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community, in spite of the landlords, if it be yet
practicable, from the disasters with which it is
threatened by their " slovenly" and scoundrel legis-
lation. We are glad, therefore, to be able to
announce, that Mr. PAULTON is to lecture on
Wednesday and Saturday evening, on the subject, at
theNlechanics' Institution. The advertisment appears
elsewhere. We are glad also to see that there was
an excellent meeting at Taunton on this day week,
when an Anti-Corn-law Association was formed,
and at which the resolutions and petitions were una-
nimously agreed to, though, under Sir THOMAS
LETHBRIDGE'S advice, the meeting seemed
inclined to let the landlords down easy, in
other words, to tolerate pocket-picking for a time,
in order to encourage a renewal of the attempt.
We have ceased, and so have all reflecting men, we
believe, to advocate these half felonious measures,
and agreeing cordially with Sir THOMAS LETH-
BRIDGE, that " men hate these laws," from their
moral feelings and convictions, as they hate fraud,
we go entirely and wholly with Mr. STURGE and
his friends in demanding the total repeal.
It is, however, necessary that the people should
everywhere put forth their strength, and by a solemn
moral declaration against the Devil's laws, to en-
able the Delegates to achieve the good work for
which they have been sent to the metropolis.
The advocates of the Corn-laws continually
assert that the Abolitionists do not give them facts.
The Abolitionists reply, " Your laws were passed ex-
pressly to secure steady prices, and within the last
three years prices have varied more than 100 per
cent. They were passed to give prosperity to agri-
culture, and since they have been in ex-
istence .the farmers have known nothing but
uninterrupted distress. They were passed to secure
the community an independent supply of corn,
which suffers from a dearth, and is at the mercy for
its supplies of the single empire of Russia.
They were passed to increase cultivation, and
little or no progress has been made, while,
in a former period, between 1773 and 1791,
when the trade was free, the markets were steady,
our supplies abundant, prices low, agriculture
flourishing, the farmers prosperous, and cultiva-
tion rapidly extended." But when the Abolitionists
in turn ask the advocates of the laws for facts, what
do the latter say ? Why, that the land will go out
of cultivation. Is that a fact ? Is it not a mere
fancy ? Will the farmers and landowners be such
fools as to allow it ? Will there be a single
motive for allowing it ?
The more, however, it is insisted on that corn
would be so abundant and so cheap that our farmers
could not grow it, the more glaring does the cruel
injustice become of checking our manufactures and
starving the people, merely to enrich farmers and
landowners. England is at present distinguished
amongst all the nations of Europe for cul-
tivating and :consuming comparatively few vege-
tables. That is partly on account of the
dearness of land, and if there were no Corn-
laws, we believe that there would he a great
increase in the quantity of vegetables consumed.
Instead, therefore, of the land going out of cultiva-
tion by the abolition of the Corn-laws, the reverse
would be the case. Lord WESTERN has re-
cently proved, as we asserted long ago, that 'Wheat
can be grown by less labour in England than
most of the countries of Europe, and so can other
edibles. Repealing the Corn-laws, therefore,
would cause an increase of the town population,
horticulture would extend, and instead of the land
going out of cultivation, it would gradually be
turned into a garden. Such an assertion is every
bit as much a fact as the only assertion on which
the advocates of the Devil's laws rely ; and it has
this to make it credible, that whereas their suppo-
sition is contradicted by all the phenomena of pro-
duction, and the motives that ordinarily actuate
mankind, our supposition is obviously but an ex•
tension and continuation of a progress that has
hitherto been uniform and uninterrupted.

