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4'. (From the AugAurgh Gazette, of Jan. 10.)
The ginisters of State exorcising the authority of -
censors, hare addressed to the superior Presidents of the
provinces the following remarkable instruction to the
censors, in order to render the application of their at-
tributes more uniform. From this day the press is to
be affranchised from those inconvenient restrictions
which do not coincide with the King's views ; conse-
quently his Majesty has, by a superior order, dated
January 10, declared his disapprobation of all inoppor-
tune enthralment of the press. The Monarch recog-
nises the necessity of countenancing a free and re-
spectful publicity, and enjoins the censors .not to lose
sight of Article 2 of the Edict of the Censure,
dated October 18th, 1819. According to this edict
the Censure is not to oppose any serious research -
after truth, nor raise any inconvenient obstacle to
free trade in books. The object is to prevent any publi-
cation contrary to the precepts of religion, to morality,
and to good conduct, as also to ceenbat the fanatic '
adoption of religious axioms and dogmas in politics, and
the false ideas which result therefrom. Also to obviate
any circumstance which might compromise the safety
of Prussia and of the other States of the Confederation.
The privileges of the Censure ought not to be exec- ' ;
cised with narrow views, and contrary to the spirit of ..•,
the law. The censor may authorise a free discus- .ye
sion of even the affairs of the State. The incon- ".
testible difficulty which existed in determining the
true limit should not lead from a true application of
the law, nor inspire that anxiety which has already
given rise to false and lamentable interpretations of the
Government views. Although it be impossible to fore-
see every particular case which may result from in-
structions of this nature, the education and the position
of the censors are a certain guarantee that they will
maintain a mean term, thus conciliating what is due to
science and to morality, and what is owing to private in-'
terest as well as to general. Hence it results that
writings containing an opinion upon the administration.-
or upon one of its branches, of laws enacted or to be en-
acted, indicating errors, or false ideas, or ameliorations,
ought not to be repulsed because they are conceived in
a sense contrary to that of the Government, provided
always the editing of the same be worthy, and its ten-
dency
-benevolent. The limits within which Govern-
ment me 'sures may be subjected to a critique of this us.
ture depends upon the manner in which the debates of
the Rhenish States have been published ; but it must
never be lost sight of that the observations addressed
to the Government must not have a malevolent charac-
, ter. It is also essential for the censors to ;now how to'
make a distinction of this nature. Their attention-
must be directed to the form and to the tone of the
works, and to the prohibition of their publication if
they in them perceive a passionate, violent, or arroont
spirit. Al. that is contrary to the Christian religion, oe
to any dogma of that religion, must not be tolerated.
It must also be the same as regards anything which
may offend morale'', or which is contrary to decency.
Offensive expressions to individuals, wounding their
honour, must not be printed. The same role must be
observed also with regard to a criticism of private
opinions, or of entire classes of society, the use of party
names, and other personalities. If the Censure be ex-
ercised according to these indications, conformably with
the edict on the Censure of the 18th of October,
1819, a sufficient publicity may, thus be enjoyed, anti
be conformable with the rules of good conduct.. Hence
,will result a- greater sympathy for the interests:
of the country, whilst the national prosperity, will
be a gainer thereby. Thus it is permitted to hope that
political literature and the daily press will the better
understand their object, will assume a more worthy
tone, and will not seek to speculate upon public curi-
osity, by- communicating unmeaning articles bor-
rowed from foreign journals, or news furnished
by ill-disposed or ill-informed correspondents, and by
reproducing personalities. The Censure is evidently
delegated not to tolerate such a state of things, but to
attain this end it is necessary to act with the greatest
precaution when new journals are authorised •or
new • editors admitted. The daily press ought
to be confided only to respectable men, whose
knoeledge, position, and character, are the goo-
rantee for the loyalty of their sentiments. - Tii4s,
same prudent course ought to be adopted in nominating
Censors, in order that the attributes of the Censure may
be confided only to men of integrity and capacity, and
who can prove worthy the confidence reposed in them--e
men knowing skilfully how to discern between the sense
and the form, and in this respect, with a certain tact,
form their determinations. In charging the superior
President to give the necessary instructions to the cen-
sors within his jurisdiction, we believe that on his side
1 he will reflect on the present letter of instruction in
order to fulfil the intentions of his Majesty the King.
(Signed) DE ROCHHON,
Minister of the Interior.
EICHHORN,
Min. of Pub. Instruction and Worship.
Count de MALTZAHN,
Minister for Foreign Atrqirs.
Berlin, Dec. 26, 1841. '

INQUEST- ON -A PAU PER-EXTRit--
ORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.
On Friday last an inquest was held before Mr. Walt-
ley, in the board-room of the Hendon Union workhouse,
on view of the.body of John Catlin, upwards of eighty
years of age, an inmate of that workhouse.
