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      Health Of London Dobixg Tub Week.—It Is ...

      Health of London dobixg tub Week . —It is gratifying to observe lliat the return for the week ending last Saturday , exhibits a farther decrease in the mortality . _Doring tbe two previous weeks the deaths registered in the _metropolitan districts were , in _^ accession , 1 , 124 , 893 ; hey have now declined to 8 G 6 . In the corresponding weeks of ten previous years ( 1 S 10 9 ) the average number was 937 , which Being r used in the ratio of probable increase of population , becomes 1 . 022 ; compared with which the number now returned shows a decrease of 156 . In the same week of last year , _before cholera became predominant , the deaths were 1 , 089 ; the mean temperature , which was then unusually depressed , waa lower than last week *

      by 12 deg . "test week tbe deaths of 9 children and 2 adult s were registered from small-pox ( of which 3 occurred in the Small Pos Hospital , Camdta-town ) . indicating rather an increase ofthe disease , though it has not yet _q'dte attained the average ; 1 ? children d ' ed of measles , -which is _exactly the average ; 36 died of hooping cough , and 18 children and 1 adult of scarlatina , both con-plaints being less fatal than usual ; 8 children died of croup , abuutthe usual number ; 35 persons < _-f typhus fever , and 8 of erysipelas both of wliich arc near the average . Ten wom _^ u died after childbirth _, to 7 of whom " puerperal fever" is assigned as the cause of death ; 22 persons , of whom about half were chi-dren , died of diarrhoea and _dysentry ; this

      number is double the average , and also exhibits an increase on each of the three _weal's immediately _preotdu-. g . A n-oman died of " purpura hseniorLagica , _'" a : d again , two persons of chorea . The two cases m wli-h the latter disease , so seldom fatal , occurred , are thus recorded : —At 8 , Jeff's-p ' , St . John , Marylebone , on the 13 th of April , the _daughter v . f a coachmaker , aged 16 years , " chorea ; " on the 17 th April , at the London Hospital , to which she bad been brought from Stepney , a female servant , aged 19 years , died of " chorea . " It is v . o thy of remark that 9 deaths have been _registen-d in London from this cause dnrins the last ten weeks , which is nearlv

      double the number that usually oecars in a year . Amongst diseases of the respiratory _organs , pneumonia and asthma now show a decrease ; bronchitis has also declined , if compared with the amount of corresponding "weeks in the last three years , but is still in exetss , in comparison with the mortality ofthe seven previous years . The births during tlie week weVe 1 , 471 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , th ' mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 504 in . The daily temperatures varied little throughout the weak ; the mean temperature was -n every day higher than on the same day on an _average of seven years * the mean of the week was 48 9 deg , and wns abont 3 deg . higher than the average .

      Robbery in an Omnibus — On Saturday last . Mr . W . Archer , builder , of Poitland-town , obtained £ 209 in gold at the Bank of England , for the purpose of paying his workmen , and having deposited the money safely in his pocket , he entered au omnibus * . at the same moment , a man about thirty-five , dressed in a brown paletot , took hs seat beside bim , followed by a female carrying an infant . Near the Angel , the woman was seiz _? d with hysterics , causing great alarm and confusion amongst the rest of the passengers . The vehicle being stopped she was got cut and taken into a surgeon ' s , when it was fonnd that the man in the brown paletot was missing , having forgotten to pay his fare , and on Mr . Archer fee ing for his money he discovered that it was gone also . Suspicion was aroused , and on proceeding to the surgeon ' s the woman was found to haveinstauth departed . No doubt exists that the affair was a ruse to facilitate the plnnder .

      Illegal Soap Makcfactort . —Saturday _mo-iiing inspector Brennan seized a _ms-st extensive illicit soap manufactory , which it is evident has been earned on far a lengthened period at a place called Spring-cottage , Stoke Newington . It was with considerable difficulty that the officers effected an entrance to the premises , which were well secured , but having done so , they first of all ponnced upon tw well-known smugglers , named Jacob Bench and John Young , who were forthwith removed to Clerkenweli Court , where they were sentenced to an imprisonment of three months in default of paving £ 30 each .

      _Cossecratiox of a New Chokch . —On Saturday forenoon the new church of St . Bartholomew _, _situated in Moor-lane , Cripplegate , was consecrated by the Bishop of London , in the presence of a very numerous and respectable congregation . The sacred edifice is erected out of and fitted up with the materials which formed the church of St . Bartholomew , in Broad-street , which was taken down for the improvements adjoining the Royal Exchange . The tower is of a design similar to the old one , and thc organ , with the font , pulpit , and communion-table , are tha same . The Rev . Mr . Denton , senior curate of Shoreditch , is the incumbent .

      Assault is Hyde-park . —Shortly bpfore sis o'clock on Sunday afternoon , being the _period when the fc-ot promenade is generally most crowded , the folio : * , isg affair took place , _contravening the wisdom of oar ancestors as expressed in the axiom , " The better the day the better the deed . " At the carve opposite the Duke of Wellington ' s formin * : the junction between "Rotten-row" and the *¦ Serpentinedrive , " two persons in gentleman ' s attire met , when one assaulted the other with a heavy " cane , " inflicting a fearful wound , apparently over , or directly on ,

      the right eye . The attack appeared tobe instantaneous , and the result as above stated . The sufferer "was a tall slim young man , apparently about twentyfive years of age , who was hurried over by a powerful friend to St . George ' s Hospital , his track thither being traceable by gouts of blood . The aggressor who was instantly confided to tbe hands of the police , and takes off to the "Vine-street station , waa shorter in stature than the assailed , but much more squarely built , and showed no outward marks of havi- 'g suffered in the r . firav .

      _Detbrmixed Suicide . —On Saturday _a'terncon last Mr . Bedford , the coroner , concluded an inquiry which had-previously been adjourned , at the _Malpas Arms . _Gbarles-street , Grosvenor-square , respecting fiie death of Susan White , a single woman , aged thirty-two years , who committed suicide in Lady Vern <* n ' s mansion , No . 5 , Upper Belgrave-sireet , Belgrave-square . The deceased had only been five days ia her ladyship ' s service as cook , having previously filled a similar situation in the establishment of lady _Xormanby . The deceased was found in her room on Tuesday morning week , with a rope _rnund her neck , die end of which she held In her hand . She had died from strangulation , and the deceased had _Jilso inflicted two incased wounds upon her throat and one upon hsr rightarm with acommon kitchen-knife , which was found lying by her side . Several of the deceased ' s relatives were examined , bnt were unable to account for the decea 3 ** d comrait'ing the rash act .

