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THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMMISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, Ece.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK., AND AVOID.
"That three score years and ten our course may run."

A p6pniar review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
Nally-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses
yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, er study, and em-
)itters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu-
s.tion of every-day life.

Iv.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."

Surascr s pilgrimage, from infancy to old ago. The advent
.>: the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of
,icentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and rernodiative. Advocacy of early marriages.

V.
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."
PII.4.)6ItAIIINE :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
lien regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
:hole°, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Oases, &c.
By it. 7. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827),
524). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
Itoepetinn heqirs flatly till fly. Rlvanings. coven till nins.
10 Argyll-place. Regent-street.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 3.
STOCK Excmucoz.—The share market opened firm this
morning, and continued buoyant throughout the day. A fair
business was done, and prices bad an upward tendency. The
transactions were as follow : Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, 71/2 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.), 2114 Ditto, 22/.
Shares, 41/2 dis. Caledonian, 12%—East Lancashire, 15
--Lancashire and Yorkshire, 5914 )itto, Fifths, 7 dis.—
Ditto (West Riding Union), 514, dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 16
—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, ,A p.—London and
North- Western, 1321/2—Ditto, New Quarters, 61A p.—Ditto,
Fifths, 61,4 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 351/2
—Ditto, Quarters (No. 1), 7'% till 1853, 14—Ditto, Prefer-
ence, 11 15-16—Ditto, New 61. Preference, 1,9 p.—Midland,
61—Ditto, Halves. 14 dis.—North Staffordshire, 69 dis.—
North-Western, 113,4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 271/i
—South Staffordshire, 214 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
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fast Junction, 21 dis.--Aberdeen, Preference, 6 per cent.
in perpetuity, 811—Bolton, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire
(No. 1), 61.4—Chester and Holyhead, 23—Ditto, Preference,
guaranteed 51/2 per cent., 1634—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 35.
MANCHESTER, MARCH 3.
STOCK EXCHANCIR.—There has been a good business done
to• day, and prices were better. The transactions were as
follow:—Lancashire and Cheshire Junction, 25s.—Chester
and Birkenhead, 50a.—East Lancashire, 225. 61—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 20s. to 30s. higher.—London and
North-Western, 1321/2—Sheffield, 35%—South-Eastern and
Dover,27—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 213i4.
BIRMINGHAM, MARCII 3.
gig EXCIIANGE.—The share market was very active
to-day, with prices tending upwards. The transactions were
as follow:—London and North-Western, Fifths, 534 p.—
Ditto, Quarters, 6 p.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),
41. kis. Id. dis.—South Staffordshire, r
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castle, and Berwick, 22.

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Cross, when called up for judgment, made a very good
address—a re-echo of the counsel's speech—to show
that he was not guilty; but
His LORDSHIP said he was quite satisfied the verdict
was perfectly right. Their conduct was most inexcus-
able and wicked, and deserved a very severe punishment.
Transportation for 15 years.
Joseph Knots, 27, labourer, and John Bushnell, a beer-
shop keeper, who were also convicted yesterday of hav-
ing set fire to six stacks of oats and four stacks of wheat,
worth 1,4001., the property of Mrs. Mary Hamerton, at
Bray, in this county, were brought up for sentence.
Mr. Skinner had conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Carrington the defence.
Bushnell protested his innocence, but, as in the former
case, his Lordship expressed his entire concurrence in
the propriety of the verdict, and passed the same sen •
tence-15 years transportation.
Joseph Sounders, aged 22, a shoemaker, was tried and
convicted of a rape on Miss Isabella Lydia Pullen, under
circumstances of great atrocity. He was an apprentice
to a shoemaker in Maidenhead, named Adams, who had
a shop in Lee's.lane, on the Bray road. The prosecu-
trix, a very modest-looking girl, of 16 or 17 years of age,
was in the habit of minding the shop for Mrs. Adams,
occasionally. Lee's-lane is a part of Maidenhead that is
well frequented. On the 29th of August last, ;between
three and four o'clock, Mrs. Adams was from home.
Her husband had gone to a neighbouring village, and
there were in tho house only the prisoner, the prosecu-
trix, and an errand boy. The prisoner sent out the lad for
some eggs and butter into the town, and the moment the
lad was gone out the prisoner slammed to the door with
one hand, and with the other flung the prosccutrix with
such violence on the floor that, her head first coming in
contact with it, she was stunned, and while she was
senseless he effected his purpose. She immediately ran
home, complained to her mother, who is a respectable
widow lady in reduced circumstances, and became very
ill, and continued so for several days.
The jury, without deliberating for more than a few
minutes, found him Guilty.

sentence, said the case was
as
sianyinhe)resci:lfected,
Hisba d a L
one n n o
asilP'
except where a numberof ruffians combined to attack a single woman. A f
years past the prisoner's crime would have subjected him
to the punishment of death, and if the law were now in
the same condition, be certainly would not in the
clightest degree interpose to prevent its being carried
out to the fullest extent in the present instance. His
duty compelled him to pass the heaviest sentence which
the law allowed—transportation for life.

