The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-16 00:00:00

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NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY•)

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
(Continued from our Third Edition.)
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Teddington beat Mountain Deer.
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DENNIARK.
The Kolner Zeitung states from Copenhagen, of
ltke,
the
11th inst., tha4 the Ministers, W. Moltke, K. Mo
and Reedtz have resigned, and that the King has ac-
cepted their resignation. The Cabinet is consQquently
dissolvd and another crisis has began. The most
coal tradictory rumours are afloat respecting the for-
mation of another Cabinet, hut it appears certain that
either M. Tillisch or Count Sponnek will receive the
"King's commands for that purpose.

ITALY.
At the last Secret Consistory held by the Pope an
opinion was expressed that the very fatal errors of
Socialism and Communism have been fomented in a
great measure by the laws enacted by various States
on the subject of ecclesiastical property. The
Corriere-Mercantile of Gneoa of the 1 lth replies
to this assertion by saying, that the first Communists
were the dr. eters of the Catholic Church who wrote
I 7ainst receiving interest for tha loan of money, and
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the founders of monastic institutions who preached
the doctrine of producing little and consuming less,
because they regarded the possession of property as a
crime.

ROY AL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
At no period have the varied lectures been more
at tractive or instructive, and the crowded audiences
(luting the season prove how deservedly popular this
admirable institution is viewed by the public, and the
succes,:ive visitors aA3,ear, from week to week, ad-
vancing in the intelligence and interest with which
they attend them.
This, of course, must in some measure be ac-
counted for by the acknowledged improvement of the
public discernment in the appreciation of the more
refined taste of intelligence in the advancement of
ecience and manufacture.
Tae popular style of lecturing, so well known to our
?or
of
and an admirably carried out by the profes-
sors of the establishment, is deserving of the highest
ex:dog:um we can pronounce, the discourses being
given by Dr. Rachhoffner and Mr. J. H. Pepper in so
distinct and simple a style that the most abstruse
science is rendered clear and intelligible to the
meanest capcity.
The prinelpal subject of Dr. Bachhoffner's pre-
sent series of lectures on the deposits of the Great
Exhibition, are the electro-metallic deposits, illus-
trated by numerous beautiful experiments on the
while his coadjutor is engaged
al of electro-plating,
in describing the application of steel and iron in the
mar of the U
v nited Kingdom. In addition
thy' above, we may mention the vast improvements
lately discovered by Mr. Beard, jun , in the beautiful
art of photography, which has been brought to such
a degree of perfection, as to be equal to a fine enamel;
so completely is the colour hardened and preserved by
the new preparation, that it will bear the effect of the
atmosphere without a glass ; and even rubbing will
not affect the appearance of the picture, which, until
lately would wholly destroy a daguerreotype im-
pression.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OCT. 14.
ORIEL'COLLEGE.—There will be an election of two
scholars ori Friday, Nov. 7. Candidates must not
have exceeded the age of 20 years, nor, if members of
the university, have been matriculated more than
eight terms. Cert►ficates of time of birth and of
baptism, and testimonials of good conduct, to be pre-
sented to the Provost of Oriel on or before Monday,
Nov. 3.
r.rhc Rev. Robert Hussey, Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History, proposes to begin his lectures
for this term on Monday, the 27th of October, with
two classes, one commencing the course, the other one
year in advance. The lectures are open to members
of the University who have passed the A.B. examina-
tion ; and all who wish to attend them are requested
to call on the Professor, at 25, Becurnont-street, on
Saturday, Oct. 25, between 12 and 2 o'clock.

THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, IN IRELAND.
At a meeting of the Senate of the Queen's Univer-
sity, held on Tuesday, in Dublin Castle, the following
candidates piesad for the degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine, baying been duly examined for seven days :--
Robert J. Black, James Dickson, Charles G. Lester,
John Moore, Washington Murphy, Thomas Paine,
and Thomas Wheeler.
Mr. Dickson obtained the frit exhibition, and Mr.
Moore the second.
On this occasion, the following gentlemen pissed
for the diploma of agriculture, having been duly ex-
amined for five days :—George Evans, John P.
liincks, Thomas O'Hara, and ThrJunas Skilling.
Mr. Skiing obtained the first exhibition and Mr.
O'Hara the second.
The day for conferring degrees is not yet fixed.

