lie, cheat, bear false witness, conspire against honest men, to trade in their faith, and to commit adultery even in their own chapels."

After evidence had been heard, Mr. JERVIS contended, for the De fendant, that no part of the offensive matter read applied to the Messrs. Ridgway.

Mr. Baron GARROW summed up, declaring that the article was an atro. cions libel upon the Prosecutors.

The Jury immediately returned a verdict of Guilty.

MARCH 15.-MURDER-Thos. Powell, a young man, was indicted for the wilful murder of Ann Spencer-It appeared from the statement of Counsel, that in the parish of Bushbury, near Wolverhampton, the deceased and her husband, a poor but respectable couple, had lived for nearly fifty years. While he was gone to his work, on the 22d of December, she was barbarously murdered, and the cottage rifled of articles of dress. To bring home the guilt to the prisoner, evidence was adduced that shortly after the murder he was seen on the road to Wolverhampton, in company with another man, who carried a bundle; that shortly after, he pledged articles taken from the cottage; that blood was on his hands; that he barnt a handkerchief stained with fresh blood; and that he had falsely asserted that the clothes were given to him by a man named Edwards, and that he first denied, and then admitted, that he had pawned them-The Prisoner, in his defence, said he was wholly innocent. Had he been conscious of guilt, he had many opportunities of escaping (which was true). He had caught, he said, the constable Diggory, in an act of impropriety, and this was his revenge.-Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE sumined up the case with great minuteness. He thought there was abundant evidence to show that the prisoner stole or received the goods; and it was for the Jury, if they could, to disconnect that act from the murder. There were undoubtedly circumstances in his favour, which the Jury would impartially consider-The Jury deliberated for 20 minutes, and then returned a verdict of Guilty -Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, with evident emotion, passed sentence of death. The prisoner did not betray any particular emotion on hearing the verdict. He was, however, very attentive to the proceedings during the trial.

and two-penny numbers of the "Memoirs." Several of them have placards, surmounted by a caricature, underneath which is written, "The whole of the Amorous Letters, from Harriette Wilson to the King, the Duke of Wellington, and other noblemen." In the caricature, which is called, "Doing penance on a Black Ram," a gaudily dressed woman is seen riding on the back of a huge black ram, with a human face attached to it, with her face to the tail, by which she is holding herself on her seat. A tall figure in scarlet uniform is walking before the animal and its hurden, uttering, "Harriette must be taught a great moral lesson." The walls of the room are hung with portraits of persons of distinction, who have been "shown up" in the work. On Tuesday, two officers brought in a shivering, half-starved looking urchin, whom they had found with a bundle of penny numbers of the work in one hand, and one of the placards in the other.

Mr. HALLS, after reading the placard, said he really was at a loss to know how he could take cognizance of the matter. He had not read the work itself, but he understood that it contained very scandalous matter relating to a number of individuals of rank. If, however, those individuals were libelled, they had their remedy at law, and might proceed against the publishers by action or indictment. He saw nothing libellous upon the face of the placard—nothing that could tend to bring the Illustrious Personage mentioned thereon into contempt-nothing that could excite a breach of the peace.

Mr. CONANT, of Marlborough-street Office, who happened to be on the bench, was of the same opinion with Mr. Halls

Mr. HALLS said that, if the book was of the infamous description which he had heard it was, the law provided means for putting it down, but not through the intervention of a magistrate. If he (Mr. Halls) had the power, and began with this boy, he must go on to Mr. Stockdale himself, or he should not do his duty.

Mr. CONANT believed it was clear that he might. It was at one time a question whether magistrates had the power of arresting and holding to bail any person who published any seditious or inflammatory work. It had since been declared, in an adjudged case, that they had such right. After some further conversation, Mr. HALLS said he would take time to consider the case, and in the mean time the boy was detained; but he was discharged on Wednesday.

