The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-09 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, SATURD
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i,,imextrairliar7reelairseol._...neameteineetene mstareels the, attendant on the patients at night time."--Cntaon or Maytt aissespearesewelasay—ar bar motel.. dutifig
melleel refit dat= awaw. " "ill 'N, tar dblialat N soLkee Ai:raven. A Seraoson.—Before Mr. W. Pane, =Os Iwo ffilffiews aiffilmile• and ea Thek. e
tait gas eg Yew ememittee see sele-fied the City Coroner, ' en siefeerelfsmer at emeity an essatterabte loyalty
_ a
ammitmeo mew me, he Awed in the mom • . ity oroner, at the Cock Tavern, Leadenhall-street, on amnt-eiebing me iermena fatty
limmeteinemeerms midi; awl UM eke week after fallessibies. the body of Sarah Frowde Webb, aged 13, daughter of a rim mom* ai rim. sepelnlmont to the
P2ry.mse= meg the emmeetha of We weeks city police constable.—fiarah Raeder deposed that deceased
eat et the mews el thebee IlleeeM. I be war ea yea ; to *rem '
had always enjoyed excellent health up to within a few days =lee remsefireasaliense la year emellesey e fie
vilaug dsAUSldse NNW _added. On the sulde of her death. On Saturday lest she bad two teeth drawn, dele Imola, till fogEris_mdl ow M." b°Pe '
...s.HIPHISWISIWAS 100.116 Odd Pill 1. Pmetelalr 114.1°'•da whisk slightly affected her head. In a day or two after. l'immi'd •If •• Millse 4 thme to
higismatice to the Isms ef the hal et Made ea the ma, mins _,.....„
Ester .. or moridioti sadr.,d,y.o , mow. is a, ;b75: complained of a sort of vertig' o, and a pain in her ;47Z end" bill"4,dia awl"riCe laiii"gte "CI
.......y.0.7 6,7 bis ti...... ibei mama* *me mew. and on Thursday morning she became worse, still moseee idiom with lamb m 10th pisses
Wee the relandoonftrmed their °oinks ef Ms expellese7 coin sing of the chest, wishing for the doctor. Witness be MOM latiet tellehe we see ISM 10 S
dub.....p. earners. Lades the system which Me went to Mr. Merrett, a surgeon, next door, asking bins ihe OR and be SHISWO_JAWI sess, ef
leerelekee P.m" do o.l°°.° °lll,l the •SWIWAY how node come and see a little girl echo was ill. Mr. Merrett said he •• 10ffi0........._____T twee la leLhes...._bieffs Peseeke
tnoteknoes love net MOW Ho /Oleo The, demPE°°°l° could not come, and wanted to know if the deceased could be „,e,eee•eff "•ena"'"'"•marjereLeeeni"...."l"er me.;
die ed. mama et esaveyearm taxa biseenet bola proportheraley brought to him. Witness told him that she had a niea'—'"—ne—enre.delagy— —e-------esseipmersaisee--- et
redeeed-
oodesegli* elkieliest: "tow truaftsoneen einmalletegaat sevee eeimmul° the put* pain in her chest,
_and they thought it was infiam- else a earessem per Imegeteeezef
gee ether artistes earned on tae ~I ; esit they we =salon. He staled that he was not the family boa althea mai sod pokey to
alleged, tbat, milkmen any furthts nffeedea el se= Le memos doctor, and witness had therefore better apply to some of heeMr4sette Pmeneent...,_mallioh___,.....ffiehde
reared to tbs Menet one else.—By the Jury : Witness asked Mr. Merrett if he ,"E'Ltsne , :=.*. ~:
el moll ee== k
la Letlialeeennee end deivro7 elorod• I:titt could come in an hour hence, and he said so. Witness then en—eeteenefe— -22-".'ettition—ee ea* ..mageese
theateaeat of esserha_
... _ _fitew__,•4l"mou_. eels detemeeemmulamaratt or proceeded to another doctor, who was out, and would not re- ocesneive to that the
es_
~tta==i7ra"Zeeew' egeepepoomdeoggolop ogee turn until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Nothing more was present moms*. ealieideg
:Lenges that Melees the main ammo( the Ares
$t
done, and deceased grew gradually worse, and died at 5 p.m. the fruitful mow el *see mieseles,
oges] proerty. Yeas senunittee
ado note bylsy may's ixalemplate the same day. Several of the jury exprea;ed themselves duct
crimes
poen/Mica hem Mss to time, e
tee ertio'....- tmat the 'amid any° bli °''',lew ' 'ww %übs= strongly upon the subject. One, observing that the conduct which II" dblrd pr(
dteteende
b.,,,,,f.e..ineeyi;egereltheanoweataoseeeof
itoodount- °fleytothereerrl'enelthey ae„. prie, of Mr. Menet!, living next door to the deceased, was the dwijdeliglYytnwt'eng"saioceoNel.hr eyeless
most extraordinary he had ever heard of.—Decested's father migiand, between landlord and te
pared to afford to all other parties. the same
tow
in thew
°Ube cans: which they themselves will possess, at iow ratesof toneese. and other witnesses having corroborated the above tali- the former mainly dependent on f
Tow committee are now in a rdtuation to recommend to the pmenle. mony, Mr. Merrett was sent for ; being absent from home, cumstances will permit, be inter
tare tae immediete adoption of the proposed new ffiettleoesedez his assistant, a youth about 17, said that Mr. Merrett had a reason to believe that the impr
gradually al the .1,er...t0m of tr lind sees """"" patient in the surgery when the application was made, the attention of her Majesty's gr
, gng
.the partyleft about ten minutes afterwarom. The palate 5, „„„, offer the greatest advantages to the =ne though
which the government twofer
funds at present on hand wi'd be 'efficient to make a
your committee do not therefore set power to ram Say SWAHPOO4I lull again began to express their conviction of the coifs- country, the harbours eine!
