The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-15 00:00:00

BATHING INFIRMARY AT MARGATE.

Yesterday Mr. G. J. 31 ills, Deputy Coroner for
Middlesex, concluded, at the Rcd House Tavern, College-
street, Chelsea, a lengthened inquiry into the circumstances
attending the death of Elizabeth Cotton, daughter of a
respectable grocer, who died under circumstances involving
serious charges against the management of the Itoyel Sea-
Bathing Infirmary at West Brook, Margate. The inquiry
hal been twice adjou ned previously. On one of these
occasions the Deputy Coroner remarked that the case was
an important one, the Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary contain-
ing at the present time morathan 200 patients, and receiving
annnal subscriptions to the amount of 2,000 f.; having fur its
patrons, vice-patrons, presidents, and vice-presidents, sic., a
long list of royal, noble, and distinguished names, at the
head of which are her Majesty, its treasurer being Alderman
Gibbs. It has a board in London of 21 medical gentle-
men, who have power to send patients, many of whom live
in Landon, and when we see that the institution contains so
many patients, some of whom are at a distance of 99 miles
from their friends, it becomes our duty to go most fully and
sAirthingly into the inquiry.
Mr. John Cotton deposed that he was the father of the de-
ceased, who was fifteen yearn and six months old. Deceased
died at witness's house, at nine o'clock, p.m., on Friday, the
2511 x of September. She came home from the Sea-bathing
Infirmary at Margate on Wednesday, the 16th of September,
having been there fifteen weeks. Her mother fetched her
home. Mr. Godrich, surgeon, of Little Chelsea, saw her
within two hours after her arrival. Mr. Godrich had
seen her on the Monday, fifteen weeks before, and he
attended her up to her death. Mr. Godrich on that
occasion brought Mr. Warder, another surgeon to look
at deceased's hack. Deceased went to the infirmary at
Margate for a distortion of the spine, on a letter from
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, obtained through
Mr. Godrich of Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar of Kensing-
ton. Witness paid ss. 91 per week for her board, lodging,
and washing. When she went there she was in good health,
but too weak to walk. Witness went down to see her once.
He found her sitting on an easy chair on the lawn. She
then appeared in worse health than she was before. She com-
plained to witness of the food she had there, and said she
could not cat the gruel, and •hat they would not let her have
milk and water instead of it, unless she bought it with her
own money. The broth also she could not eat, she said.
By the Deputy Coroner : Deceased had laid on her hack
fur six mouths and a fortnight by the recommendation of
Mr. White, a surgeon, who attended her before she went to
Margate. She was then apparently quite well. When
witness saw her at Margate she was mach more feeble than
before. EverytWng beyond the hospital diet had to be got
at the patient's own expense. Deceased said the gruel did
not agree with her. She did not complain of the quality of
the gruel Deceased asked witness fur money to get food
which the infirmary did not provide. The officers of the
infirmary, when she wastaken there, demanded two months'
payment iu advance, and had he net so paid the money, he
would at the time she made those statements to him have
brougnt her back with him. Did not see the wounds on her
hack tiil the coroner and jury saw them. lier mother begged
him not to do so. When deceased came back home she told
witness the infirmary was not a comfortable place, and that
when she could not ea' anything they toll her she might,
have what she liked, but when she asked for a chicken they
said they could not get it.
Mr. Francis Guirich, surgeon, of Thistle-grove, Little
Chelsea, deposed that he procured the letter for her ad-
mission into the infirmary as had been stated. About two
years previous, the father of deceased asked witness to see
his daughter, who was very ill. He saw her, and finding
that it was a scrofulous disease, he told Mr. Cotton that he
was afraid that the case would be alingering one, and would
be attended with great expenses. Ile subsequently got her
into St. George's Hospital, and, after she left there, he got
her into another hospital. When she came hack from Mar-
, gate, he saw her again at the request of the father, and
I examined her back, where he found a wetted which she said
was the effect of a bed-pan, which had been placed under
her hack That she took to her bed on the 3rd of September,
at which time she had no sore hack nr tendency to it, or even
pain there, not having before that kept her bed a single day.
