The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

WINDSOR.

The local board of health assembled at seven o'clock
last night, pursuant to the resolution passed on the pre-
vious Wednesday evening ; the Mayor (Mr. Holder') ess
in the chair. The surveyor (Mr. Jenkins) reported that
in St. Alban's-street 3 of the houses were not drained ;
in Church-street, 3 houses ; in Market-street, 4 houses ;
in Castle-hill, 1 house ; on the north side of High-street,
4 houses ; in Park-street, the almshouses and 2 others ;
on the south side of High-street, 10 houses ; in Garden-
court there was no adequate supply of water ; in Pea-
scod-street no less than 70 houses were undrained,
as
well as the whole of Sidney-place. Mr. Voules, the
clerk, reported that he had instructed Mr. Hollis to
commence the drainage works in Sidney-Place on Mon-
day next, unless the owners or mortgagees consented to
commence the works forthwith. The board then passed
a resolution to co-operate with the board of guardians in
carrying out the Diseases Prevention Act. The clerk

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read the following letters which had been receive bji
the mayor :
" Cavalry Barracks, Windsor, Sept. 22, 1853.
" Sir—l have the honour to enclose you a copy of a
letter I have received from the surgeon of the regiment
under my command. As several of the houses in the
immediate neighbourhood of Bone-lane are inhabited by
the men of the Ist Life Guards, I feel it my duty to call
your immediate attention to this nuisance which I. have
always looked upon and have reported as at all times
prejudicial to the health of those inhabiting the houses
vicinity, and which will be particularly danger-
ous sliould cholera prevail in this neighbourhood again.
—I have the honour to he sir, your most obedient ser-
vant, "RICHARD PARKER,
" Major and Lieut.-Col. Ist Life Guards, Commanding.
" The Mayor o Windsor."
" Cavalry Barracks, Windsor, Sept. 18, 1853.
" Sir—l beg to call your attention to the very foul
state of the lane called Bone-lane, which leads from
Spital to the pal consider it absolutely necessary
fur the health of the regiment that some measuree should
be immediately taken to get rid of the um sauce there
existing, more part:cularly as we are threatened with
cholera. The immense quantity of decomposed animal
and vegetable matter contained in the ditches in Bone-
lane is enough to create cholera of itself.—l have the
honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
" OwIZN WILLIAM GEORGE,
"Assistant-Surgeon Ist Life Guards.

" The Officer Commanding let Life Guards."
Mr. Alderman BEDBOROUGH said the state of the llone-
ditch had been repeatedly represented to the Ordnance
authorities, whose duty it was to abate' the nuisance, the
whole of the sewage from the Cavalry barracks passing
into it. The drainage of some parts of the borough had
been waiting for nearly three years, in the expectation
that the Board of Ordnance would construct the neces-
sary works, but nothing had yet been done. The clerk
was ordered to furnish Colonel Parker with the corres-
pondence. After a long sitting, the board made orders
for the immediate abatement of every reported nuisz.;nce
and the proceedings terminated.

Capt. Williams —You are an old soldier ; what appear-
ance did men's backs present after whipping ?
„„„gpdfrey—Oh, very slight injury. Nothing like a
.whipping in the army. Three dozen is the most I re-
member being given, and that's not like getting 300.
Capt. Williams—Do you think men were fit to go to
work after receiving three dozen lashes ?
Godfrey—They generally did. He had seen men in a
strait waistcoat strapped to the wall, and with a collar
on. Believed the collar was introduced in 1846. It was
not used in the old prison. He had never seen it used
in the new prison. He had never seen it used in the new
prison as a punishment. The man who was in the strait
waistcoat so long was not insane, but was a very deter-
mined man, and would have committed suicide if he had
not been strapped. The collar was used to keep a man's
head up, and preventing him tearing the waistcoat with
his teeth. He could not tell what became of the man
after he left the prison. He had not formed any opinion
as to the attempts at suicide being feigned ; he confined
himself to obeying orders and reperting anything that
required reporting. The youngest boy he ever had at
crank labour was eight years o. age. He was required
to do 10,500 revolutions per day, but he never did that
number, nor was he ever punished. He considered the
boy worked very well, and he supposed the governor did
too, for he never punished him. The entries in his re-
port-book were all correct.

