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PUBLICATIONS.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

F DREIGN OFFICE, JULY 4.

Just published, in 3 vols.,
°DERN SOCIETY in ROME.
By J It. BETE ,Esq., Author of" The Wabash."
" This work is singularly interesting. It contains striking narra-
tives of most of the principal events that occurred from the acces-
sion of Pio Norio to the occupatim of 'tome by the French, with
spirited aria truthful sketches of the leading characters who top]:
part in the politics of that memorable period."—Literary Gazette
Burst and Blackett,Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

The Queen ha s been graciously pleased to appoint Francis
Stevens' Esq., n ow British Vice-Consul at Trebizonde, to
be her llajcsty't Consul at Trebizonde.
FC )REIGN OFFICE, JULY 8.
The Queen ias been pleased to appoint Herman Lo-
rentz, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Wiborg.

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F( )REIGN-OFFICE, JULY 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
General the iarl of Westmorland, G.C.8., to bear her
Majesty's cony ;ratulations to the King of the Belgians on
the 25th anui rersary of his accession to the Throne of Bel-
gium.

THE NEW NOVEL,
EV ELYN MARSTON,
By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham,"
Ts now ready at all the libraries, in 3 vols.
" One of ne better class of this writer's novels." Examiner.
"The author has made in' Evelyn Marston' a considerable advance
over her later fictions."--SsTctator.
"` Evelyn Marston is certain of success, from its trilliant style,
its depth of feeling. and intonse interest."—Sun.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Coiburn.

. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JuLT 18.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Casimir
Louis Alfred Bruant, as Consul at Edinburgh, and of Mr.
Jules Joseph :Fleury, as Consul at Liverpool, for his Ma-
jesty the Eml swot- of the French.

I OWNING -STREET, JULY 15.
The Queen :has been pleased to erect the district of Natal,
in South Afr'i ca, into a separate colony, to be called " The
Colony of Na ; ;al," and to appoint John Scott, Esq., to be
Lieutenant-C ; overnor of the said coloimy.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY IG.
The Queer t has been pleased to appoint Edward Kenny,
Esq., to be t he Senior Member of the Legislative Council
of the Provi ace of Nova Scotia ; Georgo Webbe Daniell,
Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the Island of Ne-
vis ; and Ri( I 'lard Pine, Esq., to be Queen's Advocate and
Police Ma is trate for her Majesty's Settlements in the
River Gambi: i.

This day, with Map,
THE EUPHRATES VALLEY ROUTE TO
By a TRAVELLER.
Dedicated to W. P. Andrew, Esq., Chairman of the Scinde and
Euphrates Railway Companies.
London : Edwar I Stanford, 6, Charing-cross ; and all Booksellers.

WIDOW LADY, possessing a thorough
knowledge of Domestic Management, is desirous of obtaining
an Frizagement as Companion to a Lady, or to superintend the
manly of a Wulower ; or she would undertake the household arrange-
ments of an elderly or invalid Lady or Gentleman.— kddrws, C. G.,
11r. Powell's, 4, Tftilty-street, Blackheath-hill, Blackheath.

COMMISSIC )NS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Radnorsh' re—Thomas Villiers Lister, Eeq., to be De-
puty Lientr t cant ; Arthur Walsh, Esq., to be Deputy
Lieutenant.
Glarnorgt ,nshiro—Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, M.P., to be
Deputy Lie utenant.
Uxbridge , Yeomanry Cavalry—William Ca pel Clarke
Thornhill, Eeq., late Captain 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers,
to be Lieut g nant, rice Hammersley, resigned.
Ist Devt on Regiment of Militia—Major F. E. Drewo,
late 22d at, to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant,
vice Hew X. W. Fortescne. resigned. • - .
2d Devon: Regiment of Militia—Augustus W. Rood to
be Lientena at, vice Briggs, appointed to 68th Regiment ;
Henry Swet a Archer to be Lieutenant, vice Hodgkinson,
appointed tc 72d Highlanders.
City of Edinburgh Regiment of Artillery Militia—
George Rol and, jun., Gent., to be Second Lieutenant,
vice Alexa! i der Tait, promoted.

REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
kir TOURF-TS' TICKETS (Great Western, Hereford, and South
Wales Railways) available for Three Weeks from the day of issue.
These Tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at vaddington,
Oxford, or Leamin7ton, over the Great Western Lines, via Glouces-
t r, to Ross and Hereford, and over the South Wales Line, to Milford
Haven. and . back, with the liberty to stop at Rose, Ilereferd, Chep-
stow, Neath, and Carmarthen.
Ist CIaSS. 2d Class. se
From Tendon and back.... • • £3 10 .... £2 in •
„ Leamingto I and d 0.... • • 215 .. • • 2 0
Oxford and d 0........• ...... 210 .• 115
Tourists' are available by any train, but are not trans-
ferable. and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the
,ame direction over any portion of the lines of railway.

