The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.— Another year has been added to British history—and a remarkable one it has been. Our in terest in the present is apt at such a time to give way to a keener interest in the past, and the indications it may yield of the future—and we willingly obey the impulse. The first glance at the doings of the past year is a satisfactory one. We see an aggregate of . advancement which is gratifying to us as men, and especially as Englishmen. But how much of this is due to the people, and how little to their Government —the former everywhere using their energies, already more fettered by legislative restrictions than those of any other people on the face of the earth, for great and good purposes ' • the latter looking idly on, or only adding to the fetters ! The last virtue which it is permitted to a weak Government to retain is cast overboard in the effort to magnify its waning strength. Laissez faire is impossible with a Govern ment whose chief desire is to be thought stronger than it is—so impertinent interference has, at length, be come the chief characteristic of British legislation. Of the more important Acts of an entire session, by far the greater number are for " regulating " matters which all political economy, worthy of the name, has hitherto deemed best left to themselves. We have stepped into the cotton factories and regulated their internal arrangements with a minuteness which might even excite the envy of some of our continental neighbours, and added one or two more (whether wisely or not, the result will show) to the restric tions which already hamper the poor in disposing of their labour to the greatest advantage. We have separated the Bank of England, at one stroke, into two departments, and imposed upon its operations a check, the effect of which no one pretends to foresee with any degree of certainty, but which all allow can only cease to be entirely inopera tive by becoming at least highly dangerous. We have taken all the railways in the kingdom under the especial charge of the Government; and dictated the amount of profit which private enterprise shall make under free competition. Joint-Stock Compa nies and Joint-Stock Banks have shared the same fate, and now find themselves very much at the mercy of the Board of Trade—a branch of the Government once known to the public chiefly by name, but now apparently intended to wield powers such as the British people have never yet accorded to any branch of their Government. The good measures proposed in the earlier part of the session were nearly all dropped in succession, for want of power to carry them through. Where legislation was most required nothing was done, or the evil was but tampered with. The only material step taken in a right direction was taken by stealth. Mr. Gladstone has yet to explain his views of the Sugar Duties Act. Two good old causes—the Corn-laws and " the Church"—have been severely damaged, rather more by their friends than their enemies. Societies for the Protection of Agriculture haye been got up and brought into a state of activity only to have their attention directed to the ample means of natural improvement, which are necessarily neglected under a protective system ; and their discussions turned unwillingly from the monopoly interests of the landlord to the just interests of the labourer. And at the same time the Church is shaken to its centre by paltry squabbles about matters of form. Education, under the auspices of Government, has made but little progress ; though the measures of the late Government have been distinctly adopted by the present, and have even found an able and energetic ex positor and defender in Lord Wharncliffe. And, in il lustration of what we have already said, we may observe that the attempt to introduce the obnoxious educational clauses into the Factories Regulation Bill has caused the people to do more for themselves than they have ever attempted at any former period. Abroad we owe much to fortune, something to the ability of subordinate officers, and nothing to the Ministry. In conciliating the great Powers of Europe, her Majesty's hospitality has been substituted for those great reforms of our international inter course which a wise regard to the demands of our most pressing internal wants, and the safety of our immense interests abroad, combine to urge upon the attention of the British statesman with a force which increases with every year of neglect. In India, if we have removed a Governor-General whose policy has done more to endanger the con tinuance of our ascendancy in that part of the world than all the errors and all the misfortunes which have marked our Indian Government since the days of Clive, we owe it to the independent spirit of a body of merchants having triumphed over the endeavours of tke Cabinet to preserve its protege at his post. In Canada, if the clouds which have so long obscured the horizon begin to disperse, it is because the Whig policy has been adhered to, and the skill and firmness of Sir Charles Metcalfe have escaped the pervert ing influence of a home Government conducted without any fixed principle. In New Zealand, the best promises of a rapid and successful colo risation, and the formation of a new and most important branch of our colonial empire, have been cheated of their due performance by the blun dering obstinacy of a Colonial Secretary whose per sonal qualities have recently been well summed up in the single term, "school-boyish." Unnecessary im port duties levied on articles the importation of which is most necessary to the advancement of the colony, and the extensive issue, among a scattered and strug gling population, of a small and inconvertible paper currency, sufficiently mark the competency of those who are at present entrusted with the direction of the affairs of one of the most valuable colonies we possess. These are no isolated instances of the policy of the present Government, at home and abroad. The same course, and the same results, meet us at every turn ; and we are compelled to see in them the natural fruit of an attempt to rule this country by the combined agency of a body of men who can only act together by a sacrifice of principle to expediency, and who can only retain power by adopting, as their own, • measures which in other hands have received their strongest condemnation. The coming session, how ever, promises a change for the better. The present Cabinct is evidently not fitted to weather the storm which mast assail it in any attempt to hold on its present courae. The departure of Lord Stanley from the house of Commons leaves the Premier without a rival, and his present followers with out a leader to rally under, should they abandon himself. A wide margin of surplus revenue gives scope for the application of a sweeping measure of fiscal reform ; and though the attempt to reduce to practice any large additional modicum of Sir R. Peet free-trade theory might result in an extensive seces sion from the ranks of his supporters, we have no reason to believe that the attempt, if judiciously made, will fail of ultimate success. And whatever else may arise from such a movement—whatever particular benefits may accrue from it to the great commercial interests of the country—will certainly be insigni ficant in comparison with those which must spring from the substitution, for a Ministry like the present, of one whose principles and conduct will be in accord ance, and to whom shuffling and hypocrisy will be unnecessary. STANDARD.