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HEREFORDSHIRE. TO LET,—THE OLD HILL, within two miles of Ross, on JL a good turnpike road, and may be entered upon immediately, containing an excellent Kitchen, Back-kitchen, &c. &c., a Dining-room and Parlour, on the ground floor four good airy Bed-rooms, on the second floor, with suitable Servants' Rooms a large and productive Garden, a three-stall Stable, and one acre and a half of rich Meadow Land. Also-TO BE LET, on the 18th of August next, the same distance from Ross,—WALFORD COTTAGE, containing an Entrance Passage, good Dining-room and Parlour, Kitchen, Back-kitchen, &c., on the ground floor two good and airy Bed-rooms, with Servants' Rooms, on the second Boor and one acre of excellent Meadow Land, and a good Garden. The whole is surrounded by plantation. N.B. Each House has a Pew attached to it in Walford Church. Coal is easily obtained. The above Premises are pleasantly situated, within view of Goodrich Castle, and an easy walk of the Wye. For particulars, apply (post paid) to Kingsmill Evans, Esq., The Hill Court, near Ross, Herefordshire. More Land may be attached to each House. WORISON'S MEBICINEB. Remarkable cure of a Mother and Daughter of Consumption. To Messrs. Morison and Moat. GENTLEMEN, I DEEM it due to you to add my testimony to the number of testimonies which you are constantly receiving, as to the suc- cessful exhibition of what, not without reason, you style your Universal Medicine, in a great diversity of diseases. It is not of my own case that I am about to speak (although I have myself experienced undoubted benefit from the use of your Pills,) but of that of my wife and child. Early in the month of February, 1832, my wife had the misfor- tune to rupture a blood vessel, through violent coughing, being at the time in the fourth month of her pregnancy. This alarming accident, the occurrence of which she concealed for some days, was speedily followed by decided symptons of consumption, when a medical gentleman, who was called in, pronounced her to be in an extremely dangerous situation. She was bled and blistered, but her cough and expectoration continued. What made her case the more dangerous, was the exceedingly and constitutionally inactive state of her bowels, which it was impossible to move, except by the use of strong aperients; and to these, in conse- quence of her pregnancy, her medical attendant was afraid to re- sort. Every day she grew worse rather than better, so that I de- termined upon further advice, and called in Doctor Farre, a physician of acknowledged eminence and skill, especially in pul- monary affections. This gentleman, as soon as he had seen my wife, called her friends aside, and communicated to them the mournful intelligence, that, in his opinion, there was no chance of her recovery. Pregnancy, in such cases, he said, was some- times a favourable incident; but in her case it was otherwise; for ulceration had begun, and consumption was doing its deadly work, so that she could not possibly survive the sixth month of her pregnancy. He concluded by stating, that it was needless to send for him again, and directed the apothecary, should the spitting of blood return, to take four ounces from her, and, if that did not stop it, to continue to bleed her till she died. Her medical attendant expressed his entire concurrence in the opinion which Dr. Farre had pronounced, and we were left to sorrow without hope. The spitting of blood did return but, happily, it was stopped by the abstraction of the quantity of blood speci- fied. In other respects, however, no improvement took place, nor was any hope of improvement held out. On the contrary, life seemed gradually ebbing, and constipation of the bowels had reached such a frightful pitch, that for many days no passage was effected and yet the medical attendant dared not administer any but the simplest and most gentle medicines, which, I need hardly add, produced no effect. In this state of affairs, fearing I should lose my wife, I determined to try your Pills, which I was assured could do no harm,, but which might, even at the eleventh hour, and under the most unfavourable circumstances, prove efficacious. It was not without difficulty that I found op- portunities of administering them for, apprehending that my friends would be sceptical as to the utility of the experiment, if not afraid of the effects of trying it, I proceeded without their knowledge or consent. I gave two of No. 1 and two of No. 2 on successive nights, gradually increasing the dose up to seven of each. The good effect was almost immediately perceptible the bowels were very shortly opened, and continued to act with regu- larity, and without any of the dreaded injurious consequences arising from pregnancy; fever began to subside, expectoration ceased, her strength and appetite returned, and she was soon so far convalescent, as to leave herded of sickness and adopt a nu- tritive diet. I will not attempt to describe my own pleasure, or the surprise of my friends, at this sudden and pleasing change. Suffice it to say, that my wife lived to falsify the confident prediction of the sage physician who had solemnly pronounced her doom; and not only so, but in due time she gave birth to a child, whose en- trance into the world was, I make no doubt, materially facili- tated, by the same instrumentality to which, under God's bless- ing, I owe the prolongation of its mother's life, and, I may add, her restoration to health and strength. Still ignorant of the means by which my wife's recovery had been effected, her friends and medical attendants transferred their gloomy forebodings from the mother to the child. The ap- pearance of the latter was indeed sufficient to justify them for a more hopeless case, so far as appearances went. I never witnessed. Trusting, however, to