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London, England, 1863-03-16 00:00:00

and, as I have before:said, Griffiths the Lafitte. We .
hRd no skulkinti lihSt he misfired, hut the meat en- I
tertaining arid liberal one alike.; There is a geni,i°
tone about this sketch that tells at once or its truth,
and it would be difficult to give any man a better
character. We ourselves have not attempted to blot
but the earlier chapters in Mr. Gully's eventful life,
feeling as we do that they only add point and force
to the effect of his subsequent career. His position
at every turn and phase of fortune was still a try-
ine, one, but no man more fairly earned the respect
he gained. There is a very moral of good manners
in such a man's history.

Improved Dwellings for the Industrial
Classes.

On Saturday a number of noblemen and gentle-
men were invited by Mr. Alderman Waterlow to
inspect his first block of improved dwellings for the
industrial classes, which he has named Llngbourn-

buildings, erected in Mark-street, Paul-street,
Finsbury-square. This first block is intended for
the accommodation of 20 families, and externally it

presents a handsome appearance. The general plan
of the landing may be described as a parallelogram
of 56 feet by 30 feet, divided into four sections
by a party wall in the centre, and two passages
in the middle of each wing'. The two centre

sections are set back about three feet from the line

of frontage for the purpose of giving space for a
balcony of that width on each of the upper floors.
Each section comprises one suite of looms to which

access is obtained from the passages leading direct

from the balcony on all the upper floors. The bal-
cony is reached by a fireproof staircase, having a
semi-elliptical form, the entrances to which are by
two doorways in the centre of the building. The
staircase is continued to and gives access to the
roof. The larger lettings, consisting of three rooms
and a v, ashhouse, occupy the end sections of the

building. Leading out of what is called the
" living room," is the washhouse or scullery, which
contains in every case what may be called the ac-
cessories of the dwelling—water cistern, sink, a
small fireplace, washing copper, dust shoot, water
closet, /cc. In each room there is a fireplace, besides
cupboards and a series of shelves, forming very
necessary conveniences. The centre sections, com-
prising the smaller lettings, consist of two rooms
and a washhouse, with the other conveniences
similar to those in the larger lettings. The plan is
the same on each side the party waits, and every
floor or flat is a repetition of the other. Close to the
eeNngs of all the rooms a ventilator is plavd,
which communicates with air shafts running
through the centres of the chimney stacks. The
air is thus constantly rarified, and a system of
natural ventilation is produced. Besides this, by
setting open the windows a current of external air
can be at once passed through every room. The
lower panes of the windows are filled in with
ornamental ground glass, so that no window
blinds are necessary. The windows are con-
structed on a somewhat novel principle, being
made to open outwards like ordinary French case-
ments, but the two lower panes are not made to
open, so that the danger of children falling out
is avoided, as well as the disadvantages of the ordi-
nary window sashes. One important point should
be noticed, namely, that all the rooms are eight
feet nine inches in height. Drainage is effected by
means of four-inch stoneware pipes passing from the
top of the building down the corners of the wash-
houses directly to the common sewer. The dust
shaft carries the dust to covered receptacles at the
base of the building, and each shoot is provided with
an iron cover so as to prevent the return of dust and
effluvia. All the rooms are plastered and papered,
and the washhouses are plastered and coloured.
Every tenant has his apartments completely to him-
self, and nothing is used in common but the top roof,
which is flat, as a drying and recreation ground.
One peculiar feature in Mr. Alderman Waterlow's
speculation is this—that he has surmounted what
appeared to be the insuperable difficulty in metro-
politan associations, of building dwellings for the
labouring classes which could be let at a rental
yielding a fair return for the capital invested. These
associations found the minimum expense of building
a " home" amounted to £lBO, whereas Mr. Alder-
man Waterlow has succeeded in building what the
Earl of Shaftesbury calls a more cheerful and attrac-
tive home for the sum of .£llO. It may be interesting
to state how Mr. Alderman Waterlow has been able
to accomplish this. It appears that the use of ordi-
nary materials in the place of the artificial stone,
which we are about to describe, would have in-
creased the cost of the building by at least 25 per
cent., and so rendered a good return on it impossible.
This new material possesses the quality of being ex-
tremely hard, durable, and light, as artificial stone.
It is composed of clinkers, culm, herd-broken coke,
and similar rough porous calcined substances, in the
proportion of four parts of these to one part of
Portland cement. Sufficient water is added to these
materials to bring the composition when well
mixed up ito the consistency of ordinary mortar.
Ia is then placed in moulds or treughs for the pure
pose of giving to it any desired form, such as lin-
tels, arches, chimney pieces, stairs, window-dress-
ings and silts, slab", &e. In the composition of the
tinted portions of the plan—the fire-proof floors of
the washhouses, balconies, and passages, and in the
making of the flat roof, it is applied in the follow-
ing manner :—Bars of 3in. by *in. iron are stretched
across the building, from front to back, at distances
of 2 feet apart, and carried into the brickwork of
the wall so as to form ties and bind the building
into a solid mass. Half-itch iron rods, two feet
apart from each other, pass through the iron bars
already described, and beneath the network of iron
thus formed, a temporary layer of boards is placed,
and then the patent material is filled in to a thick-
ness of about four inches. In the course of a day or
two the whole mass sets with sufficient hardness to
allow of the removal of the boards, and after a week
or ten days' exposure to the air it become so hard
and firm that it will stand any amount of pressure.
The chimney-pieces, made of this material, and
painted to resemble mai ble, looked very tasteful.
A dejeuner, provided by Messrs. Elkington, of the
Freemasons"favern, and superintended with his
accustomed courtesy by Mr. Banks, was served on
the flat roof of the building. The Lord Mayor was
unable to attend, and in his absence Lord Ebury
took the chair.
The noble CHAIRMAN shortly addressed the com-
pany, expressing the great gratification he felt after
a careful inspection of the building, and after warmly
complimenting Alderman Waterlow on the success
he had achieved, he concluded by proposing the
worthy alderman's health, which was cordially re-
sponded to.
Mr. Alderman WATERLOW, in returning thanks,
attributed his success to the cheapness of the new
material of which he had availed himself, and he
hoped men of capital would be stimulated to make
like experiments. He intended to proceed immedi-
ately with building two additional blocks. More
applications, he said, had been made for " homes" in
the present block than he could po,sibly accommo-
date. The rents vary from ss. to 6s. 6d. and is.

