The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

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Alderman Heed proposed Pm following resolution :
"That the sorpolatios , this borough hathressiyed with
the deepest fe&t of yarrow the monmfttl tutelligeme of
' the death of the Right Hue. Vismant Palmentoa, hog
Majcety's Prime Nitta/WT. The oceporation regard the de.
came of
sllti endoent statorman aa a meters lows toto the
Wien asirto the world at large, and they desire to ce
to Lai Polottestoo their Imardelt reed sincere sympathy
with hir the to also has sustained." Alderman Jame-
lye evaded the resolution. The lose alluded to by th•
murir wee sot only Bating but he might say,lto the 'odd
at large. The value of much a man as Lord Palmerston, in
the position he held, could hardly be estimated. We the
better know hie worth now we had lost him. Tomeswas
Mg one feeling of regret amengst all classes and at
bin Oath. The resolution was carried unanimously. At
the time appointed for the funeral the principal shops end
dams in the borough were partially dosed, and the bells
of St. Lawrence range muffled pool.

$65.

with other dimmess are likely to receive the info,-
tient which does not happen in the sass of thews
suffering from typhoid fever. And yet, we repeat,
these conditions were, up to a few years since,
broadly classed as " typhus." end positively pro-
nounced to be contagious. Is not typhoid fever,
then, capable of being transmitted from a diagonal
to a healthy person t Them is no doubt that it is.
It has been pretty conclusively shown that the
discharges from a typhoid patient, if they get
mixed with drinking water, are capable of infecting
persons who are unfortunately so placed as to be
partakers of the water thus poisoned. As regards
small-pox, scarlet fever, and measles, scientific
opinions are almost unanimous that they are
capable of being received by a healthy person from
an infected one through the medium of the breath.
While so much, then, is known respecting the
propagation of the eruptive fevers, oonsidersble
doubt still exists with reference to cholera. It is re-
markable that long before the capability of the
poisonous material of diseases being swallowed was
demonstrated, there was constant dispute as to the
" contagion" of cholera. Here was • terribly
fatal disorder running its coarse with unexampled
rapidity, and affecting large masses of people, and
yet cases were constantly occurring to show an im-
munity
on the part of many which baffled all con-
jecture as to its cause. So striking were the facto
observed, that whilst a large number of compe-
tent observers unhesitatingly pronounced cholera
to be intensely contagious, another section, equally
competent to judge, positively denied its transma-
'ion by human intercourse. The difficulty was
attempted to be explained by saying that certain
persons were endowed with • peculiar predisposi-
tion to the disease which was absent in others.
The explanation was feeble, and absolutely theo-
reticaL It is difficult, indeed, to believe, and it
is quite unexampled, that there should be
so much difference in predisposition that
a number of persons can breathe with
impunity an atmosphere in which cholera poison
is concentrated, whilst others are killed by it when
inhaled in a highly diluted form. Viewed by the
light of modern research, this conflict of opinion is
highly interesting and important. That the cholera
poison may enter the system by being swallowed
has now coma to be generally acknowledged by all
those competent to give an opinion. It is still
held, however, that this source of infection will
not explain all oases. Such a result could not 1
reasonably be anticipated. It is enough that es
time goes on, and various outbreaks of cholera are
investigated, the number of those which are rea-
dily explained by this source of infection steadily
increases. Although we cannot yet say that
' cholera is always thus propagated, we are in a
position to assert that this is a very common
method. And it is evident that the stronger the
confirmatory evidence upon this point the leas need
have we to turn for explanation to any other pos-
sible mode of transmission. So strong indeed is
the chain of evidence that many most competent
observers have scarcely a lingering doubt that the
cholera poison is mainly conveyed into the system
,through the month.
Let us now tarn for a moment to the Imperial
visits to the Paris hospitals. We must presume
that the best scientific opinion in the city was con-
sulted before thou visits were paid. Our satisfac-
tion then at the course pursued by their Imperial
Majesties is based upon other grounds than those
upon which they would generally elicit admiration.
We note in this proceeding, not the reckless daring
of persona anxious for applause and popularity,
even at the risk of death, but an exposition of
the steady advance of science. Armed with the
knowledge thus acquired, they could feel sear-
ance that a mark of tender sympathy could bee
shown to their people without the danger which
would have made such a step foolish and un-
worthy of them.

MAIDSTONE.

