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    • THE WHOLESALE MURDERS BY POISON ING IN NORFOLK.
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      . ~ « And J « "U w , * t least in wards , - # l » g—shoul d n » y chance so happen—deeds , } With all who war with Tboaght J " ol thiiA I hear a little bird , who sings ffee peop le by and by will be-the stronger . "—Bxseir . KASTERN EUROPE AND THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS .

      SO . IV . yfe stated in a preceding article that Nicholas is fje p rincipal slave-owner in the Russian empire . The serfs form two distinct bodies , of which 23-45 ths are the property of the landholders , and upwards of 5 Hoths appertain to the domain of the Emperor or Empress . The idea Is universally entertained that the serf population is devotedly attached tothe Tsar , andthat in this stupid submission and superstitions Jjdelity the Emperor finds a sure support , both jrjainst discontent within , and attacks from without . jn a certain degree this is true , but not to theextent aserted bj the apologists and admirers (?) of the Autocrat . Formerly the great mass eftheserf

      population belonged to private landholders , and these being nsuallj tyrants of the worst character , were of coarse odious to their glares . It having been the poEcy of the Rosjajtoffs ever since the time of Peter to humble the nobles , the Emrerors have naturally teen viewed by the serfs as" their protectors , or at least the avengers of their wrongs . Again , all the esaeiions of the Crown , although made from the nobles , of course press directly or indirectly upon the serfs , the nobles having the odious task of acting nominally for themselves , but really for the Emperor . In the recruitment for the army the proprietor

      of an estate is rated at so many men per cent , upon his slaves . He has to single out those whom he chooses for this hateful service , and on him falls the odium of those families from whom the recruit is chosen ; but the Tsar , by holding out the promise of fr eedom at the expiration of the term of military service , is only seen in a comparatively amiable light . From these causes has been engendered a feeling of loyalty and attachment to the Tsars , amongst the private serfs , which feeling lias been greatly strengthened by the idea , prevalent amongst them that the Emperor will eventually release them from slavery . ;

      But the twenty-one millions of Crown serfs enter * tain no very enthusiastic feelings towards their " paternal" lord . Terror and superstitions awe { ather than love and veneration unites the crown serf Jo his imperial master . The belief entertained by the private serf of the superior condition of the crown slave , the latter knows is bat an illusion . The imperial serfs find their condition becoming -worse instead of better , owing to the increasing exactions of the Government and their subjection to a host o blood-sucking officials , who have not the least interest in the welfare of those they plunder and oppress ; added to which , the hopeless state of those employed in the public works , causes the crown serf to look

      with envy upon the condition of the private serf . The increase of the military force , of the Government manufactories and works , and the establishment of the military colonies , to all of which the crown serfs are-compelled to personally contribute , inspires them with disgust and dread . While the private slave in general looks upon the Emperor as the might ; master in vfhose name retribution is so often dealt upon his petty tyrants ; on the other hand , hope no longer stimulates the imperial serf , he is oppressed by the Emperor ' s own servants instead of by a private lord ; he no longer , therefore , sees in Mm a protector or avenger . He may , and dots fear the Tsar , bat dees not lore aim .

      This abominable system is of course fruitful in revolts . "On these ecccasions , like the camel goaded into fury , they turn on their tyrants , and potting them to cruel deaths , bnrn , and destroy and ravage . " Onthissutfect"we quote from the work before us— " In the course of the present year , ( lSi-5 ) one of the distinguished family of Apraxin perished in a similar manner . The feet was generally known , sot on account of his great name , but because it enabled his wife then residing in Austria , and who had losgin vain sued for a

      divorce , to marry ; and it is never but through some ssch casualty that these Jaegneries come to light . It is , however , remarkable that out of ahout a dozen revolts of private serfs , of which the author received accounts irom personal testimony , hi almost every case , thepeasante in the midst of their excesses , always spoke with respect of the emperor , and often were excited by thenleaders in his name to fresh acts of ontrageons -violence . But , xmtbe other hand , amongst the imperial serfs these rebellions are also frequent , though in a like manner local , and produced bv the unendurable oppression of their overseers .

      The conduct of the insurgents is usually in both cases the same with this remarkable distinction however , that in every one of these rebellions , from that dangerous outbreak in the military colonies on the hanks of the Tolchova , towards the dose of Alexander ' s reign , down to those of most recent occurrences , the imperial slaves , when once roused , show none of that superstitious awe for the sovereign , with which their fellow slaves sorm-es even when they have furiously broken through all other

      trammels . An officer who witnessed the revolt of the military COlOUies TO the government of Xovogoroo , and trio nad some reason to remember them , having narrowly escaped being boiled alive , informed the author , that when he made aa appeal to the rebels in the emperor ' s name , they tore the portrait of his imperial majesty from the walls , and igneminiously trampled it wider foot . Tlie image of the saint which hangs in the corner of every Russian apartment , was , however , still respected .

      The subject is continued in the third chapter and , in this chapter the author investigates the probabi lities of a general Insurrection of the slaves . He has co hope of anything like a spontaneous attempt on the part of the serfs to liberate themselves , but it becomes a very different question how they might act if supported by some external agency sufficiently powerful to neutralise their belief In the temporal omnipotence of the Tsars . During the last eentury the serfs have bsen thus twice tempted ; firstly , in the rebellion o £ PogateheS , sni secondly , during theFrenchUnvasion of 1812 . The author of the

      work , before us proves ineontestibly that at the latter period the slaves were ripe for revolt , and that had Kapoleon proclaimed their enfranchisement , and had Ms troops respected their religious prejudices , ' and abstained from plunder and outrage , the game would have been his , Russia would have ^ been revolutionised , and the Muscovite empire rent to pieces . IHE TREXCH HVASI 05—M 0 VEMES 13 OF THE SERFS . On the 18 th of July , 1812 , theEraperor Alexander , findi&g his armies so separated that they could afford each otfeer no mutual support Jnageaittoo late to depend upon Ids military forces alone for the safety Of his empire . He therefore addressed a proclamation uated from 2 ' olotzfe to the people at large , announcing the invasion

      , offals territory , audmaking such an appeal to the popular sympathies as lie hoped might invest the contest with a national character . The effectof this solemn and widely spread document was , at the outset far from answering the views of its promulgator . Ii made known , indeed , in the remotest villages , the threatened approach of the Prencb armies ; but far from inspiring any patriotic indignation amongst the serf population , it was received with sullen apathy , or with positive satisfaction . A re * part seemed to gain , ground amongst them , even in governments distant from the frontier , that the Prench intended to free them from slavery . Jn the environs of St . Petersburg , it was commonly said amongst the peasantry , thatSapoleonirasnot their enemy , and that he would

      free them . In the government of Xovogorod , a landed proprietor relates , that , on returning home to his village , he was received with positive disrespect by his serfs ; they had neglected to perform all the tasks he had left them , with the exception of one individual , who had been taught the trade of a bootmaker . He broug ht back one fair to his lord , in a state of intoxication , and returned the remainder of the leather , saying , —¦ " Takecare ef it ; the French are coming ; you-will have to make the next pair for me . " A German land-steward in the government of Moscow , saw reason to dispatch his wife and family to the city , though he had been unremitting in his -efforts t o paint the Prench army in the most sombre colours to the serfs of the estate .

