The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

of the 27th ult. gives a long catalogue of the destruc-
tion of crops, mills, bridges, and various descriptions
of property, occasioned by the recent freshet, which
extended throughout the State. At Columbus several
bridges, mills, and mill-dams,
were swept away. At
Forsyth it rained from Wednesday night to Thursday
afternoon without intermission. The water-courses were
swollen to an extraordinary height, and nearly all the
bridges destroyed. At Washington (Wilks county) the
storm was more violent than ever known before : bridges
were carried off, and scarcely a mill remains un•
injured. The fields have been swept of whatever grew
upon them, and the cotton has everywhere been so much
injured as to be entirely worthless. The water in the
Ocmulgee rose within eighteen inches, as high as it did
at the great freshet of March last. Much damage was
done to the corn and cotton on the river lands
and in some eases individuals have lost .nearly, their
entire crop. The railroads have escaped uninjured,
with the exception of the Georgia-road, which was
slightly injured, causing a serious accident, by which
one of the passengers was killed, and considerable
damage done to the locomotive.
The Natchez Free Trader of Sept. 14 gives a
gloomy account of the cotton crop of Mississippi, but
says the corn crop is turnieg out better than was expected.
ALABAMA.—The Mobile Journal of the 24th ult.,
alluding to the report of recent injuries to the cotton
crop in that State, and which it credits to some extent,
says, " Nevertheless, we believe firmly that the crop
will still be a full average one, and, as we have ft e-
quently before remarked, with seasonable weather and
late frosts, it will turn something more."

THE NEMESISW AR-STEAMER.
Most of our readers are aware of the important ser-
vices rendered in the present China war by the Nemesis
steamer, Her gallant Commander is a native of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, but was educated in Leith. He is the
eldest surviving sou of the late Mr. William Hall, whom
we well remember upwards of thirty years ago, as
the worthy and respectable captain of the Edinburgh
Packet, one of that excellent class of vessels (the
Berwick smacks) by which the communication be-
tween London and Leith was principally carried
on, before the introduction of steam navigation.
Captain Hall, of the Nemesis, entered the navy at
an early period of life as a midshipman, and has
seen much service in different quarters of the
world. Having been with his namesake, the intrepid
and scientific Capt. Basil Hall, in the Lyra, during his
memorable voyage to Corca add the island of Loo_Choo,
he was, independently of his other qualificati cu, pecu-
liarly fitted for command in the China seas. The nautical
skill and undaunted courage displayed by Captain Hall
in the Nemesis, during the present war, make us
proud of him as our countryman, and will no doubt re-
commend him to the favourable notice of the Admi-
ralty. In the last affair with the Chinese, Capt. Hall
destroyed no less than forty of their war junks in the
course of a few hours, but was himself, we are sorry to
say, wounded in the action, though not dangerously.--
Correspondent of the Edinburgh Observer.

ENGLAND AND THEUNITED
STATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Ste—There appeared in the Tinzes, a short time since,
a plan for carrying on a war with America by the sepa-
ration of the Southern States from the Northern and
Middle, without re-stating the many objections to this
p!aa already laid before the public. 1 would merely
state that the farmer of the south, with the exception
of a field of Indian corn, d water-melon patch, or an in-
si,gnificant vegetable garden, cultivates no land save for
Ilse production of cotton. I would, therefore, ask the
Editor or Correspondent of the Times, who coneoctel
this wise plan, one simple question—has lie provided a
plan for victualling the south The plan is as foolish as
it is wicked. A Correspondeat of the Morning Post
states that lie knows it to be matter-of-fact, that the
manufacturers of America are the main cause of the
differences between this country and the United States,
being exasperated by the spinners and weavers of
Stockport and Manchester, who undersell them. From
this fact he finds an argument in favour of the Corn-
laws—finds matter of great accusation against our
factories—condemns and miscalls the American factories
—talks about all manner of irrelevant matter, and signs
himself " Taurus." Without stopping to remark upon
the singular and heterogeneous mass of positive asser-
tion, I beg leave to state, that having been, like this
" Taurus," in a foreign land, and in America too, that
he (" Taurus") knows as much about what he writes
as the paper he writes upon. The spinners of America
are a small part of ono of the thirteen States—a mere
feather weighed against the universal mercantile interest
of America—a feather against the cotton States—a
feather against the grain growing part of America. So
much for travellers who, after " eleven years of Libe-
ralism," can see no " benefit to their country." Tory
blinds are not easy seen through. He states that the
nullifying question arose out of an attempt of the spin-
ners to put a prohibitory tax on English manufactures.
No such tariff was ever likely to pass an American Se-
nate, and, therefore, could not have been nullified. In I
fact, Mr. Editor, this " Taurus" is an ass ; he has not
sense enough to be thought even a fox.—Your obedien*
servant, JERENIIAII ALLSORTS,

