The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-09 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BRIDGWA7'ER RACES.
TUESDAY—The Bridgwater Stakes of '2O sovs. each,'h. ft.
Two Miles and a distance.

Mr. Houldsworth's Gilbert, 4 yrs walked over.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 225 added, for horses not

thorough-bred. Heats. Two Miles and a distance.
Sir L. Glynn's Fright, 4 yrs 1 1

Mr. Astell named Cottager, 5 yrs 2 dr
County Members' Plate of 501. for all ages. Heats, Two Miles

and a distance.
Mr. Hayward's Terror, 6 yrs
Mr. Wiltshire's Laurence, aged '2. dr

Mr. Houldsworth's Gilbert, 4 yrs I dr
WEDNESDAY.—Ladies Ate of 504 for all ages. Heats, once
round and a distance.
Mr. Gauntlett's Donzelli, 4 yrs 4 " 1 1
Mr. Smith's Rigmarol, aged `?l 2 '2
. .

Mr. Houldswor—th's GillX.rt, 4 yrs . I 3 3dr
Borough Members' Plate of 504 for all ages. Heats, Two Miles

and a distance.
Mr. Gauntlett's Donzelli, 4 yrs 1 1
Mr. Wiltshire's Laurence, aged 2 dr
Mr. Smith's b. f. by Robin Adair, 4 yrs 3 dr
A Silver Cup, given by the Stewards, for horses the property
of gentlemen residing within ten miles of Bridgwater, was won
in three heats by Mr. Danger's Cottager, 5 yrs.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JULY 9.

THE RE Y. MR. GURNEY.

Among the persons who yesterday applied to this Court
to be discharged under the Act for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors, was the Rev. Mr. Gurney, Rector of St. Cle-
ment Danes, whose debts amounted to 4,728/.
Mr. Coors appeared for the Rev. Insolvent, who was
not opposed by any of his creditors, either personally or
by Counsel.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS, after looking over the
schedule, proceeded to examine the insolvent; and in reply
to his questions he said that he was Rector of St. Clement
D Ines. His income from the parish as Rector was about
6001. per annum. He had, besides this, 401. a year as
Evening Lecturer ; and 251. for attending at the work-
house. The whole of the furniture in his house belonged
tckMiss Margaret Gurney, his daughter. The furniture
which had been in his chambers, in Clements Inn, had
been seized in execution, but it was subsequently bought
in at the sale by a Mr. Sluver (we think he said). His
daughter afterwards repaid that gentleman the money for
them, and it was restored. His daughter had purchased this
as well as the other household furniture with money she had
received from her friends, and not from him. Mr. Lloyd, the
creditor at whose suit he was arrested, is a baker, and
served his family with bread ; his debts amounted to 4,7281.
Mr. Coors observed that there was at present lodged
at the banking-house of Drummond and Co. 1121., and
as the present proceedings on the part of the insolvent
were attended with considerable expence, he hoped the
Court would award him an allowance out of that sum in
order to meet them.

The COMMISSIO.NER said that 751. should be hnme-
eliately paid into Court.
Mr. Abbott, a butcher at Brompton, was then ap-
pointed one of the assiznees.

Mr. Cummissioner HARRIS inquired if Mr. Griffis, also
a butcher at Brompton, was present, as he saw by the
schedule that he was a creditor to the amount of KOOl.,
for meat supplied to the insolvent and his family ; and he
therefore thought he would be a proper person to be ap-
pointed the other assignee.
Mr. Abbott said that Griffis, who was his son-in-law,
was not in attendance.

Mr. Baker, a grocer, at Kensington, to wham ihe in-
solvent owed 701., was On, swar.a iu as the second as-
signee.
Mr. Abbott wished to know from the Court what por-
tion of the inselvent's income it would order for the liqui-
dation of his debts ?

211 r. COOKE observed, that this was a question the
Court could not decide on, as it had no power in the case
of a clergyman. The legal mode of proceeding in such
cases was for the assignees taking the order of Court to the
Bishop of the diocese, and he might require sequestration.
The COMM tuaoritEc said, that though the Learned
might be r. Counsel
.e,ut .n point of law, yet, in point of
polioy, it would be better for the insolvent to enter into
some arrangement with his creditors, without compelling
o,em to resort to a remedy at law, which would be co ex-
pensive.
Mr. Coosa perfectly acquiesced in the opinion of the
Court, and offered 1001. per annum in liquidation of the
debts.

