The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-16 00:00:00

to be lost sight of by a governing wer, even for the
sake of reforming the guilty. Neither could it be hoped
that any sort or system of ,narks for good conduct
could suffice to keep in the path of duty the criminals
who had been sentenced by our courts. Captain
MACONOCHIE would govern his convict establishment
by hope. Practical men insist on mingling with it
the salutary ingredient of fear.
The system of marks is, however, to be largely
adopted, especially in the meting of indus-
trial exertion. In order to this, the work
of convict establishments is to be task-work,
the amount of which for a definite period is to
be calculated in marks, so that the active may,
in a certain degree, accelerate the completion of their
task, and accumulate those claims, which, coupled
with good conduct in other respects, may accelerate
their advance and final liberation.
The convicts on Norfolk Island are instantly to Le
withdrawn to Tasman 's Peninsula.

Tnit Town Council of Liverpool have recently, de-
termined o appoint a medical officer of health, whose
especial duty it will be to watch over and improve
the sanitary condition of the town. A local act,
passed last session, gives powers to the corporation to
make this appointment. This is the first case on
record
of a professional man being entrusted with the
charge of suggesting and supervising civic improve-
ments, and contrasts strangely with the class of men
appointed as officers of health by corporate bodies in
ancient and modern times. In the middle ages, when
the black death and sweating sickness cut off one-
fourth part of the entire population of Europe, and
one-half of the inhabitants of• many towns in
England, we find civic authorities establishing
the first health officers and sanitory regulations.
But the regulations simply consisted in rearing a red
croon with a pious inscription on the infected houses,
and forcing the inmates still unattacked by disease to
carry a white rod " at least two foot long ;" whilst the
public officers of health were merely commanded to
enforce these regulations, and to prevent the entrance
into the town of wandering mendicants and the red
cross ascetics. The main causes which gave
malignancy to the disease were never removed; eater-
nally to the houses there was no attention to cleanli-
ness ; internally, ERASMXS LAS us that the floors were
usually covered with successive layers of rushes which
I were never removed, and were impregnated with offal
and garbage. It was at this time, with the view of
improving the state of medical science, that HENRI'
THE EIGHTH, acting under the advice of Cardinal
Wotsev, founded the college of physicians, and
passed the general act, under which sewerage
is still executed (23 Henry VIII., c. 3). This
act addresses commissions "to indifferent and sub-
stantial persons" and to restrain " outrageous springs
aid land waters," and to remedy other points is
sewerage which were found defective. The simul-1
taneous improvement of medical education, of town I
drainage, and, as its natural consequence, of the in-
ternal arrangement of dwellings, caused the complete
eradication of that dreadful disease, the sweating
sickness, which the physicians of the middle ages
were wont to consider essentially, connected with the
climate of England, as do indeed some few even now
allege of its successors, the typhoid fevers.
The nation had been so accustomed to the heavy
mortality arising from its successive plagues, that,
after their disappearance in their most malignant
form, it sunk into a sluggish apathy. So much has
this been the case, that, notwithstanding the advance
of engineering science, there is actually at present no
more efficient act for cleansing and draining a town,
than that of Henry VIII. alluded to, unless we ex-
cept a few modifications contained in 3 and 4 Wm.
IV., c. 22, and some slight alterations in local acts,
none of which have been decided improvements on
the old measure.
Liverpool has had the unfortunate pre-eminence of
being the most unhealthy town in England ; her
mortality being much greater, and her artisans hav-
ing a lower age at death than in any other part of the
kingdom. These circumstances have acted upon the
people of Liverpool in the same way as they did upon
the nation in 1318, and have induced them to call in
the aid of medical knowledge to assist them in elevat-
ing their sanitory condition. A few years since the
inhabitants of Liverpool were jealous in the extreme
of the character of their town, and endeavoured
rather to conceal than to remedy its defects ; but now
we find theta assuming the far more dignified attitude
of exalting their position. Their first steps in this
direction were by no means happy. It is not above
five years since they obtained an act, perhaps the
most arbitrary and impracticable that ever passed a
British parliament, granting a power, on a certain
fixed day, of turning out above 20,000 poor tenants of
cellars from their habitations, without being compelled
to furnish new dwellings for this ejected population.
Of course such an act was found, to a great
extent, inoperative, and, being clogged with other
provisions scarcely better conceived, we again find I
Liverpool, last session, amending its health acts.
To prevent the recurrence of ary such ill-
considered provisions as were contained in the
first act, powers were demanded and granted to
appoint a well-qualified medical officer, whose duty
would be to aid the council in the execution of its
measures, and consider their effect upon public
health.
This is a vast improvement upon the class of ill-
paid and worse qualified officers, known as inspectors
of nuisances, who are at present the only representa-
tives of health officers in our towns, and who are far
more versed in removing visible obstructions in
streets than in causing the eradication of those con-
cealed causes of disease which depopulate our cities.
We, therefore, look upon this intended appointment
of a medical officer of health by the Liverpool cor-
poration with peculiar pleasure, and trust that the
success of this enlightened measure will be such as to
induce the legislature to extend the provision to
every large town. There are few persons who now '
deny the connexion between filth and disease, and,
with adequate remedial measures and intelligent
supervision of their execution, such as here indicated,
we may fully expect that many of the epidemics now
so prevalent in this country may become known to
us only by history, as in the case of the epidemics of
the middle ages. We trust that other large towns will
follow the example of Liverpool by appointing special
medical guardians of public health. We should not
forget that the apprehension of a speedy return of
the cholera has not yet passed from medical men,
and, though we may be powerless to prevent the
approach of this dread enemy, yet we know that the
power rests in our hands of rendering it almost in-
nocuous. We look with anxiety to the appointment
of the Liverpool corporation. Upon its success de-
pends the rapid adoption of its example. For the
attainment of success, it will not suffice to procure a
fit and qualified officer, but he must also be placed in
a proper and not too subordinate position, being re-
sponsible to the council for his acts, but not being
fettered by formalities from a due execution of his
duty. His duties will be invidious, and, in many
cases, unpopular, from their supposed inquisitorial
character, but, if well supported by the corporation
and by public opinion, he will be eminently useful in
extirpating those causes of disease which have so
much diminished the value of life in Liverpool from
the commencement of the eighteenth century up to
the present time.