[The other letter sent by this Correspondent 'am not
been preserved.]

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOCK-
MAKING.
To the man of science and the philosopher, the cor-
rect measurement of time has always been an object of
the highest importance, and yet how very few of the
clocks, in ordinary use, are calculated to measure
time correctly.
To get correct time keeping from a clock, it becomes
imperative that, in the latitude of London, the pendu-
lum should not be shorter than 29.126 inches ; and, in
order to get this required, length, and sufficient fall for
the weights, clocks have hitherto been made with
cases varying in height from six to eight feet. Thus
they are often very unsightly and always inconvenient
pieces of furniture, as, from their height, they can sel-
dom be placed where it is most desirable to have them,
and they are thereby exposed to be knocked against by
chairs, &c., the vibrations of the pendulum being dis-
turbed, and the consequence an error in time. These
considerations have induced many to buy French clocks,
from their being more convenient and ornamental,
though so frequently useless as instruments for the mea-
surement of time. The English table and bracket
clocks, though less expensive to keep in repair than the
French, are liable to sim;lar objections, owing to the
shortness and lightness of their pendulums.
We have lately seen a clock, constructed by an in-
genious and scientific artist, Mr. Craigmyle, of 90,
Park-street, Grosvenor-square, chronometer and watch-
maker, in which all the former objections seem to be
obviated, and at the same time the clock has the merit
of being ornamental. Its longth is 46 inches, its
depth from back to front 6 inches, it is of proportionate
width, and having a pendulum to beat royal seconds,
and going eight days with only once winding up. It
can be fixed against a wall (on which it would occupy
but a small space) nt any convenient height, out of the
way of all other furniture. The case may be made to
correspond in pattern with the furniture in the apart-
ment, for which one of these clocks may be ordered.
It comprises also in its general arrangement two ther-
mometers and a barometer (constructed on the most
approved principles), adjuncts of considerable import-
ance to the scientific observer.

These clocks are cheaper, equally ornamental, and
certainly more useful, than those of late years imported
into this country; and we have no doubt but Mr.
Craigmylo's ingenious improvement will meet with that
patronage which may be expected from a discerning
public, in an intelligent and scientific age.
DDIT-

A_ _I _IONAL EQUITY JUDGES.
Mr. Knight Bruce and Mr. Wigram, .the two new
Equity Judges, or Vice-Chancellors, appointed agree
ably to the Act of last Session, commence their functions
next term, which puts a period to the Exchequer Equity
Court ; but the Act contained clauses prescribing the
course to be pursued regarding Exchequer Equity suits
undisposed of. The Lord Chancellor is empowered to
appoint one of these new Vice-Chancellors to preside for
him in the Court of Chancery whenever he may require
such relief ; thus the Lord Chancellor will have increased
opportunities
of
i,ords
to. attend to the appellate jurisdiction of the
house

