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      FRANCE . _M-iVE _PnasBCirnox . —M- Ga'Iot , late director of the ' _Rrior-a _? , ' has _bsen sentenced by the police _couH bf Paris to imp risonment for three months , and * o p ' _sy . a fine of 600 f , for having published a _aeditiou _* - libel . -.. > . _- ' M . _Eugene Bareste and M . Tictor Hennequin , _-RspoitsiMe editors of the R _** publique' and the _'Desi-ieraiie Pacifique' havebeen condemned before ihe Court of Assizes on a charge of publishing a

      letter signed by Louis Blanc , and were respectively eon _deiiias . ' " by default to two years' imprisonment and 1 . 000 :., and jointly and severally to the exp en ** -.- of ;' * _= prosecution . Severe ! o' the persons who distinguished _them-Kikes in ihe riots which took place round the trees Of liberty in the Carre St . Martin on the 4 tb , 5 tb , tad ( 5 h of February were sentenced by the Police Cow ! r _, f Para on Thursday week to imprisonments _forper ' o . U varying from six days to six months .

      F * -:- _-irifates of the * i'h , 26 th , and 31 st _Regiments Of t "» : Line were tried by court-martial in Paris on Thursil- _* - * - _wssk , for having wilfully broken their inusk _s . They were found guilty , and sentenced * toinipri-i'iiir ; _entfor two years . The _Srtc ' _-i _' . ists of _Montpelttw planted three trees of L ' _* ; :-: - i :: the Place de la Comedie of that city . Tbe . „ i '| c _:- 'Joathe following day to walk round fbem In - _^ cession , but were prevented hy a body of tr _» . » _- ; s ' -- ' 'o had previously occupied the Place . The t -:-u ' _e . iskrs were arrested , aud the trees cut Jowu . A letter from Perigueux of the 6 dv inst , states that on * "he 24 th nit . a portion of the National Guard id _Torrasson cried * "Vive Ledru _Uollin !' ' Viv- la ' _Rej'ublique Sociale _!'

      A . ¦ -: 2 * _iii £ 5 tine manufactory of gunpowder was _dia-Ceverc-J last week at Hungers , aear _Moulins . A Legitimist in Tj _* . od _* m . e . —M . Lehonette , one o * . _' ¦ •* _gf-iulemen of the bedchamber of Charles X > _^ £ 5 _seiiteaced by the Court of Assize of Thursday week lo solitary confinement for ten years , for bavins defra _* : ded the Duchess Dowager of Rochfoncauld _Douueanville of a sura exceeding 600 _, 000 f . during his administration of her estate . The co-smitiee charged with reporting on the demand io prosecute M . Michel de Bourges , for his allegen jpecc " -i at a Socialist meeting , have agreed to _* j , l ' * .

      Thc if _** . ! iini * 5 ts are _confirmed in their opposition to the may _••¦& ' bill , by the rumouT now rife of an intention , on ihe part ofthe government , to propose tbat the right of appointment to colonelcies of tbe HationalGusrd may he vested in the President of the Republic . A duel was fought on Saturday in the Bois de Boulogne between two representatives—MM . Per eenl and _Seadleher _, both representing the colonies-The hall of M . Schdleher ' s pistol fore off a portion Of the skin <• £ his adversary's baud , and tben passed through . his cravat . The _afiYir was then terminated . Another series of persons have been sentenced for rifting en the 5 th of February to various terms of _imprisonment .

      li . Marc Dufraisse , representative of the people , has just been tried by the Court of Assize of the _Haiite Vfe . ' _-r . e for the _publicauou of seditions articles in a _newspaper- He \ vas acquitted by the jury . The _Prefect of the _Darodogne has dissolved and disarmed the battalion of the National Guards of _Tenasso *! _, for having , at a mee' _-i'ig called for the _pnrpaje , _1-ktiied the decision of one of iRe courts of justice against one of their _companions , aud cried , "Vive " ¦ ll ? _pabliqne Sociale . ' Pa ** . ! : - . Monday . —About two hundred subaltern Officers and toldisrs went _yesterday in procession to the cisam of July , and placed crowns of

      _immorinUiy en the graves of the victims of February . ¦ This revolutionary manifestation has erea _:--l a great sensation , aa showing the strong democratic feeling _ejf _^' . _in- * in the army . The soldi : ; _s composing the procession belonged to different regiments , and met- by appointment for the _purple . A Cabinet _C-unjil was held on the subj-ct < o-day , and it is said thai orders bave been g iven for the arrest of all the soldiers forming tbe _procession . The affair ha « created an Immense _sem-ancn in the Faubourgb St . Antoine , and the Place de ia Bastille has been all this day crowded * "fith _ovvrkrs who are enthusiastic in favonr of the Soldi er * -.