Mr. HALLS observed, ip the course of the conversation, that the obscenity with which the press of this country had teened so much of late, and the vile attacks upon private characters, and disclosure of private affairs, which had become so common, had their origin, he verily believed, in the publication called the John Bull, which had first adopted the disgraceful practice of bringing (or endeavouring to bring) men of certain political opinions into contempt, by slandering their private characters.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

KINGSTON, MARCH 18.-MORE OF MAGISTRATE KENRICK-CANFOR .KENRICK. This was an action brought by Martin M. Canfor, a butcher, living in Church-street, Stoke Newington, against William Kenrick, Esq. a magistrate of Surrey, to recover damages for an assault and false im prisonment. The declaration stated that the defendant had assaulted the plaintiff, and detained him in prison without any probable cause, and violently seized, aud searched, and took from his person, a letter and a Beece belonging to him. The defendant pleaded “not guilty," on which plea issue was joined. Mr. MARRYATT was about to state the facts, when he was interrupted by a communication from Mr. Gurney, the defendant's counsel, and a long conference took place between the counsel on both sides; after which, Mr. MARRYATT informed the Learned Judge and the Jury, that an arrangement had been made between the parties. Mr. Kenrick, he said, had in this instance committed a mistake, without, however, doing any material wrong; and he now proposed to pay the plaintiff a sum of 51. together with his costs; which proposal was agreed to by the plaintiff.-A verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff, damages 5. the defendant undertaking to pay all the plaintiff's costs,sisted as illegal in the absence of the Peace-officer; but they persisted; both ordinary and extra!-[Why is this man allowed to remain a Ma gistrate?]

age.

POLICE.
GUILDHALL.

officers, named Johnson, Whittaker, and Jervis, accompanied by a Pence EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING-On the 10th ult. three Custom-house Officer, went to the house of Mr. Sibley, silk-mercer, Oxford-street, to search for foreign prohibited goods, which they suspected were there conthe Peace Officer. After he had gone, they declared their determination cealed. They searched for some time ineffectually, and then dismissed to renew the search, and break up the floors, &c. This Mr. Sibley re

and on looking about, saw a hatchet, which they were going to seize, in HORRID MURDER-At the Limeric Assizes, Patrick Cusack, Edmond Johnson put a pistol to his head, and declared be would blow out his order to break up the floors. Mr. Sibley attempted to lay hold of it, when Hall, and Eleanor Ryan, were found guilty of the murder of John Ryan, brains, if he dared to interfere! With this hatchet they broke open the the busband of the latter culprit. Ryan was a respectable farmer. They floors of several rooms, but found nothing; and after remaining in the first made him drunk, then put a rope round his neck, and dragged him to the floor; after which, they cut off his right arm and leg, bent the other house from 4 in the afternoon until 9 at night, one of the party went out, arm and leg, and then put him upon a large fire.-Mrs. Ryan fainted when leaving his companions still in the house; and as Mr. Sibley did not wish sentence of death was pronounced: she appeared to be about 28 years of for a return of his society, he locked the door, and refused to admit him Cusack and Eleanor Ryan were executed on the 11th inst. at Lime- again. This, however, was of little avail; for the two inside officers ric. The woman was penitent and resigned: Cusack was less firm.smashed the door to pieces and admitted their companion; and now another general search took place over Mr. Sibley's premises, which occupied Hall has been respited. them until 12 o'clock at night, at which hour they thought proper to depart, and surrender to Mr. Sibley possession of his own house, without baving found a single seizable article.-On Wednesday, Mr Sibley applied to Mr. DYER for his advice. He said, that on Tuesday morning he sent one of his shopmen to deliver 15 yards of silk at the house of a lady, a customer of his, but when the young man got to the door of the house, he was accosted by two men, who said they were Custom-house officers, and who immediately seized the 15 yards of silk, and carried it off with them to the Custom-house. Mr. Sibley, surprised at this proceeding, particularly as the silk seized was British manufacture, went to the Custom-house, taking with him the remainder of the piece from which these 15 yards had been cut, to show that it was British manufacture, and also the very person who was the manufacturer of it in the city. On arriving at the Custom house, however, he found that the 15 yards of silk produced to him there, as seized by the officers, was not only not that which had actually been taken from the young man, but in no respects like it, and was in point of fact silk of a foreign manufacture, which had been substituted for the silk seized from his shopman. Mr. Sibley, his shopman, and the manufacturer, all declared this substitution to have taken place, and desired to be confronted with the officers who had seized the silk; when he found them to be two of the men who had paid him so long a visit on the 10th of February, and whose conduct is under investigation. This circumstance, Mr. Sibley said, if he could have any doubt before, convinced him that the silk was changed with a view to bis injury.—Mr.

