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      France. "More Perskcotion. —Is. Gallot, ...

      FRANCE . "More Perskcotion . —IS . Gallot , late director of the' Reforme , ' has been sentenced by the police court of Paris to imprisonment for three months , and . to piy a fine of 693 f , for having published a seditious libel . M . Eugene Bareste and M . Victor Henhequin , responsible editors of the * Republique' and the « Democratic Pacifique' have been condemned before the Court of Assizes on a charge of publishing a letter signed by Louis Blattc , and were respectively condemned by default to two years' imprisonment and l . OOOf ., and jointly and severally to the expenses of the prosecution .

      Several of the persons who distinguished themselves in the riots which took place round the trees of liberty in the Carre St . Martin on the 4 th , 5 th , and 6 th of February were sentenced by the Police Court of Paris on Thursday week to imp risonments for periods varying from sis days to six months . Yive privates of the 4 ui , 26 th , and 31 st Reg ; imeats of the Line were tried by court-martial in Paris on Thursday week , for having wilfully broken their muskets . They were found guilty , and sentenced to imprisonment for two years .

      The Socialists of Montpellier planted three trees of Liberty in the Place de la Comedie of that city . They prepared on the following day to walk round them in procession , hut were prevented by a body of troops , who had previously occupied the Place . The ringleaders were arrested , and the trees cut down . A letter from Perigueux of the 6 ih inst , states that on the 24 th ult . a portion of the National Guard of Terrasson cried Vive Ledru Kollin !' Vive la Republique Sociale !' A . clandestine manufactory of gunpowder was discovered last week at Ruugers , near Moulins . A Legitimist in Trouble . —M . Lehonette ,

      one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber of Charles X ~ was sentenced by the Court of Assize of Thursday week to solitary confinement for ten years , for having defraud : d the Duchess Dowager of Rochfoucauld Doudeauville of a sum exceeding 600 , 000 F . during bis administration of her estate . The committee charged with reporting on the demand to prosecute M . Michel de Bourges , for his alleged speech at a Socialist meeting , have agreed to reject it . " # # ; The legitimists are confirmed in their opposition to the mayors' bill , by the rumour now rife of an intention , on the part of the government , to propose that the right of appointment to colonelcies of the National Guard may be vested in the President of the Republic .

      A duel was fought on Saturday in the Bois de Boulogne b 3 tween two representatives—MM . Perceul and Schdleher , both representing the colonies-The ball of M . Schdleher ' s pistol tore off a portion of the skin of his adversary ' s hand , and then passed through his cravat The affair was then terminated . Another series of persons have been sentenced for rioting on the 5 th of February to various terms of imprisonment . M . Marc Oufraisse , representative of the people , has just been tried by the Court of Assize of the Haute Vienue for the publication of seditious articles in a newspaper . He was acquitted by the jury .

      The Prefect of the Doronogne has dissolved and disarmed the battalion of the National Guards of Terrasson , for having , at a meeting called for the purpose , blamed the decision of one of the courts of j ustice against one of their companions , and cried , 'Vive la Republiq ie Sociale . ' Paris , Monday . —About two hundred subaltern officers and soldiers went yesterday iu procession to the damn of July , and placed crowns of immortality on the graves of the victims of February . This revolutionary manifestation has

      created a great sensation , as snowing the strong democratic feeling easting in the army . The soldiers composing the procession belonged to different regiments , and met by appointment for the purpose . A Cihinet Council was held on the subject to-day , and it is said that orders have been g iven for the arrest of all the soldiers forming the ¦ procession . The affair has created an immense sensation in the Faubourgh St . Antoine , and the Place de la Bastille has been all this'day crowded with ouvri < irs who are enthusiastic in favour of the soldiers .

      Tuesday . — List night M . Carlier issued a proclamation , prohibiting the manifestations at the column of July . The President of the Republic has published a decree dissolving the National Guard of Montpellier . The Prefect of the Herault has dissolved the National Guard of Mezs and Gignac , on account of their political opinions . The Prefect of the Gironde has suspended from the exercise of their functions the mayors of St Vincent and Brach .

      RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS . ( From the * Dail y News . ' ) Paris , Tuesday . —It appears that the democratic candidates have carried the hardly-contested election . M . Carnot bad 124 , 000 votes ; M . Vidal , 119 , 000 ; M . De Flotte , 17 , 000 . The minister , General De Lahitte , who was first of the conservatives , had but 110 . 000 votes . The socialists will probably consider themselves certain masters of any future assembly . Whilst the coaservatives , in their mortification , will exclaim against Universal Suffrage as anarchic , and the republic itself as the wild domination of the lower orders . The votes of the soldiers of the army who are natives of Paris are as follows : —Carnot , 6 , 699 ; Vidal , 6 , 615 ; De Flottr , 6 , 553 ; Foy , 5 , 378 ; Lahitte , 5 , 363 ; Bonjeau , 4 , 911 .

