The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-20 00:00:00

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THY WEEK.

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The deaths registered in London in ther weal." end-
ing Saturday, Sept. 18, were 2,866 ; of which 1,882 we re by
shakes; making the segregate numbers, dare the dm-
ntenesssest of On epidemic le London, 12,837. 'lire ds rthe
from all games In the last sit sormentive weeks wave Lb ...4
2,230, 2,466, 2,796, 3,163, 2,663. The lumbers log wt. ek
*eligibly decreased. On &sudsy, the taltabitaate lap um 'e
islands, in the laity and the tummy is their cathedra* v 9 -
lege churches, end chapels, assembled to entreat Go mom
the destroying plague; and as if by anticipation it beganto
subside. Do that the time was asset appropriate. After tier
had been journeying through the gloom, white the darhasso
grew thicker, the terror greater, the strokes of mortality
nearer and everywhere wangle, the light heel, to claws,
and the prayer—half supplication, half thanksgiving—rose of
itself from Ike hearts of the people.
These great eats of religion are rarely performed in Eng-
land ; and whether the earnestness of the nation or the truth.
of GA is regarded, the prayer for health has a much more
IMltioo/ import hem than the ceremonial rites of paganism in
Penis, Greece, or Some ; yet there it would hay. bees
doused Impiety to ask the leases* or the earlier and later
rains, unless the land were tilled and the seed sewn ; or to
implore victory for their arms, ezoept *sash the valour of
well-equipped armies. The prayer for the public health in
England n a solemn pledge, not only that all the powers of
the state, but that the local authorities, the clergy, the edu-
cated classes, who form sad govern opiciin—all the multi-
tudes who join in that prayer—will employ the means which
with GA's blessing will ensure its accomplishment, and mare
the people from the ravages of the cholera and other epi.,
desks.

