The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-24 00:00:00

THE GOLD OF CALIFORNIA.

Our New York Correspondent writes as follows on
this subject:
0 We have every reason to believe that the gold of our
new territory is inexhaustible in quantity. It is beginning
to find its way to the Atlantic cities in large amounts, the
returns of cargoes sent out at an early period. One merchant
of Boston received the other day in tin canisters the stun of
33,000 dollars, in gold as h was washed from the sands of
the Sacramento, and in four days afterwards he received a
certificate from the United States Mint, on which he rea-
lised the full value. A traveller, recently from the minis,
states that he saw a party of men who were exploring a dry
ravine, approach a plate which literally glittered with gold.
Each man instantly threw himself upon the p round, and
claimed all the space which be could cover with his body.
This was asserting a right of possession on the principle of
squatting, one we admit in the purchase and settle-
meat of our government lands. B -fore the party
separated each person had collected 601. worth of
the precious metal. The very last accounts from
San Francisco state that another valuable location had
been discovered, and that about 100,000 dollars had been
gathered daily. The miners, however, were suffering much
from a want of provisions, but this will not be so long, since
immense cargoes have been despatched thither within the
hest two months Two barrels of brandy are reported to have
been sold for 14,000 dollars.
° Several wash have been sent to Demerara for rum to
carry out to the mines, and that it will pay an immense
profit cannot be doubted. Until supplies reach the miners,
they will remain in a dreadful condition. It is said that in-
dividuals may be seen 'varying fortunes about their persons,
presenting the most squalid and vagabond appearance; their
clothes filthy and ragged, their faces covered with hair, and
their whole aspect horrible in the extreme. The first flood
of emigrants from the United States had not arrived out at
these last accounts.
° A great many young men of good character, with an
equally good physique, have been sent out by spftulators,
who have advanced them money enough to take them to the
mines, and to begin work there, upon the agreement that
they are to return half their gains during the first year. The
parties making the advances take the precaution to insure
the lives of their agents to the amount of the sum advanced.
Toe Life Insurance Companies have issued so many policies
of this kind that some refuse to grant any more. The charge
is about 26 per cent. for those crossing the isthmus, with the
clause appended to the usual risk that the party insured is
not to sleep for a single night at Chegres, nor in any port on
the Gulf side. We hare a general impression that Chagres
is the most unhealthy spot in the world.
" You can imagine what an excitement must prevail here,
with well accounts reaching us by every traveller from the
gold (*entry. It has pervaded every quarter of the union,
and is the great impulse of the time. Notwithstanding all
this, the vast majority of the population will stay at home.
There era millions who hear all these reports without the
slightest wish to emigrate
"Connected with this subject is another, the opening of a
communication by canal or railway across the isthmus. Our
lines of government steamers, both on the Atlantic aid Pa-
cific sides, are connected with the Panama route. It is the
shortest land route, but not the best. The cense
quenoe is, that we are beginning to discuss the vari-
ous routes, with a view to the adoption et the
moat fe•Whl.. Humboldt, in his personal narrative,
a work which has • high reputation among us, for
he always took the United States favourably into consideration
predicted the coming greatness of the New World. It con-
tains the most scientific and rational account of the five
reputed routes. For many reasons he inclines to that across
the isthmus of Tehuantepec : and it is very singular that this
is evidently attracting the attention of our capitalists. It is
many degree. north of Panama, is approached by a safe
navigation across the Gulf, is pierced by two rivers that may
be easily improved and are adapted to steamers, and is inter-
rupted by no ridges of greater height than 6,50 feet, at which
elevation there is abundance of water to feed any number of
looks that may be aecessary. If traversed by a railway
(between the rivers), a distance of only 16 mile., the
elevation is not too great to be overcome by locomotive
engines and trains, as we know by experience. The great
advantage is in shortening the distance between the United
States and California about 3,000 miles, and in the transit
being made across a perfectly healthy and populous country,
within the territory of a friendly power that hos granted us
the right of way in perpetuity. We have a report here that
Manning and M'lntosh, the great English bankers, in
Mexico, are about to construct this railway. Some Ameri-
can capitalists propose to unite with them and place some of
our light draft American steamers en the two rivers. No-
thing seems impossible to us in the way of navigating streams
by steam, though our eller* on the ocean have not been so
successful. The reason is obvious. While Br gland has no
very large rivers thus to navigate, she has been compelled
to make her principal essays on the ocean ; and from the
first her engineers have been accustomed to consider
strength, and were imbued with a sense of its necessity.
Here all our first efforts were made upon lark, a and
rivers, and our builders and engine-makers have become
habituated to light vessels and engines. They have, there
lore, to overcome their habits, prejudices, and experience, to
produce those gigantic and heavy models necessary for ocean
navigation. It 111 a common jest here, that we have steamers
on Cue western rivers that can jump over a sand-bar, float
easily on wet grass, and are obliged to come to anchor when
there is a heavy dew ! The rivers of the Isthmus of Te-
haanterc, it they have three feet depth of water, can be Tully
navigated by cur stamen, ocularly if they were built to
imitate the light-keeled m els of the west.
" It may be as well to mention, lest some of your readers
may have forgotten the circumstance, that the greet Cortez,