ABOUT this time, according to the MOORES and
ZADKIELS of county meetings, ruin to the agricultu-
rist should be looked for. What do we find in the
reports of the farming societies and agricultural asso-
ciations ? The sullen, silent despair of the Turkish
fatalist, when the plague enters his house, or the
noisy defiance of the sailor, who breaks into the spirit
room when the ship strikes, and drowns drank ?
We are glad to say that the country papers describe
neither one nor the other of these ways of meeting
destruction. If the agricultural interest is expiring,
" nothing in its life becomes it like the leaving on't."
It never, since we have noticed its general behaviour,
thought so rationally, talked so sensibly, or worked so
usefully, as at present. Comparing its cheerful anticipa-
tions, its ready recognition of past mistakes, its dawn-
ing perception of responsibilities hitherto ignored ; its
cordial welcome of scientific improvements ; its mis-
givings as to the mutual relation hitherto subsisting
between prize pig and peasant, with the savage impu-
tation and silly bravado of last year, we are either
tempted to think these fruits of corn-law abolition
premature, or to anticipate from the same cause future
effects which we dare hardly trust ourselves to dream
of. Much absurdity has been vented on the subject of
these agricultural associations, with their extrava-
gant appreciation of fat stock, and their paltry
rewards to lean latourers. There can be no
question, among persons acquainted with the

