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On the 20th inst., at St. George's,
Bloomsbury,
MARRIED.
mid, Esq., to Marian, youngest daughter of Mr. W. Stuckey, of
Bloomsbury-square.
On the 21st ult. at the British Ambassador's, Frankfort, Peter,
William Golds:
Nugent Daly, county Mayo, Ireland, to Jane Francis, daughtVi_i
Thomas Davies, Esq., and grand-daughter of the late C. E. ""
mott, Esq., of Lyncomb• House, near Bath.
On the 26th inst., at Trinity Church, Marylebone, the el,-
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ector of Ashnow and Whitnash, Wari
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DIED.
On the 23d inst., at Basing House, Old Basing, Hants, Maria
Mawby, infant daughter of C. Ring, Esq., of Doctors'-commons'
and Lower Mitcham.
OnlteiLdeisnstthe
inst.,
saotol Rome,ptor. Mr. Henry Behnes, youngest brothar
of Mr. Behnes
On the 22d inst., at Edinburgh, John Cormack, of Nevi
-Cross, aged 78.
On the 24th inst., at Waithamstow, Essex, James Hill,
in his 56th year.
On the 22d inst., in Jubilee-place North, Mile-end, Mr. Dan
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Knowli's, aged 82.
On the 2(1 ult., a Barbadoes, Rebecca Anne, wife of C. T.
Cunningham, Esq., Colonial Secretary.
On the 24th inst., at Tottenham, Middlesex. Rachel, daughter
of L. Howard, of Ackworth, Yorkshire, aged 34. - of
On the 19th inst., at Glasgow, W. John Cumbers, aged 31,
the Robin Hood, Kingston-road, Surrey.
On the 24th inst., at the Earl of Carnarvon's, Highclere, Sus,smo'i
Countess of Guilford, widow of the late George Augustus Earl
Guilford. eL:sert
On the 20th inst., at Camberwell-grove, Charlotte Ballo*,
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dam,hter of C. Tottie, Esq., his Swedish and Norwegian Ala)
Consul- General.
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On the' sth inst., Robert Porter, Esq., Upper Seym
Portman-square, late of Jamaica. eric,
On the 19th inst., at Castle Dawson, Francis Kendra Bouv
son of E. Bouverie, Esq., of Delapre Abbey.

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London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 04 .„
112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in th
of Middlesex.—Wednesday, September 27, 11337. coup,'

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We take the following article from the Essex .geraM,
between whom and ourselves on the Poor Law Que-
stion, we believe, there exists no difference of opinion
" While we have ever advocated the principle of the
New Poor Law, we have never stood forward as tbe,
apologists of the severities by which those who are paid
to administer it sometimes bring odium upon a good
measure. A case of this kind has just occurred in Dept-
ford workhouse, to which we draw attention, in the hope
that the reprobation which it has met with, and the Im-
mediate dismissal with which we doubt not the poor
Law Commissioners, to whom the facts have been com-
municated, will visit the Master, will have the effect of
preventing similar harshness in others.
" It appears from the statements made at a Vestry
held on 'Thursday, to investigate the subject, that a poor
man named Doggett, aged 68, and his wife, were com-
pelled to enter the house, and the wife being ill at the
time gradually grew worse. For a short time the hus-
band was allowed to see her twice a week, a quarter of
an hour at a time ; but when she grew dangerously di,
in fact when she was in a dying state, the mistress re-
fused to let him visit her at all. Between the ThursdaY
and the Sunday he repeatedly applied for permission, but
without effect. On the Saturday afternoon, one of the
nurses, at the request of the wife, whose death bed was
embittered by the cruel refusal, clambered to the top al
a wall to tell him that his aged partner longed to et-
change a parting word : at four o'clock he applied for leave
to go to her, but Mrs. Carter, the Mistress, said it was
too late—he applied again in the morning, it was then
too soon ; and it was not until the surgeen insisted upon
his being sent for, that he was admitted, and when be
entered the room his wife was just dead.
" Now It may be supposed that there was some cause
for this inhuman proceeding. None at all. At least, the
parties who were called in to explain their conduct could
not adduce any cause. He had been 40 years a respect-
able rate-payer in the parish ; and it was the mere Loser*
lion of petty brief authority which had thus dared to
sport with the sacred feelings of the poor in death. net
even if Doggett had been the most profligate and unruly
of the inmates, it would have been no justification for ba-
nishing him from the bedside of his wife at such an hour.
The decent arrangements of a large establishment render
a separation of the sexes, which took place in large houses
under the old system, imperative ; but no rule of law, ne
feeling of nature, or dictate of religion, will sanction the
thrusting of an aged couple asunder when the glazed eye
of death would be cheered by the presence of one with
whom, perhaps, the pleasures of youth and the stores of
plenty had been sharedand when cold quivering lips had
some word of comfort or some last injunction to comilan°
nicate. As advocates of the New Law, we feel strong',"
on this point. We feel that such proceedings are contrary
to every wish and order of the Commissioners and of the
Guardians generally ; and we hope that a strict eye will be
kept upon those paid officers to whom the care and com-
forts of the aged are entrusted, and that every case
promptly punished, in which the feelings and best affections
of the poor, as in the case of Doggett, are wantonly and
needlessly violated." will be

