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peon, had stated that the deceased could not survive the
winter, the man promised to cure him in a fortnight.
The person alluded to carried his medicines, &c., in a
blue bag, and went from house to house, promising to
cure every complaint and disease in a few days. He
had obtained a sovereign from a person living in
the next house to the deceased. The following is a
small portion, copied from one of the handbills issued by
them:—
" Important to the Afflicted, free of any charge.—
Jordan and Co., Professors of Medical Botany, Russell-
street, Bloomsbury-square.—Notice.—It has been inti-
mated to Messrs. Jordan and Co., since their return
From the continent, that in consequence of certain illi-
terate quacks, they have deemed it necessary to acquaint
them of their miraculous cures, &c. And beg to add
that we are not connected with any other professors,
being sole proprietors of the herbal prescriptions." [Then
follow on the names of twenty persons who hate been
cured by its wonderful properties.]
The CORONER then summed up the evidence, and re-
marked that the investigation had clearly shown Oa'
the deceased had died froth general bodily dLease,arising
from natural causes.
The jury then returned a verdict of Natural Death.

Kite—*Lord Exeter's f, by Hetman Platoff, out of Galata—.
*Mr. Ford's Millwood—Mr. Jaques's Sir Martin—*Colonel
Peel's Patina--Duke of Richmond's V4pyre—Mr. Stephen-
son ns 1, by the Doctor, out of Sister to Dromedary—Mr.
Worley's Winton ia.
Match.—*Duke of Bedford's Enthen Bst 71b, agst *Mr.
Merton's Jumble, ist 1116. 200, 50 ft. 'First half of Ab.M.
Match—*Duke of Bedford's Paragon, Bst 71b, agst *Mr.
Merton's Missed Stays, fist 21b; 200 to 50 ft T Y.C. No
day mentioned.
Match—Mr. Clifton's BroWn Bess, Bst 31b, against Lord
Strathmore's Sultana, Bst, 300, 100 ft, T.Y.C.
Match—Mr. O'Brien's Mentor, 4 yrs, Stet 016 agst Jr. W.
H. Johnstone's Jack Cade, 5 yrs, 6st 616, 500,
The matches between Captain Phoebus and Queen of
Cyprus, Little f, and Taurina, Mentor, and Jack
Cade, will not be run. Sir Tatton Sykes, Ingo, and some
horses from GoodwOod and Mitchelgrove, were expected in
the course of Saturday or yesterday.

IRELAND.
RELIEF MEASURES.—MEETING OF PARLIA-
MENT.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 24.—Rumours are circulated in the
best informed quarters here that Parliament will cer-
tainly assemble in November, and it is confidently stated
that the Lord-Lieutenant has: in the strongest terms
urged the necessity of such a step upon the attention of
the Cabinet. It is also affirmed that his Excellency has
applied for powers to adopt the plans of relief by repro-
ductive works so earnestly pressed upon the Executive
in the memorials, resolutions, &c., adopted at the nume-
rous relief meetings held within the last month. The
Mail of this evening has it, that Lord Besborough has
pressed for authority to carry this plan into operations
at once, and to trust to a Parliamentary indemnity if it
should be thought to be contrary to the letter of the
Relief Act.
This day a deputation, consisting of Sir David Ro3he
and Mr. Monsell, of Tervoe, had an audience of his
Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, to present a memorial
agreed to at a baronial meeting, held in the county of
Limerick on the 22d instant—the Earl of Dunroven in
the chair. The main point in the memorial was the re-
commendation of the proposition that all relief moneys
should be expended in permanent improvements of the
soil, by drainage or otherwise, but not in ordinary cul
t;vation. His Excellency entered most warmly into the
spirit of the resolutions laid before him, fully acceded to
the propriety and necessity of adopting the plan, and
concluded by giving the deputation reason to believe
that, previous even to the assembling of Parliament, the
Executive in this country would adopt the suggestion
recommended.
A deputation from the Royal Agricultural Improve
ment Society also waited upon the Lord-Lieutenant to
day, for the purpose of presenting an address, the
prayer of which was nearly similar to the metnoria,
from Limerick. His Excellency, in his reply, stated—
" That he fully concurred in the general principle laii,
down in it—namely, the propriety of employing the la-
bouring classes upon works connected with husbandry,
if possible, and of a profitable and reproductive nature ;
but he feared that the Presentments Act, c. 107, of Viet.,
did not enable them to do so, as the law officers of the
Crown had given it as their opinion that its operations
were confined to public works alone, such as are con-
templated in the Grand Jury and Presentment Acts, b)
which it was construed. He had, hoWever communicated
his views on the subject, as well as those of others, re-
ceived from all quarters in a similar strain, to her Ma-
jesty's Government, and without being able to promise
anything specific, he Loped to have it in his power
shortly to give thempower information on the result of the
communication, which he trusted would be satisfactory.
He felt he could not say more at present than to thank
them for the very hand<orne manner in which the)
had alluded to himself personally in the memorial,
which he should make it his duty to transmit to the
proper quarter."

