The Sun. — London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1849: THE DEATHS FROM CHOLERA AT TOOTING. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. Yesterday morning Mr. Wakley resumed, at the Globe Tavern, Gray's Inn-road, the inquest which has beet). continued by adjournment since Monday se'nnight on the bodies of four children chargeable to the Holborn Poor-law Union. who died at the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road, soon after their removal from Mr. Drouet's establishment for pauper c hildren at Tooting of. r. Ballantine, the barrister, was present on behalf Tr. Droller.. After the Court had been opened, Mr. Ballantine said he held in his band a letter from Mr. Baker, who was coroner for some portion of Mid -. &hex. The CORONER--Hc is one of the coroners for the minty; he acts for the eastern division. Mr. Ballantine--Mr. Baker states that he is holding an inquest on the bodies of three• or four persons who have been in the establishment of Mr. Drouet, and that he gives Mr. Drouet notice of the circumstance to afford him an opportunity of attending the inquiry if be chooses to do so. The inquest is held at one o'clock to-day; but, as Mr. Drouet has been attending this inquiry, and as everything connected it ith his establishment has been investigated to the fullest possible extent before this jury, I think it advisable that he remain here. I wished to make this statement publicly that it may not be sup posed that Mr. Drouet is absenting himself from another inquiry which some persons might think he ought to attend. At the suggestion of the Foreman, after some conver sation between the coroner and jury, Joseph Saunders, an inmate of the Holborn Union Workhouse, was called in and sworn. He stated, that on Friday last he had charge of the children who were brought to the jury-room for elimination from the Royal Free Hospital. He placed them in the taproom below. At the conclusion of the sitting Mr. Drouet en tered that room. It was a public room. Mr. Drouet said to Henry Hartshorn, one of the children who had been examined, "As to you, you lying young scoun drel, mark my words; you will be taken ill before the night's over." Witness did not interfere, because Mr. Drouet went away directly. The CORONER observed, that he had considered it right to inquire into this matter, for it the boy to whom Mr. Drouet had spoken had not been examined Mr. Drouet's conduct might have been construed into a contempt of court. The observation of Mr. Drouet could produce no effect on the evidence of the boy to whom it was addressed, as he had already been exa • mined, and he (the Coroner) was not aware that any other child who was present on the occasion would be called as a witness. He must say, however, that Mr. Drouet's conduct had been as improper and reprehen sible as it was impolitic. The Foreman was glad an inquiry had been instituted into the transaction, as very exaggerated reports had been circulated on the subject in the neighbourhood. Mr. Ballantine considered that the jury had acted with great kindness to Mr. Drouet—whose conduct had certainly been most improper—in ascertaining the real facts. - Sarah Sellers was then called, and deposed—l am an inntate of the Holborn Union Workhouse. I went to Mr. Dronet's establishment to attend to the children on Friday, the sth of January. I arrived there about mid night. I was employed in the boys' sick ward. There were, I think, 30 beds in the wird; there was only one child in each bed. I saw the greatest attention shown while I was there, both with regard to medical attend ance and nurses. I was there ten days. Two of the nurses belonging to the establishment were taken ill while I was there. Mr. Popham—She does not state she was herself ill. Witness --I was attacked with purging and vomiting. Elizabeth Elliott, another nurse, remained up with me five nights and five days. We were obliged to be up, because there was no other assistance. I had not my clothes off for five nights. I never went to bed, or got any rest whatever. - The ward was very dirty and dusty when I went into it. We cleaned the rooms. We had two little boys belonging to the house to assist us in carrying away the slops. Mary Ann Keith, widow, an inmate of St. Pancras Workhouse, deposed—l attended the children from St. Pancras parish in Mr. Drouet's establishment as nurse. I went to Tooting last Friday fortnight, and arrived at Mr. Drouet's between eleven and twelve at night. I was in Nurse Green's ward. I remained there till the next morning. The ward was c'ean. There were three chil dren in one bed, but they did not remain long. I had 19 children to attend, and for the first two days there was no one but myself. I at first carried down the slops myself, but after the first two days I got a little girl as a helper. I was up three nights without going to bed. I did not go to bed in the daytime. Thomas Lovick, assistant-surveyor to the Metropo litan Commissioners of Sewers—l surveyed the vicinity of Mr. Drouet's premises by direction of the Board of Health, mainly with regard to the ditches. That exa mination was made on the 6th of January. (A plan was handed to the witness.) The plan of the premises pro duced is generally correct. I did not examine the buildings, with the exception of one of the dormitories, besides what is called the farm-yard. I observed that one portion of the drains at the end of Mr. Drouet's pre mises had been cleaned out, and I was informed it had been done recently. Mr. Kite, in answer to the Coroner, said the ditch in question had been cleaned out twice within the two months he had been at Mr. Drouet's. _ _ Mt% Whitfield, surgeon to the Holborn Union, ob served that one of the ditches was not a stagnant ditch, but a clear running stream. Mr. Lorick was understood to say that in some of the ditches the water was stagnant. . . . The Foreman asked whether the boys were employed in cleaning out the ditch. Mr. Kite said he believed not; the cleansing took place under the direction of the local sanitary com mittee. Mr. Loviek, in reply to the Coroner, said he certainly considered that the effluvia from the ditches would have a prejudicial effect upon the health of the inmates of Mr. Drouet's establishment. Mr. Erasmus Gilbert Livesay, proprietor of a board ing-school at Tooting, and a member of the committee of health for that place, observed, that about the 6th or 7th of December men were employed in cleaning out the ditches near the new range of buildings in Mr. Drouet's establishment. Most of the ditches were thoroughly cleaned, but it was impossible in. some parts of the ditches to prevent an accumulation of offensive matter. One of these ditches was in such a bad condition that witness pointed it out to the committee as the cesspool of Tooting. Witness had not noticed that any case of illnefss or fever bad resulted from the condition of the ditches. Witness might observe that he had formerly resided at Guildford, and that since he had lived at Tooting, three years and a half, his medical bills had been much less in proportion to the number of his pupils than at the former place. William Porter—l have been master shoemaker at Mr. Drouet's establishment for ten years. I also drill the boys and attend at their meals. I assisted in serv ing out the food to the children. The pottage for break fast was made of milk, flour, and arrow -root, and was of the substance of ordinary gruel. The meat for dinner was weighed ;it was entirely without bone. Mutton was supplied to the young children only. The children had the same allowance for supper as fur breakfast. The bigger boys had four or five ounces of bread each. A 41b, loaf was cut into about thirteen pieces. I never saw a loaf cut into sixteen pieces. The bread was not weighed for each child. Sometimes a boy has come and told me ' 'that from the manner in which the bread had been cut he had got too small a piece, and I would then give him another. The children seemed satisfied. None of the children ever spoke to me on the subject of their shoes being too small, and hurting them. I should say that the boys could always get water when they wanted it. There is no water in the boys' yard, but I have always considered that there was fa sufficient supply in the children's dining-room. I bad half-a-crown a week to distribute among the boys who were engaged in my workshop in making and mending shoes. .A juryman stated, that when the jury visited Mr. Dr ouet's establishment they saw seven or eight children sitting round the fire, whu said they were waiting till shoes were provided for them, or t h e i r shoes were mended. The witness said, they might h ave b een waiting till the matron could get them shoes from the store-room. The juryman observed that the child ren stated that some of them had bee n waiting for shoes for a day or two. Mr. W. B. Whitfield, s urgeon, sw or9._ and examined —I am medical offiver of t he Holborn Union- In con sequence of art order of the board of guardians, which I received about nine in t he evening of the 3d of January, I went down to Tooting at ten o clock in the morning of the 4th, to examine the state of a ccount of the great of the Holborn children there, and r e port thereupon• number constantly being brought into the sick ward, I found cons id era bl e confusion prevailing. There were not attend ants enoug h. In a case of this kind every three or four children would require a separate attend ant. But I do not blame Mr. Drouet on this account, be cause confusion was inevitable from the sudden and violent nature of the disease. Mr. Dreamt requested me to make any suggestions I could, and promised to adopt them. I a.pordingly made an entry in his book, re commending the use of flannel as an under-garment, four blankets to each bed, and an alteration in the diet. I returned to town in the evening, and