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London, England, 1845-02-27 00:00:00

the building: The
~total damage will amount. to a consider-
able sum,' as several of the opposite and adjoining buildings
are extensively injured by fire aid water. The origin of the
firewe were unable to learn in the excitement that prevailed.
STATE or TRADE.— l'he news from India received i
by the intermediate mail, yesterday, though not con-
sidered very favourable, has not produced any injurious
effect upon our market. The demand for all descrip!..
Lions of yarn, and especially for those suitable to the
eastern markets, was very good yesterday, and prices
continue to advance. There was als9 a fair demand at
good prices, for nearly all descriptions of manufactured
goods, except twenty. seven-inch printing cloth, whiCh
has begun to accumulate in the hands of. the manufac-
ttirers.—Manchester Guardian.
Mr. Oak c!cy, of Margaret-street Chapel, who has
made hithself so notorious by his Romanist practici s
and his Romanist publications, and by a lute defiance to
his diocesan, has been at length suspended by the-Bishop
of London.—Evening Paper.
TIIE BUDGET.—If, instead of abolishing the auc-
tion duty, Sir R. Peel had either reduced the duty, under
the income-tax, upon trade and industry (leaving it as it is
upon the real and the.funded property), or had not taxed
trade and industry beneath 3001. or 5001. (the real and the
funded property as it is), the country generally (the land
holders excepted) would have been by far more gratified.
A line or scale ought, in justice and honesty, to have been
applied in this respect when the Property and Income-tax
Act was passed. If Sir Robert had not courage to do that
on passing the Act, he might now accomplish it, as he has
his team of landholders more " in hand" in 1845, than in
1842.—From a Correspondent.
SEA SICKNESS.—The usual symptoms are nausea,.
vomiting, and subsequently weakness and nervousness.
Children are either not attacked at ail, or only very slightly.
Men of dark colour and rigid fibre suffer 'ess than youths of
dark skin and hair. Those are most subject to the
disease who are fair, of lax fibre, and venous constitu-
tion. Persons weakened by previous diseases are
by no means predisposed to the disease, as Man-
son
.asserts. Short-sightedness does not protect against.
sea-sickness. ,Dogs, swine, and sheep are also occasionally
seized by it. The heaving of the boat is the cause of the
is exactly analogous to turning
or
pressure on the brain ; the n. vagus is,
r(ind, complaint.
intoxication, This heaving
therefore, chiefly affected. In moist and cold weather, the
complaint is more obstinate than in dry and warm weather.
First, heaviness of the head appears, dejection, melancholy ;
then the bead turns hot, the face reddens, nausea ap-
pears, then vomiting, after which relief is felt. Ob-
struction is a constant symptom, and even with a quantity
of different purgativqs,.. the author could not produce any
stool for eight days, till the' cessation of sea-sickness, when
evacuations ensued spontaneously. If no vomiting takes
place, obstruction is more obstinate, and likewise all
he other symptoms. In the torpid form, the head
is more :iirJeted, and the nausea remains almost
without intermission. Chilliness, cold, suppressed func-
ais of the skin, and exhaustion accompany this.
form. The appetite is not impaired ; on the contrary,
some relief is felt during meals. But, with the process of
digestion, suffering recommences. Horizontal position ope-
rates beneficially, particularly if the functions of the skin can
be promoted. The adv:litageotts results of sea-sickness are,
that complaints of the chest are sometimes removed or ame-
lioratel ;, disadvantageous—digestive weakness occasionally
remaining, emaciation and tendency to plethora.—Medical
Times.
PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL ASSOCIATION AND
BENEVCLENT FUND.—The fourth annual general meet-
ing of the donors, subscriber., and friends of this ex-
! chll-nt institution, was held on Wedrrsday evening, at
the -London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. John Abel
Smith, Esq., M.P., treasurer of the society, in the chair.
The -annual report read by the secretay showed a gradual
increase in the prosperity of the society, which, together
with the accounts, was warmly received.

THE MURDER AT HAMPSTEAD

LATEST PARTICULARS LAST NIGHT.

