The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-04 00:00:00

men or shepherds); and on the appearance of any deviators
heat their healthy condition or usual habits, that • eon&
double quantity of blood (about a gallon in full-sized good-
conditioned cattle, and a pint from sheep) should be taken
from the animals at ono,; and then to call in a reward
practitioner to prescribe or administer the most proper roc
medies. He considered that the most experieused practi-
timers concurred in the depleting system ; and that ill
failure arose from the neglect which allows the inflenens-
tion to terminate in effusion into the substance of the lung%
and thus obliterate the air-cells: or into the cavity of
the chest, or both. In the first cue destruction is
speedy; but in the second, when confined to the chart.
the animal may linger on for several weeks. Bs
would recommend that the external applications should
be powerful stimulants or blisters to the sides of the chest;
or Riots in the dew-lap and chest ;or hellebore issues (com-
monly known by the term " Ist gging"). He thought that.
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if the owner of stock, or CH person in his employ, wen
instructed how to bleed an animal, many very valuable
head of stock would be saved by. such immeliAte reference
to the lancet, as the intermission of • few hours only
renders such depletion unavailing. Bleeding he regarded
as the sheet-anchor in all inflammatory diseases. A whole
flock of sheep attacked with acute inflammation (reduced is
number by some which had previously died) were sari dby
the prompt measure of bleeding each of them. They
were all in good condition, and the weather at the
time was warm. This would not, however, be proper
practice in those cases which have recently occurred
as the results of a cold and wet season. The disease
is affecting the viscera of the abdomen as well as the chest.
and the animal gradually wastes and dies exhausted, in con-
sequence of the ensuing dropsy and diarrhea. In same
cases distil has been supposed to ensue from a considerable
number of worms found in the air-p images. lie recom-
mended that animals which appear to be tailing in health
sh. uld be removed to shelter, and confined to dry food. The
worms, he remarked, that are often found in the Wales
and bronchial tubes of debilitated and old horses, cattle, and
sheep. seldom cause death; but that fat calves more cons •
monly suffer from these parasites, as borate do from worms
in the stomach and intestines.
THIERT BAHLLY.—Sir William Hooker presented to the
society • portion of Thibet barley (lordeum celeste) from
• supply forwarded to him by the Agri-Horticultural Society
of Bombay. He had reserved • portion for the Kew Gar-
dens, and bad sent the remainder to the council, thinking ft
probable that some of the members might wish to make a
trial of i:s cultivation. The council tendered their best
thanks to Sir William Hooker for this mark of his attention
to the objects of the society ; and Mr. Raymond Barker and
Prof. Sewell undertook to try and report upon the qualities
of this barley.
, The council then adjour sed over Ash Wednesday to the
15th inst.

FIVEFENNT INFORMATION. Sir, —You really
ought occasionally to give your readers the benefit of a lit
of the intelligence furnished to the public by your high-
priced contemporaries. The Globe of yesterday gravely in-
formed its readers that it was enabled to state, on nut/toner,
that the ex-King and his Queen were in a piece of safety.
The Times of to-day annouuces, '• byekctric telegraph," the
arrival at Southampton of the Duchess of Orleans and M.
Ouizot—both from Jersey. These are innocent blunders,
though such blunders do occur in those papers very oft n ;
but we trust that the " special engine " and the " electric
telegraph" will bring no more stock-jobbing paragraphs,
such as that the new government of France had decided on
annexing Belgium and the Rhenish provinces, or that
I France had declared war with Austria.—Yours, Bc., A
LOOKER-ON.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.--FATAL WRESTLlNG-
issacit.—By Mr. O. I. Mills, at the BRUER Tavern, King-
street, Portman-square, on the body of Charles Moore, •
cabman, who WRI killed in a wrestling-match with • man
named Fred. Peacock, now in custody. On Wednesday last
the landlord of the tavern was upstairs, and hearing • .
noise in the bar, he came down, and saw Peacock and ano-
ther man wrestling. The name of that man was Huey
Wainwright. Witness called on them to desitt, and Pea-
cock mid be would. Shortly after he heard deceased say to
Peacock, " Come, Fred., yen have thrown Horsy, but you
cannot throw me." Witness sent his son for the pol;ce, and
went to the door to look after him. On returning into the
bar Peacock and decease, were wrestling. They both fell
together, and retained bold of each other. They had •
second bout, and fell a second time together. On le ing
parted derwastd was carried away into the tap-room, and it
was then discovered that he was apparently dead. Ms died
aid was sent fee. and the surgeon who attended pronounced
life extinct. Several witnesses who saw the wrestling bete eon
deceased and Peacock Mated that there was no unfair advan-
tage taken of deceased by his antagonist, and that there was
no malice between them; on the contrary, both deceased and
Peacock were on the most friendly terins.—Mr. Inspector
Teeters's, in answer to questions by the jury, said that H.
