The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-10 00:00:00

THE

:d RS.

(From the Times of this day.)

The tale of Kars is soon told. The papers now
published cannot be said to add much to what was
known or might have been divined before. The
history of the British officers seems merely one long
struggle against an inevitable destiny. The year
1855 commenced gloomily for them. In the depth
of winter, amid the snows of a mountainous region,
General Williams continues his recommendations
and reforms at Erzeroum. Here he receives from
Lord Clarendon the despatch in which the Am-
bassador had defended his conduct. General Wil-
liams hastens to justify himself. " I was," he
says, " within eleven hours' march of an intelli-
gent and disciplined enemy, he being flushed by
victory, and the Turks dispirited by defeat, de-
jected by starvation and the infamous conduct of
their Mushir and officers." Lord Stratford had
urged as an excuse for silence that he knew " that
during the winter season little comparatively co, uld
,
be done." General Williams points out that the
weather, instead of not admitting of military move-
ments, was open to such operations for many weeks
after my arrival at Kars." Speaking after four
months' experience, he declares that " such un-
accountable silence was highly dangerous to the
public cause." "What," he exclaims, "could I
not have done in the shape of reform had even a
note and an order from the Seraskier reached me
by the return of the first Turkish post, which was
then AS regular in its arrival as that between Lon-
don and Constantinople !" " With regard to M.
Pisani's answers on the success of his efforts, my
reports show that the army of Kars remains without
a single reform but that which has been worked by
a Commissioner unacknowledged, though feared,
by the base man who commanded it." Thus Gene-
ral Williams concludes his controversy with the
Ambassador, nordoes he ever seek terecommence it.
It is for the nation now to judge between them,
General Williams after this time devotes his atten-
tion to two points—the provisioning of Kars and
the removal of incompetent and delinquent officers.
On February 10 he is able to announce to Lord
Clarendon, " We have now in store at Kars bread
for 50 days, barley for 90 days, rice for 10 days ;
so that I have breathing-time to look round for
contractors, and hope to avoid disgrace in the
spring." The supply of provisions is of the most
irregular kind, and both the commissariat and
clothing departments furnished nefarious gains to
the drunken and debauched chiefs of the army.
General Williams endeavoured, though with very
incomplete success, to obtain the authority neces-
sary for a reform. Spring advances, the Russians
are on the alert, and the outposts of their nume-
rous army are appearing in the neighbourhood of
Kars. The Commissioner is almost hopeless, and
thus unfolds his griefs to Lord Clarendon. The
date is April 24 :—" Neither the land carriage for
the army of Kars nor the provisions for that force
are to be had in sufficient quantities ; and I have
this day received intelligence from Colonel Lake
drawing my attention to these points, and, indeed,
echoing the prayers which I have in vain addressed
throughout the winter at Constantinople." The
cavalry were without boots, horse appointments,
or efficient sabres ; the infantry without knap-
sacks ; all were supplied with ammunition " far
short of the exigencies of a campaign." " Surely,"
exclaims the Commissioner, " this army has teen
doomed to destruction at the Seraskierate !" Still
he perseveres, and implores that the Governors of
Diarbekir, Kharpoor, ' and other provinces should
be ordered to forward corn to Erzeroum. Scurvy
had appeared in Kars, and the Commissioner
caused to be despatched without delay vegetables,
vinegar, and wine. Thus was the health of the
army strengthed for the terrible struggle which
WAS shortly to begin.
The General had just finished the fortification of
Erzeroum. He had explained the necessity of the
works to the Council, and induced both the Arme-
nian Bishop and his Mussulman colleagues to offer
their assistance. In the mean time Colonel Lake
was at work on the forts of Kars. On the Ist of
May, a month before the siege of Kars commenees,
General Williams writes to the Ambassador :
" Several weeks ago I addressed your lordship on
the necessity of my having authority diieot from
Constantinople to take any active part and have a
decisive voice in the purchase of provisions for the
army ; and although Lord Panmure has expressed
his decided sentiments on this vital point, I have
not received a line in allusion to it from your Ex-
cellency ; and I have to state that this army can-
not be supplied with provisions without I can con-
trol those who have this matter in their hands."
