The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-27 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDA it MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1846.

LITERATURE.

POEMS. By Camilla Toulmin.

Among our magazine writers, there are some-
where about a dozen who have acquired for their
names a certain prestige —insomuch that their mere
signatures have become at last a passport to popular
favour. In this group of periodical favourites the
authoress of this unpretending volume must be classed
—among those welcome autographs, the name of
Camilla Toulmin is conspicuous. The abilities and tl
fine feelings of our fair writer have already acquired
for her a considerable share of popularity ; and, see-
ing that her compositions are generally unaffected,
and animated by a generous motive, that popularity
has not been undeserved. There is, unhappily, so
much of the 6a idyism of letters, so much of spurious
de/etanteisin, among our scribes, that any one who can
think and speak honestly, without any mincing efforts
at sentimentalism, or any fastidious tarryings after
epithets, is most agreeable to us, and welcome. There
are persons struggling after literary popularity who
assume a virtuous indignation at the oppressions of the
poor, or what not ; and who are in short the most
melodramatic and unnatural of all book-reformers.

It is pleasant, therefore, to encounter a writer like
Camilla Toulmin, who speaks from the fullness of
her heart. Whenever she pleads in behalf of the
contemned and tyrannised, it is not simply to propa-
gate an erroneous admiration, but simply because she
was "mad for the sight of her eyes that she did see !"
And it is because of so much sincerity being
linked with so much kindness of feeling, delicacy
of thought, and picturesqueness of imagination, that
Camilla Toulmin has become such an acceptable con-
tributor in our periodicals. The present volume,
consisting of some fifty-three fugitive pieces of verse,
is divested of every ambitious characteristic. The
subjects are devoid of extravagance, and are some-
times homely—witness the lines upon " The Railway
Whistle" and " The Best Chamber." The language
is simple and graceful : the ideas are never decorated
by an undue splendour of diction ; the sentiments are
conveyed in a simple guise. Nor can this be re-
gretted when we remember the truth of that principle
i❑ nature that the melodies of the nightingale are not
one whit the less enchanting because of the russet hue
of her plumage. OccAionally there is a pensiveness
in the strong and earnest simplicity of Miss Toul-
min which is singularly touching. Is not that a
noble and solemn ideal to pledge in the wine-cup—
"To the Brave Hearts?' "Not," says the song-
stress, "to the brave hearts of warriors or sena•
tors. No—

" Drink to the hearts which do not break,
But suffer, and are true!
Not of a radiant beauty speak,
But cheeks of pallid hue.
To mortal eyes their crowns are dim;
But fill the goblet to the brim!

" To Genius, doomed with dropping wing,
To toil a sad life through,
Yet keeps itself a holy thing,
With holy work to do.
To them who ne'er such birthright sold—
Abused God's gift—for tempting gold!"

In several essential particulars there is an affinity
of sentiment between these little poems and the
" Voices from the Crowd," recently published by
Dr. Mackay. As an example of Miss Toulmin's
reverence for justice, we will transcribe a few of the
verses addressed by her to the soldiers of the Sixty-
second Regiment, who were maligned as the cowards,
but who were in reality the heroes and martyrs of
Ferozeshab. Camilla. Toulmin thus vindicates them ;
and we conjecture her words of homage to real gal-
lantry would meet with a ready response from Sir
Howard Douglas.

" Fling back the scorn in the Scorner's teeth,
Ye remnant brave but stricken;
For ye have looked i' the face of Death,
And seen his terrors thicken.

" Fling back the scorn—but do not stoop
To humble exculpation,
Nor ask compassion for the troop
Who merit admiration !

" Yet 'tis enough: ye see a band—
Eight hundred fellow-men—
All exiles from the native land
How few shall see again!

" Foot-sore with weary, weary march,
Athirst! No water nigh ;
No food; and night—yet Heaven's arch
Their only canopy!

" Yet faint, exhausted, on they lead,
To meet the iron shower,'
Nor quailed till half their numbers dead
Beneath its murderous power.
" Not till their captains fell like reeds
Sway'd by the tempest's breath—
More wise to live for future deeds
Than rush on certain death!

" God! what a scene for angels' eyes
A field of battle is !
God! what a scene for star-lit skies
Was horror like to this!
" Rivers of blood the arid sand
Suck'd in like crimson rain;
While quivering flesh on either hand
Bestrew'd the accursed plain:

" Fling back the scorn! again I say,
Ye were the bravest brave ;
And sad misfortune's sombre ray
Should hallow every grave.

