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we see the high and the low in strong contia4 at
this moment. In not a few dis.ricts of the south of
England, we are assure I by those who have much
experience of these matters, that an agricultural
labourer who should abstain from pillaging his em-
ployer would be looked on as a faux Pere by the
others, In the kitchen of a nobleman, an honest
servant would be very uncomfortably situated. There
is this difference, however, between Major Dundas's
caste and the lower castes, that its members having
had the making of the laws, and having the controul
of the resources of the nation, have little to dread
when their particular notions come in contact with
those of the rest of society. But a ldbourer, who
has adopted a morality suited to his necessities,
knows that the law and society in general are
against him. A servant knows that the mora-
lity of the kitchen will not avail with masters,
and that he may, by losing his character with them,
lose his employment. The high case alone may set
the morality of the rest of the nation at defiance.
We look to the Reform Bill for incalculable benefit
in the way of breaking up this exclusive spirit, and
making us all dependent on one another. Parlie-
mentary interest, by giving another criterion titan
merit for admission to all offices of profit, naturally
corrupted all those who possessed it, and gave the
vices of meanness and subserviency to vast multi-
tudes who looked to them for advancement. But
it is clear that when the people possess a controul
over those who conduct their affairs, the morality
which will prevail will be such as is accordant witlt
the public interest. The man, who for the short
indulgence of a sensual appetite, lays snares for the
seduction of a child, and hesitates not between a
momentary enjoyment and the ruin of a fellow-
creature, will be justly deemed as next in infamy only
to the murderer, and far more despicable than the thief.
We have no fear of the conversion of the higher orders
to sound views. Na class of men dependant on the
public, can safely treat with neglect the opinion of that
publ c. Great inequalities of property in themselves
have a most mischievous influence in demoralizing
society. Now if we had a Reform in Church and State,

one of the indirect effects of that Reform would neces-

satily be the diminishing these inequalities. Indeed
we take the existence of great inequalities of pro-
perty in a country to be alone symptomatic of bad
government, to be a sort of evidence that one class
has been living on the plunder of the rest. It has
been often remarked that the peasantry of many
parts of the Continent are happy, while the English
peasantry are often otherwise; not so much because
the physical enj,,yments of the former are greater, as
because he is not afflicted with the constant spec-
tacle of others wallowing in luxury. There is a
curious illustration of the comfort arising from equa-
lity of property in the new edition of the Wave:ley
Novels (Pirate), vol. 24, where Sir Walter Scott
gives an account of his visit to the Orkney and
Shetland Islands
" I was, indeed," he says, "to go a generation or two
further back, to find materials from which I might trace
the features of the old Norwegian Udaller, Scottish gentry
having in general occupied the pl ice of that primitive race,
and their language and peculiarities of manner having
entirely disappeared. The only difference now to be
observed betwixt the gentry of these islands and those of
Scotland in general is, that the wealth and property is
more equally divided among our more northern country•
men, and that there exists among the resident proprietors
no men of very great wealth, and whose display of its
luxuries might render the others discontented with their
own lot. From the same cause of general equality of
fortunes, and the cheapness of living, which is its natural
consequence, I found the officers of a veteran regiment who
had maintained the garrison at Fort Charlotte, in Ler-
wick, discomposed at the idea of being tecaled from a
country where their pay, however inadequate to the ex-
Fences of a capital, was fully adequate to their wants ;
and it was singular to bear natives of merry England
herself regretting their approaching departure from the
melancholy isles of the Ultima Thule."—Morn. Chron.

An Evening Paper of Saturday, notorious for its
Anti-Reform principles, has put forth the following
most appalling piece of intelligence:—
" We are at length able to announce—and we announce
the flat with infinite pleasure—that the Revolution Bill
will be opposed promptly, uncompromisingly, and by a
firmly united and Areisive rtrajerrity of the thifilre-iirLortit.
The solicitations that have been employed, the bribes that
have been offered, and the threats held out, would, if re-
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cited, pass the be:ief of the most credulous. Happily they
have, in the great majority of instances—we might say in
almost every instance—solicitations, bribes, and threats—
been employed in vain. The Lords spiritual, about whom
some doubt, we believe, existed, will, if we are not 'lds-
inlet med, in every instance do their duty by the church, in
a manner to efface all memory of the part acted by some
of them in 1829.

