Star.
London, England, 1830-11-06 00:00:00

CRUEL AND UNNATURAL MURDER..

From as Pirmotah Journal.
An inquest was held at the workhouse, last Monday, before Mr. A.
Bows, Coroner, on view of the bodies of John Powell, aged six, and
William Powell, aged nine, who it was strongly suspected had been
murdered by their mother, Mary Powell, wife of a sawyer in the Dock-
yard,
who resides in Willism.smeet, Iforiceocovrn.
Wm. Honyoomb is a sawyer in his Majesty's Dock-yard, and works
with the father of the deceased. One of the two children used generally
to bring their father his breakfast, but on the Saturday morning Mrs.
Powell, whom deponent bad not seen in the yard foe months, came in
with it herself. After exchanging a few words, Mrs. F. said that both
the children were dad. Her husband asked what nonsense she was talk.
lag about; she again repeated they ware. If they were, Mr. F. said, she
must have killed them. She replied that near a woman killed chil-
dren. He told her to make haste home, and he would follow her
directly. She wished he could prevail on her husband to remain where
he was. During all this time Mrs. Fowell's couneensnee kept altering ;
her lips changed from pale to a " beam" colour; she seemed ex-
tremely agitated.
Mary Wilkocks lives in the same house with Mrs. Powell. Saw be,
on Friday morning, as well as the children, who appeared in good health.
Does not think Mrs. F. has been in her right mind during the rims
she has known her. Oa Saturday morning, Mr. and Mrs. F. called
at ha shop; Mr. F. mind kat whetha she had seen the (Adkins p she
replying in the megathes, he timfred her to go up stairs with him. Mrs.
F. did not say ay debited the was asked to go up first ; she then
said, in a patsedy nasemseened manner, " Well, I'll go with you."
When the semi. mg et the bed was taken down, deponent saw the two
debit Vag dual, is *sir backs, with their heeds on different pillows.
They seseeed When bees bulks hears. She saw no other signs deb,.
Imes iqsee them bat the meek eta dam nail on J. Fowell's neck ; she
was, keveseee, too mush °heeded" at the sight to take exact notice. All
seemed tre in the seem She asked Mrs. why she did not call bet
when the Mena ewe about to die ? Nn. F. replied that it would
have been sf me Sete. Depensat thee inquired when they died, and Mrs.
F. answered " at for irdeit." She Well that they had groaned almost
all night, and at four dick the ALMON! T had taken the breath out
of them. The room, she mid, had boss surrounded by angels all night.
In the treatment of the children, Mrs. IP:was sometimes kind, and dome.
times, without any assignable cause, the contrary.
Thomas Cresdag, aurgeee, was next swore, and detailed at consider.
able length the external appearance of the children, and the corrobora-
tive conclusions drawn from the dissection of the bodies. The child
John was lying on his bock; the sides dela het and oak, and the under
surface of the body, resented a livid "pan** there was a livid dr.
de round the seek, sad where this puss* over the windpipe theft or
a spot about the do e a naA which err roam discolour:l
than the rest. He had no doubt that Jahn Pawn died from suSh.
cation. He then described the sympteine.pmeasted. by Wiliam, who
mum have suffered a stress and cruel waggle. He had IN doubt that

Wm. Fowell also died hem sellibeatioa by strangling. mr.
subsequently stated that whin he asked the mother how the eNti,...*g
came by these marks, she replied they were noisy and would
to sleep, so she took a cane sod best them. They roaned
deal ; at three o'clock they esemed better, bat at four the broith••
out of tient. It wasa goad this. far peer people who thew viliZti
die ; her Muidnall was "ay Mil* le asp Owe he Aloha lave hre
very glad;blame be walwal bur soy Uses he ear swam
The mark on the hint of the throat of John must hare intim*,
faun the butts', shit gapped.
Mere the exandiadon of triturate closed. The Coroner then rem.
mod, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict
W JIM Mal& SOW Mary Fowell." The inquisition lotted
nearly eight beam The unfortunate woman has been coareyed r„
county gaol

SCINTILLA.

EPITAPH IN CORSLEY CHURCHYARD,
WILTS.
Once toddy and plump,
Though ewe a add lump,
Beneath this old stump
Lies honest Joe Clump,
Who wish'd to his neighbours no evil ;
Although by Death's thump
He is laid on his rump,
Yet up be shall jump
When he hears the last trump,
And triumph o'er death and the devil.

ORTNOORAPILT.—The followinj is an order, rerbatilu,
sent from the country the other day to r. Purday, Musieseller :
" you do ilk to trust I, i be William Savory, therefore send
ems mum has sill's and a beter has vlllen, and half a disco
hedid obdent nuvunt, WILLIAM 13AVOSIG"
A MAY'S Tunes FATueas.—Edris, the Turkish histo-
riographsr, observes that "a man has these fatben--to wit, the father
to wilsea ha awes his mimeses; the father who feeds his mind ; and
the hew at whom heeds ha naives his wife.—Athsasatosi.-.." He is 3
wise end who knows his men Famnem" There is one consolation
however--he can have but cue MOTHER.

