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      HORTEEVS CIRCUITC _CASUstz , _Accusr :. —The recommendation of . the touicouncil of the womau Jane Crosby , acquitted of the thattharge of murdering her _chM by roasting it to death _kefobefore a fire , to the gaoler , to remove her with secresy ( ronfrom fliegael , was not , it would appear , unnecessary , for lftcnftcrtte announcement of her acquittal a dense crowd iras was collected round the gaol , of men and women , _dc-terninmincd to take summary vengeance upon her for her suptoseposed oBence . They continued together shouting , hootng , Ing , and imprecating till past midnight in expectation of : _atccatching their expected victim .

      T The Aixeceo Mubdees at GaixsDALE . —This mornng ing was ushered in witli all the excitement renewed in : on £ onsequence of the trial of John Graham , aged 44 , a nosnost respectable yeoman , for the murder of both his wife _radand his father by means of arsenic . The town was rrocronded , and the throng around the gaol was so imposing hathat the police were obliged to shut the outer doors to amenable them to resist the efforts of the crowd to force an : ntientrance . The prisoner appeared in deep mourning , indand had the appearance of a respectable though deeply _ifiliifilictcd being , air . Temple said that lie had a very iin ? imp ! e , though a very painful duty to perform . IBs task vassvas to place facts before thejury , and facts only ; from rhiirhich they would have to decide upon the guilt or _innoc--encenceof the prisoner at the bar . It appeared tliat for

      _OTHoine time he and his wife had lived upon uncomfortable entenns , particularly for the last few months . It was obierserred that the prisoner had become too intimate with a _et tet rant-maid , named Margaret _Kickerby , and it became mtbut too well known that he used to meet this ' servant- ' nainaid at a house not very distant from Ms farm-house _, [ t ilt would appear that on the 2 ith of November last Mrs . Srfiraham was in her usual health , and that npon that _nignight she took her supper of bread and milk , which her luhusband was in the habit of often preparing for her . In Unfile morning she was very unwell and affected witli violent papains and sickness ofthe stomach . A surgeon was called _inpn , who treated her disease as a mere internal affection of man ordinary character , and by means of the medicines admiministcred she became better . It would appear that she

      _tortooka fancy to have some panado , which tlie prisoner gagave to her . The next morning she was alarmingly ill , _anand to her usual attendant , Mr . Sewell , was added DiDr . Oliver . These gentlemen still had no suspicion of of her being poisoned , bnt prescribed very active medicicines , and also that some one should sit up with her toto give constant ] y medicine of a restorative and inrigorerating quality . This latter injunction was evaded by tlie _prprisouer , who would allow no one but himself to sit up , _alalleging that lie iras letter adapted for doing this duty tlithan any one else ; and he continued that night to give litlier what he pleased . The next morning the wife was fofound to be _dyin _^ fast , in spite of _theegbrts of the medical iruneu ; and she died upon the second day after . It was iiaiot until the month of June following , that from

      _circum-Ftytanccs which had occurred , suspicion arose that his wife liiliad not fairly come by her death , and the body was exit humed . Vj pon dissection , thc stomach was found to confciain a large portion of the white oxide of arsenic . Upon _lilisarning that the authorities had resolved to exhume the l > body , the prisoner became extremely anxious ; and npon bbeiiig apprehended he manifested great curiosity to learn _ilif any person had been at _Newcastle , where there was _rreason to suspect he had got the poison , and the jury v would hear tliat the prisoner had talked in gaol of ad-I ministering a powder to his wife , also that he had time c enough to have gone to America if he bad been aware of _lliis danger ; aud they would finally learu that arsenic had 1 been found in very minute portions in the waistcoat I pocket of the prisoner . It would be for the jury to

      dcter-2 mine , then , whether the prisoner had administered the ipoison , which certainly had occasioned her death . —T . 3 Hind , the brother of the deceased , said he remembered 1 the burial of his sister in hlrkaudrews churchyard , and _i the subsequent disinterment ; also had observed that the i coffin taken up was the same as that in which his sister 3 had been interred . —Thomas Elliot , surgeon , had assisted : 5 n dissecting thebody and examining the contents ofthe : stomach . The brain and the chest were , considering the length of time the body hadbeen entombed , healthy in appearance . Thegulletnasinflaincd . The stomach near the gullet was much inflamed , aud of a red colour . Thelining membrane was covered with a viscid brownish mucus . At the further extremity of the stomach was observable a yellow spot about the size of a split pea , and a great

      Quantity of small gritty particles in the mucus , some yellow , others transparent . There were marks of iniiammatiou along the whole course of the bowels , and a very great number of these small gritty particles , the greater number yellow in colour , some transparent , like glass pounded , and these wore in tlie greater number over the extremity of the small intestines , where also were discoverable the most decided marks of great inflammation . The body generally was in high pi cscrvation , the brain alone _esmmting tlie ordinary symptoms of putrefaction . There were four medical men present at the examination and at tlie subsequent analysis . They analysed the liquid taken from the stomach ; it was brown ; in it were no traces of the poison . Next they examined the mucus of -the stomach ; ana separated the gritty particles from it

      by Washing it in distilled water , in which liquid thc particles sank to the bottom . The deposit was dried . A portion was heated in a small glass tube ; when it attained a low red heat a metallic ring rose in thc tube , bright and shining externally , gradually growing browner internally . The stomach was cut into pieces _andboilefl 5 n distilled water aiid muriatic acid . Fire small bundles of clean fine copper wire were put in the liquor-produced , and boiled with , thc pieces of the stomach . The wire was found coated with a metallic coating of an iron-grey telour . The wires were dried with care , and one of them t-nt in pieces was placed in a small glass tube and slowly heated , and a white cloud rose and settled < 2 oivn in the form of a ring of small transparent crystals ; these crystals examined by a microscope appeared to be octohedron , with equilateral triangular sides . The next experiments were on the bowels ; a portion of them underwent the same process as the pieces of Ihe stomach had before undergone , and the same

      results were observable—namely , the formation of tlie samesortof metallic ring within the glass tube , a num . ler of octohedron pistils or particles sublimed appeared to be formed in one of fhe tubes . A little distilled water -mistaken and boiled , and one-third being dissolved by the addition of a _diemical preparation a beautiful yellow precipitate was found to result ; in a second , a green precipitate ; iu a third , a yellow precipitate . The small yellow spot in the stomach was now Temoved , and "we applied a few drops of strong ammonia to it , which were immediately dissolved ; adding muriatic acid to it a yellow precipitate appeared . These were the whole of the experiments on these parts of the body except that he bad not stated the quantity of arsenic detected in thc body . —To a question from tlie learned Judge : The appearances of the body generally were those of a person dying of poison by arsenic . All the experiments were attended witli such results as to leave no doubt tliat the substance found in the stomach was arsenic . That is

      white arsenic , for yellow arsenic cannot be converted in tlie stomach to white arsenic by the action of sulphuretted hydrogen . The whole of this arsenic was precipitated and filtered , then dissolved in ammonia , again the precipitate was filtered . This last precipitate was dried , and it weighed fifty-two grains , which is , I consider , equal to thirty-one grains of white arsenic or arscnious acid , much more , in fact , than would cause death , indeed four grains and a half would kill most persons . —Cross-examined by ilr . _vnildus : Arsenic is not very soluble . Arsenic might be put in water or tea , and the liquor drunk without any

      Material injury . A parcel about the size of a quarter of a pound of coffee , containing a large quantity of arsenic , would , if thrown into the fire , create a strong smell as of garlic , provided the heat was very great . A great num-2 > _tr of witnesses were examined in behalf of the . prosecution , whose evidence fully bore out the statements made by the learned counsel . Mr . "Wilkius defended the _jirisoner in a most able and effective address , and . the jury , after retiring for an hour , returned a verdict of Sot Guilty . The prisoner , who is extremely deaf , appeared _3 jot to hear the veroict . Eje inquired what it was , and hiring informed , remained unmoved . .

