The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

N %VAL ArrommENre.— Lieut. T. P. Barrow

(1823) has been appointed to take charge of the Edward,
transport. Lieut. the Hon. P. Curzon (1843) has been sp.
pointed to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE AT HULL—A meeting of
seamen was held on Tuesday at Hull, to hear the state-
ment of delegates from the northern ports, and from the
mining districts. Captain Oliver, who presided, opened
the meeting by some strictures on the Mercantile Marine
Act, and characterised the Board of Trade and the local
marine hoards as shipowneis' associations established es-
pecially for the injury of the poor sailor. Mr. Alexander
Hamilton, delegate from Newcastle, illustrated the ml-
vantages resulting
adoption
oithe to the
tifeenptatit, tyof.ssam".ta
had oecured during the late strike in the port of the men
employed in the northern ports. lie moved the following
resolution That this meeting, viewing with feelings or
regret the recent attempts of the president of the Board of
' Trade to deceive the seamen of this kingdom, by hi. promise
of introducing a bill to amend the Mercantile Marine Act
Of 1810. which hill has only tended to make the measure
Inert offensive and oppressive, hereby pledges itself to more
vigorous exertions to obtain a total repeal of the before-
etteit.,l act." Mr. J. T. Lucbett, a delegate from Hartle-
pool, seconded the resolution, and dwelt on what he termed
the iniquitous system of levying money ut.der the muster.
won to support what were called charitable institutions, such
as sailors' homes. A petition to the House of Commons
was then carried, praying for the total repeal of the act cora-
Seined of Mr. Fraser, of Aberdeen, moved, and Mr.
MtKenrie, from Middlesborough and Stockton, seconded •
resolution pledging the meeting to endeavour to obtain par-
liamentary support ; and this, in common with the preced-
ing motions, baying been carried unanimously, the meeting
adjourned.
TUE MURDER IN SOMEReETSIIIRE.—The Coroner
for the E uteri division of Bement resume I his inquiry
into the death of the unfortunate man George Buse, who
was murdered at Priston, • few miles from Bath. on the
Ist of December, as already reported in the Express a
Wetinesslay, at the Ring of Bells public-house, l'ristoo,
where the murdered man was drinking shortly before
his death. A considerable number of witnesses having
been examined, the jury returned an open verdict, " That
deceased was found murdered."
NEGLECT OP A PARISH OFFICER IN LAMBETH.—
Yesterday an inquest was held by Mr. Carter, at the
Duke of Sussex, Gibson-street, Lambeth, on the body of
Joseph Garland Saunders, aged seven years. The brothel
and sister of the child were examined, and it appeared that
both parents were dead, and witnesses lived in • single
room at 48, Gloucester-street. On Sunday their brotW.
was taken ill, end his sister, who is eleven years of age, was
scot to Mr. heck, a parish surgeon, living in the West.
minster-road, for some medicine, which was given to her,
but without any table on the bottle. Another appli atia• I
had been made, when it was represented that the ditto wag
in high fever. The answer was stated to be Oh, it he has
fever he will live long enough to obtains parish order." Two
powders were however sent. The child getting worse, an
application was made to Mr. Beck by a relative, who
said that if he at ended to every child with a
belly ache he would have enough to do. The child
died on Monday, but it was proved Mr. Beck bad
not been informed of the case. The Coroner sent for
Mr. Beck's assistant, and having read over to him
what had been stated, asked why he had sent medicine
out without a label, and had not informed his master of the •
case. The assistant, a flippant young man, said they never •
labelled bottles for parish patients; and if he had known
this was a case of emergency he should have gone to it.
He then coolly took out his watch to look at the time. The
Cormier and jury appeared indignant at this, and the former
said, " Yon nerd not look at your watch, sir ; this is not a
case to be trifled with, their time was of no object." The
foreman said it was the first time he had heard that bottles
were not labelled for the poor—their lives were as valuable
as the rich. The jury ultimately returned the following
*peel il verdict We find that the decea.ed died from
natural causes, but at the same time we deprecate the sys
tem of sending out to the poor medicine without being
labelled; and we consider that there has been great want
of care on the part of Mr. Beck's assistant in not having in-
formed
hid employer of t64l,came."