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London, England, 1864-02-03 00:00:00

THE StlN, LOINI)ON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1864.

they been able to observe in hinny of the peculiarities
which they are in the habit of remeing among the insane.
(Signed) W. CHARLES 00D, M.D., Visitor of
Chancery Latics.
JOHN CHARS BUCKNILL, M.D.,
Visitor of (incery Lunatics.
JOHN MEvE:M.D., Medical Super-
intendent the Criminal Lunatic
Asylum.

Iromminmedi
THE *J tNV•' ASION OF SCHLESWIG,

sensible. It is fine weather for marching and fight-
ing, and if the cold is sufficiently severe in Schleswig
l ..re om the Times Correspondent.) to freeze the water defences on which the Danes
HAMBURG, Jan. 31, greatly reckon, the moment would be favourable for
As is some' times the case on the eve of a struggle, the Germans. On this head I shall know more at
the nearer or ,e gets to its contemplated scene the Kiel.
more unanin lons becomes the opinion concerning it. The Crown Prince of Prussia passed through
In England. , judging from what I hear from travel- Hamburg this morning on his way to Marshal
lers recent'o, ; arrived thence, many still believe in Wrangel's head quarters. Prince Frederick of
the mainte r ance of peace; in Berlin, where the rea- Auguatenburg—or the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein,
eons are Metter understood that render this most as he is now invariably called in these parts—has
difficult, 1 lemons are still to be found who, although left Kiel for a few days' shooting on the estate of
they can hardly state plausible grounds for the hope Col. Buehwaldt, at Neundorf, about 20 miles from COURT °DIVORCE.
or fear, 5 et imagine that war may be averted. But that town. There are a good many people going (Before the Jge Ordinary.)
here, in Hamburg, at three hours' rail from the out shooting just now in that direction, and we may 'KA.NE ANTA.LMEILSTON (VISCOUNT).
AlitglioArghyth. this case did na pear in the list for the da
Eider, I have met with nobody who did not seem hear of some very big bags being made before many
it was understood the mattwouldP come on before his lord':
convinc ad that Denmark and Germany (so far days are over, You will probably have learnt by ship rose ; and the courwas therefore inconveniently
at least as Prussia and Austria represent the latter telegraph that the Danes have begun to retire from crowded during the whole the morning, both by members
country') are on the very verge of inevitable hosti- the Eider. For some days past it has not been ex- of the bar and by the'gcral public. The following affi-
lilies. It is hardly necessary to add that the petted that they would make a stand on this side davits, which had been ll at the last moment, and which
were
ieER referred to,
MAJESTY'S mayco hErteoriteepti
opiaioia is equally unanimous as to the side of the the Dannewerk. That is their stronghold, their
invgo.ace (sic) INE MATRl-
question on which the right is, and that one hears "quadrilateral," and they are not going to risk a Iu
lAL CAUSES.
on all sides, here and in Altona, the most fer- Solferino bfengaging superior forces in front of the "Between Timothy ;eph O'Kane, petitioner, and Mar-
vent wishes expressed for the speedy ejection of , good defensive position it affords. The universal garet Matilda Auga O'Kane, respondent, Henry John
the Danes from Schleswig. Anybody who came to opinion here seems to be, so far as I have had time Temple Viscount Imerston, co-respondent.
Hamburg to try to get at both sides of the question to ascertain it, that they certainly will fight. There
London, e I, Thscosi.jcWitoerl.iletk'o47,thMoordgate-street, in the City of
would make but a bootless journey. You may find is great irritation on both sides, and the conflict,
1. That I aro solicitor to the petitioner on the record ;
not a few persons among the very intelligent when once engaged, ought to be both fierce and that the particles required by the order of the co-respon-
inhabitants of this great and prosperous city who stubborn. The forcing of the Dannewerk seems dent on Nov. 11863, were immediately prepared and ready
will state the case temperately and in a moderate considered tantamount to the expulsion of the Danes for delivery,lavere delayed being filed solely because n-
and impartial spirit; but the result arrived at is from Schleswig. There is no position, lam as• gotiations fca settlement of the cause were soon after
invariably the same—the one inexorable condition sured, in rear of that line, of a nature to encourage commencedal which were only completed on Saturday,
,
of contentment is the absolute severance of the a defeated army to rally and defend it. Jan. 16, V and when my costs were paid.
" 2. VI am informed and verily believe the petitioner
Duchies from Denmark. As regards war, the mere The report, of the accuracy of which strong doubts and the pondent were married at a house in St. George's.
passage of such large bodies of troops through the were recently expressed to you from Berlin, of a in-theast, in the county of Middlesex, on the 2d day of
place suffices to inspire the belief that they will neighbourly convention between Denmark and Swe- Octal 1851, by a Catholic priest regularly ordained, and
hardly return without blows having been struck den, in virtue of whioh the Stockholm Government act' with full jurisdiction for celebrating the marriage
wall the
and that
and essential formalities of the Catholic
from a frontier where they will find themselves, so wouldsend troops to occupy Copenhagen and Zealand,
uanpdtot
about
toutht etyholivl9dthanotd. coooletaobbietred
Itolethoner
daswmearne
to speak, foot to foot with the foe. But, apart from so as to allow all the Danish army to be sent to the 14 rd
wife i i ,
the impression made by the martial display and by front, has been received since I wrote. Information_
mown and respected as such by good society.
the arrival of an army from Germany's southern- I have obtained here induces me to renew the e "3. That it is wholly untrue that the petition was pre-
most State to array itself on her most northern pression of my disbelief in its correctness, Reit sented and filed and served for the purpose of ex-
