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1114_E SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, PEBRITARI. 8, 1840.

SHIPS' STORES.

The following new forms of bond used in pursuance of
the minutes of the Customs' Board, dated July and No•
vember last, in regard to ships' stores removed coastwise
or left on board vessels, have been approved for the pur-
pose, and will be in force from this time forth:—" 1.
Know all men by these presents, that we (names) are
held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Victoria,
by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland Queen. Defender of the Faith, in the
sum of -- pounds of good and lawful money of
Great Britain, to be paid unto our said Lady the Queen,
her heirs and successors, to which payment, well and
ruly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us by
himself, for and in the whole our heirs, executors, and
administrators, and every of them, firmly by these
presents sealed with our seals, dated this
day of , in the year of the reign
of her said Majesty, and in the year of our
Lord 184 . Whereas, the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Customs' have by their order, dated the 25th November,
1845, directed that surplus stores left on board any im-
porting ship or vessel about to proceed coastwise only,
be placed under seal of office ; and, in addition thereto,
that in all cases where the quantity of high duty goody
left on _board such ship 'or vessel may to the proper
officers appear to be excessive, a special bond for the
same be requited ; and whereas, the ship (name) hath on
board the following excessive surplus stores, viz.,—(the
quantity and description of the goods are to be inserted),
—now, the condition of this obligation is such, that it
the said goods and every part thereof shall be de-
livered without alteration or diminution into the
custody or possession of the proper officers of the
Customs at the port of (name), and if the duty
or any deficiency of such stores shall be paid
within the space of (number) days next following from
the date hereof, to the collector and controller of such
port, then this obligation to be void, or else to be and
remain in full force and virtue. Sealed and delivered
(being first legally stamped)," &c. This is the bond
for surplus stores coastwise.. The following is the form
of bond for the removal of illegal packages, &c., as
skips' stores only.—" Know all men by these presents
that we," &c. (as cited in the preceding form)—" Where-
as the above bounden (name of the person) is the pro-
prietor of the following goods, wares, and merchan-
dise, viz. (here the quantity and description of the dif-
ferent articles are to be inserted), and which said goods,
wares, and merchandise are now lodged and deposited in a
warehouse or warehouses at (name of place) in the port of'
(name), under the regulation of an Act passed in the Bth
and 9th years of the reign of Queen Victoria, entitled
' An Act for the Warehousing of Goods ;' and whereas
the said (person's name) intends to remove and convey
the said goods, wares, and merchandise from the said
port of (name) to the port of (name), to be there
re-warehoused, subject to the rules, regulations,
and restrictions in that behalf by law provided,—
now the condition of this obligation is such, that
if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and every
part thereof, shall be duly delivered, without alteration
or diminution, into the custody and possession. of
the proper officer of customs at the said last-mentioned
port, and if the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and
every part thereof, shall be duly warehoused at the port
of (named) within the space of (mentioning the time)
next following the date thereof ; and if the same be
duly delivered for use as ships' stores within two year's,
then this obligation to be void, or else to be and remain
in full force, effect, and vigour. Sealed and delivered
(being first duly stamped) in the presence of," &c.
The first order in July, on the subject alluded to, sets forth
that adiversity in practice having prevailed with respect
to the regulations under which packages of goods which
were intended for shipment as stores should be removed
from one port to another, that iu future all legal sized
packages of warehoused goods forwarded from one
warehousing port to another, whether for the purpose of
being used as stores or otherwise, should be for-
warded under the warehousing regulations ; and
that all packages, of less than the legal size, and
all packages removed as stores from a warehousing port
to a port not a warehousing port, should be removed
under a special bond ; and the second, in Novena-
bee, that the authorities had adverted to the cases
in which surplus stores are left on board vessels which
have arrived from foreign voyages at a port of the
united kingdom, and are about to proceed with or
without cargo coastwise preparatory to making another
foreign voyage, and being of opinion that some further
regulations were necessary in order to assimilate the
practice and to provide for the due account, and delivery
of such stores, and directed that in future surplus stores
left on board any importing vessel about to proceed coast-
wise only be placed under seal of office, and a particular
account thereof transmitted by letter of advice from the
proper officers to the collector and controller of the

revenue at the port of destination ; and in addition

thereto, that in -all cases where the quantity of high
duty goods left on board such vessels should apfear to
the proper officers to be excessive, that a special bond
for the same should be required. These two new
forms of bond have been instituted to carry these orders
into effect, and are of considerable importance to the
shipping and mercantile interest and all other persons
concerned.

