The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

John Tarnell and Mary, his wife, were placed at
the bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of working an
illicit still. _

Mr. John Lewin, an officer of Excise, deposed that
on Friday evening last he went to a house occupied
by the prisoners, in Mortram-street, Old Kent-road,
and found the prisoners employed in working a still,
which had then a fire under it. The place was fitted
up with all the necessary apparatus for carrying on an
illicit distillation, with a quantity of wash, and seven
gallons of spirits, two of which were in bladders ready
to be carried out.

Mr. John Bradnell, a second officer of Excise,
corroborated the evidence of the last witness.

The prisoners said nothing in defence, and
Mr. ELLIOTT convicted the husband in the penalty
(the lowest the law permits) of 301., and in default
of payment to three months' imprisonment.
Eliza Dove, Eliza Lewis, Margaret Wall, and
Sarah Cross, inmates of Marlborough-house, Peckham,
were charged with creating a considerable disturb-
ance in that establishment on Christmas evening.
John Attery, the gate-porter of Marlborough-
house, deposed that on Saturday evening he was sent
for to go to No. 32 Ward, and on proeeding there
he found the prisoners, who had got over the palings
which separates the males from the females, seated
there with the male paupers, and singing as loud as
they could. He requested hey would at once leave
and proceed to their proper place, but they refused
to do so, and it required the exertion of himself and
four policemen to remove them. The prisoner Dove,
he said, used violent threats towards him, and she as
well as Cross had been before in prison.
Mr. ELLIOTT ordered the prisoner Dove to find bail,
and discharged the others, but the latter prisoners in-
sisted that all were equally guilty, and should be
punished alike, and actually went so far as to refuse
to leave their companion, but clung to her in the dock.
They were with some difficulty removed, and cau-
tioned as to their future conduct, and their companion
was sent to prison.

George Wilson, Cold Harbour-lane, Camberwell, a
man of gentlemanly appearance, was convicted in a
penalty of 31. or one month's imprisonment, for as-
saulting a little girl of 12 years of age.
BENEVOLENCE.-gr. Elliott received a 101. note,
No. 22,876, and Mr. Norton a 51. from the Earl of C.
(through the Commissioners of Police) for the poor.
box, which the donor requested might be acknow-
ledged in the daily journals.
THAMES.

James Johnson, alias Robinson, and Thomas Lich-
fold, were charged with being on the river on Christ-
mas morning, at half-past three o'clock, with the in-
tention of committing felony.
For some time past numerous robberies have been
committed on board ships in the river, between
sunset and sunrise, by a class of thieves called " tier
rangers," who have carried off money, watches, and
clothes, to a large amount, from cabins and state-
rooms, while the masters and mates have been asleep.
Many of those thieves have been brought to justice
through the vigilance of the Thames police, and
either convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions, or sum-
marily punished by the magistrates. The depreda-
tions, however, have not entirely abated, and the
river police have kept a sharp look out. On Christ-
mas morning, Inspector Hambrook and the crew of
his galley were rowing past the ship Anna, lying in
Mill-stairs tier, Bermondsey, and saw a strange boat
alongside, which excited the suspicions of the in-
spector. He hailed the vessel, but no answer was
returned. He then went on board, and after
searching for a long time, he found the pri-
soners concealed under a long-boat on the quarter-
deck of the ship. He asked them what they did
there, to which they replied that they had given
some of the crew of the Anna a cast from the shore
to the vessel in a boat. The master, mate, and all
hands were fast asleep in their berths, and, on being
aroused, denied all knowledge of the prisoners, whose
intentions were evident. They had come on board
for the purpose of stealing the clothes and money
belonging to the master and mate, and they would
have obtained a rich booty if they had not been so
opportunely detected. The cabin and state-room of
the ship alongside the Anna was plundered on the
preceding night, and the thieves contrived to carry
away the clothes, money, and valuables belonging to
the mate without disturbing him. The boat found
alongside the Anna belonged to a waterman named
Banks, of Mill-stairs. It was removed from its
moorings at the stairs, and the padlock which fastened
the oars broken. The prisoners, who are good
swimmers, made a desperate resistance, and endea-
voured to overturn the Thames police galley, but
were overpowered and fastened to the bottom of the
boat.