frontier, every probability seems in favour of a fight, letters from Gottenbnrg declare it wholly did of tortion, and that, according to my instructions, and to
the bestd of my knowledgeh and bedlief, the petitioner had
always supposing the general conviction correct foundation. A Dane lately told me thate and
ofa gmoyo caseow i.udp:onotnde
hmeelireifts,naonfaotthoerine aorxeisttoontohee
from
that the Danes will not quit Schleswig, except at many of his countrymen would extremel'egret to
the bayonet's point. The time appears, indeed, corn- see Swedish troops occupying their vital, and
which the said Charles Horsley could believe as he has
pletely past for the discussion of the legal or di lo- that feeling is doubtless to be taken 'connexion sworn in the last paragraph of his affidavit filed in this
roatic question. It may return soon, let us hope, with the designs of the Scandinaviaearty. Yon motion.
and be more successfully employed, but just now remember the reports current just zer the death "4. That I have been instructed to stay all proceedings
the voice of the cannon seems about temporarily to of Frederick VII., and when it wasabted whether in this suit by a letter received from my client, the petitioner,
replace all other arguments pro and con. The re. Christian IX. would sanction st unlucky joint of which the following is a true copy :
spective theories of Russell and of Bismark on the Constitution,—rumours with iich the name of " 47, Moorgate-street, City, Jan. 16, 1864.
" MYSELF V. PALMERSTON AND O'KANE
Treaty of 1852, its value, the pretensions of Au us- Prince Oscar of Sweden were .inected. They may
" Dear Sir,—Yielding to the advice of m friend's, I have
tenburg, &c., fall into the background for the mo- think at Copenhagen that it bad enough to have
decided to drop the above suit; and I herebyy instruct you
meat, in presence of the conflict about to commence Schleswig overrun by Geras, without risking the to stay all further proceedings. I adopt this course solely
.—which must commence, apparently, barring the proclamation of a Swat Sovereign in Zealand. for the sake of my young children, and not from any inabi-
intervention of something not unlike a miracle. We Without impeaching . good faith of the Swedish lity to establish the allegations contained in my petition, or
are told of a strong note sent by our Government Government, there a party in Denmark itself t... 0 prosecute the suit to a successful conclusion, as the letters
oeffseurbedm;idmatofyaou,eie eanvedrytheroobtahbeirliteviodfenueoccleasisd beoforen tyhou,
two or three days ago to that of Prussia. It will which might endfour to profit by an opportunity.
be of no avail. The Germans do not believe that And the povertof Sweden might make her hesi-
letters and correspondence', fortifiedyby the opinion of counese
-
England will fight in a quarrel which does not more tate before thucpense of despatching an army sel, you undertook the suit by my instructions, and I feel
directly affect her interests or touch her honour abroad, (trot with the certainty of advantages to perfectly satisfied with your professional conduct as well as
than this about the Duchies. They greatly doubt be gaineor at least of compensation. that of your managing clerk, Mr, Weston, who were not
that her respect for the Treaty of 1852, and her P.c-Since the above was written I find that the deterred from undertaking the just cause by the frantic howl
conviction of the importance of preserving Schles- wh of the Austro-Prussian forces will not have
of a venial and corrupt press—the cause of right against
hygiethee of mto h set
Lemon pdh oantioend coot trhae diction to
that
wig from being trampled by a German army will erred Holstein before Tuesday night at soonest.
papers
an asisgehr ttio nI
hra aeL to
svo m
induce her to send troops to Denmark, and to risk '3 last of the Austrians are here, completing about I was in the employment of either of you—my own resources
detriment to her trade and increase of her income- 000 men. Twenty-eight to thirty thousand and those of my friends having enabled me to live indepen-
tax. We hear reports of a contemplated expedition amine have passed here and at Lubeck. Some dent of such aid. I was lawfully married to my wife, the
of 20,000 or 25,000 British troops, bat such a force ifantry of the Prussian Guard and some other respondent in this snit, by a Catholic priest regularly or-
would not suffice in addition to the little army oaattalions have still to come, and will be followed dained, and acting with full jurisdiction, and celebrating
by the heavy artillery. The head-quarters of the the
CmarhrialFe whithhall tiheh.rites , and essential formalities of
Austrians are at Nordtorf, and of the Prussians at uecodurthavAe
sbeteonthsaatilsto
g
factiorily
proved t had the u
casee gone into acts
te
te
Bordesholm. Should the Danes be dislodged from of adultery the correspondence and other evidence would
the Dannewerk, the next position they could take leave no doubt had the case gone before a jury. —I am,
up is at Ban, by Flensburg, whence their retreat yours truly, (Signed) "T. J. O'Keens.
would be to the island of Alsen, opposite to which "Mr. Thomas Wells, solicitor, 47, Moorgate-st,, City.
the Germans would have to leave a strong force to ', Sworn at No. 19, Coleman-street, in the City of London,
this Ist day of February, 1864, before
keep them in check while the main body advanced me,
~ PHILIP SMITH COX."
into the north of Schleswig. The Alsen Sound, On the same day Mr. Horsley made the following affidavit :
between that island and the mainland, is very nar- "I, Charles Horsley, of No. 2, Staples-inn, solicitor for
row, bat extremely deep, allowing the passage of the respondent, make oath and say—
large ships of war. "1. That I was on the morning of the 27th day of Ja-
nuary last (the day after the rule nisi for the dismissal of
this petition was obtained) served with a notice from Mr.
Thomas Wells, the petitioner's solicitor, stating that this
suit had been compromised.
" 2. I thereupon, on the saidiflth day of Jan., wrote and
sent to Mr. Wells a letter, of which the following is a true
copy :

