ABSTRACT
The hired transport vessel Accrington left England in October last, having on board a large number of children and soldiers’ wives, who were sent out by the Government to join their husbands in India. From advices received at Liverpool some days since, it appears that the captain of the Accrington has been poisoned; and this statement, which appeared in the daily newspapers, is confirmed by a letter received by Mr. J. Lang, a respectable resident of Woolwich, from his daughter, Mrs. Agnes Elvin, the wife of a gunner, who was enabled to forward the communication by means of a homeward-bound vessel, which hailed the Accrington. The following extracts from the letter tend to show that the passengers and crew were subject to a series of cruelties which will doubtless be investigated at a subsequent period:—
