Star.
London, England, 1827-10-03 00:00:00

THE FANCY.

Drat Currie elm nesnatc—Curtis is at Hartley Raw, at his
training exercise, and Is doing well. The chief doubt, or pretended
doubt, that is entertained by his friends—ls regarding his weight.
The articles of the match making it a forfeiture of the whole battle-
money on the part of either of the men that cornea to the scale on
the day of fighting heavier than a certain stipulated weight. At
the time that the mush was takes on, Dick was somewhat above
the mark, but the reduction required did not materially vary from
the weight he has always fought, and will consequently be now no
great effort to attain, although it ma be allowed that his general
habit appeared to be of that description which had little super-
fluous flesh, and it is probable the means of reduction may some-
what effect his strength and stamina. But his accomplishments
as a
.pugilist ought against that to be a sufficient set off. Teas-
dale, at the Welsh Harp, Edgware road, is daily trundling a
ponderous hoop, probably like the captive prince who was
brought to the conqueror's city chained to the triumphal car of the
victor in the evolutions of the wheel being alternately elevated and
under, he may gather a moral lesson of the vicissitudes of the for-
tunes of ah pugilist—for Princes and pugilists will have their ups
and down, in life. Hs is diligent in his preparation, aware of
having his work to do, bat confident of Ms means. It Is probable
that be will place his dependence upon a Wei fight, and by Dick's
bottom to the uttermost. The match increases in interest, and the
money is taken on freely.—Curtis the favourite at 7 to 4.

DUMP Saaarg are Youao SAY.—The Bishop is following his
usual avocation, which is considered good natural training, consiu-
ins of long walks in a billy district. Sam, who embarks more In
the gaiety of life In London, and must use the artificial means of
acquiring condition, is at exercise in company with the Pet, at
Hartley-row.

Hazer Josses and ha Dooo—The sailor boy. Is off to Staines
to go into training. Ike, who has nut fought ea frequently as the
mariner, never considers himself much out of repair. Ike la abste-
mious and moderate in his habits, and will probably ch:et
event with kw preparation, and only seek the fresh air of
for health.
Nth O'Neal, and JOI Boast—Ned is as anal occasionally plying
4tween the Elephant and Castle and Streatham, frequently walk-
Id% the journey ; but he has not yet put himself under trie metric•
don of trainlag rules ; of which by the by his appearance would
seem to warrant that but little is required. Burn, in the sweet
society *this soul's delight, has departed for Bristol, to train undw
the kindly eye, and profit by the tender attention of his wife.

Corr AND Sausoras.—ln the Wrestling Match between Copp of
Devon, and Saunders of Cornwall, en which a small deposit was
down for 501. a side match—and last night named for aoetond de-
posit, and filial arrangements being made at the John of Gaunt,
Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, the money was ready at that
hour on the part of Saunders—but no one showed for Copp, whose
money of course is forfeited. The men of both counties, declare.
that their two peculiar methods cannot be better met than in these
two men, and that the match would be interesting and sporting.
Copp's not appearing, is attributed to some casualty, sad tillt match
is confklently expected so be made good.

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14- ,10,f;fpgse ~s 4, POETRY.
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Mope wads -'reettitoughts erakaae
The....enimpete , of our kind,
Amilallirdl74l2ll toraduttlniyd. earth', wide "see
Mod o'er the well its ray
Ittratch vie throbbing heart the seal,
Mose ill-incorporating plan
Can teach a milli°, souls to feel
For all that's mat's—for all that's man;
And every human title blend
In those of brother and offrinsd /
I've traveli'd many a country far
Thro' Finland's wild, on Afric's agreed;
And there went with me, like a star;
The glory of my native land ;
A star whose light, whereer I trod,
Seem'd blazing with the truths of Goo!
But sometimes sadness came, and dwelt
Within my heart. 'Twas proud to bear
My country's name, but oh ! I felt
_ That misery liv'd unheeded there;
That hearts were sad, that eyes were wet,
Forgotten—how could I forget?
I would net check the nobly good,
' Who, joy diffusing, widely roam ;
But I would whisper, if I could,
Look rouo4, for there are wrongs at home,
And voices, though but feeble, call •
On Heaven—on thee on me—on all! ...to a
rust thou not Lear their cry? To tbee; •2 ' •
Wbo Moen the lightest plaint of woe
That'll borne Giros, the distant sea,
Can their appeal be vain? 0, no! •
Thou dldst but want some tongue to say;' 1144
Grier, mows ars here, owil these ere the

ROYAL INSTITUTION.

