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not be quite sufficient. To plane us in that position •
which England Ought to occupy we require some
of the iron-sided two-decker frigates already men-
tioned, as well as the vaisseaux beliers to which
you have lately drawn our attention.
So much for our naval resources. As regards our
land defences we have evinced of late years an in-
difference equally culpable. We forget that steam
is a terrific leveller, and that the difference is fast
decreasing between good and bad seamanship. As
invention follows invention, as science favours en-
terprise, sea-girt England cannot allow itself to
trust for its future security exclusively to geogra-
phical position. Yet it is deplorable to watch the
slow progress of our fortifications. Portland presents
every requisite for -a first-class fortress. It faces
Cherbourg, and could be made to frown in magnifi-
cent rivalry to that wonderful achievement. For this
purpose I am informed on the best authority a sum
of £1.50,000 would prove amply sufficient. Yet, at
the rate of allowance at present conceded by the
House of Commons, 20 years must elapse before
Portland approaches completion. At Alderney we
observe the same dilatoriness, the same lamentable
carelessness to our best interests. I know that in
some minds there exists a prejudice against this
island as a strategic position ; yet the Duke of
Wellington and some of our first military authori-
ties have decided on its capabilities as an outpost.
Jersey was once enabled, with only a militia regi-
ment, to repulse a hostile attack of the French.
There can be no reason, if Alderney is to be main-
tained at all, against the speedy completion of works
already commenced, and its permanent establish-
ment on a sound and satisfactory footing.
France is not richer than England; yet Napo-
leon 111., seeing the vast changes effected by the
screw, has re-created his navy. He has seen the
necessity of Cherbourg, and the little fishing vil-
lage is elevated to the rank of a Gibraltar or Sebas-
topol. It is now holyday time, and the House of
Commons, we are told, is ready to vote any sum for
our national defences. The story has been told be-
fore, but whenever ways and means are required,
or a new tax proposed for the purpose, the stalwart
senator of the vacation looms forth under a very
different phasis.
It is for you, sir, to rouse the country and its re-
presentatives to a due appreciation of this great
national necessity. Surely the country is great
enough and wealthy enough to raise the sums ne-
cessary for a worthy and dignified system of defence.
We must finish off what we have begun. We must
render superfluous the warnings of the wise, and
condescend to allay the terror of the most timorous
alarmist.

It is not as an alarmist I write to you, nor as a
politician, nor as a military man, nor a stockjobber.
My sole object is to draw public attention to a topic
in which I am directly interested in common with
every other British householder.

ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING IN

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

An inquest was concluded on Monday by Mr.
Lovegrove, coroner for Gloucestershire, on the body
of Thomas Taylor, a railway labourer, who died
under circumstances raising a strong suspicion that
he had been poisoned, and that his wife and brother
were concerned in his death.

