The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-18 00:00:00

Iffironolitan.

THE COMMITTEE appointed at a recent meeting of
the coalwhippers of the port of London have re-
ceived a reply from the chairman of the committee
of coal factors, &c., who have now the government of
the coalwhippers' office, in answer to a memorial
from the men, praying for relief and an alteration in
their mode of being employed. This reply says
If, however, any of you prefer to accept the offers publicans
make to you. and work through them as the committee
have ascertained that some of you ,lo at lower rates than
those obtained through this office, it would be iu vain to
apply to Parliament for the remedy of an evil that you re-
fuse to avoid when the means are open to you. The com-
mittee are using, and will continue to use, their influence
to bring the work to this office, but on your part you mast
enable them to offer to do it on terms as low as others will
undertake it for.

THE CLERICENWEIL INCUMBENCY ELECTION has
not terminated satisfactorily. The Rev. Mr. Maguire
was elected by the vestry; tut Mr. Roberts, one of the
defeated candidates, asserts that the vestry have
usurped the rights of the ratepayers generally, and
that Mr. Maguire has no right to the office. A placard
to that effect was posted about Clerkenwell last week.
This placard caused a good deal of excitement, which
was added to by a rumour that got into circulation,
that on Sunday morning Mr. Roberts would claim
the right of preaching in St. James's Church, to the
exclusion of the elect of the vestry, the consequence
being that on Sunday, long before the commencement
of Divine service, the church was filled in every part,
the aisles were crowdod, and there was not even
standing room. The Rev. Mr. Ford read prayers,
and the Rev. Mr. Maguire was in attendance in the
churchwarden's pew ready to officiate. The Rev. Mr.
Roberts bad taken the precaution of being there
first, and, backed by his friends, insisted upon preach •
ing the sermon. Mr. Maguire and his friends very
wisely yielded rather than risk any disturbance where
so many had met for Divine worship, and Mr.
.Roberts preached from John v. 38. Mr. Maguire
remained in the churchwarden's pew, and the greatest
excitement prevailed.
THE LATE BISHOP OF LONDON received a farewell
address last Saturday from the clergy of Sion College.
The right rev. prelate in his reply observes :
Amongst the many duties of my office there were few
which I discharged with more pleasure than that of visitor
of Sion College. I felt it to be of no little importance to
the wellbeing of the Church in the eastern part of the
metropolis that the pious intentions of the founder of Sion
College should, as far as possible, be carried out, and the
college to made a centre round which the dewy of the
City and its neighbourhood might gather for purposes I f
friendly intercourse and mutual edification
I think it possible that with increased raeans at your com-
mand, the college might at some future time be made the
centre of a system for promoting education in the east of
London, for encouraging missionary efforts, and generally
for advancing the Church's salutary influence amongst the
people committed to sour charge. I hope that every year
may witness the increasing usefulness of an institution
left in trust to you by the pious munificence of a former
age, and capable of being extended and adapted to the
larger needs of our own times.

OCTOBER 18, 1856.

THE SALE OF DISEASED MEAT to the poor of
Marylebone was proved by Dr. Thomson, the medical
otlictr of health for the parish. In his monthly
report be says :

l have great reason, with regret, to state that a large
amount of diseased meat is sold to the poor in the course
of the month. Mr. Porter, one of the inspectors, seized the
entire carcase and the hind quarters, with some fragments,
of two cows in a slaughterhouse in Middlesex-mews. One
of these carcases was traced from a cowkeeper's near Ken•
sail-green. The animal was affected with disease of the
lungs, and, when on the point of death, it was killed, and
sent, in the middle of the night, to the slaughterhouse in
question. The flesh was in a most flabby state, and possessed
a peculiarly offensive smell characteristic of the animal
being in the last stage of pleuro pneumonia, while the fat,
which was deficient in quantity, presented a watery aspect,
and feculent matter was detected in considerable quantity
in more than one portion of the animal.
From the evidence obtained, it was clear that this
particular place was I. favorite deposit for the carrion
before being sent out to the markets of the poor. The
vestry have desired Dr. Thomson to expose such
practices as much as possible.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF MARYLESONE WORKHOUSE
was again discussed at great length at the weekly
meeting of the Marylebone vestry on Saturday last,
with reference to the violence lately employed towards
some refractory young women. In the course of the
debate. Mr. Jacob Bell stated the results of his ex-
perience. He remarked that :

