CHRONICLE. 



JANUARY. 



1 . MnilE number of students last 

 _M. year at the University of 

 Gottingen was greatly increased ; 

 it amounts already to 1,15<2; of 

 these only 3S'(J are natives of Ha- 

 nover, !^>66 are from other Ger- 

 man States, and 180 foreigners ; 

 of the latter, 3G are Russians, 17 

 Swiss, 63 Danes, 10 EngLsh, G 

 French, 25 Hungaiians, 4 Ame- 

 ricans, 2 from the Greek isle of 

 Chios. 



On Thursday, the 2d inst. the 

 body of a woman was found tied 

 to a boat near the landing-place 

 of the Royal Hospital at Green- 

 wich, on which an inquest was 

 held on the following Saturday, 

 before Joseph Cai'ttar, Esq. one 

 of the coroners for Kent. The 

 evidence being very vague, the co- 

 roner said he should not then 

 close the inquest, but adjourn till 

 tlie Tuesday following, in order 

 that every exertion might be made 

 to procure better information, as 

 there was much suspicion in the 

 case, and it wjis but seldiautliat a 

 woman was found dead without 

 somebody being able to give an 

 ac ouut of her death. He also di- 

 rected, tliat tl'.e body should be 

 I examined by a surgeon, that his 

 opinion might be given on certain 

 external marks which appeared on 

 it. Tlic jury accordingly met a- 

 2,ain on Tuesday, >Ylien sgverul 

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persons came forward to identify 

 the deceased, and among the rest 

 an old man, who swore that the 

 deceased was his daugliter, and 

 that she was the wife of Israel 

 Friday, an out- pensioner of Green- 

 w ich College. He then went into 

 a long account of a quarrel which 

 took place between Friday and his 

 wife, on Wednesday the 1st of 

 January, and of their fighting in 

 his house with a knife and a 

 hatchet, which fight he with diffi- 

 culty suppres.*ed ; and that soon 

 afterwards both parties left his 

 house, and he had not been able 

 to hear of either of them since, 

 except that he now believed the 

 deceased to be his daughter, and 

 that she had been murdered by 

 somebody, and laid on the spot 

 where the body was found. Other 

 witnesses also swore to the de- 

 ceased being the daughter of the 

 old man. The surgeons proved 

 that there were marks of violence 

 on the head, &c. of the deceased, 

 but not sufficient to be deemed 

 mortal. This evidence, however, 

 induced the coronej- to adjourn a 

 second time; and he directed the 

 constables to make diligent search 

 after Friday, the husband, and 

 bring him before the jury on the 

 lOtli instant, to accomit for his 

 wile's death, if possible. The jury 

 accordingly met again on the 10th 

 instant, when the constables re- 

 ported that they had not been able 

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