The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-13 00:00:00

ow sod Tw• Often el the Csiihiresaa asstd., Dr. Sort. Mt. 100111 Mks Hilaysird, Madsos Mead as Is S= sad Madussissis Gnaw. THE CITY OAS COMPANY. Lot slalling • MlSlltire, esiteeenusi by requisition, iehabismita either word of Perrbegdos Wilkens, was die.slime Mange is the Old Malley, to agog is m one Wig prim alf Mr gee tionasseed St the am ne Lod Kam reek die (Mir. aws mewed aa Mat It l lathe opinion of this mean Met Me mlee Mewl kr one pogo of Loam seuelelmak silt aetsi Uwe pows pa u sl =6 at Iltds awe Ora aam m te e rs elmsgel Me la It it dr aroma Mob el dee Met the ametutlea el as am el Wien Medd edge se essomy =mom Is oder te dor*ow lisPo7. if& Lows Ms a mewled to quote largely from • report armhbell to the Commissioners of Sewers by Mr C. risme, y i d low s of which was M show that if Ike aeminiesionere y i dlows a sulkies*, of piping Is the Meet% a supply ef at 2.. 6d. sr Ile. pr amused sable Met end/ be ob- Woorwherees the presest prici was be. per tbeweesd. Re ou ld let sweat re the proposition that the city *operatics MM be the inamthehreires of the pa supplied to the city, Ist the way is latish it wee prepared to t does was for the ammissesmege of Sewers he have the pipes laid doers, sad Mae moans. with mem eirespeey fee a apply of pe, mishit MA drip be MIN, es the pips laid down by severed of • metreggebss essapesies torched the limits of the city. The gee Miliddollsl at Liverpool, gad produced from Cited soot,wee of a meek better quality than _ thegaspodoted gem Erweastle coal which ins supplied to : yet pars drawer east the oossumen bet 4s, • thousand feet, whilst gor the more inferior article the London tradesman had le pa M y 6.. • thousand. is Birmingham the mice of gas was a thousand feet, but after deducting &mount, Mt avenge prise nes about U. Bd. ; at Derby the pries was W. 6d. bat 40 per cent. was deducted bso that pr c•—at Croydon, a place with a rather limited i M aher of ishabitasts, Ile charge for every thousand cubit Mt al gas esuwamed by the public street lamp wee 2s. 6d pa le gooey themund ,• leo that cossumed is shops and private & N aiad*, 4s. As Pestosville Prima 22,293 feet of gas bad • bees produced at • elm of 2e. Tid. per thousand feet. Had Mat supply bees fundebed by a misplay the cost would Ave been something like bill : It met the Weimer, of Me pt i gn 3iU. and thus a sav'mg of 6891. bad taken place in that establishment alone. The gas consumed at the Swindon statism of the Orsat Western Railway sad • short disowns dews the line from that station, cost !held. per thowead fest, seal out of that a profit was de- Med by the reer.ideetwer, who had offered to supply the City vt London at Is. lid a thousand, it, as we. proposed, the pipes were laid doers by the Commission of Sewers. TIM welter stated that--takine into consideration the Memos realised by the sell of ei,ke, ter, and the other m f oe of manufacture th e gas was produced for no- thing ; and that the whole charge made for gas by the com panies, was clear profit, 800 SO MICA a it cost them fur wear and tear of machinery, wages, and the cost of the week'. The armigat paid yearly by the City of London for gas was 1.50.0001. ; and his point was, that for gas of Uttar quality, and the same quantity, they ouaht only to pay ems-third of that cum—yet for tbiry years the supply of the City at umbitasit charges, had been • monopoly. Slaty mike at pipes were required for the supply of the City, and they .said be laid down at a cost of tO,OOO l. That amount could be borrowed at 6 per cent., on security of the consolidated rate, sad by laying an additional 41 on every thousand feet of gee that passed throu..h the pipes, the biter. it could be paid, sad the principal would in 2u years be discharged. Mr. IlLaearrr said he had received a copy of an set of parliament which the commonioners of s we,, were shout to get introduced, end be would caution his neighboun ho w the p y roceeded. By the 27th clause the commissioners were to be authorised to cobs the sum of 500.6001. to light the City of London. One of the commissioners mid the sum agreed epee was 100,00 W., cot 200,0001. Mr. Bircuarr and that in Maimhoster the price said was 61., yet the dividends were but 10 per cent. The cow. panics who supplied the City of L•ndon consumed 'limy year 500,000 tons of coal, sot use ti which cou.d be placed inn retort until ato of Is. had been paid. in this way the companies paid 26,0001. a year to the City. The Limo Matron.—The City only receive 4d. a ten; the remaining Bd. is takes by the government for improve 'Mots. Mr. Bracken mid it was all the same ; that sum had to oe paid. The Manchester Company lime not these duties to pay. Ile was no. enzioua tir see the lighting of Use City under the control of the Commimionen of Sewers, and all he grust...l was, though he wi-bed for a good article at a cheap rate, that his lellow.citisms would not bi. caught in a trap. ti r. AN/PROTON said the inhabitants might as well ask the corporation to interfere to reduce the price of bread and meat se or gas. The shares of nine of the metropolitan companies could he had at discount, one at per. The shares of the Imperial Company were at 12 prams.. the Independeat 20, while the City Company's abates were at 90. lie wee an old and a consiatett reformer; and he shouid have been much more pleased had to meeting bees *nevi ned to silt for reform iD OD City eorporatikm, OD OZDNIILII of franchise, sad a bettor supply of water. Mr. But. Las wctild ask whether it was hottest that the empsay shauld mho the tradesmen pay tkossand, whilst they reapplied the lamp. in the streete for 9.. 40. Mr. Hens said the Eastern Counties Railway Company bad offered to supply fihorediteh with gas at 4s. 6 per 1,000 Met, to be reduced in three years to 35.; and why, therefore, should the (Seisms be emspeiled to pay 6e. because they could nut allow a competing company to comet? The reeolutbs was put and carried by a large majority. Tau other relocations—ow, that the meeting would me its utmost endeavours to overthrow the monopoly exercised by the City Ors Cempasy ; and the other, that it wee meessery that there should be an authorised inspector of gas meters to me that the meters toted fairly between the buyer and taller, were espied unanimously, as was nee to the effect, that the whole o' the resolution' should be embodied in a petition to the Court of Common Council, and a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor, after which the lasedes bolus up. THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.—INQUEST. Yesterday an inquest wan held at the Free Hos pital, Oray'ainn road, on the bodies of Janet Johnston, Xicha , l Herpur, Bridget Quin, and James Andrews, prnm. children belonging to the Holborn Union, who had died in the Holborn Union immediately after their return from the Touting pauper asylum under circumstances with which the public are already lamiliu.—Mr. Watley, in opening the proceedings, inquired if Mr. Dmuet, the manager of the asylum, attended, and on being answered in the neative continued • It wee desirable the jury and the public should know the course he intended to take in carrying on this in quiry. If Mr. Drouet had been present, he should have salted bim to put in a list of the persons he wished to bees stained, es he did not by any mesas wish the investigation to be regarded in the light of a prosecution. It was gene rally the testimony of the public prow that on the whole the children at the Tooting establishment had been kindly treated, and the guardians of the unions to which they belonged were generally satisfied. At the sums time, the calamity which had occurred was one of the most deplorable description, one calculated to strike terror in the public mind, as indeed he knew it had done from the numberless communications he bad received. There was no more depressing agent than terror, end therefor* it was most desirable that the exact twit!' should be knows, sad it should not be his fault if anything remained unexplained. He was quite sure that the gentlemen of the jury would not object to bestow upon the caw the time and attention which its extraordinary cir cumstances demanded, of which not the least extraordinary was their holding an inquest in Middlesex on deaths which had taken place at Tooting, in Surrey. One hundred deaths had taken place within a few days, and no inquest had been held. In the conne of the present Inquiry the surgeon of the asylum should be asked how that had occurred, whether the coroner had received official notice of the deaths, and whether any public board or authority bad interfered to prevent inquiry heave a jury. He presumed that the coroner had received ohm notice, yet if he (Mr. Wilde') ha declined after such neer, he would never attempt to hold another inmost. If ever tiers was ea inquiry into appalling circumstances, the present was ow; and bow any coroner could ever hold an Inquest after declining in such a case was what he mold net understand. The eoroner for