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DECEMBER It 7, 1844.

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IRELAND.

FUNERAL OF I'HE EARL OF LIMERICK.—
TURBULENT PROCEEDINGS.
DUBLIN, DEc. 25.—The Tipperary Vindicator, re-
ceived this day, containq the following account of the
funeral of the late Lord Limerick, and I am sure you
will read with the thepest pain the description of the
turbulent and disgraceful proceedings of a portion of
the populace of the city of l imerick on that occasion:—
" Oft Saturday evening, at six o'clock, the mortal re-
mains of the late Kiri of Limerick, of the late Viscount
Glentworth, the Earl's grandson, and of Lady Mary
Very, his daugh er, arrived in Limerick from Dublin in
funeral procession. The hearSes in which the bodies
were contained were accompanied by mourning coaches,
containing some of the distinguished members of the Pery
family._ The remains of Lady Mary and Viscount Glent-
worth were deposit,:d forthwith in the family vault,
Pery's -chapel, in one of the niches of the ancient Cathe-
dral of St. Mary's.
" The body of the Earl of Limerick was taken to the
Pa lace.

DEATH OF A MOTHER AND IN-
FANT FROM NEGLECT.

THE RAILWAY SYSTEM AND THE
BOARD OF TRADE.

The picturesque little village of Cowley, near ehel-
ter hum, has, during the past week, been the scene of
great excitement, in consequence of various reports, that
a female (unmarried) named Sarah Jackson, had been
recently delivered of a child, and that both the infant
and mother had perished the same morning, shortly
after the accouchement, and had afterwards been buried
at Cowley without having notified to the clergyman the
cause of death, which it was said entirel3 arose from the
gross neglect of the midwife. The above circumstances
haring come to the knowledge of the Rev. Mr. Fendale,
the rector of the parish, that gentleman immediately put
himself in communication with the Coroner, Mr. Barnet,
and Mr. Dalton, the medical officer of the union, when
the former gentleman forwarded an order to the rectory,
for the exhumation of the bodies, for the purpose of as-
certaining the cause of death. The disinterment having
taken place, the inquest was held in the drawing-room
of the parsonage house at Cowley. From the evidence
of Edith Jones, who keeps the toll-gate at Birdlip, near
Cheltenham, on the Cirencester road, it appeared that
the deceased was her sister. Deceased, who was twenty-
three years of age, was unmarried, and lived as servant
in a gentleman's family at Over, near Gloucester, and that
she came to Birdlip fur the period of her confinement,
which took place at witness's house, on the 4th inst.
Deceased wus attended by a midwife, named Betty
Redden, who, at the period of the accouchement, got
extremely agitated, and sent to Cheltenham for the as-
sistance of a medical gentleman, Mr. Dalton, who gave
his immediate attendance. Mr. Dalton remained with
his patient above an hour and a half, who, he said was"
going on exceedingly well. lie then left her in charge
of the nurse, Elizabeth Redden, taking care to examine
Redden as to her competency in midwifery; the answers
being satisfactory, he left deceased in the hands of the
nurse, with the greatest confidence, particularly as the
dangerous period of parturition was over. At two hours
after Mr. Dalton had left the deceased was delivered of
a full-grown fine female child. The nurse Redden was ,
present. The nurse was to have ss. for her attendance. ,
After the birth (about an hour and a half') Redden
attended to the child; she washed its f.:ce, and placed it ,
on a box, observing that it was " dead enough." The
mother was placed in a chair, undressed, and put to bed.
The child was born alive, and there was some blood on ,

The course which Parliament intends to pursue with
respect to railways in the ensuing session is now become
a subject of great interest. To develop a sound and
permanent system of intercommunication suitable to the
commercial and political situation of the country, both
in its Rational and continental relations, is a matter of no
inconsiderable difficult.). ; and this difficulty becomes
still more perplexing-J3y the necessity which exists for
repairing the errors that tiave already been committed,
while preserving a due regard to existing interests of
so large a character as those already involved in these
undertakings.

GENERAL TOM THUMB.
The AMERICAN MAN i■ MINIATURE has returned
to London and is now bolding his PUBLIC LEVEES at the Sal-
iffy, in Suffblk-street, Pall-mall. The General has been visiting the
principal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met
with unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinburgh the Several
was presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal
Stuart Tartan, manufactured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in
which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen,
Napoham, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to
One, Three to Five, and from Seven to Nine. Doers open half
an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling.
The General's Miniature Equipage will be exhibited daily from
Four to Half.past Five, and from Eight to Half-past Nine, P.Af.
at 121, Pall-mall, at the trifling charge of Threepence, merely to
defray the rent of the room.

