The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-03 00:00:00

No.. 17,069. LO N' DON Til Ii,SDAY
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N ATIONAL LOAN F(LND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26. CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital .£.509.000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
Th s Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with resoect to tile assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, wiliout expense or for-
feiture of the policy, two•thlrds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other convenimcies or necessity.
Assur.unes for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIViSION OF PROFITS.
The Increasing prosperity of th, Society has enabled the Directors
at the arnual meeting held on the !2th May. 1847, to declare a fifth
bonus, varying from 35 to 8.5 per cent. on the premiums paid on each
policy effected on the profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

Perma• Sum the
.:4°.,; Annual (Policy Bonus inl amit 11e- Assured
Age. = tg ,'
mlu Pre-m taken addition ' Bonus In duction of may bor-
-5 . out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on
vi Premiums. Poky.
- - -
£ s. d.' £ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
r 1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 S 111
X •X s. d.
1838 218 4 81 99 8 10 15 13 5 :445 0 0
60 1000 74 3 4 1839 192 1 1(111 86 9 313 4 9 395 11 1
, 1840 143 510 66 8 4 919 1 341; 2 3
1 I 1841 133 14 21 61 17 69 9 2 ,296 13 4
L 1842 111 6 81 49 10 0 710 4 .247 4 5

The Annual Report, with tables of rites, &c., may be had at the
nice, or any of its branches in the country ; or, on application, will'
e forwarded past free.

F. FERGUSON CA3IROUX, Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.
OFFICE, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital 500,0001.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na-
tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance-
meat of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having received
the approbation of a considerable body cf the active membo.'s and
officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan
Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a
Branch Office in connexion with the.o secieties and the 'Operative
Classes generally, in which their services might be successfully en-
gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open
communication with the different Societies, with the view of more
effectually d:sseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus-
trious classes, and a plan has been aroposed with that object.
ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE.
Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to
bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and
money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal-
culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either
immediate, contingent, or deferred benefits.
A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con-
struetion of these associations or societies is defective; and that in-
stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment,
whici should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar-
rowly the •hannel through which a benefit can alone be secured ;
and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed,
their utility is drafted. For example, it is not to every individual
or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision
in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a
pecnniary sacrifice ; while to others such a provision appears more
attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness is a risk
against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state
of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say,
Instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more
contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate
benefit should have its separate contribution.
It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of
two dissimilar functions. and by confounding a sick allowance and
an annuity fund in one and the selfsame payment, that much of the
evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies.
No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick -
eess-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso-
ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing it. By
th means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised,
none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon
it.
Bit the same perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable
where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years,
and where results are to bear out calculations, money investment
being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes.,
For these reasons it is clear that the fhnds destined for a provision In
sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a
provision for old age :-
Ist Because the laws of sickness andmortality, though apparently
connected, do not depend on the same calculation.
2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to secure a
larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing
for probable sickness on themselves.
3d. Because the responsibility of managing a provision for old age,
continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible
with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre-
sponsibility, and more exposed to a failure in the performance of
such a contract , that when undertakes on the same principles that
ordinarily govern commercial isodie..
4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when
milted in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi-
nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en-
danger the one for the sake of the other.
Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge
of the discussions passing within the bosom of many of the existing
Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here-
unto attached, have had several meetings. with a view of proposing
or adopting a remedy for those and other evils ; and in this manner
to give an ad atonal force to the principles of brotherhood, unity,
and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding
them from the risks of sudden dissolution.
After much diligent search amonast the combinations Ingeniously
proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal
objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal
in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought
and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan
proposed by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. It is
true that the author of that plan has furnished an argument against
provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex-
pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can ',read the
other part of the plan itself, without being fully sa'isfled that the
conven enee and safety of Friendly and Ilenefit Societies will be
greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick
allowance from an annuity for old age.
A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan
Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to
them for the establishment of a separate office for the transaction of
business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in-
dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con-
stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its
number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an-
nexed nrospectus, under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society,
and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected
with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their
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John 11. Gordon. MS., Ancient Order of Foresters.
James Hale, D.C.R. Ancient Ordery of Foresters.
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DEFERRED AN Foresters.
ExS
ment of 11. (ls., or quarterly payment of
of 23. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age.o'fo monthly payments
ceiving Annuity, 10/. 19s. 23. ; Cash down 0, the option of re-
on his Life, 1371. 175. , 313. ;or a Policy
Example.-A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at-
taining the age of 60, an Annuity of 10/., with the other optios, by
the annual payment of 11.65. 93.. er a single payment of 221. 17s. ad•
or on payment of 61. 14s. . for disparity, hewill be entitled to
the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. I id., the same as
or age 29.
Example.-A person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 1/. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment
of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 43.; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on
his life 1751. I is.
Example.-A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 63., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment
of 2s. 23., may secure, on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d. ; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on
his life, 1751. lls.

