The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

A CHILD KILLED BY ITS MOTHER.

At the Lambeth Poli—ce-court, in London, Susan
Buekney, ft respectable-looking wonnin, was placed in
the dock, charged with causing the death of her child,
John !Walley, aged seven years, by throwing a knife

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at him. -
The case excited a deal of interest, and the prisoner,
during the hearing, manifested li sorrow at the
position in which she was placed.
Police-constable Trant said that on Saturday even-
ing he was on duty, when a man came up and Mf tinned
hint that a child had been murdered at No. 5, Burnett-
street. lie went there, and on going into an upstair
room saw the toisoner awl Mr. Bliss, the landlord of
the house, win, gave her into custody on the charge of
killing her child. Witness asked her what she had to
any to the charge, when she replied, " Yes, I threw
the knife across the table, but I aid not intend tst kill
A private letter from Sun Sebastian mentions the curious the child. Ile asked her where tin child Was, and she
tart that whe on he 27th tof Septennber it Briti sh inar end-
war n entered tlmtt harbour the belief spread liko wildfire It him &aril stairs. He then proceeded to the Inuit
among the people that slit had come to le unbar.' the ~h,„.„. parlour, and saw the chill lying on the ground bleetlim;
Old allaCiationlis had so accustomed them to thiuk that tile : from a wouint on the left side. The 'trimmer after-
English always support the Liberal canoe in Spain that they I winds said, " I ana very sorry for what - have dime. I
mails sure that—a, non the stli of slay, Pwsew, site. Evans I did not intent( br do what : did." Ile theta took her to
stormed the t'arli,t line, noind San Sebastian and sows, , Knn
ei,,,,,1n_
ohwe 1.,A4 ~,.station.
British war steamers assisted hi 3 anirallee by their fire—they ' '''
1111011lil lanai tee hritith shirt Mai shell tlyine. ashore. It soon 1 Thomas Edward tinekney, aged 10 years, brother
became loonwn, however, that the vessel. had come on a 1 of the deeeastd, who Cried bitterly While giving his
pacific mission alai with orders to plane berscli at the I evidence, said, on Saturday evening they were at tea,
QlUlell'S disposal, should she have need of refuge or transport. 1 when the dm:eased hit 'MIL on the lie:id, artil witness
it is hilderlitinl,it that Prince Allalbert of Bavaria is about laid, " htittlier, make .1 i din lie quiet." Ilia moil ter
to purchase the chateau of liolienburg for the Queen of
then gave him a slap on the roll' if the heal, and Ire
SPam. went into the back nom. Ite tool not loecti there long
Several of the Paris papers contain letters fro
N m San heft ire he heard haul serrnms, anti, nut going back
SebliStiali, describing the departure of the ()heel,. ose toi 1 •
sour, saw the deceased lying on the floor bleeding
them are graphic, :did till of them are marked by that pert
insolence characteristic of low Frenchnien ever eager tn from the left side. The deceased made some remark
trample on those that are dinell. title nd those . gentlemen " 1 in a whisper, lint he ( witness) et ailil not tell what it
records with a sneer how lie watched every feature of tile was. Ilis mother picked deceased up and carried him
fatten sovereign ; be notes with a chuckle that she appeared I intit the garden, and applied vinegar
tr to his head. She
prosae anemarisacion ha t .tne niunnk , anti I wha , „ win, bin, "oh, hen dying ie There
unto hertd, seat d r
as th ks with sat ft t
ough completely overcome ; lie ids. I ' , '.' • , •
t
wan no 011 e 111 he maim but dives-soil and a little sister,
criticises her dress Another records with exultation Mot
I
though tile (Menai aunt King repeatedly b•wenl, not a Siligh, I Ned five years.
limn took off his hat Allinaig the persons who assembled at I After the surgeon who hail been called in hail given
Bayonne station was the ex-Xlinister. thnliZ.ller Brae. The 1 trio evidence the prisoner said : I was in the act of
glieell held out her hawk to ilhil, and he kissed it. wiping the knife when I threw it.
Thi• lorother of deceased, on being recalled, said he
thOn the
tQ vi ueen leang Itayoune for Imm, it wa i remarked hml spndien the truth, aml wits mit in the r oan whim
at her uilet was neither of the most brilliant kind nor in
the hest taste, widchim ly be easily ac counted for from the i it: t'ssai Pia',
trepidation and alarm into which she had Men thrown for I Sereant Harris said he tisk: the charge, rind tan
several hours previonsly. A great many Spaniards, alio reading it over to the primmer, she said, " I did not
had hastened to catch a glimpse of the (Veen, were some- roman bw hurt him. In toy passion I threw the knife
what impress...lll the plainness, the al 44444 st neglhaht style. ace, os the table at him, which caused his death."
of her attire. Although there wins a large number of
magma., : s•aVe pot anything now to say to
people at the station, no manifestations of any kind took
the charge 1' --Prisoner : I can only state how it halt-
place. . ... pened.
One curious It tiniest we must Ind omit to mention as The prisoner NM ribald tnl make a statement, when
Illustrating what Byron snips about the ,rnabi being bill of her father, in the body of the court, orient out, "Don't,
.. strange viclwaitudes." Serrano during lois last visit to Susan, say anything until I get a counsel." Tire pri-
France had taken for the past mummy a delightful country- linAller 11 U tlibi intimatitd that she trlandil reserve her
bouse near Baymine ;on entering spain he was carried P" •
by the timers of Gonzales Bravo, to the c llianary Islands. ilviec•
Now, at the present moment.....niales Br ,v.. ...nannies this She Was Ordered to be committed Inc trial, but to
retreat at haymow, having had the lease of the mansion be again brimght up for the completion of the deposb
transferred to him by tAerranee—ifsf Ills ketettan.bs. tion,

