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still greater hardships would have occurred. The So-
ciety ought not to be condemned for one or two cases,
and if the object of the Press should be accomplished
the most lamentable consequences would ensue. He
concluded by moving the appointment of ladies to su-
perintend the girls' school.
Mr. MonGAN seconded the mation.
Captain DoYLE said the Dutchmen at the Cape were
most humane men, and he could on his own knowledge
state, in allusion to the Commissioners, that not one of
them was a landholder.
The motion was then agreed to.
A vote of thanks to the Commissioners was then
agreed to, and acknowledged by Mr. RUTHERFORD.
The next resolution was moved by GEORGE
BRAllikm, ESCI., Al. P., seconded by Mr. MoWBAIR, and

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and no one more deserving of universal sympathy, and
in losing him he could not refrain from saying that the
Society had lost one of its most valuable supporters.—
(Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving the adoption of
the Report.
The Rev. HERBERT SMITH had long read with peculiar
satisfaction the Reports of the Committee, and he had
therefore great satisfaction in seconding the motion.
Ho was convinced the attacks made on the Society
would raise it higher in public estimation than it had
ever been before.—( Hear, hear.) Last Monday he
went over the whole of the Asylum at Brenton, and put
a variety of questions to the inmates, who said they
should prefer going out to the Colonies, but their mo-
thers would not allow it. After inspecting their food,
and their sleeping apartments, he came away
perfectly satisfied with everything he had seen.
With respect to the attack on Captain Brenton in the
Times, he felt compelled to make a few remarks. In
September last he (Mr. S.) published a pamphlet, en-
titled " A Letter to the People of England on behalf
of the Deserving Poor," advocating almshouses for the
deserving aged. This brought an attack on him in the
Times newspaper, and he was convinced the attack had
arisen from the Children's Friend Society having to do
with the children is workhouses. He mentioned this
merely to show that the Times and other papers took
up subjects without any ground at all.—(Hear, hear.)
Captain ACKERLEY said the Press was almost the
only remnant of our ancient liberties.—(Hear, hear.)
The inhabitants of the Cape had no labourers, and were
anxious to procure labour at the cheapest rate, and,
therefore, they wished to get the Society to send out
children. If children must be bought, let them be
at once bought in this country.—(Disapprobation.)
It was in the power of the parents of these children to
demand from the Society that they should all be
brought back, according to the laws of the country.—
(Hear, bear.) He did not doubt that the gentle-
men connected with the Society were actuated by the
best motives, but they had been made fools of by those
abroad. The children in St. Martin's parish had been
sent out without the consent of their parents.—(Con-
siderable interruption was offered to the speaker, and it
was only after two gentlemen had appealed to the can-
dour of the meeting that he was allowed to proceed.)
The complaints which had been made against the So-
ciety were founded on the letters received from the
children themselves, and their complaints were he be-
lieved well-founded. The meeting should consider the
immense distance between the places to which the chil-
dren were sent, and that immediately after a child left
the parent Society he might never be seen afterwards.
—(Uproar.) As to the Commissioners they were
landholders, and had an interest in sending out these
children.—(The confusion was at length so great that
Captain Ackerley set down.)
An individual in the meeting, named PALMER, said
his children had written several letters, but his master
had refused to send them home.—(Cries of " Name.")
The name of the master was Dryer.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that time should be al-
lowed for inquiry. He would merely suggest that the
postage might not have been paid. 1
Major MITCHELL, Surveyor of the Colonies, said
that no one could have prevented the boy sending a
letter, for he was within a mile of the post-office. He
believed the boys generally were very well situated.
Mr. YOUNG, who had been in the neighbourhood of
the Cape, said he invariably found that the boys who
had English masters had nothing to complain of ; but
they were very hardly treated by Mr. Dryer, who was a
Dutchman. On one occasion he found two boys se-
creted under a bush, who complained of very hard treat-
ment. They said they could neither get paper nor
ink. He believed their condition was ameliorated after-
wards on his (Mr. Young's) interference.
Captain ACICERLEY wished to put some questions to
Mr. Young, but was refused the opportunity of doing so.
