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ettrbr 12bittionl THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. _ . Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced New 31 per Cent .. ............ .. Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12* India Bonds, 1,000/. Ditto under 1,000/. Bank Stock for Account... 2ll Consols ..-...... ................... Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., lid. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Dutch, 2* per Cent . Ditto, 5 per Cent 99 SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid Ditto New Shares, 17* paid Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid BO Chester and Holyhead, 5 paid .. 51 Churnet Valley, 2 paid 4 i Direct Northern, 2* paid Eastern Counties, 25 paid........ ........ .. ..... Eastern Union, 10 paid ..... Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 1 1 01 Great Western, 75 paid Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) ... .. 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There is more than usual absence of news of a striking nature in the letters and papers thus conveyed. The pacific character of the intelli gence cannot fail to gratify the people of this country. The breaking out of a war between the British Government in India and any of the native Powers, or the interruption of tranquillity by revolts of any of the tributaries of those Princes, and the consequent employment of force to subdue them, are events to be deprecated whenever they arise. Their existence is prejudicial to commerce, and impedes the progress of the natives in those habits which are not less beneficial to themselves, than they are to the consolidation and solidity of the British em pire in the East. The changed character of the tidings brought by these arrivals since Sir Henry Hardinge displaced Lord Ellenborough in the Government, is not more remarkable than gratifying. Durng the adminis tration of the latter, restlessness pervaded the European portion of the inhabitants of India. They felt their pro perty and their prospects insecure under a Government the head of which was possessed by a penchant for mili tary display. They felt that their interests were jeopardised by the constantly recurring warlike de monstrations which the Governor-General projected ; the military expeditions he set on foot, and per sonally headed ; and the dread he managed con stantly to excite. Fears prevailed lest new wars would be undertaken, and new territory seized upon and annexed. Thus the interests of com merce, which are founded in peace, were in jured ; and the integrity of the empire itself— based as it is on the confidence of the natives in the advantages they derive from the British Government —was perilled by the provocations to distrust the pledged faith of that Government. Seeing—as they had seen—its violation of treaties with the Ameers of Slade, and the threatened interference with the Pun jaub, as the preliminary of dealing with that territory in the same way as had been taken with the Sindian territory, a jealousy and distrust of British faith would be excited . Distrust would enge n d er i n t r i gues among neighbouring native Powers. These would ripen into hostile confederacies against our rule. The employment of an immense force, to break up and disperse the confederates, which must be kept up to prevent a recurrence of similar embarrassing circum stances, would impose an immense demand upon the re venue, and endanger the stability ofour Eastern Empire. That such results would certainly be produced by Lord Ellenborough's policy was evident to the Hon. Court of Directors, who repeatedly remonstrated Kith him, and with her Majesty's Ministers who selected him for the post. Finding remonstrances, repeatedly urged, utterly unavailing—each successive arrival bringing some new proof of the Governor-General's determination to pursue his expensive and dangerous policy—they at length interposed their power of recs.!. The mischief's Lord Ellenborough had wrought were arrested, and began to subside from the hour that Sir Henry Hardinge set foot in India. Where dissatisfaction, perturbation, and alarm pervaded the population, tranquillity has resumed its sway. The commercial interests are no longer the prey of apprehensions that some new freak of the Governor- General will unsettle the basis of trade, and entail loss, if not ruin, upon the enterprises in which they are embarked. Sir Henry Hardinge seems, in every respect, to offer a perfect contrast to his predecessor. There is no obtrusion of himself—no bombastic procla mations of his policy. His experience in war, and the prominent part he, in former years, occupied in military operations, his established his fame, and would impart confidence to any undertakings of that kind which any events might demand. But that very experience has produced in him a conviction that a warlike policy is, of all others, the most de trimental to British interests. He is, therefore, the cultivator of peace. The following remarks of the Times are in accordance with facts, and express our views of the effect of Sir H. Hardinge's policy, so far as, that policy has been developed : " W ire glad to he- e that Sir H. Harding , . e 4 n:. inclided to follow a judicious, a cautious, and a dis criminating line of conduct. He seems, if his policy be as we anticipate, to have a fair chance of carrying his intentions into full effect, as there is neither war, nor a prospect of war in any qu ar t er ; an d even t h e c i v il war in the Punjaub appears for the present suspended. The prospects of commerce, too, are brightening, and, on tie whole, the contents of our Indian dispatches, the first received this year, are as satisfactory as we could well desire." There have been many powerful and justly-merited exh bitiona of the follies and faults of Lord Ellen borough's administration of the Indian Government : the most effectual condemnation it has yet received is found in the opposite character and influence of his successor, in the same high office. STANDARD.—A long and not very well written article, upon the existing relations between the Papacy and the several nations of Europe, appeared last week in a morning paper. This article, though published in a journal which can scarcely be said to support the policy of the Government, has, by a certain air of diplomatic mystery, iu, - posed upon some simple persons as a half-official manifeito, and been eagerly seized upon by others not so simple, to serve their own purposes of agita • tion. The truth, we have reason to believe is, that the British Governmen% is no more responsible for the article in question than the Government of Washington or Pekin ; and we know that the writer can tell nothing new of the relations be tween the British and Roman Governments, because there is nothing new to tell. For many years— for twenty years at the least—every successive Bri tish Government has been under the necessity of maintaining a correspondence with the Pope us a temporal prince, for commercial purposes, and for the convenience of travellers. Previously to the separa tion of the ki ng d om of Ihnover from the British Crown, this correspondence was pretty generally ;carried O n t h rough the Hanoverian Minister at Rome, though occasionally the ser vices of an Austrian or Prussian Minister l were employed. When, howev er , the Crownmofiniianover administration employed upon Kin , Ernest th e l ate st r o a r ti, employed a stipendiary, but unofficial, agent own to manage the rather unimportont correspondenceits we have described; anc upon the death of that tleman last summer, Mr. Petre was named as Ids :successor. This is the whole truth upen which have bean raised so many fanciful stories of arran, e . meets, concordats, &c. Before men allowed th,•-in selves to believe that Sir Robert Peel's Grcermnent was engaged in a violation of the law, and acting a part 50 inconsistent with its character, as to attempt by an indirect course, what might be as easily and much more honourably effected directly, if it could be effected in any mlrmer, they would have done well to consider whether the object pursued was attainable, or worth the trouble of pursuing, it. That object we presume to be, some official control over the Roman Catholic clergy in tier Majesty's dominions—spiritual control being, of course, what no Protestant Government has a right to claim. Nov, in order to give such official control as is here sup,--,sed, the Pope must first himself have it-- - nut he Las it not, at least in Ireland. The Roman Clltholic arch"nishop3, bishops, and priests, in Ireland, care* as mach for the authority of the Pope z..; they care for the authority of Queen Victoria. The allegiance of the Irish Roman Catholic Church to the Roman see is merely nominal. They use the _CIE stn LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY 2, 1845. name of the Pope when it serves their own purpose ; and employ the shadow of his Holiness's authority in matters indifferent to them ; but let the Pope only show the least disposition to control them, and they will pay as little respect to his mandates as to a Queen's speech. This was proved in the case of the veto controversy, more recently in the case of Bishop O'Finan's deprivation, and in the cruel persecution of Dr. Mulholland, who, when he ex hibited