THE DAGENHAM MURDER.
DEATH Ok MRS. PARSONS, THE WIFE OF SERGEANT
PARSONS, FROM GRIEF AND FRIGHT.—There was a 're-
port on Saturday that the constables who perjured them-
selves before the ccroner, as well as Sergeant Parsons,
would be charged with the crime b.,fore the magistrates,
and in consequence the Court was crowde:J, but the re-
port turned out to be untrue. In the course of the
morning, however, it was stated to the bench that the
wife of Parsons had died under circumstances of a melan-
choly character, which appeared to excite the curiosity
of those present. It will be remembered that when the
constables gave their " second evidence" to the coroner,
contradicting all their previous testimony with respect to
the sergeant being on duty on the night of the murder,
the 29th of June, they all appeared stripped of their
uniform, sand attended by:other police-constables, who
were directed not to lose sight of them. The sergeant,
although he had not diverged from his previous testi-
mony, was among them and under strict surveillance.
This was on August 20, and at the time Mrs. Parsons
had been recently confined. What orders were given
with respect to her and her husband are not known, but
at the inquest, on Tuesday last, Mr. Rawlings, the soli-
citor, who attended for Sergeant Parsons, baid he had a
complaint to make against Mr. Superintendent Pearce of
harsh conduct towards Mrs. Parsons, who, at the time, was
in a delicate state of health, and who at the present time
was in an exceedingly dangerous state, arising as he had
been instructed, from the treatment she bad received
from the superintendent. Seeing Mr. Pearce present,
he had, on behalf of the friends, made the complaint, iu
order that he should be is a condition to give a denial to
it if it was untrue. He (Mr. Rawlings) understood that
Mr. Pearce's conduct was such towards Mrs. Parsons
that Mr. Superintendent Marquard was compelled to
remonstrate with him.
Mr. Marquard said he wished to state thitt such was
not the fact; he had no occasion whatever to remonstrate
with Mr. Pearce, who did his arduous duty in a most
proper and humane manner.
The CORONER said, from what he had seen of Mr.
Pearce, he felt satisfied that he was incapable of acting
in :st harsh manner towards any female, especially to
Mrs. Parsons, who was placed in her present situation
by the misconduct of her husband.
Mr. Superintendent Pearce said he could assure the
coroner that he pitied the situation in which Mrs. Par-
sons was placed, and instead of acting harshly towards
her, he had treated her with the greatest kindness con-
sistent with the duty he had to perform, which was one
of great importance and responsibility.
Mr. R iwlings was perfectly satisfied with Mr. Pearce
that he had not acted harshly towards Mrs. Parsons, but
us Mr. Rawlings, her father, was now present, perhaps
Mr. Pearce would satisfy him.
Mr. Rawlins (the father) said that his child was then
in a most dangerous state, suffering from nervous fever,
which she said had been caused by Mr. Pearce's treat-
ment of her, he having ordered the police to watch her,
and not let her escape. This was what his daughti r
stated ; and if anything serious happened to her, he
should insist on having:a coroner's inquest on her, the
surgeon who attended her saying that fright, so soon
after her confinement (only five weeks), had caused her
illness.

Meanwhile, from the multitudinous-reports of baronial
sessions meetings, it would seem that the gentry and
cess-payers are resolved to act up to,. if not go beyond,
the spirit of the widely condemned Labour-rate Act.
The moneys continue to be votectwith as liberal a hand:
as though there were no such gloomy prospect in the
distance as the day of reckoning. Thus, 198,1191. have
been already voted at the six first sessions for the count)
of Cork, while sessions, in other baronies in the same
comity, are in course of being hold. In Clare, present-
ments have been made on a still more magnificent scale,
the total amounting to upwards of 300,0001. At one
baronial sessions in the county of Donegal, the amount
of presentments fated, without a single remonstrance or
complaint, was 40,000/.; at Castlebar the enormous sum
of 80,0001. was assessed; and so on from one end of the
kingdom to the other. The Evening Mail complains—
and indeed the complaint is universal—that these sums
have been devoted to the purposes, not merely useless,
but mischievous (as entailing permanent expense) 01
making roads not required by any necessities of the dis
tricts ; and that at a time v.hen every one admits that
there is not an acre in Ireland in which a return of at
least ten per _eel, L might not be;securett tip.,n a- f tritichotke:,;
outlay of capital. It is worthy of remark, that in their
7.i.al to carry out the provisions of the Act, the gentr3
have, in various insta(:ces, assessed baronies one-third
beyond the value of the rental, a proceeding that ma)
hereafter lead to results other, perhaps, than those con-
templated. -
The Marquis of Westmeath, as Lieutenant of the
county, has just issued the following notification:-
4.` County of Westmeath to Wit.—As the evils of the
present crisis, regarding the food of the people, them:4
from day to day, and as no system of dividing
county for managing the resources which may be ob.
timed or made available, as the law now stands, hat
been devised, to prevent further loss of time in corre-
spondence, and that the exertions of all parties upon
whom responsibility rests may tend to usefulness I can
not but think a county meeting indispensable-; therefor(
I invite a meeting of the lieutenancy, the magistrates,
and the clergy of all persuasions, to meet at the County-
hall, in Mullirigar, on Friday, the 2d of October, at
twelve o'clock exactly, when business will be proceeded
with. It is requested that the deputy-lieutenants and
magistrates, will provide themselves with the names of
absentee proprietors having a population on their estates,
in their several baronies, in order that efficient appli3a•
tion may be made to them to assist in their support, it
they shall have not already done so, upon the present
awful visitation impending on the country.
" WESTMEATII, Lieutenant.

