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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE • 20, 1846.

The last of the amendments was last night nega-
tived in the House of Lords without a division, and
we have this day the pleasing task ofcommunicating
to the public the gratifying intelligence that the
Corn Importation Bill has gone through the Com-
mittee unscathed and unaltered, and that it has been
reported without amendments. On Tuesday night it
will be read a third time, and from thenceforward anew
era of prosperity throughout the country, revived
and increased demand for manufactures, commercial
activity, and universal employment, will attest the
blessings attendant on trade free and unfettered by
drawback or restriction. The Duke of RICHMOND
brought forward the last and the most untenable of the
amendments by which the great measure was at-
tacked in the House of Lords, but his Grace, although
the amendment, prudently
use, as he himself said, he
tge there would be in being
thirty-three or thirty-four,
Lordships ; and as he did
. carrying this clause, he was
discredit their Lordships in the

eyes of the country. We must do his Grace the justice
of acknowledging the candour of this admission,
and the prudence of the course adopted: the opinions
of the large majority of their Lordships had been too
clearly expressed, too unequivocally displayed 'to
allow any doubt to exist as to what would be the
result of a division, particularly on a point on which
the Protectionists themselves were not united. On
either of the other propositions there was at least the
probability of obtaining the support of some of the
Noble-Lords who had voted for the second reading
and were friendly to the general principle of the
measure; yet on both points a clear majority of 33,
being an addition of 21 to the majority actually pre-
sent when the second reading was carried, affirmed
the Ministerial policy. The proposition of the Duke
of BUCKINGHAM was for the continuance of the
shadow of protection, conceded far a short period,
in order to enable the parties interested to make their
preparations for the new state of circumstances which
would arise on the abolition of all restrictive duties.
Small as was the measure of protection which would
be thereby retained, it was objectionable as partaking
of the obnoxious principle, and it was without hesi-
tation negatived by the free-traders. The
Earl of WICKLOW'S suggestion was a more practical
one, and might possibly hare been supported by
many, hostile to all commercial restriction. It was
founded on the necessity of raising a tax for the pur-
poses of revenue, and not of protection, and this,
coupled with the moderate amount of the proposed
duty, actually induced a Nobleman, who stated that
he had ever been opposed to the corn-laws, and had
voted in favour of the. Bill, to *give his support
to the amendment; the real object, however, was seen
through, that the plan objected to by almost every
one who spoke on the Protectionist side of the House
was only brought forward with the intention of
securing such votes, and destroying the measure to
which the success of any amendment in the House of
Peers would be fatal, it being a money Bill, which their
Lordships cannot alter, and can only affirm or reject in
the same state that it came up from the Commons. This
therefore also was rejected by a like majority of 33.
It is impossible to estimate sufficiently the confusion,
the litigation which must inevitably have taken
place if the Duke of RICHMOND had succeeded
in his object. He would have opened a fer-
tile source of dissension and such expensive legal
proceedings, that the Noble Duke might well
feel hampered, as another FRANKENSTEIN, at
the monster he had called into existence.
There would be one class, and one only, be-
nefited by such litigation. _ The lawyers would
indeed reap a rich and abundant harvest, and
would swallow up the full value of the improvements,
and perhaps something more. A shell would be the
result to each of the litigants, the landlord and the
tenant—the oyster would be the lawyer's fee on the
occasion. The only ground on which his
Grace's motion could possibly be supported, even
by the Protectionists would be that its success would
be destructive of the measure. His Grace, however,
saw the feeling of the House, and was contented to
use it as a means of giving him one speech more in
opposition to the Government. The free-traders, now
secure in the adoption of the measure, scarcely trouble
themselves to reply to the reiterated and fifty times
repeated arguments, but content themselves with
giving silent votes. But a few days, and the stately
vessel, whose course hitherto has been propitious,
attended with fair and favouring gales, will have
reached its harbour, and the people will be in the
enjoyment of the highly-prized blessings with which
it was freighted.

