The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

DETENTION OP THE FamilESS TRAIN ON THE I
NORTH WHITRAH RAILWAT.—The express train from
Liverpool, which usually arrives at the Easton-station of the
North Wi stern Railway, at 11 o'elosk, p.m., did not arrive
till half-past 12 a.m., being 'mellow sad a half behind its
time. Ihe cause of the delay we understood was the break-
ing down of the engine at Coventry, slid the necesity of
sealing back to Birmingham for anothesengine.
CAUTION TO JURORS.—At an inquest held yester-
day by Mr. Carter, the coroner for Stymy, the court was
de eyed for a considerable time by the absence of a gentleman
who had been summoned on the inquest. The serving of the
summons having been proved Gn oath, the coroner fined the
absentee 405., and said he would take care the money should
be pail
INQUESTS HELD YESTERDAY.—Before Mr. Baker,
at the Castle, Castle-street, City-road, on the body of Mr. J.
IdeteaU, aged 37, a merchant, who was found dead in his
bed-room on Tuesday evening. A surgeon was called in,
who, after a post-mortem examination, found the heart ex-
tensively diseased, and gave a certificate accordingly. Sub-
sequently, an empty phial was found under the bed, labelled
hydrocyanic (prutenc) acid. The conteuts of the stomach
were analyzed, and the presence of that acid in large quan-
tities was detected. It was proved in evidence that the de-
ceased had occasionally taken prussic add for his disease, and
the jury found a verdict " That the deceased died from the
effects of prussic acid, which may have been employed i
to allay the pain caused by a disease cf the heart, the de-
ceased being in the habit of taking such medicine for that
purpose."—By Mr. W. Carter, at the George and Dragon,
114%h-street, N auxball, on the body of Miss Mira Cowper,
aged 42, a single lady. On Sunday last, whilst the deceased
was in the act of dressing for dinner, one of the vessels near
the heart gave way, and she died almost instantaneously.
Verdict—" Natural death."—By the same coroner, at the
Clayton Arms, Kennington, to inquire into the death of
Abraham Mona, a well-known omnibus driver, on the Ken-
nington and Vauxhall-roads. It appeared from the evidence
of the widow and daughter of the deceased, that he left
home on Saturday morning to attend his employment, but
returned about half-past three in the afternoon complaining
of a violent pain in the back, and died the same evening
from apoplexy. Verdict—" Natural death."—By Mr. T.
Wakley, pursuant to adjournment, at the Elephant and
Castle Tavern, King's-road, Camden-town, to inquire into
the circumstances attending the death of Mary Anne Jones,
aged 19, late inmate of Sc. Pancras Workhouse. The in-
quiry occupied upwards of eight hours. The finding of the
body in the Regent's Canal on the sth inet having been
primed, Jane Dowling, a girl about deposed that she was
living in the workhouse, and knew deceased, who had been
at a place since the 2nd of Juno, and had been obliged to
leave her situation because she had not enough to eat, nor
did she like to return to the workhouse, lest she should be
put into the " shed," by order of Miss Stone, the
matron. The shed is a place of confinement in the
workhouse, wherein the paupers are placed for misconduct.
There are upwards of 1G in it now. It consists of a dark
room of about 26 feet long and 18 wide. Witness met de-
ceased about five o'clock in the afternoon of the Ist inst.,
and in answer to witness's question, deceased said that she
could not return to her place, as she bed only two meals a
day, consisting of breakfast and tea. She also said that she
had been so ill-treated by Miss Stone, the matron, that rather
than return to the " house" she would drown or poison her-
self. Witness had been in the workhouse five or six years,
and had been kept in the " shed" for five months at a time,
without going to any other part of the place. Deceased had
been ten months in the " house," and fourteen weeks
at her situation. In the shed we pick oakum and
feathers. We have four ounces of meat three times
a week, but I haze had none for a week, sir,
because I left my place. I have had nothing but salt and
potatoes since last Thursday. Not a morsel of meat, sir.
And when I went back to the " house," the matron put me
into the " shed." The coroner: Did she take you before
the board, or anything of that sort, before she desired that
you were to be sent into the " shed 2"—No, sir ; my wages
was a shilling a week, which was given to the nurse to lay
out for me. Deceased has never been put in the black hole.
The coroner: What ! Is there a black hole too ?—Witness:
Yes, sir, and I have beta put in it. I was once kept there for 48
hours, and was all night by myself, having nothing to eat or
drivk but bread and water. James Hill, a waiter to the per-
sons in the " shed," corroborated the last witness's statement.
The Coroner: What food have you given to the last
witness to-day ?—Witness : Nothing but bread and water.
After an examination of the matron, Miss Stone, and Mr.
Lee, the master of the workhouse ; and after the surgeon of
the workhouse had stated that he considered the " shed " an
unhealthy place, the jury returned the following verdict:
"We find that the deceased, Mary Anne Jones, drowned
herself rather than return to:the workhouse, she being driven
to distraction by the thought of the treatment to which she
would be subjected in the ' shed,' and we cannot eeparste
without expressing an unanimous opinion that the discipline
therein is unnecessarily severe."
CALLAO AND 1.131. t ItAttwAY.—ln reference to
certain remarks under our railway head, the following letter
has been received from the secretary of the company :
Sir,—As your sole object is, I feel assured, to convey correct In-
Amnation to your mad. re, I beg to state that your city reporter was
grossly imposed upon by the person who told him that the concession
for the Lama and Callao Railway bad been granted to Mr. Wheel-
wright, as named by 3sau on the led kat., and therefore that the
company bad faded in its object, and was consequently bound at once
to break up and return the deposits. I will not dwell on the bad
taste of prefacing a subject of this nature with a reference to the
alleged forgery on Messrs. Coutts and Co., by the chairman of the
Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway Company, with which the
Callao and Lima Company bar as little to do as yourself. My object
is to point oat that • deception has been put upon you
la the assertion that the concession had been granted to
any one up to the time of the last paniet leaving Callao.
