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      I Tho Testimony of a Clergyman vouching to Hevea Cases of Cures bj these wonderful Pills . Sxtraet of a Letter from the A . o . George Prior , Curate of tretagh , Letter J >» y , Ctrrigart , Inland , 10 th Jan . 1846 . j To Professor Holloway . ;

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      «•>» ¦ i 4 f , i •»¦» i viiu ot thaio simple r « m « a than perhaps half the world i aware ef ; for , it m ah remembared , where the fountain is polluted , the strnst that flow from it cannot be pure .

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      ABEUNETIIY'S PILE OINTMENT . ' 1 T 7 H AT a painful aud noxious Disease is the PILES , W and comparatively how few of the afflicted hate been permanently cured by ordinary appeals t . medical skill . This , no doubt , arises from the us of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed , strong internal medicine should alwajs be avoided in all cases of this complaint . The Proprietor of the above Ointment , after years of acute sunvrinx , placed himself uuder the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr Abernethy , —was by him restored to perfect health , and has enjayed it ever since without the slightest return of the disorder , over a period of fifteen years , during which time the same Abernethian prescription has been the

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      BLAIR'S GOUT AMD RHEUMATIC PILLS . A severe case of Rheumatism , communicated by Mr . Allen , Proprietor of the Nottingham Mereury , Mercury Office , Nottingham , March 17 , 1845 . Sie , —I have tlie pleasure of forwarding you the particulars of a case in which BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC 1 'ILLS have proved tminciitW successful . A young woman , named Mary Wain , accompanied bj her parents , wUo reside at Watuall , near this town , called upon : nc on Saturday last , being desirous of makin g her case known for the benefit of the public .

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      Danty lias recently Leen perpetrated in Germany aeainst a Jew wlmh . to a certain extent ., is unimrallellcd m modern history . We call it unparalleled because it did not proceed from a frantic mob but t-om a deliberate Government— became it did ni > t originate in a heated populace , but was executed under the c > ver of the law . We abridge tho meian choly particulars from Ler Jude . Shulm Moses , a Jew of about 50 years of ajre , was a native of German v ; but . his father having died in his infancy , and he himself having with his mother ( who married a second time ) led a wandering life for many years he could never ascertain his birthplace . lie subsequently settled in the kingdom of Hanover , marrit-d , and became the father of three children . Having in the spring oflast year come under judicial examination , ho couid not prove his country and thus became , as it is termed in the German law , homeless . Sbulm , aftcra Wtnieut ' s imDiisonment

      was released , receiving orders to leave the country and under penalty of corporal punishment never more to ent . * it . No regard was paid to his representation that , having been settled in the country tor nearly half a cestury , and not knowing his native country , the neighbouring Governments would send him to the state whence lie came , viz , Hanover He was first sent into the grand duchy of Oideuburg , the authorities of which immediately scrtt urn back to Ilnm . ver . Having thus , though ' involuniarily , returned into the country , the penalty of corporal punishment was ii flirted , and he himself then sent into the neighbouring duchy of Brunswick I he authorities returned him again into Hanover ! and the po . r wretch underwent a second time the d e grading punishment f , r an involuntary act . U uon this lie was sent into Prussia , but again returned and

      , was again punished , lc was a heartrending scene to behold Shulm in the mid > t of the winter , on foot , laden with the few things he still possessed , hunted about by the authorities from place to plate , and followed on foot by his wife , with a babe at lu r breast , and two liule children , one of five and ihe other of four years old . At last , when no country wou A receive him , lie was krpt in custody at iioya , in IL . novcr . It vas in vain that a humane lawyer , Opj . crinan , applied fur him to the Diet of !• rank tort ; he received no answer , and equally u * successful at first wa <* the application ot Shulm to liovernmi-nt for means to enublc him to go to America . His bunelactor then opened a subscription , when tue public shewed itself more humane than the Government . The latter , however , at last came forward , and the miserable wretch was enabled to embark at Bremen for America . —The Voice of Jacob

