verdict "That on the 8th June, 1842, Henry Brooke Baron Congleton was found dead, in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, and hanging by means of a certain kerchief which was fastened around his neck and attached to a certain bedpost; and that he so hung and so strangled himself, he being at the time in a state of temporary derangement."

10. Riots for food continue in Ireland. At Ennis an attack was made on Mr. Bannatyne's flour mills by a hungry multitude, and the military were called out, and two persons shot in repelling the assailants. At Cork, three attacks were made by the populace on the potato-market-atten in the morning, at noon, and at midnight; but the mayor, who resisted the first attack in person, had the gates closed, and stationed a strong body of police to keep guard. In a letter to the Freeman's Journal, the Rev. Richard Henry, parishpriest of Islandeady, says, that five hundred families had lately been subsisting for ten days on green cabbage-leaves, their only food.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.— A commission of lunacy, which was opened, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Henry Weir Sparrow, a partner in the old-established banks of Messrs. Sparrow, Greenwood, and Nottage, of Chelmsford and Braintree, but latterly residing at 28, Norfolkstreet, Strand, was to-day brought to a termination, after two days' inquiry at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. The following is a short narrative of the facts as they appeared in evidence:Mr. Sparrow is the eldest son of the late Mr. James Goding Sparrow, of Gosfield-place, Essex,

and was born in 1819. His father was particularly anxious that he should distinguish himself in society, and consequently more than ordinary pains were taken with his education, In due course he stood for a scholarship at Oxford, but was unsuccessful, which appeared to prey heavily on his mind, and to increase the melancholy which had been observable in him during his studies at Eton. As he approached manhood, the infirmity of his mind became more manifest. He would hide behind trees in his father's park, exclude himself from his associates, and remain for days together locked up in his room. After the death of his father in 1838, he was sent to Brighton under the care of Miss Daniell, the family governess. He then became suspicious of persons, and expressed fear that they were going to injure him. He would walk about the house the greater part of the day, and entreat his servants that he might be allowed to wait upon them and that they would assume the character of

masters. At times he would address indecent observations to them, and at other times he would kiss their feet and beg their pardon. Occasionally he would refuse to partake of food for days together, alleging that he was the fasting man, and then he would eat most rapaciously. When he could obtain wine he would drink the contents of a decanter at a draught, and his ardent attachment to spirits and other strong drinks brought on delirium tremens. He made several attempts to destroy himself, and laboured under the delusion that the devil was in his room, and that he was Louis Philippe. He also fancied that he was Mahomet, and said that he believed in the

transmigration of souls, and refused to eat, on the ground that he might swallow his deceased parents. At other times the unfortunate gentleman would imitate the barking of a dog and the braying of a donkey; and, after capering about his room for hours to gether, would kneel in each corner and pray. He once put his foot into the fire and burnt it, and said he was commanded to do so for his sins; and he attributed all his trouble to his having bowed to a dog in the street. Drs. Munro and Waterfield described the unfortunate gentleman as being in a state of manifest confirmed imbecility, and stated that there was no prospect of his recovery. Mr. Sparrow was brought into the room in the arms of his keeper in the same manner an infant would be carried, in consequence of his refusal to walk. He was placed in a chair by the side of the chief commissioner, but on being interrogated by that gentleman, no answer could be elicited from him. A glass of wine was then offered to him to induce him to speak, but he made no motion to take it, and remained in the exact position in which he was placed in the chair, with his arms extended. His bodily health appeared good, and he is a remarkably fine look ing young man, with a tendency to corpulency. The jury commiserated the unhappy condition of the object of the inquiry, and, having expressed themselves satisfied, he was carried out of the room. A learned counsel addressed the jury at considerable length, and contended that Mr. Sparrow's malady had been aggravated by his having been allowed the unrestrained use of strong drink. The learned chief commissioner hav

ing summed up, the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict, dating the unsoundness of mind from the 2nd of May, 1840. The amount of Mr. Sparrow's property bequeathed to him under his father's will, was stated to be upwards of 5,000l. per annum, the whole of which he had left under a will to Miss Daniell, the governess.

11. LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.-It is almost impossible to describe the inconvenience, annoyance, and confusion created throughout the metropolis by the publication of her Majesty's proclamation relative to the present gold currency. These have been felt more or less every day since that document was published; but to-day (Saturday) they were at their height. It is hardly necessary to observe that most of the working classes in London are paid on Saturdays; too many of them not till a very late hour. Upon these classes, the rumours which had been in circulation for the two or three days previously had no practical effect until they came into the markets on Saturday to purchase their necessaries for the coming week. They then found to their surprise and annoyance, that most of the shops refused to take any gold whatever, and others would only change a sovereign upon a deduction of 1.s. or 6d., whether the coin was heavy or light. A report was circulated, and obtained very extensive credence, that the Queen had called in all the old sovereigns at 19s., and that after next month they would not be received for more than 15s. This tended greatly to increase the pressure on the working-classes, and sovereigns were readily parted with, in many instances, for 18s. How far the

evil here noticed was occasioned by the somewhat ambiguous wording of the proclamation it is not necessary to inquire, but certain it is, that most extravagant notions were circulated and believed as to the actual loss that would accrue on a sovereign which had been rejected as light. This was varied from 6d. to 5s., and will sufficiently account for the panic which prevailed generally amongst the poorer holders of gold coin.

12. NUMEROUS MEETING OF CHARTISTS.-Between 2,000 and 3,000 individuals congregated today (Sunday), upon that wild and mountainous part of Lancashire, called Pendle-hill (the highest point in the county), about five miles from Burnley; they were called together by placards posted in various towns in North Lanca shire, and on the borders of Yorkshire, but for what specific purpose the placards, which were in manuscript, did not specify. The understanding was, however, that they were to talk over the distressed state of the country, and to recommend an immediate and decisive demand for the people's charter from her Majesty's Government. Every Sunday for the last few weeks, encampments of chartists have been held upon the hills and other parts of the manufacturing districts, at which a great deal of sedition and treason has been uttered by the agitators, who have not hesitated to recommend physical force to the unthinking mob. The language used by the speakers, was more violent than ever. The sent meeting was equal to all the smaller ones alluded to; and certainly Pendle-hill, famous in tradition as being the favoured spot for the revels of the Lancashire witches in olden time, did present

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an imposing, if not an alarming, scene from the large number of human beings congregated thereon; the leading men amongst the party boast that there were no less than 20,000 persons, but from 2,000 to 3,000 would be nearer the mark. There were, however, great numbers scattered upon the surrounding hills, who kept at a distance as curious spectators of the scene. Feargus O'Connor and Mr. M'Dowell were expected amongst them, but these gentlemen, having done all in their power to encourage the lawless proceedings of the many, like true demagogues, found it convenient to absent themselves when the slightest danger was to be apprehended. From an early hour in the morning the people were seen traversing the various roads on the way to the hill, and many of them travelled twenty miles, and twenty miles back again, in a scorching hot day, without 1d. in their pockets, in the vain hope that the spouters of sedition and treason would be enabled to devise some means of bettering their condition. For a length of time the operatives have experienced great distress, and they have been an easy prey to the designs of the agitators, both of the Chartist and Anti-Corn-law schools, each fac tion having continued to thrust upon their path the wily lecturers. It was the paid lecturers of the Chartist Convention who advised the camp meetings upon the hills. The Anti-Corn-law League have covered the walls of these districts with large placards headed " Murder of Englishmen," detailing an absurd falsehood about a starving family being obliged to live upon dead dogs. A Mr. Wood was called to the chair and several

speakers addressed the assembly in a seditious and violent strain, each denouncing the Queen, the Government, the Parliament, and the cotton-masters. One of the speakers in his address designated Her Majesty as a "dawdling useless thing." The meeting then separated without making any disturbance, but the military were on the qui vive if any had been attempted. Another camp-meeting of Chartists was held the same day in the neighbourhood of Oldham, which went off peaceably. 13. ELOPEMENT WITH A WARD IN CHANCERY. - To day Miss Eliza Kennedy, daughter of the late Mr. J. Kennedy, of Peamount, and a ward of Chancery, eloped with Mr. John Devereux, of Ballyann, county of Wexford, a relative of the young lady. A warrant grounded on an information by Mrs. Bridget Kennedy, the mother of Miss Kennedy, was issued by Mr. Studdert, one of the magistrates of the C. police division, for the apprehension of the fugitives. The warrant was intrusted for execution to Constable James Fitzgerald. At half past seven o'clock next afternoon, that officer, accompanied by Mr. Magan, Mrs. Kennedy's solicitor, and Mr. Monaghan, the receiver of the minor's property, proceeded in pursuit of the parties, and learned at Enfield that they had passed through there at half-past ten o'clock the same morning, by the Galway day coach. Quick posting, by short relays, brought the pursuers to Ballinasloe by five o'clock the next morning. There the different hotels were visited without loss of time, when, as if "the course of true love never did run smooth," in less than an hour Miss Kennedy and Mr. De