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poofltihcee.secTutizdanesm;*o..,.;
to them very evidence that they had sought to be bought cg,
ealculat 0116 they have deduced coneequences,
reanimating itself ;the was far from conclusive. The whole eff •
advantageous. The Carlist party is eir e„
make their calculations respecting the future ; and from these eecution, and an attempt to discredit the wita----exses
h feeblestsigee oflife, is sod- dog-hole of a cell, and leaving him and his companieng
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corpse, incapable of maniiestitigt e
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youth ;and ventures to augurtriumphwith
'us
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Carlist party, considered by some superficial obeervers as a mere ugly look. The lockiag up
of Pardia" and the retreat from Oran..
fuund itself in bitted with the readiness ot the policeman to l •
ock up*,
t le to re- severely wounded man upon their ex parts statement
such a state of decomposition that it
than during the fir t days which succeeded twhehoca
the case look still wot:
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they themselves in the evidence against the prieoneni, but this ss."
selves explain this miraculous resurrection ;may (edit
site
hofadthoisnpecartbye
he would not have tion (the witnesses were Spaniards and Ind* )
France and Spain with his own had,MEN to at
favourableto his inexperieneed reporter. The charge of the judge 'nee=
sou
say, that if Montemolin could have directed the policy of to the embarrassment of ignorant men, to imperfect triad,
gcolignvaisneiziedt fothrewch°arPt enwh?e.nTihee. them.
succeeded in directing it in • manner so
and
impreisive ;
interests as those who are actually directing it. The treaty
of the Quadruple Alliance—that treaty which.
imposed an perfectly correct ; but tholentiefectory termination me
s as been jury's deliberations, and the very unfavourable lightof
-
insuperable barrier to all the ass flutist
pretensions—has
by the upon the state of the police, call loudly for further•
definitively broken by the disagreements e
cc
hl inquiry.
Yontpensier marriage between France and England ; w st,
- - -
st the Lime time, the latter is perhaps preparing to
strengthen the alliances of the North, which are hostile to
all the reigning dynasties in the south of Europe, and to
keep Louis Philippe, and the other monarchs over whom
that sovereign exercises his influence, in continual check.
Impotent in her state of isolation, France remains con-
demned to a shameful state of inaction, condemned to en-
dure humiliations without the power of righting herself ;
condemned to swallow affronts without force to avenge
them ; condemned to behold lying on the around the gaunt-
let so insolently flung down to her by the Holy Alliance
without daring to take it up. In order to prove the estima-
tion in which they hold her, the great Powers incorporate
Cracow with Austen; and if" she does not accept the chal-
lenge involved in this infraction of the treaty of Vienna, let
her prepare for fresh insults, from which it is certain that the
great powers of the north will not refrain. If the Napoleon
of war were to rise from his tomb and see the state to which
France has been reduced by the Napoleon of peace, he would
inquire," Where is Femme?—where is that nation which re-
sisted all the coalitions formed against her by Europe com-
bined ?" He would ask, " Where is that nation—an army it it
self—that at the first sound of the trumpet made every man a
soldier ?" Unfortunately, all that now passes before our eyes
is no more than a mere prelude to that which may ensue ;
it is the brightness of the beaming lightning and the re-echo
of the distant thunder which announces the tempest that is
gathering in the north of Europe, and gradually approaching
to burst on the south, where its devastating ravages and
its dismal convulsions will be felt. And, however terrible
may be the fate of certain dynasties, they may resign them-
selves to it, and consider it as only a righteous expiation.
They may learn, although too late, that he who owes every--
thing to the people may not play the people false ; and
that it is impossible for him to maintain his ground
for any length of time, except by the same prieci-
plea as those which were limited for the purpose of
securing his elevation. An hour must arrive when those
who have taken so much pains to stifle public enthusiasm,—
in which those who have dried up almost all hearts, by in-
trilling into them the narcotic poison of political indiffer-
ence, will draw back with horror before their own work,
and seek in vain amongst the people fur the patriotic
ardour of other days. They will only encounter selfish-
ness ; they will only finalthe deadly results of that
venom inoculated with all the members and penetrating the
very marrow of the body politic. What will it he when the
people, who have la en chastised for their love of liberty,
shall hear the cry of liberty raised by the very individuals
that considered it as a crime, and the people shall not reply ?
But oo! we hope at all events that the sacred wordier(
" liberty " and ' coutery " will find some eche in the
generous hearts that formerly palpitated for such dear ob-
Ijeets' and that the rattling of the chains, which, it is in-
