The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

CITY CORPORATION COMMISSION.

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an alderman of London. With 'dame to the Old Bahr,
I think it wrong that the raegi.trete Who commits should
also be the person to try the prisoner, as is the eae in the
Old Bailey.
,Tnis will account to some (*tent for the
boast which is made on behalf of the Old Bailey that the
number of convictions in proportion to committals is greater
there than in other neons. .

THE CHOLERA.

notice is to be published to the inhabitants intimat-
ing the arrangements made, and requiring them to
clean oat ashpits at frequent intervals, and to abstain
from unwholesome fruit.

The Commissioners resumed their inquiry yester-
day, Mr. Labouchere in the their, when the examination men the General 'ward of Health, Nom 4.)
of Mr. Acland was continued. METROPOLIS.
Returns made mbyadteheto
suthpeeLkorinmtemndisseniotneeonf ofth eMpet,roirki:
Mr. Acland said-mlneshativnegrecerneivtedo
warreelettteasr from
error 3.10 r..
il Old Bailey,anfi-tlie-c aof
Geo. 11. Childs, , j Sir J.
anon-Then •re two courts, the court of the tanitept
M, N, S. T, and V divisions of police, state that be-
Quarter Session, in the litter
tween the 24th ult. and the 2nd inst. there have °e-
volved in the statement I made on the last day the coin- • of which one of the hedges rat the land, or the Recorder,
mission met, which represented that the surgeon to the the Common Serjeant, prolate,. Are you !wowed to say
police force was the brother of the partner of an alderman. j that the aldermen take any part in the proceedings there ? curred in those districts 13 cases of cholera, 12 of
Witness-I
I beg therefore to withdraw that statement. With the 1 Sir J. p.t . do.
judges of
isrensoitdemy experience-at instances which terminated fatally. Death ensued in several
permission of the committee I will also refer to the charge least when the 131, 22, and 2 in 24 hours after
stances after very short illness; for ex imple-in 81,
that the corporation allocated a given own of money for Witness-Perhaps it is not soPerlien the judge. of the
describe the localities in which deaths have occurred
attack. The returns
the purpose of inducing a better representation ache press land preside, but it is so when the Recorder or Common
tSeerjeant presides. Then the Old Bailey is objectionable as
of their proceedings. I believe, as I read the evidence, I
Then sometimesisagallery
ciaasearaiswvaearreinlatderiaesstainra "a
guinea
been treet, Bermondsey (in which
been fur years in a spirit of opposition, not to say entagon. I is frequently paid, and when it is lessyinterestingga shillinga death ensued 81 hours after attack) that " the inha-
ism, to the government, a report was made by the Cowell- is not refused. The door keeper receives the money. 11e bitants complain of offensive smells from the privy
dated Committee of the Court of Common Council, of which may be a footman of the sheriff., and he gives a sum of and drain in the yard." In another instance (22
money for the chances of the fees taken at the Courthouse
the following is a copy : hours) it is observed that " the street in front of this
door. I believe part of the money goes to the Lord Mayor house is very dirty with mud and stagnant water,"
and " Common Council, Thursday, March 8, 1849. and part to the sheriff. I think it very disgreceful that • front of the house are two
" Report of the Consolidated Committee, to the night lord mayor or sheriff should put money in his pocket from in a third that "in
Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commis• such a source. Alderman Wood, when he was sheriff, put amine, the smell from which is very offensive."
sioners of the City of London in Curemon Council as- an end to it during his time, and I know that one of the Another death from cholera in Nlillbank prison is
ambled. present sheriffs is opposed to it. The members of the Coro- reported as having taken place on the 2nd instant.
" We, whew names are hereto subscribed, of your con- men Council must always be selected for special jurymen, This makes the seventh death front cholera in the
solidated committee, to whom, on the 22nd day of May, for which they were paid, and many of them made several Penitentiary
since the 20th August out of 12 cases
1,46, it was referred' to confer with her Majesty's Govern. guinea in the year in this way, as a matter of business.
meat and others, upon such of the matt, nspecially re. Sir J. Pettis:el-That was also the case in the special which have occurred h ;rind.
in
that theta pe
(erred to the several committees as we may deem expedient; juries in Ouildh ill-and most excellent jurymen they made. SOUTHWARK.
