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N0.17,572.] LONDON, FRIDAY v NING

TWENTY-THIRD REPORT OF THE
LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK.
At a GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS,
held at the Banking-house of the Company, in Princes-street, Man-
sion House, on THURSDAY, January 18, 1849,
AMBROSE MOORE, Esq., Chairman.
WM. JAS. LANCASTER, Esq.. Deputy-Chairman.
mace TORS.
William James Lancaster, Esq.
Sir John M"faggart, Bart., M.P.
George Meek, Esq.
William Metcalfe, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq.
John Timothy Oxley, Esq.
George Scholefield, Esq.
William Shadbolt, Esq.
George Taylor, Esq.

Win. Moan'', Esq.
Sir Felix Booth, Bart.
Sir George Carroll, Alderman.
William Miller Christy, Esq.
William Curling, Esq.
George Ilolgate Foster, Esq.
William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P.
Henry Grace, Esq.
Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P.
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B.
The MANAGER—George Pollard, Esq.
SOLICITORS —Messrs Tilson, Squance, Clarke, and Morice,

The following report was presented :
The statement now submitted to the Shareholders of the business
of the Bank during the half-year ending the 30th of December last,
show, the net profit to be 24,7751. 2s. 10d. T: is amount added to
the 15,490/. 3s. Bcl. left at the cred t of the profit and loss account of
the preceding half-yiar, gives the sum of 40,265/. 6s. Gd. to be now
disposed of.
The Directors, therefore, have decided to declare the usual divi-
dend, after the rate of 61. per centum per annum, and also a bonus of
7s. per share, both free from Income-t ,x. These payments will
leave a balance of 1,265/. Gs. Gd. to be carried to the credit of the
guarantee fund, which, with the six mon' hs' interest added thereto,
acco-ding to the provision of the Dee of Settlement, will amount to
128,765/. Os. Gd.
The seats in the direction which become vacant on this occasion
are those of Sr Felix Booth, Bart , William Miller Christy, Esq.,
William Ormsby Gore, Esq., 34. P , Henry Grace, Esq., and Sir
Richard Jenkins, G C B. ; and tkese gentlemen again offer them-
selves as andidates for reelection.

The Dividend and Bonus will be payable on and after Friday, the
26th instant.

The preceding rerort having been read to the meeting by. the
Secretary, a dividend for the half-year, ending the 31st December
last, after the rate of 67. per centum per annum, and a further divi-
sion of 7s. per share out of the net profit of the year ending as above,
were declared by the Chairman.
Resolved unanimously,
" That the report now read be received, and that it be printed for
the use of the Shareholders."

The following Directors having re'ired by rotation, were unani-
mously re-elected, viz. : —Sir Felix Booth, Bart., William Miller
Christy, Esq., William Ormsby Gore, Esq., M.P., Henry Grace, Esq.,
and Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B.
Resolved unanimously,
"That the best thanks of the meeting be given to the Chairman
and Directors for their excellent management of the affairs of the
Bank."
Resolved unanimously,

" That the cordial thanks of the Meeting be given also to Mr. Pol-
lard, the Manager, Rir the manner in which be promotes the interest
of the Bank, and the attention he pays to the customers."
(Signed) AAIBROSE MOORE, Chairman.
(Extracted from the minutes.)
(Signed) F. HEWETT, Secretary.

