The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

them how they misconducted themselves for the future, for l
511,411,110 y female come forward and prove the charges
against any of them he should put the law in full force,
:hen uo doubt they would be sent to prison for a long
period with hard labour.
GREEc:WICH.
271.6 rt L1rY172271.
irdliciii Huol,• labouring man, belonging to Lewisham,
l;reared to a summons, charging him with moulting An-
eer Jackson, a fugitive slave from America.
The complainant, who gave his evidence with great good
humour, said that he resided at 17, Ilanoveretrer., Wel-
worth. He was an escaped slave from the Southern States
of America, and on Thursday he was addressiog persons
arenibled in the open air at Lewisham, upon the four
and a half million of slaves in America, when a man, not
the defendant, climbed a lamppost near him. Fearing
same molestation from this individual, as he wee standing
.11 a table, he moved away to another spot, but he had not
lung been addressing those assembled before the crowd
pressed in and the defendant upset the table on which he
was standing, breaking two of the legs of the table and
throwing him down.
Mr. Traill—How do you know it was the defendant who
did this!
The complainant replied he was certain it was the de-
fendant, who ran away, the crowd saying—" Blacks.,
there he goes, catch him." (Loud laughter.) He ran after
the defendant, and succeeded in catching him, when the
defendant struck him in the facie, and endeavoured to get
sway. He, however, held his "grip" of him, holding him
be the shirt collar, and in the struggle the defendant by
Borne means slipped out of his shirt and got away. (Roan
of laughter.)
The defendant, in answer to the magistrate, said he had
been drinking, and was pushed against the table by some
other persons. Had he not been drunk, he should not
have acted in the manner it bad been stated he had done.
Mr. Traill said drunkenness was no excuse for such mis-
coodurt. Perhaps the public streets, strictly sod legally
speaking, were not the proper places for lecturers to take
their stand ; but parsons who might have different opi-
nions to those they might then hear could easily avoid un-
pleasantness to their feelings by going away. He should,
in the
ipresent case, impose a fioe of 10s. and costs, or 14
kyle mprisonment, and he would, in addition, order delve-
not to pay any costs complainant might have been put to
in attending the court.
The complainant said defendant was a poor urn lilts him.
WI, and he would not ask for personal costa. All be
mated was to make an example of him by having ddeadant
toed by his worship.
The defendant having paid the money, was liberated.
THE FRIGHTFUL MORTALITY IN BETHNAL-
GREEN.
On Saturday Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle-
sex coroner, resumed, at the Lord Nelson Tavern, Half
Nichol-street, Bethnal-green, the inquiry respecting the
dreadful mortality in the Rogers family, five of whom have
died within five weeks, apparently from the blood being
poisoned from foul air, and from water fetid in quality and
deficient in quantity. It will be recollected that at the
inquest held on Thursday last upon George Rogers,
a boy twelve years of ego, it was proved that he did lian'm
poisoning of blood; but Dr. Parnell, medical officer to the
London Hospital, was of opinion that in his particular case
the malady might have been attributable to a natural
disease. It traospired, however, that two of dimmed sis-
ta. were then lying dead in the home No. 19, Mould.
square, and that they, as wall as two °them, had expired
tinder similar circtimetances. The Cornier immediately
issued his warrant to have the burial of the children de-
ferred, and instructed Dr. Gay, the senior surgeon at the
Great Heathers HosOtal, to make a careful poet-mortem
examination of their bodies, which was dome on Saturday
morning.
Thorold.equare consists of twenty-two houses, within
the wretched wails of which 350 people are slated to
mist. It was built about 70 years ego, and its iehabitante
so all either weavers or shoemakers, who earn but • very
marions living. The state of the cempools is described ea
bring been foe years abominable, and unendurable even to
suf those who wore lon accustomed to it. The water of the
square was by means of a tank four feet high and
el ,st five feet which received water from a pipe hem the
rain and y it up through a pump which was nearly
always useless from being out of order. A witness deposed
that during a period of 13 years that be lived in the square
lbws bad been no water for about 18 months &Depths., and
is the hottest time of the present summer there was nose to
be had for three weeks at a stretch.
The jury having hese swore, proceeded with the Dormer
to view the premiss It was stated that in the 22 home
9/ children had been attacked, sad that 12 of them had died.
After several witnesses had been heard, the Dormer
summed up. He said that the evidence proved that the
Nate of the neighbourhood was revolting, sad that the de.
oesaed died from that state. On the part of the lacidlord it
wee attempted te be shown that the witnesses were under
relies to quit, or had been &itemised upon, and were them
fore biassed. But it was tolerably clear that they had got
into that trouble in a great measure from their action in the
water of the anima-ea The father of the Ave children
made no complaint ,• but he admitted that he was ender
sneeze of mot, sad every excess meld he made for his
stlenoe. The widow* of Dr. Gay left so doubt as to the
reality of the nuisances, sod that they had been fatal to the
ammed.
The jury then, after some delibeesUce, returned a ver-
dict that deceased died from blood-poisoning, arising from
impure sir, bad water, and bad &Usage
When the above inquiry wee completed, the bodies of the
three unfortunate children were eoeveyed to the Victoria-
park Cemetery, followed by a crowd of 200 parsons, aed the
mournful procession reached the mouad Meetly before dusk.
The bodies were placed in 020 grave, where two other
childrea bed been previously ietervad.
The owner of the Looses in Mould-square has gives
elders to various improvements to be curried oat, and the
Wilding', which are in a mast wretched and dilapidated
ceeditica, will he thoroughly repaked. Many of the men-
pin have received notice to quit, but it is • question whe-
ther the bosom will not be coedsmeed by the authorities of
the &hid. Dr. Peewee, the medical Offialt of health, and
urine members al the vestry and the board of guardians of
the parish have Ukelele* made en °diked survey of the
beams in the have
which is am of the most unhealthy
ia this populated district.
WEATHER REPORT.--(THIS DAY.)
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