the medicine, of the value of which I had had such gratifying proof, I administered your Pills to my infant daughter, when she was only a fortnight old. She had every symptom of a rapid decline, and more than one medical gentle- man who saw her declared that such was the case, and that she could not live through the winter. However, the winter is past, and she is yet alive. At first, though the operation of the Pills was immediate, and gave evident relief, but little improvement was externally visible. She took plentifully of the food prepared for her (her mother having no milk) but it did not clothe her with flesh indeed she was a living skeleton. Still I persevered with the Pills, and the effect has been, that she is now, in the eighth month of her life, free from every symptom of disease, in- creases in strength and stature, and has plenty of firm flesh. She is now approaching the severe crisis of teething, during which I shall steadily adhere to your Pills, as the best human reliance which I have ever yet discovered in circumstances of dangerous illness. With the cure of my wife I should have furnished you at an earlier period, but that I wished to present it with the yet more extraordinary cure of my child. I thank God, that by the aid of your Pills, I have been enabled to fulfil my wish. What are the ingredients of your Pills I know not; and am not anxious to inquire. It is sufficient for me to know, that, but for them, I should most probably have been a childless widower, instead of enjoying, as I now do, all the endearing associations of a husband and a father. For when some of the first men in the faculty had presumed to fix a limit to the existence of my wife, and blasted in my breast the pleasing hopes of paternity, the simple preparation which I obtained from you falsified the predictions which their ignorance suggested, and triumphed in emergencies confessedly beyond the reach of their book-learned skill." I am, Gentlemen, your obliged servant, March 18, 1833. J. S. P.S. I inclose my name and address as an authentication of this letter, biit request that you will not publish them. You are, however, at liberty to satisfy any private inquiries, by showing the original letter. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES having su- perseded the use of almost all the Patent Medicines which the wholesale venders have foisted upon the credulity of the searchers after health for so many years, the town druggists and chemists, not able to establish a fair fame on the invention of any plausible means of competition, have reverted to the expedient of puffing up an article in Pills of a fictitious Dr. Morrison, (ob- serve the subterfuge of the double r,) for the express purpose, by means of this forged imposition, of deteriorating the estimation of the "UNIVERSAL MEDICINES" of the BRITISH COL- LEGE OF HEALTH. The public will avoid this imposition by observing not to apply for these medicines to druggists, none such are allowed to sell them, the College having their own appointed Agents in every town throughout the kingdom. None are genuine which have not the words, "Morison's Universal Medicines," on the government stamp attached to each box and packet. The Medicines are sold in Pills, (marked No. 1, and No. 2,) with full directions: Boxes, Is Igd, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, and lis and the Aperient Powders at Is Ild per box, by the following Agents: At MONMOUTH, Mrs. Heath, Bookseller; ABERGAVENNY, Mr. Stucley, Bookseller; CHEPSTOW, Mrs. Williams, High-street; USK, Mr. Lewis, Tailor TINTERN ABBEY, Mr. Pritchard Ross, Mr. Jones, Watchmaker NEWPORT, Mr. Evans, Book- seller PONTYPOOL, Mr. D. Parry TREDEGAR IRON WORKS, Mr. W. James, Grocer NANTVGLO WORKS, Mr. Jones, Grocer, Brynmawr. GLOUCESTER, Mr. Needham, Bookseller; CHELTENHAM, Mr. Herbert, Bootmaker, Arcade, and Mr. Arkell, Tailor, 3, Church- street, leading to the Churchyard; TEWKESBURY, Mr. D. Potter, Hanbury Terrace; NORTHLEACH, Mr. Duckett; NEWENT, Miss Gatneld, Grocer; COLEFORD, Miss Phillips; NEWNHAM, Mr. J. Griffiths; LYDNEY, Mr. Nash, Grocer; CIRENCESTER, Mr. J. Sa- vory WINCH COMB, Mr. Tovey, Weaver; CAMPDEN, Mr. Cherry, Grocer MORETON, Mr. Minchin, Jeweller; STOW, Mr. Tils- ley STROUD, Mr. Harold; KING STANLEY, Mr. Andrew; NAILSWORTH, Mr. Holmes; DURSLEY, Mr. Goodrich TET- BURY, Mr. Dyke; THORNBURY, Mr. Wansbrough WOTTON- UNDEREDGE, Mr. Round; CHIPPING SODBURY, Mr. G. Cole; CHALFORD, Mr. C. Innell, Baker; LECHLADE, Mr. Laurence; BLAKENEY, Mr. Minchin, Grocer; MITCHELDEAN, Mr. M'Laren. General Agent for Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, Mr. C. CHUBB, 7, Worcester-street, Gloucester.
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FOREIGN. At the Supreme Court of Calcutta, on the 29th January, an action for aim. con. was brought by Mr. Palsgrave, an assistant surgeon in the Company's military service, against Captain Henry Lechmere Worrall, and a verdict was given for the plaintiff—damages 7000 rupees. BELGIUM.