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CAUTION.

THE Public is earnestly warned against
numerous IMITATIONS of DR. SOLOMON'S
CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD, put forth by several
unprincipled individuals to ensnare and deceive. The
great reputation so long enjoyed by this excellent Medicine
tor the cure of Indigestion, Nervous Complaints, Declines,
and Diseases induced by excessive Indulgences, and the
great demand for it, have tempted the worthless and un-
principled to this nefarious practice, by which many in-
valids have been irrepatably injured. These imitations
extend not only to the Name of this Medicine, but to the
Advertiscaient., Wrappers on the Boa! s, and every dis-
tinguishing Mark except that which would involve the
Life of the Depredator, namely, the words " SAMUEL
SOLOMON, LIVERPOOL," Kogra.ved on the Govern-
ment Stanip affixed to each Bottle, to imitate which is
Felony, and puryshable as such. To this Distinguishing
Mark the public attention is particularly directed, without
which no " CORDIAL BALM" whatever has any claim
to the merits of Dr. Soloitiun's invention.
The Genuine Medicine is prepared at Gilead House,
near Liverpool. and
Sold by J. Sanger, No. 150, and Mrs. Chandler, 76,
Oxford-street; Savory, Moore, and Co., Bond-street, and
Regent-street; J. Gifford, Strand ; J. Harris, St. Paul's
3hurchyaid ; J. Marriner, Cheapside ; Stradling, Royal
Exchange; Smith and Co., No. 29, Haymarket; J. G.
Fuller, Whitechapel; G. Pink, Borough; Yeatnian and
Co., Fore-street, Cripplegate ; R. Waylatt, Pavement,
Fin,bury ; R. Johnston, No. 68, Cornbill; R. E. Dear,
Bishopsgate-street ; Norton and Turner, Holborn ; W. F.
Priest, Parliament•street ; P. Boully, Bermondsey-street;
and all other Medicine Venders, in bottles, price 11s. each,
or four in one family bottle tot 335. by which one Ile.
bottle is saved, with the words " Saml. Solomon, Liver-
pool," engraved on the stamp, to imitate which is felony.

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We find that in consequence of the lamdnted
death of Sir ANDREW AGNEW'S mother, the Sabbath
Protection Bill will not be propo.ed to the House of Com-
mons before Monday, the 11th inst.—Morning Paper.
Ministers have it in contemplation to increase
the number of English Bi9lioprics, making provision for
the increase by a diminution of the incomes of two or three
of the largest Sees,—Bury Herald.
Lady STEPNEY'S forthcoming Novel, entitled
" The New Road to Ruin," involves, it ii said, some
incidents of a very romantic nature, though their
origin is derived from undoubted fact. These consist
chiefly in the circumstances attending the restoration to her
family honours, of a young lady who had been nefariously
secluded from the world and from her relatives.