SCHWEPP'S MALVERN SELTZER
WATER.—Having leased the Holy Well Spring at Malvern,
renowned for its purity. J. S. and Co. can now produce a SELTZER
WATER with all the Chemical and Medicinal Properties which have
•eridered the Nassau Spring so celebrated. They continue manufac-
ming SODA, NIAGSTESIA, ani POTAS4 WATERS and LEMON-
ADE, at London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby.
Every Bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their signatures.

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF
NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset House, July 17.
Notice i s hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma-
rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri-
bution of ;proceeds arising from salvage services rendered
to the Was hington, by her Majesty's ship Star, between
the 18th at td 21st of September, 1851. will commence on
Thursday, the 31st of July, 1,56, in the Prize Branch of
the Department of the " Accountant-General of the
Navy, Ad' niralty, Somerset-house."
Agents e.nd other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize ordeil, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
of any cap tor, serving in the above-named ships, are re-
quested to present the same at this office.
Any ofe cer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may
desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs
or of Inl and Revenue within the United Kingdom, is re-
quired to• intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On
Prize Business, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Lon-
don," in i vhich letter his own place of residence is to be
precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collec-
tor of Cm ;toms, or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would
be conve tiient to receive such share of prize money.
The foalowing are the shares due to an individual in the
several classes :
Comrnai 'der
Third c lass
Fourth class ll 9 2
Fifth cl ass 6 7 4
Sixth dards 5 14 6

PROTECTION AGAINST ADULTERA-
TION and FRAUDS.—The Urovxass.r. PURVEYOR, esta-
blished 1852, supplies, retail and wholesale, articles of domestic con-
.umption, guaranteed against adulteration and fraud, especially
Teas, Coffees, Italian Goods, Wine, Spirit and Beer, Flour, various
Kinds of Meal. Orders for town and country executed at the Chief
Office, 83, Cannon-street West, City, and at the West-end Depot,
23, King William-street, Charing-cross. Prospectuses, list of
orices, list of patrons, sent free on application at the above
places. Comparative Sales : —1855, first quarter, 693/. 3s. Id. ; first
quarter of 1855, 1,4311. Ils. sd.

212° MILNERS' HOLDFAST and FIRE-
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Lord-street. Liverpool LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE-
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Seventh class £3 16 5
Eighth class
Ninth class 1 5 5
Tenth class Ol2 9

GREY HAIR RESTORED to its ORIGINAL
COLOUR with ease. safety. and certainty, by the PATENT
GALVANIC COMBS and BRUSHES, which are also an unfailing
remedy for nervous headache and all neuralgic affections. Illus-
trated pamphlets," Why Hair becomes Grey, and its Remedy," gratis,
or by post for four stamps. Neuralgia, and all Rheumatic affect( ne
are perfectly eradicated by the Patent Galvanic Flesh Blushes, the
most safe, -imple, and efficient galvanic instruments extant : patro-
nised by the faculty Offices : -- F. M. HERRING, 32. Baslnghall-
street. Azents :—Child. South Gallery, Crystal Palace ; Savory and
Moore ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bend-street ; Godfrey and Cooke, Conduit-
street; Hend-ie, 12, Tichborne street ; Twlnberrow, 2, Edwards -
street, Pot tman-square ; Saunders, 315 a, Winter. 205, and Kennedy,
166, Oxford-street ; Ross, 119, Bishopsgate-street ; Rimmell, Ger-
rard-street, Soho ; Worn, 17, Dawson-street, and Birch, 1, Moles-
worth-street, Dublin. Sold by all chemists and perfumers of repute.

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
Admiralty, Somerset-house, July 14.
Notico is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian vessel
Victoria, captured on the 20th September, 1855, by her Ma-
jesty's ship Nile and her tender the Redwing gun-boat; the
Magpie gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Orion ; and
the Ruby gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Majestic.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are re-
quired to transmit the particulars of any such demand to
the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order
that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by
that Officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of
the said Court.
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share
belonging to any captor, are requested, with as little delay
as possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Depai talent of the
"Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somer-
set-house."
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com-
mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective classes
will be announced.
Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy,
_

Inland Revenue, Somerset House,
London, 19th July. 1856.
PAWNBROKERS. The Commissioners of
Inland Revenue give notice, that an Act has been recently
passed, 19 and 20 Vict., c. 27, to amend he prov sicns of the Acts
relating to Pawnbrokers, and subject and liable to all the provisions
anl regulations in relation to Pawnbrokers,"` who than keep a
house, shop. or ot• er place tor the purchase or sale of goofs or
chattels, or for taking in goods or chattels by way of security for
money advanced thereon, and shall purchase or receive or take in
any goods or chattels, and pay or advance or lend thereon any sum
of money n d exceeding Ten Pounds, with or under any agreement
or understanding express or implied, or which from the nature or
char icter of the. d al•ng it may reasonably he inferred, that such
goods or chattels lily be afterwarda redeemed or repurchased on
any terms whatever."
It is also enacted, that if any person under t' is Act or the several
A c's relating to Pawnbrokers, deemed to be a person using and exer-
ct int; the trade of a rawnrroker. shall neilect to take out the pro-
per License in that behalf, he shall forfeit the sum of Fifty Pounds,
which shall be recoverable by information before any justice of the
peace, iu the name of an officer of Inland Revenue, prosteuting for
the same on bash' of her 'Majesty
Sty order of the Board:
TH03113 KEOGH, Secretary.

