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of the Bee Hive , Gray ' s-inn-road , died on Thursday week , after three days' severe illness , during which she frequently declared that she had been poisoned . She was very ill-tempered , and lived on bad terms with her husband , whom she accused of having squandered £ 300 belonging to her . At an inquest held on the body her husband said the last thing she said was that she had been poisoned , but he thought it was all nonsense . None of the evidence given served to show that there were ariy grounds for the charge . The inquest was adjourned , be made
however , in order that further inquiries may . The robbery of the Government powder-works at Waltham Abbey was investigated , on Tuesday , before the bench of magistrates . Four men have been arrested . Two , John Cornish and Charles Eve , are charged with the robbery , Jesse Griffiths as an accessory after the fact , and George Rowe with having received the stolen notes and moneys . The principal evidence adduced at present is that of a gunsmith , who , through Grimths , became an involuntary confident , and ultimately related the facts to the police . The prisoners were remanded until Tuesday
next . John Wiles and John Smith , who were convicted at the last Taunton assizes for the murder of an old man , a shopkeeper , named Wilkins , at Nempnett , in Somersetshire , underwent the last sentence of the law in front of Wilton gaol , on Wednesday morning . An engineer named Dalroy , thirty-five years of age , ¦ who for some time had been employed at Malta and Gibraltar by the Government , destroyed himself in his bedroom with a pistol on Thursday week last . The ball shattered the upper and blew away the under jaw , making a hole on each side of the mouth . He had only been married twelve months , and it was supposed that money difficulties had temporarily deranged his mind .
In the opera of Massaniello , as our readers are aware , volleys of cannon are fired behind the scenes to simulate the conflict between the Neapolitan populace and the royal troops . On Saturday week last , while the Queen and Prince Albert were present , Samuel Drewell , a young man , twenty-seven years of age , was preparing his battery , which consisted of seven pieces of cannon placed on a wooden framework , and fired by means of touchlight paper which ran from touch-hole to touch-hole . Samuel Drewell stood with his foot placed on the framework " to steady it , " not the slighest precaution having been taken to guard against a recoil The match was applied at the proper moment , the guns exploded , and SamueljDrewell exclaiming , " I can fire no
more guns , for I have hurt my foot , " fell backwards , * with his trousers in flames and his foot shattered to pieces , into the arms of William Easton , who stood by . The whole of the guns had recoiled as they exploded . Conveyed to the hospital at Charing cross and examined , it was found that his foot was completely smashed , and the bones reduced to powder . The foot was instantly amputated , but the shock and the injury proved fatal , and Samuel Drewell died of delirium t remena on Friday week . The jury returned a verdict of " accidental death , " recommending that the framework of the guns should be secured with iron bands . Thus , it appears necessary that a fireworkmaker should be killed in order that the simplest precaution may be used in employing the most dangerous of " properties ! "
When sailors engage in the merchant service , they sign certain articles and receive a monthly note in advance ; and then they not unfrequently get the note cashed and desert . James Henry Ellison did this , under an impression that he could not be prosecuted except by the master or mate of the ship from which he deserted . Greatly to his disappointment , he was arrested and tried for the offence under the 70 th clause of the New Mercantile Marine Act , and perfectly amazed when he found himself sentenced by Mr . Yurdley to one month ' s imprisonment .
James Hamilton , one of the Frimley gang of burglars , has made a full confession of all the burglaries committed by him and his companions during the last twelve months . It is estimated that the property stolen by these men during the last two years cannot be less than £ 1 / 500 . The Frirnley gang is now fairly broken up .
