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The annual meeting of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law Association was held on Wednesday, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. Ouly those were admitted who had procured tickets for the purpose. Shortly after one o'clock, the Chairman, Mr. Warburton, M.P., entered the room; accompanied by Mr. Francis Place, Mr Villiers, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Easthope, M.P., Mr. Robert Stewart, M.P., Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Ricardo, and Mr. Thornely, M.P. Deputations from Deptford, St. Luke's, Mitcham, St. George's- in-the-East, Spitalfields, Poplar, Bermondsey, St. Saviour's, Hounslow, Kingston, Camberwell, and Mile End, also attended the meeting. The Secretary, Mr. Sidney Smith, opened the proceedings of the day by reading the report of the Committee. It began by referring to the difficulties which the Association had encountered in the apathy of the middle class and the hostility of some of the working class. Since the last report, however, in August 1840, these difficulties had di- minished : a large portion of the working, as well as of the middle class,

had become active promoters of the objects of the Association ; and within the last thirteen months seventeen local associations had been formed in and around London. The exertions of the National Anti- Corn-law League had succeeded in diffusing a similar spirit throughout the country-

" Energetic and well-qualified gentlemen, under the auspices of the League, have been eminently successful in their efforts to convey useful instructions to the people. They have been well received in every part of the kingdom. Their lectures have been numerously attended, and in no part of the country more satisfactorily than in the South-western counties, in which the supporters of

the Corn-laws declared, boastingly, they dared not show themselves. So broad, so strong, so genial is the light these g,entlemen have diffused, that the League have only to continue their exertions in conjunction with this Association, and

other central associations, to cause the enrolment in aid of the repeal of the Corn-laws of the whole of the thinking portion of the population of this great empire."

The address of the Glasgow Anti-Corn-law Association to the people of Scotland is mentioned with especial approbation-

" Since the date of the last report, several new features in the progress of the Anti-Corn-law movement have presented themselves. Of these, none is more worthy of notice than the effect produced on the nation by the important evi- dence which was given last year before a Committee of the House of Commons, by persons of great official and commercial experience, in respect to the enor- mous amount of the injury which is inflicted on the country by the food- monopoly. Not only has a large impression of a digest of the Report con- taining this evidence been entirely sold off, but no fewer than three new edi- tions have been called for, involving an immediate issue of nearly twenty

thousand copies ; thus evincing the great interest which is occupying the public mind on the subject of the Corn-laws, and indeed on the whole system of re-

strictive policy. A well-timed manifesto has also appeared, signed by nearly one hundred and fifty influential Members of the House of Commons, which, it is hoped, may help to induce her Majesty's Government to give their earnest and immediate attention to the baneful effects which are produced by the corn- monopoly on the revenue and prosperity of the state

" Your Committee have to report that the extrusive and multifarious busi- ness of the Association has been arduous and difficult. How well it has been managed, the occurrences of the past year will testify. Your Committee hope that the Association do them the justice to think that all the effects have been produced which could be accomplished by aid of the fund subscribed, amount- ing last year to 962/. 4s. 2d. The large space over which their efforts have been extended, and the immense number of persons who, in consequence thereof, have been induced, directly and indirectly, to become advocates for the repeal of the food-monopoly, have opened up new sources of continued, unre-

nutted exertion ; and your Committee are satisfied that if the means be pro- vided, every thing which has been indicated as probable will be accomplished.

Most of the original subscribers have promised to renew their subscriptions, and some of them, it is expected, will double the amount of theirs; and your Committee have only to observe, with respect to what are usually called the sinews of war, that should these, as they expect they will, be fully provided, they shall be carefully and economically expended, and as clearly accounted for as those which were formerly intrusted to them have been in the first report made by the Committee to the Association. Your Committee are of opinion that the business of the Association should continue to be conducted as it has hitherto been, but upon a larger scale ; and they expect that, supported as they

will be by the local associations in the Metropolis, and aided by and aiding the National Anti-Corn-law League and the Association at Glasgow, good may be'done to an extent which, they believe, has hitherto been thought imprac- ticable by all but a very small number of their friends.

"After mature deliberation, your Committee feel justified in recommending a renewal of the measure of petitions to Parliament ; because, notwithstanding the apparent disrespect with which the Legislature last session treated the

question, it is very certain that the effect of addressing the House of Commons was to diminish the former adverse majority. Your Committee have also come to the resolution of advising the presentation of one large national petition to the Queen against the Cia-n-laws, praying her Majesty to instruct her Go- vernment to take the subject into their immediate consideration."

