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CORONER'S IIiQUEST.

Now ready, price Is.
ARISTOCRATIC TAXATION, its present
State, Origin; and Progress, with proposals for Reform
" What centuries of unjust. deeds are here ?"—Page 33
.Tames Ridgway, Piccadilly ; and Simms and Dinham,
Manchester.

Yesterday forenmai a lung inquiry, adjourned from Thurs.
s lay hat, was reseteed b: fore Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a most
' respectable Jury, at the infirmary of St. Marylehone Work-
house, New-road, on the body el-WilFam Chapman, aged 47,
ormerly a linendraper in an extensive way of business at
Pentonville, who was alleged to have died in consequence of
improper treatment at the hands of the
Alaty Hill said, the deceased was her brotliee He formerly
was a linendraper in a large way of business at Pentonvi 'e,
but had become reduced in circumstances, and lately lie,' in
Oxford-headings, Oxford-street, and had been whop, main-
•aincd by herself and husband fur some time, being from :115
birth affected with paralysis of the left arm and tl e when of
the left silo. On Saturday week last she met him in Caven-
dish-square, and gave him some money for his support, and
eas to meet him in the evening to give him some more. He
Aas a perfectly sober man, and she had never known him to be
intoxicated in her life, At 11 o'clock on the same night she
heard be was in the station-house at Marylebone-lane, and she
went there to see him. The police were very rough to her,
and would scarcely give her any information about deceased,
only that "he was drunk." They would not permit her to go
to the cell to see him ; but after great entreaties brought him
him up
h hee
was not drunk, bat very ill.
was quite insensible, and
bet persisted in his being drunk,
,u,:ihacetayot
onruc.
el
dtOonlondt
tbbhreeil
ieve eghee
and said :hat was what he was cloirged with. She gut him
bail et, the charge of drunkenness ; but not having sufficient
money to pay for a cab to take him home, she was
persuaded
to let him stay there all night, and ga money to a man named
Robinsen to.get, him some breakfastta the morning, and the
police said he .would be seen to. This said they had found
him drunk in Gee's-court, at four titii7eTeifeernoon, sitting on a
step.. On going next morning to therTatiltuie, she found
lie had just been removed to Afarylehone workhouse, where she
afterwards saw him. She was positive he was not intoxicated
when she saw. him at the station-house.
Dr. R. Boyd, resident physician and surgeon of Marylebone
infirmary, was then sworn. Ile said deceased was brought
thereabout eleven o'clock on Sunday morning in a
perfect state -
of paralysis and convulsions, on a stretcher, and he was in-
formed that he had been al night in the station-house. Every
effort was used to -produee reaction, but the deceased died. at
four o'clock the next morning. lie had since, bit the Coroner's
orJer, made a post mortem examination of the body. He found
extensive disease of the brain of long standing on the right
side. One half of the right hemisphere was perfectly ab-
sorbed, and the space supplied by fluid. The left brain weighed
eighteen ouncegand a half. and the right rely nine ounces and
a quarter. Ile did not think that the deceased's life could have
been saved, or his death accelerated, by .any treatment he bad
received at the hands of the police. A man with the brain in
such a state as that of the deceased might give all the appear-
ances of a t'runken man, and be found in a state of stupor.
The ConoNee saidit wee amost abominable practice, when
there were surgeons so easy of access, for the police to lock
up people presumed to be intoxicated without taking medical
opinion thereon, and it was throwing on the police themselves a
degree of responsibility which they ought not to be permitted
to bear.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TUE EVENING PAPERS OF YEATERDA T.
GLOBE.—The policy of Sir Robert Peel is ob-
rious. He has a marvellous strength of affection for
the forms of antiquity when those forms are at vari-
ance with popular rights ; but when they tend to
facilitate and strengthen the expression of public
opinion, he has no objection to their being rescinded,
as inconvenient and troublesome. Mr. Duncombe
warned the Premier of the consequences which would
assuredly follow his opposition to the reception of the
petition now in question. "Suppose," said the Hon.
Member, "the Right Honourable Baronet to
