Star. — London, England, 1827-10-03 00:00:00

THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. 00 Theatres seem determined to open their cam po ign with spirit, by bringing their best forces into the fold at once. At this house the Hypocrite was per formed last night, in which Comedy LISTON made his a ppearance; he was received with very great warmth, and played in most excellent spirits. His performance cf the miserable fanatic Maw worm is undoubtedly one of the most natural representations on the stage, and the character itself is such an irresistible specimen of the ludicrous, that its extreme popularity in the hands of arch an actor is easily to be understood.—Dowron's c ol ossal has been long and unanimously regarded as another of the most perfect examples of the art, which leaves nothing for criticises to condemn, and upon which the language of panegyric has been exhausted. —Miss E. Tugs, who played Charlotte with ease and intelligence, is making that steady progress in her profession which is the result of care and dili gence, and which will no doubt lead her to a very considerable rank amongst its distinguished members. After the Comedy and the Ballet of the Rossignol, Ksmev'shighly p'pular Farce of Love, Law, and Physic, introduced Liaros again as the Tooley-street hero. We newer saw his humour more richly displayed, or more effectual in provoking the laughter of all within its i..fluence.—Mrs. ()Acta and some of the other perfor mers were frequently interrupted by fits of laughter, • hitt) they could not repress. HARLtY gave his se pre,entation of I. lexibk with all his own mercurial gaiety, and was encored in his song. The house was well attended ; tile pit crowded. Re St in , d .. .02 0 b a n knell' ields near a bull, every, COMM ng a sernio It w, r, of and boat bak e Panel inket Thyhut., awy i her .1„1, n all QUI n was CI int ajna and t , w 37 ember fief ta6t b pros - Quo A pope nine JC en. io one A oidd :din• point instal nOrn• adt'S P ' enr fallen The ca sl34 iger- • f itors, aot curnst e va• akke n th unAbl, Dlte .1 tlel ra Car Err Pr bed rt e sPl :etc its reel e i exarnii „tote state o DUO !Lino clow n row wean.' . wag it COVENT GARDEN. The Comedy of the Provoked Husband was per formed at this Theatre last night. It was extremely well acted, but with very little alteration from the cast a last season. Mr. KU/SUL played Lord Townky, wLich is a performance sufficiently well appreciated, arid Kos' to any that we have upon the stage. Miss R JAM'S Lady Townley is pleasing, graceful, and al stays sensible. Mr. FAwcerr was more vigorous than word in Sir Francis Wronghead ; his cane ought to be put into the bill among the dramatis persons, (or it Jays two scenes of the Comedy by itself. The minor . , arsons in the piece were mo t o f them sati.factorily Led. Mr. M &AVOWS has a sort of loose jaisse hum u., lid a lanky schoolboy-like figure, that tells reasonably well in Squire Idichani I and Mr. BLANCHARD is as good a Joint Moody as the stage at present can afford. Upon the whole, the play was very well received, and ftom its merits deserved to be so. The house, in the Alter part of the evening, was well auended. EN OLIS II OPERA. This elegant little theatre was last night closed for season. Before the tieing of the curtain the house presented in every past unequivocal proofs of the public approbation. The pit, ga lei y, and boxes, were crowd ed to excess by a most respectable audience. The en tertainment con►isted of the Melodrama of the Cormisk Miners, followed by the musical farce of the Spoiled Md, and the Vampire. As the first of these pieces has been performed seven and twenty times this season, and the two latter are well known to every part of the public, it is only necessary to state of the performance genrrally, that it was throughout supported will great excellence, and received with undivided applause. M.ss Guesan.was rapturously encored in the hornpipe in lisle Pickle, but, from extreme fatigue, she was ince yable of finishing it the second time, and the audience • excused her. In the course of the evenirigMr. the manager, came forward and delivered the Address, which was very favourably received: ATLIMEN—As this evening will close the present ae homier, agreeably to annual custom, to present: you. The proprietor trusts, that in otfering his ,owledgments for the large share of public patroone has been honoured, be shall not be deemed arrogant credit to himself for the manner in which be has fortune to cater for your amusement. He has this two more highly successful grand operas to