The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-04 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

CONSERVATIVES OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE !
REGISTER ! REGISTER ! ! REGISTER ! ! !

" The great battle of the Constitution must be fought
in the Registration Courts."—Sir R. PEEL.

IVIANY parties having been disappointed in their wishes
IVII to support William Entwisle, Esq., M.P., the suc-
cessful candidate against "The League," in consequence
of their having neglected to register, Mr. Caistor will sit
daily, at the Committee-rooms, 61, pring-gardens, Man-
chester, for the next seven days, between the hours of
three and five o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of
filling up Claims to be placed on the New Register.
Notices of Claims will also be provided and properly
filled up for applicants at the offices of Messrs. Caistor
and Farnworth, Manchester • Mr. Earle, Ashton-under-
Lyne; Mr. Summerscales. Oldham ; Mr. Mylnes, Roch-
dale ; Mr. Whitehead, Bury ; Messrs. Woodhouse. and
Holden, Bolton ; Messrs. Lord and Ackerley, Wigan ;
Mr. Armstrong, Ormskirk ; Mr. FAIRCLOUGH, COM.
merce- court, Lord-street, Liverpool; and Messrs. Wag-
staff, Son, and Marsh, Warrington.
Apply immediately.—Lose no time.
May 30, 1844.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEPIRN, •
T HAVE the honour to return you my most sincere
-I- acknowledgements for the reception that I have met
with amongst you on the occasion of the recent Election :
and I beg most respectfully to add that no exertions shall
be wanting on my part to perform the duties of that posi-
tion in which I have been placed by so large and important
a constituency: _

I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM ENTWISLE.

London, June 1, 1844.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.

GENTLEMEN,
AT the termination of the arduous contest which has
resulted in the return of my opponent to Parliament,
I beg to tender my best thanks to those Electors who
have recorded their votes in favour of freedom of trade in
the person of one of its most humble, but sincere and earn-
est advocates.

In contrasting the returns on each side in the present
Contest with those of the election in 1837, we cannot fail
to be struck with the change of opinion in favour of more
liberal views, such as to encourage us to persevere with
renewed energy in advocating those principles and mea-
sures which are, in my opinion, fraught with the greatest
advantage to the productive classes, and through them to
all ranks of the community.

It is a matter of much personal gratification to me, that
in Liverpool, where I have so long resided and am best
known, a majority of Freeholders have recorded their votes
in my favour.
I beg those who have so strenuously fought this battle
to accept my sincere thanks, not only for exertions such
as have been rarely witnessed, but for the good feeling and
admirable temper which have characterized their proceed-
ings throughout the struggle ; and I assure the Electors
who favoured me with their support, that I feel greatly
honoured by the various marks of personal kindness which
I have received during the contest : nor can I conclude
without expressing my sense of the uniform courtesy of
those who have differed from me in opinion.
I have the hor our to be,
Your faithful servant,
WM. BROWN.
Richmond-hill, 29th May, 1844.

