The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-11 00:00:00

SUPPOSED POISONING.

On Tuesday morning, at ten o'clock, T. Wakley, Esq.,
and a Jury, re-assembled, pursuant to adjournment, at
the White Horse, North-street, Fitzroy-Square, to
further investigate the circumstances attending the
deaths of Giovanni Arzoni, aged 47, an ultramarine
colour manufacturer, lately residing at No. 22, Char-
lotte-street, in the above neighbourhood, and his
daughter, Marie Catherine Arzoni, aged two years and
three months.

Some particulars relative to this case have already
appeared in The Sun. It wi:l be recollected that the
deceased ~ere buried about four weeks ego, in the bu-
rying-ground attached to the Tabernacle, Tottenham-
court-road, the man having seen registered as dying of
asthma, at d the child of consumption ; and suspicion
having arisen as to the causes of death, Mr. Wakley
gave orders to have the bodies didnterred that a pose
(..ortenz examine:Lin might be made.
Mr. J. E. Ladbury, surgeon, of No. 7, Upper Fitz-
roy-square, and Mr. Everett, a lecturer on chemistry,
stated that they had examined the bodies, and found
not the slightest traces of poison in the stomachs.
Mary Haynes stated that she was employed by Mrs.
Arzoni as charwoman, and bad been almost daily at the
residence of that lady since the Ist of June, 1840. A
week before Christmas they had a desperate cigar-
Ind. and then ticeeastd tore his wife from the chair on
to tine floor by the hair of her head, and endeavoured
to strangle her, saying that if it was not for the law
he would put h'r out of the way. After that he
struck her, and she then called upon witness to pro-
tect her, when slie got between them and pre-
vented further violence. Mrs. Arzoni then ;writ
to her bed-r.nx-n, and while ascending the stairs,
threatened to have her revenge one day or
the other on the deceased end the whole of her fa-
mily. She had often beard Mrs. Arzoni threaten to
destroy herself and family rather than lead the life she
did. A short time More deceased's death Mrs. Arzoni
told witness that she had the week before Christmas
fn-vently prayed that God Almighty would lay her hus-
band on a sick bed, never to rise again. Subsequently
tc Mr. Arzoni's death site, nith apparent grief, told wit-
ness that her prayers had been heard, and tat her hus-
band was dead. She at that tin: n said nothing about the
death of the child. Witness ate a small quantity of the
p:um-pudifing, and felt no ill eillcts. Witness thought
that the threats used by Mrs. Arzoni were never meant,
but on:y uttered in a passionate moment.
Baptiste Garanti proved the deceased Giovanni was
well on the 30ab of December, and taken ill the next
day. Deceased and Mrs. Arzoni frequently quarrelled,
and he bad oftentimes heard the latter make use of the
expression, D— my soul if I don't poison us all, and
I don't care if I go to hell for it." She had a very
dreadful temper. _ _

There 'weir !g nO further testimony, Mr. WAKLEY
summed up, and the Jury, after some consultation, re-
turaed a vcrdiet of " Naturai death."

STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian)

The continued severity of the weather and the unfavour-
able rnTrcantilo accounts recjvad from andehina,pro-
duced considerable depression in eer market 3 e3terday ; and
th:ingh no material raducti,,,;rl in prices was submitted to,
burrs were exceedingly reluctat to give the rates of last
week, and very little business was done at any price.
tiOCIMALE COTTON MARKET, MONDAY, Fee. S.--
T.;-day's market has been very mach like the two preced-
in, ones ; the demand has been quite as good, and about
an average quantity of business done at former prices.
Teem Is no change in the wool market ; the demand
being steady and prices firm.

