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Health of London during tub Week . ~ It is gratifying to observe that the return for the week ending last Saturday , exhibits a further decrease in the mortality . Dating the two previous weeks ihe deaths registered in the metropolitan districts were , ia succession , 1 , 124 * 893 ; they have now declined to SG 6 . In the corresponding weeks ef ten previous years ( 1840 9 ) tbe average number was 937 , which fcring r . ise' . iu the ratio of probable increase of population , becomes 1 . 022 ; compared with which the immbsr now returned shows a decrease of 156 . In tea same week of last year , before cholera became predominant , the deaths were 1 , 089 ; the mean temperature , which was then unusuall y depressed , was lower tlran last week by 12 dog . Lsst week the
deaths of 9 children and 2 adults were registered from smaii-jjox ( of which 3 occurred in the Small Pox Hospital . Camdeu-town ) . indicating rather an increase of the disease , though it has not yet q- 'ite stained the average ; 1 ? children d = ed of measles , which is exac'ly the average ; 36 died of hoopine cough , aud 18 children and 1 adult of scarlatina , both complaints being less fatal than usual ; 8 children sitd of croup , abont the usual number ; 35 persons i f tvf . hus fever , and S of erysipelas both of which arc near the average . Teifwomfn died after childbirth , to 7 of whom " puerperal fever " is assigned as the cause of-dea ^ h ; 22 persons , of wh * m about half were chi dren , died of diarrhoea and dysentry ; this number is double the average , and also exhibits an increase on each of the three weeks immediately prect ding . A woman died of" purpura hffimorhagicaj " ai d again , t -. vo persons of chorea . The two cases in « ii ; hlhela * ter disease , so seldom fatal , occurred , arc thus recorded : —At 8 , Jeff ' s-p'a ; e , St . John ,
Karjiebonc , on the 13 th of April , the daughter i > f a coachmaker , aged 16 years , "chorea ; " on the 17 th April , at the London Hospital , to which she hadb ? en brought from Stepney , a female servant , aged 19 years , died of ' chorea . " It is wo "thy of remark that 9 death" have been registered in London from this cause during the last ten weeks , which is nearly double the number that usually occurs in a year . Amongst diseases of the respiratory organs , pneumonia and asthma now show a decrease ; bronchitis has also declined , if compared with the amount of corresponding weeks in the last three years , but is still in excess , in comparison with tbe mortality ofthe seven previous years . The b'rths during the week were 1 , 471 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , thmean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 501 in . The daily temperatures varied little throughout the we ? k ; the mean temperature was n every day higher than on the same day on an sv < rage of seven years ; the mean of the week was 48 9 deg , and was about 3 deg . higher than the average .
Robbery in an Omnibus . —On Saturday last . Mr . W . Archer , builder , of Portland-town , obtained £ 209 in gold at the Bank of England , for the purpose of paying his workmen , and Living deposited the money safely in his pocket , he entered an omnibus ; at the same moment , a man about thirty-five , dressed in a brown paletot , took us seat beside him , followed by a f « -male carrying au infant . Near the Anzel , the woman was seiz d with hysterics , causing great alarm and confusion amongst the rest of the passengers . The vehicle being stopped she was got our and taken in : o a surgeon ' s , when it was found thsrt tbe man in the brown paletot was missing , having forgotten to pay his fare , and on Mr . Archer feedin g for his money he discovered that it was " gone also . Suspicion was aroused , and > n proceeding to tbe surgeon ' s the woman was * found to have instanth dei ^ atted . No doubt exists that the affair was a ruse to facilitate the plunder .
Illegal Soap Masufactobt . —Saturday moaning Inspector Brennan seized a w st extensive illicit soap manufactory , which it is evident has heen carried oa for a lengthened period at a place called Spritjg-rottage , Stoke Newington . It was with considerable difficulty tbat the officers effected an entrance to the premises , which were well . secured , but having done so , they first of all pounced upon tw ; - well-known smugglers , named Jacob Bench and John Young , who were forthwith removed to Clerkenweb Court , where they were sentenced to an imprisonment of three months in default of paving £ 30 each
Consecration of a T ? ew Chubch . — On Saturday forenoon tbe new church of St , Bartholomew , situated in M > sor-lane , Cripplegate , was consecrated by the Bishop of London , in the presence of a very numerous and respectable congregation . The sacred edifice is erected t ; ut of and fitted up with the materials which formed the church of St . Bartholomew , in Broad-street , which wa ? taken down for the improvements adjoining the Royal Exchange . The tower is of a design simi'ar to the old one , and thf organ , with the font , pulpit , and communion-table , are the same . The Rev . Mr . Denton , senior curate of Shoreditch , is the incumbent .
Assault in Hyde-park . —Shortly before six o ' clock on Sunday afternoon being the period when the fiat promenade is generally most crowded , the following affair took place , contravening the wisdom of our ancestors as expressed in the axiom , " The better the day the better the deed . " At the curve opposite the Duke of Wellington ' s forminr the junction between " Rotlen-row" and the " Serpentinedrive , " two persons in gentleman ' s attire m ^ t , when one assaulted tbe other with a heavy " cane . " inflicting a fearful wound , apparently over , or directly on ,
tbe right eye . The attack appeared to be instantaneous , and the result as above stated . The sufferer was a tall slim youm ; man , apparently about twentyfive years of age , who was hurried nver by a powerful friend to St . Georg «' s Hospital , his track thither being traceable by gouts of blood . The aggressor who was instantly confi led to the hands ofthe police , and take' :- off to the Yine-street station , was shorter in stature than the assailed , but much more squarely built , and showed uo outward marks of having suffered in the afiray .
Determined Suicide . —On Saturday alernoon last Mr . Bedford , the coroner , concluded an inquiry which had previously been adjourned , at the Mai pas Arms , Charles-street , Grosyenor-square , respecting the death of Susan "Whitej a single woman , aged thirfy-two years , whn committed suicide in Lady Vernon ' s mansion , No . 5 , Upper Belgrave-street , Belgrsve-square . The deceased had only been five ( days in her ladyship ' s service as cook , bavins previously filled a similar situation in the establishment of Xady Nonnanby . The deceased was found in her
room on Tuesday morning week , with a rope round jher neck , the end of which she held in her hand . She had died from strangulation , and the deceased had ; ako inflicted two innssd wounds upon her throat and < one upon her right arm with a common kitchen-knife , which was found lying by her side . Several of the deceased ' s relatives were examined , but were unable to account for the deceas ° d commit'ins the rash act . Boring the last three weeks she had complained of pain * in her brad , and she had also appeared very low ; and desponding . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . "
Serious Accident at the House op Commons . —On Tuesday morning , shortly before ten o ' clock , an accident which had well nigh proved fatal to several workmen occurred in the great central hall of the new houses of p arliament , in that part leading to the crypt in connexion with St . Stcphcn ' s-hall . Several men were engaged in raising a mass of stone -wei ghing nearly three tons , intended to form part of the central arch of the ball , by the means of hand , machinery , the pullies being suspended from three pillars , technically called " shear legs . The scaffolding , in consequence of the enormous weight of the stone , bad been made extra strong , and the men had been cautioned to work it slowly and carefully . After three hours labour the men had succeeded in raisin ? the mass of stone to a
height of between fifteen and twenty feet , and they then commenced to " stock it , " so as to keep it steady working ; the process of blocking was hai dly gone through , when the ponderous weight of the stone , which was then resting on the two ropes of the hand pulley , caused the -wheels of the block to snap from the rollers , the " shear legs " at the same time giving way , the stone with the cumbrous machinery suddenly falling to the ground with an immense crash ; fortunately the workmen while tbe stone was suspended had withdrawn from the spot , those only remaining who were engaged in raising it . In the course of the fall of the " legs " three men were seriously injured , bein g knocked down and jammed between the " legs " and stone .
