The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1864,

news had seen him a quarrelsome drunkard. Witness left
the house and White followed and laid hold of witness's
cloak. Witness had asked him over and over again for the
certificate of death, without which he could do nothing, and
be (witness) desired to get away from him, as he was not
really accountable—he was drunk. When White caught
hold of witness's cape he made a blow at witness, when the
latter, for his own protection, seized hold of his wrist. Next
day witness got the ticket (produced) from Dr Massingham,
certifying that Ann White required tea, sugar, and oat•
meal. Witness gave that nourishment at White's house,
He also got a certificate of death and he gave a coffin, and
the child was buried by the parish, Jane Collins brought
him the certificate.

Ann Bradshaw said that she lived with Wm, White, She
had three children-11, 6, and 2 years respectively. She
made and sold six gross of fish •baskets in Billingsgate
weekly. She paid 7s 6d for the materials for one gross and
sold the manufactured article at Os. That was not con-
stantly, however, as she could not get the stuff to make
them. The stuff was a fiat rush that came from India. The
trade was for about six months in the year. Mr Runcieman
came into witness's room about 1 o'clock. Her husband had
only laid down a few minutes before, and he was not asleep
or drunk. What Mr Runcieman said about his being a
drunken, quarrelsome man was not true, and she could
bring neighbours to contradict him, for they lived nine years
in the one house, Mr Runcieman did not knock, but came
right into the room. There was no dog in the room, but
there might have been one in the yard, and she heard one
barking there.
Cross-examined by Mr Pearce—White never kicked wit-
ness. No Bible lady nor any one else saw White drunk and
ill-using her. Wi:ness got beef about three or four times
(about each time) during the three weeks of her confine-
ment. She thought she ought to have got it Moller, or
when she got the bread, &c.
Mr Runcieman said he gave relief in kind on the recom-
mendation of Dr Massingham, although he said to the doc-
tor he thought it was not required. It was given for three
weeks, and then witness stopped it because he saw the
woman in a public-house. He reported the circumstance
to the guardians.
Ann Bradshaw said that was not true.
In answer to the Commissioner, Mr. Runcieman said that
she was not drunk, She was only taking a glass of beer,
The relief ceased by order of the guardians in consequence
of his repert.
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The book was put in, and it was stated in it that relief
was stopped because the woman was " not here."
Mr. Runcieman stated that he should have reported if he
saw the woman out. He did not mean to imply that there
was anything wrong in her going into the public-house, but
that she was quite well. The doctor had ceased to attend
her. She did not attend before the board, though she had
an order, and that alone wonld stop relief. He never used
bad language, or was unkind.
After other evidence,
The Commissioner said that reckless people like the Whites
hardly deserved relief.
The inquiry was then declared to be closed.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE " SPECTATOR?' ON THE DARKENING HORIZON.
Cue horizan is darkening fast. Almost every in-
cident recorded this week points to a rapidly ap-
proaching crisis, the outbreak of that European war
which we have for five months foretold as certain if
England shrank from her clear duty of enforcing
jastice as well as peace. Had we fulfilled the Pre-
mier's pledge, accepted the Swedish offer, and sent
ten regiments of the line to the Dannewerke as
proof thrt we were in earnest, there would have
been no war, and we should have dictated a compro-
mise which by doing justice at once to Denmark
and Germany would have removed all heartburn-
ings. The Ministry or the Court, whichever it was,
shrank from that just course, and now the nation
mast pay the penalty which always falls on those
who will not submit to injustice, yet are not prompt
to demand redress. The Conference after two post-
ponements met at last on the 29th of April, but as
we predicted the very first proposal was made an
excuse for delay. The Germans, forsooth, had no
idea that any one would ask for an armistice, no
instructions whether to accept or reject it, and
though the telegraphs are in order waited three
days more. When the instructions arrived it was
discovered that they covered a great deal too much,
that Prussia in particular was striving to dictate
terms as to a conquered foe, and the consequent re-
monstrances furnished one more excuse for another
appeal for fresh orders. Conference therefore stands
postponed to Monday next, by which time we doubt
not Count Bernstorff will have the gout, or Herr
von Beast will be recalled to arrange pressing Saxon
business, or Cunt Apponyi will feel it necessary to
inquire at Vienna what he is to do if
the Prussian should chance to disagree with him.
The game now visibly playing is one of delay,
delay intended to allow Prussia to occupy ail
Jutland, and Austria to send her fleet to the Baltic.