MR. COCKLE'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS.
PATRONISED BY THE
Duke of Grafton, Duke of Manchester, Duke of Bedford, Duke
of Argyll, Duke of Beaufort. Duke of Rutland, Duke of Marl-
borough, Duke of Buccleuch, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of
Sutherland, Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Normanby,
Marquis of Ailesbury, Marquis of Winchester, Marquis of Aber-
corn, Earl of Eldon, Earl of Harrowby, Earl Minto, Earl of
Carnarvon, Fail of Kinnoul, Earl of Errol, Earl of Mountcashel,
Earl of Darlington, Earl of Guildford, Earl of Scarborough,
Earl of Oxford. Earl of Thanet, Earl of Athlone, Earl of Ros-
common, Earl Cowper, Earl Amherst, Earl of Leicester, Viscount
Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Visccunt Howick, Viscount
Fordwich, Viscount Tarrington, Viscount Acheson, Viscount
Alford. Lord Arundel, Lord Dili, Lord Plunkett, Lord Murray,
Lord Kinuaird, Lord Bentinck, Lord Fitzroy, Lord Middleton,
Lord Frederick Gordon, Lord vi• illoughby d'Eresby. Lord Hay,
Lord I3arham, Lord Redesdale, Lord Seymour, Lord Hartland,
Lord Western, Lord Sydenham, Lord Archbishop of Armagh,
Bishop of Durham, Bishop of Chester, Bishop of Bath and Wells,
Bishop of Norwich, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of Peterborough,
Bishop of Ely, Bishop of Gloucester, Bishop of Chichester, Bishop
of Worcester, Bishop of Hereford, Bishop of St. Asaph, Bishop
of Bangor, Bishop of Llandaff, Bishop of Calcutta, Right Hon.
J. A. Murray, Lord Advocate of Scotland, Right Hon. R. C.
Ferguson, M.P., Judge Advocate General, Hon. Sir Edw. Cost,
K.C.H. • lion. Col. Anson, M.P., Hon. Fox Mamie, M.P., Admiral
Sir D. Gould, G.C.8., Sir Henry Wheatley, G.C. IL, Sir J. Mac-
donald. K.O 8., Adjutant-General, Sir Thomas Dyer, Bart., Sir
Francis Burdett, Bart., M.P., Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., M.P , Sir
Robert Grant, Bart., Sir Henry Blake, Bart., Sir Sami. Fiudyer,
Bart., S r Robert Buxton, Bart., Sir John Forbes, Batt, Sir
Andrew Agnew, Bart., Sir Philip B. V. Broke, K.O 8., Sir John
Tyrell, Bart., M,P., Sir Henry Smyth, Bart., M.P., Sir Matthew
Wood, Bart., M.P. Sir John de Beauvoir, Bart., Sir Thomas B.
Mash, Sir Thos. Wilde, M.P., Solicitor-General, Sir Frederick
Pollock, M.P., J. Wildman, Esq., Chilham Castle, Col. Tynte,
M.P., Col. Sibthorp, M.P., Col. Delap, Stoke-park, Surrey, Col.
Bence, Thorington.hall, Col. Cowell, Capt. Pechell, M.P.,
Matthias Atwood, Esq., M.P., Alderman Thompson, M.P.,
Charles Walker, Esq., Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, M.P.. Mr.
Serjeant Ludlow, Ven. Archdeacon of Colchester, Ven. Arch.
deacon f St. Alban's, Bev. Dr. French, Cambridge, Rev. Dr.
Benson. Rev. Dr. Birch, Rev. Dr. Marsh, Robt. Renwick. Esq.,
M.D., C. Waddy, Esq., late M.P. for Dublin. John Hatchell,
Esq., Dublin.

OBSERVATIONS.
" Si quid novisti rectius istis,
" Candidus imperti; si non, his ;item mecum."—Hon.
" If you are in possession of better means,
" Candidy inform me ; if not, make use of these "

It is now more than a quarter of a century since
Cockle's Anti-bilious Pills were first introduced to public
notice. The idea of testing their virtues on so extensive
a scale was suggested by the local reputation they acquired
in the medical practice of the Proprietor, as a mild and
efficacious family aperient.
One claimseroffectthefsreeedpoilmls
to
from every dangerously active ingredient, so that in all
the earliest and
consisted strong
in estthei
their
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cases where their use was indicated they might be resorted
publicf
patronage
to with advantage under any system of diet, change of
climate, or atmospheric alternations, &c. ; while the great
and increasing patronage they have since acquired is an
additional argument in their favour, and a conclusive
proof of their value as a family medicine. They will be
found particularly valuable in almost every form of indi-
gestion, with torpid bowels, and inactive liver ; also in
gout, billions attacks, sick headache, and nervous irrita-
bility from a deranged state of the stomach and bowels.
Prepared by James Cockle, Surgeon to her Serene
Highness the late Langravine of Hesse Hornberg.
18, NEW ORMOND-STREET, LONDON.

Oa Tuesday last, the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage
of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster was ce-
lebrated, at Chester, with great rejoicings.

