The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-26 00:00:00

CALEDONIAN FREE SCHOOL,

We learn with interest that a few of the friends of this cha.
rity are making a collection among theinselves to give a fete in
the scholars on the.approaching festival of the coronation of our
Youthful Sovereign. The liberal proprietor of the Zoological
Gardens has agreed, for a4suiall consideration, to idiots' the
children-182 boys and 119 girls together 331—t0 visit his ex-
tensive collectioti on the morning► of Thursday next, (the coro-
uati.on 'lay, between the hours of nine and eleVerr o'clock. On
assembling in the school ..rooms before starting on the' little ex-
cursion, each of the scholars will receive an orange, and a bun
hearing an impress of the British crown. On their return from
the Zoological Gariens to Oldham-street, each child will receive
another bun, with half a pint of sweet milk in a cnrortation jug►,
which all of them will be requested to carry 'home to show to
their fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters, and friends, and
which, we have no doubt, will Dung be preserved as a memento
of the joyous celebration on 28th lune. 1838, of the coronation
of our gracious sovereign Queen Victoria An eminent house in
the Potteries has furnished a pattern of the jug, which is quite
beautiful, bearing a likeness of her Majesty, with various coro-
nation and national emblems, and on a garter or a ribbalid the
following' motto,—" SucceSs to the Caledonian Free School."
Each of the contributors to the coronation fund will also be Te-
ipested to accept of a coronation jug. of which 400 have been
ordered. In the school-romn, and in the Zoological Garder4,
the children will sing the following rhymes, of which the three
first lines are not original :
"God save our gracious Queen
Victoria! Britain's Queen!
God save the Queen I"
On this auspicious day
All lands that 'own her sway,
Fervently, bumbiy pray, •
. .
God bless the Queen !
Heavenly Father ! hear
Prince, peer, and peasant's prayer—
God bless the Queen I
With reign of peacefulness,
With days of happiness,
With heart of holiness,
Go., bless the Queen I
Wnile Christian hopes and joys
In her pure heart arise,
God bless t4e Queen
When earthly cares are flown,
Passed the dark valley's frown,
With an immortal crown
God bless the Queen !
Prom a Correspondent.

SUICIDE BY A YOUNG LADY.