answer to questions by
the Magistrate, amatH, said roo
that
in
etJohnson was convicted on
the 2d of May, 1844, at the Central Criminal Court,
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and
hard labour. On the 4th of May, 1845, he was
again convicted of felony at the same place, and re-
ceived a similar sentence. The same prisoner had
been twice convicted of " tier ranging " by the Ma-
gistrates, and on each occasion sentenced to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Potter, 212 IC, knew Lickfold to be a notorious
thief, and he had been frequently in custody for
felony. Witness knew the prisoner to be a returned
convict, and gave the date of his first conviction.
Mr. YARDLEY said if the prisoners had committed
the robbery contemplated by them, there was no
doubt they would have been transported for a long
term. He had no doubt they were on board the Anna
for the purpose of committing felony, and that they
were most dangerous thieves. He sentenced them,
as rogues and vagabonds, to three months' imprison-
ment and hard labour in the House of Correction at
Brixton.

Fanny Smith, Rarriet Downie, and Charles Winter
were charged with hocussing William Edwards, a
sailor, and robbing him of seven sovereigns.
The prosecutor, who came home about three weeks
ago, in the Canton, from Quebec, summoned the
master of that vessel on Friday for his wages, and
they were ordered to be paid by Mr. Ballantine, the
magistrate. The prisoner Winter became acquainted
with Edwards, and knowing that he was likely to
obtain his wages, stuck very close to him all last
week, and when the wages were ordered by Mr. Bal-
lantine, followed him from the court to the offices of
Messrs. Stainbank, the ship-brokers, in the City,
where the sum ordered was paid. The sailor, after
paying the solicitor's charges and meeting other
claims upon him, had eight sovereigns left, and he
changed one and gave Winter half a sovereign to pur-
chase a Christmas goose for his dinner. Edwards
then tied up the remainder of his money with his re-
gister ticket and certificate of service and discharge,
in a corner of his handkerchief, which he deposited
in his bosom, in Winter's presence. The prisoner
then said he could take him to his house and intro-
duce him to some very nice girls, and persuaded
i Ed-
wards to accompany him to an infamous house n St.
George's in the East, where he found the two women.
After having drank something the prisoners began
pulling him about, and unfastening his clothes, and
removing his money from his handkerchief; but al-
though he knew they were robbing him, he had not
sufficient strength to make any resistance, and suf-
fered himself to be plundered. The prisoners di-
rectly afterwards left the room. Edwards staggered
out of the house, and proceeded to the station-house
in King David-lane, close by, and made his loss
known to Potter, a police constable, 211 K, who exa-
mined bis handkerchief, and found his register ticket
was gone, and in place of the gold two penny .pieces
were substituted. Potter apprehended the two fe-
males the same evening. Winter was apprehended
on the same night. He tendered to Potter a half-
sovereign, which he said Edwards hid given him for
the trouble he had taken with him.
After some further proceedings, Mr. Yardley com-
mitted the prisoners for trial.

THE SEWERS COMMISSIONERS.—Two of the Chair-
men of the old Sewers Commissioners for the Metropolis
(one of whom is an Alderman of London) have refused
to hand over their accounts and their cash in hand to the
new Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, whose ap
pointment has superseded all the others. A meeting of
the Central Commission will be held at Gwydyr House
on Tuesday, when it will be decided what steps shall be
taken for the transfer of all documents and powers from
those bodies which have actually ceased to exist as Com-
missioners.—Observer.

LAW OF LUNACY.

TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY,
BART., M.P., SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
THE HOME DEPARTMENT.

