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improved to the uttermost, I would suggest that the sum
previously expended upon it every year should be ap-
plied as a sinking fund to pay off the principal of the
charge held by Government; we might thus look to the
next generation coming into possession of their estates
not only highly improved, but also freed from the heavy
charges which now paralyse the energies and cramp the
best intentions of the present proprietors. Recollect
the conclusion to which the shrewd and talented com-
missioner of the Times arrived :—That it was the want
of capital and enterprise, on the part of the landlords,
that tended to keep Ireland in her present backward
state; and he recommended every facility being given to
the transfer of property, that it might coma into other
hands better able to afford an outlay. But how slow this
progress. How difficult the sale of a deeply-mortgaged
property is found to be. Adopt the principle of the plan
I now propose, and yon attain, by a different means, the
same beneficial results. Neither the State nor any other
public board, with all their exertions, can meet with
effect the present crisis. Their work is, of necessity,
almost unprofitable, and their expenditure is large; and
each succeeding year, if persevered in, it will fall with
redoubled weight upon the land, till its burdens become
intolerable. instead of this, stimulate and encourage thr4
energies of the resident gentry of Ireland—tell them -An
expect them to perform their duty, and to come 4.0 the
aid of the millions, now without food, or like/7/ soon to
be so; and hold out the promise that you, the State,
will take away every excuse for backward.:4ess, for that
you will supply the means; and I f."einly believe that
every corner of our island will i're long present the
aspect of thousands employed on -productive labour, and
that each year will draw closer the bond of union be-
tween the upper and lower classes, and render the latter
less dependent upon the potato as their sole supply
of food."
The suggestions brz:re thrown out by Mr. Rochfort
were to a certsin, extent adopted by Lord Mountcashell,
who, at a s-pecial meeting of the Fermoy board of poor-
law gutg:dians, thus adverted to the condition of the Irish
landed proprietary:—
Landlords (said the Noble Earl) were usually consi-
dered to be a very wealthy class; but the truth was,
that the landlords of Ireland were a very poor body.
Now he wished he had the third report of the Commis-
sioners appointed a few years ago to report on the state
of the poorer classes in Ireland. That was in 1836, and
they estimated the rental of Ireland at 10,000,0001. per
annum. In 1832, however, Mr. Griffiths estimated it at
12,715,000/., and later investigation gave it at some-
thing over 13,000,0001. If no one else did so, he would
move in his place in Parliament for a return of all the
mortgages, judgment debts, and every other incumbrance
that could be ascertained respecting the landed property
of Ireland, and if that had been before them now, by
deducting the amount of it from the gross rental, they
would see what the sum was which the landlords had at
their disposal. A man might have the name of having
10,000/. a year, but if he was obliged to give up 5,000/.
or 6,0001. nut of it, what was the use of that to him?
He had entered into some calculations on that subject,
and had come to the conclusion that about two-thirds
of the rental of Ireland was disposed of in that man-
ner, and consequently did not come into the hands
of the landlords to spend as they might please. He
had, therefore, come to the conclusion that the whole
amount of income possessed by the landlords at
their own disposal was little more than 4,000,0001
per annum. That would perhaps appear very startling,
and certainly, when tb.e incomes of the landed gentry of
other nations were considered, it would be found that
Irish landlords were perhaps the poorest of any other
part of Europe. Then they had establishments to keep
up. They had. a number of followers and dependants
who lived on them and by them. Just look at the state
they would place a large portion of the population in by
taking away the means from the landlords. Ho was at
