The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1866.

according to the hypothesis of the kot of 1844,
the directors have been workij an by a stereo-
typed rule. It was assumecr aa invariable that
the higher the rate of interest the greater would
be the sums attracted to the Bank, and that 10

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAT.)

THE CESSION OF VISITE&

per cent. would thus be more effectual than 8,6,
or 5. In order to obviate a departure from this
theory the late Sir ROBS= PEEL devised the
stringent measure which, though thrice suspended,
still remains in force. It is evident, however,

The Times thinks it may be said of all the poten-
tates engaged in the late hostilities that, however improvi-
dent some of them may have shown themselves in matters
connected with their own interests, they have, on the
whole, behaved more handsomely to each other than the
leaders in any war which history records. The Emperor
Napoleon, in the matter of Venetia, has in particular
shown himself to have been actuated throughout only by
two great motives—the welfare of Italy and the restora-
tion of peace. Had he resented the stubbornness of the
Italians in refusing the boon at his hands it would
be difficult to calculate the consequences upon the
destinies not only of Italy but of Europe, but
happily he was too magnanimous to take offence, and de-
termined that Venice should be ceded to the Venetians
themselves. No one knows better than he what the vote
of the Venetians will be, and there is no doubt that its
liberation is in accordance with the dream of his youth
and the design of his inaturer age. In all probability it
will not be long before that right of the people to dispose
of themselves by universal suffrage which he now calls
upon the Venetians to exercise will be extended to another
people whose destinies are more immediately under his
controL The termination of the Venetian difficulty will
soon be followed by the solution of the Roman question.
The Daily linos also thinks it is due to the Emperor of
the French to say that the manner of his cession is marked
by contideretion and even delicacy. Union by deliberate
and universal suffrage appeals to sentiments not less gene-
rous than emancipation by conquest ; and it may possibly
interpose fewer and less permanent obstacles to the esta-
blishment of a good understanding between the cabinets of
Vienna and of Florence than would have existed if Victor
gremumel's title deeds to Venice had been written in the
blood of an Italian Widows. The fault of the Emperor
Francis Joseph in invoking the mediation of France has
perhaps helped to keep the peace of Europeasit lueallayed
the rising jealousy of the French as to their reputation
abroad. The course about to be adopted in Venetia is an
acknewledgment that a people has a right to control its
own destinies ; and, a fortnight hense, when the day
for the execution of the September convention arrives, the
Emperor will have the opportunity of completing the free-
dom of Italy by restoring Rome also to herself.
The Telegraph and Star also pay a tribute to the French
government for its good faith in reference to Venetia.

that whatever the value of the Act may be, it
must stand or fall by the truth of the conclusions
on which it is based. Experience has proved that
these conclusions are wrong, and hence the Bank
Charter Act is, after repeated trials, now self-con-

damned.
In the first place, 10 per cent. has proved to be
no safeguard to the public in any degree commen-
surate with the enormous loss it has occasioned.
It did not attract bullion from the Continent—on
the contrary, it promoted its efflux; nor did it
bring beck into circulation the notes withdrawn
from the Bank, and hoarded on the first pressure
of the crisis. Neither did it lessen the demand for
money, although, no doubt, it seriously crippled
trade. The disastrous effect was simply to destroy
English credit for the time, both at home and
abroad. Sir Rowse.: Pam. never contemplated
any such consequence, we may be assured, and
would have been startled at the prospect of a
contingency of this calamitous description. His
great end was, as we know, the maintenance of
credit, by placing the Bank under a control which
he thought would not allow it to go wrong.
Unfortunately, he contrived to saddle the remedy
with a possibility, since amply proved, of creating
a far greater evil. Within the last twenty years
credit has been thrice threatened with annihila-

tion, and each time it has been saved by the sus-
pension of the Act. Facts like these teach infi-
nitely more than mere wordy argument. During
the past crisis we have seen that, in keeping the
rate at 10 per cent., the directors were acting in legi-
timate accordance with the principles of 1844 ; but
•

it was also perceived by the whole mercantile
community except themselves, that the obstinate
adherence to these principles was not only inopera-
tive, but moat prejudicial. At length, after much
pressure, the directors were obliged by the weight
of public opinion to reduce the rate. The change
was marvellous. Distrust once removed, the re-
sources of the Bank accumulated rapidly ; and
there is not the slightest sign that the movement
will be stopped, although the rate of discount is

TEE ELECTION COMMISSIONS AND PARLIAMLNTARY REPORM.
. .

