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finger, one on the thumb, and one Wtween the thumb
fore finger. The wounds on the bp* of the deceased
might have been occasioned by nnotber's having attempted
to prevent his committing suicide, or they might tupplbeep
done by some other person.
Mr: 'Hugh Jones, surgeon, of Bangor, said, he eiamihel
the body a: the inquest ; that the large wound exte
'from the right ear to the jaw-bone within about twe i ,
of the left ear; that it would ucculon almost instant death,
and therefore it mina have been done after the smaller
wounds; for the person would have been incapabli
of repeating the act. The deceased !night have
done it himself. The cut withinside the thus
might have been done by the deceased gring the ed
of the razor: the cuts on the left hand might -have
done by the deceased meeting resistance in his attempt.
Cross-examined—The deceased was more likely to indict
the large wound because of its situation and height. Hit
was not likely to have been overcome by a woman. Wit-
ness is of opinion the large cut was done with the right
Land, and there appeared a slight division so as to war.
rant the supposition that the deceased met with resistance
in doing it. He was certainly not of sound mind.
Mr. 0.0. Roberts, surgeon, of Carnarvon, corroborated
much of the foregoing testimony; and expressed Lis•
opinion that the wounds were indicted by the hands of the
deceased, because the fatal cot wu situated so high up,
that if it bad been dose by another person, that person
must first have raised up the bead of the deceased.
The case for the prosecution here closed.
'flee Counsel for the prisoner put it to the Court to ask
the Jury whether, by the evidence adduced, they were not
perfectly satisfied of the prisoner's innocence? If not, the
Counsel for the prisoner were quite ready to go into the de-
fence. It was then stated to the Jury, by the Court, that
stifficient evidence was not brought forward to convict the
prisoner of the murder. The Jury coneurliog, Immediate-
ly pronounced a verdict of—Not Guilty.

tat.— , to the 41a1, at
a dead body.—Thi ssliless-and a outside were CM,
to excess during the eternisation by. persons who docked
thither to learn the result of the proceedings.—The deposi-
tory of the hospital having been broken into a few nights
back. and the dead body of a yonng woman being on that
occasion stolen thereon?. a reward oTtlO/. was offered for the
detection of the perpetrators of the offence. it bring sus-
-petted that a similar attack would be again made. it was,
resolved by the Beard 'that a strict watch should be kept
about the premises. in • order if possible to detect sash
direful offenders, and between the hours of twelve and one
o'clock on Saturday mbersing, the 'ornate' 61 the establish•
went were thrown Into the gleatest Coalition and. alarm,',
In consequence of its bring announced by its of the
notes that there were two men then busily engaged in
opening one of the graves in the burying-grouod, which
is close at the back of the Hospital, and surrounded by a
very high iron ratting. the .nurse, it. seems. espied
the ruffians at work from one of the Ward windows.*
Stich an•abontinahle ocenriense tending of tonne to excite
the strongest rirdignatiqn, the Servants. several of the sta.
dents, and air many of the in-pathless as were able to afford,
any assistance were instantirop in arms,and suddenly seta
lied forth in different directions on the body snatchers,
that all possibility of eseape might be prevented. The
anxiety prevailing menhir the poor patients to secure the
villains was so greet that several of them were seen, on
their crutches, joining in the pursuit through the sepul-
chres.—The prssoner,Bryant, who is an athletic Hibernian,
was detected endeavouring to conceal himself in the Orley
by,ene of the students, and 31illard was secured by a watch-
-man es he was in the act of escaping over the fence.—
Heorge Ellis. conductor of a party of the Bow-street night
patrol, by this time chanced to come up. and the two pri
boners being given in charge to him, he conveyed them to
IVhitechspel watch-house.
The several persons concerned in the detection of the
prisoners now attended, and deposed to the above fact ; and
large sack am hovel found near the grave were produced
for the luspeetiof of the Court, which was horror-struck
viewing the sack inside, from the quantity of human halt
thereon, as this circumstance left little doubt of its having.
been used on many occasilks similar to the present. It
was stated in the coarse of the inquiry that Bryant, privies*
to his apprehension. severely wounded in the arm one of
the patients, by a blow with d Shovel.
• Millard, who is a mats of gentlemanly appearance and
superior address, stated` himself to have been servant to Sir
Astley Cooper, for Arlen years ; we were informed that be,
lc: I been formerly Conservator of the Museum, and attend-I
ant to the Disseclide-room, at the Anatomical SCheol of
St. Thomas's HcApital, and that he has lately resided he '
the Borough, and wo recollect Isis having presented him.
self some Aunt time ago at this other, as bail fur a note
named Crouch, who was then in custody fur " body-snatch-
og."
A Gentlenias, whom we believe to he a Member of the
Faculty, stcllped forward to offer brit for the prisoners ;
but was informed hy the Beach that they were nut about to
commit them fur body snatching,- but under the Vagrant
Act, for being found in enclosed premises at an unseason-
able hour, and cot giving a satisfactory account of them-
selves. _ _ _