W. HELPsd.D., Medical Superin-
tendent oho Royal Bethlem Hos-
pital.

LAW INTELLICNCE,---(Feb. 2,)

Denmark, and, moreover, supposing that it won'
it cannot arrive in time. If it comes of conm
must be to fight ; as a mere garrison for Copenl,,,n
and the islands it is not required. A Britisl- aa-
dron in the Baltic, say some, a rigorous binge of
all the German ports, would soon brir.em to
reason. It might do so ultimately. it it will
hardly stay the advance of 70,000 P;;Anstrians
.who, before a week is out, will be .ged along the
Eider. In short, the feeling .g the Germans
seems to be that if Englar anything, it may
have influence on the pry ss or close of the war,
but it will not preve., -.. beginning. The only
thing that might, e ~.übably would, even at the
point to which
‘gs' • have come, make the two
great Germaz Jicr ers to hesitate, and perhaps to
recedo, ..ttcided declaration on the part of
Frar,
sipoubtless, that would have a great effect,
ea ,;illy on Austria. France, however, it seems

TOWNLEY DECLARED SANE.

" ' 2, Staples Inn, Jan. 27, 1864
" ' O.RANE DIVORCE PETITION.

erally believed, will do nothing of the sort, but
will maintain her independent attitude, sulking over
the rejected Congress, and will let the cannon speak
before uplifting her own voice. Whatever she as
yet has done in slpport of British urgency has
evidently been too light to have weight at Berlin
and Vienna.

" Sir,—ln consequenca of the receipt this moment of a
notice from you, 'that this suit having been compromised
(and of which you must be fully aware) I am instructed by
the petitioner to withdraw from it, as his solicitor, and
therefore refuse and decline to receive any more notices or
letters from you in it.' I beg at once to inform you, that
neither directly nor indirectly Lave I heard a syllable of
the suit (by which I presume you meant the petition for a
divorce) having been compromised. And I further beg to
inquire from you when, where, or by whom it was, as you
allege, so compromised. Unless you prove to me that the
petition has beeu compromised by the respondent, I shall
on Tuesday nest proceed exactly as if your notice had not
been received. And I beg further to give you notice that
I shall use this letter in evidence before the court.—Yours,
acc,, CHARLES HORSLEY, solicitor for the respondent.'
" 'To Mr. Thos. Wells, solicitor to the petitioner, 47,
Moorgate-street, City.'
"3. No answer of any kind has been returned by.the said
Mr. Thomas Wells to my said letter.