the guardians met early nett morning, a n d h eard my account, and on the same day 156 of our children were removed by me in vans, to t i tle Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-r oa d. Seven teen of the diet at Tooting, and tour at the Free Hos pital. I saw ti l e deceased, Andrews, the d a y a f ter he arrived at the hospital, about four hours before his death. His diseaseappeared completely similar to what I had seen - 1 4 'Thoting. I have do doubt Asiatic cholera was the cease of his death. I say the same of the girl Johnson. The children generally were looking p a l e, with the exception of the younger girls. Tho abdomen was tumid in many of them. A great many of the young children were very thin. A number of them had the itch arid various forms of cutaneous eruptions, enlarged glands, sores in some places, scrofula, and impetigo. We always flied these most among the poor; it is partly fropi the want of proper cleanliness and diet. I believe that Andrews and Johnson had the seeds of the disease of which they died in them when they started from Tocitilig. I believe cholera to be infectious under par ticular circumstances; where a number of persons, have ilrg rE ceived the atmosp h e ri c poison, ar e con fi ne d toge ther in a small place, or place not well ventilated, the ex halations of the bodies of the diseased are capable of communicating the disease to others, but in large apartments, in which there are but few cases, I think there is little chance of infection. I attribute this outbreak of cholera to a poison which then and Brill exists in the atmosphere through the whole of this co.antry, and in various parts of Europe. I attri bute the spread and great prevalence of. the disease in this case to several causes. -First, the excessive cold; And the imperfect manner in which the children were protected from it; next, the want of proper venti lation throughout the establishment, and the overcrowd ing; and I think, from the fact of the children's abdo mens being tumid and the extremities not so stout as they should be, that • the food may not have been suffi cient to keep them in that vigour of health which would enable them to resist the evil influences I have men tioned. Mr. Withall, registrar of births and deaths, in Toot ing, was next called—He had no deaths from cholera re gistered except those registered from Mr. Drouet's es tablishment; these were about 150 in all. The popula tion of the pariah is above 3,000; the deaths registered are about 50 a year. Dr. T. B. Peacock—ln my opinion Johnson and Har per died of Asiatic cholera. Harper, within half an hour of his seizure, was entirely pulseless at his wrists; the hands and feet were deep blue ; the skin cold. :A thermometer placed under the tongue showed only 84 degrees. There was vomiting and purging, very slow breathing, and rapid collapse. The children, generally, were not so robust as in our charitable asylums. Eighteen of the 71 girls who were not confined to bed had cutaneous eruptions—either itch or eruptions cha racterising children not in good health, four had scrofu lous sores chiefly about the neck, three had ophthalmia, and one chilblains. In those who died from cholera at the hospital I believe the system (tke blood) was im pregnated with cholera before they left Tooting. I think, being in a low state of health, they more readily suffered from the epidemic influence prevailing in this country at present. Mr. Drouet's situation is not very healthy, and there is very defective ventilation. The girls who came under my charge in the hospital had not been sufficiently clothed. The children did not appear to me to have been well nourished. I should say that the establishment could not safely accommodate the number of children it contained. Mr. T. C. Jackson, resident surgeon of the Free Hos pital—Eighty out of the 155 children who came to the hospital were attacked by " the Tooting disease," and four died. Others in the hospital, who had not been at Tooting, were also attacked with the disease; one, a nurse, died: and so, I believe, did a man whe had been backwards and forwards between the hospital and the Holborn Workhouse. [Mr. Wakley—" And two took the disease who slept at the workhouse in beds opposite to or adjoining his."] I attended Quin. I have no doubt she died from malignant cholera. When the children came to the Free Hospital they were not in a healthy condition. A great number of the boys had the big belly so characteristic of scrofulous children. Their muscles were generally lax; a vast number had erup tions, and some had sore feet. A great portion of the eruptions were scabies or itch, and others were of a class indicating a very low condition of the system. I refer the outbreak to epidemic in fluence, which always makes its greatest ravages among the ill-fed and ill-clothed. There was not a particle of flannel about any of these boys when they came to us. [Dr. Peacock, in answer to a ques tion—" Nor the girls, except two or three that were ill.] The children presented the appearance of having bad a deficiency of animal food, and a large proportion of ve getable. Children require material for growth as well as for nutrition. Dr. W. Marsden, one of the surgeons to the Royal Free Hospital—l do not consider that the disease was Asiatic or malignant cholera, but a species of asphyxia. I observe, first, that the locality of the Tooting estab lishment is low and damp. Next, a north-easterly wind there contains a London atmosphere. [Mr. Wakley— "We live in that."] It is not so bad to live in it.—(A laugh.) The residence altogether is inadequate for the number received—the diet included too little solid mat ter, and far too much fluid. I examined the boys when brought to the Free Hospital, and found the abdomen large, limbs spare, complexion pale and sallow. I com pared 25 of them, taken indiscriminately, with 25 boys of the same age at the Welsh School, and found the following results : —The 25 Welsh boys weighed 1,5161 b. 12 oz. —the 25 Tooting, 1,3321 b. 8 oz.; measure of the thick pert of the arm in the Welsh boys, 1791 inches—in the Tooting, 1614; round the abdomen. the Welsh children, 5671 inches—the Tooting, 595. This would indicate that the Tooting children had been living too much on fluids rather than solids. I have ascertained that the total atmospheric contents of the 44 dormitories at Toot amount to 196,705 cubic feet; deducting 1-20th for bedsteads and the children, there would be nor quite 136 cubic feet of respirable air for each child, or an amount equal to what would be contained in a box 5 feet 2 inches every way. This quantity, with doors and windows closed, would not support life for more than eight hours, because every expiration yields 4 per cent. of carbonic acid. In the boys' schoolroom, occupied for three hours twice a day, there would be 37 feet to each boy. There would be no sufficient ventilation unless there was some thing to establish a current; and carbonic acid gas would produce precisely the same external appearances as cholera. In this way cattle brought over from Holland in the hold of a vessel suffer. Two children died lately who hid themselves in a corn-bin; and men who have gone down into deep vats have also perished. A great mortality in the Matesnity Hospital at Dublin, some years since, and another at Norwood Charity School, were found to be owing to the want of proper ventilation. The witness proceeded to say that the prin cipal symptoms of Asiatic cholera were incessant vomit ing, purging, and extreme thirst. Of forty cases which he had seen among those children in the Free Hospital, there had been vomiting in four cases, and only one of those cases had been fatal. In these cases stimulants and food had been given to the patients, while in cases of Asiatic cholera it was useless to attempt to give food; the stomach would at once reject it. Witness also considered that this disease was not Asiatic cholera, because not one case had been reported at Tooting out of Mr. Drouet's establishment, and the average number of cases reported in London during the last two months, among one million of inhabitants, was only two a day. He had, in deed, great doubt whether any cases of real Asiatic cholera had occurred in London, for he . believed that cases where severe diarrhoea had existed had frequently been reported as cases of cholera. He might observe that in the Royal Free Hospital, where many patients who were most likely subjects for cholera were admitted, not a single case of that disease had occurred. Only four of the children removed to the Free Hospital from Toot ing had died, and those had died within forty-eight hours after they were brought to the hospital. He did not believe the disease of which the children died at the Free Hospital was communicable. The CORONER—How do you account for the nurses dying? Witness—l can only say that the nurses who were sent to the Royal Free Hospital were a very bad set. I was obliged, on the first night of their arrival, to send one of them, away drunk, and if she had been attacked with diarrhoea it is very probable she would not have recovered. Witness considered the predisposing cause. of the disease to have been improper and insufficient clothing, low temperature, and the humid state of the atmosphere; and the immediate cause, the defective con dition—or want of vital principle—of the atmosphere in which the children were living He thought it was as well that the children had.not been allowed to have as much water to drink as they wished, for lie believed that had that been the case they would have been in an in finitely worse condition. Dr. Garrod, assistant physician to University College Hospital, deposed that he had made a post mestere ex-, amination of the bodies of Andrews and Harper, and read a statement detailing the appearances presented by the