Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS is
allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen.to be the
most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA.
The use of a steel spring, so hurtful in its effects, is here
avoided; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the
requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN
PAD and PATENT LEVER fitting with so much ease and
closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during
sleep, A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which
cannot fail to fit) forwarded by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the Manu-
facturer,
MR. JOHN WHITE, 228, PICCADILLY, LONDON.
Price of a Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d.
Postage ls.
Price of a Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 52e. 6d.
Postage ls. Bd.
Price of an Umbilical Truss, 425., and 525. 6d. Postage Is. 10d.
Post-office orders to be wade payable to JOHN WHITE,
Post-office, _Piccadilly.
"ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c.—
The material of which these are made is recommended
y "ELASTIC
Faculty as being peculiarly elastic and compressible,
and the best invention for giving efficient and permanent sup-
port in all cases of weakness, and swellings of the LEGS,
VARICOSE VEINS, SPRAINS, &c. It is porous, light in
texture, and inexpensive, and is drawn on like an ordinary
stocking. Price, from 7s. 6d. to 16s. each. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, MANrrAcruttmt, 228, PICCADILLY;
LONDON.

DR. SMETHURST.

As a good deal of misapprehension prevails with
regard to the punishment to which a person convicted
of the offence of bigamy is liable, as the law stands at
present, it may be as well to state, that before a variety
of alterations were made in the criminal code, a pri-
soner convicted of the offence of bigamy was liable, as
the maximum of punishment, to be transported for seven
years, with a discretionary power in the court to reduce
that punishment to imprisonment and hard labour for
two years. An alteration was subsequently made
in the law to the extent of abolishing the power of trans-
portation altogether, but giving the court, in lieu thereof,
a discretion to sentence the convicted party to penal
servitude for four years, and at the same time giving
:3 power to order imprisonment, as in the former case.
This statute was again altered, subsequently, and, as
?the law stands at present, any prisoner convicted of
Tbigamy, which still ranks as a felony, and entails the loss
of goods and chattels, and all the disabilities and liabili-
ties of a felon, may be sentenced at the discretion of
the presiding judge to:be kept in penal servitude for
any period not exceeding seven years, or less than
three years ; or to be imprisoned, either with or with-
out hard labour, as the court shall think fit to order, for
any period not exceeding two years. There are some
legal difficulties in the way of a conviction for the crime
of bigamy; and it is also possible that the jury may
eorae,to the conclusion that 413 r. Smethurst has already
been tufficiently. punished; but it is rumoured that if he
is acquitted he will endeavour to obtain compensation
from the Government for the illegal imprisonment and
the sufferings that he has undergone.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.
—Late OR Thursday evening a truly deplorable acci-
dent, arising from the imprudent
:practice of passengers
attempting to leave the earria,ges while the train is in
motion, happened at the Bow station on this line of
railway. A Mrs. Mary Brown, of the advanced age of
84, living in the Avenue-road, Bow, was returning
home by train on the North London Railway when she
met with her death. The train had in due course
reached the Bow station, and it would appear that she
was not aware of the fact until the train had re-started.
for Fenchurch-street, when she jumped up and opened
the carriage door sad endeavoured to get out. A porter
named Martin called to her to remain in the carriage
and close the door, but finding that she disregarded the
caution and was persevering. in her efforts to leave, he
ran forward to her with the view either of keeping her
in, or if she was too far out to assist her in landing
upon the platform. He got hold of her, but by some
means he missed his footing, and was, dragged along the
edge of the platform to the end under the bridge which
carries the Bow-road over the line, where they were
both thrown On the permanent way. As soon as the
train passed they were picked up, and the old lady was
found to have sustained a fearful fracture of the skull.
caused either by the step of a carriage or one of the
wheels. She was quite dead. The porter had his clothes
nearly torn off him, and is stated to be seriously in-
jured. It is seven years since there was a sixuilar acci-
dent on the line.