The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-24 00:00:00

VOLUNTARY THEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION.

Persons desirous of passing the voluntary theological
examination have been requested to send in their names
to the examiners, the Rev. Dr. 01Event and the Rev.
Professor Blunt, on or before the 10th of October, and to
attend at the Senate-house on Tuesday morning, the 1611
of October, at nine o'clock.

Mats. JERMY.—This unfortuntite lady, after re.
maining some time at the Bluchers' Arms, near Kes
wick, removed to Patterdale, where she took private
lodgings for a time. During her stay there she visited
Lyulph's Tower, Airey Force, and all other places of
interest. We aro not quite certain whether she ascended
Helvellyn or not; but we had: ocular proof of her pre-
sence on Skiddow's top during her stay in the neigh-
bourhood of Keswick. On Tuesday (the market day)
she arrived at the New Crown Inn, Penrith. She after-
wards went to view the Giant's Grave, and other inte'
resting objects in and near the church. Here, however,
she was unfortunately recognised, and such was the
anxiety of the country people to see one of Rush's in-
tended victims that the unfortunate lady, to save herself
from their somewhat rude curiosity, was compelled to
hasten down a back lane to the Crown Hotel. On
Wednesday, at one P.M., Mrs. Jermy left Pent ith by the
northern train fur Scotland. She was ascompanied by
her sister and her sister's husband, as well as a female
servant and her own &aughter, the little Miss Jermy, we
presume, who ran to the servant's hall on the night of
the murder screaming " we are all going to be mur-
dered." Mrs. Jermy is a woman rather smaller than
the generality of her sex. She is wry pale, her coon.
tenance bearing evident fracas of anxiety and suffering.
The little girl is a very pretty child, apparently about
six or seven years of age.—Penryth Correspondent. Mrs.
Jermy and Eliza. Chc•stney, arrived at the Bush Ili:eel
on Thursday last, where it is supposed they intend to
stay for a short tirae.—Carlisle Pcstrzot.
Foust CHILDREN POISONED.--One of the most
diabolical attempts ever made to destroy human life by
poison was perpetrated in Nottingham on the evening of
Friday last. About five o'clock, a young man residing
near the house, occupied by a hawker named Burke, a
widower, in Eves's-yard, Narrow marsh, discovered that
the poor man's children had been suddenly taken ill in
the absence of their father, and proceeding to render
them assistance, found that they had been vomiting
dreadfully. At first it was thought that they had been
seized with cholera, but a cup containing some suspicious
looking ingredient being found upon the table, a number
of the neighbours were called in, and the whole flintily,
with the cup and its contents, were instantly carried oft
to the General Hospital, where restoratives being
promply applied, the two youngest were soon pro-
nounced out of danger. Their names are—Mary, aged
11; /Items, six; Catherine, four; and Sarah, two.
Yesterday (Saturday) the eldest, Mary, was sufficiently
well to make a statement, from which it appeared that
having gone out to buy some small articles of grocery,
she was met on her return by a woman who asked her
if her name was not Burke. The girl replied in the
affirmative, and was asked if she would like some good
stuff. The woman then gave her a paper containing a
quantity of white powder, telling her it was magnesia;
that she must pour hot water upon it, drink some of it,
and give the rest to her brother and sisters. She did so,
and they all became very sick. The liquid in the cup
and the contents of the children's stomachs were found
to be strongly impregnated with arsenic. The father has
since returned. No certain clue has as yet been dis-
covered to load to the detection of the woman.
ANOTHER FLYING DUTCHMAN.---A narrow escape
occurred on the St. Leger night to a respectable man at
Rawmarsh, who had witnessed the decision of that great
event with feelings of much excitement. He had retired
to rest, which appears to have been much disturbed by
visions of what he had on that day seen. He loudly
vociferated in his sleep, " They're coming—they're
coming;" and springing out of bed, exclaimed, "The
Dutchman—the Dutchman wins—stand off—stand off—
the Dutchman wins!" He throw open the window,
jumped out, and fell a distance of 16 feet, alighting on a
brick pavement, but without receiving any further in-
jury than a severe shaking.—Doncaster Gazette.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.—This popular place of
entertainment is announced to re-open on Wednesday
next, under the entire direction of Mr. Robert War-
dell, who has engaged Mr. T. R. Lewis as secretary.
DISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITIES.—Some days ago, in
digging for foundations on the railway at aillons-sur-
Marne, a portion of a stone statue was discovered as
large as lite. The head was found at a distance of some
paces. The upper part of the trunk and the arms were
wanting. some distance from this spot was found a
Roman medal of the Emperor Tiberius, half bronzs,
with the inscription, " TI. CaESAR. AUGUST. F.
IMPERATOR ;" and on the reverse, " ROM. ET
AUG."

