The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-28 00:00:00

THE E,XPRASS, WEDI4IF44I)4T EVENING, AraTE 28, 165.

, MB f7O3IMISSIONBRS 111 LUNAOY. of • %NON Va. eouseqemily eat of thewasomiss. &dasher
• --0-- however, eredeb for beeevolent Waste's% we OM'
ailed Ineth forliseresee mew& es, . sod it was
Woe issued in a blue book the re-
. ace uatil every effort and penuadon ha/ failed to bring
la Lunacy for the year emaumi--
o•oo.oesteaso her to a new of what Mr duty should be, that we at
length omit to the ecolusion that the only course left
Lim pet year all the Honed loose withia the for tie hosed was to break up the ituditutioa by prose-
' district have each boa viable; all times. The outlet, her. We othediegle Soloed an iedietaneft
ewe es the whole been favourable: be
we extra; seotiefisietatirt.t.Lersder foiNriketedmicsemor ender the 44th
. 00, which cameos for
..0044 a the oecosimioneell on ortele 05515 is the trial before Mr. BUM Bramwell aid the Central Criminal
.--mpenieg special settee: Court, in July last, when she was convicted. and bound
~•• peddiamhom the Tedium commissiociers have our to appear sad may, juditamt at the sewing ••••iO..
oar hsd oreasios to complain of the crowded With "err desire to ovoid the amenity of calling
thee her up for jadgment, we more this once iotimatecl to her,
0 Meet of the day mono aid the disorderly manner through our solicitor, that we should be satisfied if she
so Vey were kept. The clothing of some of the brake up the establishment. and took prompt steps to
petiOlll3 nos ago Wad to be old and neglected. procure the removal of die palisade. gotu to these overtures
•• 1,44 side in Februery, the consiseioaere observed procure
the
es eke eave so bead the contrary her
temp which formed the dinner on the day of tbeir aed contumelious lafringement of thelaw rendered
neeemeary another visit to Zion-house, and fresh atndavits.
imerelly objected to by the patients ; and the Judgmeat was afterward& from time to time poitponed.
• est
ase of a solid meat dieter Wine boa suggested, sad bed not at the date ot our preseat report been gives.'
eree at °sae made by Dr.
death
of In the "We bays oleo to report •• "000 d 0r0000"1012 iftaittoool
etesge
—Ail October we received notice of the death a female bi tddo beard for a violation of the 'Amoy Asia. pc,41,4
ow-_.t. bet. wane of last summer it oasselle some to our knowledge
AKAtieete the alleged °Su" being . "raj.'" that Miss E. IL, o insane lady, in respect to whom
sa maldollege.' An inquest was held on the body, sa return had bees made w, this saw,
was rasidii,• as
A.. a wowed that see of the nurses having most= pattest with Kr. Henry Wilkins, • surgeon at Ealing.
w—
wee • woos, who isms paralysed and of very dirty tree M. had made her escape from his house: &ad being
• Waitaki and want of ore taros; on the hot water, I lend. weeileeing at night in the Hagoarwroad, was "II"
aail.by the polio to the 3Leyletweie workhouse, where she wan
ltholiie. the P%ff•llt from the bath •••••lierhex4 fond on the couo.l day by bard this board
ag et weber upoa
has ma lop were found to be severely scalded. the occasion of as ardinery visit. His attention was spa-
:me at ogee atteadel to by the medical &stelae', °OUT drawn to the case by the circumstance of Mr.
, w.,,pam0,,, 0e her feeble state of health, kiss • 00111iDE to the workhouse duties the visit, and claim-
ets "' el, Thevierditing cons._
wanosioner_ , acid
•I „abet peeve], fatal. The jury did not attribute tat Hies Weal thimble patient.
