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Dec. , 1857.
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Message*. HENRY C . ORTON, Secretary.

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ITR. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, IvFleet-
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A RETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of
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The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
guard to health.

Cold by the proprietors. Lea and Porrins, 19, Penchurch-street,
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N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA
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ANOTHER DEATH OF A CHILD BY
SUFFOCATION IN SOUTHWARK.

Last night, Mr. Wm. Payne, the coroner, held
an inquest in the Board-room of St. George's Work-
house, on the body of a fine full-grown infant,
which was found on Sunday morning, in West-
square, Southwark.

Wm. Ratcliffe, of 33, Bird-street, Kennington-
road, said, as he was passing through West square,
at about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, his atten-
tion was called by a man to a parcel which was
lying a short way up a gateway, between Nos.
18 and 19 in that square. The man opened the
cloth, when he discovered that it contained the
body of a child. He immediately went for a po-
liceman, and the body was taken to the station-
house.

Police-constable George Marsh, 238 M, proved
being sent fo-, and said he took the body to the
station-house.

Joseph R. Reckstraw, sergeant of police, said he
had made inquiries of all the surgeons in the neigh-
bourhood, but could not trace any party to whom
the child belonged. The body was found in a very
retired place.
Mr. T. G. Browne, surgeon, Blackman-st., said
he had that morning seen the child, and it appeared
to him to have been born two or three days. There
was a mark of violence on the front part of the neck,
as if from pressure against the throat. He could
trace the mark of fingers. The navel-string had
never bec n secured, and it had been torn, not cut,
about four or five inches from the body. The child
appeared to have been washed. On opening the
body he found the lungs fully inflated and very
much congested. The brain was also very con-
gested, and the stomach contained a little milk.
The liver was also congested.
The Coroner—What was the cause of death I'
Witness—Congestion of the brain and lungs.

The Coroner—and what was the cause of that ?
Witness—Pressure on the throat. It died from
suffocwion.

Coroner—Do you entertain any doubt about that?
Witness—None whatever.
Coroner—lt was not a natural death ?
Witness—No ; it was not.
Coroner—Can you judge how long it had lived
previous to Its death ?

- Witness—No ; I cannot. The lungs were fully
inflated, but how long► it had lived I cannot say.
A Juror—Was it otherwise a very healthy child ?
Witness—lt was so.
The Coroner then addressed the jury and said—
If it was their wish he would adjourn the inquiry,
if they thought by so doing they could obtain any
further evidence, but at present there did not seem
much chance of it. If, however, they did not ad-
journ, they had the benefit of the surgeon's evidence
that the child had been suffocated, and as the police
would pursue their inquiries, if any person was
apprehended who should be supposed to have mur-
dered this child, then a magistrate could take up
the case, and he would have the benefit of the sur-
geon's evidence, which had been placed on record.
Ho therefore, left the case in the hands of the jury
for them to consider under the circumstances what
course they would pursue.
The jury returned a verdict, " That tho child
died from suffocation, but in what manner and by
whom there was no evidence to show."

This is the second case of child suffocation in this
district within a few days.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The light portion of
these moils will probably arrive at Marseilles to-night,
and reach London on Thursday morning or afternoon—
jut five days after the contract time. In consequence
of this delay the merchants in the northern manufactur-
ing towns will have barely sufficiest time to send replies
to their advices by the outward mail, which leaves on
the 12th instant.