Mr. Abbott was astonished that out of an income of
700 z. per annum so small a sum should ha offered, particu-
larly as the Tsolvent himself had offered, last year, the
whole of his Easter offerings, amounting to 2501., to
satdy his creditors.
The Rev. Insolvent admitted that such was the fact ;
but, on mature consideration, he feared that if In did so
he must again, and very shortly too, become embarrassed.
lie was at present paying large sums for insurances and
annuities, which rendered him quite incapable of giving
up more than the sum named by his Counsel.
The Couar ultimately decided that the 75L should be
at once paid into Court, and 1001. per annum afterwards
for the benefit of the creditors.
The insolvent said that it was his strongest wish that
his creditors should ultimately be paid what be owed them.
The time at which the insolvent's case closed being too
late to pay the money into Court, and obtain his dis-
charge, he was ordered by the Commissioner to be brought
up on the following (this) morning, when be will be Jibe-
ratv(l,

• I 5 h. V ,
CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON
A JURY.

It will be in the recollection of our readers, that
in December last a staternen• appeared in the news-
papers, giving an account of al. attempt made by
some person or persons to priison a Coroner's
Jury, which held an inquest on the bodies
of three individuals who died at Woolwich.
The Jury, it appeared, after their duties ter-
minated, on the 22d of December, sat down to 1.
dinner of beefsteak*, prepared for them at do
sign of the Earl of Chatham's Arms, Thomas-street.
Woolwich. Soon after the repast was over, the
whole of them, consisting of fourteen persons, we. e
seized with violent sickness, particularly those who
had partaken plentifully of the beefsteaks. Some
were confined to their houses several days, and two
or three out of the number have not yet recovered
from the effects of the deleterious substance intro-
duced into their food on the occasion. A short titnt
after it had occurred, a rigid inquiry was instituted (It
having been ascertained that a mineral poison,
called tartarized antimony, was the ingredez,t
mixed with the meat), for the purpose
of discovering the person or persons implicated it.
the outrage, and the result of the inquiry did no.
lead to fixing the crime on any parties, although
two or three were suspected. Amongst
against whom suspicion was entertained, was a man
named James Lowe, a butcher, residing at Wool-
wich. After an interval of some considerable time,
he voluntarily offered to divulge some important
facts connected with the affair, and, in fact, W.;
make some disclosures to a Magistrate% of the .1.-
vision, implicating two respectable tradMren, named
Campion, resident in the town. Owing to th? cir-
cumstances above stated, yesterday a further inquiry
took place into the affair, at the King's Arias,
Woolwich. There were several of the Magistrates
belonging to the division present during the investi-
gation. Mr. Carttar, the Coroner for Kent, who
presided at the inquest, was also in attendance, to
render his assistance in tracing the suspected parties.
The first witness examined was a young mat.,
named Parkes, shopman to a chemist at 'Woolwich,
whose evidence went to prove that James Lowe
had called at the shop on the day in question, and
asked for sixpennyworth of tartar emetic ; that
quantity, however, was not furnished him, the shop-
man making him up threepennyworth of the article,
and writing " poison" on the outside.

A Juror who
.had not partaken of the beef-steaks
the day on which his brother Jurors dined together,
stated that he saw James Lowe and a man named
Campion coming out of the kitchen at the Cha,ham
Arms while the beef-steaks were frying.
Ann Kirkwood, servant at the Chatham Arm-,
stated that she dressed the steaks for the gentle-
men who were poisoned, but who had since re-
covered. She saw no person approach the pan
while she was frying the steaks, which she left in
the kitchen while she was spreading the table-clo,ll
above stairs. Witness gave her mother some poi-
tion of the s'eaks after the Jury had dined, and she
was taken violently ill—and in allusion to her sick-
ness she said that she knew she was struck with
death. The witness added that her mother had
since died, but could not pretend to say that her
decease was owing to the meat she had partaken
on the day in question.