      _Tuesday . — Last mgbt M . Carlier issued 0 pr < : _c ' a _* r :: u : nn , prohibiting ths manifestations at the column of July . The _President of the _Republic has published a decree il ' _ssi-lvi & i * - the Kainnal Guard of Montpellirr . Ti-i Prefect of tlie HerauH has dissolved the National 5 j .-ard of _Meze ana Gignac , oa account o ! theii pniiiical opinions . Th-. I _' refee : of the Gironde has suspended from tbe _tie-che i » i thiaTfvmetioas tnfs -JiSiyoitS ft ? St "Viacent -v .. _- . i- _Uvach . RESULT OF THE EI _. _ECTI-XS . ( From tbe' Da : ty News . ' )

      Pa nis , Tuesday . — -It appears that tbe demecratic candidates have _carried the hardly-contested _elec'i . " ; _-. ii . Carnot had 124 . 000 votes ; M . "Vidal , 119 . G 0 U ; M . De Flotte , 17 , 000 . The minister , _Geuera ! De Lahitte , who was first of the conservatives , had bat 110 , 000 vou _\ -. __ The socialists will _prohahiy consider themselves eeriai _.-i masters of any fntur '; _5355 * nbly . Whilst ths conservatives , in their _mort'fi- * i' . ' 0 ! i , will exclaim aga _' _nst Universal Suffrage asanfi _.-cri- _* , and the _repnblic itself as the wild domination of Ibe lovfer orders . The - les of the soldiers of ihe army "fiho are natives of _i'arisareas follows •— Carnot , 6 , 699 ; - "Vidal , 6 , 615 ; L '» Flotte , 6 , 553 ; Fay , 5 , 378 ; LabiUe _, 5 , 363 - _iSr-wan _, 4 , 911 .

      Th 78 J & serious _cireumsUnca is certainly the votes vf the soldiery , who , however steady to put down a s * r ? et entente , never * . _htlass display _unmis takeab _' y that their sympathies are with the people . And _' - _'S : '' _j * iu ! arideas , wha'ever lhese are , must neeessa- iiy o _* _j those of the camp . Should some of the _provisdai elections _, turn ou ; of an equally . democratic « i- ' _- * . ar with the Parisian ones , it is quite evident * . a _** . t _th-i President must change his policy , and must not only turn his back oi the reactionists , but mu . t go further than the hybrid party of Dufaure and Cavaignac . The French people must be addressed , tie French people mast be conciliated . It

      will not do for Louis _"Napulcon to closet himself with _nonentities like his present ministers , and under pretence of being z ? a ' Q _* i 3 for order , delegate the chief administrative authority to a Minister of Polics . In Paris M- Carl sr is everything . He is the Fo ' nche uf the day , in tv ? ryone ' s mouth and in everyone ' s way . Instead of doing his office of peacekeeper quietly , stealthily , sad cautiously , he is the most meddiing , _obstreperous and officious of functionaries . He has heaped n . ounta ' ns of odium upon Louis -Napoleon , and bas d _;* is more than all the socialise prints put together to placa tbe names of ministers on the poll below the names of Vidal and De Finite .

      To-day the Place de la Bastille was again filled ¦ with peupie . I have informed you ' of the continuation of the ' pilgrimages to the C-jlumn of July . Sucb "had _hsen the number of crowns and emblems brought _tojetherthat they formed avast mass , artistically arranged , of red " and _yeil-jiv fljvrers , around which the idle and curion 3 assembled to admire and wonder- However , as the _piUrinis had not confined themselves to the mere funeral crown , bnt had intermingled red flags and other republican and democratic ornaments , the police seized the opportunity to interfere . About 100 soldiers , belonging to several regiments of infantry , proceeded thuh _« r , about four o'clock , to deposit crowns and emhlems . These men remained silent , whilst the crowd _ariiund occasionally cried out * Vive _Tannee . ' Vire la Moniagne !'