.. ____..
HUDDRREFIF.T.D MARKET, FRB. 9. A cloud from
across tho Atlantic has for a tirne overcast thi3 market,
SO that business to-day assumed a less encouraging
aspect than of late. The severe weather also keeps
bsck r',,!vr goods, so that we must wait awhile before an
oninion can be formed as to the actual state of business in
this district. There is no chaLge in prices.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF
L!FIL-0,-1 Sunday morning a schooner was discovered in
distress near the Scroby sand, on which she struck and
soon after went to pieces. The beachmen who were watch-
ing on the shore and witnessed the melancholy spectacle,
p:_rceieing some of the crew lashed to a part of the wreck
immediately launched the life boet, (DA with extraordinary
exertions for more than two hours, succeeded in nearing
the wreck. They possed two poor fellows o:: a portion of
the wreck, whom they were sure were dead, and the
quantity of pieces fl,,ating around them rendered
their's a situation of much peril. They made for
the third man, whom they found to be alive, and, picking
him up, brought him ashore. He proved to be the
captain of the schooner, and was immediately taken to the
Marine Tavern, where, after some time, he so far recovered
as to be able to state, in broken English, that his master
was G. W. Bickman, and that ho war. master of the schoo-
ner, the Active, bound from Stockholm to Lisbon, with
deals and tar ; that they had got on a strange coast, and
had been four days without provisions. The crew con-
sisted of eight men. So great was the admiration of the
dauntless bravery of the beachmen, that a subscription was
entered into on the spot, and a handsome sum raised to re-
ward them for their services.—Cand'oidge Advertiser.
SEVERITY OF TIIE WEATIIER.—A gentleman
named Harvey, having left Brighton last Friday morning,
at II o'clock, for this place, reached Uckfield, about two
o'clock, dined and started again at three; when, on getting
to Crowbar-common, six miles from Uckfield, he got into
a deep snow-drift, exactly in the centre of the common ;
finding it quite impossible to get one way or the other, he
shouted for assistance, but not an individual could be seea for
more than an hour-and-half. All this time the drift was in-
creasing fast, until at last he o:Tied a poor old man carrying
faggots ; to him he called, who, on coming up, and unable
to render him personal assistance, hastened away, and in
the course of another hour returned with three men and
two cart-horses. By this time scarcely any part of the
carriage or horses could be seen. The mon began digging
away the snow, which took them nearly two hours, then,
tackling to the cart-horses, succeeded in moving all cut,
but not before the horses and Mr. Harvey were nearly
frozen to death. They managed et last, about half-past
eleven, to get with great ditdiculty to the Castle Hotel,
Tunbridge Wells. Mr. Harvey still remains ill, and is
not even yet out of danger.
A PRIZE BATTLE FOR 1001.—A prize fight
tock place on Tuesday, between J. Adams, of London, and
Cain, the champion of Leicester, for,of the above sum ;
after a severe contest of upwards
an hour, Cain was de-
clared the winner.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Standard.)
The country must be shocked and disgusted by Lord
Palmerston's reply to Lord Stanley when questioned
as to the fate of Mr. M'Leod. It was only on Satur-
day, said his Lordship, that he had received Mr. Fox's
final communication—which must be the ultimatum of
the Government of Washington—and that day, Tuesday,
he (Lord Palmerston) had sent his final instructions.
The life of an English subject is in jeopardy ;
Mr. M'Leod is in the hands of persons who have
shown their contempt of all law, public and mu-
nicipal, by the seizure of his person, and by a thou-
sand previous crimes. They wish for a war with Eng-
land, because they think that England is on the eve of
a war with France, and they see no readier means of
kindling the war they desire than by murdering our
fellow-subject, under the abused forms of justice. Mr.
M'Leod's mock trial has been fixed for performance in
this month of twenty-eight days, and Lord Palmerston
postpones his interposition on behalf of the menaced
victim from the 6th, when he admits to have been
fully apprised of his danger, to the 9th, so as to ren-
der it almost a moral impossibility that that in.
terposition shall not be too late. To pass by the fact,
that Lord Palmerston must have been well aware of
the facts long, very long before the 6th, whether
from unofficial or official intelligence, makes no dif-
ference, for official intelligence is required only
when a record is to be secured—to pass by, we
say, the neglect of that intelligence, which Lord
Palmerston must have had long, very long before
the 6th, the three days that he suffered to elapse
admit of no excuse, for these three days may make
the difference of life or death as a felon to our brave
countryman—the difference of peace or war between
this empire and the United States. Had the peremp-
tory demand of Mr. M'Leod's liberation and safety
been expedited as it ought to have been on the 6th
by a fast-sailing steamer, it might, according to the
average of the late passages, have reached Wash-
ington with tolerable certainty on the 24th or 25th,
and there would be just time to communicate with
Albany or Lockport, whichever is the place of Mr.
M'Leod's imprisonment, before the end of the month.
By delaying for three days, however, a step upon which
no true Englishman could hesitate a single moment, it
has been rendered all but impossible that the inter-
position of the English Government can be felt in
New York in any manner be, the month of March,
it being resolved, as we have said, to sacrifice our
countrymen in the month of February, and this, ter-
rible as it is, is not the only ill consequence of the
three days' delay. The American authorities and
the American populace cannot think the Government
of England very much in earnest in a matter upon
which they proceed thus leisurely. Promptitude
they know is the only sure proof of determination in
cases of great injury or great danger ; and when they
see our Government thus dallying about the life of
one of the Queen's subjects, they will naturally con-
clude that they have not much to fear, although they
murder him. It is thus her Majesty's Ministers deal
with the lives of the people. How differently do they
act where their party or their personal interests are con-
cerned. When did they take three days to delibe-
rate upon sending down bribery funds and a candidate
to an election contest, or pause three days in exertion
to whip up their majorities of fives and fours, and threes
and twos, in the House of Commons? Where the
emoluments of office are in peril, there is no want of
promptitude or energy ; it is only when an Englishman's
life or the peace of the empire is concerned, that they can
afford to yawn over the case for three whole days.
(From the Globe.)

