The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN

LEICESTER.

A correspondent says :—After fourteen years of
pmeevering and vigorous effort, the cense of temperance in
Leicester has attained an altitude which distinguishes it..
Deo of the most successful and useful of the philanthropic in-
stitutions of Cho borough. The statistics in the last year's
report of the society astonish the most sanguine friends of Cho
movement. The number of enrolled abstainers is between
throe and four thousand ; and it is believed that there an
is tha town an equal number unplodged who adopt the ab-
stinence praeties. Two menage aro held weakly is the
Town-hall, which is generally crowded. For the wee
popular occasions and festivals there is not a hall in she tows
capable of accommodating the vast somber. that throng to-
gether; sad this fact led to tho wassidsratioa, as the east-
asoserssoat of last year, of a scheme for the erection of a
temperance hall on a very large scale. An appeal hoe been
submitted is, sabseriptions sad shares, which has resulted in
• guttaitons fund of 46W., sad shares to the sasosat of up-
wards of 4,6001. A sit., orabeacing 2,800 yards of ground,
is the most public thoroughfare, his been poraltoood, and ere
long a ha, capable of seating some 1,800 monk to to ho
crested. The cash account of the past year shows an income
and capeaditan amounting to near 4001, in. tie general
On amounting
of the society.
On Monday, the 24th alt., Charge argil, got. of Lied..
delivered • Inters ea the ravages produce's by soon drink,
and the mans by which those voyages may be repressed,
sad their offsets removed.
On Wedanday .beat 600 of the friends of the movement
assembled for we Is the largest public ball of the town.
Tea was served boas a bar and beautiful plated um, the
property of.** wwWW, Wilia Is lovable of providing, demi-
Wwwoutif, Rif 1,000 Pwwwll. 'Tlso we is phew! at the heed
of the party i .rod from it e. tube dabout 70 feet, with taps
trAvoUnil Mgt *him side, extesk to the bottom of the
• The Ise iv wed', in the aro, rid by a valve sad index
the puff lo it can makes the supply to almost
any event and the groat adman* of this tesensaking
machine is, that the strength sad boat of the Squid are mu-
formir ete;ored to the whole party, besides +kids there is no
loss of ,:nr.o ice perpleslty in the sappy of hot water to •
haegoi too-polo: tka sups ors nod from the taps by ladies
litso liave chugs of tam, sad the rata of supply is quit*
equal to the demands of the mot rapid seassawn.
1 Several other westing. wore held darir4 the week.

THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

(Pram the Deify New.)
Mairoffaraa, DzO. 31.
TO-11hOrrOW being NSW-year's-day, our printipal
trade market was hell-to-day, instead of on Tuesday. There
was not afttito sash a till attendance as on the mail day, but
Mill there was a fair garter of menufacteren and mer-
teams, end • fair besieges dose, esacdelly in yarns. Prices
had asks ea upward teademy, consequent so the advance
in cokes at Liverpool and the specalative spirit still preva-
lent MOS/ brokers. A carious discrepaacy discovered in
the weekly returns of ewes, as creamed with the annual
me as Liverpool—the partimilars of which will probably
rash yea through another source— was m use of
much osaversatios. It b usual on this, the lam day of that
year, to make a leant of the stock of cotton on hand,—
which return serves am a cheek upon the week•by-week re-
turns previously forwarded throughout the you. Though
there is usually some diagram; between the two, mor-
ally speaking it is of a very wiling amount. Oa this
occasion, however, it I. of a rather startling amount, the
stock on hand exceeding
_previous estimates by nearly
90,000 bales. In a week and languid state of thentorka for
manufactaree, with a full new crop expected from America
this might have told im pries very considerably, but with
the easouragiag prospects here of business, anti exhausted
stocks of manufactures it will not occasion much concern
ALL that sea be moped from it is that it may steady the
market at Liverpool, and give a cheek to speculation to some
*Mat. _