      Even in the moat remote districts , wherever any result was produced by this announcement of the Prench invasion it was threatening and unfavourable ; bat in those parts of the country situated nearer to the Polish frontier , a most dangerous fermentation was evidently progressing Is the minds of the slave population . The enfranchisement of the serfs in that portion of Poland which constituted the grand duchy of Warsaw , bad inspired the Lithuanian peasantry with the confident hope that a similar boon would be extended to them , now that Lithuania was added to the Polish confedera tien . From the Polish frontier these ideas were trans mitted by the enthusiastic peasantry to their Russian neighbours , and spread so rapidly that there can be no doubt millions of Russian serfs vrere only waiting- the arrival of the French io rise against their masters .

      The unvarying testimony of all those who were at this period inhabiting amidst the peasantry , in any portion of the country comprised between the-Dnieper and the ^ loscowa , rivers , establishes beyond a doubt the universal prevalence of this dispositioa on toe part ot ihiishres

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      let us take the evidence of two Scotchmen , filling tha situations of oupraviteit . or lund-stewardi , on two dig * tinct estates at more than a hundred and fifty miles dig tance from each other . In the one nearest to the frontier as soon as the French army -was knotrato be advancing ' theserft , who ( according to the steward ' s own accou nt ) were unusually well treated , by comparison with neighbours , ceased to work . There did not ensue the same scene of destruction as on the two neighbouring estates the slaves confining themselves to an insolent intrusion into the best rooms of the manor house , where they emptied the lord ' s cellar , tore up the fruit , ripe and

      unripe , from the hot-houses and pineries , and smashed the costly mirrors to get fragments of the glass . No one dared interfere with them ; they said that the French were coming , ana that all their master ' s property would be their own . Some even understood that they were literally to change places with their baroas , —the barons becoming serfs in their turn . On the other estate , in the environs of Mojaisk , a fellow-steward of the other Scotchman was hilled iu the attempt to keep the moujiks in order . After plundering and burning the house , the peasantry took to the woods , or dispersed amongst the neighbouring villages .

      No sooner had the French army passed Witepsk than the Russian serfs flocked from beyond Welij to their outposts , bringing with them , to deliver into their hands , the lords and overseers of the estates which they belonged to . But NiroLEON discouraged this movement , and refused to proclaim the abolition of serfdom . Within a month afterwards this terrible means of aggression was not only out of his power , but bad been turned against him . ; . This chapter ( III ) contains much interesting matter relative to tie French invasion , to which we can merely allude . The author of this work shows beyond question that the burning of Moscow was no act of voluntary national sacrifice , as has been almost uniformly represented by English writers . This popular error has been regarded as an undoubted fact , and as such is recorded by Sir Walter Scott ,

      " Whose fictions were so full of history , his histories so full of fiction . " The Russians themselves deny that they fired the city , and it is the opinion of the inhabitants , evea to the present day , that the French themselves sot fire to it . The Russian goTernment at the time most strenuously denied all participation in the burning and imputed it to the French , using the destruction of the "holy eity" as a means to excite national hatred against the invaders . Colonel Mitchell is of opinion that the conflagration was caused by the French , but accidentally ; on the other hand , the author of this work says , " The fire undoubtedly originated with Criminals let l 003 Q by RoStopchin before evacuating the city . " This Rostop-CHEfis one of Sir Walter Scott ' s favourite heroes . The author of this work vouches for the following anecdote of one of the barbarous acts committed by this hero : —

      On the 14 th of September , Count Rostopchin being about to evacuate the city , caused the prisoners and criminals to be brought before him . After telling the latter that they were to expiate their crimes by serving their country , he set them at liberty . He then ordered a Russian , named Yerecbtchaguinn , jfho had been ar . rested on the charge of translating into Rnss , for one of his friends , a German newspaper which contained accounts of the movements of the French armies , to be put to death , and had him literally hacked to death with sabres before his eyes . Not the least interesting portion of this chapter is the notice of the

      I 5 FAM 0 US TREATMENT OF POLAND BY THE FREKCH DESPOT . As SOOn as preparations were known to be making for the invasion of Russia in 1812 , the enthusiastic hopes of every part of Poland were raised ta the highest pitch . There was no sacrifice sixteen millions of Poles were not ready to make . Lithuania having . been added to the grand uuchj of Warsaw , the diet , under the presidence of Prince Adam Czartoryski , declared the independence of all the Polish provinces . Never , perhaps , were the fervent hopes and the enthusiastic wishes of a people

      more truly expressed than in the speech of the deputation sent by the diet to Napoleon at Wilna . — " Only say , sure , that ihePolishMngaom exists , " exclaimed Wybinski , its inouih-piece , " and this decree will become for the world a reality . We are sixteen millions of Poles , and amongst us there is not one whose arms , whose life , and whose fortune is not at the disposal of your imperial majesty . There is no imaginable sacrifice we shall dread , if it lead to the restoration of our country , from the Dirina to the Dniester , from the Borvsthenes to the Oder . That one word will devote to your majesty , all eur efforts , all our hearts . "

      Sat this magic word the emperor , now the son-in-law of the Austrian Cxsar , ivould not speak . His reply was cold and evasive , his promises were , vague . His ambassador at TTarsair took care to declare tlat his master did not wish to make the war national , and counted only on his armies . It will therefore be readily understood , when Napoleon thus cast aside with a disdainful aversion , in the thorough spirit of a prince " by right divine , " the mighty moral weapon almost forced upon him in Poland , how he should have neglected io resort io its Use on the Russian territories , which he was so confident of appropriating by the sole intermedium of his marshalled hosts .

      The means which he so impolitically neglected , was , as it is well known , used against him ; and from Moscow to Leipzic , the popular feeling roused in Russia and Germany by long baffled adversaries , changed his military failures into irreparable reverses . The tide of opinion which had helped to carry him to successes far beyond those to which any other conqueror had ever attained , thus turned to overwhelm Mm . This sacrifice of Poland is one of the darkest of the many dark deeds which blacken the name of Napoieojt . He had an opportunity to have wedded his name Io eternal glory by liberating a noble country whose gratitude for the act would have ensured

      to him the devoted support oi her chivalric sons , and Lave caused men to forgive , if they could not forget , the pretious sins of his career" ; but the upstart tyrant cared nothing for Poland . Intensely selfish he regarded only his own ambition , and had no hesitation in sacrificing millions to promote his own vain-glorious ends . It is imputed to Mm that after the treaty of Erfurt , he assured the Tsar Alexander that , so far from desiring the liberation of Poland , "the words 'Poles and Poland' should disappear , not only from all political transactions , but from history itself . " An assurance which his treachery could not effect , and which neither the fraud nor force of Royal brigands will accomplish .

