The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-07 00:00:00

EXPRESS, -FRIDAY EVEN,

THE CHOLERA.
The following it the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrhuti registered on Wednesday:
Cholera. Diarrheas.

West districts
North districts
Central districts
lisst districts
Booth dadaists

Total la Load= 215

MAICHON-HOURIC RZLIE'S COMMITTEE.
Yesterday, s customer of Messrs. Williams,
Gadsden' and Williams, wine-merchants, of Great St
Helen's, Bishopsgate, made anonymously the munificent
present of a pipe of old port to the Mansion-house Com-
mittee, for distribution among the sick end convalescent.
The value of the gift was further enhanced by the wine
beingp
thete dlaryfew dfree;ys the Lord Mayor has been
interesting himself in endeavouring to procure a better
supply of water in the poorer parts of the City, and espe-
dolly on Sundays, repeated complaints having been made
recently to the City Commissioners of Sewers that the
supply on Sundays was scant, and that the poor were
much inconvenienced in consequence. The result goes to
show that it is the niggardliness of the landlords of small
houses, and not the water companies who are to blame in
this matter, and that the New River Company in
particular has, of its own spontaneous motion
and freeof charge, done much to make up for the short-
comings of landlords in that respect, especially while the
epidemic has been prevalent. A deputation, yesterday,
from the eastern district of Whitechapel attributed much
of the low fever which has set in there since cholera has
abated to the short supply of water to small tenements
among other predisponeg Muses, and to the bad drainage.
In Little Collingwood-street, where they said there was
fever in almost every house, the water after heavy rains
was.to be seen stagnating 4 inches deep in places, and the
drainage was altogether unsatisfactory. This state of
things arose wholly, they mid, from the neglect of land-
lords, and the tenants, who were mostly poor, were
powerless to help themselves. They did not even com-
plain, fearing that if they did, and the landlords
were put to expense in consequence, that their
rents would be raised. A letter addressed to the
Lord Mayor, on the part of the New River Company, states
that for years past the company has given a Sunday
supply wherever pariah authorities had shown that they
were enable to compel landlords of small houses inhabited
by the poor to provide properly for their tenants, and
during the late alarm consequent upon cholera, without
waiting for an application, the company has granted a
Sunday supply to about 50,000 houses. Indeed, wherever
consumers are ready to take water in any way, and will
give a sufficient guarantee against waste, the company are
reedy to make the supply constant. Besides, as a tempo-
rary arrangement during the epidemic, in ceder to provide
drinking water for poor people without the contamination
which comes from its store in foul cisterns, the company
see allowing, free of charge, supplies of water to standpoets
in the courts and alleys throughout their districts.
The local committees in the districts lately infected, who
attends at the Mansion-house, concur in representing
that the disease continues to subside, and that in some
parts it has been altogether stamped out ; but them is
much distress from breavements, especially among
children, and from the heads of families whom the epide-
mic had attacked being too weak from its effects to work.
The low diet, also, upon which thousands of the poorest
classes in the east of London habitually subsist, has, with
other concurrent causes, superinduced fever in many parts.
In the case of many of the convalescent patients from the
Wapping Cholera Hospital, after having been discharged,
there has been • relapse of disease on returning to their
own homes. Many of the patients who had resorted to the
hospital there were working men and seafaring people of
the better class, and where death has resulted there have
been some painful instances of bereavement among widows
and orphans. The case was mentioned yesterday of • man
named Ball and his wife' who had both died in the hos-
pital, leaving four little children.
Mr. Richmond—There have been six &talcum of cholera
within the last few days, but the disease has been entirely
confined to the workhouse, and is said to have been im-
ported there by a woman from the east of London, and
who became its first victim. There were no fresh eases
yesterday.
At a meeting of the working committee, held yesterday,
Sr Mordaunt Wells in the chair, grants of 1001. for pur-
poses of general relief, and 501. for assisting convalescents,
w ere made to the district of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch ;
501. and 25/. for these purposes respectively, to the east
district of Whitechapel ; and 501. for convalescents to the
Wapping Hospital.
A deputation from the Bow and Bromley health com-
mittee of the Poplar District Board of Works, composed
of Mr. Blott, the chairman, Dr. Woodforde, medical
officer of health, Mr. Cornelius Hoare, Mr. W. Oakley,
Mr. Sherrard, and Mr. W. R. Brooks, waited upon
the committee in reference to a statement made by
a cholera relief committee from Bromley by
Bow, of which the Rev. Henry Lance is chairman,
to the Mansion-house committee on Monday last,
es to the dreadful state of the drainage there, and espe-
cially in reference to • remark by one member of that
local committee to the effect that in some parts of the
district night soil was being used in making new roads,
and even in some way for building purposes ; and Mr.
Blott, the chairman, and Dr. Woodforde, the medical
officer, on the part of the deputation, gave an emphatic
contraiction to the latter statement, but admitted that
the drainage was in an unsatisfactory state, arising from
the low level sewer being unfinished and from there not
being sufficient pumping power to drain the district. That
being so, they said they had made extraordinary exertions
to deodorise the district by the extensive use of carbolic
acid, and by flushing it thoroughly with water. There
were also so many agencies at work relieving
the distress that they did not believe any case of
real destitution could have gone unrelieved. The
entire District Board of Works was divided into two
parts for that special purpose. They had dispensaries
open night and day, and provision was made for supplying
medicine, disinfectant!, and stimulant'. They had, in
fact, taken action in the matter before the publication of
the Order in Council.
Sir MORDAVNT WELLS, the chairman, asked the depu-
tation if they did not think that sonic of the servants cs
workmen of the local Board of Works might have used
night soil in the abominable way which had been stated
unknown to them, adding that they all knew to what
courses sub-contractors and the like sometimes resorted.
Dr. WooDeonte replied that he did not believe it possi-
ble that such a thing could have been done without their
knowledge, and he entered into some details to show the
promptitude with which they had dealt with nuisances
whenever brought under their notice.
Sr MORDAUNT Weid.a said, before coming there to com-
plain of the statement made by the member of the local
relief committee in question, the deputation ought to have
written to the person making it to )mow on what grounds
he had done so. They would then as public men have
been in • position to give an explanation, but be did not
think they were at present able to give a total denial to
the statement. It might be when they come to investi-
gate the matter as a board of works that they would find
something had been done which ought not to have been
done, or. as they now said, that there was no foundation
for the statement. Be that as it might, the committee
would rest assured, after the statement of Dr. Woodforde,
that the local board had done all that was fairly required of
them in the emergency.

