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JOHN ARCHER. and THO SIAS HOLT, Proprietors. N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden-lane. Ti-IE NEW MAYORALTY. The practice of coroners in e::cluding witnesses whose conduct might become the subj ec t of inquiry after the verdict of the coroner's jury, was a very proper one fur explanation and judicial notice, and their Lordships hoped that after this day's mention of it, it would cease wherever it existed. Every one who knew anything of the occurrence under investigation at an inquest, had a right to come forward and give evidence upon it, and the coroner should limit his authority to his cautioning the parties so c.oming forward not to say anything to crimi nate themselves, unless they chose. The rule must, therefore, be discharged. Rale discharged accordingly. her and knocked her down, stating that she would have her life, and that she carried a knife about her, and would have her heart's blood. Oa witness remonstrat ing with her she turned upon her in a furious manner, and swore that she would swing for her at Horsemonger lane Gaol, on the same drop as Maria Manning, her namesake. xed )he the Defendant said that the complainant called her a thieving and wretched -, end said that she had served many a man as Mrs. Manning had O'Connor. She certainly felt annoyed at such epithets being used towards her; that she certainly did say a few words, but she denied making use of the language imputed 'to her. pon mi- 'l l4 HE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. Rome Illustrated In a series of Dissolving Views, with a Descrip tion, daily, at Half-past Four, and every Evening at a Quarter to Ten.—Lectnres on the Chemistry of Food, by Mr. Ashley, daily, at Half-past Three, and in the Evening at Nine o'clock.—Lectnre, with Experiments, on the Hydro-Electric Machine, by Dr. Bachhothier, daily at Two, and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Evenings, at Eight o'clock.—Exhibition of the Oxy•hydrogen Microscope.—Diver and Diving-bell.—The Chromatrope.—Models and Machinery ex plained. Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (except Aaturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. Admission, lc—Schools, Half-prim—The Now Catalogue, IS. ish COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 13. (Boforo Mr. Commissioner HoLnoyn.) IN RE R. BISHOP. Mr. BURRELL asked the complainant whether she had known the prisoner before? Complainant replied in the affirmative. They lived in the same court, and often had words, but on that occa sion she threatened to serve her as Mrs. Manning did O'Connor. mid We Yom !gu- long Qur rmy Defendant here called several witnesses, who proved that the complainant was rushing down Swan-street to wards Horsemonger-lane in a furious manner, and in passing her she nearly knocked her down, and used abusive language towards her, when they came to blows. Mr. BURRELL dismissed the complaint, and advised both parties to be mole temperate for the future: Although tho execution was attended by thousands of parsons, the above were the only charges brought before the magistrate. The absence of the thieves may be at tributed to the excellent arrangements of the police, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent Haynes, who obtained the assistance of the City police, and officers from every division. tins eing JOHN COAD'S MEMORANDUM. :Just published, in square fcp. Bvo. price 4s. 6d. cloth, a Contemporary Account of sub- our itary THE SUFFERINGS of the REBELS sentenced by JUDGE JEFFERIES ; being a Memorandum of the Wenderful Providences of God to a poor unworthy Creature during the Vine of the Duke of Dfonmeutit's Rebellion and to the Revolution in 1688. By JOHN COAD, one of the Sufferers. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longinans. ;dily the ry to paid ) ex- xi of )rga ['hero its, is n the a any rd of is a thing ritish at the 3einly 1 into alable 3turb- Is as t. It onicle Occur When :lasses binds mefits nple— is cha- he lesso forth with 5e seldom other to )f tempe r ,nsistencP ham ; tint, a t e excer I made Z s s of insoy: If th3,(i the won' ffray. NT Cult ° from Sob ° art Ph il" ; I had bee, P 2 accou3 ca rf sight , Is of toe ° was indu ce , mt i o n to the teful for tIL„ st othero a l fa ellicine, uggists, a LOTdO" ~ Fredericl HemerY lie ohn Betbell, S q uare, AO' !Ham 13 °' Xll' N. IL 001° ester-S(l olr°' .are, the Vii° wet e st daug . 02 Cavendi 4 ~ o f ports' , Mr. Frail, i ( ," 4 an d daug" the wile eon , 111 :., 111 :4 Irutoo -5 " - 09 late Char M. ,op Lady 0° Bucks, °"' n New.tOOPP . , li r • the Re" tor 8 , and ree ° f a, the w -;le of lat e Esq., ;ham, banger► Bear-ga dell' )r uPW ar- a 5 of h o , nshanr" lc , mue l Betrnio. Chsl 1101 m iti Met ths °44l° GRE A T WESTERN RAILWAY. (POWER to MAKE ARRANGEMENTS with LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN COMPANY and to 11121.KE FURTHE I'. PROVI3IONS as to GAUGE.) Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLI tMENT in the ensuing session, by the Great Western Railway Company, for a BILL to authorise and enable the said Com pany and the London and North-Western Railway Company to make and enter into such contracts or arrangements, on such terms and con ditions, and subject to such restrictions, as may be mutually agreed upon between them, with reference to the passing and interchange of traffic over and a'ong the several lines of railway belonging to or under the control of such companies respectively er any por tions thereof; and with reference to the joint or separate use by the said companies of such lines of railway or any portions thereof, and of all or any of the stations and other works be longing thereto or connected therewith : and with reference to the payments to be made by either of the said companies to the other of them in respect of such interchange of traffic and use of railway sta tions and works or otherwise, and generally to enter into such other contracts or arrangements for more effectually, economically, and conveniently conducting the traffic and other affairs of the said two companies as may be determined on between them, and for enabling the said two companies respectively to exercise, either jointly or severally, during the continuance of any such contract, agreement. or arrangement, such of the powers, rights, and privileges, whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and charges, or other wise, vested in or belonging to each of such respective companies as may be necessary or ea pedient for more effectually carrying into effect any such contract, agreement, or arrangement. And, with the objects aforesaid, to make further provisions with respect to the gauge or gauges to be laid down upon such lines of railway, or any part thereof. And that it is also intended by such Bill to alter, amend, enlarge, or repeal, so far as may be necessary for effecting the objects afore said, the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Parliament following, relating directly or indirectly tothe Great Western Rail way Company, whir's Acts (local and personal) are distinguished in the Queen's Printer's Copies thereof, as 5 and 6 William IV., c. 107 ; 6 William IV., chapters 36, 38, 77, and 79; 1 Vict., c. 91, 92, 24, and 26 ; 2 Viet., c. 27 3 Viet., c. 47 ; 3 and 4 Viet., c. 103 ; 4 and 5 Vict., c. 41 ; 5 Vict., session 2, c. 23 ; 6 Vict., c. 10 ; 7 Vict.. c. 3 ; 7 , and l9 B l ; Viet. c. 63 ; 8 and 9 Viet. C. 40, 53, 15 5 , 156 , 184, 188, 19 9 Vict., c. 14 ; 9 and 10 Vict. c. 166, 181, 236, 239, 240, 278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369, and 402 ; 10 and I 1 Vict., c. 60, 72, 76, 91, 101; 109, 149, 154, 226, and 243; II and 12 Viet., c. 28, 77, 82, 135, 74, 150, 158, 159, 133, 95, and 131 ; and of the several Acts following, relating directly or indirectly to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, which Acts (local and personal) are distinguished in the Queen ' s' Printer's Copies thereof as 9 and 10 Vict., c. 337 and 338 ; 11 and 12 Viet, c. 158 and 159 ' • and of the several Acts following relati n g directl y or indirectly to the Birmingham, Wolverhampton. and Dudley Railway Company, which Acts (local and personal) are distin guished in the Queen's Printer's Copies thereof as 9 and la Viet., c. 315 ; 10 and 11 Wet., c. 110 and 226 ; and of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament, held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intitaled, "An Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birming ham Railway Companies ;" and also the several Acts following re lating directly or indirectly to the said London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the London and North-Western Railway, or some of them, whielt - Acts (local and personal) are distingushed in the Queen's Printer's Copies thereof, as 8 and 9 Viet. ' c. 156; 9 and 19 Vict., c. 67, 80, 8 2 , 152 , 182, 184, 193, 204, 231, 232, 233, 244, 244, 261, 2G9, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396 ; 10 and 11 Viet., c. 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, 121, 132, 139,159, 178, 188, 228, 236, 270, 271, 278, and 294 ; 11 and 12 Vict., c. 130, and 12 and 13 Viet., c. 74 ; and of the Bir mingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway Act, 1846 (Birmingham,:Wolverhampton, and Dudley lines) ; and of the Bir mingham, Wolverhampton. and Stour Valley Railway Act, 1847 (No. 1, Smethwick Deviation) ; and of the Rugby and Leaming ton Railway Act, 1846 ; and of the Acts following, relating di rectly or indirectly to the Buckinghamshire Railway (that is to say) the Buckinghamshire Railway (Buckingham and Brackley Junction) Act 1846, the Oxford and Bleachley Junction Railway Act 1846, and the Buckinghamshire Railway Act 1847. Dated this 14th day of November, 1849. 10, Whitehall, London. W. 0. and W. HUNT. EASTERN UNION RAILWAY. - MAN NINGTREE to HARWICH and HARWICH PIER.— EXTENSION of TIME for PURCHASE of LANDS and COM PLETION of WORKS.—POWERS to SECURE CERTAIN AD VANTAGES to the CAPITAL RAISED for PAYING OFF MORT GAGE DEBT.—AMENDMENT of ACTS. Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION Is intended to be made to PARLIAMENT in the next Session for an ACT to extend the period limited by " the Ealtern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier Act, 1847," for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses for the pnrposes of the railways, branch railways, and works, and of the pier, by such Act authorised ; and also to extend the re spective periods limited by the said Act for the completion of the said railways, branch railways, and - works, and of the said pier, and to continue all powers conferred by the said Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier Act, 1847, and the Acts incor porated therewith, for executing the said railways, branch railways, pier, and works, or otherwise in relation to the same, and to authorise the levying of tolls, rates, and duties in respect of the said railways, branch railways, pier, and works, and the alteration of tolls, rates, and duties now leviable upon or in respect of the same. And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the Eastern Union Hallway Company to raise the capital which they are authorised to create under the powers of their existing' Acts for the redemption of the mortgage or bond debt of the said Company by the creation of a new stockier shares, of such no minal value, and with such privileges attached of priority or prefe rence in the payment of dividend to all existing classes of stock or shares in the said Company, as may be already possessed by the holders of bonds or of mortgages, or as may be determined upon by the said Company or enacted by Parliament; and to authorise and empower the said Company, and the holders of mortgages o: bonds granted by the said company, to enter into mutual ar.sn,etnents for the substitution and allotment of such new stock or shares In Hen amid in payment of such mortgages or bonds, and to place the holders of such new stock or shares in the same position, as nearly as may be, with the holders of the mortgages or bonds granted by the said company as aforesaid. And figs also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said Company, and the holders of any of the new stock or shares to be created as aforesaid, from time to time to enter into such Mutual arrangements as they shall think fit for the redemption and commutation of all or any of the peculiar rights or privileges which an or may be attached to such new stock or shares in the said Company, and to provide that the consent of a certain propor tion of the holders of any such new stock or shares shall bind the remainder of the holders of the same in respect of any such arrange ments as aforesaid ; and also that the consent of a certain proportion of any existing class of shareholders in the Company shall bind the remainder of the shareholders in any such class in respect of any arrangement with reference to the capital of the said Company which may hereafter be found necessary or expedient, and generally to make such arrangements with reference to the existing or future Capital of the Company as may be expedient or determined upon by the said Company. _ _ _ — And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend, extend, vary, enlarge, or repeal the powers and provisions of the several local and personal Acts of Parliament hereinafter men tioned (that is to say), 7th and Bth Vict., chap. 85 ; Bth aid 9th ehap. 94 ; 9th and 10th "Viet , chap. 97 ; 10th and 11th Vict., chap. 225; 9th Vict., chap. 53; 10th Vict., chap. 19; Bth and 9th Vict., chap. 97; 9th and 10th Viet., chap. 280; 10th and 11th Vict., chap. 137; 10th and 1 Itk Vict., chap. 174; 12th and 13th Vict., chap. 92. Dated the 10th day of November, 1849. FEW and Co., Covent-garden. W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, and DUBLIN RAILWAY. REDUCTION of CAPITAL and of NOMINAL VALUE of SHARES, ABANDONMENT of LINE SOUTH of WICKLOW. ALTERATION of NAME of COMPANY, AMENDMENT of ACTS. Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing session for an ACT to authorise the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Company to abandon the formation of that portion of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway which is situate, or now by law authorised to be constructed, between the point of junction with the branch, or southern diverging line to Wicklow, at or near the seventh furlong of the twenty-ninth mile, as shown upon the plans referred to in the Waterford, Wes ord, Wicklow, and Dublin Rail way Act, 1846, and the termination of the said railway at or near Waterford, as described in the said Act, and shown on the same Plans ; and also to abandon the formation of the whole of a branch er line of railway diverging from the said portion of railway to be abandoned as aforesaid, which said branch or diverging line of rail way is shown on the same plans, and described In the said Act, as a branch or diverging line to a pier in the sea, or on the shore of (re bore Bay, near the town and port of Wexford, in the county of Wexford. And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to re duce the capital of the said Company, and the amount which they are authorised to borrow, and to make arrangements for the division of the said capital, when reduced, into shares of a nominal value different from the present nominal value of the same, and for the distribution of such shares in certain proportions among the persons and corporation or corporations who are now or may be holders of shares in, or subscribers to the undertaking of the said Com 'any. And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to;authorise the said Company, if it shall be deemed expedient, to reduce the number and to alter the qualifications of directors of the said Company. And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to alter the name or title of the said Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Company. And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to repeal or alter certain of the provisions of the'existing Acts relating to the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway, and of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as extended to the same, with reference to the purchase of and entry on lands by the Company, and the mode of ascertaing the value of such lands. And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend, vary, enlarge, or repeal the powers and provi sions of the several Acts of Parliament hereinafter mentioned and described, relating to the said Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway ; (that is to say), the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Act, 1846; an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 10th and 11th years of the reign of her pre sent Majesty, intituled "An Act to authorise certain Alterations in the Line of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway, and to Amend the Act relating thereto,' and the Waterford, Wex ford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Amendment Act, 1848. And it is also intended to repeal, vary, or amend such of the provisions of the several Acts following, relating directly or indirectly to the Irish South-Eastern'Rallway Company (that is to say), the 9th and 10th Viet., chap. 167, th e 9 t h an t 1 0th Viet., chap. 168, and the 2 th and. 13th Viet., c h a p. 62, as w i ll b e rendered or become inope rative by reason of the abandonment or non-formation of the portion or portions of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Rail way, hereinbefore described. • Dated this 10th day of November, 1849. W. O. and W. HUNT. 10, Whitehall, London ; RICHARD D. KANE, 79, Talbot-street, Dublin, Solicitors to the Bill. BOULOGNE from LONDON DIRECT, every Tuesday and Thursday.—Great Saving to Travellers. Fares by Railway and Vessel, via Folkestone 41 8 0 Fares from London to Boulogne direct.— 0 12 0 Saving to each First-Class Passenger.... 0 16 0 13y Railway and Vessel, via Folkestone • • .... 1 0 0 Fare from London direct 0 8 0 Saving to each Second-Class Passenger.. 012 0 The COMMERCIAL COMPANY'S superior Steam-ships CITY of BOULOGNE and EMERALD. will leave LONDON-BRIDGE WHARF as under : Thursday, November 15, at 10, Morning. Tuesday, November 20, at 1, Morning. Thursday, November 22, at 2, Morning. Tuesday, November 27, at 9, Morning. Thursday, November 29, at 9, Morning. And every succeeding Tuesday and Thursday. For particulars of freight, apply to Mr. James Whisson, 5, Arthur street East ; or at the Company's Offices, 4, Arthur street East ; and Chaplin's Universal Office, Regent-circus. IIANVARD'S true original PAINTING of the MISSISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, exhibited by com mand of her Majesty the quo], and H.R.H. Prince Albert, and Royal Family, at Windsor Castle, NOW OPEN, at the EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, every Morning, at Half-past Two, Even ing, at Half-past Seven. • Admission—Lower Seats, 2s. ; Gallery, Is SUPERB NOVELTIES in PAPIER AIACHF at 3IECHI'S 4, Leadenhall-street, London. A. visit to his establishment will prove that there 13 not in London another such stock of elegances. They consist of cadd ies, tables, er v einpe.eases, . netting-boxes, companions, cabinets, jewel - c ases, work boxes, boxes, dressing- cases, t ea - ca ddi es, hand anti pole screens, card - racks,- table inkstands, regency writing-desks, portfolios, playing cards, and visiting card-cases, cigar and bottle-cases, note and cake• baskets ; ItTedszt.i. pencil-cases, also an assortment of needle-cases in pearl and tortoiseshell, silver of t P h e e n r -h a o te l pert-holders, a , staenndatoetahteLakr-tbicnilessh.suitable for In A One half I A G E. the World are desolately single, and the other r ei r is l P:T f g them married, questionably contented. Ditildence, or a Later the right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes cm __ e e latter. The so lit a r y one may s hi e ld hi mse lf un d er the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret on -4 ce_ prosing harry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical Incapacity, broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness social content. The dowry should not be the only marrisge dement . Honour Honour andjustice demand that health shouldforrn an item 1 4 the compact; it alone dignities the alliance. Blighted hopes or „ te gleet wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, If h e Surlllises concern you, procure Dr. CIILVERWIIILL'S little at:EMOiltS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols. ' Is. t le ll (by cost, in stamps, Is. Gd. each). Let no imaginatively refitted, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hixdored by misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining rem. They are not intended certainly for mere idle catiesity, but far the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to ',them they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on e above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or to gether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other tittle Publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, v,... ros t Is. Gd.) called " What to sat, Drink, and ~7:4 1(1, " and " How to be Happy." They are not merely p l , lets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the life ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's 'e who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he W ett , l he done unto—to live atter nature's laws—and to keep always mer the sunny side of the way." The above works may he tad ofwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147. Fleet-street • Mann , s9. wt ()r nhill Spokes, IS, Holborn-hill ;or direct (by post or dile:- „re) from the anther (whe may be conferred with personally, ° " 111 40 1 %U lore std evenings), 10, Argyll-place Eegent-etreet; and all M BRANCH to join the EASTERN COUNTIES R AMWAY. NO ['ICE is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be made to PARLIAMENT, in the next session, for leave to bring in a BILL to incorporate a Company, and to em power the Company so to be incorporated to make and maintain a line of railway, together with :11necessary stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, communications, and other works conuected therewith, to commence by a junction wit's the authorised line of the Royston and Ilite'sin Railway, in a certain field in the parish of Shepreth, in the county of Cambridge, called or known by the name of the Lucern Ground, the property of William Nash Woodhant Esq., and in the occapation of Samuel Clear, and which said field is numbered 33 as regards lands in the said parish of Shepreth, on the plans referred to in the Royston and. Hitchin Railway Amend ment (Shepreth Extension) Act, 1848, and to terminate in a certain field in the parish of St. Andrew the less, otherwise Barn well, in the town and county of Cambridge, belongina to the master, fe lows, and scholars of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and in the occupa tion of Samuel Widnall, which said last-mentioned field is numbered 29, as r-gards lands in the said parish of Saint Andrew the LESS, otherwise Barnwell, on the plans of the proposed Royston and 'litchi's Railway Extension Prins Royston to Cambridge, depositAd with the clerk of the peace for the said county of Cambridge, in the month of November, 1847. Also to form a junction with the main line of the Eastern Counties Railway in the said parish of Saint Andrew the Less, otherwise Barnwell, by means of a branch issuing from the main line ,f the said herelnbefore-meationed intended line of railway in a certain field in the parish of Trumpington, in the said county of Cambridge, is the ccupation of William Bennett, and which said field is numbered 71 as regards lands in the sa d parish of Trunspingten, on the plans of the proposed Royston and Hitchin Railway Extension from Royston to Cambridge, deposited with the clerk of the peace for the said county of Cambridge, In the month of November, 1847, and which said branch will join the Main Line of the said Eastern Counties Railway in the said parish of St. Andrew the Less, otherwise Barnwell, at a distance of ono hundred and ten yards, or thereabouts, on the south of the Hills-road-bridge, in the said parish of saint Andrew the Less, which said main line of; railway, branch railway, and works, will pass, or be made from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, townlands, and extra-parochial and other places following, or some of them ; that is to say, Shepreth, Poston, Newton, Barrington, Hauxton otherwise Hawkston, and certain extra-paro chial lands adjoining; Harston' otherwise Harlston, ereat Shelford, Little Shelford, Haslingfield, Grantchester other wise Granchester, Trumplegton, and Hinton otherwise Cherry Hinton; in the' said' County 'Of Cambridge; Saint, Andrew the Less. othesivlse ' Barnwell, Saint Andrew the Great, and Saint Mary the Less, in the town and county of Cam bridge. And it is also intended to apply for powers to make lateral devia tions from the line of the said railway, branch railway, and works, to the extent or within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned; and also to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, whether tem porarily or permanently, all such turnpike roads, parish roads, and other highways, streets, bridges, creeks, rivers, streams, sewers, pipes, canals, navigations, railways, and tramroads, within the said parishes, townships, town lands, extra-parochial and other places aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of the sail railway, branch rail way, and works. And notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sec tions of the said railway, branch railway, and works, together with books of reference thereto, and also a published Map with the lines of the said railway, brans railway and works, delineated thereon, together with a copy of this notice, as published in the "London Gazette," will be deposited for public inspection with the clerk of the peace for the said county of Cambridge, at his office, at Cam bridge. in the said county, on or before the thirtieth day of Novem ber instant, and that on or before the said thirtieth day of November instant, a copy of so ratic's of the said plans and sections as relates to each parish in or through which the said intended railway, branch railway, and works, are proposed to be made, together with a book of reference Mere's.. and a copy of this notice, as published in the "London Gazette," will be deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his dwelling• house, and in case of any extra parochial place with the parish clerk of some parish immediately ad joining thereto, at his duelling-house. And notice is hereby further given, that it is intended by the said Bill to apply for powers for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses, and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken for the purposes aforesaid ; and also to levy tolls, rates, or duties upon, or in respect of the said railway, branch railway, and works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, or duties; an 1 to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, or duties, and ether rights and privileges. And notice is hereby further given, that it is intended to apply for powers for facilitating the transit of trains from the said in tended railway and branch railway over the Eastern Counties Rail way, to join or come upon the Newmarket Railway, and powers will be applied for, for the amendment, so far as may be necessary or desirable, for the purpose last aforesaid, of the several local and personal Acts hereinafter referred to, that is to say, 6 and 7 Wm. 4, cap. 11 , 6 ; 1 and 2 Vict., cap. 81 ; 4 Viet., cap. 14 ; 7 Viet., cap. 20 ; 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 19, and cap. 62, respectively ; 8 and 9 Vict., cap. 110, and cap. 201, respectively ; 9 and 10 Viet., cap. 76, cap. 97, cap. 205, cap. 258, cap. 345, and cap. 367, respectively ; 10 and 11 Vict., cap. 92, cap. 155, cap. 157, cap. 158, and cap. 235, respectively; and 6 and 7 Wm. 4, cap. 103 ; 2 and 3 Vict., cap. 77, and cap. 78, re• spectively ; 3 and 4 Viet. ' cap. 52 ; 4 and 5 Viet., cap. 24, and cap. 42, respectively ; 6 and 7 Vict., cap. 28 ; 7 and S Vict., cap. 20, and cap. 35, respectively; and 12 and 13 Vict., cap. 92. Dated the 9th day of November. 1549. JAMES WHEELER, 1, Upper Charles-street, Westminster, Solicitor to the Promoters. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. 26, Cornhill, London. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. .- .. -..... This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuties. .......,. Policies issued by this Society have a twofold advantage :—provi sion for the family of the Assured, and an augmenting pecuniary available resource to himself, if needful, whilel lying. The Assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense, or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the Premiums paid. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The continued prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the Annual Meeting, held on the 10th of May, 1848, to declare a sixth bonus, varying from 27 to 65 per cent. on the Premiums paid On each Policy effected on the profit scale. EXAMPLES. Perma- Sum the Annual Policy Bonus in vent Re- Assured lge. g Pre- taken addition Bonus in ductlon of may bor = initial. out in to Sum Cash. Annual row on Assured. Premium. Policy. s. 4.1 , £ s d. £ s. d. £ v. d. 1837 276 14 3 128 14 3 21 7 2 593 6 8 1838 251 18 10;115 14 8 18 12 8 543 17 9 .e s.d. 1839 226 6 0 102 15 116 2 9 194 810 60 1000 74 3 4 1840 178 0 01 82 14 2 12 14 11 445 0 0 1841 174 0 0. 78 3 4 12 3 0 395 11 1 1842 147 4 2 1 65 15 10 10 2 4 3 46 2 3 1843 99 18 4 ) 44 8 4 615 11 296 13 4 1844 62 6 8 27 13 4 4 4 0 247 4 5 DEFERRED ANNUITIES. By the operation of the same principles, the Society is enabled to afford to the public a plan of Deferred Annuities far more advanta geous than any hitherto offered, whereby an individual, by the con tribution of a very small annual, monthly, or weekly saving, may se cure either a comfortable provision for himself in advanced age, or, at his option, a large sum of money, or a policy to his family at his death ; while by giving to the purchaser, at any time, the power of borrowing two-thirds of all previous payments, it removes all risk of forfeiture from inability to continue premiums, besides affording an ample resource during sickness and want of employment ; and should the purchaser die before arriving at the stipulated period, two thirds of his payments will be returned to his representatives. The following Table is a specimen of the great and varied advan tages which the judicious application of a small saving cam secure through this Society. ' , ENEFITS IL PREMIUMS To secure en attain- Annuity£lo 10 0 ing the age Cash • 82 10 0 of 65, the Policy .. 97 8 6 option of Secured on al G 5, by an Ai 2/. 12s. ttaining the age of mnal Premium of 2 1 ,:, 0 Payable Payable Payable = Annuity. Cash. Policy. u11.5' Anna- in one for Dis . 