The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-26 00:00:00

THE ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.

The annual dinner of this excellent Institution took place
last evening at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The
company, was larger than we remember it on former anniver-
saries, there being upwards of 250 gentlemen present.
The Right Hon. Lord Ashley, M.P., took the chair. Ilia
Lordship was supported by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Hervey,
Mr. Commissioner Harris, the Rev. Dr. Croly, Mr. Alderman
Johnson, and many of the most influential merchants of the
city of London.
The cloth having been removed, the " Benedictus " was
sung by the professional gentlemen present.
The customary loyal and patriotic toasts were then given
in succession, and duly honoured.
" Prosperity to the St. Ann's Schools, and may the present
recipients of its bounty prove its future supporters," was then
given by the Noble CHAIRMAN', who, in his usual eloquent
manner, expatiated on the benefits conferred by the Charity
on a large and important class of the community—namely,
the children of those who had seen better days. tie appealed
to the intelligent and healthy appearance of the objects of
the Society's bounty, who had been introduced into the room
(in number 289,b0ys and girls), in furtherance of his recom-
mendation, and the appeal was responded to by prolonged
and enthusiastic applause.
One of the boys repeated an address laudatory of the efforts
of the Noble Chairman in favour of the friendless offspring
of that humble class of the community of whose rights he is
considered the especial champion, which was greeted with
much cheering.
The children then left the room amidst the cordial appro-
bation of their assembled patrons.
The health of the 'Noble Chairman was then proposed, and
drunk with all the honours.
Lord ASIILEY acknowledged the toast with much feeling.
The able manner in which the present management have
conducted the affairs of the Institntion is evident by its pre-
sent flourishing condition. But ten years ago it was 2,0001.
in debt, and since that date the debt has been paid off, a new
building has been erected, the number of children has been
trebled, and upwards of 4,0001. funded. The sum subscribed
was unusually large ; amongst the names announced by Mr.
Leeks, the active and efficient secretary were many of the
highest rank amongst the dignitaries of the Church, and the
merchants and corporation of London. Her Majesty was at
the head of the list. The services of the stewards of the day,
and the officers of the Institution, were duly acknowledged;
and the company, having warmly kept up the hilarity of the
evening, separated at a late hour.

HORRIBLE MURDER and SUICIDE.

Between one and two in the afternoon. of Monday last,
the inhabitants of Belper, Derbyshire, were thrown into a
state of great excitement by the announcement that a me •
chanic named Yeomans, for some time past employed at
Messrs. Shutt's mills, had murdered his wife and afterwards
cut his own throat. Yeomans was a married man, somewhere
turned fifty, and had a family, the eldest son being married.
It appears that for some time past he and his wife have not
lived happily together, the cause being a suspicion by the
husband of his wife's infidelity.
On Monday morning, however, Yeomans was observed
pace about the street in a distracted mood. He went into
the Red Lioa tap and asked for some gin, declaring that he
would murder his wife.

In the course of the morning he called at a joiner's
shop, and requested permission to sharpen a pocket-knife
and a common table-knife, and, having done so, went away.
About half-past one o'clock the next-door neighbour heard
a knocking against the wall, and a terrific scream, and or
proceeding to the door found that it was locked. An alarm
was given, and a blacksmith opened the door, when a most
revolting spectacle Presented itself. In one part of the lower
room, her head resting upon a chair, lay the body of Mrs.
Yeomans, apparently lifeless. About a yard from her lay her
husband, weltering in blood, his throat dreadfully cut. On
further investigation, it was found that neither party was
dead, and two surgeons were 'immediately called in ; but
Yeomans gasped his last immediately afterwards. The skull
of the unfortunate woman was shockingly beaten with the
poker, and she died the.following day, having remained sense-
less during the interval.
On the floor near to where the body of Yeomans lay, a
pocket-knife and a common table-knife, both covered with
blood, were found. The supposition is, that after, as he
thought, killing his wife, he cut his throat with the pen-knife
blade, but not succeeding, he then used the table-knife.
The members of the family were all absent at the time the
deed was committed. A poor crippled boy had been sent out
of the way by the frenzied father.
During the afternoon and evening thousands of people con-
gregated about the house, and the greatest excitement still
prevails in the town.