While Mr. Sergeant Sellon, of Hattori-garden,
Was engaged in the office business, an elderly man,
of reduced appearance, with an old military cloak
hanging over his right arm, and who appeared some-
what excited, entered the Court, and requested to
have an interview with the Magistrates upon im-
portant business.
It appeared in his statement that in 1823 or 1824
he was pursuing the profession of the law, and while
walking in Pall-mall, he was accosted by a young
and handsome girl, with whom he entered into con-
versation; she ultimately informed him, that her
connexions were respectable, but having been se-
duced in the early part of her life, she quitted her
home, and had been pursuing a disreputable course
for a living. The applicant being a single man, and
feeling something like a respect for the girl, after a
short period consented to receive her under his
protection, and they lived together until he (ap-
plicant) became unfortunate, and they separated,
but still they corresponded, and they mutually
assisted each other ; hut, in consequence of the
crimes they had committed, both were anxious to
make retributiom to society. Charlotte, the
girl with whom he lived, expressed to him
her bosom secrets ; she became acquainted with
two females, the one named Isabe Ha, alias Big Isa-
bella, and the other Eliza, who were much older
than herself. One evening they were walking to-
gether in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden,
when they met with a sailor ; Isabella spoke to him,
and asked him if he would treat her, to which be
coesented, and finding that he had plenty of money,
she asked him to go home with her, and, being
nearly intoxicated, he did so, and she led him to a
house of ill-fame in Vine-street (which has since
been pulled down), Chandos-street St. Merril-es-
lane. They gave him some liquor, when he became
drunk, arid while asleep they commenced rifling his
pockets, but he awoke, and made a desperate re-
sistance. They called up a bully, named Fowler,
and having robbed him of all his money, they forced
him our of the second-fluor back window ; in the
fall he laid hold of the ledge of the first floor, and
called for assistance, on which Isabella proceeded to
the first floor with a knife, and cut his fingers across to
make him leave his hold, and he fell to the ground
in the back yard. Isabella went down stairs and
cut his throat, and they afterwards carried him into
the cellar, where they dug a hole and secreted his
body. While there Charlotte beheld another corpse,
which she afterwards ascertained was Isabella's fa-
ther. Isabella told her that her father was a Jew,
in the country ; she wrote to him to come to Len-
don, saying that she was doing well; when, on his
arrival, Eliza and Isabella murdered him in the
house in Vine-street, arid dug a hole for his
body. Charlotte had a cousin, named John Prit-
chard, about nineteen years of age, a clerk, arid he
was in the habit of carrying money belonging to his
employers in his possession. She met him, and
invited him to the house in Vine-street, and after
robbing him of his money, she quitted the place.
On the following morning he missed his money, and
on threatening to give Isabella into custody, they
burked him, and buried his body in the cellar with
the others. (He, applicant, stated that this took
place before the murder of the sailor.) The young
man being missed by his friends, hand-bills were
w ascirculated,ever offering
a
rewastradt,ebduttihlaist,body
pre-
viously to the pulling down of Vine-street, the man
Fowler removed the bodies of the deceased. This
Fowler, he stated, took Eliza and Charlotte to the
recovered. n
West of England, the Hay, Herefordshire, in a
chaise cart, when he led them to a cave in a wild
spot, surrounded by spacious trees. It contained
three rooms on each side, and horses and luggage
were in several of the rooms. There were twelve
men in the place. They had plenty of every thing,
and never went out by day, but at night, to attack
travellers. While she was there a wounded traveller
was brought in, with his horse, whom Fowler and
his comrades had attacked on the highway; they
afterwards despatched him. After describing several
other murders by the party, he went on to state
that Charlotte declared to him that Mrs.
Donatty's murder was perpetrated by Fowler,
that Mrs. Donatty had some loose acquaintance,
and through them she (Charlotte) became acquainted
with her in Ratcliffe-highway. Mrs. Donatty in-
formed her, that she kept her money, fur safety, in
her clock. She took an impression of the keys in
soap, and introduced Fowler, who had keys to cor-
respond made, arid during Mrs. Donatty's absence
he entered the place, and robbed it of upwards of
1,0001., and a valuable picture, the production of
Henry Moreland. Before he completed the robbery,
Mrs. Donatty returned home, on which he mur-
dered her, and made his escape with the property at
the back part of the premises. Fowler had a cut
on the cheek, and his lips were severed, through a
blow of a sword which he ieceived in a burglary.
After the murder, he went into the country, but he
was in London at the time of the murder of the
policeman in Grey's Inn-lane. Charlotte was now
living, and Eliza was married to a returned trans-
port, named Clift, and be (applicant) knew where
to find them both if proper protection and assistance
were afforded him, but he would not be safe if they
knew that he gave the information.
Waddington told him that he could charge any of
the offenders, and advised him to call at the office
again to consult further upon the mutter.
He quitted the office, saying that his conscience
would never be easy unless he gave the information,
or until the murderers were brought to justice.
A murder similar to that of the sailor took place
some years ago in Vine.street, and a woman, named
Big Isabella, was tried for it at the Old Bailey.

ELECTION PETITIONS.—In the list of the
fifty-five controverted election petitions presented to the
House of Commons in the present Session are trio against
the return for Harwich, to be taken into consideration on
the 25th of April. It is remarkable that the last contested
election for this borough, previous to the one last year,
1832, was in 1802, exactly thirty years ago, and that it
was a controverted return then, Mr. ROBINSON and Mr.
Mvaas being elected ; the unsuccessful candidate (Mr.
ADAM), pe►itioned against Mr. Mvsas's return, and was
declared the nitting Member. This was one of the most
expensive elective petitions ever carried before a Committee.