It was fully expected that the summons to the
Danes to evacuate Schleswig would have been de-
spatched before the end of the month now expiring,
bat the bringing up of the troops has taken rather
more time than was calculated upon, and this is the
cause of the delay. Through Hamburg and Lubeck
the armed tide has flowed in two concurrent streams.
Austrians are still passing through this city, but it
is believed the last will leave to-day. One sees
them in the streets and sauntering on the broad
walks of the Jungfernstieg, in white coats and gray,
infantry, cavalry, and artillery, some with the queer
melon-shaped caps which the French laugh at, Eome
in the tight blue pantaloons of the Hungarian regi-
ments ; and many are the tongues in which they
discurse.

" 4. Up to this time no further step has been taken by,
or on behalf of, the petitioner in the prosecution of the said
petition, as I have ascertained by inquiry at the proper
office of this honourable court on making this my affidavit.

"5. Upon inquiry of the solicitors of the co-respon-
dent on the 30th of January last, whether they had heard
or knew of any compromise of the said petition by or on be-
half of their client, I was assured that no such compromise
was known to or had been heard of by them on the part of
the co-respondent.

A train full of Italian cavalry or artillery went by
on Friday at a station at which I found myself. We
are accustomed to hear of the French in a good many
places—sometimes, as at Rome, in places where they
have no business to be, or, as in Mexico, in places
whither they rather wish they had not gone—but
really, when we look back on the last eight or ten
years, it seems as if the Austrians were still more
übiquitous, at least as far as Europe is concerned.
One meets them quite as old acquaintances. Here
are the same uniforms and some of the very same
faces which I saw, only the other day it seems, living
in fat and almost free quarters in Wallachia, and
lording it over the malcontent Italians in Lombardy.
Gladly would they have remained in both places;
but though expelled thence, in one case by a peace
and in the ether by a war, we still find them pretty
widely spread from the Danube to the Rhine, and
down to that Mincio which their brave columns
crossed, after a reverse which was no disgrace,
on the bloody evening of Solferino. And now, here
we have them on the Elbe, bound northwards to
the Eider, a fine army, although of many races and
a very Babel of tongues. In Holstein they go east-
wards, and the Prussians west, Rendsburg being
the point where the armies touch each other. Neu-
munster and Kiel are the chief Prussian places of ren-
dezvous; but it is presumable that the former will
only be a place of passage, as the whole army is to be
echeloned along the Eider. According to information
on which I have reason to rely, the combined army
numbers 68,000 men. Besides these there are the
12,000 Saxons and Hanoverians, but it is, of course,
a question now far the co-operation is to be reckoned
upon. The Austria-Prussians have a superabundance
of cavalry, which racy be said to diminish their ap•
parent strength, since in an attack on the Danne-
werk it would be of comperativei_
y little use, the
work there being for infantry and artillery. As re-
gards the strength of the Danish army in Southern
Schleswig, an excellent authority in Hamburg yes-
terday told me it was from 55,000 to 40,000 ; an
equally good one in Altona stated it is certainly not
exceeding 30,000. So we may take it as from
30,000 to 35,000 at the outside. The whole Danish
army is not more than 50,000, and we must allow
for troops in garrisons out of Schleswig and for the
bAttalions of Holateiners and Schleswigers which
luso been weaketf2d by desertions, or which it is
Beamed unsafe to bring to the front. Some Scbles-
v,.gers are quartered in the Island of Alsen—not
utoile, but mingled with troops on whoms Schleswig
re-
liance can be placed. In the town
of
ac-
cording to very recent intelligencetheerehwesewreigl,ooo
I„en. The great length of the Diannewerk and of
the lake in connection with it, renders a large force
ficcessary for its defence. The state of the weather
„Hi make a great difference in the prospects of both
parties. Thursday was a pouring day in Hamburg,
'mit at night a keen wind sprung up from the north,
and before morning everything was ironbound with
frost, and the cold was very severe all Friday. yes-
terday was bright and sunny, and there were some
indications of a thaw, but the frost held to a con-
siderable extent; there was skating in the warmest
part of the day, and last night it again froze,
although the absence of winl mi.kes the cold h:13,3

"6, No compromise of this petition, direct or indirect, has
emanated from, been sanctioned by, or known to me, as so-
licitor to the respondent ; and I am informed by the respon-
dent, and verily believe, that no such compromise has been
suggested, sanctioned, or heard of by her, and that no per-
son has seen her upon the subject of a compromise thereof.
—CHARLES HORSLEY."

