The Sun. — 1850-01-25 (London, England)

REPRESENTATION OF LIMERICK.—TIIO Limerick Reporter says—" It is rumoured that Mr. Lamie Murray is about to stand for the representation of the city on repeal principles."  MURDER alai SUICIDE at MANCHESTER The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Novelli was held on Wednesday evening, at the Griffin Inn, Lower Broughton, before Mr. W. S. Rutter, county coroner. Mr. J. H. Hampson, jun., who acted as the solicitor to the executors of the ate Mr. Lewis Novelli, husband to the deceased Mrs. Novelli, deposed that he had been in the habit of seeing Mr. A. liovelli on business matters; that he had one or two interviews with him on the 15th of December, again on the 26th of December, and several times afterwards. That Mr. Movelli had: said on one occasion when going through a number of accounts, "I must give up this work, it makes my head feel bad ; it makes me ill, and confuses me;" and on two or three occasions after the 26th of December, he said, " Well, this business upsets me ; I hardly know what I am doing, my head is so bad." He also on one occasion said that the medical men had told him that be must not exert himself too much, or it would make him ill. On another occasion we had some conversation as to the transaction of the business with the Stamp-office, in the course of which he became cross and irritable, more so than I had ever seen him before. While I was adding some accounts, he made. a remark which I did not catch, and after I had finished I asked him what he said. He did not reply, but continued staring at the fire, and did not look at me. He never spoke again, but jumped up from the chair, slipped on his coat in a minute, much quicker than I could ever have done, and bounced out of the room without saying a word to me. I remember him at school nineteen or twenty years ago, and he was always looked upon as a weakly soft-headed boy compared with . his brothers. He was decidedly passionate and impulsiVe, and did not control himself. Mr. Charles H. Bowker confirmed the evidence given by Mr. Hampson, that he was extremely irritable and excited by the least thing. He was a temperate man. He was in business in London on his own account, in partnership with one or two other persons, seven or eight years ago. That partnerehip 1 ceased about four years ago, and since that time /as had been in no business. Mrs. Novelli, his motleer, was insane, and was confined for some years ; and two brothers also died by their own hands ; a sister of his also is not in a sound state of mind. Mr. Custon stated, that in the morning the bed candlesticks were still in the room upon the table ; one of the candles was burnt down to the socket, and the other did not appear to hale been lighted ; and that Alexander .Novelli had blundered up to bed in the dark, as there was no candle in his room. Mr. Harrison, surgeon, said, that not only would it be possible, but extremely probable, that such a person as Mr. Novelli had been represented in the evidence to be would, under extreme excitement, be betrayed into maniacal impulses. There are many cases of that nature. People who are capable of pur, suing the usual transactions of life without showing any external appearances of insanity may, from a sudden impulse, commit either great crimes or some act that would fall under the common denomination of insanity. The Couotsen then summed up the case at some length, after which the jury deliberated for about a quarter of an hour, and then returned a verdict— " That Mr. Novelli had destroyed the lives, first o f Mrs. Novelli, and rfterwards of himself; being at the time of unsound mind."