Star.
London, England, 1830-09-15 00:00:00

w:nmitted for a 31Nlen-wanour

__—w:totte judgments are reapited - - 3
..-____tor trial at the ensuing Sessions - - 310
--- remanded from last Sessions - - 0
- acquitted on the ground of insanity, and
t, main during Royal pleasure - - 2
committed by the Court of King's Bench
.1%,1 await judgment .

Total - 508
There it not a prisoner under flentenc,e of death in Newgate.

A LADY.

EXTRAORDINA R
Sunday afternoon, a Coroner's Inquest was held before Mr. Stirling,
at the. Hand and Flowers Hammersmith, to inquire into the circum-
stances attendant on the death of Miss Mary Treacher, who wax disco.
voted, not dead, but in a lifeless state, on the pavement, at the back of
her mother's residence, in Vale.place, Hammersmith, as early as half
past five o'clock on Saturday morning. The affair created extraordi-
nary sensation, in consequence of the state of the mother's mind, and
the manner in which they have lived for the last sixteen or twenty
years in the above mentioned residence. It is a large and respectable
house ; but, owing to the wayward state of the mother's mind, there
was never any resident servant. There/was an occasional assistant, and
that assistant was only allowed very limited views and liberties about
the house. This peculiarity on the part of the old lady was con.
firmed, as well, perhaps, by the peculiar state of her mind, as by the
tact of her house having been entered, about sixteen years ago, by four
burglars, two of whom were taken, and afterwards hanged. She never
had the windows cleaned, the shutters were seldom opened, and the whole
house looked as if, though there were blinds, that the family had
quitted it for many years. This was done avowedly for the purpose of
keeping away thieves, or of inducing them to believe that the house was
not worth robbing. That there should be corresponding rumours of the
house being inhabited by a miser-esr, by one who hid her gold in fire-
elates, bureaux, or band-boxes, ought not to surprise ; but still, though
the house was deemed a mine of wealth, it was not attacked. The next
peculiarity was the old lady's treatment of the daughter. From a real
or imaginary idea that, some twenty years ago, a lover was about to carry
off the damsel, the mother ever after subjected the daughter to the most',
rigoroustreatment—such as locking her in her bed-room, seldom allow.
ing her to go out., and never ',permitting her to have any self-control;
anti the daughter, though upwards of forty years of age at the time of
her melancholy death, had so grown to this system, strengthened by
invariable and most affectionate attention towards her mother, that
she suffered herself to be nightly locked in her bed-room by her parent,
the daughter bolting the door inside. On Saturday morning, as early as
Pall-past five o'clock, the servant at the next house heard what, in the
et II nce, she termed a " rushing noise, and then a scream." She there.
upon 'coked out of her window, and saw Miss Treacher stretched on the
pet ement, at the back of the house. She immediately alarmed her
mistress (to proceed with the evidence), who desired her to go and
alarm the policemen. When she first saw Miss Treachcr, who was
merely In her night-dress, she was lying with her face towards the pave-
ment : on looking again, the body was turned on its side ; but after.
cards it never moved. A policeman wan quickly obtained by this
servant girl, and Mr. Parkins, a medical gentleman resident in the
neighbourhood, was called in; but to gain admission into the house
they were compelled to break in the back door. They then carried the
'Leidy into the house, but life was quite extinct. Mr. Parkins, knowing
that Dr. Bowling, of Hammersmith, had attended the family, had him
sent fur immediately. Dr. Bowling stated that, on Tuesday last, Miss
Machr sent for him to come and see Mrs. Treachar ; and he added
tent he found the old lady in a state of mental derangement.
lie then prevailed on Miss Treachet to have some one to assist
tier in attending on her parent. He consequently sent a nurse.
On Wednesday Miss Trencher sent to Dr. Bowling to say that her
mother was better, that she was much more tranquil than on
ereceding days, and begged of him nut to come again, as the
ringing of the bell would disturb her mother, and make her wonder who
was coming. She added that her mother was then perfectly sensible.
0:: Thursday Miss T. again sent to him to say that her mother conti-
nued quiet, but that she herself was not well—on the contrary, was
very feverish, begging him to send her some medicine. Accordingly he
del send her souse medicine, ex required • because, knowing that she had
attended her mother for several Jays andnights, and without taking off
her clothes, he knew she must be in a feverish state. He did not go to
the house in consequence of the daughter's injunctions not to come, as
her mother was deemed better, that irritation or anxiety might not be
kr:ceased. The nurse confirmed portions of Dr. B.'s evidence, and
:chid that on Tuesday she found Mrs. Trencher in a state of great ex-
