The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-12 00:00:00

OXEN.

Class I.—Oxen or steers of any breed, under 5 years old,
without restrictions as to feeding, yet the kind or kinds
of food must be certified.
Mr. J hn Hudson, of Castle-acre, near Swaffham,
Norfolk, a 3 years and 10 months old Hereford ox,
bred by Mr. John Longmore, of Orlton, near Leominster,
and fed on grass, hay, swedes, linseed-cake, and mari-
gold- wurzel. Travelled to the show by van 100 miles.
—Second prize, 15/.
Mr. T. L. Meire, of Cound Arbor, near Shrewsbury,
Shropshire, a 3 years and 11 months old Hereford ox,
bred by himself, and fed on cake, pea and barley-meal,
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showhaoyn foot 2 miles, by vant.7, turnips, and mangold-
miles, canal-boat 50 miles, and by railway 100 miles.—
Third prize, 101.
Mr. Robert Smith, of Burley-on-the-Hill. near Oak-
ham, Rutland, a 3 years and 114 months old improved
short-horned steer, bred by himself, and fed on oilcake,
barley and bean-meal, vegetables, and hay. Travelled
to the show by van 20 miles, and by railway 100 miles.
—First prize, 201., and silver medal.
Class 2.—Oxen or steers, of any breed, under 6 years
old, weight 90 stone and upwards, that shall not have
had cake, corn, meal, seeds, grains, or distillers'
wash, during 12 months previous to the Ist of
August, 1844.
Mr. James Bult, of Kingston, near Taunton, Somerset,
a 4 years and 10 months old short-horned steer, bred by
himself, and fed on hay, grass, swede turnips, 3001 b. of
flax-seed, 5 bushels of peas, 11 bushels of barley, and 9
bushels of beans. Travelled to the show on foot 5 miles,
and by railway 163 miles.—First prize, 301., and silver
medal.
Sir John Henry Palmer, Bart., of Carlton, near
Rockingham, Northampton, a 4 years and 2 months old
Durham ox, bred by himself, and fed on grass, hay,
turnips, carrots, mangold-wurzel, cabbage, 1,5451 b. of
oilcake, and 4351 b. of bean-meal. Travelled to the show
by van 25 miles, and by railway 60 miles.—Third
prize, 101.
Mr. J. T. Senior, of Broughton house, near Ayles-
bury, a 4 years and 8 months old Hereford ox, bred by
Mr. James Nash, of Aconbury, near Hereford, and fed
on grass, hay, 9601 b. of oilcake. Travelled to the show
oo loot i miles, and by railway 43 miles.—Second prize,
20/.
Class 3.—Oxen or steers, of any breed, under 5 years
old, under 100 stone and above 70 stone, that shall not
have had cake, corn, meal, seeds, grains, or distillers'
wash, during 14 months previous to the Ist of August,
1844.

His Grace the Duke of Bedford, of Park-farm, near
Woburn, Bedfordshire, a 4 years old Hereford ox, bred
by his race, and fed on grass, green tares, hay, turnips,
5001 b. of linseed-meal, and 5001 b. of barley-meal. Tra-
velled to the show by van 42 miles.—First prize, 151, and
silver medal.

Mr. Henry Chamberlain, of Desford, near Leicester,
a 4 years and 10 months old llereford ox, bred by him-
self, and fed on grass, hay, green vetches, turnips, 8101 b.
of cake, and 6951 b. of pea-meal. Travelled to the show
on foot 10 miles, and by railway 102 miles.—Sccond
prize, 101.

Class 4.—Oxen or steers, of any breed, not exceeding 4
years and 3 months old, and under 80 stone, that shall
not have had cake, corn, meal, seeds, grains, or dis-
tillers' wash, during 12 months previous to thei lit of
August, 1844.
His Grace the Duke of Bedford, of Park-farm, near
Woburn, a 3 years and 9 months old Hereford ox, bred
by his Grace, and fed on grass, green tares, bay, turnips,
5001 b. of barley-meal, and 5001 b. of linseed-meal. Tra-
velled to the show on foot 3 miles, by van 6 miles, and
by railway 41 miles.--First prize, 101., and silver medal.
Mr. John Manning, of flagpole, near Northampton, a
3 years and 10 months old Hereford ox, bred by Mr.
James Williams, of Culrnington, near Ludlow, and fed
on grass, hay, 8501 b. of cake, and 4 bushels of bean-
meal. Travelled to the show on foot 7 miles, and by
railway 69:1 miles.—Second prize, 51.
Class s.—Oxen or steers, of any breed, under 4 years
and 6 months old, and under 80 stone weight, with-
out restrictions as to feeding, yet the kind or kinds of
food must be specified.

