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. cx7Yz, f X 93 ~ :C)'*l • . ' 1 1 1 Nlimo w • • Atn . • - • _ - t -1:111- , t-:.t TD THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF NORTH HAMPSHIRE. CH COMMERCIAL CODE. GENTLEMEN, CONGRATULATE you on the results of the contest into which you have been so unneces kily,pluuged. Au attempt was made nominally against me, hut in 4 slity against you ; for its avowed object was to deprive hit of your Whig Member, and to impose upon this Divi- Stwo Tory Representatives in the ensuing Parliament. ibis object, however, has been signally defeated, and by steirtg me at the head of the poll, you have proclaimed Aar adherence to those principles which actuated the en lite County at the preceding Election, and which urged it It that memorable occasion to make me the object of its thice. The French commercial code has hitherto been one of prohibition and exclusion. To import nothing that can be made at home,—to encourage even un p ro fit a bl e domestic manufac tures by protection against foreign competition, —and to force export by bounties or other ad vantages, are the principles on which they have acted during their successive changes of Govern ment for the last century and a half. The Mi . nister of Trade and Public Works, M.D'Argout, ' gave an able exposition of their system, in in , troducing on the 3d inst. the Bill on the Custom house duties, bv which that , system is to be mo dified. He very truly admitted, that whatever the tendency of a general course of commercial policy might be in any particular nation, the op posite extremes of absolute liberty on the one hand, or of universal prohibition on the other, had never yet been realized. Neither the French, nor the English, nor the United States, however opposite their practice, had ever adopted either of these extremes. Even the most theoretic of political economists could never so far divest their systems of the limitations which actual circutu- LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2:5, 1832. (No. 12,.571.) (PRICE 7D.) THE W ESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XXXV., will be published on the 31st. inst., containing the following articles : POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Your duties have been nobly performed. And in the coral courage and disinterestedness which you have dis- SYed, I find an example for my own conduct, which I ‘Ol always be proud to follow. To indulge in any ordi ry expression of gratitude would be only to express /hat you must be convinced that I feel ; but I cannot con kde this address without assuring you that it will be my 'lnstant study to persevere in that line of conduct which l it obtained for me this renewal of your favour and your kafidence. B O W-STREET. siding at No. 20, Green street, Leicester square, of a watch and prayer-book, under the following singular cir cumstances : From the evidence of several witnesses it appeared, that about five weeks ago the prisoner observing a bill in the window of "lodgings to be let," he went in. On seeing the old lady, he exclaimed, " For God's sake, let me look at you again." Upon the prosecutrix turning round, he uttered some exclamation of surprise, and sunk apparently insensible into a chair. The usual remedies of salts and burnt rags were used, and in due time the fellow came to, and accounted for his fit in seeing the counterpart of his now sainted mother in Mrs. Strickland. The lodgings after this was accordingly taken and entered on, but the prisoner not going out to work, he was questioned as to his mode of living, when be said, " I suppose I must tell the truth. I am son to Sir George It. Hill, Colonel of the Life Guards, who is at the point of death, and has left me twenty thousand pounds in money, besides estates in Shropshire and Nottingham." This information caused a change to come over the poor old woman, as well as every female in the house. The heir to the title and for tune of Sir George was attended most assiduously by the females, who procured him new-laid eggs, fresh butter, rump steaks, brandy, &c., to a great extent. The kind ness of the females made a deep impression on the fellow's mind, as be informed them that who acted the best to him should have the principal part of his fortune. He also stated to a young married female, who lodged in the house, that upon her husband's death, be would make her Lady Hill. , On last Thursday week he wanted to affix his seal to his will, and borrowed one from the prosecutrix for that purrtette ; she then handed him the watch and appendages, which he returned. The prosecutrix having occasion to go to the drawer again, discovered the watch had been stolen. This led to the prisoner being suspected, and upon his return in the evening, he was taken into custody. 1. Evidence before the Select Committee on the Silk Trade-2. Dramatic Literature-3. The Gracchi-4. Report of Secret Committee on Bank Charter-5. Life of Andrew Marvell-6. Sculpture in the Middle Ages 7. Causes of Distress of the Landed Interest-8. Esqui rol on the Treatment of the Insane-9. American Zoo logy-10. Harmonics of the Violin-11. Bishop of Bath and Wells on a General Commutation of Tithes -12. Colonel Torrens's Letters on Commercial Policy-13, Major Rennelli on the Currents of the Ocean-14. Journalism-15. Mrs. Trollope's Refugee in America -16. Third Supplement to Article on Silk and Glove Trades-17. Austin on Jurisprudence-18. Policy, Jus tice, and Consequences of the Dutch War—Corrections in a preceding Number. Answer to "An Amateur." List of Books, &c. INCEN DIA RISSI.