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      CHESTER GAOL . When "winter | rim unlocked his sUres Of "wind , lain , snow , and hail , And nature seemed to mourn th » fete Of patriots doomed by legal late , To pine enclosed by many- a grate , "Wiere echoes many a-wai , Ibese lines -were found close by the doors Of Chester Ckmnty Gaol -. "Whoe'er-you be that find this scroll , Let our desires prevail , And send it to the Northern Star , That our « nnplaints may spread afarlet not yon * politics debar Trom printing this detail , But generous prove , and ease our souls , In Chester County . GaoL CHESTER Gaot .

      The glorious cause depends on you . Then do not spurn our tale , But let this gennine story go , And tell the world of all our -woe , That -we our foes may overthro-w , And Trith our friends regafe ; * Besides , good friend , they ' re not a fevr Outside of Chester GaoL TouTe heard how " Wiig and Tory knaTes I > estroy the public ¦ weal , ¦ - And how they tax the bread we eat , How their police pollute the street How foreigners insult our fleet , "Whene ' er they meet a sail , Bow- EnjtTJRh-men made into slaves Are sent to Chester GaoL

      TouTe heard of the Convention , too , How they made Russell rail - And how they made Lord Melbourne fret , How they made Brougha m and Lyndhurst sweat , And how they spread their poisonous nst , To catch MTJouall , and others—few " Escaped them that they had in -slew , AH sworn to by their perjured crew , Made drunk with wine and ale To swear that every charge was true , Although the men they -never knew * And send us to Chester GaoL

      It -B-as the Assize of thirty-nine , Wheajsome were heldto bafl , By traversing none were acquit , The Judges ne ' er intended it ? The evidence was made to fit , And understood their tale , And Campbell said twas his design That ire shonld stay in Chester Gaol She Jury , pitiable moh , Looked wretched , poor and pale , "When they were told -what they should say To find us guilty that same day ; 2 fot one poor devil dare say nay , Old Gumey made them quail , "Well knowing they must do the job , ' Or go to Chester GaoL

      As soon as we had heard our doom , A melancholy tale , Tat our loved wives and children dear , Twould turn them almost wild to hear , "We had been treated so severe , Besides providing ball ; Utvided both from them and home , And kept in Chester GaoL For eighteen months pur sentence past , "While tyrants held the scale , Of justice , and it was decreed , That certain Burette * w » should need , To keep the peace fire years indeed , Recorded in detail ; Seven hundred pounds , a sum bo vast , Or stay in Chester GaoL

      "We all were quickly then conveyed , To eat oar half boiled meal , Into a yard , like a deep pit , And told wjb must inhabit it , For eighteen months , if they thonght fit , Which made us stamp and rail ; Bet the Governor must be obeyed , ' In this cursed Chester GaoL Bach morning when they ring the btfL And never do they fail , "We are obliged to come down stare , At sir o ' clock ; no stools or chairs , Are here , and to increase our cares , "Whatever we may ail , - We are locked up twelve hours in a cell , iahajfpv Chester GaoL

      At nine o ' clock -we go to church , To hear the parson ' tale , After , we walk till dinner time , Then get potatoes , & no crime , To say they ' re anything but prime , Or even fit for sale ; Pot bnie&erV meat -we ' re in "the lurch , In this same Chester GaoL 53 k gentry of this ancient town ,-That look both proud and hale , Come here each day at us to gaze , "Which fills us all with muchamaze , To « e their ignorant , ill-bred ways . And impudence wholesale ; Mare coarse than any silly down , ' That comes to Chester GaoL

      IrBtead of tea , we skilly get , Each evening without fail , "Which makes us scarcely fit to stand , vYith fiitfe head-ache and trembling hand ; "We look just like eome lickly band : ( We cant buy eTen ale , ) Of slaves that ' s worn with constant fret , In cruel Chester GaoL Ton know our usage , Englishmen , You ' re heard our bitter tale : * Wm you neglect yonr sacred charge , Or strive to keep yonr friends at large ? . And aim yourselves with sword and targe , That yon may never fail ; Bat for the Charter strike again , Or come to Chester GaoL

      Xet an your powers directed be , Against tyrannic zeal , That would starve yon and your neighbours too , Let all united be and true , And keep " The Rights of Man" in view , And cast aside the veil ; Xei aD yoxa proud oppressors see , Ton are determined to be free , And gain yonr long lost liberty , Or die in Chester GaoL Let not the Poor Law frighten you , Xor yet the diet scale , "Not new . Police , nor itnsseH spies , . 2 for Brongham ' 3 schemes , tioi Nosey ' s lies ,-Hot Codotp , Trbo the law defies , Nor even Jire years bait ; Bid aU your -fears a Jong adieu , And laugh at Chester GaoL

      Let every man in harness stand , ' And bnckle on his mail , To light for freedom never KhTfoTr , On you depends the victory , think , To equal laws and rights come drink , Bewn with O'ConnelTs tail ; Obey each patriot chief ' s command That ' s now in Chester GaoL Farewell brave CbarfisU , let no / ears Cause yonr bold hearts to quail , - Prepare to fall , or gain your right , That you and yours may rest at night , And rise like freemen with the light , " For to " enjoy your meal ; T > 0 ii * t phrTnV , like co-wards , bathed in lean , But come to Chester GaoL

      Farewell , brave Chartisu ; never dream Of fiTi ^ ing any bail , TJnifl . you hare prepared the tools , That win convince both knaves and fools , Ton are determined to have rule * To regulate the scale , Jjiat yon may tax both land and steam , .- Afid empty up Chester GaeL

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      PATH , p-ERr ? FITv £ ra ; or , THE PHESS GANG . By the Author of " Cavendish . " We have just received the first five numbers of ibi 3 work , publishing monthly , so as to be a companion for ** Nicholas Nickleby f and , indeed , worthy it is of snch a neighbour in -every -new , whether we regard the intense interest so continually and powerfnBy excited , the rich humour so plentifully scattered , or the noble sentiments that adorn every page . The plot is of the most heaitstanng tand , enUTened by excessively laughable incidents . The haracters are sketched by a marter-hand , » nd the elebrated writer of oar favonritebooi , Cavendish , " has earned fresh Ianrel 3 m the race of literature . He combmesthe wit and the knowledge of nomra -nrJiinli tr-A > n T % / fc = £ AS £ Ar 1 T ) V PlfeldiniZV OHlOliett-1

      Scott , Le Sage , and at present by " -Bob , in bo high a degree . Humbug in law , in pnvnc , and in eTery science , is here most nobly exposed and mercilessly lashed : the horrora attending the diamelul practice of pressing are excellently described , and in fact , this work truly "holds as ' twere the mirror m > to Kaiure ; shews " virtue her own feature , scorn his own image , and the very age and body of tat time bis form and pressure . " We advi # 5 all onr readers , who love a good sterling gesa of fiction , to proenre this periodical , especially as " 3 oz" is now at rest for five months , before he brings out another work . In the meantime , we know of no bucftessor so worthy of onr allegiance as "PauVPeriwinkle . " We shall treat onr friends to « b extract of tie pathetis and of the ludicrous : —

