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London, England, 1848-01-19 00:00:00

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that the gas rifled as to destroy all 44,
thati:rwouldPbe attended with diner*.
the gas be rendered so pure as to prevent ft be,
Zer an escape might take the building
with a light
ride. wilding, ea well as human life, might both be de-
hosa4l If the gas could be rendered pure without danger,
dbe moat happy.—Mr. Lawrence, although lie did
ot.spret the g w Isla was to_ be supplied was to be ren-
„....d • pure • not to be devoid ofmmae scent by which its
Zienes could be easily denial, still h thoughth could be
wsipetioed as to destroy those umes whic at question
were
;Mammas and injurious to human life.—The question was
ie-th put and carried and the murt then broke up.
ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR.—
tutee annual meeting of the members was held yester-
at the dispensary, in-Dean-street, Soho. Mr. Paulson,
nay, •
3e.p., presided. The report of the committee stated that,'
opme the establishment of the charity in 1816, upwards of
mew catients, some of whom were deaf and dumb, had
ured or relieved. In the last year the number of
masts had been often in one day upwards of 180 ; mast
those were labouring permins, domestic servants, artisans,
gad distressed foreigners, dependent for support oa their owa
corneas, and to whom any derangement of the function of
wisp; was a serious calamity. Several new remedies end
ogles of treatment had been tested at the dispensary, and,
In some awes with satisfactory results ; and they considered
gut the proceedusgs of the past year had contributed gam-
th• improvement of aural surgery and the mamma
e° Lrinet over many distressing diseases. A very large propor.
Meath' eases presented at the dispensary might be traced to
wing in confined and damp tocalities,:to intemperance, want
d cleanliness and out-door exercise, and insufficient or
sdalarated food. In those cases in which the menu em-
(ailed to produce a cure nearly all were long coetinued,
a•
ka beenneglected in their earlier stages. It was satisfactory
Mat* that in no single instance since the establishment of
*charity had any unfavourable results followed the means
agployed by the officers—the strongest possible proof of the
igitias practised at the institution. A series of remlutions
„us payed, by which the meeting adopted:the report, and
their acknowledgments to the Queen, Prince
=land various members of the royal family, to the
its°, Dr. Tattersall, the director and surgeon, Mr.
y, and to other gentlemen, for their support of and
lth*" to the institution. It was stated that in consequence
st the increased number of applicants the funds of the insti-
to* had so diminished a to become inadequitte to its
waits; and (or the purpose of supplying the requirements it
WaS 11101 Ted to issue circulars to the venous societies holding
molds for benevolent purposes, requesting their assistance
awl IsPlwrt•
CHEMISTs, AND DRUGGISTS' EARLY CLOSING
Asecictertorn—A special general meeting of this society
was held last evening at Andemon's Hotel, Fleet-street, for
pm pup* of stopping further proceedings, and winding up
its affairs. Mr. Clore presided. The chairman regretted to
bas oblipad to pronounce a funeral oration over the society.
gs eould not agree with those who saw evil in an extension
at the time which the assistants of chemists and druggists
nag a their own disposal. The want of success which the
wiser had met with would seem to argue very poorly either
the sympathy of the employers or the energy
a the employed ; but he would rather impute
twig apathy to ignorance of its benefits than disbelief in
thels.—Mr. Underwood, the secretary, then read a report
which he bad drawn up. He commenced by stating that
no society having for its object the abolition of late
=lf business had seen so auspicious a beginning ,• but
eke association had fallen lower than any other, and had
besides fallen in debt ; and he believed the reason to bre, that
only two of the committee-men had attended to their duty.
In proof of the fact, he referred them to the minute-book.
Under these circumstances, and finding that he WU
91,0,1ing money from his own pocket without soy advantage,
be had called the present meeting. lie lamented the want
spirit which had been shown by the chemists and drug-
gieJ, compered with the conduct of the drapers and other
&diet in the same cause ; and he was in particular
/Mud to use that many assistants in large homes
tad refused to join the society without the Sie-
sta of their employers. In resigning his oBes,
he would give up his accounts. The receipts of the society
from subscriptions since he establishment in April last had
mounted to 321. lls. 6d., and the expenditure to
461.195. ltd • which left a balance of 141. Bs. sd. due to the
eseretary.—Mr. Penny moved the first resolution. He was
one of the committee, and bad done his utmost to dis-
charge his duties, but the result was that out of about
600 chemists and as many assistants in the metropolis,
sot more than 100 subscribed to the society. The com-
mittee being, therefore, disheartened he felt that they
might be in some measure excused for their want of support.
