SUMNER still maintained that it was better to keep the prisoners to hard labour all the week.-Sir T. TURTON, after some remarks, moved the following Resolution, which was carried unanimously:-"That it be recommended to the several visiting magistrates of the Houses of Correction in this County, to carry into effect the rules and regulations for the instruction of prisoners, as far as may be deemed by them expedient, and to report thereupon at the next Quarter Sessions." THE COUNTY JAIL. Mr. MABERLY submitted a motion for warming the cells in the Jail by steam, which, from the nature of the brick walls and stone floors, and the repeated washings, were liable to damps, which could not but be injurious to the health of the prisoners.-Mr. TROWER and Mr. H. SUMNER objected to the motion, as comforts were not to be looked for in prison, and it did not appear that the health of the prisoners was affected by the present state of the prison. On the contrary, Mr. SUMNER said, it was gene-mitted this heinous offence. He said he had witnesses to prove that she rally improved from being "high fed."-Sir T. TURTON: "High fedupon bread and water!"-Mr. SUMNER: "I mean compared to their previous diet."-Sir T. TURTON said he was quite astonished at the remark about "comforts:" it should be recollected that innocent as well as guilty persons were frequently the inmates of prisous, and it was intolerable that such persons should be treated as if they had been condemned. Mr. PALMER warmly supported the motion; but it was opposed by Messrs. SPEER, LETT, WILLIAMS, and CRAWFORD, and negatived by 14 to 10. THE TREAD-MILL FOR FEMALES. Mr. BRISCOE made a motion to exempt the female prisoners from the punishment of the tread-mill, on the ground that the labour was peculiarly unfit for the female constitution, and was wholly inefficient in conveying any useful acquirement by which they might afterwards avail themselves for their own benefit and that of society. He instanced the case of Lydia Jones, in order to show the inefficacy of this mode of punishment, who had been nine successive times subjected to the tread-mill discipline. He recommended, in its stead, the admirable system of Mrs. Fry, which had been productive of so much good in other places.-Mr. BRISCOE urged a variety of arguments, with much humanity and energy, in favour of " that sex to whom man owed, from his cradle to his grave, an indelible obligation.”– The motion was supported by Sir T. TURTON, and opposed by Messrs. SUMNER, WHITAKER, COURTENAY, CHAMBERS, and BARCHARD.-Mr. H. SUMNER said, that the diminution of re-commitments under Mrs. Fry's system was 40 per cent.; the tread-wheel discipline had caused a diminution of 200 per cent.: so that in the comparison, the tread-wheel had worked far better. Therefore, even if they could get so benevolent and effective a lady as Mrs. Fry in their county-too rare an instance of abilities and philanthropy to expect every day-there was no necessity of their resorting to the system of which she was the great authoress; for the physicians had positively demonstrated that the females enjoyed better health than the males while employed in this manner (Hear!) and he had heard a lady's physician say, that he had a number of patients on his hands who would not require medical aid to recruit their health, if their husbands would set up small domestic tread-wheels in their private houses! (Loud laughter.)-Mr. Briscoe's motion was then negatived by a majority of 12 to 4. POLICE. BOW-STREET.. the room, Barry said to Delaney," She is like the woman, don't you think so?" To which Delany replied in the negative; and they both, when called upon, declared aloud that she was not the woman, Delaney adding, that the should know the right woman 15 years hence, if she saw her. The witnesses, in explanation, said that they told a lie, because they did not wish to have any further trouble about the matter, but that now they were on oath, they felt bound to speak the truth.-Mr. Egerton, of the Sun, in Gate-street, and his daughter, were examined.-The former said the prisoner was about the size of the woman who went away with the child; and the latter, that the woman, she thought, was taller and thinner in the face than the prisoner.-After a very long investigation, during which Mr. MINSHULL had more than once expressed his decided opinion that it was a case to go to a Jury,-Mr. PHILLIPS endeavoured to show how extremely improbable it was, that she could be the person who com never in her life had such a mark in her face as that described-that she could not have been absent at the time mentioned-and that no child was ever seen in the house, or in her possession. She had a child of her own, who was, unfortunately, in ill-health, and it having been insinuated on a former examination that she had not a child of her own, the poor boy had been brought from his sick bed, to prove that this at least was a false assertion. The prisoner, too, had long been in very bad health, and her committal to Newgate might endanger her life, and that of her child. Four respectable persons then offered to give bail to the amount of 3,500l. but Mr. MINSHULL rejected the proposition; and it was then urged, that in the opinion of those who were intimately acquainted with her, imprisonment would endanger her life. Drs. Babington and Lawrence and another gentleman had attended her.-Mr. MINSHULL said, that if a certificate to that effect could be produced, he would admit her to bail.-On Tuesday (the prisoner having been placed in the watch-house for the night) the parties again attended, when they said they were unable to obtain a certificate to the extent required by the Magistrate. They offered, however, to give responsible bail to the amount of 20,000l. if that would obtain her liberation until trial. This, however, Mr. Minshull refused, and she was fully committed, but with liberty to remain at the watch-house until trial. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. MURDER AT WHADDON.