The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-10 00:00:00

LONDON, ►SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1829.

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TIIE COLOSSEUM.

It is expected that in, three weeks every de-
partment of this splendid exhibition will be com-
pleted. The liberality of the committee, seconded
by the ingenuity of their able superintendent,
Mr. Parris, has succeeded in correcting the
errors of the original design—in reducing its ex-
travagance and heightening its effect. The picture,
now about receiving the last touches of the pencil,
has been brought more within the precise rules of
art ; and the lofty spires of the metropolis have
been made to stand out in relief, so as almost to
cheat the eye with a sense of reality. A critic in
a Morning Paper lately remarked that the paint-
ing was obscured with dust. There may have
been a film .of bee's-wing over this observer's
optics, but dust there is none on the ample cir-
cumference of canvass that beautifies the-Co-.
losseum, which the longer it is examined delights
and astonishes the more. The rock-work and
Alpine scenery, laid out at first on rather an in-
definite plan, has assumed both a practicable and
improved aspect, under the direction of Mr.
Parris. To the natural wildness of real crags
and shrubs, trees and waterfalls, he has skil-
fully contrived the additional illusion of the
Diorama. By this means the scenery will
gain an appearance of extent and a romantic
character, with which it could not be invested by
the use of merely natural materials. To sustain
the harmony of the whole, the arrangement of
stone and firs at the entrance of the Swiss cot-
tages, which looks like a quarry surmounted by
a Dutch hedge, should be broken into pie-
turesque disorder. We would also suggest that
the crooked column of shells and mosses bathed
by the spray of the fountain be superseded by the
fairy figure of a water. nymph in marble, executed
by Sievier. The Committee may rely upon it
that a tasteful expenditure will prove to them
true economy. When the work is entirely
finished there ought to be appointed hours for
morning and evening promenade, when a band
of music should attend, and rooms be opened
for the sale of wines and other refreshments of
good quality and at reasonable prices. His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, ac-
companied by the Duchess and Prince George,
recently visited the Colosseum, and every mem-
ber of the distinguished party expressed the
highest gratification at the entertainment it af-
forded. The ascending-room, which might have
figured in the ghostly machinery of the " Mvs-
teries of Udoipho," was tried on this occasion,
and transported the Illustrious visitors to the
dome of the building. The Royal Duke, be-
fore his departure, was pleased to declare that
neither in England nor on the Continent had he
ever received so much pleasure from any similar
place of amusement.—Morning Paper.

At his last audit day, T. A. KNIGHT, Esq.,
generously allowed his tenants a deduction of ten per cent.
from their rents, and with that considerate kindness and
affability which distinguish him on every occasion, he at-
tended the audit, and told his tenants that he had always
instructed his steward, Mr. Tauccu, to let them his
estates at ten per cent. below their fair value ; but that
times had proved worse than he had anticipated, and
-therefore, as last year, he should make them the additional
allowance of ten per cent. He also assured them, that
however bad times may he in future, if they would manage
their f►rms well and properly, he should be content to re-
ceive whatever rents Mr. TRENCH thought they could
afford to pay, consistently with their families living com-
fortably. This communication was received with all those
manifestations of grateful satisfaction it was so peculiarly
calculated to irspire.—Hereford Journal.

We regret to state that Mr. T. E. BENETT,
youngest ton of our county 'llepres2ntative, has been
obliged (in consequence of a chill caught whilst shooting)
to undergo the operation of amputation of the thigh. The
operation was successfully perform at Christchurch, by Mr.
COATES, of Salisbury. The patient bore it with fortitude,
and is now in a fair way of recovery.—Denies Gazette.

A SINGULAR BEAR FIGIIT.—A large bear
was killed, August 17, in Lower Freehold township, Mon-
mouth county, N.J., about seven feet in length, and three
in height. The 'circumstance is an uncommon one in
that section of tlae country. A knowledge of his being in
the vicinity had existed for some time ; the damage esti-
mated to have arisen from his depredations amounts pro-
bably to 200 dollars. The inhabitants owe the farther
preservation of their property to the enterprise of EzExtm,
PrRIUNS and ST4cY STUTS, who pursued and overtook
the bear on Monday, and wounded him mortally, yet the
animal maintained the war until the Wednesday following
with vigour. Yorle Advertiser.

A LADY POISONED BY HER NURSE

IN MISTAKE.