SPRING.—The prevalence of cutaneous visitations
at this period ,of the year inculcates the _ necessity of
preserving the Skin in a pure and healthy state, so that
its timitions may be duly performed. The great cele-
brity which " Rowland's Kalydor" exclusively main-
tains as an active yet mild and soothing agent for
extirpating all impurities, and imparting a healthy
freshness and transparency to the Skin, is most pleasingly
evinced at the present season. This balmy and odoriferous
creamy liquid is composed of extracts from the most rare
flowers and herbs of an eastern clinic—its discovery by a
lady of rank, was no less singular than its effects have been
felicitous during the last thirty years. Its Universally great
demand excites the cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers,
who give the title of " Genuine" Kalydor to some compounds
of their own manufacture of the most deleterious character,
containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the Com'
plexion, and by their repellant action endangering health.*
Its,i therefore; i mperative on purchasers to see that the words
" Row land's Kalydor" are on the wrapper.—A 11 others are
fraudulent counterfeits.

THE SICK AND POOR.—At a meeting of the five
District Societies of. St. Marylebone, held at the Court-
house„on Tuesday, the Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair, the
reports from the several districts were read, from which
it appeared that during the past year 3,801 persons had
been relieved by their visitations, and that the sums dis-
tributed amounted to 133954 Os. 44.

