The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

TIIE "TIMES" AND THE AD'
DUTY.

(nom t?ell'ar Nov.)

The nines is somewhat Oita at the poke which we
chanced to glee into that sepulchre of advertisements,
its Supplement. That was a sore point. It requires
no email assurance, and no Itttle boasting shout "our
circulation," to make even gullible people believe that
parti.ular six lines of small type will be selected
out of twenty-four columns of an unopened supple-
ment for the special reading of all the world. The
however, calls this " the perfection of adver-
imi g " And if by the abolition of the duty on
adeertiennents, these should pour in upon it ten-fold,
it would, no doubt, declare an advertisement in one
of its ten daily supplement. a ten-fold perfection of
commercial publicity.
The allusion which drew upon us the ire of the
TiMeS, was in one of a series of articles on the &how-
dahs and iniquities and it.equalities of the Excise.
Nee the keg of these iniquities is the Advertisement
Piety, and certainly it is the greatest of absurdities to
hare reduced protege to a peony at a large temporary
sacrifice to the revenue, y.t continue to charge
ge. on the sue at efficient mode of business comma-
nic adeenis• merits—for the sake of raining
toe 1.000/.
In advocating the abolition of the tax on advertise-
met te, eud in necessarily alluding to the Times as
their greatest recipiett, we were actuated by neither
an int. resed nor a rival feeling. The abolition of
all duties on newspapers would probably raise up
motes. riots* competition to ourselves than to the Times;
nor do we suppose that doin,t away with the ,deer.
tistreent they would lessen the number of cur content-
poem's columns thus occupied. lhat is Lot the way
in which it would aid is breaking up the monopoly.
For oureesves. we have a very fair share of advertise-
r:ent., and by no meats complain. What we do
cemplaic of is, that it is the pone and
reedy who are taxed heavily fsr making
tinue n their wants to the rich, the rich being lightly
tesed for making known their wants to each other,
and the rich being dep-ived of any mode of making
known their wants to tt.e pow by the absence of any
organ cheap at d popular ete ugt. fur the poor halite-
ally to read. 'that this will be done awry with, the
lonise knows as well as that the suffrage must be
ggosiiien : and, therefore, it will set itself directly
no mum. against one than against the other, bat it
wittiest =tire one little fir g. r to aid them, nor, inde d,
touch tt tm. beyond a ittie cautious " damning with
faint praise."
We by nu means intended opening our old quarrel
web the Tenet on the mere of monopoly and cheap-
nets (tar own prier oo leninr makes us he rival of
the T mes in that respect. Howe ter reluctantly, we
have be .c of lilted to charge that fivepecce which few
rice affluent lam can pay, and our disadvantage
is the: et d ii.v moiress the must liberal and popular
aorri: • • to a Class of readers which, io the 1 mane
este cf the world at least, is more deemed then
detter.d b; such lessons, and which is net ready to
*hoover anirchy aid revolution lurking in tie se
oar l nuctreass, which, in tiuto, are tie- only thesis
of °tweet; g "eel% evils aid such catastrophe.
The eh et m to be complained of is that me-
repo4 t`c riget and the means to b. informed ucd
enter a menu: tch the wealthy arrogate to them el vcs,
bb pl.ci'.g tex.s on newspapers and on books, a tee
certainly not tor revenue but protection—a tax which
makes ietermatien dear, in order to compel the pro-
vider,: c: it ti. :•e a rich and c ch.', with the
ideas and interests of tat Masa. But toe reoul. is
tie 11411.. 11111•311)gern 14 moral pro.. ction, u. 1:1 tilt
murals %Pi, and commercial one; tc- ntr .hand
trcde hee sp:urg up. The pr. ple have got a Ire,. of
their ott un axed .aid uaresteiced - a press which
exile at • tie most pernicieus dome-int., which it is
come,. ed t, -e. d retie without the facts that would
Co: tett Will, r,•4 without ire antidote of solid new, to
temptr t.. m st perrici us poisen of popular theories.
England, ore night say at this moment, has no
press, teat ceeid b: a eatioeal one. Of the
inlay doa-n nioreieg papers, lour are of the rankest
toryism, symei honig with every act of tyretety
abroad, Led .deatotecine every act o! liotraltsur at
home. Fu e igeete would say, that tent majority ot
tee pre,. necesatq represeen a the majority of We
Engleti people. Tie idea would be as rrutleou* as
enjwie I tie press, as at present commuted, caters
for, and it deed ex gestates, the nepmed optnions of
the eca!ths at..l its fashionable. T. brad p'thlic
is not addressed er cared for. The public of the
L ,red .0 Ire., is not the British pubic, nor even It
lair secian of it. A:.d thus toe prose tads every way
of its missing; it mit_ er duty represec to nor fairly
it:ltalic 1; it natters prejudices where prejudice is
meat e.a s; and teen.ey• no inforcuatim where in-
turnietit n eceect be salutary. The different organ.
may be good instruments ot parliamentary parties, or
wing • xpr. scions uf private recklessness and pique,
but to b- tither instructors of the public mind, or
echoes of the public voice, none of our journals car
nor dam pr. tend.
Is reading the defence of the Times, spired whom
we by it, means intended an attack, we are &truth
by tea utter fallacy and misdirection of every on. of
its urger:rests. 'I he first is its ad calculation, worthy
of Mr. Honor's cooking •science of arithmetic,
by whien it pre ends that of the 51. which the public
is charged for each number, 40. are spent in mate-
nak, leaving little more than a farthing for penman-
ship. Ba surely not merely the Times but the public
ere per.e..tly aware, that whether the cat ot produc-
nue of a journal slightly exceeds or slightly fails
short of the amount of sale, is of exceedingly little
coroqueree. Journals all sell at or near cost price,
and hod their profit in advertisement.. The close ac-
count of the tivepence, therefore, is but a piece of
" gammon" on the part of the Times, which could net
helper.* in the most ignorant of its readers.