....
The Times, in the way rather of suggestion than of direct
argument, continues to see in the evidence taken by the
election commissions reasons for doubting that a large
extension of the suffrage would diminish the corruption of
the constituencies. It finds also sentiments which it can
adopt as sound and undeniable in the late speech of Mr
Laing.
The Post thinks it possible that the abatement of an
annual abuse of municipal privileges would tend to purify
constituencies which are supposed to have grown out of
the reach of any adequate punishment. A redistribution
of seats accompanied by a rearrangement of the boundaries
of boroughs is also, it may be thought, shown by these
c (=missions to be advisable. _

falling every week.
Secondly, it is perfectly clear that if the direc-
tors had possessed full liberty to act according to
their own discretion, the crisis would have been
arrested two months earlier than now. At the
commencement, the failure of OVEREND, GURNEY,
and Co. gave so terrible a shock to credit that the
limitation in the Government letter to 10 per
cent. was overlooked for the time. The question
then was not the rate to be paid for money, but
the power of getting it at all. Confidence could
not be revived until some permanent improvement
took place in the money market. As long as 10
per cent. was maintained this was of course impos-
sible. Hence, if the Government had omitted this
restriction, and allowed it to be distinctly understood
that the directors would have the same freedom as
that possessed by the Bank of France, the matter
would have been simplified at once. There would have
been no excuse for sustaining panic rates when
it was clear that the panic was of the past, and
that all that was required was to resuscitate con-
fidence. This was certainly not done. The Go-
vernment letter, well meant to meet a crisis which
has been unequalled since 1825, was rendered
perfectly useless by the condition that all bor-
rowers must pay 10 per cent. for money even on
the best and most convertible securities, and that
those not immediately convertible could not be
accepted as security at all. Has not the Bank of
England refused to lend on title deeds of estates
during the late pressure, and further is it not the
fact that the hoarding which has prevailed for
months throughout the country has made our
boasted national wealthamockery so far as obtaining
something to represent it? We take issue with
Mr. Disesem's recent statement to the deputation
from the joint stock banks that what we need is
"capital, not currency." What we really want
is the conviction that the exchange of property in
this rich country shall not be arrested for want
of some medium of circulation, and that all
the banking and business world shall not be
frightened into miserly action because that unneces-
sary bugbear, " the reserve " of the Bank of
England, falls within certain cycles one or two
millions. Speculation must bring its penalty ; but
without it where would be English enterprise ?
You may as well try to dam a river
as to prevent it, and within safe limits
and in contradistinction to mere gambling, it will
remain the rock of our national power. The time
has quite arrived when these questions should be
dispassionately discussed. We have had a joint
stock movement, a plethoric excess, and much
abused it has been. All this granted, the ugly
and cruel fact remains—that many who ought to
have stood have fallen, because property was for
many weeks a mere name ; and that we had, in
truth, fallen nearly to a state of barter without
recognising our real condition. It is against all com-
mon sense, against the plainest reason, that such
things should be. Sir R. PEEL was extremely
enlightened in his time, and prepared a grand mea-
sure for his period. But it is, or ought to be, our
destiny to march on. Is the Bank Charter Act to
remain a fetter upon the progress of this country
or rather, to renew the question, are all our hun-
dreds of millions of national property to become
a dead weight and practically inconvertible be-
cause a little outburst of speculation brings its
recoil? It is time to discard all prejudice and ask
seriously why our good property should be at
times not only without a price, but distrusted
even by those continental neighbours who have
until of late regarded England as the safe refuge
for capital in times of revolution or war.

....
The Herald confines itself to the Lancaster evidence,
endeavouring to show that those who in politics affect to
be the chosen apostles of purity and freedom of election,
and those who in religion affect a higher sanctity than the
church can produce, are proved to have first instituted,
and for twenty years to have practised, a system of cor-
ruption and bribery, fatal not only to all political, but to
all the moral virtues. _