Some conversation ensued relative to the formality of
this recommendation of the Committee; but in conse-
quence of the conversational tone in which the Members
sp ke, and the noise occas oned by Members entering the
House, even ti e purport of it %vas with difficulty collected
in the G illery.
The SPEAKER said, the Election Committee had
decided that Major Manning, instead of S r C Paget, ought
to have been returned. In consequence of that decision,
the person in whose favour they had decided would have
full authority to come down to-morrow to take his seat.
The election law, as it now stood, left it open, at any pe-
riod of time, from the election to the end of Par-
liament, to petition against the return, but there
was also a provision to limit the time within which that
petition against the return could be presented. Major
Manning therefore stood in this situation, and Sir Charles
Paget might present a petition within fourteen days
against his return, as the present petitioner had against
Sir Charles, whom the Committee had unseated.
Mr. WYNN said similar cases to this had occurred
not unfrequently.--(,-lear. ) if the Committee acid
on the face of the case that another person,
the petitioner, was entitled to be returned, they would,
without entering into the validity of the votes,
determine that he was entitled to that return, and leave,
at the same time, the sitting Member to his remedy
by questioning the election. (Hear, hear.) The
Hon. Member mentioned a ease in which a conside
table number of votes were in dispute. In that case the
H ,use determined that the petitioner was entitled to
his seat, and gave 14 days to petition against the election.
He mentioned a►so a case in which the election had
been carried by a single disputed vote; and another
of a similar nature occurred in 1E303, in the county of
Middlesex, in which fourteen votes were given after the
hour at which the poll ought to have been closed. The
legality of these votes was established, aad fourteen days
given to petition against the election. After the mention
of these cases, he would leave the House to deal with the
case before it according to the judgment of Hon.
Members.
Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY, Sir GEORGE STAUN.
TON, the Hon. GEORGE LAMB, and another Hon. Mem-
ber, severally addressed the House ; but it was impossible,
from the confusion in the House, to hear whether i❑ fa-
vour of, or in opposition to, the recommendation of the
Committee.
Mr. SPEAKER said that Major Manning having been
now declared by the Committee to have been duly elected,
the better way would be, that he should stand in
the situation in which he would have stood if he
had been originally returned. This being so, the
first step would be to order the clerk of the Crown to
alter the return, and the fourteen days would have now to
be allowed to petition against the return.
It was then agreed that the petition should be with-
drawn, that the clerk of the Crown might attend to-
morrow, in order to amend the return.
Mr. SPEAKER said that another question arose
yesterday respecting another election—the election
for the borough of Mallow. The object of the petition
was to state that one of the recognizance' which bad been
duly entered into had been transmitted in the usual
way, by post, to the Speaker, and yet had not been
received, and the question was whether the House
would give further time to complete the recog-
nizances, upon proof being given that the averments
in the petition were true. The House, of course,
would not grant this indulgence without evidence
at the bar of the facts, and if this evidence were given to
the satisfaction of the House, probably the House would
be inclined to grant the time, inasmuch as it would not
in the slightest degree alter the time fixed for hearing the
election petition.
Sir W. W. WYNN thought that no petitioner ought
to be ousted of his right to petition unless he had been
guilty of inches, or some other improper conduct. Here
it appeared that the petitioner had availed himself of every
thing that was required of him in point of conduct. The
recognizances had been entered into in the usual way—they
had been sent off by post in due time, and he certainly
was of opinion that an opportunity ought to be given of
proving the facts at the bar.
Mr. O'CONNELL had read this petition, and there
was no statement whatever in it that any person had seen
the recognizances executed, which was a very important
circumstance.

