The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

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bringing the government into hatred and contempt
by distributing the three inseudiary procla-
mations with a guilty knowleige. One of
the prisoners, Chouleau a professor of
chemistry receiving a salary from the state,
had at one of the secret meetings given
lessons on the manufacture of gun cotton, and
during one of his experiments an explosion oc-
curred which alarmed the neighbourhood, and pro-
duoed an assemblage of eislity.parsons before the
house. M. Lepelletier concluded by calling for
the conviction of all the prisoners.
M. Jules Fevre, counsel for Awoke, said his
client was a man whose time was wholly absorbed
in scientific studies. The story of the congress of
Geneva which was pressed. against him had nothing
to do with the present charge. Accolas made a
handsome income by his pupils, and had never the
Jesd idea of staying away from Paris longer than
the end of the vacation. The sole feet on which
the prosecution relied was that on the 11th No-
, vember somebody sent the • three proclamations to
, his house, and that on the 11th or 12thHayot took
some of them away. Accolas denied that he
, authorised Hayot to take them, or that he attached
, any importance to them. No doubt when the go-
, vernment violated the secrecy of letters it was very
likely to find things not pleasant to itself. But
Accolaa was not to be condemned on this charge
, from presumptions as to his opinions drawn from
letters.
The trial will be resumed to-morrow.

15101211EZ OP CANTIRBIIRY.--01DINALTION NY
Ajiminnop PARISH CRUNCH 01 ADDINGTON,
SORBET, YESTREDAT.--.Y.N104 Peek, R.L, Trinity
C 011464 Cambridge ; James Vaii: Ik-ilkiitenn• Dr. A-t
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Matthew Her
Wilson, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxford ; William
Charles Lockwood Wingate, 8.A., St. Peter's College,
Cambridge. The following licenses on the Ordination.—
The Rev. E. Peek, to the curs of St. James, Tonbridge
Walls • the Rev. J. W. Wilkinson, St. James, Dover ;
the Rev. M. H. Wilson, Rusthail ; the Rev. W. C. L.
Wingate, Newcharch, all in the county of Kent.
MALVERN COLLEGE.—The examination and dis-
tributive of prime took place on Friday lug, when the
awards were made as follows :—Classical blll.—J. Haworth,
H. S. Barnes, C. Charlatan, he. Mathematics fith.—G.
White, A. C. Greatra. Upper 4th.—S. Curtis, he. Gully
prises for Modem Languages.—French.—l. H. Walker ;
2. C. Scholfield ; 3. J. Jackson. German.—J. Smith.
Music.—G. H. Thornton, A. Robinson. Singing. —W. Stock.
Drawing.-1. J. Haworth i 2. J. Hatchett ;3. A. Robin-
son. A concert was given in the evening by the glee club,
oonsisting of pupils, assisted by the Masters' Cral Society,
the first of its kind since the school began. 137 boys were
present.
LIVERPOOL GYMNASIUM.—Upwards of 1,000
ladies, together with about 90 of the leading medial men
of Liverpool, assembled at the gymnasium on Saturday
evening last for the purpose of witnesung • series of exer-
cises gone through by • large number of the members of
the ladies' classes, and illustrative of the class practice.
Dr. Grimedale presided, and at the termination of the
exercises delivered an address on the importance of
physical education for women. Addresses were also de-
livered by Dr. Nevins, Dr. Hakes, and Dr. Denton, Sic.
At the close of the prooeedinp • vote of thanks was pro-
and passed unanimously to Mr. Halley, the able
pro-
posed
of the institution.

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FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—A distressing accident
occurred at Penn Fields, neer Wolverhampton, on Satur-
day afternoon. Two mina of the curate of St. Phillip's
Church there—the Rev. W. Gay—were in a meadow near
their father's grounds, one of them, 13 or 14 years of age,
named Herbert, having with him a small fowling-piece,
with which he and an elder brother, accompanied by the
third, who is aged about 10, and named Henry, were bring
at small birds. The piece was loaded with a full charge of
small shot, and the cap was upon the nipple, when they
desired, es go throegh a hedge. Haeism been;latight to be
careful under such circumstances, Herbert, before com-
mencing to cross the hedge, lifted the hammer to take off
the cap. Whilst he was in the act of drawing the hammer'
back it slipped and fell upon the cap with sufficient force
to explode it and fire the gun. At this moment the
youngest boy, Henry, happened to be in front of the piece,
and the whole of the charge entered his body at the right
groin. The blood flowed copiously from the wound, and
the poor little fellow was dead before he could be got into
the house.

