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INQUESTS.

• •• SUPPOSED SUICIDE.
Yesterday morning, at elmq o'clock, au Inquest wit,
held at the aims of the Gun, Hermitage-street. Wapping,
before J. W.X.ltiwtx, Coroner, os the body of Esther Hot •
too, a tine young woman, about 20 years of agc, who came
to her death under the following circumstances. :
Mr. David Graham, of Hermitage-street, worn, said as
follows;—The deceased was my servant, sad lived with
me nearly three years, during which Siete she believed her-
self with the utmost propliety. The last time 1 sew her
alive was on Wednesday night last, about Adz u'eh.i.k,
at which time she was drinking her tea In the kitchen; she
appiewed Icisr and dejected, and seemed to he so for the lost
ten days. ll,beard that there was some connexion with het
and a young married man, in the employ of 11,. Been, we
undertaker, in the neighbourhood, and one night lust work
the, wife of the young man caught them together behind the
back-door of my house, on which she made an attack open
the deceased and gave her a heating. The deceased shot the
door in the wife's face, and the wife theca came round to the
front dour and knocked; on which I opeaed it. She said,
that I had an shoiusnable servant; that she had enticed her
husband away from her, and there wero improper pruert..l.
int* carried ow ; she hid caught dorm both together. I re.
quested her to stop and I wonlil inquire into it, on which I
Proceeded down stairs to the kitchen for the purpose of • re.k-
iug to the deceased; but she was not there, tumble cone
away, as is supposed, on heariog the man's wife at the door.
I heard nothing more of her till 1 was iuformed that :he was
found drowned in the river Thatnes.

Tina fL.rbeit sworn. slid—l am 4 watreinan bemiring
to Herqsitagedstaios; ou Wednesday evening last I was a..ll;ii.
hog near the stain, r heu a man came and informed me !bat
there au the body of a women in the water near ticrmitaze
Dock. I went with him immediately, and saw the deceased
shoat a foot deer 'elite water. I got my haat and took her
out; I am of opinion that she had not been long in the wa-
ter; she was quite dead.

Mr. Robert Houlsiliteh RID a surgeon. and aria
Called in intend the deceased Uu examitsatttot 1 foott.l th,t
their was a cnutusiou over the Irft rye, and a lacsre,
wound. Neither of them, in my opinion, were inflicted by
a sharp instrument, nor were they sellicient to cause death ,
it is most probable they were caused by a fall.
The Jury sat for a length of time, when being ofopinion
that it was a mysterious cue, at the suggestion of M.
.
Uuwin, the Coroner, the luqurst was adjourued.

SUDDEN DEATH.
Yesteeday afterooon an inquest was held at the eign of the
Unicorn, in Heerietta.strret, Covent-garden, before Must
Lawn, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Me. John Elliott, who
died suddenly on Tuesday evening Nat at a house its Latter-
street, Strand.
Elisabeth Golding, fife of Heavy Golding, being sworn,
said, she lives at No 9, Exeter-street. On Toroidal, evening
last, between seven and eight &cloth, the deceased came into
bee shop; he waa a total stranger, and rerpiested to tit duets
in a chair ; be appeared very ill, and went to the door, win re
be appeared sick in his stomach; relented osolo ie 0 triiiittw
or two, leaned on the counter and was affected again in his
stomach. A woman named Pringle entered the *hop at the
time; deceased wanted to Ise on theconeter ; 'Rune Lotted
him if she should stud for • Doctor, but his reply was in-
vent times " No." Witness then said, have you Isere
partaking of any thing? he replied he had had a glass of
peppermint, on finding himself very ill, and that he had
been ill for a mouth ; Isis complaint be said, was 'rind OM
the stomach, but he should be better presently be was
salted if he knew any person near? he replied " Yes," sod
mentioned the name of Mr. Atteivill, carpenter, of Our-
leigh-street, who was sent fur, but before his arrival be
requtsted to gu to the water-closet, from whence be trot
taken to the pm Low ; be sat down on a chair, gave three
heavy sighs, sod almost instantly expired.
John Williams, brother-inlaw to the deceased, said, he
bail been ill fur near a mouth, and frequently complained of
• chorines* of toroth ; be, however, appeared on Tuesday
morning better than usual. The deceased had a wife sod
four children, slid was in the 41st year of his age.

No odour witnesses being rslled, the Jury returned a ver-
dict of—Dt.4 by the Eisdalke of God.