The only event of any interest which has occurred here
shun my last I. the death of a poor woman named Mary
Hooter, under circumstances of great privation aad appa-
rent neglect by the pariah authorities. An inquest has been
held by Mr. R. Hertord, the coroner for the borough, and
the jury threw bhuse for neejlect both upon the relieving-
often. and the medical man. The following are the deposi-
tions made by the witnesses la this painful case --
Catherine M'Donough, of 8, Ludgate-street, Manchester,
seid—l gel out selling herrings, and keep lodgers. I have
only two rooms, a kitchen and • aleeping-rown. I have
known deemed absent 12 months. She has lodged with
me 14 weeks last Saturday. She paid me Bd. a week, and
found her own food. I tumidly charge Is. 6d., bat I took
her for this for the sake of her company, because she was re-
ligious, and I liked her for what she said to me. She went
out every day selling apples and oranges, and seemed in very
good health. She was a very easy woman, and when
she was hurried at all she became very nervous.
On Friday last she complained of ear-ache before
she went out. She applied an onion, but bad
the pain still when she came blase, and a:so
neat morning. In other respects she seemed as well as usual
when she went out on Saturday morning. On Saturday
night she said the earache was well when she came home
about five. She had tee, but soon afterwards vomited it.
Then she complained of • pain in the left shoulder, down to
the left breast. Before she went to bed I made her two
meal poultices, and put the second on when the first was',
cold. She did not find any relief, but was still in agony.
I sat up with her during the night in the kitchen, where she
slept She was very restless, moaned frequently, and drank
a good deal of tea. Next morning she said I must get her a
doctor, and I went to Mr. M'Clill's ; but the young man in
the shop said he was not the lowa's doctor. I then went tol
another doctor in Oldham-road, but no one came to the duce
when I knocked. There was • plate on the door which said
it would not open till two o'clock. I then went to the Tib-
street workhouse, and asked if there was any doctor there
that attended to the town. Thy person I saw said "No,"
and that 1 must get an order from the overseer, who he
thought was Mr. Pierce. He said he lived in Ited.hanx, and
I went there immediately, but he had removed, they could I
not tell me when. to. I then came back and told deceased I
could aot find any doctor. I then got her some tea, and she
went to sleep. I went to Mr. again, and he gave
me • draught, for which I paid him, and he said I must
apply a poultice of mustard and meal. She found no relief
from these, and et nine o'clock at night I went to Mr.
Noble's aad saw Mr. Drown. I told him that deceased was
usagerously ill and lying on the flags of my kitchen dint,
and that I understood that he was a town's doctor. He
said, " You must take her to the infirmary." I said, I can-
not remove her to the infirmary, she is so heavy." He then
said he could do nothing for me. I then came hems. De-
ceased had not been up since Saturday night. She was
no better when I got back. Mr. Brown attends toe poor for
Mr. Noble. She was still very ill on Monday m rating, end
I said I would apply ta have her taken into the workhouse.
She said she did not like it. I said I could do nothing for
her, and no doctor could as long as she lay on the cold flags.
She consented that I should spply to get her into ti.• work
house, and I went there between 12 and 1 o'clock. I saw
Mr. Pierce, and told him I wanted a note to remove Mary
Hunter into the workhouse. I said she had been danger.
ously ill, and wanted nourishment ; and th.t she was lying
on the figs. He gave me • note, and said, " Take
this to Dr. Noble, and if he says she ought to be
removed, she should be removed." I took this note
to Mr. Noble's, and gave it to his servant.
This was before 1 o'clock. No one came that day ; she lay in
the same place still very ill. She did not say that she was
worse. I gave her oranges and a little bit of dry toast,
which was all she ate. On Tuesday morning at nine o'clock
Mr. Brown came, and after asking her questions told me to
apply a mustard poultice, and come to him at two o'clock for
some medicine. He did not mention anything about a
bottle, and I took none, but when I called he said I mast
get one. I said I had none, and could not afford to buy
one. He said I must borrow one, and come to him at
nine o'clock in the morning, he could not give me any
medicine before. I got the bottle and went to him
at nine o'clock, and he said I must apply a mustard poultice.
I did what he directed, and when she took the medicine she
said the pain was removed to her hip., and that she had no
use of her right arm. I was up with her all night. Next
morning she still had the pain in her bock and hips. Her
breath was better. I went in the forenoon to Mr. Pierce,
but could not see him. I remained till four o'clock, and
then saw him. I told him in what state she then was, and
that I wanted her removed to the workhouse. He said, I
must go to Dr. Noble, and tell him to alter the medicine."
He said he woult come the tint thing in the morning to
visit net. I said she might be dead by then. I
went to Mr. Brown, and he called to see de-
ceased again. Mr. Pierce came previously, between
five and six o'clock in the evening. Deceased told him she
had been relieved going on six years ago. I called, by his
direction, at his office in half an hour, and he gave me 25.;
Mr. Brown came in my absence. On Wednesday night her
breath began to be short, and she died about five o'clock on
Thursday morning. As Mr. Brown had left word he would
come in the morning, I did not go for another doctor. She
bad no bed, but some flocks and a piece of carpet over them.
She had no olankets or sheets. She said she had any
more bed sins* she began to be " lusty." She did not apply
for any relief. She told me that some years ago the overseer/
had given her a trifle and • basket to sell (nut. She had • bit
of carpet over her at night. Sh• seemed sensible to the last.
moment. Oa Thursday morning I told Mr. Pierce she was
dead, and he said it was Mr. Rowe's case. On Saturday
night she had no money but 3d. She had no clothes except
those upon her. I paid for what she required out of my
own pocket. She had enjoyed good healtn generally, and
did not complain. All that I ever saw her eat was • little
brown bread, and sometimes butter, and a little tea. She
had no meat.

