The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-06 00:00:00

TILE INEFFICIENCY OP TEE POLICE.

At the meeting el the e Marylebono veltry yeiter-
day, Yr. Churchwarden 80t3.2c0m in the chair, the *ob-
ject of the prevalence of street oetragee. evecielly during
the winter months, and the iuelllcienry of the pohee force
in putting them down, were brought under the attention
of the board by Professor Marks. The following rese:u-
bolus were adopted unanimously •
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1. That ehdi nee and roblis in the streets of Loudon during
tame time met having greatly , and assumed a hold and
faarle.s select, and the criminals of our own land being added to
by tot. ilf1:1 det redatoni, the approaching winter awakens well-
gmundt d appnlensiona for the public safety.
f. That wbilat frteh human have been inapoead on the heavily.
taxed ratepayers for the enpmrntation of the mine, that forte,
hem lawns which impesatatly demand inquiry, Let in no way
become more fth lent • and the metropolis has not the guurmet..
tut the protection of life and property which it as Peddled to
le mina.
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-3. 'fit a eery of the foregeinte resolutions be rent to all the
wetting of the metropolis, aced that thny be solicited to unite
with the retry of Bt. Marykhone in seeking an interview with
the Ilervetary of State for the Men e Department, to the eat that
ouch tentedal changes may be introduced into the inanimation
et the police force or to abed a reasonable guarantee for that
sad security of which London and its suburb have
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deprived.

TUE SIAMESE TWlNS.—Articles have been ap-
pearing of late about the above persons and their visit to
Paris, with the object, as it has been asserted, of securing
the surgical skill of H. Nolatun in making an artificial
separation of that bend by which Nature has joined them
tegether in a way which no Divorce Court can overcome.
The subject was a good one un which to hang a little sen-
sational writing ; and the mysterious nature of the union
of Messrs. Chang and Eng, the Siamese in question,
las well as the intensely interesting nature of the
operatien, have been dwelt upon. We gather. how-
ever, from a short and interesting article by Dr.
Eve, the late Professor of Surgery in the University of
Nashville. in the number of the Richmond and Louis-
, tile Medical JLIWIIa 1 for thin mouth, that the twins
have probably no intention of the kind, and that all
.the accounts about the physical, moral, and mental unity
between them are incoireet ; the twins are two beings, pee-
Kissing as separate and complete organisations as any other
two individuals, the only cuuuectiou being a short cartila-
ginous mid iutegurnental bald common to both, the sever-
ance of which e wild, in all probability, be perfectly harm-
less,. It has never been the opinion among medical men in
Aseenee or Europe that the death of one of the brothers
would be inetaxtly followed by flea of the other, or that
their IA potation was surrounded by any fearful sliMeulty,
or that the link between them is a scans of perfect
physical union by which sensations or impressious are
conveyed from one to the other. So far from it, the
:bend is shoot inernsible, and on shipboard they were
I putted about by a rope tied to it. 1/e. live telly us
that no pulsating vessel has ever been &teens 1 in it,
though, undoubtedly, it is just in the oentre of this curd,
made of gristle and skin, and for about an inch on either
side, that there are vessels and nerves oommunicatiug
from one to the other. Here, but nowhere else a touch
on the spice indicated is felt by both. Precisely hero, fuel
here alone in the band uniting them, there in sensation,
and nothingeles whatever common to both. The decision
of the profersiou thirty-eight years ago, when this case
was first exhibited, was that the ligiuuent was cartilaginous,
probably • prolongation of the eusiform cartilage of the
• sternums ; and the 6164 if not the only, objection to its
I disaster has been that this peritoneum might be involved
ila 6e operation. Theof n was with
Omaha or their and note profeasion.
In MO we dee red that the case was more rare than
redone. If one of them died, it would certainly be the
• daft ems am to make Use attempt, taking oars to
the pm* seater the one desemad. —Lamer.
Butunromtm.—Mr. Bright and hie eolleagurn,
the Uml candidates for this borough, will address the
asembere al the gun trade is the Town Hall ea Tuesday
evening nod.
At a meeting of student' favourable to the clot:-
of Hr. Mimes Monereiff, M.P., as Lord Rector of
I University, held on Wednesday night in the rix
'IT , it was announced. amid great cheering, that
Mr. Alfred Tennyson bird written a Mt*, to the chairman
of his committee, refusing to be nominated as a candidate
for the office. Resolutions in favour of the candidature
of Mr. Minerva were mord, and those present pledged
themselves to do all in their power to secure that gentles
man's eloction.

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