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London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

FINE HEAD OF HAIR,

ROWLAND'S AIACASSAR OIL.
The extraordinary efficacy, and happy amalgamation of its
purely exotic materials, have rendered it justly renowned through-
out the world for its remarkalile virtues in nourishing, preserving,
and beautifying the Human Hair. It insinuates its balsamic
properties into the pores of the head, nourishes the Hair in its
embryo state, accelerates its growth, cleanses it from Scurf and
Dandriff, sustains it in maturity, and continues its pos-
session of healthy vigour, silky softness, and luxurious redun-
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wherein other remedies have been tried in vain, ROWLANDS'
MACASSAR OIL has superseded the ornaments of art, by rein-
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nature. In the growth of Whiskers, Eyebrows, and Mus-
tachios, it is also unfailing in its stimulative operation. For children
it is especially recommended, as forming the basis of a beautiful
head of hair, and rendering the use of the fine-comb unnecessary.
The Patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, and the high
esteem in which it is universally held, together with numerous Tes-
timonials constantly received of its efficacy, afford the best and
surest proofs of its merits.—Price 3s. 6d. and 75.; or Family Bottles
(equal to four small) at 10s. 6d. ; and double that size, 21s.
CAUTION.—On the wrapper of each bottle of the genuine article
are these words, in two lines ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL. The
same are engraved on the back of the wrapper nearly 1,500 times,
containing 29,028 letters. _ _

Sold by A:ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-Garden, London
and by all Chemists and Perfumers.

the CITY of CHESTER.
Hail, Chaster, hail I thy antiquated city
Shall form a rubject for ray humble muse;
For certainly I think 'twould be a pity
So good an opportunity to lose.
The month of May is nigh, when thy locality
Will bo a scene of stir and joviality.
My sporting pals, who number very many,
Are daily talking of the Chester Cup ;
All are aroused—nor can I point to any,
But who delight to bring the subject up
Jack, Marry, Cuncliffe, Wiltshire, Burgess, Lester,
Anticipate the coming race at Chester.
Thousands from London at thy coming Meeting
Will tread thy streets, thy course, thy walls, thy rows,
And for this very purpose crowds are treating
At MOSES' noted Mart for new Spring clothes—
Clothes which will doubtless tempt the Chester people
To send to MOSES, facing Algate steeple.
MOSES and SON, who well have done their duty,
In famishing both good and cheap attire,
Will show you there such specimens of beauty,
As your discerning folks will all admire ;
Dress which will gaily deck your race-course ample,
dud be admitted as a perfect sample.
The Trowsers, Coats, and Tests of last year's season,
Made your good people stare with all their eyes ;
But, thanks to MOSES, I have every reason
To think the present fashion far out-vies.
And when you see the stylish, you'll know it,
Nor have a cause to contradict the poet.
In Boots or Shoes, and Hats, and Shawls for ladles,
IIIOSES and SON will show you what they are;
And seeing what the nature of their trade is,
Your citizens will aid them, though so far.
More might I say, but I conclude my ditty,
By recommending MOSES to your City.
LIST OF PRICES.
MDT MADI.
May, Sipring, and Sumer Wrappers.. • • fromlo 8 6
The tittlwer, Pacha, Paletot, and every descrip-
tion ,of light Over-c0at5........ 0 12 6
Superfine Cloth Coats, of a light texture, and
handsomely trimmed •• • • .• • • 1 10 9
Do. do. lined with silk..
Jean and Holland Blouses •.•• •• •• •• ••.. •• 0 1 9
Fancy Victoria.... •. • ....... ...... 0 4 0
•••• •• 0 4 6
Dress Coat .... ••..• • ..
Frock Coat • • .... ••• • • • •••• • • .. 1 0 0
Spring and Summer Trousers
O 12 0
O 7 6
Spring and Summer Vests in every variety 0 1 6
O 4 6
O 4 6
White Marcello •• .. •• •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 0 4 6
Black Cloth .. • • .......... • •
Boys' ,Vassar and Tunic Sults.• ••• • • 0 15 6
Spring and Summer Test • • 0 10 II
JUDI TO MIABIDIII.
May, Spring, aid Summer Coats.. ..from 0 16 0
The Bu lwer, Pacha, Paletot, and every de-
scription of light Overcoats •• 1 00
Superfine Cloth of a light texture, and hand-
SOMely trimmed .. ••••..•••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1 15 0
Ditto ditto lined with silk... ...... 2 2 0
Superfine Dress Coat .... .. •• • • . • .... 1 11 0
Superfine Frock .• •• •• • • • 1 15 0
Black Trousers • •
best ..... • • ................
Fancy Dceskla.. ..
Best Black Vest ........ • • 0 13 6
Splendid istin 014 6
hussar and Tunis suits ••• • •
May White Marcella Vest •......... 0 7 0
hiottraing to any extent at Five Minutes notice.
A suit of Clothes complete for 11. 16s.

