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[ADVERTISEMENT.
NEW INVENTIONS IN DRESS AND

USEFUL LUXURIES.

The forms and varieties of costume, and the multi-
plicities of elegant articles of personal and household
luxury, have attained to such high artistic perfection,
that one can hardly, with .Justice, refuse to the in-
ventors the merits and honours hitherto exclusively
accorded to the professors of what are designated,
par excellence, the fine arts. Sculpture, painting,
poetry, and music, will not much longer be allowed
to monopolise the fame and glory of the fine arts—
they must condescend to share them with the other
branches of creative genius. At this moment, visit
the capital of the Russian empire, admire the fault-
less form of some fascinating princess, as she passes
you on her prancing steed, the chances are you will
be told she is indebted for more than half her ele-
gance to the Messrs. Nicoll, of Regent-street, who
are the artificers of her splendid riding-habit. See
the Emperor himself in his sable pelisse, looking, as
he does, every inch a monarch—you will be in.
formed that he too has received the embellishments
of his outer man from the same London fashioners.
To the Prussian metropolis, likewise, Prince William
bears with him many samples of the perfect taste of
these artists, while the young and handsome Due de
Montpensier is about to astonish the Parisians with
novelties in dress derived from the same source. Talk
of poets and painters—here is, indeed, a substantial
European reputation. Take another instance. Enter
the boudoir of some fair aristocrat; note, the rare
collection of superb bijouterie that surrounds you on
every side, the glittering albums, the fancifully em-
bellished writing-desk, the gorgeous inkstands, the
matchless vases of Bohemian glass and other crystals,
the innumerable nick-nackeries, brilliant and beautiful
beyond expression—with each and all of these the
name and fame of Messrs. Barry and Son, of the
Egyptian Hall, are linked as indissolubly as those of
Corregio and Raffaelle with the Magdalene and the
Saint Cecilia. Examine the perfumed notes ofinvi-
tation and the visiting cards that adorn your drawing-
room table, and mark the admirably-emblazoned
crests of the fair senders engraved and painted
thereon; these, too, proclaim the art and skill of these
inventors of all that is brilliant in such articles of
luxurious fashion. Upon taking up Mrs. Postan, s
agreeable work, "Facts and Fictions," the other day,
we were much amused with a description of the
anxiety and impatience evinced by the ladies of Bom-
bay, on the arrival of each vessel from Europe, to
possess themselves of the latest inventions of the cele-
brated modestes, Mesdames llerbault Nieces, of the
Rue Menard, Paris. Not a pelisse, nor a mantelette,
nor even a ribbon, would one of them select until she
had heard the last fiat pronounced by these oracles of
extreme gold. llere is a fame, not merely European,
but universal. The renown of Alexander the Great
reached not so fur eastward as that of these famous
Parisian milliners. Remark any strikingly delicate
green, porcelain blue, or dahlia-tinted silk, of surpass-
ing richness. Infallibly you will be answered
that they are the produce of the looms of Lyons,
and that they have issued from the magazine
of Messrs. Gay and Denis, Rue de la Vriliiere, Paris.
The inventors of novelties in dress and useful luxuries
have no right to complain of any want of apprecia-
tion in the present generation.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO BURN
THE BARQUE HERMES, OF LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—Considerable sensation
was excited in Liverpool yesterday morning by a ru-
mour, for which, unfortunately, there was but too
much fbundation, that an attempt had been made by
one of the crew, named Henry Brown, without any
conceivable reason, to burn the barque Hermes, Capt.
Donough, about nine miles off Holyhead. This fine
first-class vessel, 241 tons, the owners of which are
Messrs. Tayleur and Co., general merchants, of this
town, sailed from Liverpool on Friday last for Buenos
Ayres ; and, when the dreadful attempt to destroy
her had been made, about six o'clock on the morning
of Sunday, she was put about and brought back to
Liverpool, where she arrived on Monday afternoon.
I3rown, who is a native of Sweden, and an athletic
fellow, of middle age and ordinary height, was imme-
diately- given into custody, and brought before Mr.
Rushton yesterday for examination. He was dressed
in a blue pilot cloth coat, spoke English tolerably well,
and was undefended.
The first witness examined was a sailor on b '
the Hermes, of the name of Parry, who sai
About half-past six o'clock on Sunday morning
last, I saw the prisoner rummaging about the
forecastle. He took a box of matches out of one of
the chests, and tore a leaf out of a book. He took the
leaf out of a book belonging to a seaman named Lamas,
and he also took a leaf out of a book belonging to
me. lie then went and took the scuttle out, rolled
the sheet of paper up, struck a match, and lit it. Im-
mediately after, he went down into the forefoot, came
up again, stood on the edge of the scuttle, and said,
" By , he would either sink her or burn her."
He put the scuttle on carefully, and placed the bar
over it. About half-past nine o'clock, three hours
after, the men went up to reef the topsails,, and when
they came down there was a smoke in the forecastle.
After the ship was put about on the other tack, the
smoke came up out of the scuttle. One of the sea-
men, James Cowan, gave the alarm, and the captain,
mate, and second mate went down into the forecastle,
where they discovered a fire. The chief reason I did
not tell the captain before of what was said and done
was because I was unwell in my hammock.
The prisoner, in reply to Mr. Rushton, here said
that he was not an Englishman, that he was a Swede,
but that he understood the purport of the evidence.
'itness, in continuation, observed that he was an
apprentice on board, and that no one saw the prisoner
take the match and strike the light but himself. He
had had no quarrel with the prisoner, nor had the
latter any dispute with anybody on board the ship.
The prisoner—Why should I go to your box for
matches when I had plenty of my own ?
'Witness—l don't know. You struck the light
against the side of the forecastle and put the box of
matches into the chest, from which you had taken
them when you got one of them out.
James Cowan examined—l am a seaman on board
this vessel. The prisoner asked me where was Isaac
(another seaman). I belonged to the prisoner's
watch, so also did the last witness, who had pains in
his legs nearly all the time. About five minutes after
I had been in bed in the forecastle I heard the pri-
soner knocking about. What he was doing I know
not. It was about a quarter past six o'clock at the
time. I did not hear him say anything except to ask
for Isaac. The last witness did not tell me anything,