—The former appeals in which it w a s once the custom of the conductors of news papers to address their readers, at the commence ment of each new year, have been pretty gene rally laid aside, from a sense of the inconvenience of binding ourselves to speak fully to some topics when there may he no topics presenting any very high or very satisfactory interest to treat. If the custom had not been upon these prudent grounds abandoned, there would be a great tempta tion to resort to it this day —for never in our history bad an English journalist so many and so solid grounds of congratulation to offer at the commencement of a year, as we have at this day. Thanks to the Giver of all Good, the whole of our political horizon scarcely presents a cloud, save one or two slight specks that are rapidly dimi n i s hi ng in distance, and upon t he ver y ver g e of sinking altogether from our view. Peace abroad, established upon principles of reciprocal ad vantage and reciprocal good-will, that afford the best pledge for its permanent continuance—peace at home, resting upon a basis no less firm—the real substantial union, and concurrence in the same honourable pur suits of industry, of all classes of the people. Dimi . Dished crime, to be f or the first time noticed in the re cords of a nation advancing' populationl wealth, and in refineme i n n t. and material Commercial prosperity unexampled.mprove . d education. pros perity never exceeded. Thedit Financial that threatened disorder or evil—thestni;',ing influences tion, the Anti-Corn-law League, theepeal Associa tion, heresy—all, if not extinct, aaguerin under the Tractarian auspices 4 da opens death blow. Under such happy the year which we commence this Have we not, as a nation and as indi y vidual solemn duty to pour out our hearts in sa thank fulness to Him to whom all this is due ? Have we not new cause to cherish the reli gious duty of hope—additional reason to abhor the gins of "fearfulness and unbelief?" The history of the last few years tells us plainly, as if the truth were written in characters of light, that our confi- Aence in the mercy of our Creator, and in the practica bility of improving the moral and material condition of our fellow creatures, ought to be unbounded. The numerical diminution of detected crimes in the last yea:—a diminution absolutely considerable, but much more considerable when we take it into ac count that every day adds to the amount and effi ciency of the means by which crimes are detected — this single testimony to the change in our social state, proves all that we claim to have conceded—proves that it o nly the Legi , lature, the Executive, and the more ',,tiluerit classes of the nation do their duty—the venny may be indefinitely elevated in the moral scale. The Legislature, the Executive, and the affluent , c l a ss's have begun the work, and they are already witnesses to its great success ; the current of crime, which from the beginning up to the present 4i;rne had been increasing, hail been effectually !HE 8,1114;:LIOND0N, TIIVRSDAY MOSNING, JANUARY 2, L 345 Prisoner (in a wandering manner)—Oh, that I was about to explain. I have been endeavouring for some time past to obtain employment suitable to my capacity and ac quirements ; but have been unable to find anything suit able. I have, consequently, no means of supporting myself, and am obliged to have a small amount advanced to me by my family in the country, to enable me to live and appear a little decent. I have overstrained the nerves of my head, and my memory is considerably impaired from not having had sleep. If I had had sleep instead of having been awake for 60, 70, or 80 hours, I should have been able to give you a more con sistent amount. Two persons who knew the prisoner (he lodged with one of them) stated that he had for some time com plained of noises in his head, and had fancied persons made a noise near his room ; but he had not before been known to imagine Mr. O'Connor to be one of those who annoyed him. He was a person of education and general mildness of demeanour. He never drank anything but cocoa and water. His family lived at Brighton, but were rater poor in eircumataibtes. Mr. aAnnixE, seeing that the prisoner was evidently insane, directed that he should be taken to the sur geon of St. Martin's parish, and after a medical opinion had been obtained, he would make an order re specting him. The magistrate told Mr. Canton that he regretted there was little chance of his getting paid for the damage done. The fact of it being over 5/. took it out of his jurisdiction. If the relations of tke pri soner should be in a situation to pay, he would advise them to do so. BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —Richard Elliot, described on. the police sheet as a tobacconist, re siding at No. 20, Bell-street, Paddington, and Richard Vincent, 19, Carlisle-street, Portman-market, omnibus driver, was brought up in the custody of the detective police, and placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, on Tues day, charged with burglariously entering the dwelling house of Mr. Thomas Cox, tailor, 29. Southampton straet, Strand, on the 26th Dec., and stealing therein va rious pieces of silk, linen, &c., to a considerable amount. The prisoner Elliot is the same person who was tried and acquitted about nine months back at the Oxford assizes, on a charge of having been concerned in steal ing the sum of 800 L from the boot of the Cheltenham coach. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defence. The prosecutor being sworn, said that shortly after ten o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 24th of Dec., he le* home for the purpose of going to Tonbridge Wells, from which, in consequence of a message he re ceived, he returned on the Thursday following, when he found that his premises had been broken open, and pro perty amounting to nearly 200/. had been taken away. The articles produced formed a portion of it, consisting of 460 yards of silk, value 1301., together with 18 pieces of linen, worth 201., and a great coat, the price of which was 41., which was take■ from the stand in the shop. There were also 146 yards of linen, being 8 pieces, with some remnants, and 82 yards of lavender-coloured silk, all of which bore his private mark. William Booker, foreman in the service of the prose cutor, stated that on Tuesday evening, about a quarter past eight o'clock, he fastened up the shop, and having locked the outer and side doors, he left the key of the front door in the lock inside. There was an iron bar running across to fasten the outer door on the inside, which was secure when he left, and the key of the side door he took with him. A man and his wife slept in an apartment under the shop, which he considered was a sufficient guarantee for the protection of the property in the absence of the prosecutor, who also resided on the premises. About twenty minutes before eight o'clock on. Wednesday morning he went to the house with the intention of openiag the shop, when he found he could not unlock the side door with the key he had locked it with, and after several attempts, the boy who was with him also tried, but without effect, and after examining it with a candle, and no damage appearing to be done, he sent for a locksmith, who upon seeing it said violence had been used, and ultimately the lock was forced open with a chisel. On entering the shop he found the goods in great disorder, there being fifteen silk rollers, which were full when he left the house, com pletely bare, one of the drawers in the counter open, from which a great coat was taken, the bar removed from the front door, and the key taken out of it. He then made'William Hart, who slept in the apartment under the shop, acquainted with the circumstance, and dispatched him to the station•house to give information to the police. There were also eighteen pieces of linen removed from the pile, which were the same as those produced, and he believed the lavender-coloured silk to be the same that had been stolen. Inspector Shackle, of the detective force, proved that he made inquiries about the robbery up to Saturday last, when he received information