" Fling back the scorn! survivors few,
Yours is the martyr's crown,
Seen by the sunlight of the true,
In glory all your own."

It is however impossible to convey any adequate
notion of an offering so delicately devised as the
present, by merely such piecemeal extracts as our
columns will permit. Those Nho will themselves
refer to the collection will find it composed of the
fruits of thought and the music of rhythm—bells and
pomegranates more truly than the latest lucubrations
of Robert Browning.

ALGERIA IN 1845. By Count St. Marie.
More adventures were never told of the aboriginal
Mexicans immediately after the famous conquest by
Hernan Cortez, than have been, and are still being,
narrated of the Arab tribes, since the invasion of
Algeria by the French legions. The disguised pere-
grinations of Halroun Alrasehid have not excited
more romancing than the supple and yet chivalrous
policy of the renowned Emir, Abd-el Fader. The
doings of Colonel Pelissier at the caves of Dahra
have not aroused less horror and loathing than
the cannibal accomplishments of Sawney Bean. The
narrative of Mr. Gulliver, of Rotherhithe, contained
no more astonishing fables than the dispatches of
Monsieur le Marischal Bugeaud. These facts have
received the accordance of so many thousands, that
travellers in the northern provinces of Africa have
discovered it to be no unprofitable speculation to
recount their wanderings in those quarters. Possibly,
from the circumstance of the prevalence and long
continuance of peace throughout the European
nations, a remarkable curiosity has been testified, in
regard to the military tactics of the Gallic warriors
in Algeria. The Kaffirs, the New Zealanders, the
Mexicans, and the followers of Abd-el-Kader are
about the only people now-a-days afflicted with the
epidemic of wholesale pugnacity. The Chinese, the
Poles, the Sikhs, and the Circassians have just
recovered from the contagion ; and their unfor-
tunate successors in that national malady are now
the principal objects of attention. Although a
tolerable library has been already written upon
Algeria we cannot regard the present volume as
superfluous : Count St. Marie is too lively a nar-
rator to be spared, he is too shrewd an observer to
be discarded, and too sensible a commentator not to
command a perusal when the opening chapters have
been once fairly entered upon. His visit to the
French possessions in Africa have caused one ex-
cellent circumstance, namely, the publication of these
two hundred and eighty-four lively and clever pages.
We cannot but consider Count St. Marie as amongst
the most successful literary travellers in Algeria.
llis book is not unworthy of its frontispiece—a
characteristic portrait of the handsome and heroic
physiognomy of Abd-el-Kader.

COMPARATIVE rowEn OF THE CHIEF NATIONS OF
EUROPE.—By grouping the statement contained in a statisti-
cal work, drawn up at the instance of Government, at Mi-
lan, lit Obtain the following general comparative tables
of the powers of die Ave principal nations of Europe. The
en 154,000 square miles, or 225
various figures are all compiled from the best and most
ism3iile;7.o°;o'oooA,ustria there are 37,500,000 in-
recent Atithorities and documents in each country :—ln
square miles, or 184 per square
England, the nuMber of inhabitants is 28,000,000, on
90,950 square miles, or 308 per square mile; in Prance, the
pct
population is
Portiiiss2ia4t'°l'l9e° population is 15,500,000,
mile; in
on 80,450
square miles, or 181 per square mile; In Russia, in Europe,
the population is 50,500,000, scattered on the enormous
quantity of 2,000,000 of square miles, being but 2i persons
to each square mile. Thus the British soil contains on one
square mile one hundred and twenty times as many per-
sons as Russia, nearly one-third more than France, and
about double the proportion of Austria and Prussia. At
nearly the same period the public debt and revenue of each
of these powers were as follows :—England—revenue
53,400,0007. ; debt, 813,800,000/ ; France revenue,
38,480,0001. ; debt, 156,000,0001. ; Austria revenue,
20,880,000/. ; debt, 68,000,0001. ; Prussia revenue,
8,320,000/. ; debt, 25,800,000. ; Russia revenue,
17,360,000/. ; debt, 61,500,0001. Thus England is
indebted to the extent of thirteen times its revenues while
France and Russia owe but four times their respective
revenue; Austria and Prussia little more than thrice. The
relative number of troops kept up in time of peace by each
nation holds about the same proportion, the number of
soldiers in the whole British empire, being 410,000; in
France, 363,000; in Austria, 424,000 ; in Prussia, 131,000 ;
and in Russia, 1,000,000. These forces can, however, be in-
creased in war time, by two-thirds. A large part of the
public revenue in each country is absorbed by these two
millions of soldiers, who consume the sums appointed to
their support in the most unproductive manner. A great
l benefit would undoubtedly accrue, if the five powers its ques-
; tion would mutually agree upon some puha of dirartiehing
their large goading armlet,

