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larity." The volume has incited claims on the favour- T LIE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.
able notice of the public, for the poems contained in ! (From the Morning Chronicle.)
it—the shorter ones especially—are distinguished by ;It is announced, we see, that the Anti-Corn-law
uncommon ease and sweetness of versification, and League has taken Covent-garden Theatre for the next
though they are for the most part of a melancholy season, at a rent of 3,0001. And yet the Government
character, yet there is nothing maudlin in the tone of organs will have us believe that the League is dead
sentiment that ervades them. The imagery through-
fact," and was pretty well scolded for the truism by the
out is chaste and apposite to the subject, anti occa-
Tory journals. One thing, however, is clear, that the
sionally, though not often, we meet with thoughts spil it of free-trade burns as energetically as ever; that
that strike us by their depth and subtlety. Miss it alarms Protectionists in counties as well as boroughs
Brown has not the earnest and weighty power of re- —that the Duke of Richmond fears it in Sussex, the
flection that Miss Barrett possesses, nor has she the Duke of Buckingham at Aylesbury—that her Majesty's
same intense passionate sensibility, but she is far su- Cal.inet are. piloting their course by farthing rushlights
perior to the ordinary run of Parnassian singing- stolen from it—that Mr. Gladstone feels its strength in
birds, and by a diligent training and husbanding of every hole and corner of his -department—that Sir R.
her powers—which are yet but immature—she may Psel is a disciple in rus, ready to attorn and conform
ere longproduce something which the "world will
himself to
not willinglyits practices as well as axioms, as soon as his
extrication from the lease-at-will on which he stands puts
let die." We subjoin her poem entitled
"I have Missed my Destiny!" which are the wordspower—that England,
it in his Young aye, and the Post
not whatitself, is life. If annihilation mean success, many things
compelled to raise the siege of Acre : besides the League have been annihilated. By a similar
Ah ! why were such words in thy weariness spoken, course, Sir R. Peel destroyed the agitation for the Test
Thou sleeper, whoSe memory fades not away ? Act, and the agitation for a Catholic Relief Bill. The
Were they thing from thy heart, like an early-sent token cry for Parliamentary Reform was suppressed by like
Of clouds that should darken the close of thy day ? means; yet nobody at that time of day said that Mr.
And oh ! was it thus, when the flood of thy glory Attwood had given up the ghost, because Birmingham
The walls of old Acre alone might resist, and its union carried the Reform Bill. We see in the
Thou saw'st thine own niche in the temple of story, two schedules abundant proof of his vitality. We see
Still bright—with tife promise thy fortunes have missed? proofs scarcely less of that of Mr. Cobden, in the bit by
We know not :—but who, that hath leaked on the pages hit reductions of Sir R. Peel, and in the universal turn
Of wisdom which brighten the volume of time,— towards agricultural emulation which has been called
And traced, through the far-fading twilight of ages, into life by the proceedings of Mr. Cobden. It is quite
The feeble who sink, or the mighty who climb— true that Lord Tweeddale invented tiles, and it is quite
Hath heard not thy words, in the power of their sadness, true that Mr. Smith, of Deanston, has given excellent
Arise from the depths of the heart or the grave,— opinions upon drainiug ; but, as it was said in former
Re-echoed from fields trampled down by the madness , times that many brave men lived before Agamemnon,
""
Of battle, or borne from the wrecks of the wave ? but were doomed to oblivion carent quiet rate sacro, so
For weary and wide were the wastes they have wandered, agriculture has not been a theme unstudied and unsung
Whose names have been highest in glory's proud list,— before the Hegira of a Deanston and a Tweeddale.
And bright were the treasures of hope that they squandered Scholars will be reminded of the Georgics—economists
Who perished—and saw but their destiny missed ! of one Arthur Young. The rides of Cobbett are not
without valuable matters, although be lived in times
They sought for the stream—when the fountain was
when Professor Leibeg and guano were unknown. Mr.
near them, Cobden, however, is their Homer. He has breathed the
T vitalhey pined for the'shade when the forest was green ;into the terrestrial
spirit of emulation crania of the
And sunshine, that rose on the desert to cheer them,
squires. He has taught them the great, the only lesson,
But brightened the aloud that came darkly between.
that competition is the breath of the nostrils of agricul-
Alas I for the brightness that beckons to danger,
ture as well as trade. He is fertilising, with appliances
Where love cannot lighten or friendship assist,—
more remunerating than ammonia or guano, the neg-
For they went, as they came, with the heart of the
lected grain fields of broad England. He is raising
stranger, men's hopes by an original operation on their fears.
And left us to gather the gems they had missed.
