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UGHTDfe BY TBE SLECTRIC YLTJID : fjrom ihe Paris Correspondent *> f Die Globe . ) I nave mentioned to yon the discovery of the means of rendering conSanonSj asd fixing at a given " point , the electric fluid , and maKnf it applicable to the genenl purposes of lighting . : It is now four years Bines the iirat " experiment on ibis anbject was marie in pri-¦ rate ; feat the discoverer ¦ was not able to induce any person to advance even l , 000 t for an apparatus on a luffiriBntly large scale for a pn&ie experiment Yei- - terday evening , ft puelic experiment took placee at the Place de la Concorde , in the presence or Beveral oT the sathoriUes , and from four to five thousand of the inhabitants of Paris . On one of the bases of thestatnea
called" the Pavfflion de Lille , a glass globe of apparently twelve or thirteen inches diameter , with a sioveable itSsctor , was fixed in connection ¦ with a Toltaic feaUery , and , at a little before nine o ' clock , the electric fluid "was thro-wn into it by a conductor . At this tiiae all the gas 15 ghb of the PJace , abont 100 ' in number , " » ere buming . As soon as the electric fluid appeared , the nearest gas lights had the same dull , Qiick , and heavy appearance as oil lamps fcavs by the side o ! gas . Soon afterwards the gas lights were extinguished , and the electric light shone forth ia all its brffliaEcy . Within one hundred yards of the light it "vra » easy to read the smalie&t print . ; it was , in fact , as light as day . The astonishment of the assembled multitude -was -very . great , and
their * delight as strong as their astonishment The estimate made by scientific persons -who "were present ¦ vs s , that the electric light 'was equal to twenty of the gas lamps , and consequently Vhat . five of these lights -would suffice to light the -whole Place most brilliantly . As regards the expense of production , nothing positive has transpired . The electric light gives out no bad smell ; It emits none of those elements which , ia the bsraing of gas , are so injurious to health ; and explosion would be impossible . Internal lighting would be as practicable as external lighting ; for , by conductors , the finid 'would be convejsd to every part of The house . Tbe experiment performbd last night was -with a voltaic lattery of two hundred pairs , composed us follows : — -1 st , an outer glo&e of glass ; 2 ndly , in tins globe a cylinder of charcoal , open at both ends , and plunged in the
nitric acid contained in the outer globe : 3 d ] y , in the cylinder of charcoal , a porous porcelain rase , containing acidulated water . The pile was on the Pavilion de Iffle ; the two copper conductors from the two poles , and pointed TFita charcoal , lead to « n empty globe from ¦ which the air has keen exhausted . The two fiolds on jSEstiBg produce a sol t but most intense light I under stand that ths experiment -was considered highly sneeessful by the anthoriUes who were present , and that ii ii to be -repeated on a larger scale . Should the thing trork as well in a general way ts it did last night , and the cost be Ies 3 than that of gas , -which it must he , there -will be a dreadful revolution in gas-works . A company for the . supply of the electric light wonld realise a handsome profit on charging only a sixth of what is sow paid for gas .
Abtssisijl—Amongst the many -wonderful discoveries made by the mission to the court of Shoa , in Abyssinia , one of the most extrsordintry is that of a T nf « .- ^ nt 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 portionhaving been cut off by the elevation of an enormous mass of volcanic matter which sow seporates it from the brine . The shores are covered "with one thick sheet of erystalised salt The depression of its surface appears to have 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 south 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 ita .
HODESX JBasbasisic—The Ymven remarks : * ' The government , at great pains and expense , brought from Silonica ^ and Ephes&i a magnificent Pagan sarcophaj , us and the entire fries * of ths Temple of Diana . These lelics of Grecian art , so valuable in the illustration of history , onght to have found grace in the eyes of the conservators of our museums ; bat they have been suffered to lie for stx months rotting Bt the foot of the colonnade of the Louvre , on the ground which served as the burying-place for the victims of Jaly . Since their arrival in the inhospitable climate of Paris , they have endured more fog and rain thaa dnriDg their long existence in their nafiva sofl . When the frost attacks them , nothing will remain bat lamentably degraded fragments of -what have cost several hundreds of thousands ef francs and the lives of seven men , amongst whom -we have to lament the nnfortnnate . painter , Ciemont Bonlancer . "
-Elect&oitped Flowxrs . —At a late meeting of the Xinnean Society , 2 f . Brown , Esq ., in the chair , P-Tofssser Parbes exhibited aome specimens of orchidaceous Rowers -which had been electrotyped , and Which fead a Tery pleasing and attractive appearance . This process , however , had sot ths effect ol altering the shapsor characteristics of the specimens submitted to it , as they an retain their formation In a remarkably perfect manner . TH 2 Sea . —The mean depth of ths sea is , according to 1 a Piacs , from fonr to fire miles . If the existing waters were increased only ons-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 glebe . Evaporation would be so much extended , that rains would fall continually , destroy the harvest , and fruits , and flowers , aud subvert the whole economy of nature . There is , perhaps , nothing more t > eautifol in car-whole Bysfcen than the process by -which the fields are irrigated from til e skies ; the rrrenj srs fed from the mountains—and the ocean restrained within bounds , which it never can exceed bo loag aa that -process continues on the present scale . Tne vapour raised Dy the sun from the sea floats Whew yet It is lighter than-tbe atmosphere ; condensed , It falls upon the earth in water ; or attracted to the mountains , it gathers on their summit , dissolves , and
perpetually replenishes the conduits : the fluid is conveyed to the rivers which flow on the surface of the earth , and the springs which lie deep in its bosom , destined to supply mas with a purer element If ws suppose the sea , then , to be considerably diminished , the Amazon , and the Mississippi , those inland seas of the western world , would become inconsiderable brooks : ths brooks would wholly disappear , the atmosphere would fee deprived of its dae proportion of humidity ; all nature would assume the garb of desolation ; the bini -would droop os ita wing , the lower animals ¦ srould -perish on Uie barren sou and man himself would -wittier away like the sickly grass at bis feet
A " 2 tRW Light . "—Monday week a private exhibition took place , at the Adelaide Gallery , of Bunsen ' s carbonic battery . The novelty of the principle upon which this battery is constructed is this , that plates of carbon are used in conjunction with the zinc in the jars , instead of copper as in the ordinary battery . By this means a much s&onger current of electric fluid is obtained , and being brought to bear ( through the a ? ency of a thin wire ) upon quick lime place-i in an exhausted receiver , a light is evolTed far more white and intense than any which has yet been obtained by the oxyhydrogen or ether suparatus . Previously to the
battery's being put in operation Mr . Jones delivered a short lecture os the best mode of making the carbon for the plates in order to prevent its being too friable x > t loo prngni 3 j and stat ed that although Hub inTeDBon was claimed by BunseB , hs belis-red it -would be found that ws were indebted for the discovery of the principle to an Englishman , Mr . J . T- Cooper . In confirmation of his statement , he referred his auditory to the Philosophical Transactions for 1840 . The prismatic rays were projected upon the ceiling , a photographic portrait "was taken , and other interesting experiments were performed by means of the new light , all with perfect sneoess .
