The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-31 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHALES' MILK.—The seamen in the South Seas use
whales' milk in their coffee. A friend of ours, just returned
from the Pacific, says it is always cool and refreshing. The
whales are milked by mermaids at present, but a patent for
milking them has just been secured by a Yankee.—Mercury.
Last week, crowds of people •Vere drawn to Bagnigge
Wells•road, to see Lord 13roughatn standing on his head!
On their arrival they found- that a peer-shop sign, the "Lord
Brougham," had been turned upside down, as a mark of dis-
approbation of his lordship's conduct on the subject of the
beer act.

VEDUCTION IN POSTAGE.—A rumour WE'S spread in the
House of Commons on, Thursday evening which created a
most lively interest among all parties, and which has since
been found to be correct; it was said that the postage cAn-
mittee had passed resolutions recommending a low and uni-
form rate of postage throughout the kingdom. In order to
guard the revenue from the risk apprehended by some as
likely to arise from the immediate auoption of a universal
penny postage, the committee recommended a uniform two-
penny rate on all inland or general post letters weighing half
an ounce, and a penny on every additional half ounce. The
postage is to be paid in advance by means of stamps or
stamped covers. The fact of the committee having come if,
this resolution is fully confirmed; but we are not aware when
any practical measure founded on it will be submitted to the
legislature.
CURE FOR SEA SICKNESS..--At this season, when so many
make sea voyages by steam, for pleasure, and are so often out
of their enjoyment by that pleasUre-destroying disease, sea
sickness, it may be proper.to mention the following simple
remedy, which has seldom failed to give almost instant re.
lief:—Make some GREEN TEA, strong, with just as much
sugar in it as will snake it palatable, and bottle it up. When
sickness begins to come on, take a cupful; if that does not •
prevent the vomiting let the stomach be completely emptied ;
take the same quantity, more or less, as the stomach is able
to receive it; repeat it two or three times, and a restoration
will take place. The writer of this has often seen it applied
and he can therefore state that it almost invariable had the
intended effect.—Leedi Paper.
A PRUDENT FARMER.—An agricultural faimer, not one
hundred miles from Great Eceleston, resolving to have a glo-
rious crop of beans, filled a sack with the intended seed, and
by means of a rope lowered it carefully to the bottom of a
deep well on his premises, in full anticipation that the pulse,
when softened by the water, would, when sown, produce an
earlier and more plentiful return. On the third day, after
thus depositing the beans, he went to the spot and began to
hoist up the sack; but, finding it much lighter (in place of
heavier) than when he deposited it, some misgivings came
upon his mind, and he exclaimed, in phraSeology peculiar to
himself—pausing ere he took the sack out of the water—" Od
doll thee thou stupid oaf, I'm afeard thou'rt bound to be
treacherous !" Nor were his apprehensions unfounded.
The beans, as might be expected, had swelled to double their
size when dry, and, as the experimentalist had made no
allowance of room for such a contingency, all that he found
attached to the rope was the burst and empty bag, the beans
being left at the bottom to vegetate as they might.—Preston
Observer.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We apprehend the pro-
perty invested in this line will be put in serious jeopardy
between the Manchester and -Birmingham, and the Chester
and Crewe lines with their extensions. The Manchester and
Birmingham line, instead of turning off from Stone into the
Grand Junction, as intended, is now to be carried by a very
straight and easy extension b♦ Lichfield and Tatuworth into
the Birmingham line at Rugby. By this means the whole
of the Grand Junction line, and about thirty Miles of the
Birmingham, are avoided, passengers and goods going direct
.from Manchester to Loudon, while those who wish to visit
Birmingham have the means of doing so by the Birmingham
and Derby Junction line which the extension crosses at
Tamworth. Thus the whole of the traffic of the great town
of Manchester will be removed from the Grand Junction.