      Accust 8 . — The prisoner , who was yesterday acquitted on the charge of poisoning his wife , was to-day placed again at tlie bar , charged with having murdered Lis father by administering poison to him . The excitement in the city of Carlisle was to-day as great as ever to gain admission to the court , or to get a momentary look at the prisoner , who is well known to most people in Carlisle- The extreme dejection which characterised the conduct of the prisoner during the trial yesterday was not so observable to-day . lie did not cover his face with his hands and handkerchief , and-he seemed a little more assured by theacqnittal of yesterday . It was , however , expected that the prosecutor -had a stronger case against the prisoner to-day than that of yesterday , and the consequence was that there was an immense crowd

      inside the court and a very boisterous mob outside of persons who could not gain admittance through money or interest Mr . Temple stated the case , and called the mother of the prisoner to prove that upon the occasion of her preparing the dough for some _yeastsd cakes , on Thursday , the ISth of last May , the prisoner had called at bis father ' s house , at Grinsdale , to ask her to go with him to Newcastle , which she refused . lie continued about tlie house and yard whilst the dough was fermenting , and had for an instant been lost to her sight whilst he was in tlie kitchen , where the dough stood , aud then he might 3 iave had an opportunity of putting the arsenic into the dough , which was afterwards found iu some ofthe cakes upon being put to Qie test by chemical analysis . Thus far only could she bring the case , and it only amounted to susjiirion , and required strong corroboration . The poor old ladv admitted that the father and the prisoner , who

      was his eldest son , lived on the very best terms together ; ib . it the latter never asked anything of his father lhat he did not immediately obtain it ; that at the moment ofthe deceased ' s illness the prisoner was in the house , and apjiear ed very solicitous about-him ; and that his father wished him above all things to keep on the farm which lie Tented of his father atKirkandrews , bat he nevertheless declined , it , and gave it up after the death ofhis wife . The medical men established the fact of the elder Graham ' s death b y arsenic , which was _fbnnd inhis stomach , and also in part of the cake eaten by him in Ms supper of bread and milk on Thursday night . The only new feature mtrc . aucea , perhaps , into the case was , distinct proof that Graham , theprisoner , had been in embarrassed circumstances _abontthiB . time , and pressed for money . Tho SS _"" n _^ _f _* J * considered as one of strong suspicion _^ It fell far _shortof that , of yesterday , and the jury , as might have been anticipated , were only fifteen

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      minutes in agreeing to a verdict of acquittal . -The trial ; however , lasted ten hours ] , Theresultis , that tbe people of Carlisle talk jeeringly of a reference to the arbitrament of a Cumberland jury . There can be no doubt that his , respectability , andhis _beinggeneraUy acquainted for years in business in this neighbourhood , had procured him a strong svmpathy in his fearful situation . There ' was no disposition manifested upon his acquittal to dispute the propriety of the verdicts , or to execute a wild justice upon an implied delinquent , as in tlie case ofthe preceding day , that of Jane Crosby , acquitted of tbe charge of burning her child to death ; but there were evidences of deep distrust in the verdict , and muttered sentences of fear upon the announcement ofhis acquittal ; and it may not therefore be matter of surprise that , - with the daWn of day , the unhappy man was onhisroad to a seaport in the west .

      Appixbt , August 9 . _—Cdabge of Mubdeb . —Richard Simpson , charged with the murder of his own mother , was tried to-day . The prisoner , it may bc remembered , had been committed in consequence of the death of his mother , she having died from the effects of dreadful blows inflicted by the prisoner . lie had been a farmer , and used to attend the marketat Kendal . Was almost constantly in a state of drunkenness , so much so , that delirium tremens , it was said , had affected his mind to a degree which rendered him perfectly mad . His mother and he resided in the same bouse ; and upon his returning home from tlie market one night he beat her so shockingly while she lav in bed as to cause her to keep her bed until

      the next market day , when , on coming home again , the infuriated man beat her a second time . The son and mother were not alone , for there was a man-servant as well as another woman in the house , and , strange as it appeared , both tlie man and tlie woman bad permitted the prisoner thus to treat the old woman without adopting any means to guard her against his violence , which was ofthe most savage kind , he having taken a poker and fractured his mother's skull , besides doing her other violence . There appeared to be reason for supposing that the prisoner hafl , for a long time previous to the act , been in a state of unsound mind , and the jury , after hearing the defence upon that ground , returned a verdict to that effect .

      _Lancaster , Arar / _sT 11 . —Shooti . vg at a _Magistbate with Istest to Mubder TIiM . —ttichard Bennett , a dejected , squalid , spare , tall man , aged thirty , was charged with having , upon the 2 nd of August last , fired a pistol at the Rev . Richard Moore , a magistrate of this county , at Preston , with intent to murder him ; also en another count with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm . The Rev . Richard Moore deposed that hewas aclergyman of the Established Church , at Lund , seventeen miles distant from Preston . His residence was at Kirkham , and he had been many years a magistrate for the county of Lancaster , r The prisoner also resided at Kirkhnm , and was a shoemaker . lie had been brought before the rev . prosecutor upon some charge , but the witness could not say tliat he had been bound over to keep the peace on

      that occasion . The witness on the 2 nd of August was going through Fisher Gate , in Preston , to the Town Hall , when he heard a report of a gun or pistol , very near him , and found himself enveloped in smoke . He did not feel he was wounded , but in two seconds afterwards he found that he was struck violently by something heavy upon the right breast . Richard Bennett , the prisoner , was at tliat moment standing four yards from bim , near to a passage by which the prosecutor was to pass , near to Bailey ' s printing-office . The witness seized him , and said he had bcenstruck . A man who came up said , ' - 'But that man , sir , shot at you and then threw the pistol at yon . " This man produced thc pistol ; it was the first time the witness had seen it . Thc prisoner said nothing in his defence when secured . On his cross-examination tlie witness said there

      were many persons in the street at the . time .. The prisoner , when first seen , appeared to be staggering from the prosecutor . lie seemed in great confusion at missing his aim . lie did not offer to escape , nor indeed could he , as the wituess and others immediately seized him . — John Harrison , an inmate of Bibchcstor workhouse , said he was close to Mr . Moore ' s right shoulder when the pistol was fired . Saw the prisoner pull out the pistol fron his breast , which he cocked and fired straight at Mr . Moore . A _grsat smoke rose . The prisoner flung , the pistol then at Mr . Moore , staggering forward and approaching nearer to that gentleman . If loaded , it must have hit him . He had seen many a hundred pistols fired in his time . lie had bien a soldier on foreign service for ten years . He gave the pistol up to Williams , tlie constable . It had a

      screw barrel and a detonating lock . —Williams corroborated this statement . He had diligently searched all about to find a bullet , bnt could not find any . There was a thatched house opposite , and the ball might have lodged in the thatch , or have gone a great distance down the street . —Mr . Brandt defended the prisoner . It had , lie remarked , been admitted by a competent judge of firearms and tlieir use , that had the pistol been loaded it must , from the position in which it was held , have hit its object . So bullet could be found , notwithstanding a diligent search had been instituted . The inference , then , ought to be drawn , that as there was no circumstantial evidence that the prisoner sought the death of Mr . Moore—such , for instance , as the . purchase or making of bullets—he only intended to alarm Mr . Mocre , and that baring fired the pistol he threw it at him . That the man laboured under excitement

      approaching to , insanity , he should now adduce proofs of . Mi ' . Shaw , surgeon , said he knew the prisoner for seven years past . His temperament was reserved , and he would sometimes not speak to any one for two or even three weeks together . He would remain in a state ot despondency and low spirits , looking vacantly about him for hours together . In June last he was evidently insane , sleepless , and rambling about the house all night for a whole week together . Saw hiin a fortnight before this act of violence , and could perceive the man was insane , though about the house and at liberty . In this statement he was corroborated by other witnesses . Mr . Asheroft , solicitor , at Preston , stated that , acting for the prisoner ' s father as his solicitor , he kuew the younger Bcnuctl , the-prisoner , - . who used to write him anonymous letters . In one of which were these lines of wild doggrcl : —

      " I am going to pu t a ball through my thick head , For something once I said ; I wish to know Have you any commands to the shades below . " Another , written about some speculation of possible profit , without giving it a name , the letter concludes thus : — " The polka must remain incomplete , aud that ' s poz . ( Signed ) "Raba Avis . "Othello in 3 parts .- —A friend in need . " " FKiSK Buown . " Thc Jury after deliberating a few minutes , returned a verdict of Not Guilty on the counts , in consequence of its being their opinion that lie was , of unsound mind . He will , of course , be kept in confinement till her Majesty ' s pleasure is known with respect to his future safe custody .