CHARGE OF FORGERY AND FRAUD.-Thomas Heaton Nicholls, a solicitor, late of Great Winchester-street, and now of Friday-street, was a few weeks back apprehended on a charge of forgery, but no prosecutor appearing, he was then discharged. He was again apprehcuded on Saturday week, charged with fraudulently obtaining 800/. from a widow lady hamed Loug, and underwent various examinations during the last week. Friday was fixed for the final examination, when the Complainant's Solieitor, Mr. Whiting, of Southwark, said there was a difficulty in the case, and evidence would not be called in support of the charge.-The Prisoner, who had said nothing, was then discharged.-[It was whispered in the Office, that the timely aid of a thousand sovereigns had rescued the Pri saner from the charge of forgery, and that the same powerful aid effected his second delivery.]

BOW-STREET.

HARRIETTE WILSON-THE JOHN BULL-MR. STOCK DALE-Cheap editions of the "Memoirs of Harriette Wilson" were advertised soon after Mr. Stockdale chose to send forth that work; and as he has not ventured to institute legal proceedings for the maintenance of his exclusive right to the publication, every vender of penny pamphlets is issuing it in some cheap form, and a great number of boys have been hawking about penny |

DYER said, that it was an extraordinary circumstance altogether; but he extravasated blood were found, and the proximate cause of death was thought Mr. Sibley had better leave the whole in the hands of the Com-stated to he violent excitement and passion, which having occasioned the missioners of the Customs, who, there could be no doubt, would see that rupture of a blood-vessel, had terminated in suffocation. Under these ample justice should be done.—Thus this extraordinary proceeding rests circumstances, the Jury returned the verdict we have already mentioned. for the present. This verdict has given deep and extensive dissatisfaction.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

DEATH OF DANIEL REYNIER, Esq.-This gentleman, who resided at Highbury, and had retired with a fortune from the Stock Exchange, was found Boating, on Wednesday, in a horse pond at East Finchley An inquest was held on the body, when the Jury brought in a verdict of "Drowned himself when in a state of insanity."-The loss of his wife, on giving birth to her sixth child, is said to have caused an aberration of intellect for some time back. The deceased was 39 years of age, and bore an excellent character.

DEATH OF MR. OWEN.-Mr. Owen, the Portrait-painter and Royal Academician, who has been for several years incapacitated by illness from following his profession, was released, on Friday week, from his sufferings, by an accident which has of late been but too common. An inquest was held on Saturday, at his residence, 33, Bruton street, Berkeley. square, when it appeared from the evidence, that early on Friday morning, he desired the female attendant to give him his usual draught.' She gave the bottle into his band, when he looked at the label, said “it was very right," and drank it. After he had swallowed the medicine, he said it had a different taste from the last, but supposed that the chemists bad varied it. He then prepared himself for sleep, and begged he might not be disturbed. At six, the attendant hearing him suore, went to him, and asked him if he was ill? He said that his head ached, and he wanted sleep. He appeared so very ill, that she became alarmed, and called his son, Mr. Wm. Owen -This gentleman deposed, that his father was in the habit of taking an opening draught, and be daily took a preparation of opium, called Barclay's Drops. He invariably took thirty drops on going to bed. The two phials now produced were brought home on Wednesday last. On one is a label containing these words:-"The draught as before, for W. Owen;" the other phial is now full, and has written on it," Barclay's Drops" This he had no doubt contained the draught that ought to have been taken by his father. As soon as he discovered the mistake, he sent for medical assistance. After his father's death he went to the chemist's, where the mistake was acknowledged to have occurred, and that it was accidentally done by one of the young men-Mr. Hicks, surgeon, said-I was sent for on Friday to attend the deceased I arrived soon after eight; the deceased was in a state of stupor. I administered au emetic, and repeated it—he brought up much matter from his stomach. I afterwards sent to Mr. Weiss for some instruments, with which I injected liquid, and extracted a great portion of it. The deceased, however, gradually got worse, and lingered till near four o'clock the same afternoon, and then expired.-The Jury, after a long cousultation, returned the following verdict :-" That the deceased, Wm. Owen, Esq. died from taking a large quantity of Barclay's Drops, the bottle containing that liquid having been negligently and incautionsly Jabelled, by the person who prepared the medicine, as an opening draught, such as the said Mr. Owen had been in the habit of taking "-We understand that the above lamentable mistake took place at Mr Smith's, chemist and druggist in the Haymarket.—The deceased, as an Artist, though not at the top of his profession, was a very meritoious one.

