The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-28 00:00:00

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Jam 10. J. H. Withers:Whim—pie, Devonshire, farmer—Jan.
10. J. T. Frost, Newton Abbot, Devonshire. Innkeeper--Jan. 16.
C. Slater, 0. Bolero, and O. ,hatwell, Slactlestield, melon spin-
ners—Jan. 7. J. barker, Eye Suffolk, pork butcher—Jan. 16. J.
Taylor, Droylsden, Lancashire, fanner—Jan. U. T. Moon,
Exton, Entlandahlre, farmer—Jan 4. B. Sanderson, Chong',
innkeeper—Jan. 11. E. tluilett, Underwood, Devonahlre, licensed
victualler—Jan. 11. W. L. Biipig, Devonport, habardaaher—Jan.
20.0. Selby, Inanmonier-lane, City, and elsewhere, free ena-
meller.

PAITHEISHIPB DIBBOLVID.
Elizabeth Wright, W. Wright, and E Wright, Bothwell, York-
shire, innkeepers—J. Crosby and li. C. Jones, If de, Cheshire,
hat manufacturers—J. Hints and' 0. Wells ( ), Bir-
mingham, pen manufacturers—W. Brooke and B. Iklnsoadson,
Blackburn, cotton manufacturers—Emma Jacobs and W. Clarke,
Supiston, Suffolk, corn millers—W. Myrtle and J. Kelly, User-
pool and Mazatlan, Mexico—T. Brady and BJ. Whitaker, Max.,,
Yorkshire, and eitewhere, coal nterchanta—W. Bury and J. G.
Pollard, New Park-street, Southwark, engineers—T. Hesketh and
J. Eastwood, Manchester, butchers—James Morley and Joseph
MorleLeicester, elastic eh manufacturers—Betsy Rigg and W.
/Ogg, lAttleborough, Lancashire, printers—C. G. Smith and W.
Tate, Loath, Lineoltshire, wholesale grocers—S. Merrell, Maria
Ogden, J. P. Hanson, S. Fearnside, W. Lund, and E. Water-
house, Keighley, Yorkshire, ironfounders, au far as regards 8.
Merrell—H. Thompson, S. Whitaker, S. Sharp, and T. Colilna,
Northowwun, Yorkshire, stone merchants, so far as regards H.
Thompson and T. Collins—W. W. ltrockbank and J. Mellor,
Liverpool, wine and spirit merchants.
Soma 81QUI8TRATIONS.
GIORGI GALL, Edinburgh, straw hat manufacturer, Dec. 30,
Dowel'.ms at Boo, Edinburgh.
Janet Altos, Ramsaycletich, Selklitahlre, merchant, Jan. I, at
the County Hotel,Selkirk.
WILLIAM FaAsitn, Olaagow, Dec. 31, at the Faculty Haft,
Glaspwr.
THOMAS HOOD COCKBURN HOOD, Taiga, Queensland, Dec. 31, at
Lyon and Turnbull's Rooms, kdinburgh
Gamma HAMAR, Glasgow, painter, Jan. 3, at the Faculty Hall,
Glasgow.
JAIII3 ADAMS, Aberdeen, grocer, Jan. 7, at the City Hotel, Aber.
deen.

ADMIRALTY, Dac. 27.—Lerourntarrs.—Navi-
gating Lieutenant—Wm. J. Cunningham, to the Indus,
additional, for the LiverpooL Surgeon—Wm. Crawford,
to the Revenge. Engineere—Wm. Killer, to the Indus,
for the Flirt, and Jno. G. Cox, to the Indus, for the Fly ;
Thos. Ponton (brat class assistant), to the Dimities', for
tenders.

MUTH FROM DZSTITUTION.—Yesterday evening
Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy coroner for the City, held an in-
quiry at the Skinners Arms Tavern, Bishopegete, respecting
the death of Ann M'Carthy, aged 48 years. On Christmas
morning, at 10 o'clock, the deceased woman was found by
a neighbour lying dead on the hearthstone of a miserable
room at 7, Montague-court, Bishopegate. Six persons
habitually lived in the room, three of them being adult
women and three children. In the room overhead—the
house consisted of but two rooms without yard or
back windows—a person had been seized with typhus fever
the previous week. All who lived in the house
were in a state of extreme destitution. There was
hardly a stick of furniture in the place that was
worth • shilling. The deceased woman "never slept
on a bed," she sca.ferally kin the corner,sometimes on the
hearth.—Ann, 7, Montague-court, said that the
deceased was the wife of a tailor living in Bristol. She
had parted from her husband through • quarrel. She had
since been a domestic servant, but she was out of • situa-
tion for six weeks past. She left her last mistress with 35.6 d.
When that sum was exhausted she had nothing to live on.
Witness gave her a little bread and tea occasionally, but
could not do much, fur she was herself in receipt of parish
relief, and had three children to support. On Christmas-
eve she became so alarmingly ill that witness got her some
gin to revive her. During the whole of the week she had
lived on • little dry breed and some tea. On Christ-
mas morning she said to witness, " Take my petticoat and
skirt to the pawnbroker's and get some money on them."
Witness told her that the pawnbrokers were not open, for
it was Christmas-day. The deceased asked her to get a
doctor, but it was too early. Witness went to church, and
upon coming back she found the deceased dying.
Mrs. Ellen Greenman said that on Christmas morning
she saw the last witness walking down the street crying.
From what she heard she went into the room in Montague-
court, and saw the deceased dead on the floor. A stepson
of the deceased said that her husband was unable through
want of work to contribute to her support, but his relatives
would have done so if she bad not been too independent
to ask them. The jurors asked why the house in Montague-
court should be in such • wretched condition? Mr. Payne,
sanitary inspector of the City of London, explained that
when the place was disinfected, and the lodgers, who were
too numerous, turned out one week, they were taken in
again the next. The room in which the six people lived
only contained 588 cubic feet of air, although Dr.Letheby
had bred the minimum allowance at 400 feet per bead.
The Coroner said that the death was so clearly one from
destitution that it was needless to call a doctor to prove
the fact. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from
natural causes, accelerated by want of food."

UravEmarre CotLeoa, LONDON.—Though the
council of University College have as yet been able to raise
only about 5,0001. out of the 20,0001. that they want for the
new wing of the college, they have resolved to build to
the extent of the 5,0001. This will give them at least ten
now rooms for their school, and set free part of their pre-
sent school-roorus for the use of the college. Owing to the
late advance in the school fees, and the organising powers
of the new secretary, the college is now in a better fin►n-
cial state than it has been for years. But its evening
chimes have not yet received the support they deserve.—
AtAarzesi.