4 E. El t ally. sum. parity. -1 £ s. d..£ s. d..£ a. d. £ a. d..£ s. d. £ o. d. 20 47 16 6 394 11 0 466 0 0 20 01011 10 0 10 , 0 0 0 30 26 15 1( 221 0 0 261 • 0 30 019 616 7 11 7 311 40 13 19 9 115 80) 136 6 0 40 117 327 311 19 410 Immediate Annuities are also grant( terms, as will be seen by the followint showing the annual amount of annuity ui Age 50, £7 Bs. J Age 60, £9 Us. 3d. The Annual Report, with Tables of Ra Office, or any of its Branches in the Cotu , be forwarded post free. W. S. B. xl by the Society on liberal ig extracts from the Tables, pon every 1001. deposited : I. I Age 70, £l4 2s. 2d. ates, &c.. may be had at the ntry ; or, on application, will WOOLUOUSE, Actuary SEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE. Established by Act of Parliament, 31, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capitalloo,oool., in Shares of 20s. each, to be paid In full on allotment, bearing a guaranteed interest ofs per cent. in perpetuity (irrespective of further dividends) upon the paid-up capital. Application for Shares to be addressed to the Directors at the Offices of the Society. Marine, Fire, and Life Assurances granted on the most liberal terms. Immediate and Deferred Annuities granted on terms especially advantageous for investment of capital. By order, AUG. COLLINGRIDGE, Managing Director. Price One Florin each. THE HAlR.—Beware of Acid s ! All oils have a powerful acid in them. This truth may be rendered appa rent by putting a drop upon copper, a green cankerous rust will soon appear. This acid is, of an things, the most injurious to the skin of the head, upon the healthiness of which mainly depends the existence of a fine head of hair. MILTON'S HAIR LUBRICANT is not oil or grease, strictly, but is an exact resemblance of the peculiar mat ter with which nature supplies the hair, and which will, if applied as directed in a Treatise on the Hair sold with each pot, restore the hair from any injury it m .y have received from improper treatment, and speedily render it vigorous, abundant, and beautiful. In an ele gant pot, price 2s. Sold by all perfumers and medicine vendors in town and country. Wholesale London Agents :—Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Farringdon street ; Edwards., St. Paul's Church-yard ; Sutton and Co., Bow Church-yard; Sangre, 151, Oxford-street; and Hannay and Co., Oxford-street. r yi THE-SECRETsttoopr proportiones and their lt i N s vo as rk, as cesa it ne necessary rve th e a o n b y f a balancemeansbetweenE HEALTH. o the r ij ag Teonrtgsialit) to thanthe endsit s for calculated which obear, e t x r. is o t . r a P h a e t av a i erg weightrcatr s u t po rai n n aupon vehicle, a rope aipid the rope will s na p an d t h e veh i c l e b rea k down. "' Tie the last und that breaks the earners back." The process by which the animal powers sink under the over-pressure of their energies is ;radical, and to a great extent imperceptible, in cases of robust con stitutions, where endurance lasts with seemingly un mpaired vigour till nature suddenly gives way. Be careful, therefore, of the slight indispositions by which this secret process betrays itself. A medi cine like COCKLE'S .ANTIBILIOUS PILLS will be found invaluable for this service. THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. Mnstrztecl by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engraviags on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICA.TIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. gew Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 25. Gd or by cost . direct from the Establishment, 35. 6d. in postage stam ps, rFHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system. from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dls- Aalifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. PERRY Surgeons, and CO., Consulting l9, Berners-street, Ox- ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, Paterno 63, and Sanger, 150 f Oxford -street ; Starle,23, Tisttcher-borornW; o.street, rhymarket ; and Gordon, 145, Leaden of the re-productive C o l o ured Engravings. organs, and is illustrated by Six C Ind , PART I. treats of the anatomy and P h Y siologY r Pa= 11. treats of the consequenc,esre.sultiag from e o x d e u esS cing ve men n tal ;anon, and their lamentable effects on the syst em, p and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative ncapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. theP a primary l. ortr eats O f the secondary fdoisrmea,sesanrdeseenitinttylmtsronlex their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. p in li f ci °C t ti d o irtc e tl ith on er s for in rkat IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Digell/W by a simple application, by which the danger of infection "..s ob viated. This important part of the Work should no escrre the oader's notice. Pear V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its (lutes. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. TanOonniar. BALM OF STRIAOLIM is eaciaair^.ly employed in treat ag nervous an sexual debility, inapotance, ac., II s. and 335. per b >ttle. TUG, Concentrated Deters; re Y.isence, as anti-syphilitic romedy, for purifying the blood i•• cam ofinfectfou, secondary syrup terns, eruptions, and the abuse rro:cury, I Is. and 325. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Tlls, 2s. Od., 45.6 d., and lis. par box, a aser in remedy for gonorrhrea, rleet, stricture, and chro-dc imlarama tion of the bladder. , onsrltation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society. 17. Packets, wit's advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by which the fee,ll., in saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in Mien dance dsily at 19, Slorsers-street, Oxford-street, London. from 3tle yen till TWO, and Five to Eight, on Sundays from Maven to Ore !)IVALS DON'T YOU TRY Ant —"Suisannah, don't you cry." I'm going off to Aldgate, For a suit of Winter Clothes ; Yes, I'ei going off to Moses, Whom everybody knows. Superior Coats for Winter wear At Moses' Mart I buy, None in the trade can equal them, So rivals don't you try. No, poor rivals, don't you cry for me, I'm going to Moses' Warehouse, as the best that I can see. I'll buy a famous sporting coat, Adapted to my figure ; For now and then I take delight In pulling at the trigger. Such Shooting-coats as Moses' sell I nowhere else can buy; And none shall draw away my aid, So rivals don't you try. No, poor rivals, don't you cry for me, I'm going to Moses' Warehouse, as the best that I can see. I'll also buy a Paletot, For ordinary wear, And sure I am that I shall get Au out-and-out affair. Moses and Son I hear have got A plentiful supply. And none can equal it, 'Us said, So rivals don't you try. No, poor rivals, don't you try for me. I'm going to Moses' Warehouse, as the best that I can see. Coat, Vest, and Trowsers, Boots and Hat, I'll buy without demur, My lady, too, shall have a Muff, For I must think of her. I know the prices here are low, Although the goods rank high, And none can contradict my words, So rival's don't you try. No, poor rivals, don't you try for me, I'm going to Moses' Warehouse, as the best that I can see. LIST OF PRICES. BEADY MADE. Autumn and Winter Over Coats, in every _ _ _ The Bulvver, handsomely and warmly trimmed 0 18 0 The Paletot, ditto.. .• • ...... 018 0 Chesterfield, ditt0.............. 1 0 0 The Albert Wrapper, a very handsome style of Over Cost • • . 1 5 0 Shooting Coats ..... ................ 0 8 6 Lounging or Morning Coats .............. 0 4 6 Autumn and Winter Trousers, in Tweed 0 4 6 Ditto ditto Doeskin .. 0 7 6 ])itto Vests .. ..... • . 0 2 6 Black Silk Velvet Ve5t5......... ..... 0 13 8 Dress Costs • . Frock Ditto • . ................... 0 19 0 Youths and Boys' Over Coats, in every style, from Hussar and Tunic Suits .................. 014 6 Boys' Autumn and Winter Vests .......... 0 0 El BADS TO MBASURE. Men's Autumn and Winter Over Coats.. from 1 1 The Chesterfield Wrapper, in a warm ma terial, lined •• .• 1 8 0 The L'aletot, handsomely and warmly trimmed 1 16 0 The Eglinton Wrapper, a very elagant style of Over Coat ...... ...... • 2 0 0 The Strathmore Witney Over Coat, newest style, lined throughout ...... •• .. 2 10 0 Autumn and Winter Trowsers, in Tweed and Doeskin-- . .......... 0 10 6 Best Black Cassimere ditto ••.. • • 1 6 9 Autumn and Winter Vests •• • • Best Black Cloth ditto ......... . Black Silk Velvet ditto . ..... 0 18 6 „ Dress C0at5........fr0m 32s. to 2 15 0 ~ Frock • • •. • • • • from 355. to 3 3 0 Hussar and Tunic Suits from 1 5 0 Superfine ...... • • ...... Men's Shooting Coat .................... .. 015 0 Elegant Dressing Robes, in great variety, from .................... ........ 16s. to 5 0 0 A Large Stock of Fur Coats, in every shape, from 60s. to 201. Naval and Military Vaifonns, Liveries, &e. Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes' notice. A Suit of Mourn!ng complete for I/. 10s. The new book, entitled "The Minion of the Million," with flail Erections for Self-measurement, can be had ea application, or for warded, post free, to any part of the kingdom. Notice—The Fur Department is new replete with every novelty Of the season. Observe—Any article purchased, either ready made, or made to measure, if not approved of will be exchanged, or the money returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 151, 155, 156, and 157 Minorier, and 82184, 85, and 8G Aldgate, City, Loudon; all communicating with each other, and forming one vast Establishment. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public against imposition; but having heard that the untradesmanilke falsehood of being connected with them, or" It is the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, hey beg to state that they have an connexion with any other home in or oat of London, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Far gate, Sheffield; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire; .n.i t 1030 whe require cheap and genuine clothing, &0., should call at or send to the Minories and Aldgate, City, London ; or either of the Branch Establishments, as above. Tate Notice.—This Establishment is closed from sunset Friday. to sunset Saturday. when boinneas is resumed till twelve o'clock. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING IB49. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ••• .216 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 47 Tubercular Diseases 148 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 104 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 38 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ... 143 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion.. • ••• ••• -•• ••• ••• 41 Diseases of the Kidneys, &a. ••• ••• ••• 10 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8, 9 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 9 Diseases of the Skin, tke. 0 Malformations... ... ___ ... ••• - Premature Birth ... ... ... 23 Atrophy ... ... ... ... ... ... 26 Old Ago ... ... ... ... ... 42 Sudden ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance ... 22 Causes not specified ... ... ... ... 5 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, D4,a ths, 1844-8 in the 1811 Fi we Autumns. Week. West Districts... 301,189 . . 164 ... 142 North DlAricts.. 376,568 .. 207 ... 150 Central Districts 374,199 ... 208 ... 146 East Districts ... 393,067 ... 259 ... 190 324 ... .265 South Districts.. 503,346 ... T0ta15........ 1,948,369 ... 1,162 ... 893 Males . ••• ••• ... 460 Females ... ... ... 433 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... ... ... ... ... 698 Females ... ... ... ... ... 715 Total ... ...1,413 *ln this number are included 6 cases of death by Cholera, 58 by Scarlatina, 46 by Typhus Fever, and 25 by Diarrhoea. WORCESTER COLLEGE, OxFoRD.--Mr. William Carr has been elected to the Exhibition on Dr. Kay's foundation. On Sunday a most eloquent end powerful discourse was delivered by the Rey. Henry Dttelvill, 8.D., Principal of the East India College Halley') ury, at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, Gresham•sareet, before the Lord Mayor and Sberiffi, at the closes of which a collection was made on behalf of the Cc mmercial Travellers' Schools for orphan and necessitom children, when nearly 601. was obtained. The text was chosen from Isaiah xxviii., 16, "Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-sw ne, a sure foundation." Long before the service began +Cue church was densely crowded in every part, and many persons were unable to get in. THE BRITANNIA-BRIDGE.--On Saturday the first of the great tubes of the Brits nnia-bridge was finally lowered down again, by a 3 -feel; fall, on to its permanent bed of plates and rollers ; the o peration for effecting a junction with the tube en land having occupied about three weeks. The event was eil.teered by the assembled workmen and spectators, and hailed by the firing of cannon on the Carnarvon side 'of the Straits. The hy draulic presses and lifting amyl' ratus are now being re moved from the Anglesea to it/ ne Carnarvonshire shore, in order to raise the next tube as soon as it is floated to the piers—an operation which weather and tide per mitting, will take place on the 3d of next month. The operations connected with th is work have now been carried on for several months t oth by day and night, and from tho strenuous exertions w ade it is expected that the first line of tubes will be °pouf 3d for traffic on the Ist of March next. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —An Extraordinary Case of an Abscess in the Arm Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mrs. llowden, the wi.fe of a carpenter residing at K f in h e e tron a swelling in the upper p ar t at first, ultimately arm,of her noticed which, about thought wo y ,t irs painful caused her intense suffering. under medical treatment impossibleany other hope eh to heal, and she a h w e o w u oo nd ad a v p i p s e e a d r t e o d, g w o h t i o eh th it w the iLlre nary wit h out of cure than by amputation; fling to consent, s he . deter mined on giving Holloway's 0 itrtment and Pills a trial, and these had the happy effect of soundly curing her in a month. found —Sold by all Druggists, and it Professor Holloway's Estab lishment, 244, Strand ) London...A The following gentlemen have, in their retpctive boroughs and citie., been elected to the dignity of Chief Magistrate for the ensuing year:— Axbridge—R. Trew. Arbroath—William Johnston. Birmingham--Mr. Lucy. Bideford—Mr. Evans. Bath—William Dowding. Bristol—J. K. Haberfield (fourth Limo). Bolton—T. L. Rushton. Boston—M. Staniland (re-elected). Bradford—Alderman Forbes. Berwick—Capt. Smith, R.N. (re-elected). Banbury—Richard Goffe. Bradford—Mr. Forbes. Buckingham—Richard Chandler (re-elected). Brechin—David Guthrie. Bedford—C. F. Palgrave. Cambridge—H. S. Foster. Chesterfield—John Walker. Cardiff—Charles Vackell. Carmarthen—W. Davis. Derby—James Maywood. Durham—Robert Thwaites. Devises—George Waylen. Doncaster—W. Dunhill (re-elected). Dover—G. Finnis. Dorchester—W. D. Tapp. Devonport—E. St. Aubin. Exeter—E. A. Sanders. Edinburgh—Right Hon. William Johnston. Gateshead—George Hawkes (re-elected). Gloucester—C. Smallridge. Hertford—Y. Crawley. Hastings—G. Scrivens. Hull—J. W. Palmer. Halifax—Alderman Cropley. Haddicgton—George Moore. Inverness—Mr. Simpson. Ipswich—T. B. Ross. Kendal—C. B. Crewdaon. Leeds—Alderman Bateson. Lancaster—J. Dockray. Leicester—J. Munday. London—Alderman Farncomb. Liverpool—J. Holmes. Lynn—W. Meyse. Lanark—Dr. Fleming. Monmouth—John Mayon. Macclesfield—T. T. Swanwick. Manchester—John Potter (re-elected). Maidstone—Charles Scudamore. Northampton—Alderman Parker. Norwich—Henry Woodcock. Newcastle-on-Tyne—J. Craws% Newport (Monmouth) —J. B. Batchelor. Nottingham—Richard Birkin. Oxford—Alderman Sadler. Portsmouth—Alderman Bramble (second time). Preston—J. German. Salford—Alderman Langworthy (re-elected). Sheffield—Thomas Birks. Sunderland—W. Orde. Stamford—Alderman Althorp. Sudbury—Dr. Scrimshaw. Shrewsbury—J. Birch. Salisbury—Dr. T. R. Moore. Shaftesbury—William Storey. S.nsthampton—Rd. Andrews. Stirling—John Sewers. Thornbury—E. G. Councel' Totnes—Wm. Bowden (re-elected). Tynemouth—Wm. Linskill. Wallingford—Robert Payne. Wisbeach—H. W. Ward. Wakefield—J. Holdsworth (formerly M.P. for the borough). Wolverhampton—W. F. Fryer. Windsor—Mr. Hansom. Wigan—R. Darlington. Weymouth—G. C. Welsford. Winchester—Mr. Faithful. _ Yarmouth—Mr. Gourley. York—G. H. Seymour. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 13. (Sittings in Banco.) WAHLEY V. COMM Mr. Sergeant WILKINS having obtained a rule in this case, on behalf of the defendant, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict returned in his favour before the Lord Chief Baron, during the Mid dlesex sittings after Trinity Term last, should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of mis direction, and also because the damages, 3501., were excessive. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, with whom were Mr. Ed -IVIII James and Mr. Bramwell, now showed cause. The actioa was brought, as will be r e membered, to recover compensation for libels published in the Medical Times, a periodical medical newspaper, of which the defendant is the proprietor. The article alleged to contain the libellous matter for which the defendant is civilly responsible, reflected in strong language upon the conduct of the plaintiff in the discharge of his duties as Coroner, on the body of Thomas White, a soldier, who died of ieflanimation of the pleura, and of the lining membrane of the heart, superinduced, as was alleged, and generally believed at the time, by a flogging, in which the deceased received fifty lashes, at the cavalry barracks at Hounslow, in pursuance of a sentence previously passed upon him by a court-martial. Besides animadverting upon him in this respect, the article in question contained charges against him having reference to him in a more public c haracter, amongst others, that he went shares with Mr. Wilson in " post i mortc m fees," and that he had taken steps at and Tme diately before the inquest for the purpose of creating it charge of murder, by corrupting witnesses, and by com mitting Mr. Peacock with a view to draw up an inqui sition of raurder, and also by excludi n g certain wit nesses from the inquiry, in cense quence of which the officers of the regiment were made to appear to have acted culpably in the progress of the inquiry, and sub sequent execution of the sentence. The Learned Council now contended against the rule, that the de fendant in charging the plaintiff for his conduct at the inquest, had acted upon the erroneous notion that the office of coroner was analogous to that of a magistrate having the power of exercising summary jurisdiction, and that his duties wore similar to these of the magistrate when taking evidence to an accusation. The two were different in:several respects, the situation of the coroner being frequently, indeed generally, of a more critical character, inasmuch as he had to conduct an inquiry at which more or less excitement always prevailed, and then, if he thought it necessary to take much evidence on any particular point, he was accused of partiality for one reason, and on the other hand, if he thought it on any account advisable to dispense with it, he was met with the same accusation for some other reason. The charge, therefore, that the plaintiff intended to get up a charge of murder was absurd, whilst the means by which it was alleged he endeavoured to do so were un proved at the trial. The misdirection complained of consisted in some observations which the Lord Chief Baron made on the practice of coroners, in excluding the evi dence of witnesses whose conduct might afterwards be investigated; but as your Lordship now said, no misdirection could be maintained upon that ground, as it was obviously competent to a Learned Judge to make such explanations on subjects connected with judicial proceedings of any kind whatever, as might serve to render the case more clear in the minds of the jury, so far as it turned upon such practices. The plea, stating that Mr. Wakley was a libellous jouonalist, because a verdict had been passed Against him in an action of Cooper v. Wakley, the record in that case ought to have been produced at the trial, because the plea did not state the fact, that tha: action 'rid been brought and had so terminated. With regard to the charge, that the plain tiff shared pest mortem 'tees with Mr. Wilson, it was answered by the establishment of the denial, as there was only one fee to tho coroner for an inquest, however Icing is may be, and a post mortem examination did not lead to any additional fee. It was necessary for the administra tion of justice that the Courts should especially protect persons exercising the lower class of judicial