But this is not all. The Birkenhead, Chester and Crewe
lines, which start from the opposite side of the Mersey, at Li-
verpool, are to be extended from Crewe to Longport, Burs-
lern, in the Manchester and Birmingham line. Hence these
lines, instead of becoming feeders to the Grand Junction,
actually threaten to take from it its only remaining traffic,
the Liverpool. If these three lines thus unite and succeed,
it appears to us that they will nearly reduce the Grand Junc-
tion to a dependence on its own intermediate traffic, a good
part of which they will take.—Raitway Magazine.

DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT GROTTO.—A singular disco-
very has been made at the Dane, Margate, of an extensive'
grotto, which appears to have been excavated abOut the time
of the Saxon hepterchy, and which affords matter at deep"'
reflection, and will probably throw some light on the habits
of our Saxon ancestors. The Dane is celebrated as the field
of a decisive and terrible engagement fought between the
Saxons and the Danes. From time to time objects have
been disinterred which show the deadly nature of the struggle,
including numerous human bones not yet reduced to dust;
and even entire skeletons embedded in soft chalk, and thus
preserved, as with a coating of cement, from decomposition.
Armour and warlike weapons of the fashions of that early
period have also been found. The grotto which has just
been laid open does not appear to have any reference to the
battle. It extends to a great distance under the hills, and-is
laid out in serpentine walks, alcoves, and passages of consi-
derable extent, the sides being studded with shells, formed
into elaborate and curious devices, and doubtless executed
by torch-light. The discovery of this remarkable structure
was entirely accidental, and in consequence of some excava-
tion made on the spot by the proprietor of the land.—Dover
Telegraph.

BRITISH ENTERPRISE.—AIthough the present abundance
of money has not been observed to drive up the general
share market to the extent which many of the freqtietiteis of
the Stock Exchange appear to have expected, as the result Of
the late payment of the half-yearly dividends, yet a great
deal of capital is going into sound and useful employment in
several companies for the building of steam shipping for
various parts of the world. Of these, about five thousand
tons are about to be laid down for the companies from Eng-
land to New York, all to be built in this country, where
steam machinery is known to be much more economical and.
perfect than in the United States. A company is also in
progress for steam navigation on a large scale to the East.
Indies, by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and another for
the establishment of iron steamers in the Ganges and its
tributaries to the city of Agra, which will cover a thousand
miles of the presidency of Bengal. To Brazil there. are
steam vessels about to depart from Liverpool, for the navi-
gation of the coast from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia and Per-
nambuco; and one iron ♦essel is also building at Southamp-
ton for the Rio Doce river; whilst a third company has ob-
tained an exclusive privilege for the navigation, by steam
vessels, of the bay of Bahia for a certain number of years.
All these undertakings must absorb no inconsiderable amount
of capital, nor can English enterprise, perhaps, be, directed
to any more useful channel than the extension of the advan-
tage of steam navigation to so many distant quarters of the
world.—Morning Chr icle.

JOBBING IN MATRINIONY.—Our readers are not perhaps
aware of the extent to which the welding trade is carried on
the Scotch side of the Solway. Gretna Green, it is true, has
long been famous as a matrimonial mart, and with it are as-
sociated the names of many Patricians, such as two learned
Lords Chancellor, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Richard Brins-
ley Sheridan, and the Prince of Capua, with the fortunate
and beautiful Miss Penelope Smith, who each and all passed .
the matrimonial portals by the aid of the Gretna of Spring-
field
blacksmith; and in some of these cases, we understand,
his officiating tee was one hundred guineas. These are prizes •ri
in the list, however; but a great trade is driven in joiniug
humbler men and maids, who have as good a right to be mar-
ried and happy as their betters, and according more than one
station has sprung up on the S, attish Border. If the fee is
smaller, there are a greater number of them, and we are in-
formed that the keeper of a cabaret and ferry-boat on the Scot-
tish side of the Solway occasionally splices " for better for
worse" half a dozen couples in the week. The ferryman is.
altogether a decent sort of a fellow, and obliging withal, as.
the following facts will show. A few days ago, an acquaint-
ance of our own, a Dumfries merchant, happened to be pacing
the sands, in company with a friend, when a party were ob-•
served making their way front the English to the Scottish
strand : "These gentry need my assistance—they are wed- ,
diners," said mine host, who has a keen eye for the sublime.