      Dur ing the last three weeks she had complained of pains in herns-ad , and she had also appeared very low and desponding . Verdict— " Temporary insanity . " Serious Accident at the House of Commons . —On Tuesday morning , shortly before ten o ' clock , an accident which had well nigh proved fatal to several workmen occurred in the great central hall of the new houses of parliament , in that part leading to the crypt in connexion with St . Stephen ' s-hall . Several men were engaged in raising a mass of stone weighing nearly three tons , intended to form part of the central arch of the hall , by the means of hand machinery , the pnllies being suspended from three pillars , technically called " shear legs . ' ' The _scaffolding , in consequence of the enormous weight of the stone , had been made extra strong , and the men had been cautioned to work it slowly and c-ire ' ullv . After three hours labour the men

      had succeeded in raising the mass of stone to a height of between fifteen and twenty feet , and they then commenced to " stock it , " so as to keep it steady working ; the process of blocking was hai dly gone through , when the ponderous weight of the Stone , which was _tfoen resting on the two ropes of the hand pulley , caused the wheels of the block to snap from the roller . -, the " shear legs " at the same time giving way , the stone with the cumbrous machinery suddenly falling to tbe ground with an _immsnse crash ; fortunately the workmen -while the stone w . i 3 suspended had withdrawn from the spot , those only remaining who were engaged in raising it . la the course of the f :. _H *" of tho " legs " -three men were seriously _injured , being knocked

      down and jammed between the " legs" and stone . Assisl-tnce was immediately rendered , and the men drawn out in a _senselesss condition , and conveyed to the hospital , when it was found that they had sustained most extensive injuries , O . -irss , ono of the sufferers , having received a . compound fracture of the skull , and Michael Donoghue and the foreman , yfehb , having received injurie- _* , the effect of which may pro _\* e fatal to both . _Carss and Donoghue remain in the hospital , Webb being , at his earnest request , conveyed to his own house . The escape of the sufferers from being crushed to death is most _miniculous , as , had it not been for the shear legs forcing them out , the stone must have fallen upon them , and certain death would have been inevitable .

      _Aj-ahm or Fihb at Drury-laxe Theatre . — On Tuesday evening , at a few minutes before five o ' clock ' , considerable excitement prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood of Drury-lane Theatre , in _consequence of a report being raised thatthe ¦ bailding bad taken fire . In the _course of a few minutes several hundred persons congregated , for sheets of dame were rising above the roof , whilst volleys of sparks kept flying about in sundry directions . In the course of a few minutes the engines fro : n Messrs . Combe and Delafield _' _s ( the brewers , ) the London Brigade , and West of England Office , aitinded ; but their services were not required , as the lire did not extend beyond the chimney , in which it broke out , and it was extinguished by the -persons connected with the theatre .

      Ixi-Q . CAi . mEs of the Laxd Tax — On Mondav last the committee of the commissioners of hind tax , for Middlesex , appointed at a general meeting of the commissioners , held at the Sessions House , Clerkenweli , on Tuesday , the 26 th of March , ult . to take the necessary steps to induce the govern ' ment to introduce a measure into parliament , de "

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      claratory as to the powers of the commissioners to equalise theland tax throughout the couhtyr-held a meeting at the board-room of the / Holborn division , in Red Lion-square , when it was determined that a deputation should immediately wait upon the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer , in furtherance of the purpose for _v-fcioh they were appointed , and the deputation was nominated .

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      Thb Murder of Mary Anne _PAUsoNS .-After a long inquiry into the case of Mary Anne Parsons , the magistrates have committed both the prisoners Mr . and Mrs . Bird , to be tried rt _^ _assizer for a felonious assault on the deceased . The evidence produced at the examination of the prisoners was in SSncethe same as that onthe trial before Mr Justice Talfourd . The proceedings were adopted at the desire ofthe government . Mr . Ilarvie stated that he had received bis instructions from one ofthe government solicitors , " _Murdkk by — On th 18 th

      Attempted a Boy . e inst a boy _ab--ut sixteen years of age , named James Smith , was charged at the Manchester Borough Court with attempting to cut a lady ' s throat on the previous evening —Mrs . Knight said her hushand was a pawnbroker in Butler-street , Oldham-road , and the prisoner had been in their employment for some time past . On the previous evening she was in the kitchen , no one else being in the house at the time but the boy , when the latter , who was engaged in cleaning some knives , aimed a hlow at her neck from behind , with a carving knife . The wound was apparently inflicted with the blunt side of the knife , not heing a serious one . She had given him no provocation , and was quite unable to account for his conduct . The doorswere allfastened _, so thatnoone conld have entered without witness ' s knowledge . She screamed for assistance , and she freed herself from the boy ' s grasp , and took refuge in the house of a

      neighbour . —Mr . Knight said the boy had been detected on the previous Saturday stealing some money from the shop , and he thought he had perhaps been actuated by a desire for revenge in committing the violence with which he was charged . — The prisoner denied the charge , and said the assault was committed by a man who had rnshed in unobserved , and run out agam immediately the prisoner caught sight of him . He said the man was dressed in a Scotch can , a round jacket , and a light vest . —Mr . Hodgson , and the other magistrates on the bench , without pronouncing any opinion on the case , ordered the depositions to be taken . Eliza . Chestney . —This intrepid young woman bas been married recently . She visited . Cambridge on Friday , in company with her husband , on the weddingexcursion . She appears still to walk lame from the serious injuries received from the fire ofthe murderer Rush , hut in other respects she seems to have recovered her health .

      A Large Sugar Refinery is about to be built on the premises ofthe Southampton Dock Company , for the refining of sugar in bond for exportation . It is to be seven stories high , and will be calculated to refine from 80 to 100 tons of sugar per week . The building is to be erected at the expense of the Dock Company , but will be rented for twenty-one years by a London house in the sugar trade , who will enter into the business extensively , and import their cargoes ofsasar for refining into the port of Southampton < "irect from abroad .

      Thb Charge against the Crew of the John R . Sxiddy . —On Saturday last several of the passengers who were on board the John R . Skiddy , lately wrecked on the Irish coast , appeared before his worship , the Mayor , at the Town-hall , Liverpool , in suyport of a memovial complaining of the crew , by whom it was alleged the passengers had _baen shamefully illnsed and plundered . It is stated in the memorial that ihe sailors , including the mates , were very abusive to the female passengers and _childrer , some of whom were knocked down and trodden on whi _' st the men were on deck , particu _' arly the females . A port _' on of the crew went below and broke open the boxes and other packages belonging to the

      passengers , their object bting to possess themselves of the cash , in doing which much property , was de stroyed . The memorialists further state , that , so far from the Irish being tbe abandoned set of villains described by the captain , they behaved with kindness , many signal acts of which were experienced by the passengers . The memorial is signed by a dozen people , who represent their _losses at suras vaiying from £ 20 to £ G 0 A number of the parties c mp _' aining were examined _? y the Mayor and Mr . Rushton , but their statements were very confused and indefinite , no single case of the nature complained of being spoken to , * and eventually the matter was left for the investigation of Lieut . Hodden , the government emigration agent .