Immediately after the conclusion of the examination of. the ac.
cused man, Thomas Henry }locker, yesterday, at Marylebone
Pollee-court, Inspectors Shackell and Haynes, of the detective
police force, feeling convinced from the evidence adduced that the
party who had undergone examination was in reality the murderer
of Mr. Delarue, considered it necessary further to prosecute an in.
quiry with respect to him.
The impression made on the mind of the officers was that a
sufficiently minute search had not been made of the lodgings
of the alleged murderer, or of those of his father, by Inspector
Partridge and Sergeant Scotney, at the time they apprehended the
prisoner Hocker. Acting on this impression, and under a fear
that unless they were prompt in their movements the evidences of
guilt against the prisoner might be removed, Inspectors Shackelt
and Haynes at once prcceeded to the residence of Hocker's father,
No. 17, Charles street, Portland-town. The inspectors, on their
arrival, made known to the father of the alleged murderer
the object of their visit, and at once, without any hesitation
on the part. of the father, every facility was offered them to
make a search of the premises. They were first shown into
a front room on the first floor, which was the one occupied
by his. son, who also had a lodging where he was captured,
No. 11, Victoria-terrace. In this room the officers found
that which is presumptive, if not conclusive, evidence of the atro.
cious guilt of the prisoner. Secreted in this room were a pair of
trousers stained with blood and covered with dirt; a pair of stock.
ings, the legs of which were also bloody, the blood having gone
through the trousers, and a Mackintosh the front and back of
which were also splashed with blood. On these things being shown
to the unfortunate parent, he identified them as those of his son
now in custody. A further search was pursued, but nothing else
was discovered, and Shackell and Haynes left the place with the
clothes in question in their possession, and Inspector Shackell at
once proceeded to the Marylebene Police-court, where he explained
to Mr. liawlinson, the magistrate, who had not then left the
bench, the impot taut discovery which he had made.
After this Inspector Haynes proceeded to the New Prison,
Clerkenwell, to which place Hocker was conveyed in the prison
♦an immediately after his remand, for the purpose of making a
minute examination of the prisoner's dress and person. With
this view he directed the prisoner to take off his coat, which he
wore on Friday night, the cuffs of which, upon examination, were
covered with blood.

A button was found in the field near the spot where the deceased
was murdered, and also one found at the lodgings of the accused,
in Victoria-terrace, and on Inspector Haynes comparing them to.
gether they exactly matched each other, and what is more con-
clusive, on the inspection of the prisoner's coat two buttons were
missing, and on comparing both of these buttons with the remainder
of those on the coat they exactly tallied with them. The pair of
drawers which the prisoner had on were on examination found to
be also spotted with blood.
Whilst at the station.house the prisoner, in reference to a large
sum of money he was stated to hare been seen to spend on Saturday,
said that it came into his possession fairly, having been given to
him by a woman with whom he was acquainted in the New-road;
but this, it is understood, will be disproved. The defence which
Hocker set up when before the magistrate, that he could prove
that he did not leave his residence till a quarter or 10 minutes to l
o'clock on the night of the murder, will, the reporter is informed,
be denied by several witnesses.
An official report of the above facts was last evening made to the
Commissioners of Police. It has already been stated that there
was strong reason for believing that there were three men wke
were concerned in and supposed to be the perpetrators of the horrid

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crime. The inspectors have instituted the most rigid inquiries

uponu this point, and from the information they had received there
is but little doubt that more than one person was engaged in the

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murder. The reporter was informed that a belief was entertained
that another man would be in custody early this (Thursday) morn.
lug, if not last night.
The a lege(' murderer is stated to be a teacher of the violin, but
formerly was a teacher at tLe Christ Church District Schools, St.
Marylebone.