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      " For two days matterB continued in ibis state . The fennlratthe Grange began to hope that the worst of their calamity vras already known to them . On the afternoon of the third day , however , an arm was discovered among the rocks , clothed in . the remainder of the jacket already found , and severed at the shoulder and the wrist , so that the hand was waning . On being taken to th « Grange , it -sra « leluctaatiy but post tivrtyidentified ; and though much swollen , by lyinj in the imter , tile sleeve was carefully ripped off , and there , on the inside of the lower arm , was seen , tattooed in blue figures , tho crown and anchor , -with the initials ' J . P /; marks which John Periwinkle was known to have borne on the left fore arm . Se ^ al ^ SioS ^^ ? ! 7 Z _ suanil ? . 7 raB . ^^ 1 known to them . On the

      Scarcely the sfightest doubt : novr seemed to remain . "While , however , the shuddering spectators were gawng on in horror , word wag brought that a trunk , without either limbs or head , had been cast up on the shore , near the same spot , and answered to the size of John Peri-winkle . Thestat * of the unhappy father , on hearing this , was such , that Doubtful iindly sugferted the propriety of ordering the Beaman , by whom it -was diMovered , to take it to the quarterg of Lieutenant Envee ; offering to attend himself , and see if th « disseTered shoulder before them corresponded in Buch a degree as to warrant a belief that they had helonged to one person . Accordingly he did » o ; and when he saw the mangled edges of the two-wounds placed together , the certainty produced in his mind « f their former union "was such , that ho was obliged to quit the room .

      No time was now lost in informing Colonel Barton and his colleague » f what had taken place , and those gentlemen having inspected the sad . remains , expressed a conviction of th « identity ; and having taken the necessary depositions , niade out a conmiittal of the prisoner to the county ga « L . Everything being in readiness , the wretched Paul was summoned before them ; the finding of his cousin ' s tody detailed , and himself questioned as to what he had to say—bein / previously cautioned , however , by Doubtful , much to Acorn ' s indignation , that whatever he said would bo made ¦ use of against himself . . . " ¦ ¦ . ;¦ - _ On hearing these several facta , no " words can do justice to the horror and amazement that gathered in his face . Three several attempts ho made to speak , and at the last had managed to articulate a few words . ; suddenly the sounds grew faint- —they . ceased—his eyes gradually closed , and he fell temporarily lifeless into the arms of Biowhard ; who stood beside him .

      Every effort made to bring him back to any state of consciousness now seemed perfectly futile . Life returned , it is true ; and he was heard continuously uttering some faint sounds—now in prayer to Heaven—now in passionate entreaty on Nora Creina . Why did she not write to him?— -why did she not come to him ?—send to him one single -word ?— -dear Jack , murdered !—and many other incoherent expressions were heard . And in this meLmcholy state he was placed in a carriage , and conveyed , " strongly guarded , to a felon ' s cell !" A barrister , speaking of Harry Versatile Botherem ( Brougham to theiife ) says : —

      " 3 say in all these , the versatility of my Learned Friend is brilliantly apparent ; nothing , gentlemen , surpasses hi » knowledge of chemistry but his acquaintance with engineering , his engineering is excelled only by his theology , his th « ol 6 gy only beat by his . knowledge of whist , his whist only competed by his hydrostatics , his hydrostatics by his pyrotechnics ; and nothing , it I-may use an expression somewhat familiar as well as appoiite—nothing takes the shine out of his pyrotechnics but his Sunday-schooling . Then again , the worth of his Sunday-schooling is only to be outweighed by his botany , nil botany by bis self-examination , and the last by his art in compliment * . Kot that I mean in the least degree to insinuate my Learned Friend -was ever knervrn to . * gioae . ' So J his 18 ttiat style of elegant compliment , to which nothing can approximate but his art of sarcasm . Then again , gentlemen , his sarcasm is only distanced by his geology , his geology by his devotion at operative surgery , and

      his surgery by his devotion to the sex - "Nor can we pause hers , for his devotion to the sex . I mate bold to affirm , -wm never rivalled by aught but hia Tn * i > wmnH »« ids mathematics by his skill in languages , and his languages by bis connoisseurship in foreign brandy and wines . I have heard something whispered touching hi * knowledge of drill and platoon exercise , and book-keeping by doubU « ntry , nautical manoeuvres , and skill in the science and practice of medicine . But as I atn given to undwstand that these are his mere lighter amusements , to vrhich lie is only driven on » pinch , 1 jass them , one and all , out of kindness , doubtless , to his brother * of the robe , however , he has left one little acquisition untouched—a barren rock in the ocean of Ms acquirements nnexploisd . Need I tell you , gentleman , it is the law ! And it U on thia ground he comes forward —no doubt you will s&y properly—to claim the appointment of Attorney-GmeTair ( Loud cheers . )

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      GLrr OP Labociu— -The doctrine of a " glut of labour , " although apparently bore out by facts , is in reality as falso and as unsupported as the veriest fiction that ever imposed upon the credulity of mankind . There never yet has been , and there is not now , and there cannot be for thousands of years , such a thing as as a " glut of labour ; '' and a positive contradiction is involved in the assertion that there is such a glut . All human appliances of labour are intended to procure for man houses , food , clothes , and other necessaries and luxuries ; for these things can be obtained ouly by labour . It is evident , therefore , that one of two things is necessary to the condition of a glut of labour . We all have a sufficiency of every necessary and luxury for consumption—and ,

      therefore , a superabundance of labour ! in consequence of repletion of wealth ; --or else , wanting some or all of these things , the raw material of which they are composed is not in sufficient quantity to employ all our labour , —and thus there is a glut from the circumstance of oar having nothing to work upon . It need not be asked whether ev « ry person in . the United Kingdom , has a sufficiency of the various necessaries and luxuries which labour calls into existence . If all have enough , and to spare , then 13 there truly a glut of labour ; and the working cla , S 3 may sit down and enjoy themselves until some of this abundance is consumed . But if every person have not such a sufficiency of these good things , and there nevertheless be plenty of the raw material to work upon , then there cannot truly

      be a glut of labour . The desire for certain things exists ¦ within us—the material of these things is around us—the labour requisite to work up this material is under onr own control ; and , UDtil all their -wants are satisfied , or the treasures of the earth exhausted , it is a palpable untruth to tell the working classes that there is a " glut of labour ;" for the half-clothed backs and the hungry bellies of many a suffering thousand tell them , again and again , that they are in want of everything -which labour can procure . The system must be altered which sets their labour in motion and keeps it moving ; and then , and not till then , will the triple contradiction of too many handa , too much raw material , and too little produce to enjoy , be done aivay with ! —Bray ' s Labours Wrongs and Labour ' s Remedy .

      Leab > " to Feel the supreme interest of _ the discipline of the mind ; study the remarkable power which you can exercise over its habits of attention , and its trains of thought ; and cultivato a sense of the deep importance of exercising this power according to the principles of -wisdom and of virtue . * * * * * * Judging upon these principles , we aro taught to fell that life has a value beyond themere acquaintance Of knowledge , and the mere prosecution of our own happiness . This value is found in those nobler pursuits which qualify us for promoting the good of others , and in those acquiremeuts by which we Jearn to booome masters of ourselves . It is to eultivato the intellectual part for the attainment of truth , and to train the moral being for the solemn purDoses of life , vrhen life is viewed in its relation to a life which is to come . —Dr . Abercromby .

