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      LIXCOLSSniREA diabolical murder , the circumstances of which - > m » iO shrouded in mystery , -was perpetrated" f tMjif niehtlast , in a cottage in the parish of Gay-* je ^ farsh . It appears that as a person was pass--n , r vdtbin about 500 yards of the cottage of a man med Bafcef , ' about half-past eight in the evening , heard' * 2 ' ^ ^ Shortly afterwards Ttaker presented himself at the house of this person « jt j , Iris head bleeding , and stated that his wife had Z-en « hot Head through the window , and that he Sel f had " oeeB wounded . Mr , Ileath , the Bur peon ot Tbeddletnorpe , examined and dressed the iou »<» > but found no shot in them , although the wounds bore all the appearance of having been prosnot

      duced by scattered . Some circumstances led * JJsker ' s apprehension on suspicion Of having committed the murder . It was known that he and jjj 5 wife had lived unhappily together , and that jiey had once been parted . He had wished to go « America , and had with some difficulty prevailed o his wife to advance him £ 20 , which was effected by mortgaging the cottage and land , which were the property of his -wife . It was considered possible that Baker had shot his wife , and contrived l wound himself , and upon these grounds he was arrested . A further examination of Baker's wonuds v 33 ma < Jeby 3 Ir . Ji . West , surgeon , of Alford , who Ejected a single shot under the skin of the top of the leaa < neflr where the hair is parted . This shot

      jjj , j passed in a direction from before backwards , jjjd Iiad lodged about an . inch from the opening hv v jieli it had entered . Mr . West extracted the iiot , and took care of it On Saturday morning an inquest was held upon the body of the murdered iromwi , before Mr . Goe , coroner for loath . Mr . Beatn , who made a postmortem examination of the body , stated that the vessels of the neck were lacerated by scattered shot , which had passed in from behind . He found nine shot corns in the neck , and in the-shoulder and back of the woman a great many "wounds from scattered shot . A small piece of glass were found within her dress , having evidently been driven there with the shot from the vandow . A loaded gun banging in the house was

      examined , and presented appearances which proved that it had not recently been discharged , the cap ]) eing rusted on the nipple . Marks -were found in the garden about ten or a dozen yards from the ¦ window , as of the boot , loes , and knee of a person inesJing to fire . These marks were in a line with the opening through the window , and from what the man stated were the positions of both himeelf and wife when they were shot . The opening jhrbugb . the window was at the side , and a few shot corns were picked out of the window frame . Baker ' s statement was , that he was sitting reading sith his faee opposite the window , and that his ( rife was sitting opposite to him on the other side of the table , sewing the sleeve of a flannel shirt .

      Snddenly he heard trie report of a gun , and felt Inmself wounded in the head . He rose from the chair and held his head down , which was bleeding profusely . He spoke to his wife , not knowing that cie had been struck , and , when he found she did not answer , he looked up and found her lying dead on the hearth . ^ Aa soon as he recovered from the stupor into which he was thrown , he went and told his jest neighbour what had occurred . The shot cor a jbiiud in Baker ' s head , and the fact that the report of only one gun had been heard , appeared to corroborate the man ' s statement . It seemed clear that the wounds on the man ' s head were really cau- 'Oj By shot . Those wounds were not only scattered orer his" forehead and face , but one was on the very

      top of the back part of the head , and the shot corn found in the latter wound resembled those found in fee woman . Baker was immediately set at liberty It the magistrate who had sanctioned his arrest , and who was present at the inquest , on entering into his own recognizances to appear as a witness It is now supposed by some th ' at the murderer , whoerer he was , meant to shoot both Baker and Ms ¦ wife , as ; in order to get them both in a line of fire he had been obliged to grazg the window frame . instead of which , if he had meant to shoot only the woman , he might have fired through the middle of the win-low . Baker's friends consider it a providential circumstance that he did not escape

      uniiyured , as in that case he might have had some i Acuity in proving his innocence of this foul and I dastardly murder . Baker does not hesitate to express his suspicions of the " friends" of his wife , [^ iio , according to his account , want to get ' possession of the place—the cottage , and three or four acro 3 of land near it , being her property . It may benecessarytoadd that Baker and his wife -were jlinng together alone , that they tad BO YfluuOW " i blind up at the moment when the shot was fired , and th ^ t the window in question looks into a little prden . A rigorous and searching examination appears to be required into the circumstances of the murder , which has created an immense sensation in tie peaceful district in which it occurred .

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      I ' ¦ . , f THE REGISTRATIONS . East Surrey . —The revising barrister held a conrt , on Saturday last , at the Vestrjr-halJ , Camberwell . to revise the list for that parish , the hamlet of Ilatcbam , and the parishes of A ewingtonand Ciiristchurch . The same gentlemen attended as acents for the respective parties . In the CamberweJl list , the rote of Mr . Joseph Green was objected tG l > y Mr-. Comer , ilie liberal agent . The place of abode of the voter was described as " late " of Edgbaston , near Birmingham , llr Corner iproved that he had caused a notice of objection to [ be served upon the overseers , but it appeared that Sao notice had been served upon the -voter himself . !—JI . Meymott contended that the notice to the Iprerseers \ ms iiot sufficient , and that notice of ob-• jection ought also to be served upon the voter . — § 3 Ir . Corner raid that the description of the resiidenceof the voter as " late" of Edgbaston , near [ Birmingham , was & « address whatever , and that it Ccame within the terms of the 100 th section of the

      jHeform Act , which enacted that , where no address [ Of a voter appeared on the register , or the party tras residing out of England , a notice of objection jj Krved upon the oversews should be deemed suffic ient , and a notice to the party was not required . [—Mr . Meymott submitted that persons objecting to ttbe right of a party to a vote were bound to 6 end pSl a notice of objection to the address , whatever lit might be , that was placed upon the register . It hras a very common practice , when gentlemen left ¦ their chambers or residences , to have written or painted on the door where they were removed to ; and if a notice had been sent to Edgbaston , in all probability Mr . Green would have received it , and ^ probability Mr . Green would have received it , and

      Itrould have had an opportunity of making out his taaalification . —Sir W . lliddell said he thought this [ case came completely within the terms of the section thai had been referred to . The voter was required to place the address where he could be found upon the register , but , instead of doing so , he had ! merely stated where he did not reside , and he ceriaialv considered the description " late of" a place to be no address at all within the meaning of the act , and , coaseqnenily , that ihe party objecting to a vote had done all that was required in serving notice of objection upon the overseers . —The name was then expunged from the list , and several other cases of the same kind wsre disposed of in a similar manner .