      The Alleged Murder at Laleham . —Saturday last being appointed for the re-examination , at Stai :. es , of Charles Holden , an agricultural labourer , who had given himself up to the police bn his own confession ' of _having murdered a woman twenty years ago , and burying her in a plantation on the Earl of Lucan ' s estate at Laleham , the Petty Ses 9 ion-house was crowded . Lord Lucan was among the magistrates present . The prisoner was brought by a twin from the Detention-house in Clerkenweli . — Edmund Hiscock , carpenter , stated that on the 13 th of November , he was digging a hole for a post in a field near Lynch , corner _*^ belonging to Lord Lucan , when he came on a human skull , and on diggin 2 _ further he found an entire skeleton . He covered it up

      again , and in a day or two he gave information to the police . They covered the skeleton up again , and put some turf over the place , and some wood over the turf . —Mr . W . K . Heseltine deposed that he was a qualified surgeon , though not in practise . He saw the sknil within two or three days of its disoovery _, and afterwards the other bones . They were certainly those of a very elderly female . The bones had heen under ground a number of years , probably a century . Thev crumbled when they were touched . —Policeconstable M ' Intyre , 27 V ., stated that the place all round where the bones had been found had been carefully sifted , but nothing was found . —David Groves , a farming mp , deposed that seventeen or eighteen years ago he was at work on Mr . Honner ' s farm , when he saw the prisoner , whom he kuew , and asked

      where the woman was , alluding to a woman with whom the prisoner cohabited . lie nodded , but said _Bathing . —Colonel Wood then read the usual caution to the prisoner , after which he asked him whether he cli'ise to say anything ?—Tlie prisoner then said in a low hut clear voice , that he was not quite right in the head , and that he had been taking a little drink when he gave himself to the p-dice . He had heard of this skeleton having been dug up . As a proof that he was not guilty , the _youn- woman he was supposed to have murdered wasstiil alive , and to be found . He had lately been with her in a public house in Chertsey . and if any gentleman would go with him he would soon find her . —The magistrates having _deliberated on the case an hour , Colonel Wood said there was not sufficient evidence at present to detain the pr isoner further . He was accordingly discharged .

      SecularEducatiox . —The congregation of Hope-Street Church , Liverpoo 1 . have sent up the following petition to tbe House of Commons iii favour of secular education : _—Fhst , that in the - 'p inion of your petitioners the growth of population in this country has outstripped tbe resources of private education , and rendered necessary a public provision to supply the defects and iill up the inst ' rstices of the existing system . Secondly , That in order to avoid reasonable objection , and to rest upon a just and permanent basis , a system of public schools should comply with the following condition * . —1 . It should not interfere with or discourage the schools already in ' operation , but rather seek to secure the completeness and effitiencv of their secular instruction .- — -2 nd . It should

      be fn ely open to all , under suitable regulations , and should adopt no test or method of teaching which favours the special tenets oi any denomination . —3 rd . It shonld be supported by local rates , and managed by local boards , elected by the ratepayers specially for ihat purpose ; with provision , however , for such general inspection and control as ma . y obvi'te local _dt-fects , and sustain and _circulate a spirit of improvement . —Thirdly . Thai the bill which has been introd iced for the promotion of ths secular education of the people in England and Wales , appears to your petitioners a fair attempt to combine these requisites . Your petitioners , therefore , pray that this bill , with any modifications requisite for the better attainment of its main ends , may pass into a law .

      Holywell , April 19 . —Ellis _WUiams , a respectable farmer , residing at Nannerch , near this town , committed suicide a few days since , under the following circumstances : —about three weeks ago , he was present at a fair , held in an adjacent county , and observed hia w fe shake hands with a man who had formerly been a neighbour . Without other provocation than this , he immediately conceived the most violent jealousy , and asked his wife if she would like to die the same death as he wonld ? Alarmed by the extraordinary inquiry , the wife left

      his house , when he entreated her to come back , saying that he wanted to see her for ouce only . She refused , and continuing to absent herself , upon which he placed ah the articles of her dress in a box , " and burned them in his farmyard . He then sent his daughter into his furthest field to attend the cows , and durin- * her absence ripped open the bodies of two valuable mares ( in colt , ) for which he bad refused £ 40 at the fair . The unfortunate man then went to the barn , where he hanged himself by a rope attached to the beam . There can be no doubt that be committed the rash act when in a state of mental

      insanity . Suspected Murder at Fhome . —Last week a young man named T . George , abnut eighteen , v / as found dead in a barn , at Nunney , near Frome , with his throat cut . A coroner ' s inquest was held on the following day . when an open verdict was returned , to the effect that there was nofc sufficient . evidence to prove whether the deceased had destroyed himself or had met with hi 3 death from an unknown hand . Sirce the inquest Messrs . Giles and Cockey , surgeons , of Frome , were called in to examine the body , aud discovered that the . _aMl had been frac-

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      tured _inirwitby a blow , . and from the manner in which the wound had been inflicted in the throat they weredecidely " of opinion that the deceased could not have committed suicide , but must have been murdered . It further appeared that his pockets had been rifled , and turned inside out ; the mark of bloody fingers was found , but the hands of the deceased were perfectly clean . H . Ililler , alias Axford , a labourer , has been brought , before the Frame magistrates , charged , on suspicion , with committing the murder , and remanded for a fortripbt . The Game Laws . —A Man Shot . —Two men were shot at lately in a wood called Noroyds , belonging to Lord Wharncliffe , at Carlton , hear Barnsley . The game on this estate is preserved by a

      solicitor , who resides near Wakefield , and who employs a person named Joseph Hunter as gamekeeper . The police authorities took no notice of it , although Moody , one of the wounded men , is unable to go without a stick , from the effect of the injuries he received . However Cherry , the other man who was shot , has sued Hunter ; the case was heard on the 19 th , before Wm . Walker , Esq , the judge of the countv court at Barnsley . Cherry stated that on the 23 rd of February , he went to seo the _Badsworth hounds meet at the village of Notton , and in coming down by the side of the wood he saw Hunter , the defendant , who asked plaintiff and two others where the hounds were . Plaintiff told him that they were in Notton-park . These men left Hunter , and

      walked down by the side oflvoroyds-wood . They went through the wood , when one of the men with him began cutting some sticks . Plaintiff then saw Hunter , who was about twenty-five yards from them , coming towards them , the men began to run away , when plaintiff said to the other , "He's going to shoot us " and before he had delivered tho words he was shot in the arm and side , and could not run with the others . — -George Wordsworth , assistant to Mr . Cawood , surgeon , Barnsley , said that plaintiff went to their surgery on the 25 th of February , and stated that he had been shot . They _examined him , and found he had been shot in the left arm and side

      on the ribs near the heart . On the Gth of march he extracted a shot from his arm , and made an incision _< m the ribs , but was unable to get the shot out . The wounds were not dangerous , but they were in a dangerous part . —Henry Challenger and Joseph Cherry , the two men who were with the plaintiff , corroborated his evidence . —The Judge said that defendant deserved to be sent to York for what he had done already . The damages might have been laid at £ 100 or £ 1 , 000 had plaintiff been acting lawfully ; but Be thought plaintiff had acted with discretion in laying the damages at £ 10 ., for which he should give a verdict , nnd all the costs ihe law would allow .