THE POISONING CASE AT BATH.
This exraordinary case excites greater interest
daily, both in Bath and Bristol. On Monday A. H.
English, Esq., coroner for Bath, with a jury com-
posed of highly respectable tradesmen, commenced
his inquest ❑pon the body of the child who, as stated
in Monday's Sun, died on Saturday last, at the Ses-
sions Court of the Guildhall, but as a post mortem
examination and analysis of the contents of the
stomach were necessary, the jury, after viewing the
body, considered that it was not desirable to enter
further upon the case until the medical evidence was
ready, and the inquiry was therefore adjourned until
Wednesday morning.
The inquest was resumed at nine o'clock on
Wednesday morning. The prisoner being in the
custody of the magistrates wai not present, but Mr.
Crosby was in attendance and took notes of the evi-
dence.

W. llerapatts, Feel , analytical chemist, of Bristol,
having repeated his evidence before the magistrates,
then deposed to his analysis of the contents of the
stomach :—On Monday I received a prepared teat, but
found no erEenic in it. lam not quite satisfied with
my analpis of the borax and honey, as the usual
mode of analysis is inapplicable to that substance, and
I have been too busily engaged since with the body
to return to it. On Monday, the 13th inst., I at-
tended a:, Mr. Searle's, and witnessed a post mortem
examination upon the body of a female infant child,
Rho* months old. The body was much emaciated,
and countenance exhibited extreme anxiousness;
the eye were deeply sunk. On the lower part of the
bodyclthe buttocks, there was an extensive red miliary
eruptionesomething like the measles when very strong.
This is IDi appearance found upon the body of persons
dying of arsenic, after it has been received into the
system several days. There was also a large boil, or
pustule, on the groin, which had been discharging pus.
The stomach and intestines were opened in my pre-
3?ncia The whole starfa;:e of the stomach was gela-
tinised. It was so tender it would break into a hole
on the slightest touch, and there was a large ulcer
on the interior small curvature, nearly half an inch
in diameter, from which the mucous surface was en-
tirely gone. On the intestines being opened ed from
below upwards, all the intestines, from
the coeval valve, were covered with the same
earnuupstiotno
which I found upon the external skin. It
was
ex-
actly as though red-hot spots of sand had been dropped
upon the surface. This appearance decreased up-
wards. There were some of the same appearance iu
the glands above the valve, but less in quantity. The
whole of the abdominal viscera were removed for
in my presence, except the kidneys, womb, and blad-
der, and I had cut out for me the small pustule in the
groin. I put them all in bottles, and took them with
me to Bristol. I should have said also that there was
an ulcer in the ccecal valve, and a redness in the upper
part of the cesophegus. On subjecting the liver and in-
testines i
to analysis I discovered in them small but un-
doubted traces of arsenic. I produce to you two
small poi.iahed plates of copper with arsenic deposited
uP"n than.., and also arsenious acid, Scneele s green,
and orpiment. I thus produce you four tests, the fifth
it would have been no use to bring, as it would be in-
jured by the light. Wishing to determine whether
the eruption arose from arsenic, I operated upon the
small pustule, and
won copper. discovered indications of arsenic
pustule and erupti„ have,. therefore, no doubt that the
eczema. nui what is usually called arsenical
By a Juror—The portionsto of arsenic found were
not of themselves autffivzoientnst cause death. I never,
except in one or
cmwach to cause death.
found sufficient
arsenic remaining in the stomach
As the symptoms anal arsenic
together,
I have no doubt that death was re
found
and from the eruptions I sh,uictiu:'-'d by arsenic,
death was a slow one. The
administered in :email quantities. The appearances
have been
Poison appose that the
were not like those of a person suddenly agseoanreadnebeys
arsenic.
By the Coroner—An eighth of a grain of arsenic
would be a large dose for an adult—that is, it might
be dangerous ; and for an infant it would, of course,
in proportion, be mere dangerous.
14y a Juror—lt would be possible, I should think,
to carry under a person's finger nail in three times,
suffi:;ii.-at arsenic to produce the results found.
I4e inquet was then adjotuned until the eiening.