Last evening a decent-looking young woman
made an attempt to drown herself in the Serpentine,
in Hyde Park. but was saved by a Gentleman who
happened to be passing by at the time. She s:tid
she was a servant out of place, and had been driven
to commit the rash act by distress.
thud-bills were yesterday in circulation for the
apprehension of a young man who has absconded
from a boom in the cotton-trade, with several thou-
sand pounds in goods and money. He had un-
limited control, and the management of all money
transactions.

Wednesday raoriiing. about four o'clock, en alarm-
ing fire broke out at the sign of the Swan public-
house, Dearly opposite Old Gravel-lithe, Wapping,
which destroyed the public-house and a stair-chan-
dler's adjoining. We are happy to hear no liven
were lost. The same lasellard was burnt out at St.
Catherine's, Tower-hill, tome mouths ago.

Mimi MORGAN, the young Lady who had been
committed for assaulting and publicly
with o breach of promise of marriam Mr. Rotten'
Tet.Eit. a Clerk to Mr. Roprrt.t., •11 einineot
Sa.licitor in Lineillo's Imi-fields, W 2% this day
brought up to Court in Guildhall, Westminsti r,
and discharged, on entenng into her turn rem.-
iiir.nice, and finding one surety, to keep the prat
fir twelve anoutlis.

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- IREI...,iND' . I THE SOUTHERN 178HERY.
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.. .a. 1,1.111.3 N, NOVEXIIIA 9. : [Prow •• Cork Piper.) •
The losst•neglected subject of the Irish Fisheries
Preens at leo4th &Amid to 1,, Nit,. „ti with amhe In our last Number we briefly stated the tie:.
et/instances which led to the Public Meeting that
reargue of spirit. A turtling will he held this.ifite,
at one o'clock, et llarrisoo',, to c.,,,,,j,„ dm, idiotl sea held at fireside, on Monday last. namely, a
of thee Dublin Fish Market. iOllll,lllllllOll iiIIIIIIPP the fishermen against the use
uerusea 31.
of trantroel net, si;el the coosevieist injury arising
Wit owli to that town, but to the southern coast
The Cernmilorion hes this dee opeete.l at Green-
,l'rret. h-fore the night flan. Lord 1.e.,,h,..,..tmi Otisendip, by Mitivpo-im: persouv with copital from
Ow Mu,. 8.,,,,,, 6,„N„. ~.„,1 1/„. !twit final. the
I tinharkseig iii the core awl repent of fish, which
Lord M some of the City of Doliliet.— world open a teen anal very ainpir lipid for ern.
LAM Norloory charged the .luring. He said that i ployeriesit iti those 'mollies arid distressed dos-
though the Calendar was an notionally fail ~w. 1,, "jell ; mud se now present a report of the pro-
creditor
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which took place.
was happy bossy that there were 110 t Ile% oneweial
enormity dist called for &wrest iinifriee him. tic WlLtiait N Le. eta N, F.Ki. the f3eivereign of the
b e TOWII, 11111,1114 Leese called to the Chair, that Gen-
general state of the country was sordiot,,,,ed „„,1 mdint.nomi man must „. Ms I;;efj,„.m. at'_.e.r.i tleinan briefly stated the objects of the Meeting,
feet ly tramped and amenable to law and (order. "Vier his hope•that it may lead to beneficial results, mild
this haw,y a,iit ravisher state we were isoiefited to tr,.. Ins readiness ti, hear any person who tutu any thing
to Sily 1.1!WII Coe subject relative to which they had
influence of a itilitfent and ineriturious disseminetion
of morel issferroution. amongst all elm-rat the ult. L'''''''bitql•
.„.„,jmic. „iltili„,, and impartial spirit ait. the matiiii. Omovellor Cetus then rose and said, that while
trove, ;mil the active and unwearied exertious or all lie- "tvettril there were em'PetmueelY 'w few Pre-
seed. he would not on that account be deterred
roffoirahly-eonstitisted Police. whteh not nobly pre-
from mokinK some observations Neon the *object
1-ctrl the inhabitants of this great and interesting
metmpolis. hut extended their sineritorinise aid to
before Itita—ti subject out only interesting to the
town of (Mule, but to every part of the adjoins
tier preserves of the pewee_ turd ;tapping.' a the
Intien ;; i)) it etninlieli. He had to lament that the long sea-cast, and Milted to the country geuerelly•
es.* of forgery whirls wonld •Conse before th, They lied before them. in the stwetecles which
were every day presented, a miserable proof of the
I 'try were insmerooi ; this crime ivas carried to a
irdiesit pity^ Hut only in this buttie sister cows. over P°P"l•itun of the place, her" "he me". of
ii,),.. inlandwasfond of imitating t „gland, oot einployinest. This wee exhibited ill the number
of rueudiraisits who walked the streets; and not
wetly iir its liethions rail virtues, hut in its Vice" alto
--.11111 whatever at either smile its. appearasice in Duly these,
too proud i
llYtheee;hut t:
expose thential lirlengtilie.elll ab equally great,
soli-
in e packet or Arm. Ile wee proud to sey, t,who
the latter country, was sure to And its way hither
citing relief. but who stood in as great need of it.
however. that Compireeitio end cunt hitiations. This state of dumps had called forth the exertions
which were carried on to so ahwit6"lt so extent. l of the better claim of society, on three different
occasions io that town, when the contributions
an ass to threaten the extinction of commerce iii
tamismisteil to 3,000/. independent of the support of
that country, whose commerce covered the vast
the Protestant and It iiiii an Catholic Poor Schools,
Writ'. with her hose sails, was but very parti-
ally imitated in Ireland. He had to roogro_ which. pressed very heavily upon that class of which
he had spoken, who were neither very numerous
glattilate the Gentlemen of the ticrend Juries on
Ilse increasing success of the labours of the Mendi- or very viclk.
City 3.oety—the public begen seriously to appre- Nature, Mr. Collis continued to say, had placed
within their reads, time means of giving full employ-
elate their value. and he hod the snout songitine
Mein. to site poor of that town ; its harbour was
hopes, that 'the crowds of miserable beings who
one of the best in the world ; its boats could ride
were wont to infest oar city, anti largely odd to
in wifely and in deep water at all hours and at all
its vices. would, by their laudable interference,
seasons, sit as to enable its hardy fishermen to take
be brought into habits of Ministry. cleanliness,
advantage of on uninterrupted fishery; but, it sp-
end morality. This improving state of things, under
p
all the discooregiiig eircuuotmsees iii which we posted, that what had been intended by Providence
are place* reflects the severest reproach on those
as a benefit, war rendered useless mid nuavailable
emu mot Acts towel, of nor country. who have shall- by.the folly cud imprudence of man.
It was theu almost twentystive years since the
ceded their rights, their homes, and their ditties
trammel-net had been invented upon
that coast, by
or gst us, sad deserted their enviable rank and
•iwtoattotte. to
seek for balminess aniongat
atraiiigers_ a Mr. Walton. It rumbled the persoue who used
it to take shoals of fish, by thousands and tens 4
best he would venture to firretel, that numbers of
thousauds. which visited our coast, and which were
them eriold. very shortly, he in a hurry to get hack.
if 1.04 itchmed to their mortification. Here the but casually, end in few numbers, taken by the
method previously in use, the hook mud line. Yet
Noble end Learned Lord made some ohaerrotions
this more eftcactines mode has been brought into
IM the elastics of the Juries, and concluded with
roniplinieniting them on their well-proved Mien- disrepute, end it may he said, was never iu use,
puce, seal, and diligence, in their discharge. in eta oreqoersee of the uppositiou it lied received
from the !Dwane.). Ile did not altogether say they

