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West Coast Times, Issue 316, 27 September 1866, Page 3

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A "painful case of wife murder has arisen at Brighton, in respect to the death of a Mrs Warde, the wife of Dr Warder, who had been staying aT Brighton for some time. Mrs Warder was taken ill some four or fiv^ weeks ago ; she was at first prescribed for by her husband; and had no nurse ; but her illness continuing, her brother, Mr Branwell, a surgeon practising at Brighton, called in Dr Taafe, a local "practitioner of eminence, to attend . her. Dr Taafe administered various re- , medics .without success, and finding that he could not account for the disease by : any natural cause, he communicated this iact to Mr Branwell. It was then agreed ' that if on Sunday morning (July 1) they 1 could not come to a more deccided con- 1 elusion a3 to the diagauosis of the case, another medical man should be called in. On the Sunday morning, however, Mrs Warder died. Dr warder, oil the suggestion being made to him, assented to a post mortem examination. This ,was macle by Dr Taafe and two ether medical v men. They all agreed that ". death was not to be accounted for on any known natural causes." The viscera was sent to Professor Taylor for analysis, and the inquest, which was opened on July 4, was adjourned. In the meantime, on the afternoon of July 10, Dr Warder was discovered dead at another hotel in Brighton — the Bedford. He to*bk a bed there on the previous night. A prussic acid bottle was by his side, and everything indicated that he committed suicide. He left a letter saying who was to be communicated with. — The deceased was for some , Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at the School of Anatomy and Medicine, ad join;ing-: Sti George's Hospital, London, and medical officer to the north district and workhouse of St. Luke's Chelsea. In 1858 he lived at Uxbridge, in 1859 at Ottery, St. Mary, Devonshire, and in 1860 at Ethell, Wooton-uuder-Edge, Gloucestershire. His residences are not further given in the " Medical Directory ;" but his second t wife died at Campbletown, Scotland. It is safa she had been married to him for only eight months and the late unlortunate lady was his wife for but five months. At the inquest on the body of Dr Warder the jury returned a verdict oifelo de se. They did not consider there -was sufficient proof of deranged cerebral funcfious to warrant a milder decisipn. On July 16, the inquest on Mrs- Warder was resumed and concluded. The evidence produced i* said to have been of a conclusive character. Among the witnesses were Drs Taylor and Wilks. These gentlemen had analysed the contents of the stomach and examined the intestines generally of the deceased. They failed to discover any trace of mineral or vegetable poisons, but also failed to see anything which would account for death. The conclusion they arrived at was that, although aconite could not be discovered, it was most likely, from the symptons which deceased displayed some time before her death, that aconite had caused it. After an investigation of close upon four hours' duration, the jury agreed to a verdict to the effect that the hapless Mrs Warder was " feloniously, wilfully, and of malice aforethought, killed and murdered" by her husband. The Ist of July, the anniversary of the. battle of the Boyne, has passed off with" tranquility in the north. In Derry, Enniskillen, and Armagh, the commemora-

tive demonstrations were limited to the display of Orange flags from the church steeples.- Into the last-named town a large extra force of police had been sent, as a precautionary measure. — The 12tb of July also passed off without disturbances in any part of Ulster, a circumstance accounted for by the vigor of the authorities in sending detachments of troops to the localities where party spirit generally runs high. In Belfast' the most careful preparations had been made by the In-spector-General of Constabulary, but the efficiency of his arrangements was not put to the test. At Lisburn some 180 Orange lodges congregated from Hillsborough, Moira, Banbridge, Lurgan, and Derrymacash, every lodge walking in procession, preceded by flags drums and fifes. Many thousands were assembled, but there was more holidav : making than politics. At Ballykilbey, ih the county of Down, Mr Johnson, 0 a local landholder, held an Orange fete in his grounds, every visitor purchasing what he * partook of at eightpence a head. ( There were arches of Orange lilies, garlands of the same flower suspended from tree to tree, and. the persons present wore Orange sashes. The immense gathering (some 20,000) was addressed by several clergymen, by Mr Johnson, and by Mr Whallcy, M.P. Mr Johnson stated that Lord Kimberley had written to him, asking him not to hold the meeting, but he had declined to comply with the request, and he read the letter he had addressed to the Lord-Lieutenant to the meeting. Mr Whalley said he had travelled' three nights successively to be E resent, and his satisfaction " was en-anci-d by the fact that the meeting, had «. been denounced by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. They could never better manifest their loyalty to the Queen than in fygndjng between her Majesty and 4 her ttd-

