picked up some twenty or thirty yards from the body.
The mutilated remains were afterwards removed to the
Kilburn station. An inquest was held on the bodies,
when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death,"
adding to their verdict a recommendation to the directors
to take precautions to prevent the recurrence of the
accident in future, by the men being more effectually
warned on the approach of trains.

A poor woman was Killed by an Ox on the morning
of the 13th inst., near Sadler's Wells Theatre. A large
drove of beasts was being driven to one of the lairs near
Islington, for next day's market at Smithfield, and one
of them, in passing by a fruit stall, which has for many
years been kept near the theatre by an old woman,
made towards it, and the owner, fearing he would upset
it, endeavoured to frighten him away with her hands.
This appeared to infuriate the bullock, for he instantly
left the stall and ran at the woman with great fury and
forced her against the wall, where the animal, which
had no horns, continued butting at her in a dreadful
manner. The drover appeared afraid to go near. The
bullock then left her, and joined the drove. The poor
woman was taken up in an almost insensible state and
conveyed to the hospital, but died during the night.

A young man met a dreadful Death by Machinery
on the 9th inst. His name was Charles Brookfield. He
worked in the Hoyland Corn Mill, near Sheffield, and
was employed in cleaning some part of the machinery
with an old sack, when the sack got entangled with the
spindles, and before he could disengage his hands he was
caught up and whirled round a shaft at the rate of one
hundred and twenty evolutions per minute. His lifeless
body was found in a shockingly mangled condition.

Mr. J. F. Ansley, an under-graduate of Trinity College,
Cambridge, and son of Mr. Gilbert Ansley, of Houghton
Hall, Hants, has been Killed by a fall from a Horse. He
was in a field trying a horse which he purposed to buy;
the horse cleared several fences, but one it refused;
Mr. Ansley lost his seat, the horse dashed off round the
field, the young gentleman kept his hold of the saddle
for a time, but ultimately fell to the ground with his
foot entangled in the stirrup, and he was thus dragged
round the field several times, his head striking against
the ground at every stride of the horse. He was taken
up insensible, and soon afterwards expired.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

The result of an investigation, ordered by the Royal
Commissioners of the Great Exhibition, shows the
prime cost of the building and its maintenance up to the
30th of November, 1851, together with the cost of
taking down the building and reinstating the ground,
after deducting the probable value of the materials, is
£159,918 10s. 2d. In the list of items appended to the
report are—Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., for castings,
£ 23,093; Messrs. Cochrane and Co., cast iron,
£ 15,689; Mr. Jobson, cast iron, £5709; Messrs. Chance,
Brothers, and Co., glass for the roof, £13,0942; Messrs.
Kershaw, Lee, and Co., calico for roof, £1625; Aberdare
Iron Company, for wrought iron, £1665; Messrs.
Moser and Son, and Messrs. Pfeil and Co., for iron and
ironmongery, £2300; Mr. T. Ledger, for gas fittings,
£1323; Mr. Gardner, for hire of horses, £1216; Messrs.
Dowson and Co., for timber, £31,550; Mr. Birch, for
sash bars, £2949; Mr. Rose, for oil and paint, £3700;
and Messrs. Pontifex and Wood, for white lead, £1200,
&c. The item for wages alone amounts to £59,188.

A parliamentary paper on the subject of Savings
Banks has been printed, from which it appears that on
the 20th November, 1850, there were 1,092,581
individual depositors in savings banks, whose deposits, with
interest, amounted to £27,198,563. There were 12,912
charitable institutions depositing with savings banks,
amounting to £655,093, and 7506 friendly societies to
£1,077,326. The total depositors numbered 1,112,999,
and the amount, with interest, £28,930,982. There were
besides 586 friendly societies in direct account with the
Commissioners of the National Debt, and the amount
deposited was £2,277,340.