-In consequence of information given at Bow-street, in the month of November last, of several fires, which it was supposed had been the work of incen diaries, at Lambourne, in Berkshire, Ruthven and Ste vens, two officers of the est tblishment, were sent down to investigate, and, if possible, to discover the offenders. It appeared that on the evening of the 19th November, while several gentleme n were assem bl e d a t th e R e d Lion I have the honour to he, Gentlemen, Your most faithful friend and servant, Milton, Dec. 22,1832. MILTON. GLASGOW LOTTERY. PHOSE persons who formerly held agencies from BISH'S OLD ESTABLISHED LOTTERY I TICES, as well as others who may be resident in It tne where Agents have not been appointed by him, may, an immediate application to No. 4, CORNHILL, C I NDON, become, if they are desirous to be so, Agents ! the SALE of TICKETS and SHARES in the I.ASGOW LOTTERY, which contains THREE SIZES of TEN THOUSAND POUNDS and many %er CAPITALS, &c. 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GOSS and Co., Surgeons, have been induced lelte the cure of the following the object of their par it!' study, vie., a certain disorder, frequently contracted t tloreent of intoxication, and its concomitants, Stric t and Gleets, which, by an improved plan, are speedily effectually cured ; as also debility, whether arising liscchanalian indulgences, long residence in warm or a secret solitary vice, too often unhappily pur 0Y the youth of both sexes, in the one causing steri -4r barrenness, and in the other a numerous train of roan diseases, which, if not timely remedied, termi itt impotence and consumption. In that distressing :rifdebility or deficiency, whether the consequence of ,haneful habits, or arising from any other course, by ,7 4 the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, as "Ay educated Surgeons of London, they offer a firm, 412 4 speedy restoration to sound arid vigorous health. Goss and Co., exclusively professing the cure by particular complaints, in order that they may not a mistrken few, marked with the obloquy . so justly 7e4 to the ignorant empiric, think it bu t j ustice to ,7 Ives to state, that they have been properly e ducated laitiat e d into every branch of the profession (certifi !of which, from different HOSPITALS, and testi "llls from the most eminent Professors, they have to ' l nce any inquirer) that the success resulting from their ° 'yours first induced them to quit the practice of the e aa ra l Practitioner; and they presume that their preten constitute a fair ground for the unprecedented confi- L* with which they have, by the Public, been so libe tiOSlOUred. "le result of a long and extensive practice has enabled i,! by a superior method, to remove Venereal Com ui however inveterate or complicated, without sub :4 the Patient to the least restraint in diet or exer -14 and in recent cases, where an early app lication is °U discovery of the infection, they frequ entl y p erform 4 r e is the short space of a few days. The unprece , success of their mode of treatment, which has never known to fail in one single instance in a pr actic e of tli both years, during which period many thousand persons sexes have been cured, even after severe and inju .. Zmethods had been pursued by other practitioners 7 Wit effect, induces them to thus publicly offer their T O be eonsulted daily, by Patients of either Sex, with 7 delicacy, and attention.—Letters from the country, , sing the. particulars of the ease, enclosing a remit :ditly:attended to, and Advice and Medicine for "led to any part of the world. 6i5..1: and Co., M.R.C. 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The embellished portion of the work they believe to be now brought to a higher degree of perfection than ever; and in addition to the Portrait Gallery of the Female Nobility and the co • loured Engravings of the month, they have completed their arrangements with Mr. Daniell, the Royal Acade mician, and many eminent engravers for supplying a splen did series of Landscape Views of the Seats of the Nobility and Royal Residences, to be continued every alternate month. As a work of Literature and Art, the proprie tors can with confidence rank the Court Magazine as one of the most attractive and cheap publications of modern times, and they take this opportunity of reminding the public of the approaching New Year as a favourable time for becoming Subscribers. Orders received by every Bookseller and Newsman throughout the Kingdom, by whom it is supplied monthly. Published by Edward Bull, 26, Holles.street, Caven dish-square. COLDS, COUGHS, ASTHMAS, & c . 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At this stage of the case a compromise, each party pay ing his own costs, was recommended, and acceded to. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 24. Inn, after a - coursing match, they were alarmed by a fire suddenly breaking out in the stable and out-houses. Such was the rapidity of the flames, that two valuable horses belonging to the guests, as well as a dog, which was tied up in the stables, and a number of fowls, were destroyed. Almost at the same moment another fire burst out on the premises of Mr. Spicer, a maltster, about 400 yards from the Red Lion, where all the out- houses, and a considerable stock of malt and barley were also destroyed. Thed welling-houses in both instances were preserved. No immediate cause for these acci dents could be discovered; but, on the next morning, a bundle of paper matches, which had been dipped in brim stone and tied up in a rag, was discovered lying in the road about the middle of the town, near to the premises of Mr. Child, a mobster. This circumstance gave rise to a suspicion that both fires and been caused wilfully; and as it was well known that there were several discontented labourers in the village, who, there was some reason to believe, were the authors of the mischief, the assistance of the officers in question was obtained. On the arrival of Ruthven and Stevens at Larnhourne, after making some previous inquiries they took up eight men, to whom suspicion attached, and conveyed them before the Rev. Mr. Hipsley and his son, Mr. Henry Hipsley, who are Magistrates of the district. The names of the nun were Robert Chivers, John Carter, William Winkwortb, John Cox, William Perry, Joseph Marshall, and Jonathan Povey; and it appeared from the confession of Chivers and Carter, that they had met a short time before at a public-house, called the Hare and Hounds, in the Woodlands, and that after talking of the smallness of their wages, they agreed to set fire to the town of Lambourne in three different places at once, in the hope that the terror occasioned by such a circum stance would lead to the increase of their pay. Carter then proposed that they should first set fire to the Red Lion, to which Chivers agreed, saying that he had been assisting in taking in too loads of straw a few days before. Carter then proposed that he should prepare the matches, and that about the same time fire should be set to the premises of Mr. Spicer, and Mr. Childs, maltsters, in the town ; Carters saying he would set fire to the Red Lion and Mr. Spicer's, while Chivers said he would set fire to the premises of Mr. Childs. In pursuance of this diabolical purpose, they set out on the night in question, when Carter actually fulfilled his previous intention of setting lire to the Red Lion and Mr. Spicer's ; but on Chivers arriving at Mr. Child's, his heart failed him, and he threw the matches into the road, where they were subse quently found. It further appeared, that two or three days subsequent to this conflagration, the two prisoners, Winkworth and Perry, went to a field in which Carter and Chivers were at work, and after some conversation on the failure of their first project, and on the little good it had effected, proposed that Chivers and Carter should snake a fresh attempt, Winkworth saying, when he saw the flames, he would give them the price of a gallon of beer, in which promise Perry acquiesced. Before they could carry this new villainy into effect, how ever, they were all taken into custody. Evidence corroborative of this confession being adduced, the four prisoners (Carter, Chivers, Perry, and Winkwortb) were fully committed for trial. The other four were discharges'. About the same time an attempt was made to fire the premises of Mr. Williams, of Baden, in Wiltshire. It appears that on an afternoon stated, Mr. Williams's brother, while passing some of the out-houses, the threatened danger. To this place Ruthven and Stevens also went ; and, after some investigation, suc ceeded in arresting three men, named William Perry, Stephen Langford, and a man named Tucker, when Perry and Tucker gave evidence against Langford to the fol lowing effect :—On the afternoon in question, they were all walking down a lane which led past Mr. Williams's premises, when Langford stopped at the cottage of an old woman, and asked for a light, and was observed at the same time rolling up a quantity of paper ; having ob tained the light, they all three proceeded down the lane, when Langford having lighted a pipe, gave it to Tucker, who, with Perry walked on leaving Langford behind. Ob serving Langford still with a lighted paper in his band, they called on him to throw it down, which he said he would do, hut shortly afterwards he ran after them, and at the same instant they saw flames bursting from the thatch of Mr. Williams's out-house ; they asked him if he had put out the light ? and he said he had, and asserted that he had extinguished it in some water. Upon subse quent investigation, however, the paper could not be found in the place which he bad described, and there was no doubt that when he lagged behind he had taken an oppor tunity of thrusting it into the thatch where the fire bad been discovered by Mr. Williams. The pr isoner was taken before Dr. Meyrick, a Magistrate in the neigh bourhood, o i u t t r e h d o o Langfordwi , upon for a furtherd i se! osu examination,r e o f thes e a f n a d c tst,(x,cko the personal recognizance of Perry and Tucker for their ap• pearence before him on Friday next, when Langford will be fully committed for trial. STAPLETON V. KAY. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover com pensation in damages for the loss he had sustained, in con sequence of his barge being run down by a brig belonging to the defendant. The Jury, after hearing evidence, consulted together for a few minutes, and then returned a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages, 1751. THE HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL PRESENTS. - 1. The Geographical Annual for 1833-2. The Biblical Annual for 1833. " These two beautiful and most useful little volumes form a family treasure."—Lite rary Gazette. "We know not the works we could more conscientiously recommend as valuable and beauti ful presents."—Atheneum.-3. England's Romantic An nals, by Neele-4. The Romantic Annals of France, by Ritchie-5. Italy's Romaiatic Annals, by Macfarlane-6. Spain's Romantic Annals, by Trueba. " These works illustrate the Sports, Pastimes, Peculiarities, as well as the Romantic Annals of the various countries. They are strong and vivid pictures of the past."—Monthly Review. " They are valuable books for presents."—New Monthly Magazine. Mr. COBBETT, in his " Register" of Sa turday, says, " On my own personal account, I set not the value of a straw upon a seat in Parliament ; but, feel ing that I possessed the mind to enable me to assist in re storing my country to the state in which I found it, a sense of duty to that country restrains me from consulting my own ease, and my own private enjoyments. Chal lenged too by the insolent men who have so long endea voured to throw me into the shade; traduced by their in famous Press, with three hundred mouths constantly open against me ; thus challenged, and thus traduced and scoffed at, I had to dread the charge of cowardice if I de clined to meet my traducers and challengers face to face. These are the considerations which have put me into Parliament. It is not for me to say how much I shall be able to do there ; and more especially, it is not for me to specify any particular things that I shall attempt. It will be soon enough to talk of those things when the Par liament has met." THE REVISING BARRISTERS.—We learn, with much surprise, that the Barristers who registered the votes under the Reform Bill have not yet received the remuneration to which they are entitled by the Act. Many, indeed the greater part of them, are y oung practi tioners, who are not in the receipt of very large incomes ; and when it is considered that they have each spent much time, and some 601. or 801. in travelling expenses and the payment of officers, it seems somewhat unre a so na bl e t o ex pect that their fees should await the tardy pleasure of the Treasury. We are confident, however, that Lord ALTHORP will remove all ground for murmuring on this subject the moment be is made aware of the custom of the profession to the remuneration for its labours.— Observer. The navigation of the port of Cronstadt has ceased. It has been open 214 days, five more then last year,../ourna/ de St. Petersbiergh, Dec. 5, 4 • t 4 Q UEEN-SQUARE. THE Umarowtr Tor=Ea.—Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Frederick Insentine was charged with creating a dis turbance on Sunday morning at Trinity Church, Chelsea. It appeared, from the evidence of Captain Bague and Mr. Burgess, two of the churchwardens, that the mo ment the Rev. Mr. BLUNT had concluded the first lesson for the day, the defendant rose from his seat in a pew, and, in a loud voice cried out, " flab, hah hic, hie, hic hesto—the Day of Judgment is come !" The ex. traordinary tone and manner In which the defendant pro nounced the words was such, that the whole of the con gregation were alarmed, and some of them ran out of the church. The defendant continued " the tongues" till the beadle came up to him and took him awa y. When the churchwardens asked him th e reason of his singular con duct, he replied, "it was not my fault. No, it was the spirit within me that was the cause, and I bad no power to restrain myself." The defendant conversed with the Churc hwardens op other subjects very coherently, and it was evi dent lrev4s a man of superior attainments. The defekdant said, in reply to the MagisPrates, that be had been educated at Cambridge, that he lived at Plato's Villa, Addison's Road, Kensington ; that his friends resided at Bampton, near Taunton ; and that the 30th chapter of I , aiah, which the Rev. Mr. Blunt read, made such an impression on him, that he could not resist a sud den impulse to speak. His words, which had been mis represented, were, "The Day of Judgment is coming 4 the Millenium is at hand, and the hours of sin shall be destroyed." The defendant then went on to say that our Saviour, would appear to morrow, &c. • The Magistrates said that they should require two sure ties for his future good behaviour, and that he had bet ter send to some of his friends. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Mr. Mangles, the gentleman against whom a female, named Hamner, or Calvert, through the officers of St. George's parish, took certain proceedings for the purpose of affiliating a child with which she stated herself to be enceinte, attended at this office yesterday in consequence of these proceedings. The lady stated, that her husband on the former occasion, had been resident in India for a period of time which placed the impossibility of his being the father beyond question, and also that she had been living under the protection of Mr. Mangles, bzfore and after her marriage, and that Mr. 'Mangles was the father of the child. Some conversation occurred between Mr. Dyer and Mr. Mangles on the subject, from which it was gathered that Mr. Mangles disputes in some material points the statement made by the lady; but as the proofs required by the nature of the case were not yet in a state of pro per maturity, Mr. Dyer adjourned the further hearing of the business. Mr. Broomhead, the parish-officer, said his object was merely to induce Mr. Mangles to give bail in case ex penses should be incurred by the parish on the lady's ac count. On Saturday James Rill, a returned transport, was brought up for re-examination before Mr. DYER, for robbing an elderly female of the name of Strickland, te- UNION-HALL. AGE, YOUTH, AND JEALOUSY.-Yesterday Mrs. Sarah Simpkins, a lady rather " in years," was charged with an a'sault on Julia Wilhehnina Thomas, a good-looking young female. The complainant said that sbe lived within a few doors of the defendant, who bad lately taken it into her head to be jealous, and to suspect witness of seducing the affections of her lord and master. The other day they had a dispute about the affair, and Mrs. Simpkins, uncon vinced by witness's argument, took to enforcing her awn by sundry blows and scratches. Mr. CHAMBERS said Mrs. Simpkins was old enough to know that such conduct towards one who might be taken for her granddaughter, was very discreditable. Mrs. Simpkins, after tossing up her nose at the com plainant, said, " Ah, your Worship, if you did but know all. Why, my husband, for the last three weeks, has done nothing but call out the name of Julia, my dear,' when he is asleep in bed. I'm sartin there's something wrong, and I can tell your Worship I've caught the young baggage and my husband winking at each other." Mr. CHAMBERS asked the age of Mr. Simpkins ? Mrs. Simpkins said, that she could not exactly state the age of Mr. Simpkins, but would recall a circumstance to the Magistrate's memory, by which it would be ascertained with tolerable accuracy. "I have had 18 children by my husband," added Mrs. Simpkins ; " I married him in Dublin, and he was exactly 30 years of age upon our wedding-day, and that took place on the memorable day of the landing of the French in Bantry Bay." Mr. CHAMBERS-IPhy that is full 40 years ago ; and, l intriguing with itititi - e ungereatiere, - 17itioirr pletraVe . . treated in a very cru and unjust manner. Mr. CHAMBERS then ordered her to find bail. THE ATROCIOUS MURDER AT ENFIELD. ADJ 0 URNED INQUEST. Yesterday the inquest on the body of Benjamin Couch Danby, aged 27, who was barbarously mur dered in Batches-lane, leading from Enfield to Bar net, was resumed at the office of Henry Sawyer, Esq., the Coroner. The hour appointed for the re assembling of the Jury was ten o'clock, and long before that time a number of persons had assembled in the vicinity. The Jury-room was crowded, and the proceedings appeared to excite an intense inte rest among the inhabitants. The following evi dence was adduced : John Mead, beadle of the parish, examined —About twenty minutes before seven o'clock on Thursday morning, I was walking in Enfield town, when I received information that a man had been conveyed to the Sergeant public-house dead, and it was supposed he had been murdered ; I sent my informant for Watkins, the patrol, and went to the public-house, and saw the deceased in the parlour ; he had a severe cut on the right side of his face, from the mouth to the ear—also a kind of stab in the chin, and a stab on the right side of the neck ; the deceased being an entire stranger to me, I asked if any one knew him, and I was informed he was a cousin to Mr. Addington, the baker, who was then present; I then inquired of Mr. Adding ton where the deceased had been on the previous night ; Mr. Addington said the deceased went out about six in the evening, but he did not know where he had been to; Watkins accompanied me to the spot where the deceased was found; there appeared to have been a good deal of scuffling, and there was a quantity of blood in the ditch and road side; the ground and grass were very much disturbed by the struggling which appeared to have taken place; I made inquiries, at two beer shops, at the top of the hill, and ascertained that the de ceased had been there in the morning, with his gun, but had not been seen since by them ; subsequently I was informed the deceased had been, on the pre vious evening, at the house of Mr. Perry, the Crown and Horseshoes, in the company of Samuel Fare, William Johnson, John Cooper, Charles Jack son, Richard Wagstaff, John Wager s and John Tay lor; in consequence of this information, Watkins and myself apprehended 'William Johnson and Sa muel Fare ; on apprehending Fare, I told him I wanted him, and said he must come with me; he replied, " Don't be in a hurry—let me drink my tea first ;" on searching Fare, I found on him two sixpences and fivepence halfpenny, four knives, and a key.