Admiralty, Somerset-house, July 14.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein,
that preparations are now making for the intended distri-
bution of proceeds arising from the Russian vessel Ot-
tawa, captured on the 20th Sept., 1855, by her .Majesty's
ship Nile and her tender the Redwing gun-boat ; the Mag-
pie gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Orion ; and the
Ruby gun-boat, tender to her Majesty's ship Majestic.
Agents or other persons having any just and legal de-
mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required
to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the Re-
gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the
same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer,
and paid under the sanction of the judge of the said court.
Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney,
prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue
of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share be-
longing to any captor, are requested, with as little delay as
possible, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual
documents, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the
" Accountant• General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somer-
set-house."
Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in
the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the corn-
mei/cement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the
amount of an individual's share in the respective classos
will be announced.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Thomas Small Pack, grocer, Husbands Bosworth, La'
cestersbire.

BANKRUPTS.
Henry Grant, licensed victualler, Southampton, to sur-
render, July 31, at cloven. and August 29, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street ; West, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house ; Lower,
Southampton.
William Wheeler, corn dealer, Broadway, near Evesham,
Aug. 1 and 22, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ;
E. and H. Wright, Birmingham.
Simeon Partridge, latch manufacturer, Darlaston, Staf-
fordshire, July 31, at ten, and August 21, at half-past
eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, offi-
cial assignee, Birmingham ; Motteram and Knight, Bir-
mingham.
John Crotch, innkeeper, Okehampton, July 31 and Aug.
20, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter ; Bard, Okehampton ; Terrell, Exeter.
George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, commission
agent, York-buildings, Adelphi, July 29, at half-past one,
and Aug. 27, at halt-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Chidley, Gresham-
street, City.
William Wood, dealer in German yeast. Aldersgate-
street, July 31, at two, and Aug. 29, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alder -
manbury ; Hancock and Sharp, Tokenhouse-yard.
William Gaskin, builder, Croydon, July 29, at half-
past one, and August 27, at half-past eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Peddell,
Cheapside.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Thomas Foord, grain dealer, Airth, Stirlingshire.
Armstrong and Aitchison, drapers, Hawick.
Alexander Burns, jeweller, Falkirk.
John Bell and Co., tea-merchants, Glasgow.
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HUME MONUMENT AT MONTROSE.—We have much
gratification in recording the progress made by
committee appointed at the recent public meeting to
receive subscriptions for the monument to Mr. Hum.
Although arrangements have not yet been completed
regardlegsubecriptions in all the other burghs, the list
in Montrose, as aided by some munifioent gentlemen
at a distance, at present amounts to 3101. The
committee continue to work steadily at the busi-
ness in hand ; and we-have no doubt they will be sup-
ported in the other burghs.—Montrose Review.
SYDNEY.—The commercial accounts from Sydney are
very satisfactory. During the preceding month the
markets had steadily improved, and advanced prices
were obtainable for almost all articles. Tuis was
partly to be attributed to diminished arrivals from Eu.
rope, and to the usual demand at the commencement of
the winter season. The export trade was likewise ac-
tive, and the transactions in wool, tallow, and hides had
been very extensive. Wool especially had realised high
quotations, owing principally to purchases fur France
direct. Since the French import duties have been re-
duced the manufacturers in that country, it is said, pre-
fer having their wool shipped direct to buying it at the
London sales, as they thus avoid double commission,
freight, &c.
THE NEW CITY CEMETERY.—Yesterday, at a Court
of Common Council, a report from the Commissioners of
Sewers, relative to the dispute between the commis-
sioners and the clergy with regard to the new City
cemetery, at Ilford, was presented to the court by Mr.
Deputy Obbard. The report, appended to which was
a mass of voluminous documents, was then read
It appeared that the previsions of the bill which
the commissioners had drawn on for the consideration
of Sir George Grey, gave power to the burial board,
when morn than two parishes became entitled to use one
burial ground, to fix the fees to be paid upon every in-
terment, subject to the approval of tho Home Secretary.
That the burial board should alone have the power to
appoint the regular officiating ministers, as well as other
requieite officers, and to pay their salaries. That the
clergy of every parish from which the dead body should
be brought for interment should be entitled to a fee upon
the burial of every such person, if buried according to
the rites of tho Church of England.. The report
_was
ordered to be printed, and taken let) ;-.lnsiderAtion on a
future day.

