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      Health of Londos during thb Week .- It is gratifying to observe that the return for the week ending last Saturday , exhibits a further decrease in the mortality . Daring the two previous weeks the deaths registered in the _metropolitan districts were , in succession , 1 , 124 , 893 ; they have now declined to _S 66 . In the corresponding weeks of ten previous years ( 1840 9 ) the average number was 937 , which being rased in the ratio of probable increase of population , becomes 1 , 022 ; compared with which the number now returned shows a decrease of 156 . In tue same " week of last year , before cholera _becami predominant , the deaths were 1 _. 0 S 9 ; the mean temperature , which was then unusually depressed , was lower than last week by 12 dvg _. _Lust week the

      deatns of 9 children and 2 adults were registered from small-pox ( of which 3 occurred in the Small Pox Hospital . Camden-town ) . indicating rather an increase of the disease , thongh it has not yet q _* _ute attained the average ; 1 ? children died of measles , which is _exae'ly the average ; 36 died of _hoopinu cough , and 18 children and 1 adult of scarlatina , both complaints being less fatal than usual ; 8 children died of croup , about the usual number ; 35 persons » _-f typhus fever , and 8 of erysipelas both of which are near the average . Ten woiu-n died after childbirth to * 7 of whom " puerperal fever" is assigned as the cause of death ; 22 persons , of whom about half were _children , died of diarrhoea and dysentrv ; this number is doable the average , and also exhibits an increase on each of the three weeks immediately preceding . A woman died of '' purpura _hffiinorhagica ;'' ai d again , two persons of chorea . The two cases in wli-h the latter disease , so seldom fatal , occurred , are thus recorded : —At 8 , Jefi " s-p ! _ase , St . John ,

      Marylebone , on the 13 th of April , the dau , liter ai a coachmaker , aged 16 years , " chorea ; " on the 17 th A ; ril , at the London Hospital , to which she had b ? en brought from Stepney , n female servant , aged 19 years , died of " chorea . " It is wo-thy of remark that 9 death ? have been registewd in London from this cause daring the last ten weeks , which is nearly double the number that usually occurs 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 excess , in comparison with the mortality ofthe seven previous years . The births during the week were 1 , 471 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , th < mean height ofthe barometer in the week was 29 . 501 in . The daily _temperatures varied little throughout the week ; 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 wss about 3 deg . higher than the average .

      . Robbery ; in an Omnibus . —On Saturday last . Mr . W . Archer , builder , of Portland-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 an omnibus ; at the same moment , a man about thirty-five , dressed in a brown paletot , took h ' s seat beside him , followed by a female carrying an infant . 2 fear the Angel , the woman was seiz ? d with hysterics , causing great alarm and confusion amongst the rest of the passengers . Tlie vehicle being stopped she was got cut and taken into a surgeon ' s , when it was found that the man in the brown paletot was missing , having _^ forgotten to pay his fare , and on Mr . Archer _feeding 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 have instantly _deuarted . No doubt exists that the affair was a ruse to . facilitate ihe plunder .

      IixEGAt Soap _Maxcfactobt . —Saturday _mining Inspector Brennan seized a nKst extensive illicit soap manufactory , which it is evident has been carried on for a lengthened period at a place called _Sprisg-cottsge _, Stoke Newington . It was with considerable difficulty that the officers effected an _entrance to the premises , which were well secured , but haying done _sn , they first of all pounced npon two well-known smugglers , named Jacob Bench and John Young , who were forthwith removed to Clerkenwell Court , where they were sentenced to an imprisonment of three months in default of paving £ 30 each .

      Co > secratiox op a New Chubch . —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 nut of and fitted up with the materials which forced the church of St . Bartholomew , in Broad-street , which wa 3 taken down for the improvements adjoining the Royal Exchange . The tower is of a design _similar to the old oue , and tht * organ , with the font , pulpit , and communion-table , are the same . The Rev . 3 Ir . Denton , senior curate of Shoreditch , is the incumbent .

      Assault rs IItde-pakk . —Shortly before six o ' clock on Sunday afternoon , being the prriod when the foot promenade is . generally _Wiost crowded , tbe folloning affair took place , contravening the wisdom of our ancestors as expressed in the axiom , " The bsiter the day the better the deed . " At the curve opposite the Duke of Wellington s forming 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 to be instantaneous , and the result as above stated . The sufferer was a tall slim young man , apparently about _twentyfivs _ysars of age , who was hurried « ver 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 tue hands ofthe police , and taken off to the Vine-street station , was shorter in stature than the assailed , but much more squarely built , and showed no outward marks of _having suffered in the affrav .