      ( From the ' nme 3 . ) Electoral returns from ths Sre sections of the department of the Allier , _recced in Paris on Tuesday sight , show that the majority of votes was in favour of the Moderate _candidate . M . Dufour , who bad 3 , 420 , to 1 _. 44 J obtained by M . Gallay , Socialist . Letters from Bourges dated the 12 th inst ., give _the-result ot the elections of that city , and of some ofthe neighbouring sections—M . Vogue , Moderate , had 2 . 888 votes ; M . _Poisle _, Moderate , 2 , 282 ; Bureau , Socialist , 1 , 371 ; _Gueren , Socialist , 1 . 916 ; and Boissy , Moderate , 577 . Nearly half of the electors abstained from voting . The latest accounts from the department of the "VarRive a majority ia favour of the Moderates of 2 , 000 votes .

      Inthe two cantons of the town of Blois 1 , 701 votes were given for M . D Etchegoyen , tbe Socialist * f _^ date ; and for M . Crosnier , the Moderate , The SM _^ _^ aidate in Loir el Cher carries the day . M . IStehegoyen will he returned .

      SWITZERLAND . '" .,- < - " - ' A . letter from Berne states that the refugee _cttets iaittbHmg _Zunchj cad who were ordered to quit

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

      ' ITALY . Puohibited School-books in _Nam-us . —* The correspondent of the « Daily News , ' at Naples , states that the restrictions to education and bosks are becoming daily more severe in the "Neapolitan dominions . In some schools , Goldsmith ' s « History of England' has been prohibited ; and _thereis _amosgs many an expectation that the study of history _w-ill be forbidden as forming a part of the course of instruction . The use of the 'Adventures _^ of _lelemS" has been prohibited ; and the _. _WjnoUof Publie Instruction are engaged in drawing up a tot of books to be permitted in the schools . Meanwhile , to make still more sure of the , _masters , they Te first submitted to an examination of the pol . ee , and then are thoroughly examined in the Gatechismo Grande . Many refusing or omitting to pass through this ordeal have been removed .

      GERMANY . BADEN . —The Diet of the Grand Duchy o Baden was opened on the 6 th inst . by the GranO Duke , who addressed the Assembly in a speeoh in which he complained of the ravages of the last revolution , and informed them of the treaty he had entered into with Prussia and several other German States . A deplorable event has happened at Eckermorde , on board the German ship of war of the same name , formerly the Danish frigate Gefion . Onthe 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 iffect ; he called for help , and the officer in command of the deck coming up , ordered the men to let the officer go and return 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- Fraucia 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 tbe 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 a 3 to provide them in gene * ral with Austrian confessors . Of course the business of the confessional bas to be carried on through the medium of interpreters . All , 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 hut benedictions of Austria . They 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 lo them as mere brigands .

      Among the Magyars numberless incidents of daily occurrence reveal , in a way not tobe mistaken , the secret determination of the people to cling to their national manners , as to life . The other day , at Pre 3 burgb there died a young girl ; the students go iu a body to the general of the distriet and ask permission to- don tbeir national costume , and to . ollow the funeral procession with an orange amid sprigs of rosemary stuck on the points of their sabres . The general , " wbo _* te 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 tbeir _artilas , not yet proscribed by any law , hire a band , and march in silenee without sabres to the place of interment . But on their return the band struck up , tbe national airs of Rakocsz . and _Hunzads pealed through the street . Eligens followed , windows were opened , and handkerchiefs -waved from balconies , the town seemed in full revolution . Eljen , that rebellious cry , shouted on the _Haynau-PJatz ! ( The squaw which bas received the honour of this general ' s name vm _formetlVi by a . _riaplai coinci

