The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1824-11-02 (London, England)

ACAINSTMEASLE6.-.• M. For tual states, that all the children to whom he administered sulphur were protected from measles at a time when this disease was epidemic. The following is the formula which he prescribed :—Take of sulphur, half an ounce; sugar, in powder, a dram ; mix. 'fake, twice or thrice a day, half a tea-spoonful of the powder • and continue it during the prevalence of the epidemic.-2 Journal der Pratischat lledkande, Ar. The small-pox is raging with uncommon violence in Santigate and the lower suburbs of Newcastle; children are dying daily, and the misery and sufferings of the sick and surviving are indescribably deplorable. A writ of inquiry was held on Wednesday last, at the 1, Guildhall, Plymouth, to assess damages for an assault committed by Mr. George Fitzroy (a relative of the Duke of Grafton), an Ensign of the Third Regiment of FootGuards, lately stationed in that garrison, on Mr. R. O. Backwell, ironmung'e, of Devonport, proprietor of the baths under Mount Wise. The damages were laid at .500 f. The proceedings excited great interest. The Jury, after being locked up for three-quarters of an hour, assessed the damages at 5150 f. Fiae.—About eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the neighbourhood of North-place, Gray's Inn-lane, was alarmed by the cry of " Fire !" proceeding from the second floor at No. 61, in which a carpenter named Dennison resided. The family were out ; there was a fire in the stove, and a candle lighted on the table. The lower part of the cupboard was crammed with shavings and bits of wood, which the husband had brought home to light the fire. A few of the shavings lay on the floor about the fender, and it is supposed a spark from the fire communicated to the shavings and set them in a blaze. The room was in flames in a few seconds. A woman residing in the room over, alarmed by the smell of fire, roused the neighbourhood, and before anyone came to her assistance, she exerted herself in extinguishing the fire, emptying all the water she could procure on the flames, in which laudable pursuit she had her face, hands, and various parts of her body so much burned, that she was obliged to be carried to the hospital. Several of the neighbours exerted themselves to che:k the progress of the flames till the arrival of the fireengines, when the devouring element was subdued • but not before the fluor, the joists, and the whole of the furniture, were destroyed. The preservation of the house and property is entirely owing to the intrepidity of the female who first discovered the fire. The woman who occupied the room in which the fire broke out had only left it for an instant on some errand. She has lost all she possessed. Homily M cant R.—Saturtlee, an inquest was held on the body of John Ryan, of liallyvorneen, before James I Bennett, Esq. Coroner, Major Wilson, W. H. Burgh, and T. M. Wilson, Emi!. Magistrates of this county, attended with Surgeon Franklin, jun. awl Mr. Baliner, Chief ('onstable of the Barony. After the examination of five witnesses, a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against the following persons :—Patrick Cusack, Edward Hall, James Sheehan, Patrick Glennane, Eleanor Ryar, wife to the deceased, and Mary Cramer, the servant maid, all of whom Mr. Balmel, with a Featly of his police,lotiged in the county gaol that night. So horrible a murder as this has not disgraced this country for many years. After literally beating his brains out with a hatchet, and cutting him on sevtral parts of the body with the same deadly weapon, they laid him upon an immense fire, and, we s'hii.loler to relate it, netually roasted him! After which they buried the mangled body in a bog-bole, cierying it sewed in a bag about a quarter of a mile from the house. It is but justice to Mr. Balmel to mention, that it is owing to hit exertions that this mysterious murder has been detected. He has succeeded in establishing a chain of evidence which will certainly bring conviction home to the Tillty.-11 felt Observer.