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      THE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY . INQUEST TH ? OX THE GUAM ) . Cambridge , Moxdat _Nigut . —The inquest on the body of John Cauldwell , the company's guard , who died in Addenbrooke's Hospital , in thi 3 town , on Friday night , from the effect of the injuries he received on thc Monday previous , hy the overturning of the carriages on the line in the neighbourhood of Littlebury , took place in the Town Hall to-day , before C . H . Cooper , Esq ., and a jury summoned for the occasion . The first witness examined was 'William Thomas Wiggins , of Chelsea-walk , Loudon , carpenter , a relative ofthe deceased , who deposed that the latter was thirty-six years of age when be died . This witness identified tlie hotly , and said that deceased had been employed by thc Eastern Counties Railway Company .

      Mr . Fernihough _, the superintendent of the locomotive department on the Colchester as well as the Cambridge line , deposed that on the occasion of the journey down on'Monday he had very little communication with the driver . He had no occasion to speak to him , as he perceived him doing his duty well . Everything went on safely and well to Wendon . The engine was more susceptible to some parts of the road than others . He knew perfectly well . when this was the case . He saw the driver making the usual preparation for the inclination . In the case of one in 1-50 feet the custom'Was hot to cut off thc steam , but to increase thc expansion , for which purpose there was a handle . They were travelling at what he considered the usual rate down the incline—namely , about thirty miles an hour . He saw and felt the engine getting off thc rail and on to the ballast . Ue was on the left hand back corner of thc engine , and he did not feel it jump . lie held last by a handle of a cock on the left side of the boiler . Witness

      described the going off . the rail as in his examinations at Litllebury , with the addition that the tender went over two or three times , and a part of it was afterwards found on the top of the horse-box . He saw deceased disabled shortly after ; he escaped himself ; and he said , he should have a medical man immediately . He could not tell if the sleeper gave way near the spot where the accident occurred . Young was a good and careful driver , not too bold nor too backward ; perhaps , of the two , inclined to thc latter . There were more curves from the Hertford junction than on any other part of the line . There were a great many from Sawbridgc ,. beyond Stortford , on the London side of Cambridge _^; in fact they were all curves . With respect to the jumping of the engine , he never knew one jump more than a very few inches . No one could see the-height to which the engine

      jumped , unless close by . When a driver mxA on the line for the first time , he was always cautioned about the inclinations , all of which were pointed out to him . With respect to the speed , he was quite certain it was not more than thirty miles an hour , and it was slowcrthan thc pace at which they came before they arrived at Wendon . He could not positively say what was the original cause of the accident . It was all conjecture . It might , for instance , be imagined that the great weight of the engine caused a deflection of the rail , which caused the fore wheel of the engine to rear up , which coming down again with corresponding force effected the damage in thcrail , which tlirew it on to the ballast . He was certain they were not going at thirty-five miles an hour . Mr . Joseph Jackson , the superintendent of the line from Brandon to Cambridge , deposed to haying been ia the coupe of one of the first-class carriages on

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      Monday , and could see about him better than if he had b _. en in any ; other situation . He . could not speak positively as to thc time they left Shoreditch . As to the speed at which ; they were going , he' thought it the usual rate , and felt no shaking or jumping shortly before the , accident occurred . _^^ The first , tiling he felt was a change in the beating of the engine ; he looked out and saw the gravel flying about , the engine driving across the line , and- the . rails torn up . He then felt the shock ,: and afterwards got out . ' , lie saw Cauldwell about five minutes after tho , shock took place ; he was lying between two of the _carriages , with some pieces of wood upon his legs . . : He thought that he had fallen from His box or seat . He helped to extricate him , and gave him in charge to

      oae of the labourers ami a passenger , who stated himself to be , a , medical man . He then proceeded to assist the passengers . Witness then described tho appearance of the rails , and of the particular one irom which the engine had gone off , as in his former evidence . The deceased was not the mail , but the train „ guard , in the employment of tho company . The first cause . of the accident might po-whly arise from an imperceptible flaw . in the rail , near the end where the eDgine . Jumped .- As to the reasn . i lor the jumping , if such did take place , he could not account for it . Mr . riiepps , engineer of the line , deposed that ho had exarainedtho scene ofthe accident . He thought tho immediate cause of the accident was thc damage to the rail by the blow or jump of the wheel .

      and witness described the mode as in his . former evidence . He thought that a slight curve . was safer than ; a straight line , as it kept the engine to its work and prevented oscillation . . Mr , H . Mitchell , house surgeon ; to _Adderbrookc's Hospital , deposed that John Cauldwell had been brought to the hospital on Monday evening last . He died on Friday night . There was a . post mortem examination by tlie surgeons of the hospital , at which witness attended . They found that the vessels of the brain were generally very much congested . There wa 3 an appearance as if the blood escaped from the vessels and got into the substance of the brain . The broken leg was set , but was not going on favourably . It must have been amputated . But for the injury to the brain , the

      deceased , in all probability ,: had recovered . The _^ njury might have been , and , in all probability , was produced by a fall . The inquest was then adjourned until five , o'clock . At five o ' clock the Coroner and Jury re-assembled , and . during their absence , thedamaged rail hadbeen fetched from the scene of 5 the accident and placed in tho . lirge room , of the Town Hall , where the jury went and examined it . During the examination , Mr . Anthony , one of the jurymen , had two of his fingers badly . crushed , through those persons who held one end dropping . the rail unexpectedly .. The jury were , therefore , . detained , nearly half an hour , while Mr . Anthony went to a surgeon to have his wound dressed .

      John Young , the driver of the engine , deposed that he lived at Stratford , and was a driver for seven years . He was five vears on the Leeds and Manchester , before that on the North Midland , and before that on the Southampton line . He was about : ten weeks in the employ of the Eastern Counties Railway Company . They were a few minutes behind -time when they started from Shoreditch . Were in time at Wendon . Did not knowtke deceased . The train was going at from twenty-eight to thirty miles an hour .: They were going with the third notch m the explosion gear . He observed nothing uneasy or unusual iu the motion till the engine was thrown on to the ballast . He was bruised in the chest . Could not say she jumped before she got on to the ballast . Tho reason forher getting off the rail , he thought , was that the road was not good in that part .