DUBLIN, APRIL to four o'clock this day no further
move was made by the Crown in the Court of Queen's Bench,
in 'relation. to the new trial motion. __The affidavits of the
town-clerks and their chief clerk,.Mr. Mag-rath, filed yester-
day afternoon, furnish no answer to:the specific charges put
forward in the'aflidavits of the traversers and their agents,
certainly not such an answer as would sustain the. Attorney-
General in resisting the motion fOr,a► new trial, - The town-
clerks and Mr. Magrath exculpate themselves; but Mr. 31a-
grath admits that one sheet, containing the names of fifteen
special jurors, thirteen of whom Were Roman Catholics, .had
been " mislaid" by some of the clerks employed by him.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—(TursI3:W.S
The usual weekly meeting of the Association was held this
day, in the Conciliation Hall. At half-past- one o'clock the
chair was taken by Nicholas Maher, Esq., M.P. for Tip-
perary.
Mr. RAF: read the minutes of the last day's proceedings.
Mr. O'CoxxEr.r., after handing in .several subscriptions,
announced 11. as the subscription of Anthony Burke, Esq.,
of Westpont, who said that he was a Protestant, and had
always been imbued_ with
_a strong prejudice against him
(Mr. O'Connell) ; but, from a consideration of the state of
Ireland, le could no longer resist the' impulse which he
felt to become enrolled among the friends of legislative
Independence; at, the same time that be fervently hoped
they would bury. in oblivion all the party and
sectarian -animosity which had set Irishmen, against
each other, and had produced the enslaved -and destitute
condition of their common country. He . (Mr. O'Con-
nell) was sure that there would-be no second opinion among
the members of that Associiion as to the wish so _properly
expressed by Mr. Burke. If that wish were not realised it
would not be their fault i others might persecute them, and
rage fanatically against them, but' there should be no per-
secution and animosity on' their side.—;(Cheers.) They
preached the doctrine of peace and harmony among all
sects and divisions of Irishmen; and it was that whiCh they
most ardently wished to see realised. In compliment to
Mr. Burke, he would take that opportunity to refer to a sub-
ject suggested by his sentiments. He had seen, with great
disgust, in the tVeekly Register, a letter from Cincinnati,
in the State of Ohio, which contained an argument in favour
of slavery. Mr. Staunton must . hot have been aware
that that letter was already refuted; and imagining that it
had been suppressed by the Association, he thought it, no
doubt, a manly thing, and proof of his independence to give
it to the world. It was not the case 'that • the Association
had suppressed it. He besides saw, with regret, that it
appeared in the columns of the Pilot. He de-
nounced that letter.' It came from Ohio, where
there was no slavery ; and three persons who
called themselves Irishmen volunteered in it to defend a
system which did not at all exist .in their state. One '
of those persons had the very un-Saxon name of Galagher.
He (Mr. O'Connell) wished' he was in America, to put a wet
finger on that name, and substitute for it some more appro-
priate one. They might, for' instance, call him Pedrillo,
which was the name of a famous blood-hound in Cuba, that
used to slaughter as many as thirty slaves in a single day.
They were asked whether they should not compassionate the
case of the slaveholdel sas well as of the slaves? He (Mr.
O'Connell) would ask whether their compassion was due to
the 100,000 slaveowners, whose Cause the writers of that
letter advocated, or to the men who were made slaveS of,
but who were the-property of no other being than the eter-
nal; and mild, and all -merciful God?—(Hear, hear.) He
blushed to belong to the same country with Pedrillo Ga-
lagher—he hoped that name should go beyond the At-
lantic, and be indelibly attached to him. The Hon. and
Learned Gentleman then alluded to the case of a young
man named Brown, who had been lately sentenced to
death in America, for having encouraged a negro woman
to escape from slavery ; and he found with shame and re-
gret, that the judge who passed that barbarous sentence
bore the illustrious name of O'Neal. As they had a dis-
tinguished.- patriot of that name in the Association, they
should write to America, to have the name of that bru-
tal judge changed from. O'Neal to Pedrillo the second,
or , to. O'Pedrillo.—(Laughter.) That man had the
blasphemous audacity to introduce several texts of
the Holy Scripture, and maxims of Gospel morality
into .his, sanguinary sentence, but he seemed to have
been created a judge only for the purpose of sentencing inno-
cent men to be butchered. He (Mr. O'Connell) was glad of
the opportunity of admitting a Protestant gentleman into the
Association to make these observations, and he referred to the
glorious example always set by the Irish Members of the
House of Commons in support of the abolition of slavery.
It was, indeed, the Irish Members who turned the scale in
its favour, after Mr. Pitt had contrived not to succeed in
carrying it out ; and on that occasion the Irishmen of all
parties were to be found on the same side, Colonel Conolly
and Sir R. I3atesen, and all the Members for the north of Ire-
land, voting with the Liberal Members in support of abolition.
After some further observations, he concluded by moving the
thanks of the Association to Mr. Burke.

The motion was seconded and carried unanimously.
Mr. O'NEILL withdrew his notice of motion, given' on the
last day of meeting, to the effect that any man who should
move, at any time, for the dissolution of the Repeal Associa-
tion, to have his words taken down. Upon consultationnwith
the Committee, he (Mr. O'Neill) thought there was no neces-
sity for bringing the motion before the meeting.--(llear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL said he approved highly of the course taken
by Mr. O'Neill, and moved a vote of thanks to him for a
pamphlet on Repeal which he had lately written, and that
steps be taken by the Association to have it circulated
through the, country.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN seconded this proposition, which was car-
ried unanimously.
Mr. RAT read a letterfrom Mr. Fitzgerald upon the present
state of Ireland, to whom Mr. O'Connell moved a vote of
thanks, which was carried.

