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The following are the entire facts of this extra-
ordinary case, which have not yet appeared :
The deceased was a single lady of 36 years of
age, and Dr. Thomas Smethurst, nine years ber
senior, and both possessed of considerable property.
Dr. Sthethurst and bis wife were residing at a
boarding-house in Bayswater, as was also the de.
ceased. An intimacy sprang up between Dr.
Smethurst and the deceased, leading to an elope-
ment, and after visiting Brighton and various other
fashionable places, they at length came to Rich-
mond about nine weeks since, residing first at
Richmond-gieen, and latterly at No. 10, Alma-
villas, Richmond-hill, where the deceased now lies.
On the 3d of April Dr. F. G. Julius was called in
to attend the deceased, who was suffering from
diarrhcea and vomiting. He believed it was bilious
diarrhcea, there being nothing to lead to suspicion.
Hendministered various treatments in conjunction
with Dr. Smethurst, and with his sanction. He
gave nothing of a metal kind. On the 18th he be-
came puzzled, and requested his partner, Mr. Bird,
to go in, the result being an opinion that some-
thing was being given• to keep up the irritation.
The lady got worse, with constant vomitingand
diarrhcea. Dr. Smethurst removed the vomitings
and evacuations from the room. Nothing appa-
rently could exceed his care and attention. Dr.
Todd, with Dr. Smethurst's sanction, came down
from King's College and prescribed; the prescrip-
tions were in accordance with the treatment already
pursued, and 'were calculated to allay, the irritation,
but the symptoms became aggravated. On the fol-
lowin g Friday, during Dr. S m etb u rst's temporary ab-
sence, a portion of an evacuation just passed was placed
in two bottles and sent to London for analysation ;
and on Reinsch's preliminary test being applied,
viz., the introduction of fine copper wire into the
liquid, the wire became crusted with some metallic
substance, proving the presence of some metal. The
bottles subsequently fell under the notice of Pro-
fessor Taylor, who upon testing, finding the pre-
sence of arsenic, sought the magisterial authority
for a full analysation, which being obtained the
following letter to Dr. Julius was the result :
" 15, St. James's-terrace, Regent's-park, May 2.
" Sir,—ln accordance with the instructions contained in
your letter of yesterday's date I have made a further exami-
nation of the liquid, No. 2, delivered to me by Mr. Buzzard
yesterday evening, and I have to report to youthat this liquid
contained a small quantity of arsenic. The liquid consists
of watery mucus, bile, albumen (from serum), and a small
quantity of the colouring matter of blood. The arsenic is
in a combination with these matters. It is such a liquid
as accompanies arsenic when this substance is a cause of
poisoning. Considering the symptoms from which Mrs.
Smethurst has suffered (as described to me by Mr. Buzzard),
and the discovery of arsenic in the evacuations of the
bowels, I am of opinion that this lady is suffering from the
effects of arsenical poison taken in small doses ; and, ac-
cording to the advice which I have had occasion to give
in similar cases, I would suggest that she be immediately
placed under the care of some trustworthy person, by whom
alone all articles of food and medicine should be ad-
ministered. I believe that her life will depend upon the
immediate and strict adoption of these preventions, as
arsenic is in her body, and is now passing from her in the
discharges from her bowels. —I am, sir, &c.,
" ALFRED S. TAYLOR, M.D., F.R.S., Professor
of Chemistry and Medical Jurisprudence in
Guy's Hospital."
Immediately on the receipt of this opinion, deem-
ing the lady's life in danger, Dr. Julius felt it in-
cumbent on him to lay the ease before a magistrate,
and upon his testimony E. Penryhn, Esq., granted
a warrant against Dr. Smethurst, and he was appre-
hended by Police-constable Jukes, V division, on a
charge of attempt to poison, when upon the evidence
of Dr. Julius, Mr. Bird, and Mr. Buzzard, Bachelor
of Medicine, and M.C.S., of 41, Great Marlborough-
street, the case was remanded, Dr. Smethurst being
admitted to bail. The following morning the lady
died, and from what had subsequently transpired
it was :deemed expedient to issue a warrant and
apprehend Dr. Smethurst on a charge of wilful
murder, which was accordingly done. A post-
mortem examination was then ordered by Mr. W.
