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SALES BY AUCTION.

IN YORKSHIRE.
Fine RESIDENTIAL DOMAIN and other important ESTATES,
nearly in the centre of the County.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned to announce that, during the ensuing summer
they will submit to SALE, a very distinguishel SEAT, in a choice
part of the comity: comprising a splendid Mansion in the most per-
fect order, with a rich beautiful Park, valuable Manors, and capital
Farms, forming a most complete and important Residential Pro-
perty and eligible investment for a family of rack and fortune. The
domain is bounded by a flue river, and interspersed with good covers
for game, and isaltogcther such all Estate as is seldom in the market.
Further partculars will be shortly published.
Waterloo-place, April, 1848.

HANTS.
CAPITAL FREEHOLD ESTATE, in a fine sporting part of the
county, comprising a handsome modern Mansion, surrounded by
I 1 valuable atd very picturesque Domain of about 465 acres, with
early possession.
ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, in June, (unless an ac-
ceptable offer shall be previously made by private contract ,
A desirable I'ItEEHOLD ESTATE, in the parish of East .Neon,
near the villae and church, between Droxford and Peterstleld,
and within easy distance of Alresford, Alton, Winchester,
and the SoLth Western Railway Stations ; comprising a man-
sion •f a handsome modern elevation, with a paved colonnade
on the south 7/Tilt, standing in a small park, on a fine dry healthy
eminence, overlooking a picturesque country, with walled garden,
good stabling, and other appendages, placed nearly in the centre
of the properly, which is interspersed with ornamental plantations,
and comprise, in a ring fence, about 465 acres, forming a very
capital stock farm, with a valuable water meadow, a respectable
farm-house, LE epere anti labourers' cottages, and very superior and
substantial rawly-built agricultural buildings of all kinds ; the
whole (being in hand) in the highest condition, and to a sportsman,
and any one bnd of agricultural pursuits, a most complete and de-
sirable proper y.
Particulars may be obtained of Mr. Ross, Fob-down, Alresford;
also (when the time of sale is fixed) of Messrs. Sharp and Harrison,
solicitors, Sottaampton ; of Mr. Sowton, solicitor, Bedford-row ;
and at the Atict:on Mart ; and, in the interim, every information
may be had of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Sons, land agents, in Water-
loo-place, Call-mall, where a plan may be seen.

BEAti3IONT LODGE, for many years the favourite and admired
seat and property of the late Viscount Ashbrook, with its rich and
beautiful elevated domain rising from the picturesque bank of the
Thames, at Old Windsor, and commanding several magnificent
views of Windsor Castle, amidst a grand expanse of scenery ex-
tending into several counties.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SFLL by AUCTION, at the Mart, in June, (unless an ac-
ceptable offer shall be pros iously made by private contract,
The above highly distinguished FREEHOLD ES LATE, command-
ingly situate, isithin two miles of Windsor, upon the picturesque
side of the bold range of richly wooded hills skirting the bank
of the Thames and Runyrnede, between Windsor Park, Engle-
field-green, ant Eghain. It comprises a handsome and noble
uniform mansion, of the Grecian style of architecture, con-
taining every accommodation for a family of rank and for-
tune; capital stabling, walled gardens, hot-houses, conservatory,
&c., surrounded by pleasure grounds and gardens of extraordinary
beauty and extent. The domain comprises, in a perfect ring fence,
nearly 150 acres, delightfully secluded, with extensive and varied
walks, forming a Mali finely timbered park, and a valuable produc-
tive farm, with neat newly-built farm-house, and capital farm home-
stead, gardener's and labourers' cottages, entrance lodge, ice house,
ornamental dairy, and all the requisite appendages to a complete
country seat. The estate extends from the royal park to the bank
of the Thames, Ir, which it has a right of fishery, near Magna Charta
island.

The Estate raay be viewed with cards, and further particulars may
be obtained of Mersrs. 'White, Broughton, and White, Solicitors, 12,
Great Marlborouga•atreet ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son,
Land Agents, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

BUCKS.
FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, situate in the rural village of Little
Missenden, near the town of Amersham, with ornamental Grounds
and rich Paddock ; a healthy and highly picturesque part of the
county.
11.ESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, in June (unless an ac-
ceptable offer shall be previonsly made by private contract),
The very desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, late the property
of Lady Sykes, eeceased, situate at Little Missenden, close to the
church, to which there is a private entrance front the grounds, con •
taming :seven bad-rooms, dressing-room, library, entrance-ball,
dining-room, large and lofty drawing-room, and good domestic
nieces, with cletathcd five-stall stable and double coach-house, &c.,
encircled by gardens and pleasure-grounds., beautifully intersected
by a stream of rater, and a paddock of about eight acres, belted by
shrubberies and ornamental timber. It is in the vicinity of Sharde-
loes, the tine seat of Mr. Drate, about two miles from Amersham,
three from Chetham and Great Missenden, and six front High
Wy combe.