tended to unite those that arc already borne, will
rouse the people from their lethargic slumbers to dis-
pute the victory on which Absolution, confidently trust-
ing to the general apathy, has presumed to rely. We cherish
hopes, at all events, that constitutional Europe will not sue-
comb to the yoke which she is being prepared for her, if she
be liberated from that which she already bears, if those who
are at the head of the constitutional nations of Europe strive
to re-animate the public spirit, be- handling other instru-
ments, surrounding themselves with more popular advisers,
and banishing from their sphere of action all liberticide in-
fluences.
The defiance of the 11 sly Alliance is not only
offered to liberty, but also to dynasties. The Absolutists''
deny it mot ; they deem themselves too strong to think it
worth their while.
PRICE OF CORN.—The Rcfforrne announces a rise in
the price of wheat in the corn-markets of Lille, Havre,
Montvilliers, Louviene St. Poureain, Bergues, Luneville,
Coulourmiers, and Ferte Gaucher ; and a fall iu the markets
of Poutrieux, Montlueon, and Colmar. The markets of
Neves and St. Male remained without variation. The
Courrier de Marseilles re ate that there are at present 400
waggons and 1,600 horses employed daily in conveying
wheat from Marseilles to Lyons. The Journal d's Debats
publishes a letter from Marseilles, dated the 7th inst., which
states that the 400 vessels which had been so long detained
at Constantinople by contrary winds had at length been able
to get into the, Black Sea, and proceed to their destina-
tion with favourable weather. The major part of them were
destined fair Odessa, to take in wheat for ghorn, Genoa,
and Marseilles. The Nati.nal states " that the different
journals received from the departments are filled with afflict.
tng details relative to the existing distress occasioned by the
high price of provisions. In some places the population,
exasperated by the high price of corn, have assembled in the
market-places, and fixed the price at which wheat should lie
sold. In other districts bands of mendicants compel the
farmers to supply them with bread. Elsewhere malefactors
attack the millers and corn-factors, and indulge in the most
criminal excesses. The distress must indeed be great when
the populace proceed to such unlawful extremities."
GERMANY.—VIENNA, DEC. 6.—The Austrian
ambassador at Rome is, it is said, appointed to persuade the
Jesuits to withdraw voluntarily from Switzerland, as other-
wise civil war was inevitable. The Cologne Gazette of the
12th mentions that there was a rumour on the Vienna
bourse that Queen Isabella would be Shortly recognised by
Austria. This recognition by the three powers—for it is not
likely that Austria wou:d act without Prussia and Russia—
would he a fatal blow to the sCarlists. Letters from Vienna
do not speak of the illness of Prince Metternich. The bourse
is firm.
We read in Austrian Lloyd's Gazette :—The naviga-
I Zion at Odessa shows great activity. Unhappily, that of the
sea of Azoff is interrupted. The Don is covered with floating
ice. Letters from Leghorn of the 2.5 th ult. state that corn
transactions were very brisk there. At Venice, Milan,
Fiume, and Carlstadt, a considerable fall of price had taken
place. Great quantities of wheat and barley had arrived at
Trieste. The government of Lucca had suppressed from the
Ist December the import duty on corn, but had increased
the duty on the exportation price 11 lira. The 400 vessels
which were detained in the Bosphorus by contrary winds
have been enabled to leave for their respective destinations.
GIiEECE.—ATIIESS, Nov. 30.—The opening of
I the third session of the national Congreas seems to prove that,
notwithstanding the illness of MI. Coletti, the ministry will
' not only be powerful enough to withstand its opponents in
the Chambers, but that it will retain a majority. It is true
that the Opposition has succeeded in returning one of its can-
didates, M. Anastasius Landos, as vice-president in the
,elute; but this fault is rather to be attributed to the minis
terial party itself than to the power of its adversaries. The
government has succeeded in returning all its candidates in
the Chamber of Deputies. The Opposition candidate for the
presidency, M. Vlachos, only obtained 22 votes out of 85.
For the last fortnight the health of M. Coletti is gradually
improving, arid for the moment the project of provisionally
completing the ministry has been abandoned; the
different motions have been adjourned, out of deference to
the head of the cabinet, who, it is hoped, will soon be able
to resume his place at the head of the government. M.
Coletti already receives visitors. The King visited him on
the 29th, and remained half an hour at his bed-side, and ex-
pressed his hope to see him soon entirely restored to health.
He informed him, at the same time, that the King of
Bavaria had sent him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.
His Majesty expressed on his departure, to the family of M.
Coletti, the anxiety he had felt, and hie joy at the recovery
of a man so highly esteemed in Greece.—liis Royal High-
ness Prince Oscar of Sweden had arrived at Athens, and in
tended making some stay. Frince Luitpeld of Bavaria was
also expected on his return from Palestine, to visit his
brother, the King.