They had, however, endeavoured to re-organise the Ma d&
lion, but it being impossible to get • working committee to-
gether, it Was thought better that the association should be
kept in abeyance, in which state it had remained for soma
months. Since the society was first proposed, at one of the
meetings of the Pharmaceutical Society, several chemists in
London had closed their shops earlier, and in one instance WO
early as eight o'clock. He moved • resolution to the effect
that the report of the secretary be received, and that the
emaciation be dissolved.—Mr. Barnes seconded the resolution,
which was passed unanimously.—lt was followed by
other resolutions, expressive of regret at the termination of
the affairs of the association, and the hope of the meeting for
more active co-operation in any subsequent measures which
might be taken iii furtherance of their objects; meantime
they entreated those interested to contribute their efforts to-
wards the liquidation of the debt to the secretary.—Compli-
=votes to the secretary and chairman concluded the
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MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The number of deaths
during) the week ending Jan. 15 was 1,457, or 340 above
the average. Of this excess 99 are stated to have died of
Mum*, and 121 from diseases of the lungs and other
imam of respiration. The deaths from small-pox and
measles are also stated at nearly double the usual number ;
typhus has likewise been unusually fatal.
WINDOW DUTY AND PROPERTY AND INCOME
Tam—Sir I have read with much interest the accounts
or meetings in the metropolis for the abolition of the window
duty ; and feeling assured that, without the co-operation of
the populous towns and cities in the country, their endea-
lours will be of no avail, I venture to call your attention.
sad, through the medium of your columns, that of the
*entry generally, to the fact. I have reason to believe, and
spec no slight authority, Viet the window duty is not to be
repealed this session, but that the property and income tax
are to be raised from 3 to 5 per cent., reducing the minimum
este of liability to incomes of 1001. per annum. The equal
rates of duty under Sir it. Peel's act were passed hurriedly,
end under the promise of a three 3 ears' duration only; and
I have no fear that the present House of Commons will
inflict so monstrous an injustice as to visit the professional
man or men of precarious income with the Muse amount of
taxation as the owner of real property or landed estates, and
this I think mvy be safely left to the wisdom of the legisla-
ture. Bat still the trade and profession of the country
would, I consider, be doing well to get up memorials or
*him on the subject. I have, however, I find, wandered
ben my original subject, that of the duty on windows; but
as the two (or rather three) taxes are so intimately con-
nected, I shall venture to say a few more words on both
Pabitthl. Take my own case :—I pay rent for my dwelling-
kolas, 401.; and pay a property tax for the landlord of
11.3 e. 4d. per annum. lam said to have 20 windows, and
my tax thereon for myself, 61.12 a. 6d. I have a professional
km. of 3501., which costs me 101. 4e. 2d. Thus I pay for
iaeome tax and window duty, 161. 16s. Bd. My neighbour,
also professional, but not the same, lives in his own house,
riled at 401.. upon which he pays property tax also,
1L 3e. 4d. From the fact of the house being rated
• 401. it is not worth less, and is, in point of
annnandation, superior to mine. It le, however,
id numiere construction, and has but twelve windows at a
ellied2J. 93. 2d. His income is assessed at the Was sum as
easy own, and thus it will be seen without any advantage on
ay part, but with an old house instead of a new one, there
a difference of direct taxation in the window duty alone
it 41. U. 44. Numerous instances of grosser inequality in
the eponsion of this tax can be produced in every parish,
WM/ wig object in troubling you with this letter is to rer-
mial en 'Gantry friends that the time is now come for active
min s" by pi title's and other methods, against this ob-
noxious Mpost, which otherwise will again become the law
of the land, and probably under the plea of necessity rennin
n tar many years.— R.
ATIORNEYS.—One hundred and seventy-emu
madames have gis en notice this term of their intention to
apply to be admitted to practise as attorneys in the Court et
Clurea's Bench. There are also forty-two notices for n-
itwits of certificates.
Loss OF AN ENGLISH BRIG.—The Trio, brig of 300
tens, from Monte Video to Plymouth, laden with wool and
tallow, was wrecked on the rocks which abound on the emit
of Brittany, near Mortal:. Out of the whole Clew,
of the captain (Mr. Watkins), eight men, and a boy, the
later alone was saved.
