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ON THE BRITISH 1 .ITANNEL, SOUTH DEVON.
Manor of STOKE FLEMIN( i, with several FREEHOLD FARMS,
and comprising a delightful extent of Sea Coast, adjoining to and
and within the borough of I )arttnouth, possessin.r commanding and
romantic sites for huildinp with beautiful coves and sands for
bathing, and particularly cb oice spots for any one fond of yachting,

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "VANITY FAIR."
On the First of November will be published, price Is.
(to be continued Monthly), No. I. of
TIM HISTORY 01? PENDENNIS;
his FORTUNES and MISFORTUNES, his FRIENDS and
his GREATES r ENEMY.
By W. M. THACKERAY.
Author of "Vanity Fair," " The Snob Papers" in Punch, &c., &c.
With Illustrations en Steel and Wood by the Author.
London; Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street.

being close to the harbour.
ESSILS. DANI EL SMITh and SON are
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the (unless
previously disposed of by Pr ivate Treaty),
The very valuable and 11 picturesque FREEHOLD FARNI
and LANDS, Called LITTLE DARTMOUTa, some Farms at Bug-
ford, and th Noss Estate, in the parish of Brixham. The Little
Dartmouth Estate contains about 350 acres, and presents obviously
many great advantages, and numerous picturesque sites for building,
unrivalled perhaph as to set . views and facilities for bathing and
yachting. It commands als( rich inland and river scenery, being at
the mouth of the Dart, the : aiagniticent scenery of which river at-
tracts yearly visitors front a' 1 parts of the world. The Manor is co-
extensive with the parish of Stoke Fleming, bounded by the sea-
coast for about two miles, at td comprising about 3,600 acres, and is
an ancient well-secured rig,l it of free-warren, with right of sporting,
with the wastes, common; s, wrecks, estrays, &c. The Bugford
Farms are on the road to T( dues, offering very eligible and improv-
able investments, and the. Noss Estate, in the parish of Brixham,
embraces the Old Camp, fror a which is a grand and extensive view
of the Start and Torbay, an d extends along the romantic eastward
bank of the river, affording' delightful sites for building-, with orna-
mental woods and plantation s', and important frontage upon the
high road to Torquay. A Aftursion in Stoke Fleming, with good
Grounds, &c., may be purct ,ased or rented, particularly convenient
for the enjoyment of the Ma our.
For particulars, apply a.; their Offices in Waterloo-place, Pall-
mall ; or to Messrs. 'Paths. ,nu, Upton, Johnson, and Co., Solicitors,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.

On the First of NoTeruber will be published, price 2a. ad., roan,
gilt edges,
PUNCH'S POCIiET-BOOK, for 1849, with a
Coloured Frontispiece and other Illustrations Ioy_JOIIN LEECH
and RICIISED DOYLE.

London : Punch Office, 85, Fleet street.

This day is published, Price 123. 6d.,
THE FIRST PART OF A NEW EDITION OF

THE BOOK OF THE FARM,
A Systematical IV:.rk on Practical Agriculture.
By HENRY S CEPHENS, F.R.S.E.

CONTENTS : -

The existing Methods ter acqairing a knowledge of Practical
Husbandry—Ditilculties the Pupil has to encounter—Different Kinds
of Farming—The Labour of the Farm —Branches of Science—lnsti-
tutions of Education—Observing Details and Recording Facts—Sum-
mary of Field Operatioas and Practice in Winter—The Plough,
Swing-trees, and Plough-harness—Ploughing Different Forms o,
Ridges, Stubble and Lea Ground—The Steading In Winter—Pulling
and Storing Turnips, Mangold -Wurtzel, &e.—Varieties of Turnips—
Feeding of Sheep—Accommodatien, Rearing and Fattening of Cattle
on Turnips—Construction of Stables.

Illustrated by Six Engravings on Steel, and upwards of One
Hundred Wood Engravings.
William Blackwood and Sons,. Edinburgh and London.
Specimens may Le had of, and Orders received by, all Booksellers

SUEX.
In the healthy and pieta reiqueSS vicinity of Lewes, BARHAM
IitOUSE, NI-WI its bettutiftt Demesne, Farm, and some contiguous
Lands in the rural parish of East Hoathly, with early possession,
every Dart in delightful or.lter.