functions, inasmuch as charges which their Lordships might receive scathless would be a serious injury to a coroner, justice of the peace , or stipendiary magistrate, as to which Mr. James referred to the case of Outram v. Morewood, in 3d East. On the question of excessive damages, the amount of which was: . anything but, dispro portioned to the grossness of the libel, it was one which the Court must have great difficulty in dealing with, if it supposed that the amount was excessive, some of the allegations being proved, and others disproved. Mr. Sergeant WILKINS and Mr. D . EIRSLEY supported the rule; and contended th at the libel was not gross or vulgar, and that were it such as the Attorney-General characterized it, the jury would have given 1,0001. damages, instead of 3501. The libel uttered by the plaintiff against Mr. Branaby Cooper had ben admitted by the Attorney-General, at the trial, in the moat express terms, as he undertook to admit the libel, if it were admitted on their own part that it was uttered twenty-eight years ago. Mr. Dearaley made the required admission, and sat down perfectly satisfied that the Attorney-General had admitted the libel. The evi deuced not only supported many of the justify and r en d er imperatively necessary a serious investigation into the conduct of the plaintiff as Coroner for Middlesex. The observations of the Learned Chief Baron upon th e prac tice of coroners had had a decided effect upon the find ing of the jury adverse to the defendant, and they submitted that upon that ground alone he was entitled to a new trial. The LORD CHIEF BARON having expressed his opi nion that the damages were not excessive, Mr. Baron Pal he, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Baron Rolfe, gave judgment against the rule, concurring in the Lord Chief Baron's observations on the amount of da mages,which they considered were not excessive, because a great portion of the libel affecting the plaintiff in his public character had been disproved. With regard to the ground of misdirection, first, because the Learned Judge had made observations, and the practices of coroners excluding certain witnesses, and, secondly, in reference to hii observations on the charge against the plaintiff, that he was a libellous journalist, it could not be maintained on either point. P' it were entertained on the second point, then it could only affect the costs of the particular plea which addressed itself to that fact. In the case of this bankrupt, Mr. DuNcatr today stated that the bankrupt was arrested upon bis Honour's warrant, and brought before the Court yesterday. Ile was now in custody. He (Mr. Duncan) proposed to ask tho bankrupt a few questi i pns. The bankrupt was exainined, and stated that ho had resided, since the 4th of July, at No. 2, Warren-street, Camden Town, occupying two rooms at a rental of 7s. a week. Ho had a wife, bat did not know where she re sided. Had only slept three nights in Warren street since the 4th of July. He was last there on Sunday evening, when ho sent for a surgeon to obtain a certificate that he was ill. Had been frequently at the house of Mr. Bal lard, tailor, Tavistock. place. Ballard had been security for deponent for 1001., about 12 months ago. He ac cepted a bill drawn by the bankrupt, which was still un paid. There had been other transactions between them, respecting the acceptance and drawing of bills and loans of money. lie became proprietor of the Oriental Hotel in February, 1848, having purchased it of Mr. EvaLs for abont 700/. The lease of the premises comprised three houses. The fixtures belonged to Mr. Cabbell, the land lord, but they were of a very trifling value.. they were very old. At the time of taking the house, he could not state what capital be was possessed of, before which ho was managing clerk to a solicitor. Mr. STURGEON, for the bankrupt, thought the last question irrevelant, or at all events improper, there being proceedings pending before another court which would decide whether or not Bishop was a bankrupt. HONOUR was of a different opinion. Examination continued—Was a debtor to Mrs. Hum frey, , of York, in the sum of 3001., for moneys advanced at different periods prior to July, 1848. She held an agreement for the mortgage of the lease of the house as security. The first advance of 1001. came by order upon Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.'s bank. The other ad. vances came in bank-notes, but he did not make any memorandum of the numbers. His books, which were at 86, Parrock-street, Gravesend, would show these ad vances. They were in the possession of a friend, named Ives, and comprised a cash-book, a ledger, several daily entry books, and a good batch of other books. He (Ives) had four or five cheque-books, with the counter : foils, belonging to witness. Mrs. Bumfrey had been a housekeeper. Could not give her direction other than " Mrs. Hunefrey, York." Never saw her upon the occa,ion of the money being advanced, He was a debtor of Mr. Alfred Mortimer Job, stationer, Bread street, to whom a bill of sale was given in Oct., 1843, over some furniture, the consideration money being 800/. —5551. was given at the time, and the remainder in bills at short dates. Miss Angelina Job was put in posses , sion, and remained so up to the 3d of July last, his name being still over the door. He continued to remain buy ing goods and paying for them as usual. In February of tie present year he received, on mortgage of the Ori ental Hotel premises, the sum of 1,000/. of Mr. John Young. This mortgage included the lease agreed to be assigned to Mrs. Humfreys, but he did not mention the eircumetance to Mr. Young, neither did he tell him that Mr. Job had a person in possession. Had not passed by any other name than that of Bishop since the fiat. The 501. borrowed from Jefferson on the Ist of July was spent. In Ballard's house there was 300/. belonging to witness. Last saw them (one hundred pound and four fifty pound notes) in the back parlour. They were in a secret place, between the bookcase and the wall, tied up in a package containing bills of exchange and other miscellanecus papers. Could not tell Bollard's Christian name; it was either Edwin, Edmond, or Edward. Nobody saw the notes put behind the bookcase. They were placed there about a fort night ago. He (witness) saw the packages a few days since. This was the first mention of the packages being in existence. His solicitor, Mr. Harrison, had received about 100/. since the date of the fiat. Was possessed of a freehold house, No. 21, Plough-court, Fetter-lane. It was let to various tenants, all of whom paid him rent. Mr. DUNCAN said he would carry the examination no further to-day. He had to apply that a summons be granted, and served upon the bankrupt before his leav ing the court, and also that the messenger's warrant be signed for the seizure of the property in question. Mr. STURGEON prayed for protection. His client was compelled to attend the meetings required by the credi tors, and was entitled to the indulgence usually shoWn to bankrupts. His HONOUR did not think it a case in which protec tion ought to be extended. He was obliged to be appre hended by warrant; he had not produced his books, and neither had he given up his property. Protection refused accordingly. POLICE INT LLLIGENCE. SOUTH WARK. Elizabeth Howe, a respectable-locking female , of rather masculine appearance, was brought before Mr. Burrell, charged with being insane, and threatening to commit suicide, near the place of execution, in Horse monger-lane. Sergeant Watkins, of the M division, stated that he was on duty near the place of execution in Horsemonger lane that morning, just after the convicts Frederick G. Manning and Maria his wife were launched into eternity. The prisoner took a phial from her pocket and placed it to her mouth, and %I ould have swallowed the contents had not witness seen her and knocked it out of her hand. He seized hold of her for the purpose of preventing her from committing a serious injury on herself, when she became very violent, and asses ted that she was one of Manning's sisters, and that her brother had been un justly candemned and hung, and that she was determined to die with him. Witness had some difficulty in getting her out of the crowd, and placing her in safe custody. Inspector Proud said he took charge of the prisoner afterwards, when she asserted that she was Manning's sister, and that she was determined to commit suicide. Her brother had been unjustly executed, and she was determined not to be disgraced by the exhibition. Mr. BURRELL— Do you think that she is in her right senses? Inspector Proud—l think she is insane, and that she was not aware what she was about. Mr. BURRELL—Is there any truth about her state ment, that she was sister to the unfortunate convict who had been executed? Inspector Proud—l have made in quiries, and have ascertained that she is a respectable young woman, and that her friends reside at Birming ham. I believe that she had been in the neighbourhood of the gaol all night, and that her feelings were excited at witnessing the execution. Mr. BURRELL—Do you know any of her friends? In spector Proud—Sergeant Watkins had seen some of her friends that morning, and they were willing to take care of her. She had no connexion with the Mannings, and, I believe, she merely went to the scene of execu tion through curiosity. Mr. BURRELL asked the prisoner what she had to say in answer to the charge? She replied, her feelings were excited, and she hardly knew what she was about. She had come from Birmingham with some of her friends, and had, unfortunately, left them on the previous night, to witness the execution of Manning. She-was so hor ' rifled at the scene that her feelings overpowered her, and she knew not what she was ebout. She was extremely sorry, and would promise to go home immediately. Mr. BURRELL, after admonishing her as to her future conduct, placed her under the custody of Sergeant Wat kins, and directed him to deliver her to her friends. John Smith alias Tinker Smith, a well-known thief, was brought up, charged with being concerned in steal ing a gold watch from the person of a gentleman named James Wood. The prosecutor deposed that he was standing near the Masons' Arms public-house, nearly opposite the gaol, when a rush was made upon him by a number of men. He turned round and missed his watch, when the pri soner pulled him backwards, and