•,.. to tes a' tendant, hot they recommended proper Mr. siepilkiell house, /h:0 771 islilaalawl.'nwir•ea`hisr
row. to prevent the recurrence of such an ineadeat. sad saw end examined man N. KG Wilkins ad.
ems evident that the arm...moment of the bath taps was mitt that is
11. bad resided under his charge
obi NM faulty deseription, and the defeats were net for • poised of two years and.upwarde ; and the result of
mene be coo bath only, but elided throughout the her examination la the "ate' coeitemoiowe was to
satiety them teat the was of unwind naiad, sod in a state
met. -When, on the 7th of November, another visit bordering on deatestia. In tbesecirentostinces we felt it
•-„meee by two members of the board, they found that oar duty to prefer an Westmeath spinet Mr. Wilkins for
;Noma, elated sander in its eiontatemtees, had 00001- • misdemeanor, under the 90th asesion of the set 8 slid 9
Ase a mole patient, whose feet bad bees deo Viet. e- 100, for receiving Hiss We ee as basTopeUS"
without as order and two method octant:aka cos
seild merely, although the accident did ant mune ea for trial at she Oentral Criminal Court ca the 21st
same, fatally. We theretoo directed that • September, whoa Mr. Wilkins was convicted, and boded
!mil *airy should be made upon the subject ; over la his own reteguisances to appear at the next seisice
▪ b
ederse of the investigatioa, it Wall found that to Togo tbe judgment of the court. At this succeeding
elm bad been most culpable ogled in the record of these session 7 501.1dir. Witkimi. Lapirstsct.
ashapauss"at."lste•mds
waaszotepouPsaal a
emdeies la the medical jouroal. Is the instanos which p -....0 ban"?'
ed terminated fatally, the entries, though made, were
en is the prescribed form ; and, with reference to the
em
sf tbe male pitied, there had bees no estry whatever.
0.1 sat deader* the visiting commissioners themselves
eborwea the injuries, the accident woal I probably
lave No bon made known to them. For them very
goo Maissioas sad irregularities, Dr. Arrastroag was
tend before the board and very steamily esterereL
low ergo of tape has since bees Introduced with the
mereistica of the booed. Several of the reports rene-
ges to Hortombouse have been usfavourable. Its
MOM* sad inconvenient construction, and the diodes°.
pees *der which the patients live, owing to the small end
Oslo'
,neture of the airing warts, render it necessary
le emetwect such depressing idiom:es by the most ample
salami provision of home amusements and menpatioes ;
see thwe ail, It is most ica patriot that every possible [O-
ily gold be afforded for giving the Motes exercise sad'
Moths bayed the premises; but it appeared that for thesis '1
moose se &Minato arrangements bed been made, and also I
MY the staff of attendants and nurses MN insufficient.
Other sad gram defects in the mesagemeet were she I
'elated eat. Oa one occasion the beddiog in some of the 1
ass's wards was found in a very discreditable state. The
oply of blankets was insuffieient, and the'dothieg wee se.
reel times sober' as being very unsatisfactory. The =
aid ease 1020 k •Iso, which has been bdore essm
plaited d, was nth to be numeroused. We
us glad to report at thee defeats have
embees, to some extent, remedied, and at the lest visit
the elablisbmeat was in an improved oonditioe. A sew
WOO teethed officer had bees appointed, by whom she
venwarf mares In the ease-book were duly made ; end the
old el ettendlats had been increased. An application bas
boa made to us for an increase in the limos for 20 female
ollents, bat te this proposal we have refined our soot.
We have very rarely had occasion to animadvert rapes 1
Ye condition and management of Orove Hall: Ma
eon a visit made to that establishment on tbe
ti
iith of
July, 1964, word defects sad irregularities were noced.
la one wards in the male division sooty of the patients
on untidy sod poorly dressed, and their day-rooms over-
wended, The workshops were inadaqaate in size, sad the
arrangements for outdoor exercise were defective, the
ember of &Modality was insufficient, and a head
attendant wee greatly needed. In the female divi-
de', the want of • companiam for the ladies, which
bed been noticed at former rots, was again adverted
Is. The annageneuts of the room in which their
Inner wo served no the day of the virit were said to be
eiry objectionable.Complaints were made that the beds
were infested with bugs ; sad it appeared that, in ten
Litanies, two female patiente were placed to sleep two
Y one bed. Flually, the entries in the
me medical journal re-
lative to oddest. sad personal injuries ound to boom-
logy and irregularly meths. We bops, in our next report, to
be enabled to state that all these defeats have bees remedied.