BANK OF I
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturda:

ENGLAND.
7th and Bth Victoria. cap. al, fo.
q the 12th day of July, 185 G.
AZTMENT.

ISSUE DEP,
Notes issued ........ 26,273,605

Government debt.... 11,015,100
Other securities ...... 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,793,605
Silver bu11i0n........

.E 6,273,505

£26,273,605
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 17th 'lay of July, 1856
HANGING DE'

:PAITMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14.553,000
Rest .. • • .• .. 3,320,532
Public deposit t. (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,547,503
Other depolts .• • . 12,695,512
Seven Day and other
8U55............. 376,690

Government securities

(includg.Dead Weight
Annuity) 14,238,464
Other securities ...... 13,773,626
Notes .. 5,434 720
Gold and silver coin .. 579,724

£33,996,534

1:33 996,334
MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 17th (lay of July, 1851

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
pBs6, excusive of the Duties of Customs paidd from the returns made in the week end
or pay able
15,
on the importation thereof into Great Britain.
1l
325.' 01.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius
Fromther theeon ' British Possessions in America
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies
Average of the three foregoing descriptions 325. 5411.
gten, and the Dean of Wells (Ole Rev. G.
ARCIIDEACON DENISON'S CASE.—Lord Wensleydale,
111. A ) have been appointed assessors by
Dtnh re
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as 11° ov p, of Canterbury, in the suit promoted by
the Rev. J. Ditcher, vicar of south Brent, a4ainst the
Rev. G. A. Denison, Archdeacon of Taunton, the
hearing of which will commence at Bath on Tuesday
next. The Mile advocates will appear for the respec-
tive partici as were engaged in the preliminary corn-
mLsion, at C:evedon, in Jan. 1855—viz,, Dr. Bayford,
for the promoter, and Dr. R. Phillimore for the Areh7
deacon.

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THE LEEDS POISONING CASE.

TRIAL OF WILLIAM DOVE.
YORK, FRIDAY EVENING.
The following additional evidence was taken yesterday :
Mr. Morley, of Leeds, road the post mortem report made
by himself and Mr. Nunnelly, and also the report of the
analysis of the contents of the stomach of Mrs. Dove. The
latter were submitted to several tests, and a sufficieat quan
tity of strychnine was found to account for dead. Five
animals were poisoned with the strychnine so obtained, the
animals exhibiting in every instance the known symptoms
of death by strychnine. Another series of experiments were
made upon animals with strychnine from the surgery of the
witness, and the effectS on the animals were precisely

Examination in chief continued—l am of opinion that
Mrs. Dove died from the effoats of strychnine, and from n.
other cause. I have not the least doubt that all the shocks
or spasms described by the witnesses were produced by
strychnine. Some of the medicines prepared by me were
bitter. Before the analysis of the stomach was complete,
I had a conversation with the prisoner at his mother's house
on the subject of the analysis. He asked, " Have you
found poison l" I said that we had not yet finished the
analysis, so that I could not inform him, but that there was
no natural cause of death discovered. He then asked what
would the jury say if poison were found? I told him that
would be a very serious matter, and that, if poison were
found, she must either have taken it herself or it must have
been administered to her. Ho begged I would let him know
what we had found as soon as possible. I spoke to ;rim about
the strychnine he had obtained at my surgery, and ho said
be had only obtained it once--that he had placed it in his
razor-case—that he had told his wife that it was deadly
poison, " the same that Palmer used," and that she must
be very careful and not touch it. From what I have heard
of the symptoms of Mrs. Dove on Saturday night, I think
she ualut, have taken from two to three grains of strychnine.
One grain is a dose sufficient to kill. I never said to the pri-
soner, "My dear Mr. Dove, there shall be no Rostimortem ex-
amination—thereis no necessity for it." ( WitnnAikiaid he was
anxious to state, in reply to an a.s.cartion that efikr,contioused
contents of the stomach of one animal might destroy the

