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loos character in which my Lord Ebrington exhibited
himself—we are now prepared, with sober argument, to
grapple with the pigmy triad of his lordship. And first
with respect to " the practical change in the composition
of the House of Lords, by the immense increase of its
numbers since the accession of George Lord Eh_
rington puts this numerous force, on his field day, in the
foremost rank, as imposing enough where he fears no
danger; but when he expects the attack of an enemy, he
can place no reliance upon it, and therefore marches it off
into the beck ground, and " paSses by" it as the Helots
of his political camp. But in this manoeuvring there is
displayed. some little dexterity. His lordship knew, that
many of his radical compeers—his equals in political
arms—those who then surrounded him, would catch at,
and hold fast, this " practical change in the composition
of the House of Lords"—who would never trouble them-
selves to consider, w het her it was either true, as "a prae•
tical change," or, if true, whether it justly and truly
(served, as a precedent for a constitutional change—tor a
"practical change," and a constitutional change, are not
convertible terms. As perhaps my Lord Ebrington, any
more than his lazy hearers, may not understand the dis-
tinction been these two essentially dissimilar proposi-
tions—(for had he understood it, he would never have
corrupted it into an argument fur a reform of the House
of Lords : it might, very justly, have been deposited
among the things, of which man had never " read or
heard," the ligitimate 'offspring of his lordship's mind)—
let us consider the difference, the fundamental difference,
between them—between a " practical change" and a
change resulting from an alteration of principles. So
obvious is the distinction, and so strikingly is it illustra-
ted by daily examples, in every rank of life, that we
should feel ashamed to offer an explanation to any one of
a lower political grade than my Lord Ebrington and his
radical colleagues. Wherever there is any function, of-
fiCe, business, or transaction, dependent upon men, or the
council of men, for its successful performance, there, with
every mutation of the minutest circumstance of such men,
physical or intellectual, the function, office, business, or
transaction, will suffer a "practical change." Blame, in
his medical logic, says, the temperature at which the
powers of the mind and body are most energetic is 62°.
A committee, therefore—a parliament—the House of
Lords itself, if it should assemble, and deliberate, at a
temperature one degree higher or lower than 62° would
suffer a " practical change" in its political wisdom ; and
if medical logic be mental logic, there would be seen in
the debates and the division of the House a correspond-
ent variation. The vernal equinox produced a "practi-
cal change" in the powers of imagination of the immor-
tal Milton. We fear the thermometer was much higher
titan 62° at South Molton, when my Lord Ebrington dis-
tilled his political " mountain dew" into the ears of his
infatuated auditory ; and at our Liverpool municipal
meetings it is as high as where "spirits boil." But, as
logic may not be matter to his lordship's taste, we beg
to call his attention to a late summary dismissal of Lords
Melbourne and Russell from being ministers, by the pre-
sent King ; an incident which will stick to their memo-
ries when the recollection of their misgovernment will
have no other record. Was that not "a practical change"
in the government ? Was not the recall of the Duke of
Wellington and Sir Robert Peel to office a " practical
change" in the policy of this country ? —was it not, to
rescue her, sinking into contempt and misery, and to
place her, though for but a short interval, upon the rock
of her wonted integrity ? But, we ask, was there in all
this a constitutional change ? Were not the principles
of legislation preserved entire ? And in order that my
Lord Ebrington and his host may see that we are disposed
to deal fairly with him, we will take his own case, that of
the House of Lords. We maintain, that there was no
infraction of any one constitutional principle in the ele-
vation to the peerage of the " immense numbers" which
his lordship says has taken place since the accession of
George 111. It is the recognised privilege of the British
Crown to ennoble its subjects, and that privilege has no
prescribed limits. Policy may sometimes prompt a king
to grant, and sometimes to withhold, a patent of nobi-
lity, which public judgment may censure ; but then we
,are.drivpn to the old politiCal question, "quis custodiet
c,
have no set numbers, for our hobles may be more or less,
?lviv a
what change.is
it
True ;
to but
as the King pleaseth." But Lord Ebrington will turn
declared e
upon us, and say, that all he contended for was a "prac-
tical of what is it intended—of
furnish a precedent
c iange essentially different—a constitutional change.
Is this not false and, we must add, most disingenuous
reasoning ? Does the surgeon, when lie sees a little ex-
travasated blood, or a slightly increased circulation or
irregular action in a limb, proceed instantly to cut it off?
No; if there be constitutional health he knows that what
was effused will be abs Orbed—what was irregular will
subside, and original tone and energy be
soon restored.
But the radical surgeons know nothing of moral thera-
peutics; with them the cry is—amputation ! amputa-
tion !

