The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-20 00:00:00

of
of AUSTRALIA being empowered, as Mandel agents of t....
Government of Queensland, t. 4 negotiate the male of the re-
minder of the Debentures tuned under Act of the Colonial
Legielature, 28 Victoria, No. 28, assented to lath September,
1864, entitled " An Act to authorise the raising of Loans on the
Eleingilry of the Consolidated Revenues of the Colony, for the
execution of certain Public Works, and farther to PrOvide Fonda
for lisomegrefion," NOTICE 18 hiSREBY GIVEN that the Board
of Weaken are peepared to receive up to FRIDAY, the 27th
Instant, at 2 o'cloclt precisely, sealed TENDERS, in writing, of
' .112.1.nAT am forward the same, addremed "'Feeders for
Loma," or attend in person therewtth, for any poi
on ea 11446,268, being the talon* of the above teen.
tenders will then be opened ha the presence of all so attending,
and read publicly, and the purchasers be forthwith declared, pro-
vided the price be not under the minimum fixed, which will be
placed on the table wider seal.
The.Dbsateres of ENO and
wiEO meta with Cognacs
tached, will become due let Jan .188 i, and bear interest
thereto of 4 per cent. per assent, m Ist July, 1866, said De.
Dentures, prinidpel and 'merest, beituade motile in London
or Brisbane, Kate option of the hol r.
Pvment fortlie amounts that may allotted will be required
as sre : ,
£l5 per £lOO Bond, on the perchaaer being declared,
Z. 15 „ on 14th September, -6
sail the balance on latlathOctober.
Jormeof application are provided at this cake.
By order of the Board.
H. W. D. SAUNDERS' Manager.
iii, Old Broedeinedi leaden, July 17, 1466.

BMBON J. W. by SPECIAL 'APPOINT-
MENT to H.11:11. tho Moos of /UM.

BENSON, J. W., PRIZE MEDAL, LONDON,
Clua U.

BEM"' 3. W., PRIZE MEDAL, DUBLIN,
ars 10.

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DUNA

BZNSON'S WATCHES, LEVER,
REPEATERS.

BENSON'S WATCHES, Sent Safe by Post.

BENSON'S WATCH PAMPHLET,
most, 2d.
BENSON, OLD BOND-STREET, and
WFISTBOURNE-GROVE.

!ENSON'S STEAM FACTORY, Ludgate-hlll.

'APPIN BROTHERS.—Established &. x.lBlO.

CRESTS of SILVER PLATE for the COLONIES,

CUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for
lJ BURN MOM.

-APPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE.

MAPPM BROTHERS, 222, REGENT-
STRUT.

MURTLIC, TURTLE, TURTLE.
m4l luck. and Invalid TURTLE sours always ready.
IST. JA=66-BALL, RYPDENT STREET, PICCADLLLY.
WM. DONALD, Proprietor.

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
3.001( for GENTLINEN —Remember, we wait for you
".BVdt4iT," atter the Covent Garden Opeta and the Theatres.

Cite ervreoo.

TO CORILESPONDWITS
abertfewsente intended for "The grpreaa,* London Evening
mast be at the Moe, 10, Bounciest/ea, b 7 Two
o the day of publication.

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workhouse again. The horrors of a casual ward
are discovered and proclaimed by an independent
investigator, and instantly an order is made that
he shall never be admitted again. In an-

other case a Scripture Reader discovers a
living child lain out for dead, and he
is for his audacity forbidden the " house."
In another notorious Union an eminent

Frenchman pursuing inquiries for the benefit
of mankind is stopped at the threshold, although
armed with the beat credentials, because it is
feared he nyky tell the world what he sees. More
tip:knew—more exclusion—more prohibition is
still the urgent want of these singularly consti-
tuted bodies. It was r 1 matter of curious interest
to observe how persons of this character would
deal with such of their own officers as had endea-
voured to improve the condition of the work-
house poor, and secure a fair return for the money of
the ratepayers: and we have not had long to wait.
The atrocious treatment of the poor of the Strand
Union has lately attracted a considerable amount of
notice. Nurses robbed the sick poor, and guardians
caused _