vereux were most disagreeably surprised, while in the act of sitting down to breakfast in Grady's Hotel, after having secured seats in the mail for Galway. The young lady appeared very much distressed on the occasion, and altogether it would seem, on account of her companion. She exclaimed, that if any fault there was in it, it was hers, not his. But it was of no avail. The

happy pair" were doomed to separation. Mr. Studdert's warrant, backed by that of Captain Warburton, at Ballinasloe, consigned Mr. Devereux to the charge of the constable, while Miss Kennedy was restored, by Messrs. Magan and Monaghan, to the domestic roof of her family at Peamount. The luckless swain, arrived in town with his conductor by the Galway coach at seven o'clock on Thursday evening the 16th instant, when he was taken to the Bridewell-lane station-house for the night, in order to appear before the magistrates of Henrystreet police-office uext day. Several witnesses were examined and fully identified John Devereux as the person with whom Miss Kennedy eloped. Counsel for the prisoner contended that the charge of misdemeanour could not be sustained, inasmuch as the evidence did not prove that there was any fraudulent alluring, or forcible taking away. The magistrates said, that they would leave these questions for the consideration of a superior tribunal, and decided upon committing the prisoner for trial, at the same time fixing the amount of bail at two sureties in 501. each, and the prisoner himself in 1007.

opinion in this important case against the claims of the Unitarians. The following is a sketch of their opinion as delivered in the House of Lords: That the term "preachers" was not in Lady Hewley's time used in reference to ministers of the Church of England, nor did she herself attend the service of that Church; therefore ministers of the Church of England, though ever so poor and godly, are excluded from the benefits of the bequest. That Roman Catholics can have no claim at all. That Unitarians must also be excluded, for in Lady Hewlett's time they could not, by law, derive any benefit under the bequest, and they were then so few and insignificant as hardly to be an object of notice; besides, from Lady Hewley's requiring in the objects of her bounty the knowledge of a particular catechism, it was clear that she believed in the divinity of the second person of the Trinity. That the proper objects of Lady Hew. ley's bounty are Trinitarian Protestant Dissenters. That, under the existing law, Unitarians are not disqualified from enjoying the advantages of a similar bequest. The above are the points on which the judges, excepting Mr. Justice Maule, were unanimous.

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EARTHQUAKE IN ST. Do

-TEN THOUSAND LIVES LOST.-Accounts have reached this country that the island of St. Domingo was visited with repeated and severe shocks of earthquake, which entirely demolished the town of Cape Haytien, and it was calculated it destroyed the lives of 10,000 of its citizens. Other towns on the same side of the island, shared in the desolation. The town of Cape Haytien en

tirely disappeared, and with it two-thirds of its population, which amounted to about 15,000 inhabitants. A fire broke out after the earthquake, which destroyed the powder magazine, and with it numbers of the inhabitants who had escaped the earthquake. The following are some extracts from the correspondence of the New York papers: "The principal destruction of life, of which we have an account, was at Cape Haytien, which town was entirely destroyed. It contained about 15,000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom are thought to be dead. The approach of the earthquake was indicated in Port-au-Prince by great heat, and heavy clouds that covered the neighbouring hills, and followed the direction from the south-west to the northeast. The vessels at anchor, as some of the sailors report, experienced the shock before they saw the houses agitated, which seems to indicate that the shock came from the west. There were two shocks at Port-au-Prince very distinctly felt, the first not so long as the second, which last endured about three minutes. Every person strove to get out of the houses, and the streets were filled with the affrighted population. A little longer, says the Patriote, and Port-au-Prince would have been the theatre of a disaster similar to that of 1770, of which disastrous year the remembrance was rushing into all minds. On the Saturday night succeeding and on Sunday there were other shocks. Mass was interrupted, and the persons present ran hither and thither, while many women fainted. On Monday morning at twelve o'clock there was another shock. The weather all the while was change