The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

THE WRECK OP THE BRUISER.

There has been but one body found of the
unfortunate persons who went down with the Bruiser. It I
•
is that of a youth, apparently about 14 years of age, and it
was drawn up on Monday afternoon about half a mile from
the place where the steamer sank, from the bottom of the 1,
sea, in the net of a fisherman who, with another man, was
for shrimps. The countenance of the poor boy was
resat
placid. He lay with the tight arm across the
resat and was partially dressed in check trousers, white
socks, and a white shirt, with the right sleeve partly rolled
up. The shirt was marked "G. H. Bird." This fact in-
duced Mr. Crecy, a local surgeon, to communicate
with a gentleman named Bird, residing at Hull,
and in reply he received a telegram from a lady requesting
him to take care of the body of her son till her arrival.
Mr. Creep, subsequently received a second telegram from
the Bev. James Bird, of Hull, stating that be was on his
way to Aldborough for the purpose of identifying the
body. The jury returned an open verdict, there being
nothing adduced to show that deceased was one of the
parsons drowned by the wreck of the Bruiser, although
there is no doubt as to the fact. It is announced that the
body of a child was seen by some fishermen, but owing to
the strong current running they did not succeed in se-
curing it. It is probable, however, that several
bodies will he recovered, as some expert divers
are going down to the wreck as the tide serves.
Operations for recovering the salvage of the wrecked
vessel were commenced by Mr. Lewis, of Harwich, on
Wednesday morning, in the presence of Mr. Garrett, agent
to Lloyd's. The weather was very favourable, but the tide
ran ton strong to admit of much being done. The diver
went down at 8 o'clock, and succeeded in cutting away the
formost yard and other gear that prevented his descending
to the deck of the vessel with anything like safety. It was
necessary to suspend operations at 10 o'clock for the ebb
of the tide. Boon after one, the diver, who had described
' this part of the bottom of the sea as being as dark as the
' grave, again descended, and after a couple of hours'
labour succeeded in sending to the surface the cook's
house, the taupaulins and coverings of the fore-hatchway,
! and other articles ;
but no bodies were discovered, as the
r diver did not visit that part of the vessel where it is sup-
' posed many bodies are lying.