BABY FARMING IN BERKSHIRE.—On Friday
evening a lengthened inquiry took place at the Manaion-
hence, Newbury, before Mr. Joseph Bunny, coroner for
that town, and the facts elicited showed that the system
of baby farming, now exciting much public attention, is
adopted not only in the metropolis and other large centres
of population, but also in the rural districts of this country.
The inquest was held on the body of :an illegitimate male
child, aged seven months, who died suddenly a few days
ago, at the house of a Mrs. Hamblin, living in Newbury,
where illegitimate children have been received for sonic
years past. Owing to the nature of the case the coroner
determined upon instituting a searching inquiry, and
accordingly every person who could give information as to
the treatment the child had received was summoned to
give evidence. Sarah Ann Fryers, • fashionably attired
young woman, who formerly lived in Newbury, but now
resides with her friends in Gloucestershire, admitted that
she gave birth to the child, and on recovering from her
confinement left it in the charge of • Mrs. Box, at Speen,
near Newbury. This woman, who has now three nurse
children under her care, kept the child until
November, when Miss Fryers gave authority
for the removal of the child to the house of Mrs. Hunibliu,
where it died. It transpired that during the past year
this woman had received four illegitimate children to
nurse, and three of them bad died; the parish doctor
attended one of the infants, and all the children were
buried in the Newbury Cemetery. The coroner said it
appeared to him to be a very improper state of things
that the ratepayers of the borough should be called upon
to bear the cost of medical attendance upon illegitimate
children whose mothers lived in other parts of the country.
Miss Fryers took her departure from Newbury about •
month ago, and since that time hail not seen the child, or
heard from Mrs. Hamblin respecting it. The coroner said
one would suppose that a mother would be anxious about
her offspring, whether illegitimate or legitimate. Dr.
Ligertwood made • post-mortem examination, and Mrs.
Hamblin's daughter gave evidence that she fed the de-
ceased five times during the day and night, using arrow-
root or oatmeal for its food. The coroner observed that
the system of receiving illegitimate children in this way
was • most vicious one, and the mortality among the in.
tants at Mrs. Hamblin 's had been very great. The jury
returned a verdict that the death of the child was occa-
sioned by convulaions through teething, and they also ex-
pressed their opinion that the food given to the child was
improper.
MORE BABY FARMING. —At the Staffordahire
Assizes on Friday, before Mr. Justice Keating, Ann
Craddock, a woman of respectable appearance, apparently
over 50 years of age, and described as of no occupation,
was indicted for having, in conjunction with her daugh-
ter, obtained certain goods by false pretences from the
guardians of Burton-on-Trent. The prisoner was charged
under the 24th and '2sth Victoria, chap. Ifli, sec. 80. The
prisoner was the wife of the sexton of Westharn, in Essex,
and her daughter lived with her at Ilford-road. The daugh-
ter, being pregnant, consulted with Dr. Foster, surgeon.
accoucheur, Bromley-by-Bow. The result was that the
daughter, who pissed by the name of Mrs. Clarke, went to
the house of Dr. Foster, where she was delivered of •
female child on the 15th of April. A nurse wrs provided—a
Mrs. Spencer, of Upper Charles-street. Bromley—who took
the child away, there being an arrangement that she should
be paid is. Gd. a week at first, and ss. afterwards.
The prisonor took some clothes to the house of the
nurse. On the 15th August Mrs. Spencer saw Mrs. Clarke
at Dr. Foster's. In consequence of what was said Mrs.
Spencer took the child to 'King's-eross station, where she
saw Mrs. Clarke, to whom she handed the baby, which
was taken by Mrs. Clarke into the train that left at 4
o'clock. The train by which Mrs. Clarke arrived would
reach Burton-upon-Trent about half-past 9, awl within a
quarter of an hour of its arrival at Burton the prisoner
was found in the streets of Burton with the baby, stating
that she had found it against spamp post. She was .lirected
to the union workhouse ; but being too late, she went the
following morning, repeated her statement, and left the
child, which hail since been supported by the Burton
Union until its death on the 14th of the present month,
when it was buried at the expense of the guardian.. This
constituted the fraud complained of. The learned judge,
at ti a conclusion of an able address by Mr. Brindley on
behalf of the prisoner, held that there bad been no fraudu-
lent obtaining within the meaning of the section of the
act under which the prosecution was instituted, and the
prisoner was discharged.
FIRE AT THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION, DERBY.
—At an early hour on Saturday morning last • destruc-
tive fire broke out ix the midst of the workshops at
the Midland Railway Station, and which, before it was
subdued, destroyed property to the amount of several
thousand po_unds.
GRILSE NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD,
N. Number of patients for the week ending Dec. 21,1
1,003, of which 324 were new teases.

[TWOPENCE

CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.
The last concert of the year, and of the present
mason, took plate on Saturday afternoon; the occasion
having been rendered special by a fine performance of
Beethoven's choral symphony. The programme of the
ommort was as follows :
Overture, " Le Siege de Corinth"
Cavattoa, "0, come rapids" ;" II Croddon Meyerbeer.
.
Song , with Omen; benunth" Ocunod.
Air, "0, Red in the Lord" (" Elijah") Mendelasohn.
Air, •'I( with eli your Heats" ("Mali") Mendel's:dm
" New sly 'taw" Meidehaotut.
rent,ltoral Symphony Beethoven.
This selection, it will be seen, offered the greatest pos-
sible diversity of style ; the exuberent vi testy of
Romani's brilliant overture, and Meyerbeer's volatile imi-
tation of the same composer's florid vocal music, being
followed by the seminerious song of Gonnod, and the
really sublime sacred pieces of Mendelsohn ; gradually
leading up to the grandest of possible climaxes, the
highest development of symphonic art, Beethoven's ninth
and last work of that elms.

These interesting concerts are to be resumed on Januar,
18, and the next series will comprise some festers ci high
laud special interest.

PRINCE OF WALES'S. • •
Without waiting for the noisy verdict of Boxing-
night, aad without violating the sanctity of Christine-
eve, Mr. Boucicault produced a new fire-aet comedy at this
house on Saturday night, entitled How SAc Lore. Him,
which warn first played a few years ago by the author and
his wife at Liverpool in a form somewhat different from
the tee in which it is now given to the London public.
Like ArraA-Na-Pogue (first produced in Dublin), it has
been carefully re-edited ; bat, unlike ArraA-na-Posrtic ttk
is sot yet one of the brilliant swam* of lie tiftg, 1444.1
Wall, and Prolific !Unbar. But when out down I.
three este, Z.treiieti of firs• out of the four doctor's, de-
prived of the electrical machine and much of the sick
chamber business, and with the relations softened between
the old invalid and the Irish servant, How Slic Lora hat
may yet piste very attractive.