The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-01 00:00:00

CRICKET.

ILC.C. ART OSOUND T. REUST SCHOoL.--This match
was resuinedyestsrday at Lord's, itughy winniugwith hve,wickets
to spare. The %limning Ia the score .-31 CC , first Innint.rt, 132
sicced Innings, it& Rugby, first Linings, 130; wnonedinwinKl.
five wlckete down, 128.
SURREY v. EMOLAND.—This =kb was resumed yester-
tiny, st 'holiest, Kennington. At the conclusion el the dars
play the score stood as follows: tugland, first Innings, 111.
&any, Ant innings, 84.

SANITARY MATTERS AT THE Kan END.
Yesterday, Mr. Humphrey', coroner, held an inquiry at
the Black Hull tavern, Cluiton.street, Brick-lane, touchintngg
the death of Jas. Holdham, aged nine years. The deceased
was one of five children of a labourer, earning 14a. a
week, 4s, of which were paid for the rent of two room" at
No. 32, Chilton street. On Wednesday the boy fell ill,
sad his father went at noon the neat day to Mr. Haycock,
surgeon, believing him to be the pariah doctor. Mr.
Haycock, although no longer parish. surgeon, kindly visited
the boy, gave him medicine, and directed the father to
apply at the Bethnel.green workhouse for a medical order.
Ii bring attar 11 o'clock a.m., it was 7 o'clock before the
applicant received an order. He took it at once to
Mr. Massingbam, the parish surgeon, tellies him that the
case was urgent. Mr. Maminshant, after euneitemur,
said that if he could he would call that evening ut he
did not call till Friday tat half-past 3 o'clock. e de-
ceased had then ham deed eight hours. Witnesses de.
setibed of the premises where the deceased's parents
lived as being in a most unhealthy eodditiou.
The water poured into the miler Sew and seamimid stag-
nant there, producing such a 'Una that the people were
unwilling to go in, and generally begged water from neigh-
bours. The same cellar was used as a dust-hole, 26d the
dust was cleared oat about them times la 1.8 west p. Mr.
Waring, the landlord, refused to give a water butt, be-
cause it would be "too expensive.* Complaints were made
at the Mr o months ago of the state
of the plum. Mr. -hall
G. Hapax* said that the &owed died
from typhoid fever. On the premises in question the
drains were entrapped, and the place had not been
for years. Nos. 30, 34, and A, Chaibmwtrect
were in a similar condition. This state of thing of
lowered vitality, and rendered ;recovery from ves7
digieult. The comaer remarked upon the great denser to
health from the negleet disclosed, aow the shams
public
its ravages. The tau, alter casualties te-
ethe:, returned the following spode 'verdict, " That the
died from typhoid fewer, hem natural causes,
bat aeosUrated by the shames of sanitary nis
;
that the parish doctor ought to have • e de-
ceased et once when he reesived the cedar ; Mat great
blame attached to the perish authorities iee allsr24Bll the
premises to remain in the same filthy condition after com-
plaint had been made to them ; that greater facili-
ties should ke given to obtain medical orders, the times,
limited es at present, being prejneicial to the poor;
and that this verdict be forwarded to the Poor-law Beard."

BENSON'S STEAM TACTORY, Ludgate-ha

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1.

Tut message published in another column esta-
blishes conclusively and satisfactorily the
rate of speed at which electric communication is
carried on between Europe and the United
States. Until this afternoon it has been poe.
aible for doubters to sneer at the items
of intelligence given from Newfoundland as sparse
and indefinite. But the message we now lay
before our readers, shows that the President a
congratulations left Heart's Content yesterday
afternoon at 4, and after crossing the Atlantic,
traversing Ireland and England, and crossing two
sea channels, was delivered to the Quzzis at 5 p.m.
This fact speaks for itself, and its publication is
the most practical congratulation we can offer.

Ws fear that men of business throughout the
country will not read with much satisfaction the
debate in the House of Commons yesterday on the
causes which maintain the Bank rate of discount
at 10 per cent. The debate proceeded under some
obvious disadvantages. Brought on at the fag-end
of the session, like an Indian budget, and not per-
mitted the honour of an evening sitting, it was
conducted with the knowledge that even the poor
concession of a commission of inquiry, all that was
possible so late in the session, would be refused.
Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, who expressed the
views of the Government, admitted that the sub-
ject was one which demanded the serious attention
both of the Government and of Parliament, and
undertook that Ministers should take it into their
serious consideration, and endeavour completely

to investigate all the circumstances which had
attended the recent panic and the present crisis.
In an ordinary way this is all we expect a Govern-
ment to do. But the case is not an ordinary one,
and we may add that the Government which
gives this pledge is not in an ordinary position.
The investigations of the Government will have a
private character : they may instruct some mem-
bers of the Administration, but they will not con-
tribute to the enlightenment of the public or in-
crease the fund of information at the ser-
vice of inquirers. We cannot, of course,
tell what expectations Ministers form as to the
probability of their being able to introduce an
amendment of the Bank Act next session, should
legislation of that character seem desirable, but we
believe that few persons would be disposed to stake
any important interest upon the chance of their
passing a single Bill next year. Their empty pro-
mise is an excuse for evading public inquiry, and
the results which are held out as so much better
than processes we shall never see. The grounds
upon which such an inquiry is demanded are open
and palpable, and are not disposed of by alleging
that inquiries have taken place on the two
previous occasions of the suspension of
the Bank Act, and that they led to nothing.
They led to a more accurate knowledge of the
working and counter-working of our commercial
and monetary systems, and have greatly tended to
steady the public mind in seasons of anxiety.
The precedent of those investigations might have
been followed with advantage ; but even if it had
been wanting the present request for inquiry is
one to which it would have been well to accede.
The phenomena of the last three months—the Bank
rate of discount maintained at a minimum of 10
per cent. for three months ; the Government
intervening without any other effect than alarm-
ing the foreign merchant ; and as a result of the
discredit of mercantile paper, the shipment of gold
both ways—have never been presented in England
before.

The old stereotyped maxima utterly fail
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explain this state of things, which on ac-
count of its peculiarity demands a thorough and
original investigation, for which no Cabinet discus-
sions or private interviews with bankers can be a
substitute. The matter is one which concerns the
whole country, from the great merchant who is
mulcted of his profits down to the humblest retailer.
We cannot think that those members of the House
who went off yesterday into lectures upon com-
mercial morality and the undue facilities given to
speculation took a tone at all worthy of themselves
or the subject. These moral precepts have an
incontestable value, but they are not relevant to
the present case. Speculation was crushed out three
months ago, and it is the sound commerce of the
country that is daily suffering in its most legiti-
mate transactions. Ministers, however, have taken
their course. With the profound faith which all our
public men have in British energy, they leave
our merchants to surmount enormous difficulties,
which the action of the Government has greatly
aggravated. We can only hope that at the be.