The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

PARDON TO EUOENIA PLUMMER.

TO THE D1?)R TIIt.EXPRER9.

Slily—As I and other friends of Mary Eugenia
Plummer have received many ktters from strangers. itts
pres.ing sympathy with the child, and au opinion that she
has been unjturtly convicted, and as—notwithstanding the
efforts made by articles and advertisements in the daily
press before and since this second verdict to bias public
opinion in favour of Mr. Hatch—the confidence of a great
portion of the public in the truthfulness of the child has not
been shaken, it will perhaps be a satkfaction to them if you
will permit me to make known through your columns that
her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a pardon to
the childon condition of her being placed iu the care of a lady
selected by her friends, and that she will to-day be talon into
hercare. I am informal that it has been stated in oiled your
contemporaries that the child has liven sent to a refor.
oratory, hut this I beg to state is not the fact. I have a firm
belief myself in the innocence of the child, and I am one of
those who think that, however public opinion may be our
led for a time, it ultimately conics round to the side d
truth and justice, and I have no doubt that eventually in
this case the innocence of the child will be made appear.—
I am, to., WALTER F. PRATT.

ACCIDENT TO Miss VANDENHOFF.-011 TUOINIay
evening last, as the above lady was descending from the stage
of the Northampton Theatre to her dressing-room, she trod
upon some slippery substance, which precipitated her with
fearful velocity down several step, strainiug the ligaments
of the left knee. We regret to state, although the mis-
chance is not so serious as it might have been, that it will
deprive the stage, for sometime at least, of one of its brightest
ornamenta—Era.
THE SUICIDE AT PLYtforrn.—An inquest was
held yesterday afternoon at the Guildhall. Plymouth, before
Mr. John Ecimourle, the coroner for the borough, to inquire
into the rireemstunces attending the death of Marl Anne
Luke, who died on Wednesday evening from the injuries
she sustained by jumping out of a window the pros ions
afternoon. The case Miring been much talked of during
the day, there was a very large crowd in and around the
Guildhall. The hall itself was completely filled, as
were also its approaches, and there were hundreds
in the street who could not get in. When Thomas
Luke, the father of the unfortunate girl, came into
court, he was received with yells from the assem-
bled crowd. The " line" with which the girl was beaten
was handed to the coroner. It was &pp:meetly a piece of
clothes-line, about the thicket .a of • small huger. As it
was exhibited • rear of execiation burst forth from the
densely-crowded court. which the coroner appeased by re-
questing the crowd to desist from any exhibition of feeling,
whatever their thought' might be. The jury returned the
following verdict "That on the 27th day of May.
in the year of our Lord 1860, the mkt Mary Ann Luke,
having been severely beaten by her father, Thomas
Lnko, of Plymouth, at No. 30, Union stniet, within the
borough, became excited, and while labouring under tem-
porary derangement, jumped from tho bedroom window of
her father's premises, and fell on the ;pound below, whereby
her skull was fractured and bride hicendoil. That she lan-
guished therefrom, id 30, Union.i.treet aforesaid, until the
30th day of the said month of May, and then and there
died of the said fracture of the skull and laceration of the
brain ; and the jury further say that her said father's
conduct towards the deceased was marked by undue
severity.* During the time the foreman was reading the
derision of the jury, Luke mule use of some incoherent
expressions', and thou sank forward ou the desk weeping
like • child.
CAUTION TO THE PU8L1C....-We are informed that
• large &umber of forged notes, bearing date the 15th of
Febniary. 1850, are in circulation. They are admirably
executed, and beer so close a teseuildanee in every respect
to genuine ones, that the moat experienced persons are
likely to be deceived by them. The vignette at the Neel
of the notes defies detection, so closely is it copied from the
Bank of England note. The paper is of • deeper colour than
a good Baak-note, said the watermark is not only • perfect
imitation in every respect of the paper nuundactured for the
Bank, but it Mina be removed or obliterated by damping—
a test hitherto summed to be infallible fur discover* the
genuineesss el Beak notes.