The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-03 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

THE BOAIID or HEALTH yesterday received reports
of the fol:owing new cases of cholera : Lambeth 6, 4 fetal ;
Southwark 2, 1 fatal; Woolwich 3, fatal; South Lambeth 1,
fatal; Borough 3, fatal—total London eases, 15; 12 deaths ;
Hartlepool 1, fetal. The Edinburgh return gives 21 now
cues, U deaths.
THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIAN.; OF LONDON have
issued a manifesto, in which they refer to the fact of their
having appointed a cholera committee to consider what
measures it .a expedient to adoM with a view of preventing
the spread of the disease aid of otherwise mitigating its
toile.' This committee have drawn up some remarks and
instruction. for the information of the public. They say :
that in a distect where cholera prevails ao appreciable
increase of danger iv incurred by ministering to persons
effected with it, and no safety afforded to the community by
the isolation of the sick. The disease has 'knout invariably
Men most destructive in the dampest and filthiest pats of
the towns it has visited. A state of debility or exhaustion,
however produced, increases the liability to cholera. The
committee therefore recommend all persons during its pre.
valence to lire in the manner they have hitherto found most
eon lucive to their health; avoiding intemperance of all
kinds. A sufficiency of nourishing food, warm clothing, and
speedy chance of damp gume:its, regular and sufficient
sleep, and avoidance of execisiva fatigue, of long fasting,
end of exposure to wet and cold, more muscularly at night, are
important mesas of promoting or maintaining good health,
and thereby afford protection against the cholera. The
committee do not recommend that the public should abstain
from the moderate use of well cooked green vegetable., end
of ripe or preserved fruits. A certain proportion of these
articles of diet, is, with most pet sons, necessary for the main-
tenance of health. The committee likewise think it not
advisable to prohibit the use of pork, or loom ; or of salted,
dried, or smoked meat or Ash ; which have not been
proved to exert any die. at influence in cumin=
disease. No promote the snread of epidem'e
its MI siet u i wilt nourament ; sad the pool
will nee-seedy suffer this want, if they are led to abstain
from those articles of fond on which, from their comparative
cheapness, they mainly depend for subsistence. The
committeo also recommend the establishment of die
pensaries in arms parts of the town which are re-
mote from the existing medical institutions; and die
tinct cholera hospitals, which it will require seem time
to organise, and which they believe sill be found to be abso-
lutely necessary, should the epidemic prevail in this metro-
polis with a wive y at all approaching that which it mani-
fested on its Ant appearance in England. In conclusion,
they urge an the rich, who have commustively little to
fear for themselves, the great duty of generously and actively
ministering. to the relief of the poor, while the epidemic pre-
vails; bearing in mind that fuel, rend warm clothing, and
sufficient nourishment, are powerful safeguards against the
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THE WOODS, FORESTS, AND ESTATES OF
Ting CROWN.
The Liverpool Financial Reformers have issued
another paper, ta which they say :—" Before censideeine
the prone management of the woods, forests, and estate*
of the crown, it appears desirable to lay before the public a
short sketch of the history of this national property. The
estates of the crown, enumerated in " omeedly Book" are
r0ya11,422 manors, 68El
forests, 13 chases, and 781 parks in
different parts of the country er of which, while a assail part
was, no doubt, regarded r the private estate of the sove-
reign, and a further portion consisted of confiscated Saxon
property, over which he would naturally exercise a conque-
ror's right, the great bulk °assisted of what was, Bader the
Saxon king", denominated " Folkland" (land of the people),
end, as such, strictly inalienable under any circumstances.
neta says, and is confirmed by Desoto', that "it is an-
lawful for the crown to alienate ancient mason or
rights, and that every king is bound to resume
the alienated property of the crown ;" and he adds, "nor
will prescription of length of time avail the wroniefel holder
of this property : for length of time in this ore only aggra-
vates, rather than lessens the injm;" and though this fun-
damental law was violated by ney. every sovereign in see-
cession, we And frequent resumption of all snob illegal
grants down to (the reign of Henry VIII., with impeach-
ments of ministers for pertain; grants; and similar mea-
sures were proposed under James 1., and even as late as
Charles II.; but these fell( through, the IrtOSIVIITS of the
stolen property being by this time too powertul ; and by 21st
James 1., c. 6 (amended and made more effectual by 9th
Geo. 111., c. 16), it was enacted for their security, "teat a
quiet and uninterrupted enjoyment, for sixty year before the
paining of that act, of any estate originally derived from the
crown, sheuld bar the crown from any righter suit to mover
such Mato, under pretence of any flaw en the grantor other de-
fact of title." Queen Elisabeth had alienated crown lands
to a large eztemet to ere imposing taus on the people • it
would be well U her suceessors raid assign any reason
half
as ere ditable for their dilapidation'. James I. granted away
the =real property in foolish prodigality ; Charles 1., in
order to avoid riling a parliament,- and to rake war upon
hie people. Cromwell sold nearly the whole of the crown
property, but toe sales were declared void, and the lands n-
aiad immediately on the restoration, by Charles 11., who
forthwit s made away with a large portion in his tarn, to pro-
vide hinds tor his debaucheries. and estates for his leiltrreell
and their children ; and William 111. to est. Irish and
reward his Dutch followers and the promoters of the revolu-
tion, so impoverished the crown (the estates being sham
all granted away), that an act was puled (1 Anne, e. 7),
restricting all future grants and leases from the rows to
three lives or thirty-one years . • the fact being, that the
ministry of the day coneetsted to the measure brans" there
wen no estates of any consequence remaining for them to
Capon of. There is, however, strong rear le to believe that
this law, like all others made for the same purpose, availed
very little, and that the remnant of the national "states
continued to be regarded by each successive king and'
ministry os a convenient fund, to be =peed of at
their absolate discretion in jobbing and political corrup,
lion, or simple pecteation, as might appear most expedient ;
and that effectual means were generally taken to prevent
detention, or even inquiry, will appear from the voluminous
reports to parliament (L.°. 1787 to 1792) of the commis-
sioners of inquiry appointed under George 111, i.e. 1786.
It is therein set forth, with due official lamentation, among
other matters, that then were " no maps, surrys, or other
accounts ;" not one plan of any forest which proved accu-
rate;' the then late Burveyoraineral, Mr. John Pitt,
stating that none had ever come into his pimples, and that
he had endeavoured to supply the deficiency as tar
as possible from " old books purchased at sales -"
else, that "he believed many grants bad been
of which no record sedated in his office ;"
the erninissiouers Pifer also to " abase," which they hare
discovered in the suargemant of the forests; so that, os the
whole, it can scarcely =ate surprise to find that the Mom
from all the crown property, which in 1060 was stated to be
217,9001., exclusive of 45,6981. then already lost, la
1787, dwindled down to 10.6631. He. Id., with a pro.
setive rensesitation of 6,2211. Os. 21d. more; god
trench the real annual value, aceordine to en
latest survey' and valuations, many of which the mew
miselossers are careful to inform us were by on Iserle
recent, and gave bat a very imperfect ariasof *sir
setaal worth, was 102,8261. 14s. lid. I la Wads( over
the list of mown teaser, It is painful lm Ira se many
et the nobility and gentry of the land enable*: to de -
(Tend the public. " Baron, and squire, and knight of the
shire," clergyman and layman appear emulously scrambling
for a share of the nation's spoil's. A few ' may he
worth insertion here, as ewesities :—TheDuke of Bedford
held the men's and estate of Ampthill and Millbrooke,

• " Nero bead to the value of toe fifth part et Ida Ohs copeerer's)
realer, above the estates or the church:* rays Mel Jo tice
lartescue.