There are symptoms of this better sort of feeling every-
The prodigal knows not the wealth he has wasted, where. lil the place of languid and sentimental cora-
Till only the husks and his hunger remain monplace about their hardships, patriotism, loyalty, and
The mariner mourns not the fountain untasted burdens, 'the manly minds of Englishmen aro bracing
Till nothing is left but the brine of the main : themselves to nobler conflicts. In the course of their
And thus it is, still, with the world's brightest dreamers improvements, they forget their fear ; it was the begin-
Who rise in its tumults, or fall in its strife, ning of their wisdom, but it dissipates itself in the efforts
Too late comes the light that reveals the false-seemers, it has produced. Who could have believed that a con-
Too lste, in its wisdom, the lesson of life 1 troversy would have arisen on the power of Great
But green grows the grave, in its silence, before them— Britain to export grain ? The hands are no longer
It leads to the land' where no deserts exist ; wrung, • the breasts of dejected agriculturists are no
And only eternity's spring can restore them longer beaten. Squires do not tear their hair at county
The glory and hope of their desiiny missed ! meetings. It is no longer in good taste to be lugubrious.
The knights of a sorrowful countenance are comforted by
orators whose elegiacs are no longer the staple elo-
quence of half a county. But when these things are
notorious, it is a little too much to say it comes from
Lord Tweeddale and not from Mr. Cobden. The tiles
might have restedin their argillaceous bed for ever—the
patent might have slept with unremunerating results on
the long files of the Attorney-General—Lord Tweed-
dale might have been known as a sensible gentleman, a
great captain, or an accomplished letter-writer ; but his
claim to immortality, in the cause of agriculture, is due
to the great exertions of the best friends of agriculture
—we mean the free-trade party ; it is due to those who
are impressing the minds of a large class of agriculturists
with a just and becoming sense of their true position—
' who are lifting them up from mean and narrow and sel-
fish views, to a more comprehensive range of thought
and a wider sense of their responsibilities and rights ;
it is due to the free-trade confederation which,
amidst' s6me mistakes and occasional errors of class
interest, has preached, upon the whole, the large and
Catholic doctrines of universal amity and inter-
course *; it is due to commerce, which burns to
take its sister science by the hand, and to teach that
sister the arts by which such vast acquisitions have been
gained for itself and'for the world. For ourselves, we
have given the League, in its main objects, from its com-
mencement to the present day, a consistent and disin-
terested aid ; our addictions to free trade rendered any
other course impossible. We have not, however, scrupled
to point out errors, nor was it to be expected that so
vast an association, under the influence of leaders who
were making their first campaigns in public life, could
be exempt from imperfections. It was in this spirit that
we discussed, in no unfriendly terms, the course taken
by Mr. Cobden on the sugar question. In a like spirit
we remonstrated against • a policy which would have
handed over every small borough, represented by gen-
tlemen who take Lord John Russell's views on corn,
into the hands of the partisans of a sliding-scale. We
saw no use in quarrelling with free-traders for the sake of
a chimera, when the quarrel was sure to end in getting no
free-trade at aIL As it is impossible in free states to act
without party, we could not see the wisdom of driving
Liberal gentlemen who have scruples about corn into the
Tory ranks. Without undervaluing the corn-law ques-
tion, we always felt that there was such a place as Ire-
land, and that there were questions of foreign policy,
the advocacy of which was quite compatible with the
most devoted attachment to free-trade. We objected,
therefore, to give up such men as Lord Worsley, when a
rupture with him would have no other consequence than
the introduction of another Tory into the House of Com-
mons at his expense. We did not choose to break with
such men as Mr., Byng, because they continued to
exercise an independent judgment somewhat different
from our own on a single question. So also on allot-
ments. We do not plead insensibility to the obvious
arguments against them; we are as fully impressed us
Lord Radnor himself of the impossibility of adopting
them as a system • but we can assure the League that
our allusion to them is not tainted with a shade of
• Toryism.

THE IRISH Q U&STIO N. London, Longman, 1844.
The author of this somewhat bulky and verbose
production is Viscount Wellesley, and his chief object
in writing it, is to show the injurious consequences
that are likely to result from the recent deci-
sion of the House of Lords in the, question of the Irish
State prosecutions. "On the Continent," observes
the author in his preface, " the effect of their
Lordships' decision will be a belief that the Crown
has no authority beyond mere pageantry ; that the
exercise of its highest prerogative is only show under
the guidance of lawyers ; and that the noblest order in
the State is but a splendid form after all, waiting upon
the rules, and bowing to the decisions of a few Law
Lords, who came there by political, and not by here-
ditary right." From this specimen, the reader will
get a very fair idea of the animus in which the volume
is written. rr.-7

THE GAMBLER'S WIFE. 3 Vols.
Newby, London, 1844.
This story—as may be surmised from its title—is
of a deeply tragic character, and regards the sufferings
and vicissitudes, and ultimate death by a broken
heart, of Maud Sutherland—a beautiful, high-spirited
young girl, who, at the opening of the narrative, is,
represented as being on the eve of marriage with her
cousin, Arthur Balfour, but is soon afterwards in-
duced to break off the match, and accept the hand of
a fascinating young gambler and roue, Harry Percy.
