The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-13 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 13, 1858,

DEATH AND DIRT are depicted by Dr. Buchanan
in two tables which speak with a painful eloquence.
He compares Little Coram.street, a street of for the
most part very poor people, in which the mortality is
at the usual high average of the surrounding die-
trict, with Dudley-street, Seven-dials. Both are
streets of seven-roomed houses,, none of them com-
mon lodging-houses. In Dudley-street there are 82
houses and 1,720 men, women, and children. In
Little Coram•street there are 33 houses and 370
men, women, and children. The proportion of
children in each street happens to be exactly the
same, 41 per cent. In Dudley-street there is an
average of 21 persons; but in Little Coram•street
the average is only 11 persons to a house. Of the
houses in Dudley street one-half are dirty and the
kitchens are closely-tenanted ; the houses in Little
Coram-street are good and clean. What follows?
There died last year in Dudley-street a proportion
of 38 people to 1,000 ; but in Little Coram-street not
30. Of those who died in Dudley•street the children
under five years old bore a proportion of 58 to 100,
in Little Coram•street but 27 to HX); the proportion
of deaths among little children in the street little
more than half as crowded as the other was even
less than half as great. Deaths from zymotic dis-
ease in Dudley-street were more than twice as many
as are usual in London, but in Little Coram-street
there was not one.

THE PUBLIC GAMING•TABLES AT SPA, the privilege
of which has just been renewed, gained this season,
it is said, 1,040,000 f.
THE RAGLAN TESTIMONIAL numbered 1,550 sub-
scribers, and the total amount of subscriptions was
12,5401. 14s. Bd. ; interest thereon, and balance of
profit and loss upon Exchequer Bills, purchased,
5191. Bd.; total, 13,0601. 2s. Bd. This sum has
been expended in the purchase of a house and land
in the neighbourhood of Raglan Castle, as a residence
for the son and heir of the late lamented field-mar-
shal, at a cost of 7,8021.25. Bd. The cash paid to Lord
Raglan's agent for the repair of, and additions to,
the house, and improvement of the land, was 4,0211.;
law costs and incidental disbursements, (1271., and
balance to meet a draft payable to solicitors, 101.; in
all, 13,0601. 2s. Bd.
THE CHURCH OF GENCH, in the province of Lim-
burg (Holland), which has just been rebuilt at a
cost of 79,000 f., fell to the ground with a tremen-
dous crash. Several men were severely injured.
A PARTY OF DORSET GENTLEMEN recently went
out to America on a sporting tour, and to see the
country. From the last letters received, we under-
stand that Lord Richard Grosvenor, Lord Frederick
Grosvenor, the Hon. L. Ashley, and Mr. Danby
Seymour, have arrived at Minnesota. All the party
were well, and were about to depart for the Red
River for hunting buffalo, elk, &c., for a month or six
weeks.

THE PALACE OF KING JOHN on Stepney-green,
which has stood for eight centuries, and is now in
thorough repair, is, it is said, about to be demolished.
It is on record that a Parliament was held in it seven
hundred years ago.

A SCOTCH BAILLIE presided the other day, for the
first time, on the bench. One of the earliest cases
brought before him was that of s servant girl who
sued her mistress for her wages, which were refused
on the ground that she had allowed a favourite
squirrel to escape from its cage. The worthy
magistrate, after hearing the parties, said, " That
although he lass was maybe to blame for leaving
the cage door open, yet the mistress was mair to
blame than her, for she sud hae clippit the beast's
wings, sae that it cudna flee awa' ! "

A PUBLIC DRINKING FOUNTAIN is to be erected on
Holborn•hill ; energetic efforts being made to obtain
the consent of the proper authorities for the pur-
pose. It will be the first public drinking fountain
in London.

PRINCE LUCIEN BONALPARTE, who is in holy orders,
is, according to the Semaine Relig ieuse, busy in re-
establishing the order of St. Bernard in France.

THE APPETITE OF A LANCASHIRE LADY is thus
exemplified by an ungallant correspondent of the
Preston Chronicle, who at a convivial meeting among
the working classes, to which the ladies were
gallantly invited, was promoted to the office of carver.
"My attention," he unhandsomely discloses, " was
more particularly arrested by a modest-looking and
neatly-attired female ; and when I state the
quantity of food this lady quietly disposed of, it
will not cause any wonder that my amazement
should be excited. The following was supplied to
her by my own hand .—Four plates of beef and
potatoes; one plate of veal pie; one plate of plum-
pudding ; one plate of apple tart ; and one plate of
celery and cheese ! During the mastication of all
this she drank one glass of water."
Oasuirs DAUGHTERS have been taken charge of
by the eminent barrister, Jules Favre, member of the
Legislative Body for a district of Paris, who has
arrived in the Frenoh metropolis from a tour through
Italy.