•Ina letter to Charles V. styled this
r th, 'Secret of the Streit.' The beet account of aey
date, is that published in London by Loa Jose de (1-"*„
Irma the report of his engineer, Moro. It was at,l7—Z
viewed in the London Quarterly in April 184 a
if you will turn to the eatieluibq '
nbnl
the reviewer, you will perceive a remarkable :
diction is relation to this route, founded es
character of the people of the United States, their
bible improvement of this route, the eoloniaatieh
western territories, and the vast wealth they were
to realise from the tinging of those regions. Thi,
ton IS now being realised. Nor arum your reed," X,therm amounts exaggerated. They have only to remeX,
the vast amounts of gold that have already beta found
pill
western slopes of the And and they have only to
toy
speculations of their own geoloeitts, and the meows of Mei,
own travellers, I. pence. that we do not count opal to,
much from them wondrous mines. I have come to the ea.
elusion that, in the ,u.-se of two y. an, shall annuls
sensible depreciation in the relative value of gold."

ST. HELENA, Nov. 30.—Tag SLAVE TRADE...
The new. governor of the P..rtuguess poses•ions on the ssoi
coast of Anridt, had metered on his dunes at Loancla, aas
the
fleet of cruisers, under the ordete
of
.a new csmusaftr ia.
chief, were actively employed on their own !ice of tout
the suppression of the slave trade. Their rphere of usfat,
nem had, however, been recently greatly (rippled 14
treaty with Brazil, which limits the capture ot slos „ma
under the flag of that nation to within three miles of disk
shore, beyond that distance the slaver can remain sesthsh,
The captain of the Portuguese brig-of-war htendona
however, been making amends for this restriction, by tam
ing to the ground the Portuguese baracoons at Arebruir, sad
other places on the most.

SOUTHAMPTON PORTION OF TIIR INDIA MAIL.--Mg
learn by electric telegraph that the Ripon unreal at pis
o'clock this morning, bringing the Southampton wpm ci
the India Mail. She hu on Ireight specie trom ludic to
the
amount of 200,0001.

r"ht 011.11
WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—Prince Albert wett oat
hunting this forenoon.—The Doehesa of Sutherland fad
Lady Constance Lemon Cbwer left the Castle to '

tO•tlki:

A cabinet council was held yesterday aileron:le st
the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord Joh
the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Loudon%
the Berl of Minto, Sir o:srge Grey, Viscount Khan*
Esti Grey, the Chancellor of the Exch.quer, Sir Prune
Baring, Sir John Hobbouse, Lord Campbell, the Bight Bat,
H. Labouchere, and the Marquis of Mariner& The cow
cil sat two houn. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrir,d is
twwn to attend the meeting from his seat, Bowed-pest,
Wilts.
Lord John Russell bad a dinner party on Satarday
at his residence in Cheshana-place. The company inciud,i
the Earl and Countess Minto, Lord Foley, Sir Francis sad
Lady Arabella Baring. Mr. Dirkins, and Mr. Rigen,

(From last night's Gazette.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 23.—The Queen has ben
pleased to appoint the Hon. George Sulyarde Stafford Jar.
ningham, now secretary to her Majesty's legation at Madrid,
to be secretary to her Majesty's embassy to the °holm
Porte.