Assistance was immediately rendered , and the men drawn out in a sensclesss condition , and conveyed to tbe hospital , when it was found that they had sustained most extensive injuries , Carss , one of the sufferers , having received a compound fracture of the skull , and Michael Donoghue and the foreman , We !» b , having received injuries , the effect of which may prove fatal to both . Carss and Donoghue remain in the hospital , Webb being , at his earnest request , conveyed to bis own house . The escape of the sufferers from being crushed to death is most miraculous , as , had it not been for the shear legs forciiif them out , the stone must have fallen upon them , and certain death would have been inevitable .
Alarm of Firb at DnuBT-iAXB Theatre . — On Tuesday evening , at a few minutes before five o ' clock , considerable excitement prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood of Drary-lanc Theatre , in consequence of a report being raised tbat the buildinghad taken fire . In the course of a few minutes several hundred persons congregated , for sheets of flame were rising above the roof , whilst voUejsof sparks kept flying about iu sundry directions . In the course of a few minutes the engines fro ™ Messrs . Combe and Delafield ' s ( the brewers , ) the Loudon Bri gade , and Jfest of England'Office , attended ; but their services were not required , as the fire .-did . not extend beyond the chimney , in which itrbrbk ' e out , and it was extinguished by the persons connected with the theatre .
Ine qualities of thb L « m . Tax —On Monday last the committee of the" commissioners of land tax , for Middlesex , appointed at a general meeting of the commissioners ,, held at the Sessions . House , Clerkenwoll , on Tuesday , the 26 th of March , ; ult ., to take tbe necessary steps to . induce . the govern ment to introduce k measure info parliament ; de ~
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claratory as to the powers of the commissioners to equalise the land tax throughout the county—held a meeting at the board-room of the . Holborn division , in Red Lion-square , when it was determined tbat a deputation should immediately wait upon the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer , in furtherance of the purpose for which they were appointed / and the deputation was nominated .
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Thb Murder of Mary AnKe Parsons . —After a long inquiry into the case of Mary Anae Vmxm the magistrates , have committed both the prisoners Mr . and Mrs . Birds to be tried r t the ass im bl felonious assault on the deceased . The evidence produced at the examination of the prisoners was m substance the same as that on the trial . beforeJlr . Justice Talfourd . The proceedings ^ were adopted at the desire ofthe government , Mr . Ilarvie stated that he had received Ms instructions from one of the government solicitors . Attempted Murdku by aBot .- On the 18 th inst , a boy ab ^ ut sixteen years of age , named James
Smith , was charged at the Manchester Borough Court wi th attempting to cut a lady ' s throat on the previous evening . —Mrs . h-nightsaid her husband was a pawnbroker in Butler-street , Oldham-road , and the prisoner had heen in their employment for some time past . On the previous evening she was in the kitchen , no one else being in the house at the time but the boy , when the latter , who was engaged in cleaning some knives , aimed a blow at her neck from behind , with a carving knife . The wound was apparently inflicted with tho blunt side of the knife , not being a serious one . She had given ; him no provocation , and was quite unable to account for his conduct . The doors were all fastened , so that no one
conld haveentered without witness sknowledge . She streamed for assistance , and she freed herself from the boy ' s grasp , aud took refuge in the house of a neighbour . —Mr . Knight said the boy had been detected on the previous Saturday stealing some money from the shop , and he thought he had perhaps been actuated by a desire for revenge in committing the violcKce with which be was charged . — The prisoner denied the charge , and said the assault was committed by a man who had rushed in unobserved , and run out again immediately the prisoner caught sight of him . He said the man was dressed ina Scotch can , a round jacket , and alight vest . —Mr Hodgson , and the other mag istrates on the bench , without pronouncing any opinion on the case , ordered the depositions to be taken .
Eliza Chestnet . —This intrepid young woman has been married recently . She visited Cambridge on Friday , in company with her husband , on the wedding excursion . She appears still to walk lame from the serious injuries received from the fire ofthe murderer Rush , but in other respects she seems to have recovered her health . A Largb- Su gar Refinery is about to be built on the premises ofthe Southampton Dock Company , for the refining of sugar in bond for exportation . It is to be seven stories high , and will be calculated to refine from 80 to 100 tons of sugar per week . The building is to be erected at the expense of the Dock Company , hut will be rented for twenty-one years by a London house in the sugar trade , who will enfer into the business extensively , and import their cargoes of susar for refining into the port of Southampton direct from
abroad-The Charge against the Crew of the John R . SKioiiY . —On Saturday last several of the passengers who were on board the John R . Skiddy , lately wrecked on the Irish coast , appeared before bis worship , the Mayor , at the jown-ball , Liverpool , in support of a memorial comphining ofthe crew , b y whom it was alleged the passengers had bsen shamefully illused and plundered . It is stated in the memorial that = he sailors , including the mates , were very abusive to the female passengers and children , some of whom were knocked down and trodden on whi ? st the men were on deck , particu ' arly the females . A port on of the crew went below and broke open the boxes and other packages belonging to the
passengers , their object bt ing to possess themselves o ! the cash , in doing which much property was de stroyed . The memorialists further state , that , so far from the Irish being tbe abandoned set of villains described by the captain , they behaved with kindness , many signal acts of which were experienced by the pnssengf rs . The memorial is signed by a dozen people , who represent their los es at sums vaiying from £ 20 to £ 60 A number of the parties cmp aining were examined ' y the Mayor and Mr . Rushton , but their statements were very confused and indefinite , no single case of the nature complained of being spoken to ; and eventually the matter was left for the investigation of Lieut . Hodden ,
the government emigration agent . The Alleged Mttiber at Lalehaji . —Saturday last being appointed for the re-examination , at Staivts . of Charles llolden , an agricultural labourer , who had given'himself up to the police on his own csn'Vssion of having murdered a woman twenty years ano , and burying her in a plantation on the Earl of Lucan ' s estate at Laleham , the Petty Session-house was crowded . Lord Lucan was among the magistrates present . # rhe prisoner was brought by a tr > in from the Detention-house in ClerkenwelLEdmund Uiscock , carpenter , stated that On the lath of November , he was digging a hole for a post in a field i . ear Lynch enrner , belonging to Lord Lucan , when lie came on a human skull , and on diggine
further he found an entire skeleton . He covered it up again and in a day or two he gave information to the police . They covered the skeleton up again , and put > oine turf over the place , and some wood over the turf . —Mr . W . K . Heseltine deposed that he was a qnalitird surgeon , though not in practise . He saw the skull within two or three days of its discovery , and afterwards the other bones . They were certainly those o a very elderly female . The bones had been under ground a number of years , probably a century . They crumbled when they were touched . —Policeconstable M'Intyre , 27 V ., stated that the place all round where the bones hud been found had been carefully sifted , but nothing was found . —David Groves , a farming man , deposed that seventeen or eighteen years ag « he was at work nn Mr . Honner ' s farm , " when he saw the prisonerwhom he knew , and askt d
, where the woman was , alluding to a woman with whom the prisoner cohabited . He nodded , but said n > ihin » . —Colonel Wood then read the ^ usual caution to the prisoner , after which he asked him whether he ch si : to say anything ?—The prisoner then said in a low hut clear voice , that he was not quite right in the head , and tbat he had been taking alittle drink when h- gave himself to the pilice . He had heard of this skelefo . 1 having been dug up . As a proof that he was not guilty , the youn . - woman he was supposed to have murdered was still alive , and to be found . He had lately been with her in a public house in Chertsey , and if any gentleman would go with him he would soon find her . —The magistrates having deliberated on the case an hour , Colonel Wood said there was not sufficient evidence at present to detain the prisoner further . He was accordingly discharged .
