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either confers the indulgence by the method of absolution,
or transfers it by the method of suffrage—wherefore all per-
sons, whether living or dead, who really obtain any indul-
gences of this kind, are delivered from so much temporal pu-
nishment, due according to divine justice for their actual
sins, as is equivalent to the value of the indulgence bestowed
and received."
Let us next hear the Council of Trent—" Since the power
of granting indulgences has been bestowed by Christ upon
his church, and this power, divinely given, has been used
from the earliest antiquity, the holy council teaches and en-
joins that the use of indulgences, so salutary to Christian
people, and approved by the authority of venerable councils,
shall be retained by the church, and it anethamatizes those
who assert that they are useless, or deny that the church has
the power of granting them."
Listen to another pope on the subject. Pope Urban the
VIIIth, in a bull, in which he promised indulgence to the
Irish, as a reward of the meritorious work of exterminating
heretics, (i.e. Protestants,) states that, " having taken into
his serious consideration the great zeal of the Irish towards
the propagation of the catholic faith ; which kingdom, (for
their singular fervency in the true worship of God,) was of

old called the land of saints ; and having certain notice that
in imitation of their godly and worthy ancestors, they en-
deavoured by force of arms to deliver their thralled nation
from the oppressions of the heretics, and to extirpate those
workers of iniquity, who had infected the mass of catholic
purity with the pestiferous leaven of their heretical conta-
gion, by virtue of his power of binding and loosing, which
God hath conferred upon him, to all and every the aforesaid
Christians in the kingdom of Ireland, so long as they should
militate against the said heretics and other enemies of the
catholic faith, he did grant a full and plenary indulgence,
and full remission of all their sins, desiring all of them to be
partakers of this precious treasure. Dated from the Vati-
can, or St. Peter's-palace, in Rome, May 25, 1643, in the
20th year of his pontificate." Under this plenary indulgence
the Papists of Ireland murdered many thousands of their
Protestant neighbours.
To come nearer to our own days. In the present century
Pope Pius the Vllth favoured the people of Cork with a
plenary indulgence " applicable" (as his letter especially
states) "to the souls in purgatory." A bull was issued by
Leo the Xllth, in the year 1825--a year of jubilee—styled,
therefore, by the pope in the bull in question, " the year of
expiation and pardon, of redemption and grace, of redemp-
tion and indulgence." " During which year of jubilee,"
says his holiness, " we mercifully give and grant in the Lord
a plenary indulgence, remission, and pardon of all their
sins, to all the faithful of Christ of both sexes, truly penitent
and confessing their sins, arbd receiving the holy communion,
who shall devoutly visit the churches of blessed Peter and
Paul, as also of St. John Lateran and St. Mary Major of
this city," (Rome,) " for thirty successive days." • Pope
Leo, in the same bull, calls on all patriarchs, primates, arch-
bishops, and bishops, to rouse their people to the meritorious
undertaking; adding, "To you it belongs to explain with
perspicuity the power of indulgences ; what is their efficacy,
not only in the remission of the canonical penance, but also
of the temporalpunishment due to the divine justicefor past
sin; and what succour is afforded out of the heavenly trea.
sure from the merits of Christ and his saints, to such as have
departed real penitents in God's love, yet before they had
duly satisfied by fruits worthy of penance, for sin of com-
mission and omission, and are now purifying in the fire of
purgatory, that an entrance may be opened unto them into
the eternal country, where nothing defiled is admitted."
Such is the doctrine of indulgences—a doctrine of which
Pope Pius the IVth in his creed (which has ever been re-
garded as an accurate and explicit summary of the Roman
Catholic faith, and to which some of my beloved brethren
and myself are now taking the liberty of appending a few
notes and comments,) makes the affirmation which we are
now considering.
He affirms that the power of indulgences was left by Christ
in the church. We ask, when did Christ do this ? When and
where has he intimated that he has done it? Where are we
to look for the record of the gift? Of what Christ has done
for the church—of what Christ has bestowed on the church—
we know we can know nothing but from the Scriptures ; and
with regard to this power of indulgences, affirmed by Pius to
have been placed by Christ in the church, the Scriptures
preserve a profound silence.
The doctrine of indulgences is indissolubly linked to that
of works of supererogation. It must stand or fall with it.
One single declaration of Christ demolishes that doctrine—
" So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things
which are commanded you, say, we are unprofitable servants :
we have done that which was our duty to you."—Luke,
xvii-10. " That which was our duty to do !"—that—and
no more. Where, then, are works of supererogation ?
, Gone! _ . _ . .