Surrey could not be unat ritiaintid with the principle upon which his 'Mee was Wooded. Every one knew that such un paid. sas the pre sent could do mired to the dead, but yet might be el Infinite service to the living. It was therefore to peewee the living, and not in any hope el swot= the aniorteneee deed, that coroners' legumes were held. It was well known that ow were were our fordlothen he the preserved= of human life that a felon was sot allowed to die in a gaol without an Inquest being held as to the ease and meaner of death, and for the purpose of aseertainhog that the law had been pro- perly administered. If these inquiries were held in the case of criminals, how much more necessary were they in the case of poor helpless children, who were not free agents, when confined in these pauper establishments. Having app ied his mind mod seriously to the matter, he could not under- Weed why no verdict had yet been returned in the Tooting ease.. Why, he had been informed that upwards of eighty deaths had taken place in one establishment there. (Sear. lion.) Mr. Grainger said that eighty had hewn buried in Teed= churchyard, when the authorities interfered to prevent nne more iaterments. A Juryman remarked that one order had been sent to Chelsea for sixty Leven coffin , . Mr. Watley said that the absence of inquiry was meet extraordinary. It was not his duty to look out fur cases of Inquiry, hut te bold them when he received proper notice. Ravi= been out of town, in eensequeuee of indisposition, all hie tomrledge of the Tooting eases was derived from the =bib joerasla. He had eon that a umber of children bad been removed, that the Board of Health had called in the m d of Mr. Graingee. sat that in eonsequenee of his recomendation, the dolidien et the Holborn Union had been removed. When he bad OM this, he came to the occlusion that numb= of =fib= would die after removal, but that did not take best the humanity of Mr. Oreinger's Interference. That gathers well knew that in India it was the regular course he el the mi sisolowntake lair departure from a . place visited by the menialass le ge and live in the Jungles, and it we well that sow escaped there provided they were not ailedied within three or four days of their departure. It wee, therefor% the beet roost emendation that - Mr. • sr amid baye givesoe it would have been wasigning the la Isainatien le have kb them la vitae a had broken out. Bee whet mart aid lirCe !L 1M...118 104p ol rye children who was left behind ea seeing yewatane el alir simonises glow m ay every day E _Le ...peel the ab• imam el Mu hat he was dearreaed wen having the bine every drenastesee asseelell with = salemity. be it genii sat le bobbed ia one day, perhaps the jury would As upon an early day fur the adjegromesit. Several of tea jury ateatimed Tuesday, which was reord hely Axed apes. _ .llt Maley them said that it should be intimated to Mr. Drawee that Me prelate would bet attassary, when if he did net stead, a men moan Arad be Yard. Dr. Harrod said that his Mewled analysis would be cow plated by that time. Mr. Wakley thought he was bound, at this stage of the proceedings, to observe that it was Mr. Winch, one of the guardlians of the Holborn aides, who had written to him the present iavidry. 19 Cbet wirer examined was Caroline Fflby, • nano in the Seabees urea, who deposed to the deaths of Janet Moan and a Wm. said respeedvely 11 and 6 lam .Tr s be r & on the 6th January, and the mord M Ma feihwhes day. The number of Holborn anion Maim rhea bask was 154. Thij mna lookad pretty welt whoa Ow het ammo up. Nor of somplaired. Janet iambs was taken ill on fieturday evening; complained of grin= sad Meat, and cried out with pain. Mr. Wing kid, the wpm of the ankle, mw her about halepaat Mee. Did ma oomplein of cramp. Witmer gave her ant Mast mad water, mad then sold water. flee died about temsp.geo two, end was ruble to the het. Asked that Wm tithe ad& be tent be about ten minutes bare she died. DM mil to have at sett drMcolty cf breath ing. CA I•IIII II I I/ I A% is the lower part of her bowels. (It was here stated that the body of this patient had been opened by Dr. Pamela.) Quin took ill on Saturday night bet ween 11 and 12 o'clock. 6yinistonis same as in the mho? cm ease S, eada only patient not purged. Ditd between 7 and 8 o'clock K rah y D i = deputy wince of the Holborn Union.— Woe present when James Andrews died, in the boys' ward. He was six years old. Died at half-past 11 on Saturday morning, having been taken ill at halt-past 6 with purging and vomitiog. Was put in hot blankets, and turpentine and medicine was administered. His skin was very cold. Had no crape. Was panted five or six times. Mary Herrin-11 a nurse in the anion. Attended Michael Harper. Died on the 8 h Jan. Died at a quarter to lin the morning. He was taken ill on Sunday afternoon. He was not paged : was sick, vomited about four time+. Cannot say hew many times the doctor saw him. Never rallied a moment. Mr. B. D. Graioger was the next witness : Is a member ol the council of the Csllege of !foresees, medial inspector under the General Board of Health, lecturer on anatomy and physiology at St. Thomas's Hospital, and author of a work on anatomy. Had been requested to visit Tooting for the purpose of inquiring into the mortality which had taken place in the pauper establishment there, and also ot ascer taining the real nature of the epe:emic Visited it on Fri day, s:h, Saturday, 6th of Jan. ' and Wodnevay following. Had prepared a report for the Board of Health, which he would reed for the jury. The board were most anxious that every document connected with the transaction should be made public. Had sorgested the le malty of an immediate inquest at Tooting. Had no means of knowing why that in quest was not held. Had no doubt but that an inquiry would take place in Surrey, at least if the board could pro cure it, but their powers Item limited. Did cot know whe ther the Secretary of State had been applied to, but believed that some communication had taken place between the se ' emery and the board. Had not bad any communication with Mr. Drouet on the subject, From the result of his I inquiries had avoided asking him any questions. Had taken no evidence from him. To a juror— The board mould not compel a coroner to hold an inquest. Their power was derived from two acts, one a p I sanitary measure, from which London and the dis trict 12 miles round was excepted (Drouet'e establishment sot being, therefore, within the operation of the act); the other the Prevention of Nuisances Act, which gave very limited powers. The Coroner here observed that the Poor-law Commis ,l stoners asserted that they bad nothing to do with Dew t's estattlise . aunt ; but he contended that they were responsible cedar the 15th section of the Poor-law. Tee Clerk of the Holborn union said that he held in his hand a letter, of 1847, from the Poor law Commissioners, approving of the removal .if the children, and requiring from time to time • report of their condition. There were assinthly visits of the guardians to Tooting. Mr. Orainger then proceeded to read the following report : MIL. oasamona's VISIT awn IMPORT. In accordance with instreetiose from the Board of Health, I visited, on Friday the sth hint , the establishment of Mr. Drouet for pauper children at Lower Tooting. I made a careful inspection of the various rooms occupied as cholera wails for the reception of the sick children. It is necessary, however, to premiss that as the powers of the general bard are limited under the nrovisions of the Nui sance Removal soil Diseases P ion Act, to the issuing of regulations and to instituting inquiries, no authority existed for enforcing any memo's which, in consequence of this in vestigation, might appear to the general beard to be dear able. I first entered theca en the female side, when I was struck by • sense of the extreme closeness, oppression , sad foulness of the air, far exceeding in oliensitrease anything I have ever yet witnessed in in hospitals, or elsewhere occupied by V= ae lt. There was esPecibilly, in the highest degree, that peculiar and sickermig smell familiar to all who are acquainted with close, unventilated, and heated rooms, overcrowded with children. The rooms were crowd. d with beds utterly disproportioned in number to the space allotted to them. In a rem, fog example, sixteen feet long, twelve feet wide, and less than eight lest high, there were five beds. occupied by eleven children, all ill with ch Sere . In an o ther room of the same dimensions, there were four bads with thirteen cholera pa tients, of whom four were in one bed, and three in each of the others. In a third room, eighteen feet bag, sixteen lees wide, and eight feet high, there were nine beds with sixteen child, en in chide., two of the beds having three patients in each, a circumstance which I observ.4 likewise in other wards. The lighting and ventilation of the whole of these wards were totally insufficient. On the boys' side, there was a room containing eighteen beds nearly touching each