      Mo 5 abcht . —A nation to diminish the sources of its evils gave itself a single master . In that case if the powers of the Prince were limited , his only desire was to extend them ; if indefinitej he abused lhe trust that was confided to him , and under the name of Monarchy , the state was tormented by the passions of kings and princes . —Volney ' s Ruins . Boldkess . —It is a bold thing , indeed , for the rich to attempt to govern the poor by their fears , instead of leading them by th .-ir affections . It is a

      bold thing for men to suffer themselves to be called learned , before they have taken their degrees of master of the arts of human contentment . It is . a bold thing to take blinking viewB of Scripture texts , and to give to such purblind gropings the hallowed name of religion , it . is . a bold thing « ven to imagine that anything pertaining to the sacred concerns of humanity , and to the immortality of civilization , that cunning is mightier than sincerity . All this is boldness ; and Boldness of-that unwarrantable kind to-which may be properly ascribed the quality of presumption also .

      Good Poljct . —The more quietly and peaceably we get o : » , the better for ourselves , the better for our neighbours . In nine cases out of ten , the -wiseiit policy is , if one cheat you , to quit dealing with him ; if he is abusive , to quit his company ; if ne Blandera yon , so to live as that nobody will . believe him ; no matter who he is , or how he misuses you , the wisest w ay is , generally , just let him alone . There ia nothing better than this cool , calm , quiet way of dealing vrith the wrongs we meet . Fseedom of the Press . —The punishing of wits enhances their authority , and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth that flies up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out . —Lord Bacon ' s Posthumous Works .

      Prejudice . —Prejudice is an equivocal term ; and mav as well mean right opinions taken upon trust , and deeply rooted in the mind , as false and absurd opinions eo derived , and groitn into it . —lluri .

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      Influence of . Foethy os tub MiND .- ^ -in considering the influence which poetry has over ^ he S mind generally , we must first understand what are the elements and distinctive features of poetry , t Though poetry may be the language of passion and sentiment , addressed to the imagination and the heart , to give it due weight and effect , it must possess charactOTistici other than these . For instance , it must exhibit exttrnal objeetsjn such a manner as that by the , impressions conveyed through the senses to the mind there may be inonlcated a : love for the beautiful and good . It must beof such a character a , sto chasten'the passions , refine the taste . and cprrect the judgment . It must be marked .-by .-spontaneousne ' ss and freedom of thought and action , and by a blending ofthat which is ^^^^^ utS ylha ^^ generally , we must first undent ™! whi * ™ * K «

      softening ^ delicate , and chaste in idea and sentiment , with that which : is vigorous , * nd lofty , aud unpasBioned in coneeption and executien . It must display lntense&ess , of feeling , in order that tho teeUngs , and through them , the mind of the reader , may be ajffiecjed to a similar degree ; and it must ennc « that'identification of the terms employed , with the . sentiments expressed , which- is so observable in the L'Allegro and II Penseroso of Milton . iJut , above all , it must be tempered and perraried by a spirit of truthfulness . In what consists'the charm and fascinaiiba of poetry ? In this- ^ that it is the Lmguage of the soul , at once rapturotis and intense , yet chasteanUconBoi . ate with all that is simple , und beautiful , and true . —Webb on the Influence oj 1 ' oetry Upon the Mind .

      The Effect of Daess on the Ear . —The use of warm night-caps is a custom certainly injurious to the orga . it of hearing ; and there can be no doubt xnat deafaess axigiug from cold is very oftea caused by pereous sleeping with tho head enveloped in flannel , and iu the day-time , even ia winter , going abroad with the ears completely exposed . Thei insufficient dress of tho ladies also renaers them peculiarly liable to catch cold ; and hence deafness frequently ensues . In aught case ? , a little Eau do Cologne applied behind the ears , aud clcansitg them with soap aud water , will : generally remove ^ the complaint . —Curtis on the Ear . ' ¦

      ^ ruE Typoface . — -The Bordeaux papers-mention that a young sculptor of that city had discovered a method of taking casts of the hunian face , -whicJi , without requiring that the features should be reduced u a state of perfect rigidity , allows them to preserve all their natural play , and thus produces an exact resemblance with tho animation of life . His name is Pellet , and he designates his apparatus the lypoface . Chorley . —The Eadicals of this village are beginning to be in earnest . in their endeavours . At a meeting of the association on tho 2 nd iiist ., reBOlutions were adopted for the establishmont of a joint stock Hociety lor tho purchase and supply of all necessary articles of consumption—a coriimittee was appointed—and an appeal made to the Working classes to como forwarU iuits support . Thanks were voted to Feargus O'Connor , and the other honest patriots who have not hesitated to stand by the people under all circumstances ;

      Rinici'LE no Test op Truth—We have , oftenei than once , endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism , -vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury , which , however , > ve can find nowhere in his W ' at ridic"le * s the test of truth . But of all chimeras that ever advanced themselves in the shape of philosophical doebnnes , this is to uS the most formless and purel y inconceivable . Did or ^ could the unassisted human faculties ever understand it , much more believe it 1 Surely so iar a * the coitmon mind can discern , laughter seems to depend not less oh lhe laugher than on the laughee ; and who gives laughers a patent to be always just , aud always omisciebtl - -If-the ' philosophers of Nooka Sowud were pleased to laugh at the manceuvres of Cook ' s Bcamou , did that render these manwuvres useless' and were ^ the seamen to stand idle , or take to leather canoes till the laughter abated . ' — T / wmcu CarIvte . .

      Death ko Evil . —It is a thing that every one Buner * , even persons of the lowest resolution , of the meanejit virtua of no breeding , of no discourso . Take away but the pompB of deaths , tho disguises and solemn bugbears , the tinsel , and the actings by canulo-light , and improper and fantastic ceremonies , the minstrels and noise-makers , the women and the weepers , the swooniugs and the ehriekings , the nurses and the physicians , the dark room and the ministers , the kindred and the watche *; and then to djeia easy , ready , and quitted from its troublesomo circumstances . It is the same harmless thing that a poor shepherd suffered yesterday , or a maidB servant to-day ; and at the . same time iri which you / die , in that very night a thousand creatures die with you . somewise men and many fobls ; a , d the wisdom ot the first will notquit him , a ^ d the foHyof tho latter docs not make ^ m unable to die . —Jereiny Taylor

      c Eti-hologt of ^ the Names of Coi ^ tries . —The folrowing countrios were named by tho"Ph < Enicians , the greatest commercial people in the world . These names in the Phoenician language , signify something characteristic of the places which they designate . Europe signifies a country of white complexion—go named because the iihabitants there , \ vero of a lighter complexion than those of eithof Aaia or Alnca . Asia signifies between , or in the middlefrom tho fact that the geographers placed it between Europe and Africa . Africa signifies the , laud of coru ' or ears . It was celebrated for its abundaiiceoiTcorn , and all * orts of grain . Siberia signifies thirsty or dry—very characteristic of tho country . ' Spain a country of rabbits or conies . This ¦ country- was once bo infested with tbeso animals that they sued Augustus for an army to destroy them . Italy , & country of pitch—from its yielding great quantities of black pitch . Calabria also—for the same reason .

