The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-29 00:00:00

etPreoo. ♦ +mewl Mlles a " The [:Perry" matniMag the mum emeleee timet:e." Ls end every Tuesday am& I , mew eleet.t, la thee tee Poet -emeetetateMed be" Expeem," Um tea Itemiset paper, et et be et the Ulla, le, Demerkeeenel. i 7 Tye •duet see the day r pubMetko. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOE Tin Dat—Montag, lb. N. Taoicaanow—Magins;, saays.....—...ANNam. Ign. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29. WHO has not shuddered at the horrors of mad haws in old days, when chains, stone cells, and whips were the chief points of . practice in the treat ment of the insane? Happily it is now one boast of our civilisation that we have got ride( each cruelties, and of all painful corporeal restraint, in weals-re land lunatic asylums—eeience, skill, and kindness sapersediog force, brutality, and negligence. It would seem, however, that the transition (ruin old violence to modern kindness is not vet complete, and that ass of the mod wealthy and important of oar public hospitals for the insane hu recently been found to pro- east a pandit! and most discreditable exception to the =rule of improvement This fact has become through a document marked " coofident lel" nod presented to the Home. Office by Lord Siteeres- Stevan his character of chairman to the Board of Commissioners in Lunacy. It is stated that this " confidential" document has been carefully kept as a private publication. intended only to be seen by • limited number of the very men who are more or less compromised by its disclosures. It is entitled: " The Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Secretary of State on Inthlan Hospital, together with • copy of the Evidence on which the Report is founded. The two hundred and eighty-four pages which compose this report coatain a curious and painful exp.:. To-day we give some facts stated by die witntises—to-morrow we propose to publish Lord Snstresarav's report. B. thlein. or Bedlam, as it has long been called, has a noble income of more than 20,000/. a year. Of this about 3.000/. a year comes out of the public purse—the rest being derived from valuable estates mtuated in Lincolushire, Kent, and elsewhere. It stands. as most Londoners know, in St. George's• fields—rather more than a mile as the crow flies south of St. Paul's. where with its hugel22,oool. Wild ly; covering about fourteen acres of ground—with its domed roots, Grecian portico, high palisades, and eselosed garden—it presents such an outer aspect of solidity and wealth that one might call it almost a Palace for Insanity. It has no outer marks or in ward evidences of poverty. Its hall is graced by historical pictures of interest and value—its officers are well paid. well fed, well lodged. Its trustees are the corporation of the City of London, who, whatever their other faults, have never been accused of • love for starvation. All these facts known, it as the more Deepening and painful to find what is now revealed of the door —behind the scenes at Bedlam. Pert, in his Diary. says—" Stept into Bedlam, where I saw several poor, miserable creatures in clums." In those days, and for generations after ward.. Bedlam was one of the sights of London—a showplace where, on payment of two-pence, London apprentices and country visitors were allowed to amuse themselves with chained maniacs—then a kind of companion show to the caged lions in the Tower. Until the end of the last century, the hos pital wards were thus open u public promenades, but the growth of public humanity stopped this de grading exhibition, and science having still later demonstrated the positive absurdity, as well as cruelty, of painful restruint, the civilised world thought inhumanity to lunatics was at an end. No one supposed any cruelty could be practised within the wells of the chief asylum of the chief city of Europe. Nevertheless it appears that though pub lic curiosity was shut out, private brutality found a war within the walls. The report to the Home-office opens with an ac count of the government of Bethlem, and from this and other sources we learn the' the nominal control of tl.is institution is rested in rather more than three hundred governors—forty-two of whom are selected as en acting responsible body to represent the rest. These forty-two contribute members for working onestuittees, and thew working eoramittano, ashy, hitherto seem to have pretty much resolved themselves into unit more—the Treasurer. This stems, in truth, and practically, to L " , 7 been the king of the hospital " and all that in there is." Bedlam has clearly bean a close borough, over which a servant of the charity has rand with very like absolute sway— all without its walls wearing en aspect of charity and benevolence, whilst much within them has been disgracefully, if not fatally, cruel. The number of patients may be roundly stated at 400; and es the income of the institution is above 20,000 L a year, this gives an avenge of full 50/. a year as the cost of each patient. How some of them have fared at the price the evidence we publish will show. The investigation before the Lunacy Commissioners is confined to a few casts only. How frequently, in times gone by, such cruelties may have been com mitted. it is of course now impossible to say. But the publication of the evidence given this day in our columns, and of the Report which will follow, must have the great and goad effect of checking such evils in future. Such wholesome publicity the Commis sioners of Lunacy ought long ago to have permitted; and, indeed, on this very sue the question ought to be rained why the Board of Commissioners in Lunacy do not invite the press to their investigations? No thing is more feared by evil doers in official places than the wholesome light let in by newspaper reports. Your lournalist is an object of horror to " respectable" sinners. It Lord 88APTEMBUIT and his colleagues have nothing to conceal, why not per mit the press to be represented at their meetings? No future publicity can atone fee--as no investi gation could discover—how many wretched creatures may have suffered in the cold basement of that gloomy structure in Bt. George's Fields--how many helpless women may have slept naked in cold straw, or been held in a state of nudity motes* floors to washed with a mop—how many seek honors may have been perpetrated eon never be fully known. Btii to let the world know that such things Aare &um, and to hold the rod of publicity over the suc cessors of those who committed the sans, willr m t towards preventing the repetition of suck o against humanity. It appears by the report signed by Lord Sturm aunt, and dated February 1862, that the medical staffof Bedlam cemented of two visiting physicians Mreao sad Sir A. Moalsox—ase consulting surgeon, Mr. LAWILVICII—sad ono midget oths miry. All these effuses were well paK hot the lints of the three first seem to have been hasty and Insufficient ; whilst the re sidua &mummy was, alone, quite unequal to fulfil the dodged so extensive a medical charge. His nWit visits to ths wards were are—to the feuds MI6 very rare; whilst his duty of clas sifyoling we parties of ties_ptisine was Awed to devve on the ashen. Ilko is her tars assimted to no sow at do paean ha doh hot= sod so igaammt et tbe oats of the luna he r amp as set to knew the hot that as Ism than fifteen patients of her own seat slept asked in the basement ward. This absentia fast he