ADULTERATED TEA.
Saturday last the Consinissioiwris of Customs pro-
nounced judgment, its the cue of Sawed Juhetwt,
of Essex-street, who was einidemited su the mistily
of Twelve Hundred Pounds.
The trial of John Lat.:less. of Pootbetostreet,
came next under the comidrmi....r 11. court.—
The itiformaliOniharged the beferisdent wit` ban iuR
hi+ logars.iiiii three casks, coataining
Michael Owen Fllughis was Paint/tined ou the pint
of the Crown—and said itsit he 'recollected litkving
is one on the 7111 of August last, lathe house of the
Defendant, in Poolheg.street, iu coneequencr
itiforsnation previously received, and there o,iz;tig
three casks of initiation tee, contaireitu f.l2lbs.
weight. Foetid the tee in Defendant's bed-roan.
Witness iircempsuied the seizure to the Custom.
house. where be sew it weigliesl. Was present wheii
Mr. Hughes (the rides) gave a temple out of said
casks, to Mr. Fraser, the botanist, for exinnitintion.
The risks were in difteretit parts of the room, one
one of them was eilhout a head, and lay elms, to
i%e lied, where the Defetidant'a wife was lying.
hissing brit recentiy hitt-in. Views exhibit •' A.''
and says it is a port of the substance so seized.
Crots-esonnined by Defesident.
What did my wife say to yon at the time you
were taking the cribs away ?-.-That they had been
left there by u ;Jerson of the name of David ttttt
who told her they contained red herrings.
James Fritter, botanist, was etamined and prig.
ed, that he bad received front Mr. Hughes. eallipN
of the substance under seizure, for the purpose. of
ittautinatiOn. He (Mr. Fogel) itifitsed the simples
in hot water, and is able, from his knowledge in
botany, to prosionnee them to be eninnounikil
lend made up of elder and potato (eaves, and an
admixture of clover, or (hi/v/lure repent) stet!.
found co lea in the composition.
Mr. Fraser twine posiP‘ely that he romp:ere:l
• the leaves given hint by Mr. Might«, with those of
the above plums, and lied no doubt of their cons-
identity.
Mar; iret Colembn eat evirrthied on the part of
the Defendant, whose *errata ipt:r s'. She said she
knew nothing further of the tea in (titration than
that a person iii the employment of one Davidoon,
herring merchant, lied applied to her ini.tress for
leave to eirigatit the casks upon the loft. The mix.
tree. slid lie might, and Davidson iftereardo. sent
The casks. Ting was about twelee months before
the tenure was made. The witnets she mitt,
nut fu riis any o,.inion whether I.nw:rso and hi. olfe,
during Ilse said tioel-ce month., knew what the
risks contained. Mr. anti Mrs. Live—us Slept for
sir weeks on the loft 'refute the se-intre woo made.
Th« three cask* stood beside their bed. IVitiosnit
never during the said six weeks supposed the capita
to roman) herring+ ; het retpont Is, She SAW whit they
contained a good while he'..eire the seiztire. In
answer to • clue-tine from the t'ntrt Oda woman
'fnd, she nester math use of any of the tea litrorlf,
krr.nose she (fill not think it good.
•Flie case beia4 ClaSril, the Clears pronotimeol
iinlzsiient meanest the Defendant. Penalty-7',
1 hustgwal Three Hundred twit Tweary l'untaat
,Sierbog..

