The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-26 00:00:00

to that currency under which prices rose during the
war, and there is no other mode. To this the
manufacturer would not object, as such high prices,
being paper prices, and not gold prices, his trade
with foreigners would not be tifected. The manu-
facturer would still he able to sell cht-ap to the
foreigners while be would sell dear at home ; and,
thus, he also would throw his share of taxation on the
consumer. If agriculturists and manufacturers could
only see these points, they would form one common
league against the usurers and moneymongers to whom
both are the unconscious victims. As to the working
classes, they also would receive high wages; and, by
high wages, we specially mean, such wages as would
cover all the indirect taxes they now pay on all they
consume. Thus, all the industrious, of every grade,
would be liberated from fiscal burthens, which would
fall, where they ought to fall, on property. Such is the
equitable and honourable adjustment we propose between
the lords of the plough and the loom.

EXTRAORDINARY MORTALITY.
On Monday morning, at ten o'clock. Mr. Wakley-, ,
reserved an adjourned inquiry,in the board room of Mid•
dleiex Hospital, relatiNe to the respective deaths of
William Lambert, aged 17, and Henry Lambert, aged
12, brothers, forming two of a numerous family, who had
died in that institution under the following extraordinary
and mysterious circumstances. Many medical gentle-
men attended the investigation.
It will he reeellected that on the former occasion it
appeared in evidence that the father of the deceased, who
carried on business as a painter and glazier, at No. 33,
Cumberland-market, died about twelve weeks since, sub-
sequent to which his widow, three sons, daughter, and
grand-daughter, had been seized with a malady which they
considered was the scarlet fever. The grand-daughter
however dying, and the sons becoming daily worse, they
*ere on the 4th inst. removed to the hospital, where on
the 13th, William died, and on the 15th, Henry. As the
cause of their deaths could in no way be accounted for
by any of the medical eentlemen echo saw them, Mr.
Corte, the house apothecary, communicated with Mr.
Wakley, and the result was the present investigation.
On the re-assembling of the jury yesterday, the de-
puty coroner having read over the evidence before ad-
duced,
the following witnesses were examined :
Mr. W. Curie stated that. the deceased were admitted
into that hospital on Tuesday, the 4th instant, together
with another brother who still remained there, and was
gradually progressing towards recovery. They all ex-
hibited precisely the same symptoms. and had been at-
tacked in the same manner. The indistinctness of their
articulation rendered it very difficult for them to explain
the nature of their complaint. Witness considered them
te be labourin under a poisonous effluvium arising from
the sewer in the neighbourhood in which they had re-
sided. The eldest brother, John Lambert, still survived.
There was a great swelling about the jaws and throat,
with an excessive foetid discharge from the mouth and
nostrils, and from the cause before mentioned they could
not be questioned as to their condition. Another symptom
was a most voracious appetite. Leeches were applied to
the jaws, and the knees and elbows became very much
swol en and painful. On examination of the body of the
de eased, Wm. Lambert, after death, he found both the
knee joints to contain a thick fluid. The membrane of
the larynx was reduced. Nothing unusual was found in
the stomach. The lower part of the wsophagus was
healthy, bat there was a laceration about the gums. In
a case of poi ioning recorded in a German periodical, and
translated by Die Harrison (an extract of. which was
read by the witness), the symptoms very much corre-
spended with those f the deceased. On a post 'nor tem
examination of the deceased Ilenry, ulceration of the
lorysie was discovered. The veins did not exhibit any
inflammation; and the stomach as well as the other
organs were quite healthy, but the breast and ankle
jetets were found to contain putrid matter. He (wit-
ness) had never during his fourteen years' practice at
that hospital met with so peculiar a case. The disease
was quite new to him, and as he had stated to the Co-
roner when he forwarded his communication, it was his
opinion that death was the result of some poisonous
animal matter, but what that animal matter was he was
unprepared to say. The case had struck all the medical
gentlemen who had heard of it as one of the most in-
c smprehensible in the annals of medicine.
Francis Amelia Lambert, sister to the deceased, was
next called, and said that on the 4th of October last she
went to nurse, during her illness, her sister, Mrs. Win-
grove, wife of a brewer's vat maker, living in Whet-
stone-park, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Two or three days
aft, swards witness was seiz,el with sickness and pains in
her leins. with sore throat and a rash all over her. She
remained there till the 10th, when becoming worse, she
returned home to her mother's, where her voice failed
her, and on the 14th her skin peeled off. She was better
the lellewing day and very hungry, but was unable to
open her mouth, and her sister (Mrs. Wingrove) was the
same. Witness, however, eventually rallied and re-
c... ered. On the 19th her (witness's) child aged ten
months, became ill under similar symptoms, which were
stated by an apothecary in the neighbourhood to be
scarlet fever, and it died on the 2d inst., before which
time witness's mother had been also attacked, but re-
st bred to health. Between the 28th and 30th ult., the
deceased and her (witness's) brother John, whose age
was 20, bad been seized in the like way as herself, and
a ere removed on the day before mentioned to that hos-
ditsl in a cab.