Ebt eroutt

The Queen will hold a Privy Council at Windice
Castle on Saturday neat, the 19th Instant, at half-rag tw,
o'clock in the afternoon.
Her Majesty and ber Royal Consort took thir
usual early walk yesterday.
Her Majesty and suite will leave Osborne Ifoft
on Friday morning, at ten o'clock, for town.
The Duke of Cambridge visited IL 1111. ths
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.

The Earl of Devon had an interview with the Cha
oellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official remdeace ie
Downing street.
The Bishop of Newfoundland had an interview
with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Sir J. Pelly had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Strutt had alto an Wu.
view with the right hon. gentleman yesterday.

(From bat night's Gazette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 10.—The Queen bat at.
pointed Lord Howard de Walden and Seaforl, G.C.B.aaw
her Majesty's Envoy Extraonlinary and Minker Plea*.
tentiary to her Most Faithful Miijesty, to he her Majesty%
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the
King of the Belgians ; and Sir G.ll. Seymour, G.C. H., now hie
Majesty!' Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoteenin
to the King of the Belgians, to be her Majesty's E..voy
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to her Most ha,
ful Majesty. Also, to upp Out It. Alcock, Esq., es, hi,
Majesty's Consul at Fon chow-too, to lie her Majesty's cot.
sul at Shanghai; R. B. Jackson, Esq.. now British vies
Consul at Canton, to be her Majesty's Consul at Foo-choe.
Coo; and T. H. Layton, Esq., now acting as her Myers
Consul at Amoy, to be her Majesty's Consul at that post
DEC. 14.—The Queen has approved of Mr. F. C.
Dickson, as Consul in London, and of Mr. W. hekm,
Consul at Liverpool, for the republic of Chili.
1)./WNING-STREET, I)EC. 15.—The Queen lug tit.
pointed G. G. Lowenfeld, Karl., to be Financial AccotuMat
for the colony of British Guiana.
TILE ATIIOL FAMILY.—Thete is a notification is
last night's Gazette that the Queen has been pleased to gesx
to the brothers and sisters of the Duke of Athol dualist
titles, place, pre-eminence, and precedence, as would lum
been due to them in case their late father, who died 011 ty
14th September last, had survived their elder brother da
present duke. This order and declaration to be register,'
in the Royal College of Arms.
COMMISSION BY TILE QUEEN.—E. Dwen, Gent., to
be Adjutant, with the brevet rank of Captain, vice Gilder of
Montgomeryshire Militia.

POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY.
A meeting of the parishioners of Marvlebone as
held last night at the Princess's Concert Room, 01lude
market, on the requi:ition of the Poor Ilan's Gaudin
Society, for the purpose of investigating the cause of the
death of Louisa Mordaunt, &c.
Mr. B. B. CARRELL, M.P., having been called to the ebsir,
the Secretory, Mr. Turner, read the resolution of the society,
determining to convene the present meeting, and attias
forth the objects thereof. He stated that a copy of that re-
solution had been transmittal to the vestry clerk of Mulls
bone, who hod, in reply, merely acknowledged the receiptd
it. He also intimated that letters of apology had been ea
ceived from their represen ativeo, Sir B. Hall, who newt •
himself on account of having to attend the funeral of the
late Sir C. Morgan—and Sir C. Napier, who dcdiaed
attend, because he did not think that a public meeting ea
the proper place for investigating the facts referred to. sod
because such a course was within the province of the rem,
who were chosen by the rate-payers, and who had the
power, and ought to punish the board of guardian, if
punishment they deserved. (Hisses.)
The CHAIRMAN said that every man had of coarse' risk
to adopt his own course, subject to the control of path
opinion. (Hear, hear.) He quite agreed with the past
commodore that the vestry ought to punish the bonds( •
guardians, and he honed they would ; but whether they fal
or not, he thought that an expression of opinion no the we
of that meeting would be likely to accelerate their denim
upon the subject, and lead to a recosrnifon of the rights sad
privileges of the poor. (Hear, hear.) But he did Rot agree
with the gallant officer that the matter was not one with
which the public ought to meddle. No. he hoped that**
public, by interfering in such matters, aided, guided, sad
controlled by the press, would evetituaily bring shout &total
repeal of the present poor law, which was a disgrace to the
legislature that paned it, and to those successive admits.
trations that had suffered it to continue. (Cheers.) If Et
thing could hasten the removal of that odious and tyrants'
law, it wan such meetings as the present, and remand k
ought to be, for it was a monstrous thing that the porskosli
be allowed to starve in the midst of plenty. (Hear, km)
Mr. C. COCHRANE then brought forward all the het et
the case of Louisa Mordauot, collected from the Daffy NAM
and other papers, leaving it to the meeting to decide whehr
the jury had or had not given a proper verdict in decluti
that their fellow-pariahiouer had died from starratica, a
consequence of timely relief not having been gin by
the parochial authorities. For him part, he could not thee
wise than regard it as the conscientious verdict of twelve ire
dependent, honest, and unbiassed men. (Hear.) Rees
brought forward a charge against those authorities of re
uncleanliness in the wsrkhouse, instancing, Intoned that
facts, that there were but two jack-towels of 2 yards Pig IP
le yard wide, amongst 200 persons, and these only chalet
twice a week; that none of those persons had had thir
bodies washed since their entrance, although msny of him
had been there from two to five years : and that ways(
them had not had their feet washed Mr five months. (Math
disapprobation.) He made this charge from hi• owe per-
sonal inspection of the establ shment. He concluded by
moving :
That having carefully considered the verdict of the jury ask
inquest of Louisa fordannt —toe remarks appendel thereto Magog
the general treatment received by her from tie parochial weenie
during her sickness awl distress, and having well weighed the saki.
quest evidence given awl observations made by the board ,
guardaoa
of Mill ylebone workhouse, this meeting is of ophlion that tae rermii
of the jury was a just and conscientious one. That the said Louisa ilws
daunt did die from starvation ; and that sach treatment of tae pants
a disgrace to a Christian country and opposed to the carom rsait do•
fates of humanity.
Mr. Hoonixs seconded the resolution in a forciblespetk
and declared, as a barrister knowing something of DOA
juries, that the board of guardians had not the lea:apaches.
tion for insinuating that because the coroner drew up the
verdict, it was sot the unbiassed and constitution pod
of the jury, who were sworn to decide according tots
evidence. He objected to the system, which in the opinion
of that jury had caused the death of one of their parishioaots
end under which they saw an many others in the tants)
sinking from want of food. He was anxious to see pore!,
treated as a calamity, and not as a crime; and the rightly
the poor, as well as the property of the rich, fall, Po'
tected. (Applause.)
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
The Rev. Mr. STODEIART condemned in still strocterkla
guage the whole system of the poor-law, which he said an
based, and openly avowed at the time of its passing. urs
niggard economy, by which the workhouses might be Pi
so disagreeable, that a less number of poor would 'MI !it
relief than under the former system. He was of opts'
that where relief was much needed, it should not be nest'
Pry for the party to belong to the parish ; that the bra
test should be applied only to the vicious and the prefliti*.
and that out-door relief should not be withheld undercoats
circumstances. He had great pleasure in moving—
That taking into consideration the inhuman, repulsive and .]told'_
he disclosures which have startled and horrified toe country rs,
nue to the New Poor-law and its administration. the prinfiltit:
which are a violation of the rights of the poor, -arcopprded toll=
tat rests of the nation, and ate repugnant to the feeling: and
woos
of all civilised communities, this meeting is of opinion that
sive a poor-law tends to grind the faces of the pour, incrtilM
miseries, and embitter their sufferings, and to brutalise the
character and deaden is. generous seminally And that WI psi'
law is a foul blot on the statute book of British l gishuiva
Mr. Willis having seconded the resolution, it was caddy
agreed to, an was also the following :
That in consequence of the declarations embolic.] in the tax.
I".'
re;
reeling resolutions, this meeting is of opinion that the ;wiest
means of protecting the po w against the cruelty and om"i"t
evinced towards them by bawds of gu.utitims, and to ensure thrall
the hoar of adversity that amount of relief and respavt to whiff' fr.;
are legally entitled, is the existence of a Alamiebane Auxiliary =
Man's tiotardian Society; and that the scone be now formed;
meeting further pledges itself to promote and strengthen by irstnerr
hon., and by every other means in its power.
The committee was named, and the meeting broke up.

THE PARISH OP ST. PINCIPot AND Tilt Pte'
LAW COMMISSIONER/J.—Yesterday an unusually magma
meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of
Pancras took p)jce in the board-room of the workhouse, ".
the purpose of considering a mandate from the l'oordals
Commissioners issuing rules and orders for the Mara
management of the poor, and assuming absolute roomiest,:
the parish. Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff was in the ehair..a.
The official mandate having been read, Mr. '
Pougla"—",_
this was certainly a declaration on the part of the loas-ttle
Commissioners, that they intended in reality to bring 0.
Pancras under their control, but he questioned whether the!
had the power to do so now, any more than they had
they called upon the parish many years ago to elaws guar:,
diens, and when they were suemasfully resisted as*
beaten. He, for one, was prepared to meet this wandate
with a resistance as determined as it was on that occasielb
and with that view he would move that the wbois
matter be referred to the vestry. Several directors sP4e,
and a general feeling of determined resistance having Wel
declared, the resolution was carried rem eon., and the beard
adjourned.
HAKLUYT SOCIETY.—A moctin; of gel:ideal°
interested in the publication of early v.iyagea sui to*

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