The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, M ARM 2O, 154015.

avowing its reidiness todepart—white, attenuated
and transparently fragile hands twitching half con-
vulsively, half mechanically at the bedclothes, and
that uameless air of lassitude and exhaustion, that
shrinking and shrivelling-up of the figure so terribly
impressive to an initiated eye, are to be seen ; but
they by no means make up the bulk of the patients,
and are, indeed, the exception rather than the rule.
The great majority of the people we saw were bene-
fiting from the treatment and regimen they were
undergoing, and in many instances the disease, hav-
ing been grappled with early, had received a sub-
, stantial check. And this brings us to what seem
to be the two great wants of the hospital—an esta-
blishment for convalescents, and another for the
dying. There is practically no place in England
to which patients at Brampton who are partially
cured can be sent to complete their recovery. The
Convalescent Hospital at Walton expressly
excludes cases of consumption, while the esta-
blishments for diseases of the chest at Bournmouth
and Torquay are unavailable through their distance
from town, and the expense of locomotion. What
is earnestly,required--and the matter is one to be
commended to the consideration of the benevolent
—isa branch establishment within a dozen or twenty
miles of London. This would ease the parent hos-
pital of many cases which are sufficiently recovered
not merely to admit but to call for different disci-
pline and complete change, and would so make room
for the many poor creatures now excluded from want
of space. Wheu we learn that at this moment there
are 250 of these, who are recommended and approved,
and who are patiently waiting their turn, and that
the present accommodation is only for 103 female and
107 male patients, or 210 in all, we readily see the
immense field of usefulness augmented funds would
give the committee. The only fixed income they
at present is some 8001. from ground-rent,
poetess at
annual subscriptions reach 5,0001.
Against this is a positive annual expenditure of
9,8001., and to meet the deficiency between dis-
bursement and receipt, their only resource lies in
the casual benefactions of the public. The impos-
sibility of doing more with present material is suffi-
ciently obvious, and it may be hoped that the
attention recently called to this hospital may lead
to its being extensively visited, and substantially
endowed. Over and above the parts described is the
chapel, a beautiful erection, built at the expense of
the Rev. Sir Henry Fonlis, the cushioned seats
of which are models of roomy comfort, and the
decorations and fittings of which are iu the best
possible taste. Iu the men's wards may be seen every
variety of character, from the poor coloured man
from the Mauritius, who, on the Mews non prin-
ciple, is housed in the Le Blanc ward, to the
soldier who fought at Palaklays, and each and
all may be beard gratefully acknowledging the
care they receive. In the vestry-room of the chapel
is a well-stocked library, to which donations of
books will be thankfully received, and where, we
venture to say, the stocklof cheerful fiction might
be increased without disadvantage. This, however,
is a subsidiary matter to the great question of
funds. Since the opening of the first portion of
the present building in 1846, 11,793 in-patients
have received relief, and 78,112 out-patients been
treated ; and it is not too much to say that the
good wrought might be now indefinitely multiplied,
in proportion to the funds placed at the disposal of
the committee. Sufferers are crying eagerly at its
gates ; sufferers who have experienced its tender
care are beseeching piteously to be re-admitted—
many
of them to die ; sufferers who have been par- I
tially relieved pray for permission to spend their
annual holiday in the only way whereby they can
hope to lengthen their life ; sufferers who, could
they have their term of residence extended, might
become comparatively bale hand well, are perforce
dismissed with the work half done ; and sufferers
are dying in close ill-ventilated homes without even
applying for admission from the very hopelessness
of success. Increased funds would ameliorate all
these evils, and as money for a good object is hap-
pily in this country generally forthcoming, it may
be hoped that the Brompton Hospital will find its
means largely augmented as the excellence of its
working and the urgency of its needs become more
widely known.

moustrating with her husband, and snatched his pips away
from him. Having bad bear at the White Hone, they left
to go to soother house, when the took his cep, upon
which he struck here blew oa the side of the bead, =yin
" Yon bath, if yea dim% give it me i'll kill you." Wises
they got to the Fox and Hounds it was shut up, end she
said she woe glad of it, and he thereupon reestameneed
besting her. At length she received • final blow, end
saying to the brutes who IMO steadies by, " You ere
sot Ness to see me so used, I can't stand it,"
fell to the pound. All bete man named White left hoe ;
he pee help,.sad an the prieeser Milflllilll shortly after
said to hie., 'Jack, your wile is dead." His reply wee,
" Let her lay, end be —." Medkel ms were sent for,
bat the poor orestuny wee deed. On • pest merles Grand-
settee being_ made al the organs were priestly healthy,
but they said death might be cosesioried by • blow end not
leers any external or isterael sign of injury, the muse of
death being • severe shock to the nervous system.
After hearing the prisons?. counsel and the summing up
of the learned judge the Jury Acquitted the prisoner.
His lordship immediately ordered en indictment for an
amault to he sent before the grand jury.