      Determined Suicide . —On Saturday a _* ternoon last Mr . Bedford , the coroner , concluded an inquiry which had previously been adjourned , at the Malpa ' s Arms , Charles-street . Grosvenor-square , respecting ihe death of Susan White , a single woman , aged thirty-two years , wha committed suicide in Lady Ver 2 « n ' s mansion , No . 5 , Upper Belgrave-street , _BelgrYve-square . The _deceased hai only been five days ia he : * ladyship ' s service as cook , having previously filled a similar situation in the establishment of Lady Normanby . The deceased was found in her room on Tuesday morning week , with a rope r ound ber neck , the end of which she held in her hand . She had died from strangulation , aud the deceased had also inflicted two incised wounds upon her throat and one . upon her rightarm with a common kitchen-knife , wbich was found lying by her side . Several of the deceased ' s relatives were examined , but were _un-. ble

      to account for the decea 3 "d commit ! ing the rash act . Daring the last three weeks she had complained of pains in _herhfad , and she had also appeared _vsry low and desponding . Verdict— ' Temporary insanity . " Serious Accidext at the House of Commons . —On Tuesday morning , shortly before ten o ' clock , an aceident which had well nigh proved fatal to several workmen occurred in the great central hall of the new houses of parliament , in that part loading to th <; crypt in connexion with St . Stephcn ' 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 _pullies being suspended from three pillars , _technically called " shear legs . " The scaffolding , in consequence of tbe enormous wei g _?; tof the stone , had been made extra strong , and the men had been cautioned to work it slowly and eareiullv . After three hours labonr the men

      had succeeded in raising the mass of stone to a height of between nfteen and twenty feet , and they then commenced to " stock it , " so as to keep it steady working ; the process of blocking was _haidly gone through , when the ponderous weight of the stone , which was then resting on the two ropes of the hand pulley , caused the wheels of the block to snap from the rollers , the " shear legs " at the same time giving way , the stone with thc cumbrous machinery suddenly _falling to the ground with an _imm-.-nse crash ; fortunately the workmen while the stone was suspended had whhdrawn from the spot , those only remaining who were engaged in raising it . , In the course of the fall of tho " legs " three men were seriously injured , being knocked

      dowii and jammed between the " legs " and stone . _Assistance was immediately rendered , and tho men drawn out in a senselesss condition , and conveyed to the hospital , when it w _.-is found that they had sustained most extensive injuries , Carss , one of the sufferers , having received a compound fracture of the skull , and Michael Donoghue aud the foreman , "Webb , having received _injuries , the effect of which may- prove fatal to both . Carss and Donoghue remain iu the hospital , Wchb being , at his earnest request , conreyed to his own house . The escape of the sufferers from being crushed to death is most miraculous , as , had it not beeu for the shear legs forcing them out , the _stone must have fallen upon them , and certain death would have been inevitable .

      _Aiaum os Fire at _Drurt-iasf . Theatre . — Oa Tuesday , evening , at a few minutes before five o ' clock * , considerable oxciicuient prevailed in the immediate neighbourhood of Drury-lane Theatre , ia consequence of a report being raised that the building had taken fire . In the course of a few infantes several hundred persons congregated , for sheets of flame were _risiii" above the roof , whilst volleys of sparks kept _flying about in sundry directions , ; In the course of a few minutes the engines froii Messrs . Combe and Delafield's ( the brewers , ) the _liondon Brigade , and West of England Ofiice , attended : _ but their services were not required , as the fire did not extend beyond tho chimney , in which it broke out , and it was _extinguished by the persons connected with the theatre . "

      Inequalities of the Lasd Tax —On Mondav last the committee ofthe commissioners of land tax , for Middlesex , appointed at a general meeting of the commissioners , held at the Sessions House Clerkenweil , on Tuesday , the 26 th of March , ult . to take tho necessary steps to induce the _"overn * ment to introduce a measure into parliament , de "

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      claratory as to the powers of the commissioners to equalise the land tax throughout tho county—held a meeting at the board-room ofthe 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 which they were appointed , and the deputation was nominated .

