The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

(From last night's Gazette.)

PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, LORD GREAT CRAM-
SERLAIN'S OYPICE, JAN. 29.—A1l peereues, on amount*,
their intention of being present on the occasion of the qr.
ing of parliament, en Thursday the lit February, will have
places reserved for them in the Houle of Lords, if the a-
nouneement be made at this office before five o'clock sa
Wednesday the list inst. (this day). Peers' eldest sees,
wishing to be present at the opening of parliament, will haw
tickets for the peers' cldestsons' box forwarded to thulium
a writt:n or personal application at the office. Ni strange,
can be admitted except by a ticket from the Lord Grist
Chamberlain. The doors will be opened at 12 o'clock.—
WILLOUGHBY DE BEES/IY, G.C.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 27.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. William Burnett as Consul it
Demerara, for the Republic of Venezuela.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 30.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Rustle. W. Barron, Esq., to be her
IMajesty's Consul at San Bias.

Sla AUGUSTUS B. HENNIKER, BART., died on
Sunday lut, very unexpectedly, of diseased heart. Deceased
wee in hie 54th year, and was rector of Thornhatuaanne,
Suffolk, and an active magistrate, and chairman of Denims
of that county. Re is succeeded by his eon, Brydges Powell.

THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.
Yesterday two adjourned inquests, on the bodies of
children who died after removal from the Tooting Pauper
Asylum, were resumed: one at Hackney, before Mr. Baker;
the other at Chelsea, before Mr. Wakley.
AT HACKNEY, the Coroner addressed the jury at some
length, the purport of his remarks being
.that a verdict of
manslaughter having been returned against Mr. Drouet is
another case, and that individual being about to undergo a
trial on that charge, the justice of the case did not require
the jury at Hackney to proceed with their inquiries—the
more so, inasmuch as Mr. Drouet was not in a condition*
attend the inquest. Ho therefore discharged the jury from
further attendance. The jurymen expressed much surprise at
this decision, and one of them handed to the reporter
a verdict stated to have been " agreed to prier to the arrival
of the coroner." It was to the effect that the children had
" died of cholera, and that the predisposing cameo had wises
from bad treatment and neglect."
AT CHELSEA Mr. Wakley re-opened the inquiry, ud
after the jury had sat all day, the inquest was once more
adjourned.
A MEETING WAS HELD AT Sr. PANCRAS yesterday, at
which resolutions were passed condemnatory of the treat-
ment pursued towards the children of the Tooting pauper
establishment ; condemnatory of the system of farming eat
paupers ; and she condemnatory of the conduct of the dif-
ferent boards of guardians having children at Tooting, for
negligent supervision. Another resolution was carried,
pledging the meeting to present a testimonial to the jurf
who conducted the investigation which resulted in a verdict
of manslaughter against Mr. Draw*.
AT THE WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTION, LEIDEN'S).
SQUARE, for the purpose of taking into consideratime
the destruction of human life which has taken place most
the infant paupers at Drouet's Tooting establishment, amt
adopting measures for abolishing the system of farming the
poor by the guardians of the poor law unions. Mr. Carper
ter in the char.—The Chairman said he had been informed
that since the advertisement, calling the present mating,
had been published, it bad been attempted to stigmatise it as
an improper meeting, en the gunnel that a verdict of MO-
slaughter had been returned against Drouet ley the coronefe
jury. But they had not met there to GASS entente
on Mr. Drouet. Their object was merely to miser
an opinion that a full and searching inquiry into this br
of the poor law system should be made by those who
bad the power to institute such an inquiry. The Chair-
man then read a letter from Dr. Liddle, who was for a ow-
*double length of time the medical officer of the Whits-
chspel Union, in which it is stated that so far back as May
last, Dr. Liddle had visited the Whitechanel children st
Drouet's establishment, and had addressed iletter to Lord
Ebrington, one of the secretaries to the Poor-law Board,
drawing his attention to the want of proper ventilation is
the sleeping apartments at Tooting ; sad the necessity of
appointing a medical man to visit the establishment from
time to time, and report upon the state of the inmates, was
strongly urged upon him. No alteration in the condi-
tion of the children at Tooting had, however, taken Pim,—
Mr. Hawkins proposed • resolution to the effect, that as it
appeared that the system under which the children at Toot..
ing had lost their lives had, from time to time, met with the
approval of the guardians of the poor, and had existed with
the sanction of the poor-law commissioners, the meeting oor"
sidered such treatment to be inseparable from the spirit sna
mance of the new poor law, and, therefore, called for its
utter and immediate abolition. The resolution was adopted,
as was ono, the purport of which was that a petition to par-
liament praying for the abolition of the present prtDr.
ior
system be adopted by the meeting, in support of waK.
Popham, one of the medical militates in &Moeda!? at
Drouet's establishment while the cholera was rsB%j watL,,
attributed much of the fatality which had taken P
negligence of the functionaries of the various unions which

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