THE LATE CASE of INFANTICIDE.
ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST.
This extraordinary inquest was Yesterday resumed at the
kforden Arms, Brand-street, Greenwich, before Mr. Carttar.
Mr. Wood, of Bridge-street, Southwark, deposed that
the morning of the 16th of September a person named Rey-
nolds called on him, stating that a-lady had taken lodgings
at henhouse who had come there to be confined. Witness
called, and there saw Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Richardson, and
the young woman. Finding the labour not likely to come
on, although progressing favourably, lie left. About three
o'clock on the following morning (the nth), witness was
sent for, when he immediately attended, and in about half
an hour afterwards delivered her of a male child. Appeared
a healthy child, and of full growth. Mrs. Reynolds and the
young woman's mother were present at the birth; remained
about half an hour after the birth, when he left the child it
the care of Mrs. Reynolds. On the 18th he again saw tin
child, when witness understood the child was to be brought
up by hand. Witness remarked that it would be difficult
so to do, as it was a weakly child, although he had then no
fear of its death. The reason Mrs. Reynolds gave for :the
child being brought up by hand was from "peculiar circum•
stances." Witness continued to attend the child for five i»
six days, during which the child, although weak, was toler
ably well. On the morning of the 25th, Mrs. Reynolds
called upon lane to attend the child ; found it suffering from
inflammation of the mouth, throat, and eyes; could not say
from cursory examination of the mouth whether there were
any blisters. Witness told Mrs. Reynolds the child had got
the thrush, and sent the usual medicine, alterative powders,
comprised of 2 grains mercury, and chalk, 2 grains soda,
grain rhubarb, or 2 grains compound chalk powder; could
not recollect which. On the 26th again called, but as the
child was asleep would not have it disturbed. Mrs. Reynolds
said it had been more composed On the morning of the
27th Mrs. Reynolds called and informed me the child was
dead. In the evening of that day Mrs. Reynolds called for
a certificate of the child's death. Witness remarked that ii
was unpleasant the child had died so soon, when she said
"Not se, if he (witness) knew all." As witness had seen
the child and knew it had been properly attended to, did not
refuse the certificate. Described the cause of death as arising
from mirasmus, which means a general wasting away. It is
by some termed atrophy. The inflamed state of the mouth
and throat did not excite suspicion, having seen children in
that state before,
Dr. Oak Mitchell deposed to sealing up the residue to the
body, and delivering the same to Mr. Huish, assistant to Dr.
Leeson], at St. Thomas's Ho.spital.
Charles Huish, chemical assistant to Dr. ',MOM, deposed
to receiving a jar, sealed up, from the last witness, which he
delivered in the same state to Dr. Leesom.
Henry Beaumont Leesom, physician at St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, and lecturer on chemistry, deposed that oa Saturday
last he received from the last witness a sealed jar, contain-
ing the remains of an infant In the intestines, brains, and
viscera decomposition had taken place, and they had become a
pasty mass. He took the whole of this mass, which he
boiled in distilled water, having previously ascertained that
the water was perfectly pure. After boiling it for some time,
acidulated it with pure muriatic acid, and again boiled it,
conducting the operation in a porcelain vessel, and then fil-
tered it through new calico. Witness then submitted it to
various tests, the principle made use of being Reinche's test,
that being the most delicate test for arsenic. A portion of
the liquid witness then mixed with an equal portion of
muriatic acid, and taking a similar quantity of muriatic acid,
mixed it with an equal quantity of distilled water, as pre
viously made use of. •He then took two pieces of bright cop-
per which had been carefully cleaned in nitro-sulphuric amt.
These two pieces he then boiled, the one in distilled water
and muriatic acid, and the other in the liquid in which the
body had been boiled, the effect of which would be that
if arsenic be present it would give to the copper a dark
colour, similar to iron ; but if no arsenic be present
the copper would remain comparatively clean and
bright. (Dr. Leesom produced the two pieces of cop-
per, according precisely with the appearances stated
above.) This experiment witness repeated several times.
Witness then took a piece of the copper so treated and hav-
ing cut it into slips, placed it in a tube of hard German
glass, heating the tube and copper to a red heat. Under
these circumstances witness expected to sublime the arsenic
from the copper, and found it did so, obtaining on the glass
tube that peculiar dark stain indicating the presence of me-
tallic arsenic. The heat was then continued, and a small cur-
rent of air was allowed to pass through the tube; by so doing
the metallic arsenic was oxydated, and thus converted into
arsenious acid, or the common white arsenic of the shops.
Witness then examined the white arsenical crust through a
microscope, and ascertained that it consisted of small octohe-
dral crystals, peculiarly characteristic of arsenic and confirma-
tory. Witness then took a small portion of distilled water
and boiled it in the tube to dissolve the arsenious acid.
Having thus obtained a solution, he applied the usual liquid
tests ; made use of ammonia nitrate of silver, which gave a
light yellow precipitate characteristic of arsenious acid. To an-
other portion be added ammonia sulphate of copper, which gave
a green precipitate, also characteristic of the presence of arse-
nic, and termed" Scheele's green." Through a third portion
passed a stream of aulphurated hydrogen, which gave a
yellow precipitate, also confirmatory of the presence of arsenic.
Witness then took a third piece of copper, coated as the last,
which he placed in another glass tube, and heated it as be-
fore, and whilst so heated passed over it pure hydrogen gas,
which lie ignited at one end of the tube, inflamed it, holding
over the flame a small vessel of white porcelain, on which
was deposited a black spot, as in making use of Marshe's
test, of which this is a modification. Witness also applied,
his nose to the ei,d of the first tube, and smelt the charac-
teriStic smell of arsenic. Witness also subjected a portion of
the liquid to the action of a galvanic battery, having a pole
of platinum attached to the copper end of the battery, and a
piece of clean copper to the zinc extremity, which obtained a
silvery deposit of arsenic. Witness's impression was that, in
the portion he examined, something like ten grains of
arsenic were present, more than sufficient to cause death.
Witness judged the quantity from the facility with which he
obtained the results. All the remains had been boiled down,
except the legs and arms. It was impossible for the child
to have survived after the quantity of arsenic he had de-
tected.