MARCH 0? POLITENESS:—WhiIe a lady was passinl
Bedford-square the other day, with the ribsod of her sandal loose, her
attention was drawn to the accident by a smart young mechanic, ahr
addressed her in these terms:—" Hudibras says the politest thing a
man can do is to tie a lady's shoe-string—pray allow me to tie your's r
FASHIONABLE Mews ELZGANTLT TOLD !—" John
Denis Browne, Esq. leaves Weymouth In a few days for Manchester.
for the purpose of going to Liverpool by the rail-rm and from thence
=6"l2DubUn,for io commence his Divinity Term In Trinity Col.
to
061 Wednesday last he visited the Burning Cliff, near Wey.
mouth, and paid a visit to Capt. Timmons, of the Coast Guard Service,
where be partook of a cold collation" "sere, Collegian.)

CONVERTING A CANAL INTO A RAIL-ROA it
said that application will be made in the next session of Parliament, for
leave to in a bill to convert the Huddersfield canal into a reality,
rthrough the populous and improving towns of Ashton-upoo.
and Staley-bridge, up the romantic valley of Saddleworth, to
Marsden, Slaithwalte, blihnbridge, to Huddersfield, where a beautiful
valley presents itself for a railway to Wakefield, and from thence to
Selby or Gook. The distance by this line from either Selby or Goole
to Manchester, would be about 70 miles. ( ifasselsester Advertiser. )
We shell bear next of converting the Caledonian Canal into a railroad
Nothing is easier, for the ~ern pays well 1
CONJUGAL AINECTION.—Mr. P. a rich West India
pinata, one tempestnons evening after supper, his stock of water being
exhausted sent hls wife a short distance front the house for a fresh sup.
ply. The thunder sod_ lightning
did you not send that girl a ghtning being excessive du her her absence, a
Mad add to him..." slave)Why for the
water, oath a n*kt as this, instead of your wife ?" " h, no 1" replica
be, " that wauM never do ; that slave tad nee forty pounds."

A CANDID HUSBANIipa, who died
eonsidaable property in Essex about the beginning of the
1717Orati d
my, bequeathed to his wife, Elisabeth, fee her dower, " all my
lands In Waltbamstow and Leyton during her life, which is within little
of SO malts by the year, trusting (yea, I may say as I think, assuring
myself) that she will many no man, for fear to meet with so evil a bus.
bend as I have been."

CocKuY Coxs.—What insect would denote that the
Spaniards ware defeated l--The &math Fhb If quadrupeds were to
pubis (gambol), .tart weld they play 11-411 Poufs. Why
ie ths Lord Mayor • Clerk like a lams man I,—Smanse be is an
Helder. Wh is a spoilt child like a whale t—Secanas it it inclined
to iivMur. Why is a 'Over dinner envies sold an credit like senti-
mental love /6--Pro.vse ft is plats-an-tie (platonic).

tha prig
OF A CALF'S HEAD.—It l5 a t_t
desires' beads has ineramed 20 recent. in oocaega we of the rat
&mad foe the same to make mock turtle soup. business at Apo.
thwarts,' Bail Wasson considerably Immediately befog and after these
feedrides.

ANGLO-GALLIC ADVERTIBEIIIIIT.--I, Jean de Merion,
heist oblige trou necessite, to teach de league Francaise a sous de pre-
*l be glad you send your chats a mei. Jo demure a tater hd of
Seooad.street. Oh, I are forgot to say I mak a vendee, et I
have four dollars a month pour teach the plus polite a d'Europe.
LATZ H0u115.--•The Howe of Commons will abridge con-
siderably the thee consumed nightly in wearisome debating, that the
ambers will no longer incur the charge of keeping late hours.

AHICDOTE OF HIS LATS MAJZSTY.JAI a later period
one of the newspapers quoted a speech of Sir Joseph Yorks, who, in his
usual good humoured style, said. at some public dinner in winter, that,
(Cr his part, in such society, he knew no difference of politics or sea-
sons. And that a coal fire, champagne, and good company, might turn
winter into summer at any day of the year." Shakspeare and Sir
Joseph agree,' said the Prince--

" Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of Yorks."

• AIIOTIIIIS.—Among the adventures to which the prince's
unrestricted style of life exposed him, he was once robbed ; not by hi.
friends or his household, for that seems to have been the daily creur-
tenet with, at least, the lower ranks of both ; but by those professional
collectors of the streets, who, fifty years ago, made a midnight walk in
London as perilous as a walk in Arabia. The prince and the Duke o:
York bad remained till a late hour at one of the St. James's-street
dubs, when the duke had played, and, by an unusual fortune with that
honest and open character, had won a considerable sum. The royal
brothers got into a hackney coach, and were driving down Hay-hill
when the coach was suddenly stopped, the doors were thrown back, and
the robbers, masked, presented their pistols : resistance would have been
idle. The prince had a diamond watch of great value, which be cle-
verly slipped under the cushion, and thus saved : but the duke was
obliged to refund all his winnings; and the robbers were so well satin.
fled with this prise, that they forgot the prince's purse, closed the doors,
and wished them a good night. They had evidently been followed
front the club-house, and it was surly suspected, by some of the
1 themselves. On driving off, the prince triumphantly showed
1:11e purse. " How did you contrive to keep it ?" said the duke.
" Easily mouth," answered the prince, drawing his watch front under
the cushion; "there is nothing like having the watch in the coach
with one." -