and to report thereon from time to time, do certify, that Mr. Aclaod-Some of them, doubtless. With respect to The following extracts from a presentment made
pending the progress of the negotiations, had on the refer- the Court of Conservancy, I am not in a position to give
eons to Us with varus departments ot the government, many details, but I know that they spen4 a great at a court legit held for " the King's manor in South-
end also :twine the pinceedinge in porliament during the deal in feasting and rio forth. The witness then stove week," at the Court-house, on Tuesday, the 11th day
last two *elisions, it has appeared to your committee that evidence on the matter of privileged operative companies, of October, before William Payne, Esq., steward ot
the motives and object:: of the corporation have frequently within the City of London. No one was admitted to the the said manor, exhibit the present condition of a
been much misunderstood to the great hindrance of your fellowship of one of these companies who was not tree of large portion of the King's manor in Southwark.
committee, and the embarrassment of the concerns en- the companiand also of the City, for which he had to pay The jurors present, that at the bottom of Maid-
trusted to them, impeding materially the arrangements 61. ss. 4d. This had a very evil tendency, because it TO
they were proposing with the government and the crown, atricted the freedom of labour. With regard to wards, they atone and Kentish Buildings, in High-street, within
and that these inconveniences have, in a great degree, were not co-extensive with parishes, which caused great the said manor, there is an open ditch extending
arisen from the imperfect publication of the teuorts of the 1 confusion. There were charities attached to these wards, shout 50 yards in length and about 7 feet wide, into
proceedings of the commission, by which means weut of I and fir the purpose of these trusts it would he necessary to which the sewage of all the surrounding neighbour-
confident., was engendered, and misconception oleo's- retain the boundary of wards, but for all other purposes I hood is conveyed, and that the said ditch is in a most
raged. That the proceedings of most other corporate think the distinction of wards is en evil. I think the police furl and pestn ••erous condition.
bodies, of public meetings, and public trainee- of the City of London is well managed. That, I think, is
Lions were more fully repotted and • published than generally admitted. At the same tone I think the police Also they present, that in Maypole-alley, within
those of this corpor ition. Your coiumittee, therefore, fuel of the metropolis should be homogeneous, and under one the said manor, there is an open privy fur the com•
it iacumbent upon them to report to this court those prac• central authority-that authority being the government. mon use of the inhabitants and wayfarers in a most
time' evils which their esp. rience, as committee-m.ls and 're Mr. Lewis-The City police is surrounded by the foul and disgraceful condition ; also a spare piece of
chairmen of the several committees, has enabled them to Metropolitan police district, and even in some instances
point out and to suggest, as the most efficient remedy for intersected by it, as in St. Bartholomew parish and Glass- decaying
ground in which there is a collection of offal and
such evils, that provision should be made for more certain house-yard. It would be economical to have the two ainal- fish and vegetable matter to the depth of
reports of the proceedings of the aration and its courts, gamated. two or three feet, and covering a space of 30 feet by
and a more system :tic und periodic tl publication of them. Chairman-Proceed now to the port of London. 20, giving out putrid exhalations to an extent almost
Your committee recommend that it should be referred to Witness-The corporation of London under their old unbearable.
them to make temporary arrengements fur these tar sea, charters got the power of imposing several tells which were That in this court there are 40 houses, t• ' con ming
and to report to this hon. court the provisions, if any, which highly injurious to the trade of Londoo. It would there-
340 h liand
they may think fit to suggest for permanent adoption. All fore be highly desirable thit these charters should be ab- ,in a Rants, only one .12, pipe for the supply
which we submit •o the jadgment of this honourable court. rotated. I stated nn a firmer occasion that the corn Of water to the whole of the inhabitants, the supply
Dated this 23rd day of February, 1819." [Here followed metsge toll amounted to 9,.:1961., but this did nut represent from which is limited to about two hours per day.
the signatures of 21 members of the Consolidated Cam- anythiug like the real evil, for it did not include the sum- That at the Fox in White-street, within the said
miner.] paidt to the innumerable host of vampires who collected the manor, the privy overflows and runs into the yards
A motion was matte that the matter be referred back to fru
ru it and
cotstet' Kt:tiara let* iThetg andcorpotration.pubishedc
enHot of No. 6, Wilmoter-buildings, and other houses ad-
here as no ffi i
the C..nsolideted Committee, as they suggested, which was R
audit :il" With
of them.• regard
to the system of brokers thejoining.
adopted. My statement went so far as to say that they effect of licensing them was to give them a fictitious value That in New-court, White-street, within the said
sanctioned the allocation of 4,0001. since 1849 for the pur- which they did not always deserve. A person could not manor, underground drainage is wanted.
pose referred to in the report. I have to correct that state-
eappear on the Stock Exchange without the sanction of the That in Revel's-
men: thus far, that no such vo'e appears on tem minutes of row, Queen's Bench, the drains are
ornany. of stockhrskers and al-o of the corporation. The
proceedings of the Court of Common Council, and that no stopped, and the privies overflowing.
hould be allowed to udge for themselves what
such formal vote was come to, but I osier' deliberately, and brokers the would j '
employ, and they should not 'I hat in York-place, Revel's-row, containin 16
am prepared to prove that it was well sictieretuod by the - edy -e
bo conlicie to these Ire. need by the corporation. houses and 80 inhabitants, there is only one small
Consolidated Committee, that the court sanctioned them to The markets of the City of London returned • legitimate supply of water, which runs for about ono hour
expend a sum nut exceeding 1,0001. a year for that purpose. revenue to the corporation ; but with regard to Billings- dal.
