The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

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CAMBRIDGE. P. 15.
Biwoffiffmnirr eP HUMAN lallemiss.—no in.
Edward Beery Perowse, ase Wis. of Clamus
Christi Oellege. wee this more* thsetki to the Babson
Lsetureehip for the empuieg mamma year. Tim duty al
the lecturers to ,preach not 6111 then four and sot room
than six merman in she year. The subject of the dimmest
b—to show the evidence far revealed Wigton at to
souse of the meet difficult tub at rimers parts :111%
or both.
CULFORD, Pos. 15.
BOOK( SANSKRIT BcHoixtioffir.—Tlie mumblers
far the moist Baden Sanskrit fieholarillp, "for preileimwry in
thethaakritWorms and litereturt,"yeeterdny events/made
known their asstd, in the followtes notice, vis. :"The
examiners fog the Bodes Sanskrit fietalarship bas leave to
inform the Vie&Clianesi/ar that thaw host thin day elected
Mr. fleiacttridahi6istithows. optima:mot Suter College, to the
vacant Tbezzareider, that Mr. E. A. Hows
0460111, of Corpus isdeacrvbs of hosioareble
mentios. Ezautbsere— R. Pays•ffinkilt. WU Protector of
Divinity ; B. Caudell, landfall Prefereor a Ambit ; Mania
Williams. Bodes Professor of fienthrit. Feb. 14."
WAnnAit Coulon. Mr. Edward William
farmed of Blackheath propristary school, 0712111101175
this mßege, boa this day been elected to the veeent Rotator
exhibition on Dr. Body's tonsdation.

WM RICK POOR Ilf womarouns.

The committee formed to improve the conditi

of the sick paupers of London propose to pal all workboses
infirmaries rider • hospital organiestios, to be merited by
• central boanl, end provided for by • moral metropolitan
sate. This erataittes is self-appointed and self.
ecoartituted, has- so recognised jurisdiction or power,
slam is the inflame> it may brio( to bear upon
public *Moe, sad the facts ft may be able to
'adduce in support of its views. It is therefore for those
interested in the poor, and diesithded with their present
treatmeet, to may how far the views of this body of musta-
ngs coincide with their own, and whether their aims should
sot be furthered for the memos mod.
II is at lead certain that the cases of neglect and cruelty
which have come to light within the last few years will be
repeated, and that coustently, until some radios' sad sweep
hag change of administration is brought about. Oar work'
homes are filled with the sick and infirm. They hams
neither edloisnt medical service nor proper norm, nor we/I-
appealed ward. ; and although thorough elasamatices
would do much to fit Dermal of the existing lanildisp for
infirmaries, there is no chance of this while parochial MM.
ness and parochial jealousies are permitted to override
other and more humane considerations. lo round *umbers
there are 29,000 inmates is the 41 workhouse of the
metropolitan district. Of them, 6,000 are disabled or sick ;
10,500 old and infirm, folly one-half of whom require medi-
cal attendance ; and 1,900 idiots or 'miscast. Out of the
41 workhouses, it has been estimated that 14, being situate
is the suburbs of London, sad with facilities for airing sad
exercise grounds for moral/soma, might be made mails-
bps as hospitals, and these would accommodate 9,199
people.
It will be readily seen from the figures quoted that
although 6,000 represents the number of those technically
classified as sick, thrice that number should I. farmss
reap the benefit of any hospital orpnisatioo which may be
provided, and that • minority of those filling the wink-
booms would be left in the hands governing them now,
The point, therefore, to siesider ia whether thousands of the
Sok and helpless are to be properly Ueda and cared for, or
whether the country is to be still vandalised by such cams
as those of Timothy Daly, Richard Gibers, Matthew Mull,
James Flower., and others equally Ned. Upon the ahead
question there can be no diversity of opinion ; and it is
greatly to be hoped that means may be devised for putting
an end to the passive ormltios which seem to be beeps-
rable from the existing system, and which are so grave a
slur nem our national character for humanity and tutiee.
Confessedly owing its origin to the revelations of the gen.
tlemen appeioted by the Lancet to investigate and report
upon the condition of the sick wards of workhouses, we are
informed that the assosistiou we are commenting on seeks
to represent no particular clam or profession,
bat aims solely at ameliorating the oondition
of the invalid pauper. A public meeting is to
be held forthwith, at which the details of the reform pro•
posed will be submitted for consideration, pending which
we commend the took them gentlemen have set themselves