The following appeared in our Morning lidition
There are various reports in circulation as to the
Successor of Lord GLENELG. The Earl of CLA-
RENDON, at present Ambassador at Madrid,
is said to have been summoned home, and to
be destined for the Colonies. Lord HOWICK is
also mentioned for the same office. We believe,
however, that the Marquis of NORMANBY is to
have the Colonies, and the Earl of RADNOR
will go to Ireland. We forbear to give coun-
tenance and currency to all the rumours we
hear, but it is generally said that Lord GLENELG
has not been very well treated. It is remarkable,
however, that the Tory Journals, which have
hitherto directed their sharpest arrows against him,
have all at once taken up his cause as that of a
most injured man. If Lord GLENELG wishes to
stand well with the world, he must hasten to disen-
cumber himself of their help. Their approbation
would make an angel be suspected.
Since then, we have seen the Morning Chronicle,
which asserts positively that Lord NORMANDY is
to have the Colonial Seals ; and mentions the ap-
pointment of Lord RADNOR only as a rumour.
Probably our Contemporary is correct; but our in-
formation leads us to suppose that to both appoint-
ments belongs the same degree of certainty.

We beg the special attention of our readers to
the report of a Church-rate meeting lately held at
Devonport, which will be found in another part of
The Sun. The case is of great importance, as it
affords, perhaps, the most striking instance that has
yet occurred of the desperate folly which seems to
possess the thick-and-thin supporters of the present
Ecclesiastical Establishment.

The Churchwarden of Devonport, it appears,
not being satisfied with the decision of the pa-
rishioners in vestry assembled, by which they had
negatived his motion for laying a rate, proceeded,
without further ceremony, to levy the rejected
rate on his own official and individual authority.
The utter disregard which this ecclesiastical under-
strapper has shown to the regular and deliberate
decision of a large majority of the rate-payers, is
not more remarkable for its insolence than is this
high-handed proceeding itself for the legal ignorance
which it displays. The estimate on which the
Churchwarden presumes to claim the rate in
question, contains charges which are totally
inadmissible, inasmuch as they relate to ex-
penses already incurred. Now, if there be
one point better established than another in Church-
rate law, it is this, that a retrospectiveaate is illegal.
That any person holding the office of Church-
warden should be ignorant of this would sur-
prise us, had it not been stated the other
day by the Poor-law Commissioners that one-half of
the Overseers in the kingdom are unable to write.
Putting, then, aside the question of the power of
a Churchwarden to lay a rate against the will of
the majority of the parishioners, it is clear that this
rate is in other respects a mere nullity—it
is fatally vitiated by its retrospective character.
For our own part, however, we have not the least

doubt that no rate, be it ever so prospective, be it
ever so unexceptionable in respect of form, can be le-
gally enforced if it has been refused by a majority
of the parishioners duly assembled. If any of
our readers entertain a different opinion we recom-
mend an attentive perusal of the admirable speech
of Mr. WOOLCOMBE, delivered at the meeting to
which we have referred. It contains an able expo-
sition of the law relating to Church-rates, and is
calculated to do essential service to the cause
of abolition at the present moment, when a
fiercer struggle than ever between the advocates
arid opponents of the system throughout the king-
dom is evidently approaching. We cannot con-
clude these remarks without betowing a tribute of
applause on the spirited and generous conduct of
this gentleman, who has undertaken to conduct for

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the defendants the legal proceedings arising out of
the contest which has commenced between the two
parties at Devonport, without fee or reward. Such
disinterestedness is not very common in the legal
profession. We hope Mr. WOOLCOMBE will find
imitators.

Anger, it has been said, is a dangerous coun-
sellor, and, for the misfortune of the new dynasty in
France, this is the counsellor whom Louis PHI-
LIPPE in the present critical position of affairs most
of all listens to. He acted constitutionally in dis-
solving the Chambers, and he has the right by the
Charter of dismissing PERSIL and every other