The full effects of the railway system are but very
imperfectly comprehended by the great majority of
persons. It is looked upon generally as merely a
more easy mode of transporting persons, for pleasure
or for business, from one peace to another. But
those who look deeper into the matter discover in it
a principle which is fast producing a change on the
is hole commerce of the country—which is daily ab-
sorbing the merchandise traffic to such an extent as
must affect, to an unknown degree, the value of pro-
perty, by altering the relative cost of transit for our
mineral productions and our manufactures, which form
so important an item in the value of the staple commo-
dities and general merchandise of the country. The
laying out of railways, therefore, on a comprehensive
plan is a subject requiring the most serious considera-
tion ; and the most extensive experience which' can be
brought to bear upon the question will be required to
obtain even an approach to a sound and judicious deci-
sion on this difficult subject.
The proceedings of the Railway Department of the
Board of Trade are naturally watched with considerable
anxiety by those who are interested in, and able to com-
prehend the various bearings of, this complicated sub-
ject. A Government Board which was instituted to
supervise the arrangements of railway companies for the
prevention of accidents, is a very different thing from
a Board which is to decide upon the great national
question of railway communication in general. And the
course pursued by this Board in their investigation of
the various railway schemes brought before them is not
calculated to remove the impression that their inquiries
will be entirely deficient of any practical good, while
their reports may be productive of great harm, by in-
ducing those unacquainted with the subject to place a
much greater dependence upon these reports than their
intrinsic merits can possibly entitle them to. In a re-
cent article upon this subject we stated what were the
points on which the Board were required to report to
Parliament. These were principally the engineering
peculiarities of the lines ; the sufficiency of the esti-
mates ; the relative commercial advantages of compet-
ing lines ; and some other points of minor importance.
Now, how do the Board arrive at their conclusions on
these subjects ? They have merely copies of the plans
and sections furnished to them, similar to those de-
posited with the clerks of the peace. They examine
no evidence, except such voluntary statements as the
parties interested ghoose to make. They take for
granted the correctness of the engineering details.
No local examination is made to establish the accu-
racy of the estimated expense of construction. No in-
quiries are instituted into the commercial peculiari-
ties of the districts ; no personal inspection and survey
of the country ; no estimates of traffic from actual ob-
servation. Au Ordnance map, a gazetteer and the plans
and sections of the railway, constitute, so far as any-
thing appears, the whole machinery by which a judg-
ment is to be formed and a report made, which is to be
the foundation for a Parliamentary decision. The in-
quirers after truth need no longer complain, Utinam tam
facile vera invenire possem, quam falsa convincere ; for it
would appear that the clearsightedness which official
situations produce onahose who previously were subject
to the common defects of ordinary mortality, renders
both truth and error alike transparent at a glance.
If gazetteers and maps could furnish sufficient infor-
mation as to the best direction and commercial advan-
tages of particular railways, there would still remain
the question of cost of construction, which cannot be
reached by these means. Where are the data for
these calculations ? If we take the experience of
the past for our guide, we shall find that the
average cost of all the principal railways in England
has been between 50,000/. and 60,0001. a mile. But in
the new lines, for which application to Parliament is now
about to be made, the cost of construction is estimated
only at from 10,0001. to 15,0001. per mile—some few lines
reaching as high as 25.0001., and others being as low as
7,0001. per mile only.:Engineers may well laugh in their
sleeve at the idea of their estimates being revised by the
Board of Trade. Without a careful investigation of the
face of the country, the nature of the soil, the geological
character, and the local value of the land through which
the railway passes, even the most eemOte epproximatioa
to the coat of construction cannot be obtained; for many
of the new lines are estimated to cost less than half what
the land alone has cost in the old railways; and unless,
therefore, the Government engineers possess intuitively
that knowledge which it has cost the staff of railway en-
gineers twelve years' labour to acquire, and railway pro-
prietors a sacrifice of 40,000,0001. or 50,000.0001. to secure,
the judgment of the Railway Department of the Board
of Trade can be nothing -better than a farce and a
mockery, which it is quite beneath them to attempt.
The Railway Board undoubtedly contains some clever
men, and the character of the President is above
reproach. But cleverness is as far removed from that
grasp of mind which this subject requires as it is from
that practical experience without which far greater ta-
lents than even the collective Board can boast would be
of but little avail. To judge of such questions as these,
military engineers are almost totally incompetent, unless
they possess talents quite distinct from those of their
own profession. In the two notable instances in which
a Government engineer has been called upon to decide,
the most unfortunate decision has been the result; for
both in the Brighton Railway and in the Churnet Valley
schemes the erroneous decision adopted is now fully ac-
knowledged; and the result will, probably, in both cases
be, the construction of two lines of railway at a vast
sacrifice of property, where one would have amply
sufficed.

" During the entire of Sunday the family mansion
and the cathedral were visited by hundreds of citizens
of all classes, impelled by motives of eager curiosity to
itness the obsequies of an individual who was known to
them only by the recollection of his having a title and
estates, derived from a city and locality which were never
benefited by his occasional presence, or the expenditure
of any portion of the ample pecuniary means with which
the extensive property he held in the district supplied
him.

