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EXTRACT from the FOURTEENTH SHEET of TESTI-

MONIALS in favour of ,
DARR'S LIFE PILLS, which are acknow-
ledged to be all that are required to conquer disease, and
prolong life.

From Mr. J. SMITH, Glasgow.

" GENTLEMEN ,—I have been troubled for years with a dreadful
palpitation of the heart, accompanied with great nervousness and
debility, for which I have tried everything you could mention, all
to no purpose, till I heard of PAR R's wonderfnl LIFE PILLS,
and a friend of mine desired me 0 try them, which I did. I bought
them of Mr. Nelson, and I am happy to say that a box of them has
completely restored me.
"If this will do anything to help your efforts you can make
use of it. " I remain yours, respectfully,
" JAMES SMITH."
From Mr. HENRY B 4.RBER, Druggist, Knutsford.
" To the Proprietors of Pan's Life Pills.

" GENTLEMEN,—I forward you a case below, which Mr. T. CASH
wishes to have published ; he speaks wonderfully of PARR'S
PILLS, and geels assured they have been the means of saving his
life. NVe have also additional testimonials from respectable farmers
ie this neighbourhood.
" DEAR have been for the last two years dreadfully
afflicted with a cough and pain in the chest, so that I could scarcely
eat the least portion of food without causing great pain in my
chest, and shortness of breath, with a violent cough, not being able
to lie down for nine months; having had the advice of several
medical men, without deriving any benefit, I was advised by a
friend to try PARR'S PILLS, but having tried so many patent
medicines, I thought I might as well throw my money away. I
began to think nothing would cure me ; I was fast wasting away
with a violent pain in my head; at last my friend got me a box
from your shop, and advised me to try them, so I tried them, being
so strongly recommended, according to the direction, and before I
had taken one box, I found so much re►ief that I tried another,
and am now happy to say I am as well as ever I was In my life, and
shall always have a few doses by me, for they are wonderful.
(Signed) " THOMAS CASH.

Witness—John Thorpe.•'
" Mr. PARRY has been afflicted with sore eyes for twelve
years, and has tried everything he could hear of without the least
oenefit, but since taking two boxes of PARR'S PILLS, his eyes
are quite well, and have been for some time.
" Mrs. SMITH has been troubled with a pain in her head for
many years, has had the most respectable medical advice, without
receiving any benefit ; is quite recovered since she has taken three
boxes of PARR'S PILLS, which are worth a sovereign a box to
persons troubled with a sick heag.aohe ; I shall always have a
supply by me.
" These cases I have selected from a number of others, and can
rely upon them as being correct. I shall feel great pleasure in
giving every information to any person who may favour me with
acall. " I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" Knutsford, June 30, 1842." " HENRY BARBER, Druggist."

From Mr. J. L. L. WOODWARD, Chemist, Bridgewater.
" GENTLEMEN,—If the enclosed letter is of service, you are at
full liberty to publish its the man seems rather to wish for the
publication of his case.
" I am, Gentlemen, yours obediently.

".J. L. WOODWARD, Chemist,
"To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.
" GENTLEMBN,—The benefit I have received by the use of OLD
PARR'S PILLS, induces me, out of gratitude to the Proprietors,
and a wish to be of use to the whole world, to add another testi.
monial to the numbers you have already received. For the last
two years I have been labouring under a complication of disorders
in my head and stomach. I think I may venture to say I have not
had an hour's cessation of pain during the time. My sense of
smelling was entirely gone, and the most agreeable perfume or the
most intolerant stench were equally inOifferent to me. I have had
the advice of several surgeons and medical men, both in this
town and others, but without the least benefit, and I
had dispAired of ever again regaining my health, in
fact my life was becoming burdensome to me, until
I fortunately heard of the many cures which your valuable Pills
had effected. I purchased a box of Mr. Woodward, druggist, and
before I had taken the whole I was completely cured, and have
never experienced the slightest symptoms of its return. I have
recommended them, and shall do so, as I feel I cannot do sufficient
for the benefit 1 have received.—l am, Gentlemen, your obliged
and grateiul servant, " HENRY NASH.

"Bridgewater, June 13, 1842."
From Mr. GEORGE WILLIAMS, Stourport.

" To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.

•
" GENTLIIMEN,—When I was appointed your agent for the sale
of PARR'S PILLS, I did not anticipate a large sale for them,
there being so many kinds of Pills already before the public; but
I am happy to inform you that I have told nearly 1,000 boxes, and
require a fresh supply. Numerous are the cases of relief being
afforded in rheumatic, asthmat►c, and liver complaints, sick head.
ache, coughs, colds, and diseases of the stomach and digestive
organs, by taking these pills. Medicine which produces so much
good to the human frame, and helps to prolong life, shoved be unl.
venially recommended. Send me one gross by the earliest con-
veyance.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" GEORGE WILLIAMS.

"Stourport, March 5, 1842."
From Mr. S. SMEDLEY, Bookseller, Sleaford,

•• Sleatord, June ht, 1842.
"To Messrs. T. Roberts and Co.