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      The Mobder of Mary Anne PAnsoNS .-After a long inquiry into the case of Mary Anue Parsons , the magistrates have committed both the prisoners Mr . and Mrs . Bird , to be tried rt the . _wsizes for a felonious assault on the deceased . The evidence produced at the examination of the _pnsonera was in SE the same as that on the trial before Mr Justice Talfourd . The PW _^^^ _ttk _" the desire ofthe government . Mr . Harviestated that he had received his instructions from one ofthe government solicitors . _A-TTEMPrED Morder bt a Box . — On the 18 th inst .. a boy ab _* ut sixteen years of age , named James at the Manchester Borough

      Smith , was charged Court with attempting to cut a lady 8 throat on the previous evening . —Mrs . Knight said her husband 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 thelatter , who was engaged in cleaning some knives , aimed a blow at her neck from behind , with a carving knife . The wound was apparently inflicted with the blunt side of the knife , not being a serious one . She had given him no provocation , and was quite unable to account for his conduct . The doors were allfastened , so that noone could haveentered without witness ' s knowledge . She

      sereamed 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 beeu 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 rushed in unobserved , and ran out again immediately the prisoner caught sight of him . He said the man was dressed in a Scotch cap , a round jacket , and alight vest . —Mr Hodgson , and the other magistrates on tbe bench , without pronouncing any opinion on the case , ordered the depositions to be taken . __

      Eliza . Chestnet . —This intrepid young woman has been married recently . She visited Cambridge on Friday , in company with her husband , on the wedding excursion . She appears still to walk lame from the serious injuries received from the fire ofthe murderer Rush , but in other respects she seems to have recovered her healtb . A Large Sugar Refinery is about to be built on the premises < f the Southamoton 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 then cargoes of suaar for refining into the port of Southampton direct from abroad .

      The Charge against the Chew of thb Johh R . _Skidlt . —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 tbe Town-hall , Liverpool , in _suaport of a memorial complaining of the crew ,: by whom it was alleged the passengers had bsen shamefully illused and plundered . Tt is stated in the memorial tbat she sailors , including the mates , were very abusive to the female passengers and children , some of whom were knocked down and trodden on whilst 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 bt ing 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 the 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 sums vaiying from £ 20 to £ 60 . A number of the parties c mp i aining were examined I 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 Ailegbd _Mutokr at _Lai-hham . —Saturday last being appointed for the re-examination , at _Stains , of Charles Holden , an agricultural labourer , who had given himself up to the police on 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 Session-house was crowded . Lord Lucan was among the magistrates present . The prisoner was brought by a triin from the Detention-house in Clerkenwell . — Edmund Iliscock , carpenter , stated tbat on the loth 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' digging further he found an entire skeleton . lie 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 skull within two or three days of its disoovery , and afterwards the other bones . They were certainly those o f a very elderly female . The bones had been under ground a number of years , probably a century . They crumbled when they were touched . —Policeconstable M'Intyre , 27 V ., * stated that tbe place all round where the bones bid been found had been carefully sifted , but nothing was found . —David Groves , a farming _msn , deposed that seventeen or eighteen years ago he was at work on Mr . Honrier ' s farm , when he saw the prisoner , whom he knew , and asked where the woman was , alluding to a woman with

      whom the prisoner cohabited , lie nodded , but said _nothing . —Colonel Wood then read tbe usual caution to the prisoner , after which he a 9 ked him whether he ch » se to say anything?—The prisoner then said in a low but clear voice , that he was not quite right in the head , and that he had been taking a little drink when h <* gave bimself to the _p-dice . He had heard of this skeleton having been dug up . As a proof that he was not guilty , the yonn » woman he was supposed to have murdered was still alive , and to be found . He had lately been with her in a public house in Chertscy , 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 prisoner further . He was accordingly discharged .

      Secular Education .- The congregation of Hopestreet Church , Liverpoo _' . have sent up the _following petition to the House of Commons in favour of secular education : - Fivst , that in the opinion of your petitioners the growth of population in this country has outstripped the resources of private education , and rendered necessary a public provision to supply the defects and fill up theinsterstices of the existing sy tern . 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 _followii-g condition : —1 . It should not interfere with or discourage the schools already in operation , bnt rather seek to secure the completeness and efficiency of their secular instruction . —2 nd . It should

      be fr < ely open to all , under suitable regulations , and should adopt no test or method of teaching which favours the special tenets of any denomination . —3 rd . It should be supported by local rates , and managed by local boards , elected by the ratepayers specially for ? bat purpose ; with provision , however , for such general inspection and control as may obvhte local difeets , and sustain and circu ' ate a spirit of improvement . —Thirdly . That the bill whieh hag 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 tliese 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 .

