The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-18 00:00:00

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bath brearthes of the corporreden.
Mr. Alin] MT raid he did ass peen to give any personal
eases to the Recorder; bee the Wads be had just used were
enheteatially correct. The nwoebeen of the court knew the
het, end tare would rather be dieeilved as a corporation
then Awn the aldermen to dip their hands i ,to the rickets
of their fellow.citisens. (Great cheering.) They knew to
that the Recorder had advised the Court of Aldermen
against the bill. They knew that the Recorder bad allowed
the members of the City Common Council to go on legis-
',tine from day to day, from the time of his appointment to
the office ; but the moment they began to legtelate in order
to prevent the pillage of their fellow.citisens, then the
learned gentleman found out th tt the bill was against the
customs, chsrters, and laws of the City. (Cheers, and erie.
of " No, no.") lie called upon the court to insist upon pro-
ceeding with the bill, which was to be the forerunner of a
measure calculated to check the teeth tent power of the
aldermen over the City mmey, and to allow no bushiess
whatever to be do to until the bill before them was passed
into a law. (Cheering.)
The Itscoenee said he had iistinctly represented to the
court the difficulties which, upon the perusal of the hill,
struck bins as iusurmountable. Ho considered it extremely
uncandid, as well as u'ij .st, to att.& a public officer woos,:
duty and whose anxious study it wits to do all its his power
to protect the privileges of eviry breech of the corpora. iOll.
MS. Witte repeated the statem..nt made by Mr. Ashurst. If
what the Retarder stated hail any f ovidation in fact, all that
the court had done since the days of Edward lli. was illegal.
But the real truth was, that if it were not for the bill which
was to come close after the present measure, and which the
aldermen had good reason to tremble at, there would not
have been a unto of objection raised against that which
must inevitably pass into a law. (Cheers )
Mr. KING said, that if the Recorder persisted in refusing
to put the question, the court had only to apply to the next
officer to hen, and it the next Wiped, to apply to the third
in rank, and the difficulty would anon cease, for they had a
very unceremonious power of expressing their disapproba-
tion of the conduct of those who were appointed by
(Cheers.)
Mr. ANDZILTON cautioned the Lord Mayor against the
alternative of vacating his seat befiire the decision of the court
should take place. if his lordship pursued that course, the
court would doubti as levitate the conduct of the Common
council of 1618, when the Lord Mayor having refused no put
a motion at their mew it, they went direct with a petition
to the House of Commons, complaining of the contempt,
and they there received the warmest assurances of support
Mr. LAWRESCE said that the very manner in winch the
Court of Aldermen had made the communication was as
offensive as word. could make it. (Hear.) They might
have expostulated where they saw anything to which they
might have objected, but they had drawn the sword and
thrown away the scabbard, and now the two courts were
foot to foot with drawn swords, and it would he soon seen to
whom would be the uiumph. (Cheers.) They were told
that the dispute would nave the inevitable effect of
knocking up the corporation altogether. What did
they care about that? (Great cheering) Did the
Lord Mayor imagine that the court would submit to
be told that the question would not be put? (Cheers.)
There was no intrined:ute course. The Lord Mayor must
dismiss the court, or the question must be put.
Alderman WILSON said it appeared from the lanousge
used by the court, that they considered the a.dermen had
objected without reason to the bill. Such was by no means
the fact. They were opposed to it from the commencement,
but they waited until they h id the opportunity of examining
the words in which it was framed. They had tasen cousel's
opinion as to whether they could be consenting parties to
such a measure, end they were told it was in direct opposi-
tion to the usages and customs by which the corporation was

governed.
Here the amendment was put, and, after an infitity of I
confusion and noise, there was a cry of " Divide."
Mr. Wire and several other members begged that the
court would nou divide, and intim ited that a marneusre
MIS intended, by which they might be betrayed into an
error, of which the enemy would take eilvanfage.
Doctor LYNCIt said it was quite plain that the Aldermen
had not a solitary leg to stand upon. (Laughter.) He was
delihted to see the spirit of the court displayed against a
power which seemed determined to ride rough shod over
them.
Alderman SIDNEY said no man more respected the
privileges of the corporation than he did, and therefore lie
opposed the bill. The power assumed by the Court of Com-
mon Council roold only he • xereised by the legislature itself.
