The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-12 00:00:00

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LION WATER AS LONDON 'WOOL Irma Dap —116.6164. 7 Ism pon 4 Akerres. 6616. pro a Ss SOSS•11.4&110111. Na / m 4 ; Uta.asei. Ws. put 6. LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 12. IT was an imposing spectacle, that whic - 1 was witnessed at Manchester on Wednesday evening— some six or s. yen thotu4nd Englishmen, of all classes, and of all degrees of the industrious classes, met to consider the grievances which weigh ea them, and the especial monster grievance of all-searching and overwhelming taxation. The cause of this crushing burden was probed and laid bare before them, and that cause was fully proved and denounced to be the eagerness with which aristocratic governments fling themselves into military expenditure—at oce time for Mgrdisemei t, at another for the combating of prin. supposed to be hostile to their interns or their caste, and at all times from a desire to wield an engine, at once so puissant and so pro fi table to the hands ;.hat ply it. Of the fifty-four or five millions which we must annually pay, soil e forty-six or forty-seven are for military expenditure. past or present. And of these re not two millions, perhaps, incwearred for the real defence of the country. Oar first debts were incurred to humble Holland, and our next debts to raise her up again. To save Spain from France, Austria from Pramia,Prussis from Austria, to aggrandise Hanover, to tax the Americans, to beat France (first out of a republic and then from under an emperor) these were the objects of two cen'uries of war, and the Mitt of eight hundred millions of deb'. It is really time for the people of England to inquire into the wisdom or necessity of this perm inent cause of expense, now that ',taxation has reached its utmost limit—now that war and its consequences annually absorb five sixths of our revenue, lesving us to grudge and dispute a few thousand pounds to the most imperative re quirements of civil improvement. This military expenditure, and the policy on which it has been, and is still, founded, has long been the great mystery, the holy of holies of Downing-street. 31r. Hume and others have incessantly made daring attempts to lift a corner of the veil which hung over it, until, at the present day, Mr. COBDEN may be fairly said to have torn it down and exposed the emptiness of the aanctuin and the imbecility of the idsl within to the gaze and contempt of the people. Downing-street is in dismay. The tories out of power, who think Downing-street their own temple, are even more shocked and disappointed; and nothing can equal the fears of their political high priests, and their coly tee, ru nn ing here and there in dis traction, crying out sacrilege, and exclaiming that the man must be mad or traitorous, who would thus lay bare the mysterious palladium in which whig and tory have so long replied the security of Great Britain. Mr. COBDEN, Mr. GIBSON, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. WIL SON, are in fact the reformers of a political religion, which has grown old in mysterious and superan nuated dogmas., and which has maintained as its priesthood the hereditary aristocracy. Their speeches on Wedneseby were denunciations of the sinters and absurdities which they had discovered, and the cost of which has eaten up tho revenue of the country. Mr. COBDEN with plain, but incisive rhetoric; Mr. Ofnacits with quaint and happy irony; Mr. BRIGHT with the vehemence of an orator who throws feeling even into finance—exposed to the thousands who lie toned to them the monstrous fallacy and folly of war lish like policy, warlike fears, warlike and colonial estab ments. It was not a theme well calcu'ated to catch the po plar ear. There is no enthusiasm to be whipped out of it. It rather counteracts than appeals to really popular passions. Bat so gross have been the ab surdities of our past and present policy, that the people were strut by the comic monstrosity of it. They laughed to think how completely they had been duped. And when each man was told that he had paid' some hundreds per cent upon one article of his daily consumOino, down to a hundred or to fifty per cent. upon others—all, as the Mutiny Act alleges, to maintain the "balance of power,* or "support the protestant succession," the effect produced on every man's mind was, as if the English tax-paying public had been assisting at a pantomime of a century's length ; in which panto- mime ministers and statesmen had played the part of downs, tricking the people out of their money, and amusing them in return with uncouth antics and un profitable gambols. The burlesque view, however, which the people could not but take of the prodigal and solemn doings of their governors was now and then mingled with a touch of the indignant and of the feeling. When it was shown to them that part of the tactics of those parties who lived upon war, war cries, war pre paration and precautions, war panics, and war establishment% was sedulously to represent, or to mis represent, all the struggles of continental nations for liberty as menacing to us, to trade, to order, to li berty, and to property—when the falsehood of such pictures was pointed out—when one orator showed that Germany has gained by a few months' agitation what it cost Englishmen ten years of civil war to con quer—when another pointed out how the French, 6EOO they recovered fall liberty of sentiment and ac tion, had not displayed one feeling or inkling of hostility to this ar to any country—and when Mr. COBDEN, in contradiction of the foul malignity and illiberalism of the majority of the London press, called on the numbly of Englishmen before him, for an expression of sympathy for the efforts of conti nental nations now struggling for their liberty—there then arose one cheer, another, and another, from the thousands present, so loud, so enthusiastic, and so heart-sent, that the faintest echo cannot but bear to the anxious minds of our brethren abroad the assurance that the feelings of Englishmen are belied by_ the tort' press, find that nowhere throughout the world CEO men face death, or undergo peril for freedom, without being certain of the sympathies and of the support, as far as it can be fairly given, of Englishmen. If it required some argiinient and explanation to -make the assemblage in the Free Trade H e ll o f Manchester see the nullity of that hobgob lin of war and revolutions which the panio-nsoorrs evoked from abroad, it rtquired but a brief allusion to make them scout the brother hobgoblin, which the tories evoked at bowie. Now could be more fully aware than the man who thronged that hall, how links was order menaced, or revoludom meditated, destructive of in dustry ;Jammed, whoa is the days of April some how ass, unespowered by even the char- Thethose to get up danoustratiosis sed pashis—es. mithusiestio adhesion to the address' map by Mr. Barony, fully showed the men of Manebsater is be aware, that they at leant, and all English industrials, were far is abases of those earatrisin where vialeat use revelatioury mesas would be had recourse to. The Preemies and the Austrian may have righteously seised the musket when the use of tongue sad pea was alike demise him. In a country when men