The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

--so as
or own supports_ ossalanstioa
Mos as eurbsois odd ondigolliss
taY met id woe the megrim of smataastio• N se
the toudwahmersion dike vessel wader water would pr nee
Mt same offset. It is much to be questioned (however
amiably pidiseakeepie the propositioa be) how far blame is
to be unheard to tho discoverer of soy important application
of ideate m tho mass of humanity for the non-immediate
applimeisa slit is a practical bearing. Taws is, biased, •
general magnum is mankind to lay out money (however
small tie osm) ...dart • prospecdve crontingesey--againet •
something which may happen er may not happen. How
many Mariana% nay, tau et thossande, moos their limn
gaily to the &woe of death by drowning, even fa smooth
water, In the nameroas steamboats that now ply mowed our
Isle ? Yet the small expellee of some Be. or 100. would se-
ears to every individual the positive security of being able to
float some twenty or thirty hours. I don't suppose one in a
thousand is provided with • ills-pressevir. But in plain
Impose the mass of mankind have so hatable an idea of
them own calm that they do not rate it higher than Ba. or
10s., although our political otathdieians average the value
of the life of a common working man, somewhere between
1501. and 1801. sterling. We wanes' the awls principle in a
different form daily, also illustrated in the aversion which
thousands show to Mooring their life for the inks of their
offspring—a saying of something not above a shilling weekly
w Adducers Meal :viable benefits to the family of • laboarlog
man on hie decease. Now, here is an acted certainty—lnd
yet how little do we provide against it! I tear the matter
becomes tedious; however, it L but equitable in support of
disouverers to remark, that any honour which accrues to thee
is generally from posterity ; the mom, the Muukition, the
Lou of fortune, and, strange enough, even fame, are the
luinartial award to thn beam &Ores of mankind. To our
carbonic acid gm now. By a very simple modifintim, I
8.41 that the exposes may be reduced to onentnird that was
.t seed in my first letter, and therefor, pending the uncer-
tainty of the obtaining to plan alluded to Sy "
Philan-
thropoo," for general we, the present one walks only the
command of the public voice to be immediately put in «emu-
tmn.—l ens, &a., WILLT4U Raw, M.D.-4, Salisbury-
street, Strand, Sept. 7, 1848.
Tao MlNiTgllot7B FINE Ito FISTIMN-LaNE.—lrset
evening the inquiry into the cause of the fire at the home of
Mr. Thompson, King's Head-court, Fetter-lane, was m-
ourned rotors Mr. W. Payne, hot no additional evidence to
show bow the fire originated could he olmaiaed. The Jur,
returned the following verdict:—" That the house No. 17,
Hine'. Head.court, Petter-lane, was earnt on the morning
of Wednesday, August 30, hat there is not sufficient evi-
dence to enable the jury to say how the fire originated; and
they cannot separate without censuring Mr. Thompson for
having brought so many bock shavings from the house
where he had previouely reeld-d, and leaving them in a
loots state in the room in which the firs broke oat." _

MURDER AMD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last night
u th.i steawboat Leedom Pride was pasting Brooles-wherf,
Wog between Queakithe end Paul's-wharf, a female pat
se:_ger took up her "add, ■pparsntly about five years of age,
and jumped into the river. A wetness'& rescued the woman,
but the child was lost. Her name was stated to be Ann
Truisms

ROEBEEY OP 2,000 SOTEREIONS.—On Tuesday
afternoon last a string deal fins, about flight inches square
and iron bdund, containing 2,000 sovereigns, was sent from
the firm of Mums. Pried and Co., Fleet-street addressed
to Tweedy and Co., Woken, Truro, Curnwall. It was for-
warded. in the first instant*, to Chaplin and Horne's offices,
Ewan with Two Necks, Lad•lane, to be by them conveyed in
the usual course to the Paddington-station. On the next
morning It box which wee sent by the mail train, directed as
above, was received at the establishment of Mears. Tweedy
and Co., and, on its being opened, it was found to contain
nothiog more than a quantity of melted pewter and other
rubbish ; it turns out that the said box was of somewhat
I rger dimensions than the one sent from Pend's, but that
the address thereon was a very good imitation of that on
the original 1 ox, for which the other had bees in so artful
end extraordinary a way substituted.
INQUEST YESTERDAT.—DEATH OF A MlSElL—Be-
foreMr. W. Cuter, at the Fountain tavern, Walworth-road,
tousling the death of Robert Pitt, aged 75,0 f No. 3, Motor-
, plies, Walworth road.—The evidence went to Floes that the
deceased was a superannuated officer of the East India Com-
pany, and for many years he had been leading a life of great
parsimony, not allowing any one to enter his apartments,
which were always kept in • most filthy condition, and filled
with bones and rags. On Tuesday morning last the deceased
left his sitting-room. and shortly afterwards one of the
tikes discovered him lying on his bock In the yard.
He was seen by Mr. Hingeton's assistant, who pronounced him
to be quite dead.—Mr. liriekerman, who lodged in the de-
atemd's house, stated that the deceased subsisted on soup,
which he made from stale bones that he purchased from Vic
small butcher.. He had a salary or income of 21, weekly,
and also other means of living in affluence.—Cooke, the
constable, call deceased's rooms contained property, chiefly
emulating of silver plate and forks, to the vela* of 2001.
Upon making further search he found four 1201. shares in a
building society, and deeds referring to a numlwr
of house, at Kennington and Claphamroad. He
had no doubt that when the room was more minutely
searched a quantity of other valuables would be found. The
who:* of the witnesses, who had known the deceased for
many years, concurred in an opinion that he had died
from the want of proper nourishment. The jury agreed to
a verdict of "Natural death, accelerated by the want of
proper food." The einerekwarden gave orders that Mr. T.
Cooke, the ollion,shonld take charge of the property until
farther Lenity had been mad*.