The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-11 00:00:00

CHOLERA AMONG THE PAUPER CHILDREN

AT TOOTING.
The following is the official return of fresh cases
from 2 p m. on Tuesday to 2 p.m. yesterday: Number of
deaths, 18 ; curs of diarrheas, 6 ; cholera, 10 ; number under
tr. unseat, 119. Total number of cases since oommencement,
294; c nva4teent, 34; gimes another of deaths, 112. Mr.
Kite, the surgeon. odds, that one adult young woman died yes-
terday atter 16 bourn suffering from the epidemic. In answer to
inquiries as to whether carbonic acid had been used as a
remedy la the cbot ra cases here," I beg to ri ply that in many
eases it has been employed combined with opium very bens
ficially in all vistiog distressing vomiting; it has • tendency
to relieve both that and the diarrhoea, and acts sLo AS •
stimulant."

Mr Grainger, of the Board of Health, has also loaned
the following order with reference to the interment of the
dad:

Jan. 10, 1849, 4 p.m.—Mr. Clayman, surgeon, of Tooting, having
stated to me that he sent a written notice to Mr. Drouet that no so-
ditinnai bodies from the lefint Pauper Establishment can be interred
in Tooting Churchyard, I recommend that immediate steps be dike°
to CILIUM the interment of the bodies of all who are now dead OT who
may die of this epidemic without delay ; and I further recommend
'II a their interment shall take place under the direction of • medical
yractitenter, and that the bodies be not taken through the metropolis,
as sack a procedure if known might excite alarm In the public mind.
—pitied) R. D. Gussets.
ST. PAPSCILLS.— The official report of Mr. Wilkinson, one
of the surgeons, ea to the oisease amongst the children in st.
Pancras workhouse, states that " the number of cases which
occurred on Tuesday bight and yesterday morning, compared
with Tuesday's report, shows a diminution of one third
also that the character of the complaint is much leas sew, re."
lionnuitx UNION —The return furnished by Dr. Menden,
of the &iyal Free Hospital,on Tuesday evening, iau follows ;
" Boys attacked with 'the Tooting dive 4i5; girls, '26 ;
total, 71. Cured : Boys, 10; females 0; boys under treat.
menr, ; girls, 21; total, 67. Died, 2 boys and 2 girls.
Nine out of every ten have the itch."

THE OFFICE OF PRINCIPAL HARBOUR-MASTER
or lif a POUT or LONDott has become vacant by the resigna-
tion of Capt Flatter, RM., who has held this important post
for thirty years. The appointment of his successor is vested
In •he Lord Mayor.
Wiiirrue6VON CLUB.—The first anniversary of
the Whittioroa Club sod Meiropolitan Atheneum was
celebrated at its institution last night. Great exertions had
evidently been made on the part of the managers to render
the evening a Omani; one, and their efforts were as
evidently successful. The attendance was so great that but
for the arrangements which judiciously diffused the company
through vinous spelt awns by various attractions, the
pressure would have been almost inconvenient. Mr.
Douglas Jerold, the president, and founder of the
club, was to have been present and to have de-
livered an address on the occasion, but circumstances im-
peratively called him to Manchester. The festival commenced
with some music, vocal and instrumental, ably executed ;
then came a comic seem, a variation of " Box and Cox,"
enacted by the Messrs. Orresmith with tolerable effect, and
large success. Tows was music also in the drawing-rown,
and, at nvervals Orouithout the evening, recitations, dis-
, solving views, ehromatrope, phantasmagoria, magic tricks
and delusions, while, from 11 o'closk, the lovers of dancing,
that is to say, Eve sixths of the attendants, had ample verge
and accompaniment. The arrangements in thu respect were
very good. There was sufficient refreshment for
the earlier portion of the evening ; and at 11, 124, and 2,
supper of a solid and excellent kind was served to successive
bodies of banquette's.. We do not think the managers of tbe
institution can do better then to give entertainments of this
description once a month. his a highly commendable mode
of giving reaping gratification to a very large class of per-
sons who have otherwise no opportunities for similar relaxa-
tion, except at distant intervals, and under more or less dis-
w.vantageous circumstances of one kind or another,
whereas they have here every facility fey a pleasant evening,
without the inconvenience of either obligation or expense,
the admission to members being but 2s. 6d. and is 64., and
the supper coming within the reasonable limit of Is. 6d. We
should imagine that fully 1,500 persons were present.
A CHARTIST ?ABET'S° was held last night at the
Bluth London Chartist Hall, Blackfriars-road, r. Bennett
in the chair. A Mr. Hobden moved, " That this meeting is
of opinion that the present existing distress, and the social de-
nesdation of the people of Bagland, will not be beneli•ed
until the people have full political power," which was carried.
—Mr. Dixon observed that it they were to have free trade in
all chino, 1 t them have free trade in governments. If
liberty were worth having it was worth paying for;
and if they would only subscribe Id. per week
eatiS, they would soon gain their end. Let them adopt
Catty" for their motto—let each work for all and
all for sacs, and victory must crown their efforts.—
Mr. M'Gratb supposed the same means had been taken
to prevent that being a good meeting, which had been taken
upon the other side of the river. On Sunday night last it
was prsposed to bold a meeting at Deadman's Coffee House,
Clerkenwoll-green, and bills were distributed announcing
the fact. Three or four days previous to the meeting the
pllioe employed themselves in calling upon the tradesmen
who exhibited the bills, threatening that unless they were
removed instantly, pros.cutions would be entered against
them. lie rejoiced to see that the good old spirit was not yet
extinct in Lambeth, and thsttkey were determined once more
to array themselves under the old banner of the charter,
and no surrender. The condition of the people of this coun-
try was one of slavery ; for every batman there were 10
slaves; bat what the chartists contended was, that every
man should be free. The thousands of London must unite
with the thomands of the north, and the thousands of the
north with the ttiou.ande of Scotland. The millions of
England must unite with the millions of degraded serfs of
Ireland ; for until that was done there wou'd be no hope for
the replied this emintry. The soaker concluded by ex-
pressiog a bops that at least a honored good men present
would enrol themselves members of the National Charter
Association. A Sew persons only availed themselves of the
opportunity of becoming " open and avowed" chartists,
and the meeting quietly heoke up,