The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-18 00:00:00

DESTITUTION AND DEATH AT LIMEHOUSE.

DTQUEST.-(THIS DAY.)

This day at noon Ms. John Humphreys, the
coroner for Middlesex, opened an inquiry in the children's
establishment of the 'Stepney Union, Church-row, Linn-
houae, respecting the death of Abraham Carry, aged 18
years, who, it was alleged, had died from destitution.
Frances labor, of No. 5, !Why's Rope-walk. Lim/amuse-
fields, said the deceased wee in good health on Saturday last
when she left him in bed to go and name • ;esthete` She
did not see the deceased alive swan. The deceased had
been to greet distress, and had tamped from the country.
William Newman, in the service of Miser.. Price and Co.,
the candle manufacturers, of =wall, Poplar—The de-
emed was taken on in the yard as a casual labourer, and
received 7s. 6d. per week.
Coroner—ls that the wages your firm pay to a young
man 18 years of age!
Witness—Yes, air.
The first witness said, in answer to the coroner, that the
deceased paid lc 6d. per week for rent, and he only
had animal food once a week. He was very badly clothed,
and suffered from fits of epilepsy.
Mr. William Edward Burton surgeon to the parish, said
that he was called to the deceased and found him in •
state of inemmilnlity, and deceased died on Sunday morn-
ing. Had mad. • post-mortem examination of the body,
and found the brain much softened and effusion of blood
into the ventricles. The stomach and intestine. were per-
fectly empty, and the body was much emaciated from went
and dtntion. The clothing was ragged, and his person
was almost naked. . .

—After ethic whammies bad been heard,
The Coroner summed up the evidence, which he said dia.
closed a mad cam of destitution and death from want. There
was no one to blame, and the deceased had no doubt suf-
fered peat privations. The small pittance deceased had
reosived lately was not sufficient to keep body and soul
tallgerjrnri returned a verdict, "That the deceased died
from effusion of blood into the ventricles of the brain,
brought ea by destitution and the want of the common
moraines al Igo."

DEVISES ELECTION.

POLLING.-(113/13 DAY.)

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The Hones or COMMONS AND ASH WEDNESDAY.
—There ore two Wedoesdays every minim to which the
House of Commons shows some respect—the one is Ash
Wedneeday, on which mosaic* the sitting is postponed
until two o'clock, the other is the Derby Day, when the
sitting is suspended altogether. The lemon for the post.
ponemeat of the sitting until two o'clock on Ash
Wednesday is grounded on the assumed anxiety
of hon. members to attend Divine service on the first day
of Lent, and formerly it was the custom of the Speaker and
a large number of members to be present at the morning
service at St. Margaret's Church, in which pariah the House
of Commons is situate, the sermon, on all 000asions, being
preached by the chaplain to the house. The custom
gradually fell into dimwit, and the Speaker and the
officers of the hones at length ceased to attend altogether.
Mr. Goulborn, Sir Robert Inglis, and other mem-
bers of the old school, continued to make a point
of attending during the remainder of their lives, as did
also Mr. Spooner, until advancingyean and partial lox of
sight compelled him also to abandon the practice. This
morning St. Margaret's Church presented a very dull ap-
pearance. There was morning service, it is true, but none
of her Mejesty's faithful Commons honoured it with their
presence either in their private or official capacity.
ANOTHER NIGHT or F/RTS.—SERious Loma,—

During last night and this morning the London firemen were
actively engaged in attending fires in various parts of
the metropolis. One broke out about 5 o'clock this
morning in the premises belonging to Mr. C. Greville,
• manufacturing silversmith, at 12, Charles-street, Cale-
donian-road. It was with the greatest difficulty
that the inmates were enabled to escape. The pre.
mists were burnt out, and the roof is off. The premises
of Mr. J. Gregory (No. 13), and those of Mr. W. Sandell
(No. 11), are also damaged by water and the furniture by
removal. The lose will fall on the Imperial, the London
and Liverpool, the Sun, and London fire °Meta—Another
fire happened on the premises belonging to Mr. R. Dell, a
coruchandler, carrying on business at 1181, Lambeth-
walk. The stores were nearly destroyed, and the
greater part of the roof is off. The back of the dwell-
ing home waa also scorched, and the window glass
broken. Mr. Dell we. insured in the Atlas; and San fire
offices.—A fire also occurred on the premises of Mr.C. Jones,
• tailor, No. 32, Wellington-place, Green-street, Stepney,
the whole of the stock is trade being destroyed. Mr. Jour
was insured in the Royal Exchangerffios.
Tan ROAD Mom:mt.—We hear, on what may
be eeambiered reliable authority, that the circumstances
conneeted with the mysterious murder of Francis Saville
Kent at Road on the 29th of June, 1860, are likely ere
long &gala to become the subject of judicial investigation.—
rises&

IMIOLITION OF HCNOESFORD-BRIDGE. This
bridge is rapidly disappearing. Nearly all the framework
ham been removed, and yesterday half of one of the tower.,
from which the chains were suspended, was taken away.
The remaining half will probably be removed today, and
it is expected that the other tower will disappear before the
class of the present week. In the course of a motth or two
what was formerly flungerfad-bridge will span the Avon
at Clifton.

Tim DUTY ort Fox lirstresteca.—The secretaries
of the following fire insurance offices for the third year I
consecutively have within the put fortnight signed a peti-
tion to the Home of Commons, for the abolition or reduc-
tion of the duty on fire insurances. It will be seen that the
list includes every Loudon fire-alai, as wall sa those in the
:—The Sus, Pluznix, Royal, Escamogs, Norwich
ricenonoty, Royal Imperial, Liverpool and Leedom.
West of Beglsod, Alliacee, Globs, Atlas, Manchester: Law,
North British and Mercantile, Corporation of London
Assurance, Guardia*, Scottuill Union, Union, Westminster,
Leeda and Yorkshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Northern,
°lwallw U RoYsi
aoial osPi Church of Haodtigilalt
=eceal Union. London a edablan h. Emn-peror,
Primes, Ewer and Suffolk, Midlando Counties, Nottingham
i
sad Derby, Rants, Stones and Dorset, Shropshire, and
North Walra