The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-11 00:00:00

NEW MAYORS.

The following are the results of mayoralty elec-
tions, in addition to those we published yesterday :
Ashton-under-Lyne. Mr. H. Mason.
Banbury
Bath
Beverley
Blackburn
Bolton
Bradford
Chester Mr. Meadows Frost.
Chichester , Dr. M'Carogher.
Coventry Mr. H. Sodon.
Devonport
Doncaster
Gateshead
Halifax Mr. F. S. Walsh.
Hartlepool - Mr. E. T. Jobson (re-elected).
Hull
Kidderminster
Leeds
Lichfield
Middlesbro'
Morpeth
Newcastle
Nottingham
Oldham
Plymouth
Pontefract
Preston
Ripon
Rochdale Mr. T. Ashworth.
Sheffield
South Shields
Stafford Mr. John Lea.
Staleybridge
Stockton-on-Tees
Sunderland
Tamworth
Tynemouth Alderman Potter (re-elected).
Wakefield
Warwick Mr. J. T. Whittington.
Worcester
Wrexham • Mr. Painter.
York .. Mr. R. Evans.

SUPPOSED SUBMARINE FOREST AT ST. BEES.—
It is stated that there are indications of the existence of a
submarine forest near to the beach at St. Bees, where tho
Poe heck eniplics itself into the sea.
The Peiainsular and Oriental steamer Ripon on
Saturday will take £250,825 in specie, of which £245,325 is
for Bombay, £4,000 for Calcutta, and £1,500 for Alexandria,
£201,625 is silver, and £49,200 gold. The whole is on pri-
vate account.

EXTRA ORDINARY CASE OF POTS
ING FROM EATING SAUSAGES.