those r years have distingtasised this Theatre; and I have that every exertion will be made in future, not continuance of year favour, but, if possible, to The very short period to which the season fi L this ited, as well as the period of the year at whia it is . necessarily prove a severe drawback on his exertions tenions shall be faithfully continued In your service ; assurance, in the name of the proprietor, of my-: the performers, I respectfully take my kw, aad bid The new Devise it the • WOW son of Mr. Erase ; that tragedian's first son died very young. We hope the Manager, cn the next representation of this inte te Drama, will restore the beautiful Scots:music vi.ich has heretofore been performed before and be taern the different acts. This circumstance alone will be of great service to the Drury-lane treasury. The Illustrious Stranger, a Musical Farce, to be pro duced at Drury htie 'theatre to-morrow evening. was taken originally from the Arabian Nights' Entertain relents. It has been adapted to the Fiench stage, and is now brought out on the English stage by Mr. KENNY. An outline of LISTON'S character in this piece has been treated by PLANCHZ for the Haymarket Theatre. SHANE IN. DRURY-LA NZ THEATRE.— Mr. GEORGE Roam yesterday sold at the Aoction Mart the following share or interest in this Thearre—A renter's share, held for a period of Dear seventy years, entitling the bolder to an income of Is. 3d. for vier ) , Light of performance, and also a fee e admission to the theatre, esruoirocin g after the present season, transferable every season, and admittin g to all kinds of performances, oratorios. benefits, &c.— It was stated that the share generally produced between 414 and £l5 annuity, and was paid at 'Messes. Ransom and Co.'s bankers to the trustee/. The lot was knocked down at 220 I „ress• Mr. R osins adverted to the general popularity of the knee, nett it had tome into the hands of Mr. Nice, the present ree ,, rd observed, that the receipts on Monday last, when Mr. "" , ion made his brit appearance, exceeded the ordinary amount of that was considered a good night by about 400/. there being on Nat night before the curtain 00 less than 6001. Ctrs, DISEASL-1 have heard that Mr. ABERNETHY "Sven the name of the " City Disease" to a class of dyspeptic a : '!Peebendriacal com pl a i nts' produced by the late commercial tiarraysienre. . These causes have certainly multiplied the evil, 4 " hrie not created a new genus of disease...a-Dr. Johnson on an Stomach. • A " t 'e'sing accident occurred this morning about nroLo'clock, at t h e house of Mr. DUDLEY, cheesemonger, is rury•lane. S ome passengers i n the street were *dcfenly alarmed by a loud shreak Irons a female, who, Pointing upwards, tell down in a faint, and the next instant a ehild of Three years of age, feU upon the pave , y!rit at the feet of one of the passengers The child had 1_111" from the second fl oor w i n d ow , an d t he woman casually Passing, was the first who saw the hapless so f rot tumbling frcm the window. The frightful cir ' st nce produced, it may be supposed, the most " ( wing horror among the group of persons who; !Table to avert the casualty, collected around the poor hfeiess child. The body was instantly raised up and carried to the shop of Mr. Dennis, surgeon, in Broad- Erre% Holborn, who declared that it was still alive, but t he spiae wa s injured and the skull fractured, therefore Its recovery was impossible. While the surgeon was "mining the infant, the mother entered the shop in a state of distraction; she had not left the room above a minute before the accident occurred, and had only gone down stairs to get some water. The child must have to-ambled to the window, and in the effort to look out lett its balance, and fell as &scribal. • DUBLIN, Otrrontn 1. AM TOP ARQMS ON WELLISLIff.—The Lord Lietlttnan has returned to the Phenix Park, and, we are hippy t , state, is sufEciently recovered from his late indisposition to be present at the swearing in of the new Lord Mayor this day, although it is apprehended that he will not be able to accept of his Lordship's invitation to the din ner at the Mansion House. BELFAST, Sem 28. Monday Dr. Cnacataas dined with the Marquis of Dowitanat at Hillsborough; on Tuesday with Professor Catguts in Belfast • so Wednesday with th e R ev . J. S. Ram at Carrickfergus — Yeste rday be embarked on board the St. Andrew steam-vessel for Greenotk, accompanied by Professor YOUNG of the Belfast Institution.