30 JANUARY 1864, Page 3

Mr. Richard Oke Millett, a surgeon, of Penpol, West Cornwall,

lias been arrested upon a charge of having poisoned his brother, -Jacob Millett. Deceased, who was in easy circumstances, was living with his brother on 30th December, and ate a very hearty dinner at two o'clock. An hour after he complained of pain in his stomach, and his brother gave him a glass of brandy, and a female servant subsequently procured him whisky and water. During the night he vomited several times and next morning he died. Another brother, whose suspicions had been in some way excited, applied to the Home Secretary, the body was exhumed, and poison found in it,—hence the proceedings, which are only as yet interest- ing from the great rarity of this crime among the educated.