ANATOMICAL SUBJECTS.-Our guide told us that the bodies of all persons executed (in Flanders) are given to the surgeons for dissection, as well as all who die in the hospitals and are not claimed by their friends; that the hospitals are nevertheless filled with sick, and that anatomical subjects are cheap and plentiful.-Letters from the Continent: London Magazine. CIVILIZATION.-An Englishman picks his teeth and gargles in his water-glass, in presence-does, in company, every thing that pations otherwise civilized perform in private; while Madame de Rambouillet proves her civilization in another way, in analogous matters. If an Englishwoman has ought to conceal in her love of flowers, she contrives that all the world shall know it: the Frenchwoman has no subterfuges, and nobody guesses, or is at the trouble of trying to guess. All countries have their separate estimates of civilization.-London Magazine.

The King of the Netherlands compels his Ministers to receive all complaints in person, and to trust nothing to deputies; and twice a week he is himself accessible to persons of every class, who freely converse with him and state their grievances.—Globe.

SHERIDAN WHEN A CHILD.-It may be consoling to parents who are in the first crisis of impatience, at the sort of hopeless stupidity which some children exhibit, to know, that the dawn of Sheridan's intellect was as dull and unpromising as its meridian day was bright; and that in the year 1759, he who, in less than thirty years afterwards, held Senates enchained by his eloquence, and audiences fascinated by his wit, was, by common consent both of parents and preceptor, pronounced to be “a most impenetrable dunce."-Moore's Life of Sheridan.

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OFFICIAL PEOPLE.-All are honourable and delightful men. person who opens the door of the office is a person of approved fidelity; the junior clerk is a model of assiduity; all the clerks are models-seven years' models, eight years' models, nine years' models, and upwards. The first clerk is a paragon, and ministers the very perfection of probity and intelligence; and as for the highest magistrate of the State, no adu

We are sorry to learn that Mrs Belzoni is at present in a situation of great embarrassment, and that the valuable collections made by her late husband, now exhibiting in Leicester square, will in all probability be lost to her for ever, if some assistance is not immediately afforded, to enable her to discharge a claim of comparatively trifling magnitude.-lation is equal to describe the extent of his various merits!-Edinburgh Evening Paper. Review-Bentham.

CHEAP LIVING. A correspondent recommends those persons who propose going to France for the sake of economy, to take up their residence in the Isle of Man, from whence he is just returned. There eggs are sold at one penny or twopence per dozen, ducks and fowls at 1s. 6d. the couple; the finest lamb, mutton, veal and beef, at 4d. or 5d. per pound; and all other eatables in proportion. Wine and spirits, and tea and sugar, are very cheap, since they pay no duty; and house rent moderate indeed. There are not any taxes.-Globe and Traveller.

NAIVETE.-The bread in Scotland is generally very sour: they say there it is owing to the want of yeast from beer, which is much better than any other; but though there may be something in that, it is too plain that the Scotch bakers are initiated in the secrets of the adulterating craft of "the Sooth." A gentleman lately travelling in Lanarkshire, asked the waiter at an inn there the reason of this prevailing sourness. He seemed surprised at the complaint, and answered, that the bread in those parts was generally esteemed very good, for they had plenty of English bakers!!

NUMBERING OF HOUSES IN LONDON.-A writer in the Mechanics Magazine proposes for the new streets in London a plan generally. adopted in the United States, and partially in Edinburgh; namely, to have all the odd numbers on one side, and consequently the even ones on the other; so that a person can at once tell on which side the number sought is to be found.