George Merle, Harrison, of Oldham street, Manchester,
surgeon, said—l made a post ',torten examination of de-
ceased this afternoon. I found her lying on the floor, which
is flagged, near the fireplace, with some clothes between her
and the &round. They seemed to be some old quilts and flocks.
The body was extremely corpulent, and the face was disco-
loured. On opening the cavity of the chest I found marks
of recent inflammation of the living membrane of the chest,
as well as a large quantity of fluid in the cavity, which had
onapieseed A. lung on that side. This was the evidence
of acute it:itemisation. There were also marks of similar
previous disease from which she had recovered. The stomach
was nearly empty, containing • small quantity of fluid,
probably tea, with some orange pulp and orange pips. The
cause of death was acute inflammation of the lung, and
its investing membrane on the hitt side. The corn-
Vaint described by the last witness, of pain in
the deceased's left side, would be the first pro-
minent symptom of such a complaint. Such an attack
would, in the fleet instance, be produced by exposure to cold,
and would subsequently be aggravated by the west of proper
nourishment and other comforts. Much nod sines the attack
would not have been desirable. Such an attack is not gene-
rally fatal, if prorerly attended to ; but Is more likely to be
so in a person of her. years. There was no evidence of pre-
vious deficiency of food. With great care and attention she
might have struggled through, but I should say the probabi-
litiev ws in against her recovery. 1 think the disease cm-
minced before Saturday night when the pain was felt, and
was aggravated by exposure to :MI in her occupation, and by
i lying n such a plan as above stated. I should say it was
of gnat importance to have such a patient removed to a
proper place. It would have been will better to have had
arrangements made for her comfort, in tin place whore
she was. _ _

—Jane* Dream, of 128, Oldhens-road. butcher—He uid
I have known deceased sin yeas.. I saw her en Sunday
week. I heard she wu dead yesterday, and went over to
seeker. She was lying en • sort of bed on the Ragged floor.
An officer ease* is whilst I vas there, and I told hint the
ease ought to be investigated. She was extremely poor,
but for integrity and honesty, 1 never heard anything
against her. She had done her best to earn a
livelihood. She bad n• relations that I am aware
ot. I wee not aware that eke absolutely wanted
food. She attended the same place of worship as
I did. I did not 'mow where she lived. She never asked
for anything ; bat I sontetintes gave her a trifle, such as
tisane* for whisk she seemed gra very teful.
The jury returned a verdict of " Died front inflammation
of the bulge, aggravated by exposure and lyir.g in the place
deserted ;" end expressed their unanimous opinion that there
had been noes.% on the part of the overseer and the medical
nee who visited the deceased ; recominenling that a copy of
the depositions be forwarded to the poor law board.

