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minute, and he then fell backwards to the bottom of the pit,
a distance of about thirty-four yards. He never spoke nor

called out when he fell

He must have been suddenly seized

with faintness or giddiness which occasioned his fill

was quite dead when they took him up. Verdict--'
dental death."

Acci-

An inquest was held on the 27th July last, at Warrington,
before John Heyes, Esq., coroner, on the body of Thomas
Allerton, a man about 76 years of age, who, on Sunday, the
25th, was walking up Bridge-street towards Market Gate, in
Warrington. Some persons were standing on the steps of a

hatter's shop there, and the deceased came up and requested
permission to seaChimself on the steps ; they assisted de-
ceased, and in a minute or two perceived that he frothed at
the mouth, when they sent immediately for a surgeon, but
upon his arrival deceased was quite dead. Verdict—" Died
by the Visitation of God."
Another inquest was held at the same place, on the body
of Jane White,'a child about 16 months old, who was stand-

ing in the street when a cart drawn by one horse was passing,
and before the horse could be stopped the cart passed over

her breast, which caused her immediate death. The driver
was close to his horse's head, but the deceased was on the

opposite side, and Unfortunately was not seen by him until
the wheel had passed over her. Verdict—" Accidental death."
TAI: TOWN-HALL CLocK.—Scaffolaing is now erected

round the dome of the Town-hall, for the purpose of repaint-
ing and reg,ilding the four faces of the clock. The public have
long been of opinion, that the faces of a clock so conspicu-
ous as this ought to be illuminated with gas, like the faces of
the clocks of St. George, St. Peter, and St. Nicholas ; and,
since the scaffolding was put up, that opinion has very ge-
nerally been expressed, particularly by the inhabitants in the
district around the Town-hall. A memorial to the Town-
council, praying them to cause the clock faces to be illumi-
nated, has been drawn up and is now in course of signature.
It will be presented on Wednesday, when the Council will,
we hope, order the measure to be adopted.
THEATRE-ROYAL, MANCHESTER.—The new play of
London Assurance, and the attraction of the different per-
formers of the Covent-garden company, drew an audience
crowded to overflowing at this theatre on Saturday; the mu-
sicians vacated their seats in the orchestra to accommodate
several parties who could not obtain places in the boxes ; and
the announcement of the comedy for repetition in Manches-
ter on Saturday next, was greeted with a burst otapplause
from all parts of the densely filled house.
CASE OF ABSCONDING FROM TRIAL AT THE SESSIONS.
—At the police-court yesterday, John Williams, a pilot, was
placed at the bar, on the following chagre, the substance of
which was stated by Mr. Shuttleworth, deputy Town-clerk.
About six months ago the prisoner was held to bail, himself
in £3O and two sureties in £l5 each, to answer a charge of
having committed a violent assault, on board of a pilot-boat,
upon another pilot named Sadler, by which he lost an eye.
The latter appeared in the witness box yesterday. A true bill
was found against the prisoner at the sessions, and he was
called on to plead, but was not in court, he having left town
to avoid trial. His recognizances were accordingly estreated,
and he was afterwards apprehended on a bench warrant for
his appearance at the next sessions. Mr. Suttleworth now
requested that heavy bail should be required. Mr. Rushton

or:lered him to find sureties to stand his trial himself in
£l5O and two others in £75 each, and to give forty-eight
hours' notice of the proposed bail.

CONSERVATIVE STRENGTH IN TILE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
IC strength of the conservatives in the House of Commons
.s thus gradually risen year by year—
L 1833 they were
1834 „ 190 1838 „
1835 ~ 2BO 1839 „
1836 „ 2BB 1841
1837 ~

315
318
325
368

INQUESTS ON SATURDAY, BEFORE P. F. CURRY, ESQ.—
On view of the body of Ellen Riley, aged 68, who was on
Friday run over by a cart in Ranelagh-place while crossing.
Verdict—" Accidental death."—On the body of Thomas
Barry. While assisting- to remove a heavy pot at the soap-
cry of Mr. Moore, Leeas-street, it fell upon him. Verdict—
" Accidental death."—On the body of a still born child,
found, wrapped up, in a sand-hole in Tenderton-street.