succeed in rejecting the petition to-day, how much
farther will he have advanced ? To-morrow he
will have to fight the same battle over again." Loud
and continued cheering followed this announcement ;
the import of which was explained, when, immediately
that the vociferous cheering of the Opposition on the
virtual defeat of the Government had. ceased, Mr. W.
Cowper, the Member for Hertford, gave notice of his
intention to move this evening, that a petition which
had been placed in his hands against the income tax
be received. We cannot imagine that Sir 13,iihert
Peel- Will'persfst in his opposition after the practical
hint of last night. The right of petitioning may, we
apprehend, be regarded as safe from the endeavour
of- the Premier to suppress it ; and the table of the
House. Will be loaded with petitions against the tax,
so soon as the unconstitutional obstruction to tii-eir
reception is abolished.
-STANDARD.—It will be seen by our parlia-
mentary report that Mr. Thomas Duncombe has vir-
tually succeeded in overthrowing the customary law
of • Parliament as to the exclusion of petitions
against an impending tax. We say - virtually suc-
ceeded ; for though the motion of the Member for
Finsbury was rejected by a majority of one, we
are not sufficiently broken in to Whig humility
to regard such a majority as anything but a
virtual defeat. The gentlemen who supported
Mr. Duncombe will soon have ample opportunity
of testing the wisdom and patriotism of their
conduct; the income tax and the 600 or 700 items
Of the tariff will soon produce an ample harvest of
petitions : the field is wide ; it is sown broadcast,
and it will not want plenty of local cultivators.
Every man who has, or thinks he has, an interest
that may be impaired, or an interest that may
be promoted, but seems not to be promoted,
by the income tax, or any item of the
tariff, will of course estir himself, and he will
have as his assistants all the rabble of Whigs,
Radicals, and Chartists, who, Without any parti-
cular interest, real or imaginary, will eagerly seize
upon an opportunity of embarrassing the Govern-
ment; add to these the multitude, who, without po-
litical bias of any kind, and without interest in the
matter, will still feel called upon, by the sense of
their own wisdom and importance, to interpose as
amateur legislators. We can guess the proportion of
such persons by the number of letters addressed to
people as humble as ourselves, all suggesting some
improvements in the financial plan—all most gra-
ciously'ready to follow the Minister—if he will only
take the path that they nark' out. The mischief is,
that the paths are all different. Yes, there will be
plenty of petitions.
COURIER.—Were the revival of trade and the
general welfare of the country not paramount in
every patriotic mind to every party consideration,
the supporters of the Government would have
but little reason to complain of the protraction
of the debate on the property and income tax,
inasmuch as, the more thoroughly Sir Robert Peel's
propositions are sifted, the more searchingly the
grounds upon which they avowedly rest are examined,
and the closer they are contrasted with the alternative
hinted at, rather than specifically proposed by Lord
Joan Russell, the more clearly will their adequacy,
soundness, and feasibility appear. It was well ob-
served by Lord Stanley, in his admirable speech last
night, that however widely men may differ in opinion
as to the propriety of meeting the deficiency in the
way proposed, all were perfectly agreed as to the ne
cessity of dealing with it yigormsly, promptly and effi-
ciently. All were agreed that the day of make-shifts
• had-passed away—that the maguktude of the evil forbad
further recurrence to paltry contrivances or doubtful ex-
pedients. The force with which this view of the subject
was urged by Lord Stanley, aided by its intrinsic
truthfulness, told upon the House as it will tell upon
the country, with excellent effect. But great as were
his Lordship's services last night—effective as was
his manner of sweeping away okeetions, however
gaudily and meretriciously-attired—and conclusively
impressive as were his arguments in favour of the
course determined upon by the Cabinet after mature
deliberation—we much doubt if the combined force
of his clearness and eloluence will so largely con-
tribute towards popularising 'the Measures of Govern-
ment, as the various valuable admissions with regard
to them wrung from the most resolute and determined
of their opponents.