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POISON A ( iA . lN ! The romance of English poisoning has yet to be written . It would he a black and fearful catalogue of the consequences of vicious habit a and violations of conventional and moral law . A tragedy of the Tawell kind has lately been enacted in the populous town of Newcastle , equal in intercut and in mystery to that celebrated crime . Elizabeth Anderson , a widow , about thirty-five years old , resided at the house of a Mrs . Wilde , in Newcastle , and paused as the wife of a man named Jenkins , a confectioner . On the Kith instant Mr . Jenkins called to nee
her , stayed some time , und left about twelve o ' clock . At two o ' clock Mrs . Anderson was found dead , lying in her bed , with her clothes on . Mr . Jioyd , a surgeon , and Mr . Jenkins were inutnutly sent for ; Mr . Boyd , suspicious of poison , tasted the remainder of a glasH of water in the bed-room and a glass of porter in the sitting-room , without having hit * suspicions confirmed , lie was of opinion that the woman liad died of disease of the heart , and after three applications he ffavc Mr . Jenkins a certificate to that effect . In the evening Mrs . Wilde culled at the police station , und asked Inspector Little for a note to redeclined to write
K ihtrur as to character . The inspector a note , and told Mm . Wilde he should inform the coroner of the Buddcn death of Mru . Anderson . The day after the coroner called on Mrs , Wildo , but seeing the certificate he thought an inqueot unnecessary . It huppenud , however , ho the rumour runs , that the mother of Mrts . Anderaon overheard Mr . Jenkins Bay to Mrs . Wilde , immodUtdy after the departure of the coroner , " There in no feur ; it in all right ; " and thiH , together with other suupiviouH anpearauoeii , caused the coroner to alter his determination reapocting the inquest , and also to instruct Mr . Boyd and Mr . Carr to examine the
body of Mrs . Anderson . They found that a quantity of essential oil of almonds had been administered , so large as to cause almost instant death . The question arose as to how this was effected . No vessel of any kind remained to indicate that the poor woman had poisoned herself . The surgeons deemed it impossible that she would have had time to destroy or secrete any vessel ; and they also stated that the essential oil of almonds was not used or sold medicinally , but was principally used by confectioners and cordial makers to give a flavour to the goods which they sell . The stopper of a glass bottle was found by the police in the ashpit of Mrs . Wilde ' s house , 6 trongly impregnated with the essential oil of almonds . Under these circumstances orders were issued to arrest Mr . Jenkins , who who was taken at Shakspeare Inn , enjoying his evening glass ; and Mrs . Wilde , who was apprehended the next morning at her own house . The inquest was adjourned until Wednesday .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The number of passports delivered throughout France for persons going to the London Exhibition amounts already to 240 , 000 . The greater part are small proprietors , whose fortune does not exceed £ 150 a year . Paris is expected to furnish J 00 , 000 excursionists . The collections in the churches of Paris on Good Friday amounted to £ 14 , 000 , half of which is to be distributed in alms to the poor of the metropolis . From an official document not yet published , it appears that there are at the present time 320 theatres in France . Paris contains twenty-three . Only twentyeight towns in France have resident companies ; the others are supplied by strolling companies . The Austrian Government has offered prizes of twenty , ten , nine , and eight thousand ducats for the four best locomotives for working over the ascents of the Semmering ; the test being the weight drawn at a given velocity by consuming one cwt . of fuel . There have been three engines from England , two from Belgium , two from Germany , and two from Austria , offered for trial . On the 29 th of July a great congress of German railway directors will take place at Nurnberg ; deputies from Belgium and France will also appear . A letter from Jassy of March 20 states positively that the Russian troops are to evacuate the principalities of the Danube on the 27 th instant .
Brigandage is a characteristic of Greece as well as Italy . The Courrier d'Athines mentions that one band had arrived at Tatoi , within a few miles of the capital , and put to flight a detachment of gendarmes after killing one of them . At Vranesi a band of thirty brigands , after committing other atrocities , poured boiling oil on the breasts of three females , and then sacked the village , carrying off their booty without meeting with any resistance .