WESTERN CIRCIIIT.—Eirriz, Bisacx 18.
(Before Bans Mama)
RITILAORDINABT CASE OICHILD NORDER._

Mary 7faite H;;;;;,23:7loicial; serrani,QCharlotte
Masao?, • married weeny, seed 45, weir placed at the bar,
*honed with Not wilful murder of Thomas Edward Gibson
BAIT* • Chad about Eva =oaths old. at Torre, on the 14th
of February.

The pram nem wee meditated by Mr. Carter sad Ms.
Ben ; Mr. Prideaux sad Mr. Turner defeltdiag Harris ; and
Mr. Folkard, Wines.
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The cam for the dalmatian was shortly this :—On the
15th of last month, in the immediate neighboarbood of
Torquay, was foiled, on the turnpike-road lading to
Paigeton, the dead body of • child, wrapped op. The
exact spot do just beyond the turnpikelate beyond the
Terre station. The medical examination showed that this
child, which wee appareetly about four months old, had
come to its death by foul means, either by expos* it to
the cold—there being scow on the ground at the
tkw—
a that it had been immersed in water, and the put in the
road. The result of the inquiries est on foot by the polies
was the disclosers of the following fads :—That some time
about October last, the young prisoner, Mary Jane Harris,
who wee lodging with • Mn. Gibson, in Upper Usioe-lad,
Torquay, gave birth to • male child, whose birth was regis-
tered on the 16th of October. The child was well cared for
by the mother and Mrs. Gibson up to about the 12th of
December, when Hams obtained a situation at Mrs. Wan-
coy's, at Torquay. The child was then, according to an
arrangement entered into by the mother just prior to
that date, transferred to the care of Charlotte Wieser,
who was to receive 3e. a weak for taking charge of
it. The child was taken to WIDOW'S house, situate in •
lonely spot, two fields distant from the Newton-road. The
child was well treated up to about the end of January Mrs.
Gibson having seen it several times bestride the 12th of
December and that date. The prisoner Windt lived in a
cottage with her buabaud, the only other inmate being •
little grandchild, named Selina Pratt. The girl, who was
eight yams of age, took charge of the baby • great deal, and
was much attached to it. Some evening about the middle of
February—the date could not be exactly fixed—Harris was
present at Winsor's house ; and the only other parties were
the little girl Pratt and the infant. Pratt was ant by her
grandmother into Torquay for Doan errands, and on her return
the two prisoners were then, but the child was not. She
Inquired for little Tommy," and the grandmother said
an aunt of Harris had bsen there while she was
away and taken the baby away to somewhere the other
sided Exeter. Pratt was given • penny to go and buy a
bun ; and on aide returning Harris left, taking nothing
with her. Pratt never saw the child alive after ; but some
two or three days subsequently she saw her grandmother
ironing the baby's things, none of which had been taken
away. The clothes were put in • carpet-bag, and in the
evening, just as it was " dimes's," Wineor left her house
with Pratt, saying she had to take the clothe, to Hans.
She bad with her a bundle as wall ea the carpet bag. They
proceeded on the road to Torquay for some distance,
when Winsor suddenly exclaimed- Stop, I've eons
wrong and must turn back *gain." She turned away
from the road which led to Hants's, and on arriving at the
Cattle Inn the carpet-beg was put in a cart. The police
were afterwards taken to the spot were Wino` turned off
by the child Pratt ; and this warthe exact spot where the
child was found on the 15th February. The identity of the
child fold with the child which had been in Winsor's
keeping was fully established by Mrs. Gibson and the little
girl Pratt, who on being shown the body immediately
recognised it. The police went to Harries on finding out
the register, and asked her whether she bad not been
delivered of a child is October. She admitted that she
had They asked what had become of it, and she said
she had placed it to keep with • woman named Widor.
" Was it there thee r No ; en aunt of hers had
taken it away about • fortnight ego." The name was asked,
and after some hesitation and equivocation she gave the name
off an aunt whom she said lived near the moor. The police
ferreted out this aunt, but she kaew nothing about the
child. Winsor, when questioned, also gays the same ac-
count about the aunt : but the gave • deecription of her,
which was just the opposite of what the aunt was. After
the aunt was found, Harris wee taken to the station
home, wham addredeg the sergeant of polio%
the said, "If I caned give aa account of my
child. shall I be hearted • She use in a date of great
agitation and alarm at the time; and she said Winner
had told her she "'mew the way to do it. She had dose
it before, and had never been found out. She got rid of one
three weeks old and threw the body into the Bey, and it
was never discovered." Wider, when visited by the police,
said she didn't believe Harris had murdered her child ;
end that the child had • wart on the toe. The child fond
had none ; and the description which she gave of Harris's
child was altogether different from the one timed. A
kind of " grim sinister humour" seemed to pervade Winaoes
observation. When • baby's hood and socks were
found, she said it belonged to her baby ; and whoa
asked what baby, she pointed to a cradle, when there
was a wooden doll. On coming into Harris's presence
at the police station she put her hand round her throat
in a significant manner which greatly alarmed Harris,
who asked the officer whether, if Winsor had done the same
as she had, she would not be equally punished ? There
were several statements made by the prisoners, who each
criminated the other. The theory of the prosecution of
there facts was that for motives easily accounted for—a de-
sire on the part of the mother to get rid of • bonbon and
encumbrance ; and on the part of Wino` the baser motive
of endeavouring to make money cut of Harris by the hold
which she would have on her—one or both of the prisoners
war the mew of causing the death of this child ; that it
we. placed in the road by Wised ; acid the story about its
having been take away by the aunt was one agreed on be-
tween them: _ _ . _ _ _