SMALL DEBTS COURT, NORPOLIL—Sir Without
great vigilance on the part of the press the Small Dale
Warts may be made the means of a vast amount of pethy
tyranny and oppression. Poor people seldom take bi or
keep receipts. An unprincipled man may therefore, in nine
at often cases, be pretty sure of recovering small mum
which may have been contracted and discharged, it he sum-
mon the parties into the courts. I will offer you one instance
date oppressive way in which it works. A man formerly
in trade, but who failed through his own misconduct, having
twice Of three times compounded with his creditors, life* on
the mall sums he recovers through the small debts court: he
wally has two or three, sometimes more, summonses out
agairat parties every court day. On the last court day he
summoned the wife of a labouring man for a debt of about
18s. When put upon his oath he said that the woman had
paid him 13s. 6d., but he thought it made no
difference whether he summoned her for the debt
1,41 claimed or for a larger sum. lie claimed
on oath upwards of 4s. The woman had fortunately kept
his bill, and produced it receipted for the whole amount,
with the exception of Is., and he owned to the correctness
of it. The judge immediately adjudged her to pay the
Ihtt, with all the costs, amounting to several more, and
ftf to beer her speak in her defence. She was ready to
declare on oath that she bad repeatedly offered to pay the
man the real balance of his bill, but that he refined to take
Isis than the amount claimed. If the creditors had consi-
dered that the man bad any just claims upon these and
ISAMU other poor people they would, one would have
tleposed, have retained his books and recovered them them-
Vfts.—A CONSTANT READER OF YOUR PAPER, AND A
/MEND OF THE OPPRESSED.
THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT EUSTON-SQUARE
STATlON.—Charles Gage, one of the sufferer* by the fall
of the buildings at the Euston.square station, died on Sun-
day in the University College Hospital. This makes the
amid death amongst the wounded. The others are doing
Cell
ElRE.—Last night, about a quarter peat ten, a fire
woe discovered upon the premiss of Mr. Laws, a baker, at

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end ahem wee eesmakelely mtiok the Lads& =rail
the an had gredeasly Weeded to the while of the ;nee
=Use When, *eery room beiest=srel blazeu. The
Wag supplied with an of water, the
=d ac, epereting, and vast streams el water were
end upon the learaime=. Not-
with.standing, the work of deshusties , and ft
was net till .it 11 o'clock that the Ire we safely got
under, and not until every partite of the with dm
exception dike front shop, was deslzepud The total lose
is considerable, and it is understood that the sneerer is not
insured. The origin of the fire is ME plesillity known ; bet
the opinion is that it was easelissed from the spark
of a candle falling amore et sense wearing apparel.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—IdUICIDE OF A BURGEON.
—Before Mr. Weller. M.P., at the trour Arms, Sey-
mour-strest, on the body of Mr. H. W. Bondi, summit
era 30, lute of 7L Upper Seymour-street, &Mon-square:
Kr. H. M. Aldridge, surgeon, of Upper Seymour-street,
said he had known de-Ceased for five or six years. He wee
formerly in practice in Melton-street, Ruston-mum; subse-
quently in the Mornington-road ; and bad resided a few
months at 74, Upper Seymour-Ovid. On Friday evening •
young woman, with whom deceased lived, asked him to come
and see Mr. Boxall on the following day as he
ill. Between two and three o'clock on i{sturday
he went to see deemed, and found him standing near the
fireplace
_with his throat cut. On seeing witness, deceased
exclaimed, " Ab, it's no use; I have dons It effectually."
Witness went towards him, but deceased ran round the
table, and struggled violently, throwing witness over • box.
All this time -the blood was spouting profusely from his
neck. It was some minutes before witness could secure de-
ceased. He then tried to stop the bleeding by prawns ill
the vessels of the neck, and called for assistance. Deesued
still struggled violently, and called out for presets add.
He struggled to the last to prevent any attempt
to save has life, and died in about a tooter
of an hour from the time witness first saw him.
He had mule a cut with a razor, dividing the carotid
artery and all the larger vessels on the let side. Deceased
was of a nervous temperament, and drank at times. He
was very strange in his manners, and had told witness that
he suffered from delirium tremens.—Mary Ann Norman
deposed to having. lived with deceased for four years. He
had latterly been in great distress, on account of his father,
who resided at Brighton' having refused to assist him. He
went to Brighton on the 29th of December, and returned on
the 6th inst. He said he had been staying with his father's
friends, who made him drink brandy. till be was mad. On
Friday night he was under a delusion that he would be
taken up at 12 o'clock that night and hanged at Newgate
for a conspiracy to shoot his father, and he said he must die.