Mr. D. Seymour, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Joyce), on
behalf of the respondent, moved to make the rule to dismiss
the petition absolute.
Sir J. Wilde—The case is not in the list.
Mr. G. Browne—l appear on behalf of the petitioner.
Sir J. Wilde—But is the co-respondent represented ?
The Queen's Advocate—Yes, my lord, by myself. We
have not received any formal notice of this proceeding; but
if the motion goes on I will appear for Lord Palmerston;
and will offer no technical objection on the ground of want
of notice.

Mr. Browne—ln this case my friend Mr. Seymour has
kindly shown me the affidavit which has been made by his
client. The facts therein stated as to the filing of the peti-
tion, and the order for particulars are perfect:), correct. On
Saturday last the rule was served upon Mr. Wells ; and
yesterday Mr. Wells filed an affidavit, to which is appended
a letter. To that letter I shall allude but very briefly. In
the first paragraph of his affidavit, Mr. Wells says. [The
learned gentleman here read the paragraph.] There is here
no statement that the settlement has been made either with
the respondent or the co-respondent. There is indeed no
law that I know of which would prevent a petitioner from
settling with the parties whom he alleges to have done him
wrong. The law itself prescribes a pecuniary remedy for
this evil. There is, therefore, no reason why a petitioner
should not make a settlement with those who have wronged
him. It is true the law is against a collusion to carry on a
suit; hut there is no reason why a settlement should not
be come to. In this case, however, it is not so. There is
no imputation on the noble co-respondent or on the lady,
that either of them knew of the settlement. The second
paragraph of the affidavit is as follows :—[This the learned
counsel also read.] It is well known that the Roman
Catholic church has always looked with peculiar disfavour—
The Queen's Advocate—l have not seen any of these
affidavits. I was anxious on the part of the co-respondent
that the ease should have been disposed of, but really the
learned counsel seems to be going into some statement re-
specting Roman Catholic marriages which has nothing to
do, with the matter before the court. '

Sir J. Wilde—The case not having been brought before
the court at the proper time, I should certainly not have
entertained the application, the less so as, having read the
affidavits, I saw in them things which it might he important
for the co-respondent to have an opportunity of answering.
As therefore the Queen's Advocate says he has not received
them, I shall at once put an end to this motion. Until the
learned counsel has read them he will not be in a position to
exercise a reasonable discretion as to whether he should let
the matter proceed or not.

The Queen's Advocate—l understood that the question
was merely cue of whether cortains directions of the court
had been complied with.

Sir J. Wilde—That is the only question which is properly
before tho court.

The Queen's Advocate—Understanding that to be the
limited issue before the court, I was ready, and I still am
ready, on the part of the co-respondent, though not formally
cited here, to allow the matter to go on, in order that there
might be no further procrastination is disposing of the suit.
If other matters are to be gone into, of course I shoujd re-
quire time to consider there.

Mr. Browne—l have stated that there is no imputation
upon the co-respondent that he is cognisant of the arrange-

SirJ.Wilde—This matter may be dealt witb.hadopendently

of any affidavits. If the learned counsel is prepared to go
on without them, there is no reason why he should not do
so. But if these affidavits are to be brought in, and irrele-
vant matters dragged before the court, the Queen's Advo-
cate ought to have an opportunity of reading them and
seeing whether his client should make any answer ?
The Queen's Advocate—l hope, after that intimation
from the court, the learned counsel will at once throw away
these irrelevant matters, and will allow the case to proceed.
Mr. Seymour—l am not aware that the affidavit of Mr.
Horsley contains any irrelevant matter ; and I hope the
court will allow me to refer to it.

The Judge—l won't allow the motion to proceed in this
half-and-half sort of way. The learned counsel must Like
one line or the other, If he likes he may abandon the affi-
davits; or, if not, ho must allow the Queen's Advocate
time to read them.

Mr. Browne—Then, my lord, I will adopt the latter
alternative.

The case then stood over till Thursday neat.