DEATH FROM NEGLECT AND STARVATION:"...
On Monday, the 11th inst., an inquest was held at Drum-
lough, parish of Dromore, on the body of Elizabeth John-
son, who was found dead in a waste-house in that townland,
by Dr. Tyrrell, coroner for the county of Down, which
proves most decidedly the necessity of establishing dis-
trict fever hospitals, and certain provision for the po?!..
The following witnesses were examined :—Robert
Nil-
son, of Dromara, constable of police, stated that on Mo"-
day, the 4th inst., ire went to the townland of Drain, parish
of Dromara, and there found a woman lying on the side.
of the road, suffering from sickness ; she had four chd-
eren with her ; as she was a stranger, no person was
wil-
ling to admit her, from the apprehension of fever ; as she
stated she was a native of the town of Drumlough*
parish of Dromore (the adjoining parish to Dromara)'
he was provided with a horse and cart, and had the
woman and her four children conveyed to the townland of
Drumlough ; he then made application to several house-
holders in the townland of Drumlough, but could get no
person to assist her ; he, however, found a waste-house in
Drumlough, on the side of the public road, and had the
woman and her family put into it, by the advice of a ser-
vant of the Rev. S. Crory, to whom he also applied on
her behalf; he then left the woman and her family in the
waste-house, and Mr. Crory's servant and the woman's son
remained with her. On Sunday, the 10th inst., having
heard that the woman was in a destitute situation, he pre'
ceeded to the house, where he left with her some clothing
and victualling supplied by Mrs. Boyd ; on entering the
house he found her lying dead on the floor, without bed or
covering, two of the children lying sick at her feet, and ite
infant, nine months old, lying with its mouth at the dead
mother's breast, and the only attendant a child of four years
old. Ann Magenis :—Lives nigh the deserted house where
Elizabeth Johnson and children were lying ; from the tires
constable Wilson left them on Monday, the 4th, until he
returned on the Sunday following, never saw any person
visit the woman and children, or give them any provision"
and believes on her oath the woman died from starvation.
Ann 11'Neill.—Lives near said waste-house ; corroborates
.
the whole of Ann Magenis's testimony, and further says
that, when she looked into the house on Sunday, she saw
the woman lying dead, the infant child trying to get at the
mother's mother's breast, and two of the children lying at her fee •
he
Verdict—" Death caused by neglect and starvation?'
children have been taken into the care of Mr. Alexander,
overseer of deserted children for the parish of Dromore.---
Downpatrick Recorder.

The Rev. Henry Colman, in a late sermon in Ann
rica said—" The best bank ever yet known is a bank (3
earth—it never refuses to discount to honest labour ; and
`
the best share is the ploughshare—on which dividends are
always liberal."

WILLIAMS, TIIE MURDERER OF THE MAitMARKS.—The body of this murderer and suicide, whose crimes
caused such an awful excitement and consternation all over
the country twenty-six years ago, is likely to be remove'
from its degrading place of burial, the cross-road between
Cannon-street and Cannon-street-road, St. George's-in-the-
East. The body of this miserable wretch was brought t°
this spot on a hurdle, covered only with a shirt ; in his
right hand holding the maul with which the horrible in";
der of Mr. Marr, his wife and infant child, had been e'
fected. A hole, about fourteen feet in depth, having been
dug, the corpse was thrown in, amid the
execration of the
multitude, and a stake driven through its centre. A sewer
is now being constructed, whose course being in the centre
of the above street and road will most probably cause th.ef
murderer's bones to be brought to light. To avoid this,
possible, however, a tunnel under that part of the road 1
begun ;
it will
being about the supposed depth of the bones
in question will most probably for that purpose be of 0°
avail. We believe a question has been mooted as to the
legality of disturbing ground set apart for the purpose of
burying the suicide with marks of public degradation.