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GREAT LEAGUE MEETING,
THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.

COMPLETE SUFFRAGE.—METROPOLI-
TAN DEMONSTRATION.
A PUBLIC MEETING and SOIREE will be held in the
Large Room' of the CROWN and ANCHOR, Strand, on
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31, 1844.
W. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, Esq., will preside.
Several Members of Parliament, and other influential gen-
tlemen, are expected to attend.
Tickets, for the Tea and Soiree, 2s. each; for the Soiree
only, 6d. each, may bo had of the Secretary, Mr. Elt, 18,
High-strect, Islington, and at the bar of the Tavern.

PUBLICATIONS.

brought up blood; he continued, however, to work until
about five o'clock, when he went home, and I went up to Yar-
ford. When I went home my father was ill in bed. On
that morning we had some fried potatoes for breakfast.
I remember being at a public-house called the Prudent
Widow one night with my sisters ; it was shortly before my
father's death. There was dancing there. My father came
after us, and ordered es home, but my sisters did not go
home. I went home and went to bed, and then my father
went up to fetch my sisters, but he came home again with-
out them. He was angry when he went for them. I know
a person of the name 01 James Bond. I saw him come to our
house once before my father's death, but he came very often
after his death. I did not hear my father say that he should
net come. A man named Craddick also came once before my
father's death. After my father was dead Bond used to sleep
at our house sometimes; he slept in the same bed with my sister
Mary. My sister Faith went to service after my father's death.
I have seen him in bed with my sister Mary.
John Sealey, another son, gave similar testimony.
Sarah Sealey, an interesting little girl, nine years of age,
said, I lived at home when my father died. About a month be-
fore my father's death I heard my sister Faith say to Mary that
th:y should do better without father than with him, and Mary
replied, " Yes, we should." Faith said she should then be
able to stay at home dress-making. I told them that I
would tell father what they said, and they said they would
beat me if I did. I never told father, because I was afraid
they would beat m's if I did. I heard them talk thus
more than once. I remember the day that father was taken
ill. It was on the Thursday. I came home frem school
about fire o'clock in the evening, and father was laying his
head upon the table, and I said, "Mary, what, is father bad ?"
and she said, " Yes." He then went to bed, and Mary at-
tended on him. He was sick before he went to bed. I think
Illary sat up with him that night. Mary made him gruel. I
know it because I went up to Mary Fudge's for some sugar.
On one of the days that my father was ill my sister Faith
and Anne Fudge went into Taunton. I think it was on the
Friday. They went at dinner time and came back in the
evening. I did not see whether she brought anything home
with her. While father was ill he had gruel and broth,
which Mary made for him. Faith also made some for him
once. I saw my sister taste the gruel to see if it was too hot.
This witness also deposed to having seen the man Bond in bed
with her sisters. After they made the gruel they always
washed out the saucepan and threw the water away.
William Bolt deposed, that he is clerk of a club held at the
King's Arms, Taunton ; the deceased was a member. On
his death his nearest relative was entitled by the rules to
receive til. as funeral money ; that sum was paid to the pri-
soner Mary Sealey. Witness gave her a note to enable her
to receive it. Considers the eldest child as the nearest rela-
tive. The son James, who lives as groom with Mr. Esdaile,
is the eldest child, and yet the money was paid to Mary, be-
cause she lived at home with her father, and it was intended for
the burying of the dead.
It being now seven o'clock the Court adjourned till this day.
TAUNTON, SATURDAY.
Yesterday morning the inquest on the body of William
Sealey was resumed. The two prisoners, Mary Sealey and
Faith Sealey, being present.
The CORONER intimated that during the examination of the
two or three next witnesses, the room must be cleared. The
reporters were, however, permitted to remain, on their pro-
mising only to publish the substance of the evidence.
Jane Woodlands deposed to having been confined a prisoner
in Wilton gaol, on a charge of felony, of which she was ac-
quitted. Witness remembered when the prisoner Mary Seeley
was brought into the gaol, charged with the murder of her
aunt ; and one day, when witness and Mary Sealey were walk-
ing in the yard, she said to her, "Jane, I have something to
say to you." Mary Sealey then said, she did not mind the
charge upon which she was then confined, provided they did
not take up the body of her father. Witness said, " Why ?"
and the prisoner replied, " Because he was poisoned." Wit-
ness said, " With what ?" and the prisoner replied, " With
arsenic, bought at Mr. Joyce's;" and, on being asked by wit-
ness who did it, she said," Not me only, but my sister likewise."
Harris Moreland deposed--I am a servant at the Half-
Moon public-house in Taunton. I raw the prisoner, Faith
Sealey, in Mr. Green's yard some months since, :and after-
wards in the tap-room with a fellow-servant, Ann Richards.
Richards sid to me that Sealey wanted to get some arsenic, and
asked me to go with the prisoner. I went with her to Mr.
Beadon's, a druggist, next door. He refused to sell any.
I after wards saw the prisoner with Anne Richards, and she said
she had got it at Mr. Joyce's, and that he told her it was
enough to poison 1,000 men. She showed me the packet.
Mr. Joyce, druggist, and his assistant were called, but
could not recollect selling arsenic to either of the prisoners.
The assistant, a young boy, stated, that if any two persons
came together to purchase arsenic, he should sell it them, but
he always labelled it " poison."
Anne Fudge said-1 remember the illness of the deceased
William Sealey. He was taken ill on a Thursday. I was at
his house when he came home about five o'clock. He
said he had a very bad pain, and asked for a cup of tea.
Mary and Faith Sealey were at home. They had finished
drinking tea. Mary Sealey then poured out some tea from the
teapot they had been drinking out of, and asked
him if he would have some sugar? He said " Yes." She
did not give him any from the table, but went to a drawer, and
brought a basin in which was some whitey-brown paper. I
did not see if any sugar was put into the cup. After the basin
was carried back to the drawer, the cup was handed to him, and
when he drank, 1 saw them look and laugh. The bightWil..
liars Sealey was ill and took the tea be did not eat anything,
but I heard him sick as soon as he went up stairs.
John 13arford sworn.—l am a police officer. About the
middle of December I had a conversation with the prisoner
Faith Sealey. I asked her if she had ever gone with another
person to Mr. Beadon's to try to purchase some arsenic? She
hesitated for a time, and then replied, " Not as I know of."
I then said, did you ever afterwards go to Mr. Joyce's, where
you did get it, and she replied, " No, I did not."
W. Brown sworn.-1 am a police-officer. lam going to
state a conversation that occurred to-day. I had the prisoner,
Faith Sealey in my custody during a temporary adjournment
of this Court. I was alone with her in a room up stairs. She
said, "My father was very fond of salt-fish, and my sister
sent me to Taunton for some arsenic ene day for the purpose
of killing some of the rats that were at home about the
house. My sister had bought several pennyworths
before, and told me, if I could not get it without a second per-
son, I must have one, but that she used to pick up some per-
son in the street." I cautioned her, and she replied, " Oh, it
is no difference, for there is only you and me here." I asked
her if she had seen the Governor of the gaol to-day? She re-
plied, " Yes, this morning." I said, did he say anything to
you ? She said, " Yes ; he asked me if I was going to men-
tion what I talked to him about yesterday, and I said yes I
shall ; I think it is my place to do so. The Governor said, ' I
should if I was in your place, if I was not minded to be
punished for what other people had done.' " Then the pri-
soner said, " I had a pennyworth of arsenic, and I carried it
home and gave it to my sister, and on Friday my father had
some salt fish for dinner, which he was very fond of; it was
cooked before he came home. My sister took it up on the
plate, and took out the melt, and I saw her shake some of the
arsenic on it, and put it in the fish again. My father came
home to dinner and ate the fish, and shortly afterwards he was
taken ill, and he became I% orse and worse, until he died."
She said she afterwards saw Mary making him some gruel, and
she had the packet of arsenic in her hand. She said, 1 did
welling in it irom first to last. She said she should state it to
the jury herself when she was examined.
By the prisoner Faith—Was it not Thursday I said my father
was taken ill ?