dentially made, and well executed, but they might not
always have the good of the people in view : if lodged
in the King and Commons, we should want that CIRCUM-
SPECTION and MEDIATORY CAUTION, which the WISDOM
OF THE PEERS IS TO AFFORD: if the supreme rights of
the legislature were lodged in the two houses only, and
the King had no negative upon their proceedings, they
might be tempted to encroach upon the royal preroga-
tive, or, perhaps, to abolish the kingly office ; and there.
by weaken, if ❑ot totally destroy, the strength of the
executive power. But the constitutional government of
the island is so admirably tempered, and compounded,
that nothing Can endanger or hurt it, BUT DESTROYING
THE EQUILIBRIUM OF POWER BETWEEN ONE BRANCH OF
THE LEGISLATURE AND THE REST. For, if ever it should
happen, that the independence of ANY ONE of the three
should be lost, or that it should become SUBSERVIENT TO
THE VIEWS OF THE OTHER TWO, THERE WOULD SOON BE
AN END OF OUR CONSTITUTION.,' Again we say to our
readers, Conservatives and Radicals, meditate upon these
truths.

It may also be observed here, for the consolation of the
country, that the power vested in the King of England
to create peers is fenced round with a two-fold security.
First, the augmentation of the aristocracy has always
been regarded with a jealous eye at court, as lessening
the supremacy of the monarchy; and, secondly, no one
is ever created a peer who has not a deep personal inte-
rest in the welfare of the country. Thus vanishes the
first airy bubble of my Lord Ebrington, which, had it
never been blown by his lordship, might still, without
any loss to the community, have remained among those
many other things, the incognita curiosa of his lordship's
mental cabinet, which we " have never heard or read."
We shall now proceed to consider the two remaining
examples recorded in history, of " innovation in the con-
stitution of the House of Lords," with which Lord Eb-
rington is " astonished that any man of sense, professing
to be well read," should be unacquainted. They are,
"the admission of sixteen representative peers, on the
union with Scotland, elected for that country ;" anti, of
"twenty-eight representative peers for Ireland for the
life of each peer." And with these " unread and un-
heard of" marvels before him, my -Lord Ebrington asked
triumphantly, as if conscjfies that but one answer could
he given to his interrogaTry—" Can any one pretend to
say, that, after this innovation, any further extension of
the elective principles would be a new or unheard of vio-
lation of the right of hereditary succession inherent in
the House of Lords ?" "Nature bath made strange fel-
lows in her time," and in no respect has she been more
capricious than in the organization of the mind—that of
my Lord Ebrington is most anti-dialectic. To prove,
even to demonstration, that these cases afford no prece-
dent for " extending the elective principle" to British
peers, we ask, first, whether if Ireland and Scotland had,
originally, formed parts of one empire, would not Ireland
and Scotland have participated equally with England in
the constitution of its legislative assemblies ? Would
Ireland have had fewer than twenty-eight, or Scotland
less than sixteen peers in the House of Lords ? Will
Lord Ebiington himself, or any one of his train dare to
say so ? And if Ireland and Scotland would have been
thus represented, if they had originally formed fractions
of one empire with England, so, whenever they should
stand in that relation, they would, evidently, become le-
gitimately entitled to such a privilege. It was no " ex-
terrsion of the elective principle" applied to the peerage
—it was simply supplying to additional responsibility
additional jurisdiction—it was giving to the Irish popula-
tion an Irish peerage—to the Scotch population a Scotch
peerage—it took nothing away, altered not one privilege,
varied not one form of the English house of Lords.
If this be the only plea which radicalism can urge for
reform of the House of Lords, it is the very sorriest
imaginable—it will never shake the stability of that firmly ,
established and truly national wing of the British con-
stitution. But we see the verbal anodyne which cast my
Lord Ebrington into his political slumber, and, after-
wards, created his fantastic dream, which, when he awoke,
thou!-,li still rapt in ecstacy with the vision, he told as a
truth " never before heard or read of." It is the " elec-
tion" of sixteen peers for Scotland, and of twenty-eight
for Ireland that gave all the obliquity to his mind. If
twenty-eight peers are elected for Ireland, why not all
the peers of England ? His lordship forgot—dreaming