ARRIVAL OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.—On Satur-
day considerable surprise was occasioned by a statement
in the Times, that before its pages would probably have
been read by the public. the Emperor of Russia would
have set foot on the shores of England. The announce-
ment has turned out to be correct, his Majesty having
arrived at Woolwich on Saturday evening, at ten o'clock.
The arrival of the Emperor has, up to the present period,
for some unexplained reason, been kept a profound secret.
The Emperor travels incog., and was conveyed, along
with his suite, in three Dutch steamers. Immediately on
landing, his Majesty and suite entered the carriages in
waiting to convey them to Ashburnham House, the resi-
dence of Baron Brunow, which they reached at half-past
eleven the same evening, and, after partaking of coffee,
his Majesty repaired to the rooms prepared for him. On
Sunday morning his Majesty was waited on, soon after
nine, by Prince Albert. Their meeting was of the most
affectionate and cordial character. The Emperor threw
his arms round the neck of•the Prince Consort, and em-
braced him fervently, Prince Albert returning the salute
with great apparent feeling. They remained in conversa-
tion a considerable time, when the Prince left, promising
to return at half-past one to conduct the Emperor to
Buckingham Palace, his Majesty intending in the mean-
time to attend divine service at the chapel of the Russian
embassy. At the time stated the Prince arrived, in com-
pany with. Sir Robert Peel, whom his Majesty received
EmperorTl
Majesty thenww
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visits—to the King of Saxony, in his apartments aloltQiunnusdeteoionl,
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ingham Palace; to Marlborough House, to pay a visit to
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DofukCeamebfri\davhgeeer and the
whom his Majesty appeared delighted to meet.
Within the borough of Whitby at present resides a fa-
mily of whom it is stated, that when the eldest child was
a year old, the united ages of father, mother, and child,
I amounted only to thirty years.

powdered quick lime,
MODE OF TESTING THE QUALITY OF GLANO.
mofwah a pestle fora few
Good guano is the excrement of. sea fowl, accumulating
in countries where there is no rain. It owes its virtue t
a manure, first as the presence of
. ammonicalesas lirtsa,t and
secondly to that of phosphate of lime or bone earth, derived
from the bones of fish. To test the ammonia, take a
spoonfulhe
rub
seconds ; if the guano be genuine, the smell will resemble
sppuototnhfeuml oilif gaumanoort,aarn, danad
the same trimmer. In this way it may be proved whether
that of a bottle of salts, and will make the eyes
the sample be guano or not, and also the strength of dif-
ferent samples may be estimated lb, the comparative
strength of effluvia of the ammonia disengaged. To test
for the phosphate of lime, place a small quantity, (say
100 grains ) in an iron ladle or earthen pipkin, or in any
similar vessel, in which heat it red hot over a clear fire
for twenty minutes. If the guano be genuine it will be
reduced to a white ash, weighing about 35 grains ; if the
100 grains when burnt, weigh much more than 35 grains,
the guano is not genuine, or contains an undue proportion
of sandor similar matter. The ashes of gendine guano
will be found to be phosphate of lime nearly pure. If
it be requisite to prove this a small bottle of acetic acid
or white vinegar, will dissolve the phosphale and hold iii
solution, leaving the selica and alumina, (probably
amounting to three or four grains) undissolved. The
ashes should be left in the acetic acid for two days, and
the bottle occasionally shaken. It is assumed that the
guano to be tested be dry.—Farmcr's Journal.

ATROCIOUS PERSECUTION IN MADEIRA.