A TOLERABLE ESTATE. We suspect there is some mistake in a letter from Mexico as to the size of the estate which Mr Baring is said to have purchased. The estate is said to be 300,000 square leagues, which would make it equal to 1,800 miles long by 1,500 miles broad, or 2,700,000 square miles-a trifle larger, we guess, than all Europe. The estate does not seem to be overstocked, as, according to the letter, there are four sheep for six square leagues, or one leg of mutton for 63 square miles. -Globe and Traveller. SCOTCH IMPUDENCE.-It is well known that Sawney lacks not effronDRAMATIC SKETCH.-A long lean man, with all his limbs rambling-tery, but we really think that the following is, in its way, the finest no way to reduce him to compass, unless you could double him like a specimen we have ever met with, of shameless impudence. A few days pocket rule with his arms spread, he'd lie on the bed of Ware like a since a public meeting was held, in the city of Edinburgh, at which all cross on a Good Friday bun-standing still, he is a pilaster without a base the great and wise men of the "Modern Athens" attended. Would you -he appears rolled out or run up against a wall-so thin, that his front guess, gentle reader, the object of their meeting? Nothing less than to face is but the moiety of a profile-if he stands cross-legged, he looks erect a inonument to the memory of John Knox, the ferocious fanatic, like a caduceus, and put him in a fencing attitude, you would take him whose life was a libel upon human nature, and whose deeds reflect eterfor a piece of chevaux-de-frise-to make any use of him, it must be as a nal disgrace upon the country that gave him birth.-Dublin Weekly Respontoon or a fishing-rod-when his wife's by he follows like a note of gister. admiration-see them together, one's a mast, and the other all hulk- The Comet that is now visible, and which some of the Journals consishe's a dome and he's built like a glass-house-when they part, you won- der as a new one, is the same as that discovered on the 15th of July last, der to see the steeple separate from the chancel, and were they to em- by M. Pons, at Marlia, and announced at that period. Since then it has brace, he must hang round her neck like a skein of thread on a lace-been seen at Paris, and in all the observatories of Europe. Though very maker's bolster to sing her praise, you should choose a rondeau; and small when seen for the first time, it has, in approaching the sun, become to celebrate him, you must write all Alexandrines.-Sheridan. considerably larger, and acquired sufficient light to be visible to the HOW TO TURN AN ARGUMENT TO ACCOUNT.-The disputatious humour naked eye. Its tail is from three to four degrees long, and its motion of Richardson was once turned to account by Sheridan in a very charac- continues to be very slow. It will be seen for some time, and when its teristic manner. Having had a hackney coach in his employ for five or brilliancy is not eclipsed by the light of the moon, it will be easily discosix hours, and not being provided with the means of paying it, he hap- vered near Taurus, in the East, where it rises about ten o'clock in the pened to espy Richardson in the street, and proposed to take him in the evening, and continues visible throughout the night.-Paris Paper. coach some part of his way. The offer being accepted, Sheridan lost uo RAILWAYS.-A very important proceeding took place on the 27th of time in starting a subject of conversation, on which he knew his compa- September, when the Stockton and Darlington railway, 25 miles in nion was sure to become argumentative and animated. Having, by well-length, made of malleable iron, was opened to the public. Upon a road managed contradiction, brought him to the proper pitch of excitement, undulating a little, and only slightly inclined in its general course, a he affected to grow impatient and angry himself, and saying that he speed of twelve and fifteen miles an hour was attained, while the locomocould not think of staying in the same coach with a person that would use tive engine was dragging the enormous quantity of ninety tons. The such language,' pulled the check-string, and desired the coachman to whole train of vehicles (carrying in all 600 persons) must have occupied let him out. Richardson, wholly occupied with the argument, and re- a line not much less than 400 feet in length, in the following order:garding the retreat of his opponent as an acknowledgment of defeat, still First, a locomotive engine with the engineer and assistants; secondly, a pressed his point, and even hollowed more last words' through the tender with coals and water; next, six waggons loaded with coals and coach window after Sheridan, who, walking quietly home, left the poor flour; then an elegant covered coach, with the Committee and other disputant responsible for the heavy fare of the coach."-Life of Sheridan. proprietors of the Railway; then 21 waggons, fitted up on the occasion CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.-Dr Barry, an English physician resi- for passengers; and, last of all, six waggons loaded with coals; making dent at Paris, lately read before the Academy of Sciences a memoir on altogether a train of 38 carriages, exclusive of the engine and tender.the motion of the blood in the veins; and Messrs Cuvier and Dumeril, In two places, where the rail-way ascended, fixed engines were used names well known to the lovers of natural history, were appointed to instead of the locomotive one, and found to succeed admirably: thirteen investigate the subject, and draw up a Report. These gentlemen have loaded waggons were drawn up an inclined plane little more than a mile presented their Report to the Academy; which commences by alluding long, in 74 minutes (8 miles an hour); and a single rope, passing out to the various opinions hitherto entertained with respect to the cause of from the fixed engine, acted at this extraordinary distance. The coach the motion of the blood. Thus some have attributed this motion to the for passengers, in which the proprietors travelled, is to ply on the road action of the heart; others to the pressure of the muscles; and, others from Stockton to Darlington. A much greater velocity will of course be again to an absorbing power in the veins themselves. Amidst this obtained with a moderate load. "From the success," observes the Scotsdiversity of opinion however, authors have in general agreed in recog- man," of this experiment at Darlington, and from what we have learned nizing a certain connexion between the motion itself and the act of otherwise, we have no doubt that when the Edinburgh and Glasgow inspiration; but this connexion was merely looked upon as a coincidence, Railway is formed, stage-coaches moved by loco-motive engines will or at most, the act of inspiration was esteemed nothing more than an commence plying at the very first, with a velocity of 15 miles an hour. accessory cause of the motion alluded to.-In the memoir by Dr Barry, a A person may then breakfast in Edinburgh, proceed to Glasgow, do busivery different view is taken of these facts;" and in truth," the Report ness there for an hour or two, and return to Edinburgh to dinner! We proceeds," he has shown, by means of experiments entirely new, very shall travel, too, we believe, with less noise and less risk than at present; ingenious, and perfectly conclusive, first, that the blood in the veins is we shall enjoy the freedom of locomotion which we have now in the never moved towards the heart but during the act of inspiration; and track-boat or steam-boat; and it will be no small addition to the comsecondly, that all the facts known with respect to this motion, in man, forts of the journey, that while we outrun the fleetest hunter in speed, the and the animals which resemble him in structure, may be explained, by privilege will not be enjoyed at the expense of some poor tortured and considering it as the effect of atmospheric pressure." over-driven animals."