Particulars may be obtained at the Griffin Inn, Amersharn; at the
Mart ; of Messrs. White, Broughton, and White, solicitors, 12,
Great Marlboreugh-street ; or of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son,
land agents, in 'Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, and Windsor.

Capital and handsome MANSION, rich Park, and very valuable
Farm, and other Lands, in a highly picturesque part of MIDDLE-
SEX, only fifteen minutes' journey from town by the Great
Western Railway.
NIESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
submit to PUBLIC SALE, at the Mart, en TUESDAY, May
30, at Twelve (unless previously disposed of by Private Contract),
The IIANWELL PARK ESTATE, comprising a capital and
spacious Mansion, with pleasure grounds, walled gardens, hot-
houses, orchards, stabling, and other outbuildings, most desir-
ably situate about eight miles from London, in the remarkably
healthy parish of Hanwell, near the church, on the north side
of thu Great Western Railway, the entrance Lodge being within
a few minutes' walk of the station ; and also the Cuckoo Farm
and other lands, nearly all rich meadow and pasture, advanta-
geously situated, adjoining the park, and extending to the roads
leading to the rural district round Greenford, Barrow, &c., and
bounded by the windings of the river Brent, with a respectable
farm-house, and all suitable agricultural buildings ; the whole com-
prising nearly 300 acres, richly timbered, and parts beautifully un-
dulated, in command of varied and picturesque scenery.
The mansion and park may be viewed by tickets, and particulars,
with plans, had of Messrs. B. and C. Ball, solicitors, New Boswell.
court, Lincoln's Inn ; or of Messrs. Daniel Smith and Son, laud
agents arid surveyors, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

The Beautiful and Important ES PATE of ST. MARGARET'S, near
RICHMOND BRIDGE, opposite Kew Gardens, late the Residence
of the Dowager Lady Ailsa, deceased ; with other valuable Pro-
perties adjoining, commanding extensive and invaluable Front-
ages upon the River, and the Iseleworth-road, with Possession.
3,IESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON are
commissioned by the Trustees under the will of the late
Most Noble the Marquis of Ailsa to announce that the above very
capital and delightfully situated RESIDENCE and ESTATE will he
SUBMITTED to SALE at the Auction Mart, on TUESDAY, May 30,
at Twelve, in Lots (unless an acceptable offer shall be previously
made).
It comprises the elegant and spacious Mansion of St. Margaret's,
with its remarkably beautiful shrubberies and choice flower-gardens,
conservatories, ornamental dairy and cottage, terrace and other
walks, overlooking the river and the grounds of Kew, with complete
stabling, and offices of every description, superior walled gardens,
and a rich small park superbly timbered ; also St. Margaret's Cot-
tage, various lodges and farm lands, and homesteads ; offering a very
complete and most enviable retreat for a family of fortune, and par-
ticularly suited for a minister of state, or any one wishing to be
within half an hour's ride of London, In the midst of the far-famed
scenery of Richmond Hill.
The Estate may be viewed with orders, and descriptive particu-
lars, with plans, had at the Auction Mart ; at the chief Hotels in
Richmond and Windsor ; of Mr. Cain, House Agent, Richmond ; of
Messrs. Ashileld and Clodc, Solicitors, 7, Staple-inn, Holborn ; of
Alex. Hunter, Esq., Edinburgh ; and of Messrs. Daniel Smith and
Son, Land Agents, hi Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, who are fully autho-
rised to treat for the dispos4l of the Estate.