Nothing hut a coup d'dat so outrageous as the mahing
of a new House of Lords, can save The of the
Grey Administration."
" Prodigious," Dominic Sampson would have
exclaimed, on perusing this startling news ; and
" prodigious," if true, we are all inclined to ex-
claim ; but we have lately had so many "prodigious"
announcements of the same kind from the ssme
quarter, that the cry of " Wolf, wolf !" has no effect
upon us. First, it was announced by the same
Paper that the King had not given his sanction to
the Reform Bill, whereas, as immediately turned
out to be the fact, he not only sanctioned it, but
examined and commented upon every part of it,
as a letter in his own hand-writing, of eleven pages,
amply testifies—next, that the King was wavering
on the subject of Reform—then that he would never
consent to dissolve the Parliament—lastly, that the
elections would turn out a majority against the
Ministers, and which majority would, as a mutter
of course, turn out the Ministers, and give
back to the country the Peels, the Twisses,
the Herrieses, the Scarletts, and the Dawsons,
and all that tribe of politicians of whom it
is so much enamoured—then that the Minister,
were about to send the Guards about their business

—and now we are informed by the same immaculate
and veracious informant, that the Reform Bill will
be opposed promptly, uncompromisingly, and by a
firtnly united and decisive majority in the House of
Lords ! To what credit the latter piece of intelli-
gence is entitled we leave our readers to judge ;but
we cannot pass it over without remarking that,
however anxious certain Noble Lords may be to
give a " prompt, uncompromising, and decisive
opposition to the Reform Bill, there is rather too
much good sense and prudent discretion in the
whole House to run the risk of such a collision
with the people, and the people's representatives,
as such conduct would necessarily engender. I\
—no—their Lordships will pass the Bill as they
have passed other Bills, which struck at the
root of exorbitant and illegal power; arid when
they have passed it, will find themselves in much
greater estimation with the public, and in the enjoy-
ment of a much larger portion of legitimate and
truly constitutional influence, than they' have po,-
sessed during the last 70 years. As to " bribes"
having been held out, it must occur to every one
that his Majesty's Ministers must have a poor opi-
nion of the integrity of their opponents, when they
attempted (if they did attempt) to purchase it. We
wonder what Lord Grey and his colleagues would
have said had Messrs. Peel and Co. attempted to
bribe them ?—Morning" Advertiser.

FORTUNATE ESCAPE FROM MURDER._
Two gentlemen, whose names, from precautionary motives,
we fort,ear mentioning, from Newmarket, on their way to
the fur of Loughrea, on Wednesday, were met by two
fellows well armed, at this side of Gurt. Approaching
their c.tr, they asked one of the gentlemen whether he
was Mr. FRANK ? Being answered in the nega-
tive, they stopped short, and in a few seconds produced
some spirits, and said, " Sir, you muse drink our health,'
adding "it is riot you we want, but your brother." Tr.e
gentleman, to please them, thank with them, what they
turned back, and the friends proceeded on their journey
taking care to return by Porturuna to Limerick, in order
to avoid coming in collision with the fellows again. From
this it is evident that a regular plan is concerted among the
Terry Alts; as when they want to attack a man at New- 1
market, for instance, they engage fellows from near
Gort to execute the deed of murder. Had the gentleman
in question, who really was FRANK, acknowledged his
name, he, his companicn, and servant, would, in all pro-
bability, have been murdered on the spot...—Limerick
Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 4.
THE KING V. JONES.

This was a question upon the construction of the
Act of the 9th Geo. IV., cap. 41, for regulating the
care and treatment of insane persons in England.
The indictment had been preferred against the de-
fendant, Mr. William Jones, an eminent surgeon and
apothecary in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, for
having " knowingly, and with intention to deceive,"
signed a certificate, upon which an order had been
given for the confinement of one Elizabeth Woods,
in a house kept for the reception of insane persons,
without having separately vi-ited, and personally ex-
amined her, as required by the Act of Parliament.
At the trial before Lord Tenterden, at Westminster,
in November last, it was contended, on the part of
the defendant, that the evidence negatived the fact
of the defendant's having given the certificate,
" knowingly, and with intention to deceive," and
his Lordship having concurred in that view of the
case, proposed to reserve for the opinion of the
Court the question whether or not the indictment
could be sustained. A verdict of guilty was there-
upon entered, subject to the opinion of the Court on
a case.