To Iwevent the tnre4,l el tynlttit fever, the fol.:
lowing lAA, penned, i= posted on the (rout of sr-
el-0! houses its the low twit f GlesgetT • —•4 /*try:-
te.444, fritr hal thit•

were without excuse, fur it was not wonderful when
prejskilice* were found to exist among a better in.
linseed class of persons, diet fishermen should
have th-iro. These mess say, that they have been
reined from youth to age, in toil and danger, his.
bittrated to a errtsiu mode of fishing ; and is it
right, they ask, that those who have spent their
lives at the loom isud she spade, shall now interfere
with thrus ? Another motive existed among the
against the trammels; they wished to
take but few fish, because they conceived they were
rr well, me better paid, than if they took a great
dead, the scarcity cresting O higher price. but if
they would Indy consider that if a great quantity
of fish were taken, it was loot the lucre markets of
Cork and Kitimat they would have to supply, but
numerous stores would be open in Kineale, where
the redundancy would be bought, cured, and ex-
ported, which would not only enable them to sup.
ply their own waists, from the sale of their fish,
but afford the means of employment to the numer-
ous ;boor of the town.
If time trammel ore become generally in use, and
that the ash continued, as usual..to visit the coast,
no doubt there would be employavist and compa-
rative independence fur all. If the illegal combi-
nation which existed ceatied, capital to a consider.
able stisoinit would he employed in the manner he
hail stated, which would open a field for riertion
and industry, and thus alleviate the situation of
the roor, and iii a great measure procure that com-
fort fur them of which they stood so much in need.
The profits of the fislwrintrei, too, would be ma-
terially inereisaed, because their shares (the system
upon which the fishery was conducted) would be,
trout what he knew of the owners of the fishing
Ver,o•le. generous and libel-NI.
W hilt. pursuing his oliservations, Mr. Collis he-
came suddenly imlisposed, mid was obliged to re-
toe.l
Mr. BARRY, or U' glimore, congratulated
the town of Kinsale, tipon being the first piece in
fist mootsy which sought to make the fisheries of
to the empire at irrge, constittitilig us they
dish a fertile, but, sitiliappily, hitherto an one*.
&ore', source of isetional wealth; and lie had no
doubt, that however towel the circumstances may
appear which had caiised the present Meeting, they
hod u more general; i.opoitance. ind may be made
auxiliary to the promotion of a must useful and
most vallielile lo•asich of roi iiiii erce. It was to be
reoetited, he mill, that either front the rliirobeck
on the salt duties, or the being miknowsi,
they were eutirely useless, mid ciaite meantime as
regarded the not-ports, which weir precluded from
retw!vitig any advaotege Irmo them its l'ollsegoirtsCe
of some neves...my Isirsneluirr. emelt they lied not
the opportunity of übsr.rvinK. Ile i tir. Berry)
knew; from co,iimitisicatione he had had silt the
Irate Seesetary for Ireland; that it wit% the wish of
Uovernistent to encourage the fislierie•. It had en-
, Coanllgtsi tieriallis ways, tout lie Via 4
pare the tiiisi•ries were tint regarded as of less sun-
portame. iii this as sit uil other caste. the
zeal and mite,' of nislividitals could he pi oductive
of in good .r, thrtcrute. recommended the es..
talilj.:,,at al sit an Assai•lallslit, who %mild take the
0111.j..1 I.to I communicate the
re-tilt of the..r sins si,ir 1111,1 the nature of their
vi, sv.., to the pout, m here tlicy could alone he
promo', d.
11r. pibrosit:ou with appro-

