The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-08 00:00:00

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

NEW VALUATION OF THE COUNTY.-A special
general meeting of magistrates acting for the county of
Middlesex was held yesterday, at the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell. The meeting, or court, as the act of parlia-
ment designates it, was convened for the purpose of re-
ceiving the report of a committee appointed two years ego
to collect evidence as to the increased value of property
within the county, and to revalue the mme. The chair was
omigied by Mr. Freshtleld. The report stated that the
eammittee, after examining witnesses from upwards of 100
pasiiises, deelmed the present annual value of the landed
ea{Ueementpogortyof the county to be 7,764,3301. The
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OPENING THE ROYAL LETTERS.—SeveraI lettere,
addressed to her Majesty front Osborne, have been opened
on their transit to Scotland, and • strict investigation
is being made to detect the inquisitorial personage who has
been prying into the rola! secreta.—Star.
THE POOR IN ST. YANCRAB.—OVERCROWDED STATE
Or TEE WORlLHOUBl.—Yesterday, a full meeting of the
board of directors and guardians of the poor of St. Pancras
was held in the King's-rood, Camden-town, in the new
vesn.y.reorne adjoining the workhouse; Mr. J. B. E.Wright
is the chair.—A director having introduced the subject of
the present overcrowds/ state of the workhouse to the notice
of the board, Mr. Prandergast stated that it had been said
the workhouse was originally intended for the accommoda-
tion of 600 persons, and now there were nearly 1,600 in the
building ; whereas it was not taken into consideration that
the room appropriated to oakum employment could be made
avaiia.u4; for the accommodation of 30 or 40 people, and
there were sevens or.,ms on the basement floor. and other
recent alterations, that rendered them able to accommodate
a much greater number than the house was formerly in-
tended to hold.—Mr. Douglas expressed his conviction that
the house was wholly unlit for the present number of its
inmates.—Mr. Prendergast did not mean to may that
there was no necessity for an increased accommo-
dation ; but he thought the additions that had been
made to the house should have been stated, end that the'
place was suited for 1,200 persona. He hoped the commit-
tee would see that there were a number of persons in that
house who bad no business to be there, especially now that
corn and food were so much cheaper. After some to/thee
conversation the following resolution was moved by Mr.
Douglas, and seconded by Mr. Wagstaff:
That a return of the average number of persons maintained in the
workhouse in each of the us months commencing from the Waited'.
1844, with a plan of the faecal monis in the workbotter, and cti-
menatons of rock, with the number of beds, the persons in
them on the sth apt, 1847, a pima of the unsecspled in the
garden, with dimensions thmeM, and a plan a the Mammy, a made.
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Thimotion was put and ca rried."—Mr. James Prendergast
made some remarks with reference to the reports in the pub.
tic papers of some statements made at the vestry meeting
held on Wednesday. The statements in question oontained
some very serious but happily unfounded charges sgainst Mr.
Eaton, the master of the workhouse, who had entirely dis-
p
roved the whole of the allegations brought forward against
m.—Mr. E. Pitt, the accountant agent, read a lengthened
document, giving a full explanation of the real facts of the
CYO, in which Mr. Eaton distinctly denies having ever re-
fused to allow the respectable paupers to quit the workhouse
without compelling them to wear the workhouse garb, and
in fact positively declares himself innocent of any of tho
charges against him. The statement was ordered to be
entered upon the minutes, and reported before the vestry at
the neat meeting.—After some further business the meeting
broke up.
MR. CRAWLEY'S CASE AT ST. TIIOMAS'II HOSPITAL.
—Sir —I beg to informs you that Mr. Crawley was seen by
Mr. Whitfield, the resident medical officer, immediately he
was admitted, and by Mr. South, the surgeon, within ten
minutes afterwards, at which time an operation was not
deemed prudent. I trust that you will give to this the
same publicity as your late statement received.—Sanum.
SOLLT.