(From the Manchester Guardian)
The entertainment given last Friday evening
in the Town- hall, by John Potter, Esq., Mayor of
Manchester, in honour of the Right Hon. Sir James
Duke, Bart., M.P., Lord Mayor of London, arose
out, of a desire of our worthy mayor, who had shared
in the hospitalities of the Guildhall, to reciprocate
those hospitalities as far as was individually in his
power; and he accordingly invited Sir James Duke
to dine with him, and to spend a few days in Man-
chester. Sir James having accepted the invitation,
the mayor, desirous of inviting the principal gentle-
men of Manchester to meet him, found that his pri-
vate residence would not give the requisite space for
such a party, and accordingly be determined to
entertain his guests in the large room of the Town.
hall, which has recently undergone cleansing and
painting ; and though possessing none of the splendour
of an apartment appropriated for a state dining-room,
it is, from its lofty ceiling, noble dome, and fair pro.
portions, a hall well fitted for the honourable recep-
tion of a distinguished stranger by the authorities and
residents of the great metropolis of manufactures in
England.
Among those present were the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor of London, Lieutenant-General Earl
Cathcart, K.C.B. the Right Rev. Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Manchester, Lord Greenock, Monsieur
Bunsen, Alexander Henry, Esq , M.P., Colonel
Yorke, James Heywood, Esq , M.P., the Mayor of
Lancaster, Lieutenant-Colonel Waters, the Rev.
Canon Wray, the Mayor of Preston, Lieutenant-
Colonel French, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Alexander
Kay, Esq., his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the
Right Hon. Earl Wilton, Major-General Sir William
Warre, C. 8., R. B. Armstrong, Esq., M.P. (Re
corder), the Very Rev. the Dean, Colonel Barnard,
William Brown, Esq , M.P., Mark Philips, Esq., the
Mayor of Liverpool, Colonel Reed, C. 8., the Ver.e-
rab:e the Archdeacon, William Entwistle, Esq., the
Rev. Canon Sergeant, Edward Rushton, Esq., Robert
Gladstone, Esq., Richard Birley, Esq., George
Sanders, Esq., M.P., the Very Rev. William Turner,
Sir Elkanah Armitage, the Mayor of_ Boston,
_ _

Lieutenant• Colonel Nudges, the Mayor of Wigan,
the Mayor of Ashton, the Mayor of Warrington,
Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P., the Mayor of Salford,
Lieutenant-Colonel Nicoll, Rev. Canon Clifton,

Major Douglas, William Peel, Esq., Mayor ot.
Clitheroe, J. Duncuft, Esq., M.P., Mayor of Oldham,
Mayor of Stockport, &c.
After the usual loyal toasts had been given, fol-
lowed by " The Army and Navy" (acknowledged by
the Earl of Cathcart), and "The Bishop and Clergy
of the Diocese" (responded to by the Bishop of Man -

chester),
The MAYOR Of MANCHESTER rose to propose the
toast of the evening. He assured his guests that he
rose under a deep sense of inability to do justice to
the occasion and to his own feelings. It was the first
time he believed on record that the chief mag'strate
of Manchester had been honoured by the presence of