and the young child then silently struck a-light, dressed them-
aches, and in a state of the most fearful suspense awaited the
issue of this extraordinary proceeding. Long, so at least it
seemed to them, did they thus remain, every moment expect-
' ing that the robbers would make their appearance; nor with-
out too much reason. They heard the intruders push their
chairs from under them, and throw down their knives and
forks, and almost immediately the sound of the footsteps
of men aacending the stairs reached their affrighted ears.
The child hid hrself in one corner of the room, and
the prosecutrix, as the robbers, having found the door
fastened, demanded instant admission, ran to the win-
dow and shrieked out for help as loud as her feeble and
trembling voice enabled her. The burglars upon this, with
many oaths, burst open the door, and rushed in. They had
their faces blackened, apparently with soot, and the shorter
of the two men ran up to the prosecutriz, seized her, and
aimed a fierce blow at her head with a bar of wood, which
it afterwards appeared had formed the insecure " fastening"
of the window by which the ruffians entered. They then took
an old family watch from its place at the bed's head, and with
horrid menaces demanded money, which was given them.
The men insisted that the prosecutrix had more than the sum
she had surrendered, and upon her saying that she had not,
the man with the wooden bar gave her a terrific blow. with it,
and knocked her upon. the floor senseless. During all this
time the child had remained unnoticed in the place to which
she had fled for safety, and saw what was going on. The taller
man, who carried the light which they brought- with them,
held it during a part of this scene in such amanner as to enable
her to see that he was the prisoner Sexton, notwithstanding the
blackening of his features. She hadknown him for the greater
portion of her short life, bat prudently kept her knoWledge to
herself-until the robbers had quitted the houie.'Whpn they had
slotte-eez. she crept from her phurr-of-contataliseritwad-Insi
nistered what'aid she conffl to her mistress, who after some
time recovered her senses, and thou the little creature told her
that Sexton was one of the men. This happened on the morn-
ing of the shortest day, and they had still some hours to pass
before their neighbours were astir or the morning dawned.
At the sound of the first friendly step they called for assistance,
and the person, who was going to his work, made his entry by
the door which the robbers had left open in their escape. It
was then discovered that the burglars had eaten and drank
whatever they found in the widow's cupboard including a
bottle of rum, which they uncorked, and the greater portion o f
a bottle of brandy. Assistance was immediately obtained, and.
Sexton's house searched. He had just risen from his bed as
the police and their followers entered, and Hall, the other
prisoner, was in the bed. They were of course both taken
into custody, and their faces, albeit not so much begrimed with
soot as they were a few hours before, were still very black and
dirty, and the bedclothes on which tlieir faces had rested were
very much marked with soot. Hall is a shorter man than
Sexton, and his dress corresponded exactly with that of the
second robber, the man by whom the violence was inflicted upon
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itfr. Sergeant ATCHIRLEY summed up the evidence with
•his accustomed clearness and fidelity, explaining the law and
commenting upon the facts as he proceeded.
The Jury found Hall Guilty of the entire charge contained
iv the indictment, viz., burglary. attended with violence, and
Sexton Guilty of simple burglary, he having endeavoured to
persuade his more bru'al companion against using so much
violence, and refused to give him a pistol when he called for
one during the bed-room scene.
The' Learned Ju E, after commenting most impressively on
the enormity of the offence of which the prisoners were con-
victed, and the necessity of throwing around the dwellings of
the poor and humble the protection of the laws, sentenced
Sexton to be transported for 15 years. With respect to the
prisoner Hall, his Lordship said he shotild consider whether it
was necessary that the law should take its course, by leaving
him to expiate his crime on the gallows.
On the f Mowing morning the Learned Ju DG E desired Hall
to be placed at the bar, which having been done, and silence
proclaimed, his Lordship sentenced him to be executed, ex-
horting him, in an address replete with feeling, not to indulge
any yam hope of mercy, but to spend the short remainder of
his days in penitence and prayer to his offended Maker.