A large number of these entries were then read, show-
ing the working of " the stoppage system." The meals
of one day were frequently given out one or two days
later than the proper time ; a supper was often given at
8 o'clock in the morning, and a breakfast at 6 or 8 in the
evening, with all imaginable variations of the order of
meals. One prisoner had got seven meals in arrear, an-
other had only three days' meal in 14 days.
Godfrey continued—Men were sometimes ordered to
do only a boy's task at the crank, when the surgeon
found them weak. The keeping back of food was not
considered a punishment, because prisoners co zld have
all back meals when they earned them.
Numerous further entries were examined. One pri-
soner had very little food from the Ist to the Gth of
March (year not stated). On the 7th his breakfast and
dinner were stopped, and he was whipped. A prisoner,
• named Joseph Allsopp, had meals kept back several
days ; he was reported idle again and again, broke an
index hand off his crank dial, and was whipped ; still
continued idle, had more meals stopped, and 14 days
after the first flogging received three dozen lashes. For
a week longer he frequently had meals stopped, and was
excused from crank labour on account of weakness.
Another prisoner, who was flogged, had one and a l'alf
days' food in five days. Another prisoner was reported
on the 10th of April as " the fourth day without food."
In explanation of this, Godfrey said the prisoner refused
his food two of those days, saying he could not take it.
Mr. Welsby—so that two days he could not or would
not take his food, and the next two he was deprived of
the possibility of getting it ?
Godfrey--That's right, sir. I informed the governor
and surgeon of that.
Mr. Benfield and Mr. Musson both said it was im-
possible for them to have known of such a case ; they
would not have permitted it.
Godfrey re .asserted that he reported the fact to both,
but they still had no recollection of it.
The surgeon's journal was examined, and it was found
that the same man was entered as being five days with-
out food.

This part of the inquiry led to a warm altercation
between Mr. Welsby and Mr. Reeve. Mr. Reeve
elicited from the surgeon the statement that the entry
was made as soon as he heard of it, and that he should
have entered the fact of a man being without food three
days, or even two days ; and from there being no entry
of either of those terms in reference to this prisoner, he
felt sure he had not heard any report of the kind.
Mr. Welsby said there were plenty of cases of food
being kept back for two days without any entry in the
surgeon's journal.
Mr. Reeve said that was a statement that was not
proved by the books.
Mr. Welsby said he was stating a fact which the books
proved most abundantly.
Mr. Reeve contended that two day's food being kept
back did not mean that all food was kept back for forty-
eight hours together ; but an accumulation of meals
amounting to two days' food ; and it was very important
that it should not go forth incorrectly.
Dr. Baly was of opinion Mr. Reeve's view of this was
correct.

Mr. Welsby and Capt. Williams again referred to
entries in the warder's (Godfrey's) report book, and
fon some
days,
gdthat food had been kept back for
two whole
, that one prisoner had only one
meal in three days, upon which Mr. Welsby observed,
" We need not hyv'e been so valiantly interrupted."
nt.eTtelrfar_e_Yin,.then further examined as to the practice
they were unstrapped
oprisoners to the wall, and said in all cases
the water-closet. to take their meals, and to go to
restrained for five OHe had unstrapped the man who was
He
(lid
not
remember
six weeks many times in a da
e governor of
Mr. Keble (tat that he was taken out to exercise.y.
who was chief warder i
remembered
Leicester county gaol at the
a gaol in Oxfordshire),
time, said he distinctly edmembered that, the man was
taken out for an hour
restraint. daily during the latter part of
the time of his
as ic a wild Irishman," ns e (Mr. Kehl described hie
believed he was sane. tined o tzpatrick. He
' The Commissioners appeared very anxious to ascer-
tain why such restraint was
placed
was not insane if it was not for punishment a man who
get no fer infn
c': . to-day than
but could
yesterday,urth all officers saying on
that that
it subjerwas never used as
punishment.
The case of a youth named John Start was also
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tigated at great length for a similar purpose. ,I,beL
prisoner hadbeen reported for neglecting work and other
offences 68 times, frequently had food stopped, and was
flogged seven times. The strait waistcoat was said to
have been put upon him only for restraint. The gover-
nor had received a letter from a medical man, who
knew him before his committal, intimating that he was
sane, and the prisoner himself repeatedly said in prisou
that his head was bad ; but Mr. Benfield, who had the
letter, was of opinion that he was not insane.
At four o'clock Mr. Welsby intimated that the com-
missioners did not think it necessary to call any further
witnesses ; if the magistrates wished any more to be ex-
amined, they would hear them. They proposed yester-
day (Friday) morning to hear any statements the visit-
ing justices might wish to make, and to close the in-
quiry with the examination of Mr. Perry.
The 'magistrates desired that Mr. Perry should be ex-
amined before they offered themselves for examination,
and that course was agreed to.
The Commissioners more than once complimented the
warder on the accuracy he had observed in keeping his
books, and the honesty he had manifested in entering
any error he had fallen into. With the exception of a
little hesitation in the answers to two or three of the
questions
.put by Mr. Reeve,. they considered the manner
in which lie had given his evidence was highly creditable
to him.