      We quote from our author some profound reflections on : — THE PHESCH REVOLUTION . —NAPOLEON . The great power of the republic was derived from moral means , though it neglected none of a material nature conducive to success . Human thought aud opinion , the supposed championship of a new and better order of things against all abases , acted as a mighty lever . "When grasped in the unswerving hand of a successful leader , this tremendous engine , which had never been brought into play before , produced effects , which reduced the ordinary struggle of nations and of princes to comparative insignificance . The history of Europe Had presented no situation even faintly analogous since the great movement of the crusades . In other wars , the fears , the prejudices , and the vanities of races had been freely acted on ; but the example of the French revolution appealed to the most stormy passions of mankind .

      A battle won by the French armies was no longer a mere military triumph , bnt an event which trumpettongned confirmed the authenticity of their mission ; and for once , the roar of cannon and the clang of arms , instead of striking terror into nations , roused the palpitating hearts of millions to fallacious hopes . The French republic had announced that it would break through all fetters , hut when victory gave it up the keys , it kept them for its own account ; and by a just and speedy retribution , it was bound in turn . Ifevertheless , the oppressed throughout Europe had not yet perceived , what France herself has been so slow to recognise , —confounding as she still does her glories and ignominy , —so that her name continued like an incantation which

      stirred nations to their profoundest depths long after she had become the tool of an individual ambition . Napoleon became the incarnation , in their eyes , of that revolution from which the freedom of the world Was expected ; and blinded by the hatred to which centuries of wrongs had given rise , they continued to applaud in him , the avenger , humbling- those who had so long enthralled them . It was of this moral element , which had never jet been to the same extent at the command of any conqueror , that he profited , to attain results which were without a parallel . Great as he was undoubtedly , be was still too little for bis fortunes . The Italian hero , like the French nation , had been placed in a position more proud than ever a people or an individual had reached before . The French republic had in its hands the freedom of the world , and sacrificing to its ephemeral aggrandisement , the noblest part a nation hadjever been called upon toplay ,

      it sank into a despotism . Napoleon , when the most astonnding successes , based on the public prejudice and opinion , had raised him to a station no human being ever fiUed before , when in the tyrant , mankind could only see Ihe tyrant tamer , —the man of } destiny , who trod upon the necks of princes , and made his footstool of the proudest thrones—at that verymoment » f unprecedented triumph , he proved as much below the mission which the world persisted in attributing to him , as the republic before him had proved to- that which it had neglected . When the emperor cast ungratefully aside theloviog daughter ot the people , the authoress of his first success , to taketohis bed the scion of a degenerate and conquered dynasty , — from that time forward , moved by a common-place pride and vanity , he became a vulgar ; despot . He was no longer the champion of a new and promising order of things , — bat the gt&elfls « f the old , which his v ery -ristories h * & " ** v- ¦ ¦* ¦ 7 : ' - t > <'

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      rofar discredited ; and from tf > at fatal period , contente d with the material means st his . "MsposaX he learned gra . dually to neglect—perhaps to Jread the prestige and opinion which had made him a giant ; and placing his * ole trust in the number and brute strength of his battalions , it WBB beneath the brute strength of banded numbers that he succumbed at length . For ourselves we rate Napoleon even still lower than the author o £ the above excellent rem arks . He was always a despot , although at one time ho affected to be a sincere republican , bufchia assumed liberalism was rank hypocrisy . lie had the power to redeem

      mankind from bondage and misery , but he used that power to re-fasten the nations' chains . He was the illegitimate despot striving to render himself legitimate by compelling the old tyrants of the continent to acknowledge his supremacy . Had he succeeded in that , he would have become the arch-conservator of all tyrannies and wrongs . He scourged kings , not to liberate the people , but only to exalt himself . The false halo which for a season surrounded his name already pales before the light of reason , and it is not difficult to foresee that the time will come when universally his name will be held in contempt and scern .-

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      FURTHER DISCLOSURES . Happisbuso , Sunday Night . It seems that the cases of poisoning which have occurred in this village and neighbourhoed are , no doubt , more numerous and appalling than was at first imagined , and that the report of the inquests before the County Coroner will give but a faint idea of what has been done in this dreadful system . Suspicion not stronger than that which now exists with reference to the cause of death of many others , led to the exhumation of the bodies of four persons and that of old Balls . The evidence at the inquest proved that four out of the five had beon poisoned ; and the probability of Balls intentionally administering it . In addition to these deaths , there were several other grandchildren of Balls , whose deaths were as suspicious , and hence arises the supposition , that if a

      strict inquiry were made respecting their fate , they would be found to have perished by similar horrid means . Within ten years bo fewer than twelve grandchildren of the deceased Jonathan Balls , eight belonging to his daughter , Mrs . Oreen , and four to the daughter , Mrs . PesUe , the subjects of the recent proceedings before the coroner , have died after being : attacked all alike . To this list may be added Balls and his wife , both clearly ascertained to have perished from arsenic , and yet in all these very suspicions deaths , only one inquest was held , until the inquiry consequent on the shocking discovery . All these children were in the habit of visiting their grandfather ' s house frequently , and in the case of the one ' that formed the subject of a coroner ' s inquest , it was seized immediately after a visit to her aged relative , but the surgeon , Mr . Clowes , one of the medical gentlemen , that

      have lately been examined in respect to the poisoning cases , giving it as his opinion that fever was the cause of death , a postmortem examination was not deemed necessary . By several parties it has been proved that old Balls was In ihe habit of buying arsenic for years past ; for what purpose was not learned , but it is well known that he procured it in mauy neighbourhoods . There are a few residing in the vicinity of the village that remembers Ball ' s father and mother dying suddenly , and in a very suspicious way ; similar to the otherdeaths ; twentytwo years ago , they came to live with him , and shortly afterwards perished as before stated . It also ought to be stated that during the last few years many labouring men who were in the habit of mixing greatly in Ball's

      society and visiting him at his house , have died after two or three days' illness , and horn a cause far from being satisfactorily explained . These numerous deaths , all of similar character , coupled with the circumstance of old Balls having been known to have been guilty of several wicked acts , has naturally given rise to a general opinion throughout the district that they have been unfairly disposed of ; in fact , that they have been poisoned in the same way as bodies of the children that have been exhumed . As has been mentioned , Balls was in the habit of perpetrating several disgusting transactions , and according to a . statement made to us by one of the heads of the police , has been twice charged with the serious offence of arson , and was generally termed in the village a . mischievous old man .

