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DISEASES OP CHILDREN.

DIARRHEA, OR LAXITY OF THE ROWELS.
In the greater number of those cases the cause of the disease is
either sudden plot or improper food ; it however arises sometimes
from constitotional disease, and is purely symptomatic. There are
few diseases of children which are so maltreated as this; for every
ignorant nurse. nay scarcely a woman that has arrived at the title
of mother, that will not take upon herself to advise in the com-
a plaint; and their remedies. generally, a-e Dalhy's Carminative,
the " soothing " medicines, as they are called, and glutinous and
I mucilaginous mixtures of arrow-root, milk thickened with flour,
Irrotintl-rier, tapioca, &c. are poured down the infant's thrust.
These mixtures may occasionally put a stop to the disease; tut it
ill like firing at a sparrow amidst a Bock of geese. Should there he
• cor.striction of the intestines, or disposition to dysentery ; or
should there be an accumulation of fermenting mass in the hoes.
tines such remedies at the above-mentioned will destroy the child.
In all cases then of laxity of the !smells in infants, a preparatory
medicine should be given regnant against evil chances; and that
medicine Amid be rhubarb and magnesia ; which should ht. re-
peated as 1. the frees are unhealthy, at the distance of eight or
ten hours. 7 I the thorium continues after this, the billowing must
be given which in most rasa will at once remove the disease.

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Of prepared chalk, a scruple.
ft* compound powder of cinnamon, ten rains.
Mis and divide into six parts : one of these powders to be taken
every four hours. This is for an infant under a year. The dose
may be lin-tensed according to the age.
The diet may then consist of arrow-root, isinglas, or sago, dre.
with a small portion of wine if the child is not suckling. Care must
be particularly taken to keep the child wrapped up wsrmly, and
no unequal temperature of the apartment permitted if posaible.
Should how_ver the disease still continue after this plan is per.
sisud in for two days, an injection of starch, with eight or ten
drops of tincture of opium, must be administered twtcc a.thiy.
This tried for two days more unsuccessfully, • Hinter must be ap.
plied to the pit of the stomach, after a tepid bath, and half a grain
of calomel given at night in a little white sugar and pap ; and re.
prated next night. Should the disease still remain obstinate, the
best advice must be had recourse to; but we think that if the above
directions are strictly attended to in the beginning, the dEsaits4 will
In almost every case, disapprat.,..Afettical ,41(1wIrrr.

LAW INTELIMPNCE.

VICE-CHANCELIA)MI COURT, FIIIDAY, MAIICII 12.

RUTHERFORD V. PROSSF.R AND °Turns.
Mr. KNIGHT moved the Court for an injunction on the part of
the plaintiff, against the defet.dants. The bill was tiled by the
next of kin of the plaintiff, an infant, under these circumstances :
A clargynam, by his will left large property in trust to executors ;
they had paid the legacies and the debts, but there was cons:derable
residuary property bequeathed to the father of the plaintiff, which
they had nut yet paid over. The father of the plaintiff had died
intestate, and his property went to the plaintiff, who was his sole
hair, being his only child, and he dying a widower. Letters of
administration were taken out by two of the defendants, and they
were now demanding from the executors under the original will,
the payment of the residuary estate to them, and to which the
plaintiff was entitled. This application was therefore made to re-
strain two of the defendants as executors under the original will,
' from paying, and the other two defendants. as administrators of
' the estate of the intestate, front receiving the %aid residuary pro-
perty. It was made on an affidavit which stated that the persons
who had taken out letters of administration on behalf of the
plaintiff, were in humble circumstances, and that if the property
got into their hands, there was great danger of its being misap-
plied.
VICE CHANCELLOR-1111'as crparte 1
Mr. KNIGHT—It is.

VICE Cuarrest.Loa—Why is it so 7
Mr. KNIGHT acid it was ex-purte for the mason allcgod In the
affidavit, that great danger was apprehended that the property would
Ix misapplied if it were paid over.
VICE CustreeLLoa—How can it get into their hands?
Mr. KNlGHT—Perhaps your Honour will allow us to give
notice I, . . .