We search the blue-book, and are obliged to believe
that this despatch meets the fate of its predeces-
sors. There is no answer from Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe. Soon after Mouravieff is in the field
General Williams hastens up to Kars, the enemy
closes round, and the five months of famine begin.
As an episode we may lay before our readers a
sketch of two Pashas with whom General Williams
had to deal. It will be remembered that Lord
Stratford, at his final rupture wi;h the Commis-
sioner, made a formal complaint of his behaviour
towards his colleagues of the Ottoman force. Two
of these gentlemen with whom the Ambassador
thought that General Williams ought to have con-
tinued to "cultivate the most friendly relations"
were named Shukri Pasha and Hussein Pasha. Ge-
neral Williams brought them to trial for treating
him in an insulting manner in presence of the Coun-
cil and answering his questions with contempt. The
military Court at Erzeroum arrives at the follow-
ing facts :—" It was notorious that the Pashas in
question had given themselves up to such habitual
drunkenness and dissipation that, besides having
become a bad example to the Sultan's troops, they
were never by day, in consequence of their noc-
turnal debauchery, in-a fit state of mind to transact
business." A low character was " constantly being
called into council, and for hours ho and Shukri
Pasha used to be whispering to each other the pro-
jects and arrangements of the ensuing night's en-
tertainment." As for Hussein Pasha, "he made
no secret of his dissipated conduct, and on one oc-
casion the people of his quarter of the town were
exasperated to such a degree that they would actu-
ally have made an attack on his house ;" but the
Mushir was about to arrive, and they determined
•to wait and complain to him. Such were the
wretches whom Lord Stratford, who knows them
a; well as any man, pretends to believe it a crime
of General Williams to treat with firmness !
Why should we carry any further the degrading
history ? But a few days before General Williams
quitted Erzeroum to take his stand at Kars ho
writes to his earnest and unfailing supporter, Lord
Clarendon. The story is the old one. His first
sentence begins, " I regret to inform your Lord-
ship of the continued neglect at Constantinople."
The cavalry are now destitute even of slippers, the
greater portion of the men riding in stockings.
The infantry are in the same plight. On the 7th of
June General Williams enters Kars. The siege
has begun. Food is wanting, of ammunition there
is hardly any, of men there are few ; all that can
be done is to endure with firmness, and how
that garrison endured is now part of the world's
history. As soon as Kars was invested, then the
services of General Williams, the importance
of the place he held, the value of his advice
anti remonstrances, were apparent to all.
Europe, and more especially England, became
interested. The British officers shut up in Kars
required the utmost efforts of their country to save
them. Then commenced the hurry and confusion
of last autumn. Who did their duty, who was
most active in that Babel of military advisers, we
shall not discuss, since we believe that already the
cause was lost. The differences between Omar
Pacha and his colleagues in the Crimea, beween
Lord Clarendon andCountkWalewski, between
the s
Lord Stratford and eas -ter, are of little mo-
ment. A few weeks before General Williams was
writing in vain for the power of buying provisions
and ordering boots. NON
When London is begin-
ning to talk about Kars, the roost magnificent
military plans emanate from Ther
of 40,000 men will at once marchPitoa*th An army
erescue.
It is to be composed of Vivian's
Contingent,aao Cum
Beatson's Bashi-Bazouks, garrisons froemß
and Bulgaria, Albanians, Egyptian Regular
valry, and Tunis Horse. We next have a
some-
what incomprehensible plan for landing 13,000
Kurds on the coast. In August it is debated
whe-
ther the army shall go. Some are for a direct
march to Kars—others for a diversion in Russian
territory. The latter plan, as we know, was
thought preferable, and the campaign of Omar
Pacha took place. The valour, and still more
heroic endurance of the garrison, need no recapitu-
lation here. Kars fell, and the fall will not soon
be forgotten.