      So far as circumstances hare transpired , the conviction becomes strengthened , that the deceased man , Balls , and him only , is the guilty party in this wholesale murderous traffic . His object may be seen in disposing of his wife , who was an old bedridden woman , and must now and then have occasioned him some trouble ; but it is difficult to find a motive for getting rid of the children , whom he had not to maintain and to whom he invariably showed so much kindness . It is , however , stated they had occasionally put him to some inconvenience , his daughter having frequently solicited him to take care of them . How far that was correct , we could not ascertain . According to the witnesses examined at the inquest , he was always desirous of seeing them at his house . One fact shows very clearly that Balls was alone in this dreadful affair , which unfortunately was lost sight of by the

      coroner and jury . When the last child of his daughter Mrs . Pestle . died , the mother became alarmed , and said she would preserve the piece of membrane which the child threw up and give it to the surgeon , Mr . Hewett , to be examined . This circumstance was stated at the coroner ' s inqueit , but it did not come out in the medical testimony that the piece of membrane in question had been examined . On Mrs . Pestle stating her determination , the old man replied , Oh , den ' t da that 5 ' but she still persisting iu her determination io do so , he mustliave taken the poison immediately afterwards , for he was a corpse in a few hours . It is deemed somewhat remarkable that these repeated deaths did not excite the suspicion ef the vicar of the parish , the registrar , the Surgeon , or the rural police , and induce them to send the necessary information to the county coroner , with a view of calling an inquest to inquire iato them . The parochial authorities

      are , to an extent , blamed for not comraumcating with the coroner , but , according to the statement of the parents of the children , that althongh their offspring aiea so sudden and quickly after each other , they never dreamt of them dying under suspicious circumstances . That such deeds should have escaped the prying gossip of so small a village , may be deemed exceedingly remarkable . Itis stated that there has been a feeling amongst the magistrates of this county that the expenses of coroner ' s inquests shouiu be reduced , that inquests should not be held so frequently , and-even that a circular had been sent to the officers of this very parish , impressing upon them the necessity of carrying out their suggestions . If such be the fact , it may in some measure account for the coroner not hearing of these mysterious deaths in the usual channel . There is no doubt that if an inquiry had been instituted in the first and second death , the dreadful system would have been detected and diabolical murders prevented .

      It is said the individuals vuo sold Bails the poison ought to have had their suspicions awatened Dy the many deaths that were taking place in bis family . Balls generally , however , bought it some miles from his residenc , and the probability is that the parties never heard of them . The Secretary of State has communicated with the magistrates of the neighbourhood on the subject , who have evinced every desire to sift this atrocious transaction to the bottom . The Government officer is busily employed in this and neighbouring villages in tracing out suspicious fact 3 relating to the affair , and upon the report of that gentleman will depend any further investigation . It is anticipated that the preliminary inquiry

      trill terminate about to-morrow ( Monday ) night , and a report of the result will probably be forwarded to the Home Office on Tuesday . Whether any more bodies will be exhumed and examined will , no uoubt , depend upon the officer ' s inquiries . It will be remembered that Mr . Firth , a surgeon deposed at the last meeting of the coroner ' s jury of aot being able to trace the presence of arsenic in the stemach of the infant who died three years ago . It has , however , undergone a more protracted examination , and he has succeeded in detecting poison , but his having put the stomach into the pot whera the others had been , may prevent his speaking positively to the fact , it being possible for some to have adhered from the former stomachs .

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      ^—TRAGICAL DEATH . On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town of Ramsgate public-house , Wapping , before Air . Baker , on the body of a fine young woman , called Emmeline Fullilove , aged twenty years , who was found in t he river Thames , having committed suicide on Sunday night last . It appeared that the unfortunate deceased had been married only three months to a man named Jonathan Fullilove , a compositor at the Queen ' s printing-office , who had treated her with great inhumanity . lie had sold a room full of furniture which his wife brought him on his marriage , had pawned her clothes , and deprived her of the common necessaries of life . He had repeatedly beaten her in a most savage manner , ana her face anil were often discoloured and swollen

      eyes from the effects of his brutality . The bonnet , cloak , and shawl of the deceased were found on London bridge , together with a letter addressed to her mother , in which she used these expressions : — "My Dear Mother--It ia with sorrow that I write to you in this strain , but my troubles are greater than I can bear . My heart is broken ; I cannot survive it . I wouJd have borne with poverty , were it misfortune that caused it ; but to know that my bard earnings are torn from me to keep a prostitute , is more than I can bear ; but let him know that my last dying curse was , that he may rot and die a despised wretch as he is , aud his jade—she that persuades , and has succeeded in their vile schemes , ana their

      made me their victim . They may now revel in unholiness , and I shall be no barrier between them . Judgment will some day overtake them . They nave p layed their cards well , and schemed to be rid of me successfully . " The jury unanimously expressed the greatest disgust at the conduct of the husband , Fullilove . fhey regretted that they could not send him to prison . After a long discussion , they agreed to a verdict sug-EesWdby the coroner , "that E . rameUne Fullilove was found dead , with a wound three iftches in length on lier right temple , which was caused after death , and that her death was apparently caused by drowning , but the jurors , however , cannot separate without expressing their opinion , and belief that the aeceas ed

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      KiSJ ^?^ l * fr 6 in the brutal and inhuman conduct of her husband . " ; . . v 1 " At * n ? re 9 ueat of the jury , Fullilove received a l ° -K dseve «> lecture from the coroner ,, who told k' ^ SI 8 *^? reflect , as long as he lived , on his base and heartless conduct to his late wife .

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      THE POISONING CASE AT BIRMINGHAM . Casb of Poisoning at Birmingham . —During the last few days a young woman named Lawless , who resided with her husband in Park-street , Birmingham , has been in custody on suspicion of having attempted to poison her husband . It appears that she and her husband did not live happily together , and eh © had been heard to say some time back , after a quarrel , that she would poison her husband , and that sfie attempted to do so on Tuesday last by administering some arseoic in tea , not only to her husbandy but also to two Mends who happened to call inv The woman herself , however , did not partake of th « poisonous mixtare , butiafterjpreparing it left ttte- house and ; did not return . The other

      parties ha-ving finished their tsa were token so- ill that a auigeon was sent for , and for some time the huaband s life was despaired of r though , with the others , he is aow getting better . The accused waa taken into custody on Wednesday evening at a lodging-house in another part of t £ e town to which her husband resides . Fron * experiments matfe by the medical men- and a chemist ,, there remains no doubt ot the nature of the poison . ; and it was foand out on Friday that the wretched woman , on Tuesday afternoon , . purchased some arsenic at a druggist ' s shop in the town , at the same time asking for some soft soap , saying that she wanted them ' to-elean some bedsteads with . -On being apprehended 1 ,, she said that it was a bad job her husband was not cfead .

      COMMITTAL © S THE ACCITSED . Bibmisoitaib ; , May 26 . On Monday , Mary Ann Lawless was placed'at the bar , before the sitting magistrates at the Public Offlce , on tbe charge of attempting to poison her husband and two other persons . Tbe first witneis called was the husband of the prisoner , who stated that on Tuesday afterneon last a Mrs . Murray called in at his house , and his wife being then out , he asked her to sit down and wait , which she did ; shortly after that , the accused came in with some soft soap in her hand , and went upstairs , telling witness to make the Jtea , he refused , asking his wife to do it , and at the same time invited Mrs . Murray , who Lad a child about two years old with her to stop to tea . A young man , a friend of the parties was also in the room . The prisoner , having made the tea , poured out three cups ,

      one for Mrs . Murray , another for witness , and the remainder she drank herself . There was no unpleasant taste in that tea , but , on making some more , witness observed his wife take from her breust a small paper packet , which he thought at the time was tea , and , having poured the contents into the teapot , she ( hrew the paper into the lire , and , having poured some more water into the teapot , dealt out another cup of tea to the other parties and herself , but did not drink more than two spoonsful Of it . Witness and Mrs . Murray , while drinking their cup of tea , found that it burned their mouths and throat , and asked the prisoner if she tasted anything the matter with it , to which she replied , that she had made it strong . In the course of a few minutes the witness , Mrs . Murray , another child ivereali seized with violent sickness * pains in the stomach , ¦ and burning heat in the throat .