-We noticed in our last the barbarous murder committed on Thursday week at Whaddon Chase. It appears that the murdered man was named Abraham Hogg, and that of his companion and murderer, John Lynn. They were both coopers, one about 25, the other about 30 years of age, and their families were intimately connected. On Saturday, an inquest was held on the body of the deceased, at the Haunch of Venison, in Whaddon-Thomas Tarry deposed, that he was Overseer of the parish, and when the Prisoner was taken into custody, he was confined at Whaddon, under the charge of the constable. During the night he began a letter with "My dear mother, I have murdered a man," and after pausing a little in seeming agitation, he tore off the top of the paper, throwing what he had written into the fire, and observing, "I can't write any more: it will be too much for my poor mother to bear up against." When the handcuffs were again put on him (they had been taken off to give the prisoner greater facility in writing) he cried out, "Now, indeed, I am done for!" He appeared in great agitation, and it was in vain that those in the room attempted to calm him; both then, and up to the time of the inquest, prisoner made several attempts to dash his head against the wall, and on Friday evening especially, he endeavoured to put an end to his existence by suddenly jumping on a table in the room, and plunging head foremost to the floor; his forehead was much cut, and a quantity of blood and hair remained on the floor. When witness first met the pri soner, he asked if the unfortunate deceased yet lived; to which he (the Meecham deposed, that he was at work ditehing in a field close to the chase, on Thursday, when he was alarmed by the cry of "murder." immediately left the ditch, and from an adjoining gate, observed the pri soner, at about the distance of 200 yards, striking some person on the ground with great violence. The cries of the deceased were very faint Saw the prisoner go across the chase towards a ride, and on his wa thither stop at a ditch, where he changed his clothes, and then proceeded Witness immediately ran to the house of a farmer of the name of Clark the farmer with his sous then accompanied him in pursuit, and they pro ceeded towards the ride for which he had seen the prisoner making; a they approached the latter, the prisoner entered the common; when h was yet about 20 yards from the prisoner, the latter cried out, "Wel how much is your bounty?" Witness rushed upon him, and, with th assistance of the Clarks, conveyed him to Whaddon-Mr. Cowley, su geon, deposed, that he examined the body of a man lying dead at th Haunch of Venison. A contused lacerated wound was observable on th forehead, and had evidently been inflicted by violent blows with a blu instrument; also another contused wound on the upper part of the fac there was also another lacerated wound on the lip. On the lower li there was a similar wound, and another contused wound on the inner pa of the left fore-arm. All of those wounds appeared to deponent to ha been inflicted by the same instrument. The blows on the forehead fra tured the frontal bone and lacerated the brain; those on the upper part the face fractured the temporal, cheek, and nasal bones. In his opinio the death of the man was occasioned by the blows on the forehead.—T CORONER Considering the evidence already adduced sufficient to justi H EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF CHILD-STEALING.-In August last, a poor woman named Burke, living in St. Giles's, was induced, she said, by a female of respectable appearance, to trust her with her infant for a short time, when the stranger took her into the Sun public-house, in Gate-street, and then contrived to send her out of the way on an errand, and during the mother's absence carried off the baby. Mrs. Burke then used every means to recover the child, but in vain. On the 21st of December last,prisoner) replied, "I hope not, for he would have sold me."-Joh Mrs. Burke saw a female in Newgate-market, and fully believing that she was the person who had tricked her out of her child, she charged her with the theft. This she denied; and on Mrs. Burke's persisting in the charge, she herself was taken before the Magistrate at Guildhall, on the ground that she was an impostor, who made the charge for the purpose of extorting money; but the Magistrate dismissed the case.-On Friday week, Mrs. Burke and her husband obtained a warrant against the female so charged, whose name is Mary Edginton, the housekeeper of Mr. Evans, surgical instrument maker, Old Change. Mr. MINSHULL heard the case on Saturday and Monday.-Mrs. Burke swore positively that Mrs. Edginton was the person who stole her child; and two women, named Barry and Delaney, swore that they believed the prisoner to be the person whom they saw in Mrs. Burke's room once, when she ironed the caps, and again on the Friday when the child was stolen. Mrs. Burke, when she made her complaint in August, described the delinquent as "a woman about 25 years of age, of the middle size, and with a small blue spot under the left eye, which had the appearance of a birth-mark, or the remains of a wart." The prisoner is under the middle size, is more than 35 years of age (as Mr. Phillips stated, though she certainly looks much younger) and has no mark under the eye. From the witnesses for the prosecution, Mr. Phillips elicited that at the termination of the inquiry at Guildhall the prisoner said to Mrs. Burke, "Now, my good woman, if you are not satisfied, and to show you I am not afraid of investigation, if you will get any witnesses that you may have together, and bring them to my home, I shall be glad to be seen by them." Mrs. Burke accordingly went to Old Change with Barry and Delaney, and when the prisoner entered on Wednesday morning, that he and Hogg intended to proceed to Liverpool, and pursue their business in that town, and that he should take the gun with him, which he should be able to dispose of, if he and his companion were short of money. A letter dated Aylesbury, Jan. 12, says, "Mrs. Lynn, the unfortunate mother of the prisoner, arrived here on Tuesday evening, with one of her daughters, a young woman of very interesting appearance, and Mr. Hooper, a gentleman residing at Newington, who married into the family. In the afternoon they were introduced to the prisoner. He hung upon the neck of his agonized sister, and begged of her to console his mother, and not to be unhappy, as he was ready to die. His mother intreated him to make a candid disclosure to her of the cause he had for destroying Abraham Hogg. The