      The most serious circumstance is certainly the votes of the soldiery , who , however steady to put down a street emeute , nevertheless display unmis takeably that their sympathies are with the people . And the popular ideas , whatever these are , must necessarily be those of the camp . Should some of the provincial elections turn out of an equally democratic colour with the Parisian ones , it is quite evident that the President must change his policy , and must not only turn his back on the reactionists , but must go further than the hybrid party of Dufaure and Cavaignac . The French people must be addressed , the French people must be conciliated . It

      trill not do for Louis Napoleon to closet himself with nonentities like his present ministers , and nnder pretei . ee of being zealous for order , delegate the chief administrative authority to a Minister of Police . In Paris M- Carlier is everything . He is the Bouehe of the day , in everyone's mouth and in everyone ' s way . Instead of doing his office of peacekeeper quietly , stealthily , and cautiously , he is the most meddling , obstreperous , and officious of functionaries . He has heaped mountains of odium upon Louis Napoleon , and has done more than all the socialist prints put together to place the names of ministers on the poll below the names of Vidal and De Flotte .

      To-day the Place de la Bastille was again filled with people . I have informed you of the continuat ion of the pilgrimages to the Column of July . Such had been the number of crowns and emblems brought together that they formed a vast mass , artistically arranged , of red and yellow flowers , around which the idle and carious assembled to admire and wonder . However , as the pilgrims had not confined themselves to the mere funeral crown , but had intermingled red flags and other republican and democratic ornameats , the police seized the opportunity to interfere . About 100 soldiers , belonging to several regiments of infantry , proceeded thither , about four o ' clock , to deposit crowns and emblems . These men remained silent , whilst the crowd around occasionally cried cat' ViveTarmee ! Vive la Montague !'

      ( From the 'Times . ' ) Electoral returns from the five sections of the department of the AUier , received in Paris on Tuesday night , shew that the majority of rotes was in favour of the Moderate " candidate , M . Dufour , who had 3 , 420 , to 1 , 440 obtained by M . Gallay , Socialist . Letters from Bourges dated the 12 th inst ., give the result of the elections of that city , and of some of the neighbouring sections—M . Vogue , Moderate , had 2 , 888 votes ; M . Poisle , Moderate , 2 , 282 ; Bureau , Socialist , 1 , 371 ; Gueren , Socialist , 1 , 916 ; ^ Boaij , Moderate , 577 . Nearly half of the electora abstained from voting . r ; The latest accounti from the department of the ¦ 2 ^ $ ? £ * - »» Jonty . 'in favour of the Moderates of ^ , 000 votes . ¦ .- -.

      -fr ; In > he two cantons of the town of Blois 1 . 701 : 2 S ?^ " ^ ^ - ^ -- DEtdie « P »/ enf the Socialist $ gg ?? £ *&* £ M . Crosuier , the Moderate , ^ l ^ fca ^ datein Loir et Cher carries the - 7 * " . r * fchegoyea-wnj be returned .

      a i"i . - - £ : SW"ZERLAND . fnJ » hS !^ S ? ? erae 8 tates that th e refugee chiefs mhamting Zurich , rad wn 0 were ordered to quit

      France. "More Perskcotion. —Is. Gallot, ...

      the territory by a decree of the 15 th of July , have requested that stheir departure be adjourned . The Federal Council has not acceded to their request . The number-of refugees domiciled at Zurich is reduced to tea .

      ITALY . Prohiseesd School-books i . v Naples . —The correspondent of the ' Daily News , ' at Naples * states that the restrictions to education and books are becoming daily more severe in the Neapolitan dominions . Income schools , Goldsmith ' s ' History of England' has been prohibited ; and there is among " ma „ y an expectation that the study of history ^ will be forbiddenas forming a part of the course of instruction . The use of the « Adventures of Teleraachus' has been prohibited ; and the Council of Public Instruction are engaged in drawing up a list of books to be permitted in the schools . Meanwhiles to make still more sure of the masters , they are first submitted to an examination ot the police , and then are thoroughly examined in the Gatechumo Grande . Many refusing or omitting to pass through this ordeal have been removed .

      GERMANY . BADEN . —Tfce Diet of the Grand Duchy o Baden was opened on the 6 th inst . by the Grand Duke , who addressed the Assembly in a speech in which he complained of the " ravages of the last revolution , and informed them of the treaty he bad entered into with Prussia and several other German State ? . . A deplorable event has happened at Eckermorde , on board the German ship of war of the same name , formerly the Danish frigate Gefion . On the ' 3 < d inst ., in consequence of a refusal to obey an order , an officer ordered the arrest of a sailor of the crew ; some of the men resisted the arrest , and assaulted

      the under officer who attempted to carry it into effect ; he called for help , and the . officer in commaud of the deck coming up . ordered the men to let the officer go and retnrn to their duty , threatening to shoot instantly any man who disobeyed . One of the crew replied by striking him , and the officer , drawing a pistol , shot the sailor through the body ; he fell , and died a few minutes afterwards .

      AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . VIENNA , March 5 th . —On the 4 th a mass was celebrated in honour of the anniversary of the constitution , granted by the Emperor Francis Joseph . It was a cold and empty formality , in which the people took neither part nor interest . A . more appropriate celebration of the day was the suppression of another ! Vienna journal ; the * Scourge . ' From all the provinces we have news of the continued crusade " against the press . In Servia Meyerhoffer ' s' Napredak' has been strangled before its birth ; at , Prague the stores of several Leipzig booksellers have been opened , and all copies of the latest works of Eugene Sue , seized , as also a pamphlet entitled ' The Jesuits since 1620 . '

      Of the 80 , 000 honveds'who have been regimented , the officers are distributed among the Polish , Austrian , & c , regiments ; the men are placed under Austrian officers , and the government carries its caution so far as to provide them in general with Austrian confessors . Ot course the business of the confessional has to be carried on through the medium of interpreters . AH these precautions , however , are unavailing . These soldiers will speak

      nothing but Magyar among themselves , and their officers do not understand it . When muskets were distributed , the men on receiving them embraced them , uttering words which probably were anything but benedictions of Austria . Tbey are annoyed and chicaned in every possible manner , but pique themselves on the most punctual subordination . The inhabitants of Upper Austria are struck with the orderly conduct of men who had been represented to them as mere brigands .

      Among the Magyars numberless incidents of daily occurrence reveal , in a wav not to be mistaken , the secret determination of the people to cling to their national manners , as to life . The other day , at Presburgh , there died a young girl ; the students go in a body to the general of the district and ask permission lo don their national costume , and to follow the funeral procession with an orange amid sprigs of rosemary stuck on the points of their sabres . The general , whose name is Gartsner , finds no objection to the observance of this immemorial usage ; but the municipal authorities , more easily alarmed , flatly refuse their concurrence . The idea of naked sabres was quite appalling to these sober

      burgomasters . The young people put on their attilas , not yet proscribed by any law , hire a band , and march in silence without sabres to the place ot interment , But on their return the band struck up , the national airs of Rakocsz and Hunzadz pealed through the street . Eligens followed , windows were opened , and handkerchiefs waved from ba ' conies , the town seemed in fu'l revolution , Eljen , that rebellious cry , shouted on the Haynau-Pla'z ! ( The square which has received the honour of this general ' s name was formerly , by a singular

      coincidence , called the ' Place of Pity , ' Barmherzigen Platz . ' ) Eljen in the Jellachich street , and on the Radetzky promenade . What abominable profanation . This was just what some ef the well-disposed , the gut gesinnten , as they are called by the government , went and told the commandant of the place . But did they cry ' Eljen Kossuth ? ' No . Then the country may yet he saved . But he clapped into prison the head of the band , although the poor fellow had only obeyed but too well the orders he received to play as many Hungarian airs as passible .

      TURKEY . From Constantinople letters have been received ap to the 20 th ult . During the week preceding that date M . Titoff had been admitted to three conferences with Reshid Pacba and Ali Pacha . These related to the Danubian principalities . Titoff glided on to the abuse of protection , although this question had been eliminated from the note of his government . Hence the refugee question , which everybody thought quite dead and buried , has been resuscitated . The fact is , that Russia is not yet satisfied , and it may he safely assumed that until she is satisfied no question can be considered as settled . The new demand which she has in the background is apparently the expulsion of certain persons in the service of the Porte who have exercised a beneficial influence in

      countermining Russian designs upon the Christian population . While Turkey is thus bullied because two or three men of firmness and intelligence attempt to hold her outposts against Russia , there is throughout the Turkish empire a Russian propaganda , whose only task is the destruction of Islam . If Turkey were to demand the expulsion of , these , or rather to expel them , since they are in her own dominions , she would only be doing in her own interest a very small part of what the Czar now insists upon her doing in the teeth' of her , own interest . The ground upon which M . Titoff has laid his representations is the treaty of Kutscbuk Kainardji , according to an article of which Russia has the right of demanding the expulsion of Russian subjects who machinate against her .

      By the latest accounts from Shumla , Kossuth has assured the commissioner of the Porte , Achmet Effendi , that he should only comply with the measures of . the Porte for sending the refugees to detention in the interior when force , was applied ; to which Achmet Effendi replied , that , however loath to apply coercion , he must strictly carry out the instructions of his government . A traveller from Broussa says that lodgings are already in course of preparation in that Asiatic city for many of the

      exiles ; but it seems they are only expected to remain a few months . The fact is that the Porte , after a good deal of ; haggling with Count Stunner , has promised detention for a year . But the Count would take not a moment less than five years ; and so we are obliged to wait for Vienna . A letter from Odessa informs us that six prisoners , who were consigned to the dungeons of St . Petersburg for taking part in the great recent conspiracy , have died suddenly . This has created much sensation .

      The last packet , from Varna brought the noble wife of Kossuth .

      THE GREEK QUESTION . We have advices from Athens to the 28 th of February inclusive . From the files of Athens papers before us we learn that this question has assumed a new complexion , from an unaccountable delay in the transmission of despatches to Mr . Wyse . On the 19 th of February the mail steamer brought ( as we have already announced ) the intelligence . , to Athens , that the meditation of France had bean accepted . The immediate raising of the blockade was expected , but , to the astonishment of M . Thouvenel , the French Envoy , and of the Greek nation , the blockade was more strie'ly enforced .