TESTIMONIAL to MII. ET WALL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

am a poor man, with a very small wife, who
has given unequivocal proofs that she will at no distant
time honour c?) me with a most tremendous family—
tremendous in numerical power: for although I have not
as yet seen thirty summers, five slices must come off the
loaf ere I can safely calculate on touching it, so that if
matters go on at this rate I shall he compelled, in a few
years more, to place myself under the fatherly (?)
guardianship of the Poor-law Commissioners ; and it is
with such a dim shadowing of the future, that I beg to
call your attention to a proposal for a suitable testi-
monial from all who are similarly situated to myself, in
humble and sincere acknowledgment for the persevering
exertions of Mr. Etwall, M.P., in the cause of outraged
humanity and oppressed poverty, as disclosed at the
Andover inquiry. Sir, I feel, and every labouring man
feels, that had it not been for the worrying of Mr. Eta all
for an investigation, those dreadful cruelties would still
be in operation against the unfortueate victims of poverty
and want, whose sufferings, would have been treated by
another Sir James Graham as " a workhouse squabble in
the south of England." But Mr. Etwall has unkennelled
the lot—he is the terrier of the " House"—and, backed
by the all-powerful aid of the press, has succeeded in
drawing these filthy badgers from their holes (the Right
Hon. Baronet amongst the number), and exposing their
meanness to the world. Well, Sir, having said so much
by way of preface, I'll now tell you my proposal. Let a
penny subscription be entered into for the purp-se of
presenting Mr. Etwall with a piece of plate, as an humble
testimony of gratitude from the working men of Eng-
land, for his disinterested advocacy in their behalf. I
know there are thousands who are anxiously waiting
for such a mode of thanking the Hon. Gentleman for his
services, as well as to prove to the legalised oppressors of
the helpless in their adversity, that the labouring classes
have souls that feel and heads that can appreciate the
services of their friends ; nor must the press he omitted
in such thanksgiving. The press is the great lever that
directs the battering-ram of public opinion against the
statute-bound citadel of cruel misgovernment and official
wrong. Honour to the press—the dreaded scourge
of all who turn a deaf ear to the wailings of
misery, and sneer at the wretchedness of their
fellow creatures—the free and unbought press—and
there honour is given only where honour is due,
This is the suggestion of a working man—will you give
it publicity, that the labouring classes of this kingdom
may see that the proposal emanates from one of their
own order, who, like themselves, wishes to testify his
sense of gratitude for the triumph over consolidated
tyranny by one of the few humane and disinterested
champions of the poor.
If you should feel inclined to aid in such a praise.
worthy object, when it is completed, I have a design in
my mind's eye that might not be deemed inappropriate.
ONE OF THE MILLION.
Chenies-street, Bedford-square, Aug. 25.

CHARGE AGAINST A SURGEON.