Mr. Huish recalled—Was present during the experi-
ments made by Dr. Leesom, and entirely agreed with him in
opinion.

Charles Robins, residing at No. 1, Abbey-street, Ber-
mondsey, undertaker, deposed that he had seen the coffin
and identified it as one of his make. In September last, about
the middle of the month, on coming home from a funeral, be
was informed that a person had applied for a coffin for a
still-bore child. _About six o'clock a person came for the
coffin, and as the coffin was to go into the country by rail,
witness had it made extra strong; believed he said it was to
go into Yorkshire. Witness bad not seen Richardson, but
he had seen the daughters, and recognised bun from the
wonderful liket.ess. He was talking to witness for half an
hour in his shop. He paid ss. Gd. for it. He took the coffin
away in a bag, either blue or green, but witness thought it
was a blue one. Witness could not positive as to the pre-
cise day in the month of September, but could by reference
to his books.
Mrs. Reynolds, the landlady of the house at which the
young woman Richardson was confined, and who nursed her,
Thomas Jones, Stephen Furman, and Amelia Richardson,
were then examined, but their evidence was merely a repe-
tition of that given at the police-court last week.
A host of witnesses were subsequently examined, but their
evidence was merely confirmatory, without tending to throw
any additional light on this most mysterious affair.
Mrs. Reynolds was recalled as to any conversations that
she might have heard pass between Richardson and his
daughter Ann, when she stated that she could not give any
evidence on that point, as they invariably conversed in
French.

Julia Richardson, a younger sitter, was then examined.
She deposed that she went up on the Sunday previous to
the death of the infant. Went up with her father and
mother, and was present when the body was brought home
on the following Saturday. All her sisters were then pre-
sent, and saw the coffin.

