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ruiE SUN, LONNIN, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29 1865

alone ?" they said. He thought such persons went
against the whole tendency, not only of the upper and
middle classes, but of the working classes themselves
—(hear, hear)—for it was constantly found that the
co-operation of the upper and middle classes was
directly requested and solicited by the working
classes, as was the case in the instance of that exhi-
bition. (Hear.) It was a great mistake to suppose
that the working classes were trying to keep aloof,
and that the upper and middle classes were running
after them. There was on the part of all classes a
very strong desire to know more of each other ; of
which the literature of the day in its lighter and
more popular form afforded sufficient indication.
For many years past he knew very well that the
works of fiction in which the upper classes took the
most pleasure were those which purported to deal
with the daily life of the classes below them ; and
taking the converse, the small and cheap works of
fiction and periodicals which circulated amongst the
poorer classes of London, and which were to be
seen in the shop-windows of the humbler streets,
all—without one exception in a hundred—related to
the lives of the upper classes. He knew very well
there might be evil mixed up with this ; but he
spoke of it as a matter of fact, and it was a matter
of fact that on the part of all classes there was a
very strong desire for closer intercourse with each
other, and a more intimate knowledge of each other.
His lordship then went on to say, that every man
ought to work ; according to the words of Scrip-
ture, "To every man his work," and he said that
exhibitions of that kind were valuable, because he
believed they were an encouragement to men to
work. To men employed in the higher walks of
labour it was encouraging to know that their works
would be appreciated by the classes below them.
When in the National Gallery, or at a fine collection
of sculpture, men of the better classes were found
admiring great works ; or when Mr. Dickens saw
the labouring people of this country literally devour
his writings, that was a great part of the encou-
ragement which men of genius looked for from their
countrymen, and which he was sure they would
be very sorry indeed to be without. (Cheers.) Why,
then, should it not be encouraging to the artisan to
see his works admired ; and he was sure that the
admiration of the visitors to that exhibition would
be ungrudgingly given to the very beautiful collec-
tion of articles exhibited. (Hear.) His lordship then
went on to say that on account of the great variety
of trades in Birmingham, that town was peculiarly
fitted to furnish an excellent working men's exhibi-
tion, and he concluded with an expression of hope-
fulness for the future of the working classes and of
mankind.

A vote of thanks was passed to his lordship for his
address. A vote of thanks was also passed to the
Mayor.
The exhibition was then formally declared open.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's

Steamer Corea•

Yesterday the following communication was re-
ceived from China, relative to the missing com-
pany's steamer Corea, which it is feared foundered
with all on board during a fearful typhoon :
" Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's Office, Hongkong, July 11.