visers in the attempt to suppress the joyal Orangemen of Ireland." Garibaldi," he added, had been desirous of visiting Ireland to compliment the Orangemen, but had been " hunted, out of the country" on the plea of ill-health. Resolutions were passed declaring the need for " Protestant union, decided action, and such a religiopolitical organisation as the Ofange institution," which had sent forth " in British North America many thousand volunteers to fight for the English Crown and British connection.' 1 The Party Processions Act was also vehemently condemned as "impolitic, ungenerous, and unjust.' 1 Judgment was given by the Edinburgh Court of Session, omJurie 26, on the case, of the competitors for. the Breadalbane succession. The parties were Lieutenant Charles William Campbell, of the second Bengal Cavalry (commonly called, for distinction's sake, Campbell- of Boreland), pursuer; and John Alexander Gavin Campbell, of Glenfalloch, defender. The subject of competition was the title of Earl of Breadalbane' and Holland, Viscount of Tay and Lord Glenorchy, in the peerage of Scotland, and the entailed estates of Breadalbane and Inverordan, situated im tho counties of Perth and Argyll, and said to be of the annual value of above L 50,000. The case originally came before Lord Barcaple as Lord Ordinary, and after lengthened pleadings and inquiry he found ih favor of Glenfalloch. The pursuer appealed to the First Division, who called in the other judges of the court into their" councils. 'One judge, Lord Kinlocb,'got leave to withdraw on account of his propinquity to the pursuer; but! the eight judges consulted, whose opinions were boxed on June 23, were unanimous in adhering to tue judgment of the Lord Ordinary. On June 26 their lordships in the First Division -formally • delivered, judgment. The President and Lord Deas were for Glenfalloch, Lords Curriehill and Ormillan for Boreland. 'The opinions of the whole of the judge's having been ascertained, it was found that they were ten to two for Glenfulloch. — An appeal against this iudgment has been made to the House of Lords, where a final decision may bo expected in' about a year. The report of Colonel J. Kinlocb, her Majesty's inspector of the constabulary of Scotland, for the year ending in March, 1866, states the number of the force, officers, and men, to be 2780, or pne to 1078 of the population enumerated at the census of 1861 (excluding Orkney and Shetland) one to 1861 iv the counties, and one to 655 in the burghs. The police report the number of vagrants, tinkers, and • unlicensed hawkers iv the year at 57,160 ; but this is the number of cases of vagrancy, and the actual number of persons included is estimated at about one-third, or 19,000. Encamping on roads, in woods, or on enclosed laud is now, under the Trespass Act of 1865, prevented by the police; but through a mistaken charity vagrants, especially if there are women and children, often in the country get the owner's leave to lodge in outhouses, and introduce infectious, disease. It is considered that there is no doubt that the rinderpest has been, in some cases, conveyed to new districts by these wandering tribes. In the city of Perth vagrants- are allowed, if the}' choose, to lodge in the cells of the police-station, and frequently bring with them vermin and disease, to the injury of those who may afterwards be confined in the cells and also of the constables. 386 vagrants were thus housed in Perth in the last year. The Tresspass AY is reported to work beneficially where it is enforced, and in Sutherlandshiro it is believed that several tribes or gangs of tinkers who used to infest that county have emigrated to Ameiica. The report calls attention to the rate of pay of the constabulary, and x the absence of a superannuation fund, and represents that without a change in regard to these matters the present standard of the force cannot much longer be maintained. The trial of Philippe, the murderer, commenced on June ,2sth, before the Paris Court of Assizes, aud concluded on the 28th It may be remembered -that early in the year a woman named Victoire Bodeux was murdered in the Rue Ville l'Eveque. Some time previously another girl, Julie Eobert, had been found murdered in the Rue St. Joseph ; and a third woman, named Maje, vtith her infant, were also found assassinated in their lodging in the Rue Ste. M.irguerue St An - tome. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner in consequence of his making an attack on a respectable woman who had acquired some celebrity as a landscape painter. At the end of an address from the piisoner's counsel, the president asked Philippe if he had anything to add his defence. He said, ,"I swear before God that I am innocent, of the two murders' of 1864, and that I have never robbed anyone. 1 ' The president then summed up, and the jury retired, when after aya v quarter of an hour's absence, they returned, acquitting him of the murders of the women Robert and Mage and her child, in' 1864, but finding him guilty of the murder of the girl Bodeux, and of the attack on Mdme. Midy, and beingsilent as to any extenuating cirGumstances. Philippe remained apparently unmoved on hearing this verdict, mv\ continued quite impassable when the judge pronounced on him a sentence* of death. Tho spiritualists have heard from the late General Scott. According to a Miss ' Bullene he was received in tho " spirit laud with great .honors, a committee consisting of Washington, Wellington, the late Czar, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor. Clay, Webster, Douglas, Irving, and Lincoln having greeted him. The Emperor of Austria has disentombed from the historic collections of the Vienna museum the original coat-of-arms of Moutezunia, and a worm-eaten letter in the hand of Cortez. These re^cs from the Escurinl, at the time of the wars of Austria with Spain, have now been handed over to a prominent Austrian diplomatist, who is deputed to deliver them to Maximilian as. a gift of his brother. The -Northern Overland Telegraph, says the " New York Sun," is a gigantic affair. Through British America, 1200 x miles ; through Russian America, 900 % -miles ; across Behring Strait, 184. miles ; across the Gulf of Anadyr, 300, miles; and thence overland to the mouth of the Amoor River, 1800 miles ; or a total of 4294 milea. At the Amoor it is to be continned by a Russian line connecting it with Irkoutsk, through Western, Siberia, communicating with Nijni, Novgorod, and Moscow/ and thence to, St. Petersburg. The capital involved amounts to 10,000,000 dols. '