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUi-
AIME SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,200.
Rsupowered by Act of Parliameat.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady sitcoms and increasing prosperity of the Society tar
enabled the Directors, at the last animal investigation declare a
second Bonus, averning 60 per cent. oat the amounts inv en each
Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

1
,-d. ';' "7 I q.• F. 5
, pv •,..4- o>
ot i''' '4 Moans Bonus la g; r) § 4.. a
• Premhun' .ii , added. Cash. g-:: aVig
1 • h
. • ,
1 £ a. a. '£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 4 s. ds
1837 170 9 3 77 5 1 12 3 1 346 2 3
80 1000 74 3 4 1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 916 4 296 13 4
1831 116 16 9 51 511 711 9 247 4 5

The division of Fronts is annual, and the next will be made in De-
-.ember of the present year.
This institution offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferreil Anauities.
The assured has, en all OCCA81•119, the power t• Yon )w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet ether conveniences or necessity. Assurances
ter terms of years are granted oa the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, doe.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
Taus Toes.
Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chalaaan,
BENJAMIN HAWES, ESQ. Deputy Chairman.
BENJAMIN BARNARD, 'cg.
cHARLps BALDWIN, Esq.
Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus—
Parties assuring the lives of others may make their policies secure,
notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre..
viously obtained.
Credit of half this premiums tbr the first five years allowed on pa,
effected the whole terns of life.
On pOlicies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after the
first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the Assured.
Advances are alto made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal
security, for terms el years, repayable by instalments.
Attention ip pertiPulatlY requested to the detailed Prospectuses of
the Company, which may be obtained at the Office, 113, King
William-street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary.
WILLIAM RATR A Y, Actuary and Secretary.

LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITIES-
Trio fotiowipg are Specimens of the LOW RATES of PRE.
311(;111 charged by the AUSTRALASIAN COLONIAL AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY.

Age........

Annual Prem.

£1 10 3

£2 0 7

£2 15 3

44 1 la

46 3 9

and of these rreminms one-thisray remota unpaid ie the hands of
tke As4C4Ol at interest is I4P tutted freart the sums assured, when
they become claims.
Peculiar facilities are afforded for the assurance of the lives of per
sons proceeding to ar residing in Australasia and the East Indies.
Immediate and Deforred Annuities are granted by the Company,
on very fiticourable terms, and it is a peculiar feature in its constitu-
tion, that Annuitants participate in the profits.
DIRECTORS.
E. Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colsubortn, Est,
40411 lirnalCe, C, E. Mattgloa, Eial•
menu Pti9k#P, Eqq. Richard (11100 W. Eaq.
John ileary Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
SCoRPTAIkir—L. 14)1v, Esq.
For prospectuscs and other particulars, apply at the offices, N 0.126
Bishopgate-street, corner of Cornhill.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
Established by Royal Charter A.D. 1.7411,,
FIRE 124SIJRA 'DnrCES.
a al owed .for rayniont of Pro.
miums falling due at Chiistmas, eikp,ire on the 9th day of JANUARY
neat.
It has been determined by this Corporation to withdraw from Con.
dition No. X. in their Policies the words which require " a Certiti.
cite under the hands of the Minister, Churchwardens, and some
other reputabablc inhabitants of the parish where such fire shall !Ivo
happeneV,
Holders of Policies are accordingly requested to consider this part
of the aforesaid condition as cancelled.

Thomas Tooke, Esq., Governor.
William Sampson' Esq., Sub-Governor.
The Hon. .1, T. Leslie Melville, Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq.
Edmond S. Y. Calvert, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
John Deacon, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq.
William 'fellow Hibbert, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Sir George Lament, Bart.,
John Christopher Lochner, Esq.
Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.
ALE
Lombard-street, December 1,

Charles John Manning, F.sq,
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
John Henry Polly V.sq•
Abraham George hobarts, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.
William Soltau, Esq.
Robert Thorley Esq.
Henry Warre, Esq.
Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Charles Young Dario?, Esb,,
XANDER (JREEN, Secretary.
,4,1814.

NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION
No. 48, Gracechurch-street, London, for Mutual Assurance
on Lives, Sec.
Enrolled under the Acts of Parliament relating to Friendly
Societies,

ppocruaa.
Charles Pritchett Benefield, Esq. Robert Ingham, Esq.
John Bradbury, Esq. Samuel Hayhurst Lucas, Esq.
William Cash, Esq. Joseph Janson, Esq.
1 hornas Castle, ksq Samuel A. S. Lucas, Esq.
James Crofts, Esq. Charles Lushington, Esq.
John Feltham, Esq John St. Batbe,:Esq.
Joseph Hargrave, E4q,.. kchard Shortrulge, Esq,
Thomas Hodgkin, ALD, ,Samuel Smith, Esq.
MEDICAL pI.R.ECTOII.9.

J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S, I Thomas Bevan, M.D., F.L.S.
TRIUSURRIL—Joseph Janson, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Hardwick and Davidson.

The following statement shows the progress of the Institution
from the commencement, in Dec., Nal, to the 20th Nov. last _

Years ending.

