The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1848.

THE MURDER IN SPITALFIELDS.
INQUEST.

Yesterday, Mr. W. Baker held an inquest, at the
Duke of W,llington, Spitalfields, on the body of Henry
Lazarus, aged six and a half years, who wee murdered on
Monday night last. Mr S. Oates, solicitor, attended en be-
half of the friends of the deceased to watch the ease. The
jury having viewed the body, the following witness were
celled:
David Lazarus, a general dealer, of 26, Tenter street,
Tenter.ground, Spitufields, identified the deceased as his
son, and having repeated the avid, nce given before the nu-
eisteate at Worship-street police court, added that he saw the
deceased lust alive at about halt-put nine o'clock on Monday
night.—The Coroner When you last saw the deceased, was
any one with him? Witness: There was; my will and
cousin were there.—The Coroner: How was it that you first
missed the child ? Witness a I had ordered my wile
to make the bed, when the deceased went to the
front door, and sat on a chair. It was from the
chair I missed him. After the hed was made my wife called
the children one by one, and after the two girls were un-
dressed I found that deceased bad left the chair unknown to
either of en. We then went about the neighbourhood
making inquiries about him, but could gain no tidings of
him. He was dressed in a pair of dark corduroy trousers
and jacket, but no waistcoat, and a pair of stout boots.
Coroner Was there any mark on the clothes ?—Witness :
One of the buttons was broken off the jacket, and I removed
one from the hip of the trousers to supply its place, and fixed
an add one on the trousers; besides which, the legs being
tee long I turned them up at the bottom, so that I should be
able to identify them if amongst 10,000 pairs.
The Coroner: This is very important, and if it finds its
way into the newspapers it will have the effect of causing
every person to examine any clothing that may be offered
for sale.

A juror : What was the value of the clothes ?—Witness
They would not fetch above half a-crown. The boots might
probably fetch another Is. tid.
Joseph Levy, of No. 9, Frying Pan-alley, said that he was
en the service of Mr. Cartels., • coal-dealer, of 16, Tenter-
street. He left off work at eleven o'clock on Monday night,
and went home to sleep.—The Coroner: 'When you left, was
there any ono in the yard ? Witness : I am certain there
was not, for before I left, in consequence of having missed
some thing. from the yard, I looked round and found that
nobody was there. The nest morning, when I went to the
yard I saw the child's ear through a crevice in the board.
The hoard had been removed from where I placed it to the
wall against the house. Nothing else was disturbed in the
yard.
Mr. Gilbert, surgeon, said that he was called up on
Tuesday morning to see the deceased. When he arrived
lifo was extinct, and had been so some hours. His im-
pression was that death was caused from strangulation.
The Coroner said it would not he right to bring • ease
of such importance hastily to a conclusion. Ile should like
the contents of the stomach to be analysed, as it was im-
possible to tell what might hereafter arise. He did not
think they ought to leave a atone unturned, and if addi-
tional time was given the clothing of deceased might be
traced. The case was certainly one of the most mysterious
nature he had ever heard of. The jury were therefore
bound over, each in the sum of 401., to appear on Monday
next.

SONS OF TILE CLERGY.—The Annual Festival of the
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy was held yesterday, in
St. Paul's Cathedral. The evening service was performed,
and an eloquent sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Day,
who advocated with much earnestne,s and force the claims
of this important institution, the funds of which arc applied
in apprenticing children of necessitous clergymen, or other
wise placing them in respectable situations in life. The mu-
sical portion of the service was performed by a numerous
and powerful choir, composed of above 40 singers. It con-
sisted of Attwood's "Cantate Domino" in 1); the same corn-
, poser's Deus Misereatur " in I) minor; Croft's anthem,
We will rejoice ; " Purcell's "G, sing unto the Lord ; "
and Oreene's " 1 will sing of power, 0 God." In the des ay
into which the cathedral choirs have been allowed to fall, it is
only en extraordinary occasions like this that the beautiful
music of our ecclesiastical service is properly heard, the ordi-
nary strength of the choirs being quite insufficient to give
any idea of its grandeur and sublimity. After the sermon
there was a collection in aid of the fund. of the charity,
amounting to 1121. There was a crowded congregation.
A large number of the friends of the institution dined to•
arther afterwards at the Merchant Taylors' Hall. The Lord
Mayor presided, supported by the Archbishop of Cant, rbury,
the Bishops of Lichfield, Salisbury, Winchester, and Ripon,
the Dean of Hereford, the Earl of liarrowby, Lord Bolton,
and other distieguished individuals. The usual variety of
touts were gine, due honour being paid to royalty
and the corporation. The shairman, in proposing the health
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, paid a tribute to the
memory of the late archbishop, and alluded particularly to
kis services to the corporation. The right rev. prelate, in
returning thanks, expressed the pleasure which he felt in
being present—fur the first time—and rendering whatever
assistance to them lay in his power. The subscriptions during
the evening amounted to nearly 1,1001.