One of the Members of the Committee said that
the gentleman who was now interrupting the proceed-
ings was a common disturber of public meetings. It
should be known that he was Captain Ackerley, the as-
trologer.
Major MITCHELL said that allusion had been made
by Captain Ackerley to the Commissioners being land-
holders. Now, from his own knowledge he could say,
that not one-half of them possessed even a garden.
Mr. SIMPSON, of Hackney, having been enabled to
see how the Institution of Captain Brenton was con-
ducted, was 'convinced that nothing could give greater
satisfaction.—(Hear.) Some of the most satisfactory
accounts had been received from the Cape as to the
children who had been sent from Hackney, and he had
been frequently importuned by persons in distress to use
his influence in procuring admission for their children
into the Institution.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted the
attack which had been made upon the Society through
the public Press, but was perfectly convinced that every
one who nad heard the Report must have experienced
the strongest feelings of satisfaction at the statements
which it contained.—(Hear, hear.) Former ages boasted
of their cowards and others, who exerted themselves to
alleviate human-misery ; but what should he said of the
man who had adopted the Mott efficient means- of pre-
venting- misery ?—(Hear, hear.) Captain Brenton de-
served a crown of gold, and he (Mr. Simpson) trusted
that he now enjoyed a crown of glory.—(Cheers.)
Lieut. AMSINCK remarked that it was a source of
the greatest pain to Captain Brenton that the Society
consented to emigration. But he (Lieut. A.) thought
it the greatest blessing that had ever been conferred on
Society.—(Hear, hear.) He bad always found a great
disinclination on the part of children to write, and he
was convinced that if these children had been dissatis-
fied with their condition, and wished to come home, they
would have found means of communicating with their
parents. He (Neut. A.) had not been connected with
this Society for the last five years, but felt called upon
to bear his testimony to its utility, which might be
therefore considered the more disinterested.
Mr. TWENTYMAN, had resided 16 years at the
Cape, and could bear testimony to the fact of the com-
missioners not being landholders ; and also that the
servants had no difficulty in procuring access to the post
office. With respect to apprenticing the children to the
Dutch, he would sooner do so than to any other per-
sons, because there they enjoyed the best opportunities
of advancing in prosperity.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. ROBERT STANHOPE WILES, of Northumberland-
street, said that the parish of St. Martin still remained
very dissatisfied with the proceedings of the Society.
The accounts in the Cape of Good Hope Papers were
filled with complaints of children against their masters,
many of whom were fined for their conduct. The child
whose case was under consideration in the parish of St.
. Martin, had been promised to be sent back, but nothing
more had been heard of her. He moved as an amend-
ment, that application be forthwith made to Smith's
Charity, holding a large sum of money specially for the
liberation of Christian slaves, for the purpose of re-
deeming and sending home the children who have been
sent out to Africa by this Society.—(Great uproar.)
Captain ACKERLEY seconded the amendment.
An individual here stated that his boy had been ab-
sent four years, and he had never heard from him but
once. Complaints had been made of his ill treatment,
and be was convinced that the party into whose hands
the case had fallen would look into it.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment for which
the hands of the mover and seconder only were held up.
The original motion was then put and agreed to.
Lord ELDON moved the election of officers for the
ensuing year.
The motion was seconded by Mr. RAINCOCR, of
Upper Canada.
SAMUEL PALMER here presented himself to the
meeting, and stated that he was sent out by the Society
in 1833, and received very bad treatment on board the
ship, and the food was not fit for a dog. He wrote a
letter on board the vessel, intending to send it to a Ma-
gistrate of the Isle of Wight, and gave it to the cabin-
boy, from whom it was taken by the Captain. It was
afterwards sent to the Society. On arriving at Cape
Town they were ranged in a row, and sold for 200 rix '
dollars, or 151. each. For breakfast they bad black
bread, dipped in oil, and water to drink.
The SECRETARY interfered, but
PALMER persisted in being heard.' He escaped and
made a complaint to Mr. Christian, who said he could
do nothing for him. He afterwards went back, and re-
mained a short time, but ultimately returned to Eng
land. He would ask was it justice to children to send
them out in this manner, and dispose of them to Dutch-
men for sums of money?—(Laughter.)