20th Nov. 183 R... •••
to Is 1837 ...... •..
•P Si 133 .........
t• ft 1639.........
Sr SP 1810.........
Pt SS 1841 ...... •.
PP OS 1842 .........
er. IP 1843.......4.1
ps ~ 1844........•

Total number

No. of
Policies
issued.

Annual Income

X s. d.
8,021 12 2
14,600 0 0
19,934 19 4
25,427 4 2
31,051 10 10
36,357 1 4
39,300 9 7
44,219 17 0
55,037 9 '2

Amount of
Capital.

X 5. d.
10,73 n 3 0
31,502 10 5
46,855 0 10
F 4,959 10 10
90,545 13 9
114,093 2 4
139 806 1 7
107,079 11 2
202,162 1 9

The gratifying result of the valuation o. the liabilities and assets of
the Institution on the 2, th November, 1842 is exemplified in the fol-
lowing instances; exhibiting the profit assigned to Policies which
had been in existence from one 0 seven years :

had been in existence from one to seven Scars :-
1
Poll.l Age at Reduction
Equal to a
Sum
cies in Corn. Amount Original mium in per cent.
As- Reduction
in p re.
rmum in
Exist. mence. of Bonus. Premium. lieu , on the Ori.
sured. or
ence. i ment. Sinai Pre.
1 Bonus. mium of
Years.! Years. £ Xs. d. Ss.d.!S s. d.
7 59 1,001 10 II 0 63 0 0 27 17 2 44
7 33 2,000 177 10 0 54 1 8 20 11 6 33
6 52 2,000 227 19 0 97 11 8 34 510 35
6 3l 500 37 2 0 12 17 6 4 2 5 32
5 1 51 1,000 91 3 0 47 2 6 13 6 4 ::8
4 s 42 500 `iB 19 0 17 12 1 31.'. 3 20
3 I 46 800 37 8 I 31 18 8: 418 10 15%
2,' 63 31.00 140 15 0 224 15 0123 11 7 11K,,,
1 ' 42 2,000 56 14 0 70 8 4 3 3 9 4%

The next Division of Profits will be made in November, 1847.
MEMBERS WHOSE PREMIUMS BECOME DUE ON THE
Ist OF JANUARY NEXT, ARE REMINDED TH kT THE
SAME MUST BE PAID WITHIN TriIRTY DAYS FROM
THAT DATE.
The Report of the Directors to the Ninth Annual Meeting of
Members, held on the 16th instant, may be had on application at the
Mice- JOSEPH MARSH Secretary.
Deeemlier 18, 1814.

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" The coffin, which was covered with black velvet, was
placed in the antique spacious parlour of the mansion,
and suspended over it was a coronet, with the family
arms and escutcheon, surrounded by sable plumes. The
lying in state was an imposing and pompous spectacle,
commemorative of the decadence of worldly splendour—
indicating the passing joys and sorrows of this life.
"It having been rumoured through the city that the
funeral would take place at twelve o'clock on Monday,
the populace were on the qui rive from an early hour. in
the morning. The funeral left the palace at I'2 o'clock,
and moved on through George-street, Patrick-street, and
Rutland. street. The carriages of the nobility and gentry
of the surrounding district were in attendance. Among
em were, Earl Dunraven's, Lord Clarina's, Lord
Monteagle's, Sir Aubrey De Vere's, Mr. William blaun-
sell's, &c.

"About one thousand of the tenantry of his late Lord-
ship were dressed in scarfs and hatbands. Many gentle-
men of the county and city wore crape hatbands and
weepers. The crowds of idle persons in the streets and
thoroughfares were very great, and as the procession
moved along there was a good deal of shouting and
groaning. When it arrived at the ' New Bridge,' it was
completely stopped, and then a scene of indescribable con-
fusion ensued. The tenantry were hustled and pulled
about, and the linen was torn from their hats and shoul-
ders. The crowd was so great on the bridge and up
Quay-lane that there was no proceeding. A most dis-
graceful assault was made on the carriage of Lord
Monteagle, who, on being recognised, was fiercely
groaned and hooted. His Lordship with muck difficulty
escaped into Mr. Howard's spirit shop, after some very
rough treatment. Some say he was knocked down
and trampled on—others that he was me rely hustled.
Mr. Sam Dickson, likewise the Mayor, and Mr.
O'Neill, who interfered to protect him, received
some ill-usage. At length the excitement and vio-
lence become so great that it was feared the immense
crowd would overturn the hearse and carriages and
throw his Lordship's remains into the river. A speedy
order was given for the military, and two companies of
the 15th Foot, and a troop of the sth Dragoon Guards
were almost immediately on the spot. In the meantime
Lord Monteagle, Sir Aubrey De Vere, and others, re-
mained in durance at Mr. Howard's till the military
came to their rescue. The populace then slowly retired,
laughing and jeering at the parade of soldiery, whose
presence could have been well dispensed with were the
police at hand, as they should have been, t 3 do their
duty."