Sir W. W. WYNN said that, of course, in allowing
time to examine into the facts, care would be taken to
ascertain that no new recognizance was entered into.
The SPEAKER suggested, that probably the wish of
the House would be, that Mr. Jackson should be called
to the Bar, that the House might hear what he had to say.
This having been agreed to, the Sergeant was ordered
to summon Mr. Jackson to the Bar.
On Mr. Jackson being called in, and questioned by the
SPEAKER, be stated that on the 9th of February he
transmitted by post to Mallow the form of the
recognizance prescribed by the Act, and the affidavit of
t o persons as sureties in the sum of five hundred pounds
each. On the 23d of February he bad reason to believe
the recognizance reached Mallow, because he had received
a letter of that date, stating that the recognizance
should certainly be transmitted on the 24th.
and on the 26th he received a letter stating that the re-
cognizances would be sent on Sunday.
Mr. O'CONNELL knew nothing of Braidel, the
name of one of the sureties. The letter of the 23d
of February, which was not delivered on the 27th,
stated that the recognizances would be forwarded to-
morrow.

The SPEAKER said the letter was written by the
petitioner.
Mr. O'CONNELL said there was nothing else in
the letter upon the subject the recognizances.—
(Hear.) In another letter of the kOth of February,
which was delivered on the 2d of March, it was state.:
that the recognizsnces were forwarded to the Speaker on
Sunday last; had not made inquiries on the subject at the

Sir ROBERT INGLIS wished to make a few
observations connected with the subject of taking seats in
that House. It was according to the old recognised
practice, that certain places on the leading Opposition
bench were appropriated to those who bad formerly held
high offices.—(Hear, hear.) His Right Hon. Friend
(Sir R. Peel), who formerly was the leader of that House,
had been unable to find a scat on that bench.—(Loud
cries of " Hear, hear.") Although on one par icular oc-
casion his Right Hon. Friend bad certainly given support
to his Majesty's Minister., he did not think that by that
act he had forfeited his character as being in opposition to
his Majesty's Government.--(Hear, hear.) He only put
it to new Members—(Hear, hear)—of that House, whe-
ther the ordinary feelings of courtesy they ought to enter-
tain, and indeed the general habits of society, should not
induce them to remove this ground of complaint.—( Hear.)
Mr COBBETT thought it was only proper that he
sl.culd make a few observations, after the rrmaikr winch'
the House had just heard. It would appear from those
remarks that he had got into a seat to which he had no
right. Now he had always been, and always meant La
be, punctual in his attendance in that House ; and unless
he found, when he came there, that the seats were occu-
pied, he should always sit on that seat, or on those oppo-
site (pointing to the Treasury Benches).--(Laughter and
cheers.) Of all the men in that House, there was not
one who had done so much mischief to the country as
the Right Hon. Baronet, to whom allusion bad been
inade.—(Cries of " Order, order.")
The SPEAKER said, that whatever eeat the Hon.
Member far Oldham might occupy in that House, he
(the Speaker) hoped that be would, at least, comply
with its orders and customs, and not commit a breach of
order by such observations on any Member of that House,
whether absent or present.—(Loud cries of " Hear.")
Mr. COBBETT understood that the Right Hon.
Baronet, the Member for the University, had alluded to
the Right Hon. Baronet who was absent, as an indivi-
dual, who had a peculiar right to tile seat which he (Mr.
C.) bad occupied.—(Hear, hear ; No, no.) If the
Right Hon. Baronet were present, he would tell him why
any
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have "
Order," and laughter.) He supposed the Holi‘selinealatt'
put up with what it now endured, praying to God to
enlarge the hearts of his Majesty's Ministers, and induce
them to squander away a little more money.—(Laughter.)
The SPEAKER observed, that it was a very erroneous
opinion to suppose that Members could secure their places
iu the House by putting up papers with their names upon
them, before the Speaker had come down to the House.
Mr. BARING said, that he should nut press his obser-
vations further.
The SPEAKER observed, that the motion of the
Rightai nc e
seats. Its only object was declare, that w the
will' the Mace to
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present sbouNldotoicoet.ntaokult,hiath‘t
put in the
que,tion till to-morrow. Although the
securetlous the attendance of Hon. Members, the Members
matter might not be