" And, like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Leave not a wreck behind."

Let it also be remembered that the holy law of God re-
quires perfect obedience. How, then, can we overpass by
one single step the line of its requirements? How, with
higher than the falcon's flight, are we to soar above perfec-
tion ? Yet this we must do to accompligh works of superero-
gation. What, then, if we have fallen far short of the law's
requirements? What if the " Scriptures have concluded all
under sin ?"—if they testify that " in many things we offend
all ?"—that " all have sinned, and come short of the glory of
God ?" Where are the works of supererogation ? (Loud

cheers.)
The inspired Psalmist declares that " none can by any
means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for
him." The work of Christ is a finished work. "It is
finished !" was his dying exclamation. As the surety of the
church, he " paid the uttermost farthing" of our debt to di-
vine justice. What is the testimony of his word ? " There is,
therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus." (Rom. viii. 1.) "Ye are complete in him." (Col.
ii. TO.) "By one offering he bath perfected fur ever them
that are sanctified." (lieb. x. 14.) Thus the Scriptures,
from which alone we can know the mind and will of God,
directly negative the confident assertion of Pius on this head.
comfort to the
Pius affirms, secondly,—That " the use of indulgences is
most wholesome to all Christian people." Now, if whole-
''_9.a:; it must be wholesome in one, or both 6f two ways ;
mil as ministering the medicine of a solid and well grounded
vigour, and a
mi-
nisters
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leading bun soul of a convinced sinner, or as the means of
no man shall "follow after" the " holiness, without which
bee the Lord,"—with greater alacrity, ardour,
iicno. But what is the comfort which it mi-
salutar alarmed and awakened conscience? Not the
the spurious medicine, a genuine and scriptural comfort, but
peace. A believin ne., or rather the deadly poison, of a false
Redeemer, is the ofirew of the finished work of our adorable
solid ground of comfort to
and, consequently, the only
with respect to its wholesome tto an awakened conscience. And,
holiness, is it not evidenetThme tendency in the promotion of
caniness,
be purchased for money' !t notion that " the gift of God
bought from a priest, mu Ye' —that remission of sin can be
reverse ? (Hear, hear.) 8 have a practical effect the very
Instead of occupying your time by ~„„
ened and elaborate argument oa ' —' attempt at length-
plain and obvious to render it in theoint which is really too
sary, I will bring before you a statement slightest degree neces-
sary,
Rome in the Nineteenth Century.,,iof the author of
and remission of sins are offered here on very indulgence
was at first rather startled with the prodigal easy terms I
manner • . •
full pardon of all transgressions was bestowed at ilii which
consideration of repeating certain prayers before ome in
the sh •
of certain saints, or paying a certain sum of money to , shrine
priests. I was surprised to find scarcely a church in certain
which did not hold up at the door the tempting inscription
e
of ' Indulgenzia Plenaria. Two hundred days of indul-
gence I thought a great reward for every kiss bestowed upon