— During Dr. CHALltillei short stay in Belfast, he baptized three children, one of Whom, in compliment to him, was named Thomas Claimers. Ity kindly el aItTLEY, the Wowing Adt Lanicaotso swan, I hawed. ;melt before ya respectlol ',choose socit whist be ha taking some Cr ad the good fur noon added MI hich un former assure Too, II only to mnrit a segment Th, Theatre is limited ensued. moat nee but Orme eiertla and wish t►is as ill, and of all thi Iva all farewell." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MRgTINO. MONDAY NIOHT.—The races to-day have gone off very well, but at the same time that they have affordrd capital sport, they have completely discomfited the knowing ones, the favourites having been moat signally defeated. Lord Sefton, gave a grand dinner this evening to Earl Jersey, Colonel. Udny, Hon. J. De Roos, Hon. Mr. Duncombe, Colonel Russell, Mr. Mills, Monsieur and Madame Limn, and several other foreigners. The Jockey Club dinner was in consequence more select than numerous, the Duke of Grafton, Lord George Cavendish, and a few other members, being only present. The following are additional particulars of the Grand Dube Michael Stakes— After two or three false starts Gaberlunzie jumped off at a good pace, Glenartney being a good second to him, and Esparto& close at his quarters. They went along a t a goo d bat to the bushes, when Fapagnolle and Glenartney changed places. At the Abingdon Mite Bottom Espagnolle came up to Gaberlunzie, and in a short struggle which ensued got a hide a-bead; the latter, however, again got the lead, and maintained tt till within a few strides of home, when Eapagnoile, by an astonishing effort, regained th e f ron t, a nd won by a head. The race was very close throughout, the last foist coming in so close as to render it impossible to say where Glenart ney was. A good deal of interest existed iu thiirace, all the horses crack favourites for the Derby, for which, it will be recollected, Glenartney came in second to Matneluke, Espagnolle and Gaber lunzie being fourth and fifth; and the above race supports the running, and proves decidedly that Mameluke was the best horse In the race. The following are additional particulars of the Trial Stakes-- There were several false starts before they got off ; but when they started in earnest Lamplighter led at a good pace, seconded by Pas time and Helioni; and in this position they ran to the end of the - Two Year Old Course, when Pastime, thinking, no doubt, that the course wai sufficiently clear for her without a Lamplighter, gave him the go-by, and became the leading horse. Belzoni then got up to her, and Lamplighter having again made play, the three got into tip-top running, the mare first challenging, then hanging back, and so on, till they were a few yards from home, when she succeeded in beating them off, and winning by a length, after a remarkably fine race. This was a good betting race, and large sums were laid both before and during its progrets. Toaw/T Evzsnua. The following is a correct account of the day's running— Fifty Guineas, free for any borse, &c. four yr oils, 7st. 41b. five, bit. 51b. sic ilst.lllb. and aged, 9st. B.C. Mr. Delme Ratcliffe 's br. h. Mortgage, 5 yrs . 1 Mr. Wyndhana's hi. c. Black Swan, 4 yrs 2 Betting -7 to 4on Mortgage. One drawn. Won by a length. Robinson rode the winner. Matcb-200 nova. b. ft. D.M. Duke of Grafton's Problem . Sot. 71b. . . _ . _ Lord Jersey's Dragon, est. lib. . . . 2 Bettiag-2 to 1 apt Problem. Won by a neck. Buckle rode the winner. Match-200 foes. h. ft. D.M. Mr. Mill's Lunacy, Um 41b. 1 . . . Duke of Grafton a Clitoris, Bst. . 2 . . Betting-2 to lon Lunacy. Won by a length, B. Day rode the winner. . Match-200 toys. 11. ft. R.N. Sir J. Shelley 's Johnny, Bst. Vb. . 1 Mr. Prentfergast's Garnish, 7st. 111 b. . I Betting-2 to lon Johnny. Won by a neck. Robinson rode the winner. INVERNESS RACES, Sart. 26. The Caithness Plate of ano; about half a mile. Mr. Bagley . 's Peacock, 5 yrs, Itst. Slb. . . 1 . Mr. Fraser s gr. g. Richmond, 6 yrs, Bst. 101 k. . . $ The Isle of Skye Plate of £5O; two mile beats. Mr. Bagley's Peacock, .5 yrs, sac. 612. . 2 1 1 Mr. Davidson's Blue Bonnet, 6 yrs, Ilst. Sib. . 1 2 2 The First Class of the Macaroni Stakes of 20gs. each, k. ft. for hunters, 12st. each; two mile heats. Mr. Fraser 's Richmond, 6 yrs Mr. DaIll11012'• Paul Pry Lord Saltoun names Coy'', aged Mr. Davidson's Panto:Dine t 1 5 9 4 3 4 dr TRIMSDAY. The Cromarty Gold Cup, value 100 gs. given by Mr. Davidson, of TuHoch, for horses the property of permanent Members of the Meeting ; we meeting mile and a distance. Mr. Framer's Hartlepool, 4 yrs . 