_
DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 23.—The Queen has bee
pleased to appoint Daniel Blair, E q , Doctor of Medicine,
to be Surgeon-General for the colony of British Golan.
Also George Marsh, El., to t•e Resident M igistrate at
Moan' Bay, in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope.

r:gPatijNe Literary.
Institution.
g.S.Ot NtheDAlbS:
last evePnißn
The dismission on Mr. C. Pearson's propositions was
resumed l
Mr. M. O. Hill, Q C., in the chair.
Mr. POWNALL, the chairmen of the Middlesex magis-
trates, was first called upon. He said the simple question
now was, which system of prison discipline was the best for
the community at large, and at the Sims time beet calculated
to reform the criminal ? This was a q Ashen to be decided
not by personal acrimony—nut by the conduct of any par.
titular criminal after his disch.rge, nor by the results of
any particular prison—but by a calm consideration of
all the facts. He objected to considering the gutsiest of prb
son discipline irrespective of the cause of crime. There were
two parties to this question—tho criminal and this
The vast majority of committals were of youths under 15
years. What means had the public provided for securing te
these juvenile offenders, when turned destitute epee the
world, a livelihood by bonect industry, or without industry,
when they were too young to loboar, in order to keep the 4
from crime ? (Hear, hear.) Mr Pearson condemned the
solitary system. He too uhketed o solitary confinement for
long periods; out for persons not habituated to crime, who
were sent to gaol for short periods, either as a
punishment or to await their trials, solitan cm.
finement was decidedly beneficial as preventing cont. minatiim
A prisoner could not be made worse by being kept alone,
but, under the old system, when prisoners were thrown
together in manes, contamination could net be prevented.
The effect of the separate system In Middlesex was shore la
the fact that more than half the juvenile cffenden pleaded
guilty when brought before the as'stant judge. The prima
reflections which could produce such a result could not be
altogether dissipated when, after suffering the punishramt,
such persons returned to society. Prom a return of the year
1846 he found that, of 550 indictuo against as many pri-
soners for robbery, the whole am tent of property alleged
to have been stolen was valued at 153/. 18s. 9d., while the
cost of the prosecutions was 4501 :11. 2d., and the cost of
maintaining the parties charged b gaol was 7661. 14s. Rd.
(Hear, hear.) This showed that the public and the crimi-
nals were both parties to these transactions ; and the ear
tion now was, had the public done their duty to those juve-
nile offenders? and, if nor, was the treatment they
met with in the gaols that which they ought to
have received without hecon rag the inmates of
a prima ? if cheapness was the o • ly object to be attained,
we had better adopt the Bokhara at stem, and dig a hole sad
bury the prisoners in it ; we should then have no mots of
them ; but, as he understood it, the object was not to punish
only but to reclaim. He admitted that the dietary of the
prison was better than that of the w rkhouse, but if it were
not so, such were the deteritratinir effects of the confinement
of a gaol that the' prisoner would be physically unable to
labour for his own support on his release. After
defending at some length the system as pur-
sued in the Middlesex prisons, he expressed his
readiness to mope:ate in any scheme which should have the
effect of raising the condition of the poor man so as to re-
move him from the sphere of temptation, and which
should bring back to honest courses those who had been de-
graded by crime, and enable them to take rank with the
honest and industrious members of society.
Mr. BWABEY, a magistrate, condemned that system
which placed the criminal while in gaol in a better position
than the honest and industrious labourer.
Mr. ROTCH, one of the Middlesex magistrates, was in
favour of discussion, and would join in a petition to parliament
on the subject, though be could not assent to the contradict-
ory propositions set forth in Mr. Pn•rson's resolutions. He