HANTS.-WINTNEY H,

IUSE

A most desirable FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, with about 27 Acres
of ornamental and productive LAND, in a fine healthy and
Sporting Part of the County, only One Mile trom the Willi:1111eld

Station on the South-Western Railway, with Possession.
MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will
SUBMIT to PUBLIC SALE, at the Mart, on 1.77-sDAT,
May 30, at Twelve, by order of the Proprietor, (ualess an acceptable
offer shall be previously made),
The above most comfortable and desirable FREEHOLD RE-
SIDENCE and HUNTING SEAT, in the agreeable parish of
Hartley Whitney, in the midst of an excellent neighbourhood,
only a few miles from Strathfleldsaye, and in the centre of
Sir John Cope's hunt, aid within easy reach of tke Hampshire
and Vine hounds. It Is a place of moderate expense, with great
comfort, and stands pleasantly in handsome park-like grounds, well
timbered, ia all about twenty-seven acres; with gardener's and two
ether very superior cottages, productive walled gardens, greenhouse,
good stabling, and various out-buildings.
The estate may be ♦iewed with cards, and particulars, with
lithographic plans, -had upon the premises; at the ♦uction Mart;
of Charles Berkeley, Esq., solicitor, 52, Lincela's Inn-fields ; and of
Daniel Smith and Son, Land Agents, in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET,
Having been GREATLY ENLARGED by the means of a NEW
THEATRE, &c., which will contain ONE THOUSAND FIVE
HUNDRED VISITORS, RE-OPENS to the Public on the 20th
Instant With numerous INTERESTING NOVELTIES.
Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
Saturday Evening) from Seven to Half-past Ten.

SCARBOROUGH lIOTEL and BOARDING-
HOUSE, LEEDS (adjoining the Yorkshire Banking Corn-
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This Establishment is contiguous to the Bradford Railway Station,
the Coloured Cloth hall, the Commercial Buildings, the Post Office,
and the intended Leeds Central Railway Station.
Soup and Luncheon ready every morning at Eleven o'clock.
Excellent Lodging Rooms and superior Beds.

BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-
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The principles of the Hygelan theory are contained in the follow-
lug propositions :-
1. The ♦ital principle is contained in the blood.
2. Everything in the body is derived from the blood.

S. All constitutions are radically the same.
4. All diseases arise from the impurity of the blood,
or, in other
words, from acrimonious humours lodged in the body.
5. This humour, which degenerates the blood, has three sources
—the maternine, the contagious, and the personal.
6. Disease and pain have the same origin, and may therefore be
considered synonymous terms.
7. Purgation by proper vegetable purgatives is the only effectual
mode of eradicating disease.
S. Experience of upwards of twenty years has amply proved MO-
RISON'S VEGETABLE UNIVERSAL MEDICINE to be such
proper vegetable purgative.
9. From the intimate connexion subsisting between the mind and
body, the health of the one must conduce to the serenity of the
other.

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS.
Copy of a letter from Mr. J. J. Wilson, Chemist, Monk Bar,

" To Mr. Thomas Trout,

" 14th Jnne, 1847.
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wonderful medicine, you are at perfect liberty to publish it.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully.
" J. J. WILSON."

The above testimonial exhibits the never-failing effects of this
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CORONEIt'S INQUEST.—An inquest was on Satur-
day held by Mr. W. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey,
at the King's Arms, on the banks of the Surrey-canal,
Camberwell, on the body of a female child, which had
no doubt, been murdered and thrown into the canal. A
lad, named Wengrove, sated that on Wednesday last,
about dinner time, he was passing along the banks of
the Surrey Canal, near the bridge, when he observed a
large bundle floating on the water. lie had a dog with
him, which he sent in, and the animal swam with it to
the shore. Be could then see the head of a child in it,
and being alarmed, called to a woman, who opened it,
and discovered it contained the body of a child, which
was taken to the above house. The jury returned a
verdict " that the child was found dead, but that they
had no evidence to show whether it was born alive or
not."
Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, has appointed
the Rev. William Hayward Cox, 8.D., Rector of St.
Martin's, Oxford, and Vice-President of St. Mary's Hall,
in the University of Oxford, and the Rev. George Clark,
M.A., Vicar of Cantley, Yorkshire, to be his Lordship's
Examining Chaplains.
Nature does not stop to lament over any single
victim of human society. When misery is the deepest,
there is something awful in this perpetual and smiling
round of natural movements. It teaches profoundly the
insignificance of the atoms of creation,