when I awoke. I found the prisoner lying down
when I awoke. He was lying either on a chest or in
his hammock, but it was so dark that I was unable to
see distinctly. 'The chests are all placed round the
forecastle, on their sides. Latnas's chest was on the
larboard side of the vessel, right aft, next the bulk-
head. The last witness lay in a hammock from the
top of the forecastle. The prisoner's hammock was
slung on the larboard side. The first time I heard of
this was about nine o'clock, after we had put the ship
about, I had been on deck about an hour at that
time. The prisoner was on deck at that time also.
The first witness (Parry) was the only person left in
the forecastle. I smelt the fire when I went below at
nine o'clock. I Vfas the first man down. I smelt it
before anybody told me of it, and I gave the alarm,
and brought the captain, mates, and carpenter, to the
forecastle. All this time we were looking about the
forecastle for the fire. Parry was still in bed. I heard
Parry calling the mate once or twice. Parry knew
nothing of the fire till I gave the alarm. I said some
cotton must he burning, but Parry said it was not
cotton. He did not tell me what was burning, nor
where it was. He said nothing more. The scuttle
was taken off, and a great deal of smoke came out. I
looked down to see the blaze, and myself and one or
two more went on deck, got some water down, and
extinguished it. At breakfast I said it was a strange
thing how fire could have got down, to which the
prisoner replied that sticks or anything would strike
a light by rubbing against each other. While he and
I were talking together, the captain came forward and
accused him. This was about half-past nine o'clock.
The prisoner said he knew nothing about it, spoke
saucily, and asked why the captain should accuse him
more than any other man on board.
Nicholas Donough examined—l am master of the
Hermes. About half-past nine o'clock on Monday
morning the mate gave me the alarm of fire, and I
went down in the forecastle. On going down I saw
the smoke coming up. There was a small scuttle
male for the water there, and, on going down, I saw a
tar barrel with the bung out, and flame coming out
of the bunghole. About six feet further off it there
was a bundle of oakum all on fire, which set fire to the
forecastle deck. The tar barrel was bunged and quite
safe before we left Liverpool. I then called the first
witness, and said, that if any one knew of the fire he
must be the man, as he was in the forecastle all night.
Parry then said, that he saw the prisoner go down
the forepeak, take a box of matches out of Lamas's
chest, and a sheet of paper out of another, and light
the paper and go down into the forepeak. I asked
him why he did not tell me about it at once ? to
which he replied, that he had no idea that the prisoner
was going to set fire to anything, and that that was
the reason he neglected to tell me before. He said,
he thought the prisoner must have lost something,
and that he wanted the light for the purpose of finding
it. It was about ten o'clock when I questioned Parry.
John Lamas examined—My chest was about mid-
ship in the forecastle. I left it open on Saturday
night, with the key in it. There were some books in
it, five or six. The books are at present on board the
ship. There were six boxes of matches in the bottom
of the chest. and one box at the top. After the fire
the latter box was brought aft to the captain, and I
immediately identified it as mine.
The captain recalled—l never had any quarrel with
the prisoner, and received a good recommendation
with him.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S MEDICAL
REFORM BILL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The question of medical reform is one of
interest, not merely to the medical profession, but to
the public at large. It is of the greatest importance to
society that skilful medical aid should be easily acces-
sible to all classes.
Many complaints are male that the proposed
measure of Sir James Graham will tend to give
greater encouragement to quackery in medicine,
and that the excluding of all but registered practi-
tioners from public offices, is not a sufficient protec-
tion, inasmuch as the wide field of private practice is
left open to the fraud and cunning of daring impos-
tors. The necessity of restraining unqualified parties
from tampering with the health of the community is
insisted on. It is suggested that a fitting remedy
would be found in a process of summary
conviction before a bench of magistrates. But,
however plausible such a proceeding may at first
appear, a little consideration will show that the
task of putting down quackery by legal enactment
is impracticable. Such is the anxiety which every
invalid feels to purchase at any cost the blessing of
health, that when all remedial agents have been em-
ployed by skilful hands without avail, as a last re-
source he is willing to embrace any scheme—to adopt
any nostrum which premises some alleviation of his
malady. The patient is the dupe of his own credulity ;
and hence in every age the province of physic has
been overrun with impostors.
You may prohibit the sale of patent medicines, un-
less the composition of the same has been made
known to competent authorities, and approved of by
them. You may drag every unqualified practitioner
into court under whose hands a patient may
have died. You may compel every druggist
in the kingdom to become a registered member
of a college, that he may not be guilty of
prescribing in ignorance across the counter.
But you cannot stop here. You must have an in-
quisitor in every family, for unqualified parents will
dose their children; and the family medicine chest,
with its store of calomel and jalap, be placed under
strict surveillance. Even then it is to be feared some
will be found weak enough to try the cold water
cure, the hunger and thirst systems, or it may be to
resort to the disciples of Mesmer.
But happily for the professors of medicine, they
have stronger claims to public support than that of
possessing the exclusive privilege-to practice in these
realms. Their high attainments, which have placed
them in the foremost rank of scientific men through-
out Europe, are the best evidence of their fitness for
the important trust confided to them.
Let the education of medical men be rendered as
complete as possible. Give them every facility for
acquiring an intimate knowledge of disease in all its
varied forms ; submit every candidate to a most
searching examination; and by that means you
will induce the public to place that confidence in
their skill and superior knowledge, which will prove
their best protection against the aggression of igno-
rant quacks. To incumber the noble science of
medicine with penal enactments, is a degrading pro-
position, which its votaries should not stoop to enter-
tain for a moment. It cannot suppress the trade in
quackery; it cannot elevate the profession in the eyes
of the public.—Yours, truly, A LEECH.
York, Oct. 21.