r :snit:N. She remained with her all night. Mr.. Trencher wandered
about the room all night. At five o'clock on Wednesday morning she
wee obliged to go to Miss T.'S room. Miss I'. then appeared to be
cenisiderably refreshed from the night's sleep ; and, in the course of
Wednesday, Mrs. T. appeared to be much better. bliss Treacher afters
wards proposed to the nurse that she should withdraw, if only to a
neighbouring house, as her presence, if observed by Mrs. Treacher
would only make her worse, and more irritable—such was the old lady's
dislike to have any stranger about the house. The nurse, nevertheless,
knowing the very extraordinary state of Mrs. Trencher's mind, sue-
cc, (led in inducing Niles Treacher to allow her to stay in one of the
menus during the night without the knowledge of the mother. On
Thursday, however, Miss Treacher would not consent to her staying,
saying that her mother was constantly in the habit of going all
over the house, and that she dreaded the consequences of her going
about and finding any stranger present, when she expected that none
but herself and daughter were in the house. The daughter wished her
te etay in the neighbourhood, and to be ready on Saturday morning, in
ewe the should be wanted. She came on Saturday morning, but then
found her young mistress quite dead. Mr. Parkins spoke to the finding
of the body, and to the breaking into the house. The body, it ap-
peared, had hardly a perfect joint—arms, legs, thigh, wrist, ancles,
ribs--all were broken or dislocated by the fall. The fall was from the
three pair of stairs back window, which is directly over the mother's
bed-room. On entering the house the party went to the mother's bed-
room, which they found locked. They called and required admission ;
the old lady answered, but refused to open the door. To the proposi.
Lion to force it open Mr. Patine would not consent, as, knowing the
precarious state of the old lady's mind, he thought such a proceeding
was calculated to make the old lady much worse even than she might
have been. The daughter's bed-room was then examined: it was
found to be locked on use outside, according to the usual custom, and
it was bolted on the inside, as was the daughter's practice. All the
rest was left to supposition. From a knowledge of the daughter's anx-
ieties and habits, It was inferred that, bearing the mother about in the
room underneath, and without the ability to get out of her room to
go down stairs until her mother chose to unlock the door, she
bee leaned out of the window (to sec what her mother might be about),
till she lost her balance. and consequently fell. Another supposition
was, that her suddenly wakincanxieties.had given activity to dreams,
and thus led her, fatally, to the window, in the hope of giving relief to
her parent. The suspicion that the parent bad in some frantic mood
atter ked the daughter, the Jury considered was negatived by the tact
that the daughter's bed-room was locked on the outside and bolted on
the inside. after finding the body in the garden. The window of the
attic-room, in which the daughter slept is a very low one, while the
young lady was corpulent, and six feat ittioinches high ! lf, therefore,
the Jury said, such a body stretched out of window, lost its balance,
and being perhaps "between sleep and awake," the consequences ought
hardly to surprise.
After mile consideration, the Jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
&bud Death." It is mentioned that the mother even now is not aware
of her daughter's death.
The daughter's demise, and under such melancholy circumstances—
fei the " rushing noise" was occasioned by her falling through vine
irets—has occasioned deep regret, as well as much agitated feeling ; for
with ell their eccentric feelings, they were exceedingly considerate to-
wards the poor.
TREATY WITH THE SUBLIME PORTE.--II is stated in
the Washington Telegraph of last Friday, that information has been
received at the Department of State, that a Treaty between the United
States and the Sublime Porte was signed at Constantinople on the Ith
of May last, by Nir. Charles Rhind, on the part of the former, and the
Re is Mende or Minister of Foreign Affairs of that Government, on the
part of the latter ; and that Treaty secures tb the commerce and nevi.
gallon of the United States all the advantages enjoyed by the most fa-
vour, ti nations in the ports cr dominions of the Turkish Empire, and a
frees passage for their vessels to and from the Black Sea ; that &mans
had been obtained and despatched by Mr. Rhind to Commodore Biddle,
the Commander of out naval forces in the Meditenanean and Levant,
and Mr. Ofiky, our Consul at Smyrna, antbswidng them to proceed to
Constantinople by land, for the purpose emitting their signature to the
treaty in question (those offices being adociattel with Mr. Rhind in
tee Commission for the conclusion of the ease,) and that, on this for-
mality being accomplished, the treaty would be forwarded to this Go-
vernment. hit. Rhind left the United States In the month of Oct. or

Nov. of the last }ear upon this interesting mission.