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No. 15,401.

THE WORKMAN'S SINGING SCHOOL.
EXETER HALL.

Under the SANCTION of the COMMITTEE of COUNCIL
ou EDUCATION.
MR. HULLAH has the pleasure to announce
that he has been instructed to open a SINGING
SCHOOL for ARTIZANS, SHOPMEN, and other ADULT
MEMBERS of the WORKING CLASSES.

A Class, to be limited to 250 Members, will be opened on
MONDAY the 31st of January, and will meet at half-past Eight
o'clock precisely, every Monday and Thursday evening, for
60 nights. Each member will pay one .shilling per month
(8 lessons) an will be required to furnish himself with the
Music necessary for the Course, the whole of which Music may
be had in one volume, price Is. 6d., or in three separate parts
6d each.

Persons desirous of joining this Class are to apply at Exeter
Hall en Monday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, between
the hours of Seven and Nine.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
TION, REGENT-STREET.—MORNINGS and
EVENINGS except SA's URDAY EVENINGS.
A SERIES of entirely NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, il-
lustrating CONSTANTIN )13LE and the SCENERY of the
BOSPHORUS, by Wrench and Smith. 'I he FIRE of the
TOWER of LONDON, with the Military Signals continued.
BARWISE AND RAIN'S ELECTRO MAGNETIC
CLOCKS, on which principle one, on a large scale, is at
work in front of the Institution. WRIGHT and BAIN'S
NEW PATENT ELECTRO-MAGNETIC RAILI't AY
TRAIN CONTROLLER. New and varied LECTURES,
adapted to tits taste of the Juvenile Visitors. will be delivered
during the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. The MICRO-
SCOPE, DIVING BELL and DIVER; ORRERY, 2,000
Works of eminent Art, Science, and Ingenuity, &e. &c. A
VIEW of CANTON, by a CHINESE ARTIST. The MO-
DEL of the UNDERCLIFF, of the Isle of Wight, and va-
rious COSMORAMIC PICTURES, are added to the Even.
ing Exhibition.
Admission to the whole, One Shilling.

THE THAMES TUNNEL is Open Daily
(Sunday excepted), from Nine in the Morning until
Six in the Evening, and is brilliantly lighted with gas. The
present Entrance is on the Surrey side of the river, close to
Rotherhithe Church. That Tunnel is now completed to the
extent of 1195 feet.—Admittance One Shilling each.
NOTICE—The Tunnel will be shortly closed to the Public,
in order to finish the Works. _ _

J. CH it RLIER, Clerk to the Company.
Company's Office, '2, Walbrook Buildings,
City, January 3, 1541.
N.B. Conveyances to Rotherhithe, by Omnibus, from Pic-
cadilly, Charing Cross, Fleet-street, and Gracechurch-street ;
and by Steam-heats, from Chelsea. Vauxhall, Lambeth, Hun.
gerford, Old Shades Pier and London Bridge. to the Tunnel
Pier at Wapping. Books, with Plates descriptive of the Works,
are sold at the Tunnel, price Is.

HWALKER'S NEEDLES (by autho-
% rity) ; the " Queen's Own," with the new large
eyes' are easily threaded (even by blind persons), and work
with great freedom, having improved points, temper and finish.
To distinguish them from others, they are labelled with correct
likenesses of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al.
bert in relief, on coloured ground.
Sold in papers, and in leather cases and boxes of 1110, 125,
250, 500, 1,000, or 5,000 needles : among them :.re some with
the Plume of the Prince of Wales. One shillings value can be
sent by post by any respectable dealer on receipt of 13 penpy
stamps.
H. Walker's improved Fish-hooks, Steel Pens, Hooks and
Eyes, Bodkins, &c., are particularly recommended to notice.
H. Walker, Manufacturer to the Queen, 20, Maiden-lane,
Wood-street.

PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, 50s. the
SET, of FULL-SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. Supe-
rior London Table Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per
dozen ; Brass Poles for Window Curtains, 11 inch diameter,
Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 inches, Is. id. per foot ; bronzed fenders,
4 feet long, 9s.
SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE CUTLERY WAR-
RANTED.—TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s.
per dozen ; Dessert Knives, I Is. ; Carvers, 4s. 6d. per pair ;
Table Knives, with white bone handles, Is. id. per dozen ,
Dessert, 6s. Id. ; Carvers, 3s. per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-
urns, 4 quarts, 275. ; new shapes, 295. ; Papier Macho Tea-
trays, gothic belie, 50s ; the set • f full sizes. Catalogues,
containing the prices, with Engravings of every Ironmongery
Article necessary to the furnishing of a house of any size, 25
per cent. cinder any other old-established house, to be had
gratis (post free).
RIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-stree Oaferd-street.

Established 1820.

PUBLICATIONS

THE NEW MORAL WORLD of Satur-
day, January 15, contains DELIBERATIONS of the
CABINET COUNCIL, by ROBERT OWEN ; LETTER
to SIR ROBERT PEEL, and Address to the Disciples of the
Rational System of society; Prospectus of the Home Colo-
nization Company ; Progress of Social Reform, &c. &e.
Published at the Office of the Home Colonization Society,
No. 57, lA.II-Mall, and sold bT all Newsvenslers, stamped Four-
pence, uristamped Twopence.

Just published, in Illuminated Cover, price 2e. 6d.,
THE TOWER ; ITS HISTORY, ARMO-
RIES, AND ANTIQUITIES, before and since the
Fire. With numerous Illustrations. By J. HEWITT.
Published by Authority of the Master-General and Board of
Ordnance, at the Timer. Also by W. Spiers, 17, North
Audley-street ; and R. Aekermann, 191, Regent-street.

13, Great Marlborough-street.
MR. COLBURN WILL PUBLISH,
DURING THE PRESENT MONTH, THE
FOLLOWING NEW WORKS :
I.
The FIRST VOLUME of " The DIARY and LET-
TERS of MADAME D'ARBLAY," Author of "Evelina,"
" Cecilia," &c., &c.

The SCHOOL for WIVES. A NOVEL. By the Au-
thoress of " Temptation." 3 vols.

EXCURSIONS ALONG the SHORES of the MEDI-
TERRANEAN. By Lieutenant-Col. E. NAPIER, Author
of " Scenes and Sports in Foreign Lands," &c. 2 vols.
small Bvo. IV.

SIR HENRY MORGAN, the BUCCANEER. By the
Author of " Ra,ttlin the Reefer," " Jack Ashore," &c. 3 vols.

Also, now ready,

ANNE BOLEYN, AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE.
By Mrs. A. T. THOMSON, Author of " The Life of
Henry VIII.," " Constance," tee. 3 vols.

The MAN of FORTUNE. A NOVEL. By Mrs.
GORE. 3 vols. _ .

" A tale of real life, full of intense interest, and teeming
with those nice traits of character, deep touches of human
passion, and brilliant sketches of existing society and manners,
in which Mrs. Gore's novels are exceeded by those of no living
writer."—New Monthly.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street.

DISSENTERS and GENERAL LIFE
and FIRE ♦SSURANCE COMPANY.—Notice is
hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, de-
clared on the sth Instant, IS NOW PAYABLE to the
Shareholders, between the hours of Ten and Four, at the
Offices of the Company, No. 62, King William-street, Lon-
don-bridge, where Life and Fire Assurance business, in all
departments, is transacted on secure principlei and liberal
terms. By Order of the Board,
Jan. 12, 1842. THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. L AMIE MURRAY,.Esc. Chairman.

J. Elliotaon, M.D., F.R.S. I Jahn Rawson' Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS.
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Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F. R. S.
Acx u Altir-W. S. B. Weolhouse, Esq., P.R. A.S.
PHYSICIAN—J. Elliotson, M. D. , F. R. S.
SURGEON—E. S. Symes, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Evvens, and Omman-
ney, 6, Basinghall-street.
BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
LIFE ASSURANCE.