"It in our duty to relate the following CirelltllltADOSS COP
Noted with the death of a gentleman
in Sussex House,
Hammersmith. of which Dr. Fob. Winslow im thee pro.
=
, and Dr. Winn the resident medical superintendent.
Mot "is admitted um House on the 12th
of August, 1864. He hadbeen pieviously an inmate of
moth* asylum ; be was strooly suicidal ; sad, on &d-
-e mimic., his mental state was reported by Dr. Wane as f ol-
i 'DWI :—‘ Very great motel depression ; groans Momently;
- Maginot that he is • mined mar, and that he can never m-
oo' On the 12th of October following the patient died,
i Sloes, of death being returned to us as follows, ' Insanity
of di seethe' duration, terminating in effusion on tliebrain,'
sad • etatemot to the same effect was made to the woo.
On the 2ad of November Dr. Winn called at this office, an
hisd
MOO that, on Noshing the deonsed's trunks siege
death, a letter had been discovered addressed to his wife in
which he announced his iotentiae to commit suicide, and that
with this letter was • pecked contain* acetate of morphia.
We et owe addressed • letter to the wooer upon the
ebbed, ad we directed Dr. Winn to lay the whole of the
facts before him. The body was in coesequenee exhumed,
sedan tared was held on the 3rd sad 16tb of December. In
hie depositiou before the caroler, Dr. Winn stated th
death at for
tie three or four weeks immediately previous to his
the patient had been coosiderably better, both in mind and
: body, and that be had bees permitted to walk out dose on
his pools ; that, on the day of his death, he bad made a
I Meaty diaper at 3 o'clock ; and that soon after 4 o'clock
be was summoned to • bedroom near his room. when
be 'food him lying in • bed with etertoroos
1 lesething, slow pubis, lase of C0000i0911130111 and the pupils
4 of his eyes dilated. symptoms of discoed brain •,' and
r that hi ' saw him for • few minutes before he death.'
I He also stated, that, shortly after hi admission, be had
proariked for him acetate of morphia in doses of a grain
1 Per diem. Mr. RON • medical practitioner, deposed that
4 he had made a poet mortem examination of the deceased,
leg failed to discover any signs of effusion on the brain,
to which Dr. Wino had attributed the death of the palleat.
Beldame wee given of the discovery of the letter, and the
rellears'‘iatial ciremmicslPleis ; whereupon
mWaTiame an aCifeTykriei
el tbeconteate of the'pecket end the etomacb, and that the
hoer contained 454 grains of sedate of morphia, the
dos& also containing morphia. Mr. Crooke stated also
very distinctly that, owing to the rapid decomposition
d the drug, no tans of it weld have been dimmed
had the quantity taken not exceeded one grain per day.
The jury, without hesitation, retorted the followi
verdict t—' Died from the effects of morphia taken by him
ien
la • state of ineauity.' It thus appeared that Dr. W
was in no way justified in coming to the conclusion that
the patient had died from natural cause? On
trary, all the eircumstanees bad seemed te point to the
probability of his having committed suicide. His stro
fre-
ng
suicidal propensity wee well known, he bad had
s quent opportunities of procuring poison, no mortem
port
c examination had been made, end his death ha been m
ost
ost
f sadden and unexpected • notwithstanding which, only
ordinary returns were raids to us and to the coroner, ands°
r latimatio whatever was given that there were buy circuita-
l" Manor in the we likely to cell for inquiry. Considering
p all these facts, the board addressed • letter on the subject
to Dr: Winslow in whittle they conveyed their opinion that
i t the conduct of Dr. Winn in this case had been cal pable in a
' Terj 0000 deem.