The prisoners were then sentenced eaeh to he imprisoned
during the space of three months in the House of Correction,
and to be kept during that time to the wholesome exercise
of ftieiTread Wheel.
MARLEORJUGH STREET.—Saturday, a young man of
extremely gentlemanly manners, but of very shabby gen-
teel appearance, was brought to this offic.: before lflr.
CONANT, on the following charge :
The landlord of the Lamb and Larkpublic house, Pollen•
Street, S'. -George's, stated that the aceitsed had been given
in charge under the following circumstances:—
On Friday evening he was confined to his room with a
rheumatic. complaint, and was lying on his bed, when the
room door opened, and, on raising himself, he perceived the
prisoner in the act of entering; but on perceiving him, here-
tired, closing the door. Of the intrusion be took nonotice,un-
tit hearing some noise below, to went down and found the young
man bad been challenged coming llosvo,by a coachman, who,
from the flippant answer he received to his enquiry, sus-
pected be had intended to rob the house, and not being
►atisfied with his answers, he gave him into cnstodv, and
consigned him to the watch-house—lie had served hint a
day or two previous with two-penny worth of Brandy, and
some bread and elieeNe. _ _

The Magistrate called upon the young man for his name,
and to account for his conduct.

He replied, indeed, he had no intention, upoa' his ho-
rota, to rob the house. Had he any guilty intention, be
thought his conduct would have been more disguised, and
the unfortunate cause of his being in the louse originated
iu an appointment of a delicate nature, which on Thursday
night he had made with a female whom be met in the The
mire, and who gave him the " Lamb and Lark" address
autl he had went there to fulfil that engagement.
The Constable stated he Lad searched the gentleman, and
had found only two duplicates; he had not a single fraction
in money about him ; and from the Landlord's statement.
there was no female in his house with whom he could make
any such appointment.
The defendant reiterated his declaration, and with some
animation, although tinctured with affectation, said he was
engaged in an employment of respectability, and, indeed,
one which required considerable progress in Literature, to
hold ; he was a native of the sister kingdom, (which his
accent betrayed) and was a member of the University of
Dublin, having obtained thedegree of Graduate.
Mr. 'Junky, a law stationer of respectability, stepped for-
ward and said, be had known the young wan for 10 weeks,
and be believed him to be a man of strict integrity and
honour: he held a very important literary situationond was
possessed of some very first rate acquirements.
After some conversation the case was adjourned—the
defendant being enlarged on Mr.flunlay's becoming surety
for him, on his re-appearance. Mr. Oxberry, the worthy
and respectable comedian, and landlord of the Craven
Head, Drury Lane, appeared ; and, for the six
weeks lie had known defendant, gave him a very high
character. Other gentlemen were willing to bear similar tes-
Oniony ; and it appearing there was no wish to proceed, and
the young man's areident proceeding from the. aberration
of the 'flint' at the moment, he was ultimately discharged.
We, from feelings of delicacy, supposing he might have
been mistaken, do not mention his name.
Two miscreants were held to bail for disgraceful prac-
tices in Hyde-park.