Verdict accordingly
SWINDLING A BOOTMAKER.—A well-dressed fellow,
named James M`Lean, was put forward on a charge of
having swindled Mr. T. B. Elley, boot and shoemaker, of
Old Haymarket, out of three pair of Wellington boots, of the
value of £2 17s. From the evidence it appeared that, be-
tween the hours of four and five o'clock in the afternoon of
Friday last, the prisoner and one of his associates walked into
Mr. Elley's shop and asked Mr. Denison, the manager of
the concern, to he shown a pair of Wellington boots. ✓ The
prisoner having fitted himself with a pair, his companion
asked tp be shown another pair, and he having been also
fitted, they next inquired the price, and were told 19s. a
pair. They then desired Mr. Denison to send the two pair
they had fitted on, together with a third pair of similar size,
to Mr. John Sixsnaith's, at the old churchyard, for inspec-
tion, that they should there pay the bearer for two pair and
return the third. Accordingly, a shopboy, of the name of
Dowd, was despatched with the parties, with instructions not
to part with the boots without having first obtained the
money. When they had pi oceeded as far as Petty's public-
house, they induced the boy to drink a glass of rum, and
having purchased sonic tobacco at a shop in Crosshall-street,
they made the boy swallow a piece of it. At Sixsmiths' the
prisoner's companion cried out, " Come, give me the
boots l" and having obtained the three pairs, he rushed with
them up stairs. The prisoner then treated the boy to a glass
of ale, and was then making off, when the boy gave chase and
had him taken into custody. Search was then made for his
companion, but he had previously effected his escape by a
back door which leads into the churchyard, of course taking
the boots with him. When the prisoner had been searched
in Bridewell, 2s. 9d. only was found on his person. He was
committed for trial.
POPULATION OF WARRINGTON.—The township of War-
rington, according to the census taken on the 7th of June,
contains 18,969 inhabitants, of which number 9185 are males
and 9784 females.
The Warrington Natural History Society have received a
munificent donation from her Majesty, of a selection from the
ancieht coins discovered last year at Cuerdale, in this county,
and to which, in her qnality as Duchess of Lancaster, her
Majesty was entitled as treasure trover. They are 29 in
number, of Anglo-Saxon and continental silver coinage.
They are all in fine preservation, and several were previously
unknown.
THE BARBAROUS MURDER AT EXETER.—We have
already given the principal facts connected with the murder
and robbing of a gentleman named Bennett at Exeter. Brins-
mead, one of the prisoners, has made a confession, the sub-
stance of which is, that lie was about to go home after leaving
the Cattle Market Inn, on Friday night, immediately after
Mr. Bennett, and that Pitts same up to him, and asked him
to go along with him, and they would have some more beer
by and bye. This he at first refused, hut ultimately agreed
to do so. They then doged Mr. Bennett towards his house,
through South-street and Holloway-street, at the lower end
of Colleton-terrace. Here they met Mr. Bennett, and Pitts
said to him, that he (Mr. Bennett) had been with one of
their sisters, and they would make it known if lie did not
treat them to some beer. Mr. Bennett agreed to give them
some, and went to li-gler's public-house for that purpose,
but it was shut up. Pitts then persuaded him to go on fur-
ther, and when in the lane, between the Deaf and Dumb
Institution, Pitts asked Mr. Bennett for some money.
The latter gave him 6d., but Pitts swore that he would
have some more, and not such a trumpery sum, and ad-
ded, that Brinsmead might have it. Brinsmead said lie
would, and took it from Pitts. Pitts then clasped Mr.
Bennett round the body from behind, grasping both his
arms and pressing him against some rails at the side of the
lane. He called out to Brinshead to strike him, which
the latter refused to do. Pitts then struck Mr. Bennett a
tremendous blow in the face with his right hand from
behind, and the latter called for mercy. Brinsmead then
said to Pitts, " You have done it ; I shall not stay here, I
shall go home." Pitts begged of him not to do so. but he
went to some distance, and from there observed that a tre-
mendous struggle was going on between the two, who gra-
dually advanced to the path by the side of the river. Some
heavy blows were struck, and he at last heard a " slouse"
into the water, and cries of " mercy, mercy." Immediately
after lie heard the sound of a person as if in the act of swim-
ming. He then left the spot and proceeded to near the
Custom-house, where in a short time he was joined by Pitts,
who said, "The man's in the water; he attempted to cut
my throat, and has nearly cut my finger off." Pitts added
that he had got Mr. Bennett's watch and a sovereign, and that
if he ever wanted a shilling he (Brinsmead) should have it
from him. Brinsmead positively declares that to his know-
ledge no women were at all concerned in the matter, and
that he had none of the money except the sixpence given him
by Pitts. He also said that a third party went with them
when they first set out, but that he did not know his name.
Pitts, Fletcher, Tint, Sanders, and Brinsmead, have been
again remanded for further inquiry.
AMERICAN " CIIEAP BREAD."—The following is a ver-
batim copy of an advertisement in an American paper.—(The
Sun published it at New York, June 7th, 1841.)—" Large
Bread.--Five pounds of baked bread for one shilling, at W.
S. Wilkston's bakery, 4, Madison-street, corner of Chesnut,
warranted as good as any in the city." The above cannot
be too widely circulated, as it will tend to expose the fallacy
of the Anti-Corn Law League in their late exhibition through
the streets of this and other towns in England, of the large
American shilling loaf. The best bread is sold in this town,
where we are subject to a corn law, at tenpence halfpenny for
the six-pound loaf, and in that land of plenty—America,
where there is no corn law, and where 'we are to have so
much cheap flour from, it is advertised as cheap—five pounds
for a shilling—very near a halfpenny per pound dearer than
in this town.
It will be seen from our report of the Dorchester election
dinner, that Sir James Graham paid a deserved compliment
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MEETING OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF
THE TOWN, ON THE STATE OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE, &c., IN CHINA.