capital for the preeent. To entitle the company to teems, carriers, hint) attached to the medical man ; and the coroner said the boor, ehould be Mir gee
otat
to
0rt.,,,,, them to do en with advitetage, by arrangements as to case was one of a singular character, for although the death dortirtudes foe which they
tolls on other nanftotio. it is 0wee..27 that the 00,01.011 .hold was evidently natural, it was impossible for them to say how free t° admit, that " ee'
adopt the powers and provisions of two acts of parliament Weed ill it had risen. te .. seek for an equal dinsior
u. He was, however, bound to say that he agreed
lite 'Mauled "An Art to empower Canal Coalmines and the with
them as to the neglect
,on the part of Mr. Merrett.
emo'inieeieseas of Navigable Rivers to very their Tolle, Rates,Cloned in land, the.
end merges, on different louts of their Navigatiota," and After come deliberation, the jury recorded the verdict,— money, not • single she
An Act to nimble Canal Companies to become Corners of '' That deceased died a natural death. most probably from are aware of, andd that
Geode upon then Canal..." A ispeetal general meeting being want of proper medical attention ; and it is a matter of deep are
at Cove. heart
wspepur fee that purPoei low comllettee. hove °lied you regret that Mr. Merrett did not attend the deceased, or send and some owernme'
...Laity of layinithis report before you. his vessels of war end
together, anderateace the olio. AM assistant, when applied to for that purpose."
'They found that the (*mane a sets eont no authority to raise views which your r
money applicable to a carrying trade. AP this went of power might unnecessary to poi
prove a great otetacle in effecting the objects which you have In con- from • firm latter
temptation roar committee applied to the Board of Trade, and sans- THE LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPERS. guided, ssmely.'
tied it of the "justice and expediency of affording to canal companies the (From the Doily Nerd) with Engtand, r
emeriti:Al means of giving effect to the general Oct authorieing them to which it ie at
The Cumberland Pacquet prints the following with the under
become carriers. The nut[ was, that a bill to eager the desired
• ned
on,uced Into parliament, and, notwithstanding the late fiction, premising: to the dictate,
power was in
dived the rand aseent. This important bill, That the facts may be entirely relied The Times tae per selves
roic.dg eopfutc meas. ere, did not put The company to any expense. has very nearly perfected in its office a machineewhichwill"tenPa off tnli.coeffrwhiacth
The noon went on to show that negotiations with the ten thousand copies within the hour ; and should this desideratum be :gannet° y
achievni, its Dander will be bunted, from the commencement of 181 g, ertelleo7
proprietors of other canals, in connexion with the Grand
atFourpence. The Monsine Chronicle, on the other hand, having Bret to be
Junction, had bees successfully concluded, and that they bad
tried the fourpenny effect, is by no mesas plesiwd with the results of without
engaged a new manager, in the person of McGregson, of the tee ea,,,,kee, „peej„,,ot, end jojeoge to clop en tee additional penny fixed lie
Leneastir Canal. at the same period. The Daily Nor, is on the point of changing recent
PARISH OF ST. M Ar.vt.E HON E.—INCREASE OF PAU- hands, and will take its new flight at faurpenee. cont.
mintss.—Yesterday, a meeting of the directors and guar- It is moot discreditable to some of the provincial journals ;411
dies
of the poor of St. Marylebone took place in the board. that they are -ready—like the journal which we some ieue",
room of the workhouse, New-road, for the purpose of time since forced to a public apology—to make after- hie
tion of circumetances as within their "own know- hip
considering considering a report on the alarming increase of pauperism
lege," or, as in this instacce, to put forth " facts " which , e
in the par-tab.—Mr. Low having been called to the chair, a
deputation of ratepayers attended from the parochial corn- " may be entirely relied on" (which assertion, and facts 1 ,
mittee of St. Marylebone. comprising about 600 parishioners, affect the interests and character of others) in utter igno- ;
offering to aid the board in an endeavour to reduce the large ran* of what they thus unhesitatingly vouch for.