      TisEMotiH . —Mr . Hogg has been occupied twe days in revising the parliamentary list of borough electors . Itis " known that Mr . Hugh Taylor , oi toe Coal Exchange , a Protectionist , will oppose B . "W . Grey , the sitting member , and the list has been closely scrutinised on both sides , with the following resulte : —Objections sustained by Mr . Grey's committee , Gi : by Mr . Taylor ' s , 35 ; claims sustained by Mr . Grey's committee , 21 ; by Mr . Taylor ' s , 35—14 in favour of Mr . Grey , 43 upon the ^ ole revision .

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      DEATH OF AN EXCISE OFFICER BY POISONJ On Monday an inquest was held by Mr . William Carter , the coroner for East Surrey , at the Gregorian Arms Tavern , Lower-road , "Bermondsey , upon Mr . Frederick Robert Bolton , aged fortyone years , an officer connected with the Inland Revenue , who was accidentally poisoned under the following melanchol y circttin 8 tauce 8 : — Mr . R . T . Russell , of So . 12 , Thornton-street , Horselydown , surgeon , stated that on Thursday evening last , about SIX o ' clock , two persons brought the deceased into his surgery in a state of great exhaustion . He was perfectly sensible , but Cold and pulseless . Witness asked the deceased a few questions , to which he replied that he had been

      requested by a friend to taste some aconite , and wished to know if witness knew the nature of it . Witness replied in the affirmative , and asked him if he had taken any ? when he replied it was a part of his duty at the Excise Office to test such coir * pounds , and he believed he had swallowed about a teaspoonful of the mixture . Witness , knowing that aconite was a deadly poison , then considered the deceased would unquestionably die . —William Bennett , a gauger , employed in the Inland Revenue-office , Tower-hill , said that he knew the de . ceased , whose duty was to gauge casks of spirits as well as medicated preparations , to ascertain their quantity and strength , the same being subject to a duty . On Thursday last witness examined a box at St . Katharine ' s Wharf , which had been imported

      from Scotland , the same being accompanied with a permit , which indicated that the contents consisted of medicated spirits . Witness took a bottle out , containing one-fifth of a gallon . The bottle was wrapped in a paper covering , and was labelled , but the label could not be seen . Witness took the bottle to ihe office on Tower-hill , and haying drawn the cork , poured out a small quantity in a glass . Witness put a wooden penholder into the liquid , and then drew it across his lips . At that time Mr . Bolton ( the deceased } was sitting in the office , looking towards witness , who asked him his opinion . is to the nature of the liquid . Deceased said he believed it was a bitter , and took the bottle out of witness ' s hand , and afterwards returned it . Witness then conveyed the bottle to Mr .

      Brain , . the principal officer of that department , who directly tore off the paper covering , when witness saw it was labelled " Fleming's tincture of aconite , poison , " in large letters . Witness had no doubt the deceased swallowed a portion , although bo said he did not believe he had . Deceased seemed very well , but witness went to a chemist's , and had a burning sensat'on in the throat all that evening . The deceased left the office , and was not seen by his friends aeain until after death . —Coroner : ilave you no other means of testing these articles than by tasting them ?—No , sir ; it was the character , and not the strength , we were looking after . —Mr . Russell , the surgeon , eaid the wrapper ought to have been labelled outside . —The Coroner was of a similar opinion , and added that the permit of

      the box ought to hear some indication of the contents of such highly dangerous packages . —Mr . Brain said they had no power by act of parliament to compel them to do so , although it was highly necessary some means of the kind should be adopted . It was the duty of the deceased to test the strength of ardent spirits , but not medicated spirits . The former were tested by the use of the hydrometer , or water balance . The latter would come under the notice of witness , who repeatedly asked the deceased if he had swallowed any of the compound , which was a deadly poison : but the deceased said he had been very sick , and was then much better . Witness thought the deceased had merely put his lips to the bottle . The poison , which had been forwarded from a large firm in Scotland , was supposed to be made in conformity with ttie act of parliament and London Pharmacopoeia . The

      unfortunate accident had arisen through not removing the outer covering of the bottle . The deceased and the last witness had not been long employed in that department of tho Excise , and were not fully acquainted with the various compounds . —Other evidence having been offored , the Coroner remarked on the testimony of the witnesses , rvn'd said the death of the deceased gentleman was to be deeply lamented , and he should certainly recommend the commissioners to adopt some immediate steps for the prevention of such unfortunate accidents . —The Jury unanimously concurred , and returned the following special verdict : —" That the deceased met his dentti accidentally , and they ( the jury ) would suggest to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue , that when any article Of a poisonous character is imported the permit should bear the word ' poison / as well as the nature of the article itself . "

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      THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT . LtvEBPooi , Saturday . —The Liverpool County Courfc was adjourned last night by the Jud ^ o , Mr . Ramshny , for three weeks ; and for the present , therefore , there is an end to those remarkable proceedings which have attracted the attention of the whole country . The excitement of the town has also diminished ; and both the obnoxious judge and the angry community have now leisure for reflection and consideration of the next step to be taken in the very nnequ .-il struggle between them . Up to th \ B time Mr . Ranishay had given no indications of regret for the extraordinary and unprecedented course he had taken ; and it was understood yesterday evening ; that he wag even hurrying his solicitor to proceed with the indictment for conspiracy

      against the Journal , " and the Tradesman ' s Guardian Society , which he threatened some weeks before his recent press prosecutions . But this evening , it is reported , he received a letter from tbe Earl of Carlisle , the Chancellor of the Duchy ; and without venturing a surmise as to the precise contents of that epistle , it is assumed as certain that its effect will be greatly to alter Mr . Ramshay ' s plans . On the other hand , the people of Liverpool are not letting matters rest , or trusting altogether to Lord Carlisle ' s sense of justice and decorum . The " Whitty Indemnity Committee" met this afternoon , and the result is thus stated in a late edition of the " Journal : "—. "At a meeting of the committee of the ' Whitty Indemnity Tund , ' held this afternoon , Samuel Holme , Esq , in the chair , it was resolved that a memorial be prepared , as from the inhabitants of Liverpool , to the Earl of Carlisle , prayinp a public inquiry in Liverpool into the conduct of Mr .

      Ramshay , as judge of the County Court , since the termination of the former inquiry . It was fnrther resolved that J . R . Jeffrey , Esq ., be requested to act as secretary to the committee . It was also resolved that application be made to the aldermen and councillors of tbe different wards to forthwith call meetings in such wards , for the purpose of supporting the requisition to the Earl of Carlisle . " Besides this , the magistrates are in communication with the Home-office , and the general belief seems to be that the removal of Mr . Ramshay will be effected withont the formality of any inquiry such as that instituted before , and which ended so little to the credit of the well-meaning , but , in this instance , ill-judging Lord Carlisle . Mr . "ffhitty has put his case entirely in the hands of the town committee , and it is not known whether he will be advised to bring an action against Mr . Ramshay . Mr . Whitty was yesterday received with loud cheering when he went on 'Change .

