The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 29.
(Before Mr.'Commissioner-Goutnunx.)
JUDGMENT IN THE CASE OF ROE AND BLA.CILFORD,
BANKERS, NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.
This being the-day appointed by the Learned Commis-
sioner for giving judgment in this important case, the Court
was at the very earliest hoar crowded with parties interested.
The Learned Commissioner having inquired who was the
trade assignee in the case, Mr. Wilford stood forward.
Mr. Commissioner Grousnums—What, Mr. Wilford, is your
opinion, as trade assignee, of the conduct and proceedings of
the bankrupts in this case ?
Mr. Wilford—As being most deceitful to their creditors.
The same question was put to the official assignee, who re-
plied, that as far as he might judge from the bankrupt sheet,
which was most voluminous, they had stated their affairs in
a very straightforward manner.
The Hon. and Learned COMMISSIONER then delivered
judgment. This was a case of very considerable importance
as respected the two gentlemen Roe and Blackford, and as
respected the public. It was one of a number of cases of
failure by large banks, and in this particular case mis-
fortune to a great extent had been entailed on
a large proportion of persons in the Isle of. Wight.
Since he had the honour of sitting as a Commissioner in
Bankruptcy, three of those cases had been heard before him,
one of which, he might observe, was in its general aspect
very similar to the one at present before them. The circum-
stances, in fact, were almostitbe same. He referred to the Roni-
ford Bank. In all those cases they observed in the parties incul-
pated gentlemen of station and-of position in society, and fre-
quently connected with the best families in the district in
which they resided, trusting to the chapter of accidents ; re-
ceiving deposits up to the last moment from unsuspecting
individuals, and then failing, and leaving but little assets to
cover perhaps their reckless profusion. What were the debts
in that case? 100,0001., and the probable amount recovered
would give a shilling in the pound. It had been strongly
urged by the bankrupts' counsel, in excuse of the conduct of his
had exercised a wholesome vigilance, they
client, that the opposing creditors had themselves only to blame
and that, if thy
would not then ein such an unenviable position ascreditor to
a large amount. He (Mr. Commissioner Goulburn) would
at once accede that the conduct of the creditors of Mr. Cooke
and other gentlemen was not right—that they were greatly
to blame in not using proper caution ; but did this absolve
the bankrupts? Those creditors stated that they had inis
plicit confidence in Roe and Blackford, and more especially
in Mr. Roe, and they therefore wished to serve them, and to
prop their credit on the island. It was imputed to Cooke,
and be thought most unjustly, that he had selfish motives,
and that he assisted the bankrupts for the profits that might
accrue. He (Mr. Commissioner Goulburn) saw nothing in
the circumstances of the case to justify this imputation.
Now, the question was—how far did this blind confidence
on the part of the creditors justify the bankrupts? Bankers
were frequently, as here, highly connected. Roe was the
nephew of the late Sir Richard Bassett, he was living in
splendour and opulence, he was the chief magistrate of the
town of Newport, the principal place in the island, and all
these circumstances induced a belief that he was perfectly
solvent. Persons *ent to his bank, where their fathers had
gone before, and after depositing their money and leaving,
they looked up at his elegant mansion, and seeing the
symptoms of boundless wealth there, could it be expected,
could it be thought that a shadow of doubt would cross the
mind of the creditor? Could they, therefore, think the plea
of the creditors' negligence could be urged by the bankrupts
with a good grace? He thought it but added to their tuypi •
tude. Let them look at the charges which had been ad-
vanced against the bankrupts, and he (Mr. Commissioner
Goulburn) was most anxious that they should be fully under-
stood. The first charge was, that in the year 1842 they were and
had been for some time before in a hopeless and helpless state
of insolvency, to the amount of 50 or 60,0001., Blackford
being personally indebted in an amount or upwards of 10,000/.,
and Roe in a smaller amount of from 6 to 7,0001. The
charge was, that at that time they permitted the opposing
creditors to form with them a joint-stock bank, they wilfully
concealing their insolvency, and holding out to them a con-
trary and untrue statement. He (Mr. Commissioner Goul-
burn) was afraid that that was proved to demonstration by
the memorandums, which could not err. He found that on
May 22d there was a meeting held, and at that meeting Mr.
Cooke inquired of Blackford, whether, after appropriating such
and such debts and securities, they would retain sufficient assets
to meet their engagements ant liabilities, because if they
had not such they would place the Company in a most awk-
ward position ? The answer to this was a distinct