      I uial for jiuudbr . —The Court of Assizes for the Rhone , at its last sittings , condemned to death a liberated convict named Uobas , for the murder of a poor ayed widow named Eerjon , who lived alone in » house belonging to one of her sons in tho commune of St . Duller au Mont d'Or . During the whole of the 21 th June , her liuusu remained shut up , and her ni-ighboui-s . though they repeatedly knocked and called , could not obtain any answer . In the ev ening the cries of some animals , which she kepi , convinced them that she was stirring , and two of iha

      neighbours got into her dwelling throw an upper window , which they reached by means of a ladder and found her lying lifeless on the lloor of her chamber , hiving bten evidenty murdered . The onjy jeison scan about the house in iho course of the proceding day was Debas , and hU well-known brutal character at once fixed suspicion upon him , and he was arrested . Circumstantial evidence wasgiven on the trial of sufficient strength to warrant the jury in pronouncing him guilty , ami the court sentenced him to death .

      1 he Swkkts of Li / hjubnck . — " How beautiTul lie discourses ! " said one lady to another , as they sat listening to a celebrated orator ; " whatever ho lets fall from his lips is swoet and full ofeloquene !" Just then Mr . Orator " let fall" a great big tobacker chew ' .

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      ARTIFICIAL TEETH . Mb . Howabd ' s Patenl-TIib attention of those who have lost their teeth is especially directed t o the follow , mg observations : —The exlraoion of the few teeth or roots which may remain in the mouth , is insisted upon by many dentists , preparing artificial teeth ; this is not necessary , as Mr . HOWARD'S Patent improved method they can be fixed in the mouth with the greatest accuracy answering most fully for every purpose of articulation and mastication : and so perfectly natural in appearance as to defy detection by the closest observer , Without extract , ing any teeth or stumps , or giving any pain whatever . lhe new Patent Teeth , invented by Mr . HOWARD Surgeon Dentist , G 4 , Berners-street , Oxford-strcot London , will be found more economical than others . Doctor De Dassel , of Van Diemen ' s Land , and Hoi lpway ' s Pills . —Extract of a letter from John Kniirht . Kt ,, "

      uatea Launceston , March , 1 , 1845 : _<• p ,. ofJso ; n ^' loway . -Dear Sir ,-I am authorised b y Doctor de Dasse of tins colony , to mform you , that having witnessed hero in several instances the extraordinary effect of Your Filto , he , in eonsequtnee , is induced to say that you mw make use of his name as attesting to their efficacy 1 Signed , John Knight , Carr Villa , late proprietor o / the "Launuebton Adv ( irtiser . »_ Thcse Pills act upon t foundation of the system , thus curing the mostdeen rooted complaints , even when every other treatment has

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      SANATORY REF ORM . We shall inquire into the causes and remedies of the unhealthiness of towns . The causes way be divided into three principal heads . First , those which are external , relaiing to the state of streets , courts , and alleys ; secondly , those which a > -e internal , nstiic dwellings of the labouring classes . lodging-houses , workrooms , factories , schools , and public institutions ; and , thirdly , those which may be deemed per tonal , particularly individual cleanliness and the attention which mothers pay to their children . This 'ilassification is , in some decree , arbitrary ; but it has tli" convenience of presenting the whole subject hi broad outline , though , in the collection of the details , which cunstitute the evidence , wo stall not bo able to follow this tripartite division : nevertheless .

      toe whole inquiry admits of a consecutive arrangei ;; A and we shall commence with the statistics of ovc .-crowding . The aggregate density of the population ot England and Wales is in the ratio of 275 inhabitants to the square mile ; but this ratio assumes a very different character when exclusively applied to towns . According to the Appendix to the third annual Report of the Rrgistrar-Genernl . thenve . rage density nf population in the twenty-one principal towns was 5045 inhabitants to a square mile . The scale , however , rises prodigiously higher if we take the largest towns and those portions of them which are most crowded . For instance : the ratio of inhabitants to the builded area on which they reside , is , in London , 50 , 000 to the square mile ; in Birmingham , 40 , 000 ; in Leeds , 87 . 000 ; in Manchester ,

      100 , 000 ; and , in Liverpool , 130 , 000 . This is an average ; but there are particular portions of all these towns much more densely peopled , and it is to be noted that mortality dominates the highest in the most crowded localities , of which we have already given some examples . All the medical evidence proves that the viciims of fever are chiefly to be found in courts and alloys , where there ia neither drainage nor ventilation , and whi-rc masses of people are congregated on a small area The Hev . J . Clay , in his report on 1 ' reston , fuvntshca an extraordinary proof of the fatal mortality whicli arises from want and proper ventilation . In a period of five years , the deaths in tke town , taking an average of numbers and of age , were Bcvcnteen times greater than within the walls of tho prison—a difference which can only be attributed to over-crowding .