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      CAPTURE OF A GANG OF WHOLESALE SWINDLERS . ; On ; Saturday last the . Police Court at Plymouth was crowded by persons anxious to listen to one of the mest extraordinary'investigations ( adjourned from the previous Wednesday ) which has engaged the attention of the bench for some years , and which exposeH an attempt at swindling upon a very large scale . It appears that early in the month of September there arrived in Plymouth two men Of middle ago Slid respectably " attired , who forthwith tOOk premises for the ostensible purpose of carrying on business as general outfitters and army and navy contractors . ' Having engaged a store on _ Sutton » wharf , in the possession of Mr . nicks , wine merchant , a painter was employed to

      announce to those resorting to that locality that " Rudwell ' s Stores" were there situated , and a plentiful supply of letter-paper was procured , each sheet bearing the printed heading of Sutton-wharf , Plymouth . Ship Stores Warehouses , General Outtitter , Army and Navy Contractor , &o . " As the business to be transacted was intended to be of the most extensive description , a " counting-house " became necessary , and for this purpose a room in Tin-street was hired , at the -moderate-sum ol half-a-crown per week , and here , during the usual hours of business , Mr . Rudwell and his more retiring partner , Mr . Palmer , were generally to be found , each seated at a desk , conducting a voluminous correspondence with most of the principal contributors to the Great Exhibition , the Official Catalogue supplying them with the names and addresses of the various exhibitors . As the trade to

      be carried on was to be large , of course the orders were liberal , and assistance being deemed necessary , the " principals " in the business were joined about a week after their arrival by a younger man , of smart appearance , calling himself William James Widdicombe . He acted as " clerk , " and James Maddick , a labourer , whom the " principals " met with on the quay , was employed as storekeeper and porter . The first fruits of the extensive correspondence carried on by the firm " wag the arrival of a large parcel , consigned to their address on the 20 th September , and every succeeding day witnessed the advent of other goods of a moat miscellaneous description . There was an odd commingling of copperas and broadcloths , locks , and blankets , lamps and trouserings , hides and chicory , tweeds and

      iodine , canvas and saddles , twines and cooking apparatus , velveteens and ship ' s sheathing , cotton twist and oatmeal , compound levers and a lifting jack . But numerous were the arrivals of goods , equally brisk appeared to be the sale , for not a single parcel remained in the store more than two hours ere it was disposed of , in some way or other , and it would seem in some instances at prices which would have enabled Rudwell to assert with greater truth than is the case sometimes with traders , tbat he was indeed making an " alarming sacrifice . " For example , the " lifting jack" above-mentioned , the invoice price of which was £ S , was no SOOlier delivered at the ' store than it was entrusted to the respectable agency of Messrs . Skardon and Sons , who were instructed to sell it for £ 2 , if a

      purchaser could be procured at that sum . Oil-cake , top , the trade price for which ia £ 12 10 s . per ton , was offered for sale to Mr . Parrott , of Buckwelletreet , through the instrumentality of Mr . Nahum Cornbloom , for £ 7 10 s . per ton . Other goods were pledged " at the office of Mr . Toms , pawnbroker , by Widdicombe . Such was the state of things until Tuesday last , when Superintendent Gibbons proceeded , in company with Inspector Thomas and Sergeant Hicks to arrest Palmer and his clerk Widdicombe ( who was discovered to have been living here under the assumed name of MatthewB ) , as they ' were walking together from the railway station towards George-place ,, the charge being

      they had , in conjunction with Rudwel ) , obtained large quantities of goods under false pretences . Palmer , " who described himself as a labourer , said " Very well , " and Widdicorabe , alia * Matthews , stated himself to be a clerk in the service of Rudwell , and was altogether innocent of the offence charged against him . Rudwell was also apprehended the same evening , and on Wednesday morning tho trio appeared before the magistrates , in custody of the officers charged as above stated . Tho sitting magistrates were the mayor and Messrs . Coryndon and Hawker ; Mr . Lavers attending on the part of the Trades' Protection Society , and applying for a remand in order to give the police time to institute the necessary inquiries .

      After hearing the whole of the evidence then forthcoming against the prisoners , and . by which the foregoing statement was fully supported , the prisoners were remanded to Saturday . Mr . Xahum Cornbloom , who bad left , came back after the . casehad been heard , a'uu was adviBcdby the mayor to give up the goods he had received of ltudwell into the possession of a third party . In a very independent manner he refused to do anything of the kind , told the mayor he would rather take his money than his advice , asked Mr . Phillips what was the price of a brief , said ho defied them to do anything to him ; he had not bought stolen goods ; he was "too deep" for that , and would never give up the goods till they were paid for . From the evidence produced on Saturday it

      appeared tbat on Wednesday evening upwards of two tons of goods arrived by Railway for Bud well and COij which is in possession of the police , and that a letter , badly spelt and badly written , from the wife of Rudwell , has fallen into the hands of the superintendent , but it contains ne information of which use can be made . It was dated " London , " and bore the signature of " Ann . " Another letter dated from Manchester , which came to hand on Thursday , charges Rudwell with being an impostor , and threatens him with exposure , the writer alleging tbat he ( Rudwell ) had carried on his fraudulent practices in a great number of towns assuming the name of " Cox , " when at Wolverbampton , then as "Smith , " of Birmingham , as "Mill , '' of Liverpool , afterwards , as " Edwards , " of Manchester , and more subsequently as

      " Darlington , " of Portsmouth . A large quantity of goods arrived , to the address of the firm , on Thursday , and are now detained in the charge of Pickford and Co ., railway contractors . About two tons of oil-cake also came by steamer , for whi ' Ji Cornbloom was found to be on tho look-out . The police accordingly waited until he had paid the freight , when they then stepped in and seized the lot , much to the chagrin of the hard-mouthed money-lender , who threatens to cite Superintendent Gibbons and his men in the high court of Westminster . It was also stated that a ? resh lot of goods and sundry invoices came to hand on Friday morning , and tbat the police at the same time obtained information which was deemed sufficiently important to justify the immediate departure of Inspector Thomas per mail train to tho metropolis .

      The nature of tbe evidence was such as to induco the bench , after a lengthened examination of witnesses , to further remand the prisoners . . Mr . Rudwell , on being asked what he had to say against being remanded , contended that , as he had his name over the door of tho wharf , and was no where in debt in Plymouth , as he had not been applied to for money for the . goods , but should be ready to pay on demand , he ought not to have been even taken into custody . As to Palmer , he was his ( Rudwell's ) friend , while TViddicombe was his clerk . If anything had been wrong , he entirely exonerated them from all participation in it , and was ready to bear the results himself .