MR. O'CoNNELL.-Mr. O'Connell arrived privately at
Cruise's Hotel, Limerick, on Saturday evening, and left
on Sunday, after breakfast, for Darrynane. There was
a large collection of peop:e outside the hotel.—Limerick
Reporter.

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What passions hurt the body, what improve
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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals—Repulse, Marquis, from Bengal, off Pen-
zance, sailed March 23, Mauritius May 11, Algoa Bay
Sept. 4. Table Bay Oct. 21 ; Anna Robertson, Munro,
from Madras, off Plymouth, sailed Sept. 3, Cape Oct. 26;
Bland, Callan, from Bengal, off Plymouth, sailed Aug.
14, Cape Oct. 26 ; Lady Clarke, Lawrence, from Bengal,
off Falmouth, sailed July 31. Cape Oct. 28 ; Albyn,
6fl Falmouth, sailed Aug. 1,
Wyllie, from Penang, in
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LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker, the coroner, held
rather a lengthened investigation at the Five Bells Inn,
Old Ford, Middlesex, respecting the death of Frances
Wilson, aged 45, an inmate of Byle's private lunatic
asylum, in the above parish, who died. from voluntary
starvation in that establishment.

Ann Williams, a nurse in the asylum, deposed that the
deceased was a married woman, and lird been an inmate
of th...tublimion..t cine the 10th of last month, having
been sent under an order from the parish officers of Wal-
worth, on proper medical certificates, and was not a pri-
vate patient. The deceased was a decided lunatic. The
deceased had a disposition to abstain from food, and could
not be persuaded to eat proper nourishment. What
could be administered to her was generally done by some
persons holding her head back whilst witness put the
food into her mouth. She used to fancy that the was
going to be poisoned. On Tuesday forenoon witness,
assisted by a nurse named Jones, was engaged in.feeding
her with wine and arrow-root, and as the .last teaspoon-
ful was about being poured down her throat, her eyes
became fixed as if death were coming upon her. She
was instantly laid down on the bed, gave a deep gasp,
and expired.
The CORONER—Have you any padded rooms here
similar to those at the county asylum at Hanwell ? Wit-
ness—Not as yet, Sir.
What was this house formerly ?—A receptacle for
paupers, who were farmed out.
Is it a properly licensed private lunatic asylum ?—Quite
so, Sir.
Mr. Edward Palmer, resident surgeon at the asylum,
said the deceased laboured under violent mania, raving
almost constantly.. Her delusions were various. She
refused food, believing it was poison. He was in attend-
ance upon her when she died. He thought that her
death was caused by the weakened state of her system,
arising from the circumstance of her having no disposi-
tion to take food.

The jury returned a verdict--" That the deceased had
died in consequence of herr abstaining from proper nou-
rishment to sustain life. '

A SCENE.—At the Watlington Petty Sessions, on
Saturday, before Mr. 11. Hammersley, and the Rev. E.
F. Glanville, J:.ne Allen, a wretchedly distressed-look-
ing woman, with an infant at her breast, was charged
with having stolen, on the 25th of November, a small
" one penny," from off a
pile in Thirdswood, the property of Mr. John Page,
faggot of wood, of the value of
chairmaker, of Wheel-end, Stokenchurch. The prose-
cutor produced Alfred Newell, who said he saw Allen
take the faggot at about half-past five o'clock on the
morning of the day in question. The husband of the
defendant, covered with rags, and bespeaking from his
appearance great poverty, declared that no person left
his house that morning till after six o'clock, and his
wife declared that she did not enter the wood till after
six o'clock, and then only to collect some dry boughs to
warm her children. The bench more than once put it
to the prosecutor as to whether he was determined to
press the charge, and he said lie was ; he had lost fag-
gots before. Page said, " The faggots were worth 6s.
per hundred in the wood each. It was an affect-
ing scene. From the prosecutor sternly pressing the
charge, the mother, with the infant in her arms, was
committed to Oxford gaol, to take her trial at the Quarter
vSaelsuseioonfs,ledh.
THE WEATHER.—THE PARKS, &C,--There is stillarged with stealing the said faggot, of the
a suspension of frost, without a thaw of that rapid and
decided character which usually renders the streets of
the metropolis slippery and muddy; they were, however,
for t the
e greater
roads
ipna part
eo t
suburbsyesterday,
wereg me what softened,resaosY, as it is termed,
but the wind was generally through the day
cutting, blowing briskly from the eastward; and a rather
the thick tog generally prevailed, which onkeen and
river was so
dense as to obstruct the chief portion of the traffic. The
temperature at the Royal Humane Society's receiving-
house, in Hyde Park, was thirty-five degrees at eight
o'clock on Wednesday night, but had descended to thirty-
four degrees at seven o'clock yesterday morning. At
noon the mercury had advanced to thirty-eight degrees,
at which point it remained at eight o'clock last night, or
rather it may be said to have risen a shade, and the
wind having moderated considerable mildness succeeded.
The barometer had fallen from 32. 2. to 29. 7., giving
intimation of a fall of rain or snow. Skating in either
the Regent Park or Kensington Gardens is at an end for
the present..
A BURGLAR CAUGHT.—On Tuesdayevening, about
six o'clock, a most daring attempt at burglary was made
at No. 21, Walcot-square, Lambeth, which fortunately
terminated in the capture of the burglar just as he had
effected an entrance into the house. It appeared that a
gentleman residing next door was in the act of entering
his house, when he perceived a man in the doorway of
No. 21. He crossed the road unperceived, and watched
the fellow's actions, when he distinctly saw the latter
open the dour, and just as he was in the act of entering
he ran over and pounced upon him. They had a roost
desperate struggle, in which the fellow beat his captor
in a dreadful manner, but he did not, however, let him
go until the arrival of the police, who secured him, and
conveyed him to the station-house, in Tower-street,
Lambeth.
TIIE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.--The various public
exhibitions throughout the metropolis were yesterday
visited by vast numbers of sight seers, who were en-
deall much gratified by what they saw.
iTtllie' Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, the Mar-
uhirsim
oft Cahsn at Grenville are passing
Lady
Noble Duke has distributed,
Christmas
Stowe.
LTand
under his personal inspection, his annual Christmas
bounty to the numerous labourers on his Grace's estates
,
in Buckinghamshire.