      dence , called the -Place of Pity , ' ' Barmherzigen Platz . ' ) Eljen in the Jellachich street , and on the Radeizky promenade . , What abominable profanation . This was just what some of the well-disposed , the gut geginnten , as they are called by the government , went and told the commandant of the p lace . But did they cry 'Eljen Kossuth ? ' - No . Then the country may yet be 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 ; hult . During the week preceding that date M . Titoff bad been admitted to three conferences with Reshid Pacha and Aii 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 beeu resuscitated . The fact is , that Russia is not yet satisfied , and it may be safely assumed that until she is satisfied no question can be considered as settled . The r . evv demand which she has in the background is apparently the expulsion of certain persons in the service of the l ' orte 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 ths 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 o _<* fn inter rest 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 be shonld only comply with the measures of the Porte for sending tbe 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 _Bronssa 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 toremain a few months . The fact is that the Porte , after a good deal of haggling with Count Stunner , bas 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 iis tbat six prisoners , who we ' re 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 tbe mail steamer brought ( as we have already announced ) the . intelligence to Athens , that the meditation of France had been 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 striedy enforced .

      From the _pirseos ' onr correspondent furnishes intelligence to . the 28 th of February , confirming what is stated above . , 'Oa 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 oi small craft creeping oat ia tha darkness of the

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      night . The population of Athens continued _tranauil , placing great reliance seemingly on assistance from Russia , which , _slWHgthehed 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 of the Czar , who _r will before long , no doubt , embroil matters in the " East to his own aggrandisement , " , _, ' _,

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      Fraud By A Stockbroker.—Sentencb. --Edwa...

      Fraud by a Stockbroker . —Sentencb . --Edward 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 , 700 , which had been placed in his possession for safe custody , to his own use . There were two other indictments against him for embezzling other ' -large-sums of money , which were not-proceeded with . He was sentenced to be imprisoned , without bard labour , for twelve months . by

      _. _^ Fraud A Shopman . — Sentence . — George Millner was also , brought up for . sentence .. This prisoner was a young man of 19 , who had been employed as shopman to a chemist and druggist , atthe 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 well as his own , and it appeared that he 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 _Bdxall , 53 , and Stephen Boxall , his son , 21 , were indicted foe the manslaughter of Benjamin Piestege—The parties were at a beer-shop in Bermondsey , and " upon the wife of the deceased going there to request him to , come home , tbe younger prisoner struck her ' The deceased called him a coward for so doing , and he then at _* tacked him in a most brutal manner and _. butted him twice in the stomach ,. and when he w ;> s upon , the ground threw himself upon him , and inflicted such severe injuries , that he died shortly afterwards . The elder prisoner was proved to . haye encouraged his-, 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 he transported for life , and the father to be kept to hard labour for two years .

      1 ' bb _/ _urt . —John Richardson , 28 , wa 3 indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury . —It appeared , that the de- ; fendant had passed a promissory , note ; for £ 52 to his brother , representing that it bad been , made by , his uncle , but upon the instrument ; coming due ,., the latter repudiated it , and asserted that it was a forgery . An action was then . brought upon it , 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 cn < tody 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 b y his uncle . —The Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned for twelve mouths . . ; _.-. ' : <• ¦ ..

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      _EDMOHTOX PETTY _SESSIONS . . TnBEATENING THE DuCHESS OF Si . AlBAN ' S SEcretary , —Frederick _Watmou'h was charged with sending the following letter to Mr . Harrison , _Teroystreet , Bedford-square , seoretary to the Duchess oi St . Alhan _' s _:-Mb . IliBnisosr —If you send me any more letters . purporting to come from-the Duchess of St Alban ' s , I . will break every bono in your body . lam tlie son ' of . William Beauclerk , Duke of St . Alban's , and am entitled tb a main _, tenance from his family , or the Uuhe had no right to get me , if I am not to have a provision ; aiid I will have ono , 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 tho trustees are , and . wh y it is kept a secret . ( Signed ) Fbed . W . BEAnctEiiK _. -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 his father's life 7 time , 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 .