Mr. W. J. Bailey, ofShenley-house, Stoney Stratford,
Bucks, a 3 years and 8 months old Hereford steer, bred
by Mr. W. Wheeler, of Ivington-park, naar Leomin-
ster, and fed on grass, hay, and cake. Travelled to the
show on foot 5 miles, and by railway 50 miles.—First
prise, 101., and silver medal.
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COWS AND lIMFERS.
Class 4.—Fattened cows or heifers, under 5 years. Free
martins and spayed heifers not qualified.
Mr. H. Brown, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire,
a 4 years and 6 months old Durham heifer, bred by
himself, and; fed on oilcake, barley, grass, cabbage,
Swedish turnip, and hay. Travelled to the show by van
25 miles, and by railway 96 miles.—First prize, 201.,
gold medal, and silver medal.
The Right Hon. Earl Spencer, of Wiseton, near
Bawtry, Nottinghamshire, a 4 years and 5 months old
short-horned cow, bred by his Lordship, and fed on hay,
turnips, cabbages, pea-meal, barley-meal, and oilcake.
Travelled to the show by van 20 miles, and by railway
172 miles.—Second prize, 101.
Sir T. Whichcote, Bart., of Aswarby-park, near Folk-
ingham, Lincolnshire, a 4 years and 5 months old Dur-
ham heifer, bred by himself, and fed on linseed-cakes,
bean-meal, oatmeal, hay, and vegetables. Travelled to
the show, by van 38 miles, and by railway 107 miles.—
Third prize, Si.
Class 7.—Fattened cows or heifers, of 5 years old and
upwards. Free martins and spayed heifers not
qualified.
Mr. John Beasley, of Chapel Brampton, near North-
ampton, a 5 years and 4 months old short-horned cow,
bred by, himself, and fed on grass, turnips, mangold-
wurzel, hay, linseed cake, and oatmeal. Travelled to
the show by van nine miles, and by railway 60 miles.—
First prize 201., and silver medal.
Mr. John Carwardine, of Marsh, near Leominster, a
5 years and 11 months old Hereford cow, bred by the
late Mr. John Morris, of Stratford Bury, near Leomin-
ster, and fed on grass and oilcake. Travelled to the
show on foot 48 miles, and by railway 113 miles. Has
had one calf.—Second prize, 51.
Class B.—Fattened cows, of 5 years old and upwards, that
shall have had at least two live calves at separate
births.

Major Brown, of Welbourn, near Grantham, Lincoln-
shire, a 13 years old short-horned cow, bred by himself,
and fed on linseed cakes, swedes, turnips, hay, clover,
and lucerne. Travelled to the show by van 49 miles,
and by railway 100 miles. Has had six calves.—Second
prize, 51.

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Mr. J. Burgess. of Mime Pierrepont, near Notting-
ham, a 7 years and 5 months old short-horned cow, bred
by Mr. Robert Burgess, of Cotsgrove-place, Nottingham,
and fed on cake, beans, vegetables, and hay. Travelled
to the show by van five miles, and by railway 136 miles.
Has had three calves.—First prize 151., and silver medal.

EXTRA STOCK.—CATTLE.
Mr. R. Morton, of Peakill, near Spalding, Lincoln-
shire, a 4 years and 8 months old short-horned ox, bred
by himself, and fed on linseed, turnips, cabbages, and
carrots. Travelled to the show by van 55 miles, and by
railway 70 miles.—Silver medal.

SHEEP.
Class 9.—Long-woolled fat wether sheep, 1 year old, that
have never had cake, corn, meal, seeds, or pulse.
Mr. J. S. Burgess, of Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham-
shire, a pen of three 20 months old long-woolled wethers,
bred bythimself.—First prize 201., and silver medal.
Mr. Thomas Twitchell, of Wellington, near St. Neots,
Bedfordshire, a pen of three 20 months old Leicester

without restrictions as to feeding.
Mr. E. G. Barnard, M.P., of Gosfield Hall, near Ha.
stead, Essex, a pen of three 32 months old Southdown
wethers, bred by himself.—First prize, 20L and silver
medal.

