The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-01 00:00:00

DEATH FROM CHOLERA ON A RAILWAY.

An inquest was held on Saturday last, before G.
D. linker, RA., at the Castle H tel, Castleford, on the
holy of an Ina shearer, named William Sandford, whose
death mar in a great measure ba attributed to the negde
in procuring the necessary medical assistance for the p rue
fellow on his arrival at the Castleford Station. The pried
pal point, of evidence were as follow:
Thomas Sandford, a son of the deceased, seventeen years
of age, stated that deceased resided at Pontefract, and was
sixty ran of age. Oa the previous Wednesday morning
witness and deceased left home to commence shearing fur
Mr. Simpson, at Saxton, but became very ill and con-
tinued so for seamy boors. A hone and cart was borrowed
from Mr. Simpson to take the man to the Church Fenton
Station, from whence he might proceed to CO tleford, and thus
get *rats to Pontefract by way of Knottingl. y. At Church
Fenton station the sen listed the father out of the cart (he
could not even stand), and in corsequence one ol the parties
look td-e old man and put him into a sccond.elus carriage.
The won paid the fare of eighteen puce to Cutler:nil, and
returned to Mr. Simpson's with the horse and cart.
From the testimcny of Richard Clarkson, • porter at the
Ceetleford station, it would appear that deceased mind
there at a quarter to one o'clock. In consequence of infor-
mation given by. the guard, this porter went to the second-
Cams cursive in which the sick man was placed, and with
the assistance of another porter lifted him out, but as ho was
quite unable to stand, had no use in his legs, and was speech-
lees, he wax carried to the bench under the station shed, and,
by order of the station muter (Mr. Phillips), Clarkson went
fur tun constable. Tiia man was half an hour absent on
this erraad, when Mr. Byfurd, the constable, came, and he
sent for Mr. Jesup, the nearest surgeon, who, on &envie et,
found the men deed. It came out in evidence that the rail-
way servants at C meth Fenton were aware of the dangerous
illness of this poor noon when his ticket was issued, and
when he arrived at Castleford, fitteen minutes afterwares,
he was helpless, speechless, and iocapable of doing anything
whatever for himself.
Mr. Adam Jessop, surgeon, was called in to the man at a
' quarter to two, when he was quite dead. Death, in his
opinion, from the symptoms then apparent, had been caused
by exhaustion produced by dianbwa of some days' standing.
The jury returned the following verdict :—" That the de-
ceased has died from diarrhea& ; that the York and
North Maud Railway Company, and their servants, are
deserving of owner* for placing a passenger in the state
deceased was then in the train at the Church Fenton stn-
lion, especially at a time when • fatal epidemic, under symp-
toms of which the deceased was suffering, is linoens to be in
the country; and that they are guilty of great inhumanity
in neglecting. immediately to procure medical assistance on
his removal en a speechless and dying state at the Caatlefurd
station, and in allowing him so to remain upon a beech upon
the platt.am in that station for nearly au hour, and thus die
there without the attendance of a medical man."

The jury requested the Coroner to convey ;copy of their
verdict to the directors of the compacy in qamtion.-IVake.
Meld Journal.

THE LOST LORDS' JOURNALS.—We are authorised
to state. with reference to paragraphs which appeared in
the Exprerg of Widneeday last and yesterday (and
which have been copied foto some other journals), headed,
" Recovery of the Lost Journals of the House of Lords,"
that the originals of the journals of the House of Lords era
in the custody of the prop°• officer at the parliamcht-
offico, House of Lords, and have not been out of his cue-
to ly. The books referred to as having been found at Mr.
Tarry's shop, in the Walworth•road, are not journals, but
appear, and are believed to be, a privates( t of minutes made
up by the then clerk of the journals from the original mi.
cute' of the House of Lords, and kept by him for hie own
immediate us., and considered by him as his own property.
And as there are cow in the parliament office the said on.
ntee from which the above act was made up, the
original journal+ and official minute books, the set referred
to are of no authority and of no official use, and are not
considered to have been books properly belonging to the
office. As, however, they were offered for sale as wrote
paper, they were purchued by a gentleman connected with
the partment, not for the purposes of the office, but with
the view of preventing such mistakes as have appeared in
the said newspaper. Mr. Croft was not one of the librarians,
but formerly clerk of the journals of the House of Lords.

THE PACKET AVON.—A court of inquiry will be
held at Southampton this day (Saturday), to investigate the
circumstance of the royal West India mail reamer Aeon
running ashore at Bubadoes, during her last voyage to the
West ladles.

PUBLICANS AND SCNDAY TRAVELLERR.-At the
la't Aylesbury County Court (Mr. J. W. Wicg, judge), a
person named Langford brought an actin against Mr. Biog.
ham, a licensed vletual'er, to recover les. damages, alleged
to have been sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the
defendant declining to supply refreshment, either to himself
or horse, on Sunday, the Ist of June last. It appeared, from
the plaintiffs statement, that on the day in question he was
proeeediug with a horse and cart, heavily laden, from Oilord
to Leighton Hansard, and that upon °ailing at the defend-
ant's house for refreshment it was refused; the plaintiff
stating that he was, in consequence, compelled to proceed
four miles further on his Janney before he could procure
anything ; sad that the heat of the day, and the want of n-
treament, kad such an effect upon hem that he was cbliged
to lay up for the whole of the following week, by which he
was damaged to the amount of 18s. The judge, however,
refused to give the plaintiff the whole amount be claimed,
but awarded the defendant to pay Its., and the whole of the
costs of the day.

, NORFOLK ESTYARY COMPANY. Yesterday the
sixth half-yearly meeting of the proprietors is this under-
taking was held at the Gray'elos coffeelouse, Holborn, Sir
W. B. Ffolkee, Bart., in Meade. 61r. Wing, the solicitor,
read the report of the directors. It corameteed by con-
, gretulating the shareholders upon their enema on obtaining
an extended act of parliament which extended the time for
the ocmpletion of the works, and compelled the corporation
of Lynn, end the Bau-brink commissioners to contribute
60,0001. each towards the undertaking. The financial state-
ment showed the receipts of the half-year—comprising a cell of
11. 10s. per share, 7331. 10s. ; interest thereon, 91. 18s. I Id.,
and a halloos on the Ia 'count of 5,1131.95. Id.—to amount
to 5,8561.18 e. 4d. The expenditure, including three separate
sums of 1,0001. fresh to the engineers, the parliamentary
mints and the solicitor, on account, amounted to 3,3431.
14e. Old., leaving a present balance:of 2,5131. 4s. 34d. The
report haying been adopted, the following resoletion was
agreed to : ' That to enable each shareholder the better to
undentand bis true p rsit'on, the directors be nquenad to
make cataracts eandiietra on t'e approval of the share-
holdert at the haltyearls m%eticg in Fsbruary nt xr, fcr the
cuts end aa works preliminary and sipper:tektite thereto, and
report the Awn putieulera to each shareholder at least
three weeks before the meting in Fehrttai r• next." After
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