She then, after five or six dis applied to the nurse for a bed-
pan, which was given her, but it was not removed, except at
night and morning to be emptied, for three days, and
she had then dreadful sores on her back, and that
she told the nurse of it, and afterwards the matron,
when it was removed. Deceased also told witness that Mr.
Field, the surgeon, had twice examined her back ; that she
could not lie in leml, as it was most uncomfortable, being a
hard straw bed. After Mr. Field's attention had been drawn
to her back, it was dressed by the nurse with spermaceti
ointment, and that she remained with the wound, which was
attended with retentioa of urine, at the infirmary one week.
The deputy coroner told Mr. Ostrich that what the deceased
stated to him was not legal evidence, unless she felt at
the time that she could not recover, and was dying. Mr.
Godrich said his firm belief was, that when she told him that,
she was convinced she could not recover. The deputy coroner
said what the deceased had told him, might help to guide
him in his opinion on the case ; but it was not legal evi-
dence. By the deputy coroner: When he saw the de-
ceased the first evening after her return, he found the had
six wounds upon her person, one being on the spine;
but the far largest one was on the issuer part of the
right thigh. There were also two wounds on each hip. They
were all distinct wounds, and had a bed-pan been put to it
they would have been found to have formed the curve of it.
He immediately saw, when she came home in that condi-
tion, that it was a hopeless ewe, and only ordered her bark
and wine, and other strengthening things. When he first
saw the wounds they were as one wound, extending nearly
to the bone. Had since made a post ;torten' examination of
the body, which has been reduced to writing.—The con-
elusion was this :
From the peculiar situation and relative position of these wounds,
we cowhide that they were not produced by irine on a Cot
surface, but by the pressure of a ring of some hard substance
against her person, and we COMIII(V, from the absence of morbid
appearances in nay of the viscera, that bee death was caused by the
wounds above dews shed."
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By the Deputy-Coroner: Did not examine the spine or
spinal cord.
The Deputy-Coroner here explained to the jury that in
such cases, for the want of vitality in the parts, where them
was any pressure, sores would occur. rhea. would even
occur from cold water, rags, and were therefore more likely
to do so from a hard substance. .

Mr. A. W. Warder deposed that he agreed in the state-
ment which had been read, and with the evidence and opi-
nions of Mr. Godrich.

Mr. Alfred George Field deposed that he was surgeon to
the Royal Sca-bathing Infirmary at Margate. Srw the
deceased after her admission. She had curvature of the
spine, and paralysis of her loins. There was no other dis-
tinct sign of scrofula. The infirmary is instituted for scrofu-
lous diseases, and such other as can be bore itecl by a resi-
dence at the sea-side. At first, she being exceedingly weak,
witness directed her bathing and tonics. Saw her daily in
going his rounds. Witnets's attention was called particularly
to deceased after her father's visit to her, wh:n she was
seized with erysipelas in her face. She had always been on
a bed from the time of her admission. Deceased never made
any remark v-ittirse about her di'et. Might 'ace had
the gruel altered had she complained of it. When the
erysipelas occurred her diet was al.ered. Was not con-
sulted about a bed-pan being put under her. It
was the place of the nurse to do it. Did not know
there had been a bed-pan until his attention was
called to her back. Deceased was dressed every day. On
the 2nd of September she was taken with crisypelas. Could
not sal what day his attention was first drawn to her hack.
He was told of it by the head nurse, Anne Perrin. When
he examined it saw no appearance of wound. There was
only excoriation of far skin. Prescribed some alkalies. She
was very much lowered by the erilypelas. Attributed the
exerriatton of the skin to hie intinencr which she had had.
Lying on straw beds is cooler than feathers. It is only
summer institution, and is closed in winter. When he vi-ited
deceased, saw no bed.pau, or marks of one. Did not know
then that one had been used. First heard of the bed-pas
haying been used by a letter he received from Mr.
Godrich atter the deceased's removal. It was the ditty
of the nurses to have told him Examined deceased
the day before she left, on the morning of the 16th of Sep-
tember. There were actual sloughs, but the skin had not
separated. Thought them serious wounds, and likely to

prove Mud. Witness had directed the steward td writo to
her friends, and to leave it to their discretion whether they
removed her or not, which he did. That was after he was
aware of the injury to her back.