The deceased had one child by his wife, aged
about four years, and an illegitimate child, aged
seven years, also lived with them. About six months
since the deceased's brother, Charles Taylor, a re-
turned convict, came home, and went to reside in
the same cottage. The deceased and his wife had
frequent quarrels about the illegitimate child, and
since the brother's return they had lived more un-
happily than before, the brother taking the part of
the wife. It was shown from the evidence of
various witnesses that the wife had expressed a
strong partiality for Charles Taylor, and her wish
that her husband was stiff and dead, and that about
a week before his death the deceased, who was pre-
viously in sound health, was seized with violent
pains in his stomach, which continued at intervals
until the evening of the 4th ult., when death en-
sued. After death the house was searched, and
remains of poison found, and the brother, Charles
Taylor, has absconded.
Mr. A. Martin, surgeon, of Evesham, deposed—
On Saturday night, Aug. 28th, I was called up in
the middle of the night, and requested to go to
Honey-bourne to see deceased. I went, and inquired
into the deceased's symptoms, which, so far as he
described them, all had reference to the stomach. I
sent him two pills and a bottle of medicine to re-
lieve such symptoms. The pills were blue pills
and opium, and the mixture senna and peppermint
water. On the following Wednesday deceased's
wife called upon me and asked me to go and see
her husband, as he was taken in the same
way as he was on the previous Saturday. I told
her if she would bring me an order I would go, and
she promised to let me have one on the morrow.
She described his symptoms as having been pain in
the stomach, with sickness and some purging, and
said he was relieved by the Illediwine ho had had
before. I sent him some of the same pills, with a
mixture composed of infusion of rhubarb and cloves,
with an alkali. The bottle produced by. Edward
Smith is the one I gave her, but the mixture is
altered in colour and taste. The pill found on the
shelf by the superintendent I believe to be one of
those I sent. On the following Saturday, about
midday, the brother, Charles Taylor, came to me
and said his brother Thomas had died during the
night, and that before his death he had vomited and
had purging; that during the day he had eaten a
lot of eggs, and a quantity of potatoes and kidney
beans fried for his supper. He asked for a certifi-
cate as to the cause of death, and whether there was
any necessity for an inquest, as they (meaning the
overseers) had been talking about it. I refused the
former, and did not give any opinion as to the lat-
ter. I have, by, direction of the coroner, in conjunc-
tion with Mr. M. Perry, of Evesham, surgeon, made
a post mortem examination of the body. There are
no external marks of violence and no unusual
amount of rigidity.- On opening the chest we found
each lung adherent to the pleura on each side; the
right lung was utterly disorganised and useless; of
the left lung about one-third was capable of carv-
ing on respiration, in which portion was a cyst
containing a matter closely resembling tubercular
deposit. The whole of this disease was of long stand-
ing. On opening the cavity of the heart some fluid
was contained in the cavity of the pericardium.
The heart was flaccid and empty of blood ; its lin-
ing membrane was in a state of congestion, but all
the valves were healthy. On opening the cavity of
the stomach we found it to contain a mucous fluid,
together with the remains of eggs and French
beans ; its lining was also congested and thickened,
showing marks of chronic inflammation. The liver
was about the usual size, remarkably free
from blood, softened and adherent to the
side. The intestines were healthy, as were
the spleen and kidneys. The bladder was empty.
There was scarcely anything in the intestines. On
removing the skull we found. the vessels of the pia
mater and the surface of the brain very much loaded
with blood, and at the base of the brain there were
about two ounces of serous fluid. The brain itself
was healthy, with the exception of being rather soft
and slightly congested more than usual. Crow fig
is the fruit of the nux vomica, and it contains a
portion of strychnine. I cannot trace strychnine
in the body, as that requires analysis.
Mr. William Herapath, analytical chemist, of
Bristol, deposed—On the Bth inst. I received from
Sergeant Edward Smith, of the Gloucestershire
constabulary, a square box which contained ajar
in which were several parts of the human subject.
The jar was sealed with a seal similar to that which
I produce on a bottle. There were also, two bottles,
one about half full of blood, the other containing
about two ounces of a blackish-green fluid, and a
portion of a dark sediment. The stomach, which
was in a sealed bladder, contained portions of kid-
ney beans, a few fragments of potatoes, and a few
minute portions of egg shell. I found the surface
highly inflamed, considerably thickened, and upon
its surface a few . white spots ; there was also an
ulcer upon its surface. I produce a portion of the
stomach, dried on a plate of glass, to show the state
of inflammation. By subsidence I separated from
the contents of the stomach four grains in weight
of a white coarse powder, which I have proved to
be carbonate of lead, and which I produce in a sealed
tube. I also produce a spangle of metallic lead,
which I have reduced from it, and three tests—one,
the black sulphuret of lead ; the second, yellow
chromate of lead; and thirdly, a paler yellow iodide
of lead. I then analysed the liver, and from an
internal portion a it I have also separated lead ;
and I produce three similar texts of that metal with
the same result. Upon examining the bottle which
was said to contain medicine I found it composed of
two parts—one a clear solution ofa green colour, and
a sediment of much darker colour. The clear
liquor I found to be a solution of sulphate of
iron, commonly called " green copperas," of which
there were 90 grains in the two unces of fluid. The
sediment weighed about 11 grains, and seven-
tenths of it was of the nature of vegetable matter of
an astringent character, darkened in colour by the
sulphate of iron. On the 10th inst. I received by
post a registered letter, which I produce, signed by
Edward Smith, which contained a grater, and
there were a few minute particles on the paper
which enclosed it. The particles I have proved by
the microscope to be nux vomica. Lead is a poison
and has frequently destroyed life in various times
and with varying symptoms, resulting from the
variation in quality and the nature of its salt, and
it occasionally changes in the stomach of a living
person. Sulphate of iron, is also a poison. From
the fact in this case of lead being found in quantity
in the liver, I should say that death had

arisen- from that poison.- Sulphate of iron,
or copperas, is an irritant poison. I have
heard described by the various witnesses the
symptoms under which the deceased appeared to
labour for a week prior to his death. Those de-
scribed by the witness Lidsey very much resemble
those which would follow the administration of
nux vomica. The administration of such a mixture
as that produced in the bottle would cause con-
siderable irritation of the stomach.
Some other evidence tending to criminate the
wife and brother of the deceased was adduced, and
the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder"
against Ann Taylor and Charles Taylor. The
woman was forthwith committed for trial, and a
warrant was issued for the apprehension of Charles
Taylor.