:c next WEEKLY MEETING of the NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-
I AW LEAGUE will be held in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden,
on MURSDAT EVENING NEXT, February 1.
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair precluely at Seven
o'clock.

T w °

SUPPLEMENTS
WILL BE PRESENTED

I S,

Cards of admission to the stage and boxes may be had on appliea•
tion, after Monday next, at the Central Offices of the League, No. 67
Fleet-street.

WITH TIIE
WE EK TA Y DISPATCH,

The Cards of Registered Members of the League will, as heretofore,
admit to the Pit and Galleries of the Theatre.

AT TILE CONCLUSION OF THE
DUBLIN TRIAL,

4,1 TANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COM-
►, PANY.
(Constituted by Act of Parliament), 32, LOMBARD- STREET.
The extensive business conducted by this Company places it among
the first institutions in the kingdom for the Assurance. of Lives.
The assurances proposed to the Company during the year
just concluded, amounted to . • • . £418,000
Of which the Directors thought it their duty to reject . 70,000

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
MENTS.
SECOND NIGHT.
MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-
SQUARE.

THE EMANCIPATION OF INDUSTRY.

This Day are Publistied,---- v ~ ---
TRACTS ON THE EMANCIPATION OF
INDUSTRY.
NO. I.—l. PROPOSITIONS CONCERNING the CAUSE and
REMEDY of the PRESENT DISTRESS.-9.. PRINCIPLES
of a SOCIETY for the EMANCIPATION of INDUSTRY.-
3. REMARKS on Sir ROBERT PEEL'S LETTER to the
CHAMBER of COMMERCE, BIRMINGHAM. Price One
Penny, or ss. per 100.
NO. 11. —The CASE of the INDUSTRIOUS CL ASSES BRIEFLY
STATED. Price One Penny, or ss. per 100.
NOS. 111. and IV.—NOT OVER-PRODUCTION, but IMPER-
FECT DISTRIBUTION, the CAUSE of the DISTRESS.
No. 111., Price One Penny, or ss. per 100; No. IV., Price Two-
pence, or 10s. per 100.
" Something is wrong in the channel of distribution."—Morn-
ing Post. Also,
THE MINISTER MISTAKEN ; or, THE
QUESTION of DEPRECIATION ERRONEOUSLY
STATED by Mr. HUSKISSON. Price One Shilling.
" Our forefathers, who sought comfort in proverbs, used to say,
when the people's tale of bricksi s doubled, Moses is at hand."—
Niebuhr.

,THIS EVENING, January 29, at Eight o'Clock,
Mr. Wilson will give his Entertainment entitled
MARY QUEEN OF SCi)TS, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE

Policies issued to the extent of . . . . . 348000
Being upwards of one-third of a million, and adding nearly 11,000.
per annum to the Company's revenue.
There are various inducements to assurers in this Company, arising
from the security which the Company affords—its equitable rates
and its characteristic principle of liberality, whether in the settle-
ment of claims or facilities to assurers. A distinguishing feature is
also to be found in the division of profits, by which it will be observed
it confers peculiar advantages upon its policy holders, allowing them
in the fullest degree the benefit of survivorship. Policies from this
.Company steadily continued thus increase very rapidly, holding out
great inducement to the best class of lives to give it a preference.
A policy opened in 1825 for 1,000/. has been increased
in 1840 to . . . . . ..... £1,337 10

SONGS.
Pianoforte, Mr. LAND.