ENGINES, &c., FOR SALE.—Six Old Loco-
/ motive Engines, Seven Locomotive Boilers, Sixty Goods and
Coke Waggons, Fifty Tons of Engine and Tender Wheels.
For particulars, apply to Mr. John Hunter, Locomotive Superht•
inideut, Eastern Counties Railway, Stratford, Essex.

MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTIC at the Mart, on TUESDAY, October
24, at Twelve (unless an act,eptable offer shall be previously made by
Private Treaty),
The above delightfully at mated and complete GENTLEMAN'S
RESIDENCE, comprising .a spacious, substantial, and elegant Ita-
lian Villa, in perfect order, v. 'Rh good-sized rooms, and affording the
most comfortable accommot cation tbr a large family, with highly-
dressed pleasure-growids and productive gardens, elegant circular-
domed conservatory, and supt aim' vineries, detached billiard-room or
pavilion, dairy, &c., capital stabling and coachhouses, with hand-
some carriage approach and neat entrance lodge, together with a
valuable farm adjoining, abc •ut 176 acres, with newly-built bailiff 'a
house, and a very superior si -ell-arranged farm homestead, all slated.
The house overlooks its us adulating park-like pastures, belted and
studded with plantations an. 4 ornamental woods, stored with thriv-
ing young oak and well stoc. ted wirh game, with a great extent of
open and wilderness walks, :and ornamental pieces of water in the
valley. The scenery from tht house and various parts of the grounds
is highly picturesque and ricl tly diversified, and it is a good sporting
country, and within a wal k of the village and church of East
oathly, and about eight miles from Lewes and sixteen front
Brighton. Some detached 'fie ds will be offered in separate lots if the
whole Is not disposed of by Private Treaty together.
For earls to view the 0 tato and particulars apply to hressrs.
Colley, Smith, Hunter, and Gwatkin, solicitors, No. 9, New-square,
Lincoln's lan ; and to Mess? 79. Daniel Smith and Son, in Waterloo-
place, Pall-mall.

CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other Govern-
ments, the Lion. East India Company, th. principal Dock Com-
panies, most public bodies, and by the nobility, clergy, and gentry,
for out-door work at their country seats. The ANTI-CORRO;ION
is particularly recommended as the most durable out-door paint ever
liveeted for the preservation of every description of iron, wood,
stone, brick, comp*, cement, &c., work, as has been proved by the
practical test •f upwards of 60 years, and by the numerous testi-
monials (between 300 and 400) in its favour, and which, from the
rank and station in society of thoss who have given them, have
perhaps never yet been equalled by anything of the kind hitherto
brought before the public notice.
A Copy of the testimonials, together with a list of prices, colonrs,
and other particulars, will be forwarded en application to Walter
Carson, lb, Tokeuhouse-yard, back of the Bank of England. Ns
agent*

F R.A MP T 0 N'S PILL of HEALTH.
The manifold advantages to the Heads of Families from the
possession of aNnedicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to
with confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sickness
occurring in families, more or less, every day, are so obvious to all,
tint no question can be raised of its importance to every householder
in the kingdom. From among numerous testimonials, the following
is respectfully submitted :
•‘ To Mr. Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London.
"No. 5, David-street, Regent-road, Manchester, March 12,1842.
" Sir,—l have much satisfaction in communicating to you the re-
sult of my experience after repeated trials of Frampton's Pill of
Health ; and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of many
years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, I have "ever found results
at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system from
redundant bile, &c., &c., with so little inconvenience ; I am there-
fore warranted in declaring that they supply to me a means tom,
wanting of being able to recommend to families, schools, and espe-
cially mercantile men, whether at the desk or on the road, a mast
valuable resource in an occasional medicine. And I shall take credit
to myself if, in giving this testimony, I am the means of making
Frampton's Pills more generally known and appreciated.—l am,
Sir, respectfully yours, `I WILLIAM SMITH."
The unprecedented sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest
recommendations of the many thousands who have derived benefit
from their use, render any lengthened comment unnecessary. They
are not put forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is
liable, but for Bilious and Liver *Complaints, with their many well-
known attendants, Bilious and Sick Head-ache, Pain and Oppression
atter meals, giddiness, Dizziness, Singing Noise in the Head and
Ears, Drowsiness, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, &c.
Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of their salutary
effects. The stomach will speedily regain its strength; a healthy
action of the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys will rapidly take place ;
and instead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance,
strength, activity, and renewed health, extending to good old age,
will be the result of taking this medicine, according to the directions
accompanying each box.