The report was passed, with an order for its being printed for general distribution.

Mr. Villiers, in moving the first resolution, made some objection to the mode in which the meeting was called—by ticket : he had thought that while the existing differences divided the people as to the mode of carrying out a common object, such meetings could not be held with any useful effect. But he had attended, as he understood that the meeting was rendered necessary to continue the existence of the Asso-

ciation, and to complete business which had been left imperfect at the last meeting. He thought other wise with respect to public meetings— His objection did not extend to public meetings; for the more of those that were held the better. He believed that publicity was the best cure for public error ; and if some of the people were wrong in their course—if they were misguided in the plan of disturbing public meetings—the oftener that error was committed the sooner would it be corrected; and he for one did not doubt that ere long the consequences would react upon themselves, and they would be made alive to the injury to their cause and injustice to themselves which they were doing. The course to which be was referring never bad been and never would be tolerated by Englishmen ; it was revolting to their feel- ings and foreign to their habits: it was rank tyranny ; it was the deliberate attempt to stop the expression of opinion, and by means open to anybody who for any purpose wished to check the liberty of speech. He did not make this objection to the political views of the Chartists, but to their proceedings— He indeed thought there was much justice in the views they entertained upon the mode of getting rid of the Con!-laws; at least he thought much of their reasoning on the matter quite just : they said, that as long as the Legis- lature consisted of a majority of persona whose interests were identified with the maintenance of these laws, they could not by fair or legitimate means obtain their repeal. He was disposed to be of that opinion himself; though he believed that even the present Legislature was not, nor ever could be proof against a decided and general expression of opinion on any subject. But that was a debateable question; and he for one should be ready at all times to discuss it calmly and earnestly with those who were so confident in an opposite opinion. But under any circumstances, it was clear that no good could he obtained to either cause by obstructing and not aiding the objects of this Association. For let any man consider why he called for the Charter : why, it was because he complained of great wrongs being inflicted by the Legislature, and great diffi- culty or the impossibility of getting redress. But what were the objects of this Association, but to make clear and manifest to the world that these wrongs did exist, and to show the evils to the fullest extent which were inflicted by such enactments as the Corn-laws ? and how could that do otherwise than aid their object in making converts to the cause of reforming the Parliament which per- severed in refusing redress. How better could they argue their case than by constantly referring to the facts that this society disclosed ? But certainly there was less reason for the turbulent assertion of the Charter, as the only question now fit to be discussed, when they heard that among the Chartists there was difference of opinion respecting the Corn-laws themselves. He had read the other day of a Chartist who had called for three cheers for the Corn-

laws. Why, if by that he meant that the Corn-laws were good, and that the condition of the working-classes would be injured by their repeal, why was the Charter so urgent ? The Charter was demanded because the present Legis-

lature was interested in maintaining these and similar bad laws. But if the Chartists thought the Corn-laws good, why complain of those that passed and maintain them ?

What effect could the violent suppression of opinion have, but to con- firm the charge that the people were unfit for the power which they sought ? Some indeed had expressed a singular notion, that the repeal of the Corn-laws would be injurious to the working-class— But let any man for one moment consider the reasoning by which this fan- ciful conclusion was arrived at : " if bread is cheap," say they, " wages will

fall." But bow is bread to be cheap by repealing the Corn-laws ? how, but by

increasing the quantity ? And it then comes to this, that the condition of the people will be worse off in proportion as food is abundant ! Now, if this be true, the converse must be so also, that the less food there was the better off the people would be ; and thus it would appear, in spite of all that men had done and prayed for since they had known the earth, that abundance was a curse and scarcity a blessing. He wanted to know, if any man was to go forth and preach that doctrine in the streets, if it would be thought he ought to be loose ? Again, he would ask if bread was made cheaper by the quantity being increased, how would that quantity be increased but by an increased exchange for commodities produced in this country ? But how could those commodities be made without labour, and how could those additional commodities be pro- duced hot by an additional demand for labour ? And is there any working- man so stupid in this country as not to know the difference, with respect to wages, of two masters seeking one man, or two men seeking one master? What, then, must be the effect of extending the trade in food, but to raise wages, or rather, to improve the condition of the working-class ?