consumptive patients to be choked with dust
by the systematic beating of carpets. Very lately
an official inquiry was held, at which witnesses
deposed to most scandalous facts, and ex-
pressed strong opinions respecting the manage-
ment of the workhouse. Dr. ROOMS, the medical
officer of the Union, told the Poor-law Inspector
that in some of these opinions he concurred. This
was horrible in the eyes of guardians, who look
upon the responsible public officer of the parish,
paid out of the rates, as their own servant, and
accordingly, last Tuesday, one of their number,
Mr. CHAPMAN, actually moved at a Board mee ng
the following resolution, which, as unique of its
kind, we give in full :
That it appears by the report of Mr. R. B. Cane, Poor-
law inspector, after the inquiry held on the 4th and 6th of
June, 1866, that Dr. Rogers, the medical officer of the
workhouse, has stated upon oath that he concurred in the
remarks of Matilda Boston, that the crowding in two of
the wards was a disgrace to the authorities of the Strand
Union ; that the nursing was a disgrace to the authorities;
that no infant life could have been long preserved in the

namely of this workhouse in the condition in which it
was during the last winter; that for a month or live
weeks the state of things was so bad that he Gould
not bear to go to the place, and made divers other
statements severely condemning the general manger
ment of the workhouse. That by the 6th and 7th
sections of the 207th of the Consolidated Orders of the
Poor-law Board the medical officer is to report in writing
to the guardians any defect in the diet, drainage, venti.
Lilian, warmth, or other arrangements, or any crows in
the number of any class of inmates which he may deem
detrimental to the health of the inmates, and to report in
writing to the guardians any defect which he may observe
in the arrangement of the infirmary and in the perform-
ance of their duties by the nurses of the sick ; that no such
report has been made by the medical officer to this board ;
that he admits in his evidence that the guardians have
never refused him anything that he considered necessary
to the health, condition, and convenience of the sick poor
when he had applied to them for it; sad it further appal=
that Dr. Rogers is a member of the Association for the
Improvement of Workhouse Infirmaries, through whose
instrumentality the charges against this workhouse were
made ; and in consideration of the above facts the board
consider their medical officer has been guilty of gross de-
reliction of duty, and having lost their confidence in Dr
Roger., they deem him unworthy to hold so important an
office as the medical officer of the Strand Union.
To this resolution Mr. Bross moved the fol-
lowing amendment :—" That this Board is of
" opinion that the evidence given by Dr. ROGERS
" at the late inquiry was a fair statement, of facts,
" and we desire to thank him for it, and for his
" faithful and earnest services to the sick poor in
"his career during the past ten yens." As the
voting was equal, the eulogy being supported by
as many Guardians as the censure, the public will
probably be of our opinion, that Dr. Rooms kld
done some service to the pariah, albeit he offended
those Guardians who had for years persistently
thwarted him in every effort to improve the work-
house. It will be observed that the author of the
vote of censure upon Dr. RooEas made it a
ground of accusation rgainst him that he bad
concealed his opinions, acquiescing in a state of
things of which he disapproved, and had then
turned round upon the Guardians at the last mo-
ment and held them up to public odium. The
fact is, as these men know very well, Dr. Rooms
had been engaged for years in a long straggle
with them, and has never kept back his opinion.
With the aid of the Poor-law Board he reformed
the dietary of the lying-in women, who were dying
of consumption for want of adequate nourishment.
For this they passed on him a vote of censure. He
suggested an improvement in the diet of the sick and
aged, and was thereupon told repeatedly by members
of the Board that he had better keep quiet, as he
was only making himself enemies. Under the
women's infirm wards there was a dead-house,
from which foul emanations arose, and out of which
in summer large blue flies flew into the wards.
Dr. Boozes brought the matter before the Board,
and they refused to entertain it. His opinions
respecting the carpet-beating were well known, but
the Chairman of the Board of Guardians personally
dissuaded him from communicating those opinions
to the Board in writing ; and Mr. &owes
committee on the subject refused that
gentleman's request that the medical officer
might be heard on the ground that they knew him
to be opposed to the practice. When he strove to
relieve the overcrowded house by getting some of
the patients removed to Guy's Hospital, he was
met by the placing of a resolution on the paper for
the reduction of his salary, and it was kept there by
adjournment from week to week. We are happy
to know, however, that the recent expoeures are
having a good effect. There are few parishes where
there is not spirit and humanity enough to redress
such wrongs as these as soon as the public is fairly
placed in possession of the facts. A year ago the
Strand Guardians would probably have dismissed
Dr. ROGERS ; now Mr. STORR and his colleagues,
returned by the awakened ratepayers to look
into the neglected interests of the parish, are
able to hold the egotism and stupidity of the
Board in check. If it were not so, local self-
government, salutary as it is when worked with
intelligence and fairness, would become an intole-
rable nuisance. Mr. CHarmarr and his allies may
depend on it that they will be closely watched,
and that the public will not permit them to put
-/ I out its eyes.
in