FREEHOLD and TITHE-FREE FARM, near SALT-HILL, STOKE
PARK. and SLOUGH STATION., within FOUR MILES of
WINDSOR.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, by direction of the Executors of
A. Robertson, Esq., deceas•ld, at the Auction Mart, on TUESDAY,
October 24, at Twelve, in Two Lots (unless au acceptable offer shall
Le previously made by Privlite Treaty),

A. remarkably compact and highly improvable FREEHOLD
FARM, of about 90 acres of pasture and arable land, belted
and intersected by ornamental and thriving plantations, with
a modern farm residence, not finished, but easily completed as
a small villa or sporting-box . The situation is elevated, and remark-
ably dry and healthy, in the, parish of Farnham Royal, on the road
to Beaconsfield, commandin fine views, embracing Windsor Castle,
and surrounded by a hig .ly r oral and picturesque country, aboqinling
in field sports. There are all suitable farm buildings, cottage,
orchard, &c.

The estate may he vlewe 1; and particulars, With plans, had
at the hotels at Slough, Windsor, gr,e. ; at the Auction Mart ; of
Messrs. Cox and Williams, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; and of
Messrs. Daniel Smith and Sou, land agents, in Watorleo-place,

Sold by Front, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. 1%11. and 2s. 9d.
per box ; and by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the
kingdom.

Ask for FIIAMPTON'3 PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
name and address of " Thomas Pront, 229, Strand, London," on the
Government Stamp.

CELIBACY.—Singleness is not always the con-
sequence of disinclination, disappointed affection, or a diffi-
culty in meeting with a fit helpmate. Thousands of the unmarried
would with joy embrace the sacred conditions of 3latrimeny, did
they feel themselves equal to its obligations; and the chequered
page of life reveals innumerable instances where, under that
blighting consciousness, man has permitted the most ardent afec-
tam to consume him to the grave, rather than consign its object to
that life of unmitigable anguish ant fettered solitariness into which
his affianced would be plunged if lie married. Some are, however,
wilful enough to gain the affections of the other sex under these
circumstances; and, though not se villanous as to proceed to the
altar, will make such excuses for procrastination as contribute to his
selfish desire of exclusively enjoying her society, by precluding her
from accepting other offers. There is scarcely a street where this
history is not enacted ; and yet with the exercise of common
foresight, its frequency might b. so -lessened as to ren-
der an instance rare throughout the entire kingdom. The
disqualifications for Marriage have more than oneprfreary source ;
the chief of which is Impuissance, arising from four causes:—namely,
Natural Deficiency ; the Prostration produced by Early Mabits ; the
Weakening effects of Later Excesses ; And Nervousness of Tempera-
ment ; the next sources of importance are hereditary and acquired
disease ; and, lastly, men are prevented from marrying by the erects
of disease—which, when 111-cured, leaves traces that forbid all im-
pulse towards wedlock. In each of these instances it is unhappily
too common for the sufferer to consider his case beyond remedy, and
is fails to consult even his own medical attendant. such will fad
all obstacles removed by reference to a valuable Manual on Nervous
Debility and Generative diseases, the thirty-seventh •thousand of
which has just been published by its Authors, J. L. CURTIS and CO.,
Consulting gorgeous, 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, Loudon, entitled
MANHOOD ; the Causes of its Premature Decline, with Plata
Directions for Perfect Restoration, &c., &c. This entiaent Work,
which is forwarded by W. Strange, Bookseller, ti, Paternoster-
raw, London, post-paid, in a sealed envelope for Os. 6d., in postage
stamps, has saved thousands, and the result of its perusal has In-
variably been a restoration of the reader to his position as a useful
member of society.