Sf . culakEducation .-The congregation of Hopesiref t Church , Liverpool have sent up the following petition to the House of Commons in favour of secular t : duc : tti » n :-Fi > st , tbat in the opinion of your ( leritijiiers the growth of population in this country lias outstripped the resources of private education , and rend -red necessary a public provision to supply ihe -iefects and fill op theinstersticcs of the existing system . Secondly , That in order to avoid reasonable obje-tion , and to rest upon a just and permanent basis , a system «> f public schools should comply with the following condition : —1 . It should not interfere with or discourage the schools already in operation , but rather seek to secure the completeness and efiii it-ncv of their secular instruction . —2 nd . It should
be fr « ely open to all , under suitable regulations , and should adopt no test or method of teaching which favours the special tenets ot any denomination . —3 rd . It sbould be supported by local rates , and managed by local boards , elected by the ratepayers specially for *> hat purpose ; with provision , however , for such general inspection and control as may obviUe local defects , and sustain audcircu'ate a spirit of improvement . —Thirdly . Thatthe bill which has been introd iced for the promotion of ths secular education of die people in England and Wales , appears to your petitioners a fair attempt to combine these requisites . Your petitioners , therefore , pray that this bill , with any modifications requisite for the better attainment of its main ends , may pass into a law .
Holywell , April 19 . —Ellis Williams , a respectable farmer , residing at Nannerch , near this town , committed suicide a few days since , under the following circumstances •—about three WCfikg ago , he whs present at a fair , held in an adjacent county , and observed his w fe shako bands with a man who had f . irmeily been a neighbour . Without other provocation than this , he immediatel y conceived the most violent jealousy , and asked his wife if she would like to die the same death as he would ? Alarmed by the extraordinary inquiry , the wife left
his house , when he entreated her to come back , saying that he wantvd to see her for once only . She refused , and continuing to abEent herfelf , upon which he placed all the articles of her dress in a b : » x , and burned them in . his farmyard . He then sent his daughter into his furthest field to attend the cows , and durin- ; her absence ripped open the bodies of two valuable mares ( in colt . ) for which he had refused £ 40 at the fair . The unfortunate man then wear to the barn , where . he hanged himself by a rope attached to » he beam . There can be no doubt that lie committed the raslract when in a state of mental
msanify . ' . " " ' ' ...,-Suspected Murder at FnoME .- ^ L ' ast week .-a youua man named T . George , ' , ' abaut eighteeh ^ was ' found dead in a barn , at Nunncy , ' near Frjome , with his throat cut . A coroner ' s inquest , was held | on . | he following day . when an open verdict was retiitodj to the effert that there was not sufficieht evidence to prove whether the deceased had destroyed himself orhad met with his , death from an 'uckiiown-hacd : Siuce the inquest Messrs . ; "Giles and » Cj « keyj surg eonB ; of 'Frome , were cal ' ed in ; to ^ amine ^ the body , and discovered that' the' skull had been frw-
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tured in front by a blow , ; and . from the manner in which the wound had ' been inflicted in the fchrOat they were decidely of opinion , that the , deceased could hot have committed suicide , but must have been murdered . It further appeared , that his pockets had been rifled , and turned' inside out ; the , mark of bloody fingers was found , but the hands of the deceased were perfectly clean . H . Ililler , alias Axford , a labourer , has been brought before the Frome magistrates , charged , on suspicion ) with committing the murder , and remanded for a fortnight . The Game Laws . —A Man ' Shot;—Two men were shot at lately in a wood called Noroyds , belonging to Lord Wharncliffe , at Carlton , near Barnsley . The game on this estate is preserved by a solicitor , who resides near Wakefield , and who
employs a person named Joseph Hunter as gamekeeper . The police authorities took no notice of it , although Moody , one of the wounded men , is unable to go without a stick , from the effect of the injuries he received . However Cherry , the other man who was shot , has sued Hunter ; the case was heard on the 19 th , before Wm . Walker , Esq ., the judge ofthe county court at Barnsley . Cherry stated that on the 23 rd of February , he went to see the Badsworth hounds meet at the village of Notion , and in coming down by the side of the wood he saw Hunter , the defendant , who ashed plaintiff andtwb others where the hounds were . Plaintiff told him that they were in Notton-park . These men left . Hunter , and
walked down by the side of Noroyds-wood . They went through the wood , when one of the men with him began cutting some sticks . Plai ntiff then saw Hunter , who was about twenty-five yards from them , coming towards them , the men began to run away , when plaintiff said to the other , "He ' s going to shoot us ; " and before he had delivered the words he was shot in the arm and side , and could not run with the others . —George Wordsworth , assistant to Mr . Cawood , surgeon , Barnsley , said : that plaintiff went to their sufgery on the 25 th of February , and stated that he had been shot . They examined him , and found he had been shot in the left arm and side on the ribs near the heart . On the 6 th of march he
extracted a shot from his arm , and made an incision on the ribs , but was unable to get the shot out . The wounds were not dangerous , but they were ina dan gerous part . —Henry Challenger and Joseph Cherry , the two men who were with the . plaintiff , corroborated his evidence . —The Judge said that defendant deserved to be sent to York for what he had done already . The damages might have been laid at £ 100 or £ 1 , 000 had plaintiff been : acting lawfully ; but , he thought plaintiff had acted with discretion inlaying the damages at £ 10 ., for wliich he , should give a verdict , « nd all the costs the law would allow .
Alleged Fraud by a Bankrupt . — At the Bristol Bankruptcy Court on Saturday , Charles Green , a baker , who applied for his certificate , was opposed by Mr . Trenerry for the assignees on various grounds , one of which was that he had , with a view to defraud his creditors , antedated a bill for ' £ 55 , wh'ch he afterwards paid four days before its presumed maturity . It was proved that although the bill was dated the 11 th of May , the stamp upon which it was drawn was not struck in London until the 4 th of July , and the learned commissioner , Mr . Serjeant Stephen , ordered the assignees to prosecute him for making , or being privy to the making , of a false entry in a document with a view to defraud his estate . There being no estate the court ordered the costs to be defrayed out of the bankruptcy funds in the Bank of England , and he informed the bankrupt that his conviction would subject him to three years' imprisonment with hard labour .
Colliery Strike near St . Helens . —The colliers in the employment of Messrs . Johnston at their colliery at Lafibck , numbering fully 200 hands , have turned out in consequence of the proprietors having recently appointed a person named Smith as manager or under-viewer of their mines , who is disliked by the men . The proprietors have issued large placards , informing and cautioning the public against relieving the men . The colliers engaged at the extensive works of Mr . Mackay , at TJphoiland , have been upon strike for several weeks past . Upwards of' 100 colliers have turned out from the collieries at
Ramford , on account of a dispute about wages , and petty depredations are becoming so numerous , that an extra number of police have been applied for and sent to this neighbourhood to , protect the property of the inhabitants . We regret to be informed that several riotous meetings have been Leld by the men on Smithy brow , to which the colliers had been summoned by the beating of tin cans , & c . Stones have been thrown at various parlies who declined leaving work . Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended and brought before the magistrate , who has ordered them to find bail for their future good behaviour .