b..:tion, a resolution to that effect was immediately
framed, and . I Gentlemen named or the As-
sociation, at the head of which is placed Lord
The Resolutions having been read from the Chair,
a Gentleman suggested that it wool,' br well, per-
haps, as there were a great member of the tidterruen
prevent, to learn from them what their objectiiiiii
were to the use of the trammel. the superior attt•an-
tages of which they had heard stated.
The CHAIRMAN concurred in the propriety ietlie
itim-stion. mid addressing the Uterine'', said,
they were as moth at liberty as any other persons, to
*State whatever they had to urge in defence of their
Opposition,
A limlierinan said, that shooting thew trammels
across the hays, prevented the H•h from coining
that fish taken in these nets were bad, as they were
completely spent before they were taken ur, and
that io this state, they became infectious. The
trammels, lie said, were left out ^4 hours.
Mr. Did II A N and 4r. Ditstutita, who have tram-
tneht in their boats, said, they were uever left °tit
owe titan two or three hours, and thut the fish so
taken, were as good as those taken on the hook.
This was corroborated by a very old fisherman,
who had used the trammel and sets together : there
was no difference, he said. to the state of the fish
when taken out of the water, and one was as good
for saving as the other.
Captain DORMAN stated, that he had then at IA
house, lisp taken its r trammel, and saved several
months ago, and it was now as white and delicate
as if taken yesterday.
The fishermen here became more voluble iu their
opposition ; one of them said there would be a re-
bellion in the country, if the trammels were forted
into use, which produced great laughter. He was
asked how ? Because," said be, •' every man will
take his oath against them; they will dl die toge-
ther, and all the fish will be driven away." This
mode of reasoning did not convince the Meeting
that the use of the trammel should be disconn-
tenanted, and those resolutions were formed and
agreed to, which were inserted in our hart, and which
we hope to see anccessfully carried into effect; but
this, the Gentlemen Members of the Association
should bear in mind, will never he done, unless
they are determined actively to perform what they
have undertaken. The object in contemplation is
one of great importance.

MEETINGS OP CREDITORS AT GUILDMALL

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lu (be bite Aniericon war, • New Yook trtelei- eloa,oel
by si small Itenth yriratt yr, and hoeing four 4orio will.
plenty of rw.tll aims, it woo agreed to !IVO • b. lob with
the enemy, ration trios be taker prioiotio. Allllol.t several
ulbrr intoorocrio, w*. 411 athletic Cbsol.4 r, 14110, 01011411 lie
itboteatil erety solicitation t 0 lead a 11;111d, 1/ .111 X run
trail 11.1 111:i rditiouo teasel.., kept wrlkin4 'OM kwudo nod
trisida 14.1 the 41. tk, y appiirriit 1/4.• • I:..ttly
all the time pue:lsic In Uu ie :hut. At telizili, the tco.elr
hat iar. :11111111111'11C11 t. 1401. to C:101 otiose, .. lull It,
is, *infested by list. 1.1.1 1, is, St 11.1•11 .en. Wlll, I.llllli
pot bolo ...tidbits; and the 04eiter to :..g t.n Ilio 14,4";!;e.0r,
the Mat 111.01 that j 1211100,1 011 boa. d, lie ono spelt, dIY is woe
weeri.l4l lieu, rod grapb,iig I forcibly by site rOl-..,
" bitreal, 1.111/11 111`.1 110 W3ll/1115 bete," lb.. :ante
eiLe hulatatit hint uva the Ail.% tide.