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THE LATE DR Matthew BAILLIE.-Dr Baillie's disposition was of the most charitable and generous kind. He was not only in the constant habit of refusing fees, when he thought they could be ill afforded, but he often gave money, and sometimes in considerable sums, where he thought it was well bestowed. A young lady who was suffering severely from a pulmonary complaint, asked his advice, and he recommended her to spend the winter months in a milder part of the country; but finding that her circumstances would not admit of her trying this last resource to regain her health, he instantly gave her an adequate sum of money. The following is another instance of his generosity, and of his great delicacy in bestowing it. A lady whose rank in life was far above her pecuniary resources, had an illness which made his attendance of the highest importance. The doctor took his fee regularly every visit until his services were no longer necessary; he then left in a bag the whole amount of what he had received, offering to the lady as an apology, that he knew that, had he once refused to take his fee during his attendance, she would not have permitted him to continue it.-New Monthly Magazine. DUCHESS OF DORSET'S WILL.-The will of the late Duchess of Dorset was proved on the 30th ult. The whole of the real estate is given in moieties to her Grace's sons-in-law, the Earls of Plymouth and De la Warr, for their lives, and afterwards to her daughters, their Countesses, and their respective issue. The furniture, pictures, and other ornamental articles at Knole and Buckhurst, which she had power to dispose of, are directed to be sold; the produce to be applied in the purchase of freeholds, to be settled in the like manner; the residue of the personal estate is to be similarly applied. The testator's plate, diamonds, and personal ornaments are all given to her daughter, Lady De la Warr; and it is assigned as a reason for so bequeathing them, that the Countess of Plymouth is already possessed of all requisite articles of that nature. There is a codicil, containing chiefly annuities and other bequests to friends, and servants; also 3001. each to her sisters, the Countesses of Aboyne and Verulam; 100l. to her brother, the Hon. Mr Jenkinson; and 3001, to Mr Forster, as a compensation for his trouble as executor. She desires to be buried as plainly as possible, in the family vault at Withingham Church. The personal property was sworn under 80,000l.

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Mr HOME. The present from the Colliers to Mr Hume consists of an elegant silver Epergne and a richly chased silver Salver; value 160 guineas. The following is a copy of the inscription:-" Presented to JOSEPH HUME, Esq. M. P. by the Operative Colliers of Lanark, Dumbarton, and Renfrewshire, in testimony of their sincere regard for his faithful and able public services in Parliament, and especially for his indefatigable and successful exertions to ameliorate the condition and to defend the interests of the operative classes. Glasgow, 1825." Upon the one side of the Epergne is a figure of Justice; on the opposite side, the Inscription; upon the right shield, Mr Hume's Arms, Mantling, &c. &c, and upon the left the Collier's Arms, &c.