      Palmer had nothing to say , and 'Widdicombe said he had come from the office of Wilson and Gurney , bank solicitors , London , and could procure good references . He asked if he might procure bail . lie was told he must first procure his bail , and then their worships would consider if it could be taken . Rudwell is evidently in bad health .

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      Tkoops for Australia . —The " United Service Gazette" states : — . " "We understand that Governor Fitzroy has intimated to Earl Grey the necessity for reinforcements of troops , the expense of which is to be borne by the colony . " The three regiments next for foreign service are the 71 st ( 1 st battalion ) , 4 Sth , and SOtli , but we have reason to believe that no reinforcement will be sent , at least until the receipt of further information from the colony . We read in a Madrid letter of the 28 tnulfc .: — 11 Yesterday , as Queen Isabella was passing through tne street of the Arsenal she met a procession proceeding with tbe host to the house of a sick person . She immediately alighted , and insisted upon the priest entering her carriage . She followed on foot , and , notwithstanding her advanced state of pregnancy , ascended the stairs with the priest to the bedside of the dyine patient , "

      Revolting 'Inhumanity . —Tho " Eoonville ( Mo . ) Observer" of tbe 20 tu ult . gives the following details of an act of barbarity : — " In Morgan county , not long ago , a citizen died , leaving a widow and two small children , the oldest a girl about seven years of age . Jfotlong after the death of her husband the woman married again . Soon the girl died , and very recently the boy was reported missing . The sudden and mysterious disappearance of the child , together with the fact that upon the death of the woman's first husband the property he possessed was left to the two children , aroused suspicion in the neighbourhood , when a search was made for

      the boy . He was found in the woods adjacent with both legs broken and his inoutb sewed up . Being still alive , however , he was properly cared for , when he reported tbat his mother and step-father bad been the perpetrators of the deed ; and , in addition , that his sister's skull had been hrofeen by them , which caused her death . The boy ' s statement further tended to develope the fact that the girl was known before her death to have had a bandage around her head ; and upon her body being exhumed it was found as the boy had stated , that the skull was fractured . The parents were arrested and imprisoned at Versailles . "

      Electric Telbgkaph in Turkey . — -The Turkish government have determined on establishing a system of telegraphs throughout Turkey .

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      LECTURE OS BLOOMERlSlf . n ° n JKft u Cven ' ID S Mtas- . Kelly ' s Theatre , in Dean-Street , Soho , was crowded by an eager auditory , assembled m consequence of an announcement emanating from the "London Bloomer Committee , " that a lecture on the new costume would be delivcred by a lady appropriately attired . A crowd was assembled in tbe street long before the doors were opened , and whea admission was obtained the theatre was immediately filled-so , apid > , indeed , that « gentleman from the stage announced that the tecture would not be delayed until tbe time named in . the bills , as the edifice would contain no more . In a few minutea alter this notification , about twenty lad 1 Oa , attiired in the Bloomer cosl tume , appeared upon the stageanil took their

      , seats in a semicircle . Every variety of the new attire waa now to bo seen , from the strictly legitimate Bloomer skirt , - « two inches below the knee , " to the less daring and less attractive drapery which came down almost to the ancles . Nor were varieties of colour wanting . Young ladies in white with pink sashes contrasted strangely with elderly ladies clad in brown and black , eome preferring tbe hair unadorned , others wearing a few ornaments , and two wearing a huge broad-brimmed black hat . The audience—the great majority of which was composed of gentlemen—received the Bloomer cortege with cheers and laughter , the latter demonstration so far predominating . as to cause some of the ladies to waver in their approach , and one or two retired behind the slips to regain their presence of mind ,

      somewhat shaken by their first reception . Order having been restored , a lady attired in a dark brown costumecamo forward aud addveaseu the audience . The lecturer ' s name , was not announced , it being merely stated that aho was a citizen of the United Statos . She statod that in consequence of the great interest with whioh the Bloomer question was received by the public , a certain number of ladies had been formed into a committee , in order to give it the necessary attention and , publicity , and invited . the , mothers and daughters of England to give their attention to the now costume as contrasted with tbe present injurious form of attire . The introductory part of the lecture adverted ( amidst tbe laughter of the audience ) to the first institution of clothing by our primeval parents . The

      lecturer , however , forbore to inquire whether the leaves formed a tunic or a simple petticoat . She then proceeded to trace the custom of nations from time immemorial of marking tho different grades of human rank by varying apparel , and urged that the present inconvenient dress of ladies was not only unfit for their situation as the helpmates of man , but opposed to the Jaws of nature as regarded their physical conformation . This subject led to a consideration of tho moral and social conduct of American ladies , and thenco , by some strange transition , to the slavo trade , and the claims of tho " citizenesses " of the United States to a representation in the legislature . Thisdiscursiye matter having been concluded , tho lecturer took into consideration the injurious effect of the present style of dress , and the

      obstructions caused by it to the highest functions of the human frame . ' She demonstrated seriatim the effect of impeded action of the heart and lungs , ano traced to this causo a long train of diseases . Tbe tilth , collected by the long trains of ladies sweeping the dirt did not escape notice , and the lecture concluded by an exposition of the advantages arising from the Bloomer costume , and a compliment paid to Mrs . Bloomer , quoted from one of the American papers . It was also stated as a g iece of supplementary information that the real originatress of tbe Bloomer costume was a daughter of Mr . Garrett Smith ; of the United States , During tho course of this lecture several outbreaks of laughter and

      discordant noises took place , and the admissions of the lady were rather more freely and audibly interpreted than was intended . Her evident sincerity , however , made some impression ; and , upon the whole , the address waa favourabl y received . The lady , however , did not seem to think that sufficient courtesy had been extended to her , after she had claimed " the courtesy due to a stranger , " and after her lecture mentioned her misgivings in plain terms , attributing the outbreaks partly to the disappointment of many present at a recent Bloomer manifestation . The Bloomer ladies joined in the National Anthem at the close of the proceedings , and the lecture was announced for repetition .

