The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-03 00:00:00

SHOCKING DEATH FROM STARVATION a
BETHNAL-011W.

LNQUEST..--(THIS DAY.)
This morning lir. Richards, the deputy-Meows
held an inquiry at the Rose Tavern, Weet,etreet, p,, I
green, touching the death of Julia Suaanosh &Suck
, aga
49 years, who was alleged to have been starved to
mr, Raphael Meldola, M.R.C.S., said that he resided ja
osesu.street, Bethnal-green. Three weeks ago an old ya.
celled at his swim and said. " A woman is dyiag (7,4
sumption at 6, Havelock-place. U you are passing Vim
as your opinion about her is waisted." As witness ipg
not conduct his practice ht that way, he did sot 4Christmas-eve he wee seat for, and be feud Me am*
dying of starvation. She WM very much ernaanted. MN we
a mere skeleton. She lived by the aid of stimulants
Boxing-day. Mrs. Clernpson said.. " Medici** is r‘
nee to her, don't give her soy." Waage, replied, a
our duty to do what we is, for her." The post Ingigai
examination proved that there was no food in the sham ,
or intestines of the demand, and that she had died Iggs
exhaustive from sheer !rant.

Mr. Barrows said titres tie Inseband of the deceased eh
in fall work, and be was awning then • paned a en*
end he acknowledged duseting his wife.
Julia Bellinger daughter of the deceased, said tint gee
lived at No. 46, fiabeightatrest. She was the wife ofJonsh
Bellinger, a weaver. The desessed was the wife of lingo
Bellinger, • weaver. She bad been separated from he
husband in °assegais°, of being jealous of • young wish
that lived next door. He left witness's mother lest Anna
seven years, and he never allowed her any messy. Xi
husband went to live with another women at No. 2, so.
court, Brick-lane, but it wee not the young wawa ihe
deceased was jealous of. She was too food rf
her husband to ens him. She had 12 children, and sand
them did anything for but her son Engine, • boy 16 rift
of age, who allowed her Bs. a week for his bout Be
eldest eon was ray well off, but be es*
do nothing for her. She lived in *Wm
house until three years ago, when ohs went h
live with her mother. Her mother had 1001. a yen's`
live upon. She had also the interest of 5001. cem
every quarter. The demand was given by her mother, is,
Anne Clempeon, • dinner every Sunday and a bit of mu
sometimes en • week day. The densul was due h
a state of starvation in the house of her mother, he as, shenstionfW fnine
said to witness, " I would rather die of starvation thas Wood -green. The
into the workhouse." She frequently said. "I sa lass, bad allowed jo
starving." Witness took her a little bit of runs to was laid at 5001.
eat and • sausage roll, but Mrs. Clempson to* h Mr. Gibbons was
from witness and gave it to Eugene. With, wee not represent.
asked the deceased's mother to light a Are as the dectessi The plaintiff. an
wee shivering with the eold, but Mrs. Cloospoo ein agent in the Umbel
"This is my house sod I will do aia like is my own hula be was in • chaise
No person shell interfere with me in it." The lad ad emenibas came into
never struck the deceased. She was kind when it did es - much injured, and
touch her pocket. She grumbled at the waste when wills not follow his owe
gave deceased wine. uselical man, whicl
Mrs. Anne Clawson, No. 7, Havelock.plece, Been", Mr. Gibbons app
grew rid that the wee the widow of William Claspke the injury and
a tea inerchent. He died, leaving her very poor, and mews Mr. Secondary I
had to go to law to get back her estates and landed properh sertainly entitled
which was settled upon her. When she got her propel, the amount.
there were a great many drawbacks about it : there us The jury awards
the insurance and law expenses.
Coroner—Don't talk so ; it is quite evident to the jury
that you had very comfortable income. THE
Witco's said she went down to Ramsgate reentls,
and left the deceased In charge of her house. She wanly
ten weeks, and left the deceased 10e. Witness did ewer
thing that she could for the deceased.
A juror—You left her about 2d. a day to live ups sale
TW
you went to the essaide. You might have given her a liale
food.
Witness—You must not itault me. That's my bairn Two young won,
Coroner—Do not be impertinent to the jury. ibelpsell were this
Witness did not call in • doctor because the deemed en dinned with atti
suffering from • chronic disease, and doctors were us
expensive. The deceased could not eat food. She ma The first ease tel
have drunk beer and Wine,. but wanes. did not think we T.fteed on the cher
insensible, and witness did not think it was neceesuy appeared
Li;ndon-be idge
right to give her those drinks. She remained sixty We From. the .vide
send for medical tom as a doctor's bill is no joie.
Coroner—You could have had • parish doctor grab w herself •
A juror—Yon have Warred your daughter to death. and vei
The Coroner said that the inquiry was • most pdsfd ration. 11:8,7n
ale
one. The deceased had lost her life in eousequeoce of yea end
of food, and he should adjourn the inquest in order,
bi
ascertain if sufficient evidence could be procured to ensti bread his anent
awed her to mi
a criminal charge against any person. The other case y
The court was then adjoarnowL be have been dew's
ranking the end's'
The Lord hisyoe
del
VISIT OF THE JAPANESE COMMISSIONER TO HI lath of the
duct, and theyel, tic
el
EARL OF CLARESDOII.—(THIS Dar.)—This afternoon la Awe, and promises
Exoelleocy Shibata Hioegano Cami, accompanied by lige diotrlbetbdtepharwm_
Brine, R.E., and attended by the staff, intends mitea their friends, whi
complimentary visit to the Earl of Clarendon preview Is
the commissioner quitting England to-morrow early.