M ball Onethe Rwend are desolal
telysingle, andG the etkEer.
A A
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence' er a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ens-
Wter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and
worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret an-
comprosiag harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity'
and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should feria an item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
teglect wound more sorely that poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern yen, procure Dr. CULVIRWELL'S little
,lEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is.
sack (by pest, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
relined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
sy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
taem. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
tor the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
,ogether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
ittle publications claim yottr attention (same price Is. each,
ey post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Aveld," and " flow to be Happy." They are net merely
asimplilets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
ife,who ewes his present e4lstence, health, and position to this els-
terranee of the maxims he *mild inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
as the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had et
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet•street ; Mann,
33, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post er ether-
wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally,
ma/tiling.; and evenings), 10, Argyll-plaee Regent-street; and all
Bonk4ellers

[ADVERTISBMENT.]—Cured by Holloway's Oint-
ment and Pills, Wounds in a Leg after more than Three
Years' Suffering.—The wife of Mr. James P. Springle,
schoolmaster of the town of St. Patrick, Grenada, had
been suffering from an ulcerated leg for more than three
years, which was so bad that it baffled the skill of the
professional practitioners in the island, who could not
possibly heal it. After every other remedy had failed,
Holloway's Ointment and Pills were resorted to, and by
their powerful efficacy the wounds were soon healed and
o others a perfectly sound cure effected. These medicines excel
all
other i n theunnatural
cur cure os fwe,scrofulaswellings.—Sold
s. s
Icing'srod
b yall
evil,
Druggists, glandular,
and
and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand
London.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] —The Celebrated Family Me-
dicine, Worsdell's Vegetable Pills, prepared by: John
ofra man
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natural order. They free the stomach from crudities
oiKnbatsirout,hcEetsiocihns, and cause the vital fluids to proceed in their
.u'
and vitiated secretions, and consequently aid digestion
and relieve the head from oppression and pain. Mrs. J.
Illiffe, of New-buildings, Hinckley, was afflicted with
dizziness and violent pains and noises in her head, aris-
ing from derangreent of the alimentary organs, so that
she could get no rest by night nor day. By taking
Kaye's Worsdell's Pills, the disorder was removed in a
short time. Mr. Thomas Herbert, of Searb;)rough, was
for five years heavily afflicted with indigestion, dizziness,
and swelling in the body, so that ho could scarcely eat
the least portion of food without great pain. By taking
these Pills he was restored to perfect health. The ge-
nuine Pills have Mr.:Kaye'll coat of arms and a fac-simile
of his signature, printed on the directions for use
wrapped round each h ,x. Price is. lid.; 2s. 9d.; or
43. 6d. per box. To be had of all Medicine Venders.
COLLIBRY ACCIDENT.--On Saturday last, Mr.
Dearden, coroner, held an inquest at the Yew Tree,
Thornham, in the parish of Middleton, on the body of
John Fitton, aged nineteen years. It appeared
by the evidence of James Lomax, collier, that the
deceased was his waggoner, and on the 6th instant
they were at work in the engine pit, at Spath Bot-
toms Colliery, near Rochdale, longinz to Mr. Thomas
Knowles. The deceased and witness were at their
work, when the young man went up tho air road for two
picks; he had &lamp with him, but it was without a top.
An explosion of fire-damp took place; deceased was
severely burnt and otherwise injured. He was attended
by a person named Rose, but he died at ten o'clock on
Thursday night last. According to the rules of the
colliery, persons using a lamp without a top are liable to
a fine of 2s. 6d., and the young man had been previously
warned of it. Verdict, " Accidental death.”—lficiaches-
ter Examiner.
Her Majesty's pardon Was on Monday last granted
to John Shelly and William Lewis, convicted at the last
spring assizes, Devon, for attacking, ill-using, and
robbing on the highway Mr. James Reddicliffe, of Whit-
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Collier, counsel, and hlr. Richard Robins, of Tavistock,
attorney.

