The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-05-17 00:00:00

A .Ro.IIANTIC STORY.

An adjourned inquest was held on Monday at
Holborn, London, on the body of • female child,
apparenty obout four or five months old, which died
throu_di stiffoc.tion, on the Isl inst., whilst it was in
the are of a young woman named Margaret Sullivan.
Sull,van said when selling flowers in Vii isrs-street,
Strand, one evening in Jatiu.ry last, she was accoatei
by a gentlemati. who asked her if ski would take care
..1 a chill fr 104. per week. She oinsented to do so,
and he gave her D. BJ. By appointment she tort him
at. x p.m. the next day at Mourgate-street station,
and they got into a ewe together; be travelled first
and she third class. Arriving at a small station he
beckinied her out. Unable to read, he did not know
the name of the station. He took her to the door of a
It use, and tdd b. r to knock Once and to enquire for
hire. Wilson, but she was to ask nothing more. -she did
a. she was instructed, and a woo an answering the
name id Mr.. Wils di brought downstairs a child, which
.he handed to the witness with the remark th .t it WY
"very delicate, and required rest care." She also gave
r sp. col, which was found to contain baby clothing
end a letter directing her to give the infant beef-tes,
&c. The gentleman, who was waling for her outside
the hou,e, accompanied her back to the station having
preti presented her ea kb a sovereign. They
rant ne.l to •loorgate.street, where he left her, stating
he would call to see her within a fiw days. lie took
her ad tress, but she had never seen him since. The
child was t coyly dead when she first received it, and
~he fed it on bread and milk. On the 1-1 int. she found
It was dyint: by her side in bed, awl it soon afterwards
expired. Dr. 'rayl .r, who was called in, deposed
death requited from suffucatioo. Detective-Sergeant
Greed deposed to having accompanied Sullivan to
various Wee, on the Great Northern Railway with a
view to li.cover the house where she received the
child, but she h. 4 been unable to point nut either tee
house or the locality to which she was taken. Som. of
her statements he bad ascertained to be true. She
denied receiving more than a sovereign. The jury
returned an open verdict of "Death trout suffocation. '

MR. BRADLAUOH EXPELLED FROM THE
HoUSE OF COMMONS.

There were not many questions on the paper in the
Roues on Tuesday. nor was the business of the even-
ing of a character to account for the crowded House.
It was, however, pretty generally known that the
failure of the attempt to secure a morning sitting for
the adjourned debate on the introduction of the
Parliamentary Oaths Bill would be followed by a
renewed incursion on the part of Mr. Bradlaugh. As
soon as prayers were over, Mr Bradlaugh entered and
took his seat under the gallery, where he remained
during the discussion on a motion at the time of
private business. When the preliminary bald-
neor was over he left him seat and tosk up a
position at th I bar. Mr. Labouchere presented •
petition from 7,000 inhabitants of Northampton, and
others from other constituencies praying that Mr.
Ilradlaugh might be permitted to take his seat. Mr.
Lsbouchere's progress towards the chair with his arms
full of 'Lime petitions was accidentally barred by Mr.
Newdegate, who wart at the moment conversing with
Sir :-L.ff.od Northcote and for some momenta uncoil-
seiously detained Mn. Labouchere—in odd coincidence
of obstruction which much amused the House.

C"lonei Ni;kine---a-tte—m"-p-te-cl7n—o-rii-t-e-rio-us—ly—io. bar the
recaption ot the petitions by challenging the legality
of their presentation alter five o'clock, the hour just
having !truck.
. .

But the Speaker took no notice of the objection.
Ali the questioni on the paper were disposed of, and
Mr. Parnell was proceeding to put a supplementary
queation to the Chief Secretary, when Mr. Bradlaugh
was observed walking up the fldor of the House.
Standing in the plum with which he is now familiar,
at the corner of the table by the mace, be announced
that he appeared in fulfilment of the duty imposed
upon him by law to take the oath and hie seat.
As he advanced, the Sergeant•at-Arms left his chair
and prepared for action, standing a few paces below
the bar.
The Speaker said the House bad ordered Mr.
Bradlaugh to withdaw, sod until the House had
mitred .therwise the oath must not be administered.

Mr, Bradieugh, always epe.king in a quiet voioe,
and with um mot °nal manner, submitted that the
order of the lion,. was illegal, and be, thertfore,
refused to obey it.
This declaration drew forth some cheering from
bel.,w the gangway on be Ministerial side.
The spe.k.r then called upon the Serjeant-at-Arms
to remove Mr. Bra•llaugh.
Captain Cr swat, advancing with due obeisance to
Chair, plare I his ban I on Mr. Bradlaugh's shoulder,
amt he, at once submitting to arrant, withdrew to the
bar.

- On fo-mer °cessions it bad been Mr. Bradlaugh's
ceremonious habit thus far to yield t the law, and
having retrain., I the bar at once to commences further
advaure towards the mace. Last night he had evidently
made up his mind to coniphdo muhUli Mon, and now
stood quietly whilst again protesting that the order
was illegal, and that be should refuse to obey it.
The Speaker said his powers were exhausted, and
he must ask the ii suss for instructions as to deps to
be taken f,r securing the irderly nurse of buainess.
The Speaker re.umed hie seat, and a brief pattie
followed, broken by cries for Mr. Gladstone from the
Conservative benches, and for Sir Stafford Northcutt,
from the Ministerial side.

Mr. Gladstone makii g no sign, Sir Staff ird North-
cote rAos. and moved that "The Serjeatit-at-Arms
remove Mr. Bradlaugh from the House until he shall
engage not fuither to shatarb the proceedings of the
House."

Mr. il'alatone now rising, said he thought Sir
Stafford Nortbc de had adopted a course perfcctiy
Loontiiitent and becoming. He should not resist the
moti in, or encourage such resistance in others, think-
ing it ass the duty of the minority to yield to the
majority in this matter. He was not himself able to
move sub a motion, holding that Mr. Bradlatigh was
lousily entitled to come to the table.
Mr. Labouchere said he was not gaillg to ask the
Howe to divide, but he wuuld invite Sir Stafford
Northcote to state the privies meaning of his resolu-
tion.
Sir litaititrd mule clear that what he utesat tna
that Mr. Sr tdiaugh should not be permkted on the
floor of the Howie until hi gee, an undertaking that
he would not disturb the c inese of business.
The motion was again put, and was met with a taint
T 41,1 being persisted In, the HOMO was cleared for a
dividon, but on the question being again put the
ilonosition was not persisted in, and the motion was
carried without dissent.
In the meantime Mr. Bradlaugh had left the House
with other strangers when it was cleared for adivhdon,
and did not again return.