St . Ives . —The Fishery . —The boisterous state of the weather during the past week has hindered the fishermen from going to sea . Three boats shut on Monday night ; one took 300 fish ; another lost eighteen nets ; and the third was obliged to go to Newquay or St . 'Agnes . It would be an act of charity towards the poor unfortunate fishermen , if any of our coasting vessels which may fall in with these lost nets , would take them on " board , and ° n arriving in port , publish them in the Slapping Gazette , without asking salvage , as some have done- — Cornwall Gazette . On Saturday last there arrived in Hull , by train , from Darlington , eight bulls and four heifrrs of the Durham breed , from the eminent breeders Mr . R . Thorntf n , of Stapleton , and Mr . R . . Emmerson , of Evyholm , which were shipped for the Belgian government .
Oxford . —On the 18 th inst . two eight-oared outriggers fouled each other near Iffley Lock , when both boats were upset , and their crews , consisting of eighteen persons , were thrown into the water , which was very high and running rapidly at the time . Three of the individuals could not swim , and were saved by Mr . ; . Handier , of Orjel ; who was in one of the boats , and swam to their aid , ' and with great presence of mind , and with almost superhuman strength and . tact , brought all three safely to land . St Helen ' s Savings Bank . —The following
notice was extensively circulated on Monday : — " St . Helen ' s Savings Bank . — "Notice is hereby given that the trustees aud managers ofthe St . Helen ' s Savings Bank will pay a first dividend of 6 s . 8 d . in the pound out of the funds of the bank to those depositors whose claims have not been objected to , as well as upon the amount awarded to those depositors whose claims have been objected to . The dividend will be paid at the Town-hall on Monday , tbe 13 th d = iy of May next , and on the three , following days , between the hours of ten o clock in the forencon and two o ' clock in the afternoon . By order of the trustees and managers . Ansdell and Haddock , solicitors . "
DreadfulTragedt by Drunken Navigators . — On Saturday evening last the small town of Otley , on the banks of the Wharf , ten miles north-west of L ? eds , was the scene of a collision between a party of drunken navigators and several of the townspeople , which has unhappily resulted in the death of one man , and the serious injury ef one or two others . It appears that on the afternoon or evening of Saturday , a number of the navigators who are at present employed in making a reseservoir at . -B ' urley .-had walked Over to Oiley , a distance of some three miles , and as is the custom of their class , had found their way into several of the public-houscs of the town . Having received their wages on that day , the men , it appears , continued drinking up to a late hour . On their way out of the town ,. four of these men began to
-amuse themselves by breaking the windows of the houses on each side of the street . As a natural consequence , a number of persons were speedily roused from their slumbers , and two men , named Ives and Oliver went in puisuit ofthe delinquents On coming up wi th them , Ives , after some altercation , struck one of the men with a heavy stick , and then , with his companion , ran away . Unable to lay hands oh their first opponents , the navigators appeared willing to engage in a row with any one who presented himself . As the neighbourhood was by this time disturbed , a young man named Robert Dawson presented himself , and asked them if they knew what they had been doing . The only answer they aapeored to have given him was to seize him and throw him down , and proceed to beat him severely . While this was going on ,
however , Robert Dawson ' s wife went to call . his brother , John Dawson , who wis in bed , to comedown and help to rescue her husband . After partially dressing himself , John Dawson ran to the assistance of his brother , but he had no sooner reiched the spot than he received a stab in the groin from some sharp instrument , which cut through the main artery . The poor fellow cried out , "I ' m stabbed , I shall die ;" and almcst immediately dropped down and expired . In the meantime one of the nei ghbours tad carried Robert Dawson into his own house ; a party had also gone to call up a constable who lived in the neighbourhood , and some one had also gone to one of the inns ofthe town , at which , some company was drinking , to obtain assistance . On the appearance ofthe constable , the . navigators , who didnot seem to have beenawareof the mischief they had done , laid hold of him , threw him to the . ground and inflictedseveval
wounds with aknife on his neck and body . Rescue , however , was at hand , for , with' the assistance of pokers , a small band that had bem called together succeeded ' in scaring three of the four . rioters . Of course the three were ' immediately lodged in gaol . On Monday morning ah inquest was held oh tiie body of John Dawson ; before Mr . Brown , the coroner , and a highlyrespectable jury . A great number of witnesses w * re examined , ' but hone of the parties cou'dsay which of the four prisoners had inflicted the wound that had caused the death of John Dawson : There could be very little doubt , however ^ as to" the idsntity of the four men . ' ' 'After the conclusion of the evidence ' the coronefbrieny ' summed upV The jury then retired ^ Af ter ' deliberating some' timej- they found they could , not arrive' at a unanimous ' verdict ; and they finally returBed ; , by aThajority ; a verdict of , " . WilfulMurder' "' againstair the prisoners ; , who ' were ' subsequently ' coramitreu toTork Oastlei ' ' ¦ ' " ' '' :: ' ' ¦ . ¦ ' . • I •¦' , ! : ;; . •* . •¦ ¦ i- . ' .-tj-i ! , ;; ciiM'y'ly ' -.,: !¦¦ ' ! : ; ~ .: ; .:. ¦ > . .
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: < iNfJEaiEiraEN .-r-SiKGuiiAn . CASE . —A sbort tunc since Miss Lavinia Downie , niece to Mr . Downie , gardener , ' Traquair House , a most amiable arid interestingyoung lady , twenty-four years of age , who had suffered from occasional severe pains ih- thehead ; and a considerable degree of deafness , since her childhood , and whose health had been gradually declining ; for the last three years , W 95 in August last seized with most painful inflammation in the left ear , accompanied by occasionally breedings also from the ear . About the 1 st of March , the pain and innammationgreately increased , and on the 20 th ultimo , an ordinary sized metallic pin was extracted from the left ear , which was enveloped in a firm substance
with' numerous fibres attached to it ; . several hard bodies , in shape resembling the grains of buck- > lieot , but of various colours , were also taken oiit of the right ear . The poor girl endured the ^ most intense pain , which she bore with Christian fortitude till the 4 th instant , when death terminated her sufferings . It is believed thatthe pin must have been lodged in the head for nearl y twenty years , ' as she never recollected' of having put one iri her ear , ' but she had a distinct remembrance of having ' when a child had a pin in her mouth , when she thought she swallowed it . It is the opinion of several eminent medical men , that , in all probability ,, the one extracted was the same pin . It was found on examination to have been frequently beiit and twisted :
Murder . — -A trial for murder took place ori the 19 th inst ., at the ; Circuit Court of Justiciary , at Jedburgh , before Lords Mackenzie and Ivory . — - James Deary , or Deny , and Daniel O'Rourke , or Rook or Rork , Irish railway labourers , were placed at the bar , accused of the crime of murdering , in Roxburgh-street , Kelso , -William Fairbairn .-4 The prisoners pleaded " Not guilty . " Several witnesses were examined , ; who detailed the particulars ofthe riot which took place , in Kelso , which : led to the murder . —James Eerguson said there was some disturbance going on between the Irish and the townspeople on the 29 th of December last . ' Had a brother in the crowd . Heard he was struck , which caused him ( witness ) to . go into the crowd to assist his brother . Knew James Deary . Saw ; him there . Deary was standing . speaking in the crowd at the time . Saw him squaring with his hands at the time . Knew the deceased William Fairbairu . Saw hini there in
the crowd at that time . Fairbairn told witness to take care of himself ; as the Irish were not . to -lipp . en to . Saw Doarywhen Fairbairn made that remark , Deary being a"t that time within a few yards of him . ( Witness here showed the attitude that Deary was in when he was sparring , showing particularly how Deary held his left hand over his right breast , from which peculiarity he beleived that he helds ' ome instrument in his hand—that was his impression . ) The crowd moved , up the street after that . He observed the Irish make astand . ' Did not see Fairbairn , there—only saw him moving up with the crowd . Shortly after the stand was made , he saw the Irishmen run away , and Deary amongst them , lie thought the man who struck Fairbairn was James Deary , but could not be sure .- —William Hetherington said he saw Fairbairn come out of the crowd ; who exclaimed that he had been stabbed , and the man that had done it had dirty trowsers . —
Alexander Watt said that he saw James Deary , who was roaring for any man to come forward and fi g ht with him , strike Fairbairn when he was stooping down , and then heard Fairbairn cry out on being struck that he had been stabbed with a knife . Witness pursued him , and saw him enter Stewart ' s shep . —Other witnesses , chiefly policemen , were examined , who narrated circumstances connected with Deary ' s apprehension at Stewart ' s house , two of them swearing distinctly to marks of moist blood being on his waistcoat at the time , and also that the back of his trousers were much dirtied . —Lord Mackenzie having summed up the case , the jury retired , and , after an absence of twenty minutes , returned , finding the charge' against . O'Rourke not proven , and Deary guilty as libelled , with a strong recommendation to mercy . —Lord Mackenzie having assumed the black cap , pronounced sentence of death .