We have now described the transactions which
have been for so long the subject of somewhat
cautious comment. It is some time, we believe,
since the public has listened to any history morel
startling than the one which now stands revealed.
We have but done our duty by presenting it in all
its scandalous details. In the cause of justice, of
national good faith, and of the public good, every
right-thinking man must feel that inviry and ex-
planation are necessary. General Williams, shat-
tered in health, is a prisoner in a distend land—
his companions in suffering are also far away. In
justice to these men, to the nation, and its allies,
we have a right to demand that Parliament will
require a strict account from those by whom such a
general, such officers, and such an army were left
to maintain a hopeless struggle, and the enemy was
permitted to gain the single success which has at-
taried his arms.

1 THE SIBBAT.H, TAE CHURCH, AND
I THE PEOPLH.

(From the _Dispatch.)

Good men and loyal patriots have been startled
by the statement that crime has increased in this
country sevenfold since the beginning of the cen-
tury. Within the year the philanthropist and the
social philosopher have observed with dismay that
selfishness and the greatest vices have crept up and
up, to the very Corinthian capitals of civilised life,
and that the higher, the highest classes, furnish an
increased average of lawless outcasts. The pro-
gress of pauperism, which means the increase of
venial vices, has not been so marked ; yet if
greater intervals of our history be taken the results
are not less calculated to suggest anxiety for the
future. The average amount of poor and county
rates in England in 1748-9-50 was 730,00)1. ; in
1848-9-50 it was upwards of 7,300,0001. In 1833-4
it reached 8,289,3481. In short, within the century
the cost of the relief of the poor has been
enlarged quite tenfold ! In all this time our
national wealth has more than kept pace
with these frightful phenomena. Indeed it
has doubled within thirty years ; and within
30 years before that it had quite trebled itself. Has
our education, or what may be called mere logical
intelligence, lagged behind ?Historygoes back to the
time when barons signed Magna Charta with their
mark ; when at the time of the Reformation people
crowded to the churches to hear the Bible read by
clerks, they themselves being totally unable to do
so ; when so near us as the reign of Queen Anne
our squires wore far more ignorant than our me-
chanics are now. Our National, and British and
Foreign, our Sunday and our Union Schools, at
this time turn out more readers in a year than three
centuries ago there were in the whole kingdom.
Indeed our newspaper, magazine, review, and gene-
ral press prints off in one day as much food for the
mind as 50 years ago it did in a year, or as 100
years ago it did in 20. This supply is an index to
the demand. There is more print, simply because
there are more readers. Besides, it is not found
that it is to the ignorant classes that the advance
in mendicancy and crime is confined. On the con-
trary, the more recent history of society points
to increased depravity among those further removed
from the urgency of temptation into the higher
influences of intelligence. The leader of the rebel
angels was the highest in mental attainment ; his
troops were dexterous theologians, and discussed
foreknowledge, free-will, necessity, the origin of
evil, but "found no end, in wandering mazes lost."
It has been well observed that to teach men mere
reading and writing is only to supply them with
instruments whereby knowledge may be obtained ;
but it has further to be noted that the mere educa-
tion of the intellect is also but the training of a
tool which may be as efficient for mischief as for
beneficence. It is but a rudder, which is nothing
without the pilot's hand, and which may guide to
peace and safety or to breakers and rocks, just as
skill or folly takes the helm. Carlyle (on the
whole the most profound and wisest man of our
time and country) has laboured to show us all that
logic is not wisdom ; that to know is merely one,
and a very inferior element, of reason ; that the
greatest truths are rather instincts of the heart
than conclusions of the understanding ; and
that the culture of the intellect can do no
more than to enable the will to accomplish what it
desires, but will do little towards directing it to
desire what is best. It is in vain that science and
art exist for brutes without discourse of reason.