      The jury then retired , and , after about a quarter of an hour ' s deliberation , returned a verdict of accidental death , with a deodand of one shilling on the engine and one shilling on the carriage . They also added a recommendation to the company to have direction posts at all inclines on the line . THE ADJOURNED 1 KQUEST OX THE STOKEK . ' Littleburv _, Auoust 13 . —The adjourned inquest on the remains of Richard Peak was held here to-day at the Falcon . Thc proceedings opened at twelve o ' clock precisely , when , after thc usual preliminaries , _. Major General I ' asley , the Government inspector of railways , was sworn . He deposed as follows : —I heard of this accident the day after it took place . I came _. down to visit the spot on Wednesday , the Cth ,

      and to inspect the line . I proceeded first to Chesterford , and after a few moments' delay there , I was conveyed by a locomotive engine to the scene ofthe accident in company _withMessrs-Phippsi Hanson , Jackson , Randall , Fernihough , and one or twoi other gentlemen whose names I did not hear . 1 saw there two second-class carriages , a tender , and a horse-box on different sides of the line . . They _; were near the spot where the accident ; occurred , - but had been removed to their then respective positions for the sake of convenience . > They wereallmore orless shattered and smashed .. The engine was lower down , below Chesterford .. The injured -rails ? had been replaced ,

      and nothing was wrong with thc line when I saw it on Wednesday . The spot where the accident took place was about one mile and a half from the summit of the incline . I asked a numberof questions ofthe persons present , especially ; of . Mr _..- , _Dackson , Mr . Randall , and Mr . Phipps , the engineer of the line . . Iliad also conversation with Mr . Lawford , the engineer , of that particular portion of the line where tho accident occurred . Neither this gentleman nor Mr . Phipps had been present at it . From all I heard and observed I havo formed my opinion decidedly as to the cause of the accident ,, The Coroner . —What is thatopinion ?

      Major General Pasley . —That it must have occurred and arisen from excessive speed on a new railroad , not yet thoroughly consolidated , whilst descending a gradient of 1 in 150 feet , and along a curve of two miles' radius . I think also that it is possible that the outer rail of the curve might not have been raised quite so high as is usual and proper on curves in proportion to the radius . The question _ivas agitated amongst the persons present on the day ofihe investigation whether the wedge might not havo been removed so as to leave a bad joint , and that thus the end of the rail was thrown up . I did not think so , and-1 still do not , because the splinter on the railwas from a downward blow . 1 think the jumping of the eneine was of such an excessive nature

      as to cause the injury , and this jumping was such as might have been caused by excessive speed . In lines newly opened the railroad may subside a little , the level of the sleepers giving way . Had the train been going at moderate speed , the accident , I am of opinion , would not have happened . ' I know several instances that prove this position , and know them from my own experience . I think the proper speed for tke _uicline where the accident occurred might be from eighteen to twenty miles an hour , so as to ensure perfect safety to the train . A much greater rate of speed than that might be safe , provided the line had been perfectly consolidated . As the line is at present , the steam ought to be shut off going

      down that incline . I consider thirty miles an hour dangerous on that incline at present . I am most distinctly of opinion that had thc train been going at a moderate speed when the engine had got off the rail , the accident would not have taken place . In such case the engine , instead of running on thc bank , would have stopped before it quitted the permanent way . I once witnessed an instance of the kind , when the engine stopped the instant almost of getting oil the rail , and solely because we were going at a slow rate . I think in this case it is probable the curve might have contributed to the accident . The Corouer . —Do you know Mr . Phipps ' _s ( the engineer ' s ) opinion on that point ? Major General Pasley . —I do not .

      Evidence continued . —I was told by Mr . Lawford , the local engineer , who joined us on the day of the investigation , some time alter Iliad begun it , that he had quitted the train at Wendon , and that previously to that they had been going at a very quick rate , and that he thought the speed was excessive . I do not think I asked Mr . Phipps or Mr . Lawford their opinion as to the cause of the accident . My object was not to get opinions from other people , but facts whereon to form my own . Mr . Lawford , during the ; course of conversation , certainly said that he thought they had been going at an excessive rate oi speed before he left the train . I reported this line myself before it was opened , and declared it to bc in excellent order , and in all respects safe . : Mr . Rush , of Elscnham Hall , asked whether the end ofthe rail might not have been sticking up ?

      Major General Pasley . —I think not . The injury to the rail proves the contrary . A Juror . —Did you think it necessary to examine all the rails before _ydu declared the road in excellent order , and safe in all respects ? Major General Pasley . —It would take me two or three months to go through such an inspection . Do you not take an accurate measurement ofthe curves and inclines before giving your reports ?—As to the curves aud inclines I can only judge of them by . my eye . To take thc radius and level of each would occupy a very long time indeed . You said * in _evidence that you thought the outer rail was not high enough for thc curve . Did you think so when you made your survey ?—It did not then occur to me .

      Have you not subordinates to look after such minor details ?—I have an assistant , but if you mean to infer that every rail ought to be subject to my inspection on a survey ofthe kind , I say that the thing is impossible , and what is more , it is imnccessary . I examined bridges and viaduct 3 carefully , and in one instance I reported a viaduct not strong enough , and the line was not opened in consequence for a fortnight longer than tho intended day . In answer to the Coroner . —I do not think the wedge wa 9 iii its place . 1 said 1 thought it was not on the day of my investigation . The engine man ( the driver ) said it was . But I do not think the wedge being off its . place would cause the groove made , . which was iu consequence of a downward blow .

      - Tho damaged rail was here introduced through the window and examined by . thejury . Major-General Pasley in continuation . —I have always , found a solution for whatever accident I have

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      been appointed-to investigate , however mysterious it may have appeared at first . i : The . C 6 roner ( here asked Mr . Lawford- if he ; remembered- saying , to General . Pasley that , they had been going at an excessive speed , as : he had given a different opinion in his evidenco _on-Tliursday last ?; Mr . Lawford . — I have not the slightest i recollection of' _havinginade an . observation of the kind . Major-General Pasley . r-if you did not apply _-ithc word excessive to the speed ,,, you said it was alarm-A Juror . — -Do you not think that there ought . to be people to see that the rails are sound ? _i Major GeneraV Piislcy . —Th . e ; , plato laycra see to tliat . .-v . _vV- ¦ ¦ . _; ; - ' .:- ' ¦ <' ¦ '¦ : _¦¦ : ' _- _-. "" _-v ; : ' : ; .- ;¦ ' ¦ Evidence continued . —I am quite of ¦ ¦ opinion that

      the curve and the incline together ought to be taken into account , and the speed consequently much slackened . 1 know two instances where accidents happened under , the same . circumstances—one on the Great Western , where the train going at an excessive speed was thrown on to a bank after it had gotteu off the rail ; and the other on . the : Glasgow , and Edinburgh , where the same thing occurred ., to an express train , and the cngine ; man was killed . Had . I been , in the case now .,- before ' , the jury _,, on . the , engine I should : iiqt-have i quarrelled with the driver for the speed at _lyliichjio went , although I subsequently was of opinion : that , ' . lie went -too fast ; and in all probability'I should have shared his late . , "„ ¦ . Several , other witnesses : > . were . > examined , alter

      which tlie . Coroner proceeded _. to sum up . ; Ihe question 'for the ' ,-jury , to decide was , whether tlie driver had gone at such an improper speed : as to causethe accident , or .-wlicther . it occurred from a casualty over which hehad no '" control . "" The , Coronevthen went through the facts . of the case as detailed in evidence . If they believod General Paaley . ' s evidence they could not help attaching blame to . the driver ; and if that of Mr . Jackson , who said he discovered a flaw in the rail ,. they would attribute to this _causetlie accident . It should . be : rememberedithat General . _Paisley . had examined the line at first , and that he then did not think it necessary to caution the company to tell tlieir drivers to , go at the moderate rate of eighteen to twenty miles an hour down the incline in question . No doubt he saw reason since for changing his

      opinion . Thejury , after two hours' deliberation ( from two to four o'clock ) , returned : the following verdict : — " Accidental , death , and a-deodand of £ 150 on the engine " Thejury , _withiheir verdict , expressed a hope that noswift train will bo allowed to run upon any part ; of the' line ¦ below Stortford until it has become much more consolidated . They also hope that ho train would be allowed to run without at least two trucks between the tender and , the passengers ' carriages , and that posts may be put _xtp to mark where the incliiie . _beginsiand ends .