To

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Caution.* E. lieges and Son regret having m guard the public
against tmoosition ; but have leaned that the untradesman-like
falsamed of being connected with them, er " It is the sane concern,"
has been re sorted to in many instances, and far obvious reasons.
Tney have s a connexion with any ether house in en out of Lender,
except their Branch Establishments, 36, Fargate, Sheffield ; and 19,
Thornton's- buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire ; and those whe desire
genuine and cheap clothing, &0., should call at. or send to either of
their Branciaes, er to the Miseries and .Aldgate, City, London.
E. biOsiE a and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, flatten,
Rosters, le`rarrien, Boot and Shoemakers, aid General Outfitters. for
rahl Gentlemen, 154, 155, 155, and 157 Ifineries, and Ra,
44, 85, and 116 Aldgate, City, London; and their Branch Establish-
ments, 36, I'argate, Sheffield; and 19, Thornton's-buildings, Brad-
ford, Yorkshire.

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TILE SILENT FRIEND, Inymtage stamps,
it the I dimities and decay et the generative system,
assive ind ,ulgence, infection, and the inordinate use fromc:,-
with remat en Marriage, and the means of obviating eemern-e
qualificatio: as. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engraviiigi. By R.
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and physiology of the re-productive
PART I. t 'eats et the anatomy
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excessive indul-
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the whole ss inject critically and philosophically inquired into.
TmcCoati ". Lt. BALK OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in treat-
ing nervous s t ad sexual debility, Impotence, dig., s. and 335. per
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remody, for p gulf y ing the blood in cues of infection, secondary symp-
toms, erupt's, as, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle.
Perry's Purillring Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lie. par box, a
pertain rem. d'y for gonorrhea*, sleet, stricture, and chronic inflamma-
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which the 1 t e,11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten-
donee daily tsl; 19, Burners-street, Oxford-street, Londeu, from
va till TwEN and Five to Eight ; liandaya froM Eleven to One.