—The following is the speech of King Leopold at the opening of the legislative session on the 7th instant: Gentlemen,—Events of great importance to Belgium have been accomplished since the opening of the session of 1833. "France and England, in execution of their engagements, have put us in possession of the fortress which threatened one of our finest cities. A convention concluded by the same powers, procures for Belgium the greater part of the substantial (materiel) procures for Belgium the greater part of the substantial (materiel) advantages attached to the treaty of the 15th of November, yet without taking from us those portions of territory, our separation from which will be to us the severest of sacrifices. The treaty of the 15th of November remains intact. I shall so watch, as that in the definitive treaty with Holland our ac- quired rights shall suffer no injury. A partial disarmament is about to become possible. It will be executed in such a manner as to diminish the public burdens without weakening the organization of the army. We shall thus approach to a state of peace in as far as political prudence will permit. I have the satisfaction to announce to you, gentlemen, that under the circumstances in which we find ourselves placed, it will not be necessary to levy additional taxes. The resources already voted by the Chambers will suffice to meet the expenses of the year. The ordinary receipts will even present a consider- able excess, if, as every thing leads us to hope, the eight latter months shall correspond with the four that are past. The time is come, gentlemen, when assisted by your aid, the government may apply itself effectually to the internal improve- ment of the country. Among the first class of interests with which we must occupy ourselves, are those of our industry and our commerce. The negociations which have been opened on this subject with France have been begun under satisfactory auspices. From the United States of America we have obtained the most favour- able stipulations for one of the most important branches of our industry. While continuing to look abroad for useful outlets for the productions of our industry and commerce, we have not lost sight of those of a local nature. The administration has felt the neces- sity of giving a new impulse to our public works. I recommend to the attention and to the patriotism of our Chambers, the pro- ject of that great communication from the sea and the Scheldt to the Maese and the Rhine, which is sought for by the wants and wishes of almost the whole country. Gentlemen, the elements of prosperity which Belgium con- tains, as well as her liberal institutions, attest the progress of her civilization. It belongs to the powers which preside over her destinies, by their common efforts, to cause those elements of prosperity and those institutions to flourish, which, wisely de- veloped, will become the most solid basis of our nationality, and promise us the most prosperous futurity." The Courier of Upper Canada, of date the 1st of May, contains an account of the dismissal of Mr. Boultop, Attor- ney-General, and of Mr. Hagerman, Solicitor-General, of Upper Canada for having taken part in proceedings of the house of assembly, directly opposite to the avowed policy of his Majesty's government." The journal in question re- presents the feeling in Upper Canada to be very strong in condemnation of this step on the part of the government in England. The French papers of Sunday contain an official report of Marshal Soult, by which it appears that the effective force of the French army for 1833 amounts to 413,000 men. A telegraphic communication from Blaye had been received, announcing the departure of the Duchesse de Berri, from that town for Palermo. She embarked with her infant on Saturday morning, on board a French sloop of war; snd is to be attended to the place of her destination by General Bugeaud and Dr. Deneux. These papers mention the re- turn of M. de Varennes to Paris with important dispatches from Admiral Roussin, the object of which is supposed to be to request that a French fleet may be sent into the Dar- danelles, in consequence of the unwillingness manifested by the Russian Commander to withdraw his forces from Con- stantinople. Count Orloff, it is said, refuses to leave the Ottoman Empire until formally requested to do so by the Sultan, who is not disposed to make such a proposition. It was reported in Paris that a Spanish army, to co-operate with that of Don Miguel, had been ordered to be collected on the frontiers of Portugal. The anniversaries of the days of June, which were looked forward to with apprehension by the French Government, had passed over tranquilly. A vessel, filled with sailors, for the use of the Portuguese Constitutional fleet, has just left for Oporto. This "rein- forcement will be very useful, particularly as the men have been carefully selected.-Sun, of Tuesday. Recent accounts from Oporto state that mortality from cholera and typhus fever, both in the town and on the part of the besiegers, is experienced to a most alarming extent. The English have suffered greatly. An extract from a private letter from Madrid, dated 31st ult., states that owing to a discovery that the troops and the civil authorities in Cadiz were devoted to the Queen's party, the garrison of that city had been suddenly changed, and the persons appointed to office by the Queen suspended. German papers to the 4th instant bring accounts from Constantinople to the 19th ult., which represent Ibrahim Pacha to be perfectly satisfied with the terms of the treaty, and state that he received with the most lively gratitude" the firman of the Sultan, conferring on him the district of Adana. The revolt in Bosnia is now the principal subject of alarm to the Porte, and great preparations are making for its suppression. Austria, it is said, has been applied to for assistance in this emergency. The Helvetic, of Porentruy, has the following, dated Chambery, May 23 Toe conspiracy which has lately been discovered in the Sardinian states was almost entirely confined to the military, very few citizens taking any part in it. At Genoa and Turin arrests are very numerous. In the former town the number of soldiers implicated is very considerable; it is said that in a certain brigade all the men, except four non-commissioned officers, are compromised. At Chambery the vicinity of the frontiers enabled many to escape imprisonment and death by flight. A Lieutenant, who appears to have been at the head of the conspiracy in Savoy, was warned of danger whilst he was exercising his men, and immediately fled to Grenoble. This was a nar- row escape, for an order had arrived from Turin for him to be arrested and shot. We know not the object of this con- spiracy, but it is said that the conspirators intended to form a republic in Upper Italy. The plot appears to have been discovered by three non-commissioned officers, who have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant."