Mr. Gode.ch, iu answer to questions by the deputy
coroner, said th it the wounds must have been as bad for a
day or two before as when he saw her alter her return. He
could not believe that what he saw had occurred within 24
hours. It must be recollected that the muscles well all
exposed down to the bone, and that eh, only lived nine days
afterwards.

Mr. Field's exam;nation resumed —When he examined
deceased he did so minutely and carefully. She was not
moved to a bed where there was a hu'e for a pan.
His impression was that no bed-pan had been used,
and that it was only from the pressure on the
on eh bed. When she could not be removed, he ordered
her to be provided with folded linen, to be put under her,
and plenty of feather pillows were used to prevent the pres-
sure. Had no water beds; but if they had, the patients
would not like them. Had no sir bed. Have plenty of
linen to change, if soiled. Water beds would be available if
they had them. Had been surgeon to the infirmary fur six
months. The beds are rather crowded in the worth in the
height of the season, and it would be advisable if they were
less so. There was now not more than 100 patients at the
close of the season ; but they accommodate 232 in the height
of the season. Had no reason to think that a bed-pan had
been used from what he saw, although he now knew that it
had. Could not say what pillows—feather or straw pillows
—were put under deceased, as he did not sec them, but told
the nurses to put soft pillows.
Sarah Fagg, the nurse who hail attended deceased, de-
posed that she did so under Mrs. Perren, the head nurse.
Deceased while there always kept her bed. Ceuta not say
when the bed-pan wax first used. Dee-eased requested to
have it herself. That was two or three &lye after she had
the erisypelas. There are only feather beds for the nurses,
the others were all of straw. The pan was rather a deep
one. She was placed on the bed with that under her. There
was no flannel round the edge of the pan ; hut witness laid
a linen cloth oa it. It was emptied two or three times in the
day, and removed altogether at night, as it did not answer.
There was a sort of red mark, from the pan, on her back
when it was removed, but no sore of any kind. Called Mr.
Field's attention to her back ; but could out say if de-
ceased was turned on her face several times. Dressed de-
ceased on the morning she left, with the assistant-nurse.
There was no wouni then. The skin was not broken. Saw
no wound underneath the deceasee's thigh. The spermaceti
ointment was used three days before deceased left to cool
her. All the beds are alike. There are no soap plasters for
the back to preserve from injury. Straw pillows are used
to nll the patients' beds. Did not know the length of the
beds. The diet for breakfast was bread and butter and gruel,
and good meat for dinner. They must buy tea and cuftee
and things not provided by the infirmary.—By a Juror : The
pillows were placed under her bed not because she com-
plained, but to make her comfortable.
Mr. Godrieh recalled : There was no other wound on any
part of deceased's body, or the faintest blush of pressure.
Hannah Coteen, the mother of the deceased, corroborated
her husband's statement, and in addition, stated, that when
she took deceased down thet c, she drew the attention of the
matron, in the presence of the nurse, to the shortness of the
bed, as deceased's feet went over it and rested on the bed-
stead, when she promised it should be altered, but it never
wee. When she went and fetched her home, her heels were
black from being on the beepeets. She received no directions
from the doctor to do anything to deceased's back. On her
way home, deceased told her that the beef was so hard, and
the mutton so fat, that she could nut eat it, and she used
to change it for bread.
Elizabeth Prater, a young woman, who was in the infir-
mary twelve weeks but a day, and left it; seen weeks age,
deposed to deceased helping helping herself to the night-
stool, and said deceased's bed was too short by about four or
five inches. The nurse could not make the bed without see-
ing that. Thought the head nurse more to blame than the
witness Flag. The committee met once a fortnight, and
went through the wards, but never questioned the patients.
The meat wes fat necks of mutton, but nu cominittee days
there was roast meat: and very good. The mutton consisted
of leg and shoulders on that day ; they had only one other
day in the fortnight roast meat ; the meat was always better
on committee days than on other days.
The deputy coroner then said that the result of the in-
quiries made at Margate, proved that the bed pan had been
under deceased only one day, and that it wan removed
two or three times during that day.