METROPOLITAN SANITARY ASSOCIATION. —A con-
ference meeting will be held on Wednesday, the 12th in-
stant, to consider the subject of the present epidemic of
cholera, in its medical, sanitary, and social aspects, by the
Bishop of London, who has expressed his wfflingness to
preside. A full attendance is expected of gentlemen who
desire to discuss the question whether everything has been
done that ought to have been done to check the present
epidemic.—Medical Times.
THE CATTLE PLAoux.—The latest cattle plague
return shows that 99 attacks were reported to have oc-
curred during the week ending September 1, being a de•
crease of 49 on the previous week. Fresh outbreaks took
place in 17 farms or places where cattle are kept, the
number of such outbreaks in the previous week being 17
also. The number of healthy cattle slaughtered, to pre-
' vent the disease extending to them, was 47 during the
week. The disease is reported to have prevailed during
the week in the following 26 petty sessional divisions of
England, viz.: Oxford : Ploughley, 2. Essex : Brent-
wood, 7 ; Chelmsford, 2 ; Ongar. 3. Gloucester : Law-
ford's-gate, 1. Shropshire : Wbitchurch, 11. Stafford :
Eocleahsll, 3. Lincoln : Barton-on•Humber 6 ; Gains-
borough, 2 ; Hornauitle, 1 • Lincoln LindseY, 1 ; Walsh-
croft, 1. Derby : Appletree, 1. Cheshire : Broxton, 1 ;
Daresbury, 1 ; East Bucklow, 1; Edesbury or Eddisbury,
1 • Maockefield, 3 ; Nantwieli, 18 ; Northwich, 4. Lanca-
shire: Amoundernesa, 1; Garstang, 18; Kirkham, 4. York,
East Riding : Middle Holderneas, 4 •, South Roldeniese,
1. York, North Riding : Whitby Strand, 1. Since the
commencement of the disease 253,324 cattle have been re-
ported as attacked. 206 sheep are reported during the
week to have been attacked, making the total to the date
of this return 6,831. Note.—Three inspectors who re-
ported eases last week, have not reported in time for this
return, vis., for the county of Cambridge, 1 ; Salop, 1 ;
and York (West Riding), L These inspectors reported 3
eases last week. _ _

