The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-14 00:00:00

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The second ethe three fetes given during the fa-
shionable season by 'this Society took place on Satur-
day afternoon at. their grounds at Chiswick. The com-
pany -amounted, it was- said, to between 9,000 and
10,000. The Marquis of Normanby and many individual
members of the beau monde were present, but the general
style of the assembly was not quite so fashionable as usual.
The collection of roses and pelargoniums was very beau-
tiful. The band of the Life Guards and Blues played
during the course of the afternoon several overtures and
airs, and marched the company out with " God save the
Queen." We subjoin a list of the competitors
for the Society's prizes .
AWARD or THE JUDGES, No. 1.
Pinks. —Silver Knightian, Mr. C. Knight; Silver Bank.lan,
Mr. Bridges; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Forman; Silver
Banksian, Mr. Wilmer. _ .

Pelargoniums—Large Colection.—Gold Baraksian, Mr.
Cock ; Silver Knighuian, Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs.
Lawrence ; N. Gold Banbian, Mr. Catleugh; Large Silver,
Mr. Gaines.

Pelargoniums—Small Collection.—Large Silver, Mr. Cock ;
Silver Knightian, Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss Traill; N. Large
Silver, Mr. Catleugh ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Gaines.
Roses in Collections.—ifold Banksian, Mr. Milne ' • Large
Silver, Mr. Fleming; Silver Knightian, A Rowland, Esq. ;
Silver Banksian, Mr. Weir, gardener to Coulthurst, Esq. ;
N. Gold Banksian, Mr Wood and Son, and Mr. Rivers ; N.
Large Silver. Mr. Paul and Son, and Mr. Cobbett ; N. Silver
Knightian, Mr. Lane and Son ; N. Silver Banksian, Mr.
Hooker and Mr. Wilmer. _ _

Herbaceous Calceolarias.—Large Silver, Mr. Green, gar-
dener to Sir E. Antrobus; Silver Knightian, Mr. Watson,
gardener to J. Wells, Esq. ; N. Large Silver, Mr. Catleugh ;
N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Gaines.
Shrubby Calcelarias.—Large Silver, Mr. Green ; Slyer
Knightian, Mr. Watson, gardener to J. Welts, Esq. ; Silver
Banksian, Mr. Barnes; N. Large Silver, Mr. Gaines ; N.
Silver Knightian, Mr. Catleugh.
Miscellaneous Florist F:owers.—Large Silver, Mr. Green ;
Silver Knightian, Mr. Porter ; Silver Banksian, Messrs. Mit-
chell, Watson, jun., Bridges, Norman, and Catleugh.
AWARD OF 'f HE JUDGES, No. 11.

Store and Greenhoutie Plants, in Colleet.ion• of from Fifty

to sixty Plants.—Gold Knighiian., Mr. Green, garderer to
Sir E. Autrobus, and Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Law-
rence ; Gold Bat.ksian, Mr.-Hunt, gardener to Miss Traill.
StoVe and Gr-enhouse Plants, in Collections of from Fif.
teen to Twenty Plants.—Gold 13anksian, Mr.:Barnes; gardener
to Norman, Esq. ; New Large Silver, Mr. Jackson and
Mr. Young.
Stove and Greenhouse Plants, in Collections of Six Plants.
'—Large Silver, Mr. Falconer ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Bruce ;
Silver Banksian, Mr. Barnes.

,'Miscellaneous, not Florist, Flowers.—Silver Knight;an, Mr.
Mylam ; Silver Banksians, Mr. Green and Mr. Rivers.
AWARD OF THE JUDGES, No. HI.

Fruit, Miscellaneous Collections of—Gold Banksian, Mr.
Davis, gardener to Sir S. Clarke ; Large Silver, Mr:. Bruin,
gardener to Mr. Gunter, and Mr. Davis, gardener to Lord
Bo3ton.