one—that they held such a sufficient amount of assets
as would meet all their liabilities. Now that was
a distinct untruth—a wilful suppression of the truth.
It was no argument to say the creditors ought to have looked.
The question was asked, and it ought to have been truly
answered. Confidence was reposed in them, and it had been
unworthily .abused. The same question was put to Roe, and
be answered in a similar manner. Could any man doubt then
that this wawa gross imposition on the part of the bank-
rupts? The consequence of this deceitful concealment was an
involving of those gentlemen who form the Joint-stock Com-
pany, in a large amount. Here, as in every case, to begin
with falsehood led to other and deeper evils. The second
charge was this :—Ceatain securities and bills of exchange,
which having been the property, of Roe and Blackford, were
left in the bands of Glyn and Co., and were thence redeemed
by the Joint-stock Company, and placed in the banking es-
tallishment of the Alessrs. Currie, the said securities and
bills being then the property of the new bank. The Joint-
stock Bank devolved on the bankrupts the entire manage-
ment of the new concern. Now, what was their duty as
honest men ? It was their duty to have conducted themselves
with strict integrity towards their employers. But what did
they do? Blackford writes to Messrs. Currie and Co., with-
out the consent of Mr. Cooke or the other gentlemen of the
co-partnery, as from the new concern, wanting those securi-
ties back, which, having been sent to him, he places to the
credit of his own bank. What is the excuse he makes ? This.
That Christmas coming on, he thought that customers might
like to take up their securities. If he thought so, why not
have kept them beside him; why give himself a fictitious
credit by appropriating property not his own? The Curries
at last wrote that they did not like this mode of doing busi-
ness, and that letter falling into Mr. Cooke's hands, he made
inquiry, was' answered with the above excuse, and the se-
curities were sent back again. Another charge was that
certain customers of Roe and Blackford's, who were suspicious
of the stability of that bank, had their amounts actually trans -
ferred to the new bank, and, in one instance, a person, very
wisely, drew his amount from the joint-stock bank
immediately after his account was so transferred. Was
it possible, he would ask any honest man, to justify
-this proceedure? They had no warrant for such a
course from their employers. To cover this conduct
they had recourse to another evil. It was usual that
a balance-sheet should be submitted to the directors every
Thursday, and Mr. Blackford was in the weekly practice of
altering the state of the accounts in that sheet to meet the
directors' eyes, and then, having answered their purpose, he
re-altered them again for the purposes of the creditors. How
did he justify that? ! he called those alterations mere
" scratches." They had got to this position with those gen
tlemen. They began with falsehood and untruths for the
purposes of deception ; they appropriated securities belonging
to others for the purpose of building a fictitious credit for
themselves; they transferred accounts from their own bank
to the new without the sanction of the directors, and they
then began those alterationalthuthe weekly statements which
were necessary to conceal their previous misconduct, ar:d all
the time they were insolvents to an enormous amount.
Now, under. these circumstances were those gentlemen to be
permitted to go " back to trade, and to have the
privileges allowed them. which the law humanely granted
to those who were unfortunate, through no misconduct, and
no culpable negligence of their own? What an amount of
evil had the bankrupts not done in the Isle of: Wight ! His
friend who sat below him, and who gone to Rumford on a
Chancellor's order, could harrow up their feelings with a de-
tail of the misery brought upon the middle and lower classes,
by the failure of the bank there; and could the bankrupts,
in this ease answer to the world, for having. introduced such
evils in the island, by their failure in Newport.. The question
for that Court was, had the charges against the bankrupts
been proved ? He was bound to say they had ; and could
be, from any feelings of a morbid humanity, think of per-
mitting them to pass that Court ? Could he answer to his
conscience, if-he gave protection to those gentlemen—men
of education, of good families, going on from year, resolved
at all events to take money, and from all persons who might
offer it. He felt it his duty, as a judge in an English
Court, under all
_the circumstances, to refuse the bankrupts
their certificates.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, July 29.
In consequence of the: sudden indisposition of Mr:.
Commissioner Law, and the absence of the other Com.?
missioners on Circuit, Mr. Nicholls, as-senior barrister;.
presided. '
The COURT was occupied for a long time in hearing'
cases,_ in none of which, except the following,' there ap-
peared any- point of general interest.