      Alleged Fraud bt a Bankrupt . — At the Bristol Bankruptcy Court on Saturday , Charles Green , a baker , who applied for his certificate , was opposed by Mr . Trenerry for the assignees on various grounds , ore of which was tbat he had , with a view to defraud his creditors , antedated a bill for £ 55 , which he afterwards paid four days before its presumed maturity . It was proved that although the bill was dated the 11 th of May , the stamp upon which it was drawn was not struck in London until the 4 th of July , and the learned commissioner , Mr . Serjeant Stephen , ordered tbe assignees to prosecute him for making , or being privy to the making , of a false , entry in a document with a view to defraud his estate . There being no estate the court ordered the costs ( o be defrayed out of the bankruptcy funds in the Bank of England , and he informed the bankrupt that his conviction would _subject him to three years' imprisonment with hard labour . Colliery Strike near St . Helens . —The colliers

      in the employment of Messrs . Johnston at their colliery at Laffock , numbering fully 200 hands , have turned out in consequence of the proprietors having recently appointed a person named Smith as manager or undcr-viewer of their mines , who is disliked by the men . The proprietors have issued large placards , informing and cautioning the public against relieving the men . The colliers engaged at the extensive * orks of Mr . Mackay , at _Upholland , have been upon strike for several weeks past . Upwards of 100 colliers have turned out from , the Collieries at

      Rainford , on account of a dispute about wages , and petty depredations are becoming so numerous , that an extra number of police have been applied for and sent to this neighbourhood to protect the property of the inhabitants . We regret to be informed that several riotous meetings have been held by the men on Smithybrow , to which the colliers had been summoned by the beating of tin cans , & c . Stones have been thrown at various parlies who declined leaving work . Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended and brouvht before the magistrate , who has ordered them to find hail for their future good behaviour utuuiiuui

      . _* . _m St . Ives . —TnE Fishery . —The boisterous state of the weather during the past week has hindered the fishermen from going to sea . Three boats shot on Monday night ; one took 300 fish ; another lost eighteen nets ; and the third was obliged to go to Newquay or St . Agnes . It would be an act of charity towards the poor unfortunate fishermen , if any of our coasting vessels which may fall in with these lost nets , would tako them on board , and on arriving in port , publish them in the Shipping Gazette , without asking salvage , as some have done—Cornwall Gazette .

      On Saturday last there arrived in Hull , by train , from Darlington , eight bulls and four heifers of the Durham breed , from the eminent breeders Mr . R . Thorntm , of Stapleton _, and Mr . R . Emmerson , of _Evyholm _, which were shipped for the Belgian government . Oxford . —On the 18 th inst . two eight-oared outriggers fouled each other near Iffley Lock , when both bo-its were upset , and their crews , consisting of eighteen persons , were thrown into the water , which was very high and running rapidly at the time . Three of the individuals could not swim , and were saved by Mr . Hamber , of Oriel , who was in one of the boats , and swam to their aid , and with great presence of mind , and with almost superhuman strength and tact , brought all three safely to land .

      St Helen ' s _Savings Bank . —The following notice was extensively circulated on Monday * . — "St . Helen ' s Savings Bank . — "Notice is hereby given that the trustees and managers of the St . Helen's Savings Bank will pay a first dividend of 6 s . 8 d . in the pound out of the funds of the bank to those depositors whose claims have not been objected to , as well as upon the amount awarded to those depositors whose claims have been objected to . The dividend will be paid at the Town-hall on Monday , the 13 th day of May next , and on the three following days , between tile hotirSof ten o ' clock in the forenoon and two o ' clock in the afternoon . By order of the trustees and managers . Ansdell and Haddock , solicitors . "

      DbbadfolTbagedy by _Drunken Navigators . — On Saturday evening last the small town of Otley , on the banks of the Wharf , ten miles north-west of Leeds , was the scene ofa collision between a party of drunken navigators aud several of the townspeople , which has unhappily resulted in the death of one man , and the serious injury ef one or two others . It appears that on the afternoon or evening of Saturday , a number of the navigators who are at present employed in . making a rescservoir at Burley , had walked over to Oiley , a distance of some three miles , and as is the custom of their class , had found their way into several of the public-houses of the town . Having received their wages on that day , the _snen , it appears , continued drinking up to a late hour . On

      their way out ofthe town , four of these menbegan to amuse themselves by breaking the windows of the houses on each side of the street . As a natural consequence , a number of persons were speedily roused from their slumbers , and two men , named Ives and Oliver went in pursuit ofthe delinquents On coming up with them , Ives , after some altercation , struck one of the men with a heavy stick , and then , wiih his companion , ran away . Unable to lay hands on their first opponents , the navigators appeared willing to engage in a row with any one who presented himself . As the neighbourhood was by this time disturbed , a young man named Robert Dawson presented himself ) and asked them if they knew what they had been doing . The only answer they _appeared to have given

      him was to seize him and throw him down , and proceed to beat him severely . While this was going on , however , rlobert Dawson ' s wife went to call his brother , John Dawson , who was in bed , to comedown and help to rescue her husband . After partially dressing himself , John Dawson ran to the assistance of his brother , but he had no sooner re iched the 6 pot than he received a stab in the groin from some sharp instrument , which cut through the n , ain artery . The poor fellow cried out , "I ' m stabbed , I shall die ;" and almcst immediately dropped down and expired . In lhe meantime one of the nei ghbours bad carried Robert Dawson into his own house , * a party had also gone to call up a constable who lived in the _neighbourhood , and some one had also gone to one of the inns ofthe town , at which some company was drinking , to obtain assistance . On the appearance of the constable , the navigators , who did not seem to have been aware of the mischief they had done , laid hold

      of him , threw him to the ground and inflicted several wounds with a knife on his neck and body . Rescue , however , was at hand , for , with the assistance of pokers , a small band that had bem called together succeeded in _securing three of the four rioters . Of course the three were immediately lodged in gaol . On Monday morning an inquest was held on the body ol John Dawson , beforo Mr . Brown , the coroner , and a highly respectable jury . A great number of witnesses were examined , but none of the parties _cou'd say which ofthe four prisoners had inflicted the wound that had caused the death of John Dawson . There could be very little doubt , however , as to the _identity ofthe four men . After thc conclusion of the evidence the coroner briefly summed up . The jury then retired . After deliberating some time , they fonnd tliey could not arrive at a unanimous verdict , and they finally returned , by a majority , a verdict of ' . ' Wilful Murder ' * against all lhe prisoners , who wero subsequently committed to York Castle .

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      ' lNNERLEiTHlJW .--SlNOULARCASfi .--A short time since Miss Lavinia Downie , niece to Mr . L _^ wnie , gardener , Traquair House , a most amiable and interesting voung lady , twenty-four years of age , who had suffered from occasional severe pains in thehead , and a consider able degree of deafness , since her childhood , and whose health had been gradually declining forthe last three years , was in August last seized with most painful inflammation in the left ear , accompanied by occasionally bleedings also from the ear . About the 1 st of March , the pain and lnnamma-. tiongreately increased , andon tho 20 _thultimoran ordinary sized metallic pin was extracted from the left ear , which wns enveloped in a firm substance hard

      with numerous fibres attached to it ; several bodies , in shape resembling the grams of _buckwheat , but of various colours , were also taken out ot the right ear . The poor girl endured the most intense pain , which she bore with Christian fortitude till the 4 th instant ; when death terminated her sufferings . It is believed that the pin must have been lodged m the head for nearly twenty years , as she ' never recollected of having put one in her ear , but she had a distinct remembrance of having when a chile- ! had a pin in her mouth , when she thought she swallowed it . It- is the opinion of several eminent medical men , that , in all probability , the one extracted was the same pin . It was found on examination to have been frequently bent and twisted .