Whatever may be conceded to the excitement inci-
dent to important Parliamentary discussions, there
are limits of vituperation and personality beyond
which—and we pronounce this under the correction
of that illustrious man, Mr. Fox—it is unwise, un-
courteous, unjust, and most thoroughly invidious to
proceed. That limit has been exceeded during the
present session ; and let us inquire for an instant in
what manner. Exasperated by the overthrow of a
thousand cherished anticipations, the Protectionists
have, through the instrumentality of their most
prominent leaders, retarded a measure bearing
upon the legislation of the sister-island, and
diverged from the great public interests sub-
mitted to their decision, to charge with a
grievous political delinquency the Minister under
whose auspices their recent discomfiture has been
effected ! That alone would render the disinte-
restedness of their behaviour suspicious. But this
consideration, . which bears about it such a
dubious impartiality, is as nothing in eliciting
our surmises in comparison with the corol-
lary of the fact. When it is observed that
the delinquency to which we are making allusion
transpired, not yesterday, but nineteen years ago;
that it was endeavoured to be substantiated by two
very fallible newspaper reports of a speech delivered
at that remote period ; and that, until this most
critical juncture of parties, the circumstances on which
those charges were concentrated were never
hinted at, even by inuendo or by the
veriest insinuation of a significant adjective, but
that this identical Minister had been incessantly
treated and designated as the "Right Honourable
Friend" of those who were now holding his character

up to public opprobrium as the assassinator of CAN-

NlNE—what was hitherto matter of suspicion,
immediately stood forth a matter of the most
absolute certainty. The whole imputation
was a mere chimera of indignation, raked out of tar-
nished papers, and sustained by jaundiced memories.
It was a phantom evoked by the agriculturists, and
by the parade of which they had fondly imagined so
to render the past conduct of the Premier detestable
in the eyes of the people, as to foil the glory of his
present proceedings, as to filch from him that large
proportion of popularity which he has latterly acquired.
Every one felt morally assured of this on a scrutiny of
the naked facts ; and hence the explanation given,
overnight, by Sir ROBERT PEEL, was altogether
• supererogatory ; it was altogether a gratuitous con-
tradiction of the charges levelled at his reputation.
The voice of the Commons accorded him by acclamation
the praise of a decisive vindication. Lord J. lies-
SELL pronounced the assertions of the Noble Member
for Lynn as utterly unsustained by data, while he
maintained, that, by his statement of that evening, Sir
ROBERT had " triumphantly cleared his character
from these imputed slurs." Mr. GOULBURN
corroborated the solemn asseverations of the First
Lord of the Treasury, and, by so doing, gave, if
such were possible, a new authenticity to the de-
clarations of his colleague; while Mr. VILLIERS,
in commenting upon the discussion, declared it to be
his opinion, that " those attacks, instead of damaging
the Right Hon. Baronet, would but exalt him in the
estimation of the public." It were literally more than
superfluous to analyse the nature of the delinquency
which was imputed to the Premier, and which has
already been, in his own emphatic language, " per.
TTmently shattered," especially when the perusal of
cwhoauyladete,
Sir 11nt.r
explicitly PEEL'Seiue.t address to the House will so
personal discussion.
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the precise
accuracy of sentiments
that address, we
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of
Intentional sim-
plicity. Desirous only of vindicating himself from
a series of
ing the slightest ,tendency to retaliation, the Prime
Minister there confines himself to the enumeration of
fallacies—
or our
he appeals
tooccouurrrenccoemsnwi) and
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sense,
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passions. He purposely divulges his thoughts with
the extreme of oratorical poverty—not like his assail-
to of
our sympathies
assail-
ant, covering a specious and attenuated argument
with the meretricious decorations of rhetoric and the
tawdry tinsel of jocoseness. Among other things,
the Premier demonstrated that he did not change his
opinion on the Catholic question in 1825, or intimate
such a conversion to Lord LIVERPOOL (proving this
in ferentially by private letters, and pos.ticely
by references to the reported debates)—that
he did not, in 1829, make a declaration of his
past alteration of opinion on the same subject
(proving this by the reports of HANSARD, " the
Morning- Post, Morning Chronicle, Morning Herald,
and the Morning Journal, in opposition to the reports
of the Times and of the Mirror of' Parliament,
which latter he showed to be an acknowledged tran-
script from the Times), and especially demonstrated
the fallacy of that most scurrilous of all
imputations " upon his veracity *5 wan, and his

Prince WALDEMAR of PRUSSIA arrived at Trieste on
the sth inst. from Alexandria. About 400 large chests,
containing manuscripts, specimens of natural history,
&c., collected by his Highness during his travels in the
East, are to be shipped from Alexandria for Hamburgh,
and sent from thence to Berlin.

The King of DENMARK has published a decree miti-
gating the several regulations relative to the press. The
penalty of imprisonment, inflicted for the publication of
political articles in journals not specially authorised to
treat of such subjects, is replaced by a fine varying, ac-
cording to circumstances, from 20 to 220 rix bank-
dollars (551. to 5501.). When a journal is seized by
the police before its publication, the responsible editor
cannot be proceeded against (as has been hitherto done),
and he will have the right to bring an action against the
police for the seizure.