Of late years popery has had its apologists even amongst
those who profess not themselves to belong to the Church
of Rome—" liberals" of views so large and, tolerant on
all points of religion, that they equally sympathise with
Churchman, Dissenter, Papist, Mahommedan, Jew, or
Infidel. Some of these deny that popery ever persecuted
in this country ; gloze over the tyranny and cruelties of
the Inquisition in Europe in its palmiest days, by im-
puting gross exaggeration to most authentic records of its
doings ; and if they admit of some by-gone persecutions,
ascribe them to the darkness and ignorance of the olden
times in which they occurred, winding up with the com-
forting assumption, that the light of intelligence and
humanity has now so far illuminated the understandings,
and improved the hearts of men, that such atrocities can
never gain be enacted. If such reasoning be really sincere,
we lament their credulity, for they are assuredly misled
by others, or delude themselves. True, the horrors of the
Inquisition have to a great degree been reduced, or in
some countries repressed for a time, by the contact with
Protestant light, and the political checks imposed
by Protestant governments and communities. But popery
sanctions them still; and popery is insusceptible of
change or of amelioration in its principles. As is well
stated by a contemporary, " if it change in spirit, it must
cease to be popery, and come out of the cage of unclean
birds. The cloak drawn by cunning and policy over the
cloven foot, can, as occasion offers, be withdrawn, and ex-
hibit it in its original deformity." A letter from Dr.
Kathy, a Protestant English gentleman, at Madeira, date
the 4th ult., sufficiently proves the fact. It will he re-
membered that he himself has but recently been released
from the persecuting grasp of Rome, not by her progress
to enlightened and tolerant principles, but by the peremp-
tory, the irresistible interference of the British govern-
ment. He states that on the previous sabbath, two per-
sons when going from his house were taken prisoners,
and committed to gaol, where they they then lay, for not
kneeling to the hest as it passed. He adds :—" On Wed-
nesday several were mauled with sticks, and some taken
by hands and feet as in procession, and carried into the
church and made to kneel before the images."
But we have a far more revolting instance of the horrid
spirit of popery where its votaries think they can act upon
with safety, and that too in the same island, which is only
a few days' sail from England, and in which there is,
moreover, British jurisdiction to a certain extent. This
was communicated to the meeting of the Free Assembly
of the Church of Scotland, on Thursday, the 23d instant,
by the Vice-Convenor of its Colonial Committee, and is
also detailed in several of the newspapers on undoubted
authority.—The Rev. Mr. Sym, in submitting the report,
said, that the most deeply affecting and, at the same time,
most revolting portion of it was a communication from the
Rev. Jas. Julius Wood, dated Funchal, May 4, relative to a
female being condemned to death at Madeira for having
renounced the errors of popery, and that, too, by a ma-
gistrate in the pay of the British government. Mr. Wood
says, " she has been found guilty only of saying that
images should not be venerated or adored, and that the
bread in the Sacrament is only bread. On the latter
point it is alleged that the proof was defective. For such
a crime the judge has sentenced her to suffer death, when
it was competent for him to have punished her with a fine
of ten dollars, or under. And this judge is also British
Judge Conservator (appointed and paid by the British go-
vernment), to whom we have to look for justice in the
event of any of our rights as British subjects being vio-
lated." The following is the sentence:—
" In view of the answer of the jury, and discussion of the
cause, &c., it is proved that the accused, Maria Joaquina,
perhaps forgetful of the principles of the holy religion
which she received in her first years, and to which she
still belongs, has maintained conversations and arguments
condemned by the church,—maintaining that veneration
should not be given to images ; denying the real existence
of Jesus Christ in the sacria hostia; blaspheming against
the most Holy Virgin, Mother of God ; advancing other
expressions against the doctrines received and followed
by the Catholic Apostolic Roman Church; expounding
these condemned doctrines to different persons ; thus
committing the crimes of heresy and blasphemy punished
by the law of the kingdom ; and, though it be affirmed
that nobody can be prosecuted for motives of religion (as
.a principle truly constitutional), it is necessary that the
religion of the state be respected, and public morals be
not perverted by words or acts that are condemned, as is
expressly established in the fundamental law of the state,
vol. exlv. par 4, which the accused in truth did not do.
On the contrary, blaspheming against God and his saints,
she gave over respecting the religion of the state to which
she belongs, seeking to associate to her party those who
nourished principles different from her's. This accusa-
tion cannot be eluded by the defence to which she has re-
course, because it consists only in sustaining the illegality,
of the action, and the incompetency of the court to con-
demn in the penalties decreed by the ordinances, book ix.
tit. 1, It appears that it belongs only to the Tribunal ad
quem to decide a question on all accounts delicate. At-
tending, then, to the fact that the crimes of which the
prisoner is accused are found proven in the form decreed
by the law of December 19, 1774, and ordinances of book
v. tit 2, par. 1, which says thus,—' And if he be a peasant,
let him receive thirty strokes at the foot of the pillory
with a cord, and proclamation, and let him pay two dol-
lars.' Observing, moreover, that the aforesaid law of
the 19th December imposes on those guilty of the crimes
,of heresy the penalty of death, with infamy ; observing,
likewise, that now is abolished the said penalty of infamy
and strokes, and that the greater punishment always in-
cludes the lesser; I condemn the accused, Maria Joa-
quina, to suffer death, as declared in the said law, and in
the costs of the process which she shall pay with her
goods.—Funchal Oriental, in Public Court, May 2, 1844.
(Signed)
" JOSE BOREIRA LEILE PILLA OBLIGIIERA NEGRAO"
Dr. CANDLISEI immediately on the report being read,
expressed his opinion that this painful subject should take
precedence of all other matters before the court. It is
one of the most stirring announcements, he continued,
which can possibly be made in an Assembly of Christian
ministers, met together as a court of the Church of
Christ; and it is one of the most ominous signs of the
times to which our attention can possibly be directed, as
indicating the unchanged spirit of that system which is
already " drunk with the blood of the saints." It can-
not but have made every cheek in this Assembly to blush,
to think that a Judge in British pay, and appointed by
British authority, should have been the first in our time
to revive the punishment of death for heresy. He con-
cluded an affecting address by proposing that the convener
of the committee, who was about to proceed to London,
should carry with him the authority and instructions of
the Assembly, first of all to take counsel with the bre-
thren and elders of the Church in London, able to advise
him aright,—and then, with their counsel and concur-
rence, to take such steps as may seem most expedient for
bringing the matter speedily under the notice of her
Majesty's Government.
Dr. HENDERSON, of Glasgow, in the course of some
remarks, on seconding the motion, stated, that the un-
fortunate female alluded to had already suffered imprison-
ment for twelve months.