—[The knives were produced. One appeared to have been an oyster knife, two were large clasp knives, and the other a pen knife.]--In his right hand waistcoat pocket, I found some shot and the bowl of a tobacco-pipe.—[The shot were inspected by the Jury, and pronoun*, by a competent judge, to be exactly similar to those found near the de ceased.]—l have compared the shot found on Fare with those found by Cutliff near the body, and be lieve them to be of the same description. Watkins searched Fare's box, and showed the bowl of the pipe to Mr. Addington, who identified it as the one he told the deceased to fetch from the loft. Mr. Addington was called, and the bowl of the pipe shown him ; but although he did not like to swear to it, he had not the slightest doubt of its being the same that he lent the deceased to load his gun with. Examination continued—After we had placed Johnson and Fart in safe confinement, we went after Cooper, and apprehended him at Potter's bar, be tween nine and ten o'clock on Thursday morning; he was with his master's dray at the time; we had previously passed him on the road near where the murder was committed; Watkins took Cooper's cap off, and asked him the cause of the blood being upon it; I also saw the blood in the cap, and on placing my finger upon it, found it was quite wet. Cooper said he had been carrying some dogs' meat, when I replied that the meat would not stain the inside of the cap. Watkins said the story would not do for them, and told him to jump up in the cart. Some hours after Cooper's apprehension, Cooper sent for me and Watkins. and on going to him, he said he would tell us all about it. We told him it would be much better for him to state to Dr. Cresswell what he wished to state to us. He consented, and Watkins took the prisoner to Dr. Cresswell, and I proceeded on some other business, without baying any further conversation with him. By the Jury—The men going up in the morning it was impossible to compare the footmarks with the shoes of the prisoners; the neckerchief of the de ceased was cut in several places, and appeared to have been jobbed by a knife ; the cap, containing the gloves, some shot, and a paper bag, which I now produce, was delivered to me by John Catliff; I said to Johnson, "Bill, I want you ;" he said, " very well." He never sleeps in a bed. Richard Watkins, one of the Bow-street horse patrol, stationed at Enfield, was next examined, He corroborated the evidence of the previous witness in every particular, and added the following :—On apprehending Johnson I asked him what time he returned home on siorsparziOs night ? He replied that he did not know. I then told him a murder bud been committed, and it was believed he was implicated in it. He denied having any knowledge of the murder. I searched him when I arrived at the watch.house, and found on him a small tobacco box, with a number of duplicates and a shilling. A Juror—Have you examined the duplicates ? Are they of recent date ? Witness—l have not looked particularly to the dates ; but they are all for his own property, he having lately parted with almost every thing he had. Examination continued—After leaving Johnson in confinement I went to Fare's mother, and asked her to show me the room her son slept in ; she went with me into a room up stairs, and told me that it was Sam's (her son's) room. I broke open the box which Mrs. Fare said belonged to her son, and found eleven shillings scattered about at the bot tom ; Fare's mother said she was not aware he had any money; I asked whether Fare slept at home that night, and his mother replied that he came home at 10 o'clock and went to bed. On appre hending Cooper, I asked him whether he slept at home, and if se, at what time he went home; he re plied that it was about I I o'clock ; and in answer to further questions, he said he went straight home, and never turned to the right or left; I then took the cap now produced off his head, and asked him how the blood came on it; when he said he bad fetched some meat for his master's dog on Satur day; he denied having heard of a murder on Holt's White's-hill; I then asked him if he did not take notice of the people assembled in the lane as he passed with his dray, and ask some questions about their being there; he said no; but afterwards ac knowledged that a Mrs. Bird, with whom he left some beer, had mentioned the circumstance to him; he appeared very much aanfused ; I never saw a man more so; his clothes were muddy, but more particularly the trousers, and he appeared to have been rolled in the dirt ; on Saturday, when taking the prisoners to town, I minutely examined John. son's trowsers, and there were evidently several spots of blood on them. They were also torn at the bottom of the right leg, and a piece of cloth which was found on the spot where the deceased inches in length; the tear nag ue'etesei;y&, searching his great coat pocket at the same tame I found the glove which I now produce, and which has