THE EARL OP ELLIISMEIR AND THE LONDON
AND NORTH WIRTZ= NAlLlit.T.—For login months an
active competition has prevailed between ma trustees of the
Bridpwater Canal and the London and North Western
Railway, in mwattleellee of which the goods between Liver-
-I.:itog. _Rauh. "tit WIFI berried at ruinously low rates.
llgulswat w bee.,e semimi on for some time between
the *it'll hanirta, an bate tottainatad la an amicable nada,-
staading• With no °entwinement of the new you the old
rates will be irtdiamed.
A BARRA/M.—lt is said that the purehiser of the
bed, nu Wbk:n Sarah Thome murdered her mistress in Teen-
la.at'set, Bristol, by a bidding of 2s. gd., has disco
7001. stowed away thereia.—Curbormjo•iniqs.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' CLUB-ROUSE.

Yesterday it mating of commercial travellers took
place at the London Tavern, Bishorgate -street, for the
purpose of Imaging the necessary preliminaries relative to
the fosmation of en establishment, to be called " The
Commercial Travellers' Club-house."
Mr. A. H. MOORE, of Orars-inn, took the chair, and in
explaining the objects of the meeting, stated that, although
the number of Beat amen present was very limited, he telt
so doubt that la course of tints they should be enabled to
carry out the undertaking which they were amembled to
consider.
Mr. JACKSON moved the first resolutio3 :
That the establishment of a club house in some central
part of the City of London for the use of commercial gentle-
men solely, will materially airrame the li-terests and pro-
mote the comforts of that body.
Mr. BOALER seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously.
The following raw:Whim were successively proposed, and
unanimously adopted :
That the tithe of so desirable as instPution be " The Com-
mercial Travellers' Club House."
That • slab-holm, with dormitories, Ac , w lob shall he
exclusively appropriated to the promotion of the comfort
and convenience of the commercial travellers of she United
Kingdom, be established in- a neutral part of the City of
London, thereby mowing the un,versally-admitted viscounty
for some common gathering point in the metropolis; that
such shall be conducted in an unosti stations and consistently
economical manner, but with due acid close regard to sub-
stantiality, respectability, and comfort, and which, with its
reading-rooms and appropriate library, will promote baits
of mutual and intelligent intercourse that cannot fail to be
of advantage to its members, hence to tht trade of the man-
try, and society g lly.
That the proceedings of this meeting be advertised in the
daily papers.
That a provisional working committee of 12 (5 to constitute
quorum) ba appoinVd to carry into effect the foregoing re-
solutions, sad to (fame a code of laws fur the guidance and
government of such inatitivion.
It was ultimately resolved that Mr. A. M. Phillips, of
Rood-lane, be appointed treasurer pro tens., that Mr. Rum-
say be the secretary pro tem., and that the office, 3, Queen's-
strettplece, which he otters gratis, be acknowledged as the
addicts for the purposes of the club till further arrangements
be entered into.

Certain gentlemen were then named to unite with Mr.
Rumsey M the formation of a committee; and a vote of
thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meeting se-
parated.

POST-OFFICE REFORMS.

[From the Globe.)

