The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

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game peewee's. The ails weal manse too iamb
the c.baeacter of a businesaussthigovhsen tiie pre-
judieas of the one elms efattialnate sloshed direetA?
and harshly with the intimmists' of the other.. 1110
think the landowners have dais
these small local maelstrom drop, ,
serve no wild prima. W4a. lee
can be the value of wish a meeting as
that of " Stow-on-the-Wald,* where, it bi re-
ported, Mr. Robert Benin ofAired arlsl. prise for,
the " best crop of Ifiraii turnips." and took is
self ? Row c it edrance weicultitre, that Lori
RIDE/MALE should win "a prize of 11. for a Durham
bull," or that Lady cocitratra. "took three prises of
31. each, for a breeding 0611,T0r the six best pigs in a
litter, and for the best mars and foal ;". or that " Lord
NORTHWICK gained the fleet premium of 31. for the
beet specimen of cheese, made in his own dairy?'
There are only two kinds of agricultural acetones
which are of any 'real use ; the one being live-stock
shims, and the other kcal clubs, wherein farmers,
real farmers, meet and disease their social and econo-
mieal grievances. The first kind of society must
embrace a wide field, and will be mainly supported
by the professional breeders of stock. And, after all,
the fair, the market, and the breeders' annual sales
afford the beet teats and the real businese-like exhibi-
tions of such things. A farmers' club, if well con-
ducted, may be the means of creating a sort of public
opinion amongst farmers of the particular district,
and of inclining them to demand the abrogation of
some of the landlord-created burdens of which they
now so justly complain.

WE have often called attention to the present
regulations of the poor law commission, compel-
ling poor persons to obtain an order from an over-
seer or relieving officer before they can get medical
relief. In the beginning of the year we alluded to•
the case of a child in the Halstead union, whose life
was sacrificed because the relieving officer thought
proper to refuse an order for medical relief ; and in
eye paper of Wednesday will be found a report of a
sealem's Inquest on a poor man, whose death was
odoubtedly attributable to the want of medical as-
&linos from the difficulty of procuring an order.
This man was taken ill on Friday evening, and on
Saturday, getting much worse, his wife applies to the
medical officer of the parish : he refuses to
attend without an order. She then repairs to the
workhouse, where she is told she can get an order.
On arriving here, she is informed that she is too late,
and must come again on Monday morning. Thus
frustrated, she goes home, hoping that her husband
may get better. Bat he has a disease that will not
mut for union medical attendants or relieving officers,
and when Monday morning comes, and he is carried
to an hospital, he is found to be in a state beyond the
reach of medical aid. Now, with regard to the refu-
sal to give an order at the workhouse, we are dis-
posed to hope that there might be some mistake ; at
the same time we know that much unnecessary pain
has been inflicted, and (as in the Halstead case) death
produced, by the renal of relieving officers to grant
orders, either because they do not know persons, or
that they are not regular paupers. It appears to
us, that medical relief is one of those benefits that the
poor law might very properly and justly bestow in
many cases where no other relief was considered
It is, against the system of orders for
medical relief at all that we protest. If this poor
woman had not gone to Mr. HUTCHINSON, in forma
pan •, he would have attended to her husband im- I
lately; but she solicits his attendance as a pauper,
and, upon the chance of her not being able to get au
order, he refuses to attend. If he had been left le
himself—if he had not been warned by the board of
guardians that they would pay for no oases that be
attended without an order—he would not have dared
to refuse to attend. The poor would, in fact, stand
a better chance of medical attendance, if they said
nothing shoat their pauperism, but boldly sought for
relief from the first medical man they could get. We
Ido not advise such a course. There are few classes
of men in society who are so willing to perform
gratuitous services as medical men, and their
bene-
volence ought not to be imposed upon. There is
scarcely a parish in London that is paying anything
like an adequate sum for medical attendance on the
poor, as the greater part of the paupers are attended
by surgeons and physicians who give their services
gratuitously at the various hospitals and dispensaries.
Under these circumstances, then, we think that there
can be little doubt that the most humane plan would
be to give to the medical officer the power of at-
tending immediately all persons applying for relief as
paupers. He could return their names to the reliev-
ing officer afterwards, and all prolonged attempts at
imposition would thus be prevented. As the rule
stands now, a medical man may make the want of as
order an excuse for not attending upon pm.= whisa
he knows to be very ill and to be el led to pa ha re*
lief; or if it should be a ease of gust friagally, sad
ass requiring an optediss ye sow imisisent Act
width he gets paid MN. ad hi Is Mold through
humanity to attend the, his lbw are refused to
be paid,because he without an order.
Disgraceful as such embed must be felt to be,
it has not been an uncommon occurrence at the
boards of guardians of poor-law unions in various
parts of this country.
Whilst directing attention to this necessary
alteration in the administration of our poor law,
we are glad to know that steps are being taken for
raising the salaries of the officers of poor-law unions.
Nothing could be moie-iirodactive of neglect and in-
eft attendance than the miserable pittance which
=rod out to these gentlemen. We feel con-
with better payment, and the abolition of the
mime of " orders," that there would be seldom bay,
ramity for juries to be assembled over arse et
arigio; and verdicts to record the " want of atten-
tion-in ifte part of the medical man "to whose are
the sick poor are intrusted.