"GRNTLEMEN,—I beg to announce to you (and it is a duty I
owe the public), that the demand for PARR'S LIFE PILLS con-
tinues to increase daily, and why ? let the following case amongst
many others testify :—JOHN GREEN of this place has for many
years been afflicted with an asthma of the most painful kind, for
which he has had the advice of as many medical men as there are
pills in one of your boxes, but, after taking, at stated periods, only
throe boxes of PARR'S PILLS, he declared to :ne this morning,
that now he could sleep from nine o'clock at night till seven in the
morning, although for the last two years he had never laid down In
bed, but was obliged to be propped up with pillows to enable him to
breathe at all.—l am, Gentlemen, your's respectfully,
" S. SMEDLEY, Bookseller,&c."

From Mr. THOMAS GOODE, Congleton.
" Congleton, July 12th, 1842.
" GENriamEN,—At the request of Mrs. Ellen Frost, of this
place ,I beg to hand you the accompanying testimonial for publication
" I believe she has received infinite benefit from taking PA R R'S
LIFE PILLS, and is anxious that others suffering from similar
disease should be induced to avail themselves of the same means of
recovery."—l am, your most obedient servant,

"THOMAS GOODE.

'To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills,

" Gatrt•t.astarc—l beg to tender my warmest thanks for the great
benefit I have derived frem your invaluable medicine. I had
for nearly two years been in a state of consumption, and was under
the care of several eminent :medical men, but could obtain no re-
lief. After taking three small boxes of your celebrated pills, lam
happy to say I am completely restored to health, and am now fol-
lowing my usual employment. I beg you will make this acknow.
ledgment public for the benefit of others similarly afflicted. I ghat
be happy to answer inquiries, either made personally or by letter
(post paid).—l am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully,
"Witness—JAMES FROST. " ELLEN FROST.
"July 11 tb, 1842."
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and by most of the respectable dealers in medicine. Price Is. lid.,
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with each box.

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Treatment and Cure. _ _ _ .

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vented through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions.
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BOILEREXPLOSION.—SEVER AL PERSONS SERIOUSLY
INJURED.—Tuesday morning, at about ten minutes before
nine o'clock, an accident, which occasioned the greatest alarm
in the vicinity of the upper part of the Commercial-road, St.
George's-in-the-East, took place at the extensive manufactory
belonging to Messrs. Johnson and Co., cigar and tobacco
dealers, situate in Gloucester-street, near Cannon-street gate,
by the explosion of a steam-boiler of 25-horse power used in
the factory. The premises are considered to be one of the
largest cigar•manufactories in and around the metropolis. It
was joined by a large building almost of the same height, used
for drying purposes, and adjoining was the engine and boiler
house where the explosion took place. At the time mentioned
it appears that one of the firm was about to enter the drying-
room, when a tremendous report was heard, which shook the
buildings and surrounding property to a surprising extent,
and the next moment it was followed by heavy crashes,
sending forth dense clouds of steam and dust. Unfortu•
nately most of the work-people; amounting to nearly fifty,
were at work on different floors, and, fearing that the fac-
tory had caught fire, a rush was made to effect an escape.
Those on the basement floor escaped easily by the regular
entrance, but those on the uppermost stories, suspecting the
flames were ascending, forced their way through the windows,
and jumped into the street; while others lowered themselves
down by the side of the spout. Most of these, we regret to
say, were more or less bruised, and five sustained such serious
injuries that their immediate removal to the London Hospital
was deemed necessary. As soon as the temporary alarm had
in some way subsided, it was discovered that the boiler, which
worked an engine of twenty horse-power, had exploded, occa-
sioning this most serious destruction. The boiler was blown a
considerable distance from its original situation. The roof and
nearly the whole of the floors of the drying house (which was
overstocked with cigars and tobacco), were hurled to the
ground, nothing, in fact, remaining of the building but the
outer walls. Considerable damage is also done to the case
house, and also the factory walls. The accident is stated to
have occurred through the negligence of the engineer, in not
seeing that the boiler was properly supplied with water. The
firm informed the authorities of the brigade force, that the
amount o.f damage done was at least one thousand pounds.
They are insured in the Sun Fire-office, but the property hav-
ing been lost by n explosion, and not from fire the office is
not liable to make good the loss.
PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF CELEDRATED VO-
CALISTS.—Rubini was a tailor, Tamburini, a eourier, Naldi,
an advocate. We believe he had the misfortune to a kill a
man in a duel, and was obliged to leave the State in which he
practised. He was a clever amateur in music, which he after-
wards made his profession. The manner of his death is well
known. Viewing a steam cooking apparatus in Gareia's:(Ma-
labran's father's) kitchen in Paris, the boiler burst, and he was
killed on the spot. Trameasani was a surgeon, so was Fer-
rari ; Templeton was a printer, and so Was Wilson, the " Scot-
tish Minstrel." Machin was a japanner in Birmingham, Pear-
sall the same; Pyne, a poulterer ; Weyman (a celebrated bass
at St. Patrick's, Dublin), a shoemaker; ditto, Tinney; ditto,
Shoubridge. The celebrated Barite was the daughter of a boat-
man, and sang in the streets. Champneys, whose name ap
pears in the old editions of Handel's songs, kept an iron-
monger's shop in Tethill-street, Westminster. He was the
leading singer of his time, and came to the rehearsal for the
great festival in Westminster Abbey wi,h his white apron on.
Hewas also lay vicar of the abbey.— Ten Towns Messenger.