prisoner then detailed, somewhat unconnectedly, the following singular narrative :-"I and Abraham went to the Suracen's Head Inn-yard, and got upon the Liverpool coach; I saw two men in deep conversation with him, and two gentlemen were on the coach; the two men who spoke with Abraham I knew to be resurrection men, and I was convinced that Abraham was agreeing to sell my body to them for the surgeons, two of whom were on the coach. Just before the coach started, one of the resurrection men, who was dressed like a sailor, got a bottle of gin, and on the road they wanted me to drink two glasses for their one. The men afterwards threw the bottle away, and purchased another on the road. I and Abraham got down at the White Lion at Brickhill, and the landlord and others were talking about robberies and murders; I did'nt like this conversation, and I went to the public-house opposite, and slept there that night. On the following morning I went to the White Lion, sooner, or your body would have been half way back to London by this time." I got on another coach with Abraham, and passing by a common, I jumped down and ran away; Abraham followed with my gun. When I got near a wood I heard the sound of horns and trumpets, and I thought the resurrection men were after me, and that Abrabam intended to kill me, and I am sure if I had not killed him he would have killed me."-Mr. Hooper, in as delicate a manner as he could, desired him to say if he knew the cause of the absence of Mangan, as it was generally reported that be and Hogg had disposed of him in some way or other before they left London. The prisoner seemed much hurt, and declared most solemnly that he knew nothing whatever of Mangan. Mr. Hooper asked if Abraham Hogg knew any thing of him? The prisoner replied solemnly, "Not that I know of."-The mother, on quitting the cell, said she would come again and see him. He told ber that he did not wish her to come again, as it would be painful to see her-The Globe and Traveller says, "His mother arrived at her home on Wednesday night, as may be supposed in the greatest distress. She feels perfectly convinced that he is completely insane; he neither speaks nor looks as hitherto. On his mother's entering his place of confinement he rose and said, "Oh, mother, are not you dead? bave you seen Abraham?" (meaning Hogg.) He then described to her his jumping off the coach, and that Abraham ran after him, for the resurrection-men, upon the mention of which he became quite incoherent. When more coherent, he told his mother that when he was taken, he was tied in a chair, and made a show of in the corner of a room. He also told her he bad shook hands with Abraham, and they had made it up. His humanity has always been exemplary. It is a well known fact that he has saved no less than four persons from a watery grave by going in after them, and in one instance he plunged into the water from the wall next the Thames at Sir R. Burnett's premises, and brought out a child who must otherwise have been drowned. His father, who died about three months since, was previously in a state of insanity, and his mother has at this time a sister confined at a lunatic asylum at Bethnal Green, where she has been three years. The presumption, therefore, that the murder was committed under the influence of insanity, is considerably strengthened." him in committing the prisoner, and being anxious that he should be conveyed to the county jail at Aylesbury before dusk, gave directions to that effect, and the prisoner was removed in a post-chaise. The evidence of the witnesses was then resumed the following is a summary:-William Weston, the guard of the Eclipse coach, from which prisoner and deceased got off and ran away at Shenley on Thursday, spoke to the identity of the property now produced as having been left by them in the coach, and delivered by him the same afternoon into the care of the landlord of the Cock public-house, at Stoney-Stratford, on his arrival in that town. On examination, they contained 12 or 13 pair of stockings, several shirts, handkerchiefs, &c.-Joseph Grace, of Shenley, blacksmith, saw prisoner and deceased pass his shop at about half past one on the Thursday; they appeared to be quarrelling and talked very loud. The prisoner asked deceased, "Pray, how much do you think you ought to have for your share of the booty?" The deceased replied mildly, and witness could not catch a single word of his answer.-Wm. Read occupies a cottage at the extremity of the chase most distant from Shenley. Between two and three o'clock on Thursday, prisoner and deceased called there and asked if they could have anything to eat and drink; offered to get a fry, but prisoner would not allow him; they drank some butter-milk. When they entered, they left a gun, parcel, and umbrella, outside the door, taking them away again on their departure; they did not stop more than five minutes. Prisoner continually looked round the room in a suspicious manner be appeared friendly with the deceased. The wife of witness observed, she was sure they were no good.—The CORONER now observed, that he thought the Jury had sufficient grounds to warrant them in returning a verdict of Wilful Murder against John Lynn. The Jury immedi-and the landlord said to me, "It is lucky for you that you were not up ately returned a verdict to that effect.-[On Saturday, when the prisoner was placed in a post-chaise, he made no kind of resistance on having his feet fettered, merely remarking that he hoped his relations might receive a good part of his gains. The unhappy man then proceeded more than half the distance to Aylesbury quietly, when he seemed suddenly to awaken to a sense of his dreadful situation. He complained that he had throughout life been always unfortunate, that he was a miserable wretch, &c. saying at the same time, with horrid imprecations, "I will not live to go to jail, I will kill myself." Mr. King asked him in what manner he could possibly effect it? His answer was, "If I cannot succeed in doing it instantaneously, I will do something which shall cause it." This was said with great agitation. He attempted to injure himself in a manner impossible to be described. On being remonstrated with, he said, "What is it to you? Do you suppose that your staff gives you authority" He also frequently