The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

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MARK-LANE.-THIS DAY.

The arrivals of wheat and flour this week have been
trifling in the extreme, and the attendance of buyers in
Mark-lane this morning was small, and a limited amount
of business was transacted at the decline noted on Monday
last.

Barley hung on hand, although freely offered at the re•
duced rates of last market day.
Oats sold slowly at former prices, and beans and peas
underwent no change.
ANNUAL/ INTO LONDON ?ROM DEC. sth to DEC. 7th.

--letifeb:— 64;;;tele.—-1-r1;a:
Meese 750 I
Barley
3100 1190 I 700
Oats 4
Malt ..... 1444
Flour. —masks aad barrels.

iorinen.
770
2390
2080

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
SUOA6.—The market continues dull, but we donot alter
g e I quotations. 1,000 bags and eases white Maceio
were offered in public sale, and part sold at 33s 6d. to
38s. 6d. 1,000 bags Manilla bought in at 31s. ; 1,000 boxes
Pallow Ravannah bought in at 345. 6d. t 39.. ; 00 hbds.
orto Rico sold at 335. 6d. to 38s. 6d. The refined market
steady at y day's prices. 600 puacheons of Barbados
and Antigua molasses sold (yesterday afternoon) at 18s.
Cornin.—The public sales of p:antation Ceylon are
going off steadily at full prices.
DlA.—Medium Coogou from Is. Oil. to Is. Bd. has sold
freely to-day ; common Coogou, Is. nd. buyers, but no
sellers at that price.
Rms.—The market is dull and quoted 3d. to 6d. lower ;
the public sale of 2,000 bags and 1,400 pockets bought in at
14s. to 16e.

SPICES.-700 bags Malabar offered and bought in 41& to
ad. Pimento and nutmegs sold at previous sates.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

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The market is quiet, with little doing. Town tallow is
quoted 555. 6d. nett cash ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot,
561. ; Dec., 655. 6d. ; January to March, 550. 6d. to 9d.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.
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Messrs. Patthuden and Smith report that, as usual at this
season of the year, there is but little doing in hops ; prices
are nominally the same, as for seine time past.

COAL MARKEL-THIS DAY.

W►lls End lietton, 30s. ; Walls End Tees, 30L—Ships
at !epithet, 42.—A large fleet near at hand, and expected

THE POOR LAIV IN MARYLERONE-CENSURE
ON THE AUTHORITIES.