the great black cross in the Colosseum : but that is nothing ;
to the indulgence for ten, twenty, or even thirty thousand
years, that may be bought at no exorbitant rate in many of
the churches ; so that it is amazing what a vast quantity of
treasure may be amassed in the other world, with very little
industry in this, by those who are avaricious of this spiritual
wealth, into which, indeed, the dross or riches of this world
may be converted with the happiest facility imaginable. You
may buy as many masses as will free your soul from purga-
tory for 29,000 years, at the church of St. John Lateran on
the festa of that saint ; at Santa Bibiana, on All Souls-day,
for 7,000 years; at a church near the Basilica of St. Paul,
and at another on the Quirinal Hill, for 10,000 and for 3,000
years, and at a very reasonable rate. But it is in vain to
particularize; for the greater part of the principal churches
in Rome and the neighbourhood are spiritual shops for the
sale of the said commodity." To the testimony of this au-
thor it may be added, that in the year 1800 a Spanish ship
from Europe was captured near the coast of South America
by Admiral Harvey, the captain of the Southampton frigate.
On inquiring into the nature of her cargo, he found that
there were large bales of paper on board, valued in her books
at £7,500. These bales were, therefore, brought up for ex-
amination ; and to the British officers' surprise, they proved
to be large sheets of paper, some printed in Spanish, some
in Latin, but all sealed with the seals of ecclesiastical courts
either in Spain or at Rome. They were, in fact, indulgences,
or papal pardons for various sins; and the price was marked
upon each, varying from half a dollar to seven dollars. They
bad been bought in Spain, and were intended for sale in
South America. Such facts speak for themselves, and leave
us at no loss to arrive at a conclusion with regard to the
practical tendency of the system, and to estimate at its real
value the affirmation of Pius IV. on the wholesomeness of
the use of indulgences.
In one particular, indeed, we are willing to concede that
" the use of indulgences" has been salutary : for to this,
under God, we are indebted for our glorious Protestant re-
formation. It was a common saying of the monks that
Eramus "laid the egg, which Luther hatched :" but,in fact,
the first was done by Leo X. ; the second was effected by
Tetzel the Dominican, the unprincipled instrument of an
unprincipled pontiff.—Mr. Parry then gave a. rapid sketch
of the origin and rise of the Reformation ; of various circum-
stances in the providence of God, which preceded it, such as
the revival of letters, and the discovery of the art of printing;
of the character of Leo ; and noticed the manner in which
too many of our modern historians, captivated by his pa-
tronage of letters, arts, and sciences, have spoken of the
Reformation, " whose scepticism," he remarked, " or in-
difference to real religion have led them to think little of that
great event in comparison with the man, whose Mecmnas
qualities far eclipsed, in their eyes, the piety, magnanimity,
and love of truth, by which a Luther was distinguished."
He adverted to the early history of the Saxon Reformer ;
his Christian indignation at the open sale of Leo's indul-
gences by the profligate Tetzel; his bold, uncompromising
opposition to them; and concluded in these words
It has been shewn, I trust, that the first affirmation of
Pius IV. is directly contradicted by scriptural testimony :
that his second affirmation is equally destitute of truth : that
the doctrine, so far from being wholesomo, is most perni-
cious and poisonous to the souls of men. The peace it im-
parts is a false peace. The practice, to which it has a natu-
ral tendency to lead, is a licentious practice. It teaches men
to build upon the sand, instead of teaching them to build
simply upon the rock. On the rock, the glorious rock, the
rock of ages, may we build our every hope of present peace,
and of bliss beyond the grave ! May the dying exclamation
of the martyr Lambert find, in life and in death, an echo in
our hearts,—" None but Christ ! none but Christ !" (Loud
cheers.)
The Doxology was then sung, and the meeting separated.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY
AMONG THE JEWS.

The annual meeting of this society was held on Friday
morning at Exeter Hall, London. Upwards of 3000 persons
were present. Sir Thomas Baring presided, supported on
the right by the Bishop of Hipon, and on the left by Chevalier
Bunsen and Lord Ashley. The proceedings having been
opened with prayer,
The Chairman said that for some time past the hall in
which they then were had resounded with eloquent appeals
in behalf of the Gentile church, and in the advocacy of those
societies who had for their object the propagation of the
Gospel, and the promulgation of the glad tidings of salvation
of a crucified Redeemer to all parts of the world. He was
sure he might, on the part of every true friend of Israel, say
that they wished those societies God speed, that the heathen
might be given to our Redeemer for his possession, and that
the earth might be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the
waters cover the sea. But they had met that day to plead
the cause of Israel, and he would venture to say that their
society yielded in irci ortance to no other religious society in
existence. (Hear, hear.) Indeed he would be bold to say,
that it was superior to all other religious societies. (Hear.)
The Rev. Dr. Marsh having questioned the children of the
scholl on the fundamental truths of Christianity, delivered a
brief but touching address to them.
The Chairman called upon the Rev. V