THE STATE TRIALS•

TRIAL OF MESSRS. WM. S. O'BRIEN, M.P.,
T. F. MEAGHER, AND JOHN MITCHELL,
FOR SEDITION.
Dinauti, SATURDAY.—This being the first day of
Easter term, and the opening of the State prosecution
against Messrs. O'Brien, Mitchell, and Meagher, con-
siderable excitement prevailed in the ball of the Four
Courts, and the immediate locality of the courts, for some
time before the ordinary period for commencing business.
In a few minutes after the door of the Queen's Bench
was opened, the junior b%r, the solicitors' and reporters'
seats, and the parts of the building appropriated to the
public, were completely occupied.
At twelve o'clock the lion. Justice Crampton entered
the court, and the grand jury was sworn.
Mr. Justice CRAMPTON proceeded to address them in
the following terms:—Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of
the Grand Jury of the city of Dublin,—The recurrence
of the presenting term has once more assembled you in
that box, and devolved on you the very
important office
of grand jurors. You are aware, gentlemen, that
your duties aro of a twofold character—civil and
criminal. In the discharge of your civil duties
you have to make presentment for the various
public establishments of the city which are sup-
ported by grand jury
cess—to superintend a check the
expenditure of the public money, and to discharge the
various other important functions connected with that
part of your duty. Into the details of those matters I
will not go. Your experience as grand jurors, and the
ed
addresses 3ou have often heard from my venerated pre-
decessor, render it quite unnecessary that I should do
so. Should any legal difficulty arise, however, in the
discharge of your duties, the Court will be ready to
afford you every assistance in its power. One general
observation I may make upon this part of your duty.
While you will liberally provide for the proper main
tenance of the various establishments, you will also, as
guardians of the public purse, wisely economise the
funds entrusted to your administration. Gentlemen,
another and not less important province of your duty
will be the consideration of such bills of indictment
as shall be submitted to you by the Clerk of the
Crown ; and as this part of your duty is not
very frequently—as you are not very frequently
called upon to discharge this :part of your duty in
this court, it may not be unseasonable for me to make
some suggestions as to the manner in which this
part of your duty should be discharged. lam informed
that it is intended on the part of the Crown to prefer
bills of indictment against certain parties who are
charged with seditious practices, tending to disturb the
public peace. If this be so, gentlemen, it will be your
duty to give your calmest consideration to such bills;
and if you are satisfied by the evidence laid before you
that they are true bills, you will find them so to be; but
if you are not satisfied with the evidence you will say
"No bill." Gentlemen, I cannot enter into any detail of
the particular cases that may be submitted to you. I
have neither the wish nor the materials to enable me
to do so. But I shall state to you generally, for your
guidance, the nature of the charges likely to be
preferred—the law applicable to them—and the proofs
necessary to sustain them. The bills of indictment
likely to be submitted to you, will, I understand,
contain certain charges for the publication of seditious
libels, and the speaking of seditious words. I refer
here not to mere private libels or slanders upon
individuals. These, though they may be the subject of
criminal prosecution or action, are looked upon more
in the light of private injury than of a public offence.
But the matters to be brought before you involve a grave
offence—an offence against the State—an offence that
comes under the general head of sedition. The term
sedition is a comprehensive term, and it serves to include
all those attempts to disturb the public peace which come
short of high treason, but the natural tendency of which
is to incite to insurrection and rebellion against the
Crown and Government. From the earliest period of
our law sedition has been held to include high treason ;
but though often closely allied to that highest of crimes,
and always tending towards it, sedition is now held only
as a misdemeanour, and punishable only with fine and im-
prisonment. It is a high misdemeanour, a grave offence—
tor its tendency and object are to incite opposition to the
law and Government—to bring the administration of
justice and the sovereign authority into con-
tempt—to excite discontent and disaffection among
the people—to create public disturbance, tumult, and
civil war, with all their pernicious consequences. In
short, sedition is disloyalty in action—a species of civil
mutiny, or rising up against the sovereign power and
the state. Gentlemen, you are aware there can be no
indictment for sedition in the abstract, any more than
for high treason or misdemeanour generally. For the
purpose of the charge a seditious spirit must be evidenced
by overt acts, by doings, by writings, or by words. I
will not here speak of seditious doings as contradistin.
guished from seditious writings or speakings, because it
is probable your consideration will be confined to sedi-
tious writings and speakings ; and though these may
appear to terminate in words they are often more dan-
gerous than the musket or the sword. For an armed
indidual can do but individual injury, but a seditious
speech, and, above all, a seditious
press, may stir up
thousands and tens of thousands to combine for the
destruction of property. In such writings and speeches
liberty is; made the pretext, and the weak-minded and
ignorant are deluded to believe that they are the slaves
