The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Sunday evening. There were viTv bad in
the house, she added, but could not toll whence they
came. Several of her neighbours contributed their
testimony to the foul state of the atmosphere and
soil in Mason's-buildings :

Mr. Witheta Entlean. relievithpottleer of St. Georges parish
said he had visited the house where the man died. • inch WWI cat
a dirty state. and there was a very had smell (row the yard, in
which art•ten houses. There were two closets. also in a %ery
dirty State, with a surfaiee-drain runtime down the centre of the
buildings to carry of the water; but ottensi% e wetter often passed
down it. When he was there le noticed a very bad smell, which
he had no doubt came from the knackers' yards and boue-Isiders
in the immediate neighbourhood. In one ant there were from
200 to 300 tows of bones at the present time. There are several
boue•boilers close together, besides cattiett•stritig makers. The
stench is most offeusive from thew. Ile notiecel dampness on
theceiling of the house. it arose front the taking the bones out
of the water in the ettpiwr and placing them on the door, and the
water then leaked through the ceilings.
Mr..l. W. Wakem, surgeon to St. tieurgesst, Southwark, said lie
had Attended the deceased. It was his opinion that nothitiit was
wanting. and everything was dune for ham that was poistble.
There bad been another ..ase of the same description in the same
lambi. that mottling. A child of the deceased had been attacked
with cholera, to which he had oiltututsterest Another Auld had
afro hewn attacked at a house two or three doors than the haws
of the deceased
The requisite.: What have you to sety on the 14141• Of the
premised?
Air. %Vakein said lie had visited the lions,. that they. and haul
put hie übarrvatioua into the ahepe of a 'hurt trport, which he
read, as follows:--" Maisoit's•bittldings consist eti ton sluall
houses, two rooms in each, oeeispied by families eiensisiiiig of
your or live persons in each house. 'theta is no back eat:Anew
or_ yard to either. and but two privies, I,lllliiioll al. all.
Whirl% Ala drained. Thu, contents, MI the preteens, Lilac are
pouring into the, Adjoining houses. There is but one dram and
Wet to ithicisi in the centre (lithe etturt, Mr the retest.r or slope et
the ten houses, the stench trout which is t intolerable tend
sittfocatang. Extending over tive houses on one side of this
yowl, and au espial uuulber at the hack, muued liasek.comt, is
largt, Wharf air repository for Nall's, ill %SIMI the telititil
tar the bones are boiled, ground, ite., and trout W 1114.11 putrid
fluids And maggots are constsuitly esonting through the ceilings:"
Ile Added that the water in which the Inner were heeled eam,•
Wrought the veilings, with ikt• hosed iillllllal wetter, and the
smell was all bad in the rootlet that he could seen•ely- remain lu
them. The smell appeansl to come from the• reihug[. 'flit.
dampness exuded thorough the ceiling anti down the wells, where
there were dark patches of a foot in extent. Nothing whatever
had been dont, to these hinnies aiueu ilw hest v 64001,41 to the
cholera. The smell in the Queen's Primal was we Intl Ihat
the prisoners were compelled to 1.1000) thew wioduws (nail the
effects of theme yank The eomplatinte were very frequent (nail
them, and at the present limo there waft one care of cholera in
that prison.
'l',, a Juno- 'rheum apartments are totally until for human
habitations. They were nett r without fees, if not attendee' by
tholera. A great number of families had been deetroyed oil that
%cry place. Then, was no ventilation, ha- they ruuld gel no tree
.-tarrent of air, ea there went 111.. witld(lwa at the hawk.
Mr. 4 liarivl4 Colwell, chief officer of the queen's Prison, said
he at authorised lay Captain llndsuu,the gl/VI•11111r. 10 ',it'll.
that he sheath' be most happy to cwoperate with any nubile body
to Obtain Lilo relllo% ad of tide nuisance. l'itstaart, sat their
entrance, thought the arose Irian want of drainage iu
the prison, whirl, was well drained ; but they roma found that it
;wow from places in the licighheiurhowl, and not trout the prison
itself.