the Pope's order to restore him to his parish, sealed with the seal of the Vatican, and counter signed by Cardinal Franzoni, the Pope's Secretary of State—(we have seen the order such as we de scribe it)--had the document all but flung in his face. It is perfectly untrue, therefore to say that the Pope has more power in Ireland than in Austria, Prussia, or France. The Pope has no power whatever in Ireland. The independent power of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is an anomaly, but like the other anomaly of the Pope's concordat with Pro testant Prussia, on which the chaages have been so often rung, it is an anomaly inseparable from the free constitution of the United Kingdom. It is the simplest thing in the world for a despotic Sovereign, who can by a word or a nod com mand the civil obedience of all his subjects in all temporal things, to arrange with an ecclesiastic, at home or abroad, the limits of spiritual and civil submission, and this is just what is done by a con cordat. But how can the Government of a free country, in which every man claims and enjoys the right to think as pleases him, to believe as pleases him, and to act as he thinks fit, make any such arrangement ? France is just now in the agony of the attempt to reconcile estab lished Roman Catholicism with civil liberty ; and the symptoms of the experiment hitherto developed, are the very reverse of encouraging. The United States sought to get rid of all difficulties of the kind by altogether rejecting religion from their political constitutions ; but late events at Baltimore and Philadelphia, and late alarms at New York, seem to prove the inefficiency of this expe dient. To us it is as clear as any proposition can be, that no free Government can ever come to any satisfaetory and useful arrangement with Rome, and, whatever our opinion of the ge neral policy of the papal see, we do not found this conviction upon any offensive hypothesis, but upon the consideration, that as under a free form of Go vernment, the clergy must be as free as the laity, a Roman Catholic priest under such a Government, in vested as he is with more or less of personal power, will, if perversely disposed, resist the Pope, by virtue of his civil privileges, and evade obedience to the civil Government in right of his quasi Roman citizen ship. Take the case of Ireland. Is it from the Pope that the Roman Catholic priest who leades his 10,000 to a monster meeting, derives his power ? does he even use the Pope's name to mustr them ? Nothing of the kind ; his power is the power of elaborate craft over gross ignorance— the demagogue's power over all of whom he can terrify, and all whom he can teach to believe in his skill and in his sympathy with their wishes, over all in whom he can inspire the passion of vindictive hatred, and the hope of indulging that and other gross or vile passions. No, it is not the Pope that is to blame for the state of Ireland ; the blame is due to our ancestors, who inflicted upon an ignorant and barbarous country the fatal gift of premature freedom, which al ways turns to real slavery—such slavery as that in which the mass of the Irish peasantry are now held by the ebligarchv of priests. room, they found a thirty-gallon still in work, with several barrels, and about 120 gallons of wash. The ' prisoner proved to be a man named Frederick Har bridge, and the way in which his apparatus was fitted up showed that he was no novice at his business. Oa being ordered to the station-house, he asked for his hat, which Phillips said he would look for, and some time afterwards, when they had thoroughly inspected the pre mises, and the Excise officers had taken possession of the apparatus, and throw away the wash, he found a hat containing a handkerchief in the still-room, which he took into his possession. The next day (Sunday), when in the station-house, the prisoner asked for the hand kerchief, to tie round his head, which Phillips refused to give up, alleging, as the reason for his refusal, that he meant to bring it in evidence against him, to which the other replied, " There is no necessity, as I shall admit it." He was taken before the magistrates on Monday, and, in default of paying 301., was sentenced to three months' hard labour. We understand that llarbridge is a native of Staffordshire, and rents a house in Birming ham, where his wife resides. He is a tinman and bra zier by trade, and possesses not a little kn owledge . of practical chemistry. Of late he has been living at the Black Swan.— Worcestershire Chronicle. THE FREE CHURCH COLLEGE.—Lord Jeffrey has addressed the following letter to the editor of the Scots man :—"Sir,—My attention having been called (for the first time this morning) to a statement in your paper of last Wednesday, with reference to a report of my having been one of the munificent contributors to the projected college of the Free Church, I am bound to disclaim the credit of any such splendid liberality, and to state that I have not subscribed anything to that undertaking. It will be obliging in you, therefore, to mention the fact in your next publication. I am, Sir, &c., F. JEFFREY.- 24, Morray-plare, Dec. 17. COUPAR .- ANGUS. — MELANCHOLY AND FATAL Ac • cluENT.—On the afternoon of Saturday, a melancholy accident happened to a Mrs. Taylor, the wife of a mason, in the village of Burrelton, in this neighbourhood. After dinner time on Saturday, Mrs. Taylor, accompanied by her daughter, a gir' of somewhat tender years, went to a neighbouring plantation for the purpose of gathering brushwood, which she had accomplished, and, in return ing home, she had occasion to get over a paling, and while in the act of doing so, and after she bad got over herself, the load remained on the other side, and there being a noose on the string, which was over her head, she swung on the one side and the load on the other, and was thus strangled. The girl observing the predi cament in which her mother was placed, made all pos . ible haste for assistance; but, ere any person had ar rived, the vital spark had fled.—Ediaburgh Advertiser. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. Saturday week, a lady, who resides in Elderslie, left Paisley by,the second class railway train, at half-past one o'clock, for Glasgow. After passing through the tunnel at Arkleston, she dis covered that she had been robbed, by her pocket being cut near the bottom, and about fifteen shillings abstracted. , All the persons present being, to appearance, most respectable, it never occurred to her that any of them could be the perpetrators; but on stating the circum stance to her fellow-passengers, one of the gentlemen suggested that the whole party should be taken to the station-house and undergo an examination. Circum stances led the inspector to suspect that the person who sat next her in the carriage was the guilty person. He was remitted back to Paisley gaol, and has been ex amined by the Procurator Fiscal. He still remains in custody. He was most respectably attired, had a gold watch, gold rings on his fingers, and about 20L in gold and silver in his pockets.—Glasgow Argus. MISCONDUCT IN CHURCH.—A boy named Henry Brown, apprentice to Mr. B aa l am , ca rp en t er , o f Col chester, was on Thursday charged with wilfully disturb. ing the congregation of St. Peter's Church by his mis conduct on Thursday evening last. Richard Norman, the organ-blower, stated that the defendant was in a pew near him, and immediately upon Mr. Carr giving out his text, "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way," he said, in rather a loud voice, "I wish you might." He then came behind the organ, and commenced blow ing the bellows violently, with other acts of misconduct, tending to disturb and annoy the congregation. The defendant promised not to offend again, and after a se vere reprimand from the Bench, and paying the ex penses (Ss. 6d.) he was discharged. CORONERS' INQUESTS. COMMITTAL OF A DRUGGIST FOR MANSLAUGHTER, —On Tuesday, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an adjourned in quest at the King's Arms, Rawstorne-street, Clerken well, on the body of William Watts, aged 24, a cab driver, lately residing at 4, Brewer-street. Elizabeth Watts, widow of deceased, stated that her husband complained of a cold on the 7th instant, and that he went to Mr. Watkins, draggle, Myddelton street, to purchase two ounces of Epsom salts. After he had purchased the Epsom salts he observed in the shop circular that there were tasteless salts, and asked the shopman to take back the Epsom salts and give him one ounce of the tasteless salts instead. The shopman com plied, as he imagined, and he (her husband) upon re turning home melted them in warm water and drank them. His face instantly became as red as fire, and he exclaimed that he was on fire inside, and that he was poisoned. Mr. Broad, surgeon, Goswell-road, was in stantly sent for, who, having applied the necessary re medies, pronounced that he had taken some deleterious staff. Her husband, who had previously enjoyed robust health, never afterwards left his bed, where he remainee in the most excruciating agony until his death, on thd 16th instant. Mr. Broad, surgeon, examined—About live o'clock on the evening of the 7th inst. he attended deceased, who was in great agony and extremely sick. He complained as suffering from the effects of the oil of