Of course, her life with him is one protracted scene
of agony and humiliating reverses, and she dies of
grief, while her too late repentant husband takes a
strong religious turn, and at the close of the narra-
tive is described as being on the eve of departure as a
missionary to some off' the more unfrequented tracts of
Australia. The tale. is written with feeling, and in
places with vigour, but the subject is a hackneyed
one, nor is there anything in the incidents to redeem
tnem from the charge of common-place.

TYPE-FOUNDING IN THE NORTIL-4W understand I
that a respectable firm of type-founders in Edinburgh,
employing upwards of a hundred workmen, have applied
for ground in the borough of Dornoch, Southerlandshire,
for a stance whereupon to build a type-founding esta-
blishment. The reason assigned for this strange step is
said to be the annoyance and loss the house has been
subjected to by the union men, and the constant
"striking,, among the workmen. We would rather be
inclined to think that cheapness of labour may tempt
them thither. Trades' unions may follow them across
the Meikle Ferry.—John o'Groat's Journal.
AN ImmEmn Loss.—The editor of the Concordia
(in Lathe
the Concordia district. in Lew...L.
mut, 17, the great oyeari
.1 ,:
lowlandsOenceor
tesAr the loss of cotton this year
sas, . Mississippi, Eti;si,dvitihuoesde ofo
flow of the Mississippi river, at 139,tte.-_° '
uryc
4,173,150 dollars. Other actual losses, sue,. .as 1n.,1 t
buildings, fences, levees, destruction of corn, stock-, )" ~
are put down at 0,503.890 dollars, making,l total loss of
6,670,000 dollars. "This immense sum, remarks the
writer, " is lost, gone, sunk, absolutely destroyed—with-
drawn from the active capital of the country—and falls,
too, upon one particular and not very extensive region."
These statements are based upon personal examination,
as far as practicable from data furnished by individuals
residing in the inundated district. Fifteen per cent. upon
the amount lost devoted to improvement of the Mis-
sissippi would, it is stated, have protected the region.—
Neu, York Journal.
INCENDIARISM IN BEDFORDSIIIRE.--011 Sunday
night, in the neighbourhood of Crowland, flames were
discovered in a barn on the farm of Mr. John Hall,
of Whasley-end. The building was detached from
the stack-yard, or the entire homestead must have
the flames havingp
beenbou medrercsownseure, as there was a smart wind, and
no water could be had. A large body of the la-
which, together with its contents, the produce of eleven
acres re s e nct,c
mbpulte
ttehl eyy eel
cu lidr
clreedn der
the noh
usielrdvi
Ili cge:
of wheat, beside a quantity of beans, was de-
stroyed. From the isolated position of the barn, and the
fire having broken out full twenty-four hours after any
person having entered it, it appears to have been the act
of an incendiary, though at present no suspicion is
attached to any person in particular. The owner of the
property, in common with the majority of the princi-
pal farmers in the parish, pays the average rule of wages,
Bs. a week, and in many instances the practice of yearly
hiring obtains, but since the close of the harvest a large
number of supernumerary hands have been discharged,
and these men are wandering about the district without
visible means of subsistence. Poaching and petty rob-
bery are becoming very prevalent in this district.—
Cambridge Chronicle.
A sad accident happened at Wells on Saturday
last, the weather was very stormy, with rain and a high
sea on the bar, when James Smith, an old fisherman be-
longing to this place, with his son Daniel Smith, and a
lad named Creed, went out into our bay in a small boat
after fish, when a sea struck the boat and filled her.
andwhKfacto3r-nocmgn
raeicisrxenhdaeondArwdetehaaiire,ltesa
Wells.—Norwich
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Daniel Smith being a strong fellow, after swimming a
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obrfreoPt:heuge.h to the Greenwich Guardians, sb humbleoweth
—T h petitiona t y 0
uorf
petitioner last week read a report of a meeting held by
your board, in which your vice-chairman proposed a
motion for the establishment of a lending library in the
union-house. The motion was carried. Fears were ex-
pressed by one very sapient member of your board that
Punch might find his way into the ,pauper's library, if
this sort of, philanthropic humbug, as he thought it, were
countenanced : Your petitioner accordingly fears that he
might be taken in, and considers he shoule: certainly be
taken in if " an order to gointo the house" were left at
the office of your petitioner. Your petitioner is attached
to his wife Judy and his child, notwithstanding his ap-
parent harShness to the latter. and would by no means
consent to a separation from them in his old age. Your
petitioner lives by his jokes ; but he would not have the
heart to joke in a workhouse, and doubts if, after a
week's residence therein, he would ever joke again.
Your petitioner is in the habit of speaking the truth,
and calling a spade a spade ; he is, therefore, clearly
unfitted for residence in a union workhouse. Your pe-
titioner would be apt to use his baton on the heads of an
oppressive governor or pursy beadle, and has no reason-
' able doubt of being urged thereunto in case of misbeha-
viour of said governor or beadle, .tcr the subversion of
discipline in said workhouse. Your petitioner is used to
the open streets, and cannot bear confinement. For all
which reasons, your petitioner hopes that he may not be
taken in by your hon. board. And your petitioner will
ever pray Punch. .