Of some things we soon feel satiety, but of philosophi,
cal, and, especially, of chemical truth, it is, " as if increase
of appetite had grown by what it fed on." We never ex-
perienced this more fully than on the present occasion,
when we have Mr. Hemming for our host, and our opera-
tive friends for our companions. If we speak with free-
dom of some of the dishes served up, we are always pre-
pared to acknowledge that the entertainment is ample,
various, and judicious, and whenever we offer an objec-
tion it is never in the spirit of complaint.
Speaking of the ❑se of " wicks," Mr. Hemming says
they consist of a " fibrous material, and contain a great
number of pores, up which, by virtue of capillary action,
the oil, &c., would rise above the ordinary surface of the
fluid in the vessel, to feed the wick." That the ascension
of the oil does not depend upon "pores," existing in the
"fibrous materials," of which wicks are composed, is evi
dent from the fact of wicks being made of the amianthus,
or asbestos, as Mr. Hemming observes, in which no such
pores exist ; and, if this be disputable, we have the un-
exceptionable wick of Gordon's lamp, which is made of
copper wire ; indeed, pores in the capilli, or fibres of a

wick, would rather prevent than assist the ascension of
the oil. The fact is, that when fibres are either laid lon-
gitudinally, close together, or twisted, the small space
between them acts as a capillary tube, just as we know to

happen when two pieces of glass are brought, in a very
acute angle, to touch on one edge of each, and are then
immersed in a fluid—the fluid will rise between the pieces
of glass, and its upper surface assume the form of a hy-
perbolic curve.

We are by no means satisfied with the position of Mr.
Hemming, that the intensity of light varies with the
quantity of carbon consumed. The very case he men-
tions himself is wholly adverse to it, viz., the combustion
of oxygen and hydrogen when thrown, in a jet, upon a
piece of lime. In this instance there is no carbon, and
yet the light exceeds, in intensity, every other. Neither
do we subscribe to the assertion, that " the quantity of
light is in proportion to the carbonic acid formed." Time

is a necessary consideration in extending the " quantity
of light." A piece of charcoal, at just the temperature
of ignition, will furnish as much "carbonic acid" as if
exposed to a violent blast of air, or even oxygen gas it•
self, but the quantity of light, in the one case, will bear
no proportion to that in the other. And the only differ-
ence in the processes is—rapid combustion in one case,
and slow combustion in the other.

On the subject of evolved carbon, during the combus-

tion of inflammable substances, we have ❑ever seen any-
ailing satisfactory. It cannot be sublimed, because car-
bon is not vaporisible, at any temperature. The only
way we can understand it is, that an atom of bicarburetted
hydrogen, which would require, for complete combustion,
Jive atoms of oxygen (for it is always carbonic acid, and
not carbonic oxide that is formed,) meets with but three
atoms of,oxygen and thence one atom of carbon is set
free.
With regard to the " patent candlestick," which Mr.