1 Mr. J. Davidsoo's b. h. Cromarty 2 . . Mr. Fraser 's Richmond, 6 yrs 3 . . . . . The Second Class of the Macaroni Stakes of 2Ogs. each, h. ft. for horses not thorough-bred ; two mite heats. Mr. Davidson's Blue Bonnet, ti yrs . . 1 1 Mr. Frmer's Sandy, aged . 3 2 . . Lord &dtoun named Greenmantle, S yrs . 2 3 Mr. Grant's Fatima . . 4 4 . . 5 dr • Mr. Davidson's Paul Pry . Handicap Plate of £5O, given by Lord Macdonald, for the beaten horses of the first day ; a mile and half. Mr. Bagley's Peacock, 7st. 121 b. 1 Mr. Davidson's Triumph, est. 21b. 2 Mr.-Davidson'. Blue Bonnet, Est. 3 • • THE FANCY. Drat Currie elm nesnatc—Curtis is at Hartley Raw, at his training exercise, and Is doing well. The chief doubt, or pretended doubt, that is entertained by his friends—ls regarding his weight. The articles of the match making it a forfeiture of the whole battle money on the part of either of the men that cornea to the scale on the day of fighting heavier than a certain stipulated weight. At the time that the mush was takes on, Dick was somewhat above the mark, but the reduction required did not materially vary from the weight he has always fought, and will consequently be now no great effort to attain, alth o ugh it ma be allowed that his general habit appeared to be of that description which had little super fluous flesh, and it is probable the means of reduction may some what effect his strength and stamina. But his accomplishments as a .pugilist ought against that to be a sufficient set off. Teas dale, at the Welsh Harp, Edgware road, is daily trundling a ponderous hoop, probably like the captive prince who was brought to the conqueror's city chained to the triumphal car of the victor in the evolutions of the wheel being alternately elevated and under, he may gather a moral lesson of the vicissitudes of the for tunes of a h pugilist—for Princes and pugilists will have their ups and down, in life. Hs is diligent in his preparation, aware of having his work to do, bat confident of Ms means. It Is probable that be will place his dependence upon a Wei fight, and by Dick's bottom to the uttermost. The match increases in interest, and the money is taken on freely.—Curtis the favourite at 7 to 4. DUMP Saaarg are Youao SAY.—The Bishop is following his usual avocation, which is considered good natural training, consiu ins of long walks in a billy district. Sam, who embarks more In the gaiety of life In London, and must use the artificial means of acquiring condition, is at exercise in company with the Pet, at Hartley-row. Hazer Josses and ha Dooo—The sailor boy. Is off to Staines to go into training. Ike, who has nut fought ea frequently as the mariner, never considers himself much out of repair. Ike la abste mious and moderate in his habits, and will probably ch: e t event with kw preparation, and only seek the fresh air of for health. Nth O'Neal, and JOI Boast—Ned is as anal occasionally plying 4tween the Elephant and Castle and Streatham, frequently walk- Id% the journey ; but he has not yet put himself under trie metric• don of trainlag rules ; of which by the by his appearance would seem to warrant that but little is required. Burn, in the sweet society *this soul's delight, has departed for Bristol, to train undw the kindly eye, and profit by the tender attention of his wife. Corr AND Sausoras.—ln the Wrestling Match between Copp of Devon, and Saunders of Cornwall, en which a small deposit was down for 501. a side match—and last night named for aoetond de posit, and filial arrangements being made at the John of Gaunt, Duke -street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, the money was ready at that hour on the part of Saunders—but no one showed for Copp, whose money of course is forfeited. The men of both counties, declare . that their two peculiar methods cannot be better met than in these two men, and that the match would be interesting and sporting. Copp's not appearing, is attributed to some casualty, sad tillt match is confklently expected so be made good. tiod sI • 14 - ,1 0 ,f;fpgse ~s 4, POETRY. 1 1 ;(1 0 *intrillAßlTY AT HO LL, Bt Ulu /bOafrkroo. !balm 110$ 1 :*adA • Mope wads - 'reettitoughts erakaae The .... enimpete , of our kind, Ami l a llir d l7 4 l2ll t o ra d u t tln iy d . earth', wide "see Mod o'er the well its ray Ittratch vie throbbing heart the seal, Mose ill-incorporating plan Can teach a milli°, souls to feel For all that's mat's—for all that's man; And every human title blend In those of brother and offrinsd / I've traveli'd many a country far Thro' Finland's wild, on Afric's agreed; And there went with me, like a star ; The glory of my native land ; A star whose light, whereer I trod, Seem'd blazing with the truths of Goo! But sometimes sadness came, and dwelt Within my heart. 