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      "UNCLE BENJAMIN'S SERMON . Not many hours ago I heard Uncle Benjamin discussing this matter to his son , who was complaining of pressure . " Rely upon it , Sammy , " said the old man , aa he leaned on his staff , with his grey lucks flowing in the breeze of a May morning , " murmuring pays uo bills . I have beea an observer many times these fifty years , and I never saw a man helped out of a hole by cursing his horses . Be as quiet a 3 you can , for nothing will grow under a moving harrow , and discontent harrows the mind . Matters avebad , I acknowledge , but no ulcer is . any better for being fingered . The more you groan the poorer you grow . Repining at losses is only putting pepper into a sore eye . Crops will fail in all soils , and we may be thankful that we have not a . famirie . Besides , I always took notice that wiien I felt the rod pretty smartly , it was as much as to say , ' here is something which you have got to learn . ' Sammy , don't forget that your schooling is not over yet , though you have a wife " and two children . "

      " Aye , " cried Sammy , " you may say that , and a mother in law and two apprentices into the bargain , and I should like to know what a poor man can learn here , when the greatest scholars and lawyers are at loggerheads , and can ' t for their lives tell what has become of the hard money . " " Softly , Sammy , I am older than you ; I have not got thesegrey hairs and this crooked back without some burdens . I could tell you stories of the days of continental money , when my grandfather used to stuff a sulky box with " bills to pay for a yearlingora wheat fan , and when the women used thorns for pins , and laid theit teapots away in the garret . You wish to know what you can learn . You may learn these seven things : —First : That you have saved too little and spent too much . I never taught you to be a miser , but I have seen you give your dollar for a nothin when you might have laid by one half for charity , and one half for a rainy day . Second : That you Lave gone too much upon credit . I always told you

      that credit was a sliadaw \ there is a substance behind , which casts the shadow , but a small body may cast a greater shadow , and no wise man will follow the shadow any farther than he can see the substance . You may have learnt that you have followed a shadow , and been decoyed into a bog . Thirdly : That you have gone in too much haste to become rich . Slow and easy wins the race . Fourthly : That no course of life can be depended upon as always prosperous . I am afraid the younger race of working men in America have a notion that nobody would go to rain this side of the water . Providence has greatly blessed us , and we have become presumptuous . Fifthly : That you have not been thankful enough to God for his bene 6 ts in past times . Sixthly : That you may be thankful our lot is not worse . We might have famine , or pestilence , or war , or tyranny , or all together . And lastly , to end my sermon , you may learn to efl ' er with more understanding the prayer of our infancy— ' Give us this day our daily bread . ' " The old man ceased , and Sammy put on his apron and told Dick to blow away at the forge bellows .- — American Paper .

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      Sale of Land . —The lands of . Woodburn , in tho immediate neighbourhood of Falkirk , were exposed to sale on the 1 st inst ., at' £ 5 , 703 , and were knocked down , after a spirited competition ( during the course of which no fewer than tuirty-nine offers were made ) , at £ 0 , 340 . A . M . SIostheuxin , of Paris ^ jately deceased , has loft a legacy of £ 400 to any person who shall invent the means of guiding balloons in a straight line . Infantine Couiuge a . nd Generosity . —Two bulls of equal bravery , although by no means equally matched in size and strength , happening to meet near tho front of a laird's house in the Highlands of Scotland , began a fierce battle , the noise of which soon drew to one of the windows tho lady of the

      mansion . To her infinite terror she beheld her only son—a boy between five and six yearB . of age—belabouring with a stiff cudgel tho stouter of tho belligereufcs . " Dougald , DougaW , what ave you about f" exclaimed the affrighted mother . " Helping tho little bull , " was the gallant reply . Rates asd Totes . — -An important question was raised at tho court held to revise the lists of voters for the Tower Hamlets . Mr . S . E . Moss , a wine merchant , claimed to have his name inserted in the list of electors for the parish of Whitechapel , in respect of a bouse which he occupied at No . 8 , Magdalene-row , Prescott-street , Whitecliapel . The objection to the claimant was made at tbe instance of the collector of taxes , who admitted that Mr . Moss was properly qualified , with tbe exception that he had not paid the assessed taxes due up to the 6 th of January last . The claimant submitted that , under tbe recent act 11 and 12 Viet ., e . xc ,

      entitled , "An Act to Regulate the Time of tho Payment of Rates and Taxes by Parliamentary Electors , " he had done all that was requisite to entitle , him to have hianame placed ou the list . He contended that tho assessed taxes were only payable haif yearly , inApr . and Oct ., and having paid those dues in Oct ., 1850 , he had paid all thatlwa ^ due up to the 5 th of January last , and had therefore complied with tho requirements of tbe act in that respect . The barrister , after considerable discussion , referring to the act 3 bearing upon the point at issue , said it seemed to him to have been the iutention of the legislature to confer on tho collector a right to demand the rate quarterly . The claimant ought to . have paid the rate due on the 25 th of December , and having failed to do that could not avail himself of the benefit of tho clauBe in tlie Registration Act . He must therefore decide against the claimant .

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      ; " middlesex sessioa'si The Robberies in Newcastle-court and Shiklane . —Ann Mingay , alias " Lady Mansfield , " aged 45 Jane Owen , .-v woman of colour , : > fieU 20 , EUen Smith , agnd 24 , and Julia Divine , aged 21 , wt-ro indicted , charged with loving stolen two Bank of England notes of the value of £ 10 each , and fifteen sovereigns , the . property of Edmund Digby Anstico , from bis person . It appeared that the prosecutor , who stated that ho waa in independent circumstances , and lived in the Mosley-roiul , Birmingham , had come up to London to sell out some stock which he had in the Bank , and tli . it on the 9 th of last month be had made ft snle of . £ 25 Stock , which realised for him , after deduction of the broker's oharges £ 2 i 3 s . 4 d ., for which amount ho received

      , a check upon Messrs . Currie , the bankers , in Cornhill . In exchange for the check he received two Bank of England notes of £ 10 each , and tho remainder in gold , silver , and copper . What became of the prosecutor during the rest of the day was not elicited , and no account was given of him until he stated that he mot the prisoner , " Lady Mansfield , " in a public-house in Drury-lane , and that he remained drinking with her and paying for all the liquor from out of his purse , in which all his money was , all night and until long after daylight had arrived , when they leftthe public-house in a cab , accompanied by . the other prisoner , Smith . Borne time before they quitted in the oab another woman had snatched otf and ran away with his hat , whereupon " Lady Mansfield " said she would look after

      the woman and his hat for him . The prosecutor and his two companions , in the first instance , drove from Drury-laweto Xewcastle-court , in tho Strand , and having gone to tho Grapes public-houso they there had something more to drink . From Ncwcastle-courfc they drove to Shire-lane , Temple-bar , and here they went to the house kept by the black woman , Jane Owen . Upon going into one of the rooms upstairs , with " Lady Mansfield" and Smith , tao prosecutor found another woman in bed in that room . Here they had divers liquors to drink , which were brought up to them by tho black woman , whom he paid from his purse , so that prisoner , had ample opportunities of seeing that he had a considerable sum of money about him . \ Vlun they had been at Owen ' saboufc half an hour the

      prosecutor caught the prisoner Smith in tho act of drawing his purse from his pocket . Ho took the purse from him after some difficulty , and , having seen that the money in his purse was safe they had more to drink , and when the black woman brought up the fresh supply he told Smith , in her presence , not to try on again tho game of robbing him . A short time after he had partaken of this further liquor the prosecutor became insensible , and bavin ? remained so for several hours , tie at length , upon his recovery , found himself standing in Shirelanc , and on examining his purso found tbat the whole of its contents had been taken with the exception of tho stockbroker ' s " sold noto , " The prosecutor thereupon gave information to the police , and the whole of tho prisoners were