ietta, red .. • . 6 2 6 4 DO., Irish .. 55 0— 56 0
Marlanopoli .. 5 8— 5 10 Do., brown .. 54 0— 57 0
Odessa, Polish .. 5 9 6 0 Flour, English, pr
Do., hard.. .. 5 o—s 10 2801 b 35 0— 86 0
Egyptian .. .. 4 0— 4 6 Irish, extra Ilne• •36 0-- 37 0
Oats, per 451 b United States, per
English and Scotch 2 B—2 10 barrel .. 24 0— 25 0
Welsh .. •. .. 2 5 2 6 Canadian • • .. 24 0— 25 0
Irish, new .. •• 2 6 2 7 Oatmeal, English,
Do., old .. 2 6 2 8 & Scotch,pr24olb /4 0— 26 0
Barley, English, pr Irish, new .. .. 22 6 —23 0
imperial quarter 30 0 —32 Do., old .. .22 0— 23 6
Irish, Scotch, and Indian corn, per
Alanx,per6olb.. 3 3 3 4801 b .. 32 0— 32 6
COLCHESTER, APRIL 14. here has been an improvement
this week in the markets of this district. In our market to-
day wheat well maintained its prices, and for the best samples
an advance of is per quarter was obtained. Malting barley,
too, was in demand, and commanded better prices. White
wheat of fine sample fetched 53s per quarter; the best red,
45s ; good barley, 29s to 325. Yesterday at Chelmsford there
was a brisk demand for the best wheats, and in many instances
an advance upon last week's prices was given. For oats and
peas there was a good demand, and both these articles were l s
per quarter dearer. White wheat was 44s to 50s; red, 32s to
1453 ; grinding barley, 23s to 271; malting, 27s to 305 ; oats,
18s to 255; grey peas, 30s to 325; white, 28s to 30s. The
markets of Suffolk have also improved. At Sudbury on Thurs-
day wheat was is per quarter dearer, and at Bury and Wood-
bridge there was a similar advance.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 14.—During the present week a de-
cidedly firmer feeling has arisen in the trade, and both flour
and oatmeal have met a freer sale than for some time past, at
gradually improving prices. This morning the improved tone
noted above was maintained, and wheat advanced 2d per 70Ibs.
The sales effected in flour were at an enhancement on the cur-
rency of this day se'nnight of is to is 6d per sack, and is per
barrel. Oats were held for rather higher rates, and oatmeal
was saleable at 6d per load on previous prices.
WINCHESTER, APRIL 14.—Corn—The Exchange was well
filled with both buyers and sellers of corn, seeds, &c., parti-
cularly of English and foreign grown wheats. The samples of
home-grown were not numerous, yet the deficiency was well
made up by the Southampton corn merchants ofering Ameri-
can, Dantzic, Hamburgh, Danish, and Odessa shipments.
Trade was much brisker than on any market day in this city
since Christmas last. The general advance on all descrip-
tions of heavy dry grinding qualities was from 53 to 10s per
load ; a few choice English grown white, weighing 641 b per
bushel, realised 15s per load, or 3s per qr more money. The
best samples of foreign weighed from 611bs to 631bs per bushel.
Some barrels of sweet American and Canadian flour sold at an
advance of Is per barrel ; the English ground ditto selling at
from is to 2s per bag more money. The barley trade was
also in a much more pleasing state for the seller, holders being
firm, obtaining for every description of good malting and dis-
tilling an advance of at least is per quarter, a brisker sale also
for second-rate and poor samples English chevalier (best)
weighing 54 lbs per bushel ; Danish, 53 lbs ditto. Malt was
sold at the prices of this day week. Rye in more demand.
Oats—Best qualities of Belfast, Scotch, Northumberland and
Yorkshire, Polands sold readily at from 6d to l s per quarter
more money, weight 42 lbs per bushel; all common sorts were
without alteration in price, though in better demand. More
was done in beans, peas, and seeds than on this day week, yet
prices did not vary materially. There appeared a good many
purchasers of turnip and other seeds for stock, the rain of late
favouring the sowing of early crops. Hops remain in a lan-
guid state : best Farnhams, 61 to 6, lOs per cwt ; Altons, 5' to
5156 ditto ; second-rate Coventry and Sussex, 4/ to 414. ditto.
READING, APRIL 14.—Wheat, per quarter,34a to 58s; bar-
My, 25s to 365; oats, 16s to 24s ; beans, 30s to 40s; peas,
30s to 40s. Fat hogs,; 8s 6d to 8s 9d ; porkers, 9s to Os per
score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 4s Od to 5s Od ; ducks,
per couple, Os Od to Os Od; geese, each, Os Od to Os; butter,
per lb, Is Od to is Id; eggs, 18 to 20 for Is.
Wanamnzon, APRIL 12.—The trade to-day, although
characterised by more firmness en the part of holders of wheat,
has been by no means brisk, and in the business passing the
previous currency could not be exceeded for any article in the
trade. English wheat, 6s 2d to 6s 6d ; Irish, 6s to 6s 3d ;
English oats, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; Irish, 2s 5d to 2s 7d per 70Ib.
Seed oats, 3s 3d to 4s per 451 b. Barley, malting. 325. Peas,
28s to 40s per quarter. Seed vetches, 5s to 5s 2d per 601 b.
Flour, 27s 6d to 36s 6d. Meal, 245. Indian meal, 275.
ABERDEEN, APRIL 13.—Grain—Oats 14s to 14s Od, 401 b per
bushel ; barley, 22s to 245, 521bs per bushel ; bear, 23s to 245,
52 lbs per bushel ; wheat, 50s to 53s ; oatmeal, lls 6d to 12s 6d
per boll ; flour, 38s to Os per sack. Provisions—Beef,
4d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4d
to 7d ; pork, per stone, 4s to 456 d ; lamb, per qr., 6s to 7s 6d ;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, lOd to Is ;
hay, per cat, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each, Os
to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 10d ;
eggs, per doz, 7d to 8d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per
pair, 3s to 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducks, ditto,
2s 6d to 3s Od; ducklings, ditto, 2s to 2s 6d ; turkeys, each, 3s
to 4s Od ; geese, ditto, Os to Os ; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 50s to Os • eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, sid
to Od ; 4b loaf, 8d ; 21b loaf, 4d ; pork, per stone of 14 lbs
Os Od to 3s 6d ; pork fine, small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork large,
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 1005.
Meal—Oatmeal, is 3d to Os Od; bearmeal, is 3d to Os Od ,
peasemeal, Is 10d to 2s; side, 6d to 7d; barley flour, is 4d to
Is 5d ; barley dust, 7d to 8d ; flour, is 10d to 2s; barley, per lb,
1 id to lid.
DALKEITII, APRIL 12.—The relative weight per four bushels
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 101 b, 18st 01b, and 17st
21b. Oats, 12st 10Ib, 12st 31b, and Ilst Ilb. Barley, 16st 71b,
15st 111 b, and 15st 01b. Peas and beans, 19st 11b, IBst 41b,
and 17st 6lbs.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
231 Wheat .........£2 11 0 £2 5 0 £1 18 0
1043 Oats
233 Barley
48 Pease and Beans 1 9 6 1 8 0 1 3 0