attempted to fling himself out of the chaisewindow. On reaching Aylesbury, he became outrageous, insisting, with great violence, that his shirt-collar, which had been unbuttoned at his request, should be instantly re-fastened. On arriving at the jail, he urgently requested that his legs might be unfettered, assigning as a reason, that he particularly wished to walk into the jail. His feet were accordingly unfettered; and the first use he made of this partial liberty was to attempt to throw himself on the pavement with great violence: however, be was caught in the arms of an officer, and carried into the prison-yard. Here, however, be renewed his attempt at self-destruction, as well by endeavouring to dash his head against the wall, as by his former expedient of pitching violently upon the pavement. To effect these objects he descended to the most frivolous excuses and assertions, with the hope of blinding the vigilance of his keepers: all his efforts towards obtaining the privilege of self-destruction were fruitless. He was removed to his room, and was shortly afterwards visited by Sir John Dashwood King, to whom he complained loudly of harsh treatment, alluding strongly to his having been compelled to wear handcuffs. The prisoner appearing tolerably rational, the magistrate ordered the removal of them.-On Saturday night four men sat up with the prisoner; during the night, having, or pretending to have, occasion to leave the bed, he rushed violently against the wall, and by the concussion lacerated the scalp very considerably. On Monday he appeared altered. Mr. Sheriff, the Governor, made a point of conversing with him, with a view to convince him of the folly of bis suicidal efforts. The prisoner appeared affected, and said, "I will tell you everything, Sir, when we are alone." Before his removal, he said he should like to see the body again; which request being granted, be entered the room without the least embarrassment, went up to the body, took one of the deceased's hands in his, and looked steadfastly in his face. "How shocking a sight is this!" observed one of the officers who accompanied him. "Ah! it is, indeed," coolly observed the prisoner, and then turned about indifferently, and left the room. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.-An inquest was on Wednesday taken at the Plough, Kentish Town, on the body of Alexander Taylor, aged 48 years, late of the India Company's service, who put a period to his existence on Monday last.-Mrs. Power, aunt to the deceased, stated that about four months ago he returned from Madras, where he had spent several years, as an engineer, and had realized considerable sums of money, which he placed in the hands of Mr. Munro, a Scotch merchant at Madras. Munro converted them to his own use, together with monies belonging to many other persons, and fled to America. This circumstance hastened the departure of deceased for his native country, when, on arrival, he found himself nearly as poor as when he quitted it; however, he was enabled to cess, but the gradual decline of constitution incapacitated him from realizing his hopes. During the last two months he had been to Brighton, Cowes, and Southampton, on visits to various friends, and returned to London on Thursday, more than usually depressed in spirits. However, he persisted in refusing to see the physician, who waited on him at the request of his uncle, Mr. Pardy, in the Edgeware-road, where he then lodged. On the Saturday following he wrote to witness's daughter, to whom he was much attached, in the following terms : FURTHER PARTICULARS :-Lynn and Hogg were coopers, employed in the distillery of Sir Robert Burnett and Sons, up to the period of their leav-speculate a little in mercantile pursuits, with a prospect of ultimate sucing London. Lynn, who is between 27 and 28 years of age, is the son of a widow, who keeps a pastry-cook's shop, at the corner of Morehall-place and the Vauxhall-road, opposite the principal entrance to the gardens; Hogg has two brothers in the cement-factory of White and Co. at Mill bank; his father is dead; Hogg's lodgings were in the Vauxhall-road. Sunday week, a man, who was generally called "Long Dan," and who was employed in Sir Robert Burnett's distillery to carry out samples of spirits, was missing from his employ, and although every inquiry has been made after him, he has not since been heard of. It was reported that this man had come to a violent death, and this report being mentioned to Lyan and Hogg, they suddenly left town for Liverpool. The friends of Lynn say that he had a quarrel with his family on Wednesday morning, and left immodistale. in comnany with Hova. Lvnn stated to his friends "Dear Harriet-I shall see you to-morrow. There are a few, whom I think deserving of regard, before the scene closes.-Your mother, William, and yourself, are of the number. I know what I wish to say, but cannot express my ideas, they are so confused. This visiting about is not to my mind—it cannot do me good; but I have done with it now. MY next visit will be the longest of any. I thought I might be able to get back to India, but it must not be. Believe me ever yours, faithfully, A. T. "I was at the theatre last night, though yery ill indeed. The piece was the False Friend, It made me worse, and I couldn't stop for the whole. I had too much of that." GRATUITOUS SURGERY. As in consequence of the impossibility of procuring subjects for dissection, the science of Surgery cannot survive the present generation of practitioners, it remains with the legislature to provide some remedy for the impending evil. It is quite manifest that the nation cannot do without surgeons, and it is equally clear, that young surgeons have now no opportunities of qualifying themselves for their business; under these circumstances, it is necessary that some measure should be devised to secure to us the practice of surgery, which seems threatened with a total suppression. And happy are we to say that a remedy analagous to a most beautiful feature of our constiand will be laid before the Collective Wisdom next Session. It is simply to take the healing art out of the hands which at present profess it, and to make it over to a body of "UNPAID SURGEONS," who, being men of fortune and station, will give their services gratuitously to the public. Thus those sinister motives of self interest, which occasionally degrade ROBBERY, AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.