A NE `Y LIFE BOAT.
In the last number of the Glasgow Engineers,
Magazine a design for an iron life-boat is given. The
magazine gives diagrams in plan, elevation, and sec-
tion of the boat, which is twenty-four feet long, eight
feet broad, and three to three-and-a-half feet deep.
It weighs about a ton, and has buoyancy of nearly
15,0001b5. It is capable of carrying seventy persons,
xithout sinking. This is its extreme burden, but it
can seat forty passengers with ease, awl a greater
number on emergencies. The estimated cost is 601.
me design, we understand, is by Mr. Thomas Cal-
lum, Leith. After explaining the diagrams, the editor
of the magazine says :
" There cannot be much doubt that a boat of this
construction would be decidedly superior to the
.vooden boats in cases of accident at sea. Few, in-
deed, of those at present carried by steam- vessels
would be of any positive use were they required to
save the lives of passengers and crew in a rough sea.
Even when circumstances have been favourable, we
have had the melancholy experience of their utter in-
efficiency. No sooner have they been lowered into
the water, than they have been swamped in the un-
avoidable confusion which almost invariably attends
catastrophes at sea, on occasions where the vessel is
to be abandoned. A result of this fatal kind could
not possibly happen with a boat of the construction
proposed ; for, as already stated, although it should
be completely filled with water, it would be still
capable of sustaining seventy persons, and it might
be made to have even greater buoyancy in proportion
to its length and breadth, and weight of material.
Boats of this description will, indeed, be somewhat
more expensive i❑ respect of first cost than those
commonly carried, but their manifest superiority and
usefulness in cases of emergency ought, undoubtedly,
to outweigh all the little pecuniary differences which
can possibly be set up in objection. It is a
demand of humanity, and one which we hope to see
legally enforced among the first conditions in the code
of regulations which Parliament may be expected to
frame next session upon the report of the Shipwreck
Committee."

