Our meetings will still be open to your visitation, the license revok able at discretion, and ourselves personally liable for any breach of order, morality, or propriety in our debate.

Alderman Smith.—I think such a license would be highly objeetionable.

Lord Mayor.-1 see no objection. Alderman Smith.- do. If a license be granted, what is the use of the act?

Lord Mayor.The society has complied with its provisions, and satisfied its object, by furnishing notice of its place of meeting, the names of its members, and its rules and regulations. Before this application, we might be, and perhaps were, ignorant of its existence altogether; but now it is brought inmediately under the eye and control of the magistracy, which is all that the act intended. Alderman Smith-But this will allow debates upon the politics of the day.

Lord Mayor. And why not? To refuse a license to these gentlemen would be depriving them of a privilege enjoyed by every tavern meeting or public dinner. It cannot be that the legislature means to prevent all political discussion, but merely to place it under regulation.

Sir John Perring.—Undoubtedly, it never was intended to put down all political discussion. I think the society entitled to a license, and am ready to sign.

Alderman Smith.- object most strongly; the purpose of the act is to put down all political debate whatever.

Sir William Domville concurred in this sentiment.

Lord Mayor.-Impossible! This is a very serious question, and we must act deliberately in the face of the country. I think it my duty as a magistrate to sign this license, and should be ashamed of myself if I refused it. I am ready to sign.

Alderman Smith.-I am not ashamed. I will never sign such a license. Will the gentlemen eonsent to strike out the word political?

Petitioners.-We cannot consent to that.

Alderman Smith.-Will you take a license on condition to furnish the magistrates beforehand with the questions for debate, subject to their approval? I have no objection to grant a license on those conditions.

Petitioners.-We cannot take a license on such terms. The society is open to your visitation and control; if the magistrates doubt our discretion, conduct, or principles, they may come in person, or send an inspector. We shal! refuse a license so shackled

Alderman Smith.-That is quite enough for me. Do you hear that'

Lord Mayor-I think we have no right to impose such conditions, and see no occasion for them.

Alderman Smith.-The Hippant answer of this gentleman satishes

ute.

Petitioner-Sir, I am sorry you so much mistake my meaning. We come as officers of the society, and have no authority to compromise its rules, or to bind it to such terms as you have offered. I repeat again, we are not authorized, and must refuse such a li

cense.

Lord Mayor-Certainly, you are not authorized. I conceive it my

- duty to grant your application, 2-1 will sign it immediately.

Sr John Perring concurred. Vermen Domville and Smith stresu usly opposed; but the petners expressed themselves sa*fied, as the act required the signature of two magistrates only. Here, however, the clerk interned, on the ground that the act of two would be the act of the sessons, and as there was an ..alty of voices, the license e not pass. This objection *. alv prevailed over the contrary terpretation in favour of the petitioners. Before retiring, how eer, the applicants addressed the

has follows:

Petitioners.-My Lord, are we then to understand that the ses1.27 refuse our license, yes or no? Lord Mayor.-I am afraid so. John Perring and myself are ready to sign it, but what can be Come? We cannot get over this

number of stairs, there is an entrance, by a large door, into a hall, fifty feet long, and forty-six broad. On the wings is raised a double colonnade of six columns, each two palms and a quarter in diameter, similar to those in the vestibule. From several swelling shafts, M. Arditi conjectures that all the edifice had a superior order of columns, of a smaller diameter. On the floor of the hall are three little entrances, conducting to as many small chambers. To the left is a small staircase, by which there was probably an ascent to the higher part of the building. In the lateral part of the hall the pavement is Mosaic. In the centre there had been various geometrical figures in marble, of which only the traces on the ground remain. All the walls are ornamented with pictures, the backgrounds of which are painted with a very lively and brilliant red colour. The dilapidations of this superb monument seem to indicate that its erection was at a very distant period. In all parts the

19 The Gazette of the Two kebes gives the following descript of a monument which has been discovered among the excations at Pompeia:-The front of the edifice is ornamented with • 1 eolimns, which uniting with ex others, divided in two lateral port es, form a per:style, fiftytwo pulis wide, and forty-three 12

The columns are of a soft e, coated with stucco, and are

Their bases are attic, wout ary plinth. From the ree, to which there is an

fht, composed of a small

The ground is covered with stones, and with the capitals of demolished columns. Orders have been given for its immediate restoration. The zeal and the knowledge of the Chevalier Arditi will reestablish, as soon as possible, this edifice, which is one of the most curious that have been discovered at Pompeia.