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Yesterday Mr. Walley and Mr. G. S. Brent, hie
deputy, concluded an important inquiry which they had
commenced on the 26th ult., respecting the death of an in-
fant child named James Walsh, the son of Garrett and
Mary Walsh, two occasional paupers of the parish of Mary-
lebone, who had died in the mother's arms whilst passing
by St. Giles's Church on Tuesday afternoon, the 22nd ult.
It may not be generally known that the Marylebone local
act seder which the parochial authorities are constituted—
nenstly, the 25th Geo. 111., empowers the directors of the
peer, who are altogether 30 in number, to constitute them-
selves into weekly boards, which consist of five members
each, and are known in the parish as the " rata board."
The 125th section of the above act provides that, unless each
rota board shall consist of five members, whatever they may
do shall be wall, void, and illegal. It appears, however,
that for a long period the weekly rota board has again sub-
divided itself into two portions, one sitting in one room and
another portion in another room, in order to dispose more
quickly of the !mines' brought before them. Mr. Poland,
of Oxford-street, and Mr. Russell, of the Grove-end-road,
St. John's-wood, formed that section of the rota board be-
fore whom Walsh and his wife appeared on an occasion
which will be seen in the subsequent details.
Mr. Poland and Mr. Russell, with other parties con-
nected with the parish, were in attendance at several stages
of the proceedings to offer such explanations as they might
deem necessary to a proper understanding of the case.
Mary Walsh, the mother of the deceased child, whose
appearance suggested the belief of complete imbecility,
stated that she and her husband lodged at Holmes's lodging
house, 2, Gee's-court, Oaford-street. The deceased child;
when it died, was wrapped up in an old cotton bedgown
and some flannel, but all very old. As soon as she found
that something was wrong shit ran into a neighbouring sur-
geon's, where she was told that it was dead, and she then
hastened to Mr. Joseph, the surgeon, of Great Marylebone-
street, who confirmed that fact. She afterwards took the
body to the workhouse, and left it there. It
was very convulsed, and she thought that if she could have
got taken into the workhouse it would not have beta/
taken ill, because she would have been warm and comforta-
ble with it. When she was confined, en the 22nd of Sept.,
Mrs. Collins, the parish midwife, attended her, and the
doctor also saw her and gave her some strengthening medi-
cine, as she was very weak. Her husband did a little work
when he could get it, and she sold fruit in the streets, but
lately had had no money to go to market with. After she
was confined she had some tee, sugar, soap, and candles,
from the workhouse, but it was stepped. The day after
the child died she asked Mr. Messer, the relieving officer,
for some relief, but got none. Her husband went for relief
at times, and got la 6d a week, 21bs. of mutton, and two
loaves of bread from the workhouse, for two months, in all.
Before the child died she had asked Mr. Messer, in the
street, to take her into the house, but he refused, and told
her husband to go and work for the child.
Garrett Walsh, after stating what outdoor relief he bad
bad curing his wife's confinement, said he went before the
rota board on the Ist of November, and asked to be taken
into the house, but they gave him the allowance again.
On the Ist of November he went before the board again,
and repeated his story. Mr. Messer spoke to Mr. Poland ;
and after the board had consulted, he was told he should
have the allowance for a month longer. On Saturday even.
ing he met Mr. Messer coming out of the Pitt's Head
public-house, at the corner of Northumberland-street,
along with Mr. Kirby, one of the outdoor inspectors, and
his wife asked to be taken in. Kirby also asked; but Mr.
Messer said, " No, let him go and work for them." Kirby
again asked Mr. Messer, when entering the workhouse-
gates, to take them in, but the latter replied, " No," very
loudly. After that be waited and saw Mr. Meuer, and
told him that his wife and child had nothing to eat, and no
place to go to, but were standing over the way, when Mr.
Messer went into his office, and took no heed of them.
Witness then went down to the police court, and
the magistrate (Mr. Long) sent a constable up with them to
the workhouse, where they saw Mr. Tice, Mr. Messer's
clerk, but they were told that he bad no power to help
them, as they had already seen Mr. Messer, and been before
the rota board the day before. That was after 5 o'clock,
and they stopped at the workhouse gate till 10, bat got
nothing. They were in hopes that as Green, the porters
knew they were there, • small loaf or something would
have been sent out to keep them alive. After that they
went to walk the streets until 3 in the morning, when a
young man gave his wife "laxness for the child, and they
got some bread and coffee at 6 o'clock. At 8 o'clock on the
Sunday morning they came again to the workhouse, and
waited until one, but got nothing. They then went te Mrs.
Holmes's lodging, and she gave them credit until they got
their la. 6d. on the Monday. On the Monday they got the
allowance, but the lodging took all the money, and the
bread and meat was all eaten by the Tuesday morning.
At this time the child was very much convulsed, and the
mother's breasts were quite dry. It was very cold at the
time.
By the Coroner—He met with no accident but the acci-
dent of starvation. He was tormerly a marble polisher, but
lost the partial nee of his right arm about 14 years ago
through working so much in cold water. They were both
in the workhouse from the 24th January to April 20th,
when he discharged himself, getting hat a crown, in order
to do.a one.handed job at Ils. per week, which was to last
six months. He was never punished or taken before the
mogistrates for misconduct of any kind in the workhouse.
He had had nothing to eat from the Friday night except
some bread until the Monday morning.
In subsequent cross-examination, the witness admitted
getting some mutton, but no bread, on the Friday night,
which he gave to his mother-in-law.
The mother-ht-law was examined, and denied this.
The witness then admitted that he sidd it to another
party for half a quartern loaf and 4c1., but didn't like to teU
of it.
A great deal of other evidence was taken, but at length
the jury, after half an hour's consultation, returned the
following verdict :—" That James Welsh died on the 22nd
day of November from congestion and inflammation, caused
by cold and exposure to the night air, and the jury are
unanimously of opinion that great culpability attaches to
Mr. Poland and Mr. Russell, the directors of the poor, and
to Mr. Messer, the assistant overseer, fur not admitting the
child and its parents into the workhouse when application
had been made by their expressing that they were utterly