Mr. Stephen Grantham, of Stoneham, Sussex, a pen of
three 32 months old Southdown wethers, bred by him.
self.—Second prize, 51.
EXTRA STOCK.—SHORT-WOOLLED SHEEP.
Mr. John Harris, of Hinton, near Abingdon, Berk•
shire, a 21 months old Seuthdown wether, bred by him•
self.—Silver medal.

PIGS.
Class 16.—Pigs, of any breed, above 13 and under 26

weeks old.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, of Windsor
Castle, a pen of three 25 weeks and 4 days old Suffolk
and Bedfordshire pigs, bred by his Royal lEghness, and
fed on milk, barleymeal, and peameal.—Second prize, 51.
Mr. W. F. Hobbs, of Marks-hall, near Kelvedon,
Essex, a pen of three 25 weeks and 4 days old improved
Essex pigs, bred by himself, sad fed on oats, peas, meal,
potatoes, mangold-wurzel, and milk.—First prize, 10/.
and silrer medal.
Class 17.—Pigs, of any breed, above 26 and under 52

weeks old.

Mr. J. Buckley, of Normanton-hill, near Loughbo-
rough, Nottinghamshire, a pen of three 27 weeks and 2
days old Neapolitan and Warwickshire pigs, bred by
himself, and fed on barley-flour.—First prize, 101 and
silver medal.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Radnor, of Coleshill,
near Faringdon, Berks, a pen of three 44 weeks and 1
day old Coleshill pigs, bred by his Lordship, and fed on
whey, barleymeal, and potatoes.—Second prize, Si.
EXTRA STOCK—PIGS.
Mr. W. F. Hobbs, of Marks-hall, near Kelvedon,
Essex, a 25 weeks and 4 days old improved Essex pig,
bred by himself, and fed on oats, peas, meal, potatoes,
mangold-wurzel, and milk.—Silver medal.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Post—though utterly disapproving of
he object sought to be effected—is " glad to find that
the farmers of England are preparing to bestir them-
selves against the malt-tax." 'We showed yesterday that
the " farmers of England" know better than to make any
stir for such an object. In fact, they refuse to move in
the matter ; and that for reasons which are no less
cogent than they are convincing to the said " farmers
Cunt...fry& wry, in a cub
sequent part of the same article, limits the phrase,
the " farmers of England," to the " agricultural
gentlemen"—that is, the landlords, as contradistin-
guished from those who cultivate the land. These
" agricultural gentlemen" are apprehensive that the
present rents cannot be maintained under the new state
of things which the Conservative Government they
invested with power has managed to bring about.
The tenant-farmers are complaining ; and, we believe,
not without cause. The landowners are endeavour..
ing, with their usual sensibility of personal inte-
rest, to work this feeling for their own advantage.
They see—or think they see—an opportunity for se-
curing ,the " surplus revenue" to themselves. The re-
peal of the malt-tax would be neither more nor less than
a positive donation by the Government to the landlords
of nearly five millions from the revenue of the country.
The history of the malt-tax, and the conduct of the
landed interest with respect to it, will assist to an un-
derstanding of the movement which is now sought to
be got up for its removal. The present amount of
malt duty is but a remnant of that which existed in
1815. At that period the malt duty, including the
tax on beer, amounted to about 565. or 58s. per quar-
ter. No sooner was peace restored, and produce began
to feel the effects of peace prices, than the agricultural
interest in the House of Commons obtained a diminu-
tion of the malt duty to the extent of 16s. per Winchester
quarter. The agricultural-distress-year of 1822 was
taken advantage of for the purpose of getting another re-
duction from the malt-tax ; and what was called " the
annual duty" was given up. Next followed the repeal of
the beer duty—equivalent to 12s. on the quarter of malt.
The aggregate of these reductions—obtained from the
Governments by whom they were relinquished through the
influence exercised upon them by the landowners—
amounted to seven millions of annual revenue. Their ob-
ject was to keep up rents, by maintaining war-prices in a
time of peace ; and to a very considerable extent they
succeeded in effecting their object. A combination of
new and concurrent circumstances—principally caused
by the insane and cruel policy of what is falsely called
" agricultural protection "—threatens the farmers with
another visitation of " agricultural distress." The land-
lords are on the qui vivc. Repeal of the remaining
portion of the malt-tax is the panacea which is to re-
move the distress, and avert the pending calamity—from
themselves ! The trifling relief which the removal of
the malt-tax would afford to the labouring classes will
at once be seen, if the amount of duty upon the
quantity of malt required for the production of
thirty-six gallons of porter—the favourite beverage of
the labouring classes—is computed. The amount of
duty upon the quantity of malt required for producing
that quantity of porter is 6s. ; being 2d. per gallon, or
as nearly as can be estimated, one-third of a penny
upon the pot. The price of the pot of porter would
therefore be retailed at 3.d.—one farthing less than at
present. And this is the reduction which the Post's
"agricultural gentlemen" advocate, on the pretext
that it would enable the labourers to procure beer
who cannot now obtain bread. The absurdity of the
plea is too manifest to impose on any understanding
which is not previously prepared to yield to the delu-
sion, as an excuse for embarking in a project which
is meant to subserve the landlord's interest at the
cost of every other class of the community.
The Post imposes on those who are disposed to
follow its counsels, a labour equal to that of Sisyphus:—.-
" The farmers, who now think only of demanding a
repeal of the malt-tax, may soon find courage to demand
a repeal of the new corn-law, of the tariff, and of the
Canada Corn Act. The same energy which will be
required to get rid of the malt-tax would suffice to get
rid of the free-trade measures of the last three years, and
of the Currency Act of 1819 into the bargain." And
yet this was the kind of argument with which the far-
mers suffered themselves to be deluded at the last
election. The same oracle of the agriculturists com-
plains of what it calls the violation of these promises,
and the consequent disappointment of agricultural
hopes :—" Promises may have been made to farmers on
the subject of the malt-tax, and those promises may have
been violated. Nothing, however, was said during the
great struggle in 1841 between the League and the agri-
cultural body on the question of the tax on malt ; and
the pledges--express and implied—which were given by
our present rulers, and by the majority of their sup-
porters, bore reference, assuredly, to matters of infi-
nitely greater importance." The " straw" is manifestly
" moving"—not for the repeal of the malt-tax, but for
objects yet more embarrassing to Ministers than any
movement in that direction.

STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle of this day
commences a long article as follows:—" The friends of
the Church of England may well be alarmed at her pre-
sent position. The Puseyite crisis exposes to the world
the two fundamental defects of her constitution—the
want of any supreme governing body, and the vicious
system of promotion, which has filled her high places
with men destitute of that statesmanlike ability that
could guide her through her present difficulties." Wo
shall observe upon the latter imputed defect first. We
do not find that: the Divine Founder of our Church
selected statesmen as his Apostles. We have the qualities
requisite in a bishop more than once distinctly enumerated
by the inspired teacher of the Gentiles; but statesman-
ship:or political wisdom isnowhere mentioned among those
qualities, which may be classed under the heeds of

piety, purity of life, and a meek temper—qualities in
which no man will say that the Bishops of our Church,
as a body, manifest any deficiency. They may err, as
all men err ' • but surely the common complaint has
lately been that they have erred on the side of forbear-
ance towards men who would bring in heresies. And if
one or more of them manifested more energy than the
rest, it is the generally meek character of the order
which causes such conscientious energy to be regarded
as turbulence. But as our view of the conduct of
others takes a colour from our approbation or disap-
probation of their end (the observation is as old
as Aristotle) we aro disposed to characterise as
turbulence that energy employed in opposition to
our opinions which we would gratefully welcome as
manly courage if employed on our own side. The con-
sideration, however, which we would press is that an
excessive meekness, and superabundant charity, are the
faults—the only faults—which can be charged upon the
present Bishops as a body ; but these faults are Chris-
tian virtues, and better become the fathers of a Christian
Church than the opposite virtues of statemen—vigilant
distrust and some amount of unfeeling rigour. The first
defect imputed to the Church is one that really does not ex-
ist; and we are not a little surprised to see its supposed
existence matter of complaint with a Liberal journal.
The defect in question is, " the want of a supreme go-
verning body," explained as follows in the next para-
graph :—" The constitution of the Church of England
presents the singular anomaly of an extended and com-
plicated hierarchy, complete in all its organisation, with
the one exception of a head. It has neither Pope, nor
council, nor general assembly, to wield the sovereign
authority, and enforce uniformity of doctrine and prac-
tice throughout its entire body.' The want of a " ge-
neral council" is one which the Church of England has
endured in common with the Church of Rome for ex-
actly three centuries, the last general council of the
Roinish Church, that of Trent, having been assembled
in 1845. The want of a Pope is, therefore, the
only respect in which we are at a disadvantage
as compared with Rome. And this is made
matter of complaint by a journal professing upon
all occasions to be the champion of civil and re-
ligious liberty. If, however, the Church of
England acknowledges no human arbiter of religious
doctrine—no despotic master of its ritual—it surely has
an equivalent for such human arbiter in the Holy Scrip-
tures, and for such despotic master of ritual in the law
—the law, which is quite strong anough to maintain the
authority of the Scriptures, so long as the people are free
from utter corruption, and to enforce or to amend its own,
ritual arrangements. Comparing the state of the Eng-
lish and Romish Churches during the latter half of the
three centuries that have elapsed since the last general
council—the first half was a period of almost con-
stant political disorder in Christendom, from the in•
fluence of which religion could not escape—comparing,
we say, the state of the English and Romish Churches,
during the last 150 or 200 years, we assuredly do not
find that a Pope has, even with the aid of the Inquisi-
tion and the temporal sword and the faggot, more
effectually maintained uniformity of doctrine and ritual,
to say nothing of political order and personal morality,
than the Scripture and the law have maintained them all