itself proves ths lax discipline of the solids stair of dosser tics paid bone the abundant tends of the Amity. The bomb& posnesed coo sick ward so Mammy, use the novel asavealesees for sick Mid lairm pa- Heats, am experienced nurses ataMlNami to the slob ! The reader will be inclined annotisim, " How was the 20,0001. a year spent, sad why is Bedlam sailed • hospital when its arrangemeets are in this miserable stater But the list of iniqui ties is not yet complete. It would seam that a proportion of patients, amounting to about forty a year, were discharged atter having into bed bodily health within the walls of the institution—that portions of the bedding were most discreditable, and that In this bedding females were pat to sleep in a state of nudity, without the know- ' bodge, it is alleged, either of doctors or matrons. Beyond all this the report gores on to show that , the patients were under the comparatively uncon- trollied discretion of the attendants--that the records of eases were not properly kept, by which the' experience of the hospital went unrecorded—that the rules and orders, is• ma be evident from' ',hat we have already said, were extremely loose ' t . ". old logsehat—that a poor female }Omni (tor is. slum& idle suffered bitterly hem uddl was reran* Os ins et a warm jacket curried to her a bosun it was too smart "—that with noledissw upon them were pet Is . edema nay linen or other WNW W. IL 11.4 which tid their sores, and et filtrieV infinitely warns. Chess of he* of patients—st seglect ou di • , other attenduds—of int/demi* IS as part of de all-potent Treasurer with the medical dales of the Resident Surgeon are proved. The visits of the two physicians were of an insufficient character —the medical staff was too weak—the metros neglected her duties—and infirmaries were ebeest —all these grievous' sins are alleged against Bedlam and its management by Lord Sitarres erne in his report—allegations fully horse out by the evidence on which that report is founded. And this is an institution mismanaged ander the Corporation of the City of London—this an in stitution endowed with 17,000/. a year from charity money, and 3.0001. more out of the public purse. Some of the officers of Bedlam have been changed, it seem, since this "confidential" report was made. The matron, we are informed, has been allowed to "retire on a pension," and the medical officers have resigned. But this is not enough; for now that the public are to become fully acquainted with the details of this case—hitherto kept so song—they will assuredly require full assurance that justice will in future be done to the unhappy inmates of the rich hospital of Bedlam. There can be no certainty of this kinds, whibt it continues to be a close earpoestion. Mt whilst any delinquencies are " imbed op" in euddential reports. The eindes of the abuses in Bedlam is wholly to tV hued seer which Lord SHAFTESBURY raided, and dot detection has already been suffi cient to en= NEWS shows for the better. Bat the e.rinits &WI de mses i —it should wears such attention Item Perliment in the coming session as will put the meargemeet of the Royal Hospital of &Okra beyond the reach of au/ unlit mischief in future. FRANCE. [PT lIJCTIIC TILIORAPII.) PARIS, TtsauAy Evansio. MM. Germain Thibaut and Monin Japy, the ministerial candidates, have been elected for Paris. The government candidate, Cabin, has also succeeded at Lyons. PARIS. IitoNDAT Most of the journals of this day abstain from com ments es the Weir of the infernal machine at Mar seilles. The Pups, however, has the following : We suit to *lse haw Kw public toasty meat of the narks width mini ear Pure at the nem of tbe exe crable plat ft tangly rewired abortive. Ifetilaw whatever web= et all day but the plot at The depth adowhit thi essepissey oyes eared eves tie reit Weir pram to ebrodder. numb is ewe win, is thiebig of the veldt Melt Me eseessim amma. elated, Mil met see to l—te tbat Ugh Napoleon khe pus* Mr ma is useemmy alMoo who bermes Mt as to these whit Irk es kir digliffegly, fee he is re per Mr et' ads,w helm, millabeing meg ire per we weebi ban boomed. If Perease bed 'emitted sun ea siliempt messed f We ”t_ sbe ques i tzea r ill taw Ispiliedm sees to tr at melt • prier? Me en. MmetinerMisa Mb.. knit ts, OM deny that mob • MMOOMplis wide have bees not only the greatest et aim, bet Me gem* of adder nese. ?baling me the this L.L.mpem pens that Lewis MONS is sets gem mss. but the irearmat Andy to a while swim AM MeMes. why Meld we sit say it, it is pen,* bemuse Isle /tapeless apron to us a seereary ran, that we believe rem firmly in the peeler r Provides**. The am aseeleary to Met ban been rarely ikon elf, bike. they Mal their work. Vibes Hoag IV. hi, Ur Presiels by was sleepily said. WM Come mobbed by the pesderds of the asst dial republic, re MIMS lapin was feasted. When Alm ada the lines seseerbed in his triumph, strack by a blew whisk will he emir meta a mystery. PM Empire of Orms was W Omsk cis dismiss bed acquired, semi be Md. die to eagestrese Ada aid Egypt. Vibes Napsisea, la lee. dim/mend ken the world Midi be bed lied whit Ms am. the eneselpity of Free* piny in Einem we asoured, the Mil ere was Mom, sad the moieties. valtlwisMd writ it hal MN, trismgkod L what it had just. Alter these past esesidseetimis, we mar to the do main of Area. The hiffewd wadi= of Msreeille• is the third at= traing M years to realise that dreadful is sat stepped by say consideration of the a retire, Is the hop to kill particular perm. TM lest Mead meeldee was that of Le Zee Bt. 14 iris spin the iM of tios Pint Coml. TM Mowing is th• souse et ••• issome sine Is the Almilswr n the sth Sire, as IX., sad whisk musk sadervaleal the ambers/ the victims :—" Lest evening, at eight Vera, the Mt ass ail was presowlift to the Opera with le mei seem when, se Ms errse meshed the Es. St NW's, ea MI cart be we wale a way as le impede Me zspz i T exemliagly pick, ad mid= a ented er slim • melds milers test_ plan, Midi bask. the glosses et the est. nape, wessted re lest mw n tbe amen Mete all Me windows of the mipbbouebeed. sad billed Wee yams, a green, sad a Mild. The sossabse of gene= wesedsd, r far ea is yet hews, is New Try were mom paw iag ited peepeletem of tieithembig hems. Aleut Sims herr wets geneklumbV dumped. It appears that the cart essieleed a sect of lateral ma eh The report we Men over all Paris." Ibe seemed infernal mare. roll w FirschL was directed on inly 28. 1835, waist Leeds Philippe. The following is the acrinall n Ile man is the Jimiipur of the ant day : Tie GM ssrfi w ry if the weeders of July was yesterday awned by is. of the mks beselble attempts that Wary as give as example of. The Wag had reached the Boulevard de Temple sad wee= front of the Ittb Leese, whim al at a a took pine similar tow Mere* phlem giodimpe. This report wee Mowed by a MOW illseeln. It von as in fernal rears stir lad mad Mb &Awe tid bins as grape ise the grasp smeormlies Me Kincaid hie fairly I Os sf ear eldest the reesrabis Dart de Trier*, tbe mead et MAI =I Mee, hit Imbed in hi bird, sal mind MOM MM. • mei. Om ral de leshmes de Wdeiger ems ma* wesidedi la the forehead ; a fferessersgesel of dieMselasel Ousel. ma aide-dmemp, a mem OM semi assimel gumb o ales ex pired the wide et Milled Metes sad Om crowd, whim MI6, add Moak at the emig= frightful reatiselsr" rap is the salt et machines, swabs *Me eipt an sea ; rd sugh inid have b••• tbesetthe Mandan piet if • *that ea Ars• Mad had MINA Me to mast las being ereial bee effect at the dmr Mu it was ahem to wee Imes with blemished aed musing. Although Poser wee Illisbas Pelleawhea allseW _46811 Niers et grams mile le remit its Our age is sod though.sakeemealy, MN are gay pmenneet the law will ban tejudge, at least there Masan me idmithed. Preees law hem mei lea imisdelle ma. lite will relehe et It set molly as • sew Made et bee geed forma.