THE COLLISION ON TILE OXFORD AND
WOLVERHAMPTON RAIL WAY.

Yesterday the adjourned inquest on the bodies of
13 of the persons who were killed by the collision
of two passenger excursion trains on the above line
of railway, five weeks ago, was again resumed
before the district coroner, Mr. Phillips, at Brettel-
lane, near Stourbridge. Mr. Fenton, the chair-
man of the company, Mr. Pakington, a director,
Mr. Shcrriff, general manager, Mr. Adcock,
secretary, and Nlr. Wilson, engineer, attended on
behalf of the railway company. In order to the
better understanding of the following evidence it
should be premised that the evidence, as far as it
had been given up to this time proved that there
had been three breakages of couplings on the jour-
ney from Wolverhampton to Worcester in the
morning ' • that on the return journey in the even-
ing from Worcester the train was divided into two ;
that the first portion arrived at Round Oak, when
a coupling chain broke and 18 of the carriages ran
back down an incline until they met the second
train, and the collision took place. The Govern-
ment inspector and two or three engineering wit-
nesses gave at the last hearing
.an account of expe-
riments tried since the collision with the same
number of-carriages, and the result was an opinion
on their part that the break had not been applied
when the train ran back, or that, if it had, it had
been applied too late, when the train had obtained
such an impetus as to overpower it.
•.
Thomas Brett, a passenger by the excursion train
on the day of the collision, deposed, that on the
journey to Worcester in the morning there were
two stoppages by the breakage of coupling chains.
He returned in the evening by the first of the ex-
cursion trains, and rode in the guards' van at the
back of the train with two other passengers, named
Marshall and Williams, and Cook, the guard. Wit-
ness could not get into the passenger carriages at
Worcester, as the people said there was no room,
and Cook then told him he might get into the van.
Cook, the guard, got out of the van two or three
times between Worcester and Brettel-lane. On
arriving at Round Oak station he saw Cook stand-
ing on the step of the van. The train, or at least
the hinder part of it, in which witness was, then
gently receded. Cook was looking out, and did
not at first put on the break, but after a short time
he applied it, and told them all to jump out, for
that they were in danger. He then jumped out
himself, and witness jumped after him, and was
much injured. Was insensible for more than a
week after, and recollected nothing. Just
before he jumped out of the van Cook
blew his guard's whistle, and waved his lamp.
Believed Cook was quite sober. Witness had a
quartern of rum with some water in a bottle, and
Cook had some of it on the way from Worcester.
By the Jury—Had received £5O compensation
from the company, and a promise of £lOO more, but
the promise was not contingent upon the verdict of
the coroner's jury. Had not been drinking with
Cook before he got into the train at Worcester to
return. Was sure that Cook put on the break as soon
as he (witness) saw the carriages going back. Saw
no one use the break between Worcester and Round
Oak except Cook, the guard.
In reply to questions put by Mr. Underhill, attor-
ney for Cook, the guard, the witness said, Cook ap-
plied the break as soon as he (witness) perceived
that the carriages were running back. Ile applied
the break three times, looking out of the van be-
tween each application. It was on the second appli-
cation of the break that witness heard the screech-
ing of the wheels. The third time he screwed it
down he could hardly move it and appeared much
put about. It was then he told witness to jump
out of the van. _ _ _

The witness was also cross-examined by the at-
torney, but the points were irrelevant. He said he
had been promised the £lOO by the surgeons, Dr.
Walker and Mr. Everett.

Mr. Sherriff expressed his surprise at the state-
ment. He thought the man had been fully corn-
peßsated.
One of the jurymen having questioned witness
as to a statement said to have been drawn up by
one of the surgeons, Mr. Walker, and signed by the
witness, Mr. Penton, the chairman, and Mr. Sher-
rill; the manager of the company, pressed the coro-
ner to examine Mr. Walker on the subject, that
gentleman being present ; but the coroner declined
to cumber the case with an explanation of a state-
ment which was no evidence.