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Tin VALE BLILWAY.—We learn by telegraph
from Bristol that the dividend on the Taff Vale Railway
will be at the rate of 9 per sent. per manual, against 10 per
cent, per annum for the corresponding half of lag year.
BUDDIN DMA= 07 GINS:HAL Baowna.--Yestor-
day evening an inquest was held by Mr. W. Payne at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, tonehing the death of General
Charles Alfred Browne, aged 63 yews lir. Hablot R.
Browneo,e 2, Horhuryerement, Nottg-E.ill, said that the
desewd was his brother, sad was a weed in the Indian
army. He bad been for more thaa 40 years in India. Mr.
Thomas Quickfell, 69 Bastoe-road, said that on Wednesday
evening at 9 o'clock he saw General Brower seated on the
pavement in King's Head-eourt, St. Martin'rle-Grand, our-
rounded by a large crowd. Re appeared to be dying, sod
he was removed to the hospital, but be died before
his admission. Mr. George Orton house surgeon, said
that the deceased was brought into the hospital dead.
The poot-worten examination proved that ha bad Tortured
the left veatriels of the heart. The heart had been
weakened by fatty degeneration, and any exertions or ex-
citement would cage it to give way. The death at the
deceased must have bees almost iostanteseous. Ana
Cooper, domestic gervaat, said that the general resided
at 43, Harwood-equare. He had bees ailing for the last
fortnight. Oa Wednesday he left home, saying that be
would dine out, and that he would return at 9 o'clock.
He did not give the name of the friend with whom he was
going to dins. The Coroner having summed op, the jury
returned a verdict, " That the deceased was found dying,
and did die, is the street from rapture of the heart from
natural causes.'
ILLN sun OF THII Rio. Sla JOHN PAW{ WOOD.—
We deeply regret to find that • few days since the Rev. Sir
d. Page Wood. near Witham, was attacked with rather
sudden Mom, end that during the week the state of the rev.
baronet has been awl as to excite the serious apprehensions
of his family and friends. It appears that information
of the illness of Sir John reached his brothel, the Vim-
Chatiodlor, while presiding in his court, on which his
Honour at once adjourned the bugloss, sad proceeded to
visit him at Sir Thomas Leonard's, at Bellies, where the
reverend baronet is lying. At the early ;tart of the week
it was hoped that the malady had taken a favourable turn;
but afterwards critical symptoms set in. Since then the
accounts appeared rather more favourable, but no further
report from Bellies had reached us yesterday afterooon.
Mgt/Word Chronicle.
Tan FAMILY On Tan LATE Ma. JOHN BRITTON,
F.R.S.—The death is aeneatieed, os the 11th inst., at
Hope Cottage, Windmill-road, Croydon Surrey, of
Mr. Richard Britton, brother of the late Mr. John
Britton. Born at Linton St. Michael,
Wilts,
in 1784. the deceased gentleman like the author
of the " Beauties of Wiltshire,' "Cathedral Antiquities,"
he., entered the battle of bleat an esrlyage; and bydiot of
industry and perseverance, eventually achieved • good posi-
tion as a gold and silversmith. For many years he Revd in
retirement, and was much respected ; and by his death the
line of generation is closed in which figured John Deities,
whose antiquarian works obtained a wide fame, end whose
memory is perpetuated by a memorial window erected in
Salisbury Cathedral.—Degra Gazette.
Tan ADMINISTRATIuN Or THE PoOR-LAW.—Tes-
,l terday Mr. H. B. Dirndl. C. 8., the Commissioner of the
Poor-law Board for the inspeotioo of the metropolitan dis-
trict, attended the meeting of the guardians of the Green-
wich Union, for the purpose of conferring with them as to . MADAME Turaartlp'B.—The proprietor has placed