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

      his house , when he _enlreated . her to come back , saying that he want * , d to see her for once only . She refused , and continuing to absent herself , upon which he placed all the articles of her dress in a bcx _, and burned them in his farmyard ..., He then sent his daughter into liis furthest field to attend the cows , and _duriris her absence ripped open the bodies of two valuable mares ( in colt . ) for which he had refused . £ 40 at the fair . The unfortunate man then went to the barn , where he hanged himself by a rope attached to ihe beam . There can be no doubt that lie committed the rash act when in a state of mental

      insanity . Suspected Murder at _Fiiome . —Last week , a young man named T . George , _absut eighteen , was found dead in a barn , at Nunney , near Frome , with hia throat cut . . A coroner's inquest wa 3 held on the follo ' _-vinif day . when an open verdict was returned , to the effect that there was not sufficient evidence to prove whether ihe deceased had destroyed himself cr had met with bis death from an unknown hand . Since the inquest Messrs . Giles and Ceckey _,, surgeons , of Frome , were cal ' ed in to exanane the body , and discovered that the skull had been _frac-

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      tured in _frwitby ablow , and from the manner in which the wound had been , indicted in the throat they were decidely 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 Frome magistrateo _, charged , on suspicion , with committing tho murder , and remanded for a _fortnight . The Game Laws . —A Man Shot . — -Two men were shot at lately in a wood called Noroyds , belonging to Lord Wharncliffe , ' . at'Carlton , near 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 _< _-f it , although Moody , one of the wounded men , is unable to go without a stick , frbln . 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 ofthe countv court at Barnsley . Cherry stated that on the 23 rd of February , he went to seo the _Badaworth hounds meet at the _village of Notton , and in coming down by the side of the wood lie saw Hunter , the deflndant , who asked plaintiff and two others where the bounds were . Plaintiff told him that they were in _Notton-park . These men left Hunter , and

      walked down by the side of _Aoroyds-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 the 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 tbat 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 6 th of march he extracted a shot from his arm , and made an incision on 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 Josepb Cheiry , 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 bad plaintiff been acting lawfully ; but he thought plaintiff had acted with discretion in laying the damages at £ 10 ., for which he should give a verdict , » nd all the costs the law would allow .

      Alleged Fraud by a Bankrupt . — At the Bristol Bankruptcy Court oh 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 that he had , witli a view to defraud his creditors , antedated a bill for £ 55 , which he afterwards paid four dBys 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 to be defrayed out of tbe 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 . Collteet Strike sear St . Helens . —The colliera 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 under-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 _pari * . 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 arid 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 nien on Smithybrow , to which the colliers had been summoned by the beating of tin cans , & c . Stones have been thrown at various parties who declined leaving work . Several of the ringleaders have been apprehended and brou . ht before the magistrate , who has ordered them to find bail for their future good behaviour .

      St . Ites . —The Fishery . — The boisterous state of ihe 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 take 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 Darlinji'on , eight bulls and four heifers of the Durham breed , from the eminent breeders Mr . R . Thornt ' n , of Stapleton , and Mr . R . Emmerson , of Evyholm , which were shipped for the Belgian government .

      Oxford . —On the ISth inst . two eight-oared outriggers fouled each other near Iffley Lock , when both boats 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 . H amber , of Oriel , who was in one ofthe boats , and swam to their aid , and with great presence of mind , and with almost superhuman stren _^ ih 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 the hours of ten o ' clock in ihe forenoon and two o ' clock in the afternoon . By order of the trustees and managers . Ansdell asd Haduock , solicitors . " ' . _'*'

      _Dkbadfdl Tragedy by Drunken Navigators . — On Saturday evening last the small town of Otley , on the banks of the Wharf , tm miles north-west of Leeds ; was the scene of a collision between a party of drunken navigators and 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 reseservoir at Burley had walked over to Oiley , a distance of some ihree miles , and as is the custom of theic class . Imd found tlieir way into several of the public-houses of the town . Having received their wages on that day , the men , it appears , continued drinking up to a late hour . On

      their way out of the town , four of these men began to amuse themselves by breaking the windows of tho 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 pui suit ofthe delinquents __ On coming up with them , Ives , after some altercation , struck one of the men with a heavy stick , and then , with his companion , ran away . Unable to lay hands on their first opponents , the navigators appeared witling 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

      bim was to seize him and throw him down , and proceed to beathim severely . While this was going on . however , Robert Dawson ' s wife went to' call his brother , John Dawson , who wis 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 _. ched the spot " than he received a stab in the groin from some sharp instrument , whieh 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 the meantime one of the neighbours had 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 inflic ' . ed 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 been called together succeeded in _sei-uring three of the four rioters . Of course the three were immediately lodged in gaol . On Monday morning an inquest was held on the hotly ol John Dawson , beforo Mr . Brown ; the coroner , and a highly respectable jury . A great number of witnesses were examined , but none of tho parties could say which ofthe four prisoners had inflicted the wound that had caused the death of John Dawson . There could be very little doubt , however , hs to the _identity ofthe four men . After the conclusion of the evidence the coroner briefly summed up . The jury then retired . After deliberating some time , they found they could not arrive at a nnnnimous verdict , and they finally returned , by a majority , a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against all the prisoners , who were subsequently committed to YorkCastlei