DEATH OF MRS. ROBERTS(From the Manchester Guardian.)-We shortly alluded, in our last, to a report in general circulation, that “an extensive calico-manufacturer, in Burnley, had, in a sudden fit of passion, occasioned by some angry words with his wife, struck her a violent blow on the head, in consequence of which she died in a few hours afterwards. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury," we added, "we had not then heard." -We now find that it did not criminate the husband; but was to the effect that his wife had died by suffocation." This case having excited an intense degree of interest, we lay before our readers such of the facts as have come to our knowledge. Mr. John Roberts, on the night of Monday week, had been attending a sale belonging to a bankrupt's estate, for which he was assignee. It was very late before the sale was concluded; and after that, some of the parties took supper, and sat enjoying themselves for a considerable time. Mr. Roberts afterwards went to bed. He was called in an hour or two and went home. When he got there, he ordered breakfast, and was not received by Mrs. Roberts in the most gracious manner. He found fault with his breakfast; and Mrs. Roberts told him be had better go and get his breakfast where he had been staying all night. This irritated him; other hasty language took place, and he so far forgot himself as to proceed from words to blows. It was proved on the inquest, that there was considerable discolouration under one ear about the jugular vein. After this, Mr. Roberts set out on his journey. Some short time afterwards, Mrs. Roberts was advised to send for a doctor, who declared the case to be a serious one, and ordered her to go to her bed room. Mrs. Roberts however complained of a difficulty of swallowing, aud asked for water; and whilst her sister-in-law was gone to get some, fell down upon the floor. She was lifted on to the bed, where shortly after wards she expired. An inquest was held on the body, when, the head and throat of the deceased having been opened, two medical men dictinetly swore, thut, in their judgment, the blow, or blows, she had received were not the canse of her death. Mrs. Roberts had what is commonly called a full neck, and there were discovered some marks of disease, such as might naturally be expected under such circumstances. About two ounces of

A striking decision has been pronounced by the Court of Assize of the Tarn and Garonne, in France, on a charge of murder brought against a M Gignoux, a proprietor of that district. M. Giguous bad reason to suspect the fidelity of his wife; aud in order to satisfy himself, pretended to leave home on a journey, while he only concealed himself in his own house. On the arrival of night, his suspicious were verified by finding his place occupied in the conjugal bed. Driven to fury by the sight, ke fired two pistol shots at the bed, and killed the adulterer, who was found to be one of his own servants. He then surrendered himself to justice, and on his trial acknowledged the fact. The Jury acquitted him, on the ground of the provocation be received.