the Lord Mayor of London.—(kpplau-se.) The
liberties of England owed much to the municipalities
of the country ; and when, in the course of time, by
the fortuitous distribution of wealth, the cities in the
provinces sprang up rapidly—strong and vigorous in
their youth, important and influential in their maturity
—cities, one of which he had now the privilege to
represent, and another, which his friend, Mr. Bramley
Moore, represented—the mainstay of the commerce
and industry of the country—he would say that it
was a most important and desirable thing that they
should be on the best terms with the head of the
greatest municipality in the kingdom.—(Cheers.)
London was the centre of the trade of the world
—the most wealthy city on record ; Liverpool
was fast treading in the steps of the metropolis;
and Manchester was the acknowledged focus
of the manufacturing industry of the kingdom ;
the locality where the great staple articles of trade
which were exchanged for the commodities of the
world were produced. He must, as in duty bound,
stand up for his own town, and he would say that
they, as a body of citizens, were more earnest, more
zealous, more a party of progression, than either of
the other two cities he had mentioned. But ha
trusted there would he no absurd or paltry rivalry
between the great cities of England. It was in their
progression, their prosperity, and their increased in-
telligence, that the welfare of their mutual country
depended. They must therefore make " a long pull,
a strong pull, and a pull altogether ;" and he appre-
hended it was a great means of creating a good feel-
ing between all the cities of England, when their
chief magistrates met together to share the duty and
pleasures of hospitality. He was bound to say his
Right Hon. Friend had set them an example in this
respect, which they might in vain hope to follow.
They thought they could beat him in some things,
but as to the rites and duties of hospitality, they sunk
into insignificance in comparison with him. He be-
lieved that no individual in the city of London ever
passed his year of office with more credit to himself,
with more universal and unbounded hospitality to his
fellow countrymen, with more satisfaction to London,
than Sir James Duke.—(Applause.) He esteemed it
a pride and a privilege to be honoured by an invita-
tion to share en his hospitalities ; and he was quite
sure that he had had the utmost gratification in fol-
lowing the example of his worthy brother of Liver-
pool, in offering to him, as far as their inedequate
means would allow them to do, the rites of hospitality.
—(Cheers.) He knew that his Lordship left London
to ,come amongst them at some very considerable
personal inconvenience to himself. (Cheers.)
Within the last few days, Sir James Duke had been
confined to his room by illness. He felt gratified and
complimented when he was willing to make a sacri-
fice, to some extent, of his own health, in coming
down to Manchester. He was also, to use his own
words, "in a scrape." He neglected one of the
annual duties of the mayoralty of London, and he
received that night, not the homage of the governors
of a London hospital, but the cordial, sincere, and
grateful welcome of the citizens of Manchester.—
(Loud cheers.) He trusted, at any rate, his coming
amongst them would- not he unproductive of some
gratification to himself. He was sure they were de-
lighted to see him—(llear)—and he trusted that he
might carry away wish him from Manchester and her
people a recollection such as would induce him, at
some future time, to wish to become even better ac-
quainted with them then now.—(Cheers.) He would
not trespass longer upon their time, but call upon
them to join with him most heartily and cordially in
welcoming the Lord Mayor of London to Manchester,
in acknowledging to him that his fame is not unknown
to them ; and that they were equally desirous of pay-
ing him a compliment with his own fellow-citizens,
who gracefully and unanimously had recently elected
him their representative in the Commons House of
Parliament. He gave them " The health of the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor of London."—(Loud cheers.)
The Right lion. Sir JAMES DUKE, Bart., the Lord
Mayor of London, then rose, and was received with
loud cheers, which lasted for some minutes. When
they had subsided, he said—Mr. Mayor, my Lords
and Gentlemen,-If, Sir, you thought it necessary to
make anything like an apo!ogy in rising to propose
my health, this distinguished company cannot fail to
appreciate the embarrassment under which I rise to
return thanks for the honour you have done me in
introducing me in so flattering a manner, and in ex•
pressing to them my grateful thanks for the cordial
reception they have given to the toast. It is you, Sir,
who have been pleased to say that this is the first
occasion on which the chief magistrate of London has
had the honour to be entertained at Manchester, and on
looking round this table, and this ball, and seeing the
distinguished company that you have done me the
honour to assemble to meet nee, I cannot help asking
what has the present Lord Mayor of London done to
deserve this honour and to merit this cordial welcome ?
I feel I owe it entirely to that kindness of disposition
which distinguishes you, Sir. It was my good for-
tune, some few months ago, when an illustrious
Prince—his Royal Highness Prince Albrrt—to whom
you have paid a well-merited compliment for the
interest he takes in every great work likely to pro-
mete the commerce, the agriculture, and the welfare
of this country, was employed in laying the founda-
tion stone of the Grimsby Docks, that I had the
honour of meeting the Mayor of Manchester, and
from that moment I have no hesitation in saying that
I was desirous of becoming better acquainted with
him.—(Cheer;) But I hope you wi:l not think me
ungrateful, when I say I came here with great
diffidence, because I find he has placed me in a position
for which I have no name. When he was pleased to
make me the principal guest on the present occasion,
I did feel that I was out of place, and that I had no
claim to this honour, at the hands of your distin-
guished Mayor.—(Yes, yes.) But I trust that this
company will believe that I am most grateful for
the cordial reception you have given me, and if
this be the first occasion on which the chief magis-
trate of London has had the honour of being welcomed
by this great commercial community, I can only
regret that my year of office is now so nearly at
an end, as it will give me very little opportunity of
making a further acquaintance with Lancashire during
its continuance. But I can assure you that although
I quite admit the greater ability of the men of this
community, I take leave to think that you will give
the citizens of London credit that, in ancient times
I they proved thernselyes the stay of your liberties and