" Gentlemen,—lt is with the utmost sorrow that I have
to inform you that the company's steamer Corea is missing,
and that the greatest fears are entertained of her having
perished in a typhoon, which she is known to have en-
countered on the night of the 29th ult. She was despatched
from this port in the evening of the 29th at 6 o'clock, on the
usual east coast voyage, to Swatow, AMoy, and Foo-chow.
Eor some days previous the heat had been very intense,
the barometer inclined to be low, and the weather had the
unsettled appearance so common hero at this season of the
year; still there was no striking indication of immediate
bad weather, and at the moment of leaving Captain Bird
expressed his belief that if it should blow at all, it
would be nothing more than a monsoon breeze. This was
at 6 o'clock, and the suddenness with which the storm
burst on the coast may be gathered from the report of a
steamer called the Oriflamme, which left this only two
hours before the Corea, and narrowly escaped foundering,
having been more than once on her beam ends and with her
fires extinguished, and several feet of water in her hold and
engine-room. This report has been extracted from the
newspapers, but has been verified by reference to the officers
of the Oriflamme, so there is no doubt of its correctness.
" ' The Oriflamme steamship, Captain Lane, reports that
she left Hongkong June 29, 1865, at 450 p.m., for Shanghai,
weather fine, with a fresh breeze from W.S.W., barometer
2975, being about the same as it has been for sometime past;
6 p.m., Nine Pins bearing N., found a rolling swell from
S.E., could see no indication of a cyclone; made sail, as we
had a gentle breeze from westward; 8 p.m., barometer 2968,
thermometer 84; Single Island bore N. by W., lightning over
the land; 1020 p.m., Pedro Blanco bore S. by E., five miles;
11 p.m., barometer 29 60, thermometer 81, blowing a gale
from N., thick rain, a screw steamer in company supposed
to bo the Corea, sea beginning to be quite high. June 30.-
1 a.m., barometer 29.40, wind still N., and blowing a hurri-
cane, sea high, and confused wind so strong that it blows
the boat in the trough of the sea, we laying badly ; 2 a.m.,
barometer 29 30, wind blowing apparently as hard as it can ;
put over port bow 100 fathoms of 10-inch hawser, to help to
keep us up to the sea ; 3 a.m., barometer 29, thermometer
80, still blowing, some of the squalls terrific, fires all out in
furnaces, &c. ; 4 40, barometer 28.50, thermometer 82, wind
came in terrific gusts from S., till 8 a.m., it blew with
perfect fury, sea running high ; 9 a.m., barometer 29 65,
moderating and clearing up in the east, the bad weather
about west of us. During the gale we lost three boats, two
blown to pieces, one filled at the davits and left us, stove
in wheel-houses, decks to guards, and damaged things
in general about the decks ; 6 p.m., barometer 29 70; ther-
mometer, 80, midnight, wind and sea going down. July 1,
—All night moderate and pleasant from S. and W. ; 11 35,
came up with one of our lost boats, sent a boat for it and
took it up the davits ; saw a bark with loss of foretopmast,
maintopgallantmast, main yard, &c., bound here. On the
, way in from Pedro Blanco, passed three junks dismasted,
one bottom up, and five fishing boats wrecked, also' passed
large quantities of wreck stuff—china, cargo in mats, dead
hogs, one dead body; -35 miles outside, picked up two men,
and within 20 miles of Nino Pins picked up 37 Chinese from
off different rafts.'

" The intelligence of the Corea not having reached
Swatow was first brought to me ve►y early on the morning
of the Bth by the Azof. On hearing that the Corea was
missing Captain Baker very properly obtained immediate
despatch from Swatow, and came down as close along the
coast as it was safe for the ship to do, but without obtaining
any tidings of the missing steamer.
" I then applied to the admiral for a gunboat to visit the
various bays between this and Swatow, and make inquiries
of the Chinese authorities whether any seamen had been
wrecked on the coast. But there happened at the moment
to be no vessel of this class ready for sea. lat once de-
spatched the Azof again on this errand, sending in her an
armed party of sailors and marines, with a lieutenant in
command, whom the admiral placed at my disposal, as on
many parts of this piratical coast it would he dangerous to
land without duo protection.

" My instructions to Capt. Baker were to visit all parts of
the coast as high as Swatow, and on arriving there, if no
intelligence had been obtained to induce him to proceed else-
where, he is to return to this port in a more easterly direc-
tion, and on his way to examine Prates Shaol, if by any
remote possibility the Corea might have been driven there.
" Besides the Corea there is also another steamer missing,
which left this port four hours before her on the same
voyage, the Chanticleer, belonging to Mr. Douglas Lapraik.
No trace of-this has been heard of either.
" In estimating the chances of the Corea having escaped,
the fact of another steamer being missed is not favourable,
for were either of them safe the probability is that in the
12 days which have elapsed since the gale she must have
been heard of. The direction of the wind and current have
been continually from the south ; and this fact is also omi-
nous, as had the steamer run off in the only safe direction
—viz., the south to east, the prevailing win is, even had she
been disabled, would have driven her towards the coast again,
the only ground of hope then appears to be that she may
have been dismasted, or her machinery also disabled, so
that progress of any kind is for the time impossible. I can-
not hold out this as a strong hope, but I deeplyregret to say
it seems the only one—one which professional men enter-
tain, taking all the circumstances into consideration.
" The Corea had on board a very small cargo and only
three European passengers, besides the commander's wife,
Mrs. Bird. That lady had only been here a few months,
but she was in delicate health, and Capt. Bird asked to be
allowed to take her to Swatow on a visit to some friends.
Of the other passengers one was Mr. Noble, manager of the
Agra Bank, one was a Portuguese, and one a German.
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"I have the honour to remain, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant,

" THOMAS SUTHERLAND, Superintendent of
the Company's Works, Hongkong.
" To the Managing Directors, London."