that Elliott had gone into a public-house in the Coal-yard, in Drury-lane, and having watched, saw him come out about four o'clock in the afternoon with a tall man, and after following them into Lincoln's Inn-fields, he lost sight of them. Ile then returned to the public-house, and received the piece of lavender-coloured silk, consisting of seventeen yards, from Mrs. Dismore, the landlady, and on Monday, having gone to the prisoners, because he saw Vincent come out, carrying a bundle, 'and as he passed into the Edgeware-road, he was stopped by another officer, when be said he would convey them to the place and person from whom he had purchased the contents. They accordingly went into the Key public-house, in Ball- street, where the prisoner said, " That is the per son (pointing to Elliot) from whom I got the property," which he denied. lie then took Elliot into custody, and found upon him the halves of six 51. Bank of England notes joined together, but with different numbers and dates, two notes of the Buffalo Bank, with patterns of silk that had been cut off the piece produced. There was also a piece of silk found in the first floor of Elliot's house, with some duplicates and half notes of part of 850/. that had been stolen from the Leicester Bank. On entering the house, the prisoner desired witness and the other officer to search and take what they liked from the premises. Witness then produced a list of the articles found, which we.a handed to the Learned Counsel. Cross-examined—There were also two gold watches, with a chain and some plate, which he had reason for detaining. Mrs. Dismore, landlady of the King's Arms, in the Coal-yard. declared she could not swear tc the man she had bought the silk from on Saturday, for If ss. 6d., as it was handed to her through a window by another per son. There were several persons in front of the bar at the time ; but the silk was in the possession of only one person, of whom she had no recollection. Mr. JARDINE said he should take care to note such conduct in a person keeping a licensed public-house ; fur the property was bought for about a quarter of its value. Inspector Haynes, after corroborating the greater part of the other inspector's statement, said that when the prisoners were confronted in the public-house, Elliot at first denied, bat then admitted, the other had the linen from him. There were memorandums found on Vincent, mentioning the number of yards in two pieces of the linen ; some duplicates relating to valuable property, and other articles. On searching Elliot's house they found a piece of violet-coloured silk, containing 47 yards and upwards, folded up, from which the patterns had been cut, and another piece of the same colour between a bed and mattress, and in the parlour two pieces of linen ; also a third in a bed-room, with others having the prosecutor's private mark. There were also six notes of the Bath Bank, and three halves of Bank *1 England notes found on the mantel-piece, with other property. This being the whole of the evidence for the present, Mr. JARDINE ordered the prisoners to be remanded; at the same time giving directions to Superintendent Pearce to make a report of the landlady of the , public house in the Coal-yard to the licensing magistrates, and, in case no notice was taken by them of the circum stance, he would take care to represent it in a quarter where tlre subject would meet with the attention it deserved. • _ _ checked—has been even made to retrogade. Is not this the highest of encouragements to persevere ? The Legislature, the Executive, and the affluent, thus encouraged, are persevering, and under the pro vidence of Him who has prompted them so far, they will persevere. They have made the dis covery, a discovery, alas ! too long concealed or neglected, that the character of the humble class of Englishmen comprises all the elements of good ness that can be found in human nature, and comprises them probably in richer abundance than they can be found in any other order of mankind. Our people are naturally patient, laborious, enterprising, firm lovers of truth, just, grateful, affectionate, merciful, and with the strongest tendency to religious feeling. These are the materials upon :which those who wield the power of the community, whether they are in public or in private stations (and immeasurably the greater portion of that power is in private hands) have to deal. And for the result they who have the power owe a heavy responsibility here and hereafter. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM TUB MORNING TAPERS OF YESTERDAT. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold gives an exchange of 25 45 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 574, it follows that gold is 0.49 per cent. dearer hi London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 434 1 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 110 k per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.68 per cent. in favour of England,. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the bove difference. THE PAST YEAR. The year that is past has been, beyond all recorded parallel, a year of successful peace. As such, one can hardly expect it to contain much that is remarkable. The events of peace are seldom so conspicuous as the events of war, and regular legislation passes almost un observed by that vast majority of minds which suffer themselves to be dazzled by sudden and violent change. Yet the quiet developments of tranquil days are often far more important and abiding in their real issues than the showy miracles of war. The most prudent, as well as the most audacious conqueror, in the justest as well as in the most flagitious cause, may live to see all the fruits of con quest torn away, or all the careful settlements of dearly purchased treaties utterly annulled. An empire may boast an unrivalled series of victories and conquests, which to all profitable purposes, might as well have been performed in the cheap and bloodless arena of the theatre or the circus, for the amusement of chil dren, instead of the vexation and hurt of man kind. They only warn the world of an ambition perpetually overreaching itself. By no sound test do we fear a comparison of the past year with any former eras, however they may seem to stand out in the page of history ; nor are we afraid to predict that pos terity will thus regard it. There are grounds for a con fident hope that we are at a turning point in the path of civilisation, at a beginning of better things. Even in a world of unforeseen accidents, incalculable forces, and passions ever ready to burst their bonds, honest endea vours after the general peace and welfare, though ever so thwarted, are never quite thrown away. To say that we are still at peace with all the world might seem only an old story. But the last year has singularly abounded in earnests of international amity of a most encouraging character. Two of the most powerful potentates of Europe and the world have personally interchanged with our Sovereign assurances of affection and respect. Usually regarded as the heads of opposite principles and interests—as the two extremes of the European family, we have seen them bent on the same errand, accordant in the same peaceful design, of which our Sovereign has been made the felicitous type and centre. In the one visit we beheld the renewal of a long friend ship ; in the other, the now happily established re paration and oblivion of a long and disastrous hostility. It is thirty years since this island was equally, if then equally, honoured. It was then to heal a feud, and in cidentally to humble a rival. The reception our visi tors then met with was of that mixed sort which agreed too well with the painful variety of its circumstances, and the scarcely extinguished fires of war. The less questionable object of our recent