Star.
London, England, 1818-03-09 00:00:00

CCRAII3II PAWLS AS WARR :

lIMOLISII.
Wheat, Kent and
Essex
Suffolk
Norfolk
Rye
Barley
Mak
White Peas
Boilers
Grey Peas

70s 911 s
70s 90s
701 88s
36s 40s
501 50s
GUs 76.
40s 48,
54$ 561
40s 46.

Small Beans 411 s
Tick ditto 56s 41
Oats, Potato, Sas 34s
Poland 241 32s
Feed las 30a
Flour, per Seek 73s Ks
Rapeseed, per Last L'io Xsit
TOZILION.
Wheat, Dentate 80, lON
Baltic Red, Hainbro' or
Brenteo,Braltant red 70590,

A dreadful event happened at Priorsfield Colliery,
near Lane End, on the morning of Thursday, about
six o'clock, occasioned by the breaking of the main
chain immeiiately after the waggon was drawn of
the pit, by 'which accident three men, and three
boys, all fastened together in the chain, were preci-
pitated to the bottom of the pit, and literally dashed
to pieces. _ _ _

A calamitous accident happened in the afternoon
of Monday last, %bout three or four miles off Dover.
A boat had gone out for the purpose of catching
whitings, when the wind having increased very much,
it is conjectured upset the boat, and the crew, consist-
ing of tow men of Dover, viz. Spice, master of the
boat, Tefty, Franks, and May, were unfortunately
drownect, May was 70 yearsof-age ; Terry and Spice
have left wives and families to lament their loss.

Sunday se'nnight the following affecting event took
place in the parish church of Henley, in Oxfordshire,
during divine service : at-the time of naming the text
(Isaiah lv. 7), a labouring man named House, ob-
serving that the person who sat next him was drowsy,
eagerly aroused his attention to the interesting and
important passage: but scarcely had the Minister'pro-
ceeded three minutes in his address, when House in-
stantaneously sunk in his seat a lifeless corpse
Sunday se'nnight, about five o'clock in the morn-
ing, the farm-buildings belonging to Mr. Thomas
Hewit, of Itockliff, near Carlisle, were discovered on
fire, and from the violence of the wind it was im-
possible to extinguish the flames in the buildings in
which they raged; but by great exertions the fire
was prevented from extending to those adjoining...-.
The horses and cattle were the only property saved ;
, a large quantity of hay, corn, farming and other
utensils therein, being entirely consumed.
Harron-Gaansn.—Saturday Thomas Deosom,Caseles
Sonia Renton, and Thomas 139talter, four young men, between
ge and 22 years of age, were brought up in the custody of Wl-
- Read, jun. and William Wainwright, Officers, and vet:
the bar, charged by Mr. Michael Riley, landlord of the
hound, Henrietta-etreet, Brunswick-square, with infusing and
mixing same deadly poison in some porter, and giving it to drink
to Sarah Morgan, Sarah Woodham, Betsy Fox, Jane Griffiths,
and Jane Tucker, five young women, with intent to deprive
them of life. The complainant deposed, that he is landlord of
thetheyhound public-house, Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square,
and is likewise a bresh-asamffaeterer; that the above five named
young women worked for him In a work-shop in the upper part
of a house deemed in an adjoining mews s that the two int-
named prisoners are gentlemen's servants, and the other two
journeymen brush-makers, who worked for another person in
the Lune mews; that about twelve o'clock that forenoon, one
of the two first-named prisoners came to his house for a pot of
porter, which complainant drew into a clean pot; that after
taking the chill off he carried away the beer, and meeting the
other three prisoners, they drank better than half of it ; after
which the prisoner, Samuel Renton, took the remainder to the
above five young women, and which they drank between them.
The prisoners returned to complainant's house, where they eat
down and had some refreshment. They had not been long
there, when a messenger came and informed him that the five
young women wete stretched on the floor in the room in which
they worked, lying in the agonies of death. Witness hastened
to them immediately, and found them as described ; one was in
strong convulsions, black in the face, and foaming at the mouth;
a second speechltsa,"and apparently in a dying state ; and the
other three stretched by them on the floor,'suffering
dating pain. Witness sent immediately for Dr. Darling, of
No. 29, Brunswick-square, who came and administered the ne.
cessary medicines; bet finding their case very dangerous, he
deemed it proper to have further advice, and three other kledl-
cal Gentlemen were called In, all of whom agreed in opinion
that their lives were in imminent danger, and that they could
not give the smallest hopes of the recovery of either, and that
their opinion was, that they laboured under the effects of some
' deadly poison add not from julep, opium, Spanish Lies, or any
similar things that might be administered to them for any base
purpose. Complainant, under all these circumstances, caused
the prisoners to be taken into custody, and brought to trial.
The prisoners were asked by the Magistrate, Mr. Sums, if
they wished to say any thing in their defence; on which a con.
troversy took place between two of the prisoners. One, a gen-
tleman s servant, said that he was sent by the two brnshmakers
to the complainant's house for a pot of beer ; when he got it, he
took the chill off, and returned with the beer to the two brush,-.
makers; they made him and his companion, the other serraat
drink ; they swallowed about a pint of it ; and the ',harmer, fine
muel Renton, a brushmaker, carried the remainder to the young
women. This prisoner declared that there could be no poisonous
inyredients in the beer when he and his companion drank ; as,
if there had been, they would have been as much affected as the
women. The prisoner, Samuel Renton, said that there must
have been something in the beer that was improper when it was
given to him by the person who brought It, for that he drank of
the beer before be gave it to the young women, and that he
found hattself very mutt affected, and not able to go to work.
A Gentleman, who happened to be present in the tap-room whoa
the two brusllmakers were apprehended, stated that he heard
the prisoner Renton say to his companion, the other brushing/ten,
" Tush—not a word—keep close, and they can do nothing."
At seven o'clock on Saturday evening, Mr. Riley, the coo-
plainant, accompanied by Mr. Boughton, surgeon, of 16,
ter-street, Brunswick-square, and some other gentlemen, attend,
ed, when the Magistrate put the following questions to Mr. Riley:
Magistrate.—Mr. Riley, how long after the pot of beer was
taken from your house was it before the girls complained?—.
About a quarter of an hour. . .

Magistrate.—Did you examine the pot to to see if it ccrntained
any sediment I—The pot was taken back to my house, and left
on the bar, before I heard of their being unwell; and I then
'poked for the pot, and found it had been just filled up for act,
ther person ; lest here should be.any left, I took the beer and
spilled it in the street:

Mr. Edward Boughton, the surgeon, was called forward aid
asked—ls it your opinion that it was arsenic or any other deadly
poison that was infused in the beer?—lt is not; the symptoms
were not alike, but it must have been some violent stimulus,
such as car.tharides, tartar emetic, or sulphur delingua, &c.
Magistrate.—For what purpose could cantharides be gives?
—lt would produce an excitement of the system.
Magistrate.—What is your opinion of their present state; are
they out of danger?—Doctor Darling and I visited them nos
long since, and we are both of opinion that three of them will
recover; but as for Betty Fox and Jane Grath, they ate stlU
in such a dangerous state, that if an inflammation of the stn.
mach was to follow, death must ensue; consequently we am
both of opinion, that they are not out of danger.
The offenders, who were aLrmily in prisms, and no present
at this period, were ordered to stand committed for ruder
examination, when the fate of the unfortunate girls is* dechissl
either one way or the other.