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      ___——eastern————POISONS AS MEDICINE . Memorial ofthe Names ofthe 19 , 950 petitioners ; to . the Ilouse of Commons , against the Deadly Poisons _, useil as Medicine by the Doctors . London : British College of Health , Hamilton-place , New-road ; "How many thousands of lives are there , ' my father rrould say , ' that eome every yeii' to he east aivay ( 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 MUKDEli DOWNRIGHT ; let who will com . mit it . ' ' There lies your mistake , ' my father would reply , for , in the _Convt 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 . ' here anathematises , is that horrid and pestiferous hypothesis , ' that * Medicine is poison , aiid poison is medicine . ' This mercenary , heartless , ruthful 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 , by the doctors , by advertising quacks , and by druggists , with all the ardour and vehemence that can be excited by insatiable cupidity , and by a most ravenous , appetite for gain and guineas . But the hellish hypothesis , that' Medicine and l _' oison arc identical' must be . maintained nnd supported against all ' competition—it miist be earned 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 scientific fraternity—an odious and abominable fraternity , whose c ' onsciencies are educated and formed upon the infernal maxims of- 'The Court of Science '—a court which is' ruled solely . by a favoured and fatal hypothesis that brooks no ' competition , ' and no demur—a court in which' there is no such thing as murder—' tis only DEATH . brother !!!! .

      John Hunter said of poisons , that'they take their place in the body , as if their _jjlace were allotted for them . ' Yes , 'horrid' mercury takes its allotted place in the glands , and in the bones—in the glands it excites _sci'Ojphulous tumours _, and the teeth it quick J" / reduces to caries . . Prusio acid takes its allotted place' in the heart , nnd there radically cures all palpitation by effectually stopping all pulsation .-Alcohol takes its allotted place in . the brain , and by its action upon tliat organ induces mania , and all' the ills that flesh is heir to . ' Strjchuine , and brucinc take their allotted places in the muscles , iu ivhich tissues tliey frequently produce speedy and fatal spasms . The late Mistress Maria Manning had something more than a faint imd glimmering insight into this Hunterian principle—yea , with high professional skill she carried it into full practical effect . . She knew that , hy a particular mode of administration '; ' tv bullet would find its allotted place in the brains ' of her fond admirer , Mr . Patrick 0 ! Connor ; but , in the cyes of the profession , the skilful doetVess 'degraded the science , by

      unprofessiunally blending , with her practice , the functions of a grave-digger . By the way , it would act as a very whole : some check upon the poisoning , hypothesis , if the Legislature could compel the' doctor—despite his professional scruples and repugnance—to excavate the graves of his victims . Soyer does not possess more skill , in .. catering for the squeiunisluiess of a fastidious appetite , than the doctors do in allotting poisons for the specific destruction ot any particular organ in the human frame . In a sort of cookery book of poisons , a very learned medical Soyer , who has appended to his name the cabalistic letters , 'M . D . ' - ( query _,-Anglke , ' Murderer Downright ' . ' ) In this medical cookery hook there is a receipt for poisoning , so definite and , obviously efficacious , as would have dazzled the eyes / arid charmed the heart ; and feasted , even to . surfeit , the imagination and longings ofa Marchioness .

      ofBvinvil-Hers . See how tlie 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 oil the benefit which arsenic ( . ' ) , or any other remedy has the power to do ih any case , change such remedy for some other constitutional power , and change and change , until you find improvement (!) to be the result . '' * . ' *• * * In aU such cases , then , you must change , ' ¦ combine , and modify your medicines and measures , tn o thousand : ways , ( 'a grand peal in poisons , ve rily , ' ) to produce a sustained result . Arsenic ( t ) gold' !!) iren (!!!) mercury (!!!!) creosote ( . ' . ' . ' . ' . ' ) iodine ' ! . ' . ' . ' ! . '' opium (! J J H ; ji prussic acid (!!!!!!!!) . -ic ,. (!!!! _!¦!!!!) ( query-does this ' & c . ' , here mean the ., virus of hydrophobia , aud ' the virus of the plague ?) may he all advantageously employed , . both ' as . iu . teimal remedies and as local applications (!!! ' ) v ... ; i