yEW Fixe Esmss . —A mechanic at Bristol of the gums of Bacon , has invented a pump and fire engine , which , for compactness and power' is unique . It draws water at twenty two feet from the surface , and throws it to a great distance , Its cost is £ 20 , and it possesses an hydraulic power equal 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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heaith op tottns , ' ; PROPOSALS FOB C 05 STRCCTIKG SUB-SEVEBS AS A ; JfECESSABT AXTX 1 I . 1 AKY TO THE PB . ESBKT SEVBUS i These sewers may be constructed of cast-iron ribs , ¦ W-gip g into a cast-iron keelson , having on a cast-iron \ crown plate , tna whole bo formed as to key into ont ! another without screws or bolts . * J The ' sub-sewers are to run along and beneath the ! north and south sides of the shores of the river Thames , a little a ¥ ove low water maik , and proceed down the ! liver to the lewer parts of Essex and Kest into recap- ! taeles or reservoirs formed of cast-iron plates { something ; irrnHar to gMometers ) , and with psrtitionB havina gnt- j ings or meshes of sisos proper for the purpose of ¦ separating the filth from the liquid , which will ran into j Jhe last chamber , and be allowed to stand to settle . ! Now , if a column of pulveEBed quick-lime is run into ]
the sewer at aay given point previous to its exit from j thence into the reserroirs , everything that is held in solatJon in the liquid will be chemically thrown down tthe theory of the process of which is , the contents of the fewerage bemg highly charged with-carbonic acid , immediately the polverlEsd lime comes in contact thsrewith , Sie ; liquid is chemically acted tpon , and what ! was held in aolution immediately falls down ) , thereby separating the water , which may be turned off , and > leaving the residue , which may be passed through a powerful mill in order to pnlveriaa and thoroughly in- • orporate it , after -which it can be put into an hydraulic : press and formed into blocks of any shape or sizi best < fitted for conveying to any parts of the empire . A ' isolomn of sea ^ attr ruight be advantageously ruainto ¦ fee sewers , the Ealine portions of which would prove | highly baieficial to the manure . ' The Chinese are particularly ingenious in their manures : bnt 1 question -s-hether the proposed aimix- iare would sot be superior to &bj . Messrs . Rtsnie
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and Telford stated , in thetr evidence delivered before the London Bridge Committee , " that there were several thousand tons of the most valuable manure running into tbe Thames from the metropolitan sewers every hour , thereby poliaOng the water to that excessive degree , that it was fast approaching an immense ditch , and so excessively filthy that no tea-kettle laboratory could preperly filter the water so as to be fit for domes * tic purposes . " 4 s to the capability of the & » il , — "it is" ( says Sir George Stephenson , the eminent engineer ) " my decided convictioB , founded upon close and extensive personal obaerntlon , that the soil of England , if properly treated , will produce four times the amennt of human food that it yields under the present system . " Upon the most moderate supposition ,
by adopting these sub-sewers , there would be an actual saving to th 9 country annually of upwards of two millions of tons of the most Taluible manure , containing all the mates ( animal salts ) , fcc , which , if sold to the land-holders and farmers at 10 s , per ten , would materially aid them to meet any pressure of the times . Bssidea , thB iron-trade of this great nation ia in a depresstd state , at all times fluctuating ; the government , by constructing these sub-sewers , would permanently raise the price of iron ; because Bristol , Hnll , liTerpool , and other towns wonld at once adept similar sewers , 4 or husbanding the manure . Prom a rough calculation , I presume these metropolitan sub-sewers 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 aay head , hi the receipt of enormeus sums of money , not accountable for the same , and continually fiebting at cross purposes with each other , the present rates that are collected would amply suffice to liquidate the construction thereof . It iB not within the scope of calculation the immense benefits that would result from the government or country adopting these sub-sewers .
In Edinburgh , the watchmen , 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 graUBgs ; why cannot the same be done by the able-bodied poer of this great dirty metropolis ? which might be made the healthiest and cleanest city in the 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 ( tree ) against every gaa lamp-post a water or fire-plug , the same to be kept always charged { the water companies wonld 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 shoot from their privies and drains into the common sewers ; all the streets tt > be thoroughly washed everyjtwenty-four hours ; the graveyards of tbe metropolis to be for ever closed , and seven feet of clsy laid thereon , and planted with trees .
