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

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1848.

seenoned Ike neetion.—Mr. Roieh opposed it. Re Noi *RI
Mr. Hind, this peseta chaplain, had in the Bret lamas
asked for an *ream of galore, and at that time he mid
nothing whenever shoat the duty being too heavy foe eau
chuplaut. Mr. Hind received 4001. als tar, and had the
overt increased it to 6001. there would hays been nothing
beard about an assistant chaplain. 4001. per annum we,
quite an ample salary fora gaol chaplain, and if Mr. Hind
could perform the duty for one salary he could for another.
If an insistent really were required why did not Mr. Hind
ask foe one at first, instead of increased pay ? 11r. Rash, is
conclusion, adverted to the adoption of elyerat• cells as the
best reformatory system that mold be *stab
Sir Peter L iurie said be had not intended to speak upon
this subject, but he must say a word or two in answer to the
last observations of his hon. friend Mr. R itch. H. seemed
to think that there were not solitary cells enough at the
foment time. 8 .liiary cells ! Why, they were nanerise of
insanity. He held in his hand a paper which showed that
in five years, from 1843 to 18i8, titers had been sent from
the Ks:think Prni.entiory, where mitosis, cells were in
vogue, t r Bedlam, 19 lunatics ; from the Pentonvill• Model
Prison, 10 ; from the hulks, 20; and 1 from she Westrain
seer Rome of Correction, making a total ut 60. In the same
time not one hid been tent from the Co.dbath fields Prison,
and from all the Cher prisons in linglaed only lie. Ther,
were seen the eif• ete of the sqlitary and seperaewell system.
- Mr. Wiles's, Mr. Kempshsw, and other masistram epok
spinet the motion —Mr. Weir recommended la withdrawal
—Mr. Roes said be would withdraw the motion.—Copt
Hague said he was the e minder, and the motion could not
be withdrawn without his a-nrent. He had retreated
from anything he hart und.rtaken in his life, end he
would bring this qu scion to the vote.—Mr. Ro oh said his
hon. friend wa rather out of order. Though he hod
retreated from cts,non bills, be must retreat before the
standing orders of that court.—After some further discus-
sion the motion was earn. d by a majority of 4.—lt was
then ordered that the situation should be advertised the
visiting justices to redoes the number of candidetes to three,
one of whom will be sleeted by the court.
The committees were re-appointed, and the court ad-
journed.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, at a
meeting of the gee. roars of unsnap meat of the above hos-
pital, holden in the board room of the iustitut.on, it wis
reported that all the teds :it the various wards were fully
occupied (the number being 120), at d that mane
deeming ce,ee are r. jested for want of room. To remedy
this evil a building fund has bees estab:ished for the purpose
of purchasing an adjoining pie of ground on which may
be erected an additinnal wing.
Tng SALES AT STOWE watt continued yesterday, and
exmaieted of the plate, the whole of which is now disposed
of. The only lots woittly of 'cities were 779 and 780, te-o
beautiful stands for flower, with female flows supportine a
shell-shaped basket on rich gilt fee, in which are inserted re.
lisle at Cupids la the richest old taste, sold at 67e. per oases.
Their downed excited the greatest inter,st. Their weight
exceeds 120 ounces. They have been added to the Queen's
collection. To., rale will be resumed on Tuesday next,
whoa the Int parties of the collection of pictures will be
offend.

THE CONDITION OF THE SERPENTINE " Myna"
HTDIFIPAIIK ti sow 80 bad that that part of the park in
which it stagnates is comparatively deserted by the
usual bathers and promenaders. The total number of per-
sons who bathed in the Serpentine througbout the year
1846 ex waled 3.10,00, according to the dady,returns made
by the superintendent of the Humane Society. Acmes
pontlent ass s: 8,1 great is the Wino off however, that
the daily number of bathers has not throughout the present
season on an average exceeded 60, which, even reckoning
for the six summer months, is only about 1-15th part of the
nuaber previously quoted. The medical men residing ia
the neighbourhood have strictly ordered the families whom
they attend to avoid this great tank of malaria. Another
instance of the extent of the nuisanoe, and of the nec city
for its speedy removal, is afforded ;it the cue of a lady who,
on passing over the bridge at the eastern end of the
river, found the tillaviunt from the water so power-
fal that she did nut lase the imprsisiog of it fir
several diys, and suffered in censequenes a severs
attack of ill health. With suck startling facts as
these before us, it is to be hoped that as Noon as Sir John
Rennie (to whom the subj. et has been referred) bar disco-
vered a remedy for the evil, no time will be lost in applying
It." _ _