After Counsel. had been heard, the Court thought
that the view taken by the Counsel for the prosecu-
tiun was correct, and confirmed the conviction.

THE KING V. LUSIIINGTON.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained a rule for a
certiorari to remove into this Court, an indictment
which had been found against the defendant, Dr.
Lushington, for a libel on Charles Houlden Walker,
an attorney, in a speech delivered by the Learned
Doctor in the House of Commons, and afterwards
published in the Mirror of Parliament. The case,
it will be remembered, was tried a short time ago in
the shape of an action against Dr. Lushington and
the proprietors of the Mirror if Parliament ; but
there not being sufficient evidence to connect Dr.
Lushington with the publication, a verdict passed in
his favour. The present indictment was afterwards
preferred.

BAIL COURT.
Mr. RicHARDs moved for a quo warrant() to be di-
rected to a gentleman, calling upon him to show by
what right he held the office of bailiff of the borough
of Carnarvon. The Learned Counsel said there
were two baliffs in the Corporation of Carnarvon,
who were appointed annually ; on the 211 of May,
one of them dropped down dead, and on the fol-
lowing day the Corporation held a Court, and with-
out any previous notice (which was contrari to the
Charter) the gentleman against whom the quo war-
rant° was prayed, was elected.
His LORDSHIP ordered the quo warrant° to issue.

TILE KING V. TIIE MAYOIt AND JUSTICES OF

CANTERBURY.

Mr. PoLLocK moved for a mandamus directed to
the Mayor and Justices of Canterbury, to compel
them to take the examination of Eliza Goldsmart,
who was pregnant, and a pauper in one of the
parishes.. There were fourteen parishes in and
about Canterbury, arid the management of the whole
of the poor of those parishes was inrusted to an
incorporated body of pei sons. It had been usual to
take the examination of paupers before the Justices
of the County, but for the fi,st time they refused to
do so in this particular case having found out that
they had no power to do so. The Justices of Can-
terbury were then applied to, and, as they had never
taken an examination in such cases, they refused to
interfere. The Learned Counsel said he was de-
cidedly of opinion that the duty belonged to the
Canterbury Justices, and the object of this applica-
tion was to settle the question.
The CouRT granted a rule to show cause.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MA. NS/ ON. HO USE.

On Saturday John Frisby was charged with
having assaulted Edward Cole with a live haddock.
The complainant carried on the business of a fish-
monger in Darkhouse-lane, Billingsgate, for the bro-
ther of the defendant, who resided next door, and
he constantly, but most reluctantly, received visits
from the defendant. The first thing the defendant
said in the morning was, " I say, bow is your tem-
per to-day, my old Grampus ?" To which he re-
plied, "It is even," and he acted uniformly with
remarkable forbearance. The defendant, however,
seemed to relish bad better titan good temper; for
on Thursday last, after having repe.ited the old ques-
tion, he seized a haddock that was bouncing on the
form, and flung it at his (complainant's) head. The
consequence was fatal to the fish's head, and very
near being so to the head of the person with whom
the haddock came in contact.

Sir C. S. HUNTER (who sat for the Lord Mayor)
—Ay, it was easy enough to see whose head was the
hardest. 1 pi'y the poor fish.—(Laughter.)
Cotaplainant—l never got such a blow in my life.
I am sure it was the man's intention to knoci my
head off.

Sir CLAUDIUS—To be sure it was. Do you
think if it was not, that he'd throw a haddock at
you ? Wel, I suppose he didn't succeed. Although
you've very little brains, I see you've still got a skull
large enough to hold plenty.—( A laugh.) Com-
plainant—l then struck him on the shoulder with a
stick.

