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COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
JUNE 7. Doran cutter, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart., from
Plymouth.
8. Flower of Yarrow yawl, Marquis of Conyugham, from
Kingston.
11. Magic schooner, Viscount Chetwvnd, from Lymington.
SAILING'S.
JUNZ 4. St. Margaret cutter, F. P. Delme Radcliffe, Esq.,
for Plymouth.
6. Gulnare lugger, Wm. Peareth, Esq far Sandgate.
YACEITS AT AM) ABOUT TH'E STATION.
Schooners—Wyvern, Georgian, Resolution, Maud, Magic.
Cutters—Nymph, Turquoise, Apsarah, Eudora, Gany-
mede, Heroine, Osprey.
FITTING OUT IN COWES HARBOUR.
Schooners—Camilla, Gem.
Cutters—Sparrowhawk, Will o'-the-Wisp, Albatross yawl.
The R. T. Y. C. schooner Gypsey Queen, Le Due de Stac-
pool, and the R. Y. S. schooner, Gem, were laid on the hard
on Thursday, and their copper cleaned.
The Camilla is having a new foremast.
The Enchantress, Earl of Cardigan, is on White's slip, and
is nearly coppered. As soon as she goes off, the Emperor of
Russia's new yacht, the Queen Victoria, will be hauled up
to be coppered.

THREE BROTHERS POISONED BY A SISTER.—The
Wexford Independent of Wednesday states that an Friday last three
brothers, named James, John, and Michael Cullen, residing at Kyle,
died from the effects of arsenic which they had taken that morning
in their breakfast. An inquest was held, and the jury returned the
following verdict;—•' We find the deceased came by their deaths in
consequence of having taken poison in stirabout, but how or by what
means administered we are unable to say." On Tuesday, however,
the mystery was cleared up by the confession of Mary Cullen, the
unmarried sister of the unfortunate young men deceased, that she was
the person who put the poison into the food by which they came by
their deaths. Suspicion of her guilt having arisen, head constable
Nicholson, and some of the police under his direction, proceeded from
Wexford to make inquiry. In the mean time, George Le Hunt,
Esq., J.P., and Samuel Tench, Esq., J P., were brought to the house
to examine her. In reply to the questions put to her by the magis-
trates, in the presence of head constable Nicholson, she confessed
that she had put the poison into the water in the pot, befbre the meal
was put on to make the stirabout. She did so, she said, at a time
when her mother had her back turned. She stated that she had
procured poison twice for the purpose—first in last March, and again
more recently. She had procured it on both occasions by saying she
wanted it for the destruction of rata. The magistrates, having re-
ceived her confession, immediately made out her committal, and she
was tbrthwith brought in custody to Wexford gaol, and fully com-
mitted to abide her trial at the nex assizes.

THE LATE FATAL COLLISION ON THE MERSEY.-
ANOTHER DEODAND AGAINST THEevi:Aioelslwlgiivcmpoenrosti.t —. f LIVERPOOL,h
course
Fams.T.—Last evening the inquest on the thirteen dead bodies
which were taken from the Rambler and landed on the Cheshire
side of the river was concluded. It was held at the Royal Hotel,
Liscard, before Henry Churton, Esq., Coroner for the county
acef
Chester, and a highly-respectable jury, some of whom
qsaumaienteadswtihtahtnpaurodticaluceadffabeirsio.roThueie
directly to prove that whilst the Sea Nymph
hour'sthe Ramblerdeliberation,
a deodand of 500/. against the Sea Nymph. The jury added
that they considered the accident was caused by the want of
orreetuthrnaledi suatriveeirdiencutY oi nf
"Accidental shore.
The°we jury,
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ani
withe
a proper look-out on board the Sea Nymph, and expressed a
wish that the coroner should communicate with the proper au-
thorities, in order that some rule should be established for steam-
vessels at night navigating the river, so that each might keep their
respective sides of the river—the inward bound vessels to keep to
the Cheshire side, and outward bound the Lancashire side. It was
agreed that a communication should be made to the dock Committee,
and also to Sir G. Clerk, who is about to bring in a Bill as to the
regulation of steam-vessels. There was a dividend of 2001. given
t:tel:aoai n
aulni
.nos.nitTuothßbbniseoset
the
iimae
dvesselsp,atfoerre Nympht
ani n
be little Liverpool,d 0 thusubt,
to the repair of the Rambler, and it is rumoured that there is an in-
mdeakicidnge thaethqutaleetidrdann alsod as
oartfheethe owners of the Sea Nymph to relist the
collision. now ready
odfytfhoer sse:ffeargeainrs .whtbosuutr,l6l,oedl. havethe