      apprehended in the course of the evening of the 10 th . " Lady Mansfield" was found in a state of intoxication upon tho floor of one of tho rooms at tho Grapes in Newcastle-court . Owen was taken in her own kitchen , and Smith was taken from her bed , evidently tho worse for drink . AH of tho prisoners denied any knowledge of the robbery when apprehended , and protested their innocence . When Divine was taken and was told what she was charged with , she inquired if " Lady Mansfield " was in custody . Tho officer informed her that not only "Lady Mansfield" but that " Black-Jenny " ( Owen ) was also in custody ; and then she exclaimed , " Then I am done . " The black woman denied that sho had ever handled tho man ' s money . It , however , appeared , from the evidence of a girl

      of the name of Alexander , who lives at'the black woman ' s house , that she saw the prosecutor come there in the company of «• Lady Mansfield " mid Smith , and that some time afterwards she heard the man swearing very loudly , and complained that some of the women had tried to rob him . Some hours subsequently this girl went downstairs to ask Owen for a jug of water , and then sho saw the prosecutor on tho floor , lying as though asleep , with his head under tho sofa . Owen at this time was standing by the door of the room , and in reply to the girl ' s application ior some water said that she could not attend to her then as sho was engaged about something else . Some time after this the girl was aroused by hearing the prosecutor being pushed 01 ' dragged downstairs , and on looking from the window she saw the man in the court . Evidence was also given which went to proYO that the black woman , accompanied by Divine , n . girl of the name of Byrne , who was dismissed by the magistrate

      and Smith , had made purchases of articles of clothing at different shops for which she had paid with the £ 10 notes , which a reference to the banker ' s book proved to'havoboen the notes which had been stolen from the prosecutor on the day in question . —The jury , after a brief consultation , returned a verdict ot ' iiGuilty against Owen , " Lady Mansfield , " and Smith , and of Acquittal with respect to Divine . —Blatchfovd , the inspector , now stated that " Lady Mansfield" - and the black woman had been frequently in custody on charges of felony , but that they had invariably got off because the partiC 8 whom they had robbed were either ashamed , being married men , to appear as prosecutors , or refused to take the trouble to appear . Smith had been tried for stealing a watch , but was not convicted . As to the black woman , she had long been known aa a most expert thief , and her house bad obtained so much notoriety that the police had received orders to caution all persons they might see about to enter it . Sho had for a lane ? time lived in a

      brothel in Is ' ewcastle-court , and had subsequently become tho keeper of this brothel in Shire-lane . — Mr . "VVitham said it was most lamentable to meet with such a case as this , where women had falkn in to such depths of degradation . The sentence upon each of the three prisoners was six months ' imprisonment , with hard labour ; and let them tako this warning—Mindy , tLat if they should be again convicted in that courfc their punishment would be transportation . Cruelty by a Mother . —Ann Davis , 3 \) , pleaded Guilty to an indictment , charging her with having

      unlawfully assaulted and done grievous bodily harm to Ellon Davis , her daughter , of the age of eight and a half years . —Mr . Witliam said tint this was one of the most cruel and barbarous cases he had ever hoard of . Hove was a mother , nob satisfied with the ordinary modes adopted for the chastisement of children by their parents , but sho had rosorted to the horrible plan of burning the lower part of her back with . a red hot poker , to such nn oxtont that the child had not been able to sit down for nearly a month . The sentence upon the prisoner was imprisonment for six months with hard labour .

      FaisePrbtesces . —Eliza Hayes , 26 , a married woman , waa indicted for having fraudulently obtained by false pvetenees from the guardians of the poor of the parish of Clerkemvell the sum of 3 s ., and eight pounds of bread , value Is ., the monies and property of the said guardians . Tiiera were two other indictments against the defendant ; for similar oft ' ences . —From the evidence it appeared that in the course of the last year the defendant made application to the guardians of the poor for the parish of Clerkenwell , representing herself to be in great digtress , in consequence of her husband having left her and gone to America . She was supplied with eight pounds of bread and 3 s ., which jn October was stopped in consequence of a suspicion that was then entertained that she was ia the receipt of money

      from her husband . On the 22 nd of November she again made application for relief "when she vfaa told that the guardians were of opinion that she had received remittances from her husband . This she positively denied , stating that she had never hoard of him , nor did she knowj where he was . She was tben strictly cautioned that if she imposed upon them and it should be found out , she would be severely punished . She still as ? ev ' oia « that she was in a very destitute condition , eight pounds of bread and 38 . were given to her , which . sh < s hail received every week up to the 22 nd of September . On the following week she made her appearance as usual , when she was . told that the parish authorities had received intelligence that she had been in the receipt of considerable sums of money , which fche again

      stoutly denied . Two periods were then named to her when she haii received money ; but she protested tbat their information was incorrect . Her brother in law was then brought into the room , and after some pressing she at Jengtb admitted that she bad received three sums of monpy from her husband , of £ 2 , £ & , and £ 5 . She was then requested to produce the letters that she had received with this money , but she said she had destroyed them . It was stated in the course of the case , that during the time that her husband had been in America he had sent her upwards of £ 20 . —The defendant entreated the mercy of the court , aB she had four children to provide for . —The ] ury found the defendant Guilty . —The learned judge sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months .

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      The Cost of Pauperism in the Metropoiis . — Two returns to the House of Commons have just been issued in relation to the Poor Law relief in the Metropolis , The rateable valuo of the propurty assessed to the relief of the poor in tbe several parishes of the metropolis , in the rate collecting on the 18 th of June last , was £ 9 , 7 G 0 , 20 G . The other return shows tho rate levied in the pound in the metropolitan parishes for the last twenty years . Last year tbe amount in tbe pound in St . Luko ' a parish was 3 s . 2 d . ; St . Leonard , Suoreditch , 3 s .-3 il . ; St . James ' s , Olerkenwcll , 2 s . Od . ;¦ St . Marylebonp , 2 s . ; Hackney Union , 2 s . and 2 s . 6 u . ; St . Pancras , 2 ?;; St . Martin ' s-in-the-Fields , 2 g . 4 d . J St . John ' s , Hampstead , 3 s . ; St . Mary , Islington , Is . 7 d . ; St . Mary's Abbot , Kennington , 2 d . 9 d . ; St . George ' s , Hanover-square , Is . Sd . ; and St . Mary , Magdalen , BerrooriOBey , 3 s . Id . ; where , in 1331 , tho rate was as much as Gs . lOd . in the pound .

