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in pr. rem mg the ..print of thrill.
u,lout eff. et hill the delivery of cli.veo rowel. upon th•
(trusting of Mr. 'Woolf.% Paellamettimy Preeriklii% !—sl•trr
Jellticling the expeller% attaching io Ore poldit Atiou. and if
all sok!, tI, halvur•e of 5121. ft, $ irsilulel lir left ; the Vol-
verofiel have dernandtJ elev.•n came to
441 Is.. Pd. and that levees ale •mall profit ut 71 12..ctu
1111.:.11111.11,..jqm.

'Vim memo un the whole inspres•inii
Suppusuit the whole itivreanun the %Initr impres-
sios would kite produce,' SU (is. RJ. pttilit to the proprie-
tor of the work, and the deem vide% to the public fibre-
rise world he Cll. IN.. bd. and the difference 'mold be
71 12i ; which would he the net profit resulting tu the
proprietor upon the whole unlit ?—Yrs.
What is the price of paper in France '—The pribllng
demo of a thick quality, lulls in France at 171 freer., ur
114 s. 6d. Foiltsh money per ream, but the prier ism) t ary
from Ila. to 140.6 d.

%nal is the p.iee of 6111011 r paper in Eitglawl:—Fristo
Us. tu 36a. per team.

(To be conlinastd.)

PATENT COFFINS.

A 1.,11P101111 and important case is now product: 011 the
Ecclesiastical Court in Doctors' Connoting. In Apra, 11110,
Mr Edward Linn- Bridgman, of Goswell.strect road, ob-
tained a patent fora newly-invented wrought-iron
The object of the patentee appears to have been two-fold!
first, to furnish a coffin of trona ro(ncrials at a cheap prire ;
and, secondly, to secure the corps front being disinterred for
the purlinge of dissectime The parent coffin is maatifac-
lured fur 3/ 10s. nail is constructed open such principles
that it cannot he re-opened. Iw these corgis. the Patentee has
hotted upwards of 100 persons, iu ttf: places, pi incipally in the
metropolis. !Stone parishes at first refused to admit the cof-
fin, on account of the inetcrials of which it was composed ;
considering, perhaps, it was less liable to decay thou canna
made of snood or lead: bnt at last they consented to receive it.
The rector of one parish, however (the parish of St. Andrew,
Holborn) positively refused to bury a corpse contained in tine
of these rntlins ; and in consequence, the patentee, in the
name of the husband of the deceased, applied to the Rish...i•
of London, to tastiest that his Lordship would direct the
Rector to perform the funeral service over the body. The
Bishop replied, that he had heard of the case, and that the
bullhead intended to brim; it before the Ecclesiastical Court ;
he did not wish, therefore, to intlist on the admission of these
coffins. De conceived, that the best way of settling the mat-
ter for the prevent was, to convey the tootlies for 'mermen( in
CUftlll.l made of the usual martini's, and leave the issue of
the legal proceedings to determine whether iron coffins shoot.l
he received in future or not; or, his Lordship added, he
would endeavour to prevail tin the parish to waive their op-
position in the present instance, 011 the patentee giving a
promise to bring no more coigns of the same kind till the
question was settled in Doctors' Commons. The patentee
informed the Bishop. that it was impossible to put the body
in any other coign, as the one in which it was deposited
could not be opened; and that he could not undertake, even
if this rain were received, not to bring any more, as he hail
just placed two other bodies in iron coffins in that parish.
The husband ,ben cited the Rector of St. Andrew's into Ilse
Commons, to answer to certain interrogatories to be whoa
untitled to hint, " for his haviag refused to bury the corpse
of (whilst living, the wife of conve-
nient warning having begs, given thereof before."
The Cleigyagan has eussered his appearance, and the case
will be deeid• din act:Gorse of the ensuing Term.