can meet, talk, sad write freely, revolution is not merely a crime bet a folly. It is en prinaples and upon a consciousness such u these, that emanations have been formed in Manches ter and all grad industrial towcs throughout the king dom, fee the great purposes of financial and electoral reform. We shall have time enough to the various remaindens and aims of these associa tions. For what those aims and resolutions are at Manchester we need bat refer to the able speeches published in our present impression. With respect to them we shall merely observe for the present, that the movement thus got up, and which shall be earnestly prosecuted, is a greatly conserve tive one, is, in fact, the only policy at all eslculated to restore the country to financial prosperity, and the ' upper classes to real security. For confident we are, that if the present system be allowed to continue, if expenditure be allowed to g o on, atd deficits be made and met, not by impossible taxation, but by fonds, a little war, or a poll dad shake will come to increase the burden of the debt. And then the ruling aristocracy will Lave to come forward and admit their inability to conduct the government or carry on the finances of the country. A revolution is threatened, not by the frowardness of the masses of the people, but by the growiag inability of the upper chimes to cope with the difficulties of their position. The present move ment may help them to do so, and will join the middle classes with them in the endea vour. Whereas if the aristocracy attempt it alone, and attempt it in their own tradi tional and unaltered ways, then, we repeat it, there is danger to the country. Revolution is no where, except at the end of that path which whig and tory persist in following, vainly imagining they can fallow it safely. if they go together, and don't betray one another. Yet herein lies the true danger—that the state is advancing into a labyrinth without the usual warning voice and detective eve of i a par liamentary opposition. The sole hope of inch lies n the reform party; and this, however powerful in the coun try,is brow beaten in parliament It is only byassocia tion and by meetings such as hare b en formed and hive taken place in Manchester, that whig and tory cut be reconciled and brought to make 'common cause with the nation and the popular party in seeking our extrication from the great financial and political difficulties of the time. LORD Worm MTH and a small knot of landlords have for some time been gathered together in Dublin, under the title of a " Conference of Poor law uardians." Had the boards of guardians throughout Ireland been so minded, nothing could be nrae rational or more legitimate than that they should assemble to confer upon the results of their varied experience, to compare the varied condition of their respective l ocalities, and to deliberate upon the practical remedies that ought to be demanded of the legislature during the coming session. Nor would the went of unanimity amongst so diversified a body have disentitled their consultations to just weight in the minds of fair and disinterested persons. Unanimity re garding details is neither to be expected nor we think to be desired on such occasions. Men's opinions differ as widely as their experence differs. Their experience of necessity differs widely, because the c mdition of things wherewith they have to deal differs widely. There is no identity between the ne cessities of the northern and the southern counties; and there are but few points even of re semblance between the pauperism of Leinster and that of Connaught. Tte difficulties of ea k however need exposition ; and we had far rather Mn to the earnest statement of their respective warts by their respective representatives, although in few particulars coincident with one another, that be told by some turbulent and tyrannic de in the name at all that some one specific was that was needed, and that nothing else would do. Mattel concession and still more wise 00-operation for the attainment of defined objects is the highest proof of popular enlightenment and political died pline ; but it comes not easily or early to communities whose grievances are many, and whose temper has been long corroded by misfortune and misrule. And until it comes gradually and genuinely, there can be no more unhealthy sign than that of factitious unanimity. Be this, however, as it may, certain it is that the Irish Poor Law Guardians, generally, have not thought fit to make any such experiment ; and it ought to be understood that those gentlemen who have recently assumed to speak in their name are as little entitled by their number as by their wisdom, their patriotism, or their influence, to take upon them selves the office of expositors of the public will upon the gravest and most pressing of Irish ques tions. The speeches delivered at their initiatory meeting, with one remarkable exception, to which we shall have occasion to advert more particularly by and bye—betrayed the foregone conclusion which animated the msjority of those assembled. It had been boldly announced beforehand by the Dublin Evening Mad that the object was to get rid of the poor law altoget her, es far as relief to the able-bodied was concerned! Most fitly, there fore was the Marquis of WESTMEATH called to the chair. His lordship's services and sufferings in the cause are too well known to need any reference. He had resisted pay men: of rates in one of the poorest districts el the k in gdom; and litigated the claim upon goeunds an thisely untenable as to call forth stem expreinisse of astonishment and regret from the tory judge by whom the case wan tried. Under this most noble chairman die ISM and tenor of the proceedings that took Ogee may be readily imagined. The unwelcome premises of one or two popular guardians seems to have pre vented the promulgation in tei me of the humane and honourable design of the assemblage. But every sentimeet expressed, and every interest or prejudice appealed to, tended to the same purpose; and under a new phrase the old exterminating scheme of Town. I land rating was attempted to be revived. In the Westmeath patois of the landlord dialect, the proposal to hand bask the peseantry to the tender mercies of their superior landlords is denoted by the phrase—" the individualising of responsibility." "Let men of us," cry the noble and moat noble land lords, "take care of his own." His own I—as if tha peasantry of the laid were like the seeds OM the estates of the Muscovite noblesse, an He human cattle on the tobacco farms of Virginia planters. Time was, indeed, whoa the Celtic mass were left to the care and keeping of their hereditary guardians ; and precious care was taken of Am. From generation to generaiion they ware seed as EOM implements of rude agriculture, or meths teen of maw ambition. Sometimes they wets thought to be too few, sometimes they were thought to be too many ; but this fewness or this multitude was at all times a mere question of landlord gain, how he could make most rent, or manu facture most servile votes for county elections of the good old style. The people were then wholly unedu cated. They were brutalised by a sanguinary and in tolerant code of laws. Rights of any kind they could he said to have none. The landlords had and held Ana