Ayerst to read the

report.
The report adverted to the acceptance by the Archbishop
of Canterbury of the office of sole patron of the society, and
to the fact that the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Lon-
don, and nearly all the episcopal bench have become vice-
patrons. It also mentioned the munificent donation of
£15,000 from the King of Prussia towards the erection of a
Protestant bishoprio in Jerusalem, and that the committee
had made a grant of £3OOO towards the same object. The
report stated that the aggregate amount of contributions re-
ceived during the past year towards the general and special
purposes of the society was £24,699 Ss. 9d., being an increase
of £1760 9s. 7d. above the receipts of the preceding year.
This amount had been contributed in the following pro-
portions :—General proportions of the society, including the
Jerusalem Mission and Scripture Funds, £22,841 13s. Sd. ;
Hebrew church at Jerusalem, £1313 10s. 2d. ; hospital at
Jerusalem, £lB9 Ss. Scl. ; Jewish Converts' Relief Fund,
Jerusalem, £5l ls. ; Operative Institution, Jerusalem,
£5l ; School of Industry, Jerusalem, £55; Temporal Fund,
£197 15s. 3d. The committee stated that after defraying the
expenses of the year, they had in hand, for general purposes
to carry on the work of the society, the sum of £BOOO, vested
in exchequer bills, and £l7BB 19s. 2d. in the hands of the
treasurer. On account of the Hebrew church at Jerusalem
they had £1543 Os. 10d. in the treasurer's hands • and on ac-
count of the different funds for temporal relief already
enumerated, they had £5OO in exchequer bills, and £364 1 ls.
iu the hands of the treasurer, making a total balance of £B5OO
in exchequer bills, and £3696 lls. in the hands of the
I treasurer.

The resolutions were then moved and seconded by the
Bishop of Ripon, Lord Ashley, and the Rev. G. Bickersteth,
Dr. M`Caul, and Dr. Marsh ; after which Chevalier Bunsen
rose and delivered the following speech :