in England. It is, in truth, out of the happy tranquillity
and implicit confidence arising from an experience of
the operation of our English system, that the present
danger, the magnitude of which no honest and observing
man will dispute, has arisen. Indulgence on the part of
the heads of the Church, implicit confidence in their
clergy, had been nursed into inveterate habits by the
calm, and steady, and glorious progress of religious
truth. It was not that the Bishops slept on their posts,
or that the laws had lost their power ; but there
really was no fit occasion for the active interposition
of either ; all was going on so well without
the help of either Pope or general council,
that any rude interposition would be indeed a wanton
challenging of danger. Such was the state to which the
Christian liberty of centuries had exalted our Church
twelve years ago, as every Englishman now living can
attest. We say of Christian liberty, because the govern-
ment of law is liberty, and the only true condition of
liberty ; and the government of law is most perfect
where the law is least frequently invoked. Of liberty,
however, it is a necessary attribute, that men may go
wrong if they are prepared to abide the consequences of
doing so. And se it has proved in the Church. About
twelve years ago, certain stupid, ignorant—we repeat it,
most ignorant—conceited, and perverse men sought to
introduce into the Church novelties of doctrine and of
ritual by which they hoped to make for themselves a
name. How were the Bishops or the Universities
to deal with these persons, when they saw the
tares flung among the wheat? They might say at
the hebdomadal board at Oxford, how many Bishops
in their charges did say, "An enemy has done this
thing." But the reluctance which all good men feel to
awaken the sleeping lions of the penal law—the spirit of
the parable refers eu to compelled thew to wait tuna the
or fully of the new heresy was fully de-
veloped ; besides that a precipitate course would
risk the danger of presenting as martyrs those:who were
simply criminals. The forbearance thus manifested, though
wise and just, and the effect indeed of the prosperity of
the Church, has been, we admit, attended by this incon-
venience, that it has given occasion to doubts and
scruples in the minds of some good men, which, though
relating to matters in themselves indifferent, seem
to throw these good men, in some respects, into
the hands of the heretics. Poison is rarely adminis-
tered save in combination with something palatable,
or at the least indifferent, and the false doctrines of
Tractarians were, in the usual course of these things,
mixed up with an abundance of professed veneration for
obsolete ritual observances. Some of these obsolete ob-
servances, however, unfortunately appeared obligatory on
conscience, and though the real question is between pure
Christianity and Romanising innovation, it has, at
least in appearance, taken the form of a dispute
about surplice preaching or the use of the offertory.
Now while we entirely sympathise with the resolution
of the people not to submit to authority, where the
legal foundations of authority shall seem to be doubtful,
and though we have no doubt that there is no au-
thority whatever to enforce surplice preaching, still
we think that the dispute raised is one which
(if the Bishops who enjoin surplice preaching
unhappily feel bound to persist) can be determined satis-
factorily only by the law. We say again, that we have
no doubt how the law will determine it. In order, then,
that the wound to the Church be promptly probed, let the
question be at once referred to a legal issue, and, if ne-
cessary, prosecuted to the court of last resort, the
Privy Council. Let some clergyman of the diocese of
Exeter, for example, use his accustomed habit in preach-
ing; if he do so unmolested, the question is set at rest
in that diocese, and the people well know that all who
abandon the former usage do so, not from a necessity of
canonical obedience, but from a bias towards the
Romanising heresy ; if, on the other hand, an at-
tempt be made to punish the clergyman who adheres to
the usage of two centuries, the people will support him
in his successive appeals, up to the appeal to the Privy
Council. This is the course which to us seems to be in