Murder by'Poison at Leith . —A woman has been poisoned at Leith in that part of this town called Leith Walk : The accused party is William Bennison , a dresser of metal castings , in the employment of the Shotts Iron Company . He is an Irishman , between thirty and forty ,. married to his deceased wife for about eleven years . She is a native of Paisley . Their only child , a girl of six years of age , is still alive ^ The scene of the murder is an old-fashioned tiled house in Stead ' s-place . Bennison and his wife occupied the second fiat , which contains only two apartments ; but entering by the same passage , and forming a kind of left wing to the building , is the house of Alexander Milne , a cripple from his infancy , who is well known to the frequenters of Leith Walk , where he sits daily in a small eart drawn
by a dog , Mrs . Bennison , after , it is said , partaking of some gruel , ; became very ill , the symptoms being violent pains . in the stomach , accompanied by severe vowiting . ; On Monday the unfortunate woman breathed her last , The sudden death of the dog , so indispensable to poor Alexander Milne in drawing his little cart , together with the hurried interment , tended to excite surmises . It is stated that Bennison . requested a . neighbour ' s servant girl to empty into the street the contents of a vessel , containing what hadbeenvomitedby his decaased wife . Its owner letout' the dog about two o ' clock on Sunday afternoon , as was his usual custom ; It was admitted again in the evening and was heard to reach and vomit during the night . The body of the dog has been conveyed to the Surgeons' Hall , to have the contents of his stomach analysed . It appears that about , seven weeks ago , Bennisdn purchased a quantity of arsenic from a " druggist ' s shop in the Kirkgate , Leith on the pretence of killing
rats ; 1 hese vermin , however , have not , it is said , been seen about his premises for three or four years , and no rat holes could be found in the house . Bennison admits the purchase of the poison , but maintains that it was by the request < f his wife for the purpose he mentioned to the druggist . On suspicions bem * raised of his having poisoned his w . fe , he called on the druggist , and requested him and his wife not to mention that he had purchased the arsenic . He even proposed for a written denial of the fact , adding that there might be arsenic found in his wife ' s stomach , but , so help him God , he . did not put it there . . On the Monday previous to her death , it is said , he enrolled her name in a benefit society , by which , on her death , he was entitled to a sum of £ 6 . The deceased and her husband were members of the Wesleyan body , and b ^ re an excellent character for piety . Bennison professed to be extremely zealous in behalf . of religion ; and ; was in the habit of administering its consolations' to such as would accent of them . ~ " "" ' "
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Terriwc Storm . —A most terrific storm of thunder and hail passed over Dublin about three o clock in the afternoon of the 18 th inst . Peals of thunder , accompanied by lightning , followed each other with scarcely any interruption ; Trees were torn up by the roots in the College Park , the Botanic Gardens , Sandimount , and other places in the vicinity , the venerable elms at the Mansion being amongst the fallen , Some houses in the south suburbs were unroofed , and almost all the g lass was shivered in the galleries of the Dublin Society , the Round Room of the Mansioii'liouso , the Rotunda , the conservatories of the publio'gai'dens , and other
places similarly , exposed ,, lhe hailstones were of enormous size , the greater number of thorn being fully as large as grapes , and many of them being much larger and of an irregular shape . In fact the storm presented , on the whole , all the chaiacterisr tics of such a phenomenon in the tropics , and will ho long remembered by the . inhabitants ' . -of Dublin , Saturday ' s papers contain additional particulars of the mischief caused by the terrible thunder ' storm . The whole amount of damage is not yet ascertained ; but , fortunately , it appears that no life was lost , although there were several- casualties and hairbreadth escapes from the-, falling trees and chimnies . But the greater havoc has been in the article of glass , the price of which has shot up ' 200 per cent ., and a further rise is expected . Every house or public building at all exposed to the fury of the
hailstones has suffered more . or less , ; , and there is no doubt that had the storm continued but . aTew minutes longer its ravages would ; not have been confined to broken windows or skylig hts . It was in truth , a perfect phenomenon , the . like of which has not occurred within the memory of any living person in the metropolis / From such ofthe northern papers as came . to hand . it would seem that the tempest exhausted itself not far from Dublin , if , indeed , it travelled at allbeyohd this county , for it was scarcely felt at Ilowth ; while to the inhabit ants of the southern suburbs it was a total mystery till the following morning . Westward , however , it raged with great fury , and in Mullingarit is / de-. scribed as being , of fearful severity , commencing about an hour , previous to its break-out in Dublin , and lasting ' tiearly the sanic time—a little'over half an hoar . ' . "" . . I ; ! ' '"' '
Sales' oi Encumbered Estates . —There . were four more ' sales ori the 19 th inst ., indifferent coun ^ . ties , , namely , ' Cork , Tipperary , Wicklow , aild B , os- common , ' all of which were completed within an hour . Tliej , w . ere . ' small properties , some-of thein subject to heavy charges , madein so ' complicated a ' manner that it is'impossible to calculate the rate of purchase with any degree of accuracy , ^ but all of them brought * fair prices ; after a vigorous . competition . ; The WJcklow estatp , containing 140 . Irish acres , brought £ 2 , 850 , ' or fourteen years' purchase . A small fee simple in North Ti pperary , ' hear the , town of Nenagh ; producing a'profit rent of £ 56 , was sold for . £ l ; 20 U , tbeing upwards of . twenty-one years ' purchase-r-a very high rate under ; existing , eircum-; stances , i- ; . -n . . ¦¦}' . . . . , - •/; ., ¦¦¦ - ;] ¦ a ^ ii ^ , ;; , .-, ; , .,-, ^ ., ' : > . Th « 'Ciearancb : Systbm ^ Evictions ; . on ^ thb MAR TiN ^ EsTATB . ^ The : following : ! . ' § tatement appears , in'the ZtoWin ivwuwy -fto , — ''OUfdenvAprifaftNi
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I regret to tell you that' the parties - interested in the far-famed ' Martin estate'liave obtained no less a ; number than 650 ejectment d . ec . rees against the unfortunate tenantry of thelate Thos .- Martin ,- Esq . Bythis means 3 . 000 t 6 ' 4 , 000 ' people * will be thrown upon the world . "' '"' '¦¦¦¦< ) ' ¦ > - : •¦• - . . . ¦ i-r i ' , " ' ..-. . - - .-i • A Donegal correspondent of ^ the , Freeman gives the following account , of some . evictions . In that county : — " I regret to inform you that evictions on a very extensive scale have taken place in this county , oh' the estate of Lord Leitrimj in ' ¦ the parishes of Kilmaorenanand Mevagh , and that the sensation , arising from that : cause is creating a very bad effect . There is reason to fear . it will ultimately lead to ! secret societies . being established . The Hon . Mr . Clements ; secon'd _ son of Lord Leitrim : is the acting . agent for his father in these
evictions . ' One case amongst many maybe stated : A respectable tenant of the name of Moore ( a . Presbyterian ) , ; boug ht a farm four years ago near to the one he was occupying , called Devlin , for . the tenant right of which he paid £ 150 , ' and although this tenant Offered Mr , ' Clementsone and one-half year ' s rent ( only two years' rent being due ) he would not , as I am informed , acceptvit ,: ' and this respectable and honest old man , with his large family , was driven off his land , which he had . improved very , much . The consequence will be'that the finest land ' will be left untitled , and those poor persons who have been ejected will be compelled to enter the Milford poorhouse . This estate being held by Lord Leitrim , under the grant of Trinity : . College , it is hoped here the board of trustees would remonstrate with his lordshi p on this serious matter .