in those days as " their owe." Yak isms awns Mang! tout ago. The penal rode is gone, and the national schools have eons. se people still suffer from poverty and fact want, it is in some degree ascribable to the fact that until the year 1847 no parliamen - , whether local or imperial, had the justice or humanity to give the right of relief to the able-bodied poor. To adjust the terms on which that right shall be exercised is a matter of infinite difficulty, it is true ; but to remind its tardy ecessofea would be in effect to revoke the only reel se sabelential act of justice to Ireland that his bossism, dazing the last ten year,. selleselve responsibility of the whole property of Ireland to sustain its entire poverty, is the basis of the act of 1847. What the landlord., who are beaded by the Marquis of Weernasut, demand, is to distri bute this responsibility so that no proprietor shall be called upon to contribute towards the maintenance of any but those who are now to be found on bin estate, or who at any given day shall in future be found ~~ THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1Q49. theme& Haw may are still allowed to linter en some of them, taking up the room of okay poitable stack ? Or bow many would be I suffered to encumber the inheritance of Usti. owners, six months after "the individualising of responsi bility- was made the law of the land When premed with this too obvious argumsa, th e semiss of poor law are wont to mutter iedistiaoll about a law of settlement whie s r et= check . Bat the embarrassments and evils to which any stringent law of settlemen: now introduced for the first time into Ireland mast neresserlly lead, were ably pointed out at the meeting in question by Sir MOSTAGO6 CHAPILt2I, one of the beat mw of his class in the kingdom. Alone of those who took any part in the proceedings, he seems to have kept steadily in view the ;acred right of the liberty of industry. In a few bike sentences he strove to remind the short-sighted men by whom he was surrounded that " the free circulation of labour" was absolutely indis pensable to industrial health or vigour; and that say attempt to imprison within a number dr of narrow cells the labour of the community in the miserable hope of compelling the owner of each to find profit able employment within its precincts for all the hands which it contained, mast end in speedy and total failure. Bat he seemed to them as one that mocked. Very little trouble they were disposed to give themselves as to the practieability of the alternative proposed. To wile away with the essential principle of the poor law—the right of the able-bodied to relief--appeared to be the sole ides present to their minds; sad this they well knew would be accomplished by the plan of estate or town land rating. It is a good sign of the improving temper of so ciety in Ireland, that few men of any note or influence have allied themselves with the parties whose efforts we have thug detailed. Quinuf VICTORIA is at this moment occupying Windsor Castle in the place of a more direct descen dant of the STUART line, because the last king of that race of incapable. held it to be his duty to force on his subjects the adoption of a system ot regulations, of which one—not the least obnoxious—was the celebra tion of the services of the church in a foreign language. Strange to say, in the very principality from which the Queen's eldest son derives his title, the services of the church are still conducted in a foreign langu age. It is scarcely an exaggeration to affirm that En glish . is as little known to the great mapirily of the inhabitants of Wales as was Latin to the majority of Englishmen in the time of the STUARTS. It is a fact that cannot be disputed that a Londoner may in six or seven hours be car ried by the help of the railway into one of the great divisions of his own island, where he will be u little understood by the rustic population as if he were in Timbuctoo. Scotland, in spite of national hatred, embittered by centuries of hard fighting, has still adopted our language. Ireland, ground to the dust by English oppression, speaks the language of her conquerors in addition to her own ; while Wales, close upon our own borders, connected with us by a union which has never been disturbed, knows of no medium of communication more harmonious than that afforded by its own gutturals. Tne accuracy of our assertions may be easily con firmed by any one who chooses to compare them with the facts brought forwardby Mr. WILLIAMS, in a " Second Letter on the defective state of education in Wales." The following extract, quoted by Mr. Wituuse, from the report of the Commission ap pointed to inquire into the condition of education in the principality, throws light on one of the causes ot the iznorance we have been speaking of—want of schools: Only one in eighteen of the whole population attend schools regularly; many of these are kept open only nix out of the twelve months; of child-en under 15 years of age lade more than one in five attend schools, and under 5 years of age only one in eleven ; of the number of children stated to attend schools, more than 60 per cent. have been in school less than one year, and 76 per cent- leas than two years to learn a language entirely foreign to them. Out of 81 year, in C irmartuen and Pembroke, 42 have neither a day school nor a resident clergyman. Out of 162 parialies, 72 have no day school at all. Of 580 schools only 128 puns a bars suffi ciency of materials, the remaining 452 are destitute of forms, dello, and other indispensable fixtures; of books for reedier, slates, and other materials for writing and ciphering. In another district, oat of 698 schools only 62 had apparatus fit fur school purposes. The account of the schoolmasters is in perfect keep ing with that of the schools. The office of schoolmaster is everywhere one of the worst remunerated; one of those vocations which serve as the sink of all °then, and might be described as guile's of refuge : they consist of persons who have failed to obtain a Synth rod in almost every other occupation ; ruck as broken down tradesmen sad fanners, disabled farm labouren, mechanics, bleckansithe, carpenten, soldier., barber., quarrym-n, weavers, Etc. . . A common labourer at the rolling mills or puddling furnaces at the iron.wo. he earns more in a week than the average of schoolmaster , earn in a month. The acquirement. of these " guides, philosophers and Mends " of " Young Wales " are in curious agreement with their funds : The schoolmasters rarely understand English perfectly, th. it knowledge extending no further, in most instances, than reading English, with a strong Welsh accent, and in their ability in some c ,ses, but not in all, to hold cony don in it on common subjects ; persons are appointed to con duct impurtaat Eugli , dl school. who are unable to speak or even to unddrstand English. English remains an unknown Warne to Welsh children who can read and wrPo it fluently. Welsh eolith= seldom understand the meaning of English words, &c. In forty-five schools in another district only a very few children in each were able to g ive the Welsh for ordinary Eng_lish words: they were utte-tog the words of the Scripture in English without the most remote conception of their meaning. Such being the nature of the