      The greater portion of the above evidence having been corroborated by Mra . Murray , tbe surgeon who was called in to attend the sufferers was next examined , and deposed tothe state in which he found them , and the remedies he applied . if r . Woolrych , a practical chemist , deposed to having analysed a portion of fluid ejected by the husband of the accused , which he found strongly impregnated with arsenic , and also found a small portion adhering to the sides of the teapot . Au assistant to Mr . Browett , chemist and druggist , said

      he supplied the prisoner with a pennyworth of soft soap and a pennyworth of arsenic on Tuesday afternoon last , a short time previous to the administration of poison to the complaining parties , the prisoner stating : tliat she wanted it for the purpose of mixing it irith the soft soap to clean bedsteads with . After hearing the evidence of the police officer who aprehended the prisoner , when she said it was only a bad job he ( the husband ] was not dead , tlieprisoner was committed to take her trial at the next assizes for the county of Warwick .

      The only cause that can he assigned for the commission oftliis wholesaleattemptatpoisoning is the unhappy way in which the prisoner anil her husband lived together .

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      SERIOUS FIRES . Burning of a Steam Saw-mii * in Golden-lane . — On Tuesday morning , shortly before four o ' clock , much alarm lvas excited in the densely populated neighbourhood of Golden-lan » , St . Luke ' s , by the outbreak of a furious fire upon the premises occupied by Mr . Iaman , known as tue Steam Saw-mills , in Cupid ' a-court . The building , upon the first floor of which the occurrence' took place , was contiguous to others in the occupation of Mr . C . Matthias , steam-grinder , Mr . Uash , embosser , and others , all of which , contained machinery of great value . Instant information was furnished to the several engine stations , and in a very short time several engines , from the various stations of the London Fire-engine Establishment , under the direction of Mr . Braidwood , aud the West of England and County engines , arrived , several

      of which were soon got into full play , the New River mains furnishing an abundant supply of water . Notwithstanding that the beBtpossible positions were chosen by the firemen for pouring the water upon the flames , was some considerable time bulore any visible impression could be made upon them , from the fact of the fire having obtained great hold before the discovery was made , and the fuel upon which it fed being of a most inflammable kind . B / perseverance , however , the body ol fire was confined within the area of the mills , an OXtCnaive factory contiguous being preserved . The damage , it is said , will amount to several hundred pounds , the building and machinery being nearly destroyed , and the adjoining property much injured . Both the building and the machinery belonging to Mr . Inman are insured iu the Phffinix Fire-office .

      I'ibe in Westminster , —Just before four o ' clock , on Tuesday morning , the apartments occupied by Mary Morris , 2 , Pineapple-court , Westminster , were discovered to be on lire . As might be expected the utmost confusion prevailed among the poor creatures dwelling in the houses , which islet out in teinetnents . They all set to work , however , with good will , and by the aid of buckets , iic , they managed to put out the fire without the engiues , several of which attended , and before a very great deal of damage was done . I ' lBE is the Edgewase . road , —Shortly before midnight , on Monday , a fire broke out upon the premises in the oecupatiou of Mr . C . Y . Williams , teacher of languages , of Portman-place , Edgeware-read , which destroyed a valuable portion of the furniture , and some part of the building , before it was extinguished . The accidental ignition of the bed curtain , was tlie cause ! The furniture is not insured , nor is the building .

      Other Fires . —Mr . Braidwood reports four othcrnres , besides the abote , within twenty four hours , making a total Of seven , which occurred in the metropolis within that period .

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      AWFUL COLLISION ON THE UIVER MERSEY . — DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE . Liverpool , May 2 G . A most awful steam-boat collision took place shortly before eleven o ' clock last night , at the mouth of the Mersey resulting in an extensive loss of life and consequences the most lamentable . _ Wo extract from the second edition of the Liverpool Standard : — It is our duty to give the particulars o-f a most heartrending occuvrenea , which took pluce on the Mersey last night , and which was unfortunately attended with the most lamentnble consequences both to life and property . The Sea Nymph , which trades between this port mid Newry , wa 3 proceeding last night on her outward passage to the latter port , when , about eleven o ' clock , just as she was off New Brighton , a steamer was seen coming up , which afterwards proved to be the Rambler steamer , coming into this port from Sligo . Both vessels , as far as we cau learn , ported their helms—in conformity , we believe , with the requirement of the bye law ; but before the vessels got fully swung round , they enmc into collision . : ' .

      Captain Thompson was on the scaffolding over the engines , and had them stopped fully two minutes before ' the accidsnt occurred . Thomate , Mr . Samuel Easter , was forward . The starboard bow of the Sea Nymph struck the larboard bow of the Rambler , and scraping on towards , the paddle , carried away her stem . The Rambler was run on shore , near the rock , and Captain Thompson having ascertained that she was there safe from sinking , brought nil vesselinto the . Clarence dock , and discharged his cargo , which has not suffered we are informed any material injury , though the damage done to the vessel is great , and it is said that her not sinking is owing- entirely to her water-tight compartments . We navo not been able to ascertain so far what injury thr , Rambler has sustained . Both vessels had their lights up ..

      But , melancholy as are the particulars we aay . e already , given , the loss of life is stilt more lamentable to conteair plate . Itis impossible io say , at present ,, what number , of persaushave been injuvod ; but we featthutit will turn out that upwards of twenty are already dead , and . swiny others more or less injured , some of tbem very seriously * if not fatally . In the Magazine Boatitouse there ase nine dead bodies ; three more arc in the Ship public-house and ene in the Black Horse , Two men are lying dead in the Northern Hospital and twelve other persons are at prosent in that excellent iiistituti'jn ,, having their necessities attended to . Among those who are injui-ed , and at present in the Novthorn Hospital , ato—Catherine CfiHi Mary Rowland , Patr ick Fenny , John Roach , Mary Carney , Bridget O'Meally , Eliza . Connolly , Mary Uatty , Margaret M'Oundy , Bridget lelly , Michael Fumey , suid Mary Connelly . . :

      After obtaining the above brief description , we proceeded to New Brighton , near the slip of which ferry the Rambler had been run ashore . The pilot , Mr . William Daniels , informed us that he was taken on board outside the light-ship . At about half-past ten passed the Rock

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      light , wind westerly aud very light , and the . ' weather particularly fine . Saw the Sea Nymp h coming right across therirer , towards the Bock . Ordered the helm to be put hard aport , and stopped the eng ines ; the Sea Nymph with her helm , in his opinion , a-starboard , came stem on into our larboard bow , cutting her completely down to the water ' s'edge , carrying ; away momentarily the topgallant forecastle , smashing to pieces a heavy patent windlass , and severing the deck half-way across , and so shaking the whole frame of the vessel , thatevery watertight compartment was rendered p erfectly useless , and it was evident she must hare-sank had not the ? engines been started , and the vessel ran ashore , as she immediately filled .