      Murder . —A trial for murder took placo on tbe 19 th inst ., at the Circuit Court of Justiciary , at Jedburgh , before Lords Mackenzie and Ivory . — James Deary , or Dorr */ , and Daniel O'Eourke , or Rook or Rork , Irish railway labourers , were placed at tho bar , accused of tho crime of murdering , in Roxburgh-street , Kelso , William Fairbairn . —The prisoners pleaded " Not guilty . " Several witnesses were examined ,. who detailed tho particulars of tho riot which took place in Kelso , which led to the murder . —James Ferguson said there was some ' disturbance going on between the Irish and the townspeople on the 29 th of December last . Had a brother in the crowd . Heard he was struck , which caused him ( witness ) to go into the crowd to assist his brother . Knew James Deary . Saw him' there . Deary

      was standing speaking in the crowd at the time . Saw him squaring with his hands at the time . Knew the deceased William Fairbairn . Saw him there in tho crowd at that time . Fairbairn told witness to take care of himself , as the Irish were not to lippen to . Saw Deary when Fairbairn made that remark , Deary being at that time within a few yards of him . ( _ Witness here showed the attitude that Deary was in when ho was sparring , showing particularly how Deary held his left hand over his right breast , from which peculiarity he beleived that he held some instrument in his hand—that was his impression . ) The crowd moved up the street after that . He observed the Irish make a stand . Did not see Fairbairn there—only saw him moving up with the crowd . Shortly after the stand was made , he saw the Irishmen run away , and Deary amongst them .

      He thought the man who struck Fairbairn was James Deary , but could not be 3 ure . —William Iletherington said he saw Fairbairn come out of the crowd , who exclaimed that he had been stabbed , and the man that had done it had dirty trowsers . — Alexander Watt said that he saw James Deary , who was roaring forany man to come forward and fight with him , strike Fairbairn when he was stoopiag down , and then heard Fairbairn ery out on being struck that ho had been stabbed with a knife . Witness pursued him , and saw him eiiter Stewart ' s shop . —Other witnesses , chiefly policemen , were examinedj who narrated circumstances connected with Deary ' s apprehension at Stewart ' s house , two of them swearing distinctly to marks of moist blood being on his waistcoat at the time , and also that the back of his trousers were much dirtied . —Lord

      Mackenzie having summedup the case , thejury retired , and , after an absence of twenty minutes , returned , finding thc charge against O'Rourke not proven , and Deary guilty as libelled , with a strong recommendation to mercy . —Lord Mackenzie having assumed the black cap , pronounced sentence of death . Murder bv Poison at Leith . —A woman has been poisoned at Leith in that part of this town called Leith Walk . The accused party is William Bennison , a dresser of metal castings , in tbe employment ofthe Shotts Iron Company . He is an Irishman , between thirty and forty , married to his deceased wife for about eleven years . She is a native of Paisley . Tlieir only child , a girl of six years of age , is still alive . The scene of the murder is an

      old-fashioned tiled house in Stead ' s-place . Bennison and bis wife occupied the second flat , which contains only two apartments ; but entering by the same passage , and forming a kind of left wing to the building , is the house of Alexander Milne , a cripple from his infancy , who is well known to the frequenters of Leith Walk , where he sits daily in a small cart drawn by a dog . Mrs . Bennison , after , it is said , partaking of some gruel , became very ill , the symptoms being violent pains in the stomach ,. accompanied by severe vomiting . On Monday the unfortunate woman breathed her last . The sudden death of the dog , so indispensable to poor . Alexander Milne in drawing his little cart , together with the hurried interment , tended to excite surmises . It is stated that

      Bennison requested a neighbour ' s servant girl to empty into the street the contents of a vessel , containing what had been vomited by his deceased wife . Its owner let out the dog about two o ' clock on Sunday afternoon , as was his usual ' custom . It was admitted again in the evening ; and was heard to reach and vomit during the night . The body of the dog has been conveyed to the Surgeons' Hall , to have the contents of his stomach analysed . It appears that about seven weeks ago , Bennison purchased a quantity of arsenic from a druggist's shop in the Kirkgate _, Leith on the pretence of killing rats ; These vermin , however , have not , it is said , been seen about his premises for three or four years , and no rat holes could be found in the house .

      Bennison admits the purchase of the poison , but maintains that it was by the request r . f his wife for the purpose he mentioned to the druggist . On suspicions beini / raised of his having poisoned his w'fe , he called on the druggist , and requested him and his wife not to mention that ho had purchased the arsenic . He even proposed for a written denial of the fact , adding that there might be arsenic found iu his wife ' s stomach , but , so help him God , he did not put it there . On thc Monday previous to her death , it is said , he enrolled her name in a benefit society , by which , on her death , he was entitled to a sum of . £ 8 . The deceased autl her husband were members of the Wesleyan body , and b we an excellent character for piety . Bennison professed to be extremely zealous in behalf of religion , and was in the habit of administering its consolations to such as would accept vf them ,

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      Terrific Storw.—A Most Terrific Storm Of...

      Terrific Storw . —A most terrific storm of thunder and hail passed oyer Dublin about three o ' clock in tho afternoon of the 18 th inst . Peals of thunder , accompanied by lightning , followed each other with scarcely any interruption . Trees wero torn up by the roots in tho College Park , the Botanic Garden's , Sandimourit , and other places in the vicinity , the venerable elms at tho Mansion being amongst the fallen . Some houses in the south suburbs were unroofed , and almost all the _g _las 3 was shivered in the galleries of the Dublin Society , the Round Room of the Mansion-house , the Rotunda , tho conservatories of the public gardens , and other places similarly exposed , The hailstones were of enormous size , the greater number of them being

      fully as large as grapes , and many of them being much larger and of an irregular shape . In fact the storm presented , on the whole , all tho characteristics of such a phenomenon in the tropics , and will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Dublin . Saturday's papers contain additional particulars of the mischief caused by the terrible thunder storm . The whole amount of damage is not yet ascertained ; but , fortunately , it appears that no life was lost , although there were several casualties and hairbreadth escapes from the falling trees and chimnies . But tho greater havoc has been in the article of glass , the price of which has shot up 200 per cent ., and a further rise is expected . Every house or public building at all exposed to the fury of the hailstones has suffered moro or less , and there is few

      no doubt that had the storm continued but a minutes longer its ravages would not have been confined to broken windows or' skylights . It was ; in truth , a perfect p henomenon , the like of which has not occurred within tho memory of any living person in the metropolis . From such of the northern papers as came to hand , it would seem that the tempest exhausted itself not far from Dublin , if , indeed , it travelled at all beyond this county , for it was scarcely felt at Howth ; while to the inhabitants of the southern suburbs it was a total mystery till the following morning . Westward , however , it raged with great fury , and in Mullingar it is described as being pf fearful severity , commencing about an hour previous to its brfeak-out in Dublin , and lasting nearly the samo time—a little over half

      an hour . Sales of Encumbered Estates . —Thero were four more sales on tho 19 th inst , in different counties , namely , Cork , Tipperary , Wicklow , and Roscommon , all of which were completed within an hour . Thoj were small properties , some of them subject to heavy charges , made in so complicated a manner that it is impossible to calculate the rate of purchase with any degree . of accuracy , but all of them brought fair prices after a vigorous competition . The Wicklow estate , containing 140 Irish acres , brought £ 2 , 850 , ' or fourteen years' purchase . A small fee simple in North - Tipperary , near the town of Nenagh , producing a profit rent of £ 56 , was sold for £ 1 , 200 , being upwards of twenty-one years ' purchase—a very high rate under existing circumstances .