As for the bill, it was calculat, d to destroy the corporation
altogether, so that the court, by advocating the measure,
were doing an injury to the caostituener. It was an act 01
usurpation, and c rtainly could not be passed in defiance of
the wisher; of the Court of Aldermen.
Sir PETER LAIMIE said that be heartily supported the
bill, and be was prepared to support the bill wnich was to
follow. (Loud cheers.)
After some ohervetions from other members, Mr. Corney
cried out, " Why, my lord, there ie; no court."
Here the utmost confusion prevailed. The aldermen had,
one by one, slipped away unperceived, until tne Lord
Mayor was left with but one of his brethren (Sir Peter
Laurie) on the bench ; and the presence of three aldermen is
necessary to constitute a courr.
It was stated by some that there was on alderman is the
adjoining room, and the Lord Mayor was requested to Pond
the mace-hearer to compel the attend .ace of that gentleman.
Ms lordship declined to do so, and said, that he coold d
his
not
stultify himself by putting a question which he an
brethren considered to be of a nature calculated to interfere
fatally with the privileges of the eo. p..ration , and the rights
- hdlow-citizens. His lordship then left the court.

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to be legitimately framed; those who mato be benefited by them. It
is only women y b direct the attention of the conseirentious washer to
what Is denderated in his profession, or an kis ownpractice, Mercantil
him to adopt it as far ea &commences will permit ;
thebu when he hes
neither the means of amen to the best models, nor promPtinga at
*opener experience to direct bun, it is not to be expected that he can
keep pm with the exigencies of the times. The beat system of
teaching can only be discovered by cornea:risco, and when so many
systems are brought Into Juxtaposition as be the reports referred to,
sompuirmas can be easily made, and the beet puts of each
selected ; besides oar plan may work well in one lomilty
mai very 11l in magher, end when • view of the whole
is laid before the mind it can choose the parts best fitted
for its purpose. It is to be hoped that publicity bring given
VI the anxious wishes of, it may be fairly amid, the whole of the
teachers of the country, some means may be deemed to comply with
their wishes, mpecially when it mto be dere at so cheap • rate. At
fine, perhage, the committee may chink it necemary to confine the
disaribiation to such schools Mare wider th. ir own surveillance, and
to the fouodation schools of the country, but it should be borne in
mind tnat the paeansd teachers are as much uneer the surveillance
of the ger, rnment as the parochial clergy. and that it is an unquese
Boilable fact that -was A distribution would gin an impulxe to many
a mind far without the re eh of any other encouraging influence.
The sehoolm toter, when he hears of such work, being pub! shed, can-
not purchase them, while those to whom they axe generally sent,
can either ount 4.e them for theauchne, or find an opportunity
of forming them. Ito blame is here attached to the committee
of council on education for what they have done, it is only what has
been done in such owes from time immemorial; but ,Imes have very
much altered, for no uric class of society is ro isolated or en insignifi-
cant as it was formerly adjudged to be. Whin en many nobe and
us efforts e ing mode to elevate the very lowe-t of a ciety
tpoeition of degradation and vice, it is surely far from being
wise to overlook the clam who IS to be the chief inetrument of refor-
mation. ouch a negint, if again repeated, after attention has been
thus calmly direrted to the subject., man be looked upon as a stigma
on the profession. Inured, what stn be more degrading to • cult!.
mud mind than to be told at second-hand, that at the table of the
squire of the parish the subject of education was largely talked over,
Shath it the clergyman mid he rep etedly referred to the report of then
committee of council on education, and 'lamented the inefficiency and
the want of enthusiasm on the part of their teacher—we say, what
can be more degrading than to hear, for the Met time in the teem at
a reproach, the Vet that such information was in exist t
Tb
obviate such an evil in future, our p u
lan wold be, to Wrens these
works direct to the teacher, and refer the clergyman to Min fur a
perusal.—S. T. S.