The King of Prussia has purchased the two cele-
brated race horses Our Nell and Crucifix, both winners
of the Oaks, and the latter also of a 2,000 guinea stake
at Newmarket. Both were shipped at Hull on Monday
last, in the Leeds, steamer, for Hamburgh.
ISLAND OF ISLAY.—LOSS OF LIFE.—OD Thursday
the 24th ult., being the " fast day" in the parish of Kil-
choman, Mr. R. M'Laurin, teacher, near Port-Charlotte,
at the request of Mr. M'Nabb, minister, left the latter
place early on that day, for the purpose of leading the
music in the parish church in Kilchoman. He arrived
at Kilchoman in clue" time, and precented at both the
English and Gaelic services, and left there for home a
little before dark. He had to cross a muir of four or five
came very
has left a widow and an only
miles, which lies between the above places, but before
he got more than .half way on, he was either seized by
sudden
lonely, he perished before any assistance
illness, or fainted from fatigue, and the place
being
child to lament
his loss. Mr. M rin ‘Lau .
Church,
was for several years pre-
centor in the Gaelic hurch, Dukg-street, Glasgow.—
Glasgow Chronicle. .

FOOT-RACE FOR TEN POUNDS ASlDE.—Thursday
tu- j running match between Ned Wild (of London), and
(0: t4reezich), came off at the Rosemary Branch
Cook !...erwell, in the presence of a large con-
G rounds at Cam
The contesting distance was one
course of spectators.
*mile, Wild giving his oppon-,?.'it forty seconds, at the
start; and preliminaries being arrang:'d. the men started,
Cook maintaining the lead throughout, :ad winning
easily by 200 yards. The London fancy were Cc,a?ider-
able losers, Cook having proved himself no novia, in

pedestrianism. -
PUGILISTIC CoxrucT FOR 1001.—On Wednesdy
the great fight between Ben Terry and Tom Davis, two
well known pugilists, came off in the presence of a
strong jouster of the " milling fancy." The weight of
the men was limited to ten stone and a half. In betting,
five to four was laic' on Terry. Preparations having
been made. and a ring formed, the combatants entered,
and after shaking hands together in the accustomed
manner, they put themselves into fighting attitude, and
commenced hostility with great severity, and displaying
fine science and courage. It soon became manifest that
Terry was the best " general," but ambition fur pugilis-
tic honours led Davis to prolong the contest, vvhich,
having occupied one hour and twenty-five minutes (half
minute time), all hopes of victory for Davis were lost,
and he was withdrawn from the ring and Terry pro-
nounced the winner. The fight was determined and well
contested, and the Birmingham school lost large sums Vf

THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDV
AT DERBY.
INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
On Wednesday morning an inquest was held at the
Town-hall, befure Mr. B. T. Balgay, coroner, on the
bodies of the six unfortunate labourers aho were killed
by the falling of an arch at the Slitting Mill Brook.
After the jury had been sworn, and viewed the bodies,
the COIZONNA addressed a few observations to them upon
the duty they would have to discharge. The question
they would have to inquire into was, by what means the
unfortunate men came by their death, and whether any
blame attached to any party—whether, in fact, it
was a case of accidental death, or of manslaughter ; and
he (the C. over) was quite sure they would give the case
a calm consideration, and arrive at such a verdict as
would satisfy their own consciences.
Mr. Alderman Johnson here stepped forward, and
stated that he, as chairman of the Committee appointed
to see the works satisfactorily carried out, together with
1)r. Baker and Mr. Jessopp, were deputed at a meeting
of the Committee, held the previous evening, to attend
the inquest, and give every information in their power.
They were prepared to lay the whole ease before the
jury.
The Foreman of the jury objected to Mr. Johnson
being heard; and the Coroner proceeded to call the first
witness.
Mr. Flewker took his seat at the table, stating that he
appeared on behalf of the relatives of the deceased, and
commenced taking down the evidence.