In answer to a question by the Coroner, the witness said
there were seven sisters, including her sister Ann, the mother
of the child.

Mrs. Richardson deposed that she is wife of William
Richardson, late of the Royal Observatory. Her daughter
Ann Maria was confined in September, 1845. Did not
know that she was in the family way until she was six
months gone. Mr. Sturtun, surgeon, was the first person
who acquainted her with the fact. On being taxed she
acknowledged it, and asked her not to be severe. Witness
promised to do all in her power for her. A fortnight
previous to her confinement, Mr. Richardson en-
gaged apartments in town for her. Witness with her
husband went to London by railway. On Wednesday,
September 17, her daughter was confined. Witness next
day went to Greenwich and informed her husband. On
Friday, the 26th, she received a letter from her daughter,
saving the infant was dying. She went up to town, and
thenurse said that she had been up all night with the
child. At eleven o'clock witness laid down, and at one was
awoke by the child crying. Its mother gave it gruel. Wit-
ness warmed the gruel over a candle. In two hours afterwards
it died. The child was brought up by hand. Her husband
bought a coffin : the child was put into it, and the coffin put
into a green bag. Witness, her husband, and daughter re-
turned to Greenwich by railway. Her husband carried the
coffin on his knee. The coffin was placed in the library, and
remained several days, until the body became offensive, when
her husband got a labourer to dig a hole in the garden, where
it was buried: She could swear positively that the child
was in the house from Saturday to the following Friday,
before it was buried. She has no drug chest; does not think
that her husband kept poison in the house. Some of the
baby's powders where brought home after its death, and
burnt. Her husband was discharged from the Royal Ob-
servatory at the end of October, by direction of the -Lords of
the Admiralty. No reason was assigned ; believed it was in
consequence of his daughter having a child by hirn. He had
been there twenty eight years and was entitled to a pension,
but had made no application. Witness did not know what the
child died of.
The room was then cleared, after the jury had sat upwards
of eleven hours, and after a short consultation the inquiry
was adjourned until Friday, at three o'clock.
The inquiry lasted from twelve at noon until nearly
midnight.

THE FRENCH NAVY.—The following is a statement
of the ten oldest ships of the line in the Frevch navy, and
which are about to be withdrawn from the list on account
of their age—namely, the Ocean, of 120 gun., launched
in 1790 ; Nestor, 82 guns, in 1810 ; Marengo, 82 guns, in
1810; Trident, 82 guns, in 1811. ; Diademe, 86 guns, in
1811 • Montebello, 120 guns, in 1812 ; Ville de Marseille
82 guns, in 1812; Scipion, 82 guns, in 1813;
~j6na, 90
guns,
six, and the
in 1814; Alger, 82 guns, in 1815. Thus it will be seen that
the oldest of these ships lis, been afloat tift.,,...
youngest, thirty-one years. Ihe oldest of the French frigates
is the Minerve, of 85
guns, which was launched in 18.05.
Galignani's 211essenger.
`DEATH OF A BOY IN A COALPIT, AND NARROW
ESCAPE OF THIRTEEN OTHERS.-011'1 Resday last an inquest
was held at the Red Lion Inn, Quarlton, by the deputy-
coroner, on the body of Ralph Scoles, a boy, eight years of
age, who was drowned yesterday week in a coal. pit belonging
to Messrs. Andrew Knowles and Sons. It appeared that the
deceased and thirteen other boys, besides a number of miners,
were working in a pit in Quarlton, when one of the men'
struck into an old mine which has been standing thirty-six
years, when the water rushed upon them, and
they -were
driven forward to the pit shaft. The men assisted in getting
the boys out, and they were all rescued but the deceased
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CuRK :EDEETioN.—A second edition of the Cork
Southern Reporter contains a full report of the proceedings at
the Cork election on Saturday, Mr. lll‘Carth
YMr. Sergeant
, a repealer,
was elected without opposition to succeed
Murphy as one of the reprcoatativ9s in Parliament of the
city of Cork.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held.
Mr. HALE gave notice of a motion for the next Court,
" That it be referred to a committee to consider the
propriety of founding an establishment for boarding,
clothing, and educating children of necessitous freemen
of the city, the management of which shall bo vested in
the Corporation. That it be referred to the said com-
mittee to consider the propriety of appropriating the
whole of the redemption fees in respect of freedoms to-
wards defraying the charges of the establishment, and
also to consider the propriety of applying to Parliament
for leave to appropriate the capital and income of the
Corporation School to the same purpose, the Corporation
undertaking to provide the deficiency out of its own
funds."