The. Coroner haVing received notice of the death,
issued his warrant for the summoning a Jury to meet
at the Workhouse, and proceeded to join them. In the
high road, when about to alight from his carriage, Mr.
Wakley found Mr. Tootell, the solicitor, of Edgware;
and clerk to the Board of Guardians of the Hendon
Union, waiting in his gig to announce to him that he
must proceed to an inn on the London-road, some dis-.
tance froth the workhouse, to hold the inquiry,- as the
Jury had been directed-that morning to assemble there
instead of at the workhouse, and that tho Coroner would
there also find the constable. The Coroner expressed hie
astonishment at this proceeding, and inquired the cause;
Mr. Tootell replied, that the Guardians refused to til
low any more inquests to be held in the workhouse.
The CORONER said that surely Mr. Tootell, as a law,
yer, must be aware that the Coroner was bound to hold
his inquest super ',ism corporis, and that he could
force
.his power of entering any place where the body
might lie, in order to fulfil the demands of the law. • '
Mr. Tootell replied that that might be quite true, as
regarded the Coroner and jury being admitted to see.the
body, but that they must then immediately depart and
hold • the inquest somewhere else. Such were the direc-
tions of the Board of Guardians, and any attempt on the
part of the Coroner to enter the building there to hold
the inquest, would be resisted, and the doors barred
aginst him.
The CORONER said he should be extremely sorry to
resort to force, but he was determined that the power of
his office and the interests of the poor should not suffer
in his peron, and that if the entry of the Coroner and
the Jury were opposed, be should at once call in the aid
of the police, and, with the assistance of a sledgehammer
from Edgware, he doubted not he should speedily ob•
tain the required admission. Nothing shall prevent me
from- holding the -inquest in the workhouse. The
Coroner then alighted from his carriage, and having
requested Mr. Mills, his secretary, to proceed to the
inn and obtain the immediate attendance of the Jury
at the workhouse, went through the gates to the
front door, where ho was admitted. Two of the
Jurymen had at that juncture just arrived at the
workhouse, and pointed out to the porter that
-they had been summoned for that place by direc-..
tion of the Coroner, and complained with much vexation
at their being expected to go on such a day, or at
• any other time, from a building that belonged to the rate.-
payerS to a distant house, when the 'body was in the
Workhduse. In a short time le, Jur) men were in at-4
tendance in the hell, the remainder having arrived !frolvi
the inn with the constable, who placed:now for the first
time before-the Coroner the copy of the resolution Of the
Board of G mu-di:ins, which had been given to the constabret
on the previous evening, with an order from the Guardians
that he should alter his summonses to the Jurymeu, and
assemble them at the inn, instead of at the workhouse..
The Jury one and all expressed. their gratification .at
the intention of the Coroner; and agreed that they had
never heard -of a more. scandalous 'proceeding than the
attempt to exclude them froni their own building on such
an occasion.
Mr. Tootell here sent for theltev. Mr. Mutter, one of
the Guardians, on whose arrival the party were still re-
maining in the hall and lodge below.
The CORONER, addressing Mr. Mutter, pointed out to
the Reverend Gentleman the extraordinary, osition in
which he had been placed, and concluded by saying to
him, " I have now obtained admission into the premises,
and here I shall remain to hold my inquest, and if you or
your officers cannot find a suitable place for the Jury to
assemble in, I will see what. I can do myself."
No steps being taken to find such a room, the Coroner
left the hall, followed by the Jury, and proceeded -up
stairs to the door of the board-room, which he found
locked. The Rev. Mr. Mutter having also followed _him,
wished to know whether he was quite resolved to find a
room on the premises for the inquest, and on the Coroner
once more repeating that he certainly was, the key of
the board-room was produced, and the Coroner and
Jury admitted.
A long discussion took place as to what occurred on a
former occasion, and the inquiry was proceeded with, but
presented no features of public interest.
The Jury returned a verdict that " John Catlin died
from effusion of serum on the brain, produced by a natu-
ral cause."

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The returns of wine exported from Oporto last
yeaigive 26,355 pipes, out of which 21,505 pipes weva
sent to Great Britain and the British possessions. ...
SIR ALEXANDER BURNES.—A very paintut
feeling was excited here on the arrival of the India mail
on Sunday last, by the appearance of a paragraph in.t
ose"
venal papers, stating, on the authority tat* tb" letter l• ro
Meerut, that an insurrection of Affghans place.haduk.einiii ,
in Cabul, and that Sir Alexander Burnes ivasnlsl
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severely wounded. We ere happy to learn, 9
crietni:ays, .
that no confirmation of this melancholy'.
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been received by Sir Alexander's famreed
of the Duke cit
the contrary, the. necounts they hare esivet.4_
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strongest presumption of its being
untrue.—Montroge
Standard.: .
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Viscointe de Rohari Chabot, Aide-de-Camp to
The Viscomte-way.
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