(4 similar )(uric and truth is the argument that
the journal owes its superiority, and the maintenance
sit it, to the command of capital. What constitutes
monopoly of newspapers is by no means the capital
tdablioned ones employ, but the capital which
new ones must necesearily sink, and perhaps seen-
Lee, in order to attain the position of
as neutd.ted English journal. Amidst other
&sienna that render extraordinary capital
ugui.itt, and that render competition more difficult,
are the vunip and advertisement duties, the latter
being not always arranged an the Times lays down.
It eerlitrily woo • very great hardship to us, and
must cro:inue so to any new competitor. Although
between ti.e Doily News and the Times, at present,
as indeed the latter has shown, it does not operate to
oar disadvantage.
With respect to the great outlay of capital in the
pructiriog of information, which the Times pleads as
one element of success. we must altogether deny that
it exists. We see nu proof of this superior outlay. On
tee contrary, we should say, that the Morning Chronicle
was at this moment making • far greater outlay to
hit its columns with original matter than the Times
doing, yet without that return for its capital which
the latter would indicate as a necessary sequence.
The leading articles in the Timer are written
aith the very greatest ability, but not more
than its loot standing position and connections
sad command of every ministerial office, can, in a
great measure account for and supply. And, as to
'an unsparing use of capital in culling intelligence
eat, the greatest accuracy from every quarter of the
'twee world," we should say that whatever capital
expended by the Times in this way is most incon-
Et:tritely lavished. For the last year its columns
site been but the recipients of such stories as the
Puke of every despotic country
gathers or concocts.
SJP ly our c rettmporary does not pay for the Totemi-
c: p I-1 which it receives from Vienna and from
Nape.. All we can say is, that the police of any of these
cdr..ries would uladly pay for the insertion of such
Li, upon hberalient, instead of taxing our °mitten-
Pew, tut the most gratuitous of fees. For our part,
rtetryl or supposing any terrible outlay of capital upon
•••nriee, we should have classed them, as BYRON
• I sham pastimes, amongst
I,•• enema Mime that may be bad for asking."
etar contemporary altogether wrongs himself
' e, he pretends to be purse proud, rather than
twit and in•elligent. It is not to outlay of
'q.t., that the 7,14,a owes its pre-eminence over
Journals, so much as to its adroitness in fore.
l-k• Lir the niaLts, flattering the prejudices, and
mdirtetly discovering the grosser errors of the
""'hy and the plying classes. This is the work,
4'l 'ti!uipittl, least nolo( pecuniary capital, but of
and experience, and inconsistency, and
rd. lding Use influence of long-acquired and
"Am
.4"1"1..bt-tlispiattd aecendancy, an ascendancy well
'arneet by the journal, but moat servilely aut.
::sated by that most servile of parties, the whigs of
11-e Present day.

THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

ANOTHER SAVINGS BANK DEFAULTER.
TEN THOUSAND POUNDS MINUS.

ILLIIOIIISTIII, Jur. 12.
The account of another =view bank defalcation, or,
at all 'nate, misappropriating of mosey, to the amount of
10,0001., falls upon the ear with startling feet after the
recent painful di-closuns &maenad with Rochdale. Tee
aewly-diseovered fraud is ea the saving@ bank at St. Helen's,
near Warrington, well known for its extensive plate and
other glen manure/stork*. and its eollleriee. The beak wee
established upwards of thirty years age, and Mr. Juba
Johnson was appointed and has recleaned estuary ever
since. lo 1833, when Mr. Johnson married bate a wealthy
family at Halton, he iutrodoced into the bank his brother
William as sub-actuary, and the two brothers ban contingent
to act and to conduct the again of the bank to the present
time. There en some features about the affair singularly
like thou, at Rochdale When the bank was started it had
the apparent guarantee of a liberal neater of wealthy
trustees and managers, who not only attended assiduously at
the beak en deposit days, but plead their initials on the pus
books and cis,mpared them with the ledgers. Had th,y
reithfully continued to discharge then duties it is
almost needless to say that no fraud could have
loin been curled on without di•oevery. However, they
were blinded by false coutiassee. like the trustees m*
managers of the Rochdale bank, were la respect to Moro- th.
Mr. Johann was the owner, along with others, and ma-
nein g partner of extensive and valuable collieries in the
neighbourhood of St. Helena, and this accounted for an ex.
pitman style of living certainly not Froporttoned to his m-
ene from the bank (which did hot exceed 301), and lied to
a false security on the part of the truteits. Tense trustee*,
as also the managers, were gradually removed by death, or
by casualties, which left Mr. Joinson almost sole master of
the concern, for no attempt was made to fill up their
places unti a few years ago, the number of trustees
was restored to three, and the number of managers,
which at first bad beta fifty, bat had decreased to six,
was very considerably increased. lA. the late teenager
of the Rockdale Bank, Mr. Johann appean to have hit
upon the easy expedient of a diuble set of books for doping
a too easy set of trustees and managers, for of late years
acme of tam had ever thought of eaunining the books or
of visiting the bank, except when he or his brother sent for
them to afilx their signature to some document which
Weal forme connected with savings beaks required their
manse to. It seems probable that bat for the disclosures
at Rochdale, the trustees and managers of the St.
Helen's &Mtge Bank would hive slept en as soundly
as they have done for the last 20 years. The healthy vigi-
Laos to which the Rockdale defalcations had roused the
parties cooneeted with all the banks of the surrounding
towas in this neighbourhood, had at length, &movie, ex
tended to them; &soy had seen reports in the nee 'paper. of
the accounts of one bank after an Aber having been tound
correct, an of the excellent eystem of management adopted
Ito prevent fraud; and, perhaps, a Lot very blameable dispo-
sition to rivalry under such cireamstaams led them to take
similar 'leis. The consequence was, that whoa, in
January, they met to discharge the duties which
should .have been performed in December, and
bed tar annual balsaceseheet laid before them, though the
figuring and arithmetic appeared creditable enough, there
was the same extraordinary discrepancy as regarded this
and all the ether balance-sheets for some years past which it
has erected some surprise did not sooner awaken suspicion
at Rochdale ; that the face of rapidit-exteuoing populs-
line and wealth in the to en and neighbourhood, the %ul
• arat of the deposits had year alter year Who off. Mr.
Johnson had received an official order from government to
cal! in Ott c1..00-it blaiLe 111 d submit them for examination