condemned the model prison at Peatonville as being a dot-
house, in which men's constitutions, though not their minds,
were ruined. He was decidedly favourable to separate con-
finement before trial, as the only means of preventing con-
tamination, but the silent and congregated 'yen m, as pur-
sued at Coldbath-fields, he abhorred and detested. Ile
agreed with Mr. Pearson that that system was bad which
required better diet and better lodging in the gaol, in order
to keep up the physical condition of the prisoner, than could
be obtained is the workhouse, and suggested that the dm
of Coldbath-fields prison should be sold, and a new
prison, on Mr. Pearson's plan, but with some modification
built with the proceeds on Hounslow Heath, and that the
idle lazy fellows now in Hounslow barracks, who
were paid by the public, but had nothing to
do, should be employed to guard it, and so save
the cost of Minikes* and night guards. He also sug-
gested that the prisoners should be taught, while under-
going their sentences, wool-packing and wool sorting, in
order to make their labour useful in the Australian colonissz
where they might be sent at a less expense than they could
be kept here.
Capt. MACONOCHIE, who was loudly cheered, re
marked that the discussion had hitherto touched on every
subject but prison discipline. The separate system and the
congregated moms had nothing to do with the subject of
prison discipline, but were mere forms of imprisonment. The
separate system promised largely, but was calculated, in his
opinion, to make excellent prisoners, but did not fit men,
under punishment for crime, to return to freedom and so-
ciety. It made men selfish, and taught them to think too
much of themselves and too little of others. In Sydney,
where they had one of these prison palaces for carrying out
the separate system, it was found that those who were sub-
jected to it, became much worse husbands and fathers, more
egotistical, and much less tolerant to the wants of others
than they were before their incarceration, He, however,
doubted the statement that insanity was a consequence of
' that system. The congregated system, which was less
promising than the other at first sight, inasmuch as it
did not seclude the prisoner from his fellows,
and thus prevent contamination, nor give him a
treatment adapted to his individual case ; but left him to
conform to the treatment he received, as was the case with
all of us in society—that system, when it was not merely
gregarious, herding men together like sheep without any
motive to good or common interest—was far more
baneficial, and more calculated to call out the
energies of men, and to fit them for re-entering
society than the other. (Hear, hear.) The point, however,
in which he took the greatest interest in connexion with this
question was, the endeavour to change the spirit of prison
discipline altogether. In times past, the spirit of prison die-
eipline had been that of division by stone walls, or the im-
position of silence ; that principle was essentially a bad one.
(Hear, hear.) They should adopt rather the principle of
combination ; bring the prisoners together, give them a com-
mon purpose to good, and a common interest in pursuing it.
This was the view with which he had introduced the marks's-
tem amongst the convicts, the object of which was to encourage
industry and good conduct by rewarding them with better
food, and by reducing the term and the severity of the im-
prisonment, discouraging bad conduct by ensuring its
punishment. In carrying out this object, he had divided this
convicts into parties of six, each party having an object and
an interest in common, and thn success of his plan had been
meat complete. The great vice of th present system of pri-
son discipline was its strict military character—its leaving too
little to the free will cf the primmer. In his opinion, almost
any amount of free will was preferable, as a means of per-
manent improvement, to the most perfect system of coercion.
lie would make all prisoners labour, but he would give them
an interest in their own industry and good conduct, 'bowing
them at the same time ;bat by idleness and bad conduct