      From the Piraeus our correspondent furnishes intelligence to the 28 th of February , confirming what is stated above . ' On the 26 th of February ( says our correspondent ) the British admiral went even the length of stretching a cable across the entrance of the Piraeus ,- to avoid the possibility of small craft creeping out 1 b the darkness of the

      France. "More Perskcotion. —Is. Gallot, ...

      nig ht . The population of Athens continued tranquil ,, placing great reliance seemingly on assistance from Russia , which , strengthened by its religious affinity to Greece , is looked up to with unlimited confidence . Russian influence is of course predominant , whilst that of England , ever since 1832 , has been on the wane , increasing thereby in a like inverse degree that i of the Czar , who will before long , no doubt ,, embroil matters in the East to his own aggrandisement . '

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      Fraud By A Stockbroker.—Sentence.—Ed War...

      Fraud by a Stockbroker . —Sentence . —Ed ward Nairne was placed at the bar to receive the judgment of this court , —This prisoner , it will be remembered , was a stock and share-broker , and he was convicted at the January sessions of having appropriated exchequer bills to the amount of £ 1 , 709 , which had been placed in his possession for safe custody , to his own use . There were two other indictments against him for embezsling other large sums of money , which were not proceeded with . He was sentenced to be imprisoned , without hard labour , for twelve months . by

      ^ Fratjd a Shopman . — Sentence . — George Millner was also brought up for sentence . This prisoner was a young man of 19 , who had been emr ployed as shopman to a chemist and druggist , at the salary of £ 10 a year , with board and lodging . His master also kept a post receiving house , and the prisoner was employed to attend to this business as weli as his own , and it appeared that be ' had stolen a letter containing a half sovereign'and a florin . —He was sentenced to be imprisoned , and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months .

      Manslaughter . —Stephen Boxall , 53 , and Stephen Boxall , his son , 21 , were indicted for the manslaughter of Benjamin Pi estege—The parties were at a beer-shop in Bermondsey , and upon the wife of the deceased going there to request bini to . come home , the younger prisoner struck her . The deceased called him a coward for so doing , and he-then attacked him in a most brutal manner and butted him twice in the stomach , and when he was' upon ground threw himself upon him , and inflicted such severe injuries , that he died shortly afterwards .,, The elder prisoner was proved to have encouraged hia son , and to have ' . struck the deceased . —The jury returned a ' verdict of "Guilty . "— The 'Recorder , after making some appropriate remarks upon the brutal conduct of the prisoners , sentenced ; . the younger one to be transported for life , and the father to be kept to hard labour for two years .

      • Pbejurt . —John Richardson , 28 , was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury . —It appeared that the defendant had pased a promissory note for '; £ 52 to his brother , representing that it had been made by-his uncle , but- upon the instrument Oming due , the latter repudiated it , and asserted that it was a forgery . An ' actionWas then brought upon it , j and the defendant was produced as a witness to prove the handwriting , but upon his examination he prevaricated in such a manner that ' the counsel : for the plaintiff threw up his brief , and the defendant was ordered into custody and this charge preferred against him , the evidence upon the present occasion clearly establishing his guilt . —The jury'found the prisoner '' Guilty , " but he was recommended to mercy by his uncle . —The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned for twelve months .

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      EDMONTON PETTY SESSIONS . Threatening tub Duchess of St . Aldan ' s Secretary . —Frederick Watmbugh was charged with sending the following letter to Mr . Harrison , Percystreet , Bedford-square , secretary to the Duchess of St . Alban ' s :-Mb . Harrison , —If you send me any , more letters purporting to Come from the Duchess of St . Alban ' s . I will break every bone in your body . I am the son of William Beauclerk ; Duke of St . Alban ' s , and am entitled to a maintenance from his family , or the duke had no right to get me , if I am not to have a provision ; and I will have one , or you shall know what will follow . I will thank you to direct to me in my father ' s name , not in my mother ' s . Tell me who the trustees are , and why it is kept a secret . ( Signed ) Fbed . W . Beauclebk , son of the Duke of St . Alban's , deceased . —White Hart-lane , Tottenham . —To Mr . Harrison .

      It appeared that the allowance of £ 100 a year ; which had been paid him during bis father ' s * lifetime , had been discontinued by the duchess , and that he was in great distress . It was finally arranged that he should enter into recognisances of £ 20 not to annoy the complainant and be discharged , the costs being paid by Mr . Harrison .

      ¦" Poisons As Medicine. Memorial Of The ...

      ¦ " POISONS AS MEDICINE . Memorial of the Names of the 19 , 950 petitioners , to the House of Commons , against the Deadly Poisons , used as Medicine by the Doctors . London : British College of Health , Hamilton-place , New-road . ' How many thousands of lives are there , ' my father would say , ' that come every year to he cast away ( in all civilised countries at least , ) and considered . as nothing but common air , in competition Of an hypothesis ? ' 'In my plain sense of things , ' my uncle Toby would answer , ' every such instance is ilUUDElt DOWNRIGHT , Ul tofco toiM commit it . ' ' There lies your mistake , ' my father would reply , 'for , iu tho Court of Science there is no such thing as Murder , 'tis only Death , brother , "— Tristram Shandy . The medical hypothesis , uncle Toby , in ' his plain sense of things . ' hero anathematises , is that horrid and pestiferous hypothesis , that ! Medicine is poison , and poison is medicfne . ' This mercenary , heartless , rutliful hypothesis , by which'human life is cast away as nothing but common air . ' is as savage in spirit as it was barbarous in origin :

