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    UGHTIUG BX TBE ELECTRIC TLTJW . ( From Sit Paris CorrespondaU of the Globe . ) I have mentioned to yon the discover ; of the means -el Tendering eontlnnoas ,-aBd fixing at a given point , fi » electric finia , and making it applicable to the genenl purposes of lighting . It u now four ye&w sines the first experiment « n thia subject -was made in pri-¦ rate ? Imt the discovera -was aot able to indnee any 3 > erson to advance even l . ooqf . for an apparatus on a sufficiently luge scale for a public experiment . Yesterday evening , th public experiment took placee at the Place de la Concorde , in the presence of several ol the authorities , and from fonr to five thousand of the inhabitants of Paris . On one of the bases of the Jtatues called the Tavillion de Jjflle , a glass globe of

    apparently twelve or thirteea inches diameter , with a soveable reflector , -was fixed in connection -with a ToltaiaVattery , and , at a little before nine o ' clock , the electric fluid was thrown iato it by & conductor . At this time all the gas lights of tt » Place , about 100 in ¦ Bumbet , were tnamag . As soon as the electric flnid appeared , the nearest gas lights bad the same dull , thick , * od feea-rj appearance &a oil'lamps hava by the side of gas . Soon afterwards the gas-lights were extinguished , and the electric light shone forth in all ' its brilliancy . Within one hundred yards of the light it was easy to read the smallest print ; it was , In fact , as light as day . The astonishment -of the assembled multitude was -very great , and their delight-aa strong as their astonishment . ' The

    estimate made by scientific persons who were present sras , that the electric light was equal to twenty of the . gas lamps ^ and consequently tha t fire of these lights would suffice to light she whole Piace most brilliantly . . As regards the expense of production , nothing positive has transpired . The electric light giTes out no bad « nell ; -lt emits none of those elements which , in the baming of gas , are bo Injurious to health ; and explosion would be impossible . Internal lighting would be as practicable as external lighting ; for , by conductors , the ixM . "would be conveyed to jevery part of the house , "ffbe experiment performed last nigtt was With a Toltaic lattery ef iwo hundred pairs , composed u foUowa : — 1 st , an onler globe of glass ; 2 ndly , in this globe a cylinder of charcoal , open at both ends , and plunged in tie

    nitric acid contained in the outer globe : 3 dly , in the cylinder of charcoal , a porous porcelain Tase ,-coBtaining acidulated water . The pile was on the Pavilion de Ialle ; the two copper conductors from the two poles , and pointed 'with charcoal , lead to an empty globe from 5 rhich the air has been exhausted . The two fluids on meeting produces soft bnt most intense light . I under stand that the experiment was considered highly successful by the authorities who were present , and that ii ii to be repeated on a larger scale . Should the thing York as well in a general way as it did last night , and ihe ? cost be less than that of gas , which it must be , there will be » dreadful xevolntienin gas-works . A company -for the supply of the electric light wonld realise a handsome profit on-charging only a sixth of what is now paid for gas .

    Abtssimjl— Amongst the -mimy wonderful diseo-Teries Eiade by the mission to the court of Sbos , in Abyssinia , one of the most extraordinary is that of a magnificent salt lake , some distance inland . It is seven hundred feet below the level of the nearest sea , of Which it has at one time obviously formed a portionhating been cut off by the elevation of an enormous mass of "volcanic matter which now seporates it from tfcfi br ine . Th 8 _ shoresare covered with one thick sheet of crystalised salt . The depression of its surface appears to hare been occasioned by evaporation ; aad it is probable that , in a few years more , its waters will have disappeared—its basin forming an immense mass of rock salt . Though Shoa is six or seven degrees -sonth of Bombay , the temperature is so mild , that fires were always used , and the travellers slept under blankets . The capital is upwards of 8 , 000 feet above the level of the sea .

    HOITEKX BaK * AE . IS 1 L—The Vrnvers remarks : ' ¦ The ge-reraxneat , st great pains and expense , brought from Salcsacafiztd Epbesaj & magnificent Pagan sarcophagus sad the entire triesa of the Temple of Diana . These relics of Grecian art , so Taluable is the illustration of history , ought to have found grace in the eyes of the conservators of our museums ; bat they have been suffered to lie for six months rotting at the foot of the colonnade of the Louvre , on the ground which' served as the feurying-place f 01 the -victims cl July . Since their arrival in the inhospitable climate of Paris , they have endured more fog and xain than during their long existence in their natiTs soIL When the frost , attacks them , nothing will remain bnt laagintably degraded fragments of what have cost sevBaT ^ feandreds of thousands of francs and the liTw of seres men , amongst ¦ whom we have to lament the unfortunate painter , Clemont Bcmlanger . *

    ErzciKOTTPiD FiOWXBS . —At a Jate meeting of frhn lAnnean Society , 2 f . Brown , Esq ., in "the chair , i ' roleasor Forbes exhibited some specimen * of orebidaceous flowers which hid been el&tteotvped , and -which bad a Tery pleasing and attractive appearance . This process , however , had not the effect of altering the shape or characteristics of the specimens submitted to it , as they aD . retain their formation in a remarkably perfect manner . The Sea . —The mean depth of tha sea is , according to La Piace , from four to five miles . If the existing waters were increased only one-fourth , it would drown the earth , with the exception of some high mountains . If the volumes of the ocean were augmented only by one-eighth , considerable portions of the present

    continents would be submerged , and the seasons would be changed all over the gl » be > Evaporation would be so much extended , that rains would fall continually , destroy the harvest , and fruits , and flowers , and subvert the whole economy of nature . There is , perhaps , nothing more beautiful in our whole system than the process by which the fields are irrigated from the skies ; » w riTea are fed from ** " > mountain *—and the ocean restrained , within bounds , -which it never con exceed so long as tint pioc 8 Ei continues on the present scale . The Tapoux raised , by the sun from the sea . flout * whewver it is iMitoF *>»* n the atmosphere ; condensed , It ftffi" upon the earth in water ; or attracted to the mountain * , it gathers on their summit , dissolves , and

    perpetually replenishes the conduits : the fluid is cob-¦ veyed to the si-rets which flow on the surface of the earth , and the springs which lie deep in its bosom , destined to Tapply man with a purer element . If we suppose flje sea , then , to be considerably diminished , the Amasm , and the Mississippi , those inland seas of the western world , would become inconsiderable brooks : the brooks -would wholly disappear , the atmosphere would be deprived of its < 5 ae proportion of humidity ; all nature would assume the garb of desolation ; the bird would droop on its wing , the lower animals 'Would perish on the barren soil , and man himself would -wither away like the sickly grass at his feet .