to the ire-tees and managers ; but it was not until
these gentl.men had called his attention to the apparent
falters off in d:pasits, and expressed a detertniastioti to
c•Il in the pass hock., th-,t he made known the receipt of
this order, and requiesceid in its propriety A few dye
etterward', Mr. Win. Johnson, the sub-ectuary, appears to
have Men amines to prevent the sull dieckwore of the
entire fraud, for calling upon the trustees us Friday week
he prepared them to expect the finding of a deficiency,
hot to a mon less serious rotes than more recent tea-
miaation have disclosed. Upon this en interview was
*aunt with Mr. John J Assoc, the actoary, and
being found at the office of Messrs. Johnson,
Wore...Lir-on, and Ce =pans, (:lee oftice of the
c dWry emir:ay, of which he I. the managing putties, and
in ',Lich ale, hi. brother holds a share), an expiate-ton was
demanded. He then admitted that the pest accounts west
incorrect, and stated that be bad abstracted trom the book,
so far back ci 1933, the sum of 1,5501. He denied, how- 'ref,
that the fraud extended beyond that, and assured van' the
balatace-shoet for the current year was correct, having :run
tossiced by one of the lip,' accountants in St. lielsn'e.
The trustee very properly disregarded tilts assurance. Mr.
/lambert. late steward to Sir John Gerard, Bart., was acted
in to examine the books, and before the close of the
first lisy's nomination of the depositors' books, a
deficit of more than 1,0001. was direovered in the
reerry.s for last year alone. Further examination has led to
the. h lief that the hablirtiee of the bank will be about
23,000/.. against 13,0001., which the actuary had accounted
I.r cad invested in a proper manner, so that the total deficit
is expected to be about 10,0001. The frauds have been
committed by doattle sets of books and like those at Roch
e:ele the icitractitn of money has been principally confined
to the accounts of friendly societies, and of deity iconwho
bad large amoucts in the bank. 0.. e person, whose deposits
hod buds al, teed to extend a, far blond the limits of the
eat that they had reached 8001., had been entered
be Mr. John. in as huh( withdrawn the whole, and
it. the ateeuet of a single ace sty there was •
it< net, ..ey of 2501. There is one feature, however, about the
affair, which dr en not apply to the defalcation at Rochdale
The Johnson have wealth in their collieries, and shares in
miles and companies elsewhere, which it is expected will
cover the de& it i-. the bank, and have assigned this property
over to the trustees at once, so that it is probable the deposi-
tors may not loos their mosey. The firm of Mears. Johnson,
Worthington, and Co., at. owners of the extensive and 11111111-
ahl• coal mines in the nisghbourhood of St. Helen's, called the
Seek*, Brook Colliery; and the Messrs. Johnson, who are
natives ..f the town, are the sons of a colliery proprietor,
who had left them is respectable circumstances, but not
wealthy. The teustee. are in communication with Mr. Tidd
Pratt, end the affairs of the bank will undergo a more search-
ing investigation.
The lavestigation into the accounts of the Rochdale
Savior Bank, has be ea brought very nearly to a conclusion,
and the liabilities amount to about 98,0001., of which the
amount invested with the commiutonen is 28,6701, leaving
a deficiency of close upon 70,0001 However, there will be
the effects of the late actuary, amounting is debts to 3,0'01.
and upon an insurance to 3,0101., besides his mill at Castle-
ton, valuedat 16,0001. ; so that the public, including his trade
eredstors, will suffer to the amount of nearly 65,0001., but
the depositors of the bank, who take precedence of al other
claimants, will incur a loss of °my 50.00 a. of this amount.
Adding to the assets of the beak the 13,0001. subscribed by
the trusties, the deficiency will be further reduced to
37,0001., yielding a dividend of something near 13,. in the
pound to the depositors, should the unenrolled friendly so-
cieties be admitted on the same terms as others.
Our Manchester Church Reform Association, and church-
wardens and overseers, are proceeding vigorously with the
preliminary measures for the division of this unwieldy parish
into separate rectories, and a batter application of church
funds. Subsequently to the meeting, reported in the Daily
News as having been held on Wednesday, they put into
course for signature by the pubic, petitions to both houses
of the legislature.
" A warrant of distress against the London and North-
Western Railway Company," is a sound which comes oddly
enough upon the ear, but such an application is now before
the Salford Hundred magistrates, and is only waiting the
special draft of such an instrument as is required nodes
the acts of the company biters it is issued. The warrant
was to have been ready to-day, but will, probably, not be
drawn before Thursday. Proprietors need not be alarmed
for their dividends on that account however ; the amount
*ought is only 6201., and is the half of a disputed poor's-rate
claimed be the overseers of Burton-upon Irwell, an appeal
against which the magistrates have refused to hear on the
ground that the pr open sessions for such appeal had passed.
Tba case was reported at the time In the Daily News, and
the object of the remelt* pay is with a view to ulterior pro-
' ceedings in the higher courts. It is said that the overseers
of Barton do not deny that their rate is excessive, and that
they propose to reduce the assessment for the coming year,
but believing themselves to be in a legal position to recover
the present rate, through the oversight of the other party,
they refuse to make say reduction is that.