Agrarian Murder in Tipperary , —The Kilkenny Moderator ; of Saturday last ; contains the following : —' . ' At about nine o ' clock on the night of Tuesday last , a farmer named'Shearman , who resided near-New Birmingham , was waylaid on the road nearly midway between that village and shot- dead on the spot ! Although the scene of the tragedy was a public thoroughfare , ' the body lay on the ground without any notice of the occurrence being conveyed to the authorities till the middle of the next day . It appeared from the evidence on the inquest that Shearman had distressed some . tenants for rent , and was to have appeared against them at the sessions next day . The murder was no doubt , committed to prevent the issue of those proceedings . " - '¦ ¦¦ ' The-
Kilkenny Journal roeniwo % thatthe murdered man was agent or receiver under the . courts for the property of . Mr . Cooke , at Poyntstown ,, on which , ejectment notices-had been served . It is added that seventeen slugs entered his head . This ,. and similar , outrages of recent ' occurrence , show the revival of agrarian crime in Tipperary . Incendiarism . —The Lsinster Express contains an account of a ' desperate act of incendiarism by two femal paupers , who 'had been discharged at their own request for the Mountmellick workhouse , Queen ' s County . After , setting fire to the house of a poor labourer , they acknowledge that their object waste exchange the dietary of the workhouse for that of the ' county prison . Further Petitions in the Encombered Court . —No less than thirty additional petitions for the sale
of estates were filed in this court during the week ending the 17 th inst . The total number of petitions now amounts to 713 . ; The Lord Mavor . —Sir John Jems , Attorney-General for England , has given an opinion in the case of the Lord Mayor of Dublin , coinciding ' with that g iven by the English , Solicitor-General , and by Sir Colman 0 ! Loughlen . ' it is as follows : — " I am of opinion that Mr . Reynolds may , whilst in possession of the office ; legally appoint a locum tenens whose acts will be valid . ; I am of opinion that the deputy so appointed will not be subjected , to any penalties ; but I . am inclined to think that Mr . Reynolds will be liable for the act of the deputy so appointed . ^ Mr . Reynolds can ¦ only be removed from his office by judgment of ouster upon a quo
tvarranto , : . The RovAt Adeuidel—A subscription ; list has been opened at the Chamber of Commerce for the sufferers by the loss of the Royal Adelaide . The Freeman states , that the opposition between the City of Dublin Company and some ofthe competing companies is carried oh with such bitterness " that the widow and child of one of the unfortunate sufferers in the Royal Adelaide were refused a passage from Cork to Liverpool by the Cork Company , although requested by the agerit it the owners of the lost vessel as a matter of charity . " Connected with the recent discontinuance ofthe
office of Deputy Judge Advocate for Ireland , Saunders' News Letter says : — " This measure has been followed by a grant of an additional salary of £ 200 a year to the Deputy Judge Advocate General in London , making £ 1 , 000 per annum , on the understanding that he is to perform all the duties of that department in Ireland , and to receive , when necessarily , travelling thither , only his actual travelling expenses , and 20 s per diem whenever required b y public . duty to sleep out ci his settled quarters . Already the merchants and citizens of Belfast have raised a fund of £ 500 for the purposes ef the exposition of 1851 .. '
Sir John , Romillt s Bill . —Meeting of Land-LORDs . r-On Monday afternoon another meeting of Irish landlords was held at the Dublin Society , to consider the best mode of modifying the bill of Sir John Romilly ,. with aviewof extending its advantages to proprietors of land only partially encumbered . After much discussion , a . petition has been adopted , praying that proprietors , whose debts are less , than half the value of their estates , arid who are , therefore , excluded from the operation of the Encumbered Estates Act , should be empowered , by a new bill , to obtain . debentures upon the security of their estates , in the same manner as half-credit purchasers of estates in . ordinary cases at the sales in the Commission Court . For instance , that a
landlord owing £ 12 , 000 on' an . estate worth £ 2 , 000 per annum should be entitled to obtain debentures sufficient to pay off his debts ,: and thus place himself in a position ' to free his estates from all encumbrance within the period of twelve years specified by the bill of Sir John Romilly . Tiie Repeal Association . —There was a meeting of tho Repeal Association on Mondav , at Conciliation-hall , Miv Mahon presiding . Mr . John O'Connell read letters from different parts of Ireland enclosing subscriptions , including ' a letter from the Rev . M . O'Beirne , P . P . Baliinahown , enclosing £ 5 , of which the Right Rev . Dr . O'Higgins , Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh , contributed £ 2 . Mr . O Connell then stated that he had received a
circular fromthe National Reform- Association , expressing a wish that delegates or representatives should be sent over to attend thoReform Convention to be held in London next week . He had , in his individual capacity , drawn up an answer , in which he stated that in the present state of the law the Repeal Association could not appoint such delegates , as it woujd be illegal so to do ; but the association entirely sympathised with the reform movement in England . The rent for the week was £ 37 . Tenant-Right Movement . —The Corifc Examiner has a long report of a tenant-ri ght meeting , held at Ballahooly , on Sunday last ' .. It is stated that there was an immense gathering . A considerable number of Roman Catholic clergymen wore present .