1F RE PIERRE CHARLES BRITNEAU CARE.
The insolvent in this case, who is a native of France,
and whose debts and nab: fides were stated to be very
large, applied to be liberated on bail until the day ap
pointed for his final hearing.
A very general iMpr,ession seems to prevail that it
is quite impossible for any person to obtain his liberty
by even the most speedy adoption of the different tech-
nical forms under a period 'of six weeks or two months,
but this case, notwithstanding the number of debts
which appeared in the insolvent's schedule, afforded a
striking instance of the quickness with which insolvents
may take advantage of the present state of the law. The
prisoner's attorney• brought him into Court. and securi-
ties being found for his appearance on the day fixed for
his hearing he was liberated, after being in prison for only
eleven days from the date of his arrest.

• IN RE THOMAS EVANS.
The insolvent had carried on an extensive business as a
cowkeeper and dairyman ; he was opposed by Mr. Cooke on
the ground of having made away with property; of having
failed to account for a certain reversionary interest to
which'he became entitled after the death of his mother,
and, also, with having vexatiously 'defended an action
brought to recover the amount of an accommodation bill.
Mr. NICHOLLS, after hearing very lengthened evi-
dence, ordt red the case to be adjourned .to compel the
insolvent to.amend his schedule and file more correct.
accounts.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKENWE L L.
Mr. Thomas Rule, 9, Fisher-street, Red Lion rquare,
aas charged with assaulting Mr. Henry Chester, an oil-
man in Bloomsbury Market ; also with assaulting po-
lice-constable Catt,• rmole, 16 E.
The policeman deposed that on Saturday evening last,
at seven o'clock, being on duty Red Lion-square, Mr.
Chester sent for him to expel the prisoner (who is his
brotfter-in-law), from the houie. Witness entered the
house,.and attempted to remove the prisoner, who im-
mediately exclaimed, " I will knock your d—d head off,"
and struck witness a violent blow on the face. lie
therefore took him to the station-house. Mr. Chester •
also gave the prisoner in charge: •
The prisoner denied the assault, and alleged the po-
liceman was drunk, but the charge was unfounded.—He
was fined 11.
James Madden, a ferocious-looking young man, was
charged with stabbing Samuel Nladden, his brother, re-
siding at Fletcher's,place, Islington ; also with stabbing
Henry Mackness, 10, Battle-street, Lower road, Islington.
The prisoner was undefended.
It appeared from the evidence that, on Saturday night,
between eleven and twelve o'clock, the prisoner and the
Complainants were standing near the Half-Moon public •
house, Lower-road, Islington, when a quarrel 'ensued
between the'prisoner and his brother. Macknesa strove
to pacify
that his brother was more powerful than he Was, rushed
them, but fruitlessly. The prisoner, finding
into a' house hard by, and, seizing a shOemaker's knife,
returned with it' into the street. Samuel; seOing the
weapon, attempted to get away, but the prisoner Stabbed
him in the side before he could escape. lie pulled the
knife from the wound,
which is not of a dangerous ells-

too true that many of his anquintances had suffered f
1 from emigration ; but neverthelesi he was determined UNIVERSITY 1 NTELLTGENCE•
OXFORD, JULY 27.--Tit:. •Nuni,o;tiore of incumbent:F.
to .go ; and therefore the only question was, whether the new ehnren at Bard•le'e., ,n the parish .Asb Voir
she would or would not go along with him. He coul I under-L:lm., Line ,shiro. will take place
not—he dared not—antieipat, that she would bur npxt I': is tv,iik rst.,-4 an exhif,,n.,nfr
!err the matte, in h.,r and advi.,,e3 !1,,r ' on the 21d of