vitriol. Wit ness tested the drains that remained in the cup, and found deceased had taken tartaric acid. He applied every remedy, with the exception of the stomach pump, that his experience could suggest, but without avail, as the vomiting, pains, &c., continued unabated. Not wishing to depend upon himself, he called in Dr. Major, who pronounced it to be a hopeless case. He attended to deceased until the Wednesday preceding his death, which took place on the following Monday. Mr. Watkins, who wished him to attend deceased, acknow ledged the fatal mistake. By a juror— He did not use the stomach pump, because deceased's throat was so inflamed he could not introduce it. When he vomited deceased said that he felt as if he threw up the oil of vitriol. Dr. Major approved of wit ness's treatment of deceased. Mr. Gill, surgeon, White Lion-street, Islington, performed a post mertem examination. The body, with the exception of the lips, which were excoriated, showed no external injury. The stomach and the whole intestinal canal were much inflamed, as were also the mucous membrane, and they were exter nally of a purple red colour. After describing other appearances of the body, the witness said that the result of the examination, and of the evidence he heard that day, led him to the conclusion that the deceased died from the effects of some poisonous matter or cor rosive acid, such as " tartaric acid ;" but when he stated that the " tartaric acid" was the cause, he said so as he understood that that was the acid which had been administered. The CORONER, having duly cautioned the Messr9. Watkins, asked them whether they admitted having sold the tartaric acid in mistake to deceased ? Several jurors —Yes, they have admitted this on the rat day. Mr. Watkins, sen.—l aJmit that it was sold iu my shop. _ _ _ I r. Watkins, jun.—l cannot deny having made the mistake. CORONER (addressing Messrs. Watkins)—You had better retire, and consider what reparation you can make the widow fur the loss you have inflicted upon her. Messrs. Watkins retired, and after a short absence returned, when they said that their means would not allow them to do more than pay the medical expenses consequent upon the melancholy catastrophe. Mrs. Watts recalled—All she received from Mr. Wat kins amounted to 26., which he gave her mother when she informed him of their poverty. She had obtained further assistance from the parish. The CORONER recapitulated the evidence at great length, and The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Charles Watkins, jun. The CORONER wrote his committal, and ho was con veyed to gaol. The jury afterwards raised a subscription on behalf of the widow. DEATH IN THE QUEEN'S Patsom.—Yesterday after noon Mr. William Payne held an inquest in the Queen's Prison, upon the body of Edward Bluck, aged 69 years, a prisoner. Mary Bluck, the deceased's widow, said that her hus band was admitted into that prison on the 20th of February, 1826. He was formerly a farmer, and during the time he had been under confinement he received every attention from the prison atithoritie3, and wanted for nothing. Mr. Edward Solomons said that he could have arranged with his creditors, in order that the deceased might have been released, but he objected to his doing so, and said that if he left the prison he did not know what he should do for a living. Verdict—" Natural death." THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT ASIIFORD. Immediately after the verdict of fe - lo de se was re turned by the jury, Mr. Wakley handed to the con stable his warrant for the interment of the deceased, that referring to the man specifying that he should he buried between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night, and Nv i t hout any funeral ceremony. The unhappy woman was buried on Sunday after noon, and her remains were followed to the grave by a vast concourse of persons, who appeared to take a deep interest in the melancholy affair. The mur derer was not buried until Monday night, about ten o'clock, in the presence of Messrs. Hignet and Mer rick, the churchwardens of Ashford, the constable, and a few other persons, the only relative of the de ceased that was present being his mother. The place that was selected for the grave was a corner of the churchyard which has before been the recep tacle of the remains of two persons who some thirty years since destroyed themselves, and against whom verdicts offelo de se were returned, and dur • ing the whole period that has sinoe elapsed there has not been a single suicide in the parish. One of the men referred to was a master butcher, named Lewis, who carried on a respectable business at Ashford, but was suspected of sheep-stealing, and was taken into custody on the char', e, but while at the public-house awaiting the time to be examined before a magistrate, he asked permission to leave the _room for a short time, and the moment he got into the passage he drew a knif e f rom hi s poc k e t an d cu t his throat in such a dreadful manner that he died almost immediately. The other case was that of an Qx.ccsoliari in Wales, named Davis, who had been ordered up to London by the Commissioners to be reprimanded for some mis conduct. It appeared that the circumstance prved LI pen his mind, and he destroye4ihimP , ir in a corn &id at Ashford by opening veins in different parts of his body, and then cutting his throat. The remains of the miserable murderer and suicide were laid by the side of these companions in crime. When the coffin had been lowered into the grave, the mother looked on it for the last time, and exclaimed, " Ah, my boy, they have buried you like a dog; but, never mind, God will forgive you, and take you to heaven !" She then walked away, apparently very little concerned at what had taken place, or the awful ceremony she had ' just witnessed. Since the inquest every inquiry has been made to endeavour to ascertain where the de ! ceased man had obtained the poison, which was the cause of his death, but hitherto without success. The little boy and girl are perfectly recovered, and they have since been removed to the Brentford Union, to which they belong. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Thomas Smith, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged under the following circumstances : Henry Cabrow, a person in the employmell. of Messrs. Price and Co., perfumers, stated that th“ ie fendant called at the shop at a little after seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, and asked for Mr. Price. Al though it was intimated to him that Mr. Price was not in the way, and a request was made of. him to call at ten o'clock in the morning, at which time he could see the gentleman, he insisted upon remaining in the shop, and declared that he would not leave it until he could communicate with Mr. Price. As the conduct of the defendant was calculated to impede the business of the shop, witness called a policeman and gave him into the custody of that officer. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, defendant, what have you to say to this charge of interrupting the business of the shop?—The defendant said that a friend of his had sold a horse to Mr. Price, for which another horse and a cheque for the difference, amounting to, as we understood, 501., was to be given by that gentle man, and he (defendant) called at the time appointed at the house of the purchaser with . the horse, at the desire of the seller. Upon going to the house he saw Mr. Price from the street in the shop, and he en tered, and, upon inquiring, was told by a young lady that Mr. Price was not within. He observed to her that he had seen Mr. Price in the shop a little while before, and that the gentleman had promised to leave a cheque for him, and he would wait. The shopman then told me to sit down, and immediately went to a person at the back part to communicate something. Upon his return the shopman told him he could not stay there; and when he said he should wait for what he was entitled to receive, the shopman, who had before invited him to sit down, called a police man and gave him into custody, and he and the horse were taken together. The LORD MAYOR (to the shopman)—Who called you at the back of the shop ? The shopmait--I don't consider that I am bound to answer that question, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—You must answer, Sir. The shopman—Miss Price told me to go there. The Loan MAYOR—Answer me, Sir. Was it Mr. Price that called you ? You are upon your oath. The shopman—lt was Mr. Price, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—I discharge the defendant. The shopman—My Lord-- - The LORD MAYOR—There is no occasion for more words. Defendant, you are discharged. A female of respectable appearan:e, but appeari.g to labour under much mental distress, who stated her name to be Hannah Haines, was charged with having contemplated self-destruction. One of the City police stated that he found the prisoner in the neighbourhood of the river Thames in a deplorable state of mind, and when he inquired the cause of her distress, she stated that her husband had deserted her, and robbed her of all her clothes, and taken away with him the servant-maid ; that she had stru2gled with adversity and actually with starvation, until that day, when her landlord threatened to seize what trifling matters of furniture she