    A "Kbw Light . " —Monday week a private exhibltion took place , at the Adelaide Gallery , of Btmsen ' s arbonle battery . The novelty of the principle upon which this battery is constructed is *> " « . that plates of carbon are used in connection with the zinc in the jars , instead of copper as in the ordinary 'battery . By this means a much stronger current of eltctric fluid is obtained , and being brought to bear ( tbrongh the agency of a thin wire ) upon quick lime placed in an exhausted leceiTer , slight is evolved far more white and intense than any which has yet been obtained bj tho oxyhydrogen or ether apparatus . Previously to the

    battery's being put in operation Mr . Jor > es _ delivered a short lecture on the best mode of making the carbon for the plates in order to prevent its being too friable or too pinguid ; and stated that although this invention was claimed byBunseB , he believed it would be found that we were indebted for the discovery of the principle to an ^ Englishman , Mr . J . T . Cooper , In confirmation of his statement , he referred hi * anditory to the P&aosopMc&l Transactions for 1840 , The pri * - ¦ maiie rays -were projected upon M 19 ceiling , a photographic portrait was taken , and other interesting experiments -were performed by means of the new light , all with perfect Buctesa .

    If kw Frs . K KSGrsE . —A mechanic at Bristol of the name of Bacon , has invented a pump and fire engine , which , for compactness and power' is unique . . It draws water at twenty two feet from ths surface , and throws it to a great distance . Its cost is £ 20 , and it jossesses an hydraulic power eqnal to a large engine "worth ~ £ 170 or £ 186 . An experiment was made in the presence of several scientific men , and gave general satisfaction .

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    . —^^ v ~—> a —^>—«^ ia > a andTelTord stated , in their evidence delivered before the London Bridge Committee , " that then were several thousand tons of the most valuable manure running into the Thames from the metropolitan sewers every . hoar , thereby polluting the water to that excessive degree , that it was fast approaching aa immense ditch , and so excessively filthy that no tea-kettle laboratory eould preperly filter the -wateisoas to be fit for domestio purposes . " . As to the capability of the s » il ,- — " It is" < says Six George Stephenson , the eminent engineer ) my decided conviction , founded upon dose and extensive personal observation , that the soil of England , if properly treated , will prodnce four times ths axnennt of human food that it yields under the present system . " Upon the most moderate supposition ,

    by adopting these sub-sewer * , there would be an actual saving to the country annually of upwards of two millions of tons of the most -valuable manure , containing all the mates ( animal salts ) , kc , which , if sold to tha land-holders and farmers at 10 s . per ton , would materially aid them to meet any pressure of the times . Besides , the iron trade of thia great nation is in a depressed state , at all times fluctuating } the government , by constructing these Bub-sewers , would permanently raise the price of iron ; because ^ ristol , Hull , Liverpool , and other towns would at once adept similar sewers , for hnsbanding tha manure . Prom a rough calculation , I presume these metropolitan sub-seweri would cost

    about seven millions sterling , and the revenue derivable therefrom would amount annually to upwards of one million . And if the whole of the Commissioners of Sewers were merged or consolidated into one board , as they ought to be , and not to remain irresponsible bodies without acy bead , in the receipt of enormsu * sums of money , not accountable for the same , aad continually fighting at cress purposes with each other , the present rates that are collected would amply suffice to liquidate the construction thereof . It is not within the scope of calculation the immense benefits that would result from the government or country adopting these sub-sewera .

    In Edinburgh , the watcamen , at six o ' clock in the morning , turn on the fire , or rather water , cocks in the streets , and sweep all before them down the gratings ; -why cannot the same be done by the able-bodied poor of this -great dirty metropolis ? -trbieb might be made the healthiest and cleanest city in tbe world , and its vast expansive river rolling through it kept free from all Impurities polluting it , by the legislature compelling the water companies to erect ( free ) against every gas lamp-post a water or fire-plug , the same to be kept always charged ( the water companies would above get an equivalent in the shape of pure water ); an enactment to compel every house , manufactory , or premises to have a good and sufficient sheot from their privies and drains into the common sewers ; all the streets to be thoroughly washed everyjtwenty-four hoars ; the graveyards -of the metropolis to be for ever closed , asd seven feet of clay laid thereon , and planted with trees .

    Bishop L-iUmeT , in his days , said : " That It was an eternal disgrace to the clergy to allow the burials to go on in a l&rge crowded town /' aathey were then increasing to an alarming extent ; what wonld he have said at thia time of day , mixing up 45 , 000 dead annually amidst the living ? By -washing the streets once every twenty-four hours there would be no necessity for scavenger ^ carts , or nlghtmen , or watering carts . These sub-sswers ought to precede the Thames embankment . They might be constructed nearly the whole extent without erecting any ceffer-darc , which will appear dear on a casual survey ; if they are commenced at the terminus and brought up the river , all the water accumulating on excavating will pass through the reservoirs . Lastly , it would form a legitimate source of revenue of upwards of one million sterling annually ; and if the government neglect doing it , it might be established through the means of a public company .

    Richard Rowed , Promoter of the Health of Towns . IfO . 7 , Stanhope-place , South w&rk Bridee-road .

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    APPALL 1 SG DESTITUTION . On Thursday , the 16 th inst , Mr . Carter , the Coroner for Surrey , went into a very protracted inquiry at the Drum . Snow-fields , Bermondsey , respecting the death of Ann Galway , aged forty-five . The deceased resided at 3 , White Lion Court , BermondBey-street , where she , her husband , and son , aged about nineteen , lived and slept in a small room . There was no bed nor bedstead in the room , cor fnrniture of any kind . When found dead , she was lying with her son in her wretched abode on a heap of

    feathers , which had been strewed over her almest naked parson , for neither coverlid , sheet , nor blanket conia bo found . From the wretched state in which the woman was , the feathers bad become bo fastened over her person that the parish-surgeon could make no examination until she had besn cleansed , and then the sody presented s most extraordinary appearance . It was considerably emaciated , and actually covered from the head to the feet with numberless small red spots , where vermin had been preying upon her . Altogether it was a scene sever before , perhapa , witnessed in a human dwelling-place .