Madrid papers of the 13th have arrived.
The Tiempo says that Dort ENRIQUE, who still continues
e Bayonne, had been informed by M. GUIZOT that the
French Government had given orders to the Com-
mandant of the Department to place at the disposal of
the Prince the persons he might require as a suite, to
enable him to travel in a manner worthy of his rank.
According to the Espanol the desertions from the
Spanish army, stationed on the confires of Portugal, are
very numerous.

Barcelona papers of the 12th, state that an armed
band of Spanish refugees, which had entered Spain from
France, and which, on the Bth, in the Province cf.
Girona, had endeavoured to rouse the people against the
system of taxation, had been defeated by the military,
with a loss of three killed. Accounts from Perpignan,
of the 13th, state that the band had re-entered France,
at Munera, and that they had been disarmed by the
police of Arles.
The Prince DE JOINVILLE is expected at Barcelona
at the latter end of June.

MADRID Bousa, JUNE 13.—The Three per Cents. closed
at 3374 for cash, and 34 for paper ; the Five per Cents., at
2074 for cash ; the Debt without Interest, at 634 cash ; the
Shares of the Bank of San Fernando, at 285; and those of
Isabel, at 96.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Mon iteur contains three Ordonnances relating to
the religious and elementary instruction of the slaves in
the French colonies, their discipline, and their food and
clothing. Prayers are to be read every morning and
evening to each body of slaves, and on Sunday they are
to receive religious instruction. Schools in sufficient
number are, also to be established. In punishments,
chains and irons are prohibited; but the punishment of
the whip is permitted, until further orders, with respect
to male adults. The food is to be distributed each week,
and is to consist of rice, maize, fish, and meat in sufficient
quantities. Every slave above fourteen years of age may
claim one day a week to himself, on condition that he
provides his own food.

Both Chambers sat on Wednesday, but their proceed-
ings were unimportant. In the Peers, a great number
of local bills were adopted, and the budget of expenses
was brought up by the Minister of Finance. In the
Deputies, the Bills relating to the improvement of sea
ports, to the completion of several public buildings, and
to credits for the Orleans to Vierzon, and Nismes to

1 Montpellier Railways, were adopted by large majorities.
The following motion is to be brought forward in the
Chamber of Deputies by MM. MoNIER DE LA 6IZE-
RANNE, J. MUTEAN ST. PRIES!', EMILE DE GIRARDIN,
and SAPEY

"After the Ist of January next, all letters not weighing
more than seven grammes and a-half, circulating through
the Post-office of France, shall pay a uniform postage of
20 centimes (2d)."

The Countess DE MELON, the sister in-law of
M. GuIZoT, died at the official residence of the Minister
for Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
Daring the fetes at Brussels, in commemoration of the
opening of the Northern Railway, M. ROWER, one of
the heads of the Belgian Opposition, proposed the health
of M. ODILLON BARKOT, who responded to the toast.
This proceeding gave rise, according to the Presse, to a
very warm altercation between M. ROGIER and one of
the members of the Chamber of Representatives. It
was said yesterday that the result was a duel.

The Akhbar of Algiers, of the 7th inst., contains a pa-
ragraph stating that the Kabyle population to the north
of Sethi still continued to manifest a hostile disposition
towards the French.

The Portuguese Consul-General in Paris has given
notice of the payment of the dividends due on the Ist
July on the new Portuguese Five and Four per Cents.
The Three pe Cents., closed on the Paris Bourse on
Thursday at 83f.'20c. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 4(k.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,250 f. ; Rouen, 1,020 f. ; Ha-
vre, 740 f.; Great Northern, 737 f. 50c.; Avignon, 885 f. ;
Vierzon, 630 f. ; Bordeaux, 601 f. 25c. ; Boulogne, 482 f. 50c. ;
Troyes and Montereau, 375 f. ' • Basle, 220 f. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 502 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 515 f. 25c. ; Paris and
Lyons, 538 f. 75c.; Spanish Domestic Debt, 321,4.
The following are quotations for other railway shares : -
Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 511 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux
and Cette Definitives, 510 f. 25c.
LYONS, JLNE 16.-Marseilles and Avignon, 882 f. 50c.;
Rouen, 1,017f.' 50c. ; Lyons, 514 f. 25c. ; Great Northern,
742 f. 50c. '

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 19.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espeleta), IN—Central of Spain, I%—Luxembourg, 2—Madrid
and Valentia, IS—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6%•

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied
by Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg, left town this afternoon
for the Isle of Wight, where the Court is at present staying.