THE
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I.IIE LATE ACCIDENT AT BATTERSEA.—It was yes—
terday ascertained that the young gentleman drowned on the pre•
ceding evening, under such distresssing circumstances, off the Red
House, Battersea, was a civil engineer, named James Clarke, who
had resided with his father at No. 1, Albion-place, Wandsworth..
road. The names of the two females who were drowned with him,
Newington. Neither of the women,, it
the eEwlizalfersoLameabtmheanwirfeesoldfinga
fisaht
s4al6,eamßranan.,
dwoenr-es tCr he
et oitt 1
appears, were known to Mr. Clarke. Whilst they were walking
Cwoolrl iths o,n
an,
along the bank of the Thames he accosted them and inquired if they
residing in Trafalgar-street,
would like a ride on the water. They replied in a jocular er,
that they should, if he would not drown them. Scarcely bad five
minutes elapsed after they had entered the boat than the accident
occurred. The body of Mrs. Collison was found at an early hoar
yesterday morning near the shore opposite the Red House. Although
every search has since been made, the other
or female has not been
recovered.

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM INDlA.—Yesterday even-
ing the following detachments of regiments serving in India arrived
at the Invalid Depot, Fort Pitt, from Gravesend, where they dis-
embarked at the Custom-house-quay from the ship Neptune, 750
tons, Captain Ferris, consisting of 2 corporals and 14 privates of the
2d Queen's Royals; and 1 sergeant-major, seven sergeants, 3 cor-
porals, 2 drummers, 47 privates, with 3 women and 2 children, of the
17th Foot (the Royal Tigers); and i quartermaster-sergeant, 2 ser-
geants, and 16 privates of the 28th, with 2 women and 3 children;
and 3 sergeants, 2 corporals, 1 drummer, and 40 privates of the 78th
Highlanders, and 1 child. The troops were in command of Captain
James Stirling of the 28th, and Lieutenant William Roberts and
Lieutenant G. D. Robertson, both of the 28th. The latter officer is
insane : he arrived in India last year with a detachment from
Chatham, and the climate had such an effect on him that he went
out of his mind. Lieutenant D. Hastings, of the 78th, came
home with the troops. The above detachments embarked at
Bombay on the 31st of January last, and put in at St. He-
anlenda
dfourr
iwngatetrnoenvtohyealglet,hwohfloMharieecitexit, anld3lsaidlaetlye,agthalne
trooonpsthleoeltsthny,
deaths 3 men of the 2d Queen's, 2 men of the 17th Foot, 3 men of the
28th, and 1 corporal and 2 privates of the 78th. A midshipman in
the Company's service, Mr. Edwards, who was a passen,er, and two
men passengers from the asylum at Bombay, died on the passage,
and one child was bona on board. The men of the 17th Foot were
at the capture of Ghuznee, and are decorated with a medal, and have
been out nearly 17 years; and the 78th Highlanders are part of
those of the regiment which suffered so much sickness at Sukkur
that they nearly lost an their men, and to prevent the entire loss of
the regiment it wes removed to Hyderabad. One man of the 2d
rirdagchklsytoo
fth
dead. Four
mleoftreaotf Gthreav7esatehnd,,,,eretoonibllligtedo betorennolocvatiL,
hos-
pital.atnoeltnisesinee
awaiteir
their discharge on pensions.
The
and crew of the vessel.
treatment on board by the captain
The remainderwere remoeves
ditooniSt.s2kpei.-ark3'Ns.elri3a.
NEWS FOR SPINSTERS.—..in a letter from Australia.
ation
just received by a townsman, thed for wives here, Do for
young ladies :—" There " a great-
want to be married? Let them come
we
dilndan-following i f
know any young ladies who net
A _rem many young men of family and education pre
match. b
to Australia. A girl who plays her cards well may make an excel-
lentgetting olerably rich.''--Ciateshea4 Observer.