A few days ago an inquest was held at the sigt.
of the Prince Regent, in Brixton, before R. CAR.
TER, Esq., on the body of Mrs. Lucy Jones, whe
:lied from the effects 'of a strong lotion having been
administered to her by mistake for a weak aperient
Itetight.
Mrs. Savill deposed that she was an acquaintance
of the deceased, who resided in Herne-place, Water-
lane, Brixton. On Thursday, the 24th ult., the de-
ceased was confined, and began to recover from the
effec sof her confinement gradually. On the Sa-
turday subsequent to her lying in witness called to
see the deceased, who was mending in her health
very fast, and appeared to be very cheerful ii
spirits. At the tune witness visited her there was
a nurse, named Fanny Davis, attending upon her.
and in the course of the evening a draught was sem
from Mr. Evans, the surgeon, which was labelled
with directions that it was to be taken at bed-time.
This draught was placed on the drawers in the de-
ceased's room. PreVious to witness going away
that night, which was not until late, she particu-
larly instructed the nurse not to forget administering
the draught to the deceased. The next morning tht
• witness was sent for at en early hour to the.hOust
of the; deceased, and found an evident change for
the worse in her health. 'The deceased, however,
was perfectly sensible at the time, but appeared to
be labouring under great pain, and on asking her the
cause, she replied that the nurse had given her a
strong embrocation, which had been prescribed for
her husband, who dislocated his arm a short time
before, and which was contained is a phial, re-
sembling the one in which the draught intended for
the deceased was deposited. The phial containing
the embrocation, deceased said, was on the mantel-
piece in her bed-room, and when she desired
the nurse to give her the medicine, she emptied
the contents of the phial into a cup, and
immediately after she had swallowed it, from the un-
pleasant flavour, and the burning sensation she felt
in her stomach, she (deceased) immediately ex-
claimed Oh nurse, lam afraid voe have given me
the embrocation for the draught." This was about
one o'clock in the morning, at which time the de-
ceased desired the nurse to call her husband, who
was sleeping up stairs; but she refused to go, urg-
ing at the same time that no mistake had occurred,
and that even if it had, the embrocation could not
do her much injury. The deceased then proceeded
to tell witness that she remained in great pain until
nearly five o'clock in the morning, the nurse still re-
fusing to call her husband, and saying that she would
get better. At that hour, however, her husband was
informed of what had happened, and he immediately
went for a surgeon. In the interval, however, the
nurse rinsed out the phial containing the remains of
the embrocation, and also destroyed the other phial
containing the aperient draught.
Ml\ Evans deposed, that he was called in to see
the deceased some hours after she had taken some
liquid of a peculiar strong nature. On examining
her mouth he found her lips and tongue very much
swollen and excoriated, apparently from the effects
of having taken some strongly impregnated liquid,
such as that described to have been used as an em-
brocation for a dislocated shoulder. The witness
applied the remedies used on such occasions, but
owing to the length of time that elapsed from the
period the embrocation was administered to her un-
til he was called in, medicines had no effect, and the
deceased lingered until the following Wednesday,
and then expired. Mr. Evans added,. that the de-
ceaseirs death was produced by the deleterious na-
ture of the liquid above mentioned.
The Jury directed that the nurse alluded to
should be called in, and examined, to account for
her extraordinary conduct on the occasion. On
being questioned, she admitted that she had admi-
nistered the embrocation to the deceased, but de-
clared most solemnly that it was entirely owing to
mistake. She only saw one phial in the room, and
that was on the mantel piece, and firmly believing
it contained the medicine prescribed for the deceased,
she pouted it out and gave it to her to drink. She
(the nurse) recollected the deceased complaining
afterwards of the heat it imparted to her mouth and
stomach, but did not consider from the sensation
she described that the liquid was of a dangerous na-
ture, and therefore neglected to call Mr. Jones, un-
der the supposition that the symptoms slqe com-
pinined of would go off by degrees. This latter
belief on her part prevented her from complying
with the deceased's wish relative to calling her hus-
band. The deceased still continued to complain of
burning heat at the pit of the stomach, when she
(the nurse) became alarmed, and finding another
phial on the drawers containing medicine, it struck
her at once that she had given the wrong stuff to
the deceased. Being much frightened at the time
she rinsed out the bottle that contained a small por-
tion of the embrocation, and broke the phial con-
taining the medicine, fearful that she might be
punished for what she had done entirely through
mistake. After Wards finding the deceased was
getting worse she called Mr. Jones. The nurse em-
phatically declared, that she had given the embro,
cation to the deceased by mistake.
The Jury severely reprehended the conduct of the
nurse in riot immediately calling Mr. Jones when
the deceased desired her. Had she obeyed her, in
all human probability her life would have been saved.
They observed, that no evidence was adduced that
malice existed in the mind of the nurse against the
deceased, therefore they must acquit her of that
charge, at the same time they could not help re-
marking that she was a most unfit person to attend
upon any patient in the capacity of nurse.
_ _

A verdict was then returned—" That the de-
ceased's death was caused by taking the embrocation
internally, which was administered to her by mistake."
[We strongly suspect the above to be a fabrication,
got up by some one of those ingenious gentlemen
who occasionally draw upon their fancy, when mat-
ters of fact will not enable them to draw upon their
pockets.—ED. SUN.]

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening
from the Colonial Office for Sir JAMes KEMP; the Go-
vernor• General of the Canadas. Despatches were sent off
the preceding evening from the same office f.r the Hon.
General Parrs°Nuv, the Lieut.-Governor of Malta; and
also for Sir G. Dos, the Lieut.-Governor of Gibraltar.

The Austrian Ambassador had a conference
yesterday with the Eal 1 of ABERDEEN.

HERRING FISHING.—On Wednesday the
fishers at Lochcarron were far more successful than they
had been this season, each beat having canght from six to
thirteen hundred barrels of excellent herrings. The
weather king remarkably stormy in the west country for
some time back, the boats were p►evented from fishing ;
but it is expected, if the weather continues favourable, as
it bas been for the last few days, the fishing in Lochcar-
ron will be tolerably good fur the remainder of the season.
—Scotsman.

PRESERVATION OF EGGS.—A person who
dealt largely in eggs, at Paris, lately made some public
experiments in order to show his mariner of preserving
them. A large number were placed in a vessel, in which
was some water saturated with lime and a little salt, They
were locked up, and kept in that state for several years.
The vessel in which they had been placed was opened in
the month of January last, and the ens, without one ex-
ception, were in excellent preservation.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has. been plesstd
to api oint the Rev. William Frederick Powell, B. A. of
St Peter's College,',Camkidge, one of his Royal Hi,,,laness'b
DJ,ne.tic Chaplains.

C.nnulTs-ions elgned by the Lord Lieutenant of the count•

of Somer,et.
Ist Somerset Regiment of T. Chives,
Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated July '7,
North Somerset Regime.it of Yeomanry Cavalry.
J. M. Paget, Erg., to be Msjar. Oat. 2.
Commissi:m in the Sherwood Ringers, signed by the Lori
Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham.
J. P. Licy, Gent, to be surgeon, vice T. Brook, re
signed. Sept. 25.