Mr. S. O'BuiEN read a communication from a Mr. O'Far-
rail, of Dungannon, which contained a correspondence that
had taken place between himself and the Irish Executive,
in reference to certain outrages committed in that part of the
country by the Orangemen. The answer received from the
Castle was, that the people should appeal to the local magis
trates ; and Mr. O'Farrell, in his letter, said that there was no
justice to be had from Orange magistrates for outrages com-
mitted by Orangemen, and lie hoped that the Repeal Asso-
ciation would take some measures to protect the people. Mr.
O'Brien said he hoped that the Repeaters in the north would
do all they could to conciliate their Protestant brethren, for
lie believed that their co-operation was absolutely necessary
for the success of their cause, aid he would say to the Re-
peelers of the north, " suffer injury and wrong, and continue
to hold out the hand of friendship to your Protestant neigh-
bours, and they cannot much longer continue to be estranged
from you." Let the Protestants of Ireland come and join
them hand in hand—let them declare, as they did before,that
the Queen, and the Lords, and Commons of Ireland had alone
the power to make laws for the Irish people, and they would
soon see their country a great nation.—(Cheers.)
Mr. O'ColagEn. expressed his delight at what had fallen
from Mr. O'Brien. He (Mr. O'Connell) knew a great deal
about the property of the country and its forfeited estates,
and if they were to be again reclaimed, whatever property
hithself and his brother possessed would be taken from them,
for every perch of it had been forfeited, and that at rather a
recent date.—(Hear, hear.) As to the idle apprehensions
about the forfeited estates, none but fools could seriously
entertain such notions. There was one thing in Mr. O'Far-
rall's letter which he could not accede to, and that was, the
harsh epithets applied to Colonel Verner, and some other
persons mentioned in his letter. He agreed with Mr. O'Brien
that much should be borne on the part of the people, and
every effort made to conciliate the Orangemen. As he was
speaking of the north of Ireland, he would allude to the death
of a most excellent man, who lived in the neighbourhood of
Dungannon—he meant the Rev. Mr. Boyton, as honest and
as upright an Irishman as ever lived—and he trusted that
lie would be permitted to strew a flower upon the grave of
a political opponent. Mr. Boyton, in 1837, made one of the
best repeal speeches that ever was made, and he (Mr. O'Con-
nell) had reason to know that Mr. Boyton would have long
since come forward to join the ranks of the repealers if he
could have got a Protestant party sufficiently strong to sus-
tain him, and in any event, had he lived a little longer, he
would have taken part in the struggle to make his country
a nation again.—(Cheers.) It might be said of Mr. Bovton,
as was said of Bishop Bedell, here lies the last of the Irish.
—(Cheers.) If allowed to go to Parliament, he would move
for copies of the correspondence referred to by Mr. O'Farrall,
and if he could not go there, there would be an honest Tippe-
rary boy to take his place.—(Cheers.)
Mr. STEELE moved a vote of thanks to Mr. O'Farrell, flue
writer of the communication, which was passed unanimously.
Mr. J. REYNOLDS read the report of the Committee of the
Repeal Association, appointed to inquire into the state of
joint-stock banking in Ireland, and the effects of the Bank
of Ireland monopoly upon the prosperity of the country. The
document was of great length, and went on to show the ad-
vantages that Scotland received from the establishment of
joint-stock banks, the want of banking accommodation
amongst Irishmen, and the evil effects of the monopoly of
the Bank of Ireland, which prevented the issue of notes, or
the discounting of bills (except with notes of their own bank),
within fifty miles of Dublin.
Mr. DORERIT brought up a report on the Municipal Bille
for Ireland, introduced by Sir James Graham. Itw.aesceiveon
of those mock measures by which it was intended to deceive
Ireland with the notion that her
in reality, e
the English Parliament, while, thee consulted
advantagesin
illusion.ofrere din the shape of assimilation to England were a mere
Mr. O'CoNNELL spoke at some length upon the report
brought forward by Mr. Doherty, and moved that it be
printed and circulated, and copies of it sent to all the Irish
and English Liberal Members.
The amount of the rent for the week was 290/.