'Twas proud to bear My country's name, but oh ! I felt _ That misery liv'd unheeded there; That hearts were sad, that eyes were wet, Forgotten—how could I forget? I would net check the nobly good, ' Who, joy diffusing, widely roam ; But I would whisper, if I could, Look rouo4, for there are wrongs at home, And voices, though but feeble, call • On Heaven—on thee on me—on all! ...to a rust thou not Lear their cry? To tbee ; •2 ' • Wbo Moen the lightest plaint of woe That'll borne Giros, the distant sea, Can their appeal be vain? 0, no! • Thou dldst but want some tongue to say ; ' 1144 Grier, mows ars here, owil these ere the ROYAL INSTITUTION. A course of Lectures on Medical Jorisprudence was opened on Monday at the Rnyal Institution, by Dr . Gordon Smith. In a preliminary discourse the Learned Doctor% prelection contained an expositiLn of the ge neral objects of the future course, namely, the applica tion of the various sciences that constitute medicine to the important state purposes of the administration of justice and the conservation of the public health. The Lecturer then proceeded to thew the great value, and even the necessity, of a knowledge of this science to medical practitioners in every branch of the pro fession to judges, magistrates, lawyers, members of the Legislature, and especially to Coroners. Criminal trials, civil proceedings in the Courts of Law, the judi cial discussions in the House of Lords, in its character of the highest Court of Appeals, and the legislative enactments of Parliament, all admitted questions, to the due investigation and just decision of which medi cal jurisprudence was not only important but indispens able; for example, judicial inquiries into the causes of violence inflicted on the living person—diseuted elaima to property, involving the nature of pregnancy and the priority of birth--the plague, and the manner in which it is communicated, comprehending the question of the quarantine laws, and the necessity or impolicy of ,them. The most remarkable case of modern times, that proved the value of state medicine to judicial inquisi tions, the L t ecturer observed, was the Gardiner Peerage, in which medical testimony was eagerly sought (but in vain) for the elucidation of the difficulties of that extraordinary inquiry. This science, by some called medical jurisprudence, by others state medicine, or political medicine, was divisible into two branches; one applied to the administration of public justice, the other to the preservation of the public health. The for mer, termed forensic medicine, by some authors legal medicine, by _the Lecturer judicial or justiciary medi cine; the litter generally known by the name of medi cal police. This latter branch of the subject compre hended the duties of the Senate in the promotion of the general health and the prevention of nuisances, and was requisite in all cases connected with the personal welfare of the public, from the regulations for building an in noxious dungeon tor the condemned felon, to the 'elec. tion of the wholesome site of a palace for royally. The Lecturer here proceeded to sketch the rise and progress of state medicine as a science, its early use among the Jews, as evinced in their rules ter the prevention of epidemic diseases, in their regulations of food, their personal purifications, and till exclusion of diseased in dividuals from the general people; the more methodi cal cultivation of it in the early part of the sixteenth century, and its struggles against that worst of tyres.. nical oppressions—the tyranny of bigotry and supersti tion—the remnants of which appeared even at the pre sent day, in those mischievous restrictions on anatomy and in that popular hostility to dissections, which threatened the ultimate extinction of the pre fession of medicine; then the code of Medical Jurisprudence,. written under the authority of Charles the Fifth, usually ,called the Caroline Code, the works of Fortunatus Fide lis, en state medicine: of the Italian authors, Tortosa. Cellini, and tulle's of their time—the occasion on which the study of the science was proved among the French to be important to the ends of justice, namely, the cir cumstance of a merchant's son, cf Melancholy tempera. ment, having destroyed himself. The merchant himself was accused of having destroyed his son ; and through the medical testimony of an ignorant surgeon, was de clared