The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-27 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The following is the official return of deaths from
cholera and diarrlicea registered on Tuesday, Sept. 25 :
Cholera. Diarrhoea,
West districts
North districts 9
Central districts
East districts 6
South districts 9

Total in London

THE METROPOLITAN VISITING SOCIETY AND
THE MANSION HOUSE COMMITTEE.

Yesterday afternoon a conference, adjourned
from Wednesday, the 19th inst., took place between the
representatives of the Metropolitan Visiting Relief Asso-
ciation, of which the Bishop of London is president, and
the Mansion-house Committee, for the purpose of consider-
ing the best means of uniting the two funds, so as to en-
able the administrators of both to work satisfactotay
together in providing for the relief, permanent and other-
wise, of the large number of young persons who have been
made orphans by the cholera. Lord Ebury presided.
Sir Mordaunt Wells said that since the last meet-
ing be, on the part of the Mansion-house Committee,
and Mr. Tilson, on the part of the Metropolitan
Visiting Sociaty, had had consultations, and had
found that the Mansion-house Committee bad 505
orphans to provide for, and the Metropolitan Visiting
Society MO, making together 1,015. He and Mr. Tilson
had gone together through the lists, and they had struck
off all those they supposed not to be properly charge-
able to either fund. He then thought that,
consideriog the whole of the circumstances, each fund
might maintain an independent course of action, a plan
all the more advisable, he thought, considering the mixed
character of each committee. Even then there would
remain the very important question of orphans which
each committee must necessarily take up. During that
day 19 cases bad come under his own consideration in
connexion with the Mansion-house Committee, and these
could not therefore be included in such a final settle-
ment as he intended to suggest that day. He pre-
sumed that independent of the 1,015 orphans he had men-
tioned there might be 60 or 80 more in connexion with
each society, and the lists of their names being sent by
one committee to the other might be dealt with hereafter.
If they did not now deal with the lists which had already
been prepared, he feared they would never come to an
end of their work. Considerable discussion took place,
and ultimately the following resolutions were adopted :
" That the cordial thanks of this committee be rendered to
Sir Mordaunt Wells and Mr. Tilson for the great trouble
they have taken in examining and classifying the list of
orphans now laid before the committee, and that the pro-
position of dividing the lists into two portions as equal as
they can be for the separate action of the two committees
be adopted. That no application for relief by cholera
orphans, children of parents already deceased, be received
after the Ist of October, and that it be left to Sir Mordaunt
Wells and Mr. Tilson to adjudicate upon any claims th 4
may arise in the interim, and to divide the same between
the two funds."

THE MURDER AT TOTNES.—The adjourned in-
quest on the body of Eliza Gepson, who came to her
death in a mysterious manner on the second night of the
Totnes races, was resumed on Monday. Some further
evidence having been taken, the deputy-coroner then
summed up, remarking that there appeared to be two
questions in the case:—First, the nature and cha-
racter of the offence ; and, secondly, by whom
the offence bad been committed. The first was not at
all difficult to answer ; the second was not very likely to
be solved. The body was found with such a wound as,
if unattended to, was sufficient to cause death. The
evidence clearly established that a murder had been
committed; there was nothing apparent to reduce the
crime from murder to manslaughter, but he did not think
there was any juryman could lay his finger upon a single
sentence in the evidence, and say " that points to the per-
petrator." The only verdict they could arrive at, he
believed, would be a " Verdict of Wilful Murder against
some person or persons unknown." The jury, after
having been locked up for half an boar, returned a verdict
of " Wilful Murder against some person or
unknown," and expressed their condemnation of ti:rrater-
page used by Gepson respecting his wife. The matter
will now be referred to the Home Secretary of State, who
it is believed will offer a reward for the apprehension of
the perpetrator of the crime.

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