The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR NORIVICIL—OD Saturday
last, as a young man, named Johnson, was passing
through a lane. near Norwich, called Mts. Martineau's
Lane, a dog which accompanied him, after beating
through an adjoining plantation, returned with what
seemed to be a piece of carrion, with which it ran off.
Upon arriving home he found that the substance which
the animal had carried from the plantation was a human
hand. He communicated the circumstance to the police,
and a minute search led to the discovery of other portions
of a dead body, the remains, in the opinion of several sur-
geons, being those of a young female. The police are
busily engaged in the investigation of the circumstance.

HORRIBLE DEATH BY SUICIDE.—OR Wednesday last
a stranger, who represented himself as an engineer, was
onserved loitering about the blast furnaces of the Gart-
sherrie Ironworks, bear Glasgow. The man appesred to
be somewhat eccentric in his proceedings, and stated to
some of the people that he bad made an ai tempt to drown
himself in the canal, but he was sorry to find that there
was not enough water in it for that purpose. No one paid
attention to him, as it was not believed that the man was
speaking seriously. A little afterwards he appears to
have ascended unperceived a stair or ladder to the " tun-
nel bead" of one of the immense furnaces, for beim e any
effort could be made to arrest him, he was seen to I,ap
into the flaming gulf. The dripper, or blast, was im-
mediately put down, but the action of the great body of
fire which is kept up by the action of the hot blast was so
instantaneous that not even the ashes of the unfortunate
man could be distinguished from the burning ironstone.
The stranger had stated that he was employed at Gart-
sherrie some years ago, when the works were in their
infancy. but, beyond that, nothing is known of him.
THE NUMBERS OF IRISH IN GLASGOW.—On the 31st
of March Idst, we find that the total population of Glas-
gow and suburbs was 358.951, arranged according to
country of nativity thus:—

Scotch ..
rish
Eng,ish
Foreigners
Colonists
Not ascertained

233,5E16
64,185
8,930

Total 358,951
The per centage which the natives of these countries
formed of the gross population in 1841 and 1851 was as
follows :

Scotch
Irish..

1841.
SO'ss
15'93
2'23
o'lB

1851
78'9
18'0
2'5
o'3
o'2
o'l

English ..
Foreigners
Colonists
Unknown.,

100-00 leo.oo
We beg it to be especially borne in mind that the preced-
ing figures present the actual country of nativity, and
that all those born of Irish parents in the Irish fabourys
of Glasgow are set down as Scotch, although in feeling,
in religion, in poverty, and in brogue, they are in reali'y
as thoroughly Irish as if they had at first seen the light
in Connemara. No data unfortunately exists from which
to ascertain the number of Irish inhabitants in the wide
and true sense we have indicated. During the last twenty
or thirty years, however, the Irish increase from births
has probably equalled that from immigration. Now,
when we consider that all those born of Irish parents in
Glasgow are numbered as Scotch, the fact which remains
is certainly a startling one,—that, during the last ten
years, the Scotch (although including Irish born in Glas-
gow) have decreased 1'65 per cent., while the native born
Irish have actually increased 2 07 per cent. of the whole
copulation.—Glasgow citizen.
THE POISONING CASE IN NORTHUMBERLAND.—A
coroner's inquest upon the body of Mr. Thomas Teasdale,
lately a farmer at Kellah, near Haltwhistle, terminated on
Thursday last, in a verdict of guilty against the widow.
The coroner, in summing up, said—Much excitement has
been caused by this serious inquiry, and from the un-
favourable reports cirzulatt-d respecting the death of airs.
Teasdale's tormer husband, John Atkinson, I considered
it my duty to comply with the directions given by you at
the last adjournment, and have caused the body of that
person to be disinterred, Dr. Glover, a gentleman of great
practical skill and eminence, having then given his opinion
that if arsenic had Leen taken by Atkinson, it might, even
at this distant period of time, be detected by a careful
analysis of the remains. The result of this gentleman's
labour is, that arsenic has been discovered in a portion of
the body taken away by him for analysation, which,
coupled with the circumstances said to be connected with
Atkinson's death, induce a strong suspicion that he died
of poison. But whatever impression this may have upon
your minds, it is my duty to tell you it forms no evidence
of guilt against any person whomsoever ; and that the
question of Atkinson's death is not before you. It is,
however, a singular coincidence that arsenic should be
found in the bodies of both Mrs. Teasdale's husbands.
The prominent facts elicited in this inquiry are :—That
Teasdale and his wife lived on the most unhappy terms;
that threats of violence had been made by Mrs, Teasdale;
that deceased refused to take his meals from fear of being
Poisoned ; that Teasdale had not been from home since
last Christmas, and therefcre could not have possessed
himself of arsenic since that time ; that there was no
servant in the house, and that all the meals of the family
were prepared by Mrs. Teasdale; and, lastly, that on a
careful post mortem examination of the body, and analysis
of the stomach, arsenic was discovered. which the medical
witnesses swore to have occasioned Teasdale's death.
And the question arises, by whose hand was the poison
given?—After an hour's deliberation, the jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the accused Mrs.
Teesdale. She will be tried at the next Northumberland
assizes.