The Express. — 1847-01-05 (London, England)

CUURCII.—During the early service in the p Irish Church of Kensington on Sunday warning last, an I d man of SO, named Charles Fisher, a regular attendant in the fr., seats, dropped suddenly on the &qr of the male, and expired. &vend of the congregation hastened tbromril to aa.ist him into the vestry. Tiara he was examined by a surgeon, who declared that the death must have been inatantanssaus.  Toe Flue:, ur 1816.—Yesterday forenoon, Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the Coulon engine establishment, I sid b. fore the committee of the brigade his annual report of the fires which have occurred in the metrop 'titan district during the year 1h46. The numbs r of workshops, warehouses, and private (leeching., that were entirely destroyed and considerably damaged by tire was 2.a. The number of similar buildings that were slightly damaged by fire, water, &c., was 570, making a tots] of &II ; a larger number than has cc, r taken place since the formation of t establishment. Out of the above there were tlf:een outbreaks which were attended wilt loss of life, and the total number of live, lost was tweuty-three. SUICIDE Icy PRUssIC AClD.—Yestertlny information was forwarded to the coroner of the d,lath of Mrs. Grace Kirby, a widow lady, residing at .11, Gough-street, Gray's-inn-road, which took place under the following singular circumstances:—On Friday evening Mrs. Kirby went out, and on returning home she sat down, as usual, in the parlour, and entered into conversation with her landlady. Whilst so sitting she pulled a bottle from her pocket, saying she had purchased the stuff which was in it for her cough, and at the time drank some. In a few minutes after she fell from the chair quite insensible. Mr. Hodges,ofGuilfurdstreet, and sere other medical gentlemen a ere sent for, and promptly attended, but all effort to restore animation was useless. On examining the bottle it was found to contain essential oil of almonds, enough to kill twelve nr fourteen persons. The mystery is how the deceased became possesses! of such a bottle and its contents, it being evident that no chemist would have sold her the quantity found, or have furnished her with such a bottle. The proper officers, however, are using every exertion to trace Irvin whence the poison and bottle pone.  INQUESTS, YEsTERDAT.—DE.VCII FROM IMPURE Ant.—At the Bed Lion, Shoe-lane, Holborn, by Mr. Payne, on the body of a man who died at No. 26, field-lane (a common lodging-house). Dr. Lynch, surgeon of the West Loudon Union, said that he was requested to attend the deceased about seven o'clock on Saturday morning. On entering the room, he found the window shut and the fireplace blocked up. Deceased was probably in a fit. Had he been removed into a pure atmosphere, life might hare been preserved.—A juror observed that many persons died of old age in courts and alleys, and in Saffron-hill he had seen children full of Lea:Lb.—Dr. Lynch said that there were exceptions to the rule, but that it had been proved by the bills of mortality that, in these localities, out of one hundred thousand children, about half died in their infancy. Mr. Cavil], relieving-officer of the union, said, that these houses always caused great an zloty to the authorities at the workhouse and the board of guardians. He had made a report upon the subject to the common council and the ward officers, stating that these establishments engendered fever. Many are brought to the workouse in that state; and it was a fact, that in one week last year four were admitted at one time who died twenty-four hours after their adnaissiou. He had seen thirty-six beds in a room in which the fire-place was closed. These were occupied by men, women, and children. It was most desirable that some steps should be adopted to get the evil abated. Coroner: If a fever broke out it might go to an alarming extent. Dr. Lynch : That is not the only evil, as a great amity travel from one house to another, and the contagion is spread. He had known many persons ester into bus.ness as lodging-house keepers, and who, in a vary short time, accumulaad sufficient property to keep their country house. The Coroner remarked, that such establishments, which were a common nuisance, should be put down by the arm of the law. The authorities of the ward might interfere. Verdict, " That the deceased died from natural causes, death being accelerated by the want of air, and the jury at the seine time requested that the attention of the authorities might be drawn to the subji et, so that there might be a proper supervis:on over these nouses."—