men do forget—that these twenty-eight Irish peers, and 1 Hemming "could not procure in any of the London
these sixteen Scotch peers were elected out of the Irish shops," we beg to say, that twenty-five years ago we were
and Scotch peerage, by a majority of their own body, to intimately acquainted with a gentleman, to whom the
represent themselves. We have said, already, that these country will ever be under obligations, For the applica-
peers represent the population of Ireland an4l Scotland, tion of parabolic specula to lighthouses, and for other
and we reaffirm the fact. But, in spite of Sir J. Camp- philosophical improvements, who had upon his table two
bell's authority, Attorney General as he is, who said at candlesticks, of which he was the inventor, reclining from
Glasgow, that the peers were originally "created for the the perpendicular about fifteen degrees; and, as be car-
people," we tell him, that such a dictum is contrary to the ried his philosophy into every corner of his house, the
law of the land which says, the " peers are present for lamp in his hall, if I may so call it, had a candle in it si-
themselves." But Sir John Campbell was led into his milarlY posited. We have, very many times, inclined
legal mistake by the fact, that the peers do sit for the• our own candles, in the same manner, by placing a book
people—do watch, most indefatigably over the people's under one side of the base of the candlestick; and we
welfare—throng,h "good report and evil report," when beg most distinctly to say, they never needed snuffing,
slandered for their zeal, and reviled for their integrity. neither did any ash fall sensibly upon the table, and we
But there is a further qualification of this mode of never saw any " dropping of the tallow." The experi- •
raising [risk and Scotch noblemen to the British Parlia-ment is within the reach of any one of our readers, and
ment, which it may be well to mention. Each of these they should never be content with opinions and authori-
countries possessed a noblesse, which, if admitted to the ties when they can have facts. We have one observir-
privileges of English peers, not "aught minished," would tion to make upon candles placed as above described.
have introduced a disproportioned number into the House Beside approaching to a sin-umbraism, the projecture of
t
of Lords, and, therefore, in a question of such extreme the light over a book—if reading ;or paper—if writing'
delicacy what course could be pursued so unexception- very greatly augments its intensity; the ratio being, as the
able, at once so compatible with justice to England, and sines of the angles of incidence; a single trial will afford
so agreeable to the feelings of our sister countries? The demonstration of this.
invidiousness of royal selection was obviated, and the in- As we have not heard a description of Mr. Hemming's
terests of the respective peerages satisfactorily preserved. apparatus for burning oxygen and hydrogen in a state of
In the foregoing arguments we have had recourse to mixture, we cannot form any judgment of it, but, from
no hypothetical reasoning ; we have not even entered what we know of the properties of these two gases, we
upon the question—How far the aristocracy of England should consider a combustion, under such circumstances,
is essential to the integrity of our complex constitution? to consist of a succession of minute explosions. But,
We have not recited the rights we owe to, and the hies- whatever we may know of the matter, the subject is cer-
sings we enjoy under the political guardianship of the thinly in better hands than ours, and, if safety and sim-
House of Lords. We have made no mention of Run- plicity be the characters of Mr. Hemming's invention,
nytnede and Magna Charta, secured to us by our here-
Prejudice must, sooner or later, give way.
ditary representatives, the barons. We have not ad.
verted to, nor offered one indirect breathing in vindica-
tion of their constitutional, and firm defence of our char-
tered rights, during the last session of Parliament, in op-
position to unprincipled demagogues, both in and out of
the senate. All these we reserve for future triumphs.
Our present aim has been to overthrow the flimsy fabric
which my Lord Ebrington, in the illusion of a disturbed
imagination, had raised into an invaluable fortress. And
even this we should not have thought it worth our while
to undertake, had we not known that plausible assertions,
boldly made, always find weak minds ready to embrace
them. And when his lordship ushered them into the
world as truths, of which no one before himself "had ever
heard or read," there was an imposing air of solemnity
accompanying them which would not only serve to make
the rustics stare, but might also become the parent of
more extended mischief.
We cannot better conclude our reflections upon this
most interesting subject, than in the just and pertinent
words of Sir William Blackstone, which we earnestly
press upon the attention of all our readers; and, should
Lord Ebrington be one of them, we commend them es-
pecially to him:—"The legislation of the kingdom is en-
trusted to three distinct powers, entirely independent of
each other ; first, the King ; secondly, the lords spiritual
and temporal, which is an aristocratical assembly of per-
sons selected for their piety, their birth, their wisdom,
their valnur, or their property ; and, thirdly, the House
of Commons, freely chosen by the people from among
themselves, which makes it a kind of democracy. As
this aggregate body, actuated by different springs, and
attentive to different interests, composes the British Par-
liament, and has the supreme disposal of everything,
there can no inconvenience be attempted by either of the
three branches, but will be withstood by one o f the other
two ; each branch being armed with a negative power
sufficient to repel any INNOVATION, whiCh it shall think
INEXPEDIENT OR DANGEROUS. Here there is lodged the
sovereignty of the British constitution ; and lodged as
beneficially as is possible for society. For in no other
shape could we be so certain of finding the three great
qualities of government so well and so happily united.
If the supreme power were lodged in any one of the three
branches, separately, we must be exposed to the incon-
venience of either absolute monarchy, aristocracy, or de-
mocracy; and so want two of the principal ingredients
of good polity, either virtue, wisdom, or power. If it
; two of the branches, for instance, in