them equally abundant and flourishing in the
town of Manchester. If I look at our colleges
and public schools, I find them no less prcsperous
and numerous in this great commercial community.
If I look at any of those means of relaxation and en-
joyment for the people, which are so much to be de-
sired, I find that the parks of Manchester rival those
of London. I can assure you, Mr. Mayor, that how-
ever much I may be proud of being Lord Mayor of
London, I can scarcely—taking into consideration
what may be termed our ancient jurisdiction—say that
I rival the honour you enjoy, and deservedly enjoy, as
mayor of this great commercial community. I have
come here with feelings of great pleasure, and my
only regret is, that you have placed me in a false
position. I can assure you lam delighted to come
here, and if, as I trust, this district, and I hope all
classes of this country, from the highest of the aris-
tocracy to the humblest in the land, are benefited by
the prosperity of commerce, I trust that this thriving

and enterprising community will long live in industry
to reward its enterprising merchants with those

fruits which they have a right to expect from the em-
ployment of their skill and capital; that as they be-
come wealthy, they will give the means of relaxation,
leisure, and increased comforts to those whom they
employ ; and that this great community will go on
prospering and to prosper ; and will become, per-
haps, ere a very long time, a rival, even before
Liverpool, of London itself. I can assure you there
will be no jealous rivalry—that we are anxious at
all times to cultivate the best understanding with

you.—(Applause.) I do hope that this is only
the beginning; and if you think that we are not so
energetic as you, and will come to us, you will find
me and my brother magistrates most anxious to co-
operate with you, either in public affairs connected
with your borough, or in such general affairs of the
country as can be benefited by our co-operation. I
am totally unable to express the deep emotions of my
heart for the high honour which you have done me;
and if I have left some of my little duties unperformed,
it is true you have made ample amends for my short-
comings in the cordial reception I have met with
from those around me. I shall carry with me to the
latest hour of my life the recollection of the atten-
tion and respect I have received on this occasion ;
and I hope that though, as Mayor of Manchester
and Lord Mayor of London, we may not meet
again, the friendships subsisting between us will not
be severed at the time when my term of office ex-
pires.—(Loud applause.),
The CHAIRMAN said, that though he owed many
pleasant hours and gratifications to the Lord Inhop
of Manchester during the year that was passed, he
had this week added a still deeper debt of obligation
than at any former period, for he had intro•
duced to this festive meeting one of the most
distinguished men of Europe—(Hear, hear)—
an individual distinguished, not alone in diplomatic
circles, but in the highest walks of literature, art, and
science.—(Cheers.) lie could not but feel it a most
fortunate circumstance that he was honoured by the
presence of the Chevalier Bunsen. Would that all
ambassadors were like him. He apprehended that
then there would not be so many misunderstandings,
and doubts, and difficulties, between foreign States
and the English Court. ge believed that his Excel-
lency knew the character, habits, and principles of the
English as a people, and that he looked upon them
with affectionate regard he was connected with
England loy a double tie, and he trusted that the
connexion would long continue, fruitful in happiness
to himself, and a benefit to Europe. He would give
his Excellency a hearty welcome to Manchester, and
he trusted that he would carry away with him the
pleasing remembrance of that industry which he had
seen developed, and of the educational establish-
ments which he had witnessed in operation.
He knew that the Chevalier Bunsen wished to
increase and extend the relations already exist-
ing between his own Government and that
of this country, and he trusted that he might be
successful in carrying out every object of that nature.
He would give, with the greatest satisfaction, " The
health of his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador,
Chevalier Bunsen."
The Chevalier BUNSEN then rose amidst immense