Samuel Dawson sworn—l am a labourer, and reside
in Queen-street. On Wednesday last I was employed
by Mr. Harpur, the town surveyor, to superintend the
works going on at the Mill Fleam is the Morledge, and
to see that the materials to be used were composed and
properly mixed up. I was at the works yesterday morn-
ing : I went at six o'clock, left for my breakfast at
eight, and returned to the works at half-past eight. I
had been at the works after breakfast perhaps about
twenty minutes, and was standing at the new arch on
the side near to Sutton's wharf when the accident hap-
pened. I had control over the mixing of the materials
fur mortar, and was directed by Mr. Harpur to see that
they were properly beat—the proportions were three of
lime and one of sand. I have been used to mixing
mortar before; that has been my principal employ-
ment. I was with Mr. Thompson four years. I had no
reason to compain that proper quantities of sand and
lime were not mixed. Yesterday morning was fixed for
striking the centres of the arch, which has been com-
pleted since my superintendence. The persons employed
on the occasion were the deceased Thomas Brown and
others of Mr. Sim's workmen—namely, Thos. Walker,
George Walker, George Bancroft, Joseph Wardle, and
Charles Bagguley. My attention was drawn to the
works, and I observed a settling just over the springers
at the backing up of the arch : the settling was, how-
ever, not more than a quarter of an inch : r was watch-
ing to see if it got any wider, and my attention was
taken off by hearing a crash. [cast my eye along the
top of the arch, and saw the arch fall in. I was too
near the arch to observe who were under it when it fell
in. I saw Samuel Henchley and John Harlow come
from underneath the arch not more than five minutes
before the accident ; and also saw deceased, Charles
Baggily, and Joseph Wardle, go under. I also saw
Mr. Sims, the contractor, come from under the arch,
probably two or three minutes after Henchley and
Harlow. It could not be more than two minutes
after Sims had left the arch that I heard the
crash. Mr. Sims came and stood by me, and then re-
turned to the bed of the river to watch the men at work.
Besides Bagguley and Wardle, I knew that others were
under the arch at work, but who they were, or of what
number they consisted, I did not know at the time. I
had not been under the arch myself ; that was no part
of my duty, which simply was to see if the materials
were properly mixed. Ino sooner turned my eye to the
spot where I heard the crash I have spoken of, than the
arch fell in. Before it fell I saw the arch sway a little
on the opposite side to where I was standing—that is,
on the side near Mr. Evans's warehouse. All who were
under at the time of the accident were buried in the
ruins. At the time it fell there were two persons upon
the arch, on the opposite side to where I stood ; their
names were Berresford and-Whittingham. I assisted in
extricating the bodies from the'ruins, and saw the de-
ceased Brown, the two Walkers, Bancroft, Bagguley,
and Wardle got out ; they were all dead. Ido not con-
sider any person to blame.
Jacob Berresford—l am a labourer, and for the last
two months have worked for Mr. Sims. I was working
with him yesterday morning. I went at six o'clock, anc
remained on until eight, at which time I went to my
breakfast, and returned at half-past eight, when I recom-
menced work. I had been employed stacking bricks,
and having finished, went to look at the men who were
working under the arch. Thomas Walker, George
Bancroft, Charles Bagguley, George Walker, Thomas
Brown, and Joseph Wardle were the persons. I went
under the arch about a yard. I saw Thomas Brown
with a hammer in his hand, in the act of striking a prop
underneath. I also saw Thomas Walker doing the same
in another part of the arch. The other four were stand-
ing up looking on, as if to give their opinion. I did not
exchange words with any of them, but in about two or
three minutes withdrew, and returned to the top of the
arch, on one side of which, near Sutton's, and the end
near to the cast-metals, I began levelling; and there was
a man (I believe of the name of Whittington) ramming.
Whilst so employed I felt something soft under my feet
as if I was going down, and on looking saw that the arch
was going. I immediately gave the alarm and jumped
off. As far as I can judge the crown of the arch fell
first. When the arch had fallen, I heard the deceased
Thomas Walker, who was underneath the ruins, cry out
three times, " I'm dying fast—l am nearly done for." I
assisted is removing the ruins, and extricating the bodies
of the parties who were underneath, and whom I had
just previously to the falling in seen alive.
James Sims—l am a builder, residing in Traffic-street,
and engaged to build an arch over the Mill Fleam in the
Morledge, and hail got one length of arching in, which
was completed on Friday night. It remained for the
purpose of settling with the centres under, until yester-
day morning. I considered :the centres might be then
safely struck. On Monday night I received orders from
Mr. Harpur to strike the centres ; and yesterday morn-
ing, my son-in-law, Thomas Walker, and Charles Bag-
guley were employed for that purpose. I superintended
the work, and both Mr. Harpur and myself bad been
present from the first blow being struck. Mr. Harpur,
who is the town surveyor, was appointed to superintend
the work, and see that my work was done according to
contract. From the commencement of the work he at-
tended daily, sometimes four or five times a day, and at
times half a day together. I considered I worked under
his direction. We worked by plans and specifications,
to which we strictly adhered, unless requested by Mr.
Mk.rpur to deviate from them. I meant trying one length
of cinires first to see what I could do with it, and to
ascertain whether I should require any more. I was
under the arch il'ot more than half a minute before it fell
in, and I did not obsrre any indication of danger ' • the
first notice of this accident j had was the crash and fall-
ing in of the arch.—(Mr. Siiias..cried bitte,rly during his
examination, and was an object of general sympathy.)
After the examination of Mr. Samuel Harpur, surveyor
to the Commissioners under the Derby Improvement
Act, the jury retired to consider their verdict. In about
five minutes they returned, and delivered in a verdict of
" Accidental death," with a deodand of Is. upon the
centre of the arch, the expresiion of a regret that two
centres were not employed instead of one, in order that
the work might have had more time to set, and a recom-
mendation that in future all such works should be car-
ried on with not less than, two centres.—Abridged from
the Derby Reporter.