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      KOSSUTH . KOSSUTIl IN FRANCE . -The following ia the letter of tho Prefect of the 15 ouehcs-du-ltlione to tho consul of tho United States , in answer to the application of Sossutb , to bo permitted to travel through France to England : — " MAMwuass , Sept , 27 , 1851 . —Monsieur lo Con->\ ' > * . hon ° « r to inform you that by a telegraphic dispatch which I have just received , tho Minister of the Interior announces that the reouesc

      made by ji kossuth to pass through France on his way to Mgland cannot bo grnntod . M . Kossutll , Whose passports have not been visied for France l > v tho Minister of tbe French Republic at Constantinople , having been only allowed to land at Marseilles in consequence of tho desire expressed by him in tho interest of the health of his wifo and children , I must consider him as still on board the American frigate Mississippi , and therefore make known , Mons . le Consul , through your mediation , the decision taken by the Minister of the Interior relative to the demand which he has begged me to

      present . " Accept , Monsieur le Consul , the assurance of my high consideration . Suieau . " The Prefect of the Bouches-du- Rhone . " Tho people of Marseilles took every possible means of repudiating this act of their rulers . A fleet of boats surrounded tho Mississippi , the persons in them showering bouquets of flowers and other tokens of admiration in Kossuth ' s cabinono man swam to the vessel for the purpose of seeing him—and thousands continually filled the quays , shouting Vivas for Kossuth , the Republic of France , and the indopependenco of Hungary . The following address by Kossuth to the people of Marseilles has been published in the "Peuple " newspa- er of that city : — " TO IBS DKM 0 C 1 UCT OP MARSEILLE- ' .

      " Citizens , —The government of tho French republic having refused me tho permission to travel through France , the people of Marseilles , obedient to the outburst of one of thoso generous impulses of tho French heart , which are an unfathomable source of tho greatness of the nation , has honoured mo by a manifestation of its republican sentiments —a manifestation honourable in its motives , manly in its resolution , peaceful in its ardour , and majostic in its calm aa nature—that great imago of God —before a storm . I have heard my name mingled with the song of the ' Marseillaiso' and the cry of ' Viro la Republique , ' tho only legal cry in France , the only cry whose lawfulness has been purchased ia the blood of the martyrs of liberty . It is so

      natural to love liberty , so slight an evil to suffer for her ; it is almost less than a simple duty ; but there is supreme glory in tho thought that one is identified with the principle of liberty in the eyes of the French people . I do not desire glory , but that glory I accept that 1 may deserve it . I accept it as a testimony of tho fraternity of the French nation with tho people of every country . I accept it as the word of Bafoty for tho dear land of my birth . To you , Frenchmen and Ropublicans , be the honour assigned of saving ; to us , poor Hungarians , that of deserving to be savod ! We shall deserve it . My nation will understand the appeal of your brotherhood , will be proud of it , and answev it bravely , as should do those who arc

      honoured by being called brethren by tho French people . These are the only tiwnks worthy of the good people of Marseilles ; ' worthy the manifestation , made , not in my honour but in that of my nation ; and for my nation , not in that ot the p&st , but in . that of the future . Permit mo not to speak again of tho refusal of tho government of the Jrench republic to grant me a passage through its territory . I know that the French people do not countenance this act . I knew that neither M . Louis Kapoleon Bonaparte nor AI . Leon Fauuher was the French , nation . I knew and I know that the exeoutivo power is delegated , but that to them is not delegated tho honour of the French nation . I shall no longer remember their refusal ; and I hope that humanity mny do as I do , if by chance those who have suffered exile , and have forgotten it , as it

      seems , ave again forced to fly their country . Las !; evening one of your brothers ( of our brothers ) , a workman or Marseilles , I know uis name , and sliall not forget it—came , iu spite of the cold , swimming on hoard the American frigate to shake hands with me . I piously shook his hand , with emotion , reproving mildly hia temerity . 'I wished to touchyour hand , ' said ho ; ' I could find no boat , and I took to tho water . Here I am . Arc there such thinga as obstacles for him who has the will ? ' I bowed before these words . Tho love of liberty , the sentiment Of duty and fraternity , were iu my breast when I came to Marseilles , but at Marseilles I found the motto , ' There is no obstacle for him who has the will . " This motto shall be mine . ' Vive la Ropublique . Salut et fraternitfi . ' 41 Louis Kossuth .

      " Marsoilles-roads , on board the frigate Mississippi , of tho United States , Sept . 29 th , 1851 . " Kossuth left Marseilles on the 3 rd instant for Gibraltar , and his arrival has not yet been reported . It is probable , therefore , that the arrival at Southampton may be delayed till Friday or Saturday . Ev'Ol ' y OUG in Prance is disgusted with tb . 8 illiberal conduct of its government . A ministerial decision about so simple a mattor was never more loudly and goiiornlly disavowed by the organs of public opinion . And not merely tho refusal , bub the manner of it , excites universal disapprobation . The Prefect of the Bouehes-du-lthone will not condescend to communicate directly with the

      exgovernor of Hungary , whom lie seems to regard as placed in a sort of moral quarantine , and entitled to receive letters only at the end of a pair of tongs , lie cannot recognise Kossuth ' s existence on shore , because , his passport not having been vised by M . de Lavelette at Constantinople , which is about 100 miles from the place where Koasuth embarked on board the Mississippi , his being on shore is clean against all rules , and only in consideration of the sloluiC 99 of his wife and children . The French ara a kindly people ; it was not an act worthy of a French minister to send that sick wife with her three little children back again to the uncomfortable sea . Is it not an instructive contrast ? A great nation at the other side of the world sends » ship across tho Atlantic to receive this glorious exile ,

      and to do him honour and fetch him from banishment to the cheering welcome of free and civilsed communities , to the solace of sympathies , and the tributes of admiration . And a mere passage over the soil of France is refused to this man , rciused with iusult , with cruelty ; and he and his wife and children are thrust back like infected things into the sea . Why , this is the very eostaey of panic , the frenzy of terror , which takes France for a barrel of gunpowder , and Kossuth for a lighted match . \ Hungarian audiences were excited by hia eloquence , but liorc even supposing that he had been allowed to harangue tho people , instead of occupying a seat in the railway train , the charm of hia

      oratory must have been lost in a toreign tongue . More dangerous was his pen , and this is tho preoiso peril which baa been called into operation by the government . The address to the democracy of Marseilles will cross France , and penetrate into every village with the Paris papers of all colours . Even the legitimist Union copies tho address , Giravdin Sfvys of it : —" The reverberation of this address , so nobly simple , will be immense . I ask tho minister who directs compression—I ask M . L . Faucher himself—what will ho have gained by preventing Kossuth from crossing France , to travel from Marseilles to London ? Kossuth would have passed ; bis manifesto will remain . "