      It is matter of record , that in the first . American war , 2000 seamen died in one fleet through defective ventilation . In our workshops disease and death arc multiplied through the same cause . Under this head , Dr . Guy has given valuable testimony . He carefully compared the health of two sets of men . forty each , working at the same occupation , the one set in five small close rooms , the other in five large airy rooms . In the former , each man had 303 cubic feet of air , in the latter , each lmd ? 89 cubic feet of air . In all other rejects their situation was precisely the same . We shall give the result in Dr . buy s own words : — " Of the forty men oocupyim » the smaller rooms , and consequently breathing a hotter and fouler air , five had spitting of blood , six were subject to severe catarrh , six complained of indigestion , two of great debility , and one of rheumatism . On the other hand , of the forty men occupying the arger rooms , and having a purer and cooler air fo breathe , only one was subject to catarrh , two to

      indigestion , one to pain in the chest , one to nervous symptoms , one to head-ache , and one to varicose veins . " These men were compositors working in a printing-office . The men in the first five rooms had less than half the quantity of air to breathe than the same number of men in the larger rooms , and hence arose the difference in their sanatory condition . In the workshops of tailors similar consequences have been observed , and when tlu > atmophero is vitiated , the tendency to pulmonary consumption is aggravated ; tor exercise , to some degree , counteractsthe ill effects impure air , for which reason , in crowded hall-rooms , it is better to dance than to stand still . In heated rooms the fear of catching cold induces the closing up every opening through which a current of air may enter , and thus the atmosphere is poisoned . Then comes on a sinking state of the enfeebled body , and spirits are Aborted to as an artificial stimulus . Thus the ph .-i . jnl frame is assailed by the joint attack of an external and internal

      enemy , generating scrofula ami inflammation of the lungs . Only inferior to the . disastrous consequences of overcrowding and defraivj ventilation , are the evils which arise trom inaJ : ^ iate supplies of water in dwelling houses . The present daily consumption < m water in the metropolis is equal to the contents of a lake fifty acres in extent , and of a mean depth of three feet . The metropolis is at present divided amount nine large water companies , who are practically irresponsible for the quantity and quality of the water they supply , the Legislature having taken no securities for the supervision and modification of its distribution as the public interest should from time to time require . The greater part of the dwellings of the poorer classes are eitht r altogether without water , or are furnished only with a very scanty gupply of unfiltered water ef a hivh degree of hardness . According to the last returns there were upwards of

      70 , 000 houses without any supply of water whatever . Hitherto , the intermittent supply has been universally adopted , that is to say , the * water is pumped out of receptacles in which it is lodged at certain periods , so that they who want it cannot always obtain it . The actual cos-t of these receptacles , consisting of butts , tanks , and cisterns , is estimated on the lowest calculation at two millions , and the plan has been proved to be not only costly and unnecessary , but positively pernicious . On the intermittent system the water is generally turned on three times a week , and at each supply the film and black deposited on the surface are mixed up with the previous filth y accumulations . Even on the surface of the Water Company ' s reservoir in the Green Park , the < Iepo ? it of the soot , or dirt , or dust , may at times be observed as a dark scum or dingy carpet over it . On this branch of the subject it may be desirable that we should sive the opinions of practical engineers .

      . We proceed to a consideration of those remedialmeasures which are included under the heads o drainage and sewarage . From the earliest periods o ^ our constitutional history fundamental provisions were established by the legislature to secure the free flow of running waters , which were deemed to be national , rather than local property ; and it was part of the prerogative of the Crown , often exercised , to issue special commissions , as well before as after the passing of statutory enactmcnts . to protect the people asainst the encroachments of private interests upon the great public water courses for mill power or for fishing weirs . Such protection is specially guranteed by the 10 th chapter of Magna Chart * . The laws and customs of lloraney Marsh were settled by Iknry of Bathe , one of the judges in the reign o ' f

      Henry the Second , and his ancient ordinances " were respected as the embodiment of the principles which should regulate all future decisions . A commission was issued in the third year of Henry the Fourth , to furnish the means of providing Kin ^ ton-upon-llull witb pure water , as well as for draining that town , and removing impure sea or fresh water . We might easily cite some very ancient precedents showing the solicitude of the legislature on this subject , but those quoted must suffice . Descending to more modern times , we find that among the provisions of the 54 th George III ., now repealed , the suvveyors of the highways had po * er t » require and compel the occupiers of the land adjoining to scour and cleanse the main sewers and drains , and pay the expenses of it ; but the general Highway Act , now in force , contains no such provision .

