The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-17 00:00:00

NEW-CUT RAGGED SCHOOL.--Yesterday afternoon
the second annual general meeting of the supporters of the
above school was -held at the Teumeraace Hall, Waterloo-
road. The Earl of Waldegrave having taken the chair, and
compared the character mid habits of the juvenile poor‘ with
what they were before the commencement of the • ragged.
school system " the secretary read the report of the com-
mittee, whichstated that although the expenditure had been
considerably more this year than the last, and many debts
bad been contracted, the school was in an efficient and
highly satisfactory state. Owing to the previous habits of
the children disorders were of frequent occurrence in the
school ; but mild means bad usually been resorted to for cor-
rection, and it was seldom ta y of
t anf the scholars were ex-
pelled. The average attendance in e Sundoy school bad
been Si children and 10 teachers. Since the commencement
of the day school 400 children had been admitted ; 160 were
now on the hooks, while the average attendance was 110.
Many more would attend, but were prevented by the
small
want
of clothing, and 20 were laid up with scarlet fever,
pox, etc. All who had seen the school acknowledged the
recemity of an industrial wheal, to teach the childreu some
useful trade. Through the kindness of several friends oC
the school, 400 articles of wearing apparel, of different kinds,
had been distributed amongst the most destitute of the chil-
dren. During the year the receipts had amounted to
66!. lbs. 10d., being less than the expenditure by
31. 17s. 10.1. The report was adopted, after which ',vend
resolutions in support of the schools were passed, and the
mes.ing separated.
TUE SALL AT STOWE was yesterday recommenced.
The attendance was much mi re numerous than might have
been expected, and included a very great many of the sur-
rounding gentry. The first 50 or 00 lots, consisting of china
and Raffaello ware, call for no particular note e. As on the
preceding day, the prices realised by the 'various articles were
satisfactory. The latter portion of yesterday's sale included
some very munificent articles of furniture, of which the fol-
lowing were the more remarkable:—Lot 227. A repository
for china, of ebony, with pillars and sir-molar ornaments, tut
centre door panelled with buhl work—sold fur Si) guineas.
Lot 228. A companion to the last lot-4'2 guineas. Let 236.
A Gothic robe chest, of Gophir wood, the surface carved
and gilt, with borders in imitation of precious- atones,
from the Foothill collection-20 guineal. Let 233. The com-
panion coffer, of sandal wood, sold for the same. Lot '230.
A pair of beautiful jars of the rarest old Japan lacquer on
porcelain, with branches for five light., 171. Lot 240.
the
A
beautiful tazza of Limoges enamel, painted insidawith
history of Adam and Eve, the top having. a hunting subject,
with arabesques, six inches high, 30 guineas. Lot 212. An
ancient state settee, the bonne and hack very richly
carved with lions' heads and gilt, covered h
wit
crimson velvet and cloth of cold, 211. Lot 251. A
Florentine cabinet, with 11 slabs of mark and two
marble columns to the door, which encloses four drawers
fronted with marqueterie 271. Lot 245. A table of built
manufacture, 39/. 7s. 6d. 'Lot 25E. A smaller table of mar-
-1 queterie, the borders and legs inlaid with white metal, 501.
Lot 2601. A pier table carved and gilt, with a slab of very
fine Florentine mosaic 45 in. by 3e in., 43 guineas. Iberia
were two lots in this day's sale which, although uo mention
was made of the fact in the catalogue, possessed considerable
interest to those who were acquainted with their history le
were the two state chairs made expressly for and used
by the Queen ant Prince Albert on the occasion of their
visit to the Duke of Buckingham. Both these chairs were
purchased ior the Marquis of Chaotios at a price conaidera
bly under their real value, viz., only 8 guineas each. The
amount realised by the day's sale exceeded 1,0601.