      We should have published tho article of tho "Peuple" of'Marseillos , protesting against the repulse of Kossuth , for which that paper has been seized and is to bo orosocutud , on the oharge of exciting to hatred and contempt of tho government , but tho confiscation of all tie numbers of the "Peuple" confided to the post has unfortunately prevented this composition from reaching us . In tha meantime , a valuable testimony of the warm sympathy q f tho population of Marseilles with the Hungarian causa is furnished by the reply of the same paper to this blow of the authorities . It says : — " We have translated faithfully , in all the sincerity of our conscience , the popular indignatioa whioh we have seen buret forth . An exile for the cause of the liberty of peoples , a victim of Austrian absolutism , a great heart , a great nnnie in the hissoil of

      tory of peoples , has touched the France , He demanded not even hospitality , but only tha right of passing through the country with bis family to savo women find children some days inoro of suffering upon the sea ; and a minister oi France auBweroii , No ! Whatever may bo done or said , all our ¦ words ave dwarfed before the great stain thrown on our French honour . The democracy of Marseilles hnsprotested by its acclamations , its crownffj and its bouquets : it was the duty of the democratic organ to record the protest of the people . Wa accept ihe necessities oi ¦ our duty without empty bragging as without fear , and if .-we are to go before a jury we will rbIc it with con £ U deuce to sanction by a , verdict of acquittal tbe - . national sentiment which has guided our pen . " The verdict of that jury will be eagerly expected ..-.

      . Not couient with tb . o vepulae of Kossuth the '' P : iti m '' undertakes to vilify him . It justifies the measure oi the government by attributing ; to . the ex-governor of Hungary ail the vulgar qualities oS a pestilent demagogue , and draws an invidioua contrast between him and Casimer Uatthyani , who has been permitted to take up his residence in Paris . The " Ordre " takes , with its usual adroitness , advantage of the impolitic acerbity of tho go * vernment to woo the popular breath by condemning this absurd rigour . The " l'euple" of Marseilles , of the 3 rd instant , adds tho following details about the departure _ oi Kossuth :- " At least i , 000 peop le collectedon the jetty and shore to give a last token of their ^ sympathy to the illustrious exiles . A ^^ "Xf * kers' workmen came to oSer Kossuth a magnificent

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      ^ The Law of Partxebship . —On the 3 rd inst ., a / Parliamentary blue book was printed containing : tie report of a Select Committee of the House of i Caramons on the Law of Partnership . The evidence j ¦ ' given with the report . On a former occasion tbe 'i report , ¦ which was issued separately , was noticed , ,. ; a -d it will be sufficient to slate , that the Commitfa are of opinion that the Law of Partnership as at I Pssent existing , viewing its importance in refe-! fecce to the commercial character and rapid

      increase of the population and property of the counfc y , requires careful and immediate revision . The committee state , " By the existing law no person tin advance any capital to any undertaking , pub-£ e or private , in the profits of which he is to participate " , nor become partner or shareholder in any f enterprise for profit , without becoming liable to the f ^ aole amount of his fortune , as expressed by a great legal authority , to his last shilling and his [ last acre . " The evidence printed forms a goodly

      sized volume . DlSCOVERIKG IHE BODIES OF ' THE DROWSED . —It 33 curious that a similar practice to that of discovering the bodies of the drowned by loading a loaf with mercury , and puting it afloat on the stream , extracted from the "Gentleman ' s Magazine , " seems to exist among the Xorth American Indians . Sir James Alexander , in his account of Canada I"L'Acadie" 2 vols ., ISiD ) says , p . 26 : —" The Indians imagine that in the case of a drowned body , its place may be discovered by floating a chip of cedar wood , which vnll stop and turn round over ihe exact spot . An instance occurred within my osr knowledge , in the case of Mr . Lavery , of

      Kingston ™^ » whose boat overset , and the person ¦«^" drowned near Cedar Island ; nor could the "Ody be discovered until this experiment waa re-| E 0 rted to . "—Sbtesatid Queries . I The Weebon Arrksis . —The " Xaral and Jlilijkry Gazette" of Saturday last states : — " Captain ffeimedy and Lieutenant Cocks ( 4 th foot ) are still ? ° arrest and untried , this DemS the 71 th day of Confinement ; that is , 74—8 = 66 dajs beyond the P * AQ prescribed by military law . Legal advice , we g * informed , has been taken . Tie promulgation F tie sentence is hourly expected . "

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      IIohbible Mdkbeb of a Wifb . —A letter from Finland received by a commercial firm at Bordeaux , gives an accouat of a horrible crime . Some months ago a tradesman of Borga , named Ansen , married a young girl named Margueritha , of a highly respectable family . Although her conduct was strictly proper , and she was admired and beloved by all who hnew her , he entertained suspicions of her , and kept strict watch on all her movements . Having at last obtained what he considered proof sufficient of her guilt , he resolved to murder ler . Accordingly one day he sent away the domestics , and proposed to his wife to visit some friends at a distance . On the night before that appointed for the departure , he stole softly to her chamber , and plunged a

      dagger into her breast as she was sleeping . He then cut the body into pieces , and packed it in a cask . He afterwards wrote ah address to some imaginary place in Greenland , and caused the cask to le confided to a carrying house . The Customhouse officers having some suspicion , insisted , on examining the contents , and to their horror , found the dismembered body of the victim . On the top of this was » letter from the murderer , stating that , to avoid the scaffold , which he merited for his crimes , his intention was to hang himself . He added that after the murder he became ' convinced that his suspicions of his wife were unfounded . The remains of the unfortunate woman were given to her familfor burial

      up y . Cabinet Couxcil . —The Ministers are all expected to be in town before the meeting of the Council on the 14 th inst . Lord John Russell is expected to arrive at Richmond the latter end of this week . The Lord Chancellor is expected to arrive in London for the meeting . Lord Lansdowne is expected to arrive from Derby . The Chancellor of the Exchequer , is expeoted to arrive from his seat in Yorkshire the end of tne week . Sir George Grey ( whose health is greatly improved ) is expected to be present at the Council- Mr . Labouchere is expected to return from the continent , and the other members of the Cabinet are also en route for town . —Observer .

      " Wa ahb assoked , says the " Bulletin de Paris" " that tbe President of the Republic , on lis recent visit to the building that is going on for tbe new hospital of the north , and which was intended when the work was first decided on , ' to be called the Hospital de Louis Philippe , but after the revolution of 1818 received the name of Hospital de a Republique , expressed his astonishment at the change of name , and a wish that it should resume that which it received at its foundation . This wish las been complied with /'

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      October 11 , J 85 L . , - THE NORTI&EHEN : STARH - : ii : - ¦ 7

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1647/page/7/