The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-29 00:00:00

THE DAuomnrs 0710 BART BUINE.

Few people seem to be aware that we have
still a daughter of Robert Borne, the great 800ttleh pow, in
existence swept us, sad resident in oar own immediate
neighbourhood. Seth, however, is the ease. Ws have still
on link ot the poses aerial love-chain—one feminine link—
who still " lives and tomes sad has her being," in this oar
lead of cakes--the land which her father's genius hail done
no
mudh to elevate and adorn. That individual is Mrs.
Joha Thomson (Snubs* Hew), the wife of an !mulligan',
hottest, sod, while bodily health wee permitted him, leder
moue 1/0•11•6r In the village of Pollokshswo, in the vicinity
of this city. Mrs. Thotesce had the tnisfortnne—for to her
in many rupees it must be regarded se s mitforesse—ro
have bun born under the "bar sinister." Her mother was
Annie Perk, one of the passionate poses many los% and
the heroine of that most glowing of all his songs :
" Teen= I bad • tiorismf wine
In pleas whin eaw.na ;
Yestrun lay on this o' mine
The gowdea locks of Anna."
Upon the particulars of that unhappy smear, it aside
not that we should make anything like Imathemed remark.
It wee • pain sad a sorrow- to the poet, in the gathering
&main' of his life, when be was a roan more sinned against
than sinning; a pain sad • hitter sorrow to poor Anal. Park
—sad the sea on of meg a tear and sigh through a brag
lib, to poor wee Betty Burns. Vie was not =owed for,
however, nor aegieweil ia hoe Inhacy and youth. Mrs.
Derr, she "banes Jena" of the poet's song, wee on. of
the sebiest, and bkoka. gel most forbearing of women.
The weeping Mesa of weenea's heart was wrong within
bar somberly Domes. la saes
_of his failings, she lowed
aid Waked bar titled baltd. When others revUed,
she sassed and defended; manifesting in her welt gad
reaureedes her thorough appredatiou of the poses hews
of charity
`Then gently seen your brother rain,
Still gesYier sister woman;
Though they may gang a keening' wrung,
To WV ode le hum n.'
The Met hiseeme lane bairn—innocent, whaisvw may
hays ben the enime of others—was taken home t• the
pewee bow, Neal lend in Jess Armour—ell honour be to
her neuesty—it eueative, aad mother.
Mn. Iberia mmembeee kr thaw, sad bar froleses
slds. gee see MO semi bit he. and lestaree, end hie
deb eldimarit he wee then telling into the
el eat mr^
yellow- led—eall that before half his harvest wee
estherell. "He bad on sepia shoe.," she soya, " and a
fur Wadi* env doses dews sheet Its awe, sad be wee
pallid and die. He Mott me ea lb be.. eel dimwit ate
co the had, and tents nu to be a glide girl." Thii meg
have been towage Moe ekes, andho can tell bow Meer
may have Wade pang which dined through that Bret
Madly WO si Ste =zet =the Pub
leis a bibeelee• a Motherless,
howewea, she ewer wee, while Jena Amor lava. Bevy
Berm eneeleard gear bar Micah data to h a amber of
she lawny. She nuelved the same Mud tosileavet, sad
the same edueadoesi dredges as baler% ant uldemiely,
when "we grows," was worried to her must bee-
bead eat of the home, and with ths oceerei of tie vesee
kindly-headed widow. "Sin w en ewe glide hely ley
wither,' says Mee. Themes (Mrs. Bares we the ealy
wetter *vet she know), "eel sad Ire dude' do/ du wee
aye seeding as Isar Math
MOM lindism7
edgiag from the hest walbseeletted gentreite, we have so
hesitates la seen that Mrs. Thelma% noes e=r:
wes .
hies her Rimerbes father this au of Ms eider
We base hue I. essapeay with two eir die pees ens ,• we
haw esen hen. Beg,- es wee ober, eel elle al her
gdaughters ; bet mei id them M apple* se Moldy ht
asmen-- to the bud me Ms. Thome= end bar kali.-
01•erne Journal.

SZASONABLZ BMIZVOLLNCI.—The monheing dm-
miths of oho flit. Poem asookomos, ostobtiolball for rho or
eie=gro== tr;heo = bol:110111494.111
vs giros o ma of aosehostaloodbal snots do ambers
of dos sormaioloo. for wes* of **l to Ike i.-
w. trap* of wok. ono a.rfirr.M sat boo boos
son it we for sho loot dm The ollairusa. !mob
Ileasy, Zit, I. P., aiwra.. bio mike ommoramos hi the
proposal of Mr. Gibhiao to ossfitso doo boo gift of mit to
oho froor bflooloo, Now of *bon la hem haws, if sot la
allsonso, mad* Is eseibneri irlopshimos.