prevented him from pursuing the thieves. He seized hold of the prisoner, and, alter a severe struggle, handed him over to the custody of a police-constable. Witness was positive that the prisoner was connected with the robbery, as he pressed upon him so hard, and prevented him from following the other thieves. Prisoner—The gentleman knows I did not steal the watch. I was in the crowd, witnessing the execution, when I was pushed upon the complainant, and I could not avoid pulling him down. Prosecutor—You pressed upon me very hard while your companions committed the robbery. Prisoner—Why did you not secure the others? You could have done so, as there were many parties near them. _ _ Mr. BURRELL inquired whether the prisoner was known? Police-constable John Newell, 102 N, said that he had known the prisoner as a thief for some time. Prisoner—No, you don't know me as a thief. I never 17P4 in custody for felony. Witness—l have seen you summarily convicted for felonies. The last time was at Worship-street, where you had 14 days. Mr. BURRELL—How long have you know him? Wit ness—Four years. He sometimes goes by the name of White. Prisoner—That's a lie. I always went by the name of Smith. Mr. BURRELL told the prisoner that it was quite clear that he had been convicted, from the evidence of the officer. Prisoner—l have only had 14 days, your Worship. Mr. BURRELL—That coroborates the testimony of the officer, therefore I shall commit you to Brixt on for two months. A masculine looking female, named Hannah Manning, was brought up charged with threatening to murder Ann Collins. The complainant stated that she went to ace the execution that morning, and when they arrived in Swan street the crowd was so great that she could not help touch ing the defendant. The latter immediately bounced upon SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TILLS DAY. TlMES.—Yesterday this metropolis witnessed the most awful act which the necessities of justice or of self-preservation can impose on a sovereign, State. We performed an act of judicial slaughter. Dreadful as the circumstances of capital punish ment always must be, revolting as are its details, and beyond all former ex a m pl e th e h orrors b ot h of the crime and the closing scene in this instance, yet they are all tolerable compared with the thoughts sug gested by a too curious scrutiny. Through its con stituted organs the whole people yesterday cut short the visible being and the moral course of two miser able creatures, born with immortal souls, doubtless once innocent and loving, with the hidden germs of the highest virtue and the loftiest attainments, yet both cast out, as it were on the dunghill, and the " particle of divinity " within them sent we know not where, quivering and fleeting on its unknown journey to the presence of Him that gave it. One may almost take refuge in the odious spectacle from the overwhelming responsibility of the act, and con sult peace of mind by a blind faith in the Executive, and its sacred vocation. The most morbid conscience, however, will derive some consolation from the un frequency of these scenes. It is not thirty years since one might walk out any Monday morning be fore breakfast and see half a dozen poor wretches dying the death of dogs for petty thefts committed in hunger, or trifling injuries done in a drunken affray. Capital punishment is no longer the normal award for a legal crime, not even for an ordinary murder, but the mark by which we designate what is portentous and horrible. When deeds have been committed that would seem to pollute the earth, then we purge the land, and hang up the guilty authors before the Sun in the sight of God and the people. While every circumstance of horror and atrocity is accumulated in this crime, it seems to silence all doubt as to its punishment by the examples to which it naturally directs us. In the almost sacred antiquities of our own national annals, as we read them in the inspired pages of our great dramatist, there is just such an instance. Had Maria Manning been possessed with the insane thought of following Lady Macbeth in her insatiable cupidity and ambition—in her atrocious conceptions, her undaunted soul and her unflinching nerve ; in her dominion over a sottish and a cowardly husband, in her treachery to her guest, in the com placency with which she could behold her victim, in the vigour with which she could smite him " as an ox in the shambles," and perhaps also in the steadiness with which she could encounter her doom, she could not have played her part with truer feeling of its character. The revelations of this case, especially if we may trust the confessions of him whc ' was the " weaker vessel" of the two„ add probability to the tradition, and prove how truly Shakspere could describe, and how little he exaggerated. Maria Manning drugged both her victim and her tool for weeks together. The grave was dug a month before, and shown with a sort of secret triumph to its future occupant. All that time she daily counted the gains of the speculation. That no happy charctelistic or timely adornment might be wanting to the deed, the scrip and shares of familiar railway lines are mixed with the transac tion ; brokers are brought into the witness- box, ,who testify in the same breath to the signature of the accused and the depreciation of shares. Mrs. Manning made haste to slay her man, and realise, for tbe mar ket was falling. Herself intriguing and jealous, she played on the vanity and the desultory passions cf a male flirt by promising him a meeting with a fair young stranger at her table. With the usual as cendancy of unscrupulous wickedness, she made a lodger, who was all hut a stranger, write falsehoods at her ready dictation. Such is Lady Macbeth on the Bermondsey stage. As for the thing who was her husband, but not a man, one hardly ven tures to speak of him, lest we should make him out too base even for punishment; but no reality or fiction can equal what he tells us of himself. He found O'Connor moaning upon his grave, whereon he had fallen. " I never liked him well, and I battered in his skull with a ripping chisel." So for a wife whom he did not love he battered in the skull of a poor moaning wretch, whom he did not like well. No wonder he could not sleep in the house when his 1 wife had gone. Yet he could " rise and take posses sion." Shakspere's is not the only page illustrated from the native horrors of a little street in the lowest of our suburbs. It is Ahab and Jezebel to the life— Jezebel the daring foreigner, the profane unbeliever, as Maria Manning now seems to have been ; the ready arguer, the greedy aggrandizer, the forger, the intriguer, the resolute, the painted and I attired even unto death. When we think of that tremendous chapter in the inspired history of Pro vidence we may conclude it no unwarrantable presumption in a Christian people, and a ruler that heareth the sword, not in vain, to make this wretched pair walk over their own graves. to their doom, even as they had done by their own victim. A great novelist, whose knowledge of the human heart and its workings under the infinite varieties and accidents of modern life, needs not cur praise, has sent us a letter describing his impressions on witnessing the execu tion. His language excites our admiration, but, not our surprise. The scene is doubtless the most horrid, and apparently the most hardening, that can be ima gined. 'We are not prepared, however, to follow Mr. Dickens to his conclusion. It appears to us a matter of necessity that so tremendous an act as a national homicide should be publicly as well as solemnly done. Popular jealousy demands it. Were it otherwise, the mass of the people would never I be sure that great offenders we r e rea ll y exe cuted, or that the humbler class of criminals were not executed in greater numbers than the State chose to confess. The mystery of the prison walls would be intolerable, for, besides mere curiosity, popular indignation would ask to see or learn the'de tai‘s of the punishment, the fact of its ignominious character, and the bearing of the criminals. Nor do we think it altogether fair to infer the real feelings, much less the abiding impression, of the spectators from the horrid, hysterical mirth produced by a night's exposure, an immense crowd, and a long suspended' expectation. Few of us ever choose to confess deep emotion, and men often hide the deepest feeling with the wildest excesses of manner and lan - guage. They who would bury themselves under the earth if they could, when they cannot escape the public eye will sometimes belie their mental strug gles by the most frantic exaggerations. Hamlet was never so mad as over the grave of Ophelis, when the scene recalled all his natural melancholy, all the miseries of his life, and the horrors of his preter natural mission. In the rude multitude yesterday congregated before Horsemonger-lane Gaol there might be no nearer approach toliamlet than Mr. Dickens himself, yet, w h a t we say is true of the great majority of minds, and not the less true of the most undisciplined. CIIRONICLE.