CHARON OF ATTZNPTINO TO SINK A SHIP.—
Athanado Melid, captain and part owner of the Hellos, of
Patna, a Naomi, 443 tons burthen, was on Monday, before
G. Rippon, Esq., at North Shields, charged by his crew
with attempting to scuttle that vessel while off Whitby, on
the 3rd inst. The Hellos wu coming to the Tyne to load
coals for the Cape, and wee under the charge of a North Sea
fpilot. While alined off Whitby, the men at the helm, a sal
or whom the captain had engaged at London, beard a " tap-
tapping" about the item sheets. Shortly after the cry was
raised that the ewe bed sprung a leak, and was filing
with water. Toe pumps were set on, but the captain told
the crew they had better drop until after topper. They paid nu
attention to him, however, bat kept to work. The man at
the helm suspected that all was net right, got spelled, and
went with the pilot down below; they found a hole in the
stern-sheets, through which a stream of water was pouring
la as thick aa his ars. Before the hole a sack was nailed to
Iliad., the rush mating a noise. The man, who is a sort of
halt bred, says that he amused the captain of having made
the hole, sad the he ackno etrelited to him that he made it
to sink the vowel, and to gat the insurance he had effected in
London. The crow got the leek stopped by covering It with
sheep skins, and nailing a piece or copprr over it. The pilot
being unacquaiated with the lett/nage, could soy nothing
about the alleged ocnversation. The case was adjourned to
permit more time for inquiry. The captain sad reevel are
M the custody of the river pelice.—Newessrle Guardian.
CALLS TO TUX HAL—MIDDLE TEMPLIL—The
Military Term cells to the bar of the Middle Temple were
made on Saturday lam (January 12), and they compass the
after mentioned Reath men :—ldiriry Armstrong Mitchell,
Esq., Jolts Stephens, Esq., Joseph Stone Wwums, Req.,
and Henry Gough, Sao.
A HINT TO MOTHERS.—On Saturday a child, four
years old, sea of Mr. Comb, oilman, Lower-road, Islington,
met his death under the following painful circumstances.
About seven o'clock on that evening the mother bad occa-
sion to leave the parlour to terve a rustomer, Whilst alone,
the child mode its way to the fire-place, where a tourpot was
standing, and he began to drink from it. The fluid was 90
hot that in Am ►hours the child was dead. The body now
I awaits a coroner'. inquest.

