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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY _Extracts porn the Morning Pupers,Jan. 6, 18_25. [NEW TIMES] The Quarter's Accounts of the Revenue will not be completely made up tilt to-morrow. n e are happy, however, to be enabled to state posi tively that the produce of the Excise will exhibit an increase of rather more than 600;0001. on the Quarter and of nearly a Million on the Year. The Stamps, after waking due allowance for the repeal which has taken place in that department, will be found at least equivalent to the corre sponding Quarter, and will exhibit a very con siderable increase on the Year. The Post-Office is nearly 60,0001. better. With respect to the Customs we must speak less positively, the Accounts of that branch not being brought so nearly to a close : it is stated, however, that the Customs, in which re-payments and repeals of Duties have taken place to the amount of 1,150,0001. in the year, give within 168,0001. on the year, and within 20,000/. on the quarter, of their former.produce, which in fact is an advance of nearly a million a-year in the articles still subject to taxation.— Such a view of the growing resources of the country is most cheering. Nothing can more conclusively prove the wisdom of that policy which his Majesty's Government continues to pursue, promoting the development of the na tional industry by all the means in its power, and availing itself of the accumulations of capital and the,,progress of science, to encourage new and more productive undertakings. Hence there is reason to hope that the anticipations of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer will not only be realised but exceeded, and that the Right Hon. Gentle man may, ere long, have the pleasing task of re lieving the public still further from its burthen. [THE TIMES.] The announcement of the new relations about to spring up between Great Britain and Spanish America has been hailed by the manufacturing and commercial interest of this country with such a burst of satisfaction, that Mr. Canning will of course exert himself to follow up a similar na tional policy wherever the occasion may offer. Brazil, now irrevocably separated from Portu gal, appears to us to furnish both the induce ment and the facility for such a train of mea sures on the part of the British Government. The treaty with Portugal of 1810, under which goods from England have been hitherto imported into Brazil, as well as the mother-country, at an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent., is to expire in Feb. 1825. We then lose an exclusive privilege, of which the magnitude may be guessed from this fact—that when (on the 25th of April, 1818,) a law was passed by the Brazilian Government for admitting the merchandise of other foreign nations the tax on importation was settled at 24 per cent. ad valorem, leaving nine per cent. in favour of Great Britain. But a further advan tage over our commercial rivals has arisen to us from the practical regulations of Brasil. A clause was inserted both in the British treaty of 1810, and in the new Brazilian law of April, 1818, affecting other foreigners, that where the value of a particular article was not fixed by the tariff existing at the time, it should be so by the declaration of the importer. Now, with re spect to the French merchants, this provision has not been faithfully observed. In cases not settled by the tariff, the French importers are not suffered to fix the value of their own goods, but are forced to admit the valuation of persons appointed by the Government, whose ignorance or design has generally led to a valuation so much above the truth, as to fall with ruinous weight upon the French merchant, and to favour the British at his expence. This spirit proceeds, it is conjectured, from the enmity of the Court of France to the new-born independence of South America, and of Brazil as part of it. The French merchants, however, have addressed their Sovereign, urging him to obtain for them the necessary relief, stating the expiration of the British commercial treaty—the equal footing on which England will then stand with other foreigners—the gene ral advantages of a commercial intercourse be tween France and Brazil—the probability of a favourable hearing being obtained for any over tures from the French Government to the Empe ror, and the manifest expediency of a commercial treaty. The present, then, is the moment for England to act with decision. The Brazilian Government cannot be blamed for conceding most to the highest bidder. A struggle may pro bably take place in the French Councils between interest and prejudice—between legitimacy and lucre—to delay, though perhaps not long to ob struct, its decision. No such grounds of hesi tation, however, can be apprehended here. If, on tile other hand, tenderness towards Portugal should have influenced his Majesty