WASHINGTON TO La Fayette upon his Retirement FROM PUBLIC LIFE." At length, my dear Marquis, I have become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, and under the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree. Free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame-the statesman, whose mote the welfare of his own or the ruin of other countries, as if this globe watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to prowas insufficient for us all-and the courtier, who is always watching the countenance of his prince, in the hope of catching a gracious smile, can have very little conception. I have not only retired from all public employments, but am retiring within myself; and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction. Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and move gently down the stream of life, until I sleep with my fathers."— Quoted by Marshall in his Life of Washington.

where he received instruction in reading and writing at a common ROBERT BLOOMFIELD was born at Honington, near Bury, in Suffolk, school, and became a "Farmer's Boy ;" which occupation he has related with simplicity and beauty in a poem under that title. He wrote that production when a journeyman shoemaker; under the auspices of the late Mr Capel Lofft it was ushered into the world; and Bloomfield, un happily for himself, subsequently experienced the insufficient and wither ing patronage of ostentatious greatness. His first poem was succeeded Flowers,"" Banks of the Wye," and " May-day with the Muses,” h by Rural Tales," "Good Tidings, or News from the Farm," "Wild his retirement at Shefford, he was afflicted with the melancholy consequent upon want of object, and died (19th August, 1823, aged 57) a vicorphans destitute. His few books, poor fellow, instead of being sent to London, where they would have produced their full value, were dissipated by an auctioneer unacquainted with their worth, by order of his creditors, and the family must have perished if a good Samaritan had not interposed to their temporary relief. Mr Joseph Weston published the Remains of Robert Bloomfield," for their benefit, and set on foot a subscription, with the hope of securing something to Mrs Bloomfield for the exclusive and permanent advantage of herself and her fatherless children. It has been inadequately contributed to, and is not yet closed. -Hone's Every Day Book.

General Bertrand, so well known for his attachment to Napoleon, is now building a very large cotton-spinning factory in the suburb Made laine, at Lisle. It will cost 1,200,000 francs (about 48,0001.)

"TEA MONOPOLY."-Tea is now a necessary of life, it costs the people of this kingdom very little short of "ten millions a year." The public press has hitherto but slightly touched this monstrous" Monopoly," but that little has excited the keenest attention to the conduct of the " Directim to hypochondria, with his mind in ruins, leaving his widow and tors of this Monopoly."-A Gentleman who travels all over England, informs us, that the very high price" of Tea is now universally complained of, and that petitions will be presented to Government, from many large towns, to compel the "India Company" to put up a larger supply. The lowest price of Green Tea at the last sale was 7s. with the duty; thus with the wholesale dealer's profit, and that of the retailer, it is, at the very least, 8s. per lb. before it gets into the tea pot of the poor woman, who, in thousands of cases, subsists on this three times a day. This "Monopoly" exists by law. That law states, "That in case the East India Company' shall not always put up a sufficient supply to keep the price of Tea in this country upon an equality' with the price thereof in the neighbouring continent of Europe, it shall be lawful for the Lords of the Treasury' to 'grant Licences to any other person or persons, body politic or corporate, to import Tea into Great Britain from any part of Europe.' This law is clear, distinct and positive, and we shall soon see whether this "Company" is, or is not, above the law.The price of Green Tea on the "neighbouring continent" is ls. 6d. per lb., and is now smuggled into this kingdom to a vast extent; thus the Government is defrauded, and (to use Mr Huskisson's words) that " gigantic monster" smuggling, is thus openly encouraged.-We have heard it stated, that the "East India Company" have not a sufficient supply of Green Tea to enable them to put up more than they have done; if this is true, all it amounts to is, that they have neglected to import a sufficient supply, and have thus furnished proof of the absolute necessity for the "Lords of the Treasury" carrying the law into effect. This subject calls loud for investigation.-If the public press, whose power makes "misgovernment" tremble in our most "distant colonies," would honestly take up this matter, in less than six months the poor and needy, whose existence is Tea, would be relieved from a greater tax than our Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken off the last twenty years.-Colchester Gazette. TOMBSTONES IN CHURCH AND CHAPEL YARDS.-A case was lately sub-spondent) appeared a paragraph commencing thus: "We learn with mitted to the opinion of Dr Lushington, as to the right of an incumbent to demand a fee for permitting a tombstone to be erected in a church or chapel yard. Dr Lushington's decided opinion is, that" the incumbent has a right to demand a reasonable fee for the erection of any tombstone in the church yard; and that the incumbent may compel payment before he permits the stone to be put up, and in this the law will support him." It is not generally known, that a church or chapel yard, consecrated and registered, is the freehold of the incumbent for the time being, and this freehold right of the incumbent is not affected by the means by which the ground was originally procured or purchased.-Leeds Mercury.

