He was washed in warm water, when several excoriations were discovered on his back and shoulders, and the skin rubbed off his ears; his head was also sadly bruised. After being taken home, a surgeon was sent for, and, it is stated with surprise, that though very ill, his life was not considered in danger. A vain attempt to rebut this account was made by the son of the proprietor of the Talbot Inn, in a letter to Wm. Bulphin, a chimney-sweeper of Bristol, which letter is only worthy of notice as containing an unintentional comment on the oft-told tale, that children are required for examining and repairing defects in chimneys, and which was so pertinaciously insisted on in the evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords in 1834: it is as follows:--“The foreman says, had he gone up as he ought to have done, with one arm up and the other down, no accident could have happened; instead of which both arms were DOWN.” Every one must see the utter impossibility of a boy doing any thing in a chimney in the way of examination or repairs, in a space 9 inches square, or 9 by 14, and when the utmost skill is required to enable him to slide up and to slide down again. This accident has led to the benevolent formation of an Auxiliary Society in Gloucester, that city having been anxious to wipe away the disgrace occasioned by such a painful occurrence. In March last, a poor little chimney-sweeper had the following providential escape, at the Luke’s Head, Mercer-street, Long Acre:--It appears that the child had got into the chimney-pot to clean it, and that his weight loosened the mortar by which it had been secured; and the boy and the chimney-pot rolled down the roof of the house together. Happily there was a sufficient height of parapet to save the child, and he was taken up from the gutter, without any harm having befallen him. The most appalling feature connected with the subject of chimney-sweeping is the frequency of the chimney-sweeper’s cancer. Immense pains are taken by the trade to conceal this grievous fact. No chimney-sweeper has even seen a single instance of it. The idea of such a calamity originates and ends in the clouded imaginations of your Committee. It may be well, however, to say, that four cases occurred in one ward of one hospital within eight months of the past year, and that three of the cases were fatal. About this time another chimney-sweeper died of the same disease at St. George’s Hospital. This was succeeded by the death of Price, a chimney-sweeper, in Stafford’s-ward, at the Middlesex Hospital.