The principle upon which the boats are proposed to
be constructed is, that as large a quantity of air
should be enclosed in air-tight compartments as will
suffice to buoy up the boat itself, and as many per-
sons as could go into or cling around it. The sides,
ends, and thwarts, are all appropriated to this pur-
pose ; and, for first-class steamers, the compartments
will measure—
On the two sides....
On the two ends....
And on the thwarts

THE THIRD PART or MR. BURKE'S DICTIONARY
OF THE LANDED GENTRY has just appeared, and carries
the subject down to letter It, inclusive. One more Part
will, consequently, complete this great national under-
g,al compriseinformation
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containedo fg e n ei
na oa-
sgtaiinkegainllea nlwydhorihckih.stwoAriilellmost every distinguished actor, in
public as in private life, is recorded in its pages ; and
the details it affords of the antiquity and eminence of
the families of our country gentlemen go far to prove
their superiority to the much vaunted Noblesse of the
Continent. The present Part is replete with much cu-
rious matter regafding the Septs and Clans of Scot-
land and Ireland, and the information and anecdote
connected with the English Genealogies is equally inte-
resting. Among the latter aro the ancient houses of Main.
waring, Manley, Manse!, Markham, Marsham, Martin,
Massie, Massingberd, Master, Matthew, Maude, Mann-
soli, Maxwell, Meyrell, Meyrick, Milbank, Manes, Mit-
ford, Morewood, Morgan, Morris, Mosley, Mundy,
Mynors, Mytton, Neale, Nevile, Newdegate, Leaper
Newton, Northey, Nowell, Okeover, Orde, Orlebar, Or-
merod, Owen, Parke, Packington, Palmer, Parker,
Parry, Partridge, Wilson Patten, Peirse, Pendarves,
Popham, Portal, Powell, Powys,
Penn, Pennant, Peter, Phelips, Phillips, Pigott, Plow-
den, Plumptre, Pochin, Chandos Pole, Peley, Pol-
ltadelyffe, Rashleigh, Riddell, Rogers,
EXTRAORDINARY AND DANGEROUS FBAT.—Satur-
day evening, about four o'clock, a large crowd of persons
were collected in Sackyille-street, in consequence of see-
RwP rhoalectierbc P,
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see-
ing two young men standing on the top of Nelson's
for some time, he succeeded
Pillar. Ono of them, a fine young fellow, about sixteen
or seventeen years of age, began to ascend the figure,
iandin
aftgettinger "tuggingaway"
"capstan
which is placed behind
the colossal statue of the groat naval hero ; from
this position it was not very hard to ascend the
figure itself, which the lad accomplished, and haying
looked round him for a moment, he seated himself
with the greatest apparent complacency on the head of
the figure, where ho continued several minutes waving
his cap. He then raised himself and stood on the bead
of the figure, first on both and then on one foot, in
which perilous situation he remained several minutes,
whilst the most painful anxiety existed amonc,mst the
observers for his safety. Having descended, his
companion. who appeared somewhat his senior in
years, and who was dressed in a frock coat, went
through a similar evolution ; and then both ascended
the figure together, and taking hold of each other's
hand, they stood, with one leg (each) for a con-
siderable time on the granite head of the immortal
Nelson. It was blowing a very strong breeze, and it
was painful to witness the dangerous position of the
youths at this moment ; but they descended without any
accident, and on coming into the street they were loudly
cheered. They refused to give their names—nor would
they say if the feat was done for a wager, which is sup-
posi:d to be the case.—Dublin Freeman.