Mr. Pearce said he had never ordered any of the police
to watch her, but had told the man to attend to any
communication that might pass between her and her
husband. He felt deeply for her situation, but had done
no more than his duty.
Mr. Rawlins, who is the keeper of a beer shop at
Barking Side, appeared satisfied with Mr. Pearce's ex-
planation.

This was the conversation before the Coroner, and we
must now go back to the time of Mrs. Parsons leaving
her husband's abode, and taking. refuge„with her,tatber.
This Was shortly after the strict surveillance commenced,
when Parsons could not move without a constable being
in attendance upon him, and it began to make such a
visible effect upon Mrs. Parsons that it was thought ad-
visable to remove her to her father's !liaise at Barking
Side. The fright and grief at her husband's situation
had, however, tsken so deep an effect upon her system,
that, despite the active attendance of a medical gentle-
man, death terminated her mental and bodily sufferings
late on Thursday night.
With regard to the constables who committed such
wholesale perjury, the almost universal cry is, " What
is to be done with them 2" but no cue knows. An in-
dictment for perjury against them, it is stated by several
lawyers, will not stand, and therefore the only punish-
ment will be dismissal from the force. In justice to
Sergeant Parsons, it may be stated tat it has been
satisfactorily proved to the police authorities, although
for some reason withheld from the coroner's jury, that
Parsons was doing his duty proparly from half-past ten
o'clock till twelve on the night of the murder.
The constables are still under surveillance.
In addition to the above, a correspondent states, we
know not how truly, that there has been a meeting of
the several heads of divisions of police at Scotland-yard,
for the purpose of devising the best means of discovering
the murderer or murderers of the unfortunate man
Clarke. The result of that meeting is the proposition of
enlarging the amount of reward for the discoverer of
the murderer from 100/. to 500/. ; and as the police feel
that a certain odium has been cast upon the force gene-
rally by the non-discovery of the murderer, they pro-
pose to raise by voluntary subscriptions amongst them-
selves the other 4001., in order that the perpetrator may
be brought to justice. The scale of subscriptions from
constables, inspectors, &c., will be settled by the heads
of divisions, when it will be left to the men's discretion
to subscribe to it.

" Clonyn, Sept. 24."
The subjoined copy of instructions from the Court of
Chancery in Ireland has been addressed to the guardians
of the estates of minors, lunatics, &c. It bears data
September 25.

" The Lord Chancellor desires to call the particular
and immediate attention of the guardians, committees,
and receivers of the estates of minors and lunatics, under
the care of tte Court, to the provisions of an Act of the
last session of Parliament (chapter 101), entitled An
Act to authorise the advance of Public Money, to a
limited amount, to promote the Improvement of land in
Great Britain and Ireland, by works of Drainage,' with
a view to their having inquiries made as to the condition
of the respective estates in reference to the objevts of the
said Act, and whether it can be beneficially applied to
their improvement.

" Such inquiry appears to the Lord Chancellor to be
more urgently necessary in cases where, by the failure of
the potato crops, it is important to provide useful and
remunerative employment for the poorer tenants. The
Act empowers guardians and committees to make appli
cation to the Commissioners ofPublic Works for advances
by way of loan, according to the terms therein pre-
scribed, and it will be proper to obtain from the Com
missioners such instructions as they may have framed
for the purpose of carrying out its provisions. When it
is ascertained that the Act can be beneficially made use
of on any estate, it will be the duty of the receiver,
committee, or guardian of it, to lay a statement of the
facts before the master in the matter, or the vacation
master, fer his direction, who will decide whether appli-
catioa for an advance should be made, and give instruc-
tions accordingly.