More silly things were said against repeal of the Corn-laws-

One said it was a mattes' interesting only to the capitalist, and that his ob- ject was only to get wages low. Why, if that were the case, he could not be better off than he is now, when the people are working for lower wages than they ever were known before to do. Again, it was said that it was only the interest of the middle class; and that as they did not help those below them to get the franchise, so neither would they assist them to get the repeal of the Corn-laws. Why, the fact is, that the House of Commons does now pretty fairly represent the middle class; and if they were so eager and interested on the subject, they would probably succeed in getting the repeal. But in reality, this question belongs to no class in particular, but to every class, and to the community in general ; and the party who now desired the repeal of the Corn- laws, which he rejoiced to think was increasing every hour, was composed of persons of every class, of every description, and of every shade of politics.

Mr. Villiers concluded by moving the resolution-

" That while the members of this Association have much reason to feel satisfied with the result of their efforts to enlighten the public mind on the subject of the injustice and impolicy of the Corn-laws, and for congratu- lation on the growing interest of the country in the struggle against com- mercial restrictions and monopolies, they see in the great distress of the indus- trious classes, and the continued depression of commerce and manufactures, the imperative duty of increased exertions in the cause of the repeal of all pro- tective duties on the first necessaries of life."

The resolution was seconded by Dr. Pye Smith ; who regretted that he was the only clergyman present to oppose the unchristian burdens which had been placed on food.

The stated proceedings of the day were here interrupted by Mr. Watkins, a Chartist ; who asked why a sufficiency of food could not be procured by cultivating waste lands at home? The question of the Corn-law, he said, did not stand alone : its repeal must be accompanied by a change in the currency. He would rather be burdened with the oppression of the landlords than that of the capitalists.

The Chairman replied to the question which Mr. Watkins had put, by calling upon him to show, before his argument about waste lands was admitted, that it is the same thing whether a small or a large return can be obtained for the same quantity of labour. The resolution was then put, and carried, with only one dissentient. Mr. Robert Steuart proposed the second resolution-

" That this Association gratefully acknowledges the valuable labours of a Committee of the House of Commons during last session, in eliciting, in its Report on the Import-duties, a mass of valuable evidence on the subject of the Corn-laws ; and regards with great satisfaction the recent declaration of a considerable section of the Representatives of the People of their determina- tion to support the practical application of the principles recommended in that report in all measures of fiscal legislation."

Mr. Steuart, as the representative of part of the highly-cultivated district of East Lothian, boldly asserted, that the enlightened farmers of Scotland entertained no fear of a change in the Corn-laws. He recommended the people to make themselves familiar with the Report on Import-duties ; which was important, not only in its bearing on the Corn-laws, but as showing generally the injurious effects of restrictions on commerce. Government had been urged to undertake a revision of the Tariff: it was a step of great importance, and one which no govern- ment could enter upon without great hesitation and alarm. But if it could be shown to the Government that they would be supported warmly and strenuously from without, they would venture to pro- pose it.

Mr J. L. Ricardo seconded the resolution. The opponents of the Corn-laws, he said, bad reduced the question to a dispute between agri- culture and commerce : such a contest could not long endure ; for the interests of both were identical. If commerce was not agriculture, agriculture was commerce. But a great commercial revolution was at hand; and in the name of the mercantile community with which he was connected, he declared that they would not shrink from the mighty experiment which they had proposed to the landowners of abandoning restrictive duties.

Mr. Forster, a witness before the Import-duties Committee, supported the resolution ; which was affirmed by the meeting.

Mr. Ewart moved the third resolution-

" That this Association renews, with increased confidence, its former recom- mendations to the electors of the United Kingdom to promote the return to Parliament of those candidates only who will support a repeal of the Corn and Provision laws."

Dr. Wade, in seconding this resolution, suggested that it should be made to appeal to non-electors as well as electors. The resolution was amended accordingly ; and passed. During Mr. Ewart's speech, and after Dr. Wade's, the proceedings were again interrupted by Mr. Watkins ; who averred that the Chartists only sought fair discussion, according to the recommendation in Mr. Villiers's speech, with which he was much pleased— But the question with him and the Chartists was, whether Their time could be worthily occupied in discussing questions like that of the repeal of the Corn-laws, while men who possessed the ruling power in the State were known to have no feeling in common with them, no interest in accordance with theirs, and no wish to give them food to keep life and soul together. What had the Parliament been discussing for the last fourteen days ? A question affecting the most important interests of the people—the Poor-laws. Now, he would ask 'whether there was any man so lost to sense, knowing what were the feelings which actuated the men in the House of Commons, displayed in the discussion of the Poor-law Bill, as to suppose that the repeal of the Corn-laws would • ever be a measure passed under the present system ? His opinion was, that the meu forming the present Legislative Council never could be induced to repeal those laws.