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DOMESTIC. -eo-- DEATH OF THE CHIEF JUDGE OF CALCUTTA.—By the John Hayes, which arrived here on Thursday, we have re- ceived intelligence of the death of Sir Stephen Russell, Chief Judge of Calcutta. The event, we are informed, took place on the 22d of Jan., on board the Enterprise steamer, bound to Penang, whither this lamented gentleman was repairing for the benefit of his health.-His death, however, was premature and unexpected.- Liverpool Paper. ARRIVAL OF LIEUT. HOLMAN IN EXETER.—This gentle- man, known as the extraordinary Blind Traveller," has arrived in this city, after an absence of six years, during which time he has been travelling round the globe, visiting z' the most interesting countries on his way that the time would admit of.-—Woolmers Exeter Gazette. The young Earl of Sandwich has given directions for the completion of the noble seat of his ancestors at Hinchin- brook, near Huntingdon, which was a few years ago des- troyed by conflagration. The rebuilding of this noble man- sion is estimated at £ 100,000.— Courier. The Benlomond steam-packet was totally destroyed by fire in the Frith of Forth, on Tuesday se'nnight. There were 220 persons on board, all of whom, with most of their luggage, were rescued by two other steam-boats. At Queen-square Police-office, on the 6th inst., William John Bankes, Esq., M.P. for the county of Dorset, was held to bail, himself in X6000 and two sureties in £ 3000 each, for a horrible offence. Thomas Flowers, a private in the Coldstream Guards, was upon the same charge com- mitted to prison. -=" EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.—Adjourned meet- ings of the Court of Proprietors have been held, and a cor- respondence entered into with government. Important modifications have been made in the government propo- sitions, and the court ultimately agreed to wave further op- position. The present state of the question may be gathered from the following summary of the correspondence alluded to. It commences by a letter from the Chairman of the Court of Directors to Mr. Charles Grant, communicating the resolutions which had been agreed to by the general court of proprietors. In these resolutions the proprietors acceded to the general principles of the government plan, but proposed; 1. That the amount of ihe guarantee fund should be extended to such a sum as would be sufficient with the accumulations at the end of forty years to redeem the annuity of £ 630,000. 2. That the Company, exercising the same powers as they now possess, should continue to administer the government of India for a period of not less than 20 years, and when deprived of it they should be al- lowed the option of demanding payment of the principal at the rate of X100 for each £ 5. 5s c annuity, and be entitled to resume their right to trade. 3. That during the Com- pany's administration of the territorial government, all mea- sures involving expenditure should originate with the Di- rectors, and that sufficient powers should be reserved to the Company to check by a system cf publicity, to both Houses of Parliament or by other means, any acts of the Board of Controul objectionable to the Directors. 4. That a suffi- cient power should by retained over the commercial assets to enable the Court of Directors to make suitable provision for outstanding commercial obligations, and for the officers and servants of the Company who might be affected by the proposed arrangements. Mr. Grant, in answer to these proposals, states, that, with respect to the guarantee fund, ministers would consent to fix it at two millions, and would propose that the dividend on East Indsa stock should have preference to all other territorial payments in this country. The letter proceeds to state that government would agree to the proposition that the Company should continue to administer the government of India, as at present, for the period of twenty years and that they would not insist on the Board of Controul having a veto on the recall of the governors, and military commanders, and that ministers would also accede to that part of the proposition giving the Company the option of being paid off at the rate of £100 for every £ 5. 5s of annuity whenever deprived of their power. The third proposition for giving publicity to the Board of Controul is stated to be under consideration. To the fourth proposition it is stated no objection would be made. THE FACTORY COMMISSION RECALLED.—We learn by the Manchester Chronicle of Saturday, that the commis- sioners appointed in that town bave received peremptory orders to return home by the 20th. By this sudden termi- nation of their labours, it is added, the inquiry will be con- cluded before half the field had been traversed, only two or three principal towns in Loncashire having yet been visited. It was high time that this farce should be withdrawn. Fol- lowed by the unanimous hooting of the people, it had be- come a mere useless waste of time and money, without even a hope of succeeding in its purpose of getting up a credit- able case for the mill-owners. SERIOUS TITHE AFFRA Y.