to pause a little before he carne forward with a public homage to the sovereignty which Brazil has beyond all ques tion serured to herself,time enough surely has long since elapsed for England to impress upon the mind of John VI. the salutary conviction that, as King of Portugal, he must bid adieu to Brazil for ever. It is rot, therefore, that the principle is one which ought, under any circumstances, to decide the politics of Great Britain ; but that the pre sent is the hour at which she has most to dread from failing to act upon it. She is on the point of forfeiting a solid superiority, which must ex pire with the treaty that produced it ; and the "commercial question is, will she not pay some thing to have it speedily and effectually revived ? [DIIITISII PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday came to hand yesterday. They have not much intelligence worth noticing, except the measures of domestic finance, to which we have elsewhere adverted. The progress of the Greeks is mani festly straitening the Sublime Porte more closely every day' and it seems highly probable that the Great Powers will soon deem it their duty to interf erer in or der to put an end to the destruc tive conflict. The Divan may affect to talk as loft ily as itt the days of Solyman the Great ; but swagger as th t 7 may, they must listen to the united voice of Europe, and follow the course it prescribes. The Turks are conscious that they have not degenerated from their an cestors in any respect ; and they wonder why they are sinking into powerlessness and insignifi cance. They cannot comprehend how the Greeks, long their most submissive subjects, have emanci pated themselves from a yoke which four years ago appeared to be fixed on their necks for ages yet to come. In order to avert the downfall of his empire, the Sultan in vain orders the religious austerities of the Prophet to be enforced, and the scandalous length of the ladies' feredgis to be curtailed. Neither he nor his councillors seem to be aware that the very measures they pursue are those that lead the most rapidly to their over throw. The Turkish power is decaying, because it has been stationary in unmitigated barbarism.— 'File Greeks have partaken of the progress of the age. The spirit of improvement is at work amongst them. The system on which they have proceed ed has called forth all their energies, and those energies have been so directed, as to produce the 1 greatest possible effect. The Turks are exactly 1 in the same state in which they were five cen- ' turies ago, while all the other nations of Europe have made vast advances in wealth and science. The Turks are not positively less strong than they were; but they are comparatively less strong, because all other nations have become much stronger, and, therefore, in the race of power, the Turks are left behind. It appears from Spain that the reported landings of parties of Constitutionalists are without foundation. In one instance it was only a handful of smugglers who wanted water ; at lvica there was a com motion to prevent the collection of taxes. What ought we to think of the state of a Government which orders a General Officer with five regi ments to the coast, because a few smuggling boats had made their appearance to take in wa ter ? Yet this is the Government which refuses to. recognize the independence of Mexico and Colombia !—lt is worthy of observation, that Ballasteros had a private audience of the Dau phin on Saturday. Morino, it will be remem bered, had a similar honour a few days ago. What are we to understand from the countenance thus given to these men ? Is it not a direct re proof to Ferdinand for violating the capitulations concluded with him ? [THE PtIDLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris Papers of Monday and the Etoile of Tuesday. The latter contains three projects of law, which were presented to the Chamber of Deputies on Monday last. The first of these concerns the Civil List and the Ap panage to the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family, by which it is proposed to fix the former at 25 millions of francs annually for the King's lifetime, and the latter at seven millions. The se cond relates to the long expected Indemnity to the Emigrants, which it estimated at thirty millions of rentes, to be inscribed in five years, at the rate of six millions yearly—the first inscription to take place on the 22d of next June. The third project proposes to provide the means, by which the plan of indemnity is to be carried into effect, without the necessity of imposing new burdens on the nation. By one of the provisions, the Sinking Fund is to be resorted to for a certain number of years ; and the other is the old scheme for converting the rentes, with this difference, however, that it is to be optional on the part of the holders. We suspect that this part of the Mi nister's plan is more showy than solid, and that he must have recourse at last to new taxes, or (what would be more unpalatable), to economy, in order to meet this new source of expence.