      The sixth edition ,, ' stereotyped , 'bf the Medical Lecture ' s ; from which tho preceding extract is- made , - appeared iii ' 1845 . It was in the year 1825 , that . James _Morisou , the Hjgeist , _fii-3 t raised his voice against . the . savuge and murderous application of poisons as medicines ; so that , great as has been the progress of Morisoniim Hygeian . principles amongst the public at'la ' _i-ge _, it would appear that at present they have had little influence in this respect at' least—upon medical theory and medical practice . .. Hut tlio public ,: 'in their plain sense ot things , ' are daily becoming more and more alive to the jeopardy in which they , are continuall y placed , through the deadly chemicals wiih which the doctors essay to prop their falling trade . It appears by the hook , which has elicited theso remarks on 'Poisons in Medicine ; ' that in 1817 , 19 , 950 signatures wero 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 , arid a few other counties ; and _considering that the public generally havo since had the most horrifying evidence of the baneful effects

      of medical _jioisonsin Asiatic Cholera , we have a confident belief , that if due timeand 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 signatures would Swell from some twenty thousand to several round million ' s . Still we consider that this book is a very appropriate and graceful ' Memosiat . ' _. to the 19 , 950 independent pesitionera who did not delay tlieir _signatures until the movement had become general and popular , and who may bo regarded as the pioneers in the humane and holy warfavo against medical _po isoning . Had tlie Ilouse of Commons , m compliance with the prayer of that petition , appointed a commission in 1847 ; and had chemical poisons been at once discarded from medical practice , how goodly awl rich a soil might have since'been _savedvftoin the grasp of . ' tho king of terrors , ' and from tho graves of the murdered—how , many useful and valuable lives might still _. _havij hoeh preserved i tothe commiwUy- _^ _tiow many fond and precious relative ' s | might still , have steered and gladdened , ths _now-d (« _--ihrt . c heartw

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      CHELMSFORD . Fonowd a _Mamiiaob Ckmificate . —James Bpag , who was convicted on Thursday of the oftence of altering a marriage certificate , was brought up for _judoment this morning . Tho prisoner was recommended to mercy by the jury , on acoount of his previous good character . He was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years .

      LINCOLN . LvcENMAnisM . —Edward Whitfield , a youth , was indicted for setting fire to a straw stack and cow hovel , on the 5 th of January , on the premises of Mr . William' Dolby , at Swayfield . ' It appeared the proseoutor had incurred the malico bf the prisoner for having prosecuted him-for a petty felony : and some fifteen months ago , ho was found under a bean * stack on the premises , with a box of _lucifer matches on his person . On tho night of the fire for which the prisoner was indicted , ho was seen near thc premises about an hour before it br ' oko out . He wns also seen in tho stack-yard , when assistance had arrived to extinguish the fire ; but on being asked to lend his aid , ho said ho would not if the

      whole stack-yard was in flames . He wished all Swayfield , was on fire , and if old Dolby was there , he would push him into the pond . During the progress of the conflagration he said to a person , "It does not half burn . If I had known , I would have lit it in another place or two . Guilty . " Fifteen years ' transportation . John Plummcr , aged 22 , was indioted for having set fire to a house and several stacks , at Market Deeping , on the 18 th of September ! When called upou to plead , he said , " accidentally , but not wil- fully guilty . " It appeared that the day -after the fire ; he presented himself at tho police station , at ( Stamford , and asked the officer in charge if he had heard of the fire . The policeman said , * ' What fire ?''

      The prisoner replied , "At Deeping , " and added , " I am the man who . set fire to 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 he went into the straw stack to sleep , and he lit his pipe to warm him , and that the straw became ignited . When before the magistrates the prisoner admitted that he set fire to the stacks by a sudden impulse which he could ' riot account for , and that afterwards he became frightened and . ran away . 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 .

      -SALISBURY . " _ATiBMpr xo MuKD _** R . _* - * -Jnne Lawrence ,, an interesting looking girl , 19 . years of age , was indicted for having exposed iier infant to the inclemency of the weather , with' intent to murder it , at Ramsbury , on the 2 nd of November last . —Tho prisoner entered the . , service of a Mrs . Edwards at Midsummer . 'last ,, and on the , day , in _quostionshe complained of being _unwell , and in theevening was absent for a short time . " Her mistress afterwards found lier in the kitchen " , 'so unwell that she sent for a surgeon , who' ascertained that she had been deliveredof a child . About six o ' clock that evening ; a labouring man heard a crying on the side of the _hedfrft' Anil f ! fS _# » _nvei-nH n npw-hrtrn _oh'til / _rniifo n _* . lmrl VUUUUUItU _1