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i POOR MAN'S GUARDI 0.
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) A public meeting of those friendly le ' S • ;4-41 7
' Society was held on Friday night, in t ear
Literary and Scientific Institution, West N iit• e-
quence of a requisition signed by 160 of the ra yers and
householders in that district.
J. L. EeLrorr, Esq., having taken the chair, stated that
~ the object of the Society was mainly to procure for the poor
" the humane administration of the law, an object which was
benevolent and most worthy of the gentlemen who had taken
it up. He said the right of the poor to relief was as well
founded and clearly discerned as the rich man's right in
_ property, and that a poor man when plunged into needy cir-
cumstances ought not to be left to beg as an alms what
nature had given him a right to. For it to be otherwise
. than this would be a disgrace to the country. If the
iobject of the Society should be followed out with
earnest perseverance, taking care that the poor received
what he had a right to on the one hand, and on the other
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circumstances
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claims, the Society
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great classes of the community, the rich and the poor. As
for Westminster, he should not expect that the Society would
require to exert its functions very severely in reference
to the administration of the poor-law in that
city, for he wished that an equal care at least were taken of
the poor in other parishes. In that he spoke from his own
experience as chairman of those who had the administration
of the poor-law in Westminster in their hands, and at the
same time he heartily concurred with the nature and objects
of the Society.
Mr. COCHRANE was then called on, and recounted the
operations of the Society, an account of which has already
t eel
the t tivaotr
workhouse
there, but was refused unless his wife and daughter also
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in appearedla
ry ieibno tnheeacpopllui
emantsoogf
er
admissionie.S' ztn
came in. This he would not consent to, and after renewing
his application without success,horrified at the idea of at length
this time old and infirm, went and hanged himself. Mr. C.
becoming a burden on his wife and daughter as he was by
then referred to the case of the woman Gardiner, who was
ill used by Ann Lynch, and to that of Mary Jones and Mary
Smith, who were assaulted by the officers in the union
workhouse at Peckham. He added that seven or eight days
ago a policeman and Mary Smith called on him and gave
him a full statement of all that had occurred. She said that
a relieving officer of the name of Evans gave her 3s. 6d.,
and said, "Now you leave London, and if you ever return
you will be taken up and imprisoned three months for
taking a bribe." This was stated at the Lambeth Police-
court. The case came onfnr re-hearing:go :the ..9tkinstantiii.:-__.
and the result was, that it was remitted for trial-at the Sei-- --
- sions, the Society meaning to prosecute the case to the utmost. '
It gratified him to state further, that the officers of the Cam-
berwell workhouse, somewhat beyond their rules and regu-
lations, kindly offered to take the woman in and protect her
till the ends of justice should be obtained.
Lord DUDLEY STUART then rose to move the first resolu-.
tion. His acquaintance with the Society was very slight, but
he thought that, without any very laboured study or long
cogitation, its objects would commend themselves as worthy
of public attention. But its great object was to enable the
poor man to obtain his rights, and that he thought was one
of the noblest that could be offered to a meeting of English-
men. The new poor-law was, no doubt, an improvement on
the old one, but under it he had too good
reason to believe that many grievances existed. It
was gratifying on that account that a , society of
individuals should unite, not so much to support the poor by
contributions of money, as to enable them to gain those rights
which were acknowledged by the law of the land. There
were good points, he thought, in the present poor-law, many
good ' points but he was aware that it was avoided in many
instances by mal-administration and by the ignorance and
cruelty of officers. To protect the poor then against these
unjust deprivations of their rights this Society existed, and
therefore he was happy to give it all the aid he could ; and
knowing that it could not be carried on without means, espe-
cially at first, he would very gladly subscribe N. His Lord-
ship added 21., a donation fruits Mr. Frederick Pigou, and
stated that Mr. Pigou, a great friend of humanity and the
poor, was only prevented by ill health frem being personally
present at the meeting, for be had warmly commended it to
his Lordship's attention. His Lordship concluded with
moving—
" That this meeting agrees with the resolution passed at a
public meeting of our fellow-citizens, that the poor ought to
be relieved in the spirit of kindness, more especially when
they have for years been usefully employed in the parish to
which they are compelled, from infirmity or old age, to apply
in the hour of necessity."
Mr. J. S. BUCKINGHAM seconded the resolution, which was
put to the rnecting, ,and carried unanimously.
Mr. GEORGE WILSON, one of the governors of the poor in
Westminster, moved the second resolution. He said he sup-
ported the Society because he thought the deserving but
neglected poor should have a refuge and an opportunity of
appeal. He hoped the Society would not confine its exer-
tions to cases in which the relief allowed by the law was re-
fused, but extend them to those in which part of the popula-
tion were lowered in the scale of being by the neglect and
improper conduct of those who ought to exalt them. He
concluded by moving—
" That, from the impossibility of the poor and destitute
obtaining for themselves any redress against neglect or wil-
fulness from the officers or others appointed to dispense the
existing laws, this meeting deems the establishment of the
Poor Man's Guardian Society a benevolent and useful work
in the cause of humanity, and worthy of our co-operation
and individual support."
Mr. BURNS seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
Lord RANELAGH moved—
" That all persons present disposed to unite and subscribe
in aid of the objects of this Society enrol their names as
members this evening."
Some other gentleman addressed the meeting, which, after
passing a vote of thanks to the chairman, broke up.