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INQUEST AT KENSINGTON.
Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest, in the board-
room of the Kensington Workhouse,on the body of John
Wilkins, one of the twenty-three boys belonging to that
parish, removed from Mr. Drouet's establishment, and
who was subsequently attacked with cholera, from the
effects of which he died.
After the evidence of the boy's mother respecting his
death, the CORONER directed the daughter, nine years of
age, to be brought into the inquest-room. She was
brought in, in the arms of a nurse, wrapped in a blan-
ket. On examining the child, the Coroner said he had
never before seen such a bad case of itch: it was really
fright ful.
Mr. Blackwell explained to the Coroner and jury.
The girls had been removed from the Tooting establish-
ment ever since the 9th of November last, in conse-
quence of the complaints of some of them that Mr.
Drouet's brother had acted improperly towards them.
The girl was then removed from the room, and the
Coroner repeated that she was a perfectly sickening sight.
Fanny Bailey deposed that she was fourteen years of
age, and, while in Mr. Drouet's establishment, was a
helper in the ward in which the deceased boy was
placed. She knew him, and used to see him frequently.
There wore sixty-five boys generally in the ward. The
Coroner—Did all the children dine together in the hall
(the number was stated to be 1,372)? Witness—No,
sir; about 700 dined in the hall, and the others in
other parts of the premises: some in the wards.
The Coroner—Did you ever complain of the food
you had at Tooting? Witness—No, sir, I was always
afraid to speak about Mr. Drouet, or of what we had to
eat, for fear of punishment. The Coroner—Did you
ever know of any of the children being punished for
speaking of the food they had there? Witness—Some
of the Chelsea girls were. Mr. Drouet blew them up.
By the Coroner—When any of the Kensington guar-
dians came to see their children, they saw them in the
parlour, in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Drouet, the
governess and schoolmaster, and nurses, and never alone.
By a juror—Was only once present when the guardians
saw them alone. The Coroner—Now, on your oath,
had you ever, while at Tooting, enough to eat? Wit-
ness—Not when I bad my meals in the hall. Had enough
when I was in the ward, as the nurse gave me more than
the allowance.
Thomas Mills, twelve years of age, was next exa-
mined. He could neither read nor write, and he did not
know his catechism, and the Coroner would not there-
fore administer the oath to him. He stated that he had
been occasionally to school; was employed with another
boy to scour out two of the attics, which were sleeping
rooms. Sometimes they were done every morning, but
generally once a week. They were each paid twopence
a week for doing so. There were 12 beds in one
room, and 13 beds in the other, and in each bed three
boys slept. Never while at Tooting had enough to eat;
was always hungry after his meals. A great many boys
had run away from Drouet's establishment. The
Coroner—Tell us what you think made the children bad,
and brought the cholera to Tooting. Witness—Want
of enough " grub." There were no water-closets to go
to at night at Tooting, but two tubs were placed in each
bedroom, which the boys used.
The CORONER here asked Mr. Guazzaroni (the medi-
cal officer of the workhouse) if he had ever visited the
Tooting establishment and examined the quality of the
food there ? Mr. Guazzaroni replied that he had, and
that:he had found the quality of the food exceedingly bad.
John Thomas, a boy, 14 years old, was then brought
in, and it being found that he had not been to. school,
and could not tell an E from an A when it was shown
him in the room, the Coroner would not swear him.
He made the same statements as to the insufficiency of
the food.
Mr. Goodrich said the boy was a very intelligent boy
before he went to Tooting, but now he appeared to have
lost all his animation, and appeared nearly a fool. He
had visited the establishment in June or July last with
some of the guardians, when he saw reasons to complain
of the overcrowding of the children in both the bedrooms
schoolroom.iatnddtiffheerenttotha made He alsi.
also tasted
George's!asttedthesoup, and found
Workhouse,
there being no fibre of meat in it. He therefore refused
on leaving to write anything in the book, and on the
way home he impressed on the guardians the necessity
for taking the children home, but the new workhouse not
being ready, it could not be done. After some further
evidence,

The CORONER summed up, and the juryureotnurnfeedvear
verdict, " That the deceased child had died from the
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The Foreman said that the jury unanimously con-
sidered that, in returning a verdict in accordance with
the medical testimony, they should only do ;right in
coupling it with their opinion that the attack of cholera
produced at Tooting proceeded from the insufficiency of
food and warm clothing and the want of proper ventila-
tion in Mr. Drouet's establishment.

INQUEST AT HACKNEY,
Yesterday Mr. W. Baker resumed the inquest at the
Old Mermaid, Hackney, which was adjourned on Satur-
day last, touching the deaths of John Keen, Thomas
Neenan, William Walton, and John Burke, pauper
children of the parish of Islington, who were removed
from Mr. Drouet's establishment at Tooting to a tem-
porary asylum at Hackney, where they died of cholera
in a few days subsequent to their removal.
Mr. W. Pearse deposed that he was one of the sur-
geons to the Islington Union. He had been sent down
to Tooting to examine into the condition of the children
of that parish, who had been placed under the care of
Mr. Drouet. He found several of them suffering from
cholera, and many had died of that disease at Tooting.
His instructions were to remove all that were not affected,
and he accordingly had fifty-four children taken away on
the same day, all of whom he considered free from
cholera. It was, however, a disease which might set in
and not develope itself for days. The incubation might
nut, and yet not ohow itself even for weeks by preßie-