The Chairman-What (le you mean by saying that itillegally. By the act of 8& 9 os i •
was well understood the c met sanctioned this expenditure, grate
victoria,
hweereett acting
hst market was mede flee and op lat L mon-place, Revel's-row, is in exactly the
unless some formal vote was come to empowering them and the iAs tPo. be 'taken were defined in th ethriluiespoj same state as 1 ork-place.
so to do. the act to be tolls upon the ships and carts bringing tne That in Green-street, Friar-street, and the adjoin-
Mr. Acland-I any that the corporation is trickery, and fish tomarket; but the corporation in addition to this 'mg streets, the offensive smells arising from the filthy
that there is an understanding with regard to the appro- charged fishmongers carried b •
the sixty who on oiliness
priation of funds for politic-some may call them-bat I trades carried on is so bad as to cause a continued
there 201. a piece, which amounted to 1,/001.
say fir sinister purposes, which could not be recognised innausea in the inhabitants, particularly the children.
The Chairman-Was Was this ever disputed- in a court of
a public court where the press is present, but which the justice?
That when the wind is north-east the health of the
corporation may still deem advisable to spend. Witness-It would be ruin to any individual to fight inmates of the Queen's Prison is seriously affected by
The Chairman-Your statement was that 1.0001. was to against the corporation. the horrible effluvia from the knackers', catgut
be annually distributed to the various papers of the town. Mr. Lewis-Are you aware of any trade privilege in the linkers', and bone-boilers' yards. That the whole of
Mr. Achill:l-I have endeavoured to correct the state- City of L.melon which it would he desirable to retain ?
meet as to 1,0301. having been spent, but that the Consoli Witn I know of none that can be publicly bone- this part of the manor, for a quarter of a mile
dated Committee were warranted in going to that expendi- ficial. round, is more or less affected by this intolerable
tare I assert. And lam justified in assuming that it has Chairman-Is there anything now which you desire to nuisance, and what readers this pest place still
been spent, for they never published any account stating add to your former evidence ? worse is the fact that there is no sewer in Green-
N+ much they did expend, and yet they published ac- Witness-With respect to the elections of common street, only surface drainage, and the refuse from
counts purporting to be an account of receipts and expendi- hall,: I stated that at the election of 46 there was a these foul trades runs into • cesspools and 1• 11 carted
ten, severe contest in the City of London, between Aldermen
The Chairman-Is there any sum mentioned by the Thomas Wood and Carroll, on which Occasion there away-
WWI? was a great deal of bribery, principally on the side of Al- That in Mason's-court, King's Bench Walk, the
Mr. Aclaad-The matter was referred bock to the Con derman Wood. I have the names of the men who received second floor of a block of building has been con-
solidated Committee by the court to make such temporary bribes on that cite on that occasion to the amount ot vcrted into a bone warehouse, and the inhabitants i
arrangements as they might think fit, and if they were to several hundred liverymen. There are several of these of the first floor complain that the maggots drop
make a permanent arrangement it was to be reported to the men still on the register. I have also evidence with regard
court. The Consolidated Committee have a sub committee to the election of Mr. Brown to the chionberlainship in through the ceiling on their beds and tables. In one
of three, who dealt with this sum in all respects as if it was 1814. I have the receipts of 11 of the principal parties who of these houees the first ease of cholera in 1853
a vo•e of 1,0001., and they treated it in figures, collectively, acted on that occasion. They were paid 10s. • day under occurred, and the medical officer states the smell in
as if it was • sum at their disposal for the purpose I have the plea of attendance. Of these tiler . ore seven still on the room in which the patient lay was moro than he
mentioned. the list. could bear.