-About nine o'clock on Friday the medical profession, and are sometimes supposed to protract se'nnight, as Mr. Freeman, land-drainer and navigator, residing at Kew, cures, will cease to operate, and the honourable art of healing was returning home from Old Brentford, where he had been collecting will be deposited in functionaries of a character beyond the money, he was accosted by a genteel-looking man in Old Brentford, requesting the nearest way to Little Ealing, and offered Mr. Freeman reach of sordid temptation, and consequently above all sushalf-a-crown to see him across the fields. The unfortunate Freeman picion of perversion. In every district, the gentlemen of prorefused his money, but went with the ruffian along some cross-lanes, to perty, the first persons in the country, will appoint UNPAID show him the way, until they arrived in Dunn's-lane, when the fellow SURGEONS, with full powers to set broken bones, heal wounds, said he could now find his way, and thanked his conductor. Mr. Freeman had not returned many yards, when he was attacked by him and two and cut off such neighbouring legs and arms as in their disothers, who must have lain in ambush, and felled him with a tremendous cretion may appear to need amputation. These disagreeable, blow on the back of his head. The ruffians immediately filled his mouth but necessary offices, which have hitherto been requited by with mud, stabbed him in three parts of his body, and cut his throat in filthy lucre, will in future be discharged by country gentlemen, three places; they theu rifled his pockets of three 101. bank-notes, three sovereigns, some loose silver, and a valuable watch and appendages, with who, actuated by pure benevolence only, will gratuitously his pocket book and papers. The ruffians then fled, leaving their victim dedicate their time and talents to the public health. The apparently dead. He however crawled to the Plough in Little Ealing, respectability of the characters of such men will be a sufficient where every humane attention was paid to him. Mr. Freeman lies in a pledge of their integrity, and of the excellence of their inhopeless state. On Monday morning, the greatest confusion prevailed, in consequence tentions. As no human institution, however, can boast perof the inhabitants in the immediate neighbourhood of Mr. Major Rohde's fection, it is barely possible that an UNPAID SURGEON may sugar-house in Hooper's-square, Rosemary-lane, experiencing a most take some liberties with the limbs of a patient, which the severe shock, as if caused by an earthquake or volcano. It was soon exigencies of the case might not seem exactly to warrant ; found that the shock was caused by the explosion of a quantity of hydrogen gas or foul air, that was confined in one of the steam-boilers on Mr. from an error in judgment he may amputate the head of a Rohde's premises, in consequence of the application of a lighted candle, troublesome neighbour, or leave a poacher without a leg to and that an unfortunate man, named William Madon, had been blown stand on, or perhaps cure him of his eye sight, so fatal to almost to atoms. An inquest was held the same evening on the body partridges and pheasants; nay, by a stretch of imagination, From an examination of several witnesses, the Coroner and Jury were of take it into his head, that the right hand with which we now we may fancy that AN UNPAID SURREY SURGEON might write, was in a bad way, and might insist on docking it to prevent mischief; but, in all these cases, if malice can be proved, the party will have his remedy, no doubt, in the Court of King's Bench. As for the qualifications for healing, that will consist in the possession of a certain quantity of land or fortune. The word skill will fall altogether into disuse, and "unpaid" will be supplied in the place of it, a term which expresses a host of virtues very grateful to the mind, if not pedantically apposite to the business of healing. It is rather the fashion at present to heal wounds by the "first intention," as it is called, but the UNPAID SURGEONS will improve on this treatment and set broken arms and legs, and cure gaping wounds, by good intentions only. No matter how difficult the case, good intentions are all that we ought to require in the practitioner; and if he miscarry, as perchance he may, instead of raising a senseless outcry about want of skill, let us rest satisfied with the assurance that the case was of a sort not to be cured by good intentions, and that the UNPAID SURGEON has done his best, but that nature refused to comply with his wishes for a cure. Nay, if the patient should die of the treatment by good intentions, we ought to be grateful for the gratuitous benevolence which has operated so drastically, and shown its energy in kind hand of a friend than to benefit by that of a mercenary? so unequivocal a manner. Is it not finer to be injured by the Take the will for the deed. The witness observed that it would be seen from the part respecting the theatre, that the deceased's brain was seriously affected, as no such piece had been performed on the night in question. On Sunday, however, he came from town by one of the stages. At about 11 o'clock, before getting into bed, he drank some pectoral medicine. When the servant knocked to call him to breakfast, on Monday morning, she received no answer, and thinking him asleep, did not repeat the knocking. About 12 o'clock witness went up to arouse him, but still no answer was returned. She, with the servant's assistance, forced open the door, and on entering the apartment, she was shocked to see the deceased lying half out of bed, and the floor and bed clothes literally drenched with blood.