Lord Palmerston will be considered to have said all
he could say with prudence, respecting the " final and
conclusive instructions" to Fox on the case of Mr.
M'Leod. It is necessary that every word and every act
should be measured and guarded, in transactions touch-
ing what may almost be termed separate and jealous
nationalities—as embarrassing to their own federal
government as to our colonists. We must make every
allowance for the very slight nature of the system of
rule which individual and local impatience of all re-
straint as yet admits in America ; and we must not be
in too great a hurry to look forward to a national quarrel,
whenever there is a border raid, with a spice of kidnap-
ping.. A correspondent suggests to us—" Ask any of the
American gentlemen of this city what they think of the
matter, and you will find them refer you to the old
adage, that " Poverty sharpens the wits." The poor
owners of the Caroline would be glad to get payment
for their lost boat, by fair or by foul means ; and finding
that the buccaneers had nothing to give them but
the muskets they had stolen from the Government
arsenals, they and their ' sympathisers' threaten largely,
and seize on an innocent person. It is impossible to
suppose for a moment that the great body of the Ame-
rican public partake in these " interest-begotten" pas-
sions and plots of the frontier ; but whatever may be said
about the omnipotent will of the majority, it is most
certain that, in America, as everywhere else—where
no sufficient central control has yet been established
—the fffeetive majority is the majority in motion
on any given spot, and not the majority either of the
minds or bodies of the whole community. For these cir-
cumstances we must make allowances ; and while, of
course, we can yield no point of justice, affecting the
life or liberty of the most obscure British subject., we
must appreci de the difficulties of the Federal Govern-
ment in dealing with the independent and uncontrolled
spirit of a growing people. We are glad to find our
Government firm and distinct in asserting the right ;
but we would not have our countrymen look forward to
hostile consequences from misunderstandings inevitably
surviving the recent disturbances.
(From the Courier.)
. .

