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which was taken up to deceased, but he could not
touch it. The daughter then ate some of it, and
also gave some to her little boy. The prisoner tried
to pm-suade them not to eat it, and proposed that it
should be kept hot for the, deceased for another
time. They both fell ill with vomiting and burn-
ing pains in the mouth and throat, but ultimately
recovered. Samuel Wells continued ill, and died
in a week after taking the gruel. Some hens and
chickens had pecked the vomit and died. The medi-
cal evidence proved that deceased had died from the
effects of arsenic. Letters were put in, written by
prisoner, expressing sorrow for what she had doue,
and stating► that she did not mean to kill her
master.

For the defence Mr. O'Brien urged that the pri-
soner was young and did not know the consequences
of her act. There was not sufficient motive proven
for the commission of murder, and he submitted
that it could only be considered a case of man-
slaughter. _ _

The learned Judge having summed up,
The Jury retired for about half an hour. On their
return into court they found a verdict of Guilty,
with a strong recommendation to mercy.
The Judge then put on the black cap and pro-
nounced the sentence of death in the usual form.

The prisoner was conveyed from the dock in a
fainting fit.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.--BEDFORD, JULY 17.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas.)

HARTWELL V. VEASY AND WIFE.
Mr. O'MUlley and Mr. Couch were for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Keane and Mr. Browne for the de-
fendants.

This was an notion for slander, the declaration
alleging that Mrs. Voasey falsely and maliciously,
spoke and published of the plaintiff the words fol-
lowing, that is to say, " He kissed and embraced
Anna Maria Brewer." The defendant pleaded
"justification" and not guilty. The plaintiff was
at the time in question in the employ of the Duke
of Bedford, patron of the parish church of Woburn,
his duties being to clean the church, attend to the
gas in the church, schools, yards, &c., at a salary
of 12s. 10d. per week. The girl whom the plaintiff
was charged with having "kissed and embraced"
was servant of the schoolmistress, and helped to
teach in the infant school. The plaintiff is 67 years
of age, was for eleven years in the army, having
fought at Waterloo.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages, £5O.

TILE GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE OF

TO-DAY, JULY 18.

BY J. GLAISHER, ESQ., F.R.S.
This eclipse will rank among the most remark-
able, as the time of absolute total eclipse is very
nearly the longest possible. The breadth of the
greatest shadow line possible is about 180 miles,
and in this eclipse it is about 130 miles, and its
passage over the earth about 7,000 miles, and the
interval of time from the shadow first touching the
earth in California, and finally leaving it in Egypt,
is about three hours, and within this space the
eclipse will be total
The shadow will first touch the earth, or the
eclipse become visible, in the North Pacific Ocean,
near the cost of Upper California ; from thence the
shadow will pass over North America, crossing
Hudson's Bay, Labrador, and the Atlantic. It will
first touch Spain at the bottom of the Bay of Bis-
cay ; passing across in a line from north-west to
south-east, over and nearly parallel to the river
Ebro. Leaving Spain between Valencia and Tor-
tosa, it crosses the Mediterranean and the southern-
most of the Balearic Islands, and enters Africa be-
tween Algiers and Constantine, and finally leaves
the earth near the shores of the Red Sea.

Considering the phases of the eclipse beyond the
limiting parallels of totality, near to them the
eclipse will be almost total, and is more and more
removed from totality as the distance increases. In
England the magnitude of the eclipse may ba
judged from the following considerations. If we
consider the diameter of the sun•to be represented
by 100, then, at all those places situated on or near
a line joining London and Liverpool 83 parts of the
diameter of the sun will be obscured ; at places
situated near lines parallel to the above drawn
through Dublin and Edinburgh respectively, 87
such parts will be obscured on the former, and 79 on
the latter; and at intermediate places, the tnagni-
tude will be intermediate. The greatest eclipse in
the British Isles will therefore be in Ireland, and
the smallest in Norfolk.

The point of the sun's border on which the moon
will first impinge is situated on the right hand and
a little below a horizontal lino drawn through his
centre, and the last contact will be at a point on the
left hand, or eastern border above the horizontal
line passing through his centre.
The following are the ti
middle, and ending of the e
each place:

imes of the beginning,
:clipse, in local time, at

Middle of
the EcliOse

The Eclipse
ends.

h. In.

At London
At Oxford
At Cambridge
At "Dublin
At Edinburgh

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1 39 p.m.
1 pan.
1 17 p.m.

22
4429 pp..mm..
2 48 p.m.
2 15 p.m.
2 26 p.m.

3 54 p.m.
3 48 p.m.
3 53 p.m.
3 22 p.m.
3 31 p.m.

Although the phenomena of this eclipse in Eng-
land will fall far short of those in the line of totality
yet it is the largest of any solar eclipse that will
happen here till the 22d day of December, in the
year 1870; and the next, and only one in this
century, will be in the year 1887, on August 19,
and which will be nearly total.