We were enabled to make the following important
announcement in the greater part of our imrression on
Saturday :
We understand that additional measures will tomorrow
be brought into operation for diminishing Sunday labntot at
the POlt•OffiCO. By (1) a partial discontinuance of the pre-
sent Sunday morning delivery between the 3 mile and the
6-mile circle in London, about 100 letter carriers will be
entirely relieved from Sunday duty; and (2) by discontinu-
ing certain cross posts, on Sundays, for o.nerai Post letter.,
in the London district, complete relief from Sunday labour
will also be given to 11, and partial relief to several more, of
the servants of the establishment.

The additional measures for reducing the labour imposed
upon the servants of the Post (Ace on Sundays, «bich we
had the pleasure of announcing in our last impression, as
they have taken effect in the locality in which alone any
increase of labour on that day was caused by the late
arrangement for relieving the provincial offices, will, we
trust, be received by the well-mraning opoorn nts of that
arrangement as some evidence that Sir. fill and the
Pustmaster General are not engaged in a conspiracy
fur the abolition of the Sabbath. That the work
dne in the country offices on Sundays was re-
duced, even by the hut move, they have nut pretended
to doubt. Their strong point has lain, all through
the ditcession, in their refusal to recognise a large gain in
that direction as any justification what, ver of a small cor-
, responding loss nearer home. Now, in all couresy, we call
upon them to take account of a further step in the same
direction, which reduces the Sunday labour in the Loadon
office more than the Werner arrangement increased it. Upon
a fair balance of the account, fur the m trip .litan office
alone, there is now a clear and palpable gain, in the shape
of entire exemptiom from labour of more then four times
as many persons as those about whom so much needless,
and happily fruitless, noise sae made a mon•li or twat ago.
The present reform has reference to •he L. radon district
branch of the office. The delivery of levers hitherto made,
every Sunday morning, beyond the three mi ei circle (from
St. Maetin'ela-Grand) and within the sin-mile circle—
which placed that dis rict, so far, upon the same footing as
the provincial localities in which Leidon letters are deli-
vered on Sunday morning, is now discontinued. But the
public will not be entirely deorived of the accommo-
dation thus previously given. The greater number
of the letters so delivered were embraced in the
dispatch from the chief office. These will now, we
uno. rs'and, be sent to their destinaiion, as far as
practicedr, on Saturday tutting; and to this end a new
delivery (of which the first was made on Saturlay evening
last) will be made at ball past seven, p.m. This will en-
tire ly relieve trom Sunday duty m ire than 100 letter carriers.
Also the cross posts which cony. y Geo.ral Post letters
daily to and from certain places within the London district,
are now discontinued on Sundays, by which toml relief will
be given to eleven, and partial relict to many other officers
of the London establishment.

Altogether, we believe we are within the mark in assum-
ing that this further step in Post•ofilee reform gives libtrty
on the Sunday to an additional 120 persons.

TTIE LEAGUE OP BROTHERHOOD.—A correspondent
says : " A committee has just been formed io Paris to co-
operate with the League of Itrotherhood in this country, for
the dissemination of peace principles on the continent. This
committee alre►d comprises the names of Victor Hugo, the
Abbe Deguerry, H, Cormenin, and 3.1 Zitglen, and other
influential men are expected to give in tt eir adhesion. This
committee has made ►rrangements to dine .nflether every
month, when the operations of the society will be discussed
and directed. A monthl♦ ' Olive lest' will be isnied in
th- French language, containing short paragraphs adapted
to the popular mind in France. This will be forwarded by
post every month to about 800 newspapers, with a r. quest to
the editors to insert such of the articles as they may approve
in their respective journals. By thus feediog the continental
press, it is hoped to imbue public sentiment abroad a. well
as at home with the principles of peace and brotherhood.
Three 'Olive-leaves' are also to be cistributed by band
among the ouvriers of Paris and other large towns. An
effort will be made, in sccordance with a suggestion of H.
de !Amanita*, to form corresponding committees in all the
principal towns in France. In thi. way the combined influ-
ence of many of the most proposal's minds on the continent
will be brought to bear in promoting the widest possible ex-
tension of peace aad brotherhood."

OPENING OF THE RE►TOE FOR THE HOUSELESS.