The Duke and Duchess of 11 °lavender are said to IrAve
left Lisbon anti returned to Sp:tin. count Montemolln, w 110111
the remnant of the old Carlist faction calls Charles VIII ,
has arrived in Madrid.

At the battle of Santander, where the royalist Itenerat
Calonge lost the republican Mops under Pierrad, many lives
were lost and a number of prisoners made, amongst the de-
feated party being Several pante Frenchmen from TOIIII•nse.
The French Sisters of Charity, with the Hide ip of Santander,
interceded with ce4mrai Calonne to save the lives 44 the.
prisoners, who were ordered PI be shot on the following I lay.
The general at first refused ; but upon the Mgent entreaties
44 the Sisters, who implored for mercy in the name of
France, Cidowete was prevailed neon to spare their lives.
More than No Insurgents were buried the day after the
fight through the oitices of these French/Wit/4.nm5,

The Alatina (Javile of the 301,11 September appeared with
a new heading, being a symbolical engraving, in which
Justice is pourtrayed with various allegorical attriltntes.
That number contains several manifestoes and proclamations.
In one of the former the Provisional Revolutionary Junta at
Aladrid gives an account of the events which il.O changed
the a.spect of Spain and declares that that body associates
Itself " with the demand of the people, silt', have prt wlainsed
the sovereignty of the station, the fail of isahella of Bourbon
from the throne of Spain, and the incapacity of all the
Bourbons to wield the sceptre of the State."

It was reported by several of the papers that the Queen
had for some months past out away large Suit's of money
for Investment in foreign countries, especially iii England.
This, however, can hardly la. true, if it is correct that she
Is mid to have elaimol from M. Welo a variety ~f valuable
objects, in gold, and ffilver, and precions stones, which she
left at Madrid, stating that being without money she had
been obliged to borrow at St. Selialtiati 25 millions of reals
(5120,000
'rue Queen, in order not to embarrass the policy of the
Eniperor, wished to Ito to the 6rand liotel at Fan, but his
Majesty insisted that she should accept the chateau of her
ancestors. The Queen accordingly made WI entrance with
nearly 5,000 packages. installing herself in the principal wing
on the first door, which is splendidly furnished. Het
Majesty refuses to believe in certain defections. mid vomits
much on the love if the lower orders ; she leadi a secluded
life, and the infants of Spain play, we arc assured, like airy
other children.
Spanish refugees in France are hastening back to Spain,
In the hope of obtaining from the newly coustitided !mover
some compensation fir their exile.

A prefet of the palace of the Tuileries, some rrapioy,,e
rend a number of serving Men in the Emperor's household,
discharge their functions at the palace of Pan with the same
regularity Mid order WI at the French 0,111 t. The c.out of
theta Queen cons Lita it twenty superior officers, indepen-
dently of other persons in attendance anti the tionte,tie
servants so that the dethroned Sovereign is in her mis-
fortunes at leant pretty well lodged anti attended to.
Queen Christiana, mother of Isabella, Is expect.' at the
clifiteatt. V. hen the army of Novalieltes was defeated, the
Dr,wager Queen was resident on OM 01 iler vast estates in file
Asturias poll her entreaty, General Serrano gave her a
safe conduct to enable her to enter France without danger.
there, in this retreat at l'au, the two Megliteng may meditate
at their leisure upon the little reliance that is to be placed
up rn favunrites, RIO upon all those nwn whom rote after the
other they have raised to distinction anti enriched during the
last thirty-eight years. Both mother and daughter have suc-
cessively wielded power since 1033, and showered titles,
orders, and motley upon those whose flattery they bought,
and who now triumph in the overthrow of the throne.

