The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

DEATH IN A POLICE CELL.

Among the charie;pliScSdbeirOi; Mr. Ingham, was one
In whieh a man named John George M'lntosh, carman, of
Archer-street, Camden-town, was entered as having been
drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, and cruelly
torturing a horse by driving it with broken knees.
Inspector Bushnell informed the magistrate that in the
night the man was found dead in a cell at the Clapham
police-station.
Mr. Ingham marked the sheet accordingly, and observed
that he supposed that the man had died from intoxica-
tion.

Inspector Bushnell said that was his opinion.
A man and his wife, named Littlewood, were charged
with being drunk and fighting.
The husband appealed to the magistrate's sympathy for
• mitigation of punishment, as he was in the cell with the
man who died.
Mr. Ingham said he was very sorry, but he could not
make any alteration in the fines, namely se. each.
The husband then asked for the fines to be put upon him
alone, and his wife to be allowed to go at large.
Mr. Ingham consented, and ordered him to pay 104., the
wife being discharged.

THE TREATMENT OF THE SICK POOR IN THE gt,
LONDON WORKHOUSES. so

POOR LAW INQUIRY.—(THIS DAY.) st.
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This morning, Mr. Farnall, C. 8., resumed the me
inquiry into the treatment of the sick poor at the Pad- St. 111.
dington Workhouse.
Ss.
Mr. Ernest Hart was present on behalf of the impels- 8,
tion for the Improvement of Workhouse Infirmaries. st.
Lady Stephen deposed—l have been a lady visitor here st.
for 10 or 12 years, chiefly in the lying-in ward and in 54 84.
ward in the female infirmary.
To Mr. Hart—l have been often in the female insane IL
ward. A woman named Edmunds is the pauper nurse si'.•
in that ward. She is, I should think, about 60 st,
years old. The patients in that ward are not all St.
insane. Some are consumptive, and persons suffering St.
from other complaints are also there. There st.
had been bed-ridden patients there for months. Com- Z.-
plaints were made of the annoyance caused by a noisy pa gt
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tient named Luke. I have been told that the patients St
have been obliged to bribe the pauper nurses, and I have et
seen the nurses follow the friends of patients from the St.
wards. I have reason to believe that the patients are 81,
afraid to complain to the guardians. I have known 7:
the nurses to come home intoxicated after being IZ,"
out on excursion days. I have reported to the matron to
that a nurse named Vernon (" Pots and pans") was a very too
rough nurse, and that a patient had been neglected by 100
these nurses. I don't think that the matron has time to 10
exercise proper supervision over the infirmaries. The lady St
visitors, of whom I was one, applied three years ago to the st.
guardians through the then chaplain to provide an addi- u
tional ward for infirm women where they would receive St.
more comforts than were at that time allowed them. St.
They had nothing but benches in the wards, and when BL
they were ill they laid down on the floor with an old cloak 94.
or some garment under their heads. The guardians said sc.
they would take the matter in hand. An arm-chair was st,
put in each infirm ward. The nurse sometimes sits in it to
—(laughter)—and it is generally left unused.
Dr. Edward Byrnes Thompson—l am one of the physicians S -
at the Brampton Hospital for Consumption. I was 13
formerly on the staff of King's College Hospital, and was st,
house physician there when Mrs. Bateman was nurse. st,
Mrs. Bateman came to me and told me she had been some-
what abruptly discharged from her office as nurse in
the workhouse the day after Mr. Poznan and
Mr. Smith inspected the infirmary ; and on put-
ting some questions to her she made a statement
to me respecting the treatment of the patients, and
I advised her to see Mr. Hart on the subject. I have a
very high opinion of Mrs. Bateman's fitness as a nurse.
Dr. Henry Maudsley, of the University of London, and for-
merly resident medical superintendent of the Manchester
Lunatic Asylum, was examined by Mr. Hart. He said it
was consistent with the proper treatment to restrain an
insane patient for three weeks, or even one week, in a
straight waistcoat at night. This restraining treatment
was now abolished throughout England.
The witness, in reply to Mr. Bere, said if he had a
violent lunatic to attend to would put the case in a tingle
room, and have a night nurse in attendance. He would
have no restraint whatever. The use of a straight-
waistcoat only made the patient more violent.
A guardian said it was denied that what was called a
straight-waistcoat had been used.
Lady Stephen was recalled and cross-examined by Mr.
Bere. She said that since the guardians declined to
accept the furniture offered by the lady visitors for the
infirm women, the ladies had ceased to send complaints to
them.
The inquiry was proceeding when our report left.]

THE GRAND VOLUNTEER REVIEW IN HYDE-
PARK.-(THIS DAY.)