    Mr . J . Slow , one of the relieving officers of Bermondsey parish . —The only article of furniture in the deceased ' s room was the carcass of an old chest of small drawers . There were two pieces of brea 4 and a basin of coffee mixed with the feathers . There was no bedding of any kind , and she was quite dead . They had never applied for parish relief , nor did be know them . Margaret Shea , of 28 , Magdalen-court , Toolej-street , deposed that the deceased was her sister . Tbe last time she saw her sister alive was on the 18 th of September , -when she was in excellent health , but very badly dad . The room was in the same state in which the jury bad jast seen It She was then lying in a comer of it . Witness came from Ireland at Easter 13

    months ago , and lived with them till February last year . When she went , there to no bedstead nor furniture of any sort . There were two basins . A piece of tick was placed over some feathers , on which the deceased and her husband slept ; there was no sheet nor quilt to cover them , and they lay down in any clothes they had . The deceased rarely had any . The son slept in a corner of the room , and had one blanket , but what he slept on * ' was only the name © f s bed . " When witness went there , the son slept in the corner with his mother and fattier , and she had bis place , and pnt there a mattress » he had brought from Ireland . They bad something to eat morning and night , but no

    dinner , and she did not know how they had lived since September . While she was there she bad seen the husband sn& Bon frequently beat tbe deceased because she would not get ont of tbe feathers . If tbtiie was anything to eat she would get up and eat , and then get into the feathers . She neglected her person , and seemed careless about everything . She never went from the room . A part of tbe flooring of the room had been forced up . When the witness was questioned absnt it , she gave an answer which drew exclamations of surprise and horror from every one present The witness , whoiad evidently misunderstood the nature of the tensations her statement produced , cried— " O , do not lauzh : this goes to my heart "

    The Coroner . —No one has laughed at this frightful tale , and no one shall , with impunity . fltshopld be observed that the witness was very neatly and respectably dressed , and evidently not an ignorant woman ] Examination resumed . —The reason that the son Henry beat her sister and his mother was , because the landlady of the house had t » ld Trim to do so . When Bhe died in the room she had no clothes on . Her husband when in work got 2 s . 6 d- a-day , ont of which he had to pay 23 . a-week rent .

    After some additional evidence had been given , the coroner said , the iDqniry was of paramount importance to the public , as a human being bad been found in the moBt abject state destitution . It was due to the parish that it Bbould be ascertained whether starvation had been the cause of death ; and it was also due to tbe husband and zon to ascertain that poison bad not been administered , or that they bad , in any way , been the cause of the unfortunate woman ' s death . He understood they were both in custody , the husband raving mad , and tbe son almost an idiot . The inquest was then a ^ jouraed .

    Poob Law Rcffiawish . Lambsth-stbeet . —Oa Thuredsy , Mrs . Clayton , a youcg married woman , whose father had been for many years a ratepayer of the parish of Whitechapet , applied to Sir . . Norton for an order to see her sister , who was sither confined , or on the point of confinement , in Wlxitechspel WOikboasB . It will be recollected , thai on the morning of that day week , the applicant had , in tbe first instance , made application at tbe workhouse , and re ~ qnfisted to se ? her sister , bnt the gate-porter refused her admittance . Tbe gate-keeper perceiving her intention , seieed and forced her back with violence , and in doing bo tore her cloak . Upon that eccaEion Mr . Norton advised Mrs . Clayton to go btfore the Board of Guardians on the Tnesday following , and mske a foTnal complaint to them of the manner in which she bad been treated .

    Singular to say , this order was treated with indifference , and It was not until the deputy chairman himself had peremptorily desired , that the applicant was permitted an interview , and then only in the presence of the master of the workhouse . Yesterday Mrs . Clayton stated , that on going before the Board on Tuesday , and relating what had passed , she was told that she would be allowed to see her sister on the following daj | but on applying at the workhouse she was lefnsed . . Mr . Norton expressed bis surprise and astonuliment the saarter of

    at the extraordinary conduct pursued by the workhousB , and despatched an officer to request the attendance of that functionary , as well as the gatekeeper , to have an explanation of their conduct He ( Mt . Norton ) also desired the constable to eall upon Mr . Brashfield , tbe chairman , and Mr . Wallace , the deputy-chairman , of the Board of Guardians , to request their attendance also , that they might bear all that transpired . Only the chairman , Mi . Brusbfield , attended ta the summons of the magistrate . Having waited for Borne time , and neither the master of the workhouse nor gate-kwper making tnek appearance ,

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    the inquiry into ihalr conduct was appointed for a future day . Mr . Norton received the following donations for the poor-box : —W . X . Y ., £ 20 ; Sir John Trevelyan , £ 5 ; An Old Soldier , £ 1 ; Mr . Samuel Martin , Liverpool , £ 5 ; H . B . G ., £ 5 ; A Noble L » d , £ 1 ; A Lady , C . H ., half of £ 10 ; Lord Alvanley , £ 10;—making altogether JbO / t ,

    HOBBIBLE DISTBESS . Thames Police . Thubsdat—The following case was that of Elizabeth Morris , of 2 , Jubilee-place ; Stepney , also the mother of six children , and whose husband is confined in . the House of Correction for some offence against the Court of Chancery . Douglas , one of the warrant officers , stated that he was employed . on Tuesday morning to execute a warrant of ejectment against the poor woman and her children , and he never in his life had so painful a duty to perform . When the poor creature was tnrned out of her home into the cold , damp fog , she stood in the street In the midst of her children utterly bewildered , not knowing What to do OP Where to go . Pitying her deplorable condition , and Seeing that she was utterly destitute , Douglas advised her to come to the court and make an application . The worthy magistrate directed that the immediate wantB of the applicant and her children should be provided for , and inquiry made into her case .

    Douglas has since made the inquiry , and the woman's statement having been found correct , provision bas been made for her until her husband's liberation . Ths Sbib . t-mak . ehs . —Union-Hall—On Thursday , Mary White , the poor shirt-maker who was remanded on Friday , on a charge of pawniDg some shirts intrusted to bez to make up by a woman named Davis , who works for the slopsellers , was brought up for re-examination before Mr . Cottingham on the charge . In consequence of the publicity given to this distresing case , Mi . Cottingham has had transmitted to him donations from several benevolent individuals , to a very considerable amount , in aid of the accused ; and amongst them the following sums from tbe writers , who expressed a desire that they might be acknowledged in the newspapers : —A . £ l lOs- ; J . M . C , £ l : H . WS > . 6 d . ; A . B ., 10 s . ; F ., £ 1 : J . P . ; 10 s .: U ., 10 s ; 8-B ., £ l ; P , E T ., 108 . ; R . H . A .. 10 s . ; M . IX , 10 a ; W . W . £ 2 ; Y ., 10 s . ; H . B ., lOfl . ; W . J .. 10 s . ; H . A ., 10 a . ; E . E ., 10 s .: •¦ A Lover of Justice , " £ 1 .

    Harriet Davis now said that she did not wish to press the charge ; upon hearing of which , Mr . Gottingham observed that she had changed her mind , for on the previous examination she had expressed a very strong desire to follow up the prosecution . Davis acknowledged that the makers had only threeholfpenie for making a shirt ! Mr . Cottingham then made some inquiries into the character of the accused woman . The result of these inquiries showed that tbe poor woman had been suffering very great distress , that she was considerably iu arrear of rent to the woman with whom she lodged , who , although in great poverty herself , having asiek husband and child to maintain by her own labour , yet had contributed all in her power to assiBt the accused by pledging her things and keeping her and the two children from starring .