      In all its combinations there is no public measure which presents an amount of benefit equal to that of Sanatory Reform . It is eminently conservative of health and property . It would invigorate the physieial constitution of all classes , render labour more uninterruptedly productive , diminish the rate of mortality , save the heavy charges which fall on the poor duringsickness , and diminish thepoorrates . By the aid of water constantly at high pressure fires never could become serious , insurances would be economized , and property would bo moro secure against conflagration iis also life . As a consequence ot the system being fully carrird out , the tax on windows must be abolished , because it is a tax on ' ventilation , and the health of the people must no longer be perilled for the sake of revenue . Habits of cleanliness

      which John Wesley remarked were next to habits of godliness , would become general ; the working classes would feel greater respect for the interior of their homes and their own personal appearance , when water was poured into their dwellings , and the streets in which they resided wore thoroughly drained . Were this great reform purchased at a large outlay of money , it would be cheaply obtained ; but it is certain that the sewage of towns would pay the cost of all local sanatory improvements , while its distribution over the surface of the soil would double or quadruple the produce of agriculture . Thus , under all views , sanatory and moral , social and economic

      we consider the health of towns the most important measure that can be submitted to the wisdom of Par liament , and one which eminently commends its If to the patriotism and philonthrophy of the whole nation . " 1 'he rights of property must no longer constitute the wrongs of the poor . " The legislator must possess and display the moral courage of protcctive interference , nor shrink irem the high mission to which he is called . The slaughters of fever must no longercontinue to be as fatal as tbeslaughters of war , and no longer can we be permitted to act on the brutal maxim that disease was intended to keep down a superabundant population . We have now

      learnea that the preservation of the public health is the wisest economy ; that it will not only sav « money , but preserve the physical strength of those by whom all weal th is created ; it will give us proiluctiye for unproductive citizens , by nerving the ami of bbour . It will diminish the number of widow ! and orphans , relieve workhouse infirmaries of their infortunate inmates , and check that tendency to physical degenevacy now so painfully attested by medical observation . But the people must co-operate with sanatory reformers in this noble work : the wen-kin * classes will be chiefl y benefited by tho judicious organization of the proposed system , and if they will steadily act on the principles recommended bv the disinterestedness of an elevated and elevating

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      science , we shall enter upon a new epoch of happi ness and civilization—Topic , Dec . 26 ; article— " Ira portance of Sanatory Reform . " ^

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      THE NEW MEANS OF RENDERING SUR-| CAL OPERATIONS PAINLESS . i ( Frora the Morning Chronicle . ) Sm , — -Having been the first in this country to employ the inhalation of ether as a means of rendering surgical operations painless , I beg to enclose you , for publication , the result of several cases in which 1 have extracted teeth with succe 33 under the above circumstances . It was on the 17 th of this month that I received from my friend , jDr . Boott , the- first intelligence relating to this discovery , and which intelligence had been conveyed to him , on that day , in a private letter from America , and stated that numerous

      surgical operations ; had been performed at Boston , and amongst otliew numerous extractions of teetb , and I immediately contrived an apparatus for the purpose of testing these remarkable allegations . On the 19 th , in the presence of Dr . Boott and his family , at )\ U own residence , I operated upon a young permn thrown into sleep by the inhalation , extracted a molar tooth from her lower iaw . The inhalation occupied a minute ana a half , and the patient ' s recovery from sleep another minute . Dr . Bnott then questioned her respecting the tooth , and she expressed her great surprise at finding that it wns removed . She said that all she had felt was

      merely a sensation of cold around the tooth , a sensation which was caused perhaps by the coldness of the extracting instrument . The apparatus employed consisted of the lower part of Nooth ' s apparatus , with a flexible tube , to which was attached a ball and socket valve an << mouthpiece pimilar to those coin manly used for inhalation . I repeated the experiment a few days after on other parties , but in eevera ) cases little or no effect was produced by the vapour ; the fact vas that the ball and socket valve , though impervious to water , was not so to air , moreover as the patient was becoming insensible , and the breathing tranquil and involuntary , he had no ' , longer the power ot raising the ball . Hence the breath pasaed into the vessel and diluted the ether vapour , and only an incomplete insensibility ensued .

