The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1853.

VIONT BLANC.—A Special Representation
iv', will be given THIS EVENING, at 8 o'clock, being the
LAST NIGHT of the SEASON. Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly.

MONT BL AN C will CLOSE THIS
EVENING, Sept. 10, and Re-open on Mr. ALBERT SMITH'S
return from the Continent. During the present week the Entertain-
ment will be given Every Evening at 8, and Tuesday and Saturday
morning at 3 o'clock. Stalls, 3s. ;Area, 2s. ;Gallery, ls.—Egy-ptian
Piccadilly.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms,
(Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, 011SIOW-house, Fulham-road).
The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON,
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, I. Doors open at half-past 8 ;
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter !nate at half-past 11.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.
CHANGE of the LECTURE on " THE THAM FS." The SECOND
PART of an HISTORICAL LECTURE on "THE THAMES,"
from its Source to its Estuary, by GEORGE AUCKLAND, Esq.,
assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, with NEW SONGS and NEW
DISSOLVING SCENERY, on Tuesdays and Fridays at four o'clock,
arid every Evening except Saturday at IN ine.
LECTIMES.—By J. H. Pepper, Esq. : On PHOTOGRAPHY, with
Illustrations, Mornings and Evenings.
By Pr. Bachhoffner : On ELECTRO-GILDING and
SILVERING.
The LANCASHIRE SEWING MACHINE exhibited in Use
and explained Daily.
Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools, and
Children under Ten years of age Half-price.

NEW ZEALAND.—FREDK. YOUNG and
co 's LINE.—To follow the NORTRFLEET, and Sail the 10th
October, embarking passengers at Gravesend, for OTAGO, WEL-
LINGTON, and NELSON, the fine, well-known, A 1 passenger-ship
DUKE OF PORTLAND, 533 tons register, 800 tons burden, J. A lex-
ander, Commarder. The superior qualities and commodious accom-
modation of this ship have rendered her a favourite in the New
Zealand trade. Will load in the East India Docks. For freight,
passage, or further information, apply to Fredk. Young and Co., at
their New Zealand Colonist Rooms, 9, Adelphi-terrace, strand, or
74, Cornbill.

- _ IMPORTANT TO HOUSEWIVES.
NO MORE DRESSES, &c., DESTROYED IN THE WASHING.
CREWS'S RINSING LIQUID Restores
them to their Original Freshness, Fixing the Colours In all
kinds of Fabrics—simple in its application—and very inexpensive
TWENTY DROPS sufficient for ONE GALLON of Water.
Sold by all Chemists and Oilmen, at 9d. per bottle,
Agents—Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bush-lane, Cannon-street.
Manufactured at Commercial Wharf, Mile-end, London.

SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM and
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER RAILWAYS.
The COM IIITTEE of SHAREHOLDERS have to announce that
the proposal for an A MA LGAMATION with the GREAT WESTERN
COMPANY will be submitted for the consideration and approval of
the Shareholders of the above-mentioned Companies, at SPECIAL
MEETINGS, to be holden as follows, viz.:
SHREWSBURY and CHESTER—At the Royal Hotel, Chester, on
TUESDAY, Sept. 13, at Two o'Clock p.m. precisely.
SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM—At the London Tavern,
Bishopgate-street, London, en WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, at Two
fo'Clock p.m. precisely. _

Shareholders in favour of the proposed Amalgamation are ear-
nestly invited to transmit their proxies by this day's post to the
Secr, taries of the Companies at Wolverhampton and Chester re-
spectively.

By Order of the Committee.
GEORGE WOOLCOTT, Secy.
2, Buckingham•street, Adelphi, Sept, 9, 1853.

No person will be entitled to vote as a proxy, unless the instru-
ment appointing such-proxy has been transmitted to the Secretary
of the Company not less than forty-eight hours before the time ap-
pointed for holding the Meeting at which such proxy is to be used.

N.B.—Blank Proxies will be forwarded upon application to Mr.
Woolcott, No. 12, Buckingham-street, Adelphi, London.

THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL MEDICAL
COLLEGE.
This Institution will be OPENED for the reception of students on the

Ist of October next.

The Introductory Address will be delivered by Dr. Tyler Smith.
Every facility wi!l be afforded to students for obtaining the best
and most comprehensive acquaintance with the different branches
of study. The terms of admission will be as moderate as may be
compatible with the present advanced state of the science of medicine.

i ral committee, that in the event of a survey of the Gulf
Stream being undertaken, provision should be made for
investigating its zoology and botany, has been commu-
nicated to the hydrographer of the Admiralty, and
' favourably received. A proposition from Dr. Bache,
director of the coast survey of the 'United States for a
joint survey of the Gulf Stream by the United States
and Great Britain, having been addressed to the Presi-
dent of the British Association since the Belfast meet-
ing, has been forwarded to the hydrographer of
the Admiralty. With reference to the resolutions re-
garding the agricultural statistics of Great Britain,
the committee appointed to carry out the wishes of the
general committee have reported to the council that,
having ascertained that measures having those objects
in view had already been adopted by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, they have confined themselves to an expres-
sion of satisfaction therewith, and of readiness to afford
any practicable aid on the part of the British Associa-
tion. On the subject of a grant in aid of the publica-
tion of Mr. Huxley's zoological and physiological re-
searches in her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, the council
reports that the application made in the last year by the
presidents of the Royal Society and of the British Asso-
ciation to the Earl of Derby has been renewed, in the
present year, to the Earl of Aberdeen by the Earl of
Rosse, on behalf of both institutions. No reply has yet
been received. The council desire to take this occasion
of calling the attention of the general committee to the
want which had been left in this instance, as in many
others, of suitable and systematic airangements of the
government for the due publication, of the results of
scientific researches executed at the ipublic expense by
naval officers acting under the instruetions of the Ad-
miralty. The invitations formerli received by the
British Association from Liverpool' and Glasgow, to
hold the meeting of the next two yes at these places,
will be renewed by deputations apprfinted to attend at
Hull for that purpose. From Gloissister, also, there
will be an invitation to the associatio*M.hold early"
meeting in that city. The tresoureAciwtount for the
year ending September sth showed n expenditure of
about 1,4891., and a balance in hand 2271. 19s. 11d.
The resignation of Dr. J. Forbes Roy 'as general secre-
tary was announced, and on Monday his successor
will be appointed.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated theAwm. ittee that the
association had this year, for the t time for many
years, not only paid off some debt on ,another meeting,
but lived 2001. within their income.