apparatus for training the infant mind in Wales, it would seem that a very scanty knowledge of educational arithmetic would enable us to calculate the result. Given, a very large population with very few schools—the least possible quantity of school "materiel"—schoolmasters with no qualifications—the proceeds will be evident to the meanest capacity. It seems scarcely worth while to take a journey into Wales to satisfy one's self that no thing is taught there. This rearming, however, which is sufficient for ordinary minds, is far too simple for official perception. It proceeds, too, upon the ansumption which, if admitted, would lead to the destruction of many a snug sinecure-- the assumption, namely, that where there is no thing to ins pect, there needs no inspector. The Lords of the Committee of Education have no idea of giving in to this pestilent heresy, and with the full knowledge of what Welsh education is, have ap pointed an inspector of Welsh schools. Ths govern ment appoint a committee to discover what is taught in Wales ; the committee report that nothing is taught, and the lords of the committee of council ap point au inspector to tell them how nothing is taught. In order to be consistent, however, in inconsistency, their lordship., in their choice of an in , have selected a gentleman who, it is re , knows no thing of the colloquial practice of the Welsh lan guage ! A foreigner appointed to report upon the state of education in a warm, and incapable of enter ing into communication with the natives I We wonder whether the reverend gentleman entreated with this arduous task of reporting von nothing, and , incapable of obtaininq the materials for a report if any such existed, will feel as he proceeds to fulfil his onerous duties something of the difficulty which an gered the love-sick Moartmen in his communications I with his wife : . . This is the deadly spits that sayers ne. My wife can speak no English ; I no Welsh. A memorial is to be presented to the lords of the committee against the appointment t.f this gentleman, hut surely it would have been wise of the memo rialists to have desired their lordship to see that there was something to inspect before the appointment of en inspector. As the cue stands, it appears to be a matter of small importance whether the inspector understands Welsh or not. CADWALLADER himself could not by any process of inspection cause that to be which has no existence. The curse of Wales, that which makes it a foreign country to Eng land, that which in proem of time may cause it to be a source of in fi nite trouble to England, is the after want of any education at all. This is the evil to which attention should be drawn. This evil it is which the government of the country and the gentry of Wales are called upon to remove. Mr. Wituems, in the pamphlet alluded to, calls upon the latter to come forward and assist in the sacred cause of educat ing and relieving their poorer fellow-countrymen, and offers a handsome contribution as a commencement of the good work. Sure we are that private munificence mast owns in aid of public grants to put a stop to the existence of this fearful anomaly in the most eisilised nation in the world. If the rich wish the rights of property to be observed they must observe the duties of property. I offer my contributive (says the asthma the pamphlet), frost a awe of ditty *posed woos property, and that I ought to apply a pwslon of what I draw from the Malley of the eosatty, to Wpm, the fault etas!, social, and Op ideal rt.:edition of its people, plated la a position so tanfortu sato, amid which has boss isisterssually attested sad exhi bited to the world, wider the high authority of the commie slow» appoi•ted by tent, who point oat edseattou ae the effectual y. Until this remedy is applied, Wales an never be said to be united to Engla nd , but merely in juxta- roiliest with it, and the greater proportion of all the advantages to be derived from the position—the wealth and the fertility of the ootntry—will be lost. The answer to the =cootie alluded to has been just made public. From the tenor of this answer, it is quite clear that the fears of the memorialists had a good foundation. Had the inspector poiameed the humor, qualiikatioes, the reply would have briefly stated the fief The utmost, however, that the secre tary ran my in behalf of the appointment is, that the "Lord President hopes that Mr. JONES will be found to have a competent knowledge of the collo quial idiom of the Welsh language." ONE of the distinguishing features of Asiat:e cho lera is its tendency to spread rapidly and fatally where it has once appeared. On this ace•unt some persons have ventured to doubt whether this disease has really presented itself in London daring the last six months at all. We mug, however, have this question for doctors to decide ; that which concerns us is the mortality produced by any form of &geese, sad during the last quarter this has been so far below the average, that if cholera has truly been in London, we have bad no °cession to be alarmed at its pre sence. The case, however, stands somewhat differently in some parts of the provinces, and especially in Scotland. There cholera, by its spread and fatality, has given undoubted evidence of its presence. We shnidd be glad if we could think, that as cholera in 1831 and 1832 did not attack some of our large towns—as Birmingham, for instance—London might escape this time. Big there are indications too evident to be overlooked, that the enemy is lurking about, that it only need■ a fitting nicks, or fitting weather, to be at its work again. The history of the last epidemic visitation of cholera in 1830-31-32, is too curiously interesting in this point of view to b.• overlooked. It appears that not only are the symptoms of the two epidemics the same, bat that, from their first appearance on the confines of Europe, the route they took, the towns they attacked, the rate of mortality in proportion to these attacked, and the proportion of deaths to the population were the same. Thus :—ln 1831, the cholera appeared at Tiflis, May 5 ; Astrachan, June 21; Kasau, Sept. 17. In 1847, it appeared at Tiflis, June 5; Astrachan, July 31 ; Kum, Oct. 4. In 1830, it appeared at Stavropol, Sept. 6 ; Novo Ticherkosk, Sept. 10 ; Tag atrog, Oct. 8 ; Krev, Jan. 8,1831. In 1847, it ap peared at Stavropol, July 16 ; N,vo Tscherkoak, July 30; Taganrog, Aug. 15; Krev, Oct. 5. During the winter of 1830 it was suspended just as it was daring the winter of 1847. It broke oat in 1831 at Petersburg on the 251 June, and in 1848 on the 16th of June. It appeared at Berlin on the 31st of Augur, 1831, and on the 15th of August, 1848. In Great Britain it was first resorted as present in the northern parts of this kingdom in the month of October, 1831, and it was in the same month in 1848 that it first appeared in Scotland and some of the northern seaports of England. It did not appear as an epidemic in London till the following yea•, 1832, when, in the month of February, the first cases occurred. Although the last epidemic his failed in its extension to some particular towns which it visited on its previous appearance, yet we think it is not an unfair inference that, as it his thus far obeyed the law it pr , vieusly observed in this country, it will still go on