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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

when inquiries we:
showed that

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poses, from toe tact ot many of the bones having been Places in the city, which she left without paYiulaci*
sawed through. Although every enquiry has been made, On Wednesday the prisoner called on Mr. Bar "o
for the purpose of learning how the disaster occurred, with some difficulty he detained her at his office'tbef°,
nothing satisfactory could he gleaned.—Daily News. her into custody. She said she would make uP sow,
AGRICULTURAL PRDSPF.CTS.—TITE RFQUISITION TO missions. In reply to a question, Mr. 133rt°,,,,641
THE HIGH SHERIFF OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE.— The should lose £37 18s. by the contract. If ""
length of this " monster" requisition is 112 feet, and as tho prisoner had conferred similar'
emr" I.- 1 c.l

her 0
wours on ?r,„,

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act rect. The Stock Exchange, cautioning brokers sp..--
.),963, and the list of acres entered I said in her defence that she expected to recei,
A considerable number of signatures, including I sum of money under a will of a Mr. Hamilton,
At of Mr. Hale, M.P. for the western division, were chester, who was, as she described hia
:ceived yesterday, too late, unfortunately, for use.. The hers : he was uncle to her grandfather, an
crerefo:dshire requ;sition was only, we believe,.signed Ly the Bridgewater Canal besides £60,000 inr'`
1,350 persons, and that for Worcestershire was not much funds. She thought by bringing herself int° "
t of
more numerously signed. The acreage entered in the necessity it would sooner bring about a setticol,l,l
Oxfordshire rt quisition was only about 25,000; so that claims. Her " legal adviser and friend" was 3 3 tlitiA
Gloucestershire has evidently ininitely more spirit than of Manchester. Letters were produced, sho%cing,el.o
her neighbours.—Gloucester Paper. prisoner had extended her favours to several of °bp till)
Tit E MURDER AT BANBURY.—The unfortunate woman, chester sharebrokers, and it was considered POIS
Mrs. Layton, expired on Tuesday after three weeks' suf- her business had not been limited to the cases broe'l,s3.ste
fering. The prisoner Layton will doubtless be committed fore the court. The magistrate intimated that °oot?
to Oxford Castle for the wilful murder of his wife. Mrs. which the prisoner had practised was no other.tb
Layton having

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hopes were entertained I of a whol
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sale swindler, and he would not• part wit for

ways consid

red that

uenceimight suddenly

er inquiries were mad
order that

She was

le pistol wound, which had produced
compound fracture of the skull. It is supposed effusion
on the brain had gradually come on, as for three or four
days before her death she appeared irra drowsy and le-
thargic state, and unwilling to answer questions. The
deceased frequently expressed herself as very thankful for
the kindness and attention she received during her afflic-
tion.

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duped by her, mighty have time to come forwartbilanil
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—The emigrant shiP 00'
with a crew of twelve men and two hundred emlgrOP
board, bound to Qaebec from Newry, on the 291 of
about four in the morning, struck on a reef of iceCO'r
magnitude as to carry away her bottom. She, c'fir.it
speedily filled with water, and the master and a :310
second mates immediately got the life-boat out 9„"ost
doned the ship and passengers to her fate. A rl'ibe
nizing scene succeeded. Screams for help rent
and it was with difficulty that the remainder Of oi
could induce the frantic nrentnr.. tn

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.—At the meeting, last week,
of the proprietors in the New Zealand Company, the
report and accounts were carried. A lengthened state-
ment of affairs was entered into, showing the progrew
mar),. '

c during the year, which appeared to-give tie great
majority satisfaction. The questions of the settlement of
land claims, the mediation of the governor on this subject,
the system of "nominee" government_ and it. inrnrniana

chance left of saving their lives. FortunateiY, coni
was firm under the ship's bows, and the seamen solt
cing them as to its security many got on it. ItSolc
being then apparent, a desperate struggle, t° ico°lo
among the emigrants to leave the wreck. bred
and criildren, many being infants suckling at T, be-A
with nothing on but their night attire, were to or cj'''
scrambling over the mass of ice. Many of the P°..„

amelioration in the course Of a few pears,, &c., were for-
cibly dwelt upon, and not without eliciting some discus-
sion. As all accounts (it is asserted) concur in represent-
ing the several• settlements to be gradually but surel•
recovering from the depressing effects of ' •

the impedii
•
under which they have so long laboured, successful
nization is shortly anticipated.