We understand the building hi Lincoln's-inn Old-
square, described in The Sun of Monday for the new
Equity Courts, is intended only to be temporary, until a
permanent building of a more architectural character can
be erected. The expedition with which the present
building has been carried up is extraordinary, six weeks
only being allowed from the time of its commencement
to its completion.
The Law Courts of Westminster Hall have long been
the subject of complaints from Judges and Counsel, and
all those who have occasion to attend them, of the very
defective system of ventilating them, and of securing
pure air. Nor was the impurity of the. atmospin;re, as
far as resulted from crowds being congregated tof;:ether,
the only annoyance ; it was often increased by smells
that seemed to proceed from sewers, yet none were
known to be near ; but as the Courts were new, hav-
ing been built (by Sir John Scene) only a few years ago,
blame was thrown on their construction, and there the
affair generally rested. Latterly, the evil has been more
and
or
rather, moreannoyances
g by o
bsaciiienntiticailllynvestigated, the
m, investigated,
diminished
snuisanceserioii seriously, l
•as time advanced. 1)r. Reid, who accomplished the her-
culean task of purifying the House of Commons, of mak-
ing that atmosphere healthy which the present Earl of
Dundonald said, "would poison the devil," has now un-
dertaken the reform, in this particular, of all these Law
Courts. There have long been men at work under the
various courts, altering the walls and vaults, stopping or
diverting drains that had offensively intruded, affixing
iron pipes to be heated with water, and building an engine
fur the purpose of securing the regular ventilation of each
Court, and the correction of impure atmosphere, or the
supplying of cool or warm air as may be required by the
state of the weather. With the approaching term, which
commences in November, will be begun the extensive
system of ventilating and purifying the Law Courts thus
in progress ; and to complete works that are on such an
extraordinary scale, the bricklayers, masons,
carpenters,
engineers, &c., are required to labour day and night, and
they hay° beau so at work for several weeks past.

• I ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PU-
NISHMENTS IN AMERICA.
It is highly gratifying to find on evory hand the pro-
gress of those benign principles which recognise the
sacredness of human life. It is true, there are in all
countries some who, from an attachment to old cus-
toms, and a timidity at approaching any point of
"moral geography " which to them appears newly dis-
covered, still advocate the use of the gibbet and the
axe, forgetful that whatever a man sows that also shall
he reap—that as, throughout all nature, like produces
like, so whatever is brutal can only beget brutality—that
evil, in fact, can never be the immediate source of good.
Such reasoners we refer at once to those statistics
already widely diffused on the subject for the best con-
futation of their views ; because facts rather than the-
ory, we imagine, will to them be by far the most salu-
tary. 'Sufficient we aro sure has been published from
time to time to prove that just in the ratio in which
those laws, which control the morals of the people, have
been kept free from any sanguinary stain, the people
have kept themselves free in return from the commis-
sion of dark and sanguinary crimes.
Under these circumstances, it must afford great plea-
sure to those enlightened people who have taken their
stand upon these facts, and argued eloquently for the
inviolability of human life, to see that the Legislature
of New York has countenanced a very advanced step
in their favour. The following extract of a letter from
a highly respectable member of the Society of Friends
to a gentleman in Sheffield, who for the last half-century
had been active in the cause, explains precisely the
state of the case :
" Esteemed Friend—l have the satisfaction to state
that a Select Committee of the House of Assembly of
New York, in the recent Session, reported in favour of
the abolition of capital punishment in the only three
remaining cases—treason, murder, and arson of the first
degree. What is more, the Bill which was thereupon
introduced, vary nearly triumphed, being lost by only
five votes, and in its final stage. The same Bill is to be
introduced in the coming Session. lam respectfully
and sincerely thine,
" P.S. The Report' (p. 151) mentions that, at a
trial for murder, ' Ten jurymen were excused on the
ground of conscientious objections to finding a verdict
of guilty in any capital case.'"
When it is remembered with what opposition these
principles were met on their first promulgation, the
above will be considered very important and cheering
news, and cannot fail to have great influence in all parts
of the civilized world.—Sheffield Iris.

ENCROACHMENT OF THE SEA

The following letter, from the Secretary of the South
Eastern :Railway Company, on the subject of the late
encroachment of the sea at Dover, has been addressed to
the editor of the Times:—

Sir—My attention has been called to an article which
appeared in your journal of Thursday last, under the
above title.

While I admit that a quantity of chalk, forming what
is technically termed a spoil bank, being the excavation
from the east faca of the Shakspeare-tunnel, has been
washed away by the exceedingly high tides which oc-
curred during the last springs, I beg most distinctly to
deny that the platform referred to in the above article
forms any part of the line of railway, and further that
any injury has been done to the works in connexion
therewith.