-A collision between the mili- tary, police, and a process server, on the one hand, and the peasantry of Carngtwo-hill, about ten miles from Cork, on the other, took place on Tup n i,' t Shots were fired on both. sides the concha- of i <•> e was charac- terised by great determination, and the military, &c. were finally compelled to retreat. It is not known how many of the peasantry have been injured, or to what extent; but it is supposed that several must be dangerously, if not mor- tally wounded. One of the soldiers, Michael Maguire, was shot dead in mistake by one of his own party. A coroner's inquest was held the following day, and the jury, after hear- ing evidence, returned the following verdict:—"That the deceased, Michael Maguire, came by his death on the 3d inst., in consequence of a gun-shot, which entered his right side, and passed through his body—vvnieh shot was either fired by the police or the soldiery, in protecting a tithe pro- cess server; and the jurors further say, that the homicide was casual, and by misfortune." The country for miles round, hitherto peaceable, is the scene of the most fearful excitement. HOP INTELLIGENCE.—EAST RETFORD, JUNE 5.—With- in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant the hops never had a more promising appearance than they have at present. It Notwithstanding the late dry weather they have continued to run up the poles exceedingly rapid—in some instances as much as seven inches in a day—and the accumulation of filth has been trifling compared with what might have been expected from the continued aridity of the atmosphere. The foliage of the bine is exceedingly strong, and since last Sunday night's rain it has been as clear and as luxuriant as the most ardent desirer of a crop could wish for. The price of old hops is upon the decline. A WOMAN SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.—An inhuman mur- der was committed on Tuesday night, the 28:h ult., on a respectable married woman, named Little, who was shot dead through the body, while she lay asleep in her own bed, in the house of her father, Mr. G. Lindsay, at Carraked, near Ballycastle, Donegal. An inquest was held next day, and, after the examination of witnesses, a verdict of "Wilful Murder" was returned against her husband, Mr. John Little. It appeared in evidence that the shot could not have been fired from the outside (as the husband had re- ported) by a marauding party, but close to the side of the unfortunate wife. Mr. Little is in custody.-Irish Paper. A MAN KILLED WITH A CANDLE.-An inquest was held at Clewer, on Friday last, on the body of a man named Charles Horne, who was unfortunately killed the same morning in the following thoughtless manner :-It appeared in evidence that the poor fellow had been engaged the pre- vious evening as an extra waiter at the Cavalry Barracks, and had returned home early in the morning with a friend, with whom he was laughing and joking, and, as he walked down the yard at the back of his house, the other loaded a gun with powder and put into it half a rushlight, and fired with the intention of covering him with grease. The poor man instantly dropped down, and died in less than two hours afterwards, the candle having passed through his kid- neys. He has left a wife and five small children destitute. AscoT RACES.—MODERN DPIVING.-BPS IdeS the death of one of the King's outriders, one of the Duke of Bruns- wick's postboys was killed near the George Inn, Hounslow, on Monday on the same day, William Caley, also a post- boy, belonging to the Crown Inn, Slough, had his arm broken in three places, and was otherwise so seriously in- jured that he lies in a precarious state. On Thursday, one of the thimblemen, pursued by two constables, was thrown under some carriages that were driving off the course, one of which passed over his chest, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery. A list carrier, in a state of inebriety, was also knocked down by the pole of a Hounslow chaise, which drove in a portion of his scull, and he was afterwards run over by the vehicle. A grand public room is nearly completed at Birmingham, the interior of which is 140 feet long, 65 wide, and 65 high. In this is to be placed-chiefly for the use of the musical festivals there to be held for the benefit of the General Hos- pital-the largest and most powerful organ in Europe. The organ case will be 40 feet wide, and 45 feet high. The largest metal diapason pipe is to be five feet three inches in circumference, and 35 feet in height. The largest wood diapason pipe will measure in the interior upwards of 200 cubic feet. In the full organ are to be ten open diapasons, and all the other parts must be in calculated proportion to this. There will be sixty draw-stops, and five sets of keys. To supply so stupendous an instiument with wind will re- quire many sets of bellows, the whole superficial measure of which will exceed three hundred and eighty feet. And to give, if it can be fairly estimated, some further idea of the magnitude of this organ, it maybe stated, that its weight will amount to upwards of forty tons. It was intended°to open this grand hall, and still grander organ, in the autumn of the present year; but to prevent any injurious haste in the completion of the building and of the instrument the grand musical festival is deferred till October, 1834. I ■YA-TFTR-LL PNNILLIWM IM^IL I.U-RA-TYYOT TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE ALDERMAN WAITHMAN.— The Committee for conducting this testimonial have com- menced opening the ground and preparing the foundation for the obelisk at the south end of Farringdon-street. The obelisk is finished, and will be erected in the course of the ensuing fortnight. It consists of a single stone, 20 feet in length, elevated on a plain pedestal of Egyptian architec- ture; on two sides of which are sculptured, in the solid granite, the arms of the City, and on the other two the arms of the late Alderman. An inscription, descriptive of the in- tent of the monument, will be in front. The die of the pedestal, a very handsome block, weighing about three tons, is one piece, as are also the cup and the two steps or sca- milla, on which the pedestal is erected. CULLEY, THE POLICEMAN.