Carter, the coroner, and Mr. Julius thereupon in-
structed Mr. Richard Barwell, of Charing-cross
Hospital, and Mr. Palmer, a surgeon of Mortlake,
to examine the body, which they did in his presence.
Externally the body exhibited no particular appear-
ances other than those of ordinary death. There
wao great rigour of the lower extremities. The
brain, lungs, and heart were perfectly healthy. The
intestinal canal and stomach were placed in a jar
sealed, and forwarded to Dr. Taylor. The womb
showed an early condition of pregnancy. The cause
of death was believed to be chronic inflammation of
the stomach and bowels. Professor Taylor having
received authority to proceed with the analysation,
examined the bottle No. 2, in which there were four
ounces of fluid, the result confirming his previous
conclusion that there was decidedly arsenic in the
liquid. There was no antimony, mercury, or bismuth.
He found mucus, bile, and fibrous matter, and under
the microscope those facts were presented which, in
a case of poisoning by arsenic, were always to be
detected. The quantity of arsenic was very small,
less than a quarter of a grain in the four ounces.
The effect of small doses continually administered,
would be to cause great irritation of the bowels,
vomiting, and Purging of mucus and blood, with
sr ye
emi
epetl oyme seunder
ww
ehui
lc
dh tbhee lady
had suffered were precisely such as would be pro.
duced by such treatment, while the medicine which
bbialdia
would have the opposite effect.
had been given
rYsuffineraetdtewnerTehep
gentleman's family , and occupier of the house, No.
Susannah Angelina Wheatley,. wife of a butler in a
10, Alma Villas, received Dr. and Mrs. Smethurst,
as lodgers, letting them a sitting-room and bedroom
fdr 16s. a week, including attendance. The sitting-
room was downstairs. When the lady came on Fri-
day, the 15th of April, she was in delicate health,
and went to bed directly. Dr. Smethurst alone
waited on the lady, and he gave her whatever she
took in the way of food or medicine. He was con-
stantly in attendance. The dinner and other meals
were prepared downstairs, Dr. Smethurst either
taking
peaTrheed
ethoel%iyeeaoren
the room door. Whether retchings or otherwise
it upstairs or relieving the landlady of it at
the landlady never entered the room to fetch them,
they were always placed on the landing. They ap•
the very
wholaffectionatewhole
o fthe te r
factsm
to the present
stage of the proceedings. The
coroner has signified his intentionto communicate
with the Secretary
of State for the Home sa.dduced up
Depart-
ment, in order thatsis
Dr. Smethurst, who under
remand in Horsemonger Gaol, may be present at
the adjourned stage of the inquisition.••
Mr. Sergeant Ball •antine •
, instructed by Mr. Tea-

- - (From the Times)
The predicted battle between the Austrian in-
vaders and the French and Sardinian defenders of
Piedmont has not yet been fought, and the parties
preserve the relative positions which they occupied
when we last epitomized the news of the campaign.
The Austrians are still continuing what the Aus-
trian General properly calls ‘, demonstrations."
They extended their lines, or pushed forward their
advanced guard, as far as Trino, a few miles beyond
Casale, on the road to Turin, and they have since-
withdrawn this movement and fallen bdck again to
Vercelli, a town which, although in the neighbour-
hood of the threatened fortress of Casale, is some
miles to the north, and away from the river. They
also have intermitted for the moment their attempts
to pass the Po, they have withdrawn the troops
they had thrown across the river, and they have
allowed the Sardinians to seize the few military
stores that had been placed on the southern bank.
' 4 telegram has also stated that the Austrians have
evacuated Tortona and Voghera. Now, these two
towns are on the southern bank of the Po, and ap-
proximate closely to the plain of Marengo, now oc-
cupied in force by the French. Tornona and Vog-
hera are names conspicuous in the accounts of the
great battle of Marengo, and on the morning of
that day they were in the possession of the French.
They were in this campaign occupied by the Aus-
trians, who to hold them must have pushed forward
some of their reserves at Pavia and Piacenza, thus
threatening the right flank of the Franco Sardinian
army, and the communication between Alessandria
and Genoa. The troops withdrawn from Tortona
and Voghera would naturally retire upon Pavia and
Piacenza, and circumstances seem to indicate that
the Austrians anticipate that the fortress of Pia-
cenza, which they have so carefully fortified and
extended, in fraud of that clause in the Treaty of
Vienna which gave them possession only of the little
citadel of the old unfortified town, is soon about to
have its strength tasted by a siege.