-dui wit alas Maw hem it a maim hems he the (erre. the red teak et asseriag to Freese a hag haste of repose, madam and pesperity. This is the pleb truth. The policy of the Presi dent lite tege the 'Mit to himself of an. ex pansion at wledit, and an intro& of =4 , in put attributable to in et a ' • the preeminent, is hi great illente Iseult of a log period of 9r aiw the stamina supplied_ by expenditure et public eseasy. The unzellesting multitude are willing to oak& with him upon the " smooth surface of a stemeimes sea." His pgalarity—eo far as it is Miliaand net toessil se feigned—will last as l t i m prie mimes. Bet the more he wesseede in bletaidag the people with the nodes that their well-being lowa from his person, the more esearedly will they tall away from him when the inevitable madame seem's. Vim proceeds wiokedlL to allude to the devise of Potemkin, minis ter of Metier of Ramie, who built pasteboard 1 villages aims the line et bee imperial and mad* therm & et esell• representing inhabi- tante. beset down bin her. That he says was but a esseedy. So when at the Lapeer:o, Mark Antony thrill* offered a crown to Qatar, that also was a piece of eating, and the interested Battery of a lieutenant tower& his general. An admirer of the priuctly program now going on in the south would only cite these historical instances for the purpose of pointed esmised. He would proceed to show that peasants paid by the prefects to carry banners presented no &ashy to Potemkin's serfs, and that St. Arnaud crying " Vie. rEmpereur" was not, like Mark Ansley, an interested lieutenant-general. Dr. Vim dismiss the subject with, "We ars neither in Crimea use in ancient Rome ;"—• remark which goes to show, not that there are no Potemkin. or Mark Antony. in France, but only that there ought not to be any. However, the dester, with all his lukewarmems, admits that sines the people cry " Vivo rEmpereur "it is as well eel* them have it, bit:trate the.; in so ey ming they obey almos treen& an • feeling. Th behave thst !set 1 the efforts that could be me& ea helmiffiet the Orleans family, Henry V., or the regal*, woad only turn to the advantage et sonialima, and weeld neither give them liberty, the Orleans hefty, nor legitimacy. What can be more cruel than Sit ow meet? Here we find an implicit shelties that three other probable government. are atleast an good intrinsically as Bonapartism, which is coldly ac cepted as &pi. oiler " for the present." You will observe that Vireo's argument, such as it is, turns upon the assumption that the French people do for the moment sincerely believe that the esta blishment of the Empire will ensure • long duration of stable government and material prosperity. But it is impossible to admit this proposition to be proved, in the face of the infinite devices resorted to to pro. dace a factitious expression of public opinion. All experience shows that no reliance whatever can be placed upon official accounts of popular enthusiasm. From the time of Louis XIV. to the present hour they have always been the same. The truth arrives piecemeal, and often long after all interest in the matter has peeved away. To-day I read in the 1 Currier de is Drome that M. Sapey, the mayor of Valence, issued a positive order that all the inhabi tants of the streets through which the President was to par should hang flags oat of their windows, and illuminate their houses. A threat followed that any instance of disobedience to this order would bo le gall y taken notice of. The following telegraphic despatch is in the ifeisslerr : Marseilles, Sept. 26, Half-past 9 a.m. Mem the entry of the Prince-President into the d t, his course is • veritable triumph. At ArMti upwards of 25,000 persons, drawn up with banners witha the Arius, greeted him with the utmost sethadaer. An Matas, cry of Vim l'Emperty- I' bore dews um other mead, and at all the steam similar asokeations were to be bout. At Marseilles, when the Pica arrived at the Porte d'Aiz, he render* from the hands of the mayor the lugs of the town. The cathe dra we at its highest petit whoa the Pram got on horeialt, sad went arm! the Rae WM: and the Coals, in the midst of • amours* of upwards of 100,000 inhabitants. Mearywhiro wen to be nag own of wants= with tine halm, tad depu tation jsansymea. Tbp wimlews wen every where &amid eat. Upwards of NO of mete awaited the Priam st the prefeetoro. mat thou were two rasp if the Popo sad et the ef:iTtleplse, charged to may to the Prime me Mansiles the felieltenew of their reeirve aevw At sin:, a Maser of eighty roma wan glees the nines at the pretectur, whilst ladles a every ars eseesty eireminsi rend the table of the Prince. Al doe WANE the Prienposenied to the thorn, when Ms ordeal was seested win the met lively uweeperts. Two cantatas, seappent is lab !waste, benne ohs emenlaa of the most suagabode wassatmalass. The my et " Vivo l'Eimpsnar I" wide he had 7011111.1141 !tang the early part of the day, was she thane white he b •fiwen, at dens tittle* at night. he retuned to the peetsenue dla the midst of ea esnaftne mead. By uress et the Mass Preddlest. dated Greno ble, the 22nd. signed on the report of the Minister of War, the laws relative to savings banks are de clared atioable to Algeria, and a savingssavingsbank at The n /earwig du Ham says:— We ddak we say einsases that an isiloential oompeny is saw bong hewn at Paris it, the of proposing to the govoeusinat the estabildranst o • ompany 1 of Metailers tam Mews arlll,lo Jaaairo. This c has among its sellealters abeam all the Suns which have commercial relations with the Brasile. It is proposed that these vessels shall an every moth between' Ham, Lisbon, Wein, Own. Permeation, and Babis, and be united at MO to a Ike whin will rue to the other &quitting porta for the tran sport of wafters and merchandise. ll.Cettee - ?.faigne, sub-intendant of the Prince Peesidsat et the republic, left Paris on Saturday evade( for the Chateau de Pau. Osumi Count d'Hautpoul, Grand Referendary of the fit., hue just left Paris to join the Prince Pre sident, sod essespany him throughout the remainder of his journey. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1852. BELGIUM. The Belgian Chambers were opined es Monday by one of the ministers: there is assediegly so speech from the throne. The impinatieme and dis• mesons on the state of the emery. mad is lemise on its relations with Frame, were sot of pill he be made before to-day. The Journal de CAarleroi states that a depentios of that town-mused bas boon appointed to welt the government. and represent the ig e n! to the coal trade by the aggravati o n o f Prong im port duties on their prodnote. The ignition was to indicate to the government some emseeres 6%7 daily immense'sa is the mono of which the trade sight be ralieved anitrrtt e , to deohn the miens of the people of Charleroi to endure with patinae the oneetuneee d Loma Na poloss's paling until their gsfrommat mai arrive at as hooas na and lair amesgemsst. ilis lialaso the following in the legitimist organ, the nein , lbeneee of the plat dimmed at Manallhe a twofold salami ea as Lib* Sad wee preleami heaver at se am attempt. Tam ems en the mime and the at. mane slime disn sews ; we Wm them with all the atm meal est all the esergy et ear aseeelemes. 