Star.
London, England, 1830-04-05 00:00:00

BOW.STREET.

TEE FATAL OCCUItiNCI IN Buzz.— Saturday a gentle-
man, who we understood was a banister, and relata to Captain
Moir, who has been committed to Chelmsford Gaol for the murder
of a fisherman named Malcolm, by shooting him, came to this
office and presented himself before Mr. HALLS, the only Magistrate
on the bench, to request his assistance under the following circum-
stances :—The gentleman, whose feelings appeared to be a good
deal agitated, stated that his application was of a very pecu.
liar nature—it was on behalf of Captain Moir, who had been
committed on the warrant of the Coroner for Essex, to take his
trial for the murder of a man named Malcolm, on his (the Cap.
tab's) estate, Shelhaven Farm, near Barking. It was the
anxious desire of the Captain and his friends that a medical
gentleman, who was acquainted with the family, should have
an opportunity of viewing the body of the deceased, to enable
him to give a correct description of the injury which had been in-
flicted in the arm of the deceased; as the statement of the surgeo.
before the Coroner's Jury on that subject was not satisfactory. Thc
body of the deceased was lying at the house of a brother at Ham-
mersmith, and application had been made to him to permit a sur-
geon to examine it, but he had positively refused to accede to the
request. The body was soon to be buried in Hammersmith Church,
and it was of very great importance that It should not be consigned
to the grave till a further examination had taken place.
Mr. HALLS said that he did not possess any power to compel
the brother of the deceased to allow the body to be further exa-
mined. The question relating to the cause of the death of the de.
cased had already been investigated by a Coroner's Jury, who had
evidently been medalled with the evidence of the surgeons who had
spoke to the cause of the man's death, and unless the brother of
the deceased thought proper to comply with the request, he (Mr.
Halls) did not see what power existed to compel him.
The gentleman observed that the deceased did not die from the
effects of the wound. Had the wound been properly attended to,
the deceased would have recovered; but he bad been neglected;
lock-jaw was the consequence, and that occasioned his death. It
was important that more than one surgeon should view the body,
that that fact should be put beyond all question ; and it could not
be done unless the brother permitted the examination to take place.
Mr. HALLS said he would willingly render any assistance te
further the ends of justice, but he could not interfere.
The gehtleman said that he should proceed to the Secretary of
State's Office, and endeavour to obtain an order for preventing the
interment of the corpse till it had undergone another surgical in-
spection.
Mr. HALLS said that he could not advise the gentleman, he must
adopt his own course, when the conversation terminated, and the
gentleman withdrew.
UNION-HALL

On complaint of the Honorary Secretary of the Society against
Cruelty, Henry Erring, the boy of Mr. Clout, butcher, was fined
10s. and Os. costs, under Martin's Act, by Mr. Horz, for cruelly
beating and furiously driving the horse.

MEMBERS AND TIIEIR SPEECHES.—The solicitude
of NOW Members respecting the appearance of their speeches in
print is very characteristic of the individuals. The of
reads the proofs of his speeches, but he makes very few alterations ;
if the sense of what he has said be accurately and clearly conveyed,
be shows very little solicitude about the identity of words, or the
character of the style. Mr. W— on the contrary, is never
satisfied. He alters, revises. reverts to the original word, changes
it again and again, casts and recasts every sentence, and could the
distressed printers wait foe him, the correction of a single speech
would occupy more time than the concoction and delivery of it. Nu
man is more pragmatic than Mr. D—, and if the initial E of his
Christian nome be omitted, as a distinction from the Member for
Cheshire, a statement is sure to reach the Newspaper office next day,
that there are two Mr. D'—s in the House, namely, Mr. D.
of Cheshire, and Mr. E. D.D—, of Skoftesbory. We see assured
that Mr. E. D. D. sent his recent long speech in hi& to the Morn-
ing Herald. and ordered five hundred copies of the paper which was
to contain it. The next day besaw a Reporter's report of the speech
in a publie.-house paper and he liked it so much better than his
own in the Herald, that he rescinded his order for the five hundred
....and substituted a hundred copies of this Brewer's Gazette. Sir
J. M was once very anxious to see the proofs of his speech;
and having perused than, he returned them in a note to the Editor,
hating that the report was most accurate, except in a few places,
whore his speech had been infinitely improved. Query. Did he
alter these parts ? We would advise Mr. D. O'Co--- not to raise
a Hornet's nest about his ears, by complaints. Mr. J. H— has
felt the effects of such querulous anxieties, and Mr. S. R—....
would have been extinguished, like Mr. Wyndham of yore, not.
withstanding his personal interest with theformer autocrat of the
Representative,—but. that Mr. S. is not a Wyndham.—
Court Journal.