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DECAY OF LITERARY INSTITUTIONS--Two of the
largest of these establishments in the metropolis,—the
Western Literary Institution, Leicester-square, and the
Eastern, in the Hackney-road, have been broken up during
the past week, and their extortive libraries, museums, and
collections of philosophical apparatus, are to be sold by public
auction.
Two ENGLISH GENTLEMEN FOUND DEAD IN INVER-
Ninia-antitn,--At the Mansion-house, yesterday, the Lord
Mayor received the following communication from the
sheriff-substitute of Inverness-shire, dated Fortwilliam, In
verneu-shire, enclosing an account of the finding of the
bodies of two English gentlemen on the 2nd inst. The names
of the deceased gentlemen are Mr. Stericker, of 49 Fen.
chnrch-street, and Mr. Henry Whitburn, brewer, Esher,
Surrey. The letter went on to say—" I refer to the en-
clued paper, containing the evidence of one of the first per-
' sons who found the bodies, and which contains all the infor-
mation I have as yet collected. The report of the medical
men is also enclosed, agreeing that death occurred from
natural causes. I have not as yet ordered a dissection, and
*ill abstain from doing so, unless circumstances of a suapi.
dolls nature may emerge, but which I do not expect. The
necessary attention to the bodies will be bestowed, and I
shall suspend all directions as to interment until
the pleasure of the relations becomes known. I
proceed this evening, with the procurator-fiscal, to the
spot where the bodies were found, to prosecute further in.
guinea. The evidence alluded to is that of W. S. Milner,
ensign in the 69th Regiment of Foot, who had been residing
with his brother at Kinlochbeg, 15 miles from Fortwilliam,
and it gives the following account:—" About eight o'clock
this morning (2nd September), one of the servants told me
that a drover had seen a dead man by the road-side about
two miles from Kinlochbeg. I went to the spot and found
two men lying close to one another, about three yards from
the road on the low side, quite dead. There was not the
slightest sign of struggling or of violence, and their appear-
ance gave me the impression that having sat down to rest
they became benumbed with the cold and expired, Both
were dressed: as travellers, each with a small knapsack on
his back. There was a small whiskey pocket gash h ing
near them empty. Lost night was very stormy, wind and
rain in great abundance, probably the most stormy night we
have had this year." The statement then gives a particular
account of the property found upon the two deceased persons.
The medical certificate expressed the opinion that death was
caused by exhaustion and cold from the deceased having
fallen asleep on the mountain on that boisterous night. The
Lord Mayor upon receipt of the communication on Monday
sent his chaplain to, the friends of Mr. Stericker, and one
of the marshals to Esher, to disclose the intelligence.
It appears that the two gentlemen were strangers to each
other, and had journeyed together accidentally. Each had
left = an excursion through Scotland, and they had been
seen on the preceding night at no great distance from the
spot on which their corpses were found. Mr. Stancher had
written home on the 31st August.
EX-OFFICIO SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.—Sir,—One of
your subscribers and readers, noticing the remarks made in
your paper of this morning, alters to you the following sug-
gestion, if you think it worthy your notice in any way you
may think most advisable:— "The result of the recent
elections tends to confirm the justice of the theory which
has been occasionally broached : that' the ministers of the
crown ought to have seats in parliamerit, ex-officio, but not
votes. If this should add to the independence of the minis-
ters, it would also increase the power of the House of Com-
meta, for the constituencies which return ministers are
usually influenced to support them. Under the present
semen, not only are men of talent and industry excluded
from parliament from their inability to encounter the ex-
penses of a contested election, but others who, being in
office, have distinguished themselves by their talents and
application to business, are suddenly unseated by the bigotry
or prejudices of a nemerous constituency.—H. Sept. 7.

itaBERT OF 400 SovEneroNs.:—Yesterday infor-
mation was received by the police that Themes Thompson,
to the Victona and Western Loan Societies, held
rte fshrUnion Arms, Penton-street, and the Two Brewers,
Jennyn-street, had gone off with 400 sovereigns, the pro-
perty of the shareholders.