On Tuesday i 1 r. William Carter, the Coroner for Sur-
rey, held an atontrned inquest at the Bee-hive, Cobourg-
road, Camber ell, on the body of an illegitimate
child, named Emily Whetstone, aged four months, the
effipring of Hanezah Whetstone, a single woman, resid-
ing at So. 3, d3urnham's-row, New-street, in that
neighbourhood.
The mother of the child stated, that the deceased
died on Tuesday, the 18th inst., between eleven and
twelve o'clock at night. Witness gave birth to the
child in Queen! Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, and it
had been ailing. all its lifetime. It did not thrive,
as she was obligcel to bring it up by hand, in con-
sequence of losing User milk. On the night the child
died witness sent for _Mr. Crellin, a surgeon, who had
seen deceased before, but would not come. She did not
send for any other surgeon,' but whilst she was waiting
for Mr. Crellin the child eNed. The medicine which
Mr. Crellin prescribed for the child was given to it, but
poonfuls, as directed, it
when she gave it three tis., S
slept nearly the whole of the ,)ayeshe therefore reduced
the quantity to one, and sometimes two teaspoonfuls
per dien.i. No other medicine, except a teaspoonful of
castor oil, was given to deceased after Mr. Crellin pre-
scribed for it. Mr. Eady, a chemis,% had, however, pre-
viously seen and prescribed for dt sceased.. After the
death of the deceased the surgeon we's applied to for a
certificate, but it was refused.
Mary Allen, of 3, Burnham's-row, saiLl that she did
not think the child died from anything given to it
medicinally. She recollected Mr. Crellin h.wing been
sent for at nine o'clock at night, and the deceased ex-
pired between eleven and twelve. The child was talon
In the first instance to his house, and he had not see);
her afterwards.
James Vaughan, of 9, West-street, said that on the
night in question he went for Mr. Crellin. He in-
formed him that he was requested to see a child whom
he had seen before at his house. He replied that he
knew nothing about it, and that witness must have made
a mistake.
Lawrence Wansley Chubb, undertaker, of 3, Union-
road, said that he was emplaced to bury the child.
On Wednesday last he made application to Mr.
Crellin for a certificate of the nature of death.
He did not, however, give one, and paid that he had
not seen the deceased for a fortnight a three weeks
prerious. When witness pressed him fae the certifi-
cate ho said, " They had been taking the child to Mr,
Eady, the chemist, and they might now go to Minn for a'
certificate, if he would dare give one." He then added,
" It is very likely that he has been given it sy:up of
poppies or laudanum, and he (witness) therefore shCild
not give a certificate undsr the circumstances, but won't
rather jump off the house than do so." Witness then in-
formed him that he should be obliged to call an inquest
to get the deceased interred.

The CORONER said that it was owing entirely to what
had been told Mr. Sedgley, the summoning officer, that
be had been called upon to hold the inquest. Hearing
that a complaint was likely to be made against Mr.
Crellin, he sent a message to that gentleman, requesting
his attendance to hear the same, so that he might have
an opportunity of answering any question that might
affect the case. He had been given to understand by
the officer that he said he should not attend unless he
was properly summoned. He should therefore examine
him on behalf of the Crown, and not under the Sur-
geons' Act of Parliament.
Mr. Horatio N. Crellin was then sworn—He said that
he recollected the mother of the child having called upon
him about a month ago, and requested his medical assist-
ance. The child was suffering from gastravatia, a disease
of the nerves of the stomach, which he believed had been
brought on by the nature of its food and the want of
breast milk.
A bottle was then brought to witness which contained
the remains of some chalk mixture. It had the name of
Eady upon it.
The CORONER—Was the state of the child such as
would lead you to suppose it had died from anything
taken medicinally? Witness—No ; I never saw nor
heard of the child from the time the mother called on
me until last Tuesday night. It was then, at the
earliest, nearly eleven o'clock, and I did not go to see
the deceased, nor even did I promise to do so. I did
not make use of the expression the witness Chubb has
stated. If I said anything about it, it was, " How do I
know that Mr. Eady has not given it syrup of poppies or
laudanum?" But I did not say he had.
The CORONER—When such insinuations are thrown
out, it is not to be expected that parties can be satisfied.
The witness said he was satisfied that right had not
been done to him, inasmuch as that wrong constructions
had been put upon what he had stated to the man. He
could only say, if application was made again to him to
give a certificate of death for one he had not seen for
three e eeks, he should most decidedly refuse one.
The Learned CORONER summed up, and the court
having been cleared of strangers, the jury consulted,
and returned a verdict of " Natural death from general
debility, arising from the mother not being able to afford
it the natural milk of the breast." The jury at the same
time request the Coroner to "express their regret that
Mr. Crellin should have made use of any remarks about
laudanum or syrup of poppies • and also their regret
that he should not have attended the child when sent
for."