Sir CLAUDIUS—Ay, over the left, I suppose ?
(Loud laughter.) Complainant—No, your Wor-
ship; I hit him on the right.
Sir CLAtimus—And the poor fish all this time
'was without assistance. Upon my hfe it must have
been very unpleasant to the poor animal to be flung
into such a face as your's.—(Loud laughter.) Weli,
Frisby, come, what have you to say to this ? Com-
plainant—But that is not all, your Worship.
Sir CLAUDIUS—That's quite enough—sure we
knew all about it, my dear fellow. He knocked
your head off your shoulders with a haddock, and
you banged him over time left with a cudgel. It
certainly was a most odious assault, to whack a man
with a living inhabitant of another element ; but you
are pretty event with him, for you have given it him
over the left.—(Loud laughter.) You have no
doubt established a raw with your stick, and that
makes all square.—(Laughter.) Defendant—lt was
all a lark, your Worship.
Sir CLAUDIUS-111 swear it wasn't a sky-lark, at
any rate; 1 dare say you never saw a haddock tly
before in your life, as you made it tly in this poor
fellow's face. Poor man, I'm sure he never heard
such music from any lark before, either over or
wider the water.—(Laughter.) Complainant—
But, your Worship, he has threatened my life.
Sir CLAUDIUS—Pshaw ! You don't think that
he'd encounter the inconvenience of being
There's
one thing, I'll hanged
cn your account, do
you ?—(Laughter.)
you, and let it be a consolation to
he takes
t'ttakietel
s away rout life with malice pre-
it's ten to one that he'll lose his own; upon
my
Penselif!e he will. However, if he goes on with this
sortof game, you must bring him here again, and
he shall lark It in a cage.—(Laughter.) Defendant—
shan't do
p him any
anNyo,
mischief, your Worship. I
wouldn't hurt tly.
Mr. Frisby, but you'd hurt
a fish though, and a fishmonger too. You have
show' a very great contempt for this poor man, or
why would you throw his trade in his teeth ?
Th'ere, go and make it up; but, Frisby, you must
the expenses. And, I say, Frisby, you may
ir (it ..1t
pay
_kylark as you please, but I'd have you not watei-
lark any more, Frisby.—(Laughter.)

Manchester-street,
Q UEEN. S Q UAR E.
George Rose was heard in support of a charge
sw"Yhoi of
5n03; attend. He stated
l'7ltlitelar'lltersn'Nt:lt:i:nZineiriedid' Dale applied to him for service,
and produced an excellent character from Airs.
Lindsay. Ile in consequence waited on Mrs. Lind-
,„v, who confirmed every thing she had written,_
said Dale had lived with her fifteen months, arid
was perfectly sober and honest; she had discharged
him six weeks ago, in consequence of a domestic
calami•ty • lt was afterwards ascertained, and proved
before die magistrates, that Dale had not lived with

Mrs. Lindsay ; that lie had been in the New Police
since its formation till he was totally discharged fcr
repeated drunkenness ; and also that Mrs. Lindsay
was in the practice of giving fictitious characters.
The Magistrate convicted Mrs. Lindsay in the
penalty of 201.

CHILD MURDER.