— However, this and other schemes of a similar description, in which the French Ministers are no vulgar adepts, will prose as favourable to public liberty, as they are vexatious in a pecu niary point of view, by co►npelling the Govern ment to make sacrifices of another description, in return for those increasing demands which it is in the habit of making on the pockets of the nation. It is true M. de Villele holds out a prospect of considerable reductions, instead of the augmentation that we have alluded to ; but such Ministerial pledges are estimated at their proper value. An increase of expenditure to the amount of thirty millions is an incontro- , vertible fact; whilst the plan of relieving the public from the weight is of a very doubtful cha racter. As the French are heavily taxed already, in fact to the full extent of their means, the Mi nister, to prevent the effects of over taxation, must remove some of those absurd restrictions on foreign and domestic trade, by which industry and enterprize are so much cramped at present. This will be one good result of the extravagance which characterises that Government; and an other of its good effects will be to introduce a greater spirit of justice into its foreign relations. The costly machinery of its domestic administra tion .has a wonderful tendency to repress the wild impulses of an immoral ambition ; and as the friendship of England is indispensable to the success of those colossal operations in finance which are become absolutely the order of the day in France, we may expect, on the part of the latter, a relaxation of her commercial jealousy. — If the French Government were so mad as to en tertain despotic designs, it would correct its pro pensity through its extravagant spirit of expellee. It has cut a terrible rod for its back in the vast . loans which it has raised, unless it honestly exerts itself to conciliate public affection. To be wasteful of the public resources, and, at the same time, indifferent to public feeling, would, in the end, produce a frightful catastrophe, which can only be averted by the adoption of.a liberal system at home, and of a moderate policy abroad. The same cause which keeps the French Govern ment in salutary check, has contributed more than is generally imagined to defeat the unpopular designs of the other great Continental Powers ; and if they could command money as easily as the personal service of their subjects, we should tremble for the liberties of mankind. But their poverty, which is the penalty of the war they wage against the happiness of the world, tends to disappoint all their schemes ; and the final result will be the complete triumph of liberty over des potism.- In a few. years more, the credit of despotic Governments will be entirely ruined; whilst that of free States will be consolidated in the same ratio ; and in the war which is now waging between them, money will be found to be the chief sinew. France must soon make her selection as to the part she shall take in this grand contest ; and whatever may be the inclinations of her Govern ment, the pecuniary necessities of the latter will eventually compel that Power to throw itself into the ranks of freedom. [MORNING HERALD.] The Irish Attorney-General has failed in his indictment of Mr. O'Connell ; and this wordy leader of the Catholic Association has only to withdraw his recognizances to become once more a free agent. If we are to judge from the formi dable array of brother Barristers, who were en gaged in his defence (and who appeared in Court ready wigged and briefed before even the bill was preferred), we must suppose that he did not him self calculate upon so easy a deliverance, but that the danger appeared more imminent to him and his associates than it did to disinterested and im partial lookers on. To he sure, when Counsel are to he paid out of a public subscription, it ‘s ould be absurd to starve the cause : and it seems but reasonable that those for whose use the Catholic Rent is raised, should take a good slice of it at once. It seems like blooding young hounds, who will, of course, become more staunch and eager for their prey in proportion as the briefs and the fees flow in upon them. Whether, like skilful Generals, they will learn caution from victory as well as from defeat, remains to be seen. The wisest thing they could do, if they value the peace and welfare of Ireland, would be to dis solve themselves. They, and their proceedings, are at this moment the greatest enemies to their country's welfare; and are ruining, quite in a Hi• bernian way, the cause which they profess to sup port. We fear, however, that they will not have the sense to do this. The rent is too good a thing to be easily parted with. The trade of litigation is too profitable to be