The Coroner, after some remarks upon the disgraceful
and diumerous condition in which the eviihmee
►showed the locality to be left, coniniented upon
some of the legal difficulties that stood in the way of
any attempt to get rid of the nuisances with which
the neighbourh►xxl teemed. As they could not lix
the responsibility of the event directly upon any
individual, they would I►ave to consider what powers
could he put into action to prevent this state of things
for the future. Although he was unwilling to use a
light expression, it reminded him of the story of
"The 'louse that Jack Built":

'•Thi. local aittleirities art the spot. when fi1q,11,•,1 to. said they
fool uu pemer, as the hoard of Ileslth lead 10,1 ,toilisted theist
wide it. If they then went to the Ibiard 01 I lealth, they replied'
they were thin waiting for flw order of the Pro y Connell
that those who eviniplained found that there was NO 1111101 iambi-
leery required to be put ill before any good could hp stow.,
there r,,e4 no telling a hen it would begin or where it uoitl,l atop.
If there was a Board tit Health.. why should it require Immelssly
ebte to wet it ill 111..tion'."this itiablings Art re.,vi.l•ll a remedy
tin the removal of trades that were utliaaneer front towns to
some distmit part where they would not he a unixuure. That
act had now been passed for about nine years; mud asmongst
other trades ti provided that Ito bone-boding should go on In
LOll/01/ adtrr a p-rott ~f Odd" years; ao that they had still
twenty-one yes! 1. ts :;t liet'ore they could expert any benefit
from it. Many 1 .o , then-fore, tomtit twfore they
could hope for umlMug from that. Ile Oa might pothole/ mead
bedone with a ittriugeutlaw wise 1.4.1..tue.1y thin state of
things. If the jury rould imptiest remedy, he believed the
public would be delighted, as w gnus number of eases had oe•
flirted to the north of Eiugbenwl, mid he leered that they would
soon have enure of it its the metropolis."
Mr. Tring (a furrow, aid Inoutlatr of the hoard of guardians)
said the board left notices %hi. parts, to Mete their premises
cleansed some ttla* ago, bat alien the owners found that the
powers of the art lied expired Slay ta.ly laughed at them.
utr. r.rosti, another guardian, timed, bleat all that had been done
for the laid twelve mouths for .1410191. y iiiimovi nom'. had been
performed by their officers gramitotody.
'rte jury then returned the followma special verdict:—" That
the .li...eased died from Asiato• 01,4.1 us, ludo, .4 flow the us•
tholes-ono, tnwles carried 011 w the tiemhbout hood. That It is
the ()pintos of the jury that tin hoard of ituardiatia ought ts be
„ v"Led with the authority th.y formerly lurid ouster the hoard
of 11. with iu emit imettere, ate tort Mat potter elimitd be eun•
torten's.-
A guardian %aid that on the lifflVlolllll PVenijit a apea•ial mooting
of the buerd had beim held, wheat it was determine.' to tire all
means in their power to obtain a remedy for these evil,. The
followlflCTP,olutioo WWI these prorated mad itallialaaa%ly adopted:
That toe relieving tinkers Idial the Information they can
bwy.peleaatstoe•truieehnuaartme make a strongdthemoni
sauces.'
A Ititt-TAi. Asisart.T env A NVOMAN came under the
cognisance of the Menehester map/trate% on Tueb.
day, when lease Davie: ass charged with having
kicked Ellen Oaks until be had .:ndangered her life.

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On the previous evening the nnfortunate woman
went into a lisershop, and waa leaving the house
atilt a Jug of lir et, whun Davies Wet her, and re-
qii.•sted a drink, and when she refused knocked her
down with his fist. She got up with SOM.. difficulty,
and rim out. but Davies was at her heels, knocked
her down a second now trampled upon her, and
kicked her with great ferocity on the lower part of
her person. Several persons wont to her assistance,
found hor lying upon the ground, quite unconscioloi.
and bleeding profusely. At tiro it was thought she
was dying, and she was conveyed in haste to tho
Manchester }loyal infirmary, when' she was uln•
niately brought round. On Tuesday it was with
great difficulty that she could he got to the court.
being quite unable to stand, except in a bent and
"dolibled•up" position. Mr. Maude, the stipendiary
n.agistrate, remanded the prisoner, eonsidenng that
tho condition of the unfortunate wounw was such as
to render it impossible to say what be the
issue.

A SHMKINti Acorn~' r. which was instantaneously
fatal, oecurred at the llolyhead station of the Chen
ter and Holyhead Railway on night. Ri-
chard Williams, a porter. was returning to the
litation.yara from the old pier with some excursion
Carriages, when iu stepping out of the break his foot
and ho fell into a trench which is being
mad,• for the new platform in course of erection, with
his head on the rails immediately in front of the
carriagus which were still in motion. Ilia skull was
eru.hrd to al l'llusing, of course, immediate
death. Deceased was a remarkably steady and in
bolligent man. and hail been in the service of tho
coinpany since the formation of the Line. 110 has
left lo widow and two young children.