FART 1. —Death-bed Lament of King James—The Queen's
Marriage—Mary's farewell to France—Carle, non the Queen's
come—Gar a' your_ramhorn trumpets tout—An old Highlander's
welcome—The last Lay of Chatelard—The Queen's bonny
Medea.

PART ll.—Up, Scotland, up ! and wake the morn—Mary's
Lament in Lochleven—Earl of Argyle's Address to the Queen's
Army—Tammie and Nannie—Dirge for Mary, Oh, weep,
weep, ye streams.
Front Seats, 2s. 6d. ; Back Seats, 2s. ; Private Boxes for Six,

A policy opened in 1826 for 1,000/. has been increased in
1840 to . . . ...... . 1,287 10

Later policies in proportion. Another division takes place next
year, and parties now assuring will participate.
Any other information to be obtained at the Company's Office it
London, 32, Lombard-street ; or at the head office in Edinburgh.
By order of the Board of Directors.
32, Lombard-street. PETER EWART, Resident Sec.

,
15s. ; for Eight, I/.
Programmes and Tickets may be had at the music shops,
and at the Music-hall.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

TOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.

No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
I
J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R S. George Lungley, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Rawson, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
Clement abor, Esq.

A UDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R.S.—Professor Graves, A.M.F.R. S.
ACTUARY— W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq. , F. R. A. S.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.

The Bonus just declared at the Meeting of Proprietors
varies from 97 to 36 per cent. en Premiums paid, 176 per
cent. in present Cash, or 10 per ceut. permanent reduction of
future Premiums.

M
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EXAMPLES.

M
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04z •
891150 1,000
114, 56 9,000

11
s. d. .£ 8. d.
67 8 4 132 14 6
175 15 0 1296 9 7

X s. d. X s. d.
58 19 9 819 4
123 0 6 16 9 7

N. B. Profits annually divided

Moderate Premiums—Power to assured to borrow two-third
of Payments. Prospectuses to be had at the Office, oe will be
forwarded (post-free) on application.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

NORTH BRITISH INSURANCE
COMPANY,

Established 1809.
Protecting Capital 1,000,0001., fully subscribed.
His Grace the Duke of SUTHERLAND, President.
Sir PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman of the London

Board.
EXTRACT FROM TABLE OF INCREASING PREMIUMS TO
INSURE 1001. FOR LIFE.

First I Second Third 1 Fourth Fifth 1 Remainder
Ages. Year. _I Year. (_Year. I Year. Year. of Life.

Tab'
sident,
respom
M. 11(
Pall•m

s. d. £s. d.l£ s. d.* s. d. s. d.
018 20 19 21 0 31 1 51 2 8
1 3 9,1 5 21 6 8,1 8 4 1 10 0
1 11 10;1 13 9,1 15 101 18 12 0 6
2 4 92 7 11'2 11 2,2 14 10 2 18 8

£s. d.
1 18 2
2 10 5
3 8 3
4 17 7

Iles of Premiums at all ages, with the names of the Pre-
, Vice-Presidents, Directors, and Managers, who are all
isible PARTNERS, may be obtained of Messrs. B. and
,oyd, 4, New Bank-buildings; or of the Actuary, 10,
salt East.

JOHN KING, Actuary.

NASSAU STATE LOAN of 2,600,000 Florins.
To be re-imbursed with Dividends of 50,000115., 40,000f15.,
30,000f15., 25,000f15., &c.
Grand Public Distribution on Ist FEBRUARY NEXT, at
WIESBADEN. Official bulletins thereof immediately for-
warded to every Shareholder abroad.
Price of the Shares, 10s. ; Eleven for 51. ; Twenty-three
for M. ; and Forty-eight for 20/. sterling, payable by Pest-
office orders or remittances.

Apply for full particulars, without delay, to A. JACOBS
and CO., bankers, Frankfort-on-Maine.
To save pestages, all letters addressed to Messrs. Jacobs and
Co., 34, Wellelose-square, London, will be promptly for-
warded.

LLANELLY NEW DOCK, CARMARTHEN-
SHIRE.—Notice is hereby given that certain RE-
PAIRS being necessary to the GATES of this DOCK,
VESSELS CANNOT LOAD AFLOAT from the 3d day
of March next, to the 25th day of the same Month ; from and
after which the Dock will receive Vessels to Load according to
the existing regulations. 9, Old Jewry Chambers, London,
this 27th day of January, 1844. By Order,
JOHN BIGG, Secretary.

TO ENGINE-MAKERS, CONTRACTORS,
&c.—An opportunity now offers for any person of
Capital and Enterprise, to establish himself at LLANELLY,
CARMARTHEN SHIRE, where the rapidly increasing trade
down the line of Railway, and at the Dock, requires the use of
corresponding locomotive powers, waggons, &c.
The LLANELLY RAILWAY and DOCK COMPANY
will be ready to NEGOTIATE for the TRANSFER of their
LOCOMOTIVES and COAL WAGGONS, to an approved
party, with a view to the repairs and haulage of the Traffic.
Any person desirous of availing himself of this advantageous
opportunity, may learn further particulars by applying at the
Office of the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, 9, Old
Jury-chambers, London. By order,
Jan. :16th, 1844. JOHN BIGG, Secretary.
HALL OF (
AND GENERAL SU

LONJ
BOARD OF sun]
Sir GEORGE LARPI

JOHN CATTLEY,
William Burnie, Esq.

OMMERCE
'BSCRIPTION ROOMS,

)ON.
RINTENDYNCI.
.NT, Bart., Chairman.

;sq., Deputy. Chairman.
IJamesattison, Esq.