..._,
The commission was opened in the afternoon hero by
Mr. Justice Matteson. The cause-list contains three
cases, of which, it is said, only one is defended. The
calendar has the usual number of sixty-five prisoners,
several of whom are charged with serioua offences.

MlDLAN(BDeroCrletr. ÜBI
aTr.;NAo
trtrilimpot
Non.), March 3.
Joseph Clarke was indicted for stealing five 104 notes,
the property of Mr. Preston.
Mr. Hayes appeared for the prosecution ; Mr. Flood
for the defence.
Mr. Preston deposed as follows:—I live near Oundle.
On Monday, the 25th of February, 1850, I went to
Oundle fair. Near the Talbot Inn I met a man, he
called himself Proctor. It was about half-past one. I
to have upthbee beasts?"illnd Prisoner said me, 'and Proctor
had a conversation with him about beasts. Ho said,
" Will you let me have the boaster I said I had none.
sClarke,aid to
him, the prisoner,A m 1
to Proctor, " You have bought one out of the lot, and
my father is an old man
,sad won't forfeit his word, and
woa't let you have them. They asked me if I would
step into the Talbot with them to put them together.
We all went into the Talbot. Proctor gave me 50!. and
eight 5/. notes and ten sovereigns. Ile put them into
my hand. He said it was to pay for the beasts, because
Clarke's father would not forfeit his word, therefore I
was to hand the money over. I did hand it over. Clarke
said that would not do. He said, " I can't take your
money for the sake of my father's word," and clapped
his head
on amndey.,
upon, I told hi
his heart. Ile
I had
e said to " It must be
your not
any
to
signify
abort me. Ile wanted to know what I had got. I
said 30/. He said that would do. I told him I could
not part wit's that. He said that I could go to the bank
and get it if I liked. I said I could,
, the five
I went on to the
bank and got five 101. notes. When I came out Clarke
was in the middle of the road. I told him I could change
the money then. We went to the inn again. Proctor
came in, but did not sit down. The other 50/. (eight 51.
notes and ten sovereigns) lay on the table. I sat down
wwilt.hnCotleasr.ke
Part
ometyorrkigehptt
slehainfdti,nagnadbgoyavt.e Clarke
He said " I'll
order dinner; you shall have some with us;" but instead
of doing that ho took up the money and went away.
Clarke went out to a stable door and told the ostler to
let me have the great bay horse. I knew nothing about
the horse. It had not been named before. I considered
there was something wrong, and Iwent to look for
w ay. Proctor.
calledl
Then o I saw the back
them. i went to the Cross Keys. They had gone
that way. Stop
pm t both running
bateo away
not catch
The ostler of the Cross Keys proved that Clarke and
two other men had come there together, Clarke on horse-
back and the others in a gig; and they went off in a
hurry.
The same men bad left a horse at thn Talbot Inn
which was afterwards Fold by auction. It was worth
about 51.
Mr. Flood, in his addres to the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, contended that the prisoner clearly had a bad
opinion of Proctor, and would not deal with hie), teougn
he would with Mr. Preston. Mr. Preston had been im-
posed upon by Proctor, and what reason was there to
suppose that Clarke also had not been Imposed upon?