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VICE CHANCELLOR—Von may give notice t but you go much
ton far. His Honour erprevved an opinion that the invoice of
moving ri.-per le fur injunctions bhould in many CUES be checked.
Injunction refused.

HOME CIRCUIT.

ESSEX LENT ASSIZES, FRIDAY, M•acn 12.

The Assizes for this county ends 4 to-day, about four o'clock.
Mr. Justice IIEiT assisted the 1.0110 CHIEF BAftON yesterday,
and for about two hours this morning in trying prisoners, during
which time the Learned Judge disposed of forty-seven cases of
petit larceny and other miser offence, being nearly one half the
calendar. This assistance relived lin Learned Brother of a great
deal of labour.

ilitfore fhe Lonn Cult** Bmicpr• I
111GBWAY ROBBERY.

Edward RlNton was indicted for assaulting William Barrow, at
Gnat Tay, on the Itth instant, and stealing from his person, a
silver watch and money to the amount of U. 6s. 6d. This was the
most serious ease in the culentlar. _ _

Mr. Knox having stated the case for the prni.ecution, called the
prosecutor, who deposed that on the evening of the Bth instant, he
was at the Chequers publicJsouse, at Great Tay. The prisoner
was there, but not in witness's company. During the evening
be counted over the money contained in his nurse, consisting
of a one pound bank-note and six shilling. in silver. The
prisoner was within view at the time. About ten o'clock,
witness quitted the house quite sober, having drunk two or three
pints of beer. The prisoner quitted the house about the same
tame. Ilaring proceeded about three quarters of a mile on his
road home, some person from behind struck him a violent blow on
the shoulder, which staggered hini, lie turned round, and the
moon shining bright, rt.n.gnived the prisoner, and said to hint,
" Ned, don't murder me The prisoner struck him two more
blows with a cudgel, and knocked him on the ground. Whilst
weltering in his blood, the prisoner rifled NA puckets.of his watch
and purse, and then west off. Witness became faint from the loss
of blood, and with difficulty crawled to the house of a farmer
named Illarshel, whom be roused front his bed with the cries of
murder. 3lr. Marshal came down stairs in his shirt, armed with
a sun, and went in pursuit of the prisoner, but without effect.
amen was at this time tottering from loos of blood. Upon exa-
mining the spot where he had been knocked down, there were
about two quarts of blood on the ground.
Me% Marshal corroborated the prosecutor's evidence.
It was proved by other witnesses, that on the 9th inst. the pri.
soner was drinking at a public-house at Colchester. and was heard
to say, that he expected to leave the house a prisoner, but he hoped
he should not be handcuffed. This was some time before he was
apprehended. Ile was also heard to say, that he had sworn his old
uncle out of a pound note the day before ; afterwards he said he
lied not :worm him out of it, but had :wobbled, I. e. coaxed him
out of it. The prisoner had lived in the parish in which the rob-
bery was committed. The prosecutor swore positively to his iden-
tity, and other witnesses proved that he had been seen in the sante
room with the prosecutor at the public-house on the night in
question.
The prisoner, who was without Counsel, declined asking the
witnesses any question, and being called upon fa his defence, aim.
ply denied the charge.
The Jury, under the Learned Jodge's directions, found the pri.
sorer Guilty, and sentence of death was passed upon him.
There were only three other capital convictions during the As.
aims, said none of dine vireto4rft for execution.

LINCOLN ASSIZES.
CIVIL SIDE, 111Aacn 10.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF 11IARRIAGE.
W. C. 1101_1(10N, r. ANNE I!TAY.