had for rent, amounting to 3s. 9d., and that she had come to the place in which she was apprehended for the purpose of putting an end to her existence. The witness added that she had given to him the names of very respectable relations of her husband, and their sd dresses, and seemed desirous, upon his suggestio:, ru seek the humane interference of the Lord Mayor. The LORD MAYOR—What do you say, prisoner ? The prisoner—l am plunged, my Lord, into the deepest poverty and distress by the conduct of my husband. He sold the business which he had been carrying on, and abandoned me twelve months ago, taking with him and his paramour everything of the least value. He had commenced the world with property and good expectations, equal, I believe, to those of the rest of his family, but his prodigality de stroyed all. The LORD MAYOR—I perceive that the names to which you have referred are respectable, and I am surprised that you should contemplate so awful a crime as self-murder. Do you suppose that any of those individuals will be willing to serve you ? The prisoner —I think they would not refuse, my Lord. Those of my own family who are within my reach are poor, with large families. The LORD MAYOR—You shall be taken care of by the matron at the Compter until Friday, and, in the meantime, I shall cause inquiries to be made into the particulars of your statement. The prisoner expressed her gratitude in a few broken but intelligible phrases. BOW-STREET. STEALING IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—A young man named John Oxford, was brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing a silver watch and a quantity of wearing apparel from the house of Mr. Joseph Jewel, 17, Alfred-street, Tottenham-court-road, under the fol lowing circumstances : It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor's wife, that at about half-past seven o'clock on Tuesday evening her brother paid her a visit, and on showing him over the house she attempted to open the door of the back parlour, but finding some obstruction from the in side, she used more exertion and forced it in, when she found the prisoner staring her full ie the face. She im mediately called him to account how he dared to enter her house, and her brother coming to her assistance, the prisoner was brought into the front parlour, until a con stable could be sent for, when he fell upon his knees and prayed that he might be forgiven and liberated. On searching the back parlour it was discovered that the prisoner htei lighted a taper on the mantelpiece, and had filled a large black bag he had brought with him with every portable article in the room, consisting of shirts, dresses, bed furniture, trousers, and a flageolet, which had been taken from a chest of drawers, together with a mantle and dress that hung behind the door. The silver watch was subsequently found concealed in the bed, and, on the arrival of the constable, he found eight skeleton keys and a quantity of lucifer matches upon the pri soner's person. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said the servant girl having gone for beer, left the street door open, which enabled him to enter the premises, and to act in the manner described. He was fully committed to New • gate for trial. CHARGE OF STABBlNG.—Laurence Wright, a shoe maker, was charged with stabbing Joseph John Corn wall, his landlord, in the temple, with a case knife. The complainant stated that the prisoner was his lodger, in Ship-yard. for about two months, and occa sionally worked for him. On Tuesday morning his wife went into the room for the purpose of cleaning it, which the defendant objected to in such terms as to compel her to leave the place. In the course of the day, understan:!- ing that some articles of furniture had been removed, went to the room, thinking the defendant was out, to ascertain if such was the case, and finding him there, he told him, as he had conducted himself in such a manner towards his wife, ho should in future cease to occupy the room, and must seek an apartment elsewhere; when he instantly seized a knife, similar to that produced, from the table, and rushing at him, drove it into his temple, withi❑ the eighth of an inch of his left eye, from the effects of which he instantly fell down stairs, and was conveyed in an exhausted state to King's College Hospital. Mr. Cannon, house surgeon of the hospital, proved that shortly before nine o'clock the complainant was brought in, having a punctured wound about an inch deep, inflicted with some sharp instrument, near the ot bit of the left eye, and as it was of a dangerous cha racter he considered it necessary lie should still remain in the house under medical care. The constable who was called in said he found the defendant in the room, and he instantly admitted having committed the offence, at the same time pointing to the knife produced, which lay on the table, as being the in strument he had made use of, adding that he would re peat the same if the complainant made a similar attack upon him, which he repeated at the station-house. • The defendant accounted for his conduct, by saying that the complainant struck him on the previous night because he refused to allow his wife to dash a quantity of water on the floor of his room, as he was in a delicate state of health, in consequence of having some of his ribs broken when he was in the army, from which he was discharged and then entered the police force, which he was also obliged to leave from ill health. When the corn- i plainant, who was well skilled in the art of " self-de- fence," entered the room he put himself in a fighting attitude, threatening to throw him out of the house, al though he owed no rent, and upon his putting his threats into execution he seized a weapon (not the knife pro duced) which he used in his trade, and defended himself in the best manner he could. Mr. TWYPORD said the charge was of too serious a nature for him to deal with in a summary manner, and in order to enable the surgeon to give a decisive opinion on a future day, he should order the defendant to be re manded for that purpose. MARLIIOItOUGII-STREET. Mr. Joseph Salomons, of No. 7, Windmill-street, Fitz roy-square, charged Itobtrt Franklyn with having as saulted him, created a disturbance at his house, and threatened to do him at a future time some bodily harm. Mr. Salomons said the defendant, who was one of his late clients, came ou Tuesday afternoon to his house, and though he had received a message left for him with the clerk, he insisted on obtaining admission into the Office, and staying there until he got some money. In effecting his entrance, the defendant struck him on the chest, and when he did get into the office, began using threats and gr..ss nbusP, him (complainant') a scoundrel, a s;%indier, and a rLts.2a l ., and ..swearing that vtould tear out his - guts. Cowplaivant begged the defendant to go away peaceably, but the defendant declared he would stay and smoke his pipe there, and unless dragged out he would not leave the place until he got some money, for money he had come for, and money he would have. It was necessary to send for the assistance of the police. The complainant said he was sorry to have occasion to appear against a person fur whom he had transacted business, but as the defendant had used threats of vengeance at some future time, he had found it necessary to press the charge. The defendant said the complainant had conducted a suit for him, and had received all the money recovered, not a farthing of which would he refund, either to him or to the witnesses for their expenses. An old man got into the box and said he believed the defendant's story was true, for he had been obliged to get a judge's writ against Mr. Salomons. Mr. Salomons said he had his bill of costs and legal charges to show how the money had been disposed of. At all events, if the defendant thought he was wronged, there was a very easy remedy which he might &clop% Mr. MALTBY fined the prisoner 3/., or one m,m (Lk's im prisonment._ - Edward Morgan and John Attwood were L:harged with having committed a violent assault on Thomas Redford, one of the constablef. it the Princess's 'rhea:, 0. The constable said the prisoners wanted to pay but threepence for admission into the gallery, and because refused they caused a disturbance. He was called to re move them, when he was violently assaulted by Morgan, who struck him, bit a piece out of his finger, and threw him down. Attewood assisted Morgan in trying to get away, and was also very violent. The prisoners said they offered copper at first, but afterwards they paid a shilling, and received two checks, one of which was still in Attwood's possession. The money-taker said he could not say whether the defendants paid or not. _ _ _ Mr. MALTBY fined Morgan 4/., or six weeks' imprison. ment, and Attwood 305., or 21 days. GLERKEIV WELL. ..... A URGLARY.