Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-02


of the metropolis where wretchedness the most abb
ject and squad has its throngs, and at last fell a
victim to his own humanity, has led to public APP
peal in behalf of his wife and children, which APP
pears 70 have been creditably met. II has, at
the same time, called out certain statistics Of health
and facts of courageous benefcence which refresh
the heart that has bled with the European misery of
the last year. The following statements, from the
Morning Chronicle, will be found of not only
touching interest but of high importance, wherever
there y crowded population, ill-fed and exposed
to the dlseasebreeding action Of dirty streets, stag
nant waters, damp cellars, and insufficient supplies
of pure water and air:
"It must persuade ourselves, be almost work of
peerotion point the earnest attention of our readers
the meeting reported in paper of yesterday, held for the
pnrpose promoting subscription for the widow and family
Of the late Iamened DR.. LrNcH. The report has mea
choy interest," both Of public and private nature, which
must have already deeply impressed every heart and
thoughtful mind. We scarcely hope say any thing
that can strengthen the powerful claims public sympathy
and gratitude contained in the simple facts detailed by Mr.
CHADWICK AGsng medical practitioner, in the youthful
prime of life, and With the brightest prospects Of professional
success and rePution, grauitously devotng his tme
public servcereey encounering, without perfect
Of the deadly risk the poisonous influences of filth and
infection, in the oour and alleys, with other
object than that of rous the conscience of the community
to grappe with loahsdne and frghtful class Of public
evsand at length struck Down in the flower of his days.
victim of the destroying power from which he toed
the poor and helpless OF his feowcreatues this
narrative which WILL confidently assure ourselves make
its way to the hearts of all who appreciate unequed
abors and sacrifices in the Of humanity The service
in which Dr. LYNCH fell public SERVICE as danger
ous has been most truly said, a military service though
without those accompaniment of glory and excitement
which stimulate the soldiers daring. II is for the public
especially the public OF this metropolis which the battle
field Of departed friends unequal combat with the
powers of peence and deahto protect those whom his adj
venturous philanthropy has deprived oa husband and father
We gladly accept the indications afforded by the list Of noble
and honoed names already before the world that this appeal
cannot fall idly on the and heart Of London.
The spirit which this appeal public Justice and graft
ude has been de and thus far responded be linn
tied in lis expression to the individual Immediately
before US by the painfully interesting speech If the Chair
of Tuesdays meeting, reminded that the late Dr.
Lynch Of many who have recently fallen in the
similar struggle The Of sanitary improvement has
of late had many martyrs Out Of twelve fourteen cases.
says Mr. Chadwick of gentlemen who have entered into
sanitary investigations, the majority have had their
health affected in various degrees; and this of Dr.
Lynch is the third if not the fourth which has terminated
fatally If the service Of inquiry with view TO prevention,
has been pelous and costly still widely fatal has been
that OF alienation II right that the community should be
made distinctly Of the mournfu of life which has
been paid within the past few months in the attempt
mitigate the effects of those peslena agencies which the
State has hitherto permitted to dominate large towns
Mr. Chadwick gives the following summary Of recent deaths
in the service of alienation ::
t'At Liverpool minister of the Established Church
died. One curae had narrow escape. One dissenting
minister died There stated have been eighteen Roman
('nth
fever have been registered believe that of ninth may be
added But twenty medical officers and their assistants,
twenty have had fever either in mild form, and
il fatal in four instances This exclusive Of assistants
Ten relieving officers and assistant relieving officers have been
carried off there by fever The captain of the Akbar hospital
ship and his assistant have been off In ALL nineteen Of
the persons engaged in the administration Of relief at Liverpool
At Manchester Mr. Walker, medical officer, who had writ
work the diseases of the eye and otherwise contrbut
ed the advancement of medical science had been off
also relieving oiIicers-n ALL fifteen officers engaged in
the public in the administration Of relief Mr.. Noble,
medical officer who had written sanitary improvement,
has been attacked by fever At Leeds there have died the
junior curaie of the Leeds parish church, and five Roman
Catholic clcTgymen, medical who took the duties of
the medical officer who had died from yphus fever and three
at Rochdae medical officer and two nurses died;
al Warrington medical officer died at Ashton under
Lyme one assistant the Fever Hospital Bolton,
medical officer Blackburn, medical officer at Brming
ham the district surgeon killed also the choomaster and
assistant governor of the wokhouse and nine assistants and
nurses"
Few persons among that body of sufferers who
were by the attractions Of the literature called the
cheap, betrayed into reading the political balder-
dash Of Mr.. Benjamin dIsraeli's +" Dung Eng
land" can have forgotten the desperation of absur
dity with which he there maintains two special
theses: the first, that every thing great has always
had for its performers young men the second, that
of these enactors of great things, the Jews are,
throughout the world, at this present writing, far
the most frequent and heroic instances from which
two grand propositions would necessarily flow Sc
veral most precious hergoreS, mhergores, conse-
guentles, and accordngteS as, for instance, these:
That your veteran soldier and your experienced
statesman, your ripe legislator lawyer, and your
physician who has dealt with all forms of disease,
your poet who has ceased to "lisp in verse" and
your prosaist who has past the sophomorical
of composition, are only 50 many shocking hum
bugs. AS tacticians, Napoleon was superannuated
just when he came to the rst-Consulship Wei
lingon when he returned from India, Julius Cesar
long before he went into Gaul, Quintus Fabius Max
linus before he was matched against Hannibal,
Hannibal himself long ere he marched over the
Alps, George Washington shortly after Braddocks
defeat, Nathaniel Greene when sent to command IN
the South: Winfield Scott is nothing to the Gideon
who with his rams horns would blow down all the
Jerichos in Mexico; the sober vaor of Zachary