Aver age of wbeat 445 3id.

GLASGOW CASTLE MARKET, APRIL 0,- WO had a

large supply of cattle at our market to-day, and prices bad a
slight tendency downward. Best ox beef from 50s to 52s per
cwt, cow and ordinary from 40s to 4.3 s per do., sinking the
offal. We had a smaller supply of sheep than usual, and
prices realised Is per head dearer. Best aged wethers from 6d
to 6id per lb, ewes, very scarce, from -lid to 5d per do., sinking
the offal ; lambs from 22s to 27s per head. The numbers were
—oxen, 869; sheep, 753 ; lambs, 11.
BELFAST, Aram 12.—Wheat sells at former prices, and is
in fair demand. Foreign sells more freely at 91 to 9115 s for
Odessa, and 101 to 111 10s for Baltic wheats. Flour, rather a
slow sale, at our quotations. American interferes materially
with our home-made, and sells freely at 24s 6d to 25s per
barrel. Barley a free sale, at former rates. Oats are taken for
feeding at about former prices. Oatmeal unchanged in value,
but is rather a dragging sale. Indian corn scarce, and in de-
mand, at 71 5s to 71 7s 6d for yellow, and 2s 6d per ton less for
white, being an advance of 2s 6d to 5s per ton.
CORK, Aram 11.—The arrivals of foreign grain are few.
Owing to this, as well as the improved advices from the Eng-
lish side, we have a firmer feeling manifested in the trade here,
and more business doing. There is a very large consumption
going on at present, indeed such a consumption as, in other

Years, would have caused a considerable enhancement in the
value of all descriptions of bread stuffs, but which now, owing
to the scarcity of money and diminished confidence, as well as
the want of employment for the labouring classes, has only
induced a trifling advance, though it has decidedly aided in im-
parting a firmer tone to the trade. Our supplies of home grain
continue very trifling, those of wheat especially, the receipts
of this article fur the week having again fallen short of 100
barrels. In our green market the prices of each article have
advanced slightly. Prepared Irish wheat is held for more
money. The same remark applies to foreign, 25s per barrel
having been refused for a sample of prime Marianople. We
have no barley offering. Prepared oats are the turn dearer,
but we have no transactions of consequence to record. Prime
mealing oats are in good demand at considerably enhanced
rates, but stocks of the article here are very low. For all de-
scriptions of coarse or secondary fours the demand is good, and
such qualities meet a ready sale, but fine samples go off slowly
and in retail quantities. We may remark that the consump-
tion of bread is large, while the stocks of flour in factors' and
bakers' hands are small. A large business has been done in
Indian corn at an advance of fully ss. per ton, the price of
Galatz this week being Si. This advance, however, coupled
with the endeavour on the part of holders to establish
a still further increase in price, has had the effect of
checking trade which is scarcely as lively as in the early part
of the week. Indian meal is in improved request, and dearer.
' Flour—Firsts 14s Od to 14s 6d; extra 15; Od;
seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households 105 to 12s ; thirds 8s to lOs
i ls tolls 64; Indian meal 7s 9d to 81 ; wip,at
rnea
ier clwlt.OstOoaltOrneas6dl per cwt. Indian corn 7/ 5s Od to 8/ per ton.
Bran 41 to 415 s
per ton. Hay - Farmers 246 t 01435; average 365;
average 00s Od per ton. OdaFmer
e 325; dealers 00s to 00s Od;
Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 61d
ge Od per tomb.
id
avers no per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
household loaf bd t
lOd perb. ton• Tallow 43s 641 to 44s
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Best Neath Culm 14s per p
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averag
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51K1 baron 7d to 8d; sausages 6d per
bld to 7d ; pork 4d to •Mutton 5d to bid; veal
100. bleat—Beef 4d t