Inspector Tedman said that he cord,' produce witnesses who
saw the deceased 'triggering as if intoxicated before he was
found by the policeman.
The CORONEIL said, that only showed the extreme diffi-
culty in deciding on such eases, and the absolute necessity of
calling in medical aid. Another point, arid which 1V3.1 of equal
importance, was the system of placing a man who was drunk
in a cell, without any place upon which his head could rest
above the level of his body. The result of this was, that
frequently the determination of blood to the head would
cause a vessel to give way. and produce apoplexy. The floors
of the stations ouget to be built on inclines, or there ought to
be inclined seats, with straps to keep drunken persons in an
upright position.

REWARD OF - ONE HUNDRED
POUNDS FOR THE APPREHENSION OF GOOD.
But little doubt exists that in the course of a few hours Da-
niel Good will be in the custody of the Police, as, about one
o'clock on Sunday, an order came from Sir J. Graham, the
Secretary of State, to tl.e Police Commissioners, autho-
rising them to offer a reward of One Hundred Pounds,
for the apprehension of Daniel Good. That the retreat of
the murderer is known there cin be no doubt, from the
fact that on Sunday night and to-day several of the lower
class of Irish, living in the vicinity of Tooley-street,having made
inquiries of the polies whether any reward was likely to be
offered in the course of Monday, and whether theidhought
it would be a large sum or not. It is also known .that he
has some cousins residing in the above locality, and that
he is otithe Surrey side of the water is strongly supported by
a lengthened report laid before the Commissioners of Police,
by Mr. Superintendent 11.Iallalieu, of the R or Greenwich di-
vision, which in substance is as follows :—About half-past nine
o'clock on Sunday night a man, who evidently was Good, went
into the Union public-house, situated at the eastern ex-
tremity of Greenwich, and as scion as he entered the tap-room
ordered a pint of beer, which was brought in and .drank
off at a draught. He.th.en asked for a penny loaf, which
he began to eat in a ravenous manlier.. His manner and con-
duct excited th se present ; when one of the parties said,
should like to know whether Good is talCtn." The wort!s_were
scarcely. out of the moue,' of the spesker, borore the roan ran
out, leavaig the bread behind. He was lolloeed, and from
the sound of the footsteps, took the direction • towards.
the marshes,'but was lost sight of. - The police, however, on
duty at this part of Greenwich saw nothing of such a person,
while at 'an early hour on Monday the various inlets were
searched, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he had de-
stroyed himself, but up to the time. of Mr. Bal'antine leav-
ing no-discovery was made.

ANTI-CORN-I..AW VERSUS THE

CHARTER.

A public meeting of the Metropolitan Young Men's Anti-
Monopoly Association, convened by this Association at the
Political Institute, 55, Old Bailey, terminated on Monday last,
having been adjourned for three evenings, to consider "Whether
there was any truth in the assertion so frequently made, that
there is no hope of obtaining a repeal of the Corn-laws until
the Charter becomes the law of the land." Messrs. H.
Preston, jun., Lyon, Shaw, P. A. Taylor, jun., White, Hogg,
1.01119, Booth, and others, addres ed the meeting in favour of
free trade. Messrs. Webber, Peate, Martin, Fussey, Cowan,
Wall, &a., spoke on behalf of the Charter. But it was not till
near the close of the discussion that the admission was wrung
from the Chartists that the Corn-law repealers were most
likely to obtain their objects first, thus yielding the point in
question. The most perfect order and good feeling continued
throughout the whole of the discussion, and the meeting quietly
dispersed at a late hour till Monday -next, when it is proposed
to consider whether the present depressed state of the country
is to be attributed to the effects of machinery.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.
Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of business.
The LORD MA yott. presented the answers of the Queen,
Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, to addresses of the
Court on the subject of the birth of the Prince of Wales,
which were severally ordered to be entered on the journals.
HONOUR CONFERRED BY THE QUEEN UPON

THE CITY OF LONDON.
The Loan MAyou. presented to the Court the following
letters, announcing her Majesty's gracious intention to confer
the rank of Baronet upon the Lord Mayor of the City of
London.