Our &Ovation was drawn, some years ago, to an
I ' issillatioa far females of weak intellect,' tailed Zion-
I =waTonhawgillim, which wee founded by a Mrs.
, and was at list conducted wider the management
d • otomittes of ladies. After • time the financial con-
Mica of the Institute= became so unsatisfactory, aid Mrs.
Loader', views so much at variance with those of the ladies
ea
entrails( t
ke the cend, being o any farther respell-
"log. retired. Sloes that mica, for four years and
newts, Mrs. Leander was substantially the proprietress,
and sold rempovsible for the management of the inst.
Judo. visits were, from time to time, made to
Leadwouse by members of this board, whose reports
WINS it a mad unfavourable character. Mrs. Loader
was often seriously cautioned as to her continaed
intineement of the law in receiving insane patients in
violate. of the Astute, the instatation sot being a
registered hospital or homed hose. The inmates were
DO confined to idiot ehlldree, but included • large peepor
Ho of adults, of whom some were loathe in the ordinary
seas* cf the term. The number ci inmates of various
ups sad dares Ineroned from year to year, until It
was little short of 100. The &Oohed baildieg (with
• =all piay.groand), in Odds, with • few 'pedal
exoptioa, all the patio's wan hot during the day,
oil when% assay slept, was dilapidated and comfortless,
sad meet issafficieetly tarnished. The bedding and clothing
aho were in • very unsatisfactory state. It was evillest to
the visiting commiskieers that Ms. Loader did not po-
sses the mesas. ard in other roods eras not properly ma-
nned W comiaet each as isetitalk. ; and the grant to her

• Sines the above was written Mrs. Leander attended
and received the judgment of the *out* swivels was deli-
vered by Mr. Baron ChannelL Addressiog the defenlant,
he said. that judgment had been respired to aff rd her so
opportunity at giving up the estabbsbnemt. It appeared,
however, that, although the utmost leoieney bad been
sown to her, she persisted in defying the law, and thin was
a °curse which could sot be permitted. The 'enterers he
was instructed to pass wss, that she be imprisoned foe Onil
month, without hard labour, and that she also pay a tel
of 501.

THE IRISH PRISON SYSTEM.

REPORT OF THE DERECross.
This morning was issued the eleventh annual
report of the directors of convict prisons in Ireland. We
read is this document :
" AS the regulations with respect to the treatment and
to the progress of the wavier thrcugh the coarse of sepa-
rate =canalised. the claudication of the ordi-
nary prisons, end thence to discharge on lien=
through the intermediate prisons, and the control
of supervision till the terminatios of their sentences, have
continued to operate satisfactorily. The proportion of the
number of convicts paring through the intermediate
prisons, usually from 70 to 76 per oust. of the whole, has
continued to be =retread—a result which meat be coesi-
dared as satisfactary when it is known that no re convicted
prisoner who bee been disarmed from an intermediate Fel-
-1 son is sgain admitted to its =vantages, and also that pet-
mere movie:eel of the more grave description of crimes are
eperally excluded.' The practice of brisgiog imme-
diately to the notice of the directors every air of a
suspected discharged convict in the county or borough
gaols, with • view to full identification sod to the
notification to the judge at his trial (if so identified)
of his previous convictions, bee become so complete that it
seems scarcely possible for a discharged convict to escape re-
cogaitioc on recommittal. The recognition of habitual
criminals has become the more important from the clause
in the last Penal Servitude Act, which requires that every
second °Deviation of fro= punishable by penal servitude
should be dealt with by a seetesce of not lees than omen
years. It this remit of a second =aviation were invariable,
the effect =old be more deterrent with habitual offenders;
betas in some cases an option appears to exist of awarding
forewarn offences of felony either imprisonment or penal
servitude, that • esateroce for an it may still =Name
of felony proved to be a repetition, may be far lighter than
that pronounced on the former conviction; and habitual
criminals are not slow in discovering sad looking forward to
such chances of reaping the higher penalty for an off sacs.