      and it is , at . this very day carried into deadliest practice , b . v the doctors , by advertising quacks , and by druggists , with all the ardour and vehemence that can be excited by insatiable cupidity , and b y a most ravenous appetite for gain and guineas . But the hellish hypothesis , that' Medicine and Poison are identical' must be maintained and supported against all ' competition '—it must be carried into a wide-spread , fatal practice , although it may sweep and desolate the earth as with the besom of destruction ! ' And why ? Because upon its maintenance , and support , and practical application , depend the very existence of a highly respectable and profoundly seienttjio fraternity—an odious and abominable fraternity , whose consciencies arc educated and formed upon the infernal maxims of 'The Court of Science '—a court which is ruled solely by a favoured and fatal h ypothesis that brooks no ' competition , ' and no demur—a court in which 'there is no such tiling as murder— -Vis only DEATH , brother !!!'

      John Hunter said of poisons , that 'they take their place in the body , as if their place were allotted for ihcm . ' Yes , ' horrid' mercury takes its allotted place in the glands , and in the bones—in the glands it excites scrophulous tumours , and the teeth it quickly reduces to caries . Prusic acid takes its allotted p lace in the heart , and there radicall y cures all palpitation by effectually stopping ' all pulsation . Alcohol takes its allotted place in the brain , and by its action upon that organ induces mania , and all' the ills that flesh is heir to . ' Strychnine , and brucine take their allotted places iu the muscles , in which tissues they frequently produce speedy and fatal spasms . The late Mistress Maria Manning had something more than n faint and glimmering insight into this'Hunterian principle—yea , with high professional skill she carried it into lull practical effect . She knew that , by a particular mode of administration , a bullet would find its allotted place in the brains of her fond admirer , Mr . Patrick O'Connor ; but , in the eyes of the

      profession , tho skilful doctress degraded tho , science , by unprofessiunally blending , willi her practice , the functions of a grave-digger . ' By the way , it would act as a very wholesome checkupont'iopoisoning hypothesis , if the Legislature could compel the doctor—despite his professional scruples arid repugnance—to excavate the graves of his victims . Soyer does noi possess more skill in catering for the squeamishness of a fastidious appetite , thanthe doctors do in allotting poisons for the specific destruction otahy particular organ in the human frame . In a sort of cookery book of poisons ; avery learned medical Soyer , who has appended to his name the cabalistic letters , 'M . D . ' ( query , Anglice , ' Murderer Downright V ) In this medical cookery book there is a receipt for poisoning , sodefiulte and obviously efficacious , as would have dazzled the eyes , and charmed the heart , and feasted ,. even to surfeit , ' 'the imagination and longings of a Marchioness of Brinvillicrs . See how the medical lecturer instructs his

      pupils to ring the changes on medical poisons : ' What I have confidence in recommending you to do on every similar -occasion , is this—having obtained ali the benefitwhicharsenic ( . ' ) , or any other remedy lias tho power to do in any case , change . such remedy tor some other constitutional power , and olianqe and eliangeuntM you find improvement (!) : to be the result . * * » * In all such cases , then , you , must chantje , combine , and modify your medicines and measures in a thousand ways , ( 'a grand peal in poisons , ' verily , ' ) to produce a sustained result . Arsenic (!) i gold (!!) iron ( i 11 ) mercurv (!!!!) crcos ' ote (!!!!!) iodine (!!!!! ' . ) , opium (!!!!!!!) prussic acid (!!!! ' !!!!) & c . ( 1 !!!!!!!!) . ( qiiery ^ does this ' ic . ' , here mean the virus of ; hydrophobia , and the virus of the plague ?) may be all advantageously employe i , both as internal remedies and aslocal applications (!!! ' ) ' The sixth edition , - ' stereotyped , ' of the Medical Lectures , from which the preceding extract is made , appeared- in 1845 It the 1825 that

      .: ; was m year , James Morison . the Hvgeist , first raised hiSA-oico against the savage and murderous application of poisons as medicines' ; so that , great as has been the progress of Aforisoriiati jlygcinn principles amongst , the public at large , it would appear that at present they have had little influence in this respect at least—upon medical theory and medical practice . But the public , * In then-plain sense of things , ' are dail y becoming more and more alive to tho jeopardy inwhieli they ore continually placed , through the deadly chemicals with which the doctors . cssny to prop their falling trade . It appears by the book , which has elicited these remarks on 'l ' oisons in Medicine f that in 1847 , 19 , 950 signatures were appended to a petition presented by Sir B . Hall to the House of Commons against Pharmaceutical l ' oisons . Considering that these signatures were made almost exclusively in Glasgow , Edinburgh , and isolated parts of Devon , and a few other counties ; and considering that the public generally-have Since had the most horrifying evidence of the baneful effects of medical poisons in Asiatic Cholera , we have a confident

      belief , that if due time and proper facilities were now given , in every city , town , village , and hamlet in the kingdom , for a similar expression of public opinion , it would be found that the number of si gnatures would swell from some twenty thousand to several round millions . Still we consider that this book is a very appropriate and graceful ' MEMOnm . ' to the 19 , 950 independent pesitioners who did not delay their signatures until the movement had become general and popular , and who may be regarded as the pioneers In the humane and holy warfare against medical Po isoning . Had the House of Commons , ' hi compliance with the prayer of that petition , appointed a commission in 1847 ; and'had chemical , poisons . been at once . discarded frommedicalpractice , hon- . goodly and rich a soil might have since been saved . from the grasp of * the king of terrors , ' and from the graves of the murdered—how many useful and valuable lives might still have been preserved to the community—how many fond and precious relatives might still have cheered and gladdened the now-dcsolate hearth !