What is Mozart or Handel to men without an ear
for music ? What is the finest painting to the many
afflicted with Daltonism, the incapacity to distin-
guish colours ; what is poetry to the prosaic ?
Sweet is the song of birds, the voice of girls,
The lisp of children, and their earliest words.
'Tis sweet
To hear at eve the honest house-dog's bark,
An know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come.
But all these sweets are spread in vain to the wo-
man-hater, to those who are feebly endowed with
philoprogenitiveness, to the fierce wandering Arabs
insensible to the ties of home ; for, " behold," says
the wisest, the kingdom of heaven is within you ; '
and, adds the true poet, it is our own heart that—
From 1.11 things that we hear and see,
Extracts emotions beautiful and new.
Alas 'tis not in them, but in thy power
To double e'en the sweetness of a flower.
And thus, after having educated people to " read
and write, and cast accounts ;" nay, after having
built up a literature for them ; having infused a
higher tone into our authors, and suffused through
our broadsheets and our books a nobler and purer
spirit of moral endeavour and attainment, we will
find yet that we cast pearls before swine that turn
again ana rend us, because they are swine and not
capable of preferring pearls to acorns. A poet or a
moralist does not create poetry or virtue in us ;
they merely, after all, give utterance, expression,
and form to what must be in us already, else we
will not understand them. Why do we admire
them ? It is because there are in us emotions and
sentiments which best respond to theirs ; because
they but say what we feel, what we felt before they
said it ; what, indeed, they but recal and revive
with fresh vividness, and, perhaps, with more in-
tense development and better articulated splen-
dour. Unless, in like manner, intellect be
informed, not only by the memory, by the oh-
serving faculties, by " casualty and compa-
rison," but by the passions, sentiment., and affec-
teens, the product will be, not wisdom, because
it will not be. the result of all the powers which
nature implanted in us to inform and make up the
judgment. Much more—if those passions and
sentiments be unequally balanced,—if they be
depraved, perverted, in desuetude, or in a state of
abuse--the intellect will be wrongly informed and
viciously directed by them. There can be no
doubt about the " progress of the intellect" among
us ; about the growth of education ; about the in-
crease of knowledge, the expansion of literature,
the great growth of reading and readers. But
there stands the fact plain before us that, in con-
currence with these " wau'st improvements,
Mawm !" as Cobbett sneered, crime has increased
sevenfold and pauperism tenfold ; and behind all,
the homely truth that "righteousness exalteth a
nation," and that we, in the right sense, are not
exalted. John Bull has, in that confused head of
his, dimly perceived all this. He has not been
able very intelligently to expound his convictions.
There they are deep down in the very bottom of
the lumber room of his mind'. He has taken hold
of them—he will not let them go—he pays more
for religion than all Europe besides—he stands by the
Sabbath-day as if it were in very deed the palladi um of
the constitution ; religionists trace our backslidiegs
to the want of faith, and cry out "More Church!"
