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from what mume did not appear. Mrs. Laporte, however,
declared that it was quite impossible to be otherwise than
they mere, and proose&fd to state that aboutll o'clock on the
meeeisc of lloaday, the 18th inst., while aloes and in close
prozimity to her husband's warehouse, her drew and petti-
apt were raised as high all her shoulder on two mperste
aceflons, and that the defendant. instantly afterwards
stepped in front of her, looked her in the fun in a *rim
impose, and proceeded on their way—that greatly shocked at
snob • tlfignint °atms as had been committed, she wade
her husband ecquainted with it, and that even.
teeny these prooeediegs were taken. It wen totally impos-
sible that the petticoesa could have tooome disarranged and
act of place to nob a height as mentioned but by some per-
aces heads mid intentionally, the first offence was fol-
lowed up the instant after her clothes had (in oonsequence
of the material) dropped down end not any persons but the
atfanduits were pear her.
The sensation was met with a denial that the defend-
oats were in company together at the time In question, sad
• waiter was called to prove it. Their master also pre
them a character for morality aad general good cooduct, bat
they were each fined 40e, or In Wasik sentenced to an
imprisonment of 21 days.
The money 1/2/ paid.

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WANDSWORTH.
ALLZOBD BURNING OP PRI BODY OP A CHILD.
Fanny Knight, who was charged lut week with me-
oaks the birth of her illegitimate child, was brought up
for rweramiriation.
Oe thie occeaien the prisoser wee defeaded by Mr.

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It will berm-oilseed that the body had not been found,
and that the cue rested upon the prisoner's own state-
ment After she was taken into eustr2 by Police-eon-
stable &Shill, she confessed to having yen birth to •
child "bout fortnight before, but whether dead or alive
she could not tell, and that she burnt the body.
• married woman, lodging in the bones
of the emotes father, was called, and ate stated that
for NON time past up to lad Saturday three weeks she
ens united from the prisoner's appearance that she
wee is the welly-way. Mrs. Brown, another lodgar, also
celled her atteation to the primmer on that Satuy. In
the armee she looked very ill. Witness saw her several
noes afterwards, and she looked so bad that one evening
that ehe said to her, " Oh, how bad and ill you look." fib*
inad—" Do you think so? I don't feel so." A young man
Named Frank was with her, and she tamed away from wit-
sem She afterwards maw a change in the prisoner's appear.
sees, which led her to believe that she had been confined.
Witness sever spoke to her about it.
Polieseosstable added that the erisocer told him that the
did set know whether it was a child or not She told the
doctor she did not know the size or length of it.
This being all the evidence, Mr. Rlcketta submitted that
there was no proof of the ezieteoce of a child.
Mr. Ingham said there was the prisoner's own statement
that she had burnt the body. It the child was born alive
she vie guilty of murder, and if not there war the mama-
mint of the birth. It was • eme to be submitted to a jury.
The prisoner wax again remanded for the attendance of
the doctor and Mrs. Brown.

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GREENWICH.
HIM PAUPER REMOVALS AND THE METROPOLIS HOUSZLES
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POOR ACT.
Margaret Saunders, a middle-aged woman with five chil-
dren, was charged with disorderly conduct at Rotherhithe
workhouse.
Alexander Fleming, porter, said the prisoner had every
night in BIICCOISiOI2 since Friday last presented herself and
live children at the workhouse gate, and claimed admission
for the night. Lot eight she came se usual, and created so
great • disturbance outside and inside the house that she
had to be given into custody.
Two female pauper Dunes described the language of the
prisoner as disgusting and her conduct meet violent. On
Sunday morning she took up a tin bowl and threw it at one
of them, and on the previous night although offered lodg-
ice in one of the wards of the house she ref used to go, and
end she would sleep in the tramps' ward.
The prisoner protested that she had been most shamefully
treated by the workhouse office* and had not only been
Impelled to sleep on flag stones, but had been denied the
ma necessary chamber utensils for the children during
the night. She was nine weeks ego deleted by her hus-
band, and formerly lived at Wakefield.
Flemming, the workhorse porter, said there were bed.
Meade with seeking and rugs provided, but the prisoner re-
fined to use them.
Kr. Elden, the relieving office., here entered the court
and said that seven months ago the prisoner arrived, with
her five chiklme, from Trate, Ireland, end entered the
Rotherhiths workhouse, slaying that her husband bad left
the ship at Plymouth and bad deserted her. After remain-
leg a few days, the husband came and took her and the
!study away. On Friday night last the prisoner came
to the workhouse again. She had been drinking and was
very violent, threatening to put both his (witness's) eyes
into one, and to break in his skull. She and her children
had been for five weeks in Horsham union, and he had
offered her an order for the house with a view of paring
her and the children to their legal place of settlement, but
she refused it, and said she should leave and come night
after night for a lodging.
The prisoner, who was very violent during the hearing of
the cue, declared all that had been said Beloit her was
Mo.
Mr. Maude said ouch misconduct weld not be tolerated,
and the prisoner was committed to the Wandsworth House
of Correction for 14 days, the children being taken to the
anion.
On bearing her sentence the prisoner bowled and
screamed, and declared she would not be taken to prison.
She was then forcibly removed from the dock to an ad-
joining cell, to await the prison van.

FIINIANISII IN THE METROPOLIS.—(TnIS DAY).
There seems no doubt that the Fenian organisation has ax.
Ueda to the metropolis, and that numbers of the Iriah resi-
dents; in London were enrolled members of the brotherhood,
and had received regular cards of fellowship, am/ the police
have been for some days past keeping a strict surveillance
over the movements of certain parties inspected of
being the leaders in this secret organisation and also certain
individuals known to be Fenian delegates from Ireland.
Two of the mambas of the Greenwich theatrical company,
in consequence of having &great correspondence with Belfast
and other parts of Ireland, were suspected of Fenianism, end
were waited on by the police, but being able to give a a►tis.
factory explanation, the mattereeded.
SERIOUS FIRE AT BERMONDSEY. --(THIR DAY.)—
This morning afire broke ont in the premises of Messrs. King-
den and Powell, oil.oloth naanolacturere, Queen-street, Ber-
mondsey New-road. In almost every compartment of
the premises were stored oils, varnish, turpentine,
and other inflammable articles of stock in the
process of drying, and io the course of a few minutes the
principal portions of the factory, at beset to l• 20 feet is
'meth and 60 feet wide, became encircled by flame. The
oil and turpentine ran along the floors, and the watchman
was overtaken by the blazing spirits, which eorrouoded
him and burnt his whiskers and the hair on his head. For
some time he was unable to find the key of the
door, so an to Ist himself out, and according to his
own statement, he fully expected to be buret
to death, but suddenly he espied the key, and was
enabled to release himself. By th►t period the flames were
in every portion of the factory, and rose so high as to be
visible from all parts of the metropolie. The whole of the
premises were destroyed, and the total lois is very consi-
derable.