to do so, and that we may not un reasonably expect its appearance in Londou during the spring of this year. Another et-riot's point in the history of the two attacks, is the correspondence between the numbers of those who died to the number of those attacked, as well as the whole number of cases of cholera in pro portion to the population of the towns is which it occurred. Thus it appears from the returns made from Russia, on the whole of the cases attacked, that in 1831 the proportion of tiros who died to those who recovered, was as 1 to 1.7 ; and, in 1847, as 1 to 1.8, or about forty per cent. The tame returns give the proportion of tt - ose who were attacked in 1831, as 1 to 19.6, on the whop population, and in 1847 Re 1 to 19.9. Now, we do not think it a necessary conclusion from these data that the cholera will be as fatal in London in 1849 as in 1832. but wewould ask whether our sanitary activity since 1832 has been such and the physical character of our population been so much unproved as to lead to the conclusion that we shall have a greater immunity from the disease now than then? We fear not. Nlf e are inclined to believe, not only that the sanitary state of London is not im proved, but that it is worse even now than it was in 1832, and that the physical character of the mass of the population has deterior-ted. Although in some places old streets have been abolish' d and wider ones built, yet in other instances streets that were formerly thinly populated are b-coming overcrowded. As the busineFs part of London has swelled in size, and its rents in creased, the suburbs have been invaded, and dense populations. in number exceeding whole counties, have sprung up more rapidly than provision could be made for supplying them with water, drains, sewers, and other necessaries of a sanitary nature. The Bawd of Health has not touched the unhealthiness of London. It will be a in. rey if, with its present ab surd construction and feeble powers, it effects any good in the rovinces. The act which brought it into existence must be regarded as a failure. The com mission of sewers have yet done but little, and that little has been injurious to the public health. Some weeks ago we drew attention to the vile state of the sewers through their acting the part of ameteur night-men. Since then the sewers have been flushed, once round we believe. But what is this? They are as bad again as ever. Is water so Iprecioue and human life so abundant, that the one is to be sp ared at the expense of the other ? The sewers ought to be flushed, whilst in their present state, at least once a week. Bat whatever may be the general state of the me tropolis, the city of London has got a medical sani tary onset% So far they have set the government a good example. The corporation of London was a long time in acknowledging that sanitary improvements were ne cessary, but when they saw this to be the fact, they provided at awe a proper man, with a proper salary, to do the work. If the government bad been wise, they would have done the same, bat how can a Board of Health be efficient when two-thirds of its members are un paid amateurs, and the whole of them ignorant of the first principles involved in the duties of their office. We shall watch with some anxiety the result of Mr. SIYON'd appointment in the City. We trust that the corporation will not think that their duty ends here, but that they will give every facility for the carrying out of the suggesticns of their sanitary offi er. Their example may do much for the sanitary improvement of the empire. It is not, however, in towns alone that anti-sanitary conditions exist. In the midst of green fields and umbrageous hedgerows. the elements of disease may be accumulated, as proved by the oonditien of Mr. Dant:Bl-'8 establishment, at Tooting. Build a house where yen will, if you ventilate it badly, overcrowd it, under-feed its inha bitants, and surround it with ditches as receptacles of stagnant filth, you will have conditions where not only cholera may break out, but where typhus, and every other form of contagious disease may become rampant. Yet this is the condition of the residences of the great mass of our rural labouring population. The country must not rest satisfied with having talked and written, and read, on this subject ; all effective improvement is yet to be accomplished. The demand must be made for • more effi cient constitution of the Board of Health. It has no power to carry out its own recommendations. In the case of the Tooting establishment the board has decided that the cause of cholera there is purely local. Dr. S. Swim aye that to leave the children there is to leave them utterly to perish ; bat the poor law board has more power than the Board of Health, aad that body decides that the children are not to be removed. The same difference of opinion between the Board of Meth and other bodies is constantly meet ing us. Now its medical opinions are controverted by the College of Physicians, then by the Privy Council; next it is snubbed by the poor-law board. Such a body cannot gain the respect of the country. It is in fact inefficient in its medical construction, deft dent in lrgal powers, and waning in either the re spect or confidence of the public. SW Court. WINDSOR, THIMSDAT.—The Duke of Norfolk, and the Leaks Mary and Adsliu F itaalaa Howard, are expected t 'arrive at the Castle this evening, en • visit to her Majesty and hie &nal Highness. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will nen& the Dachau - of Hest, the Primaries Amelia and Bliss of II shansiohe ilehilllegsfent, Prince Lowenstein, the Marquis and Kathleen' of Donglse, Laity Fenny Howard, Bareness de Speth, the Duke of Norfolk, and she Ladies I Mary and Adelizs F. Howard, the Earl and Countess For ' tonne, the Berl of Carlisle, Lord Janes P. Murray, the Right Hon. Sir R. and Led, Peel, and Sir Junes Clark. Her Majesty will afterwards have an evening party. The following had the honour of receiving limitations The Counters of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray, the D.,wager Lady Lytt.lton, Hon. Mite Lyttelton and Miss Carew, the ItiAt Hon. IL and Mrs. Labonehera- General and body Isabella Weems, Mies aleynell, Mr. an d the Hon. Mn. G. E. Anton, the Hon. Mn. C. B. Phipps and Min Bathurst lion. H. Ashley, Sir 0. and Lady Couper, Min and Mr. Hammy Conner, tee Dean of Windsor and Lady Charlotte Neville Granville, and two Misses bLville Gren ville, the Provost of Eton and the Hon. Mn. Hodgson, the Rev. Dr. &twiny, the Rev. W. and Mrs. Canning, Colonel and Mrs. Challoner. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wells Mr. Glover, the commanding cane of the Sad Life Gu ards, and two officers of the 2nd Lite Guards, the commanding officer of the Coldstream Guards and two officers of the Callatnam Guards. ----- The Queen's private band attended on Wednesday evening in the Cattle, and performed the following pieem : Overture, " Der Freisef um," Weser; Trio in D minor, Al egro motto vivre*, Andante, Scherzi, Finale—Mende:e. Bohn ; pianoforte, violin, and violoncello, Madame Dulcimer), M. Stint-m, and Mt. Chipp.