"DIMINUTION OF CRIAIN" !—Yesterday, at the Police Office.
there were 143 cases booked to be heard at the Police Office, of
which no less than 41 were felonies.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.—His Grace the Archbishop of
York has been pleased (through special favour) to appoint Mr.
George Brown, jun., Supernumerary Proctor of all His Grace's
Ecclesiastical Courts.

THE POLICE COURT.—Yesterday Mr. Hall, in hearing a case
in which the defendant wis not prepared with evidence, on
an application being made to defer the case, laid down a rule
that henceforth he would never defer any case when the defence
was not prepared, as he found very unfair advantage was taken
of his sometimes allowing a case to stand over.

Ma. HARwoon JUN.'S BALL.--Mr. Harwood, Jun., gave
his first ball at his Father's Rooms, Great Nelson street, on
Tuesday last. A very full and respectable assemblage hoooured
him with their presence. The guests seemed much pleased
with the attention paid to their comforts and entertainment.
DEATH OF MR. HUGHES, THE OnEo PLAyEß.—During the
performance of Miss Kelly on Saturday evening se'unight, at
ISlanchester, Mr. Hughes was seized with apoplexy in the or-
chestra. He was conveyed into a room in the theatre and bled
by Mr. Smith, Surgeon, who happened to be present, but he
expired on Sunday morning. Mr. Hughes was in his 71st year-
He served a professional apprenticeship in Liverpo .1, and soon
after removed to Manchester, where he has exercised his talent
for upwards of 50 years. He was much respected by his brother
performers, and was' unrivalled in this part of the country
for his skill on the oboe.
SUICIDE.—On Friday afternoon an inquest was held on the
body of a disorderly female named Rose Ann Quigly, who hung
herself in her handkerchief, in one of the cells in Vauxhall
Bridewell the afternoon before. She was lodged in Vauxhall!
Bridewell about two o'clock in the afternoon for being drunk
and disorderly in the sheets. About three o'clock the Bride-
well keeper entered the cell where she had beep placed alone,
and found her suspended by the neck front the fire-place by her
handkerchief. She was quite dead when he took her down,
which was as soon as he found her. The jury found a verdict
of fel° de se.
FIRE.—On Sunday morning, a few minutes after four o'clock,
the policeman in Lord-street, saw a reflection of light near the
shop of Mr. Groom, stationer, and. on examination, finding
that the premises were on fire, gave the alarm. Hewitt, super-
intendent of the engines, with his usual alacrity, was on the
spot in three minutes, and in about ten more had the flames et
tinguished. The fire originated in one of the Clarendon-roams,
over Mr. Green's shop, the fire in the grate igniting two strong
beams that ran into the wall exactly underneath the hearth_
.
stone. Before discovered, the fire had extended over one-Half
of the floor. M. Urquhart, Mr. Reunie, Mr. Daniel, and other
gentlemen gave very useful assistance in removing property.
THE RIVAL Gas COAIPANIES.—At the Kirkdale petty ses-
sions, on Friday, Mr. King, the agent of the Liverpool Gas-
light and Coke Company, appeared before the presiding
ma-
gistrates, Messrs. Rawson and Hopson, to answer to an infor-
mation laid against the company by Mr. Daliing, the assistant
overseer of West Derby, at the instance of the commissioneka
of highways, for breaking up the highways in Brunseick-roal!,
West Derby. Mr. Sandars appeared for the complainant, a, a_