      Two principal officers of tho Bambler were at the wheel , the second mate and the- river pilot ( a person carried in case a pilot cannot bo obtained ) . There was no difficulty in starting the engines , sma they wore kept going for some time in order to hayden her on as the tide attained its height . After the vessel grounded , some of ifo passengers , de ^ spite the persuasion of Captain M'AUister , who , we learn , exhibited great presence of mind , took possession of the starboard boat for the purpose of getting ashore . They let go the fore-davit fall , and at that moment some one cut away the stern fall . The weight of persons in Hie quarter-boat ( some say seven , some eleven ) saused her to upset , previous to her reaching the water , and' the actual result it is impossible toascertain ; but , as we 3 tate below , at all events five were saved .

      i On going on board the Humbler , which we iid' by en-. tering through the chasm mads through tier larboard side into th « steerage , a most extraordinary siiflit pre-¦ sented itself . Part of the flooring of the quai-ftr-deck I was- smashed through , and the remainder , a csufused > tnuas- of- smashed tables , forms , bones , &c ., sonic * flbat-: ing in the water which had filled this part of the vessel . Th ' e scene on deck was still more horrifying , the wliole , both'afore and abaft the funnel , being eovereil with dead pigs , part crushed to death , and another portion of nrlkfcli-seemed to have been stabbed , the whole saturated in tho bloodi The most awful sight , however , wra the bows of the vessel , which were- completely bedabbfed with human blood , and strewed with crushed salmon ) broken boxes , cordage , ifcc , &te . and tbe fragments of

      the windlass . From this part of the ressel thirteen human beings had been extricated , s * me with broken nvma , or disseveimd lees , all dead , and so crushed as to bo almost beyond recognition . One poor woman , with her infant child , was taken up from underneath the broken windlass , the iron spindle of which had fallen upon her head , and smashed : t completely . A portion of her brains irere to be seen adhering to the ivoa spindlo . When takan tip her infant had fast hold of the nipple of the poor mother ' s breast . These thirteen poor unfortunates now lie in the Magazine lifeboat House for recog-. nition , which in many caaes , from the crushed state of their bodies and features , appears to us to be very improbable . We were informed , that on the bodies being searched by the constable of Wallasey , Mr . Scambler , not a . coin of any kind was found upon the whole .

      We believe that nearly all the persons on board the Rambler were persons intending to emigrate to America . We could not ascertain precisely the quantity of cattle on board or lost . About 120 pigs , however , as near as- we can compute ( for the sickening sight precluded the possibility of counting them ) were laid dead on deck , the captain thinks there were 700 pigs and 20 bullocks Many of the former were washed overboard , in addition to those killed . Only one of the bullocks was killed ; the remainder were on board when we left the steamer . The loss of life from this astounding calamity * ns far as we can at present ascertain , is as follows : —• Dead , and lying at thefMagazine Boat House ... 13 Dead at Northern Hospital 3

      16 Lost from capsizing of boat ; unknown . The master of the Magazine life-boat states , that at the time the accident occurred he was seated in his house , and , on hearing the crash , went out and procured one or two men—the first he could find , and that with these he manned the smaller life beat , and proceeded on his way to tho Rambler . Before he reached her , however , he found a boat , bottom up , with-a man clinging to her keel ; another man was holding to an oar , and thvee others were floating on the water ; all these the life-boat saved . TIkS . v then made for the Rambler , but the scene on board was such that the men iu thelife-boat , unaccustomed to such a sight as presented itself , turned faint , an < Mhe eominunder then manned the larger life-boat with his usual hands , and succeeded in bringing 220 persons from the Rambler . He states that , though he has been eighteen years on tUe station , he never know such a disastrous night before . Of course it is impossible to say how many were in the boat , which was found bottom up .

      At the Northern Hospital the sufferers are going on as well as can be expected , with the exception of John Roach , « vho has since died . The following are the additional persons at present lying in the Northern Hospital : —Hannah Tossey , Fergus Brown , Patrick Williams , and Patrick Creogban . Both vessels are nearly new , having been built last year , and are entirely constructed of iron .

      FURTHER PARTICULARS . Upon making inquiry at the Northern Hospital yesterday morning , we learned that most of the sufferers by the late collision en the river are going on ns well as caR be expected . Three of them are so badly injured , and have had so many bones fractured , that little or no hope ? are entertained of their recovery . They can scarcely survive the next twenty-four hours , the ttnmbler was floated across the river last night , and is now lying in the Clarence Dock-basin . She will be hauled up on the Gridiron today , and tWe necessary repairs will be done to her immediately . TllU Sea Nymph hil 5 been hauled up to one -of

      the southern graving docks , where workmen are engaged in repairingher injured stem . It is thought she will again be ready for sea in a fortnight or three weeks . The Rambler may probably be ready for sea about the same time . The inquest on the two dead bodies now lying at the Northern Hospital will be held before Mr . Curry , the Borough Coroner , but , as yet , no time lias been fixed for commencing the inquiry . The inquest on the thirteen bodies lying dead at the Magazines , will commence before Mr . Churton , the Chester Coroner , on . Tuesday next . It is probable that inquests on both sides ofthe water will be opened on the sa . ne day ( Tuesday next , ) and that in all probability it will last several days . —Liverpool Courier .

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      Melancholy Occurrence ' at Kensington . — On Saturday morning a melancholy occurrence took place at Kensington , which terminated fatally . It appears that a gentleman . named Mr . George Robert Ward , a barrister , hail been on a visit at tho house of his brother , Dr . ' Ogier Ward , No . 9 , Leonard-place-,. Kensington , and during the last day or two-had been seized With brain fever , On Saturday morning , about hall ' -nast seven o ' clock ,, the unfortunate gentleinnti threw himself out of the bedroom window on the third-floor , and fell on the area railings beneath witdb tlw

      such force that he was completely impaled on points of the rails , one of which passed through lliS thi » h and another entered his body . He was extricated with nuich difticutty , and was immediately attended by Messrs . Pollock and Turner , surgeons , \ vJto did their utmost to alleviate his-suftenngs , bufc the injuries he had sustained were of so extensive a character , that death ensued in about an hour afterwards . It is supposed that the deceased in his . descent must have struck against the balcony oS'ihe first-floor and have rebounded from that upoai t'ae aim beneath , lie had only his skirt on at felia-Stme