Jonas Lockwood, the driver of the second excur-
sion train, which left Worcester at 6.45, about a
quarter of an hour after the first train, deposed that
they proceeded all right up to Brettel-lane station,
where they stopped a few minutes and then pro-
ceeded on the journey. They had got from 500 to
600 yards from Brettel-lane towards Round Oak
when he saw the red lights of a train in advance of
him. He could not tell on which line of rails the
train was, nor whether it was stationary or
; he immediately shut off the steam, sounded the
whistle for the breaks to be put on, and reversed
his engine, his fireman putting on the engine-break.
He had got to about two miles an hour when the
collision took place. He jumped off his engine just
before the collision. He had been on the line three
years. He had stopped a passenger train with nine
carriages and three breaks going down the incline
at 25 miles an hour, in 700 yards. He believed
Cook applied the break when the train was running
back. Cook told him he had put it on, and tried all
he could to stop the train. Witness saw sparks
flying from the rails, as if by the application of the
break.

In reply to Mr. Underhill the witness said that
when he first saw the red lights the train was 400
or 500 yards ahead of him, and that a moment or
two after he saw the red lights he saw sparks from
the rails.

Mr. Sherriff here produced the plan of •the line,
and showed that the witness must have been mis-
taken in supposing the distance between his train
and the receding train when he first saw the red
lights was as much as 400 or .500 yards. He could
not have seen more than 200 yards ahead in conse-
quence of a curve in the line.
The inquiry was here adjourned for an hour, Mr.
Underhill having stated that he. wished to call four
or five witnesses on behalf of Cook, the guard.

On the.reassemblinr, of the jury,.
Thomas Hancock, boot and shoemaker, was exa-
mined. He deposed that on the night of Ike colli-
sion lie was crossing the railway between Round
Oak and Brettel-lane stations, when he saw a train
running back down the line. The train passed him
and proceeded round a curve, and immediately upon
that he heard the collision. Sparks were flying
from the rails as the train passed him. He ran to
the spot, and seeing what had happened, gave in-
formation at the nearest station, and went in search
of surgical aid. The train was about a quarter of a
mile distant from him when he first saw it.
MrS. Thompson, wife of a workman living by the
side of the line, deposed that she saw the tram go
up the line and return again down the same line of
rails. The passengers were waving their handker-
chiefs from the windows. Immediately afterwards
she heard the collision, and ran to the spot. As the
train passed her she heard a man say, " I've done
all I could; you must jump." She saw sparks fly
from the wheels of the train. _

The jury here said. they did not believe the-wit-
ness could have heard the expression said to have
been made use of, and, in reply to an appeal from
the coroner, said they did not wish to hear any
more evidence on this particular point.
Mr. Chillingworth, an engineer, who happened
to be at Brettel-hine when the accident occurred,
next tendered his evidence. Hearing_ of the colli-
sion, he proceeded to the spot, and finding that the
engineer of the line was not there, he offered his
services, which were accepted by the station-master
of Brettel-lane. He directed the removal of the
broken carriages, and examined .the break particu-
larly. He found the blocks 'in good condition, and
a mark upon the wheels as if they had been rubbed
against the rails by being locked. He thought,
however, from the appearance of the mark, that the
wheels had not been locked for more than 100 yards.
Evidence was next offered by the company
.as to
the.management by other companies of their ex-
cursion trains, and as to the primary cause of the
accident.
The. inquest was at half-past six again adjourned
to Tuesday next.

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POLICE INT_ELLIG4'NC.F.,-,—Sept4 30.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Henry Sopt?r, 24, shop-
man to Mr. E. Lane, cheesemonger, 58, (annon-
street West, was charged with stealing one shil-
ling, the property of his employer, and ,er the fol-
lowing circumstances :
The prosecutor said—The prisoner .has been in
my employ about ten days, and serve,a bebind the
eon nter. From what I was told I had rea son to suspect
him, and in consequence of that suspic ion I marked
some money, and spoke to the police about it. I
marked three shillings and a florin, ars (I gave them
so marked to' Amelia Owen. I afterwards saw her
come into my shop and make a purchase, being
served by the prisoner and one of ma. l other young
men. 1 did not see her give the money to the pri-
soner, because I was, called out of the shop, but
directly afterwards I went back flaid went behind
the counter, took the money oui, of the till, and
found amongst it only two d the ituirked shillings
and gave the
instead of three. I called an officer,
prisoner into custody, and found the third shilling
hanging to the counter. I since exaL-lined under
the counter, by the side of the till, and found there
was a lump of grease placed there, so thOt when
the prisoner had money to put could in the till, he .
stick it on to the grease, and it would adhere there
till he had an opportunity of taking it off. I can't
say whether the prisoner put the grease there.
Amelia Owen—l received 3s. from Mr. Lane, and
afterwards took them to his shop to buy some goods
with. The goods came to 2s. 7d. I paid the pri-
soner the three marked shillings, and he gave me
my change, which he took from the till. I believed
at the time that he put the 3s. into the till. That
is all I know about it.