Sir,—l have the honour of calling your attention
to the case of a Mr. Owen, a chemist, residing in
Marchmont-street, Brunswick square, which has
excited considerable attention in his neighbourhood,
owing to his having been forcibly seized in his shop,
by order of his brother, about the Bth of December,
handcuffed, thrust into a cabriolet, and driven off to
Mr. Warburton's asylum, Bethnal-green, from
whence he was fortunately delivered by the unusual
and public-spirited exertions of one of his neighbours,
who having employed a solicitor, and formed a com-
mittee of his neighbours, procured eleven affidavits to
his sanity, and having obtained a writ of habeas cor-
pus—before one of the judges—procured his release.
I saw Mr. Owen last night, who appears to be a
highly respectable, sensible, and quiet man, and he
informed me that the doctors of the asylum, Mr.
Warburton and Mr. Phillips, honourably acknow-
ledged to him that they saw no symptoms of de-
rangement in him, but that he could only be liberated
in due course of law, as they were bound to detain
him upon the order of his brother, and upon the cer-
tificates to his insanity which his brother had pro-
cured against him. In consequence also of his
brother's orders, Mr. Owen was not allowed the use
of pen or paper, or permitted to see his friends who
went to call upon him at the asylum.
A stronger instance of the impropriety of allowing
the liberty of the subject to be thus jeopardised upon
the authority of a relation, in some cases of a stranger,
backed by the certificate of two medical men, with-
out the previous examination of the party at least by
a magistrate and a clergyman, if not before a jury,
an impropriety which the members of the Alleged
Lunatic Friends Society have individually or collec-
tively been remonstrating against for two years, can-
not be submitted to your attention, nor can it fail of
impressing upon your mind, that the existence of such
a society is not unnecessary, and that their objects
are entitled to respect.
I beg leave, at the same time, to direct your atten-
tion to the second annual report of the Commissioners of
Lunacy, and their last half-yearly report to the Lord
Chancellor, printed Dec. 15, 1847, by order of the
House of Commons, wherein the amount of the visits
of the Commissioners to asylums is stated. It is there
shown that Dr. Turner visited 167 asylums, saw 8,270
patients, and travelled 3,877 miles, and Mr. W. G.
Campbell vjsited 165 asylums, saw 9,939 patients,
and travelled 2,798 miles, during the six months
ending August 4, 1847. The committee of the
alleged Lunatic Friends' Society have had several
complaints made to them, by persons who have suf-
fered in asylums, of the present system of inspection
by the Commissioners resulting practically in a mere
show. One gentlemen informs them, that on his
preparing to make his complaints to them, they told
him they were very much pressed for time ; they
begged him to postpone his complaints to another
opportunity, and at last one of them left the room,
leaving the other to collect what he could of the
applicant's case in a short conversation with him. It
is not surprising that this should be the case, when
the amount of the visits made and of the patients
inspected by a Commissioner in six months is consi-
dered, and that besides this they have to inspect the
wards, the books, and provisions of each asylum, if
they thoroughly discharge their duty, and to make
their reports to, and to discharge the other duties of,
the board of which they are members. When, how-
ever, to these considerations is added the reflection
that the Commissioners acknowledge that in some
cases they can with difficulty procure the regular
visits required by law from the magistrates who are
appointed to visit the asylums in the country, the jus-
tice of the representations of the Committee of the
Alleged Lunatic Friends' Society, that a complete
rt.form is required in the present system of inspecting
asylums, must be admitted. The importance also of,
and the necessity for, a frequent inspection of asylums
must forcibly strike you, Sir, as during the present
year no less than three coroners' inquests have been
holden on the bodies of patients who were found after
death to have had their ribs broken on both sides of
their bodies, through the violence of their attendants.
One of these cases occurred in the asylum at Lincoln,
the other two in a private asylum.
I feel called upon to lay these facts and these obser-
vations before you, in order to make you aware of
the'nature of the system against which the society I
have the honour of belonging to is complaining.
I have the honour to remain, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
JOHN PERCEVAL.
Campden Cottage, Kensington,
December 24, 1847.