.0.
At a meeting of the Hackney District Board of
Works, held in the Town-hall yesterday,--311%
Tanner in the chair,
Dr. TRIPE, medical officer of the district, re-
ported that in consequence of information which he
had received from the police he had investigated 33
casesT of poisoning caused by eating beef sausages.
0 f xih e p enrgssionasn
da-road
residedeocatde,dand
the
sausagesin the
l,er
were neighbourhood
alpnr;
Pur-
chased from one shop on Thursday, Friday, an'
Saturday last. Most of those who had eaten them
had recovered, but several were very ill yesterdaY ;
one man in particular, of the name of Eaton, resid
ing at 5, Fox-place, Cock and Castle-lane. 1.1.1 e
Castle-lave.
symptoms which the parties suffered from ied ut
degree, but otherwise were identical, and consisted,
after the lapse of from 3 to 24 hours, of a burn-
ing sensation at the pit of the stomach, and fre"
quently in the throat, resembling heartburn ; then
of sickness, followed by severe vomiting and Pllrg"
d
ing, more or less prostration, giddiness, noises and
pains in the head, and in several eases very marker
delirium. These lasted in moat cases for four
days, but in several had not disappeared in fire
waspuls pulse The tongues
of those who had not recovered -or:
more or less covered with a thick yellow futhere
rweaast debility, showing sehaokw,
ianngd
thatrather
tthe
e slow,pois
oann dh
a dne t
been all thrown off, even after the lapse of fica°
days- All those who p
that
of them were affecte d
while others who lived in the same house, aiseat
did not eat of them were not taken ill, so
, es
s.
there was no doubt as to the cause of the Or_
With one exception, all those whom he asked re_
specting them stated that they did not detect alyr
unpleasant smell in them, either before, during', as
after cooking, and that the taste was the sone, _
usual. He was of opinion, after attentively cons "e
ing all the symptoms, that the poisoning was Tusreal
by an animal and not by a vegetable or Imeeen,
poison, and that, as there was no unpleasant smbe_
the meat must have been diseased, and had net that
come decomposed by keeping. He also stated
on inspecting the meat and sausages in the sll
he did not find any which was Theyobjectionablt
cat stole two of the sausages, and almost died. 0
; self,
were made, he was told, by the butcher 110- re.
who bought the meat in a regular way on the pder
ceding day. He now brought the subject 1111 e,
the notice of the board, o consider whether In
els
would take action upon it or not, as all the sans g
ce teaio
were sold. The police said they would not a in•
any further proceedings unless they reive
structions to do so. mined
Mr. WATsoN asked if the doctor had ela- baa
the canisters to see whether or not the butcher
r.
dusted the meat with arsenic instead of pepPe waa
Dr. TRIPE said he had not done so ; but heherai
satisfied the illness did not result from nil fre•
poison. The symptoms were similar to those the
quently witnessed in Germany in cases wheroo long"
t
parties had eaten sausages which had been
kept. usages
price
Mr. CLENNELL—What were the sa
sold at? 01l
Dr. TRlPE—Fourpence-halfpenny nd•
y per p , co.
Mr. CLENNELL—Un(er the circumstanees,:tot-
not see how this board can take action in tll4. would
ter. If any of the parties died, an inquest .056-
of course be held, and the whole case fully 114
gated. was then
The usual report of the medical officer ,voi-
received, and the board proceeded with other
1'
ness.
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EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL IN -` p"
43. is to
The Tours journals state that a trial WIl
tjit t Clit
take place before the Court of Assizes of t, tin
in December, is exciting extraordinary bite: lady,
all the departments of the Indre-et-Loire.
.??.,,,.. or
who is possessed of a fortune of 400,W/it:lwo,
5.00,000 f., being separated from her husbane who
since 1851, lived at Chinon with her daught„l:o' best
is now sixteen years of age. She visited ill the
society of the town and neighbourhood, and towards
who
the end of last year brow htout her daughter' forward
g
is very pretty. The girl was thought ratbattributed
in her manners ; but that demeanour was ~re long
to the inconsiderateness of youth. Bei: as yeti
however, it became rumoured that she „hat the
free with the coachman, and it was stated boor of
man himself had boasted that he was the to be'
his young mistress, and that she was abom.,. eared,
come a mother. In January last be disllP„Pbliged
and Mdme. L-- stated that she had been L'adeuee
to discharge him because he had had the irelie. The
to ask her daughter's hand in Inarrill.g sec
mother and daughter afterwards went int°, wale:
as usual, but they were the subjects of rati,.u...Dto until
volent remark. Things continued in thats7o of the
August last, when the commissary o letters stating
district received several anonymous .e
~,ouog
that on the night of the 29th July terTL Oct
lady had been delivered of a child all ',wed
that the little creature had beeno, 31,
by the young lady's mother. As en
__J Joel
the mother and daughter had beensasi, the
going about their house and grounds
as
the letters;
commissary attached little importance to
_scoter,
but he communicated them to the public 104.°,,e ladf•
and the hater teemed it right to question the
She indignantly declared the statement unfound
of CS'
and, after some hesitation, laid a cornplalu, author
lumnious denunciation against the suppoS7. Dot