vresent speaking of the resident landlords—he was not
talking of the absentees, who drew money out of the
country and did no good in return. What the resident
landlords received with one hand they had to expend
with the other. They were not much given to hoarding,
and if they were so some fifty or sixty years ago, it
would be all the better for themselves and for the coun-
try at present. Let them have the greatest possible in-
clination, they had not the power. He had shown that
they should part with two-thirds of their incomes
These charges should be paid, and if they were not,
they knew well what would be the consequence. They
should very soon get into the hands of the legal gentle-
men, and he need not say how they would deal with
them. There was no use in deceiving the public and
the Government, and it was right that the tenantry
should know the real state of things also. But under
such circumstances all the landlords of Ireland
should put their shoulders to the wheel, and endeavour
to extricate, in the best way they could, themselves
and their tenantry from the difficulties with which
they were surrounded. They could not do so
without great pecunlary assistance from the Government.
The point had been already mooted at the meeting in
Cork by it.. Roche, that Government ought to lend the
landed proprietors of Ireland money on the security of
thei:r properties. If they did so, they had the power of
1 making it a first charge by Act of Parliament—(Hear,
hear)—and let them bind the landlords in every pos-
sible way to expend these sumslin giving employment to
the people on their estates. They could give those ad-
vances at the rate they got them themselves, viz., 3 or
3/ per cont., from the public creditor. If that was done
he thought it would be the best and the most practical
way to promote the interests of Ireland. He thought
it might be done with safety and with effect. The
exigency of the times required every possible exertion.
The Government should come forward. The landlords,
however, with the means they bad, should do all in their
power ; and by the united exertions of landlords and
Government they might be able, not only to benefit the
people oflreland at the present time, but also for a long
period of time to come.
Mr. D. GERAN (Rushmount) said that though he had
not the privilege of addressing them as a guardian, yet
as he had been requested to attend, and having heard
what Lord Mountcashell addressed to the meeting, he
would offer a few observation upon it. Lord Mount..
cashell had stated that two-thirds of the property of
Ireland was absorbed by mortgages and other incutn
brances. Grant that—but still the one-third remained at
their disposal, and certainly in such awful times as these
they ought to come forward and bear their share of the ge-
neral losses. He knew it was dangerous ground to say,don't
pay rents. He would discountenance any such cry being
raised as much as any man in the country. He hoped
there would be no such thing as combination abroad; but
suppose the landlords did their worst, and drove the
tenantry to the wall, what would they benefit by that ?
Was there to be no consideration for those who lost all
they had by the failure of the potato crop ? This visi-
tation was no fault of the farmers—they could not forsee
or prevent it. If the landlords were so deeply in debt,
it was perhaps owing to the extravagance of their ances-
tors. They had the fee of the land, and if debts accrued
they ou;ht to be paid off. The Government could not
do all without assistance from the landlords, and their
bearing their due proportion of the losses that-bad come
on the country.—(Hear.) He did not mean to speak
disrespectfully of the landlords, or any other class ;
but if those gentlemen kept carriages, and hunters,
and hounds, and indulged in every other luxury,
could they not abridge them on such occasions as
this?—(Hear.) On occasions when people could not
procure the means of existence, could they not confine
themselves to the necessities of life, and forgo its luxuries
for a season?
Lord MoUNTCAMELL.—And would no one suffer by
that?
Mr. GtnAN considered that the general community
would be served by it, and it was sometimes necessary to
make some sacrifice for the public good.