The SECRETARY said that Palmer was admitted to
the Asylum on the 27th September, 1833, having been
considered very troublesome by his father. On
arriving he refused to go to Mr. Dryer, and ran away
several times, and the Commissioners finding him so
troublesome, they wished to get rid of him, and
they applied to Captain Booth of the Trincalo, to take
him and; some other boys on board his ship. There
was a gentleman present who would declare him
to have been a dishonest lad, and a most notorious
liar.--( Hear, hear.)
PALMER said his discharge would prove that he was
a volunteer on board the ship.
The SECRETARY did not doubt the boy was received
as a volunteer on board. He did not know that he could
be received in any other light.
Mr. RUTHERFORD, one of the Commissioners, said
that Captain Booth applied to the Commissioners, stat-
ing that several boys wished to engage in her Majesty's
service, and the Commissioners knowing them to have
been very troublesome, had not the least objection to
their doing so.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. CARDEN thought that such an examination ought
to be made as would remove any unpleasant feelings
which existed, and he was willing to devote a portion of
his time and means to sucn investigation. He suggested
the formation of a Committee for this purpose.
JOHN ASHTON YATES, Esq., M.P., would willingly
withdraw his name to make room for the gentleman who
had last spoken, for he deemed the inquiry to be of the
utmost importance. He was confident the
ar Society had
not neglected its duty, and he trusted the pents ofthe
children would make inquiries of the Committee who
would afford them every possible facility.
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
HENRY GALLY KNIGHT, Esq., M.P., regretted that
any instances of hardship should have occurred, but he was
convinced that if this Institution had never been founded

carried.
Sir C. LEMON, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to
the Chairman, which was carried by acclamation.
The Noble Earl having acknowledged the compli-
ment, the proceedings, which had occupied upwards of
five hours, terminated.

MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

PUBLIC OPINION IN THE PRO-
VINCES.

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There is not a sound or loyal heart in the empire
which will not rejoice at the Sovereign's resolution and
magnanimity, and scorn the faction and their base in-
strument for domestic despotism they vainly attempted
to establish in circumstances where, if the vile oppres-
sors had an iota of generous sentiment, they should have
acted with the utmost forbearance. In eis endeavours
to trepan a victim, Peel " caught a Tartar." Her Ma-
jesty, with a dexterity and firmness quite Elizabethan,
demurred to becoming the mere puppet of the coterie of
Tory Dowagers which was about to be installed fur her
permanent enslavement. The explanations elicited on
Monday evening, in the House of Commons, do not in
the smallest degree alter t►e previous stateof the question
What Reformers, nay Revolutionists, these Tories are
when it suits their purpose ! Precedent is cast aside,
and custom hooted as idle cant ; the practice of former
reigns fiercely innovated upon, and Conservatism ap-
pears in all the trappings of levelling Radicalism.—
Worcestershire Chronicle.
On the whole, though we are not at all surprised at,
and do not blame, the desire expressed by Sir Robert
Peel, to re-constitute the female part of the House-
hold, we certainly hold, that as such a course is not
justified by previous example, must be personally very
disagreeable to the Sovereign, and would needlessly in-
terfere with those rights as to her choice of friends
and companions which the meanest subject possesses,
her Majesty was not constitutionally called upon to
make the conce,sion claimed ; nor, when she appealed
to her old Ministers not to abandon her i❑ such an
emergency, could they, as loyal and devoted servants
to her Majesty, take any other course than that of ex-
pressing their readiness to continue to hold their situa-
tions, even in spite of the difficulties which beset them.
—Manchester Guardian.