ilieofanotl;er, that he had tried the experiment, but that
no injurious result whatever followed.) I examined the
body of the little dog, and fennd in the stomach a suffi-
cient quantity of strychnine to account for death.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—l have attended the pri-
soner's father and his family for some years, but I knew
little of the prisoner until he came to live at Cardigan-
place. The prisoner on one occasion asked me whether I
suspected him, and whether I thought he could be so cruel
I do not think the clot of blood described could have con-
tained sufficient strychnine to kill a dog. I found very
slight traces of strychnine in the intestines of Mrs. Dove.
The symptoms of hye'seda are somewhat similar to almost
all kinds of disease, iucludine tetanus. A desire to be
rubbed is not a symptom of strychnine, but is, neverthe-
less, consistent with strychnine.
To Mr. Overeud—There are several cases known in which
persons suffering from strychnine have desired to have their
limbs rubbed.
The Foreman of the July—Would strychnine have dis-
coloured the medicine you sent to Mrs. Dove, or would it
have left any deposit iu the bottles?
Witness—lt would not; but a slight powdery or gritty
appearance might remain on the side of the bottle.
Mr. Nunnelly examined—l am a el'ellow of the College
of Surgeons, and Lecturer on Chemistry at the Leeds School
of Medicine. I assisted at the post morten examination
on the body of Mrs. Dove, and I agree with the last witness
in all that he his stated with reference -to the chemical
analysis of the contents of the stomach. I have made
several experiments with strychnine on animals, but I
never saw a human being labouring under the disease,
though I have dissected the bodies of two persons who
died of that poison. It is my decided opinion that Mrs.
Dove died of the poison of strychnine, and nothing else.
The improvement in the condition of Mrs. Dove on the
morning of hor death was not inconsistent with her having
taking strychnine a day or two before, although I should
not have expected it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—There Wits nothing in the,
post-mortein appearance of Mrs. Dove inconsistent with the
administration of strychnine on Saturday night. I agree
with Mr. Morley that hysteria presents the features of alusoet
every other disease, including tetanus. If we had ex-
amined the intestines minutely, I have no doubt we should
have found it, and I have no doubt it is there now. We
did not examine the tissues of the body. Having found
the strychnine in the stomach, we did not go further. This
case and the one which was recently tried in London, has
done more, within the last three mouths, to assist in find-
ing strychnia in the tissues of the body than all the pre-
vial's experience of the faculty.
By Mr. Bliss—l attribute the symptoms which Mrs. Dove
evinced previous to the Saturday ,of her death to strych-
nine. I know of no disease which could have caused such
symptoms.
Dr. Hobson examined—Early on the morning of the 21
of March I accompanied Mr. Morley to the house of the
prisoner, and saw the body of Mrs. Dove. There ,was no-
thing particular about it which attracted my attention.
I think all the symptoms described as having occurred
prior to the Saturday night have been found in an aggra-
vated form of hysteria.
By Mr. 0 verend—l do not attribute Mrs. Dove's attacks
to hysteria.
Dr. Christison examined—l am Professor of Chemistry
at Edinburgh. I have heard the evidence given by Dr.
Morley and Dr. Nunnelly as to the °artisr symptoms in
Mrs. Dove's case, and I attribute them to strychnine • but
it is just possible that among the varied forms of hysteria
they might have been caused brit. I never, however, saw
a case of the kind. Insensibility before death is not incon-
sistent with strychnine.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss --It is difficult to limit the
possible variety of hysteria, but I never saw a case such as
that of Mrs. Dove's. On the contrary, her symptoms were
quite consiztent with cases of attacks caused by over-doses
of strychnine administered in medicine. I have not heard
enough of the evidence in this case to pronounce an opinion
as to the sanity or insanity of the prisoner.
Mr. T. Teale, surgeon to the Leeds Hospital, examined
—I have heard the symptoms described by the witnesses,
and I have no doubt they were caused by strychnine. I
have seen cases of over-doses of strychnine administered in
medicine, and they were quite consistent with those de-
scribed in this case. The symptoms of hysteria are some-
what similar to those of etrychnia, but I never knew a case
where all the features of this case presented themselves in
hysteria. Ido not consider the improvement in Mrs.
Dove's condition on Saturday morning to have been incon-
sistent with the administration of strychnine on the Thurs-
day or Friday previously.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bliss—l do not deny the aim.
lute possibility that hysteria might, not have caused Mrs,
Dove's earlier symptoms, but it is not my opinion.
A juror asked the witness whether, in his opinion, amen
who might not actually have delirium tremens might still
be in such a condition as to imagine that ho was sur-
rounded by spirits and devils?
'rhe witness said it was quite possible that a man not, la-
bouring under delirium tremens might in his drunken or
semi-drunken fits, imagine that he saw spirits and devils,
and yet be quite clear and sane when sober.
Mr. William Hey, surgeon of Leeds, deposed that he
attributed the attacks from which Mrs. Dove had suffered
to strychnia.
Cross-examined -by Mr. Bliss—Had seen a good deal of
hysteria, but never saw a eise similar to lire. Dove's.
Mr. 8.. Hey, surgeon and sheriff of York, gave similar
evidence.
Mr. Overend said that this was the case for the prosecu-
tion.