its ears and nose before it was washed. There were no
marks of violence observable about the head. The child

lived about an hour after it was born, but nothing was
done to it till it was washed by the nurse, and the mother
was informed of the death of her first-born. After the
child's face was washed the nurse left, saying the female
was going on very favourably, and did not return again.
The mother died before Mr. Dalton could be sent for a
second time.

Elizabeth Redden was examined at great length, but
the prevaricating manner in which she gave her testi-
mony, and the great reluctance with which she answered
the questions of the Coroner, induced him to order
her to withdraw, and to decline receiving her testimony.
The CORONER observed, that, by her own admission,
it was obvious that both mother and infant had been
treated with great neglect and ignorance. The Coroner
observed, he did not know in what position the verdict
of the jury would place her; it might be one of peril.
Ann Williams, of Birdlip, another midwife, also in
giving her evidence, prevaricated to such a degree that it
called forth the severe censure of the Court. The wit-
ness, however, admitted that she observed a black mark
on the forehead of the child, and blood was escaping
from the nose, mouth, and ears. _ _

The CORONER severely lectured the two midwives
for the tissue of falshoods relative to the child, which,
in tact-, had never been washed at all, and said ho did
not know that he was doing his duty in not having
them punished.
Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, of Cheltenham, stated that
in his opinion, both mother and child had been grossly
neglected by the two midwives and their friends. Had
proper and judicious care and management been taken,
both lives would undoubtedly have been saved. It was
a gross case of neglect.
Mr. Dalton, the surgeon to the union, presented him-
self for examination, but the jury said there was not the
slightest imputation on his conduct, and, his evidence
would be unnecessary.
Mr. Dalton replied, he merely wished to explain that
when he arrived at the house, he was told his assistance
would not be required, that ,the female was going on
wed, and that nature would perform her office—having
seen the patient, he left orders that if she got worse he
should be instantly sent for. Placing the deceased in a
chair was sufficient to cause serious injuries. As medi•
cal officer of the union, he received no order to attend
the woman, but went instantly without one.
The jury, after a lengthened discussion, returned the
following special verdict:—" That they considered the
deceased had not received proper care and attention that
a person in her peculiar state required, but, on the con-
trary, was neglected and injudiciously treated by the
midwife, Elizabeth Redden—that the infant died from
contusion of the brain, but from what precise cause it
arose there is not sufficient evidence to testify. The
jury also beg to express their opinion that the child had
not proper care and attention bestowed upon it, as to
afford it an opportunity of living, and that there was
great neglect .oa the part of the said Elizabeth Redden."
- The above verdict will not warrant a committal for
manslaughter.