An TANTA s.—Perfect security from a large paid-up Capi-
tal and accumulations—Equitable Rates—Power to borrow
Two-thirds Premium paid, without expense or forfeiture—and
Profits annually divided.
N.B. Policies for Short Periods at Lower Rates than at any
other Office, with option of continuance for Life, at the usual
rates.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Jun. 14.
(Before Vicn-Chancellor BRUCE.)
KING V. CHUCK.

Tho bill was filed in this cause by one of the execu-
tors and trustees of certain property against the residu-
ary legatee, his assignees, the claimaints on the
trust fund, and the personal representative of the person
who was the plaintiff's co-trustee and co-executor. The
bill prayed an account and adminstration of the estate.
The statement of the facts ran to great length, and was
not of a nature interesting enough to admit of its pub-
lication. The principal question raised was, as to the
right which one of the trustees had to be reimbursed for
certain sums alleged to have been expended by him in
repairs on the estate.
His HONOUR decreed the usual inquiries in such cases
to be made, and reported by the Master, with liberty to
state special circumstances.

BAIL COURT, Jan. 14.
COATSWORTII v. OLDARRE.

LONDON, SATURDAY, J ANUARY 15, 1842.

Gentleman then observed that he would not weary the
Court by referring to the manner in which his client
had bean obstructed in the discharge of his spiritual
dutiei. When he went round to the different patients
and left tracts for their religious improvement, he was
followed by Mr. Sergeant Adams, who took them away
again.
Mr. WIIITEIIIIRST did not think his Learned Friend
was justified in entering into these statements, which
were distinctly denied.
Lord DENMAN—My brother Holcombe is apologising
for not referring to-that part of the case.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Sergeant IJALcolenE had only referred to two or
three pages out of 300. Why, it was distinctly stated
that his client found Mr. Sergeant Adams in the desk
commencing the service, and in fact discharging all the
duties of the chaplain.—(Laughter.) After some further
observations, the Learned Counsel submitted that the
rule in this case ought to be made absolute.
The COURT expressed a clear opinion that this rule
must be discharged. The applicant appeared here to
dispute the power of the Visiting Justices either to ap-
point or dismiss the chaplain. Yet it was clear that
unless those Justices possessed the power to appoint,
the applicant had no right at all to come into Court with
this application, for, as he could not be removed from
an office to which he had not been appointed, his Com-
plaint that he was illegally removed implied that he had
been lawfully appointed. If, then, he was the chaplain
of the asylum, the question arose whether the Justices
who bad appointed had power to remove him. There
seemed no reason to doubt that they had such a power.
The 30th and 32d sections of the 9th George IV., cap.
40, must be read together, and then it was clear that
they gave the Justices the power to appoint the chaplain,
to regulate his duties, and to remove him if they saw
occasion to do so. It was true that this power was not
so clearly expressed in this
,pct as in the Goal Act,
because, in order to make i 4 out, two,- distinct sec-
tions required to be readioggher ; but there might be
good reasons for making some difference between the two
cases. The Gaol Act gave in express terms the power
of removal, but then it restricted the exercise of that
power to certain specified cases. There was no such re-
striction here, and could not be, for in some cases the
very approach to the performance of religious duties
might increase the malady of the patient, and it was
therefore absolutely necessary that the discharge of the
chaplain's duty should be left more in the discretion of
the Visiting Justices, acting on the advice of the physi-
cian, than could be done in the case of persons who,
though criminal, were in a sound state of mind, and to
whom, therefore, the administration of religious instruc-
tion must at all times be beneficial. The Justices had
therefore, in both cases, the appointment and the re=
movaliof the chaplain in their hands, and the Court now
was not willed on to decide whether they had rightly ex-
ercised the discretion vested in them. The rule must,
therefore, be discharged.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL asked that it might be dis-
charged with costs.
The COURT, in pursuance of the general rule, which
ordered that rules against Justices, if discharged, should
be discharged with costs, ordered it to be so.