A dreadful occurrence took place at Wigton on Sunday the 20th, Anne Graham, the wife of W. Graham, blacksmith, murdered two of her children by strangulation, left another for dend, and afterwards cut her own throat!

The following particulars have reached us, from which it will clearly appear that the wretched woman laboured under strong mental derangement. On the preceding day she dressed herself, and took her children for a walk, a circumstance with her very unusual on such a day. She went with them to a small stream of water, and looking into it, remarked that "it was not deep enough, and they would come another time." On Sunday morning, she strongly persuaded her husband to go to church; and when she laid out his Sunday clothes, she gave him a black silk handkerchief, instead of a white one. He inquired the reason, and asked for a white one. His wife immediately said to him in a singular tone-"What, would you not wear it if we all lay dead?" Graham took no particular notice of this wildness, and went to church. As soon as he was gone, she called the children into the house and locked the door. After washing them, she gave the oldest (a boy about nine years of age) an infant to hold, which was sucking at the breast, and then took one of the other children into an adjoining room, put it to death by strangling it with her hands, and then laid it into a bed. She returned for another, which she strangled in the same manner. When she came for the third, the boy before-mentioned inquired what she was doing, and observed, he thought she was killing the children. She replied, that she would let him soon see what she was doing with them, and went into the room with the third, which she also strangled. The

boy being alarmed, laid the infant on the floor, and got into the blacksmith's shop by means of a door which communicates with the dwelling-house, where he concealed himself under the large bellows. His mother followed him into the shop, and searched, but could not find him. After she returned into the dwelling-house, the boy escaped from the shop by drawing the bolts which secured the great doors. He met his father as he was returning from church, and told him the dreadful tale; assistance was immediately procured, and on entering the house, the unhappy woman was found with her throat dreadfully cut, without any signs of life; the infant was lying on the floor unhurt; and the other three children were found in bed-two of them quite dead; the other showed symptoms of life, and by proper care has been much recovered, but still remains in a doubtful state. No cause but insanity can be assigned for these dreadful acts. Graham has always proved himself a kind and affeetionate husband. His wife was naturally of a gloomy disposition; and, latterly, she had formed an idea that her children would come to poverty. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of Insanity.

21. A shocking accident happened on Monday evening. A number of poor people were gathering cockles on Laven-Sands, when on a sudden a thick fog came, ard the tide flowing at the time, drowned the whole; one report says 12 in number, men, women, and children-Chester pipr

Since the publication of this paper,

paper, we never had to record a are heart-rending calamity than what occurred on Monday the 21st on Lavan Sands. A number of poor persons, consisting of two men, three women, and three ca.ldren, went, as was their usual tom at this season, to collect cockles on the above sands; the dav had been remarkably clear, trut towards evening an uncomnotly thick fog arose, of which they were admonished to beware before they set out, and it was observed very visibly collecting in the distant horizon; the consequaerce was, as may be anticipatod, they could not find their way back, ht was coming on, and the distance from any succour being nearly four miles, their cries could to be heard-after wandering a van for several hours, they all perished on the return of the tide! T:e coroner's inquest sat on the bodies of these unfortunate sufferers, who were placed in Aber earch, and certainly a more atting sight can hardly be concrived, husbands lamenting the Ims of wife and children, and wives lamenting the loss of hushands and children! One woman - 1 a little girl are not yet found. 1 party consisted of eight perwns, these found are Ellen Roberts and her daughter, from the parsh of Llanllechid, the daughter era arriving last week from Livergnol to see her parents, and has left an infant only three months ed two labouring men, one with a on, and the other with a daughter, the last, a little girl of only fourteen years old, was found kneeling, with her hands folded ars her bosom, close to the jeturrate body of her father!'