TnoUsande of the houses of London have now no pore
water ; in some places when the cholera is moat fatal, the
inhabitants are driven to use this polluted waters of tidal
sewers for guiltier, and household purposes. This state
of things will exist no longer; the Brat engineers of the
country will be employed to lay the rivers under icontribu-
don, and in every house there will be a spring of fresh,
filtered, living water ; for circulating water uthe life-blood
of a city.
The bodies of the dead, " 'own in cnrruption," will be de-
cently interred in distant grounds, and sacred grove., where
thee flesh may be resolved into its elements without taint-
lug the air and destroying their brothers. The carnage of
slaughtered animal' will no longer be suffered to infect the
air of 'idea.
The risks and sewers of London—black, bubbling likes
and rivets under ground—extending from the Thames to the
house.drains and cesspools, send up damps into dwelling'
nightly, travel by us in the streets daily, and through a
thousand mouths by the way and river aids pour their poi-
.onons incense on the passengers for ev, r : these emanations,
if not drawn through and deocmpoud by fire, will no Ittn.-er
open under our fact', but ascend with the smoke over the
houses ; and other matters be carried, solid or in streams of
water, over distant fields.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, 81111.1.. 19.
The Evening PaeLet, of last night, reports that a
police barrack at Cappoquin was attacked on the
lath instant, by a mob of nearly 200 persons, and
that a severe collision took place with the police. No
ether intelligence oa this matter has reached the
newspaper offices here, so it is to be expected that the
report is exaggerated. The communication runs thus :
About ten o'clock, p.m., on the 16th September instant,
*early two hundred persons, armed with guns and pikes,
attacked the C ,ppoquin police barrack. There were two of
the police on town duty and seven in the barrack. Constable
Power fortunately received a ,me report that the snack was
fa eentemplation a few minutes before it onmeneed ; the
stem made a most pliant resistance, firing out eighteen
shots, by which James Donoughoe, cne of the storming
party, was killed, receiving three bullets through the heart.
The insurgents then, leavieg forty-four pikes on the battle
field. Four prisoners were arrested &antecede, but seemly
a you,/ man is to be bad in the town who has not fled.
Lord Stuart de Rules, Sirs Charles Shaw, Richard Kane,
Richard Musgrave, and P. C. Bowler, Et(l us
busily engaged inquiring into the particulars of this daring
outrage. The two policemen who were on town duty were
badly wounded by the piketnen, one of them having re-
ceived no fewer dim seventeen wounds. Rsguisitions have
' been sent off by Mr. Rowley for a military force, to be
stationed at two potato, so as to intercept the retreat of the
insurgents.
Your correspondent yesterday saw several potato
fields on the borders of the county of Wicklow, in
which the blight had blackened and withered all the
stalks. The roots, on examination, appeared "to be
going," as the peasants in the fields exprceerd it
Both the Beklist News and the Banner of Ulster
give: decided reports that the die 'anis spreading feet
in the north, and is attacking the tubers. This is
melancholy intelligence, and it stems only too likely
that a vast portion of the crop will be lost. However,
there is a vast deal of focd in the country, and we
may escape the worst horrors of a famine, bat our
secret revolution will proceed still further, and gentry
must be prepared to tall further in the social scale.
The county of CJI k magistrates have held a meet-
ing, at which, after a desultory discussion, it was re-
solved not to reduce the constabulary of the county,
as it was thought inexpedient, while the crops are
seized upon in some parts of the south, to diminish
the strength of the authorities.
Lola Mentes proves to be a Corkonian ; at least the
Cork Constitution, a journal of particular accuracy in
local matters, and very well informed, has the follow-
ing statement in a prominent part of its number for
yesterday :
LOLA /110111118.—Tbis celebrated woman is the daughter
of a Cork lady. Rer mother was a member of a millinery
establishment in this city, the partners in which were the
mother of the Countess of Lsaderelt, her enter, and two step-
sisters. Ihe mother was married in this city to Lieut Gil-
bert, the father of Lola, who was an officer in the army. and
shortly after sailed from this port with his wife to join his
regiment, the 21st Semen Native Infantry. Lola's mother,
who is in declining health, psi 1 a visit to her sister in this
city at the &lose et last year.
The Right Rev. Dr. Murphy was consecrated R.C.
Bishop of Cloyne and Roes, on Sunday, in Fermoy
chew!.
The report on the state of the national education
system, by Mr. Kavanagh, the head inspector of
Munster, is very interesting and has important facts.
The gross ignorance of English literature shown by
the teachers is a startling fact as described by Mr.
Kavanagh. He says that numbers of them have
science and classics enough to pass the sizarship
examination in Trinity College, Dublin, yet know no-
thing of English author., nor scarcely anything even
of Irish literary celebrities (except the mere
names), such as Edgeworth, Griffin, Goldsmith,
and many others. The fact is remarkable, and
painfully important. It is of the greatest eon-
',einem* to diffuse a love for reading in Ireland,
and the wane of libraries for the poor is a great evil-
To do justice to the Young Irelandere (however Mill..
c,ievous in other respects), they laboured hard to.
rouse the working classes to make voluntary easels
for forming book clubs.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL
OITOILD, SIFT. 18.—Lmouf Coumcia.—The Bishop
of Lincoln has appointed Mr. B. J. Ode, B.A. exhibitioner
of Lincoln C 40111•, eon of Dr. Ogle, Clinical Pioftuor in this
University, to a F llowship at Lincoln College, vacant by the
promotion of the Be,. C. J. Meredith, B D. to the rectory of
Waddingten, Lincolnshire. Mr. Ogle obtained • Best clam%
tt In Uteri' Humanioribas" in Baum Term, 1848.

Pagranottnr.—Rer. Joseph Dole, M.A., to Bolncy T.
Scow:, din Cnich.. vales 1621. with residence. Patron,
in Chich. Cathedral, void by death of Rev. W. Vincent,

DESTRUCTIVE INCENDIARY FIREB.—On Tuesday
mow Lig last, Sept. 18, in ..bis village of Plumre, a fire
be,ke out in the stackyard of Mr. Brett, the Farms" Arms.
The fire was disowned about ten o'clisek in the rickyard,
and, in spits of every effbrt, contiened to gain ground. By
WO o'clock nine weeks of wheat were entirely consumed,
arida Iwo barn filled with corn wee nest fettled by the
Are. Tnis, with a lenges, a cart, and • great number of
farming :implements, Wm quickly destroyed. Mr. T.r.tt'e
residence was with great difficulty saved by the wstiring
exertions of the firemen and collagen, but not until 's corner
of the house was consumed. Tee fire was not effectually
subdued until six o'clock ea Wednesday wooing, end nearly
200 quarters of wheat, a large quantity of straw, &0., haus
been ewspletely destroyed. 'the man who, from a variety of
circumstances, is supposed to have ceased the fire, w.e ap-
prehended the same evaniog, and after undergoing ea rue.
lunation baron the roagistrates, was remanded until. Bator-
day nest.
DESTBUCTIVII FIRE IN IllAscanists.—Or., Mon.
day evening a large pile of warehouses in TIMM' -street WWI
destroyed byThe loss of the Mum Adr ow, who gra
insured, is aboat S&0& Mr. Crabtree is also a suffirer to the
I amount of 300 i. ; he it also insured. The lerwits of the other
I occupants eke oomperatiTels trifling

Ch. Dia.

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