Biibop Litimer , in his days , said : " That it was an eternal disgrace to tbe clergy to allow the burials to go on in a lirge crowded town , " as they were than increasing to an alarming extent ; what would he have said at this time of day , mixing np 45 , 000 dead anr . nally amidst the living ? By washing the streets once every twenty-four hours there would be no necessity for scavenger ' s carts , or nightmen , or watering carts . These sub-scwers ought to precede the Thames embankment . They might be constructed nearly the whole extent without erecting any ctffer-dam , which will appear dear on a casual survey ; if they are commenced at the terminus and brought up the Tiver , all the water accumulating on excavating will pass through thereservoirs . Lastly , it would form a legitimate source of revenue of upwards of one million sterling annnally ; and if tbe government neglect doing it , it might be established through the means of a public company . Richaud Rowed , Promoter of the Heaith of Towns . No . 7 , Stanhope-place , Southwark Bridge-road .
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" Laws grind the poor , and rich men rale the law !" APPALLING DESTIICT 10 S . On Thursday , the 16 th inst , Mr . Carter , the Coroner for Surrey , went into a very protracted inquiry at the Mm , Snow-fields , Bemondsey , respecting tbe death of Ann ( Jalway , aged forty-five . The deceased resided at 3 , White Lion durt , Bermondsey-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 , nor furniture of any kind . When found dead , she was lying with her Bon in her wretched abode on a heap of
feathers , which had been strewed over her almsst naked person , for neither eo- » erlid , sheet , nor blanket could he found . From the wretched state la which the ¦ woman was , the feathers had become so fastened over her person that the parish-surgeon could make no examination until she had been cleansed , and thsn the body presented a most extraordinary appearance . It was considerably emaciated , and actually covered from tiie bead to the feet with numberless small red spots , where vermin had been preying upon her . Altogether it was a scene never before , perhaps , witnessed in a hnmin dwelling-place .
Mr . J . Slow , one of the relieving omeera 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 piece * of breaJ and a basin of coffee mixed with the feathers . There was no bedding of aay kind , and she was quite dead . They had never applied for parish relief , nor dhl be know them . . Margaret Shea , of 23 , Magdalen-court , Tooley-street , deposed teat the deceased was her sister . The last time she saw ber sister alive was on the 19 tb of September , when she was in excellent health , but very badly clad . Tfce room was in the same state in which the jury had jort seen it She was then lying in a corner of it Witness came from Ireland at Easter 12
months ago , acd lived with them till February last year . When Bhe went , there was 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 . Tee deceased rarely had any . The son slept in a corner of tbe room , and had one blanket , bnt what he slept on " was only the name ef a bed . " When witness went there , the son slept in tbe corner with his mother and father , and she had his place , and put there a mattress fhe had brought from Ireland . They had something to eat morning and night , bnt so
dinnar , and sh 2 did not know bow they had iived since September . While she was there she had Been the husbsnd and son frequently beat the deceased becanse she wonld not get ont of tbe feathers . II then was anything to eat she wonld get up and eat , and then get into the feathtrs . She neglected her person , and seemed careless about everything . 8 he never went from the room . A part of the 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 , who bed evidently misunderstood the nature of the sensatioa 3 her statement produced , cried— " O , do not ianrh : this goes to my heart "
The Goroner . —No one has laughed at this frightful tale , and no one shall , with impunity . fit ahon ' . d be observed that the witness was very neatly and respectably dressed , and evidently not an ignorant woman , j Examination resnxnfcii- —The Mason that the bob Henry beat ber sister and his mother was , because the landlady of ihe house had t » ld him t » do b@ . When she died in the room she had no clothes on . Her husband when in work got 2 a . 6 i 8-day , ont of which he had to pay 2 s . a-nreek rent
After some additional evidenee had been given , tbe coroner said , the inquiry was of paramount importance to tbe public , as a human being bad been found in tbe most abjsct state destitution . It was due to the parish that it should be ascertained whether starvation had been the cauBe of death ; and it was also due to the husband and son to ascertain that poison had not been administered , or that they had , in any way , been the cause of the unfortunate woman ' s death . He understood they were both in custody , the husband raving mad , a&d tbe son alinost an idiot The inquest was then a ^ jouraed .
Poor Law Buffiajjism . Lambeth-stbeet . —On Thursday , Mra Clayton , a yenDg married -woman , whose father Dad been for many years a ratepayer of the parish of Wnit « cQapel , applied to Mr . Norton for as order to see ber sister , who was cither confined , or on tbe point of confinement , in Whitechapel workhou ? e . It will be recollected , that on the morning of that day -week , the applicant had , in the first instance , made application at the -workhouse , and reqa&ated to Bee her sister , but the gate-porter refused her admittance . Tbe gate-keeper perceiving her intentiom , sei 33 d and forced her back with violence , and in doiag so tore her cloak . TJpon that ecc-oBion Mr . Norton advised Mra . Clayton to go before the Baa > d of Guardians on the Tuesday following , acd Biike a formal eomplaint to them of the manner in which she had been treated .
Singular to s 3 j , this order was treated with indifference , and it was not tintil the deputy chairman him-Belf had peremptorily desired , that the applicant was permitted an interview , and then only in the presence of the m& 8 ter of tbe workhouse . Yesterday Mrs . Clayton stated , that on going before the Board on Tuesday , and relating what-had passed , she was told that Bhe would be allowed to see her sister on the fol lowing day ; bnt on applying at the workhonBe she was refused . .,..,. Mi . Norton expressed his surprise and astonishment
at the extraordinary conduct pursued by the master of the workhcuss , and despatched an officer to request the attendance of that faactionary , as well as the gatekeepsr , to have an explanation of their conduct He ( Mr . Norton ) also desired the constable to ealinpon Mr . Brashfield , tbe chairman , and Mr . Wallace , tbe depat-. tbairman , c . f the Board of Gasrdissa , to re quest their aitcE 6 .= oce r ^ so , that they might bear all that transpired . Only tfce ehairmsn , "Mr . Brushfield , ettrsdtd t » tbe summons of the magistrate . HayiBg ¦ B-a iirf fur s me tim-, and neither th 2 master c-f the ¦ fforkhouse nor gu't-keepfe ? Bating ttieir appearance ,
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the inquiry into lb , 2 ir vaa appointed a future day . Mr . Norton received the tallowing donations fo ? the poor-box : —w . x . r ., £ 20 ; Sir John Txevelyan , £ 5 * An Old Soldier , £ i ; Mr . Samuel Martin , Liverpoel , £ 5 ; H . R . G-, £ & ; A Noble Lord , £ 1 ; A Lady , C . H . * half of £ 10 } Lord Alvanley , £ 10 ;—making altogether XfO 7 .