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c:insv,: 11..
.' t.:ln-er. ,i!,i ::,-t,1,,,'. Tile pursuer, 0, r,- T. P-1-. VV.. V. I).,iier,. q, .'. :.' • ' 'l'''Y't '''' a",,ili.
ceiving this letter, d.d con,ult her father and he .:--te B. Landon, 3lesrs. Harr .s -ini h. 11. f'. .1•10', i le,
to the defender. Penetrating his disguise, he took no Cholinel.'y, Probstionary F• flows of. 31.1g-dalen t ';.,.rj,
notice of his reAution to go to America, but not the have been adolilted Actu,il Fe'l—vs ; and Mr. f1.0"_,,,,f
cpiestion simply, did he or did he nor. mean to fulfil his parsoos, , Defile, has I), en admitted a Prohati '''''
prorais,e of margin,: his daneiter ? The defe.n ler. Feqow on the ('h she ter F,,ii,ristioo.
finNitot, that his artifice was diseoverel, tAke I
The Rev. M. Argl,-,, of Moron College. has beenalpul*
no more of going to America. He wrote in answer. af- pointed to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Ch
ter referring to the two last letters he had written Miss of. Peterborough.
Croall, that as matters stood with him, it would be
per- .
. 1
feet madness to think of marrying his daughter, with pointed to the second lionorarydi anonry in the (.aa
tilt
The Rev. J. Sandford, of Bali Colege, has beau :P'
111
any prospect of happiness either to her or to him. This
Church of Worcester.
closed the correspondence. and with it, he might close
- • - his statement. He confidently asked from the hands of
the jury such a verdict as would give such reparation as MARKET NE WS.--( YES TERI)AY')
'CORM-EXCHANGE. - roe
the law allowed to the injur•al feelings of this patina; lady. The prevailing fine weather for the rowing,
Witnesses were then called, who proved that the fa- rapidly ripening crops, although there was no nevi ft $
ther p ,ssessed landed property to the extent of about, here to-day, together with there being every pron,lseep
.5001. per annum, 4001. of which was entailed on the de- large yield of' Wheat, and nearly an average one of
..,4
fender in right of his mother at his father's death, but Oats, Beans. and Peas, had a most depressing influencel,7ls,y
burdened with the sum of 2,000/. to his sisters, our Wheat trade this morning. All kindsaif En*lish,._o, 0
Mrs. Buchanan, of the Clydesdale Arms, Lanark. were a mere drug ; the factors 4 gave. way in. price ToreT-A•
stated that she was acquainted with both parties, and to 33, and in srdeniiinsttainiicies perquiarvter
abatementa- value of from 23
of 1/
had seen them together frequently. Knew that Miss ziasieexei=erl:-
English a
Malt at a reductionrl in value' lii
Croall had been on several occasions visiting at Wood • per quarter. Oats at barely previous quotations. Ptes, st
side for ten days or a fortnight at a time ; and on one per quarter less Peas had a downward tendency.
occasion, at least, when old :Or. Hirchison was at home, a decline of 2s per 280 lbs. About the spring of last year, she had a conversation CURRENCY PER IIiVERIAL MEASURE ~, „.