      Tht * Clearance System . — . Evictions on ths _Martin _^ Estate . —The following statement appears in tho Dublin Evening Post '•» . * ' Clifden , April 10 , —

      Terrific Storw.—A Most Terrific Storm Of...

      I regret to tell you that the parties interested in the far-famed . ' Martin estate' nave obtained no less a number' than 660 ejectment decrees against the unfortunate tenantry ofthe late Thos . Martin , Esq . By this means 3 , 000 to 4 , 000 people will be thrown upon the world . " A Donegal correspondent ofthe Freeman gives the following account of some evictions in that county : — " I regret to inform you that evictions on a very extensive scale have taken place in this county , on the estate of Lord Leitrim , in the parishes of Kilmacrenan and Mevagh , and that the sensation arising from that cause is creating a very bad effect . There is reason to fear it will ultimately lead to secret societies being established . The Hon . Mr . Clements , second son of Lord Leitrim , is the acting agent for his father in theso

      evictions ; One case amongst many may be stated : A respectable tenant ofthe name of Moore ( a Presbyterian ) , bought a farm four years ago near to the one he was occupying , called Devlin , for the tepant right of which lie paid £ 150 , and although this tenant offered Mr . Clements one and one-half year ' s rent ( only two years ! rent being due ) ho would not , as I am informed , accept it , and this respectable and honest old man , with his large family , was driven off his land , which he had improved very much . The consequence will be that the finest land will be left untitled , and those poor persons who have been ejected will be compelled to enter the"Milford poorhouse . This estate being held by Lord Leitrim , under the grant of Trinity College , it is hoped here the board of trustees would remonstrate with his lordship on this serious matter .

      Agrarian Murder in Tifperary . —The Kilkenny Moderator , of Saturday l . _ist _. _oontains the following : — " At about nine o'clock on the night of Tuesday last , a farmer named Shearman , who resided near New Birmingham , was waylaid on tho road nearly midway between that village and shot dead on the spot . Although tho scene of the tragedy was a public thoroughfare , the body lay on the ground without any notice ofthe occurrence being conveyed to the authorities till the middle of the next day . It appeared from tbe evidence on the inquest that Shearman had distressed some tenants for rent , and was to have appeared against them at the sessions next day . The murder was , no doubt , committed to

      prevent the issue of those proceedings . " The Kilkenny Journal mentions that the murdered man was agent or receiver under the courts for the property of Mr . Cooke , at Poyntstown _, on which ejectment notices had been served . It is added that seventeen slugs entered his head . This , and similar outrages of recent occurrence , show the revival of agrarian crime in Tipperary . Incendiarism . —The Leinster _Egress contains an account of a desperate act of incendiarism by two fcmal paupers , who had been discharged at their own request for the Mountmellick workhouse , Queen's County . ; After sotting fire to the house of a poor labourer , they acknowledge that their Object was to exchange the dietary of the workhouse for that of the county prison .

      Further ; Petitions in the Encumbered Court , —No less than thirty additional petitions for the sale of estates were filed in this court during the week ending the 17 th inst . The total number of petitions now amounts to 713 . Thk Lord Mayor . —Sir John Jervis , Attorney-General for England , has giver an opinion in the case of the Lord Mayor of Dublin , coinciding with that given by the English Solicitor-General , and by Sir Colman O _' Loughlen . Ik is as follows : — " I am of opinion that Mr . Reynolds may , whilst in possession of the office , legally appoint a locum tenens whose acts will be valid . I am of opinion that the deputy so appointed will not be subjected to any penalties '; but I _ am inclined to t _' i ' ink that Mr . Reynolds will be liable for the act of the deputy so appointed . Mr . Reynolds can only be removed from his office by judgment of ouster upon a quo warranto .

      The Royai , Adelaide . —A subscription list has been opened at the Chamber of Commerce for the sufferers by the loss of the Royal Adelaide . The Freeman states , that the opposition between the City of Dublin Company and some ofthe competing companies is carried on with such bitterness "that the widow and child of one ofthe unfortunate sufferers in the Royal Adelaide were refused a passage from Cork to Liverpool by the Cork Company , although requested by the agent to the owners of the lost vessel as a matter of charity . " Connected with the recent discontinuance of the office of Deputy Judge Advocate for Ireland .

      Saunders' News Letter says : — " This measure has been followed by a grant of an additional salary of £ 200 a year to the Deputy Judge Advocate General in London , making £ 1 , 000 per annum , on the understanding that he is to perform all the duties of that department in Ireland , and to receive , when necessarily travelling thither , only his actual travelling expenses , and 20 s per diem whenever required by public duty to sleep out cf his settled quarters . Already the merchants and citizens of Belfast have raised a fund of £ 500 for the purposes ef the exposition of 1851 . '

      Sir John Romilly s Bill . —Meetiso op Landlords . —On Monday afternoon another meeting of Irish landlords w . *» 3 held at the Dublin Society , to consider the best mode of modifying the bill of Sir John Romilly , with a view of extending its advantages to proprietors of land only partially encumbered . After much discussion , a petition has been adopted , praying that proprietors , whose debts are less than half the value of their estates , and who are , therefore , excluded from the operation of tlie

      Encumbered Estates Act , should be empowered , hy a new bill , to obtain debentures upon the security of their estates , in the same manner as half-credit purchasers of estates in ordinary cases at the sales in the Commission Court . For instance , that a landlord owing £ 12 , 000 on an estate worth £ 2 , 000 per annum should be entitled to obtain debentures sufficient to pay off his debts , and thus place himself in a position to free his estates from all encumbrance within the period of twelve years specified by the bill of Sir John Romilly .

      The Repeal Association . —There was a meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday , at Conciliation-hall , Mr . Mahon presiding . Mr . John O'Conneil read letters from different parts of Ireland enclosing subscriptions , including a letter from the Rev . M . O'Beirne , P . P . Ballinahown _, enclosing £ 5 , of which the Right Rev . Dr . O'Higgins , Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh , contributed £ 2 . Mr . O'Conneil then stated that he had received a circular from the National Reform Association , expressing a wish that delegates or representatives should be sent over to attend the Reform Convention to

      be held in London next week . He had , in his individual capacity , drawn up an answer , in which he stated that . in the present stato of the law the Repeal Association could not appoint such delegates , as it would bs illegal so to do ; but the association entirely sympathised with the reform movement in England . ' The rent for the week was £ 37 . Tenant-right Movement . —The Cork Examiner has a long report of a tenant-ri ght meeting , held at Ballahooly , on Sunday last . It is stated that there was an immense gathering . A considerable number of Roman Catholic clergymen were present .

      ¦ Mb . Smith O'Brien.—By The Last File O...