THE TOOTING CHOLERA CASES.
CORONER'S VERDICT AT ST. PANCRAS.
Last evening Mr. Mills resumed and concluded at the
Elephant and Castle, Camden-town, the adjourned in-
quest on Josiah Joseph Coster, aged five, a pauper child,
who died in St. Pancras Workhouse of cholera, after his
removal from Surrey-lodge, Tooting.
Mr. M‘Gahey, clerk to the board of guardians, de-
posed that with the approbation of Mr. Hall, Assistant
Poor-law Commissioner, and Mr. Tuffnell, Inspector of
Poor Schools, the guardians of St. Pancras farmed out
the pauper children to Mr. Drouet at 4s. 6d. a head per
week. They bad previously satisfied themselves that
the place was fully suited to the children. Every month
a committee visited and reported upon the condition of
the children. These reports were satisfactory until
August, when, in consequence of a report of a boy who
died, having been ill-treated there, Messrs. Robinson and
Johnson, two medical officer; were deputed to make a
personal inspection of the boys. They did so, and
found that several had wasted limbs, large abdomens,
and suffered from debility, the results of bad or insuf-
ficient diet. 58 were so affected. It was also their
opinion that the master was rather severe. The guar-
dians communicated that to Mr. Drouet, who promised
that these things should not again occur, and that it
would not be his fault if the boys did not in future look
plump.
Mr. Pitt, actuary to the guardians, estimated, from
the workhouse dietary, that the net cost of each child
would be 3s. 7d., and therefore he fixed on 4s. 6d. as a
fair sum for Mr. Drouet. Upwards of thirty ap-
prentices from Mr. Drouet's passed through his hands.
They all proved strong, athletic lads, fit for sea, to which
they were sent.
The CORONER-It was singular that he found the
bodies of the children quite emaciated, although their
faces appeared plump.
Mr. Pitt—Mr. Drouet gave notice of the outbreak of
the cholera instantly, when the guardians removed the
children without delay.
John Woodhouse, aged 14, one of the boys from Toot-
ing, examined—He went with deceased and other boys
to Tooting, where deceased and several others caught
the itch. The nurse gave them and other boys who had
sores on them some medicine, without their seeing the
doctor. They had not enough to eat. The master
would knock down and beat the boys across the back
with a stick until welds and sores were formed. Beat a
boy and pulled the ears of others, because they com-
plained of insufficient food. Some boys ran away, and
when brought back had their heads shaved, as a punish-
ment. If he were sent back he should like to get more
food. Ile preferred the workhouse, because he got
more food there. Some of the boys ate the potato-peel-
ings out of the pig-tub. Mr. Drouet was opposed to the
boys being beaten.
Margaret Yarrow, aged 13, also from Mr. Dronet's,
said that they had not sufficient food or clothing. The
bed-clothes were also insufficient. The mixed flour and
arrow-root which they got for breakfast they could not
use, so they only had dry bread for breakfast. They
were allowed neither towels nor soap, and had to wipe
their hands and faces on their pinafores. She much
preferred the workhouse, for in it they had plenty to eat.
James Alford and another child corroborated the
above; and with the other two witnesses said that when-
ever the committee from the workhouse interrogated
them, almost all the children replied they had not enough
to eat.
Mr. Bird, the medical officer appointed over the child-
ren in the workhouse, repeated his history of the pro-
gress of the cholera, which has been already published.
Verdict: —" We find that Josiah Joseph Coster died
from virulent cholera, a disease occurring to him at a
time when he was suffering from the effects of insuffi-
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the proprietor of Surrey Hall, to fulfil his duty to such
a large number of children as they had confided to his
care, under a written and more definite contract than
appears to be executed by them. At the same time the
jury most emphatically condemn the practice of farming
pauper children in the house of strangers, because the
system engendered by it affords to unprincipled persons
disastrous opportunities of defrauding the poor children
of their proper food and clothing, in a manner that does
not seem to become publicly apparent, nor to produce
such adequate effects on the minds of the guardians, as
to lead them to the correction of the evils which inflict
the most direful effects on the helpless population of such
an establishment."