The Telegraph contends that the infusion of a large
element of genuine working men into the communities of
shopkeepers, fish-curers, and gin-sellers, would abolish
corruption in many boroughs, but that the true cure is to
transfer the sin from the bribed to the briber.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Eaton
Hall, Cheshire.
The Countess of Dalkeith gave birth to a son on
Friday morning at Bowhill, Selkirkshire.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,
bas joined Lady Emily Feel at the Villa Lammermoor,
Geneva, from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.
In connexion with the court, the Times says, it
is nothing more than just to a faithful servant to say that
the current rumours that John Brown, the Queen's favourite
Rigida,* attendant, had been suspended from Lis position
has been specially contradicted in the Aberdeen newspaper
which copied the paragraph, the contradiction on the best
and " undoubted authority" bearing that " at no timehas
John Brown been dismissed or suspended from the situ-
tion be now holds ma a personal attendant upon the Queen;
and that be owes his rise and promotion to his exemplary
conduct and the conscientious discharge of his duty during
a period of 15 years."
The Spectate rsays that a very distinguished Anglo_
Wien, who had just returned to his place of exile after a
short holiday spent in the old country, was asked one day
what fresh impressions English life had made upon him,
and replied, "Oh ! there's nothing new at home but
underground railways and having your hair brushed by
machbun y."

LATEST INTELLIGXNCE.

THE RESIGNATION OF M. DROITYN DE
LHITYS.
The Temps of to-day says on this subject :

The news announced by the Monitcur to-day was re-
ported three or four days ago, but remembering the severe
admonitions which the Moniteur has often given to journals
which should venture to publish reports of a ministerial
crisis, we did not mention it. It is difficult to penetrate
the motives which rendered necessary the resignation of
Drouyn de Limy', and the meaning which is to be given to
the appointment of M. de Moustier. Between 18414 and
18.55 M. Drouyn de Lliuys had been three times Minister
of Foreign Affairs. It will be remembered that on the
rapture of the Vienna Conferences he resigned in 1855, and
that in the following year he resigned his functions as sena-
tor. He returned to official life in 1862. The negotia-
tions relative to Poland, the Duchies, the Convention of
Sept. 15, and the evacuation of Mexico are the most marked
features of his administration. An opinion had latterly
prevailed that M. Drouyn de Lhuya was in favour of
making strong remonstrances against the aggrandisement
of Prussia, and of urging them to considerable
length. However, it would perhaps be going too
far to consider the present change of ministers as
an indication of an advance towards Prussia.
We are not allowed to forget that the Constitution does
not admit ministerial responsibility. M. Drouyn de
Limy', who signed the September convention, was cer-
tainly no personal enemy of the Holy See or of the
French occupation of Rome. Before his mission to Con-
stinople M. de Moustier was the French Minister to
Prusaia, and it may be that his former relations with the
Court of Berlin may have entered into the considerations
which induced the Emperor to select him for his present
post.
• -

The other Paris journals merely mention the
change of ministers without any comment.
The Indipendance Beige says :
We beard the news some days since. but we hesitated to

mention it as it appeared to be doubtful. Now, however,
the Moniteur confirms the report. The causes of this
modification in the composition are as yet but impe:fectly
known to us. According to the report. most generally
spread, M. Drouyn de Limy, latterly found himself
in opposition to his colleagues, and *specially MM.
Haulier, Fould, and Lavalette, on the subject of
the policy which should be adopted towards Prussia.
Henoe arose an antagonism which did not allow him entire
freedom of action in the direction of his department, and
which he thought it his duty to put an end to by reques t-
ing the Emperor to relieve him from his functions, which
request the Emperor complied with in the most friendly
terms. It musenot, however, be concluded from this change
of persons that the claims put forward by France on Prussia
will be absolutely abandoned. On the contrary, they are
spoken of more than ever, and they may probably be revived
on the final termination of peace between Prussia and
Austria, without, however, in the least insisting on them, but
leaving to Prussia all the future responsibility of a refusal.
In other words, what has gained ground for the moment in
Paris is not a policy of renunciation, but a policy of ad-
journment and of temporising.

(WITTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
JAMAICA.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3.

The steamer Talisman, from Kingston, Jamaica,
arrived here this morning. Her news has been
anticipated.

INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS.
MARSEILLES, Serr. 3.

The Menageries Imperiales steamer Peluse ar-
rived hera at 9 a.m. to-day with the India, China,
and Japan mails.

