19 MAY 1849, Page 8

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Great complaints are made at Sunderland of the want of trade and em- ployment. There is nothing to do for the working men, and the prospect this year is worse than during the spring for many years past.—Durham Advertiser.

The late Mr. D. Parsons of Dudley bequeathed the munificent sum of 10,0001, to be paid after his sister's death, for the foundation of a free school in the town. The sister died recently. The school is intended " for the education of poor boys and girls, (the children of parishioners of the town, or residing within four miles,) in writing, reading, arithmetic, sewing, and knitting, and in clothing the same boys and girls, who are to be supplied every Sunday with a penny loaf and a small piece of cheese."

The inquest on Richard Geering and his two sons was resumed at Gnestling on Monday. The village of Gueetling is at the sea-side three miles Eastward of Meetings, and has magnificent scenery. All three of the Geerings belonged to the Gaeetliug Benefit Society: on the death of a member, every other member sub- scribes a shilling for the funeral ; there are more than a hundred members, so that Geesing's widow received upwards of 51. on each death: of course the society makes a weekly allowance to sick members. Mr. Taylor, the Professor of Che- mistry at Guy's Hospital, announced to the Magistrates at the Town-hall that he had detected arsenic in the matters rejected from the stomach of Benjamin Geer- ing, the lad whose life was saved by surgical aid. Professor Taylor afterwards laid before the Coroner's Jury an elaborate statement of the results of his exami- nation of the viscera of the deceased persons. In the body of Richard Geering he found arsenic in all the organs he bad tested—not less than seven grains in all; while doubtless every other portion of the corpse contained some of the poison. He was of opinion that the man died from the arsenic. In the stomach and liver of George Geering, one of the sons, he detected mercury; he could not tell in what form it had been administered—it might have been taken as a medicine; but from the appearance of the organs, he beheved that the young man died from an irri- tant poison, not from natural disease. The poison might have been arsenic or a

mercurial preparation: the absence of arsenic in the body was not a proof that none had been swallowed. Chemical analysis discovered arsenic in the body of James Geering, the second son ; and the poison had been the cause of death. On Tuesday, Benjamin Gearing was examined. His mother served the victuids to the family. She received the burial-money from the club. Witness thought Mr. Pocock, "the charity doctor," had neglected his father when ill, and there- fore Benjamin when attacked requested that some other doctor might be got. [Several of the Jury had previously expressed surprise at Mr. Pocock's treatment of the deceased, and remarked that had proper caution been exercised they might have been saved.] Mr. Stubbs, a chemist, stated that the woman Geering had frequently purchased arsenic of him. Two witnesses described the bad feeling that existed between Geering and his wife: he complained that she squandered his money; and she wished he "might be brought home dead." The secretary of the club stated that Geering's widow applied on the very day of his death for the burial-money. Gearing once had 201. in the Hastings Si- vings-bank, hut his wife had drawn out the greater part by means of false state- ments ; she had also pawned her husband's and her sons' clothes during their life.

The Jury gave a verdict, in the case of Richard Geering, of "Wilful murder against Mary Anne Geering."

On Thursday, the Jury proceeded with the inquiry in regard to George and James Geering. In these cases also the verdict was "Wilful murder" against the woman. Besides these three charges of murder, she will be committed on another—the attempt to poison her son Benjamin. In a letter written from prison to her children, but intercepted by the Magis- trates, she says that she got poison for her son James at his request, to kill vermin in horses.

Gleason, now in custody for the series of murders at Liverpool, while walking in a yard with a gaoler, seized a workman's hammer ; the gaoler endeavoured to' disarm him, and a desperate struggle ensued; which ended in the officer's favour only by the aid of two prisoners. Gleason was then ironed, and he declared that he would not eat anything for three days: he kept his word; but on the fourth- day he demanded his usual food, and also the three days' allowance.