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      •^ HELlvJSFORD . , V Foroik * AlHumniAOE Certificatb .- 'J ames Boag , ¦ whowasooiwMr ted on Thursday of tbe offence of altering a 'mattwage certificate , . was . broug h't upfor judgmeEtijihisnaorning . the prisbriertwas recommended to 'mercy by . the jury , on accounti Of his previoae good "Character . lie was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years .

      ' . ' ijYv : ' : ' . LINCOLN . Incekbiahkm . —Edward Whitfield , a youth , was indicted for setting fire to a straw stack and cow hovel , on the fith of January , on the premises of Mr . William © olby , at Swayfield . It appeared the ; prosecutor had incurred the . malico of the prisoner for having prosecuted him for a petty felony : and some fifteen mouths ago , he was found under , a beahstack on the premises , with a box of lucifer matches on his person . On the night of the firo * for which the prisoner was indicted ,:, he . was seen . near the premises about an hour before : it ; broke , out . He was also seen in the stack-yard , ' when , assistance had arrived to extinguish the fire ; " But ' loii being asked to lend his aid . he said he' would not if tho

      whole stack-yard was : in flames . lie wished all Sivayficld was on fire , and if old Dolby was , there , ho would push him into the pond . During the progross of the conflagration he said to a person , "It doesnot half burn . If I had known , ' I would have lit 'it in another place or two . " Guilty . " ¦ ; Fifteen years ' transportation . John Plummer , aged 22 , was indicted for having set firo to a house and , several stacks , at Market Deeping , on the 18 th of September . When called upon to plead , he said , " accidentally , but not wilfully guilty . " It appeared that the day after the fire , he presented himself at tho police station , at Stamford , and aaked . the officer in charge if he Jiad ; heard of the fire . Tho policeman said , ? ' What fire ?"

      The prisoner , replied , " At Deeping , "' and added , " I am the man who set firo'it ' o the stacks ; I know they are after me , and I may as well give myself up . " . The policeman asked how it occurred , ' and the man answered , that hoAvcht into the straw stack to sleep , and he lit hia , pipe to warm him , and that the straw became ignited ,. When before- the magistrates the prisoner . admitted that he set Arc to the stacks by a suddeh impulse which ho could not account for , ; and : that' aftersvavds ho became ' frightened and ranraway . j On his trial the prisoner denied that he made any such statement to the magistrates , and said the occurrence was accidental . He : was found ' " Guilty , " and sentenced to seven years' transportation : ' ! ' ' "

      Y-. ' , ' ' - ' . "' .: ' ' ' " ' SALISBTJItY . . ; Attempt tio Mukdkr ;—Jane Lawrence , an interesting looking girl ,, 19 years of age , was indicted ; for haying exposed her infant to the inclemency ' bf the weather , with' intent to murder it , at ¦ Ramsbury , on the 2 nd of-November last . —The prisoner entered the service of a : Mrs .: Edwards at Midsummer last , and ; on , tho , day , in : question she complained of being unwell , and in the evening was absent ; for a shdrt time : Her mistress afterwards found'her in the kitchen , so unwell that she sent for a surgeon ; who ascertained that she had been delivered of a . child . : About six : o'clock that evening , a labouring manheard a crying on tho side , of tho hedge , ariiTdiscovered a new-born child quite naked ,

      lying in some stinging-nettles . The child was taken to a neighbour , who hearing of the prisoner ' s illness , took it to her next morning , when she said she had been delivered in the garden , and had taken the child up the lane and threw it over the hedge in a . 'fright , not knowing what . to do with it . The prisoner afterwards showed great aifection for the child , which died from natural causes in about a week . —The learned Judge told the jury that the question was one of intent . If the , prisoner did not intend to murder her child by exposing it to the inr clemency of the weather , she was entitled to an acquittal . —The jury , however , found her guilty of a common assault , and she was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment .

      The Knife . —John Sinis , aged 24 , was indicted for haying stabbed Charles Rogers . —The prosecutor deposed , that on the night of Sept .. 19 , himself , the prisoner , and several others , were drinking at the Long ' s Arms Irin , Steeple Ashton , when a fight took place between a brother of the ' prisener and a man named Watts . Witness took Watts ' s part . Others engaged in the quarrel , and a general scuffle ensued . The prisoner and witness wore striking at each other , when witness felt himself , cut with ' a kn > fe on the side , in the stomach , and on- ( he right arm . Witness called out that he was stabbed , and some one took-the prisoner off him . He had never had a quarrel with the prisoner before . Witness Was llOt sensible foi ' . an IlOUr Or two from the loss of

      blood , and was unable to go to work for a fortnight afterwards . Iii ' h ' is cross-examination , he said the prisoner bore the ' character of a quiet , well-disposed man . The prisoner had only just come into the house when the quarrel first occurred . When he saw prisoner before : the magistrates he observed that he had been beaten very much , and had his head cut in throe places . There were a great many persons taking Watts' part against prisoner ' s brother . —Other witnesses were called , whq gave a similar account of the transaction . —The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty " of the felony , with a . strong recommendation to . mercy , iii which the prosecutor joined . —His lordship then sentenced the prisoner to fifteen months' imprisonment , with hard labour .