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Mr , Smith O'Brien ;—By the last file of Hobart Town papers , we find some very stringent remarks upon the system of treatment . pursued by the authorities of the colony towards tho convict Smith O'Brien . We give them without . the . least alteration : — " A correspondent at Liiuhccston , whose accuracy we have had reason to be satisfied with , sends us some particulars of tho alleged harsh treatment of the ' , misguided and exiled patriot , Smith O'Brien , which surprise . us not a little . Mr . Smith O ^ Brien left Hobart Town for Maria Island by steamer , on tho 1 st . of November .. He was removed to that penal station because he would not accept the indulgence of a ticket of leave . At the latest period of our correspondent ' s information ,
which appears to be . about the 18 th of November , the unfortunate , prisoner O'Brien was shut up in a narrow miserable hut , lately occupied by an overseer ; bars of iron had been placed pn- the windows , and ho was so completely deprived of the services of tho attendant appointed to wait upon him by one of the persons in authority , that he was not perT mitted to cook for him bis miserable convict ration of meat and flour in his own hut , In his habitation a military sentinel is ' constantly stationed , and an officer visits his . bedroom ' three times each night , so that hecannot be said , to have any undisturbed repose during the ni ght or by day . It is stated that no unauthorised person can speak to him now , or give . hinvahything to conduce to-his comfort ; and
that any employee ot the government found infringing theseapparently . heartlessregulations would incur tiie penalty of dismissal , ; without any chance of successful appeal to , the governor . !' , [ The above is from the Dispatch . ' Theriameof the Hobart Town paper and ; its date are not stated . Our latest papers from'i Hobart'Town are the Courier and Colonial Times . ; their dates are from the 29 th of December ., to the . 12 th of January . They contain nothing about Mr . O ' Brien ' . . In a communication from our Singapore , correspondent , which we published on the 25 th of March , 'it is stated that he had received Hbbart'Town papers to the end of ' No vembei- ; that Mr .- ; Smith . O'Brien alone of the . Irish polttical conyicts . had . irefuse , d , to accept , a , ticket ; of leave , on condition . that Ke . would promise riot tp makeihe
- 'liberty granted him' a " means of escape and ih ' at he had therefore beeusenitoMariaIsland ; , •' where lie will'b ^ strictly / wntcheu . '" 'It is stated in the same . comsnunioation that , - "In the . passage , from ] Sydney- . tp 'Hobart Town , . O Brien , Martin ,, and O'Dogherty , were accommodated with -a , cabin pas ' ; ' , sage ; ahdrhad opportunities of-communing , with ' ¦ each : other ?* y ± Dqily Neivs ' i' v ' - „ i / ' : ' ' . ' „' , ' " / Joint * Swot ^ Companies ;—By the report for the year ; 184 ft , inadctoi the i 6 rds of : the Gommittp 0 ; Of : Privy , Councilf 6 r Trade , lit . appears tbat'during the pas ' t ' yearriSl cpmpajrie ' s , bave . b , eeh proy . isipnairy , r , e ^ . gistered , ' at ajbtrd oostV ' moludiiig , th'dTeosi " paiftat . the bfahcWo ' fficb'iirDublin , ' of < £ 2 , v 27 ; 'l'ThS' - fetu ' rh . me ' ntib ^ Stha'Vytfrihg'theycaT' ^ ! bankruptmw ^ oh ^ t' 8 to ^ c ^» p ^ iosi- 'i oiuI W . ; ,
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1 . 1 JAMES MOEISONriTim HyG ^ ii ^^ T ^ T 1 ;¦ ¦ judical ; profession ! iSE i -: ¦ ¦¦¦•¦' . ¦ ^ mm ^' ( Extract of the concluding passages of * An Innnin , mode of action of Morison's Hygeian-MDaicinPS » . . > 8 Marshall Smith ' sob . ' ) : . ; ' , ' J ¦ ' ' , b ' Hugh Itineeds no fire of fancy—a ^ sober imagination mi realise the idea , that ; it is ' permitted to the dis ^» . ea 3 ' ^ spirit to contemplate , with aimeek and gentle s-it-V ^ A aridjoy , the sweetly beneficent fruits of Us x > Uhnt ? ' 011 doineu , whilst ori earth ;; and ' theshade of James m ° P ' the . Hygeist ; may even now . ' enjoy the privilege of on > thisihg , with a calm and chiistencd ebmp lai « an J " delight , in the comfortandhnppiriess which his di « r . an 4 and wiitmgs have already so wdely diffused in tii , ' ' of . tears , f And generatfbhs ' jet unborn shall rev Va ' name , ' arid embalm' with grateful tears , the dip e ^ him , who , rescuing the art' of healing from the L J ° * dogmatical seieiice , taught the lame to foreto thMi > azcs of the blind to see ; ' th ' e deaf to hear f the palsied to « - r"tch i agility of limb ; the bed-ridden to resume litVc J 6 , C ein duties ; and . the prematiu * ely'infirm and faded , ac , iv » their youth ' and strength ! Cfustom , and fashion n ° ^ enew judice , may , fora season , still lead the thronir t pre " with disdain the proffered boon , —may still decovti ? reJect tn « mhrhnft fht * rlaniUinQt / rnpfina no wi . nln . l , 'G Tciann ^ huii ^ uiiiseiy
. « v ... v ... ««_ ... w u . vou ... a ua , auDOiHtad — ~ "J of health and of life ; but the great mass of the nen , ans not long be Inveigled by a grossly mercenary jS . i " - ever , subtle and .. refined ; . nor . by , sophistries h *" learned and ingenious ; neither will they lone be L Wev « r ; to the utter ruin of all that makes life ' s sweet bv , mtil *& tire error , howerer sanctioned by authorit y , or by f Cr ' . Pnoranee , ' however venerable from antiquity . ' TheV , r ^* medical Juggernaut may ' still . -for a season , ride ov 6 mangle to th « death its fanatic victims ; but ' a Iiui " ^ sleep , a tittle more ' slumber , a little more fo ' ldin " ? arms to sleep , ' and the people will arouse themaeln . t tIle their fatal delusion , and will ; throw off , Tfith Vinrt - loathingandhorror , their superstitious reverencenf ' i ' ruthless medical idols , and tlien the eyes of tlmi e'r will-be opened , arid they will clearly perceive tw ^ legitimate office of the . art of healing . hto enre- am ] aggravate , disease ; that the real function 0 f maV ° means is to restore health to the afflicted , and not ? ' to minister to the necessities of a barbaric profession m ?' the worth of medicines is to be estimated by no other i than the amount of human suffering which tliev rlr and the . perfect' and permanent cures which thiw ! , « . ?' effect . The alchymists of a . former day were far L ^ skilled and learaed , and , impdled by a- kindred av ?* delusion , and folly , were infinitely more ardent and d !
