The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-25 00:00:00

MURDER and SUICIDE at MANCHESTER
The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Mr. and
Mrs. Novelli was held on Wednesday evening, at the
Griffin Inn, Lower Broughton, before Mr. W. j NT
Rutter, county coroner. les //sc%-iL
Mr. J. H. Hampson, jun., who acted as theiallef
citor to the executors of the ate M. Lewis N.
husband to the deceased Mrs. Novell, deposed Met
had been in the habit of seeing Mr. A. Noveti3O,, tv-e;
business matters ; that he had one or two interAL ,vo;
with him on the 15th of December, again on the 2141frl
of December, and several times afterwards. Shy
Mr. Novelli had said on one occasion when going
through a number of accounts, "I must give up this
work, it makes my head feel bad ; it makes me ill,
and confuses me;" and on two or three occasions
after the 26th of December, he said, " Well, this busi-
ness upsets me ; I hardly know what I am doing, my
head is so bad." He also on one occasion said that
the medical men had told bina that he must not exert
himself too much, or it would make him ill. On
another occasion we had some conversation as to the
transaction of the business with the Stamp-office,
in the course of which he became cross and
irritable, more so than I had ever seen him
before. While I was adding some accounts, he made
a remark which 1 did not catch, and atter I had
finished I asked him what he said. He did not reply,
but continued staring at the fire, and did not look at
me. He never spoke again, but jumped up from the
chair, slipped on his coat in a minute, much quicker
Iremember
he
than I could ever have done, and bounced out of the
room without saying a word to me. Ighreoea, n
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compared with his brothers. He was decidedly
passionate and impulsive, and did not control himself.
Mr. Charles H. Bowker confirmed the evidence
given by Mr. Hampson, that he was extremely irri-
table and excited by the least thing. He was a tem-
perate man. He was in business in London on his
own account, in partnership with one or two other
persons, seven or eight years ago. That partnership
ceased about four years ago, and since that time he
had been in no business. krs. Novelli, big mother,
was insane, and was confined for some years ; and
two brothers also died by their own hands ; a sister
of his also is not in a sound state of mind.
Mr. Coston stated, that in the morning the bed
candlesticks were ptill in the room upon the table ;
one of the candles was burnt down .to the socket, and
the other did not appear to have been lighted ; and
that Alexandli4ovelli bad blundered up to bed in
the dark, as was no candle in his room.
Mr. Harrison, surgeon, said, that not only would
it be possible, but extremely probable, that such a
person as Mr. Novelli had been represented in the
evidence to be would, under extreme excitement, be
i betrayed into maniacal impulses. There are many
cases of that nature. People who are capable of pur-
suing the usual transactions of life without showing
any external appearances of insanity may, from a
sudden impulse, commit either great crimes or some
act that would fall under the common denomination of
insanity.
The CORONER then summed up the case at some
length, after which the jury deliberated for about a
quarter of an hour, and then returned a verdict—
" That Mr. Novelli had destroyed the lives, first of
Mrs. Novell, and afterwards of himself, being at the
me of unsound mind."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Hon. Charles Grey and Colonel F. H. Sey-
mour, went to London this morning at eleven o'clock.
His Royal Highness and suite travelled by a spe-
cial train on the South-Western Railway, and are ex-
pected to return this afternoon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours, visited the Queen this day, and partook of
luncheon with her Majesty.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent at Frogmore this evening. The royal suite
consisted of the Lady in Waiting (the Countess of
Charlemont), the Maids of Honour in Waiting, Lord
Carnoys, S:r Frederic Stovin, General Bowles, Lord
Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. Colonel
the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey had also the honour
of receiving invitations, and joined the royal circle at
dinner.

Ilia Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the
promotion of the exhibition of the works of industry
of all nations, to be held in the year 1851. His Royal
Highness arrived at the new Palace of Westminster
at twelve o'clock, attendee! by Colonel Hon. Charles
Grey and Colonel F. li. Seymour. The Commis-
sioners present were—the Earl Granville, the Earl of
Ellesmere, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir R.
Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Barry, Mr. T.
Bazley, Mr. W. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. J.
Gott, Mr. Jones Loyd, Mr. P. Pusey, and Mr. Alder-
man 'Thompson. Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Stafford
Northcote, joint secretaries to the Commission, were
in attendance. The meeting broke up at a quarter
past four o'clock, when Prince Albert, attended by.
Colonel Hon. Charles Grey and Colonel F. IL Sey-
mour, took his departure for the Vauxhall station, on
his return to Windsor Castle.