LETTER-OPEN ENG AT THE POST

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Last night a numerous meeting of the electors of the
borough of Finsbury was held at the White Conduit-house
Tavern, Pentonvillc, relative to the opening of letters at the
Post-office addressed to Mr. T. S. Duncombe, the representa-
tive of the borough.
Mr. It TAYLOR having been called to the chair, said that
he had for many years examined the elective franchise in the
borough of Finsbury; he had therefore readily consented to
take .the chair on that occasion. That borough had done
itself great credit by the choice of its present representatives;
they were both gentlemen of great ability, perseverance, and
courage. In proportion as a public man was courageous he
became an object of suspicion to the Government. The power
of opening letters in the Post-office might be a most danger-
ous weapon in the hands of a tyrannical Government. He
(Mr.. Taylor) recollected that during the time of, he believed,
the Sidmouth Administration, when it was deemed necessary
to get up sham plots, the letters of Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, the
late Earl of Leicester, were opened in order to obtain mate-
rials on which to ground a charge against him of hostility to
the Government of the day. But such conduct would be
tolerated no longer, for the people would not submit to such
a monstrous violation of that confidence which ought to sub-
sist between the Members and their constituents. The electors
of Finsbury were bound to call upon the Government to wipe
off the stigma which it had attempted to cast on the charac-
ter of Mr. Duncombe. If they did not, they would be un-
worthy of that reputation for public spirit which they had
hitherto maintained.
Sir C. Napier, M.P., and Mr. Wakley, M.P., here entered
the ream, and were loudly cheered.
The SECROCARY then read the following letter. from Mr.
Dnncomba :
" TO THE ELECTORS OrIFINSKYRY IN PUBLIC MEETING ASSEMBLED.
" Gentlemen,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of invitation and to express to you my regret that recent
events in Parliament have rendered it imperative on the borough
of Finsbury to meet on my account—the fault, however, rests not
with me, but with her Majesty's Ministers.
".I need not assure you how happy I am, at all times, to meet
those whom it is my pride to represent, when questions affecting
public interests are tinder their consideration, as, upon such occa_
sions you will do me the justice to admit I have never shrunk from
doing that which I felt to be my duty. •
"But, gentlemen, the question which you are convened to discuss
appears to me to be of so peculiar and of so purely a personal
character, that I think it would be most indelicate on my part to
be present upon the occasion. In declining, however, the honour
that you have proposed to me, I hope I may be permitted to state
that all that I have asked of the House of Commons is that which
I think I have a right to demand, viz.—an opportunity of removing
those base suspicions implied by the fact of the Governmant having
violated the sanctity of my correspondence. The expression of
your independent opinion,
which, hops, will assist me in obtaining that
satisfactionwithout
I am convinced you will agree with
me, I cannot continue a Member of the present House of Commons
with either advantage to you or credit to myself.—l- have the
honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient and faithful servant,
" Albany, Feb. 20. "THOMAS. S. DUNCOMBE."
• The reading of this letter produced vehement cheering.
Mr. Lnetrox, in moving the first resolution, observed that
three distinct charges had been made against the Govern-
ment, one was—that letters had been illegally orened and
detained at the Post-office; the next—that seals had been
counterfeited to conceal that examination, and the third was
—that it had been done to serve the interests of certain
despotic Governments. Mr. Duncombe had called for ex pla-
nation, but he obtained no answer. By Sir J. Graham lie was
met with dogged silence—by Lord Aberdeen with subterfuge
and false assertions, and by Sir R. Peel with shuffling and
evasion. The only answer given to Mr. Duncombe was con-
tained in the reports of two Committees which did not agree
with each other. Mr. Duncoinbe's character bad been most
foully stigmatised; and it was the ditty of his constituents to
demand a full vindication from the Government. The reso-
lution was as follows
That this meeting learns with mortification and disgust that
there e;tists at the General Post-office a secret spy system under
which letters are broken oxen, their seals counterfeited, and post-
marks falsely imposed, in order to deceive the persons to whom
such letters are directed, and to whom they are afterwards for-
warded, while the information thus obtained has in some cases been
used to promote despotic interests of foreign Governments—that this
meeting strongly denounces the existence of such disgraceful
transactions, and refusing to Be satisfied with the Report of the
CoMmittee published at the close of the last session, deems it es-
sential:y necessary fur tic honour of this country, and also for
public satisfaction and security, that a strict, searching, and open
inquiry should be institutel Into al the circumstances referred to
in certain petitions presented to Parliament on this subject, in