HOfiBIBLE BISTKESS . Thames Policb , Thubsdat— The following case waa that of Elizibetb Morris , of 2 , Jabiiee-place ; Stepney , also the mother of b ! x children , ana 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 Taoaday 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 turned out of her home
into the cold , damp fog , she stood in the atreet In the m * j . er children utterly bewildered , not knowing wtuit to do or where to go . Pitying her deplorable condition , and seeing that she waa utterly destitute , Douglas advised her to come to the court and make an application . The worthy magistrate directed that the imuiemate wants of the applicant and her children Bhould 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 has been made for her until her husband ' s liberation .
• The SHiHT-MAKEas . —Union-Hail—On Thursday , Mary White , the peor shirt-maker who was remanded on Friday , on a charge of pawning some shirts intrusted to her to make up . by a woman named Davis , who works for the slopseMers , was brought up for re-examination before Mr . Co ^ tlngham on the charge . In consequence of the publicity given to this distres-Ing case , Mr . Cottingbam has had transmitted to- him donations from several benevolent individuals , to a very considerable amount , in aid of the accused j and amongst them the following sums from the writers , who expressed a desire that they might be acknowledged in the newspapers : —A . £ 1 lOs- J . M . C , £ 1 ; H . W . 2 s . fid . ; A . B . ^ 10 a . ; F ., £ l : J . ? ., loa . ; U-, 10 a ; S . R ., £ 1 ; P . E . T ., 10 a . ; R . H : A ., 10 a . ; M IX , 10 a ; W . W £ 2 ; Y ., 10 s . ; H . B ., 10 s . ; W . J .. 10 s . ; H . A ., 16 s . ; E . E ., 10 s .: " A Lover of Justice " £ l .
Harriet Davis now said that she did not wish to press the charge ; apon hearing of whfco , Mr . CotMngham observed that Bhe had changed her mind , for on the previous examination she had expressed a very strong desire to follow np tho prosecution . Davis acknowledged that the makera bad only ihreebalfpence for making a shirt ! Mi . Cottingham then made some inquiries into the character of the accttsed ^ woman . The result of these inquiries showed that the poor woman hod been suffering very great distress , that she was considerably in arrear of rent to the woman with whom she lodged , who , although in great poverty herself , having a siek husband and child to maintain by her own labour , yet had contributed all in her power to assist the accused by pledging her things and keeping ber and the twu children from starving .
, Mr . Cottingham then addressed the accused , and directed Mr . Bdwin , the chief clerk , to liquidate ' the rent the accused owed to the poor woman Maryfeown , who stood in so much need of it , and money was given by Winch , an officer of the Court , to purchase bqihb articles to furnish a room for Mary White , the magistrate informing her , that if Bhe obtained work from a shop , and not through the intervention of a middle * woman , " Becnrity would be given at that Court to the person who employed her , fer which purpose a portion of the money contributed to her aid would be retained , in order to remunerate her employer for any loss he might sustain on her account The accused , who shed tears of gratitude , expressed her " everlasting thanks' to those charitable and kind persons who had contributed to her assistance in the hour of need .
MORE MISERY . Marlborough street . —Since it has become ksown that the funds of the poor-box at this cenrt have been increased by 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 tbe 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 . Hard-wick .
The first case was that of Emma Stammers , the wife of a stable-man out of employ , with three young children , one lying dead , and one sick . Her application was for some relief , to enable her to bury her child , she having applied to the parish in which she resided for a coffin , and had been refused , on the ground that she did not belong to the parish . Police-constable Qibbstt deposed to the slate of extreme destitution in which the family was involved and the good character of tho applicant . The youDg woman said her husband had been in tbe service of Mr . Hope , of Spring-gardens , as stableman , but when his master left England in June , he lost his place , and had been unable to procure another situation .
- Mr . Hardwick—How have you maintained yourselves since June ? Applicant—God only knows . Sometimes we have only bad one meal in three days . My husband has walked ail over London to get work ; he has not a bit of shoe to bis feet now . All we have had to live upon is what my husband has been able to earn by holding horses , or by getting a job now and then . I can do nothing myself , because one of ray children is now ill at home , and the infant ia my arniB cannot be left . : Mr . Hardwick—Have you applied to the parish ?—Applicant—I went to the parish of St . Martin ' s , to ask for a comn to bury my child in , bnt I was told thoy could do nothing for me , because I did not belong to the parish .
Mr . Hardwick—1 do not understand this . Do you mean to say yon told them your distressed situation , and they refused to help you at all ?—Applicant—They aaid they would Bend a doctor to my sick child , bnt they could not give me any other relief , as I belonged to Clewer , near Windsor . Mr . Hardwick immediately ordered £ 2 to be given to the yeong woman , who expressed [ her grateful thanks , and retired . Tbe second rase was that of a decent-looking elderly
woman , reported by Polio Constable Tice . The woman's character was very good . She had hitherto get her living by going put 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 for existence to her nieces—themselves in a ttate approaching to want The applicant was relieved with tt n shillings . A gentleman walked into court , and pat down £ 5 for the poor-box , which he desired might be entered as the donation of Anonymous .
