The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-22 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

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The following commissions have been signed :
Janie* Scott Walker, Esq., late a captain in the SBth
Regt. of Foot, to be captain of • company, rice Collard, de-
coated, in the Tower Hamlets Regiment of Militia.
Wyville Thomas CharloiThomson, gent., to be ensignorice
Hood, deceased, in the Berwickshire, &c., Regt. of North
British Militia.

CIIILD MURDER AT MANCHESTER.—An inquest
was held yesterday, at the Charlton Union Workhouse,
Manchester, before Mr. Herford, borough coroner, on the
body of a new-born male child, which bad been baptised
John Stott, but whose parentage was unknown. On 'I burs-
day week, late in the evening, a woman named Ann Fox,
living in Stott-street, Helms, heard a strange cry at the
back of her house. The noise continued at intervals, until a
neighbour named Ellen Lane came and told Mrs. Fox that
she though: there was something in the ashpit behind a house
occupied by Mrs. Hall. The two women took a candle,
and opened the door of the ashpit, the hinge of which was
at e top, and found an infant lying on the ashes. It was
trying, blood was issuing horn its mouth, and there were
marks about the neck as if it bad been pinched with the
fingers. Mrs. Fox washed and clothed the child, but did
not feed it, and it was then taken to the Chorlton Town hall
Iby a policeman. From there it was taken to Mr. Gotland,
surgeon to the Manchester police, whose residence is in
George-street, and then to the Charlton Workhouse, in
Stretford-road, where it arrived about half-past 12. It gra-
dually became worse, and died last Wednesday. It was
observed that the child had great difficulty in swallowing, and
on Saturday it vomited its food. Mr. Gramm, the surgeon
at the workhouse, said the child appeared to have been born
about 12 hours when it was found. He made a post
morass examination, and found all the organs in a healthy
state except the ereophague, which was extremely congested
orposite the seat of the external marks on the throat, which
he had no doubt were caused by the pressure of fingers.
This accounted for the difficulty of swallowing. There was
inflammation of the lungs, which he believed to have been
the immediate cause of death, and attributable to cold and
exposure. The jury found a verdict of Wilful murder
against some person unknown." Notwithstanding the
vigilant inquiries of the police, no clue has been obtained to
the child's parentage.
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.—The committee, consist-
ing of Mr. Henley, Mr. Hume, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Labou.
chore, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Patten, Colonel Mure, Captain
Jones, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Milnes, Mr. Deni*on, and Mr
Wren, appointed to consider the principle of amalgama-
tion as applied to railway and canal bills about to be
brought under the consideration of parliament, end to con-
sider the principles that ought to guide the house in railway
legislation, have reported that in their opinion all railway
hills introduced into the house during the present session
Arista se a general rale be made integral in themselves, and
SO the peateggeention should be exercised in admitting
lain them, otherwise than by specific enactment, provisions
which repeal, continue, or catend the powers of former
acts, and that the attention of committees on private bills
should be directed to this point.
ANOTHER MEANING OF THE INITIALS " W. /3.°
—Wholesale bribery.-I'sescA.

THE WARDMOTES.

ALDERSOATE.

A wardmote was held yesterday at the City of
London Literary and Scientific Institution. Alder,ptt.
',tree, for the purpose of cLoosing the illlititPt and eleetisa
ward Akers for the year ensuing; Alderman Sir
Laurie, Kat., wan in the chair. The war.l ufliron who
were re-elected were J. Lockin, .1. Wood. If. jty.,
R. °odium, R. J. Chaplin, J. Norris, J. Wu ww.rd.
0. Stacey having retired, Mr. James Ward was them ill
his place.

BISHOPSGATE WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
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man of the ward, presiding, when the common coma:lieu-a
oniint!tMe
of the °receding year were re-elected, with the exeept,,,
.11e.
hu. annualti tree
wn-as
of Mr. Thomas hall, who retires in favour of Mr.Edrinstaa.
The list now stands u follows.—Messrs. William Stev.t,,,
Henry l'atten, William Jones, Thorns. Seamider Owilto,
Metcalf llopgood, Richard Owl Limb., James Warite,
Walter Andenon Peacock, William Humphery Packer,
James Rowland Carr, Richard Ashby, Charles Gilpin,
George Taylor, and Edmiston.
The other officers, inquest men, &c., of the ward having
been elected, . .