The Chairman-How do you knew that? With respect to the finances of the Corporation of the
Mr. Acland I hesitating)-1 do know it. City of London, the witness said that he had their pub- That the jurors found a large collection of offal,
The Chairman-How ? fished accounts with him, but it would take some time to filth, and rubbish, in Gun-street, Flint-street, Francis-
Mr. Achod-If I hesitate on the question it is for the look over them is order to make them in any degree Intel- place, Beau-street, Butchers'-buildings, and Friarle
purpose of considering how far I may speak without breach ligible. place.
of confidence. Bat 1 say that they purchased newspapers The Commission then adjourned till Tuesday. That the whole of Elizabeth-place Waterloo-road,
by ordering 300 copies at a time, and that on their own
admission. They have an entry at 1,000/. in their financial is in a moat foul and abominable condition, that the
, report under this head, " T., Sir. Temple, hall-keeper "- cesspools are all overflowing, and is every house
' Mr. Temple being avowedly the memo who carried on the ANTI-STATE CHURCH CONFERENCE. fevers or bowel complaints prevail. That the supply
trassection. There is a conglomerated item of 1,0001. of water is for 150 inhabitants two ...; taps on one hour
tee newspapers, Gazettes, candle., fire-wood, and sundries. Yesterdaythe Conference resumed its
sitting and a half each day.
All them are put down in the lump to the hall-keeper,
morhieg, at the London Tavern, at ten o'clock.. And they further present that the courts in the
The Chairman-It is reported in the public papers that
Mr. CHARLES Gthrire was appointed the chairman of the
Mr. Wood made a statement on the subject, in which he manors still remain in the same state as regards
day, and having taken his seat, said he had felt great esti'.
says that the sum expended in buying copies of those news• the pitching or total absence of any paving, with
papers which most folly reported and published the pro- faction at the number and character of the delegates
ofwho
the ex option of two or three of them which have
moldings of the corporation did not exceed 1501. Have you had assembled on the previous day from all parts the . • •
country, and the ground of hope that attendance and the been lea with flag paving, and a very marked im-
sarreason to doubt that statement? whole of the proceedings of the day afforded for future provement is perceptible in the appearance of the
Mr. Acland-None. But I have reason to doubt its
(Hear, hear.) lie had observed an unmistake- inhabitants, more especially the children.
swum, in this respect, that it does net deny that other sums tutee's*
able determination that whatever the name of the 'society,
have been given to purchase the press.PRESTWICH.
The Chairman-Are you prepared to say that sums ofhad but
its principles would remain the same-that they_ •
one object, the liberation of religion from all Slate control, The sanitary committee of the union of Prestwich,
money besides the 150/ , which it is admitted has been ap-
and the declaration in a clearer and summer manner than on an inspection of the township of Newton in the
plied in the purchase of newspapers, have been applied to
it had yet been made, if possible, that religion was a matter above union, state that in the course of their inspec-
purchase the press. between man and his God, and with. which no monarch or
Mr. Aeland-Not in that large way ; but I say that they lion they found a state of things absolutely disgust-
were at liberty to spend 1,0001. a year for this purpose, and potentate on the_ _ d earth had a right to interfere. (Hear.) .
in and sickening to witness, and which it is =-
that the sub committee bad it in contemplation to establish Mr. Mute, M.P., nes a paper on the present aspect of .
the question of separation of church and state in relation to Imam e S'
bl trul to desciibe. In one house in Board-
a newspaper of their own for the publication of their re-
parliament, in which he showed that if the church was to man-street they. found on a table a lot of scraps of
por.
The Chairman-Confining ourselves to what was done, be put in an altered position in reference to the state, it fat, fast putrifying ; and hanging up was a leg. of
could be only done by parliament; and urged that, weed-
are you prepared to state that more was done with regard beef, to be consumed, as was alleged, by pigs.
to the press than the spending of 1501. on the purchase of catty, their object shouid• bee
of
return a. Hours of Commons
Under the stairs were two leg bones of a cow, the
favourable to the principle f the association.
those newspapers which contained the fullest reports of the
Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY moved the reception of the paper. meat having been recently cut off in small pieces,
proceedings of the Common Council. Mr. Tnener (of Norwich) seconded the resolution with and not in joints. Entrails of beasts were
Mr. Acland-It is difficult to know what was done, but
when it was admitted ths,t 1501. was expended in this way, much pleasure. strewed about the yard, and the contents
end that there was no account of the particulars of the ex-avour of the ro-
Mr. A. PELLATT, M.P.,
hisalso spoke is f p of
the privy were overflowing and running out
reediting of the remainder, they laid themselves open to position, sad .expressed
dt. general concurrence with the of the yard under the door into a little gutter
views set forth in Mr. i s paper.
the charge of spending it in some way. Mr. theme supported the motion, but objected to pre- which emptied itself, or rather communicated, with a
The Chairman-That is a different statement from the
tura action. sheet of water which had accumulated in the lowest
ow you made yesterday. Is there anything to show that - m ,The resolution was then put and carried, part of the street; at the back the house was gene'
100/. has been voted as a subsidy to the press ?