THE ALLEGED MURDER. AT LEEDS.—LEEDS, MON-
DAY NIGHT.—The Sun of Monday contained an account of
a savage case of stabbing, which took place in Leeds last
week, and in which two women, named Elizabeth Smith and

Catherine M`Loughlan, were the unfortunate victims. The
inquest on the body of Smith, who died within a few hours
after receiving the injuries, was held before Mr. John Black-
burn, at the Leeds Court-house on Friday last, when the
jury returned a verdict of ..Manslaughter" against William
Walshaw. who inflicted the injuries, and they accompanied
the verdict with the expression of an opinion that the case
was one of a most aggravated description. It was proved in
evidence that Walshaw furiously attacked the women with
an open clasp-knife in each hand, wounding Smith in the
abdomen and M'Loughlan in the right thigh. Hopes were
at first entertained that 11PLoughlan would recover, but on
Saturday a change for the worse took place, and she died at
the Leeds Infirmary yesterday afternoon. An inquest has
been held on the body to-day, and Mr. Allanson, house-sur-
geon at the infirmary, gave it as his opinion that death had
resulted from the wound in the thigh. A verdict of " Man-
slaughter" was accordingly returned in this case also. Both
women have left families of children, and the husband of
M'Loughlan is at present a prisoner in Wakefield House of
Correction, having been sent there for an assault.
BALLINROBE.—AFFRAY BETWEEN SOLDIERS. On
Friday night last, a party of the 49th Regiment, now sta-
tioned here, and some of the 88th, en route for Castlebar, were
drinking in a public-house,,and commenced fighting about
seven o'clock, which led to a desperate row among the sol-
diers of both regimens. At about half-past eight o'clock
the streets were crowded with civilians :hid soldiers, throwing
stones in a most frightful manner, some of the civilians taking
part with the 88th. Two soldiers of the 49th were danger-
ously hurt. After a good.deal of trouble, the officers of the
88th got all their men into their billets. The row lasted
about an hour. Two companies of the 49th were marched
through the town with fixed bayonets, and halted in the
square, where they were ordered to prime and load with ball
cartridge. The scene, says the Mayo Constitution, was
most frightful.
THE HARVEST IN IRELAND.—GALWAY, AUG. 23.
Since Wednesday last the weather has been favourable, and
the people have taken advantage of it, to gather a great por-
tion of the crops which grew on high ground. There still
remains much to be cut down. In the low lands the floods
have done considerable damage, and several fields of corn, as
well as of potatoes, are yet under water. The grain which
has been saved is good, and the produce of wheat and oats
of an average quantity. Barley is everywhere a very light
crop, but there is a greater breadth of land sown with it than
usual. Turnips, which have been extensively cultivated
this year, even by the cottier farmers, are thriving well.
The alternate warmth and moisture of the atmosphere
favour their rapid growth, nor does there appear any ground
for the apprehension, said to to be entertained, of their being
infected by the same disease which has been fatal to the
potato.
BOLOGNA, AUG. 14.—(Extract from a Letter).—On
returning from my walk yesterday evening, I was sitting in
the balcony, when I saw a man come staggering along the
street ; he fell below where I was sitting, and in a moment
the whole pavement was a pool of blood. The man had been
stabbed, and one near was holding the bloody knife. He
was captain of the police under the late Pope, and one of
the principal agents of his cruel and atrocious government.
He had been tired at twice, and was so obnoxious to the
people that the assassins will never be discovered.
WHIRLWIND.-On Tuesday morning last, about
ten o'clock, Laugharne was visited by a terrific whirlwind
The effects of so sudden and unusual a visitation have been
disastrous, and the following are a few particulars of its
destructive career. At a place near the Grist, Mr. S. P.
Lewis's malt-house was completely stripped, the slates being
carried upwards of 125 yards distance over the Castle wall,
a height of at least 120 feet ; several ducks, quietly enjoying
themselves in their favourite element, were taken up from the
lake and carried in the air, unwilling victims of the fury of
the wind, a long distance—slates and ducks falling into the
Castle garden, the property of Mrs. Starke. Many of the
ducks were killed by the slates falling on them. Several
trees were also uprooted in the garden of Mr. Evans, the
merchant, Gosport, sad spectacles of the fury of the myste-
rious phenomenon. Mr. Davies, the Causeway, had his
farm-house stripped, and a rick of hay completely removed.
The noise resembled that of a terrific clap of thunder, and
was heard at the distance of several miles from the town.
Such an awful occurrence has not been witnessed at Laug-
harne within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.— Carmar-
then Paper.
LONDON YACHT CLUB.—On Tuesday a meeting of
members of this club took place at Wright 'a Hotel, Strand,
when a handsome silver cup, which was sailed for on the
3d instant, in a match from Greenwich to Gravesend and
back, was presented by the Commodore of the club to the
winner, Mr. J. Moon, who sailed in a small yacht (the Lady
Louisa) of twelve tons. The owner of the yacht Mischief,
who was defeated in the above race, has challenged the owner
of the winning yacht, to sail a match over the same course
for 1007. aside.
Sir Andrew Leith Hay, M.P. for this district of
burghs, in company with his son, Lieutenant A. S. Hay, of
the 93d Highlanders, paid a visit to this town on Saturday
last, and called upon several of his constituents. The
Gallant Colonel appears in excellent health and spirits, and
we understand intends again offering himself for the repre-
sentation of the burghs at the approaching general election.
Sir Andrew attended divine service on Sunday, at the Esta-
blished Church in the forenoon, and at the Free Church in
the afternoon, and left town foe Leith Hall on Monday
morning.—Elgin Courant.
A .PHILOSOPHER.,—It is said of Cuvier, that one day
walking where ,news is said to have walked, a certain
repulsive personage met him, and demanded of him worship.
" No, I will not worship you," said Cuvier. " Yes, you
must," 'said the horrible. "No, I will not," replied the
other. "Then," said the demon, "if you will not, I will eat
you." Cuvier eyed him deliberately ; and, instead of defying
him, as no doubt he might have done, preferred falling back
upon the natural history lessons of his mundane lite, and
said, " Horns and cloven feet--graminivorous. Yon eat me?
—nonsense 1"
SENTENCE OF DEATH RESPITED.—A respite of the
sentence of death pronounced on Robert 'Williams, convicted
of the murder of Thomas Wiggins, at the late Wells Assizes,
was received in this town on Sunday last.—Taunton Cow isr.,
BILLINGSGATE REGATTA.—The second annual regatta
at Billingsgate is announced for the 3d of September, the
prize, a coat and badge, to be contended for in four heats by
au free gentlemen of Billingsgate.