the doctrinaires and sceptics pronounce religion to
be a failure, and ask for more reading and writing,
cheaper literature, less beer, more recreation, im-
proved social economics, reform in the physical
condition of the masses. Now, we confess our
deep sympathy with the overwhelming testimony
bOrne by the nation to their reverence for the
Sunday. A national recognition of the fact that
men are spiritual beings with a soul as well as
sense that a time should be set apart by
social convention for rest, sober recreation, moral
and religious reflection, for the service of the in-
ward spirit, for moral culture and spiritual intro-
spection--that these privileges are a right, in the
exercise of which every family should be pro-
tected by the law, we cannot doubt to bo both an
exalted sentiment in a nation and a wise arrange-
ment of civil society. That grievous injury has
been-been done to this good cause by the utterly
false assertion that the Sabbath is a divinely en-
joined ordinance we cannot doubt ; and we have but
to lament that the spirit of ritualism, the tendency
to a formal and Judaising spirit, which the whole
scope of the New Testament explodes, should still
be so inveterate in the human heart that our Chris-
tian liberty, our free grace of piety, should be over-
laid by elevating a civil convention into the char-
acter of a miraculous ordinance and a Divine injunc-
tion ; and that we should be commanded to do
that as a penal law which we should regard as a
spiritual privilege, and be led to prize as a high
franchise of the soul. The arguments which en-
force the opening of places of rational recreation on
Sunday will resolve themselves really into a de-
mand for more leisure for toil. The masses work
too much and too long. Were wealth properly dis-
tributed, were the moral and spiritual culture of
the people higher, were there less waste in vice and
sensuality, in improvidence, it is certain that
while industry would be more productive, and indi-
vidual and aggregate wealth would be much greater,
there would be much more spare time left to all for
of
the pursuit of health and recreation, and for the
culturethe mind and heart. Wo should have
fewer working
hours—fewer slaves of endless toil.
Women, wives, and mothers, at least, should not
be drawn from their,domestic duties to the field
and the factory,
properde housin
cent g of the poor
many
provision. for the com-
fortable, healthy,
andational
should be
more
enforced
holidayshy; the
the co State. There should be
recreation with wise instructionmbinsahtioonl
multiplied. Weabuso the Church and udobf
ithe he e rrgarreeaht
yl y.
Who is to blame for the state of both ?
They are
what we make them. We refuse to the
priesthood
all power of self-government ; we make
practically irresponsible. The highest e clergymen
lerg
rewards
of the Establishment are made subservient to
faction and civil polity ; our curates are starved ;
our most earnest and devoted pastors are left
without any power to work out the sugges-
tions of their philanthropy and zealous piety ;
the drones get not only the honey, but the autho-
rity due only to the industrious and to those
who have a solemn sense of their duty and its
responsibilities. We suffer all this-,we do it, and

then complain that the Church is what we ourselves
have made it. They are right in being tenacious
about the Sabbath-day. It is their only present
available instrument for making religion a habit of
the mind, and for training the young to that cus-
tom of thinking of death, the great hereafter and
the Creator, which becomes a second nature in
after years ; and which, although in childhood it
seems to make little impression, affixes an indelible
stamp of graver thought in all their elder life.
Rather than break in upon this day we would make
use of Sabbatarians to secure more holidays for the
labouring people, more rest and leisure for all,
without which, we are persuaded, little can be
done to advance the moral and spiritual culture of
the nation. That this is our chief want we have
laboured to show ; that it cannot be supplied by
mere intellectual education we trust we have de-
monstrated: Religion and morals must evidently
be brought home to all in a less merely theological
and devotional form. There should be lecture and
reading rooms in every parish, andour most eloquent
thinkers, our most subtle, varied, and persuasive
speakers ought to be sent abroad among our people
to popularise ethics, to give " beauty to holiness,"
so to charm and interest all in the good, true, and
beautiful, that " they that come to scoff may re-
main to pray." Perhaps it would be well so to
secularise the pulpit—so to separate the sacerdotal
from the prophetic function—that our best and
wisest laymen should be freely admitted to our
ecclesiastical rostra, to talk face to face with their
countrymen on the subject of deepest significance
to all. A more paternal character should be given
to the relation of the state to the young. Every
child should be cared for and trained in the way he
should go. The country should see that this is
done, and do it wheae it is neglected. Every
offence committed by boyhood and girlhood—by
the simple and inexperienced—should be corrected
as a parent would, and not exaggerated into a
police offence until hope of reformation is lost by
the utter destruction of self-respect which follows
the degradation and exposure which are inse-
parable from contact with the constable. The
chief want of our time and country—espe-
cially of our Protestantism—is the low state of
our moral attainment and ethical tastes. Phy-
sical appliances can do little for these. We have
them now; they are misapplied, wasted, and abused,
just because there are not virtue and piety enough
among us to " use as not abusing" them. The vir-
tuous, moral, and provident now surround them-
selves with all these agencies ; they are the effects
and results rather than the causes of virtue. The
inequalities of condition and wealth have the same
origin ; were we more moral we would be more
equal. The startling contrasts of splendour and
squalid wretchedness are not found among a right-
eous people "zealous of good works." We call,
then, for education of the heart and soul of the
masses by the example, the neighbourliness, the
kindly intercourse of their betters ; we would paro-
chialise the labours of philanthropy by each one of
us charging ourselves with the improvement of our
district; we would make the moral progress of our
parish the clearest duty and first concern of its parish-
ioners, entitling each to demand as a social obligation
the co-operation of all; we would give our clergy
powers of self-government, and demand of them
much higher rhetorical qualifications ; we would
have more time set apart to recreation and reflec-
tion, and we would press into the service of moral
instruction, all who were capable by their talents
and character of aiding in the good work, whatever
be their creed or their secular calling. The state of
our times and the condition of society call aloud' for
instant remedy ; let every man toil in the field as
if the harvest were his own.