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      Innerleith en . —Singular Case . —Ashort time since Miss Lavinia Downie , 'niece to Mr . D ownie , gardener , Traquair House ' , a most amiable and interesting vounglady , twenty-four years of age , who had suffered from occasional severe pains in- the head , and a considerable 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 inflammation greately increased , and on the 20 th ultimo , an ordinary sized metallic pin was extracted from the left ear , which was enveloped in a firm substance hard

      with numerous fibres attached to it ; several bodies , in shape resembling the grains of buck- 'heat , but of various colours , were also taken out ofthe right ear . The poor girl endured the most intense pain , which she bore with Christian fortitude till the 4 th instant , when ; death * terminated'ber sufferings . It is believedthat the pin must have been lodged in 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 child had a pin in her mouth , when she thought she swallowed it . Itis 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 place on the 19 th inst ., at the Circuit Court of Justiciary , at Jedburgh , before Lords Mackenzie and Ivory . — James Deary , or Derry , and Daniel O'ltourke _, or Hook or Rork , Irish railway labourers , were placed at the bar , accused of the crime of murdering , in Roxburgh-street , Kelso , _^ William Fairbairn . —Tho prisoners pleaded " Not guilty . " Several witnesses were examined , who detailed the particulars of the riot whioh 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 129 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 : tho time . Saw him squaring with his hands at the time . Knew the deceased William Fairbairn . Saw him there in the 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 he was sparring , showing particularly how Deary held his left baud over his right breast , from which peculiarity he heleived that ho held some instrument in his hand—that was his , impression . ) Thecrowd 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 , hut could not be . sure . —William Hetherington said he saw Fairbairn come out of

      tho crowd , who exclaimed that he had been stabbed , and the man that had done it had dirty _trowscrs . — Alexander Watt said that ho saw James Deary , who was roaring for any man to come forward and fi g ht with him , strike Fairbairn when he was stooping down , and then heard Fairbairn cry out on being struck that ho bad been stabbed with a knife . Witness pursued him , and saw him enter Stewart's shop . —Other witnesses , chiefly policemen , were examined , 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 haying summed up . the case , thejury retired , and , after an absenco of twenty minutes , returned , finding the 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 by 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 the employment of the 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 . Their 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 his 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 , Tiie body ol the dog has been conveyed to the Surgeons' Hall , to have tho 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 tf his wife for the purpose he mentioned to the druggist . On suspicions bein ? raised of his having poisoned his wife , he called on the druggist , and requested him and his wife not to mention tliat hc had purchased thc arsenic . He even proposed for a written denial of the fact , adding that there might be arsenic found in his wife's * stomach , but , so help him God , he did not put it there . On the Monday previous to her death , it is said , he enrolled her name in a benefit society , by which , on her death , hc was entitled to a sum of £ 6 . The deceased and her husband were members of the Wesleyan body , and b > re 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 of them ,

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

      fully as large as grapes , and many of them heing much larger and of an irregular shape . In fact tho storm presented , on the whole , all the characteristics of such a phenomenon in the tropics , and will bo 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 wero several casualties and hairbreadth escapes from the falling trees and chitnnies . 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 , livery liouse or public building at all exposed to the fury of tho hailstones has suffered more or less , and thero is

      no doubt that had the storm continued but a few minutes longer its ravages would not havo been confined to broken windows or skylights . It was , in truth , a perfect phenomenon , the like of which has not occurred within the 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 , _ifyindeed , 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 of _fearlul severity , commencing about an hour previous to its break-out in Dublin , and lasting nearly the same time—a little over half an hour .

      Sales ov Encumbered Estates . — Thero were four more sales on the 10 th inst , in different counties , namely , Cork , Tipperary , Wicklow , and Roscommon , all of whioh were completed within an hour . Thej were small ; properties , some qf 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 ih North Tipperary , near the town of Nenagh , producing a profit rent of £ 50 , was sold for £ 1 , 200 , being upwards of twenty-one years ' I purchase—a very hign rate _undeif existing circum . stances . . . .

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

      I regret to tell you that the parties interested -in the far-famed ' Martin estate ' . have obtained ho less a number than 650 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 bf the '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 tbo 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 bo stated _Arospectablo tenant ofthe name of Moore ( a Presby « terian ) , bought a farm four years ago" near to the one he was occupying , called Devlin , for the tenant right of which Ke paid £ 150 , and , although this tenant offered Mr . Clements one and one-half year ' s rent ( only two years' rent being due ) he 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 unfilled , 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 bore the board of trustees would remonstrate with his lordship on this serious matter .