      AprBKHENSIOiV FOR A _HlOHWAT _RODBEBY COMMITTED Foun Years ago . —On Saturday last an Irishman of the name of . Henry Mooney was apprehended in Liverpool , on a charge of having _^ _-in company with another man named . John Getty , stopped a mercantile traveller on tlie evening of the 27 tli May , 1-841 on the road near to Greenliead , and-robbed him of a large sum of money . A portion of the money consisted of notes of various joint-stock banks in Cumberland and Northumberland . - Getty was shortly after apprehended , _coiivicted , and sentenced to transportation . ' ¦' . Mooney has ever since succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the police , until , on Saturday last , lie was arrested by one who formerly belonged to the Carlisle constabulary , force , lie was immediately lodged in the main bridewell , whence he will be conveyed ' . to ' the gaol of Carlisle to-day . — Livmwol Albion of _^^ Monday . w

      _Suddvin Demh . —On the 12 th instant , as some of the musicians belonging to Mr . Hughes ' s equestrian establishment were walking together in the 'Highstreet , ' Chatham , ; one of them , named John Verry , suddenly fell dead on the pavement . An inquest was held the same day on : the body . The surgeon , Mr . Robertson , deposed that . _the'deceased died from disease ofthe heart , and thejury returned a verdict accordingly .

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      SUPPOSED MUBDEB AT READING . Reading , _Saturdav . —Throughout to-day this town has been in a state of great excitement , in consequence of a report gaining ground that on the previous evening a woman , named Elwabcth ; Spicer , residing at No . , 16 , Howard-street , had been found in a lifeless state iu the cellar of the house , under , circumstances which led to the conclusion that she had come to an untimely cud by \ the hands of her hiisband , William ; Spicci' , . a journeyman basket-maker , and who has been taken into custody on thc charge of having caused . the death of . hiswife . Considerable sensation prevails ; throughout the town ; the more so as happily so dreadful a crime has not been perpetrated in this borough ; within the remembrance , of , the oldest inhabitant . ' The inqiiest was held- this evening at

      the . public office , before ; Mr . G . Morton ,, deputy coroner for the borough , and a respectablo jury , when the following witnesses were examined : —Martha Aubiy deposed —I am on a visit to my sister , Mrs . Tomkins , of No . IS , Howard-street , next d » or to Mr . _Spicer'S . I knew the deceased by her coming in . and out of my sister ' s house ; saw her . about eleven o ' clock yesterday _. iwhen she was in her usual gooa . health . . . .. She . came to horrow a clothes-prop of my sister . Wo dined between , twelve and one o ' clock . Whilst at dinner-. we heard a , noise in ' the ,, adjoining house , ( Occupied by . Mr . and Mrs . Spicer , like something ,, heavy falling down stairs . My sister said ,. " . 0 ! what can that he ? . surely that is never Mrs . Spicer . faIIen _.. dowu ? " I said , " Stop , don ' tyou go , _I'llrun , " arid instantly ran out of . the door

      into the frontgnrden , and looked through Mr . _Spicei- _' s window . I there sawMr . Spicer looking down the cellar stairs , and I concluded , that nothing serious had happened . I distinctly saw Mr . Spicerstandinglookhig down the stairs . I went back into my sister ' s house and-said , " Oil , there is nothing the matter , Mr . Spicer is at home . " it the time I saw Mrs . Spicer in the morning she appeared perfectly sober . I heard nothing disagreeable pass between thorn before I heard . the noise . —Henry . Tomkins : I live at No . 15 , Howard-street , arid am by trade a shoemaker . I live next door to Mr . Spicer . I have known Mrs . Spicer about two years . Last November they were married . I saw Mrs . Spicer about eleven o ' clock yesterday . She came into my house to borrow a clotlies-prop . About lialf . past twelve o ' chek we were at dinner , when

      we heard a tremendous crash in tlie next house , occupied by Mr . and Mrs . Spicer . Wc were all alarmed , having heard that Mrs . Spicer had a fit some time before . We said , " There is poor Mrs . Spicer fallen down stairs . '' I did not see Mrs . Spicer aiiy time between hearing that noise and eight o ' clock in the evening . About eight o ' clock in the evening Mr . Spicer came out ofhis front door , and I went out . He said , " Mr . Tomkins , have you seen anything of my wife ? " I said , " "No " " ; is she not at home « . " He said , " I came homo to my tea and did not find her . I cannot make out where she is got to . " I said , "O dear , it is not sho that lias fallen down the cellar . " : He said , " O dear , I do not know , " and went immediately towards the cellar door . I was in ray own garden at the time . In about a minute he came out again and said , "Oh dear me , my wife is dead . " It was near

      eight o ' clock , and he had no candle . Spicer then immediately got a light , aud Mr . House , who had been in my house , went in to Spiccr _' s , and took the candle , and both of us went down the cellar . Whilst we " were in the cellar , Mr . Spicer was sitting down in a chair in his front room . We found the body of Mrs . Spicer at the bottom ofthe stairs , and her face against the wall . She was lying on her right side , with a groat wound in her temple . The head was dreadfully cut and bruised , and there was a preat deal of blood on her head . Her cap was off her head , and her clothes smooth . upon her body . Her legs were in . an upward position , resting on the steps . I immediately went to inform Ifr . Houlton , the . _Superintendent : of police of . this borough . —After the examination of another witness , the inquest was adjourned til ! Monday _.. ' ;

      Reading , Monday Evening . —The inquest on the body of Elizabeth Spicer was resumed this afternoon , at one o ' clock . The following additional witnesses were examined : —Charlotte Tomkins , wife of Henry Tomkins , examined on Saturday , confirmed the evidence given by the witnesses that day ; the following are sonic of thc additional points contained in her evidence "; - —Mrs , Spicer has frequently complained to me of ill-treatment from her husband . She said , "Mr . Spicer has acted very 'indifferent towards me , " and complained ofhis coming home tipsy and late of night . Thc week before this she complained to me of having missed some money from a little box in a large coft ' er up stairs . She said no one could take it but her husband , and she never knew him take

      any before without letting her know . I said to her , "Mrs . Spicer , whydon ' tyou tell him of it now ! " She replied , " I must wait ti ] J ' afavourable opportunity , because ofhis ' glum' ways . " She said she went to London with her husband soon after thc marriage , and he got her to si"ii her name , so that he could touch her money witli her consent , but not unless she signed her hand to it ; anil she has frequently told mc that he had often upset her about her money , wishing to draw it to go into business ; and thc answer she made was , "When , Mr . Spicer , I see a favourable opportunity of doing better , then I will give my consent , and not before . " She has told me , that after her death her husband could claim the property , I have heard her talk of £ 1000 , but . could never

      understand if this was between her sister and herself . Seven weeks ago , on a Monday morning , I saw her in the back garden with her head tied up with a handkerchief . All down the right side of her face was quite black . I said , "How did you come with such a dreadful face ?" She replied , " 1 hardly know how it was . All that lean tell you is , that Spicer was down in the cellar , and I was up in the kitchen , and that ho called to nio aud said 'Betsey , I want you a moment . ' I said I was coming ' and went down , and Jlr . Spicer had something of a shelf in bis hand , lie said , ' Why was not this put up

      when the alterations wore made V . I fancy I must then have been taken giddy , for I fell . lYhen I came to myself I found Mr . Spicer had hold of my neck or throat with both his hands . He had go . t me as far as the bottom of the stairs when he let me fall again . . I suppose I must toe struck my head against the post at the bottom of tho stairs . I do not know how I got up , hut when there Spicer said , ' . There , sit yourself down in a chair in the other : loom * ( the Kitchen ) . ; , Just then there was a knock at the door , and a woman carao to ask for a- book which her son had lent to my husband .: This _person in quired how I was , and he repUea _, _- _' . « PcjOrly ; " ' she has