James Lowe, the informant was then sworn, arid
he deposed as follows :—" I live in Waterman's.
fields, Woolwich. On the day the Jury sat on the
three bodies, at the sign of the Chatham Arms, I
was standing at the door of that house between
one and two o'clock in the afternoon, and while
there Mr. William and Mr. F. Campion came to
me from the kitchen, and asked me to walk in and
look at the steaks to see whether they were rump
steaks or beefsteaks. The steaks were then in a dish
on the dresser not cooked, and after I had given my
opinion, I went out of the kitchen, leaving both the
Campions behind me. In some time after, I think
about an hour,Wm.Campion came to me at the end of
Thomas-street, and asked me to purchase six penny-
worth of tartar emetic for him. E.Cumpion gave me the
money. Informant went to a chemist's shop at
Green's-end, and having asked the shopman for six-
pennyworth of the article, he refused to sell such a
quantity, but ultimately let him have threepenny-
worth. I then, said informant, went back and gave
the article to William Campion, and I saw him
and his brother Edward go into the Earl of Chat-
ham. I did not see them till night."
By Sir JOHN WEBB—Edward and William Cam-
pion afterwards desired me not to " burst," mean-
ing that I was not to divulge that I had purchased
the tartar emetic for them ; but they never told me
to what use they had applied it. Was a journeyman
in the employ of Mr. William Campion, but had
left him since the poisoning affair occurred.

Sir JOHN WEBi3—What induced you to quit his
service ; did you leave of your own accord, or were
you discharged for theft ?—The informant Lowe, in
reply to this question, at first declared that he had
left Mr. Campion's service of his own accord, but
almost in the same breath admitted that he had made
free w;th an old wheel of his employer's, which he
(Lowe) sold, and for which theft he was discharged.
In reply to Mr. CARTTAR, tlie informant said that
he never stated to any person that he would " blow
the gaff" if the Campions did not remunerate him
for keeping the circumstance of the antimony a secret,
The Magistrates all agreed in the opinion that it
was necessary to be most cautious how the evidence
of such a man should bc received, after the contra-
dictory evidence he had given in his testimony ; and
without there were more witnesses brought forwud
to corroborate his statement, such information as he
had now given could not be used aguinst the indi-
viduals whom he implicate;.
Mr. Carttar had rc. Further evidence to produce
that day, and iey:ested that the inquiry might be
postpop,ed until Friday, which was agreed to, and
summonses were directed to be issued against Ed-
ward and William Campion, to compel their attend-
ance on that day,

A letter signed "A Looker-on," on the sub-
ject of dividing counties according to the Reform Bill now
before Parliament, requires attent'on. The same subject
has allea•ly been taken ut) by two new county Members,
Messrs. PAGET and S'iIIICRLAND. We certainly are not
friendly the clause :we are sure that it must Ile macted
with much caution, and that it will not st,it very gene-
rally. It would be very possible sp, to divide a county,
that local interests would carry the Member for every por-
tion : that is, a county in which generally no single
rest could prevail, might really be cut into thro close bo-
roughs, in each of which a great fariy might return its
own man. In fact, th,e divi.-,„im of counties will be useful
for the purpose of as economical collection of votes, but
can, as far at we see, tend to no useful result, if enl,toyed
as a mode of procuring separate Members i.e.; separate
districts.—Times.

WHAT A SHOCKUNIO )3AD HAT YOU'VE
GOT!—This phrase has acquired a popularity far exceediog
that of B. C. Y. of dead-wall notoriety. It is is every
man's mouth, but in no man's understa.ndii,eg ; it is, in-
deed, as little understood, as the Treach play or Italian
Opera, by one-half cf the persons who frequent them i
and surely, no stranger illustration can be adduced tq jaw,
tify the introduction, in this place, of its tru.c t4tory and
origin. In its precise application, it elln't wonder !"—as,
lux to have su-
perseded the very expressive " sloukd
for instance : the other: irnorning Lord Jourr
meeting the Duke cf N--, accosted him with, "When
the Reform dill gets into the Upper House, I trust, after
all, your Grace will vote in favour c.. it ;" to which the
Duke replied, " What a shocking bad hat you've got
Again : "My dear Duchess," said Lady MArt-,-, "- will you
change places with me? for I can't see a b_it of *AGLIONI."
"My dear Lady MAav," simperingly replied the Duchess,
" What a shocking had h;t yOu've got )" But to our phi-
lological task. Wilts Mr, IL, the worthy hat maker, was
canvassing the poorer constituents of the borough of South-
! wary for their "sweet voices," be invariably addressed
them in this f0rm...." I wait upon you, Sir, to request
the favour of your vote and interest at the election. To
bribery and corruption I—will—not—have—recourse—
but, Sir, if------Why, bless me, Sir ! What a shocking
bad hat you've got !—really you must allow me to send you
a new one. But, Sir, as I was about to say, if you can
conscientiously," &c. 41fonthly Magazine for
ki1414/.