Sir F. THESIGER—You have no right to press the
witness in that way.
Baron FLA.TT—I think not.
Mr. CHAMBERS—But I have got his depositions
here, and lam examining from them. Your Lordship
has the depositions before you.
Baron PLATT—You Have no right to make that ob-
servation unless you intend to put in the depositions. He
is your witness, and no one knows better than yourself'
what is regular.
Mr. CHAMBERS—He is the witness of the Crown, my
Lord, and not mine. He is the witness of the Coroner.
Baron PLATT—You had better go ou with your exa-
mination.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Now, was the overcrowding of the
room the predisposing cause of the cholera? Witness—
I have not said that it was overcrowded.
Baron PLATT—You are assuming by your question
that the rooms were overcrowded? Witness—Certainly.
Mr. CHAMBERS—I am assuming nothing, my Lord.
I am simply asking whether that would be a predis-
posing cause, such as bad food would be. Now, sir,
were there any predisposing causes?
Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, now, as a medical man, can
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children would be a predisposing cause.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Now, I ask you whether there was
or was not an overcrowding of the rooms? Witness—
Yes, in the big boys' ward.
Mr. CHAMBERS —And that would be a predisposing
cause? Witness—Certainly it would.
Cross-examined by Sir FREDERICK THESIGER—It
awsasovtheercrero,whdeedw.asHine
remembered,big
the sick ward. Ho was always iu the sick ward, but not
on the sick list. If he ordered it the boys in the sick
ward had meat and porter every day. They had every-
thing he chose to order for them. When he first went
bthbayts' while room
Andrews
w was
there the establishment was generally healthy. There
were out of the large number he had mentioned about
eight or ten ill. After ho went there several children
were sent there who had the itch. He made great efforts
to get rid of it, but he never could ascertain whether it
had been totally eradicated. The cholera broke out
suddenly ; there were no premonitory symptoms.
There were always cases of diarrhoea in the establish-
ment. The necessity of separating those whowere struck
with the disease from those who were healthy created
considerable confusion, and great difficulty was expe-
rienced in procuring nurses. Ile saw nothing in the
clothing of the children which could form a predisposing
cause of cholera, nor did he ever hear any complaints
msde about their food. He had never heard anything
said before this against Mr. Drouet as to his humanity.
There were six adults engaged in tho establishment;
three of whom died of cholera. One of them, named
Warren, attended on Andrews.
he hadthe any e s others
s.
c w
h medical
the
n had Re-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—The boy Andrews
was about a fortnight on the sick list. The first time
h
Chapman
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sth mano
pf tor January
avin assisteueh sryy.haisms
Thatin treat-
ing r ewaht
was
before
the children Messrs. before he had any one to live in the house with him,
but
In November there were 42 cases of dilarrhoatsat,eadubdi4ms.
in December, but he did not consider diarrhoea was a
premonitory symptom of cholera.
By the COURT—The 42 cases ran through the whole
month, but at the end of the month many of them had
been cured, and the 45 of the next month were new
cases. About a dozen only of the 50 or 60 who were
attacked with cholera had been previously suffering from
diarrhoea, so that with the exception of that dozen there
were no premonitions at all. -
Mr. Henry Whitten, the Registrar of Deaths for the
parish of Streatham, examined by Mr. CLARKSON.
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wbayn
dsw Sir
He had the register from April, 1848, to January, 1849,
and there were no cases of cholera in it. His district
included Mr. Drouet's establishment.
F.
ThereTuEsui re
Ellw—His
casesdistrictof
cholera in the or
didCbsest-
in
adjoining parishes.
Mr. Grainger, a Member of the College of Surgeons,
examined by Mr. CHAMBERS.—IIe had been twenty-
five years in the profession, and held the office of Me-
dical Inspector of the Board of Health. In the first
week in January last, he went down and examined Mr.
Drouet's establishment ; awl, although he did not go
over the whole of it, he could form an opinion as to the
previous overcrowding of it. He went simply to see as
to the state of the cholera. He went over the school-rooms
as well.

Sir F. THESISER interposed, and urged that the wit-
ness's opinion as to the previous state of the establish-
ment was no evideace.