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INQUEST ON THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.
VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER.
TM finned ova the four children who died is um
Fees Romaal co bong removed Mom lir. De mn% mow
bum's*, ass resealed yeeteisday before Mr. Wash M
the Olen Tann, Delbretreet, Gree's-inaomall. TUMID.
uses of the jury said he had • statenseat to make in maw-
Mee lo maim* gowned by Mr. Droust on Friday ovonag
sh,W proceeding. had onseinted. Not ban la • imp
goo to spook from hie own kaowledgn the °mew ma.
pied that it would be better to have the slaeoMon mods*
some on who amid.
Jam ph Sandi re was ageordingly lied sad nambell...•
ea • Wk., and en Waste of the voila woelibignm I
bad thine of the children who were boonaht ban om Frh
day lam Ur examinadoe. After ifs undatdos. Mr.
Divert (who, as being Diked, said In name was
Bankolumew Peter) entered she tap MOM where we were.
Ile odd to use of the children, "As for you, you Iziag
'swig toossdral, you'll be taken unties of before the Eight
am." That child's name is Hurry Hartshorne. He wee
see of the witnesses who had jot urea user examinatioa.
He did not address any of the other children. I did not in-
terfere, for Mr. Droll,' went away directly.
The Coroner remarked that if the child had not been
crammed, such condom cm the part of Mr. Mont might
have been ona-traied into a contempt of court. But the
shild having nen examined no threat seemed to have been
Mid ow so as to tamper with the evidence. Mr. Drouet
mend, acted mom improperly. He (the Consu):did set
me that it wee aecowary.to purees the matter further.
The tunas of the Jug said he WM Mily be had I
called the Cousin's situation to the 'abject, and that it had
been invonigated, for it had been magnified tenfold.
Sareh Sellers examined : I ant an hunts of St. Pancras
world:west I wow to Mr. Drown's establishment to attend
to the children. I was employed in the sick ward. I think
there were 30 beds in it. There was only one child in each
bed. While I was there I saw the greatest attention shown
OM by the medical and other attendants I was there 10
riga I was up oe Friday night end Ave successive nights
sadden Elisabeth Elliott ait up with me. The reason of
that was that there was no other essistanos. Neither of as
took off oar clothe. fur the five dap and nights; we took
no rest daring that time. An attempt was made to get
seistwee, bet it did not earned. • I had never beet there
before. The weed when I went there was very dirty indeed.
We cleaned it. We had two little boys of the establishment
to assist as in taking away the slope, die.
Mary Anne Keith was examined : I am • widow, sad was
attending as nurse from St Panne in Mr. Dronet's utak.
lishment I sweat there last Friday feetaigit. Nurse
Oreene's word wee clean. During part of the night there
were two, and in some beds three child/en, who were brought
up and left there until they were remandment morning to my
our. They were children who tad beet fresh taken ill.
had 19 children in my weed. For the first two days I had
no Resistance, a d I carried away the dupe myself; but after
the first two days I got a strong girl of the establishment to
help m-. I was up three nights and three days successively.
I had no children to attend to in my ward bat the
Pancras.
Mr. Lovich examined : I am aseistant-surveyor to the Me-
tropolitan. Coaunisri tiers of Sewers. I surveyed the ditches,
au, sear Mr. Bullet's establishment by direction of the
Beard of That was on the 6th of January. Mr.
&dont hod a sup of the premises, but I did not prepare it.
(It we here shown to witness.) I have seen that map be-
fore. It is tulerably e erect There is no important davit-
t .In it. I did not go into Mr. Drouet'e establishment,
with the exception of one of the lower dormitories next the
farm-yard. 1 understood from the survcyor of highways
that ease( the ditches (indicating it on the map) had tree
cleared out about a fortnight bolero. There was water run-
ning in it, but parts contained stagnant mud.
Mr. Kite, surgeon, was culled and 'simian on that point,
sad he ear I he had wen that ditch or disk cleansed out
twice during the two menthe he was in the asylust. The
het time was ab out a fortnight previous to the 29th of De
comber. It was then done under the direction of the local
asaitary committee. The Ant time it was dose at Mr.
Drnet's earns.
Mr. Lorick re.examined--I have no hesitation is saying
that the state of the ditches there must have exercised • pre-
paid& effect upon the inmates of Mr. Drouet's establish-
ment, at lust. in certain winds.
Mr. A. th. Lives., examined, at his own suggestion. I
him • ',o4,dthit school at Tooties, and am a member of the
sanitary committee, which is a voluntary unpaid committee.
It hee been in tellies** about two months. The eirewn-
Mance under which the doeh just referred to was cleaned
out was that, owing to an intimation from the board of
health, the committee felt celled upon to divide themselves
into sets committees to examine the different localities, and
remove all impurities that iambi be consianed amenstve se
Wong. He .coi the cloning by the sotitary committee of
this ditch or watercourse. Wh re there is a reetanguier
turn there we s a collection of offensive matter. I wan ia
the habit of coiling that the cesspool of Tooting. It em-
ended about 40 yenta, and is about 6 feet I. width. It jobs.