It appeared that the prosecutor and prisoner met at
the Dolphin, at Oundle, on the 20th of February, on a
market day; two years before there had been a bet be-
tween them, and the prosecutor, on seeing the prisoner,
said, " You owe me half-a-dozen of wine." There was
no quarrel, but as the prosecutor was putting on his
great coat to go home, there being nobody else present
at the time, the prisoner struck the prosecutor with his
fist on the left side of the face. The prosecutor imme-
diately fell against the fender, upon which there was a
great quantity of blood. After the prosecutor was on
the ground and insensible, the prisoner kicked him in the
face. A surgeon was called in, leeches wore applied,
and the prosecutor had been under medical treatment
over since. One of the surgeons was inclined to think
that the principal hurt was occasioned by the fall upon
the fender, and the other that it was not.
The prisoner, when in custody, said to the consta-
ble, " They can only make mo pay fur it. I have paid
100/. for knocking live folka about; and I can pay
another."
Mr. O'BRIEN contended that there was no evidence of
any intention to do grievous bodily harm, and that the
justice of the case would be satisfied by a couviotion for
a common assault.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury found
the prisoner Guilty of the whole charge.
The Learned JUDGE, in sentencing him to twelve
months' imprisonment, with hard labour, commented in
terms of great severity upon the brutal and unmanly
character of the assault.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUI 11—Swansea, March 1.
TRIAL OF LIEUTENANT ACKERLEY FOR MAN-
SLAUGHTER.—CharIes Henry Ackerley, a retired lieu-
tenant in the navy, and well known in London by his
eccentric but philanthropic projects, was arraigned at
the bar, charged on the oath of Jenkin Aubrey, of
Aberdare, collier, and another, with having felon-
iously killed and slain one Matthew Tingle. lie pleaded
not guilty.
Mr. Grove conducted the prosecution; the prisoner
defended himself.

The Learned COUNSEL briefly opened the case as fel-
lows:—The Inquiry on which the Court is about to
enter is, regard being had to the circumstances of the
case, the prisoner at the bar being a gentleman by
birth and education, one of a most painful nature. It
appears that on the 12th of December last the prisoner
went to Cwm Bach, in the Aberdare Valley, and
called at a house where lay one Matthew Tingle, a
collier, who had been recently burned by an explo-
sion in a coal-pit. He said he had been instructed to
treat the sufferer medically. At that time Tingle was
under the care of the surgeon of the works. The
prisoner, on his representation that he was authorised to
treat the man, was admitted. He saw Matthew Tingle
lying on a bed covered with plaster, which, by his direc-
tions, was removed, in this manner exposing the raw
surface of the burns. He then moved the arms and legs
of the sufferer violently about. He placed a lighted
lamp under the man's nostrils, and thrust a feather
down his throat. A short time afterwards the man died.
The surgeon who attended the deceased would show that
the latter had a chance of recovery but for this rude
treatment. No doubt the prisoner had no intention to
do harm; on the contrary, it might be presumed his
purpose was to do good; but if, acting ignorantly, or by
gross negligence or misconduct, he accelerated the man's
death, as, according to the instructions of counsel, the
medical testimony would clearly show, then the law
held him guilty of manslaughter. If, however, the evi-
dence should not be sufficient to establish the crime of
manslaughter, then the jury might find the prisoner
guilty of an assault, as no doubt his Lordship would
fully explain to them.
Jenkin Aubrey—l am a collier. On the 12th of De-
cember last the deceased, Matthew Tingle, was burnt with
others by an explosion in Dyffryn colliery, Aberdare.
His arms and legs were badly burned. I waited on him,
and Mr. Davies, the surgeon of the works, attended him
medically. I remember the prisoner Ackerley coming
there. He said, "I am a doctor from Lancashire, sent here
by Mr. Powell, the owner, and Mr. Oakley, the agent of
the colliery, to look over the men who are burned." He
came iu and looked at the man. He then went out, and
shortly returned with a lighted lamp. Ho asked for a
cloth or something to :throw over the man's face; a
woman gave him her apron, which he placed over the
sick man's face, telling him to hold up his chin, and be
careful not to• bremh through his mouth. He then
placed the lamp under the apron alongside the man's
face, and told him to breathe as fast as ho could through
his nostrils, and to play his arms and legs about. The
man tried, but could not move his arms, and as be did
not move his legs fast enough, the prisoner told me to
move the legs, and I did :30 under his direction. I moved
the arms as well as the legs, exposing them naked to
the open air. The window was, opened and the clothes
were leaned by the Primer* Instructiehe. After a