It is rather ambigiously hinted that the damage has
bean aggravated by the subtraction of beach or shingle,
which it is alleged the Company are using in the forma-
tion of the sea-wall. This is a matter of opinion, which,
as an unprofessional man, I am not competent to argue ;
I can, therefore, only meet it with facts.
The prevalence of south-west winds this year has
been much greater than usual. This is the only
quarter which brings beach :to the mouth of the har-
bour. Tne bar has been more frequently a perfect bar
vier to the free use of the harbour, and therefore the
sluices have been " run" to a greater extent this year
than in any year since their completion. It so happened
that on Saturday night the Ostend and Calais mail-
packets were unable to enter the harbour, and yester-
day morning the English mail-packet for Calais was un-
able, within an hour after high-water, to get out of the
harbour, in consequence of the bar, and yet it is alleged
that no beach, in comparison with other years, has come
eastward of the great fall of Round Down Cliff.
I have to apologise for intruding to this extent on your
columns, and also for the tardiness of my notice ; but I
felt that nothing short of personal examination and in-
quiry could be put in competition with a statement pub-
lished in so influential a journal as The Times.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. S. YEATS, Secretary.
South Rzstern Railway Office, 10, Cole-
man-street. Oct. 25, 1841.

FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDEN 'r.
CHARGE OF FURIOUS DRIVING.-011
eAltio!idsv:
j,fte: .
an inquest was held before Messrs. afternoon
0
Coroners for Westminster, at Charir ' and Higgs, the
the body of John Snesby, a,, - ..g-cross Hospital, on
service of Sir henry 21, ,s,(l 36, a drayman, in the
-
killed by a Brentfp• . -ax and Co., brewers, who was
now in custody- 'al omnibus, the driver of which is

r. 0 •
. tentage, house-surgeon of the hospital,l said
tll° f, on the 13th inst., deceased was admitted, in an
insensible state, but no marks of violence, except a slight
scratch on the back was visible. He soon recovered
his senses, but he gradually sunk under the internal
injury he had received, and died on Thursday last.
A Post mortem examination was made, the result of which
proved that death was caused by rupture of the spleen
and kidneys. The wheelof an omnibus would be likely
to cause such injuries. John Read, a drayman, said
that on the afternoon of the 13th inst., he was in a dray
belonging to the brewery of Meux and Co., passing out
of Rupert-street, and going towards Coventry- street.
Deceased was leading the first horse round the corner
of Rupert-street, and, at the same time, endeavoured
to make way for two omnibuses, which were racing
to pass in the same direction. The first omnibus, driven
by William Rhodes, and the property of Mr. Powell,
knocked the deceased down by striking him with the
splinter-bar, and the two off wheels passed over his
body. Witness saw the omnibus with which deceased
was struck driven from its proper side of the street
to the side opposite, to prevent the second omnibus
passing and as the horses of the first were galloping,
the driver could not stop them before deceased
was knocked down and run over. If the driver
had kept upon the proper side the accident would not
have happened. A Juror remarked that the wooden
pavement was used at the spot where the ac-
cident occurred, and being wet at the time it
was difficult to pull up suddenly. Police con-
stable 76 C, said that the horses were trotting fast, but
not galloping. Ile thought it furious driving, and that
the driver could not readily pull up. The two omnibuses
were racing. Wm. Mills, driver of one of Clark's Pim-
lico omnibuses, said that Rhodes was driving at the rate
of only six miles an hour ; that his omnibus was not
driven across the road, and that it was the trace of his
own dray which knocked deceased down. Mr. T. Win-
ter, a passenger in the omnibus driven by Rhodes, gave
evidence to the same effect. The inquest was adjourned
until Wedne:Aiay evening next, that evidence more con-
clusive might be brought forward.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF SEAMEN.
There are hundreds of able seamen pensioned for ser-
vice in the Navy who are still very capable of engaging
in active employment, and perfectly willing to do any-
thing rather than remain idle on shore.- Of these men,
the majority are superior sailors—well trained, by long
practice, to the duties of a man-of-war—and essentially
fitted to hold certain stations on board ship, in which
none but tried, skilled, and careful men are to be trusted.
We are pleased to find, therefore, that the Government
has determined to enter such seamen as part of the ad-
ditional strength required for the Navy ; allowing them
to draw their pension money in addition to the pay
which they will become entitled to by their re-engage-
ment • for the men, having already performed that sti-
pulated task, are entitled to the consideration—the pen-
sion ; and by their being permitted to re-enter, the
Navy will receive from amongst them some very valuable
volunteers.