      ¦ Mb . Smith O'Brien . —By the last file of Hobart Town papers , we find some very stringent remarks upon the system of treatment pursued by the authorities of the colony towards the convict Smith O'Brien . Wo give them without the least alteration : — " A correspondent at Launceston , whose accuracy we have had reason to be satisfied with , sends us some particulars of the alleged harsh treatment of the misguided and exiled patriot , Smith _O'Ei-ion , which surprise us not a little . Mr . Smith O'Brien left Hobart Town for Maria Island by steamer , on the 1 st of November . He was removed to that penal station because he would not accept the indulgence of a ticket of leave . At the latest period , of our correspondent ' s information , which . appears to be about the 18 th of November ,

      the unfortunate prisoner O'Brien was shut up in a narrow miserable hut , lately occupied by . an- overseer ; bars of iron had been placed on the windows ,-and he was so completely deprived of the services of the attendant _^ ippointed to wait upon him by one of the persons in . authority , that he was not permitted to cook for him his miserable convict ration of meat and flour in his own hut . In his habitation amilitarysentinel is constantly stationed , and an officer visits his bedroom three times each night , so that he cannot be said to have any undisturbed repose during the night or by day . It is stated that no _\ inauthorised person can speak to him now , or give him anything to conduce to his comfort ; and that any employee of the government found infringing these apparently heartless regulations would incur the penalty , of dismissal , without any chance of successful appeal to the governor . " [ Tho above is from the Dispatch . The name of the Hobart Town

      paper and its date are not stated . Our latest papers from Hobart Town are the Courier and Colonial Times ; thoir dates are from the 29 th of December to the 12 th of January . They contain nothing about Mr . O'Brien . In a communication from our Singapore correspondent , which we published on the 25 th of March , it is stated that he had received Hobart Town papers to the end of November _^ that Mr . Smith O'Brien alone of the Irish political convicts had refused to accept a ticket of leave , on conditio ** that he would promise not to make the liberty granted him a means of escape , and that he had therefore been sent to Maria Island , " . ' where he wiU be strictly watched . " It is stated in the same communication that , " In the passage from Sydney to Hobart Town , O'Brien , Martin , and O'Dognerty ,. were accommodated with a cabin passage , and had opportunities of communing with each other . " *]—Daily News .

      Join * Stock- Companies . —By the report for the year _J 840 , made to tho Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade , it appears that during the ; past year 134 companies have been provisionally registered , at' S total cost ; including the fees paid at the'branch office -in Dublin , of £ 2 , 027 . The return mentions that during , the yean there have been no bnnkruptow 3 of join * Bioqk _cctffipanies ,

      James Morison, The Iiygektt^T^ ;.'Medica...

      JAMES MORISON , THE _IIYGEkTT _^ _T _^ ; . 'MEDICAL PROFESSION ' . TIIE ( Extract ofthe concluding passages of An In mode of action of Morison ' s Hygeian Mefiioi 1 Uir _" ' i"i ' otti . Marshall Smithion . ' ) ; . ' * - _" _"dici-ies , by _jft It needs no fire of fancy— a sober _imaf-inni-,,,, realise the idea , that it is permitted to _flw V " " tajik spirit to contemplate , with a meek and jrn n _- | B St _? _to < liM and joy , the sweetly beneficent fruits of it * _„»?* ' ' W _* _2 doings whilst on . earth ; and the shade of _Jaft'Hi _* the _HygeisVmay even now enjoy the _priv-w _^ J _^; ,, thismg , with a calm : and chastened conX ' " JriW delight , in the comfort and happiness which w . v nce » m and writings have already so widely diffused in « e * ie _» of tears , ' And generations yet unborn shnii " ' _vafo name ,: and embalm witli grateful tears thn revere the him , who , rescuing the art of healing from fh _" ' *' **' Of dogmatical science , taught the lame to _foreg o th ° _- _* a ' e" Of uiiuu

      . no . v _cn , w , u near ; tne nnlc ; _A , i . — w _utch . utility of limb ; the bed-ridden to _w' _^ _ft _' _-Wh " duties ; and the prematurely infirm and f ,, i „ , r act £ v . theiryouth and strength . Custom , and ftE _^ _^ l _judice _. may _. fora season , still lead the tli' ! - ' * " "' " nil with disdain the proffered boon _.-may still decov * Je _-t to embrace the deadliest means as wisely an _^ . * naiw of health and of life ; but the great mas-ji _ofT _» Wn not long be inveigled by a grossly _mercennryi _* _^ ever subtle . and refined nor by _sophiS _^ 5 _> % learned and ingenious ; neither will thoy l 0 n » I ' ° « 'er ( f to the utter ruin of all that makes life ' s sweet h recoilI ;'' ed tire error , howerer sanctioned by authority L f " " _¦"" Wn . norance , however . venerable from _antitiuitvTi , •* - " " ' al" ? medical Juggernaut may still , for a season * _ru ! _° tte mangle to th » death its fanatic victims ; bit " , i ' "* * " < i ' sleep , aiittlemore slumber , a little more fnir " " we arms to sleep , ' and the people -rill arouse thm . ? tte their fatal delusion , and will throw off _S . " " from loathing and horror , their superstitious _revcrrH " llli ( i '« _truthless medical idols , and then the eves nf , i _- " eir will be opened , and they will clearly perceiv »![ *"• ' _"•"« legitimate office of the art of _Iicaline : isto _<»¦« i _" a' _tts _ivyi / _iuvuwuiowaao icai _lunclion

      , , man mc tt w means is to _rer-toro health to the afflicted _imi r ? n , e ( 1 > . 'il to minister to the necessities of a barbaric _rn ' _ofi _,- s n P * J the worth of medicines is to be estimated bv nn nli " ' "' than the amount . of human suffering which the i " " _' _" and the perfect and permanent cures which th ! I " ""'" _, effect . The alehymists of a former day won ! I ap * % skilled and learned , and , impelled by a k _' _nrtVwi mor _" delusion , and folly , were infinitely more ardentTJ ? " . inthe prosecution of their , wild and maniac SI T than even the most profound and _enthusiastic _tA ¦ ¦¦' and surgeons of our time—than the surgeons _H' _" 1511 * with more than alchymical stolidity , to discover l \ , ""•? of health and life by elaborately mangling the enrr .... loathsome . carcases of the dead-than the phvsiS T seek to restore health by the poisonous means nh \ X pair and . paralise every function of the body and _ivifn "" _t _" to prolong life by poisoning and utterly destroviRt- . iu ? organs through which life moves and has its _sarthlv _vl-The speculations and researches of the alchvmist _» ' howerer , guiltless of murder ; whole hecatombs of I n ' victims are daily sacrificed to the upas and san _/ niinar _?* l the craving and exacting and still insatiate and _cniolliS ot tne merciless doctors

      ana mercenary , Our forcfathZ had not more implicit faith in the trickeries and iu « Bkri of the sciences of astrology , palmistry , and wizaruism thin too many of tlieir posterity—the wiser fools of our tim _^ Z have in the medical sciences ot alleviating sufferinirs _h » torture , and of curing disease by death . The medical art of the present day is , indeed , at once the most _stupendoiw monument of _scienti / ic effrontery and blaukguardism and offceryile , mental prostration and abandonment , The pub lie mind in our time is too much engrossed in _amassinwealth , is too much abstracted and lost in the lofty and exclusive researches of the applied sciences , and of tha useful and ornamental arts ; the public mind is so entire ! , carried away and abandoned to the concerns ofaccumulat . ing wealth , and of _promoting the advancement and eleT _» ' tion of intelli