RIGHTFUL SCENE AT
MENACIRRIIII AT CHATHAM.-
" LION WARN."

WELL'S
OP TILE

On Saturday evening an inquest wen bold at the
Golden Lim his, Chatham, before J. Mind*, eemmer
for West Kest, touching the death of Bliss Bright, a young
ski seed 17 plan, wk. was killed ea the previous evening
by • neat la the estatdiannent of Mr. Game Wombwell,
whisk kad arrived is that town fee eabibitien ea there-
coding
Bkpnaaday. King, the first witness examined, said he had
been in the employ of Mr. Wombwell es keeper for the last
ate yard The dammed was • ries* of Mr. Wombwell's,
and d lighter of John Bright, • bugle player in the band.
It wee the banish see of the deceased to go into tholes' and
perform with the busts, which she had bees la the habit of
doing several timed daily for the last twelve moults. Oa
Friday evening, shortly after nine o'clock, she went into
the den in which a lion and tiger wore kept, fir
the purpose of pereirmieg, as usual; the tricks
played by her being principally with the former anima. film
had only been in two or three minutes, bat had gone through
the main part of the performance, excepting that 01 making
the lion sit down in • particular part of the cage, when the
tiger being in her way, the deceased struck it slightly sick
• small whip which she carried in her band. The beau
growled ea it In sager, and crouching close to the bottom of
the den, stretched out its paw, as if at her leg or dr.u,
causing the deceased to fall sideways against the cage, the
animal at the same moment springing at her, ends izing
her furiously by the 'seek, iasertiug the teeth of the upper
jaw in her chin, and in closing his mouth,
frightful injury in the throat by his fangs. H. then
appeared to charge his p anion, reeking a second gripe
woes the throat of his victim. A keeper who was standing
on the step of the den, armed with a whip, immediately
lambed to her adds'anee, bat the animal lid not tome its
hold until struck over the nose violently with as iron bar,
and whilst King held the animal, the ant rtunate ft male
was removed from the cage bleeding profusely and hie all
but extinct. She was taken into one of the earavam where
she wee immediately attended by two medic 1 gentlemen
who happened to be present at the time of the occurrence.
By the Jury—The animal had exhibited symptoms
of animosity before. All the animals appeared very fond sal
deceased, and see of them. Witness had frequently heard
'ie. Wombwell say A. wished there was no lion queen.
Witness thought if she led k. pt the whip from toe suimel
it would not have attacked her. Deceased hod never exhi-
bited any symptoms of tear and had frequently gone into the
den to the aalmals when there had been no mummy pre-
sent, for practice and pastime It had been said diet per-
haps it happened because the beasts had not been fed, and it
wee a few mieutes past their time. In answer to the*, wit-
, atm could only say he had frequently seen her go amongst
the animals on Monday., and they had not been fed im eie
previous day.
Richard Cooper Todd, surgeon, attached to the Royal
Artillery, stationed in Brompton Barracks, said he was wit-
nessing the exhibition it the time of the occurrence, and was
standing quite close to the rope in front of Lie deer. He
saw the deceased enter, and on going in the tiger did not ap-
pear to be very friendlc with her; she struck him n going
in and be laid down. She then proceeded to ner peruerro-
anees with the lion, and afterw.rds turned round and again
struck the tiger. It appeared angry and immidiately
earned to turn upon the deceased, rearing urei his hind
lepind seizing her by the neck; she fill on her beck and the
iger ereuching over her, he saw so ShOre of her until
removed from the den, when he hastened to her assist
anee. She was perfectly insensible, and had lost
a greet deal of blood, and her face and lips wee, very pale.
She was still alive, the heart was heating, but she was per.
Mole unconscious. Witons placed his hue. on the wound
in the neck to stop the bleeding, and administered some
brandy to deceased, but she was unable to swallow it, and
in a very few minutia her heart ceased to hese There were
four wounds on the 4 ft silt of the neck,' slight wound on the
right leg, end south ron the chin, eatia..el by the teeth of
the tiger, the under jaw of the animal famine caused a vary
tugs wound under the chin, which, sided by the shock her
wreak had 'misfiled, endured death.
Th- jury returned • verdict to the effect that deee'M I was
killed by • mile tiger whilst exhibiting in its den, sad ex-
pressed a strews opinion ..natant the practice of allowieg par-
Wee to perform in • den with anicaels.
It will be remembered that, when, about two years since,
rale Woombwell exhibit has menagerie to the royel
at Windsor, the .• Lien Queen" was especially aimioUs to
..zhibit the eztraordiorat) e.eurnand which ab had acquired
emu. the fierce animal., t.ut her Maj• ate expresely terbade
the pert rmance. Sine then the u.if rtunatee dee:tie/ea ta.
been the great stir .clion of the exhibition in all the prin.
emel towns of the Unit. .1 Kingdom. It kto be hop. r! that
:hi. horrible terminatioi. to her career may have the effect of
prcvrating such pertormiumes tor the future.

