Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

ENGLISHWOMEN IN INDIA.

A correspondent writing to the Daily News says
—I have read with much interest your article
touching upon the position of our unfortunate
countrywomen in the East; and I am sure all will
concur in the generous sentiments to which yon
have given expression. Our women and children
must undoubtedly claim, as they will assuredly
halve, every protection ; but if their presence un-
happily cripples the energies of those whose ser-
vices at this crisis are rquired for the defence—
perhaps the salvation—of an empire, I would ask,
sir, why do those in authority run the risk of
fsrther crippling their resources by allowing otficel s
to take out their wives and families under existing
circumstances? Surely, if there is any truth in
what you have said—and who that has had private
correspondence from India can doubt the correct-
ness of your statements ?—common sense would
suggest the issuing of strong recommendations, if
not stringent orders, that, for the present at least,
women and children should not be imported into
any of the Indian presidencies. lam led to these
remarks from having heard that officers and others
were about to proceed to India accompanied by
their wives and other female relatives."

NISI PRIUS COURT.
E,FORT. MP- BARON CHANNEL, AND A COMMON JURY.
HAIIGRAAVES V. THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—Tais case was resumed on the sitting of the Court
at 0 o'clock. For the defence medical testimony was
called to show that when the plaintiff agreed to accept £4O
as compensation, he was in a state of perfect consciousness.
On cross-examination De. Morton, one of the witnesses,
admitted that the plaintiff was not at the time in a fit state
I to transact busicess. Mr. Atherton here observed, that
I after that statement, he was perfectly willing to admit that
the accident in its results had proved mere serious than
Dr. Harrison aaticipated at the time he made the agree-
ment on behalf of the company with the plaintiff. He
(Mr. Atherton) was theref,re now prepared to agree to a
ierger amount of c empensation than £4O, if the imputation
which Mr. Menek in his opening statement had made
against Dr. Harrison were withdrawn. Mr. aionek, Q.C.,
said that he eseuld readily acknowledge that the company
would be no parties to such =duct, but he could not
withdraw his remarks on the part which Dr. Harrison had
taken in the matter, the case h eying fully warranted them.
Mr. Atherton declined to accept such an explanation, and
the case was proceeded with. Dr. Harrison was
examined. He said he r sided at Manchester, and was
medical officer to the London and North Western, The Courrier Franco-ltalien states that the remains of
the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the East Lancashire, a press which Gutteaburg used to draw off his first proufs
and the other Railway Companies in the Northern has been feund at Mentz. It bean the date of 1440.
districa He heard of the accident the day after Lew AND WITCHCRAFT.—One of the most melench-ly
it occurred, and he then proceeded to Heywood-Bridge. things connected with this delusion, was the fearful pact
He went to the public house with Mr. Smithells, the which children, by their falsehoods and fancies, bore in it.
manager of the company, and found a great number of An old Woman, named Jane Brooks, was executed because
persons there. He was introduced to the medical gentle- one Richard Jones, " a sprightly youth cf twelve," cried
men who had been attending the parties, and Dr. Morton out against her for having bewiished him, an: couterfeited
informed him that the plaintiffs thigh had been fractured. epileptic c mvulsions. E iz;beth Styles, the owner of the
He then went tie stairs, and had come
.eoneereation with Millar imp, was condemned chiefly on account of a girl of
the plaintiff. He asked him about his czeumstancae, and thirteen, aho played the part cf " possessed" to the life.
the plaintiff told him that his wages wore from las to 16e Julian Coxe was judicially murdered because—besides its
a week. He (witness) was told nothing about the nature being proved that she had been hunted when in the form
cf the fracture—that it was oblique, not transverse—and of a hare ; that she hal a toad for a familiar ; that she
he thought it probable th,t the plaintiff would be able to had been seen to fly out of her window; and that She
resume his employment in sixteen or seventeen weeks. could not repeat the Lord's Prayer—she had bewitched a
Ho saw no reason to suspect that there would be any young maid cf scrofulous tender.eies and nervous exc:ta-
shortening of the leg. He ha i come conversation with the bility, who woall have swill to the first falsehood that
plaintiff's wile, and he offered the plaintiff as compensation i p-esented itself to her imaginefon. And these are only
twelve months' wages—£40—to pity £lO to the medical three out of hundreds and thousands of instances where
gentlemen for their attendance, to defray the expenses at those miserable bfflicted children, as they were called,
the public-house; and all other expenses until he was fit swore away the lives of harmless and uaoffending people
to be removed to his home. His brother• and brother-in- Daring the long parliament alone, about three thousand
law were called in, and the offer repeated, and after some people were executed in England for witchcraft; about
hesitation it was accepted. The receipt produced was the thirty thousand were executed in all—blokests's " House-
4, common fox= of AgreeD2OZA" Which he (witness) hold Word's."