      Gaul , modern France , signifies yellow haired , as yeUow hair characterized its first inhabitants . The English of Caledonia is a high hill . This was a rugged mountainous province in Scotland . Hibefnia is utmost , or last habitation ; for beyond this , westward , the Phoenicians never extended their voyages . Jiritain , the country of tin—as there were great quantities of lead and tin found 011 tho adjacent islands . Tho Greeks call it Albion ; which signifies in the Phoenician tongue , either white or high mountains , from the-whiteness of its . shores , or the ; high rocks on the western coast . Sardinia nignifies the footstep of man -which it xcsembies . Suracuse signifies bad savour , called so from the uuwholesomemareh upon which it stood . " ¦ Modes , serpents or dragons . which it produced in abundance . Siclli / the country , of grades . Si-ylla the whirlpool of destruction . Charybdis , tho holds of destruction . Etna signifies furnace , or dark , or smoky .

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      MIL WAKLEY , THE PRESS , AND THE PUBLIC . On Saturday afternoon , Mr . Wakley , M . P ., met a jury at Mr . Thame ' s , on Ealing-common , ibr the purpose of holding an inquest on the body of Anne Koseblade , who died in premature childbed , 611 Tuesday night Week , under rather extraordhiary circumstances . Before proceeding vvith the inquiry , Mr . Wakley addressed the uvy as foUows-.-He had at « r / t doubted whether ho should hold an inquest in this case , as the patient had been previously ill ; but finding that the woman had died immediately after delivery , and that rumours had been circulatcdabout her having been badly used by her husband . lieaftenvards thought it his duty . to proceed with the inmiirv ™

      the information supplied by the constable . When it was supposed that an inquest was held only in cases where a crime was imput able to some party there could not be a greater error . But when a person died Buddenly or out of the USlial COureo of nature , tho coroner and the jury met to ascertain the cause of death , without any primary suspicions against anyone ; and if crime iu connection with a death did exist ; they-were bound not to give it legal consideration until the facts came before them , proved by evidence oh oath . Magistrates and other ignorant people were in the habit of saying , " Why all your inquests are about natural deaths ; " and the newspapers were , teeming with slanders to the effoctj that Mr . Wakley , the new coroner for the western division

      ot Aliudlesex , was proceeding in the most extraordinary manner , aDd was holdhig inquests in cases where they were altogether unnecessary . " The truth was , however , that the shoe Was now beginning to pinch certain people ; and persons in authority , who had been and wishedto continue to be free from observation and control , were becoming apprehensive at the prospect of having the attention of the public directed to their conduct . ( Hear , fromthe jury . ) JVow , as to the extraordinary number of inquests he held , what was the fact ? The truth was , notwithstanding what he had seen insinuated in tho newspapers , the average number of inquests held by him was less than that in the time of Mr ; Stirling his predecessor . Tho returns for his first year of o ' fiice

      were under thos&of tho last year of Mr . Stirling , a gentleman ninety-ouo years of age . Mr . Bell his clerk , who had been also fifteen years clerk to ' Mr Stirling , could prove these facts , and he ( Mr . W ) would lay them before the Magistrates , aiid take care that they should be pubMshed . FurtherMr ; Bell , not he , fixed the inquests ; - ; and since he had come into office there had happened only one case in which ilr . Stirling might not have decided upon M ^ r in ^ uest > bu *> after long consideration , he ( Mr . W . ) thought that an inquest should be held and the result completely justified him , as he should presently show . It happened that the Coroner was a judge elected by the people , and the only one eieciea

      Dy me people ; ana some persons did not like a lawyer , but they preferred a . doctor for their judge . For this reason the lawyers were always pecking a £ the doctor judge . Again ho would say that it was most erroneous to unagine that holding of aa inquest and imputing a crime to certain parties were ueces ^ earily connected . If ii w « re not possible to Iiold an inquest without imputing a crime to some one . he would not hold his oifice twenty-four hours > He would rather scrape the roads , or be a galley slave than continue in sueh a situation . If there were nothing wrong in a case , surely there could be ho injury to any persoa , no offence to any family , in a Coroner and twelve' honest men going to the house to see the body , and ascertain the . cause of death . If

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      'there wore . somethingwronffj did not public justice and the nidividuarsafety of e 8 Ch , man : require that the ^ cnmmahijhonld : he disc 6 veredy exposed , and punishod ! . Yot the most ektraordinary ppinions in tho world seemed to prevail in that county . There they ; had ; had Mr . Bell in office : ibr fifteen yearsi and why . so much igrioranie of the duties ot - * Coroner . existed in the public mind ; ho ( Mr W . ) could not conceive * All : persons seemed alike ignorant of it . - The Magistrates seemed-to know n ? thin « ° ? it- ( Tho HQh ; : Gent : hero referred at-. ;« ome ; .- length . to the Hetrdoh inquest . ) It was : _ said that he had / repeatedly ^ ^ adjourned that inquest for certain re | 86 h 8 . Some one askod ••^/ t ^ ' / fonrfiw - ' ^ riW S&tffiSJS ^ g ^^ ^ l ^ SJfii * w «« ' ^;« -i -: ^* ij ^ w- - - ^ . -- ^ ^ ' ^ - -- ' re ^ ^ - - ; W *

      ^^^^^ - ^^^ . - - of thatday , if the coroner -were paid for every ' idjourned inque «[ t !; Thi « was an ;; insinuation that he merely ad journed for the sake of a fee . Now he was glad to answer that economical gentleman in the Mornxng , Herald , The coroner was not paid for adjourned inquests . If ho had occasion to meet the same , jury , twenty or thirty times : upon the same inquest , he would still he paid for only flomine ^^ once H ^» - *^)' - \ Th . »' -- - VttianWhM - - ' 8 amplftf » f- - : ihotgnovance that prerailed respecting hia oflice ^ -an ignorance not confined to those who miffht be supposed . not called upon to turn ^ their minds to the subjec ^ but an ignorance which was participated in by the judges > f the land . There were some judges -even somo very celebrated judges , as iKhOrant of

      ¦\ n res P ectln & tho duties of coroner as any saddlery or harness-makor , or smith , or labourer , Whd had neyer read a word about it > Thfr truth wa 5 i the office of coroneir rose from the people—it was instituted for the protection of tho pWple--the coroner himself was appointed by the people , and it was his dut y to watch over and protect the interests pttne people . He thought Borne persons did not like him . upon : that account ; and , perhaps , it was for that reasou they seemed so unwilling to understand his duties . ( Hear , hear . ) But he could provo that 80 tar trom too-many inquests being held , as some of tho noivspapers and certain parties had stated , there should have been more held . After holding an inquest that -morning , at Twickenham . ' he looked

      over the registrar s book , and he found the entry of tho recent decease of a child of three inontha ol < l , whose deathJia 4 . been caused by : want of proper sustenance ! Tho mother left tho child with its erandmother , and went to take the placo of a wet nurse , at Hammersmith . Soon : after when she came back and saw . the ; child , she was asked to give it the breast . Her answer was " I shaU do no such thing . ' The qlergyman at Twickenham had said the child was murdered . Tho doctor had said that it was starved . Yet no inquest had beon held , and the delinquent mother ; was suifered to go unpunished , lhe authorities did not seem to know that an inquest ought to be ..: held in : 8 uch a case ; and : one or two l 1 jnquest