This was an action brought to recover 301., the price
of a horse. The plaintiff is the proprietor of the
Favourite, Maidstone coach, and the defendant a saddler,
residing on Finsbury-pavement.
Mr. PASHLEY having opened the pleadings,
Mr. PLATT addressed the Jury for the plaintiff, and
said that the parties had agreed in the
first place to an exchange of horses, that after-
wards the defendant told the plaintiff that he did not
wish to exchange, but that he would purchase the horse of
the plaintiff, an entire horse, for the sum of 30/. to which
plaintiff, agreed. The horse was delivered over to the
defendant, and had remained in his possession ever
since, and this action was brought to recover the price
of it. What could be the meaning of the defendants
in paying 61. into Court, he (Mr. Platt) was at a loss to
conceive, nor could he understand the meaning of the plea
which had been put upon the record.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses
to prove his case, who were cross-examined by Mr. Pear-
son, with a view to prove that the horse was unsound.
At the conclusion of the case for the plaintiff,
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, asked Mr. Pearson, who ap-
peared for the defendant, if he could contradict the evi-
dence as to the bargain.
Mr. PEansori said he was not in a condition to do so; and
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 241.

INSOLVENT DERTORS' COURT, Jan. 13.
IN RE JOHN RANGELEY.
In this case the Insolvent was described as an engi-
neer and patentee for certain improvements in railways,
residing in Champion-grove, Camberwell. He was also
described as engineer to the Safety Rotation Company.
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He had been a bankrupt twice, and in the first in-
stance his debts and liabilities amounted to about 16,000/.
The debts set forth in his schedule under his present insol-
vency amounted to 1,724/. 4s. sd. During his exami-
nation he stated that several influential persons in the
City had formed a Company for the purpose of bringing
his invention (which consisted of a peculiar construc-
tion in the wheels made to run upon railways, by which
the danger of jumping from the rails would be avoided),
into practical effect. His wife was possessed of certain
property -vested in trustees, which produced about 200/.
per annum, and ho attributed his present insolvency to
the fact of his having expended large sums of money in
perfecting his mechanical inventions, from which he has
as yet derived but little emolument.,

NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE
CEREMONIAL FOR THE RECEPTION OF HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, AT THE GUILD-
HALL, LONDON, ON MONDAY, THE 17TH OF JANU-
ARY, 1842, AND ON PROCEEDING TO THE SITE OF
THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE, WHERE HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS WILL LAY THE FIRST STONE OF THE
EDIFICE.
The Lord Mayor and Aldermen, with the Sheriffs,
the Chairman and members of the Joint Gresham Com-
mittee. and the principal officers of the Corporation of
London, will be in attendance at the Guildhall at half-
past one o'clock precisely, to receive his Royal High.
ness, who will be introduced to the Lord Mayor in the
Common Council-chamber, where William Tite, Esq.,
F.R.S., the architect, will submit the plans of the new
building to his Royal Highness. A_procession from
thence to the site of the New Royal Exchange will be
formed in the order subjoined.
On their arrival at the site, the band will play the na-
tional air till the Lord Mayor takes his seat on the area,
and his Royal Highness his station by the side of the
stone, where he will be attended by four members of the
Committee, bearing the glass bottle for the coin, a glass
brick with an English inscription incrusted thereon ; the
mallet, and the level.
The Chairman of the Joint Gresham Committee, bew-
ing the trowel, will take his station on the side of the
stone opposite his Royal Highness.
The architect will then take his station on another side
of the stone, and exhibit the models of the new Ex-
change._

Th'e Clerk of the Committee will take his place oppo-
site the architect, with the plate on which the inscrip-
tionis engraved.