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The inhabitants of this borough heartily joined
in the tribute of veoeratiwo and respect for the memory of
the deceseed Premier. Plop were displayed hell-melt
high on the Town-hall and other public bnildinp ; and (on
the anggea, ion of the mayor) the shops were closed, sod
basins., entirely artependod, daring the time appointed for
the ceremony. Since the lei:noted death of the late Prince
Cowart no event ban ogled forth such a general manifests-
lion of regret.

their own pleasures.
What can be done ? we hear asked on every
hand. It there are among us fathers who put
their boys into the heat of furnace fires, and who
go to bed alter having set a skald to turn a wheel
all night ; if there are mothers who can set the
little ones down from their knees to go and pine all
day, and come staggering home at night, and who
can take pay for this at the week's end, and spend
it in finery or dainties ; if there are mothers who
can walk behind the raffia at last, and bear to
remember that the little life was given to buy
artificial flowers, or rum, or game, or early veget-
ables, we may well ask what is to be done, and
inquire how we can best interfere at present, and
provide better things for the future.
Happily, there is encouragement of more kinds
than one. Not only have we Factory Acta, and
more and better schools continually, arid the great
discovery, ea we may *all it, of the half-time
method in work and schooling, but we have some
animating illustrations of the truth and purity of
the conceptions of comfort and of home in the
minds of not a few of the present generation
of the labouring classes. There is a memorable
passage in a late Report of Canon Noams, tell-
ing bow the sons of agricultural labourers have
risen to posts of credit and profit ; and the same
process is always going on from the manufacturing
population. There are fathers everywhere, we I
may hope, who take more comfort in promising, 11
lively, happy boys and girls than in pipe and pot.
There are mothers everywhere, we may hope, who 11
can satisfy their husbands that their sound cookery, I
and skilled needles, and household cleanliness and 11
order are worth more than any wages they could
earn, and who so make both ends meet as to
leave no excuse for making the children take
the road to the factory, instead of the school.
As for what any or all of us can do—
if Government and fellow-citizens should look after
employers and fathers, our wives and daughters
may find some means of influencing the mothers.
If moved by the story of the children so sacrificed,
they will doubtless look round them to see whether
they can in any one humble home show the way
by which the common household arts may secure
more comfort, and give a higher character to the
home than the dearest price ever got for the heart
and brain and life of the little ones who are in
the grave, or on the way to it.

(Press thslabile Item.)
Ws ere aconstotaed to say that none but English
POOP" ,snow Whit onion is ; and we beast that
the very same for it exists nowhere but in oar own
language. We hold pretty mach the same opinion
about the institution of Home—the name and the
thing. We see on the Continent something more
then an inevitable difference in national taste when
we look at the habits and the abodes of families—
something more than a different notion of what
comfort consists in, and of what constitutes the
home. We believe that the very conception is
absent. In evidence of this we point to the dirt,
in many forms, which we find incrusting the whole
life and ways of not only the poor in various
foreign countries, but the lower middle clans
at least. We point to the unwashed floors, the
filthy common stair, the peopled bedding, the dust
within doors, the mud and dung without, the
heads of the babies, the hair of the boys, the feet
of the girls, the stench that the father brings in
from the field, the liquid manure barrel that the
mother carries out to the vineyard, and so on.
We wonder at the outdoor life in Southern
countries, which makes the home only a place to
sleep in, and we shudder at the food and the want
of air, and the bad smells in sub-polar lands,
where people must live very close at home if they
are to live at all. Even in America, where the
radical ideas are British, as well as the language,
we wonder at the ways of the classes which seem
to correspond most with our own. The gregarious
habits of those who have no private and separate
dwellings, or who only sleep in them, and the
meals, and the dress, and the tastes and amuse-
ments of those who preserve the old institution of
the home, can in no way be reconciled with our
conceptions of comfort. Foreigners, for their part,
are equally amazed at what they regard our slavery
to the ignoble idea of comfort, and they may be
excused for being scandalised when they bring us
to acknowledge that, except from the religious
point of view' we scarcely know how to value any-
thing more than comfort, in the comprehenaive
sense in which we understand it.
The foreigner might, however, go further than
this. After inquiring into the actual fact of this
comfort—ono worshipped in England—he will be
justified in any severity of remark on some things
that he will witness. The parental feelings are
much alike, all the world over ; and one of the
few universal notions of good is the health, happi-
ness, high quality, and good name of children.
Among lovers of comfort like our countrymen it
might be supposed that the most indispensable
good thing at home would be stout and merry and
intelligent children, that father and mother might
be proud of, and find an inexhaustible source of
sweet emotions, and interest and entertainment.