Still later telegrams, which bring down to the
date of last night such news as Europe is permitted
to receive, do not greatly vary the position of affairs.
It appears that the Austrian troops, which, as we
have above stated, had occupied Vercelli, had
marched towards Gattinari, which is situated some
miles to the north of Vercelli, and on the line of the
river Sesia ; and the information already received
that the Austrians are fortifying their position on
the Sesia is confirmed. The official bulletin from
Turin states also that General Della Marmora has
made the river Dora his strategical line ; and if we
could rely upon this as a fact we might infer from
it that fears were still entertained for the safety of
Turin, and that the division of the Austrian army
which advanced from the Lago Maggiore, and has
not since been heard of, causes disquietude. It was
along the valleys that lead from the Grand St.
Bernard down to the line of the Dora that Napo-
leon advanced in his campaign of 1800. We can-
not, however, lay any stress upon what may be said
in an official bulletin as to future strategics, for no
General ever yet published the plans of his cam-
paign, except for the purpose of deceiving his
adversary. All that the news from the seat of war
up to last night amounts to is, that the Austrians
are marching and countermarching on the northern
bank of the Po; that they are occupying the line
of the Sesia—a river which flows through the
broadest part of the level plain down into the Po ;
that they are intrenching themselves on the Sesia,
and that they have withdrawn those troops whose
position upon thd right flank of the French seemed
likely to bring on a collision near the plain of
Marengo.
These small manoeuvres are not very significant
in themselves, for they are capable of various in-
terpretations, and military critics are divided as to
whether the Austrian is concentrating his force for
a great effort, or cautiously withdrawing in retreat.
No doubt, the present position of General Gyulai
is one which, if not of immediate peril, is of great
embarrassment. He has ad minced into a country
which has become a swamp, and worse than a
swamp, and he has a swollen river between him
and the hill country, where he might find firm
footing and a strong enemy. It is contrary to the
character of an invader to stand still. Rapid pro-
gress is one of the conditions which he accepts
when he takes upon him that character. If Gyulai
halts long in those rico-fields he must expect to
have his army reduced by ague and dysentery more
certainly than by the sword, and would have no
advantage to show against the loss of his troops,
except some contributions levied from the Sardi-
nian towns, and the satisfaction of encamping upon
the patrimonial possessions of Austria's great
enemy, Count Cavour. All things counsel an early
movement on the part of the Austrians, and there
is a remarkable concurrence of opinion both at
Vienna and Turin that the object of the first blow
is Casale. The Austrians are moving by various
roads upon this point, and that they are as rapidly
as possible pushing up reinforcements and bring-
ing up stores appears sufficiently by the activity
kept -up• upon the railways in their rear—an
activity which sometimes degenerates into con-
fusion, as may be noted in that terrible accident
which has, on the Verona Railway, exploded am-
' munition waggons, and killed and wounded
nearly 150 Austrian soldiers. The position is
very new, and, in a military point of view, very in-
structive. For the first time we see two large
armies encamped in immediate contiguity, and
in possession of all the new facilities which it has
been anticipated will change the art of war. Be-
hind the Austrian lines there is a network of rail-
ways, which keep open a communication with all
Europe, and which can deliver in General Gyulai's
camp all the resources of Austria and Lombardy.
In the same manner steam brings to Genoa and
deposits at the foot of the Cenis all the power of
France, and railways in the rear of the allied
position distribute that power at Genoa, Alessan-
dria, or Turin, and redistribute 'it from hour to
hour as the exigencies of the war may render
expedient. These two armies ought to have no
difficulty in obtaining the utmost possible con-
centration of military power. There needs be no
intermission in the arrival of men and arms and
provisions and military stores, and of artillery to
any amount. The Generals can play out their
match without being at any trouble about the in-
struments of their game ; the board is before them,
and the pieces are at hand. The facilities for the
contest, therefore, are more equal than was calcu-
lated when Austria first appeared as a challenger.