functionary appointed by the Crown, but the great
question for him to consider is, whether in stretch-
ing the Charter to its utmost limits against public
opinion, and among a people like the French, he
may not be playing as hazardous a game as that
which cost CHARLES X. his throne. The French
have had too short experience of the Charter to be
imbued with any veneration for its principles, like
that with which Englishmen regard their Constitu-
tion, and when they find all the leading men of the
country but of one opinion as to the unconstitutional
conduct of the KING up to the period of
the dissolution, they may be inclined to believe that
he has recourse to it only when it can increase his
kingly power. Since the time of JAMES 11. of
England there has been hardly an instance of such
general feeling among statesmen against the policy
of the Sovereig❑ as at the present moment there is
in France. It is not possible, indeed, to find out
any man of note who sides with the KING,
yet he proceeds in his course, displacing public
functionaries, seizing newspapers, rejecting the ad-
vice of SOULT, the favourite of the army, and
treating with contempt the leaders of the Chambers,
as if he were backed by the voice of the people
and the abilities of the most able counsellors, in an
attack upon some band of Republicans or Buona-
partists. Even PERSIL, rendered so notorious in
his service, he has rejected, and thereby deterred
even the waverers from coining to his support. It is
impossible to say what may be the result of the
elections ; but one thing is certain, that with such
a union of men of talent, favourites with one or
another of the various parties in France, this head-
strong conduct, and this daermination to rule with-
out them, must injure rather than benefit his cause.
If the great body of the people are against him, the
army will not be slow to follow the example, and
some symptoms of that sort have already appeared.
The National has stated as much, and even a Go-
vernment paper admits that many agents have been
discovered among the troops on the Eastern fron-
tier attempting to seduce them from their duty.
While all these things are going on, the coalition
remains firm to their purpose and determined to fight
the Cabinet, that is, the KING, to the last. The
following address of Guizot to his constituents is
sufficiently explicit on that head :

" Against the Ministry alone has our attack been
directed, and it shall continue to be directed as our right
allows and our duty teaches. To do this is to assure the
conquest of representative government, which is our char-
ter. We cannot suffer a tittle of it to be lost ; our honour
and that of France are staked therein. Nor is the repose
of France less at stake than its honour, for you may be
certain that as long as the present Government exists,
every question and thing must remain in suspense. In
foreign policy, as in domestic, you will see the same ab-
sence of foresight, the same folly, the same weakness,
whilst, as the result of all this incapacity, you may look to
a repetition of such measures as the present dissolution."

The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and
Saturday have been received this morning. The
Constitutionnel of Friday contains an address of
nearly four columns of that Paper, from M. GUI-
ZOT to his constituents, in which the ex-Minister of
Public Instruction, and High Priest of the Doc-
trinaires, justifies his conduct in joining the Coali-
tion against the Cabinet. M. GurzoT's justifica-
tion may be summed up in a sentence. He
could not longer support a Ministry weak
and imbecile in its composition, arbitrary in
its designs, mischievous in its foreign and
domestic policy, and unsustained by the respect,
the sympathies, the patriotic reminiscences, nor
even a numerical majority of the Chamber
of Deputies. On the other hand, M. BARTHE,
the Keeper of the Seals, and Minister of
Justice, has addressed an official note to the civil
authorities of the kingdom, commanding them to
abstain from the employment of their official in-
fluence in securing the return of Deputies hostile
to the Administration. As men in- authority can
hardly remain passive in a season of such excite-
ment, the Minister of Justice prudently and dis-
creetly abstains from condemning any influence of
the elections of an anti-coalition tendency.
M. PERSIL is very indignant at his dismissal
from the Mastership of the Mint, and has already
commenced a paper war against Ministers. He
will find few honest patriots to commiserate. When
in office he betrayed the popular cause, and aban-
doned his principles ; and now the KING flings him
all but characterless among the lumber of rejected Ca-
binets. Having prostituted his talents and his office
to destroy the liberty of the Press—having played
the part of a little pettifogging tinker, when it was
in his power to have displayed the generosity of a
patriot, and the capacity of a statesman, we are not
surprised that the KING voluntarily makes the
Coalition a present of the accession of discontent
and disreputation which only he is likely to brillg
to it.
There is no other political news of any interest
in these Journals. We subjoin from the _National
of Thursday an article, on account of which that
Paper was seized at the Post-office. The subject
of it is the Army, among the officers of which the
National retains a powerful influence, bequeathed
to it by a late lamented editor. Such seizures are
not the best ways of counteracting the attacks of
obnoxious Journals, the more especially as they are
followed up by prosecutions which give an eclat
to offensive articles which they derive solely from
the notice of the Government :
A complete revolution has taken place in the minds of
our soldiers. The army is no longer what it was a few
years ago. Education, the liberty of the Press, the dis-
eussiotis in the Chambers, have enlightened the inhabitants
of the barracks and purified their morals. Ideas of liberty
and .equality now impregnate the atmosphere and pene-
trate ImieLth the uniform. The Bourbons wolld not now
recommence the Spanish campaign with impunity. The
partizans of war, who pretend that even war is honourable,
as well for those who make it as for those who declare