James Cook, Esq.
Robert Cottesworth, Esq.
Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P.
Abel Lewes Gower, Esq.
Samuel Gurney, Esq.
Thomson Mulkey, jun., Esq.
Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq.
John Irving, Esq., M.P.
Henry Kingscote, Esq.
James Matheson, Esq., M.P.

Sir John Pirie, Bart.
John D. Pelvic!, Esq.
Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Baron L. de Rothschild.
David Salomons, Esq.
John James Siordet, Esq
Martin Tucker Smith, Esq.
Wm. Thompson, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Weeding Esq.
Geo. Frederick Young, Esq.

The HALL of COMMERCE has been erected to provide
a central point of meeting in the Commercial World for the
Merchants, Bankers, Ship-owners, Manufacturers of the
Jnited Kingdom, Captains of vessels, Foreigners engaged in
commercial or other pursuits, and the Public in general.
The READING-ROOM adjoining is provided with all the
.eading Foreign ...nd British newspapers, and general commer-
cial intelligence from all parts of the world, maps, charts, Rine-
-aries, directories, steam-boat and railroad information, list of
ships sailipg to all parts of the world, prices current, documents
and books of referenee on commercial subjects.

There are also Rooms fur PRIVATE BUSINESS and
FIRE-PROOF VAULTS and SAFES far the deposit of
valuables.

In addition to the above conveniences, the Subscribers will
bave the use of an EXCELLENT LIBRARY on COMMER-
CIAL SUBJECTS.
The Establishment will be conducted by the Proprietor, un-
der the superintendence of a Board of Subscribers.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PER ANNUM.
Persons residing in London, or within 12 miles... I/. I Is. 6d.
Persons residing at a greater distance

London, September 1, 1843.
7he BOARD of SUPERINTENDENCE of the " HALL
of COMMERCE" take leave to draw your attention to this
Institution.
It has been built and established at a very great cost, by a
single individual, for the convenience of the Commercial Com-
munity of the City of London, with a degree of public spirit
worthy the metropolis of the world.
The subscription is now placed on so moderate a scale as to
he no object of consideration, in proportion to the conveniences
offered, which are set forth in the above Prospectus ; and the
Board are of opinion, that without interfering with any of the
existing establishments appropriated to specific branches of
trade, these conveniences may be found available by a very large
body of persons in the City of London—by parties visiting
London occasionally on mercantile affairs—and by gentlemen
from the Continent and other foreign ports.
GEORGE LARPENT, Chairman.

JOHN CATTLEY, Deputy Chairman.
N.B. A Coffee-room is now open for the accommodation o
the Subscribers.

RELIEF ;FORi INFANTS IN CUTTING THE!R TEETH.
MRS. JOHN SON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING
SYRUP. This cfficacius Remedy has been in general use
for upwards of Thirty Years, and has preserved numerous Children
%hen suffering from Convulsions arising from painful Dentition. As
soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the Gums, the Child will be relieved,
the Gums cooled, and the inflammation reduced. It is as innocent as
cfficacious, tending to produce the Teeth with case ; and so pleasant,
that no Child will refuse to let its Gums be rubbed with it. Parents
should he very particular to ask for JOHNSON'S AMERICAN
SOOTHING SYRUP, and to notice that the names of Barclay and
Sons, 95, Farringdon-street, London (to whom Mrs. Johnson has sold
the recipe), are on the Stamp affixed to ach Bottle. Price 2s. 9d. per
Bottle.

DREDGE'S HEAL -ALL, or celebrated' Em-
brocation, has long been known throughout the West of
England, as the most efficacious Remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago,
Pains in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affections,
Face.ache, Sprains and Bruises, Burns and Scalds, Spasms and Cramp,
Stiffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs' Chilblains before they
are broken. It is likewise an infallible cure for that dangerous dis-
order the Quinsey or Sore TI roat, in which it was never known to
fail after a few hours' application.
Observe—That none can be Genuine unless the Stamp affixed to
each bottle contains the name and address of Barclay and Sons, No.
95, Farringdon-street. who have purchased the Property in this valu-
able article from the Executors of the Inventor, William Dredge, late
of Wishford, Wilts. Retail price, Is. I%cl. and 2s. 9d. per bottle
and sold retail, by all respectable Medicine Vanden in Town and
Country.

Mr. Wilson will give his Entertainments every Monday
Evening, and in the course of the season will produce those he
has had some time in preparation, entitled—JACOßlTE RE-
LICS WANDERING WILLIE'S WALLET—THE
JAMESES OF SCOTLAND—THE WALLACE AND
THE BR UCE—A HAIVER Wl' JAMIE HOGG, &c., &c.

THE MONETARY POLICY of ENGLAND
and AMERICA. Price One Shilling.
" It is necessary your gold should be coined, and have the King's
stamp upon i ,to secure men in receiving it, that there is so much
gold In each piece. But it is not necessary that it should have a
fixed value set on It by public authority."---Locke.
THE NATION in a DILEMMA ; or WHICH
SHALL WE ALTER ? THE CURRENCY OR THE
MODE OF TAXATION ? By the Author of " The Currency
Question in a Nutshell." Price Fourpence.

NO TRUST NO TRADE.—THE CAUSE of
NATIONAL DISTRESS POINTED OUT, and a
PROMPT and EFFECTUAL REMEDY SUGGESTED. Price
Twopence.

CRENCY EXPLAINED;
in Refutation of the Last Fallacy of the " Times," Nov.
8, 1843. By VERUS. Price One Shilling.
London Samuel Clarke, 13, Pall-Mall East, and to be had (by
order) of any Bookseller in town or country.

