The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-12 00:00:00

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ADMIRALTY, MAY 11.—The Duke of Somerset
held a levee yesterday afternoon, at the Admiralty. There
were present—Vice-Admirals W. Ramsay, Sir E. Belcher,
and Sir R. Munday • Rear-Admiral A. Farquhar ; Captains
F. A. Hume, IL J. Raby, A. T. Thrupp, J. Rawstorne,
L J. Moore, C. M. Buckle, C. S. S. Stanhope, W. S.
Brown, A. Cumming, and G. Tryon ; Commanders Mc C.
Alexander, De Robeck, J. D. Curtis, T. K. Mackenzie,
H. M. Bingham, M. Lowther, C. F. Hotham, and H. E.
Crozier ; Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Adair, R.N. ; Lieu-
tenants J. Bruce, G. Bleckely, 0. S. Cameron, W. C.
Geary, A. H. Webb, and W. R. Smart, M.D.
APPOIFTMENTS. —Lieutenants G. R. Menage, to the Bel-
lerophon; F. J. Eaather, F. W. E. Kuper,and G.O. Moore,
to the Jason; W. T. Down, to the Mullet; E. Seale, to the
Asia; F. W. Edwards, to the Orontes; C. Alder, to the
Duke of Wellington.
Paymaster W. Dath, to the Trincomalee.
Assistant-Paymasters L. H. Edwards, to the Victory,
for admiral's office; F. A. Keogh, to the St. George.
Master's Assistant E. J. Fleet, to the Jason; R. H.
Welling', to the Duncan; W. J. Stallard, to the Pearl;
F. A. Hay and J. C. Roughtua, o sbe Dallocuphon, F.
Roberta, to the Pallas.
Clerk R. Osborn, to the Orontes.
Assistant-Clerk G. Finley, to the Boscawen.

SHOCKING DEATH IN A CASUAL WARD. —Tester-
day afternoon Mr. Payne, City coroner, held an inquiry at I
the Magpie tavern, New-street, touching the death, in
the casual ward of the East London Union, of John Smith,
aged 19 years. The deceased presented himself at the
casual ward of the East London Union, in New-street, at 8
o'clock last Wednesday evening, and stated that he was a
labourer, and had come from the country, and had slept in
Woolwich the previous night. He was quite destitute and
poorly clad. He was admitted and received six ounces of
bread, and was ordered to remain in the waiting room (a
whitewashed underground apartment) until his turn came
for • bath. After the lapse of an hour and a half he was
bathed. He ilea ran up two flights of stairs in
his skirt to the Bleeping ward, where he in
a few minutes complained to another casual of
illness. The porter, Kellaway, came up and put a
mustard plaster on his stomach, and told the paupers to
send for him if the deceased got ill again. No wards-
man was in the ward, he being engaged in bathing other
paupers, a process not over on that night until a quarter
to twelve o'clock. About a quarter to twelve o'clock the
deceased was again taken ill. A pauper named Coombs
undertook to cure him with cold water applied to his
stomach with a rug, and the unfortunate man fell on the
floor and died at once. Dr. Fowler, who had been ap-
prised before by Kellaway that a casual was ill, was then
sent for, and he came. Dr. Fowler deposed that the de-
ceased was far advanced in consumption, and death was
caused by the giving way of an abscess in the lungs, con-
sequent upon the exertion of running up two flights of
stairs after the bath. Witness had ordered Kellaway to
give him medicine and a planter. It appeared that de-
ceased had got no gruel or other warm drink on the night
in question. Had he lived till morning he would have
received, besides doz. of bread, • pint and a half of gruel,
made in the proportion of 14oz. of meal to a gallon of
water. The number of males who slept in the casual
ward on Wednesday night was 47. The jury returned a
verdict " That deceased died from the rupture of an
abscess in the lungs from natural causes."
ALLEGED FATAL ILL-TREATMENT IN CLERKP.N-
WELL WORKHOUSE. —A charge of gross and fatal ill-treat-
ment of a sick pauper in this workhouse has been made
against a pauper wardsman., The facts may be shortly
stated. A few weeks since a coroner's inquest was held
upon a pauper inmate named Hayes, who died from ulce-
rated sores, alleged to have been received from a fall out
of bed, and a verdict to that effect was returned. After
the inquest a pauper inmate wrote to the Poor-law Board,
stating that the evidence given before the coroner was not
true, for the writer alleged the man's wounds were in-
dictee' by a pauper wardsman. The letter was sent to the
guardians, who appointed a private committee to inquire
into the matter. The inquiry was made by • fermi'
taking of evidence, and at the last meeting
of the board of guardians the report was brought
forward (but not read), with a recommendation of the com-
mittee that the Poor-law Board should be informed that
the guardians had inquired into the matter and were of
opinion that the charge was untrue. The guardians who
spoke upon the question were most careful not to let a
word slip as to the charge or its import, and they generally
referred to the questions in the most ambiguous terms.
One or two of the guardians, who were evidently not in
all the secrets, wanted to know something about the evi-
dence taken, and it was proposed that instead of reading
the " evidence " taken by the officials at the private
inquiry, it should be handed about, so that the reporters
should not know what had taken place. The committee's
recommendation was adopted.
THE MYSTERIOUS FOIS•)NING CASE NEAR NEW-
CARTLF..—The adjourned inquest touching the death of
John I3ushby, aged 52, who with his two brothers George
land William are suspected to have been poisoned, was
held on Thursday, before 1.. M. Cockcroft, Esq. coroner,
at the Black Bird Inn, Ponteland, near Newcastle. It
resulted in a further adjournment for • fortnight. The
evidence adduced showed clearly the presence of arsenic in
the remains of the deceased.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST HINDERPEST. —The most
rigid precautions are being taken by the authorities to
guard against the extension of the cattle plague to this
country. A body of forty constables, under the direction
of Inspector Devur, have been told off for duty at the
North-wall-quay where a station is about being built for
their accommodation. The officers exercise a close super-
' vision over vessels arriving in port, and one of them sails
in every vessel carrying cattle, whose duty it is to see that
the drovers have used the prescribed means for disinfect-
ing their clothes. The pohce both here and throughout
the country are in constant communication with Professor
Ferguson, Director-General of the Veterinary Department
of tke Privy Council.—Dublin Evening Mat 7.
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