This induced witness to ask Mr. Aldridge to see him. Wit-
..ss identified a note found on deceased's table as his hand-
writing, and said she saw him write it on Saturday morning.
It was addressed, " Mr. Boxell, Brighton," and was as
follows :—" Dear Father,—Will you be kind enough to send
I MO a little money, as I am much in want of some.—Yours,
Imgy, H. W. Bolan." (No date.) The witness made
sewed charges against the father of the deceased of refusing
lima amierance, but this was denied by a gentlemen, who
mid th knowledge deceased had had 41. Os. within eight
or sine days.—Other witnesses corroborated the foregoing
inalsony.—The jury returned a verdict, Thatthe deceased
destroyed himself while in an unsound state of mind."
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DEATH OP A MOTHER AND CRlLD.—Before Mr. W.
Carter, at the Swan Tavern, Battersea Bridge, upon the
bodies of Sarah Tout, aged 31, and Henry Tout, her son,
270104 d, who alleged to have died from an insufficiency
alLhionuseo:inenthvei vtiLineiy
to view the bojduitel, and proceeded
on ffitoe aem
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halation of hot and impure air was eo great as to drive beck
those who were entering, the coroner remarking that he had
not in the experience Meleven years met with so abominable
a nuisance, and that it was more a pest-how" than a dwell-
for human beings.—Anne Poltstated that she was sister-
in-law of the deceased woman, who was the wife of William
James Tout, a sawyer by trade, who had recently supported
himself, his wife, and three children by making hat and
bonnet boxes which eh hawked about the country. Wit-
etas had been living them the last five months. Her
deter-in-law was only ken ill en Friday evening week, and
on the following day she obtained a medical order of Mr.
Tow, the overseer, and saw Dr. Connor's assistant, who also
gave an order in kind to the relieving officer. The assistant
attended within the hour, and saw both her sister and the
child. Some medicine was supplied, and he visited them
again on the Sunday evening. He did not visit them again
until Tuesday, and in the interval the child had died and the
mother had become much worse, and died the same evening,
her boy having expired on the previous night. The mode.
eine only lasted till Monday morning, and her sister bad
no more till the doctor came on the ensuing day. Dewed
had said that if she had more medicine she would
be better. Her brother had not been home (until now),
since • week before Chtiatniss ; sad the last time they re-
ceived any money from him was the lest week in the old
year. There were two children still living—a gill and an
infant four months old. For many.weeks past they bad been
living very short indeed, and her sister often denied handl
food that the children might have it. She was certain that
her brother did all he could to support his family, but be
earned very little ; and to add to their dinsem tkey r waived
a letter from him on the 6th inst., stating that he was then
Wag ill at Southampton, and bad not a flittlebig to amyl
Mrs. Freeman, a lady in the neigteenetheed, hat
been very kind to her deceased Suter during-her eenlinameat.
sad since on many occasions they had no food but what
that lady supplied. Deceased had an aversion to paro-
chial relief, and did not like making known her distress.—
A woman named Wise gave evidence which went to show
that the family were in a very bad state ; and she believed
the illness of mother and child arm solely from want of
food. They had the typhus fever, and one child was then
suffering from it.—The Coroner said it was a great shame
for the medical man to have exposed. the jury and himself
to such a risk. lie ougkt to have informed them of the
nature of the disease, or at least have seen that the holm
was well ventilated before the jury entered it.—Mi.
J. S. Miles, arem, and assistant to Dr. Connor, aimed
the jury they had nothing to apprehend, and deionall dui
he was called in to the deceased on Saturday week; dry
were in a state of low fever, and exceedingly ill and ems.
elated. He asked if the woman had food, and was told that
she had none.—Verdict—" Died from natural causes."—
ALLEOZD ILL-TREATIIINT OF AN APPRENTIC..—Befors
Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting
the death of J. Heller, aged 17, an apprentice, who was
alleged to have died from the effects o the ill-usage of hie
master, Mr. Fletcher, gold and silver paper layer, regain.