" Expecting to hear from you at your etV:liest con-
venience, I remain, your very obedient ser qt_
tr
“ T. M. Ray, Esq."
1:o letter of :
has always IKERICON.
" Dear and Rev. Sir,—ln reply JOHN
yes-
terday, I beg to say that the Associati,
re-
served to itself the right to prescribe
order; and that you
the Pals eligible
for subscribers to the repeal hind to r
are perfectly correct in assuming 'flat the Association
would stop the issue of any of the at any moment it
was thought necessary for the sarget—
y of the ilissociation
to do so. The rules do not aut'Aorise us to remit money
in lieu of papers stopped; we 'an only arras ge for the
/le journals. \Vv: did not
transmission of another of
and could not ever accept
'any subscriptions orb terms in-
compatible with the Prtaciples upon which a be Associa-
tion was from the firs based; and with the. utmost re-
spect lam bound, to inform you, that any person who
refuses to asse
"..t to these principles, as they 'flow stand,
cannot be 'a. member of the Association.—I have the
honour to remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful and' obedient
servants

"T. RAY,

Itov. J. Kenyon, Chapel House,
Templederry, Nenagh."
" Chapel House, Templedcrry, Nenagb., Aug 23.
" Dear Sir,—You state, in reply to my dr xnand for a
remission of money proportioned to the sum. we sent to
the repeal funds, to enable us to provide a paper, that
' the rules do not authorise you to remit money in lieu
of paper stopped.' This statement I must, with very
great respect, questitn. I have never seen such rules.
They are not amongst those specimens in the printed
abstract which accompanied your first announcement.
But, on the contrary, it seems to me that for the express
purpose of securing the safety of the Association, an ap-
propriatien of money, to be applied by the subscribers
in each locality, was resolved upon after the state prose-
cution. However, if you can, upon examination, dis-
cover such rules, and are pleased to point them out to
me, I shall urge you no further on that herd.
" In that case, however, it will be my duty, in justice
to a large number of the subscribers, to demand back
their subscriptions ; because, as I have already men-
tioned to you, they were given upon an e' press condi-
tion, which is now being violated. The number of such
subscribers I cannot state exactly at the present moment.
I believe it may be one-half of the 'retire. But, of
course, if I am obliged to rest upon this part of the case,
I shall discover it exactly by a referenda to themselves.
" Moreover, if there be no such 'rules' as you have
stated, and that, nevertheless, you refuse to remit that
proportion of our contribution to which the rules with
which I have been acquainted app, ear to entitle us, I
must again express my fear that I. shall feel myself in
the necessity of demanding back ',he entire subscriptions.
" I cannot pretend to misuuderstand the meaning of
your concluding paragraph, but I do not exactly see its
relevancy to the present q'4estion. I needed not special
information to know tblic ' any person who refuses to
assent to the princheles upon which the Association was
from the first ba,,,e-d,' cannot be a member of it. —I
remain, dear your very obedient servant,
"T. AI. Esq. "JOHN KENYON."
"Loyal National Repeal Association,
" Corn Exchange Rooms, Dublin, August 26.
"Dear and Rev. Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the
P.3d instant, I beg to say that, pending the embarrass-
ments of the state trials, the system of remitting back
money, in lieu of newspapers, and as drawback from the
repeal rent, had to be resorted to. That system was
subsequently given up, and the former arrangement re-
sumed, from and after the 23d of September, 1844. That
arrangement has continued in force up to the present
time. It was published in all the newspapers, and the
public are fully aware of it; we cannot, therefore, return
money.
" If I had known, upon receiving your remittance,
that it was accompanied by any such conditions as you
mention, I could not have accepted the money, as those
conditions would be incompatible with our rules; on the
contrary, I conceived, from the following paragraph in
your letter with the remittance, that you left the fur-
nishing of any paper or not to our entire discretion:—
" 'lf your rules will warrant the return of any por-
tion of this sum for the purpose of providing a news-
paper, we are sufficiently poor to be willing to receive it;
but if not, you are welcome to the whole of it, with our
blessing.'—l have the honour to remain, dear and Rev.
Sir, your faithful and obedient servant,

