The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-05-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—We beg to call the attention of  •••••••• •••-• • %.• aaacu ua kaay GA,GIAGIII, ,Llal luy branch of which has been established in this town tor many years, but which, we feel confident, would have received a larger measure of sunnort from our hpnovnlAnt.  townsmen, had its objects been more generally known. The object of its formation, in 1839, was to assist the widows and orphans of lost fishermen and mariners, and for boarding, lodging, clothing, and forwarding home wrecked seamen and other poor persons. We are happy  to learn that there are upwards of 15,000 sailor members, who subscribe their 2s. 6d. annually : but the society depends mainly for its support on the larger subscriptions and donations of those in more affluent station. Hundreds of shipwrecked seamen, who have been brought into Liverpool, or sent here by the society's agents on other parts of the coast, have been duly relieved and forwarded to their homes at its expense, whilst many a  poor widow and orphan's heart has been made glad through the instrumentality and benevolence of this institution. In the case of the emigrants, wrecked near Wexford, a few weeks since, the Board of Management sent their travelling secretary Lieut. W. H. Symons R.N., tponWexford, with authority to present £3O to the Relief  Lne eenses ny them on that occasion, and relieve the xp extra pressure incurred on their funds. In the still more recently melancholy loss of life in the emigrant ship Exmouth, the survivors were landed at Glasgow, and immediately taken care of  of the institution, ,erv.ooeinee the formation ) ae persons have been relieved. Subscriptions and donatiojmA). A sttilitia,pkfully received by the honorary agents, Mr. Sailors' Home, Liverpool, and Messrs. HCo.dson and C(eY'  of the body of Catherine Pugh, aged 15, the servant of Mr. Sutcliffe, publican, Richmond-street. Deceased was respectably connected. On Thursday night she went to  morning. She had had a conversation just beg to bed with a youth named Grcen,:during I don't think I shall be here d night she said, " if I don't  which she said " Henr long." When he bid her g see Will again give my love to him,'  alludiu  o a young  ) the house with-Greeri. Mt  and found that death was caused from arsenic. She did not appear to be all affected .in her mind, and was of a rather c'  The surgeon also found t  in the room occupied by deceased, and it contained a yellowish white substance, which proved to be arsenic. Margaret Pugh, mother of deceased, who resides with her husband in Manchester, received_ a letter from'deceased  on Thursday morning  It. was dated May  but without  any day of the month. The name of the alluded to by her named Will is Wm. Burroughs, a youth employed at the railway station in Wapping. Mrs. Sutcliffe observed that deceased during the last month appeared at times rather depresSed, and' when spoken to on the sub ject complained of her head. William Burroughs being sent for, and being told that he need not say anything unless he pleased, said he had nothing to state. The coroner, in summing up, said that if the medical evidence was correct as to the deceased being pregnant she must have been the victim of a heartless seducer. There was no evidence in the letter (which was not publicly read) to show that she was labouring under aberation of mind. After some other remarks on the painful nature of the case, he left the matter in the hands of the jury, who returned a verdict offelo de se. The coroner, addressing Mrs. Pugh, said he sincerely sympathised with her. Her daughter had, no doubt, fallen a victim to the arts of a rascally seducer; and, from the verdict, deceased must be buried at midnight, and without burial service. Mrs. Pugh said. that she was not aware that any person of the name of William Burroughs was paying his addresses to deceased.