100 Call
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20/0 all
10 all
100 100

The long-expected and much talked of review of
our citizen army, together with several regiments of coun
try volunteers, takes place this afternoon, and will doubt-
less be an imposing spectacle. Since 1864 there has been
no display of a similar character in Hyde•park.
The main thoroughfares leading to the park are thronged
with people, and excursion trains from all parts of the
country are hourly depositing large numbers at the various
termini. Several thousands of spectators congregated this
morning in the park, and took up favourable positions, in
the hope that they would be allowed to retain them, but
with the arrival of the household troops to keep the ground
great numbers would be forced to retire. Many persons
perched themselves at the top of some of the highest trees.
The arrangements in the park were completed by
this morning under the direction of the Commissioners of
Works. It as anticipated that nearly all the members of
both houses of the legislature will be present, accommoda-
tion having been provided for them, and it is confidently
believed that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and
the Princess will be present.
Many of the country volunteer regiments, from Bir-
mingham, Nottingham, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, &c.,
arrived inthe metropolislbefore 1 o'clock, and were heartily
welcomed. Among the first to make their appearance were
the Ist Warwickshire Rifles, a fine body of men, com-
manded by Major Ratcliff, and numbering nearly 800.
They were followed by the bat Administrative Datta-
lion of Volunteers belonging to the same county, under
the command of Colonel Sir J. Hartopp, and numbering
about 450 of all ranks. Among the other regiments that
arrived early were the let Nottingham Rifle Volunteers,
600 strong, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Wright ;
the Ist administrative battalion of Derbyshire Rifles, 450,
under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Wilmot, V.C. ;
and the first administrative brigade of Berkshire
volunteers, under the command of Major Sir Paul Hunter.
The places of assemblage of the corps above enumerated,
and many others, are Eaton-square, Gloucester and
Sussex squares, and Manchester and Cavendish-squares,
whence at the time appointed by the War-office they were
to march to the park.
When the entire force is on the ground, which will not
be later than 5 o'clock, it will number little less than
18,000 men. The marching past will not be finished till
nearly 7 o'clock, after which the line wiil be reformed, and
the troops will leave the ground_
The volunteer staff will consist of the following :
Colonel Erskine, DB., Inspector of Volunteers. Aides-de-
Camp Lieutenant-Colonel Cochrane, Ist Administrative
Battalion of Surrey Rifles ; Lieutenant-Colonel Hogier,
Lanark Volunteeers ; Major the Earl of Denbigh, Flint-
' shire Rifles ; Captain Templer, Harrow Rifles ; Colonel
Wright, Deputy-Inspector of Volunteers, Colonel Bruce,
Lieutenant-Colonel Eliot, Colonel J. T. Deston, Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. W. J. Colville, Lieutenant-Colonel
Wombwell, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir G. F. Campbell, Major
Bruce (Royal Engineers), Deputy-Armistead-Inspectors of
Volunteers.

The American double-turreted ship, Miantonn-
mob, Captain Beaumont, accompanied by a paddle
steamer, has arrived at Spithead from Queenstown.
Herapath says that Mr. Gooch, the chairman of
the Great Western Railway Company, has been induced to
go out in the Great Eastern.
During the month of May 40,000 emigrants ar-
rived at New York from Europe, making the total since
the lit of January 88,710. There is already a great rush
to secure berths in the steamers going to Europe next
spring by people anxious to attend the Paris Universal Ex-
position. Although the time is almost a year off, both the
Cunard and Inman lines, announce that their state rooms
are nearly all taken. The travel to Europe promises to be

enormous.
THE LATE MR. JON AS WERE.—Tho statue to the
memory of this eminent breeder of sheep has been just
erected in the Market place at Cambridge. The likeness
is an admirable one—one of Baron Marochetti'e best efforts.
This testimony is that of all who for the last quarter of a
century knew Mr. Webb. The only regret is that it is so
anomalously placed. Unpretendingly the effigy was set
tip. It was placed on the pedestal at an early hour on
Thursday morning, in the presence of the Mayor of Cam-
bridge ar.d other members of the committee.
A GOODS TRAIN PRECIPITATED INTO BASSEN-
THWAITR LAKZ.—An accident of a very remarkable kind,
and though involving considerable destruction of property,
fortunately unattended by loss of life, occured on the
Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway, yesterday
morning. The goods train leaving Keswick about 8 o'clock
Teeterday morning broke down at Basaenthwaite
es a Lake
in consequence of the snapping of one of the axl of
waggon loaded with pig-iron. After travelling for about
hundred yards, smashing all the sleepers on the road,
whole train with the exception of the break-van and
engine were thrown over the embankment on each side,
some portions of it being projected into the lake. The
smash-up was most complete. The pi-iron wee scattered
about in all directions, partly on the line and partly in the
water, and the waggons were utterly destroyed, not one
being left with the wheels on.—Carlisle JocrviaL

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