The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

STARVING 4 CHILD TO DEATH.

Elizabeth Pritchard, alias Woolridge, a single
woman, agedZl, who lives with her intents at Wednesfield
Heath, near Wolverhampton, has been committed for trial
at the next Staffordshire assizes, on the charge of the tine-
slaughter of her illegitimate male child, aged eve weeks,
by starving it to death. When the child wee horn it
111111 healthy, and a poet mortem examioation has
without any organic disease ; but when it was a=
after its death it was found to weigh only about 141 b., 'erne
21b. less than at its birth. It was shockingly emaciated, and
bad not hod food in he stomach for some seven days or
more. The atoms& is said to have presented more the
appearance of a dried ig than anything else. The mother
had been provided with as abundance of food, and she
rolled liar mother to confirm her statement thet she
igavo the child the breast on the previous midnight, and
•SW to &pore that a day or two before the death lie raw
her feeding the child. The surgeon, however, deposed that
such was the condition of the stomach and intestines that
it was impossible that the child could have taken any tend
within six days of its death. There is a strong feeling of
disgust in the neighbourhood in which this crime has been
committed, and it hal/aged that a former illegitimate child
of this woman's, which died in infancy, was unfairly dis-
posed id.

A meeting of the Bolton power-loom weavers,
held yesterday, decided to adhere to their former reeolutias
sot to go to work under the standard prices. Apparently,
many el the weevers is that district are suffering from like
strike. At a meeting there was • complaint that the proper
annovat of saw had sot been famished to the Bolton
operatives on strike ; and though a draw has been
made on a general fluid, yet a collection was made
at the meeting, in order to relieve the most neesesitous of
the °parities' as strike. This is the report of our ear-
tempondest„ and it certainly exhibits a most pitiable state of
Waits. • " pv." will homily this week, but, as the mills
epee for welt as Thursday, it boa been determined to
reserve the " pay" till Friday, in order, as it was stated at
the meeting, to prevent the " weak-minded" from going to
work.

FIAI/17L AOLIDENT.—A MAN BAIL= TO Dwelt.
—An amides* of • shocking character, and by which a
man named John Rees met with a dreadful death, has oc-
curred at Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. In the neigh-
bourhood are some kilos for the meditators of lima,
at one of which the deceased, who was • steady,
well-conducted man, of between 30 and 40 years of eers,
was emmged, when be accidentally slipped through the
crust into the burning kiln. Hie cries brought help, and
strenuous efforts were made in the hope of extricating him
fro• the appalling situation in which be was, but unhip-
plly they proved unavailing, and the poor fellow was slowly
bust to death in the kiln. His charred and mutilated
body was ultimately got out, and information having been
forwarded to the eorooer for the district, George Overton,
Seq., that official at once issued his precept, and an inquest
Ira. held at the Root Ton, Aberdare. From the evidoe
adduced, it appeared that the death was entirely to be
attributed to an accidental cause, and the jury returned a
verdict to that effect. The deceased was much respected is
the circle in which he moved, and his terrible death has
caused quite • gloomy sensation in the neighbourhood.