TRH LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY COMPANY.
Premising that the reports of the late meeting of
the above company will not raise the reputation
of our basiness men, the Daily News proceeds to
analyse the somewhat conflicting statements of the secre-
tary and of Sir Morton Peto, relative to the over issue of
debentures,—coming to the conclusion that the transaction
springs directly from the radically unsound constitution
of the company. It was a contractor's line, and its very
title has therefore been a delusion ; and in the general
confusion of functions and attributes which arose from
the anomalous relations of the contractors and the com-
pany, that has been done which all the parties to it must
now deeply lament. The company will have to be re-
constituted, and the shareholders must become masters of
their property. This is the first thing to be done, and it
must be done at any sacrifice.
The Herald does not wish to pronounce without further
information upon the transaction as to the overissue.
Irregular it most undoubtedly is, but the relations
between the company and the honourable member
to:. Bristol may perhaps have been such as to
authorise it. The consequences of the past mistakes
must continue to be felt so long as the line shall last.
Whether they are ever to be surmounted must depend
upon the degree to which directors and shareholders de-
termine to avoid in future any repetition of the errors
which have brought them to their present strait. nen
difficulties are grave, their position humiliating enough ;
yet, with careful management and rigid abstinence from
their former and fatal policy of forestalling their re-
sources, multiplying their branches, embroiling them-
selves with their neighbours, and dissipating their own
revenues, they may yet become, not only a great and an
enterprising, but a prosperous and well-conducted com-
pany-

-•-•
OPENING OF THE WORKING MEN'S INDUS-
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS,
TRIAL EXHIBITION AT THE AGRICULTURAL- i
HALL.-(THIS DAY.) (THD3 DAY.)