      " . 0- * ™» ; »>« W . IVIW « •« . •"• ' W . v _... _IHHVU _, lying m sonic stinging-nettles . The child was taken to a neighbour , who hearing of the prisoner's illness , took itto ; her next morning , when she said she had been delivered in tbe 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 affection ' for the child , which died from natural _eauses in about a week . —The learned Judge told the jury that the _ojiestion was oneof intent . If the prisoner did riot intend to murder her , child by exposing it to the inclemency of the weather , she was entitled to an acquittal . —The jury , however ,. found her guilty of a common askiult , and she was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment . '

      Tiie Knife . —John Sims , aged 24 , was indicted for having stabbed Charles llogers . —The prosecur tor deposed , that on the night of Sept . 19 ; . himself , tho prisoner , and several others , were drinking at the Long ' s Arms Inn / Steeplo Ashton , when a fight took place between a ' brother of tho prisoner and a man named Watts . Witness took Watts ' s part . Others engaged in the quarrel , and a general scuffle ensued . The prisoner and witness were striking at each other , when witness felt himself cut with a knife on the side , m the stomach , and on the right arm . Witness called out that ho was stabbed , and some one took the prisoner off him . He had never had a quarrel with tbe prisoner before . Witness was not sensible for an hour or two from the loss of

      blood , and was unable to go to work for a fortni ght afterwards . In his 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 three places . Thero were a great many persons taking' Watts' part against prisoner ' s brother . —Other witnesses were called , who gave a similar account of the transaction . —The jury found the prisoner " Guilty" ofthe felony , with a strong recommendation to mercy , in 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 , 'Kosannah Evans , aged 2 years , at Dudley , on the 27 th of December last . ; The 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 tho 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 , but luckily missed him , and ho succeeded in forcing the weapon out of her hand . The child received a severe wound , and for somo timo was considered in great danger .

      There is little doubt but that , had not the husband gone upstairs when he did , thc child ' s life , and also another of the children six years old , whom he had confined in a closet upstairs , would have been sacrificed . His lordship recorded sentence of death On the prisoner . Assault and Highway Robbery . —John Meek , George _llobmson , Wm . Houghton , and Henry Bayley , alias Jumper , were charged with violently assaulting and beating Charlos James , ar id stealing from his person a sovereign , and other property , on the night of the . 17 th December last , at Wolverley . It appeared that Houghton and the three other prisoner's drove up to the Park Gate public-house at Wolverley , in three carts , on thc night in question . Houghton was beard to utter violent threats against a man named Korbury , ai gamekeeper . . The other throe , prisoners soon afterwards left the public-house , and went in the direction of Norbury ' s

      house . It appeared , however , that they went to the wrong house , and finding that the 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 vras left perfectly insensible , they robbed him of the articles mentioned in the indictment . Shortly afterwards , the prosecutor , was observed lying iii . the road by a witness named Sanders , but when the prosecutor was raised from the ground , Meek , the only oiie ot the prisoners then present , struck him , the prosecutor , a violent blow , which knocked bim ,. down again . If further appeared , that the prisoners afterwards . overtook , tho 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 bo transported for ten years , and Robertson for ¦¦

      seven years . _-.- •• • : _.- ExTRAOHDiNAnY Cnuui . Ti . —William York , a lad about 16 years of age was charged with killing a horse , the property of his . master , at _,, . Grafton . Manor , on the 21 sfc of . September last ., _, It . appeared by tho evidence of a servant , named Eliza Willis ; that on the morning in question ( Sunday , ) , when the family were at church she saw one of the horses run from ' the stable into the yard and dash its head several times against a post and then fall to , tlie ground . She called the boy who made his appearance from the loft above the stable , and ; went across with her to the horse , which then lay on tbe ground in . a dying state . A strap was buckled tight round its-throat , and 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 ho pulled a wad of brown paper from one of its . nostrils . Assistance was procured * but arrived toft late , the ; horse died before the impediments to bis breathing had been removed many minutes . When the animal was examined a se « ond wad of paper was found in the other nostril From statements made by tbo prisoner , it _apyjeared that he had conceived a dislike to the horso because it waa slow , and bad taken this course , to rid himself of the annoyance . The prisoner -was found- " . _Guilty , " and sentenced to . eighteen months' ¦ imprisonment , and _tobetjWpped , ;