Yesterday, at one o'clock, a meeting of medical and sur-
gical gentlemen of the town, .and others, was held at the
Medical Institution, Mount-pleasant, in pursuance of invi-
tation from Dr. Parker, who has recently returned from a
successful missionary campaign in China, and who proposed
to submit a brief statement of the present state of medicine
and surgery in China, and the establishment of hospitals in
that country.

The meeting, almost solely of professional men, was nu-
merously attended. The whole of the seats in the lecture-
room were occupied, there being present from fifty to sixty
individuals. Dr. FORMBY was called to the chair.
Dr. PARKER, in his exordium, dwelt upon the importance
of the objects he had in view, which were—first, to enlighten
the empire of China in the sciences of physic and surgery ;
and, secondly, having opened the way, by their means to
spread amongst the vast poopulation f that country the
blessings of Christianity. He went on to show the defective
and erroneous state of medical science in that country. He
then proceeded to adduce a number of cases that had fallen
within his own experience, showing the great value of hospi-
tals in that country, not only in the advancement of science
amongst the natives, and in the practical benevolent effects,
but in conciliating the good feelings of the natives, and thereby
clearing the way for the introduction of Christian principles
amongst them, and, by removing the jealousy of foreigners,
entertained by that extraordinary people, tending in a high
degree to promote between them and Europeans an amicable
and profitable system of commerce. He instanced a case of
treatment for suspended animation, from immersion in the
water, and a variety of others, showing the extreme igno-
rance of the Chinese faculty ; and detailed his success in
many of them, to the astonishment
.of the Chinese, whose
gratitude was unbounded. He next noticed the labours of
many British practitioners in China, who had there established
hospitals. Amongst these was Dr. Pearson, formerly of
this town, who was the first to introduce vaccination,
now extensively practiced there, a native doctor, named
Longhead, (from the extraordinary length of his head,)
being now the principal practitioner in Canton. The
latter, during a practice of thirty years, had vaccinated
upwards of a million of persons. Drs. Livingston, Mor-
rison, and Colledge had also been highly successful ; and in
treating cases of ophthalmia, having restored to the dark
eye-balls of hundreds the blessed light of day. He himself
had embarked for China in 1834, attached to the Medical
Missionary Society ; and the scene of his labours had chiefly
been at the opthalraic hospital at Canton. Another was also
established at Macao. He had also gone to Singapore, where
he established an infirmary, and soon became known and
sought after as " the foreign physician." The patients who
were cured or relieved were, he added, very generally induced
to read the society's books, and he related several affecting
instances of their conversion to Christianity. During the
recent political commotions his labours, and those who acted
with him were nearly arrested; but he attended to patients
at his own house. At first lie received but slight encourage-
ment, but eventually one patient brought another, until the
street was frequently,crowded with applicants for relief. Be-
fore he left Canton, in June last year, the number of
patients had been not less than six thousand. Many
of the chief officers of the empire (including Imperial
Commissioner Lin) had sought and obtained relief, and their
expressions of gratitude were unbounded. The institution
was opened for cases of opthalmia alone ; but some surgical
cases forced themselves upon his attention, which it was im-
possible not to attend to, and, though the original name of