A course of Lectures on Medical Jorisprudence was
opened on Monday at the Rnyal Institution, by Dr.
Gordon Smith. In a preliminary discourse the Learned
Doctor% prelection contained an expositiLn of the ge-
neral objects of the future course, namely, the applica-
tion of the various sciences that constitute medicine to
the important state purposes of the administration of
justice and the conservation of the public health. The
Lecturer then proceeded to thew the great value, and
even the necessity, of a knowledge of this science to
medical practitioners in every branch of the pro-
fession to judges, magistrates, lawyers, members
of the Legislature, and especially to Coroners. Criminal
trials, civil proceedings in the Courts of Law, the judi-
cial discussions in the House of Lords, in its character
of the highest Court of Appeals, and the legislative
enactments of Parliament, all admitted questions, to
the due investigation and just decision of which medi-
cal jurisprudence was not only important but indispens-
able; for example, judicial inquiries into the causes of
violence inflicted on the living person—diseuted elaima
to property, involving the nature of pregnancy and
the priority of birth--the plague, and the manner in
which it is communicated, comprehending the question
of the quarantine laws, and the necessity or impolicy of
,them. The most remarkable case of modern times,
that proved the value of state medicine to judicial inquisi-
tions, the Ltecturer observed, was the Gardiner Peerage,
in which medical testimony was eagerly sought (but
in vain) for the elucidation of the difficulties of that
extraordinary inquiry. This science, by some called
medical jurisprudence, by others state medicine, or
political medicine, was divisible into two branches;
one applied to the administration of public justice, the
other to the preservation of the public health. The for-
mer, termed forensic medicine, by some authors legal
medicine, by
_the Lecturer judicial or justiciary medi-
cine; the litter generally known by the name of medi-
cal police. This latter branch of the subject compre-
hended the duties of the Senate in the promotion of the
general health and the prevention of nuisances, and was
requisite in all cases connected with the personal welfare
of the public, from the regulations for building an in-
noxious dungeon tor the condemned felon, to the 'elec.
tion of the wholesome site of a palace for royally. The
Lecturer here proceeded to sketch the rise and progress
of state medicine as a science, its early use among the
Jews, as evinced in their rules ter the prevention of
epidemic diseases, in their regulations of food, their
personal purifications, and till exclusion of diseased in-
dividuals from the general people; the more methodi-
cal cultivation of it in the early part of the sixteenth
century, and its struggles against that worst of tyres..
nical oppressions—the tyranny of bigotry and supersti-
tion—the remnants of which appeared even at the pre-
sent day, in those mischievous restrictions on anatomy
and in that popular hostility to dissections, which
threatened the ultimate extinction of the pre fession of
medicine; then the code of Medical Jurisprudence,.
written under the authority of Charles the Fifth, usually
,called the Caroline Code, the works of Fortunatus Fide-
lis, en state medicine: of the Italian authors, Tortosa.
Cellini, and tulle's of their time—the occasion on which
the study of the science was proved among the French
to be important to the ends of justice, namely, the cir-
cumstance of a merchant's son, cf Melancholy tempera.
ment, having destroyed himself. The merchant himself
was accused of having destroyed his son ; and through
the medical testimony of an ignorant surgeon, was de-
clared guilty of the charge, and executed with torture.
Subsequent investigation of the affair, however, proved
the innocence of the accused ; and the entire transac-
tion demonstrated, in the most urgent manner, the ne-
cessity of a knowledge of state medicine, to the just ad-
ministration -of public justice. Since that period the
Science had been successfully cultivated irr France. The
total number of books written on the subject (about ten
thousand) would tend to chew that, in authorship at
least, it possessed adequate auxiliaries; but the greatest
part of them was most detective. In the flnglish lan-
guage tl%ere were not more than three first-rate works
written on state medicine. The very name of the science
was a stranger to the language until forty years ago,
when the attention of the learned and the judicial autho-
rities was called to it by the case of Captain Donnellan,
in 1781, who was tried on a charge of having poisoned
his brother-in-law, a man of rank, by a poison then little
known, and consequently difficult, at that time, of detec-
tion. The accused in that case was found guilty, through
the rester weight of the evidence on the part of the
Crowe and that against the testimony of the celebrated
'John Hunter, *a the aide of the prisoner; though it
was worthy of notice, that Dr. Hunter was afterwards
heard to entrees his regret that he had not prepared
himself, by more accurate study of the subject, for the
examinatidn on the trial. The learned Lecturer con-
cluded an able and elaborate discourse, by an enume-
ration and critical-examination of. the several English