Mr. Viten:ion proceeded to move " That, notwitlitteel.
ing the representations that were made by the ',musters of
the street orderly system of street cleatisoig, that the iest
of cleansing the City by their plan would not exceed the
amount under the old method by more than about 2,0001 per
annum, it appears the actual increase has been 0,910 e
new system having coat 12,1001., while that of eh-ethane
every street, court, an I alley, once a day, was performed at
a cost of 5,1601." The speaker COMTI11•11Ce d by assettibg
that the system had been fostered on the grounds of philae.
throphy, which philanthropy was in his opinion a humbug.
(Hear, hear.) In his opinion the sound political economy
was to benefit the "greatest number" at the smallest pee-
' %Me expense to the minority. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.)
This philanthropic street cleansing cost the City 6,0001. a
year, and was warranted to keep thesis free tram dust.
He would consider the question of dust first ; and lit
could assure the Warelmote that having gone rosiml
the putrycooka and other shopkeepers, lie had aseertaine:
the amount of dust going in at the doors to he greater that.
ever. Was the philanthrophy then worth the expense:
(Energetic cries of ".No.") Then the ittrects were at
slippery as a glacier. lie had lived in the ward for
years, and had seen more accidents during the last yisr
than during the whole 25 previous. Itut, forsooth, it, v
must submit to all this to gratify the philanthropist. Ile
defined a modern philanthropist to he a man who could I a
for 12 months on an offt naive smell, and for whom a a,..
authenticated ease of "death by starvation," would b.- 3
provision for life. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Procter
continued to object iit a serkseoinie straits to various ikno
in Mr. Cochrane's arrangements, especially to the icri.v.e
tion in phraseology by which "scavenger's carts" had tele
transformed into " sanitary contractors." Mr. Pruett,
concluded by reading the terms of his resolution.
Mr. MAUTIN wooded the motion, and said that pis
experience proved that there bad not been such an improve.
went in the cleaniatt of the streets as was commenters:.
with the expense. fhe street in which he livid was in a
worse condition than it was before the street orderly gym..
Ile thought if more money was spent on II star rate, and
the stree a were cleaned once a day before breakfast, it
would be far better.

The resolution was carried unanimously.
• Mr. BATEMAN then rose to re feat his motion of last year
with respect to enuni;:ipal reform. De complained of the
conduct of their representatives with respect to the bill a
last year, and feared that the public interests had biro so.
crificed to jobbery. They wanted it more extended (ran.
chiae, triennial election of aldermen, and a more rigid eco.
nomy of expenditure. The speaker thin diverged to the
tardiness with which the City improvement. were carried
on, especially that portion of the plan which referred to the
widening of Broad.street. As Cato of old 11-4 finished
every speech with " Delenda ikt Carthago," he would
finish every speech he made in that waribuote with " Broad-
street must be widened" until that most important object
was effected. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. PROCTOR occoaded the resolution.
Mr. GiLMIN expressed, on behalf of himself and his eol
leagues, their determination to do everything they could to
promote the reform of the corporation, which he bclievid
had been obstructed only by the livery companies. Be
thought the expenses of the corporation were too large, sad
he wan decidedly of opinion that the constituency should he
extended.

Mr. Deputy STEVENS agreed generally with the resold.
tion. With regard to something which had been said
about the expenses of cumulate. and the mune? spent on
their dinners, he wished to explain that committees only
had a dinner once a month. There was, however, a practice
which had recently crept in, to which he was decidedly
opposed, and that was the giving chairmen of comini tees
pieces of plats out of the funds prosided for
their expenses. He had once received an intimation that
all the members if the committee should have a "twelfth
cake " out of the funds,but he refused totake his. ("Hear,-
I and laughter.) The chairman of one committee agreed is
the tlrst instance to receive a piece of electro
(laughter)—but, as expected, tho nest year the sham plate
became real silver. (Hear, hear.) He had no objection to
giving piece. of plate to chairmen of committees if therm.
mittee paid for it out of their own pockets, but he (betted
to their being paid for out of the corporation funs. lle
fully concurred in the nectmity for corporation reform, and
the only doubt he bad was as to the triennial election of
aldermen, which he thought required consideration.
After some further discussion the resolution was adopted,
and with a vote of thanks to the alderman, the business
concluded.

BREAD-STREET.
Yesterday, the annual wardmote was held at Cord.
waivers'-halt, Distaff-Line, W. Lawrence, Esq , the sl.cr.
man of the ward, presiding. No subject of public iup'r•
t►nes was brought under discussion in this ward, and the
old members were returned without opposition, viz. --Mr
James (Deputy). Mr. W. Itawtrey, Mr. J. Millard, Mr II
Laurie, Mr. N. Maughan, Mr. J. rottitsnell, Mr. F. May
and Mr. W. Paltva.