The deputy-coroner then proceeded to sum up the evi-
dence, pointing out the points on which the jury would have
to decide in their verdict, and concluded by saying he
thought the committee ought to inquire into the facts elicited
in the evidence, but not an inquiry like that lately held in
St. Pancras, but an inquiry that would show them to be
benevolent men, and that they were anxious to have the
institution conducted properly.
The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and after
an absence of nearly threemuarters of an hour, on their re-
turn the foreman said the jury were unanimously of opinion
"'That the cause of the death of Elie iheth Cotton was the
consequence of the wounds caused by the injudicious use of
a bed-pan, while in the Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary at
Margate ; and the jury were further of opinion that there
was gross neglect on the part of the surgeon and nurses of
that establishment."

Mr. Field complained of his being the only medical man
included in the censure of the jury, when he had acted
only under the directinns of the visiting physicians, Dr.
Canham and Dr. Dennison.—The jury said it had never
apiscared in evidence that the physicians had seen deceased.
They thought Mr. Field was a free agent in the matter.
They could, however, state their reason why they censured
hint if he wished it —The deputy-coroner stopped the argu-
ment, by deciding that the verdict could not he altered, as
it hail been delivered and sign, d.—Toe jury expressed their
thanks to Mr. Oodrich and Mr. %Vanier for their conduct in
bringing the case before the public.—The inquiry then
terminated.

PUBLIC BATHS IN ST. GEoltlieS, EAST.—On Tues-
day afternoon, the vestry poll, which had been demanded
relative to the adoption of baths and washhouses fur the poor
in this parish, was closed, when a majority of 230 was de-
dared against the measure. This announcement was, we
are told, received with " much cheering:* It is difficult to
understand how, to have deprived the poor of the means of
comfort and cleanliness for the sake of saving a paltry rate,
can be made a subject of rejoicing or conirratulation.
TREATMENT OF THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS WORK-
Rouse.—At the weekly meeting of the Board of Directors
and Guardians of the poor of St. Pancras, held in the board-
room of the workhouse, on Tuesday, the following resolu-
tion was put : " The resolution of the vestry as to the man
Whitt having been communicated to the board as follows:
Resolved, that this sentry consider the reason assigned by
Mr. L^e for dismissing the man Whitt from the carpenter's
shop, is most unsatisfactory, frivolous, and absurd. This
vestry do therefore respectfully request the directors will
immediately cause this said man Whitt to be reinstated in
his former occupation;' resolved, that this board concurs
with the vestry in opinion that it was injudicious in Mr. Lee
to have dismissed the man Whitt from Isis temporary employ-
ment under the circumstances in connexion with which that
dismiss, d took place ; but this board, having regard to the
paramount necessity of preserving order and subordination
amongst the inmates of the workhouse, deem it inexpedient
to reinstate the said man in his former occupation in the
workhouse." After some angry discussion, Mr. Church-
warden Wagstaff proposed that the board consent to take the
case of Whitt into further consideration, and that such de•
termina•ion should be added to the resolution. The proposed
addition having been 'assented to, the motion, as amended,
was put from the chair and carried, and after disposing of
some routine business, the board broke up.
LORD NORTHAMPTON AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

—Sir : )Iv attention having been directed to an article In the Lanett,
full of mistakes and minstatements, I take the %malignity afforded
to me by your columns, If you will give aie leave so to do, to contra-
dict the report that I have resigned the cake of president of the
Royal Society. It is neither neceaary nor right for me to enter upon
the other assertions containod in WA paragraph, but the well-known
Let that I have long been anxious that the anniversary of the Itny.d
Society should be held at a more convenient time thin the 30th of
November. My obsemtions on that subject in my last year's address
to the society, and the introduction of discussion an papers, sod of
other changes during my presidency, and with my entire (anent renee,
will show to the readers of the article in question how much accuracy
they may expect In Its other statements. -I ani, Sir, your humble
servant, NORTHAMPTON. —Peterborough, Oct. 13, MIS.