with Mr. Hutchison about his intended marriage with WHEAT—Esrs: & Kent,u
to
5.! 11ALT Tiohrekysiter,,,..sz "'-
Miss Croall. She advised hm to let his father know of Dit,-, ~, hick. ..... ... 4B. to 55s Linr-olnsh., feed ... gto
0
his intentions, and he appear, d disposed to do so. In Norfolk and Lin. Potatoe ..... .........
'coin, red .... 393 to 465, Youhal, and curs. Ist
to liPt
June last year witness paid a visit to Mr. Croall's family Ditto white 4os to 5331 black
in Edinburgh, and found Mr. Hutchison there also on a Irish, red.... ........ ... 47. to 50s1 Cork, white ....
49s to 5451 Scotch, feed " • :51: to 90,0
visit. She then detailed the circumstances of the pur-
ayaDigid wh
re ...... 234 to 33s BEANS Tick.... .. ..
. •••
chase of a gold watch, and its presentation to Miss New - 368 to 38s Pigeons .... 36s WO
.. so; tom,
Croall, as given in Mr. Inglis'speech. Witne-s stayed a New
2s ro 27.8 PEA. Grey ........ ...
...„7, to ',,
Malang 'l3s to 36s Map e.. ... ..... ..... so, to,,'
week in Edinburgh, and when she went away she left
hevalier_.. ..... ........ 32. to 35s Wh Ite ............. ..... ,2, toil'
Mr. Hutchison still staying there. She did not see more MALT—SufPplk and Nor. , Boilers --,,, to.'
of them till after the marriage was broken off. After folk s6s to 62s ' Roos—Town made ... '— 04
3i4"ses
Brown 50s to 549. Suffo k
' Sts t.
that she saw .Me. Hutchison in Lanark, and asked him Kingston and Ware 56s to 62s' Stm.kton &Norfolk
his reason for breaking of the match. He said it was FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. is
owing to his father and sisters' objections, and that he WHEAT—Dantzie ..... Ls. to 56s Bkfairs . ........... .......... 255 to ffidi
30 to 40s P AS. ............. ..•••••••.” ...4. to
had not a sufficient income of his own. He had expected IBam.Hsavinburgh
that Mr. Croall would make some allowance till he came OaTs—New i...... 11s to IBs Baltic ........ ......... into possession of his property, but that he had not done Feed l4s to 16s
so. Witness asked if he had mentioned the matter to SIVIITHPIELD.
.../.• 01
Mr. Croall, and she understood from him he had not ; The Beef trade was on the
though
steady; the P'--,,..dis
for she remembered saying to him, she was sure if Mr.
Croall thought he needed it, he would at once come for- Scots
t at foundkin dpicajdchnansetrsexate A
3.
iod her
smuoisr. gTheneentimorttl
trade was steady ; best old Downs realisingr 4s per 811*
ward. •
not supported. In the Pork
The correspondence between the parties was' then put which a good clearance was effected. The Lamb tradi.
into Court. very dull, at a decline of 2d
trade no alterati°llper Sibs. For Calves ti
were
The LORD ADVOCATE then addressed the jury on the notice.
part of the defender.
The JUDGE summed up, and the jury, after consulting
for an hour and a half, returned a verdict f it the plaintiff
—Damages 3501.

