Glasgow Courier. — 1864-08-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE MURDER OF MR. BRIGGS.-At the adjourned inquest held on Monday, it was stated that the hat Worn by Muller was worth considerably more than. he said he gave for it; and also that he had tried to put a mourning band on.it, but failed-in the attempt. The inquiry was further adjourned until September 8. A few days ago Mrs. Mary Beacham„aged fortytwo, residing in the East India Road, Poplar, committed the fatal mistake of introducing arsenic, in lieu of carbonate of soda, into some light cakes, of which. she, together with her two daughters, partook, and all of them were taken ill shortly after. Mrs. Beacham died the next day, and the daughters are in a precarious state.  At Garstang, Lancashire, last week, the son of a farmer descended by a ladder into an old well, for the purpose of examining the discharge pipe. He fell from the ladder, when his brother went to assist him. He also fell, and a third person present shouted for help, but only in time to rescue one of the brothers. The other was suffocated by the foul air in the well.  On Friday evening; at about half-past six o'clock, Lord Rodney expired at his country mansion at Berrington, near Leominster. - His Lordship leaves three ~..hildren—two boys and a girl—the eldest of whom succeeds to the title and estates, and is now in his seventh year. Lord Rodney was great-grand'son to the gallant Vice Admiral of that name, whose successes are so familiar to all readers of English history, and who, after the capture of St. Eustatia in 1781, with an immense booty, was appointed -Vice-Ad .niral of Great Britain, and on the 12th May 1782 advanced to the Peerage. A singular case of somnambulism, attended with loss of life, took place at an early hour on .Thursday morning at St. Mary's Street, Shadwell. ,A young man named William Norman, who had been an engine driver on the Great Eastern Railway,- had gone on a visit to his, brother residing there: He went to bed with him on the previous night at a late hour. About four .o'clock the brother was awakened by a sound which he fancied proceeded from an attempt to break into the house, but on rising from his bed he missed his brother, and observed a. small window at the end of the room altogether removed. On proceeding to the yard he found the young man on the ground, cold and insensible, and the window shattered to atorhs. The young man died almost immediately. The cause of death was ascertained to be fracture of the skull. Times.  A woThan, charged 'for the first time in her life with theft—the offence was of a very trivial Character —committed suicide in the Clerkenwell House of Detention on Thursday. While in the police station awaiting a hearing, she violently daShed her head against the walls bf her cell, and attempted to tear open her throat with her nails; and a surgeon being sent to her to dress her wounds, she seized a pair of scissors from his, instrument-box and stabbed herself. After this she became so ill that she had to be taken to the St. Pancras Infirmary for a few days. At last she was brought before the Police Magistrate on the charge of robbery, and was remanded in order that her state of health might be inquired into. While in the House of Detention, she threw herself over a high balustrade, and was take up dead. CounT