DEATH of a VETERAN REFORMER.
One of our old friends has departed, and few re-
main that can tell the tale he once did. We allude
to Mr. William Lang, late printer in this city, who
died at Dunoon on Tuesday last, in the 76th year of
his age. Mr. Lang was gifted with strong natural
powers, which were governed with unbending integ-
rity. He was all his life long warmly attached to
Liberal principles, not by violence or revolution, but
to constitutional reform, comprehending civil and
religious liberty, under proper safeguards. Thirty
or forty years ago, it was dangerous in this city to
moot even the most moderate principles of reform.
A remarkable proof of this is to be found in the
case of Mr. Lang, which may well startle the youth-
ful advocates and printers of the present day, and
demonstrate the astonishing change which has taken
place in public opinion, from the Government itself
downwards. In the year 1816, as we well remember,
Mr. Lang, then a most peaceable and respectable
master printer in Glasgow, was taken up, along with
his brother-in-law, the venerable Mr. Turner, of
Thrushgrove, who still survives, on the charge of
high treason. Those were the days of Sidmouth and
Castlereagh. Those were the days of Richmond the
Spy. The high treason consisted in this, that Mr.
Turner gifted his ground for a meeting of peaceable
reformers, and that Mr. Lang printed the calm and
dignified resolutions adopted thereat. But Mr. Lang,
though dead, yet speaketh, and we quote the follow-
ing account of this interesting matter, as delivered by
him at the anniversary of the Thrushgrove reform
meeting, 29th October, 1831—Mr. -Wallace, of Kelly,
arid the late Sir John Maxwell in the chair :
" Mr. Lang, in returning thanks for the honour
of his health being drank, said, that the present
was a compensation for all his sufferings. He alluded
to the origin of the Thrushgrove meeting, and said
their object was to give the citizens an opportunity of
speaking their sentiments legally. At that time, if
five met together, there was no security that one of
them, at least was not a spy. They had asked,
from the Dean of Guild, the Merchants' Hall to
meet in. He said he had to consult his council, and
the answer was, it could not be granted. They
asked the Trades' Hall, but it was also refused,
though let to a man salamander.—(Great laughter.)
They next wanted to get the court of the Eagle
Inn, which was granted, and the meeting was
advertised; but next morning they received notice
that the factor of the landlord would not allow them
to meet in it. They ultimately met in the open
air, expressed their sentiments, and sent them to the
Prince Regent, signed by from twenty to thirty
thousand people. During the meeting, the 42d
Regiment stood under arms in the barracks, with
eighteen rounds of ball cartridge, and the cavalry
were under arms in another quarter ; but they
risked the meeting, because they knew the people
would be quiet; and when the meeting was over
they retired as quietly as from a church. Meetings
followed in all directions, and even in America the
Thrushgrove meeting was noticed. Sir Philip
Francis, the reputed author of "Junius," had
written to them, applauding their intrepidity.
He then detailed the circumstances of his imprison-
ment. On a Sacrament Sabbath morning, at two
o'clock, while he and Mrs. Lang had just retired
from the bedside of a sick child, and were scarcely
in bed, a loud knocking was heard at his door. On
asking who was there, he was told it was police-
officers. On opening the door, he found three or
four soldiers with drawn bayonets, an officer carry-
ing a torch, and a band of officers behind. He
asked their object, and was told it was to search for
papers. They then searched his drawers, his pockets,
and his pocket-book ; and when towels bad been
filled with papers, tablecloths had to be re-
sorted to. They next proceeded to the parlour
and examined his books. One man, after spelling
the title of one, made out Age of Reason,' and
took possession of it. Another spelled 'Apology for
Bible.' The leader said they would have nothing to
do with that; but he (Mr. Lang) insisted there
should be no selection, as Tom and the Bishop always
went together. Having given them both the bane
and the antidote, he offered them the Bible, telling
them it was the most radical book extant ; but they
refused it. They then went to his office and took
every paper from his desk, along with his books of
business, and letters from Lord Folkestone, Major
Cartwright, and Lord Castlereagh. Of the latter
he said, if there was treason in his possession,
it was in that letter; it related to an altera-
tion in the militia laws, which his Lordship
was to bring in a Bill to effect. He was then taken
to the police-office, and put into the prison room with
other prisoners, and kept there till twelve o'clock at
night, when he was sent to Bridewell, guarded by
military, where he was kept till Friday ; and, after
a long course of suffering, ultimately dismissed with-
out trial, apology, or compensation."
Would such things be permitted now ? Truly we
live in a world of progression, and this good and
amiable man, after rising to high posts of honour in
this city, which obliterated the stain of the accusation
of high treason, and made him speak of it often with
the smile of innocence and proud congratulation,
closed his eyes at last in a mature age, and in the
blessed hope that he would secure an inheritance,

incorruptible, undefiled, eternal in the heavens.—
Scotch Reformers' Gazette.

THE CORN TRADE.