IMPLICATION OF A SURGEON AND
TWO 0 THER PERSONS.
(Frarri the Stockport _Advertiser.)
Another of those revolting casts of profligate im-
morality, calculated to undermine and des:roy the
virtuous feelings of the rising generation, has oc-
curred in this town, and has led to a charge of wil-
ful murder against Thomas Goulden, a surgeon,
John Hampson, the father of the child, and MarMa
_Moors, a woman at whose house the child was
born. The crimes of these people are of the moo
horrible description—nothing less than cool preme-
ditated murder. We shall not go into the evidence
aa pd
bpye appeared
adjournment
before the
to
TtieCoroner'ssda Jury o
at the
hen
Nl7Monday,
i ids
a,.
Castle, in Edgeley, but give a brief outline of the
transaction as it was borne out by the facts nar-
rated by the witness, because, were we to do so,
we should commit the greatest outrage on public
decency.
It will be remembered that we last week stated
the circumstance of a young child being found in
Cheadle Morseley, near this town, in consequence
of the earth over it being disturbed Ey the scratch-
ing of a dog. The child was removed to the house
of John Hampson, as the nearest place ; the body
was washed and laid out; and information given to
the constable of the circumstance in order that an
enquiry might be instituted. Subsequently the
child was taken away unknown to the parties who
had cleaned it and laid it out. Mr. Birch, the
special high constable for this division immediately
set about an enquiry, and from-information obtained,
found that 'Mary Fddes, a young girl, lately a
servant svi;h Mrs. Hampson, at Ads wood Mill, had
been delivered of an illegitimate child at Mrs.
Moors's house in Longshut-lane, in this town, which
had been concealed and carried away by John
Hampson on the Wednesday night the 25th of May
(the day of its birth.)
The following morning he took him into custody,
and asked him what had become of the child he
had rarr.ed away from Martha Moors's and mur-
dered r He immediately replied—" I did carry away
a child, tied up in a handkerchief, at the request of
Mrs. Moors, which had been dead a day or two be-
fore I saw it; and if you will go over to the mill,
lyou wi.l find it buried in the shippon." He went
'accordingly, and at the place described by Hampson,
the child was found buried under the bricks of the
flooring. On the same morning (Thursday) in con-
sequence of what had been said to Mr. Birch by
Mary Fildes, who had been apprehended previously
to Hampson, he went to the house of Mrs. Moors,
No. 30, in Longshut-lane, arid asked her if Mary
Fildes had lain-in there a week ago. To this ques-
tion, she said she did not know Mary ; and that no
woman except ker own daughter (who by the way
was lying-in at the same time and on the same bed
as Mary Fildes.) He then asked her if she knew
Hampson, and if he had been there at all; she re-
plied she did not even know him. Mr. Birch then
took her to the room in which Mary Fildes was
confined at his house. She still denied any know-
ledge of her, and declared " she had never seen her
in her life." Upon which the young woman ob-
served " she wished to God it had been so." Upon
being brought before the Jury afterwards and con-
fronted with Mr. Birch, she recanted the above de-
cl .rations arid confessed that Mary Fildes had lain-in
there, and that she herself had directed Hampson
to carry away the body of the child.
We shall next proceed to give an outline of the
evidence of Mary Fildes. She was in a very deli-
cate state of health, and was unable to support her-
self through the enquiry without the application of
stimulants. She is about nineteen years of age,
and more than ordinarily intelligent.
She stated that about seven weeks ago she left
Mrs. Hampson's service, and went to her father's at
JDai b
Hu raym, be
peseeanu
es
%sal
siei sestaislythveinsitepdrehrretia
th, e raen.d The
circumstance of her being so was unknown to her
mistress. Hampson is a married man, and lives at
another farm heid by his mother, near to the
When she left, she was more than five months gone
in Iwr pregnancy. At his request she came to
Stockport about five weeks ago. He then asked
her if she would submit to have that done to her
which would produce miscarriage, and that she
should then never want for any thing. She con-
sented, and after one or two other interviews, sub-
sequently she met him again in this town, and he
took her again to No. 30, Longshat-lane, telling her
that the arrangements were all completed for its
being done, and the doctor would meet them there.
Mrs. Moors received her as by prevous understand-
ing it would seem, and after waiting an hour and a
half, Goulden, the surgeon, came, who asked her
" if she was the young woman he had to meet."—
She replied she was. Golden then said if he was
to do that for which she came he must be paid 31.
before it could be done. Mary told trim she had
not the money, but would go to Hampson for it at a
neighbouring public-house where he was waiting
until all was over. Goulden sa'd he would wait
her return. Site told Hampson this, and he gave
her the money, first going out to borrow a part.
When she reached Moors's house again, Goulden
was up stairs and she gave him the money.—[The
operation followed, occupying about five minutes,
which the witness described very minutely.] He
then told her it was done; that nothing could pre-
vent the miscarriage ; that site might go home to
Didsbuty to sleep that night, but she must return
the next day (Tuesday) and all would be right. She
returned accordingly at four o'clock in the afternoon,
and was strewn up stairs, with a strict injunction not
to appear on any account at the window, or it might get
her (Mrs. Moors) into trouble. She was soon after
seized with labour-pains, in which state she con-
tinued until Wednesday morning, when Goulden,
with the assistance of Mrs. Moors, delivered her of
a child about seven months old. Goulden remained
with her till the child died, which was in a quarter
HampsonNi
ielrr
ps.(a;d):lN 2sheroosrs Moors
left
of an hour after its birth. It cried several times.
itt3oeaualdldenaoabt d
live, ato Ns Ao
r
live,
i
"I`lfifeittiwmeodueldli
be no support for it." Goulden continued to visit
her until
uan tgi
elm
t7t
aehdehneNerls
Wednesday
dhaeyfr
father's
ortwdig Ss.s :
on veihe
6ei would
house.
for attendance upon her up to Friday, and her board
to the
as
Moors took the child as soon as born arid washed
it ; and when dead put it into a bax. The Same
evening Hampson called, and the body
being tied up
in a handkerchief by Mrs. Moors, it was carried
child,away
said
ai
llheehicidallebjuraiged e
again the
t litenext
on being asked by Mary what he had done with the
thet
ii)g loaf, andthe
garden near the mill.
Mary Moors, daughter of Martha Moors, was
next examined. Her evidence went chide to cor-
roborate the testimony of Mary Fildes as to the
child being born alive ; the personal knowledge of
her mother with Hampson and the gill; and the
concert of the scheme between her mother and
Goulden for Fildes to be delivered there.
The evidence being closed, the Coroner addressed
the Jury by pointing out to them, that the evidence
before the inquest tended to establish two distinct
eases of criminality against Goulden, as principal,
and also against Hampson and Moor,, the two pet-
sons in custody, as accessories ; the one under the
Statute Law, and ate other under time Common Law.
That as to the former, by an Act passed in the late
reign, called Peel's Act, it was enacted, " that if
arty person with intent to procure the miscarriage of
any woman then being quick with child, unlawfully
and maliciously shall administer to her, or cause to
be taken by her, any poison or other noxious thing,
teent or other means what-
or shall use au macro
ever with the like intent, every such offender, or
every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such
being con-
offender, shall be guilty of felony, and