of the letters, and against her ex-coachtl:__%isi
ot!
she was told that in order to support the efrrejoe_d.
it was necessary her daughter should lreetra. Oil
by a medical man. She consented, DI u,lll a fey;
manifest repugnance ; but when a Ph pose, she Oa
hours after presented bimself at her hos!
she -os!
that the examination was unnecessary', adeliveredl
ready to admit that her daughter had been
,she ha
of a child, but that it was born dead, alle-,.,'at he,
burned the body—and she declared; and hat et
daughter had become enciente in eonsgavn ; oil
violence committed on herby• the coach 0 weet
.o.
also said that she had been silent on the ~ uthJe COI
this violence, and had burned the body l '
o o.,er ore,
from a fear of scandal. On that not
611
daughter were arrested. The young "!_•".. •flrsect;
told the same tale as the mother, but
violencebellJE.: had
with questions, she declared that no
child Ice:
been used by the coachman, and that the
er mother
not born dead, but had been killed by n
__-- ha!
before being burned. Since then Male•vs that le
persisted in her original story, and*lahourilif
contradicting it her daughter must 0 , isughte
under a hallucination. Both mother an
n. u
are to be tried for infanticide.
--"----
IVESPOOI)..
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP SH ANN ON AT --- L.
tile or of
—This vessel, which rendered herself famous
134esapealcel
American independence by her fight with the u
of training
is to be sent round to Liverpool for the purp The ose u „„onway, A
fa
youths for her Majesty's ships of war. duine
i 01,
merchant training-ship, has no doubt, by the I'7 as f
•ratat°l
of the experiment, caused the Admiralty tor shoo° /
as possible, the example of that vessel. IC damtitats
however, will, we believe, be only accessible to
boys (not criminals). ~,,,I Fo7‘.
',1C1..
SALE OF THE ARCTIC SCREW STEA3/-1';
ce/ebrate:.
1 —Yesterda by order of Lady Franklin, th
,e Joel.:
screw steamyacht Fox, recently returned from:Lit. for Si
regions with the expedition engaged in the
.se3_
..c7r;taek,
John Franklin under the command of Captain 3_l:_,_.,
It
R.N., was offered to public auction, by Messrs.eldboYlgoe.".
Ridley, at Lloyd's Captains'-room, Royal ~„„ was el.:
was stated that the Fox cost £6,500, and £3/e'" siiil Ncio
pended on her preparatory to the late expeditisonriholepsou;
built in 1855, the engines being by 3/I"srli Sold
f°
hall and Co., and of 15 horse power nomina Y.
£2,825. al
,_:s s°y
Before leaving Berlin for London, . 1',',..0 0101;
Highness Prince Frederick William address,r? ',':/ hay.%
ing letter to the chief mogistrate of the city .I_, that se:,
express my regret to the magistrates of the ci:Pn fotaoofr
Princess, my wife, as well as myself, is prey r"io
Ito;'bott
sisting at the fete which is to be given at Berlin
sobi\ ler. bit/
of the hundredth anniversary of the birth ofvtdo attains r a
ever, the day upon which the Prince of 1 _se have here
eighteenth year, at the celebration of which w land, 01.o.'ci,
long time promised to be present, calls us to t'lT,,r in wn_,,,t.
we shall be witnesses of the distinguished Mal, a'e'rooto z 0,;,;
they will celebrate the memory of the grealerguenioriTso,
and we shall participate in spirit in the . e
_,m,....f1tV0.
fete which will be given in Prussia.—(S!gliVovetaber '
RICK WILLIAM, Prince of Prussia.--13erlin, ~'
1859." yeas;the ti
On
REPRESENTATION OF NORWICH. with all P°Brl °f
sembling of Parliament steps will be taken 3:71_ ,yreasure_, of
despatch to determine whetner Lord Bury, ,ac.? P., respe,e;_ed
the Household, can take his seat for NorNr a, .1.,'-,la dee ,-_,,,,
his election in July last, the noble lord havingna the pr_,
to have committed bribery through his agenrit will op
vious April. The Conservatives contend a' ;
11 the dec-o,beir
be necessary to tender official evidence 0,
_.,d tbat Ito,
which the election committee arrived in JulY ''''''
mattetS ale
candidate will then be declared duly elected...
_,en, and ,
however, in an extraordinary state of contTs', a eollne:t
Liberals will no doubt endeavour to estabu
.!-,„ turas r ,_,
charge of bribery against their opponents.,, tiaLe obt;
that to serve some electioneering ruse some
Lord
13nrY °II icro
actually petitioned against the return of
uei 13ipotwit
ground of bribery, while some of Sir Strrogard t°
supporters adopted a similar proceeding- wi i
4„ild
gentleman. p u clerSl-re-
DR. AND MRS. Hum . • PHrEirs —ll7- - rip IP-
from r% ed 5
letters have been received in Cheltenhanl.f.i: arriv , „,..
phreys, stating that Mrs. H. and the children (woo!' 0
Boston, after a very stormy passage, on the V.ai.nrialitiv:_.,
The doctor still continues in prison aWaitlllga,l i;frs. ilok
charge of adultery, and the letter states tia '
btaining ,es to
phreys has experienced great difficulty in
of
~__ stfa
0,,
lugs, it not being the practice in that part t t_a_ut diffiec
_',/,
let out furnished apartments, bat that afte.tr.greclargeteeel'a
she found temporary accommodation, butt. te a
h comnilt 0/0
s;derably exceeding the sum allowed by
Some two Tow° Oil
cm eltenham for her weekly maintenance. ~,,,,. fro.
.44
1 . a paragraph was copied into the Er a f`,",, elf with
Haninhlo.- , of vi
American paper, stating that Dr. ; d boasti iv. J•
ken to prison after his arrest, rega'a,_,,t Air. • . to
twine and cigais." It is only fair to sayer T'written.litb.ot
Bartlett, the governor of the gaol, haw
lw:rairelY WI
say that the paragraph in question WO
foundation.— Chelten ham Era m iner .