Saturday week, a lad was sent with a draught to a bank at the west ead of the town for 1004. Soon after he received the money, a well dressed fellow, who followed him, accosted him by his name, and said there was a mistake in the money, which he peremptorily insisted on the lad giving him, offering him at the time a spurious check for 2204. to be casbed at the bank. The lad, however, declined, as he perceived the object of the swindler, who left him disappointed. It is supposed the fellow obtruded himself into the bank and saw the check, the name of the drawer, and the amount of the money. It is probable that this is the same fellow who swindled a lad by similar means, about a fortnight ago in the city. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE-At about half past two o'clock on Sunday morn ing, the inhabitants of Holboru, and the surrounding neighbourhood, were thrown into the greatest state of alarm and confusion by the breaking out of a fire near the timber yard of Messrs. Vizers, cabinet-makers, 7, Little Queen-street. The alarm was quickly given, and a great number of engines were collected; but the difficulty of obtaining a supply of water reudered them inoperative for a long time. The fire being confined within a square of lofty houses, the firemen found it extremely difficult to play oa it with effect; and even what was done was effected only by passing the hose through the windows, and over walls, in doing which, two of the firemen were most seriously bruised and scorched. The premises of Messrs. Vizer were totally destroyed; the rear of Messrs Bentley and Wood's, chemists, Mr. Gosnell's, printer, the type fonndry of Mr. Pouchée, and Mr. Jameson's coach factory suffered considerable damage; and the various property consumed is estimated at between 10,000l. and 12,000. value. The inhabitants of the different houses on that side ard from their beds in the greatest terror, and almost in total nudity. At about seven o'clock, the fire was got completely under. It is remarkable, that for seven successive Sundays there has been a fire of greater or lesser magnitude in the metropolis

Another fire broke out on Tuesday morning about five o'clock, in the house occupied by Mr. Hewitt, a pork-butcher, corner of St. Thomas street, Borough; and the whole house was burut in less than a quarter of an hour. Mr. Hewitt, with his wife and family, escaped by the trap-door on to the roofs of the adjoining houses. During the conflagration a cat was observed sitting on the gable end of the house, surrounded by flames, and the firemen, by a well directed play of water, kept the fire from touching her. Presently afterwards the building fell in, with the exception of the piece of wall which poor puss was sitting upon, and at an amazing height from the ground. As soon as the fire had subsided, the firemen got upon the roof of the honse next to that which had been destroyed, and passing a piece of board across to the tottering parapet, on which poor puss was elevated, she instantly took advantage of the means to save her, and walked over the plank, baving escaped the dangers which surrounded her, with merely the loss of her whiskers, which were singed off, and the whole of the hair on her tail. There was a general shout of approbation from the mob when they perceived she was rescued from a death which Monday night at a house in Tower street, St. George's, which was entirely seemed for a length of time to be inevitable-Anuther fire broke out on consumed, together with the whole of the property.

BIRTA.

The Lady of William John Chilton, Esq. of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On Wednesday morning, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Colonel the Hon.
Frederick Ponsonby, to Lady Emily Bathurst, youngest daughter of Earl Bathurst.
On the 15th inst at Kensington, Mr. C. Boswell, of Oxford-street, to Jane,
eldest daughter of Richard Shuter, Esq. of Burleigh house, Faiham-road.
On the 15th inst. at Leyton, John Tyler, Esq. of Rice bridge, Havering, to
Mary Susannah, only daughter of Mr. William Turner, of Leyton.
On the 15th inst. E. P. Nares, Esq. to Anne, only daughter of Rear-Admiral
Preston, of Askam Bryan, in the county of York.

DEATHS.

On the 14th inst. in George-street, Portman-square, in her 77th year, Mrs.
Sarah Eliza Ottley, relict of the late Richard Ottley, Esq. of St Vincent.
On the 15th inst. at Sydenham, Keat, John Black, Esq. aged 65.
On the 14th inst. in his 28th year, after a severe illucss of two months, Mr. T.
J. Rodwell, Proprietor of the Adelphi Theatre, and Author of " Valmondi" and
other successful pieces. Itis kind and affectionate heart and truly gentlemanly
disposition render his death a subject of deep regret to a numerous list of friends.
At Bath, on the 13th inst. Captain Alexander Campbell, R.N.
At Droxford, Hants, on the 12th inst. aged 77, Charles Powell Hamilton, Esq.
Admiral of the Red, second son of Lord Ann Hamilton.

Horse Guards.
On the 14th inst. at Brighton, in his 67th year, Lácut. General Dorrien, of tlie

On the 14th inst. in Chester-place, Lambeth, John Swiney, Esq. aged 75.

HYDROPHOBIA RABIES.