      S ^^ MW ''* ' necessary , stated that they bad been dissuaded from informing tlio coroner by the apparent impossibility of procuring conclusivo evidence against the mother . It n ) . isht * 09 asked , then , how would tho people know the duties : and nature of tho cbroner ' B . office ! Hja answer was , the slanders in the newspapora would induce them to ask what tho object arid extent of the coroner s office werie , and tlien to study them . The public would then see that the intention of the office was cot so much ttt detect crime aa to prevent the commission .. of - ^ u , ( Hear , hear . ) For example , they were there that day to inquire into the death of a woman , not bocause they suspected' \ any one , but because she died suddeulyjn labour . Now labour was _ a natural operation , and death waa nnt ; it »

      result . But the coroner had b&on informed that this por ^ oman , Atine lloseblado , had been ill ^ usJd by her husband ^ who was also . Btated to have deserted her , . and .. aot have euatained her in the hour of nood . Now this ^ investigation which they were about to hold would ahow all medical : men , and thei-ewas ona sittng on bis right ( Dr . Radcliffe ; who attended Mrs .. Roseblado ) , all medical students , and all who attended women in their confinement ^ that if anything should happen to women before their delivery . fnS ^ ' *^*^ » th ^ """ instances would be investigated . Thus overy person so employed would become aiiyp . tohisxhaty . If the doctor attending woman ^ vho had died m childbirth had used all the aids and apphances . of science , what reason hadho to dread an honestinvostigation 1 If he had used less 111

      SKana attention than he . was bound to use , oUffht not his misconduct to be exposed fbr tho protection of £ w ^ V- ^ y " ' ^•) -- v £ ot them seo ^ what had happened mXpndon ; . Since he had come iritooffice W «? he had already said ; determined upon StTv ? ? yvhi 6 h Mr- Stirling might have omitted . Yet what an outcry had been raised against him ! So ^ trwo itvwas that 0110 mau might steal a ( A laugh . ) That inquest was a labour case , and he examined upon it Vr , Davis , of the Maternity Cl . a ^ ¦ rtSt * fSt lm ^ ^ d aP co « chwn : & . -Davis Eaid thatfrom fifteen hundred to three thousand women passed through his hands in the year , and yet he had notrnetsuchacase astliat . Thatevidenco proved the

      SS ™ » nque 8 t , and tho fa « t of mich inqu ries would deter incompetent ^ young men from S V ? ° k th \ pract . of the obstetric art rhcrecould ho ^ no harm in inquiry .: He wouldOngago for it that / no rospectebla practitldiier wou d shrink from mqmry . J ^ w in London there wer « a great many teachers and lecturers on midwifery : fe ! f ^ W ^**? to the present session , but ( a Tml *' ?? - 7 ° - ] > WW men came to London to acquire experiencein the bbstotric art . tho most important , perhaps , that a medical inah was called upon , to . practise ; A boy could nevor gain expenenco ; m tlio neigHbouyhood wherb Jib * waa known or ; served his apprenticbehip , for persons having seen him inrow un amon *« t thnm trfm h n ^

      hood would be . afraid ^ tp trust ^ emselves to him , and his principal dared not risk hia reputation bv sencling Turn . Therefore the joung gentleS * 2 obliged to come to London for two yearSrduring SmL ^^ ^ « u i > P ° sed : b y the folk * in thf country that he w _ as dovoting himself to the pro-Umdiucs of obstotric . knowlodge , though perhaps h * sometimes wont to : tlio theatro . ( EaTighter V Th ? yW ¦^^ ¦ w Mt . ia a : Je ^« OT t ¦ VKo ^¦ uttae ^ wi ^ w instruct him m midwifery , and the lad eat day after day for eight or ten hours to a person who was paid fortalking to him . But -one might- a ^ weH-tairto thp ^ moon a « attempt to giyo a . perBon a practical knowkdgo , of an « t , by talking ' to himabmiS Could tho jury teach a boy to vlauuh- nr » n cm ™ ^

      , « make » booiof a shoo ^ yvtafen £ tb him for ten of medical education ^ nptwithstanding our boasted Ripcnor intelh pncerand wisdon ,.: But those young men , who Wished for additional ; iriformationi that iwf practicaVinformation } in midwiftry , paidan ad < . ^ oual sumibr cases ^ sometim ^ they ' paid alHnit lump , and the case wero mippliod to them . It happened tlIatthoro were m London a great mSv of women , wh 0 > with their childreri ^ ere left by tno carelessness arid improvidence of their husbands m a , stato of difO poverty ., Theirs necessities compelled those poor women , when about to : bo conluied , to call upon tho lecturer , and say that " ^ y . ^ npo - ' -thQ - young gontlcmcn to attend them .

      ito lecturer would tlvGiv give them ascertain sum for permitting his pupils to attend them in their labour , ai ) d tho young Gentlemen tljemsqlyea-geiierally added Bomething ; Thus thopoor ' women " infeht be said-to lot themselves out each time , eertainlv nothing could be more , proper than that young men should acquire oxpcrieucQ in this Way . . ' But What h complained of was , that they were pormitted to attend , women without haying an experienced : person with them to advise or assist in case any difllciulty should arise . as was often the case . Now liO VTanted to prevent this . ,. He waniied to preyeut : women from being exposed to the most extraordinary suf-JeringB and perils ( 51 s they , must be when attended bv inexperienced persons only ) . ThAv . w «« u . on

      then , . that the great object of the coronet in moving about town and . country :. Wad , to ' ascertain the cause of deaths ^ bo tliat suspicion might be removed ! from persons on whom it should not rest , and be fixed An thoBO on whom it should . Ho had seen by the Mornmg Herald that the Marylebone guarS were attacking him . He was sorry that they should ain ^ Sl ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ * ^ - hSS £ taiu . that they , at least , wore notactuated by poUt ^ al ^ ehngsv for somp of those gentlemon supported g » f : instructions which he had issued . iNow before ho signed a warrant ho wished for certain informal ^ There was in fact nothing very new iu , thosQ . instructions , but thev werri in t ™ Z and

      print looked awful ^ rXlaughter ) , Now ho should feel it . his business to appeal from those who wished to curb jhecoroner in the exercise of his duty , to tho good sense &f the jarics . Then if ho were wrong j £ his ^ course , thc , ripooplo would , sbon set him : right ; if he wore rk ht tho people would support him . ( Hear . ) Ho would confer ' with the gentlemen he now addressed on the utility of his paperof instructions ; Ouo of the questiona he proposed to have Answered by tho . constable , on applying for a warrant , was , '' What is thought to have been ^ he causo ^ of death ?" : The hrtenObii of this w to find evidence , and a constable , inproparing himself to answer it , would , no idoubt ^ ict np teuch information amongst the neighbours before he came to him , The next question , ¦¦ *• Is the body in a fresh or in a . deconiposed state I" had for ite objdet to relieve the Jury from a digacf oeablo siffht i hftAn

      as it could bo dono . Jt taight be sstid , what-would be the .. use . .. in asking a . constable if ho . gspposed that poison was the cause of death , what was the poison 1 But that question would , inducothe eohatable to inquire at . the doctorsVand the bil ^ hbps whether the deceased had procured . at them prusiiic acid or arsenic , ora ' ny-other deleterious articleV Thequ « stioa as to ^ ho suddenness of a- death ; was ¦• to aacertam whether the death wa 3 so sudden as" to require an inquest ... in hiaopinion if a maft were struck speechless , there ought to be an inquest held . Some parties wished to have one rule for the rich and another for the poor ; but ho waild have one and the same rule ior bptli . When a rich man died in an extraordinary manner ^ some would say , ^ That family are so respectjible' ^ for in this country wealth always ; made men respectable-- * there ea > 't be anything wrong , " But he would ; rieyer yield i v such a ease ; lfbr he knew well that , ¦ # he yielded 6 oo «