The motion was then agreed to.
The poor victim in this case, Maria Joaquina, wife of
Manuel Alves, is the mother of seven children, of whom
the youngest was an infant at the breast when she was
cast into prison. What the British government will do
in the case remains to be seen. One thing, at least, is
certain ; Maria Joaquina will not perish by the hands of
the executioner, unless Sir Robert Peel and the Earl of
Aberdeen give the executioner leave. Popery, true to its
old character, has passed on her the flagrantly unjust and
cruel sentence of condemnation, which horrifies the Chris-
tianity of the world ; but, just as the British Minister
drops the signal, will there be an execution or none in the
case. Providence has placed the fatal napkin in the hands
of Sir Robert Peel and the Earl ; and without their con-
sent this persecuted female cannot be murdered.

INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACT.—This act, passed
on the 10th of last month, first repeals the previous Inter-
national Copyright Act, which did not give power to her
Majesty to confer any exclusive right upon authors, en-
gravers, &c., who had first published in foreign countries,
and vests her Majesty with powers in this respect. The
following are the heads of the principal clauses :—Authors
of works first published in foreign countries shall have
copyright therein within her Majesty's dominions, by
order in council. If the order applies to books, the copy-
right law as to books first published in this country shall
apply to the books to which the order relates ; and there
is a similar clause with respect to prints and sculptures.
Dramatic and musical compositions first publicly repre-
sented abroad may, by order, have similar rights in the
British dominions. Authors are to register and deliver
copies of books, music, &c. In anonymous works, the
name of the publisher to be sufficient. The works to be
entered in the register book of the Company of Stationers
as before. Copies of books, and having copyright under
this act, printed in foreign countries other than those
wherein it was first published, to be prohibited. A copy
of each book or print to be deposited in the library of the
British Museum, but not second editions unless they
contain additions or alterations. The orders in council
may specify different periods for different foreign coun-
tries and for different classes of works. No order to have
effect unless it states that reciprocal protection is secured
by the foreign power named. Authors of works first pub-
lished in foreign countries are not entitled to copyright
except under this act. The act concludes with an inter-
pretation clause.
THE PROPERTY Tax.—A return of the net amount of
duty collected for the year ended the sth of April, 1843 ;
also of the number of claims of exemption received at the
Tax-office up to the 20th day of May, 1844, &c., has just
been ipsued on the motion of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. It appears from this paper, that the gross total
amount of the collection for the year in question was—in
England, £4,989,801 ; and, in Scotland, £394,324 ;
making a grand total fur the whole of Great Britain
amounting to the sum of £5,384,125. Of the former
amount (£4,989,801,1 the sum of £2,150,412 was col-
lected under schedule A; the sum of £298,763 under
schedule B ; the sum of £812,892 under schedule C ; the
sum of £1,466,985 under schedule D ; and the sum of
£260,657 under schedule E. This account is made up
on the amount of duty collected to the sth of April, 1814,
in respect of the year 1842, ended April 1843. The
amount collected in Scotland cannot at present, it ap-
pears, be distinguished in schedules. The second branch
of the return informs us that the total number of claims
of exemption under the Property Tax Act received at the
Tax-office up to the 20th May, 1844, amounts to 82,851
(of which about 6,000 have been found defective, and re-
turned to the surveyors for correction or amendment;)
that the total number,of claims in which the duty has been
repaid amounts to £7.3,500 ; that the amount of the duty
repaid is £69,101 ; that the total number of claims in
which orders have been issued by the Board of Taxes for
discharging the property of the claimants from assess-
ment amounts to 49,370 ; and the total number of claims
remaining in the office for examination and inquiry to
1,345, which were to have been disposed of during the
past week.