other, in which were thirty five boys ill with cholera, twenty-five being in bed (two in each bed) sod tea sitting retied the fire being convalescent. On* boy had just Lied on ray entrance. In this ward which is an 'rumple of the arrangement of all the main buildings of this establishment, there were windows only on one side • construction totally incompatiole with a due supply of light and air. On the female side I found only one regular nurse who was paring in and out to attend to the children in several wards, and on %stip boys' side in the room above described, coat -in ing thirty-five patients, there was only one aurae (a male) in attendance. To those who are acquainted with the nature of cholera, with the violent and most sudde.i evacuations both by so , miting and purging, it is needless to point out the utter in efficiency of such attendance. I found that the children were condarally vomiting in the beds and on the floor. and that eaaosggent ly the sheets, bedding, and flour were covered with the dieebarer, that no efficient aid w is in a single ease afforded to these suffering children, that some of them were getting out of led; and that all needed, not only for doesney - and comfort, but for actual safety, that careful and watchful attention which cholera, patients in the stage of col lapse so urgently demand. The variomi appliances found in all properly regulated in stitutions for administering relief to patients, suffering under cholera, and especially for apply Leg continued heat to the surface of th e body, a point deemed-, by all authorities, to be one of the most essential means fur the treatment of collapse, wen either totally wanting or quite inadequate. As • medical man, it is my duty to state that it is impos sible to ociseeive • state of &mass more entirely unsuited as to Ike construction of the buildings and the over crowding of the inmates, the absence of all efficient nursing and the want of the recognised means of medical and other treatment, than wr peseented in this establishment. From the riflemen of Mr. Popham, one of the parochial surpass 'lSt. Panora% who was sent down on Friday even ing by the board of ganediens of that parish, it appears the reds demand Awe hod lissome greatly aggravated in con sommes at the beareand and rapidly Maraca, number of doe elek. es Thi mots gratiemanr sa eeptleys : ' Vinod ersytedm ls rev crest coassion. nue/ Is the dams I semi kr py two m fear boys tm ask ked; sem I were dtnit e ethem in • der eleallsise, um esamtly twatior fa and bills Ira Whirs. In Me eisW dishes words, hoed it sd porels to ewe bud. In the erne bob gemeally tear in met • I bet stir* in al dr wards. The Geese wen wst hent dr maws I vesehala web, to the wog reniademet st mom end ern emu to the tom* die Ore me two lISSIS ISIMMISSISSUIS4 se as I to bra me weed. In Ws wawa there tree ea eie adne=stattithguireriwese"l== to movie. se he suddere. Ina mem is to the anersimmie mil atterimta, hued dr admen era to ; ewe male mese no the boys , weed. sod wrookraltd a Imaleole yes to to meet pet is bra word to Mew awl berg soma Uwe wee ally cos more la the wed, smi ffie 1101•1101, alre was Sr releares in al drew nom • Mem wooer , mem et mom rem: ear two ar Wee hat brat to lis knowledde sour be yearred. Am to the swam dors wises* me per st swim ass pools. sod some et the SISIIIIMSD lingua elided at ea, la ramorderre of this tad twallEalasa little Mime eademare *add be alltided to the yodente lest Mali I np=fsorMis the ask= stmemlowe et the needs, the im. et yesoodad mil palled op Me peeper mellerees led of anemias to so may derniste With so taw unnee. wise mod admire circuessimma le of minim as a easiimi preedthrer, the err. may his bum emeldreW brewed by all teas causes. Us as so the total mamba of children in the eate bpie was surprised to find that after the contiatracts ol the tor sled days, so tow had been removed; that ar airiest mesas bad bees takes to lessen the over grow/Ls, whereby the danger to those who had hitherto was g. arty inac•sd; whilst at the same time, by to = bie ratinnal aspersions the sick, the latter could not ems the assomemodation they needed, nor could this eceriseemt be removed Into less contaminated rooms. Allisrask h wee no part of my duty to interfsre with the t of the eases, yet common humanity demanded than =ld make mime effort to lawn evils of moth man ninth,. I therefore reesmusended that the services of thawed. 1 ditiosal legally . qualiffisd m. died practitioners should be ha- I meanest obta ined, _• that some physician in whom the public had should be selected to superintend the teenage trate ; that is each room containing more .haa 12 cholera , patients your properly Rualified nurses should be appointed, in order to afford assinfree. day and night ; that in the rooms with lam than 12 patient*, three names should be provided • that means should be taken so to relieve the ovetcrowding that there should be only one child ia each bed; sad that** recognised means of affording warmth, ha., should be forthwith supplied. In esenexion with the arrangements for the sick, it may line he stated that on Sunday, Jan. 7, I a gain visited Hr. Dresses eiliddlehmest ; and on Mapco the cholera I weills,l woe mask mmeseesed and , after the ex li Oka eineMMllllSltiene I had made on Friday, to find that I NM of tie corer unmet set of them had been so imperfectly 'NNW into ant. la each of the beds than wore for the I mud « a of two priers ; thus in the room with the female &Shea of St. Prmeras pariah, there were 10 beds and 19 veal, many of wham were in • state of the extreaset col- bpi. As regards the provides he aura, las celled ark M mow my strosabit IbIISPrOVIII. 011 Frai t r ie L is lll2 3 ' bur ailditiosal nurses were lent down b y the au St. Palmas ; two of thane unused on Saturday evening, a oronnee having bons gives, ace rasp to the statement of Mr. Popham, thtt six additional nurses should ho seat to Tootling as the nuns madam which, however, was not real ised flannel on Sunday that the proprietor of the establish ment had not added a sisals nurse ; so that the only lon made shim Friday @assisted of the tee women ' who still remained ham Pastes' • sad yet at Ms time there were 178 Molars patients suedes Lestmest, bskg as increase aims Friday of so lens than 61. On a mom Ism ezamina tion the rendes of this laramtable sad espolimaible neglect were mast afforest. I found lour of the lamb wards ander this care of sae sume—s woe= being* m the establish- I mast. sad whom I had sass ea my provisos visit. Is the ward with the St. Pancras heals polka% 19 is number, them we but one nurse, who to am drit die had been up lime she same on Friday evoniag. Os the boys' side, I found that in a null satag, halides several c dren labourinz wails semplaiam, me singers pa tient sad 8 with dismisms, was a emu of the selabiniumst, who had bens up an Friday night, as Wert part of Satur day, all Saturday sight, ad os &sae" toy the elms of my visit. Is the adjoining bugs? ward with 19 patients, same of whose were essnaleassat, was one male suns ; whilst is a shied room Ma bads , head eel, ass female nurse, I mesa hp St Ammo who lidermod mo she bad cm wee= tu w the day ties, bat she herself had bons up all the time, Ism her arrival on Friday eves in. whim - rem It is right that the names of them two prang women tram St. Panora, who have thus Ymssdod Moir own lives is the attempt to save that cif others Amid be reseeded—they are idary Anne Keith and S ash Mom An attempt was made to make up for this iassffizient 'ap ply of nurse+, by employing some of the alder pauper bays end girls still free from strata. In one of the boys wards I found, for example, four boy, of the average age el 13, than assisting ; even some of the children recovering from cholera were so employed. This is a most objectionable procedure, inasmuch as to bring children already minden by the cholera poison, and perhaps on the very verge of an attack, into the costaminated atmosphere of such *k wards as these, was to expose them to imminent danger, whilst as regards those who were tree-melee, it was of primary importance that they, instead of being detained in attendance on the sick, should have been removed as early as possible into properly pre pared convalescent wards. The comeguesee of all this inexcusable neglect was that on Sunday the bed clothes were still naked with the evacua tions of the suffering child*, and that the few nurses who were in the wards were oblige d to run from one bed to ano thee ; and that the patients were most inefficiently attended With reference to the medical assistance for the tick, I found one resident medical officer, 25 years of age, • member of the College of Burgeons and Apothecaries Hall, who had bean the medical officer of the eratdishment during the last two months, having to take the charge of 1,370 children at the remuneration of 601. a year, with board rnd lodging. This gentleman states that he bad visited the hulks at Wool wich, where he had seen some eases of cholera; and, also, that be had, in two previous