With sickly, or corrupt, or stupid children in the
house, what can any comforts avail—the high
wages, the luxurious supper, the pipe and ale
of the father, the gay Sunday shawl and flowery THE IMPERIAL VISIT TO THE CHOLERA
bonnet of the mother 7 Yet what do PATIENTS.
the successive reports of the Children's Employ-
ment Commission disclose? What do we not (From the Dolly News.)
learn even from the vexation and the reluctant Tue recent visit of the Emperor and Empress
admissions of those who find the cap fit, or who of the FRENCII to the cholera patients in the hos-
protest thatj they do not ? • At the meeting held pitals of Paris has made • deep impression on the
by the Town Council of Sheffield last week, to ~ public mind. The Parisians are touched with so
consult about testing the Commissioners' Report, 1 striking a testimony of sympathy with their suffer-
and the evidence on which it is based, a member ings, and there is no nation more likely than the
spoke in this way on the subject of children being ! French to appreciate what will be generally ono
pent to work at a very early age :" In many cases 'Wend the courageous generosity of their
of the mMe omentss.
" the earnings of the children were almost indis- I And we, in our turn, uncertain
" penseble, if the family were to be maintained in ' when we may be encountering the disease widely
" tolerable comfort. The question was, whether • spread
bond
England, are ready to accord our thanks
"it was not better to allow the boys to go to ; for a bold display of public spirit more likely than
" work rather than be running half-clad and half- anything else to maintain confidence in a season
" fed in the streets." To these two clauses an- lof trial.
ewers ware given by the two next speakers. 1 Whilst, however, the general feeling will be one
Alderman SAUNDERS remarked that " if a child is lof admiration at an act of self-devotion, there will
"too young to go towhee', he is too young to go li not be wanting those who will question the pro-
"to work ." and thus was the imagery of boys I priety of such a proceeding. It might have been
running about hungry and naked extinguished, fairly said that the lives of the Etaraeos and
HARVEYMr. naver followed with hearty thanks to the EMPRESS, being more precious than those of
Government for " protecting the poor child of six common mortals, ought to be the object
"or nine years, whose inhuman father of more than common care. It will be
"had put it to work. Away with the felt by many that they have gone eut of
IA)" PAIKIWITn" laßlitsthill;—Mr. R. A. " nonsense," be exclaimed, "about the wages of their road to expose themselves to a very serious
Inaglaks, J.P.. of Weston-super-BWe, communicates the n
followirg anecdote Illustrative ef the liberality of the late the child being necessary for the support of the risk, which was unnecessary, as it would never
Premier, and al his sympathy with oppmemed nether —At " family 1 The men drank the wags. of their have been expected of them. There is no doubt,
the taminatioa of the lannprien war in 1849, 1. which ~ bers.„
Gialled Guyon, • native of Bath, took a prominent gad, If this is true to any great extent in the indeed, that the head of a great nation, upon
gad when the joint military operations of Austria' Inc country generally, we shall have to talk less cons- whom so much depends, has no more right to risk
Benda compelled him, with Kossuth and other, to take placently of the English notion of comfort. What his life foolhardily than a commander-in-chief has
rofigein Turkey, and to pleas his sword at the divot:gal of , . .
the Selma avian the won't. of Rule, Lord Palmerston le the led I to expose himself unwomanly in action. In
wrote to the gallant Boglishman, thanking him for his There are among us a very large number of poor judging, therefore, of the policy of this procedure,
1 heroin meows, and, bairns learnt that he was penniless by gentry, and of families of retired tradesmen who much, though not all, will depend upon the
meson of hiss,
wife's property having bees comated by the
Austrian government, sort him a check for 5001. have less to live on than the artisans and opera- amount of risk which was run by these illustrious
and even than persons in their
Tars LONDON RnsiMittoss or LORD PAmoutsrow. fives of our manufacturing districts,of science has done much already,
benevolent visit.
—The Hoe. Beery John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, was many who are employed on the land. These The progress
ban at Ramsey, in Bearable. Whoa a Harrow boy, his
I father lima at No. 20, Henoer-equaga. In Load. ;at East educated and enlightened people of smell means and may reasonably be hoped to do still more,
19b in Surrey : and Broadlands, near Ramsey, Hants. reckon their means by the yesr, and not by the to throw light upon the facto connoted with dil-
-1 tile W • Temple lived etßset Shim, and there Ssvift was week • the effects arising from this eases which were formerly roughly clamed in the
taught by King William 111. to cat asparagus is the Dutch - , and practical
maw. At No. 20, Lord Palmenton's father had as next. difference of method are greater than might be category of " contagious affections." There are
do.sefs,ueighteur then Merehieenef.Dessnehiren., es_id"Lord, supposed. Next, it is with them a matter of course many maladies which were formerly so designated
.n'=lc When
Palmers"") dilitled—s-t. era. I, —.l, Nath—v—Ansileoy-- to do the heat they can for their children ' and to which have sinoe been shown either to be free
WM April, 1807 (Ws te his 29cd year). the Premier get an education of some sort for them is the very from such a characteristic, or at least not
I thee was to be was still living at No. 1. North Audley.