the institution was retained. it had now become a general
hospital. He noticed several cases of the cure of cataract—
and in particular of an old woman of 78. The treatment of
the native doctors in these and other cases was most unsci-
entific. A case of cure of a young woman who fell from the
roof of a house during a thunder storm, and was severely
wounded, excited much interest. He next noticed a variety
of successful operations on parties afflicted with enormous
tumours. The gratitude of the parties in these and other
cases was excessive, and demonstrated in some instances in
affecting pieces of poetry, or in that poetical language pecu-
liar to eastern countries. Amongst others, the father of a
little girl who was brought and cured, afterwards brought a
tablet on which was inscribed, " You have removed the
flaw from the gem, and my beloved child is again a perfect
pearl." He concluded by a strong appeal in behalf of the
Medical Missionary Society, in carrying on the hospital,
which was peculiarly desirable in prosecuting the object in
view. The principal immediate object was to encourage gen-
tlemen of the medical profession to go and practise gratuitously
among the Chinese, by affording the usual aid of hospitals,
medicine, and attendants ; but the support or remuneration
of such medical gentlemen was not at present within its con-
templation. The foreign residents of Canton and Macao
were prepared to sustain the objects of the hospital. From
the peculiar character of the people and their government it
was requisite that the missionary should, in addition to a
thirst for the propagation of Christianity, the capabilities of
the physician and surgeon. He enumerated many friends of
the institution in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other
towns, including Sir Geo. Stanton, the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw,

the Rev. Baptist Noel, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, and many others. The
medical profession, who had ever been the foremost to en-
counter plague and pestilence for the relief of their fellow-
creatures would, he trusted, not be backward in assisting to
give enlightened practice to a country containing 360,000,000
of inhabitants. Great success had already attended the cir-
cumscribed operations of the society, and if the English and
Americans (the latter of whom had already come forward
most humanely in the cause), only put their shoulders to the
wheel, christianity, combined with the healing heart, would

:ake root in China. In regard to commerce, to-o, Sir George
Robinson had well remarked of the society, that the surgeon s

knife was better calculated to conciliate the Chinese than any
weapons of war. The Royal College of Surgeons in this
country had, he was happy to say, agreed to educate three
Chinese youths, to promote the objects in view, and when
he returned to China it would be his object to select three
promising young men for that purpose. After a warm eulo-
glum on Dr. Lockhart for his labours in the cause, he con-

Lded. by stating, that if the medical men here would forward

the objects stated, in behalf of the millione in China, their
benevolence would meet with the heartfelt gratitude of all
who were attached to the cause which he had the pleasure to

advocate

lifter_a vote of thanks being passed to Dr.. Parker for the

interesting information he had afforded, a medical committee
was named and appointed to carry out his views., Amongst
them were:—Dr. Formby, Mr. Bickersteth, Mr. Blackburn,
Dr. Dickens, Dr. Ramsay, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Blower, Dr.
Sutherland, Mr. Batty, Mr. Eden, Mr. Neill, Dr. Robert-
son, and Dr. Moffatt.
(A further committee of non-professional gentlemen re-
mains to be formed at a subsequent meeting.)
The meeting then separated.