Wm. Brown—l was in the shop when the last
witness came in, and cut her some cheese, while th e
prisoner served her with some butter. He received
three shillings, two of which I saw him put into the
till and one under the counter. I distinctly saw him
put it under the counter. I then beckoned to Mr.
Lane, who came and gave the prisoner into custody.
Samuel Evans, police constable 459, deposed that
upon being called into the prosecutor's shop he felt
under the counter near the till, and immediately
found a shilling sticking to some grease that had
been placed there. The shilling could not have drop-
ped there accidentally while being put into the till.

In reply to the charge,
The prisoner said—l plead not guilty, and can
only account for the shilling being found there by
supposing that it must either have dropped from
the till or bounced out of the till, and the money
might have been greasy from my hands being greasy
from weighing the butter.
Committed for tridl.
William Jones and John Ashton were charged
with having attempted to pick pockets on London-
bridge. The prisoners, who have been long known
as thieves, were observed by some of the most active
officers co-operating in examining the pockets of
several ladies and gentlemen.
They assured the Lord Mayor that the police pre-
vented them from earning honest bread by following
and exposing them. They denied that they had
been engaged in attempting to pick pockets, and
Jones declared that he had never been accused of
any such thing even by the police themselves.
The officers said it was true that Jones did notput
his hands into the pockets of his victims, but was
very clever in covering his confederates and plant-
ing the offences committed upon other parties.
Ashton—l am followed everywhere by the police-
men, who are aware of my being in difficulties
before, and the moment I get employment down
they come with the most lying accusations, and I
stand no chance of supporting my family.
The Lord Mayor—Why, London-bridge at the
most crowded time of the day is not the place in
which you can expect to get honest support for
your family.
Ashton—l was not with this prisoner at the
time, my lord.
Mr. Goodman—These two men have been here
frequently, my lord, and I have a perfect recollec-
tion of a great variety of charges brought aid sub-
stantiated against them.
The Lord Mayor then sentenced each of the pri-
soners to imprisonment for three calendar months
with hard labour.
Jones—l shall appeal against your decision, my
lord. I was not with this man on the bridge for
the purpose of picking pockets, and I have never
picked a pocket in my life.
The prisoners were then committed.

MARYLEBONE.—John William Brophy was
charged with getting a quantity of goods upon
fraudulent pretences, and also with absconding
from his creditors, and taking the property thus
fraudulently obtained with him.
Mr. Wontner appeared on behalf of the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Grange for the prisoner.
Mr. Wontner said the prisoner had kept a boot
and shoe shop in Kilkenny, and had obtainpd a
great quantity of goods under false pretences. He
absconded from his shop on Saturday last, and a
telegraphic message was sent on to the Paddington
station giving a description of him, and he was sub-
sequently taken into custody in Bishopsgate •st rect.
Mr. Broughton—You want me to send him back
to Ireland, I suppose ?
Mr. Wontner—l do, sir.
Mr. Grange—l submit, sir, you have no jurisdic-
tion. This transaction is upon a bill of exchange,
which had been given, and which was renewable at
the end of three months, and which has been taken
out of his possession by the police.
Mr. Woritner—That can be no answer at all.
Mr. Broughton—l am not aware as yet that it
is a criminal charge, but that is no reason why he
should escape from justice. If he went to New
York, Australia, or anywhere else, he might be
apprehended, if fraud could be proved against him.
Hammond, a detective, here said that there were
200 pairs of boots, besides a large quantity of other
goods, which were taken from the prisoner at the
Marylebone station.
Mr. Broughton—lf I send him back to Ireland,
are you willing to pay all expenses ?
Mr. Morgan (the prosecutor)—Yes, your worship.
Mr. Wontner—He received a large amount of
goods upon a bill of exchange for £122, 10s., drawn
upon the Oriental Bank, and which has since been
ascertained to have beet". paid.
Mr. Broughton—Then your pretence is, he gave
the bill of exchange to your client, saying that he
had got £l2O to receive ?
Mr. Wontner—Yes, sir, prisoner has already
received value for it, and the bill is only worth
waste paper.
Mr. Broughton—The question is whether this is
the bill upon which the prisoner has received the
goods.
Mr. Grange—The answer I have to make on
behalf of my client is, that the bill is not yet due.
Mr. Broughton—Then let me hear the evidence
of the prosecutor.
Mr. Charles Morgan was then sworn. He said he
was a cointhission agent to Messrs. Delany, whole-
sale boot- and shoe manufacturers, of Dublin. The
prisoner kept a boot and shoe shop in Kilkenny.
He had known him about five months. In May last
he went to his shop, when he received an order from
him for boots and shoes to the extent of £22. When
he asked him as to his circumstances he produced
a bill of £122 10s., drawn on the Oriental Bank.
Mr. Broughton—When did he show you this
bill?