The year 1847, now about tc draw to a close, will
be long remembered as one of almost unprecedented
disasters in the commercial world. We shall not
pause to consider whether the ruin which has over-
taken many of our most extensive merchants has been
caused by the progress cf free trade, the Bank Char-
ter, or other Legislative measures ; but that the im-
portation of food to the value of thirty millions of
pounds could not fail to raise the value of money,
and depreciate that of all other articles, is self.eri-
dent. The agriculturists have probably felt the effect
of the money crisis less than any other class of people;
for though the harvest of 1846 was, taking all kinds
of grain together, deficient, the extraordinarily high
prices obtained for their produce during the period
the Government were busy predicting famine com-
pensated in some measure for the deficiency in quan-
tity. Subsequently, when the fall came, the growers had
managed to getpretty well out of stock, and were there-
fore but little affected by the rapid depreciation in
prices. The future prospects of the farmer may also
be considered as tolerably cheerful. With the excep-
tion of potatoes, the crops have unquestionably yielded
abundantly; end though he cannot expect to realize
very high prices, the extra qumtity of corn produce
will place him in a very good position. That farmers
are generally well off, is shown by the cautious man-
ner in which they have since harvest brought forward
supplies ; and as they are likely to have the coin-
mend of the market for some months to come, it is
not improbable that they will during that time be
enabled to dispose of a considerable proportion of their
wheat at prices varying from 50s. to 60s. per quarter,
according to quality—no bad return, when we con-
sider the number of quarters grown to the acre. The
declaration made by Lord John Russell, not long
since, that it was not the intention of her Majesty's
Government to propose the further suspension of the
corn laws after the Ist of March
.next, is also in
favour of the British grower; and, on the whole, we
may, we think, in wishing our agricultural friends
a happy new year, venture to say that their
prospects are at least as bright as those of any ether
class of the community. The trade in wheat has

throughout the week maintained a very firm tone,
and the tendency of prices has been decidedly up-
wards. As yet the condition of the wheat of this
year's growth has not been much benefited by the
change of weather; but should the frosty air continue
a few days longer, we may expect a material im-
provement to be wrought thereby in the quality of all
kinds of new corn in stack. It is probable that far-
mers will, when this occurs, supply the markets more
freely; but as it is tolerably certain that no further
supplies of foreign grown corn can now reach us till
after that period when the corn-laws shall again have
come into operation, an increase in the deliveries from
the growers need not necessarily be accompanied by
a fall in prices. Owing to Christmas-day, the markets
usually held on Saturday have been held out of the
regular course—a circumstance which has interfered
more or less with business; still the transactions of
the week have been to a fair extent, and the advance
established at Mark-lane on Monday last has been
resrmded to, prices having risen since then ls. to 2s.
per quarter in most parts of the kingdom.
The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have
been tolerably good, 6,717 quarters having been re-
ported. The quantity exhibited at Mark-lane by
land-carriage samples from the home counties has, on
the other hand, been quite unimportant; indeed, there
was scarcely anything offering either on Wednesday
or Friday from Essex and Suffolk, and the show on
the Kent stands consisted of the few runs left over
from Monday. At the same we have had a very
thin attendance of buyers (as is not unusual immedi-
ately previous to Christmas), and, small as has been
the supply, factors have been unable to obtain any
advance on the currency of Monday last. A few
cargoes of wheat have again arrived from abroad ; the
quantity reported within the last eight days has, how-
ever, amounted to only 3,905 qrs. The demand for
foreign wheat has at no period of the week been
active, the country inquiry having fallen off, and our
own millers having manifested some unwillingness to
add to their stocks so near to the close of the rear.
Holders have nevertheless remained exceedingly firm,
and, so far from showing any disposition to give way,
have rather raised their pretensions, particularly for
the finer qualities, which have now become very scarce.
The transactions in town-manufactured flour have
been on rather a restricted scale, nor has country-
made flour been in much request, but the quotations
of last Monday have been steadily maintained.
Holders cf the finest brands of American have de-
manded rather more money, which has checked the
sale, and the bargains closed have not been of much
importance.
the arrivals of barley of home-growth have been
good since our last, but from abroad we are without
receipts. A considerable proportion of Monday's
supply having, however, on that occasion remained
unsold, and the demand having throughout been slow,
this grain has been very difficult of disposal. Really
fine malting qualities have brought nearly former
terms, but the common runs were certainly Is. per
quarter cheaper at the close than in the commence-
ment of the week, In foreign their has been little
passing, but good heavy grinding sorts have not been
sold lower.