MURDER ! HELLISH TREATMENT OF THE P 00 B IN THE COVENTRY BASTILE . ( Abridged from the Leicester Chronicle . ) An inquest was held on Monday night la ? fc , 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 starvation . The Jury proceeded to view the body , which lay in the house of deceased's father , close by ; it presented a painful picture of the effects of suffering and want .
Catherine Robson , wife of tho deceased , was then pworn : she deposed as follows : —My husband was a framework-knitter , and was aged thirty-two , I believe . Hab last residence waa at Coventry , where he belonged ; and in the House of Industry there , we had all ( deceased , myself , aed four children ) been for the last four or five months . We bad lived at Leicester before ; but he having had a bad arm , so that he could not work , St . Margaret ' s parish had sent us home by the waggon . His arm was injured many years ago by a manjile ; but he thought it was again injured by a wrench while carrying sacks of corn ; it was his right arm ; and waa hurt first eighteen years ago ; but it had never failed him at work till two years ago . Tho
wound was a fracture , Eut appeared to have healed ; the arm was always stiff and wea& . He was quite unable to work at Coventry this hat time , and we left the ¦ workhouse [ House of Industry ] because my husband was used so ill . He could not * , et Up to breakfast , but the master said he could , and teld 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 { fields , 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 1
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 ; hin appetite get worse : and the doctor would not let him have the beer—they said 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 sick ward asked the Governor for his breakfast , saying Robson was much worse , and = ke wonld take it np him : the master said he would 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 my husband any . After breakfast , every Tuesday , the directors go round every room ; and the nurse told me the mistress had said to them , " This is Robson —the idle felloW , "who won'tgot np | for hia meals : " on which they said , " O / then keep him on slops till he gets up . ** I asketi the nurse what reply my husband made ; and she said be was too bad to make any reply : this iretted me very much , asd I wad auxious to get him home . The nurse is an Irishwoman , and has been there many years . My husbaud waa shifted into this Sick iloom . on tho Monday , He bad boea
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iLShten ^^ * ¦ ° * & * & because he was trBf ? ni fTte ? H ^ e being then too ill nerK H % j treS 8 » Mrs . Palmer . )^ -At din-S £ «!? Vi £ n-T * i » wy husband got ' up , and ofTtri , wn i ° tbe di"ing room ; bnt ho was all g ' * «? fe ! r Bcci ? Wto walk ; : he went intv « S . k f lnn 6 r ^ ^ he could not 4 t it-he * ° S $ " * «« P ° tatoe , and gave all the rest to 2 £ Zl ? SPk * 811118 **^ the doctor she saw Robth ? PA ! i ? i m befbre him - Meat is given S a week r on meat days , too ,, there is S of ^ ^ , 5 nd at •¦ wp ' peMime he got up S « fcTlw » VM / a--and he save it tame : he took nothmg that taaht On W ^ nes ^ mnrmno
OT » W « breakfast ; but the Governor got h £ h % A > T l > and 8 lapped the d 0 M > in ° >? husband » face :-ftiaa rale th « e , thatali thepau-P ^ S ? % r m befw ° tbe Governor , or nofcfio in ; SS-STni ^ my husband , " You are t « o late and he ^ had no breakfast . I saw him ZTnZtSLP * * d jota ? -womi and he told ine he £ u nnrte ? Cie had none that morning at Wh « T » f had jmy the previous morning .-When we went to the Board , I led my husband down to the board-room , where the Bireotors " ^ p ^ lTi ^ We thei > aPPlied to ^ sent hom ? , and I told them my husband had . had uo breakfast for two mornings ; my husband was so & : w £ , ° n " ^^ talk-rl was obl iged to speak Hr ^^^ ' ^ " < same who had been in the Sick-room ) SDOkeun . and said "nh ^ it
S x-iS ? ? »^ f « "o ^ , whe would not get up to his breakfast : " this Director ' s name , I think , was Watts . I made answer , and said my husband had never been idle m his life ; told them how long he had becB ill ; and tkat he liad never applied to the parish but once before . One Director then looked at my husband , and saiJ * O ! ho does not look able to work . They asked why I wished to come home when he _ could not work ! for they should Hot give mei anything ^ I said I wished to get him into the Infirmary at Leicester , for if he stopped there ( Coventry ) I thought he would die : my husband told them the same—he said the place did not agree with hita , and ho coald not stay . They wanted to know what I should do with mv familv while le waa in
the Infirmary ? I aaid I had friends at Leicester , wno would take me in the short time he was there . They said they must have a letter from ay friends t <> that effect ; and my husband palled out a letter which he bad got from his father on the Monday before . The letter waa left at Coventry : we did not ask for it again . The letter said that his father waa very uneasy at heaving he was so ill , and they wished to have him home again : my husband had been an oui-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 the letter over , sent us 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 me this . I said I could not think of doing so , as I knei » mv husband was not
used well . Mr . Watts then said if I was determined to have my discharge , ho would write one , and he did so ; but ho said / should net have anything to take me home . My bu&band was too ill to say much . The discharge -was given to the Governor . My husband wished to go home , and he told the doctor 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 same out : the Miatress called my husband to the doctor , who attended , I believe , three times a week . I did not go till I heard the doctor and the mistress making a sad noisp at him ^ -they were "jawing " him because of what I had said at the Board" That he was not well done to . " I knew ho could
not spe ; ik , and so I went in 1 but on speaking in his behalf I was ordered off by both—the doctor saying I had nothing to do with it . I heard the doctor say , " You aro a good-for-nothing dissatisfied fellow : I cau Eee it in your face . " I do not know what they said after this , as I was ordered off to my work . My husband soon after came 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 srnhe rice-pudding , of which he eat two or three spoonsful , and gave the rest to me )—I w ? nt and got his clothes , put them on him , and we then went into the town bo see if the waggon would bring us to Leicester . We begged the waggoner very hard to bring us , telling him wo would pay him when we got to
Leicester ; we had no mon 6 y then . It was a tilted cart—we bad a waggon the next morning . We prevailed upon the waggoner to take us . We got to Hinckley that ( Wedneeuay ) night , and whore we stopped 'first , my husband a ^ ked for his hat , to go out , and the landlady said to me ,. " Your husbaud seems in a very queer atate—very ill . " I said , "Ho 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 bo ; and the landlady , before we went to them , gave my hudband a glass of brandyand-water , and a man from her house brought him down to the lodging—B&ying as he went , " My poor man ! ' think of your soul , for I am afraid yeu ' re in a bad way . " My husband was very ill all night :
in the morning I begged two cups of coffee and some white bread tor him : we then went to the waggon ( a 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 Humberstonegate ; but after I had gone * a little way , on the road to his father's , I turned back to see if ha was coming on with the other children : he was staggering 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 V Ho said , "No , my woneh , I can't . " I said he had better stop at the Waggou and Horses ,