'nil. 'ii' 'l'rtci I I INC tY Ars.
TKAI It are thus piquantly iletirvibeil by the liwonirthro
eornspondent of the .11460.ir0f elfgeo (.et Me than,
(WM What a mid is. It may be aptly el .1111,1111.11 to a
geometrical line ; it has length without breadth or thick •
new.. I dee not ray a stnught hut. 14 it is by no meow
the nearest way Isdwe.it two 1101111*. A rued is flu, most
vil.• of stibliontry deceptions. A will 0., *hemp is .um.
thing: a ships track through the wines has a transient
c‘ist.dits• but an Anstialtan road In all lOW 1111 l
morn nht% N hen 'MI an. told you cannot possibly miss
lour loud, be assured of the truth of it. for there will be to.
final Is, "slaw ; look forward etinti.lcittly to an agrettabb•
toy abort which I could ' tell %1551
a tale.' but that I don't like to Is• talking about niipell.
What do you think of the hollowing fur a
~gnuln r, slwuduug lii bin hilt door, with one anti strodeheil
out before hint, logidifeir Take that rise sin the other
side of the creek, and it will bring you on loan open plan ;
go straight on tor about a wale, stud you 1I see a hilt of
tind.cr to your right make a rill through it till you eonio
to a swamp ; go on heyonil that for throe mile., keeping
the gun on your right shouldrr, and you'll air a large moll
of wild elgitit';l4ll%c I /WM oh your left, anti keep spit, head
ing Ihr Pflihrti, till you l •to a rautping.grounil there
will be a Hock or sheep iiiiinewlirre in the neighbourhood,
MINI the eoluielecni will hint you on the tight track. You
altlit Minn it. Thank yon : so, inuels for roods. Not that.
a errrk is dillerent: not but that anti. creeks are nerds,
and istani• risens are creeks—tiny. I Itiii.• nail' at along
plain bevel rist.l t bat was a rig. 1. Itut, generally speaking,
a meek is (lift...relit front a mad. A creek is 101 indentation
iii tint grown', into which, if it should loipp.-n to mill
beastly, Witter N.llllll probably run and 1. linun lin to till
it is dried up. And in this consists the ilitter.lll.ll het Wrell
a eres.k mud it gully ; the gully bring more or less on is
slop, the water 0..111.1 not remain iii it, but !low dose
son...wher.• its.. Ii i. easy to 11118111P4141141, then. what a
rruck s,i g 1111) IN 1 anti a nver is lust the, sauna. except
that you wall follow the tiollnet! 11 a liter fur a
MIL ..1- S.O without 111“ with a waterholl. t . Lot the
ilittiesally its lit knit,/ what is out a creek, id. a gulls, iw it
mut-. You Nay be told that, alter pawin{ two erects, you
aill eonie to a certain hut ; and yet, tit )I.lll' own humble
and intineent opinion, yon may haw- crossed a dozen erweks,
and not have reediest it. lam not yet deep enough in the
mysteries to say when a ervok 1 eriek I.r erink, I think,
rtiot-t he the comet orthography 1 is not a en A, and a
gully 1 or gull-yel as me a gully."
Tow Flue which lately broke spiii in 11 infirm 1 Astir-
was chucked 111 time by LW aLnudnut xullily of wider (11,111
the nouns. Thore mains hail not been laid clown
this,, al few months, and the way in which thy are 641
with water is novel and ingenious. High upon I :ran
Isairtieshill, the top of which is higher %him tire dog-test, ol
Windsor Castle, sit IU 1111 l lame tank, ettpahl.• of holding mi..
million gallons of water, had been coustruided. mud kept
eineAmittly tilled, by uterine of a steam etigin.•. from the
Tlinnti.s, the water bring isinveyed by inot pipes nearly
dime miles From the main piper; atihaidtary branches
spring. and are varied round tbeterrwws. into the lenkno,
ittid moat pieta lithe I !astir. Tim tank 'bear, hill
the wtate'r must by its own pressure the moment it is turned
on Rut at the time of the late tire the oinbsidtary pipes
had not been 0-Vended to all parts of the Castle. it bring
&PUHA neltticiatil that the moat coalleautiiint positions
err.' so supplied. The Couistuassouer• of Pulthe %ores.
herr, howrirr, now Oren dirertiona for the est/Imam
the mains to every pert of thr I antic. and the operetiona
were commenced a few days ago. finder the anprnnten•
d, nee of Mr. Turnbull. the ressi.lent rlt nit of the
The original ripest: oriarryieg the pipes to emboss-lie
was IlsJllad ; th.• eapesioe of their fradMali estimator is
estintatill at it,IXAM., which awl bas beak vuuta
Pulisaant.