There can be no doubt, however, that the criminal clam is
aware, in a wholesome degree, of the increased severity
of the last Penal Servitude Ant. Its bearing in that respect
has been fully impressed upon all the =evicts dis-
charged sincets =ratios, and no doubt kelps to strengthen
resolutions that may be formed in their minds from
other motives not to subject themselves to ita heavier penal-
ties. The provinces of tie new act have not reqforceuired any
material change r the ;system previously in in this
country for dealing with cater* while they have
strengthened the hands of the enthorities by their
stringency . on points mob as the registration
and supervision of convicts on license, which required foe
their full efficiency to be made thus general end impera-
tive. The clan= which requires that on the revocation
of a license foray] criminal offence the prisoner shall un-
dergo an additicoal period of penal servitude equal to the
time for which be was at large on license, will doubtless
have • very beneficial effect on the conduct of the limner
holders till the last moment of their sentences. The ge-
neral coeds= of the convicts has been satisfectory, and
free from any attempt at combination against
discipline or otherwise_ The operation of a
preen system worked by marks, and bag= and
claesificatioo, leading without nocertainty to stated
advantages, according to the primmer's observance of what
is required of him, is found to be a groat safeguard spirit
emnbination—the prisoners feeling vidually that each
has a strong reason to give, intelligible even to the evil-die-
who may attempt to mislead him, for not risking, by
•mining in evil acts or designs, the lose of the progress that
e may already have made towards the full alteismint of
the reward held out to good conduct end industry. Happily
theme actuated by insubordinate diapositioes are not found
to fens a prominent proportion of the convicts is the
With respect to such prisoners it wee remarked,
bet year's annual report, that ' Strong measures ere
oresokieally seeessary to repress individuals of this class,
end to deter, by example, °thereof them from acts of gross
miseeoduct ; and for these objects it was considered neer-
eary, early in the year, to have remorse to =moral
ividual
pmiah-
meat in two eases of premeditated assaults by ind
prirems. Those are the only instances in which this de-
\
seription of punishment has been resorted to for years in the
Irish convict prisons, the penal elate, in which prisoners of
proved evil dispositions and conduct have been kept sepa-
rated under more stringent diniipline horn the rest of the
prisoners, having been found in general sufficiently repres-
sive. In the shove exceptional cases there was Teas= to be-
lieve that the continued disuse of corporal punishment
wee calculated upon by the offenders, and an example
became therefore more necarry.' In the latter partme
of
the put year the directors coosidered it proper, for the sa
. remise, to ceder the infliction of corporal punishment on one
lof the convicts who had been guilty outrageous and en-
!provoked assault upon a fellow and the =Seers who
; attempted to secure him, which has been the ooly 0001400
I for • repetitionof this mode of punishment. The Mermen
is which revocation of lionise became necessary during
'
' the yew were not numerate. Of a total number of nine-
teen licenses of male convicts revoked, eight came were in
CONSlqessiee of criminal offences ;the remaining Matances
Uhl eareed by hearths* of the conditionsof the license.
Ore el vaporer= of the =evicts on lionise in the city
land county of Dublin lies bees seriously end effectively
, carried on, as in previous years, by Kr. Orme, whose fort-
, nightly reports to the directors afford • complete
history of etch case, both es regards conduct and
means of obtaining a livelihood. The directors
have spin to obtains,. as in lest year's report, with respect
Ito many years' experience of the mid/shim and super-
! vision of discharged convicts in the oirenty districts by the
oonstabulary, that no instance has creme to their knowledge
of any cause of complaint on the part of the subjected
to such control, against the ooestehles who had to carry it on.