If we contrast with Lord Melbourne's " tenacity of
office" the disinterested conduct of the Duke of Wel•
lington, who, when sent for by his Sovereign, tells her
that " the Prime Minister of this country, under existing
circumstances, ought to have a seat in the other House
of Parliament," and that for himself, although he " pre-
ferred serving her out of office," yet that " if her Majesty
and her Ministers preferred it, he was ready to conduct
the duties of any office,—to do, in short, whatever would
be most convenient to her Majesty and to her Ministers,"
—when, we say, such disinterestedness is seen—so ut-
terly different from anything witnessed in the ranks of
the Whigs, we need r►ot marvel that such conduct should,
in the words of a Radical Contetnporary,have " given to
the Duke of Wellington the extraordinary moral weight
which he possesses in the country."—Brighton Gazette.
We do not blame the Queen. The reservation not
having been made in the first instance, affords a strong
presumption that it did nut originate with her. Her
Majesty is young, and she has, through what we cannot
help considering a defect in her education, been kept a
stranger almost to the very existence of Court in-
trigue, the less skilled to discern its workings, or to
escape its toils. She has consequently, ever since her
accession to the Throne, been led blindfold by a set of
men the most unprincipled that ever abused high poli-
tical trust, and has at last lent herself to the insidious
designs of the same men to retain the substance of
power after they have been compelled to relinquish its
outward insignia, and to throw a petticoat screen over
one, at least, of the agents of their atrocious policy,
against whom the recent disclosures before the House
of Lords are believed to afford just ground for hnpeach-
ment.—Liverpool Courier.
Sir Robert Peel has not disappointed the great Con-
servative body in the State, of which he is now more
than ever the deserving leader and honoured head. A
word or two more. Will the " finality" Lord John
and the self-denying Lord Melbourne now go to the
people with the card of " the Queen" in the hands, and
ask for their suffrages ? We say—let thenz try it !
The Queen of England, in the twentieth year of het age,
is the legislative trustee of a free State, of an extent
of dominion on which. " the sun never sets"—the
Sovereign of a nation of freemen ; and the personal
feeling of the Queen of England, acting under re-
sponsible advisers, were even those feelings involved,
have nothing in common with the supreme welfare of
he State.— Worcester Journal.

HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM.
A Special General Court of the Middlesex Magis-
trates was held yesterday at the Sessions House,
Clerkenwell, to consider the subject of the Hanwell Lu-
natic Asylum.
The Hon. F. BYNG, brought the subject under the
consideration of the Court, and at some length insisted
that there had been great mismanagement in the Asy-
lum, owing to the negligence of the Visiting Justices ;
especially in the accounts, which were considerably con-
fused. He did not hesitate to assert, that the visiting
Justices were quite incompetent for their duties. There
must be some change—some system of going out of
office.—(Hear, hear, from Serjeant Adams.) Aye ;
no doubt it would be said there was ' • but he meant, the
control of the rate-payers.—(Loud cries of " Hear.")
He did not intend the irresponsible control of the " se-
lect." Why, he well recollected what was the state of
the vestries before the passing of Sir J. Hobhouse's
Act ; and he knew that since the introduction of the
representative system, every thing had gone on better :
the poor men improved in condition and the rates
reduced one half.—(Hear, hear, hear.) And it must
come to this eventually in the Visiting Justices,
there must be an infusion of the popular principle.
The Visiting Justices were a select body—the duty of
visiting was delegated generally to one or two indivi-
duals who made it their " hobby," and visitations were
very ceremonious, and by no means so frequent as they
ought to be. The Honourable Gentleman concluded
by moving that the 49th Report of the Visiting Justices
be, reconsidered.
Mr. Sergeant ADAMS undertook the vindication of
the Visiting Justices. He considered that his friends
Messrs. Tulk and J. Wilks, or himself—though a ser-
geant-at-law—were fully competent to superintend ac-
counts. As for himself, he thought that in his legal
business he had acquired some experience in such mat-
ters. At all events, he could declare that all of them
had faithfully and zealously discharged their duties.