David Davies—l am a surgeon at Aberdate,l healing.
the medical duty at Mr. Vowell's worts. I attended the
deceased. He was burnt bn Thursday, the 12th of De-
cember. I saw him on that day, and,attentitel hin3
daily afterwards. He was severely burnt, but he had a
chance of recovery. I ca say wilkcertainty whether
he would recover Qtar3t. d7slaster 4o ke the
wounds from thellir. I consider the treatment of the
deceased by the prisoider very irchpropeti —.The man was
not in a state to be g, consenting party to' anything. I
saw him an hour and a half before he died. He was
then dying. I have no hesitation in saying the treat-
ment he experienced by the prisoner, especially by•tbe%
exposing such an extent of raw surface to the action of
the atmosphere accelerated his death. The agitating
his limbs must have had a bad effect. I do not think
the lamp and pill could have had a bad effect.
To the Judge—l saw the man a very few minutes
after the prisoner left the room. The plasters had
been removed, almost every one from the deceased's
Cross-examined by the prisoner—Six days had
elapsed between the accident and the day in question.
I had not heard " the rattles." I heard no other
sound than that arising from bronchitis, under which
the man was suffering. Ido not recollect whether the
man's jaw was closed. He was very much exhausted.
When I entered the room, I saw such a flame us the one
you show me burning in a jug under the man's nose.
The man supporting it said ho had held it so ever since
you lift the room, which might be about five minutes.
That will no doubt accelerate the circulation of the
blood. It will exhilarate" the action cf the blood.
I admit that the term " Nature abhors a vacuum " is
sometimes made use of in the colleges. I gave the
deceased operative (that is purgative) medicine first,
and then I gave him medicine for the bronchitis. I am
not aware that it is " the atmospheric tonnage or pres-
sure of 160 tons on the human body which keeps the
men down in cases of explosions and burning by fire-
damp." I recognise that there is such a thing as atmo-
spheric pressure.
The prisoner (to the'Court)—l want to come to phi-
losophy.
Witness continued—l had not taken any means of re-
moving " the atmospheric tonnage" from the deceased's
body. I was not present when deceased made his will.
The prisoner (to the Judge)—My Lord, I have not only
to cont'nd with the medical treatment, but to combat
the error in philosophy.
Witness continued—A man in the adjoining house,
burnt at the same time, is also dead. lie was my patient.
The prisoner (to the Court)—That man's wit© was
pregnant. She looked ghastly pale, having inhaled the
sulphurous gas from her husband, and I administered to
her the lamp with good effect.

Witness resumecl--I recognise the principle that nature
abhors a vacuum.

The prisoner (to the Judge)—You hear that; it is im-
portant; on that principle I stand or fall.
Re-examined by Mr. GROVE—The noise in the man's
lungs WAS from bronchitis, not the noise of rattles pre-
ceding death. ,The secretion in the nose would prey( nt
the man's breathing freely. He would, therefore, breathe
through his mouth.
To the Judge—The man next door died from the
effects of a burn. The immediate cause of death in this
case was bronchitis. In my opinion, the atmosphere
acted on the burns, and through them on the nervous
system, and that action accelerated and promoted the
action of the bronchitis. I cannot say fur certain that
the man would not have died from the burns, even if he
had not had bronchitis. If a man is burnt severely, ex-
posure of his wounds will bring on bronchitis to a certain
extent. It did so in the present case; the removal of the
plasters aggravated the complaint, and death ensued.
Exhaustion by discharges from his wounds, and not
bronchitis, occasioned the death of the other man.

The prisoner to the witness (through the Judge)—
Do you recognise that the skin called the periosteum
has a circulation of air between it and the bone, and

that butchers blow it up? Witness—l do not recognise
any such circulation of air.
Jenkin Aubrey recalled—The prisoner directed me to
remove all the plasters from the man's body, and I did
so. It was after the removal of the plasters that the
deceased's legs and arms were moved, about. (To the
prisoner), " 'Ter told me to strip away the plasters and
throw them off; blood flowed on my doing this."
The prisoner (hurriedly to the Judge)—That is im-
portant; it shows the liquifaction of the blood. The
deceased, when he made his will, did not complain of ill-
treatment.
The prisoner, after producing and arranging several
folio and quarto volumes, apparently of some antiquity,
now entered on his defence, of which the following is a
brief outline. He spoke for nearly an hour with great
readiness and fluency, giving evidence throughout of an
enthusiastic belief in the virtue of his lamp, and the
originality and usefulness of his medical discoveries:—
Persons who, like myself, introduce new systems and
discoveries in philosophy, systems totally opposed to the
generally received opinions, must expect to endure the
position in which I am now placed; bat it is for the
benefit of future generations that such trials should be
endured by inventors. I do not shirk mine; I stand here
fearlessly to abide the result. The medical man admits
that nature abhors a vacuum. That is my ground. The
steam-engine works on that principle; and if the Testa-
ment on which the witnesses have been sworn is handed to
me, I will show that my system of treatment is based on
ifnorwgontin tno
hispoi point out
t
doctrines laid down in that holy book. In all our
colleges the treatment of disease goes on rules laid
tdhoew
passages
prior t o
otfh et
the
Reformation.
[He
Testament
treat-
ment is justified, and went off to show that
there was, at
the time when " the College" was removed from Cricks
lade to Oxford, " a putefaetion in literature;'] He th« n
referred to a bull of Pope Clement,
from the Aristotleian Philosophy, and
nit"Pa4Bag"
which he said
called the Platonic Philosophy, is now
said, " shows that the T. PThis philosophy, he
case in Greek (sic), is based comingthe before an ablative
on
cum." lie traced the descent of principle of a sa-
c! this principle h variouz mythical and some historical through
B personages (amoeg.t
the former was a son of,
down to the present time, stating oadicea by King Arthur),
up till he revived it in
had been recognised
by William
several statutes in the '
He
quoted a passaze from
that there is no emn old* that it had been locked
books. He said this principle
the Conqueror, and in
reigns of subsequent sovereigns.
old bock--.' Plato affirmeth
tinessan • h within world;
...out or the
but whoever under tekes twolt prove this must prove
4 in gitiYe." Jam* doe Ibis, iii ITSUMed i