HINTS TOUCHING TAXATION.
The following hints are written, not for those
who understand the subject, but for those who
do not; by their friend, W. G.:—
TWO QUESTIONS, WITH ANSWERS.
First—From what source is it that taxes are
paid ?

- Secondly—ls a high scale of prices, with
equally high Nvages, or a low scale of prices, with
equally low wages, best for the labouring people
of England?

ANSWER TO THE FIRST QUESTION.
The source from whence taxes and other such
imposts can be raised, without impoverishiner the
people or alienating their property, is those things
which may be very propyly termed increase.
This term, increase, is meant to embrace every
thing of the following description, beyond our
present and future necessary stock or capital of
such timings ; that is to say—all such things as
accrue, from season to season, through the
bounty of Providence ; and every thing which,
from time to time, may be obtained by art and
labour, and whiCh shall be valuable in the esti-
mation of the public, be that what it may. There
is no other source which can supply the demands
of taxation, or other such impositions, for any
considerable length of time, without causing the
alienation of property, or beggaring the great
bulk of the people.
I think it is generally believed, that persons
of property contribute, out of such property,
most largely towards defraying taxation ; but
my view of the case is; that many such persons.
scarcely contribute anything.towards supporting
that burden. The landowners, who are entitled
to the spontaneous increase upon their lands,
may, frotn that source of increase, so far
as they can avail themselves of it, be con-
sidered as contributors thereto; but that spon-
taneous increase forms but a small portion of the
increase from the land, raised by means of the
labour and time of others.

If the premises be true, then all those persons
who are entitled to the spontaneous increase
from the land, and all those who labour or apply
their time and talents in raising or procuring in-
crease of the description before given, are, as
one body, the payers of taxes.
The following question has been put to me.
When a rich man drinks wine which is heavily
taxed, does not he pay that tax ? My answer was
—No; not necessarily so. He may lend or ad-
vance the money for a short time, until he can re-
pay himself from the only tax-paying source in
existence, that is increase. For suppose he be a
non-labouring landlord who drinks the taxed
wine. In the first place, he advances the money
to pay for the taxed wine ; alter that, at the
next rent day, he receives, or expects to receive,
front his tenant, that money which shall repay
the expense of the wine. But the tenant is not,
therefore, the ultimate payer for the wine (ex-
cept so far as his own labour is concerned), far
he obtains the money by the sale of increase
raised by labour on the farm. It is therefore
from increase that the tax is paid. in this case ;
and they NO io are most instrumental in producing
such increase are i he greatest payers of the tax.
Again, suppo;=.e the drinker of taxed wine is a
moneyed man, who had lent his money on
interest to a manufacturer. He, like the land-
lord in the preceding case, first advances the
money to pay for the taxed wine ; after that,
at the set day, lie receives, or expects to re-
ceive from the borrower, that interest money
which will repay the expense of the wine. But the
borrower is not therefore the ultimate payer for
the wine, (except so far as his own labour and
skill are concerned), for he obtains the interest
money by the sale of increase produced by.arti
and labour. It is therefore from increase in
manufactured articles that the tax is paid in this
case ;-----and they who are most instrumental in
producing such increase arc the" greatest payers
of the tax.
To suppose otherwise; that is, to stippose taxes
were not paid out of increase, but out of capital
or stores, then see the result. The non-labOd?-
ing owner of land, without any other property,
who should let his land lie without cultivation at
all, would not be in the receipt of. anything
wherewith to pay taxes; and the only means he
would have of paying taxes would be by giving
up portions of his land, year after year, until the
whole were gone out of his possession.
The moneyed man too, who should not labour
or possess other kind of property, and who
should lock up his money in a chest, would not
be in the receipt of anything wherewith to pay
taxes: and the only means lie would have of
paying taxes would be by giving portions of his
money, year after year, out of his chest, until
the whole were gone.
And now, conceiving that what has been here
stated sufficiently shows that it is from increase
alone we are enabled to pay taxes, rents, interest
of borrowed capital, &c., wick this understand-
ing, I shall proceed to answer

