The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-06 00:00:00

from a mat ast inequality in the electoral distri--a---"1.,..44'
want of pettateiaa splint bribery and corruption by me,*
by ballot, sad the virtual destruction of the reopens al
the representatives to tie repainted by the
of the Septolual het; that, in the de:Pante convirlere
I your petitioners, economy in public txpendityre, sad
geaeral good government of the country, will aerie be 1,47:
saanontly euilidained without the be ore-ment mad moms
In oar representative gyre's; year petitioners therefore wee
year hon. holm to return to the budget of 1835 ;to is;,t.
such redactions of expenditure en m‘y not be required
the neursities of the state; to extend the suffrage to id*
males ; to equalise the electoral districts; to give the
the protection of the ballot, and shorten the duration di;
laments ; end your petitioners will ever pray.
. ,DIL-Celli AND SNUFF.—CUBTONS SEIZURL.-A
pmeel of enteral baskets of offterhe haring been beedbi*
one of the gnus adpining the Custom Hues fres"
steamer from Holland, the suspicions of the eallal of th
Menu. were excited teat the contents of the pub.m
not merely seed-cab, which is free of duty, cm n;;;;Z:
seigasatly di covered that a large quantity of snuff in a d
and coagulated state bad been introduced and iecorpotaZ
with the oil-eakee whisk was accordingly immediately tee_ •
and this mused it to be discovered that s much larger
had berm previously landed and removed from seethe
of the quays near London bridge of a similar character oe
the same day to its destination. The necessary pettkuha
having hems obtained with refersuce to the plate to with "
the cake was to be removed, the elan forthwith mew
to Stratford, to the premises of a gruier in that neighbour-.
hood, and attired in time to Intercept the discharge of tn,
vehie'es which bad brought the from the quay to rbe
premises. Some of the baskets been unladen and de-
posited en the premises and others were in course of meow,
and the deems proceeded on their information to name
them, with the contents of the whole m the ;tacker" re,
mug" in the Tans, when it was discovered that a 'Up
quantity of coagulated snuff in a sepatate layer •trat
introduced into the cake, amouating to cowmen*
mars than 1,000161. in weight, and an immedies mime was
mid, of the whole, with the vehicles which had been nada
available for their carriage, and removed at cam to itte -
Queen's warehouse. The of ant had been enabled le
arrest the whole of the parcel which had bees strepthit
removed during the day, which is due to the Vignam
prompMeas with which they acted in the affair. lush.
limed that a parcel of the same sort of compomiet len
imported some time sinew, which, in unser.. et as b.
geckos mode adopted of evading the vigileass ef %aft , •
of the revenue was not discovered s, the am it
stood that the firm superintending the impemethe krig
foreign 'house in Holland, oa account of tia party at
ha, "
ford who was to receive the commodity, es lug
parties ceacerned in the removal of the son=ziargre
from the quays to the premises, disclaim all Tri
participation in the affair further than their isiosvonnita
the ordinary way of blouse's. The matkr is send,, orm
sideratlon of the authorities, and has excited ounadentie
sensation at the water-side, sad the party who was to few.
the goods, and en whew premises a portion of there we
found, is liable for heavy penalties to the crown.