The member of the Committee, bearing the glass
bottle, will hold it to Prince Albert, who will place
therein the coin, which he will receive from Sir 'fames
Shaw, Bart, Chamberlain of London, and Mr. Joseph
Thomas Pooley, Esq., Master of the Mercers' Company.
And His Royal Highness having deposited the same in
the well of the stone, the member of the Committee bear-
ing the English inscription, incrusted on glass,
. presents
the same to his Royal Highness, which, being read by
Mr. James Barnes, the clerk of the Committee, his Royal
Highness will also deposit in the well
The Latin inscription, together with the translation,
will then be read by the architect, who will deliver the
engraved plate to his Royal Highness, which his Royal
Highness will deposit.
The Chairman will address his Royal Highness on
presenting him with the trowel. His Royal Highness
then will proceed with the ceremony, spreading the
mortar with the trowel

The stone will then be lowered to its place, under the
direction of Mr. Thomas Jackson, the contractor ; when
the members of the Committee, bearing the level and
mallet, will present them to his Royal Highness, to ad-
just and set the stone.
The City State sword and mace will then be placed
crossways on the stone, after which the Rev. Henry
Thomas, A.M., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, will offer
up an appropriate prayer, and the children belonging to
the charity school of the ward of Broad-street will sing
the National Anthem.

The Lord Mayor, with his Royal Higliness and the
invited guests, will then proceed in their carriages to
the Mansion House ; the Lord Mayor and his Royal
Highness going first.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Police Officers to clear the way.
City Marshalmen.
Water Bailiff's Waternien in state liveries.
ia Banners of the Arms of England.
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Banner, Mercers' Company. Banner, City of London.
Banner, Royal badges. The Union flag,
The Lord Mayors Beadle in state livery.
The Lord Mayor's Barvmaster in state dress.
Bargemen with Sheriffs' banner.
City Watermen with colours.
Captain of the Navigation Barge.
The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff
City Waterman with colours. •
Junior City Marshal on horseback.
Band.
The Contractor, Mr. Thomas Jackson.
The Architect, William Tite, Esq., F.R.S
_ _ _

Solicitor of the Mercers' Company—George Frederick
Prince Sutton, Esq.
The Clerk of the Mercers' Company and Joint Gresham
Committee—James Barnes, Esq.
Police Officers. The Under Sheriffs. Police Officers.
The City Solicitor.
The Remembrancer.
The Comptroller.
Police Officers. The Two Secondaries. Police Officers.
The Four Common Pleaders.
The Common-Sergeant.
The Town Clerk.

Police Officers. The Chamberlain. Police Officers.
Members of the Joint Gresham Committee.

Under Beadle, Masters of the Upper Beadle,
Mercers'Cumpany. Mercers'Company. Mercers'Company.
Joseph Thomas Pooley, Esq.,
Accompanied by the Chaplain.
Chairman of the Joint Gresham Committee,
Richard Lambert Jones, Esq.,
With the TroweL
:Mr. Sheriff Rogers in his state chariot.
Mr. Sheriff Magnay in his state chariot.
Aldermen who have not passed the chair.
The Recorder.
Aldermen who have passed the chair.

Banner of Princo Albert. - The Royal Standard.
Banner of the Lord Mayor.
The Suite of his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Upper City Marshal on Horseback.
Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's Household.
The Lord Mayor.
The Right Hon. John Pixie.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT,
In the State Carriage,
Attended by
The Chaplain, Swordbearer, Water-Bailiff, and Common
Crier.
Four City Watermen.
Four Water Bailiff's Watermen.
Police Officers.

It is necessary to inform the company who will honour
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress by dining with
them on Monday next, after the ceremony of laying the
first stone of the New Royal Exchange, that, by the de-
sire of Prince Albert, the dinner will be on table pre-
cisely at five o'clock, as the card of invitation specifies.

PRICE 5d

ALLEGED ABSTRACTION OF
DEAD ,BODIES.
Yesterday a Special General Meeting of the Directors
and Guardians of the poor of the parish of st. Maryle-
bone, took place in the board-room of the workhouse,
New-road, for the purpose of considering the Report of
a Committee appointed in November last, with respect to
the cases of the dead bodies of paupers sent, under the
orders of the Inspector-General appointed under the
Anatomy Act, to various Medical Schools, for anato-
mical examination.