POISONING BY STRYCHNINE.

An inquest was held on Friday at Fleischman's
Hotel, Leeds, before Mr. Blackburn, on the body of
Harriet Dove, aged 28, the wife of Mr. Win. Dove, a
gentleman of independent fortune, residing in Cardigan.
place, Burley, near Leeds, whose death had been caused
by poisoning by strychnine.
Mr. Barrett, solicitor, attended to wateh the proceed.
ings, and Mr. Nunneley and Mr. Morley, surgeons, were
also present during the whole of the day. From the
evidence adduced it appeared that early in December
last Mr. Morley was called to attend the deceased, and
found her suffering from functional disorder of the sto-
mach and of the nervous system, bet there was 'no or-
ganic or serious disease. He prescribed for her and
continued his visits occasionally, and in a short time
she was so far recovered that she could move about
freely, and take open air exercise up to the 23d of Feb.
when she became somewhat worse.
On that day Mrs. Dove partook of some jelly, which
had been taken to the house, and she oomplzsin®d that
it was very bitter, and, on seeing her husband, she said,
William,. did you put anything in that jelly V' and he
answered " Yes," I have put some of the medicine in
it." She remarked that it was very unkind of him, and
he sulisequently stated to a neighbour named Mrs.
Virrl-ain that he had not more than a teaspoonful in it.
On Sunday, the 24th, she went to church, and
well, On the following morning she breakfasted with very
her husband, and shortly afterwards she was seized with
3 very severe spasmodic attack, her body quivering as
though under the influence of a galvanic shock, and ac-
companied with difficulty of breathing. She complained
of pain in her legs, and grasped the hands of her at-
tendants very tightly. She refused to drink anything
cold, and when she was touched, and when cold water
was applied to her lips the " twicchings" returned. In the meantime Mr. Dove went for Mr. Morley, and re-
turned with that gentleman's assistant.
At a later period of the day Mr. Morley called, and
then found Mrs. Dove much better, but he observed
slight spasmodic twitching's.-
The symptoms were unusual, but he attributed them
to nervous affection, and prescribed accordingly. These
attacks recurred during the week, each succeeding at-
tack being accompanied by more violent symptoms, ansl
generally occurring after taking her medicine, which was
usually given to her by Mr. Dove.
After Monday Mr. Morley attended Mrs. Dove daily,
and becoming perplexed with the symptoms, which be
thought to have given way to the medicines he had or-
dered if they arose from hysteria, and Mr. Dove expres-
sing some fear as to the recovery of Mrs. Dove he sug-
gested a consultation with some other medical man.
Mrs. Dove having on that day suffered a violent at-
tack, Mr. Dove said he would consider, and- on the
Thursday morning he wrote to Mr. Morley expressing
confidence in him, and declining the consultation.