      An Awkward POTDiCAMENT . —Joba Horton , a bayonet tiler from Birmingham , waa indicted for ' breaking and entering the dwelling house of Matthew Henry Dodd , at Bromsgrove , on tho night of tbe 30 th of October , and stealing therefrom a _numT ber . 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 hi 8 trowser 8 : but the prisoner managed to . _extricate himself from these garments , and got dear I 'M ,. ; Tho : prisoner ; _waa ; mot . by several miineBse " _- * _, ' early inthe morning , walking on * the road * froni I _Rromsgrove to Birmingham without hia _troweers

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      which naturally caused , him to "be particularly noticed . Thejury found him " Guilty , "and he was sentenced to ten years' transportation / ¦

      YORK . : " _" : ¦ ¦> . ,, Quack Medicines . _—Kibkus- v . Atkinson . —Mr . Martin statedthe case . He appeared for the plaintiff , who complained of . an infringement by the defendant of his right in the manufacture of certain p ills , which had ; Tnflibted upon-him considerable injury ina peouniary point of view . About fortyfive years ago , Mr : Torr , a chemist and druggist at Doncaster , was in the habit of preparing a fariiily pill , " which he sold about that neighbourhood , where they were much esteemed . Subsequently they obtained a great sale in Yorkshire generally , arid were v ended by _^ agents in various towns ... The people of Yorkshire were possessed of many estimable quali ties no doubt ; but from 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 " Tow ' s Family Pills . " On his death his son , Mr . R . Torr , succeeded him , and when he died , iri 1847 , ho gave the recipe to his sister , Miss Eliza Tori' , who was about to he 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 these pills , wished to have some agents in Yorkshire , and lie applied to the present defendant , Mr . Atkinson , a chemist and druggist at Doncaster , Mr _^ At kinson accepted the agency , and some time after . Messrs . Brooke , of

      Doncaster ,- were also appointed agents , whereupon Mr . Atkinson commenced manufacturing himself , and selling medicine under the name of " Torr's I ills , " 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 , arid the plaintiff therefore had brought this action to put astop to tho 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 : Rod tape . ( _Lauehter . ) — Mr .

      Martin also referred to ' a wonderful cure of water scurvy at Pontefract , which borough the learned counsel observed he had the honour to represent in parliament , and said-something more of . the . excellent qualities of the _piUs , and concluded his opening speech by recommending his learned friend phi the other side to take one for a trial . — Mr . 'Baron Alderson : Perhaps the best way of deciding that part of tho question will bo ; for six of the jury to take _balfa-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 . ) —Tho ; examination- of plaintiff ' s witnesses having been gone into ,-the wonderful Pontefract 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 boxes at 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 ri ght 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 really 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 Pontefract On thc 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 : lam quite sure , my lord , the peoplo 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 of not the defendant had been selling tliese pills , as and for tho pills of Mr . Torr , manufactured by Mr . "Kirkus , making people believe , and intending them to believe that they were taking Kirkiis ' s pills , 'when , in reality , they were taking Atkinson ' s pills . — - The jury found their verdict tor the defendant . LEWES . •'

      THE FORGERIES UPON TUE BRIGHTON BANK . . Joseph Hasland , 29 , described as a . scissors grinder , was indicted for feloniously uttering , al Brighton , a £ 5 note of the Union Bank of that town , knowing the same to be forged and counterfoil , and with intent to defraud . The prisoner 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 oi the same bank . - Mr . Clarkson was instructed to prosecute in aU these eases . Evidence having been given , thejury found the prisoners " Guilty , " nnd they were sentenced by Chief-Justice _Wilda to b _« transported for life . Robert Steward , 23 , miller , was then charged with the offence of ultering a forged £ 5 note of the same description . . Mr . Ballantine and Mr . Johnson defended the prisoner . . ' . The jury acquitted the prisoner , who was orderod 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/ns3_16031850/page/2/