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 themselves to give it fete to
the scholars on the approaching festival of the coronation of our
youthful Sovereign: • The liberal proprietor of the Zoological
Gardens has agreed,
.for a small consideration, to allow the
children-182 boys am/ 149 girls, together 331—t0 visit his ex-
tensive collection on the morning of Thursday next, (the coro-
nation day, between the hours of nine and eleven.eclock. On
assembling in the school-rooms before slatting on the little ex-
cursion, each of the scholars will receive an orange, and a bun
bearing an impress of the British crown. On their return from
the Zoological Gardens to Oldham-st eet. each child will receive
another bun, with ballet pint of sweet milk in a coronation 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 long be preserved as a memento
of the joyous celebration on 28th June. 1838, of the coronation
ofour gracious sovereign Queen Victoria An eminent house in
the Potteries has furnished a pattern of the jug, which is quite
beautiful, hearing a likeness of her Majesty, with various coro-
nation and national emblems. and on a garter or a ribband the
following motto,--' Success to the Caledonian Free School."
Each of the contributors to the colonation fund will also he re-
quested to accept of a coronation jug, of which 400 have been
ordered. In the school-room, and in the Zoological Gardens,
the children will sing the following rhymes, of which the three
first lines are not original:—

"God nave our gracious Queen!
Victoria! Britain's Queen !
God save the Quesn !"

On this auspicious day
All lands that own her sway,
Fervently, humbly pray,
God bless the Queen !
Heavenly Father ! hear
Prince, peer, and peasant's prayer—
Gud bless the Queen !

With reign of peacefulness,
With days of happiness,
With heart of holiness,
God bless the Queen
While Christian hopes and joys
In her pure heart arise,
God bless the Queen !
When earthly cares are flown,
Passed the dark valley's frown,
With an immortal crown
Gud bless the Queen

From aCorrespondont.

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 deepest
affliction, but tr4s excited concern and interest wherever the
painful facts have become known. A lady of the name of
Smythe, who is said to have been remarkably beautiful, 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 preVionsty the family had put up for
a day or two at the same 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 Stourhridge, in Staffordshire. The young
lady, whose maiden name was Amphleet, had about eighteen
months ago been married toil barrister, and, the union proving
unhappy, she separated from him about a year back and re-
turned to her parents. The mode, and, as far as could be
elicited in evidence, the causes of her untimely death, were de-
tailed at the inquest which was held on the body on Friday, at
the Seacombe Hotel, before Mr. Faithful Thomas, coroner of
the adjoining Cheshire district. -
Elizabeth Smith, of Poulton-cum-Seacombe, (daughter of
Mr. Parry.) was the first witness called. She deposed that
Mrs. Wiry Smythe, the deceased, together 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 in one of the packets. Soon
after three o!cloek in the afternoon some men 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, rolled
her in a blanket, and then laid her upon a sofa. Mr. Ellis, a
surgeon, came in. The deceased was afterwards carried up
stairs, and put into bed. The first word she uttered was to ask
for her pocket handkerchief. She shortly afterwards arose, and
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 thiew 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 itlin Caernarvon." Witness then asked her
if she had 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
beating the words " Arsenic Poison." iThe* paper was pro-
duced, and proved to be a piece of the ft or9ester Chronicle. It
was supposed that the arsenic had not originally been wrapped
in that paper, but that the parcel, having broken, by being car-
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 young lady why she had
taken the poison: her reply was, "I was very unhappy, and
had been so for some time, and 1 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 first believe it. Another surgeon was sent for, %and a
stomach pump was applied. Their efforts, however, were of uo
avail : the young lady died in about an 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 ball-past three on Thursday afternoon, when
it was crossing the Mersey from Liverpool to Seacombe. Mrs.
Smythe was on board 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 altogether involuntarily impressed him with
the idea that she was one 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. He immediately
launched a boat, and went to her assistant ; 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 steam-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
was lodging at the Seacombe Hotel with her friends. About
half-past elven or twelve o'clock, on Thursday morning he ac-
companied her ro Liverpool. After landing, he left tier and
went to thatreading-rooin. He afterwards met her at the top
of Bold-street; she complained of being tired with shopping,
and requested him to walk back with her to the boat. He did
so, and then returned into the town, It was then about half-
past two. He had 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 long 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. Win. Bartley Ellis, surgeon, of Seacombe, stated that
he went to render his assistance to the deceased after she was

taken out of the water. At first, no other means were resorted
to than those generally used towards drowned persons. She re-
vived so much 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 face was terrific. She was
very sick ; the sickness he attributed to the poison she had
taken. Judging Irmo appearances, and the short time that the
deceased was in the water,- be 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's
maid. The paper had the appearance and taste of having held
arsenic. .
The servant-maid of Mrs. Ampbleet, the mother of the de-
ceased, was subsequently examined, but nothing of impot lance
was elicited from her.

The jury, after a consultation, returned the following verdict
—" We unanimously find that the deceased, Idary Sinsihe,
came by her death from the effect of having taken poison
during a fit of temporary derangement."

INFANTICIDE.—Lest week the body of a newly born male
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 body—one of the
eyes had been nearly knocked out of the socket. The coroner's
invest held on the body returned a verdict of "Found dead."
•
ODOIORDEN CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL—OH Sunday last,
two excellent and impressive serimins were preached in Tod-
morden Church, by the Rev. Win. Thursbv, of Ormerod Rouse,
M. A.,—when collections were made for the benefit of the
Sunday Schbol, amounting to the sum of £3B 15s. 2d.—Man-
i chester Courier.

THE CHURCH.—The Lord Bishop 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. T. F. Barker, M. A, to the
living of Farndon, in the same county, void by the resignation
of the Rev. Francis Bryans.—Manchister Courier.
SERIOUS AFFRAY.—On Saturday a coroner's inquest was held
at the Bridewell, Warrington, to inquire touching the death of
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 in 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 the 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 fpr medical advice until
inure than a week afterwards. She died on theThttrsday following.
Mr. John Robson, the surgeon who attended the deceased,-stated
that he had made a post mortem examination of the body. In
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. Tbe jucy, after some consideration, returned
a verdict of manslaughter, but, had they ddne ko, of one thing
he was certain, that no conviction would have taken place.—
Manchester Courier.
PtinsoNs LosT OR MISSING IN LONDON.—The number,of
persons repented to the police as lost or missing. duringthe year
1837, was 560, of about 33d were found and restored by thelin-
lice. Of the remainder the greater part returned home nf their
owti ,o cord, or were found by their friends. —Junrnaluf the Lon-
don Statistical Society.