These poor girls had been nurtured and imbued with an
impression, in the first place, that the workhouse was their
natural borne, then that they were so lost and bad that
there was no one to sympathise with them. They committed
wrong, and were punished. That hardened them, and they
did worse. His own opinion was, that the vestry should
adopt a resolution in the form he bad prepared as an
amendment. It was to this effect :
That this vestry having taken into consideration the circum-
stances connected with the recent infliction of corporal punish-
ment ou women in the workhouse, is of opinion that such con-
duct on the part of the master is highly reprehensible, and
proves him to be incompetent for the efficient discharge of the
duties devolving on him as the superintendent of such an estab-
lishment.

He would not go so far as to dictate to the guardians that
they should dismiss the master; he would take no notice
whatever of the I'oor•Law Commissioners in the matter;
but he would merely record this as the opinion of the vestry,
based upon the facts within their knowledge.
The meeting was adjourned.
PROFESSOR Mor.sE was entertained at a public
dinner last week at the Albion. The dinner was
given in relation to the projected submarine telegraph
between England and America, the experiments to
test the feasibility of which plan were satisfactorily
concluded last week by Professor Morse. In pro-
posing the toast of the evening, Mr. W. F. Couke,
the chairman, said :

I have been thinking during the last few days upon what
Professor Morse had done. He stands alone in America as
the originator and carrier out of a grand conception. We
know that America is a great and enormous country, and
we know the value which the telegraph must be to her;
but I think we have a right to quarrel with the professor
for not being content with giving the benefit of his concep
Lions to his own country, but that he has extended it to our
colonies of Canada and Newfoundland; and that beyond
that he has now got it introduced all ever Europe—and the
nuisance is that we in England are obliged to communicate
abroad by means of his system. I, as A director of the
Electric Telegraph Company, should be ashamed, however,
if I did not acknowledge the debt we owe him. But he
threatens to go further still, and, if we do not do it, to carry
ont the communication across the Atlantic between New-
foundland and Ireland. lam nearly pledged to pay him a
visit on the other side of the Atlantic to see what he is about,
and if he persists in his obstinate atienipt to reach England
by his electric telegraph I believe I shall be compelled to
join him.

Professor Morse, in reply, said :
A European unity, in a political sense, was a problem
which once engaged intensely many philosophic minds.
We a-e to resolve the question of a cosmopolitan unity, of
more comprehensive importance, if not directly in a poli-
tical, certainly in a commercial point of view. Can the
world be brought into union ? What should prevent it ? The
telegraph has already achieved for itself the conquest of
a vast domain. Its network covers the United States and
North America with the meshes of more than 40,000 miles
of conductors, and Europe is covered with a network
q uite as extensive. Shall its conquests be stayed within
its present limits?

Towards the close of the evening the chairman
paid a high compliment to Professor Wheatstone for
his services in aiding to bring the electric telegraph
practically to bear for commercial purpcses, and ex
pressed his regret that the professor was not present.
THE CITY GASWORKS NUISANCE WRS discussed at
a special committee of the Commission of Sewers on
Tuesday. The evidence brought forward was given
by residents in the locality. The smell from the
gasworks was described by all the witnesses as being
very bad and offensive, particularly at night, and
productive of headache, depression of spirits,
nausea, and in some cases actual vomiting. Some
of the witnesses had had to send their families out
of town on account of the injury to their health.
One of the witnesses being asked by Mr. Deputy
Lott whether ho could distinguish between the