—Junzes Horne was charged with burglari dEsly entering the house of Mr. John Cox, No. 9, Gib son-square, and stealing therefrom a large quantity of plate, consisting of silver forks, spoons, goblets, ewers, &c. The evidence went to show that on Friday night last the plate was deposited in the locker in the parlour. The prosecutor and Mrs. Cox returned home between eleven and twelve o'clock, examined the windows, and found the shutters secured. On the following (Saturday) morning the servant, on entering the parlour, found that the window had been broken open, and that the plate was missing. Early on the same morning, police constable Miles, 110 N, met the prisoner, carrying a bundle, in Maiden lane, which he (the prisoner), upon being interrogated, said was a piece of beef that he was carrying home. The constable, however, insisting on knowing the contents of the bag, he threw it down and attempted to run away, but was arrested. '['he bag, which was nearly full, contained the stolen property. Mrs. Cox and Mary Skelton (her servant) having identified the plate, the prisoner, who reserved his de fence, was fully committed for trial to the Old Bailey. SUPPOSED INFANTICIDE.—Frances Holmes was charged with concealing the birth of her child. The prisoner was in the service of Mr. Jay, a solicitor, residing in Harper street, Red Lion-squ- , re, and her pregnancy was noticed by some of her yellow s.,rva,ts. On the 16th ultimo the body of a full-grown child, much lacerated, was found in a water closet in Mr. Jay's house. Mr. Jay at once gave information of the fact to the police. The prisoner admitted that she had given birth to the child and placed it there, but alleged that it was born dead. She has been since the 14th in St. Giles's workhouse, and during a great portion of the time was dangerously ill. Mr. COMBE decided on committing the prisoner for trial. soner making his doing to the child ui-, appearance she asked him ? HP replied ti t : i tt it wq,, ~i.Yl _ ~ what he W 913 repiy to the siagistrate's question, toe witness said she had never heard the child's mother ill-use him. On the contrary, heard her once beg of the prisoner to desist from ill-using the child. Witness, however, thought she could have very little of the feelings of a mother about her to allow her unfortunate offspring to be treated in so cruel a ma •ne. . Four oth,:r witnesses corroborated the evidence of the last witness in every particular. One of them, a trades, man who lives opposite the prisoner, added that one day he heard a violent screaming issue from Pratt's house, and on hurrying across, and looking through the window, he saw the child hanging from the top bannister by a rope, with a noos e r oun d his neck, and his feet about six inches from the ground. He instantly forced open the window sufficiently to put in a lad who was its his em ployment, and who cut the child down. The witness added, that he did not impute to the prisoner or the others in the house the dreadful crime of attempting to hang the little fellow, but his impression was that he had been tied to the top bannister, and by endeavouring to relieve himself had got into the position in which he had before described, and had he not been observed so soon, his death in a few moments must have been the conse quence. _ Mr. HENRY observed that the witness had put a very charitable construction upon the act. The prisoner in reply to the charge, declared that the greater part of what the witnesses had atated was false, and wished to have the child examined. Mr. HENRY observed that the witnesses had given their evidence in such a way as must convince every person of their truthfulness. They could have no motive for coming forward as they did, except one, namely, that of humanity ; and their conduct reflected so much credit upon them, that he would order them five shillings each, for their loss of time in attending. The prisoner again requested that the child should be examined, upon which Mr. Henry remarked that he had examined the poor child, who was really in a shocking state, and what he said fully confirmed the evidence of the witnesses. Mr. HENRY, addressing Dunn,,one of the beadles of Lambeth, said the case was one which should be prose cuted by the parish, and he should therefore request that the vestry-clerk should be informed of the pat ti culars, with a view of prosecuting the prisoner at the session. To afford the necessary time for this, he should remand the prisoner until Monday next. The prisoner was accordingly remanded. THAMES POLICE. W9RKING AN ILLICIT STILL.—Two young men, brothers, named Edward and William Smith, were charged with working an illicit still, in Frederick place, Bedford -street, Stepney. Colley Atkinson Davis, an ()Seer of Excise, stated that from information which he received, he watched the house, No. 11, Frederick-place, about nine o'clock last night, and saw the two prisoners ge into it. He waited awhile, and having stationed a censtabia and wanner Excise offs •er. named Pearse, to watch in the front, he succeeded in effecting an entrance at the beck door. On searching the place, he found a copp,r still in the kitchen. It had recently been worked, and the end of the worm tasted of spirits. The prisoners were out then, so he secreted himself in the front parlour, and shortly after heard x low knock at the front 'h No answer lying. returned, tee deer aas opened from the out:ide with s key, and the two prisoners entered. He size 4 the elder prisoner, Edward, on which a struggle en sued, and they both rolled into the street. William, who ran on, was arrested by the constable and the other officer. In the pockets of each there were bladders, still Wet, strongly smelling of spirit, and hooks containing memoranda of materials used in distillatien. The 1 -it ad of a button. which corre,ponded with those on the Offer prisoner's coat, was found on the still, and such a one was mi.,:sing from the back of the coat. A deposit b.trik book in the narne of Richard Thompson, was found on the elder prisoner. There were seventy :;•ellons of wash on the premises, which Davis subsequently worked off, and it produced six gallons of spirit 20 de grees above proof. Pearse and the constable confirmed the evidence as far as they were concerned in the t , aiisaction. The prisoners boldly denied that they had any con nexion with the still, and insisted that they had not been in the house at all. The officer, they said, pounced out on them as the) were passing by the door, and they were taken on a groundless suspicion. Mr. BRODEICLP thought otherwise, and ordered them to pay a tine of 301. each, or he eummitted to hard labour for three calendar months. [ADVERTISEMENT.] _ _ ANNUAL REPORT of the BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW-ROAD, LONDON, FOR 1844. FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) Velvet is the universally favourite material this winter. Morning dresses, carriage dresses, and even ing dresses, are made of it, the style being adapted to the use required ; some high, with buttons, others with revers, and others with pointed bodies and berthers of lace, jet, or chenille ; it is equally used for pelisses, mantalets, scarfs, as also for trimming dresses of satin and other materials. Lace and gimp form almost indispensable accom paniments for every article of dress. Point d'Angle terre is used for satin and damas Pompadour ; and point d'Alencon for velvet. Tunic dresses are very fashionable ; made of crape, gauze, organdy, with the latter several rows of gold or silver cord, intermixed with silk cord, are often introduced with good effect. The redingote form is also advantage ously used for evening toilettes in satin or pekin, trimmed with gimp. Black preserves its favour ; dresses of black tulle are trimmed with satin fringed ribbons, forming what used to be termed volants a la Ninan. Robes, redingotes of serget de sole or cloth, are made with the corsage casaque ; that is tight demi-busque in the waist, with jacket all round, rather deep. The Amazon form is much adapted for walking dresses, and admits of various modifications. As double skirts will be much worn, besides the ornaments of flowers hitherto in use to raise them, a new style is introduced; very small flowers, forming a chain, made - narrow, and terminating in large flowers, are placed on each side, and the body and sleeves corresponding. Furs are much in favour : sable mantelets palatine, and pelerines echarpes of ermine and marten fur, with long square ends, and rounded behind, are used for the promenade. Velvet manteaux are edged with marten or ermine, and have collars forming pelerine to match. The bonnets are now all velvet or satin, ornamented with biais and lace ; some are made of velvet, with crowns of satin fulled under a biais; those of velours epingle are finished at the edge with biais of satin, and an other round the crown ; others are ornamented with a plait of satin ribbon. Capote a coulisses are ornamented with lace laid at the edge of the first runner, and another on the crown. The petits bords Regence, the turbans Rozane, the Druid coiffure, coiffures a la Vierge, Ondine or Cerito are all fashion able. Little caps of silk tulle are trimmed with two biais of tulle, and a wreath of blue flowers. Muslin caps are deep at the sides, and trimmed with several rows of narrow lace very little full, and separated by small toques of red velvet, each side being finishtd with a Chou and ends of velvet. Caps are still worn small, but the crowns are more ornamented than -they were. For evening parties little caps, toques, or turbans, are very much worn, placed more or less backward on the head, but always very short at the ears, with long ribbon-ends drooping on pompons, or branches, which spring from flowers falling on the neck. These coiffures are made of velvet of every colour, inter mixed with lappets of lace or wreaths in feuillage, placed on foundations of point lace; of gold resilles, with bunches of beads falling at the side, or with fringes of bugles, black, green, or white, terminating the scarf which encircles the face. PRINCE ALBERT'S Ox.