    Mr . Cottingham then addressed the accused , and directed Mr . Edwin , the ehief clerk , to liquidate the rent the accused owed to the poor woman Marybown , who stood in so much need of it , and money was given by Winch , an officer of the Court , to purchase seme articles to furnish a room foi Mary White , the magistrate informing her , that if she obtained work from a shop , and not through the intervention of a " middlewoman , " security would be given at that Court to tbe person who employed her , for which purpose aportisn of the money contributed to her aid would be retained , in order to remunerate her employer for any loss he might sustain on her aceount The accused , who shed tears of gratitude , expressed her " everlasting thanks' to those charitable and kind persons who had contributed to her assistance in tbe hour of need .

    MORE MISERY . w ARi . i > oB < roQH STBEET . —rSince it has become known that tbe funds of tbepoot-box at this court have been increased bj the donations of the benevolent , there have been many applicants for relief . The majority of applicants are , females , widows , or wives with large families , and husbands either sick or out of work , and the amount of destitution and suffering which these cases occasionally disclose would be pronounced fabulous , were the statements not corroborated by evidence that cannot be disputed . Two cases which , at the desire of the magistrate , had been investigated by tbe constables , were on Friday reported upon to Mr . Hardwick .

    The first case was that of Emma Stammers , the wife of a atable-mani out of employ , with three yonng children , one lying dead , and one sick . Her application was for some relief , to enable her to bury her child , she having applied to thepsriBh in which she resided for a coffin , and had been refused , on the ground that she did not belong to the pnriBti . PoHce-con » teble Gibbett deposed to the Btate of extreme destitution in which the family was involved and the good character of the applicant The young woman said her husband had been in the service of Mr . Hope , of Spring-gardens , as stableman , but when bis master left England in June , he lost his place , and had been unable to procure another situation .

    Mr . Hardwick—How have you maintained your- ' selves since June ? Applicant—God only knows . Sometimes we have only bad one meal in three days . My husband bas walked all orti London to get work ; he has not a bit of shoe to his feet now . All we have had to live upon is what my buaband has been able to earn by holding horses , or by getting a job now and then . I ' can do nothing myself , because one of way children is now ill at home , and toe Infant in my arms cannot be left . Mr . Hartlwick—Have you applied to tbe parish ?—Applicant—I went to the parish of St Martin ' s , to ask for a coffin to bury my child in , but I was told they could do nothing for me , because I did not belong to the parish .

    Mr . Hardwick—I do not understand this , Do you mean to say you told them your distressed situation , and they refused to help you at all ?—Applicant—They said they would send a doctor to my sick child , but they could not give me any other relief , as I belonged to Clewer , near Windsor . Sir . Hardwick immediately ordered £ 2 to be given to tbe young . woman , who expressed [ her grateful thanks , and retired . The second case was that of a decent-looking elderly

    woman , reported ky Polio Constable Tice . The woman ' s character was very good . Sb « had hitherto got her living by going but as charwoman , and by taking care of empty houses . Owing to ill health , she had not been able to do any work , and she had been indebted ior existence to her nieces—themselves in a state approaching to want The applicant was relieved with U n shillings . A gentlemax walked into court , and put down £ fi for tbe poor-box , which he desired might be entered as the donation of Anonymous .

    MURDER 1 HKLLISH TREATMENT OT THE POOB IN THE COVENTRY BASTiLE . CAbridged from the Leicester Chronicle . ) An inquest was held on Monday night la ? t , at the Sir Thomas White public-house , Russell-street , before John Gregory , jun ., Gent ., Coroner , on the body of George Robson , a framework-knitter , aged thirty-two , whose death was said to have been occasioned by Htarvaiion . The Jury proceeded to view the body , which lay in the house of deceased ' B father , close by : it presented a painful picture of the effects of suffering and want .

    Catherine Rpbson , wife of tho deceased , was then pworn : she deposed ag follows : —My husband was a framework-knitter , and was aged thirty-two , I believe . His last residence was at Coventry , where he belonged ; and in the House of Industry there , we had all ( deceased , myself , and four children ) been for the last four or five months . We had lived at Leicester before ; but he having bad a bad arm , bo that he could not work , St . Margaret ' s parish had sent us home by the waggon . HiB arm was injured many years ago by a mangle ; but be thought it was again injured by a wrench while carrying Backs of corn ; it was his right arm ; and was hurt first eighteen years ago ; but it had never failed him at work till two years ago . The

    wound was a fracture , but appeared to have healed ; tbe arm wa 3 always stiff and weak . He was quite unable to work at Coventry this last time , and we left the workhouse [ House of Industry ] becauae my husband was used so ill . He could not get up to breakfast , but the master Baid ho could , and told the Directors so ; and they said my husband was to be kept on slops as he would not get up . He seemed to get worse after he went into the House , and the food was so coarse he could not take it . The work was pumping , and he was also sent into the £ Belds , where he took cold . Palmer was the name of the Governor of the House of Industry , and he behaved very unkindly all the time we were there ; my husband , therefore , wanted to come out , and when I

    found he was so " badly , " I wished him to leave , too : he said he wished to come home to die . We applied to the Board last Wednesday to come to Leicester . —The bread was coarser than he was used to eat at Leicester ; his appetite get worse : and the doctor would not let him have the beer—they Baid he was to work for it . He wanted some white bread , but they would not let him have it . On the Tuesday morning , the " nurse of the eick ward asked the Governor for his breakfast , saying Robaon was much worse , and she would take it up him : the master said he teotcld not give him any— Robson was an idle

    fellow , and should get up for it ; I heard these words myself . The Governor did not send ray huBband any . After breakfast , every Tuesday , the directors go round every room ; and the nurse told me the miatress had said to them , " This is Robson —tbe idle fellow , who won't get up | for his meals : " on which they said , " O - ' then keep him on slops till he gets up , " I asked the nurse what reply my husbaud made ; and she said . he was too bad to make any reply : this fretted me very much , aed I was anxious to get him home . The nuraa is an Irishwoman , and has been there many years . My husband was shifted into this Sick Room on the Monday . He had been

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    JLahten ^ as ° 5 deted out beoa « se he was to B ?? f , i % { £°° bed ~ he bein S then too ill n «" tfivl ?< p to **** ia ¥ ' P « ln » er . ) -At din-™ Tli On Taesday , my husband got up , and 3 TtrLbir i ° the di ^ ng room ; but he was all g » tremble , and seemed unable to walk ; he went on 1 * ftS ok W » dmner ' - btlt he 0 £ ) uI «* not 4 t it-he me-vet Mrs P ? P 0 **^ ' eaTe al 1 the re 8 t to iZZZlt M fi , * lmer told the doctor ghe saw Rob ? h ! t £% » L at Wl 8 put befl ) re hita- Meat is S'ven fe f £ * L Z v on meat days , too , there is £ 2 * . h - Mk Ppffi i 5 nd at s"PPer-time he got up hf ^ Lfe ?? J . ^ «» tth 6 bread and ErothtiXfeffi ? f ^ m-and he gave it to me : he &l 2 , t 35 fc ^ # - On Wednesday morning ? n * f « , " * ohl 8 ^ e akfast ; but the Governor got S « h . S ?» T ? V 81 »» slapped * e door in my SSteS K - : "i * i 8 * ^ th « re - ihat a » the pa « - persmtast be m before the Governor , or hot goin ; and the Governor said to mv htishan , r " v ™ «