c:ix../ouseo r hi, ebdleeeerkenctooli mmbeeincedere
jujeecithis m0D0.)4 It the 107
This afternoon afternoon the Metropolitan and Provincial 1
Exhibition, a programme of which appeared in the The September general "slims of the penes t„.
iul'
Express of Monday last was opened to the public at the
Agricultural-hall ; and it is confidently hoped that the the following justices :—br. Jervis, Kr. John
result will be a success worthy of such a laudable under- Mr. Baylis.
.Although so *hart • time has elapsed woos A.
Belilvf, aat
. .
taking. Happily the weather has become propitious for ,
Thereadoffenancesd switttforthweil i7:16.
TEI CALINDAL
imitation of the last minions, the "Imam the occasion, and a bright sun heralds the festive and 1
ie 'lb
musical entertainment by which the exhibition is to be
I very heavy, there 104 priscom „mt
inaugurated. . for trial, 89 being indicted for felony, am in f,,....,
The number of exhibitors exceeds by from 300 meaner. The state of education of the --=
to 400 the number in 1864, and includes about 200
of fmulmo
. imwnerigeht,,,derimareads follows:
—Can
',a;ft ; can read l2 ,testi en
different, and, in many cases distant, parts only, i ..,
country, Cornwall on one side, and Scotland on the other, 014,43,in:el:Why, face
pretences,
ste,din,
fru:mai d
having, among others, contributed their quota of objects eon, breaking and an dwelling-bouses, bighwt g
of various kinds. In the character d the exhibition, too, banes, indecent assaults, found by Wen iii-ge
there is a general improvement, especially in regard to session of houehmaking implements, attempting to „LT
embezzlement late:want+, assaults with ' - -"
pietures,of which there are about 3,000, and illuminated ,_,....__mint to eu,'
ow bodily , indecent exposure, he.
penmanship. The catalogue contains 1,151 entries. The
SECOND COURT.
report to be read this afternoon contains the following 1
I (Before Mr. Payne.)
passages: IMPORTANT TO PRILBONII LIABLE TO Hume on 70Eti1
eas-
--"
"It is impossible to look around upon the thousands of , yhe business of the eourt was much retarded a • oda
objects collected within this hall without feeling that ' (pence of the difficulty in making up the requiredmm:
the working classes have nobly responded to the invi-
of traverse jurymen ; some gentlemen who were s
tation of the council, and furnished a display worthy were out of town, others were above sixty y - ~,,/
of their known character for industry and ingeenitY- not bad their names taken off the list. Ifpetaam
But these, valuable though they be, are not the only are liable to serve would pay attention to
the 4
and inconvenience T j
. alk;
illustrations to be obtained of working dams progress- (6th George IV., cap. 50), it would save themselvesurc 4
e
There exist amongst us societies devoted to the cultiva-
as the court • deal of trouble
tion of music—to the advocacy and promulgation of lag is anextraet:—"Copiesof the July Lists forthe mode
certain principles calculated to improve the social position year are annually fixed upon the doors of all Mama
of the people, and associations having for their object • chapels, &c., in the pariah, on the three first B -3
I:go.
mutual assistance in time of mitfortuns- With many of September. These lids are always revised at
the, •, therefore, the council conferred, and the result has petty session, held for that purpose, within tk
been the organisation of a series of musical and other de-
;days of September, on • day and at • place of which um
monstrations, which, while giving a distinctive and milli- *men at the foot of the Sete affixed to the chntriam
projects. ! ray qualification, or from some permanent infinent.
nal character to the undertaking, will also tend to Any person who ja exempt from serving
en iceiss
on,
popularise the idea of cooperation, sad prove its being above 80 years old, or from being witheet Da
adaptability to recreative as well as industrial
Among the societies to take part in the festival are mu, A..), .„a whose name appears e
the Tonic Sol-Fa Association, the National Temperance , should apply to the overawe beferel4:2o,l
League, the Band of Hope enion, the United Kingdom ' held, or should attend the special session, and the
Alliance, the Foresters, the Tonic Sol-Fa Choral I there present are empowered to strikehie
nem
col
Union, he., and to the officers and members of these the lista; any application of the sort to the
, which he is summoned as juryman is useless; aertoiel
the Council are desirous of expressing their acknow-
All his name appears in the lists, he will be piste], ti
summoned by the sheriff, and to be fined by the it
lodgments for the goodwill evinced in carrying out
1 the arrangements. Their thanks are also due to the
author of the Ode, Mr. John Plummer, formerly a non-attendance."
factory operative, and to Dr. Spark, the composer of the I Several persons who did not appear were fined 21, at
music, of the merits of which`you will presently have an
opportunity of judging The council have likewise to an-
nounce that the directors of the Agricultural-hall Coin-
pany, and numerous other well wisher. of the undertaking
have kindly offered money prizes fm.edesirtition.; also that
Mr Won has gratuitously a prise medal
especially for this exhibition. With the object of
encouraging exhibitors, and of mitigating the disappoint-
ment of unsuccessful competitors, especial facilities have
I been afforded for disposing of their articles, and an art and
industrial union has been established in the hope that yid-
' tors will avail themselves of this simple and inexpensive
1 method of extending their patronage to the industrious work-
, man. At an early stage of the proceedings the council
solicited the co-operation of the Science and Art
Department, and the Lords of the Council on Education
have been pleased to contribute a valuable collection of
works of art from the South Kensington Museum, supple-
mented by the loan of objects from the Right Hon. Wil-
liam Ewsrt Gladstone, for the proper display. of which
a gallery adjoining the lecture hall has been specially fitted
up. It may be interesting to mention that the whole of
the objects admitted for competition are the productions of
bona fide working men, and that nothing has been ad-
mitted into the catalogue that was exhibited in this hall
in 1861. Although the means of the Council were news-
eerily limited, the undertaking has been made
known throughout the country, and contributions
obtained from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and almost every
county in England, be-ides some few from the colonies.
The greatest number of exhibitors in the provinces are
found to be from Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich, and Ply-
mouth, while Clerkenwell, Islington. and the north-eastern
metropolitan district claim the largest number of London
exhibitors. Thenumberof differenttradea representedeither
, in skilled or amateur work is upwards of ;Y2O ; of theme there
are iti clerks, 44 printers, 41 engineers, 37 carvers,
37 carpenters, 35 engravers, 12 watchmakers, and 12
1 labourers. Space has also been allotted to 2'23 females,
and the total number of exhibitors is upwards of 1,500.
To decide upon the merits of the articles exhibited
the following gentlemen have already kindly consented
to act as adjudicators :—P. Le Neve Foster, Esq.,
Society of Arts; Rev. C. Boutell, Crystal Palace; D.
Clarke, Eeq., Society of Arts; S. C. Hall, Fog., Art-
Journal Office ; 0. Smith, Esq., wood engraver ; J.
Datioine, Eel., Art Journal-office ; W. Parker, Esq.,
silversmith ; Digby Wyatt, Esq., Society of Arts ; John
Hopkinson, Esq., pianoforte manufacturer ; Mr. Baker,
cabinet-maker ; Mr. Brooker, engraver ; W. Campion,
Eel. ; Mrs. Warren (Editor of the Ladies' Treasury),
ladies' work.
" In addition to the features already noticed the Exbibi
tion contains a large number of articles oontributed by chil-
dren belonging to the Sunday schools of north London and
the scholars under the tuition of the Ragged School
Union. It is intended during the progress of the festival,
to invite all the children belonging to the Parochial, Bri-
tish, Sunday, and Ragged Schools in the metropolis to a
free inspection of the Exhibition—the council believing
that such a course may inspire many with a desire to take
a part iu future displays of a similar character. Arrange-
ments are also being made for bolding a fruit and flower
show, for the delivery of lectures on popular subjects, and
for other similar attractions, announcements of which will
J I be made from time to time."
ke --