Mr. Bass made an application that certain other w
nesses whose names on the back of the indictment, an
who had been examined by the grand jury, should be called
for the prosecution.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said the application was unreason-
able, and that as the modern practice, which was also in
his mind the most sensible, did not recognise such a course
as binding on the prosecution, he should not order the wit-
nesses (of whom he knew nothing) to be called.
The proceedings were then adjourned, and the jury were
escorted back to York Castle, an arrangement having been
made, on their representation, that one of the court-yards
should be devoted to their use for air and exercise.
Mr. Baron Bramwell regretted that he could not sanction
the jury taking exercise on the roads or in the fields, as he
could not, consistently with a regard for the oath taken by
I the sheriff, consiler a road or a field to be " the private
and convenient place" is which the jury were to be " see
eluded."
On the jury being sworn this morning, Mr. Bliss, Q.C.,
addressed them for the prisoner. The learned gentleman
remarked that the prosecution had lasted two days. and
that during that time all the skill, learning, and vigilance
of the Crown hail been directed against the prisoner, with
the view of placing him beyond the pale of mercy, and
almost of hope. He was sure, however, that the jury would
, not allow their minds to be influenced by the evidence
brought against the prisoner, except so far as it satisfied
their minds of his guilt. The case of the prisoner had
been exaggerated and misrepresented, and there was not a
home in England in which his crime was not discussed and
no doubt believed. Moreover, there was a recent cage which
had caused a psnic in the public mind, and had created an
impression that society was not safe, and that domestic ties
were only facilities for committing private and atrocious
crimes. The public, and the counsel for the prosecution
in this case, had assumed that a murder was committed,
and the very walls of the building in which they were now
assembled were actually covered with placards, inscribed
with the words " Trial of Dove, the Leeds Poisoner."
It seemed, too, that the terrible affliction of unsoundness
of mind was to be shut out as an element of defence in
this case, and that it was to be held as proven- that the
prisoner had never suffered from that greatest of all human
calamities—madness. He was convinced that if the jury
would view the facts of this extraordinary case its if
they had never heard them before, they could not ar-
rive at the conclusion that the prisoner Was guilty of a foal
1 and deliberate murder. Let them for a moment look at
the constitution of the prisoner's household. There was an
invalid wife, a drunken husband, and
.a young and thought-
less female servant. The man no doubb procured poison
to kill cats and mice, and consequently the prosecution
assumed murder, although there was no proof that murder
had been committed at all. Neither was there any woo!
that the prisoner had ever administered poison; there
were no admissions by the prisoner, who, on the contrary
always asserted his innocence; and there was no attempt
to escape. The case was one of circumstantial evidence
alone, and to take life upon such evidence was an awful
responsibility. The conduct of the prisoner was wholly
irrecoucileable with guilty complicity. The prisoner might
if he pleased have destroyed his wife's life by other and
secret means ; but it was contended that, with the malig
nity of a fiend, he dosed her for a whole week--toll his
friends cud neighbours she was about to die —called iu a
strange clergyman to administer spiritual consolation—
Lila m hen he ii,ii tmeared her body with strychnine,
kissed thescold lips of his victim, and attempted to smo-
ther all inquiry into the circumstances of her death. It
was, no doubt, a suspicious circumstance, that the pri-
soner's wife had. died from the effects of the same descrip-
tion of poison which had been traced to the possession of
the prisoner.; but surely, if he had intended to kill his
wife with that poison., he would not have proclaimed his
possession of it to his wife, his servant, and other persons
with whoria he .associate.l. But it was said that the pri-
soner, before this had asked the witnesa garrison to get