Per 81113. to sink the offal. ili
s. .
a ,i. to s. d. • dt9s 1 1
,
Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 0 Second qualityilittis... 3 -.0 sl,
Secona quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Coarse.wo:,lled ditto.. :3 ..°
4 '
Prime large Oxen
Prone Scots, &c.
1 arge (mar.. Calves 3 0 3 8 Large lives . ..... • .... 3 ,(! 4 ;
Prime irnalt dirt° - 4 1.3 4'2 Small Porkers. • 3°og ",
Suckling Calve.. each 18 0 31 ~ Quaver olti Pigs,eachl* 0 41'
Istferiar Slump
SUPPLY A 1 M A illi.ET.
Beasts. j Sheep i it' :lye, 1 PiP
2,858 I 37,33' 1 , 1,.58 31i
. .
..elf
The general demand for killed Meat has ruled-eatrewol
inactive. - However, prime Mutton ald Beef have suPPOO
their previous value, hut that of all other kinds of Me'
had-a downward tendency. •

S3IITEE V. GENTLE.—DEF.V.TATION FROA Ti{E PULP( r
This case, which was an action of &images a' tLe 11-
; stance of James Smith, totta,,t tn %\•••••
Alves, parish or Alves, awl ~tt.. of Ei. ; • , .
Rev. Alexander Gentle, rain,' -' : char it and
parish of Alves, and was tried l'etor: a jury on the 24th
July last year, came on for trial on Wednesday, before
Lord Ivory and a jury—the verdict of the forrner jury
having been set aside as contrary to evidence. The fol
lowing was the issue in the cause :
It being admitted that the. pursuer was. during the
year 1841, and that he' had been for several, years prior
to that time, tenant of the fan) of Wester Alves, in the
parish of Alves, and county of Elgin, and a member of
the congregation, and a communicant of • the Este dishe-d
Church in said parish,
.of which the dele‘nder is •now,
and has been fir fourt,•en years, minister_
Whether, on Sunday,
.the 14th of March 1;241, or
about that time, and during divine service in the parish
church of Alves; the defender did, while preaching -to or
addressing the congre,zation then and there assembl• d,
and in their bearing, falsely and calumnieusly say, of of
concerning the pursuer, that he hail 640 guilty of cheat-
ing, deCeiving, and over-reaching others in the cou-se-
of business ; that he had kept up false and ficti.
tious appearances, and had. on false or fictitious
credit, engaged in speculations and improve..
ments, and indulged in sumptuous living ; that in the
course of his speculatio:,s and. improvement-, he had
cheated or'deceived his more ignorant neighbours, by
inducing them to sign dOcuments to their prejudice or
ruin, and had thereby converted the house of mirth and
joy into a houSe of wailing and mourning, so that if its
walls could speak, they even would testify against the
Nile intruder—meaning thereby that the pursuer had
beeu guilty of obtaining money under false pretences,
had kept up false appearances, and had cheated and
deceived his neighbours' and others, with whom he had
transactions, to their injury or ruin ; or did use or utter
expressions, in allusion and with application to the pur-
suer, to the above or the like effect, to his loss, injury,
and damaF,,e.—Pamages laid atl,ooo/. ,
Mr. WHIGRAM opened the case for the pursuer, and
called nine witnesses.
Mr. RuTHERFunn addreiied the jury for Mr. Gentle,
the defender, and also called nine witnesses. The evi-
dence was in some respects of a conflicting character. -
Lord IVORY, having summed up, the jury retired, 'and
after an absence of a quarter of an hour, returned with a
verdict for the pgrauer—Damazes 1001.
The case, which exalted 'much. interest, lasted for
twelve hours.

- - •
At per stone, y the Carcase. . I ~gosidi
s. d. to s. d.
intertur...... ..... 2 0 2 Mutton, inferior
..... 2 4 4 6 -- I
middling. i 6
p 8 -
rime tartar.}..... 2 2 10 - prime 3
!), imo 3 0 3 4 Mirk,
V.:ai 3 0 4. 0 3
Lamb. 4s Od to f s Od.
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. „,
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. r'l;il
Scotland .............. 4 100

MURDER AT LIVERPOOL.

4.11•••• 00000
Yorks ire
Norfolk
-_, 20 Suffhlk — 31
-
Cainbridgesh ire .. 4 20 '_lop
tssex - lO 1.-9 90 :- 00
Surrey
shire -
10
Devon 10 - 0
Wiltsh 30ire
Other parts
18 '735 410 „...
Total .
p Previous week's areival
76 1*11.7 414
_..,
Difference .......--
since our last ----
. ----. as
18 377 4
BORO ililli .11.aD sPrx.A.l.rnezins. 400
There is still a fair supply of old Potatoes, both of vo
and foreign growth, on offer. New Potatoes are lei
readily at front 5s 8d to lOs per cwt.

sorlouGiti EEO ;e Ditll.lZ/EMT. i$
The demand is inactive, yet we can notice no variativ"
prices. The duty is called 145,0001.

