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by Mr. Beaume. Under these extraordinary circumstances, he thought it his duty to make a representation of the case to the magistrates. Mr. Rogers, after hearing the statement, referred him to the parish officers of Islington. Mr. Mortimer thereupon proceeded to the parish officers, and gave information: after which inquiries were made; and on Brown, the beadle, ascertaining that the bodies had been removed to the London University without having been examined by the parish searchers, he took the defendant into custody, and brought him to this office on the same evening. On being questioned by Mr. Rogers, he acknowledged having removed the bodies as described, alleging that it was his sister's wish before dissolution, in consequence of having been afflicted with a peculiar disease; and she thought that if her body was delivered over for dissection, medical science might benefit by it. Previous to acting as he had done, he consulted Mr. Cole, a surgeon, who attended his sister in child-bed. and that gentleman informed him that he could give up the body for dissection, if he pleased. After this explanation, Mr. Rogers held the defendant to bail, in the sum of 1007., to appear at the office today, and desired the beadle to wait upon the before-mentioned medical gentleman, and request his attendance. On the case being called on for hearing, Mr. Beaume, who was attired in mourning, stood forward, and the following evidence was adduced:

Dr. James Somerville, the inspector of Anatomy, appointed by government, having been sworn, said that, on Monday, the 17th instant, Professor Quain, of the

London University, gave him the notice required by the 9th clause of the Anatomy Act, that it was his intention to remove one Charlotte Beaume, to the London University, for anatomical purposes. At the same time this notice was given, Mr. Quain said, that as there were some peculiar circumstances connected with the case, he should wish to ask his advice how to act. He then informed witness that the deceased, before her death, had requested that her body should be given up for a sum of money, to the surgeons; and that the sum raised in that way should be paid over to some charitable institution. Witness thereupon told Mr. Quain, that he had better not make a bargain for the body; but comply with the request of the deceased, by giving a sovereign to some charitable institution. This was all that passed between them on the subject, and about two days after this conversation, Mr. Quain forwarded to witness the required returns of the receipt of the body, accompanied with a certificate as to the cause of the death. Since the application was made at this office, witness had strictly inquired into the case, and he was able to say, that the whole transaction had been in strict accordance to law. Dr. Quain was licensed to dissect bodies under the new act.

Mr. John Cole, a surgeon of Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, was next sworn. He stated that about a month ago he was applied to in the usual way to attend the deceased, and that, on the 8th inst., he went to Mr. Beaume's house. On his arrival the child was born, and with its mother appeared to be doing well. All went on favourably, until Thursday, the 13th

inst. when a messenger came to his house between five and six o'clock in the morning, requesting his attendance at deceased's residence, whither he proceeded immediately, and upon seeing the woman he found her labouring under violent inflammation of the peritoneum. Witness relieved her by medecine, but he was unable to stop the progress of the disorder, and on the Sunday following she died. He (Mr. Cole) was not with her at the time, but he entered the room in less than an hour after her death, at which time he examined the child and found it suffering from erysipelas. The child lingered for a few days longer, and then sank under that disease. On the 17th instant Mr. Beaume called on witness, and said that his sister had expressed in writing, or in her will, a wish that her body should be disposed of for dissection, to "that professor of anatomy who enter tained the most liberal opinions;" and that any sum, which he might pay for the body, should be given to an institution having for its object the benefit of mankind. The defendant also stated, that, if dissection could not be accomplished, his sister desired that her body might be burned rather than buried. In consequence of the defendant requesting witness to assist him in accomplishing the above wishes of his sister, he wrote to Mr. Quain, stating the circumstances, and offering the body to him.

Mr. Quain, demonstrator of anatomy to the London University, deposed, that on the 17th instant he received a letter from Mr. Cole, offering the deceased's body for dissection; and that, in consequence of the latter representing VOL. LXXIV.

that the deceased had expressed a wish that the proceeds of the sale of her body, together with the price of a decent funeral, should be applied to some charitable purpose, he waited upon that gentleman, and stated (in reference to the request that her body might be burnt rather than buried) that the act of parliament was imperative as to the fact of interment; and on a subsequent interview with the inspector of anatomy, he said that that part of the act could not be dispensed with. On the 18th, instant witness sent an undertaker for the body, and on the following morning he saw it in the dissecting

room.