INTERRUPTION TO PUBLIC BUSINESS, BY THE BREAKING
UP OF THE COURT.
Alderman WILSON said it was the constant practice
of the Court to pass as strong condemnation as possible
upon the members of the Court of Aldermen, if it hap-
pened that the business was. interrupted by the absence
of the necessary number of aldermen to make a Court ;
but he observed that when the fault lay with the com-
mon councilmen, they were so much influenced by a
delicate. feeling towards each other, that the matter
passed without observation.—(A laugh.) Now, he did
not consider such conduct as very ingenuous. On the
last day of the meeting of that Court the Court broke
up. although there were four or five aldermen present,
and the delicacy to which he alluded protected the trem.--
rs, who were so tender of each others feelings, from
the slightest reproach.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. R. L. JONES said there was a great difference be-
tween the absence of aldermen and the absence of com-
mon Councilmen from the Court. It was well known
that, as in the House of Commons, business was trans-
acted when there were but four or five members present,
so, in the Court of Common Council, the affairs of the
Corporation could go on when there were present many
members less than were necessary to constitute a Court;
but unless two aldermen we represent, there could not be
any Court at all.—(Hear, hear.)
Some member declared that it was, at all events, very
agreeable to them to be spared the annoyance of being
locked in the Court, in order to facilitate the business.
Mr. A SHUBST said the conduct of which Alderman
Wilson adverted, showed at any rate that the common
councilmen were much more tender of themselves than
of the alderman.

It has been observed by the frequenters of the Court,
that the hand of the clock pointing to the usual dinner
hour is a signal equally regarded by the members of
both Courts.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

MONDAY , FEB. 2. .
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) BILL.
Motion made, and Question put, " That the words And be i
enacted, that whenever any such public work shall have been con-
structed,' stand part of the Bill." The House divided :

MAJORITY-AYES, 97.

MINORITY-NOES, 3.
Connolly, Colonel ' O'Brien, A. S. O'Connor, Don
TELLERs.—Ferguson, Sir R. French, F.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, FED. 2.
The following Petitions for Railway Bills were referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills :
Mahon and Driflield Junction Railway.
St. Helen's Canal and Railway.
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway.
Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway.
Leeds and York Railway.
Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth Railway.
North-Western hallway.
Leicester and Tamworth Junction Railway.
Coventry, Nuneaton, linining,hain, and Leicester Railway.
Glasgow Harbour Mineral Railway.
Cork, Hlackrock, and Passage Railway.
London and Oxford Railway.
Clitlieroe Junction Railway.
Mtn:Maim and Preston, Lane-end, T.aneashire Amalgamation.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway.
British and Irish Union Railway.
East Lothian Central Tyne Vadey Railway.
Great North of Scotland Railway.
Swansea Vale Railway,
Alford Valley Railway.
Deestde Railway.
Great North of Scotland Eastern Extension Railway.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
SATURDAY, JAN. 31.
Ayrshire and Gallaway Ilailway—Committee on Petition, post-
poned from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Irish Great Western Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed
from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rosstrever Railway—Committee on,
Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
• Belfast and County DOWII Railway—Committee on Petition, post-
poned from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Ballymena and Ballymoney Railway—Committee on Petition,
postponed from Tuesday 3 till Tuesday, Feb. 10.
Slamannan and Borrowstoness Railway--Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 9.
Wishaw and Coltnese(Greenhill Branch) Railway—Committee on
Petition, Monday, Feb. 9.
Wilsontown. Morningside, and Coltness (Knowton Branch) Rail-
way—Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9.
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Improvement and
Branches) Railway—Committee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9.
Slamannan (Bathgate and Jawcraig Branches) Railway--Com-
mittee on Petition, Monday, Feb. 9.
Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Railway—Committee on Ftti-
tion, Monday, Feb. 9.