The inquiry was then adjourned to Vriday morning,

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are superior remedies for the cure of lerysipelas. —Mr.
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afflicted for Upwards of two years with' erysipelas in his
legs, so bad at times as to lay him up fora month toge-
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tendance at the Bristol Infirmary, laid no good effect
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giving Holloway's Ointment and Pills a trial, and they
have been the means of effecting a r dical cure of his
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244, Strand, London,

LAMBETH.—Mr. George Frederick Carden, barrister-
at-law, appeared before Mr. Elliott, to answer a sum-
mons taken out against him by order of the officers of
the parish of Lambeth, for unlawfully causing to be
thrown upon a public highway known as Jonathan-
street, Vauxhall, a quantity of excremental matter and
filth prejudicial to health, and to the annoyance of the
inhabitants.

From the evidence of three of the constables of the L
division of police, it appeared that on the evening of
Friday, the 16th inst., Mr. Carden superintended the
making a hole in front of some premises belonging to
him in Jonathan-street, Lambeth, and from this hole a
quantity of liquid matter of a highly offensive .kind was
emptied into the kennel to flow a distance of from 50 to
60 yards into the gully-hole. In the process a quantity
of the offensive matter had been strewn over the high-
way, and many of the inhabitants complained to the
police of the dreadful stench and nuisance which it
caused.

A lad named King was called, and said he had been
employed by the defendant, Mr. Carden, to empty the
stuff fro►n the hole, some of which was thick, and
emitted a great stench.

Mr. Carden said that the liquid in question was caused
by the flowing of rain and other waters from the adjoin-
ing premises into his, which were much lower, and the
remedy adopted by him to get rid of it was the only one
left to him. He, Mr. Carden, should have been most
anxious to get rid of the evil in any other way, but the
fact II as that he had made repeated applications to the
Commissioners of Sewers and the parochial authorities,
with the view of procuring such drainage as would carry
off the superfluous matter, but from neither could he
procure the slightest assistance. He had also expressed
his willingness to those residing on the spot, and his
tenants particularly, to do everything in his power to
remedy the evil, but they all seemed to go against him.
He had also paid large sums for sewers rates, and yet
did not derive the slightest benefit from them.
Mr. Elliott remarked that there could be no doubt
Mr. Carden bad caused a considerable nuisance by
emptying the stuff into the street, and for this offence
he would adjudge him to pay a penalty of 20s. and costs.
Dr. Bushell, one of the guardians of the parish, here
said he should have to apply for a second summons
against Mr. Carden, unless he caused to be removed a
quantity of dung, which was a perfect nuisance.
Mr. Carden said the heap of dung in question belonged
to a tenant of his, and therefore he had no control
over it.

Mr. Edwards, a vestryman of the parish, complained
of the parish officers in not carrying out the Sanitary
Acts, particularly at the present time, when the dread-
ful scourge, the cholera, had made its appearance in the
metropolis.

Mr. Elliott assured the complainant that he had no
power to put the law into force as he required, and thus
the matter ended.

Mr. Carden paid the penalty and expenses.

SOUTHWARK.—DanieI Murphy was brought up
for re-examination, charged with violently assaulting
Ellen Murphy, his wife, at No. 10, Potter's-place, Ber-
mondsey New-road.

The Prisoner' it may be recollected, was brought up
last week, and his poor wife being in such a weak con-
dition from his ill-usage, Mr. Combe directed her to be
at once taken to St. George's Workhouse, and remanded
him for a week.

Yesterday she attended, and although in a very weak
state, she had recovered sufficiently to give her evidence
in a very clear manner. On being sworn, she stated that
on Thursday last, the 15th inst., her husband came home
in the middle of the day drunk, and took away a num-
ber of ornaments from the mantel-shelf. She followed
him to her sister's to endeavour to get the things away
from him ; but his conduct was so violent that she was
afraid of him. She went home, and hearing him enter
the house at seven o'clock in the evening, she hid her-
self under the bed to get away from his violence. He
then threw himself on the bed, and after he had been
there a short time she unfortunately coughed, when he
jumped up and pulled her by the hair of the head from
under the bed, and jumped upon her. She was under
the bed full five hours, and after he had jumped on her,
he kicked her until she was insensible. Six weeks prior
to that she had a still-born child, which was caused by
his violence.
The prisoner here declared that his wife bad been
drinking, and would not give him half a pint of beer.
Mr. Combs asked her whether she was sober that
day ?