it, whether it betrays or promotes the dearest inte-
rests of the country—the men who deceive them-
selves respecting the-cause they sustain with arms in
their hands by intoxicating themselves with the smoke
of podwer, like others who try to forget their faults
in excesses of the tavern—these men are daily disappear-
ing from the ranks of the army, and monarchical corrup-
tion, with all its artifices of advancement by favour, finds
diffi.rmlty in maintaining some few disciples of that school
of public immorality, some few successors of the Condot-

tieri of the middre ages. Now, when told to fight, the
soldier, the sub-officer, the officer, demand whilst they obey,
the reason for shedding blood, and woe to the Government
that wishes to engage them in an anti-national war, for
13ing, fraud, intrigue, will prove of no avail with them, nor
induce them to betray their principles.
It is conceivable, that in internal quarrels, power should
succeed by dint of calumnies and expedients of all kinds
in blinding for a moment the eyes of the army to plunge
them into the horrors of a civil war. We know too well,
indeed, that there are very marked and very often very
specious differences of opinion upon the solution of such a
political problem, or such and such reform. But when in
questions of foreign policy, the point at issue is tco plain,
and the facts are too evident for the most cunning Machia-
velism to overcome or obscure. Thus, the chateau may
bc' certain beforehand that it will expend itself in vain
efforts. None of the children of the country who inhabit
our barracks—none will believe that he has been called to
the frontier to serve the cause of the country. They see
before them England and Prussia giving their hands to
William of Holland : instead of the French qui vive ? of the
Belgian soldier guarding Luxemburg, they wish them to hear
the wild cry of the foreigner. The remembrance of the past,
their simple good sense, has told them that the dismem-
berment of Belgium, voted by the absolutist diplomacy,
consented to by the Cabinet of the 15th of April, was a
misfortune for France and an infamy upon her head.
They have well understood it ! Whether they remain in-
active during the execution of Belgium, or whether they
lend their arms for that assassination, they will not be less
the allies of the English and the Prussians, the auxiliaries
of the soldiers Wellington and Blucher—they will have
insulted the names of those heroic legions which fell on
the supreme day of Waterloo.
Scarcely three years ago France heard, not without asto-
nishment, that the eldest sons of the King, those young
persons who wear the uniform of French general officers,
had been sumptuously received at the Court of Berlin.
What does this accordance signify? France perhaps will
not penetrate it. But now those hosts of the Prussian
monarchy place themselves at the head of the army of ob-
servation. What a contrast, what a ray of light for the
most incredulous, the most blind !

BOURSE--PARIS, SATURDAY, FRE 9.
QUARTER PAST FOUL—Very little doing. The Three per Cents.
which closed at 78f. 40c. for cash, are now at 78f. 400. buyers,
78f. 50c. sellers. It is reported here that the Belgian Chambers
are conveised for Tuesday next.
First Highest I owest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French 5 per Cents. llO 25 ... 110 50 ... 110 20 ... 110 45
3per Cents. 7B 40 ...78 45 ...78 30 —7B 40
Bank-of France 2590 ...2800 —.251.0 ...2600
Lafitte Bank I,ooof. Sh
5,000 f. Sh. 5190 ...5195 ...5100 .. 5193
Belgian 5 per Cents.
3 per Cents. 66 80 ... 66 80 ... 66 30 ... 66 30
Bank 550 ... 5"4:11 ... 550 ... 550
Coupons
Spanish Active
Portuguese 3 per Cents.
Neapolitan
Roman 99X ... 9W„' ... 99% ... 99%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 585 ... 590 ... 555 ... 590
Ve sailles R.B.
' L.B. 175 ... 180 ... 175 ... 180
Charleroy 445 ... 446 ... 445 ... 415

