The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

'LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

of the same month Constant, and'on the 2d of May her
husband also died. All four were taken ill in the same
way, with violent vomitings, dreadful pains in tbebowels,
and others symptoms of -poisoning. The children expired
after a few days' suffering; the husband lingered for
three weeks. ' She called in medical men to her children,'
but took care to keep them in-the dark as to the nature of
the malady. When her husband first became 'll she also
sent for a doctor, but that gentleman having expressed
himself in terms which led her to believe that he suspected
foul play, she would not allow him or any other medical
man to be again summoned. Before the unfortunate
man took to his bed she managed to persuade him. by de-
monstrations of pretended affection, to make a will in her
favour. When he died she displayed most unseemly joy—
even the gravedigger who attended the funeral repast was
shocked at it. I have been," said he naively, " to a
great many funeral repasts, but never saw one so merry."
The bodies of the deceased were dug up, and chymical
analysis demonstrated that poison existed in the bowels of
each.

After the reading of the indictment the prisoner re-
plied to the interrogatories put to her with perfect calm-
ness and great lucidity. She pretended that she was,
totally unable to state the cause of the deaths of her hus-
band and children. The whole of the evidence clearly
brought home to her the different charges of robbery,
forgery, and poisoning by means of arsenic. It was fur-
ther proved that during her married and widowed life she
had been guilty of most licentious conduct. A notary's
clerk stated that during her widowhood he, though a per-
fect stranger, having, in a call he had made on business,
jokingly observed that he would rather pass the night with
her than go home in the rain, she at once invited him to
stay, which he did. Notwithstanding all this, she pre-
tended to be piously inclined, and when in prison await-
ing her trial she wrote to the magistrates to request the
counsels of a confessor, " that," as she expressed it,
" she might not lose her immortal soul as well as her
honour." With respect to the accusation of having
robbed the portrait-painter, she created some indignation
by asserting that she had left his house because he had
made immoral propositions to her. Profound horror and
indignation were also excited by the proof that she had
herself written and caused these epitaphs to be placed on
the graves of her victims :
" Here lies the body of Joseph Arsene Segard, who died the
15th of March, 1848, aged ten months."
" Here lies the body of Anne Marie Florine Marshal, who
died the 28th of February, 1848, aged eight years. This child,
notwithstanding her tender years, displayed rare qualities of
mind ; her obedience and modesty cause her to be deeply re-
gretted by her mother, who has erected this monument to her
memory." -
" Here lies the body of Constant Segard, who died the 31st of
March, 1848, aged four years. This dear little angel, whose
only desire was to cause the joy. of his loving mother, has by
his death left an immense void in her heart."

" Here lies the body of Jean-Baptiste Segard, aged 37. He
was a good husband, an affectionate father, and a Christian
devoted to the poor. May he repose in peace."
After hearing counsel for the prosecution and the de-
fence, and the able summing up of the judge, the jury
returned a verdict of guilty, and the Court condemned
the woman to death. She heard the verdict and sentence
unmoved, and walked away with a firm step—she was,
indeed, the only person in the court who was not labour-
ing under profound emotion. During the whole trial also
she displayed extraordinary self-possession. She is rep-
resented to be rather pretty, with a mild expression.

IRELAND.

A valuable copper mine has been discovered near
Limerick.

The beggarly contribution of £5 7s. 6d. towards the
repeal exchequer, extorted another (the fifth or sixth)
threat on Monday from Mr. John O'Connell to close the
doors, and let the agitation shift for itself. _