Malt has been influenced by the dull state of the
barley trade, and the turn has been rathar in favour
of the buyer.
Though only 423 quarters of oats have come to
hand coastwise, arid 120 from Ireland, the arrival of
25,838 quarters from abroad has kept the trade very
dull, and we can note no improvement in the inquiry
for this grain. Some quantity is known to be still
on passage from near continental ports to this market,
and the dealers appear determined to await the arri-
val of this expected supply. Meanwhile the setting-in
of winter will prevent further shipments, and as there
is not much prospect of the supply from Ireland in-
creasing, we are disposed to think that a small ad-
vance on present rates is more likely than any re-
duction.

The quantity of English beans brought forward
has proved fully equal to the demand, and sales have
proceeded very slowly at the recently reduced terms.
The operations in Egyptian beans have been on a
retail scale, and quotations have undergone no
change.
The fall in the temperature has caused white boil-
ing peas to be rather more sought for, and this article
was quite as dear on Friday as earlier in the week.
Grey and maple peas have not varied in value,!aud but
little business has been done in either.
The value of Indian corn having lately risen in
Ireland, rather more money has been asked for parcels
here and to arrive, but the inquiry has not been suffi-
ciently active to allow of any advance being estab-
lished.
By the packet-ship Isaac Wright, we have advices
from New York of a few days later date than the
accounts per Acadia. Money was very tight there,
in consequence of the continued shipments of gold to
Great Britain. The weather, after having been very
cold, had again become mild, and it was not deemed
improbable that the inland navigation might be freed
from ice, and further supplies of bread stuffs be re-
ceived from the interior. This, and the increased
stock of flour on hand, had caused the article to
become dull of sale, and prices had rather tended
downwards. Western Canal was then quoted 6 dolls.
18c. to 6 dolls. 314 c. per barrel.
The accounts from the north of Europe are not of
much interest, except in as far as the latest adviees
from some of the near ports inform us that winter
had set in, and it is therefore more than probable
that a stop has ere this been put to shipments of grain
from the Baltic.

Letters from Dantzic' of the 18th :inst.' state that
very little business has been done there daring the
preceding eight days; but the supplies having been
unimportant, sellers had declined accepting less
money. The weather had become cold, and as ice
was rapidly forming, a stop would, it was believed,
be put to further exports. Only about 80 lasts had
changed hands.
Letters from Hamburgh, of Tuesday's date, inform
us that the weather had for some days been cold, and
that the navigation of the Elbe had become a good
deal impeded by floating ice. The advices from
hence were considered encouraging, and holders of
wheat had declined selling the best heavy Upland
below 50s. per qr., free on board.
By the latest accounts from the Mediterranean it
seems that, in consequence of large arrivals of wheat
from the Black Sea, holders had become more
anxious to realise. At Marseilles business was very
dull on the 16th December, and fine Polish, weighing
621bs. per bushel, was then offered at equal to 435.
per qr., free on board.—Marh-lane Express.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]--CARRIAGE FREE.—Families
residing in the country are supplied with Teas and
Coffees at the lowest wholesale price, in quantities not
less than six pounds, delivered carriage free to any part
of England. Orders must be accompanied by a remit-
tance, or if a reference be made in London, payment
will suffice on receipt and approval of the goods. A list
of prices and samples free, on application to G. T. Man-
sell and Cu., wholesale tea-dealers, 2, Bueklersbury,
Cheapside.

LADYERTISEMENT.] - A DREADFUL ABSCESS
UNDER THE CHIN CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
AND PlLLS.—Robert Davidson, shoemaker, of An-
struther, had suffered for more than five years with a
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he had been under the care of two surgeons in Anstru-
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a cure ; in this miserable conditipn be began to use
Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which in the short space
of two months soundly healed the wound, and he is now
enjoying the best of health. These fine medicines are
admirable remedies for King's evil, wounds of all kinds,
burns, scalds, piles, fistula, and bearings down. Sold
by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establish-
ment, 244, Strand, London.