    Some ou nf ^ j . . n * b ™ W& I Baw him w «« iL Jr \ inin ^ ro ° m , and he told me he Jn h £ fei t r ^ * none that morning at wLn w » f } &d t any lbe P ™ moroing .-Sn T * H > * * , he Board ' L led * y nusblnd down , to the board-room , where the Directors C ?^^?* ' We then applied to be sent ^ . f . told , them my husband had had no breaktast for two mornings : my husband was so £ him ° n " ^ talk-I was obliged to Bpeak for him . One of the Directors < the same who had been m the biok-room ) spoke up , and said , " Oh ! it Robsonthat

    w , xdle fellow , whe would not set up to im breaklast : " this Director ' s name , I think , was Watts . I made answer , and said my husband had H ! r £ i n ein ^ life 5 told them how long he had been ill ; and that he had never applied to the paruh but once before . Ono Director then looked % t " » £ t and eaid ¦ M ° 1 he does not look able to work . They asked why I wished to come home when he could not work ! for they should not give me anything I said I wished to get him into the Innrmary at Leicester , for if he stopped there ( Coventry ) I thought he would diet mv husband told

    them the same—he Said the place did not agree with him , and he could not stay . They wanted to know what I should do with my family while he was in the Infirmary f I said I had friends at Leicester , wno would take me in the short time he was there . They said they must have a tetter from my friends to that effect ; and my husband pulled out a letter which he had got from his father on the Monday before . The letter was left at Coventry : we did not ask for it again . The letter said that his father was very uneasy at hearing he w , as so ill , and they wished to have him home again : my husband had been an out-patient at the infirmary before , and it seemed to do him a great deal of good . The letter did not say anything more .

    The Directors read tho letter over , sent ua out of the room , and then called us in again : they then asked me if I had not made up my mind to stay there- ^ - Mr . Watts asked tne this . / said I could not think of doing so > as I knew my husband was not used well . Mr . Watts then said if I was determined to have my discharge , he would write one , and he did so ; but ho said / shiuld net have anything to take me home . My husband was too ill to Bay much . The discharge was given to the Governor . My husband wished to go home , and he told the dootor bo , after we came out of the board-room . This doctor ( a new one , who had attended my husband all the while he was there ) was named , I believe , Barton ; and he

    saw my husband about ten minutes after we came out : the Mistress called my husband to the doctor , who attended , I believe , three times a week . I did not go till I heard the dootor and the mistress making a sad noise at him—they were "jawing " him because of what I had said at the Board" That he was not well done to . " I knew he could not speak , and so I went in ; but on speaking in his behalf i was ordered off by both—the doctor saying I had nothing to do with it , 1 heard the dootor say , 41 Youi aro a good-for-nothing dissatisfied fellow : I can tm it in your face . " 1 do not know what they said after this , as I was ordered off to my work . My husband soon after camo out to me , and said" Get my clothes aired—I will go as soon as I have

    had my dinner . " When he had had his dinner —( he had same rice-pudding , of which he eat two or three spoonsful , and gave the rost to me)—I wint and got his clothes , put them on him , and we then went into the town so see if the waggon would bring us to Leicester . We begged tbe waggouer very hard to bring us , telling him we would pay him when we got to Leicester ; we had no money then . It was a tilted cfart— -We had a waggon the next morning . We prevailed upon the waggoner to take us . We got to Hiackley that ( Wednesday ) night , aad where we stopped first , my husband a ^ ked for his hat , to go oat , and tbe landlady said to me , " YoUT husband seems in a very queer state—very ill . " I said , "He is . " —She then said . "I am afraid he is dying : I

    dare not have him here : you had better go and get lodgings . " I did so ; and the landlady , before wo went to them , gave my husband a glass of brandyand-water , and a man from her house brought him down to the lodging—saying as ha went , " ftly poor man ! think of your soul , for I am afraid you ' re in a bad way . " My husband Was very ill all night : in the morning I begged two cups of coffee and some white ; broad for him : we then went to the waggon ta tilted one ) and we stopped no more till we got to the Half way House ( near Leicester ) , where he got a sup of hot rum-and-water . We then proceeded on towards Leicester : on the way thither he said he felt better , the rum-and-water having nourished him . We got out at the Fox in Humberstone-gate ;

    but after I had gone a little way , on the road to his father ' s , I turned back to see if he was coming on ' with the other children : he was Btaggering from one side of the road to the other . I said to him , " I am afraid you are very bad can ' t you get on ! " He said , "No , my weach , I can't . " I said he had better stop at the Waggon and Horses , and I would go and fetch his father . We got home about twelve o ' clook . His father sent for his sister , Mrs , Spencer , who is rather better off , and she had some port wine warmed for him . He took this , and went to bed till tea-time . Then he ate some hot cake , drank somo tea , and said he felt better : he told his father , he thought be should be able to work that week . His father slept with him that night .

    and the next morning ( Friday ) I went to see him . He had some gruel , and afterwards some cake and tea fer his breakfast ; he said he felt better , and asked what I should get for his dinner ? I said I thought his sister would send him some , and I then went to get a recommendation for the parish doctor : He had some gruel for dinner , but I saw that hi 3 features were then greatly changed , and that his speech was worse . 1 ran and got an order for : the parish doctor . The doctor was not to come till next morning ; but on Talbot ( Reheving-officer ' s assistant ) coming down and seeing the state my husband was in , he went and brought the dootor immediately . We had written to his father first to say how bad he was ; and the father had sent us some post- office orders , which the Governor had kept for some time—one for

    six weeks : indeed , we should have known nothing of the order having been sent , but for some man corning oter from Leicester and telling us . I then told the Directors , who asked Mr . Palmer ( the Governor ) what he had to say about the matter ! Mr . Palmer made a rambling kind of tale . We at last got the letters ; but not till the Directors had told the mistress they must be found—that poor people must not lose their lo ters because they were in the poor-house . The letters were opened when we got them—( this is a rule of the house Jbut the post-office orders were iu them : I do not know who had opened them . I had written to my husband ' s father to ask for a little money , as I thought a little tea and sugar would do my husband good . The second letter was in answer to one I had written to say we had just got the first .