The principle of their management had been to secure
the comforts of the patients—not to screw them down
to the bare necessaries of existence—as on the plan of
the New Poor Law,—under which the object was dif-
ferent from that to be kept in view. With respect to a
Lunatic Asylum, the design of the Poor Law being to
compel men to rely on their own exertions—
whereas in the Asylum a more generous economy
should be practised. It might perhaps he said that
meat could be had cheaper than Gs 2d per stone ; but
let it be recollected that the quality of the diet on
which the patients were fed, had a great deal to do
with their recovery. Some remarks had been made
by certain parties as to the original cost of the
Asylum. Now,•the accommodation for GOO patients had
cost only 124,000/. odd, and it having been found
that this provision did not come up to the demand,
additional accommodation for 300 more was pro-
vided, at the small cost of 20,0001. Surely the
parishes which had objected to that demand, could
not have rightly understood the great advantages
which were to be derived from it—(Hear, hear.)
—for if they did, it was impossible that they should
have grudged the sum of 20,000/. to secure such an
extensive addition.—(Hear, hear.) To show,
now, that the parish of St. George's, Hanover-
square, had not gained by the new arrange-
ment of the rating, the Learned Sergeant proceeded
to state that, whereas the number of patients from that
parish being fifty-one, the proportion of the rate for-
merly was one-sixteenth, it now was one-tenth.—( Hear,
hear.) The last rate being 29,000/., their quota was
2,9001. Groat fault had been found with the expendi-
ture on the land attached to the Asylum, and the cows.
Any person who had observed the enjoyment and the
healthful exercise which the patients experienced in the
cultivation of the land, would never deem it unimpor-
tant or valueless. And could the number of twenty
cows be thought too large, to supply the important ar-
ticle of milk for 900 persons ?--(Hear, hear.) Was it
upon such pretexts as these, that a body of gentlemen.'
of character and station, bearing the Queen's commis-
sion, were to be stigmatized as incompetent?—(Hear,
hear.) The Learned Sergeant concluded by moving
that the Report be received and adopted.
Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, and bore
his testimony to the attention which had been paid to
the Asylum by the Committee of Justices.
Mr. WOOD, M.P. especially testified to the zeal and
disinterestedness of Col. Clitherow, whose health had
been injured by his exertions in the cause of the Asy-
lum ; and who had established a fund, to afford some-
thing like a provision for those destitute patients who
were sent from the Asylum cured. To this fund, her
Majesty the Queen-Dowager had desired her name to
be affixed, and the present discussion would not be
useless, if it had no other effect than to bring more into
notice the - benevolent object of the " Adelaide
Fund."---(Cheers.)
Sir J. S. LILLIE thought Mr. Byng fully justified in
1 bringing forward the subject, and that a Committee of
Inquiry should be appointed.
Mr. TULK considered that not a single one of the
complaints which had been made had ever been sub-
stantiated.
Mr. LESLIE, one of the Vestry of St. George's, Ha-
nover-square, who had been present during the discus-
sion, and who ccnceived that he had been personally
alluded to, rose and addressed the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Strachan), amid loud cries of
" Order," said that no person but a member of the
Court could be heard.
Sir J. S. LILLIE said if Mr. Leslie would write on a
piece of paper anything he wished to state, he would
communicate it to the Court.
Sir P. LAURIE said he did not think Sir John Scott
Lillie had any right to make such an offer.
Sir J. S. LILLIE (warmly)—But I shall do so, Sir
Peter, notwithstanding your interference.—(Order.)
Sir C. FORBES thought the whole affair had been
" Much ado about nothing."—(Hear and laughter.)
Several Magistrates spoke in high terms of Colonel
Clitherow, deeply lamenting his ill health.
The Hon. F. BYNG shortly replied, expressing his
hope that the discussion would at least have the bene-
ficial effect of promoting vigilance for the future.—
( Hear, hear.)
The question was then put that the Report be adopted,
which was carried, with but one dissentient, we believe.

IRELAND.

The " glorious news" of Sir Robert Peel's discom-
fiture, it appears, reached Dublin, Waterford, and
some other places in Ireland, at an early hour on Sun-
day. That the defeat of the Tories and Lord Mel-
bourne's resignation should have diffused the liveliest
satisfaction amongst the Irish, is natural, and the exul-
tant tone of their Liberalg might have been expected.
The joy of the journals is great. "It came upon us,"
says the Dublin Evening Post," like the sudden bursting
of the sun through a dark thunder cloud—dissipating
and chasing the storm with which the land was

menaced."