FIRE AT A COTTON FACTORY.—Yesterday morn-
ing, about half-past seven o'clock, information was
brought to the police-yard, by a police officer, that the
factory occupied by Messrs. Waterhouse and Co., cotton-
spinners, Temple-street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, was
on fire. Mr. Thomas Rose, with a company of firemen
and an engine were soon on the spot, and three other
engines followed. An engine from the Pollard-street
station, and one belonging to the firm of Messrs. Hoyle
and Sons, whose works are adjacent to Messrs. Water-
house and Co.'s mill, were also very early at the place.
The latter engine, we believe, arrived very shortly after
the fire was discovered, and being in excellent condition,
was of very great service. Mr. Rose, who is yet suffer-
ing from the effects of an injury received from the kick
of a horse about ten days ago, was present soon after
the arrival of the first engine from the police-yard. At
that time the flames were issuing from the windows of
the second and third stories of a building containing
the carding and blowing machinery ; the building is four
stories high, and runs parallel to a larger erection be,
longing to the same firm. Appearances for some time
were very alarming ; but water having been quickly ob-
tained, and branches from the Niagara and Thetis en-
gines got into play, the flames were soon reduced,and in
about an hour completely extinguished. The building,
which belongs to the firm, is of the fire-proof construc-
tion, and has not received any considerable damage. The
principal damage was to the cotton on the premises, a
considerable quantity of which was consumed, and other
portions sustained damage from the water used in extin-
guishing the fire. The amount of loss we have not been
able to ascertain. The building, machinery, stock of cot-
ton, &c., are, we understand, insured in the Phoenix, Im-
perial, Royal Exchange, Atlas, and Aliiance offices. The
fire originated through some hard substance coming in
contact with the teeth of a blowing machine in the lower
story, and thereby causing the cotton to ignite, and the
flames after Wards ascended through the " well-holes" to
the higher stories of the building. The firemen displayed
their usual coolness and intrepidity on the oeoasion, and
the workmen employed in the mill assisted to the utmost
of their power in staying the progress of the conflagra-
tion. No personal injury, we are glad to say, was re-
ceived.—Manchester Guardian.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY FlRE.—YeSterday:MOrn-
ing, soon after three o'clock, a police-constable, named
Ayliffe, No. 270 K, was on his beat in Green Man-lane,
Poplar, when he heard the screams of a woman, and
cries of " Murder, fire," proceed from the house No. 3,
inhabited by a female named Ellen Walsh. He lost no
time in hastening to the spo., and endeavoured to obtain
admission, but was unable to du so until he broke open
the door, when the poor uniortunate creature Walsh fell
into his arms with her garments blazing around her.
Ayliffe, with great presence of mind, threw his great
coat about her person, flung her on the ground, and
rolled her over until he extinguished the flames, She
was burnt in a dreadful manner, and Ayliffe imme-
diately called upon the assistant of Mr. Baillie, the
divis•onal. surgeon. to attend her. After the usual reme..l
dies had been applied, she was removed on a litter to
the London Hospital, and received all the attentions
which the resources of that admirable institution could
afford Her case appeared hopelelis from the first, and
death has since relieved her. The woman was of the
class called " unfortunate," and went home intoxicated
on Christmas night at twelve o'clock, and left a candle
burning on a chair by her bed side, and the light cow-
municated to her clothes after she had laid down, In
extinguishing the fire, the constable's bands were ae.
verely burned.

DEST IT U TlON.—Yesterday morning Mr. Wakley,
M.P., held an inquest on the body of James W. Saun-
ders, who was found dead on a truss of hay in a
miserable room, at 14, Newton-street, Holborn, The
deceased, like most who have no worldly goods, was
recognised by no relative, Ile was missed on Sunday
and Monday. The landlord had the door of his room
forced open on the latter day, when he was found dead
and naked as already described. The room was in a
wretched condition, filthy in the extreme, without food
or the means of obtaining it. A French gentlemen
stepped forward, and said that ho had known the de-
ceased for three years, and that as an operative chemist
ho was unrivalled, and was well known to Professor
Graham, of the University College, to whom he had
been an assistant. This gentleman further stated that
the deceased told him that he h4d hePg disappointed in
love, and had nothing to live for. In the concentration
of acids as poison he was most clever—so much so, that
from common acids he made such powerfUl poisons
that two drops repeatedly killed 4nigi4ls. Mr. Riely
the summoning othoer, having stated that a paper of
tartaric acid was found near his bed, Mr. Wakley ad-
journed the inquest to have the body orned.

The decision by a secret tribunal in such important
matters would, under any circumstances, be a vast evil,
which is greatly increased when the judges are obviously
inexperienced in the matters they are to decide upon.
The opposing parties for competing lines each make
their own statements. No cross-examination takes place
by those acquainted with the facts of the ease; and the
most unscrupulous of the parties are, therefore, most
likely to obtain a judgment in their favour. What care
they if their estimates of cost prove utterly insufficient,
their calculations of traffic enormously exaggerated ?
These defects will not be exposed till they have realised
a large premium on their shares, and whoa they have
left to others the task of bearing the public odium, Not
one in twenty of the owners of the high-sounding names
attached to various of the new schemes knows personally
the truth of any one *lngle fact which has been stated
respecting the schemes with which they are connected,
and they have only at any moment to sell their shares,
pocket the premium, and declare they hare been deceit KI
by false representations of others, in order to exonerate
themselves from the eonsecum os here stated, Th pro-
ceedings of the Board of Trade peculiarly favour such
operatioes ; while the old-established companies, who
bring forward schemes guaranteed on a tangible capital
of their own, and supported on the statements of those
who must be responsible for them, are left without the
possibility of being able to rellite the statemehts of their
opponents, however erroneous they may be, Such ap-
pear to be some of the probable evils that will attend the
decisions of the Board of Trade, made, as these decisions
will be, on most inconoluslve evidence, and by persons
inexperienced in the mattor.—Times.

