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A Conservative Club, under the most powerful auspices, is being establishad in the county of Warwick. Among the members already entered, we observe the names of Lord Ingestre, Lord Sandon, Messrs. J. C. Talbot, Jesse Watts Russell, John Bateman, J. C. Sneyd Kyrinersley, A. Hordern, II. Hordern, E. Wigan, S. S. Bris- coe, gze. &c.-11-o/ter/eanipien Cltronick. We beg to direct the attention of our Conservative readers to the fact that Reform Clubs have been, or are about to be, established in almost every county in the country, to watch the registry before the barristers. Tire result of attending to this particular duty last election by the Conservative party had its slue effect, and we trust there will be no neglect in this respect on any future occasion.—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
At the Kingston Assizes, on Wednesday, Mr. Courtenay obtained a verdict with 16/. damages against Mr. Glossop, lately of the Victoria Theatre, for performing the farce of the Wandering Minstrel eight times at that Theatre. The farce was written by Mr. Mayhew, but made over by him to Mr. Courtenay for 150/.
The Bishop of Winchester, the Reverend Mr. Pullen, and two others, were tried at Kingston on Thursday, on a charge of assaulting the Reverend Cornelius Griffin, at a fleeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, held at Epsom on the 2Ist of October last. It appeared dint the prosecutor, Mr. Griffin, had been put out of the room with some violence for attempting to speak in opposition to the wishes of the meeting. After a short trial, the defendants were all acquitted.
Some dreadful murders have been discovered at Burnham Market, in Norfolk. Mary Taylor, the wife of a journeyman shoemaker, was taken suddenly ill on the 12th ultimo, after dinner, and died in three or four hours. Her body was opened and found to contain arsenic : her husband was taken very sick also, but he recovered. A married woman, narned Fanny Billing, lived next door to the Taylors ; and as it was suspected that the man Taylor had been improperly con- nected with this woman, and as it was known that his deceased wife bad quarrelled with her on that account, Billing was apprehended along with Taylor. Sire was proved to have purchased arsenic a short time before, and arsenic was found mixed up with some flour in Tay- lor's house. They were both remanded : but as they were going from before the Magistrates, a woman named Frary, who lived next door, was heard to say to Billing, " Hold your own, and they can't hurt us." In consequence of this Frary was apprehended; and as her husband and a child they kept died suddenly a few weeks ago, their bodies were disinterred and found to contain arsenic. Frary was called in to nurse the woman Taylor, when she was taken ill ; and was seen to put some white powder into the gruel she was making for her, in order, as it seemed, to make the murder quite sure. She also mixed arsenic with the flour in Taylor's house, that the parties who attended the funeral of his wife might be poisoned. Frary has been, or pretends to have been struck speechless, since her apprehension ; but Billing has confessed all. She was in league with Every, who administered the poison. This woman is fifty years of age, and has bad fourteen chil- dren, nine of whom are still alive.
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