The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

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No. 17,494.]

SALES BY AUCTION.

ON THE BRUISE' CHANNEL, SOUTH DEVON.
Manor of STOKE FLEMING, with several FREEHOLD FARMS,
and comprising a delightful extent of Sea Coast, adjoining to and
and within the borough of Dartmouth, possessing commanding and
romantic sites for building, with beautiful coves and sands for
bathing, and particularly choice spots for any one fond of yachting,

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being close to the harbour.
ESSW4. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
instructed by the Proprietor to prepare for PUBLIC SALE,
at the Mart, on TUESDAY, October 24, at Twelve, in Lets (unless
previously disposed of by Private Treaty),
The very valuable and highly picturesque FREEHOLD FARM
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Dartmouth Estate contains about 360 acres, and presents obviously
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many great advantages, and numerous picturesque sites for building,
unrivalled perhaps as to sea views and facilities for bathing and
yachting. It commands also rich inland and river scenery, being at
the mouth of the Dart, the magnificent scenery of which river at-
tracts yearly visitors from all parts of the world. The Manor is co-
extensive with the parish of Stoke Fleming, bounded by the sea-
coast for about two miles, and comprising about 3,000 acres, and is
au ancient well secured right of free-warren, with right of sporting,
with the wastes, commons, wrecks, estrays, &c. The Bugford
Farms are on the road to Totnes, offering very eligible and Improv-
able ,investments, and the Noss Estate, in the parish of Brixham,
embraces the Old Camp, from which is a grand• and extensive view
of the Start and Torbay, and extends along the romantic eastward
bank of the river, affording delightful sites for building, with orna-
mental woods and plantations, and an important frontage upon the
high road to Torquay, A Mansion in Stoke Fleming, with good
Grounds, &c., may Ix; purchased or rented,• particularly convenient
for the enjoyment of the Manor.
For particulars, apply at their Offices in Waterloo-place, Pall-
mall ; or to Messrs. Tatham, Upton, J0111,11Q1.1, And Co., Solicitors,
Uncoln's Inn fields.

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vicinity of Lewes, BARHAM
HOUSE, with its beautiful Demesne, Farm, and some contiguous
Lands in the rural parish of East.lloathly, with early possession,
every part in delightful order.
IIESS RS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, October
24, at Twelve (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously made by
Private Treaty),
The above delightfully situated and complete GENTLEMAN'S
RESIDENCE, comprising a spacious, substantial, and elegant Ita-
Ilan Villa, in perfect order, with good-sized rooms, and affording the
most comfortable accommodation for a large family, with highly-
dressed pleasure-grouqds and productive gardens, elegant circular-
domed conservatory, and superior 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, about 1,76 acres, with newly-built bailiff's
house, and a very superior well-arranged farm homestead, all slated.
The house overlooks its undulating park-like pastures, belted and
studded with plantations and ornamental woods, stored with thriv-
ing young oak and well stocked with game, with a great extent of
open and wilderness walks, and ornamental pieces of water in the
valley. The scenery from the house and various parts of the grounds
is highly picturesque and richly diversified, and it is a good sporting
country, and within a walk of the village and church of East
Hoathly, and about eight miles from Lewes and sixteen from
Brighton. Some detached fields will be offered in separate lots' if the
whqleis not disposed of by Private Treaty together.
For earls to view the estate and particulars apply to Messrs.
Colley, Smith, Hunter, and Gwatkin, solicitors, No. 9, New-square,
Lincoln's Inn ; and to Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, in Waterloo-
place, Pall-mall.

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., deceased, at the Auction Mart, on TUESDAY,
October 24, at Twelve, in Two Lots (unless an acceptable offer shall
be previously made by Private 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, commanding fine views, embracing Windsor Castle,
and surrounded by a hig .ly rural and picturesque country, abounding
in field sports. There are all suitable farm buildings, cottage,
orchard, &c.

