL are the sole Patentees of the design and material.

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1834 '251 18 10,
1839 226 6 0,
1840 178 0 0
1841 174 0 0
1842 147 4 2
1843 99 18 4
1844 62 6 8

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115 14 8
102 15 1
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CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 22.—A1l books bcrrowed out of
the library are to be returned before the 29th of Sep-
tember, on which day the library closes for the usual
recess. In default, the customary penalties will be
levied. The library reopens on Wednesday, the 17th of
October.

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The CHAIRMAN said, that be had another toast on
his list, which it gave him peculiar gratification to
-)ose, " His good friends who had acted as Vice-
:res.nlents."
Mr. Alderman KERSHAW, M.P. tbe Principal
Vice• President, briefly returned thanks.
The CH AIRMAN, in reference to the last toast, said
that it was matter of regret to him that indisposition
had prevented Mr. Alderman Neild from being pre-
sent. That gentleman's services bad been appreciat; d
by the town of Manchester; and bad he been present
he (the Mayor) should have had the satisfaclion of
seehig,at his tabl every surviving mayor of Man-
chester who had proceeded him in the civic clnlir.
He would now very cordially drink, " To our next
merry meeting."
Mr. Alderman WATKINS proposed three cheers r
that next meeting, which, Leing given, the chair WAS
vacated, and the company retired at half. ptot eleven
o'clock, having spent a very pleasant evening.