TILE SUN,

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THE MURDER AT D AVEIV TRY.
NORTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.—An elderly woman,
named Pinkhard, wife of a small farmer. at Tbrupp
Grounds, near Daventry, has been committed for trial
at the next assizes on the charge of murdering rer
mother-in-law, under circumstanccold-es of the most v
deli-
itro-
! cious character , indeed, a more blooded,
berate act of murder has not come before the public
for some time, the apparent motive for perpetrating
the deed being the obtainment of a legacy of 1,0001.,
upon the interest of which the deceased and her aged
husband were partly maintained.
The facts, as elicited before Mr. Hicks, the
district coroner, after two days' searching in-
vestigation, furnish the following details of the
horrible affair :—The unfortunate victim, whose
name wars o
Pinkhard, was upwards
of 60 years of sge, and, as before stated, was the
mother-in-law of the accused, lived with her husband
in a lonely cottage, on the Long Buckley-road, about
a mile from Daventry. They resided alone in the
cottage, and with the interest of the legacy, and some
slight trading which the old man did at the local
markets, they maintained themselves in a very re-
spectable way. They lived most happily together.
The deceased hid excellent health, and, although ad-
vanced in life, was unusually active in her habits.
The accused is a woman of rather masculine deport-
ment, and is also up in years—being nearly 50. Her
husband, John Mutton Pinkhard, held a small farm
near Daventry, and being the only issue of the de-
ceased's marriage, would come into possession of the
legacy at her death. It had been left her by an uncle
after whom the husband of the prisoner had been
named, and who had devised that it should be distri-
buted amongst her children at her death. Pinkhard,
jun., being the only child, therefore the whole amount
would fall to him. On the morning of Friday, the
3d instant, between nine and ten o'clock, old Mr.
Pinkhard, the husband of the deceased, left home for
the purpose of going to Daventry well-known cattlee
and cheese fair, taking with him a horse for
The deceased when he quitted was in her usual good
state of health, and there was nothing like depression
of spirits about her. Indeed, it was observed that she
was more cheerful than otherwise. They had no
words together, and nothing transpired that would
tend to excite her, and induce her to commit suicide.
any previous arrangement or not we are
unableW h e t h
toe r by
say ,
but the son accompanied the father to the
fair, and continued with hint the whole day and up to
the' period of learning of the death of his parent.
Late in the afternoon of the same day a man named
Bird happened to pass the cottage with a horse which
he was driving to a neighbouring meadow, and seeing
the door open he thought of going in and seeing how
the old lady was, with whom he was acquainted.
On entering, his astonishment may be imagined
on finding the unfortunate creature in a sitting
posture on the floor, in one corner of the front
parlour, with a piece of something like tape secured
round her neck, the end of which had been fastened
to a hook in the wall. She appeared to be quite
dead. Bird immediately called in the aid of several
neighbours, and it would seem that the first glance
at the deceased led them to believe that she had com-
mitted self-destruction. A subsequent and more
minute examination was made. The piece of tape
which was found round the neck was not more than
a yard and a half in length, and of the description
usually used for apron strings ; and although its
somewhat slight texture, and the peculiar
manner in which it had been attached to
the hook, excited some suspicion, yet it was imagined
that she could have effected her strangulation by
placing herself in the position in which she was dis-
covered. The old man at length returned home, and
expressed his decided opinion that his wife had not
committed the act herself, but that she had been mur-
dered. He searched over the house, but could not
find that anything had been carried away. Some
spots or smears of blood on the floor, and other
marks on the wall, prompted more inquiries, and
the body was subjected to a close examination by
Mr. Sharman, surgeon, Mr. Marsh, of North-
ampton, and Dr. Watts, of Daventry. They per-
ceived marks of violence, as if from blows,
on the arms and thighs, and other appearances
indicated that she had been engaged in a severe
struggle just before death. There were also signs
of blows on the forehead, and the lacerated appearance
of the throat, caused by the tight manner in which
the tape had been drawn, showed the force that had
been used, and which it appears could not have been
produced in the position she was discovered. The in-
ference was that she had been first strangled on the
floor, and then hung up to the hook in the wall, in
order to favour the impression that she had committed
self-destruction. Medical testimony was adduced to
show that it was impossible for the deceased to have
done the act herself.
A variety of circumstances tended to fix consider-
able suspicion upon the wife of the son, and eventu-
ally she was arrested by the police on the charge of
being concerned in the murder of the old lady. Two