THE SECOND QUESTION,
Which is this,—ls a high scale of prices with
equally high wages, or a low scale of prices with
equally low wages, best for the labouring people
of England?
I would just remark before attempting to
answer, that as increase is mainly acquired in
this country by means of the labour and time of
a hardworking population,
so they are most
deeply
interested in the right decision of this se-
cond question.
I have often heard it said, and I think it is
generally believed, that if' we of this nation can-
not have things cheaper, that is, as I understand,
at lower prices, our manufacturers cannot com-
pete it It foreigners. Now whether they can
compete with foreigners or not, I do not know;
but of this I am sure, that they can do it better
with the very reverse of that which they call
cheapness; that is—better with high prices than
with low prices. This may seem strange, but it
is certainly true.
In order to prove this proposition, I say first,
thatincrease of things to us is our only means of
paying taxes, without the
payers becoming
poorer and poorer. I think this position is
herein betioe proved, and shall therefore assume
that it is admitted by all.
Next, I set down the amount of our taxation
at forty millions of pounds in a year. It will not
affect the argument whether it be more or less.
And now I will "put a case, which, though it
cannot happen in reality, may be imagined. • It
is this.—Let all the increase.of one year, from the
land, from the manufacturers, and from every
other source, be brought together into one
market; and let those who have laboured to
obtain it, or are the owners of it, come together
to the same market. Then let this question be
first put to the assembly : Shall we set a high
price or a low price upon all these things?
After that question has been put, suppose
then, one in the assembly should stand up
and say to the people—" Remember that
you have to pay forty millions of pounds for
taxation out of these very things ; and know,
that out of nothing. else can you afford to pay
and if you determine to put a low price upon
them, you must of course part with a greater
i
bulk to raise that sure than t they were put at a
higher price ; and thus, by parting with a greater
bulk, you will have less remaining for yourselves.
On the contrary, if you put a high price upon
these things, you need not part with so much
to raise the forty millions; and the differ-
ence will be, w your on ;ch will enable you
which
to sell, so much as you may have to sell, to fo-
reigners at a reduced price, or give the differ-
ence to them if you please, without being in a
worse condition than you would have ,been, by
fixing the prices low."
In continuation of these imaginary proceed-
ings, let us suppose an extreme case ;—that the
assembly should put so low a price upon the
'ear's productions, as that the total thereof
should amount to no more than forty millions of
pounds;
it is plain then that the year's taxa-
tion would have swept away the whole ; and the
assembly might then go to their homes, with-
out taking back anything to sell at all.
Again, take another view. Suppose the price
of things were to be reduced to one-half of what
they are now, so that the manutlieturer, instead
of giving one pound to a workman for a week's
w;!ge; should get two week's work done for the
same money. Now !nen, what would be the
result in this case ?. In the first place, we may
see that taxation would be doubled; for the fund-
holder would still receive the same number of
pounds as at present ; but every pound of his
would purchase two weeks' work like the manu-
facturer's instead of one only as the matter stands
now. And, likewise, every pound of the fund-
holder's would purchase twice as much of every-
thing else, because everything is, by the suppo-

sition,. understood to be reduced to half-price.
The fund-holders, thereby, would possess a
double portion of the goods of the nation with-
out doing anything to merit more than the half.
But some may say, Oh yes, but think how
much work may be done for half the cost.
Would not that enable them to compete
with the foreigner, and get large profits too? I
say, No. For, besides the drawback of double
taxation, making an increase thereto of forty
millions a year, but few in England could better
afford to give more than half the price for goods
they had been used to give before; and so there
would be no advantage in that part of the affair.
Then with regard to foreign trade. It may be
admitted that if gold and silver could be brought
home in return for exported goods, there would
be a greater profit to those concerned in the trade,
if it could be carried far enough to out-balance
the increased taxation attaching to the trade. But
it has been said, and probably truly said, in answer
to this, that a trade upon such terms asrequire the
bringing back of gold and silver, cannot be
long carried on ; for that foreigners have those
metals not in such plenty; but corn and other
foreign produce must be taken. If so, then little
or no advantage would be gained in foreign trade
by having half prices at home, because such fo-
reign produce, wlign imported into England,
could not be sold above such English half prices.
What prospect is there then, under the circum-
stances of this supposed case, of any foreign
trade being so carried on as to counterbalance
the extra taxation of forty millions a year, which
it has been shown it would entail upon the tax-
paying people generally of the nation ?
Hence it may be seen that lower prices in-
crease taxation, and on the contrary, that higher
prices reduce taxation : and therefore the second
question is answered by proving—a high scale of
prices with equally high wages is best for the
labouring people of England.
And now it may be asked, How is this thing
to be done? I apprehend, if it be done, it must
be through a judicious enlargement of our pre-
sent circulating medium of exchange—that is,
money. It cannot be done with our existing
stock of gold and silver. These are nothing
like enough for the purpose, for these can repre-
sent but a small portion of our immense produc-
tions, at our present prices. But all I shall now
further say on this point is, that to establish high
prices there must be a commensurate circulating
medium. W. G.

l'rivate Secretaries, have died—making the total eighty-
eight individuals, who during their lives were what arc termed
public men, by their connection with the Government of the
Country.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A

CLERGYMAN AND A BUTCHER.

ROCIIESTYR, Ja N. I.—This day the Rev. Henry Winter,
chaplain to the Fortitude convict-ship, together with Mr.
George Bassett, army butcher, residing in the High-street of
Chatham, appeared before the Rev. George Davis, clerk,
William Gladdisk, Esq., James Smith, Esq., and Jacob George
Bryant, Esq., county magistrates, to answer informations,
charging them with disposing of a heifer on the 25th of No-
vember last, being unfit for food of man.
David Harden, the first witness, deposed that he was a
butcher, residing at New Brompton, near Chatham. The
Rev. Mr. Winter resides on board the convict-ship off Chat-
ham Dock-yard, and also occupies a farm opposite to his house,
also another farm near the Hook and Hatchet, in Chatham
parish. The reverend defendant has had several heifers die of
a disease called the t• murrain," which he had heard had been
sold. The cattle were kept in a barn on the farm. About
half past seven o'clock in the morning of the 25th of November
he saw one of the heifers lying dead and stiff in the little lodge
called Mr. Winter's Hospital. There was a small cut at the
neck, but the beast never bled an ounce, and was in a dreadful
state. A man named John Ilurrell, a butcher, opened the
animal anddressed it, which he saw the man do whilst standing
at his own door. The entrails were in a most dreadful and
ulcerated state. The flesh appeared white and sickly. The
heifer remained hanging up in the lodge until about two
o'clock in the afternoon, when it. was removed into a cart of
Mr. Winter's, and driven by a servant of his to Mr. Bassett's,
the butcher, at Chatham.