LIFE ASSURANCE.
Example. person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure
the sum of 1001. payable at his death, whenever it may happen, and
also participate in the Annual Division t...f rrofit3, by the annual pay-
ment of 2/. Ps. 3d.
Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay.
meat of 4s. per month, or Is. per week, may snare the sum of
1121 Is. payable at nis death. whenever it may happen, and like-
wise share in the annual profits of the Society.
F. FERGUSON C aIsIROUX, Secretary.

THE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Edinburgh, 15, George-street. London, 58, King William-street.
Established 1843.

Capital 3.0,0001.
This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF
TIIE SEVEN I'EEN LIFE OFF[CES,as contained in the Report
of their Itortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, in
its constitution, the adva stages of both the mutual and proprietary
systems of Assurance. The SHORT PERIO.) RATES will be found,
in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourable to
Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is
consistent WITH PERFECT SEPURITY.
For prospectuses, &c., apply at the offices as above, or to any of
the Agents throughout the kingdom.
By order of the Directors,
T. YULLLE WARDROP, Secretary.

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
11. WATERLOO. PLACE. PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Business transacted in all the branches and for all (Micas of Life
Assurance, Endowments, and Annuities, and to secure contingent
Reversions, &c. Loans granted.
Information and Prospectuses furnished by
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.

ASCOT RACES-LIGHT WEIGHT
ANTI-DUST, RAIN, &c.
NICOLL'S I'ALETOT 'VETE, ONE GUINEA.
114, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL—not elsewhere in
London.

IF THE SUMMER, now approaching, should
prove as hot as it was last year, doubtless NICOLL'S LIGHT
PALETOT, of Lama Cloth, will be again much worn, without any
other coat under it. This luxurious ease and comfort once expe-
rienced is alone sufficient inducement to adopt the same course
again.
Price of Paletot, rich silk linings, TWO Guineas and a Half; not
silk, Two Guineas.
114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhlll.

ON THE SECRET
AT
INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND
.
WITR TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, pries
2s. 6d. or pest paid, to any address, for as. 6d. in Postage tamps
direct irons the Author's residence.
SELF. PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise
on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity.
illustrated with Twenty-Svc Coloured Plates on the AnatOrgansomy.
Physiology, and Disease! of the Urinary and Reproductive ,
explaining their various s'•7".".ctures, uses, and functions, and showing
the injuries that art ooduced in them, by solitary habits, ane.
excesses. ?ractical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous
Debility, L-:,cal and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of
the Urethra.
By SAMUEL L &WERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London;
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &C.
CONTENTS OE VIE TREATISE.
Cntrrint 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance
and 0 bligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.—
CHAPTVEt 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generativ.
Organs, their flinctions, structures, and secretions, proving that grea•
Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action
—CLIAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on th:
Animal Economy
; the concealed cause of Debility of the function
of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of th.
Mental Faculties. CUAPTER 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youtl
and
Mental
N taturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness.
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Debility, and Premature Decay.—CU TEtts 5 and 6. Oz
the Disorders
arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonnerheeti
sleet, Strictures, and other Diseases of ,he Urethra.

atviaws or THE WORE.
fled melt cal man, who has evidently had considerable experience oil
"The author of this singular and talented work is a legally quail.
the try ttment of the various disorders arising from the follies ardi
malted of early indiscretion. The engravings are an invaluable a
•
dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, which must
act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal
msnv questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit f no ap-
vest to the most confidential friend."—Era.
ruollshed by the Author, and easy be had at his residence; also
rom Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Co., 61,
t• °ord.-street Stark:, Tichborne-street, Quadrant;
qorrion, 14
Lealenhall-street, London; 'Newton. 16. Church-street, Liverpool
and by all Baossellers.