Ths Wise lasted two days, sad at midnight oit Saturday
the jury returued into court and said they could mot agree.
The judge sooordiugly discharged them, and audited the
priaoswirs to remain is custody.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
XABICHZISTIN MIME 18.
Wars Mr. Justice Shea)

William Alonlder, 51t and Charks Bradbitry, 44,
his desk, were charged with fraudulently obtaining moneys
for the fees of oouneel in the Manchester City Poboe•000rt,
and applying them to their own use. The one. was opened
ou Friday, and occupied the greater part of Saturday. The
prisoner' were both found Guilty, and seaterweed each to
four mouth,' hard labour.

(Before Mr. :melee Mellor.)

WILNBTANLZY V. oven.:

This was the first of a series of latices for trial arising
oat of alleged Bleeders uttered during a eery excited mart-
leg of the town council of Ashton-under-Lyne on the 14th
December Out, at which the plaintiff nod defendant ware
present as members of the council.
Mr. Temple, Q. 0., wee for the plaintiff, and the Attoreer.
General of the pastiest' (Mr. James) and Mr. T. Janos
were for the defence.
. . . . .

—.—
It was given in evidence that during a debate on the date
in question, while Mr. Winstonley was on hie feet, Mr.
°easy insinuated • charge of moon assinat the former, who
about two years ago had •Me at his cotton mill. Imme-
diately the words were uttered Mr. Hugh Meson moved that
the town clerk take them down, and the words es taken
down by the town clerk were: " If I were tory you were
an home. man I should not tell the truth ;" awe which he
added, "I Dever burnt down • factory yet."
For the defence Mr. Oussy was put into the wither-box,
and affirmed that when he uttered the last-quoted words,
he had no ides of charging Mr. Wisetanley with Marisa set
fire to, or attempted to burn down his own mill, hut, oa
being premed in crom-examinatioo, he added, after laying
be bad never made such • charge, "but I have my own
thoughts," which. Mr. Temple contended, was an aggrava-
tion of the original °Heim.
The jury (special) found a verdict for the plaintiff--
damages 501.
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110B12180N_ r. VERNON.

This wee an action for slanderous language connected
with the oorporatima of Aabton-nnder-Lyre.
Mr. Temple, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Attorney-General James for the defendant.
Mr. Robinson, the plaintiff, is serveyor for the corpora-
tion at Ashton, and the ddesideet, Mr. Vernon, at a meet-
Mg of conservatives, on the 12th Iteceagew last, after ask-
ing the meeting to mark the devilish and diabolical character
of Mr. Robinson, weal on to say that he bad ashamed •
man named Taylor, in his employ, bemuse ha would not
vote for the liberals at the last ausaisipal having
previously intimated to Taylor that he might~iegleet his
work and go on the "spree' if im would vete as desired,
'Led charge the corporatiow what he liked.
Mr. Boot, • reporter at Ashton, was called to peeve the
woe* and having read his notes to where the delsedeat
called the plelatiff "a devil
. .

The judge said (looking at the ruord)—This i se MOM
for calling • rasa • devil ismmate ?
Kr. Temple—Nay my lad; it is for stplag that the
plaintiff used hie offs sada the serparaike for mums
which as • public ollicer would be detriasstal so his aka-
radar. I admit the words his lordship has seed would sot be
suffioiaet. As segos was uses brought far saying • maa was
eat • better lawyer than the ass is the mem, but it was
bald that was so libel, tosses for might that us how.
the mu is the moos might be a geed law ym (Imughter.)
The rase wu presmilug, wise his Iselo spa Wow-
possi—Basilg. Mr. Tamp* • this ars I. ge se l The de.

fendent called the plaintiff a devil imamate. Too know
it was said by the Mien that Lucifer was the fast 'big.
Mr. Temple—Yes, my lord, be wu kinked out of HUMID.
(Laughter.)
Alter a emenitaMes, Mr. Temple said If hie Ant were
allowed to be pat oa bin ea* sod state that be bad sever
discharged a mu on aesosat of by vets they would elm
to withdraw a juror.
• The Judge—it seems to me yen would lave bud work
I.
preed
n makingen out the ionendo is the sees yea mesa; tin
is tee imp.
Mr. Temple—Yes, my lard, but if It is too Urge I should
say thentVectbe a remedy ; if it were too small it could
set be ex
the plaintiff was allowed to make the statement mg-
gusted on oath, and a juror was Ma withdrawn.