The two men had large families; one had seven children! They were discovered close together. The sea was so calm and the tide flowed so gently, that the men were found with their hats on!(North Wales Gazette.)

A most disastrous case of insanity happened at the private madhouse of Mr. Warburton, on Bethnal-green, on Friday the 20th, which became the subject of an inquest before J. W. Unwin, Esq. one of the coroners for Middlesex, at two o'clock on Tuesday. The circumstances attending the fatal affair are as follows:-About halfpast one o'clock on Friday last, Mr. Owen Anderson, (who had been placed in this establishment in the year 1815, and had remained there ever since) with several other patients, had just dined. One of the two keepers who attended upon them quitted the room for some domestic purpose; the knives and forks which had been used at dinner were placed in a knife-tray, on one of the forms. Joseph Deshayes, the unfortunate person who is deceased, happened to go to a closet near the fire-place in which coals were kept, and stooping down to fill the coal-scuttle, the unhappy gentleman, Mr. Anderson, seized a case-knife, and plunged it into the keeper's back. He rose up immediately, and received another desperate stab in the lower part of the belly. No persons were in the room at this time but the deceased, Mr. Anderson, and the other patients.

John Welch sworn.-Is a servant in the house. On Friday, about half-past one o'clock, was in the kitchen cutting up the din

ner.

ner. The deceased came in and set himself down in a chair by the side of the dresser, near the fire, and looked extremely pale; said Mr. Anderson had stabbed him with a knife, and requested witness to go immediately into the room. He ran there immediately, and saw the other keeper, assisted by one of the patients, putting a strait waistcoat on Mr. Anderson; saw a knife, which the patients pointed out to be the instrument with which the deceased had been struck. Witness returned immediately to the kitchen, and found the deceased had been removed into the parlour. Witness assisted in putting him to bed; sat up with him the whole night. He complained of his pain, and said, “O, Anderson, you have murdered me!" "I am going to my last!" Deceased stated, that he was at the cupboard-door stooping, that Mr. Anderson had stabbed hin with a knife first in the back, and when he got up stabbed him in the belly. Witness attended upon him till his death, which took place on Saturday evening about six o'clock: considered Anderson as an insane person.

Edward Bowdler confirmed part of the testimony of the last witness; was the person who had left the room as above-mentioned. Evidence was then given by two medical gentlemen to prove Anderson's insanity.

Several of the jury having expressed a wish to put some questions to Mr. Anderson, he was brought into the inquest-room. He is a young man of interesting appearance, about twenty-three years of age; he said he could uct recelicet now why he so conducted

himself to the keeper. That he was more composed than he had been, and that he would not do so any more.

The jury returned their verdict, "That the deceased had died by the violent act of Owen Anderson, but that at the time of committing such act, the said Owen Anderson was not of sound mind, memory, and understanding, but lunatic and distracted."

26. Murder and Robbery -The house in which this audacious act was committed is in Pendleton, a suburb, and two miles from the Exchange of Manchester, which adjoins the turnpike-road to Liverpool, and is surrounded by many houses, although none are particularly connected with it. It belongs to a Mr. Littlewood, a respectable grocer in Salford, who was duly attending to the avocations of the market-day, and was left in the care of an elderly woman (housekeeper) and servant girl. The bloody business must have been perpetrated before five o'clock, as a nurse-maid of a neighbouring family went at that hour to see Mr. L's girl, with whom she was intimate. The doors were locked, and many of the window-blinds down; in consequence of which the nurse-maid returned home, having first attempted to open the door, and cur-only look through the window of one of the roon.s, in which she indistinctly saw the elderly woman in an arm-chair, and whom she supposed to be asleep. The cu, josity of the nursemaid induced her to return at seven o'clock, when she still four d the doors locked, which alarmed her, from the singularity of the eircunstance, and, on lockup

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