,
I came this morning to this house rather to be present at,
than to speak before, this great assembly—not to speak, but
to assist the meeting with silent gratitude and cheerfulness.
(Cheers.) But, since that time, mention has been made in
the kindest and most affectionate way of the King my
Sovereign, who has sent me to this Christian country, and
a resolution has been proposed, seconded, and adopted with
so warm a manifestation of the good-will and Christian affec-
tion and regard for that monarch, that I feel I should he
wanting in my duty if I did not overcome my reluctance, my
just reluctance, to explain myself before you in language not
my own—(cheers)—if I did not attempt, I say, in a few words
—not to make a speech before you, as those who have pre-
ceded me have so eloquently done, but to thank you, not for
myself and on my behalf, but in the name of the King who
has sent me. (Cheers.) You (turning towards the chair-
man) were present when the committee of this society pre-
sented an address to the King of Prussia on the subject to
which those who have preceded me have directed your atten-
tion. I wish I were permitted—not to repeat the words in
which the King of Prussia expressed to you his answer to
your address—l wish, 1 say, that I were able to give utter-
ance in any thing like an adequate degree to the sentiments
which he has very often expressed to me, and which I have
frequently heard him express to others on the same score.
But one thing I will say, that the King—as he at that time
stated in few words—feels and knows that he has much to
thank you for, because there is no individual, there is no
society existing which has been—to use the King's words—
so pre-eminently instrumental as yours in carrying into effect
a plan, not of the King's, but a great Christian plan, founded
on no selfish, no political, no exclusive basis, and to be car-
ried out by the instrumentality of the Church of England.
(Cheers.) I say, it will be a glory to your society to have
contributed, as it has done, to this great work ; to have been
more instrumental in effecting it than any individual or cor-
poration in the world. (Cheers.) It is true that the first
thanks of the King of Prussia are due to those just and en-
lightened prelates who received the proposals which I had
the honour to lay before them, who received them in a truly
Christian and Protestant spirit, and, in their consideration
and adoption of them, brought to bear upon the subject that
wisdom and that experience which could alone ensure success
in the prosecution of the plan. (Cheers.) But if I have to
thank, in the King's name, those prelates, have I not to
thank those at the head of the society who have exerted them-
selves most strenuously in this great work? (Cheers.) Allow
me to make mention, as this is the first opportunity I have
had of publicly stating it, that the members of your committee
enabled me to do what I have done when I was allowed to
lay the plan of the King of Prussia before your Sovereign ;
and here I may say that I was assisted by the excellent pre-
late now at Mount Zion—(cheers,)—and by my noble friend
(Lord Ashley), who has so eloquently addressed you, and by
the rev. gentleman who has just sat down. I, therefore,
speak only very imperfectly the King's sentiments when 1 say
I thank you individually and collectively for the affectionate
way in which you have this day spoken of the King, my mas-
ter. (Cheers.) But 1 think we are not met here together
to thank each other. lam sure I may say that the promi-
nent feeling of our hearts is this—that we ought to unite in
humble thanksgiving to Him who has brought us and will
keep us together. (Cheers.) Without retracing the steps
so forcibly laid before you by my noble friend, by which we
have arrived at our present position, I may, perhaps, he per-
mitted to observe, that when I look back upon what has so
recently been happily effected, I cannot but recollect that this
day twelve months I received these words from the mouth
of the King of Prussia—" Go to England, and in my name
offer the hand of brotherhood and of brotherly co-operation
to the Church of England over the tomb of our Saviour."
(Loud cheers.) Who is there among us that, twelve months
ago, but thought that he would be offering up his earnest
prayer rather than his deep thanks for what has been so pro-
videntially accomplished for the cause of true Christianity.
(Cheers.) Of all the circumstances to which I feel myself in
my heart obliged to look back with thankfulness, I will men-
tion only two, and those two because they are not known to
you, nor to myself till a few days ago. I hold in my hand a
letter, dated Mount Zion, Easter Monday, and addressed to
me by the Bishop of Jerusalem. (The chevalier then read
copious extracts from the letter, in which the bishop spoke
in the most encouraging terms of his mission. Chevalier
Bunsen then proceeded.) Now it appears to me, that we
have here such accounts as not only justify our expectations
and our hopes, but certainly must make us thankful beyond
expression for the excess of mercy that has been shown to us.
(Cheers.) Allow me to make mention of another circum-
stance regarding my native country, and which has just
reached me. The King of Prussia. for whom you have ma-
nifested so much affection and regard, permitted that on the
Sundays between Easter and Whit Sundays a collection might
be made in the Protestant churches of that kingdom in behalf
of the schools and hospitals belonging to the bishopric of
Jerusalem on Mount Zion. (Cheers.) This appeal of the
King to his Prussian subjects has been responded to in a way
which I am sure will as much gratify you as it does the King.
(Cheers.) When my last communication left Berlin, the
whole amount of the collection was not known to the govern-
ment, but so much was known, that from the—(we did not
catch the word)—to the Rhine, this collection had met with
the greatest sympathy, both from the rich and the poor,
though the sum gathered had been more (as we understood)
indebted to the widows and the orphans' mite than to the
contributions of the rich and the mighty, and the whole pro-
duced about z£10,000—(loud cheers)—which will be placed at
the disposal of the Bishop of Jerusalem, in assisting him to
erect the schools and hospital for the benefit of Germans and
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The following are the receipts of the principal railways for
the last week :—Brighton, £2,497; Blackwall, £948; Man-
chester and Birmingham, £406; Birmingham, £17,405;
Croydon, £187; Greenwich, £227 ; South Western, £6,041;
Northern and Eastern, £1,415; Manchester and Leeds,
£4002 ; Great Western, £13,377; Birmingham and Derby,
£1,127; North Midland, £4,026; Great North of England,
£1,168; Midland Counties, £2,701; York and North Mid-
land, £1,475 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2,016.