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      'people would put the screw W on « the Coroner the next time . . His -instruction ' s required constables , headboroughs , beadles , and police , to « end him notice in cases of extraordinary deaths . Upon thi 3 ground also he : had beea exclaimed against . But there was nothing newin that instructioit-the Act of Edward L required it . He also required' notice when women died in labour , or wUhin a few hours after delivery , or when persons died from poisons or quack : medicines . He might have said , . from quack medicines of other poisons ; for , from ; the indiscriminat © man-* - ^ iu wblch vr ftuack ' medicines were administered , they really wer ^ poiepns . ( Hear , hear . ) He also : required notice ^ when persons died in extreme ^ ^^ ^ . ! r ^ Co ^^» . time - His _ instructions required constables , head-

      povorty , « t haying been ; neglected in sickness , or in prisons , or station-houses , or in public or vmaite lunatic ^ ylums : The law now : threw its ptoteijtion over , felons ; Whp died ini prisonB . The coroner waB authorised to inqiiire into their medical treatment . Why should riot it also protect , in like mariner , the poor lunatics . in asylumsrtlf five hundred of those poor creatures ; weretogctherj not one of them could be receivedaa a witness ^ -n 6 matter how . cruelly they mighthave been treated-fhomatter how they might have been knocked : about or abused in cells ,- or beaten , for attempting ^ to cry . Surely , ; theiefbre , the law ought to encourage the same rigorous inquiry into thetreatmentof lunatics as into '' thatof paupers , especially here , where we have so larff * a a

      county asylum . And , indeed ^ , new law ' must be pas ? ed . to restrain him , before he ( Mr . TV . ) would be restrained From holding r . quests into tho deaths of lunatics , wheiiever : he should think : it necespary . Surely , there could be nothing wrong in inquiring into the deaths of lunatics and paupers . CHoar . ) No man who did his duty to lunatics or paupers could : qbject to an inquest . If ho did not do his duty it was the coroner ' s busineeB to make him do so , or tako him out of his position , and the sooner the better . He was sorry to -have detained them so l ° ngr- ( applause)—but since his appointment to office ho bad met with nothing but attention and kindness from

      jurors ; he never had the slightest difficulty with them . Ho * ehould always bo guided byitho opinion of a j ' ury , as to the neces 3 ity of an inquest , and if jurors should , begin to complain of iriquests being unnecessarily held the public would soon find it out . He desired to have tha public attontion directed to his office , which Ite was dotermined should not be a nullity iwhilo he filled the chair ; The office of coroner was one of the highest dignity and power in ancient times . If it had lost any of these characteristics he" woild . try io reyive them . At all events it should losp none of its dignity or power while in his hands . " : ¦ The inquest is reported below : —

      GOEONER'S INQUEST . Ait Inhuman Husband . —On Saturday , anmquest was held before Mr . Wakley , at Mr . Thame ' s , - Ealing-common , on the body ofArine Roseblade , who was alleged to have died in premature labour , brought on by destitution arid ill-usage from her husband / - . .,.-Mr . H . Radcliffe , surgeon , of New Brentford , stated that he had for some time professionally attended the doceasedupon a lying-iu : ticket . While in a state of pregriancy shohad suffered from . liemorragq , which nau exhausted her very much . Yet he uiidetstocd she had been reaping , and doing other labour , to support herself , having been . aba « ida » 6 d and left destitute by heir husband , who , he had been informed , had acted iri a like manner in all her former pjtygnanbies , ^ leaving homo when ehe wag near her Confinement , and not returning until she hadrecocovered . She was seized with premature

      labourpains last Tuesday , accompaniec by a distressing liemorrhage . She wus delivered in the course of the day of a seven-months' still bora childj a » d she died about midnight . She had then every requisite nourishment ; but he was convinced that she died of nervous exhaustion , brought on by destitutidu . Ho had ; known her lying on straw , and otherwise in a state of almost indescribable wretchedness . * ¦ - . Anne ^ oke was the mother of the deceased-who was twenty-three years of age , and had had four previous miscarriageS v Her daughter ' s husband was in thehabit of going away as had been stated . He had now been three weeks on the Norwich railway , earningabout a : guinea a week , and had not sent his wife- any thing , Witness ' s husband earned fifteen shillings a week , but they had . six children . Her daughter had died in her house . lipstblade was yisrykind while he had money ; but he soon spent every shilling , and he had made his wife sell everything . He seemed to wish not to have a linilse :

      The Gorohersaid it Was now time to eudeavour to check the dreadful improvidence of the working classes , and thus prevent soine of the iBiseries they brought upwthemselyes arid their unhappy families ! He hoped the jury would exprees a ceasuxe upon Roseblade ' s conduct in their verdict . Verdict—" Died from nervous exhaustion , accelerated by destitution . " ,

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      iKFAUOcsATrEMpr . —We are informed that on Thursday Week , Some wretches placed about fifty metal chajrs across the Newcastle and Carlisle railway , between Hexham and Haydon-briage . iFortunately the obstruction : was discoTered and rempyed before the train appeared . ; Wo Hope a large reward will bo offered for the discovery of the persons who : Were guilty " of ^ this atrocious act 'Carlisle Patriot . ^ ¦ >

      i ^? AfWiVEKsAnv Wesleyatt Chapel , at Maulden , was held oh Sunday last . Mr . Lambert of L ^ ighton , preached . To jujcommodato the congrogatipn , a temporary gallery was ete ^ ted , which came down with a terrible crash , duririff the after . noon soryice .: Thescene thatfollowed is indescribable -some were feen . crawling oui of the wiodows , and pulhng others - after them . One iriah had his head ^ r tufiyjwrt vnth a nail , which Jaid his sca ^ S pletel yopen . ^^ We are happy to say he is rapidly SgjJW others ^ were hurt sbghtly .

      —flert-RuRiL Police . — 'Che magistrates of Shropshire ^ ti £ ^ ^ u ofthe > Intention toadopttho proTieions of the recent Act of Parliament for SrwS ? a ^ " ^ y ^ Fprce ^ aj ^ iJu ^ ^ AmpENT ^ n PViday ^ orting . an accident 6 cnrred in the New road , St . Afarylebone , to ¦'• i pb « boy named Jamea ^ ^ Riley , residirig in Miry-atteet , Hanipstead , road , who impruderitly got up behind a chariot thathad spikes anixed to it , and endeavour--lngWgerdpTO , his foot slipped , and turee of th « spikes penbrat « dhi « Btomach .