—Yesterday the committee of the houseless poor essen.hled
at their chambers, No. 75, Broad street, Mr. Charles Hick
in the chair, and unanimously agreed to the resolution to
throw open the doors of the central asylum in Playhowe-
yard, Whiteeroe►etreet, for the reception of the bouse!ess
immediately, in consequence of the left rity of the weather,.
and the diminution of ont-of-door labour.

THE RECORDS OF THE MAYOR'S COVET.—The fol-
lowing is the report made by Mr. Berjeant Mererrether, the
town clerk, relative to the arrangement of the records of the
Mayor's Court :—" In obedience to the order that I should,:
report from time to time the progress made in the examina-
tion and arrangement of the records of the Mayor's Cr art, I
have to certify that, in pursuance of the authority given to
me on the 13th April, 1847, to employ • proper and compe-
tent person to examine the books and the regards connected
with the practice and proceedings of the Mayor's Court, I
did employ Mr. Brandon, the &linty reghtner, tcr that pur-
pose, and that he has proceeded in the work, the provers.
having been from time to time reported re your committee
of general purposes ; that a strong iron dre-prootedoset, in
one of the record-rooms under my care, has bet% fitted up.
for the reception of the records, numbest. of pest roe&
from the fire in 1838. have been removed from the Mice in
the Old Jewry to that depository, ant seturrcl in bundles.
Other rolls, nine in number, during the reign of Edward I.
have been exammedsarranged, ticketed, and epitomised, and
forms of each impetrate proceeding have been extracted
..stetaso. Records of the reigns of Rdward TOL, lekhard 11.,
I Henry IV., V. and VI, hare aha been Mfatid. There
are books of precedents of the reign of James 1.,
illuateated with marginal nines set references weds
to them by an index. Records from the reign
of Elizabeth to George 1., in SB6 bundles,
have been numbered and dated, so so to be capable of re-
bronco and inepeetiae, a, °session may require, rendering
these rewards available for the hangs regulation and prac-
tice of the onset After the retire ot James L. I did not
think is necessary that so topless an index se had been
'before made should be essitinued. mantel the plaints being
of an usual and ordinary description. They were, however.
classified and duly arranged fur preservation, sad others
were arranged for future reference. And after a series of
precettests had been secured, a shorter mode of indexing
was adopted, curtailing the time necessary for completing
the whole arrangement, which I now cons.der sufficient for
ordinary practical purposes, though many records still re-
main nnarranged. Daring the last thre: months of the
employment of Mr. Brandon for the purpose of completing
the work a shorter mode of arranging and indexinr has
been adopted, not so satisfactory as the former, but in as
great detail m I felt justified is ordering without the fur-
ther sanction of the court, with whom it is left to consider
the expediency of contialciag or discontinuing the under-
taking. The arranging, ceased on the 31st of January,
1849, the claming of each species being comp'oteil to the
20th of Charles 1., !caving the subsequent records to the
Bth of George I. unelmeed, but sorted in beadles. It will
be a satisfaction to the court to learn that in a late case is
the Court of St. Martin's-le-Breed, the judge. required a
selection of twelve records fee the purpose of !hewing the
ancient panties of the court, which were easily produced
in ooeleoreenoe of the arrangements which had been made,
and the records so produced materially affected the pro-
oeedir,gs in the cause.-11.14. blakeWltrltili, Town clerk.'
A REMARKABLE lwelDwier.—The director. of the
Sheffield Banking Company have addressed a circular to
their shareholders, containing tha following notice:—" In
pursuance of the powers given in the 13th section of the
deed of settlement, the directors of the Sheffield Banking
Company, finding that, in the present state of commercial
moneycanapditaias adieu,
affteuteta,ithoreye, caahavneotepornocfiltuadbelya etm.plroeytt eo
rnlutogeti.tz
shareholders the sum of 101. per share, which will ..be pane
et balk al sad of sr the 21et Junes/ next."—S4OPJ4
Times.

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