In another part of the same Paper the writer record:
the p'resent Ministera' .triumph- in an article beginning
thue---; - - -
" V ICT ORI A I
God save our gracious Queen !
Long may Victoria reign I
God save the Queen !
" RESIGNATION OF THE PEEL-LYNDHURST MINISTRY.
" So they are O-U-T—out—the Delzoes—the Draw.
cansirs—the Orangemen—the Tories—the Big Wigs
—Sergeant Jackson and all—and the little Wiglings,
who, having, nothing to do, met you in the Hall of the
Four Courts, with the smirk of my lady's gentlewoman—
or, the vulgar sneer of my lord's own man. The inso-
lence—the insolence of manner, tone, language—thank
God! has received a sudden and mortifying rebuke.
The domineering and impudent faction has been smitten
hip and thigh.
The Queen bath but spoken,
Their legions are broken,
And chariots and horsemen are dashed in the waves.
Yea, their mighty men of war, and their great men of
talk—their Wellington, their Alienus Lyndhurst—their
Peel—and the little warriors, moreover—Hardinge and
Perceval, and their small talkers, too—Shaw and Lit-
ton, Lefroy and Praed, all are fallen—
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from their high estate,
And weltering in the mud.
Gratitude, boundless and enduring—devotion to " the
last grasp of truth and loyalty" to our young, beautiful.
and magnanimous Queen ! To her enemies and to ours
—for they are the same—confusion and disgrace !
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
Plunge them in the river Styx—
Or, if they prefer a warm bath, in the Periphlegiton.
The Waterford Chronicle says the news " was as un-
expected as it was joyous, and spread with the rapidity
of the lightning's flash throughout every part of the city,
and far into the rural districts, bringing joy and conso-
lation to the people, who had well nigh abandoned them-
selves to despair at the thought of the accession of the
ancient taskmasters to power, and bitter chagrin to the
unholy faction which, (luring the few previous days,
chuckled with an irrepressible delight, because of the
prospect opened to it of another reign of its abhorred
ascendancy over the Irish nation."
THE -IRIsH RECREANT MEMBERS.—Mr. S. O'Brien
is one of the members charged by the Dublin Evening
Post with political recusancy--" His address, we un-
derstand, for we have not seen it, has been pub-
lished in the Orange journal in Limerick, one of the
basest of the tribe, certainly, and, incomparably the
most stupid. But though we have not seen the address
—and, certainly, shall not take the trouble of reading
it—we learn that the Honourable Gentleman offers to
resign if his constituents demand the sacrifice of his
Parliamentary life. Electors of Limerick County—
take Mr. Smith O'Brien at his word. We tell you,
the example will be a wholesome one—an example that
will work good to the whole country—an example
which will teach a lesson to Members of Parliament,
which let them neglect hereafter at their peril."

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Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, has
generously given the munificent donation of 1,000/. to-
wards enlarging the wings, extending the wards, and
otherwise promoting the utility of the Chichester. Infirmary.
THE WEATHER.—The whole of this month,
with the exception of one or two days, has been unusually
cold, and has exhibited little of the characteristic, so fre-
quently spoken of by the poets, of the rosy footed May. A
few flakes of snow, last week, were proofs of the ungenial
state of the atmosphere, but it has since increased in inten-
sity ; and yesterday we were visited, every now and then
with showers of hail aid snow at short intervals ; and the
wind blows still from the E. and N. E. The seed season
is reported to have been, on the whole, good, and farmers
speak of the potatoe never having been put into the earth
under more favourable circumstances.—Scottish Pilot. ZINC MILK-PAILS.—Among the patents lately
CAUTION TO SODA-WATER D RINKER s.— taken out in America, one is for a p!tocesssa.f,2rteaxttra_eztlng
The public are not aware that there is not one bottle in a cream from. milk by._ the
.use of zinc. 1
milk beis at.
h if
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hundred which is sold for soda-water that contains one be put int the milk, pail, or the
made of that substance, the same quantity of milk will
grain of that valuable alkali, but is merely spring water
ield a rester proportion of cream or butter.—Repertor
impregnated with fixed air. The reason of the soday. not yY
being put into the water is not on account of the attire of of Inventions.g
the soda itself, but of the expense of properly menu ac. COACH ACCIDENT AT NEWTON HEATH.—
turing it • for instance, if fifteen grains of the carbonate About three o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, as the
of soda be' put into each bottle it will require ten times the Umpire coach was passing through the township of New.