-Mr. Ewart, sur-tution, and consequently unexceptionable, has been discovered, geon, examined the body. There were three cuts in the throat, two of which seemed to have been inflicted with an enfeebled hand; the third was of great magnitude, extending from the jugular vein on the left side of the neck, a little below the ear, to the centre of the throat, and perforating the gullet and windpipe; death must have ensued directly. The instrument of destruction was a small pen-knife-Verdict-" That the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of mental derangement." opinion, that the unfortunate occurrence was entirely the effect of accident, and returned a verdict accordingly. MARRIAGES. On the 3d inst. at York, Robert Mansel, Esq. of the Inniskillen Dragoons, to Maria, eldest daughter of Wm. Armstrong, Esq. of the same regiment. On the fith inst. at Rodborough, Thomas Adlington, Esq. of Upper Tooting, Surrey, to Mary, only daughter of the late Peter Smith, Esq. of Walbridge, Gloucestershire. On the 11th inst. at Eton, the Rev. Thomas W. Champnes, rector of Fulmer, Bucks, and Cottisford, Oxon, to Miss Langford, of Eton College. DEATHS. Lately, in Switzerland, Lord Mountcharles, where his Lordship had gone for the of Conyngham. benefit of his health. His Lordship was the eldest son of the Marquis and Marchioness street, Westminster. Fullwell-lodge, Twickenham. On Monday, Richard Harrison, Esq. M.D. aged 40, in Argyll-street. On the 5th inst. in her 73d year, Mrs. Mounteney: she was the eldest daughter of the late Sir Wm. Barclay, Bart. and sister to the late Captain Sir J. Barclay, Royal Navy. On the 5th inst. at Richmond-green, Thomas Walmesley, Esq. aged 56. On Thursday week, at Newton Cottage, the Rev. Win. Parsons, vicar of Marden, Herefordshire. The gentleman was sleeping in his chair after dinner; having remained in that situation longer than usual, his friends were about to awaken him, when they discovered that he was a corpse. At Geneva, on the 29th ult. aged 70 years, Mr. Charles Pictet. As an author, he has been distinguished by several valuable articles in the "Bibliotheque Britannique," and some works on Agriculture and Politics. As an agriculturist, Switzerland and even France are indebted to him; for a more complete theory of assolements, for the introduction of the Flanders plough, and improvements in wool, by crossing the breed. Mr. Dumont, his friend, has proposed to the Sovereign Council to erect a monument over his tomb, with this inscription:-"Erected by the grateful Republic." A young man of the name of Weaver, who died on the preceding Thursday, was interred in the parish church-yard on Tuesday, the very day which had been fixed upon for his wedding!-Cheltenham Paper. On the 10th inst. at Papworth Hall, Cambridgeshire, Charles Madryll Cheere, Esq, M.P. for Cambridge. At Work Mr. Joel Bishop, of Banwell, Somersetshire, aged 103 years. He was the father, grandfather, and great grandfather of 180 children, of whom 115 are living. Lately, at Brixton Lodge, Surrey, in his 17th year, John Miles, son-in-law of Joseph Wine. His virtues and talents gave earnest promise of his becoming a blessing to his ads and to society. Another unspeakable advantage belonging to the proposed UNPAID SURGEONS, chosen without refers to sur INDIGESTION. REVOLUTION IN CHILI. gical skill, will be this, that in the whole world there is not once having been living irregularly, and having been taking the like of such an institution; it will be unique in its way, butter and sauces and sweetmeats, and indulging a pampered and consequently must tend to the honour and glory of our appetite, things that turned acid and rancid on my stomach; dear native land, and to enhance that wonder and admira- I was seized with pain in my bowels and head-ache, and had tion with which the rest of the globe is never weary of regard-a sore throat; and I had a friend of mine, a physician, to ing it. Should, however, a malignant community ever hold look into my throat, and there was a long discussion as to light these labours of love, and misrepresent the treatment of what sort of cynanche it was to be; one said one thing, and our generous Unpaid Surgeons, or undervalue their gratuitous the second another; but I smiled and said, if you do not services, we shall reply to such calumniators, with a slight know what it is, I know what will cure it; so I took a dose variation, in the language of Sir Thomas Turton :-"That of calomel and jalap, and I lived upon toast and water for they are unpaid is surely no crime, and in every other country about ten days, and I got rid of my sore throat and fever but that which receives the benefit of their services, excites together. It is of great importance that the functions of the admiration and praise; nor will it be diminished when they alimentary canal should be regularly performed, and the quafind, that notwithstanding the unjust obloquy with which, as lity of the secretions and excretions attended to as well as the a body, they are loaded by their patients, they continue to quantity. Every old woman knows how necessary it is to use their unwearied efforts to promote the public health, and attend to this if she wishes to keep herself in a comfortable to discharge their duties to the best of their ability-and state of health, and therefore she mixes up some gentle laxaendeavour to set broken legs and arms without skill, under tive compound, such as a little senna tea with some manna, the consciousness of their own rectitude and good intentions." or perhaps with a little tincture of rhubarb, and she takes -Morning Chronicle. sufficient of this to act at a given time, and if it should fail of its usual effect, why, she adds a little more to the dose, or takes a smaller quantity of it in four hours, and thus the end Mr. Abernethy, in his third Lecture, when speaking of the is answered perfectly well. All men should particularly evils of indigestion, says, "The ordinary causes of these com-attend to this subject, especially those who have sedentary cplicated evils are as plain as A, B, C. It is evident, that they occupations, or who are advancing in years."