IRSBIBTINCY IN A lAMB CHARGE 07
MURDER.

The old saying that " Murder will oat " implies,
snags other things, • laudeltie ponlataacry la the social
Metier in rumbas crime, from tandirmee Ara the victim,
sad &etre for the sseertt7 of the Cconansity. But there is
sarAber persietescy, mapr in its spirit, thoughtless and
sell* stasis spins out the pursuit of murder, long slier
mem Ye shown that no murder has been committed. A
raseshabie Loewe of this warred lest week. On the Het

inst., {beta appeared in our totem= a °communication from
Tyumen*, relating that some bones bad been found In the
eonme of excavating for Mange some ground belonging to
the Nathaniel Institute ; sad that these were oonddently
oeseladed to be the remains of • young OLD who bad
dleeppeseed in the middle of the night, fivemd-
thirty years ago, and had nem been tread since. The
story me that the young man was a surgery pupil of
the late Dr. Oreenhow, of BMWs ; that he was a meritorious
youth, who was qualifying himself for medical practice by
peat devotednees on his own part and that of hie
end by the kindness of Dr. Oresnhow • that be had bean sent
out by Dr. Gresshow with some medicine ea the Doctor's
TAM from visiting a patient in the night; that be want in
his dippers, thereby showing an intention of returning
Im-
adiatefy; that be left the medicine as desired, and was
near men mere • that it ma remembered that • tend left
the port for Edinburgh at that time, and that the mother ex-
peeled hies bee* eD be kiln long, but that it was generally
believed he wee matisseel. On the sad, lust Wednesday,
vs guishommOdiamOD-111110. baisp-ums hisa‘ Mca

SOLI lannhp," "aseleie tla reglad st has eta rats,
if they ere Mira bones ell : end than" rye the try%
"on impenetrable mystery coos more fills over the old story
thirty-eve pers."
Now, ineredible as it may meet, the mystery was cleared
up sera years after the oceurreses. which took place net
"thirty-live years ago," but in 1827. Our attention has
been directed to • fall ea:rather the whole affair, published
is the 4th volume of lloroshoidi Words (p. 618), and that
narrative reveals • tragedy may touching, to our opinion,
than the murder could have ban; but as it is not • murder,
but • tale of protracted and F 1611,010 premolars, it loom to
have had no effect in Telexing the vulgar persistency which
will make oat • re of horrors( any coot to Innoesnt prone.
In 1861, the old story had appeared in Vol 111. of Hear
hold Words, when it was many months afterwesde seas by
a member of the family charged on the spot with the murder.
Bo bin before as 1834, a public morn had been held at
North Shields, at which it wee 131111611 knows Mat John Mer-
ger had gem on board a vessel at the wharf, and had en-
listed la the India Compeny's minim It would seem as if
the accard family might have team safe from imputation
after this, sad that secisty would have been eager to afford
what rearmed= was yetpossible, after sear years of die-
pass and public hatred, moot anruvantably inflicted. But
we see that to this day they math subject to the injury.
Eves two sooorefalsorAaas for dekmation did not fully avail.
Dr. Ormabow's patient was a Mrs. Gaunt, and one of her
sons is the writer of the letter la Hossohold Words. The
sirloins was left at her door ; and that was all she and her
family knew, though the Shields people Insisted that they
had murdered John Marrs, and sold hie body for rano-
don. They were orktionera, in • good way of brass;
but they sold little after that night. The stuff spited on
their hands," and they had not income enough to pay their
shop rent. Two el Or eons had employment in a gime-
hour ; and It was this only which kept their parents oat of
the workhouse. Their employers were under perpetual
rll-
citrtlam to dianies than ; but happily they refused this cam.
Our with popular prejudice. The mother of klargetts was
not so sure of her son's return but that she, with others of
her household, stroked the Carta In the streets, amusing
them of the morn ; and they dared not resent the treat-
ment, in the midst of a population which seems never
to have thought of such a thing as fair play In
the ore. When we remember what the panic was
which followed the detection of Burke and Hare,
and made Mr. Warburton's Anatomy Bill a necessity,
or, rhea not wonder that the Gaunt family were, in spite of
▪ -,'--flocs, subjected to mob violence. Their house was
sightly sancrended by • hooting crowd at that lime, aad it
was the proper spirit of two of the Shields mergers which
rose laved It from beteg resod to the pound. It was at
We period that two perms wee* promersd for the deeme-
d= ; and se strong was the inflames of the popular temper,
that even the Court seems to have beta sided by It. The
fefendeata bad rimed the imputation In Newcastle. Both
verdicts wen in fanner the Carts ; but ems was for 20s.
without costs end the other for 61., sad the ledge would
set certify. As the isetiey of Hargett' We no longer •
maw of doubt, the armee seem to have beta measured,
net by the injury the Chants had -wined, bat by the
onowecteame of the act, at that time, of imitating murder to
them. The barber= of that period, r shown in rick-
burning, Thom ansepirscies, strike murders, Bristol and Not-
tingham banalap,msehre breaking, and the errs spinet
dissection, is matter of history. We are sorry to me that se
mach of It remains after another porter of a century, as to
revive the persecution of the Gaunt'. Their adversity is
briefly told by Ur. John Gaunt, In his pnblished letter.
The mother was still living in 1862, at above eighty, the
father having died in pesos at seventy-four. The two resi-
dent brothers were ° old bachelors ;" for it wee all they
could do to support their ruined parents. A brother who
was alreedy settled as • surgeon is Yorkshire, near Brad-
ford, in 1827, had hie Metes searched, sad sew those of his
neighbours treated fu like manner, by police sent from
Shields to look for the body of John Berretta ; and if any
part of a lumen body had been found on his premises, his
father would undoubtedly have been tried for the murder.
And all this happened to • family spinet whom no Imputa-
tion of offence bad ever bare been brought : a family constant
in their attainder* an public worship, moral, harmless,
and iedustrioas ; sad now after all these year; and
amidst great bowls of porde; salightenment in peteral and
in Shields in particular, we end the raw-head-and-bloodr
bone story revived, se U it bad never brat disproved by evi-
dence; sad, when our mare dheredited Is regard to the
knee found last week, pvierved 8w reennitation hereafter
by published render that en impenetrable mystery still
hinge over the disseverment of John Mergers. We trust
that or rronstrance is auflaisatiy mph mad In plutio to