Sir Anthony Rothschild and a deputation had an
interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.

Mr. Saudilands had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a ger:aral meeting yesterday, at their office in White-
hall-place.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Com-
missioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the
Board of Trade.
The Lords of the Privy Council had a meeting yes-
terday, at the Council-office. There were present the
Lord President, the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, the Chancellor of the. Duchy of Lancas-
ter, the Master of the Rolls, and the Judge of the
Admiralty Court. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of
the Council in waiting.
Sir Frederick Thesiger and the Solicitor-General
were heard on a petition from Mr. Frederick Bel-
son, respecting the Royal Court of the Island of
Jersey.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of St. Helena.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands • and also for the Governors of Hong-
kong and Ceylon.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Her Mijeaty's frigate Inde-
fatigable, 50, Captain Smart, was this afLernoon towed
to s( a by her Majesty's steam-frigate Terrible, Captain
Hope, both bound for Lisbon. At three o'clock they
had rounded Penlee Point, and were out of sight. Wind

east, very light.
JANUARY FLOWERS.—Not more than three or four
kinds of wild-flowers can be found, even as occasional
visitants of the English field, at this season. The daisy
that " never dies" is the flower which we are most
likely to find on a January day, when the sun has melted
the snow from the grass. The simple daisy was once a
flower of great renown, and was called in England either
Herb Margaret or Day's-eve; and it still bears the name
of Marguerite in France. It was the device of the U -
fortunate Margaret of Anjou, and when that Queen was
in prosperity, her nobles wore it in wreaths in their
hair, or had it embroidered on their robes. That noble-
minded woman, Margaret of Valois—the friend of
Erasmus and Calvin—she who could retire from the
admiration and glitter of courts to study her Bible and
her own heart—she, too, had the daisy-flower worn in
her honour, and was called by her brother, Francis 1.,
his " Marguerite of Marguerites." The daisy grows in
fields throughout Europe, aad is as common in the
Italian fields as in ours. The children of Italy gather it
as an early favourite, and call it Pratolina (meadow
flower).—The Gardener's Hive.
EISCUMBERF.D ESTATES COMMISSION.—The average
rata of purchase that may be offered for estates sub-
mitted for sale by the commissioners has become a
subject of anxious speculatior. Previous to the pe-
riod of sale the commissioners are to receive pri-
vate biddings, subject, of course, to the public sale
subsequently. It is etatcd that there are parties
ready to offer twenty-two years' purchase for tho ex-
tensive estates of Mr. John O'Connell, of Greens,
situate in the county of Kerry, and which will be the
first sale under the commission. So much depends upon
peculiar circumstances, such as the amount of rent and
the solvency of tenants, that it may be difficult to
f,rrn a criterion of the actual market fromvalllueestat e
haenr ye
particular case. In that of the O'Connell
heed-rents, whilst others are let i
the occupying tenants. But,
tsuepeepdosing those estates all
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are seVeral distinct properties, innct,lhu2ed2ienygrdeisnwraser,lylp-suwercacuyhraetsdoe
round to be very well circ9ms a
full confiapt rt ceef,
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DEATH or THE WIDOW OF DR. CHALKEES.--WO
would Ledea:t cel
expired on Tuesday
much regret to understand that this amiable lady, the
relict
loafn eft
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last, thus surviving her distingushed husband but about
two years. Wo believe many of our reverend friends
and others will hear of this event with much feeling,
from their experience in last times of the now "death-
divided" family, and the mild, unassuming, motherly
demeanour cf the respect.,!d deceased. Seven daughters,
two of whom a-e married, survive their excellent parents.
—Edinburgh Evening Post.
MISTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OT A FEMALF.—
Yes.terday the body of a respectable female, named
Mary Ann Weed, who has been missing from tier home
in Emersol.-place, l3anksid©, since the 2d instant, was
discovered by a waterman lying on the mud on the
causeway, near Barclay's brew-house.
ritiE DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE OF LAMBETH.
—A very extensive and thorough survey of the whole cf
this large parish is now in the coulee of being made,
under the superintendence cf the Commissioners of
Scares, preparatory to an effective system of drainage
being introduced throughout this numerously' populattd
districtl