Mr. Acland-No, nor 1501., which yet was admittedly sodeclaring it necessary Mr. EewaaDs moved a resolution, . . rally in a very dirty condition. The wife of the
in order to the carrying nut of the operations of the society
Went. as proposed by Mr. Miall, that the income of the society
. occupier of this house was very dirty, and appeared
Is there anything to show that 1,0001., or any other sum health. All the houses adjoining this
should be increased to 5.0001. a year by guaranteed subserip. to be out of
was voted for this purpose ? tions, and that it be referred to the executive committee to were in a similar state, excepting that the mem-
Mr. Attend-No, not as a speci 'fie sum ; but it w re-
. • out take measures for securing that result for the next three mittec discovered no traces of beasts having been
(erred back to the Consolidated Committee to as
carry
their views with respect to their securing favourable reports Yet". slaughtered. The committee made an inspection of
The resolution was seconded by Kr ELLINOTON, and
from the press. the greater part of the houses in twelve other streets,
carried.
The Chairman-Now with regard to the corporation ,of Manchester, move a react Mien,
The Rev Mr. Everts d 1 • and they represent Boardman-street and the house
isoura have you any observations to make ? approving of Mr. Kinply's efforts in the northern districts, described therein to be types of the other streets and
Mr. Aeland-The Court of Hairlines is an obsolete court,
and recommending a more exended and general• organise- houses. In one little backsquare, enclosed on three sides
which does no business, and is no longer necessary. The
tioo upon the same system, the efficiency of which he bore
Lord Mayor's Court is a court against which many com• by cottages, there is a piggery capable of accommod at-
plants are made. It is a court for the purpose of deciding testimony
r to from peeeonal experience.
the resolution,
ins at least 100 pigs hT e yards of the slaughter-houses
VENCII, or Manchester, seconded
ace
between citizens and "foreigners,' as they are called-that
which. bcovered with blood, entrails, and offal, all emit-
passed. 1
emit-
co persons who are not citizens. The latter make great
The council. executive committee, and the various officers ting the most sickening smells. Adjoining one of
complaints of the court. With regard to the Sheriff's
of the institution for the next three )ears were then sp• these there is a cesspool in a back street closed at
Court, it was no longer in point of fact a Sheriff's Court,
pointed, and the several recommendations for the arrange one
a county court. The corporation at first opposed and en ,the exclusively
d • cesspool is used for a depot
lnt and conduct of the business of the association for the for offal : at the time of the inspection it was nearly
successfully opposed the extension of the County Courts period were proposed and adopted. After which the
Act to the City of London, but when the hone- alomn;erence adjourned. full of such matter in a putrid or putrefying state.
tidal effect of that act throughout the county as
w- cln the evening the delegates with a large number of the The streets are dirty, the houses are dirty, the in-1
seen, they applied to have the act extended to the City also.
friends of the association, including several ladies, met at a habitants are dirty, and even the habits of the little
The consequence was a great augmentation in the business
soiree at the Whittington Club, where several addresses h
c ildren in the streets are most indecent.
of the court. The fees in the first instanse were more than
were delivered in reference to the progress of the move e
1 /AItLINGTON.-Nov. 3. Death-Diarrhoea, I.
sufficient to pay the expentes of the court, and they were in the provinces, andthe proceedings of the f
went -
then reduced to the great benefit of suitors. The ShersGATESHEAD.-Nov. 2. Death-Cholera, I. From
by the
Court is presided over by a gentleman appointed rence were brought to a clue.
the Ist September to 2nd November there have been
I Court of Common Council. I think it unwise that such an - -- 503 deaths registered in this union from cholera, and
appointment should be in the hands of tradesmen, who
ALTA MINING ASSOCIATION.-The annual meeting 43 from diarrhoea, making a total of 546.
might be suitors in the court. I think the appointment of
of shareholders in this company took place yesterday at the NORTH '
judges should be in the hands of the crown.
company's office., 20, Old Broad-street, John Labouchere
Sir J. Patteson-In these courts juries have to decide on
Esq , in the chair. The chairman read the report, which Cholera, 1. This case occurred in the cottage next to
the facet. Is not that so ? began by expressing the directors' opinion that their pros - that in which the two deaths previously reported from
Wiinees-I believe that is optional with the parties.
pacts had improved, which was confirmed by the fact that this Union took place.