SUSPECTED DESTRUCTION OF AN INFANT
CHILD BY ITS MOTHER.

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before Mr.
Curry, the borough Coroner, touching the death of an
infant child—the rumoured circumstances regarding which
had excited a painful interest throughout a great part of
the town. The following are the heads of the evidence.
The mother was brought up in custody.
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Elizabeth
Stevenson,li y ears
and had for the last two years resided with her in Garner's
Court, Roscoe-street—sleeping with her in the same bed.
Her mother acted occasionally as a sick nurse. About two
months ago she saw reason to challenge her mother with
being in the family way, and asked her who was the
father; but she denied being pregnant, anriddawyitlnaessts,
herdid
not afterwards refer to the subject. On Friday
mother being employed out as a sick nurse, witness in turn-
ing down the bed in which she and prisoner slept found a
bundle in dark cloth, and being alarmed ran for a female
neighbour, who came, opened it, and found it to contain
the body of a child. Witness was so frightened that she
did not notice the sex. On Friday week her mother was very
poorly ; and remained so during Saturday, but came down
stairs that day. Witness afterwards saw that night some ap-
pearances in the room thatfirst led her to suspect thatsome_
thing improper had taken place but did not name her suspi-
cions.asshethoughtitmiehthave arisen from natural causes.
On finding the body she called in Mr. Inspector Thomp.
son, who after seeing the child had the prisoner appre-
hended. Her mother kept a mangle, by which, and as
a nurse, she made a living. Witness said her father had
died 4 years ago.
Margaret Christian, whom the last witness had called
in on finding the bundle, corroborated the finding of the
child in a piece of black stuff cloth with calico within.
Ann Foulks had thought the prisoner in the family way,
aid remarked a difference in her appearance during the
last week.
Inspector Thompson went to the house when called, and
found deceased to be a male child.
Mr. M'Lelland, surgeon of the Dispensary—to which
the child was carried—said he had examined the body,
and his opinion was that it had died from general debility
arising from natural causes. Neglect at the birth might
have debilitated it, but he would not say it would have
lived had it been attended to, as the pains of labour might
have produced the effects he saw on the body. There was
not the least external injury of any kind. He had spoken
with the prisoner on two occasions about it. At the first
interview she admitted the child was hers; and on ask-
ing her if it had been born alive she said "it had never
struggled much." On the second occasion (Sunday) she
said that after it was born she had lain two hours unable
to a,sist it ; that she then tied the cord, went down stairs,
got a pair of scissors and divided it. She also said at
first, that she had been confined eight days before, and
had delivered herself.
The Coroner, after recaptulating the surgeon's evidence,
said that the only verdict which the jury could return
was that the child had died from general debility, brought
on by natural causes. Had there been any evidence that
the deceased had been smothered they must have given a
verdict of wilful murder against the mother. So far the
case was disposed of as regarded that count ; but the cir-
cumstances were such that he felt it his duty not to release
the prisoner, but to send her before Mr. Rushton, who
might, if he deemed it proper, commit the prisoner for
trial on the charge of concealement of pregnancy,—or
might discharge her.
The jury returned a verdict in accordance with this
direction. The prisoner was then taken in custody to
the police•court (followed by the witnesses) but as the
court had risen before they arrived, she was detained for
examination until this day.