-The sum of £ 200 has been ordered for Lucy Culley (the widow of the unfortunate po- lice constable who was murdered at Cold bath-fields) by the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury. The Treasury warrant states that he was maliciously slain while in the due execution of his duty. SUICIDE.-On Friday se'nnight an inquest was held at No. 6, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, to inquire touching the death of Mrs. Sarah Rowland, about 25 years of age, who destroyed herself under the following circumstances": The deceased was a married woman, and lodged at the house where the inquest was held. Her husband is a veterinary surgeon, at present in Leicester. On the preceding Mon- day she received a letter from him, accusing her of infi- delity towards him, and expressing his determination never to return to live with her again. The contents of the letter threw her immediately into a frantic state. The several in- mates of the house endeavoured to pacify her mind, when she (assuming so be more calm in her mind) said she would take one of her powders, for she thought it would do her great benefit. She then coolly walked to a cupboard, and took out a box of oxalic acid, which she used for the re- moval of iron-moulds and ink stains, and pouring out a glass, drank it off with as much indifference as taking her breakfast. The effects of the poison became speedily visible, and she died shortly after. Verdict—Temporary Insanity. COLCHESTER, JUNE 5.—The town has this morning been a scene of the most lively interest, in consequence of the launch of the William Hale steamer, propelled by machinery upon a new construction, superseding altogether the use of paddle-wheels, removing all the inconveniences and ob- jections which are inseparable from paddle-wheels, yet re- taining every advantage of motion by steam power, and combining with it the free and effectual use of sails. The propeller, equally remarkable for simplicity and effect, is placed in the hold of the vessel, and perfectly secure from external injury, whether by accidents, by the elements, or in warfare; it is capable of easy adaptation to vessels of every class and description; alike serviceable in the open sea, either for warlike or commercial purposes; and for the navigation of rivers and canals, in which it will be essen- tially valuable, for speed will be attained without swell or commotion in the water; injury to the banks will not be occasioned, nor towing-paths be necessary; and, more than all, loss of life will be prevented, which so frequently has happened from accidents through the swell of the water by the paddle-wheels of steamers. The invention has been the subject of many trials, but has been hitherto purposely kept private. It has been minutely and repeatedly examined by many distinguished naval officers and scientific men, and all have expressed very decided approbation of the principle and its application. The inventor is Mr. William Hale, of this town, a very ingenious and meritorious person, not in affluent circumstances. On Friday a savage outrage was committed on the Thames off Mill-hole, Rotherithe. A man named Haman Rayner, who sells purl to the sailors, &c., went on board the Cum- berland, a collier, to demand payment of a trifling debt which was owing to him by James Martin, an Irish coal- whipper, when he was assailed with a volley of abuse on refusing to give Martin further credit. Rayner stood in the fore-chains, and said he would not go without his money, on which Martin began beating him with a piece of wood, and endeavoured to knock him overboard. Rayner, though severely beaten, managed to keep his hold of the ship's side, when the ruffian, with a heavy club, struck him a dreadful blow under the ear, and inflicted a deep wound, from which the poor man bled profusely. Martin followed this up by a second blow, intended for the head, which fell on the vic- tim's shoulder, fractured the bone, and knocked him back- wards into the river. Rayner was picked up by the crew and taken to the London Hospital. He is not expected to survive. The ruffian was apprehended by a Thames police surveyor, and remanded by the magistrates. DOVER, JUNE 6.—The Dutch vessels that have been seven months embargoed here sailed this, day. The Hus- tilling. Captain de Jouge, for Middelburg; the Zeelast, Captain Akkurnan, for Amsterdam; the Catharina, Captain Molder, for Rotterdam. The demand for marshal's fees light money, and port charges, has been abandoned. The piers were thronged with spectators, and cheered heartily each vessel as she quitted the port, which the Dutchmen returned, evidently much gratified by the good feeling that was manifested towards them. TRURO, JUNE 6.—A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the Lords and Adventurers in the Cornish mines was held at Truro, on Wednesday afternoon, to lay before the meeting the result of the exertions of the committee ap- pointed to apply to government for protection against the foreign ores which are imported into this country. The Earl of Falmouth was called to the chair, when a series of resolutions were carried, and a committee of the Lords Ad- venturers, and most experienced persons connected with the mines in the county appointed to carry the resolutions into effect. From what transpired at the meeting in the course of the noble chairman's address, it appeared that memorials had been presented to government calling on his Majesty's ministers to protect the mining interest by placing on cop- per ores imported into this country, such a duty as would prevent that serious injury to the mining interests of this county, which would inevitably take place if the present system was continued but that ministers were not disposed to grant the relief sought for. The noble chairman very forcibly showed that the benefits which were likely to be de- rived to this country by working foreign mines with English capital, were as nothing compared to the ruin and devasta- tion which would accrue to the immense population of the county of Cornwall, were the mines in that county stopped, one third of the population of which were engaged in that employ. The meeting was also addressed by S. W. Tre- mayne, J. Danbury, R. Vivian, M. Williams, E. Turner, and J. Austen, Esqrs. The most unanimous feeling prevailed and the cordial thanks of the meeting were voted to his lord- ship for his great exertions in promoting the general interest of the county. A SUNDAY AppARinoN.