Charles Roberts, aged 42, and of stout habit, resided in the year 1819 in Hatfield-street, Goswell-street, London. In the evening of the 29th of May, returning home, he perceived two dogs fighting at the corner of the street where he lived, and he endeavoured humanely to separate them, in doing which one of the animals, of the bull and terrier breed, turned round and bit him severely in the thick part of the right thumb. The wound bled profusely, and although he had not the slightest suspicion of consequences, yet he remarked the manner in which the dog quitted the combat with his antagonist, running furiously down the street. He did not think the injury he had sustained was of sufficient importance to require the aid of a surgeon, and the wound was merely covered with a piece of adhesive plaster. For some days the bitten part was considerably inflamed, and attended with pain up to the whole arm. These symptoms, however, subsided; after a few days the wound granulated, and the hand eventually became healed.

At breakfast, on the, morning of the 12th of August, he was first seized with symptoms of hydrophobia. His wife, on pouring him out a basin of tea, perceived his countenance to undergo a remarkable change, he pushed his chair violently back, started up instantly, and clung to the mantle-piece of the chimney for breath, and displayed a degree of horror at the sight of the fluid on the table wholly indescribable. The wife, alarmed at this extraordinary change in his usual habits, called in the assistance of her neighbours. He still continued to cling to the mantle-piece, his feet resting on the fender; he implored with much earnestness the people around him to remove the breakfast things as speedily as possible; this being done, he requested to be led in the air; on approaching the door, he complained of a violent sickness, ejecting from the stomach a small quantity of bilious coloured matter. This effect instantly brought on a fresh spasm, accompanied with extreme sense of suffocation. At 12 at noon on the same day, I saw him, he was seated in an arm chair, displaying an appearance of sullen dejection, I endeavoured to gain his coufidence by language of a soothing nature, and, by zealous attention, I succeeded in my wishes. On learning the history of his case, I felt no hesitation in pronouncing it to be in my opinion a confirmed hydrophobic attack. I had some difficulty in making my patient believe it, and more so in enlightening him to a sense of his extreme peril. I examined the thumb and also the arm; around the part which had been bitten was a hard and firm cicatrix. There was apparently a slight blush of a reddish purple hue, and he complained of a tingling sensation, of a degree of numbness over the whole hand. He told me he felt an extraordinary sensation in rising from his bed in the morning, and going to the glass to shave himself, he felt so alarmed at the appearance of a horrid face looking over his shoulder, that he could not hold the razor to his chin. I laid before him the plan I intended to adopt for his recovery, but felt it an imperious duty at the same time to warn him of its probable failure. The bitten part was excised.

At two o'clock in the afternoon warm ablution was ordered for the space of fifteen minutes, and the potassa fusa (caustic potash) was applied to the wound, so as to produce a slough in the first instance, and afterwards a purulent discharge. I took from the opposite arm thirty ounces of blood, and gave him a scruple of china musk in a small quantity of currant jelly. Although the man remained tolerably quiet and easy for some hours after this treatment, and occasionally slumbered, yet there was an evident increase of nervous excite As evening approached, he complained of intolerable thirst and difficulty of swallowing his saliva. At six o'clock in the evening, I endeavoured with much earnestness to prevail on him to accept of a little weak wine and water through the spout of a teapot, so as to seclude from his sight the

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liquid I wanted to introduce. The naming the subject of fluid instantly produced a most violent convulsion; there appeared to be an evident sympathy between the fauces, the diaphragm, and the abdominal muscles. His face underwent during the spasm the most demoniacal contortions: still he was perfectly sensible, and complained of pain at the pit of the stomach. I advised his going to bed, which he instantly complied with, and, fully aware of his propensity to commit mischief either on himself or others, he suggested to me the propriety of his, being under the subjection of a strait-waistcoat; this was ordered, and after it had been put on he appeared more composed, and thanked God he was prevented power of outrage.