This Day, in 2 Vols., Bvo., embellished with Characteristic Illustra-
tions and Portraits, price One Guinea, originally published at 28s.
THE VICTORIES of the BRITISH. ARMIES.
By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq.
Author of " The Life of the Duke of Wellington," " Stories of
Waterloo," " The Bivouac," 8:c.
" This narrative. is rapid, striking, and picturesque. Mr. Max-
well's own experience has acquainted him with the details of the
otimp, the march, and the battle, as well as.with the imagery of war,
and with the feelings of the soldier in the various exciting situations
into which he is constantly thrown."—Spectator.

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street
(Puldislier in Ordinary to her Majesty.)

URINARY OBSTRUCTIONS.
Just published, the Second Edition, price 7s. 6d., Bvo. in cloth,
ON the PATHOLOGY and CURE of STRIC-
TURES of the URETHRA ; illustrating the Origin,
Progress, and History of this Disease in all its phases, and the
MODE of TREATMENT successfully adopted in numerous
cases ' • embracing every variety of Morbid Contraction to
which the Urethra is liable, and forming a complete Practical
Manual and Guide to the appropriate Treatment and Cure of
every species of Urethral stricture. The whole followed by
some observations en the Chronic Enlargement of the Pros-
trate Gland in old Men, and its Treatment. ;
By F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of

Surgeons in London.
Published and sold by 11. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street,
London ; 11PLachlan, Stewart, and Co., Edinburgh ; W.
Strong, Bristol ; Hodges and Smith, and Fannin and Co.,
Dublin ; Simms and Denham, Manchester ; W. Grasset, Li-
verpool; and sold by all Booksellers.

LA'MERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND
ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
Just published, the Seventh Edition, a sealed envelope,
price 2s. 6d., or sent free by r- tfor 3s. 6d.,
SELF-PRESERVATION : Popular Essay on
the Concealed Causes of Nervous Dtbility, Local and
General Weakness, Indigestion, Lowness of Spirits, Mental
Irritability, and Insanity ; with Practical Observations on their
Treatment and Cure.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London, Matriculated Mem-
ber of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of
the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothe-
caries' Hall, London, &c.
" The various positions of lover, husband, and parent, the
inherent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and pre-
vented through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions.
To such, among others, this essay addresses itself ; and by its
perusal many questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that ad-
mit of no appeal even to the most confidential friend."—Stafford
Gazette.
The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its
title, and we cordially recommend the author and his book to
all who are suffering from nervous debility and general weak-
ness.' —Wakefield Journal.
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EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF
PARRICIDE.
TAUNTON, JAN. 26.—1 n consequence of a variety of in-
formation furnished to the Magistrates here respecting the
death of a man named William Sealey, which appeared to im-
plicate the two daughters of the deceased in having poisoned
him, the body was exhumed on Thursday last, after ha'ring
been buried since April, 1843, and an inquest upon it was com-
menced before Mr. 11. P. Caines, one of the Coroners for the
county of Somerset. The deceased, between 40 and 50 years
of age, was taken ill on the 21st of April last. His general
health was not good, but he was co mpetent to do the work of
a husbandry labourer, and resided with his two daughters,
Mary and Faith Sealey, besides some younger branches of the
family. He was a man of good charcter, and attended the
Independent Chapel at Kingston. Upon being taken ill,
Mr. Mortimer, surgeon, of Kingston, was called in,
and found him labouring, as he supposed, under in-
flammation of the bowels, for which he treated him;
he, however, rapidly grew worse, and in forty-eight hours
he died. On the murder of ass old woman, Betty Sealey, aunt
to these young women, and the committal of Mary Sealey for
that offence, the circumstances attending the death of her
father were brought to remembrance, and suspicion arose that
death had also been brought about by unfair means. Faith
Sealey, the other daughter, was also taken into custody. The
body having been exhumed, and a post modem examination
ordered, the inquest was adjourned until yesterday at ten
o'clock, at which hour it was held, and continued sitting until
seven in the evening.
The prisoners are two young women. Mary Sealey, who is
about 22 years of age, was very decently attired in half-mourn.
ing, and appeared very much agitated. Faith Sealey, the
younger prisoner, is about is years of age, and of a rather pre-
possessing appearance. She did nut appear so much agitated as
her sister.
William Weston, carpenter, identified the body exhumed,
which he had buried. When the body was exhumed it was
removed into the belfry, the keys of which were delivered
to John Burford, a policeman. The expenses of the funeral
were '2l. Is. 6d., which were paid by the prisoner Mary Sealey.
John Burford deposed to having, on the 18th instant,
taken possession of the keys of the belfry in which the body
was, and had kept possession of them ever,sinee. Witness saw
Mr. Welch, surgeon, accompanied by other medical gentlemen,
make a pest modem examination of the body.
Francis Webb sworn—Am a surgeon residing at Taunton.t..
Knew the deceased many years. He has frequently been a
flirted w ith inflammation of the bowels, which was quite amen-
ablecc
to medical treatment. The family were paupers. 111
net see the deceased in his last illness. I saw the body when
it was exhumed. I opened and took out the whole of the con-
tents of the chest and abdomen, except the bladder. I placed
them in a jar, and tied (hens down, and sealed them in three
places, so that they could not be opened without breaking the
seals. I conveyed them to Bristol on Monday, and delivered
them to Mr. lierapath, the analytical chemist, now present.
We opened them together. The result of the experiments
showed the stomach to contain arsenic. Mr. Ilerapath's expe-
riments fully satisfied me of that.
Mr. William Herepath, analytical chemist of Bristol, de-
posed—On Monday last, the '22d instant, the last witness
brought me a jar containlng the viscera of a human being ;
there were ligatures round the (esophagus and duodenum—
those are the ducts leading into and out of the stomach. Mr.
Welch dissected out part of the esophagus, the entire stomach,
duodenum, and jejunum. We opened them, the stomach in
one or two parts was as highly inflamed as I ever saw a sto-
mach after poison, and so were the surfaces of the two intes-
' tines before mentioned. The interior was covered with a
yellow pasty matter, upon removing which there were several
large spots having a similar appearance to what I have seen in
bodies that have been long honied after taking arsenic. There
were yellow patches, more or less circular, penetrating the tex-
ture of the stomach, and appearing on the outside of a fine
bright yellow colour. ( This gentleman then more
minutely described the appearances which denoted,
in this body, the presence of arsenic.) The
conclusion I arrive at from these experiments and the
state of the animal matter is, that a large quantity of soluble
salt of arsenic must have been taken into the stomach of the
deceased, which, being decomposed by the sulphuretted hydro-
gen given off during putrefaction, had produced orpiment or
yellow arsenic, as found ; and that such arsenical matter, from
the state of the stomach and intestines, had been the cause of
death. Judging from the quantity found in the stomach I
should say that at least a drachm had been given, and there
may have been much more, as I cannot tell how much may have
passed off.
Mr. Mortimer, surgeon, deposed to the fact of his attendance
on the deceased in his last illness. Ile was taken ill on the
Thursday, and chest on the Sunday morning. I will under-
take to swear that no medicine which I furnished him with
contained arsenic. I saw no one in attendance on him but his
daughter.
Thomas Sealey, son of the deceased, twelve years of age,
deposed as follows :—I remember my father being taken ill on
a Thursday. lie was working at Pickney, near our house, and
I was with him. We went home together to dinner about one
o'clock. The prisoners, my two sisters, were then living at home,
but I cannot recollect whether limy were at home when we went
home to dinner. They generally got the dinner. We had sonic
potatoes for dinner that day, but I can't remember if we had
any meat. We had no fried potatoes or broth that day. We
had some cider to drink, which we carried home from the field
in the firkin, out of which we both drank. After dinner we
went out to set the drags in the field. Mart Tucker was in the
field. We then went up towards Yarf. rd with the drags. My
father was pretty well before dinner, but when we were
in the field at Pickney my father was taken ill ; he was
taken sick and cast his stomach once or twice, and lie