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(From the Illustrated London News.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 1357. —Praise the cities of
America, admire the greatne>s and wealth of the
country, extol the enterprise and "go-aheadativeness"
of the people, or expatiate on the glorious future before
the Republic, and there is a class of persons who reply
to your enthusiasm with a sneer, and assert that they
have "heard all that sort of thing before," and "can
stand a great deal of it" without evil consequences to
their health or indigertion. But if, on the other hand,
the stranger, in the exercise of his independent judgment,
presume to disapprove or condemn anything in the man-
ners of the people, or hint a doubt as to the perfect wis-
dom of any one of their social or political institutions,
these porcupines raise their quills, and grow exceedingly
angry. To them optimism or pessimism, or the medium
between the two, is equally distasteful. No matter how
honest may be the praise or how gi ntle the expression
of disapproval, they do not like it. They seem to sus
pest all praise to be a sham or a mockery, and to feel
all dispraise to be an insult and an outrage. In these
respects they differ from an Englishman, all of whom
can bear with the most patient equanimity the rubs
that would almost drive such sensitive Americans out
of their wits. It must be confessed, ho wever, that more
reflective Amer cans, who have seen the world and are
more assured of the strength and position in the world
of their mighty Republic, take things snore easily ;
accept praise as their due, in the same generous sgrit
in which it is offered ; and endeavour to learn wisdom
from the criticism of people who cross the Atlantic to
see, hear and judge for them selves. Even if they do
not agree with these critic?, they have philosophy and
common sense enough to be undisturbed by it, even
when it seems to be hostile.
In describing the aspects of hotel life in New York
and in the other great cities of America, as they have
impressed me, it is possible that I may incur the dis-
pleasure of those who hold that the "thing of America"
should, like the "cosas de Espana," be kept sacred
from all foreigners, as things which they cannot under-
stand, and which they must not touch upon except
under the penalty of ridicule or misrepresentation of
motives. Nevertheless, if my judgment be imperfect,
it shall at all events be honest ; and, as regards this
particular question of betel life, there are many thou-
sands of estimable and reflecting men and women in
America who, I feel confident, will agree with me in
the estimate I form of it.