The report was unanimously adopted.
The first general meeting was held in the Mechanics
Institute in the evening, when the usual address on the
objects and proceedings was delivered by Mr. William
Hopkins, M.A., F.G.S. Vice-President of the Royal
Society, and President Of the Cambridge Philosophical
Society of Astronomical Research.
_...

The meetings of the sections commenced yesterday.
While many of the papers received by the secretary are
devoted to local objects, a majority are connected with
subjects of a more universal and generally interesting
character. Among the varied subjects may be mentioned
"Photographs of the Moon," by Professor Philips ;
a paper by Rankine, on his " Oscillatory Theory of
Light ;" by Dr. Scoresby, on the " Surface Temperature
of Oceanic Currents ;" the " Chemical Action of Solar
Radiations," by Robert Hunt ; on the " Oceanic Cur-
rents in connection with the proposed Central American
Canals," by Mr. A. G. Findlay; by Captain Fitzroy,
on the " Isthmus of Central America ;" papers by
Petermann and Haug on the subject of Australia and
the proposed exploratory expedition ; by Colonel Lloyd,
"On the Country at the Sources of the Amazon ;"
"On the Island of Chusan," by Sir John Davis ; "On
a Journey to the Balkan," by Lieut. Jochmus ; " On
Railway Accidents by Collision, and their Prevention,"
by Dr. Scoresby ; one "On the Application of Sul-
phuric Ether to Steam-Engines," by G. Rennie, anAi
numerous others on similarly interesting topics. •

HULL, Friday.
The various sections resumed their sittings at 11
o'clock this morning.

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE.

A paper was read in this section by Robert Russell,
Esq., on the action of the winds which veer from the
south-west to the west, and north-west to north.

SECTION 8.-CHEMICAL SCIENCE.

Papers were read in this section by Professor Robert
Hunt, on the chemistry of photography ; by M. Antoine
Claudet, on the practice of the daguerreotype; by Pro-
fessor Johnstone, on the origin and composition of the
mineral called rotten stone ; by Professor Andrews, on
a simple instrument for graduating glass tubes ; and by
the Rev. Thomas Exley, M.A., on the cause of the trans-
mission of electricity along conductors generally, and
particularly as applied to the electric telegraph.

HOW THE SICK POOR ARE TREATED IN
MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday, Mr. Brent held an inquest, at the Consti-
tution, Great James's-street, Marylebone, on Martha
Austen, aged 5 years, the daughter of humble but in-
dustrious parents, whose death was attributed to cruel
parochial neglect. It appeared, from the evidence, that
the deceased having been very ill, the parents despatched
a woman, named White, to the workhouse for medical
aid. White had scarcely time to deliver her message
at 'the workhouse gate, when the porter gruffly an-
swered, "You can't have a medical order," and then
slammed the door in her face. After remaining some-
time outside the gate, in the hope of getting a medical
order, and finding that it was only time lost, she re-
turned to the child's father, who was also ill, and at
home by himself, his wife being out charring, and told
him of the result of her journey. As the parents
deemed all further efforts to obtain medical aid useless,
they did not repeat the application. The following
morning the child vomited a quantity of blood and ex-
pired.

In answer to a question from the coroner, White said
that she did not make a second application to the work-
house, because she knew it would be vain, as she had
been similarly treated on a previous occasion when she
sought at the workhouse for a medical order for her own
child.

A juror—The treatment of the poor when they apply
for relief at the workhouse gates is shameful. If they
attempt explaining their case, they are brutally pushed
from the door. The poor creatures, instead of meeting
with such cruel rebuffs, should be treated with every
consideration and humanity.
Mr. Sedgewick, parochial surgeon, performed the
autopsy. Deceased died from scarlatina. He could not
say whether life would have been saved if deceased had
had timely medical aid. The conduct of the gate porter
"w very- bad, as an order was given in cases of
illness. IV was his duty to hive • sent the applicant to
the' oVerseVa room. • 4e was informed that it was not
the regular porter, but. a pauper, that was on duty at
the time.

Coroner—l frequently experience difficulty in- getting
admission myself into the workhouse. If this occurs to
me, how are the poor treated when they seek admission
or relief Several jurors made similar complaints and
expressed great indignation at the treatment of the out-
door poor at the workhouse gate. The coroner summed
up very minutely, and the jury returned a verdict in
accordance with the medical evidence, accompanied by
the subjoined marked censure, which they requested the
coroner to forward to the workhouse authorities :
" The jury regret that an order was refused at the work-
house for deceased's medical attendance, and they re-
commend that the poor should be treated with more
civility and kindness.. The jury further recommend that
boards be placed on, the walls of the workhouse, with
directions instructing the poor how -they should apply
for relief." A juror hoped that the coroner would urge
upon the guardians the propriety of fixing, on a promi-
nent place, those instructions, for they would assure the
poor that they could not be robbed with impunity of
those rights to which they are by law entitled. The
coroner promised to comply with the request of the jury,
and forward their recommendations to the guardians,
with every confidence that those recommendations would
be acted upon.