THE IEIBII STATE PRISONER:S.—At the present
moment (says a COI reipon,lcnt) the following notice of the
early life and career of the faction who have brought about
the present state of things in Ireland may net perhaps be un-
interesting. A brief biography of Mr. Smith o'l3rien's life
has already been made public. Mr. C. Gaveei Deer? is
the son of a farmer in the county of Monaghan. In hlsestly
career he occupied a very. subordinate position indeed
I The first prominent position he occupied was that of
1 a writer on the Dublin Morning Register, a re
peal or radical publication, now extinct. He subse.
quently proceeded to Belfast, were he was mph") cal b the
I priests of the district to edit h
and otherwise manage a
journal known as the Belfast Vindicator. Mr. Duffy,
while in this position, supported the wbigs. On the latter
party been driven from e thee in 1841, the Vindicator grew
more violent, but nevertheless its circulation gradually de-
I creased, and it was almost defunct when Mr. Dully, by pub-
liabing a violent article against the Rost rument, in reference
to the execution of a man named Woods for murder, whom
he described as having been illegally convicted by a pro-
testant jury brought down on him the vengeance of Mr.
Blaekburne,, the Attorney-General of the period. Duffy
was duly tried and convicted, and would have been brought
up for judgment had he not expressed contrition,
and Mr. T. B. Smith, who bad succeeded to the office
of Attorney• General, forgave him. In 1842 Mr. Dully,
whose name hail obtained some degree of notoriety, esta-
blished the Nation newspaper. Mr. Duffy is a Roman
catholic. Ile is not more than 32 years of age.—Mr.
MEAGHER. is son of Mr. Thomas Meagher, Id P. for Water-
ford City—a merchant and alderman of that place, who has
amassed considerable wealth by trading with America. The
young gentleman, now about 2G years of age. possesses come
property independeut of his father, with whom, as well as
with his brother, he has always been at variance so far as
politic* are concerned. lle also is a Roman catholic.
According to his own statement, he was induced to emberk
in the cause of repeal by O'Connell's many warlike appeals '
to the youth of Ira lund.—Mr. DOWENY, who, in point of
years, is something more than a Young. lrelander, is, ace, rd-
ing to his own account, of humble origin. He cannot be less
than 45 years of age. Me is a barrister, and has been many
things. For many years he followed te occuatio of
schoolams.er. Ile subsequently occupiehd himself übv
acting as whipper-In to Whig attorneys-general and
solicitors-general in the boroughs of Clunmel, Cashel,
and Dungarvan. For nine years he was under-
stood to be employed in the Tithe Million office,
Dublin Castle. He is a Roman catholic.—Mr. DILLON is a
barrister, and took a gold medal and other honours in Tri-
nity College, Dublin. Ile was formerly a writer in the
I Dublin Morning Register. Mr. Dillon, who is also a very
young man, is son to an extensive corn merchant in
the county of Mayo. He is a Roman catholic.—
Mr. O'Goitoteer, jun., is sun to an extensive wool-
len draper in Dublin, and is a Roman catholic.—
Mr. NaleTIN is understood to be a gentlemen of indepen-
dence, hut whether small or large is not generally known.
He wee the first northern protestant who joined the confe-
derates, and has latterly rendered himself conspicuous by
Wiest editor of the Felon newspaper. —Mr. O'Doitetter, of
the Tribune, lately tried, is a medical student. lie is ana
Live of the south of Ireland, and a Roman catholic.
THE APPROACH OP CIIOLERA.—The registrar-
general's return for the week ending last Saturday states that
19 deaths had occurred from " English cholera " during the
*even days. Diarrhea had destroyed 110 lives during the
same period, the average being 66. Yet, although Asiatic
cholera is evidently approaching this country nearer and
nearer, week by week, no sufficient steps arc taken to miti-
gate its severity when it dots reach us. By the last news we
learn that it is now at Berlin, where, during the first ten
days of August, fourteen persons fell victims to it. At Man-
chester the medical committee of the infirmary have made a
communication to the governors of that institution, in which
they unanimously advise the establishment of temporary
hospitals for the reception of cholera patients, provided with
a medical gaff that shall not only be sufficient for the treat-
ment of the patients in hospital, but also to render assistance
to those whose habitations may justify their being treated at
their homes. The report of the medical committee having
been received and ordered to be recorded on the minutes, it
was then ordered by the board that a copy of such re port be
scat to the mayor and corporation of Manchester, and another
copy to the beard of guardians of the Manchester union.
