The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-16 00:00:00

AN EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT.

THE QUEEN v. TOOMER.
Some medical men of the north of London place
on record in the Times their protest against the decision of
the jury and the sentence of the judge in the above ere.
They first direct attention to the statement that a rape
was committed on Mime Partridge twice on Sunday night,
the 11th of June, that a severe struggle took place, sad
on Monday morning there were no marks of violence what-
ever which were apparent to the medical man who ex-
amined her ; secondly, when she began to reside with him
in the middle t,f May she found no daughter of his to teach,
no lodgers with whom she could associate as he (pro-
mised there would be, yet she remained with hint.
Further, on the night of the 6th of June he took her
to his bedroom, and " after • night-long struggle
effected his purpose." She remained in his bed till
morning, and although she attempted to write a letter,
whizh was not sent, she stayed till he came home in the
evening, and on the following day took • walk with him,
and also had her meals with him. On Saturday she took
a walk with him again, and said to Gough's sister some
time the same day that she would leave him unless he
gave her 20!. On Sunday she walked out with him again,
and on going to bed asked (lough, who had before slept
with her, to go and sleep with her step-sister that night.
Miss Partridge also left the door of her room open. There-
eoner afterwards came into her bed, and remained till morn-
ing. Now, it would appear that if crape was committed °elite
Sunday night (June 11), then also a rape was committed
on the Pith of June previous; and if there can be a question
of degree that was the most serious offence. She, however,
continued to live in the house after the Bth, and made no
complaint to her friends—wrote no letter ,• yet she must
have known the sort of man he was, and what she might
expect if she remained under his roof. It also appears
that, having male up her mind to stay in his house, she
was on Sunday night so imprudent ea to request Gough, a
woman, and perhaps the only person to whom she might
look for protection in that dangerous house, not to steep
with her, and to leave the door open.
The Times &Lys a perfectly monstrous piece of injustice
hat been perpetrated, and adds that it cannot doubt that
the ease will be reconsidered.

lioNot RS AND Arroi wrizENTa. —The Earl of Lone-
dale will imp the Sunday (Mzette) in all likelihood be re-
commended to her Mapiety for the Garter vacant by the
death of the Marquis of Lansdowne. The honour of a
baronetcy is about to be conferred on Chief Baron Pollock.
We stated last week that Lord Dalkeith would pro-
bably be the new Secretary of the Admiralty. At the
time the appointment was offered to Lord Dalkeitli, and,
it_was believed, would be accepted by him ; but it wee,
upon consideration—and, we think, wisely—declined.
Lord Henry Lennox. is to be the new Secretary, and will
formally enter upon hie duties to-morrow. Mr. C. S. A.
Abbott, of the Fore4moffloe, has been appointed precis
writer to Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. Mr. T. H. Sanderson, of the Foreign-tam,
is his lordship's private secretary. Mr. Montague
Cony has been appointed one of the private
secretaries to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. J. L. do Platt Taylor has been appointed private
secretary to the Duke of Montrose, Postmaster-General.
Mr. Taylor held the same office under Lord Stanley of
Alderley. Mr. Sidney Godolphin Osborne has been appointed
private secretary to the Earl of Longford, Under ry
r Wu. Mr. Henry Dundee, of the Admiralty, has
been appointed private secretary to Sir A Milne, and Mr.
Fran Macgregor, of the Admiralty, private secretary to
Sir John Hay.
THE CHOLERA IN LIVERPOOL.—The child Eliza-
beth Sullivan one of the cholera patients from the found-
ling ward, in the Liverpool workhouse, died on Saturday
morning : and the other children seized on Thursday were
on Saturday not expected to recover. Three other found.
liars, two of whom had been nursed by the woman Shaw,
who died on Friday, were taken ill, and a child was ad-
mitted from Milton-street; but the medical men are not
without hope that in these cases the effect may prove less
serious than Asiatic cholera. The Liverpool coroner was
engaged on Saturday investigating the muse of death of
carter named George Allen, aged thirty-five years. "
deceased had been a hard drinker, and on Thursday
he weutinto a cellar in Portland-street, whet e he wa
with purging and cramp, and where he died tit
night. The medical evidence was that the case wi
Asiatic chulera, and a verdict to that effect was r
It was stated that a child was ill of cholera in
cellar.
DEATHS THROI*OO SUNSTROKE.—TWO
through sunstroke occurred on Thursday and Frit.
near Nottingham. A labouring man named Eyre,
60, was urdciag hay in a field at Codnor on The
when he was observed to fall, said died almost i•
ately. On Friday afternoon a men named Smitl
at work in the hayfield at Calverton, was imustrui
was conveyed home instantly, hut died the same •
THE FENIAN SENATE.—We have been I
with a long document called "An Address from
nate of the Fenian Brotherhood." It is written
florid style peculiar to the enthusiastic Celt, to
not find much in it beside rhetoric. The folic
ragraph, however, has a spice of malice that
quite readable :—" It is admitted that, with stn.
power as our orxanisetion has developed, with own
minds directing the tried and faithful military v'
we possum, success must have crowned our em
British rile have been for ever annihilated on t.
tinent, but for the interference of the administrat
Washington. To that interference and to the mean
arbitrary asthey were unexpected, taken by the
tire and head of the State department to deft
movement, we refer with reluctance. Our just
the treachery practised against is is tempered 1
that the name of American republicanism de
sullied by such truckling to the necessities of
despotism on the part of men invested with the
trust in the commonwealth." Tolerably cool In,
Bat did it ever occur to these fellows who
" treachery," that the congress is the wammaki,
in this country, and net the " Fenian Senate,' a.
head centres and chief organisers. When the time
for war with Great Britain and Ireland, the dads
will, doubtless, come from the capitol at Weald
indeed of the sky-parlour at No. 706, Broadway.
Fork Times, July 2.
GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-
TeLINoToN, N.—Number of patients for the week
July 14, 1,030, of which 290 INTO new MAIL

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