      Fatal -Accidents on the IUveu .. —Two . Slavics Lost . —On Sunday morning , between , six an * i ! seven o ' clock , a number of persons hired a boat at . BJadcfriars brid-o for- the purpose of proceeding up the river When they had got-nearly facing t ' ae . new Houses of Parliament , a young woman nanwrt Ellon Morncy , who resided in Fulwood ' s rents , Woiborn , by ' u sudden , jerk of the boat , was throwa iropj her soatintotheriver . A young man uiiiucd Beagloy instantly lumped in afteii-tho female , but ue w as unaWe to savohor , and up-to ton o ' clock last ni / lit the body had not been recovered . The same- atf . ernoon as the Matrimony iron steam-boat was pvocer jiling up the rivsr . to Chelsea ,, with a cargo of passen gers , the foremost mate , a \ eungiuan , named Chart : s Pusey ,

      was standing on the paddle-box , when he wa s accosted by a friend , and whilst shaking , hands wi . th his acquaintance he overbalanced himself , and Vi-11 into the rive * . The boat , was stopped as quickly as possible , a waterman pub off from the shove , and r owed to the § p&t , and every , endeavour was . made to save the young man ' s life without success . It . is supposed t ^ at the deceased must have been washed out seme distance by theswell caused by the passage oi' the steamer . As . in the previous case , tbe body hasbnot been found at ten o ' clock last night . : Drbaiwui . FiR £ w IavE&pooL . —About hatepast 'five o ' clock on Sunday morning , " a dreaOM fire broke out at 41 » e corner of Slater-street a' jsli Woodstreet contiguous to tho Music Hall , which , for

      abou ^ two , hours , created the greatest alam among the inhabitants of that neighbourhood , and caused the- destruction of property to a very . lr . rg « amount . The promises , which have now to a great extent been reduced to a heap of ruins , were t , he propevly of the . late Mr . William Galloway , pain cer and paperhanging manufacturer , of No . 26 , 1 ' liwnlow-sfcreet , who died a few ' weeks since , and who , -willed them , we believe , to his widew . They were erected five or six years ago on the . site of the old . Deaf and Dumb School and Eye and Ear Ineti tution , and formed altogether a very spacious arJtl elegant building , extending along Slater-street ? , nd Wood-street a considerable way , and . being ibux stories in height from

      the level of-thepaiem ^ fct . - The livo seems to have been first discovered in that part of Mr ., Galloway ' s third story which looks hito Slater-street , and is on a ' line with Mr . Hunt ' s , shop , bat so rapidly did it extend , that the \ who ) 6 of the upper part of ^ tne promises was in ai'hraze when Mr . llewitl , with the engines ar , d fire bi'Mtlei reached the spot , about ten minute ? , to six o ' clocK . " The flames quickly coramunicatp . d upwards with the fourth story and the roof , and downwards alao with Mr . Dreaper ' s show-room ; ap . d fov some time tke conflagration threatened the raost alarming consequences to the surrounding property . It was ' eight o'clock before the hre could be saidtobecompletely aubdued , and long before that

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      time the entire of the roof had fallen ' )» , and the beams and floorings of the second and thin ) Storied , as well as the frames and sashes of twenty -si * of tins windows had been comp / etely burned away , 'lee loss of property is heavy . Accidentand loss of LiPK . ow fur , South-EastekSf Railwat ;— . Dover , Moxday . —A serioxM accident , of a somewhat remarkable character , tcnolting fatally , to ) k place on the South-Eastern Kai'Pway yesterday afternoon to the expres 3 train , by whfeh the engine and tram went off the line , and the engbfecfrirer wa % killed ,. The train left tlie town terminus s * fc a quai'toi ' past three o ' clock . On its arriving ¦ about midway of PJuckley and Headcorn , distant from town about sixty miles , and just as it verged into a ctrflS-g ' the passengers were started by a sudden jerk . In a few seconds tha train waa brought to a dead ste ^ , and

      considerable alarm was manifested amongst tha passengers . On looking out , they discovered theea- ^ ine audtrain had got off tbe line , and the former wag lying on it * side across the rails , is having struck 8 l >« banK of the cutting and turfted over . Ir . a few minutes the unfortunate- enjjineei' was discover * under the engine . The poor fellow , we believe , was found alire ; - but ere hecoaM be extrtoted , whichoceapied some- time , lii'e was extinct , ' ^ be stoker was thrown by tilie- concussion on his-fee ? en the siding , miraculous ^ escaping the least injury , Tlie guard was thrown fi'on * his seat , an * also providentially escaped .- Nrae of the passengers v / etor hurt . As soon-as possibJe ; . assistance was-rendered at Ashford and Tuiibrldget r and in thecnttm- ef a'left hours the lino was cleared ^ , tflie passengers bein » tit ? fe * n on by the n « xt train .

      Tira Bate McrnaKar is MooR-Anxn : — Ofr Monday evenings Mr . VV . I'liyne , Citv coroaer , held arvinquesfc at Bartholomew ' s SJbspital , on the-Body of Jfakn Ody , aged 32 ! , bootmaker ; , ^ hose death was occasioned by being stabbed by James-Carter , whc * ivas on'Sstnrtlay last fully committed to Newgate fur trial upon the . ' charge o ? murder . The cifcumstaijces ,. as- deposed 'to by the several witnesses whose evidence has prejviously appeared in the 3 iiilduall police reports ; -viz ; , ; that the'decensed and some men of tlie sajrce'trftde . were ; about ten o ' clock hi the evening of'Uies&ay Jlast ,. drinking together : it' the Crow pubi ' ic-hottse ,

      Mbor-lane , Cripplegale , ^ iienOarter attempted to drink out of the deceased's pot of beer ,. The latter repulsed him , and called him " a sponge . " Carter titen left the house , muttering that' he would geS something "'to settle him , " ami he returned after aiiiabseireeof seven to ten aiinittes ; called Odyoutj flnd'after a few words stabbefl'lvim two or t *> ree time * inthe-leit' side with a snort' but broad ' anil sharp--poiiited shoornaker ' s knife , whicto'it seemed he-had been-home to procure . The daci-ased was instantly conveyed to St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , wliere lieexpired on Ffiilay night . Tire jury returned a ver * diet of " Wilful murder against' JAmes-Carter . ' - ''

      Deserjhkeo Suicide of & ¦> Widow Ijadi-. — On Monday afternoon , Mr : G . J-i . Mills , Coroner" fof Middlesex held an inquest at tlie Mother Red Cap ,-jligh-sCMjet ,. © amden Town , on the-body of a widow Isdy-pf independent property , . named Qit&hii , aged forty , whor-esided in Barham-terracev It ' appeared from tlie evidence of the son of thte deceased , ; S * youth of fourteen , that fie last saw- his mother alive in her drawing-room '' on Friday afternoon last , about a ' qiiarter before two o ' clock , when 'lie- left home to go to school ,, © n . his return shortly . -after five o ' clock ) on entering the apartment , he found her'suspendedby the neek fvwh a hook in the wall by a rope . Heinstantly gave an alarm , and she- was- cut down by apoliceman'and a neighbour . She had ibr < some timepast been * exceedingly despond . bg , . and- five or sir . months back threatened to destroy herself . He on

      many occaaions thought slip was not right An her mind , and on-Thursday , seeing thcrhook ' in the v ? ail where he-had'never , seen such a thing before , . he was so strongly smpri'sscd with the -conviction that she meant to destroy herself , that 'he-went-and brought in 5 i policeman . On Thursday evening , whilst lying on the sofa ,, dfeceased fancied she saw a largo bat-flying about the apartment , and that'it'haditaken refuge in . a bird-cage in the room , and . lshe < begged of him ( herson )) to catcli it . Whence letc home for school on tlie Friday , she called him to kiss llGf , and behaved mosb affectionately towmriis-lum . . She frequently complained of pain in the head , and would , stand with- bar hands to ^ ife for a long time together . She- was- under medical treatment for it . When she read'of caaes'Of ' suK'ide in the paper , -. she-would express her horror at people takingiaway that life they , could not give . The Jury returned a verdict , —That deceased Inmg herself in a state of-insanity .. :