" T. M. RAY.
"Rev. J. Kenyon, Chapel House, Templederry, Nenagh."
" Chapel House, Templederry, Aug. 27.
"Dear Sir,—With every respect for you individually,
I must insist that you have shown me no rules' which
should prevent you from remitting the money. It was
not merely to avoid embarrassment—it was precisely to
avoid responsibility that the change was made. Now,
respensibility is the thing which you still affect to
obviate. Why therefore recur to the very system which
entailed it?
"The paragraph of my letter which you quote does
not warrant your inference that ' I left the furnishing of
a paper, or not, to your entire discretion,'—on the con-
trary, I stood upon your rules'—but was unaware at
the moment whether the contribution was large enough
to entitle us to the return of any portion of the subscrip-
tion according to those rules.
" Seeing, however, that it is idle any longer to expect
a compliance with my just demand, feeling that the con-
ditions under which the money was tendered are by you
disregarded, I hereby formally, and in the name of all the
subscribers, reclaim the entire.
" Now that your rules, or at least your usages, are
better known to us, we will be enabled to regulate our
contributions so as to avoid in future any perplexity like
this.—l remain, dear Sir, your very obedient servant,
" T. M. Ray, Esq. "JOHN KENYON.
"P. S.—l think it as well to state that if you refuse to
return the money, it is my intention to hand over my
claim to a solicitor."
" Loyal National Repeal Association,
" Corn Exchange Rooms, Dublin, Aug. 29.
" Rev. Sir,—ln reference to the demand mentioned in
your favour of 27th instant, -I beg respectfully to say
that I am not empowered to give any answer further
than is contained in my last letter.—l have the honour
to remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful and obedient servant,
" T. M. RAY, Secretary.
" Rev. J. Kenyon, Templederry, Nenagh."
In reply to a letter from the Rev. Mr. Meehan to the
Secretary of the Repeal Association, in which the rev.
gentleman protested against the conduct of the com-
mittee in expelling the Nation from the repeal reading-
rooms, as also against the proceedings which compelled
William Smith O'Brien to retire from the Association,
the subjoined letter has been forwarded by Mr. Ray :
" Loyal National Repeal Association,
" Corn Exchange Rooms, Dublin,- Sept. 2.
"Rev. Sir,—ln reply to your letter this day received,
I beg most respectfully to acquaint you, that as you de-
cline to acquiesce in the principles upon which the Re-
peal Association is based, you do not continue a member
of that body.—l have the honour to remain, Rev. Sir,
most respectfully, your obedient servant,
" T. M. RAY, Secretary."
THE MANSION HOUSE COMMITTEE.
The above Committee met this day, Lord Cloncurry
in the chair. The following members also attended :
Mr. O'Connell, M.P. ; Very Rev. Dr. Flanagan, Peirce
Mahony, John O'Donoghue, Alderman Gardiner,
Thomas Gresham, Dr. Gray, and John Classon.
The resolution adopted at the Music-hall, on Thurs-
day, having been brought before the notice of the meet-
ing, Mr. O'Connell proposed the following resolution:—
" That the Labour Rate Act, having only just come
into operation, and the Government appearing to be
conscious of the existing distress and impending famine,
this Committee deem it right to wait, which they do in
confident hope, the result of the Government measures
under the Act of Parliament : with the determination to
take such active steps as they possibly can, should occa-
sion require or should the statute not be sufficiently effi-
cacious for the emergency."
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
ADDRESSES TO LORD BESBOROUGII..
This day addresses were presented to his Excellency
the Earl of Besborough, from the city of Waterford, the
corporation of Waterford, and the town of Clonmel. The
addresses from Waterford were read by the Mayor,
Sir Benjamin Morris Wall, and the Town. Clerk of
Waterford ; that from Clowned was read by the Mayor,
Mr. Bianconi.
When the deputation from Waterford had withdrawn,
his Excellency conferred the honour of a private inter-
view upon the Right Rev. Dr. Foran, who formed one of
the deputation.
MR. SMITIT O'BRIEN AND THE LIMERICK
CORPORATION.
At a. meetinc, of the Town Council on Thursday, the
Mayor in the chair, the Town Clerk read Dr. Griffin's
notice of motion in reference to Mr. Smith O'Brien.
The MAYOR then read a letter from Dr. Griffin, from
which the following is an extract :
"My dear Mr. Mayor,—As I cannot to-day be present
at the meeting of the Town Council, will you havo the
O'Brientice.
himself,
goodness to say that I withdraw the resolutions relative
to the secession of Mr. W. S. O'Brien, of which I gave
n
adopt wh thiso,th
course at amtomtheentinhsetansacew
tohfe
Mr
er-.
solutions, wrote to me on the subject, suggesting that my
perseverance in moving them might,perhars, create
i
division in the council, and so tend to njure the cause
of repeal. He at the same time acknowlei:iged that they
faithfully represented his sentiments, ar.i
u therefore that
he could not question their truth."

Dispatches were received on. Saturday at the Colonial-
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BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.

LEGALITY OF ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRIAGES,--011
Saturday a case of considerable importance to parishes
generally throughout the kingdom, involving the lega-
lity of Roman Catholic marriages, occupied a consi-
derable portion of the time of Mr. G. Baillie, chairman.
Patrick Daly, an Irishman of respectable appear-
ance, about eighty years of age, appeared before the
Bench to answer a summons at the instance of the pa-
rish officers of Isleworth, to. show cause why he re-
fused to support and maintain Rosina Daly, his wife.
W. L. Lewis, assistant-overseer of Isleworth, deposed
to the fact of Mrs. Daly having been chargeable to that
parish for the last fortnight.

