The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

LOISDOX, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1864.

MISCE LLANEOUS—Continued.
Credit FoncierJ9l 103
Discount Corporatioo,
Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim.,
Financial Corporation, 5a a
Gen. err dit and Finance of London, lim., Sea 1
Hudson's Bay. 183 a 19
International Financial Society,
Joint •stock Discount, lira.,
Land Securities, lim., 41 1
London Financial Association, lim., 201

Ditto, new, 15
Madras Irrigation:and Canal,
Ditto (a11),'21
Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 131
National Discount Company, Rm., 121 13
Ditto, new, 41 51
North British and Mercantile Insurance, lira., 191
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, biLli
Ditto, new, I'sl
Royal Mail steam, 88
Scottish Australian Investment, Um., 113;
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Rm., 61a1

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH.STRE ET.

PARISH PROSECUTION OP BROTHEL KEEPERS.—Conrad
Ackerman, refreshment-house keeper, of No. 23, Tich-
borne-street, and Sophia Chapman, his servant, were brought
before Mr. Arnold by Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, on a war-
rant, charged with keeping a brothel at No. 23, Tichborne-
street.

Mr. Alien, of Carlisle. street, prosecuted on the part of
the authorities of St. James's parish, and Mr. Edward
Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, defended.
Mr. Arnold, after the sergeant had stated that defendants
were the persons named in the warrant, ordered the male
defendant to find two sureties in £4O each, and the woman
to find two in £2O each, to appear at the sessions,

Sophia Myers, refreshment house keeper, of 42, Great
Windmill-street, and Henry Nicholls, same address, were
also charged with keeping a brothel at 42, Great Windmill-

street

Sergeant Appleton having identified the defendants as
those named in the warrant, Mr. Arnold ordered the female
to find two sureties in £2O each, and the man two in £lO
each, to appear at the sessions.

The Poor-Law Board and Bethnal-green.

List night, at the weekly meeting of the Board of Guar-
dians of Bethnal-green—Mr. Howard in the chair—the
clerk to the Board read a very important document from the
Poor-law Board, with reference to the recent inquiries into
the charges against Dr. Moore, and into the alleged death
from starvation of Sarah Dove.

The following comprises the most material portions of the
'otter _

" Poor •law Board, Whitehall, March 28, 186 k.
" Sir, —I am directed by the Poor-law Board to inform the
guardians of the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green,
that the Board have received the report of their inspector,

Mr. Lambart, after the recent inquiry into the several

charges preferred avinst Dr_ Edward Moore, one of the
medical (Beers of the parish, and they have carefully con-

sidered the voluminom evidence adduced on that occasion.
" The first charge brought under the notice of the board is
that of neglect of duty in the cases of Elizabeth Mandrill
and her two children, Joseph and James.

" With respect to Mrs. Mandrill herself, the Board find
that Dr, Moore visited her in the afternoon of the day on
which he received the medical order; and although he did
not see her again for 10 days afterwards, it is evident from
her own admission that she was out every day in the mean.
time, and when he went to see her after having been sent
for at the expiration of'that period, he found her net at her
own home, but at her daughter's house, without bonnet or
shawl. It does not appear that any inconvenience would
have been caused to Mrs. Mandrill by her going to Dr.
Aloore's house, and the board are of opinion, therefore, that
Dr Moore cannot be considered as guilty of neglect in having
omitted to visit her during the interval in question.
"The substance of the complaint of Mrs. Mandrill in re-
gard to the child Joseph is, that Dr. Moore only visited him
five times in four weeks of his illness, and that when she
went to him on a Friday (two days before the child's death)

and said he was very ill, Dr. Moore refused to visit him
then, and did not do so until the following afternoon. The

documentary evidence showed that the order was.given on
the 15th August, 1363."
The letter then recited the evidence in this case, and then
arrived at the conclusion that Dr. M oore was not chargeable
with neglect. The case of James Mandrill was recited in
a similar manner, and the board considered that Dr. Moore
was open to censure in having given a certificate for the re.
moval of the deceased to the workhouse without having
seen him on the morning on which death took place.
The charge preferred againet Dr. Moore of employing a
midwife to attend labour cases instead of doing so himself
depends mainly on the evidence of Mrs. North ; but in the
four individual instances adduced it appears that Mrs. North
was sent for by the women themselves, and there is no
proof that he requested or instructed her to attend for him.
After going through the evidence adduced in support of
this charge, the letter proceeded to notice that after Mrs,
North had made her complaint to the guardians and pend-
ing investigation, Dr. Moore addressed to her a letter written
under a feigned signature and addressed in a disguised hand,
stating that some ladies were about to establish a lying-in
hospital, and offering her a situation therein if Dr. Moore
would become security for her. The letter was purely fic-