At Home for consultation Aslly, rorn Nine till Two, and fro ,
rive till Eight ; end all letters immediately replied to, it containin
he fee of li.,for advice, 40.-9 ISEDFOUD-antEET BEDFORD-
sQUABEI ONDONJ

EASE IN WALKING,

lATILLIAM 13,11)DELEY, 0-il3O, STRAND,
V V is induced to give publicity to his mnch-admired PRE
PARED LEATHER (so noted for extreme SOFTNESS and
U (JRABILITY), in consequence of the patronage he has received,
and the general satisfaction given by him in manufacturing the above
into BOOTS, &e., on his peculiar fitting principle of combining
elegance with ease. An extensive assortment of best made articles
alWayr.. ready on sale. Established in 1767.
No. 130, Strand, corner of Waterloo-baldge, London.

~COTTCSFI CENTRAL RAILWAY.
SIXTH CALL OF 2'. 10s. PER SHARE.

Notice is hereby given, that the Directors have made a SIXTH
,CALL of 2/. l°s. upon the SHAREIICILoERS of the SCOTTISH
OEN MAL COMPANY, payable on the 2d of JULY
NEXT. It not paid on that date, Internet will be added at the rate
of fire per cent. per annum.

No Transfer received at the Office of the Company after the 7th
June will be regist,red until the Call now announced has been paid,
as the special circulars intinia lug the Call require to be posted On
the 9th June.

By order of the Directors,
ROBERT D. KER, Secretary.
Scottish Central Railway-office, Perth, May 29, 1847.

0 FFICE of the GA.* LIGHT and COKE
COIL PANY.
19, New Bridge-f,treet, Blackfriars, London, June 2, 1847.
Ido hereby give notice that the followin proprietors, viz. :
lIENRY DEFFE L, Esq,
, BICHARD HOPPER, Esq , and Directors,
WILMA NI MORLEY, Esq.,
have, pursu•mt to the Bth By-law of this Company, severally given
me notice in writing of their intention- to offer themselves for RE-
ELECTION as DIRECTORS, at the Election which will take place,
at-this Office; on TUESDAY, the 15th instant.
.By order, , - -

CHARLES BURLS, Secretatt.

LEASEHOLD, FLEET-STREET, CITY.
110 be SOLD, pursuant to a DECREE of the
JL HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in the causes of
MILLINGTON against COOK and MI LLINGTON against TURNER,
with the appr botion of Sir GHTIN WiLSON, one of the Masters
of the said Court, at the public Sale Room et the said Court, at the
Gray's•inn Coffee House, Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
sometime in the month of July, 1847, or which due notice will be
given,- a valuable' Lease old Dwelling-house, :Shop, and Premises,
,ltuate, and being No: 54- ' Fleet-street, in the City of London, held
for a mortgage term Of 500 years, from the' 7th July, 1772, of which
the equity o: redemption has been foreclosed, and which said house
and , remises are now on lease to Messieurs Seeley and Burnside,
booksellers, for a term of 21 years from the 24th day of June, 1830,
at the yearly rent of 1401. Particulars-and -conditions of Sale are in
the course of preparation, and'ffiay,-in a short time, be had gratis at
the said Master's Chamb rs, Southampt, di-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; of Mr. Crouch, solicitor, of 37, Southampton-buildings ; of
Mr. Wilson, No. 1, Raymoud-buildings, Gray's-inn, London ; of
Messrs. Jones Trinder, Tudway, and Eyre, solicitors, No. 1, John-
street, Bedford-row, London ; and of Messrs, Few and Dukes, soli-
citors, No. 2, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London.
Dated the 2d day of June, 1847. G. WILSON.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY
has Jost deposited at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI-
TUTION a completes ries of APPARATUS, illustrating the Prin-
ciples of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH as now worked on the lead-
ing Lines of Railway. Also, superb Specimens of their ELECTRIC
CLOCKS, the NEEDLE TELEGRAPII, PRINTING and WRITING
APPARATUS, ALARUM, &c. This highly Interesting addition to
the Exhibition and Lectures is afforded to the Visitors for a limited
time, The EVENING MUSIC, under Dr. Wallis, commences at
Seven o'clock.—Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