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—LOSS OF SEVEN LIVES.—
On Saturday morning, between four' and five o'clock, a
fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Kelvin, in the town of
Clonmel, and before assistance could be afforded to the
inmates of the house Mrs. Kelvin, her three children, two
servant women, and a young woman who attended the
shop, were suffocated.
Exclusive dealing has again become general in Dingle.
On Sunday week the most terrible altar denunciations
were hurled against the converts. The hopelessness of
regaining any who have been under scriptural instruction,
even for a short time, has become so apparent :of late,
that their persecution has now assumed a character of
extreme bitterness, arising from disappointment.
The Court of Queen's Bench has confirmed the condi-
tional order for a mandamus, obtained last term, calling
upon the corporation of Dublin to elect a Lord Mayor in
the place of John Reynolds, Esq., M.P., who was dis-
qualified by reason of his not being on the burgess roll.
The mandamus has been served upon the town clerk, re-
quiring the Town Council to proceed to elect a Lord
Mayor within eight days.
The Limerick Chronicle of Wednesday says that " the
electoral division of Loughrea is about to be saddled with
a new poor rate of lls. 6d. in the pound." What !
Eleven and Sixpence in the Pound, while " bread-stuffs"
are pouring into the country, and corn and cattle are
falling, and the whole community ought, according to
the " popular" philosophy, to be rejoicing in the posses-
sion of plenty ! Well, is it any marvel that men are
deaf to "the voice of the charmers" of the free trade
journals.
THE TENANT RIGHT AGITATION.—The Tablet news-
paper, which is quite in advance of all its contemporaries
on the question of " tenant right," as it is ironically
styled, in its last number suggests a bold plan for releas-
ing the land " from the fierce gripe of the beast of pre
who is said to own its soil." "If the farmers of Ireland,"'
says the accredited organ of the Irish and English Roman
Catholics, " want a reduction of rents. security for the
continued reduction of rents, or, in other words, a valua-
tion of land for rent, they must follow the Emancipation
precedent—they must themselves reduce rents; they must
take security, in their own proper persons for the main-
tenance of the reduction; or, in other words, they must
themselves value the land for rent, and act upon their
own valuation."

THE RECENT MURDER IN ULSTER.—An inquest has
been held on the body of Mr. Mauleverer, the land agent,
who was murdered while travelling in an open car from
Crossmaglen, in the county of Derry. Three persons are
in custody, on suspicion of being implicated in the crime.
One of these is the carman who drove the unfortunate
gentleman, and whose story is altogether unworthy of
credit. He stated that the deceased had been shot from
behind a hedge, but there is no mark, of a gun-shot
wound on the body,.death having been caused by beating
out the brains. It is also evident that the struggle be-
tween the deceased and his assailants extended over a
space of thirty perches, whereas the driver would have it
believed that he saw nothing of all this, and even saw no
person but the deceased. He is under examination be-
fore the magistrates, but has not yet been committed.
Two other men, named Haurathy and M'Atavey, have
been fully committed to take their trial on the charge.
The evidence against them is, that immediately after the
body of the deceased was discovered, they were observed
running across the country, and being pursued by the
constables, made a desperate resistance. One of them,
Haurathy, was found to be covered with blood, and to
have two fresh cuts on his head, which wounds corre-
spond, it is said, in form and size with the knob of Mr.
Mauleverer's stick, which was found covered with blood
and human hair, near the body. The other fugitive bad
been observed during the morning loitering about the
hotel, from which Mr. Mauleverer started on his journey.
When the body of the murdered man was brought into
Crossmaglen, the people showed no sympathy, and it is
stated, in the most positive manner, that a conspiracy to
shoot him has existed for some months past.

to the expenditure already incurred, and the advantages
to be derived by the public, the court might refuse to in-
terfere. He did not know whether he vas correct in that
view, and he never said anything which implied that the
court would allow the continuance of works contrary to
an act' of Parliament. He should grant the injunction
asked for, as to the continuance of the works, but he
would not restrain the company from raising money by
loan to pay off former loans.; and they must be restrained
from enforcing calls by forfeiture or otherwise, except for
discharging debts or liabilities incurred before the filing
of the bill, or paying, without prejudice to the question
in the cause, any sums which became due to Mr. Brassey
before the bill was filed."