Grapes—Large Silver, Mr. J. Wilmot; Silver Knightians,
Mr. Chapman, and Mr. Dowson, gardener to W. Leaf, Esq.
Pine Apples—Large Silver, Mr. Judd, gardener to G. Knott,
Esq. ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Flood, gardener to Sir J. J.
Gue3t, Bart. ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Dowson.
Peaches or Nectarines, in Dishes of Six Specimens—Silver
Kuightian, Mr. Feggn, gardener to the Marqu;s of Abercorn ;
Silver Banksian, Mr. Tilley, gardener to the Duke of Portland.
Miscellaneous Articles—Silver Knightians, Mr. Chapman
and Mr. Lister ; Silver Banksians, Messrs. Foggo, Myatt,
Snow, Richard Brook, Esq., and Bruce.
AWARD OF THE. JUDGES, No. IV.

Cape Heaths, Twenty Species.—Gold Knightian, Mr.
Barnes ; Large Silver, Mr. Butcher ; N. Silver Knightian,
Mr. Jackson.
Cape Heaths' Six Species.—Gold Banksian, Mr. May,
gardener to E. Goodhart, Esq. ; Large Silver, Mr. Bruce ;
Silver Knightian, Mr. Barnes.
Tall Cacti, in Flower.—Silver Knightian, Mr. Upright ;
Silver Banksian, Mr. Falconer.
AWARD OF THE JUDGES, No. V.

Collectionsof Six Species of Exotic orchidacew.—Gold
Knightian, Mr. Mylam ; Large Silver, Mr. Insiray, gardener
to G. Barker, Esq. ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Humes, gardener
to G. Norman, Esq. ; N. Gold Knightian, Messrs. lcoliisson.
Exotic Orchidacea of 'fl;ree Species.—Gold Banksian, Mr.
Mylam ; Large Silver, Mr. Butcher ; N. Silver Knightian,
Mr. W. Mastrrs. _ _ .

Exotic Orchidacete.—Single Specimens of New and Hand•
some Sperics.—Large Silver, Mr. Ingeay:
Exot,c Orchidacex, Single Specimens—Large Silver, Mr.
Craggy and Mr. Alylam ; Silver Knightian, J. Jarratt, Esq. ;
Silver Banksian, Mr. Bruce, gardener to B. Miller, EN.
Ornamental Plants, whether Old or New, in Flower.—Large
Silver, Mr. Falconer; Silver Knightian, Mr. Dickson; Silver
Banksians, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Mountjoy.
New Ornamental Plants, Single Specimens.—Large Silver,
M. Wray ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Veiteh ; Silver Banksian,
Mr. Young.

SUICIDE BY A LADY OF FOR-
TUNE.

On Friday evening a Jury composed of the principal
inhabitants of the town was impannelled before Mr. W.
Carter,. the Coroner for the eastern division of Surrey,
at the Greyhound Inn, Croydon, for the purpose of in-
quiring into the circumstances connected with the death
of Mrs. Mary Russell, residing at Croydon, who de-
stroyed herself by taking a quantity of arsenic and
laudanum. _ _ _

The Jury, having been sworn, proceeded to the man-
sion of the deceased, to view her remains. The de-
ceased lady appeared to have been a fine handsome wo-
man, apparently about fifty years of age. This part of
their duty having been performed, they returned to the
inn, where the following evidence was adduced, Messrs. ,
J. and W. Drummond, the Solicitors, being present to
watcl the proceedings on the part of the family of the
deceased lady:—
Harriet Giles, the ladies' maid to the family, deposed
that she had been in the service of the deceased for some
time On Monday morning last•the deceased lady went
out, about eleven o'clock in the morning, which was rather
an unusual occurance, and returned in about half an hour.
• On the Tuesday- morning witness took up some water to
her mistress's bed-room, and she told her that she felt
unwell, and that she should not get up, but wished to
have her breakfast sent up to her. Witness, accordingly,
shortly afterwards, took the deceased some chocolate,
and she observed that she drank it rather hastily, and in
a short time after witness had left the room the bell was.
rung, and she went up stairs to her mistress, and she or-
deral her to send her daughter upstairs immediately,
and witness then observed that her mistress had been
vomiting in a basin that was by the bed-side. Miss
Russell went up to her mother's bed-room end im-
mediately afterwards the bell was rung violently,
and a footman was ordered to be despatched
for a surgeon, and Mr. Neville, of Croydon, arrived soon
afterwards. The witness then proceeded to detail va-
rious incoherent acts committed by the•deccased fer some
time prior to the melancholy occurrence, and her evidence
left very little doubt as to the state of mind of the un-
happy lady.
Mr. Neville, surgeon, of Croydon, deposed, that on
Tuesday morning, in consequence of information he re-
ceived he went to the house of the- deceased and found
her in bed, and apparently in an almost exhausted condi-
tion. Miss Russell, the deceased's daughter, then in-
formed him that her mother had taken poison. He then
addressed the deceased, and said he hoped that what her
daughter had said was not true ; and she replied " Yes,
it is true." Witness asked her what she had taken, and she
replied "arsenic." The deceased at this time did not ap-
pear to be in any pain, and witness knowing that the
character of arsenic was to occasion excruciating pain,
doubted, at first, whether she had really taken poison of
that description. He administered some stimulants to
the deceased, and did all that he could for her, but she
gradually sank, and died on the following morning. A
paper with the word "poison" on it was afterwards
shown to him. Witness, assisted by another medical
gentleman, made a post-mortem examination of the body,
and then discovered traces of both arsenic and laudanum,
and the death of the deceased was no doubt occasioned
by those poisons.
The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased de-
stroyed herself by taking poison while in a state of tem-
porary derangement.