victed thereof, shall suffer death RR a felon." The
Coroner then drew the attention of the Jury to the
fact, as prove:l, that when Goulden operated upon
the body of Mary Fildes, she was quick with child,
inasmudl as the child appeared to have been born
alive, and actually lived a quarter of an hour after-
wards, and was previously heard to cry, and that
consequently his crime was, by the evidence, proved
to be what that Act prohibited. Then as to the
latter point—the illegal act of Goulden in forcing
the child's birth at so premature a period of its ex-
istence, as to render it impossible that it could exist
but for a very short period after its birth, and the
consequent death of the child by such an illegal act
of Goulden, tended to establish the latter point, and
the facts on which it rested were very strong, and
even not only the mother's evidence, but also that
of Mr. Wright, the surgeon.

Then as to the criminality of Hampson, it ap-
peared that he, the father of the child, had per-
suaded the mother to consent to the miscarriage
being effected by Goulden, and had afterwards ar-
ranged with him as to the time and place where it
was to be effected, and after he had made the neces-
sary arrangements with GottWen in this respect, he
directed her to go to Martha Nloors's where Goul-
den had been appointed by him to meet' her,
and that on such meeting Goulden demanded
3/. as his fee, and required it to be paid him
before he would consent to act, whets he not
having the money, and Hampson being in waiting
for her coming to bim, after the interview with
Goulden, she went to him when he gave her the
money for the express purpose of effecting the mis-
carriage, and by means of the money so provided by
Hampton, the miscarriage was effected ; and it also
appeared that he came to Martha Moors's on the day
after the miscarriage, and at her request he took the
child away for the purpose of its being concealed.
If therefore, the Jury gave credit to the evidence,
there would be no doubt but Hampson was an ac-
complice in the guilt of Goulden. Then, in respect
to Martha Moors, it appeared by the evidence, that
the mother of the child went to her house, by a pre-
vious appointment made by Hampson with Goul-
den, and that although she was a perfect stranger to
Martha Moors, she received lar as a person she had
expected to come to her house, a•id was shewn into a
chamber, when Martha Moors cautioned her not to
be seen at the window, and that there she remained
until Goulden came to her, and that after he had
seen her and demanded the 3/., and that she had then
gone away to get the money, he remained there till
she returned, after giving him the money, he per-
formed the operation.

The Coroner then observed, that it should seem
from these circumstances as if a preconcerted plan
had been fixed between Goulden and Martha Moors,
that the miscarriage should be effected at her house,
and if they should be of that opinion, it would be
the duty of the Jury to charge her as an accessary
to his guilt.

The Jury were then left to decide on their verdict,
and after a vary short deliberation, it was agreed that
Goulden was guilty of the crime, as well that under
the Act of Parliament, as also that of the Common
Laws, and that ilampson and Moors were also
guilty in both cases as accomplices. The two latter
being in custody the Coroner issued his warrant for
their commitment, but Goulden being at large, he
issued his warrant for his apprehension.
As the name of Goulden may not be familiar to
ull our readers, we will just mention that this wretch
MIA tried at our last Assizes, before Mr. Baron Rol-
land, for a similar offence, having caused the death
of Margaret Sykes, on the 29th of October last, he
having procuring her miscarriage by means of a sharp
instrument. He was there acquitted because the
evidence was incomplete to show sufficiently the
cause of her death; and the Learned Baron then
told him that enough had been disclosed to prove
that he bad long been in the habit of using means to __-
procure abortion, and he hoped the les,ln of that day
would convince him of the danger of such a prac-
tice, if he were not before convinced of its wickedness. ..