titious, and Dr. Moore's only explanation was that he wished
to get her to his house so that before credible witnesses he,
e )uld remonstrate with her. The Poor. law Board regarded
this explanation as being extremely unsatisfactory, the letter
being an unworthy subterfuge.
"The allegation of getting up unnecessary inquests for the
purpose of degrading the parish must be limited to the case
of the child Sarah Ward, as there was no proof at the in-
quiry that the doctor had communicated with the cor-,,,„
either directly or indirectly as to the death of vay other
person. In the case referred to Dr. Moore callf,d upon the
coroner and told him that the death had not been occasioned
by any specific disease, and both the coroner and jury appear
to have been satisfied that the inquest was necessary.
" It must be remarked, however, that the verdict of the
jury was founded upon the result of the post-mortem exa-
mination by Dr. Moore himself; and with reference to the
statement made to the coroner in the first instance by Dr.
Moore, that there was no specific disease, the attention of
the Board has been drawn to an obliteration in the medical
relief-book, from which there is reason to suppose that tlie
disease was, in the first instance, entered as scarlatina.

" The Board are of opinion that this obliteration, in con-
nexion with other circumstances, is calculated to excite
grave suspicions, and such as rendered inquiry necessary."
After referring to the charge of making extraordinary
claims for vaccination fees, of which Dr. Moore was ac-
quitted, it was remarked that the careless and improper
manner that the entries were made in the books excited
picion. The Board then proceeded to notice a similar (*large
with regard to medical fees. No proof had been aP.uced that
in any specific case the claims were imprope'..ly made, and
the Board found that in every difficult cvie another medical
practitioner was consulted. The Board held that Dr. Moore
was entitled to the extra fees cla,',Luel by him. In alluding
to the charge of bringing contempt upon the board of guar-
dians by public appeals to charity, the Board referred to
the case of Sarah Branstone, Lud censured him for appeal-

ing to the public in place of applying to the guardians.
\lin respect to the charge of neglecting and refusing to
enter the attendance of his substitute in red ink, pursuant
to the general consolidated order, the Boari find that on

March 7, 1861, the guardians requested Dr. Moore by letter
to be careful to comply with this important requisition,
Dr. Moore's explanation they regretted they could not
receive as consistent with the facts.
" It is not necessary that the Board should express an

opinion with reference to all the subordinate charges against
Dr. Moore, but they cannot avoid alluding to a paragraph
in a letter published by him on 21st Oct. last, in which he
speaksof the guardians as unblushing and mendacious slan-
derers.' Epithets such as these are obviously incompatfble
with the feeling of mutual confidence which should exist
between the guardians and Dr Moore as one of their medi-
cal officers, and the beard are unable to find that they are in
any way justified by the evidence of the inquiry."
After adverting to the evasive manner in which Dr Moore
had answered Mr Giffard, in his cross examination upon a
point connected with his qualification in the year 181 A, the
board proceeded to speak of the case of Sarah Dove at great
length, and went through the evidence—
whicti has been
recently published in the reports of the inquest—at the Poor
law inquiry before Mr Farnall. The board censured Dr
Moore for having omitted five days to order the relieving
officer to supply the necessary nourishment to the woman.
"Another circumstance Eeentioned by Dr Moore in ex-
tenuation of his conduct is, that he had reason to believe
that Sarah Dove's husband was at work. With respect to
this point the board think it right to state that it is shown
by the evidence that James Dove, the husband, has not been
without employment for the last three years, and in the last
55 weeks of that period he has received upon an average at
least 16s per week ; that for three weeks before his wife's
death he received 2s per week in addition from a charitable
lady, and that during the last winter he obtained charity
froms other
Saturdays and Sundays, and the
a
his wife to pine away for want
of the necessaries of life. Whilst, therefore, the husband's
resources were such as to deprive him of any title to paro-
chial relief, and while it is equally certain that he must be
held responsible for the slow starvation of his wife, it must
be borne in mind that it was with the actual condition of
the deceased that Dr Moore had to deal; and if he found
her, as no doubt she was, destitute of the nourishment and
other comforts requisite for the proper treatment of the case,
it was his duty to have given the usual recommendation for
those necessaries,Pwithout delay.
" The Board consider that in this instance Dr Moore was
guilty of very serious neglect of duty; and having regard
vi
to the several circumstances affecting his conduct esta-
blished against him at the first inquiry, and to the resolu-
tion passed by the guardians that they had lost all confi-
dence in him, the
n Boardepthi,emyNG'
of guardians
have no alternative
consistent with their public duty, but to require him to re-
sign his present office.--I am, sir, yours, &c.,
(Signed)
This letter having been read (sd)feel that,s ,
the boardpassed to the consideration of another letter which had been
received from the Moor-law Board, calling their attention
to a charge against Mr. Runcie
num, the relieving officer,
that he had rudely pushed
his way into a room where a
woman had just been confined, and roughly refused to give
any relief to the family or a coffin to bury the deceased ohild,
saying that they were a sot of paupers and imposters, and
he would lock them up.
This case was adjourned.