amount of pauperim at present rust he Garnet stated We pass such paragraphs daily without *comment ; bat
they are sometimes forced on our and public attentios
that at a very numerous meeting of the parochial committee
by the unusual currency given to them by our comer
held on the previous evening the subject was taken into con-
sideration, and a general belief was entertained that there Penuies. The above from the Cumberland Pacmi
the Times and Chronicle may or may not answer ; but
were many hundreds of impostors receiving relief on account
ourselves., and so far as the Daily News is concerned, we
of the inefficient inspection of the poor. They were anxious
that the statement which " may he entirely relied
that those whe were really entitled and deserving of relief ply
is entirely false. Respecting the Chronicle we ha'
should receive it, and that those who were impcetors should be
opinion to offer : as we said at the time, it m
exposed. With that view they had attended to request the
foolish no-meaning movement when it came down
board to furnish the committee with a list of all persons re-
and may find that changing its price has not eased
miring out-door relief, and the rate-payers would form them-
Lion. The half measure proved that it had no fa'
selves into committees in the various districts and inspect the
which the measure seemed to sauctien. The
meet—Sir James Hamilton expressei his thanks for the aid lieshould at once have come down to 3d., and ••
offered to the board, but expressed a fear that the plan would
heartily and cordially
co
with the Doily News, MAR
not have the cleared effect —Mr. Potter differed with the
it rejected all offers of alliance and -operation
worthy baronet. When the Vestries Act came into force ice
Times reducing its price to fourpence, does ,
1832, there were no less than 10,000 out-door poor ; the cast
know that the Timm itself has proved thisto be '
for the half-year was 27,9041. The assistance, however,
It was but a few months before the Daily
which the board received from the parishioners in the way
the conspirators, that the whole morning y
now proposed, enabled them to stet rid of half and reduce the
coat the next half-year to 13,',501.—Mr. Walter (a member were in treaty for the purpose of raisin,
reachedse re lon since
of the deputation) observed, that the greatest nursery for
uconwiurllin!'g toport of th
advert to is
the subject hecaue
pauperism in the parish was the employment of a large nom- that it cos true. The following, howe•
her of persons during the summer months in dragging water-
time since in the Lincolnshire Vassal
ing carts about the etreets. Now, when the watenag was
copied into the Morning Post, frith
done they came into the workhouse for the winter, or the
general truth, therefore, may be um
parish hail to support then out of it.—Mr. Carr said,
as the
one of the parties.
deputation was not probably aware that the board had been
'specially summoned to considers report on this matter, ef"jiset Po,l,'iLm,f,,ertilsemerertidT took Nib'
he would move that the report be now read.—The se- Ajorniag iftrard, aa lA, siddrei aeiee
meter/ read the report. It expressed regret that the went did not succeed, the Morning Hen
workhouse was crowded to the utmost, and there being So much for monopoly! If U
more hi the house on Michaelmas-day this year than on come so inopportunely into the f
Christmas day last year the board were prevented offering penny " was to have served as
further admission on account of the insufficiency of the as price of all the London morning
cocamodetion. With respect to out-door poor, the numbers
exceeded those of lest year by more than 2,400. With a
view to the investigation of cases, it was recommended that IREI
lists of the poor receiving relief be printed and circulated.
The next point was a recommendation to erect a shed where
able-bodied male and female paupers, who were not other- The Earl of Clarendo,
wise usefully employed, should be placed at oakum picking, Ballinasloe ;so has Mr.
by taskwork of 11b. before breakfast, and 11b. between each from London.
awl. After recommending the establishment of a day-room The effect of a go
and dormitory for youths in the intermediate space between
the school and the refractory ward, the report showed the PuwerfullY illustrate'
• vast amulet of imposition practised to obtain admission into land, and no where
the nightly asylum, and which each night averaged 220 per- urgent. You are r
SOM. The committee had felt it necessary to order that no for the Relief of I
relief be given after seven o'clock, unless in case of illness, the balance of 50
the effect of which had been to reduce the number of cases to
south-western f
20, of whom not more than six were relieved as really legi-
timate ems. The report was adopted, and the proceedings full appointmer
of the board shortly after terminated. many of the 1
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOClETY.—Yesterday the pressed into
usual quarterly count of subscribers to this charity was held as well a
at the society's offices, King William-street ; John Wilde, account, an,
Esq., in the chair. It appeared, from the report, that the
example._tt
'
number of patients admitted from the let of July to the 30th
Septemseer, 1547, were—from her Majesty's ship, 24 ; from evuelnen
British and foreign merchant vessels, 644 ; on board, on the increased
let of July, 177 ; total, 845. There are at present on board markets
174 sick. The number received since the first establish- been br
meat et the charity have amounted to 5.5,396. The balance
in hand at the last account was 61. 51. Bd. ; the total receipts balances r
for the year amounted to 1,8761 lira. •, and there is now, de- 0, the
ducting all expenses, a balance of 4741. 19s. 7d. in favour of ordet
the society. The report having been received, and the ac- fors
counts passed, the meeting separated. fin,
THE OUTCRY FOR SANITIVE REFORM.—In a vast er
metropolitan concentration of human life like ours, in which p
occurs a whole sixth part of all the waste of health and life in ?
the three United Kingdorns, and in which, from amonget
2,000,000 poople, nearly 50,000 die every year-900 every
week—one every tenth minute—the mere destruction of
10,000 of these every year-200 every week—one every hour
by means of municipal poison alone, Insidiously administer,
along with the air which the doomed ones breathe, may, '
comparison, seem to be a matter of minor import ; yet, if
estimate the value of a single life at the amount of
popular outcry created by the scarcely more delibe
though more designed, destruction of that one li
domestic poison, what a mighty and eternal outcry on
rend the welkin and the walls of every city, town, e
lege in the empire, till an end be for ever put to t/
too well recognised and wholesale system of mans)
—The Binger.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—ALLEGED NE'
PATIENTS IN THE STREET COUNTY LENATI
—Before Mr. Carter, in the board-room of
County Lunatic Asylum, Garrett-lane, Wendt
body of a patient named Mary Cox, 7
Lawrence deposed that she wee day nurse
termed the refractory ward, and of which .