The Poor-Law Board and Bethnal-green.
The Charges against Dr, Moore.

husband had gone errands for Dr. Moore, perhaps every day.
Mr. Giffard—Did you think you were persecuted by the
board of guardians?
Witness—l did not think I was well uaed by them, or
properly dealt with, and therefore, that was persecution.
(Laughter.) She did not like an inquest to be held on her
child. No one asked her to prove anything for Dr. Moore•
The next case was that of Mrs. North, and involved the
alleged withholding of midwifery fees, but an incidental dis-
cussion arose as to the handwriting of a letter containing an
offer to Mrs. North to make her midwife in a local lying-in
hobpital provided she could get Dr. Moore to be her surety.
The letter was dated Nov. 11, 1863, and signed Mary Chal-
loner. Mr. F. Netherclift was examined on the point, and
ultimately the inquiry was adjourned.

OFFICIAL INQUIRY.
Yesterday morning Mr. Lambert, Inspector of the Poor-
law Board, opened an inquiry at the Workhouse, Victoria

SINGULAR AFFAIR AT STONE.

_._...._k.__}..Y_.a.,...

(From the Birmingham Pose.)

A good deal of excitement has been produced in Stone by
a somewhat mysterious discovery which was made a few
days ago. In a street leading out of the Own resides a
member of the medical profession, with his wife and family
and in the same house has lived for many years a maiden
sister of the wife's. It was known that this lady had lived
here and had not been known to leave, and the neighbours
sometimes wondered why she was never about, as she had
not been seen out of the house for 11 years. It does not,
however, seem to have occurred to any one that she might
be improperly confined until the recent discovery of a man
confined for years by his brother in Cornwall became
known, when the concealment of this lady began to be
talked about, and several persons appear to have formed the
impression that she might be in a similar position. This
conjecture ultimately led to an application to the magis.
trates for a warrant to investigate the circumstances, and a
few days ago two magistrates of the neighbourhood and
some police officers entered the house for that purpose.
They found the lady in a frontjupper room, sitting on a
straw mattress, her limbs drawn close together, and her
body leaning forward on them, with but little covering on
her, and looking as if she had been indifferently fed. The
room had all the appearance of a room which had not been
entered for a dozen years, It was covered with dust, dirt,
and cobwebs. Under the bedstead and even on the bed (or
rather mattress) were piles of dirty plates, altogether about
40, on which the occupant of the room had had her meals
served, and on which were bones, some of them yellow with
age. She held a bone, which had been polished by licking,
tightly gripped in her hand, and was with difficulty in-
duced to let it go. The mattress was dirty, and also were
the scanty bedclothes. A sheet, which had not been in the
washtub for a long time, partially covered her, and in the
corner of the bed was a dingy blanket, moth-eaten, and
appearing to have lain there unused for many months. The
person of the occupant of the bed was very neglected, and
showed that her ablutions had been rare and not recent.
Her hair was matted, and a compact mass of it partially
covered her face. Her toe nails had remained uncut so long
as to be quite a curiosity in their way. They had grown
to a length of about three inches, and were curled some-
thing in the form of a corkscrew, with sharp points. It is
said that the only way of reducing them to their proper
proportions will be by sawing them. The finger nails were
net so bad, the lady, no doubt, having kept them short by
biting them.
It is stated that the unfortunate woman has bean
confined to this room for 10 or 11 years; hut there are per-
sons who have seen her within a much more recent period,

Park, Bethnal-green, into certain charges preferred by the
Board of Guardians against Dr. Edward Moore, medical

officer of the first division of Bethnal-green.
Mr. Hardinge Giffard, instructed by Mr. Howard, ap-
peared for the Board of Guradians ; and Mr. Sleigh, in-
structed by Mr. W. Venn, conducted the defence.
The charges in question, it will be remembered, were pre-
ferred against Dr. Moore immediately following certain in-

quests which were held consequent on great and unaccount-
able mortality in Hollybush-place and the neighbourhood,
and which was subsequently proved by scientific evidence
to have arisen from malaria, from bad drainage, and general

neglect. The local administration at the time denounced
Dr. Moore for having caused the inquests to be held, and the
board of guardians preferred the following formal charges
against him, which are made the subject of inquiry :--].
Neglecting his patients. 2. Making extraordinary claims
for vaccination fees, and extra fees as medical officer. 3.
Determined opposition to, and the public slander of the
board in the newspapers. 4. Getting up unnecessary in-
quests, for the purpcsa of degrading the parish and bring-
ing contempt on the poor law system by public appeals to
the benevoleut. 5. Neglecting and refusing to keep his