98 feet.
120 feet.
55 feet.

273
And as each foot of air has a buoyancy in sea water
of 6111b5., it follows that the enclosed spaces would
have a buoyancy equal to 17,5401 b., from which has
to be deducted the weight of the boat, which is calcu-
lated at a ton, but say 21 cwt. or 2,3521 b., leaving a
free buoyancy of 15,1881 b., or equal to the entire
weight of one hundred persons, averaging 1501 b. each,
and this although the open spaces were full of water ;
but were that the case, with such a burden, the boat
would be quite unmanageable ; the number, therefore,
is stated to be seventy, and that is as many as could
possibly be crowded into her.

ST. FAITH'S FAIR.—At our great and annual fair,
on Thursday last, the show of Scots was not so large as
last year, but the quality and condition wero very supe-
rior; and all the beasts came up free from the epidemic,
doing great credit to the different drovers. The number
of buyers present during the day was smaller than has
been known for several years, and they all acted with
the greatest caution, being determined, if possible, to se-
cure themselves a good profit for winter grazing. Many
of the beasts required not more than two months' keep
to make them fit for the butchers, but the top figure did
not exceed 53. per stone; the more general were 4s. to
4s. 6d. The business done was limited, and the prices
obtained anything but satisfactory or profitable to the
breeders and dealers. There was a great falling off in
the shorthorn and other horned cattle. Many lots were
very inferior, and remained quite unnoticed; those half
fat made from 4s. to 4s. 6d. per stone, with great diffi-
culty to find purchasers. There were about five score
Herefords, which exchanged hands, the price for which,
like that for numbers of the horned beasts, was terrible.
The salesmen and dealers exerted every nerve to obtain
more money, but without effect ; and although the day
closed so badly, we still hope the worst is over, and sin-
cerely wish the buyers well paid, and better spirits for
the next coming fair. In the horse fair scarcely a good
animal could be found, and middling ones are at
a discount, there being no demand for them. There was
a little racing, but no money stirring worth mentioning.
—Norfolk Chronicle.
THE STONE IN TILE NEW HOUSES Or PARMA-
MENT.—The Bolsover quarries, from which the stone
for the new Houses of Parliament is procured, and se-
veral others that have been recently opened in the
neighbourhood, contain about twelve feet of workable
stone, in numerous bands from eight inches to two feet
thick. This stone is of a light yellowish lemon colour.
Its chemical composition consists of 51 per cent. of car-
bonate of lime, 40 per cent. of carbonate of magnesia,
and more than 31 pr cent. of silica. Its specific gravity
is 2.316, or considerably greater than that of limestone.
This admirable stone is not expensive, being cheaper
than Portland stole, and worked as easily ; but it does
not seem to have been much used at a distance from
Bolsover, except in slabs for paving.
Church, qualitiestin go-t
durability are well tested in South well
luunshire, a building of the tenth century,r and in. ad-
mirable condition. In this church the Norman portions,
built of stone similar to that of Bolsover Moor, are
throughout in a perfect state, and the mouldings and
carved enrichments are as sharp as when first executed.