™ 4 n thi , Tii * ncani ,, ! An j . rthi « , * wild nnrl mnn : ~_ "ctOUl I in the prosecution of their wild and maniac research than even the most profound and enthusiastic physici ™' and surgeons of our time—than the surgeons who e « with more than alchymical stolidity , to discover the i- of health and life by elaborately mangling the corrupt anil loathsome carcases of the dead—than the ph ysicians wh seek to restore health by the poisonous means which im pair and paralise every function of the body , and who seek to prolong life by poisoning and utterly destroying all tha organs through which life moves and has its earthly beuur The speculations and researches of the alchymist were hoH . erer , guiltless of murder ; . whole hecatombs of huniaa victims are daily sacrificed to the upas and sanguinary to the craving and exacting and still insatiate and cruel iod ofthe merciless and mercenary doctors . Our forefathers
had not more implicit faith in the trickeries and juggleries of the sciences ot astrology , palmistry , and wizardism , thaa too n-jany of their posterity—the wiser fools of our timehave in the medical scUnces < ot alleviatingsufferiivs by torture , and of curing disease by death .. The medical art of the present day is , indeed , at once the most stupendous monument of scientific effrontery and blackguardism , and off--e ry ile , mental prostration and abandonment , The pub . lie mind In our time is too much engrossed In amassini wealth , is too much abstracted arid lost in the lofty and exclusive researehes of the applied sciences , and ofthe useful and ornamental arts ; the public mind is so entirel y carried away and abandoned to the concerns of nccumulat . ing wealth , and of promoting the advancement and elera . tion of intelligence and c ' vilisation , as not to allow the
dedication of a moment ' s time-to the infinitely more important and vital concerns of personal cornlort and of bodily health . It is to this total abstraction of the mind from these concerns ofthe hi ghest earthly import , that a false and exploded science ' owes its lingering , pestiferous existence , . in these our days of general intellectual illumination ; it is owing to this entire mental abstraction that the . medical grubs and worms are still suffered to ply their trade of feeding upon tile . very -vitals of tiie community arid it is owijg to this same intellectual engrossment , that whilst they are tolerated by tiie wise , and ridiculed by the witty , these loathsome vermin still drag out their anomal . ous and unnatural existence . But the death blow has been given to the trade in death , in the spirit of his own f
motto ' , ' uno ictu . " James Morison , the Hygeist , has dealt that single . ^ fatal stroke , under which the medical monster now languishes , and must ultimately . ' perish . And even whilst upon earth , he foresaw in prophetic vision , that he had entailed upon mankind the emancipation of their health , and the full assurance of their pers # nal comfort and , enjoyrhent ; and when laying the foundation of the future physical blessedness of coming generations , his spirit was cheered , and his ardour was inflamed , by the reflection that on the fleahy tablets of the grateful hf arts of all succeeding posterity , he had raised to himself an en . dearing record of his own name and fame—* jnomtnwntum aireperennius !' Exeter Hygeian Dispensary , April 3 th , 1850 .
* Some Persons Have Fancied That Mr. Mor...
* Some persons have fancied that Mr . Morison chose his motto , ' uno ictu' —at one Mow , in accordance with his system , by which with one medicine he completely routed the whole tribe of doctors , '—but itis not however so ; ' uno ictu , ' and the three Saracens'heads joined in one neck , with the dagger for the crest , having been for many centuries the armorial bearings ofthe Mobison . i of Bognie , ia Aberdeenshire—but the motto ' at one blow' is certainly a most extraordinary coincidence .
A London Rookery.—By Day There Are The D...
A London Rookery . —By day there are the dingy alley , and the thievish-looking population , women with their bloated faces , and men who fill every intermediate occupation between greengrocer and birdcatcher ; , true , that thieves lurk here , these very employments being ,. in many cases , but semblances worn to conceal a less reputable calling . Dog-breakers , dealers in birds , marine store keepers , men whom indolence and dissipation unfit for more regular employment , throng these haunts even by day ; but ni g ht alone witnesses the real condition of our Rookeries ; then the swarm of beggars , who have driven their profitable trade , return to their lair ; trampers come in for their night ' s lodging ; the beggars' operas , as they were wont to
be called , then open their doors to those whom necessities has made skulkers or outcasts . So that , not in St . Giles ' s alone , but in most London p arishes , are rooms where chance lodgers are gathered at ni g htfall ; these are crammed by those whom poverty assembles , and the landlord derives a large revenue from tho necessities of his customers ; so that you cannot judge by tho daylight aspect of the . Itoskery , what face it wears by night . You would be startled to witness the crowding of inmates even in' favoured localities ; to see the industrious mechanic , his wife , and five or six chil * dren . huddled into a single apartment , by day the common sitting-room , by night the common dormitory ; you would be startled to find that such is tbe rule aniong the working classes , the meed of honesty and diligence , so that it has few exceptions . But ,
in the genuine Rookery ,: even this remnant of decency , this . slender , rag which yet betokens a lingering regard , to the , proprieties of social life , IS removed ; men and women are brought together in thesame apartment whom no marriage tie unites , and who have no other bond than that of common want . So that because all are taken in who can pay their footing , the thief and the prostitute are harboured among those whose only crime , perhaps , is poverty ; and there is thus always a comparatively secure retreat for . him who has outraged his country ' s laws . Sums are here paid , a tithe of which , if well laid out , would provide , at once , a decent and an amp le lod g ing for the deserving poor , ; and- that surplus , which might add to the comfort , and better the condition of the industrious , finds its way into the pocket of the middle-man . The SunnET . New riusoiY . —In arranging the
designs for the Surrey new prison , now in course of construction at Wandsworth , under the direction of Mr . D . Hill , architect , it has been attempted to make them in such a way as to be uniform andconi " pletefor tbe number at first intended to . be provided for ( 700 , ) and that tho future extension ( to 1 , 000 , ) should not interfere with the buildings erected nor destroy their uniformity . The buildings are designed in the plainest and most simple style , and ofthe most substantial kind . They are executed in brickwork , with stone dressings , quoins , plinths , cornices , window-sills , ' & c ., and are arranged on the principle of Pentonville , prison , and with the latest improvements in the various fittings and details .: There are 543 cells provided for male prisoners , and 165 for females , making a total accommodation for prisoners of 708 cells , not including punishment and reception cells : the whole will be thoroughly . ventilated , and fitted up with soil pan
or water . closet , washing : basin , with sufficient suf * p ly . of water , ( a separate cistern being provided for each cell , ) . and a gas light . Rooms , on the ground floor , first , and second floors ,: adjoining the . central hall ,: have been provided for trade rinsrruotor ? Ba . ths have been provided both for males and ft * males , supplied with hot-and cold ' water ; Tho cooking kitchen , bakehouse , and sewing rooms , are entirely distinct from the main buildings . The infirmaries , both for males and females , are entirely separated troro the other parts of ,, the prison , and are provided with . separate , airing courts . The chapel- will be , fitted up with separate seats or stalls for j $ i , prisoners , pewsj for gov ernor ' s and chaplain ' s families , and galleries forthe officers , lhe prison will be warmed ; by . -hot , water , similar to the manner at Pentonville . The . wholeof the cells , bot h for males and females ;; are ihirteeii ; feet hy seven feet , and nine feet high to the crown of the arch . — Thelto & der ..
Tub . "Window ; Taxing * , of Lo poiNO-noosss . - ^ As at present regulated , the window , taX falls particularly , heavy on model - lodging-houses . A hflUSO Having less than ; ei g h ^ windows , is exeuipted fro '" duty ; a house having . eight , window *; pays neary 2 ^ 1 d . \ for each window , ; ' . beyond that . number £ ooly U . oach ; wind 6 w ; Chai ^ eabIe ,, but the rate off * , per- window increases ' with the uumber : tha * * model lodg ing-hoBse haying , 100 . windows would " » " charged £ 20 , & L ., 6 d ., thafcis , at . the . rate . of no-lc ® . than 5 s . iOd ., per window ; c'rh © . immense prw ofthe window . iax :, is ; , the , pj »] teotioh tOjitsirep e 81 ' but in ithe spirit of the , act itself , lodging-house ° * oh a largeiBoal ^^^ classes ; sh ould . 06 exempted from -duty . '; pist met-, chambers in jr inns' ofoourt ure- ' so , ; . so are those -io'LuniversiW ** and in public hospitals , assise housea ^ jvide ^ r , " idiffejeuttehemouti b ' emgdistinct prope . rties . r * " ' \ Jbtilder ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦ tiri i '! ¦ ¦ ¦ :- ¦ :- " " ¦" " J
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27041850/page/6/
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