      Instructed by these circumstances , I have had another apparatus mado by Mr . Elphick , of Castle Street , Oxford Street . It consists of a mouthpiece , containing two valves , a perpendicular one which permits of a perfectly free inhalation , but closes when expiration be » ins , and opens the other , an horizontal valve , with a perpendicular action at the top . By this meaas inspiration and expiration am both allowed ( with thn greatest freedom . To the end of this mouthpiece is attached a pad , containing

      a Hspnng well stuffed and adapted to the external contour of the mouth , also a clin for compressing the nostrils " , _ and thus preventing the patient from drawing in the air , either through the nose , or by the corners * of the mouth . This apparatus I tried on Saturday last on two patients , from one of whom I removed on upper molar , from the other , a deep seated stump . My success was complete . Yesterday I again operated at my house , in Dr . Boott ' s presence , on Mr . Dixon . surgical instrument maker , of Tonbridge Place , New Road .

      The account ho gave of his statui during the operation is extraordinary ; he described that be underwent a most remarkable dream , in the course of which all that he had done , and read , and known , and all the events of his early youth seemed to be '' compressed into a circle . " lie then felt as though an evil spirit . wa& endeavouring to triumph over him , but still his confidence in his own victory was predominant . The actual removal of the tooth senmed to be coincident with the last effort of the supposed evil spirit . In balf-a-minutc the patient vas conscious of the presence « f those around him , and in two minutes he was fully recovered . He had been completely unconscious of the operation .

      This morning , at the Metropolitan Free Hospital , in the presence of several medical men , 1 again operated in two cases with the same success—one a child twelve years of age , the other , a younp man of twenty-seven years of age . From the child . I removed two teeth ; from the man , a large molar tooth from the upper jaw ; the latter , on being questioned as to pain , replied that he knew nothing about it , as he had lost his brains . Both recovered in two minutes , and left the hospital perfectly well . In conclusion , I may remark , that I entertain the most confident hopes that at last a means is provided which beyond all fear of failing , without any reference to the peculiarities of individual temperament , susceptibility , or idiosyncracy , will be at the service of all who are obliged to undergo the operations of dental surgery . I trust , however , that no incautious er unwarrantable experiments will be tried—that

      whether the patients suffer pain or not , the worth of the human body will be too thoroughly recognised by all humane and scientific men to allow them to palter for one moment with the interests or in the avenues of life . The general humanity and enlightenment of the age will thus allow a discovery to be harmless which otherwise have been made the means of much reckless mutilation . In this case this new application of steam will be , indeed , a wide blessing ; and the steam of ether and other substances innumerable , if properly applied , may lead to results ns new , whether in surgery , physiology , or physchology , as the steam of water and its application has been in the physical , domestic , and social existence of mankind . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , James Robinson , Surgeon Dentist . 7 , Gower Street , Dec . 28 th , 1840 .

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      INUNDATION IN ROME . A letter from Rome of the 12 th , gives the follow , ing additional details of the late storm in that city : — ¦ ffsknow not how to describe to you the effects of the tempest which has devastated this city for the last [ four days , and which still continues . We never witnessed such weather ; the rain fell in torrents and the thunder rolled incessantly , Tho Tiber ovet flowed its banks in the most frightful manner ; one-half the city is inundated by its waters , and the inhabitants of the Corsohave five feet depth of water round their houses . All the quarter of the Campo Marzo , the Ghetto Hipetto , the Corso from the Place du Peuplo to the Place Colonn * has the

      nppi'arauce of a large lake . The inhabitants , surprised by the rapidity of the inundation , found themselves prisoners in their houses , without "' food and several without any as . sistance being possible . ^ Since 1805 such a scene has not been witnessed . The loss lm » been immense , The shops and cullars arc under water . Yesterday the waters subsided a little . Apart of theCorso is free . but boatB still ply through the adjacent streets , carrying provisions to . those who are still imprisoned . The Juwb' quarter has suffered the most , but the extent of the disasters cannot be yet known ; the mails no longer arrive , nnd two or three bridges on tho high road from Bologna , and in the Marches , have been carried away .

