The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-08-06 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

XIV., and the abuse greatly in. entertained an unrequited affection for a young man, creased in the following reign, when one Minister, and on the previous Thursday she stated that she St. Florentin, is believed to have given away or had taken rat poison. On Friday she died from the I sold over 50,000. Wives tired of their husbands and effects of an irritant poison,according to the medical desiring release from an odious alliance, sons testimony probably phosphorus—The jury found impatient to enter on a long-deterred inheritance, that she had committed suicide while in a state of hajealous lovers having influence at court, persons temporary insanity due to mental distress caused by ving personal enemies on whom they desired redisappointment in love. venge, debtors unable to discharge their obligeThe annual report of the Church Missionary tions, purchased these orders in blank, then filled Society gives an interesting statistical table of the , them out with the names of the obnoxious parties. society's operations. It occupies 327 stations—viz., Marquis de Mirabeau, father of the famous Honore, 44 in West Africa, 13 in Eastern Equatorial Africa, at different times during his matrimonial career one in Egypt and Arabia, 11 in Palestine, two in procured no less than 54 of these orders to use Persia, 1109 in India, 17 in Ceylon, eight in against his wife and her people. The person arrested Mauritius, 23 in China, 11 in Japan, 38 in New I under lettre de cachet might be incarcerated in any Zealand, 43 in North-West America, and nine in the of the King's prisons, but the place generally North Pacific. It employs 4,358 missionaries, chosen for these prisoners of state was the famous pastors, teachers, &c., of whom 655 are Europeans, Searle, the citadel of Paris, built by Charles V. 30 Eurasians, am., and 3,873 natives. in 1369, and destroyed by the French populace In accordance with his wish, the body of the late July 14th, 1789. The lettre de cachet system began Mr. John Bullough, of Accrington and Castle about len and ended at the Revolution. Meggerine, Perthshire, who died in February, worth over a million of money, was removed on Monday to Scotland for re-interment in a sepulchre specially made and consecrated on the Isle of Rum his far. ourite sporting island. Mr. Bullough's body was interred in the family vault at Accrington, but was exhumed on Sunday at midnight and carried as far as Oban on Monday. A special steamer conveyed the body to the Isle of Rum on Tuesday, and the ceremony of re-interment took place on Wednesday. In view of the wond rful success of the Charter' house Rifle Corps in winning the Public Schools match at the National Rifle Association meeting in three successive years, it is desired to procure a perpetual memento of the triple victory. An in. fiuential committee, of which H.R.H. Prince Christian, KG., is president, and which numbers among its members the Attorney-General ; General 3ir Merles Warren, K.C.8.; Admiral Sir Leopold teClintock, K.C.B. ; Mr. J. G. Talbot, M.P. ; Mr. H. S. King, M.P. and many other distinguished Old Carthuaians, has been formed to carry out this  lIANIIING IN