The discharge on Berm of the female omelets eligiblefor that
advantage into the refuges at Goldembridge and Herta-
bury-81mM, matinees to be of the greatest benefit to the
convict service sad to the wanes themeless. The yielded
in their sentences when this advantage era I* Iffqnsd il
anxiously looked forward to by the fees& comlete in the
prisoo, the only exception being in the cases of three
of idle diepeeltion, to whom the degree of in-
dueler 'domed in them excellent establishments
is of orals distasteful. It °swat be dosed
that it i owing to the good infimuce of them
establishments, followiag the habits of sebmindes to
order and diseipline enforced in • prison, and to the WNW
which they afford cif providing for the employment of the
women when they metals their freedom, that very mazy
more owes of reeonviettoss are sot to be found in the
female convict prison
order refuges therreoirea. under
their able amargem, are moods of good order and cheerful
• .-...„, •

laving at sash times the theme te the alb Aimed two
yews @thee the eke Omer was eingleyal by the.
'Wham es e therweggig, mid the renew phew the ig
Mr radios cd edam there to speak es ism maids*
Mr& Williams discovered the aliarwethe wig thlibleg
her. She was dismissed, sod thirel set be per-
mit AVM et her house. Vary Airily after this
it beams clear that something was gemg woe, ia the
shoe ; heavy bills ovoid be confronted ly may smell Mum
appareetly. The wife aroused the hothead of bevies appro.
the till money, and much unpleasanthees wee pea&
rga,trilen, in consequence of a private intimation received
by Km. Williams, her agouti= was for the first time
wily directed to her owe child. A halforown, both
to have bet in the till, the dissevend in the pocket at the
girl, who, pressed severely ow the Oat, admitted hay*
abstracted it from the till, and to the ieteassi asteeistunest
of her pinata made • slaterneat so lead in ibs thermiter am
to induce their feeling it • daty both privet* and paths
grounds to give the priseeere lab iseetody.
Mr. Williams, in reply to a quasi= from the magistrate,
rid he had bus robbed of nearly 100 L, in but lithe months. I
The prosecutor's daughter was then sworn, mad gave the
following remarkable *widows under exoessive aniternest,
and with apparently machdifsgalty and pain, arising, as her I
father mentioned, from a malformation of **jaw, an Olio- I
ties that although meat'as somewhat easily lsd or persuaded,
did not affeot her ally—" lam 17 years of sp.. About I
two years ago they (prisoners) told me to take money
from the till ; they have had pounds sod pnuarla of me,
they put it in *shank in their own names ; they got tan
to boy a gold watch and chain, two silk dresses that mat
51. ; they introduced a man to me, and told me I Aosta be I
married to him, sad (highly excited) he was • married
man. I was to have had all the money sod things I had
given them wires I wee married, they said. I told them
I got the mooey out of the till, mid I gave it to them
to put in the bank. I ogee went with them to the bank
to put in 10a. I have only seen the book oaos. They have
got it. The money was put in in the daughter's name. She
wee going to be married. List 811010111 e I bought • gold
wetci and chain. Frances (the younger prisoner) told me to
takethe amasyby degrees and 'serails mwork-box for that
purpose. They had the watch. Mother time I had lt. 4a. 6d.
in my broom, and they made me it.. it to them as they
said to put is the bank. They afterwards wanted me to
get soothe? watch the same way. The last money I took
was 5a., three weeks since. 1 have gives them • great deal
of mosey altogether.
In further examination it appeared that the elder prisoner
had sated with extreme Gunnies in dialing with the watch.
which Mn.s Williams stated wae • twelvemonth past brought
by that woman to her for sale, under the repressatstion
that she had picked it up is the neighbourhood. Apes
ermined • desire to have it, and therefore she (the.
Williams) bought it for bor.
Brockford, 27 K, mid that he apprehended the pri-
soners at their shop, 23, Preston-strwt, Bethnel.gneen,
where cheap pastry sad sweet-eta! wore sold. The mother
called hereon • oonfectioner, and the daughter a ma-
chinist. They denied the charge.
The prosecutors daughter was cross-examined by both
women with • osmium seldom witnessed, and they evidently
felt it would be a difficult matter to convict them of the
ammo alleged.
Mr. Yeas pressed for remand, which woe (mated, the
magialirete adrosieg to swept athetastial bell In two sureties
ofdeach for their appearance.