THE CHINESE JUNK, so long talked of, has at length
been duly registered as one of the lions of 184/4, and is now 1
on view in the East India Dock basin, close by the Black-
well Hallway terminus. It really is a thing wcrth seeing. I
The primitive build, and still more primitive contrivances
for handling this opocinten of Chinese nasal archileCtate, are
in themselves worth all the money and time that must be ex-
pended in paying it a visit. Talk of the wisdom of our an-
cestors! Here is a sample of the "hip-butlding wisdom and
skill of the ancestor of the Chinese, which may have dated
from the earliest ages of the world. Certainly never before
did so unwieldy and misshapen a vessel traverse the Indian and
Atlantic oceans ; and the underwriters it there were to be
found nun bold enough to insure a craft of this build, bad
great need of the pious invocation which is appended to the
hills of lading is use amougstChristian nations. The Chinese
seem to possess, in respect to ship-building—u indeed in
everything else—whatl Lord Palmerston attribute' to Mr.
Urquhart in politics, namely, a standing idea; and though
the idea is not a very graceful one, yet it must be suletanti
atly good, or the Keying would have foundered long ego in
her attempt to reach our shores. It would be m.rveilous
if a people with some thousands of miles of iron-bound
coast, and with other thousands of miles of internal
navigation, could have remained so long in dark-
ness so to the "lines" requisite to constitute a
thorough sea-going craft, were it not that, if they have
a religion at all, that religion is veneration foe their ances-
tors, and immutable sfatus-quo•ism. As improvement would
imply a doubt of the infallibility of their ancient sages, inven•
Lion i±, with the Chinese, rank blasphemy ; and the man who
attempted to improve naval architecture or anything else,
would infallibly be decapitated. Hence the junk Keying
is of precisely the game build as the vessels which carried the
"Celestials" three thousand year age. To attempt a de-
scriptioa of the various peculiarities which distinguish this
from all other vessels in the East India Dneks, would
be as idle as it would be useless. The curious in such mat-
ters must go and judge for themselves, when perhaps a cata-
logue may aid them in their researches ; but as no such con-
venience was at hand at the private view yesterday, it is
impossible for the present to do more than to recommend the
vessel to the notice of the public ; and to state that the crew
of Chinese who now man her will be found no less deserving
of attention than the rigging and other adjuncts of this extra-
ordinary sample of navel architecture.

THE REFORM MOVEMENT.

FINSBURY.

A public meeting of inhabitants of St. Luke's,
Middlesex, was held last evening at the school-rooms, Cow-
per-street, City-road, to take measures for obtaining a full
representation of the people, and a more equal mole of
taxation.
Mr. WAXLEY took the chair, and in opening the proceed-
ings observed upon the importance of the objects fur which
they were called together, which he thought di mended fair
play and a fair hearing for everybody. It was the largest
parochial meeting that he had ever attended, and he hoped
that their proceedings would hare due effect elsewhere.
They should make the government aware that the nge of
misgovernment was doomed; ens for this purpose he urged
the necessity of decision and combination in their move-
ments. Their principal requirement was an equal mode of
taxation and a lull and fair representation of the people in
parliament, for it could not be doubted that at present they
were not represented at all. There was ne sympathy
whatever between the representative' and the people,
and while he did not advocate physical force mea-
sures, he considered it discreditable and cowardly on
the part of the people to allow such a state of things to
exist. He recommended that the people, instead of pa .sing
resolutions at public meetings, and thinking no more shout
the subject of them, should organise themselves into a strong
body, to be called together frequently by a committee, and
not to desist from agitation until they had compelled the go-
vernment to grant what they required; and he hoped that
some such plan would be adopted that evening. He thought
the majorities of the House of Commons were even worse
than ministers; for it was natural for a ministry to
suppose, when their measures obtained such large '
majorities, that they were acting in accordance ,
with public opinion. He alluded to a gross case of
bribery which had come to his knowledge at the last
election for Harwich, when the committee of one candidate
were induced by large sums of money to vote in favour of
another—a fact which he considered sufficient to prove the
necessity for some alteration in the existing system. The '
next question was the nature of the change which should be
made. Had he the power, he would even extend the suf-
frage to the female sex, and he did not doubt that they
would make a better use of it than the men; but still it
'
could not be denied that there must be some restrictions.
The property qualification of members sheuld certainly be
abolished ; the people could never be perfectly represented
until they were able to elect representatives of their own
class ; for idleness could not represent industry, nor vice re-
present the virtue which was so commonly found among the
working classes. He concluded by enjoining them to urge
their own views with calmness and moderation, and to listen
to any opposing arguments with equal fairness and goodwill.
Mr. PALLISER moved the first resolution. He denounced
in strong terms the present system, which deprived so many
men of their natural right—a voice in the government of the
country ; and pointed out the inconsistency of allowing a
vote to any person, without reference to hie condition or ca-
pacity, simply because he was a householder, when he might
have persons lodging with him who were entitled to a far
greater degree of consideration. He alluded to several
!Distances of inequality in representation, where small and
ins.'enificant boroughs sent as many representatives to par-
populous and important cities ; he touched mho
on imeral other prominent points of reform, concluding
by following the pemarka of the chaieulan with regard to