"Then will you allow me to officiate ?" said the other. "By
all means," responded the ferryman; and in a few minutes
an English sea Captain presented himself, with a fair damsel
from Cumberland, whose heart had, Desdemona-like, fairly
given way under the recital of deeds of daring and hairbreadth
'scapes on the stormy main. Our townsman, for thetime,
assumed the attitude and intonation of the Priest, and in the
course of three minutes the Captain was a benedict.'
,The
process is as follows :—Printed certificates pre produeed,-into
which are inserted the names of the candidates for matrimony,
with the parish and county from which they hail; the priest
then asks the gentleman if he be willing to take this woman
and cherish her as his just and lawfAt Wife, which being an
swered in the affirmative, the same question is put to the lady,
and as she never receives it with a nay-say, the document is
forthwith signed by the pair, attested by the signatures of the
priest and others who may be present, .and delivered over to '
the young wife. A tass of brandy, or a quaich of the moon-
taiq. dew, passes round to the health of the young couple, the
fee is paid, and the party set out to spend their honeymoon
as they list. The fees of these pedestrian or boating couples
amount to from 2s 6d to lOs 6d each, and altogether a round
sum of money finds its way to the Scottish side by this species
of traffic,Dzim.fiies Courier.
, -
INTERESTING To MANUFACTURERS OF BRITISH ALKALI-
-Letters from Naples of the Bth instant, and from Sicily Of
the 3d instant, fully confirm the previous information received
of a monopoly in sulphur having been granted by his Ma-
jesty the King of the Two Sicilies to a French company--
Messrs. Tail and Co., for ten years, commencing the Ist
August next, and ending Ist August, 1848. The decree had
been despatched to Sicily in a steam-ship of war, to he printed
and circulated, and letters had been forwarded to the provin-
cial authorities. After the close of the present month no
sulphur can be exported without the payment of an export
duty of 20 taxis per cantar, equal to £4 10s. per ton, which
export duty is to be the emolument of the company; and
'consideration of which they have already paid into the banal.
of his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies the sum 0'
600,000 ducats, or £lOO,OOO sterling. The cotnpany are
bound by the charter to make extensive improvements in the
state of the roads in Sicily, and the measure altogether is
considered as highly advantageous to the interests of that
island. It has already had the effect of greatly enhaticin
the price of the article both there and in France and Great
Britain. Letters from Palermo state the price for the best
second quality to have advanced from 16 taxis to 32 taxis Per
cantar; and in Marseilles prices have advanced from 4f. 50"
per quintal to Bf. 75c. per quintal, and still higher prices hay"
been paid there; but the Marseilles market is quite at the
command of the compan, and will be constituted the chief
place and central point of their operations; they hold by I:a.`
the greater proportion of the stocks in that place, and to:
temporary trifling decline there is clearly traced to then!.
their object being to make a monopoly of the article, not IP
Sicily alone, and which object they hope to effect by depress=e
ing the market and then buying up all they can lay their
hands on. and, a complete sweep being made, to charge these
own prices. They are large holders in England also, „'heat
prices have advanced from £l6 to £l9 per ton ; btit even
this price there are very few sellers, and £2O per ton WO
perhaps, be refused by a great proportion of the holders.i
very great rise in price must yet be looked for, for the ar,:ty,
will cost £lO in Sicily, and with freights, &c. and home u „.as
it cannot be imported here under £l3; indeed, this Price es
paid here only a few years since; and as the charter Pr° rage
that two-thirds only shall be exported annually of the ace, are
produce of the' last four years, and which the- companYra at
bound by the charter to purchase of the mine. proprieto
21 taxis per cantar for third quality ; 2.3 taxis for second_oquat
lily, and 25 taxis for first quality, and to compensate the'
t
the rate of four taxis per cantar for the other one-thirhei°ll.