inmate. On Tuesday morning, shortly e
upon opening the door of No. 3 dormitory, •
sad two other women slept, she found hi,
were hanging out of bed, and she was
Sir Alexander Morrison, the physician, in
and pronounced her to have been deal
ness had locked deceased and the otly
past seven o'clock on the previous
appeared in her accustomed health.
duty of watching the patients
night nurse, who remaiaed 01
next morning. Deceased was
Williams, the right nurse,
the senate wards at night. '
deceased alive was when she ret'
expeeted to visit such patients
the night, but had received n
teased, who, although subjec'
more than a week past. He
too frequent visits to the do
the patients. If one Was
up one of the day nurses.
Ordered to look to a patie
the greater part of the n
the other wards she thee
Joseph Holland, the
amined deceased two t
There was nothing to
caused by deceased
epilepsy, and so su'
promptly turned or
—The k oreman of
proper to leave
o'clock the prev,
Mg, without es,
juror said it w
tend to more'
situated on
quite nett,
nurses, one
The Coror
perintend
doubt t'
would 1
sent iv
panel;
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THE EXPRESS, SATURDA'

attendant on the patients at night time."--CHAItOII OF
NEOLICT AGAINST ♦ SunosoN.—Before 311 r. W. Payne,
the City Coroner, at the Cock Tavern, Leadenhall-street, on
the body of Sarah Frowde Webb, aged 13, daughter of a
City police constable.--larah lia;ster deposed that deceased
had alwaysenjoyedrscellent health up to within afiss! days
On

eitmedinne repain win, tea Neter went, aseneweis re
Maf h.
gasprepair of the tare rad% ant will so ha dimirsh
Ont Yew scarattee u•
got • wrelhairia. erre My Ire elleeted in the rilleary
serlamoosithe relit end open the wide, after fag weiders-
= = fret the reelneettea of the weelamlie
eet
me et Om veweines of the
Arai edbrbinthe arum t getiweL On the subjeam,
Wt greet rim k procuring antbentr
Orr to the errs of the Ws et ear an the ma, sat es
MY len arm et wirezesteLA
te:Lrehlng It prereble to Or
gem dr Inas romiedsese in sh.a.=
We- re= ordner their °pinks ef the
ct ewwlsorl worees. Coder the systems wank taw
gmegeder• prewar Or solreins whit* the as pang have mods
In then rates brenst toriol miter They law disappeared In
~emene at emedmagaviika Wert bens tromencrehly
redesed The dendror emserte• eit dive et
gabam, reread agoet to the orris art starreers et grab
er ether ribs ardsd ca eM err; end try i.e.
Nebeed, thatorther angligther neirrer et re= Or magma
hewer erred to the rd rear
1111007==ge emeserree end &IBM, Or gm& The
the twat of wersdegllepasawalefem le the germs d mews weg
wig goresea Is the nerwasi wawa et theeweel•a•• 5d deft 4C
mumble didni—ltis lesseglesterewsweweet ameba these
gemsengmalir-- that basbiewhie erlarieueetthe presentinseespiessia
aimed property. Teraremerres do not tf, NIT ecrergrim
the retusior. from the westeteny public canter, or dry othergerip
Odra of cutying caldera immena. °lithe eciamere, It will Wee*
the menage et by others, and they are gor
=ter'Xic ou..r facilities in the we
eftke seal wrier themseivearli power low nand
=
estrange see
Toe •••• ion In n &nodal I* nosernend to
au emote* Adoption of the pried new ratans enrse=
...bay es gie appiloation dentt pried
MISOMMI
▪ oro may alter the greatodilllll9ll le the The
heed prawn on hand will be peffileet to inehe•
• ermitir do not therefore ar pewee to err any
capital for the cermet To Nines the ertpr7 to Wenn onion.
end to tumble them to do so with se to
tolls on other navintioas, it is ansesisnyll% the comma, eheald
sdopt the powers and provisions of two egret puliament pseud In
lii4S 'mauled "An Art to empower Peel Comparies and the
o...lii„,e,gers of Navigable Rivers to Try their Tolle, Ran,
sad charges, on different parts of then Navigation.," and
" An Act to nimble Canal Companies to become Carriers of
Coeds upon their Chisels." A nodal general meeting being
rut purlieu, your coninettee. have called you
aeseemmy far
tat tee opportunity of hying this report before you.
They founa that the company's acts oontain no authority to raise
money applicable to a carrying trade. AP this want of power might
prOTP a yreat °tenets in effecting the objects which you have in con-
templation your committee applied to the Board allude. and satis-
fied it of the justice and expediency of Wording to canal companies the
emend MellAS or riag effect to the general act aumoriong them to
become carriers. the result was tbat a bill to eager the thine
pee, nes:owed Into mrliament, and, notwithstanding the We
period of the session, received the meal ascent The important bill,
beng s public measure, did not put the company to any expense.
The reeort went on to show that negotiations with the
proprietors of other canals, in connexion with the Grand
Junction, had been successfully concluded, and that they bad
engaged a new manager, in the person of McGrepon, of tie
Lenessur Canal.