THE DESECRATION Or TILE DEAD.—Some days
back it was stated that a considerable number of human re.
mains and fragments of coffins had been shot on the roads
in the neighbourhood of Battle-bridge. The circumstance
led to an inquiry, and inquiry has brought to light the
following facts. It has been found necessary to enlarge St.
Giles's workhouse, and in digging the foundation for the
new buildings, behind the old workhouse, the workmen
came on what appears to have been a disused and forgot-
ten burial-place. Before the fact was well ascertained some
of the rubbish, containing the remains of the dead, was
carted away and shot with other rubbish on some public
thoreughfures. As noon, however, as the fact came to the
knowledge of the guardians of the parish, and of the
builder, care was taken to remove the rein-alai with de-
cency and propriety; and they have been, or are to be,
removed to the St. Gilea's cemetery, St. Pancras-road. The
bodies appear to have been very closely stowed in the
ground, and not to have been more than four feet beneath
the surface. The spot is now surround. .d with tenements
very thieldy inhabited, and we are more surprised that
people can exist at all in such a locality than that the
neighbourhood is the abiding place of fevers and of other
fatal diseases. Several hundred bodies have already been
removed. The dates discovered on the coffins are the early
part of last century-1728.
A POLICEMAN DANGEROUSLY STAEtßED.—Yester-
day, shortly before two o'clock, Benjamin Wood, City
Police.eonstable 526, was sitting at dinner with his wife, at
their lodsri, tigs, Talhat-court, Gyeeelturch-syret, wheel ,
some words arose between them, which ended in the wife ,
throwing with great violence a sharply-pointed table-knVe,
which struck him on the neck beneath the right ear. He
was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he now remains
in an almost hopeless state from the loss of blood. Immedi-
ately after the oocurrence the wife gave herself up at the
station.house, Garlick-hill. Benjamin Wood is • mild in-
offensive man, and is deemed a very excellent officer. Ile
has been attached to the force almost ever since it was first
established, and was highly respected both by his saperior ,
as well as his brother officers.
IN'zi' EiTB.—By Mr. W. Payne, at Gay's Tlo9ital,
on the holy of John Kiilerby, aged 10, who fo,t his Lie by
being jammed between the buffers of two carriAges at the
Londmi-bridge terminus. About half-past nine o clock on
Tuesday morning, deceased, a carriage cleaner, was engue.ed
rubbing a Brighton carria:;c which had just come up. Ibis i
carriage was kept partialy in moti .n until it arrived near ,
what is termed a turn-table, towards which &nuttier carriage,
weighing about four or five tons, was being prow:led (loam
an inclined plane, and proceeding at right angles with the
carriage on whit.h deceased was employed; the latter bad his
back turned towards the other carriage, and the men en-

gaged in pushing could not see the deceased, and the latter,
t aough eautton ed, c Jul el not get out or the way in time, and the
result was that he was struck by the buffr and droveagainst
Lis own carriage. He was conveyed to the above hospital,
when it was f nub Chit there were several ribs broken on
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Mod-Erect, Westminster, on the body of Charles Boore,
aged 45, a bricklayer. The deceased was at work on the
26th August last, pointing down the fronts of some new
houses in Chirlwood-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road, when, in
stepping from one of the windows on to the seed: ad, stated
t he inseeerely built, the putloek gave way, and he was
precipitated to the ground, a death of 25 feet, several of the
seafftal boards falling upon the deceased, fracturing his right
thigh and leg, and injuring the spine. He was conveyed to
the Westminster Hospital, where he gradually sunk,
and expired am Sunday last from extensive injury to the
Tine, caused by fleeaccident. 'AccidentalVerdiet, deal h."—
Dieern PROM A SURGICAL OPERATION.—By Mr. Bedford,
at the Monmouth Heed, Heming's-row, St. Martin's-lane,
on the body of William Arthur Webb, aged one year and
nine months, son of the engineer to the governmeut water-
works, Orange-street, Leicester-square. In February last
deceased being then only 13 months' old, was entrusted to
the care of a girl named Manly to nurse, who beat it vio-
lently. On its being taken home the most tender part of its
person was found to be swollen with marks of violence and
blood. A tumour formed, and subsequently " fungus
h.cmatodes." As the only chance of saving life •an operation
on Wednesday the 7th, was performed by Mr. Partridge, of
King's College Hospital, but the child died the scree eight.