On Thursday afternoon there occurred a case of suicide of a
most melancholy description, which has not only, as might be
expected, plunged the family of the deceased into the steeliest
affliction, but has excited concern-eyed interest wherever the
painful facts have become known. A lady of the name of
Smythe, who is said to have been remarkably bezutiftil, and
who had not yet reached the age of 20, had, together with her
family, been residing since Sunday last at the Seacombe
Hotel. About a fortnight previously the family had put alp for
a day or tern at the saute hotel; they then left it, and proceeded
on a tour through the northern part of Wales, returning to
Mr. Parry's on the day mentioned. The family of the deceased
young lady is, we ,understand, very respectable, and resides
at Broome, near Stourbridge, du Staffordshire. The young
lady, Whose Meiden name was Aumbleet, had about eighteen
months ago been married to a barrister, and, the union proving
unhappy, she separated froln hint about a year back and re-
turned to her parents. The mode, and, as far as could be
elicited in evidence, the Canies of her untimely death, were de-
tailed at the inqtiest which was held on the body on Friday, at
the Seacombe lintel, before Mr. Faithful Thomas, coroner of
the adjoining Cheshire distriet.
EFAftheth Smith, of Poulton-cum-Seacombe, (daughter of
Mr. Parry,) was the first whites§ called., Site deposed that
Mrs. Mary Smythe, the deceased, .theether with her father,
mother, uncle, sister, and brother, were lodging at Mr. Thos.
Parry's, Seacombe Hotel. On Thursday morning the de-
ceased had gone to Liverpool iu one of the packets... goon
after three o'clock in the afternoon some mien brought her into
the house on a chair. All her clothes were wet and dripping,
and she appeared to be insensible. She was taken into the tea
bar, but did not utter a word. Witness cut her clothes„
her in a blanket, and then laid her upon tesofa. Mr. Ellis., a
surgeon, carne in. The deceased was afterwards carried tip
stairs, and put into bed. The fist word she u:tered was to ask
for her pocket handkerchief. She shortly afterwards arose, end
walked, with the assistance of witness, to a close stool. She
there appeared to be in a great deal of pain. She had been
very sick from the moment of entering the house, and was still
vomiting at intervals. When on the night chair, she threw her
arms round witness's neck, and exclaimed, " Oh, Mrs. Smith,
I shall never be better: I have taken arsenic—an ounce and a
half." Witness asked her where she had obtained it, and she
replied, " I bought it in Caernarvon." Witness then asked her
if she hail taken it all, and she replied in the:Affirmative, adding
that she had put the paper which held it under a drawer in her
bed-room. Witness desired the lady's maid to go and look for
the paper; she did so, and brought back a piece, and a label
bearing the words " Arsenic Poison." [The paper was pro-
duced, and proved to be a piece of the Worcester Chronicle. It
was supposed that the arsenic had not originally been wrapped
in that paper, but that the parcel, having broken, by tieing va-
ried about the person of the deceased young lady, was folded in
it by her for security. The label had no druggist's name upon
it.] When the lady's maid brought the paper to her, it con-
tained nothing. Some of the deceased's relatives having visited
her, the witness, after their retiring, was again left alone with
her. She then inquired from the voting lady why she hail
taken the poison: her reply was, "1 was very unhappy, and
had been so for some time. and I wished to die." The friends
of the deceased and Mr. Ellis, the surgeon, were made ac-
quainted with the declaration of the deceased, but they could
not at fist believe it. Another surgeon was sent for, and a
stomach pump was applied. Their effoits, however, were of no
avail : the young lady died in about au hour ,after having been
brought into the inn, having been in most violent pain until
two or three minutes before expiring. Shortly before her death,
witness asked her if she wished to see her father and mother;
her answer was " No."
Mr. Richard Parry deposed that he was on board the Alice
steam-packet at hall-past three on Thursday afternoon, when
it was crossing the Mersey from Liverpool to Seacombe. Mrs.
Smythe was on hoard the packet at the time. He was not
aware that she was lodging at his father's ; but he could not
help observing her: her look was one of great despondency,
and her appearance altegetherinvoluntarily impressed him with
the idea that she was uue who might attempt suicide. The
packet had got about two-thirds of the distance across the river,
and witness was standing at the fore gangway, when he heard
an alarm— Stop the engine, there is a person overboard."
"
The engine was immediately stopped and reversed, and he saw
a female in the water; it was the deceased. She appeared to
be struggling, and kept her head above water. Heimtnediately
launched a boat, and .went to her assistanc ; a boat at the same
time put off from the other packet, and together they succeeded
in rescuing the lady, took her on shore, and afterwards into the
hotel. She did not speak. He did not see her fall into the
water, but he thought that the occurrence could not have been
accidental. A person on board the packet (who could not be
found) had said that she threw down her bonnet and veil on the
deck of the s'eam-boat and then leaped into the water.
Mr. George Turner, lieutenant in the East India Company's
military service, deposed that the deceased was his niece, and
hwas lodging at the Seacombe Hotel with her friends. About
alf-past eleven or twelve o'clock, on Thursday morning he ac-
companied her to Liverpool. After landing, he left her and
went to the reading-romn. He afterwards met her at the top
of Bold-street; she complained of being tired with shopping,
and requested him to walk hack with her to the boat. He did
so, and then returned into the town. It was then about half-
past two. He haul been much with the deceased of late. Her
spirits were occasionally much depressed, owing in a great
measure, as he believed, to an unfortunate marriage. The de-
ceased was nineteen years of age last October. She lived with
her husband but a short time, and then separated from him.
He could not give any instances of aberration of mind which
she had exhibited. She was desponding and unequal in spirits.
and complained that she was was unhappy. Latterly her
spirits had been lower than usual, which he attributed to the
fact Of her, having, while at Caernarvon, stopped too loug in the
water while bathing in the sea, in consequence of which she
had an attack of rheumatic gout. He had heard her say that
she should never get well.
Mr. Wm. Bartley Ellis, surgeon, of Seacnmhe, stated that
he went to render his assistance to the deceased after she was
taken Out oft he water. At first, no other means were resorted
to than those generally used towards drowned persons.. She re-
vived so intieb as to tell, though not in his presence, that she
had swallowed poison. The stomach-pump was then applied
by Mr. Halliday, another surgeon. She made no objection
whatever to its use. Her agony appeared to be intense. She
several times asked how long she had to live, during which
questioning the expression of her .face was terrific. She was
very sick ; the sickness he attributed to the poison she had
taken, Judging from appearances, and the short time that the
deceased was in the water, he should say that drowning was not
the cause of death. He attributed her death to poison. The
piece of newspaper produced was given to him by the lady'.
maid. The paper had the appearance and taste of 6ving held
arsenic.