MIDDL,

(Before Mr. Dowling, Deputy Assistant Judge.)
Henry Francis, 19, was indicted for stealing three
brushes, value •2s. 6d., the property of Thomas Talbot.
Hr. Thomas Talbot, manager to the Institution for the
Relief of the Blind, in Commercial-street, Whitechapel,
said a month ago he found the prisoner in the street in a
very wretched and destitute condition, and having pity
upon him he engaged his at Is. 6d. a day to clean the
windows of the institution, and be was so occupied for
week. Believing that he could make the prisoner perma-
nently useful, be engaged him as messenger at 9a. a week,
stripped him of his rags, and gave him the new Bull of
clothes he was now wearing. He had only been in his new
situation a week when it came to witness's knowledge
that he had taken a pocket-comb from a poor
blind man's pocket. He told the prisoner that in-
formation had reached him that he had robbed the blind
man of his comb but the prisoner denied having done so,
said he found it lying in the workshop, and that he had
riven it to a little boy. Believing that the prisoner had
stolen the article he discharged him, and two or three days
afterwards three brushes were missed. These brushes were
afterwards found in the prisoner's lodgrogs • and on being
woken to by the servant of the house, he said at first that
the gentleman had given them to him, and afterwards
that he had given half-a-crown for them.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
In a second cue the robbery was committed at the home
where the prisoner lodged, at No. 9, Greenfield-dreet,
Mile-end. The prosecutrm is a poor widow, and while in
the house he plundered it of everything he could lay his
hands upon.
ward
Herbert Beeves,warder at Coldhath-fields, mid that
the prisoner was sentenced at Worship-street Police-court
in 1861 to be kept at Felton Reformatory for five years,
hut of that term be only served fifteen months, as his
friends applied for his discharge, and they apprenticed
him, but be would not stop at his employment.
Joseph Smith, another warder of the Coldbath-fields
Prison, also provedtbree other convictions of three months
each against the prisons. These were summary convic-
tions,
Mr. Serjeant Dowling said the prisoner was a mart
ungrateful fellow to rob his benefactor, and sentenced him
to eighteen months' hard labour.
Amelia Warren, 26, was indicted for 'dealing puree
and the sum of 10e. from the person of Abraham Isaac
Seckall.
The prosecutor said be was an escapement-maker, and
as he was going home through Lee-street, Kingsland,
about eleven o'clock on the night of the 21st of August,
the prisoner followed him and asked him to home with
her. He had his purse safe in his coat pocket when she
came up to him. She put her arm round , and preload
him, and directly afterwards she went away, when he
missed his purse. He followed her, and told her that she
had taken his puree, and she pointed to it lying on the
ground, and said " There it is." He picked it up, and
found it empty.
James Craning, police-constable 71 N, said on the 21st
of August be was on duty in Sinpland-road, and saw the
prosecutor. draggling with the prisoner in the street. He
said, ' She has robbed me of half a sovereign and other
moneys," and he saw the prisoner attempt to pass some-
thing to another woman who was standing near. He
caught her hand, and told her she had better give it to
him, but she tried to put into her month. He found in
her hand a half-sovereign, Is. lid., and a watch-key. She
said it was all her own money, and that the prosecutor had
given it to her.
The prisoner said the prosecutor bad given her the
money ; which the prosecutor positively denied.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Serjesnt Dowling sentenced her to be imprisoned
and kept to bard labour for three months.

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.) 1
John Warner, 27, described in the calendar as a cabinet-
maker, was indicted for stealing 651 b. of lead, value Is.,
the property of some person unknown.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
William Bridgemnn, police-constable 35 K, said that
he saw the prisoner in Commercial-road East, carrying
651 b. of lead, which he now produced, in a sack. He
was followed by two men. He asked prisoner what it
was, and he said, " I don't know." The other persons
ran away. He took the prisoner into custody, and he
said the men had given the bag to him to carry.
The prisoner said the men had given him the bag to
carry. He knew nothing about them except that they
promised him sixpence for carrying it.
A verdict of Acquittal was taken.
Thomas Howard, 19, described es a watchmaker, was
indicted for stealing a silver watch, value Si., the property
of William Gudgeon, from his person.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor was walking along Shorediteh, when the
prisoner rushed at him and snatched his watch. The pro-
secutor pursued him, and he ran into a house. He was
afterwards apprehended and taken to the police station.
The prosecutor was fetched, and he immediately identified
the prisoner from amongst others as the person who had
stolen his watch.
The jury found him Guilty.
Mr. George Locker and Warder Reeves proved that the
prisoner was a daring thief, and had been previously con-
victed of felony and sentenced to twelve months' imprison-
ment with bard labour.
Mr. Payne said the prisoner must have • heavier sen-
tence this time ; he must be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for eighteen calendar months.
Blanche Lasey and Susan Norman, two young women
looking like servant girls, were convicted of stealing a pair
of boots.
The prisoners pleaded not guilty.
The prisoners stole a pair of boots from the prosecutor's
shop door.
The prisoner Blanche Lessey said her friends were at Bir-
mingham, and it would break her mother's heart if alit
knew of her position at this court.
A juryman suggested that that if the case was mentioned
in the public press her friends might come forward.
The other prisoner said she was • general servant, and
had been lodging in Drury-lane and Holborn-buildings.
Mr. Payne said he should like to know something more
about the prisoners, and had no doubt that if their names
were mentioned in the newspapers something more might
I be learnt of them. He directed Police.constable Lucy,
120 Y? who took the prisoners into custody, to make some
inquiries.
' The judgment of the court was postponed until next
session.