REMOVAL or NVlSAstega.—ln antieip *Hon of the new act
fur the removal of nuisances, which comet into operetta*
early in 1847, Mr. Wh•gham, the Sheriff of Perthshire, has,'
with commendable public spirit, published a proclamation,
embodying the leading provisions of the statute in such a
way that none of the community will be able to plead igno-
rance as a reason for not availing themselves of its important
benefits. Mr. Whigham's brethren in the sheriffship should
do the same thing, as the act cannot be too extensively
known. By it the suppression of nuisances to rendered a
very simple matter. The complainant has merely to get a
certificate from two medical men, to the effect that the
offensive matter is unhealthy, and the sheriff immediately
orders its removal at the expense of the proprietor. Its
powers, however, we are afraid, are insufficient to overtake
clamant violations of sanitory propriety which exist on a
large a ale. Fur instance, Eoitiburgh pose sites a mineral
well dedicated to St. Bernard, which is • favourite resort
routes to it requires that the valetudioarian old
through a suburban thoroughfare, called Sani.der's-strea. I
the state of which closely resemble* the Slough of Despond et I
John Bunyan. Vehicles have a sore struggle to get to its ex-
tremity, and equally sore in returning, for there is no exit
at one of the ends, except tor bipeds. Passengers keep on
the one narrow pavement, and eschew the bog altogether,
—but this is not all. On one aide there is an aqueduct fir
conveying water to certain mills in the neighbourhood,
and which rune parallel to the backs of the houses
' composing the streets, and the aqueduct being leaky,
the water percolates through the houses and runs
acrusa the pavement. It is questionable if Mr. Chadwick
or Dr. Southwood Smith ever saw a similar exhibition.
Farther down, several atrieta cross it at right angles. But
more than that. On the other side, and at a much lower
level, runs, or should run, the Water of Leith, but its basin
only rewires the surplus of wh .t tl.e millers do nut require
to drive their mills ; and as a very great number of common
sewers descend to this stream, and the inhabitin' along its
batiks make it a common receptacle, the consequences may
be ea ily conceived. At a point near the new cemetery it
forms a stagnant peddle for months, so that rause and eff
are seen in close connexion. The Health of Towns Coehnis-
'loners have pointedly con•lemned water-mids in the vicinity
of towns, and they cannot too soon be atopp d. Their owners
should at once receive compensation, and be compelled to
use steam, or at all events give up war r, is it is altogether
intoli table tha. what stature intends as a blessing should be
turneti by the hand of man into a curse. We have been thus
particular in noticing these nuittera, because the Edinburgh
authorities, reading of the eaiiitury disclosures recently made
in English towns, will be apt to hold up their hands, and
ole,s themselves and thar .couelkuents that they. are free
from all disease-fns cring enormities, whereas it is jest their
familiarity with home defect.' that prevents them from being
s en. Edinburgh has improved snare Johnson •• smelt the
High•etteet in the dark ;" but let Dr. Smith or Mr. Chad
wick ace its foul-water irrigation. its parochial church-yards,
its c'usva, and its drainage. Faugh ! they should be re-
formed altogether ; and if this or th..t alley is beyond police
bounds, why don't the magiatrates get enlarged powers
•Chy have ouly to ask them from a government pledged to
sanitury reform.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
THE SANITORY CONDITION Or fdANCHESTERWES the sub-
ject of discussion on Tuesday at • meeting of the teach. ra
and friend, of St. Paul's and other Sunday schools, held in
Bennett-street, Oldham-road. The meeting wee called by
the school committee, and upwards of one hundred persons
attended ; the Rev. C. O. Hutton. M.A., incumbent of St.
Paul's, in the chair. Mr. I'. H. Holland, of Churlton, secre-
tary to the Manchest. r Health of Towns' Association,
in introducing for the approval of the committee the
proposition. " That the causes of excessive disease
and mortality of large towns are, to a great extent,
moveable, and and ought to be removed," made a speech
full of stathdieal details in support of the alleg ,two,
and clearly proved, front Leta collected from the
general experience of the country, and from that of parti-
cular localities, that an immense sacrifice of life was
made annually, by public ignorance and public remissness,
to diseases, over the must a of which we had almo't complete
control.— Or. It. Smith enlarged on the view, that one of the
primary means required for dintioishing the
e unlierovhidedaltfuliresefor
rat Manchester is a copious supply of purewater p
every house ; and in proposing a resolution to that effect,
very clearly pointed out how water was rendered impure.
and the proper sources from whetter it should he obtained
Mr. Lambert proposed " that health will be much promoted
by the improved ventilatio h
nof use
os, churches,schools and
other public and private buildings," Ile iefly
brought the subject of ventilation and its advant.o;es before

the meeting.