and I would go and fetch his father . We got home about twelve o ' clock . Hisfather 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 some tea , and said he felt better : he told his father he thought he 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 for 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 his features were then greatly changed , and that his speech was worae . I ran and got an orfer 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 doctor immediately . We had written to his father first to say how bad he was ; ami the father had sent « i some post office orders , which the Governor had kept for some time—one for * ix weeks : indeed , we should have known nothing of the order having been sent , but for some man coming oter from Leicester and telling us . 1 then told the Directors , who asked Mr . Palmer ( tho Governor ) what he had to say about the matter ! Mr .
Palmer made a rambliu * kind of tale . We at last got the letters ; but not tilt the Directors had told the mistress they must be found—that poor people must not lose their lu . ters because they were in the poor-bouse . The tetters were opened when we got them—( this is a rule of the house )—but the post-office orders were ia 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 lea ami sugar would do my husband good . The second letter was in answer to one I had written to say we had just sot the first . In answer to several of the jury , tho poor woman said her husband was put to work at the pump while he was so 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 ivork ! This was under tho first doctor ( 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 in tho field whsr , ha was sent there because he could not work at the pump . The second doctor gave him medicine directly he saw him ; but it waa a fortnight after he bceame doctor before he saw my husband fimt , because the Master used to send him out to the pigs every day . He had a piece of bread and cheese given him each day , but he used to bring it home to me because he could not eat it . He left off going to the pi # s , 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 tor 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 muK go into the sick ward . The mistress " jawed ' me for giving him the beer ; said my husband was an idle fellow ; that he Bhould do some work that week if she could help it . I said " Indeed , ma ' am , he will soon die then ; " on which she said , "A good job t 1 oo , for we shall then only have to get him a cojftn . " 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 a clothes . Whtn the mistress was told of this , she came
and seeing my beer { a better kind of table-beer ) m the tin , she made me drink it up , saying I should not keep it for my husband ! Mr . Staines here said this case ought to he reported to tho Poor Law Qemmissioners : the law never intended that people should bo pined in this way;—and some conversation followed , in the course of which it appeared that Coventry had a Local Act ; still , Mr . S . said he thonght tha Commissioners would have power to interfere in such a shameful case , and the jury : expressed a verf strong opinion as to the conduct of all the parties connected with the Coventry House of Industry . Mr . John Holman Tosswil ) , surgeon to East Margaret ' s division , was then sworn—I was called on ( he said ) at half-past nine en Friday night to see
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deceased , who was dyin ^ : I received order , btit , hearing the case ] wag urgent , I went without one . I found deceased at his father ' d house , insensible and speechless : a great quantityt of matter was discharging from a | wound in his shoulderhis shirt was saturated with it . His pulse was scarcely porceptiWc- ^ hia extremities wert cold—and he was evidently dying . I ordered him hot brandy-and-water } through the night , and 8 onv arrow-root—hot bricks to his feet and bottles of hot water to his stomach and- arm ? . I wished to kuow what was the injury to his shoulder , and therefore
introduced' a probe , whioh went in a considerable depth . From the symptoms , he appeared to be dyiag from downright inanition ? -want'of' food . There was no-cough or appearance of other disease . 0 b 8 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 iho next ( Saturday ) , morning , and they sent to tell me of it . His case was one vtfsich must have demanded good diet for some lime : I should have ordered [ ihis . £ cannot speak precisely as to the immediate cause of death without an
examination ot the body . The Coroner said he thought this was a case in which a precise opinion ought to be given , ot h would be unfair to the parties mentioned , and who certainly wore implicated by the Wife ' s evidence . — The poor man had 3 poken of being better after he came to Leicester ,. and of going to work a ^ ain soon . One of the Jurors-fThat is an idea which dying men often entertain . ' Another Juror—It ! is clear to me that hia death has been caased by downright cruelty . The Coroner—It would be unfair to say so ^ with ont an examination of the body , whatever we may think . I . The Jury all expressed a wish that Mr . Tosswill should examine the body . Mr . Wilkinson ( Believing Officer ) said every attention had been paid to deceased from the time he reached Leicester ; and Mr . Tosswill having said he should examine the body early to-morrow ( Tuesday ) morning , the inquest was then adjourned to six o ' clock that evening . I SECOND DAY ' S 1 NQ . UHSX ( TUESDAT . )
The inquiry was { resumed this evening at six o ' clock ,, when j Mr . j . H . Toss will said , hfrhad made a post mortem examination and found the body to present externally a very emaaiated appearance . On moving tne arm in tbe sackot , a distinct grating could be felt , indicating diseabo , and which examination had prored to be present . —Externally beneath the collar bone was an opening , into which a probe was introduced , and which opening communicated with tue joint , allowing the probe to touch tho bene , On laying open the shoulder joint , a great and long standing disease wai found to have existed ; the head of the arm bouo being found to be alinost
denuded of cartilage , which had been destroyed b y ulceration . —The hollow of the shoulder , on which the head of tho bone rests , was also deprived of eartilago by ulceration . r-An opening was also found extending from the joint downwards , to the inner portiou of the blade bone , whioh prevented the probe from penetrating further . On laaying op « n 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 tho chest—both of long-standing formation and of recent date . —No evidence of tubercular disease was present . There was a considerable quantity of fluid in the 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 esses any internal indications of inflammatory action , and that but of a very trifling character . The chief disease was effusion of water rnj tho chest , aad 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 chtst , and exposure to cold . Tne jour ncy from Coventry I 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 tho existence of the disease of , the shoulder join *! Mr . Tosswill—Am | I bound to answer that question ? ' ! Coroner—Yes ; I ihink po . Mr . Tosswill —/ perceived it , and therefore imagine others must have done so . By a Juror—Deceased coald not pump ; and exposure to cold was as bad for him . Several of the Jurors expressed themselves in strong terms of indign&tioH 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 .