COCKERMOUTH AND WORK-
INGTON EXTENSION RAILWAY.
(THIS DAY.)

A special meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking
was held at eleven this morning, at No. 1, Derby-street,
Parliament-street, Westminster, for the purpose of having
submitted to them for their approval or otherwise, the Bill
now depending in Parliament, intituled " A Bill for making
a railway from the borough of Cockermouth to the town of
Keswick." The Bill was unanimously approved of, and
authorised to be proceeded with, and the meeting then se-
parated.

NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, AND
HEREFORD RAILWAY.
The affirmation meeting of this company was hild this
afternoon, at the offices in Moorgate-street. The Hon.
Captain Fitzmaurice in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, after expatiating upon the advantages of
the line, strongly recommended the shareholders to go on
with the undertaking. He had no doubt when it was made,
it would prove highly remunerative, and he could state from
his own personal knowledge that it had met with the general
support of all the influential parties residing in the district
through which it passed.—( Hear, hear.)
After a short discussion, the question " that the committee
of management be authorised to proceed with a Bill for mak-
ing a railway from Newport to Abergavenny and Hereford,
with branches therefrom," was put to the vote, when the
numbers appeared to be—
For going on
Against it . .
Majority for going on . .
The meeting terminated with the customary vote of thanks
to the Chairman.

MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY
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entertained, not to enter upon any scheme which which he
considered questionable, he would state, that h might be e had sent au
engineer to survey the line at his own expense . • and had
also been at some trouble to try experiments with anew form
of carriage. He would merely put the resolution, ashev.ra
confident that there would not be a single dissentient voices
in the room.
The Hon. CHAIRMAN then put the followin resolution :
g
" Resolved unanimously, that the Committee of Manage-
ment take the requisite measures for having the Bill of the
Monmouthshire Railway read a third time, and to obtain
the Act of Incorporation ;" which was carried unanimously.
Mr. E. H. PHILLIPS proposed a vote of thanks to the
Chairman for his unwearied exertions on behalf of that
scheme. It was one likely to be an extremely profitable one,
and the Chairman had spared no trouble or Wenn to pro.
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honour as a Minister ;" that he suppressed his real Mr. J. CHAPMAN reconded the motion, which was carried
declarations in the proof-sheets of " Hansard," and, 'lre aisAIYR.
MAN thanked the meeting sincerely for the
by so doing, endeavoured to foist a garbled honour they had done him. He had always ende:voured to
account of them upon the credulity of the 'promote their interests. The best proof of that would be
that he had already been at the expense of 2,000/. to for•
public. This last-mentioned libel was most ward the views of the Company.—(Cheers.)
There being no other business, the meeting then dissolved.
signally crushed by the mere utterance of
these few words :—" Mr. MURRAY, of Albemarle-
street, ptiblished the speech, and there was a jealousy
about the copyright ; and HANSARD had no right to
publish it, but he applied to me for my permission,
and I got Mr. MURRAY to give his consent to the
publication." If such distinctness of reasoning as
this be impugned by the Protectionists as mere
subterfuge and hypocrisy, then are mankind grown
the most purblind creatures in creation ; and never was
such a mountain of audacity ever concealed by such a
scanty and flimsy veil. But the statement delivered
last evening by the Prime Minister of Great
Britain is worthy of him in his exalted
position ; it possessed all the unaffected dignity
of innocence, and all the genuine simplicity of truth-
fulness! Cordially do we coincide with the lion.
Member for Wolverhampton, that the antagonists of
Sir ROBERT PEEL have, in their ill-judged impe-
tuosity, only tended to his greater exaltation in public
opinion, and have singularly stabilitated his popularity