      AiiBitPXED- Suicid ' b by a Bos . — . On Saturday , at the Hauimeismith Police Court , James Bannister , a boy , fifteen years of age , was charged , with having attemptedisetf-dostriiction . It apprargftthat he had been apprenticed about four in ( mth 8-it 6 i ] OTr « . Purnelly aturuei ' , < U jianimeisiritu . IIKs ternp er ^ as so bail , that when Ue was spoken to he wpiild ^ djina ^ c Ins work , and . refuse to do what hio mastti ' dif ^ bted hj ni ; and a sumiaojis was consequently , taken out ' against him to appear at this Court .. On Saturday ^ just before the time for his ; appearing ,. he toolcatp a double-ed / jeil chisel , as sharp as a razor , and . attempted-to cut his throat , but was prevented by his ' master , who bad much difficulty in getting the weapon from him . 11 & was remanded .

      llufiBaUT IS LlVBRPOOi ,. —B . otwecn ten and eleven o ' clock ,, on Saturday morning Just ,, au extensive robb ° ry was committed at the house of Mr . Francis Barnes-,, book-keeper , It- soonimon-stueet ; Evurtou . It apears that , immediately ; , after-breakfast that moi'aia ^ Mv . Bai-nes and bis ftimiljr-left lin > home , leaving , no persun to take enre of the llOUSO G . VL'L'PD the seuvant-niaid . Between the . hours -m entioned a knock was heard at the treat door , which was opened by the servant , and instantly two . men . rushed in , seiK&liold of her , aud fastened her in the watercellar . They then procop 4 . kd . to ransack tlie house , and s ' &iceeded in finding and carrying oil ' ., with them a pooket-book , containing . nine sovereigns and four lalS- ' sovereigns , several , ladies' dresses , . some go ' . d vingsj . broaches , and earrings , a coral , set in gold ,, three sets of window- cu-sains , a black coat and vest , skirts , trousers , boot ? . ; ,, and a variety of other artiolss .

      i&ARFUT . Omnibus Acoidesi-. o-s Loxdos-Bbidoe . —On Tuesday evening , about six o ' clock , a very distreSSHlE accident tooliulace on tbe .-Somlnvai-k . side oSLcjidon Bridge , to a poor , nuw , named Michael 2 fCMiiva : i , aged 49 years , a bricklayer , residing at Kw . 3 , White ' s-place fc JB . e . deross-sfreet , Borough , lie was crossing the carriage way , when he was knocked < toivn bv an omnibus ivhic-li - # as . passing towards-Mtgli-strett , and , before the driver cowM , stop il-. e liaises , the oft ' -wlie ^ passed ovosr his neck , and caused a lacerated wound , si" the cheek lie was carried to St .. Thomas ' s Uosyita ! , where * he . is . going on as faourably as can be- esueetod .

      Tub Late l-V . v ^ .. Aceii > i ! : » . o . v , tiie SouTifcbAS-, » eus Railwat . —On Monday-. evcniug an inquest was held at Guy ' s Hospital , before W . Payne , Esq ., City Gorouer , oa the body , of William lloyle , agod 22 , hue a nreinau to one oii the engines on the b&uiheastern Railwav , John Witham , a . fireman , stated that on the evening of the 3 d of May . at half-past ei"ht o ' clock , an empty sngino , which had bcea-to-Dover and b ^ -k ,, started again ,. from the London , brkl-e staticm to New . crflss , but had- not got tarther than half w : vi between : > nc Spa-road and tho Green- , wich juneiiM ) , on the L over line , when the occentnc sheive siioped , and stopped thy engine .. lie then left the disabled engine , and ran back wiUi the r « L iiR ht signal . The fcuuy don up-trainjpassed linn , and immediately waved tie white ljght signal . 1 nisAvns a signal to the Vowv . mail down-tram , winch was then approaching , to . stop , but the tram , never theless passed him , and . the djriv . qr did wot appear to see tW siiinals , ami ran into the cngiJip ,.- \ yhich-was .

      atatioaary , lie saw the liCOUasud V £ M . UlS . ICtHeg . crushed between the engine and ti'iuier . W . II . Nw-ris , house-srugeon . at Siiy . ' s , described the injuries , adding , that the left leg was stipulated by Mr . liillin , and tfj . tt deceased expired of his injuries .. Verdict , —Accidental IVatli . t k Max KiiWJi ) i » a Suow- — About nine o cfoeiv on Wednesday evening while the performance afc Parish ' s Theatre , Waterloo-road , Stoelqmr . t , were "Oin" through the aielo-draisatic spectnele ,. cj . lled ' St . Clairof the !**» , or tliq-Outlaw of Bawa , the seats at the umier end gave way , anil the specta-¦

      tors were precipitated to the ground , without ,. as u was then supposed , any person receiving personal injury , 'i'he place was much crowded , aud some ¦ Jirh culty was-expemnced inrestoring c ^ der v aud regsiru j less ofthe wreck of timtev which tlw accident . J ;; ul occasioned at that particular 'portion of the booth , the performaace proceeded . At eleven c ' cJock t . ie company WCXS dismissed . ; , and ihe parties coun « i ted wiAh the building began to examine the ninouot Ot damage done ; when to theiiMilarni audastonislnaunt , they found a man buried beneath- the timber , a piece of which lay across { us throat , : md lie was a corpse As . no cries of distress were hcanl , \ % is eWi > thu i-. nfbrtunate man , who wasfemoking his pipe at the time of the accident , must have been suilbeatid . Ms name and residence wus'Wra . llooncy , a nail-maker , lodgim ; in Kdtvnrd-atreet !

      A Boy Drowsed wius B , \ Tmso . —On Tuesday Mr . Waklcy . held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle , KinyVroad Camuen Town , on the body of James Francis'Hammond , agi-d l >! teen , whefco parents live iii Wells-street , Oxl ' nrii-street . The deceased , who was an apprentice to a cabinet-maker , on Saturday eveninglast proposed to Ufa fdi-w apprentices to hama bathe . It being tli'eh nouriy nine o ' clock-they objected , but ho being determined .. tl . ey consented to accompany him to tlie Regent's -Canal . Just beyond Chnlk" Farm Tavern , deceased , who was an ' cxpert swimmer , uiidi'i'ssed himself and dived in . His companions , in the mean time , amused

      tlicmsclvWon the bank , till it -becoming quite daiWtuey looked for deceased , whom they could not se « . \ ihpy called to'lum , but receiving no answer , they- ran . to the lodge at the locks and raised- an ukuw ^ A ^ drags were , consequently put into ¦ requisition , jna about eleven o ' clock the body was ^ ound . , a- was conveyed to the workhouse , where Mr . Coo pe ^ WK ^ . ^ ¦ surgeon , gave it as his opinion- that g » $ W £ gg ^ ^ 1 & censed ' s Iking Vas ^ being . ^ MWl ^^ Ml ^ .: either with cramp . ^ m ^ ^ P ^^^^^ Sm

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 30, 1846, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1368/page/7/