applause, and when this had subsided he said—Mr.
Mayor, my Lords, and Gentlemen, I rise deeply
moved to express to you my heartfelt and respectful
thanks for the kind welcome you have given me.—
(Cheers.) In having the honour of addressing this
distinguished assembly en so auspicious an occa-
sion as the present, and speaking to you in this great
city of Manchester, after a week's sojourn amongst
you, I hope you will allow me to give vent to some
feelings of admiration and satisfaction which I have
experienced in inspecting your great establishments,
and in seeing the great social, scientific, and artistic
works which you are making. Sir, I do not intend
to enlarge upon a topic known to the whole world,
about the greatness of your skill and enterprise, the
vastness of your stores. I have seen Manchester,
and as everbody who has seen Manchester will say
with me, and has said to me, all my expectations
has been surpassed. But I wish, as I am accustomed
to do, to make a few observations about the great
social improvements which you are making. I have
seen two great institutions, in one of which you have
outstripped London, and the buildings erected by
Parliament, and in the other you have given to Eng-
land and the world a model, new and unprecedented.
I have seen your new Penitentiary (the Borough
Gaul), and I have seen the Swinton Schools. I did
not ge to see the new Penitentiary building until I
had seen that admirable and excellent institution
hich now serves for prisoners before, and convicts
after, trial. I have seen it with great emotion ; for I
could not help reflecting that it rose under the eye and
superintendence of that great and immortal philan-
thropist, John Howard. And I believe I may say
with perfect truth that there is not in Europe one
institution which does more, as far as that system
allows it to do, than yours. And I can congratulate
you upon possessing an able governor and chaplain.
I have felt that it was due to such a great city as this
that you should not allow even London to go before
you in proving that penitentiary system which has
been approved by the suffrages of almost all eminent
men on this and on the other side of the Atlantic; ;
and I have been gratified at seeing that you have not
been satisfied to copy Pentonville, but that you have
outdone it in solidity, and I will add, in:magnificence.
Now, I confess to you that I am one of those who
think that a great state and a great community does
honour itself if it gives its money to build such great
establishments as those of the Swinton Schools and
the new Penitentiary, because I believe it is a most
important thing that the law which punishes should
endeavour to reclaim those whom it has condemned.
I am not so sanguine as to believe that there is any
external system which could produce the desired
effect either in education or in the reform of
prisoners ; but the penitentiary system seems to
me to have the great advantage of making it
possible to reclaim the prisoner. And why ? For
the simple reason that you create a new atmosphere
about the unfortunate men who are within the walls of
the prison ; you make it possible for them to receive
purer air and purer impressions.—(Cheers.) But I
look further still, and I see those elements which
insure the success of such great works. I see,
wherever I have been in your charitable institutions,
that not only have the authorities by law done their
duty vigorously, but that the influental men of the
town have spent their time in giving their aid for the
benefit of their country and of the town ; and without
this real spirit of liberality there is no work—least
of all of education or in the reform of prisoners—that
can be successfully carried on. With respect to the
Swinton Schools, there are certainly not so many
children there as I hope there will be in a few months,
but I cannot help believing that when it is known
what an excellent education these children receive,
according to their circumstances—when it is seen how
feeble in body, and intellectually ignorant and weak in
mind as they were in their youth, their intellect begins
to dawn in their faces and to shine from their eyes--I
believe there is no one in this great district who will
not think it fortunate that children can be sent to such
a place. I believe that soon there will not he a great
town in England that will not imitate the example
which you have been the first to set. And as you have
set the example in erecting, so I am sure you will do
the same in snaking it useful. Everybody has heard
of your Royal Institution, of your Athenmum, of your
admirable Museum of Natural History, and also of
your Mechanics' Institution. I have seen them all;
but I have been particularly struck and gratified with