all respects the best, and, if unhappily rendered neces-
sary, it is the course which we hope to see pursued.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The delay in making known from the
Treasury, in an official shape, the result of the biddings
for the portion now offered of the Canada loan, has
arisen, it appears, under circumstances rather peculiar to
the present transaction. When the tenders first pre-
sented were opened it was found that all except: one
were below the limit previously fixed by the Treasury,
and that the one above the limit was only for a portion
of the sum to be bid for. On the occasion of the bid-
ding for the first allotment of the loan, as will be re-
collected, all the biddings were below the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's minimum ; but on his declaring what it
was, and opening the sealed papers produced at the
meeting, the terms were acceded to by all the bidders
for the respective amoants for which they had ten-
dered. On the present occasion these two modes
of proceeding were at the option of the Treasury—
to declare then the limit, and afford a chance to
those below it, or propose to the parties whose
effer had exceeded it to take the remaining sum on
the terms of that offer, which latter was the course
adopted. As a reference was probably necessary to
the principals from whom that offer had pro-
ceeded, the delay of a short time in any de-
claration of the final result became unavoidable,
unless Mr. Goulburn had chosen to name his limit then,
and to take the chances either of those below it agreeing
to accept it, or of those above it (one party only) con-
senting at once to those terms for the remainder. Thus
the case has become a very nice one ; and a keen con-
troversy has arisen in the money market whether the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has pursued a strictly fair
course in the matter. In the Stock Exchange we suspect
the votes will be against him ; hut, acting for the public,
who have to take the consequence of his bargain, we
think that he has done just what he ought to do. While
a chance remained of obtaining the terms of the accepted
portion for the whole of the sum under negotiation, he
could not consistently give those who were below his
limit the power of advancing up to it, since to that ex-
tent he would have damaged the public, or the colony
for which the loan, under the security of the home Go-
vernment, is entered into. The only question that can arise
is, whether a longer delay than was necessary for such a
purpose has not been consented to. To avoid any charge
of juggling with the moneyed interest, the minimum of the
Chancellor has, it is understood, been placed, sealed, in
the hands of the Governor of the Bank, only to be
opened in the event of any dispute hereafter as to what
that limit really was.
There has been much expectation in the City during
the day as to the final result of this matter ; but all that
has transpired in the affair is, that one house, Messrs.
Hammond, Scott, and Co., has taken rather more than
half the loan at the price of 112 ; but in what manner
the remainder is placed is not yet known. Neither is it
known at present what the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
minimum was.