In
the meantime, in consequence of the perplexing charac-
ter of the symptoms, the thought of strychnine suggested
itself to Mr. Morley, but was dismissed as impossible.
On the evening of Friday, the 29th, while Mr. Dove
was present with the deceased, she was again seized with
a still mare violent attack ; her breathing was very bad,
the whole body became very rigid, and was frequently
•'served to " twitch" involuntarily. Mrs. Witham was
again called in, but in the course of a few hours Mrs.
Dove improved, and continued better during the re-
mainder of the night, and also during the greater part
of Saturday, March 1. Mrs. Witham and a Mrs. Wood
called daring Saturday, and they were present in Mrs.
Dove's bedroom, in company with Mr. Dove, about 8
o'clock. When Mrs. Dove asked her husband to give
her her medicine, ha went to a washstand, poured some.
thing into a wineglass, and gave it to his wife, and then
washed the glass out. After drinking it she said, "Oh
dear ! it's very disagreeable and hot." In the course of
a minute or two, addressing Mrs. Witham, she said,
"It's very bitter, have you anything in your pocket,
Mrs. Witham, that you can give rue ?" Mrs. Witham
gave her a lozenge.
A few minutes afterwards Mrs. Dove was again seized
with violent spasms, during which sho.shrieked out, her
eyes became fixed, she clenched the hands of her attend-
• nts, and her whole body became perfectly rigid and
arched, resting upon the extremities, in which state she
remained until her death, an hour or two afterwards.
A messenger was despatched for Mr. Morley, and as
Mrs. Dove did not recover Mr. Dove followed and re-
quested Mr. Morley to take Mr. Hobson with him. Mr.
Morley called on Dr. Hobson, and while that gentleman
was getting ready it is somewhat remarkable that Mr.
Dove very urgently requested Mr. Morley that, in the
event of his wife dying, her body should not be dissected
as she had a strong objection to it. This request be re-
peated in different form-, and Mr. Morley told him he
hoped there would I e no necessity for such a thing.
As soon as Dr. _Hobson was ready they proceeded to
C erdigan-place, but on their arrival they were informed
that Mrs. Dove was dead. Her death having ensued
during the recurrence of the paroxysms, there was an
anxious expression about the countenance, and the face
was somewhat livid, especially about the lips.
On Mr. Morley's return to his residence he learnt
that some time before Mr. Dove had obtained strych-
nine from his surgery through one of his pupils, and
this circumstance, combined with the symptoms, led the
coroner to open an inquiry on Monday last, when Mr.
Morley and Mr. Nunneley were ordered to make a
post mortals examination.
These gentlemen are well known as eminent analytical
surgeons, and they commenced their labours immedi-
ately, 44 hours after death, and continued them on the
fourth, fifth, and sixth days, when they were able to
come to a decisive conclusion as to the cause of deatli.
Yesterday they presented their report, which stated
that on an analysis of the stomach and its contents, they
discovered distinctly the presence of strychnine; they
also found faint and doubtful traces of it in the intestines.
In reply to the coroner, both gentlemen distinctly
stated that the only cause of death was strychnine.
Mr. Dove was then taken into custody, and the in-
quest was further adjourned to Monday nests, at tea
o'clock. It was also stated during the inquiry, by a
Mrs. Fishey, that, after Mrs. Dove's death, Mr. Dove
took the medicine bottle, which contained one or two
doses, downstairs, and a day or two afterwards, emptied
the contents of a bottle into the kitchen sink.

LEEDS, Saturay.
This day Mr. William Dove was brought before Mr.
John Rope Shaw and Mr. Ralph Markland, two of the
magistrates of this borough, sitting at the Court-house,
for the purpose of being remanded, in custody, until the
conclusion of the coroner's inquisition on the body of
the wife of the prisoner.
Mr. Ottiwell Xell, the coroner'e offiver, made affida.