      WORCESTER . Attempted -Infanticide . - —Ann Evans , a married woman , aged 28 , pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with cutting and . wounding her child , Hosahnah Evans , aged 2 years , at Dudley , on the 27 th of December last . Tlio prisoner is supposed to be partially insane , and committed the act during the temporary absence of her husband , who , on his return , found his wife in the act of cutting the child ' s throat , having placed a pillow over the face of the child , who was lying on the bed . On

      seeing her husband enter the room , the prisoner struck at him with the knife , hut luckily missed him , and he succeeded in forcing the weapon out of her hand . The child received a severe wound , and for some time was considered in great danger . There is little doubt but that , bad not the husband gone upstairs when ho did , tho child ' s life , and also another of tho children six years old , whom he had confined in a close t upstairs , would have been sacrificed . His lordship recorded sentence of death on the prisoner . '

      Assault axd Highway Robbery . —John Meek , George Robinson , Win . Houghton , and Henry Bayley , alias Jumper , were charged with violently assaulting and beating Charles Jarnes , and stealing from his person a sovereign , and other property , on the night of the 17 th December last , at Wolvorloy . It appeared that Houghton and the three other prisoners drove up to the Park Gate public-house at Wolverley , in three carts , on the night in question . Houghton was hoard to utter violent throats against a man named Norbuvy , a gamokeepeiv Tho other three prisoners soon afterwards left the public-house , and . went in tho direction of Norbury ' s house . It appeared , however , that they went to tho wrong house , and finding that tho inmates would not let them in , they were returning back

      to the Park Gate public-houso , when they met with the prosecutor , and . after brutally ill-treating him , so that he was left perfectly insensible ,, tbey robbed him of the articles mentioned in the indictment . Shortly afterwards , the prosecutor was bbsm-ved lying in the road by a witness named Sanders , but when the prosecutor was raised from tho ground , Meek , the only one of the prisoners then present , struck him , the prosecutor , a violent blow , which knocked him down again . It further appeared , that the prisoners afterwards overtook the witness , Sanders , when Meek got out , and committed a violent assault upon him . Meek and Robinson were found Guilty , and the other two prisoners were acquitted . —His lordship sentenced Meek to be-transported for ten years , and . Robertson , for

      seven years . ¦ ,, ExinAORDisAitY ChuEi . TT . —William York , a lad about 10 years of ago was charged , with killing a horse , the property of his master , at Grafton Manoiyon the 21 st of . Septemberlast . It appeared by the evidence of a , ' servant , named Eliza Willis , that , on the morning in question ( Sunday , ) when tho familv were at church , she saw one of the horses runfrom ' thc stable in to tho yard , and dashits head several times against a post aind then fall to the crronnd . She called the boy who made his appear ^ anccfr . om the loft . abovo the , stable , and went across with her to tho horse , which , then lay on the ground in a dying state . A strap was buckled tight round its throatand a bag was fastened on its mouth and

      , nostrils , still more effectually to stop its breath .-the lad took out his knife and cut the strap , and next unfastened and removed the . bag , after which he pulled a wad of brown paper from one of its nostrils . Assistance was procured , but arrived too late , the horse died before tho impediments ; to his breathing bad been removed many minutes . When the animal , was examined a . second wad of paper was found in , tho other nostril . From statements made by the . prisoner , it appeared that he had conceived a dislike to the horse because it was slow , and had taken this course to rid himself of tho annoyance .. The prisoner was found " Guilty , " and ciibciiuuu iu i / jgiiuui / ii iiiuiivuo

      a luiuiiQuiuuuuii , ami to bo whipped . An , Awkward : Predicament . —John Ilorton , a bayonet filer from Birmingham , was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Matthew Henry Dodd , at Bromsgrove , on tho night of the 30 th of October , and stealing therefrom a number of gold and silver watches . The prosecutor on the night in question caught the prisoner helping himself to the watches , and while the prisoner endeavoured to escape through a window , seized him by his trowsers ; but the prisoner managed tb extricate himself from these garments , and got clear off . Tho prisoner was met by several witnesses , early in the morning , walking on the road from Rrftm . ? groYe to Ilirmingbfiro wUbout bis trovers ,

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      which naturally caused ; him to be particularly noticed . rThe'jury found him " Guilty , " and he was sentenced ito ten years' transportation . '