On Saturday, at the Kensington Police-court,
William Buckmaster, a boy twelve years of age, was re-
examined on a charge of having stolen 621. from his
master, Mr. Todd, a cheesemonger, in the High-street.
Mr. Todd missed from his cash-box a bank-note and
twelve sovereigns. He suspected the prisoner at the
time of being the guilty party, and on afterwards ascer-
taining that he had been treating other boys and been
drunk himself, he informed the police, who took him into
custody. He said he had picked up a purse in Portobello-
lane, Notting-hill, containing a 501. note and twelve sove-
reigns, which he had given to his father, but when locked
up at the station-house he acknowledged he had stolen
the money from Mr. Todd's cash-box. On going to the
father's house the note and eleven sovereigns were found
locked up in a bureau. His father declared the prisoner
had told him he had found the money, and he locked it
up expecting it would be advertised. Mr. Todd expressed
great reluctance to prosecute the prisoner, who was re-
manded till Monday.
LANCASTER ELECTION.—We congratukte
the Reformers and Bread-tax Repealers on their having
at length obtained a candidate whose principles are
sound and liberal. Mr. Dashwood, the gentleman whom
our Election Committee has selected, arrived on Satur-
day last, and the intelligence of his arrival was greeted
with acclamation. In his address, which was published
on Saturday evening, he announced himself a candidate
for the representation of Lancaster, on the Liberal into-
rest, . and explicitly stated his sentiments on the vital
questions now before the country. He openly avowed
himself the decided enemy of those great monopolies
which are crushing the energies of the country, a pro-
gressive Reformer, and an advocate of an extended sys-
tem of national education. He has since declared that
he will seek to abolish those obnoxious imposts, Church-
rates. With such sentiments and principles can we doubt
that Mr. Dashwood will succeed ? The electors of Lan-
caster are now on their trial. Let them not be found
wanting.—Lancaster Guardian.
Mr. Robert Gordon, who was Secretary to the
Treasury, has published a farewell address to his consti-
tuents, in which he says—" Differing from her Majesty's
Ministers on the question of the Corn-laws, I have re-
tired from office, and it is my intention, for the present,
to retire also from Parliament. I will not suffer myself
to be brought into conflict with my old political asso-
ciates ; I will not requite the kindness I have experienced
from Lord Melbourne by even partially opposing an ad-
ministration over which he presides."—Mr. Gordon is
succeeded in the office of Secretary to the Treasury by
Mr. B. More O'Ferrall, late Secretary of the Admiralty,
Mr. John Parker, M.P. for Sheffield, one of the Lords of
the Treasury, has been appointed Secretary to the Ad-
n;iralty, in the room of Mr. O'Ferrall.
The Ascot Cup, given by her Majesty, and run
for and won on Tuesday last at Ascot by the Marquis of
Westminster's Satirist, is nominally of the value of !00
Runt,
but cost the manufacturers, Messrs. Storr and
Runt, no less than 400/. It is of solid silver, weighing
337 Oithees, and standing 26 inches in height. The sub-
ject represents Alexander and his celebrated horse
~20et,balus, whom he is about to count, and whose fiery
spirit ire alone could control.