A large meeting of the inhabitants of the parishes of
St. Matthew's and St. John's, Manchester, on the 9th
inst., considered the propriety of petitioning parliament
in favour of the Substitution of Reproductive Labour
for Non-productive Labour or Compulsory Idleness in
Workhouses, as a means both of ameliorating the
condition of the pauper population and of diminishing the
burdens of the ratepayers. The Rev. Mr. Bentley,
rector of St. Matthew's, presided; the rector of St.
John's, and three other clergymen, Alderman Pilling,
several common councillors, and other leading citizens,
took part in the proceedings. The chairman advocated
the cause of reproductive labour. On the 1st of January,
1850 (he said), a period of boasted prosperity, there
were upon the rate-books of England and Wales 931,328
persons receiving in-door and out-door relief: what an
incredible waste of money, and loss of human labour;
and what an enormous amount of incentives to crime,
of pernicious influences on society and public virtue,
that fact suggested! He introduced to the meeting Mr.
Stark, the Secretary of the Poor-law Association, a body
which was formed some time since to inculcate the
principle of giving reproductive employment in
workhouses, and which is now increasing its activity and
enlarging the sphere of its influence. Mr. Stark stated,
that the principle of reproductive pauper employment is
making great progress in America, and is even applied
in Spain. The Liverpool Poor-law Board had appointed
Mr. Carr, the late master of the Cork Workhouse, to
the mastership of the Liverpool Workhouse; a deputation
from the vestry having been to Cork and satisfied
itself of the great advantages, both to the poor inmates
and to the ratepayers, which Mr. Carr had there
obtained by an intelligent application of reproductive
employment among the paupers. Resolutions to petition
Parliament in favour of the objects advocated by the
speakers were unanimously adopted.

The annual general meeting of the Royal Literary
Fund corporation was held on the 10th inst., Sir
R. H. Inglis, Bart., in the chair. The report stated
that the sum of £1635 was distributed during the
past year in relief to distressed authors and their
families, making the total sum so applied from the
commencement of the institution £40,535. The Marquis
of Lansdowne was re-elected president; the vice-presidents,
council, and officers were re-elected; C. Baldwin,
Esq., being elected to the vacant officer of treasurer;
and B. Corney, Esq., to that of auditor.

The fourth anniversary festival of the City of London
Hospital for Diseases of the Chest was held at the
London Tavern, on the 16th inst., Lord Granville in
the chair. A report from the committee was read,
stating that 11,194 persons had obtained relief from the
charity since its commencement in June, 1848, and that
the attendance of patients had frequently amounted to
from 150 to 170 during a single day. The total receipts
during the year 1851 amounted to £7845 2s. 11d., of
which £7222 19s. 6d. had been expended, leaving a
balance of £622 3s. 5d. The new hospital in progress
of erection at the Victoria Park it was estimated would
cost £15,606 2s., of which £5510 8s. 8d. had already
been paid, so that there remained a sum of £ 10,095 3s. 4d.
still to obtain. At the close of the entertainments
donations to the amount of £ 5018 were announced,
including the sums of £ 500 contributed by Mr. S.
Gurney, £300 by Mr Joseph Tucker, £ 250 by Mr. H.
E. Gurney, £ 250 by Mr. Henry Tucker,  Â£250 by Mrs.
Stone. £63 by Mrs. Dixon, of Stanstead-park, and £50
additional by Mr. Henry Tucker.

The annual meeting of the friends and supporters of
the Liverpool Female Penitentiary was held on the
22nd inst. The report stated that forty-one years had
now elapsed since—roused by the enormous extension
of prostitution in that town—some benevolent persons
had founded the institution for the succour and relief
of the penitent. During those forty-one years, 1576
unhappy women had passed through the institution,
receiving, in a greater or less degree, in proportion to
their own sincerity and earnestness, the advantages
which it was calculated to confer. 535 females, once
the outcasts and scourges of the community, had been
enabled, on leaving the institution, to pursue a course
of industry and virtue, whilst many had been restored