willingly abandoned. We suspect, however, that they will become a little more cautious, and that the proceedings against their Chief, though in them selves inoperative, will have the effect of restrain ing a good deal of that intemperance in which they have hitherto indulged. Wishing well, as we do, to the fair claims of the Catholics, we shall regret if they continue to be thwarted by these unwise advocates. We trust to the good sense of the Catholics as a body to disclaim the services of these injudicious leaders ; and that they will rather be induced to confide (as they much more safely may) in the conciliatory dispo sition of the Governmuut and the dispassionate part of the community. MORNING POST.] We can easily foresee that the rejection of the Bills of Indictment against Mr. O'Connell will be construed by the Factious Press of Ire land into a public approval of the Catholic As sociation. Such an inference is most unfair.— The existence and general ostensible conduct of that body may cheat the letter, while they violate the spirit of the law ; and still its objects and the tendency of its proceedings be such as we have declared and believe them, and also such as no wise Governwent ought to tolerate. Though Mr. O'Connell had never uttered the words for which he was indicted, should we, or any of his Majesty's loyal subjects, have al tered our opinion respecting the Catholic Asso ciation ? Before that " slip of the tongue," the intentions of the speaker, and the designs of the fanatic Insurgents he leads, were the same as they are now. We then denounced both—we called aloud to the Legislature to kill the monster in its infancy, and we repeat the de nunciation and the call at present, with re doubled vigour. The failure of the prosecution against Mr. O'Connell is itself the strongest ar gument for resorting to specific measures for the overthrow of the Association. It is certainly manifest, that notwithstanding the liberal charge of Mr. Justice Moore to the Grand Jury, the latter long hesitated, and experienced great diffi culty in justifying themselves not to find the Bills. But still it must be admitted that the fact of the existing law being unable to reach such a case as the one in question, renders an amendment of the law necessary. By instituting the prosecution against Mr. O'Connell, the Irish Administration and the Irish Law Officers of the Crown have ac knowledge and publicly set forth their conviction, that the very organ and soul of the Association has openly dared, at one of its meetings, to pro mulgate sedition deserving condign punishment. Of the criminality of the act, or of the Body which sanctioned it, Mr. Plunkett, at least, can affect no doubt. Neither can he one mo ment, after the meeting of Parliament, with any regard to consistency or public duty, delay supplying the defects of the present law, which he has himself proved to exist, and also proved ought to be remedied. We accordingly rather rejoice than lament at the failure of the late indictment. Had that experi ment been successful, we should probably be told that the statutes now in force were sufficient to restrain the conduct of the Association within due limits. We should be asked where lay the necessity for further checks upon the rising spirit of rebellion in Ireland, when the moment it broke beyond decent bounds, the Irish Attorney-General pounced on Mr. O'Connell, and punished him proportionately to his of fence. Now, 1 lowever, it is plain that Mr. Plunkett's powers are inadequate to preserve the peace and protect the interests of the country.— Ile has proclaimed that Mr. O'Connell ought to be punished, but cannot ; and that when he at tempted to catch and hold the Catholic Associa tion in his roughest and best sanded grasp, that eely junto not only escaped, but, in so doing, stung him with impunity. We repeat, that we are rather pleased than disappointed at this re sult. IVe wish to see the Association abolished —put down—not to see its nefarious practices pared just to fit the widest construction of the Statute Book, and its existence thus brought within the pale of the Constitution. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Though we are not, God knows, admirers of that prver to inflict corporal punishment, whiCh an English Magistrate Can order at discretion, for what he considers a violation of propriety, and are acquainted with more than one case in which the Country Justice that ordered flogging at a cart's tail, would have richly merited him self the punishment he causelessly inflicted, and would wish that Englishmen were distinguished from other nations more advantageously than by being what Sir Francis Burdett called a flogged nation, we could almost be satisfied to see every person in those vile and brutal mobs in Scotland, which have been allowed by the authorities of that country to commit the most daring outrages on persons and property, under the