Mr. PATTISOX opened the pleadings. He stated that this was
an action to recover damages from the defendant, for having rae
fused to fulfil a promise of marriage made to the plaintiff.
31r. ALDERSON stated the case to the Jury. His client, Wm.
Collier Hilburn, complained that the defendant, Anne Ismay, had
refused to fulfil a promise of marriage solemnly made to him. The
plaintiff; Mr. Ifobson, was a respectable young man, residing at
Temple Sowerby, in this county, and engaged as a dealer in
corn, seeds, &c. He was a young man, possessed of a good person,'
good address, and fascinating manners. He belonged to a
yeomanry cavalry corps, in Captain Atkinson's troop, under lewd
Lowther; he had. during the whole of his residence in that part
of the country, obtained the esteem and friendship of those to
whom he was known. In the early part of 1&23 he became ac-
quainted with the defendant, Miss limey, and visited her with the
consent of her mother, a widow lady, who resided at Brackenlands,
near Wigton. This intimacy increased to such a degree, that
Miss Ismay absolutely looked apon the plaintiff' as her future
husband. The Learned Counsel then read a letter from the de-
fendant, of the 18th of July, strongly expressive of her attachment
to the plaintiff, but deprecating a hasty marriage, and requesting him
not for a moment to fancy that she would give her hand before the
month of October. On the 30th of September, however, she wrote
a letter, wherein she says -" My uncle told me the other day, that
he had been informed you had nothing to keep a wife, and that you
were merely o fortune-hunter. I trust that you will not be angry
at my informing you what has passed. Ile at the same time said
he did rot think shout riches, nor did he blame me for marrying,
if Mr. Hobson had an honest good character. lie paid no erten-
, tion to what the Wigton people said, provided he had a good cha-
racter of you from the house or houses you travelled for in
London. As I could not give him the names of your employers,
you perhaps will be kind enough to inform bin, by letter yourself."
.t.he uttormation here required was promptly given, and all parties
were satisfied.—The beamed Gentleman said, that, in addition to
the documentary evidence. hr should be able to prove that the wed-
ding was fixed, that the brideman and bridemaid were eppointed,
and that a house for the bride and her husband Ind actually been
taken by I at Penridt. Ile would show that arrangements had
been entered into for settling the lady's estate, and that the plain-
tiff; anxious only to obtain her hand and heart, had proposed that
her property should be settled upon her mother, upon herself, or in
any other way she pleased. If the plaintiff's object was fortune,
would he have acted thus? Would he not, on the contrary, have
strained every nerve to get possession of her pwperty ? But it ap-
peared that no lover, however romantic, could act in a more disin-
terested manner than he did.-. The Learned Gentleman. in conclu-
sion, said he rested his case with the utmost confidence in the
hands of a liberal and enlightened jury of Englishmen.
Witnesses were then called to prove the facts stated by Mr. Al-
demon, and verify die lady's sorrespondence. In her letters of the
4th and 10th of December, she announced her determination to
break of all intercourse with thillaintitil on the ground of the
eirjertinws urgai beseelatives friends.
3lr. Cot:RTXET addraisti ury in mitigation if damages.
Mr. Justice H °Lane it summed up the evidence.
The Jury, after a few moments' consultation, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff--Damages, 80/. Costs, 40v.

POLICE.

BOW.STRfr:F.T.

IV. Rifeec, the driver of the hackney-coach No. 7.-4, mut twm•
mowed to th 6 office, by Richard Martin, Ent., M.P.. charged
with cruelly and wantonly beating lii bona on the 2d of
March laat.

Mr. Martin said that he saw the defendant on the day stated,
nea► eraig's.court, Charing-cross, num cruelly beating one of the
horses he wan driving, and that it was with the greatest difficulty
he conk, hold the horse beck.

Coorhcc, in defence, said that the horse he wen driving on that day
would se-rcely bear to be tOliffilll with the whip, much more to be
used in the manner dtataibed by Mr. 51art in.
Mr. !Ism s olucerred that he had great difficulty to find nut
what whipping a horse required ; but in this case the coachman
had ma clearly proved fhat the hone required no whipping
at all.

To this the coachman reptled that he had driven the name pair
of boric% near!). rive months. and that there was not a whip.mark
to he found shoot them.

Jr. Martin loped that his Worship would mitigate the penalty
to the lowest sum allowed by the Act of Parliament-
111r. flats! s said that its the coachman had proved the case
against himself, he should inflict the lowest penalty. 10s. ; which
with the Costs ,Mr. Martin humanely gave to the poor-box.

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