The servant-maid of Mrs. Amphleet, the mother of the de-
ceased, was subsequently examined, but nothing of impot ranee
was elicited from her.
The jury, after a consultation, returned the following verdict
We unanimously find that the deceased, Mary Sumhe,
came by her death from the effect of having taken pOison
during a fit of temporary derangement." •

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INFANTIctHE.— Last week the body of a newly born snide
child was found in the large pool attached to the Duke of Bridge-
water's canal at Runcorn. It was tied up in a coarse towel, and
there were evident marks of violence upon the both—one of the
eyes had been nearly knocked out of the socket. The coroner's
inquest held on the body returned a verdict of "Found dead."
TODMORDEN CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL-00 Sunday last,
two excellent and impressive semi ms were preached in Tod-
mordeu Church, by the Rev. Win. Thorsby, of Ormerod House,
M. A.,—when collections were made for the benefit of the
Sunday School, amounting to the sum of £3B 15s. 2d.--illan-
chexter-Courier.
THE' CHuttcH.—The Lordßishop of Chester, has presented
the Rev. Francis Bryans, M.A., to the living of Backford, in
the county of Chester —The most noble the Marquis of West-
minster, has presented the Rev. I'. F. Barker. M. A., to the
living of Farndon, in the same county. void by the resignation
of the Rev. Frauds I.3ryaus.—Mancliiiler Courier.
SEE tous AFFRAY.—Ott Saturday a coroner's inquest was held
at the Bridewell, Warrington, to inquire touching the death of
I Mary Fox. It appeared, by the evidence of several witnesses,
that the deceased, who was an old woman, of a peaceful disposi-
tion, joined several other females in an attempt to expel Mary
Jackson from a house io Church-street, at which a money-club
was held, and of which they are members. This event took
place on Whit Monday. On the evening of the following day,
the parties again met in Church-street, and a regular row 'ensued.
In !he course of the affray, 'Thomas and James Jackson, the fa-
ther-in-law and husband of Mary Jackson, knocked the deceased
down, fell heavily upon her, and kicked her several times. The
deceased went home ill, but did not send for medical advice until
'note than a week afterwards. She died•on the Thursday folluwing.
M r, John Robson, the surgeon who attended the deceased, stated
That he had made a post mortem examination of the body: 'ln
his opinion, the deceased had died from inflammation of the
bowels, Which he could not, in the absence of all exterior marks
of violence upon the stomach, attribute to the injuries received
by the deceased in the affray ,spoken of by the witnesses, He,
however, believed that the excitement under which she laboured,
tended in some measure: to accelerate the disease, and bring
about her death. The jury, after some consideration, returned
a verdict of manslaughter, out, had they done- so, of one thing
he' was. certain, that no conviction would have taken place.—
Manchester. Courier. •
PERSONS LOST ott ,MISSING IN LONDON.—Tbe number of
persons reported to the police as lost or missing,: rino lie year
1837, was 560, of whom 33d were found and restored by the pa.
lice. Of the remainder the greater .part returned Um(' of their
own aeeord,. or were found by their friends.—Jourwalof the Lon.
dun S'ta'tistical Socieq.