—Not unmindful of the little romance which has hung itself—in place of the cattle-show ticket—round the neck of this extraordinary animal, and rendered him, to a certain degree, a public character, we feel justified iu giving a biographical sketch of him. Our hero—we mean our ox—was born of re spectable parents in a paddock in the Home Park, at Windsor, and at a very early age began to exhibit a talent for eating which marked him out as a fit sub ject to be stuffed fur some future cattle-show. On one oil the visits of Prince Albert to the farm, the brute was en gaged in discussing a bunch of turnips with such ex traordinary gusto, that his Royal Highness was attracted by the circumstance, and made inquiries of the principal bailiff, who was told to keep his eye on the subject of our present biography. Our hero's heiferhood passed in one continued round of munching, and it was remarked by those who had charge of him, that taxes or turnips, grass or grain, beans or beet-root, came all alike to his ra;)acious appetite. In the course of a few months his hide began to expand, and he evinced all the usual characteristics of a prize ox—such as losing the power of walking at a greater rate than half a mile an hour, while shortness of breath, and other con comitants -of fatness, became extremely evident. The success with w hich these qualities were cultivated is well known, and we find our ox ultimately installed at the Baker. street Bazaar, where he behaved himself with the dignity becoming a prize, and thus set an example to the surrounding cattle. It was in this honourable situa tion that our hero attracted the attention of Mr. Ban nister, the butcher, of Threadneedle-street, who, having mentally divided him into sirloins, estimated his ribs, made a rough calculation of his witch-bones, and cast off his steaks, consented, with much spirit, to give 60 guineas for him. Our hero's fate now appeared to be sealed, and nothing was apparently capable of saving him from being gibbeted at Mr. Bannister's, with a placard announcing his having gained a prizi, stuck with a wooden skewer into his back, as an invitation to cus tomers. Fortunately for the sagacious creature, Prince Albert paid a visit to the cattle-show, when our hero, panting with fatness, chanced to put out his tongue just into contact with the Prince's hand, the incident was at as his Royal Highness passe d, a nd the ton g ue c oming tributed to a burst of affection, though it really was no thing more than a lupus lingua, or slipping out of the tongue, from sheer want of breathing-room. The cir cumstance svas noticed by the Queen, and the result is known. Th e ox, t h at was s t an ding on the very brink of untimely sharnb!es, has been restored to his paddock at Windsor.—Ptoich. SEIZUR E or AN ILLIC IT STILL IN W O RCESTER.— Superintendent Phillips and Sergeant Chipp, of the City Police, havin g reason to suspect that an illicit still had been some time in operation in Worcester, quietly set to work, and the result was that they made an appointment with Mr. Green, Supervisor of Excise, and another Ex cise officer named Rouse, to meet them in the Corn m timest rkient,at question, ten S a Saturday dtaiye house a l , : . of At wereaoleflrakrtileasst the rendez vous, from whence they went to a Black Swan, in Quay-street, some of thedioining the to the front and some to the back door. While en t ei ? going to gain an entrarce ut the fr on t, a man came eetyclitittritu back door, and was instantly se i ze d b y Phillips, who ' seeing him hiding a key, exclaimed 4 " This is the man, and he has got the key in his pocket !" Tho key was I instantly taken from him, and he was given into custody to the officer on the beat, while the others entered the house, which was uninhabited, and merely contained I two or three chairs and a table. On reaching the top WORSHIP-STREET. Win. Fraser, a middle-aged man of respectable ap pearance, was charged before Mr. Broughton with hay ing obtained, by false pretences, a large quantity of spirits, from various licensed victuallers in the neigh bourhood of Spitalfields. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Elizabeth Con nor, of the Elder Tree, in Norton Foliate, that the pri soner called at her house on the 7.3 d ult., and ordered a gallon of the best gin to be sent forthwith to the residence of Mr. Matthews. in Spital-square—it was wanted for immediate use. She accordingly dispatched the liquor by her servant, who, on reaching the house, found the prisoner on the door-steps. After severely chiding him for his delay, the prisoner told him to leave the spirts and hasten back for two bottles of the best sherry. Ihe man did so, but the prisoner not being there 's-hen he returned with the wine, he knocked at the door, which was answered by the servant, who told him no spirits had been left there, and that the parties is the house were entire strangers to the transaction. The second charge was preferred by Mr. George Smith, landlord of the Salmon and Ball, Lamb-street, whom the prisoner visited on the 26th ult., and ordered a gallon of gin and half a gallon of rum to be sent to the house of Mr. Poole, a manufacturer, in Spital-square. The goods were accordingly sent, and received by the prisoner under precisely similar circumstances to those in the last case ; and a subsequent application for the money exposed the imposition that had been practised Mr. Gill, a publican, in Gun-street, Spitalfields, stated that between seven and eight o'clock on the preceding evening the prisoner called at his house and gave direc tions for the same quantity of spirits as in the second case to be instantly sent to the residence of one of his customers, named Good, in Church-street, Bethnal green. Having, however, been previously informed that numerous robberies had been practised on publicans in the neighbourhood by means of fictitious orders, witness determined to accompany his messenger, and, on reach ing Mr. Good's house, left the spirits with the servant, who was not aware of any such order, but received the spirits, her master being absent. Witness then returned home, but, soon after his arrival, the prisoner (who had evidently missed them on the road) called again and de manded to know why the order had not been executed. The character of the transaction being now quite mani fest, a policeman was sent for and the prisoner was given into custody. Police-constable, II 46, produced a hamper containing half a dozen of wine and two stone bottles, which he found at the prisoner's lodging; and two of the prosecu tors identified the bottles as having held the spirits ob tained from them by the prisoner. The prisoner was recognised by the officers in Court as having formerly carried on business in the district as a respectable licensed victualler, but who had, from in veterate habits of intemperance, reduced himself gra dually to disgrace and ruin. • The prisoner, who appeared overpowered with shame and grief, and buried his face in his hands in the front of the dock, on being called upon for his defence, de clined saying anything. Two of his daughters were present in a state of pitiable affliction ; and it being evi dent that they had been suffering from extreme want and privation, the magistrate ordered them some tempo rary relief from the poor-box, which they gratefully accepted. Sergeant Coleman requested that the prisoner might be remanded, as he was satisfied be should be able to establish many more charges of a similar description against him. Mr. Broughton at once acceded to the application, and the prisoner was accordingly remanded. LAMBETH. George Jefferson, a highly respectable looking elderly man, was brought before Mr. Henry, the sitting magis trate, charged with being drunk and disorderly. Mr. HENRY, the magistrate, asked the defendant what he had to say to the charge ?