      _hadWsortofa fall and _shei has gone to bed ;' ' 'But Iwas not , I was sitting in tbe kitchen . He stayed for an hour arid a _haff after tluVand fie then , said to me , _'V _^ amtired of being here / 1 shall go out . '" Witness continued—I never heard that Mrs . Spicer had had a fit at any time . Mrs . Spicer said to me it was very unkind of her husband , for he went out all the afternoon of that day , and was not at home until late in the evening , and that was on the Sunday . She told me her husband was absent all the next day , and on the Tuesday he was out till very late , she not knowing where he was gone . I asked Mrs . Spicer if her _hiisbaud struck her , and she said "No . I am afraid to go out for fear people sliould say such things . " But she said this very ' hesitatingly . When Spicer was sitting iu his own room , it struck mo how

      unconcerned he appeared about his . wif _.- _' s death . I _, : did not see him crying . His habits were not those of a steady , sober man , they were irregular __ habits . Mrs , 'Spicer was a very peaceable , quiet neighbour . 1 saw her with a black eye about seven weeks ago . — Another witness , a relative of the deceased ' s , confirmed Mrs . Tomkins ' sstatements as to the ill way in which Spicer used his wife . In relation to the blow given to the deceased in ths cellar she had said to the witness— "I don ' t like to say anything against my husband ,, but I was going to return upstairs out of the cellar , with my back to him , and all of a moment I thought I felt a blow as I thought on tho side of my head , as if from a billet-stick ,, and I became insensible . " I snid to her , "Do you suppose it was Spicer that did it'" She said , " I don't know . "' I asked

      htiy " Who was in " tho cellar at that time ?" ' And she said , " Spicer , " When I came to myself , " she said , " I found a pressure on my head and neck ; and said- ( speaking to Spicer ) , 'Pray don't hurt ( or rub ) my head . " —Henry Houlton , superintendent of the Reading police : About twenty minutes before nine o ' clock on Friday evening last I received information from Henry Tomkins that a woman was found dead in a cellar at No , 16 , HownroTitroet , and I went there immediately , I saw Mr , Spicer sitting in a chair in- the front room . Several other persons werein the room . I requested a person in thc room to give , me a lighted candle to go down stairs . I wentdown into the cellar and there I saw tho body of the woman lying oil her back , with her arms bent upwards towards her head ; her ' hands were clenched . Oh the fingers was

      a quantity of blood , and a small portion of hair was between them , I examined and saw little or no blood on the palms of her hands . The face was . bloody , and I observed a wound oh each temple . I took the head up , and from appearance I thought the neck was . broken . I expressed mysuspicion- to Mr . Kingston , a neighbour , who was present , and requested him to tako charge ofthe house while I went to fetch Mr . Hodper , a surgeon . I should state that I saw a capnnd some false hair ; : also a considerable quantity of blood ,, a fork , a piece of bread , anil a slipper , about the cellar . _Oii-the first step from the cellar was a slice of bread , and on the second another slipper . I afterwards discovered some spots of blood on the cellar stairs and side walls . I returned with Mr . Hooper . After he had examined the body I made a further search ,

      and found two spots of blood on- the ' stairs ; there were several on the left-hand side wall going down , as if something had rubbed against it , I then searched the lower pnrt of the house to ascertain if _P could lind anyinstru » ment likely to have inflicted the wounds , and also if 1 could find any bread or victuals that liad been used that day . All tliat I could find was a smalt piece of beefsteak and two potatoes , but no bread . There was only the loal in the front room and the slice on the stairs before mentioned . Everything in th ' _a lower part of the house appeared in good order . I then proceeded up stairs and found things in tub same state , Next morning I found a small quantity of blood on the door-post on the left-hand side going down the cellar , just below the pitch . There was oi red mark on the top of tlie stairs as if blood had

      been wiped up , and also on the fourth stair . I left James Gutteridge , a policeman , in charge ofthe house ; and this morning I received from him a stone with a small-quantity of blood on it . ( The stone was here produced by thc policeman Gutteridge ; it resembled a pebble-stone somewhat of the size of an egg , but flat , and a stain of blood was quite perceptible on it . ); After examining the house I told tho prisoner , who was there , after cautioning him as to what he said , that it would bo my duty _to-take him into custody on the charge of wilful murder of his wife . He said _r he know nothing of it . The proceedings were then adjourned , at the late hour of eleven o ' clock , until Friday at two o ' clock , when other evidence will he brought forward . Considerable excitement still prevails in the town , aud the inquest room was filled throughout the day .

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      THE ANDOVER UNION—HORRIBhE DISCLOSURES , ¦¦ : / : ( Fromthe Times . J Andover , August 12 . —The shocking and disgraceful occurrences which have taken place in connection with the management of this union have , as far as they have been disclosed , caused great disgust and indignation amongst thc inhabitants of tho town and its vicinity . _'; -It appears that , _^ notwithstanding Sir J . Graham ' s modest doubts ofthe accuracy of the statements made by Mr . Waldcy , and his opinion that they were too horrible to be true , tlicy turn out to he peifectly truo aiid horrible too . ''¦¦ . . _' . ' . ' _- _,-.

      Por some time past rumours had got afloat that the paupers who were employed in the disagreeable and unwholesome process of bone-crushing were in the habit of gnawing them like dogs to appease their " hunger ; and when it was recollected that those hones were the bones of horses , as well as of other animals , not excepting some from churchyards occasionally , the story did certainly seem to be top revolting to be believed , and on thatground the incredulity of the Home Secretary , whether assumed or real , might be excused . But as he ordered an immediate investigation to be instituted , and as Mv .

      Assistant-Commissioner Parker came down here on Monday , the ith inst ., examined witnesses , and returned with his report on the next day , the evidence taken , by him being fully confirmatory of the rumours abroad ,. Sir J . Graham must have had sufficient timo between that day and the prorogation of Parliament , on Saturday afternoon , to havo given a full and satisfactory answer-to the question put to liim by the lion , member for l ? insbury _, and tohave proved the sincerity of the sentiments he expressed upon that occasion . But " a still tongue makes a wise head , " says the proverb . : _.

      ' £ hc poor , and thc friends of thc poor , and Imay add the lovers of truth mid justice , are indebted to thc manly spirit of Mr . Hugh Munday , one of the guardians and a borough magistrate , residing near Andovei' , for the public notice which was taken of this matter . in the House of Commons , and for the important consequences , which have resulted , and must result , from tli . it proceeding . Mr . Munday having received information , upon which he thought he could phice full reliance corrohoratiic of the rumours above alluded to , weiit to tho union-house ,

      which is about a mile from the town , taking with lnm Mr . Payne , who is a surgeon . Ho then desired Macdougal , the master of the house , to accompany him and Mr . Payne into the yard , and to call out ten ofthe male paupers indiscriminately . That being done , Mr . _Munitay , addressing them , said he was about to ask them some questions . respecting ' ' statements which had got abroad , and which , ' if true , would bring great discredit upon the union . He desired them to speak the truth , and they would be protected ; but sliould they state anything that was false they would be dealt with as tlicy deserved .