The statement issued from the Admiralty Office,
Sheerness, relating to the advantages offered to those
who enter the Navy, which we published yesterday, is
calculated to produce all that can be .expected from it:
none of the advantages will be overlooked. The Navy
regulation as to allotments of pay, those respecting
provisions, prize money, and the Greenwich school, will
all be regarded favourably. We trust, however, that the
Government—when they have succeeded in obtaining all
the hands at present required—will not dismiss the
subject; nor imagine that they have accomplished all
that can be attained, or that it is necessary to strive to
achieve, for the country and the Marine. Circum-
stances may one day demand the outfit of a much
larger naval force than we have occasion now to
assemble. It would be patrotic to provide for such
an event, by organizing the Marine. To do this,
we should begin with some measure which would
regulate the officers of the merchant navy, and give them
a recognized standing—a step which, as we have re-
peatedly shown, would be conducive of order and im-
provement in our whole maritime community. Again—
we should take care that the most equitable and fullest
distribution be made of all the funds which are col-
lected by ship dues and by abstractions from sailors'
wages. The seamen should be permitted to protect
themselves against pecuniary loss by shipwreck ; and,
lastly, the enactment should be made to govern the order
of every seaman's service in the navy, and to fix a fair
and equal time for its duration ; such an enactment is
the more pressing, because the old means of manning
the Royal navy—by force and violence—should never
again be contemplated ; nor should the nation be placed
in such a predicament as would compel • an attempt to
have recourse to it.—Shipping Gazette.

It appears from a curious article in the last
Quarterly Review, that, but for the Act of Succession,
the Crown of these realms must have been worn at
present by the Hereditary Prince of Modena—and that,
failing that Prince and his immediate branch, the right
would have passed next to Louis Philippe, King of the
French. The same article shows, that, supposing the
descendants of the Electress of Hanover to be extin-
guished—who,
however, as the Reviewer says,
are "fere
innwmerabiles "—and the other descendants oCharles I.
and James I. to remain excluded by reason of their
Romanism—the heirship general of the houses of Plan-
tagenet and Tudor would vest in the Duke of Bucking-
ham and Chandos ; and that ; of the house of Stuart is
the Duke of Hamilton ; the former being descended from
the second daughter of King Henry VlL—the latter
from a daughter of King James M. of Scotland. The
male blood of all the thole old Royal families is extinct.