situations, bad the charge of pau per patients. It appears that • slgnifirant warning of the approaching outbreak was given le days before • single case of cholera had occurred. Three girls were on Friday, Dec. 15, attacked with vomiting, diarrhoea, and collapse; but this warning was not uncersteod by the resident medical officer who " supposed the cases wen dependent on cold and damp ness;" and thus, no suspicion being awakened of the tree character of the attack, none of those preventive measures which experience has proved to be most effective were adopted; se inquiry wss instituted as to the prevalence of diarrhea among the children ; no alteration was made in their diet ; and no means were adopted to guard them from the noxious effects of overcrowded and unventilated rooms. If at this tame, 14 days before the fatal outbreak, due and proper measures had been carried into effect, a large part of the evil that has since occurred, it is certain, would have been avoided. It further appears, from the evideame, that after the attack of cholera no efficient means were adopted either to discover the extotence of the pre monitory diarrhoea, or for its • ment when it was brought under notice. With respect to the treatment of the premonitory diarrhea, although all the medical authorities connected with the Board of Health in Ragland, Ireland, and Scotland have, in their published instructions. advised the use of some preparation of opium, that medicine had not been administered in a single case of diarrhait up to my visit on Friday, the medical officer rely ing on astriagents. On examining the buildings and premises appropriated to the children in general, I found that the boys' dormitories had only windows on one side, • most unfavourable arrange ment both as regardi light and air ; the same observations also apply to the school rooms. The DORMITORIES are greatly tevererowd• d ; and in those for the lounger children, the arrangement was that three children should sleep in one bed. In the ficitooL-titton foe boys the master informed , me there were, when all were present, 600 ; the length of this room being 94 feet, the width 21 feet, and the height 11 feet. Tits VSNTILATION is most defective, and entirely tacos- patibl- with the maintenance of health, even in the case el a much smaller number of boys than that above .pecilleal. I , The girls' school-room is used for 260 children ; it is lighter than that of the boys, but the ventilation is tepidly defective as in the preceding met. In connexion with these , school rooms, it is necessary to state that Mr. Hall, the I assistant poor•law commissioner, informed me that in the I beginning of the month of November last, he and Mr. Tufnell gave Mr. Dreamt • written order, limiting the number to he received in the boys school room to 400, and in the girls' school-room to 160. This order, which ought, even under the ordinary circumstances of health, to have been immediately carried into operation, was ne g lected, and, , as it must be presumed, to the injury of the children's health. Tits YARD 01 PLAT-OKOVND was damp and wet, owing, as it appears, to its limited size and to the buildings by which it is mere or less surrounded. Mr. Semple. one of the medic el officers of Islington, stated to me that he had com plained of the wet and damp condition of the premien. All this is most unfavourable to the health of young children, for as there are no day rooms, the children must either go into this damp yard, or remain in the school rooms or dor mitories. welch, on other ground', is equally objectionable. One part of the buildings requires a special notice. About fire or six months ago, or according to the evidence of Mr. Walter Chapman, one of the late medical attendants of this establishment, • Lew range of building, constituting one long room, was erected in the immediate vicinity of a yard, in which • large number of animals, pigs, cows, horses, and payday, are kept. These premises are, moreover, in • most objectionable situation, as they are placed very near to the two foul open ditches or drains, dessribed in the evidence of Mr. Lovick, of the Sewers Commission. When this build- I ing was erected, and before any chilnren had been placed in ; it, Mr. Walter Chapman, then the professional medical sah visor of Mr. Dem*, expr essed his opinion that "the Commie timers of the Poor or of the Board of Health would insist ea the removal of the pigsties and animals, if the children were tellers there." Notwithstanding this representation 150 children were placed in this room. The present medical officer has also expressed to the proprietor his opinion that the locality was not suitable. In consequence, es it is believed, of these representations, some of the animals have been removed, but I raw a large number of poultry still in the y a• d, and some pigs also remain. One of the ditches was also cleaned out about a fortnight ago, but in so ignorant • manner, the offensive mad being thiown upon the banks, as to increase the evil by extending the evaporating surface. (See report of Mr. Lovick). In the immediate neighbourhood of this establishment, and intersecting the land in all directions, are numerom cpen ditches, canals, and pieces of water of the most offensive character. The condition of these foul strew*, and their relation to the of Mr. Dronet, are very clearly and correctly deseri in the report of Mr. Lovick kerewiah ap pended. It is only requisite, therefore, in this place to state that no locality more unfit for the lodgment of a large number of children could possibly have been selected ; and the fact that the inmates of this establishment have hereto. fore escaped violent epidemic diseases, can only be attributed to the dilution by the pure air of the country of the poison. • oue effluvia constantly pear* forth by the vast extent of a exhaling surface chsetibed in Mr. Loviek's report. In eonsilering the causes of this awful visitation, the more impieties, circumstances requiring notice are ; Firstly, the locality ; secondly, the diet and clothing of the children ; ' and lastly, the number of children in the establishment. As ' regards the locality, there can be no doubt that it has emend a most injurious influence oa the children; for although, according to the evidence of Mr. Walter Chapman , the amount of actual sickness in the establishment has not been high, yet the experience ef the present epidemic has plainly demonstrated that the censtitutnn and health is • ' dirge nurane of instances must have been seriously deterio rated. Thus f..r, I have no hesitation in stating my opinion that the foul wenn surrounding Mr. Dronet's premises , have, by their exhalations, acted most deleteriously; and by thus inducing a high degree of susceptibility to disease, have greatly ammvated the intensityof the attack ,aad augmented the mortality. Bat it is certain that the injurious locality has only played a secondary and indirect part in this epidemic, and for this obvious reason—that whilst • large number of persons, in- habitants of Tooting, and of the poorer classes, have been en posed to the same noxious effluvia, though probably not quite in the same degree, not one of them, either adult or child, has hitherto given any indications of being affected by the cholera poison. trader such perilous circumstances, it was of course my duty to institute • searching enquiry into the present state of health of this populous village, and I therefor* requested the medical officer of the d net to I ascertain if say of the inhabitants, and especially the children of the poor, were labouriag under diarrhea, or other affece don indicative of cholera. The result of this investigation I am rejoiced to say has been most satisfactory by showing in • conclusive manner that up to the present date there has been so Olinda of disease above the average. This being I the ease, the essential causes of the outbreak meet be sought in the establishment itself. Arid SM, as regards the diet. This consists of meet three team • weel, padding once, and peas soup three times a week. Oa thquiry, and ques- tioang a considerable number of children, I am bound to state that in many instances it has been defective In quantity, the hied and quality of the diet also have been of as objec tismable *erecter, and liable especially in • season like the resent le have exerted an injurious influence an the Wsy Weise them eireemsessess, it is to be mach regretted that the prepristee did aside essmasece with the ressermeeda- ins breed by the general board, dissuades* the see d a vegetable diet. If instead of feeding the.. children se Kw en a Idea of food, peas (halms to exert in Emmy mass a isiessos cm the am% a dietmet= ....V7 solid sad dry awl Ihrieseseer feed had beer. tated for glees vegetables mime die &elm sppeer,ehed the there ere saiffelset grounds he felleitir4 that the stem ma the children weeldlave bees lease maintained, and that, ecesequatly, ewe vaismase wield have boss offered to the to et the epidomis ladleseer, ef *ekes. With rapist to <he staling this it ifierAffeet, padre- lady as omens' the provision of flannel next the skin, • paint of 'Timmy impatience be midataining the health of alt rang chlidrea. Alter saatiarely considering fal the choninstaaers em emoted with the painful occurrence, lam induced to ezprees my firm torriaboa that the eseential Cann of all the oile r:WM has been the inordinate over-eroirding of this establish meat Dangerous se I coneeith the ellen* from the hal sewers and stagnant ditches to be, yet diluted is they me by d i tt e ce wi ris otun..v t as n lia sl yr prensuod ium billa b s y tacisa the Jaun t W iudil ls ; up to this time of the inmates of ether Milan 2411, these moats sad ponds. But the state of overrowdLtr was loth is must have lowered the health of the inmates is Much times, end was almost certain to produce disease under the =g Whams et &a epidemie Gandhi's of the alma Without doubt both the mimes Mavis end the overcrowding contributed to the 'similes result; bat a these two causes I attack the utmost Weinman. le the over► croweiag, which on any site, when serried to sash an oxtail Se will be immediately shown to have prevailed I. this este blishomet, mast have lowered the health of the inmates end reihreed them to dimes. lean hoot information derived from the pace-law 4= ion that oa the 23d Dec. the total number of children vast ILr. Drowit's charge aracuated to 1,372. The original rendes were totally insufficient to accommodate this large number, and consequently, as suconsive additives were coo tributed by various perishes, new buildings were erected. Ise the coestraition of time buildinpe none of the sanitary pre cautions so unready demanded by the circumstances were observed; no effective emanation was provided ; and, nes einUy it must be palatal out, that the space allowed. both in the dormitories and schoolrooms, was altogether inadequate to the number of inmates they subsequently received. It is one of the bestamertained facts in the euestruction of hospi tals, that wards contenting • large number of patients in each, se seen so often in continental cities, exert • must pre judicial agleam over the patients lodged within them, and never can he rendered so healthy as smaller wards. The same principle strictly applies to the ease of apartments de signed for children, eepatially these of Mader age. In the present instanes this injueous system has been reined to the unison extreme, and hap, by inducing a highly susceptible state of the system, enabled the efficient cause of cholera, at a time when that epidemic gyre so many plain indications of its existence, to operate with intense energy among the crowded inmates of this establish ment. It may bs affirmed, that in ne public institution I. the kingdom, however well contrived and regulated, could so large a number of children, with the existing defective sa nitary arrangements, be received without an injurione &tenon being excited on the state of health. This being so what but the most evil results could be anticipated by thi; collection of nearly 1,400 children in an establishment formed upon no plan ; expanded hastily to receive the repeated in flux pouring in from so many parishes, supervised by no eon. petent authorities, and treed from the wholesome control deemed essential to the safety and wellbeing of every pare chial citablisbni,ut in the kingdom ? If trier* be any one part in the pauper population requiring more than another watrbful and solicitous care, it i. assureuly that large part of it comprising children of tender age. To these, much more than to adults, whose vital powers are fully developed, • free supply of pure air, a provision of gracious and well-warmed rooms, and of dry and airy premises are, in addition to a suitable diet and proper clothing, indispensable to the main tenance of health. If any of these conditions he violated, not only will *he general stamina of the children be in many instauces permanently lowered, but the danger of violent and destructive epidemics will be ever impending. As indicative of the evil and pet nicious influence of the overcrowding and improper diet, it is important and iote rcsting to state that out of 56 adults employed in various ca, picnics in the establishment, only one case of cholera had occurred up to Sunday, Jan. 7 In ooucladiog this report, it is my duty to call the atten • tion of the General Board of Health to some facts connected with this districting case. It is. in the first place, certain that if the various instructions contained in the several noel ficaunns of the board had been duly observed and efficiently carried into execution, a large part, if net all, the evils that have occurred would have been avoided. It has been shown, for example, by the evidence of Mr. Lovick, that a fortnight before the outbreak, one of the foul ditches near the premises was emptied, and the filthy mud thrown on the bank., in contravention of the following clear direction contained in the second notification of the General Board, bearing date October 31, 1848: we), refinance to the Luger works of cleansing, such as the cleansing out of long lines of ditchea, or the removal of large masses of thoompoiing refuse, much mischief has wow times been occa sion. d when the operation has been es ignorantly and unekiltully conducted as to increase the extent ,of the evaporating surface, as when the contents of foul ditches have been spread out an the banks and allowed to remain there ; and when owsoools have been emptied into drains or sewers having no proper fall, or no run for the din harge of the contents from ben etb inhabited houses. Works of this kind should be conducted under the superintendesee of a person who posseises some knowledge of the *mare of the pews evolved, the atmospheric and other conditions that promote their copious evolution, their probable efforts on susceptible and the mode of diminishing or averting them. either br tM temper use al dm' donsing fluid., or by other anon The need omcer, who may be expected to be the hot informed in these respect., should, there fore, as before elated, be required to take the general supolntendence of such operators. Again, with respect to the premonitory &webers, lemon', was no attention paid to the purging, which it has been shown !scams so prevalent • week before the more decided attack of cholera, as to attract the notice of schoolmasters, hut even the occurrence of 3 well marked canes of ,:ailing, purging, and collapse Occuroing 14 days before the outureak awakened no suspicion of the approaching evil. Upon this point the general board has been mot solicitous to diffuse correct information. In the Ist notification, dated Oct. 5, 1844, in addition to other cautions of a similar kind, ocean the following passage: It must be repeated, however, that whenever Asiatic cholera is epi demic, the slightest °epee of looseness of the bowels aught to be re garded end treated as the commencement of the ditto.; which, at his stage, is (nimble of being arrested •.y simple means, hat it ne glected only for a few hot" may suddenly 'swine a fatal form. The notifications were widely diffused and ought to have time to the knowledge both ,if Mr. Monet and the varioai bJerds of guardians which had children in the Tooting esta blishment; they were inserted in the Gazette, copied into the newspapers, and, moreover, were expressly sent to each board of guardians throughout the kingdom, and also to the medical officers of the various unions and parishes. These feet' relate to the circumstances antecedent to the fatal outbreak. Oa its actual occurrence there appears from the evidence to have been even more reprehensible neglect. No means for separating the healthy from the sick were taken for seven days after the first cases. The directions of the general board of the date of Nov. 6, 1848, urn this point are to the following effect : And we also authorim and require the said guardians, where it shall appear media, to provide rooms or filarial of refuge to which may be removed the rani ths of such neeessitosa persons as have been at tacked with cholera, and also web necessitous persons living tinder the same roe! with, or in the vicinity of, persons so attached, as the medical dicers acting under the authority of the wild guardians may deem it necessary to remove; and the Mimeo, rooms, or dwellings from which personsimay have been so removed to the houses of refuge shall be cleansed and purified by the owners or persons having the care or ordering thereof, or in their default by the said guardians. If under the ordinary circumstances attending an out bream in • town or city, this measure is, as it is recognised to be, of primary importance to break the force of the epidemic, how infinitely more imperative was it in the ease of this esta blishment,overcrowdel to excess, and with few or none of the appliances demanded for the treatment of the sick. That the sudden removal of nearly 1,400 children, under such circumstances, was • difficult procedure, and one which could only be justified by the urgency