publications wiidatakiwislielweir4ind declared, in -elo.
quest terms, his soissoino bops serf the ultimate success
of the science in obis country, in spite of the bigotted
speposition of persons such as . those who persecuted
Harvey for his discovery o! the circulation of the blood,
who censored Dr. Jenner for dirarming the small-poz
of its polio's, and who would, in thase%,days, bum Sir
Humphry Davy in the blaze of his owa brilliant
inyeatioas.

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DALAMM ACCMINT—AXPLoston OP Powa
MILL.--SIC is with feelings of the most painful kind that
we communicate a few itaraulars of an accident
equally terrible in itself, and beart-rendieg in its cons&
quences ; we mean the destruction of the Stobbs Powder
Mill, which bat been again blown up. The siplosioa
_took place on Saturday morning, about half past seven
o'clock, in what it called the Corning Room. How
this lamentable accident occurred must ever onesaits.
unknown, as the three men who were employed in the
premises at the time, no more being present, were
killed by the explosion. One of th.se unfortanap
men had his legs torn from his body.; another his belly •
torn open, and his entrails hanging out; and the third
was blown into a water at a considerable distance from
the Mill, where he was found dead about an hour after.
Search was immediately made for the members which
were severed from the bodies; hot when found, they
were so dreadfully scorched, and the, bodies were so,
terribly mutilated, that it was impossible to know to,
whom the different members belonged. When looking
around the scene of this terrible visitation, it seemed
as if some destroying angel had been there, doing his"
work of desolation and death. The premises lettere•.
is the explosion took place were shaken to the loon.,
dation, and lay in one heap of ruins ; the surrounding;
t ees were script et their foliage ; and the grass was
burnt black and bate. Cottages might be seen in a.
state of miserable dilapidation. being almost unroofed,
with their windows shattered ; and, to add to the afflict..
ing character of the scene, from these ruins might be,
heard lamentations for a father and a husband, whorl",
the. cruel destiny.of this •ile hour had, in an instants,
torn Irons their discoWsolate family, 'The three to form•
tunate men who fat victims to this melancholy acci-,
dent were married, end have left widows; one of thew
wish a family of three children; another only a fort..
night married, and a third pregnant. The prerniiespre
understand, were insured.—Caledmiime Mercery,
The following Fatal consequence of di inking cold liquid:
•o:curred in East Lothian. Two sisters from the Isle of.
Skye, who had for two or three harvests been employed
by the same farmer, were this year re-engaged by hies.
ate of them being exceedingly thirsty, during the heat
of the day, drank freely of some small beer she had.
brought to the field ; she was immediately taken ill,
and death soon ensued.
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CORONER'S INQUEST. as

Itsirawe-

Yesterday evening, at half-past seven °Mock. an In•.
quest was held before THOMAS Sawrox, Esq. Coroner,.
at the sips of the Parrot, Green Arbour-court, in the•
Old ea.ley, to inquire into the death of Wm. Leather•.
brough, a compositor, whose death was alleged to fume
been produced by starvation, but which was actually.
caused by intoxication, j