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John Donaldson, of No. 54, Margaret-street, was
charged on summons before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough-
street police court, yesterday, with writing and publishing
a libel upon Mary Ann Doane, one of the nurses employed
at the Middlesex Hospital.
Mr. Sleigh appeared for the prosecution, instructed by
Messrs. Took, liiißowes, and Price, 39, Bedford-row,
solicitors to the Middlesex Hospital ; and Mr. Ribton was
for the defendant.
Mr. Smith, chairman of the Middlesex Hospital board,
was in attendance.
Mr. Sleigh said—This is a prosecution against the defen-
dant at the bar for • libel on Mary Ann Deans, a prose-
cution ostensibly instituted by her, but in truth and in
fact instituted by the solicitors to the Middlesex Hospital,
by direction of the committee of that body. The circum-
stances under which this prosecution arises are somewhat
singular. The complainant is a married woman, and one
of the nurses at the Middlesex Hospital. The defendant
was a patient at the hospital, and entered on the 10th July,
in 20 bed in Forbes ward, and remaining until July 30.
The bed No. 18 was near to this. No. 19 bed was occu-
pied by a person named Manning, who had been in the
army, and who bad received an injury in the leg. Another
injury to the same limb having taken place, this person
(Manning) was received into the hospital as an in-patient.
Now, on the 15th July Manning was confined to his bed in
the hospital, hie leg being in a cradle in the course of I
~,iyurii-Eairrenff RAILWAY. —The report 3f the
medical treatment ;it was not only bandaged but sup- directors of this company states that the gross traffic re-
plied with casings of plaster of Paris, so that in fact oeipts for the half-year ending the 31st of July amounted
man was physically unable to move. Yon will find, sir, to 658 1. (including 22,0931. for steamboat traffic), as
the importance of the facts I am stating presently. compared with 630,4351. for the corresponding period of
On the let August the defendant spoke to Mr. Shaw, 1865, being en increase of 28,2611. The ordinary working
one of the house surgeons. He said he wanted to ; expenses during the half-year amounted to 276,1211. ; the
make a complaint against, and to show acts of imPre- i rates, taxes, tolls, and government duty to 40,3551. and
priety on the part of one of the nurses named Deans. Dir. 1 the working of the steam-packet service to 14,2401. After
Shaw, being occupied at the time, requested the defendant
providing for all preference and fixed charges, and for
to 'Peek to him when more at leisure, and into , '32,9441. for pest compensation, there remained a
the 3rd of August the defendant, Donal
lime, wee',
a net balance of 111,1611., out of which the di-
room, and in the presence of Mr. Hulks and Mr. Shaw, , rectors proposed • dividend of 2/. 17s. 6d. per
surgeons, he made a statement, which at their request be , cent. per annum on the ordinary consolidated nook
reduced to writing, and at his request communicated the of the company, payable on Thursd§ the 6th of Sep-
contents of the paper to the committee. In a day or two [ember leaving a balance of L. i. to be carried
afterwards, the hospital committee being assembled, Mr. '
, forward. The number of carried during the
Smith as chairmen, the defendant was called in, end he ; . ....
1 half -year was 8.495,435, against 7,878,970 for the cone-
was then asked by Mr. Smith if the statements in the spending half of 1865, showing an increase of 616,405 pas.
paper were made by him, and whether he was prepared on ; wingers. The receipts for neftengers amounted to 412,004/.,
reflection to abide by them. The defendant said he wee . and for the same fiat of ism to 400,3041., showing an in-
sure the contents of the paper were true, and he would I crease of 11,7601., of which increase 8,8721. was derived
adhere to what he bad elated. I will now call attention to from third class, 2,0331. from second ekes, and 8551. first
the contents of this paper, asking you to observe that the . cleft. There had been an increase of 10,11131. hi the receipts
occurrence narrated in it wee alleged to have taken place for merchandise, minerals, and cattle. The ordinary
on the 15th July, and that the defendant never made any ; working expenses showed an increase of 9,226!. during ti e
complaint or gave any intimation until the Ist August. i hair year, due principally to the increased number of
This paper is signed J. Donaldson, end witnessed by Mr. train miles run, and to increased law charges. The very
Hulke. " Mem —I was admitted into the Forbes ward hi sum of 32,9431. had been paid as compensation,
as a patient. On the 10th or 11th July, about three in
!making, with the sum of 39„3451. paid in the half yesi
the afternoon, I saw one of the patients and one of the 'i
ending the 31st of January last, a total payment for corn-
night nurses whispering together, the nurse sitting . pensation in the year of 72,2881., or, adding law charges,
on the side of the bed. On Sunday morning I was awakene , eual to a dividend of 1 per cent. on the company's
and I saw the nurse (Deans) in bed with the patient. I . orqdinary consolidated stock. The claims in respect of
got up for a natural purpose, and this disturbed them. the recent unfortunate accidents have now been all set.
The nurse rose and sat by the side of tho bed. I Lit , tied, and charged in the half-yearly accounts, with the ex-
into bed again and pretended to sleep ; the nurse 7 ception of a final sum of 1,0001., the payment of whiz'
down with her arms round the patient. She got up, had been arranged since the close of the half-year. Tihy
after having finished the intercourse, and left him about company's steamboats had reared the Channel 792 times
3 o'clock in the morning. She went to another bed that I during the half-year in the regular course of servioe, and
was vacant, then into the scullery, then to the
whie noel
i with their accustomed regularity, the average speed main-
bed, where she laid until shout 5 o'clock, after I Wind by the three large new passenger boats in all the
she went about her duties. On Sunday afternoon two . voyages made by them having been nearly 171 statute miles
young men came to the hospital I saw them standing 1 per hour. The directors have decided to open the Cannon-
with their beck to me. I saw them pull out • bottle i street station on the lst September, although some of
with brandy in ft." ' the works at the terminus ere still incomplete. The
Mr. Ribton objected to the reading of this portion of the i.oop 1 Dartfordof the North Kent Railway would also be
paper. There was only one libel complained of. I opened on the same day. The works between Chisethurst
Mr. Sleigh—l read the charge as forming part of the i and Tunbridge were proceeding satisfactorily, and were
contents of the paper. But I can promise my friend that expected to be finished in the course of next year. The
as it does not form the gravamen of the complaint, I aim total cost of this line (which was the only work of con-
not dwell very strongly on it. The paper goes on 'traction now in grog ) would be about 900,0001., of
to state this. One of the young men pulled out a brandy which 730,0001. had alray been expended. Under the
bottle—the patient, Manning, whipped the bottle to his agreement for the division of continental traffic, the
month and then took it away. Some time afterwards London, Chatham, and Dover Company bad, in the
Deans came to Meaning's bed-side with something in her earlier pert of the last half-year, to credit this compan:
dress, which she took out, and it sounded like a bottle, with en ozone of receipts taken by them shove the piropor-
This is the libel complained of. I need hardly say that tion due. Since then this company had carried some-
no more serious imputation on a married woman, and what more than that proportion. The capital amount
especially on a hospital nurse, could be made. The to the 31st of July showed that 17,628,6411. had been ex-
bringing drink into the hospital is only an offence maim, retied, including A 9,432/. during the pest half-year.
the regulations ; the charge of immorality is far more Bucurronamesins BAILWAY.—The ordinary
serious. The board of the hospital are naturally desirous •
_. this _
woo
to
to have onurses of good behaviour and moral conduct, half-yearly
_p,e
ymerootrawmagho ernoletewen7stotio Sirannouncedi
and if anything is proved to the contrary against any nurse "Le
Verney, Bart., it.i. (the chairman), and other of the
she would at once be dismissed. T"hintaalik it " only directors were t ; but there not being a sufficient
necessary to show the publication of the beL The
number of shareholders in attendance, either personally
defendant, if he believes his statement to be true, is not to
or by proxy, to form a quorum, the meeting was adjourned
be tried here. I shall prove the publication, and
go a step further, and put Deans, the nurse, into the sear die. ~
..
witness-box, that she may be cross-examined, as her chit- inavertmemenDHOLLOWAY'll Out'rMxwr AND
raster is at stake, and the hospital authorities ere anxious Pilas.:— —The newer, sad thoughtless may
save we lvesuere oft of troubles in the future by an early re.
to know whether there is any truth in the matter alleged cm to th ex Rant curatives. All blotches, from whatever
by the defendant, and for that purpose will afford every mmetraearisiar all enlargements of the lands wherever at
facility to the defendant in proving his case. trtitettag /CM sad debilitating (I nay be eafitlati
y
Mrs. Deans and Manning were then examined, and they certainly mod by employing Holloware Ointment and pats In
both deeded that say impsepristy had ever taken plain accordion with the hmetruotions wrapped round earl pot and
box. No timidity need deter the weakest from erOxtitrhese
Inept.lieingn thane, as
dits.ald Late on oneen
odcaltionlirth: depean.,fend- reaßeath.g, which owl tie threefold gaalika , re-
. 'elating and repshing, without clistarb the stomach. annoy-
ant had interfered with her, end threatened to report arr, tug the nervous system, or rendering eoelbsmeat to the home
=whit& she told him he wild do so se soon as he oftener,. Holloway's medktunente will stem the scams r'
many maladies, which, when neglected, perpetossafta—