of the occasion is self-evident; but with children falling into collapse every minute, with such an awful and rapid mortality, and with such • state diking* as that described in the cholera wards, there was but one step to be adopted by the guardians—the instant removal, under medi cal advice, of all the children not yet seised to properly prepared and sufficiently spacious premises unconnected with any other buildings. This was the recommendation made by me to the general board, and by it communicated to the local authorities of the parishes interested. Seeing the distinct evidences of a general poisoning among these children, and knowing that they were all still subjected to the gams pernicious agencies, which bad caused all the mischief, my conviction ea, that if they had no: been taken out of the establishment and removed to a rer atmosphere and uncrowded rooms, the epidemic would have continued to rage among them until hundreds had been di strayed. That many must, notwithstanding this ! measure, still be attacked and perish, was foreseen and ex- ;deiced to the parochial authorities, for the children were al ready poisoned, and whether they remained, or whether they were removed, the result must have been the same, except that in the latter case a larger number paring into a more favourable atmosphere, would be enabled to resist the noxi ous influence, and escape. The interests both of tenth and humanity compel me to affirm that no effort or attempt was made on the part of the proprietor to carry into execution some of the most es sandal of my recommendations given on Friday, Jan. 5, and which were capable of speedy execution. Among the foremost of these, next to obtaining further medical aid, was the provision of a sufficient number of competent nurses. I a:rosily stated to Mr. Dronet , and to his medical attendant, Mr. Hite, that to each of the wards containing men than twelve cholera atients, four nurses should be allotted, and in wards with Peas than twelve patients, throe aurae. Oa Sunday, Jan. 7, as already stated, I found in all eel two additional nurses; and yet, it sty recommendation had beim carried into effect, as there ere eightwards, there would have been in attendance on the poor sufferers at least 32 nurses. Oa my remonstrating with Mr. Drouet upon this gross neglect, he replied that he had understood me to say that I reecimeneaded four new nurses for all the wards, and this he was supported by his medical cheer. Fortunately, la additioa to my own distinct and certain eenviction, there is the testimonyof Mr. Hall, the poor haw inspeator, who, in his repot addressed to the poorlaw semnsee, dated Jen. 6;1849, Mahe— Mt- =aissetred that be (Itr. Monet) slinsii at sees mess Ulm moiled to nosh cia Ms mimeo% end mile • sieisa of wises" emmenes wee eleders Is =Ts enhal Sofig ; ha thee relied Ma to sepelea row roma ea sew ward la there Wen al Mayas helm arch affildrma Tes attempt to remedy the evil eased by inattention to my threctiens,thildrea still unattached as already mentioned ' were brought into the cholera wards to act as nurses, thus pealing thiar lives by greatly increasing the danger of an ale* fabled as they mat already have been ley the rhos eniseJoer consequenge of this neglect was that th e few nurses Isallemithse were exhaasted with fatigue : two of them, him IR Pawns, had been in attendance on the slek ken Friday night, and were thus placed in a nest dimrstess cooditioa, perilous to their lives by Wog messed to the epidemic with the vital reins debillhaled by loog watching and irises sent **RA aho urged the east importance of pladm sash Aglow patient in a separate bed; but on Sunday hemi sheen even bed still ethopied by we children. aninat creep the notice of the booed that in many other sioillalle==h Mr. Drolet has evinced great neglect. alta he meshed both famish foe. mm aid present medical attendant, he persisted la Mao *Wag 160 children Imo the new building alluded to above, whim the air in its immune viebsity was poisoned by Use adhaleilime hem the yard containing animals. The preprinter was van, indifferent be the mime seder of the peer-law essasslabeara, Maws. Tamil' mod Mall, limiting the aember alebilima both in the salmi he the boys and in that he the gbh/re meet moseasbees paint with each an erremweseded seehelume. I meet aim Mate that the pro. primer ebMeneeed rep ingeky by sharply rebuking one of the under IMMO WPM I was questioning respecting the prevalence el Merriam among the boys. It is tile esmesreene of all the dm needled gentle men wise hew the alldren, that the epidemic is true Made abeam; MI theme gentlemen are acquainted with the dims% aatd las if then has had an opportunity of Mancini it extendrely at the general hospital of Calcutta. las also state that m 7 own experience is entirely in with their opinion. I have, in conclusion, to state that the several professional gentlemen sent to attend the sick. Mr. Popham, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Penny, and Mr. Phillips, have been meet zealous and earnest in the discharge of their arduous duties ; that they have sot oily acted as medical men by visiting night and day those actually attacked, and by sedulously watching over the safety of those still free from seizure, but they have endeavoured, by their own unceasing exertions, to supply the want of nun' by administering medicine with their own hands and otherwise attending the patients. I have already noticed the conduct it the two nurses, Sarah Sellers and Mary Anne Keith. which is above all praise.—R. D. GRAIN -0111, January 8,18471. A SICOIOD Savoxy was read from Mr. Lovick on the state of the ditches in Lower Tooting, and stated that the whole of the sewerage of Lower Tooting was subserved from an open ditch, which descended to Mr. Drouet's establish ment oonstantly filling it with malaria. The centre of the principal dormitory was only 350 feet distant. The report contained many of the particulan which have already been published in various stages of the investigation, and con cluded by recommending a thorough cleansing and flushing ad the ditches. A THIRD ILIPORT was read. It was a surplemental one by Mr. Graienrer, statiag the stepeof investigation by which he had aseertaitind the diseue.at Tooting to be true Asiatic cholera, and the same" d the medical gentlemen who con marred with him in option. All the medical gentlemen who had visited Tooting were unanimous as to the nature of the disease. . . The Coroner said that the jury and the public were mink indebted to Mr. Grainger, for the extremely valuable reports he had read, but it would be necessary that he should ask him a few further questions. In answer to questions—Wit nese had no doubt that the epidemic which had broken out at Tooting was true Aviatic cholera. Mr. Greinger here gave a lengthened explanation of the different symptoms of Asiatic cholera, as described by Gorman, Indian, Russian, and English physicians, but the statement was of too strictly a medical character to be of interest to the general reader. All the symptoms described by those authorities, or those which his own experience supplied, he had found in the Tooting cues, and se had not the slightest doubt on his mind but that they were true Asiatic cholera. He was also convinced the cholera was present in Linden, and w►s picking out the places predisposed to its reception. In answer to the Coroner, Mr. Grainger declared that laudanum combined with a stimulant, was the best remedy in the pre monitory stage, but declined to mention the exact dose, as it might tempt petiole to attempt its treatment themselves without applying to a physician, which was a point of the first necessity. No. 1 circular of the Board of Health con tained the lest instructions on the subject All the medical gentlemen who had visited Tooting coincided in his opinion as to the nature of the disease. He was decidedly of opinion that the disease was not contagious. In Tooting it was re stricted to the asylum as much as if the building had been surrounded with a waU of iron, although people from the town went in sad out of the place every day. The special causes to which he attributed the outbreak at Tooting were the diet and regimen, and, above all, the overcrowded state of the dormitories It was the system to which the calamity must ultimately be attributed. The Coroner m►de an observation strongly condemnatory of the conduct of the medical officer of the Wandsworth union in ordering the removal of bodies from Tooting within twelve hours. Re had known cases where persons supposed to be dead in cholera had revived. Mr Grainger read a minute of the Board of Health de claring that the farming system off red no security for the health of the children, and recommendiug that it should be put an end to. In answer to the coroner the witness stated that he had examined a coosiderabie number of the children at Tooting, and had found that generally they were not in a gold state of health. There was great pallor, soreness of the eyes, while a great many seemed to have the itch. Stiil some were in perfect health, hut in his opinion it would he utterly impossible to crowd 1,400 children together in any building without producing dis.ase ; 70 children could leep safely in one chamber. In hospitals they were abolishing the large wards. The proceedings were then adjourned to ten o'clock on Tuesday next. CllOLEßA.