The surgeon stated that the disease no doubt originated from
• blow or fall. The jury returned the f Mowing Verdict,
" that the deceased died from internal htemorrage, after
undergoing an operation rendered necessary by the diseeso
under which it laboured, but whether such disease was spon-
tateous or from violence there was no evidence to show."
The girl Manly, aged fourteen, was 1. etured by th
coroner.—DROWNED IN A WARRING TCR.— By Mr.
William Carter, at the Pitt's Head Tavern, Grange-road,
Bermointwey, on the body of Samuel Robert Hodgkin., aged
eight months', whose friends reside at No. 10, Diamond-
street, Grange-road. The deceased, who was in good health,
was left on the morning of Monday on the bet by its mother,
while she went out of the room and oa her return soon
afterwards she discovered the deceased lying heal down-
wards in a washing tub containing some dirty water, which
had been esrelessly left by the bedside ; lite was extinct. A
surgeon was also called in but all efforts to restore
animation were of no avail. The jury after
few remarks in reference to the carelessness of t
mother returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."—
DEATH FROM IcEINO DItUNE.—Hy Mr. Mills, at the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, on the body of George Whittieys, aged 81,
a gunsmith. Deceived had been once armourer at the
Tower, and had previously seen much foreign service. He
had been for souse years superannuated, and was supported
by an allowance from the Gunmakers' Society. On Tues-
day week, whilst standing in a state of intoxication on
the kerh-stone of the foot-pavement in Welbeek.strect,
Soho, he fell ngainet tlic wheel of a cab that was passing by,
and was thrown, injuring his head in two places. He was
removed to the above hospital, in which he died on Sunday,
from shock to the constitution, caused by the fall. Verdict
" Accidental death."—ANOTIIER DEATH PROM INTOXI-
CATION —By Mr. Bedford, at the Bell Tavern, Wellington-
street, Strand, on the body of Elizabeth Granville, aged 25,
the wife of a tobacconist, No. 7, Brydgee-strect. Monday
being the deceased's husband's birthday, a party was invit'
to celebrate it. Joviality was kept up till an early hour 1,
the morning, deceased joiniug in the dances, and appearing
in high health and 'mints. Towards the close, however, she
got so much the worse for the wine and epirits she had taker
that she was obliged to be undressed and put to bed ; and
the servant going into the apartment in the morning, eh.
found deceased lying on her face on the pillow quite cold,
and apparently dead. The surgeon pronounced life to
have been some time extinct. In accordance with the medical
testimony, the jury returned • verdict—" That the deceased
died of sanguineous apoplexy, necelerated by intoxication."
THE GREAT BRITAIN AND ADMIRALTY CHAR'.
—lt has been supposed that Captain Claxt in, in his letter
describing the cause of the Great Britain running ashore, re-
ferred to an Adinimlty chart, whereas he referred to a chart
sold by some persons who call themselves agents to the Ad-
miralty. The error appears to have been participated in I'
the Liverpool Mail, which, in its publication of the
inst., has a paragraph saying: " I hive made epecial
quiries as to the date of the erection of the St. John's Ligl
which, it is said, was mistaken for the Calf of Man Light
and find that this will be the third winter of its existene
How in the name of common sense or justice was this ligl
omitted in the Admiralty Chart:" This strange state-
I ment has called forth from Mr. Bate, the agent for the
miralty charts this contradiction : " The fact is, that the .
John's Light has been laid down in all toe Admiralty charts
since its erection, as may be seen by a reference to those
chart.. It is also fully described in the Admiralty List
British Lighthouses, published Bth May, 1546."
ULTIMATE DESTINATION OF TILE STATUE.— Con-
mich rabic curiosity is being excited as to what tan Ire done
with the Duke's Statue dB is obliged to descend from P
present elevated position. It has been suggested that
grand group might be achieved by placing it side by
with the Achilles, who might be employed in holding v..