      "Arc you m the habit of crushing bones m this house V The answer was , — " We are . " "Can you tell anything , " tlicy were then asked , " concerning the report which is going about the town , that the paupers engaged in _bouc-crushing have been in thc habit of eating what portions of ttcsh or gristle and marrow that might he found on or in them 1 " ' " Oh , yes , " was tlie general reply ; cightout of thc ten men admitted that they had frequently partaken of the nauseous substances , because their hunger was so keen that thoy could not keep from doing so . Thc two other men denied having done so , but said they had seen their companions eatim ; what they had described , and that their statements were quite true . " Are you anxious to get these bones ? " was the next question . " We are ready to fight over them , " tlicy replied . " Did you ever fight over , them *"

      "No , wc never Jid , exactly ; wc manage in another sort of a way . As soon as one sees a good bone ' which is unobserved by the rest , ho contrives to steal it away and hide it till bo _gets an opportunity to eat it . " Being asked if _they had any bones hidden then , some of thc men answered in the affirmative , and went to . the i " ashy , " a placo in which ashes are deposited , _wliense tlicy took two . bones ,, which Mr . Munday examined and found that they stank dreadtully , directing the att ' . ntion- of thc master to the fact . At the next meeting of . tho board of guardians Mr . Munday gave notice of a motion on the subject , fov th < s following met ting , when lie proposed a resolution to ' the effect that thc Poor Law Commissioners should . be made acquainted with these circumstances , and that their advice should he solicited as to what steps ought to be taken by the guardians . This resolution , however , was nega-. tived on a division of the members of ; the hoard of guardians .

      ' When Mr . Munday found his purpose ,. straightforward ar . d honourable as it was , thus foiled , he and his friends who thought and acted with him got up a petition to . the House of Commons stating the facts , and praying the attention of the house to thc case . The petition was fovwarded to Mr . Etwall , M . P . for the horough of Andover , and copies also to MivWakloy and Mr . Duncombe , thc members for Finsbury , with , a request that they would support its prayer . As the railway business at that time so much interfered with the attendance of hon . members at the hour appropriated to the presentation of petitions , it was thought advisable not to present this one until a favourable opportunity of gaining general attention to it should arrive . The session rapidly drew to a close ; and therefore Mr . Wakloy , taking what he thought the best mode under the circumstances of bringing the matter bctore the Government and thc public , asked Sir J . Graham if he knew anything about it . What took place _upoa that discussion in the house has been already before the public .

      The result _n'as that Mr . Assistant-Commissioner 1 arkcr Was sent down , as I mentioned beforc ' to institute an inquiry into the facts . The course which he took is admirably illustrative of the present ' Poor _Iaw system . He collected part ; of , his evidence by abruptly visiting _gentlemen at their private residences , and other parts from paupers who , were examined unues restraint with closed doors , This statement may appear too strange to . be truo . , It ; is a fact , ) however ,, that : Mr . ; Parker , ' . after taking up his quarters at the , Sta r Hotel , proceeded in a gig to the _rcsidenco of Mr , Munday , whom " he began' to

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      _question , writing' down his statements respecting the hone-crushing business . ' Having done this , he demanded who were theinformants-of _ilr . Munday , Itso happened that one of them , a _maw . ' wllb had been to the nnion-hou » e for some time , was then _atf-work ' _npon'Mf . Slunday _' sfarm , He was sent for , and _in-answer- to questions put by tu 8 assistant-commissioner , confirmed the whole story . With regard to the . examinations which tookplacc in tie union _, house , I ain informed . that they were conducted in a very irregular way , the master b . iing present , and several

      of the paupers being brought . in-together , he suggesting both questions nnd answers . _Hadthcy been examined separately , as in a fair investigation they would have becii , in the absence of the master , it is thought that _evi . dence of a very extraordinary nature would- have been elicited . As it was , there was adduced more' than sum . cient proof of the truth of the reports in circulation ; and the men declared , ' tlieir declaration being uncontradicted , that the irrcguments attached to the bones-and the marrow were green ,- stinking , and rotten ; but that they did not mind that so that they could gct _' somcthir . g to eat .

      The disgusting disclosures upon this subject have led to an inquiry into-the truth or falsehood of another report for a long time _rifain the neighbourhood—tba 4 tlie inmates of the union-house have been cheated of their pro . per allowances by the master . The hoard of guardians on Friday and Saturday investigated this charge against the master , and though by reason of their following the example of the assistant-commissioner , they conducted tlieir proceedings- in secret ,- thc evidence given before them has been of so serious a nature , that they have '

      thought proper to make a special report to tho Poor Law Commissioners at Somerset-house , and suggest that the master is a parson in whom they can no longer place confidence . What "the three kings" may do is difficult , to divine , but it is supposed that Mr . Assistant-Commissioner Parker must speedily take another trip . to thisplace , and institute another _inquiry , but some of tlie guardians and the inhabitants are determined , if possible , that it shall not be conducted in secret . Tho guardians , for the purgation of their own character , ought to insist upon a public investigation .

      lam not in a condition to fiirmstvMl and minute particulars , but I have good authority for stating , that on Saturday last , between twenty and thirty charges against the master were gone into , and that they were of a very

      serious nature . For instance , it is alleged some of She able-bodied paupers have been mulcted of their rations without cause , _the-full charge being made in the accounts . Women , in their confinement , for whom the medical man ( Dr . Westlake )! hud ordered meat , porter , tea , arrowroot , Jfcc _, as the case might be , ore said to have . received none , although all were charged in the master ' s-accounts .. In one case ra poor creature in extreme exhaustion showed the medical officer a piece of what was called "bread and butter , "'but which proved , on cxamination _,-. to be nothing but bread and coarse dripping , which , in he ? delicate

      state , she-could not take . This circumstance led the doctor to _U 3 k whether she had received the allowance of meat and porter which , during the month of her convalescence ,, he had ordered for her . Surprised at tha question ,. ths poor creature stated that she had not once tasted meat or beer ; but that one day a pieco of bacon was sent _up-t-o- her , which was so musty tliat she could not touch it . On another day , some stale gruel was brought to her ; she refused it , but was told that she should havo- it to-morrow ; : and on the morrow , sure enough , it was sent to her , with * notice that she must take that or none .

      Iu another case n woman , with a dropsical complaint was ordered a certain quantity of gin per week . Not a drop , it it said ; , did she get , but it was put down in- the W « . •> _' ' ¦ Dr . Westlake frequently heard the sick inmates ask for beer and meat after he had ordered it for them ; . and when hercplicd that heliad done so _. _tlie master would interfere with an off-hand— " 0 , yes , it is all right , sir I"' Ani although the doctor heard various rumours from time to time , he did nofrsuspect the master of cheating thc poor , more especially the sick , out of their proper allowances , but supposed that they . ' originated in a discontented spirit . . _;

      To the aged _a-small quantity of beer is allowed : but it is stated that one roan got his allowance only two months out of ten ; yet'it was charged in the accounts as-if served to , him . There were too many similar cases to enumerate . There are various other accusations , such us cutting the fat from the meat to feed the pigs , keeping back potatoes for the same purpose , having shoes mado and washing done at the expense ofthe rate-payers , intercepting tea , butter , milk , and other indulgences to tho infirm and aged , _a-. full note of which has been taken by Mr . Lamb , the clerk to the guardians , whose w _^ hole report was forwarded to the commissioners last night .

      The inhabitants feel that both themselves and the poor have been shamefully robbed , and if the Poor Law Cominissioncrs and tiic-guardians do not act justly in this business they aro determined to call a public meeting , and at th . it meeting to adopt such decisive mi _asures as the case may require .

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      • Bankrupts. • - (From Friday's Gazette,...