—Yesterday the Board of Health lamed the following report of fresh cases :—Retuge, Ogle-street, Marylebone, 3, 1 fatal; Newington Workhouse, 1 fatal ; St. Pancras Workhouse, 1 fatal ; Wandsworth 2. fatal ; Drouees Establishment, Tooting, 6 fatal, under treatment, 107; West Reedhant, No 1011., 4, 1 fatal; Gateshead, 3 fatal; Edits. burgh, 8 fatal •; Glasgow, 92, 32 fatal ; Dumfries, 1 fatal ; Maiwelltown, ; Jedburgh, 1 ; Mick&Mee, 1 ; Bonhill, 1; Kilcradock, 7.2 fatal ; Marchline, 1 fatal : total new cases, 124, 60 deaths. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The quarterly ge neral meeting of this society was held yesterday, at is rooms, 74, Kina Willianostreet, John Wild, Ewi , vice-presiden., in the their. From the secretary's report it appeared that from Ist Oct. to 3lst Dec., 1848, there had been received on board the Dreadnought, patients from her Majesty's ship.. 30; from the Ron. Eat India Company's ships, —; from British and foreign merchant vessels, 637: making, with those on board Ist Oct (170), 837; of whom 6.54 had been discharged, 170 were still sick, 7 convalescent, and 6 fit fur duty. Tne number of cholera cases had been about 30. The total number received since the establishment of the society had been 58.767. The out-patients from let Oct. to 31st Dec. were 481. The expenditure during the quarter hal been 1.3591. 3s. 5d., leaving a balance in hand at Milian. of 1524 7s 4d. The cue in litigation between the society and the comoration of Liverpool, as to the construction of the Seamen's Registration Act it was expected would come on in the sittings after nest term. Mr. Bush, the senior surgeon, had in consideration of his valuable services been made by t the directors an honorary life governor. Thanks having been • voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. . . COUNTY COURT JUSTICE. Sir,— Of late that monstrous abuse of justice, the Palace Court, has called forth the severe animadversion of the press. Permit me, sir, to direct your attention to another " bird of the same feather," the County Court. In 1847 I parchased a villa at Moul.ey Bunt ; the house requiring repair I employed London tradesmen to carry out that object. My business being in London, I was necessarily absent from Monkey, but I loft in charge of the premises a gardener and his wife, with strict injunctions not to order anything into the house without my sanction—an order they not only strictly obeyed, but also communicated to the tradesmen of the vicinity. Having got rid of the workmen, and settled everything as I imagined, I WIN favoured with a bill of 21. 6s. 3d. for coals. As I had oaid for what fuel I had given orders for, I ascertained from my servants that they lead neither ordered the coals nor seen them. Feeling it must either be a mistake or an imposition I took no further notice of the matter until I received another bill, which had now grown into an account of 21. Bs. 11d., with the a,treeable addenda, " if not paid before the 26th it will be put in the county court." Upon comparing the two accounts, I disco vered that they in nowise corresponded. One was for the year 1817, the other for 1848 ; the dates of the month were widely dissimilar, as also the items. The 15th of November I wee served with a summons from the Kingston County Court foe 21. 19i. 11d., which summons I left town to at tend. I then leant that the coals were ordered by a jour neyraan painter employed in pasting my house. Being sworn, I dented ever giving the man any authority for or. dering any goods in my name, which testimony was con firmed by the oaths of my servants, who declared that they had never been bad. The plaintiff thereon, not being able to prove his plaint, prayed an adjournment, which the judge granted. I was then served with a notice as followeth Order to ad)ournFtffinfra.—ln the County Court of Kingston. — Between J. Togs, ti ff, and J. Moo, defendant. it is ordered that the trial th action to adjourned until, Be., noon plsintlf paying the costs of such adjournment.—By order of the court, Punta Funny', clerk. Again was I dragged 24 miles into the country from my business, and found myself upon this occasion opposed by the plaintiff's wife and the painter who had ordered the coals. Upon ages-examining this person, I elicited that the coals were brought to my premises, but afterwards were taken away. e • • • Upon this evidence, in despite of my solemn denial of all knowledge of the transaction, • denial corroborated by my servants, and a master trade.- man, whom the plaintif f bad subpoenaed, and in face of the glaring discrepancies in the two accounts rendered me, the learned judge adjudged me to pay the amount sued for and costs forthwith. My surprisswaa still further heightened upon finding I had also to pay the costs of the plaintiff's adjourn ment, contrary to the official notice before quoted. I tra velled 48 miles to attend the court at an expense of 31. I lost two days valuable time which I compute at 51., and had tegyay no less a suer. than '3l. for county court fees upon • claim of 21. fie. Ild. : so much for the vaunted cheer:via of the system. There being no appeal from the dictum of the oonaty court, prevents me removing the case to a higher tribunal.—l am, air, your obedient servant, Joni; HIRON, Veterinary Chemist to her Majesty, 12, Dover street, Picca dilly. COST OF THIS INSURRECTION IN CANADA.—Sir, — Permit me to correct a mistake in your report of what I said at Manchester on the 10th. The report makes me sty that it had coat " 10,000,0001." to put down the insurrection in Canada; my statement was, that the sums voted for that purpose amounted to upwards of 2,000,0001.—1 em, itc, Thomas Miuezk Omen, 60, Wilton-crescent, London.— Jae. 12, 18 4 9. HABEAS CORPllll.—Sir,—ln consequence of your report from the Exchequer in to-day's p.per, which com pletely calla in question the truth of my affidavit, it becomes necessary for awl to explain that my affidavit having been sufficient for issuing the writ of habeas, and the return being sufficient fee remanding me, it was then my right to move thereupon for an attachment 'against the keeper, to compel him to support his return upon oath. Notice of my intention to do this, if the return was not true, was given in the usual form, with such writs issuing out of the Crown. once, and the notice appeared an nexed to the return in c ourt. The right to apply for such attachment is absolute under the two acts of Haheas such via., 31 Charles c. 2, and 66 George 111,, c. 100. By the Lori Chief Baron THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13. 1449 stopping sad preventing 1314 Irma moving for the attairmeut, and, matha contrary, warning me of • criminal proceeding by Se Attersey•Oeneral on my affidavit, he reversed the order of intim enacted by the above acts and which is the pktioe and of muse in, right; for it s my affidavit which is to be premised to be true still (as yet), and not the ream, and I me die promenter and not the culprit.—l am. fie.—Wx. Connor.—Queen's Priam, 12th Jan., 1849. INQUEST, YEITEROAT. - A WOMAN BURNT TO Disant.—Befove Mr. Bedford, at the Plough, Carry.street, I,taalu'rinn flews , on the body of Isabella Frances Turner. Mrs. Ann Green deposed that ceased was her servant, and that on Dec 24. about eight o'clock in the morning, de mand ems into witumis bedroom, while she was in bed, with her clothes in flames. Witness, fearing that the cur tains might also catch firs, suosseded, after much difficulty, in pushing the doomed out of the room, and gave the alarm. The Sums were not extinguished until the unfortunate was dreadfully burnt. Deceased told witness, before her death, that she was in the act of removing a terkettle from the Ire when her clothes ignited.—Mr. S. Salter, house surgeon to King's College hospital, stated that the deorased was dreadfully burnt, her whole body being charred. Verdict —"Accidental death." IRELAND. DUBLIN, J•N. 12. In former times the first day of term was a sort of gala day at the four courts. 