6 JUNE 1931, Page 18

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At the hospital of St.. Esprit, at Toulon, on the 16th instant, there had been a distribution of soup to the poor ; but the whole

supply not being exhausted, the remainder was put by in the copper boilers in which it had been made till the. next day, when it was divided between twelve poor old women, and within a few hours after every one of them expired in dreadful agoriy.