THE OLD LADIES OF FRANCE.
When one compares these times with other times,
the society in which we live with the societies which are
no more, and the civilization of our days with that of
preceding periods, one perceives that it has lost an ele-
ment, a link, and that something is wanting to it.
That something is old women.
It is not because the fountain of Jouvence has been
discovered, or that women defend better their faces or
figures from the assaults of time. No : Nature has
abrogated her laws. But, though women still decay,
they no longer grow old.
Formerly, to grow old was an art ; now-a-days it is
but a misfortune. When there existed a society, con-
versation, literature, bon mots, and drawing-rooms, all
took their respective places, and played their respective
parts. And that of old women was the most amiable.
When a woman, according to the qualities more or
less durable of her beauty, had passed her years of gal-
lantry, she resolutely submitted to her doom, retained
but the recherchcs necessary to render old age endur-
able without concealing it, proclaimed herself an old
woman, and fulfilled a mission important and tutelary
to all ages. She presided at renowned circles ; distris
bated to men and women the reputation of beauty and
wit ; promoted the debut in or exit from the world of
old and young ; made up marriages ; brought certain
faces and certain books into fashion ; often connected
frivolous with momentous interests ; kept a school of
manners ; maintained good language and politeness by
the authority of tradition, and went to bed late.
Old women exercised great influence. Youth res-
pected those beings of a neutral sex, who retained only
of their first years gracefulness and the habit of pleasing,
by deriving from the lessons of age a taste for serving
and instructing others.
What is there more amiable, more touching than a
fine old woman ? Unless one be a bastard or a monster,
who is it that does not think of his mother, whom he
loves or has lost, on beholding or listening to a woman
whose heart is freed from storms, whose features have
been withered by the pangs or cares of maternity, whose
words are grave and gentle, whose conversation is both
light and instructive, and observations shrewd and just ?
Of those old women we have no more ; we have only
beings of female human kind who expire without entou-
rages, without attentions, with recollections unprofitable
to all the rest.
After ten or twelve years of eclat and agitation, a wo-
man of our days commences a life of concentrated rage
and slander against mankind. She envies those who
make their. debut, and borrows their fashions ; hc;:mg
no more for grander passions, she runs after huns!,;iasing
caprices ; at the masquerade she frisks, her rselist being
strangled and made young again with svtalebone, and
commences a mental seduction which bra' face is to des-
troy. In the drawing-room she atttcks all bright re-
putations, discusses the beauties of tloe day, disputes the
teeth and hair of all, proclaims 'people of merit fools,
surprises and denounces looks, alarms husbands, des-
stroys, ruins, and tears everything about her, and seems
to say,' Here I am." She cannot make up her mind
to growing old. After such desperate efforts to live by
falsehood, rouge and white, false hair and false teeth,
and ill nature, the mature woman soon reaches, not a
happy and cheerful old age, but mournful decripitude,
dejectedness, oblivion, and avarice ; and what do we be-
hold ?

Young men are less polite, less attentive to manners
and propriety, and almost forgetful of family duties.
Young women make their appearance pretty and sougLt
for ; fashion carries them high ; around them a pelt noise
of compliments, gallantry, waltzes, and mazourkas is
made ; their heads turn when their wings grow ; they
fly about at random, and without a guide, like young
sparrows without mothers ; and then, on some fine day,
the breeze of scandal knocks them down. Intellectual
people are excluded from the world, because there is no
more conversation, and no exchange of esprit possible,
amidst that stupifying clatter of splendid waltzers and
little coquettes, amidst those women who will vanish the
moment they can no longer frisk about at M. Thorn's ;
who after the pleasure of dancing, know not that of
chatting, and have a day pour recevoir, so far only as
they can accept ball invitations.
And why do young men desert society, and neglect
duty and traditions?

Because there are no more old women to guide them,
to honour or excuse them in their amusements and plea-
sures ; and because of young women and young men,
they prefer those who sup, shout, and do not call them
ange da ma vie.

co mpromisedhy are
?yor:ag women so easily and so prompt)./
:
Be",:use they are not propped by the authority, cor-
r''.:Led by the experience, and defended by the devoted-
ness of old women.

Why is esprit no longer but a trade, and not a relaxa-
tion ? %Thy have we no longer any soirees but those where
a Tolbecque or a Rubini figure—aml no more of those
long hours filled up with conversv"tion and intellectual
fianeric ?

Because there are no more old women who have a
salon, a circle, influence, and a taste for esprit. Be-
cause there is not a woman who would, now-a-days, dare
utter about her youth, what Madame du Deffant so
charmingly said, " Autrefois, quand retais femme."—
Nouvelles a la Main.

INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM,—Ou Monday the
half-yearly election of children into this asylum took
place at the London Tavern, and was very numerously at-
tended by the subscribers and friends of the infant can-
didates. The chair was taken by Charles Brown, Esq.
The list contained the names of seventy-five candidates,
out of which twenty-five were to be elected. From the
Report it appeared that there ate at present 159 infants
in the establishment at Dalston, and that two had been
admitted by payment since the last election, making a
total, with the day's election, of 186 children. A large
increase of subscribers had taken place since the first
stone of the new asylum at Woodford was laid by his
Royal highness Prince Albert. The funded capital of
the Asylum amounts to:nearly 9,0001. The prosperous
state of the funds was greatly attributed to the energy
of a committee of ladies. Between three and four
o'clock the names of the successful candidates were an-
nounced, when the business terminated.
More rain fell on Sunday last in the counties of
Somerset and Dorset than on any day of the previous
two months. The storm continued eighteen hours ; this
caused the lands near Langport to be under water, so
that for many miles the country had the appearance
of a vast lake ; in some of the fields the hedges and
gates are completely covered with the flood.—Plymouth
Journal.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SuICIDE.--On
Sunday evening last Gainsborough was the scene of a very
serious domestic tragedy. A girl of the name of Louisa
Middleton, servant to Mr. Thornhill, butcher, had been
for some time very intimate with the deceased, Thomas
Wilson, and they were shortly to be married; but on Sun-
day morning last, after leaving chapel together, they had a
slight quarrel, and the girl told Wilson to go about his busi-
ness, she would have no more to do with him, and on the
evening of that day she left her old lover, and took a walk
with a mason who has lately come to Gainsborough to
work. While on their walk they were met by her lover
Wilson, who just as they were passing him, struck her
on the breast violently, and made off directly. Wilson
had struck her with some sharp instrument, which en-
tered her breast and caused a considerable loss of
blood, but unattended with danger. The girl took no
further steps in the business that evening ; but the
family of Wilson became alarmed at his Ron-appearance,
and on Monday morning his body was discovered suspend-
ed from a tree in a garden near the house where the girl
resided. No doubt he had intended to murder the girl ;
and, under the idea that he had inflicted a mortal in-
jury upon her, committed suicide. An inquest was
held on the body on Tuesday, when it was found that
Wilson had stabbed himself with his own pocket-knife,
which he had then put in his pocket, where it was found
with the blade covered with blood. From some other
singular circumstances attending the affair, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."—Doncaster
Chronick

POST MORTEM EXAMINATIONS AT CHA-
RING-CROSS HOSPlTAL—Previous to the commencement
of taking the evidence at an inquest held on Monday at the
Charing-cross Hospital, and immediately after the Jury
had returned from viewing the body, one of them, ad-
dressing said,
baide he wished to know by whose
hbeen opened previous to the au t
o authority
ty the
the Coroner,body h a
in-
quest. Lle put the question, as he had been on several
inquests there, and on all occasions he found that the
body had been opened without asking the relatives' con-
sent, or on any authority from the Coroner. His bro-
ther jurors, as well as himself, had often animadverted
in strong terms on such a practice. Dr. Golding, who
was present, said he was very glad the juror had asked
the question in his presence, for he had often heard that
gentlemen who were in the habit of sitting as jurymen at
that Hospital were averse to bodies being opened before
they viewed them. He could assure the gentlemen pre-
sent, that it was not to satisfy idle curiosity, but merely
to give the most extensive information as to the cause
of death, and thereby save a great deal of their (the
jurymen's) time, by not having to adjourn for a post
mortem examination. He was willing to abide by any
suggestion of the Coroner. The Coroner said, that on
all future occasions, it would be as well to get the consent
of the relations of the deceased persen before a post mot,
tern examination was made. Dr. Golding said he would
see it attended to, and the conversation dropped.
OUR POPULATION.—The circumstances of
Great Britain are very peculiar. Its agricultural
hilst its
popu-
lation is actually declining in numbers in spite of all the
attempts of the Legislature to encourage it,
rapidly, manufacturing population is increasing
th whole,
of dear food and every discouragement. On
rafidly,
the population of this country is increasing 0
two
for not only is there an addition of upwardsastwn
years,
millions to our own population during the I in spite
period at least half a
but also we have sent forth in that peen
in
the prime of
million emigrants, principally perhsoen
United States, life, to increase the population ofltustraa.
h If our wise
Bri-
tish America, South Africa, anddthe food of other Legislature would have :aloe.:
large portion of these coun-
tries to be freely imported,
remained and married in
in-
voluntary exiles would haveartificial scarcity produced by
the landed aristocracy
Great Britain ; but theh
has driven them out of the coun-
try to recruit the numbers of American citizens, or to
subdue the wildernesses ,
of Canada, South Africa, and
Australia. had i tnot been for this insane and suicidal
policy, the population of Great Britain and Ireland
would probably have
been considerably more than thirty
millions .
at the present time, and its condition infinitely
more prosperous.--Liverpool Times.