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      ; .. Ow SuNDAT a waterman , at Garden-stairs , Greenwich , seeing What appeared to be the bo ; dy of a child fioating down the tide , pnt off frqfti the chore inhis wherry ; and : when getting nearer the object , it proved to J&e two children clasped in each pther ' i * airms , and each holding a hand up . The waterman immediately ; took them , out of the river , arid but just in time to savt their lives . The children had-beon playing on some barges lying in the Horseferry ; and from one of which they dropped into the Water to « - tiieT . —Greenuiich'Gazette . : ; -V . w-:. / . H . ;¦'" ^^ r a ** ^*^^^ & wich : seeinff wh * t 3 nn . >» i ?« ho ^ ow ^ , r ^ o * Fua

      : The Reward of Cotoage . —During the . IaW storm vaFrench . veBsei waswrecked in the dead of night in Weymouth Bay . A coast guardman , named John Mantle , thinking ho siw human beingB moving on- tho deck , jumped into the raging sea and swam K : her . On / gating on -board he found two boys and . the . captain , who had broken his leg , on her deck . ; Mantle took the boys safely to shore , arid then , returning tothe wreek- with a rope , which was ; made fast to the shores he slurig the captain : m a running tackle , and h « was safely landed . Th » gallant , fellow then groped in the cabins to find if any . living being remained , and afterwards jumped into the » ea , and swam to the sho ™ in R * f « t . v : On

      Monday Mantle attended at the ; Town" Hall , Weympnthi when the mayor delivered to him the silver medal » nd five pounds from the Royal Humana Society ; : * like « um of money arid a Bronze medal , from Lloyd s ; » : beaufifnl watch , . wjth a suitabla inscription ,, from ; the inhabitants of Wevmouth ; £ 20 by vote of the ; Lords of the Treasury C and ' : £ & from the Shipwreck Association . Mantle , whose officershaye promoted him ; for his courage ^ was informed that the French government was about to reward him with a gold medal , &c . In : returning thanks ^ for ; the various rewards given to hirii , this bravo man , with great modestyj assured the gmtlemen that the result of his endearvours was hia richest rewMd > r-l ) OTw * County Chronicle .

      Mb . FctWAB Ciiatek . —This gentleniari , who is amagistrate for the counties of Gloucester , Wilts ,. and Elerksj appeared on the bench , atChelterihani , a few , ; days since ( where , ho atteiided in his magisterial capacity !!!) to answer a charge preferred against him by two policemen ^ for being m a . state ' qt" intoxication near thib Plough Hotel , at about on « o clock on Saturday , morning ^ and also for swearing and usi » g profane language to some girls who were parading the : streets at jnat unseaspnahle hour of the nighty : A similarr complaint was mad » againsi ; N ^ T . MortOfiyEsq . ; fhb facts weroclearly : proved . : Wheh ; the policeman persuaded the girlr to go home , Mr ; , Craven ( it appeared ) asked the pphcemari if he knew who he wasl and being answered in the affirmative . Mr . Craven said " 1 hav «

      not been pn the / bench lately , but I shall soon be there aeaio , and teach yoti policemen what 19 your duty . ; My r « a « on for not attending more frequently is , that I am too respectable to : sit among the rest of the magistrates , and therefore I have cut the-connection . He then said , he did not ' care a d-: — - for the ; magistrates , or for the polic * . After , some very boisterpus proceedings , Mr . Fulwar Craven : Was ; called nppn by > his brother Magistrateis ; to know whether he meant to reply to the chargoj when : he reinarked . that he wasrathec fresh at the time , having been drinking wine with , some friends ; and spoke in Btroug terms of the brutality of th « policemen ; : I was ( he said ) ' dragged through tha public streets by main force , ' Uke a convicted felon , and durinc mv wav to brison lost one

      of my shoe * inthe mud ; and on my teWDgth ^ PPliceman of my loss , ho replied , 'Oh , never mnid y our shoe ; you can afford to buy another , if you have lost , that . " ; . The policeman replied thatnq yiolerice was used towards either of the defendants , but they were taken in the same manner that all other drunken persons were . He denied that Mr . Graven lost hia shoe , though he stated ; he had , having them both on when he ¦ arrived at the station-houEei The story about ; the shoe was no ; doubt a deep trick or Btratagem on the part pf Mr . Craven , to induce the mob to release ! him , as he stooped down , apparently in the act of looking for that which waaoii his foot . The defendants were firied 5 s . each and costs , which they paid , arid then left the office *— - Sun . - " - . - . - ¦' . ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦¦ •¦ ¦ - ¦¦• •¦ - - . .. . -: ¦ •¦ ¦ -r ' .- . ¦ ; ¦ ¦"

      NpRTH ^ RJPotmcAL Ukiox . — Gn Wednesday evening the Council -met in the large ? opm at the Cock ; A large humber of clasa leaders were present , many ot" whom announced . the completion of their , respective ; classes , and ' some of whom paid jn _ the ; Bubseription 8 on the spot . A committee was . apppiiited to draw up an address to the working ^ men . Apother : appointed to take rooms from Mr . Lowry , in Nuns-street , for the purpose of e 8 tablishing : Committee and Reading Rooms . A Epirit of confidence prevailed : which wo never ? aw / surpassed . . The activity of the patriots . in the various towns of England arid Scotland- ^ the confusei state of the money niarket--the ^ flashings of hope from twice-cheated France—but more than allthe

      , promise of efficient ; organisation by classes gave that torie and cheerfulness to the proceedings which the tppls pf Oppression have been ; long labouring to destroy . Next week we shall proUably girean extract from the . transactions of . the old Northern Political Union , illustrative of the benefit of class orgaoisatiou , imeanwhile , We say that every man deserring the name of a patriot Will 'form round him , if posBible ; a class of twelve ; There are aLready fifty classes formed in Newcastle . Let the most active spirits in town and oonntry embrace the opportunity which how offers , arid before fiiis ! weeks goes rotind the Union-will be far more numerous and- , far more firmly united than ever it was before . —Northern Liberator * ;

      ¦ _ DABtlNOTOJt PbtlCE ^ -THINNiMa OOT OB irEUB BtuES . —The number of theses worthies h » s agaiia fe th !?^ - : Tlur 6 e of : ^ J Tiz ^ -Heriderlon , Obel , and Wilhamsonj Were on Saturday last ( called upon to rteign ; their seals of office ; no doubt much to their discomfiture , and others of the blue body must sopn follow in their wake . The time has at length arrived when the mofo erilightined portion of the inhabitants of Darlingtori have discovered that the fears of a few dizzy headed old Aristocrats have proved abortive , and that the keeping up of a large police force in the ; town , for no earthly purpose whatever , but that of creating disaffection among the people , only tended , to add additional burthens on the alr * ady ; over taxed inhabitants . That the creating of additional police force , and the swearing mpf an abundance of special co * stables was a felly , werefer to the past ; riot one scene Of uproar has taken place , not one square of glass has beenbroken i neither were such things ever ; contemplated by the working mei > r of Darlington . The town has ; hpwev « r , been thrown , to a great and useless expense , and the cry no-w is , who is to pay the Piper . —Northern Liberator , v