in Norfolk-street, Lower-road, Islington.—Mai7 MacdonaM,
of 9, Newton-street, Holbore, the wife of a tailor, stated
that the deceased was her son. and was apprenticed from
Tooting School about four years and a heft ago. Ile lad
been sinking for the last two years from want of proper
nourishment and hard work, which he said was sixteen or
eighteen hours a day. It was two years ago when the
master was first before the magistrate for beating him with a
rope, and was reprimanded. The master appeared before
the magistrate since that time at the instance of a policeman,
who beard the boy's cries, but nothing was then done. The
gni he had consisted of three slices of bread and butter and
adlk and web., for his breakfast; two slices and the same for
tea' boiled rice, or cheese, or bullock's liver for dinner,
and sometimes he would have a couple of sausages
and mime cabbage. Rice, however, was his chief dinner.
She had frequently taken him victuals, but hie mistral would
never let her see it given to him. About two menthe cep he
did not come to his dinner on Sunday as usual, and she went
en the Moaday, and he was lying on a bench fa
the workshop with only his shirt and trousers OS.
The next Thursdayshe took him home, when he
and the following Moo-
complained of being very weak,
Mae-
da), December 28, he was admitted into the hospital.
Was. M`Donald, husband of the last witness, dated, that he
had made a complaint to the master of the wheal, at Toot-
ing, of the boy's treatment, but he refused to interfere.—
The Coroner said itjwas his duty to have done so.—WI/y=ld
added that the last words the deceased spoke at home were,
when he asked him what bad brought him to that state—" I
Audi son m death-bed that Fletcher starved and worked
me death.;—Mr. Newell, assistant apothecary to the
hospital, deposed that the death of the deceased was caused
by consumption, of at least two years' deeding. In his
it was the result of exposure to cold, or Bleeping in
iilothes.—Thomas Round, an apprentice, deposed
that he was bound two months after the deceased, and slept
and eat with him. The work was not hard, except burnieh-
ing. They had three dices of breed and 'butter near an inch
thick for their breakfast, and two for tea, and about a pint
of tea at each meal. For dinner they had rice and sugar
one day, liver and rice or liver and potatoes another, and
bread and cheese another. They might ha ve eaten more
or
If
they bad had it. They always had meat two
three times a week, and rice or cheese the others.
No beer, but cold tea. They used to hum
Id., 3d ,or 6d. a week for over .work, and they used to buy
apples M other things with it.—Mrs. Fletcher explained that
when Mrs. M`Donald complained that the boys had not
sufficient hod, she was so satisfied they had, that after that
she did not give them the hot supper she used to do. They
had meat four timesa week, and rice and cheese the otherdayh
She persisted they had both been treated well.—Mr. Fletc
even
her,
the muter, asserted the same thing, and that they bad
been preferred to their own children. They had been un-
tidy, and tried to get the upper hand of him. —The Coroner
said it was not likely two boys of that age would attempt it.
wawhern,
usuund,dawyboladde
—sheAfolinund*Mtrajwthoerkard tooni Rla° interfered
e
ment, and the deceseed once told her he Was eatislied.—The
said she had no reason otherwise to complain of their treat-
Coroner summed up, observing the great question was what
was the cause of the consumption of which the boy died ?
Ile should suggest that they should have
(further eeidence.—
jury returned a verdict " That the d died of con-
ThehunPfi and they keeping the deceased on
considered the conduct of the master
and mistime very reprtheneible
BATH.— II Ore
diet"--
Mr. Baker, at the lialfrooon and Punchbowl public-house,
such short A CHILD FROZEN TO D B f
of the body of Bertha
natives of Germany, and a few days since they left Rotter-
Doßuckilti,..agletzdee‘four montecthsha.PeThone parviewents
.of the deceased are
the window of whichthe toe was
veiled it an omnibus, on
dam for the purpose of emigrating to America. Th.ey tra-
iner they ha
an inch thick,
a left Rotterdam, the deceased, who was a Teri and when they arrived at the first station,
mother found was quite dead. The child
healthy child, the
several hours, and she con-
sideredhad been lying upon her arms for se
eo could not be
the deceased was asleep. A .!
gentleman, who said that
ceased was examined by a medical
of •
obtained, and when they arrived at me nexat station the de-
her death was caused by the severity th IR
their dead child on
board the Rainbow steana-veasel, which
• " Found dead."
cold having caught her breast. The parents then carried
arrived in the river on Sunday Wt.—Verdict,

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