LONDON, FRIDAY - -.5: .
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SPIRIT of the ( P 7BLI ' JOURNALS.
t,
FROM THR MORNING. PAPERS OF THIS pain
TIMES.—London now contains considerably
more than two millions of inhabitants, a population
double of that which could be found in England and
Wales at the time of the Conquest. When we tak.-
into account the other large towns of the kingdom,
especially those lying in the manufacturing districts,
it may be safely asserted that the world has not yet
seen such an example of a purely urban population.
['he vast multitudes who inhabit the towns are with-
drawn almost entirely from the feudal influences
which still, in some measure, obtain in the country
districts. There is but little notion of protection and
dependence. The relation of patron and client, of
lord and vassal, has disappeared in the towns, and in
place of it we find a mutual dependency, ori-
ginating in relative wants. We are neither broach-
ing a theory which • might give umbrage to Lord
John Manners, nor clearing the ground for
philosophic Chartism ; neither
admiring nor cen-
suring, but simply enunciating a fact. That fact
is one of terrible importance. It means that the
great mass of our urban communities, under their
present aspect, are necessarily exposed to g!'eat and
constant vicissitudes of fortune. " A fair day's
wages for a fair day's work" •but a time
is their cry,
comes when they cannot get a fair day's wages, let
them work never so fairly. Their employers cannot
pay the fair day's wages, and are often obliged to
refuse even the day's work. Then comes the half
meal, and the no meal, the " distress," the sale of the
few decent articles of furniture, and the open street.
Poverty, however, is but one of the spasms to wliich
a great city is condemeed. Bring two millions of
human beings into close contact, and give their
passions full play, the, result is London:, Take into
account all the impulses, either to self-destruction
or to the destruction of others, which priginate in
the passions of this vast multitude, their domestic
bickerings, their digappointed hopes, , the relations
between the sexes, or the greed of gain, and it may
be imagined that every possible bar and impediment
should be thrown by the authorities, who are re-
eponsible before God for the safety of these multitudes,
between the impulse and the act—the frenzy and the
accomplishment of its design. Now, what will be
said when we tell the public that the Legislature
calmly looks on while the most tempting hopes of
secresy are held out to the hesitating assassin, and an
, easy painless termination of all suffering is suggested
to the despairing man, who asks ;no better than to
turn his face to the wall and die in peace. He need
but cross his threshold, and he will be invited to the
shops where, for a few pence, he can purchase death
for himself or others. There is no mistake possible
in the spots where the article is sold, no pos-
sibility of overlohking them by day or by
night. With their gaudy and transparent
vases, red, green, and blue, illuminated
from behind by jets of gas, they attract the poor
wretches' attention. Like the insects that flutter
round our lamps and tapers at night, he may struggle
and hesitate for a time, but, like them, he rushes in
and is lost. With his last three' or four pence he
can purchase in the druggist's shop that which makes
him master of his own life, and the lives of his fellows.
A smirking boy takes down a jar from the shelf and
pours of its contents into the little phial ; he covers
over the cork with red paper clipped with due pre-
cision, and neatly labels it as " Poison." No ques-
tions are asked. The apothecary's boy shovels the
pence into the till, and proceeds to spread his plaisters,
or roll out his pills, as though the distribution of poison
were but one of the ordinary functions of his craft. We
will not enlarge upon this theme. The humanity or pre-
caution of individuals may induce them to hesitate at
times. Few druggists, probably, and few druggists'
apprentices, would vend a poisonous drug to a man
who rushed into the shop with a disturbed look and
haggard eye. This, however, is a defence too slight
and insufficient for the community. Crime and de-
spair have a thousand shifts. A simulated toothache
will induce an apothecary's boy "to make up three
penn'orth of laudanum" at one shop, and three penny
worth more can be obtained in the same way else-
where. Rats are troublesome, and a small portion of
arsenic is required to destroy theist withal. While
the sale of poison is legal, there can be no difficulty
in hatching up a pretext by which it may be obtained.
Here is an instance :—On Tuesday last, Sarah Rich
was brought up before Mr. Hammill, at Worship•
street, at the instance of the authorities of the London
Hospital, charged with having attempted to destroy
herself by swallowing a large quantity of laudanum.
"Mr. Samuel Birch, house-surgeon at the hospital,
who attended to support the charge, stated that be felt it
his duty to adopt those proceedings in consequence of
the numerous cases of a similar kind which bad recently
come under his professional
notice,
and the frequent re-
currence of which he attributed in