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I now took time to consider what was best to be done; my personal observations confirmed me in the previous idea which I had entertained, that hydrophobia is a disease specifically of the nervous system. I felt more strong in the belief from the knowledge that local irritation from wounds in irritable habits, especially when conjoined with a perturbed state of the passions, and also violent affections of the mind, driacal constitutions, have, at times, produced all the pathogindependently of corporal injury, in hysterical and hypochonnomonic symptoms of canine madness. Here was a case in point. Roberts, although of robust habit, was endued with remarkable sensibility; he was keen and quick in his perceptions, and of irritable temperament,

Having witnessed the powerful effects of lead on the per vous system, I determined at once to give this mineral a trial in the terrific disease before me. Previous to the exhibition of the anticipated remedy, I paid a fourth visit to my patient, at eight o'clock in the evening. I found him, at the moment, sensible: he told me he had slept, he supposed, half an hour, during which period he suffered from the most frightful visions; on awakening, he depicted in glowing colours, the frightful state of the animal that bit him. His imagination represented him at the foot of the bed, eager to recommence the attack, armed, as he said, with four heads instead of one. This delirious feeling manifested itself during several minutes, in the most violent and disjointed expressions.

I took advantage of his subsequent calmness and exhaustion to state to him my desire to introduce a medicine unknown in the treatment of his malady, and I stipulated with him that he should have one arm at liberty, that he might take it himself; that force should not be used; neither should it be administered in any drink. I found no difficulty in getting him to comply with my proposal. At nine o'clock I gave him thirty-five drops of the liquor plumbi superacetatis, vulgo Goulard's extract of lead, on a lump of sugar. The pulse at this period was tremulous and irregular, and at 105. The power of deglutition, at this period, was greatly impeded by the frequent spasms affecting the glottis, and it was at least fifteen minutes before the medicated sugar had passed into the stomach. At ten o'clock the dose was increased, and he took forty drops of the extract of lead in the same manner as before; pulse 98. He slept from half past ten to within a few minutes of eleven. He was awoke by severe pain about the scorbiculus cordis, great thirst and heat about the fauces, but there was absence of spasmodic contraction, which had previously threatened suffocation.

At one o'clock on the 13th of August I repeated the venesection, eight ounces, and gave forty-five drops of the extract of lead mixed in a small portion of honey. At three this morning the dose was repeated, and notwithstanding the powerful astringency of the medicine, there was certainly less difficulty in the act of swallowing. The pain about the stomach had been reduced in violence since the use of the lancet a second time, and the mind had become more calm and collected. At five o'clock, the thirst having increased beyond endurance, he expressed a desire to drink. A little weak brandy and water, mixed in a teapot, was presented to his

to the Committee appointed to communicate to hini his eleva- West end of the town to have a large wholesale fish market tion to the Presidential Chair: at the West end of the town. It might serve as a check to "Gentlemen,-In receiving this testimonial from the Re- the West end of the town fishmongers, many of whom are too presentatives of the People and States of this Union, I am much in the habit of not ouly charging their customers a high deeply sensible of the circumstances under which it has been price for fish, but some of them are also in the practice of given. All my predecessors in the high station to which the foisting off, when they can, stale fish. There wants a little favour of the House now calls me, have been honoured with opposition in the fish trade at the West end of the town. majorities of the electoral voices in their primary colleges. It That the fishmongers should petition against a wholesale fish has been my fortune to be placed, by the divisions of senti- scheme we are not surprised. At present a West end of the ment prevailing among our countrymen on this occasion, in town consumer of fish cannot go to a wholesale fish dealer, competition, friendly and honourable, with three of my fellow Billingsgate being too far off; therefore he must pay to the citizens, all justly enjoying, in eminent degrees, the public retail dealer just what price the latter chuses to charge. favour; and of whose worth, taleuts, and services, no one The retail dealer, therefore, cannot like the thoughts of a entertains a higher and more respectful sepse than myself. wholesale fish market being established at that sort of conThe names of two of them were, in the fulfilment of the pro-venient distance that his customers could go to. Now Bilvisions of the constitution, presented to the selection of the lingsgate may well enough suit Mr. Hurcombe and other House, in concurrence with my own-names closely asso-worthy members of the Civic Body, because they can easily ciated with the glory of the nation, and one of them further get to that market; but for one who lives in the neighbourrecommended by a larger minority of the primary electoral hood of Portman or Grosvenor-squares, it is a tiresome suffrages than mine. undertaking. But Mr. Hurcombe should not wish to keep all the benefit to himself and the citizens of such a check as Not that we think this Billinsgate on the retail fish dealers. new fish scheme will answer the purpose of those who will have to advance their money in the completion of the purchase of shares. We should not like to have any share in it, even if any were given to us, for the regulators of this Company will, in all probability, absorb the profits, should it be established. Nevertheless, we wish the scheme may be entered into. It can do no harm, and is very like to be productive of good. The retail dealers in fish at the West end of the town have long wanted interfering with; besides, we cannot see why there should not be Fish Companies as well as Assurance If people chuse to venture in this and Life Companies. and other schemes, what business is it of the civic body? for, as Mr. Huskisson said the other night, the public go into these things with their eyes open. Besides, lotteries are put down, and people must be engaged in gambling of some sort. Stop them in gambling in one respect, and they are sure to break out in another. As for the public good, the Civic body have been talking so much of that for the last If, however, half century, many hardly know what it means. the Civic body must be doing something for the public good, they might do this: do away with all their own regulations respecting fellowship porters, Thames watermen, and coalmerchants, and throw those callings open more than they now are to competition, besides getting rid of the expense of enforcing such stupid regulations as those callings are afflicted with.-Herald.