A sturdy-looking mendicant on crutches, a woman by appear-
ance. was (voiding contributions at the pattern of Omeath, near
Carlingford, on Sunday last; but being observed sometimes to
walk independently, suspicions arose of an Imposition, which
were soon confirmed, and theses of the Impostor ascertained,
i)y a manful resistance to some constables and Others, upon
Srokeeding to take him into custody, the fellow having used his
crutches with such dexterity and effect ns to convince four or
ise of his assailants that they had neither a woman nor a terip-
ele to dial with. lie bus been committed to Dundalk gaol.

- Amor hoos.
.r.s:rjfwhiehher.
it
.ostlkikasra up
,4 SOW gm was so
pule *extricate
N her leg was ab.
at. Medical
vain, as sh 4
4 saudilo to die
*Wad* 41( ?Wad
d to bet home',
Ind it might he
_—.dew to time she endeavoured
ileprepare her parents for her death, by acquaintiog them
Wiser gradual yet certain dissolution ; she was an amiable
little girl, sod a teacher in one of the Sunday schools.—No
*thee pert of her body retained any injury.--(Stockport
Aloirtmer)
Optimum's Ixquiter.—An Inquest was on Saturday held at
WI Bing's Head mdeie-hoese, in Steen-lane, on the body of
a young woman, which Mad been found drowned on the pre-
ceding day, under a' barge, lying off Old Swan Stelrs, Thames
street- When the body was first discovered, it was forted Ica-
possible to remove it, till the tide Boated the barge, and it re-
mottled to that position for some hours. At length it was ex-
tricated, and taken On abort, and from Metres to Abehurch,
Owe it remained foe inspection. Various rumours were in
circulation es to the circumstances under which the unfortunate
woman was drowned—acme smarting that she Was a passenger
who bad been lest le eresseguisoce of the disgraceful disputes 1
of the Waterman alongside of the steam boats; and others,
that It was the body of one of the poor creature' who bad been
drowsed of Billingsgehe wharf. Both speculations, however,
proved to be Incorrect. The body had evidently got been very
long In the water; and from the evidence before Mr. Shelton,
the Coroner, it would seem that the wretched women destroyed
her owe life.—Her name was Elisabeth Rice, and else proved
to be one of those unfortunate creatures *hose lapse from
virtue renders them outcasts from society. She was only
knows as wends, the neighbourhood of Cannon-street. On
Taureday evening she was seen wandering pensively on the
banks of the river ' • sad shortly previous had purchased three
farthings' worth of apples trots a barrow *woman in the street,
to whorl she observed, " those would be the last apples she
should eat."--,There were so marks of violence on her person,
and her dress, although formerly of a fasisiostable description'
had been much worn. There was no money whatever found
upon her, nor any thing else which could lead to a knowledge
of her conorc ions. The Jury, in the absenceof there decided
evidencts.zeterned a verdict of "Found drowned."
On Saterdest an inquest was taker, at the %Visite Horse, in
Barker-gate. Nottingham. before Henry Enfield, gent. coro-
ner, ou tha body of John Marriott, an infant aged four days.
and the verdict returned was, that lie died a natural death. We
understand, that the mother of the deceased, Ana Marriott,
who is only about sixiiien years of age, had for some time la-
boured under a compldint,whieh her parents could not under-
stand; and on the Monday preceding, she and her mother got
Into the carrier's cart at Mansfield, for the purpose of proceed-
ing to Nottiegivans„ to .c iusult to eminent physician on Vie na-
ture of her me! bat when between two and three miles Bora
Nottingham, the child was born In .the cert., end by its cries
proclaimed the eased of the young woman's malady, to the very
ergot surprise and sateen:meat of its grandmother, who, on
taking her place In this cart, had no idea that her daughter was
pregnant! Whets they arrived at Nottingham, Mr. Wlite, the
bargees, was sent for, sod at first it was supposed the little
stranger was deed ; baton being pat to the fire it somewhat
recnyered, and lived tilt two o'clock on Friday morning.
An inqurat was holden on Thursday, at the Horse and
Jockey public hew, Porters, upon • view of the holy of
Thomas (,cotes, who was crept up in Portsmouth harbour,
having a 32 pound shot affixed to his neck, by means of a
handkerchief and some cord. It appeared that the dem--
td belonged to his Majesty's ship Maul, end was subject
to tits, with which he had lately been repeatedly attacked
that during Vie previous week he had been very low spirit.
ed, and had si areely ate or drank any thing, and that his
messmates bad endeavoured to arouse his feelings, but
without effect. He was last seen on board the ship on
Slturday evening, When he was employed in his duty ; he
wits missed soon allegrards, and found Orrtbe Wednesday
following, in the state described. The nor fellow was
ivton.
about 32 years of age, and• e native of Ile for-
'nlerly belehewd• ttflire Its.W) a'un and Pak. he Jnry re.
tutted a verdict of " Lunacy."