FATAL . ACCIDENT ON THE -
SOUTA Cobs r RAILWAY.
BRIGHTON,. Joili I.—We regret to state that a
melancholy and fatal accident occurred, on Monday
evening, on the Portsmouth Extension of the Brighton
and Chichester Railway. Ruinour, as usual, had greatly
exaggerated the result, i being reported in Brighton
yesterday morning that fhe, six, and even ten parsons
had lost their lives. i t station our reporter learned
that the accident had probed fatal with regard to one
person only, and he proceeded by an early train to the
spot. In tee train he hid for fellow-passengers Mr.
Thomas Kirtley (lococnoeve engineer of the company).
Mr. Copley (tee assistant manager of the railway ), and
Mr. Acton (superintendent of the railway police), who
were also en the way to die site of the accident. Learn-
ing the object of our repnter's journey, the first named
gentleman kindly informed him that he was a passenger
by the train which sustained the accident, and he volun-
teered the particulars which we here subjoin :
The train in question was a continuation of the two
o'clock down train from London. It started from
Brighton on its way to Havant at a quarter past four
o'clock, and kept its time with perfect exactness, leaving
Chichester at 20 minutes to six. Mr. Kirtley had gone
to Chichester by an earlier train to make arrangements
with regard tofit supply of gas, and having finished this
business, and wizhing to proceed to Havant for the pur-
pose of arranging for the departure of some extra trains
this morning, he stepped on the engine of the train, and
rode With= the driver from Chichester to Bosham Pound,
a station three miles towards Portsmouth. Here he left
the engire, and entered a carriage in which were his wife
and child, and the train proceeded about a mile and a half
forward, when a rumbling noise was heard, and the train
immediately came to a standstill near Nut bourne, half
wtq liutween the Bosham station and the borders of the
counties of Sussex and Hampshire, at Emsworth. The
speed was between 32 and 35 miles, the road is perfectly
level, and the hue straight. Without any apparent
cause the engine ' suddenly left the line, the rails and
the engine bei .4 best working condition. It ap-
peared that the engine on leaving the rails rushed across
the up line at an angle of about 45, and tearing up the
rails in its progress toppled over an embankment about
four feet high into a ditch about the same depth, wheels
uppermost. .The connecting irons which couple the
engine and tender having snapped, the tender was drawn
off the line only a few inches, probably by the jerk.
The luggage box was also just off the line, and had
mounted the tender, but none of the carriages were off,
nor were they in the slightest degree injured.
On the train being thus suddenly brought up, Mr.
Kirtley had the passengers alighted. The engine-
driver was found under the tender. He is supposed to
have fallen from the engine at the moment it left the
rails, and to have been struck by the train, and the first
wheel of the tender having passed over his thigh com-
pletely severed it. He was quite dead. His name was
John Gregory. He was about twenty-eight years of
age, and has left a widow and family. He was a very
steady driver.
The stoker, whose name is Henry Peel, was about
the same age, and he was also a married man, living at
Brighton. He was found lying close to the driver. His
right arm was nearly severed from his shoulder, and his
scull was fractured, but he was still alive. He was re-
moved to a neighbouring cottage, where he was promptly
attended by medical men, procured from Emsworth. He
is in a desperate condition, but still some hope is enter-
tained of his recovery.
The only other person who was injured by the ca-
tastrophe was the guard, named Careless. He merely
received a slight shock, and is to-day nearly recovered.
From the spot where the engine left the rails to its
present site is exactly eighty yards ; to the spot where
the tender and train stopped, sixty-five yards ; and con-
sequently the bodies were picked up about twenty yards
from the overturned engine. Tne tender is barely in-
jured, with the exception of an indentation of the water
tank ; and the luggage box had not so much as a
splinter knocked ofE
. _

So gradually, although so rapidly, was the train
brought up, that the passengers did not suspect an acci•
dent until the train stopped. Mr. Kirtley himself stated
to our reporter that it was his extensive knowledge of
railway traffic which alone led him to detect something
unusual in the rumbling noise produced by the engine
as it was tearing up the rails. The passengers were
Promptly forwarded to their destination in vehicles pro-
cured in the neighbourhood. About 20 of the rails
were broken or bent, and some delay was of course oc-
casioned to the subsequent trains. The tender was on
the rails in half an hour, and was the same evening re-
moved to Brighton.

The site of accident is in the small thick wood at
the back of the beautiful little village of Nutbourne. As
described above, the line is perfectly straight and per-
fectly level; the rails had been replaced; and it was not
till a second look had been taken that he discovered the
damaged rails lying on one side of the very low embank-
ment, and the overturned engine in the ditch on the
other. Anything less like what one pictures as the site
of a fatal railway accident can hardly be imagined.
As to the immediate cause of the accident nothing is
known. An investigation will, of course, take place by
a Government engineer. The ballasting on the spot is
a coarse gravel, that which we believe geologists call
alluvial; and on looking at the spot an idea suggested
itself, that one of the larger stones might have been
accidentally or otherwise placed on the rail. A footpath
crosses the railway on a level, exactly midway between
the place where the engine ran off and where it stopped.
This suggestion is answered by the fact, that the engine
is furnished with " protectors," which would remove
from the rails anything of an inch diameter. A second
idea is suggested by an inspection of the engine. It is
one of Stephenaon's last patents, but the cylinders are
on the outside, and some drivers dislike such engines,
because of their greater oscillation, or " wobbling."
Mr. Kirtley had an escape which may be regarded as
truly miraculous. Had he remained on the engines, as
is his custom, for the purpose of overlooking the line, he
would probably have shared the fate of the driver and
stoker; to his change at Bosham from the engine to a
carriage may he owe his life.
The body of the driver lies at the Bell and Anchor,
Nutbourne.— Times.