    In answer to several of the jury , the poor woman said her husband was put to work at the pump while he was bo bad : the doctor saw him , and said he was able to work at anything he could do with one arm : and the Master said he would make him werk ! This was under tha first dootor ( not Mr . Barton , who was doctor now ); he did not care about the poor , and gave them nothing . My husband had no shoes fit to go to the pigs iu the field when he was gent there because he could not work at the pump . The second doctor gave him medicine directly he saw him ; but it was a fortnight after he became doctor before he saw my hubband first , because the Master used to send him out to the pies every day . He bad a piece

    of bread and che « se given him each day , but he used to bring it home io me because he could not eat it . He left eff goitig to the piss , about two months ago , because he had no shoes . He came to me once or twice at the wash-house . I had some beer for washing , which I kept for him , and my husband said that but for this sup , he could not live . The mistress was told of this last Monday by some of the women ; she told the doctor , who said my husband must go into the aick ward . The mistress "jawed" me for giving him the beer ; said my husband was an idle fellow ; that he should do some work that week if she could help it . I Baid "' Indeed , ma ' am , he will soon die then ; " on which she said , "A good job , too , for we shall then only have to get him a coffin ' The rule was for the women to drink the beer in the room , but I used to put it on one side , and to bring it out for him , under my baby s

    clothes . When the mistress was told of this , she came and seeing tny beer ( a better kind of table-beer J m the tin , she made me drink it up , saying I should not keep it for my husband ! Mi . Staines here said thia case ought to bo reported to the Poor Law Cemmiasioners : the law never intended thai people should be pined is this way;—and some conversation followed , in th ^ couise of which it appeared that Coventry had a Local Act : still , Mr . S , said he thought tha Commissioners would have power to interfere in such a shameful case , and the jury expresssad a very strong opinion as to the conduct of all the parties connected with the Coventry House of Industry . Mr . John Holmao . Tosswiii , surgeon to East Margaret ' s division , was theii sworn—I was called on ( be said ) at half-past , nine on Friday night to see

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    deceased , who was dying : I had received no order , but , hearmg the case was urgent , I went without one . I found deceased at his father ' s house , insensible and speechless : a great q-iantityjof matter wa « discharging from ) a wound in his shoulderhis shirt was saturated with it . His pulsiwas scarcely porceptible—his extremities were cold—and he was evidently dying . I ordered him hot braady-and-water through the night , and some arrow-root—hot bricks ta bis feet and bottles of hot water to his stomach and arm ? . I wished to know what was the injury to his shoulderand therefore

    in-, troduced a probe , ! which went in a considerable depth . From the symptoms , he appeared to be dying from downright inanition—want of food . There was no cough or appearaace of other disease . One of his brothers had died of consumption six months before , but I do not think this was the case with deceased—I cannot speak certainly , however . He died at seven o ' clock' the next ( Saturday ) morning , and they sent to tell me of it . His case was one which must have demanded good diet for some time : I should have ordered this . I cannot speak precisely as to the immediate ! cause of death without ; an examination of the body .

    The Coroner said ] he thought this wan a case in which a precise opinion ought to be given , or it would be unfair to ] the parties mentioned , and who . certainly were implicated by the wife ' s evidence . — The poor man had spoken of being better after he came to Leicester , ind of going to work a ^ ain soon . One of the Jurors—That is an idea which dying men often entertain . Another Juror—It is clear to me that his death has been caused by ( downright cruelty . ' The Coroner--It jwould be unfair to say 60 with out an examination of the body , whatever we may think . I The Jury all expressed a wish that Mr . Tosswill should examine tho body , Mr . Wilkinson (( Relieving Officer ) said every attention had been paid to deceased from the time he reached Leicester : and

    Mr . Tosswill having said ho should examine'the body early to-morrow ( Tuesday ) morning , the inquest was then i adjourned to six o ' clock that evening . j

    SECOND DAY ' S INQUEST ( TUESDAY . ) Th 8 inquiry was ' resumed this evening at' six o ' clock , when \ Mr . J . H . Tosswill said , he had made a post mortem examination and found the body to present externally a very emaaiated appearance . On moving the arm in the seeker , a distinct grating could be felt , indicating disease , and which examination had proved to be present . —Externally beneath the collar bone was an opening , into which a probe was introduced , and which opening communicated with tne joint , allowing the probe to touch the bone , On laying open the shoulder joint , a great and long standing disease was found to have existed ; the head of ihe arm bono being found to be almost

    denuded of cartilage ] which had been destroyed by ulceration . —The hollow of the shoulder , on which theTiead of the bone rests , was also deprived of cartilagQ by ulceration . —An opening was also fovmd extending from the ! joint downwards , to the inner portion of the blade bone , which prevented the probe from penetrating further . On laaying open the chest , the lungs presented a healthy appearance , but general and considerable adhesion was found existing between the membrane covering them , and that lining the inside of the chest—both of long-standing formation and of j recent date . —No evidence of tubercular disease was present . There was a considerable quantity of fluid in tbe cavity of the chest amounting from two to three pints . The heart .

    liver , and stomach , presented a healthy appearance ; the latter was nearly empty , containing only a greenish coloured fluid . The bowels were generally healthy , showing in only one or two cesea any iateru&l indications of inflammatory action , and that but of a very trifling character . The chief disease was effusion of water in the chest , and the extensive disease of the shoulder joint . The conclusion he came to , from the [ examination , was , that disease was worn out by constitutional irritation , effusion of water in the chest , and exposure to cold . The journey from Coventry to Leicester would doubtless accelerate death . The only chance for deceased's recovery was perfect quietness . It was a case requiring good and nourishing diet .

    A Juror—Is it possible that the medical attendant at Coventry could have been ignorant of the existence of the disease of the shoulder joint ! Mr . To 83 wili—Am I bound to answer that question ? ! Coroner- ^ Yes ; I think so . Mr . Tosswill— / perceived it , and therefore imagine others must have done so . By a Juror—Deceased could not pump ; and exposure to cold wag is bad for kirn . Several of the Jurors expressed themselves in strong terms of indignatioa at the conduct of the Governor of the House of Industry , of Mr . Watts , of the Mistress , and others ; and it was determined that these parties should be summoned to attend an adjourned inquest , at two o ' clock on Thursday .

    j THURSDAY . The Coroner and ! the Jury reassembled at two o ' clock to-day . Shortly after the proceedings had commenced a large crowd assembled in front of the public-house where the inquest was held . Elizabeth Robson , who had been brought from the Covontry House of Industry , was the first witness examined . From her evidence , as given in the Leicester Chronicle , it is evident that she had been furnfshed with a good tale to clear the Directors and Master . What the jury thought of her evidence will be soen in their verdict .

    Margaret Hall , the nurse—an old Irishwoman was next examined . _ According io her there was excellent treatment given to all the inmates of the Coventry Hall ; she made , however , some rather startling admissions . She said , " His arm was bad : he was bad inside loo , and had a cough . He wished always to be down in bed all day , ' but the doctor told him he wanted exercise and air for his poor arm and limbs . It was for bis own benefit . One morning ho could not get down , and he was Hot in time to get his breakfast ; and the master did nor send it . He ( the master J has told me to day he sent it by the cook . i By Mr . Staines—This conversation took place in Leicester—not in Coventry .