The estate may be viewed; and particulars, with plans, had
at the hotels at Slough, Windsor, &c. ; at the Auction Mart ; of
Messrs. Cox and Williams, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; and of
Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, land agents, in Waterloo-place,

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and RICH I.ltD DOYLE.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—London now contains considerably
,nore than two millions of inhabitants, a population
fouble of that which could be found in England and
Wales at the time of the Conquest. When we take
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 ye:
seen such an example of a purely urban population.
['he vast multitudes who inhabit the towns are with-
Irawn almost entirely from the feudal influences
which still, in some measure, obtain in the country
iistricts. 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
.s one of terrible importance. It means that the
great mass of our urban communities, under their
present aspect, are necessarily exposed to great and
constant vicissitudes of fortune. • " A fair day's
wages for a fair day's work" is their cry, but a time
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 which
a great city is condemned. 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 originate in
the passions of this vast' multitude, their domestic
bickerings, their disappointed 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 •
ponsible 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
and blue, illuminated
vases, red, green,
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 thedistribution 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 them 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 he felt it
his duty to adopt those "proceedings in consequence of
the numerous cases of a similar kind which had 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. The prisoner was brought to the
hospital, in a state of complete stupefaction, on the night
of Tuesday week, and, after the usual means had been
successfully resorted to , to dislodge the poison, and
restore her to consciousness, she voluntarily acknow-
ledged' having taken no less than sixpennyworth of
laudanum, which she had purchased at two different shop
but at neither of which, it appeared, had the slightest
precaution been adopted to guard against its improper
application. The investigation of several previous cases
having disclosed the same culpable want of caution in
almost every instance, he was induced to give the pri-
soner into custody, not so much with the view of pressing
for her individual punishment as to place the subject
under the ju iicial notice of' the magistrate, in the hope
that he would be able to suggest some mode of imposing
a check upon the fatal facility at present afforded for the
commission of such offences."
We cannot help thinking that in this case there
must have been something peculiarly gross in the
facility with which the unfortunate woman obtained
the deadly drug. It appeared, in the course of the
discussion before the magistrate, that she laboured
under mental aberration, and when questioned could
give utterance to nothing but a few incoherent
observations. It is difficult toconceive that her
manner at the time she purchased the poison should
have been devoid of such excitement as would natu-
rally have raised suspicion in any reasonable mind.
Her married daughter was in attendance. With this
person she had resided, and it appeared that some
family quarrels had been the cause which had driven
her to the desperate act. It was at the termination
of these, no doubt, that she formed the resolution,
rushed out into the street, and found no difficulty in
obtaining the laudanum as stated by Mr. Birch.
From this gentleman's evidence it appeared that
absolutely the only restriction upon the sale of these
deadly drugs is that the chemist who vends them shall
affix to the phial a label inscribed in legible characters
with the word " Poison." King John, if we remem-
sayi to Hubert in the play
ber right,
st How oft the sight 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 be
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
Heret again,
confined to the urban population alone.
had a difficulty existed in obtaining tihteisarsenic with
more than
which the crimes were, perpetrated,occ
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probable they would never have ured.
unsatisfactory as is the present mode of
lacerated
causes of death, a blackened.d face
considerable practical
would have given too.evi ent indication of the
the sale of arsenic, as it
mur-
derer's guilt. It seemethat
difficulty exists in forbidding
competent
enters so largely into processes of trade. The matter
whorequired witnesses.
should be inquired into.
which
hy
parties
Would the necessity in
and legitimate purposes
A certificate from the article for commercial
would be placed of obtaining mlta pro-
pera restriction ?
officer be too
present system is very bis da
balance of evils, but the
b
re active and concentrated very bad.
With regard to the
drugs, where no such
sale should 16pl°ea--.as the above can
be e
forbidden
there is no doubt that their
save under medical authority.
CHRONICLE.—The blame of absurd verdicts is
to jurymen. Judges
not always to be imputed ,eave to them , who
sometimes l
ought to know better, se
ques-
tions which juries nre not properly entitled to de•
force, them into
cide, and tempt, or almost
the act charged b verdicts
that insure impunity, where
and where has,thecommitted, law,
would have implied the on the finding of the Act,
The • question of in-
tention that made it criminal.
of law arising upon facts.
mo-
tive is, in many cases, one
facts, and then the duty
The jurymen have to 'find the
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 Ur. Dolby, descrsbed as " 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 ill.'
Sarah Wild and her chil-
dren, whereby they were rendered The proof of
the fact appears to bare been complete. Wile (10.