The hotels in the great cities of America—in New
York, Philadtlphia' Baltimore, Washington, New
Orleans, Chicago, Boston, &c.—are conducted on a
peculiar system, and in a style of much magnificence.
The British ieles possess no good caravanssraie. Even
the monster Hotel de Louvre in Paris is not to be
compared with such establishments as the St. Nicholas,
the Metropolitan, the Laffarge House, the Astor House,
and many others in New York. Some of them make
up a thousand beds ; and others from five to six and
seven hundred. The country is so immense, the
distances from point to point are so great—such as
from New Orleans to Boston, or from New York to
Chicago and the Far West ; the activity of commerce is
so incessant, and its ramifications so extensive, that a
much larger class of people than with us is compelled
by business, public and private, to be continually upon
the move. Large hotels are, therefore, of positive
necessity ; and, were they solely confined to travellers,
would deserve the praise of being, what they really are,
the finest, most convenient, and best administered hotels
in the world. It is not their fault, that they have, in
the course of time, and by the force of circumstances,
been devoted to other uses, and that they have become
the permanent homes of families, instead of remaining
the temporary residence of strangers,
For a fixed charge of two dollars and a half a day
(about ten shillings and sixpence English) the traveller
has a comfortable bed-room, the use of a drawing-room,
dining-room, reading-room, and smoking-room, and the
full enjoyment of a liberal tariff, or bill of fare, for
breakfast, luncheon, dinner, tea, and supper. Two
dollars and a halt include ad charges for s-rvants and
every charge whatever that can be fivrly included under
the head of board and lodging, except wine, beer, and
spirits. Being well lighted with gas, there is no charge
for wax lights—that flaring pretext for extortion in
England. The cookery is in general excellent. The
breakfast is bounteous, and is spread from eight o'clock
till twelve, between which hours fish, flesh, and fowl,
fresh meat and salt meat, eggs, omelettes, wheaten
bread, rye bread, coin bread, corn cakes, rice cakes and
buckwheat cakes (the last a far greater delicacy than
England can show) are liberally distributed. From
twelve o'clock to two the luncheon is spread with equal
profusion; and from two to six there is a succession of
dinners, the getting up of which, at such hotels as the
St. Nicholas, the Metropolitan, or the AstorHouse,would
do credit to Mr. Francatelli of the Reform Club.
As soon as dinner is over, tea commences, and as soon
as tea is cleared away, the cloths are cleared for supper,
so that from eight in the morning till midnight there is
one continual succession of feasts, at which Governors of
States, members of Congress, Judges, Generals, ex-
Presidents of the Republic, the magnates of commerce
and the law, and all the miscellaneous and less distin•
guished public, male and female, sit down to partake.
Whether the traveller do ordo not partake is the same to
the landlord. He may eat once, twice, thrice, or all day
long, if he pleases. The price is two dollars and a half,
even if he should take all his meals abroad. If ladies and
families prefer to have apartments of their own, the
pie° for lodgings varies from three to five or ten dol-
lars a day, according to the extent or elegance of accom-
modation required. In like manner the board of each
individual, supplied in a private apartment, is raised
from two and a half to four dollars per diem. The con-
sequence is that very few people board in their private
rooms, and that nearly all breakfast, dine, and sup in
public, except the very young cbildrer, for whose con-
venience there is a separate table d'hote.
It will thus be seen that for the travelling community
these hotels are very comfortable, very luxurious, very
cheap, and very lively. In consequence of the great
difficulty that private families experience in procuring
cooks and housemaids in a country where menial service
is considered somewhat beneath the dignity of a native-
born American, where service is called " help," to avoid
wounding the susceptibility of free citizens, and left
almost exclusively to negroes and the newly-imported
Irish, who too commonly, more especially the female
portion of them, know nothing whatever, or exceedingly
little of any household duties, and whose skill in cookery
scarcely extends to the boiling of a potato, the mistresses
of families keeping house on their own account lead but
an uncomfortable life. In England the newly-married
couple take a house, furnish it, and live quietly at home.
In the cities of America for the rule does not apply
to the rural districts—they take apartments at the hotel,
and live in public, too glad to take advantage of the
ready means which it affords of escape from the nuisances
attendant upon inefficient,
incomplete, and insolent ser-
vice. The young wife finds herself relieved from all the
cares and miseries and responsibilities of housekeeping,
and has nothing to think of but dress, visiting, reading,
and amusement. Brides who begin married life in
hotels often continue in them from
youth to maturity
and age, without possessing the inestimable advan-
tage and privilege of any more secluded home. To
those who know nothing of domestic affairs, and
to those who are willing to attend to them, but cannot
procure proper " help" in their household, the hotel
system is equally well adapted. It saves trouble,
annoyance, and expense ;—but at what a cost of the
domestic amenities ! Perhaps not above one-half of the
people who Jail sit down to dinner in these superb
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To eat in public now and then may be desirable; but
for ladies to take all their meals every day, and all the
year round, in the full glare of publicity ; to be always
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Lull dressed ; to associate dully—almost hourly—with
strangers from every part of America and of the world ;
to be, if young and handsome, the cynosure of all idle
and vagrant eyes, either at the table d'hote or in the
public drawing-room ;—these are certainly not the
charm of wedded life. And
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the husband and wife to which an Englishman objects,
but its influence upon the young children, who play
about the corridors and halls of such mansions, and
become prematurely old for want of fresh air and exercise,
and overknowing from the experiences they
acquire and
the acquaietances which they c ,ntract. Perhaps fast
people
may consider such objections to savour of " old
s ' 'whale. net • The system is peculiar to
America,
end, therefore, strikes the attention more
forcibly fogyism
than if it were common to the civilised world.
It is, doubtless, more the misfortune than the fault
of American families that they live so much in this style;
for, without good servants who know their duty, and
are not too supercilious and saucy to perform it, it is
impossible for a lady, without shortening her life and
making herself worse than a slave, to have a comfortable
and happy home, or to govern it with pleasure or advan-
tage either to herself or her family- Recently the New
York and Philadelphia newspapers have beers filled with
the details of two scandalous cases—one ending in a
tragedy—of which a New York and a Philadelphia
hotel were the scenes ;—and in both of which the fair
fame of ladies was sacrificed. To these painful exposures
it is not necessary to make further allusion ; but they
are so fresh in the public recollection that they cannot
be passed over, even in this cursory glance at some of
the evils attendant upon the undue publicity of female
life in such monster hotels as I have endeavoured to

describe.
To all the hotels is attached an establishment known
as the "bar," where spirituous liquors are retailed under
a nomenclature that puzzles the stranger, and takes a
long acquaintanceship with American life and manners
to become familiar with. Gin-sling, brandy-smash,
whisky-skin, streak of lightning, cock-tail, and rum
salad are but a few of the names of the drinks which are
consumed at the bar, morning, noon, and night, by
persons who in a similar rank of life in England would
no more think of going into a gin-shop than of robbing