PARISH OF ST. MAr.YLERONE.—INCRF.ASE OF FAU-
N:usu.—Yesterday, a meeting of the directors and guar-
dians of the poor of St. Marylebone took place in the bone&
room of the workhouse, New-road, for the purpose. of
considering a report on the alarming increase of pauperism
in the pariah.—Mr. Low having been called to the chair, a
deputation of ratepayers attended from the parochial com-
mittee of St. Marylebone. comprising about 600 parishioners,
offering to aid the board in an endeavour to reduce the large
amount of pauperism at present existing.—Mr. Garnet stated
that at a very numerous meeting of the parochial committee
held on the previous evening the subject was taken into con-
sideration, and a general belief was entertained that there
were many hundreds of impostors receiving relief on account
of the inefficient inspection of the poor. They were anxious
that those who were really entitled and deserving of relief
should receive it, and that those who were impostors should be
expceed. With that view they had attended to request the
beard to furnish the committee with a list of all persons re-
wiring out-door relief, and the rate-payers would form them-
selves into committees in the various districts and inspect the
cues—Sir James Hamilton expressed his thanks for the aid
offered to the hoard, but expressed a fear that the plan would
not have the desired effect —Mr. Potter differed with the
worthy batonet. When the Vestries Act came into force is
1832, there were no less than 10,000 out-door poor ; the cost
for the half-year was 27,9041. The annulate, however,
which the board received from the parishioners in the way
now proposed, enabled them to stet rid of Reiland reduce the
cost the nest half-year to 13,2501.—Mr. Walter (a member
of the deputation) observed, that the greatest nursery for
pauperism in the taorish was the employment of a large num-
ber of persons during the summer months in dragging water-
ing carts about the streets. Now, when the watering was
done they came into the workhouse for the winter, or the
parish hail to support them out of it.—Mr. Carr said, as the
deputation was not probably aware that the board had been
epectally summontel to consider* report on this matter,
he would move that the report be now read.—The se-
cretary read the report. It expressed regret that the
workhouse was crowded to the utmost, and there being
more in the house on Michaelmas-day this year than on
Christmas day last year the board were prevented offering
further edmission on account of the insufficiency of the as
With respect to out-door poor, the numbers
exceeded those of lest year by more than 2,400. With a
view to the investigation of cases, it was recommended that
lists of the poor receiving relief be printed and circulated.
The nest point was a recommendation to erect a shed where
able-bodied male and female paupers, who were not other-
wise usefully employed, should he placed at oakum picking,
by taakwork of Ilb. before breakfast, and I.lb. between each
meaL After recommending the establishment of a day-mom
and dormitory for youths in the intermediate space between
the school and the refractory ward, the report showed the
vut amount of imposition practised to obtain admission into
the nightly asylum, and which each night averaged 220 per-
sons. The committee had felt it necessary to order that no
relief be given after seven o'clock, unless in case of illness,
the effect of which had been to reduce the number of cases to
20, of whom not more than six were relieved as really legi-
timate c MI. The report was adopted, and the proceedings
of the board shortly after terminated.
SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SoclrrY.—Yesterday the
usual quarterly court of subscribers to this charity was held
at the society's offices, King William-street ; John Wylde
Esq., in the chair. It Appeared, from the report, that th;
number of patients admitted from the let of July to the 30th
Sectems-..er, 1817, were--from her Majesty's ships, 24 ; flow
British and foreign merchant vessels, 644 ; on board, on the
Ist of July, 177 ; total, 845. There are at present on board
174 sick. The number received since the first establish.
meat et the charity have amounted to 5.5,396. The balance
in hand at the last account was 61. 51. Bd. ; the total receipee
for the year amounted to 1,8761 lie. •, and there is now, de-
ducting all expenses, a balance of 4741. 19s. 7d. in favour of
the society. The report having been received, and the sib
counts passed, the meeting separated.
THE OUTCRY FOR SANITIVE REFORM.—In a nal
metropolitan concentration of human life like ours, in which
occurs a whole sixth part of all the waste of health and life in
the three United Kingdoms, and in which, from amongst
2,000,000 people, nearly 50,000 die every year-900 every
week—one every tenth minute—the mere destruction at
10,000 of these every year-200 every week—one every hoer,
by mains of municipal poison alone, insidiously administered
along with the air which the doomed ones breathe, may, by
comparison, seem to be a matter of minor import ; yet, if es
estimate the value of a single life at the amount of the
popular outcry created by the scarcely more deliberate.
though more designed, destruction of that one life by
domestic poison, what a mighty and eternal outcry ought to
rend the welkin and the walls of every city, town, and vil-
lage in the empire, till an end be for ever put to this now
too well recognised and wholesale system of manslaughter!
—The Builder.
INQUESTS, YESTEROAT.—ALLEGED NEGLECT Or
PATIENTS IN THE BERRET COUNTY LUNATIC ArnAnc
—Before Mr. Carter, in the board-room of the Surrey
County Lunatic Asylum, Garrett-lane, Wandsworth, on the
body of a patient named Mary Cox, 31. Elizabeth
Lawrence deposed that she was day nurse of No. 3 ward,
termed the refractory ward, and of which deceased was an
inmate. On Tuesday morning, shortly after six o'ol
upon opt ning the door of No. 3 dormitory, in which d
and two other women slept, she found her dead. Her legs
were hanging out of bed, and she was lying on her face.