ments
I coin-

Six persons were amusing themselves in a boat on the
river running through Norwich on Sunday week. They
went up to the head of the river to the mill pool, and
rowed the boat in sport into one of the flushes, then run-
trong. They tried this a second time, when

fling very

Luca& all WIG uua,, lettllCU over to enaeavour to catch hold of
his companion, and the other parties likewise leaned over
the same side with the same intention, when the flush
filled the boat and she immediately sank. Four of the
parties sank and were drowned,—their names, Thomas
Lane, 16; Robert Browne, 28 ; Henry Lane, 23 ; and
Frances Breeze, a very fine young woman, aged 19. The
two latter were to have been married on the following
day.

tures slipPed between the huge masses, and weTliet,
crushed to death or met with a watery grave• mitt
to leave the wreck were some of the crew, wil° blan
to save a small portion of spirits and a few
se, r
Soon after they had got clear, the ship's stern
illioreal
were, above water, and she went down
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just forty minutes after the collision with the lo
sufferings of the wretche -
amid towering masses of

POISONING.—On Tuesday, at the London police-cou-t,
Eliza Schulenberger, was charged with having adminis-
tered repeated doses of poison to her husband, with intent
to poison him. The prosecutor stated that about six
months ago, his health, which had been previously good.

became suddenly and seriously impaired, and he experi-
enced the most excruciating internal pains, accompanied
by frequent sickness and a scorching sensation in his
throat and chest. These symptoms became eradually

L.., with a raging
trom the S.S.E., were most harrowl up 'cey
csoeavmereinngwthhoeywielared amongst
fetrnhaeresh, uwmhaonehlayd gave beep 07,
the 0
lve
ingly wounded and bruised in their course over tiligna
Thus were they exposed the whole of that do:46tof
o'clock in the afternoon, when a vessel hove bstreo
bore down to the edge of the field of ice. '7 di'4,toS,
Nicarague, Captain Marshal, observing a flag °',(lo,"goii
made for the ice, and, to his astonishment, coif/ P':•••
of living people upon it. With great diffic?'"
them on board. They were all but naked,
bruised, and frost-bitten. There were parents
lost their children—children with loss of parents'
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were insensibl
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more aggravated, particularly after having partaken of
the meals prepared by the prisoner, until at length the
whole of his hair fell off 'his head. Witness at length
suspected poison, and coming one day sooner than he was
expected to tea, found that the cup set for him contained
a white powder, partially dissolved in a little tea. This
he had analysed, and it was found to be arsenic. She was
remanded for the completion of the evidence, and was on
Thursday committed for trial.
A DISAPPOINTMENT.--At the Middlesex sessions, last
week, Ann Natswell, a woman of resoectable appearance,
unmarried, and advanced in pregnancy, was convicted,
upon her own confession, of having stolen a quantity of
ribbon. The learned judge said that it was perfectly clear
what had been the prisoner's motive in committing this
offence; it was to get into prison, in order that her con-
finement might take place secretly in the prison infirmary,
under proper medical treatment, and without the least
annoyance or expense to her friends. It was astonishing
the number of women that resorted to this expedient, for
scarcely a session passed but two or three such eases came
before the court, but it was not to be tolerated that fe-
males should commit felony for the purpose of getting
their illegitimate offspring foisted upon the country. He
would take a course that no doubt would cause the bit-
terest disappointment to the prisoner, for she would see
that she had failed in attaining that for which she made
herself a felon ; and if she ever appeared there again, this
would be seriously remembered against her. She would
be well known, and he would take care that she was most
severely punished. The sentence was, that she be hn-
prisoned one hour and discharged.
TICKETED JEWELLERY.—On Tuesday, a lady attended
at the Westminster Office, to solicit the magistrate's ad-
vice under the following circumstances :—She stated,
that being struck by the apparent cheapness of the arti-
cles in a jeweller's window in the neighbourhood of
Knightsbridge, she became, two or three evenings ago the
purchaser of what the shopkeeper termed a pure solid gold
seal, for 7s. 6d. She purchased it upon the faith of his
assurance, hut subsequently, on taking it to a refiner's,
she found that there was no gold in it, but that it was
merely plated or washed. She repaired to the shop on the
following day, and asked for her money back, at the same
time informing the shopkeeper that he had deceived her;
he at first maintained that the seal was what he repre-
sented it to be, but ultimately shifted his ground by ob-
serving that shei could not expect it to be so at the price.
Mr. Burrell, on looking at the article, which was a small
seal very well got up, and to which was attached a label
with the words " solid pure gold," observed that a person
could not expect to buy a genuine article, as desceibed, at
such a price • but said that, as the purchaser had been de-
ceived by the ticket (the lady having declared that the
ticket produced was attached to it at the time she pur-
chased it), her best course would be to make application
again to the shopkeeper, and if he refused to return the
money to summon him to the County Court.—The lady
thanked the magistrate aux' withdrew,