The CORONER-11r. Corfe, have you no means of con-
veying persons here ? Mr. Corfe—No, sir.
Cows:Ns:a—That is a very wrong thing. Here are
three persons brought to this place in a vehicle, all of
when arc labouring under a most frightful and infecti-
ons disease. The consequence is, that after they had
alighted. others might have got into the same convey-
ance. an:l thus the disease might spread. Was there no
applieation made to the hospital relative to the deceased
prier to their admission ? Mr. Cerfe—No, sir.
hiarlotte Lambert, mother of the deceased, corrobo-
retPd he r daughter's evidence.
Mr. Headland, surgeon, of Guildford-street, Russell-
square, deposed that he was called about a month since
to attend Mrs. Wingrove, who was suffering from swell-
ing, in the throat, which rapidly ran into suppurations.
They occurred so quickly below both jaws on either side
as to keep her mouth closed for fourteen or fifteen days,
du.ing which time she could scarcely swallow nourish-
ment. Before twenty-four hours had elapsed his atten-
tisn was attracted to her child, an infant at the breast,
which had swellings of a similar character, and which,
in two days after tan into large cavities, one in the face
and the other in the neck. Witness believed that
to the velocity of the suppuration was to be attributed
the saving of life, otherwise the constitutional disturb-
ance wou!d have been so greet from the frightfully in-
fectious and contagious nature of the disease as to have
caused their deaths. On his second visit he gave orders
that all persons should be kept away from his patient
except a nurse, but no one seemed inclined to attend her,
when Mrs. Wingrove sent for her sister (the witness
Faroe Lambert), who immediately came. On a sub-
sequent visit he saw the witness at Mrs. Wingrove's, and
thonAht she was ailing, and on his next caking she had
returned home. It occurred to him as to whether these
cases might not be some of the forms of scarlet fever,
bat he could find no rash in either case, and it was now
his dec:ded opinion that such was not the fact.
CORONER—Did you at that time, or have you subse-
tpteatly, endeavoured to trace the source of the matter?
Witness—Yes, I am induced to ascribe this malady to
some special peculiarity of the atmosphere, and I must
say, that the house and premises, in the yard of which
there are pigs, fowls, See., is altogether an unwholesome

place.
By a juror—lre certainly considered the disease was
ectrihutiall!e to some atmospheric circumcancir of a spe-
cific character.
Ily the COrIONER—Ho had never met with any other
such cases, although he had had for years a most ex-
t.-n-4e practice. It was one of the most extraordi-
&nary cases perhaps on record. Witness had done ali
he could to prevent the spreading of this very peculiar
avd unprecedented diseate. Ile would further remark,
that there was a drain in Lincoln's Inn-fields, near to
lir: house occupied by Mr. Wingrove, which was, with-
out exception, the worst drain in all London.
The CORONER (emphatically)—Ah! you had better
weal i su that fact distinctly, because there are some very
rich an I influential people in Lincoln's Inn-fields, and
that drain it would seem is in the very midst of the part
thpy inhabit.
Witness continuation)—•There are three or four
houses in that neighbourhood positively unfit for habi-
tation.

The CORONER—Can you name the disease of which
the deceased died? Witness—No, sir.

CORONER (to Mr. Corfe)—Can you? Mr. Conte—l
cannot, sir.
The same question was put to several gentlemen in
the room who had assisted in the case, and whose replies
were also in the negative.
There being no further evidence,
The CORONER proceeded to sum up. 11,3 remarked
that the disease which occasioned the deaths of the de-
ceas. 41 was quite as unaccountable to him as it was to
the gen:lemen who had spoken, and it wvul I be remena•
beret on the first assemblage of the jury there was rea-
aon to susceet that it had originated in the vicinity of
Cana:el-land-market, but it was now quite evident that it
W " not so. He (the Coroner) felt quite satisfied that it
di i not originate there at all, and he could conceive
nothing could be lainer than that it had been car-
r,,
d there from Whetstone-park. The observations
of Mr. Corfe precisely corresponded with those
a Mr. Headland, and it seemed true that it was
a ~14,eilic disease, which was communicable appa-
rchtly by contagion, as also by infection. Mr. Curfe,
u gentleman of many years' practice at that
e-taliliibrnent, had stated that he considered it to be
c ins. d by a poisonous effluvium from animal matter, and
that the case was of an entirely new character. He Jilt.
Coroner, however, did not believe, although it was .evi-
dent that the deaths of the deceased had been caused by
pojsJ;!, that anything of a l'eleterious n stare lad been
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administered. After s,ane .further (1;:tr
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the
and which
Coroner) concluded by compitinenting tr the
great attention they had paid ti that wioeli
siaend an important public inquiry, w
trusted would gain a publicity whereby the attention of
her Majesty's Commissioners of Sewers would be ca'led
to the immediate locality of Linciiln's Inn-fields ; and at
the same time he hoped the distressing cordition of Mrs.
Lambert, who bad so suddenly suffered a don" estic
affliction, would attract the notice of the benevolent.
The jury then, after some consultation, returned the
following verdict :—" That the deaths of the deceased
William and Henry Lambert were caused by some poi-
sonous effluvium, to the jury unknown."

THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Co-
burg, left the Bricklayers'Armq station of the South-Eastern
Railway at a quarter-past eleven on M(a lay morning for
Folkestone, where they embarked on board the South-
Eastern andi Continental Steam-packet Company's stezn
ship the Queen of the Belgians, for Boulogne. The chairman
of the South-Eastern Railway and Viscount Torrington and
Mr. Brown, directors, were in attendance on their Royal
Highnesses, who were accompanied by the Count de Jarnac
and Colonel Wyld.