ASPIIALTES AND BITUMENS.
Seyssel (A) 2B'o —.23 0 ...2700
Polon'eau

TOWER HAMLETS ELECTION
(THIS DAY.)

No other candidate having been proposed, Doctor
Lus-hington addressed the electors at some length, and
the Returning Officer declared the Right Honourable
Stephen Lushington duly elected, amidst loud and
general cheering.

ROLLS COURT-(THIS DAY.)
This being the first seal of Hilary Term, the Master of
the Rolls this morning took motions.
LITTLER V. THOMSON-CONTEMPT OF COURT.
This case came before the Master of the Rolls a few
days ago upon motion to dissolve an injunction granted in
the long vacation, restraining the defendant, a nurseryman
at Mile-end from cutting or selling any full-grown timber,
shrubs, fruit or other trees. His Lordship hes not yet
given judgment upon this motion, but this morning
Mr. PEMBERTON was about to move on behalf of the
plaintiff that Mr. George Glennie might be committed to
the Fleet for contempt of Court, in having published a
certain article in the Gardener's Gazelle, when he was
interrupted by
Mr. KINDERSLEY, who was instructed to ask on the part
of Mr. Glennie that the motion might be ordered to stand
over till the next seal, for his client had not until this
morning received office copies of the affidavits, which ex-
tended to 400 folios.

Mr. PEMBERTON had no objection to the motion standing
over, provided Mr. Glennie abstained from a repetition of
the offence which ho had been weekly guilty of.
Mr. KINDERSLEY said his client had not the least objec-
tion to give such an undertaking.
Lord LANGDALE-It will be for him to consider whether
he will not place himself in a serious situation if he:does not
Mr. KINDERSLE/ then handed to his Lordship an affi-
davit made by the defendant's solicitor and his clerk, and_by
the defendant himself and his foreman, stating that they
had nothing whatever to do with, nor were they privy to,
the publication of the article complained of ; and the
Learned Counsel trusted that his Lordship's mind would
now be relieved of any prejudice that might have been ex-
cited by what had been addressed to him on a former
occasion.

The motion having been disposed of,
Mr. TINNEY proceeded to open the case of

LAMBERT V. HUTCHINSON.
The question in which related to the distribution of the
estate of the testator, James Hutchinson.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(THIS DAY.)

MILLS V. RICRMAN AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by the eminent engineer
against the executors of the late Mr. Telford, for a balance
of 1,2001. due to him for services rendered by him in the
surrey made for the purpose of supplying London with
pure water.

The plaintiff appeared in person, but in the middle of his
opening the cause was referred to a gentleman at the bar.
This was the last cause in the list. The sittings are
therefore at an end.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
(Before Sergeant AILABIN.)
ROBBERY OF PLATE.

William Smith, 23, a man of colour, was indicted for having
stolen on the 25th of January, in the parish of St. Pancras, a (wan_
tity of plate, value 201., the property of the Rev. Dr. Moore, the
Rector of St. Pancras.

The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a ♦erdict of Guilty ;
and Mr. Sergeant Arabia sentenced the prisoner to be transported
for ten years.

(Before Mr. Justice VAuouAN.)