Mr. Rowlandson from the defendant. It appeared that the
company had no right by act of Parliament to light the town-
ship of West Derby, and the New Liverpool Gas Company b'
d
that power. It appeared, however, that the Liverpool Gas
Company had entered into a contract with the Liverpool Town.
Council to light the township of West Derby with gas, but that
previous to that they had obtained the leave and license of the
commissioners of highways to enter that township, and lay their
pipes. Mr. Rawson, in giving the decision of the bench, said,
quite cleat that, the board had grani,d permission
that it Oka ynnst strange
thing in the world to complain of the company breaking up the
road to put down the connecting branch pipes. The bench dis-
missed the information.
:Mss ANIS' CONCERT.—This lady's concert was held of
Friday evening last at Templars' Hall, and we are glad to say
she bad a toast crowded room : so touch so, indeed, that num-
bers of the gentlemen had to stand. Miss Hyants sang one or
two pretty pieces very tolerably She has what is cornmonlY
understood by, a "good voice." As a public singer, however,
she can never rank very high; for though her voice betrays
much tutoring it is shrill and devoid of volume of tone. Thouo
her tones are clear and correct as to intonation there is a thin-
ness about them which is not like 'floating melody." signor
De Val sang exceedingly well a Romauza, and Recitative; and
was loudly applauded. He has a fine, manly voice, of mach
compass, power, and melody. Mr. J. Z. Herrmann played a
solo on the violin, by De Beriot, with a fine even and round
tone, and with very accurate and rapid execution. Mr. Brown
also played a solo well on the flute. We do not like to sPeek
harshly of parties who exert themselves to please and do their
best, and therefore we say nothing of Mr. Dodd. Mr. Webbe
presided with his usual ability at the piano-forte.
VIGILANCE OF THE POLICE.—On Thursday night as a gen-
tleman was going home late up Bold-street, lie heard a knocke
ing on the flags, apparently as if some one was walking With at_ti
iron-shod stick. In a few moments be was surrounded wile
three or four policemen who collared him, and asked how be
to "gammon" them in that way by knocking with big
stick. He denied that he had done so, and was immediatelY,
told that he was "a mighty great liar," and forthwith he should
be booked in Bridewell as a disturber of the peace of the nightlY
watch. The gentleman, however, strenuously denied that be
was ever guilty of giving a false alarm to
"The vigilant police who walk their midnight rounds,
Girt with leathern belts, and care of capitols;"
and drew their attention to the same noise which was again re'
pealed at a distance before them. Away went the police in 11,:t
pursuit, and shortly overtook an ancient cobbler, who was wow"
tug homewards on rather a serpentine course from some "Pr"-
tracted festivities," and who, like poor Ben Battle, bad eye
foot in the grave," and as he stumped along with his :modes
leg, shod with iron, had made that noi,e which had so much ex-
cited the ire of the vigilant police. The " nightly watch," .00,
finding out the cause, looked greatly disconcerted, and with
chop-fallen looks " blew up" Crispin for making such a clatter,
and not soleing his stump. Thump, thump, thump, went Cris;
pin's wooden leg as he coolly aided off, telling the "
police" to " let every' man mind his own business." •