1 s ehr e tmobash ak .MeemwAaa of meaty ! Is t that ', bi g: k a =Sse is thst etas . bor boils% and am. wilts% h=med. sate as mud rie aid ads ms, Ilisten .....1.10141101 an` P Oa heart . rtv loaf on awn Prerldemse. sad lames with am.- our Wan alledum trust nil my ef peeper awd Itag•Que 1 Dien is Frames t" A ausbable Wilts by Dr. Yana non the mks a " Vire aggoreer 11 to wee ohniated to gain him creak kr the periesseten el that blunt emus U.S.. "gm tilkk he levee to liond hie claims le public sidallba, that 10 he l! mrs his rumbas seartiam Ms ea ally a M. the Oundialimirrel ems& bring howelf *Ode die servile IMMO of niensbases flattery Phiaidog W e the Casspass. Onkennikree, and tibiae,. to interpret the asanin et the ides as Vi P r r e ° W:permie with he and 11111111061111, mad 'Mainly " faint praise newer did its prosseild I Irak man completely. He me sot a word Asa SPAIN. lie irgilieeney e adopt heir of a giallo -- Witllllllung etas liaise a papal eonseemithia Accounts froZvt Madrid state that an the 22nd inst. s' the ma et Pasidenes, or the hero of the President of t;:e Council, who was to have Mt the Sal of DLrentlee. earl detains fres snorting i n, day before for / A oranja, had po s tp one d hi s d o . ___._ 6o haillhalt! of l al mill mollillo• All then parture in consequence of ilia alarming state of the VIPINI ilia Ms tb• stogie argemen to al th• Duke of Bayles. The Duke cot being expected to Illosfaullti IliallNli an reused by lho Pod olook ol live omme titan a few days, the :resident of the °am " ' me ' lle me ' nettlin g le the thesis hat Council wished to remain in Madrid to give the ne ver/ Miele arrearions for material beeps, an d emery orders for the funeral honours to no paid to masses hie glides in terms strikingly indicative the illustrious deceased. of the fair-weather nature of Ilk' popularity that The protestant bishop of Math, who arrived at alma the President's proven. Malaga, in the Keever steamer, died in that city on themeathadestiral eri, .of .. Vivo l'Empacinc." whic h the Pith. H was is body exposed in ens of the halls bane oona upon all poises of the Presid en t' s paa'alle. sre. of the Alameda Hermosa. o a f =s ionge. aing ia lt ardent wieties for order. for pt "Twit, T he garrison of slam had bum ' , mow to luny, and commerce, f or ~epees a.. ' Pro' pen, sad family, while, owing to • succession of ~.,rot 3,300 men, and was to receive farther reinforcements. tart., lb. very ram mire of " Viet Is kr oebliqes " are h.' The Junta of Seville had salissitted to the govern tie min& of the people nothing but menacing desires for I Van a plan for the ireprevemeet of the °medal ehader aad its areregaseess, banicaers eanalism tied '• 'OM War. oar ' in im •os ' durable . er 4 2 .. POWS P 0 •1 i • Pow via, which would render it navigable far omen of 1 1 " a Pia " Louis Nsfsiees, Wish also to impale sprains a lar h w Ina. GERMANY. AUSTRIA. The aemi-official Cbrresporident states that the Emperor has directed his Minister ot Pooeeeeiiggaa Affairs to take measures at Rome for eutablisbiss a con cordat between the Austrian government a n d th e 'lt; Gazette contains an announcement that two and a-half millions of the new loan will be substituted for an equal amount of state paper money. PRUSSIA. The Anzeiger publishes another royal ordinance on the First Chamber; it contains nothiug but regu lations and directions for the execution of the former :tem ee. • gut Court. BALMORAL, Barr. 27. The iaelemeey of the weather prevented her Majesty frost sMeadiag &vies serviee yesterday. The Earl of Beverley bad as blurrier. with Mr. Barr w tary yesterday, at the Hoese-ellee. m ine received yesterday at the C•kelal-efilet from re " leer of St. Helena. ea them bet eighth Casette.) WAII-OrIICI, SUPT. 28. Viset. Mumtaz, 0.C.8., to have the rank of General so bag u he is in command of her Majesty's Army. WAII-Oirrten Sept. 28. Ist or Oren. Refit. of Ft. Oils:—Field•Marshal his Royal Highness Puncit A K Li.. from the Scots Fusi lier Gds., to be eoL, TWO Field-Marshal his Grace the Duke of Welliogton, 8.0., dec. Soots Fusilier Ode.—Mgvr•Gen. his Royal Hi hone the Duke of CAMBIUMS, X. 0., from the 17th Lt. Dregs. (Lancers), to be col., vice his Royal Highness Prince Albert, K.G., app. to the Scots lodine Ode. 17th Lt. Drags. (Lancers).—Major-Hen. T. W. TarLoa, C. 8., to be col., vies his Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, K. 111., app. to Seoul' Fusilier Gds. Rifle Brigade.—Field Marshal his Royal Highness Putucz AlliZar, Ka., to be colonel ic chief, via Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, K.G. dee. 60th Viscount Baniterotto, 0.C.8., to be colonel 1 in chief, vice his Royal Highness Prince Albert, K. 0., app. to the Ails Brigade. Hous GIIAILDS, Birr. 28. The General Commanding in Chief has hen pleased to appoint Col. R. Atilt' to be his military seeretary. ADVIIIALTY, MITT. N. Cups of Royal Marina.—fluend Lieut. I. H. MAiIIIERT to be first lieut., vies 8. L. Wilson, des. (Fran last listesassifte.) NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. ISLI OF WIGHT. Andrew Snaps Blemond, Req. LiNCASTIA. Hon. Gilbert Stapleton. Waftwicit. The Right How. Heasege, Load Guernsey; The Hon. Charles Lennox Butler, Barnard, Esq., Charles Holt* Braeebridge, WoIeSSTRIL Edward Jobe Rudge Esq., Tbonal William Fletcher, Esq. Thomas Webb. Eaq Josapb Green Bourne, EN., William Ilenaltt, Esq., Thomas Gale Curtlrr, Esq., Francis Holland, Esq., John Towers Lawrence, Eq. YoRIC AND KING8T0,1•1:PON-HOLL. The Hon. Arthur buncombe, Henry Boynton, Esq., Edward Horner Barnard Rae, Edward Clough Taylor, Esq., Henry Eatouterille Grunston, EN., Thomas Henry Preston, Feq., Marmaduke Jerard Grimm°, Esq., Frede rick Augustus Talbot Clifford Constable, Eaq. Bitscattoex. John Powell, Esq., John Jeffreys De Winton, Esq., James Prosser Snead, Esq., Charles Augustus Parkinson, Esq. TILE MILITIA. The following conimieSionsl;;;;;been signed : Jame. Robinson Pease, gent., to be lieutenant, vice Denson, resigned, in East York Regiment of Militia. Thomas Colton Mattison., gent., to be lieutenant, vice Hopkinson, resigned, in ditto. Herup Puget Raikes, gent., to be ensign, vice Kidd, de- I ceased, in ditto. Captain Manners %nth Wood, to be major, vice Wil liam Richard Stratton, resigned, in Brecknockshire Militia. Charles James Dastard, gent., to be lieutenant, vice James R Moriarty, deemed, in Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Milt's. Vicentio Corbett Lee, gent., to be ensign, vice George Mignon loses, resigned, in ditto. (Justness Francis Munro, gent., to be ensign, vice Ed ward James Dyson promoted , in ditto. George Thomas West, gent., to be ensign, in ditto. Thomas Harpur Colvin, Esq., adjutant of the Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia, and late captain in her Majesty's nat Regiment of loot, to serve with the rank of captain in Royal West Middlesex Regiment of Militia. _ _ Henry Riverdale Createll, Esq., to be captain, vim the I Hon. George Henry Charles Byog, promoted, in ditto. Lieutenant George Edward Cook, to be captain, vim Braileford, resigned, in Royal Westminster Regiment of Middlesex Militia. Edward Murray, gent., to be ensign, in ditto. William Hamilton Williamson, Esq., to be captain, in Durham Militia. William Ord the younger, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. John Frederick Gales, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. Henry Smith titobart, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. John Henry Stobart, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. William Dale Trotter, gent., to be lieutenant, in ditto. SWEARING IN OF TUE NEW Sautures.