put so tad to the ealeohlet Let sooas who hoe meow to
the per ever speak gala of toptostrable motor, sad
murder la oiwarike with the Gstate. Deeply se all just-
minded people wave regret the usuworited eathrlags of that
!sadly, time odhrlap will have bowie some good trait, If
lkop howeedwth Word a laws gulag rash judgments.
4 Wool, ark sr other, this. Is arse le this owe •
for Is le at of sank prejudice, from bet to bat Let do
ore= thew, serve zitarebtlhto the tooligarnat letatety,
indulge tlbbeppoiltIsvlepi kw ;ay were
aej et the expense of utbor
sociscp
=seld.°lllll:42 he t. the Melds !,(4.,—cr.vt
isto theyouleara, to ado so MOM slander to arise about the
Me of leha Illorgoam.

Tea BaroaY MOVIIJIINT LW SOUTH DUILMAY.
—Ow or two rams motlais have been had I. Beath
Data, of whisk the hart was at Ittorkton-at-Tea, on
Thursday, when dim corporally& agreed a a amoral to
Lard Derby, preying that, I. any
tooverm resenrs, the ,
Murals et so unclean ead Mgt • bertagh sad port '
shoal! not be forgotten. Copies al the sane essaerlal were
also mitred to be ant to Lord J. Messall, Mr. Mot, and
the asabwe for the Sosthirn Division. Ia Wyman
this, ova worthy burgess Wiwi,' Massif as follows : " I
thiak w ought to let Lard John Italie sad Mr. Bright
know. lay this he, that the basailia atOt to be
islastlad a direst ten-payer•—te the pa* that pays
Qs UM& 1.0 the %WOW of this osastry ,
so amok and the lime that people have new, the
way ht rya stiesaid by sleep FILM:ANN sad
amp paws end whet ass -I say this lam, AM ray
smen Om direst tams eight to have a vas be mow
boa of t. (Letter.) It's fraillas So teat Matt
101. Mira to litoekaa hire. illsektra is en faressabg i.e.,
arena, *Ws siptdiyiet=end ougbe Mee"
to lase bad a But, hewer, Oa "
vverryy li
wMi zatassima
dram,
itsmat.
Limm±./m=flt
this ham that biasing' ases is rapidly Ma:6X
(rte" ow mimeo I aces mil Is ifj
itshed/ be—(esan " sot,
fay Imilbras mos, d In awe iimaputy. arm,
ow& is haws a vols." Mom oflaweawir.) •ftleding sa
this worthy turgess's aid.. ran to ha, whip Ifs Jams
es id* ample of may efo flan the -maim bo
Ar
bby
to le& Leery law and Kr. rem, umileat
the alas, limn= mho m IWO 11101 lane
famadhll man led bat lime sum to be
ma ladimposidma Wadi so =8 a umfle",-Jfammaleater
Swam