allowed to be exported (the mine proprietors, however,bette
at liberty to refuse the fixed price if they can obtain to
elsewhere, but the 20 taxis per cantar must be pa,"51,01
present stocks will soon be considerably reduced, and aet bYt
retaliatory measures be resorted to by our govevnly te°'
increasing the import duty of 10s. par ton, it would on ,turer'
to enhance the price of an article whirl' nor instil-O.T'. 0111
must have, and which can only be obtained from Siel,' , and
position the company expect, and are fully prepared 112rtiate,
it is well known that Mons. Taix has, at the preset",,„era-
-1,000,000 ducats, or £170,000 sterling, to commence ft.":".isivo
tions, and has abundant resources to act on the dPieetition,
with. Some merchants too have recommended a 1),,,p0rt
being got up to her Majesty's government, that the ",,rease
duty should be increased, hut this would only tend to
the evil, for no efficient substitute has yet been found
-persede the use of brimstone.—Observateur, French, r
rasolting
[Perhaps the temporary augmentation of price,
ire, tel be
front the establishment of this monopoly, in ty ultin a',e.cterY.
attended with beneficial effects. An extensive inanortaiven
of alkali, in this town is now carried on by aeid °rst,
from the combustion o'f' the sulphuret of iron of blan_no. lot,'
North Wales, and in another, preparations are inaZ„1:00('
the recovery of the sulphur after it has done its ou'r%otai•
re-employing it, ad infinitum, for the same purpoo. "

The Bishop of Salisbury has announced that he will receive
no candidate for holy orders who is not competently versed
in the Hebrew language.
Mr Stephen S. Rice, son of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, is spoken of as a candidate for Limerick, in room
of Sir David Roche, one of the Coronation Baronets. -
It is rumoured that Mr. Bodkin, M.P.. intends retiring
from the representation of the county of Galway ; and Sir
John Burke is spoken of as his successor.
.Colonel M'Gregor is now in Dublin, having entered upon
his important duties as head of the Irish constabulary.
Lord Charles Wellesley embarks for Canada early in the
ensuing month, to assume the command of the 15th Foot, to
the lieutenant-colonelcy of which corps his Lordship has
been appointed.
1,12 WHALE FlSHERY.—Letters from Hull mention the
receipt of advices of the Greenland fishery by a vessel arrived
there, having on board seven fish, 5,500 seals, and about 80
tuns of oil. The fishery appears to have been successful:
several ships belonging to Peterhead are reported to have
tram 160 to 180 tuns of"oil each.
COAL PIT ACCIDENT.—On Thursday, an explosion of
fire damp occurred at Cleggswood colliery, Butterworth,
near Rochdale, when a young man, named James Lees, was
blotch along the works, upwards of 100 yards, and through
door which was shut at the time The poor man is dread-
scorched. He was the only person in the pit at the
Lime.

CONIMITTEE ON JOINT-STOCK BANKS.—We understand
that th
thi e Committee on joint-stock banks met for the last time
evis, session on Monday last, and agreed to present the
this'ence to the house, unaccompanied by any report. By
new it is considered apparent, that the committee is to be re-
gre td in the next session of parliament, and that all the
a questions depending upon the result of this inquiry are
"us In be
chronicle. thrown over for another entire year.—.lforninq
Misc
brid ONcEPTioN.—As a canal boat was to pass under
owher' the captain gave the usual warning, "look out,
order a little Frenchman, who was in the cabin, obeyed the
B"bY Poppin his head out of the window, which received
brith;erec,
thump' by coming in contact with a pillar of the
1);:He drew it back in a great pet, and exclaimed,
Amerikans say look out wen dey means look

Dlayarsh.