The ap • tment of the Duke d'Anmale to the
~nsrnarubipof Algeria, the nomination of Marshal
t to the honorary rank of marshal general of
France, the reform agitation by which the depart-
ments are excited, and eulogies of the late M. Co.
letti, prime minister of Greece, are the
topics of the Paris journals of Thursday. 7CleEstili::
and ryafamily left St. Cloud on Wednesday for La
Fora Vidame. The King and Queen of the Belgians
are expected at St. Cloud on Tuesday next.

We have received letters and journals from various
parts of Italy.
The Nouselliste, of Marseilles, gives the follow-
peeenage ofdrlke salved from Tuscany by
the We pile, lar ees WW kite Ike fellawing news,
of Ada he irtrabeheet the maiallek. Prom
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eitiaitat ea the *eke of We mem, to the poet It
6711h0t the bar la tit sellera guardas
thi=thsells_ Who minima of the
to the ChealDehe dot ho
Isr vbikabadata attalett atmelem gra
who elaaleampal the of the time and the whim of
an wake re*. Mee Duke, who is animist the
sat Med tataistaata, ad who already had the
41160 elf *atm mat ealy voleived with team the them,
Mira of Pekoes Clorehtf. bat &aged M. Seerfelett. ea* of
the rise miseat mum la Tammy, to remelt to hies a mew
ester rephidoes, based moot broadest principles. M. tier-
Meet hie sweated with Idiaself is this important week the
Marquis Como Aided, gram" to the young hereditary
prince, and M. Gino Caws.
The Feticide of Roma announces that Pint, in
Calabria, has joined in the revolt, and that the in-
surgeMa have put to death the family of Trento,
Caren]. The banner of the insurgents of Calabria
bears a red cross on a white ground, surrounded by
as many green crosses as there are states in Italy.
A letter from Italy in the Augsburg Gazette an-
nounces the death of Admiral Sandier, the father of
the two unfortunate officers who were executed at
Cosenza.

MADRID, Sew. 25.
However thickly curtained from profane eyes the
ministerial conclave, and however ambiguous the
oracles which issue from its Correo, it is not difficult
to recognise two sources of conflict which probably
agitate that body, and keep the mouth of its Gazette
closed, or uttering only decrees of infinitesimal im-
portance. One is a difference of opinion with respect
to the principles proposed to be embodied in its edicts,
and the other a difference of opinion with regard to
the expediency of legislating upon subjects of import-
ance without the cooperation of the Cortes. Corte=
and doyen* are said to entertain scruples upon the
latter head ; while the Ministers of War,Finanee, and
the Interior, are divided upon the principles of the