The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-30 00:00:00

AIrOTHER MORTAitA CM.

Legal proceedings are pending in the Court of
Queen'. Bench,Dublin, in a case relating to the kidnapping of
a child, named Mary Mathews, which bears some analogy to
that of the Mortars outrage. In this case, however, the
mother of the stolen child is a Protestant and a subject of
her Majesty. It appears that in April, last year the child
of Mary Mathews wee taken from her. She traced it to •
semi-religions institution, over which • Miss Aylward pre-
sides. She demanded the child but Miss Aylward evaded
compliance ; whereupon law proceedings were instituted
on behalf of the bereaved mother ; • writ of habeas corpus
was served on the lady, calling upon her in the usual form
to bring the child into court on a given day. Iminedintely on
the issturei of the writ being known the childwaa kidnapped
a second time, and Miss Aylward made • return on the writ
that she knew not where the child was, nor who carried her
off. The case came before the Court of Queen's Bench,
on Friday, when Miss Aylward attended with her attorney,
for the purpose of entering into a recognisance to answer
interrogatories in relation to complicity in the abduction of
the infant Mary Mathews. The sureties for Miss Aylward
were Sir John Bradstreet (president of the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul), whose appointment to the commission of
the peace a short time since created a good deal of news-
paper controversy, and Mr. Michael Arrington, an English
gentleman residing at Kingstown. The sureties being de-
clared unobjectionable, a discussion took place with respect
to the place where the interrogatories were to be adminis-
tered, in the course of which the Chief Justice expressed •
hope that there would be an end put to the case by the pro-
duction of the child.

Mr. Curran—l wish it could be produced.
The Chief Justice—Has any effort been made through
the detective police to end the child ?
Mr. Curran—l am not prepared to say, my lord.
The Chief Justice--It would be very desirable.
Mr. Curren—l am prepared to show by the answers to the
interrogatories that Miss Aylward had nothing to say to the
making away with the child.
The Chief Justice—She may absolve herself from the
charge of evasion, but the legal responsibility cannot be got
rid of by any swearing. Under that she is subject to re-
main, I should say, quasi is teeniest, until the child is pro-
duped.
Mr. Curran—The law, my lord, does not require an Im-
possibility to be done, and that is impossible.
The Chief Justice—You 01.11 never say that • thing is
impossible until an effort is mule to effect it.
Mr. Justice Hayes—When the matter was under discus-
sion, and when, on hearing that Mir Aylward was informed
on the 19th of June that the child had been taken on the
11th, I asked what proceedings had been taken to recover
her, I never was more astonished than when I heard Mr.
Curran state that nothing had been done. How this lady,
who on the 3rd of April took the child, then sent it to
nurse, end never saw it afterwards, and was told by the
nurse that the child was stolen—she, the superioresa of the
institution, and interested in the children—how she could
reconcile it to her conscience to sit down in apathy without
one effort to recover the stolen child, is to me beyond credit.
Mr. Cumin—lt may be so to your lordship.
Mr. Justice Hayes—lt is so to every human being who
knows of the Cale.,
Mr. Curran—ln vindication of Miss Aylward, who is a
highly respectable lady, : must ask what she could do when
the child was ronovefrom her control without her know-
ledge! What could she do if a third party removed the
child to America!
Mr. Justice Hayes—What do we pay the police for!
Mr. Curran—We cannot go to Amenca for the child.
Mr. Justice Hayes—Has it been ascertained that she is
there ?
Mr. Curran—No, my lord t we do not know where she is.
Mr. Justice O'Brien—l reserve my observations upon this
case, the party being now in custody, until we have the an-
swers to the interrogatories and the whole of the teas
before us. . . .

Thus the matter rests fur the preaent. The case of the
Sherwood children was neat brought before the court, and
J. O'Connor, one of the parties implicated in a lesser degree
in the kidnamaug of the minors, and who was arrested on V. ed.
nesilay in Galway, appeared in custody and put in a recogni-
sance to answer inttregatories. Up to the present Dennis
O'Connor and Witoldna, the really guilty parties, have es-
caped detection. Later in the day Nies Aylward, with the
sureties named above, entered into recognisance*, herself in
2U01., and the others in 1001. each. to answer interrogatories
and to abide the further order of the Court. The esamiva•
Lion will take place before Mr. Nagle, Clerk of the Crown,
and not before the, Nester el the Court.

A Boy Krum) nY • lammea.—The other day,
when Manders's menagerie wee at Great Grimsby, • boy,
named Redman, was swinging on the ropes placed in front
of the dens ; and, although previously cautioned, be ap-
pruiched close to the den in which the lions were kept. A
lioness immediately seised his head with her paw, and would
have ernaheil it to atoms had not a lion, MAXIMS to have •
share, pushed heavily against her, and the keeper rushing
causedup the animal to liberate the poor lad. His head
and neck, however, were so fearfully lacerated that he has
since died from the effect of his wounds.