—After divine service had com- menced on Sunday week, in the parish church of Saline, the congregation was put into no small consternation, by some strange sound proceeding at intervals from about the pulpit, but in language quite unknown to the audience, and even to the rev. minister himself. As the parishioners had heard something of the exhibitions of inspiration that had lately taken place during public worship in the south, not a few of them were thinking that their paradise (the worthy pastor being pleased to style his parish the paradise of Fife) was to be favoured with a similar mark of the spirit through the medium of some gifted individual. However, they were not long kept in this state of uncertainty, for, to their utter astonishment, the form of a calf made its appearance, and took up a position directly in front of the pulpit, appearing to listen with devout attention to the sermon—so much so, that the whole of the congregation were fully satisfied, from the beast's behaviour, it must be something else than an ordinary calf. It behaved extremely well during the ser- vice, and occasionally assisted at the sing of the psalms.— Edinburgh Evening Post. DEATH OF THE ANTE-DELUVTAN FROG.—This extraor- dinary creature, which was discovered, our readers will re- member, some months ago, embedded in a solid block of millstone gut, on Stainmoor, died a few days since, at Brough. Mr. Rumney, in whose possession it has been since its discovery, has had it preserved.— Carlisle Patriot. THAMES I UNNEL.—Two estimates have been furnished by Mr. Brunei for the completion of the work; one to make it available for foot passengers, amounting to £ 146,000; and the other, which includes the sum required for the purchase of the ground for making the approaches and descents into the Tunnel on both sides ot the river for carriages, amount- ing to £ 248,000. Workmen are at length employed in repairing the broken windows at Apsley-house. BAIL COURT, JUNE 8.—THE BISHOP OF BRISTOL V. THE INHABITANTS OF BRISTOL.—In this action the right rev. plaintiff claimed compensation from the inhabitants of Bristol, for loss sustained during the riots there; and Mr. FolJett moved for a rule to show cause why the cause should not be tried at the next assizes for Somersetshire, at Bridge- water, before the Judges of assize, instead of before the Sheriff, as there were likely to be many points of law for discussion.-Rule granted. THE LATE CARMARTHEN ELECTION.'—THOMAS v. SAUN- DEBS AND ANOTHER.—Mr. Evans moved to change the venue from Carmarthen to Glamorgan, on the ground that an impartial trial could not be had at the former place. The plaintiff, an attorney, had been very active in the late elec- tion, and this was an action against the defendants (magis- trates) for an alleged false commitment.-Rule to show cause granted. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 10.—REX v. BRIG- STOCK.—The defendant appeared on the floor of the Court to receive judgment for having published, in the Welshman newspaper, a libel reflecting on the Mayor and Magistrates of Carmarthen.—Mr. Evans and M, IN-,I,itcorribe, for the defendant, handed in several affidavits, among them one from Mr. Yelverton, M.P. for the borough, which reiterated many of the charges in the libel, and contained others likely to be offensive to the prosecutors.—Sir J. Scarlett, after they had been read by the officer of the Court, requested that the Court would give the prosecutors the opportunity of answering the statements contained in the afIidavits, by remanding the defendant until next term.—Mr. Evans and Mr. Whitcombe opposed the application, on the ground that the prosecutors were not taken by surprise. The Court, however, thought that the prosecutors ought to have the opportunity of filing affidavits in answer to those ad- duced by the defendant, and therefore ordered him to ap- pear next term.—Judgment postponed. In the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, the Solicitor- General obtained a rule calling on Mr. Russell, a printer at Birmingham, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for printing and publishing certain placards, advising the people not to pay the assessed taxes. THE CALTHORPE-STREET JURY.