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Chief Justice TINDAL, Baron Roes's, and
Alderman THOMPSON.)
Dr. James Ellis surrendered this morning to take his trial,
and was placed at the bar, indicted on the coroner's inquisi-
tion for manslaughter, in the case of Richard Dresser, who
died while being subjected to hydropathic treatment under
the care of Dr. Ellis, to which charge he pleaded Not
Guilty.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Huddlestone were retained for the
prosecution ; Mr. Cockburn, Mr. Prendergast, and Mr. Clark-
son for the prisoner.
Mr. BODKIN, in laying the case before the jury,
said they would be aware that it had features in it
peculiar to itself —that a system of treatment for
disease had been introduced from Germany, which was very
popular in that country, and which was known as hydro•
paths', according to which, water is applied to the surface of
the body by means of saturated cloths wrapt round the per-
son, and over them dry cloths, which prevent evaporation,
and so excite great perspiration, which, in the belief of many
effects great good. The deceased died, however, in conse-
quence of this kind of treatment. Richard Dresser, be would
show them, was an accountant in Eastcheap. He was, about
the month of May last, afflicted with jaundice, but, being ap-
parently cured of that disease, he was attacked with sciatica,
a deep-seated pain in the region of the kidney. Mr. Dresser,
being acquainted with Dr. Ellis, proposed putting himself
under his treatment, and did so on the 29th May last, on
which evening he was received as a patient at Dr. Ellis's
establishment at Sudbrook Park, Richmond, and on the
Tuesday after, June 2, the patient died. It was for the jury
to consider whether the treatment, such as it was, evinced
either, on the one hand, a felonious intent, or, on the other,
such gross ignorance as would put the patient's life in dan-
ger. Mr. Bodkin having referred to the Act of Parliament,
under which the case, happening in Surrey, but investigated
by a London Coroner, came here for trial.
Mr. COCK BURN gave the Court notice that it was his in•
tention to take the opinion of the Court on that point,
The COURT was of opinion that this might be better done
at another stage of the trial.
Mr. BODKIN proceeded with his address to the jury, de-
tailing the particulars which appear in evidence, and read a
diagnosis of Dresser's case, written after the death, by Dr.
Ellis, who attributed the death to diseased liver, ending in
suppuration. He (Mr. Bodkin) hoped, however, to be able
to show the jury that there was no disease in the liver, and
that the death arose in co' sequence of congestion. The jury
then would inquire whether such gross ignorance as the diag-
nosis evinced of the disease of the deceased, coupled with the
treatment applied, would infer the prisoner guilty of man-
slaughter.
Thomas Hubert, being sworn, said he was a lighterman
and coal- merchant, and knew the deceased, Richard Dresser.
He saw him on Friday, the 29th of May. when he complained
of rheumatism, from which the witness knew he had suffered
before. Witness knew that Dr. Ellis bad been sent for, and
was present when he came to Eastcheap. Dresser said he
was glad the doctor had come, for he was suffering great
pain, and he thought the doctor would do him good. Dr.
Ellis said he had made up his mind that Dresser would go
c'own with him to Sudbrook Park that afternoon ; and that
he would drive him down in, his carriage. An appointment
was made to meet Ellis at Sackville-street, Piccadilly, at
three o'clock that afternoon.
Cross-examined—Dresser was acquainted with Dr. Ell's
for some time, and was a great advocate of hydropathy ; so
far, indeed, as to publish cases of cure. The pain complained
of affected hint in the hip joint, groin, and down the thigh,
and in consequence, he walked with great difficulty. Dresser
was not robust, but a strong, healthy man before that.
William Glasgow Dresser, a cousin of the deceased, stated
that his cousin was 45 years of age, a man rather strongly
built, and capable of undergoing considerable fatigue. He
believed him a person of average health. About two months
deceaseed was affected with jaundice. but recovered of them.
On the 28th May, the last day witness saw him alive, de-
ceased complained of pain from rheumatism. On the Tues-
day following, witness went to Sudbrook Park about 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, and saw the body of deceased, which was
very much swollen, very dat k under the eye and behind the ear,
' froth issuing from the mouth. Witness saw Dr. Ellis, to
whom he remarked as to the death from rheumatism, hut
Ellis said be had not died of that but from hepatitis. He
had, however, treated him on his own statement, as suffer-
ing from rheumatism; but it was afterwards discovered that
it was disease of the liver. Witness said deceased had had a
similar attack fiveyears ago, and the gentleman who attended
him said it was rheumatism. Dr. Ellis said that was no
imputation on the skill of the gentleman, for the disease was
of a very insidious character, and frequently only discovered
by the use of the knife. Witness asked him shortly after
something further, and Ellis said he would write him a
diagnosis of the case. He accordingly drew up the paper
produced in Court, and said he would be happy to assist at
a post mortem examination, or meet any medical gentleman.
Cross-examined—Dr. Ellis said had he known it was hepa-
titis, he would have taeated him in another way. The
patient was a man of a dark complexion, and the day when
he saw the body was very warm. Dr. Ellis said the patient
had warm baths in the evening and wet bandages.
Eliza Murial—Knew Richard Dresser three or four years;
and on the Friday, the 29th May, he was complaining of
rheumatism. On the Sunday following, she and Mrs. Dres-
ser saw him at Dr. Ellis's in bed, when he appeared very
poorly. Witness did not stay long in the rooni, and never
saw him after alive.
Harriett Dresser, widow of the deceased, stated she accom-.
traied her husband in the omnibus to Ellis's on the 29th of
y. She had seen the doctor that day before, who was
called in by her husband's desire to see him. About six
weeks before he had jaundice, and was then attended by Mr.
Waterworth. When he went to Ellis's he was suffering from
nothing but rhumatic pain. Witness herself knew
Ellis for several years. He was at one time a seller of
lace. It was between five and six o'clock in the evening
when she and her husband arrived at Sudbrook Park, where
she remained till a'Jout eight o'clock the 8:111)3 evening. She
saw nothing done to him while she remained. She went
down again on the Sunday afternoon before five o'clock, and
remained somewhat more than two hours. Her husband
was sitting in the bed-room on the bed ; he was very poorly
and low, sitting on the foot of the bed covered in blankets,
under which he told her he had wet bandages. He did not
seem so well as on Friday. He had a bath while she was at
Sudbrook. A long oval bath was taken into the room. She
saw several pails of cold water, and a different water
in another can, both which were mixed. She asked the
bathman whether it was warm. On the Monday she again
went down, and found her husband sitting up as before. He
complained about his legs, and she in consequence put her
hand to them, and felt them quite cold. Be said they were
perfectly useless. Dr. Ellis afterwards came into the room,
and she told him what her husband had said, and be placed
a large wet towel, folded thick, on her husband's stomach.
The towel was wetted in the wash-hand basin, with water
from the ewer. Her husband had only a night shirt on at
the time, and the wet cloth was applied to the skin. Dr.
Ellis asked her husband whether he dreaded it, and the reply
was, No. The Doctor gave it as his reason for putting it
on, that he was afraid of inflammation. She had
tea then, but her husband said he was not allowed
any. After tea she was ordered to leave the room by Dr.
Ellis, for he was to have a bath. Half an hour after. when
she saw her husband, he appeared very low; he was in bed.
Her husband was changing colour, becoming very black, but
Dr. Ellis said to her he would change, and become as yellow
as gold. This darkness appeared particular:y under the eyes
and about the lips. His breathing was very
he said they were not desirable. She
husband, and felt in kissing him that
short. She
thaahosi
skedne doltihopDaosokr
g.
wlEee
aelolrvfiese
cowocifluhohia
rateter;b
oe
otl thoughte
foofr
et h e
she s h olretfnt esst h ofe bhroeuasteh,
she had a message from Dr. Ellis in the ground, he
wanted to see her. When she met with him, be said
if she was not satisfied with his letter to-morrow, would she
like to have him removed, or would she have further advice?
She said she would wait anxiously for the letter. Next clay
she heard her husband was dead. Her husband thought this
water system would cure him, and he wished to try it.
Cross-examined—That produced in Court was her own
letter, written on the Friday morning to Dr. Ellis, in
which she described her husband as "prostrate with
et
as helpless as a child, and unable to walk." She
husband dictated. When they arrived at Sud-
brookasrheumatics, he required to be helped in from the coach. He said
that next morning he was so much better as to be able to
walk in the grounds with the help of Dr. Ellis alone.
On the Monday her husband said to her, that if Dr.
Ellis had been his own brother he could not have
been more kind. Some time before his illness it was agreed
that he should go down and audit the accounts of the esta-
blishment. She noticed there was no perspiration on the
Monday evening. She knew Dr. Ellis had given up the lace
trade and gone abroad, bat did not know whether he
had studied at any of the colleges. She wished the
body opened in consequence of what passed between
her and Mr. Waterworth. She knew that her husband got
sago, tapioca, and other farinaceous food, and had no sug-
gestion to make as to any illiberality connected with the
establishment