most decisive on the point. There has never been a
time when governments have been more aware that
war brings no good, and That peace is not only a
blessing, but a necessity.—(Loud cheers.) But be
that as it may, I assure you that, as to Prussia and
Germany in general, the nation and the governments
of that country are firmly bent to fortify every in-
stitution, and on uniting all their efforts, in order to
maintain and secure that peace which we wish for
OUT own welfare, and for the good of the world. I
hope we shall soon be able to appear before you in a
better organization than that in which we have been
for the last forty years ; and that we shall soon be
able to reap the fruits of the united care both of
nations and governments, and rally under the banner
so gloriously unfurled by you, on behalf of constitu-
tional, civil, and religious liberty.—(Cheers.) I hope
we shall soon be able so to appear before you, and to
say that we will not be second to any nation in the
maintenance of peace all over the world. You came
forward in a critical time—one which is unparalleled
in the history not only of modern times, but of
the world—in a time of greater collision than has
before been known in the annals of our race—
and have shown what are the blessings of a nation
strongly united under 'a constitutional monarchy,
by the noble stand which both you and the city of
London made on the 10th of April last year. We
(the Germans) have our wishes for the cause of peace
and progress, and we are not afraid of the result of
any collision as to commercial matters. If any nation
at the present time adopts the best system of com-
mercial relations, it does it because it thinks it
right for itself and the best for its interests. So
it is with all private affairs ; we all think we do right
according to our own consciences, and consult our
own interests. There is no doubt that when we have
emerged from our difficulties, which I hope we are
fast doing—we shall run a race with you in many an
enterprise of industry, commerce, and trade. But our
prosperity is your prosperity—(Cheers)—your cus-
tomers cannot see you rising into prosperity without
knowing that your prosperity is connected, in the
most close and intimate relations, with the pros-
perity of your country. Allow me to conclude
by expressing my heartfelt thanks for, and admira-
tion of, all I have seen, and my best wishes for
the increasing prosperity of the empire of Great
Britain in general, and of this city and district in par-
ticular.— (Prolonged cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN was extremely glad to see the
Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton honouring his enter-
tainment with his presence, and he thought it an
earnest that the Noble Earl would, in his place in
the House of Lords, help Manchester whenever it
required help. He stated that, but for the illness of
Lord Brackley, the Earl of Ellesmere would also
have been present ; and, in the toast he was about to
propose, he would couple the names of those two
noblemen, the Earl of Wilton and the Earl of Elks-
mere. He, therefore, gave that toast, " The healths
of the Earls of Wilton and Ellesmere, and of the
House or Lords." The toast was drunk with all the

honours.
The Earl of WILTON proposed, as a return toast,
The town and trade of Manchester," to which
Mr. MaiK PHILIPS replied.
The MAYoR next proposed " The health of the
Members of the County of Lancaster."
Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., returned thanks.

The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR of London then
rose. lie begged to propose "The health of the
Mayor of Manchester," with three times three.
The toast was then drank with three times three, and
one cheer more.

The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, said that he
was perfectly sensible that he had many great defi-
ciencies, but he had done his best to discharge the
duties of his office with impartiality, and to bring all
classes around him without regard to politics or reli
gion. And be was quite delighted to see so many
people around him that night, and he hoped that this
would only be the commencement of a series of
meetings of a similar character. He concluied by
giving the:health of " The borough Members present,"
and called on Mr. Brotherton to return thanks.

Mr. BROTHERTON, M.P., in acknowledging the

toast, expressed his regret that the Members-for Ma-
nchester were not present themselves, to acknowledge
the honour •conferred upon them.
The Maxon said it was a source of great gratifica-
tion to him to have been the means of calling together
on this occasion (with one exception) all the represen-
tatives of the municipalities within the county of
Lancaster.—(Applause). He considered it a privi-
lege, and a matter of pride to himself, that the mayors
of Lancaster, Preston, Liverpool, Wigan, Clitheroe,
Stockport, Salford, Warrington, Ashton, and Oldham,
had honoured him with their presence that evening.
—(Applause.) On the part of the corporation of
Manchester lie offered them a cordial welcome ; he
extended to them the right hand of fellowship. Nor
could he forget that he was honoured with the
presence of the Mayor of Boston, who he had the
pleasure of meeting recently in London, at the table
of the Lord Mayor of London, then the representa-
tive of that borough. The identity of interests be-
tween Manchester and Liverpool induced him to call
on the Mayor of Liverpool to respond to the toast.
He trusted that the towns of the county of Lancaster
might continue united in the ways of progress and
improvement, and he concluded by proposing the
health of " The Mayors of Lancashire, and
,with
them the Alas or of Boston."
Mr. J. B. MoonE, the Mayor of Liverpool, in ac-
knowledging the toast, assured the Mayor that all
the kindly feelings that he had expressed towards
Liverpool were reciprocated by that town towards
Ma..chester. He hoped that a rivalry between the
two would long continue in its present spirit, im-
proving and promoting the general interests of
the community and the common good. For what
affected the one affected the other, and if
Manchester was depressed Liverpool suffered
with it. He then adverted to the Liverpool
docks, in which he said that Manchester and the
country at large had a common interest. They were
not exclusively the property of Liverpool, but be-
longed to the nation. They were gratuitously
managed, and their profits went to the reduction of
the charges of the port, and consequently to the
benefit of the community. It might be interesting
to the community to know that such was the manage-
ment of that estate that, in the course of the last ten
years, they had been able to make a reduction to the
enormous amount of 1,446,0001., and that as they
progressed, in course of time that charge would be
reduced year by year, so that unless the extended
commerce of the country required further accommo-
dation, the only charge on the imports and exports
would be for paying the wages of those working at
the docks. He could not resist this opportunity of
stating a very interesting fact and a very singular
coincidence, which he stated to his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, when he did him the honour
of visiting him the other day. His Royal Highness
arrived in Manchester on the 18th of September, and
on that very day of the year 1806, forty-three years
ago, Liverpool was visited by his royal brothers
George IV. and William IV., then the Prince of
Wales, and the Duke of Clarence. On the former
occasion the tonnage of the port amounted to 507,000
tons ; but in 1849 it had increased to 3,600,000 tons.
He mentioned this because it was a basis on which
to calculate the progress of Manchester. Without
Manchester, Liverpool would be nothing; her docks
would be empty ; there would be no imports of cotton
or exports of manufactures. This would give credence
to the fact that this manufacture alone had added to
the wealth of this country no less than one thousand
millions sterling lle congratulated the different
mayors present, especially those of Manchester and
Stockport, on the order, loyalty, and English feeling
manifested during the past year, by the people of their
respective boroughs, when the emissaries of disorder
were at work to destroy, to undermine, and to uproot
the constitution of their country. They had much
reason to be proud of this, for in not one of the cities
in this part of the country had there been anything
to excite the least apprehension or alarm. lie not
only took this as a good omen for the future, but felt
sure that as we progressed, and as the artificers, arti-