The Earl of Shaftesbury to-night will call the
attention of the government to large placards stuck up in
various parts of London announcing the assemblage of vast
numbers of people in Hyde Park on Monday, under the
summons of the Reform League. _

Mr. Beresford Hope intends, after the second
reading of the Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Bill,
that it be referred to a select committee. . .

On the motion for going into committee on Arti-
sans' and Labourers' Dwellings Bill, Mr. Powell will move
that this house will, upon this day three months, resolve
itself into the said omotnittes.

The Marquis of Westminster, who has lately
built a church at Fonthill, in Wilts, has subscribed 2,0001.
towards building a new church in St. James's pariah, at
Shaftesbury, in Donetshire. - .

Bir J. P. Grant, the new governor of Jamaica,
left Boatbastploa fir the West ladies is a Royal Mail
gasket this week.

Orprolo •
INDIAS ILIDGIT.
rla
The Times considers that Le Cranborne,
though a perfectly untried man at the India-office,
did enough last night to justify his appointment. The
surplus of the pest year, 20,0002., is, no doubt, small,
but it is very much better than 1864-5. Put expe-
rience would justify the adoption of the advice given
by Mr. Laing last night, and endorsed by later speakers,
to increase the amount spent on Public Works in India,
large as it is at present, if we did not remember that the
tame man who would be calla upon to bear the burden of
the expenditure could not be'lrieured his share whin it
b:came remunerative. The first duty of an Indian Mien-
o'er at present is not so much to devise ways of wipetiding
money as juster ways of obtaining it. The precipitation
of Sir C. Trevelyan in abandoning the income tax becomes
every year more deplorable, and if Lord Cranborns desires
to wake the administration he has begun with such fair
promise beneficial in a lasting way to the interests of India
he will attempt to retrieve the error of Sir Charles Tie-
velyan by revising the system of Indian taxation.
The 2Wegmph sketches Lord Cranbarne last night as
laying the affairs of India before parliament in the atti-
tude which young gentlemen of fashion assume along tie
rails of Rotten-row, and with much the same nonchalant
tone as they use to salute their acquaintances there. Office
changes most people, but not Lord Cranborne. He takes
into it a nature only fitted for negative tactics and parlia-
mentary sarcasm. Like !ago, he "is nothing if not
cal ;" and he caught himself up lest night—so inveterate
is his bitter habit—in the act of assailing those who are
now his own councillors in India, and picking to pieces
the accounts he had to defend. As for the majestic
duty which has fallen temporarily to him, he has
and can have no mental measure of it. " The camel," say
the Hindoos, " Imo= himself when be goes under the
mountain ;" but the Himalayas themselves produce no
impression on the young tory's impertinent and careless
self-conceit.
The Star says Lord Cranborne's speech was exceedingly
bad in tone till he came to the end of his stock of jocosity,
and even when he became serious, and therefore inoffen-
sive, he indulged in criticisms on the opium aspect of
Indian finance which Mr. Laing and Mr. Crawford showed
ti be those of a crude amateur. Yet oa the whole his
speech was lucid, and he showed a fit appreciation of the
greatness of his theme, a just enjoyment of its bright side,
and discretion in avoiding any application to the affairs of
his department of those peculiar patrician views which
clone: or later can hardly fail to spoil his administration.
Sir James Ferguson spoke with fluency and good sense as
Under Secretary—a circumstance the lees remarkable from
his connexion with the family of the greatest of recent
Governors of India. The most prejudiced critic, there-
fore, cannot withhold from the two Indian members of the
government the credit due to a favourable entrance upon
the duties of their department.

No'

2 THgt.,XXPEES&,... FRIDAY
otitTl- CributtEs.
fIUEENSLAND LOAN of 1864, £1,019,000. " this out ?" followed by the stricter injunction 1 , CO_
;Ito let such persons on no account set 'foot in the
' 1 i Vik TEND.IR..I ftte. BALANCE, asse,sao.—The UNION BANIt : CIS* DAY 01 .
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