The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per mile,
which, at the English Mint price of 31, 17s. 1011(1, per

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
DEATH FRON STARVATION.--On Monday after-
noon a lengthened investigation was entered into be-
fore Mr. Higgs, coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster,
and a jury of thirteen inhabitant householders, at the
Golden Lion, Lower Edmonton, on view of the re-
mains of a man, name unknown, aged fifty-two, whose
death was occasioned by the want of food and expo-
sure to the inclemency of the weather.
Richard Pugh, the keeper of a lodging-house in
Church-street, stated that he had known the deceased
for the last three months. He was a native of Essex,
and was an agricultural labourer. He was in the
employ of Mr. Boards, farmer, of Edmonton, but
had been for some months out of work. He had
during that period obtained a scanty pittance by
vending Congreve matches, balls of cotton, &c. About
Wednesday or Thursday week last the police inter-
fered with him, and threatened to apprehend him as a
vagrant, saying that his offering things for sale was
merely an excuse for begging. Deceased was in con-
sequence very frightened, and did not go out with
his basket again. He stopped at witness's house till
the following Tuesday, when he absented himself,
having till then, from the day the police spoke to him,
lived upon stale crusts, which he got in exchange '
for congreves, and the dregs of the tea-pot when others
had done with it. On Saturday night last, about
half-past ten o'clock, witness was returning home,
when he saw the deceased sitting on the ground in
the street, crouched up in a corner. He asked him
why he did not come to his house. He replied, be-
cause he had no money ; adding that he was very cold
and thirsty, and had a pain in his side. Witness as-
sisted him home, when he made him some gruel, put-
ting into it half a pint of ale, which deceased swal-
lowed ravenously. Deceased was then put into a bed,
and witness saw him no more alive.

By the CORONER—Deceased, on getting into bed,
said that since the Tuesday he had slept in hovels
and open sheds, and had had scarcely a particle of
food. Witness did not believe that deceased had ever
made application at the workhouse, of which he
always seemed to have a dread. Witness's opinion
was that he died from want of food and exposure to
the cold.

Mr. Henry Samuel Lane, surgeon, Church-street,
said that on Sunday morning last, about half-past
eight u'clocii, he was called to see a man at Mr.
Pugh's who was considered to be in a dying state.
Witness went about an hour afterwards, and then
found the deceased dead. He was in bed, and laid
out, and on inquiry he was informed that he had been
dead above a quarter of an hour. There were no
marks of violence. The body appeared much
emaciated, and he considered that the deceased's death
was accelerated by exposure to the cold.
There being no farther evidence, after a few re-
marks from the Coroner on the distressing circum-
stances of the case, the jury returned a verdict, "That
the deceased died from want of the common necessa-
ries of life and exposure to the cold."
DEATH lil HORSEMONGER-LANE GAOL.—On Tues-
day an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, the coroner
for Surrey, at the Governor's room, in Horsemonger-
lane prison, on the body of Joseph Simmons, a most
eccentric character, who represented himself to be
Napoleon Buonaparte.
The deceased had for many years swept a crossing
at the end of Penton-place, in the Kennington-road,
leading to the Zoological Gardens. He was half
witted, and always very singular in his conduct,
but the gentry of the neighbourhood were very
kind to him. He was in the habit of proclaiming
himself Napoleon, and hundreds of boys would
congregate around the assumed emperor, and jeer
him in such a manner, that he was continually in the
custody of the police for assaults on one or other of
these urchins. On the 21st of November he was
committed for one of these assaults from Union-
hall, in default of finding bail for three months. On
Sunday week he was taken ill in the chapel, and
removed to the infirmary, where Mr. Meymott, the
surgeon of the prison, immediately attended, and found
he was labouring under paralysis of the right side.
He was at the time almost speechless. He had re-
peatedly been in the same prison for similar offences.
Mr. Meymott stated that the deceased had every at-
tention paid to him, and whatever food he ordered,
but he had no hope of him from the first time he was
called on to see him in the infirmary.—Verdict,
" Natural death."

MORE SUPPOSED INFANTICIDES.—Tuesday Mr.
Baker held two inquests at the Three Cranes,
Church-street, Hackney, on the bodies of newly-
born children, who were found under the follow-
ing suspicious circumstances :—ln the first case
Edward Potter deposed that on Monday morning,
about ten o'clock, he found a deal box, nailed
down, having the name of " Ross" marked on it,
behind a brick stack in Hackney churchyard,
which, on being opened, was found to contain the
body of an infant. A medical gentleman was
sent for, who, upon examination, found the body
in such a dreadful state of decomposition that
it was impossible to state whether it died
from violence or not. The other case was
that of a female child found in the soil of a water-
closet, at the hack of a house, No. 30, Ada-street,
Hackney, on Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock.
An inquiry being set on foot by the police,
it was fsund that the deceased was the illegitimate
child of Mary Ann Lucas, twenty-eight years of
age, servant to Mrs. Wix in that street, who said
she had no idea of her servant's pregnancy until the
discovery of the body. The medical gentleman who
was called in said she had no professional attendance
at the birth, but he could not say whether it was born

alive or not. The mother was immediately taken
into custody.
The jury in both cases returned open verdicts of
" Found dead."