John Burrell, butcher, Brompton, said, that on the 25th
November last he went to Mr. Winter's farm to take a hide
off a heifer at eight o'clock in the morning. The bullock was
stiff, and had been dead about two hours. It had not been
slaughtered. Its death, he should think, was caused by an
inflammation of the lungs. The lungs and heart were so
heavy that he could hardly lift them. The reverend defendant
saw them, and looked at the carcass. Upon the 25th of No-
vember, he dressed a heifer which had died of the disease.
Cannot tell what went of the flesh. Both the beasts were in
an awful state ; their insides particularly. As a butcher, he
should say they were not fit to be sold for any shop. The
meat was not fit for human food. Both carcasses he dressed
to the best advantage.
John Morgan, head servant to the Rev, Mr. Winter, proved
that he cut up the carcass of the heifer into four quarters, and
put them into his master's cart, and drove it to Mr. Bassett's,
the butcher, by his master's desire. On the arrival of the
cart at the house of Mr. Bassett, Mr. Bassett came into the
street and looked at the meat. He said that he thought he
could not do anything with it. Afterwards Mr. Bassett sent
his young man for it, and it was taken into the slaughter-
house. The hide of the beast went with it. His master has
had five bullocks die of the complaint.
The Court being informed by the clerk that some very im-
portant witnesses were prevented attending this day, adjourned
the investigation until the next sitting. From the known
respectability of the defendants, the magistrates bound them
over in their own recognisances in the sum of 401. each to
appear on Friday next.

THE POACHERS UNDER SEN-
TENCE OF DEATH.

Although we are not of the number of those who consider
the infliction of the last penalty of the law to be either unjust
or inexpedient in cases of murder, yet we cannot refrain from
expressing a hope that the awful punishment of death will not
he inflicted on all the wretched men convicted of the murder
of Lord Derby's gamekeeper. They are all, it is true, equally
guilty in the eye of the law, and those of them who did not fire
the fatal shot are only a shade less guilty, even viewing the
subject morally, than he who did ; but there is a shade of dif-
ference in their cases, and we trust that whilst none of them are
allowed to escape without severe punishment, the lart penalty
of the law will only be inflicted on him who was the murderer
in act as well as in intention.

It is net merely on the ground of humanity, but also on that
of policy, that we consider that it would not be desirable to in-
dict the punishment of :death on the whole of these five men.
The difficulty of inducing juries to convict in such cases is
already very great, and if they should all be punished with
death, their execution will produce a feeling of horror in the
public mind which will give impunity to succeeding gangs of
poachers
.for a considerable time, whatever crimes they may
commit. We well remember attending the trial of twelve or
fourteen poachers at the York assizes, several years ago, when
hanging was much more in fashion than it is now. They were
all charged with having murdered one of the gamekeepers
of Sir George Armytage, of Kirklees.hall, near Hud-
dersfield, and all of whom were by the clearest evi-
dence shown to have been present at the affray in which
he was killed. After the case had been brought
home to every one of the prisoners, and after the Judge had
laid down the law declaring that all present at the affray and
resisting the gamekeepers, were equally guilty with the man
who beat out his brains with the butt end of his gun, the Jury
retired, and after remaining out of Court the greater part of
the night, came back and declared the whole of the prisoners
Not Guilty. This verdict was given in direct defiance of the
evidence, and it was the general opinion in Court that it
would never have been returned if it had not been known that
the Judge was a stern and inflexible man, quite capable of
leaving every one of the prisoners to be hung if they were
convicted. The more humane spirit in which the law has been
administered for the last dozen years has greatly diminished
this unwillingness to convict, but anything like a wholesale
hanging will revive it with a greater force than ever, and
render it, if not impossible, at least most difficult to convict
in future.—Liverpool Times.

A. B. C.--,ANECDOTE OF TIIE PRINCESS V ICTORIA
—Whilst under the process of learning her A B C, the
Princess evinced no usual degree of curiosity to ascer-
tain the utility- of being so tormented. " What good
this—what good this ?" was her frequent inquiry ; and
when satisfied " that mamma could know all that was
contained in the great book on the table because she
knew her letters, whilst the little daughter could not ;"
the little lady replied, " I learn, too—l learn, tco—very
quick 1" and, it is added, she so quickened her pace in
learning and articulation, as soon to become mistress of
the alphabet.—Front Frazer's Magazine.
EARL GREY.—We are glad to learn that letters
were received in Stanhope-street on Monday, which state
that Lord Grey had enjoyed sleep during several hours
of the night for some nights past. The Noble Lord had
also suffered less pain lately, and his pulse and appetite
were quite good. There is still, however, danger, and
considerable cause for the anxiety of his friends. The
great age of his Lordship (eighty years in March next)
of course renders him less able to combat successfully
with the attack.

CITY POLICE.—NEW REGULATIONS.—The follow-
ing official " pass order" has been forwarded to the
various police stations in the City, and came into opera •
tion on Monday, viz. :—One undetected robbery having
taken place in the section of any sergeant during the
year 1843, the said sergeant to be removed to another
division.--No sergeant to continue to act as sergeant
in whose section two undetected robberies shall have
occurred during the year 1843.—N0 sergeant to be
allowed to act as assistant inspector upon whose sec-
tion one undetected robbery shall have occurred.—The
men are exhorted to adhere strictly to their book of
instructions, and either or any of them discovered
talking to females, or going into public-houses, Sce.,
whilst on duty, will be suspended, or forthwith dis-
charged.—The inspectors, sergeants, and men to reside
within:the section of their division.—The latter has pro-
duced great dissatisfaction among the inspectors and
sergeants, many of whom occupy houses and reside at
some distance from their division.