of very great importance, it might form a precedent that
would be prejudicial.
An How. ME xia said, that on one night he came
down to the House at half-past six, and found no, less than
about 200 papers stuck throughout the House to secure
places for Members, not one of whom, he believed, had
that evening been down. He had every reason to believe
that those papers bad been put there by the servants of
the House—(Hear, hear)—and he had made up bis mind
never to have recourse to such conduct.
The SPEAKER put the motion, which was carried
nen. con.,
" That on days appointed for taking into consideration
any election petition, no Member having been present at
prayers, shall be allowed to keep any place for himself
unites be shall be present, and shall attend the service of the
House during the Ballot."
LIVERPOOL ELECTIONS.
Mr. BENETT moved for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the matters complained of in the petition of
the inhabitants of Liverpool (presented 21st February),
and to report the result of their inquiries to the House.
The Hon. Member stated, that bribery and corruption,
not only in the election of Corporation-bfficera, but in that
of Members of Parliament, was a common source of pub-
lic nuisance. ite held in his hand a document that
would prove What corruption had been made use of in
the election of both. Mayors and Members of Parliament
doting a long spare of time, up to the present period. At
the election of 1831 for Members of P urliamenr, he would
Prow; t} at upon that occasion there were three thousand
freemen bribed. He had seen the books and the accounts
of payments made to that number of persons. The ex-
pense of that election to the party that had recourse to
bribery was 80,0001. But, then, it had been stated that
no recourse had been had to bribery since the election of
1831. The Noble Lord's (Sandon's) statement might be
true ; bet he had examined evidence, and consulted Coun-
sel, who assured him that never was there made out a
better case of bribery and corruption than the present.
The Hon. Member then contended that the Government
patronage, extended to the members of the Liverpool
Committees and clubs, was a misusage of that patronage,
and was in eft ct eqUal to bona fide bribe.; and that
those who offered that patronage were as guilty as if they
offered money. Never would this systeM of bribery be
wiped off, unless a Committee was appointed to inquire
into the purity of the last elections. In wishing fior this
inquiry, he had no personal feelings towards the Noble
Lord, but his feelings were entirely against the Corpora-
tion abuses of the town of Liverpool. If a Committee
Were not granted, he considered that it would be a stigma
thrown upon the Liverpool elections. In asking for this
inquiry be only demanded justice, and nothing more.
Mr. R. WASON seconded the motion.
Lord SANDON contended, that the petition should be
confined to late elections, and should not go back to those
that took place twenty years ago. Much had been said
about the effects of patronage in the Liverpool elections;
but he held in his hand a list of many who supported,
from principle and by public subscriptions, Messrs.
Brougham and Creevey, when they were candidates for
Liverpool. This was a proof—one of the best he could
give—that the electors of Liverpool preferred principle to
patronage. He had known them now for the space of
two years. He had no patronage to offer—no influence ;
and, consequently, his election could not be attributed to
corrupt motives. He (Lord Sandon) could say that on
his first election, after a canvass of ten weeks; his whole
expense amounted to 1,8001 only, and at the last election
it was still less, for it amounted only to baween 1,4001.
and 1,500/. What other Member in the House, repre-
senting a popular constituency, could say that he held his
seat on so small an expenditure? Or was it likely that
with so small a sum as that mentioned by him, bribery
to any extent could be carried on? He begged the House
to take care, that in following the course proposed by the
Hon. Member for Wiltshire, they did not disfranchise the
innocent as well as the guilty. The whole number which
he proposed to disfranchise was 1,448, while the whole