—Why, said the veteran, it is all owing to the lumbago, and seeing the old year out and the new one in. The AfACISTRATZ—Yes; but that is no excuse. The prisoner pleaded hard for forgiveness, for he would shortly have the honour of making a declaration before his worship for half-pay. He had served his king and country faithfully for these last forty years. He had honourable scars, besides a severe wound in his hiAd. He had fought bravely his country's battles, and had even rescued his commanding officer from great peril, "when bullets around him flew;" but the "lumbago," and the parting glass with the old year had overcome his reason. Upon the understanding that the prisoner u, 4.11(1 turn over a new leaf with the new year, the magistrate said, in consideration of his services, he was disposed to let him off. The prisoner promised amendment, and thanking the magistrate for his kindness, was discharged. GROSS CRUELTY OF A FATHER TOWARDS HIS CHILD. —Robert Pratt was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, on a charge of grossly ill-treating his son, Richard Pratt, a child of five years and a half old. The first witness called was Eliza Kingate, who de posed that she resided next door to the prisoner, in Hooper-street, Westminster-road, and that the first time she had observed the child was about eight weeks ago, when he was crying bitterly at his father's door. The house was occupied by the prisoner, his wife, and brother, and the child was frequently left alone, and shut up from morning until a late hour of the night, which was the time its parents were in the habit of re turning home, and frequently complained to her of being cold and hungry. About four weeks ago she (witness) took the poor little fellow into her house, and gave him some food, and while at her house the pri soner came home, and called out for him. So great was the horror of the child at hearing the voice of his father, that the poor fellow rolled down the whole of the stairs. On that occasion she heard the prisoner ill-use the child, and make use of horrible expressions, and say he would do for him, while the child ctiei out for mercy, and said he would not go out egain ; su that from this she inferred that the cause of his ill-usage was that of his child's coming to her house. On Tuesday morning, about half-past two o'clock, she was awoke by the violent screams of the child, and distinctly heard hies cry out to his father for mercy, while the latter was evi dently severely ill-using him. She knocked at the wainscot, and also threw up her window, and upon her doing so the prisoner ceased. So frequent and severe were the injuries inflicted upon the poor child, that the witness went on the same morning to the police station house to request the interference of the police, and was told that this must be done by the parish officers. Be tween ten and eleven o'clock she saw the child with its head through a broken pane of glass in the bed-room window, and he then complained of being fastened in and very cold and hungry. Some of the neighbours had resolved upon taking him out of the room. A young man, named Cronin, succeeded in doing so, but he was found to be in so shocking a state that they put him into the room again until the police or parish officers arrived. In a few moments after the prisoner came home and went up stairs, leaving the street-door ajar after him. Witness went to the door to listen to what took place, and distinctly heard the pris o n er sa y, " Lip with y ou , up with you," and immediately after th e v i o l ent screams of ; the child. She knocked at the door, and upon the pri- TO THE PUBLIC. During the last year four most important matters connected with the Medical liberty of the subject have occurred. In the first place, Sir James Gra ham's Medical Reform Bill has been introduced, and by it free trade in medicine is acknowledged. The consequence is, that the worthy Baronet has brought about his ears the whole of the Doctors interested in keeping up a delusion as regards the treatment of diseases. That Sir James is deserving of the appro bation of all lovers of civil and religious liberty can not be doubted. The next point is, that the Doctors have suf fered a complete defeat at the Chester Assizes, in the case of a Mr. Port, who, not being a regu lar or licensed practitioner, was indicted for having caused the death of a woman by plasters made of arsenic (a poison often used as a cure ! by the Doctors themselves), for the, cure of can cer. It appeared that he had a good practice at Birkenhead, and no doubt took a good many fees which would, perhaps, have gone into the Doctors' pockets. A case was, therefore, got up against him —the jury, in spite of the evidence of Doctors, which was as strong as they could make it, triumphantly ac quitted him, upon which a simultaneous burst of ap plause rang from all parts of a crowded Court. This case is most important, as being another instance where a jury has been independent enough to think for themselves. It also establishes the Medical Li berty of the Subject. 'We have, therefore, copied in the 42d number of The Hygeist (which may be had at 368, Strand, price ld.) the whole trial of Mr. Port, as it appeared in The Times newspaper of the 11th of December, 1844, in order that you miy judge for yourselves of toe extraordinary admissions made by the Doctors on cross-examination on that trial, and to what lengths they will go, in order to prop up their false and interested Organic Theory, by which medicine is made a trade of, at the expense of the diseases of mankind. Though we wholly disagree with Mr. Port's treatment in using arsenic, still the principle of the Medical Liberty of the Subject is :he same. The third point in our favour is what Lord Stanley stated in respect of the benefits arising from drainage of the land, at the Liverpool Agricultural Meeting. It is just the Hygeian System, as propounded by the late James Morison, and the article written by him in 1825 may be found in the " Abridged AI orisoniana," page 26. Such a truth, propounded by such a man as Lord Stanley, cannot fail to be of vast importance to all persons engaged in the Hygeian cause, for drainage is to the land what proper purging is to the human body. It should stimulate them to renewed exertions. It at oace accounts for the universal suc. cess of the Vegetable Medicine, in spite of all the interested opposition which we have had to conten d against. From henceforth Lord Stanley's name should be associated with Hygeism. This great principle of drainage, as applied to the human body, is made manifest in a lithographic Print, which may be had of the Hygeian Agents (price 6d.), who agree that it is a complete illustration of the truth of the Hygeian System, and the fallacy of the Organic Theory of the Faculty. Another great blow to the Doctors and their Organic Theory has been the cause of " Temperance." Thousands will now be saved from disease, poverty, and death, by that cause. A few years back we used constantly to hear, " Oh 1 I am taking Brandy or Port Wine medicinally, by the advice of my Doctor." Now the people have found that all spirituous liquors undoubtedly are most injurious to health, whether taken medicinally or not. Father Mathew stands as the great Apostle of Temperance, and as such deserves universal support ; but you should not forget that the first great blow aimed at the faculty for advising and recommending spirituous liquors in certain diseases, is contained in the work of James Morison, the Hygeist (" The Morisoniana"), published as far back as 1825, and at page 60 of that work you will find the article, wherein he not only strongly recommends total abstinence as essential to the cure of all diseases, but contends that the desire for drink proceeds from a morbid state of the blood. Two hundred thousand copies of the original Edition of that work have been disposed of; and we are now circulating 40,000 of the abridged Edition, price 6d.; which you will ad mit must have tended, in some measure, to establish the cause of Temperance. Every Hygeist subscribes to that great work of Father Mathew. No doubt the charge of self-interest will be brought forward against us. We would, however, appeal to an impartial public, whether it was possible to com bat (as we have done) the combined interests of the faculty, comprising a great portion of the press, for the last twenty years, without having funds necessary to answer the attacks which have from time to time been brought forward by interested Doctors against us ? Were you to see our printers' bills, and the charges for advertisements, and other expenses, in all parts of the world, you would not think that it has been such an interested affair as our enemies would make it appear. I'Votild any man, out of his private fortune, have stood the enormous expenses which we have been put to by the Doctors ? Again, if the Hygeian System had been merely propounded without a medicine to carry out its principles, would it not have been said that it was utopian, visionary, &c. ? We should have been told—" Yes 1 it's all very well, but how will you carry it out ?" and so forth; there fore we repeat, that the Vegetable Purgative, known as " Morison's Pills," or " Vegetable Universal Me dicine," is the best medicine known to us. It has been tried by hundreds of thousands throughout the I world during the las' twenty years, with the happiest ; , riu,sz cut a bAter pa" w S.; I _,j s , - aust of course gibe way, but at present we insist that the purgatives used by Doctors are not intended to cure diseases; they are merely an apology for purgatives. Good and proper purgatives have been studiously kept from the public; or else, why have Doctors allowed the important facts, propounded by the late Dr. James Hamilton, of the Edinburgh , , Infirmary, i n hi s b oo k, " H am il ton on P urga ti ve s,' to die in the shade ? The cases of cure therein re ported by the Learned Doctor are quite as extraordi nary (if extraordinary they can be termed) as any that ever issued from the British College of Health. However, we presume it would not have answered the purpose of the medical body to have brought these important truths to As regards the progress of the Hvgeian y System' we have the satisfaction t o st a t e , th a t it is spreading every day more and more throughout the world, and that before many years are over, it will be univer sally acknowledged. Being founded in truth, it must progress; whereas the Organic Theory of Doctors, being founded in error, must retrograde. We are, unanimous. The D oc t ors are a ll at variance, awl, must