Mr. CHAMBERS did not press it at tho moment, and
continued the examination.
Witness remembered having a conversation with Mr.
Drouet, which ho could repeat.
coSulidr F.
t'At be EgSilvGeßnit inevidence.
again
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objected. The conversation

The Could ruled that it could.
that they
recommended
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cr. a I aDt rt
adu -
ants for the cholera, and he t
that he thought there were not su
in in whom the public had
of
eminence should be called
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both the sleeping rooms of the sick and healthy children,
and he thought the dormitories were too crowded. The
rooms were certainly overcrowded with regard to the
number of beds. They were too near each other, and in
his opinion that would be injurious to the health of the
occupants. Tho rooms were badly ventilated for the
number of beds.
Baron PLATT—If there had been less beds, then the
ventilation would have been sufficient.
Witness—Yes; there were 1,400 children in the esta-
blishment certainly too many for the size of the build-
ing. In his opinion, the principal cause of the cholera
was the overcrowding of the establishment. He had
spoken to some children about their food, with Mr.
I)rouet's consent, but he was not by at the time.
Sir F. DIESIOER—Then you can go no further?
Witness continued—He saw the children about
a fortnight after they had been removed, and could de-
scribe their condition. They were decidedly unhealthy.
Many of them were wasted in their limbs, and were in
the state commonly called pot-bellied, and the great ma-
jority of them had what was called eruptions on the skin.
42 out of 65 of the boys had the itch, and out of 75 girls
34 had the itch, and 6 some other skin disease.
By the COURT—He could not undertake to say that
twenty had small pulses.
Examination continued—These were all indications of
the children having been fed too scantily, and upon a
low dietary. He took notes of his observations while
going over the establishment. It was badly ventilated
generally, but the school-room was decidedly not pro-
perly ventilated.
Sir F. DIMMER declined to cross-examine this wit-
ness.

Dr. Furro examined by Mr. CLAnstsox—He accom-
panied Mr. Grainger to inspect Mr. Drouet's establish-
ment, and he examined the children of the Holborn
Union. About 120 were presented for examination.
Their general state was very bad, but the girls were
better than the boys. In most instances the limbs had
wasted away, and they had pot-bellies, and about two-
thirds of them had a skin disease.

Baron PLATT—Did they differ from the appearance
of other workhouse children? Witness—Oh, very ma-
terially, my Lord.
Examination continued—About 45 per cent. were
affected in the manner he had stated. The skin diseases
were occasioned by the neglect of proper treatment and
proper precaution. No doubt, the original cause was the
introduction of a child who had the disease; but
the skin of the children was generally in that state
which indicated that they had been badly treated
and improperly fed upon fluids, which was one
great cause of pot-belly. Had the children received

