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London, England, 1824-09-23 00:00:00

I leered it into the bath as before. "It was thought pru-
dent to repeat this process twice, and then the entire ap-,
paratus was withdrawn. •
The patient was fatigued, but not so much so as id
usual after the operation of an emetic. He expressed
himself relieved from the burning heat, and metely
complained of slight rawness in the throat, probably
from the presence of the instrument. He was adeised
to use a gargle of cold water, adding a little ice as
soon as it could be procured. He shortly after retired
to bed, swallowed a little castor oil, and composed
himself to rest. He awoke in about three bouts ; the
oil . moved him gently, and he declared hiniself free'
from the slightest feeling of uneasiness.

if CONVICT PARDONED.
TAR EFFECT OF A SPECIAL VERDICT.

Great surprise has been excited at the circumstance
of a prisoner of the name of James Thomas Boyce, who
was convicted and received sentence of death at the Old
Bailey in the June Sessions, having since been liberated
upon kis Majesty's free pa-don,* his offence being of a
most atrocious nature, and without a single feature,
in the case at all favourable to the prisoner. His frienth
are respectable, and to the'great interest used by them
in his behalf his escape was supposed to be attributable.
Is now, however, appears that the pardon was the ne-
cessary result of the singular verdict of the Jury who
tried him. The Jury returned a verdict of—" Guilty
with intent to meet his escape."
The worth cf Lord Ellenborough's Act are—" unlaw-
fully stab, or cut, etc. with intent to murder, or to rob,
or to maim, disfigure, or disable, or to do some other
grievous bodily harm." The prist.ner's Solicitor sug-
gested, that this verdict amounted to an acquittal under
the indictment: that the stabbing or cutting, to create
the offence under the Act, must be found to be with the
intent stated in the Statute.

The Learned COMMON SERJEANT, who tried the case,
reserved the point, and the pi isoner in consequence was
not included in the Recorder's last Report of -the con.
victs under sentence of death. The question has been
subsequently under the consideration of the Judges, and
the objection of the prisoner's Solicitor decided tb be
good. The decision, however, came too late to arrest
judgment, sentence of death having been already passed
upon Royce, and a pardon under the sign manual was
the consequence.

The workmen employed at the callenders, in Glasgow,
struck work on Thursday morning, in order to procure
a rise of wages. The cotton spinners continue reso.
lutely to holdout.
The colliers have followed the example of some
other mechanics, in endeavouring to get an advance of
wages. Monday, a meeting was held in Shettleston of
delegates from all parts of the country, for ten miles
around Glasgow, when an address was agreed to, re.
commending the miners to associate for an advance of
wages.--Glasgow Paper.
The extraordinary value of some of the building spe-
culations in and about London, may be fathered from
the fact, that when the late Mr. P. was in treaty with
the builder who afterwards gave his own name to
Baker-street, the latter, when he at length had get the
contract signed, exultingly held it up to the other, and
told him he should not have it back for 100,000/,
Complaints are often and very justly made of what is
called the license of the Bar; we mean the extraneous
matter which Advocates introduce into their addresses in
Coiirts of Justice, and the violent, offensive, and intem-
perate manner in which persons are sometimes treated
who are called upon to give evidence. We are well aware
of the difficulty which exists in eliciting the truth from
unwilling and guilty witnesses; and if the practice we
allude to were confined in its exercise to such persons as
those, one would not much pity the ordeal they had to
undergo. But those who attend Courts of Justice must
be aware that the system we complain of is not confined
to cases of this description, but is in fact used with little
or no discrimination; that it is sometimes employed in
proportion to the apparent timidity of the subject on
whom it can be exercised ; and not unfrequently in the
instances of those towards whose sex the gallantry and
good feeling of mankind have, by common consent,
assigned tenderness and protection. Of late a new evil
has arisen, or, if not arisen, has come much more into
use, we mean the practice of joking, and of very bad
wit indulged in at the bar, and sometimes on the bench.
We are too fond of a joke ourselves not to encourage it
in its proper place and season ; but as " praise uncle.
served is smile in disguise," so we consider that jocu-
larity upon serious subjects is at least a proof of a bad
and miserable taste. In criminal cases, low humour
must be nearly always misplaced, yet we have known
cases in which the life of the party was at stake, where
the Advocate has been so injudicious as to give way to
ill-timed pleasantry ; and even to lead the witnesses
away from the real facts of the case, to illustrate and
carry on sonic trumpery pun or inuendo of his own.
We cannot but think it due to the dignity and solemnity
of our Courts of Justice, to the awful interests which
ate at stake there, as well as to the credit and respecta-
bility of the Bar itself, that this disreputable practice
should be repressed. If .a man would not laugh, joke,
or pun on the death-bed of his friend or relation, why
should, he do so upon the trial of a person whom he
has been paid to prosecute or defend, in a case which
implicates his life or liberty? In short, where we should
consider humour misplaced in our own case, why should
we employ it in that of another ? Good sense, and good
taste, then, should repress so silly and unworthy a prac-
tice, which, 66 though it make the unskilful laugh, can-
not but make the judicious grieve." 111
A molt COMPLIMENT —Sir B— ll—, an Irish
Knight, was married to the daughter of Lord C—., a
connection of which the Knight was somewhat proud.
Boasting of this union once to a friend, he observed
that his Lordship had paid him the highest compliment
in his power. He had seven daughters, said he, and
he gave me the mildest; and he torrid me too, that if he
had an oulder I should have her.

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BEARDS.—One of the 'greatest misfortunes which
France ever had to lament, the divorce of Louts LE
JEUNE fiom ELINOR of Guyetme, resulted from the
'fashion which this Prince wished to inttoduce of :having
his chin and cropping his head.' The Queen,. his wife,
who appears to have possessed, with masculine beauty,
considerable acuteness of intellect, obseried with some
humour, that she imagined herself to have espoused a
'Monarch, not a Monk. The obstinacy of Louts in
,shaving himself, and the horror conceived by ELINOR
at the sight of a beardless thin; occasioned France the
loss of those fine provinces which constituted the dowry
of this Princess; and which devolving to England by a
secorid marriage, became the source of wars which de-
@elated Fi*nce during 400 years.
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