of a foreign power, and that their freedom can be
achieved only by trampling upon the law of the land,
and subverting the Government of the country. These
preachers of sedition forget that there is no part of
the world—l say it emphatically—there is no part of the
world in which civil liberty exists to the same degree as
under the shelter of the British monarchy; that in no
other country would such writings and speeches be
tolerated as remain unpunished with us. The subjects
of the British empire, all submitting to the sovereignty
of the law, are free rom individual dominion. Liberty
of speech and writing, and liberty of action, are the
birthright equally of every subject of the United King-
dom; but the liberty, as secured to us by sovereign law,
is regulated by the same laws, and has its necessary
limits. In our free country no censorship on the press
or on the tongue exists. Every
man is free to write
and free to speak as he is free to act; but ho is as respon-
sible to the laws for what he writes and speaks as he is
for what he does. Ile is free, but ho must not use his,
liberty as a cloak for sedition. He shall not, under the
pretext of exercising his own rights, violate the legal
rights of others. Above all, he must not presume to
insult the Sovereign or her Goverrment, under the
security of that constitution which is the protector of his,
own person and of his own property. If he does so,'
gentlemen, he is a traitor to the law, and he must answer
it. Gentlemen, private libels are redressed by private
remedies. Political libels are those which form the sub-
ject-matter of that sedition I have spoken of ; and,
gentlemen, while political writings or speeches are con-
fined within their legal limits, they are not only allow-
able, they are not only justifiable, but they are entitled
to respect and praise. A man may lawfully and bene-
ficially discuss and criticise the measures adopted by the
Queen and her Ministers, provided he does so fairly,
temperately, and with respect, without imputing to them
corrupt or improper motives ; within the same limit a
man may lawfully comment on the laws and constitution.
of the realm, the acts and proceedings of the Houses of
Parliament, of the courts of justice, and the adrninistra-.
tion of the laws, and this he may do in our free country'
freely and boldly. Our law will not permit any narrow
or strained construction to be put on his writings or words,
nor hold him accountable for hasty or intemperate ex-
pressions. In these discussions, or the ability of his
own eloquence, the utmost lattitude is allowed him to
exercise his judgment; but if he advisedly pass the
limits
of free discussion—if he wilfully. trespass beyond the
bounds, then it is the seditious spirit is manifested; and
thus it is, gentlemen, and this is the material subject for
your consideration—if, from the whole scope and tenor
of these speeches and writings—if, from the whole scope
and tenor it appears that their object and tendency are
to alienate the affection of the people from the Sovereign
or the Government—to teach them that they are en-
slaved or oppressed by England, or the English Govern-
ment—to sow dissension between different portions or
classes of the Queen's subjects—to bring the adminis-
tration of justice into disrepute—to stimulate the people
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to procure by force of arms changes in the law and
government of the country— tamper the. fidelity
aid of foreign powers spins the
lawful authority of
of the Queen's peace-officers country—to
soldiers --to invoke the
the State—to encourage multitudinous meetings for
the Government—
cure arms, and practise the use of arms, for the
civil war against the Government, or to
purpose of
the display of phytosiceaolcofourretieg
excite to tumult or rebellion—all and every such speeches
are clearly sedition; all and every such writings are
clearly seditious libels; they come immediately within
the category of sedition, and are closely allied to high
treason. Gentlemen, I do not mean here to enumerate
all the clauses of such words or writings which may be
used for the purpose I have stated; but I have mentioned
enough to describe their general character, and to
with the which will be made the
subject of your inquiry. I
enable you to deal w bills.k
now, gentlemen,
,there are
some who disapprove of all the prosecutions, and espe-
cially of what are called state prosecutions; that there
are some who exhibit a morbid feeling towards offenders
and are comparatively careless about the safety of in-
dividuals or the public, and that such persons are dis-
posed to look with an especially indulgent eye upon
what are called political offences,
as if an offence or
crime lost its effect by having the whole public
for its object. But I own I cannot sympa-
thise
with such philanthropists, as they may call
themselves. I cannot but view high treason
as
the greatest and most dangerous of all offences that can
be committed against humanlaws, as laws, involving, it does,
every other crime connected with violence and blood.
I cannot but view also seditious attempts to stimulate
the multitude into insurrection as an offence of the
gravest character. The motive for such offences
my
not be traitorous; it may be merely selfish; it may
mae
y
a desire for low popularity, or a love of notoriety,
at the expense of degradation. The sedition even
uttered
i
may be but the effusion of a heated imagination
effects of a mischievous restlessness of mind ; but or
The
what-
ever the motive, be it more or less culpable, the dangers
to the community from such practices are exactly the
same. The principles which such would inculcate are
inconsistent with all government. They are as hostile t:
the spirit of the British constitution as they are at