money.
CAUTION TO MOTHERS.—On Thursday Mr. Carter
held an inquest on the body of an unbaptised female
child, aged three weeks, whose nurse stated that the
mother said she had given it some syrup of poppies,
which witness had fetched for her on the Sunday. De-
ceased was quite insensible, and she went to Mr. Jeffry,
the surgeon from whom she had bought the stuff, and
who, on seeing the child, said too much had been given
it. The child died on Wednesday. Mr. Jeffry found
the child insensible, and the mother had said that she
had given it five or six drops of the syrup of poppies ;
but he believed she had given it more, from the appear-
ance of the child. He used every remedy to cause a re-
action of the system, but from the outset he had no hope
of preserving its life ; and the cause of death was the
over-dose. Be added, " When the nurse came to me
for the opiate, I asked her the age of the child, and told
her to be exceedingly careful ; but on hearing it was fur
the infant, I told her she ought to be ashamed to give
it to so young a child, when she replied, that it had
some on Sunday, as its bowels were bad." After some
further discussion, the nurse was recalled, and admitted
that she saw her mistress give deceased half a tea-spoon-
ful of the syrup, although she told her that Mr. Jeffry
said she must not give it more than a third of a tea-
spoonful. The Coroner in strong language adverted to
the impropriety of persons administering drugs of this
description to infant children, and the danger in which
they placed themselves in a criminal point of view in
consequence. After admonishing the nurse never to do
so in future, the jury returned a verdict " That the
deceased died from the effects of an over-dose of syrup
of poppies, inadvertently administered to her by her
mother."
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF CHEQUES,&C.—Thurs.
day information was received by the police of a cash-
box, containing cheques to a very large amount, having
been stolen, under mysterious circumstances, from the
cashier's office on the premises of Messrs. Grissell and
Peto, the extensive builders. From circumstances which
have transpired, it is supposed the robbery was com-
mitted between the hours of half-past eleven A.m. and
half-past eight P.M., on Thursday, the 31st ult. The
cash-box contained amongst other cheques, one for 60/.,
one for 261., two for 100/. each, one for 71., one for 10/.,
two for 1,2501. each, two for 501. each, one for 111.55.,
one for 91. 12s. 2d., a dock warrant for a pipe of wine,
and 101. in gold. The police are actively engaged in en-
deavouring to trace the thieves.
FOREIGN CABLES.—The Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade, having referred to the Lords
Commissioners of the Treasury a memorial from an
eminent house, relative to the lengths into which old
rope has hitherto been cut, which they have been in the
habit of receiving from foreign vessels in part payment
for chain cables, supplied by them to these vessels, their
Lordships have authorised the Commissioners of the
Customs, in conformity with the suggestions contained
in their report on the subject, to charge the duty at the
rate of 101. per cent. upon old cables taken from foreign
ships, under the conditions prescribed in the Board's
order of 13th May, 1840; viz., that the same be rendered
wholly unserviceable by being reduced into lengths not
exceeding three fathoms. The previous order alluded to
directed the delivery of these old foreign cables, on the
conditions mentioned, on payment of the ad valorem duty
of twenty per cent. Copies of this order have been fur-
nished to the several departments in London, and trs-
mitted to the collectors and comptrollers at the various Kingdom, their information
am' gorepment.

VIE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
OLDHAM
ADJOURNED INQUEST.
OLDHAM, LANCASHIRE, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The
inquest was resumed, pursuant to adjournment, at
two o'clock this afternoon ; and, taking into considera-
tion the respectability of the jury, and their peculiar
capacity to judge accurately of all the varied features
of the case, together with the well-known practical ex-
perience of Messrs. Fairburn and Bellhouse, whose pro-
mised joint opinion wag looked fur with the utmost
anxiety, involving, as it wait expected to do, questions of
vital importance to the public it large, as well as the
great millowners in the world—taking all this into due
consideration, there have, perhaps, been few investiga-
tions of the kind that have possessed so large a portion
of general interest.
The preliminary business having been gone through,
Mr. Fairburn said, that the object both he and his coad-
jutor, Mr. Bellhouse, had in view was twofold—in the
first place they had to satisfy the minds of the jury as
to the true causes of the accident which had been un-
happily attended by such extensively fatal results, and
secondly, it was their anxious_ desire to place such a
statement on record as might be calculated to prevent a
recurrence of such accidents in future, though in so
doing they should be under the necessity of going more
minutely and at greater length into the subject than was
customary on such occasions. • Mr. Fairburn then pro-
ceeded to read a lengthened report, and commented on
the different parts of it as he proceeded.
It was then arranged that the jury should retire to
consult on the mode in which their reception and ap-
proval of the report should be embodied in their verdict,
and they withdrew accordingly.
After a consultation of upwards of an hour in dura-
tion, the jury again took their seats in the Court, when,
after a short discussion on a few points of technicality,
the following verdict was returned :
"Accidental Death, caused by the falling of the build-
ing ; and the jury are unanimously of opinion that the
causes of the accident are fully pointed out by the able
report of Messrs. Fairburn and Bellhouse."