street, whence be removed to No. 24, Hanoverequare,— first consideration. To let them run untaught in to be properly so celled as the term was formerly
his fasher's old house with, we presume, a new number. the streets, or to try to make money of them, employed. In olden times, scurvy--that scourge
Street door numbers in London were frequently altering. In
Zlife "Court Guide". for January, 181b0e,raLord would be es impossible to these parents as to of armies and fleets—was unhesitatingly said to
E 3. go into the workhouse. No luxury, no show be contagious. The circumstance that one indi-
Irian Babover-musee Lord Palmerston ditto; Is 1810.11 to
of gentility appears to them possible till the victual after another amidst a body of men
53' Loner °theTesssetheth with the ithth ef Bedew le his children's cm is provided for. The house-rent, crowded together became affected with like wimr
seat.door neighbour ell me side, and Berl Temple on the
ether. In them yams' time ono ke flitted once more, the style of dress, and even the character of the toms naturally led to such * conclusion. In
removing from Lower Cirowsnoretreet, Grosvmor-square, table ti
subordinated to the cue of the children ; progress of time, however, it was discovered that
to No. 9, Great Stanhope-street, Mayfair, next door to the .. it •
Bart et Uomagbaso at No. 8 and to Bernier Gascoine, et or, u ls not, the public opinion of the neigh- the ooeurrenoe of the disorder arose, not hom the
No. 10. Hero Lon
Palmerston lived foretaste Years- He bourhood inflicts a heavy penalty on the parents. transmission of the disease, but from the fact
1 Ca tEtrerellowbgebetur(esllB2ow)Mingsarrithe drawing-room
winfiLti, 'Fmloolyd.N°.lln2lBll, How is it, in many places besides Sheffield, where that the patients had all been exposed to the
hoed Palmerston removed his papers, despatch.boxes, and the means of the workmen are equal, or superior, to circumstances which caused its origin.
[ household deities from Great Stanhope-street, to No. 5, the income of the half-pay officer, the poor clergy- The same fact was discovered in the history of
Oariton-houseternee, where he had the Dubs of Leinster
Ifor his neighbour on one side, and Busses, the Prussian man, the draper, or butcher, or stationer, who has malarious fever. So also, although at the present
Prime Minister, On the other. From Carlion-hotoeterrace withdrawn from business on scanty means 4 In case day we should smile, perhaps, at the ides of eon-
he removed at the drib DM) of the LW Deka of Cam-
bridge to what has been called Cambridge-house, Piocadilly. of its being objected to this question that every gumption being so classed, there aces a time when
Biome his body was removed from Brackett, where heated, man has a right to spend his income as he pleases, alike power of transmierdon was ascribed to that
Jeri theses ,: will he takes to Meir r: later Abbey • Teed and that it is an impertinence even to inquire how disorder, nurtured by the fact that relatives who
Cambridge-h London
aus in pertienbr—Boikier, g his money goes, it may be admitted that different were much in company successively succumbed to
I Exxammentser Pannos.—The public women clams of people have different views and tastes, the disorder. The idea has long since died away as
el Calcutta ham snit in a petition to the Calcutta justices and that it would be absurd and offensive to insist it has been discovered that inherited predisposition
whe are about to assist government in establishing a Lock
IllgepitaL The revelations fiend make naively freak, that the notions and lik' of one class should is quite sufficient to explain what looked
I *mom Mom* oaosaoy, oro *Tenn& comma- be those of another ; but the natural and like contagion. It is only comparatively in
IMr es Riad. idolatry- They oil—.
coThe 'melee ii inevitable limitation of the liberty of a recent years that the disease formerly broadly
*a clam though alresdy very large, is ntinually in. ,_ • brawnier= 17terrr or ODD FIRLOWL—The
by name of the mon. of widow., the coon* among modes of life is that the styled " tYPhusi" or "continued fever," has Collie Lodge celebrated Be Ilst &mammary as There.