1770016 MAET.
bell
In the past week, about 13,000 IZ
blLales of wool have
4
submitted for public competition, yet the whole have I:joal
buyers at prices about equal to those obtained at thepre
auctions. Privately, a fair business is doing, at full MO
T.A. 'LOW POT - RICST. tbil
We have no alteration to notice in this market
the
morning. Since our last, prices and business have been
same. Town Tallow is 40s to 40s 6d nett cash.

te
hiIURDER DURING THE HONEYMOON.--Ail fi
was held on Tuesday last in Fre.hford, by Mr. Willi
Maher, one Of our county coroners, on the body °fa T4i
named Thomas Meany, who, it appeared in evidence,
been married only three weeks, and had then gone toll°
in Freshford. About a week since ,Many went to Duhh'l4
transactsome business, leaving his wife behind ; on the 'see
irt to
of his departure a maa named Thomas Lannan w
the wife, and called himself her brother. While this man of
mained at Frestiford he employed a car-driver out.
that town to bring him a pennyworth of Spanish a,O
from Kilkenny, alleging that he wanted them fu'i
horse. Thomas Lannan left Freshford on Feto
week, and on that evening the deceased man returatlo
his wife in good health, and went early to bed. About
o'clock that night the wife came to the woman in:w"oe
ter
house they lodged, and asked her for a glass of cordial
her husband; the cordial was
saying
to her; the iver°o
first tasted it, and in about an hour alter the wife 1;
00
down, sayin that her husband was not well, upon w "ej,
the family of the house went to the room of deeeloil
and he told them that the drink which his
wife
given him was burning his mouth and stomaell'igife
doctor was then sent for, but in the interim the bis
removed what her husband had discharged from
stomach, and cleaned the glass in which the cordial to
been. The deceased made a dying declaration tr
the poison was given him by his wife, and he The
petted one Thomas Lannan to be her accomplice. t,b
jury found, " That Thomas Meany came by
his °,lto
in consequence of poison having been admtnisteTty
him by his wife, Catherine Meany ; and we find sei
said Catherine Meany guilty of willat murder,
strong suspicion attaches to one Themes l.annee s` sMI
accomplice." The parties were atrangets in Fres-two,
and are now, we understand, lodged in our ceuoe
gaol, where they await •their trial fir the awful, erl
which they !me committed.--Kilkenny Jr)derator. Loss
ACCIDKNT ON BOARD A STEAM-BOAT' WITH
OF LIFE.—It appears that the Newcastle steam tug roe
.was proceeding down the River, arid
when off Fl
I3ay one of the paddle-wheels cea-ed to revolve, 1:,115
"hung," as it is called, upon the c- titre. Crofter, Abe
was the sec and mete of the-vessel, accompanied
toel
engineer, immediately jumped upon the
paddle-box:heir
opening the trap-door on the top endeavoured with ‘,
feet to fore. round the wheel in its proper direetl6l,
when, by some unaccenntable cause, it became rvver.;„a
and, by its contrary motion, caught the feet of both,
J
they were, drawn immediately through the aperture,
s'l,3
jammed with great violence between the paddle Wlf
the floats of the wheel. ,The engine was imtnecli°tg
-ro•
stopped, and both Nen were extricated, but tho_,,Ftillf
sented a most horrid appearance, having been drew
lie
laceretnd and crushed. At this moment a home'
Wind Indiaman was observed, when the captain 0; le
steamer, with great presence of mind, raw ai„egsitle'es
the hope of a surgeon being on board; Such proVel °anti
the case, and the two men were taken on boarwtor
very kindly treated and attended to, but, unforttlq tba
before they arrived at Gravesend, Crofter died, sadna.
other young man is in a dangerous state at Graveee"
Five War

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