other persons
al Soult, accompanied by his:son, (the Marquis of
ramie) and the Marquis de Mornay, with . . attached to the uite, attended the proceedings of
1111 House of Covmeteiroanns 8 ons Thursday night, entering about
the Past four o'clock.n . 'They were conducted to seats below
1-1 n'ar• The distinguished party afterwards visited the
anterbury, 'B,:c ,
of Canter 61. The
while the Bishop of Exeter, the Archbishop
seats iii fr,,__ spoke. They were accommodated with
our
of the throne, and behind the woolsack.
INGel.art CincusrANcE.—Last week, as Mr. Lambe,
cab
mnet-maker, of Chesterfield, was opening a log of pine, he
discovered embedded in the centre of the solid wood, a cut, siderable number of bees, of a description similar to the
English species, though somewhat less in size. The pre-
mption is that the insects had crept into the tree in its
arnwing state, and the aperture by which they had obtained
tjtne entrance being by some accident closed up (probably from
the expansion of the sap, ) the thus became entombed alive.
--Derbyshire Courier. y
Wallace the lion, the property of Mr.*Wombwell, so well
Niv known_ as Purveyor of animals for public exhibition, died at
h_
a? yeerhampton, at the age of nineteen. oor creature
i d b en getting gradually weaker for some time, so that, as
bipeds sometimes say in affected pity for their kind, "it was
a happy release for him." This
is the same noble animal
that demolished the dogs
sethim by
some less dignified
brutes at Warwick, a few years"pon . Froln weakness and
decay, this fine animal waat ag-oucheing spectacle to the be-
holder for some time before life became-extinct. lie looked
very weakly a few weeks since, when exhibited in this bo-
rough.--Derby and Chesterfield Reporter:
" Aut. ron LOVE."—Ann Geldings, as ugly a dame as
ever man set eyes upon, was on Wednesday eliarged, at the
Warrington police-office, with robbing James Ward, Lair„ e
man, in the employ of the Old Quay Company. Late on
Saturday night, the prosecutor, as he was walking down
Butter Market-street, was accosted by the prisoner, who
asked him to treat her to something to drink. Of course he
refused to do so, and she with a dexterity well becoming a
conjurer, and actuated by the love she felt for him; Put.her
hand into his breeches pocket, and gave liberty to a captive
half-crown piece and a shilling she found there. The deputy-
constable was, fortunately for the prosecutor, and unfortu-
nately for the prisoner, just at hand. Fit took her under
his protection, and she is now awaiting her trial fur the rob-
bery.

NABBING ON THE HIGH SEAS.—Two occurrences of this
kind, both of which
li
investigated
plae on board the Kingston, from
'T"naica, were
Police-office, 0 Thursday. by
The
the
first magistrates
case
wasof th e
thatrl'h aon; e
as
;louth named Raven, who had stabbed fatally a fellow sea-
an of the name of Manuel, with whom he had quarrelled,
and who had struck him. The second case was that of a
manof colour, named Maldree, the steward: who stabbed
Smith, the cook of the vessel, in the arm, and subsequently
attempted to cut his throat, but without effect. Both prison-
half
s, by the advice of Mr. Pelham, who attended ou their be-
, declined saying anything, and were remanded for fur-
ther examination.
, THE NEW MAGISTRACY.—A powerful and energetic letter
86 been addressed to the Bishop of Exeter, by It. Oastler,
Esq., of Huddersfield, in which that gentleman exposes the
tyrannical conduct of the present ministry towards the work-
in!: classes, by choosing their servile partizans, in every part
of the country, to fill the magistrates' bench. We quote the
following extract from his excellent letter; he says :—" There
is one other great evil, my lord, which the present govern-
meat is fattening upon this part of the country. They find
the old magistrate's will not be the servile tools of the three
commissioners, and they are now appointing new magistrates,
who are willing to do any thing and every thing that the
poor-law commissioners command. This is a great evil. It
disgusts the old magistrates, and it destroys the respect which
the people formerly had for the magisterial character."