Suicrue.—On Friday afternoon an inquest was held before
Phillip Finch Currie, Esq., coroner, to inquire into the death
of Jane M'Kenzie, who poisoned herself on Wednesday night,
at her house in Trueman-street. From the evidence of the mo-
ther-in-law it appeared that she was in better spirits than usual
on Friday night before going to bed, where she went before her
husband. Shortly after her husband obiained a candle froth
witness, and went into his room to bed; early in the morning
he shouted out for her. On going into the room she found tile
deceased apparently in a dying state, and foaming at the mouth-
She gave her some salt and water for an emetic, but she g"t
worse, and a doctor was sent for. She got worse and worse, and
died on Thursday morning at ten o'clock. Her .son and boss
wife lived on very good terms together. Joseph' M‘lienzie, the
husband, then deposed that he had a slight quarrel on the night
that his wife poisoned herself about his "sky-larking" with
another female, and he gave her a push. She' said, " never
mind, it is the last time you shall strike me." In answer to
several questions from different jurymen he said he hall never
been convicted of felony neither three times nor once. He
gave very contradictory answers as to his employment for the
last month. He had been working at Bolton nine weeks. 1-I,e,
was not a noted thief there. •He had pawned his hat that night
for 9d. for some ale, of which he and his wife partook before
they went to bed. About four o'clock in the morning he was
awbke by her screeching out. He went to the North - Dispen-
sary for a doctor, but they refused to come out at that time or
morning. They offered him a pill, and told him if he did nut
like to take it he might leave it. He then went and obtained
the assistance of Mr. Emmet, surgeon. This witness gave veil
unsatisfactory evidence. It appeared from the evidence of Mr.
Bamber's assistant, a druggist, in Marybone, that the deceased
had purchased a pennyworth of laudanum, about 120 drops, the
night she poisoned herself. Mr. Emmet, surgeon, deposed that
it was very questionable whether this quantity would produce
death. It might under certain circumstances. Mr. Emmet
then stated that he had opened the stomach of the deceased, and
found the presence of laudanum' but the quantity was unceri•
taro. He opened the head. and found the brain in a nano.'
state. The jury found a verdict, that the deceased came by',"
death from taking laudanum while in a lit of insanity.
BANQUET TO SIR ROBERT l'Eut..—We undeistand that On
Wednesday. at a meeting of a committee of management, a."
David Hamilton's designs of the pavilion were submitted to the
meeting, and unanimously approved of. The designs are every
way worthy of that gentleman's eminent professional rePliile-
,tion, displaying as they do a beautiful combination of architec-
tural elegance and provision for the most safe and comfortable
accommodation.
tritkeiditahtoioynt, .
dWurtenghahvis have
vist sojourn beeni, informeds that Sirßolwrtea'b will,
under
the hospitable
roof of Blythswood House; but from private information re-
ceived in town, it is understood that Lady Peel will not accom-
pany Sir Robert to Scotland. In consequence of this the cony,
mittee are likely to come to the resolution of dispensing with
galleries for the ladies, an alteration in their proposedir Plan
which will enable them to accommodate 3000 persons. AeadY;
however, 2800 applications ha% e been entered on the books
the secretary. A sub-committee has been appointed to takeun ?_sr
timates from tradesmen for the erection Of the pavilion,. a_e_i
contract for its completion by the first of January. pavilion,_
distinguished noblemen in the country have intimated their 1 _
tention of joining the citizens of Glasgow in their not 111?.',7.
magnificent than meet tribute to a man whom every ritz,nh'e
thinking British subject must delight to honour. Some Of _
London journals have intimated their intention of reporting_ thee.
proceedings; and we believe between thirty and forty tickets
will be reserved for the press. The committee are unremitti
in their labours, and bid fair to bring Matters to an issue.
.' honourable to themselves and the country at large,,3eoitt,
Guardian.