Witness—lt might have been.
Keziah Green—l live at Mr. Clarke's. The prisoner Faith
was lately in his service. I heard her say, if her father was
poisoned it was her sister Mary that did it. When her sister
was took up first she began to talk about her father, and said,
that Mary made her father some gruel, and he asked what was
that white stuff upon the top of it, and Mary said that it was
nothing but white sauce ; that her father took it, and fell
sick after he took it, and then she said her father said, " It
was something else to make me sick : it is not the gruel
only. I shall make some myself when some more is made,
and then I shall see whether I shall feel the same as I did
when I took that which Mary made." On the Friday morn-
ing he made mme himself, and took it, and did not feel a
bit like the same. Then she said if her father was poisoned,
it was her sister Mary that did it. She said it was on
a Thursday that Nary made the gruel, and on Friday that
her father made some himself.
This being the whole of the evidence, the court was or-
dered to be cleared, and the prisoner Faith Sealey having
been duly cautioned, was asked if she had any statement to
make.

The prisoner Faith Staley then made the following most im-
portant statement:—" I have to say that my sister Mary
asked me, on the Monday night in the same week my father
was taken ill, if I had made up my mind about going to Taun-
ton on the Tuesday. I told her 1 had. She said she wanted
me to buy something for her. She said she would not tell
me what until I was going away. When 1 was going away,
which was on the Tuesday morning, she asked me if I would
bring her a pennyworth of arsenic. I asked her where I could
get it. She said at Mr. Joyce's, where bile had got it several
times before. She said, You mind, you must have some one
to go with you.' I said, ' Who can I get ? I don't know any
one in the town but Mr. Green's servant.' She asked me
who she was, and I said, Ann Richards, that lived at Mr.

Wooleott's, at Bishop's Lydyard.' She said, ' Why don't you
ask her to go with you ?' 1 said, I won't promise you whe-
ther I shall buy it not.' She said, Why can't, you get it as well
as I could ?' I said, ' If it is strong poison, they won't let me have
it without I carry an order.' Then she said, 'lf they ask you
what it is for, it is to poison rats.' I said, Rats, I don't hear any
rats here about the house.' She replied, No, if there was a
waggon and horses went through the bedroom you would not
hear it.' Then I went away to Taunton, 1 went into the
Half Moon, saw Anne Richards, and asked her if she would go
into the next shop with me. She could not. Her fellow-servant
came in, and Tasked her to go with me, and she said she would.
When I asked Mr. Beadon, he said he would not let me have it
without I had a note or a proper witness from the house, or a
person he knew. Then, atter that, he asked me what it was
for. I told him it was not for myself, but for some one I knew
that I was to bring it for. He said he would not let me have
it, and I went therefrom up to Mr. Joyce's, and his little boy
was serving in the shop, and there was nu one else in. Then I
wanted ever so many little things else, and I had them first, and
then I asked for it; and he asked me what it was for, and 1 told
him it was to poison rats, as the person told me. I said it was
not fur myself ; then he let me have it. I paid him for it and
came away. When I got home I gave it to my sister, and she put
it in her pocket, and I saw no more of it till Thursday at dinner
time. My father was very fond of salt fish, and generally had
one for his breakfast and dinner, with the melt if he could get it.
my sister dressed it. I was up stairs cleaning the room. When
I came down I saw my sister with the melt of the fish out of
the plate. She had got that same parcel that I took from
Taunton, shaking some of it in the middle of the melt of the
fish. I went out of doors. I did not say anything to her. My
father came into dinner a few minutes atterwards,andmy sister
placed it for him on the table. lie took out the melt, and ate
it. Ile said it did not taste as a good many that he had eaten
before. After he had been to dinner, he sat down and had a
pipe of tobacco, and then went out to work. He made no
complaint until he came home in the evening. He came in
and sat down, and rested his elbow on the table, and asked my
sister for a cup of tea. She gave it to him. I went up stairs
then. He drank his tea and he went to bed. We stopped up
with him until between 10 and 11 o'clock. My sister asked him
whether he would take anyth'ng before we went to bed. He
asked her whether she, had got any grits or arrow-root. She
said she had some of each. He said he would have a little drop