Jane Reeve was indicted for having, on the 14th of January, in
the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, feloniously assaulted her
new-horn babe, by knocking and beating it with her fists against the
wall, by which the said child did die. The prisoner, who appeared
in a delicate state of health, was accommodated with a chair during
the proceedings. Mr. Bodkin stated the case to the Jury.
Alfred William Wyse, a pot-boy, stated that about one o'clock
on the day in question his attention was called to a ditch in the
Hoxton road, where he observed the head eta child and a portion
of a newspaper, with it. There was also an arm, and while he was
looking at it, a gentleman came up, and by his assistance the body
we. conveyed to the station-house. On the evening previous he met
a female going in the direction of the ditch, and seeing him she
altered her course and went ton ards the ditch where the body was
found. He could not see her face as she had her hair over her face,
and she carried a basket similar to that produced in her hand. She
scented in great trouble, and the evening was very dark.
E:iz tbeth Reeve, 17, and no relation to the prisoner, was a fellow-
servant with the prisoner for about two months as housemaid. They
slept in the same bed; and, on the day in question, her master had
a party. The prisoner was frequently observed about a week be.
fore to sigh, and witness, seeing her look very large, charged her
with being in the family way, which she strongly denied. They
went to bed about eleven o'clock, and the prisoner got out of bed,
saying, " Good God, I cannot lay." The bed shook very much, and
she frequently left the room, after stopping at the foot of the bed,
and witness fell asleep, but she heard a cry similar to that of a child.
She had said at the office that it was the cry of the mother,
but she thought it was the cry of a child. The pri.
soner slid not come to bed that night, but she came
at seven o'clock in the morning and called witness out of bed.
There was a frock of witness in the room, but on her taking it to
put it on, she found marks of blood upon it, and having asked the
prisoner did she do it, she said it was the mark of a chicken or a
rabbit which had been killed for the company. About three o'clock
the prisoner was seen at the dust-bin for about half an hour, knock.
ins the ashes about, and she said she was looking for the black-lead
brush. When they were at the police.officc witness asked her was
it not the cries of the child she had heard, and the prisoner said No,
but herself, in consequence of the pain she was in.
Cross-examined by Mr. CIARKSON.—She had an imperfect recol-
lection of what had happened, and offered no assistance, nor did she
say anything about the child until she had been taken into custody
herself. Her master had not gone to bed, and was sitting in the
parlour, and the occurrence took place immediately on getting in to
bed, but she never suspected that the prisoner was in labour,
although she made an extraordinary noise.
Anne Chatfield, mistress of the prisoner, observed her rather
stout, and on asking was she inclined to be dropsical, she said she
was not.

By Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner lived with her about five months ;
she had a good character with her: but considered she deserved a
better character than she got with her, as she was a very humane,
good girl.

By the COURT—Sitting where she was, she must heard of the
birth of a child if it took place, and must have heard the door open.
Bernard Sutherland, a porter, had occasion to go the dust hole,
where he found the arm of au infant, which he communicated to his
master, and the arm was subsequently shown to the inspector of
police.

By Mr. CLARKSON—He considered the prisoner a kind-hearted
girl.

Mrs. Chatfield behig recalled, identified the basket troduced
as hers.

John Robinson, inspector of police, proved that he took charge
of the child's arm, and on taking the prisoner into custody, she
said nothing, but upon telling her it was for the wilful murder of her
child, she sz.id it was three weeks old, but it was dead, and on inform-
ing her that he had found the arm, she told him the rest of it was in
the dust bin. On leaving her at the station-house, he returned to
the dust bin, and found something else there, which he gave to the
surgeon.

Wm. Groves deposed, that on the 30th January, he was in the
waiting room at Worship.street, for prisoners, before they go before
the Magistrates. The prisoner and Eliza Reeve, were sitting to-
gether, and on his asking the policeman were they the persons
charged with murder, he said he did not know. lie then asked the
females, and Eliza Reeves said " not me but this one," at the same
time pointing to the prisoner, who said, " the policeman has charged
me, but I am not guilty, as the child was still-born, and when I put
it in the ditch the head was not of