THE IRON TRADE.—We are very glad to hear that
a second furnace was blown in at Trimsaran, Carmar-
thenshire, on Tuesday last. We understand that the
iron that is made is of the best quality, being manufac-
tured with anthracite coal.—Welshman.

SINGULAR CREDULITY.—On Tuesday the folloiving
singular instance of gross superstition and credulity, took
place at the Brentford Petty Sessions :—A female of respect-
able appearance, residing at Heston, near Hounslow, sum-
moned another female, residing in the same village, before
Messrs. Pownall and Armstrong, the sitting Magistrates, for
an assault and using abusive language. In the course of the
examination it appeared that the cause of the quarrel between
the parties arose under the following circumstances. A few
days since half-a-sovereign, belonging to the defendant, was
stolen from a drawer in her house, without her being able to
obtain the slightest clue to the person by whom it had been
stolen, or to the mode in which the robbery had been com-
mitted, and she in consequence went all the way from Heston
to the Mile-end-road, a. distance of sixteen miles, and back
again, for the purpose of consulting a noted " cunning man,"
or fortune-teller, whom having made acquainted with the cir-
cumstances, he proceeded to describe a person as the thief who
much resembled the complainant; whom on her return, she
began to abuse, which terminated in the assault. The Bench
fined the defendant 10s. and costs, and advised her again to go
to the " cunning man," who had got her into the difficulty,
and persuade him to pay the money for her, at the same time
expressing their astonishment that such superstitious ignorance
should still exist so near to the metropolis.
INCREASE OF THE DUTIES ON BRITISH GOODS IN
BR AZlL.—Advices have just been received from Rio to the
31st of October, from which we learn that the Brazilian Go-
vernment has adopted a course with regard to several kinds
of British goods imported into that country, which will have
the effect of raising the amount of duties to which they are
liable immediately, and that, as it believes, without any breach
of the terms of the treaty, and consequently without creating
any right of complaint on the part of this country. According
to the treaty between England and Brazl, as originally agreed
upon, British goods were to be admitted into the .Brazilian
empire at an ad valoruni duty of 15 per cent., which
rate of duty was afterwards raised by mutual agreement to
20 per cent. These terms the Brazilians were very anxious
to have changed in November, 1842, but to this the Eng-
lish Government would not consent, and they therefore
agreed, though with a very bad grace, that the present rate
of duty should remain unchanged until November, 1844.
They have since, however, discovered, that an ed valorem
duty may be effectually raised by increasing the valuation of
the goods taxed, as by increasing the per tentage raised upon
them, and have therefore greatly increased the valuation of
British goods of several kinds. In some cases the increase is
10 per cent, on the •ld valuation, in others 20, in others 30,
in some 50, and in one or two 75 per cent. ! This is exactly
the same thing in effect as if the rate of duty had been in-
creased from 20 per cent. ad valorem to 22, 24, 26, 30, and 35
per cent. Whether this is or is not a breach of the treaty we
do not pretend to say, but it is evident that it is precisely
the same thing so far as the commerce of this country is
concerned. Amongst the articles thus subjected to anew and
increased valuation are flannels, barragons, boots and shoes,
several descriptions of cottons and of silks, cassimeres, var-
nished hats, cutlery, steel, Irish linens, gunpowder, and seve-
ral kinds of woollen goods. We shall next week give a
list if the articles whose valuation is charged, showing the ex-
tent of the increase on each article.—Lierpool Times.