= of polygemy, and them:girt, 01 the poorer mode must be one by which the community been resolved into several forms, characterised by dal ovum& at the North Pole, Oxford4treet •P. ISI. Haw-
la the chair. The usual toasts • •
el, three of
alasiespouitionof ow:euweepleateiedandi,`" means of thstenecleimaThies shall not suffer ; and we need not explain that the different methods of prat:legation. Whilst !Tit Director,' .. Dimas'," ii,d . wid„ am
1 eery different from ' that which ie occupied by pub. community suffers when children run wild in the " typhus," distinctively so called, is still held to Orphan Fuod," was boomed and reepreded to by P. Poi
Le women in Europe. In India such women form an
ss
emential pert of moiety ; they are admitted to the ~..,
1 mmt respectable Ili home both in the male and streets on the one hand, or are slowly murdered, be contagious very much in the old same of the c.l,:Allfarris, who_ettit
t__ the Uri:Lams
poop and mind, by premature and unwholesome application of the word, " typhoid fever," a die- •747ra.e making wits two
rated ."'Prefirres • :ft
the (male depart:neat, they pertain important funs- toil, on the other. Parents are therefore so far ensue scarcely lees common and quite is fatali 'end Widow and Orphan Puede
Lodge.hawas d beensftgritaa drunk
usofid in theirsee
tines in the worship of idols on the mss
of Hindu fee-which wee formerly included in the geoeral term,
Soak, mere apmeally am the Bth day of the Doorgah responsible to owlet', that if they are willing t° resposdod to by W G. Voris, the sereetary, who meld
Peals, ia many Germanise and the festivals held so osio. sacrifloe their children they must bear the censure is not twitamitted like its fellow. Speaking gene- there were new 53 members, end TOOL is hand after paying
tem the serivel of the girls st the day of of society, and they must bear the intervention of rslly sod avoiding roinutile, it may now be e
ells ll Dories Among the numerous company MTV
Freonsecas, Beadbury, LOS.,
fobootoltoinamota EOZIEEIsboI jiedßetneke ;it , pro.
f ~, law and government for the protection of their said that association with a typhoid *Wet is laisoe, sad aeon.
quently invite public wows to their houses for the children. attended with little or no risk. The fact that the Rrrwesivi mrszumearr. —On Thursday Robert
purposes of worship, sod public wanes invite bigamies to When a single are a audios married man in the dimes, every now and then runs through s mew Hasty Scam was takes Were
ttgairerich borough 1
their helms for the same and frequently make . charged with limbo I= same amountiag
them their hire The lijain Tama aha Caigaga agricultural counties spends, and admits that he hold has been definitely explained upon other fa whole to reverie ol 1,80%. the property of Xr.
Review in support of ems stesessesm, and ask that may spends two oat of his twelve shillings • week in grounds. It has been fottlid that such persons Jabs Hasty Hedgedieseed sit 201111/601IIIIr. Ivied* in
may be preserved from the " vexations applications under whom =Way he formerly wits clerk sad traveller. Mr.
set and Bsd 1860, mew 14. whad, are am, tobacco, we may form our own judgment of the become affeeted because they are "reed to the • Haden ammonia JanourA„s that ahe bed est
shatly made me of by dimmed Mersa„ seliely for man and his sort of mind, but we yeast leave him same cause of disease, Vie., emanations froln putrid angrawtsd far maws gems et be meshed is Mel
the Pe
of inflicting IlseeYeeee ea gala" TheT eIS to his own taste and notion of comfort. So it is matter. To put the matter in a tangible form, wee ef besieges, awl Seim illetelate Mr. asap 11,4 1
for
relief from Mess " evils" either by the justices win. _. ..,,,. to ...1_,,, ,__Lna ___.
had
his asishatiese skssesded. • warrant MIS imiir,
in to them mos „rum of the oily is, which they may ths when we See men spending a large share en wanes it is very dangerous wowso, byry ‘,",* the polies were ace able to And him till as Wedneadey. '
eamtdested. or by cassias the measles ime be repeel4 and their meekly awnless in trades union revels, into the common wards of hospitala, ty- Oiling. a detective in the Irewleh force, fogad eat that
&Bowing actual amain only to be meddled ender the oe in waling— Tx-il beee in the t.b h 0.4 riotonto can be received wig, impunity he was In Latgatimst than. affrehlogra Was. ma
Gediaary providers et the ism This sedseisse memorial po oohs, P l '' MU doors kripeirka. Tb• prisms vas voliadoi fee a
wss referred te a messittees—Prised of Milli Befit. lg. or ht Wel& or hi buying We cost- In the find Wel WiEbbolllBs fie 1168114. aolar.