The prisoner, in reply to the charge, made a long
statement, in the course of which he said that Cowan
took a leaf out to light his pipe with, and that
after the fire a question was asked whether the cook
or anybody else had been down with a light.
Cowan here observed, that the part of this state-
ment relative to the cook was true. The question was
asked as to whether he had been down with a light.
Constable Greaves said that, in his opinion, five
pounds of oakum had been consumed ; and
The captain said a couple of gallons of tar had
been burnt.

Greaves added, that a match which had not ignited
was found on the tar barrel, and also a bit of wood
burnt at both ends.

The prisoner, at this stage of the proceedings, was
ordered to be remanded until the next day.:

CORONER'S INQUEST AT THE

•
UTILITY Os' CONSTANT STUDY.--11l my youth I
was very much devoted to reading ; and even now, old
as I am, I employ in it all the moments of leisure left me
by State affairs. Tho things of this world are too nu-
mereui for a man who lives in the ninth story of his
palace to be able to know them. If he reads books, and
there informs himself of the actions and proceedings of the
ancients, he will find the means not to make many mis-
takes in his adininistision. 'or more than fifty years
that I have reigned, I nave committed but few errors, and,
I 'lwo tHq advantage to reading.—Cupfain Fading s
•
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—The Builder.
A-rus AND IV ASIP!IIOUSES FOR THE LABOURING
Cl,Assi:s..—Lord Eldon has sent a donation of 200/. to
the committee, and several of the London hankers have
4nnounced their intention of giving large donations.