books as ordered by the Poor Law Board.
The guardians directed the relieving officers to give their

assistance in getting up evidence to sustain these charges
The first charge investigated was that of neglect o,

patients.
Elizabeth Mandrel), of Hollybush-place, examined by
Mr. Giffard, deposed that she was a married woman. About
12 months ago she was taken ill, and she procured a medi-
cal order, which in due course was delivered to Dr. Moe.
He attended, and said that she was suffering from slow
fever, and required nourishment. He did not attend again
for ten days. When he called then, he said, " You are very
bed." She replied, "You have neglected me in not coming
for ten days." He replied, "The money lam paid does not
pay me to see paupers every day." He told her she should
keep herself warm, and have nourishment. She did not see
him again for three days. He then told her that if she re-
quired medicine she should send to his house for it. She
sent her husband for some, and she was n ever attended
by Dr. Moore after. She was ill for some weeks after that.
In August last, her son, James Mandrell, aged six years,
fell ill. She got a medical order at ten o'clock, and gave it
to Dr. Moore, who called at three o'clock. He told her to
come for medicine at five o'clock. She did so, and got it.

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He did not come too him the next day. She thoumhi

her son was dying, and she went to Dr. Moore's house,
half a mile off, between three and four o'clock. She asked
him to see her son, as he was dying. He said, "No ; not
to-day." 'Witness said, " Sir, my little boy is that deli-
rious I cannot keep him in bed." He said, " I cannot
keep him in bed for you," She asked for an order to admit
the boy into the house, as he (Dr. Moore) said the was not
in danger. He gave her the order to have the boy taken
into the workhouse. She did not bring the child, because
she believed the child would have died on the road. She
went to Dr. Drolherton, who said he could not go unless he
was paid. She paid him, and the child died the same even-
ing at eight o'clock. Soon after that her son Joseph be-
came ill, and on the 15th August she got an order for Dr.
Moore to attend. He came at three o'clock, and he said that
her son was very bad, and he directed her to give him
nourishment and to keep him out in the pure air. Dr.
Moore came three or four days after. An interval of three
days again elapsed, and Dr, Moore refused to give any me-
dicine for the child. He called next day, and said the child
was very bad, and said she should not have taken him
downstairs, but across the Park in the pure air, He told
her the child was in no danger. Ho left no medicine,but he
told her to come for it. The child died next day.
Cross-examined. She had lived there 15 years. She had
lost two children there ten years ago. Dr. Moore had not

told her to abstain from drink. She did not drink. He did
not complain of the filthy state of the children, but he did
of the walls of the house. She followed his advice, and went
out into the pure air. He did not tell witness to call over to
him for her medicine, as the walk round would do her good.
She did not send for Dr. Moore during the ten days she
was ill—it was his business to come to her. The blame was
on his shoulders. Witness never said to him, " You are
well paid, and I shall have you whenever I want you." It
was on a subsequent occasion that the doctor said ho was

not paid to visit patients who were able to come to him

themselves. Witness made a complaint to Mr. Christey,
the relieving officer, of Dr. Moore's conduct. My hus-

band was present at the time. Dr. Moore did not say
" the state of tho atmosphere in this place (Hollybush-
place) is so bad that it is impossible for your son to have a

:air chance of recovery if he stays here.

and in the opinion of those who are likely to be acquainted
with all the circumstances she has not been confined for
more than about two years. The strangest part of this
strange story is that the lady herself is said to have chosen
her retreat, end those who know her peculiarities are dis-
posed to place some amount of credence in her story. She
appears to be about 48 years of age, and to have been all her
life known by her relations as a person of queer disposition,
and exceedingly unsociable and reserved, and is said to have
been crossed in love in her younger days. She had a strong
objection, it is stated, to the marriage of her sister with the
gentleman in whose house she had been living, and has
always shown a great aversion to him. While the many
eccentricities of character she seems to have passed may in
some measure account for her seclusion, and go to indicate
that is was self-chosen, there appears to be no doubt that
she was much neglected, and allowed to remain in a state
which was scarcely that of a civilised human being. Al-
though those whose duty it was to look after her cannot be
made amenable to law for their neglect, it is satisfactory to
learn that the exposure which has taken place will have the
effect of rendering her condition much more comfortable
than it has been. She has been removed from her prison,
cleaned and comfortably clothed, and is we learn now being
carefully attended to. It has been suggested that she is
insane, but_that does not appear to be the case. An inquiry
into that matter, however, will probably be made. It is re-
ported that she possesses some little property in conjunetien
with her brother-in-law.