SOCIETY or FRIENDS.—It may be interesting to the pub-
lic to know, that several members of the Society of Friends,
in this town, whom we some time ago mentioned as having
been pronounced unworthy of being continued members of
the society, were, at the monthly meeting of Brighouse, held
at Bradford on Friday the 20tie, excommunicated solely, as
we understand, on account of their havinc received Christian
baptism and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, although
it was their particular wish to be retained members. "A
minute of disownment" will be brought up and read at the
next monthly meeting, which will take place at Leeds. It
is also worthy of remark, that at the same meeting, John
Jowitt, Esq., of Hanover-square, resignedb • h• his membership
in the
society, believing that the doctrines, ordinances, and
ministry of the Church of England were the purest and most
genuine apostolical Christianity.—Leeds Intelligencer.

Ot'ENING OP THE LONDON ANDBininiNcHAst RAILWAY,
—Two paragraphs have been runaitiiing, thereundo,f
ttliiieen e neau's,i
papers at the same time, one st ek that the London
will be entirely opened on the Ist of
August; the other filing
Birmingham railway
the tOth of September for that
event. We have made somee
ttime of
t inquiries on
opening t h eis
subject;
not and.e
t
believe the fact to be, that h
fixed, though it is not unlikelyt to be about the beginning of
September. We understand that the line is likely
thely-to
share-
holders far completed on the 21st of August as to permit
holders to pass along it to attend the half-yearly meeting ;
and at that meeting the time of opening to the public will
most probably be formally announced.—ln a paragraph which
we last week copied from a Birmingham paper, it was stated
that a trip had been made with an engine from Denbigh
Hall to Kilsby, and through the tunnel, a distance of ted
miles. The actual distance from Denbigh Hall to the oppo-
site extremity of the Kilsby tunnel is about twenty miles,
instead of ten.—Manchester Guardian.
midonnilgyh
eightt, the
town-crier
FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—On Sunday last,
n-crier announced that two boys, the at
eldest
years of age, were missing from theiritieg them I,ya
homes. Every place
ed of
where there was a probability
in-
to, but without success; nhohe under the most painful
anxiety during the whole of'ured i •ntfiellidencee
could
h se lookedgaill
them, and their parents
the night, supposing they were
lost to them for ever. However, on Monday morning, as the
t aatssage to Hull, some passen-
a distance, apparently with-
Grimsby steamer was on her p
gers on hoard perceived a boa
out any person in it; but, upon nearing it, discovered that it
contained two children, which they took on board, and, with
the boat, brought safely
to
Hthey were playing in the
Hull.
It appeared,
.from the
accolint given by themselves, thate r intentional or other-
boat, anti had, by some means, (whether
Wise,) gut adrift without oars, and the tide, at that time,
ebbing, took them down nearly as far as Grimsby. We are
glad to hear that the only injury they s
of food for twenty-four hours,—Hull Ro7tained was the want
kinyham.
MURDER.—A most shocking murder
at a hamlet called Colebill, near
I has been committed
Vimborne, the murderer
being husband to the deceased. The circumstances of the
Case are as follows:—It appears, that Daniel Evans lived
with his wife at the above-named place, the former being a
razor-grinder, and the latter travelling.
on such occa-
with pedlary wares.
both were accustomed to drink freely, and,d.
sions, words aad blows frequently ensueatleyDeceased had
Mow,) near
been drinking at a public-house, (the
hB
Wimborne, which ready displeased
again, her life
threatened, if ever she entered that house
er husband and lie
should be the forfeit. During the same day
irritated, and
ceased again there, at which he became greatly
die found de-
IrAn tn strike her violently with his fist about t e head.
on
''riey then both left the house, and, as soon as they
the road, he began a brutal and furious attack upon her, and
were
and
c°rUmenced pelting stones at her with violence, one of which
was seen to strike deceased in her throat, and she fell down,
ner'
Uttering a dreadful oath, and immediately expired. A coro-
s in
" Wilful uest has een held on the bo, and a verdict of
murder" returned against Evans, who has been
lodged in Dorchester gaol, to wait his trial at the ensuing
48111Z1111.—Derset Chronicle.