She replied that she was, and she was so afraid of
him that she hid herself several times under the bed to
get his way.
isonersaid
she had made a mistake, and he
wrote a letter to her while in prison, asking her forgive-
ness,
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Correction for six months with hard labour.
James Moss, cab driver, badge No. 3,847, was sum-
moned by Gen. Cherretre, an old officer in her Majesty's
army, for assaulting him,' and using insulting language
towards him at the South-Eastern Railway Terminus,
London-briecoinplainant,
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waivthenerable looking gentleman, who
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a seat on the bench, on being
bridge Wells by the u"st he arrived from Tun-
bridge
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South-Eastern Railway, about half-
tke defendant, with several
past one o'clock.
other cabmen,
the rank provided for them,
station with their vehicles on
and engaged him. The defendant
once went up to him
and witness went into the statinot came off the rank,
manteau. On his return, and as ;Ile for a small
to-
wardsport-
the defendant's cab, one of the was
proceeding
the defendant and said to him, „
Iwant
came to
other." Witness said to the porter that heYli°aud and an-
the defendant, and he took bold of the handleenogfaged
the
cab door to get in, and' sked the defendant for a tint e
Instead of giving him one, he insulted him and twisted
him round from the cab. Witness not liking to put, 12_
p m ith
such uncivil conduct, proceeded to the station-niaster
and informed hum what had occurred, when the latter
told him that he was liable to be fined by the railway
authorities ss. for the first offence, and to be dismissed
from the station for the second. The station-master
then told witness to come to this court and lay his
complaint.
Mr. Combe (to General Cherretre)—You endeavoured
to get into the cab then ?
General Cherretre—Yes, I did, when he pushed me
round in a very rude manner. I did not like such inso-
lence, and could not with justice to myself and the pub-
lic pass over his bad conduct. I think he ought to be
punished for the benefit of the public.
The defendant said he was engaged prior to his seeing
the complainant by one of the railway porters, and while

In the list for the parish of St. Antholin, the name of
Mr. Richard Anthony Clarke, it surgeon, and one of the
late members of the Court of Common Council for
Cordwainers' Ward, was objected to by the Liberals.
His qualification was set down in the list for a house
occupied by him at No. 72, Queen-street, Cheapside, his
residence being at No. 29, in the same street.
Mr. Clarke said he occupied the house No. 72, Queen-
street, for his professional purposes as a surgeon, and
No. 29 in the same street for his residence. He, how-
ever, let off the whole of No. 72, with the exception of
one room on the ground-floor, which he used as a sur-
gery, and in which he saw his patients. He had his
name over the door, and although he had for several
years lived at No. 29, he shortly intended to reside at
No. 72 altogether. He had carried on his profession
there for the last 17 years.
Mr. Ledger wished to know the value of the room for
which he claimed his qualification.
Mr. Clarke said he could not tell the value, nor did he
think that he was bound to answer any such question.
Mr. Ledger submitted that there was no proof of any
qualification.
Mr. Clarke said he rented the whole of the house, and
paid all the rent and taxes for it. He let off all of it,
with the exception of that portion of it that he retained
for his profe,sional purposes.

Mr. Sidney Smith wished to know the rent of the
house, and whether Mr. Clarke was rated.
Mr Croucher, the overseer, Paid the house was rated
at 551. per year, and Mr. Clarke had paid the rates for
it for many years.
Mr. Sidney Smith did not consider that it had been
shown that the room retained by Mr. Clarke for the
purposes of his profession was worth 1001. a-year.
Mr. Clarke said this place had given him a qualifica-
tiontor churchwarden last year.

Mr. Ledger (to the overseer)—Would yon give 101.
per year for this room, and pay taxes for it ?
Mr. Croucher—l do not think I should, but that
would greatly depend on the business for which it was
to be used.

Mr. Clarke said that he had no doubt that situate as
it was, within three doors of the new street (Cannon-
street), that he should be able to get 201. a-year for it,
and if, for further improvements, the City authorities
should turn him out, he should expect a large com-
pensation, and he had no doubt whatever that he should
get it.

The Revising Barrister said he had no doubt whatever
that the apartment was worth more than 101. a-year to
this gentleman in his business. •

M. Sidney submitted that the apartment could only
be considered at its marketable value.

The Revising Barrister disallowed the objection, and
retained the name on the list.

IMPORTANT QUESTION AS TO CLAIMING TO BE RATED.

Mr. Willis, of Pancras-lane, claimed to have his name
inserted on the list in respect of his occupation.
The gentleman had sent in his claim to be rated ocn
the 23d of August, but the vestry clerk had neglecto,d
to send it to the overseer until the 30th of August, when
a new rate was made. In consequence, therefore, of
not having claimed in respect of the existing rate, kris
name had been omitted from the list.

Mr. Sidney Smith, in support of the claimant, FaiAcl
that, according to the provisions of the new act in tro-
duced by Sir Win. Clay, it was unnecessary to yea ew
the claim beyond that of the one requiring to be put on
the existing rate. Before the introduction of that ac t, it
was necessary for the person requiring to be registered to
claim to be rated for all rates made during the electoral
year ; but by the new act it was settled that one claim
made to be rated was sufficient for all future time. dur-
ing which the occupation continued. That was a n al-
teration that ought to be generally known.
The claim was then allowed, and the name invserted
on the list.