visitors secured for them an unanimous welcome. But compliments and professions are proverbially hollow. Trial is necessar7 to ascertain their value. On two occasions the necessi ties of empire, and the impetuosity or personal vanity of subordinates, have threatened to cloud our relations with one of these great Powers. More than ordinary wisdom, and something more than wisdom itself, was called for to avert, without weakness and discredit, a collision really so dreadful and seemingly so near. Passions had betrayed themselves which needed only to be met in kind, as apt to be, to involve all Europe in a blaze, and cast away in one idle hour the care fully-saved and accumulated benefits of a whole age of peaceful progress. Both parties came with honour out of these perilous differences. They showed to the world that they were rather maintaining a friend ship than overcoming a jealousy. In the largeness of one common cause, the common cause of all nations, they perceived the just dimensions of a false nationality and an empty glory. And it is only expressing a general belief, to say that such are the growing feelings of the whole European continent. All seem conspiring for peace. No one now apprehends a war, even of prin ciples, or claims for his country the solitary and dabious honour of holding the balance in that fearful struggle. Not so unsocial is the part each nation now demands, not so intrusive are the methods it proposes to employ. Yet in a sure but silent way, the British empire is ful filling a peaceful and beneficent destiny, which tells rather in other nations than upon them, and is matter as much for their domestic as for their political historians. It is becoming an European conviction that every par ticular State is 'deeply interested in the peace and good government—the prosperity and improvement of every other. As it is an unspeakable benefit to us that our island is not planted in an impassable ocean, is not sur rounded by deserts, or savages,or indolent and unproduc tive tribes of men, but by brothers in race, and genius, and cultivation, so is every step of our further progress tied to theirs. The more we can refine their habits, the more will they be ready to receive ; the more we can increase their resources, the more will they be able to give. Their crippled powers, their burdened finances, their restricted commerce, their discouraged industry, their humbled spirits and checked expectations, are little less our injury than theirs. Never was this community of interest so recognised as at the present moment. Never was it so proved by the universal evidence of facts, by the political and commercial condition of every nation in the world, as in this past year. And, as far as this country is con cerned, to the existing Government must be conceded a chief share in establishing that opinion, and still more in bringing about those facts. In no former year has the commerce of the country been more flourishing and more hopeful. Never was the national credit in a better state, and Government able to assume so bold a tone with the public creditor. Never before did so grievous a burden as‘ the income-tax lie so lightly on the industry and temper of the people. Never was there so large a surplus. Never was the currency and the banking system in a healthier and securer state. And these are important, though not very poetical, superlatives. Further from home, the Chinese treaty has thus far not disappointed the most sanguine anticipations. In India, thus far, the ambitious temerity of the late Governor-General has not been convicted by any further ill results. The sub stitution of a wiser head has arrested the danger. Still the empire increases. In the universal wreck of native thrones, the British name is the only stability, and grows by surviving change. Scarce a whisper of resist ance, scarce a tronsour of agitation remains. To all ap pearances a long and prosperous dominion is there be fore us. In British America, thus far, firmness and dis cretion have built on the ruins of rebellion a loyal and reasonable Legislature. These are but fleeting pros- Wperities, and therefore to be thanked for year by year. Within our own shores, the year has been marked by the absence of any serious political agitation. Be it good or ill, party has been all but confounded and destroyed. The Anti-Corn-law League has been stroked down to civility, and almost to si lence, by some concession and much prosperity. Their craft has been taken from them. The determination exhibited against the Irish Repealers appears to have answered all the purposes of a verdict. To a judicial storm has succeeded comparative national calm. The faction enjoys the name, rather than the fruits of victory. Meanwhile, methods securer than State trials are already in various stages of design and actual operation, which promise to impart to Ireland at last the duties and the blessings of the British rule. Pity that there should be one dark spot to mar the brightness of this re trospect, and this still brighter future. But that one is oo dark, too large to be hidden, and will be told. The nation thrives, but the people deteriorate. The Irish peasant and the English their wch labourer ret edn have ess. not h suneen this ofyear any remission of pros perity shines, but n ot for them. The departing year llicwaslz—T ft t h i e m ir es.condition the subject of the day—but no n TRIBUTE OF RE...01 1 pEoT TO TI . I v E lt, we understand, to pay the t r ib u t e o f respect to Mr, Mau MIT HON. Fox MsuLE, M.P.—lt has been reso e 1 n b with a superb carpet of needlework.several ladies in e, v presenting him Perth, an d i n other parts of the country, have been hidio. beenp: ofr mitted to contr ib ute to t hi s wor k, although i the Aberdeen h ave t h e mer i t o f or i g i n ating the proposal. Theingenuity od an ue d in g g oo a d t w as o te rk of credit to them, w hil e it is intended to do honour to o ne of whichtbe wlaidlii,es doubtless, do will be well Scotland's t ruest patriots, and most talented statesmen. , —Dundee Warder. [ADVERTISEMENT -3—AN ExTrtaosoilklA-Wr Cots OF A BAD LEG AT HORNCASTLE, BY HOLLOt74Y'B PILLS AND OINTMENT l—A few days since Mr. John Simpson, a highly-respectable bookseller in that town, states that a gentleman of his acquaintance had been suffering for pars, from one of the worst descriptions of bad legs, frequently enduring the most excruciating pain. He had been under the care of several medical men with out obtaining the least benefit. This gentleman, how. ever, has just been cured by these invaluable medicines, after every other treatment failed. The Ointment will cure chilblains and chapped hands in a few hours. Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. LA `Y INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 1. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN RS M. EDMONDS. The insolvent, a beer-shop keeper in Somers -town, ap plied for his interim order, but was opposed for Mr. Thomas Harris, brewer, Hampstead-read, the only cre ditor. The matter was, however disposed of, by Mr. Harris being appointed assignee. IN RE HAMMOND UPTON. The insolvent, a farmer, near Margate, was opposed by Mr. Woodruffe, on the part of a Dr. Chambers, on a judgment debt. After judgment had been obtained, a deed of dissolution was entered into between the insol• vent and his mother-in-law, with whom he had been in partnership. The examination was rather amusing, as, amongst the list of creditors, no less than six or seven tailors, four wine merchants, and sundry perfumers ap peared. The schedule disclosed no assets. Mr. Cooxx, for the insolvent, granted that the sche dule did not appear to disclose anything, and he craved some short time to prepare a more satisfactory one. a he interim order was consequently deferred. THE TALICKR COMPANY.