EMPLOYMENTS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN

(Front the Morning Herald.)

We have just received two hug; blue books, being Parts
I. and 11. of the Appendix" to the parliamentary " Com-
mission on Children's Employment." Each " part" con-
sists of nearly 900 folio pages. Part I. is illustrated by some
lithographic sketches of men, of women, of children, em-
ployed in what we may term " brute labour" and " brute
transport." Here are! women harnessed to coal carts, and
dragging them through seams of coal from 22 to 28 inches,
only, in height,—working their burdens some backward—
others forward—over the dismal perforations, rather than
roads, with a dip of 1 foot in 3, to 1 foot in 6. This infa-
mous, this disgusting, this unsexing employment is exacted,
at this day, of wretched, bht miserably poor and untiringly
industrious women (!) in some of the mines of Scotland, and
the north of England, under circumstances to which at pre-
sent we cannot trust ourselves further to allude. We shall
speedily recur to the subject, however, more at large. In
mines in Lancashire, boys are employed some in pushing,
others in draggingloaded coal trucks through those miserable
seams or galleries,—the pushers becoming bald, from the
friction of their heads against the trucks, the draggers
maimed from hauling it on their hands and knees ;—and both
these employments are habitual ! In mines at Rochdale and
in the Vicinity of Preston and Macclesfield, miners work at
the coal in positions and under restraints and confinement,
as to space for their exertions, which shock belief, but are
terribly exemplied in the rude but effective lithographs at pp.
158, &c., of Part I. One of the men shown, (and of all re-
presented in the cuts it is said (p. 159) that " they generally
work " naked,"—) is as destitute of all habiliments as a na-
tive of the Washington Islands. He was found working "in
a mine not more than from 18 to 20 inches in thickness. His
chest was brought down so as almost to rest upon the thigh,
and the head bent down almost to the knee !" How strange
that £20,000,000 of money should have been heaped upon
the fetters of negro slaves in the y%, est Indies in order to
break them ; and that not one indignant tongue should yet
Lave been heard within the walls of Parliament to denounce
a legalised or at least permitted system of physical degrada-
tion to men, of moral ruin and bodily torture to women, of
barbarous captivity and toil to children, for which the
bondage of Egyptian taskmasters, the tyranny of European
" overseers," and the humiliations of Moorish slavery have
supplied no parallel, and can suggest no type !