Sir Alexander Morrison, the physician, immediately attended,
and pronounced her to have been dead some hours. Wit
ness had locked deceased and the other patients up at half-
past seven o'clock on the previous evening, and she then
appeared in her accustomed health. After ten o'elock the
duty of watching the patients was placed on the
night nurse, who remaiaed on till sax o'clock the
next morning. Deceased was subject to fits.—Julia
Williams, the tight nurse, said she attended to all
Or hears wards at night. The last time witness maw
dressed alive was when she retired for the night. She was
tapered to visit such patients as were likely to have fits in
the night, but had received no instructions relative to de-
ceased, who, although subject to fits, had not had any for
more than a meet past. Her instructions were not to snake
too frequent visits to the dormitories, been d disturbing
the patients. If one was violent in the night des should all
up one of the day nurse*. On the night in pew*. dee wee '
ordered to look to a patient in No. 4 ward, and we wlrTtt
the greater part of the night. Had there ban way main fa
the other wards she thought she must have here it.—Mt.
Joseph Holland, the resident medical officer, said he ex-
amined deceased two hours after she had been found dead.
There was nothing to indicate violence. Her death had bees
caused by deceased turning on her face while in a fit et
epilepsy, and so suffocating herself. If deceased had bola
promptly turned on her back again she might ban ban sand.
—The k oreman of the jury remarked that it was highly
fw-
proper to leave an epileptic patient from half-past seven
o'clock the previous evening until six o'clock the next morn- ,
inty without ever once visiting her in the interval. Another
juror said it was a moral impossibility for one woman to at-
tend to more than 200 female patients disposed of in wards
situated on the basement floor and in galleries. It was
quite necessary that there should be at least two night
nurses, one for the lower ward, and another for the upper.
The Coroner observed that the institution was under the su-
perintendence of the visiting magistrates, and he had no
doubt that any suggestion that was made by the jury
would be conveyed to them; but the object of their pre-
sent inquiry was not with regard to the attendance the
patients received, but as to whether the patient into
whose case they were now inquiring bad or had not died
a natural death.—The Foreman said there was no doubt the
death was natural, but he was not satisfied with the attend-
ance the deceased bad received. It had been stated that if
any patient was taken ill the night nurse could hear her,
let her be in what word she would. He considered it
nothing but right that the jury should be left to form their
own opinion, by being permitted to view the cell in which
deceased s:ept, and the one occupied by the sick patient in
160. 4 ward.—The Foreman accompanied the jury to inepeet
the cell, and on his return declared it was impassible for a
person is the cell alluded to in No. 4 ward to hear any noise
that might arise in deceased's cell in No. 3 ward.—The jury
returned as their verdict, "That the deceased was aim
dentally suffocated by being 'seized with an epileptic fit in
the night time, and we (the jury) do recommend the visiting
magistrates to consider the propriety of having more than one

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(deadly and admirable mynas VW% cline to maw towered
Digland, between landlord and team; rendering the Wa ti
the former mainly dependent on that of the tatter, may, as ran Mr-
cumstarces will permit, be introduced him this *malty. We have
reasoa to believe that the improvement of our harbour has
the attention of her Majesty's government, and we do mart reepoill
satenit to ytAir excellein7 that in carrying out that pallet lispeWslity
which the government profess their desire to exercise towards thin
country, the harbours of Ireland, particularly our own epiendid har-
bour, should be more generally converted into naval .to and
dockyards), for which they are to admirably suited, and which, we are
free to admit, that es between this country and England we do not
seek for an equal division we cannot retard it except as unjust and
unfair that, while We entire nary of Great Britain In built tad sta-
tioned in Eng Lind, thereby necessarily creating a vast circulation of
money, not a single ship of war has ever been built in Ireland that we
are aware of, and that at present, with the exception of a small sloop
of war at Cove, bearing the flag of the distinguiahed Sir Theis Daher,
and some government steamers we believe there are not hall'swelosen
vemela of war atationed in Ireland. The liberal and enlightened
view. which your excellency has through life entertained, render It
unnecesaary to point out to your excellency the advantage to be derived
from • firm adherence to the principles by which you have ever been
guided, namely, the promotion of a perfect civil and religlemequality
with England, and the removal from the statute bookof many laws by
which it ie at present disgraced, which, however remotely, interfere
with the undoubted right of every man to worship hi, God according
to the dictates of Ma conscience. Varioas other topics suggest them-
selves which cur present limits prevent our alluding to, but though in
Win congratulatory address, the first we have bad the honour of um
sentingto your excellency, it will
tbe to perhaps more deferential to your
excellency not to allude at any length a subject upon which we re-
gret to believe your excellency di ere with us, we cannot conclude
without respectfully conveying to your excellency the expression of our
fixed arid unalterable opinion (an opinion the vast extension of which
recent events inconthelably demonstrate) that pet feet happiness and
contentnent cannot Clint in thin country until the imperial legislature
shall are fit to introduce the necessary law for restoring to Ireland
full legislative control over her domestic affairs. That your excel-
lency may long continuo to administrate for the benefit of Ireland those
high functions with which you have been invested, and that upon
quitting our shores you may be followed by the blessings of a grate-
ful people, is the Assert and ardent idea of the mayor, aldermen,
and burgesses of Cork.—Aeinaw F. Rome, Mayor of Cork. Jowl
B. Hum., Deputy Town Clerk.
Dublin Caste., Oct 1, 1147.—Sir, —I am directed by his excellency
the Lord Lieutenant to acknowledge the receipt of the address of the
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Cork. The Lord Lieutenant dm
sires to merest to that body his thanks for the Bettering terms in
which they have noticed his appointment to the siceroyalty of Ire-
land ; and his excellency trusts, by an anxious attention to the in.