      Agrarian Murder in Tipperary . —The Kilkenny Moderator , of Saturday last , contains 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 the road nearly midway between that village and shot dead on the spot . Although the scene of the tragedy was a public tboroughfiire , the body lay on the ground without any notice ofthe occurrence being conveyed to the authorities tilHhe middle ofthe next day . It appeared from tho evidence on the inquest that Shearman had distressed some tenants for rent , and was to have appeared against them atthe sessions next day . The murder was , no doubt , committed to prevent tbe issue of those proceedings . " Thc 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 & press contains an account of a desperate act of incendiarism by two femal paupers , who had been discharged at their own request for the Mountmellick workhouse , Queen ' s County . After setting firo 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 . The Lord Mayor . —Sir John Jervis , Attorney-General for England , has given an opinion in the case of the Lord Mayor of Dublin ; coinciding with that givenby the English Solicitor-General , and by Sir Colman O'Loughlon . ft 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 tbe deputy so appointed will not be subjected to any penalties ; but I am inclined to t _' _. ' ink that Mr . Reynolds will be liable for the act of the deputy so appointed . Mr . Reynolds can only be removed from his . ofiice by judgment of ouster Upon a quo warranto . ' " ¦ '

      The Rotal Adelaide . —A subscription list has been opened at the Chamber of Commerce for the sufferers by the loss ofthe Royal Adelaide . The Freeman states , ; that the opposition between the City of Dublin Company and some ofthe competing companies is carried on with sueh bitterness that the widow and child of one of the unfortunate sufferers in the Royal Adelaide were refused a passage from Cork to Liverpool by the Cork Company , although requested by tiie 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' A ews 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 whonever required by public duty to sleep out tf his settled quarters . Already the merchnnts and citizens of Belfast have raised a fund of £ 500 for the purpose _^ © f the exposition of 1851 .

      Sir John _RoniLLrs Bill . —Meeting of Landlords . —On Monday afternoon another meeting of Irish landlords wa 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 aro less than half the value of their estates , and who are , therefore , excluded from the operation of the

      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'Connell 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'Connell 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 . in answer , in which he stated that in" the present state of the law the Repeal Association could not appoint such delegates , as it would be illegal so to do ; but the association entirely sympathised with the reform movement in England . The rent for the week was £ 37 . Tenant-Rioht 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 .

      Mr. Smim O'Brien.—By The Last File Of Ho...

      Mr . _SMim 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 . We givo tliem 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'Brien , 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 , tho unfortunate prisoner O'Brien was shut up in a narrow _miserable hut , lately occupied by an overseer ; bars of iron had been placed on tho windows , and he was so completely deprived of the services of the attendant appointed to wait upon him by one of the persons in authority , that he was not permitted to cook for him bis miserable , convict ration of meat and flour in his own hut . In his habitation

      a . military sentinel is constantly stationed , and an officer visits his bedroom three times each night , so that he cannot be Baid to have any undisturbed repose during the night or by day . It is stated that no unauthorised person can speak to him now , or give him anything to conduce to his comfort ; and that any employee ofthe government found infringing these apparentl y heartless regulations would incur the penalty of dismissal _* without any chance of successful appeal-to the governor . " [ The above is from the Dispatch . Thenameof the Hobart Town paper and its dato are not stated . Our latest papers from Hobart Town are the Courier and Colonial Times } their 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 condition 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 will be strictly watohed . " It is stated in the same communication that , " In the passage from Sydney to Hobart Town , O'Brien , Martin , and O'Dogherty , were accommodated with a cabin passage , and had opportunities of communing with each other . " ]—Daily News . Joint Stock Companies . — By the report for the year 1849 , mado to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade , it appears that during the past year 134 companies , have been provisionally registered , at a total _oosti _* . including the fees paid at the branch office in Dublin , of , £ 2 , 021 . The . return mentions that during" the year thore have , bee ' D n ' q j bankruptciesof joint ' stock _compameji * * _- ,.