DIRT, DISEASE, AND 3IT,ERY, IN SOUTHAMPTON,
—An inspector belonging to the Hes th of Towns Commis-
sion is now at S :uthang.ton, inquiring into the sanitary con-
dition of that town. He him lien at the Gueldhail, morning
sad evening, for the lost t a thy', receieing rents n r as to
the state of drainage, supply id water, street nuisances, yen
illation of dwelling', th. fficimcy ot the local boarns and
nets of parliament, tlit it.tramural burial grounds, the I wie-
ral expenses of the par' the common lands, the public
walks, &c. In the ahem° in the inspector visits
the various localiti.s requ•ring sanitary regulations.
The interest these inquiries excite crongat the wt.alt ng
classes is very great. At night the Claildtall is ervided
with working men, and the intelligence and tafterness with
which they give e•Wel, e shove how tearable they are of p:iy•
sical discomfort, sad bow SWIG ptibie they ere of moral el. va
'ion. Ti.. inspector a aceompnied in his visit. t•r the
bealitiee by the awheritiee of tee tows, numbers of Unites-
men and gentlemen, newspaper reporters, and by mete
employed to immure the size of rooms, windows,
altogether f.:tmirg a ho..y sometimes of SO persons, who are
Raid. d by clergymen a: d medical men into the most obscure
and filthy plates. The facts collected by these in-
term'Worm as to the misery, diseue, and moral
depravity engendered 67 unhealthy localities are truly ap-
palling, and cannot f it to impress on the legislature the
absolute necessity ot abolishing every tax that in•erter,i
with the health ct the population and deprives them ot i get
and air. A large number of most valuable statisti al replete
as to the sanitary and aisle' stove of Southamption and its
inhabitants have been handed to the inspector by resident
scientific sod professional men. The places mentioned in
the report upon St Michael's and Holyr Kid parishes are
contiguous to the tiemtiful High street in Southampton,
firmed of lofty houses and handsome shop.. St. Mary's parish
is the parish of which the Earl of Guildford is rector.
The inspector's report on the state of the town is antic.pated
with the greatest interest by the inhabitants of Sou.hanipton,
arid is expected to be both important end interesting. There
can be little doubt but it will induce immediate step+ to be
taken for improving the dwellings of the poor, for intro.
clueing sanitary regulations, by which the health and comfort
of the inhabitants may be improved, and for removing those
plague spots of filth and wretchedness from whence, in
Southampton as in other large towns, disease and death stalk
forth at intervals to strike down even the strong, the tamoi.-
rate, and the wealthy.