NEW MACHINE FOR DIGGING AND HARROWING.-Mr M. Barry, of Swords, has invented a machine, simple in its construction and principle, by which, with two horses and one attendant, an acre of potatoes can be dug out in an hour-also, an acre of ground, previously ploughed for oats or other grain, can be harrowed by it in an hour, with two horses and one attendant, thereby effecting in the branch of harrowing a saving of upwards of 93 per cent.; or in other words, doing the work of 32 horses and 16 attendants with two horses and one attendant.-Scotsman. |

The Wesleyan Methodists are building four new chapels at Manchester. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.-The nature and design of such institutions, is, to accumulate the savings of men in health as a provision for sickness and old age. The tendency is to promote industry and economy, sobriety and provident foresight, to the want of which may be ascribed nine-nths of the miseries of our labouring population. He who by saving sixpence, or even a penny a week, accumulates a fund which he can call his own, because it is so, and on which he can draw for his support, in sickness or old age, is as honourable and independent as he who has an estate in land, or money in the bank. He is the best friend to the poor who teaches them to rise to this rank in society; and he is their worst enemy who would persuade them to depend upon the poor rates, or public or private charity, when unable to labour for their support; for this not only puts them lower in the scale of society, at least by anticipation, but it also relaxes industry, and encourages profusion, drunkenness, and every evil habit.-Glasgow Chronicle.

NEW INSTITUTION.-In your paper of Septempber 4th, (says a Corre great pleasure, that an Institution similar to that recently established in the City, is about to be formed at the West end of the town."-Allow me to suggest to the friends of the proposed measure the expediency of speedily calling a public meeting for the purpose of carrying their lau dable plan into immediate effect; several young men to my knowledge having abstained from joining the City Institution in consequence of the above announcement, and who have, since its publication, been in daily expectation of being called upon to support an establishment from which they anticipate so many advantages.

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ST PAUL'S. Amongst the pieces of modern architecture, I have never observ'd above two which were remarkable in this vast city; the portico of the Church of St Paul's, and the Banqueting-house at Whitehall: but you would be amazed at the genius of this age, that they should suffer this goodly and venerable fabric to be built about, and converted into rascally warehouses, and so sordidly obscured and defaced. that an argument of greater avarice, malice, meanness, and deformity of mind, cannot possibly be expressed."-So wrote Evelyn in 1651-see his Character of Englands

MARRIED AND SINGLE.-By the census taken four years ago, it appears that in a population of every ten thousand there are from five to six hundred more females than males; for instance, in Manchester, containing something more than a hundred thousand souls, there are about six thousand females more than males. In Preston, a proportionate majority, and in Kendal about six hundred. The consequence is, that in On Saturday week, Ambrose Oliver, a clerk in the Sun Fire Assurour own town six hundred men must marry twice, or that number of ance-office, was charged with having appropriated to his own use upwards females must remain in "single blessedness," (taking it for granted that of 3,0001. the property of that establishment. Oliver, although he has annually the same number of each sex pay the debt of nature.) Madame been long a clerk in the establishment. and had a wife and three children, De Stael inquiring of Bonaparte who he accounted the finest woman in was allowed no more than 1301. per annum; and yet he contrived to dash the world, the Emperor replied, "she who has brought forth the great-away in great style. Indeed, the figure he cut, and expensive pleasures est number of children."Westmorland Advertiser.

wrote an anonymous letter to the managers of the office, advising that an cumstances—all insufficient to punish the offender? What can we, what investigation should take place. The managers entertained not the slight-can the public do in similar cases?—We are, Sir,