      - ' . ^ - y YORK . Qoack Medicines . —Kibkus v . Atkinson . —Mr . Martin stated ' the case . He appeared for the plaintiff , who ; complained of an infringement by the dCfendanfc'bf his right in the manufacture of certain p ills , which had inflicted upon him considerable injury in apecuniary' poih't ' of view . ' About fortyfive years ago , Mr . Torr , a chemist and druggist at Doncaster ,, was in the habit of preparing . a family pill , which he sold about that nei ghbourhood , where they wcrcfmiich esteemed . " Subsequently they obtained a great sale in Yorkshire generally , and wore vended by agents in various towns . Tho people of Yorkshire were possessed of many estimable quali ties lib doubt , butfrom , the number of pills

      advertised—Mr . Baron'Alderson : I should have thought Harrogate would have done for them . ( Laughter . )—Mr . Martin went on to say that Mr . Torr sold this medicine , which was called , " Torr's Family Pills . '' , ; On his death his _ son , Mr . R . Torr , succeeded him , and when he died , in 1847 , he gave the recipe to his sistei \ Miss Eliza Torr , who was about to be married to the present plaintiff , Mr , Kirkus , a chemist and druggist , carrying on business at Liverpool . Mr . Kirkus , after the , marriage , having commenced the manufacture of those pills , wished to have some agents in Yorkshire , and he applied to the present defendant , Mr . Atkinson , a chemist and druggist at Doncastcr , " Mr . Atkinson accepted the ageney i and some time after Messrs . Brooke , of Dohcaster , were < ilso appointed agents , whereupon Mr . Atkinson commenced manufacturing himself , and sel'ing medicine : under , the name of " Torr ' s lills , " alleging that'he had obtained the recipe ¦

      from a person named Shepherd , who had been in the employ-of Mr . -Torr . " This , however , he ( the learned counsel ) -said was a mere pretence ; for this person , named Shepherd ; was apprentice to Mr . Torr only thirty-one years ago , whereas Mr . Torr was selling these pills more than forty years ago , and the plaintiff therefore had brought this action to put a stop tb the infringement upon his exclusive right . The learned counsel , amidst roars of laughter , proceeded to enumerate the wonderful properties and performances of Torr ' s pills , summing up with the expulsion of a six-yard tape worm . —Mr . Baron Alderson : Red tape . ( Laughter . ) — Mr . Martin also referred to a wonderful cure of water scurvy at Pontfefract , which borough the learned counsel observed be hadtbe honour to represent in parliament , and said something more of the excellent qualities of the" pil's , and concluded his opening speech by recommending his learned friend on the other-side to take one for a trial . —

      Mi'i Baron Alderson : Perhaps the best way of deciding that , part of the : qucstion will be for six of the jury to take half a-dozen of . the plaintiff ' s pills , and the other six half . a-dozen of the defendant ' s , and we shall see which six go out first . ( Laughter . ) —The examination of plaintiffs witnesses having been gone into , the wonderful Pontofract case was again brought under notice , when Mr . Watson suggested . that ; that case must have occurred since the last contested election for that borough . ( Laughter . ) —Mr . Martin : Oh , no ; I have no doubt the gentleman was a very good' voter . —Mr . Watson : I ' m afraid his being feasted too much at the election was the cause ' of his requiring the pills . ( Laughter . ) —Mr . Baron Alderson , examining the wrapper on

      one of the boxes , said he observed there was an advantage in taking three bpxesat a time . ( Laughter . ) —As plaintiff ' s case proceeded , there was a good deal more merriment excited . At the close , Mr . Watson rose to address the jury for . the defendant , contending that neither he nor the plaintiff had any property in . Torr ' s pills , and that therefore Mr . Atkinson had a perfect right to manufacture and sell them as he had done , not as Kirkus ' s Torr ' s pills , but as Atkinson ' s Torr ' s pills . And this was reall y the whole question . ' - He had , therefore , no occasion to dispute the valuable properties of these pills , two or three of which he had no doubt would be very useful among some of Mr . Martin ' s

      constituency of Pontefroct on the morning after the election . ' ( Laughter . )—Mr . Baron 'Alderson : Perhaps they would cure nausea if they were at all sick of their member . ( Laughter . ) — Mr . Watson : I am quite sure , my lord , the people of Pontefract ; however weighed down , would never take these pills for that purpose . ( Renewed laughter . )—Mr . Baron Alderson , in summing up , told the jury the question for their consideration was whether or not the defendant had been selling these pills , as and for the pills of Mr . Torr , manufactured by Mr . Kirkus , making people believe , and intending them to believe that they were taking Kirkus ' s pills , when , in reality , they were taking Atkinson ' s pills . — The jury found their verdict for the de : " endanf ,

      LEWES . ' " i -. THE FORGEniES UPON THE BRIGHTON BANK . Joseph . Hasland , 29 , described as a scissors grinder , was indicted for feloniously uttering , at Brighton , a £ 5 note of tho Union Bank of that town , knowing the same to be forged and counterfeit , and with intent to defraud . Th ^ Srisoner pleaded "Guilty . " . Joseph Green , 38 , brass-founder , also pleaded "Guilty" to a similar charge . Henry Clarkson , 35 , labourer , was also charged with uttering a forged note ol the same bank . Mr . Clarkson was instructed to prosecute in all these cases . Evidence having been given , the jury found the prisoners " Guilty , " and they were sentenced by Chief-Justice Wilds to ba transported for lifo .

      Robert Steward , 23 , miller , wag then charged with the offence of u ; tering a forged £ 5 note of the same description . Mr . Ballantine and Mr . Johnson defended the prisoner . The jury acquitted tho prisoner , who was ordered to be discharged .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 16, 1850, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16031850/page/2/