their mode of administering the Poor-law. Mr. Carter tro-
• good effigy of the once oelehreted tragedian, Gustavus
cupied the chair. The so
ng said the averageßrooke, •
whose sieisuclio
ly death on board the Loudon
rates in that union °empiric' Gregg,* Woolwich, and
steamer in the late gale in the Bay of Biscay has
Deptford amounted to 2a. 20.. while as average rate which ,a snore usual feeling of ropes „bond his
would cover all the exposers for the poor of the metropolis ''"""
would only amount to le. 2,1., 9-10ths. He felt it his duty I
to sogrest that there were means by which they might about 2 o'clock. pert of the
I FALL 07 • RAILWAY VIADOCY /MAR Hi:MORRIS-
lower M. sating is the union. Their workhouse, in his ' PTlLD.—Yesterday morning,li
opinion. was overfiewiug. Is it there slept on the gigolo Whitaker Mill viaduct, onthebrang hem ea Horld
The eeifield
night 938 persons, and of them 938 as many es 810 belonged to Kirblieton, fell in and stopped up tbe g. lone
to the temporarily disabled, old, and infirm classes. He did leaves the Leeds and Huddersfield sedges of the London
not think it was a fit place for theca. Would not the great and North Western Railway about two miles from Rudders-
majority of them be happy and less neatly in their own field, and the viaduct is about a quarter of a mile from the
homes ? There were 40 pauper ogees to look der the junctiom. It midge of seven arches, each 64 feet span and
sick and infirm, end not • single paid nurse ; and this 2lft. 4in. rise, with piers Bft. 6in. thick, and orogen the
doubtlms, wee looked epos by the guardians as a great ad- gaol, • mill pit, and River Colas, ow agm with a
vantage, but it wee not, as be could prove to them. It radios of 22 chains, It was built of brisk. About two
wee admitted that the poor of the &Oiekt were occasionally months ego the entree were removed from the two first
sent Jet° the vagramy wends by the relieving °Akers. He arches, and afterwards • slight enbeldenee was noticed ia
desired they would never do so apse, as the relief gives the second aeon bat wee not thought &aroma. However,
le those wards was gouged on the metropolis. By per- sharp frost teliewing extremely wee weather hes affected it,
mission of Sir Richard Kaye* the police were empowered end the second arch fell yoga's* simang,
_loggias with it
to act es relieving officers, and if the pordiaes world oily the flint arab. the rubbish from which Riled the =ad, bat
adopt this plan, they would get rid of all the roughs who about sixty men were set to work to graves it, sad traff
of
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now congregated la their eased wards, for these people will be returned today The pier between the seeng
would not faea the pence. After • ca',versatile on various thbotamhes steads fires, but hem been ellreephemed by
subjects the guardians ugaimoutsiytbanked the somas- losemoot weed. The ether wok en the line is wail for.
gorier for the ioforeastion lobed gives them, and assured ward. ISat the rebuilding of the faller arches will la* Coots
him they would take the sevirel matters into considers- mangs. It is not expected to delay the openteg el the.
ties. Bee

to our readers. Whether it will amuse a more compre,
pensive shape than they are aware of now, or whether it
meets in every particular what many thinkers consider
requisite, it Is unnecessary to ask. If the new associatios
encoried io eo regulating mattera that three•fourths of the
inmates of our workhouse are properly oared for it will
have done a pest and important work, and one oommandiag
the sympathies of the large and influential clam who are
wearily dimatiaSed with parochial shortoomiogs, and
anziorutly asking how times shortcomings an to most fairly
I and most effectually met.