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, including 1,000 Egyptian, at bid. per lb. The market
closed without any alterarion. Shares were quiet.
The sale of Railway Shares by Messrs. Dimond was well
attended, prices were a little better than last time, and a
good business was done considering the depressed state of
the market:-East Indian, 10s. 6d.-Madras, Nellore and
Arcot. la.-Direct Birmingham and Leicester, 11 Is.-Man-
chester, Midland and Great Grimsby, 10s. 6d.-Manchester
and Southampton, 11. Bs. 6d.-Warwick and Worcester, Bs.-
Reading, Guilford, and Reigate, 17s. 6d.-Waveney
10s. 6d.-Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorset, IL 15s. 6d.-Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Residual Claims, ls. 6d.-Trent Valley
Continuation and Holyhead Junction, IL 17s.- Chelmsford
and Bury, I 6d.-Callao, Lima and Pacific Coast, 145.-
Shropshire Mineral, 12s. 6d.-Hull and Barnsley, 11. 65.-
London and Manchester (Remington's). 14s. 6d.-Cale-
donian Extension, I/. 55.-Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough
and Goole, I/. 9s. 6d.-North Staffordshire, Churnet and
Potteries, Si. 155.-Ely and Bury, 15s. 6d.-North Wales,
1/. 2s. 6d.-Louvain a la Sambre, ex. div., 11.-Direct
London and Portsmouth Atmospheric, 81. 6s.
Accounts by the Overland Mail received through the me-
dium of an express, give again a bad reprrt of the state of
the import trade, and " realising" was considered to be over
for the season. The excessive supplies of European fabrics
together with the check imposed upon the demand by the
recent warlike events, necessarrily, are to be taken as the un-
favourable causes acting on the market. There are no ship
arrivals.