number guilty, according to his statement, was 3,600.
Of these a considerable number were younger sons of
merchants, book-keepers, and others of that class, who,
if taken from the 3,600, very few would be found
who could be supposed guilty of bribery.—(Hear, hear.)
As to the mode of inquiry proposed by the Hon. Mem-
ber, he (Lord Sandon) would beg to ask the House if the
tribunal to which he wished it to be referred was a proper
one, as the Grenville Act, which regula'ed the proceed-
ings regarding election's went in the preamble, that " where-
as the present mode of conducting inquiries on election
proceedings obstructs business, is enormously expensive,
and is not found to answer the purpose for which it was
intended ?" Its first proviaion then, for the protection of
parties, was, that a strictly impartial tribunal should be
provided, and for that purpose it was enacted that a Com-
mittee of the House should be balloted for ; and that the
tribunal might be further purged, it provided that all per-
sons interested should be excluded from the Committee.
It then provided that the Members of the Committee
should be sworn to do justice between the parties,, and it
give them power to call and examine witnesses upon oath.
He would beg leave to ask the Hon. and Learned Member
for Wiltshire which of those provisions he thought ought
to be dispensed with.—(!fear, hear.) Yet, in the tri-
bunal suggested by him—namely, a Select Committee—
the Members were not sworn to do justice, and they haul
no power to call o itro saes before them or to administer
a❑ oath. It had, therefore, none of the wholesome
previsions for the protection of parties provided by the ti
burial to which such matters are ordinarily referred. He
had no objection to a full examination into the circumstances
of the Liverpool elections as long as he was connected
with them, and he knew that his Committee was equally
anxious that such an inquiry should be entered into. If,
really the House agreed to this Committee, he (Lord San-
don) should expect to see the bar of the House surrounded
with petitioners praying for similar Committees.—(Hear,
hear, from Mr. O'Connell.) Ile understood the meaning
of the cheers of the Huun. Member for Dublin. The Sta-
tute of Limitations would prevent them from examining
into the corruptions of the full period of thirty years, but
they could do so for twenty.five years. But he thought
taat this was a subject which did not require the appoint-
ment of a Select Committee to examine into it, as it was
uae of the objects of the Corporation Committee. He
(Lord Sandon) thought the whole subject of the corpora-
tion abuses was brought into play merely for the purpose
of swelling the prejudice already felt against the meinkers
of the corporation. There was another subject on which
he wished to set the Hon. Member right: The Hon.
!!ember stated that the Mayor of Liverpool was one of
the persons who signed the petition. That was not the
case. He asserted, likewise, that the brother of the Mayor
bad sat as Chairma❑ of his (Lord Sandon's) Committee.
That statement was likewise untrue. And as both these
allegations were found not to be consistent with fact, he
left it to the House to say what faith could be put in his
other allegations. The Hon.- Member bad likewise as-
serted that the old freemen refu•ed to take the Bribery
Oath. If that were the case, how could they make the
return ? He knew, too, the Bribery Oath was ad-
ministered only to procure delay, till they could bring
up those who had not come forward ;. but their ob
ject was defeated, for a sufficient number did come for-

ward and took the oath. And the first person to whom
he (Lord Sandell) saw the Bribery Oath administered
was a freewaa' on the opposite side, who refused to
take it, amidst the laughter of the people assembled.
With regard to the large majority against him (Lord
Saiadon), to which the Hon. Member al uded, it was easy
to explain it. The old freemen, and that class of electors,
told bim that they would not vote at the same time with
the small householders, but would come forward on the
second day. That accounted for the change which took
place on the second day.—(Hear.) The Noble Lord then
said be wished to take that opportunity of correcting a
misstatement which appeared in the public prints in the
report of the speech of his Hon. Colleague on presenting
the petition in question. The misstatement was impor-
tant as regarded the corporation, and he wished therefore
to remove the impression which it was calculated to make
on the public. The report to which he alluded said that
the petition complained of a mi.appropriation of the corpo-
ration funds. That was not the fact. The complaint was
regarding funds belonging to the Dock Company. It was
alleged that 300,000!. of the funds belonging to the Dock
Company were misappropriated and applied to the general

Corporatio❑ purposes ; but that was impossible, as the
funds of the Dock Company were applied to exclusive
purposes appointed by Act of Parliament, and the property
belonging to the company which had been sold was pre.
viously valued by a Jury ; so that it was impossible for
those who had the management of them to misappropriate
them. He thought it important to set the public right on
this matter. He would not detain the House longer than
to read to them a passage or two from a letter written by
the Rev. W. Sheppard, with whose name the House was
well acquainted; that Rev. Gentleman confessed that he
himself had been a corrupter : not that he had received
bribes, but that his pocket. had been considerably lightened
by the sums he had distributed for purchasing the votes of
others. Having done this, it was not his intention to put
on a hypocritical face, and set to work prosecuting others
for the very offence of which lie himself was guilty. No ;
he should assume the humility of penitence for what he

had been obliged to do, and sin no more.
Mr. ROBINSON thought these subjects ought rather
to come before the Municipal Committee, and not before
the House ; supposing, however, the House were to grant
the Committee now petitioned for, what would to the