      A correspondent at Rome writes as follows : — Rome is once more under water . For some days past the rains havf continued to fall incessantl y ; and on Wednesday morning the Tiber overflowed its banks , partially flooding the Via Itipetta , The river continued to rise gradually during the day ; towards evening a slight decrease was observed , and people went to bed 3 ; itisfied that the worst was over . About twelve o ' clock a sudden accession of water completely inundated the streets in the vicinity of the river , and all the lower portion of the city , and 80 terrifically rapid was the rise , that by four o ' clock the Piazza del Popolo , the Via del Babuino , the Corso , as far as tho Colonna , and all the connecting streets , including the Via Condotti , were only to be passed in boats . The utmost consternation prevailed .

      My daylight the waters had reached to within a foot of the keystones of the arches of Ponte Sisto , those of the Ponte St . Angelo , Molle , and others less elevated must have been completely covered . The Pantheon of Coursi , tho Temple of Vesta , Santa Maria in Cosmedin , and all the excavated ruins in the Forum , were under water . The country from the Poncian hill presented u scene thl nn . st deplorable—one vast sheet of water , from which i thu roofa of houses and the tops of trees were alone visible . It is impossible at present to form even an idea of the loss of life aud property occasioned l . y this visitation . The amount of misery it will produce among the poorer classes is not to be imagined . Nothing approach , ing this as a flood has happened hero since that of 1805 . The river from the SUto presents an appearance absolutely frightful , the turbid waters boil and roar through the arches > s if they would curry all before them , nnd trees , the woodwork of houses , curratelli , dead animal * , and every species of . floating material , gave a terrible

      forewarning of the nature of accounts yet to reach Uk from the country . I have ddayed writing until 1 could tell you of the subsidence of the flood . It commenced to decrease two hours since , but the r ; , in which had ceased for six and thirty hours , has recommenced , and should it continue through the night , we shall be in u worse condition than btfore . Under this emergency the energy of the new government is strikingly manifebt . Many thousands of loaves , wine , and meat , in enormous quantities , are alread y in process of distribution , the Pope himself goiDg about in person to the more nfflicted neighbourhood , and superintending their relief . The Prince Borffheee , too , has imitated this example in a princely manner , and all that can will be done to mitigate the sofforings of the poor . In the Jews' quarter the mischief has been severe , the people having been coin , pellcd to make holes in tho solid walls to allow « gr- os and ingress , the gates at both ends of that placo being underwater . Great as may bo the present distress , the greatest has yet to come , and hill .

      P . S . —I open my letter te tell you that I have just heard that a house , containing fourteen persons , all of whom had perishud , has been washed away by the floods . 1 fcur this is but one of runny similar remits of this awful visitntion . Upwards ef twenty magnificent stone pines , thopo joys to painters , have been blown down upon an estate of the Borghcse , seven miles from Rome , At this moment ( 12 o ' clock , 12 th December ) the water has again inuudated the Corso , and it still rising .

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      FATAL ACCIDENTS WITII * FIRE . AaMT * An accident of a most appalling nature occurred at Milverton on Friday last . A man named 52 had been on a shooting excursion , and on returning home , placed his gun which was loaded with a fU | i charge , close to the clock . One of his sons , a mere youth , as soon as his back was turned , took un tha gun , and pointing it at his mother pulled the trie ger , when , shocking to relate , the gua went off and the whole contents were lodged in the forehead o ' f tha unfortunate woman ' s head , who immediately fell down dead . The father immediately ran down stairs when he heard the report , when a frightful scene presented itself to his view ; the body of hia lifeless wife , weltering in her blood , and his son standing over in a frantic condition . The unfortunate wo . man left a large family to deplore her untimely end An inquest was held at Bream , last week , on the