terees or this country, and an impartial administration of the govern-
ment committed to his charge, he may continue to deserve the
expreaden of their confidence. Ilia excellency is fully aware of the
capabilite • of the harbour of Cork, and the attention of her Majesty's
government will not fail to be given to its improvement.—l have the
honour, Ice., T. N. REDOOTON.—The Mayor of Cork, &c.
Fovea IN lastaen.—The Poor-law Commissioners have
issued an important and touching circular to the boards of
guardians, calling their attention to the state of the tempo-
rary hospitals which are hereafter to be maintained oat of
the poor rates. The following passage conveys some very
salutary advice: ,
The commissioners deem it right to call earnestly upon beards of
guardians to direct their capetial attention to providing finance com-
mittee, with funds for this purpose, in the manner pointed out in the
commesiosers' letter of the 20th ult. The number of inmates in these
establisMuents is at present 13.000, and it appears to the comm:s-
sioners that the condition of those individuals bee the strongest claims
on the sympathy and solicitude of boards of guardians,. The fever
patients belong chitty to the most destitute portion of the popula-
tion, while Weir weaknese and beiplesenem prevent them from ob-
tniding their distress on public notice In the same way an destitute
persona in good health. The commissioners appeal, therefore, to the
feelings of companion, honour, and duty of guardians throughout Ire-
land rot to allow the inmate, of the temporury fever hospitals to
limgabsh in unrelieved suffering, through the want of funds for mip-
plyitig them with the nourishment and care which their condition de-
mands. SimiLr considerations require that the doors of three esta-
blishments should not be shut against new applicants. It is a matter
of notoriety, that without them there is not sufficient hospital accom-
modation in Ireland, and the effect of dossing them would be to pre.
vent the separation of the sick from the healthy„and to render it ne.
ca that fever patients, if they received metheal attendance at all,
should be treated in their own dwellings, which arc too often over-
crowded, ill-ventilated, and dirty. The oommireieners have the an.
therrity of the Board of Health for saying that the result would probably
be a continued and increasing generation of malimmet typhus fever, a
tainted atmosphere, and • wide-spreading of the contagion over the
whole country. The conimimionere have to add that mere motives
of self-interest, without regard to higher considerations, render it
&defeats:a to make ample provision for the separation and cum of
fever patients Although fever may commence its ranges
the poorer classes, it scarcely ever fails ultimately to visit We
amongst;
and it is to be *Nerved that the mortality mooned rich persons
affected with fever in Ireland is nearly ten times no great as amongst
thepoor under similar circumstances ;Indeed, melantholy instances
will readily be called to mind by guardians of highly valuable mem-
bers of society amongst the upper Maass whose career of usefulness
has been cut abort by fever during the present year. Now, it cannot
be doubted that in the majority of cases the individuals adverted to
caught It from infection &ft:eel by the poor—hence, exposes
incurred for the cure of destitute fever patients may be re-
garded to a certain extent as a kind of life insurance to the rich win
are in health. In coaclusion, the commie/liners have to express the
hope that guardians will zealously co-operate with the relief commit-
tees carrying out the arrangements under the Temporary Belief Act,
and that no material embarrassment, will be allowed to arise from
the cireumstence that relief commistees and boards of guardiana arc
not constituted in precisely the same manner. The difficulties and
danger of the present period are so great that they can be only ade-
quately met by the harmonic,s action of and it would he in the
highest degree discreditable to the country if fever patients were not
properly taken are of on account of jealousies or misunderstand.
inut between the relief committees and board. of guardians.—l have
the honour to be, sir, your very obedient servant,
(Signed) A. Mum, for Secretary.
Tits OSBORNE ESTATES.—Sir,—I regret that the columns
of your highly. respectable paper should be open to anony-
mous communications before you had previously satisfied
yourself as to the accuracy of the statementa and details nar-
rated. Under the head of " Eviction of Tenantry," a para-
graph appeared in your paper of the 29th ult. stating that
" The clearance system had been extensively carried out on
Mrs. Osborne's estates in the county of Waterford, and that
the late agent had resigned his office sooner than be a party
to the wholesale system of ejectment contemplated, etc."
Both these assertions arc the fabrications of a malicious
person. The clearance system has neither been contem-
plated nor commenced. Moreover, the late agent did not
reign his agency for the reason assigned. On the lands of
Rutsellstown, where fifteen families are represented to have
been ejected, three tenants have been removed under pro. '
usedinga commenced prior to the appointment of the present
agent. One of these parties owed upwards of five years'
rent to the estate, and allowed his farm to remain totally
uncultivated; the other two were removed under similar
circumstances, receiving pecuniary aesistance from me to •
conaiderable amount. I take this public opportunity of
stating that the present agent is authorised to grant leases to
all deserving tenants, and that an experienced agriculturist
is employed, at an annual stipend, for the express purpose of
'girding practical instruction in farming to the tenantry,
arid that every reasonable encouragement is held out to in-
duce both large and small holders to cultivate their lands.--
I am, &c., BALER OSBORNE. Clonmel, Oct. 6, 1847.—T0
the editor of the Tipperary Vindicator.
