Iii taking down Mr. Small's house in Westgate, in Canterbury,
a pamphlet printed nearly 160 years ago has been discovered in a mortice of' a beam. There are about four pages of printing, quite legible, of a speech delivered by Lord Russell to the Sheriff and people of London, prior to his death. Fearing that he should not be heard, his Lordship wrote it clown, and it was afterwards published by consent and under the inspection of Lady Russell. We suppose this was secreted by some Westgate Radical of' the olden time, when search was being made for evidence of' disaffection. We remember the time when, in Canterbury, copies of the " Rights of Man," and other works now openly sold in the booksellers' shops, were hid in dark cupboards, and locked in the private drawers of bureaus.—Kent Herald.
Several of the initiates of the Devizes Union Workhouse, principally unmarried females, have expressed a wish to be sent to South Australia. The circumstance was mentioned to the Board on Tuesday and, if possible, the Board will take steps to further their wishes. The number of persons of the labouring classes conveyed to South Australia at the cost of the emigration fund, during the six. months ending 1st December 1838, was 529 male adults and 553 female, and 339 male and 335 female children. ThW parties who were in negotiation with the Colonization Commissioners have completed the purchase of 9,000 acres of land, with a view of forming one or more secondary towns in the colony.— Derises Paper.
The Master and Matron of the Workhouse belonging to the Union of Pewsey, in Wiltshire, have been dismissed by the Poor-law Com- missioners, the peculation and other irregularities.
Mrs. Tugwell, lady of the senior partner in the Bath Bank, poisoned herself and two young children, last week. The following particulars of this domestic tragedy have been published in the newspapers. " Mrs. Tugwell had been walking out with three of her children on the after- noon of Thursday ; and on coming home, she desired the butler to give her a decanter of' sherry, and took her children into a summerhouse in the garden, saying she was going to give them a treat. Having pro- ceeded there, she mixed some prussic acid with the wine, which she ad- ministered to the three children, and then took some herself. Fortu- nately the eldest boy (ten years of age) did not like the taste of the wine, and drank only a small portion, which, as he says, caused him to sleep ; and upon awakening, he found his mother sitting apparently asleep, with his two brothers, who were twins of eight years of' age, the one lying at her feet, and the other across her breast. Finding himself very ill, and having in vain tried to awaken them, he rushed to the door, which be found locked; butt at length succeeded in alarming the house, when the servants found their mistress and the children (lead." Tho poor lady had suffered from an attack of fever during her last con- finement, and, it was supposed, had never been perfectly sane since. Her age was thirty-one. She was universally beloved for her nume- rous acts of kindness and charity. A Coroner's Jury has found a ver- dict of " Insanity." Mr. Tugwell, the husband, had only two days be- fore buried his father ; and an intimate friend had poisoned himself the week before. Probably this act suggested a similar one to the diseased mind of Mrs. Tugwell.
It is intended by the legal advisers of Mr. Bolam to apply for a habeas (wipes to remove him to York for trial at the Assizes for that county, in consequence of its being supposed that the excitement in Newcastle on the subject of the murder would be prejudical to him.
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