It appeared from the evidence of W. L. Daly that she
was married to the defendant in 1833 by the Rev. John
Waring, the Roman Catholic clergyman of Isleworth.
She was the defendant's second wife.
A solicitor, who attended on behalf of the defendant,
submitted that he could not be compelled to support the
female who called herself his wife, inasmuch as the
marriage was an illegal one, it not having been per-
formed—as required by the provisions of the statute of
George IV., cap, 76, sec. 22—by a person in " holy
orders, nor under the authority of a " license,"inor in
accordance with a " publication of banns," nor in " a
church," &c.

In the course of the litigation which had taken place
between the parties, the opinion of Mr. Gibbon, the
barrister, had been taken on the point, who was de-
cidedly of opinion that the marriage was null and void,
in which opinion Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. l'etersdorf
fully concurred.
The Bench decided that as the marriage of the de-
fendant and the female now claiming relief from the
parish of Isleworth, took place previous to 1837, when
the New Marriage Act, which repealed the statute of
the 4th of George IV., came into operation, it was an
illegal one. They, therefore, refused to make any order
on the defendant. The summons was consequently dis-
missed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENWELL.
On Saturday Ann Saunders was charged with severely
wounding a young man named Wm. Pipkin. It appeared
that the prisoner had on the evening of the previous day
been drunk in•the streets, and was followed by a mob of
boys, who hooted and called het' names. She at last
rushed into a public-house in Vine-street, St. Andrew's,
Holborn, when the complainant happening to go in for
his supper beer, she exclaimed in a violent manner,
" This is one of the -- that hooted at me !" and
lifting up a large knife, three feet in length, with which
she had previously wounded some boys, made a desperate
chop at his head. He retreated and held up his arms to
ward off the blows, but she continued chopping at him,
and swearing to have his life. His arms were dreadfully
mutilated. The instrument was very sharp, and one cut
which she made at the poor fellow actually cut a largo
piece of flesh from his shoulder. The young man called
for assistance, when the landlord and several other per-
sons seized the prisoner, took the knife from her, and
kept her until the arrival of policeman, 209 G, who
took her to the station-house, where she gave her name
Ann Saunders. She was locked up, and in the morning
she was taken before a magistrate, when Mr. Pipkin at-
tended in a weak state, with his arm in a sling. He gave
evidence confirmatory of the above particulars. He posi-
tively swore that he gave the prisoner no provocation for
the attack upon him. He never saw her before in his life-
time. He bled profusely from his wounds, and he was
taken to the house of Mr. Dalton, surgeon, of Leather-
lane, who dressed them, and he was put to bed. After
giving his evidence he was conveyed home in an ex-
hausted state.
In answer to questions, he said that the prisoner de-
liberately chopped at him, and had the instrument struck
his head, he would inevitably have been murdered.
Mr. Francis Dalton, surgeon, of 52, Leather-lane,
said that the prosecutor was brought to his house bleed-
ing from several severe wounds, which might have been
inflicted by such an instrument as the one now pro-
duced, about three feet in length, and five inches broad,
with a very sharp edge, and such as is generally used by
chaff-cutters and skin-dressers. One of the wounds on
the prosecutor's wrist was a very dangerous one.
The police-constable who took the prisoner into cus-
tody saw her flourishing a large knife at a crowd of chil-
dren who were following her. He heard that some of
them were injured. Saw her lift up the knife in both
hands and chop at people, and he cautioned her to be-
ware of such conduct. Shortly afterwards he was called
upon to take her into custody, when she went quietly
to the station house.
The prisoner, in her defence, said she had been
drinking freely, when she was followed, beaten, and
kicked by the mob, when she threw herself under the
protection of the police, as she felt her life to be in
danger. She thought the prosecutor was one of the
party when she struck him with the knife. She was
very sorry for what had happened.
She was fully committed for trial for the felony, when,
in the course of the day, she was conveyed to Newgate
in the police van.