"In addition to the works for which advances may
be made under the before.mentioned Act, the Lord ____________________ • •
Chancellor directs the attention of receivers, committees, DEATH OF DR. BENNIE or' LADE YESTER'S.—.
and guardians a the estate of minors and lunatics to the It is our painful duty to-day to record the death of the
condition of those estates in other respects ; and if they Rev. Archibald Bennie, D.D., which rather unlookcd for
shall find that any other works of improvement may be event took place at Dunoon on Monday night, at halt-
beneficially undertaken upon them, calculated to afford past ten o'clock. Ile had been complaining for a eon
employment and relief to the poorer tenants, they should siderable time past, and was lately attacked by erysipelas
lay statements of them before the master in the matter,, in the head, which, use understand, was the immediato
or the vacation master, in order that he may judge cause of his death. Dr. Bennie was ordained to the
whether, having regard to the funds in the matter which ministry in 1824, and was translated from Stirling to
would be properly available thereto, he will direct any Edinburgh in 1835, haying been appointed, by the town•
proceedings to be had for obtaining an order of the council, on the 28th April of that year, to the church,
Court.upon the subject. and parish of Lady Yester's, in which he has ever sire
swwere
eidawndilltbhee
juedstgeimdatbiyonthin o
"On Wednesday last the adjourned Road Sessions
" MAZIERE BRADY, Chancellor." ministered. He was one of the most eloquent and
Popular clergymen
hismin ATTACK ON LORD STUART DE DECIES.
ist ministrations i oonf the dahe
The Corh Examiner says :
fact that his church was always filled, and the sittings
was held at Clashmore, for the barony of Decies within fully let. Dr. Bennie was much beloved by his friends
Drum, in the county of Waterford ; and the magis- and his congregation, and, indeed, was held in genteel
trates, having finished the business about five o'clock, respect. The congregation wh'om he has left will
left the come-house to proceed to their respective resi- naturally look to the town-council for one fitted to be
dences, when a large mob of at least 3,000 persons com- his successor—a task in which the later may perhaps
menced throwing stones at Lord Stuart de Decies, the find some difficulty, but to which, we are assured fretslieutenant of the county. The dragoons charged them, past experience, they will employ their most zealous
under volleys of stones, and must have wounded endeavours to accomplish. By the death of Dr. Bennice,
several of the rioters. One man had his ear and the a vacancy also occurs in the Chapel Royal, of which leo
side of his face cut off. Lord Huntingdon, Sir Richard was one of the Deans.—Caledonian Mercury,
Musgrave, Mr. Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Mr. Simon Bagge, The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left
and Mr. Richard Power Ronayne, magistrates, rushed town for Brocklesby, Lincolnshire. The superb testin,
among the mob, and did all they could to stop the niel, valued at 1.000 guineas, called "the Worsley testi-
throwing of stones, and but for their interference the menial," subscribed tor by the constituents of his Lord-
dragoons would have fired, as they could not stand the ship, was to have been formally presented at Brocklesby,
stone throwing, particularly from the churchyard. No- on Tuesday hest ; but in consequence of the sad intelli-
thing could equal the fury of the mob against his Lord- genee of the death of his revered father reachingis
th
ship and Sir Henry W. Barron, who fortunately was not country on Thursday se'nnight, the ceremony was t.. at the sessions. Several of the dragoons were severely poned. pos
hurt. We are happy to say, his Lordship escaped un- DISMISSAL OF GENTLEMEN CADETS AT WOOL.,
hurt; but for the dragoons he would most certainly have AVICII.—On Saturday four cadets, named Kennedy (pro-
been murdered. It is most extraordinary why his Lord-
viously reduced from, corporal) Lock, Barrett, and
attack, for shouldhe is a kind and have been selected
ind for such a murderous Nugent, attached•
to the Royal Military Academy, Wool»
very ulgent landlord, and %rich-cora/Lon, under the command of Colonel Parker,
lets his ground for the value to the occupiers, and has 0,13., the Lieutenant-Governor have, by order of the
60 men employed at Ballyheenv (close to the scene of I Master-General of the Ordnance, been dismissed from,
attack) draining, at which they earn Is. 63, a day, i the academy for alleged
ungentlemanly costinet. It had;
besides employing about 300 men on ether parts of his caused a great sensation in the establishment amongeet
state. He was also most anXioue, with theother mogis- j the Test et the cadets. It is stated that the Commandeers
crates, to pass all w ()Its 1.0 give employment, erei in in-Chitf's serious consideration has been drawn to the
tended to drain every acre of wet land Rif his estate.repeated t of • onduct and insubordination in /';',6..
• ac s misconduct
There is but ene feelisig prevalenteauseng all well-cris-- : establishment, and that an important change 4) -
_ .talcs:
posed persons, that this was a most disgraceful attac4 on `place ill Kele of the departments.