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him strychnine, and that the idea had been suggested by
the revelations in Palmer's case, which had startled and
horrified the world. Harrison was not, however, asked in
Private for the poison, On the contrary, after Harrison
had read aloud in the publicshouse the report of the in-
quest at Rugeley, the prisoner at once turned round and
inquired of Harrison whether " he could get or make him
any strychnine ?" The inquiry in Palmer case was not
of such an encouraging character as to Mateo a sane man
to follow in his wake ; on the contrarya the crime of that
miscreant had horrified society, and the very fact of a sane
man asking for strychnine at such a tame wottlul have
been at once sufficient to evoke curiosity and suspicion as
to its use. The prisoner, instead of netting strychnine in
some quarter where his person would not have been known,
went to the very medical uan who was in daily attendance
upon his wife, and openly asked for strychnia to kill cats
and mice. He was told by the assistants in Mr. Morley's
surgery that if he used strychnine he must be very care-
ful, as it was a deadly poieon, and might be mistaken for
one of his wife's powders. The prisoner said there was no
fear of that, as his wife took no powders, and that he
always gave heftier medicine hinagelf. It was also shown
in evidence that the prisoner had been assured by the as-
sistants in the surgery that strychnine could be detected
in organic Matter, and that Mr. Morley himself had dis-
covered it. The prisoner also knew that Mr. Morley was
s practitioner who always made post mortem, examinations,
and that if he refused. him liberty to make it in this
case, the refusal would be pregnant with suspicion of his
guilt. -Moreover, if the prisoner had wished to destroy
eis wife in priyate and escape detection, he would, no
doubt, if sane, have given her one dose at once, ie the
night, which would have killed her when no witnesses
were present. .But the course adopted by the prisoner
was to summon the medical man and other persons to wit-
ners the tortures of his wife, and to frustrate the attempts
which he was making to destroy her. It was contended
by the prosecution that the dose of poison which killed the
deceased was administered on the Saturday evening with
the medicine given to her by the prisoner. The remainder
the medicine from which the dose was taken had, since
been analysed, and no poison had been found in it. It was,
therefore, clear that if the pfrisoner poisoned his wife, he
must have put the poipon into her medicine while Mrs.
' Witham and Mrs. Wood were present, and the wife
watching all that was passing ! The most superficial
;lance at the evidence would show that this was-improb-
able —almost impossible. The poison was kep; in the
razor-cise on the rnantelehelf, and the prisoner could not
have opened the case, taken oat the paper, and put in the
strychnine without observation. Moreover, the wife, ac-
cording to the evidence, of Elizabeth Fisher, had sus-
:Anted that she might be poisoned, and she would
have naturally watched the movements of the prisoner
with the most intense , and suspicions vigilance. It
was said that washing out the glass in which the wife
had taken the medicine was a proof of guilt ; but it
must be remembered that the custom had always been to
wash out the glass, and that the medicine was so offensive
in smell and taste that it was not pleasant to keep it in the
room of an invalid. The prisoner had not attempted to re-
move the water in which he' had washed the glass, and
which was left in the basin for the inspection of the medi-
, cal man or any other person who might 'have come into
the room. Again, it was said that the anxiety of the pri-
soner to prevent a post mortent, examination was conclusive
proof of guilt ; but was it consistent with common sense
that a man who was poisoning his wife by slow degrees
should be running to the medical attendant while the wife
was yet alive and erring, " Mind, there must be no post
mortem, examination ?" The thing was absolutely absurd,
and he was sure it would have no weight with the jury.
A. circumstance tending strongly to show the state of the
prisoner's mind was his visits to Harrison (the Wizard),
whom he seemed to consult upon all the important affairs
•f his life. It was proved that after he had been informed
by Mr. Morley's assistant, and by a reference to the Mate-
Ina Medico that strychnine could be discovered in the body
of a deceased person, he went to Harrison, and asked him
whether a grain or a grain and a half of strychnine could
be discovered. This showed that the prisoner was weak-
minded enough to believe that Harrison had supernatural
powers, and could Control the destinies of mortals. His
conversation with the witness Rhodes, whom he met for
the first time in his life in a public-house, was wholly incon-
sistent with sanity. He told this man that his wife was
very ill--that he did not think she would live over, the
month, and that when she died he would have "a general
jollification." Why, the very fact of his telling this man
that ho could not live without a woman, and that if heknew
a woman who would suit him to bring her to his house, dis-
posed of the whole theory of the prosecution, that the pri-
soner's object in' getting rid of his wife was to marry his
neighbour, Mrs. Witham. To show that his mind. wasrun-
ning on Mrs. Witham, evidence had been given that he told
charwoman, whom he never saw before, that he was going
to marry that lady, who had never given him the least en-
couragement, or afforded 'him in any way the slightest
grounds for supposing that his addresses would be accept-
able. The time and place in which, according to the
theory of the prosecution, the last fatal dose was adminis;
tared, were both irreconcileable with guilt. If the prisoner,
had wished to escape detection he wouldhave given his wife
the poison in the medicine administered at four o'clock on
the Saturday when he was quite alone with her, and not
have waited. till eight o'clock, when Mrs. Witham and
Mrs. Wood were present. If he in his senses haul caused
the spasms from which the wife suffered, was it not un-
accountable that he should summon his victim's mother
and friends 'to witness her tortures, and should go for a ,
clergyman to administer the last consolations of religion?
A.ll this conduct was far more consistent with innocence
than guilt. He repeated. that the case for the Crown
rested wholly upon the supposition'that the prisoner ad-
ministered- Poison to- hia wife in the mocliciue handed to
her at eight o'clock on Saturday night. To convict the
prisoner of the crime of murder, it must be proved that
his was the hand which administered the fatal potion.
There were two witnesses present at the time—witnesses