CALNE ELECTION.
•
CALNE, MONDAY EVENING.—The election for the
borough of Caine, arising out of the vacancy occur-
ring by the acceptance of a Lordship of the Treasury
by the Earl of Shelburne, took place in the Town-
hall, at eleven o'clock to-day.
The Earl of Shelburne having arrived in Caine
from Bowood, was escorted to the Town-hall, attended
by a number of friends, and at eleven o'clock the pro-
ceedings commenced.

The preliminary proceedings having been gone
through,

MAYOR (Dr. Page) rose, and having alluded to
the cause of the vacancy, called upon any elector to
propose a candidate.

Dr. GREED UP then nom/noted, and Mr. L ADD se-
conded, the Earl of Shelburne as a fit and proper
person to represent the borough.
No other candidate having been proposed, the Right
Hon. the Earl of Shelburne was declared duly elected,
amid loud cheering.
Lord SIIELBNRNE then rose, and said he had in
the first place to thank most cordially his honourable
proposer and seconder for the very flattering manner
in w hich they had spoken of him, though the latter
had placed him rather in a predicament, although no
doubt unintentionally, for he had recited such a long
list of eminent men who had represented that borough
in Parliament, that he (Lord Shelburne) must feel
himself an unworthy follower of them.—(No.) When
he last had the honour of being elected by them, he
had riot the slightest idea that he should have so soon
to again appear before them in the agreeable position
in which he then stood, for he called it an agreeable
position to stand as the successful candidate before a
body of electors.—(Cheers.) He had always, as they
knew, been an advocate of Whig principles, and a sup-
porter of the Whig Government, when he did not
hold office. He had now accepted office, but he de-
clared, as a man of honour, that he would not have done
so if he had not had full confidence in her Majesty's
present Government, and had approved of the mea-
sures which they had proposed. He would, however,
as sincerely say, that no love of place should induce
him to hold office for one moment longer than he
could conscientiously do so without either abandon-
ing his principles, or sacrificing his self-respect ; and
he sincerely hoped, in the words of the gentleman
who had nominated him, that he should not prove
less worthy as a Member, now that he held office,
than he had before. Of the session, or rather the
preliminary part of it, which had just been closed by
the adjournment, he had but little to say, as the
single measure which had been settled was the
Irish Life Protection Bill, but he would observe
that he had supported that Bill because he thought
it necessary to put down the outrage, the crime,
and the assassination now so openly practised in
Ireland ; and he would add, that while the Govern-
ment showed itself willing to aid and relieve distress
in Ireland, they were equally determined to put the
law in full force to put down the present abominable
assassinations which disgraced Ireland—assassinations
in which the assassins were not actuated by passion,
or frenzy, or hatred, or revenge, but solely by base
lucre, and in which the parties assassinated were the
resident landlords, in many cases most estimable men,
but who had been, which was far worse, denounced
from the altar b 7 the priests. The Noble Lord then
alluded to the Education Bill, and having expressed
continued confidence in free trade, for which he had
voted, but which he contended had not yet had a fair
trial, he sat down by thanking them for the honour
which they had done him.

A vote Of thanks was the❑ given to the Mayor, and
the proceedings terminated.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Dac. 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Glasgow and Gree-
nock, 161/2—Glasgow and Dumfries, 71/2 —Great Western,
Quarters, 11/2 p. —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 14 c•
dis.—London and North-Western, 146—North Staffordshire*
1/1 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 151 dis.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Leicester and Bed-
ford, 4s. 6d. dis.—London and North-Western, Quarters (B),
p Ditto (C), 3 11..16 p.—Manch ester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Preference, par—North British, Thirds, 1/2 dis.
North Staffordshire, par—Shropshire Union Railway and
Canal, 2) dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 1 13-16
dis.
EDINBURGH, DEC 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Northern, 85s.
—North British, Quarters, 86s. 6d. ex int.—Ditto, Neff
Quarters (scrip), 10s.—Ditto, Thirds, 379.