'the young hamsters were then paraded through the courts on taking the oaths, and the Court of Chancery was always full of other silk gowns besides those of the Queen's counsel, for the lady friends of the half & dged young ravens made a point of attendine to see them spread their wings into professional life. But "we have changed all that." The young bar risters are not sworn in now until a week after the beginning of term, in order that the benches may institute a strict inquiry into their ante cedents, and so the first day of term has lost its eel4t, and the courts are not now so much visited by the fair sex air under the old rule. There is a large arrear of misheard causes in Chan cery, and the profesiron is speculating as to what mode must be adopted of dealing with the arrear, which is becoming a very serious evil. All the judges sat yeste:day, with the exception of Baron Penne father and Mr. Justice Torreon. There is a lengthy letter in this morning's Free man's Immo!, from Mr. John O'Connell, in which be intimates hii intention of supportin4 Mr. Fagan, M.P. for Cork, in that gentleman's interded opposi tion to the plan for limiting the area of taxation. Mr. John O'Connell has addressed his letter to Mr. Henry Grattan. Scarcely the slightest attention is paid here to any suggestion coming from the member for Kil kenny. He has no influence whatever over the public mind. Immediately after the first drawing-room here, the Lord-Lieutenant intends to give a hal orsturne on the most splendid scale. The weather continues severe. Up to this hour there are three London mails dee, namely, two trom Holyhead and one from Liverpool. It is said that one of the members for the King's County is going to resign his seat. THE SRERIFFa.—One of the greatest abuses in the pre sent system of appointing eherifls is the tar , that in loins counties of Ireland the same sub-sheriff has for • Wog series of yearn monopolised the office of ui.der sheriff So that the whold jury system is thereby placed under the con trol of one self.elected person. For the last twenty y an and upwards the sub shriev-Ity of the great county of Cork has been porsessiA by one family, which has amassed a fortune in the office, having bad sufllcient influence with the landed aristocracy to secure its posamion of the shrievalty. Such a system is doubtless unci,natitutiooal. It has been broken ti rough in the present yr tr by Viscount Kilwnrth, who has nomMsted his priory solicitor, Mr. Burke, of Fennoy, as his nth-sheriff for the current year. This departure from the old system in so importmit a county as Cork, has caused a good deal of n mark id our 1. gal ...ales hire. Mr. Burke is a conservative solicitor oft rest intim: p, being land agent to the Karl of Mountc 'shell, Sir Ileibert Abercrtinhy and various other extenstv pr...niewrs 11. Munster. His appointment to the aub-shriesslty has. in spite of his p-litic., deservriely given mn&' ast:ithietion, as he is a gentleman of the highest personal ch.use..r, and is most respectably c "nneeted. WALES. FATAL ArCIDENT ON TIM MEtvAt STRAIT,. —On Tuesday last, on the Menai Straits, near the town ~1 Cnnear van, one of the ferrymen had gone to letco a bow widen had been undergoing repair, and, h tying obtain n 1 it, 1.. pro ceeded to the fern house on the Carnarvon sig'C, in order to take in passengers prior to crossing thf. water. On Lin arrival at the ferrykonse, ho found three men wtsitinv fore p.s,sge; these were taken on board, and at about ten at night the boat started en her voyage to the Anglesey snore. li.mrtly after another, a target and more cotnniod4ms e. awl, lett the ferrybouse to cross the Straits. This bon suecee,ted in reaching the opposite shore in ssfety; hut, tet their arrival, it was found that the first vessel bed not reached her deed nati..n. As it blew a henry gale, it wan at once conjectured that an accident had occurred, and immediat.. steps were taken to uldnin some tidings of the miming beet. All effOrta, however, proved ineffectual ; and, as time %to., on, it be came but too apparent that the boat, with all on board, had been lost. The neat day the boat was S,uad on the sand banks, much shattered. One of the bodit s o•dt has b. en re covered. Nrw Carmarthenfthire, is completed. The bridge, which is the third largest in the kingdom, being nearly 150 feet span, is buid principally of Idatk marble, at an expense of about 18,0001. Olouctbter bridge cost 60,0001., and Chester 441.0001. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMIILIDOI, JAN 12.—Cintior'aCoLLP.ot.—BLECTIONOT Alsortia.—Bov.J. Shaw, tienior Fellow, and formerly tutor of Christ's College, am this morning, at a amuse 01 the eociety, sleeted Baster, la the room of the Lord Bishop of Chester, resigmd. Qt lOM'S COLIZOIL—G. C. Pollard. WA. (17th Wrangler, 1147), was this morning elected a Foundation Fell•nr of the abore-named society. THE BlattOr Or CUEIITER, on Thursday Lot, consecrated the newly erected pariah church of ItunoorlL The old church, hay ing browns ruinous and incapable of repair was taken down, and the viewed church has been ereetel upon the site of it, at a curt of about 10,0001. The old church contained 782 witting., the new one contains 938, of which 370 are free, in addition to 138 for the us. of the chit dren of the pariah. The amount ham been rained partly by sublexip , non and partly by motley_ borrowed on the rate, CIAIIOMTUN CUM LIKANOE knellllEA U.—This church, built under a special ant of parliament, has been 'amused for divMst sereica. YhEYERMENT.—Rev. E. Eliot, to ?h.: Prebend ot Ca nonry of Durnford, in the cathedral church of Sarum, Wilts. VACANCI VL—Easton Grey R.,Wilta, ino. G. and B.; 3001. with residence; pat., Rev. W. S. Mich.—South Lambeth Chapel, (Ho. Win.; pats, proprietors with rector. NAVAL. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Tha Rapid, 8, Com. R. Dixon. arrived to-day from the coast of Africa, having left Asoension on the sth ult. The shipe on the station were disposed as follows : —ln the Bight: Amphitrite, Firefly, Dolphin, and titer. Southern station: raveboite, Widest, Philomel, (.y - elope, Britomart, Wanderer, and Vert.Northern elation; Scalark, Wsterwitcli, itonetts, and Adelaide (tender). The Amphitrite, Dart, and Brimmed were about to leave tg Mouth AtOWiCA , Spy was on her way to the southward to relieve the Dart; Dolphin was at Prinaese Island with 300 slaves on her way to Sierra Leone, having z few days before take', a slaver with MOO slaves. 500 of whom were sent an in tbe prize. The Sheen is the neat vessel leave, end may be expected at this port in about ten dant.—Pecie to kips was et Ascension.( lope Railed from Ascension for the south on the sth Dec., and the Snap for the north ,tation.—Lieut R. M. Richardson, late commander of the Pluto, et., invalided, died oft Whydah.—Repid is expected to come into harbour to-morrow, and prepare tor paying oft.—Arrogent, at..f , came into harbour yesterday. DEYONPuIte, JAN. 11. —Crane, 6, Came Lieut- anons, arrived from Falmouth last Matt. end has since come info rbour ua refit—The Virago, followed by the Spiteful, may be expected at this poi tin a day or two as part of the reserve steam squadron, They ere to be manned by riggers from Clisthiuneod S he Do.lyertes and stokers from the Ooeun.—Celhope, 2a, lies been paid off. WOOLWICH, JAN. 12.—hityrmidoo, st.- v., W 32 tAkOll into dock this afternoon to be prepared for conimissi.n. -Bieck Eagle and Torch, et..v., were taken out of the beain this efternooe, having been seder the binds of the engineers.—Nookey, st..tug, has returned from attending the Arrogant, 5t.4., and resumed her duties at this port. Susumu*, JAN. 11.—The Quay: a, sloop of war, broke adrift from Maoris* the Minotaur to-day at noon during a beiiwy gale from the N.W. to N, and drove alongside our ph r, doing considerable d —After same time she was got in alongside the pier and moored to thedoekyard ADMINALTI, J •x. 12.—APPOINTMENTS. W. J. Lake, Payinmder and Purser W. L. Inch, Naval Cadets, G. C. Sinelair and R. C. Gilbert, to Centaur. tab) Enid (tuna. EQUITY COURTS.—YESTERDAY. 811101* the L:ed Chimenor. His lordship disposed of vend lunatic petitions, in which nothing occurred deserving a r eport. An appeal, which wen opeed on Thursday, was further Yield, but not much vanc n ed at 2 o'clock, when the Lord Cha ncellor roll. ad- Before the Mmter of the Bolls. Haßoasys v. 11ARGRATE.-By the decree ma de oa was the hearing of this cause on the 23rd of July, 1, an issue directed to be tried at law, as to whether Robert Hargrave, the infest plaintiff, was legitim mothe r ot. The present &p -iplication was a motion by the of the infant as his nest friend for a new and third trial ; the verdict in the first of such trials was given for the plaintiff, and in favour of his legitimacy, but in the second the verdict was for the defen dant.—Couesel having been beard, the Muter of the Rolls, alter stating the circumstances of the case at some length, and commenting upon the evidence and the credibilitlepf some of the witnesses, expressed his Opinion that the cmis bad not been sufficiently investigat* and directed a new Before the ctoextteneollor of inched. RENNIE O. RINNII.—INSUNCTION TO I.IBTNAIN A lira. BAND 111011 BILLING NIS Woe's FtrINITURS.—Mr• Kan moved for an injunction on behalf of Mrs. Rennie, and the truitees of her marnage settlement, for an en parte injunction to restrain Mr. Rennie, the husband of the plaintiff, from rebuts or disposing of certain household furniture end other goods, and from preventing Mrs. Rennie from having the separate 1110 01 such furniture, Be., during her life. It appeared that olio* the marriage.of Mr. and lin. Rennie the household finnitura and other ags were settled span lbs. I re)