At. the ceremonies held in Home on the occasion of the feast of St. Peter, the Pope renewed his protest against the annexation to Italy of the provinces formerly belonging to the States of the Church. , An audacious robbery was committed a few nights since by a thief who had obtained an entry into the residence of the Duke de Mouchy, in the Rue de PElysee. The duke was; awoke by hearing a noise in his bedroom, and on asking who .was jt here, received the reply 6f,."D0 not move, or you are a dead man." The duke nevertheless raised, an alarm by ringing a

bell, and on his servants answering the summons, the .house was searched, but no traces could be found of the intruder, who Jfcid made off, taking with him some articles of jewellery. > * In the present position of Europe the" following statement, drawn from official sources, of the arrhie| on a war footing, is not without interest :— France, 903,617; Pi ussia, 650,000 : Austria, 651,612; Italy, 424,193; Russia, 1,200,000; England, 265,000, not including 230,000 volunteers ; Germanic Confederation, 407,361 ; Spain, 171,900; Portugal, 64,118; HolLind, P2,900; Sweden and Norway, 137,800; Dei.m-irkf 41,940; Switzerland, 198,291; Belgium, 80,650; Turkey, 341,580; Egypf, the Danubian Principalities, Montenegro, and Servia, 152,000 ; the Kotnan States, 12,000"; -making a total of 5,01)6.062 ! In our last issue, it maybe remembered, an " opinion " of Sir Roundell Palmer; Sir Hugh Cairns, and others, founded on a case which Bad been submitted to them, "at the request of several bishops," was v puhlishec3. The learned gentlemen condemned as illegal most of the High Church practices which have recently occasioned so much alarm. The* English Church Union forthwith prepared- tmotluT case, and in order that the opinion upon it might be a strong one, submitted it to Sir Robert Philliinore, the Queen's. Adv&cate, Sir Fitzroy Kelly* Mr Bovill, Q.C., Mr J. D. Coleridge, Q.C./Dr Deane, Q.C., Mr G. C. Pruleaux. Mr Hannen, and Mr J. Cutler. The opinion o£ this long list of legal luminaries "lias been prepared, and is said to be iv direct antagonism to that of tin ir learned brethren who were consulted by " several bishops," affirming the legality of vestments, an 1 most of the peculiar practices for which -the High Church party.