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could not take bail, and he was moreoi-er justified in refusing
it by the view taken of the case 1w the Coroner's jury, which
Wag the came as his own. As the case was presented before
him it was a *ay aggravated one, and be must refer the pri-
soner's solicitor to the judges if he wished to obtain bail for
him, and he should be so advised.—The prisoner was then
committed, both on the Coroner's warrant and the warrant of
the Magistrate.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE.-SINGULAR
CASE.

• Wednesday Mr. G. J. Mills, Deputy Coroner for the county
of Middlesex, held an inquest at the Hammersmith work-
house of the Kensington union, in King-street, Hammer-.
smith, on view of the body of a man unknown. It appeared
from the evidence that about ten o'clock in the forenoon of
Monday last, some bargemen, while navigating the Grand
Junction Canal, discovered the body of the deceased in the
water at that portion of the canal abutting on Wormwood
Scrubs. The body was immediately got on shore, and con-
veyed to the Mitre beer-shop, close by, from whence it was
removed to the above workhouse. - On an examination being
made of the body, bricks were found in the deceased's pockets,
weighing Vbs., and there was a mark of a cut across his
throat, but which might probably have been made by the
bottom of a boat passing over it. In one of the deceased's
pockets Wl3 found a memorandum-book, in which was writ-_
ten, in a clear and neat hand, the following, which clearly
shows that the deceased was labouring under delusions of a
religious character:—
"No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. God suf-
fers none but those predestinated to damnation to commit
self-destruction No human worm has a right to take away
human life—it is the prerogative of God only. Not even in
murder; for God oftentimes makes use of murderers as his
agents, his police who watches everything that passes, or is
transacted, not only in England, but in the fixed stars, those
beautiful orders ( f sisters. Not an atom can move without
the observance of his old police, those gentlemen without
clothing (I ask pardon, they have sometimes feathers) who
report the secrets of the heart to the head commissioners or
to the heads of the government..
" What is life? A poor stage player, who frets and struts
upon the stage and then is seen no more.
" BILLY, the Immortal.
"Try half the world, you would hang them with the other
half.
" What I have done, I have done to show you that I am
more than mortal, but do you suppose you can destroy me ?
No; my flesh may be cut to atoms with a million knives,
but I am a fallen archangel yet! and shall have employment
to punish the great only who offend God.
" There are agencies at work at the present time to de-
stroy the holy religion of this country, founded on a pure and
edifiable translation of the Holy Scriptures, or pure Word of
God, a testimony which adheres to disbelievers, and which
Deists laugh at, but which is a word of adamant."
There was something also written in allusion to the late
visit of the Emperor of Russia to .this country, but .the
writing (pencil) was so illegible that it could not be
deciphered. Deceased appeared to be between 40 and 50
years of age, and was dressed in a gambroon jacket, and
black waistcoat and trousers, low shoes, and white stockings,
and a black silk hat. Nothing whatever was found on him
tending to lead to his identy.
The jury, in the absence of any evidence as to how the
deceased came into the water, or as to the state of his mind,
returned a verdict of " Found drowned."

THE STATE APARTMENTS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.-
It was at one time expected that the state apartments would
be closed to the public during her Majesty's temporary re-
tirement at the Castle. The Lord Chamberlain has arrived
at Windsor upon a visit to the Quein, and it is now under-
stood that the whole of the state rooms will remain open
during the stay of the Court, as heretofore, from eleven in
the morning till six o'clock in the afternoon. On Tuesdays
and Fridays the public will not be admitted, nor on Sundays
until half-past one o'clock p.m.
SALARY OF THE CLERK OF THE CROWN IN
CHANCERY.—The following resolutions were last night agreed
to, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Greene, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir George Clerk :-
1. " That a yearly salary of 1,000/. be paid to the Clerk of
the Crown in Chancery, in lieu of the salary now paid to that
officer."

2. " That provision be made, out of the Consolidated Fund
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for
making good any deficiency which may occur, in the Fee
Fund of the Office of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery."