ROBBERIES OF PLATE AT THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S,
&c.—Tuesday Benjamin Ewen. a respectably-dressed
man, about fifty years of age, described on the police-
sheet as a servant, living at No. 6, Yeoman's-row,
Brompton, was brought up before Mr. T. Paynter, at
the Hammersmith Police-court, for final examination and
committed for trial, on a charge of having stolen a
massive silver teapot, the property of the Duke of Rich-
mond. Mr. Paynter said he could not accept hail in this
case. The prisoner was then charged with having stolen
a dozen of silver table forks from the residence of R. H.
Cox, Esq., of No. 8, Grosvenor-place and Hillingdon
House, near Uxbridge. The prisoner was eventually
fully committed for trial on this charge also.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Tuesday morning an acci-
dent occurred to Mr. Starling, landlord of the Trinity
Arms, Swan-street, Borough, by foolishly jumping out of
gig.a •He was riding in a one-horse break along Tiverton-
street, Newington-causeway, with the foreman of Mr.
Blewitt, of Swan-street, when the horse shied at a pig in
the middle of the road, and commenced plunging. Mr.
Starling, in a state of excitement, jumped out of the
break, and fell with his right leg under him on the edge
of the kerb-stone, breaking his thigh-bone in two places.
Being near his own house he was instantly conveyed
there and placed in bed, and medical assistance procured.
Mr. Starling is a very heavy man. He was thrown out
of his gig about twelve months ago, and received a severe
injury on his head.

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THEATRE ROY AL. DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER P,
Will he repeated a Grand Opera Soria, called THE DAUGHTER
OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Andrea Corners, Mr.
Barran' ; Moneenigo, Mr. Weiss; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W.
Harrison; &tains Lornaro, bliss Rainforth
To conclude with a DIVERTISSEMENT. called A FETE AT
SEVILLE, in which Monsieur and Madame Finart (Principal
Dancers from the Grand Th *treat Madrid), will make their Second
Aparanee in this country in a New Grand Pat de Deux.
The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six
in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places,
and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING, DECEMBER 12,
Will he performed a New and Original Comedy, in Five Acts,
called OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS. Colonel Rocket
Mr. 3• rickland ; Littleton Coke, Mr. Charles Mathe, a ; Tom Coke
Mr. Webster; Bob, Mr Buckstone; Jesse Rural, Mr. W. Farren;
The Countess of 11, pion. Mrs. W. Clifford; Lady Alice Hawthorn
Madame Vettris; Miss Rocket, Miss Julia Zennett.
After which, will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled
SOMEBODY ELSE. Hans Merits, M . Charles Mathews; Minnie,
/Madame Vestris.
To te folbwed by a New and Original Farce, called YOUNG
ENGLAND Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James
Pooley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Poolev, Mrs. Humby.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Half each.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Ac cher, at the Box-office,
from Ten till Five o'Clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Under the Direction of Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENINO, DECEMBER .12,
Will he perfumed VIC FORD +E; or, Sleep on It. Alex-
andre, Mr. Hudson ; Michael, Mr. Selsy, Victoriue, Mrs. Yates;
Elise, Mrs. Fitzwiliiam.
After which a New Drams, entitled THE MYSTERIOUS
STRANGER. Court Menry de Beausoleil, Mr. Hudson ; Count
Yanille, Mr Selby; The Mysterious Stranger, Madame Celeste ;
Crequet, Mr. Wright; Chechore, Mr. 0. Smith.
To conclude with THE UNFINISHED GENTLEMAN, tin
which Messrs. Wright. Selby, and Miss Woalgar will perform.
Prompter, Mr. °allot ; Principal Painter, ,dr. Pitt ' • Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.—Box-odice open from Eleven till Four. Private
Boxes to be had at the Theatre. and at all the principal Libraries.