AN IRISHMAN CHLOROFORMISED.—The Carlisle
Patriot says that among the out-patients of the Cumber-
land Infirmary was an Irishman, an itinerant vendor of
tracts, who applied to have his, as he termed it, " axle
tooth" (the last of the lower jaw) removed. The tooth
was examined, and he was desired to seat himself in a
chair, when a few drops of chloroform sprinkled on 5
handkerchief were held before his face; in a few minutes
he began to fumble in his waistcoat pocket, from which
he withdrew a short pipe and some tobacco, and re
quested that the lady (a nurse) might fetch him a light.
By this time the effect of the vapour had ceased, and he
apologised for the liberty he had taken, which he con-
sidered was " all owing to that beautiful perfume:" the
quantity of chloroform given had not been sufficient to
produce a state of unconsciousness. A larger quantity
was now sprinkled on the handkerchief, which was
again held before his face, and in less than a minute he

‘,;s sound asleep, the tooth was extracted, and he con-
tinued snoring for a minute longer, when he began to
show symptoms of awaking, and the following dialogue
ensued.—" How are you now? where have you been?
" Well, I'll tell you; I was at Carlisle, and I went to the
infirmary there, and at first I sat down in a room with a
lot of people, and then a gentleman whom I had never
seen before called me out, and asked me what I wanted,
and I old him that I wanted to have an axle tooth taken
out, for it had been troubling me long • and he told me
to sic down in a chair, and I did, and then I breathed •
beautiful perfume, and then—" " Well, what then?"
" Why, then I went to that world that sinful mortals on
earth often think about;" and here he paused as if con-
sidering, and then suddenly exclaimed, " I think I am
that same old sinner that went to the infirmary myself,"
and again paused to consider; " but if it's the same I've
got a loose axle tooth in my head." " Then you must
feel if you have." The Irishman did as he was desired,
and carefully examined his jaw, and having apparently
convinced himself, said, " No, there is no axle tooth;
then lam not the same." The effect of the vapour now
rapidly subsided, and he speedily came to the conclusion
that he was the same person, and that there must have
been magic, and left the room evidently well satisfied
at having so agreeably got rid of his troublesome com-
panion.

- BREACH OF REGULATIONS ON THE QUEEN'S VISIT.
—lt will be recollected by many who witnessed the
landing of the Queen, on her visit to the Castle of
Dumbarton, in August last, that a breach of regula•
Lions, issued on that occasion by the Sheriff of Dum-
bartonshire, in conjunction
.with the Magistrates of the
burgh, for the protection and safety of the public, was
alleged to have been committed by James Lang, one of
the steam-boat masters of Dumbarton. The regulation
referred to was to the effect, " That no boat or vessel
of any description was to enter the Leven, on the day
of the expected visit, between nine in the morning
and the departure of the Royal Squadron." This
order was extensively circulated in Dumbarton and
at Glasgow, and to enforce it, six guard-boats, with
sufficient crews, were placed in the Leven, to cruize
in the immediate neighbourhood of the Queen's land-
ing-place. Mr. Lang was brought upon on Tuesday
last, on a complaint, at the instance of the
Procurator-Fiscal of the Sheriff Court, in which he WAS
accused of culpably and recklessly steering the Lochlo.
mond steam-boat into the Leven, in breach of the regu-
lations, and in the face of all opposition on the part of
the crews of the guard-bouts, to the danger and alarm
of the lieges, and the terror and consternation of the
persons assembled at her Majesty's landing, as also a
breach of the public peace, aggravated by being com-
mitted when the Sovereign, in person, was nearly ap-
proaching. The prosecution was conducted by Mr.
Young, Advocate-Depute, and the defence by Mr.
Archibald Graham, Advocate. Numerous objections
were stated to the relevancy of the complaint; but those
being all repelled by Mr. Sheriff Steele, who presided at
the trial, the case went to proof, and, after the exami-
nation of a great number of witnesses, the Sheriff found
the complaint established, and fined the accused in 51.
sterling. The counsel for the panel stated, that he was
instructed to appeal the judgment to the first Circuit
Court; and a bond of caution to abide the issue of the
appeal was then entered into for the panel.—Greenock
Advertiser.

STATISTICS OF OUR TAXATION. Every pound
sterling, or 205., raised in taxes in the country, it is
computed is thus divided:—Army and navy, 6s. 2d.;
civil list, including Queen, ministers, judges, sinecureo,
&c., lod.; interest on the national debt, 13s.