—Marien Walser. Strum ; Mor risen pour le Claveein, pianoforte, Madame Duicken, Sear lard ; Triumphal March, Rh.. A deputation, COOlnstwg ut the Lord Mayor, Mr. Pattison, M.P., Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. John Wood, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. John Dixon, Mr. T. H. Hall, Mr. R. Tailor, and the City Remembrancer, had en inter view with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official re eidence in Downing-street. Mr. M. T. Ralik' had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Horn. 'pl.. DEATEI OF EARL l'sLeuT.—The demise of Earl Taloot took place at his lordship's residence, Ingestrerhall, i Staffordehire, on Wednesday. The noble earl, who had been ailing for some time back, and of whose recovery no hopes hail been entertained for some weeks, was in his 72nd year, haying been born in April, 1777. He was Llrd Lieu tenant of Ireland for some years under the Liverpool adrri nistration, and up to his death held the lord lieutenancy of the county of Stafford. He is succor ded in his title and estates by Viscount Ingestre, • captain in the arms., and member of parliament for the southern division of Staff /rd. shire. The present earl is in his 46th year, and marred to Lady S ash Seresford, daughter of the late Marquis of Water ford, b) whom he has • large family. Nen: April his eldest sou will have completed his nineteenth year. EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR. A public meeting was held yesterday at Willie's Morns, King-street, St. Jenne's, for the purpose of taking into cir.siceration tie unprecedented number of mechanics and workmen now throwr out 3! employ, and the ezniut of existing destitutian aid distress ; and further, for the pur pose of devising means of providing employment for the prior and diminishing the privations anal sufferings endured •r the labouring claws. Francis Smedley, the High Bailiff, flikid the chair. The room was crowned. The Cnatunan opened the business of the meeting by acknowledging the receipt of a letter from Mr. Neecombe, of Lambeth, propounding as a remedy Lecke distresses of the working classes their employment on railways and e sewhere in lieu of steam or hone power. The etateme..t of this plan elicited sense laughter and much disapprobation en the part of the meeting. C. LOBIHNOTON, Esq., M.I ~ then rose to move the first resolution, which ran thus: "That the number of operatives, medlar ics, and lab meets now thrown out of empheemtmt is unusually great, and the consequent destitution and distress which exist on all aides are painfey excessive and deep) , alarming ; that such penury and want, and their attendant anguish and suffering, inevitably engender sickness, mor tality, and crime ; that tne instincts art humanity, as well as the precepts of our holy religion, enforce the duty of feeding the hungry, sheltering the heuseh as, forgiving the rep. ntant, and aiding in every pasible way our destitute fellow-cranny, to recover and pursue a life of m Aerate comfort, virtue and sobriety; that such law able objects can to a great extent be secured by the establishment of institutions in the several die ricts of the metropolis, and in every town and village throughout the country, similar to the Mount St. Bernard Hospice and the Leicester-square soup kitchen, whereat the pear are sheltered, fed, clothed, and provided with work, and this meeting urgently recommend the public at large, sad the clergy in particular, to encourage the pr motion of institutions of the kind as the most speedy and effectual meth d o f promoting the physical and social welfare of the labouring classes, aid there by placing them in a position for roiling by the meets employed to forward their spiritual interest." Mr. Lushington expressed his conviction t• et the wealthier apses only needed to be authentically in- I termed of the extreme misery . existing among their ler fortunate brethren, to induce them at once 00 extend to these the fullest aid in their power, and the ' warmest sympatcy. He felt sure that a vast prop Ilion of the sufferers were the victims of misfortune, not sufferers from their own crime, and, they fore, he doubly recom mended them to the sympathy and practical assistance • I his mere wealthy fellow citizens. Individual charity, however, and Individual sympathy,. however cheering and however wee to the individual re cipients, were but as a drop in the mean, when you considered the enormous mass of misery that it was essential to remove. The only real remedy for the great national distress that had es long been weighing us down, was a thorough reduction in our national expenditure, and the con sequent diminution at our national taxation. (Hear.) Ilene especially should the people demand a regular cutting down of the unity upon our army, navy, and ordnance. (Hear, hear.) lie had last year supporta the maintenance of our army estimates, because he then felt that the aspect et things abroad rendered this necessary ; but any such newt. sky, even if it then existed, had now disippeared. (Hear.) To effect this vital object thoroughly would require the earnest efforts of the whole nation, and one great part to which these efforts must be directed was the increased libe ralisation of the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then proposed his resolution. The Rev. J. Jones seconded the resolution. Mr. Hoooixs supported the resolution. Ile fully ad mitted the essential importance of aiming at political reforms in every direction ; but, with the population starving in every street, in every city, town, and village of the country, it was the first business of the citizens who had any means to apply themselves, heart and hand, to feeding, and sheltering, and finding employment for, their less fortunate fellomcitizera. Let there be inancial re forms, by all means, whether emanating from Mr. Cobden or from any other source, but the immediate ne cessity was to feed the people. (Hear, hear.) This meat be dose; and done, as it must be, by those who had the mesas of doing it, by the tradesmen, the gentry, the nobility, this great pressure from without upon property ie its various gradations would of itself work out financial and politic 1 reform. (Hear, hear.) All undue taxation would be swept away when the weight of taxation ones fell upon property. (Hear, hear.) The demand of the starving peer for food, for shelter, for employment, was the demand, net for charity, but for justice. (Hear.) Mr. CAMPBELL said there was nothing of greater import ance to the preservation of the peace of the empire, to the comfort and security of the upper and middle classes, than the finding some profitable employment for the working eases. The latter were now and for a long time pest had been tuft ring privatioas and misery of which the fernier had no conception, and this despite the aid which they gave each other in their trade societies, amounting to no less a tam than one million per annum. The working closes had no desire to confiscate the property of the rich; they would net take a fluthing of any man's money which they had not earned by their labour. All they demanded was, that they should be allowed the use of their own property, their labour—that by the sweat of their brow and the !shams of their hands they should be allowed to earn their own living in that state of life to which God had called them. They were patient, they were mucluenduring ; they had endured much; but let the now ruling classes be wise