—Lancet. are to be traced to the very irregular and intemperate habits which men practise. When patients apply to me, and I see that their complaints are chiefly of the nature I have been describing, I tell them that I am no physician; and I offend them stoutly when I tell them that they have their health in their own keeping. If a nan were to do as Cornaro did, he would be rewarded for it by a long and happy life. Cornaro was given over by his physicians at the age of thirtyfive; he saw that there was not the least chance of recovery, if he continued to swallow the trash they were in the habit of giving him, and that there was no good in putting food into his stomach, if his stomach could not digest it; what did it do there? why, it played the very devil with Cornaro's bowels. "So," said he, "I dropped the plan pursued by my physicians, and adopted a regimen of my own." The principal beauty of Cornaro's life was the happy state of mind in which his continued temperance preserved him. He limited himself to twelve ounces of food for each day; this was of a nutritious kind, and no inducement could prevail on him to exceed it. He enjoyed the simplest food with the greatest relish, for Cornaro's appétite was rather keen (a laugh); so that he used to say, when eating a dry crust of bread, "O! how delicious it is; it is so delicious, that I am almost tempted to exceed my allowance;" yet he never did. He writes, between eighty and ninety, "The society of my friends is delightful, and even the company of children is amusing to me; and when not otherwise engaged, I read godly books. But the infirmities of age increasing upon me, and becoming more feeble, my friends advised me to increase my diet, which I did to fourteen ounces. But, from the time I began to increase it, I was dissatisfied with myself, and felt that it was producing mischief in my stomach, and I had not continued it long before I was obliged to return to my former allowance." Cornaro, however, could not live for ever, and we find that, to the time of his death, he might be said to have enjoyed perfect health. He went down to the grave at the advanced age of one hundred and five; as the account is given by his niece, who was a nun at Padua. "Now, what I propose as a diet is Cornaro's diet, and it is fanciful system. The diet should always be of a moderate uantity, it should not be wholly vegetable or animal, but it ould be of a nutritious kind. The diet I have taken the berty to recommend to the public is Cornaro's, with a few aundrums of my own, as Dr. Franklin says. I do not preand to have adhered to such a diet as Cornaro did. Oh, no! acknowledge myself to have been a sinner; and I remember Other nations are setting us examples in regard to religious toleration and ecclesiastical property, which may well make us ashamed of being behind even semi-barbarous communities in those matters. Letters from Valparaiso bring news of an important Revolution in Chili, effected in the most complete and quiet manner. The Supreme Director, General FREYRE, under the guidance of his Prime Minister, BENEVENTE, a man of talents and liberal ideas, annulled the existing Constitution, which is represented as having been very inefficient and corrupted, proclaimed himself absolute for three months, dissolved the Senate and Council of State, banished the Bishop (the leader of the Servile party) and confiscated for the use of the Republic the whole of the immense property belonging to the Monasteries, comprising many of the richest possessions both in the country and the towns. The Provisional Constitution of 1818 was proclaimed ad interim, and a promise given to summon a Congress at the end of the three months. All this took place in perfect tranquillity, which was supposed to be aided by the fortunate circumstance of the POPE'S NUNCIO approving the changethe said Nuncio being a native Chilian, and a protegé of the late Director O'HIGGINS. The relief afforded to the people, by the removal of the torpor and oppression consequent upon a church preposterously rich and an idle priesthood exceedingly numerous, will be most important: indeed Chili would never have made any considerable progress iu civilization without it, so poor and bigoted were the population. The benefit to the treasury of the Republic is no less extensive and more immediate: the holders of Chili bonds may rejoice thereat. The new Government accompanied their stronger acts with a truly liberal measure towards "the heretics:" a decree was issued, to authorize Protestants to build churches and bury the dead in their own manner.-We should not lay so much stress on the value of these proceedings, if we thought the Revolution was only the work of a few ambitious men, who had seized on the supreme power after the CROMWELL fashion, and with similarly selfish purposes; but their other proceedings, we are delighted to learn, are such as afford almost decisive evidence of the sincerity of their patriotic professions. They have not confined their reforms to ecclesiastical affairs: they have arranged to get rid of the whole standing army (by sending it to BOLIVAR in Peru) excepting 800 regular troops and the provincial militia, which are required to defend the southern provinces against the Indians. This appears to us the most satisfactory part of the whole business: a mere | incontestable, and that Ministers only wished to consecrate faction assuming the Government of a State, must look to the by a law what had hitherto rested on the Royal ordinances of army for support; but when we see the absolute rulers dis-1814. This last step was necessary, in consequence of a law missing their army at the very outset of their sway, we may of 1792, which declared that no appanage should henceforbe sure they are upheld by a majority, if not of the inhabit-ward be allowed. A debate of considerable length ensued, ants at large, at least of the enlightened and active citizens: on the question of separating this article from the other parts at all events, they throw themselves upon Public Opinion, of the Ministerial project. The discussion ended by the rejecand render the erection of a tyrannous Oligarchy extremely tion of the amendment, and the adoption of the law as at first improbable. proposed, to the cries of Vive le Roi! While the Liberal portion of the South Americans are giving us a lesson in Church Reform, the great nations of Europe are putting us to shame by an exhibition of the mildest and most truly Christian harmony between Catholics and Protestants. A German paper supplies the following recent instance: A man born in the environs of Zurich, and professing the reformed religion, lately died in the village of Neuhausen between Munich and Nymphenbourg. He was universally esteemed and beloved. The Catholic district had chosen him for their overseer. Having belonged to the Evangelical parish of Munich, the Dean of that church superintended his interment, which took