Mr. Ito. bt. Blkk, surgeon, of Smithfiehl.bars, deposed
that on Monday he first saw the deceased ; he was then
dead. He subsequently opened his body end head. The
vessels of the brain were turgid with blood, and an effu-
sion bad taken place between the membranes. He, upon
removing the scalp, discovered upon the substance out-
side the scull, a red bruise or mark, as it he had received
a blow, or had fall-n to the ground. Upan directing his
attention to the stomach, he found the membrane lining
of the stomach in the highest state of loft rmmation,
which he could only attribute to drinking. The man's.
death, he concluded, was (at least so far as the exciting
cause went) produced by the stimulants of drinking
raw spirits, and by falling off his chair; apoplexy ea•
sued, owing to the distended state of the brain.
CORONER—Did the state of the stomach proceed
from habitual drinking ? •
Mr. Blick—Yes, most certainly. The deceased was
a thin spare man, and by no means subject to apoplexy;
but his habits of hard drinking had brought that on.
Robert Colville, a compositor, stated he was neat
door neighbour to the deceased in Green Arbour-court.
The deceased was a printer. He met him on Sunday,
and drank some pots of beer with him. He took hi,
home drunk.
CORONER—How much spirits did he drink ?
Witness-1 cannot tell, upon my word, within a half
pint or pint ; we drank a great quantity.
CORONER—'reke my word, Sir, you are a very great
blockhead for abusing your constitution and your health
in this way. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.—.
Printers ought to know better than abuse themselves in
this shocking way. You, because you earn a few
shillings on Sunday, think, or seem to think, it a meri
' lotions act tp go and get into a beastly state of intoaica-
lion, to the abuse of your health, and destruction of
your family's comfort and happiness.
A JUROR said, the greater part of the misery and
distress of that class of persons was produced by the
dissolute and drunken habits of the husbands and fathers.
The CORONER said there were exceptions ; but it was
a shameful thing for any man having reasonable facet-
ties to acknowledge that he could not tell, within a half
pint or a pint, how much raw spirit he had drank.
A poor ragged, but interesting little boy was here
produced, who proved that his father was brought home
drunk; he fell down off the chair. and his mother cried
out he was dead a few minutes after.
A Juror here said it had been reported that the de-
ceased•was starved to death ; whereas the fact was, the
unfortunate man died drunk.

Another witness said that one or two surgeons refused
to attend deceased, because there was no prospect of
their being paid for their trouble; but Mr. Blick in-
stantly attended, although living at a considerable
distance from Green Arbour court.
Here Colville, the witness, gave his opinion that the
deceased's death vies produced by the want of medical
assistance. " Sure," said he, "it might have been my
case; had I been presenti would have opened a vein in
his arm with my razeilbteause it is better{ a man should
lose his arm than his'lW
With some difficulty be was silenceth'iffa the Jerry
returned a verdict—" Died from excessiveithinking.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, OE-K.&
Welted a large portion of Monday's arrival remaining unscad at
the dose of that day's market, and our supplies (2,050 qrs. of Wheat,
1,500 qrs. of Barley, 1,070 qrs. of Oats, and 2,050 sacks of Flour,)
since then being rather latge, our market is extremely dull; and,
although the factors offered some of the best simples at Monday's
prices, no buyers could be found ; therefore we most quote nogg-.
nslly for all descriptions of Grain as on Monday.

EFFECTS OF FRIGHTENING CHLI,DREII.—About •
month since, as the son of George Glazier, Esq. residing
in George's Place, Camberwell Road, a fine boy," be•
tween eight and nine years of age, was walking across
a field, near his residence, a man, who appeared rather
intoxicated, took bold.of him, and threatened
.to take
away his life, but, after keeping him some ameba a
most dreadful state of fear, he let him
.go. The child
immediately came home, but so great was his alarm
that he was taken ill, and, notwithstanding several most
eminent medical practitioners attended him, be continu-
ed in a most distressing saansatik. Ai0444: Jan, whin
death terminated his goinwor-. : . c .