1 labour and pow r of machinery, and consequently that ton Heath„ on its way to this town, the near fore wheel
additional eo-st toe make pure soda-water, to that which is came off; the coach was consequently upset, and the
required to make this cheap, useless, and spurious article.. outside passengers were thrown to some distance. An
The test is simple—viz•, pour a bottle of the water into a elderly lady, Mrs. Ann Elliott, of Bury, was very much
tumbler, stir it about• with a teaspoon for three or four hurt by the fall ; she was conveyed into a druggist's
minutes, when nearly all the fixed air will be liberated shop, and a severe contusion which she had received
then take as much tartaric acid in powder, ahs wil
il half fill on the head, having been dressed, she was able to pro.
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a tea-spoon, and drop it into the water ;f t ere s soda in ceed to this town within about two hours after the
the water the tartaric acid will immediately act upon the accident. The other passengers escaped with slight
soda, and, in neutralising the alkali, produce a very power- bruises. All four horses started off at full speed with the
ful effervesence ; if, on the contrary, it does not effervesce, pole and bars of the coach ; and, after running about $OO
"11„may be assured there is no soda in the water. yards, the near leader came in contact with a coal cart
THE BODY-MANGLING REPRESENTATIVES. with such force that the animal was thrown down, and
—At no period was this county so indelibly disgraced as broke its back. The other three horses were then stopped
when its eight Tory representatives last week voted against without difficulty, and without having sustained material
the Jamaica Bill, and for prolonging theenfitehnedhisihaeckrugteis. injuirtyi—oilianchester Guardian.
practised by the quondam slave-owners T.—For some time past a spirit of discontent
lation of Jamaica.— liTorcestershire Chronicle.
to an alarming extent has manifested itself among the
BEGGING LETTER IMPOSTOR.—Tuesday a weaving part of the population, owing to a decrease in
dashingly dressed young man, named James Wilson, alias the rate of wages paid to them. On Thursday the spirit
Thompson, alias Vandenhoff, was committed to the House of discontent increased to such a degree, that the lives
of Correction for three months, by Mr. Rawlineon,r of Ma- and property of the inhabitants were in imminent danger,
rylebone-office, for obtaining money under false pretences
from Colonel Baillie, M. P., for nton, Devonshire. and it was found necessary to apply to the Sheriff-sub-
Andrew it ibertaon, Esq., and the Procurator-
The prisoner has for years pest been looked
.. upon as king fiscal, for erotecti. el. These gentlemen, accompanied by a
of the begging-letter fraternity, from his store of legal large body of the posse contitalus, proceeded to the
. , town, where, after investigating into the matter, eight
knowledge.
DEATH WHILE BATHING. Between eight or nine individuals were taken into custody. The
and nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, a youth named mob, however, with furious threats and execrations. imme-
pa- diately proceeded to the gaol, which they broke open, and
Edward Willis, between 15 and 16 years of age, whose
rents reside at No, 4, Beaumont-place, Chelsea, was liberated the prisoners. They then preceeded to arts of
drowned while bathing in the Thames opposite the Peni- violence against the persons of the Sheriff, Fiscal, and
tentiary, The unfortunate youth had swam Out into the constables, who, after being dreadfully cut and maltreated
stream to the distance of about 50 yards from the shore, with stones and missiles, were obliged to take refuge in the
when he was noticed to suddenly sink, and did not again back of M-. Robb's, adjoining the Cruse, from whence
rise to the surface. It is supposed that from the cowries, they contrived to eecaee to Forfar, where the arrive]
of the weather he was seized with the cramp. The body : about le o'clock esterday
d. reornine. Th
ournal.
e rid; Jse
was carried away by the tide. - --- - • learn, i() s
most severyely iajure --Arbroath J
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