The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.

Dr. LETHEBY, the medical officer of the City,
laid before the Court the following report on the
sanatory condition of the City during the past

week :
' To the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers

of the City of London.

" Gentlemen,—The inspector's returns which are
before you relate to 195 houses that have been in-
spected during the week, and I submit a list of 56
places for sanatory improvement.

"The markets and slaughter-houses have been
duly inspected, and the officers have condemned
2,9671b5. of meat as unfit for human food. Most of
it was in a diseased condition.

" The mortality returns for the week are a little
above the average for the season, the number of
deaths having been 68, whereas the number for the
corresponding week of the last eight years is 66.
As the cold weather advances, the number of deaths
increases; in the preceding week the mortality in
the City was 57, and in the week before that it was
47. Daring the last three weeks there has been a
steady advance of 10 deaths over the number of the
week preceding. The chief causes of death have
been as follows :—Phthisis, 11; pneumonia, 2 ;
bronchitis, 17; mesenteric disease, 6 ; hydro-
cephalus, 2 ; croup, laryngitis, and diphtheria, 5;
continued fever, 1 ; scarlet fever, 1; and chronic
diseases, 39 ; making 19 deaths from tubercular dis-
eases, 19 from inflammatory affections of the lungs,
and 7 from diseases of a zymotic character.—l re-
main, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" Hr. LETHEBY.

" Ghildhall, Feb. 23, 1864."
Several reports upon matters of minor importance
were read, and the commissioners adjourned.

Another Irish Abduction Case,

The case of the pretty girl of Enniskillen, who
was wooed and won for, in the first place, her
money, and, in the second place, perhaps herself, is
not fated to be without a parallel in many of its
details. Strange and irregular marriages, like mis-
fortunes, don't come singly. Susanna Quinton, of
Enniskillen, got a lover and a husband because she
had £l,OOO. Susanna Bolton, of the county Wex-
ford, whose case we are about to narrate, got a
lover and a husband because her father had boasted
that £l,OOO would be her marriage portion. The
two Juliets are Protestants; the two Romeos Catho-
lics. In each case Romeo carried Juliet off, got
married irregularly and illegally, and is now in
the happy meshes of the law. Richard Bolton is a
well-to -do farmer in the county of Wexford. He
lives at Ballycarnew, on 200 acres of freehold. He
had a daughter, Susan, just turned 18, a pretty, dark
eyed lass, the pride of his heart. Latterly, Farmer
Bolton had been thinking on Susan's mattimonia
prospects, and it was well known in the village he
had expressed his intention of giving her the tidy
sum of £l,OOO with which to commence house-
keeping as soon as she found "a /over both gallant
and gay." About two miles and a half from Bal-
lycarnew lived Michael Kavanagh, a carpenter. He
came to the farm-house, saw Susan and conquered,
But he was a poor carpenter, and a Catholic besides,
and the stout farmer would not have him, and told
him so. The,carpenter, nothing daunted, continued
hishiss courtship. " None but the brave deserve the
fair," he thought, and it was possible that if he
could get his inamorata to Dublin their hearts could
be combined in one without much trouble, and in
spite of the obstinate old father. He laid. his plans
before Susan, but she, having a scrupulous regard
for her good name, rejected the proposal for a while,
She was not, however, filled with the stubborn
blood of h'er father. Michael's entreaties and her
own affections induced her to yield, and on the
19th of September last, when Ballycarnew was
wraped in slumber, the pair eloped for Dublin.
Such is the power of mighty love." Bat they
found in Dublin that they could not get married in
such en off-handed way as they thought. They
went to lodge with one Margaret Roache, in Hard-
wicke-phlcel and subsequently with John Collins,
cab proprietor, of No. 4. of Mountjoy-place. They
spent a month thus 11,2
• married' and it became neces-
saryllme • but Susan would
that they should go - ° '
not go until she was married. 1 le banns had been
forbidden at the registrar's, and nottLing could be
• •
done at the Consistory Court without paper. John
Collins volunteered to help them out of their ditty;
culty. He accompanied them to the Consistory
Court on the 131 h of October, and represented him-
self to be her legal natural father, "for the purpose
of obtaining a licence from the surrogate of the
arch-diocese of Dublin for the solemnisation of
marriage between Susanna Bolton and Michael
Kavanagh." He further said that his name was John
Bolton, and affixed his mark to a consent in writing,
authorising the marriage. Mary Anne Roache and
Michael Kavanagh were present, and helped the de-
ceit by making an affidavit that Collins was the
father of the girl. The ceremony took place shortly
afterwards, and all went merry for a while. But
trouble came before the honeymoon was long over.
Mr. Kavanagh wanted his spouse to go to mass with
him. She refused and disputes arose, in the course
of which the means taken to procure the marriage
came to light. Farmer Bolton communicated with
the authorities, and the result was that John Collins
and Mary Anne Roache were on Saturday morning
last placed in the dock at the Capel-street police-
office, before Mr: Stronge, charged with making a
false declaration to procure the marriage of Susanna
Bolton, otherwise Kavanagh. Mr. Kavanagh is now
"on his keeping," and can't be found. Mrs. Kava-
nagh made an affidavit setting forth the facts of the
case as above narrated.

Mr. John Martin appeared to prosecute; Mr.
Ennis appeared for Collins ; and Mr. John Norwood,
barrister, appeared for Roache.
Richard Bolton, father of the girl, deposed that
his daughter was a minor, having been born on the
17th January, 1846, and that he never, directly or
indirectly, gave his consent to her marriage, nor,was
he present at all.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ennis—Where did you
first see your daughter after her elopement ?—ln
Gorey, after she came from Dublin, about three
weeks afterwards. Kavanagh and she told me they
were married. They lived with his father. When I
heard of her elopement I went to old Kavanagh, and
asked him about my daughter. He told me she was
away with his son. I asked him where they had gone
to, and he would not tell me. I said, "If you do
not send her home, I will never give her a penny of
a fortune, and you may as well send her home." I
proceeded then to Dublin to make inquiries, and
remained there a day or so. That was 10 days after
they went away. I found out they were not mar-
ried, and also where they lived ; but they kept away
from the house, for old Pat Kavanagh came to Dub-
lin with me when he found out my intention, and
as he got to the housebefore me he took them away.
I then gave notice to the police.
Susan Bolton, otherwise Kavanagh, was also
examined. In answer to Mr. Ennis, she deposed
that she was a month in Dublin, all but a day or
two, before her marriage, and that during the
greater portion of that time the man Collins took
the greatest care of her, allowing her to sleep with
his wife.
Did you submit to any person, that for the sake
of your character you ought to get married before
you could go back to the country P—No.
Did it strike you that your character was com-
promised by being away with a young man that
way without being married to him ?—Yes, of course.
Did you say you could not return home unless
you were married ?-4 said it would be wrong—of
course it would be wrong.
'4 to assist you to get
You implored several pawn..