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and prices had a downward tendeley. The only sales re-
ported were—Eastern Counties, 10 ;--.East Lancashire' 174
—..,Leeds, 80—Ditto, Fifths, 4,47 dl.—London and. North-
Western, 125—Midland, 72 South-Zaste.rn ind Dover, 2014
BIRMINGHAM, .illO. 7. •
Srocic ExmANGE —The share narket`, as been much
depressed during the past week. -ery li e business has
been transacted, and prices of ever:
c'esciiption of stock
dendA in ant'cipation have apparentlycreatati a
have greatly declined. Railway acelqrttli skd limikd divi-
it
share market. To-day there was a fnr/her 41. • Shrewsbury
and Birmingham (Class A), were dine at ?g— Ditto (L j,
614. Among, the closing quotatiocs weie.-.Birmingbani,.
Wolverhampuin, and Stour Valley, layers 0%, sellers'll)i3
—London and Nortli-Wee.tern, bayeis 125. sellers 126""-Mid..-
land,
buyers 7:1, sellers 74 Shrop4ire , --ion, sellers 21
dis.—South Staffordekire, buyers yaokllers dis.
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J lURNALS.
FRODI VAX NEOLNZIG pAriiitFOr VMS DAY'
TIMES.—The finding of the spseita jury in
thnothert, CEttie of " Griffith V. )3 L'tspinesbn and
r A," which oceupied the attention. of •ChLth
Justice • Jervis, and the- Chet .over which
he
presided at Guildford, for thee days-last week,
will be received with general satisfaction. When
stripped of all undue colouring, tie case resolves itself
into one of the simplest and most everyday nature. We
should not, indeed, have thought die subjhet deserving
even of the most cursory comment tut that, by some un-
fortuuate twist which 135€1333 '
, uthanpily, peculiar to the
times in which we live, h <,
Le i;nVekivgAtlOCinto a very
trumpery cause of action was considered unapt occasion
for a fresh .display of intolerance. Nowereally, it DP-
pears to us that, in the middle of the niketeenth century,
a little English charity girl may Oahe damsges for
neglect and ill-usage against the mistress of 'the esta-
blishment in which she was placed, wilficut any neces-
sity for carrying the bones of Greg.' v tthe Great or
Luther the Greater in rival processieni : ... t our Streets?.
It would bo sad indeed, and would constitute a most hu-
miliating accusation against our English courts of justice
if it could be supposed that, simultaneoady with the in-
vestigation of any disputed question betteen two English
subjects, there is to be an ancillary ingest into the reli-
gious opinions of the parties, and that the verdict is to
depend not upon the result of the first, bit of the second
inquiry. It is under these circumstance that the action
for damages at Guildford has assumet something of
undue proportion. Why was it that th court for three
days during which the trial lasted was crowded to a
point which is never witnessed except when a cause
celebre is under discussion? Simply becuse the specta-
tors supposed that their curiosity woul he gratified
with some awful disclosures as ht the tughness of the
Roman Catholic shinbones of beef, or with some ter-
rible revelations as to the thinness of th, Roman Catho-
lic beer which had been set before the young ladies at
the Convent of Our Lady at Norwood. They expected
a rich entertainment of winking picture--iron fetters—
and indecent catechisms. If such choiu subjects of in-
terest were not forthcoming their intginations were
quite ready to fill up the lacuna in thetvidence, and to
clear at one bound the distance that nuOtt separate the
court-house at Guildford from the dungons of the In-
quisition. Happily the jury took anchor view of the
duties of their position, and confined ttemselves solely
t 1 the merits of the case, and the evideice produced on
either side. It would, indeed, have beens disheartening
prospect for the future tranquillity of the empire if a
well-founded opinion should get abroad but the gamin's •
Roman Catholic subjects had _anything bat justice to
fear from the verdict of an English jay. Again and
again, and whenever an opportunity ma: offer, we shall
bold ourselves bound to urge it upon tie consideration
of all Protestant zealots who might be deposed to strain
the law against those of their fellow-subjets -who profess
another creed, that their own 'vantage paint lies in the
most rigidedherence to the law of thetand. By men
of more generous temperament and• mire enlightened
mind we are well aware that such an argument will be
spurned as unworthy, they will be just flr justice sake—
not out of mere policy and forethouget. We do not
write for them, but for those more fury spirits who
might be disposed to lose sight of every ulterior consi-
deration in the fanatical paroxysm of the moment. Let
them consider that there is but one effectvo arrow in all
their quivers when they would aim a shat at an aggres-
sive emissary of the Roman Propaganda and that arrow
is the law of England. Let them be healfal how they
fray its feathers or 'blunt its point. Caidinal Wiseman
would chuckle unctuously over the report of any trial
which had gone against his co.religioriste, from the
mere theological prejudices of an Engliah jury. We
will not venture to suggest the excess of deight into which
so great a blunder would throw the more Hibernian tem-
perament of Dr. Waal°, what bad Latin he would
quote, what saltatory performances he would execute
in conjunction with his chaplains, according to the
fashion of his country. Happily, however, we are saved
from such calamities. The Guildford verdict, backed, as'
it will be, by the full weight of public opinion, may
suffice to show our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects that
there is one thing for which Englishmen care more than
for a theological triumph, and that is—justice. They
must not, then, be surprised that, if on any future occa-
sion, it should turn ouG that members of their Chum?
priests or laymen—have violated the law, such offenders
are visited with the full penalties of that law, and with
the full measure of public indignation. For
bad, they will be dealt with as their Protestant 1
fellow-
subjects
subjects are dealt with--nothing better, anduug
worse. Now a few words on the case itself. The brothera, t
goo , ollrwo forlw .