pretence of discovering dead bodies, — flogged to within an iuch of their lives. We really cannot understand what the authorities in Scotland mean by allowing the mob to exercise with impunity acts of tyrannical violence, which put one in mind of the goings on in Madrid m Burgos. Every Scotch Paper brings us fresh accounts of these outrages. One of th• latest was the destruction of the carriage of a medical gentleman, in Edinburgh, which had been stopped under the pretext of searching for dead bodies, although nothing was found to justify the suspi cion. This is quite abominable, and in a city too boasting of its excellent police ! We are far from wishing to repress all indication of popular feel ing, and know that the Scotch are indebted for some of their best qualities to the fear in which they stand of one another ; and can even con ceive, that in such a case as that which lately occurred, where none of the members of a family who by ill usage of a young man who married into it, was supposed to have been one cause of his committing the crime for which he was sentenced to die, durst make their appearance in the streets, may not be without its good effects. But to allow an insolent mob to give the law to a community on every occasion, to allow every ruffian to consider the professors of science as fair prey, is what ought not to be borne. Surely in a country which lays such high claims to science, and which owes so much to its Medical Schools, there is a sufficiency of good sense remaining to teach those who possess influence and authority, the necessity of encouraging rather than proscribing the study of anatomy—The Scotch Medical Schools will soon be without reputation. Already they are decried, and in a short time, so far from Eng-, lishmen and foreigners flocking to Scotland, every Scotchman who can afford it will repair to Ger many and France, where a milder people and a better police allow medical science to be culti vated. There are a School of Arts in Edinburgh and two in Glasgow, well attended. Many thousands of mechanics must have received, more Or less, instruction in these schools. Surely it might be expected of these men that gratitude to science would lead them to exert themselves to overcome that ferocious repugnance to the study of anatomy which seems to be as much the distinguishing characteristic of Scotchmen of the persent day, as wild fanaticism was of that of those of a former age. Dead bo dies must be procured, or there must be an end of all medical science. Even in England, where the mob are more kept down, and where the people when roused are less ferocious, the late outcry encouraged by vulgar Coroners and equally vulgar Newspapers, has had the effect of fairly shutting up s . .veral of the schools of dissection, and it consists with our knowledge that several young men of promise have been fairly driven to the Continent to prosecute their studies. But Scotland is by far the most faulty, and having the most to lose, better things might have been ex pected from it. When a Scotchman ceases to know his interest, we shall look out for the con version of the Jews. If the citizens of Edinburgh are not interested, and deeply interested, in the success of their Medical School, we know not what interest means. We are aware that ever since the Reformation the rabble has been in Scotland, a sort of fourth estate. Indeed, if the rabble had not acted so energeti cally in Church matters at the Revolution, we questLu if the Presbyterians would have ob tained possession of their Churches. " I have done as good service (says Lord Whigridden in tilts Satirical Play of The Assembly), to this ho nourable Judicatory as any man living, by ruin ing and rabbling the Curates. I have managed the whole civil interests with much wisdom."— But in those days the mob was ancillary to some intelligible purpose. But what man in his sober senses, and with enough of intellect to compre hend the text that a living dog is better than a dead lion, would wish to destroy an act, to which most of us are indebted for some life which we hold dear ? Out of the 101 English who first landed on the Coast of New England in November, 1620, there were only 50 alive in the following March, and the living were scarce able to bury the dead. IV e will venture to say that, in the present state of Medical Science, disease would not have carried off the tenth part of that number. But if all nations were to be equally barbarous with the Scotch, we should soon see disease displaying itself with its former destructiveness. AWFUL MORTALITY IN ONE FAMILY.