Mr. Rogers What was the cause of death?

Mr. Quain-Mr. Cole told me that he had been treating the deceased for an inflammation of the peritoneum; and, on a post mortem examination of the body, I found that he formed a correct opinion of her complaint. I saw the infant opened, and there were marks of disease; there was matter in the joints.

The magistrate then told the defendant he was discharged; adding that he had not violated the laws of the country, but, on the other hand, had acted in strict accordance with them.

29. BRUNSWICK. The following ordinance has been published:

We, William IV., by the grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, &c. &c.; also King of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick and Lunenberg, &c.; and we, William, by the grace of God, Duke of of Brunswick and Lunenburg, &c.; considering that the changes which, since the dissolution of the Ger

man Empire, have taken place in the relations of the princely houses of Germany, render it necessary to revise the regulations which have hitherto been established by the family statutes and customs of our whole house respecting the marriages of the princes and princesses of our said house; that the object of such revisal is to promote the interest of our whole house, and to modify the laws hitherto in force in a manner suitable to the attendant relations; considering that the example of other sovereign German houses may be best attained by the introduction of a superintendance to be exercised by the sovereign over the marriages of the princes and princesses; that the right of superintendence is essentially founded on the sovereignty; that the interests of our whole house requires, that uniform conditions should be laid down for both lines now reigning by virtue of the obligation to take care of the interest of our whole house, have resolved, in reference to the two lines, and the relations to these possessions which make part of the German Confederation, to establish by mutual consent a family law adapted to the said object. We therefore ordain

Art. I. The princes and princesses of our whole house are bound to ask the consent of the reigning princes to the marriages which they intend to enter into, which consent will not be refused to properly assorted marriages, unless some peculiar reasons should

exist.

in a written document, which must be signed by the reigning prince, with his own hand, and be confirmed by the seal of state, and countersigned in the usual form.

IV. A marriage concluded without the formally granted consent of the reigning prince does not give to the children that may issue from it a right of succession to the states of the House of Brunswick Lunenburg, belonging to the German Confederation, or a right to rank, titles, and arms of the most serene house.

V. This family law shall be published by insertion in the collection of the laws of Hanover and Brunswick, as an unalterable decree from the kingdom of Hanover and the duchy of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel, declaring the qualifications for succession to the government for the future.

In testimony whereof we have ordered the present document to be drawn up, have confirmed the same by signing it with our hand, and have our Chancery seal affixed to it.

Done at Windsor Castle, Oct. 24, 1831.-Brunswick, Oct. 19,

Done at Kew, Jan. 2, 1832; at Kensington Palace, Jan. 25, 1832; and Hanover, Feb. 28, 1832. (L.S.) ERNEST. (L.S.) AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. (L.S.) ADOLPHUS.

23. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. very serious accident, attended with fatal consequences to one individual, occurred on the Manchester railway at 9 o'clock in the morning at the Rainhill station. The second class train, which leaves Manchester at a quarter past 7, and stops by the way to take up passengers, stopped at the Rainhill station, as usual, for that purpose, to take up four or five ladies and gentlemen who were waiting to come on to Liverpool. Whilst halting for this purpose, the second class train, which leaves Manchester at 8 o'clock, was observed coming along the road with great speed. The persons belong ing to the stationary train, who saw the other distinctly at a dis

tance of 150 yards, though a dense fog prevailed at the time, called out loudly for the engineer to stop. Fortunately, the managers of the stationary train contrived to get it into motion, by which the force of the concussion was in some degree diminished. The concussion was, however, dreadful. The engine of the advancing train struck the hindmost carriage, and, after driving some of them off the road, was driven with tremendous violence against the station-house at the side of the road, the front of which was completely carried away. One young man was killed upon the spot. The last carriage of the first train was broken to pieces; the next, a close carriage, was not much injured; the next three were all more or less so; but the engine and tender escaped without damage. Several of the passengers were most severely hurt, and hardly one escaped without cuts, bruises, or contusions.