    By the Coroner—That day he came down for his dinner . Thia was about seven days before he left . He could not eat anything ; all be wished for was drink . He had no beer allowed him , but his wife gave him he * share , jaad she was mobbed ( we understood ) for it . Heard the mistress tell deceased ' s wife about her giving her husband her beer . I often gave him somo of my beer . Deceased had medicine , but they gave him no wine . It was very hard to make him take his medicine . He had nothing but what was allowed onithe table—no tea nor nothingonly gruel . If he did not go down he had no breakfast . [ " Gentlemen ^ that is my parish and my home , and I don ' t wish io be deprived of it , " said the wit noss , in this place , and she sobbed while saying so . ]

    I gave him breakfast unknown to Mr . Palmer ( the Governor ) several times . He was hot allowed a bed to lie on : not by the doctor . The doctor said he should not lie in bed in the daytime . Deceased lay on the bench . After the doctor had put the silver " poke" [ probe ] into his arm , and it spurted out , he was so weak he was obliged to lie down . There was no change made in his diet . A few days before he left he was measured for a new pair of shoes , and had them about four days after . None in the Workhouse would fit him , his legs were swelled so , Tho day he oanie out , his wife oame to him and said , " My' lad , come with me to the Board . " He She

    said , " I can't speak , I am so bad . " replied , "Never mind , my lad , I'll speak for you . " He want to the Board , aind she told me she had told tho Board she would have him home ; she would not have him there to 6

    By Mr . Staines —/; asked the master for his - fast when he could not come down , but he would not send it . He said the doctor had ordered Robson down , and he would not Band his breakfast up . Robson was not fit to \ come down . We may do little thin « s ourselves sometimes , but not with doctors orders . [ In a low voice—// we did not , God help 'em-they wouldn ' t be there long ] Mr . Watts was visiting director that week ; Robson was in the room on the Tuesday he came , but nothing was said Mr . Read—One day the master said he would make him work . ! By the Coroner—He was pumping one day when he was very ill . ' By Mr . Staines—Men with one arm or one leg are set t » the pump . It is very hard work ; they most do it ; they must fill the ; copper . He was Hot so ill when he went to mind the pigs . He was called idle when

    he would not pump . | Mr . Edward Bieknellvsorgeon , Coventry , deposed that he took it in rotation to visit the Poor Hoose , his evidence only tended to confirm , though evideitly not desirous of so doing , the testimony of the deceased ' s widow . He said , in conclusion—I did not consider any alteration m his diet necessity : it was wholesome and good . He was dissatisfied , nothing was done to bis shoulder . I injected into ihe sinus of his shoulder a small quantity of an astringent solution—sulphate of zinc . It would do neither harm nor good . I did so three times . ; . After several questions had been pui to this very considerate doctor I

    Mr . Browett ( who was ohairmsm of the Board of Directors when Robson cumeup ) said that they gave Rsbson and his wife their discharge upon their application for them , f [ Mr , Browett here gave a similar statement to that of deceased's wifo of what took placs before th < j Board . ] After consulting

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    together privately , we sent for tho woman and told her it was nselesa her going to Leicester , unless they could earn their living . They said they could do so , and were determined to leave . Amongst other replies to question ? , pnt by Mr . Staines , the following were given : —// did not become tne to inquire whether these people had money to carry them to Leicester . The local aot does not permit us to advance money or anything in such cases : we have power to give relief in certain cases . After some more questions had been put to this ' gentleman , " who in his replies exhibited a total want of the common feelings of

    humanity—Mr . John Palmer ( Governor of the Workhouse ) was called but not sworn . Ho staled , in reply to questions , that deceased would be in those parts of the house where he ought not to be ; he was very obstinate . He came down to breakfast on two occasions after tho door was shut « the first time his breakfast was sent up to him , the second it was not . He ( Mr . Palmer ) understood the dootor had said it would do him good to come down ; had heard it repeatedly said by the matron he was to have no beer . By Mr . Staines—I am confident deceased received his breakfast when he did not come down . I did not chut the dining-room door in his face the second time . I do not know that he had none on that occasion : there were plenty of people in that room who would not eat all -their allowance , if he had none sent up . The matron attended to the sick .

    By tbe Coroner—Deceased was ordered to the sickroom , because he would go to the other room and Sie down en the bed with his clothes on . By Mr . S . aines—Robson was treated as one who did not work . By the Coroner—Deceased was of an unhappy disposition , and so was his w \ fe ; she was worse than he ; and he would not have been as he was , if it had nut been for her . By Mr . Jarrom—Deceased was an idle man and his wife was idle also-& A diet-table was here produced which presented a decent bill of fare for a workhouse .

    The evidence being now concluded , Mr . Rotherham made some remarks upon the case . The Directors had sent persons over to give evidence , in order that all the information might be given which was required . He spoke of the prejudice of the family against the Directors , and contended that the strict letter of the law had been observed with , reference to the case of the deceased . The witnesses , reporters , and strangers were then called upon to withdraw , whilst the Coroner and jary were in consultation . More than kulf an hour elapsed before they were re-admitted : when they were so , the verdict of the Jury , as follows , was announced : — " That George Robson came to his death through irritation , brought on by disease of the shoutder-joint and effusion of water in the chest . That his death Was accelerated \ by ihe inattention of the medical men of the Coventry House of Industry ^ and for w&it of proper nourishment while in that House "

    At the conclusion of the inquiry a large crowd , ( says the Journal , ) which were waiting the issue , gave vent to their feelings in yells and hootings . On the Governor of tho Coventry House of Industry making his appearanoe , he was assailed with a volley of abuse , and the attitude of the people who recognised him was so threatening that he was fain to retreat withiu the house . He twice essayed to make his escape , but was compelled to seek safety in shelter each time . So infuriated were the mob , that many said they would break the windows if he were not surrendered to them , whilst others thrust open the door , and exclaimed , ' Turn out the murderer ! turn out the murderer !! ' At length Sorgoa . nt Wiight . who empannelled the jury , sent for the police : and even then it was found impossible to &et the Governor away , excepting in a vehicle . The fly drove off amidst tbe exercrations of the assembled multl ' tude , their curses being both load and deep . "