—IN THE MATTER OF JOHN DAVIS. The insolvent, a director, in 1839.40, of the far famed Talacre Coal Company, petitioned the Court. He was supported by Mr. Sturgeon, and opposed by Mr. Cooke, for the Talacre Company, and by Mr. Wilde, on the part of William Littlejohn, Secretary to the said company. Mr. STURGEON contended that his Learned Friend, Mr. Cooke, had no locus standi in that Court. The Hort. COMMISSIONER would wish to know for whom Mr. Cooke appeared ? If, as he said, for the Talacre Company, he (the Commissioner) would wish to see the deed or charter constituting that company. Per haps the Learned Counsel would mention names, as it had been almost judicially determined that corporations had no consciences.—(Laughter.) Mr. COoEE—Then the principal member of the corpo ration could have co possible conscience, for he (Mr. Cooke), if allowed, would be prepared to prove that a sum of 30,0004 which aught to have appeared in his schedule, was omitted. He (Mr. Cooke) appeared for Mr. Chappelow and Messrs. Handyside and Taylor. The deed of the Company was, he believed, in Ireland; at all events he had it not in Court. Mr. Commissioner FoNBLANQUE—I shall always strictly require companies of this nature to prove their existence by deed or charrer. I know the mischief that accrues to the public from them, and sitting here, I will give them no sort of encouragement. Mr. WILDE said that he appeared for a creditor, Mr. Littlejohn, and the objection did not therefore apply to him. Mr. STURGEON objected to his Learned Friend re ceiving any instruction from Mr. Asharst's clerk, it hav ing been already decided that he had no standing in that Court. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE would lay down no rule upon the subject, but such oral instruction from a foreign party would be certainly very inconvenient. Mr. WILDE would, with all deference to his Honour's opinion, where a seeming fraud had been committed by some one, receive information from whatever quarter, with the intention of laying the circumstances of that fraud before his Honour and the public, and therefore in the exercise of what he conceived a proper discretion, and until obliged to desist by an order from his Honour, he would go on as he had already done. The insolvent was then examined with a view of proving that he was a trader, and, therefore, (as an in solvent) out of the jurisdiction of the Court. (The case was still proceeding when we went to press.) 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 employment of Messrs. Price and Co., perfumers, stated that the de 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 Loan MAYOR (to the shopman)—Who called you at the back of the shop ? The shopma*--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 Loan MAYOR—There is no occasion for more words. Defendant, you are discharged. A female of respectable appearan but appearieg 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 rOlahed her of all her clothes, and taken away with him the servant-maid ; that she had struggled 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 ad dresses, and seemed desirous, upon his suggestion, to seek the humane interference of the Lord Mayor. The Loan 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 par!imour everything of the least - value: HO bad 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 Loan 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—l think they would not refuse, my Lord. chose of my own family who are within my reach are poor, with large families. The LORD MAYOR—You shall be taken care of b 3 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. Samuel Gregory, a person whose manner indicated a great degree of excitement, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, on Tuesday, charged with having broken plate-glass worth 101., at the lhouse of Mr. Canton, the dentist, in St. Martin's-lane. Mr. Davis, a solicitor, stated that he was at Mr. Canton's house on Monday evening, when the prisoner came and asked for Mr. Feargus O'Connor. lie told him that that gentleman dtd not lire there, and he went away. Presently he came again, and was again in formed that Mr. O'Connor did not live there. After some hesitation he went away, and witness went up stairs to the drawing-room. But he had scarcely got to the top of the stairs when he found that the prisoner had followed him.• He again asked for Mr. O'Connor, and appeared disposed to persist in saying that ha did lire there. Mr. Davis said, "I told you before that he did not live here ;" and after some hesitation the prisoner went down, but just as he had got outside the door, and Mr. Davis was about to shut it, he turned round and smashed the glass to atoms. Mr. Ji,nriasE asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge ? Prisoner—Your worship means, have I any extenu ating circumstances to relate ? JARDINE.—I ask you generally if you have any thing to say in ewplanation of having broken the glass ? Prisoner—Oh, decidedly. In the first place, I beg to say I have not the means of paying so large a sum as 104 i some smaller sum, perhaps, I might pay. If I had known what I had been about, of course I should not have done what I did, so far, at least, as worldly prudence is concerned. I should also tell your worship t h a t j hgve had no sleep for many nights past, in con• sequence of tile 4nnoyance I have experienced from Mr. O'Connor and several other riotous persons making a disturbance about my apartments. From that cause I have had nu bleep for the last six nights ; what little I have had was one afternoon—during the day timp. N ow that, as your worship must be well aware, makes a great difference in the bearing of a person, and gives the ima gination a great predomination over the judgment. That being explanation of my conjugt ; but, perhaps your worship the ease, I dare say I shall n ot g ive a ver y g ood would rather that I should give eten a i•sid P*PiktPt4on that none at all.—(A laugh.) Mr. JABDINR—Have you been living in London Ions? - LAMBETH. TEE Peisortuns' Cx.u.s.—Mr. Cook, the gaoler, re ported to the Magistrate that the cells were extremely damp, and in consequence of the length of time in which the prisoners had been confined, from ten o'clock in the morning until seven in the evening, two of them com plained of being ill, which, on examination, he found to be the case ; one of them, a female, became so unwell, that she was taken with a shivering fit, and he was com pelled to take her out of the cell and place her before the fire until she partially recovered. Mr. Cook added, it was a great many hours for a prisoner to be confined in the cells (from ten until seven) before the arrival of the vans to convey them to prison. Mr. HENRY said steps must be immediately taken to remedy this defect, and the clerk of the works must see that the cells were properly warmed, so that no unne cessary punishment or seriotet consequences • might be inflicted on the prisoners who had the misfortune to be locked up. Mr. Cook said the Magistrate's desire should be im mediately communicated to the clerk of the works. CLERKEIV WELL. A young man of dissipated appearance was charged with creating a disturbance and annoying Mr. Bardon, a respectable coffee-house keeper, in St. Luke's. The prisoner went into the coffee-shop between twelve and one o'clock this morning, sat down, and began to hoot and halloo, so as to disturb the sleeping inmates. He then used the most abominably obscene language he asked for coffee, but the landlord, who had previously been repeatedly annoyed by him, refused to serve him, and he became more noisy and indecent than before. Mr. eimsE said the landlord would have acted more prudently if he' had served the pritoner, as he had ten dered the money. Police-constable, 145 G, said he knew the prisoner as a thief. The landlord said the prisoner was an utterer of base coin, and an associate of the worst characters. The prisoner was cautioned and discharged. HAMMERSMITH. ROBBERY BY A. SERYANT.