THE LATE DEATH OF A CLER# •
/
GYMAN IN ST. PANCRAS.
On Tuesday, pursuant to adjournment from the previe;
ous Tuesday, a special and very fully-attended meeting
Of the directors and guardians of the poor of St. Pim-
cras, took place in the Board-room of the workhouse,
King's-road, for the purpose of proceeding with th eir
investigation into the case of :Rev. Charles Gay,
whose death too. place under the melancholy and in: ys-
terious circumstanws already laid before the public.
The CHAIRMAN said Mr. M`Gahey, the clerk to the
Board, had been instructed to make inquiries into the
way in which the Rev. Charles Cay had become an
inmate of University Hospital, And how he came into
St. Pancras Workhouse, and they bad better now hear
his evidence.
Mr. M`GAHEY stated that Dr. Qua said that the
Rev. Charles Cay was brought there by _Mr. Mental ue
Cooper and Mr. George Cooper, of Keppel-,3treet. This
',yrs on the Saturday when he was away, and on the fol-
lowing Monday morning he found him raving nkla; that
Mr. T. H. Cooper, the parish surgeon, called in a bout a
woman who was there, and that on his showing Me... Cay
to Mr. Cooper, the latter recognised him as a client of
his brother's, and there being a card over his head, wiN)
the address on, " Wilmot-street, Fitzroy Chapel," but'
afterwards rectißed, " Wilmot-street, Brunswick-square,"
Mr. Cooper wrote a note to the overseer for his im me-
diate admittance into that workhouse.
The CHAIRMAN considered it quite clear that the Ri 3V.
Gentleman improperly became an inmate of that work-
house through the misrepresentation of Mr. T. :H.
Cooper, the parish surgeon, to the overseer. If Mr.
Cooper, the solicitor, had anything to offer in explana-
tion of what he might consider imputed on his condw 3t,
the board would he ready to hear him.
Mr. WILLIAM DANANT COOPER said Mr. Montague
Cooper and Mr. George Cooper, of Keppel-street, were
the persons who took the deceased to the hospital. They
were no relations of his, nor did he know anything
about the occurrence until Tuesday,. the 4th, the day on
which the Rev. Mr. Cay was admitted to the workhouse.
from the hospital, and when he receive 3 a note inform-
ing him of the fact. He sent a verbal repf3r back, to the
effect that Mr. Cay was a man without rne7ch money*
and the best thing was to deal legally with .kira and
send him to Ilanwell. He did this, fully believing th at
the Rev. Gentleman belonged to the parish of St. Pa a-
eras, and as a proof of it, even so late as Monday la st,
the letters of administration described the Rev. Gent`; 'e-
man as late of that parish. He also produced 0, 'e
cheque alluded to. which was on Messrs. Roberts ant I
and Co., fur 3,0001., dated the 11th of October, 1825, and'
the bankers' book, which proved the money had been;
received, and the Rev. Gentleman's account closed thee
following day.
The CHAIRMAN said, after the statement of Mr. W.
D. Cooper, together with his production of the cheque
and bar, leers' book, there could not, he thought, be the
slightest 1.,71
pression that he had acted in any way Lin-
properly in thy':natter, and he bad no doubt the public
right with the public.
press would set 11.411:
The Board then cededprz-,u- to investigate the conduct
of Mr. T. H. Cooper, 1:21e workhouse surgeon, in the
affair.
Mr. T. H. COOPER complaine.:l, in defending himself,.
of the course the Board had thou t:ht proper to pursue,.
in sending for letters behind his ;',l..ek, and the injury
inflicted upon his character by the' publication in the
papers.
After a long and rigid investigatian and discussion, in
which same of the members of the Board dezgareel that
it was clear that Mr. T. H. Cooper had used waclut.' in-
fluence with the overseer to get the Rev. Mr. Cay into
that workhouse, and others considered he had only com-
mitted an error of judgment,
A resolution disapproving of his conduct was passed.
Mr. Cooper was then called before the Board and ad-
monished by the Chairman, who expressed his opinion
that the resolution was an extremely m oderate one,
and he hoped that Mr. Cooper would feel th e force of it.
The proceedings connected with this protracted and
extraordinary case then terminated.