fetched by the prisoner himself, and not aceomplices—and
they load both sworn that they did not see the prisoner put
anything into the glass. If the case rested there, and Mrs.
Witham and Mrs. Wood had been called for the defence,
the prisoner would be at once entitled to his acquittal. He
(the learned counsel) denied that any murder whatever
had. been committed. Might not the death of the deceased.
have been accidental? Had not prussic acid and strych-
nine been administered in hospitals by mistake, and ad-
ministered, too, by persons accustomed to the preparation
of drugs, and naturally careful in' the manipulation of
them ? Had it not been shown that poison was lying
about in the prisoner's house in the most careless manner
—put upon moat thrown out in the yard—put upon cheese
left on the floor of the wife's bed-room— left on the sink in
the kitchen—put on a candlestick left on the mantelshelf
in the bed-room of the deceased, and, in fact, lying about
in all parts of the house? It was proved that jelly, potted
beef, puddings, and other things were left in the bed-room
of the deceased, and. it was quite possible that a. portion of
this dusty powder (for such was strychnine) might have
got mixed by accident with the food of which the de-
ceased had partaken. This supposition was rendered the
more probable by the fact that a little dog which accom-
panied the woman into the house some days after the
death of the deceased picked up something on the floor
of the bed-room, which killed it. Mr. Morley, who
analysed the contents of the dog's stomach, proved that
strychnine was present ; but he also gave his opinion
that even if the dog had licked the clot of blood on
the floor the quantity of blood was too minute to contain
sufficient strychnine to have killed the animal. This cir-
cumstance went far to watrant.the conclusion that thedog
had picked up some particles of the poison on the floor of
the bed-room, and that other particles might have found
their way into the food or medicine of the deceased. The
learned counsel then referred to the symptoms which ac-
companied the paroxysme, contending that there was no-
thing to show that the earlier attacks from which the de-
ceased had suffered were not to be attributed to laysteria—
a disease to which it was known that Mrs. Dove was sub-
ject. He submitted that the cause of death was to be
traced to the administration of strychnine on the Satur-
day, and that there was no evidence to prove that any poi-
sou haul been taken into the system before that day. It
was necessary that the jury should know what was the
spirit and meaning of the law with reaped to insanityand
mental delus.ons, as the principal element in the defence of
the prisoner would he that he was in a state of mind which
made him irresponsible for his actions, and that he had
not the power of distinguishing between right and wrong.
The insanity of the prisoner, as bearing on the probability
of accidental poisoning, was most important, fot if it could
be shown that there was a sick wife, a change of servants,
and a drunken and insane husband., the chances of acci-
dental poison were greatly increased. But he believed he
could show that, putting aside accidental poisoning, there
was abundant ground for believing that the prisoner was
not an accountable being. Mr. Bliss was about to read the
opinions of Dr. Elliotson and others on mental abbera-
tions, when
Mr. Baron Bramwell reminded the learned gentleman
that he could not be allowed to read to thojery the opinions
of individualamedical men on insanity. The case was to be
decided by the evidence laid before the jury, and that only.
Mr. Bliss said he only wished to incorporate the opinions
of medical jurists into his argument, and that he did not
intend to present it to the jury as evidence. He would now
proceed to give a sketch of the prisoner's life, and he would
show that from the nursery to manhood he was only fit for a
lunatic asylum ; and it was a deplorable circumstance that
the kindness of friendslad not consigned him to oee of
thole institutions. The prisoner, after leaving school was
apprenticed to a farmer; he afterwards went to America
where he remained. two years, and on his return he took
a farm of his own. All those who were associated with
him at school, at his apprenticeship, and at his farm, could
depose to the wildness and eccentricity of his conduct —his
whole character being inconsistent with that of a sensible
and intelligent being. While apprenticed to Mr. Frankish,
a farmer, near Scarborough, lie rubbed the cows with sul-
phuric acid, put out the eyes of two cats, rubla d two others
with phosphorus, threatened to stab Mrs. Frankish with
a carving knife, and associated with the servants instead of
with the family. After he went to America the same cotn-
fslriiethndfisr.e.Oarumhsisloreatduerdn,
ha leawi natss
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thehi s ahbasbuirtdniftie
s aewalking about lb
hisu t
and committing a great number of extravagances, such as
o
putting the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth, firing at the
flame of a candle, leaving his bed •to sleep iu the hayloft,
threatening to shoot his father; walking alone aout he
fields crying and muttering to himself, declaring b
thatt he
was worth 50,00 a/., riding furiously up and down the roads,
roeping green corn, and other absurdities. The bat o fact of
his believing that the witness Harrison hail supernatural
powers and could control devils was enough to show that he
was a madman: A short time after his committal to, York
Castle he wrote a letter to the witness Harrison, and con-
fided it to another prisoner whose term of incarceration had
expired. The letter was in the following terms :
Dear Sir,—I feel very much pained at finding myself in
York Castle a prisoner, particularly as you told me that I
should not go to prison, where I will have to remain until
the July trials. What is your opinion as to my case? Lot
the jury bring it in whatever they please, I am not guilty,
Will you tell me distinctly by my nativity what will be the
final result of my case ? I have put entire confidence in you;
if you can do anything for me, you must. I have never said
anything to any one about 457 conversations at any time. I
Sergeant Wilkins for my counsel, and Barrett
fhnary
nrye tl sail,
in
edyer. People tell me that your evidence about
when I asked. you whether one grain or a grain and a half of.
strychnine could be detected in a body, is against me. Write
back, and give me all the information you can, whether I
shall get off or not. Do not write anything in ink that can
be read by the officers of York Castle, as all the letters are
read before they are given to the prisoners. Whatever infer-
matiou you can give 1310 relative to ray nativity, write in link'