Sir J. Patteson-That is so now under tho recent act;
the estimated produce for the six months ending 30th Sep. BERWICK-UPON-TWEED (CACTLEGATF.). - Nov. 2.
but do you say that in these civil courts the judges ever
tember,lBs2, 1,001 tone of ore, yielding 64 tons of copper. Deaths-Cholera, 2. I --
decided on the fact. In the first six months of the present year the produce had - . . -. . From 1
Witness-I think so. been 1,384 tons, and 73 tons of copper. Some difficulties OUNDEE.-Nov. 2. Deatin-Cholera, 4.
- Captain Elliot
Mr. Lewis-Well, now, as to the criminal courts ? t the the returns of the Ist instant, it appeared that there THE GOVERNOR OF BERSICDA. _ 9
had occurred in the transport of stores and coals, bu
Witness-With respect to the aldermen, it might he said
hadat lengthsent sufficient to
carry on the were 23 cases of cholera under treatment ; 11 have RM, the Governor of Bermuda, has received orders from
that they were quite unlearned in the law, and depended
companyworks until next year. The &Wig were, cash, goods, &c., since occurred ; making 34 in the whole. Deducting the C , to proceed forthwith to Bermuda, to
'il"ial.°ffice 'Stith R ' nt is now
for their legal knowledge on their clerks or legal advisers.
at Allen, 6.5721. 19s. 9d. ; ditto, ditto, and copper in Lon- resume his duties. Moor Bytes,egime ,
the 4 deaths above reported, 27 cases now remain . G h • been sworn in, in consequence of
This was an indirect way of transacting business which
don, 7,4741. 54. 10d. ; total, 14.0471. 5.. 7d. The profit and Acting. overnor, seine
was not calculate to eate respect either for the bench orunder medical treatment in the town. , the alarming illness of Major Oakeley, the Senior Military
loss account showed expenditure, 9,0561. 2s. ltd. ; returns
the law. In one cased kao'e that toe magistrate remitted
12,8271 , showing a profit of 3,7701. 17e. Id. ; from "relict; EnieltUltell.-Nov. 2. Death-Cholera, 1. Officer in that mainland.- British Army Despatch.
a fine of 53. for drunkenness on the party submitting to
deduct. last year's debit, 9/. 7s. CHI., leaving a balance for ARBROATIL-Nov. 2. Death-Cholera. 1 (24 THE NATIONAL GALLERY, 'Trafalgar-square, which
have his hair cut by a barber. I think the magistrates an-
dividend of 3,7611. 9.. 7d. The report concluded with re• ems). .. has been closed beyond the usual recess, to enable the corn-
pointed in the City should be persons of some standing in
commending a dividend of 5e per cent. on the paid up mitten to carry out the now alterations and repairs which
the law, and appointed by the government. I think they
capital. Attached to this report was a despatch from Mr. At the meeting of the Board of lkalth on the 31st have been going on for the last two months, will be re-
should be appointed by the crown, and paid out of the lamas, the mining manager, recommending an increase October, it was agreed to arrange with all the opened to the public on Monday nest, the 7th inst., gratis;
municipal funds. The public have not suffered by the rap-
of capital and the purchase of anothsr station, the con- druggists in the town to furnish medicines for coun- and on Mender, Tuesday., Wednesdays, and Thursdays,
pointinent of the Recorder, which is in the hands of thea: ritual. On Fridays, only for the pupils.
sideration of which was reserved for future consideration. looseness ofoftoall
teracting bowels, free charge,
corporation. The appointment of the orment Recorder is
.The report was unanimously adopted, and the proceeding • leaving the , FATAL COLLISION ON TUE RIVER.-A boat, 0011.
highly creditable to the Court of Aldermen. I would give.l : necessitous persons applying therefor, on, ,
terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. taming eight persons, was run down late on Tuesday night,
the appointment to the crown. I think the City of London ~. , names and residences with the druggists. Ihe me-
LIM iNCOSIE TAN AND TILE ECCLESIASTICALoff Deptford Dock-yard, by the screw steam ship Alarm,
should not be made an exception in the general government • • • • dical officers to furnish the prescription, and notices',
from Dunkirk. It appears that seven mechanics, in the
TITLES Aar.-A Galway correspondent of the kreensan's
of the country.lordship to be issued with it, requiring parties to apply for employ of Messrs. Russell, had taken a boat in order to
Mr. Lewis-Would you apply the provisions of the Journal says-" If lAM correctly informed, his ,
Dr. O'Donnell, of this diocese, has put his opinion also on medical aid, if immediate the im rudence of
relief not olstained. Nurses • cross over to their homes ; and that by p a
Municipal Corporation Act to the City of London, so far se ' • 1
the may be applicable ? 'i the subject of the income tel on record, and refuses to ac- have also been provided and. arraneemente are wh e name is Ilamilton the came r* avoid
in the
in waterman, Os , yright
Witness-I doubt very much if you would induce the I knowledge any obligation to submit to onerous taxation course of being made for obtaining house accomeno- 1 way .of the steamer. The pilot endeavoured to avoid the
higher claw to take past in the government of the City, if ' under circumstances . .