THURSDAY . The Coroner and ithe Jury re-assembled at two o ' clock to-day . Shortly after the proceedings had commenced a large crowd assembled in front of the public-house where the inqusst was held . Elizabeth Robson j who had been brought from the Coventry House of Industry , wa 3 the first witness examined . From herj evidence , as given in the Leicester Chronicle , it is evident that she had been turniahed with a good talo to clear the Directors and Master . What tho jury thought of her evidence will bo seen in their verdict .
Margaret Hall , the nurse—an old Irishwoman was next examined . According to her there was excellent treatment given to all tbe inmates of the Coventry Hall ; she made , however , eoiae rather startling ; admissions . She said , " His arm was bad : he was bad inside too , 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 limb ? . It was for his own benefit . One morning he could not get ] down , and he was aot in time to get his breakfast ; and the master did not send ir . He ( the master ) has told me to day he sent it by the cook . ] By Mr . Staines—This conversation took place in Leicester—not in Coyentry .
By the Coroner—That day he came down for his dinner . This was about seven days bbfore he left . He could not eat anything ; all he wished for was drink . He had no beer allowed him , but his wife gave him her share , and she was mobbed ( we understood ) for it . Heard tho mistress tell deceased ' s wife about ber giving her husband her beer . I often gave him some of my beer . Deceased had medicine , but they gave him no wine . It was very hard to make him take hia medicine . He had nothing bjtt what was allowed on'the 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 J don ' t wish to be deprived of it , " said the witness , in this place , and she sobbed while saying so . l
I gave him breakfast unknown to Mr . Palmer ( fhe Governor ) several times . He was not allowed a bed to lie on : not by the doctor . The doctor said he should not lie in bid in the daytime . Deceased lay on tho 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 dozen . There was no change made in his diet . A few days before he left ha was measured i ' or a new pair of shoes , and had them about four days atter . None in the workhouse would fit him , his legs were swelled so . The day he came out , his wife came to him and said , Mf . lad , come with me to the Board . " He said , 1 can't speak , I am so bad . " She replied , "Never mind , my lid , I'll speak for you , " He went to tho Board , and she told me she had told fhe Board she would have him home ; she would not have him there to be murdered . He was in the
laundry having a little beer , when he had left the Board-room , and the mistress ordered him t » go to tho doctor . He came up to the sick-room to take his few thioga withjhim , and his w fe said to me , " Good bye . / said , * Ifyou take him home , it is as much as I expect : " he was so bad , he trembled like au aspen leaf . His wife said to him , " My dear , you feel worse . " He said , " / am—I am all but gone . " I saw no more ef him . By Mr . Staines —/ asked the master for his breakfast when he could not come down , but he would hot send it . He said the doctor had ordered Robson down , and he would not send his breakfast up , Robson icas not fit to' come down . We may do little , things ourselves sometimes , but not with doctors orders . [ In a low voice— // we did not . God help y em-they wouldn ' t be there long } Mr . Watts was visiting director that week ; ttobson was m the room on the Tuesday he came , but nothing was said
Mr . Eead—One day the master said he would make him work . j . By the Coroner—He was pumping one day when he was very ill . S By Mr . Staines—Men with one arm or one leg are set to the pump . It is very hard work ; they must do it ; they must fill the copper . He was aot ea iil when he went to mind the pigs . He was called idie when he would not pump . J , Mr . Edward Bicknell , surgeon , Coventry , depossd that he took it in rotation to visit the Poor House , his evidence only tended to confirm ,, though evideitly not deBirous of so a > ing , the testimony of the deceased ' s widow . He said , in conclusion —/ did not consider any alteration in his diet nectssary : it was wholesome and good . He was dissatisfied nothing was done to his shoulder . I injected into the sinus of his shoulder a email quantuj of an astringent solution—sulphate of zinc . It woald do neither harm nor good . I did so three times ,,
After several questions h&& been , put to this very considerate doctor j Mr . Browett ( who was chairman of the Board of Directors when Robsorv came up ) said that they gave Rabson and his witfa their di&charKe upon ihdr application for them , j [ Mr . Browett here gave a similar statement , to that of deceased ' s witoot' what took place before tho Boaro . ] After cJutuliiBg
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together privately , we sent for the woman and told her it was useless her going to Leicester , unless they conld earn their living . They said they could do so , and were determined to leave . Amongst other replies to questions , put by Mr . Staine 3 , the foliovriDff wera given ' . —It did not become me to inquire whether these people had money to carry them to Leicester . Tho local act does apt permit us to advance money or anything in snoa cases : we hava power to give relief in certain case ? . After Forao 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 ( Sovernor of the Workhouse ) was called but not sworn . He staged , 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 the door was shut ; the fir 3 t time hi 3 breakfast was sent upao him , the second it was not . He ( Mr . Palmer ) understood the doctor 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 aca eonSdent deceased received h ; s breakfast whea he did not come down . I did not shut the diniug-rooia 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 siek .