MORTALITT IN TUE BAN KR' PITY COURT.—Oa
Friday night Mr. William Atkinson, the respected m. 0.-
wager in Mr. ColllllllllBloDer Evans' court, expired at his
residence, Woodside Lodge, Norwood. The deceased was in
his 59th year, and hes lett a wife, but no children, to de-
plore his loss. lie had been a messenger from the time of
the court being established, under Lord Brougham's Amend-
ment Act, in 1832, and is said to have amused consi,ierahle
property. His successor, pro fern., is Edmund Dubois, his
late clerk, who was called up yesterday by Mr. Commissioner
Evans, and had the appointment temporarily conferred upon
him. We say temporarily, inasmuch as the 46th teaksn of
the 121 h and 13th of Victoria, cap. 106, enacts " And with
respect to the messengers, be it enacted, that on the next two
occasions of a vacancy in the office of any messenger of the
court, acting in London, the vacancies shall not be filled up ;
and in such
London shall be reduced to four." The grim tyrant has thus
swept off throe official assignees, a messenger, and nearly a
dozen messengers assistants, within a few months. Mr.
Commissioner Goulburn, ou hearing of Mr. Atkinson's
death, ejaculated, " Poor fellow ! Well, it will make some
of us olil commissioners look about us." The indisposition
of Mr. Commissioner Shepherd continues so savers as to
prevent him from attending to his public duties.—Sunday
'aper.

SUDDEN ORATE! OF A CLERGYMAN IN TIIE STREET.
—Oa Saturday morning, about half put ten, a gentleman
who was paining through New North-street, City-road, was
observed to stagger and then fall to the ground, and being
raised up by some bystanders, was conveyed into No. 76, the
house of a respectable tradesman, bat appeared then to be
dead, having been heard merely to groan two or three times
after he tell. Mr. Coulton, • surgeon, resident in Clifton-
street, presently attended, but found life quite extinct.
Hayward, one of the warrant °Man of the Worship street
Polies Court, who happened to be near, examined the poc-
kets of the deceased, in which were a gold watch and appen-
dages, cash, and bankers' cheques, bead's other valuable
property, and cards bearing his name and addrers, " Rev.
Spencer Thornton, Wendover Vicarage, and various docu
aunts from which it was ascertained that he was son in-law
of a gentleman of the name of Dupree, whew town residence
is in Portland-place. The officer afterwards went to com-
municate what had occurred at the residence of Mr. Dupree,
whale coachman returned with him and identified the body
as that of the rev. gentleman above named. It appeared that
he had just come to London from his father's at Wood-hill,
is Hertfordshire, and he was supposed to have been proceed-
ing from the railway to Portland-place when he died in such
an awfully sudden manner, the cause of death being conjec-
tured by the medical gentleman to have been demise of the
heart, although his bleeds in London do not appear to have
been aware of his previously suffering from such a disease.
The rev. deceased appeared to have been about forty r eau
of age, and is stated to have left • large family to deplore
his loos.

THE MUBQUITO BITE, which has lately caused
some unpleasant national itching on bath sides of t►e water,
and which, by injudieious editorial 'matching, threatened at
or.e time totems's the "baps of a festering wound, seems now
to be in a fair way of healing. Doctors Palmerston and
Clayton having taken the matter in hand in earnest, have
eatraeted the sting, and are bringing the wound to a happy
issue, while the quacks have been sending out bulletins re
presenting it as in a state of inflammation which would
require the use of the national seal* to remove the offensive
part, or mortification mime ensue. In other words, the
prospect of a war with the powerful Mosquito King and his
ally, the British Lion, is no longer among the probabilities of
t►e future, and the Cana to the Pacific will be opened to the
satisfaction and bent at, and with the hearty cooperation of
all, including the puissant state of Nicaragua.—hero York
Era.