SURREY SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

The adjourned urines for the county of Surreys.,
inenoed this morning at the Sessions-house, Nevi*,
causeway, before J. E. Johnson, Bui., chairman, tow
Titian, Esq. ,deputy-ehairman, W. Harhay, and K. R.Atima

EsThe calendar contains Idtty prisoners for
felony, and siz for utisdemeszour. The status el ohs
Lion was as follows : 13 could not read or write, lit wie
read, 38 read and write imperfectly, and three wall
and write well

CAUTION TO GRAND JURYMEN.

The following gentlemen were Duel IF.
being absent ..--John Harding, William Bevan, Riad
Roach, F. Carwig, John Cole, P.T. Odell,andG. Edwina
of Clapham. Two gentlemen were excused on the mill
being saver sixty years of age. The deputpchairsna
wised them to look at the jury lists on the church tiss,
and see their names struck off, as it would save thus isi4
summoned another time.
CHASGI TO THE GRAND JORT.--TSCSTABI OF COSI 13
THS COUNTY. _

The Chairman, in his addreao to the Grand July, nil
that he was happy to see among them many wks lel
served before, and who knew their duty well, thnehie
need not trouble them with any lengthened await
He was, however, sorry to say that the calmer re
unusually heavy, there being sixty Omen kt
trial, besides several out on bail and committed aims*
calendar had been made up, which no doubt 'woad IQ
the number up to 70 for them to deal with. Lan 'wane
time there wereonly 48prisoners for trialorhowingtistlim
was great increase of crime in the county. He could*
account for that, as at this time there was plenty el ark
and wages were higher. Among the charges an W.
simple stealing, seven for stealing from the pence, tests
robbing their masters, two for stadimi ins ihrelliackna
four for embezzlement, two for breaking and entensg,sa
for assault with intent to rob, two for insulting polices
stables, two for inflicting actual bodily harm, tee ki
receiving stolen goods, two for unlawfully wousdiag, m
for anon, which he doubted whether they enY
have jurisdiction to deal with, and than is
one which required their particular abode
That was a signalman in the employ of a is*
company, charged with being drunk on duty. U
a recent statute that was made a criminal offence. Aft
some further remarks the learned Chairman diming I
grand jury to their duties.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
IXTRAONIDINAXT ASSAULT oN A scum.
Thomas Adams, a powerful young man, wee sansmi
before Alderman Allen, to answer a charge of mai
Mr. Key Hardy said—l am a surgeon in practise n lio
4, Wardrobe-terrace, Doctors' Commons. Os
evening, the 28th of Aagtst, between 1; and 7 oblbleelt
was sent for to visit a patient at No. 12, Ireland-yokel
before I could leave my house a second messenger canes
say the patient was very bad. When I got 6n
saw
Mro. Adams who told me that it as
a young girl named Mary Ann Wilson sh:ahlni
me to see. The girl said she was very ill. I be
what she had taken, and she said she had takes man
1 that was given her by Tom. I asked Mrs. Adams wiegfes
was, and she replied that it wu her soa,wils wa, this)",
scut. I then turned to him and said, " Wiwi ten
you given her ?" and be said he had not gives borpf
thing at all, but that she took it bend Ile
defendant after that denial turned mud to tbi
781
girl, and said, "Yon will not say tbst lel
it to you, did you not take it yourself r and she Nr
" Yes, I did take it myself but you gave it to ne. I
still wonted to know what she had taken, buths ~_
violent and would not let me vela to the ' - am,_,
appeared to be very ill, but the defendant sat "
me speak to her. He Lot between us pushed se le
against the wall and ultimately hustled 1110 eel 4il
house. I went to the police-station, and stated
cuinstances. They made inquiries as to the giel, W '
";
"
have beard nothing more about it. The poliosaddesiti
to take the course I have adopted. It would be itios6o
if a medical maw, when called in to see a pens ilo,
rently poisoned, were to be subjected to tsarina
as I have described, and the patient to be left to"
tended to.
The defendant in defence said the girl had "lit
toms ammonia that he bad given her six maths IF •••
1 she was very well now.
Alderman Allen said his conduct had boo "If .*
I proper, and he should sentence him to 21 dier.
prisonment with hard labour.
I The prisoner, who appeared astonished at W Isis^
was then removed to the cells.
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