A Oastler, T IO
meetingandN theF subscribers
liberation, A o
0 A S T LEf
theß friendsLlßeEf
Air.
to the fund for effecting his and purchasing for
him an annuity, was held on Wednesday, at the British
Hotel, Cockspur-street ; Lord Feversham in the chair.
Mr. Oastler sat on his Lordship's right, and Mr. B. Per-
rand, M.P., on his left.
The Noble CHAIRMAN explained the reasons and objects
of the Committee in calling the meeting. Large and liberal
as were several of the subseriptions, they still fell very far
short of what the Committee had expected, and they wished
to lay the report of the receipts and expenditure before the
public. The subscriptions, he was happy to say, were not
confined to any party ; on the contrary, persons of all shades
of politics had contributed. His Lordship then read letters of
apology for non-atteridance frOm Lord Kenyon, the Hon.
Stuart Wortley, Mr. Rashleigh, M.P. for East donwall, Sir
Henry Fitzherbert, and- Mr. Bailer.
Mr. BAILEY, the Secretary, then read the report, which set
forth that Mr. Oastler was sent to the Fleet Prison in 1839,
where, after two months' confinement, lie was attacked with
severe illness, which endangered his life. It then recounted
the efforts made to effect his release, which was only done
finally by paying off to the utmost farthing the debt of Mr.
Thornton and costs.

At a meeting convened in that room on the 7th of April,
1842, a subscription was opened, and by the exertions of the
committee and Mr. Atkinson, the secretary, 600/. was col-
lected. - The debt and costs amounted to 3,1711. 15s. 10d.
The subscriptions in all were but 2,0531. Os. 11d., leaving a
gross deficiency of 1,1181. 4s. 10d.
Mr. WALTER -moved the adoption of the repo' t, which was
seconded by Mr. WILKINSON, and carried unanimously.
Mr. B. FERRAND, M.P., moved the second resolution. On
rising, the lion.Gentletnan was received with great cheering,

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which Neasicept up fbr several ,es.
oastler for years, and a more—upright
nei'ef existed. He had been tried, and.
'(Cheers.) -Neglecting himself, he had
of others—rights which had been too:
long had the Parliament been Pasging
rich and the strong, whilst the poor, al
aged had been neglected. At length _
orth in-their defence, and with him stood Richard,
(Cheers.) Sadler failed ; but, thank God; his-mantle bed
fallen tipen one who was fit to wear it.' But there 'oras a
rL-
ward which Richard Oastler had received that Was more
valuable to him than the support of the rich. He had the
blessings of the poor—(Cheers)—and he was Called -by the
white factory slaves their king—(Cheers)-=and,.
through his instrumentality that the House of Commons had
at length declared its intention of legislating on Christian
principles—principles which soon Will triumph.—(„Cheers.) .
The resolution was seconded by J. B. 14Diar; Egb He
regretted that - throughout the West Riding-of-Torkshire,
and in those places where the factory system was in Wiest force;
the clergy, especially the Dissenting clergy, did not 'come for,
ward as they ought. Mr. Ryder having expatiated
,on the
horrors of the factory system, he denounced -t,fie - infa-
mous of all laws—he meant the infamorie.Ne r-law.
(Hear, hear.) Good God, what an inroad that was upon fthe
laws. If a revolution were to take place to-morrow, that
was the very thing to light the match. It was the very thing
they could raise a revolution upon to-morrow.
The Chairman then called on Mr, OAbTLER, who was re,
ceived with immense applause. He had been the friend and
associate of the late Michael Thomas Sadler from his boyhood,
and from him be had imbibed those principles which he had
since carried out. By Sadler he had been instructed in tho
principles of the British Constitution, and by hit* he was
taught-that-if they were properly carried out, they were cab
culated to lead to the happiness of all, not only to guard the
rights of the poor, but of all. From him he learned, also, to.
feel for the oppressed. If ever there lived a man whose
heart yearned for the diStresses of others, it was Michael
Sadler, and if he were to detail the scenes he had witnessed
in his company he would sear their hearts. Having
eulogised Mr. Sadler, Mr. Oastler proceeded to say—He
looked- upon the . pebple - of the country as one complete_
whole, and he considered that the freedom and happiness
of each depended upon being restricted from trampling
upon the rights of others; and if ever this country should
fall, it Would fall in consequence of having forsaken those
principles of the Constitution—those principles which our
modern Legislators affect so much to despise. The New Poor-
law was the very personation of all that heoppesed. It wag
destructive of the tights of the' poor, of the rights of-the
Church, and of the rights of the Crown itself. He would not
say much at that time npon the subject of factory. labour, but
tell them tvio anecdotes. Last night he was in company with
a clergyman of the. Established Church, who had just corms
from Manchester, Whilst' there he fell in with a poor factory
woman, who told him she went to work every day at six.
O'clock, and Worked until night. She had a child, which she
could only suckle before going to her daily labour and after
returning from-fit; and otr Sunday she could do nothing, and
go 'nowhere; but sit at home and look at her child. The
other anecdote was one in which he had himself been the
interrogator. Ile had been in Manchester last Sunday, and
he inettwo factory women; one of them had a child. She
went to work every morning at half-past five, and-returned
at half-past ten at night. She went home (hiring the day to
dinner. When he asked her how she contrived to suckle
her child, she replied that it was only. at those times she
could do so ; that when she was a young mother she used
to suffer; but now the milk oozed from her breast so easily
that she was relieved; but her clothes used to' be wetted to
her feet. Now, he would ask any medical man whether
such a system. must not be destructive to the mother, as well
as ruinous to the offspring.
- Lord Feversharn having left the chair, and Mr. Ferrand
being called thereto, thanks were voted to Lord Feversham,
and the meeting separated.