guilty of the charge, and executed with torture. Subsequent investigation of the affair, however, proved the innocence of the accused ; and the entire transac tion demonstrated, in the most urgent manner, the ne cessity of a knowledge of state medicine, to the just ad ministration -of public justice. Since that period the Science had been successfully cultivated irr France. The total number of books written on the subject (about ten thousand) would tend to chew that, in authorship at least, it possessed adequate auxiliaries; but the greatest part of them was most detective. In the flnglish lan guage tl%ere were not more than three first-rate works written on state medicine. The very name of the science was a stranger to the language until forty years ago, when the attention of the learned and the judicial autho rities was called to it by the case of Captain Donnellan, in 1781, who was tried on a charge of having poisoned his brother-in-law, a man of rank, by a poison then little known, and consequently difficult, at that time, of detec tion. The accused in that case was found guilty, through the rester weight of the evidence on the part of the Crowe and that against the testimony of the celebrated 'John Hunter, *a the aide of the prisoner; though it was worthy of notice, that Dr. Hunter was afterwards heard to entrees his regret that he had not prepared himself, by more accurate study of the subject, for the examinatidn on the trial. The learned Lecturer con cluded an able and elaborate discourse, by an enume ration and critical-examination of . the several English publications wiidatakiwislielwe ir 4ind declared, in - elo. quest terms, his soissoino bops serf the ultimate success of the science in obis country, in spite of the bigotted speposition of persons such as . those who persecuted Harvey for his discovery o! the circulation of the blood, who censored Dr. Jenner for dirarming the small-poz of its polio's, and who would, in thase % ,days, bum Sir Humphry Davy in the blaze of his owa brilliant inyeatioas. -s ~-:- •r I . DALAMM ACCMINT—AXPLoston OP Powa MILL.--SIC is with feelings of the most painful kind that we communicate a few itaraulars of an accident equally terrible in itself, and beart-rendieg in its cons& quences ; we mean the destruction of the Stobbs Powder Mill, which bat been again blown up. The siplosioa _took place on Saturday morning, about half past seven o'clock, in what it called the Corning Room. How this lamentable accident occurred must ever onesaits . unknown, as the three men who were employed in the premises at the time, no more being present, were killed by the explosion. One of th.se unfortanap men had his legs torn from his body.; another his belly • torn open, and his entrails hanging out; and the third was blown into a water at a considerable distance from the Mill, where he was found dead about an hour after. Search was immediately made for the members which were severed from the bodies; hot when found, they were so dreadfully scorched, and the, bodies were so, terribly mutilated, that it was impossible to know to, whom the different members belonged. When looking around the scene of this terrible visitation, it seemed as if some destroying angel had been there, doing his" work of desolation and death. The premises lettere• . is the explosion took place were s hak e n t o t he l oon . , dation, and lay in one heap of ruins ; the surrounding ; t ees were script et their foliage ; and the grass was burnt black and bate. Cottages might be seen in a. state of miserable dilapidation. being almost unroofed, with their windows shattered ; and, to add to the afflict.. ing character of the scene, from these ruins might be, heard lamentations for a father and a husband, whorl", the. cruel destiny.of this •ile hour had, in an instant s , torn Irons their discoWsolate family, 'The three to for m • tunate men who fat victims to this melancholy acci-, dent were married, end have left widows; one of thew wish a family of three children; another only a fort.. night married, and a third pregnant. The prerniiespre understand, were insured.