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN THE RIVER LEA.—
On Thursday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Crown,
Orchard House, Blackwell, on view of the body of Char-
lotte Garwood, aged twenty-six years. It appeared by
the evidence, that deceased resided with her mother and
sister, at No. 9, Leamouth-place, Blackwell. She ob-
tained her living as a sempstress. She bad latterly, with-
out any apparent cause, become very reserved. On
Tuesday evening she took her supper, as usual, with her
family, of which she partook very heartily, and
afterwards seated herself by, th© fire, and began to
converse. She shortly afterwards rose abruptly from '
her seat, and went out of the back door. Not return-
ing, search was made for her in vain, until the following
morning, when her body was found embedded in the
mud of the river Lea, where it, had been left on the re-
ceding of the tide, within a few yards of her mother's
door. A sister of deceased said, she could not account
for her committing such an act. The Coroner remarked I
upOn the mysterious nature of the occurrence, and said,
that as there was no positive evidence,
although
there
be h
bettera t
to
return
as couldthrew be
he
herself 1 i
but little
the doubt
water, of
tihtewfoaucltd,
deceased
t
as open verdict of " Found drowned," • which was accord-
, inly recorded.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNAL;
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Our restrictions on the import of sug
have long afforded to every humane and liberal
a subject of thought of high and varied interest. 3
intimate connexion with the state of shivery and
slave trade throughout the world, alone gives it a lar
claim to the attention of the philanthropist ; while,
he looks at home, he sees the greater part of our por
lation limited in the use of a most valuable article
food to a rate of consumption considerably less th
what is deemed fit for the inmates of our weTkhous
To the political economist it offers the most eomph
example on record of the last and worst results of I
principle of monopoly. And to the moralist it affoi
the anomalous spectacle of high-minded, cc
scientious, and intelligent men, who have earned
lasting gratitude. of their race by their untiri
efforts to suppress slavery, yet deliberately and p
severingly acting upon the opinion that the ache
of Providence is such As to offer to the nati,
of the earth a high and permanent premium
the commission of one of the blackest of trim
The apparently irreconcileable differences of opin:
existing upon the most important points of
subject, would appear to prove the existence of gr
errors somewhere. Where, exactly, these errors
time alone can show. Meanwhile, every fresh f
brought to bear upon the question has its spec
value. It is to such a fact that we would direct
attention of our readers. But as its bearing and va
have particular reference to past events and da.
which few may bear in mind, it may be Useful to g
a sh art general resume of the subject as it n
stands. The old policy of England was to monopolise
trade of her colonies. -,Hence the origin of the W
India monopoly. When we led the way in s,
pressing the slave trade, the West Indians c(
plained that, in restricting their supply- of labo
we enhanced their cost of production, arid gave th
a special claim to protection against competition
other producers not so restricted. The claito
very generally, though not universally allowed,
has been made the basis of a monopoly, more
less stringent, down to the present hour.
1834 we went a step further, and abolis
slavery altogether. Soon after the supply
sugar from the West Indies fell far short of the he
demand, checked as that was by unnaturally b
prices, and the operation of the monopoly was felt 1
with unusual severity. In 1836 we opened our mar
to free labour sugar from the East Indies on the a.
footing as that from the West Indies. The immed
result was a considerable increase of the imports f,
that quarter ; but since that period they. have I
nearly stationary or declining. In 1838 the meal
of West Indian emancipation was completed, by
Ming an end to the term of apprenticeship ; and at
one-third of the negro labourers, chiefly women,
persons, and children, ceased to work, or cease
work continuously, in the cultivation of sur
Partly from this cause, and partly from others c
nected with the change, the produce fell off c
siderably in quantity. In 1838 we received 4,126,
cwts., and in 1840 only 2,747,842 cwts. For m
years previously, indeed from the very commencer
of the system of monopoly, the planters had been
complaining state, and each of these changes
been preceded by prophecies of utter ruin, and
lowed by increased complaints. The outcry f
the West Indies now became louder I
ever. Various schemes of relief were suggested,
none found that general support 'which was neces:
to carry them into elTecution. But now the plan
were not the only complainers. The short supply
followed by an enormous inaease.,of prices in
country. Having hitherta.paid about twice as It
for our sugar as the people of the continent, we A
now called upon to pay three mud four times as m
In 1841 the late Government proposed to rec •
the duty on unrefined foreign sugar from 635. to
per cwt. This, leaving the duty.on colonial a'
at 245., would still have afforded it' .a protectio
12s. per cwt., or 50 per cent. The contest that
sued is well remembered. The proposition was
jected in the Commons by a majority of 36.