Prosecutbr-1n May last.
Evidence continued—He said he should have the
money for this bill in a month, and on the faith of
this representation I let him have the goods. This
was our first transaction. _

Mr. Broughton—You say that that is the false
pretence, saying that the bill was for cash?
Prosecutor—Yes, sir.
Evidence continued—Went to the shop on Mon-
day last and found it shut, all the furniture sold,
and the stock in trade removed. Had never been
paid for the goods which the prisoner had had.
We were to draw upon him for the amount, which
we did when his bill became due. We were not
paid, but the bill was renewed, and the second bill
is still running. Upon finding prisoner gone he
telegraphed to London, and on arriving here him-
self he went in company with a constable, and saw'
the prisoner in a coffee-shop in Bishopsgate-street
when he was given in charge.
Mr. Grange contended that the case was entirely
out of the magistrate's jurisdiction. It was a mat-
ter of credit, and the renewed bill, which would
not be :due for six weeks, would be taken up.
Mr. Broughton directed the prisoner to be taken
to Kilkenny for examination, with the property
found on him.

WESTMINSTER.—Isaac Bandy, alias Ham-
mond, was again brought up from the House of
Detention, in the prison van, charged with the wil-
ful murder of Sarah Farrell, with whom he coha-
bited.
Impressed with the horror of prisoner's conduct,
and with commiseration for the victim of his
brutality, many persons were anxious to get a view
of the prisoner, and it is probable he would not
have escaped a good mauling could the crowd have
gof near him. The court was crowded to a greater
extent, if_possible, than on the last occasion with
the auditory.
The following additional and important evidence
was adduced.

Harriet Rankin, 53, Pear-tree-street, deposed—
I saw this man on the night the woman was killed.
I know she was not his wife. I believe there was
a jealousy between them. We were having some
ale together. He said, " As you're pregnant I'll
do for you." She was not intoxicated. A man

was drinking with us. I think he was jealous of
him.

Mr. Paynter' to Mr. Adair, the house-surgeon—
llo you think she was -pregnant ? . .

Mr. Adair—l think she was in an early state.
Hankie continued—Prisoner said distinctly "1
know you're in the far ally-way by me. I'll do for
ypu to-night. I'll rip your guts open."
Mr. Paynter—Was Harris there then ?

Witnes-s—He was. Deceased told Harris there
had been a quarrel between them the night before,
and Harris stepped between the deceased and pri-
soner, fearing violence. (Witness seemed very re-
luctant to repeat the expressions used by prisoner,
which created a sensation in court.) No conversa-
tion took place between Harris and the prisoner.
Inspector Humphreys sworn—l have examined
the premises where the murder took place. There
is a large bedstead before the window. The bed-
clothes were nearly on a level with the window,
which was 2 feet 6 inches square.
Mr. Paynter—Then a person could easily be
pushed from the bed out of window.
Inspector—Exactly sc). I may add it would
be very difficult to throw a person out who was not
on the bed. The windorsv is 2 feet from the ground,
and looks into a back yard. There were fresh
marks of feet on the abutment wall at the side of
the window. I should think she went down head
first, that her head struck the lamp iron, which
turned her over with her feet downwards. I infer,
from the statement of the surgeon, that she might
have got the blow on the head from the lamp,
which, turning her ovor, her feet made the marks
on the wall which I have described.

Mr. Adair--I should think it most likely that
her head struck the l amp iron, and that thus the
large scalp wound was caused. It certainly could
not have been caused "by her falling on the stones,
and I should not like to swear that it was inflicted
by the poker with which: deceased told me she was
struck.