—The iury, in ccnse- quence of the recent proceedings in the Court o i Bench, have drawn up the following petition to the ° of Commons:— To the Honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assem- bled; the Petition of the undersigned Jurymen upon the In- quest held on the body of Robert Cully, Showeth,—That your petitioners, the undersigned, were sum- moned to serve, and did serve, as jurymen on a Coroner's Inquest upon the body of Eobert Cully, a policeman, slain in an affrav tnat took place on the 13th of May, at Coldbath-fields. That your petitioners did then, acting in discharge of their duty, under the solemn obligation of an oath, return a verdict of Justifiable Homicide on the part of some person unknown. That to return some verdict was the solemn duty which the wisdom of the law had jmposed on your petitioners. That year petitioners paid all due attention to the evidence adduced, and upon the evidence they felt themselves bound, as honest and'con- scientious men, to return the verdict abc"e mentioned: tb^y ex- ercised a privilege given by the law m the only wav their con- sciences permitted. That your petitioners have heard with great pain and alarm that this, their conscientious verdict, has, upon an ex parte state- ment of his Majesty's Solicitor-General, been quashed by the Court of King's Bench, and that a slur has thereby been cast upon them in their character cf jurymen acting under the solemn obligation of an oath. That your petitioners also fear that this proceeding may have a tendency to bring into discredit the trial by jurv, and to make men believe that a trial by the country is a mere idle form handed down to us by an ignorant ancestry, and retained only from a foolish adherence to old prejudices. Your petitioners, therefore, pray your Hon. House to take these matters into consideration, and to pursue such measures as in your wisdom may seem requisite to free your petitioners from blame, and to secure to future jurymen the privileges conferred on them by law. And your petitioners will, as in duty bound, ever prat' &c.
FASHIONABLE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
FASHIONABLE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. More like fates than graces, the three daughters of Lady Gor- gon had been, first one, then the second, and, lastly, the third, dragged about to every possible place—balls, concerts, part" ?', dinners, fetes, dtjev.ners a lafourchette, and dejeuners d They had acted in private theatricals—stood and sat in u,t I' w -been all over the continent-at all the best watericg-.plares, in the best seasons. Two of them had been down in the divino-- bell at Plymouth—the third had volunteered an excursion i'na balloon ;—Maria-Jane had given the Loyal Horseraonger Trooo of Yeomanry a standard, worked with her own fair hands. The heads of all the three had been examined by DeviJle-thev had climbed poles, and swung on sticks under Captain CHas—they all painted and lithographed-all spoke six living languages, and understood three dead ones-they all sang-and all played- and all danced-and all did every sort of curious work-and they all of them stuck prints on boxes with varnish—and all understood conchology, and ichthyology, and erpetology, and botany, and chemistry—and all had albums—and all collected autoffraohs and they all admired Pasta—and they all delighted in "Switzer- land, and adored Paris—they all loved yachting, and th¿,y all idolised the lakes—they were ail enthusiasts, and all sympathetic in their tastes. But with all this, they remained, at "the period of Lord Weybridge's arrival in London, precisely what they had been in the beginniug-the three Miss Gorgons. The silvery bell of the clock on the chimney-piece had scarcely sounded seven, when the ladies re-appeared in the drawing-room. Do come here, Anne," said Lady Gorgon what has your maid been doing with that head of yours 1 Why I never saw-here let me just turn that curl—there, so-why, my dear child, what a horrid pimple you have got on your cheek! And, Maria-Jar.e, now do let me beg of you not to sit directly undsr the lamu with light hair it won't do-it won't upon my word. Louisa my dear girl, you are not looking well: I don't know what it is I suppose it is the travelling, or the sea, or something, but The drawing-room door opened Mr. Doldrum was announced. "How d'ye do, Henry?" said Lady Gorgon; "how's Lady Doldrum this evening 1" Better, 1 thank you," replied Dol- drum, who of shy young men was the shyest. He bowed to the girls and blushed. Maria-Jane held out her hand to shake hands with him take it he did, but shake it he did not. This is very good-natured of you, Henry," said Lady Gorgon, "to come on such short notice. Maria-Jane said she was "sure vcu would not mind." "Oh, no," said Doldrum; and again" he blushed. There is nobody in Town, I suppose," said her ladyship. No, nobody," echoed the young gentleman. We came through the city last night, from the country," said Anne, and there were a great many nobodies there; for we could hardly get along." Yes, a great many," observed Mr. Doldrum. Count Alouette was at the moment announced and to be sure, as a contrast to the visitor who had so recently pre- ceded him, nothing could be more remarkable. The one, red- i,w cheeked, round-faced, heavy, dull, and awkward the other fair, pale, light, gay, and airy his eyes sparkling with animation, 101" and his countenance beaming with good sense and good nature. My dear Lady Gorgon," said the Count, whose accent ^ave a naivete and piquancy to the merest common-places, I am so shocked to be so late. Dis comes of having a servant which loves to drive his cabriolet in de afternoon my man shall have been to drive some !adi to whom he is fond in'his cabb, and not to come back till so late as give me jost ten minutes to dress How do you do, Miss Gorgon 1-ah, Miss Anne, to be sure; always weU—always pretty-abvays pretty well. Dad is good •English, en •' £ >cvv is your beautiful horse, Count V' Oh my war-horse as de duke calls him he is as well as can be ex- pected I rode him dis morning. You were not out to-dav, my ady ? ]\ f, said Lady Gorgon, we are merelv pass- ing through town." Ah said the count, dat is just the way this time of the year every body you meet in de street has just^come to town last night, and is going away to morrow morn- inj,tliat is precisely our case," said jane; "how long lave you been in London ?"' Oh," said the count, I came last mgat go away to-morrow morning. I have been to Scot- and to snoot grose, but I could not stay some time so long as I wlsb for I have to make visit at Rochdale next Tuesday, when the Duke shall be back.par«,n'* Daughter.