where the law ignores the only title
• dation for the purpose or. separating the healthy ! accident, but as the tide was relining in the collision was
' unavoidable. The boat in two. F'of
was cut
it retained so much of its present form as the bare application under which he can enjoy an income of any sort."
is from tlto sick. A medin.l student has also been managed to support themselves until they were mon*
of the Municipal Corporations Act would suffer to remain. WRAT IS MAN P-Chemically speaking, a man ,
~etl to make a house-to-house visitation of the but the remaining three were drowned. Their bodin have
I think you would not induce them to become aldermen. I 451bs. of cathon and nitrogen diffused through 51 paileals ' engais -
do not object to as alderman of Manchnter, but I {object to of water.-Quarterty Review. I district in which the disease has appeared, and a sot been found.

COLDINGUAII, BERWICKSIIIRE.—Ten case, of
cholera and 28 of diarrhoea have occurred in this
parish. Eight of the cholera cases have proved fatal,
but the diarrhceal cases—four of which were choleraic
—have all recovered. The medical officer of the dis-
trict represents the village to have been in a very
filthy condition at the outbreak of the pestilence,
from the foul state of the rivulet forming the north
and south boundaries of the parish ; from the want
of drainage, and the choking up of what imperfect
drains there are; from pigstyes and dn:lg heaps in
close proximity to dwellings, and from the dampness
of the cottages, which are generally of one storey,
with clay floors, all the household operations being
carried on during the day in the same apartment in
which the inhabitants sleep at night, and the rooms
being most deficient in ventilation and greatly over-
crowded. Every case of attack in this instance is
stated to have been distinctly traccab:c to filth, over-
crowding, or neglected premonitory diarrlicea. Few
winters pass without the visitation of fever of a
typhoid type, clearly referable to the same pre% cu tibia
causes.

THE MURDER NEAR WINDSOR.

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13tiltNIIAM, Ettio.tor
The coroner's inquest on the remains of Mary
Ann Sturgeon, was resumed at ten o'clock this morning.
A broken poker was produced, and identified by a char-
woman named Staymaker,as haring been whole when it was

taken from Mr. Goodman' s bedroom to the bedroom where
the body of the deceased wan found, on the afternoon of

Tuesaui.

Mr. Ralph Willis Goodwin, the occupier of the farm, was
recalled, and in answer to a questiob from the coroner, as
to whether he observed anything unusual in the conduct of
netts, the groom, on Tuesday night, witness said he did.
Before witness had discovered the murder, amt before he
had been upstairs, Hotta asked him whether lie had seen
anything wrong ? Witness replied that he hail not. netts
also came into the kitchen more than once, before be had
time to dress his horse, and made a humming noise, con-
trary to his usual custom.
[Mr. Superintendent Symington, of the Bucks constabu-
lary, here informed the Coroner that circumstances had
been discovered that cast some suspicion upon Hatt., the
groom, and that he was then in custody. The announce-
ment created a deep sensation.]
Dr. Roberts, of Burnham, deposed that, on entering the
room with the Coroner and jury, on Wednesday, he saw a
female lying on her face, stretened upon the that, both her

arms f ite tide d , and heist upwards at right arg les. Ile
observed the back of the left hind considerably swollen,
with lacerated marks across it, as if struck by some blunt
instrument, the metacarpal hone of the ring finger being
fractured, and the first phalange hone being also frictured,
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and the integuments Ise(rated,., as if by a brunt instrument,
apparently as if the band had been put up to ward off a
blow on the left side of the head. The fingers of b dlt hands
. .

were clenched. The hair of the head wassTnged, and on par-
tially removing it, a lacerated wound of about two inches
long was found over the lower back part of the parietal
bone. There was another shorter wound near to it, re from
blows. The ear on the left side was severely lacerated in
two places, as if done by a blunt instrument. The lows
limbs of the body were burnt, both knees being c,inpletely
consumed ; the thighs also burnt to a cinder, as were also
the ports adjacent, leaving the shafts of the thigh bones
exposed and charred for several inches. Between the
thighs and the feet the fl sor underneath was a burnt
away, as to consume the legs as far as the Bodes. The
leg bones had dropped through the floor, leaving the feet
on the top and unburnt. On turning the body on its
back, the face seemed much disfigured and swollen, and
soddened from lying Ina pool of blood. There were two small
wounds on the bridge of the nose, the bone' of which were
broken, as if by some blunt instrument, and evidently from
a severe blow. On removing a portion of the
hair there was a considerable quantity of extra-
vasated blood between the scalp and the skull. The
blood was the effect of the blows. The face
was lying in a quantity of blood, which was diluted with
the water, thrown into the room to extinguish the tire.