By the Coroner—Deceased was ordered to the sickroom , because he would go to the other room and He down ® n the bed with his clothes oa . By Mr . Siaines—Robson was treated as one who did not work . By the Coroner—Deceased icas of an unhappy disposition , and so was his wife : 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 nailed upon to withdraw , whilst the Coroner and jury Wfre in consultation . More than half 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 shoui der-joint and effusion of water in the chest . That his death was accelerated iby the inattention of the medical men of the Coventry House of Industry and for want of proper nourishment while in that House . "
At the conclusion of tho 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 the Coventry House of Industry making his appearance , he was assailed with a voliey of abuse , and the attitude of the people who recognised him was so threatening that he was fain to retreat within 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 tha door , and exclaimed , 'Turn ont the murderer ! turn out the murderer !! ' At length Sergeant Wright , who empannelled the jury , sent for the police : and even then it was found impossible to get the CrO * vernor away , excepting in a vehicle . The fly drove off amidst the exercratfons of the assembled multitude , their curses being both load and deep . "
ANOTHER HUMAN BEING STARVED TO DEATH . At an inquest on Monday night , before Mr . Higgs , on the body of Morris Keaiing , the "wife of deceased said—During the time the theatres are open X go out a charing to Mr . Simpson ' s , of the Albion Hotel , Brydj » e 8-streett 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 last , my husband had been ill for some time , I left home at eight o ' clock , and did not return until between one » nd two o ' clock the next morning . I was let in by the landlady , and on proceeding np stairs / found the two children huddled up in bed by the side of my husband , who was qdite bead and stiff : there was no fire or light in the
room , and the children said they had tried to wake their father , but could not make him hear . 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 prev ' tovs 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 . I had not applied for assistance to this paridh , thinking all parishes alike ia their practice , and be . » g 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 whioh required their serious consideration . Although there was nothing in the case to impugn the conduct of the parish officers , he did think that if they would more generally grant out-door relief , it would ba to the interest of the parishioners as well as the poor . The Jury fully concurred in the Coroner ' s remarks , and after a short consultation , returned a verdict of u 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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R » HiEVB .- ^ The German n * w confined m Newgate , under sentence ofdeat > , and who was ton&va been executed on Monday last , has fesen reprieved " untjl her Majesty ' s furthsr pleasure . ' * ACCIDKNI AAD L 0 S 3 OF LlVK IK A LSAB MlNEA few days ago a series accident , which was attended with loss of life * occurred in Howgill lead mine , near Brough , Ysfustmore&ud . John Thompfcon , a fine young man , who telonged to the Tillage of Staintoss , near INjurith , and another miner of me name of Campstoa , were working ia a shaft togetner , and were in t ' ae act of stemming .-a . bore wita an iron tool preparatory to making a blast : the powder unfortumae ' . y exploded , and iho effeot was sucb , and . tho injury wnich Thompson sujtaised was so severs , that he dkd a short lira * afterwards in the greatest a » ony .. Campstun vras ilso taott dreadfully mangled , and fiid recovurj ii etarcdj to b ? fexpected . |
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IRELAND AND THE GOVERNMENT . A public meeting was holden at the National Hall , High-Helborn , on Monday evening , for the purpose of taking into consideration the conduct of tae Government in their attempt toetifld 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 bad waited upon Mr . Buncombe , who informed them tnat he had a relative laying-dangerously ill at Nottingham ; he expected to be called thenca to attend his dying moments , or he would have been most happy to have attended—( loud cheers ) . The following resolutions which were ably spokea to , were adopted unanimously : —
1 . That the right of petitioning the Legislature for a redress of public grievances , or the 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 foree , despotio proclamations , or civil prosecutions , should call forth the marked indignation and constitutional resistance of every man wiio values political freedom . 2 . That the recent conduct of the Government In interdicting the CJontarf meeting , a few hours only before it was to have been boldan , after having for months allowed monster meetings to assemble in all parts of Ireland , indicates a recklessness and incaoaeity on the part of the Irish Executive , which imperatively demands our severest reprobation .
3 . That Dmiel O'Counell , Esq .. M . P ., and his colleagues , now under prosecution for having exercised their undoubted right of meeting to Petition against an Act of the Legislature , and * vhe have uniformly conducted large public meetings in a peaceful ana constitutional manner , are eminently entitled to public sympathy and support ; and this meeting heieby cordially tender them thsir best thanks for tho JB'ii'nient and humanity they have shewn in preventing a collission between the people and the military . 4 . That while we acknowledge , in the most uoequi vocal manner tbe grievances and lais-sovernmens under which Ireland has suffered for centuries ;—the inequality of her political aad municipal franchises ;—the shameless cruelty of htr alien landlords to their wretched
tenantry;—the sectarian distribution of government and local patronage ;—and above ail the infamy of ths Irish , Church Eatablishmant;—yet we we are deeply convinced that the only hope of obtaining politics ] justicefor England , Ireland , Scotland , ancl Wales ;—the abolition of all monopolies , and the permanent prosperity of our country ; is by a cordial union of all ciass- ^ a of Reformers to secure tha Legislative adoption of the principles of the Peopled Charter , wbioh will confer upon every man the right of being represented in the Commons House ol Parliament ; and this meeting emphatically declares ita conviction , that never , till thewhole population are faithfully represented , will , their rights be respected , their interest consulted , or their happiness promoted .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct972/page/7/
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