dren which could not be cured in a fortnight? Witness
—No, my Lard, with proper appliances, such as baths,
separate beds, linen, See.
Baron Prerr—What do you mean that children in
this state would be predisposed to cholera ? Witness—
Their constitutions were in such a state that they would
more readily catch any prevalent disease than if they
were well fed and in good condition.
Sir F. THESIOER—Who is the surgeon of the Royal
Free Hospital? Witness—Mr. Wakley.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Not Mr. Wakley, the coroner? Wit-
ness—No ; Mr. Wakley, junior.
Mr. T. C. Jackson, the house-surgeon of the Royal
Free Hospital, examined by Mr. CHAMBERS—He
examined the children on the 6th day of January
last, and from the condition he found them in, be thought
they had not been properly fed, while their clothes
were too thin to give the necessary warmth, which chil-
dren of their age ought to have. Young Mr. Wakley
did not see them. There was 87 cases of cholera alto-
gether, and eight of collapse.
Mr:James was recalled, and stated that there were
three vans to carry the children to London, and that they
were well covered in with tarpauling.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Sir F. THESIGER submitted that there was no case at
all to go to the jury. This was the very first time that
an attempt had been made to establish a charge of man-
slaughter under such extraordinary circumstances, and
it appeared to him that the evidence totally failed to
support the indictment. It was alleged that, being the
owner of an establishment for the reception of poor
children, and having received the deceased child and a
number of others, under a certain contract, into his
charge, it became the duty of the defendant to provide
those children with proper food and necessaries, and
that having neglected that duty, the consequence was
that the deceased child became mortally sick and dis-
tempered, and died. Now, he would admit, for the sake
of his argument, that it was the duty of the defendant
under his contract to take care that James Andrews, the
deceased, was properly fed, clothed, and lodged, and that
if by reason of his negligence or carelessness in these par-
ticulars that death ensued, he would have been subject to
a charge of manslaughter, but here it was perfectly clear
from the evidence that this poor boys death did not
occur from any direct act of negligence or omission on
the part of Mr. Drouet, but that he died in consequence
of the cholera, and that the cholera alone was the cause
of death; and that Mr. Drouet had done no act which
in any way contributed to that event. He thought that
he was entitled to say there was an entire absence of
evidence that even the predisposing cause of the attack
was in any way to be attributed to Mr. Drouet, because
it had been proved that before the children were re-
moved from Tooting Mr. Whitfield, the medical officer,
had selected those whom he considered most healthy,
and the most proper on that account, to be taken away;
and that the deceased was among them. The fatal at-
tack occurred afterwards; and under these circum-
stances be thought he was fairly entitled to say, that the
actual cause of death was Asiatic cholera. How, then,
was Mr. Drouet responsible for that visitation? What
had he done? What omission was he guilty of which had
immediately contributed to the death of the deceased?
He submitted, that by the law of England, even if it
wore possible to show that a party was remotely and in-
directly the cause of death, it was not sufficient to sup-
port a charge of manslaughter, but there must be proof
that he was distinctly and immediately the cause of the
death by some act committed by him. In Lord Hale's
" Pleas of the Crown," vol. 1, page 448, some cases were
stated which directly applied to the question now at
issue. Lord Hale said that in a case where a party re-
ceived a wound which was not _in itself mortal, but
which afterwards proved so by the neglect of the person
who received it to take proper remedies, that the act of
the person who orginally inflicted the wound was, under
such circumstances, neither murder nor manslaughter;
and he said the same in another case where a wound,
not in itself mortal or dangerous, resulted in the loss of
life by reason of the use of poisonous salves, and other
ingredients. In order still more to illustrate the point
of his argument, he would admit that Mr. Drouet had
weakened the constitution and strength of the deceased
child by his treatment; still, it was not by any means
a • necessary consequence that the cholera should
arrive and attack the child he had so re-
duced, and, on that ground, Mr. Drouet could not
be held responsible for that which he could not avert.
Sir F. Thesiger then referred to a case mentioned by
Mr. Allison, in his " Report upon the Law of Scotland,"
in which a gamekeeper, who had been shot, and slightly
injured, by a poacher, afterwards died of erysipelas, in
consequence of being placed in a bed where a person
had died of that disorder, and said that in that case the
Lords Justices, notwithstanding that the public prose-
cutor strongly urged that the gun-shot wound was, in
fact and reality, the real cause of the deceased losing his
life, decided that the prisoner was not answerable for the
death under such circumstances. The present case, he
submitted, was exactly similar to those he had referred
to, and he said that as the death had been occasioned
by the cholera, and was not proved to have resulted
from any act of Mr. Drouet, there was no evidence upon
which the jury could be called upon to convict him.
Mr. BALLANTINE followed, and he urged, that if the
present indictment were allowed to prevail, it would be
a straining of the law of England, which, iu his opinion,
would be most dangerous, and which he felt assured
their Lordships would never sanction. What was the
charge against the defendant ? Why, it was said that
by reason of something or other the defendant had done
or omitted, the deceased was made liable to receive a
variety of diseases, cholera, scarlet fever, typhus fever,
scarlatina, &c. Now, what would be the effect of allow-
ing such an indictment as this to proceed ? Why, the
effect would be, that according to the law of man-
slaughter, if, within a year and a day the deceased child
had died of some other disorder, and some ingenious
medical practitioner had fancied that he could dis-
cover at the death was occasioned by the treatment to
which lhe had been subjected, the defendant might have
been indicted for manslaughter. It appeared to him that
it could be just as well said, in a case where a party
had broken the leg of another, who was run over by an
omnibus six months afterwards, because by reason of
the accident he was unable to run fast enough across the
road to get out of the way, that he was guilty of man-
slaughter, as in the present case. The question might
be tested by reference to the relations between masters
and apprentices, and gaolers and prisoners. In a case
where a gaoler had confined a prisoner in a low, damp,
mad unhealthy place, and thereby produced an ill habit of
body, which resulted in his death, it was held to be mur-
der in the gaoler who so acted. Again, in a case where
a prisoner who had not had the small-pox, and who gave
the gaoler notice to that effect, was, notwithstanding,
locked up in the same cell with a prisoner who was suf-
fering from that disease, and who contracted it and died,
there also the act was held to amount to murder. In
these cases the death was remote from the original act,
and upon their authority he submitted that the present
indictment had been fully sustained.
Mr. CLARKSON also addressed the Court in support of
the indictment.
Sir F. THESIGER, in reply, contended that all the cases
which had been cited by his Learned Friend tended to
support the view of the case, which he had originally
ventured to submit to their Lordships. In the first case
the water on the brain was the actual result of the state
of starvation to which the deceased had been reduced.
The same was the case where the prisoner had been con-
fined in a low, damp, and urthealthly dungeon. The
third case, regarding the confining of the prisoner in the
same room with another who was suffering from small,
pox, and still stronger, for that was just the same as
though the gaoler had inoculated the deceased with the
fatal disease, and in every case there was a direct act
tending to death. In the present case it appeared to him
there was an entire absence of evidence to make out
the charge of manslaughter, and he therefore called
upon their Lordships to discharge Mr. Drouet from the
accusation, and to exercise the power which the law re-
posed in them by protecting him from being placed in
any jeopardy, by not allowing the case to go to the jury.
There was some manifestation of applause in the court
when Sir F. Thesiger concluded his reply.
The Judges then consulted together for about ten mi-
nutes, when
Mr. Baron PLATT said that with regard to the ques-
tion whether the prisoner was amenable to a charge of
manslaughter by reason of his having, by bad treatment,
reduced the constitutional energy of the child, so as to
render him unable to resist any disease with which he
might be attacked, they should refrain from giving any
opinion; but it appeared to the Court that there was
another point which disposed of the case altogether.
The indictment charged the defendant with having, by
his improper treatment, so reduced the strength and
constitution of the deceased child that he was unable to
resist the attack of which he afterwards died; but there
had been no evidence whatever adduced to show that the
deceased ever was in such a state of health as to render
it probable that he would have recovered from the ma-
lady but for the treatment of the defendant. This, it
appeared to the Court, was a most important omission,
and one which might easily have been supplied by
medical testimony; and, in the absence of such evidence,
the jury would be called upon to make a leap in the dark.
How were the jury to say that the child would not
equally have died of cholera if it had not been at Tooting
at all? How were the jury to say that the treatment