bodies. He had no doubt, from his examination, that the cause of cliith was cholera. The witness pro ceeded to state, that to establish more clearly the nature of the disease, he made a minute chymical analysis of the blood, the result of which he detailed to the jury. He thought there was no doubt that what might be called the " cholera influence" was now prevalent in this country. In ordinary cases it bad very little power on healthy individuals, who were able to resist it; but persons who were in an ill-conditioned state of body, either from previous disease or from insufficient diet especially when they were exposed to the influence of malaria arising from the decomposition of animal or ve getable matter, were very likely to be affected by its agency. He thought overcrowding, especially during the hours of sleep, would be one predisposing cause of cholera. He should think the immediate cause of cho lera at Tooting was the overcrowding, but at the same time he believed that the same causes would not have produced the same disease the previous year. From what he had heard the witnesses say of the food at Tooting it appeared to have been a poor diet, but it must be remembered that the quantities of food given were not mentioned. The minute book kept at Mr. Drouet's establishment for the. entry of remarks by the visiting guardians was then put in evidence, and numerous entries made in it since-January, 1848, and signed by guardians of the Holborn Union, were read by Mr. James, clerk to the board of guardians. The general effect of these minutes was that the guardians, having inspected the establish ment, sere perfectly satisfied with the general condi tion of the children. In some cases the visitors ex pressed their "unqualified approbation " of the general management of the establishment. Mr. Ballantine said it might be satisfactory to the jury to know that Mr. Drouet's establishment was visited not only by the guardians of the .Holborn Union, but by the guardians of all other unions which had children there. The consequence was that the establishment was visited by the guardians of some parish every two or throe days. _ Mrs. Dimond, matron of the Holborn Union house, who wsa recalled, stated that when th childrenWork were brought to the Royal Free Hospital most of we re in a very bad state; they had sores on the feet— about ct— h about the toes a nd heels, which did not a pp ear to haye been dressed. Witness did not know to what the sores were attributable; it might be to chilblains. Witness thought if some of the children had continued in the same state much longer their toes would have dropped off. Many of them were very pale and thin. They had had very good diet since their return—mutton for din ner, beef-tea for supper, and for some days they had a glass of mulled wine after dinner. The children had now half a pint of porter after dinner. Mr. Grainger wished to observe, with reference to a statement made on a former occasion as to the number of children in whom premonitory symptoms of diarrhoea had been had discovered at Mr. Drouet's establi shmenr, that he received the information embodied in hi s re p ort from Mr. Kite, and had now the statement in his posses sion signed by M r. Ki te. Mr. Kite explained order t that discoverhe h a premonitory d not examined symptoms, the chi l dren himselr , in o ti m the eo g and wa thes obtained infur information Li e h n a t d lem fu e r n n furnished made o ade Mr. t h G e r e a z i a n in ge i r . Cations Mr. Grainger then stated, that in coraliany with Dr. Farre, he had examined 554 children belonging to the Holborn, the St. Pancras and the Strand Unions, who had been at Mr. Drouet's Establishment, and of that number 239 laboured under various affections, princi pally cutaneous. while 315 were h ea l t h y . A mong the children affected with the itch, many had the disease in the most severe pustular for m . D r . Farre and himself had also visited Mr. A u by n ' s establishment at Norwood, where there were now 1,114 children. The medical officer of that institution told them that there was not a case of sorelettil in the house. Dr. Sarre and himself were so much surprised at this statement that they examined 530 of the children, and in that number they did not discover a single case of itch or sore head. This circumstance was so creditable to Mr. Aubyn that he considered:it right to mentiou it. In Mr. Aubyn'sestablishment the chaplain was paid from public funds; 6001. or 7001. a year (as we understood) was contributed from the same source for the payment of schoolmasters; the house had been visited by Dr. Arnott with a view to its ventilation, and it might there fore be regarded in a great measure as a quasi -public establishment. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ In reply to the CORONER, Mr. Grainger stated that he still adhered to the opinion he expressed in the report he had read on Friday week, that the predisposing causes of the cholera in Mr. Drouet's establishment were over crowding and insufficient food and clothing, combined with the noxious effluvium arising from the drains in the neighbourhood of the house. The evidence being now concluded, the proceedings were at five o'clock adjourned to seven in the evening. Mr. WAILLEY then proceeded to sum up. The de ceased children, the jury would remember, were under the care and legal guardianship of the auth orities of the Holborn Union; and the guardians, finding that their own establishment,was unsuited to the accommodation of the inmates, considered it prudent to send a portion of them to some country asylum. They were rather to be praised than blamed for that. The confined space at command in London was not calculated for recreation or proper education or discipline; but whether they made a judicious selection in sending the children to this parti cular establishment was another question. The guar dians stood, in fact, as the legal parents of these unfor • tunate children; and the letters which passed between the guardians and Mr. Drouet, the resolutions of the board communicated to him, and conversations which passed between him and the representative of the board, constituted a contract which bound Mr. Drouet to maintain the children sent to him from the Hol born Union at 4s. 6d. a head. The sum, under the circumstances, was adequate and liberal; but, liberal or not, Mr. Drouet had no business to undertake the charge unless he was prepared to do his duty. The guardians having entered into this arrangement with him, monthly visits were paid to his establishment to see in what manner he was performing his duty to their wards; and the reports on these occasions expressed ap probation. It was, however, strongly to be deprecated that the very natural course was not adopted by the visiting guardians of calling the children aside, and asking them, where no official connected with the esta blishment could hear, whether they were properly treated. The visitors appeared indeed to have executed their duty in a very slovenly, inefficient, and negligent manner; if it had been performed with energy, and as as to enable the children to state the naked truth, it was his (Mr. Wakley'a) conviction that the jury would not have been sitting on this occasion. —(Hear, hear.) Now, it was only by a verdict of murder or manslaughter that the jury could make any person legally responsible for the deaths of these children, supposing the deaths to have occurred through some culpable neglect or misconduct; and the question was, whether any one was so respon sible. In his (kr. Wakley's) judgment, the guardians were not; for they paid an adequate sum for the chil dren's maintenance, and appointed visitors to examine them, and as soon as they knew of the outbreak of disease they spared no cost to place the children in se curity instantly. Next, with regard . to the Poor-law Commissioners, they were empowered by the Act of 1834, " as often as they should see occasion," to issue regulations for the government of establishments in which pauper children should be at school or located, and to annul any contract entered into with persons keeping such establishments ; but the Commissioners had not "seen occasion" to issue such rules, and Mr Drouet's establishment had not really been under their superin tendence and control ; they were therefore absolved from legal responsibility. The next party was Mr. Hall, the Poor-law Inspector, he acted under the autho rity of the Commissioners, and if the master was re lieved from responsibility it would not be fair to visit it upon the agent. But it was very unfortunate for the children that there should be this loose, inefficient, and ill defined arrangement with regard to carrying the law into effect. It was well for them that inquiries of this kind should occasionally arise, when the ser pentine windings and intricacies of the system were disclosed and brought down public con• tempt, disgust, and reprehension. He held that Mr. Hall was absolved from legal responsibility, but he was bound to say that he did not think that gen tleman could be complimented fur the manner in which he had discharged his duties. They must next consider the case of Mr. Kite the surgeon to Mr. Drouet's establishment. Mr. Kite had not been consulted as to the construction of the building, or with regard to the diet and clothing of the children, or as to whether the establishment was fitted to receive an additional number of children. It would be difficult, indeed, from Mr. Kite's evidence, to imagine any person holding so appa rentl3 important au office who seemed to possess so little real power; but it was his conviction that Mr. Kite was not legally responsible for the deaths which had occurred at Tooting. The only other person who could be held responsible in connexion with this matter was Mr. Drouet. That gentleman had voluntarily