—Caledmiime Mercery, The following Fatal consequence of di inking cold liquid: •o:curred in East Lothian. Two sisters from the Isle of. Skye, who had for two or three harvests been employed by the same farmer, were this year re-engaged by hies. ate of them being exceedingly thirsty, during the heat of the day, drank freely of some small beer she had. brought to the field ; she was immediately taken ill, and death soon ensued. a.w to.. • . . er-nlvd CORONER'S INQUEST. as Itsirawe- Yesterday evening, at half-past seven °Mock. an In• . quest was held before THOMAS Sawrox, Esq. Coroner,. at the sips of the Parrot, Green Arbour -court, in the• Old ea.ley, to inquire into the death of Wm. Leather•. brough, a compositor, whose death was alleged to fume been produced by starvation, but which was actually. caused by intoxication, j Mr. Ito . bt. Blkk, surgeon, of Smithfiehl.bars, deposed that on Monday he first saw the deceased ; he was then dead. He subsequently opened his body end head. The vessels of the brain were turgid with blood, and an effu sion bad taken place between the membranes. He, upon removing the scalp, discovered upon the substance out side the scull, a red bruise or mark, as it he had received a blow, or had fall-n to the ground. Upan directing his attention to the stomach, he found the membrane lining of the stomach in the highest state of loft rmmation, which he could only attribute to drinking. The man's. death, he concluded, was (at least so far as the exciting cause went) produced by the stimulants of drinking raw spirits, and by falling off his chair; apoplexy ea• sued, owing to the distended state of the brain. CORONER—Did the state of the stomach proceed from habitual drinking ? • Mr. Blick—Yes, most certainly. The deceased was a thin spare man, and by no means subject to apoplexy; but his habits of hard drinking had brought that on. Robert Colville, a compositor, stated he was neat door neighbour to the deceased in Green Arbour -court. The deceased was a printer. He met him on Sunday, and drank some pots of beer with him. He took hi, home drunk. CORONER—How much spirits did he drink ? Witness-1 cannot tell, upon my word, within a half pint or pint ; we drank a great quantity. CORONER—'reke my word, Sir, you are a very great blockhead for abusing your constitution and your health in this way. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.—. Printers ought to know better than abuse themselves in this shocking way. You, because you earn a few shillings on Sunday, think, or seem to think, it a meri ' lotions act tp go and get into a beastly state of intoaica lion, to the abuse of your health, and destruction of your family's comfort and happiness. A JUROR said, the greater part of the misery and distress of that class of persons was produced by the dissolute and drunken habits of the husbands and fathers. The CORONER said there were exceptions ; but it was a shameful thing for any man having reasonable facet ties to acknowledge that he could not tell, within a half pint or a pint, how much raw spirit he had drank. A poor ragged, but interesting little boy was here produced, who proved that his father was brought home drunk; he fell down off the chair. and his mother cried out he was dead a few minutes after. A Juror here said it had been reported that the de ceased•was starved to death ; whereas the fact was, the unfortunate man died drunk. Another witness said that one or two surgeons refused to attend deceased, because there was no prospect of their being paid for their trouble; but Mr. Blick in stantly attended, although living at a considerable distance from Green Arbour court. Here Colville, the witness, gave his opinion that the deceased's death vies produced by the want of medical assistance. " Sure," said he, "it might have been my case; had I been presenti would have opened a vein in his arm with my razeilbteause it is better{ a man should lose his arm than his'lW With some difficulty be was silenceth'iffa the Jerry returned a verdict—" Died from excessiveithinking. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, OE-K.& Welted a large portion of Monday's arrival remaining unscad at the dose of that day's market, and our supplies (2,050 qrs. of Wheat, 1,500 qrs. of Barley, 1,070 qrs. of Oats, and 2,050 sacks of Flour,) since then being rather latge, our market is extremely dull; and, although the factors offered some of the best simples at Monday's prices, no buyers could be found ; therefore we most quote nogg-. nslly for all descriptions of Grain as on Monday. EFFECTS OF FRIGHTENING CHLI,DREII.—About • month since, as the son of George Glazier, Esq. residing in George's Place, Camberwell Road, a fine boy," be• tween eight and nine years of age, was walking across a field, near his residence, a man, who appeared rather intoxicated, took bold.of him, and threatened . to take away his life, but, after ke e pi ng hi m some ameba a most dreadful state of fear, he let him . go. 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