Mr. La Touche then left the court, and after a lapse of
about five micutes returned and informed their Lordships
that the jury had not come to any agreement, and that
if necessary they would come into court and express their
opinions upon the subject.
Judge JACKSON asked whether th.;inry had given the
High Sheriff to understand that they were likely to agree?
The High Sheriff replied that be did not think there
was much chance of their coming to a decision.
Judge JACKSON next inquired whether the jury had
intimated a desire to put any questions to the court?
The Sheriff said they had not.
The jury, at the order of Judge Jackson, were then
called into court. Having taken their places in their
box and answered to their names,
The Clerk of the Crown inquired whether they had
agreed or not?
The Foreman said they had not, and that there was
not the least probability of their doing so.
Judge JACKSON—WeII, then, gentlemen, the only
course to be taken is that you should retire again to
your chamber, and once more consider the verdict you
ought to find.

NO VERDICT.—DUFFY ADMITTED TO BAIL.
DUBLIN, SATURDAY Evunina.—At the sitting of the
Commission Court this morning Mr. Justice Jackson
directed the sheriff to inquire whether the jury in this
case had agreed to their verdict. The sheriff proceeded
to the room and returned with an answer that they had
not agreed. His Lordship observed that there was no-
thing further to be done fol. the present in the matter,
and directed the city calendar to be proceeded with.
At half-past two o'clock the Court desired the sheriff
to proceed with a doctor to the jury-room, and examine
one of the jurors who wished to see a medical man.
Dr. Hargrave then proceeded to the jury-room, and
on his return said that further confinement would be
dangerous to the life of Mr. Wright.
The jury were called into court, and still declaring
they could not agree, were discharged.
Mr. Burr observed he thought that was the proper
time to make an application to discharge Mr. Duffy on
his own recognizances, or to admit him to bail.
The ATTORNEY- GENERAL said he would not oppose
the application, taking into consideration the imprison-
ment Mr. Duffy had suffered. If he could enter into'
recognizances himself in 1,0001. and two sureties in
5001., he could be discharged.
This announcement was received with loud and pro-
tracted applause, which was with difficulty stopped by
the police.
Several of the disturbers were brought before the
Bench and reprimanded.
The joy manifested outside the court-house was even
greater than that within, when these facts became
known.