It will be observed that the above letter is dated tho 11th
of July. The managing directors have received telegrams
from Hongkong up to July 31st. Nothing further was
known of the Corea.
The following is a list of the officers who were on board:
—Capt. J. W. D. Bird, commander; Mr. J. M. Guy, chief.

officer ; Mr. J. D. Muir, acting second officer ; Mr. Richard-
son, third officer ; Mr. Young, fourth officer ; Mr. H. Map-
pleback, head steward ; Mr. J. Forrest, chief engineer ; Mr.
R. K. Arr, second engineer ; Mr. R. Campbell, fourth en-
gineer; and Mr. A. C. Alford, boiler maker. Her crew num-
bered in all 100 hands.

The Corea was 600 tons register and 200-horse power.

Another Attempted Murder by a German

or Germans.

On Sunday night, about 11 o'clock, the inhabitants of
West Ham were alarmed by the report that a brutal mur-
der had been attempted in a house inhabited by foreigners,
No. 1, Edith-cottages, near the Chandos-road, Stratford,
and that the two men concerned in the outrage had made
their escape.

The rumour, and cries for help, on the surrounding
neighbours arising from their beds at hearing the calls of
" murder," had too great a foundation, as a man named
Joseph Kruchen was found in the road in the arms of his
son bleeding from six wounds about the shoulders, and one
large stab in the abdomen, from which the entrails were pro-
truding. Dr. Mugliston, of the Leytonstone-road, was im-
mediately called up, and promptly came to the unfortunate
man's assistance. After putting back the bowels he sewed
up the wound, and as the man appeared to be fast sinking,
he recommended Mr. Inspector Standage to lose no time in
having his depositions taken. A cab was obtained, and
he was at once sent to the London Hospital. From what
in the hurried excitement of the moment could be gleaned
from the wounded man's son, he was last in company with
Jacob Brenner, aged 24, a cabinet-maker in their employ,
and also a lodger in their house, and in the company of a
man named Charles Hems, aged 24, a sugar baker, re-
siding in Whitechapel. A full description having been
given to the police, measures were taken for their ap-
prehension, and some of the neighbours also started in
search. Nothing during the night was seen of them, but
about half-past eight yesterday (Monday) morning Mr.
Philip Pride, a gentleman who resides in the next house,
was informed by some one who came there that a man
answering the description of one of the suspected men was
seen coming from a neighbouring field, but on being ob-
served made a stand, and then turned; back. Mr. Pride
then went out to see if he could find him, and on going to
the field he also saw a man resembling the one they were
on the look out for. On going towards him he endeavoured
to walk sharply away, and succeeded in reaching a shed,
and on Mr. Pride following him there he found Jacob
Brenner crouching down under a cart. He said to him,
" What made you stab that poor man last night ? They are
looking out for you, and you had better go quietly to my
house." The man then felt in his pockets, as though feel-
ingfor a weapon ; but he (Mr. Pride) showed him the stick
he had, and recommended him to come quietly. Brenner
then said,l" Me have no knife; me have no knife at all.',
Tho other man supposed to be concerned, viz., Charles
Hems, was discovered in the neighbourhood by the son of
the injured man. He endeavoured to make his escape, but
after a sharp run was taken about a mile and a half from
the spot, at a place called Stratford-grove. _ _ _

- . .
On Monday morning, at a late hour, the wounds of the
injured man were considered so dangerous that the pro-
priety of sending for a magistrate from the Thames Police-
court was discussed.

silence which has characterised him ever since tho
committal of the offence. He is a young man of middle
height, somewhat muscularly built, with a pale counte-
nance, and having a set, determined expression about the
upper lip; but his general expression of features is not such
as would load to the conclusion that he would be guilty of
a crime such as the one now charged against him.