Duke's horse ; for the hero of antiquity has been fur some
years stretching forth his hand, as if in the ettitutle of hold-
ing a horse for somebody. No animal has ever yet been
found large enough to admit of his carrying out his uer.ol,-
modating intentions, but the mammoth horse of the Hake
just about the proper height for the purpoc... If the Do
is to remain where he is, some support must he found
him and perhaps a small group of Peninsular veterans
might be introducA appropriately, as having hero the parties
who raised him to his very high position —l'unch.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Ocr.
INVEsTITI'RE OP THE ORDER OF ST. PATun n.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, by command of he
Majesty, held a Chapter of the Most Illustrious Order of
St. Patrick, yesterday. The Earl of Fingal) was introduced
by the Gentleman Usher and Ulster King of Arms, and
kneeling received the honour of Knighthood. The Noble
Earl was subsequently invested in the usual form with '
insignia of the order.
STATE or THE CotxTnx.—Tho following accounts
ceived to-day depict the deplorable condition of the count
in Clare and Galway, the destitution of the maple, and
violence to which, unhappily, they have recourse:
(From the Clare Journal.)
On Saturday morning, about five o'clock, sic men stopped
a horse and car bringing oats to market, near filially hill,
and ;mapped a gun at the horse. The animal started at the
flash, and fell under the car, where he remained fur a long
time, the peaple being afraid to give the owner assi.tance.
At the hour of ten o'clock, a party similar in number stoop,
a horse with a load of corn, on the road at Fowderhi
near Ruan, and fired two shots at the horse, wounding
him dreadfully. The owner entreated them not to •
jure the horse, and he would return home with
oats, but the legislators refused compliance with the
quest. The police stationed at Roan immediately went
pursuit, hut were not able to come up with the party.
We understand there were no less than 111 paupers admitted
into the workhouse of Ennistymon on Friday. This
strong proof of the utter destitution prevalent in ,
neighbourhood. In different places within the last few do
the people assembled in masses, and dug out for their of
use the potatoes belonging to some of the large farmers.
(Front the Galway Vindicator.)
OORT, TrEsDtv AlnitNlNo.-1 am sorry to inform yc
that on yesterday morning (Monday), we were threatene
with a serious disturbance, namely, one thousand poor
labourers entered the town on the George's-street-road,
bearing spades and shovels, and were compell,ng some
forty men to accompany them who were receiving employ-
ment on a line of road. Trey marched into the town, and
assembled opposite Dean Kirwan's gate, who immediately
advised them to go home, and that work should be got for
them immediately. They did intend going on the Newtown
line to turn out those who were working (at 84. a day).
They were pacified when they saw the Rev. Mr. Nagle start
for Galway to procure 500 tickets, apd Mr. Runt assured
them they should be employed next day if Mr. Nagle got the
ticket,. *Mr. Nagle did not bring them ; hut they were to
be sent after him next morning, as the offica from whom
they
.are got was from home. The crowd, on Mr. Runt',
assuring them of work, separated, and indeed starvation we
strongly marked on their countenances, and many of them
openly said they would do some seta of violence to procure
themselves and their families food.
FooD DIsTERRANCE IN OALWAY.—In my letter of Tues-
day's date, I forwarded to you an account of the disturbance
In Galway, in which a poor woman lost her life ; the folios
ing is a full detail of the melancholy circumstances in whicL
it arose :—Mr. John Connor, with some twenty or thirty
othersof his acquaintance, went, on Thursday last, ta invite
the aid of the Rev. John Roche, R.C.C., in forming an escort
for conveying the carts, containing meal and flour, out of the
town and suburban parishes, and the Rev. Mr. Roche at
once consented to act with them. Thee accordingly induced
the carmen to proceed with them, Air. Roche taking the
kad, Mr. Connor and his friends ataticning themselves in
the rear, and, after mush remonstrance and no little fatigue.
the escort had about forty cartloads of meal and flour cur
rayed safe!). to Clare Galway. about six miles out t
the town. Some of it reached Team that night
Thus far all was well ; but shortly afterwards a most lament
aisle occurrence took place at Boherbeg, one of the thorougl
fares leading out of the team. It appears that the men oe
this street, having proceeded to the cross-road at Bohermore
to a-rc: t. a carts wh'.:h the Rev. 311. Fact: and el' otla.•
parties forming the escort induced them to. permit to pass i
safety, the women determined upon stepping any whith,
the mean time, might come their way, and accordingly who.