      ooayot inomas Isaacs , a boy about twelve years ef age , whose death was occasioned in the following deplorable manner : —Three men , named Thomas Brown , William Beach , and George Ridler were in company on the 13 th inst ., having two guns with them , with which they amused themselves shootine at small birds . After a while they adjourned to the Cross Keys Inn , Bream , and drank two quarts of beer between them , and then left te proceed home As they passed along the road , a bird came and ahghted within distance for a shot , and RidlSr Sa " d "Shoot the whoop ' meaning the bird , upon which both iBrown and Ridler raised their euns to S shoulders and fired . Only ItidK S ? however went off , that of Brown having hung ffrc , fcutSfi did not seem to be aware of ; indeed , all three men declare they believed at the time that both gun ? had exploded . While they were lookinir for the hirH

      tne boy wnacs came up , and as he approached them Brown said 'I ' ll have a bit of fun with the hoy " and then called out to him , " I'll shoot you , my W Tl ie iT lad 8 t 00 d 8 tiU ™ d laughed , and Ridler asked him , " Where are you going to mv nttleman ? "to which he replied , '' En to Z chard Morgan ' s , to have my dinner . " All this time Brown , who was about a yard from the boy . continued his most unhappy frolic , still pointing the muzzle of the gun backwards and forwards in front of the child , when at last the gun went off , and lodged the contents in the breast of the ill-fated boy who put his hand to his bleeding breast , and cried out , "Oh dear , oh dear ! " Brown himself seemed horror-stricken at what he had done , and exclaimed " Oh Lord , oh Lord ! 1 have sh ,. fc the boy-what shall I do ? " and running to the little fellow , he t ™ i < -

      him in hid arms , and gaid , " my dear child , I would uot have done it forjthe world—I thought my gun w . 13 empty . " They carried the wounded victim of this most melancholy and fatal jesting to a neighbouring cottage , Brown continuing like a man distracted at what he had done , and Ridler proceeded with all haate to Co etord . for a surgeon ; but long before hia return the deceased breathed his last sigh , in the cottage to which his mangled body had been carried . Last week , the following melancholy accident hap . pened in the island of Portland : —As a preventive man of the name of Hancockstationed in tha

      , island , who had just returned fromd duty , was cleaning the barrel of his pistol , the charge of which he jiad unfortunately omitted to withdraw , | while holding it with the muzzle pointed towards hia person , it unhappily went off , and the contents were lodged in nis body , excepting the ball , which passed through him causing immediate death . He has left a wU dow and seven children to lament their bereavement of a good husband and father . An inquest was held on the body on Monday , before J , Wallis , Esq . county coroner , when the Jury returned their verdict . " Accidental Death . "

      Mtstkwou 8 Death . —On Tuesday evening , a lengthened inquiry took place at Guy ' s Hospital , on the body of a person whose name is supposed to be James Cupping , about 50 years of age , who died in consequence of his throat having been severed in the churchyard of Woolwich Church . Alexander Murray , a labouierin Woolwich Dockyard , said that at about 12 o ' clock on the night of Thursday , Oct . 10 , he was . passing through the burial-ground adjoining Woolwich Church , when he saw deceased standing against the railing , and beckoning to him with his left hand ; witness went to him , when he exclaimed , " I have cut my throat . " lie was taken to the Mitre Tavern , where the wound was sewn up . Policeman Harris said , that tne next day , the reliev

      ing officer of the union called his attention to the deceased , who was residing at alod-Jng-house , in Highstreet . He appeared to have been a man who had been in better circumstances . He would give no account of himself . There was three halfpence and a card in his pocket . No knife or razor had been found . Before he was removed , he attempted to tear the wound in his throat open . Mr . Murell , one of the house-surgeons of Guy ' s Hospital , produced the card found on the deceased , on which was a marquis ' s coronet , with the name on it printed , "II Marchese de Beccadelli . " Deceased died on Sunday from the effects of the injury . The sister

      of Cornelius Ward , in which deceased was placed , stated , that deceased informed her that he had been living on the Continent for the last 24 years . He had then been only three days in England . He had lost a i ; reat deal of property , en account of which , during the last two years , he had given way to drinking , from the effect of which for 48 hours he was almost in a state of unconsciousness . He could not say whether any one cut his throat or whether he did it himself . Verdict— " That the deceased died from a wound in his throat , but how the injury was caused there was not sufficient evidence to satisfy the Jury . "