Committal of a Chemist and Druggist for
Manslaughter.

ilOyE, BRIGHTON, Monday.

This morning Mr. Richard Noakes, a druggist, of North-
street, Brighton, a man of the very highest respectability,
and a member of the Society of Friends, was taken into
custody under a magistrate's warrant, and charged before
Mr. C. Carpenter, Mr. M. Scott, Mr. Allfred, Mr. Hurlock,
and Mr. Young, the magistrates sitting at the county bench,
Hove, on a charge of having caused the death of Mr. Thos.
Boys, of 74, Lansdowne-place, by accidentally substituting
tincture of aconite for tincture of henbane, in a bottle sent
to him to be refilled.

Tho proceedings excited very great interest in conse-
quence of the coroner's jury having returned a verdict in
which Mr. Noakes was not incriminated, and of his appre-
hension having been brought about by means extraneous
to the family of the deceased.

The accused was represented byMr. Merrifield, instructed
by Mr. Ewen Evershed, solicitor.
Mrs. Boys, widow of deceased—My husband was 81 years
of age. About a month ago in consequence of his infirmity
Dr. Dill prescribedfor him 30 drops of henbane, to be taken
occasionally. On Sunday week he went to bed at 11
o'clock, after reading, as was his custom. He said he was
afraid he should not be able to sleep, and that he would
therefore take a dose of henbane. He took a bottle out of
his medicine chest, held it up to the light, and counted out
30 drops, which he put into a rummer. He then told me to
fill up the glass with camphor julep. I did so, and he
drank the contents of the glass. About ten minutes after-
wards he said he thought a little went the wrong way, and
that it felt hot Still a quarter of an hour late; he jumped
up in bed and said his hands and legs felt benumbed, and
he hoped that Noakes had sent the right stuff. I said
"Then I had better send for some one." He said, "No ;
I'll have no ono disturbed at this time of the morning." He
sat up in the bed and looked at the bottle again. Holding it
up to the light, he said, " It's all right." Half an hour or an
hour afterwards he said he felt very sick ; and I got up and
called my servant, and desired her to get some warm
water. I gave him a tumbler of it, and it produced violent
attempts at retching. All the inmates of the house then got
up, and I again wanted to send for a surgeon, but he said,
in very decisive tones, " No." Let some one go in the morn-
ing, but not before six." He desired Mr. Noakes might be
informed that he had been very ill all night, and that the
bottle should be sent to him, a small quantity being first
poured out to be retained. He then lay down apparently to
sleep. In about five minutes I went to the side of the bed
and put my arm round his neck, and asked, " Are you
asleep ?" He did not reply; he never spoke again. At a
quarter to five I knew he was dead.

Evidence was then given to show that the bottles were
sent to Mr. Noakes's shop to be filled, and that they were
filled and sent home, and that the bottle labelled " Hen-
bane" was filled with aconite.

Dr. Harrison deposed, however, that deceased had suf-
fered for ten years from disease of the heart, which a pro-
per dose of aconite would tend to alleviate. He believed
that deceased died from disease of the heart, and he would
not say that his death was accelerated, by taking aconite.
Deceased had had aconite previously prescribed for him,
and these proceedings were not taken at the instance of
any member of his family.
Dr. Phillips said he had made a post-mortem examina-
tion of the body of deceased. His attention was entirely
directed to the condition of the heart, in consequence of
Dr. Dill, his medical attendant, having informed him that
deceased had suffered with disease of the heart. (The wit-
ness described the appearances of the heart.) The state of
the heart was quite sufficient to account for death, there-
fore I did not examine the stomach or the head. Aconite,
or nicotine, if it had been taken, might have been found in
the stomach after death, but it must have been by an ex-
pert. I cannot state positively whether on this occasion
aconite had anything to do with the death, though I in-
cline to the opinion that it had. The question is not free
from doubt, not blowing the previous condition of the de-
ceased, or the, precise strength of the tincture.
Wm. Bottell, a Hove constable, stated that he went to
Mr. Noakes's shop that day week, and told Mr. Noakes an
inquest would be held on the body of Mr. Boys, at the
Town Hall, Hove, at 6 o'clock that evening, and added that
he had " put up" that bottle of stuff for Mr. Boys, and Mr.
Noakes said, "Unfortunately I did."
Mr. Merrifield then addressed the bench on behalf of the
accused. It was by no means clear that the aconite even
accelerated the death of the old gentleman. The prosecution
was not instituted by the family of the deceased man, and
those who had experience in assize trials could predict with
absolute certainty that the sympathy of judge and jury in
such a case would lead to an acquittal. He therefore called
on the magistrates not to inflict on the accused the annoy-
ance and inconvenience of a committal for trial, which
could never end in a conviction, and which was not called
for by public policy.
After a brief consultation among the magistrates,

