The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-21 00:00:00

THE WOREHOUSE AT ?ANSHAN.

The Daily Ana gives an abstract of a long report
in last week's Lancet of the state of the workhouse at
Farnham. The buildings are described as a perfect marvel
of bad construction, and the internal arrangements are
miserably defective and disgdating. The nursing staff for
from 60 to 90 patients consists of one paid nurse and one
Trial. pauper assistant, an invalid who has been fire
times tapped for dropsy. There are no night nurses
at all, and yet the inmates of the house consist
entirely, with the exception of a few young
women and children, of sick and infirm people. For
the children there is no amusement and no education.
The tramp-yards are like two rabbit hutches, furnished
with frowsy straw. The men are allowed no food at all.
however weary or faint they may be. The women are
allowed a piece of bread if they have children with them,
not otherwise. Not long ago, a female tramp, known to
be on the verge of confinement, was locked up all night in
tho female rabbit-butch. When the porter unlocked the
door at 7 in the morning the woman had been already four
hours in labour. The bright side to this terrible picture is
the conduct of the doctor and the paid nurse. The report
altogether is so startling, says the Daily Nuns, that were it
not for the oft-proved truthfulness of the source from
which it comes we might well hesitate to accept it as a
faithful picture of the mode in which the poor, " who are
always with us," are neglected in Christian England.
The guardians, it seems, have left not one word of com-
plaint on the visitors' book, but if they are to blame what
is to be said of the poor-law inspector whose reports
ahnoet uniformly 'peak of the general appearance and
management of the house as " good" and " satisfactory ?"
If the Lanett account be wrong, it can easily be disproved ;
if it be right, the Poor-law Board would seem to be most
guilty of all in blindly accepting from its delegate com-
fortable assurances regarding the happy management of
an institution which within a c'mparatively short time
had been the scene of two poor-law inquiries and a
coroner's inquest.

Eta Court.

BALMORAL. Ocr. 19.

The Queen drove out with Princess Christian in
the morning, and in the afternoon her Majesty aga;"
drove out with Prince's Louise, attended by Mrs. Gordon.
Princes. Christian drove out in the afternoon, attended
by Lady Ely and Mr. Engleheart.
The Duke of Buckingham bad tho honour of clinics
with the Queen and the royal family.

OcT. 19.
The Queen drove out with Princess Louise and Princess
Beatrice, attended by Lady Ely.
Prince and Princes. Christian drove out, attended by
Mrs. Gordon and Mr. Engleheart.
Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph had the honour of dining
with the Queen and royal family.

The Prince of Wales, with Colonel Keppel in waiting,
attended divine service yesterday.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the North American Provinces.
Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Australian
Colonies, Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, lAbuan,
the Straits Settlements, and the Mauritius.

The Earl of Ellesmere has left Woreley Hall,
Lancashire, for Cambridge, to complete his studies, this
being his lordship's last term at the university.

Lord Lyons, Lord Stanley, M.P., and a 'select
party, arrived at Hatfield House, Herta, on Saturday, on
• visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury.

On Friday the tenantry on the Shillelagh and
Cashan estates, county Wicklow, presented Lord Milton,
eldest son of Earl Fitzwilliam, with a congratulatory ad-
dress on the occasion of his marriage. Lady Milton was
also presented with a costly set of jewellery, consisting of
necklace, earrings, brooch, and bracelet, made of Wicloow
gold, and set with emeralds and diamounda.
On Friday Miss Kate Terry was married to Mr.
Arthur J. Lewis at St. John's Church, Highgate-road.
DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF LICHFIEI D.—We
regret to announce the sudden death of the Bishop of
Lichfield, which occurred on Saturday night at his resi-
dence at Eccleshall Castle, near Stafford. As will be even
in another column, he h►d attended a meeting that day at
Stafford in promotion of the establishment of a large
middle class school at Denstone, near Burton-npon-Trent,
in connection with St. Nicolas College. He returned to
Roeleshall about 5 o'clock, and before dinner wrote twenty
letters, which prevented him from sitting down until
nearly 9 o'clock. The dinner bad only began when he
complained of feeling unwell, and begged to be excused
for retiring to the sofa. He said he had not previously
experienced any similar sensations, but did not wish •
surgeon to be sent for. One was, however, at once fetched,
but his lordship was dead before his arrival. He was (writes
a load correspondent) universally beloved and respected
in his diocese. His industry was remarkable. He rose re-
gularly at a very early hour, always answered his letters
himself, and never delayed a reply. He was constantly in
different parte of his diocese, preaching often in small
villages, and affording his coy ntenance, advice, and most
liberal aid to everyeffort for the promotion of works of the
church. He was specially earnest in the promotion of the
education of the poor, sad his zeal for the extension of
the church in his diocese was very great. He carefully
avoided identifying himself with any of the parties which
divide the church. He recognized zealous efforts for the
good of the community by whomsover they might be put
forth, and always sought to direct men's minds from topics
of controversy to the wide field of ignorance, immorality,
and irreligion which challenged their exertions.

Elias Howe, jun., the inventor of the sewing
machine, died at Brooklyn, on the 2nd of October, in the
48th year of his age. He was born in Massachusetts, and
in early life laboured on • farm, but afterwards was em-
ployed in one of the mills at Lowell, and subsequently by
a Boston machinist. He invented the sewing machine
when 28 years old, and procured his patent in 1847.
Meeting with little success he wont to England, but could
accomplish nothing there, and returned to America a poof
man in 1849. It was not until 18.54 that his machine be-
came • success, and down to that time 8,000 had been
manufactured. Now there are scores of different kinds of
machines made in America, and during the year ending
with June last no less than 170,105 were made in the
United States. Mr. Howe at the time of his death re-
ceived • royalty for eves/ machine manufactured, and
the aggregate royalties paid him have amounted to more
than 2,000,000 dole.

The other day in the Austrian Reicherath a peti-
tion from a Jewish father came to the President of the
House and Doctor MIAHeld by telegraph, stating that his
daughter was detained in the convent of the Sisters of St.
Benedict in Lemberg, where she was on the point of re-
ceiving baptism. The incident causal great excitement.
The Minister of Justice rose and stated that he had re-
ceived a similar telegram, to which he had immediately re-
plied, directing the Statholder to prevent the baptism, to
allow the father aeons to his daughter, to inquire into the
matter
and bring it before the tribunal, and to report about
it, as well as a similar case which occurred at Biala. He
explained that four weeks ago he had a similar telegram
from a Jew, stating that his daughter of 14 had absconded,
taking with her money and valuables ; that she had taken
refuge in a convent, where they were trying to convert her;
that he had tried every means to get her back, but had
failed ; and that he now prayed for the intervention of the
Minister. The baptism in this case had been prevented,
but the Statholder, although asked three times to report,
had not done so—a statement which caused cries of " De-
pose him,"