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning last, a
shocking catastrophe befel a man named Benjamin Taylor, a
slubber, in the employ of Messrs. Armitage and Body, of
Milnes-bridge, near Huddersfield. It appears that in conse-
-quence of there being something defective about the water
wheel, he went upon it for the purpose of rectifying what was
amiss, when, from some unknown cause, the water suddenly
rushed out and set the wheel in instant motion, and horrible
to relate, literally cut the poor fellow asunder.—Leeds In-
telligencer.
MURDER OF A POLICEMAN IN LONDON.—For the last
three weeks, a series of highway robberies have been perpe-
trated on persons passing through the fields in and near the
Hornsey-wood House, by a foot-pad said to have been heavily
armed, and a description of whose person was a few days
since forwarded to the station house of the N division, Isling-
ton Green : since which period, Mr. Superintendent Johnston
has caused additional men to be placed near the spot com-
plained of. Shortly before 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon,
police constable Charles Moss was on duty near Hornsey-
wood House, when he observed a gentleman going along the
path which leads from it towards town„ and a man following
him, wko also answered the description of the party suspec-
ted. He pursued him, and, on approaching within a few
yards, the villain turned round and fired a pistol, and the
ball lodged in Moss's right arm. Moss called loudly for
help, and police constable Mallet, N 341, who was standing
on a hill about a quarter of a mile from the spot, and a jour-
neyman baker, named Charles Mott, and who also was near
joined in the pursuit. The man Mott had got within a few
yards of the fugative, when the latter drew another pistol
from his breast and again fired, wounding his pursuer in the
shoulder. Mr. Howard, a baker, of Elornsley, who saw the
occurrence, gave chase to the assassin, whom he kept in
sight along the main road in the direction of Highbury Barn,
on arriving near which he jumped over a ditch into some
fields in the direction of Highbury College. Mr. Howard
followed, and whilst doing so observed him reloading his pistol.
He got into a lane at the end of which there was no thorough-
fare, and in which he was met by police constable Timothy
Daley, who was about to seize him, when he drew from his
breast the pistol he had re-loaded, and fired at Daley, who
instantly fell lifeless, the ball having penetrated his heart.
By this time Mr. Howard and the other pursuers came up,
and the murderer was seized. He exclaimed, " I'm done now ;
I give myself up ;" and he was then asked to deliver up his
pistols, which he did. On being asked if he had anything
else about him, he said "No;' but, on being searched, a
knife or dagger, sharpened at the point on both sides, was
found concealed down his fob pocket. The pistols are old
cavalry pistols, with flint locks, and odd ones ; the stock of
one of them was much stained with blood, and the knife also
had stains of blood upon it. The murderer is apparently
about twenty-four years of age, of spare habit of body ; his
features are oval, his eyes and hair dark. He calls himself
Thomas Cooper, and says he is a bricklayer. Upwards of
twenty persons saw the murder committed. On Friday the
prisoner was brought up before the magistrates at Clerken-
well. The court was excessively crowded. The prisoner
appeared to be in a state of weakness and suffering, and he
was accommodated with a chair. He spoke, when addressed
by the magistrate, in a low, feeble tone. The individuals
who witnessed the circumstances above related gave their
testimony. The prisoner sat leaning on the front of the
dock, with his face resting on his hands. He declined ask-
ing any questions of the witnesses. As' the examination pro-
ceeded, his countenance was observed to assume a ghastly
hue, he appeared to be growing weaker and weaker, and, at
length, fell insensible into the arms of the gaoler, when he
was removed from the court. A communication was shortly
afterwards made to the court that the prisoner had stated
that he had taken poison. Mr. Dwery, the surgeon, who
bad been giving evidence in the case, immediately hastened
to his assistance. This gentleman shortly afterwards con-
firmed the opinion that the prisoner had taken poison. In-
spector Penny announced that the prisoner was getting
worse every instant, and that he was at that moment throw-
ing up large quantities of blood. Waddington, the gaoler,
said the prisoner had told him he had pnrchased, on the pre-
ceding evening, two pennyworth of white arsenic and six
pennyworth of laudanum. The crowd in the court was,
during this time, in a state of great excitement. In a short
time the unfortunate man ceased vomiting. He took a little
brandy and water, and some emetics,
and appeared to be re-
covering, though be remained in a state
of great debility. On
Saturday the prisoner was again placed at the bar, before
Mr. Greenwood, the sitting magistrate, when the depositions
of the witnesses examined on Friday were formally taken
down by Mr. Mould, the clerk. The prisoner looked rather
better than on Friday, his colour having partially returned •,
and it was stated that he had passed a very good night, and
slept soundly for several hours. During the proceedings,
however, he became faint, and was unable to attend to the
examination of the witnesses. The magistrate, finding him
in this state, ordered the further examination to be post-
poned. Mr. H. Hayes Walton, one of the surgeons of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, told the reporter that the prisoner
had not taken poison of any kind : his present enfeebled
state was the result of mental and bodily exhaustion, pro-
duced by his not having taken any food since the day of the
murder, and his obstinately refusing to take any, and his
great anxiety of mind. The strong emetic that had been
given him, when it was conjectured he had taken poison, was
the cause that prevented stimulating liquids remaining on his
stomach, and of the relaxed state, accompanied with pain, of
the bowels.

PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 5.
Prices within the last seven days. This days
RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share
Bolton and Preston
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Derby
Bristol and Exeter 7O .... 0 0 0
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto, new 2O .... 0 0 0
Dublin and Drogheda .. 17 10.. 0 0 0
Eastern Counties
Ditto new Shares .... 2 6 8 5 4 2
Ditto, Debentures
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Leigh and N'ewhaven 20 paid o 0 0
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 25 paid 0 0 0
Half Shares 6 •• • . 6 0 0
Glasgow, Paisley, Kihnar 1 50 paid
Greenock, and Ayr........
Grand Junction
Ditto half shares 5O
Quarter
New ditto
Great Western

Ditto new shares 50
Ditto Fifth Shares .......... 4
Great North of England
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Preston
Ditto J unction, new
Leicester and Swannington sk
Leeds and Selby
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto half shares
London and Birmingham 9O
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto old shares 32.
Ditto new
London & Brighton
Ditto new .
London and South Western
Ditto, lath shares
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham 4O .

Ditto and Ditto Extension
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter shales
Midland Counties

Ditto, quarter ....
Korth Midland ....
New North Midland,

0 0 0

5 : 8

55 0 0

01 0 0 .
95 0 0 ....
26 Is n
o o o ....
91 10 0 ....
65 0 0 ....
10 10 0 ....
O u 0 ex.
O 0 0 ....
O 0 0
o o o .... 19 10 0
O 0 0 ....
O 0

50 paid
47 10 0

187 10 0 ex
O 0 0 ...
O 0 0 ...
131 0 0 . .
37 5 0 ..
60 10 0 ...
O 0 0
O 0 0
•2 6 .
63 15 0 • •
O 0 0 ..
61 0 0 ..
28 15 0
O 0 0
98 0 0 ..
39 5 0 ..
6 15 0 ..
O 0 0
O 0 0 ..
65 10 0 ..
32 (5 0 ..
21 18 4 ..
O 0 0 ..
0 0 0 ...
O 0 0 ...
18 0 0 ...
17 5 0 ...
50 .... 32 0 0 with n. shs. &in
215 0 pm. 3 5 0 pm
50 paid 0 0 0 ....
0 0 0 ....

Go 10 0

36 0 0

North Union
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO

Ditto quarter shares
Ulster
Paris and Rouen
South Eastern and Dover
New shares
York and North Midland
Half Shares
BANKS
Bank of Liverpool 412 10s paid
- Borough Bank lO
- Commercial of Liverpool ;0
- Commercial of England. 5
- • East of England lO
- of Manchester lO
- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15
- Northern and Central
- North and South Wales.. 10
- Royal of Liverpool 500
- South Lancashire
- Albion
- Liverpool Uilion

20 2 6
13 12 6
17 2 6
O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0
10 7 6
O 0 0
O 0 0

20 2 6
13 12 6

0 0 0 ....67 10 0
0 0 0 ....

25 !mid
10 .. • • 10 12 6 ....
Liverpool Bankin, Co 10 •• • • 0 • •
- Wilts and Dorset 7 0 o
GAS, WATER WORI-ZS, &c.
1,4 0 0 —.175 0 0
Exchange Buildings 4lOO paid ,
L'pool and Harrington Water ) Stock •
Works
Bootle Ditto Stock.,
L'pool Gas Light Company,
(Original Stock) 100
Ditto new Shares.... 100
L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .4100
Ditto new shares are now paid up

587 0 0

0 0 0

O 0 0
O 0 0
O 0 0

ASSURANCE COMPANIES •
0 0 0
M'chester Assurance Company. 10 .. • •
Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s• 3 0 0
0 0 0
Ocean Assurance • 2 10..
Liverpool Marine Assurance )
10 paid 0 0 0
Company
DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES', :,:f(;•
Anderton Carrying Company •16 as•
Rock Ferry
0 0 0
Steam Tug Company l.l . • 00 0
Harrington Docks lOO .• • • 00 0
Apothecaries' Company
Asphalte (Liverpool)
Polonceau) 0 0 0

LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT-MAY 7