Mr. Thornely moved the fourth resolution-

" That, relying not only upon the growing enlightenment of the public, but the certain ultimate triumph of truth, and entertaining an earnest conviction of the justice of their great cause, the members of the Association renew their solemn pledge to each other and to their country, to continue their exertions with increasing energy, until that cause is brought to a successful issue." In seconding it, Mr. Milner Gibson observed, that if all the energy -of the country had been exhausted in an unsuccessful attempt to carry repeal, there would be no room for hope ; but much activity remained to be called oat. A proof of the progress which the question had made, was the extreme change in the arguments of those who opposed repeal— It was no longer said, as was once openly avowed by very distinguished men, that the Corn-laws were kept up for the benefit of the aristocracy ; that it was right there should be a better class of men maintained out of the pockets of the ,people, in order that they may uphold their high station, be the ornaments of the neighbourhood, and promote good order in the country and the welfare of the Church. But it was now supposed that education had made some little progress, and therefore another line of argument was taken ; and it was said, not that they wanted to put money into their pockets at the expense of the working'classes, but that it was an object of great national importance that Great Britain should not be dependent upon foreign states for food. if they had this magnanimous object in view, why did not those noble lords who were so .patriotic in this particular object give to the public treasury the extra price which the corn brought them in consequence of the laws for the prevention of the importation of foreign grain ? Sir Robert Peel had been driven from his old arguments against repeal, and so also had the Duke of Wellington ; and Mr. Gibson foresaw that in a very, short time there would be no argument left to defend the Corn-laws, except the argu- ment that Lord Eldon used in reference to Slavery. " I cannot (said his Lordship) believe that slavery is so very horrible a thing, or the Bishops would have denounced it long ago." When they came to that argument, he believed that the emancipation of their countrymen from the restrictions of commerce would be gained in the same way as the slave had been freed from his fetters.

On being put, the resolution was carried ; and after a few more re- marks from Mr. Wilson, and an exhortation to the Chartists from Mr. Warburton not to emulate Lord Castlereagh and his Six Acts in sup- -Ineasing public discussion, the meeting separated. • A. meeting of persons opposed to the annual Parliamentary grant to Maynooth College was held at Freemason's Hall, on Tuesday. Lord Teignmouth took the chair ; supported by Mr. Plumptre, M.P., Mr. Bolling, M.P., Mr. H. Pownall, and some other gentlemen. Lord Teignmouth described the objects of the meeting : they had assembled, he said, " not only to protest against the grant to Maynooth, but as Pro- testants and as Christians to enter their solemn protest against that _system and that doctrine which had so widely invaded the country— the principle and system of general Liberalism." The speeches pre- sented little interest. The Reverend J. Cummings brought forward Protestant and Catholic versions of the Church service, pointing out the substitution of the name of the Virgin Mary for that of God, in various passages. Mr. Richard Taylor, the Common Councilman, endeavoured to move an amendment on one of the resolutions ; but he was not allowed to be heard, as the meeting was called only for those favourable to its objects. The resolutions passed without further hin- drance.

The half-yearly meeting of the British Medical Association was held in Exeter Hall, on Tuesday ; Dr. Webster, the President, in the chair. The meeting was very numerously attended. The report made by the Chairman indicated some progress in medical reform during the year : the College of Physicians—a leading member of which had once declared that no man with the slightest regard to the feelings of a gen- tleman could practise midwifery—had admitted several accoucheurs into its ranks, and had agreed to establish a Board for the examination of practitioners of medicine. The College of Surgeons was more ob- structive ; but the chemists and druggists were not unfavourable to the plans of the Association. The meeting expected no relief from Mr. Hawes's bill ; which they regarded already as lost. The other measures which would be brought forward by Mr. Warburton and Mr. Wakley '.were pronounced equally inadequate to the exigency. The speakers entertained no doubt that the views of the Association must ultimately prevail ; but, in order as much as possible to secure their ascendancy, they unanimously agreed to vote for no candidate for Parliament, of whatever politics, who would not support their plan of medical reform. f Bravo ! these men have the earnestness which wins success.]