—//enry Rickard Law,, foreman to Mr. H. Oak, butcher, of High-street, Ken sington, was brought up before Mr. Clive, on Tuesday morning, for final examination, on a charge of having robbed his employer of a quantity of meat ; and James Garlick, a jobbin g butcher, who refused to give his address, was also charged with receiving the same, knowing it to be stolen. Policeman Haswell, T 133, deposed that, on the morning of Sattirdity 1a t, about five o'clock, while en duty in High-st reet , Kensington, he saw the prisoner Garlick walkin g up a n d down in front of Mr. Oak's shop. About t wenty m i nutes a fterwards, he suddenly lost sight of Garlick for about two minutes, and then he saw him come from under Mr. Oak's gateway, which is two doors distant from his shop, carrying a large bundle, accompanied by the prisoner Laws The latter then went into Mr. Oak' s s h o p, and Garlick went up Church street with th e b un dl e. Witaess followed him until he came to the G eorge pu bli c -house, in Churnh,lane, when he stopp e d hi m, and asked him what he had in the bundl e . Th e pr i soner G ar li c k said that it contained some meat, which he had bought at New gate-market. Witness told him that would not do for him (witness), glad that be must go with him to the station-house. Witness then took Garlick collar, and on the way to the station-house he resisted violently by twisting himself round to get from witness. At the station-house witness found the bundle contained a leg of mutton, weighing 101 lbs., a saddle of mutton weighing 124 lbs., and 2 lb. 6 oz. of beef-steak. Witness then went to Mr. Oak's shop and saw the prisoner Laws, and said to him, " I want you about that meat." He said, " I don't know anything about it." I then took him into custody. Mr. H. Oak deposed that the leg and saddle of mutton and the steak were his property, and were safe in his shop at ten o'clock on Friday night when he went to bed. The prisoner Laws was his foreman, and had been in his service about two years. Did not know anything of the prisoner Garlick. Witness had reason to believe that he had been robbed to the extent of 1501. in the above manner. The prisoner Laws declared that he bad never seen the prisoner before, and that the meat was not Tlr. Oak's, of his taking. The prisoner Garlick simply said that he was not guilty. Both prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial. CORONERS' INQUESTS. DEATH OF A. GENTLEMAN Or FORTUNE PROM Pftustac AClD.—Tuesday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the Holly Bush Tavern, Hampstead, on the body of Frederick Clissold, Esq., aged 52, who died at that house on Saturday last, under very painful and singular circumstances. The deceased belonged to one of the oldest and most opulent families in the county of Suffolk. Three brothers of the deceased, and several other relatives were present at the inquest, amongst whom were observed the Rev. Augustus Clissold, )LA., rector of Stoke Newing ton ; the Rev. W. Clissold, rector of Wrenton, Suffolk ; and the Rev. Arthur Clissold. The evidence in substance was as follows : George Higgs, waiter at the Holly Bush Tavern, de posed—l was the first person who saw Mr. Clissold after he was t'ead. He was then in bed. On Friday after noon he came to the Holly Bush and ordered dinner, with which he drank half-a-pint of port. He took tea at seven o'clock, and immediately afterwards retired to rest, giving me specific directions not to call him. He remained in his bed• room until two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, when I went and knocked at his door several times, but receiving no answer, I entered the room and found him in bed. Life was extinct, and had apparently been so for some time. When deceased went to bed on the Friday evening he was quite sober. The Rev. Augustus Clissold said—l am rector of Stoke Newington. The deceased was my brother, and during the last few months he has been residing at 21, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square. He has for a long time laboured under extreme mental depression, and has been und.•r the care of Dr. Copeland. At one time he took tincture of digitalis, and subsequently he had re course to tobacco and opium as a remedy for his com plaint. A short time since he said to me, " I have found out a medicine better than any I have ever yet used, and I now think I shall be well." Mr. W A KLEY—It was another poison, I suppose ? The Reverend Mr. Clissold—Yes, Sir. It was prussic acid, of which afterwards he took large quantities. He was a man of very studious habits, and has for some years been engage d on a metaphysical work, which he expected to complete in about fifteen or sixteen years. Ido not think my brother took an over-dose of poison with a view to destroy life. No man would sooner have revolted at the idea. My ,belief in this respect amounts to a moral certainty. Mr. Herbert Evans, surgeon, of Hampstead, deposed to being called in to see deceased, who had been dead some hours. He did not smell of poison, but there were two bottles on his table, one containing laudanum, and the other prussic acid. Both were labelled " poison." Had no doubt but the immediate cause of death was an over-dose of prussic acid. Verdict, " That the deceased died from taking an over-dose of prussic acid." SUICIDE IN CRIPPLEGITE. —Tuesday evening, at six o'clock, Mr. Payne, the City coroner, and a respectable jury, assembled in the board-room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Noah Flood, aged 40, lately carry ing on the business of newsvender in Whitecross street, Cripple gate, who committed suicide, after first attempting to destroy his only child. Mrs. Alice Smith, of No. 206, Upper Whitecross street, after describing the discovery of Mr. Flood in a dying state, said, I knew he was very much depressed in his mind on account of recently losing his wife, whom he buried but a few days previously. He often said to me that he was in such trouble he did not know what to do. He was much attached to his wife, but never spoke to me of destroying himself. The child is about eight years of age. _ - By the jury—The child was out of bed and retching, but I cannot say whether she had taken an) thing dele- terious or not. The deceased was very much attached to the child. Mrs. Catherine Scott, of No. 5 1 , Whitecross-street, said—l have known deceased and his late wife about five years, and attended her during her illness. I saw the deceased at half-past ten o'clock on Friday night, when he appeared very much depressed. I had been ill that day, and not able to dress the child, which I had done for him since the death of his wife. On telling him of ray illness, he said, " If anything occurs to you what will become of my child ?" After some further conver sation, he made use of ti:e following :—" If I should die, Mrs. Scott, I have one requeA to make—that is, that you will bury me by the side of my wife, and follow me as you did her." Shortly after I left him. By the jury—He shook hands with me, and hoped I should be better. One thing that greatly depressed him wes the refusal of a Mrs. Thomas to watch over his child, after she had promised the mother, in her dying moments. so to do. He was a most kind father. The child had been put to bed before I saw him. Robert Groom and Daniel Douglas, two City police constables, spoke to going into the room and finding a bottle and glass which had contained laudanum, and a piece of raper to the following trif,et : " My wish is to be buried with my poor wife ;. and Mrs. Scott, of 51, Whitecross-street, and Mrs. Kings mill, living at a cornchandler's, near St. Giles's Church, should bury me, and have all my goods. " NOAH FLOOD." Mr. J. P. Hurlock, resident medical officer at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital—On Saturday last, about one o'clock, all means were resorted to to try and rouse him, but without effect, and he died in two hours after his ad mission. The cause of death was opium. Catherine Elizabeth Flood, an intelligent child, said— I am eight years of ege, and was in the habit of sleep ing with my father, in the same bed. On Friday night I was awake when my father came up to bed. When he came into the room, he poured some stuff out of a white bottle into a wine-glass. I heard him drink it, but I did not see him, and then be got into bed. After he had been there about five minutes he got up again, and I, supposing he was going for his papers, said, " Father, do not go yet ; you are such a comfort to me." When I saw him take the stuff, I screamed, but no one came. I sat up in bed all night, and did not sleep. I put my band to his mouth, and found he did not breathe. He was habituated to breathing hard. By the jury—He put me to bed between nine and ten o'clock, when he gave me a table spoonful out of the same bottle.