Mr. RATHBONE having been appointed to the Chair,
a letter was read from the solicitor of Mr. Foster, a
medical gentlethan and a vestryman of St. Marylebone,
who was in attendance to support the application, pray-
ing to be furnished with all the documents in the posses-
sion of the Board, as also permission to have the evidence
of some of its officers in the matter, in support of charges
made by him—the subject having been taken up by the
Secretary of State for the. Home Department, and a
Commission appointed to investigate it, before whom he
would have to appear by Counsel.
Mr. THORNE, the Secretary, proceeded to read the
Report of the Committee,, which referred to the various
regulations adopted by the Board with respect to the
disposal of bodies of paupers under the Anatomy Act.
Amongst them were the following :—" That a pauper
dying in the workhouse, having no relation, should be
delivered up for the purposes of anatomy. That no
officer be permitted to send a body for such purpose
without the Board, or at the least two members
of the Board, shall have ascertained that such case
come under the provisions of the 7th, Bth, and 9th sec-
tions of the Anatomy Act ' • and that bodies, after under-
going examination, should be returned for the purposes
of Christian burial." The Committee, on instituting in-
quiries, found that the resolution of the Board had been
adopted up to the 28th November, 1839, forty-six bodies
being removed. Since that period eight bodies had been
removed for the purpose of anatomy, from that work-
house, none of which the Committee regret to state had
been returned, and they, moreover, find that the last-
mentioned eight bodies, viz.: Wm. Adamson, aged 32 ;
Jas. Wormall, 72 ; Ann Jackson, 18 ; Eliz. Cansey, 64 ;
Eliz. Stevens, 56; Ann Groves, 50; Ann Stevens, 68;
and Sarah Carns' 52, have been interred in Globe-fields,
in the parish of Stepney, as appears by certificates pro-
duced to them. On the 24th of November last the
Committee had been attended by Mr. Foster, a Vestry-
man, who stated he had charges to make against the me-
dical officers and master of the workhouse, as well as Dr.
Somerville, the Inspector of Anatomy, and particularly
with respect to the body of Elizabeth Stevens, her body
being sent out for dissection within twenty-four hours
after death, to the Kinnerton-street School, in defiance
of the Anatomy Act, which prescribed forty-eight hours.
The Committee found, with respect to this case, that the
subject died on the 22d of December, at one, A.M., and was
removed on the 23d, at nine, rat, forty-four hours afterr
death, and four less than the Act required.. Mr. Foste
farther stated; that the body of Wm. Adamson was sent
out minus of head, thorax, and abdomen. The Committee
find that a Coroner's Inquest had been held on this
body, its head having been .examined, the anatomical
meaning of the terms "no head, thorax, and abdomen,"
being that these parts already examined, were anatomi-
cally speaking of no further use to a teacher. The Re-
port, in conclusion, expressed the regret of the Com-
mittee that they were compelled to state that the mas-
ters of the workhouse have not been sufficiently careful
in carrying out the regulations of the Board, particularly
in allowing tvrenty-eight bodies to be returned, without
provision being made for the remainder of the expense
of the funerals, and also allowing the last eight-men-
tioned bodies to be interred at Globe-fields in unconse-
crated ground. Although such irregularities had taken
place, the Committee congratulated the Board that they
could not again occur, an order having been made pro-
hibiting any more bodies being given up for the pur-
poses of anatomy. Signed George Spencer Smith,
Chairman, J. Nisbett Walpole Eyre, W. Artand, and
Thomas Langham.
Mr. FOSTER being called on to make any observations
he wished, said, in consequence of the charges he (Mr.
Foster) had made with respect to a subject which was of
such vast importance to the public and to science, the
Secretary of State had thought proper to appoint a com-
mission to investigate it, and Dr. Somerville, the Inspec-
tor of Anatomy, had employed Counsel, and therefore it
was imperative on him to do the same, as the question
was to be conducted upon the dry spirit of the law. He
had come forward from no private or party motives, but
upon strictly public grounds, for the benefit of science,
the benefit of 'the poor, and the people at large. His
object in appearing before them was to call upom them
as a publießoard to assist him in so important an inquiry.
He had no doubt in the world of the truth of his allega-
tion, but he was called upon for proof, and he therefore
applied to the Board for permission to use certificates
and documents in their possession, in order that he
might be enabled to substantiate his case before the
Commissioners of the Secretary of State. He again re-
peated he had no sinister or personal motive in the mat-
ter ; it was purely on public grounds. He therefore
hoped the Board would not stand in the way of public
investigation.

