The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-27 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Inquisitions have been taken before James Aspinall, Esq, one
of the Bailiffs and Coroners for this borough, as under: •
CAUTION TO PARENTS, AND TO DRUGGISTS.—On Friday
last, touching the death of Ellen Cain, an infant about fourteen
months old. It appeared that the mother of, the deceased was
in the habit, when putting her to bed in the evening, of giving
her a few drops of laudanum to make her steel). She.usually
procured it from the shop of Mr. Furness, druggist, in Scotland-
road; and on Wednesday evening she sent her daughter,. a lit-
tie girl about nine years old, to get some, and she went to the
shop of Mr. Greetham, another• druggist in Scotland-road. The
mother says, that she
,observed that she then received more
than she usually got, and she mixed it with some water, in
a teacup and then poured into a spoon about the same
quantity that she usually gave the child, and adiniziistero.d it.
`the child presently afterwards fell asleep,' and in a little time
she became alarmed by its unusual snoring, and sent for a sur-
geon, but before he arrived the child was dead. The whole
quantity of laudanum which,Mr. Greetham gave to the little
girl who fetched, it, he 'says was a• drachm and a half. Mr.
Lockwood, the surgeon .who examined the body after death,
stated that he had no doubt, from the appearances, that the
taking of the laudanum was the cause of the Child's death.
Verdict—Accidental,death, caused by administering' too large a
dose of laudanum. The jury expressed, an opinion that Mr.
Greetham had not exercised a proper degree of caution, in sel-
ling a poisonous drug to a child only nine years of age; and the
Coroner admonished him •to be more careful of such .matters
for the future.

SPIRIT DRINKING.—On Saturday, touching the death of
Maria Bellamy.—On Thursday evening, about eight o'clock,
the deceased, with her husband, 'Joseph Bellamy, returned
home to their house in Bostock-street, having been Out from
about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. About eleven o'clock
the deceased sent an apprentice of her husband's to get her a
noggin of rum, of which she partook with a female friend; and
some time afterwards she desired a .woman .named Elizabeth
Sharp, who lodged in her house, to see her friend home. About
half'-past eleven the apprentice saw the deceased sitting on the
steps of the street-door, and Elizabeth Sharp, on her return,
about twelve o'clock, found her lying in the channel, and
with assistance conveyed her in doors, when Mr. Parkinson,
druggist in Scotland-road, was 'sent for, and he found. that
she was dead. Her husband, .who had gone out again
about ten minutes after eight o'clock, did not return home
until some time-after she was found in the street. He states,
that she had taken two-pence worth of rum about half7pa.st
'eleven o'clock before noon, and had not
,drunk any more
during the day.—Mr. Lockwood, the surgeon who examined
the body after death, found in the stomach, which was.mueh
inflamed, about half a pint of fluid emitting a very strong
smell of spirits, and observed that the inflammation extended
into the small intestines. He had no doubt of her death
. having been caused by excessive drinking. Verdict—Died
from .excessive drink n.

WEYmorru, Nov. 22.--The T.laria, from (e;o for Amsterdam, de-
tained by the Eaule revenue cutter. The Danish schooner Emily from
Oportoi was fallen in with yesterday by the Hero • pilot boat, and
towed in -here, wi:h loss of foremast, bows;:rit, and, windlass, bow
stove in, and other daMage, having been in contact with an American
ship. • The crew are safe, two of them got on board the American.
o;NartTO, Nov. Majestys' ships Orestes, Nautilus, Levi rot,
and Etna are stationed in a line near the quarantine ground. The City
of Edinburgh, Echo, and London Merchant steamers arc in the river.
The Bar has been impassable for the last three days, during which
there has been much rain and strong wind frdm the south.