—Yester day, Alderman Carter and Mr. Croll, the new sheriffs, were sworn in at Guildhall. They were accompanied from the Court of Aldermen to the hustings by the Loral Mayor, several of the aldermen, Mr. Swift and Mr. Cotterell, the late sheriffs, and attended by the principal City °Steen. Several of the members of the companies to which the sew sheriffs respectively belong attended upon the occasion. The new carriages and horses were greatly admired. FALL OF TWO HOUSES IN BEVAN DIALS: Mr. Bland, as inmate of Mr. Leg's house at the time the accident (reported In our columns yierterday) happened, has published the followiwg statement :—. I thlak it my duty (alter thanking Provident* that I eon alive to record it) to give an amount of my miraculous escape, uninjured, from a frightful death. I have beau living with my uncle, Mr. A. Levy, oil end coloarman, at No. 2, Great St. Andrew's street, Bloomsbury. I was awoke, on the morning of the occurrence, about half-past two, by seaside resembling dis charges of cannon, accompanied by screams and groans, and was immediat ely afterwards thrown out of my bed against a post in the centre of the room, placed there, I assume, to Rapport the roof, the house being very old. On recovering myself I at one* made for the stairs but to my horror found them gone, and the whole of th e back pert of the premises, together with a house at the rear, entirely de molished. With mach dlfilculty I contrived to descend from my perilous position by means of a rope, which had for some months hang from tee top balusters for the chil dren to play with, bat which providentially tended to my escape. On reaching tho first floor I !Dead my uncle in • state berderlag on Creasy, my aunt and her two children having been by thia time buried in the ruins, and neither he cot I being able then to render them any assistance. On reaching the street-door I found the shopman in • state of audity, he having been precipitated downerards from the second-floor. I teen ran round to the rev of the premises in Queen Street, sad was *tabled to resew my little cousin, nine years of age (who had fall's with his mother) hos a frightful death. The other boy, aged elms pan, who might have been saved at this time, refused to mem, exclaiming that he would not leave hie mother, and immediately afterwards the timbers again gave way, and he wee ones mere busted. After the legs, elan hear and a fall my ant and sensia were dug owl hum the wilem end the be baba serimaly injured was carried In Cheehreeent Ilesehnl. 1 cannot bat ex press my *ism Monis to leagastre Dodd and the police ander his hoesilue, he eh& olibiseg swim upon this occasion. I have trot at nametoland low matry per sona in he bask ham been Waved, let I saw the fest only avow pear edger gesteedieg bum the reins. PROPORED FREE TRADE BANQUET AT MANCRES- Ths.—An influential meeting of free traders wee held at the League Rams, Mane ester, yesterday, to &ram con sider the propriety of a banquet previous to the memibling of parliament. air lilkaaali Armitage, Mr. Aka. Henry, Mr. J. Crook, M.P., Mr. Hanley, Mr. B. N. PM*, Mr. N. Bediley, Mr. i.e. Whittaker, Mr. Jos. Mama, and the Imbue member of the council were proseet. Mr. Om. Wise_ pessitiod. It was ultimately reselmi that • thbanebseld be bell et the Fmm Tuesday, C il ievermler, to whisk Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, mg all the brake fret trade members of the Nouse of Com mas abeadt be invited. The objets is to meth the deter miarYeet the fee trek party est to draw bask from their took et fell* est the peat pi seiple they ad vocate la Oa etibe cmatry. THE On SMALL EEta Am.—This day the City of Leedom Smell Debts listession Act, puma in the late semile, will tome late tam_ By this Waste the jai is distils of the City of Leaden MietW Omit Is extended from 101. to 60/. need ere a gnat may pembions in the Beat, Wading the pdasimi emelmista la the County Courts Acts, antag the amber dad s siren to oblate peenewlea of m& temmeats expense of as milleafie *mesa& A. the bw new Meads actions throatiest ne~ sad Wales ma be brought is county soma he Was set emending OK, and for larger seem in eases libels die parties arm to ab,de by the decision of lb& mart. Is the est hr the City of Lowkia, ea la the County Courts Alas, dare is an appeal Mesa on piste of law, and on the sdiaissien or rejection of mik It es& is probable that, la the next session, an appeal on the merits will be allowed in all matters now decided by the County Courts. PANCINO MASTS* MR THE ROYAL CHILDREN.— Mr. Joseph Lowe, of Mellaborgh and 'oversews, has had the honour of a speinmend from her Majesty to attend at Balmoral, and ha new awed in giving lessons to the princes and priesiosess. Mr. Lowe's appointment is the second instance of a lesiuttiesa having been selected for this ha cambia peck dm late teacher having been Mr. Thomson, of Olesiev, aaw deceased.—bareness Courier. Foaatox QIATIAUIL—It is stated an arrange meat has been maidedied between the Bishop of London and the Secretary for Foreign Affrin as regards foreign chap , bins. The Foreign Secretary has consented that they should receive the hishop's license, on condition that there Otould be inserted in every such license, that it is valid only .1.0 long as the chaplain holds her Majesty's appoint ment, and "no longer." Several chaplains have already been lierueed, and amongst them the R ev . Kenwortliy Brown, HALM. chapltin at Madeira e , 'Wny Doter You SPEAK OUT !"—From the I impos•ibility of making our present ministers say whet they mean—or even, what they do not mean—the obiervatien that was *nee made by Talleyrend of a celebrated nobody, may with equal point be turned round upon them—" Ces Messianic oat an mad tablet pow Y silence."—pousch. MEMORIAL TO THE LATE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AT MANCHESTER. A meeting was held yesterday afternoon, in the Manchester Tows Hall, to consider the propriety of ereetiog a permanent memorial to the late Duke or Wellington, in, that town. Sir Jowls Porrimu presided ; and amongst than present were the East of Ellesmere, the Earl of Wil ton, the Bishop of Manctimear, Mr. Thomas Baxley, and the Mayen of Salford. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, regretted the absence of the Mayor of Manchester, from indispuaition. Is consequence of the reputed representationa made to him as to the strong feeling prevalent in Manchester, in refer ence to the painful which had brought them together, the mayor felt it his duty to take means of summoning some of the most infisential of his fellow.citizens, to ascertain what might be their feeling on the subject. Not very long ago, in that room, they were met to lament the loss of one of the most distinguished of English statesmen. It was true that the circumstances were diderent ; they were not in the present ease brought together by an unforeseen acci dent, but they were brought together by the demise of pro bably—indeed, he apprehended there would be no two opinions about it—England's greatest son; of a man, dis tinguished alike fur his wisdom in the Counsels of the field, and in those of the waste—a man who, by his bril liant victories, raised the name of E ng l an d to a pitch which it had triumphs had secured to us more then 30 year. of continuous and complete peace. Whether es a statesman or a general we must all feel that the Duke of Wellington's name would ever rank foremast among the heroes of Europe. It was felt a little more than two years ago that on the occasion of the death of Sir Hubert Peel it was desirable that some thing *Auld be dune permanently to testify the gratitude of the community for the benefits which had been con ferred upon it by that great man. It would, then, or. the present occasion, it appeared to him, be their duty to nuke equal or greater effort to commensurate in Manchester, the centre of the peaceful industry of England, the great man to whose achievements in war we owed the peace on which every domestic and every commercial blessing had rested. (Hear, hear.) It was with these views that the major celled his fellow-eitizens together on this occasion. lie had himself cordially felt that it was • time when they should exert themselves, and that the occasion was worthy of every effort that could be made in Manchester to commemorate so great a man; a mar. surpassed in loyalty to his sove reign, and, at the same time, so devoted to the interests and to the welfare of his country; • man respecting whose political opinions there might, perhaps, some years age, have been felt • slight difference of feeling, but respecting whose character and position it was impossible there could be any other feeling than that of veneration for his memory. (Cheers.) Mr. 1110111 AS BAZLEY, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said—On the less which the nation had sustained in the death of the Duke of Wellington, there would, very happily, in this vast community, be but one opinion. That opinion was embodied in a sentiment of regret and a desire that the glorious deeds of the great Duke should be held in commemoration, sad that a pi r manent record should be raised to remind posterity of the beneficial sets he had performed in this our time, and at the same time to perpetuate the gratitude of the age and vene ration in which the illustrious Duke existed. lie believed Lord John Russell had most happily described their senti ments with respect to the late Duke of Wellington, when he mid • few days since in the north, "the glorious deeds in sins done by the great Duke were only equalled by his moderation in peace." Such • combinati.in of services ought to be held in the highest possible regard by gentle. men who would recall the eminent services rendered by that illustrious general, and who were also participators in those peaceful and important services be had rendered to his country when he was engaged in • civil office of vast importance. The resolution he should submit to the meeting was, That in order to testify the high admiration entertained by this community for the exalted talents and distinguished public services of the late lamented Duke of Wellington, as a soldier and as a statesman, it is in the opinion of this meeting desirablo that • statue should be erected in Manchester, by public subscription, to his memory; in grateful recognition, as well of his transcendent genius, and undaunted courage, which under Providence secured to himself the reputation of the greatest general of the age, and to his country the enjoyment of prosperity and liberty, as of the deliberative wisdom, disinterested judgment, and noble spirit of patriotism which ever directed his endea vours to perpetuate and extend the invaluable blessings of peace.' ' (Cheers.) The Mayor of SALFORD seconded the resolution. The resolution was carried uuanimously. The Rev. Canon CLIFTON moved the appointment of a committee to promote the object of the meeting, the Mayor of Manchester being the chairman. Mr. J. C. BARTER seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. MARTEit then announced that subscriptions to tho amount of 2,4001. had been received, including the follow ing: —the Earl of Wilton, 1001.; the Earl of Ellesmere, 1001.; Sir Elkanah Armi tage and Sons, 1001 ; Potters and Norris, 1001; J. C. Harte r , 1001 ; S amuel Fletcher and Sons, 1001.; Edmund Buckley, JOU ; the Mayor of Man chester, 1001. • John Dugdale and Sone, 1001.; Wm. Grant Brothers, 1001.; Oswald Milne and Sons, 1001.; J. N. Phillips, 1001.; Sir Benjamin Heywood and Sons, IOU!.; Bannerman and Sons, 1001.; Robert Barbour and Brothers, 1001. ' • 8. and T. Ashton, HMI • Sir Thos. Joseph de Traf ford, 1001. ; Thos. Barnes, 100 j.; John Hatton, 1001., and others. The following subscriptions were afterwards announoed in the room:— Messrs. Bradshaw, White Hag, and Johns, 100/. ; and Mr. Rickards, 10/. Mr. LIA.RTER said he believed within active canvassing onamittee the sum might be increased to 10,0001. in the course of a week. (Cheers.) After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting thee separated. TnE BAR AND THE ATEOR.NEYEL—OR Saturday morning Mr. Tyree), the judge of the Exeter County Court, announced his determination with respect to an application made by Mr. Ring, on behalf of the bar, for exclusive audience in cases of insolvency. He stated that he should confine himself to the point of the law—whether he ought or could grant to the bar the exclusive audience which had been asked kr. It had been urged very strongly that this court sat, in cases of insolvency, not as a county court, but as an offshoot from the court for the relief of insolvent debtors ; and that &Rhone% as the county court, it was bound by certain rules, it was not bound by the same rules when It was dealing with insolvent cases, because it dealt with such cases only by virtue of a delegated authority. Now it was quite true that when an insolvent pri soner applied for his discharge, he was obliged to pre sent his petition, in the first instance, to the Insolvent Debtors' Court in Leaden ; and that the petition, after being duly lodged in that court, came down to the County Court for the purpose of being heard and disposed of. But it did not come down by virtue of any delegated jurisdiction. The c3mmissioners above could not delegate their jurisdiction, for they did not possess it. They had no more to do with the case, in point of exercising any discretion over it, than any stranger. It must be sent, by the act of parliament to the County Court sitting in the place where the party bad resided for the last six month'. If, within that time, ha had resided in two different places then indeed the com missioners could exercise a discretion, but only to the extent of determining to which of the two places it should go. They did not delegate any authority of their own. He then looked carefully through the statutes, and con sidered that the jurisdiction in insolvency was given to this court as a County Court, and not an off shoot from the Court for the rebel of Insolvent Debtor,. But, even assuming that it wire otherwise, in that cue the practice of the court would come under the operation of a rule which had been framed under the provisions of en act of parliament, and had thus become part and parcel of the law of the land. By that rule (the 91st) it was declared that " the provisions of the statute, 9 and 10 'Vic., c. 95, s. 91, as to the persons who eh .11 be allowed to appear for any party, in any proem d:ne in the County Courts, s hall apply to all proceedings in Insolvency, or for protection." 