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      ¦ Mew—— _----m-mmMmnm-mmimvmmMMMmim _^^^ _mmmm imui JAMBS MORISON _, THE _HYGeST & WD _^ 55 HEMCAL PROFESSIO N ! 1 IE ( Extract ofthe concluding passages of An Inniii _™ mode of action of Morison _' _s Hygeiaii _MedicineT ° the Marshall _Smithson . 'K , _" , . Wc , nes * ty Hugh It needy no fire of fancy— a ,. eober i magination n , realise tlie idea , that it is permitted to the _fliTJ , t _* % spirit to contemplate , with a meek and gentle << 7 rc di « d andjoy , the sweetly beneficent _fiuits of its _nhiln . _t ° n doings whilst on earth ; and the shade of _Jamci xr r ° Pic the _Hygeist _, may even now enjoy the privilege ne ' so , thising _, with a calm and chastened _comnlaiw _% _•* .-delight , in the comfort and happiness which his , n 7 _**& and writings hare already so widel y diffused in «• er fes of tears . ' And generations yet unborn Bhall p . ' Va le name , and embalm with grateful tears , the m _^ * 8 him , who , rescuing the art of healing from the _^ <* dogmatical science , taught the lame to foreen ' Hi . « * " * ' of the blind to see ; the deaf to hear ; the palsiedI _£ _' _?• " <* ¦ aaility of limb : the bed-ridden to rLl _? i _« jeiceln '

      duties , ; and . the prematurely infirm and _fndi ' _ri ? _% theiryouth and strength . Custom , and fashion _? ne » judice , may , for a season , still lead the thronr ! ? P _' _ewith * disdain tho proffered boon , —may still decov . i ? Ject _{ o embrace the deadliest means as wisely annnii _* . "" anv of health and of life ; but the great mass ' of the n »„ _^ _-J not long be inveigled by a grossly mercenary ,, Sever subtle and refined ; nor by _souhistrieq _. ' _*' learned and ingenious ; neither will they lone bi > L " 0 , Ve vtr to the utter rum of all that makes life ' s sweet hv ncileil tiTe error , however sanctioned by authority or hv _? Scri _Pnoranca , however venerable from antiquity The -a _* ' _? - medical Juggernaut may still , for a season ' rlde _? of the mangle to the death its fanatic victims ; bit ' \\ _m _^ i sleep , a utile more slumber , a little more foldin 0 r 9 arms to sleep ; ' and the people will arouse tlieniselv _°£ their fatal delusion , and will throw off , with vin 1- m loathing and horror , their superstitious _rerereico f tive ruthless medical idols , and theu tlie eyes ofthe- * _e'r will be opened , and they will clearly perceive th ninds legitimate office of the art of healing is to cure _ l \ thf ) aggravate , disease ; that the real function of i _* V ° means is to restore health to the afflicted , and not - a ' to minister to the necessities of a barbaric ' miifn « -i » - _P'J ,, « _,.. _„„ n , „ f „„„ i : „ : „„„ i „ * _,, „ ....: . _ , _} " "" _-Solon : that iiu tu _% j _iiiuuiuuics _tv _uBiiuimeu

      „ _., » _u » , _u _uc Dv no _Otll ' _**<• than the amount of human suffering which thev M rulfi and the perfect and permanent cures which _ilJAt ¦?' effect . The alchymists of a former day were far J skilled and learned , and , impelled by a kindred avi _" _- _** delusion , and folly , were infinitely more ardent and II 6 ' in the prosecution of their wild and maniac rosea /! 011 ' than even the most profound and enthusiastic d ' _. vs ! ' and surgeons of our time—than the surgeons who « ' with more than alehymical stolidity , to discover the i _. of health and life by elaborately mangling the corrunt « j loathsome carcases ofthe dead—than the ph ysicians _, \ seek to restore health by the poisonous means whichpair and parali 9 e every function of the body , and _whowJ to prolong life by poisoning and utterly destroying all th organs through whicli life moves and has its earthly beino . The speculations and researches of the alehymist w _» however , guiltless of murder ; whole . hecatombsofhunW victims are daily sacrificed to the upas and sanguinarv t the craving and exacting and still insatiate and cruel in / _i

      _rtf t-Via _tYiaiinilaoo _nrtil _rnOf / _inniKu / ln _» lA « n f \ r _. _ _qUU ofthe merciless and mercenary doctors . Our foref tth * had not more implicit faith In the trickeries and _ium-Wipl of the sciences of astrology , palmistry , and wizardism th ™ too many of their posterity—the wiser fools of our timehave in the medical sciences . of alleviating _sufferines h _^ torture , and of curing disease by death . The medical art of tlie _prosent day is , indeed , at once the most _stunendon _* monument of scientific effrontery and blackguardism ana _offcervile , mental prostration and abandonment , The ' nub lie * , inind m our time is too much engrossed in amassini wealth , 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 entirelv carried away and abandoned to the concerns of accumulat . ing wealth , and of promoting the advancement and elev . tion of intelligence and c vilisation , as not to allow the

      aetlication ot a moment ' s time to the infinitely more im portant and vital concerns of person . il comiort and ot 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 itlu mination ; ii is 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 _anditisowi . ig to thi 3 same intellectual engrossment , that whilst they are tolerated by the wise , and ridiculed by tha witty , these loathsome _rermin still drag out their aiiomal . ous and unnatural existence . But the death blow has been given to the trade in death , in the spirit of his oirn