The increase in the treasure held by the Bank of England,
continues to an extraordinary extent, and of course the
paper issues are extended likewise. The return of railway
deposits still acts in causing a reduction of the " other
deposits." The leading alterations shown by the returns are
these :
No:es issued £28,603;395
Increase
Public deposits, increase
Other deposits, decrease
Other securities, decrease • 199,543
Bullion • •• 15,339,726
Increase
.... . ...

Charles Waterwortb, surgeon, New Kent-road, stated that
the deceased was a patient of his, and he had attended him
as his medical adviser for six or seven years. He had a
severe attack of rheumatism about four years ago. In
March last the deceased was attacked with jaundice ;
it was slight, and .in a few days he was very
well. He was nut a robust man, but a person with a
feeble heart and languid circulation. Witness was present
at the post mortem examination. The chest was first exa-
mined, in consequence of the appearance of the blood from
the lungs. The lungs were very full of blood.
The heart was large and gorged, and the walls of
the heart rather thin. The witness believed that
the state of congestion of the heart and lungs accounted for
death. Such a state would be accompanied with coldness of
the limbs, and shortness of breath, terminating in death. They
found the liver healthy, and saw no actual disease in the

The splendid weather has quite thinned the Stock Ex-
change of even its most constant jobbers, and without them
business necessarily flags. Consols are 951% for the Account.
Exchequer-bills are fiat at Bs. premium. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. are worth 9678 to 97. Bank Stock
isiworth 2061/.
The Foreign Investments have been almost equally quiet.
Portuguese Four per Cents are 4914 to' 48%, and the Five
per Cents. 78. Grenada Stcck is worth 20, and Chilien De-
ferred, 50%, ; Dutch two7and-a-Half per Cents. are 553/4 to
60Ni ; Spanish Three per Cents. are 37%, and dull.
For Shares the inquiry is rather drooping again.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock .. 206%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 9514 %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 967 97
India Bonds, 1,0001• ..
Ditto, under 1,0001. . .. 26
Console for Opening • • .. • • .. • . 9514
Exchequerl%d. I%d.
1,0001. • • .. 8— pm.
500/. .• .... 13 —— pm.
Ditto, Small .. .... 813 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chili= 'loads, 6 per Cent. .. • •
Ditto, Deterred 50%
Equador Bonds • • .. • • • .. 3%
Granada, 1 per Cent. .. .• 20
Ditto, Deierred • • .. 4%
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. 78
Ditto, 3 per Cent ..
Ditto, for tie Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account
Spaniel. Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. ..
Ditto, for the Aecount • • • 37%
Dividecds on toe above payable In London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59% 60%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92.4 le
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHARE.
Amber.. Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% 1;4• • • • to
Birmingham and Gloucester • • ..100 • • ..127 •• • • to 128
Bristol and Exeter .. • • • • .. 75 •• • • 8314 .. • • to

.. 4914
. • • .. 4954
.. 495 48 Vz

liver or heart. Witness had seen the diagnosis
of Dr. Ellis, and in some particulars it corre-
sponded with the state of the body ; in some not.
There was tympanitis, and with that the diagnosis corre-
sponded with the actual state of the body. There was no
hepatitis or suppuration. Witness thought it very difficult
to ascertain suppuration of the lungs. Hepatitis would be
accompanied with fever, and he thought it might be de•
tected by the symptoms. If hepatitis or suppuration had been
present the treatment was certainly not proper. The patient
was more liable to congestion from such treatment as he
received than many others; this could be judged of by the
pulse. Wet cloths on the Monday afternoon when his legs
were cold were very objectionable, and in the judgment of
the witness, after seeing the state of the lungs and heart,
would accelerate death.

