The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

complished, if England does not move, the United
States will bring forward these claims with renewed
determination. Against a demand made with a
menace England must in honour resist, and the
question will at once be removed beyond the bounds
of graceful concession. The dilemma will then be
not only painful, but dangerous. England will be
covering an acknowledged wrong by a declaration
that she is bound in honour to uphold her legal
rights ; and America, when the demand is again
made, can scarcely recede from the position she takes
up. The question will be further complicated by
the fact that it has already been argued out. Even
the last resource before an appeal to arms will be
barred, because England has refused to submit the
matter to arbitration. We view the position with
real alarm, and would most earnestly urge on her
Majesty's Government the propriety of grasping
the opportunity now presented to settle for ever this
miserable affair.

The Mysterious Case of P, isoning a
Barmaid in Sin opshire•

OAKENGATES, NEAR WELLINGTON, Friday Night.
This morning the inquest on the body of Harriet Tim-
breli, aged 33, who was up to the time of her death on
Monday, the 13th of August last, barmaid and housekeeper
at the Hand and Hammer Inn, was resumed by Mr. R. D.
Newill, the coroner for the county.
Frances Brown, a nurse at Oakengates, said she had known
the deceased for the past nine months, and soon after six on
Monday morning the 13th Aug., was called to see her. She
was in bed, and said, " Oh, what is the matter ? I am very
ill. Give me something to drink, and hold me tight." She
suffered from twitching of the body, which was worse in
the afternoon, witness and the servant in the house remain-
ing with her till she died. She had no pain but suffered from
excessive thirst. She died about three o'clock. She said very
little on the day of her death, only, "Oh, my mother.
What will my dear mother say ?" and this she repeated
very often. Medicine was given to her from Mr. Harley's,
the druggist. She vomited after that.

Lucy Garbett, wife of the proprietor of the Hand and
Hammer, deposed that deceased said on the Saturday that
she was going to Liverpool to see her brother off to Ame-
rica, and that she should afterwards go to Tewkesbury to
see her friends. She was then in good health, and witness
heard of her illness on Monday and went to her. Observing
the twitching she (witness) asked deceased if she ever suf-
fered in that way before, and she said no, but had heart dis-
ease. She told witness, in reply to a question, that she was
not in any trouble. Witness was not aware she was in the
family way. No papers or letters were found in her boxes, .
nor had she, as far as witness knew, any acquaintances.
Sampson Pitchford stated—l slept in the house. I saw
deceased many times on Saturday; she was just as usual. In
the afternoon of that day 1 went to Wellington, and re-
turned about 9 o'clock, The deceased had bread and cheese,
with porter, for supper, and went to bed at half-past 10, in
apparently her usual health. She bad asked to be called
early on the Monday morning, and on my going to her bed
room to call her at 6 o'clock I heard a moaning. 1 knocked
and afterwards partly opened the door. She said, "Is that
yob, Sampson? lam very unwell." I asked her what I
could get for her, and she said some water. I called the ser-
vant, Jane Jones, and she went into the room. I took some
water into her room, and gave her a little. I then fetched
Mrs. Brown. On the Tuesday week she went to Shiffnal,
and told me she wanted something there she could not get
at Oakengates. I asked her why she had been, as it was so
wet. I was at Wellington the day before she died. I slept at
home in Oakengates on the Sunday night. My bed room was
next to hers. I was not in the habit of calling her in the
morning. I never tried her door, nor do I know whether
she kept it locked or not. I'do'not know that she had any
near acquaintance besides myself. I served my time with
Mr. Harley, the druggist, and know the use of drugs. I was
with him four years. I did not know she was in the family
way till I was told now. I did not sleep with her on the,
night of her return from Shiffnal.

Wm. larrion, assistant to Mr. Harley, chemist at Oaken-
gates, proved that the servant at the Hand and Hammer
applied for some poison about two months prior to the 14th
of August to kill vermin, and on his refusing Harriet Tim-
brel herself asked for arsenic or strychnine, which he (wit-
ness) declined to supply, and told Mr. Harley of her request.
Mr. E. L. Jones and Mr. Greene, the doctors who were
called in, gave evidence of the fact of her illness, and the
last-named gentleman, who made the post mortem exami-
nation, proved that death had not resulted from natural
causes, but the symptoms were such as were caused by
strychnine.

Henry Enfield Roscoe deposed that he was Professor of
Chemistry at the Royal Collage, Manchester, and Fellow
of the Royal Society. Re had examined the contents of a
stomach, where he found strychnine in more than sufficient
quantity to destroy life.

By Mr. Cooke—lf repeated doses had been given, the
symptoms of totanic convulsions would have been observed.
The dose was a small one, from her living Janie hours. It
was difficult to tell how much was in the system, but be
should think, from what had heed found, that the strych-
nine had been taken half an hour before she was found.
After some further evidence,
The Coroner summed up. He said the case was most
mysterious and important. The adjournments for further
inquiry had only resulted in attempts at concealment on the
part of some of the witnesses that shrouded the case still
further than ever in doubt, and were fully calculated to
increase instead of allay the observations and discussions
that had arisen. The learned gentleman then wont through
the whole of the evidence at great length, and ultimately
the jury found the, following verdict i-That the deceased,
Harriet.Timbre], was found dying and did die from the
mortal effects of poisoning by the administration of strych-
nine, but how, by whom, or under what circumstances it
WAS administered there was no sufficient evidence before
the jury to show; and the jury further say that they 'much
regret that many of the witnesses have given their evidence
most reluctantly and contradictorily.
The inquiry then closed.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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WA N EFIELD.-FILIDAY.

The wheat trade is quiet to-day owing to the high rates
asked. A few parcels of very fine new fetch the rates of
Friday last, and other sorts are rather lower. .Fine bar-
ley fully maintainslate rates, but damp parcels sold slowly.
Beans and oats firm.