The depositions having been read over,
Mr. Paynter having given the accused the usual
caution according to law, inquired whether he
wished to say anythin g in answer to the charge.
Prisoner replied, " I cannot say anything. We
were not ten minutes in the room when the acci-
dent happened. I abused her for getting tipsy.
After I got home with her she wanted to go out
to get more drink, and. I sat against the door and
would not let her. She then said if I did not let
her go but at the door she would get out at the
window, and she got on the bed and rolled out ;
and that is all I know about it. She sat on the
window-ledge, turned herself right round, and
rolled out. I took the light then and called out.
I had not seen her all day."
Prisoner was then fully committed for trial at
the Central Criminal_ Court, and the witnesses
bound over to prosecute.
A respectable-looking woman, accompanied by
her daughter both of whom seemed overwhelmed
with grief, applied to the magistrate under the fol-
lowing very extraordinary circumstances.
Applicant statedthat about 23 years ago she was
separated from her husband, who died last Thurs-
day under circumstances as peculiar as those which
now induced her to apply with respect to his
funeral. Her husband was smoking his pipe at
the bar of a tavern when the proprietor, having
occasion to lift up the flap of the counter struck
the thin end of the pipe into the roof of his mouth,
from the effects of which he died after lingering a'
few days. Applicant was at the time without the
means of defraying funeral obsequies, but in order
to prevent the disgrace and reproach of his being
buried by the parish, raised the required sum
amongst her friends, and. employed an undertaker,
but on going to the house where his body lay, a
woman with whom he had for some time cohabited
refused to allow her to see him, or to follow him to
his grave. Whatever his conduct had been towards
her and his children, the family were desirous of
attending his funeral, and she now earnestly be-
sought the magistrate to use his influence to enable
them to do so. The funeral was to take place to
day, and there was no time to be lost.
Mr. Paynter—Who found the coffin ?
Applicant—The undertaker I employed and am
to pay.
Mr. Paynter—Have you your marriage certifi-
cate with you ?
Applicant produced it.
Mr. Paynter sent for one of the police inspectors
and told him to go to the woman complained of,
and state that she ought to permit the wife and
family to follow the deceased to the grave. He also
directed the police to assist the applicant as much
as lay in their power, and to prevent a breach of
the peace.
Applicant appeared very thankful, and left the
court with the inspector.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SACRI-
LEGE AT STRATFORD CHURCIL

STRATFORD, WEDNESDAY.

James List, aged 35, and Wm. Saville, aged 32,
were brought up in custody from Ilford Gaol, be-
fore the county magistrates acting for this division,
charged with breaking into a vault under St.
John's Church, Stratford, and stealing a copper
coffin of the value of £lO. They are also suspected
of carrying away a leaden coffin which was in the
same vault.
The case has excited considerable interest amongst
the families in the district, and the court was
much crowded. The Rev. Mr. Rain, the vicar, and
other clergymen, were present.
It appeared that some years since Mr. John
Taylor, a wealthy coppersmith, who resided in Strat-
ford, had some time before his death a massive copper
coffin n, ade, in which he expressed his wish that
he might be buried. It cost between £5O and
£6O, and was kept at an undertaker's in the village,
and it is stated that he was in the habit of calling
sometimes to view it. At length, in 1846, he died,
and according to. his desire he was buried in the
coffin in a private vault, bricked round, under St.
John's Church, Stratford. In 1850 the remains of
his brother, Mr. Samuel Taylor, which were in a
leaden coffin, were consigned to the same vault.
The wall was bricked up, and the vault continued
apparently in an undisturbed state. The prisoners
were occasionally employed by the sexton, of the
parish, and it would seem that, having given offunce
to some labourers in the place the reportwas circulated
that they had been concerned in carrying away the
coffins. After some delay the parish authorities
began to act in the matter, and with Sergeant
King, of the K division of police, and other officers,
they proceeded on Wednesday to inspect the
vault which was stated to have been entered.
There were signs of the wall having been taken
down to admit a man, and then rebuilt and white-
washed over. The wall was again removed to
allow the officers to enter, and the copper coffin
which had been placed between the inner shell and
outer coffin, which contained the body of Mr. J.
Taylor, was found to have been taken away, as
also the leaden coffin of his brother, Mr. S. Taylor.
Upon this discovery the police lost no time in appre-
hending the prisoners ; and in the course of some
conversation Saville stated that List took it, aid
that he (Saville) whitewashed it over. Tubbs, a
gardener, was called as a witness, but it was evi-
dent from his manner that he was very unwilling
to state what he knew about the affair. He stated
that he had spoken to one Elf the prisoners, who
remarked that if he had taken it he must have done
so when he was in, liquor. Mr. Biggs, the clerk,
informed the bench that what Tubbs had stated
to him in reference to this particular conversation
was of a far more- conclusive character than had
now been given. Mr. Tubbs said he had stated the
effect of what passed, and could not remember more.
The Chairman inquired of the police whether
they would be able to procure any further evidence
in support of the charge against the prisoners ?
Sergeant King said if a remand was granted he
thought they might be able to ascertain where the
coffins were taken to, and how they were disposed of.
The Chairman said, under those circumstances
the prisoners would be again remanded, and they
were taken back to Wont Gaol.