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A FEMALE.

For the last week the village of Sydenham and its
neighbourhood has been kept in a state of great ex-
citement, arising from the mysterious death of a
young pregnant female, whose bldy was found in
the Croydon Canal, near Sydenham, on Sunday
morning. The unfortunate deceased was dressed in
a fashionable striped cotton gown, a black silk
cloak, and a white straw bonnet. On Friday, Mr,
CARTTAR, Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest on the
body, when the following facts were stated in evi-
dente, On Whit Monday evening the deceased,
with another female about her own age, went into
the shy of Mrs. Stacey, on Sydenham-common,
and purchased articles for making tea, for which she
paid tenpenee, and asked Mrs, Stacey if she could
accommodate her with hot water in the course of
the evening, which Mrs. Stacey promised to do.
She said she was going te meet the young gentle-
man who was the father of the child 01 which she
was pregnant, and would return to take tea, and
then went away with her companion. About a
quarter past seven she was seen in a boat in the
broad water of the canal, and a young gentleman
rowing her about; her female friend was in another
boat with another gentleman. They did not return
to Mrs. Stacey's, and the next morning the bows
were seen floating on the broad water, deserted; no
suspicion, however, was excited. But on Sunday
morning Mrs. Stacey's son observed a woman's bon-
net and -veil on the surface of the water, and in-
stantly procured a boat and went to the spot, when
he discovered the body of the deceased. There was
fracture on the forehead, and both eyes were
blackened by contusion, from which it was concluded
Le hail been murdered. Inquiry was instantly set
on foot for the young min with whom she had been
seen, and for her female companion, but hitherto with-
out obtaining the least information respecting either.
A policeman, named Geo, Newstead, about three
weeks ago, late in the evening observed the same
female walking in a desponding state upon the banks
of the same canal, and questioned her, when she
admitted, %vith tears in her eyes, that she meditated
sell-destruction. He took her to the station-house,
where she said her name was Mary Clarke, and that
she lived at Highgate, but refused to give any fur,
ther account of herself.

The Jury returned a verdict—" Found drowned;"
but expressed their hope that the investigation would
be continued, as there was great reason to appre-
hend that the unfortunate deceased had been un-
fairly dealt with.

The deceased was a very tine young woman, ap-
parently about 25 years of age. It is impossible to
thscribe the sensation the event has produced at
Sydenham, the inhabitants of which are firmly per-
suaded the hapless young woman was foully muu-
dered.—Observer.

BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst. the wife of J. A. Murray, Esq., of Meeklen-
burgh-square, of a son.
On the 3d inst. ('harlotte Ann,
the Wife of J. Von der Heyde,
Lower Thames.streer, of a son.
On the 9th inst. in Margaret.street, Cavendish-square, the lady of the Rev. Dr. Roy, Senior Chaplain, Madras Presidency,
of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 4th inst. at St. Pancras New Church, by the Rev.
Joanna, fourth daughter of Thomas Udell, Esq., of Upper Char-
Charles Edridge, Henry Beavan, Esq., of Sackville.street, to
lotte-street, Fitzroy-square.
On the od inst. at St. Georges, Hanover-square, Temple
West, Esq., to Andalusia, only daughter of James Bruce
Car.
stairs, Esq.
tin the 4th inst. at All Souls' Langham-place, C. Jeaey, Esq.
of Saafl'ham,yt_oHeeotn.
iSHonor, second daughter of CharlesSparkes,
oNnf()trii.gb aiarktiestr
'St. Margaret's; Westminster, Lieut. G.
Mason, R.N., to Ann, eldest daughter of W. Whitehead, Esq.,
of
hus E
Teynh.n, K ent. The bride was given away by Lord Adol-
pitzelarence.

DIED.
ged 6
On tlhe 4th inst. James Weatherby, Esq. of Oxendon-street,
On the Ist inst. at the Vicarage, Whitchurch, Canonicoruni,
Dorset, Susannah, wife of the Rev. Francis Goforth, Prebendary
of Wells.
On the Ist inst. at Welford, Berks, John Archer Houhlon,.
Esq , aged 58.
On the 4th inst. in Gloucester place, P. Meade, Esq., aged
`2B, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and son of the lion.
and Ilev. P. Meade.

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