      gence and c vilisation , as not to allow the dedication of a moment ' s time to the infinitely more im portant and vital concerns of personal comfort and of bodily health . Itis to this total abstraction ofthe mind from tliese concerns ofthe highest earthly import , that a false and exploded science owes its lingering , pestiferous existence , in these our days of general intellectual _lllu . mination ; itis owing to this entire mental abstraction that the medical grubs and worms are still suffered to ply their trade of feeding upon the very vitals of the community and it is owhig to thia same intellectual engrossment , that whilst they are tolerated by the wise , and ridiculed by tte witty , these loathsome vermin still drag out their nnomal . nus and unnatural existence . But the death blow has been given to the trade in death , in the spirit of his otto uiio ictu Morison

      motto ' . " > James , the Hygeist , has dealt that single , fatal stroke , under which lhe medical monster now languishes , and must ultimately perish . And _eten whilst upon earth , he foresaw in prophetic vision , that he had entailed upon mankind the emancipation of tlieir health , and the full assurance of their _personal comfort and enjoyment ; and when laying the foundation of tha future physical blessedness of coming generations , _hii spirit was cheered , and his nr _*! our was inflamed , by the reflection that on the fleshy tablets of the grateful _htarti of all succeeding posterity , he had raised to himself an endearing record of his own name and fame— ' _monum-niuni cereperennlusj ' Exeter Hygeian Dispensary ; April 8 th , 1850 .

      " Some Persons Hare Fancied That Mr. Mor...

      " Some persons hare fancied that Mr . Morison chose his motto , ' uno ictu '—at one blow , in accordance with bis system , by which with one medicine he completely routed the whole tribe of doctors , '—but it is not however so ; ' uno ictu , ' and the three Saracens' heads joined in one neck , with the dagger for the crest , having been for many _centuries the armorial bearings of the Momsoxs of Bognie , in Aberdeenshire—but the motto * at one blow' is certainly a most extraordinary coincidence .

      A London Rookery.—By Day There Are The D...

      A London Rookery . —By day there are the dingy alley , and the thievish-looking population , women with their bloated faces , and men wbo fill every intermediate occupation between greengrocer and birdcatcher ; true , that thieves lurk here , these very employments being , in many cases , but semblances worn to conceal a less reputable calling . Dog-breakers , dealers in birds , marine 6 tore keepers , men whom indolence and dissipation unfit for more regular employment , throng these haunts even by day ; but night alone witnesses the real condition of our Rookeries ; then the swarm of beggars , who have driven their profitable trade , return to their lair * , trarapers come in for their night ' s lodging , * the beggars' operas , as thev were wont to

      be called , then open their doors to tliose _whom necessities has made skulkers or outcasts . So that , not in St . Giles ' s alone , but in most London parishes , are rooms where chance lodgers are gathered at nightfall ; these are crammed by those whom poverty assembles , and the landlord derives a large revenue from the necessities of his customers ; so that you cannot } udge by thc daylight aspect of the Rookery , what face it wears by night . You would bo startled to witness the crowding of inmates even in favoured localities ; to see the industrious mechanic , his wife , and five or six children , huddled into a single apartment , by day tiie common sitting-room , by night the common dormr _* tory ; you would be startled to find that such is the

      rule among the working classes , the meed of honesty and diligence , so that it has few exceptions . But , in the genuine Rookery , even this remnant of decency , this slender rag which yet betokens a lingering regard to the proprieties of social life , _« removed ; men and women aro brought together in the same apartment whom no marriage ti e unites , and who have no other bond than that of common want-So that because all are taken in who can pay their footing , the thief and the prostitute are harboured among those whose only crime , perhaps , i 3 poverty ; and there is thus always a comparatively secure retreat for him who has outraged his country ' s law . Sums are here paid , a tithe of which , if well laid out , would provide , at once , a decent and an ample lus

      lodging for the deserving poor , ; and that surp , which might add to tbe comfort , and better the condition of the industrious , finds its way into the pocket of the middle-man . The Surrkt New Prison . —In arranging the designs for tbe Surrey new prison , now in course of construction at Wandsworth , under the direction of Mr . D . Dill , architect , it has been attempted to make them in such a way as to be uniform and complete for the number at first intended to be provided for ( 700 , ) and that the future extension ( to 1 , 000 , ) should not interfere with the buildings erected nor destroy their uniformity . The buildings are designed in the plainest and most simple style , and ofthe most substantial kind . They are executed m

      brickwork , with stone dressings , quoins , p linths , cornices , window-sills , & c , and are arranged on the principle of Pentonville prison , and with the latest improvements in the various fittings and details . There are 543 cells provided for male prisoners , and 1 C 5 for females , making a total accommodation for prisoners of 708 cells , not including punishment and reception cells ; the whole will De thoroughly ventilated , and- fitted up with soil P an or water closet , washing basin , with sufficient _suf ply of water ( a separate cistern being provided fo * - each cell , ) and a gas light . Rooms on the ground floor , fir 3 fc , and _aecond floors , adjoining the centr al hall , have been provided for trade instructor ? -

      Baths have been provided both for males and females , supplied with hot and cold water . The cooking kitchen , bakehouse , and serving room ' , are entirely distinct from the main buildings . _ fhe infirmaries , both for males and . females , aro entirely separated trom the other parts of the prison , and are - provided i \ vith separate airing courts . The chapel will be fitted up with separate seats or alalia for 394 prisoners , _pewa for governor s ana chaplain ' s families , and galleries for thc officers , _j-m prison will be warmed by hot water , sindlaT to tne manner at Pentonville . The whole of the cells , botn for males and females , are thirteen feet by sew feet , and nine feet hi g h to the crown of the arcll . - ; The Builder .

      Thk Window Taxing op _Lodoiso-hoosbs . _---- _»* * at present regulated , tho window tax falls PaJtl 0 ! j ! _lavly heavy on model lodging-houses . A , f alll having less than eig ht windows is exempt ed tro duty j a house- having eight windows pays j ***** - ' . 2 s . Id . for each window ; beyond that number J " only is each window _chargeatye , but the rat & oi t » per window increases with the number : t _* . _** , _^ model lodging-house having 100 windows would _e charged -62 _& 8 s . Od ., that is , at the rate of no lea * than 5 s . _IOd .. per window . The immense produc of the window tax is the objection to its repe a but in the spirit of tho act itself , lod g ing-houses <>¦* on a large soale for tho labouring _olasses showu exompted from duty . Distinct chambers in , _|» inns of court are so ; so are those in _universn ' and in public hospitals , as aho houses divided » different tenements , being distinot properties . — - _* ¦ Builder . , c , LEaiTiMATis Cabals . —The village of _^ ehsflor' * the residence of the Duke de Bordeaux and j j Duchess of AngoulOme , was never before _soiaj * _» Frencli legitimists . . Many of theni are IwqW' _*" _visUomtthe Duke ' s table . ..

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27041850/page/6/