WORSHIP-STREET.
On Saturday morning, the cart of Mr. Gould, a
dust contractor and nightman, had deposited in a field
at Haggerstone, several loads of bones and human re-
mains, intermixed with pieces of coffin and coffin

ture.
Holland, one of the warrant officers, reported that he
found bones, with coffin wood and, furniture strewn
about the place. One marine store dealer in the neigh-
bourhood had purchased from different parties a quan-
tity of bra ss handles and coffin furniture, a specimen of
which he produced, and he also produced various other
things, particulaly a piece of oak coffin with the nails in
it quite fresh, and which bad not about it the slightest
touch of decay. The coffin had evidently been cat or
broken up to be carried away. Upon inquiry, in com-
pany with his inspector, he found that Mr. Gould's
carters had brought this matter in question from a
churchyard in Friday-street, Cheapside.
Weller, one of the beadles of Shoreditch, said that the
matter mentioned having been deposited in a field at
Haggerstone, in that parish, Mr. Long had sent him to
inquire, and it was ascertained that Mr. Liddiard,
churchwarden of a parish in the City, being desirous
of having a vault in Friday-street cleared out, had em-
ployed Mr. Gould to do it, and to remove the contents to
an excavation where some new buildings were in course
of erection, and the carters had, instead, disposed of
their loads by throwing them on the spot and in the
manner complained of.
The inscription on one of the coffin-plates was stated
to be, "E. C. Connell, deceased in February, 1818 ;"
another, " Master John Ingleby, died sth February,
1834 ;" and another, " Mrs. Ann Webb, 1838." Other
plates, without inscription, and pieces of coffin, were
however evidently very recent.
Weller added, that from his own experience he could
state that the coffin-wood produced by the officer Hol-
land was of very recent deposit. Mr. Long, the church-
warden of his parish, had given directions to have all
the remains in question collected and deposited in conse-
crated ground in Shoreditch, and was determined to
trace out and prosecute the parties who had caused such
a shameful inroad in his parish.
Mr. BROUGHTON directed the parties whose names had
been ascertained to be summoned before him to answer
the charge.

The prisoner—No young man told me anything of the
kind, your Worship.
Mr. BALLANTINE_We have it in evidence that you
were cautioned, and that you afterwards continued to
hawk the berries. Can anything be more horrible?
Joseph Lester, assistant to Mr Iliscox, confirmed
that gentleman's evidence as to the prisoner's knowledge
of herbs and plants, and described him as the best herb
gatherer in England. He should not think it at all pro-
bable that the prisoner would be ignorant of the quali-
ties of the belladonna. He saw the prisoner on the 15th
of August, when he called at his master's shop with two
baskets ; one contained berries, the other herbs. He
asked the prisoner what berries he had in his basket, and
he replied nettle berries. The witness said, "Do you
call these nettle berries ?" and the prisoner replied,
" They are hockle berries."

Mr. BALLANTINE—Did he say whortle berries ? Les-
ter—No, Sir, he said heckle berries ; but his first ex-
pression was nettle berries.

- Mr. Hiscox was re-called, and said he had seen the
whortle berry, commonly called the bilberry, growing in
Surrey. The berry of the deadly nightshade was a very
different thing, and much larger.
Lester stated that the prisoner did not say the berries
were for his master on the 15th of August. They were
separated from the stalk.

BALLANTINE (to the prisoner)—Well, I shall
commit you for trial fur wilful murder.
Mr. Symonds, the chief clerk, said there was other
evidence, and

John Donegan, a police inspector, was called, who
said the prisoner was brought to the Denmark-street
station-house on the 20th of August, in the custody of
a police constable named Bird, of the B division, who
apprehended him in Strutton-ground, Westminster. He
told the prisoner he was identified as the man who sold
the poisuuous berries in Whitechapel on the previous
Saturday, and be said he had never been in that neigh-
bourhood at all. The prisoner had a basket in his pos-
session containing blackberries when he was appre-
hended They were common blach berries.
Mary Ann Cox, a young woman, who appeared in a
very ill state of health, said that she purchased a half-
pennyworth of berries of the prisoner on the 15th of
August, in Whitechapel. He said they were hockle
berries, and recommended them strongly for making
tarts and pies. She was attacked with severe illness
after eating the berries, and was taken to the London
Hospital, where she remained for several days.
The evidence of several other persons who had pur-
chased berries of the prisoner on the same day, and who
were similarly affected, was read over.
A woman, many years younger than the prisoner,
here got into the witness box, and said he was a good
husband to her, and had never been in the hands of the
police before.