est suspicion of Oliver, whose conduct was always marked by a strong apparent interest in the welfare of the concern. They, however, proceeded to examine the accounts, and found certain variances, which could only be accounted for by a systematic course of robbery. The prisoner was immediately apprehended. He seemed to suffer great agony of mind, and did not raise up his head from his hand during the examination. Mr Harwood, accountant in the Sun Fire Assurance office, stated, that the prisoner was employed as clerk, aud it was his duty to receive the money paid upon premiums on policies of insurance, and to hand it in at the banker's. He (witness) had examined the books, and found that the sum. of 611. had not been entered on the 17th of April, as paid by Mr Gardener, nor had any such sum been entered at all. [Here a receipt for the sum of 611, with the prisoner's name attached to it, was put in.] Witness knew the writing to be Mr Oliver's.-Mr Gardener, of Paternoster row, book seller, deposed, that on the 17th of April he paid into the hands of some person in the office the sum of 611. and received the receipt produced for it It was stated, that upwards of 150 cases could be produced against him. He declined saying any thing, and was remanded for further examination. On Friday, Mr Planta, of the British Museum, stated that two young ladies, while viewing the Museum, were met by two well-dressed fellows, with white hats, and who annoyed the young ladies by following them. This was at first disregarded, but the fellows having observed the ladies in an unfrequented part of the Museum, exposed themselves in a very disgusting manner. The ladies immediately retired; but the fellows came in contact with them a second time, and repeated their brutal conduct. Mr CONANT said, he would send officers to the Museum with orders to take the fellows into custody. Mr Planta said he would consult the Board before he accepted the assistance of the officers.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

UNION HALL.

ANOTHER ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

On Wednesday, William Sharpless, a porter in the employ of Messrs Brocksopp and Sons, extensive tea-dealers and grocers, in High street, Southwark, was charged with a robbery under the following circumstances. Mrs Brocksopp being sworn, stated that in consequence of previous suspicion, and at the request of one of her sons, she watched the prisoner when about going to his dinner the day before. Having waited until the other men who work in the back warehouse were gone, he took two or three pieces of soap out of the soap-biun, and put into his pocket. Mrs B. immediately ran from her hiding-place, and desired one of the young men to seize the prisoner and search him. On seeing the young man making up to him, Sharpless ran to the binn and threw back part of the soap.

John Craft stated, that on coming to the spot, the prisoner said, "I know what you want," taking at the same time the remaining piece of soap from his pocket, and giving it up to him. Sharpless now threw off his hat and something appeared to fall out of it into a cask, on examining which was found a paper-cap that the prisoner was in the habit of wearing, containing about ten ounces of fine Hyson tea. The man finding he was detected, fell on his knees, and begged to be allowed to escape.

The officer (Hammond) stated, his having found at the prisoner's lodge ings a quantity of lump sugar, Spanish juice, raisins, currants, candied lemon peel, balls of twine, and a variety of grocery articles secreted in a large basket in his bed-room, and also a quantity of moist sugar in a large pau under the bed.

Mr George Brocksopp was questioned as to the value of the soap, and he replied about a shilling.

The Prisoner urged in his defence, that having accidentally broken a bar of soap, he put it into his pocket, being afraid he should be scolded. The articles found at his lodgings, were, he said, part of his stock when he failed in business two or three ago. As to the tea in his paper-cap, he knew nothing about it.

The presiding Magistrate (M. Swabey, Esq.) said that there could be no doubt as to the soap baving been stolen, but unless the goods found at the lodging could be sworn to, he should use his discretion, and not send the prisoner to take his trial for so trivial a theft.

Mr Geo. Brocksopp said that certainly he could not swear to the articles then produced by the officer, but he considered their being found under such very suspicious circumstances, would, when coupled with the proof of theft as regarded the soap, weigh something in the minds of a Jury. Surely the case was clear enough. The principle was the same, whether only a bar of soap or more was stolen. It was improbable they should ever detect a servant stealing more at one time than what was found on the prisoner; and if he were not sent to take his`trial, how could they ever punish him or any one else under similar circumstances.

Mr Swabey replied that Mr B. might" go and tell the same story" to the Grand Jury at the next Sessions, and possibly they might find a bill; but for his part, he considered the robbery too trivial to send a man to trial for. The case was therefore dismissed.

Now, Mr Editor, what security has the public against robbery by servants, if it is to be set down for law, that a man may, with impunity, steal if he steals only to the extent of 1lb. of soap, even under such circumstances as related above-such direct proof of theft? The article seen to be taken-found on his person-acknowledged by the prisoner to have been stolen by him-a variety of goods found under suspicious cir

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Your very obedient servants, 233 and 234, Borough, Oct. 14, 1825.