1 Iserefore, in whatever character he was sitting—whether u a County Court, or as an offshoot from the Insolvent Debtor' Court—if that rule was still in operation he was bound to follow it and to reject the present application. If, however, that rule had been repealed by a statute sub seqlently passed, then he was bound by the provisions of that subsequent statute, which empowered him to hear, if he pleased, a barrister retained by, or on behalf of any party, but which gave no right whatever, of exclusive, or even of pre-audience. Ho was quite clear, therefore, that whatever view he took of his own position, in reference to those eases, this application made by Mr. Ring was one whirls he had no power to grant. —Devonshire CA...nude. PAINFUL OCCURRENCE. —Oa Wednesday fore noon a distrening accident took place on the Green, which resulted in the death of a young boy named M'Bride, about ten years of age. It appears that a company of the 33rd Regiment went to the Green for the purpose of prac tice, by firing off blank cartridge. During the rnanceenes ' of the skirmishing party, and when they had discharged their pieces, a number of boys, n a playful manner, pre tended to have been shot, by falling down on the grass. After another discharge, however, the young lad above named suddenly fell down, having received a shot in the left breast, which perforated the lung. lie was conveyed i to a shop iii Bridgeton, and thence to the infirmary, where he lingered till Thursday afternoon, when death ended his sufferings. That this melancholy affair was purely acci dental there can be no doubt, for it is impossible to con ceive that any private soldier could entertain malice and deliberately shoot a boy he knew nothing of. Every facility was afforded by Colonel Blake to the authorities to investi gate the case, aed the soldiers were ordered down to the' scene of the accident on Thursday, with a view, if possible, to discover who fired the shot; but nothing further was elicited than what we have narrated above. There is no doubt that the poor boy had foolishly and reek Inlay ap proached too close to the skirmishing party and been wounded by the wadding.—Glasgow Conaltiationea. Tan CASE OF ELUABETII B4.II:IIItRELL.—At noon on Moods y last the 14 days' watch over Elisabeth Nuirrell terminated. One of the committee assures us that every means was taken to ascertain whether she had possession of her sight and bearing, but she gave no indication that she had the use of these faculties. Ile also states that during the entire term of le days she neither ate nor drank, and that the linen was unsoiled. At the close of the watch her parents were allowed loses her. After embracing them she became powcrlully affseted, and for some minutes it was feared that she was dead. The committee have unanimously signed a declaration that they acquit the girl and her parents of fraud. Many hundreds of persons visited her during the watch. On Sunday 70 were present, and at the close of the term the cottage was crowded.—lpewiels Express. CITY SEWERS COMMISSION. Yesterday a court was held, Deputy PEACOCK in the chair. Upon the reports of the Inspectors being brought up, th e condition of several houses in a defective sanitary state wa s brought under the notice of the court. Ordered that notices to cause the requisite alterations to be made be served upon the parties. At the instance of one of the inspectors, Mr. Sinnott, one of the contractors for the el. ansing of the streets, was seta mooed for neglecting to remove • quantity of slop from Thames-street until after the stipulated hour on Monday morning, the 13th inst. Mr. J. J. Athill, jun., inspector of dustmen for the South disisioii, after admitting the truth of the allegation, said that the non-removal of the filth had arisen from the feet of the man having been called sway from his work, in consequence of the sudden death of lea wife. Ordered that time be furnished for the production of the party to testify as to the truth of such states's, nt. With regard to closing of burial grounds in the eat ' , Alderman Lawrence urged the attention of the court to the desirability of their taking tome steps in the matter with out delay. Mr. COMDIIII thought it would be better to refer the whole subject to • committee for consieltratien and reperi Deputy 11A RUISON euosidered that the beat wry would be for the court to apply to government tor a copy "t the evidence an the state of the City churchyards, already !. lected by the official autherities ; such informatian would save the commissioners meth trouble and Line. Agreed, main this understand:lag, that the matter he re ferred to the rovement committee. Several orders of a laud' try character were then ordered to be circled into vie coital, SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE HABITATIONS OF 1 IIE POOR. The following is a copy of the report presented at the last court by Mr. Haywood, the surveyor to the consmissiouers, upon the supply of water to the poor in certain localities in the City of London, • subject to which hie particular attea. lion had been requeeted by the coast. aa To ow C.xneni , ejoi.efil of City &wen. " Gentlemen,—Pursuant to your instructions, I beer made inquiry upon the sub j. et of the allegation at Mr. Noble as to the gem rd iesepheieney of water supply mid the inadequacy dale arrangements of the Water Company fur filling cisterns, if placed in the upper floors of the com mon loelgies-fieuses belonging to him, and situated aa Princes-street, Sparrow-corner. I find that about two years ago, in cemplianco with a request preferred by this commission, en alteration was made in their passage by the New River Company, by which an increased supply was afforded to all the premises situated in that locality, and that the same means will now citable as adequate supply to be given at the highest part of the building. I hate written to and seen the engineer to the eimpluay upon the tulteet of uffirding a high service supply to thaw premise,. He submitted my communication to the directors, and I have &Mee then received a letter from them, stating that they have given instructions to eilerd such high supply in the cu. in question without extra charge hey 13s. per room, upan condition that proper ar rangements arc made under the directions of the officers of the company and of the comn.iwioners to p waste.' I also communicated with the company in reterence to the water supply to the house No. 8, Phontree court, a state ment having been made with rottend to the water supply to that house, similar to that made by the owner of the house in Prince's Street, Sparrow-corner, nod hare received a letter from the New River Company to the effect that they are willing to afford a high service supply, and at the same charge as to the houses at Painee'm street. This is also coupled with the same condition. Three inquiries having arisen out of allegations made by the owners of common lodging-houses, immediately upon their being served with notice to provide water supply upon every floor of the houses, in compliance with the new regulation for such places of habitation, and it appearang to me evident, from these and other circumstances, that similar statements may be from time to time auticipated, as premises are included in the registratien, and subjected to the regulations made fur their munagement, and knowing, moreover, that inasmuch as the high service supply, which is essential for the compliance with the