several spots of blood on it. Mr. Brown, a resident at Enfield, stated that on the night of the murder he saw two parties of two men each conversing together, near Mr. Holt White's house, and near the spot where the mur- der was perpetrated. William Burt, gardener to Holt White, Esq., said he picked up a piece of cloth on Thursday morning within a few yards of place where the murder was committed; he gave it to Mr. Perry, the landlord of the Horseshoes. _ _ _ This cloth was examined by the Jury, and found o be the identical piece torn from Johnson's trousers. It had marks of blood on it. _ Mr. Asbury, surgeon, examined—On Thursday morning, about seven o'clock, I was called upon to attend at the Sergeant, Parsonage-lane; the mes senger stated that a man had been found on the Chase shot, and that he was lying dead at the Ser geant; I went immediately, and found the body of the deceased quite dead, and the face and head covered with blood; there was a large wound on the right side of the face, extending from nearly the right angle of the mouth to below the right dar, passing over the angle of the lower jaw; it was an incised wound, made by a sharp instrument ; there appeared to have been feur attempts in making this wound, as there were the marks of four cuts of a knife on the face, as if the person had failed it► his object ; another wound appeared on the chin, and one before the right ear; there was also a stab on the right side of the neck made by a sharp instrument, which transfixed the common carotid artery, and the point where it di vides into the external and internal carotid artery. From the excess of hemorage which would follow this wound being made, would cause instant death. The wound in his neck was about two inches in depth, and large enough to admit the finger, and was the immediate cause of death ; I should think the wounds were inflicted by a knife, about three quarters of an inch wide. By the Jury—l should think the knife had a round point; the man appeared to have struggled desperately ; the wounds on th9.face would not have produced death ; it was almost impossible the de ceased could have inflicted the wounds himself. At the conclusion of the surgeon's evidence, the Jury adjourned until six rclock. At six o'clock the inquest was resumed. Thomas Newman, on Tuesday morning, was standing near the Hollybush public-house, talking to Fare, when the deceased passed in Mr. Addington's cart. Fare said." Tom, is that the man (meaning the deceased) that is worth so much money they _ _ talk about ?" Witness replied he did not know; and Fare then said " I wish I knew he had it, I should like to have some of it, and would cut his wizen (throat) if I could light en him in the dark." At the conclusion of this witness's testimony the inquest was adjourned to Wednesday morning. The proceedings did not conclude till nearly I o'clock last night. THE KING'S THEATRE.—The Italian Opera bids fair to be highly attractive this season, if we may judge from the engagements which, we learn, have now been completed. Mr. SEGUIN returned to town late on Thursday night from Paris. Amongst those engaged for the operatic corps are—Madame PASTA, Madame DE MERIC, Madame BOCCAHADATI (her first appearance in this country), Madame CINTI DAMOREAU, &c. Of the male vocalists we are to have DoNzELLI, ZACHETTI, GALLI, DE BEGNIS, TAMBOURINI, &C. The ballet to be under the direction of DESHAYES, who is shortly expected in town. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.--On the 29th of November last, as. Mr. JOHN EWBANK was shooting on Ebden Moor, in draven, he killed a moor-cock with a brass ring round his leg, with the following inscriptioi engraved upon it—" Colonel THORNTON, 1812 ; Thor n ` ville Royal 30." The ring is in the possession of MI. T H OMAS JOY, I-1 . innkeeper, in ,bden, near Grassingic4 in Craves.. Leeds llfercar • stances imposed as to propose universal freedom of trade. Sometimes war,—sometimes national antipathies, sometimes a mistaken desire of se curing impossible advantages, led a Government to prohibit the use of certain productions of fo reign industry, and to cultivate at a loss domestic manufactures. In many of these cases a change, though advisable, might be difficult, and could not be effected in any, without a derangement of labour, and the displacement of capital. In other cases protection was only required till the domestic manufacture was improved, so as to he able, with little aid from custom-house reg ulations, to withstand foreign competition. The Minister, wishing to remove all alarms on his proposed measures, declared that he was as warm an advocate for protection to domestic industry as any of his predecessors ; but he stated it as his conviction, that protection did not always require prohibition, and that the re venue might gain, while the manufacturer could not lose, by relaxing those exclusive laws which only favoured the trade of the smuggler. He therefore proposed to relieve trade of all those regulations which were useless, vexatious, or extravagant, without permanently benefiting any class. The high protection afforded to one branch of industry might be injurious to another as well as to the general interest. In