ETON UNION.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23.—This afternoon an inquest
was held in the board-room of the Eton Union Work-
house, at Slough, before Mr. John Charsley, one of
the coroners for the county of Bucks, on the body of
an illegitimate male child, who died in the workhouse
on Friday last, within 24 hours after its birth. The
mother, a single woman named Martha Hitch, lived
as cook in the service of a gentleman at Slough of the
name of Righy, and was removed from that gentle-
man's house in an extraordinary manner, at the time,
as it is stated, she was enduring the pains of labour,
at a late hour on Wednesday night, the 16th inst.
Shortly after her arrival at the workhouse she mhde
a statement to the matron, which was taken down in
writing at the time, and of which the following is an
exact copy :
" Martha hitch states, that she was dragged out of
bcd by three or four men, at a late hour of the night
(about 9 o'clock), and forced by her master, Mr.
Rigby, to become an inmate of the Eton Union
Workhouse, she having at the time wages due to
ahuerei
amounting to between 31. and 41., a quarter's salary,
and bills paid on her mistress's account, still
She begged of her master to send her home, or to a
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complied with."
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solved that a full investigation of all the circum-
stances should take place, and due notice of the death
was forwarded to Mr. Charsley, at Beaconsfield,
who caused a jury to be summoned at three o'clock
in the afternoon.
The first witness examined was Mrs. Caroline Aitken,
the matron of the Eton Union, who deposed as fol-
lows:—Martha Hitch, the mother of the deceased
child, was brought to the workhouse in a fly, betwet n
nine and ten o'clock on 'Wednesday night, the 16th
inst. She was accompanied by Mr. Bryan, a medical
gentleman, the brother of Dr. Bryan, of Slough. A
woman named Cripps rode in the fly with the mother.
When she arrived she was in labour. She told rte
that she was taken with the pains of labour on that
morning. She was carried up stairs into the lying-in
ward by the man who drove the fly. Mr. Bryan said
'she was in labour. She appeared very ill and w: s
vomiting. I remained with her in the ward during
the greater part of that night, and until she wia
delivered, which was between six and seven o'clock
the following evening. The child was found dead in
the bed about two o'clock the next afternoon. Cn
being told the child was dead, I went into the ward,
and found it under the clothes. The body was then
getting cold. I had no suspbsion that the mother hid
behaved ill to the child. She said she came from Mr.
Rigby's, at Slough, and that she was dragged out of
her bed in that gentleman's house by three or four
men, and brought to the workhouse.
Mr. Aitken, the master of the union, examinee.—
At about a quarter past nine o'clock on Wednesday
evening, the 16th instant, a gentleman named Bryan
Caine to me, and said a woman was going to be
brought here in a fly, who was in labour, and
asked me if I would receive her without an order ? I
replied that I could receive any person without an
orrier, who was brought to the house in that condi-
tion. He then went away. In about a quarter of an
hour afterwards the fly arrived with the mother of this
deceased and Mrs. Cripps, who accompanied her. !dr.
Bryan also came at the same time. The woman was
carried up stairs into the lying-in ward by the fly-
man. I have not seen her since. Mr. Bryan told
me that evening, in the hall, that she was Mr. Rig-
hy's servant.
Susan Akerrnan, one of the inmates of the work•
house, who acts in the capacity of nurse, deposed as
follows :—Martha Hitch was brought up stairs to the
lyia4--in ward in the arms of a young man, named
William Renton on 'Wednesday night. She was
very sick, and I diought she was then in labour. She
was put into bed directly. Mr. Bryan came with her.
Mr. Hammond (the medical officer of the union) ar-
rived within about an hour afterwards, when Mr.
Bryan left. Mr. Bryan, when he came with her,
said she must be taken care of, as she was in labour.
Mr. Hammond remained with her until she was de-
livered, which was not until between six and seven
o'clock the following evening. The child did not
appear healthy ; the first night I did not think it
would live. It took the breast from a woman who
had been recently confined in the union, at noon the
next day, when it appeared better.
Rebecca Moody, another inmate of the workhouse,
examined—l was in bed when Martha Hitch was
brought into the ward. I immediately got up, in
order that she might get into my bed, which was
warm. She was vomiting when she was brought up
into the room by William Ilenton. She was de-
livered about seven o'clock the next evening. The
child died at about three o'clock the following after-
noon. It appeared to be a nice healthy child when
born. I gave the child the breast the next day, about
eleven o'clock, by desire of the matron. It then ap-
peared healthy ; I put it into bed by the side of its
mother. I laid it down so that I could see its face,
and that it could breathe. At three o'clock that
afternoon, when the mother asked me to turn her
over in bed, I saw that the child (which was lying
on its mother's arm, with its face uppermost, so that
it could breathe) was dead. It was a little warm. I
saw nothing to induce me to suppose that the mother
had injured the infant. The child then looked very
black.

Mr. Hammond, the surgeon to the union, informed
the Coroner and jury that he had just returned from
viewing the body of the deceased.
A juryman asked if he observed a black mark on
the neck of the child ?

Mr. Hammond replied, that he observed a slight
discolouration on the neck, but that might have been
caused by a variety of circumstances.
Some of the jury having suggested that a post
mortem examination should be made,
Mr. Hammond said, in that case he should prefer
making it by dayrght; but he would suggest that
the evidence of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Norblad's as-
sistant (both of whom had seen the mother before
her removal from her master's, Mr. Rigby's) should
be taken by the Coroner previously to his own.
A juryman stated that when Mr. Norblad's as-
sistant saw the mother at Mr. Righy's on the morn-
ing of the day she was brought to the workhouse, she
denied that she was in the family way.
The CORONER having intimated that he should ad-
journ the inquiry until Friday, in order that Mr.
Bryan' William Renton (who drove the fly), Mr.
Norblad's assistant, and the mother of the deceased,
might be examined,
Mr. Hammond said the mother would not be in a
fit state, after her recent confinement, to be examined
at so early a period.
' The CORONER observed, that the evidence of the
mother would be necessary as regarded the treatment
she experienced before her delivery.
The inquest was then adjourned to Friday next
(to-morrow) for the examination of the witnesses we
have named, and others, with the understanding that,
if necessary, it should be then further adjourned, in
order that the evidence of Martha Hitch might be
taken.