regulation., is usually charged at a higher rate than the ordinary service, it was of im portance that some definite and opecial arrangements should in this respect be made, and applying to ludging-hoases generally, I wrote to the company, calling their attention to the fact of numerous bosses being similarly CirVien stanced to those which had just been the subject of spteml consideration, and submitted to them the expediency of determining 'earnest( neral rule in reference to the supply to those premises which were already, or should at any future time, be included by the commission iu the class of common lodging-houses. To this letter I have received the follow ing re_p ly: Dear Sir,—With reference to the question of water supply to lodging-houses in the city of London, 1 sin in structed to say that the New River Company will be pre pared to offer the same on similar terms to those in Princes street, Sparrow-corner, provided they are so situated as to be within reach of the existing high-service pipes ; tut if they are not so situated the Family as at present will have to be continued until the general improved state of the works shall have been completed.-1 am, dear sir, your faithful servant, Far-pewee( Isotis, Clerk.' " I believe, therefore, it will now be found that the largest number of those premises hp:leaded in the list of lodgiug houses may be supplied with water in their highest rooms at a rate of 3s. per room per annum, immedi a t e ly u p on the adoption of those means which the company deem es sential for the prevention of waste, and which mainly con sists in the provision of adequate cisternsgc and balkeeks, " There are, however, certain places within the City in which the existing system of pipeage will not enable high service to be given. The whole of such places will, of course, be included when the alterations and arrangements now in hand for affording a high pressure constant supply to the wlni:e of the district supplied by the company we completed, but until which time arrive such places cannot have the advantage of high service extended to them. " I beg to add a few remarks upon the subject of the sup ply of water to lodging-houses, and a, to the provision of cisternage required for rendering the supply available within the meaning of rule No. I of the lodging-house regulations. Since the introduction within the lout few years of the con stant supply to certain provincial towns, the advocates of that system Lave stated the provision of cisternage to be an unless, end consequently • burthensome expense. Now, much of the difficulty with regard to the water supply to lodging-houses has been, and I apprehend will be, found to be in compelling the owner to provide this cisternage, and with the prospect of a constant supply being given within the next three yeare, which should (it the statement alluded to is correct) then be useleseappendagee, it certainly appears to make the provisiralot such etureage room at this time most onerous. Nevertheless, I see no means which I can recommend your honourable court to adopt that can much mitipate the pie lent infliction upon the lodging house-keepers, even if the termination of the third year should bring the expected constant supply to the metropolis as perfect and satisfactory as may publicly be expected; for, as the companies must make large and fund:mien tat site rations in their arrangements and works, altera tions extending from their sources of supply to the ea Cremes of their pipeage, they can, I submit, scarcely be called upon now, or expected, to disorganise their arrangements to afford a high service and constant supply to belated houses. I venture, indeed, to state at one: that it would not be practicable to do to during the transition state of these works except at the expense of the convenience of others, and therefore it is evident that if lodging-houses are to have the supply implied by rule No. I, cis terns will, for the neat three year. at least, be absolutely needful to acei.mplish it. I have always deemed it exceedingly questionable whether the complete abolition of cisterns wire prudent or even practicable under the constant supply system, and recent information I have obtained upon the subject, and the preemie( evidence lately given upon the subject of metropolitan water supply, eertiinly strengthen my opinion upon this point. As, how ever, this most within is very few years be practically tested, I think that under the present circumstances, in the enforce meat of the provisiou of cisterusge it should be assumed as a temporary rather then as a permanent provision, and the owners of this species of property should bo eased in their outlay for that purpose as much as the necessities of their habitations will permit. Having this in •iew, I submit that • considerable distinction may be made between lodg ing houses only used as nightly dormitories—the temporary occupants of which arrive for the most part late at night and depart early in the morning, and those which are perma nently inhabited by families; as it is manifest that in the former case the requirements of water are far more limited than am ngat the letter class. Between lodging-houses also containing but two or three rooms, and which arc only one story above the ground floor, and those containing numerous rooms, mid being two, three, or more stories in height, a differ, nce might be made in respect to the provision of water supply upon every floor. I am aware of the danger of breaking through a sound general rule, and that difficulties may arise by opening the door to discretionary distinctions in the classes of lodging-houses, and if the system of water supply to the metrooolis were determined, and in permanent opera tion, I might not advise it to be done; but considering the circumstances under which the existing system of supply stands, and the large outlay needful to comply in all caws with rule No. 1 in its integrity (in many cases involving as It would alterations in the structural arrengemeats throughout the whole of the houses),and the great difficulty in getting the rules complied with at all, I think some Mal h modification ax that suggested might be adopted with advantage. (Signed) " WILLIAM ll.tcwoon, Surveyor." The report was referred to the meilicel officer of health sad the surveyor, for their joint consideration and judg ment u to the most advisable means of carrying the sug gestions in it into effect. Adjourned. Farm. OccututuNcE.-I.ast evening, Mr. Payne held an inquest at St. Bartholomew's, on the !wily of Mar• garet Ann Jones, aged 4.4, on account of whose death a woman named Susan Kealo is DOD under remand from the Clerkanwell police court. Ellen William. said that at the revest of the deceased, she accompanied her on Wedgies• day evening to the house of Mrs. keels., 20. Culford.road, De Beauvoir Town, Kingsland. Mrs. Kettle, who opened the door, had a bundle containing two coarse apron. and a pair of clogs in her left hand. Witness asked her why she had discharged her daughter, upon which she threw the bundle at witness, and with her right Land struck deceased on her stomach. Deceased fell backwards, and then into the area, which was eight or nine feet deep. Mrs. Kende abet the door, and witness Curd deceased lying insensible in a pool of blood. Site was taken to the doctor's, and from these. was removed to the hospital, where she died on Sunday last. Alter some further evidence, the insane• tion was adjourned. I