If the allies could but gain three clear weeks undis-
turbed, Jutland would be swept bare, Funen entered
by the Prussian army, and the Austrian fleet an-
chored off Copenhagen. Fortunately for Denmark
and Europe, however, there are limits to the for-
bearance even of the British Government. It is clear
amidst all the guarded official statements that this
last insult overcame the Foreign Secretary's pati•
ence, and that Vienna has been assured that if, in
spite of promises, the Austrian fleet quits the North
Sea the Austrian fleet will cease to exist. The
Aurora has been despatched to watch its progre,.s,
and a squadron ready for action lies waiting in the
D )wns. Austria, it seems probable, will on this
point give way to an irresistible mandate ; but the
collision has not tended to diminish the irritability
of diplomatists, or the inexplicable arrogance and
security which are expressed at Berlin. Tao official
journals of Prussia not only talk of the final absorp-
tion of Schleswiginto Germany, not only demand
compensation for all the expenses of a war of inva-
sion, but inform Germany that should the British
fleet sail the Prussian Envoys will be at once with-
drawn. Marshal von Wrangel not only permits his
soldiery to ravage Jutland, but has demanded a
" requisition" after the fashion of Napoleon 1.," the
first instalment" being £96,000, and transported
the municipalities which objected to the extortion.
The fortifications of it redericia are sentenced to
destruction, and in short the Prussians deal openly
with Denmark, upon which they have never declared
war, as a conquered country. The chatter about the
Prince of Augustenburg has entirely ceased, the
Prussian Chambers are silent and content with some
expected development, and if the signs visible on all
hands may be trusted, Herr von Bismark intends to
insist on terms which would make Holstein and
Schleswig and Jutltnd provinces of
Prussia. As-
sured as he thinks, that England will not inter-
fere,and prepared to defy France, he talks of the
"sacrifices made by the Monarchy" and the justice
of compensations as if already convinced that
Europe had sentenced Denmark. Arrogance of
this kind when manifested by the 111iniater of a
despotic State whose armies are in motion points
almost invariably to war. These are serious signs,
but more serious still is the change which is pass•
ing over English opinion. Parliament is, as is usual
before action, quiet to apathy, just as audiences sit
hushed when the music tells them the denouement
is at hand ; but there is a kind of low growl coming
up audibly fro every side. Tne country is wearied
out. Originally very apathetic, almost. unable to
understand the quarrel, and full of traditional be-
lief in German inertness, the English
people have
watched the incidents of the campaign,
the gallant
resistance made by men in whom they recognise
themselves, the needless slaughter for the sake of
military display, the cruel requisition s upon unre-
sisting farmers, the yet more cruel insults poured
upon men who died defending their own soil with
an ever-increasing indignation. Men sympathise
acutely whenever they can entirely understand the
suffering, and there is not a country gentleman in
like
Englandittt v
ahbuatvrne,a
thed b
s of
breaking
ing destruction
eparsonages, the
of homesteads
devastation of farms es like those of Lincolnshire
as if the people of Boston
foil' spoke Danish,. with
a sense of personal pain. That pain is the sharper
because it is felt at last that there runs through
all these acts a spirit of insult towards England
as well as Denmark, that this country is being
humiliated in the face of the world. 'Though too
proud to be n susceptible," unable even to
concei .re why Prussians
should resent a
monument recording a fair defeat, our countrymen
are not at heart delighted with others' scorn. A
in unmis-
takeable heard
feeling that it is almost time that words should give
place to action is spreading fast through the land,
and will very speedily make i
tones. The Cabinet, hampered bye hun-
dred difficulties of which Parliament never talks,
has waited for support, and now there is no course
of action, so be it decided, of
,which the country will
not approve. If France will join to secure the weak,
the alliance will be accepted with pleasure; but if
not, it is not from the Tuileries that England re-
ceives her orders, #inE,lly, the tone of the Danes
will, we suspect, accelerate the decision of states-
men. The politicians of Copenhagen seem at last
to perceive that a great Cause is in this world no
security against a great wrong, and are talking in
their despair of schemes as dangerous to Europe as
their annihilation would be. With Schleswig gone
and Jutland ravaged, the islands have scarcely a
political existence, and may as well reap the advan-
tages of their inevitable dependence. "We must,"
says M. Hall, through the Dagbladet," apply direct
to Berlins' and terms obtained from Berlin will in-
volve the permanent dependence of Denmark on the
great Power which grants it peace. Germany
rulingthe Baltic—that is a change which may not,
he dangerous, but which the older statesmen of
Eurepe, men like Lord Palmerston, who know that
unless the Baltic is free Russia iii supreme in the
North, and like Napoleon, who remember that
Sweden, is natty an arm of France, will undoubtedly
hold to be eo, With rulers alarmed and populations