The first number of the Contemporary Review Ws°Luaus air
has been published this week. In outward appeirsess I
resembles the Fortnightly Review, though in reality sotto oaaailaw""2g Carr
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what bulkier. It will come out monthly, the price islar ''' ~"7. ; AW.. —l3:,kerw
half-a-crown a number. The editor is uoderetwi Mr. Bellamy, fin
to be Dean Alford, and a large proportion of the 11,6900..._ Mod i ...a h
contents have a bearing upon ecclesiastical cur The prii"ersti
olfu
Lions. Dr. Pussy's work on " Daniel the Prophet' • weethMau c
reviewed by the Rev. J. F. Stewart Parolees, alt, logo out together
rimers and thwej
who expressed' strong disapprobation both of a often to walk son
temper in which the book is written, and of iti :irmwbeel. into
entire perversion of all critical principles, by whic!,ls
the judgment of the reviewer, it is marked. -wi ware met by p
imotkno
regret," says Mr. Perowne, " with a force of rig* look them all
which we cannot put into words, that one holding iii Our were found h
chair of Hebrew in one of oar great universities Mali bed pocked up. At
have lent the weight and authority of his name I ether,. compwany.
eriticiams and interpretations which are as mischiewei el the prisoners t
u they are unteoable. That such criticisms ANY munterfeit shilling
pass master and be accepted, only shows at all al paper.
ii
a deplorably low ebb the study of Hebrew is is Ihre. Barker_
col
England. Th it study can Dever rise to its proper dignity• Cliqut for wit'.
long es it is stifled in our Universities ; and it is stilt
BOBBER
Jahn Dyer, propri
when the most certain results of modern investigatico ut Curia Phillip,
thrust aside unless they happen to favour some mu. butm.stmat. St.
"
11IrhGelotroter-stri
oeived theory, when imagination is substituted for gram:, renywaighig of gi
rabbinical fancies valued marathon saber canons of smell
and the wildest hence of interpretation or of criticism is
dulged in to save a text or to support a doctrine.' Ito al the 1G
division,
is also au article on " Sunday," by the Rev. E. H. Pls is the skirt of
tn, M.A. The view taken is that defended of late by Et tie employ of
Norman Macleod, amid out more in detail, and applied Is menthee, and ah
valu 221 boil ~
various suggestions of the time.
vb.. eretbe prisons
been under the obi
Yesterday Professor Tyndall delivered the forrli pieces of silver wi
of his Christmas lectures "On Sound," at the Royal lola.
Union. The musical note, produced by the vibration II Ime men.: I:rib;
Wins and elastic plates formed the branch of the 'OYU . went to a 1
to which he directed attention. The inspect