a great measure to
the indiscriminate and mischievous manner in which
poisons of almost every description were constantly sold
over the counters of druggists and other persons who
dealt in such articles. Theprisoner brought to the
vas
hospital, in a state of complete
after
stupefaction, on the night
of Tuesday week, and, the usual means had been
successfully resorted to; to dislodge the
.poison, and
restore her to conscionsa
elss, she voluntarily acknow-
ledged having taken no east than siapennyworth of
laudanum, which shelled p.urchased at two different shop,
but at neither of which, eared, had the slightest
precaution been adopted toit
appeared,
guard against its improper
application. The investigation
having disclosed' the set ,„atton of several previous cases
heale culpable want of caution in
almost every instance,was induced to give the pri-
soner into custody, not so
for her individu..l punis much
with the view of pressing
under the juiicial notice mfent as to place the subject
that he would be able too the magistrate, in the hope
a check upon the fatal facsialggest some mode of imposing
commission of such offencerz at present afforded for the
We cannot help thinking.
must have been someth that in this case there
In
facility with which th g peculiarly gross_ in the
the deadly drug. It e unfortunate woman obtained
discussion before the appeared, in the course of the
magistrate, that she laboured
under mental aberration,
n,
.and
nnthm
give utterance to when questioned could
observations. It is cliffs g but a few incoherent
manner at the time she cult to conceive that her
have been devoid of such urchased the poison should
rally have raised suspioioexcitement as would natu-
Her married daughter was L.
in
any reasonable mind.
Person she had resided, in attendance. With this
and it appeared that some
family quarrels had been the
her to the desperate act. it cause which had driven
was at the termination
of these, no doubt, that she formed
rushed out into the street, and foud no difficulty in
the resolution,
obtaining the laudanum as
statedn by Mr. Birch.
From this gentleman's evidence it
dthat
absolutely the only restriction upon eepspaaeleroef
these
deadly drugs is that the chemist who vends them shall
affix to the Phial a label inscribed in legible characters
with the word " Poismo
King John, if we remem-
ber right, says to Hubert in the play— '
" HOW oft the sh,ht of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!"
If the desire for destruction could not be
.gratified at
the moment, so variable and fluctuating is the mind
of man, especially when under the influence of high
excitement, most probably it would pass off and he
replaced by calmer and less guilty thoughts. The
horrible disclosures that have recently taken place in
Essex show that the crime of secret
poisoning is not
confined to the urban population alone. Here, again,
had a difficulty existed in obtaining the arsenic with
which the crimes were perpetrated, it is more than
probable they would never have occured. Loose and
unsatisfactory as is the present mode of attesting the
causes of death, a blackened face or a lacerated throat
would have given too evident indication of the mur-
derer's guilt. it seems that considerable practical
difficulty exists in forbidding the sale of arsenic, as it
enters so largely into processes of trade. The matter
should be inquired into by competent witnesses.
Would the necessity in which parties who required
the article for commercial and legitimate purses
would be placed of obtaining a certificate from a pro-
per officer be too vexatious a restriction ? It is a
balance of evils, but the present system is very bad.
With regard to the more active and concentrated
drugs, where no such plea as the above can be urged,
there is no doubt that their sale should be forbidden
save under medical authority.
CHRONICLE—The blame of absurd verdicts is
not always to be imputed to jurymen. Judges, who
ought to know better, sometimes leave to them ques-
tions which juries are not properly entitled to de•
cide, and tempt, or almost force, them into verdicts
that insure impunity, where the act charged has, be-
yond all doubt, been committed, and where the law,
on the finding of the Act, would have implied the in-
tention that made it criminal. The question of mo-
tive is, in many cases, one of law arising upon facts.
The jurymen have to find the facts, and then the duty
of the judge commences; he has to apply to those facts
the rules of law, and to declare the motive which,
from such facts, those rules will infer. He cannot
rightfully relieve himself from this task by throwing
it on the jurors. If he adopts such a course, he com-
mits a great error, and perhaps creates a mischievous
precedent. A case, which was reported in our paper
on Monday, furnishes an apt illustration of these re-
marks. A Mr. Dolby, described es " a practical
chemist," was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for
a misdemeanour—the offence charged being, the
" placing certain noxious matter near the door of a
certain room occupied by Sarah Wild and her chil-
dren, whereby they were rendered ill." The proof of
the fact appears to have been complete. The de-