TIIE STATE PROSECUTIONS.
DUBLIN, JAN. L—This day. the Lord Mayor for the cur..,
rent year ( Timothy O'Brien, Esq.) was sworn into office with _
the usual formalities. 7 z
The menikers of the Corporation proceeded to the Assembiy-
house in state, and after some preliminary proceedings,
The late Lord Mayor, GEORGE ROE, Esq., rose and ad-
dressed the as-embly at s •me length. He commenced by say-
ing he felt it his ditty to render an account of his steward-
ship for the past sear ; and, after adverting to some topics
of local interest, he observed that he regretted much to find
himself opposed to the majority of the house on a question
which had been discussed by it ; but while he could not concur
in the opinion of the majority, still he f. It that the discussion
of the repeal of the union was a" perfectly constitutional
and justifiable one in that house. The manner in which that
discussion was conducted elicited the approbation of all who
were present or had heard cf it. There was no ill-temper
exhibited on either side, and the question was disposed of
v ithout producing in that House the slightest feeling of
ill-will. The next topic to which he said lie should advert
might be considered to have grown out of that discussion—lie
meant the pending State trials. He looked upon tht m with
the deepest anxiety ; and after considering the subject in
all its bearings, he had come to the conclusian that it
would be for the benefit of the country--nay, of the
United Kingdom at large—that these trials should
not take l lace.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Po felt
that. they would produce excitement and agitation, and lead
to all the evils consequent upon such a state.—( !tear, hear.)
Surely, in the midst of such agitation as these trials would-lead
to, the country could not apply itself to the promotion of com-
merce or agriculture. lie would frankly tell the assembly that,
after being in communication with men of all parties since the
prosecutions had commenced, he firmly believed it to be the
general desire that the agitation • f the country should be pre-
vented by the abandonment of these trials.—( Hear.) He felt
extreme delicacy in saying anything that might be considered
trenching upon the Achninistration of the land, which he felt. to
he sacred ground ; but he consifered that an expression of
public feeling, under all the circumstances, would be calculated
to serve the country. lie would, therefore, urge such an ex-
pression of public feeling, praying her Majesty to take
the question of the state of Ireland into consideration, to
appoint a Committee, if ne Tssary, of the whole House
of Commons, to ascertain the cause of discontent
which unhappily prevailed.—( Hear, hear.) It was admitted
by all there were grcninds for discontent, and, without more
particularly alluding to them, he should mention the system of
centralization as one. He held in his band a document, pub-
lished by order of the House of Commons, in which it appeared
that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests received
628,000/. in this country, and only expended here 120,00(1.,
leaving a balance of half a million spent out of the country,
from which it was raised, for the advantage of England.—
(Hear.) He mentioned this solitary fact to show there were
great and numerous grounds for discontent. As a mercantile
man, he felt that the agitation and excitement that would
be produced by the State prosecutions would retard the in-
flux of capital and all improvement for a considerable time.
Suppose that complete success should attend -these
prosecutions—would it be calculated to allay the irritation and
discontent of the country ?—( Cries of " No, no.") Suppose,
again, there should be a verdict of acquittal, would that restore
peace ?—( No, no.) If, on the other hand, as was apprehended,
it would be a drawn battle, would that tend to any possible
good—would it allay the angry feelings which had been ex-
cited? No man could say what the consequences would be
should these prosecutions be pressed on. —( Hear, hear.) His
Lordship concluded by expressing a hope that the majority of
that boise would petition her Majesty to grant an amnesty for
the past, and take steps to remedy the grievances cf Ireland.—
( Loud cheers. )
Alderman Bovv. SE (Conservative) asked his Lordship whether
the address lie had delivered was to be taken simply as his own
ntiments ?

The LORD MAYOR replied in the affirmative.
Alderman BoYsE again rose, and proposed a most compli-
mentary vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, for the admirab!s
and impartial discharge of his duties.
Alderman Sir JOHN POWER, Bart., said he felt the highest
gratification in seconding the motion, which passed unanimously,
amidst the warmest plaudits.
The Lord Mayor then retired.

The Lord Mayor e'ect, Timothy O'Brien, Esq., was then
sworn in with the usual formalities, and took his scat as Lord
Mayor. Soon after the Council adjourned.
The procession which accompanied the new Lord Mayor
consisted of a great number of private carriages, headed by a
military band,
IMPORTATION OF FIREARMS.

A letter, of which the following is a copy, has been addressed
to the agent of the British and Irish Steam-packet Company,
Eden quay :

" Metropolitan Police-office, Dublin Castle,
December 28, 1843.

" Sir,—The Commissioners of Police have directed me to
acquaint you, for the information of your Board of Directors,
that it is considered necessaay, and has been directed by Go-
vernment, that the police shall inspect on arrival, and while
unlading, the portion of the shipping in the port of Dublin, and
under the uninterrupted superintendence of officers of Customs,
with a view to the more effectual prevention of the clandestine
importation of fire-arms; and that therefore the inspectors of
police have been ordered to make this inspection, in pursuance
of the power given by the Dublin Police Act, 5 Victoria, c. 24,
see. 23 ; but that in the performance of the duty they have been
directed to avoid the adoption,of any steps calculated to inter•
rupt the commerce of the port, or cause unnecessary inconve-
nience to passengers or other persons in the vessels inspected,
towards whom the officeri will demean themselves with due
courtesy.
" I am at the same time to refer you to a provision in the
27th section of the Arms Act (an abstract of which is sent
herewith), authorising passengers to import fire-arms usually
carried for personal defence or sporting, on registering them
with the chief officer of the port, and I am to suggest, for the
consideration of your Beard, the expediency of adopting some
means of making this provision known to persons taking berths,
&c., at the Company's offices in England and Scotland, as the
obtaining of the information there may prevent inconvenience
to passengers, and any misunderstanding with respect to their
fire-arms on arriving here.
" The Commissioners have suggested to the Gsvernment
that this information might be best afforded to passengers in
the mail-packets by a printed note on the form of receipts
issued on taking berths.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servant, " W. STANLEY, Secretary."
FUNERAL OF V.MALIER, ESQ., M.P.

Til LAMES, DEC. nB.—The remains of the late lamented
Valentine Maher, Esq., M.P., were removed from Turtulla
1-loue at twelve o'clock on Wednesday, attended by a
numerous train of carriages, jaunting cars, and gigs belonging
to the resit:ent gentry of the surrounding neighbourhood, to be
interred in the family burial place in nudes churchyard. - The
number of carriages exceeded thirty, and the cortege extended
from Turtulla gate to the town. Never was there in this
neighbourhood such a respectable and numerously attended
funeral. The most marked respect was paid to his memory—
all the rhopa of the town of Thurles being closed from the time
of the melancholy occurrence of his death. There was a most
numerous atteni'ance of his tenantry, and a great number of
the clergy.— Tipperary Free Press.
The Tipperary fex-hounds did not meet for the last week, in
consequence of his death.