      motto ' uno iet « . ' * James Morison _, the Hygeist , has dealt that single , fatal stroke , under which the medical monster now languishes , and must ultimately perish . And evea whilst upon earth , he foresaw in prophetic vision , that he had entailed npon mankind the emancipation of tlieir health , and the _fuU assurance of their _personal comfort and enjoyment ; and when laying the foundation of the future physical blessedness of coming : generations , his spirit was cheered , and his ardour was inflamed , by the reflection that on tlie fle 3 hy tablets of tlie grateful hearts of all succeeding posterity , he had raised to himself an endearing record of his own name and fame—' _monuawntum _cereperennius !' Exeter Hygeian Dispensary , April Bth , 1850 .

      Some Persons Have Fancied That Mr. Moris...

      Some persons have fancied that Mr . Morison chose his motto , ' uno ictu '—at one Wow , in accordance with his system , by which with one medicine he completely routed the whole tribe of doctors , '—but itis not however so ; ' uno ictu , ' and the three Saracens' heads joined in one neck , with the daggrr for the crest , having been for many centuries the armorial bearings ofthe _Momsoss 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 tho thievish-looking population , women with their . bloated faces , and men who 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 store 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 tbeir profitable trade , return to their lair ; trampers come in for their night ' s lodging ; the beggars' operas , as they were wont to

      be called , then open their doors to those 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 judge by tho daylight aspect of the Rookery , what face it wears by night . You would be startled to witness the crowding of inmates even in favoured localities ; to see the industrious mechanic , ' hi 3 wife , and fire or six children , huddled into a single apartment , by day the common sitting-room , by night the common dormitory ; you would be startled to find that such is the rule among the working classes , the meed of honesty and diligence , so tbat it has few exceptions . Bat ,

      in the genuine Rookery , even this remnant of decency , this slender rag which yet betokens a lingering regard to the proprieties of social life , ia removed ; men and women are brought together in thesame apartment whom nomarriagetie 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 , is poverty ; and thero 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 lodg ing for tho deserving poor , ; and that surplus , which might add to tho comfort , and better the condition of the industrious , finds its way into the pocket of the middle-man .

      The _Surrei New Phison . —In arranging the designs for the Surrey new prison , now in course of construction at Wandsworth , under the direction of Mr . D . Ilill , 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 thc plainest and most simple style , and ofthe most substantial kind . They are executed in brickwork , with stone dressings , quoins , plinths , 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 G 5 for females , making a total accqni _* modation for prisoners of 708 cells , not including punishment and reception cells : the whole will be

      thoroughly ventilated , and fitted up with soil pan or water closet , washing basin , with sufficient supply of water ( a separate cistern being provided for each cell , ) and a gas li _g ht . Rooms on the ground floor , first , and second floors , adjoining the central hall , have been provided for trade instructors . Baths have been provided both for males and ft * males , supplied with hot and eold water . The cooking kitchen , bakehouse , and serving rooms , are entirely distinct from the main buildings . The infirmaries , both for males and females , are entirely separated trom the other parts of the prison , aud are provided with separate airing . courts . The chapel will be fitted up with separate seats or stalls for 394 prisoners , pews for governor ' s and chaplain ' s families , and galleries for the officers . The prison will be warmed by hot water , similar tothe manlier at Pehtonyille . The whole of the cells , both for males and females , are thirteen feet by seven I feet , and nine feet high to the crown of the arch . — The Builder .

      TnE Window Taxing of Lodging-houses . —As at present regulated , the window tax falls particularly heavy on model lodging-houses . A househaving less than ei g ht windows is exempted front duty ; a house having eight windows pays _nessy 2 s . Id . for each window ; beyond that number aot only is each window _chargeable , but the rato of tax per window increases with the number : thus a model lodging-house having 100 windows would he charged £ 29 8 s . 6 d „ that is , at the rate of no less than 5 s . lOd . . per window . The immense produce of the window tax is the objection to its repeal ; biit in the spirit ofthe aot itself , lodgiDg-houses on on a large scale for the-labouring classes should bo exempted from duty . Distinct chambers in the inns' of court are so ; so are thoso in universities and in public hospitals - , as also houses divided i » different tenements , being distinct proper tics . _—W Builder .

      Legitimate' Cabals . —The village of 'Frohsdorf , the ' re 8 idenco of the Duke de . Bordeaux and tae Duchess _of-AngbulOme , was never before , so f _" 11 ° f French legitimists . Many of them'WO frequent visitors at the 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/ns4_27041850/page/6/