in time, and reflect that there is a point at which patience ceases to be a virtue, to be a possibility. (Hear, hear ) There miet well, in these two countries alone— Great Britain and Ireland —be raised food enough for a hundred and twenty millions of persons, yet the land being locked up as it was in the unprofitable heads of a few, not a sixth part of this number was now maintained out of it. Btreet sweeping and soup kitchens were excellent ex pedients as far as they went, but the only real remedy for the massive evil weighing the country down would be to give the unemployed working classes the MHOS of maintaining themselves independently and honourably by their own labour, upon home colonies, for example, self-support ing, independent home colonies, not pauper terms. (Hear, hear.) Until this was done the evil would be scarcely diminished by any temporary expedient. Mr. Cobden, for instance, might, perhaps, get the House of Commons to consent to his scheme for saving 10 millions a year of expenditure, but the 8,000 or 10,000 employes, sol diers, and so on, thus sent forth upon His world, would only add to the hundreds of thousands of voices who next year would, louder than ever, raise the cry for food, for shelter, for empleement. No tinkering would do. There were 16 million acres of good waste land in this country. Millions of it at the immediate disposal of the government. Lrt the legislature but place this land within the reach of the labour ing classes, upon fair terms, and, if need be, aid the operatives by loam, and there would be no man, woman, or child, heard crying for bread throughout the country, none needing the aid of poor rates, now cursing the hour of their birth in prison or union bastile. (Hear, hear.) Mr. KIDD also supported the resolution, entirely concur• lag with Dar. Campbell's view of the necessity for a compre hensive plan of home colonies. The resolution was then put and serried. The second resolution, proposed by Mr. CHARLES COCH RAN!, recommended the extension throughout the metropo lis and the noun ry at large, of the employment of persmis as street orderlies and sweepers. Mr. Coc hra ne stated that the experience already had in that and an adjoining parish of the employmeutof persons in this way had been most satisfactory to the inhabitants, and most conducive to the health of the locality. The Bev. Mr. %town, of Bethnaligresn, having seconded the resolution, it was put and carried. Mr. WALTON proposed a re , olutitot to the ,--------..7y.5s t hat j a order to meet the heavy pressur e on t h e operatives andsm. sensor this country, it w e e e s sen ti a l to sure from Me legi a lotus* the immediate adoption of a comprehensive mh o* of self-supporting, independent hone colonies. This resolution having been seconded by Mr. CAlll'Bll4 was a l so sarrie4, end thanks having been voted to tat Oak man, Use meetimrseporatod. CHOLERA AMONGST THE PAUPER CHILDREN. AT ST. PANCRAS VESTRY, Yesterday, th e of the treatment of tie pauper chi dean at the Tootle., Asylum came sgaia under cusaiderat on. An extract fro"; report of the General Board of Health was real, in ehieh the authorities at Uwyd;r Home speak In terms of Wok praise of the mil and kindnee of the medic . l moo 11 8 .4' te 'rend on the sick p sup -r ch.ldren. In the course of a dir, eussioz which 10e:weeds took place, Mr. Hickman, a a m . dial man, said. he thought it right that the p +tone sboalff know where the blame relative to the treatment of try psuper children really rested. He wished to know of t h e , chearmsn whether the was satisfied as to the die; and the clothing of the children, as to whether they were sac ciently provided with firing, and its to the des wage model.- tilation of the bu'lding. It typo tred from the report s th at in this establishment there were the enormous number ar 1,400 children, and he (Mr. Hickman) had uedoestee s e that the medico gentleman sent down to Tootine b y th e Board of Health had reported upon the history of the disea se that it was nothirg like anything that had ever prod only occurred in this mun.ry. It became a moat serious questioa. Some medical gentlemen had stated that it had 'risen frees atmospheric poison. The term atmoepherie poison was very vague. It was, in fact, mere twaddle to say that it had arisen Eons atmospheric poison, unfree the description of ate mospherie poison was defined. It seas his opinion thata sort of a•mospheric poison which had produced tai l disease was the animal effluvia arising frees the overcrowding of fourteen hundred children into • place not sufficient to contain them—The clusirmaa eMr. Healey), slid: The diet table h e corsidered quite qual to their own or that of Marylebone for the children, if not better, and he had no reason to believe that Mr. Dream did not carry it out. The do, mitories of the sins were better than them in Marylebone or there, hut those of the boy. were not so good. Perhaps there might have been a want of more fires and clothing. It appeared tl at the Pear-Lee Board had limited the numbers who should 11: r,coived into Mr. Drouet's establishment, and Mr. Drouet had exceeded them. They ordered that not more than 3.50 should be in the boys' school-rearm, and Mr. Drouet had pieced there 500. With regard to the girls it was the same, an a no doubt the 'ohne' effluvia amongst them were very bad in consequence. Several of the private domestics of Mr. Drouet's establishment had been attacked, and one or two of the nurses tad died. Dr, Bermingham said there was • great watt of warmth in Mr. Drouet's establishment. He (Dr. Ideriniagham), clothed as he was, felt, on passing through the wards as Tooting, a dieogretable feeling of cold pervade his 'system ; and as this cold was so evident to mature and welbc.othed persons, they might form some opinion of what the same atmosphere must be to poor, ill clothed, end half-fed children from two to twelve or fourteen vi are of age. (II -an.) The great error of Mr. Drouet, he begged to say, aro, from his ignorance, not to say incliffm nee, in not having made pro vision for the changes of the weather, with reearl to those children placed under his core. lie not only gave these poor children no change of clothing, althousth the therm. meter might fall 20 or 30 degrees in one day, but allowed them to go out into a told stamp play-ground, with beads and shoulders uncovered, in the coldest day in winter, in the same dress they would wear in the hottest day in summer. He had examined 20 children porsoeally, and he was per fectly shocked to see what he witnes ed. Their little flannel petticoats were so gauzy and thin, that yea could literally read through them from a g e. With regard to the question of atmospheric i nis od being the cause of this outbreak, he believed that the poison was the exhalations teem thu children's own, persons, and that such poison, couvled with poor diet, insufficient clothing, and** cold and dampness of the piece, had caused the dieters. The boards in some of tit.: girl.' sicepiog wards were so honey-combed with age, that they absorbed large quantities of water, and yet, contrary to common sense, they were washed every day with ntt. r, emitting a told and unhealthy vapour. The heat or the children.' bodies sleeping there at night condensed it, and thus great injury was done to their health.