THE LATE CASES OF POISONING
AT KENSAL NEW TOWN.
From an early hour on Tuesday morning until late in
the evening croeds of persons continued to assemble in
front of the cottage lately tenanted by the unfortunate
sufferers. Mr. Abercrombie, the surgeon, has been in
constant attendance upon the survivors, and at six o'clock
last evening Mrs. Hickman remained in such a pre-
carious state that little hopes were entertained of her
recovery. The eldest child Thomas; and also Mrs.
Hickman's sister, were, onlhe contrary, rallying rapidly,
and it was the opinion of the medical gentleman that
they are now out of clangor. Caroline Boneniy, who
was the innocent cause of the calamity, states that she
was perfectly ignorant of arsenic or anything of a
poisonlus nature being kept in the house; that on Sun-
day morning she wanted some paper to light the fire,
and seeing the bag, which she imagined contain, d only
itair, she mixed the contents with what was used in
making the pudding.
It may appear most extraordinary that so large a
quantity of arsenic should have been kept in any house;
to account for which it is only necessary to state that
Hickman was formerly in business as a glass-blower,
and in his trade he used not only arsenic but nitrate of
silver in large portions. That which was mixed with
arte m
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but on removing to the present house the bottle got
tptihomeiseposunidnpdcliaetc:gedwWianshaelnhbeuttle and concealed in the washhouse,
broken, abed in
nitdthepthoiesocnupwbaoasrtd.hen placed in the flour bag,
and
foorftuthneateneighbours
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and destroyed his own life. They were led to this con-
lythe someun
con-
clusion from the fact of his long absence from home, and
his sudden return so short a time before the tragedy oc-
curred. It, however, appears that about four months
since, from some neglect of duty whilst in the police, be
thought it better to resign, and he accordingly sent in
his clothes with his resignation. It further appears that
whilst in the force he had contracted several small debts,
and being out of employment and unable to discharge
them, he kept away from home, only occasionally going
to see his wife and family, and that by night when he
thought he should not be observed by his neighbours.
On the forenoon of Sunday last, whilst the pudding was
being prepared, he was engaged in his garden fixing up
for his wife drying poles. The occupier of the adjoin-
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nd thea pfourrepmos: oc
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trhi ne
they
adjoin-
ing house is positive that from ten o'clock until past one
forenoon, Mr. Wakle)
o'clock Hickman never left the garden; he, therefore,
could not have had any hand in placing the poison in
eoccktabolne jTurtlyeantatyat the Portobello Amis.'
the pudding. Since his death a post mortal! examina-
tion of his body, and also that of his son James, has
been made.
Porto_
the cir-
cumstances connected with the respective deaths of
Thomas Hickman and his five children. The •
proceeded to
jury hav-
ing
cottage to view the bodies.
ICi e. Arn
been
A more appalling scene
has rarely been witnessed; in the front her
was the
elder deceased, and by his side the five other bodies were
lying.
The jury having returned to the inquest-room, the
Coroner was informed that two only of the bodies had
been opened; that the sister of Mrs. Hickman and the
other boy were rapidly recovering, and possibly Mrs.
Hickman herself might get the better of the poison in a
few days.
The CORONER then informed the jury that he should
not at that period go into the case, but should adjourn
the inquest to a future day; and, in the meantime, the
bodies of the other children would be opened, and pos-
sib!y by that time the two women would be in a fit state
to give evidence. At the pres.ent time he was quite sure
that they would not be able to get anything like saris-
factory testimony, for they appeared to be the only
parties likely to throw any light upon the affair.
The inquest was accordingly adjourned.

THE POLICE.—An alteration, by order of the
Secretary of State, has taken p
ce-c
lace relative to the police per-
fortnin4 duty at the various Poliourts. h ordr came
into operation on Tuesday, that three constableesbe stationed
permanently at the disposal of the magistrates, for the pur-
pose of serving summonses, warrants, &c., and that they be
excalt from all (Alm duties Coiuleck,4 with the ?dm,