You had better

send him into the house, where he will have good air and
nourishment." It was witness who first asked for the order
for the house, and Dr. Moore at first refused to give it.
When she went for Dr. Moore on behalf of her second son
she did not tell him the first was dead, though he was only
buried a few days. Witness did net take the second child
out in the air ; she could not carry him. He was 31 years
old. Her daughter could not, for she was a cripple. Dr.
Moore did caution her to keep the child away from the drains
and filthy gutters in the yard. He told her to take him into
the Park, She could get a perambulator, but he did not say
that to bring the child for the medicine near the Park would
do him good. The day before the child (J oseph) died, Dr.
Moore complained that she had let the child stand over a
drain, She was in the act of running upstairs with the child
when the doctor called out, " Stop ; there is no use in your
running ; I see you." Ho said then that she need not be
surprised if the child got a fit. She did not recollect that he
had cautioned her about the child being in the yard previ-
ously. It was about a month, or a few weeks before Christ-
mas that she made the present statement. She made her
statement as to what she could prove against Dr. Moore in
the workhouse. She had had a letter sent her. She had not
seen Mr. Christey long before she got the letter. She would
not swear that she bad not seen him after the death of her
children, and just before the letter was sent her. She would
not swear that no one had called on her about the matter
before she got the letter.
By Mr. Giffard—Witness had made a complaint to Mr.
Cbristey, who said something to her, and in consequence of
that she came before the Board of Guardians and made a
statement.
Mr. Giffard put in the medical relief book, and pointed out
that Dr. Moore was entered as having called on Joseph
Mandrell on the 23d August and then on the 25th. There
was no visit in the interval.
Mr. Brotherton, M.R.C.S., 287, Bethnal-green-road. said
that he was called to a child of the Mandrel's' in August
last that was dying of scarlatina maligns. The child was
not in a fit state for removal. He did not remember whether
Mrs. Mandrell complained of Dr. Moore; but if she had he
would not have minded it much, as persons of that class
made complaints against medical officers so frequently and
without grounds.. .Witness had been called in to the child
three days before. The mother was excited and crying the
night she last called him in.
By Mr. Sleigh—lt would be proper and scientific treat•
ment in such a case to order pure air and nourishment. He
did not consider the ventilation of Hollybush-place was
worse than that of other snail houses.
By Mr. Giffard —There was nothing peculiar about Holly-
bush-place excepting the cow-shed. He had fever patients
there himself, and they recovered. The Mandrells were ex-
cessively dirty in their habits.
Mr. C. A. Christey said that he was relieving officer in
Bettmal-green, and he remembered Mrs. Mandrell apply-
ing for medical orders for her son James on the 23d July,
1863, and for Joseph on the 15th August following. She
made a complaint at the time of the death of James against
Dr. Moore.
By Mr. Sleigh—She never made more than ono complaint.
In the inquiry into witness's own conduct, held at the close
of last year, Dr. Moore was examined as a witness in the
matter. Witness did not know that the inquiry was caused by
a complaint made by Dr. Moore. Witness know that Mrs.
Mandrell was coming to prefer a charge against Dr. Moore.
By Mr. Giffard—He knew that she had complained, and
ho knew she was coming, as ho was asked by the guardians
for her address. Witness did not make a statement to the
guardians before he was asked for her address.
Ellen Ward, 4, Lark-row,Cambridge- heath, was examined
by Mr. Sleigh. She said that last year she had lived at
No, 10, Hollybush-place. The Mandrells' house and wit-
ness's were originially one. A slight partition rind a fastened
up door separated Mrs. Mandrell's room from hers, and she
could hear everything that passed in the next room. On
the day before the death of Joseph she obsorvvd the child
standing over a sink in the yard. Mrs. Mandrell had
been in and out several times. Suddenly she caught up the
child, when Dr. Moore appeared, and said, "Step, stop;
don't give me the trouble to go upstairs. I told you not to
let the child down in the yard. This is how doctors got
blamed." Ho spoke to her for a minute or two. After the
doctor left, witness saw the child at the water-butt in the
yard. That was the 20th of August.
By Mr. Giffard—One child of witness's died in Sept,, and
she was examined before the board the next week. Dr. Moore
had got money for her, perhaps £7 or £B. There was an in-
quest on her child. Dr. 1%200re never said "You and your
husbalill am greatly persecuted by the board of guardians."
She had not applied for relief from the relieving Moore. MT