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iof arrow-root. She made him a little drop of arrow-root, and
he ate it, and he seemed better after that for about an hour.
We both went to bed then. We were in bed about half an
hour before he was taken worse. Then he was taken very
sick. My sister asked if he would have a light struck, and he
said he would not. We left him all the night, and he did not
say anything till the next morning about six o'clock, when my
sister got up and got him a cup of tea, and he asked her to go
down to Mr. Mortimer's, at Bishop's Lydyard, for him, and she
went. Mr. Mortimer came up and saw him, and he told my
sister she was to come home with him, and he would put up
some stuff for him when he got back. Charlotte Hayes's mo-
ther was going down to Bishop's Lydyard, and to save my sister
the journey, she said she would bring it. She brought it home,
and father still continued worse after that, and on Saturday
morning she went to Mr. Mortimer's again, and he let her
have some powders, and a bottle of something else. She was
to have a glass to give it in, and to put one of those powders in
the glass, and some of that in the bottle to it, and father was
to drink it while it was boiling up. After he took that, my
sister took three of the powders and went down stairs. She
was down there about five minutes. Father asked me the
reason she did not come up stairs and sit down sewing with
me, and told me to go down and see what she was about.
I pulled off my shoes and went down. When I came down she
was back by the dresser, with these three powders, They
were open, and she bad the parcel I brought from Mr. Joyce a
by the side of them. She had a spoon in her hand mixing
them. I asked her what she was about, and she said she
should be up directly. I told her her father felt quite angry
that she was not up there, and said he did'nt -think she had
anything to do down stairs. She came up stairs with the
three powders, and put them down a little way from the
others, and when he came to take them again the other did
not boil at all, and after he took that one he felt a great deal
worse, and so he was after the next again. Between five and •
six o'clock he took another, and that one was about three parts
as large again as either of the others. Father said he could
compare that one to nothing but flour and water ; that was the
last he took of them, and that made him so ill he would not
take any more. He still continued worse and worse, until he
died. He did not take anythinff else after that last medicine
but three or four cups of tea. That is all I know about it.",
Mary Sealey declined making any statement.
The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and at four
o'clock this morning (Saturday), the jury returned a verdict of
Wilful murder" against both the prisoners, Mary Sealey and
Faith Sealey.

FRANCE..
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—Sirrma OF FRIDAY.
The Chamber resumed the adjourned debate on the ad•
dress. The following paragraph was adopted without any
discussion :

" A young Princess, sister of the Emperor of Brazil and of
the Queen of Portugal, has taken a place in the midst of
vour family, and we share in the satisfaction felt by your
Majesty in a marriage which assures the happiness of one of
your sons, and adds to the consolations • that God has re- '
served to you."
The next paragraph was then read by the President : .
" We are pleased to hope, Sire, that our rule in Algeria
will soon be general and tranquil, and that, thanks to our
perseverance, we are near the attainment of our object, and
on the point of finding, in the accomplishment of our work
and in the diminution of our sacrifices, the price of our efforts.
We unite with your Majesty in thanking, in the name of the
country, the chiefs and the soldiers of that brave army, who
are never weary either of the fatigues of war or of the labours
of peace. Among the chiefs of that army we are proud to
number one of your sons, whom we are accustomed to see in
every point where France has either danger to encounter or
glory to obtain."

AL Gustave de Beaumont, who was inscribed to speak on
that paragraph, observed, that he considered a discussion on
Algeria to be indispensable, but as the question would again
come before the Chamber in the debate on the supplemen-
tary credits, he thought proper to postpone until then the
observations he had to offer on the subject.
The paragraph was then put to the vote and carried.
The next and last paragraph was afterwards read by the
President :