ClarreVolarhe near the road, and is, I should say, 130 yards
from the extremity of Mr. Droarit's establishment. The new
buildings at the farm yard are quite close to it. (Mr. Kite
residentsurgeon, in reply to the coroner, mid that in thee:
new buildings there were 120 children, but the cholera had
not broken cut amwagit then) Exandaatios resumed:
My establishment is half a mile from it. During
the bat two years I have had about Shy
children under my care, sad I aa say that at
ao period of those two non have they have bon so
healthy as during the last ix month/. I sonsidor Tooting •
healthy place. I that by medial asonats wen mover
so mall elsewhere. I resided penionly at Oulldhed. I
know of no Mum or death eesueving at Toeing is maw
qu,.eues of the ditch sew spikes of, and my reran
he
• so is this: to the tipper part of it are three
Maws. lad the mum residing it them toil me that they
sawed ao Woos he their families in now that
sometimes, in calmer, they observed • bed leek did
em create say anew mewl them.—By the : If
my swine malady broke oat is year eseabilimsat what
name would you purses I—lf swab a dimes so mead.., or
usenet fever broke oat, I would isnomdistaly Johns the po-
rno of the children Is each name the parents gene-
rally cause their removal ; but if sash a &am es broke out
la Mr. Drone's satablhhmost monesd, I believe there is
mot a men ia the prahmisa thus. would sot have issmatly
seat them home widen' swift Ar isetrustiono—By a
Luna : 11111 parport et my ninon genii* is to show that
Tooting he eat unhealthy and that so unhealthy ladies..
has ben ezeosised by the dada&
William Porter examined : I em a muter shoemaker, sad
have resided In Mr. Denst's essablishment them tea years.
I superintend the hays, drill Wm. to
At the soggestioa of Mr. Belleadas, Mr. Demist hers
nand hie &ary table approved by the guardians, sad
headed it in. Oa being pees to the wines% he eabol—l
have seen the diet gives to the Albino aits to this
table. The arrow root sad flow mamboed he braithot is
usually thick-quite ee thick se treacle. The meat weighed
to them is without ben.—By the Caroni: Wars then say
other perms who lived ea exactly the same fool as the
*thins P—No ; sot snotty. Others had the ISOM meat.
hat they Goan it as they phased. Neither wen they
limited to the grad. There an so quatitios mentiesed for
sip w, but they had sheet the some allowsnag he amps,
▪ teashiestost Ivo noses of Mead at best for the
largn boys. I onset say the difbrowee beta's that mod
Inmate give& lathe man boys, bat then wasaganoldorable
&Senses I. sin. • bar plead loaf wee ma inn *Mesa
pieces.
Mr. Wine, • pegowlaw moan, said he saw a loaf
oat, sad ea amnia( the plasm, hued dates..
Witasse.—l avow Mow shed to he eat int IS pines. I
always sot the upper past ion 7. sad** trader bee I piss's.
flimmethwo a boy would awhile of We Mead Wag mull,
sad as then woe always same left in the tray, I would give
him soother slice upon seeing that It was ea. The boys all
appeared satisfied. I did set ea than but they would mar
Oen if they were sot With roped to water, they could
Wings get it whenever they waned it. Then is no water
in the boys yard, _but if they had sot enough is the dialog•
hall, wows I desired emouga to be always tarr4woonld
have it boa ISM MI Gamins oat. =
he akin to goon in • mom el atmomity, sad wryer
• Wt When boas dam is W whoa
The Marred* ea a hems, day ee containing the
=sof the vieag:rdians oldie several anion having
at the wham, was hers put In as acidotic",
Mr. Ballmadas that he hold is hand, ko the
manaisno of tho Noy, • of all ths reports
of the viliiss swans el the Vain, ham 4th
July, 1841, to tie Weald., an et the dialers before Quiet-
us. and coo other report sekeg al lwasary 4, 1849.—The
Conmer mil that es the imaisassalery report of 9th May
had been given in evidemeo, awrildwg elm in the book mast
be equally admisgibie.—Tho book was Ilea resolved.
Mr. William Samoa Wh field eximbood.—l em a men
bar of the College of Sorinen, Mandan of the hall, and
medical officer of the Heiken Union (Mr. Jame, in reply
to the coroner, here mid that his first (Asia anise of the
dna, in Mr. Dronet's we. received by him on the 3rd of
January.) I never visited Mr. Droust's establishment until
the 4th of January, and that did so by order of the board of
guardians, which order I resolved about 9 o'clock on Wed-
gwood', evening, the 3rd. I west at 10 o'clock on Thursday
morning. I found a great number of oar children ill with
Asiatic cholera. They were in that part of the setabligh-
vont which had been originally a tondo ssylum.
They were not all tagether, and I had to pick
:hem out by going front bed to bed. Then
were about 60 ill, but only 12 at ewe. Twe of our
children had died at that time. Oa Friday I bahrmail the
board of that fact. There was considwohlo asstasin ha the
sick wards, swing to the amalwe of &Edna suddenly taken
ill. The attenuate* woe isagadent, as then ought, in such
s case, to be a nurse to every fin cc W puiMme. but I did
not blame Mr. Droaet, u three woe mentea, owing
to the suddenness of the disease. I did wit sok Mr. Droner
why he bad not seat an earlier latismatisa of the disease
having broken out to the 'wrath'. It we. sot part of my
busissis to do so. My Warmt= wen to Gamine the
Kato of the children and report thanes. I made ellype-
tioas fee proved diet sad clothing. whisk Mr. Drown pro-
wled to adopt.wisa Oa the %Me Thursday evesiag I told Yr.
James I to speak to the boon, and they wen sun-