FIRE IN DEBLIN.—A tire occurred in Sackville-street
last night, which resulted in the total destruction of one
house, and the partial demolition of two others. A consider-
able amount of property was consumed. Great alarm was
felt lest the fire should communicate to the stores in the
rear of one of the houses partially damaged, and which be-
longs to Mr. Hoyte, a druggist, as it was filled with most in-
flammable merchandise. The house derroyed belonged to
a hosier named Burke ; he was, I understand, insured.

of ber deith. Saturday last she . two teeth drawn,
which slightly affected her head. In a day or two after-
wards she complained of a sort of vertigo, and a pain in her
chest, and on Thursday morning she -became worm still
somplaining of the chest, wishing for the doctor. Witness
went to Mr. Merrett, a surgeon, next door, asking him la
eons and see a little girl siho was ill. Mr. Merrett said be
could not come, and wanted to know if the deceased could be
brought to him. Witness told him that she had a
pain in her chest,
_and they thought it was inflam-
mation. He staled that he was not the family
doctor, and witness had therefor% better apply to some
sae else.—By the Jury : Witness asked Mr. Merrett if be
could come in an hour hence, and he said so. Witness then
proceeded to another doctor, who was out, and would not re-
turn until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Nothing more was
dose, and deceased grew gradually worse, and died at 5 p.m.
the sante day. Several of the jury expressed themselves very
strongly upon the subject. One, observing that the conduct
of Mr. Merrett, living next door to the deceased, was the
most extraordinary he had ever heard of.—Deceased's father
and other witneves having corroborated the above testi-
mony, Mr. Merrett was sent for; being absent from home,
'Ms emistant, a youth about 17, said that Mr. Merrett had a
patient in the surgery when the application was made,
liteogh the party left about ten minutes afterward,. The
again began to express their conviction of the culpa-
bility attached to the medical man ; and the coroner said the
awn was one of a singular character, for although the death
was evidently natural, it was impoasible for them to say how
it had arisen. He was, however, bound to say that he agreed
with them as to the neglect on the part of Mr. Merrett.
After some deliberation, the jury recorded the verdict,—
" That deceased died • natural death, most probably from
want of proper medical attention ; and it is a matter of deep
septet that Mr. Merrett did not attend the deceased, or send
I Ns assistant, when applied to for that purpose."

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The Limerick Reporter relates the murder of Mr. John
Lowe, a gentleman of fortune, in the County Limerick. The
papers of one day's tater date say nothing whatever upon
the eubct.
The Mayo paper as usual presents us with its hebdomadal
picture of wretchednese. The crops, it states were seized on
the ridges by orders of the landlord, the beiliffe following the
reapers as they proceeded in their work. The law of last
year prevents the seizure of standing or growing crops in
Ireland. Thus the tillage is already taken into the custody
of the landlords, and the farmers' barns and yards show no
sign of harvest. The Roman catholic clergy around Castle
bar have called upon the high-sheriff to convene a county
meeting to represent to the government the condition of the
county, so wretched and hopeless, where in a few weeks
there will exist no means of paying rates, and where there is
no independent labour. The prevalence of fever is of course
alarming—it could not well be otherwise in such a state of
physical and social misery, and what is to be re-
gretted, though we must expect such consequences, the
usually patient and peaceful inhabitants are beginning
to manifest a condition of disorganisation which was entirely
absent last year, and a few nights since were guilty of
flogging a bailiff, it it said, very severely. In the meantime
the markets are reasonable; good new oats sell from ss. 6d.
to 61. per cwt., and excellent potatoes can be had at 6d. per
stone. But of what avail is this reasonable condition of the
markets to men who have no money-wages, and conse-
quently not wherewithal to purchase
The Limerick papers give the inquest on the two
peasants, O'Donnell by name, who fell in the contest with
the police. The circumstances appear to be these A " bene•
fit" party, as it is termed. was given at the house of
Loughlin, a smith. At this party the sergeant, commanding
I the neighbouring police-station together with four of his
men, were present. In the course of the night a quarrel
arose between two of the peasantry, one of whom fell in the
subsequent affray. That quarrel the police suppressed, not
without an fry words and some blows. The police party
staid some time longer and withdrew to their barracks. Some
few hours after, and about six o'clock in the morning, three
policemen returned to Loughlin's, armed and on patrol, a
duty to which they had been regularly sent by their ser-
geant. Two of these had not been at the beaefit, one had
been, and quarrelled with O'Donnell, one of the deceased.
This person was at Loughlin's when the police returned
there, and, on their entering the house, he invited them " to
take a seat," which was ungraciously declined. The police
called on their own account for three bottles of porter, and
during the discussion of these, the altercation of the previous
night was renewed between the policeman, who is named
M'Cannan, and O'Donnell the former insisting that the latter
should fight him. This, it appears, O'Donnell declined,
adding that he would fight him next day. M'Can-
min, eager for the fray, then tookstruck him on th off his MlS-
belts, and making • blow at O'Donnell e