four or five other carts laden with flour and meal were pro.
ceeding through Boherbeg, the women, frantic with hunger
and the cries of their famishing children, rushed upon the
provisions and eneeavoured to plunder some of them. Ia
duiug so one of the starving creatures who, we have been
cresiibly given to understand, had nothing but one meal fe
a day and a half pr,vious, laid hold of the head of one VIII
horsie, exclaiming the would have scene of the meal or i ea
her iife. The driver at the same mumr:it .true, the horse
Is i.h his wl:ip, the result of which was, that the unfortunate
woman fell, when the wheel of the cart passed over her
thro.,t, killing her on the spot.
CONt.ILIATIoN HALL.—Our space excluded yesterday
ssenewhat. comic interlude in the late proceedings at
Coheiliation-Hall Mr. John Augustus O'Neill rare
gnal,
move tain reeJlutions and in &dug aanounced ,
to
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marked that he did not think it fair that he shouldbe?_4l
upon to pay a large sum of money out of hro is own '-
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put in who hal came down with a five-pound note. (Cheers )
Ho (Mr. O'N.) had ao aristrocraticappendage to his name—
he born the name of a plundeted and murdered Irish chief-
tain. These observations called up Mr. John O'Connell to
utter some sarcastic inuendoes about the friendship
which could adopt such miserable calumnies as were
whispered against hit father. Mr. O'Neill interrupted him
—"Oh, O'Connell, I pray yon stop for an instant—stop !
I pledge you my honour as a gentleman, and my word as a
Christian man, I have not said a word hut what is honour-
able to your father." Mr. O'Neill and Mr. John O'Connell,
after a few more differences about Mr. Cecil Lawless, and
other recent Oil Ireland movements, ended with shaking
hands. The rent for the week was announced to be
471. 13s. 3d. Mr. John O'Connell attributed this to " the
increasing destitution of the country."

WALES.
Loss or A CLERGYMAN, NEAR SNOWDON.—AM MYNA
which, it is feared, has terminated in the death of a promis-
ing young clergyman of the established church, recently oc-
curred at Llanberris. It appears that the Rev. Kr. Starr
bad, for some weeks, been on a pedestrian excursive through
the most romantic portions of North Wales, and Oaths MI
been in the habit of regularly corresponding with hie deeds
at Northampton, wh 're he hold* a curacy. Not ltiminvy
beard from him for some time, his mother and sister beams
alarmed at his lung continued silence, and ultimatel deter-
mined to set out for Llanberris in search of hint Mrs. and
Mies Starr reached the inn at that place on the afternoon of
Sunday, the 4th instant, and on inquiry, learned that a
gentleman answering their description of Mr. Starr, had
passed the night there about three weeks before; that
on the following morning be left the inn, and ascended
Snowdon ; was s.en on his descent [Wan the moun-
tain, and was again seen at the top of the pass,
where be stopped at a house, and obtained some
water to quench his thirst. He then ascended another
mountain on the opposite side of the pass, termed the Glyder.
Ile was next observed on the summit by a man named
Hughes, living at Llanberris, who, at his request, accompa-
nied him full halfway on the descent, and after pointing out
the path left the unfortunate gentleman to pursue his way
alone. After going some short.. distance, Hughes warned
him to keep to the right hand, as the evening was becoming
very misty, and there was the danger of Llyn cwm Fynon, a
dangerous spot, to be avoided. Mr. Starr was never seen
afterwards, and no doubt is entertained that he perished on
the mountain, having lost his road on the bleak and barren
ground he had to traverse. The grief of his unfortunate re-
latives on hearing the particulans of the sad catastrophe may
be imagined, the snore especially as no ground for hope is
left, the proof of identity being further supported by the fact
that the gentleman seen on the Glyder had only one glove
on, the fellow to which was found in the lugsrage of Mr.
Starr. Search has been made for the body with dogs, but
hitherto without effect.