The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

distance of the metropolis, to erect an asylum. The receipts
amounted to 7391. 21. 11d.' including 3751. 15a. 10d., and
the balance of the last audit 3631. 7s. hi. and after paying
the necessary expenses the balance remained 3931. la. 91. ;
while the funds invested amounted to 4,0331. Os. Bd. The
reports were received, and a resolution approving the steps
of the committee, and requesting them to continue their
exertions to obtain a site, was agreed to.
THE MODEL BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES, WHITE-
CHAPEL.—Yesterday that portion of the building intended
for the men's baths of the Model Bath and Wash-house
establishment in 0 oulstorne-street, Whitcchapel, was opened
fix public inspection. The entire erection covers an area of
about 4,000 square feet, and that part opened yesterday forms
the north division. It contains about 200 separate bathing-
rooms, each 10 feet by 6, formed by solid blocks of slate,
fitted with the necessary requisites, and supplied with hot
and cold water by a powerful steam apparatus, placed in the
centre of the building. These baths are divided into first and
second classes, each having a distinct entrance. They will be
opened for public use on Monday, and will, it is hoped, be
duly appreciated by the class for whose especial benefit they
have been erected. Want of funds has delayed the comple-
tion of the waah.houses, and of the baths for females.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY,—At the ,1
office,'in the Strand, we were afforded, on Tuesday, an inspec-
tion
of a variety of models of various inventions for the
transmission of intelligence bv means of electricity. Some
new, others old, and many modifications and improvements
of existing methods. The means for ensuring the safety of
railway travelling become. every day a more necessary and
critical question ; and the facility of transmitting informa-
tion is an inseparable element in Its consideration. For this
reason, amongst many others, it is satisfactory to observe the I
large degree of attention which has been directed to so
important a branch of the railway system. The inventions,
di•played yesterday are tlio work of various gentlemen,
and, we believe, the property of the company, who propose.
by means of one or two of the principal plans, to establish
a complete system of communication over the entire king-
dom, for the information of subscribers, who will, in London
for instance, be mule acquainted with the prices of stock
and shares, the state of the markets, and other commercial
intelligence from every part of the country, by means of elec
tricity, in a very short apace of time. The intelligence will
be communicated to, and be printed at, the office by one
operation. it was stated that the machinery is being pre-
pared on a great number of lines, and it is expected that the
system will be in complete operation at the end of the year.
AMERICAN VENISON.—A vessel arrived from the
United States of America Asltimore) has brought, with a
general cargo of provisions, packages of venison—a novel
importation from that quarter of the globe.
PINE APPLES AND BANANAS.—Yesterday a sale of
about 1,000 pine apples and a number of bananas, ex
Medway, mail-packet, and Trinity Yacht,. from Nassau,
took place in Monument-yard. There was a numerous
attendance of buyers, who purchased freely, the pines selling
at from 10s. to 404. per lot of 20, and the bananas from Ba. to
10s. a bunch, _

THE ST. STEPREN's BILLS OP MORTALITY.—We re-
gret to state that the week's returns exhibit an awful mortality
among the infant bills. An increase in the number of these
deaths is always to be expected about this time, but this year
the advance intthe rate of premature dissolutions is appalling.
Much of this is to be attributed to the extreme carelessness
of parents, as well as to the constitutional weakness of the
bills themselves, and the overcrowding to which they are ex-
posed. There i., in fact, so part of Westminster which
stands so much in need of stringent sanitary regulations se
St. Stephen's. The system of its legislative offspring will
never be healthy until both houses are thoroughly drained
of the noxious stuff that is allowed to accumulate there
during the session, nor, indeed, until they have undergone
general purification and enlightenment. The state of the
Committee Rooms is especially disgraceful to those to whom
the comfort of " the working classes ' is entrusted.—Punch.
LOUIS PHILIPPE AND AN ENGLISH SEAMAN.—
The following has been forwarded by the Consul-General of
France to Richard Fuller, captain of the Queen Victoria, be-
longing to the port of Rochester :—" Sir —I have the honour
of informing you, that by a decision, dated the 2Sth May, hia
Excellency, the Minister of the Navy and Colonies, having
given to his Majesty the King of the French au account of
the devotedness and humanity which you evinced in taking
on board your Tend, in the beginning of last December, the
crew of the French brig LE.perance, from Dunkerque,
commanded by M. Rouille, and in showing them every pos-
sible kindness which their sad condition required, has ob-
tained from his Majesty's benevolence an order for a ' gold
medal of honour,' to be given you. This medal will be
forwarded as soon as it is struck. I congratula a myself, sir,
on being the bearer of these just and benevolent sentiments of
my government towards you."