      • BANKRUPTS . - ( From Friday ' s Gazette , August 8 th , 18 15 . _^ Thomas Reeve , Ann ' s-pJace , _Hackncy-road , - and Castle _, street , Long-acre , victualler— Constantino Wood , Hyde , Isle of Wight , hotel-keeper—John , Winter , Hattou-gavden , phlte-glass-i ' actor — Thomas Taylor , Nicholl ' s-square , _Jliickncy-roiid , _winc-mcrchant—John Mai'laud , jun ., Sun Vale Holler Works ,, Todmordcn , Lancashire , rollermaker— , lohn Law and Eli Hudson , Todmordcn Lancashire , cotton-spmncrs—Jesse Banning , Liverpool , stationer —John Giles , _llcadlcss-cross , Worcestershire , victualler-James llcnnett _, New Mills , Herefordshire , cattle-dealer-John Acton , Lichfield , farmer—William Heed Watts , Bath , chemist . BANKRUPTS . ( From the Gazette of Tuesday , August 12 . J

      Charles Allen , Tadley , Hampshire , maltster—Edmund Knyvett _. Great Stanmorc , music-seller—John Wake , Silverstoiie . Northainptonshire , tiniber-merchant—James Young , Bury St . Edmund ' s ,, tobacconist—Edward Malhm , Urookstrcet and Oxford-street , dentist — Matthew Murphy , Shrewsbury , haberdasher— George Charles Crofts , Liver _, pool , corn-merchant ,. '

      DECXAJUTIONS OF DIVIDENDS . il . Brown , Manchester , carpet-dealer , first dividend of 3 s 3 d in tlie pound , any Wednesday after October 5 , at the oflicc of Mr . Pott , Manchester . J . Brown and A . Urquhart , Manchester , carpet-dealers , first dividend of 7 s Od iii tho pound , Wednesday , August 13 , or any Wednesday after October 5 , at the office of Mr . Pott , Manchester . W . Armfichl , Northampton , draper , final dividend of ls _2 Jd in the pound , August 12 , 13 , 14 , or 15 , at thc office of Mr . Belcher , King ' s Arms-yard , Coleman-strcet . G . J . Carter , Hornsey-road , builder , first dividend of _SsGd in the pound , August 12 , 13 , 14 , and 15 , at the office of Jlr . L _' _oleliar ,. King ' s Anns-yard , Coleman-strcet .

      C . Lewis , Bath , innkeeper , lirst dividend of Is 3 d in the pound , Thursday , August 14 , or any Monday after October 4 , at the office of Mr . Miller , Bristol . J . Hill , Stroud , Gloucestershire , hatter , first dividend of 2 s fid in the pound , Thursday , August 14 , or any Monday after October 4 , at the office of Mr . Miller , Uristol . J . Willis and J . Swainson , Liverpool , merchants , a fourth dividend of ls ad in the pound under thc joint estate , and a second dividend of ls ad in the pound under the separate estate of J . Willis , Wednesday , August 13 , or any Wednesday after October 4 , at the office of Mr . Follett , Liverpool .. A . A . Dobbs , Liverpool , wine-merchant , dividend of 20 s . in tile pound , Wednesday , August IS , and any . Wednesday after October 4 , at the office of Mr . FoIIctt , Liverpool . 1 ) . Rowlands , l ' wlheli , Carnarvonshire , dealer in wine , second dividend of id in the pound , anv Thursday , except from August IS until Oct . 4 , at tho office of . Mr . Ca / . cnovc , Liverpool .

      C . Mottram and II . llarcreuvcs , Liverpool , wool-brokers , second dividend of 10 | d in the pouud , any Thursday , except from AugustlS . until Oct . 4 , at the oflicc of . Mr . Cazeuovc , Liverpool . 11 . Shepherd , Liverpool , bootmaker , sscond dividend or id in the pound , any Thursday , _excent from August IS until Oct . 4 , atthe office of Mr . Cazeiiovo . Liverpool . T .. PaiT , Liverpool , plumber , _seconds dividend of 2 d in tlie pound , . any Thursday , except from August 18 until . Oct . 4 , at the office of Mr . Cazenove , Liverpool . B . Bcrrill , Liverpool , merchant , final dividend of Cd . in the pound , any Thursday , except from August 18 until Oct . 4 , at the office of Mr . Cazenove _^ Liverpool . J . Edwards , Much Woolton , Lancashire , grocer , first dividend of 2 d in tlie pound , any Thursday , except from August IS until Oct . 4 , at the office of Mr . _Cazeuove , Liverpool .

      1 ' . Wood , Litllc Queen-street , Holborn , wine-merchant , first dividend of 4 s Oil in the pound , Saturday ; next , and . three last Saturdays in October , at the office of JUr . Groom , _Abcliuvch-lanc , City . J . and A . Emniett , Old Kent-road , dairymen , third and final divideud of 2 s Gd in tho pound , Saturday next , and three last Saturdays in October , ' at the office of Mr . Groom * Abchurch-lanc _, City . W . Williams , Goudhurst , Kent , wheelwright , first dividend of 4 s 3 d in tlie pound , Saturday next , and ' three last Saturdays in October , at the office of Mr , Groom , Abchurcli-hine , City . J . Stevens , Rhodcswell-wharf , Mile-end , wharfinger , second dividend of IJd in the pound , Saturday next , and three last Saturdays in October , atthe office ol'Mr . Groom , Abchurch-lanc , City . A . Laurier and J . Lock , _"Wood-strset , City , importers of foreign goods , second and final dividend of 2 id in the pound , Wednesday , August 13 , and three last Wednesdays in October , at the . , office of . Mr .. Turquaad , Old Jewry , City . Certificates to be granted , ualcss cause he shown to tho contrary on the day of meeting .

      Sept . 2 , D . Mackay _. Liverpool _. master mariner—Sept . 2 , W . Lloyd , _Liverpool , _-ivine-merchanb—Sept . 2 , K . Westmore , West Derby , Lancashire joiner— Sept . 5 , J- Lcwr 3 » Birmingham ,. card-manuiiicturer-Scpt . 5 , V . 1 ) . bates , Birmingham , factor—Sent . 2 , R . Greenwood , Bviidwra , Yorkshire , bookbinder—Sept . 2 , T . Harris , Sewtown , _Montgomsryshirc , currier— Sept . 2 , J . Brown _snwl ' . ** Urquhast , Manchesier , carpet-warehousemen—Sept . -, E . T . Jones and II . M . _Crosskill , llochdale , _Lancaslm-e _, booksallers .

      PABTNEIlSHirS DISSOlVED . __ , _ J 8 _. H . andS . Lucas-W . F . Shaw and S . W . Biadnack , Bath , _schoolmastcrs-M ., J ., ' and L . Cruse , Li-We _totan , City , _ncwsvenders-J . and B . Smith , Manchester , mer- _^ chiuts-M . A . Young and E . Kent , _Birrnnighain milliners . -It . Groen and J _Arrowsmitb , ?» _^^» c f ( _^» monbvcwevS-n . Lebciilieim undJ . MiIar , Kegciit-stoet , dealers in wool mosaic tapcstry-W . ¦ C . Evans and ! _, . \\ 1 > . Clcvcrton , Plymouth , _sohotors-l . V . Ihdsdalc _, and M . B . Cooper , Darlington , Durham , _mcrcers-J and L Thompson . Manchester , l , osicrs-T ., Gaden , W . _^ 0 . nnd C A Adev , Poole , coal-merchants-R . Turncv and W . Kmvood , Old _Cavcndish-street , tailors-F . _Bwdbmy , B . M and S . Sngden , Uashngden , Lancashire , drapers ; as far as regards S , Sup den-J . M . Kroaheim , Vy . Shepherd , md F W . Sutton , Earl-street , _Blackfrisrs , City , patent stevcotv pefounders , as far as regards ; J / . M . _Kronheiin-S Gibbon , J . Muddiman , and J . _Heuaell ,. Coven try ,. ribbon -manufacturers ; as far as regards J . nenncU-it . Spooner and F . Smith , _Glouccstewtreet , _Bayham-street , Camden Town , _pianoforte-malners-J . _BartorO ,. » -r « Cos . Wood-street , City , dealers , in j hiit , ., _^ _.. _^_ .-. » s « ft = _K

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1845, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16081845/page/6/