entered into an engagement with the board of guardians to feed, clothe, and lodge the children they sent down to his es tablishment. lie (the Coroner) considered that, although there was no written contract in terms be tween the board of guardians and Mr. Drouet, the word " maintenance," which occurred in the first ac count furnished by Mr. Drouet to the board, sufficiently showed what the nature of the contract was. The guardians had fulfilled their part of the agreement by paying the 4s. 6d. a week which they had agreed to pay for each child; and it was for the jury to con sider whether Mr. Drouet had performed his part of the engagement. He (the coroner) held that, if it should appear to the jury that the death of these children was attributable to any culpable negligence iu the establish ment of Mr. Drouet, the proprietor of that establishment was responsible in law. Mr. Drouet was bound by his engagement to provide adequate food, clothing, and lodging for the children committed to his care. A dietary table had been submitted by Mr. Drouet to the Holborn board of guardians, which, it appeared, had been ap proved by Mr. White, their medical officer. He (the coroner) must say that he considered the plan of limit ing the poor to a supply of victuals of prescribed weight was a shocking, an odious, and an abominable system. Why, when a man put out an animal to feed, he did not bargain that it should have so many pounds of hay or of grass; and he considered it an abomination that such a system should exist with regard to human beings. The object of the plan might be economy; but when they considered how much disease was engendered by this system,—disease of the lungs, of the mesentric glands, of the joints,— when they considered that it created a ricketty and scrofulous population, he would ask, where was its economy? In addition to the human misery created by this system, it must be remem bered that it imposed lasting burtlens upon the parishes. The question for the jury to consider was, whether the children had been adequately fed, clothed, and housed ; if not, whether the disease of Which they had died had resulted from a defective carrying out of the conditions : implied in the engagement with Mr. Drouet and who was the party responsible for such defect? With regard to the cause of death, the great question was, whether it was owing to something over which Mr. Drouet and those whom he employed had no control? Much had been said about drains, but there was really a good deal of cant upon that subject; a farmer, with his dunghill close to his house, had his children healthy enough. As to exhalations from the ditches, the moderate mortality of Tooting seemed to show that there could be but little set down to any such exciting cause in the atmosphere compared with a predisposing cause, which the wit nesses found in insufficient nourishment and overcrowd ing. Few things were more dangerous to life than placing a large number of persons in an ill-ventilated room: they actually poisoned one another. It seemed difficult to understand how there could be two opinions on the question whether these children were sufficiently fed, and clothed, and lodged; and, whatever the visiting guardians might see or not see. Mr. Drouet must have known it. Why, too, should the cholera have prevailed for four or five days before information of it was sent to the guardians? It was just possible that the lives of these children might have been saved if they bad been removed earlier. Out of 156, no case of collapse had occurred in the Free Hospital after the fourth day from their removal to it. The first death from cholera oc curred on the 30th of December; but no official notice of the disease was given to the guardians till the 3d of January. That fact ought to have been explained by Mr. Drouet, for these children were entitled to the same consideration, on such occasions, as the children oi gen tlemen or tradespeople. The jury must consider the reports of the visiting guardians expressing satisfac tion, and the fact that the children might have given their evidence under the impression that some wrong had been done them; but certainly they seemed to speak the truth, and their statement was uniform as to insufficiency of diet. The sores and erup tions were signs of gross and reprehensible neglect somewhere; and to whom were the guardians to look but to the head of the establishment? If, in the opinion of the jury, these children lost their lives in consequence of neglect oi inattention in that establishment, Mr. Drouet, and no one else, was responsible. The law had held it manslaughter where parochial officers had removed a pauper under improper circumstances, or where insuffi cient food had been afforded. The jury must not fasten upon an individual what belonged to a barbarous, and cold-blooded, and mercenary system; they must fairly consider under what obligations Mr. Drouet had come, and what was the cause of this outbreak of disease. If it was atmospheric poison, their verdict must be " Na tural death;" if they believed it to be owing to defective arrangements in Mr. Drouet's establishment, and cul pable neglect on his part as proprietor of it, they must be equally firm in a different decison. The jury t retired at a quar t er to ten o'clock, and re mained in consultation for a n hour, wheney expressed a wish to see the Coroner. Att e ; a few minutes con versation with Mr. Wukley, the jury returned into the inquest-room at ten minutes to eleven o'clock and del' vared their verdict :—" We, the jury inspanei ledto James i t " that Andrews, 1 a uani mouslyy touching e to thethe followingdea t h of v mew Peter Drouet is Guilty of Manslaughter." (This announcement was received with some manifes tations of applause by the spectators assembled in the room.) The jury added to their verdict the following observ ations :—" In announcing this verdict we cannot refrain from expressing our opinion that the guard in guardians of the Holborn Union have acted most negligently in their en gagements with Mr. Drouet, and also their visits to his establishment. We regret that the Poor-law Act is quite insufficient for the purposes for which it was in tended; and we hope that the time is not far distant when the necessity for such establishments as Mr. Drones will entirely cease." The CORONER then inquired whether Mr. Drouet was present, and, being answered in the negative, be di rected a warrant to be made out immediately for his ap prehension. The CORONER said he thought that, in a case of this kind, he should flinch from his duty if he wore to refrain from expressing his opinion that the verdict of the jury was strictly' just, and that if he had been a juryman he should have given the same verdict. The Foreman wished to observe, that the jury consi dered Mr. Winch, one of the guardians of the Holborn Union, was entitled to great credit for having brought this case under the notice of the Coroner. A similar verdict to the above was returned in the case of each of the other deceased children—Johnson, Quin, and Harper. The proceedings did not terminate until midnight. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 23. GRIM. CON.-PRATT V. FLETCHER. This was an action to recover in damages from de fendant for an alleged criminal conversation with plain tiff's wife. It WtlF tried at) the last sittings after term, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff, for 8001. The defendant was a surgeon, practising in the neigh bourhood of Hackney, and the acquaintance which led to the criminal intercourse sprang up whilst defendant was attending plaintiff's wife in his professional capacity. Last term a rule was obtained for a new trial, which came on for argument to-day. Mr. Sergeant SHEE was heard against the rule. Ile said there were a great number of details in the affidavits on the other side, but the sub s t ance o f them was this—that the plaintiff, then being twenty-five years of age, first suet the young woman who afterwards be came his wife, and was then seventeen years old, at a house of ill fame. __ _ Mr. HIIHFREY—No, he drat met her in the streets. Mr. Sergeant SHEE—The present motion called upon the Court to decide the amount of immorality in the husband and wife previous to their marriage; but he apprehended, looking to the nature of the affidavit, that the husband was entitled to protection. The Learned Sergeant having stated that many of the persons making those affidavits were per sons of improper character, proceeded : —What he wished the Court to consider was, the extraor dinary hardship of the plaintiff's position in one respect. No doubt he was guilty of immorality, and of gross imprudence in marrying a person of this kind; but they a gree d to marry , to a b an d on all immoral conduct fo r t h e f uture, an d h e gra d ua lly introduced her into respectable society, and also to his own friends and relations, and for two years afterwards they lived perfectly happy and with perfEct propriety. CHIEF Baum—For anything that appears to the contrary. Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Her sisters were the proper witnesses to call respecting her previous conduct. Why were they not called ? CHIEF BaitoN•Lit is impossible to disguise the fact that the plaintiff h as o b ta i ne d t h e ve rdi c t un d er f a l se pretences. H e state d b y counse l, which counsel believed to be true, that which he knew was untrue, to obtain commensurate damages for an injury which he did not sus tain. If this action, instead of being one for damages, had been an action for a debt, the plaintiff would have been guilty, I think, of a crime. Mr. Baron ALDERSON- , lt is clear, upon the affidavits, that there has been adultery on the part of the de.. fendant. Mr. HIIMPREY, on the part of the defendant, said he would admit that. Mr. Bar on A LDERSON —Then, as that is th e case, t h e parties had better make some arrangement, to save the expense of a new trial. It would be better for the parties to reduce the damages very much below 800/. Mr. HUMFREY-1 should think so, my Lord. 80)/. indeed tor this woman!