'DIME PERSONS BUPTOCATED BY CHARCOAL--
During the night of Tuesday three young women DIN
suffocated by, and one remains in • hopeless conditionings,
the effects of sleeping in a room where charcoal was lamc
int,. This startling essualty occurred at the Nu , K
Miss Caroline Mann, who keeps a boardinteched at Ha
2, London-road, St. John'cwood.—The name el Se
ceased parties are, Eliza Tidd, aged 21; Fanny Caste
egal
17; Elisabeth Griffiths, aged 16; 'the name of theft
sufferer, still living, being Annet Pale. It appeased
these young women had removed with Was Mina's att.
blishment to the house No. 2, London road, a few days ego,
and that one of them being taken ill, stoat boa to bar
friend., and returned to Mies Mann's n•ablishmeatcaTue.
day. She appeared very ill, and went to lie down la a
bite attached to the house in front, on the bed yea* fp. •
copied by the page. She seemed worse towards
and the fact coming to the knowledge of Mies
told one of the other rervants that she thoughtless:them had better remain with their sick comrades
the night. Mies Mann at the lame time ennead
fears that the place might be damp ; and theta bin se'
chimney or fireplace in the apartment, she reesmemaded
that a patent stove which consumed prepared sheressi,
and which was usually employed in warming the hall of the
house, should be removed to the place in question in order to
air it. This was done, and it is supposed that the whole of
the four parties above mentioned agreed to sleep in the plate
together on Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, nei-
ther of the servants making their appearance, some alarm
was created, and on Mrs. Wilson, the housekeeper, opening
the doer of the apartment, she beheld three of the meg
women lying I.: one bed, whilst the fourth lay in a small bell
which had been made up in another corner of the apartment.
The survivor, Annet Prike, lay between 'fidd sad Carter,
and whilst thy, as well as the poor girl Griffiths, appeared
quite lifeless Prike was still alive, but appeared in the last
agonies of death. The hair of the deceased females was
dishevelled, their arms extended and they had the appear.
Imes of having struggled violently. Mrs. Wilson sLeosd
the family, and all the inmates, and Mr. Crain, a sargem,
promptly attended. He at once pronounced, with regard to
Tidd, Carter, and Griffith', life to be extinct, end exprasei
his opinion that there was little hope of the recovery of the
fourth sufferer, Prike. He resorted to bleeding and other
remedies, and had her removed to another apartment, where
symptoms of returning animation after some hours begin to
manifest themselves. The bodies of the °tint suffiren pre-
wonted the appearance of having died from comrades apo-
plexy, predneed, in the opinion of the medical pentium,
from the fumes of &aroma. Peke was not, up to last aim-
ing, sufficiently advanced towards oonvaleeeence to permitot
any questions being put to her. Information has banter-
warded to the coroner, who has directed Mr. Crellin to make
a post osortent examination of one of the bodies, in order te
ascertain positively whether the deaths have arisen from a& •
location or not._

INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—DEATII FROM SCALDING.
—Before G. Payne, B-g ,at Guys Hospital, as to the do
of Margaret S'ephene, aged 3. Deceased was one of eaves
children left by the mother at home on the 13th ult, k
the care of an elder sister, aged 13. Deceased lay ea
the rug before the fire, with a baby on her hp,
and the eldest child having removed a saucepan of
boiling milk to the hob, it fell, and so severely
scalded deceased, without injuring the infant in her
arms, that, after lingering upwards of three weeks, it died is
the hospital on Wednesday afternoon. The mother stated
that her deceased child was under the care of Mr. Mitchell,
the parochial enigma of St. Mary's, Lambeth, from the tins
it was melded to the day of its removal to the hospital ; that
be only gelled three times ; that on the first and second m-
eadow he did not see the child k that on the third, as she
was then dressing it, he looked at it, and said it was doing
very well; this was OD Monday week ; that since that time
she had not seen him, but his assistant bad been ones
(Saturday last), and after waiting in vain until Wednesday
morning she was persuaded to bring her child to the
hospital She did not think it had received proper attention
from the parochial doctor. Mr. Hobert Grows., the dresser
at the hospital, deposed to the death of the child from the
scalding, and did not think it probable it would have sur-
vived if Mr. Mitchell had seen it every day. The Coroner
said he would send for Mr. Mitchell and his assistant if the
jury thought it desirable. The foreman said that would Its
an inconveniesoe, as they were agreed in the verdicts'
accidental death, although sores of them wished to append
censure upon Mr. Mitchell. The Coroner raid he was lathe
habit, under net circumstances, of advising that the patty
whom it is propord to censure be sent fer and heard by*,
jury. But the jury agreed upon the " inconvenience" ti
further delay and upon the simple findiog of "Accidental
Death."