CITY BANKS.
The following return of the money balances of the
City banks was made to the Parliamentary ComMittea
in 1840, but by them considered an improper docu-
ment for publication at the time. It appears, how-
ever, in the last Number of the British and Foreign
Quarterly Review as a note on an article on Corn and
Currency, and on collateral authority we have ascer-
tained that it is correctly given. Our readers will
understand that the sums placed against the names of
the respective banking-houses is the aggregate annua
amount of the balances for 1840 :

Barclay and Co. £107,000,000
Glyn and Co.
Jones Loyd and Co.
Masternian and Co.
Robarts and Co. . 80,580,000
Smith, Payne, and Co.
Williams and Co.
Barnett and Co.
Lubbock and Co 33,760,000
Stone, Martin, and Co.
Prescott and Co 30,000,000
Denison and Co. 26,863,000
Hanbury and Co 24,700,000
Lad broke and Co.
Willis and Co 20,500,000
Curries and Co.
Spooner and Co 10,000,000
Price and Co.
Mulkey and Co.
Barnard and Co. 12,000,000
Were and Co.
Rogers and Co 9,000,000
Dorrien and Co. 8,000,000
Fuller and Co 7,500,000
Brown and Co 7,000,000
Bosanquet and Co. 3,700,000
Stevens and Co.
Weston and Co. 3,265,000

Total £978,496,000
Since the date of the above return two of the firms
there named have become extinct. Lubbock and Co.
has retired, and Dorrien and Co. has been incorporated
with Curries. These returns possess considerable in-
terest, but they certainly convey no correct idea of
the relative amount of the regular banking business
transacted by the respective houses. For example,
Barclay and Co.,the first on the list in point of
amount, has the usiness of the immense discounting
firm of Gurney and Co., which of itself accounts for
their position at the clearing-house. Glyn and Co.
has by far the largest portion of the business of the
railways and other joint-stock companies, and Roberts
and Co. stands so high on the list chiefly from the
amount of stock-brokers' cheques, which pass through
their hands. Other cases could easily be pointed out
to account for the position occupied by the houses in
the list, but we have said sufficient to show that the
amounts furnish no fair test of the legitimate banking
business transacted by the different firms. Looking
at the whole case, however, it is perfectly clear, from
that-and other circumstances, that the tendency of.the
banking business of London of late years has been
very decidedly towards a concentration in compara-
tively a few large houses. On this principle we have
a right to expect that more of the smaller firms will
yet become extinct. Our readers in the country will
understand that the foregoing list does not include
the bills and cheques of the Bank of England, the
joint-stock banks, nor any of the banks westward of
the City.—Herald.