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COURT CEREMONIAL OF THE AdSYRIANS.—
There can be no doubt that the Court ceremonial
of the As.yrians was stately and imposing. The monarch
seems indeed not to have affected that Privacy and seclusion
which forms a predominant feature of the ceremonial
observed in most
person
ntatlh me oanooftorcmlipileiss.hinle showedlnetof
hia
greathim-
ssuelpfervieurtyenfdreedelyinto his subjects on many occasions. He
works. Irinanwaa.r
his In n
et the
expeditious
enha rudeehew onilnd
oftenopen descendch ari chariot,
never using
sussying a litter, though litters were not unknown to
from his chariot, and march or fight on foot like the
meanest of his subjects. But though this familiarising
the multitude with his features and appearance, ho was
far from allowing familiarity of address. Both in peace
and war he was attended by various officers cf state,
and no one had speech of him except through
if
them, It would even seem as two persons only were en-
titled to open a erinvei satien with hint—the vizier and the
chief eunuch. When he received them, he generally placed
himself upon his throne, sitting, while they stood to ad-
dress him. It is strongly indicative of the haughty pride of
these sovereigns, that they carried with them in their dis-
tant expeditions the cumbrous thrones whereon they were
wont to sit when they dispensed justice or received homage.
On these thrones they sat, in or near their fortified camps,
when the battle or the siege was ended, and thus sitting
they received in state the spoil and the prisoners. Behind
them on such occasions were the two fan-bearers, while near
at hand were guards, scribes, grooms, and other attendants.
In their palace halls undoubtedly the ceremonial used was
stricter, grander, and more imposing. The sculptures, how-
ever, furnish no direct evidence on this point, for there is
thing to mark the scene of the great processional pieces.—
Bawfinntes 4nclolt lilynarchtes,

President Lincoln's Call for Two Hundred

Thousand Men,

The following Ts President Lincoln's call for
200,000 additional men
" Executive Mansion, Washington,
March 14.

"In order to supply the force required to be
drafted for the navy, and to provide an adequate
reserve force for all contingencies, in addition to
the 500,000 men called for February Ist, 1864,
the call is hereby made and draft ordered for
290,000 men for the military service of the army,
navy, and marine corps of the United States.
The proportional quotas for the different wards,
towns, townships, precincts, cr election districts, or
counties, will be made known through the Provost-
marshal General's Bureau ; and accoant will be
taken of the credits and deficiencies of former quotas.
The 15th day of April, 1864, is designated as the
time up to which the numbers squired from such
ward of a city, town, kc., may be raised by volun-
tary enlistment, and drafts will be made in each
ward of a city, town, &c., which shall not have
filled the quota assigned to it within the time desig-
nated for the number required to fill said quotas.
The drafts will be commenced as soon after the 15th
as practicable. The Government bounties, as now
paid, continue until April 1, 1864, at which time
the additional bounties oease. On and after that
date 100 dole. bounty only will be paid, as provided
by the act, approved July 22, 1861.
(Signed) " ABRAHAM LINCOLN."