John Donegan said the woman was the prisoner's wife.
Mr. BALLANTINE—What of that? she bas a right to
be heard.

The worthy, magistrate then addressed the woman,
and said the prisoner was charged with selling poisOnous
berries, well knowing them to be so, and he could not
help him. It was his duty to commit him for trial for
the wilful murder of Thomas Parker and Samuel Jones.
The witnesses were then bound over in the usual form.

ALLEGED WHOLESALE POISON-

ING OF CHILDREN.
An inquest was held on Friday night at the London
Hospital, on the body of a female who had committed
suicide by swallowing a pennyworth of fly water.
Mr. Thomas Jessop, the house-surgeon of the institu-
tion, on being examined by the coroner and jury, took
occasion to make an important statement. He said he
had analysed some of the liquid which deceased had
taken, and he found that it contained a great quantity
of arsenic, and the liquor was so sweetened as to attract
the vermin to partake of it. He wisheo particularly to
call the attention of the worthy coronei and jury to the
label on the bottle (handing in a bottle of fly water). The
coroner having attentively perused the label, said it ap-
peared to him a most extraordinary heading for a bottle
of poison, " Sleeping made easy." Why, a person
might purchase a bottle of the mixture, and,
without reading the whole of the label, might
conclude that it was a cooling draught, and
calculated to do the party good. He (the coroner)
thought the heading of the label ought to be imme-
diately altered. Mr. Jessop said he wanted to call the
attention of the court to one part of the label, where it
stated, " to destroy black beetles, cockroaches, and
crickets, soak crumbs of bread in some of the liquor, and
strew them about the floor, and the vermin will eat the
same and instantly die." Now what could be more dan-
gerous than throwing crumbs of bread, containing poi-
son, about the floor ? It was a well-known fact, that
in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel and other densely
populated districts, where the fly water had the greatest
sale, there was scarcely a house but what contained
many families, and the number of young children
living in the same rooms with their parents it was almost
impossible to tell. Of late it was well known that a
vast number of children had been treated for, acrd died
from, what was imagined natural diarrhoea. He (Mr.
Jessop) had no doubt that one-third of the children said
to have died from that complaint had been poisoned
with fly water. It was equally well known that children,
if left playing on the floor, would pick up anything they
could find and put it in their mouths. Crumbs of bread,
thus scattered over the floor, and left in the way of
children, was exceedingly dangerous. What were the
symptoms after taking the poison? He would explain.
first sickness, and then diarrhoea. The children were
taken in some instances to a surgeon, who prescribed
for them; but the-poison having become absorbed in the
system, it was unknown that the deceased had died-from
anything deleterious. From what he had ascertained he
had no doubt, as he had before stated, that one-third of
the children, supposed to have died from diarrheas, had
died from the effects of poison. He believed, if his
remarks were noticed by the press, that they would have
a very beneficial effect.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING•
TO MARINERS.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

The following is an extract of a letter from Lloyd s
agency, at Palermo, dated 20th August:—
"In consequence of a new saintary regulation, all
vessels coming through the Straits of Gibraltar, to any
port of the kingdom of the two Sicilies, are subject to
seven days' quarantine, and if the hatches should, en
arrival, be found open, the quarantine will be 14 days,
and thc goods landed at the Lazaretto.
" Our Minister at Naples has asked fur an explana-
tion of this new measure. '
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
NEW LIGHT, ISLAND OF HONDURAS.

Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent, at Belize.
dated July 20:—
"On the 17th July, three lights in the shape of a
triangle were exhibited at Manger Kaye, in lat. 17 deg.
36 min. N., long. 87 deg. 67 min. W., which were seen
by the writer 12 to 16 miles distant, in a very squally
night. _ . _

The light is so placed that by bringing the two lower
lights (which are 75 feet above the level of the sea) into
one, a vessel may shape her course at a distance of six
miles from the Kaye for English Kaye. The top light
of Manger Kaye is 95 feet above the level of the sea."