be, so long a s they proceed upon a f a lse and interested theory. One word on what are termed diplomas. The, prove nothing, unless there be unanimity in the bog granting them. They are to be bought by any per son for 301. or 40/. Hygeists treat them with the greatest contempt, because, in the first place, they tes tify to an untruth, in stating that the holder is initi ated into the art and mystery of medicine, and in the next, because they are, or profess to be, only granted to those who will conform to the opinions of an in terested body. Let us for one moment test the We' dical degree of Doctor by the following :—An igne rant Doctor of Laws can easily be detected; —an ignorant Doctor in Divinity can easily be detected; —an ignorant Doctor in Music can easily be de tected ;—an ignorant Astronomer can easily be de tected ;—the same may be said of a Navigator, * 'Watchmaker, and, in fact, of any other artist ;—but as to an ignorant Doctor in Medicine, him you can never detect : he may send people to a premature grave without the least suspicion ; provided he only know how to read, write, and spell, he will pso muster anywhere—and why not? Are not Doctor. most conveniently all of different opinions as to the cause and cure of diseases—don't they all prescribe differently ? And is not the public in a state o f pro found ignorance of medicine? How can he, there fore, be detected ? He must be very stupid indeed who cannot keep up the role of a Doctor in Medi' tine. This accounts at once for the poor Universities ..o the Continent wiling medical diplomas to ail; hotly who will have them for 301. or 401.; and though it is, in truth, an imposition, we do not see, much difference between a diploma th us o bt a i ne d ano, any other. It is only diploma s in m e di c i ne th a t 4' sell, all others are useless, inasmuch that an ignorant holder would he immediately detected. c,.nelri, , n, we Ina , - only to •tkly, tha , our cause V , 1 1 11 . 5. mesh should he !:is n doctorotna for this purpu-e, "A Guide rts , nt-S, " containing Cases of Cure o:' every disorder. v:ith the names and addresses of the parties, in all pqrs., of the world, is published at the low charge of 2d., i - : order to put it within the reach of all. It :s one of the prominent features of the llvgeian System, that every one shoulo he his own doctor. It certainly is to our interest that the Vegetable Universal Medicine should cure fig speedily as vossNe, whereas, with the Doctors, it ill their interest (since they charge for their attend ances) to keep you on the sick list as long as they can. In short, it would not pay them to simplify the mode of cure. The British College of Health owes its rise and progress entire!y to the people, and (unlike the trade of Doctors) does not require protection by arbitrary Acts of Parliament, the support of patio Judges, or the subscriptions of the rich to supPor " Hospitals," where a false doctrine (the Organic Theory) is fostered, by cutting up and making useless experiments on the ignorant and poor people who are so unfortunate as to fall into these houses of tortur e , and death. We contend that the Organic Theory e' the faculty is completely wrong, and a curse to man' kind, for it enslaves both body and mind; every dad proves it to be so. MORISON, MOAT, and CO., For and on behalf of the body of Hygeists' British College of Health, London, Ist Jan. 1845. , N.B.—Morison's Pills of the B r i t i s h C o ll ege Health, London, are not sold by Chemists an' Druggists. FATAL ACCIDENT on the LIVER' POOL AND LEEDS JUNCTION LINE. On Monday last a fatal accident occurred on that part of the North Junction Rail wa y, w hi c h i s carr ied on pillars between the New Bailey prison and til! Bolton Railway, and near, New Bailey-street, Saga , by which the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Coo' pany have lost one of their oldest servants—a mo ll well known and respected—Mr. John Forsyth, wba has been in the service of that Company, an generally stationed at Ordsal-lane, for a periv of seventeen years. The day was a yeri foggy one ; and he was proceeding along th e junction line towards Ordsal-lane, where he re; sided, when, a train c om i ng on f rom Liverpew' he stood close to the iron parapet on that side o f the line next the New Bailey prison. When the trail had passed, being deaf of the ri g ht ear (th e side BOA the rails), he did not hear o r p erce i ve an eng i ne 1 0: tender coming just behind him ' • and he stepped acres' the rails, when he was knocked down, his head lace; ated, and the engine wheels passed over the toes his right foot. The engine was instantly stopped ; but the poor man was found to be quite dead. What re, ders the case the more pai n f u l an d di s t ress i ng 1 9 ,051 his son was upon the engine, and saw the unfortly nate catastrophe, without having the least power 0 prevent it. Both father and son were on their will home, to attend the funeral of a daughter of the de' ceased. The son was upon the engine, having lost° leg some time ago by being run over by an engine' Another daughter was burned to death about twelve months ago, so that this may with truth be called 011 unfortunate family. An inquest was held on the body on Tuesday, be: fore Mr. Rutter, at th e neares t pu bli c -h ouse, one st_i' joining the r a il wa y, i n O r d sa l l ane, an d the $lO7 returned a verdict of " Accidental di-ath." The saul grave will recr , ive the remai ns o f b o th t h e father low daughter. --Manchester Guardian. We are infortned that, in commemoration of th e honour contl.rred on the mercantile community of tb,„ e ' City of London by his Royal Hi g h ness P r i nce Albert, 1' laying the first stone of the New Royal ExcharAge' opened for business yesterday afternoon, and in testimsoll of their loyalty and d e vot e d a tt ac h ment to h er M a jesty an d her illustrious Consort, who honoured with their pre sence the ceremonial of its inauguration, the merelualt e l bankers, shipowners, under w ri ters , an d ot h ers i nteres te' in the commerce of the City o f L on d on, propose (if *•:l3e royal permission be obtsined) to erect, by subscri , ltio l3, a full-length statue in marble of his Royal ll;,ghlie ° Prince Albert, t o b e pl ace d i n th e vest ib ule at Lloy d e' or in such other s itu a ti o n i n th e Royal Exchatigeasnislr „ with the approbation of the Gresham Committee, I hereafter d e t erm i ne d u p on . A C omm i ttee of socat the most influential merchants of the City is in coarse 0 ' formation to carry out the object. —Shipping GaZ4 ate. _ 0110 11111 BIRTHS. On the 27th ult., at Newick, Sussex, the lady of JO ° Hwy Hurdis, Esq., of a son, still-born. On the 28th ult., in Upp er Ch ar l emont - street, Dablin, the lady of Captain Money Kyrie, 32d Regiment, of a son. „,, On the 29th ult., the lady of Th omas Platwood Dartv'' Esq., of Preston, Huts of a daughter. On the 29th ult., at Lonsini ale-square, the wif e o f J. LovA, - the Inner Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., Mrs. Eldred, the wife of Edward Ela'' Esq., of the Middle Temple, of a son. On the 31st ult., at Springfield, "Herefordshire, the lad/ of J. W. R. Hall, Esq , of a son. On the 31st ult., at Islington, Mrs. Charles Furlonger, of s daughter. On the Ist inst., at Bedford-row, the lady of EdivArd- C. Holmes, of a daughter. _„ RIED MAR. On the 31 s t n i t. , at Trinity Church, Colden-common, the Rev. Edward Kilvert, B.A. Curate of Binsted, to Elizarie o f Emma, seco n d daughter of the late Majo r J. E. G a briel' the Hon. East India Company's Servic e . to On the 31st u lt . , at Wedmore, Somerset, 'William, el s ' to son of John G o ldi ng, E sq., Ditton-place, near Maidstoo 4 Sarah, third daughter of J. Barrow, Esq., Manor Wedmore. On the 31st u lt., a t S pe ldh urst, ' the Rev. George rr -112,nrcl, Rector of Lap wor th, l ate F e ll ow of Merton College, ( ./ 3 "'" of to Jane P owe ll , d aug h ter of the late Joseph Kaye, x.54.'' Wandsworth-common. -- - DIED. -.106 At Downham-road, Kingsland, Mr. William Locke, ti 64 ' of Walbrook, City. On the 4th ult., at Jersey, Edward George Bonins. - Esq., late a Lieutenant in the sth Dragoon Guards. a b, J On the 27th ult., a t Denmark-hill Camberwell, SO relict of the late R ev . J o h n Madgwick ones, M.A. A Oil On the 28th ult., a t Ch a th am-place East, Hackney, 4". Bailey, widow of J. Bailey, Esq., of Dalston. On the 30th ult., at Chertsey Surrey, Mrs. Sarah 1311)‘40. On the 30th ult., M r. Aaron Carter, of the King's Inn, High-street, Southwa r k. n the 30th ult., at Saville-place, Mile-end, 'Moo ° Daplyn, Esq., aged 85. VV. On the 30th ult., in the Close, Winchester, the Be-* 09 * Vaux, 8.D., Pr e b en d ary of Winchester Cathedral, age l rk, On the 30th ult., Mrs. Mary Bagnall, of Barusboryli relict of the late T. Bagnall, Esq., aged 85. On the 31st ult., at the Fishery, Boxinore, Harts, 'The els ' s Reynolds, Esq., aged 75. Dl st* On the 31st tilt., Mr. Th omas D e l arne Kipling , r , of St. tin's-lane. On the 10th ult., at Adrianople, John Kerr, Esq., b it 1311- tannic Majesty's Consul at that city. On the 24th ult., Mrs. Elizabeth Woodhani, aged 86. tiv , On the 27th ult., Miss Charlotte Jones, of Upper Se/ In° street West, Connaught -square. On the 28th ult . , at Abbey Lodge, Merton, S irrey, Fugrtb beth, wife of Captain G. 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