illy Dear Lord Mayor,— I Leg to report to you in writing,
what I had the satisfaction of intimating personally to you at
the Drawing-room, on Thursday last, that in consideration of
your holding the high and distinguished trust of the Lord Mayor
of the City of London at the birth of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, her Majesty has signified her gracious inten-
tion of conferring upon you the rank of a Baronet.
It is gratifying to me personally, from the esteem in which 1.
hold your private character, to be the channel of a communi-
cation, which, I trust, will be satisfactory to your feelings. —I
have the honour to be, my dear Lord, very faithfully yours,
Whitehall, April 9th, 1842. ROBERT PEEL.
My Lord Mayor,—l have received her Majesty's gracious
commands to announce to your Lordship that she has been
pleased to confer on you the dignity of a Baronet of the
United Kingdom, in commemoration of the auspicious event,
that on the day when the Heir Apparent to the Throne was
born, you were raised by the confidence and favour of your fellow
citizens to the high honour of presiding as Chief Magistrate
over the Corporation of the City of London
I consider myself fortunate in conveying to your Lordship
the intimation of the favour of our Sovereign, and I congratu-
late you sincerely on the honourable reward of a life which you
have devoted to useful and creditable exertions.—l have the
honour to be, my Lord Mayor, your faithful servant,
Whitehall, 9th April, 1842. J. R. G. GRA HAM.
The Court received the communication with loud cheers,
and expressed the high satisfaction they felt at. the conferring
of this honour upon a gentleman so highly distinguished for
public and private virtues. The letters were ordered to be
entered on the journals of the Court, with the intimation that
the Court felt high gratification that Mr. Pixie was the indivi-
dual upon whom the honour fell; and the resolution was or-
dered to be advertised in the usual Morning and Evening
Newspapers.
Some observations were made by several members of the
Court upon the inconvenience and expense arising from a re-
cent non-attendance at the Central Criminal Court of one of
the City Judges, arising (as appeared from the explanatiGn)
from circumstances altogether beyond his control, and a motion
was made which was subsequently withdrawn.
Mr. Laurie was sworn in a Special Pleader of the Corpora-
tion of London.—Adjourned.

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number of the most wealthy of the original partners of the
Reufrewshire Bank, who withdrew from the concern several
years ago, but did not take the precaution of advertising out,
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such an extent has this statement obtained belief that the D.
notes, which were offered as low as Is. f3d. each, and no buyers,
are now rising in the market, and the holders seem firm in
their determination to retain possession till the full amount is
paid. Glasgow Post.
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Castle bank of Edinburgh there exists a huge block of gneiss,
bearing a rudely engraved inscription in ancient Runic charac-
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Sweden, about half a century ago, by the late Sir Alexander
Seton of Preston. A literal sranslation of the inscription runs
as follows:_" Ari caused engrave this stone to the memory
of Hialm his father. God help his soul." ' The stone bears
the mark of the cross, but is undoubtedly much more than a
thousand years old.
. SIR JAMES C tmettrt,i, !—On Friday, the Lord
Provost Campbell left fo: London, with the intention, no doubt,
of at last being put in possession of the long looked or honour
of knighthood. Councillor Drysdale of Edinburh, we under-
stand, leaves that city to-day on a similar errand ; and we may
therefore look forward to Wa.dnesday nest as the great, the
important day, which is to crown the hopes and the fears and
the anxious longings of both with success. The Chief Magis-
trate of Glasgow is to return as plain James Campbell no more.
His fellow-citizens will, no doubt, highly estimate the honour
conferred upon the head of the Corporation. We understand
that Provost Campbell and Councillor Drysdale would have
been knighted at the last levee, when they presented the con-
gratulatory addresses from their respective Corporations ; hut
this, it was found, would form a precedent as regarded O'Con-
nell; and they are again to be presented, not in their official
capacity, but as private individuals, at the levee on Wednesday
next, when knighthood can be conferred without any tear of
the Liberator before the eyes of thiMiaistry.—Gktsgoto Argus.