such a case a change was demanded even from the sup porters of a restrictive policy. " Every prohibi tion which is not necessary," said his predeces sor, "is an evil. Certain prohibitions may be indispensable, but the protection resulting from taxes is always preferable to that resulting from prohibitions. On these grounds M. D'Argout, after an apology for being able to effect so little, ex pressed the desire of the French Government to give the greatest possible freedom to foreign trade, and to relieve it from all injurious restric tions, by substituting in some cases duties for prohibitions ; and in other cases, where too high duties existed, to reduce and modify them. He proposed specifically to do away at once with the existing prohibitions against the impor. Cation of fine cotton twist, of Cashmere shawls, of Russia leather (cuirs Gclorans) of certain embroideries, and of watches and watchworks ; and also the prohibition against the export of raw and thrown silk, and to substitute mode rated duties. He further proposes to reduce ; anb, - 'auverung IV miler prupusea ane viatious, he concluded by justifying and recom mending the reduction of tonnage dues which has lately taken place upon British ships in French ports ; and lie particularly stated this was only the beginning of a series of measures of a similar nature which the Government will have to propose. _ _ We dome time ago inserted the petition of the Lyons Chamber of Commerce to the Legisla ture in favour of free trade, and we may consider the publication of M. D'Argcut's principles in this document, combined with that petition, as a great stride in the progress of commercial knowledge, and true liberality among our neigh bours. If adopted by the Chambers, and gene rally admitted by the nation, they will even mark an era in the history of modern civilization ; for what can be a surer sign of increasing civilization than the removal of noxious international pre judices, and the extension of that commerce which is the instrument and the means of in creasing our, sources of moral as well as phy sical enjoyment, and enlarging our social inter course ? The substitution of moderate protecting duties . for absolute prohibition is an evident improve ment on the old system, as it opens the door for experiment, and renders future changes only questions of degree or adjustment. Without trial it will be difficult for even the French them selves to pronounce on the fitness of the specific rates of protection now to be adopted; that is a question which the custom-house officers must settle with the smuggler : but we are convinced that the enlightened principles now about to be carried, however partially, into effect, and the specific alterations proposed, must be beneficial to both countries. On Thursday, the 13th, about a minute be fore 6 in the evening, a remarkably brilliant meteor made its appearance in or near the zenith; it proceeded in a southerly direction through Andromeda and Pegasus, then entering Aquarius disappeared at an altitude of SO degrees above the horizon; from this point to within 20 degrees of the zenith a train of apparently innumerable star, was visible for more than two minutes after the disappearance of the meteor. The sudden transition from comparative darkness to a light equalling that of mid-day produced an extraordinary effect upon the minds of those who wit nessed it. A friend, who happened to direct his eye to wards the zenith before the meteor appeared, says, tl at from the larger ball of light smaller ones were discharged in various directions for a moment only previous to its rnuv i ng. Medical Gazette. H ORRI BLE CASE OF POISONING. ---Th e village of Wighton, near Wells, Norfolk, was last w ee k d am riv ed ing W a m loa ola d z o , thrown into a dreadful state of alarm by t h e f ollow i ng Cley, for Mr. MACK, became viol ent l y ill, an d on arr i v i niv ' f ag co ed rn 4 t l o , circumstances on nthe saturd at Cley, was obliged to call i n t h e ass i stance o f M r . B ycK , a c y — m A or p n o in or g, m w a h n en n surgeon, who paid him every attention, but he died on the following morning. His wife, who resided at Wighton, was sent for, and as the people of Cley conceived the case to be one of cholera, she consented, with apparent reluctance, to the burial of the body on Sunday. On returning to Wighton, Mrs. WRIGHT found her father, RICHARD DARBY, who had lived with ber, also dead. This excited some attention, anti a girl accidentally was heard to say that Mrs. Ward= bad been buying poison at Wells. It then appeared that she bad bought four ounces of arsenic a few days previous, on the pretence of wanting it for a rat-catcher in the village, and that she had put sonic in two m k o p, which she gave to her husband and father. Theittodies were consequently disinterred on Friday, at.d on eismanation, poison was found in their stomachs. TI e womaii was tfrell taken into custedy. Two of her chil dren died very d witlenly abort time previous to her ho' band's death, Ail thwilieneral opinion is that the woman is Insane, and' that in killing_herhusband the laboured under 'a tit of jealousy. She has • been committed to Norwich cfitieirrt•Sujjait Ciammicks ..