Wainwright was in the hospital from the injuries he sus-
tained by wrestling with Peacock, who delivered himself up
the morning after the occurrence.—Mr. H. Crooke, surgeon,
stated that he had opened the body. He found considerable
extravasation of blood at the hue of the brain, caused by
the breaking of some of the blood-vessels. In his opinion
the enticement was the cause of the rupture of the vs ,sale
rather than any injury received in the encounter.—The jury
returned • verdict, " That the deceased died, whilst engaged
in wrestling with F. Peacock, accidentally, but whether tram
injuries or over-excitement there was not sufficient evidence."
—Cu tin MURDER —Before Mr. Cuter, in the committee-
room of Lambeth Workhopee, concerning the death of •
male child unknown, aged about seven weeks, that had died
from exposure and want In • public thoroughfare.—Mr. J.
Harvey deposed that on the night of Tuesday, the 11th of
January last, his family, whilst at home in the South
Lambeth-road, were alarmed by hearing the cry of an
infant Witness procured • light, and, after searching the
garden, be discovered a male child, dressed and wrapped in
• shawl. The deceased was very cold and exhausted, from
evident exposure to the weather, se the night was very d.mp
and boisterous. The child was taken into the house, and
aßer a short time given into the charge of a police constable,
who was directed to carry it immediately to the workhouse.
Witness had made every inquiry to obtain • clue to
the unnatural parents, but could not get the least in-
formation relative to the guilty persons.—A policeman
proved the conveyance of the child to the workhouse, and
added that the usual steps had been taken, by forwarding
a full description of the dress and shawl to the whole of the
metropolitan station-houses, but unfortunately no seems
had resulted therefrom. He bad been by the spot shortly
before the discovery was made, and he bad not seen any-
thing to attract the slightest suspicion.—Mr. Duke, the
parochial surgeon, said that he saw the child soon after if.
admission, and upon finding that it required nonrisho.ent,
ordered that the nurse should remove it to the infirmary,
where every warmth and proper food was at once
given to him. The child was greatly exhausted, and very
cold from lying in an exposed position. At first he progressed
very well, but diarrhceo subsequently came on, and the child
died on Sueday last. He hail no hesitation in saying
that the death of the child was the result of
the exposure.—Verdict, " Wilful murder against some
person or persons unknown."—DEATH IN A CAE.
—By adjournment, before Mr. W. Baker, at the Sydney
Arms, Charlesorreet, Stepney, on view of the body
of Mr. Edward Hughee, who was found dead in • cab.
The facts have; appeared in our journal under the h. ad of
Thames Police. The deceased was a clerk in the employ of
Leslie Alexander, Esq., a merchant, He was desired to call
at York-terrace, the residence of the latter, on business
with Mr. Alexander, on Wednesday last, and he complained
of pains in the head and ches . He was offered agl of
wine, but he refused to accept it, and be entered the dining-
room where he remained two I ours. He partook of four Was, ea
of wine, and about ',Me o'clock the butler wan din rted
to assist the deceased downstairs. He appeared to have token
too much wine, andw hen he reached the l sriding he slipp.4 and
fell down four stairs and struck his head against the wall. Hs
was conducted to a cots by the butler, who directed tie cab-
man to drive to No. al, John-street, Commercial-road Refit.
On the arrival of the cab in John-street, the deceased wee
not known, and when the cabman opened his cab-donr, for
the purpose of inquiring of the deceased where he lived, he
found him in an noeneible mate. It was afterwards b.und
that lite was quite extinct. Mr. Falconer, • surgeon, mid
he had opened the body, and found the vessels of the main
much coegested, and ,scribed death to apoplexy, which may
have been accelerated by too much wise,—Verdict " Natu-
ral death."