CARBONIC ACID GAS IN ST SAM

BOILERS.
An extraordinary occurrence has taken place within
the month in the boilers of the Peninsular and OrieCtal
Steam Company's steamer Montrose, at Southampto,l*
The vessel having been laid up for repair, made a trial.
trip to the mouth of the Southampton river, and about
forty-eight hours after her return, when the boilers and
machinery were all cold, a man, who was sent into the
boiler for some purpose, suddenly fell down, as it was
thought, in a fit. The alarm being given, the engineer
of the vessel went in to bring him out, but no sooner had
he reached the lower region of the boiler, than he too,
fell down in a state of insensibility. Fortunately, Mr..
Lamb, the engineer of the company, happened to be on
board, and ho immediately dispatched in another person
with a rope round his waist, so that he might at once be
pulled out if similarly affected; but this person, on being
lowered down, immediately became senseless, and had to
be drawn up again with all possible dispatch. As there
happened to be a man-hole door directly over the fur-
naces, Mr. Lamb caused this door to be instantly fe-
moved, and no sooner was this done, than the me.n
within the boiler began to revive. They were then
taken out through the lower man-hole without inconve-
nience, and, after a little spirits had been administered,
they perfectly recovered.
Our opinion having been requested as to the cause of
this mysterious occurrence, we have tested some of the
water taken from the river at,Southampton, and upon
pouring some of it into lime-water, a flocculent precipi-
tate was abundantly deposited, showing the existence of
a large quantity of carbonic acid in the water. We have
here, then, an explanation of the mystery. The effects
produced were precisely those due to the presence of
carbonic acid, and, as the whole of the water in the boiler
was taken out of the river, without being diluted by
water from the sea, it is not difficult to understand Dow
the carbonic acid gas might accumulate in the boiler se
as to produce the effects observed. When the boiler
was blown off it would contain a mixture of carbonic
acid and steam. The steam would be condensed as the
boiler cooled, leaving the carbonic acid, on which the
entering air, being lighter, would float. Ilad the mud-
hole doors been opened, as well as the man-hole door in
the top of the boiler, the carbonic acid could not have
remained in the boiler, for, being heavier than :air, it
will run out of a hole in the bottom of a vessel in the
same manner as water. It is very expedient, therefore,
that in all steam-vessels entering the port of Swlthamp.
ton, or any other river the water of which holds inuelz
vegetable matter in suspension, the mud-hole doors;
should be for tome time removed, and the man-hole, or
safety-valve, be for some time left open before any on.
ventures into the boiler; and before venturing he should
lower a light.—Artizan.