DEATH FROM STARVATION.—A ehroll 0.'14 inquest WWI
commenced on Friday, at Dukenfield, upon the body of
a child named Pagett, a year and nine months old, who had
recently died of starvation at Stalyhridge. The
tpares of
the child were steeped in poverty, though Parrett,father,
had originally been a land steward in Ireland, and hod
received a tolerably good education. They had two children,
a girl of tour y ears old and the deceased. Theceived,
from want of proper nourishment, had been ill loseear a
fortnight, during which time repeated applications had been
made to the relieving officer of the dietrict of Dukenfield,
both by the father and mother, but without effect, and the
child died. During the greater part of deceased's illness its
parents were utterly destitute, having nt ither coal
nor candle, and had it not been fur the kindness
of the neighbours, themselves poor, the whole family
must have perished long ago. Something more than
mere occasional supplies of food and warmth was
required for the sick child ; proper medicine end the aid of
medical skill could alone avail, and these were not to be had
until the limit,' had been " visited" by the reli
and aeving-o appli-
fficer.
At length, the day before deceased's death, fter
cations, whose frequency and earnestness wore"
the
ed unhappyd
parents almost to the bone, the family was visit "an
an order givin for medical attendance. But these necessary
offices came too late, and the child died.—Mr. Hudson, the
coroner, when the case was reported to him, immediately
required the body of the deceased to be exhumed, and held
an inquest over it. To the particulars elicited at
this inquiry we are indebted for the melancholy facts.
It appeared from the evidence of the medical gentlemen, I
that the death of the deceased arose from disease, and that
disease might hive arisen from cold.—'ihe jury having been
left to themselves for about ten minutes, returned a verdict,
" That the de.leaaed died from a disease of the bowels, which
was accelerated bv cold." The inquiry, which excited the
greatest interest, lasted upwards ot six hours; at the close
the jury made a subscription for the family. On Monday
afternoon a special meeting of a case,commtte appointed by the
board of guardians to investigate the was held at Staly-
bridge, when a letter front Mr. Anderson, surgeon, was
read. The depositions as taken by the coroner at the in-
quest were afterwards read, and, after due deliberation, the
committee agreed to report
That, after a careful and impartial marl of the eeldence taken on
oath before the comfier, they hare wan to an unanimous opinion,
that the charge preferred airainst Mr. John Newton, " fur gross ne
glect and inhuman conduct in the ease of Noble Paget, a child of If
..1* of age," is fully borne out and substantiated, and that the said
Mr. Newton is, in the opinion of the committee, until to discharge the
duties of a relieving officer of the raid union.
ALLEGED EXTENSIVE Ell HEZ7,LEMENT BY ♦ COMMISSION
AGENT. —A reward has been offered this week, by public
hand-bill, for the apprehension of Mr. Thomas Smith, lately
carrying on business as a commission agent and cott
well
mer-
chant, in Strutt-street, Newmarket-buildings,
ton
known to the manufacturers of Lancashire. It would seem
that the accussed left Manchester at half-past eight o'clock
on the night of Friday the 4th instant; and up to Tuesday
evening had not been apprehended. The charge against Mr.
Smith is one of a very serious nature, iovoliing the [
estimated
embezzlement of a sum which has been variously estimated
at from 10,0001. to 16,0001. ; but with respect to which no
accurate information can be gleaned until the judicial inves-
tigation has taken place. The parties mentioned as being
the greatest loans by the defalcation are Mr. Alderman
Shuttleworth ; Mr. Bateson, Liverpool; and the firm of
Mears. W. O. and J. Strafe, cotton-thread manufacturers,
of Derby.
A SMOCKING CASE has occurred at llorwieh, where an
inquest was commenced on Wed
died nesday 00
th
neglee body
and of Alice e
Heaton, 55 years of age, who from ct, th
alleged ill-treatment of her husband. It appeared from the
evidence that
s, the decemuri ng ed
the had been co
ofnwfined to htimeer bed
was
fur
nearly three year d wholewhich she
without any one to take care of her, there being no family,
and her husband, John Heaton, refusing to employ • nurse
Sh e was left for several slays without meat, and f weeks
without being taken from her bed. On Tuesdayor last she
died. when some of the neighbours 41itexivered that
the flesh hod ulce-ated away in many places to the bone.
The body was allowed to remain all night in the chamber
without any light, and in the morning it wee discovered that
the rats had got into the room and had eaten away her under
lip and a part of her left cheek. These facts were detailed ill
•-,t had made a pest-merlon ex-