AIYSTBRIOUS AFFAln.—The London papers have last week
been occupied with the singular circumstances attendant on
the death of Mr. Thomas Davidson Pow, of London, formerly
of Newcastle, (son of the late Mr. Brough Pow, a common
councillor, and much respected tradesman.) The tale is
this :—The deceased, a few weeks ago, was seized with a nerv-
ous affection, the result of tippling; and Mr. Myers, a me-
dical gentleman, possessing extensive practice in Marylebone
and St. Pancras, was called in by Mrs. Pow. Mr. Myers
became enamoured of the lady, and she yielded to his wishes;
and the rumour is, that they then conspired to dispose by
violence of the injured husland, and possess' themselves of
his property. However this be, he was removed by them to
the Westminster Hospital, and there he speedily improved;
hut on the 3d inst. he was removed to lodgings in the house
of Mrs. Chapman, No. 3, London-street, which were engaged
abode purpose by the surgeon. When taken to his new
, he appeared intoxicated, and was unaccompanied by
his wife. On the following day, he was very ill, and a nurse
twas provided, who (it is stated)
was instructed by Mr. Myers
oil pply-him with as much neat gin as he would take, and
was done to such an extent that he was in a continual
stupor. Ina few days after he entered upon his lodgings,
Mr. M. and Mrs- Pow called upon him and obtained his sig-
nature to a document purporting to be his last will and tes-
tament, which was unthinkingly witnessed by the son and
daughter of the landlady. On the 10th inst. Mr. M. again
called; and after he had been some time alone with the de-
ceased, Mrs. Chapman went to the bed-room, and found him
adtuinisiering a white,powder to his patient, who was subse-
quently seized with violent trembling, and died the next
Morning. Mr. M. then waited upon the registrar of the dis-
trict, and gave him a paper stating that Mr. Pow had died
of "delirium tremens, and apoplexy, brought on by too free
use of ardent spirits." Mr. M and the. widow of the de-
ceased locked the door of the room in which the corpse lay,
pd kept the key ; and on the issue of a coroner's in quest,
!erreair- M. and Mrs. Pow declared that the body should be in-
d without investigation. Afte, wards Mr. M. visited the
house of Mrs. Chapman, and was suspected of adopting some
Uteeans of hastening the decomposition of the body, to baffle
Pr researches of a post mortem examination. At any rate,
I.ole was for some time alone with the body, while Mrs. Pow
handl,,zept watch outside ; and on leaving the room, he washed' his
s.. The phials, &c. which had contained the mixtures
admstered to the deceased, were all removed by Mr. M.
and every precaution apparently adopted to render enquiry
Shot live. On Monday, an inquest was held, but in order to
allow of the production of additional evidence, the investiga-
tion was adjourned to Wednesday, on which day the enquiry
was further postponed till the Monday following, when most
01 the above facts were proved in evidence, and also that, by
the lireetion of Mr. Myers and Mrs. Pow, ardent spirits were
~tri nistered in large quantities to the unfortunate deceas.ed.
A 0 trace of poison was found in the body but the medical
,
witnesses deposed, that in a case of delir um tremens, such a
c!rurse was likely to cause death. Various other suspicious
circurnstan
stage of theces were elicited. Mr. Myers declined, in that
brought in proceedings, to offer any defence, and the jury
Mrs Pow. a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against him and
• They were conveyed'to Newgate in a hackney
coach from the house of Myers, in Castle-street East,Oxford
Market, the same night.