" Yes, Sire, your family is truly national ; between France
and you the alliance is indissoluble. Your oaths and ours
have cemented that union. The rights of your dynasty re-
main placed under the imperishable guarantee of the inde-
pendence and loyalty of the nation. The public feeling
brands with reprobation guilty manifestations. Our revolu-
tion of July, in punishing the violation of sworn faith, has
consecrated amongst us the sanctity of an oath."
M. de St. Marc Girardin, the reporter, having been called
to the tribune, said that the Commissioners on the ad-
dress had met in the morning to submit the para-
graph to a new discussion, and had agreed to insert in it the
following sentence :—" The rights of your dynasty are
founded on the imperishable principle of the national
sovereignty." Considering, moreover, that the Legitimatist
demonstrations in London were reproved by the nation, and
branded by the public feeling, they had been of opinion to
make no alteration in the, expression of reprobation with
which they had stigmatised their conduct.
M. Bechard, who followed, said that the act proposed to
the Chamber was very serious, that it was worthy of the
worst times of the revolution, and that it was impossible that
deputies could brand colleagues whom they were every day
in the habit of taking by the hand.
Having com Plained of an illegal act committed by the
Ministry, in publishing the decision of the Court of Cassation
in the case of M. Defontaine, M. Dupin, the Attorney-General
of that Court, rose and declared that the Minister of Justice
was alone to blame for the act complained of by M. Bechard.
Messrs. Barrot, Desmousseaux de Givre, and Chambolle,
were respectively heard on the incident.
M. Berryer next addressed the Chamber, when a scene
took place which far surpassed any commotion ever witnessed
even in the House of Commons when at the utmost height of
excitement. The following outline of the proceedings is fur-
nished by the correspondent of a Contemporary :
It had been previously expected that the trip toGhent would
be made a weapon for retaliation by the Legitimatists for the
attack made upon them ; and no sooner had M. Berryer
mentioned the circumstance, than the feeling it created was
immediately felt through the assembly.
Berryer was at the moment alluding to what he called
the injustice of branding a body of honourable men with po-
litical immorality who merely went, when the world was in
a state of profound peace, to pay their respects to the Duke
de Bordeaux, " thinking, as they did, that the principles
which might call that Prince to the throne offered the best
guarantees for the future glory of France," and anxious " to
talk to him of his country, and to tell him how much that
country wanted peace." He denied that in doing this they
had outstepped their duties as citizens, and he drew a parallel
between their conduct and the conduct of their accusers cn a
previous occasion: " If," said M. Berryer, " we had gone to
the entrance into France to give political council to a
King in the midst of a hostile army." This evident allu-
sion to Ghent promised great confusion. Then, pointing to
M. Guizot, he added, " You glory in it ;" and as soon as the
tumult would allow, he appealed to the House " if the
parallel was'not in his favour." M. Guizot was thus changed
from the accuser into the accused, and found it necessary to
defend himself. He immediately mounted the tribune, when
a scene ensued such as has seldom been witnessed. For
more than an hour M. Guizot stood in the tribune utterly
unable to obtain a hearing. " Yes, I have been at Ghent,"
said M. Guizot, but beyond that not one word would be
listened to. • " Never," says the Constitutionnel, " have we
been present at such a tempest,—never in the Chamber have
we seen so forgetful a tumult." On other occasions we have
seen some sympathy for an orator who boldly faced the
storm, but it is nnpossible, to give that satisfaction to M.
Guizot. He struggled against manifestations which rose
from all parts of the assembly, and he fought for a deplorable
cause which the whole nation condemns as energetically as
the Chamber. The interruptions came principally from the
Opposition benches. "It is treason—it is infamous," were
vociferated from the opposition in the midst of the
ringing of the President's bell, and' noise and clamour
on all sides. In vain did M. Guizot attempt to pro-
ceed., He repeated the words, " I went to Ghent,' and the
storm immediately recommenced. lie then expressed his
surprise that he should not be allowed to explain now, though
on a former occasion his explanations had been listened to;
but this was answered with " No, no, we have always pro-
tested," "Treason never prescribes," and other exclamations
equally complimentary. M. Guizot showed admirable cool-
ness and courage under such disagreeable circumstances. He
stood the storm coolly, and with indomitable patience. " You
may exhaust your strength," said he, in a moment of compa-
rative calm, "Tut you cannot exhaust my courage." Still he
struggled on, commencing with the same unhappy—" I went
to Ghent." At length Al. Ernest de Girardin brought things
to a climax by calling out " You are a traitor," in which he
was joined by the Opposition. Even in these circumstances
Guizot was calm. He merely asked M. Girardin` to ex-
plain what he meant from the tribune, to which M. Girardin
replied, " No, I will not mount the tribune, but I tell you
from my place that you have betrayed your country, and
that you passed the evening before the battle of Waterloo
with foreigners; that is infamous." Even after this the
most opprobious epithets were thrown out against M.
Guizot, and it was only after repeated solicitations on the
part of M. Barrot, and M. Dupin, that lie was allowed to
proceed.
When M. Guizot's defence was at last heard, it consisted
in this—that finding, as all men of sense knew, 'that the res-
toration of Louis the 18th to France was inevitable, he went
to Ghent togive his political advice,for he thought it more de-
sirable that the Bourbons should return under the conditions
of a charter than as counter-revolutionists. But M. Guizot
seemed to forget that this was just what M. Berryer pro-
perly called waiting for the misfortunes of France to ustify
hits conduct. He, however, drew a good distinction when he
said that his conduct might be very differently estimated, if,
after going to Ghent, and before their entrance into France,
he had again taken his seat in the convention, which ac-
knowledged the party opposed to them.
M. Berryer's defence is rather a singular one. He draws
a distinction between the oath which was taken to the elder
branches of the Bourbons, and that taken to the present
dynasty. The former was an unconditional oath to the per-
sons of the monarchs, the present was merely an oath bind-
ing them to observe the order of things established by .the
national will, but that neither he nor any one else intended
to bind himself to " resist all solicitation for a fresh manifes-
tation of the national will," and he denied that the oath lie
had taken was one of fidelity to King Louis Philippe per-
sonally. It would appear' that French oaths of fidelity to the
"King of the French are not without " evasion, equivoca-
tion, or mental reservation."
After the speech of M. Guizot, the debate was adjourned
till the following day.
SITTING OF SATURDAY.
- _

The President took the Chair at half-past one.
The tribunes appropriated to the public were crowded to
excess, the front seats being occupied by ladies.
The following is the last paragraph as at present proposed
by the Committee, the amendment of M. Bethmont for the
insertion of the words " national sovereignty" having been
agreed to by them.
" Yes, Sire, your family is truly national. Between France
and you the alliance is indissoluble. The rights of your
dynasty, founded on the imperishable principle of national
sovereignty, are guaranteed by your oaths and ours. The
public conscience brands with reprobation guilty manifesta-
tions. Our revolution of July, by punishing the violation
of sworn faith, has consecrated amongst us the sanctity of en
oath."

The change in the above consists in substituting " national