The discovery of this daring act of robbing the
dead has caused a painful anxiety amongst the
families in the district whose deceased relatives
were interred in the vault under the church.

The vaults have been recently closed for inter-
ment under the act.

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SERIOUS CIIA.RGE AGAINST A GREEK
MERCHANT OF MANCHESTER.

Yesterday, at the Birmingham police-court, be-
fore Mr. Kynnersley, stipendiary magistrate, a
more than usually serious charge was preferred
against a Greek, named Antonio Calvocoresi,
who is represented as carrying on an extensive
business as a general merchant, in Lloyd-
street, Manchester. The details of the charge
were not gone into in court on this occasion ;
but, as far as we have been able to ascertain,
the principal facts are as follows : In
March last, Mr. Calvocoresi came 'to Birmingham,
and waited upon Mr. Ralph Heaton, of Bath-street,
who supplies the greater portion of the English and
colonial copper coinage, and is also extensively en-
gaged in the same way for foreign states. Mr. Cal-
vocoresi intimated to Mr. Heaton that he wished
to have manufactured sonic dies from which Turk-
ish piastres could be struck, and at the same
time stated that a large order for the coins
would be given. Mr. Heaton, however, refused
to have anything whatever to do with the trans-
action; and, thinking probably, that Mr. Calvo-
coresi was not aware of the illegality of his proceed-
ings, he pointed out the clauses in the act of Par-
liament upon the subject. Mr. Calvocoresi then
left Mr. Heaton's, undeterred, however, by the re-
sult of the interview from prosecuting his designs,
as it appears that immediately afterwards he put
himself in personal communication with Mr. Dipple,
a manufacturer, in Great Hampton-row, and made
a similar application to him. In this second
attempt he was more successful. Mr. Dipple
undertook to make the dies, and also to supply
the coin ; and in this state of things an
order was at once given for a single pair
of dies and one gross of piastres. That order
was punctually attended to, and when completed
a second order was given for no fewer than fourteen
cases, each case containing thirty-gross, or 4,608 of
the coin, which in size and weight is nearly equal
to an English penny. Subsequently another order
was given for six or seven cases more. The whole
of these orders were given within a short period of
each other; and by some means Detective Super-
intendent Glossop was almost simultaneously
made acquainted with the whole of the circum-
stances. He waited upon Mr. Dipple, and
pointed out the illegality of the transac-
tion, and then placed himself in communication
with Mr. J. R. Collis, the Turkish Vice-Consul
resident in Birmingham. Through him the Turkish
Embassy in London was made aware of the circum-
stances, and there the matter was taken up early in
April. Mr. Calvocoresi was interrogated ; but in
consequence of his positively asserting that he had
the authority of the Ottoman Government for all
these transactions, no steps were taken to put a stop
to them, beyond the communication of the facts to
Constantinople. A few days ago, however, a
despatch was rece;ved from the Turkish Foreign
Minister, in which directions were given
for a thorough and immediate investigation
of the case. Superintendent Glossop was
again communicated with, and he at once
despatched Inspector Tandy to Manchester to
apprehend Mr. Calvocoresi. Tandy found him at
his place of business in Lloyd-street, and upon him
were .25, some letters in Greek and Turkish, and a
razor. While these events were occurring, Mr.
Glossop and some of the detective force paid a visit
to the premises of Mr. Dipple, and having stated
their object, he at once gave up the dies, a quantity
of the coins which he had been making, and also
some correspondence. We believe it is understood
that he is not to be included in any criminal pro-
ceedings which may result, but that he will be ad-
mitted as evidence against Calvocoresi. Theprisoner,
who is a man of short stature, with large black mou-
stache and whiskers, and well dressed, was, yester-
day, defended by Mr. Harding, solicitor. Mr. Walter,
the public prosecutor, who attended to support the
charge, narrated a few of the facts which it would
be his duty to bring against the prisoner, and
added, that in consequence of its being necessary to
communicate with the Turkish ambassador, a re-
mand for a few days would be necessary.
Mr. Harding said ho could offer no objection to
so reasonable a request, and the investigation was
then adjourned to Friday next.—Manchester Guar-
dian.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

MANCHESTER-SEAT. 30.

At our market this morning wheat was only in moderate
demand, but the best descriptions of both English and
foreign nearly maintained the currency of last market day.
Flour was quite neglected, and might have been purchased
at a reduction of 6d per cent. New oats and oatmeal de-
clined 2d to 3d per 451bs and 2s per load respectively. Eng-
lish beans were rather lower, and Egyptian receded is to
2s per qr. Indian corn was likewise is cheaper.