      . Wife Poisoned by her HrspAJtc—An inquiry of a very serious nature has Occupi ed tho attention of Mr . Carrick , coroner , during greater part of the week , at Ullermire , in the pariah of Kirklinton . and which-has term mated in the committal of John Graham , carterand dealer in meal , to lie gaol at Car-Jisle , for the wilful murder of his wife Jane Graham . At this stage of the proceedings , we do not feel ourselves ; at liberty , for many reasons , to publish the whole of the evidence , we shall ; therefore , ¦ state shortly the facts as they have been communicated tD ns . Graham and hil wife had been married ahoufi terimonthB , diirihtf which time-they had resided a * the small tillage of Ullermire , where he kept a shofa tor the sale of meal and flour ,: and deceased taueht

      a scnooi . bne was pregnantj arid hear her coiifiuement . On Monday , week she was slightly indisposed , with , eympidms of approaching labour . According to the husbands statement , she had , ; on several occasions , pressed him to bring her some medicin firom Carlislei and that he had alwaysfprgotten to dp so until : the lastrnamed day , yrhen he purchased one pennyworth of cream of tartar , and another one of magnesia , from Mr . Harrison , druggist , in S « Qtch-street . which he brought-home andgaveto her , That she gave ^ hini ^ some of jt in ^ ^ warmCrater and mixed another , parti m treacle for herself § he took part of it , and they both partook of more next morning at breakfast time , immediately after which he left home . It appears that -within an hour m *~

      breakfast , decewed was sei ? ed with violent and S ^ * olttit i i * > vPu 5 ^ n S ? ' ^ Pa in in her chest , ¦ wit h _ othersymptoms of having taken poison , whicb oontmued . ^ thont > ' intennissipn till ' ' Sout eight , o'clock the same ; evening . when she died , attertyrelye hours of most inten » pain and miffer-} « v ArrangementB were madelby Graham to have her buried , on Tuesday ; but ; MriAtricksori , one of ^ evma ^ stratea . forthis county , having learned that rumours were afloat : that she had died under very suspjcions ^ ircumstances , caused ? the parish officers to give notice to : the coroner ^ who : attended on Tuesflayv and after , examining a great many ^ witnesses aojonrned the . porirt to the Ipllowing day , ari < i gurectea a post mortem examinations to be made

      . v ^ fr w ? lu % wa 3 again lesumed ^ nd adjourned to Monday lasft , when amongst other evidence it was proved by Mr . Oliver ; of Carlile ; Mr . Armstrong of Brampton ; and Mr . Graham , of Ullermire , surgeonsj that on a careful analysis of the contentBof the stomach , they found a larjge quantity of arsenic , . Bufflcient to ; cau 80 the death of half a dozen ' persoie , and which , without any doubti had been the cause of the death of the deceased . A T * rl «! ty of circnmstaiwes going to establiBh- " -the guilt of th& htifiband were ^ deposed ^ tp by ^ seferal witnesseB . After the case was closed , the coroner read over the whole and

      of the evidence , - > . pointed out its- beaiina Teiy carefully at great length . the room was then cleared 5 ?^« f >^ # ^ * ° * ow ^ xonsuitatioui a verdict ; pf WilfalMurder" was returned against John uraham , who was committed to CatUBTe Gaol to takehis trial for the offence at tha Spring assiies . lhe deceased was a mpstrespectable woman . andhad upwards of £ lflO in ^ money ^ wien she married . Hex ? mother resides : in . Carlisle , and is respectably connected . : Mir . Patrickson attended the inquiry each day , and rendered valuable assistance in bringing many Very ^ portant facts ^ ^ before this ^ ^ jury . —CarluU Patrwt . ' . ;¦ ¦'¦¦ ... ' . ' ' . '¦ : ¦ ¦'¦ . (¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ -:- : ¦ :- -, " ¦ :. ;• - ^ v ., - ' .-. : ¦;;•• ¦•¦ '

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      WESTERN WAGGERIES . ( Just imported [ itf the Great Western Steamer . ) ¦ Vert ExtraobpjnaAy . — -Our ¦ citizens have-of late become cqlebrated : for absence of mind , but the following instance from : ^^ the Boston T&mahawk Moots far a-liead of all that ; werit before it : ¦— " Mr . : ' V an attorney , residing in this town , being requested ' to appear as nonainal plaintiff in a matter in which he among others was ioterested i owing to some unaccountable abeeriee of jtnind .. brought the action agaipet himself , and never diecdvfercd his mistake till after he had compelled himserf to pay damages , isBued ^ execution ag > inBt , arid actuaily incarcerated himeelf for not paying his own costs . "

      , PUFP StNGULAB- ^ RKFECTORY OK THH GREAT Wbsterk Plan . —Euscpnib" and Sanborn opened rich on Monday , ; with ; yenisonj turtle , terrapins , wobd - co <*> ^ nipe , canvass backs , trout , and a variety of other little notions ; -together with an imperiar sirloin of roast beef and a most illustrious corned rump to . say nothing of the drinkables ^ in a gorgeous saloon , after the fashion of the cabin of the Great Western ^ j * nd a small hack room , for the exelueiv © accommodatiott of " noble swelling souls . " There is no mistake at the Cornucopia , ^ ^ 28 , Park-rpw . '' : Puff Plurai-. — V A ebrrespjcmdent grairibies atpaying ^ Nolan , at the Tunneli ; . ¥ orfcville , 50 cents a bottle for porter , which ho calls ' " Philadelpnia . porter , and -j- — - bad ? porter , too . " Serves him right .. Let lum stay down town , and drink Ned Jones sat 25 cents . Or if he wishes to drink the pure stuff at ¦ home , let him send an order to Jack Hunt sporter ceUar , 123 , Chapel ( at Jack's ) where it can be bought for 10 s . a dozen . "

      Gaption . —" Captain Gideon S . Holmes , of Boston , wa « going by the railroad yesterday afternoon to Prpvidence tp take command of the brig ; . levanh and in loeking out of the car-window : the railiiiff of Neponsent-brid ge caught his head a whack that nearly ^ knockedit off his shoulders ! He was taken from the care at thp next station , and Dr / Abbott pled Jiim , but he continued insensible ; and in that coiiditioir he was brought home , in all prPbability to die . The railroad bridges aro hot wide enough and never were ; but when alluding to the perii caused , by this circumstance , a . director sharply demanded -What right have people to put their heads out of car windows ? ' This was a poser . Wo Bhut pan , * nd said nothing . "

      . Capital Idea !—The Chicago Sentinel Bays tho fever and ague maladyis getting so ahead down there that the ~ settlerB- 'aro ; going to turn its mpremonts to « ome useful purpose . 1 $ has been estimated that twelve men in the paroxysm shake sufficiently to prppe > a ^ t « at of 6 n&' hundred tons . If this is correc ^ tho days of steam arc numbered . ,. LiBBBTTOFTHEpRESa . —Thelast i > dwn ( iGeoirgia ) Telegraph - contains the followirig myBteriouBa ^ ^^ nouncement : — - Itis withmortjfiedfeeliriasthatwe

      have to announce , to our readers f that ; we wjll : discbhtinue the publication of the Darten Telegraph { ot the present . Our friends may be '; as 8 ured that it is no slight cauBiel that leads to this course . : When \ re eay if we donot do bo , pur house ; will be burned—our helpless innocent ; children and beloved wife murdered ¦^ and the few gallalnt frieiids we have sacrificedarid property would be destroyed in the city , : that fifty years would not replace—we Bay the truth : flat eriouch at present .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 12, 1839, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1078/page/7/