CtirIONEOUSE MaNAGEKENT.—Hir,—The public
are under great oblig dans to you for the perseverance with
which you foil ,w up the scandalous jobbery in the Now
Forest. Other state departments are no doubt quite as
full of abuses, and if you continue to devote yourself to
toe Herculean labour of cleansing the Angolan stables of the
state, you will have abundant end useful work for years to
mato. The Customhouse and the Admiralty, I warrant
you, will afford ample sport. I will my a few words of the
former. Lord George /Sentinel' hoe puzzled the Chancellor
of the Exchequ‘r with queries about the strangely con-
tradictory returns of toe quantities of sugar im-
ported. Now, I wish he had put this pertinent
gestation r. veining the mode of verifying all such
returns. cis. :—Whether her Noisily's government, or her
Mojeaty's Commisainere of the Customs have ever ascer-
tained how much sugar then has been at any given slate,
say the let of January of any one yes,r in the bonded ware-
houses of the Tinned Kingdom ? Unless this has been
ascertained, it is impassible to know whether the quantity re.
turned as duty paid is the true quantity or not.
And so little is knout about this matter, that
on the Ist inn. two eminent Mincing lane ()rakers
differ u much as twenty thousand tone in their
estimates of stocks of sugar under Queen's locks. Now, I
venture to predict that, wen the Commissioners of the
Customs to obtain a retail of the bawd Ads stocks some
fin umn back, sad were they to add to that all the sugar
they have reported as Imported, and deduct all reported as
exported or duty paid, they would find en amount of sugar
min to be accounted for far exceeding that which
is really in existence. In other words, as in the
ease of the New Forest, it would be found
that a vast deal of illicit trafficking has been carried
on under the very honourable noses of the honourable oom-
mirsioners. But I wit further predict, that were parliament
to ask for en accurate return of the stock of sugar extant in
the bonded warehouses now, or on any other given day.
the honourable commissioner will reply, that it is quite int-
presible to furnish the information. And I will further
more predict, that though such will be the insonslate reply,
yet that in two years from thin day, if you will but per-evere
in your labours, the return will be obtain. d, and that it will
disclose a system of negligence and fraud little dreamt of by
the honourable commissioners, or the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, or even by Lord (Margo Bentinck.—l em, &a,
Scar/veto&

CHELSEA HOSPITAL AND THE THAMES EMBANK-
anNT.—A purchase recently concluded by the government
is likely, indirectly, to aid the progress of improvement in
pant adjoining Wintonhuger. The Royal Maury Asylum
in the King's-road, Chelsea, was built on a very short lease
—much too short,—and in about twisty years from this
time would have reverted to the freeholder, Lord Cadogan.
The government being desirous to retain the property, and
his lordship willing, • bill to facilitate the purchase of the
reversion was brought into parliament and passed (showing
how noiselessly things of this sort may be done when re•
gaind by those who have power). The pries to be paid was
left by mutual arrangement to the decision of Mr. J. W.
Higeins (the late elided referee), and the whole matter is,
we believe, nearly settled. One result of this transaction
unless we are misinformed, will be the early conunenoement
of the embankment of the Thames at Chelsea, Lord Cado-
gen intending so to appropriate some of the mosey received.
We lock anxiously for the commencement of this meet desir-
able improvement.— TAs Builder.
THE New YORK TRIBUNE,-Sir,—ln the News
of Wednesday, 13th inst., your generally somata New York
correspondent, writing of the editor of the Nets York
Tribune, toes the following language :—" He is a cow
monist, a 'exotic, an unbeliever in animal food, an aati-
slavery, and an anti-capital punishment man." Now I beg
leave, as a personal friend of Mr. Oreeley's, to state that he
is neither • communist," nor "a sceptic ;" but that, me
the contrary, both communism and scepti.ism—meaning, by
the latter expression, infidelity—have always experienced
from him, and the paper which he conducts, the most eon-
leant and consistent opposition. That he is "an unbeliever
in [alias non•coasumer of] animal food," and Is also open to
the charges of " anti-capital punishment" and" antidavery"
is as true as that in one of the latter respect; if not both, he
is in the same condemns lon with the Nene.-11. C.—Lon-
don, Ber.l3lB4B.—[As an act of common justice, we insert
I this note. t strikes us that no reproach was attacked by
our New Talk correspondent to the editor of the Tribune
for the ooinions he sincerely entertains ; but simply a fair
joke broke upon him tor sympathising with pike Warren-
tions while he opposed capital punishments. In respect of
communism our impreosion (the result of regular perusal) Is
that the Tribune advocates the doctrines of Fourrier ; cer-
tainly it took part with the anti-rentallers of New Pork.]
LIEUTENANT EDWARDES AND THE LATE INDIAN
VICTO&T.—The Journal des D4ots does Zeeland the
honour to devote two columns of its space tea rempitalation
of the details of the recent triumph in Moulten. It Otsego=
up its article:—" The English newspapers we tilled with
eulogies on the conduct of Lieut. Edwards,. Thou manila
are well merited. That officer, by his audasity and &maw,
has saved his country the expiates of a campaign, that is to
say, several millions,—and without taking any account of
the honour which he has conferred on himself, he has added
• brilliant page to that history of the Indian army, whose
▪ interspersed with romantic ev. nu discoverable in no
other history, are as glorious as those of any army in
the world."
EXTINCTION OF FLEE.-OCEAN MONARCH.-Bv,
—You dif me the honour of inserting, in your widely eine-
latcd paper, a plan which I conceive perfectly &innate to
the purpose it was intended for, namely, the certain and im-
mediate extinction of fire at sea, a few days since. Looking
our the pages of the Builder of last Saturday, I ob-
serve a letter by " Philanthropist," on the Fire Annihilator
(of which, more, on another ootasiot) is which the follow-
ing sentences occur : " It" (the Fire Annihilator's) " stated
moderate cost, and easy use and convenience, and also its
safety are satisfactory, but I am sorry to And, on Inquiry.
that although this useful and desirable object has been
patented several years, it is not yet to be purohsaed at any
prim." And further, would even pat it to him" (the in-
ventor) " how far may rest upon him the responsibility of
every disaster from Ere that, through his negligence or übi.
trary proceeding, ocean nighty in the kingdom." Permit
me to remark that my plan is patent to all, without further
*emus than a merely anneal conautation fee, and a fee
to my assistant for supenatending and directing the distil-
bution of the pipes, and giving the proper instractiens and
directions, so that the plan can be folawed out by the mean-
est espaeity. I am prepared to 'how its efficiency to any per r
son or committee of genCemen who denies to witness it at 24
hours' notice, and so long as the elements remain such as
they are now determined by the first great Author of all