Richard Hall, constable of the K division, who has charge of the
van from Clerkenwell to Worship-street, proved that the prisoner,
on conveying her, complained of being very cold, as there were
some old women in the house who had called her a Greenacre, hav-
ing pulled her child asunder. She also said she had pulled the child
to pieces with her hands, in the anxiety of the moment, and she
ought it was dead two months before it was born.
Mr. Charles Reedy, surgeon, proved having found the child's
head and arms, and having them placed together. He had no doubt
they formed part of the same body. They wereperfectly fresh, and
could not be dead more than a few days. The arm, in his
opinion, was taken off by an instrument, as was also
' the head, as the cartilage appeared divided by a sharp instrument.
Decapitation took place decidedly after death. He noticed a contusion
on both sides of the head, Parietal, temporal, and frontal on one side,
and the parietal and temporal on the other, which could not have
taken place before death. At the post-mortem examination there
was a considerable extravasation in the head, and fractures on either
side, produced by external violence.
By the COURT—A child might receive injuries on the head by a
woman falling and having no person present to assist her at the time
of her delivery. Such a case was possible, but barely possible.
By Mr. BODKIN—On examining the lungs they were not decom.
posed, and floated in water, and in his opinion they were thoroughly
and properly inflated. Children frequently received injuries in the
head during delivery, but not such as appeared in the present case.
By the COURT— A fracture might take place in the struggles of
theparent to deliver herself.

By Mr. BODKIN—From the appearance he had not the slightest
doubt that the child was born alive.

The COURT—That the lungs were sufficiently inflated, is that
what you mean ?

Witness—Exactly so, my Lord.

The witness underwent a lengthened cross-examination by Mr.
CLARKSON, In which he dwelt on the probability of a child meeting
with serious injuries on its coming into the world by involuntary
means, and quoted Dr. Ryan's medical jurisprudence, in which
instances have occurred of the kind.

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George Henry Coward, another surgeon who assisted in the post
mortern examination, confirmed the Evidence of the last witness in
every particular.
Mr. John Eason, a suraeon who examined the prisoner, proved
that
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between
admitte (1 the arm of ;he child formed part of the body, and
the remainder would be found where that was, and the child had
been still-born. He did not think the whole of the fractures could
be caused by such an occurrence, but part of them might. He
examined the room, and he thought from the narrowness of the
p
the bed and the wall, the prisoner might have unin-
tentionally trod on the child's head.
Mr. BuOKIN said that was the only evidence he had to offer re.
specting the charge against the prisoner, but he was prepared to
show that the accused had concealed the birth of her offspring.
Mr. CLA lIKSON said he thought it would be unnecessary to draw
the attention to that fact, still he would not oppose it should his
Learned Friend think fit to proceed.
Mr. Justice VAUGHAN said he would not oppose any further in-
quiry, but
he
was of opinion the case might go to the Jury in its pre_
sent shape.

Mr. CtkrucsoN then addressed the Jury at considerable length,
anafter his Lordship had summed up the Jury deliberated for a
short
time, and retured a verdict of—Guilty of concealing the birth
of her child.

MS LORDSHIP, in
the most impressive manner, sentenced her to
imprisonment and hard labour for two years.

the course of Sunday
RAVAGES OF THE HOOFING
and Monday, a humble family of the name of
Smith, residing in King-street west, were visited with a large mea-
sure of suffering by the death of their three children in the short
space of twelve hours, occasioned by the hooping cough, viz., Mary
aged six years ; John aged two years and nine months ; and Wil.
Ham, only eight months old. Stockport Advertiser.
CuRN-LAWs„—We understand a requisiton to
the Mayor is in course of signature, requesting him to call a public
meeting, to petition in favour of the Corn-laws, and that the meet.
ing is expected to be held in Doncaster on Saturday, the 16th inst.
—.Doncaster Gazette.
UNIVERSITY LIBERAL CLUB.—On Friday
evening a numerous meeting of Liberal students in the Glasgow
University, and of
Liberal gentlemen who have been students there,
was held in the Assembly Rooms, for the purpose of forming a
Liberal University Association, having for its chief object to coun..
teract the influence of the University Peel Club—Alex. Graham,
Esq. in the Chair.