Advices from Smyrna , in the Piedmontese Gazette , state that a band of brigands , under Yanni Cattergi , a noted robber , attacked the mail courier of Aidin , on the 2 nd , in the environs of Thyra , and robbed him of about 35 , 000 piastres ( 9000 f . ) , after murdering the three guards who escorted him . Detachments of troops were immediately despatched after them , and , one of them coming up with a party of Cattergi ' s men , a sharp engagement ensued , which ended in the defeat of the latter , who lost nine horses , but no men .
Sydney papers to Jan . 8 speak of some outrages recently committed in the Wide Bay and Burnett districts by the northern blacks ; but the settlement generally was undisturbed , and affairs were proceeding about as usual . The graziers were still in an unprotected state . Their shepherds were often murdered and their flocks stolen by the aborigines . Accounts from British Guiana state , that landed property has very much depreciated in value in the colony . Thirteen thousand acres of land , eligibly situated on the
banks of Demerara river , and within a short distance of Georgetown , only fetched at a public sale lately the sum of 2000 dollars , or about C 2-3 d . per acre . The local Gazette complains of the importation into the colony of coolie labourers , and recommends the unfettered introduction of free Kroomeii from the coast of Africa . The governor had issued a proclamation against all vessels arriving from Martinique , where smallpox prevailed ; and from Cayenne , where yellow / ever prevailed .
The bill which provides a Balary for the Governor of Jamaica has paused the Assembly after considerable discussion and several divisions . It provides a sulary of £ 4500 , which , with £ 1500 from the permanent revenue , makes in all £ ( iO () O per annum for the present representative of majesty . It also provides that upon his relinquishment of office the salary to his successor shall be in the whole £ 5000 per annum . It is to endure until the 31 st of December , 1 H 5 L Although the American Presidential election will not take place until the autumn of lK /> 2 , the politicians arc already beginning to move . On the part of the Whigs the prominent names mentioned arc—Winfield S : oit , Millard , Filhnore , Daniel Webster , and Henry ( Jlay .
General Scott , the first named , has already been nominated by the Whig members of Beveral of the mate legislators of the north , and is warmly urged by a number of influential Whig journals . Mr . Fillmore , the present incumbent , is also frequently mentioned in connection with the coming campaign , and eBpeciall y by the Whig journals of the south . Mr . WebHter and Mr . Clay are occasionally mentioned ; but us yet there has been no organized demonstration with reference to either . On the part of the Democrats the prominent names are Lewis CaHe , Jameu Buchanan , and Samuel Houston . The accounts from the survey of the route for the Tehuuntepeo Kuilroad are highly encouraging . ft in supposed that the work will be completed in about four months . The members of the expedition remain in excellent health . The President of the National Diet of Central America
hma put forth a proclamation requiring Nicaragua , San Salvador , and Honduras to stop the war with Guatemala . The Indians continue their work of plunder and murder in the valley of the Bio Grande . The planters on the banks of the river are in the greatest alarm , and many families have removed to the Mexican side .
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The public will be glad to know that the authorities at Guildhall have resolved upon compelling all omnibus proprietors to alter their present class of omnibuses according to the approved " Waterloo " model ; to wit , 106 inches in length ; and that in future all new omnibuses shall be made 112 inches in length . Two months are to be allowed for the alteration , and after that time every omnibus under the " Waterloo " standard will cost its proprietor a penalty of £ 10—a penalty which will be rigidly exacted . Mr . Lewis , who appeared on behalf of the proprietors of 800 omnibuses , undertook that their vehicles should be altered within the time ; and the progress made in the alterations reported to the magistrates every week , to show that the proprietors had no wish to evade the law .