I beg Rather to add, that so far from th.. company having failed in
Its thJect, it has every proved of obtaining the concession on terms
which will be found highly beneficial to the shareholders. Trusting
that this letter will prevent your respectable journal being again made
the vehicle of putting forth the false assertions of this ill-disposed or
ill-informed person, I remain, Re.—G. Veers, Secretary.
In reference to this letter it is proper to draw the writer's
attention to the circumstance that the concession of the line
to Mr. Wheelwright was alluded to only as a report in com-
mon circulation, and not asserted as a fact. As, however,
Mr. Upton, acting, it may be supposed, under instruc-
tions, has chosen to state in such positive terms that the com-
pany "has every prospect of obtaining the concession on
terms," &c., it may ho as well to mention that we have seen
letters from the highest quarters in Lima, which expressly
state that the propositions of Mr. Wheelwright had
been entertained, and that most probably the grant
would be made to hint by the government. It is,
however, not worth while to waste words on a question
which, according to the secretary, can be so readily decided
by the documents or advices received at the Company's
office by the last mail from Callao. The exhibition of these
at a general meeting of the parties interested must set all
misconceptions at rest. Itis proper to add, that Mr. Upton's
letter is entirely silent about the return of the agent, now
some four months since, who was despatched to Lima to
negotiate for the concession of the line. Some explaration
was certainly due to the shareholders on that event, the
proper place for which would be at s general meeting, when
the causes of past failure, and the prospects of future success,
might be fully entered upon. It maybe " bad taste "in the
shareholders to take alarm about the safety of their funds,
on seeing the reported malversations of a person, who was
not only a director of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow
Railway Company, which is a sufferer, but also a director of
the Callao and Lima ; but it is not at all extraordinary that
the connexion of the party accused with both lines should
occasion some anxiety as to the possible results of such con-
nexion in the Callao case. A distinct assurance on that head
is wanting, and would be best given to the shareholders
at a general meeting.
ANEURISM IN THE CITY. Among the diseases
incidental to the City of London, it is a wonder that inqui
ries into the sanatory condition of the metropolis should have
entirely failed to notice aneurism. Aneurism is a disease of
an artery, requiring, for its cure, that the artery should be
taken up. A disease of this kind is continually occurring in
all the main arteries of London ; so that their b ing taken
up, and consequently all circulation through them being
impeded are matters of constant occurrence. The vessel
most frequently attacked is the main trunk of Fleet-street,
and so numerous are the operations upon it thus necessitated
that, for all practical purposes, it may he pronounced imper-
meable. It is well known in surgery that when an artery is
obliterated the circulation is carried on by collateral
or anastomosing vessels ; but this, though a beau-
tiful provision of nature, cannot occur without great dis-
turbance of the economy. Thus, when the Fleet-street artery
is obstructed, the circulation is maintained by the anasto-
mosing branches of Chancery or Fetter-lane, though, when
Fleet street is tied up, it has to take a very circuitous route,
proceeding from Catherine-street, or some other ramifica-
tion of the Strand, in a meandering course through Drury-
lance and its connexions to the great channel of Holborn.
The economy. of the passenger is hence very much dis-
turbed, for this great extension or vagary of the circulation
necessitates a corresponding augmentation in the fare of cabs.
Anastomosing branches, too, enlarge in the body natural,
but in the body civic they do no such thing. When Fleet-
street is tied, Chan:cry-lane becomes no wider, which is a
manifest inconvenience. An alarming confusion and die-
turb.suce are thus produced in the circulation, always
attended with danger—sometimes with loss of life.—Punch.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR TILE ADVANCE
MENT OF SCIENCE.
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.—The general com-
mittee held its first meeting this morning at the Town-hall.
The chair was taken by Sir John Herschell, the president.
The Marquis of Northampton, Mr. Justice Williams,
Dr. Lee, the Mayor of Southampton, and other distinguished
members of the association, were also present.
Jonx Pluturs, Esq., F.R.S. (the assistant general-se-
malty), read the minutes of the two last committee meetings
at Cambridge, and the report of the council to the general
committee for the present year. From the latter it appeared
that the resolutions of the magnetical and meteorological
Conference, adopted by the general committee at Cambridge
In 1846, were submitted to Sir R. Peel by the president, Sir
John Herschel], and had obtained the favourable considera-
tion of the government. That the recommendations of the
conference connected with the British observatories at. home
Ind in the colonies, were being now carried out, and that
their recommendations as to the East Indian observatories
and the India survey, had received &pal attention. That
the magnetical observartry at Greenwich was permanently
continued on en extensWe and efficient scale. That the
EARnetical and meteorologicel branch was made a permanent
part of the astronomical obivvatory at the Cape of Good
acPe, Si also at Bombay and MaCraa, and arrangements were
to progress for carrying out the some object at Paramatta.
That the Ordnance observatory at Toronto and at St. Helena
were to be continued until the close of 18,i.5. A magnetic
II:my of the East Indian Bea, by Lieutenant 'Elliot of the
gal engineers, had received the sanction of tie Directors
w the East Indian Company, and arrangementa w re in
i'llress for carrying' it out—Lieutemant Moore would pro-
m thi, summer, under the direction of the Lords of the
6dn'tralty, to Hudson's Hay, for the purpose of courildiPc