labourers who were working on the road near the
cottage spoke of seeing a woman coming from the
Buckley line of road, and entering the deceased's
place. That was about a quarter past ten in the morn-
ing. They heard some loud talking in the house, and
the woman left shortly after eleven, after walking up and
down the road to see whether she was being watched.
A labourer of the name of Hadland, employed at
the younger Pinkhard's farm at Thrupps-ground de-
posed to his mistress leaving home just before ten on
the morning in question, and proceeding in the direc-
tion of Daventry and the deceased's cottage. He saw
her return in the same direction about a quarter to
twelve o'clock, and he noticed that her gown was torn
out at the gathers. She remarked that she had done
it while gathering blackberries. Hadland was in the
way when a labourer named Letts came and informed
her that her mother-in-law was dead, and had been
found hanging. She appeared much alarmed, and
nearly fainted, and observed, " God bless you, my
dear; don't you leave me this night." It also
seemed that the female servant went out just
betore ten to get some bread, at the accused's direc-
tion, and when she returned the girl also noticed her
mistress's dress torn. On the violent character of
the death of the deceased being evident, Mr. Shar-
man waited upon the prisoner, and expressed his be-
lief that her mother-in-law had been murdered. She
replied that she was quite satisfied that that was so.
He inquired of her whether she had any suspician
of any one. She answered that she bad no reason to
suspect any one, as the deceased was a quiet
peaceable woman. There were many other
circumstances elicited in respect of the move-
ments cf the prisoner on the morning the murder
was committed; and Reynolds, a police officer,
spoke positively of seeing her just inside of the door
of the deceased's cottage about twenty minutes past
eleven o'clock on the Friday morning. It transpired
that Pinkhard the 3 ()linger was considerably in arrear
with his rent, and that since the arrest of his wife an
execution had been placed on the farm. This perhaps
may furnish a reason for procuring the value of the
legacy. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against Elizabeth Pinkhard, and, as
before stated, the wretched woman was duly com-
mitted on the coroner's warrant for trial at the
spring assizes. She is considerably older than her
husband.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE
The Rev. T. B. Coney, vicar of Pucklecburch, and
Rural Dean, has been appointed to an honorary
canonry in the cathedral of Bristol. Patron, the
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
The Rev. Henry Gray, Clerk, M.A., was collated
by the Bishop of Gloucester to the Vicarage of Al-
mondsbury, on the donation of his Lordship the
patron, by virtue of his bishopric.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—The following new churches,
towards which her Majesty's Commissioners have
made conditional grants of money, are at present in
course of erection, viz.;—St. Anstell, diocese of
Exeter, decorated Gothic style, to accommodate 308
persons, estimated cost 1,240/. ; Bishop's Stortford,
diocese of Rochester, early English, to accommodate
368 persons, estimate 1,450/. ; Calverley, diocese of
Ripon, early English of 12th century, to accom-
modate 519 persons, estimate 1,3241.; Chard,
diocese of Bath and Wells, early English,
t
to accommodate
don' diocese 305 persons, estimate 9261.;
Croydon,
of Canterbory Gothic of the
14th c
_3,en my, to accommodate 786 persons, estimate
7, .)01 . ; Holy Trinity, in the Forest of Dean, diocese
of Gloucester and Bristol, pointed of the 14th century,
to accommodate 405 persons, estimate 2,6501.; Dews-
bury,to accommodate 603) persons, estimate, diocese of Ripon, th e
11,35t9h01. , century,
Gres,
Gothic, of the 13th cen-
tury,ford dtoiocaecaceomdmoSita. till: 3PB4'dpeecrosroantes,destimate 2,0801. ;
, St. Just,
accommodate
Hart,77o
persons,diocese
ofesptimaraliteam2,4lsl.
accommodate 500
diocese
Leeds, diocese
of Exeter, early English, to ace'
sons, estimate 1,2001. ; St. Matthew, Lasteedsoo
of Ripon, Gothic, of the 16th century, to per-
date 700 persons, estimate 2,800/. ; St. Mark,aell:ll°-
Man-
chester, diocese of Manchester, Gotbic,'
to accommo-
date 1,010 persons, estimate 3,866/. ; Prestwich,
Ringley, diocese of Manchester, Gothic, of the 13th 1
century, to accommodate 662 persons, estimate
2500/. ; Prestwich, Rooden-lane, diocese of Man-
chester, Gothic, of the 14th century, to accom-
modate .504 persons, estimate 2,000/. ; Sheffield,
diocese of Ycrk, early English, to accommodate 972
persons, estimate 1,750/. ; Stoke Damerell, diocese of
\
Exeter, Gothic, of the 14th century, to accommodate
809 persons, estimate 4,4801. ; West Ham Forest Gate,
diocese of London, Gothic, cf the 14th century, to ac-
commodate 440 persons, estimate 3,5001.; West Ham,
Marsh
P '
,
district, diocese of London, decorated, of the
13th
2 i 336ci N
• ; St.
century
to
lirlyg waccommodate 691 persons, estimate
teon l y ,
accommodateof
6L4a9n dp ae
per-
sons, f.
sons, estimatel,9o ,
Gothic, of the 14th century,
perGns, estimate 2 olstanton, diocese of Lichfield,
the 13th
W
early English, of
r_lath century, to accommodate 435
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