—Lately died at Ely, in the 70th year of his age, of a brain fever, Mr. William Orr, many years a serjeant of the Cambridgeshire militia, but latterly a dealer in earthenware. He left a wife and three children to lament his loss—the former in a declining state of health, and, according to human calculation, the next in the family that would follow him. But this poor creature was destined to receive another shock before she left this vale of tears. On the day three weeks following that on which her husband died, her youngest child, a fine healthy boy about 8 years old, took a box of opium pills, unobserved by his mother, from a table standing by her bedside, and went to school with them in his pocket. It afterwards appeared he offered one to a little boy of his own age, who, not liking the taste of it, put it away from his mouth. How many the little unfortunate swal lowed has not been ascertained, but he was discovered in the school-room, an hour after the other children had left, cold and stiff; and nearly dead : every means to recover him was used, but without effect, as he died a few hours after. The shock to the poor invalid mother may . be conceived, but cannot be des cribed. The only ejaculation she uttered afterwards, and which was frequently repeated, was, "My poor John." On the same day three weeks following, in the 4bth year of her age, her earthly sorrows ceased, and she was conveyed to that bourn whence there is no return. " Insatiate Archer ! thrice thy shaft has sped," and yet not satisfied ! Within a little month from his mother's death (on Christmas Day last), her eldest son, 'William, aged nineteen years, a pious, dutiful, and industrious youth, followed father, brother, and mother to the silent grave ! What a havoc has death made in one family ! In the short space of ten weeks four are snatched hence ; and the only survivor is a poor friendless girl, seventeen years of age.— (Essex Herald.) FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—The absurd and exaggerated account of the killing of a Walrus, in a Morning Paper of the 3d of January, although highly cal culated to impose on the vulgar, or to astonish our country friends on a winter evening, is so misstat ed, that I wish to put you right, with a view to show, that though our brave old Navigators were credulous to a fault, and monstrous in their representations, modern Navigators have no desire but to picture to their countrymen those scenes which they have beheld, with the colouring of truth and the cor rectness of eye-witnesses. This stupendous ice- berg-floating-island animal was purely an or dinary Walrus, of the size of a large bullock,and the precipice on which he reposed off Cape Chud leigh was a small floe of ice off Sea Horse Point, Southampton Island. The platoon firing was from two muskets, and, far from there being danger of his swamping the boat, by agitating the z. sea in his fall, the brute took the water as kindly as could be expected under his existingcircumstances. The account in the Morning Paper is a cock and-a-bull story, made up by some officious per son (a reader, perhaps, of the Terrific Register), without an atom of truth to recommend it, except the breaking of the bayonet. The Walrus is cer tainly very mischievous when attacked, and in Captain PARRY'S last voyage two boats of the ; Heeta were swamped in succession by the same animal, and the crews would have perished were it not for the fortunate assistance of the Fury's I boat. Several of these animals were killed in - Captain LYON'S recent voyage, without being able to do mischief, but assuredly not without risk on the part of the sportsmen. P. W. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY• The Anniversary Dinner of this Association I took place yesterday at the City of London Tavern, the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR. in the Chair. Nearly 300 Gentlemen had assembled by six o'clock, amongst whom we observed Sir Charles Price, Alderman Thompson, Sheriff's Brown and Key, • Sir Peter Laurie, Timothy Curtis, Esq. &c. Dinner over, Non Nobis aniline was sung in their usual excellent style, by Messrs. C. Taylor, Goulding, Broadhurst, Pyne, &c.; immediately after which The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of the King, with I three times three. Drank with enthusiasm. The National Anthem was then sung, the whole company joining in the j chorus. To this toast succeeded " The Royal Family"—" The Duke of York and the Army"—" The Duke of Clarence and the Navy"—which were severally drank with three times three, and followed respectively by the musical Gentlemen with Hail , Star of Brunswick ; The Duke of York's March; and Ruk Britannia. The Loan MAYOR next proposed " Prosperity to the Cony mercial Travellers Society,' , briefly wizening to its benevolent , laudable, and important purposes, anu remarking upon the crease of its funds within the last year, which had enabled the It Committee to add considerably to tile aid previously voted to the distressed members of the Body, and to the widows and or , phans of those deceased. Loud applause followed the announcement, and the toast, was drank with acclamation. The health of the Lord Mayor was then proposed by Sir, Charles Price, after a suitable eulogy