"In this state of things, could my refusal to accept the trust thus delegated to me give an immediate opportunity to the people to form and to express with a nearer approach to unanimity, the object of their preference, I should not hesitate to decline the acceptance of this eminent charge, and to submit the decision of this momentous question again to their determination. But the constitution itself has not so disposed of the contingency which would arise in the event of my refusal; I shall, therefore, repair to the post assigned me by the call of my country, signified through her constitutional organs-oppressed with the magnitude of the task before me, but cheered with the generous hope of that generous support from my fellow-citizens which, in the vicissitudes of a life devoted to their service, has never failed to sustain me-confident in the trust, that the wisdom of the legislative councils will guide and direct me in the path of my official duty; and relying, above all, upon the superintending providence of that Being in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways.'

“Gentlemen, I pray you to make acceptable to the House, the assurance of my profound gratitude for their confidence, and to accept yourselves my thanks for the friendly terms in which you have communicated to me their decision. "Washington, Feb. 10.

"JOHN QUINCY ADAMS."

"Kingston, Jan. 24.

A private letter from Jamaica says, "Interested as you are in this island, it will no doubt be pleasing to you to learn that the minds of the negroes appear to be quiet: they seem to know they have been imposed on. The accounts from all parts of the island are, that the negroes have passed the Christmas holidays with more good humour, and have enjoyed their drumming and dancing better than they have done for three years before. There are, no doubt, and ever will be, some disaffected among them, but in general they appear quiet and contented.

"In Spanish town the negroes carried about an effigy of Mr. Wilberforce, gave it several floggings, and then burnt it on the race-course. At each flogging they sang a song they had made on him, indicating that he had deceived them, by promising to make them free, but had not sent the money to bay them; that he was a liar, and had only made a quarrel between them and their masters. I trust everything will now remain quiet."

The Civic Body has set its face against the new Fish Company. It does not wish for any interference with Billingsgate. It thinks that the West end of the town will do better without a fish market on the wholesale principle. Now we presume to differ in opinion from the Civic Body. We think it might be advantageous for the people at the

Extract of a letter dated St. Petersburgh, February 16 (28) 1825: His Emperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, with his usual goodness and condescension, has presented Captain Christopher Stonehouse, of the English brig Paris, of London, with a valuable diamond ring, and has ordered a gold medal to be struck for him as a reward for his exertion in saving the lives of several Russian sailors and an officer, during the late severe inundations here."

THE LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, March 21. There was a moderate supply of Wheat this morning from Kent, Essex, and Suffolk, but we have considerable quantities of Barley on sale, and there are a few vessels up from the North with Oats. Prime parcels of Wheat are in demand. but inferior are little asked for. Barley maintains our last quotations. Beans are dull sale, and Peas are without alteration. The sale of Oats is a little brisker than last week. There is no alteration in the price of Flour.