place conformably to the Evangelical rites. Besides his family and numerous friends, the Members of the College of Justice, as well as the whole district, with the banners of the different Corporations, followed him to the grave. The Catholic district, as a token of gratitude, also honoured the memory of their worthy overseer by a solemn office of the dead, and by a mass, at which all his family, and a great number of his friends of both religions, from Munich and the evirons, as well as the Protestant Clergyman, were present." Occurrences of this kind are by no means rare on the Continent, especially in Switzerland, where the Catholics and Protestants in some districts use the same place of worship at different times of the day. Who can deny then, that the members of the two religions may live together in the greatest amity, where interest and jealousy, generated by intolerant, civil, and political exclusions, do not interfere to destroy equality and social kindness! CITY, 11 O'CLOCK -Consols for Account are looking better; the price being 95. In the Foreign Market the price of South American Bonds are somewhat bigher; Mexican are 82, and Chilian 91. POSTSCRIPT. MONDAY, JAN. 17. THE French papers of Thursday are filled with a debate on the Civil List in the Chamber of Deputies-not that any proposition for establishing the Civil List to any amount could be resisted by so loyal a Chamber, but that an article of the law which had a reference to one portion of the Royal Family was alleged to be misplaced. The King of France is to receive 25 millions of francs a year, and the Princes of his family seven millions more. Both these grants were voted by The papers of Friday contain a debate, in which five articles, permitting exchanges in Crown property, were discussed. The Chamber then proceeded to vote on the whole of the law, when the result was as follows: For the measure, 217; Against it, 7-Majority 210. Neither the papers of Thursday or Friday contain any intelligence worth alluding to. The Liberals and the Ultras still seem to vie with each other in their expressions of dislike to the Ministry. The Constitutionnel concludes an article by the following statistical account of French diplomacy :-"The destinies of the world are at stake, and our Ambassadors have left their posts. M. de Talaru, who has returned from Spain, has been waiting for his instructions at Paris for six months. M. Hyde de Neuville, our Ambassador at Lisbon, has come to take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies; and while Mr. Canning is declaring the emancipation of the Spanish colonies, M. de Polignac is on the road to Calais. The English do not thus travel, and yet they make more way." The approaching fall of the Spanish Ministry is predicted by the same authority; but Spanish politics come not within the common range of political anticipations. Sir Humphrey Davy has examined the copper on the bottom of his Majesty's ship Samarang, and, we understood, expressed himself as satisfied with the chymical results of the experiments made thereon by his preservers, as regards the preservation of the copper. We have stated what has appeared to others to be the practical defects of the application of these experiments upon that ship's bottom. These facts have been disputed, under the name, but, we are assured, not by the authority, of the President of the Portsmouth Philosophical Society; we shall therefore revert to the subject again in our next. Hampshire Telegraph. The inhabitants of Newport Pagnel have, for the last fortnight, been in a state of consternation, owing to a discovery that several bodies had been disinterred and carried away by by a fellow named Lines, when in a state of intoxication. a party of resurrection-men. The circumstance was revealed The report was quickly spread over the town, and it was ascertained that some bodies of persons recently interred had been taken away from the church-yard of the town, and that the church-yards of the neighbouring villages had also been ceased relatives and friends, was so general at Newport Pagrifled. The rage for exhumation, to ascertain the fate of denell, that the Rev. Mr. Marshal thought it necessary to interfield. It is not known how long, or to what extent, the defere, to prevent the church-yard from becoming like a fallowpredations of these harpies have been committed in that neighbourhood.-Morning Herald. acclamation; but the Minister of Finance, for some cause or other best known to himself, contrived to tag to the law of the Civil List the following article:-" The property restored to the Orleans branch of the Royal Family, in execution of the Royal ordinances of the 18th and 20th of May, and of the 17th of September, and of the 7th of October, 1814, arising from the appanage constituted by the edicts of the years 1661, 1672, and 1692, in favour of Monsieur, the brother of Louis XIV., himself, and his male descendants, shall continue to be possessed on the same titles and conditions, by the head of the Orleans branch, to the extinction of his male line, in which case they shall be incorporated with the domain of the state." The first Royalist orator who spoke on the project of the law said, that he conceived there could be no other reason for mixing up the Duke of Orleans with the Civil List than that of making him pass in so agreeable company. This excited the hilarity of the Chamber, and called up the Minister of Fi-quaintance, who had accidentally called upon him, and who nance to explain. He stated that no property was ever more that his friend had taken poison, gave the alarm to Mr. suspecting from his manner and the appearance of the glass, THE STOMACH PUMP.-This highly valuable instrument was used, for the first time in Brighton, on Monday last, in a case where arsenic had been taken into the human stomach, who filled a confidential situation in the service of Mr. Pitin so great a quantity as two tea-spoons full. A young man, with a young lady to whom he was paying his addresses, in a man, shoemaker, of North-street, having had an altercation of arsenic, which had been on the premises some months for moment of irritation, he, on Monday evening, took a quantity the purpose of destroying mice. Shortly after he had committed the act, it was discovered by a young man, an ac |