upon th e wor thy Chic' Magistrate. The Loup MAYo it returned thanks. The healths of Sir Charles Price, Mr. Alderman Thomp'‘ son, the Sheriffs, and other distinguished individuals, foP7 lowed in succession, and were each received with gr eat.) applause. I. The LORD MAYon; in proposing the healths of the Rept:e4 sentatives in Parliament of the City of London, lamented WI absence of all those Hon. Gentlemen • and seeing at his 101. hand a near relative of the respected Father of the City, anal feeling a tribute of respect due in a particular manner to rheil Honourable Baronet from every class of his fellow-citizen 9 •J he (the Lord Mayor) would connect his name with the toast , ] and propose " The health of Sir W. Curtis, and the other Re' pr; sentatives in Parliament of the City of London, with three\ times three.—(Drank with acclamation.) Mr. TIMOTHY CURTIS rose to return thanks for the nour which had just been done to his father. Although not at present a Representative of this great City, he looked forward to the day when perhaps he might solicit the suffrages of his fellow-citizens, and trusted that in treading in the steps of 110 honoured relative he might not be deemed unworthy of suP'C port.—(Applause.)---LAfter complimenting the Society upl Ii its objects and exertions, Mr. Curtis concluded by tendering: his subscription of 10 guineas.]—(Loud applause.) A The LORD MAYOR and Secretary (Mr. PEACH) then read P n i Report of the State of the Funds of the Society, a nd a List • Subscriptions, amongst which were some large items, which av't nouncements were received with warm applause. Several other. .appropriate toasts followed, with songs by .3 11 ' Charles Taylor and Mr. Broadhurst, and some charming glees by those and the other musical Gentlemen present. Convi' l ality was kept up to a late hour, and we have never witnessed more harmonious meeting. SUlClDE.—Yesterday an Inquest was held 0 , the Barley-mow, Mount -street, on the body o f Th os . P ar rott' It. appeared that the deceased had formerly filled a respectabl °l situation in life, but became distressed, and was employed bf, I'll!: Mr. Tilbury, a coach-maker, of South-street. Hi s w if e ~' an old, infirm inmate of St. George's workh ouse . H e late complained of the undutiful conduct of his daughter, who , lately married to a tr a desman, and th a t i s su pp ose d to he'', preyed upon his mind. On Tuesday morning, about six o'cloe" he was found hanging to a door, in a mews in South Audler'l street.—Verdict, Insanity. DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.--The Bury. Gazelt t l says—On Monday evening last an Inquisition was taken at th e ii Bell public-house, in Barnwell, before M r . Ch eve ll, one o f 1 11 " , Coroners of this town, on view of the body of Martha Goodlei ; a child about four or five years of age. I t a p peare d i n ev idence that the family, a few weeks ago, had und ergone a d ress i n g f° f , the itch ; the deceased and anoth er c hild were d resse d by' neighbour, and the other part of the family dressed themselves' the ointment appeared to be such as is used for that purp o3 , e ; 1 The ingredients were obtained at a dru gg i s t' s s h o p i n BarnweP,cl and the quicksilver, of which the ointment w as p art ly com posed served by the mistress of the shop, who admit te d s h e did 1,64 much understand drugs, but knew a few. The deceased basc,'% ing the complaint most severely, was d resse d t h ree t i mes , O l d ' other child and the family only on ce . Th e d ecease d ge ttill worse, Mr. Cribb, the surgeon, was c a lled in s om e d a y s bele' . the child died, and he found it in a state of excessive salil tion ; the mother also was much salivated. He a d m i n i s ter° such remedies as he thought proper to the deceased, but vild';' out effect ; mortification of the tongue took place, destroy/ o 'i 1 part of the tongue, part of the cheek, and nearly the whole °, the lip. Verdict—" Died in consequence of salivation pc ° 4 l duced by an unskilful application of merc ur i a l oi n t me nt 1" the itch." • 1 COAL MARKET, JAN. 5. Ships at Market. Ships sold 59i Newcastle - - '251 - 8 Sunderland - - 8. - 1 Stone Coal - . 3 - Price. 28s 6d to 42s ek 35s 6d to 43s ni l 39s Od to --6 BIRTH. On the 3d inst., 'qrs. Edward Gregory, of 90, Gosivell-r0: 0 ' of a son. DIED. On Christmas-day last, at St. Servan, in France, Igr', Charles Knyvett, of Sowning, Reading. Berks, aged 52. On the 2thli ul., Mrs. Hurlock, of Kentish-town. On the sth inst. t John Rolls, eldest son of Mr. Felix WO ° more, of Lambeth.' On Wednesday, the sth inst., at her house in Duche street, Portland-place, Mrs. Mary Harwell. Yesterday morning, T. Dunn, Esq., West Cliff, Brighton' On Sunday, the 2d in s t., at Highway-house, Froyle, Fisn ts the wife of Thomas Pearse, Esq. Printed anti Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the z.' QrFicg., No. 112, itrand, by Jo 13. CARSTAIRS4