of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar--as it would
appear from the summing-up oecetetieustioeJerrie—how
an illegitimate daughter, Henrietta Griffiths, who has now
attained the age of fifteen years. Cardinal Wiseman. aas
t
a friend of the parties, undertook to look after the 0211?,
and, finally, caused her to be placed at a nunnery in
i
as which children are educated, which is known '
" Convent of Our Lady of Norwood." Ts this establish-
ment the young lady boarders are required toloWetit
per annum, the orphan inmates; 121. The girl lin
rietta Griffiths, on her first appearance at the coven
the latter end of 1849, bore every appearance else,
strongly marked scrofulous habit. She vats,
placed on the orphanage class, and submitted .theto.t.
same regulations as the other girls similarly situated.
These regulations appear to us stern and harsh enough'
but for the purpose of this inquiry we are bound 1
~elc)were
strict ourselves to the one point-;-were theY --1
absolutely
they not so harsh and so strict as to be ab"
the
prejudicial to health ? On this point we havediaal
positive evidence of Dr. Chapman, . the e.
a... 0
attendant to the establishment, that in his bad
all the children at the Norwood Conroe,: d eo.
remarkably healthy—and that not one death " This
curred Ellice his connexion with the establishment' ?Air
is the general statement. With reference to the
culler case, we find that as soon as Henrietta Gn
.of 0111:.
supposed to be actually ill, she was at once , appose
the doctor's care, and ho had ne reason to - "Now,
that his recommendations were not attended to.
ifectly
the complaint was, that although it might be Ptlt3e phy-
ttue that the girl was placed at once under
aid to
eician's care, yet that his directions, with leeer,
treatment, were not obeyed. Dr, chapeau, hotc the
thought they were obeyed, and he had access
own.
child tie often as he might judge necessary. The scro-
plaint under which the child was labouring walk us to
fulous ophthalmia. It is really too much to ,ace the
believe that the superiors of the convent PAI attire. of
child under medical direction for the mere P esician
wantonly disobeying-whatsoever orders the Most the
might issue. One of -the great-points made B„gu she was
defendants was, that after seeing Dr. Chapman out that
placed under
constantly confined id- dark rooms. It turned be kept
the doctor, very properly, had ordered lien train uPnn
in darkened rooms for the sake of easing the atnishmeoe
the eye. The child mistook a remedy for ° Pt", with her
She was also allowed to go up to town, fel secondlY,
aunt—although not without difficulty—and'to the cons
in company with a priest bslongleg - us oeuli"
‘at, te teateelt Mr. Alexander, the fat superiors
Dr. Street, too, was called in by :oo toonstrolls
to advise upon the case. Altogether it is
ano direction,
in the face of such positive evidence, in r.c, charges to
to expect us to credit a parcel of trurn,Plel beer which
the effect that water had been mixed with the
ie which had
only now and then administered the P tiers of the same
cotters been prescribed
.for her, and other
was ordered for the child by the doctor:.
‘as not a favou-
sort. That the girl Henrietta.Griffithe ,n tb„vidence
rite is clear enough, but there is Cott ngated themselves
to show that the superiors had 0;7 They were most
with intentional cruelty or negl.eewtheir tavour which
certainly entitled to the verdict la he jure'. Stili, with
they obtained from the justice of 1 one strong point :in
that the nuns
all this, we cannot lose sight of the he the Mr. Montagu Chambers's caw. in hen sultile4d;Raseinli:
rietta Griffiths was at the Norsvootitte
the convent—and
and to such a degree that she lost
eyes. When she was removed
frshould be removed—
Mr. Alexander directed that she 9 -
b Any general
ezt •
she speedily recovered her etre- - of the convent in
charges against the ordinary dietary the
of one of her
bave broken down,
the case of healthy subjects may lotions • furnished
neesunte
but we cannot get over the r- • ticular is child,
ear
by the result in the instance of this r
that the discipline of this
sickly girl sash
right inhumanity when a wretched Had we been
as this Henrietta Griffiths is concerned.cuffed in their verdict
co
on the jury, we should have
notion be asked of 9,
without hesitation; but, if the (1.000
1 (we will talk of
" Did the superiors of this school anything like com-
"display
schools, not of nunneries)o towards this wretched
passion or warm womanly
,feeilti:be inestimable privilege
eblishtnent do wan-
right
who was day by day i°B"dmit that, from iall that
ca-
lamity of their pupil. Age'lld-
of sight?" we are compelled to aetoedly enough to the ea-
appears, they submitted uncon.et
.8
; 1 I evident' that fromlhe
which the orphan pupils
first Henrietta Griffiths shot heavy seallerymaid tasks
unfit parson to discharge "
th
expected to perform. She
more have been considered an
fitting thing to rouse such
was constantly on the doctor
attack or another. Was it a the morning,. and to keep
hands from one scrofulous
a child up at four o'clock
lows, until nine o'clock tit
her at work, either in thclificu
or the wsshingof the convent P
emit.the child to a punish-'
night? Was it right to
amounted`su
cultivation of, her own mind,
to the strictest form of
Still the superiors of
latent which virtually
at a time? We think not.
the.sileat system for
and any verdict, but
legally responsible for tire result,
been contrary to law and
wteheeksNorwood Convent sire net
the one delivered, would have
justice.
DAILY NEWS.— Tye --- Guildford Anizes have heart
which three days of the
r Norwood Nunnery ease—on