Marforl, the queen's favourite, is described as a man of
height, and resembles with his pear-sbapml head
those caricatures of Louis Philippe so co 111111 l here in lsts ;
lie wears spectacles, through a Welt flash a pair of black
Castilian eyes ; be is Instil, and has a thin nose, wile open
nostrils, short legs, and small feet; anti fr.ill this descript:
It may he imagined there is 110 great beauty stout hint.
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The severe etiquette of the Spanish Court has long been
notorious, and it is laid down that when a King of Spain
wishes to enter the Queen's chamber at night, he must glide
along the corridors in slippers, a black mantle thrown
over his shoulder, a leathern bottle under his arm,
a dark lantern in one hand, and a naked mord in the
other.

Jezebel 11., says the Examinor, goes forth never to return.
Like the other exiles of her race from Italy and France, she
has shown herself wise in her generation, and has manifested
no scruple about taking with her in her flight all the gems
and gold which she could stow away. There is sometlit.g
fitting and appropriate in the meanness of this sequel to the
haughty insolence of misrule. It dilipoSetl shabbily, but con-
clusively, of all the diplomatic end dynastic, ecclesiastical
and esoteric theories, sometimes set up in exoneration of
faithless royalty. Spain is sahl to he poor, and is just now
hungry; but in the long nm Spain will be Wale the poorer for
having been thus impudently plundered of a million reels,
and of the jewels belonging to no. regalia.

A correspondent writes :—" A great many of the streets
and squares have changed names. Among others the Plaza
de Isabella II is now the Plaza 11 inn. The Nara de oriente
is the Plaza de la Katarina. The Mara de Ilerradorea is the
Plaza de Kerrano. The Calle del Principe is the Colic de
oquitierdo, and the Calle 48 Fuenearral is now the Calle do

aiid-th—sit-I-tras certain he would never consent to
change his religion. I was told that he would not be required
to do so, for that the most perfect religious equality was to
be established. Undoubtedly the crown of Spain is a
diadem not to be despised even by a British Prince. Spain
is is magnificent country and her people have an long
r' 11l looter the grossest oppression, that they weabd I
zini convinced, be truly loyal to all tolightened and liberal
king and constitution. It would certainly be a strange
right to see an Englishman. and a Protestant, seated upon
the throne of Spain ; but I RPI assurei that he would be
heartily received ant thoroo..nly obeyed. I do not know
whether his Royal Highness has yet bee:s sounded npou 11.0
siii iocl, but it is a fact that he will be so before long. What
ranee would say to the matter is quite another question;
but such an event, if the Duke of Edinburgh should accede
to the invitation, would be is fortnnate circumstance for
spain In the event of the refusal sf Prince Alfred, it is
probable that some German prince will be selected. That is
always supposing that a monarchal ferns of government Is
chosen.

Another correspondent writes :
There la however, it may be suggested, a reigning
Sovereign, not unconnected with Spain, who might be
far more encouragingly and usefully resorted to by Spain
than any prince on the list of candidates or pretenders.
He is the Emperor of Brazil. By his grandmother, Doha
Carlotta, D. Pedro Segundo is in the Spanish line of
succession, for she was sister of Ferdinand VII. Ile is in
the prime of life, has had large experience of government,
has in Brazil shown himself toll be a prince of strictly con-
stitltional habits, Is a man of learning, anal of cultivated
taste, of pure life, singularly economical and disinterested In
personal expenditure, and a good Catholic. In all these
respects the Emperor of Brazil appears to be very much the
Sovereign Spain is in search of His choice would, moreover,
be inoffensive to France, and agreeable, it cannot be doubted,
to all the other Great Powers. Transferred to Spain, Ids
eldest daughter, the Princess Imperial, A young lady of sense
and spirit, married to an excellent anal popular prince,
Conde INn, would succeed at once to the throne of Brazil
and an she has no children, in the issue of her younger sister,
the wife of Prince August of Saxe-Coburg, the linos of suc-
cession to both crowns would be provided for.