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made, and it is expected that Fletcher will now make a full
disclosure of the whole facts, by which, it is stated, that
another celebrated firm will be implicated.
PENNY POSTAGE.—Mr. Cowell, in his tract on the
Currency, points out one of the uncontemplated effects
of the penny postage, and makes a just reflection on it: Previous to 1840 it cost several shillings to send a few
five-pound notes to London from the country. Since
the reduction of postage you can send four or five for a
penny. In consequence of this bankers in the country
are now in the daily habit of sending to London the
notes of competing bankers, in cases where they pre-
viously retained them a week or .ten days for inter
change, at certain periods, in London. I paid attentive,
consideration at the time to the effects on the circula-
tion of the alteration in the postage, constantly watch-
ing them, and became convinced that Mr. Hill's plan
enabled the country to dispense with considerably more
than 1,000,000/. circulation, and to export either that
amount of gold, or some proportion of it, obtaining in
exchange commodittes that we should not otherwise have
had. Mr. Hill did not probably anticipate such a splen-
did consequence from his admirable plan. It is a proof
of the importance of sound principles in such matters;
they produce good effects that are not expected, as well
as the advantages at which they directly aim."
EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE.—The Port Hope
(Canada) Gazette says
:—" Mr. Peter Moffat, who has
for several years been in the habit of teamin between
Peterborough, this place, and Cobourg, states, that a team
of horses, which cost him about 751., were missing on
the morning of the 6th September, 1842. After fruit-
less search and inquiries in the neighbourhood, ima-
gining they were stolen, he started towards Toronto
in search of them, and from some account received
on the way, was induced to go on a
beyond Buffalo, but in vain, and s far as 100 miles
after spending six
weeks in the pursuit he returned home. A day or two
afterwards, observing that the crows and dogs were
frequenting a thicket near his
own barn, he searched
it, and there, in a stream, discovered both his horses
dead. As there was but little water at the time, he
suspected they bad been poisoned, and upon opening
them a substance was found which on examination
turned out to be arsenic. But the most singular
part of the story remains to be told. A person named
C— b, who died shortly afterwards, acknowledged
on his death bed that he, another person named
C—y, and one M—y, (C—y and M—y
being also teimasters), had poisoned the team; and Mr.
Moffat states that C—b, on returning home after the
act, found one of his own horses hanging at the rack or
manger, and soon after lost two of his cows, and that
then he himself was taken ill and died; and that C—y,
who is said to have lent himself to assist the others on
this occasion, was subsequently shot dead, in a broil at
an inn in Peterborough. Thus does an inscrutable Pro-
vidence, sooner or later, overtake the guilty, however
secret or well-devised their schemes may be for a season.
LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.—A few days ago Mr.
Joseph Simpson Goodridge, a young gentleman residing with
his mother, at Peckham, was unfortunately attacked with
paralysis of the right side, from which, however, he re-
covered so as to be enabled to walk about with the assistance
of a stick. Meetinr, with an acquaintance on Monday
last, he communicated the circumstances attending the
attack to him, upon hearing which, the feiend of Mr. Good-
ridge remarked that a second attack of the complaint ge-
nerally carried off the patient, and he at the same time
recommended Mr. Goodridge to be most cautious, otherwise
that would be his fate. Mr. Goodridge, on' returning tome,
expressed great dread of a second attack, and it appeared,
while labouring under a great deal of nervous excitement,,
he retired, unknown, to-the fhnifly, Co the rear of the pre-.
mises, and in a shed where lumber was kept he put a period
to his existence, and was found soon afterwards hanging by
the neck from one of the beams. Medical assistance wax
procured, but all attempts -to produce resuscitation were
unavailing- The body of the deceased awaits a eereaer%
quest.

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