1842 a Select Committee was appointed to inc,
into the state of the West India colonies ; anc
witnesses were unanimous in stating that sugar c
not be produced there for less than from 20s. to
per cwt. on the spot. The recent measure of
present Government has the effect of admi;
unrefined foreign sugar, ascertained to be
produce of free labour, at a differential dut
10s. 6d. over that charged upon the.produce of
own colonies. It is now to be remembered,
from the date of the Emancipation Act the
party leagued against slavery, and throUgh whos
fluence this measure • had been promoted and fi'
carried, had manifested a . strong and even pr
worthy desire, as we are willing to admit, to n
taro the existing protection - upon our West It •
sugar as the produce of free labour, in al
secure the final triumph, as they hoped, of
great work they had achieved. They cone
that the operation of the Act of Emancipation
subject the West India proprietors to an injurious
petition.with the producers of sugar by slave la
But upon the proposal of the Whig measure in
a difference of opinion developed itself in the .
Slavery body. Some of its' most influential mer
avowed themselves favourable to a reduction t
differential duties in favour of our own coloni'
order to bring our new free-labour system of cu
tion fairly into competition with the slave-labour
tem of the foreign colonies. And in this they
actuated by the conviction (founded upon a
vie
the question most ably stated and supported
pamphlet by Mr. Beldam) that free labour is c
tially superior to slave labour, not only moi
but economically ; and that it could not fa
alliance with British capital and skill, to prove
so. Why, then, it may be asked, if this opini, -
correct, have not our colonies felt and exhibited
superiority of free labour ? The answer is, bee
though slavery is now abolished, many of its c
quences remain ; and still more, because no labs
any kind ever has been, or ever can be, fully eff
under a system of monopoly. In reference to al
has yet been done, it is to be considered that we
not expect, by simply changing an erroneous p
to get rid, all at once, of its ill effects. It is
very nature of error to carry its fruits into the fl
Slavery and monopoly are. two great evils ; but
are not now' to be looked at in the abstract.
wound is not cured by withdrawing the weapon
made it. The whole system of production i
West India colonies has been affected—poisonec
these vicious influencies. It has been, and as
almost entirely continues to be, of such a nati
could only have come into being under the narro
short-sighted policy which we have pursued to
these colonies ever since we have had them.
influences are now at work=and what wonder
artificial system totters to its fall when its ar
supports are removed!
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle 1
makes the following announcement, to which it
festly attaches great importance :
" It is announced, we sees that the Anti-Co
League has taken Covent-garden Thel;tre for th(
season,ut a rent of 3,0001. And yet the Government
will have us believe that the League is dead ! Abe
time last year, the Times called it a great fact,' a)
pretty well scolded for the truism by the Tory jo,
One thing, however, is clear that the spirit
of f
irro
burns as energetically as ever ; that at alarms I
tionists in counties as well, as boroughs—that the
of Richmond fears it in Sussex—the Duke of Bu
liam at Aylesbury—that her Majesty's Cabin(
piloting their course by farthing rushlights stole
it—that Mr. Gladstone feels its strength in eve
and corner of his department—that Sir R. Pe
disciple in rus, ready to attorn and conform hir
its practices as well as axioms, as soon as his e
tion from the lease-at-will on which ho stands
_pa
his power—that Young England, aye and the Poe,
are on the same highway. If this be death, we
not what is life"
" One thing is &tar," says our Contemporar:
then proceeds to detail the fractional parts
one thing, which must be the most complex on,
in the world, except, pe'r4ps, a cotton mill,
that it comprises the fir, of free-trade
alarms of protectionists in boroughs, the
of protectionists in counties, the -.fears (
Duke of Richmond in Sussex, the re:
the Duke of Buckingham in Aylesbury
farthing candles pilfered by her Majesty's Ni
from Messrs. Bright and Cobden, the perill
of poor, hard-hunted Mr. Gladstone, Sir I
Peel's future in rus, the Right Honourable Ba
extrication, and the exploits of Young Englane
the highway (in imitation of the League),
the qualification in parenthesis, because, " tal
the highway" is at best an equivocal phrase,
would not understand the Young Englande
the Post as charged will' tha bolder and
formidable highway, practice which the phra•
ports. Whining, _lying, bullying, canting, beg
in a word, vagrancy---is all with which the 3
has yet been charged, though the conspirator
inclined to go a step further—and p
such whining, begging. &c., &c., is all
intended to be imputed to Young Engla-
the Post. This one thing, however, which
taken- us so many words to describe with
siblc brevity is clear, says the Morning Cl<
From what is it clear--is it from the fact,
small, that the League has taken Covent
Theatre for a year, promising to pay for the
pied theatre 3,0001.? Now, the only clear ini
that we can deduce from these facts are, that (
garden Theatre was to let, which everyone,
lieve, has known for a long time, and tl
Leaguers, who said they would collect 1,
this year (1844) expect to have,
(perhaps foolish) people who trust their
and their honesty, and expect that
tr
Lave three thousand pounds at the end of
This is the only " one thing" clear to us f
arrangement which so unworthily substitutes
Bright and Cobden for Mr, Liston and p
Grimaldi. If memory does not cheat us, the c;