The twentieth anniversary of the Seamen's Hospital Society was celebrated by a public dinner at the London Tavern, on Wednesday. Sir George Cockburn was in the chair : and several naval officers and gentlemen attended. During the evening 1,0001. was collected.

The twenty-fourth anniversary of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund -was celebrated, as usual, by a dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, on -Wednesday. The Duke of Cambridge presided. The attendance at -table was thin, but the galleries were filled with ladies. Mr. Cooper, as :-substitute for Mr. Harley, made the customary "appeal" to the libe- rality of the company ; which was responded to by donations to the amount of 8441.

At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, the prayer of a peti- tion from the Inquest of Farringdon Within, that a public building might be erected to receive poor persons as tenants at moderate rents, in order to do away with the miserable, undrained, squalid dwellings in which the poor of the ward now live, or that a piece of ground might

be set apart for some philanthropic speculator to carry out the scheme, was negatived by a large majority. It was stated that no ward in the City had less reason to complain of the state of its poor tenements than Farringdon Within.

At the instance of the Colonial Land and Emigration Board, con- veyed through Government, the Poor-law Commissioners have inter- fered to prevent the emigration of ten dissolute female paupers, whom the Board of Directors and Guardians of Marylebone intended to send out to South Australia, at the parish expense. At a meeting of the Board, yesterday, the scheme was disavowed by its promoters ; who re- proached each other with mutual deception in regard to it. The mi- nutes of Board at which the plan had been adopted were expunged, and the project was thus utterly abandoned.

In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, the Lord Chancellor dis- missed, with costs, a motion made to dissolve the injunction granted by the Master of the Rolls, restraining the defendants, Sir Matthew Wood and Jacob Osborne, from proceeding against the plaintiff, Thomas Jew, for arrears of rent due from him as tenant of the late Mr. James Wood, of Gloucester ; thus affirming the decision of Lord Langdale, that the plaintiff was authorized in filing his bill of interpleader against Sir Matthew Wood, the alleged devisee, disputing his title to the property as heir-at-law.

In the same court, on the same day, the Lord Chancellor refused the application of the Dean of York for the prohibition to restrain Dr. Phil- limore, as Commissary of the Archbishop of York, from pronouncing any sentence after a recent investigation of the charges of simony made against the Dean. The Lord Chancellor would not assume that there would be any excess of authority in the act of the Archbishop or his Commissary.

In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Saturday, the case of Blundell versus Gladstone came on for argumeta. The question turned upon an alleged mistake in a name in the will of the late Charles R. Blundell, of Ince Blundell, in the county of Lancaster, and involves the right to the large estates of that gentleman. By his will, which was made in 1834, Mr. Blundell left his estates in tru-t for " the second son of Edward Weld of Lulworth, in the county of Dorset, for life," with remainder to the younger branches of the family, excluding, however, a son of Lady Stourton, a sister of the Weld family ; upon conditiou that every per- son in possession should reside at Ince Hall, and take the arms and name of Blundell. Mr. Blundell died in 1837 ; at which time the owner of Lulworth was the present Mr. Joseph Weld, the estate having been left to him by the late Cardinal Weld when he became a priest. The plaintiff is the second son of Joseph Weld ; and it is alleged on his part that Mr. Blundell had mistaken the name of Edward for Joseph. In proof of this, it appeared that Mr. Blundell, wisp was distantly re- lated to the Weld family, in giving his solicitors instructions for his will, gave a short account of the family, in which he described the Car- dinal as the eldest brother of Edward ; and then he described Edward as the second son, but as the father of several children. Joseph is the third brother ; and there actually was a second brother nainc,4 1717-rd; het_ he died in 1796, young and unmarried, and never had been owner of Lulworth. If this deceased Edward were the person really meant in the will, the eldest son of Joseph, the future inheritor of Lulworth, would also take the Blundell estates ; a result, it was contended, which was quite opposed to the manifest intention of the will of Mr. Blundell to create a new and distinct family for the perpetuation of his own name and the enjoyment of his estates. On Tuesday, the Vice-Chan- cellor gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff, considering that he was clearly indicated by the description in the will.

At the Court of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday, there was a meeting of the creditors of Thomas Hamlet, the well-known jeweller : the petitioning creditor is Mr. T. Marsh Nelson, the architect, whose claim is for a portion of the debt incurred by the bankrupt for building the Princess's Theatre in Oxford Street. The assignees are not yet chosen ; but the sale of the bankrupt's property is proceeding.