BIRTH.—On 101 h instant the Hou. Mrs. Sinclair, wife of George Sinclair.
e N. P. for Caith .) of a daughter.
ItARISIED.—On Thurso..y last, at ingleby, Philip Duneomlw Paunrefort
Duncotube, Esq. of Duckbill Manor, Bucks. to Sophia Frances, youngest
daughter of the late Sir William Fondle, of Ingleby Manor, Yorkshire, ant
sister bathe present Baronet.
At St. Mary's, Islington, W. Dunmore, Esq., of Caniline•plare, to Martha.
youngest daughter of the late John Gurutt, Esq. Newington Green,
On Saturday last, at Chingford Church, Essex, Frederick tlark.os. Ent.
of Doctors to Francis Hodgkin.. the only surviving daughter of
the late Rev. George Hodgkins, of Stoke Newington, Middlesex.
DI ED.—At his house.% estop Green. Thames Ditton,Surrer, nn SatneJay
last, John Kaye, Esq., late Accountant-General to the Hon. East India Com-
pany at Bombay.
On Saturday
_last, the 23d Inst. at his house in London-street, Fitoroy.
square, John Wolfe, Esq. late of his 3lajesty's Customs, in his 71st year.
On Wednesday. the2oth instant, at Kensington, Gideon Arie.nif, Esq.
On the 9th instant, Mr. John Priteliard. officiating pariah clerk of lilies.
mere, aged nt years; notwithstanding his great Age, be performed duty Dr
the last thirteen years with only one intermission.
On Thur,day evening last, at 13100011111.113, Sussex, Sir William Ash.
hurnham. Bart. aged.BB years.

Dl:mime d plaeens uxon—tion.

Thy house, and (in the cup of life,
That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife.
OCRATHS, by his Discourse on Marriage, so en.
S raptured his auditors with the subject, that the
married men flew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened
to be wedded; and "The Spectator" has affirmed, that the
word " wife" is the most agreeablJ and delightful name in
nature. _

The sacred institation, then, of marriage, compasses the
desideratum of our enjoyment; teeming not only with hap-
piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize
with bliss hereafter.
Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obli-
gation, it becomes an imperative duty, tot only to regulate
the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those
impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may
have entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention are
attributable, many of those hapless instances, which, while
they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also
impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residence is
the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but More especially
does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com-
promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from
whence the agonized sufferer more than doubts the chance
of relief. To all such, thee, we address ourselves, offering
hope—energy—muscular strength—fclici:y : nor will our
advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they ere by the
multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience.
The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed
by the suspension of those blessing+ which c;acentrate the
nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often can+titutionully
weak—vet it can. be strengthened, and deficient energy im-
proved into functional power.
4n every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every
relaxation of the generative ecoaomy, we pledge our ability
to cure speedily, and wit`► effect. Earnestly solicitous to
expel the unfeeling empiric from the position so presumptu-
ously taken up, we deviate from general principles with
less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable inte-
grity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the
suffering community of either Sex (espetiniiy those enter-
ing into matrimonial life) at once to our lonises. where daily
attendance is given for personal consultation ; and letters
from the country are immediately answered; these mot
contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, a hick can be
forwarded to any part of the world, however d'Stant.
GOSS mad Co. M.R.C. Surgeons.
No. I I, Rouvrrie-street. Fleet street. Landon.
Jost published (Sixteenth Edition). I. Tun 'Eon or
Lac, a familiar Commentary on the above Diseases.-Bd-
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