The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-25 00:00:00

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THE RZIFIRW OP THE orrr OP LONDON RIFLE
VOLDBYSIRB RP NM ROYAL LUGHNESS TRY
DUZE OP CAMBRIDOR.-(THIS DAY.)

LAM! ARRANGEMENTS.
The review of the City Volunteers by His Royal
High:taw the Duke of Cambridge, which is to be bold this
evening in Hydepark, promises, should the weather prove
hoe, to be very effective.
The members of the City of Loa' Rifle Volunteer Rd-
pde are under orders to assemble et 4 o'clock precisely, in
full dons, at the foot of the Doke of York's column, St.
James's-park ; the members will be here formed in march-
ing order end at about belt-pelt 4 o'clock they will
to the perk by Constitution-bill, ac,.., accompanied
proceed to
bawds.
The Doke of Cambridge, who will be accompanied by a
brilliant staff of general °Mows and probably by the Prime
of Wales, will arrive ow the ground about 6 o'clock.

SHOCKING STARVATION OP A FAMILY IN
WHITSCHAPSL.

A painful inquiry wan held last night by
_ Mr.
Humphreys, Middling ooromw, at the Cum Paton Tams.
Debora-dr- st, Whitaohapel, rasped* the death, from
extreme destitution, of Kilea Seam, aged 52 years.
Sarah Smiles, • girl of 18, said that she lived at
No. 3, Osborn-plaos. Her father died six weeks ego.
Deceased, w:tems, her little sitter, aged nine, sod her
brother, aged 14, lived in cos room. Deceased could
do no work, sad witness was the principal support of the
Deceased had not sufficient food, es wittier bad
not the mossy to get it for her. Witness was • match-box
maker. She got 2d. for making • gross of 24 dozen lids and
boxes. She had to fled her own pests and hemp for tying
up the work whoa dorm. She could make six gross in a day
if she " cut away at it.” She could ears in all ss. • week,
and out of that she had to pay 2s. Bd. • week rent.
Her brother was a " stamper" of match boxes, and he
brought in only 4s. • week. That was the reason deceased had
not eitough of fool. She became ill on Saturday and died
on Tuesday maraing. They had nothing from the pariah.
Witness believed demmeed's death was hastened by want of
food. Sometimes they had meat ones in the week, but
generally not so often.
hfre. Jane Perry, • lodger fa the were house, said that the
family were In great distress. She believed they bad
nothing like Bs. 6d. • week to live upon. The girl had made
out the best sees she could. On Monday night witness heard
the girl walking about all through the night. 1a therms a-
iog she told witems that her mother was rely bad, and
that her eyes were swollen ie a peculiar manner. Wittman
caused Dr. Leach to be sent for, and west about among the
neighbours to get food for the family. There was so
furniture in the room, only the mattress on which the de-
ceased died, and the beinches on which the matchtaxes were
made. On the Holiday at 2 o'clock witness had nosed the
daughter to send to the workhouse. She was told to come
on Tuesday at 10 o'clock, but the woman died at 8.
Elise Bruce, 14, Phillip-street, Rick Church-lane, said
that she Wel a widow with two children. She wee one of
the daughters of the deceased. She earned a shilling • day.
by "sitting down close" at match-box making, bat having
to pay 2e. rent, and support two children, she was not able
to contribute to her mother's support. The family were
hardly clothed. They slept in their (lithe' because they
had no covering whatever at night. They never had
enough to eat. _ _

111;.13.FOreiat Leach, sumo, mid that on last Satur-
day doweled came to his surgery in Osborn-street. She
was stiffening from incipient fever, sad be told her
she should get nourishment at ono,. On Monday, through
a mistake, the SpiteMehl, relieving allow wee applied f
and se Osborn-place was actually in Whitechapel, sow(
-mid be then got. Oa the Tuesday morn* whams was
meet for, sod toned deceased dead. The post-mortem ex-
amieation showed that all the mimes were tolerably healthy.
The stomach and intestines were empty, and she could have
taken oo food for a long time previous. Death revolted
from typhoid fever from the want of the neossaaries of
life.

The coroner !levies summed up,
The jury returned a verdict. " That dammed died from
typhoid fever, arid the said fever and the said death were
eased by privations and want of the seessearies of life."