, Our correspondent at Vienna calculates the strength
of the Austrian invading army at 120,000, and
from Turin we have an estimate that 80,000
Frenchmen have already reached the Sardinian
States, and that the Piedmontese would be under-
estimated at less than 65,000 good troops. These
numbers may well incline General Gyulai to eau•
tion and concentration. The country in which he
finds himself is full of historic precedents not en-
couraging to Austrian Generals. He must know all
the details of the campaign of 1796, when the young
General Bonaparte seized upon the Piedmontese
fortresses, and drOve the Austrians before him
out of Sardinia and Lombardy,; and General Hess,
at least, can remember the circumstances of that
campaign of 1800, when the First Consul crossed
the Grand St. Bernard, and threw himself between
the Austrians and their communications with Lom-
bardy. The Austrian Generals have, doubtless,
much meditated upon these precedents, which,
although they point to disaster, yet mark • that
Austrian sluggishness and French promptitude
were the causes of Napoleon's success ; and these
events of the present moment, read by past lights,
give likelihood to the general expectation that a
battle must be fought either on the plain of Marengo
or under the walls of Casale.

But the Emperor of the French is about on
Tuesday next to set out to take the command of the
army, and in his motley suite will be found chiefs
of all the nationalities. As he goes to make history
he carries also with him his bureau historique, and
we shall, doubtless, then have more important
events to chronicle than those which have yet
occurred. When Louis XIV. set out for the camp
it used to be considered as a proof that matters were
thought to be going well, and that the particular
city then belea,,,,ured was in extremity. When the
Emperor Napoleon 111. reaches Genoa we must
expect that it will be to inaugurate his military
career by some great movement decisive of the con-
flict he has thus provoked. The world is waiting
with an eager curiosity to judge of the debut of
this Emperor General, uncertain whether they will
be forced to admire or only tempted to declare that
he had better have stayed at home.

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Commander • George H. K. Bower, sailed from
Portsmouth yesterday morning (reported for
Gibraltar).
The Doris, 32, screw steam-frigate, Captain E.
Heathcote, having shipped her altered screw at the
sheer jetty, Portsmouth 'dockyard, steamed out to
Spithead at high water on Saturday. She will make
her fourth screw trial at the measured mile this
morning, should the weather be favourable.
The Mersey, 40, screw steam-frigate, Capt. H.
Caldwell. C.i3., at Spithead, is under orders for
Portland, but had not left Spithead at six p.m.
yesterday. -
The .Cunard. screw steamship Etna, having on
board 3 officers and 21 men of the 2d battalion of
the 22d Foot, and 5 officers, 32 men, and 4 women
of the Ist battalion of the 21st Foot, sailed from
Liverpool on Saturday for Portsmouth, where she
will embark additional troops for Malta.
The troopship La Hogue, Commander Williams,
107 days out from Sydney, arrived at Gravesend on
Saturday afternoon, with a party of invalid troops
on board, from Australia, consisting of 24 men of
the 77th Regiment, 12 men of the 12th Regment,
and 5 men of the 11th Regiment, with 5 women
and 9 children, the whole in charge of Capt. T. G.
Versker, 12th Regiment.
Orders have been received at Chatham dockyard
for a 91 gun line-of-battle screw steamer, to be called
the Bulwark, to be immediately laid down on No.
6 slip, from which the Hood, 91, was recently
launched.
The screw steam frigate Curacoa, 31, Capt. T. H.
Mason, from the United States, arrived at Plymouth
on Saturday with Lord Napier, late Minister at
Washington. His lordship and family were con-
veyed from the Sound by the steamer Vivid to
Mount Wise, where they were received on landing
by Port-Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.B.
Lord Napier left Plymouth in the afternoon by the
South Devon Railway for Torquay.
His Netherlands Majesty's corvette Nyord sailed
from Plymouth on Thursday for Gothenburg.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Avon, 3 (tender to
the Impregnable), Second Master J. H. Lawrence,
commanding, from Ireland, with Mr. Paul, assist.-
master attendant, Devonport Dockyard, and 180
supernumeraries, arrived at Plymouth on Friday
morning, and left again in the afternoon for Sheer-
ness, with 80 men for the screw steam guardship of
ordinary Cressy, 80, Capt. Edward P. Halstead.
Port-Admiral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8.,
went out in his barge on Friday morning, and
mustered the crew of the steamship James Watt,
Capt. E. Codd, in Plymouth Sound.
Pendants were hoisted on board the Intrepid, 6,
and the Brisk, 16, at Devo.iport on Friday morning.
The gunboat Goldfinch was undocked at Deven-
port on Friday.