The report of the Committee having been adopted,
The Rev. E. SCOBELL said the subject was one of the
greatest importance, in his opinion, that had ever come
under public notice, and that Board, however it might
be implicated, ought not to stand in the way of public
inquiry. With regard to the disposal of the bodies in
the ground at Globe-fields, he should like to know in
what position the Board were to stand; whether or no
they were, as it were, to be put upon their trial before
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

Mr. FOSTER said the Board could not possibly be im-
plicated in the question, as the disposal of the bodies had
taken place contrary to their regulations. It, however,
embraced the conduct of the Guardians of the Kensing-
ton Union, of the parishes of Shoreditch, St. Mary,
Lambeth, and others, under the Poor-law, as well as the
Administrator of the Anatomy Act. There was a slight
error in the Report of the Committee, but which would
be very material before the Commissioners. In the case
of Elizabeth Stevens, the Report made the delivery of
the body on the 23d of December, whereas the certifi-
cate of the Kinnerton-street School he had seen, showed
that it was not received there till the 24th. The fact
'was, that instead of being sent direct to the Kinnerton-
street School of Anatomy, University College had first
the benefit of it, that institution being made a species of
depot for subjects.
Mr. THORNE, the Secretary, said the documents re-
quired by Mr. Foster, as also the certificates, had pre-
viously been handed over to the Inspector of Anatomy,
for the purpose of being placed in the hands of the Se-
cretary of State.
Mr. FOSTER said that was very unfortunate, as those
documents and certificates were the very things upon
which his complaint was founded. He could not expect
Dr. Somerville to use them otherwise than to support
his own case. He was therefore bound to produce the
best evidence he could, which he considered would be a
copy of the report read that day, and the evidence of the
Secretary of the Board.
The CHAIRMAN considered the report would be a com-
plete answer.
Mr. W. EIRE thought very differently. It could not
be a complete answer, inasmuch as it showed great ne-
glect of duty.
In answer to other questions from members of the
Board,
Mr. FOSTER stated, that the Commission would not re-
ceive his single affirmation or oath, and, therefore, in the
absence of the certificates and other documents, the Re-
port, supported by the evidence of the Secretary, might
be sufficient. If it was not, he should feel it his duty to
petition Parliament to appoint a Commission to call for
the production of all evidence, as he was determined not
to let the matter rest. If this were granted, he believed,
with the other evidence he possessed, he should be able
to make out his case, that within a period of 17 months,
no less than 254 bodies of paupers had been deposited in
Globe-fields in defiance of the law, and that bodies had
been removed improperly for the purpose of profit.
The Rev. E. SCOBELL thought the Board were bound
to lend every endeavour in so important an inquiry, to
elucidate the facts, and he would move that the applica-
tion of Mr. Foster be acceded to.

lir. ARTAND seconded the proposition. It was true
that with regard to the charges against the Inspector of
Anatomy they could have no control ; but he trusted,
with regard to the neglect of their own officers, it would
become a matter of future inquiry.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. W. EYRE was not opposed to giving every facility
to the inquiry; but as the correctness of the Report of
the Committee had been disputed, it ought to be sent
back to them.

Mr. SKINNER trusted such a proposition as the last
would not be contemplated, as it would entirely shackle
investigation on the part of the Board. If bodies were sent
from workhouses for such a purpose, they had no right
to be used improperly for the mere purposes of profit.
Messrs. Perry, Eyre, Graves, and others addressed the
Board upon the subject ; and on the question being put,
the resolution was carried by a large majority.
The Board then separated.