The annual meeting of the supporters of the London Bagged and Industrial Schools was held at the Hall of Commerce , Threadneedle-street , on Wednesday evening , Mr . Samuel Gurney , jun ., in the chair . It appears that the number of boys attending the evening schools last year was 398 , and of girls 290 . The number admitted to the day schools for infants during the year was 263 . TheBeverend John Brunch , in addressing the meeting , contended that schools of this kind would do more good than the detectives had done in breaking up the Frimley gang , for they would take away the disposition to steal . What is technically called a " consignment of female emigrants " left Gravesend on Saturday , the 13 th , in the Malacca , for Sydney . They were not properly " distressed needlewomen , " but the lower order of domestic servants . " They were thirty-six in number . Altogether , 409 have been exported at the expense of the " Female Emigrants' Fund "
The Scotch Protectionist Demonstration took place in the Music-hall , Edinburgh , on Tuesday evening , when 700 persons dined together , and some 200 or 300 gentlemen were accommodated as spectators and auditors in the gallery . The Earl of Eglinton , a very poor orator , occupied the chair . After he had spoken for half an hour , Sheriff Alison followed . Then came Professor Aytoun , editor of Blackwood ' g Magazine , Mr . Christopher , M . P ., and Mr . Newdegate , M . P ., all proving beyond the possibility of doubt that Great Britain is almost ruined .
A meeting was held in the City-hall , Edinburgh , yesterday week , for the purpose of hearing addresses from Messrs . George Combe ana James Simpson , of Edinburgh , on the subject of national secular education . The meeting , which was got up under the auspiceB of the Glasgow Public School Association , was well attended by the working classes , and the proceedings reflected credit upon all concerned . The foundation - stone of a Blind Asylum upon an extensive and magnificent scale was laid at Edgbaston , Birmingham , on Wednesday .
Mr . John Finnianoe , stockbroker , was fined 40 s ., atthe Wandsworth Police-office , for being drunk , and Mrs . Mary Finniance a like sum , for " furious driving , " on Saturday last . Mr . Finniance was observed driving across and athwart the Wandsworth-road , on Friday week , by a mounted policeman , who interfered and took the whip from the vicious stockbroker . The gentleman instantly leaped out of his gig , and tried to wrest the whip from the constable , when Mrs . Mary Finniance , shouting , " I'll show you how to drive ! " seized the reins , and , shaking them , sent the horse off at full galop , followed by tLe patrol , in a career which ended by the horse dashing into an omnibus standing at the George Inn , Balham- hill . The omnibus was broken , and one of its horses severely injured .
Great excitement was caused in Gloucester , on Good Friday , by the rumour that two sailors had been hung at the yard-arm in a style of summary justice , to which the people are not accustomed in these days . On inquiry being made into the affair it was found that the victims were only of the " guy" genus , and that they had been employed as effigies of Judus Isoariot , whom the Greeks always hang on Good Friday for his infamous treachery . The following specimen of womanly assumption was given in one of the census returns not a hundred miles from College-street , Portsea ;— " Jane , wife , head of the family , mangling woman . John , husband , turns my mangle . "
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Mr . Fagan , the late member for Cork , has received an invitation to a public dinner from a number of his late English colleagues in the House of Commons . Among the signatures to the invitation are those of Messrs . Hume , Cobden , Bright , Milner , Gibson ; Sir W . Molesworth , Sir E . Buxton , Sir T . K . Colebrooke ; Mr . W . Brown , Mr . Alex . Henry , Mr . Heywood , and Colonel Thompson . Irish agriculture does not seem to be in a declining state , if one may judge from the report of the Annual Cattle Show , held in Dublin this week . The number of cattle is said to have been unusually large , and their appearance quite equal to thone of the best cattle shows in England . At the meeting held on Tuesday , when the prizes were awarded , the Lord Lieutanant spoke in the iruiHt hopeful tormR of Iriuli industry . " He felt permiaded that Ireland was at length on the right road to become what she ought to be , that her manufacturing and agricultural prosperity wuh not an idle dream . " Accounts have been furnished of the expenditure of tho Hum of £ 30 , 000 voted by tho ITouHe of Commons in 1845 for putting Maynooth College into repair , and of tho Hum of £ 6718 , the total amount granted from 1846 to 1850 for tint repairs and maintenance of the college . It appears that in the former account a balance remains yet applicable of £ 2189 , and on tho lattf x of £ 670
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1851, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1880/page/8/
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