The prisoner Parkes denied that Mrs. Hill had seen
her in bed with Sheridan.

The prisoners were ordered to stand committed for
conspiracy., but the indictment will also include a charge
of perjury.

Mr. BINGHAM complimented Mr. Bower, of Chancery-
lane, Lord Statatord's professional adviser, on tke way
in vthich the case had been managed thrcu_;hca..
SOUTHWARK.

A gentleman applied for the magistrate's advice rela-
tive to the alleged misconduct of the conductor of an
omnibus towards his (the applicant's) wife.
The applicant stated that his wife was a passenger in
one of the omnibuses which run from the west end of the
town to the railway station at the Bricklayers'-arms, in
the Kent-road, but finding she had no small change
when they got into the Westminster-road, she handed
the conductor half-a-sovereign, the omnibus still going on
at the time, and when he examined the coin, instead of
giving her the change, he called out to the driver—" I
say, Bill, we have got a smasher inside." As there was
no other person in the vehicle, she knew the epithet
" smasher" applied to herself, and she spoke to the con-
ductor, asking him what be meant, and desired him to
return the halt-sovereign. He, however, refused to do
so, asserting that it was a counterfeit cuin, and that
ho should not give up the posst,ssion of it until be
bad defaced it in such a manner that no attempt
to pass it again could succeed. Applicant's wilethen desired to be set down in the London-
road, and when the omnibus stopped and the door
was opened, the conductor caused several low fellows
to stop and gape at her in consequence of his saying that
the lady inside had attempted to utter a counterfeit half_
so ve r ei
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wife was thrown, when, fortunately, a gentleralillWhO
was passing, attracted by the crowd ci,me up, and b
gthosstac
state
eproucf eaegdiitiaigtiso,n in which b:
he (applicant)
need
nogtn. Dmentniornin the
made acquainted with the circumstances, he eing
offered to pay the fare, but the conductor, publicly
notwithstand-
ing, ran into a public-house near the spot,
half. sovereign cut into three pieces, Although and had the
appli-
cant's wife insisted that it was a genuine the
blamed him for mis-representing her coin, and
to the crowd. He
then gave her back the coin defaced "
de-
scribed, and jumping up on his l in the manner p a
was driven off, but fortunately she
place behind the omnibus,
mind to take the number of the; had the presence of
added, that when his wife vehicle. The applicant
got
that had taken place to hi home she described all
m, and placed in his bands the
pieces of the half-sovereign, which he immediately took
to a silversmith's
shop in the neighbourhood, and
they were pronounced to be gold. 'Under such circum-
stances the übject of his present application was to ascer-
tain whether the conductor was not amenable to punish-
ment for having acted iu such a scandalous manner to-
wards a passenger, agninst whom there was not the
slightest foundation for" such an imputation as that he
had cast upon her character. The applicant produced the
three pieces which formed the coin his wife had tendered
to the man of whom he complained, and which he added
were genuine.
Mr. A'I3EcKETT said that if the above statement was
correct, the conduct of the conductor of the omnibus
was highly to be rep
rehended, and that before h
f d •the e at-
tempted to have the coin de-act in manner the one
now produced was, he ought to have ascertained beyond
"
a doubt that it was counterfeit. He (the conductor)
therefore had rendered himself nable not only to punish-
for that offence, but also for the language he had
went
used towards the applicant's wife. T
...he magistrate
; added that he should grant a wiarant against the con-
, ductor, and that it would be necessary to be prepared
with the requisite evidence against him.
The applicant having thanked the magistrate, then
withdrew.

Tynemouth is one of the driest parts of the eoun-
tr)', the average annual fall of rain for seven yearn being only
21.8 inches, or about a third less than the ricritat 41Litltial flat
of the whole Jaw, whial i 4 311.