The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC lIP.ALTII.

This detainment sat again this morning, Ur. E. CHADWICK
presiding.
ON PDVERTV IN UKLATION TO eI,KASS.
Dr. J. A. E.nsr4 ix read u paper "Om Poverty in Relation
to Disease," which concluded by suggesting that the pater-
ci pal anthoritice shoal! exercise a vigilant soperviauu over
all lodging•houscs in the denser ',odious of large tovius,
and should insist that the spare essential to health' and
strength should invariably be provided. Further, an set
should be obtained—applicable to the United liiogdoso—
for mgulating buildings, and for the breaking up of dense
tloaelst.
TOW") iii#o4/9. • -
Hr. ChAttis 11AHTLNGS read • piper. " On the 14uearas
at Tobacai Smoking on Pullin Health.
• Titoism RETNOLAINI, secretary to the Antblobacoo
.61.1, addressed the mention osi the matter. In the
coo his remarks he minimised Isis intention of deliver-
ing ir of lectures in Ohniguw, on which OIVIIiiOII he
tour to prove that ooe of the source, of mime
was . He challenged any one present to stand op
aiAt la
11.years'
z duriug five smoking they had not been
. Pmegdgto came forward as the champion of tobacco.
He .bed tumefied over the whole 'world, and he had seen it
mad in eyerr clime, and surely there *as some vireos it a
weed 'huh .e ad. lib n had gone topiaries and plates tLteagh
the indiseame of tobacco when others bad failed ; and oe
knew literary Inca, mid there were' literary men present,
who before'they sat down to write smoked bra unoutes.•
One of the Kings Pi the South see Islands almost always
chewed raw tobacco, tont yet he Heed to a hundred par,
(Load laughter.) Yu the Mouth Nei Islands, where tobacco
was used by owl almaiti them wes a neat prolific
population. (is* laughter.)
Dr. EAITON OKILITIod that As A chum the Gertnan
pies were smokers, nod from them bested the deepest air
stremieris. This w • matter of fact. •He dad not agree
that the alive was muted.
' Dr. SitroN tepuilhited being ashamed to avow that he had
sed fur 11 lets daily, and his fraud lit. Larikeeier
world bear him out in saying that he was not the. worm for
the tobacco. (A. laugh.)
• te,r:Erne discuision,
Mr. Amine If anvil:us remarked that all hod aandtted
Widow be poison in the case of youth.
Ur. M. T. .If'Gritre...N read a paper on "Sanitary Reform
Its value and Rmlu, with rentarks on the cempastire me-
laity of urban aild turd districts."
The departnieot • shortly afterwards adjourned.

•
SOCIAL tCONOMY DEPARTMViT.
SECTION A.
, •
the chair in this department wee ooeupied by Sir dun(
& Foam.
The air Ria4a,:t in the absence of Professor Craik, read a
Mid by that gentlenum to a "_New application of the
exammation tut Is a ),lan for the mum effective di,ctur
'du of public quatione.'
Mr. W. Muni 'than read • paper "On anonymous
writing in the public prose." —-- -
A paper by Mr. C. J. Pixarrxr., "On the formation of
public read* ecialeties for the waricMccippeest" was
than read.
Sir J•mx 8 Fo read a paper on "Choral societies,
.tendr history and ad
.#4,,yer was • real; by Me Rev. J. Rums CLARKE on
" Theose! working noes Saturday night, its lone. off.dAts
!nod
f•Thrgammeriox 'B. • • • •
bolithemist ilkeraig Iran plaided
Ttii .
nrriesjani AZATION.
weltlott mod er-..”por Mr.-Lt.
Newmarch, titled " Memorandum Relating to the System
of Taxation at present in force in the ticdted •Ktngdoni."
Mr. 1). bl•Laurx read a paper on "Indirect taxa.
ties ; its wasteful and burdensome nature, as compared
with direct taxation, in necessarily causing the public
to pay much more than the amount imposed by peril'.
mat.

A long " Report on taxation, direct and indirect," pre-
sented by the council of the Liverpool Financial Reform
Association, was read. It considered the questions of the
right of the state to demand tribute from the people, and
the obligation and advantage of the people to render tribute
to the state, and the manner in which such tribute or
revenue should be raised so as to leave industry and skill
a. liberty. The raped was an elaborate argument in favour
o: the well•known views of the association.
. _

A paper from Jam Partridge on " Direct taxation and
the income-tai" was read, arguing that direct taxation
was nomaaary, that a re-adjnatmeut of direct taxation was
neoemary, and that a wealth-tax was greatly pieta...hie to
an isooino-tax.