—(Laughter.) Mr. Baron ALDERSON—If the jury thought the plain tiff married an innocent woman, all I can say is, that they were very much mistaken.—(Hear.) The parties not being able to come to terms the ru'e was ma ie absolute, on the understanding that the trial should take place i n th e Queen's Bench, that the adul tery should be admitted, and that the costs rhould abide the event of the plaintiff obtaining the costs of a new trial.—Rule absolute. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WESTMINSTER. THE LATE DISTRESSING CASE IN YORE-STREET, WESTMINATER.—Yesterday, Mr. Levis, the eminent surgeon of Great George-street, Westminster, who has been in attendance upon the widow of the late Henry Williams, the deplorable condition of whose family has created so much public sympathy, came to this court to report the state of the poor woman. He said that she was improved in health, but in a very feeble condition. On his visit to her that day she appeared much depressed with respect to some disclosures connected with the former history of her family, the truth of which she admitted, adding that her two children had been punished ; but the boy who had been committed, and who was at present in the refuge, had by his good conduct there been made a monitor. She expressed her willingness and desire to give every mormation upon the subject of her melancholy history that might be required by the authorities, and declared that they were in great distress at the time the children committed the offence. Mr. Levis showed Mr. Tabor, the chief clerk (to whom, owing to the absence of Mr. Broderip yesterday, the above communication was mad e ), a portfolio of drawings, and some exquisite specimens of penmanship, executed by the late unfortunate man, which exhibited considerable talent. The following additional subscriptions have been re ceived for the family:—E. S. (Pegwell Bay), 54.; 31,367, the remaining belt of a 51. note of that number; L K., 103.; Delta, 11 103.; T. S., 55.; D. E., 55.; A little girl, eight years of age, 55.; C. W. M. R. W, 1/.; a Lady, the remaining halt of a 51. note, 40,654 (the l a tt e r b e i ng f or the poor-box); an Artist, 55.; a Lady at Dover, 55.; J. 11. C. W., 5/; M. C., 10s.; East, 10s.; C. C., 51. for the poor-box. THAMES. Henry Hamer, master of the Sea Bird, appeared to his recognizsnces, and Launcelot Wilson, his chief officer, was brought up on remand under the following circum stances:—At the opening of the court on Saturday, Mr. Vessey, solicitor, accompanied by a man of colour named Hughes. and Fraser, No. 93 of the river police, applied to Mr. Yardley, requesting that warrants should be is sued for the immediate apprehension of Mr. Henry Hamer, master, and Launcelot Wilson, chief officer of the barque Sea Bird, which arrived in St. Katherine's Dock from the river Gambia on the previous day. Hughes, who seemed very faint, made such a statement as induced the magistrate to issue warrants for their immediate apprehension, which were put into the hands of Fraser with instructions for their instant execution. Shortly after two o'clock the prisoners were placed at the bar. Mr. Pelham appeared for the defence. John Hughes, the complainant, who stated himself to be a native of New Orleans, said be joined the Sea Bird as able seaman in the Gambia. On the 11th inst., the vessel being then at sea, the mate came to his berth about twelve o'clock at night and ordered him on deck. Complainant, who had been worn out by ten hours' la bour, and whose clothes were wringing wet, replied, " Very well, sir; I am getting ready." The mate at once exclaimed, " I'll wait no longer," and began to cut at him with a cutlass. The pain of his wounds made him jump up, and he ran on deck, the mate still pur suing him with the cutlass. Complainant held for a the galley door, and th en cre pt i n t o but was immediat e ly f o ll owe d b y t h e the e ile ga f i b le r y, by mate, accompanied by the captain. The latter seized him by the hair of the head, and kicked him, whilst the mate still continued to cut at him with the sabre, wound ing him in several places. He was then sent to work at the pump, where he continued for ten minutes, but being faint, from loss of blood, he returned to the fore castle. The mate again followed him there, but, seeing he was bleeding, said "Go to bed, I won't hurry you any more." In his cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, who was prepared to show that the complainant was dogged, lazy, turbulent, and refused duty when the vessel was in im minent danger, the complainant admitted that he was in gaol at Gambia, but not for attempting to gouge a former captain. He had never threatened Capt. Hamer with a knife, He bad no knife in his hand on the night when he was stabbed. There was a heavy gale, but he had worked very hard that day, Capt. Hamer—So had I. I was several hours at the pump, and the vessel was in the utmost danger. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Yardley ad journed the case until to-day, admitting the captain to bail, himself in 1004, and solvent surety to the same amount. When the case came on fur hearing to-day, Fraser, the constable, who had taken the complainant on Saturday evening to the Dreadnought hospital ship, handed in a certificate from the surgeon of that establish ment, to the effect that he was, at present, too ill to at tend at the court. The further hearing of the case was adjourned until Tuesday next. FURTHER EXAMINATION AND COM MITTAL OF MESSRS. WARREN AND FULLER OF BATH. BATU, TUESDAY.—After the dispatch of the parcel last night, the examination of Mr. Horatio Warren and Mr. Samuel Fuller, the extensive silversmiths of West gate-street, in this city, was continued. Thomas Mitchell deposed that he had worked for the prisoner Warren a great number of years, and for the firm of Warren and Fuller ever since the partner ship was formed. They had an extensive business. In the month of October, 1847, witness received orders— ho believed from Mr. Fuller, but was not sure —to ham mer out a piece of silver to a pattern. It was not stated what it was for, but witness's impression was, that it was for the bowl of a spoon. Ham mered it out and sent it to Messrs. Warren and Fuller. Shortly afterwards received an order to hammer out another a little thicker than the other, which w as not t hi c k e nough. Hammered o u t one accordingly, and sent it to them. This was about the 13th or 14 t h of O cto b e r, 1847. Was dire c t e d by Mr. Fuller to charge it to Mr. Cousins, who is a working jeweller of Bath. This instruction was an un usual one, and out of the regular course of business, but witness charged it to Mr. Cousins, and he afterwards paid it. Afterwards received the service-spoon pro duce d and a fellow from a young man whom he believed to be in the employ of Messrs. Warren and Fuller. This was about a fortnight or three weeks after he made the bowl, but he was not certain as to the time. Thought that the bowls produced were the same he made, but w as not certain. Received orders to gild the spoons. The order was sent down as usual by Messrs. Warren and Fuller's boy. Gilded the spoo ns and sent them home t o th e p r i soners. " About three wee k s bioce, " continue d t h e w i tness , " M r. Warren cam e t o me, an d I th oug ht he seemed excited. I believe he ask e d me if Mr. Tnompson had been down to me, and I sa i d y es : He then asked me if I had any of the old Patterns by me that I ma d e some years ago, and I said 'Y es, I bad, ' Ile then said the Gold smiths' Company were down here, and I bad better put them all out of the way. I thereupon hid them. I buried them in the garden. The same day Mr. Warren came back to me, and said he thought they hail better be reeked, as there might be some among them like those in stock. They were then melted by me—they were the slam patterns that I had buried in the garden. Mr. Warren then said it would be well to put away the books; that I had better fold them up and seal them, and give them to a friend to keep, or else let him hold them for me. I sealed up four of my modern books, and gave them to him, and some old books, which were of no use. 1 burnt. I was shortly afterwards sent for to Mr. Warren's house, and was asked into his sitting room, where I saw him alone. He then said, respecting the spoons, that they were the only things he cared about. He also asked me if I remembered the spoons that I hammered out the bowls for. I told him that I did, and he said those were the only things that there would be any trouble about, or words to that effect. I then said if they were shown to ree I could not say but that I had seen them before. He then said they were drawing up a memorial to the board to try to get the fines cased, and in the course of the conversation he said that there was an old hall mark on the spoon. Upon cross•examieatiou the witness said he could not say positively whether the bowl produced was that ham mered by him or not. It was on the Bth or 9th that Mr. Warren called on him. Herbert Sawyer Cousins, the elder, working silver smith, of Bath, deposed that he had worked for the pri soners in their business for six or seven years. Received from one or the other of them, but he could not say which, an order to make a service spoon similar to that produced. No spoon was brought but two silver skewers were brought, and at the same time, or about the same time, he received two small figures of apostles. The figure on the head of the spoon produced was one of them, or at least was very like it, only that it was not then gilt. Did not make the bowls, they were brought to him by a man since dead, named Merrifield. The skewer had the hall mark on it. When the spoons were completed witness sent them home to Messrs. Warren and Fuller's. About ten days ago Mr. Warren came to him and asked him if he had the patterns then in his possession, but did not say what patterns. Witness replied that he bad, upon which Mr. Warren said the gentleman had been down and had taken some things away, and he had better destroy them. Mr. Warren then asked if he had any books of account, and, upon his replying " yes," said " Then you had better put them out of the way." In consequence of this witness melted the patterns and burnt his books. Tho witness was cross-examined by Mr. Stone, but nothing materially bearing on the case was elicited. This being the whole of the evidence, Mr. Prideaux, for the Goldsmiths' Company, submitted that he bad made out a charge of felony, and called upon the magis trate to commit. Mr. Stone, for the defence, insisted that there had n no felony within the statute made out. The Magistrates, after a short deliberation, committed both prisoners, and refused•to receive bail for their ap pearance. _ The streets around the Guildhall remained crowded fur a long time. and a great excitement prevailed. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 23, 1849. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Ron. George Sulyarde Stafford Jerningham, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Madrid, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy to the Ottoman Porte. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 23. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Daniel Blair, Esq., Doctor of Medicine, to be Surgeon• General for the colony of British Guiana. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint George March, Esq., to be Resident Magistrate at Mossel Bay, in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. HILARY TERM, 12 VIC.--JAN. 23. This Court will hold sittings on Monday and Tuesday, the sth and 6th days of February next, and also on Thursday, the Bth day of the same month, and on every succeeding day (Sundays excepted), until and including Wednesday, the 28th day of the same month ; and will at such sittings proceed in disposing of the business then pending in the Paper of New Trials, in the Paper of Demurrers, in the Paper of Special Cases, and motions appointed to be brought on with any case in the New Trial Paper or Demurrer Paper, and also in giving judgment in all matters then standing for judgment. F. J. PoLLocit. J. PARKE. E. H. ALDERSON. Read in open court, T. J. PLATT. E. BENNETT. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. HILARY TERM, 12 VIC.—JAN. 22. This Court will, on Thursday the Ist, Friday the 2d, Thursday the Bth, Friday the 9th, Saturday the 10th, and Monday the 12th days of February next, hold sit tings, and will proceed in disposing of the business in the Crown Paper, Special Paper, and New Trial Paper; and will also hold a sitting, on Thursday the Ist day of March next, and give judgment in cases previously argued. By the Court. the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Strange, Abingdon, Berkshire, wine merchant, 75., on Thursday, Jan. 2.5, and three following Thursdays, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. R. Stephenson, Lo,nbard•street, banker, 3 2.3/d., on Thursday, Jan. 25, and three following Thursdays, be tween the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. St ansfeld, Basinghall-street. H. Mawhood, High Holborn, dealer in lace, 3s. 4d., on any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. E. Smith, Brentwood, Essex, cheesemonger, 10d,, on any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Guildhall•chambers, Basinghall street. H. Turtill, High Holborn, saddler, 4s. 7d., on any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. R. Knight, Lewes, Sussex, butcher, and Barcombe, Sussex, lamer, Bs. 9d., on any Saturday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Green, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall- street. Olive Ginder, Canterbury, licensed victu a ll er , 6d., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and three following Wednes days, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. T. K. Thompson, Great Tower-street, wholesale dealer, 5d., on 's\ ednesday, Jan. 24, and three following Wednesdays, between the flours of ten end two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. F. E. Morrish, Leicester-square, draper, second divi dend, 7d., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and three following Wednesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. W. Cooper, C. Wilson, and G. Black, Aldermanbury, straw hat manufacturers and furriers, second dividend, 6d., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, and three subsequent Wed nesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall .. street. C. Robson, Newcastle.-upon -Tyne, grocer and tea dealer, 9d., on Saturday, Feb. 3, or any subsequent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. Smith, jun., Stockton-upon-Tees, earthenware manufacturer, 45., on Saturday, Feb. 3, or any subse quent Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon. Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. -_ _ _ J. T. Harrison, Haydon-street, Minories, cooper, Feb. 16, at twelve—C. Abbott, Lower Edmonton, market gardener, Feb. 16, at one—A. Butterfield, Hitchin, Hert fordshire, builder, Feb. 15, at eleven—G. Benda, Camo mile•street, City, importer of foreign goods . Feb. 16, at eleven—J. Lockyer, St. James's-walk, ' Clerkenwell, metal tool, steel, and wire merchant, Feb. 14, at twelve. In the Country. J. B. Amey, Liverpool, ship broker, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Hutton, Liverpool, painter, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—H. Pinhey, Plymouth, grocer, Feb. 15, at one, at the Court, Exeter —J. Roles, Maiden Newton, Dorsetshire, linendraper, Feb. 15, at one, at the Court, Exeter—J. P. Durant, Plymouth, chemist and druggist, Feb. 15, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W. Stephens, Leigh, Worcestershire, blacksmith, Feb. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birming ham—W. Wall, Bridenbury, Herefordshire, cattle dealer, Feb. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, Feb.l3. J. Clarkson, Charlton, builder—C. D. Smith, Batter sea, florist—A. Turnbull, Blue Anchor-rcad, tanner— W. Farlar, Brompton-square, builder—R. W. Nl'Donnell, Bitten. Gloucestershire, paper manufacturer—E. Gart side, Preston, draper—W. Chambers, Blackman-street, carpenter and undertaker—R. L. Evans, Liverpool, butcher—T. Jones, Old Swineford, Worcestrr.hire, grocer—W. Watson, Golilen Valley, Derbyshire, inn keeper—J. Vaile, High Holborn, auctioneer—J. R-.es, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, woollen draper—W. Hall, Kington, Herefordshire, miller—J. Petty, Gsrgrave, Yorkshire, farmer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Lidgett and J. Shepherd, Billiter-street, City, ship brokers—W. Whitehouse, J. Whitehouse, and J. White house, Dudley, Worcestershire; Tipton, Staffordshire; Birmingham, and City-road-basin, &c., canal carriers— T. Taplin and H. Freeman, Stanley- place, Paddington, auctioneers—J. A. Bartlett, T. Ashworth, and S. Roun thwaite, Liverpool and Litherland, Lancashire, and Glasgow, asphalte manufacturers (so far as regards the said J. A. Bartlett)—E. Ord and T. Humphrey, Sunder land, linen drapers—J. W. Lawson, and W. M. An derson, Lime• street, City, merchants—B. Sewell, B. Sewell, jun., and C. Sewell, Chatham-place, City, mer chants—T. C. Jackson and J.H. Jackson, Little Bolton, Lancashire, engineers—Mary Okey and W. J. Okey, Turnrnill-street, Clerkenwell, glass stainers—W. Wil kinson and J. Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire, cotton warp dressers—H. Shaw and J. Shaw, Stalybridge, Cheshire, woollen manufacturers—T. Waddington and G. Wad dington, Beverly, Yorkshire, fellmongers—H. W. Woods and F. Bauer, Great Russell-street, lithographic printers Mary Ann Blackit and Sarah Rennoldson, Sunder land, dress makers—C. Marshall and T. Wright, Slid fieldhawnbrokers—J.D.Grayson and C. Grayson, Liver pool, shipbuilders—R. Carbines and J. Sallip, Great Guildford-street, Southwark, ironfounders—G. R. Min nikin, J. Lancaster, R. Crosswaite, and J. Crosswaite, Keswick, Cumberland, black lead pencil manufacturers— J. Redfern and W. Owston, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leices tershire, chemists—E. Lane and C. Lane, Bahia— J. Carlton, G. Walker, and D. Lewis, Manchester, ware housemen. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Henry Stephen Reynold, Stamford, Lincolnshire, hotel keeper. Samuel Hartridge Tyler, Sutton Valence, Kent, painter, plumber, and glazier. William verest Toys-hill, Braste d , Kent, farmer. Joseph Driver, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, book seller, stationer, druggist, cooper, and patten maker. Thomas Cole, Cheltenham, beer house keeper. William Wakefield, Cheltenham, trunk and stay- maker. John Charles Banks, Lymington, Southampton, painter and plumber. Thomas Daraton Millner, Leeds, student in civil law. Thomas Bowman, Kirkdale, Lancashire. Thomas Barber, Liverpool, wharfinger. Owen Griffiths, Liverpool, licensed victualler and en- gineer. James Towers, Liverpool, shoemaker. John Parry, Liverpool, bout and shoemaker. Matthew Henry Lister, jun., Petworth gaol. Charles Smith, Northampton, jobbing butcher. William Holland, Wednesbary, Staffordshire, stamper at a glass tube factors. John Ward, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, coach maker. James Mitchell, Blackburn, Lancashire. Thomas Carlyle, Blackburn, Lancashire, draper's as sistant. Henry Bramley, Leeds, dealer in periodicals. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Ross, New Wynd, Glasgow, joiner and cabinet maker, to meet within the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 29 and Feb. 26, at two. W. Todd, Glasgow, warehouseman, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 20 and Feb. 19, at twelve. A. Marshall, Edinburgh, accountant and commission agent, to meet within the Paxton's Coffee-house, Edin burgh, Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at twelve. W. Steedman, Guirney-bridge, Kinross, farmer, cattle dealer and grazier, to meet within Kirkland's Inn and Hotel, Kinross, Jan. 26 and Feb. 19, at twelve. N. Scouller and Co., Glasgow, warehousemen, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 26 and Feb. 16, at one. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL, JAN. 23. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states that during the past week firmness has been the characteristic of the trade, with a very limited business doing; buyers were ready enough to give late rates, but the great bulk of the recent arrivals being landed, importers were unwilling to sell without as advance. The supply of wheat from our own farmers at this day's market was somewhat less than usual, with little inclination evinced to give way in price, and good dry parcels were readily taken off at full lust wet k's rates. A small show of foreign, with a good deal of inquiry for best runs deliverable duty free on the Ist of February; such are held at 44s to 46s 601 b, with buyers at is to 2s under those rates. The barley mar ket is firmer; more inquiry after best descriptions of malting, and no more grinding to be had on late low rate=. Beans of all sorts have been better sale during the week, without actual advance being quoted. The bulk of the peas being lauded, prices are stiffer; indeed, for some sorts is to 2s more money is paid during the week. Nothing doing in foreign oats, and English are only saleable on low terms. Nut much business passing in linseed, with only a moderate import; prices are well supported. The mild weather, and the low value of other articles of feed, interferes much with the consumption of linseed cakes, which aro now, both English and foreign, to be procured on easy terms. The little rapeseed here is hardly on the market, or some advance on previous sales would be obtained. Very little doing in rape cakes. Bones fully support our quotations. The following are the present prices of grain : s. s. Linseed cakes, English, per Wheat, red I.)o. new do .. . 40 44,D0. foreign, do 7l to 810 s Do. white 44 46,Rape cakes, do B7s 6d Do. new do 4` , 44Boues, do .85s Od tO 9's Od Do. Dantzic ... - ... 48 50 Guano 41 to 91 5s Do. Lower Baltic & FOREIGN GRAIN IN BOND. Hamburgh . 44 46 The free prices less current Barley,malting 26 —3l duty. Do. grinding 2l 24 Wh eat, Dantzic & Konigsberg Oats... l4 16 Do. Lower Baltic & Ham burgh Do. Dani5h.......... , 12 14 Do. Archangel & Petersburgh Do.Friesland l6 18 Barley, Saal and Magdeburg Do. Russian Beans 3O 33 Oats, Russian Do. foreign 2B 34 Do. Danish and Pomeranian—, Peas Linseed. crushing 34 38 40 Do. do. feed Do. feeding Rapeseed, per 10 qrs. 241 to 271 Peas HULL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN OF THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 16. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. ......... . 1,094 Qrs ,. at 43s 3d 327 at 28s Od 96 at 13s 3d Rye. Beans. Peas. 0 Qrs at Os Od 0 at Os Od 0 at Os Od LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23.—At this day's market there was a slender attendance of dealers, and the busiuess transacted was on a limit , d seMle. There was no change in the prices of tree wheat; and bonded samples, without much inquiry, suppixted the advance of Friday. Oats, bi ing less plentitul, were fully as dear; the sale, how ever, was slow; and ()atm, al, being still neglected. was 6d per load cheaper. Barley, beaus, and peas were only saleable by retail, and at barely previous rates. Indian corn was in less active request than At the close of the week, yet good sound yellow brought 30s 6d to 31s per 4801bs. Indi , in corn meal held far 6d per barrel ad vance. Free flour was 6d per barrel lower, and bonded 6d per barrel higher. 253 6d be:fig paid for Baltimore. IPSWICH, J. 23. We had a good attendance of farmers at market to day. Wheat was a ;.low sale, and prices scarcely so good as last wetk Alalting barley was in fair request, at steady prices; other qualities were dull. Oats, beans, and peas are a shade lower. Malt not much in request. Flour steady. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 403 to 503 Beans 2ss to 32s Barley - 26s to 34s Oats R ye .. ....... .. AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 20. Wheat 1,389 quarters at 44s sd. Barley Oats ... 117 ~ ' I9s 2d. Beans ... 162 /7 29s 2d. Peas 197 „ 328 ld. LEEDS, JAN. 23.—There is a pretty good arrival of grain here to-day. Wheat has met a moderate con- sumptive demand at rather under last week's prices. The quantity or barley offering is very small, and is taken off in some instances at is per quarter advance. Oats and beans maintain last week's rates. PETERBOROUGH. JAN. 20.—We have a large supply of wheat at this day's market, and there is also a fair quantity of barley, be:tns, and oats offering. The trade continues in the same dull state that we have bad to note it for several K eeki past,: he millers only taking the best qualHes at late rates, whilst the inferior sorts are is cheaper tha❑ last week. Barley, beans, and oats, are not cheaper, but the demand for each is very limited. Cur rency to the growers :—W heat, new, 38s to 425; fine, 44s to 465; old, 42s to 465; fine, 48s to 00s. Barley, 26s to 28s; fine, 30s; malting, 00s to 00s. Oats, new, 14s to 16s; fine, 18s to 21s; old, 20s to 00s.; fine, 26s Beans, 38s to 40s; new, 00s to 00s per qr. Inspector's corn return for week ending Jan. 20—Wheat, 760 qrs. 4 bu. 42s 71c1; barley, 343 qrs. 3 bu. 27s W I oats, 250 qrs. 4 bush, 13s 64d; beans, 20 qrs. 0 bu, 37s Od; peas, 0 qrs. 0 bu., 00s Od per qr. HERTFORD, JAN. 20.—Averages—Wheat, 2ls Od to 33s Od, 429 qrs., 5 bu, 46, 3d; barley, 24s Od to 32s 6d, 2,086 qrs., 4 bu, 293 sd; oats, 00s, 8 qrs, 0 bu, 18s. HAVERHILL, JAN 21.—A fair attendance at market last Friday, but business was very dull, at still lower rates. A short supply of stock. Wheat, 101 to 101 10s rer load; barley, 28s to 30s per qr; peas, 40s; beans, 365;:: oats, 18s to 20s; hay, 70s per ton; flour, 37s 6d to 403 per ;sack. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 22.—There were 123 bags of oatmeal, and 18 of barloym,eal at this day's market; sales ready ; oa t mea l obtained the currencies of last week; barley meal brought is 3d to 2s per bag over the prices quoit d on that day fortnight. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial ... 27s Od 26s 6d 26s Od Barleymeal, per ditto ... 22s 3d 22s Od 21s 6d Peasemeal —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot barley ... —s 6d —8 Od —s Od lIAMBURGH MAIL. HAMBURGII, JAN. 17.—The Elbe is again very:inse. cure, and bscomes increasingly so from the c.ontinued thaw. Scarcely any sledges venture upon the river, and the country people from Harbourg cross at Wilhelm burg, where the ice is thinner. In several places, at Stade and Cuxhaven for instance, the river is free, and no more driit ice is to be seen. lIAMBURGH FUNDS, JAN. 17. 13111 s. „lionev. Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent. •• 103% 10334 Ditto, 3% per Cent. ...... _ 9134 Prussian 5 per Cent. ••• • • I , ON 10034 Russian Certificate., •• • . •• •• •• •• 964 96 Angio-Russian Loan •• .••••• •• 993 99 Ditto, Certificate ••..• • •• 9138 Russian 4 per Cent. ••.•• • • • 81 New 5 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...• - - Ditto Stleglitz .. • . ........ ......... Belgian Loan .• ••••• • • • • • 413 y Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • • 65 Ditto, in 100/. saares • • ...... Anglo-Swedish Loan .. •• •• • • •• Ditto, Transport Loan Norwegian Loan, 1848 ......... 95 9, Spanish New 5 per Cent-- ••• • •• 9% 9% Ditto 3 per Cent •••• •• • 19% 193( Ditto, 1816.... ••••• • • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • Dutch Actual Debt, 23% per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. .............. - National Bank Shares American, 6 per Cent. .......• .. •• • • 100% 100% RAILWAYS 80% 6436 96 96 Hamb. Bergd. Ditto, Priority Shares ... Berlin and Hamburg ......... DittO, Priority Sharei ........ Cologne and Minden Ditto, Priority Shares ••••• • • .. 92% Mecklenburg...—. ..... ....... ••.. • • 36 Altona and Kiel ........ ...... .•• .. 89 Gluckstadt ........ • • Rendsburg. . . .. Hanseatic Steam Company 98% 60A 35% 88)4 RAILWAY I - IA ILE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 21— , Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, an d W es t Yorkshire,Prefer ence, guaranteed 6 per cent. (B), 20 1 4—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction (late C. and B. 27/. 10s. Shares), 15N —Caledonian, 26 1 1 A—Ditto, Preference, 1 1 4 p.—East Lancashire, Quarters, 51. Is. 3d.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Leeds), I , ifths, 3 1 A dis. c.--Ditto, 101. Preference, 1% p. ex int, itto, Halves (late Hull and Sheffield), 13 dis. ex int.— Ditto, Halves (late Liverpo o l a nd Bury), 131, 2 dis.—London a n d North. Western, 132—Ditto, New Quarters, 4 1 4 4 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 1 4 p.-- Manchester, ;lieffield, and Lincoln (late Sheffield and Lin coln), Eighths, 5 3 / 4 dis.— Ditto, 10/. Preference, 1134—Ditto, 20/. shares, 10 dis.—Ditto (Docks), 12 dis.—Midland Stock; 92Ih— Ditto, New Ilalves, 5 1 ,, dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 dis.—t'cottish Central, 26—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4 dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 101. Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 14%—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 7 3 4 ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 3 / 4 p, MANCHESTER, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANOM—The sales are—ShreWsbury and Chester, Preference, 931 4 Caledonian, Preference, p.— Leeds, Fifths, 3 15-16 dis.—West Riding Union, 4 9-16 Sheffieo .land Lincoln, 12 1 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 , 7 5 1 4 —Sheffield, Eighths, 5 3 4 dis.—Wharfdales, 445. 6d. dis.—East Lancashire, Preference, 7 1 A—Clitheroa, Pre ference, 20 dis.— Old Grimsby, 25W, c. dis.—North Stafford shire, dis. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was firm, and very little stock was flared. The sales are—London and North- Western, 131 Midland, 6 per cent., 126—North Stafford shire, 2/. 16s. 3d. die. Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Prefer ence, 1 1 4 p.—South Staffordshire, 3 dis. YORK, JAN. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows :—Great Northern, 8/. 16s. 3d. ex int.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), 27 1 / s —Ditto (Extension), No. 1, 201. 13s. 9d.—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 20%—Ditt o (G . N . E . Purchase), 81. Bs. 9d. HULL, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Blackburn, Damen, and llolton, 6 1 % Caledonian, 26 %--East Anglian ( ly and Huntingdon), 3—Hull and Selby, Halves, .50 3 / 4 —Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 35: , .—North British, Quarters, 735.-- -Ditto, 'lints, 925. NEW CAsTL E-UPON-TY NE, JAN. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE - The sales are—Caledonian, Quarters, 6 1 / g dis.—Great Northern, 10A dis.—Newcastle and Car lisle, 107. GLASGOW, JAN. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and Glas gow, 82:—Edinburgh and Northern, 11 1 / 2 —a.inburgh and Newport,7—Glasgow General Terminus, 11 Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, s—Glasgow and Greenock, Halves, 7 Scottish Central, 26. [ADvEnnsEmErir.]—A IteTeeted Member of the Society of Fricods Cured of a Cough and Asthma, by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Extract of a letter from Mr. Benjamin Mackie, to Professor Holloway, dated Creenagh, near Loughall, September 11, 1848:- 6 . Re spected Friend, I feel it only an act of justice to thyself, to state that 1 have prrsonally experienced the benefit of thy excellent Pills aid Ointment, in the cure of an inveterate C.ugh aid Asthma, which afflicted me for three years to such an exreot, that I was obliged to walk about my ri orn at night, afraid of suffocation if I went to bed. I then tried thy invaluable medicines which, I am pli ased to s iy, have perfectly cured me."--"' Sold by all vendors of Mr dicine throughout the globe, and at Pro:essor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. CHEAP WATER AND GAS.—Last night a numerous meeting of the 1-JAL-payers of Lambeth was held at the Vestry-room, to take into consideration the best means of obtaining a chin per, purer, and more abundant sup ply of watt r and gas, Charles Pearson, Esq., M.P., in the chair, at winch it was agreed to petition Hamel:it upon the subject. BIRTIIB. On the 11th inst.. at Einsworth, Hants, the lady of CaPt• E. 11. Beauchamp, 1.1 N , of a daughter. On the 17 , 11 inst , at iloltnwood Parsonage, Surrey, the wife of the Rev. J. S. Utterton, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Sh , rrolds, North end, Fulham, Mrs. W. fi. Lammin, of a daughter. On the 2lst inst., at Coln Rogers Rectory, Gloucestershire , the wife of the 11ev. H. B. Forster, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Coston Rectory, near Melton Bloc"' bray, the lady of the lion. and Rev. J. Sandilands, of a son. On the 21st inst., Mrs. Timothy White, of Landport, of a daughter. 07 , the 22d inst., at Radnor-place, llyde•park, the wife of W. G. Taunton, E,q., of a i!an,..;hter. I,4RRIED On the 20th inst., at Heston ULurch, Middlesex, Frederick E. Trimmer, Esq , to Adel a id e , d aug h ter o f t h e Rev. L• Withers, of stittou, in the same parish. On the 22d at St. George's Church, Hanover-square , Florence Fox, son of W. J. Fox, M.P., to Caroline Phoebe Caulfield, youngest chughter of the late J. Caulfield, Esq. BANKRUPTS. James Strange Junes, oil and colourman, High Hol born, to surrender Feb. 1, at half-past twelve, and March 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit more, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Jervis, Law rence Pountney-hill. Helen Watts, innkeeper, Chelsea, Feb. 1, at one, and March 6, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Dupleix, Lin coln's Inn-fields. Joseph Frith Everett, engineer, Red Lion-street, Cler kenwell, Feb. 2, at one, and March 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Taylor, Finsbury-place South. Stephen Noden, rug manufacturer, Swinton-street, Gray's lon-road, Feb. 3, at one, and March 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basinghall -street; Dickso❑ and Co., Old Jewry. Henry Hughes, linendraper, Dover, Kent, Feb. 2, at eleven, and March 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall•street ; Jones, Size-lane. Thomas Core, innkeeper, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Feb. 9 and March 9, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Not tingham; Taylor and Collisson, Great James-street; Brewster, Nottingham. James Jarvis, plane maker, Birmingham, Feb. 8 and March 3, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Powell, Bir mingham. Wchard Branwell, attorney, Holsworthy, Devonshire, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Exeter Dis trict Court. Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Baker, Ruck, and Jennings, Lime-street. Harry Valentine Stroud, miller, Spettisbury, Dorset shire, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Ex eter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Ex eter; Fincham, Dorsetshire; Stogdon, Exeter; Edwards and Peake, Westminster. William Cradock, auctioneer, Truro, Cornwall, Feb. 1, at one, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Baker, Ruck, and Jennings, Lime-street. Thomas Potter, hosier, Sheffield, Feb. 10, at half•past twelve, and March 10, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Sheffield; Duncan, Buckingham-street, Adelphi; Unwin, Sheffield. John Womersley and William Womersley, delvers, Clayton, near Bradford, Feb. 5 and 26, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Trinder and Eyre, John-street, Bedford-row; Harle and Clarke, Leeds. Samuel Brownentt, fruit merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 5 and March 5, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Cornthwaite and Co., Old Jewry Chambers; Pemberton, Liverpool. .Tames Pierce. corn dealer, Chorley, Lancashire, Feb. 6 and 27, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Norris, Allen and Simpson, Bedford row; Turner and Son, Preston. Christopher John Spence, timber merchant, Stockton upon• Tees, Feb. 8, at half-past ten, and March 6, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Waklcy, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Allison, Dar lington; Buie, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall•street. W. Cusse, Christchurch, Southampton, grocer, Feb. 14, at hall-past eleven—Catherine Choules, Reading, Berkshire, ironmonger, Feb. 14, at eleven—J. W. Po cock, Southampton-street, Strand, upholsterer, Feb. 15, at half-past one. In the Country. S. Mayer, Burslem, Staffordshire, earthenware manu facturer, Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court Birmingham— C. Allen, St. Ives, Cornwall, ironmonger, Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—W. Richardson, Newcastle upon-Tyne, glass manufacturer, Feb. 16, at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Wallace, Durham and Sunderland, grocer, Feb. 15, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. Todd, Whitehaven, Cumberland, ironmonger, Feb. 15, at half-past twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T. Rowell, Hartlepool, Durham, merchant, Feb. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—G. Fletcher, Egremont, Cumberland, tanner, Feb. 15, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. J. Ferens and R. Ferens, Durham, drapers, Feb. 15, at half-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—G. Hewitt, and G. Hewlett, Manchester, woollen-drapers, Feb. 16, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. Prytherch, Ty Maur, Anglesey. cattle-dealer, Feb. 15, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Pratt, Liverpool, stcck and share broker, Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—T. Slattery, Liverpool, corn broker, Feb. 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Day, Liverpool, draper, Feb. 16, at eleven, the Court, Liverpool—E. G. Hone, Liverpool, licensed victualler, Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Broadbent and J. Hughes, Walmersley-cum-Shut tleworth, Lancashire, paper makers, 4 s. 9d., on Tues day, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. J. Broadbent, Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth, Lanca shire, paper maker, 205., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the he urs of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. Hughes, Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth, Lanca shire, paper maker, 205., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. D. Greenwood and J. Bateman, Bury, Lancashire, joiners and builders, 7d., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and every following Tuesday, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. lobson, Manche s t er . _ _ R. Holt, Rochdale, Lancashire, innkeeper, 9s. 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