ARSENIC PO/ SONING AT CHET,-
CHELTENHAM', SEPT. 22.---Some brief particulgrs
were given in The Sun of Friday of the sudden death
of two persons in a family, and the idnt ss of ti a
other members, after partaking of a dinner of bread
and cheese, cucumber, and apple dumpling. It was
stated at the same time that the bodies of the two de-
ceased, Elizabeth and Samuel Gregory, were to un•
dergo a post mortem examination, and that tl,e
contents. of the deceased? stomach and some portion
• of the apple dumplings had been forwarded to
Herapath, of Bristol, the celebrated chynlist, fur
analysation. It is now our painful duty to state thi t
the result of that analysis has been to prove beyond
all doubt the existence of a 1 e quantity of arsenic
in the paste of the dumplings, also in the stomachs
and viscera of the deceased. Y-
The adjourned inquest resumed yesterday
before Mr. Mayer, corone ,and the proceedings
occupied up to a late ho last night. The moat
important evidence adduc :in the course of .the day
was that of
Mr. Herapath, who deposed that on Sunday he
received a box from Dr. Brookes, of Cheltenhe.ra,
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containing four parcels. No. 1 contained about two
grains of flour. He had applied the five tests to
it, and produced the results : Chrystalised
arsenious acid, orpiment, Scheele's green arsenic,
and yellow arsenite of silver. These tests proved
to demonstration that the flour contained arsenic.
Parcel No. 2 was a bit of flour paste. This aho
he subjected to the tests, and found that it contained
arsenic in considerable quantity. Parcel No. 3 was
a bottle, in the contents of which he also found traces
of arsenic in solution, and by the same set of tests he
also produced a small quantity of white arsenious
acid, produced. Parcel No. 4 was a human stomach,
which had been cut open ; its surface was inflamed,
particularly in two parts, and on examining the sur-
face with, a miscroseope ,he found two or three minute
chrystals, which turned cut to be arsenious acid. Ile
found other traces of arsenic in the stomach, which he
bad no doubt was that of a person who had died poi-
soned by arsenic. He had examined some fragments
of bread and a paper shop bag, which contained a
little flour, but had detected nothing deleterious in
them. A handkerchief belonging to Barnett, which
had contained the flour which Barnett had given to
the Gregorys to make the dumplings, had also been
sent to him ; particles of flour adhered to it, and it
contained arsenic in large proportion. lie had re-
ceived from Police-sergeant Nightingale some paste,
which, on subjecting to analysis, he found to contain
also a considerable portion of arsenic. Ile had
no doubt that any person who had eaten only a small
quantity of the dumpling produced would have bet a
poisoned, the arsenic being in such considerable quan-
tities therein.
Dr. Brookes was examined, to trace the passing of
the articles analysed from him to Mr. Herapath.
Police-sergeant Nightingale was examined for a
similar purpose, and also deposed to the finding of
some of the dumpling thrown by Barnett into the
privy. Barnett was present when he found it, and
identified one of the dumplings as one of which he
had eaten a part.
James Keylock, a brother of Mrs. Gregory, was
next examined with reference to the conduct of the
prisoner Barnett towards him. He said that they
occasionally had had words, but never any serious
quarrel. This witness also partook of a small piece
of dumpling, and was ill for a few hours. Saw Barnett
eat more of the dumpling than he (witness) did, but the
last mouthful he spat out.
Caroline Gregory, sister of the deceased, said she
had heard Barnett speak. spitefully of Keylock, and
threaten to "double him up like a nutshell." Barnett
was very fond of sugar, and usually took a good dell
with pudding, hut on this occasion he took very little
upon his plate, as if lie intended to eat but little pud-
ding. Ile usually helped himself first, without wait-
ing for any one else, but on this occasion he waited
until all the others had been served. Saw him partake
of the dumpling, but he spst it out of his mouth
again. The flour of wllich the dumplings were
made was brought by Barnett in a handkerchi, f,
which Mr. Herapath had analysed as before stated.
On the Friday night, when all the people were ill,
Barnett asked for the two uncooked dumplings, which
had been set aside, and on Mrs. Gregory giving them
to him, he threw them itito the sewer which
runs into the privy, and pumped a quantity of water
to wash them into the privy. O❑ Tuesday last Mrs.
Barnett said to witness, " I have heard it reported that
I was jealous of my husband, and that I had mixed
the poison for him." Burnett did not complain of
being ill on the Friday evening.
Mrs. Pearce, wife of a farmer for whom Barnett
worked, proved that she borrowed some flour of him.
a month previously, and used it. There was nothing
wrong about it.
Diana Gregory saw Mrs. Barnett sweeping out her
husband's room on the Friday evening, a very unusual
circumstance, as she did not live with him, but was
cook at the Training School.
Some other unimportant evidence was taken, and
the inquest on Elizabeth Gregory was again adjourned
to Wednesday next.
A second inquest was held on the body of Samuel
Gregory last evening.
Mr. Herepath was examined, and gave similar
evidence to that reported above. He had detected the
presence of arsenic in the paste of the dumplings and
the rejected contents of the boy's stomach. He added
in conclusion—" It is my opinion that if any person
had eaten a piece of the dumpling of the size of a
walnut it would have killed him."
The announcement of the above discoveries has
created a great sensation in the town.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—During the past
week the men in the employ of Messrs. Easton and
Amos, engineers, of Orange-street, and to whom is con-
fided the care of the Trafalgar fountains, have been en-
gaged in making canals in the ground straight along
from the Spring garden entrance to the park to the
Storey's-gate entrance, for the purpose of laying down
water-pipes, which are to convey the Trafalgar spring
water to Buckingham Palace. It was originally intended
to have carried the pipes direct through the Mall of Sr.
James's, but a supply of spring water being greatly
needed by the Government offices in Parliament-street,
Downing-street, and the neighbourhood, it was thought
advisable to carry them to Storey's-gate, and thence
along' Birdcage-walk to the Palace. There is also a pro•
position for carrying the pipes up Constitution-hill across
Knightsbridge into Hyde-park, to throw some thousands
of gallons of pure water into the Serpentine, about the
filth of which so much has been lately said. Along the
line of pipes several water pumps are to be erected,
which will materially lessen the expense of watering the
streets, and enable the contractors to perform that now
very necessary duty more frequently than hitherto. The
number of men at present employed in these metropoli-
tan improvements is about 50, and they fully expect to
reach the Palace and furnish it with Trafalgar spring
water in about five weeks.
POSITION OF NEW CEMETERIES.—As there is now
a probability that some step will be taken to provide
against future intramural burials by the establishment of
cemeteries in the country surrounding this great metro-
polis, and other large cities and towns, I would suggest,
that. no company should be allowed by. the Legislature to
establish a cemetery without purchasing sufficient land
around it, to be for ever kept free from any habitable
building, save and except the tenement necessary for the
person who might be required to superintend the culti-
vation of such land, or to look after the plantation if it
be so laid out. A medical friend of mine, to whom I
mentioned this subject, remarked that Government might
convert the Isle of Dogs into a public cemetery, and I
have to observe, that there is an excellent and silent
highway to it—the Thames—and wharves on both its
banks, from which a steamer appropriated for that
purpose might convey the corpse and mourners at a very
moderate expense.—C'etrespJadent of the Builder.
IMPORTANT MICROSCOPICAL INVESTIGATION.—M.
Brittan, lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the
Bristol Medical School, in a series of investigations,
undertaken in conjunction with Mr. J. G. Swayne, has
observed the constant occurrence of certain peculiar
bodies, hitherto undescribed, as characteristic consti-
tuents of cholera evacuations, and by a further series of ex •
periments he has succeeded in demonstrating the important
discovery of similar bodies in the atmosphere, &c., of
districts infected with cholera. The results of his ob-
servations have been submitted to the judgment of the
most eminent microscopical pathologists of the metro-
polis, es well as of those gentlemen who have acquired
great repute for their researches on cholera, and they,
considering theta of a novel and most important charac-
ter, have urged Mr. Brittan to give them immediate
publicity.—Medical Gazette.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.— fhe following gentlemen
passed their examinationin the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thurs•
da last:—Thornas Casterton, Great I armouth; Samuel
Moy ntgomery Charles Alfred Anderson Smith; Robert
Clarke, Farnworth.
James I\i'Farlane, Esq., and Doctor James
Vickeray Drysdale have been appointed members of the
Legislative Council at St. Lucia.