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DEATH OP SIR FRANCIS GOODUICKE. —We MO
to annouoce, in our obituary this week, the decease, shg I
lingering illness, of Sir Francis Goodricke, Bart , whintuk
place on Thursday night last, at Malvern, where is
had resided for several months past. The down
baronet, who was born in November, 1797, vo
the eldest son of Francis Holyoske, Esq., of Tette
hall, in this county, and Studley Castle, Winn
shire, by Dorothy Elizabeth, niece and heiress of MP
Lyttelton, Esq., of Studley Castle. In early life he els
' much attached to the sports of the field, and formed lan
friendship with Sir Harry Goodricke, Bart., of Rim.
Yorkshire, also an ardent lover of such sports. On thsle
mature death of Sir Harry, in 1832, Sir Francis Gooodmle
(then Mr. Francis Helvetica) become the fortunate Wenn
under the will of his intimate friend and suociite, of tlio!
immense property and large estates of the down
baronet. Shortly after coming into possession of ,011
property he assumed the name of " Goodricks" by OP
authority. He was subsequently elected a member foe the
borough of Stafford, In 1835, but was afterwards reterento
South Staffordshire in the Conservative interest, and brute
a supporter of Sir Robert Peel's government In 1834 he fillet
the office of High Sheriff of Warwickshire, Rodin 1835 ben
created a baronet. Sir Francis Goodricke did not long rungs
a member of the Housed Commonsose be retired from pair
mint in 1837. For many years he was at the head of the ben
iagestablishment in Wolverhampton, which bad formai
been carried on by his father. in conjunction with Sirloin
Wrottesley, Bart. During the latter portion of his Wile
was a warm supporter of several religious societies, and ffs
many years presided at the annual meetings of the Weiss'
hampton Auxiliary of the Church Missionary Society. te
Francis married in 1827 Elizabeth Martha, daughterd
George Payne, Esq., by whom he had issue three von "1
four daughters. The deceased baronet is succeeded byl.
eldest sou, now Sir Harry Goodricke, Bart., who was Ws
in 1836. He is an officer in the army, and was weanded
the Crimean war.— Woforrhamplon Chronicle.
DOE-PARK RESERVOIR, NEAR BRADFORD.-4&__
Ferrand, M.P., has addremed a communication to Ix
George Grey, under date of St. Ives. Biogley, Dec. 2411
which he states that the Doe-park Rummer unlosekwed
has again given way, and that the lives of hundreds d
persons have again been placed in peril. He states theliti
and other gentlemen (Masers. Hulvert and Ronan)
kgss
recently visited the reservoir. They found the watery
off only eight yards. The embankment immediatall ors
" Mr. Rawboson's dangerous leak," is sunk for sight7of
io length, and the puddle bank adjoining for thirty 750`
They examined the drain mouth leading from the leak
and found it much disoolonted, and the volume of Int
72,000 gallons in 24 hours. This showed that the embsek•
meet is still bele' washed by the water passing uoderewo.
"No person,' adds the hon. gentleman, " can inspect it
without seeing that we have had a narrow escape fro' s.
awful catastrophe." The Doe-park Reservoir was corned
nearly a yeer ago.
A Rsuc OP TEE WAR.—On the steps of OM
War Department building (which the stranger may be 110
rested is knowing is near Sevententh-street wen :
Pennsylvaniseivenes) there stands as remarkable alto
the war as can be shown in the mut earefully.---,,
collections of the enthusiast or the virtuoso. IS
slump of an oak tree, same two feet in thickness.
was completely cut off by bullets in the battle fought
Spottsykania on the 12th of May, 1864.—American 01016

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