--(Great sensation.) I felt a burning pain in my throat and chest when I drank it. When he gave it me he said, " Here is some medicine I have brought from Mr. Doughty's, and I am going to take some my self." I drank all he gave me, and was sick in a minute or two after. He asked me if I would have any more, and 1 said, "No ; I can't take any more." lam posi tive I was awake all night, as I heard all the chicks strike. Mr. William Ponder, of Redcross-street, surgeon, found the deceased in a state of coma, evidently from the effects of some narcotic poison. The child had been violently sick. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." COMMITTAL OF A DRUGGIST FOR MAPISLAUGHTEI, —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, druggist, 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 shrspman to take back the Epsom salts and give him one ounce of the tasteless salts instead. The shopman com plied, as he imag:ned, 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 h. 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 five 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 tbund 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., continu,d unabated. Not wishing to depend upon himself, he called in Pr, Maj ,, r, 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— lie 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 lip., 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 wige e4trlc nally of a purple red colour, After o t e§pribirig shoe 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 Corr 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 CpuoNpii, having daly cautioned the Measrs, Watkins, asked them whether they admitted having sold the tartaric acid in mistake to docuased ? Several jurors —Yes, they have admitted this on the first day. Mr. Watkins, sen.—l admit that it was sold in my 8191. Mr. Watkins, jun.--I cannot deny having made the mistake. CORONER (addressing Messrs. Watkins)—You hag better retire, and consider what reparation you can make the widow for 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 tn , laneholy catastrophe. Mrs. Watts recalled—All she received from Mr. Wat kins amounted to 25., 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 he was con veyed to gaol. The jury afterwards raised a subscription on behalf of the widow. DEATH IN THE QUEEN'S PRlSON.—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 authoritie.3, and wanted for nothing. Mr. Edward Solomons said that he could have arfanged 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 fern living. Verdict—" Natural death." [ADVERTISEMENT.) ANNUAL REPORT of the BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW-ROAD, LONDON, FOR 1844. 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 s 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 may judge for yourselves of the 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 the 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 lay the late James Morison, and the article written by him in 1825 may be found in the " Abridged Morisoniana," 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 °ace accounts for the universal suc cess of the Vegetable Medicine, in spite of all the interested opposition which we have had to contend 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! I am taking Brandy or Poll Wine medicinally, by the advice of my Doctor." Now the people have tound 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 41\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 do - übt 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. Would 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! it's all very well, hut how will you carry it out ?" and so forth; there fore we repeat, that,the Vegetable Purgative, known as " Morison's Pills," ur " Vegetable Universal Me dicine," is the best medicine known to us. It has been tried by I:undreds of thousands throughout the world during the las' twenty years, with the happiest results. If the Doctors can bring out a better pur gative, and prove it to be so by practical experience, ours must of course give 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, in his book, " Hamilton on Purgatives," '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 light. As regards the progress of the Hygeian System, we have the satisfaction to state, that 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, mist retrograde. We are unanimous. The Doctors are all at variance, and must be, so long as they proceed upon a false and interested theory. One word on what are termed diplomas. They prove nothing, unless there ha unanimity in the bag grantiv Meta. They are to be bought by any per ion for 301. or 401. 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 awl 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 me dical degree of Doctor by the following :-An igno rant Doctor of Laws en easily be detected;—an tocrapt Doctor in Divinity can easily be detected ; 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, a 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 pass master anyvc:here—and why not? Are not Doctors most conveniently all of different opinions as to th e cause and cure of diseases—don't they all prescribe differently ? And is not the public in a state of pro found ignorance of medicine 'l+ How can he, there fore, be dateoted ? He must be very stupid indeed who cannot keep up the role of a Doctor is Medi tine. This accounts at once for the poor Universities on the Continent selling medical diplomas to arY: body 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 thus obtained and any other. It is only diplomas in medicine that will sell, all others are useless, inasmuch that an ignorant holder would be immediately detected. In conclusion, we have only to say, that our cause is yours. Every man should be his own doctor, and for this purpose, " A Guide to Patients," containing Cases of Cure of every disorder, with the names and addresses of the parties, in all parts of the world, is published at the low charge of 2d., in order to put it within the reach of all. It is one of the prominent features of the Hygeian System, that every one should be his own doctor. It certainly is to our interest that the Vegetable Universal Medicine should cure as speedily as possible, whereas, with the Doctors, it is their interest (since they harge 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 entirely to the people, and (unlike the trade of Doctors) does not require protection by arbitrary Acts of Parliament, the support of partial Judges, or the subscriptions of the rich to supperC " 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 torture and death. We contend that the Organic Theory Of the faculty is completely wrong, and a curse to man' kind, for it enslaves both body and mind; every day proves it to be so. MORISON, MOAT, and CO„ For and on behalf of the body o f IlyweisM. British College of Health, London, Ist Jan. 345. , N. B.