ALARMING EXPLOSION OF GAS AT GREENWICH.—
On Tuesday night, shortly after dusk, the inhabitants of
the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-street, Greenwich, were much
alarmed by a most terrific explosion of gas, which took place
under the premises occupied by Mr. G. Oxborough, tailor,
izc., in the Trafalgar-r,ad. It appears from what we could as-
certain upon the spot, that some difficulty was experienced by
the next door neighbour of Mr. Oxborough in getting his gas
to ignite, and that consequently he sent a man down into the
basement of the premises to ascertain the cause of the difficulty,
when the pipe suddenly burst immediately underneath the floor-
ing of Mr. Oxborough's room, tearing away the wood work and
bursting up the counter. Thence it passed towards the ceiling,
and upset in its progress Mr. Oxborough and a female who was
sitting with him at work. The ceiling is torn from the lathing,
and the shock was so violent, that the front wall was split by it
from the top to the bottom. Upon. inquiring, last night, be-
tween ten and eleven o'cloek, we were informed that Mr. Ox-
borough's injuries are but trifling, but that the female is so mu-
tilated, that she is considered in a very precarious state.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT BY THE KICK OF
A Cow.—On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Carter, Coroner for Sur-
rey, held an inquest at the Rose and Crown, Salisbury-lane,
Bermondsey-wall, on the body of Richard Creasy, aged 66
years. It appeared by the evidence that the deceased was in
the employ of Mr. Edward Kelsey, cow keeper and dairyman,
in East-lane, Bermondsey. On the morning of Saturday, the
911) ult., the deceased went as usual to milk his master's cows.
After so d,iing he fed them, and whilst in the act of wiping his
shoes in the litter beneath the cows, one of them rushed against
him and knocked him down, and before he could recover him-
self another beast, whose propensity for kicking was well known
by &ceased, struck him a violent blow on his head with her
hind hoof, which laid him prostrate. A fellow-servant of de-
ceased immediately went to him, and assisted him home, when
it wars ascertt.ined that his skull bad been fractured. Ile died
on the 25111 ult. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
eciath."

Titr. DISTURBANCES OF At7GUST, 1842.-I'IHE
CHARGE ADAINST AN ALDERMAN or LEEDS.-1t will be
remembered that a statement, which excited a good deal of
public attention, recently appeared in the public prints, charg-
ing an aliermr.n of the borough of Leeds, and a member of the
watch committee, with not only being cognisant of the distur-
bances of 1842, previous to their commencement, but with
having been actually instrumental in producing them. The
statement was first made public by Mr. Joshua Hobson, pub-
lisher of the Northern Star, and a member of the Town Coun-
cil, at a public meeting held in Leeds a short time ago, and on
Monday the subject came under discussion in the Council,
where Mr. Hobson reiterated his statement, stating that the
Aide' man Was named Bateson. From the exl lanations of Mr.
llo!don, Mr. Bateson, and other=, it appeared that the charge
had been preferred by a person named Smith, who had been
made a bankrupt by Aldernian Bateson, and who, it was con-
tended, could not be believed on his oath. After a great deal
of boisterous altercation, the Council decided that the matter
slid not come within their jurisdiction.
THE SALE OF LIEUTENANT MUNRO'S EFFECTS.—
The opinion of counsel upon Mr. Wakley's proceedings on the
laiesioecasion of the attempted sale of Lieutenant Munro's
effects being adverse to the legality of the Coroner's right to
interfere, the auction has been re-announced to take place this
day awl to-morrow. From circumstances which occurred at a
late hour last night it would appear, however, that the Hon.
Member-in ends to contest the matter in spite of the lawyers.
Mr. Kirke (the auctioneer employed by Mrs. Munro) has,
it seems, been placed under the surveillance of the police for
some days past, a sergeant and two officers of the B divi-
sion being stationed near his residence, so as to observe all
persons parsing to and fro. Last night, shortly of er seven
o'cl3ck,' Mrs. Munro arrived at Mr. Kirke's house in Bromp-
ton-row. The carriage in which she rode drew up by the
roadside, and bef ,re Mr. Kirke could reach the door the
police had surrounded the vehicle, apparently with an in-
tention to di.cover who was inside. Mrs. Munro having re-
quested Mr. Ki he to let her have a small dressing-case which
had been left. in his care, that gentleman returned to the house
for it, and as he was handing it into the carriage, the police-
sergeant required to know " where that box was going?" Mr.
Kirke replied that it belonged to Mrs. Munro, and he believed
that she was about to contey it to her mother's residence.
Having closely examined the case, the officer permitted
Mr. 'Kirke to place it in the carriage, at the same time
directing his brother officials to run off to the nearest stand and
call a cab to follow the vehicle. Mrs. Munro having com-
pleted the purpose of her call, ordered the coachman to drive
home, and the cab not having arrived at this time, the ser-
geant, in the " performance of his duty," was compelled to fol-
low the carriage as fast as his legs could carry him down the
Brompton-road ; the object being, it was stated, to wa'cli
where the box in question was conveyed. It is ir.tended to
proceed with the sale.—(From our Evening Edition of Yes-
terday.)
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