iaji..+4l

SALE OF GUANO.—Our brethren of the press ought
to be on their guard against being made the medium of
communicating to the public erroneous information ots
the subject of matters of trade, inserted solely with the
view of serving the purposes of interested parties. A.
paragraph is now running the course of the press, to the
effect that when the last-arrived vessels left Ichaboe there
was only about four months' supply of guano left in the.
- - i and that nearly 200 vessels were waiting. We
The Earl and Countess of Powis, Hon, R. H. and need hardly su that this news as en fabricatd
Lady Harriet Clive, Hon. Robert Herbert, and a family solely with theggest view of giving an adventitious value teo
circle, are assembled at Powis Castle, near Welshpool. that manure, which has of late fallen to a price which
The Noble Earl and Hon, 12, H. Clive have each sub- can barely remunerate the shippers, in consequence of
scribed 201. for the relief of the poor of Ludlow. At the immense supply lately arrived or on the way home.
the close of last week the Earl and Countess of Powis, Far from the supply being nearly done, we are assured
Hon. R, 11, Clive, and Lady Harriet Clive, with a party that it will take years to exhaust it, even at the rate at
of friends, repaired to Ludlow, to honour the annual which it has been intromitted with during the presets%
ball by their presence there, The assemblage of the year ; and Ichaboe is but one of a cluster of islands
local and neighbouring nobility and gentry was exceed- loaded with a similar deposit. In the present state ingly numerous, many of whom came purposely to con- the grain markets, farmers have little need to has: of
the
A rattdate the Noble Earl on his recent investiture as a price of manure raised beyond its true value...se poil,
Knight of the Garter. Earl Fowls, who was decorated Courier.
with the insignia of his order, viz., the star and garter, HERTPORD,TRURSDAT.—MoRE INCENIMANY FIRES.
was warmly received by his friends and neighbours. —On Monday night a large stack, containing upwards of
12,0® fagots, the property of Mr. Barnard, maltster,
The ball altogether went off with much eclat.
DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION. •""" CAtrrioN TO situate in a field on the road-side, between the towns of
BURNERS OF CORL—Yesterday an inquest was held at Harlow and Sawbridgeworth, was burnt to the ground.
the Royal Mason Tavern, Mary-street, Poplar, before The loss is estimated at about 250/. The fire was sup-
Air, Tinker, coroner, on view of the body of Edward Lines, posed to be the act of an incendiary. The stack was
aged sixty-eight years, a pensioner, residing in the East red at the windward side. This remark applies to all
India Company's almshouses, Poplar, who came by his the conflagrations that have occurred in this county. On.
death under the following melancholy circumstances:— Wednesday night, the 18th instant, the inmates, of the
William Weller staled that deceased occasionally acted dwelling-house at Lilly Hoo Farm, which has been twice
as shipiseeper on hoard vessels in the docks. On Tuea- the scene of incendiary fires during the last few weeks
day evening last he left home to proceed on board the were alarmed at finding the house gradually filling with
Larpent, then lying in the West India Docks, to take smoke. A search was made, and it was soon discovered
charge of her during the night. O. the following that the apple room was on fire, and the whole premises,
(Christmas) day, not returning home as usual, witness or all that remained after the recent fires, were in a state
went on board the ship to ascertain the cause. Not of great danger, The engine from Ilitehin, which was
finding him on the galley, which he usually occupied, he j instantly sent, arrived with all possible haste, and the
went to the after-cabin. He found the door locked, and fire was soon got under. Superintendent Wakenell, of
upon knocking and receivisgno answer, he broke olsen the the rural police, the next morning instituted an inquiry,
door, when he discovered the deceased lying dead in a and the result was the apprehension of Mary Anne lii.
hammock. In the cabin, which was only seven feet len grave, a servant at the farm-house. She was taken in
by five wide, was a fire-grate, on which was A OAS fire custody of the police before Dr. Bland, a county inagis-
burning. There was no vent for air, deceased having trate, on Thursday, the 19th, and remanded until Monday
placed the curtain across the door to seep out the draft, last, upon which day a very strong case (upon circum-
4herc was no chimney or Jaw %o the grate. In witness's atantial evidence) was made out against her, and she was
opinion deceased had been suffocated by the fumes of' the committed for trial at the Herts Sring Assizes.
charcoal, Air. klanbstrn, a constable in tae West India p
Doeics, said he bad Rolle into the cabin about two hours The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland left Newton!
„ Tuesday, _
to join a large and distinguished
e
after the deceased had been found dead. The fusel! a 1 TA.us T
on
the charcoal were then so strong that it was scarcely pos_ party at Ruby Castle. Previous to her departure her
Grace (according to her annual custom) distributed a
Bible to breath©. If a human being had, even after that
lapse of time, been shot yip inthe cabin, death must have libe.ral supply of beef, clothing, blankets, •coals, and
ineviably ensued. Verdict —e Accidentally
ch ef suflocOid by money, to all the poor inhabitants of the villages of
the (tunes e,r4Q4.
~... . , I Exelhy, teeming, and Newton.
1 - •