Tile explenatians of Lord Palmerston yesterday in
the Commons' House ',Yore so incomplac and evasive on
a ques.ion touching more nearly than all others the ho-
nour of the country, and so felt and reprehended by all
reflecting persons both in and out of the House, as to
induce Lord Stanley to being the subject once more
forward last evening, and endeavour to pin the slippery
Secretary to something like a plain statement of the
actualities of the case. Although dodged with some per-
severance by Members on both sides of the House,the No-
ble Secretary of the Foreign Office contrived, by tinning
and doubling artfully, to avoid being earthed, and even
when hardest pushed at the last managed to carry off his
brush not materially damaged by the friendly curs in his
own neighbourhood, who pressed upon him most sorely.
This will be best understood by the order of proceedings.
After certain preliminary remarks directed to another
branch of the subject, Lord Stanley said he had speci-
fically asked, " whether her Majesty's Government
had taken any, and, if any, what steps for the liberation
of Mr. M‘Leod." Tile Noble Lord's answer was,
as we recollected, this :—" Her Majesty's Government
will, indeed, have already taken such steps as they
thought necessary for that purpose." Lord Stanley
rejoined that " lr^ had not asked the Noble Lord
what those steps were, if he found it expedient to
withhold that information ; but he did ask him whe-
ther the Government had taken such steps for the
protection and liberation of Mr. M`Leod, svho had
been in custody since the 12th of November, 1840,
es would be effectual in point of time, in refer.
coca to the prcceedings which were going ore To
this plain and simple query Lord Palmerston an-
swered by referring to instructions sent out to Mr.
Fox. in view of a similar case which " happned, or
was about to happen, a year or a year and a half
ago," which is tantamount to an avowal that not the
slightest action had been taken since the arrest on the
o! November last, known probably at the Foreign-
office by the first day of December, in the special
case of Mr. M'Lend. So far as the authorities of
Downing-street are concerned, he has been left to swing
or swim as the case might be, and it is now only on
this 10th of February, which is about the day of the
unhappy patriot's trial, preparatory to condemnation
and execution at New York, that, as we are coolly in-
formed," an opportunity had presented itself for send-
ing out final and conclusive instructions ; they were
then ready prepared, and were upon the point of being
sent off." Was ever official instance of more disgusting
indifference and neglect where the life of a fellow-
subject and British citizen was at stake ? The Forcie.n
Secretary apathetically folds his arms and looks on whilst
murder is in course of commission ; pleading., in answer
to indignant remonstrance, that, some year and a half
since, provision had been made in a similar instance, by
rules laid down for the guidance of the Envoy, which
might serve for reference on the recurrence of such an
event.

MARNOCII.—On Sunday last, tile Rev
Edwards, minister of this parish, officiated for the ; Mr.
time in his own pulpit, to a congregation of aboutwere parishioners.
hearers, of whom fully three-fourths cre parishoConsidering the snow-storm, which is on the ground, ;I:6d
the distance of Feggyloan, the most populous village,
from the church (about three mi!es), this attendance is
highly creditable to the good feeling of the parishioners.
Mr. Rose hues, of Netherdale, and the other heritors,
are giving Mr. Edwards every countenance and encou.
ragement in the discharge of his sacred duties ; and were
it not for the intrusions and intermeddling of certain par-
ties at a distance, the most perfect harmony and good un-
derstanding would be speedily restored. Mr. Henry, the
intruder on Mr. Edwards's cure, forsook his temporary
tabernacle at Foggyloan last Sunday, and lifted up his
voice in a saw-mill in the near neighbourhood of the
parish church. This was quite in the taste of the times.—
Edinburgh Observer.
ST. ALBANS, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—
(From a Correspondent.)—The return of Lord Listowel,
as Member for our borough, has absolutely astounded the
Noble Lord and his family, who looked upon their nominee
si
ssecure of the seat, in consequence of the snug arrange-
ments they had made to take the Liberal electors by sur-
prise. The pretended bribery of Adams was a mere
clumsy subterfuge of the Tories to cover the mortification
of unlooked-for defeat, and the threat of a petition against
Lord Listowel, return, made by the defeated candidate in
Ilia parting address,i is regarded as mere gabble. No ra-
tional person resident in the borough attaches the slightest
importance to the
for
rft
carrying
rarn;ii
ng was,o selected as an appropriate agent ,
out
doubtless, tint matter. The The man is known to be half
otinonhin which no person having
any pretensions to
engaged, Globe,
unless divested of
common sense, would have