Witness had since opened the skull, but found previously
another wound on the right side of the head, which would
account for the accumulation of extravasated blood under-
neath the scalp. The wound did not pass through the ex-
ternal portion of the scalp, but had caused a laceration of
the internal part, front whence the blood effused. Upon
removing the skull, which was not fractured, and the to-
vs ring membranes of the brain, the blood vessels appeared
to be in a state of congestion, both on the sur-
face of the brain, and at the base, but without
any general effusion. As internal examination of the
body, proved that deceased was not exciente. As to whether
recent violence had been offered the deceased, it was im-
' possible to nay, from the circumstance of the lox er portion
' of the body being so injured by the fire. Witness was of
• opinion that death bad been occasioned by the injuries
inflicted by blows on the head, which brought ou concus-
sion of the brain ; and that death ensued before the com-
mencement of the burning of the body. There was blood
upon the door, and on the floor of the room near the door,
as if the body had been drsgg d albeit. Along the pas-
, sage there were here and there drops of blood, and there
was the mark of a bloody hand on the wall of the passage
upstairs, nearly opposite the bedroom door rf the deceased.
, Blood was similarly smeared on the upper half of the bed-
room' door, outside. There was also the same appearance
I on the door, about two feet from the bottom.
Jane Bunce, the wife of the farm bailiff, deposed that,

on the night of Tuesday, deceased was in witness's cottage
at about eight o'clock ; she brought a piece of sticking-
plaster to put on witness's bad finger. After deceased had
dressed witness's finger, she said, " I must go into the
house and get the boy's supper out." Deceased added
that when she had done so she should go up stairs, and sit
in her room, as the buy's (Hatto's) conversation was so " in-
different" that she could not sir with him, neither should
she. That was all the conversation that took place between
deceased and witness. Witness had heard Hatto say, since
the murder, that he came out of the house with deceased,
and that be went to the stable when she went to the cottage.
Since the murder, Hatto said be heard a noise against the
door which goes oat of the kitchen into the passage,
and witness blamed him fur not coming to tell her husband.
Hatto meant that he heard the noise on Tuesday eight;
but he did not mention any particular hour. Deeea-cd told.
witness, on the Tuesday night, that she and Hatto had had
words together. Witness did not understand deceased to
mean that words had passed between them that eight.
In answer to questions from the coroner, Mr. Goodwin
said that Hatto was a civil and obliging servant, and had
borne, up to the present time, a good character.
William Coker, a boy in the service of Mr. Goodwin, and
living at the cottage, deposed that he slept with Hatto on
the night after the murder. Hatto said he hoped he should
have a pleasanter night than he had the night before; he
jumped about in the bed very much, and appeared very
uneasy.
Hatto was here introduced, and asked to sign the evi-
dence given by him on Wednesday. The prisoner, who
appeared perfectly unmoved, is of middle size, and about
30 years of age.
Police. Superintendent Symington produced a pair of
trowsers, which Ratio wore on Tuesday last ; there were
marks of blood on them, and the blood bud been pro-
nounced to be human blood. He deposed that be had ob-
served mark. of blood at the bottom of Hatto's bed ; the
marks appeared to be partially obliterated, and the blood
was of longer standing than this morning. Witness also
produced a jacket on which were marks of blood ; but it
was explained that Hatto had been employed to remove
the body,and that the blood might have beet communicated
to the garments by that means.
Mr. Cleare (the foreman) said it was a suspicious circum-
stance that Hatto should have fallen into a pool of water in
the yard, when looking round on Tuesday night, and so in-
duced the necessity for washing the clothes. They had been
partly washed and were hanging to dry in Mr. Goodwin's
kitchen, on the Wednesday morning.
Hatto was then brought in, and having been duly cau-
tioned, he made the following statement:
" I can say nothing at all about the murder, except that
I myself am innocent of the crime. I have nothing further
to say."
The Coroner said there could be no doubt that one of the
most diabolical and cruel murders on record had been corn-
; milted. The conduct of Hatto was not altogether clear
from suspicion, but he was bound to tell the jury that there
was no legal evidence against him. No rubbery of any
",extent had been committed, and there seemed almost a
total absence of sufficient motive for the murder.
The jury consulted together for an hour, and the inquest
was again adjourned until next week.