Mr. Herapath, who deposed that on Sunday he
received a box from Dr. Brookes, of Cheltenham,
containing four parcels. No. I contained about two
grains of flour. He had applied the five tests to
it, and produced the results : Chrystalised
arsenious acid, orpiment, Scheele's green arsenic.
and yellow arsenite of silver. These tests proved
to demonstration that the flour contained arsenic.
Parcel No. 2 was a bit of flour paste. This also
he subjected to the tests, and found that it contained
arsenic in considerable quantity. Parcel No. 3 was
a bottle, in the contents of which he also found traces
of arsenic in solution, and by the same set of tests he
also produced a small quantity of white arsenious
acid, produced. Parcel No. 4 was a human stomach,
which had been cut open ; its surface was inflamed,
particularly in two parts, and on examining the sur-
face with a miscroscope ;he found two or three minute
chrystals, which turned cut to be arsenious acid. He
found other traces of arsenic in the stomach, which he
had no doubt was that of a person who had died poi-
soned by arsenic. He had examined some fragments
of bread and a paper shop bag, which contained a
little flour, but had detected nothing deleterious in
them. A handkerchief belonging to Barnett, which
had contained the flour which Barnett had given to
the Gregorys to make the dumplings, had also been
sent to him ; particles of flour adhered to it, and it
contained arsenic in large proportion. He had re-
ceived from Police-sergeant Nightingale some paste,
which, on subjecting to analysis, he found to contain
also a considerable portion of arsenic. Ile had
no doubt that any person who had eaten only a small
quantity of the dumpling produced would have been
poisoned, the arsenic being in such considerable quan-
tities therein.
Dr. Brookes was examined, to trace the passing of
the articles analysed from him to Mr. Ilerapath.
Police-sergeant Nightingale was exemined for a
similar purpose, and also deposed to the finding of
some of the dumpling thrown by Barnett into the
privy. Barnett was present when he found it, and
identified one of the dumplings as one of which he
had eaten a part.
James Keylock, a brother of Mrs. Gregory, was
next examined with reference to the conduct of the
prisoner Barnett towards him. He said that they
occasionally had had words, but never any serious
quarrel. This witness also partook of a small piece
of dumpling, and was ill for a few hours. Saw Barrett
eat more of the dumpling than he (witness) did, but the
last mouthful he spat out.
Caroline Gregory, sister of the deceased, said she
had heard Barnett speak spitefully of Keylock, and
threaten to "double him up like a nutshell." Barnett
was very fond of sugar, and usually took a good deal
with pudding, but on this occasion he took very little
upon his plate, as if he intended to eat but little pud-
ding. He usually helped himself first, without wait-
ing for any one else, but on this occasion he waited
until all the others had been served. Saw him partake
of the dumpling, but he spat it out of bis mouth
again. The flour of which the dumplings were
made was brought by Barnett in a handkerchief,
which Mr. Herapath had analysed as before stated.
On the Friday night, when all the people were in,
Barnott asked for the two uncooked dumplings, which
had been set aside, and on Mrs. Gregory giving them
to him, he threw them into the sewer which
runs into the privy, and pumped a quantity of water
to wash them into the privy. On Tuesday last Mrs.
Barnett said to witness, " 1 have heard it reported that
I was jealous of my husband, and that I had mixed
the poison for him." Barnett did not complain of
being ill on the Friday evening.
Mrs. Pearce, wife of a farmer for whom Barnett
worked, proved that she borrowed some flour of him
a month previously, and used it. There was nothing
wrong about it.
Diana Gregory saw Mrs. Barnett sweeping out her
husband's room on the Friday evening, a very unusual
circumstance, as she did not live with him, but was
cook at the Training School.
Some other unimportant evidence was taken, and
the inquest on Elizabeth Gregory was again adjourned
to Wednesday next.
A second inquest was held on the body of Samuel