TV LATR MB. HERBERT INGRAM.

The Illustrated London News of this day contains
the following obituary notice :

" With • trembling baud and sorrowing heart we an-
nounce the death of Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P., the founder
sod sole proprietor of the illeatnsted London Neese, who,
=tearawith Lis eldest son, Herbert, perished ow Lake
in the lamentable disaster on the Mt last. Ex-
hausted by the fatigues of business and the Wren of a
long parliamentary session. Mr. Ingram had resolved during
the riser to pay a visit to the American continent, and
there to seek, in company with his son, a brave and intel-
ligent of fifteen, that relaxation he so much needed.
He sada from Liverpool in the North Americuu on the 9th
of August, and landed at Quebec in time to witness, after
he had traversed the Lower St. Lawrence, the knocking in
of the " last wedge " of the Victeria-bridge at Montreal by
the Prince of Wales. It was here Mr. Ingram took
leave of the party of friends who, on his landing, had at-
tended him, stating that he "wished to be more quiet,"
and went on to the Falls of Nigeria where he stayed some
days, enjoying the grandeur of the scenery around him
with the keenest appreciation. In one of the many chime-
teristic letters received from him he says—' Thank Ood, I
have been to see the Falls et Nieman. The tratemAa-
non of them seems to exalt while it soothes me ; and
amidst these wonders of the creation I forget the nears
and saaoysnaes of life.' From Niagara Mr. Ingram proceeded
to Chirp, whence he had Ant proposed to travel across
the prairies, and to follow the Mississippi to New Orleans,
and three to New York, but ohms especially to Boston,
which old associations of history had determined hint to
make the conclusion of his sojourn in the United States.
la the last letter received from him, and dated Chicago,
7, he states, however, that he had decided to
trltte seSuperior, and to pixilong his stay in America,
CMintto return to Englaial about the end of October.
hiciago at midnight on the 7th of September, ac-
companied by hi sow ;—and our readers know the sad se-
quel to the story. It should, however, be added that his
body was washed ashore about sixteen miles from Chian°,
and just at the time that one of his friends, Mr. Hayward,
had arrived at the spot. Every effort was used to restore
life, but fa vain. Mr. Hayward states, in a most feeling
letter, that Mr. Ingram'. countenance in death ' was per-
fectly aim and peaceful.'
" Herbert thymic' who was born in Boston, was in the
forty-ninth year of his age. In that town be begin an
active career, at eleven years of age, as • printer, and both
as apprentice and compositor he there did many • good,
hard, clay's work. He thus endeavoured to assist iu the
support of his family, which, old and highly respected,
hod enjoyed comparative riches. To the interests of Bus-
ton, as his native town he devoted throughout life mach 1
of the labour of hie indefatigable nature. The pure water '
which its einem drink—the gas which lights them—the
railway remedy opened, that connects their town with the
mid-dirtier of Logien.a and many other "works which
now remain," beer the wipers of his fostering hand and
kindly ears. At Berm, r many of his frieeds are aware,
he had intended to mined the evening of his days, resting
from hit many laboars en his property at dwineshead Abbey.
Boers was jestly proud of him, and through all the many
phases of his eventful life recognised his merits, and undo-
vistimits gave him its confidence. Three times in sweet-
alas wee hs returned as its representative to parliament,
and always by majorities most decisive sad unmistakeable.
" His rearms, which are expected to Derive in England in
• few days. will be interred at Boston.
?sees to the ashes of ao worthy and so excellent a niaa
—a hind beilleed, aa indulgent potent, a faithful friend, end
a geed Guinea I
As the issaller of this newspaper be originated amass
era in the difesica of knowledge and in the popularisation
and proasstios of ere. Me introduced a new mesas of im-
proved erkeeedoe,—a mend nischimery, by which to aro-
ewe, is *toms, in well as by description, just as it passes,
the testacy of the world. This pew was the object of his
utmost 0111111 end greatest pride. Only yesterday we found
refereed sannast his rest veined documents a min, in-
embed by his sew lurk apparently but • abort while
before he left Imbed •
' Fiat Norailisr of the iihistroed lima. New —H. L'