    ANOTHER HUMAN BEING STABVED TO DEATH . At an isq-jest on Monday night , before Mr . Higgs , on the body of Morris JCearing , the wife of deceased said—During the time the theatres are open 1 go out a charing to Mr . Simpson ' s , of the Albion Hotel , Brydge 8-street , from eight o ' clock in the morning until twelve and one o ' clock the next morning , for which I receive 53 . per week . On Friday morning la ^ t , my husband had been ill for some time , I left home at eight o ' clock , and did not return until between one and two o'clock the next morning . I was let in by the landlady , and on proceeding upstairs / found the two children huddled up in bed by the side of my husband , who was quits dead and stiff : there was no fire or light in tho

    room , and the children said they had tried to wake their father , bat could not make him he&v . When I left home , there was nothing but two cold potatoes in the house , which the children told me their father had given them for their tea ; and all they had had on the previovs day was a piece of dry bread , which my husband could not eat . I had applied to St . Giles ' s parish for relief when we lived in it , but only received one loaf of bread ; on applying a second time their answer was , that we must come into the workhouse ; but being able to obtain a partial livelihood at Mr . Simpson ' s , I declined the offer of the parish , and I afterwards removed with my family into Drury-court , when my husband continued to get still worse . 1 had hot applied for assistance to this parish , tbinking all parishes alike in . their practice , and be : Bg afraid of being parted from

    my husband and children . Out of my week ' s wages of 5 s . I have to pay 2 s . 9 d . Jor rent % and I have parted with nearly every article of furniture to get necessaries for my husband and children . The Coroner , in remarking to the Jury the nature of the case before them , said this waa one which required their serious consideration . Although there was nothing ia the case to impugn the conduet of the parish officers , he did think that if they would more generally grant out-door relief , it would be io the interest of the parishioners as well as the poor . The Jury fully conourred in the Coroner ' s remarks , and after a short consultation , returned a verdict of "Natural death , accelerated by starvation . " The Jury afterwards collected some silver for the poor widow , to which the Coroner subscribed with his accustomed liberality .

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    Remuryb . —The German now confined iu Neweate , under sentence of death , and who was to have been executed on Monday laat » has been reprieved lk until her Majesty ' s further pleasure /* ACCIDEMT and Loss op Ljre m aLsav M-ikb—A few days ago a serious accident , which was attended with loss of life , occurred , in Howgill lead mine , near Brough , W estmoreland . John Thompson , a fine young man , who belonged to the vrflage of ^ aintoa . near renriiMnd another miner ofthe name of Campston , w © ce *« kinfcin a shaft together , und were in the a * fc of stemming a / bor * wrth ^ iron tool preparatory to making a blast : the poflftP unSnunSely exploded , and tho tffcel was sAch « g the injury whifth Thompson Bustamcd was saflejl * that he died » fchott time afterwards in the . grejfcB Sony Campston was also most dreadfully m ^ M and hid recovery is scarcely to bo expected . ^ - ^ ; f m

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    HEALTH OF TOWUS . laoposixs tob cossiBrcrrsG sttb-sewebs as a KECEESAB . V AtXlUABT TO THE PUESBKT SEVTBHS . Tb&e severs may db constructed of caiWion iibs , fixing into & e&Ht » iron keelson , "having on a east-iron Crown plate , the whole so formed as to iey into one soother -srithoBi screws a belli . The mb-sewera are to ran along and beneath the north and south Bides of the stores of the river Thames , a little a > ove loir -water mart , and proceed down the liver to the le-wer part * of Essex and Kent into leceptades or reservoirs formed of cast-iron plates { something tTTBflar to gasometers ) , and with partitions bavins « rating 3 or meshe » of sizm proper for the purpose of ep&nting tbe filth from the liquid , whiek will ran into She last chamber , and be allowed to stand to settle KoTr , if a column of palvelizad quick-lime is ran into

    the sewer at any given point previous to its exit from thence into the reservoirs , everything that is held in elation in the liquid will be chemically thrown down ( the theory of the process of which is , the contents of ihe sewerage being highly charged with carbonic add , Tw » Tnj » fli fttf 3 y the pulverised lime conies in contact there"With , the liquid is chemically acted -upon , and what wna heiaia scHailon iKzzsedisteJv falls down ) , thereby separating the -water , -which may be turned off , and leaving ths residue , -which may be passed tbrongh a powerful mill in order to pulverisa and thoronghly in * corporate it , after which it can be pat into an hydraulic press sod formed into blocks of any shape or size best fitted for convsying to any parts of the empire . A colmnn of sea -water might be advantageously ran into Ihs sewers , the saline portions ol which- would prove highly beneficial to the manure .

    Ihe Chinese are particularly ingenious in their manures : but I question 'whether the proposed admixture would sot be superior to any . Messrs . Rennie

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    IRELAND AND THE GOTERNMENT . A public meeting was holden at the National Hall , High-Helborn , on Monday evening , for the purpose of taking into consideration the conduct of the Government in their attempt to atifla the expression of public opinion in Ireland . At eight o'clock Mr . Watson was called to the chair ; the -whole of the \* Liberal" metropolitan Members were invited , but none attended . Mr . Hetherington stated that a deputation had waited upon Mr . Duncombe , who informed them that he had a relative laying ^ dangerouslv ill at Nottingham ; he expected to be called thence to attend his dying moments , or he would have been most happy to have attended—( loud cheers ) . The following resolutions which were ably spoken to , were adopted unanimously : —

    1 . That tne tight of petitioning the Legislature for a redress of public grievances , or tbe repeal of any Act of Parliament deemed inimical to the welfare and liberty of the people , is sacred and inviolable ; and any attempt to subvert that right by military force , despotic proclamationa , or civil prosecutions , should call forth the marked indignation and constitutional resistance of every man who values political freedom . 2 . That the recent conduct of the Government in Interdicting the Clontarf meeting , a few hours only before it was to have been holdeu , after having foi ? months allowed monster meetings to assemble in all parts of Ireland , indicates a recklessness and incapacity on the part of the Irish Executive , which imperatively demands our severest reprobation .

    3 . That Daniel O'Connell , Eeq ., > I . P ., and his colleagues , now under prosecution for having exercised their undoubted right of meeting to Petition against aa Act of tbe Legislature , and » he have uniformly conducted large public meetings in a peaceful and constitutional manner , are exiinently entitled to public sympathy and support : and this meeting hereby cordinHy tender them their best thanks for the judgment and humanity they have shewn in preventing a colUssion between the people and tho military . 4 . That while we acknowledge , in the most nnequi vocal manner the grievances and mis-government under which Ireland has suffered for centuries j—the inequality of her political and municipal franchises ; . —the shameless cruelty of her alien landlords to their Wretched

    tenantry ;—the sectarian distribution of government and local patronage-, —and above all the infamy of tbe Irish Ctrorch Establishment;—yet -we we are deeply convinced that the only hope of obtaining political justice for England , Ireland , Scotland , aud Wales ;—the abolition of ail monopolies , and the permanent prosperity of our country ; is by a cordial union of all classes of Reformers to secure the Legislative adoption of theprinciples of the People ' s Charter , which will confer upoa every taaa the right of being repsesented in tha Commons Hense of Parliament ; and this meeting emphatically declares its conviction , that never , till tha whole population ate faithfully represented , will tfaei * rights be respected , their interests consulted , or their happiness promoted .

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1240/page/7/