—The Caairman said it there was any blame with re gard to sending the St. l'ancras children, it anus' ba attri buted to the Poor-law Commissioners, who bad certified, before the girls were sent, that the place was fit for them. THZ CASES on Sr. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE were yesterday reported as follows:—Number of new eases,4o; convalesnat, 11; under treatment, 110; deetha,7; still in a coliapeed s ate, 5. It as added that the as vent- of the dewye has been increased by the ill-ventilation of the building where the children now are—a fault which deps have been taken to remedy. THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF CASEB AT TOOTING yesterday, was as follows : _ . Number of fresh cave, preacreing eholerele symptoms, 7; fresh cases of diarthcoa, 4; death•, 7 ; wulzr treatment, ina. 41 have been relieved to cestvaleeecnt wards. The greater swelter of cases tads/ treatment are proee. ding rapidly towardsoonvaleseenee. In Few ems symptoms of fever of a typhoid character have priventegi themselves. No sanitary measu Po leave been adopt, d to•rlay rePme:ii.g the ditches or drains. Many thidk the mining up the mud Irum the hostas of them, would be the means of producing a great ar.ountot stench, and of stirring up a. amount of nosh) is material that wou'd be very injurious and likely to give rise to further increase of docase.— (Signed) W. J. KITE, resident eurgeon. In c,naequ.uc.• of the order from the rned,csl superin tendent of the Board of Health that no more bodice of the children should be interred in Tooting churchyard, those which had died during Wednesday and yesterday w. re re moved in hearses sea , from the reap oive p,rishes to which the children belonged to London for L appeals that Mr. Wakley, the coroner, has determined on inAnuting a most rigid inqu'ry i3.:0 all the circumstances connected with this melancholy affair. THU CHILDREN AT Tlfil HOLLORN UNION, sad in the Refuge, Ogle-street, Mar) leheue, are reported as mutt better. KING WILLIA3I'S NAVAL ASYLUE.—Some of the how. connected with .` K .ng William's Naval Asylum," at Penge, near Norwood, founded and endowed by Queen Adelaide, being now complett d, her Majesty h. nominated to two of them the widow of a commander of 86 years, who entered the oavy in 1773, and the widow of a m .s;er, who at his demise lield the office of master attend tee at one of our royal dockyards. Each widow will afro be entittesl (on 1 certificate s'gned by a beneficed clergyman, that they are of sober life awl conversation, and members of th• Church of England) so an annuity of 301., payable half-yearly at Mt sari. Couttia RECORDERSHTF or• PONTEFRACT.—Mr. B. Boothby, of the Northern Circuit, ±u received the appointment of recorder of Pnntetract. CHOLERA.—The Board of Health loaned the &l owing report yesterday: Dronet's Pauper Establish meat, Tooting (10th and 11th), 17, 22 fatal; Remits ' Ogle street, Marylebone, 6; Hackney, 1 fatal ; NewtostonWork house, 1 fatal ; Wandsworth, 2; Hertford, 2 ; Edinburgh, 4, 2 fatal; Ulasgow, 113, 41 fatal ; Old M..nkland, 11, 6 fatal; South Knapdale, 1 fatal ; Jedburgh, 3 fatal ; Mors battle by Kelso, 1; Dumfries, 1 ; Old Cumeocb, 1 : total new cases, 164, 76 dead.s. BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—Yesterday evening the 20th lumina meeting of the r hove iustitution was held at the Freemasons' Tavern; Mr. J. Sharp, presi dent, in the chair. The report congratulated the members on the continued prose. rity of the charity since the data of the lost annual meeting by an increase of et.bacribets and a legacy of 501. Th 3 committee had been enabled to invest an additional sum of 3501, making their funded property to amount to 10,8691. Three per Cei.ta. The income for the year, (including a previous balance of 6021. 2...8d.), was—subscriptions 1,1391. 17s ; donations, 1231. 9s. 7d. invested in fund.), and the above-named legacy, 3691. 12s. 6d total 2,1361. Is. Bd., which, after the cape:dil -1 lure, left a ba lance of 5.191 4s. There are now 61 pensioners on the fund., to pay whom requires 901. per month. The men receive 20 guineas, and the females 15 guineas each per annum. The payment to the pensioners during the present year will amount to m-re than 1,0001. During the past year ten pensioners. being double the average number, had been elected. In the asylum at Walharn.green there are at pre sent 17 inmates. the report was adopted, end the various officers for the ensuing year were re-elected, and thanks being voted to the chairman, the meeting broke up. SIIOEMAKF.RS' SOCIETY.—A meeting of the mem bers of this society was held last night at the Freamasone Tavern, fir the plume of devising means of raising the sum of 1,0001., with which, in addition to the funds in hand, the society intend to erect an asylum for aged members. Robert Taylor, Esq., in the chair. A series of resolutions in ac:ordance with the object of the meeting having been paned, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated. WRECK OF A SCOTCH VESSEL.—Glonokilly, Jan. 8. —The Ceylon, horn the Clyde to New Yore, was totally wrecked In Roes Bay this morning. Twenty-eight of the crew and passengers soved, but only_a little of tee cargo. ROBBERY ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT SHIP.—A robbery has just occurred on board the William Hyde, an emigrant ship, bound for Adelaide and Port Philip, which left the docks yeaterday.and is now lying in She I well Basin, about to sail. While the William Hyde was lying off Me jetty, an " intermediate" c,.bin passonger, on going on board, found that his c • bin, which lie had left locked the day before, had been broken open, the locks of his trunks forced. asd a large portion of his outfit stolen from them, lie estimated the value of what he had lest at about 16/. Another pas senger found his boxes unlocked, though he had le t them locked a few hours bethre ' • but the thii.ves had probably been disturbed before they could carry out their intentions, as he was not able to discover that anything had been taken from them. There certainly - should be some one appointed (says an evening papt r) to take charge of passengers' lair gage when sent on baud, so unless some responsible person is appointed to do so, it is difficult to say what fur:her pre cautions can be taken than were adopted in this cav, where the trunks broken open were left locked in a locked. cabin. THE MAIL, ROBBERIES ON THE GREAT WESTERN. —The adjourned examination of the prisnners charged with the perpetration of the robbery on the mail bags takes Ogee to-morrow (Saturday) at the Guildhall, when further im portant di*eloeures are expected to be made. Mr. Peacock and the Pust.offise authorities are down at Exeter, is communication with the local officers of pollee, who have been employed during the week in instituting the most rigid search and inquiry, haying been put in ionisation of the numbers of the bank notes, and a des ription of the valuable securities lest. The applies ion on the part of the prisoners' solicitor to have uninterrupted commtuticatios with them during their remand, has been refused by the magistrates. Further search at the prisoner Poole I residence has disclosed a quantity of plate and valuable pro perty that will, in all probability,identify him with other un - '1