At Hatton Garden Police-office, on Tuesday, James Clarke, an elderly man of respectable appearance, was committed for stealing some tablecloths and mother-of-pearl counters from a house in Regent Square, where there was to be an auction. He walked about the rooms examining the goods ; at length he was observed to have grown much more bulky than when he entered ; and then it was discovered that he had concealed the things under his clothes. He pleaded distress, and said that his wife was dying.

Longley, the woman who threw her child into the New River, in a fit of despair at its cries of hunger, was examined again at Hatton Garden Police-office on Saturday, and Mr. Wakeling attended for her. George Suckwood, an officer of Marylebone parish, was present; and Mr. Wakeling was about to question him as to Longley's having been refused relief, when he was stopped by Mr. Combe, the Magistrate, with the remark that the facts of the murder were alone the proper subject for inquiry at that place—extenuating circumstances or examina- tions into the conduct of the parish-officers must be urged elsewhere. Longley was examined again on Monday, and committed for trial on the Magistrate's warrant.

At Hackney Petit Sessions, on Tuesday, a great number of defaulters were summoned for non-payment of church-rates. One Mr. Offer, a magistrate, took several technical objections to the rate ; but they were overruled by the Bench. Another, Mr. Green, also made several objections ; and among them, that the rate was intended for the repairs of the church, but that of 6981. levied, only 751. was spent on repairs, the remainder going to pay for salaries, finery for the beadles, and the like. Both Mr. Offer and Mr. Green were asked whether they disputed the validity of the rate ? Mr. Offer declined subjecting himself to the adjudication of the Ecclesiastical Courts by doing so. Mr. Green urged the Bench to decide whether his objections did invalidate the rate ; but the Bench refused to entertain the question. He then formally took the required objection on the point of validity ; and Mr. Varty, the Churchwarden, declared that proceedings would be commenced against him in the Ecclesiastical Court on the following day.

An inquest was held on Saturday, on the body of the woman who was found in the agonies of death, in a paddock at Norwood. From

the evidence, it appears that the first reports of the case were utterly incorrect. The woman's name was Messenger, not Wilkes ; and nothing came out at the inquest to injure her character. The man who discovered her, a servant of her master, Mr. Roupell, was attracted with another man to the spot, from a neighbouring path, by a snoring noise. They found her lying on her back, with her clothes turned up almost to the middle, in a puddle of water at the edge of a pond. Her clothes were wet as though she had been in the pond. Mud on her knees and marks on the ground seemed to indicate that she had been scrambling oat of the water. When found she was blowing convulsively with her mouth. The police were summoned as soon as possible, and a medical man ; but she expired before the latter arrived. There were some slight bruises on her limbs, but nothing to indicate that she had suffered vio- lence. Mr. Lawrie, the surgeon who was called to attend on her, con- cluded that her death was caused by drowning or suffocation : be found traces of spirituous liquor in the stomach. On the evening before her death, she had been to visit a married daughter at Brixton ; by whom she had been accompanied to an omnibus-office, in her way home to Mr. Roupell's town-house, in Blackfriars Road. This daughter swore that her mother was quite sober at the time ; but she seemed very " fidgetty." They were followed on the road by a man in a dark mackintosh, who had been observed to watch the house before they left it. The dress of the man answered to the description of her husband, who was said formerly to have ill-used his wife. He attended at the inquest, but nothing transpired to connect him with the woman's death. The Jury returned a verdict, " That deceased came to her death by suffocation from drowning ; but by what means she came into the water it does not appear from the evidence."

On Wednesday, at a school kept by the Reverend Robert Lamb, in Brompton, a youth named Taylor, in a fit of passion, stabbed another named Batley, in the back, with a penknife. Nagle, another boy, who interfered to defend Batley, was stabbed in the thigh. Bat- ley's wound is near the spine, and the result is doubtful. Nagle was doing well. The circumstance was concealed for some days ; and it does not appear that the case has been brought before any Magis- trate.

Mr. Baker, the Coroner, dislocated his shoulder the other day, in a straggle with a lad, whom he was chastising. The boy ran against him, and when reproved was insolent : the Coroner struck him, the lad struggled, and both fell. Mr. Baker was on his way to the London Hospital, to hold two inquests; and before proceeding to work the joint was replaced.

The framework of a new floorcloth-manufactory, erecting in the Grange Road, Bermondsey, was blown down on Wednesday, and the falling timber injured seven of the workmen : five of them were severely crushed, and remain in Guy's Hospital.