—Morison's Pills of the British College Health, London, are not sold by Chemists and Druggists. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY .) CORN EXCHANGE. We had very little English Wheat on sale today. yet the demand for it was in a sluggish state, at p r evious quotations. In Foreign Wheat very little was doing , yet prices were supported. The sale for Barley and Malt was very inactive, at late rates. Oata, B eans , and Peas, as on Monday. vilirrzcsArzz. The supply of Meat on sale to-day was only moderate , yet the demand was heavy, at our quotations. Beef , from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Volt 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d, per 81bs. COAX. Prices per ton at the of the market :—Chester Main, 24s 6d ; W. E., Acorn Close, 25s ; W. E., Bell and Brown, 26s ; W.-E.. Heaton, 26s ;W. E., When' cliffe, 265; W. E., Lambton, 275; W. E., Lumley, 25 5 , ; W. E., Stewart's, 27s ; W. E., Adelaide, 27 s ; W. L. , Evenwood, 25s 6d ; W. E., Seymour Tees, 26s ; W. Bs South Durham, 26s ; Brancepeth Coke, 30s ; Garnani Stone, 2&s ; Graigola, 24s 6d ; Lewiss Merthyr, 225 ; W. E., Killingworth, 25s.—Ships arrived, 23. THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT ASHFORD. Immediately after the verdict of felo 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 be buried between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night, and without 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 0 deep interest in the melancholy affair. The rnur' darer was not buried until Monday night, about ten o'clock, in the presence of Messrs. Hignet and Mel' 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 0 ' 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 since 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 charge, 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 knife from his pocket and cut his throat in such a dreadful manner that he died almost immediatelY. The other case was that of an exciseman in Wales, named Davis, who had been ordered up to London by the Commissioners to be reprimanded for somemis; conduct. It appeared that the circumstance prayo upon his mind, and he destroyed himself in a corn field 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 in!, been lowered into the grave, the mother looked on 1 " for the last time, and exclaimed, "Ah, my boy, thel, have buried you like a dog; but, never mi n d, Go will forgive you, and take you to heaven !" Slo b then walked a wa y, a pp aren tly very littl e conce r ne d 1 1 what had taken place, or the awful ceremony s he bed just witnessed. Since the inquest every inquiry 146 been made to endeavour to ascertain where the de' ceased man had obtained the poison, which was th e cause of his death, but hitherto without success. Th e little boy and girl are perfectly recovered, and they have since been removed to the Brentford Union, to which they belong. CHILD LOST ON WIMBLEDON-COMMON.—SAGAGaI OF A Doc.—On Friday morning, about six o'clock, Itir' Goddard, a farmer at Wimbledon, lives out on th e common, with his dog, sParching f or some sheep that had wandered from his land, when his attention was at tracted to the singular actions of the animal, which re' peatedly ran to and from a clump of bushes. The dog barked, took hold of his master's coat , and showed other manifestations of a desire to lead his master to the bushes. Mr. Goddard, thinking that one of his missis% sheep might be there, went to the spot, and was su e : pried to find a boy not more than six years of age lyilt asleep under the lee of the shrubs. Mr. Goddard awoke the poor child, w h o was b enum b e d w i t h co ld, and low some difficulty ascertained that his name was Sleptol the son of a labouring man at Wimbledo n , and the in crossing the common on his way from lioehampld° a to his house, on the previous afternoon, about four o'clock' the fog came on so dense that he lost himself. He WO; dered about for hours, but did not call out much, W il l' frightened of the gipsies. At last, worn out with fatigu e ' the poor fellow laid down and cried himself to s l ee p. S t : t;oddard conveyed him to his parents, who were in dreadful state of alarm at his absence, and h a d b e en ti p all the night, searching for their lost child. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult. at George-street, Newcastle-upon-Ty-'' Mrs. Edward Challoner, of a son. On the 30th ult., at Brunswick-place, Islington, the Ads of Mr. Robert Hunter, of a son. On the 30th ult., at Margaret-street, Cavendish-50 0 Mrs. George J. Jones, of a son. On the 31st ult., at Canterbury, the wife of the Rev. G. 13 ' Moore, of a daughter, still-born. MARRIED. On the Ist inst., R. R. R. Moore, Esq., barrister-at-lei , Rebecca, daughter of B. Fisher, Esq., Limerick. On the 28th ult., the Rev. Edw ar d H enry A rm it age , —' Al to Emma, only daughter of the late Lieutenant-General A- 0 1 Jackson. On the same day, Charles R. M. Jackson, Esq. , Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at- law, to Jane, eldest daughte r Edward Armitage, Esq., of Fainley Lodge, Cheltenham. 4 ., On the 30th ult., at Trinity Church, St. M ar yl e bon&,,:, M. Weguelin, Esq., to C a th er i ne , s i x th d aug h ter o f Char' Hammersley, Esq., of Park-crescent. DIED. On the 30th ult., in Bruton street, of exhaustion after s t, inflammatory attack, Mary, wife of Claude Ed w ard See Esq., and daughter of T. R. Buckworth, Esq., aged 25. Mr. J. Storrs, of Upper Tulse-hill, aged 66. . f , 4 1 Hubert Kestell, eldest son of the Rev. H. K. Cornish, v of Bakewell, Derbyshire. On the 17th ult., at Camden-town, Mr. J. Tollner. P • On the 25th ult., th e R ev. Richard Francis Davis, D • '' Rector of Pendock, Worcester, aged 78. On the 25th ult., Sarah, wife of Mr. Thomas T. Taylor , Bristol. On the - 26th u lt., a t Clift on , near B r i sto l , Elizabeth, ht wife of the Rev. J. F. Palmer. On the 27th ult., at Skippershill, Mayfield, Sussex, - Fry, Esq. On the 27th ult., at Mitcham, Thomas Berwick • Mel t°ll ' Esq., aged 71. On the 27th ult., at Brighton, Mrs. Cecil, aged 85. d On the 28th ult., Mary Ann, wife of W. Payne, lei' Payne's Hotel, Hand -court, Bedford-row. On the 28th ult., at Upper Phillimore-place, Kensine dlif Miss Susannah Disbrow. On the 29th ult., at York.nroscent, Clifton, John Eclat °. Esq., aged 76. On tht/ asth ult., Mrs. Cotes, of Barnsbury-park,lslint On the 29th ult., Willi am M err i c k, E sq., o f North/111W' square, aged 70. On the 30th ult., at Frede r l o k-pl ace ,V aux b a ll, M r . Ed R6l James Manby. On the 3(lth ult., Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. John jim„ builder, of Alderegats-street, London. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. • • Major-Geneials—Croxton, E. I. Co. Serv. ; ham, do. Colonel—Sir J. H. Seale, Bt., So. Doi/en Mil. 9* Lieutenant-Colonel s --D. Campbell, h.p. 79 F. ;; Div h.p. It. Art. 51 1 ' Majors--Grote, Unatt. Clapham ;De Havilan d , hD ' Captains—Shum, 26 Byrne, 27 F. ; Vernon, 47 James, 50 F. Cawnpure ; Allen, late 8 Vet. Batt. ; Lan p' R. Art. 517 Lieutenants--Hope, 29 F.; J o y ce , 50 F.; Barna- rd, Vir F. ; Atkin, h.p. 58 F. ; Heartley, h.p. 14 F. ; Kin °l°l ' att. ; Rivarolo, h.p. Sicilian Reg. ; Jones, h.p. R. MV,' Oil' Second Lieutenants and Ensigna....llunaphry, 70 R at.; bert, R. Art. ; Cordeaux, h.p. R. Art.; Howard, h.p. I?" '— Booth, late 4 Vet. Batt. 9uarturmaster—Lanels, b R. Art. HumP hr.l* Commissariat Depart d ment--D .p. ep. COM. Gen. h. p. govr Medical Department—Dep. Insp. Dr. Barclan,A s sist' Kong; Staff Surg. D. 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