Derby and Crewe • • - • • • • • 2% • • • • 614%•• to
Direct Northern .• •• ••2y • • • • I% .. to
Eastern Counties • • • . .. 14/. I6s. 0d... • • 24 235 to 24
Ditto, New .. .. 10/. 16s. Od. • • • • 7% p.. to
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. I, 61 13s. 4d p.. to
Ditto, ditto • • .. N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d % p • • to
Ditto, York Extension . • • • • . 10s. 1%14 . to
Eastern Union .. . .. 30 • • • • • • • • to

Cross-examined—The post niartem examination was con-
ducted by witness and his partner.
ignsttr'an°dicltemtheexanlHe proceeded to the
diagnosis.inatioo withd aanbyelsieufggthesattiotnhebreeesn made to
have Dr. Ellis, or one for him present, he would not have ult would
ob-
jected. He did not believe there was any congestion of the
liver, it appeared particularly healthy. Hisopinion was that
congestion was going ou on the Monday evening, and was
accelerated by the application of wet clothes. Knowing
the constitution of Mr. Dresser, witness considered the ap-
plication of wet cloths at any time very improper; but he
admitted that in this he had an advantage over a stranger.
A congested state of the brain would produce congestion in
the lungs.
By Mr. lIUDDLESTONE—He thought that water at a tem-
perature of 85 deg. would be too cold generally, and under
the symptoms mentioned by Mrs. Dresser very consider-
ably so. The effect of it would be to drive in the blood
from the surface.
Mr. Hicks, partner with the last witness, stated that the
countenance of the deceased was bloated, and bloody serum
issued from the mouth and nose, and the whole appearance
was of a person who hld been downed. Witness thought
the liver had a little too much blood, but o'herv,l.e perfectly
healthy. There was disease in the kidney, so much as
to interfere with the functions. In other respects he combo-
rated the former witness.
(The trial Wag proceeding when our report left.)

Ditto, Extension to Norwich .. 234 to
Exeter, Yeovil and Dorcnester • • .. 2%.... 2% ••• to

Great Western .. • • . • • • .. 85— .... •• • • to
Ditte Half Shares • • .. • • • 50 •• • • 80 .... to
Leicester and Bedfurd •. 225..... 4 dia. to
Leicst., Tam., Bir., 8a Trent Val.Junc. 425. .... % dia. to
London and Birmingham ..100 •• • • •• • • to
Ditto. Quarter Shares
Loudon and Brighton • . • • • • .. 50 •.. .. ••to
Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • • •• 30 ••.• 41 .... to
London and Croydon • • • • 131. 15s. 9d. •• • • 2214 .. • . to

London and York .• . • • . 214 •• .. 2 •• • • to 1
Ditto. Half Shares • . .. • • • . 23 .• .. I % to
Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 40 .... 83 •• .. to
Midland .. .. .. .. ..100 ....149 .. to
Di:to, New .. .. • • • . • . 18 .... 3114 M• • to
Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .... •• • to
Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 1 .... 9%.... to
Norfolk .. .. • • .. 20 . •• • . to
Ditto, Extension .. .. • • • • 2 .. • • .. to
Northern and Eastern .. • • • • 50 •• • • to

Ditto, New • • .. • • .. 1 .. .. 20 to
North Kent and Direct Dover .. .. 214 •••• 134 •• • • to
North Staffordshire • • • • . • • • 425. •• .. 4 p.. •• to 3% p
Portsmouth Direct • • • • .. • • 3% .... 4 •••• to
South Eastern and Dover • • • • 3334.... 39%.... to
Ditto, New, No. 3 • • • • • • • . 15 ... • 18 •••• to
Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • • • • • 234 •. • . 236 .. to
Welsh Midland .. • • .. • • • • 236 • • 1 .. ••to
West Riding Union .. .. • • 425..... p.. to
York and Carlisle .. • . • • .. • • 214.... 1IA• • • • to
York and North Midland • • • . • • 50 •• .. to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 11%34 .. to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens • • .. .. 12 1114.... to
Central of Spain .. .. .. • . .. 2 .... .... to --
Northern of France Constituted • • 5 .... 14 .... to
Orleans and Vierzon .. .. 10 .... 14 % to
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. I, •• • • 6% to
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