W. BROCKSOPP & SONS.
ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

MURDERS AT BIRTLE-CUM-BAMFORD.
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The unfortunate victims were a man and his wife, Benjamin and Alice Cass, the former 65 and the latter 76 years of age, who occupied a small farm of their own, in an extremely retired spot, at Birtle-cum-Bamford, about three miles from Bury. Early on Sunday morning, the brother of Cass entered the house, as was his custom, when a most dreadful spectacle presented itself. The miserable couple were stark corpses before him, covered with frightful wounds, " the least a death to nature," and the spot around them deluged with their blood! His brother was sitting in his chair, in a reclining position, and the wife with her right arm round his neck. The head of the woman was literally crushed by a blow inflicted with the poker. The man had received a tremendous stroke with the edge of a spade, which had laid the back of his head completely open, and his Nose and chin were split across. There was every reason also to imagine, from the difference of the weapons and the situation of the bodies, that it was the barbarous work of more than one hand. On searching the premises, a desk, which contained the will of the deceased, and a variety of family documents, was found to have been removed from a chest of drawers upon which it usually stood; it was broken open, and the papers were scattered about, but none seemed to have been carried away; and a watch hung in a small leather bag over the chimney-piece untouched. On proceeding up stairs to the bed-room, 11s. 10d. were found upon the windowledge; and in a small crevice, wrapped in a piece of rag, three sovereigns and four half-sovereigns were discovered, which had probably been a hoard. It is supposed that the sanguinary ruffians must have been scared from their quest of plunder by some threatened interruption.-An inquest was held on Monday, before Mr Farrand the Coroner, and a respectable Jury, which sat from nine in the morning until six in the evening, daring which time a number of witnesses were examined; but our reporter was not permitted to be present. Nothing couclusive, however, was arrived at, and an adjournment was resolved upon.-A suspicious character, named Diggle, underwent a rigid examination on Wednesday, at the adjourned inquest, and some clothes he had offered for sale were clearly proved to have been the property of the murdered man. The inquest again adjourned. [From the Manchester Guardian.]

Mr Garnett, the publisher of this paper, attended at the inquest. When he entered the inquest room, there were several persons present, besides the Coroner (Mr Ferrand, of Oldham inquest notoriety) and the Jury. Before the proceedings commenced, a constable turned out one or two persons, and attempted to turn out Mr Garnett, but he refused to go. The constable communicated this to the Coroner, and the following dialogue took place :-The Coroner: I understand there are some persons present who are connected with newspapers. If so, I desire they will avow themselves. Mr Garnett: I am connected with a newspaper.-Coroner: Where do you come from, Sir?-Mr Garnett: From Manchester.— Coroner: Then don't you think that it would be much better if you would stay at Manchester, and mind your own business, and let me and the Jury mind our's here?-Mr Garnett: Sir, I am the best judge of my own business.-Coroner: I am sure the business of coroners' inquests was much better conducted before newspaper reporters meddled with them, and when coroners were left entirely to themselves; that is my firm opinion, and I have had a few years' experience as a coroner. Ever since the second day of the Oldham inquest, I have made it a rule not to permit any reporter whatever to be present at any inquest that I hold. Pray, Sir, what do you attend here for?-Mr Garnett: I attend here as one of the King's subjects; all of whom have a right to be present in this open Court of Justice.-Coroner: It is not an open court: it is no Court at all; it is only a Grand Jury If it was a Court, there would be a place assigned for holding it.—Mr Garnett: I should be sorry to say any thing which might be considered disrespectful to you, and I do not like to quote autho rities upon a professional gentleman; but you must be aware that there are, in Hawkins and other text writers, many passages which show that a Coroner's Inquest is an open Court, and that even the appellation of "Coroner" is derived from the publicity of his proceedings-"in corona populi."-Coroner: I deny that it is an open Court, or a Court at all. But if it is a Court, I am the head of it; and I have a right to make such regulations in it as I consider necessary for the due administration of justice, and I will not have any person here, who can disclose to the world what ought to be confined to the breasts of the Coroner and the Jury.Mr Garnett: But there are several gentlemen here who are not connected with this inquest.-Coroner: Yes; but they are not reporters.—Mr.Garnett: The law knows no distinction, that I am aware of, between Repor ters and other persons.-Coroner: Well; but I shall have no one present who will publish, or who has it in his power to publish, what takes place here—Mr Garnett: The other gentlemen who are here can publish what passes. After they leave this place, they can, and, no doubt they will, disclose to their friends the circumstances which occur here.-Coroner: Í hope they will do no such thing; however, they cannot publish them is newspapers, which is illegal.-Mr Garnett: I do not see that that makes any difference. If I, in a newspaper, publish any thing contrary to law, I am liable to legal proceedings for so doing.-Coroner: You shall pub