      Murder of Seamen by Australian Aborigines . — . A letter written by the master of the schooner Thomas Lord , and addressed to Mr . Lewes Scon , of 23 , New Broad-itreet , gives an account of the murder of the supercargo and two seamen belonging to that vessel , on Mul-rave Island , at the western end of Torres Straits . The vessel was trading with the natives for tortoise-shell and beche le mer and was provisioned for a 12 months voyage . On the morning of June 3 rd , according to the narrative of the captain . Bessant , the supercargo , with thecarpen-; er and four hands , left the vessel in tho longboat , bach man was well armed , besides the boat carrying the swivel guns mounted on the rail . They took provisions and water with them , intending to stay away for three days on a cruise up the river , to barter with the natives . They first proceeded along thosouthernendofthe island , trading with the natives during the day . The carpenter , who had been m New Caledonia before this , did not like the

      anpearance ot the savages , who were doing all they could to entice the boat ' s crew ashore by many cunning devices which natives usually resort to . About 6 in the evening , finding trade getting slack , they lelt the island , and proceeded to a small dry sand * bank , thinking they would be safe there . They made a fire , and had supper , after which the carpenter proposed going to the boat to sleep in it , but poor Bessant said he should prefer sleeping on shoro , thinking there was not the slightest danger . The party divided , the carpenter and two hands

      pro ceeding to the boat , which was anchored a few feet off the shore . About nine o ' clock the carpenter called from the boat . "Who has the watch on shore ? Poor Bessant replied , " The whole of us . " lhesewere the last words he was heard to utter , loor fellow he little thought his end was so near . About 11 0 clock the carpenter was awakened by hearing a noise on shore . He looked up , and to his horror beheld , by the light of the moon , the wretched savages , who had come across in their canoes , murdering poor Bessant and one of the seamen . Ho

      instantly hred at them , when they gave a loud yell and retreated to the scrub close by . Through the resolute conduct ot tha carpenter they succeeded ia getting the remaining Beanien into the boat , but not before the poor fellow was dreadfully wounded He alterwardsdied on board of his woumts . The supercargo mu ^ t have been quite dead when the carpenter and tho remainder of the boat ' s crew took possession of his body ; but t hoy were compelled to give it up , as the natives , to tho number of at least 200 , were ajiain approaching from the scrub , and canoes were observed coming « ith numbers more , they appeared to have been killed while asleep and 1 am certain mado no resistance . Poor Bessant had his pistols 111 his belt and his carbine u « der l . is head . He was a brave fellow , and would not have given in but with his lite . &

      Wickkd Hoax —A hoax , doubtless in imitation of , and prompted by , that practised on a tradesman lat 0 'y . was played off here last week , with considerable effect . On Tuesday morning various tradesmen received ,, through the post , some ! letters ( unpaid ) dated George Inn , Snargate Street , " containing orders of various kinds , and purporting to be written by the worthy landlord , Mr . Philpott or Mrs . Philpott . The parties were generally required to he at the " Georgo " at hall-past ten o ' clock , a . m . Accordingly , punctual at that hour , an undertaker was in attendance to take the measure of a gentleman , just dead , for a coffin , and to do the other requisites appertaining to his calling on the solemn , occasion ; nor had sufficient time elapsed for explanation as to the hoax when up came a canriage to drive a party for a morning ride . Presently there came two

      butchers wen with legs of mutton , two grocers' lad * with each a huge cheese , a tobacconist with a box of tho best Ikvannahs , and other such like necessaries ,, as per order . Meanwhile , also , a fashionable hair * dresser , " kit in hand , " entered to shave the dead man ; and apace the chimney-sweepers were svuii to enter , shouldering the implements of their craft ; whilo the dustman called in tp ascertain ''further particulars " about fetching the night-cart . In the \ midst of tho hubbub , a gentleman , from the upper ond of the town , dropped in to inquire what it was " to his interest" that Mr . Philpott had to tell him . j The perpetrators of this wicked hoax , who . as yet , remain undiscovered , are , doubtless , chuckling over j the success of their objvet ; but it is not unlikely they may soon be brought to lipht , and made to answer for their wanton cruelty , —Vovcr Chronicle . ; , Human Bosks , —In the human body there are 210 1 bones ,

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 2, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1399/page/2/