Mr. J. Bradbury, gunner, of the screw steamship
Exmouth, 90, at Devonport, who unfortunately fell
down the hatchway a few days ago, died on Thurs-
day night.
The screw steamship St. George, 91, was removed
from Keyham Basin on Friday to the dockyard
jetty at Devonport.
The screw steamship Revenge, 91, was appointed
to leave Pembroke for Plymouth on Saturday.
The crew of the screw steamship James Watt,
91, Capt. E. Codd, were paid advance of wages on
Friday afternoon at Plymouth. She is ordered to
proceed to Portland, and left under canvas yester-
day (Sunday) morning.
The crew of the gunnery ship Cambridge, Capt.
Jerningham, at Plymouth, were paid wages on
Thursday.
The brig Nautilus, 6, Lieut. W. B. Grant, tender
to the Impregnable, from Falmouth, arrived at
Plymouth on Friday.
The screw steam storeship Industry, 2, Master-
Commander Hodges, from the Cape of Good Hope,
arrived in Plymouth on Saturday.
The gunboat Bitter, tender to the Blenheim, 60,
at Portland, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday for
stores.

The Aboukir, 90; was towed down on Saturday
from Hamoaze to Devonport to get her yards and
other spars on board, for the purpose of being fur-
ther advanced.

Two new vessels—the Repulse, 91, and the Wol-
verine, 21, screw corvette—were commenced dur-
ing the past week on No. 1 and No. 6 slips at
Woolwich Dockyard.
A number of engineers have volunteered from
Woolwich dockyard factory for service in the
Royal navy, and have passed a successful examina-
tion for service as third-class assistants.
In connection with the eccentric hook-block so
favourably reported on by the official authorities at
Portsmouth Dockyard, their use will be applied to
her Majesty's yacht, and also to the Gorgon, 6,
paddle. The block is available for many useful
piffposes besides boats, and has been patented by
Lieutenant Wm. Clark, R.N.
Detachments of Royal Marines were on Satur-
day embarked from Woolwich for her Majesty's
paddlewheel steam sloop Gorgon, despatch vessel
Banshee, steam frigate Firebrand, and the 84-gun
ship Asia, recently commissioned. Her Majesty's
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The transport schooners Anne and Charlotte,
Arthur Wyatt, and Henry have shipped 117 heavy
siege guns and full cargoes of war stores at Wool-
wich, under orders for Portsmouth. Twenty heavy
loads of 8-inch shell and 32-pounder case and grape
shit were on Saturday despatched to the various
stations on the coast of Sussex, and tke other coast
stations have been similarly supplied from the
Royal Arsenal. The Mediterranean dependencies
have received respectively a large amount of every
conceivable kind of war material, which it is in-
tended still to increase. Notwithstanding that the
establishment of Woolwich is at the present mo-
ment over the scale employed at any other period,
the urgency of the present demands has necessitated
a considerable increase. which is ordered to be
made this morning (Monday.) The Royal Carriage,
the Laboratories, and the Military Store Depart-
ments have issued announcements for additional
hands to be taken on this (Monday) morning. The
Laboratory Department has undertaken to turn
out the enormous amount of 20,000 68-pounder
shot daily, exclusive of the manifold offices of ordi-
nary occurrence, which will likewise be aug-
mented.
The following appointments were made on Sa-
turday at the Admiralty :—Captain H. S. Hillyar,
C.B. (1854), to the Cadmus ; Commander Colin A.
Campbell, to the Banshee ; W. E. Fisher, to the
Ferret ; and Edmund Wilson, to the Atholl ; Lieu-
tenants J. R. Barnett, to the Firebrand ; H. N.
Knox, to the Royal Adelaide ; and Neale D. F.
Lillingstone, to the Cadmus ; and Edwin Wise,
master, to the Cadmus.
A FIFTY-GUN FRIGATE CUT ASUNDER.—The
operation of launching the after part of the Severn,
50, sailing vessel, took place on Saturday. at Chat-
ham, in the presence of the Captain Superintendent
Goldsmith, 0. W. Lang, Esq., master shipwright,
and the other officers of the yard. There were also
present a considerable number of spectators, drawn
together to witness so novel and interesting a sight
—the ship having been cut through in midships.
By the operation an additional length will be given
in midsbips of 51 feet. She is also to be lengthened
both fore and aft to 91 feet ; consequently, when
completed, the extreme length will be 326 feet.