Mr. Carpenter said the magistrates regretted that they
felt themselves called upon to send the case to a jury. It
might be that the case would end in an aquittal, but the
magistrates thought it one that must be sifted in another
court. Of course bail would be accepted, the accused in
£2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each.

Alleged Deaths from Malaria in Bethnal-
. green.

Yesterday Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, opened
an inquiry at the Gossett Arms Tavern, Gossett-street,
Bethnal-green, respecting the alleged death from malaria
of a child named Walter Cannell.

Wm. Cannell, 70, Gossett-street, cabinetmaker, said that
the deceased ,vas his son, and was aged six months. He was
taken ill about three weeks ago, and was attended by Dr.
Sarries until his death on the 20th inst. Witness did not
know what ho died from, except that Dr. Sarries said that
his stomach was out of order. Witness was certain that a
nuisance at the back of his house was injurious to the
health of his family. Witness had stated that he believed
his child had been injured by the nuisance. The nuisance
of which he complained was the collection and detention
of blood. The smell arising from the collection witness
thought was injurious.
The Coroner said that Professor Harley had been in-
structed to examine the premises on which the alleged
nuisance existed, and his report upon that would not be
ready for a few days, and therefore he (the coroner) would
adjourn the case at the present stage.
The witness Cannell said that he had papers to show that
he had buried three persons who died in that house.
It was stated that the nuisance complained of was caused
by the collection and retention of blood, for use in the
process of sugar baking, and that in the hot weather the
malaria arising therefrom was shocking. •
The proceedings were adjourned for scientific evidence.

Dr. Sarries, the medical officer of health for Bethnal-
green, handed to the coroner the following report to the
sanatory committee as to the dangerous nuisance in ques-
tion :

" Aug. 24,1865.

“Report.—Since my last report, dated July 6, 1865, upon
the method of conducting the business at Mr. Hempleman's,
Gossett-street, Hope Town, blood purveyor, I have ascer-
tained that he wilfully suppressed certain particulars that it
was necessary I should know. You are aware I stated that
1 was informed by Mr. Hempleman, and fully believed, that
the blood underwent no process whatever. I have since as-
certained by personal inspection, from three to six a.m., on
July 22, 1865, that a process was carried on as follows :
” The blood being allowed to remain at the slaughter-
houses for some time became congealed, and in some in-
stances in a partial state of decomposition. In such a state
it is unfit for the sugarlrefiners, and to render it fit for their
use the coagula is broken up by a machine, during which
process offensive stenches are emitted which I consider
highly injurious to the public health. I, therefore, beg to
suggest that the business be entirely discontinued.—l am,

THOMAS SARRIES,
Medical Officer of Health."

The report referred to above states that the blood under-
went no process, but that a stench arose from the sinking of
blood into the unpaved ground. A notice was then served
on the proprietor to completely pave the sheds and white-
wash and otherwise cleanse the place. That notice was, to
a certain extent, acted upon, but the result of further in-
spection is detailed above. A notice to discontinue the
nuisance was served on Saturday; the result, as yet, re-
mains to be ascertained.

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