Gregory last evening.
Mr. Herapath war examined, and gave similar
evidence to that reported above. He had detected the
presence of arsenic in the paste of the dumplings and
the rejected contents of the boy's stomach. He added
in conclusion—" It is my opinion that if any person
had eaten a piece of the dumpling of the size of a
walnut it would have killed him."
The announcement of the above discoveries has
created a greet sensation in the town.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—During the past
week • the men in the employ of Messrs. Easton and
Amos, engineers, of Orange-street, and to whom is con-
fided the care of the Trafalgar fountains, have been en-
gaged in mating canals in the ground straight along
from the Spring garden entrance to the park to the
Storey's-gate entrance, for the purpose of laying down
water-pipes, which are to convey the Trafalgar spring
water to Buckingham Palace. It was originally intended
to have carried the pipes direct through the Mall of St.
James's, but a supply of spring water being greatly
needed by the Government ofiLes in Parliament-street,
Downing-street, and the neighbourhood, it was thought
advisable to carry them to Storey's-gate. and thence
along Birdcage-walk to the Palace. There is also a pro.
position for carrying the pipes up Constitution-hill across
Knightsbridge into Hyde-park, to throw some thousands
of gallons of pure eater into the Serpentine, about the
filth of which so much has been lately said. Along the
line of pipes several water pumps are to be erected,
which will materially lessen the expense of watering the
streets, and enable the contractors to perform that now
I very necessary duty more frequently than hitherto. The
number of men at present employed in these metropoli-
tan improvements is about 50, and they fully expect to
reach the Palace and furnish it with Trafalgar spring
water in about five %seas.
POSITION OF NEW CEMETEIIIRS.--As there is now
a probability that some step will be taken to provide
against future intramural burials by the establishment of
cemeteries in the country surrounding this great metro-
polis, and other large cities and towns, I would suggest,
that no company should be allowed by the Legislature to
establish a cemetery without purchasing sufficient land
around it, to ha for ever kept free from any habitable
save and except tbe tenement necessary for the
ho might be required to superintend the culti-
pbeurisldoinngv:
vation of such land, or to look after the plantation if it
be so laid out. A medical friend of mine, to whom I
mentioned this subject, remarked that Government might
convert the Lie of Dogs into a public cemetery, and I
have to observe, that there is an excellent and silent
highway to it—the Thames—and wharves on both its
banks, front which a steamer appropriated for that
purpose might convey the corpse and mourners at a very
moderate expense.—Corr espoßdeht of the Builder.
IMPORTANT MICROSCOPICAL INVESTIGATION.—Mr.
Britton, Leturer on anatomy and physiology at the
Bristol Medical School, in a series of investigations,
undertaken in coitjunctien with Mr. J. G. Swayne, has
observed the constant occurrence of certain peculiar
bodies, hitherto undescribed, as characteristic consti-
tuents of cholera evacuations, and by a further series of ex-
periments he has succeeded in demonstrating the importan t
discovery of similar bodies in the atmosphere, of
districts infected with cholera. The results of his ob-
servations have been submitted to the judgment of the
most eminent microscopical pathologists of the metro-
polio, as well as of those gentlemen who have acquired
great repute for their researches on cholera, and they,
considering them of a novel and most important charac-
ter, have urged Mr. Britten to give them immediate
publicity.—Nedical Gazette.
A POTUECARIES lIALT.---Phe following gentlemen
passed their extunination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thurs-
day last:—Thomas Casterton, Great Yarmouth; Samuel
Montgomery Charles Alfred Anderson Smith; Robert
Clarke, Farnworth,
James MTarlane, Esq., and Doctor James
Vickeray Drysdale have been appointed members of the
Legislative Council at St. Lucia.