TIME IS MONEY.—Sir,—In your observations on
the comparative prices of the Times and Daily News you
appear to have overlooked one very important position, viz.,
the saving of poor eeaders' time, which, to business men, is
of far more consequence than the difference between 3d. and
bd. I have taken in both papers, and I found it took up
double the time to read the report of the same case as in-
serted in the Times that it did in your paper. This is an
indisputable fact, of which your readers may easily convince
themselves, that after the perusal of the report in each paper,
one occupying half a column the other not a dozen lines, all
the facts and information (and in many instances more)
which occupy the Timm' half column, are compressed into
your twelve lines. The public, therefore, would be gainers if
you charged themlod. instead of 3d.—l am, &c., CifEA eJ out.
[Our correspondent is quite right. It is not in price,
merely, that the Daily A'nes differs from its contemporaries.
The principle of the old acre sheet is to present to the public
the raw material, the wordy rubbish sent in from a hundred
different localities, in each of which the facts assume an im-
portance wholly disproportioned to their general and
national importance, and the writer of which to paid addi-
tional for mere verbiage; whereas in this paper that same
raw material is prepared and condensed with great can,
and of course at sonic coat.]
MR. WILLIAM ConnErrr.—Sir,—The famed liber-
ties of this country would have been long since abrogated if
Englishmen had not at all times resisted the bringing in of
illegal precedents in their individual cases to abolish these
liberties. I have been seven years imprisoned for alleged
contempt', without ever having been committed or tried ,•
although I have been publicly offered my discharge several
times if I would consent to bring no action, I have preferred
any loss and inconvenience rather than suffer a precedent
of such mischievous public consequence being made in my
person; and I have by myself, my wife, or my counsel,
made 74 motions for my discharge ; have paid newly 1001.
chancery fees on ha6eas corpus; have been entrained in
four actions which I have brought to recover 22,0001.
belonging to my father's estate (of which I have never
reci ived a farthing) ; have brought two actions for false
imprisonment, one of which is restrained by injunction, and
the other obstructed by force ; have brought two actions for
false returns, one of which is ncasuited on a question of
pleading, besides three actions for assault and false prosecu-
tion and imprisonment ef my wife. We have also almost
exclusively managed the cases of the poor chancery pri-
soners, and have procured 27 discharges for irregularity,
and though last, not least, have procured a mandamus to
compel the keeper to pay county allowance to chancery pri-
soners. I think it will be obvious that p^ople so employed
continually to their utmost in resistance of oppression must
be to all other intents and purposes " destroyed " in viola-
tion of the dearest enactment of our rights • and under such
circumstances, I take the liberty for myself and my wife to
communicate these few particulars to you, sir, and to ask con-
tributions from those of your readers, who resist that sort of
" social progress " by which the good laws of England are re-
versed ; and I beg to say that our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Cop-
land, of 26, Upper Park-street, Greenwich, will be happy to
receive such contributions (on the principle that pence make
pounds) from their neighbours of that high-spirited
borough.—l am, lice., W. Coenzrr.—Queen's Prison, July 1.
INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—APOPLEXY MISTAKEN
FOR DRUNKENN6BB.—STATION 1101:78E REGULATIONS.—
At Bt. George's hospital, before Mr. Bedford, on the body
of Thomas Smith, a vagrant. On Friday evening the de-
ceased was found lying insensible in Sloane-street, Chelsea,
was conveyed to the Pimlico station house, and was charged
with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself.
He was soon heard groaning in his cell, and a surgeon who
was then called in advised his removal to the hospital. Ile
was there treated for apoplexy, but never rallied, and died
on Sunday. Mr. Cowell, one of the surgeons, made a post
mortem examination, and found effusion of blood on the sur-
face of the brain, and a clot of blood in the substance of the
brain. The former was probably the result of a fall, and the
latter of natural causes. The coroner said that the present
was the fourth case under his immediate notice in which a
mats suffering under apoplexy was confined in the station-
house for drunkenness. In all doubtful cases a surgeon
should be called in. The inspector said that the circum-
dense should be represented to the commissioners of police.
Verdict—" Died from apopIexy."—MANSLACOSITER 121
LAMBETH.—BetbreMr. Carter, at the Windmill, High-street,
Lambeth, on the body of Mary Allsworth. On Saturday
night a man named James Bruce, a bricklayer, went into a
grocer's shop kept by a person of the name of Bagweed,
when he suddenly caught hold of a youth named Jas. Blake,
and dragged him about by the hair until they both reeled
into the street, and Bruce ran against the deceased, who was
knocked down, and fell with great violence on her head.
She was taken home, but died on Sunday morning. Mr.
Yellowly, a surgeon, who .had been called in, made a post
mortem examination of the body, and was of opinion that
the death was the result of a rupture of a vessel of the brain
arising from violence externally, which would be likely to
result from a blow or fall. The jury returned a verdict of
" Manslaughter " against James Bruce, who is in custody.