the teeth, all of which were still in their sockets, except one particular tooth, which he had lost before death; and lastly, the joiner recognized the coffin, which had been constructed with unusual care. The head, trunk, and limbs, were entire, so that the stature could be measured. The chest had sunk in, the heart and lungs had been blended together, and presented the appearance of a dark ointment. The whole was without smell. The entire trunk was removed, the head and extremities being regarded as unnecessary to the investigation. The portion thus reserved for examination weighed nine pounds; of this, two pounds were set aside for a second series of experiments, in case those made on the first should prove unsatisfactory. In the investigation, MM. Ozanam and Ide went on the supposition of arsenic being the poison. The matter was boiled, the fluid evaporated to dryness, and the residuum thus obtained dissolved in distilled water. This produced a deep coloured liquid, which was but imperfectly deprived of its hue by chlorine. The distilled water, charged with this extract, again evaporated to dryness. At the same time, four ounces of nitrate of potass, placed in a matrass, were exposed on ignited charcoal. The suspected matter, well dried and rolled into little portions, was introduced. Each time this was done, a deflagration was perceived. It was then allowed to cool, and the residue again dissolved in distilled water. The solution was saturated with nitric acid, and afterwards subjected to the usual re-agents, all of which indicated the presence of arsenic. Some small portions were treated with vegetable charcoal, introduced into was a glass tube, and then heated. They gave aqueous vapour; soon after which, small gray-coloured and brilliant points were seen. A grain of metallic arsenic was thus obtained. Another portion, treated with hydro-sulphuric acid, furnished sulphuret of arsenic; and this, heated and acted upon by caustic potass, afforded a portion of shining matter, which was easily dissolved in distilled water, by directing upon it a current of oxygen gas. By these various experiments, the fact of a considerable quantity of arsenic having been administered was demonstrated at the end of seven years. For some time 29. THE BOOK TRADE.-A meeting of the principal publishers and booksellers was held at the Chapter coffee-house, for the purpose of discussing certain usages necessary to support the respectability of the trade, and to maintain profits at a fair rate. past, the publishers of new works and the majority of booksellers have regarded with a feeling very different from complacency the practice which had sprung up, and was daily extending, of selling new works under the publishing price. This practice had been resorted to by persons, who, in order to produce quick sales, instead of requiring the profit of twenty-five per cent allowed to the trade, were satisfied with half, or even less, and endeavoured to force a sale by a reduction from the publication price equal to the remainder. A number of the principal publishers and booksellers some time since formed themselves into a committee, and framed certain resolutions for the prevention of this practice. These resolutions, which had been agreed to, and signed by no less than 650 persons, declared generally the injurious effects of the practice; and, for its prevention, proposed, that no new work should be sold by retail at more than ten per cent under the publisher's price, and that for ready money; and that no publisher should sell to persons acting in violation of this rule. The term "new work" in the resolution gave rise to great latitude and uncertainty of interpretation; and to fix with precision the determinate meaning it should bear, was the principal object of the meeting. The purport of the resolutions adopted on this subject was as follows:-The trade in books, which were not protected by copyright, it was not intended to interfere with. There every man should be left to act on his own discretion, as he might deem most for his own interest; but with respect to the new works, which the whole trade must have, and which they all had on the same terms, it could not be allowed that a few should (perhaps for some temporary purpose) reduce the fair profits, and unfairly innovate upon the business of all the rest of the trade. The term new works should therefore be confined to books published or reprinted within the last two years, or protected by copyright. These were the works which the resolutions declared should not be sold more than ten APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. LIST OF THE KING'S MINISTERS IN 1829. ....... ..... Right hon. sir George Murray .... Right hon. John Charles Herries Right hon. W. V. Fitzgerald .... First Lord of the Treasury. President of the Council. Secretary of State for the Home Depart. President of the Board of Control. { the Navade. The above form the CABINET. SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1829. William Dodge Cooper Cooper, of Toddington, esq. Henry William Mason, of Amersham, esq. Richard Orton, of Upwell, esq. Laurence Armistead, of Cranage, esq. Gordon Will. Francis Gregor, of Trewarthenick, esq Sir Humphrey Phineas Davie, of Creedy, bart. Richard Thorold, of Weelsby House, esq. Sanderson Ilderton, of Ilderton, esq. John Sherwin Sherwin, of Bramcote Hills, esq. George Finch, of Burley, esq. Charles Kynaston Mainwaring, of Okley Park, esq. Sir Alexander Hood, of Wootton, bart. John Bateman, of Knipersley, esq. William Edward Nightingale, of Embly, esq. John Ruggles Brise, of Clare, esq. Felix Calvert Ladbroke, of Headley, esq. Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, of Beauport, bart. Geo. Heneage Walker Heneage, of Compton Bassett,esq. BIRTHS. JANUARY. 1. At Clyffe Hill, Wilts, the wife of major W. Fawcett, a son. 3. At Little Marlow, Bucks, the wife of the rev. James Allan Park, a son. At the Palace, Bishopthorpe, the lady of sir J. V. B. Johnstone, of Hackness, bart. a son and heir. 4. At Penenden-heath, Maidstone, the lady of lieutenant-colonel Tod, a daughter. 8. At Bruges, the lady of sir David Cunynghame, a son. 10. At Sledmere, the lady of sir Tatton Sykes, bart. a daughter. 15. At Anspach House, Southampton, the lady of sir Matthew Blackiston, wife of Captain Litchfield, R. A. a daughter. 12. At Upper Sheen, Surrey, the wife of col. C. S. Fagan, C. B. a daughter. 17. The wife of F. D. Lempriere, Head Master of St. Olave's Grammarschool, a son; her fifteenth child. 18. At Crouch-end, the wife of Christopher J. Magnay, esq. a son. 19. In Upper Montagu-street, the wife of Frederick Solly Flood, a son. MARCH. 1. At Chacombe Priory, Northamp. tonshire, the lady of H. J. Pye, esq. a daughter. 19. At Highlands, Sussex, the lady of John Durand Baker, esq. a daughter. 24. In Clarges-street, the lady of sir W. Scot, of Ancrum, bart. a son. APRIL. 1. At Paris, lady Perceval, a son and heir. 3. In Lower Grosvenor-street, the wife of J. S. W. Sawbridge Erle Drax, esq. of Charborough Park, Dorset, a daughter. 7. At Oxford, the wife of the late rev. Dr. Nicoll, Regius Professor of Hebrew in that University, a daughter. 10. At Pentrepant, Salop, the lady of sir W. H. Clerke, bart. a son. Beaumont, esq. M. P. a son and heir. 11. At Hampstead, the wife of T. W. Lady Alice Peel, a son. - In Dublin, the countess of Miltown, a son and heir. At Florence, lady George William Russell, a son. 13. The countess of Sheffield a daugh ter. 17. In Curzon-street, lady Jane Walsh, a son. 19. At Dublin, the viscountess Dungarvon, a son and heir. MAY. 2. In Spring-gardens, lady Georgiana Agar Ellis, a son. 5. The wife of Dr. Gilbert, Principal of Brazennose Col. Oxford, a daughter. 8. At Asbling-house, Sussex, the wife of Captain Rich, R. N. a daughter. 11. At East Sheen, the hon. Mrs. Penrhyn, a daughter. 12. At St. John's Wood, the wife of J. W. May, esq. Consul-general of the Netherlands, a son. |