NEW HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST.—
We understand, in consequence of the success which has
attended Dr. Maddock, of the Dispensary, Judd-street,
Brunswick-square, in his treatment of consumption, asthma,
and many other complaints of the organs of breathing, and
'also of the heart, by inhalation, or the local application of
,remedies to the seat. of disease, it has been proposed to open
an hospital in the northern part of the:metropolis, for the
purpose of relieving many thousands of the humbler classes
who annually suffer from these affections. In addition to
the advantages to be reaped by the poor by the institution
it is to be hoped that it will be the means of making the
above mode of practice more generally known and appre-
ciated by the medical profession.
ELOPEAIENT TO GRETNA-GREEN.—On Thursday
last, Lieutenant Leeson, nephew to Lord Milltown, and
youngest son of the late Hon. Mr. Leeson, of the Thorn, near
Penrith, Cumberland, who is on leave of absence from his
regiment, which is in the East Indies, eloped to Gretna•
green, with Miss Laura Bristow, a daughter of John Charles
Bristow, Esq., of Ensemere-hill, Ullswater, Westmoreland,
and over whose head sixteen summers have scarcely flown.
It appears that this young and gallant officer had laid his
plans for the accomplishment of the siege of Ensemere-hill
with great skill. Wednesday last was the day in which he
intended to have stormed the works, but the garrison having,
doubtless been apprised of his intentions, manned the walls
so well all that day and night, that the besieger thought it
right not to commence operations at that time. Next morn-
ing, however, the besieged, thinking all safe, made a sortie,
and set sail up the lake of Ullswater to Patterdale, taking
the young lady with them. The besieger was not aware of
this, and the besieged had nearly made a safe retreat into
the garrison again ; but one of the gallant officer's sharp-
shooters lay concealed among the brushwood, who seized the
fair prize, and away she was taken to her betrothed, who
was waiting at a short distance with a coach and four, and off
the young officer went with his booty. Pursuit was in vain ;
the fugitives soon passed over the six-and-twenty miles to
Gretna-green, were married, and, it is said, they contemplate
a speedy embarkation for India ; but it is expected that a re-
conciliation with her family will first take place, for that
whichls passed cannot be recalled.
THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT DOVER.—Wed-
nesday, about eleven o'clock, the body of Mr. Henry Raw-
lings, woollendraper, of Basinghall• street, London, who was
drowned on Monday, was picked up in. the bay. The body
of Sophia Bennett, one of the young ladies who perished at
the same time, was found on Tuesday. An inquest was
opened before the borough Coroner at one o'clock yesterday
on both bodies, and the evidence went to show that the
boat had been upset during a brisk gale while the boatmen
were about to jib her. Thera did not appear to have been
carelessness on the part of any one; but the boat was not a
good one, and she carried too much sail for her size. The'
inquest was adjourned for further evidence.
NEW EAST-END STREET.—The houses at the
Whitechapel terminus of the new street which is to connect
Spitalfields with the docks being nearly demolished, there
is now a clear opening from Whitechapel to Spitalfields
Church. Several of the most obnoxious streets and courts
in this locality have been removed to make way for this
improvement, amongst the fbrmer being thoie notorious
places, Essex and Rose-streets, a public-house in the first
being the well-known resort of Turpin and his brother
highwaymen. The new street having been formed, pre.;
parations are being made to commence the erection of a
superior line of shops. The whole of the houses on the left.
hand side of Red Lion-street have been taken down, and
those required in Leman-street, .up to the arches of the
Blackwell Railway, are closed, prior to immediate demo'-
lition. As the streets leading from the terminus at Spital.-
fields Church are very narrow, and unfit for an increased
traffic, it is supposed that the street will be extended dia-
gonally to Shoreditch, to the terminus of the Eastern
Counties Railway, in which case some improvement must
take place in Spitalfields-market, decidedly the most incons-
modious of any public place of business in the metropolis.
FREE TRADE.—We believe it is but little known
that an Act of Parliament was passed on the 4th July, inst.,
which repeals all former enactments relative to forestall, re-
grating, and engrossing in fairs, marts, and markets, and the
preamble of this new Act clearly recognises the just princi-
ples of free-trade. The preamble runs thus : " Whereas, di-
vers statutes have been from time to time made in Parlia-
ments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, and Ireland res-
pectively, prohibiting certain dealings in wares, victuals,
merchandise, and various commodities by the names of bad-
gering, forestalling, regrating, and engrossing, and subjecting
to divers punishments, penalties, and forfeitures, persons so
dealing; and whereas it is expedient that such statutes as
well as certain other statutes, made in hindrance and re-
straint of trade, be repealed." The Act repeals, as tre have
above observed, the old laws applying to forestalling, &c.
Who can argue against a repeal of the corn-laws after this
dear recognition of the principles of free-trade ?
EDITORIAL THANKSGIVING.—There are, at present,
no less than forty-seven editors of newspapers imprisoned iu
France. It is lucky for the English press that Mr. Roebuck
'does not possess the same power as Louis Philippe, or else
Newgate would contain three times the above number; that
is to say, every editor in the kingdom who would not praise
him.—Punch.
AN ANTI-MALTHUSIAN.—One of the inmates of
the Metropolitan Benefit Society's Asylum at Ball's-pond,
Dalston, has given birth to 'no fewer than 32 children. On
one occasion she was confined with four, on two with three
children at a birth, besides at other times having given birth
to twins.
DEPRAVITY.—On Friday night the inhabitants of
the rue Aumaire were thrown into commotion by the follow-
ing circumstance. A shoemaker, named Chevreuil, aged 22,
lived with a woman named Bronne, of about the same age,
in a very riotous manner, both being given up to drink.
They were at last reduced to great want, and on the night
in question, a strong odour of charcoal being perceived to
come from their room, the commissary of police was in-
formed of the fact. He bad the door forced and found a.
pan of charcoal burning iu the room, and the girl Bronne
-lying on a truckle-bed in a corner, with a mask of cloth
affixed closely to her face with shoemaker's wax She Ica,
quite dead when the room was entered. Chevreuil being
suspected of having murdered the girl, orders were given to
have him sought out and arrested, When the Commissary
returned to his office, he was surprised to find Chevreuil
waiting for him there., He stated that he and his mistress
had agreed to die together; 'and that they drank to excess to
prepare themselves for the act. It was he who placed the
mask on the girl's face. He then attempted to end his ow
life, but his courage having failed, lie had come to place him-
self at the disposal of the Commissary. Chevreuil was imme-
diately sent to the prefecture.— Galignanrs Messenger.
A. 'GOOD OPENING FOR SIR JAMES.;--At the Cus-
tom-house. things are passed without being opened; at the
Post-office things are opened which should be held sacred.
Let the officers of the two establishments change places,
giving Sir James Graham the control of the Customs, and
then- the_ business in each will be properly conducted.—Punch