'MISERY All ONG the FLOWERS.
(From Punch.)
Esther Pierce, another pallid victim of the needle,
was charged at Worship-street, with illegal pawning.
Yes—famine took her to the prwnbroker with the
goodsof a Mr. John Holden, of 62, Bread-street, Cheap;
side. Esther Pierce was employed to embroider a silk
shawl with flowers—with no less than eighty silken
blossoms—for the sum of 6d. ! Well, this was a hard.
day's work ; bringing something less than a halfpenny
an hour. The young woman had neither food nor
drink ; and so, with misery and famine at her heart
—in the very despair of biting hunger—she took
Mr. John Halden's property to the pawnbroker. She
is urged, tempted—sorely tempted beyond the power
of suffering nature to withstand—to commit crime,
to make herself a felon, by the miserable wages
awarded her by the tradesman of Bread-street, Cheap-
side. Bread-street!—There is a cruel irony even in
the address.

There is a society—all honoured be its object—for
the relief and conversion of miserable young women,
cast like weeds upon the world—for the wretched
Magdalen, despised, outraged, degraded. This society
calls with a voice of comfort to the defiled creature,
and teaches her, in goodly season, modesty, self-re-
spect. She is snatched from daily, hourly perdition,
and restored to the decencies of life. She is no
longer an animal, cursed with a soul. All praise be
to the institution that works this goodness.
Yet, surely we think, the Principle of Wickedness
must grin and hug itself at the gatherings of this so-
ciety—must chuckle, as the devil only chuckles—
when the secretary, with grave face and self-compla-
cent tone, reads the number of victims saved—of
brands snatched from the fire—and turned to worthy
uses. We say, this same Wickedness must laugh at
the small retail humanity of such an institution,
when, as in mockery of it, there are thousands and
thousands of young women tortured by the injustice
of the world, by its mercenary, heartless tasking, into
a life of infamy. A feeble philanthropy saves indeed
a few wretches ; but then there is a Giant Injustice—
iron-hearted son of avarice and trade—that drives his
crowds into the street; that makes them in a wild
despair of heart—for bread, horrid bread indeed so
purchased—bind themselves to agony and shame!
How many fall—how many, with heroic serenity of
soul, their wounds bleeding inwardly, pine from day
to day, and at length wither from the earth, no more
accounted of than autumn flies ! And now and then
some haggard, white-lipped creature—some famishing
Eivh( r Piercef or the sake of a meal dares Newgate
and the doom of a felon. And so it will :be, until
throughout all society it shall be preached—notnl..
meekly mouthed, but preached with__ae tterrible,so
smiting energy, that there are holier
pounds and shillings ; that human souls tmgarein
very
n
truth of more account than bank paper.
o rejoice
(we as
ht
it—
escaped prison, the benevolent should
inrej
chronicle his name) giving up the shawl
have liked to
Esther Pierce—our readers
pawnbroker u,
flowers, worked for 61! In the East they
eighty
without payment—the shawl which contained the
have a well-known way of arranging flowers that,
like words, they may discourse a passion. Alas !
what a story may the eye of pity read in these eighty
flowers, worked for a tester. On the one hand what
cruel, selfish, iron-hearted tasking ! On the other
what misery—what weariness of life—what utter
blankness of all that should comfort and sustain toiling
likeuld
o know
adt fiol3; t
Estherttril i,aiede per
sea
mer tfaiocnru lajanroyheoni eighty ya:
ndfleocftwo.
ue ras
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plrrn,vi:aseesn,iisibthflyeor o
such a
he
.I\lll;a.rlt'isa-lednaese
?in a letter to the Times, says, that
" he gives considerably more than sixpence ' for such
work ; but then, with the diffidence of genuine libe-
rality, he does not specify how much more.
Mr. Holden also observes, that the wretched story.
of Esther Pierce is " calculated to do him serious in-
jury." We do not think it unlikely.
In conclusion, however, we would say to all whole-
sale dealers in embroidered shawls, give something
more to female toil than sixpence for eighty flowers..
Something more, considerate masters! So that whilst
your wretched slaves are working flowers, your own
consciences may not—for the after time—be working
ne.tles. Q.