Ihe number got on
he , t gr''.lo;
_sengers and seamen 3).
,e were frOst-bitten. As far as CO"' pe,
tbv
~certain from the survivors, the numbere ice,
by being crushed to d- ' ‘—.en tb

part of
could a

_ttl bet..
frozen to death were from fifty to sixty. -1-"„;:iste
were convoyed to Quebec, but the fate of the
mates is not known

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LADY auLESSINGTON's AFFAIRS.—Lady r o•id •
say, wife of the count, and with whom she brief
for several years, (nor there the least trace 131e0"0"'
„ ,
Gore-house,) was daughter of the late Earl uffottoktr
ton, and step-daughter of the countess, the
cording to long-current scandal) being on ter s Tify,
count which their relationship would not .i°'•tb ceop
Blessington estates in Ireland were charged (£-'pr,
payments to Lady Harriet and the countesst,„isbfrolu,
year to the latter, it is understood,) but extra -"„ (VP leP
in Chancery, in the first instance, and then thums'oser
of getting any money at all in Ireland of 1010 ce,4
these fair nominal possessors of large incomes the,,A
ratively exceedingly straitened circumstances,. oa9
sure whereof was not lightened by the Instal $t
and costly tastes of the impoverished aristocrstlis, 00,6
events have helped to bring matters to a ei-of
countess was accustomed to make a good de3`o-11111tiP
from literary sources, no longer open. For e 5,4 e
had £1,500 a-year from Heath, the engraver, 'tlyweio
the annuals that so long bore his well-known
is dead, and the consequences are obvious. tof srl I
nt
and James were themselves the most indulgej° 00(
tors, and would take an order for more goo",,sr ever;od
payment of an old debt, at any time and setsipy
then came that terrible catastrophe of tueespl°4l
1847, which placed the affairs of so roan)" Plitt'' id
hands of assignees ; and we all know how, ttgsSe:l4.)
assignees pay to sentiment and delicate wsopallire9
those agonies that look so picturesquely 3'1105309
fashionable novels. Then, again, came theexceiteiort
good fortune of the count and countess's 4(103! 141;
long-approved friend, his Highness the Pre-oles'diteo
French Republic, suggestive alike of a ogleitcreed
wards on the part of the noble debtors and t" -eostocle.ty
Here were grounds whereupon the latter tscciorrerdliel
parties might amicably meet. The counte:solost ,colool'
everything unconditionally ; and it is a fact r,ot,eatit
ble to her sense of honour, that she might 'o,it'!ii"
almost any amount of jewellery, bijouterte, acts of p‘
without impediment but without inquiry, °1.,. did Ileasly
the cognisance of interested parties • but srobe, :;ff
turb the value of a hair beyond her ward held 3cas:ba
behind her the most sacred items of housA7o Prigll,3lo
mestic regard. But that she retains a "rit
interest in the issue of the sale, is a fact svcr`b! ,v
demonstrated by many evidences if it werrieestioe?
to cite them here; and that she will conscr; reao,ol,o
gainer by the very large and unexpected 51.1 the Cr
51'5?
abundantly apparent. What the terms °root' tit 01
mise are, it is of course impossible that 03bervatif!
know ; but enough has transpired to sled bY.,ol,e'diP
auction cannot be said to have been dircebeeo;
free will, neither can it be said to hav°taou'
execution, at least in the ordinary ace"-
phrase.-441bion.