Might not London take a hint from these local authorities ?
Piosch has a word to any on the cry of centralisation, which
has been raised against all combined effort for the purifica-
tion of large towns :
Once on a time there was a roan in a fever, Wlti in his delirium he
• insisted on having a buttle of port per diem. The elector add it
would finish him ; but his nurse was an advocate for self-government,
and she pooh-poohed the doctor, and the patient crept to the cellaret
and got his bottle of rough old port, and uncorked it with his
trembling hands, and set it to hi•i mouth and floored it manfully,
mid shed an hour afterwards * • and his nurse glorified nett govern-
ment exceedingly, as she tied his chin up.
trace on a time Cholera ruse from his marsh-bed in the East, and
stalked westwards, killing his thousands and tens of thousands as he
passed aloes. The (mat was spread for him in stagnant ditches, anal
reeking cesspools, and filthy dwellings, and wherever these were, he
fated abundantly; but where these were not, he starved. And wine
mew who saw this, said, "Let as not spread the table for Cholera
amongst us. Let us drain, and cleanse, and sweep, and whitewash."
But the people, who did not see it, grumbled at this, and would not
set hand to the work. And certain wiseacres ataod by and said,"Nay,
we know a spell to keep off Cholera; " and they spelled their spell,
and lt was, to repeat many umes over, " Self-gothrnment,
government, self-government!" And Cholera chuckled when he
heard the spell—for ho knew those wiseacres of old.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.
—Before Mr. Carter, by adjournment, at the Ship public.-
house, Hanover-stairs, Rotlterhithe, on the body of Joseph
Cur, aged 21, a light porter. Last Sunday week the de-
ceased and two youths were rowing about fifty yards past
Ilungerford.bridge, when Waterman steam-boat No. 10 wag
coming down the river on her pasmge to Woolwich. Several
persons on the steam-boat called to the deceased to row clear
of dager, but he did not alter his course. The captain
oidcred the engines to be stopped, and immediately after-
wards the boat deceased was in struck the after part of the
tender belonging to the bows of the steam-boat. The small
boat bounded back, and the swell of to water from the
paddle-wheels caused the boat to " dip," and immediately
afterwards it sank. Several wstermeu instantly went to the
assistance of the youths, and succeeded in saving the lives of
two of them, but the deceased disappeared. His body was
not recovered until the following Friday, when it was
discovered floating off Hanover-stairs. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death."--oMeiteee
COMPETITION. Before Mr. Payne, at St. Thomas's
Hospital, on the body of Mr. George Leach, aged
44, late assistant house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital—Mr. W. Lewis, 9, Stafford place, Pimlico, stated that
he km w deceased well, and dined with him on Tuesday last,
and accompanied him to Clapham in the evening. On their
return about 10 o'clock they got into a Clapham omnibus
which stow d at the Beckenham Arms, at the end of the
New Kent-road, and in about five or six minutes another
omnibus came; they started almost together, and before toy
came to the tollgate, a distance of 70 or 80 yards, the de-
ceased was thrown on his head, and sustained such injuries
as to cause his death in a few minutes afterwards.
Charles Berridge deposed that he saw the occurrence, and
he heard the drivers of the two omnibuses having words
with each other, and they were violently racingto get
through the gate first. Deceased was thrown by the sudden
jerk of the carriage, wi:en Steele, the driver of the Clapham
omnibus, tried to cross the opposite aide of the road.—A
number of witnesses were examined, the majority of them
attributing the cause of the accident to the sudden jerk of
toe omnibus driven by Steele, whilst the evidence of others
sou of a very conflicting chiracter.—The jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental death."