—The execution of the miserable beings who divided the guilt, if they did net pertici pate equally in the actual perpetration, of O'Connor's murder, has added the closing scene to one of the blackest and foulest tragedies which have been enacted in this country within the memory of man. Frederick George Manning had made a detailed statement, prc feseedly by way of confession, to the chaplain of the gaol, a few days before. His wife died without a sign of contrition—obdurate to the last—steeled to her fate by the indurating influence of that infidelity to which she had surrendered her soul. " I have no soul," she had once said to her husband. "After we are dead we are like a lump of clay, and there is no more thought of us ; and I shall never have to suffer hereafter for murdering that man." In this belief she lived—with this awful delusion resting on her mind, she died. The confession of the male prisoner supplies the very few links wanting to complete the chain of circumstantial evidence of which we were already in i possession. Th 3 short interval which elapsed between time when O'Connor was seen on London-bridge and Mrs Manning's appearance at his lodgings is now accounted fur. lie went, it seems, from the spot Where he was last seen alive, straight to Minver-plaee; and in twenty minutes after he entered the house he had been deposited in his b!oody grave. Whether the share of Maiming himself in the transaction was whet he declares it to have been, and no more, is a secret known only to the Maker of us all. But that he was , justly cond emne d , an d j ustly suffered a mar derer s late, there cannot b e the shadow of a doubt. HT oven admis s i ons , i ndeed, prove that, if not strictly his wife's accomplice, he was, at best, her tool. A slave to her reckless, violent, and domineering temper, he seems all the while to have nursed a lurk ing resentment against the author of his own dis honour. For many weeks before the fatal Thursday, he knew that her mind was brooding incessantly over the atrocious design. He scarcely ventured on a faint remonstrance, whilst the whisperings of Satan gradually gained possession of her soul, and the project matured itself in her imagination. A month at least before the deed was done she had confided to him her settled determination to kill the man whom he was receiving in his house from . day to day on terms of too familiar intimacy. Again and again, when all was prepared, he was ready to afford a sullen, but treacherous, hospitality to the doomed victim, without even whispering a word of warning in his ear; and when a casual circumstance had pre vented the commission of the crime, he was ready once more to enact the part of the friendly host towards the mnn whom his wife was lying in wait to murder. He was privy to the purchase of the pistol by which O'Connor met his death, and he bought the crowbar, which was found the other day at Lewes, with the clotted blood and hair of the dead man's scull still sticking to the iron. He witnessed the digging of the grave which yawned before the feet of his unfortunate guest as he descended the stairs followed by his paramour, and into which he tell, by her hand, a lifeless corpse. He even helped to extin guish the last remains of life, by battering the mur dered man's head with a ripping chisel. He assisted in huddling the body into its receptacle, where it might never have been discovered had not a slight appear ance of dampness between two of the stones of the kitchen been detected by the se arching eye of one of the officers of justice. He did not refuse his share in the miserable booty for which his guilty partner found, when too late, that she had sold her body to the hangman, and her soul to the Powers of Dark ness—although she herself afterwards, as if to fill up the measure of her iniquity by a baseness the most contemptible, filched from him even this paltry recompense of their common sin. If we turn away from the male criminal with sensations of loathing and disgust, we cannot gize upon the woman without the deeper emotions of execration and horror. The murderess of her paramour, she has also—if her partner in guilt has not left the world with a lie on his lips—been, as far as in her lay, the murderess of her husband too. If, as his tale—corroborated in no small degree by the more than masculine violence of her character—would lead us to believe, she, and not he, was the actual assassin, she must have deemed it at least within the range of possibility that a full con fession from her might save his life. But no! Dog gedly and cruelly silent, she turned a deaf ear to his supplications, and did her worst—and that with success—to drag him with her to the gallows. Yet the blackness which rests upon her memory is such that it could scarcely contract a deeper dye even from this additional stain. The annals of crime do not record a case of wickedness more unredeemed, more revolting to all the feelings of our nature. She had, as she herself said, " the nerve of a horse." She " thought no more of shoot ing O'Connor than if it had been the cat on the wall.' She thanked " God " that the crime was consum mated, while her hands were yet reeking with the blood of her victim. The cold-blooded and relentless barbarity with which the murder was plotted and executed—her immovable self possession when con fronted with the ministers of justice—her burate of uncontrollable ferocity when withdrawn from the public gaze—all combi ne t o realise in Maria Manning the ideal murderess of our childish imaginations—•a character darker than any novelist would venture to pourtray—the vulgar Clytemnestra of the Newgate Calendar, with all the masculine fierceness of her prototype, but differing from her in that she did for lucre what the other dared for the gratification of the less sordid passions of revenge and lust. iVe often hear it said, that in this age of civilization, when the habitual pressure of external restraint in a thousand different forms curbs the free play of our natural impulses, man is alike incapable of great virtues and of great crimes. If the earth no longer numbers among her children heroes or saints, she is also, we are told, rid for ever of those great criminals who, in their own genera tions, were the scourges of God. The remark is trite and partly true ; and yet we are startled, now and then, by cases which bid us distrust the varnished surface of modern society, and which seem to indicate that our boasted civilization has done much less than we imagined to extirpate the animal fierceness that burns in the blood of the untaught savage. Within the last two years there have been scenes at Paris, Frankfort, Messina, and Prague, to which the Jacqueries and peasant-wars of the middle ages could scarcely furnish a parallel. And how would the in mates and guests of certain very stately houses have started with horror, could they have been told that under the exterior of Marie Roux, the Swiss maid— the attendant of gentle, highborn, and virtuous ladies —lurked the hyena-like nature which temptation Las revealed in Maria Manning! Such cases, when they occur, may at least teach us the solemn lesson, that no artificial restraint, no external atmosphere of conven tional morality, can be relied upon as a substitute for those habits of practical religion which can alone pre serve untainted the issues of the heart. HERALD.—The mind feels a kind of relief when it comes, at last, to what is apparently the end - of the Manning and O'Connor tragedy. The whole history was one so utterly wretched, vile, and debasing, as only to recal to recollection the haughty exclamation of the Sultan of two hundred years back, when in formed of some European war, " Well, and whAlier the hog eats the deg, or the dog the hog, how does it concern me ?" The three parties concerned were so nearly matched in moral temperament, or rather in moral degradation, that all sympathy is entirely out of the question. The criminals have been publicly hanged, not because much pity was felt for their victim, but because the public safety requires that " the murderer shall surely be put to death." This thought, however, leads to another to which we feel inclined to give expression; and which, if true, is of seine mo ment. A strong argument may be framed in oppc sition to the system of capital punishments. Many good men feel, and are prepared to maintain, that no one is entitled to take away life, and that to haul a human being out upon a scaffold, and there publicly to strangle him, is sure to do more injury to the mind and morals of the people than it can do good. With this view of the question we do not agree ; but we are ready to admit that a strong case might be made out for a change in the law. While, however, men of sense and benevolence would be found on different sides on this question, we believe that the public would, if polled, be all on one side on another ; namely, that the chief desideratum is a fixed, in telligible, and durable system of some kind. Shall we startle our readers by expressing our conviction that the two depraved wretches who yesterday suffered the first part of the punishment due to their crimes at I - Loren:longer lane, were grievously injured by one of the kindest and best intentioned men living —we mean by the Home Secretary, Sir George Grey? To explain such a charge, we must recal to our readers' minds the uequestionable principle—that weakness in Government, and especially in the admi nistration of justice, is often as harmful in its results as wickedness. IVhat the public needs, and what even every criminal has a right to demand, is an intelligible and consistent principle of action. Even the murderer has a right to know what he has to expect. Now, our charge against Sir George Grey —as amiable and well-meaning a Horne Secretary as England has known in our day—is, that under the vague and uncertain system he has latterly been pursuing—no man—no murderer even, can possibly tell w hat he has to expect ! Take an example or two, which recur forcibly to the mind. 1. Some months since a wretched girl, a servant maid, evi dently given up to the worst propensities, was accus tomed to frequent the parks, and there she made the acquaintance of a soldier, from whom she did not receive money, but to whom she was accustomed to give money, When her purse was emptied Ile neglected her. Infuriated by his neglect, she purchased a pistol, and deliberately, after hours and days of premeditation, she murdered him. She was tried and convicted. Of her guilt there was not the .slightest doubt. But the sentence was never carried into execution. Since then, a wife has poisoned her husben , l,—not rashly or in anger, but by slow degrees, and by a murder protracted through several days. She, too, is spared; for her the punishment of death is thought too severe. Still more recently, a youth having seduced an innocent girl, decoyed her into a secluded spot in the shades of evening, and there cut her throat, to save himself the expense of main taining an illegitimate child. For this vile creature, too, the ill-used prerogative of mercy steps forth ; and he :ho is snatched from the hands of the expectant hangman. Now what is the consequence,—the in evitable consequence ? The Mannings, feeling that each and all of these cases were of far deeper turpitude than their own, never could bring themselves to believe that they would have to suffer. Hence the fourteen or fifteen days that were granted them for repent ance were rendered useless ; for their minds never once realised the fact of their approaching execution. Each day only witnessed some new de vice, some new plan for calling forth the prerogative of mercy. And thus our really benevolent Home ' Secretary managed to do them the greatest injury in