per week.
Lord RADSTOCK, Mr. CHADWICK, and several
other gentlemen addressed the meeting, after which
Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY moved the following reso-
tion :—" That this meeting having inspected Mr.
Alderman Waterlow's model building, and listened
to the explanations afforded, is of opinion that the
very best moral and social consequences, and very
fair expectations of an ample return for the capital
invested, would result frum the erection of such
buildings."
Mr. SCOTT, the City Chamberlain, seconded the
tesolution, -which was emdially agreed to.

confidence that this is generally felt ; they give us! The Recent Case of Infanticide by a Young
a new p.nd ott n d reason fnr neliovirq tha, siny , Lady.

great CYIBI9 of btruggie vii jl.
shoulder to shoulder unto the I

Elizabeth L:

the thee ofthe r..114.,,cti offence residio;:f; It her --rm7,rts,.
persons of Unquestionable respectability, at 74, Rotherfleld—
street, Islington, was finally brought up at the Worship-
street Police-court on the following charges :---Suspicion of
having caused the death al her illegitimate child, and of

Brown, sc_nrcol,

be but a passing morninet gratification
in whose honorir they are off, led. All hut the h
are tendered better by being trusted. It there
is anything good in a man, the surest way of bring-
ing it out is to show that vve know it is there, and
that we rely upon his doing justice to himself. The
marvellous reception of last S .turday, the universal
celebration of the marriage of Tuesday, were mani-
festations of so complete a tru-t in the Prince and
the Princess of Wales, that t•ley must indeed be un-
worthy if they do not strain every nerve to deserve
the love which :is heaped upon them. They arc
called to no ordinary inheritance—that of the un-
bounded devotion of the freest. people on earth.
Reserved as we are, we have opened to them the
innermost recesses of our heart. They can have seen
nothing there but the most bff-ctionate loyalty, and
they are bound by the strongest obligations—by
the proudest recollections—to make the happiest
day of their lives the fertile source of happiness to
the country that rejoiced with them.
LAW TIMES.—The House of Commons has wisely
rejected the clause in the Corrupt Practices Bill
disfranchising solicitors and others employed by
candidates at an election. No contest could be
conducted without some assistance, and the only
eficct of depriving the persons so mployed of the
privilege to vote would he, as it was when
such was the law, an extensive system of evasion.
The vote of the solicitors were sacrificed,
of course, for no election could be managed without
them, and as they were generally pretty equally
divided, the loss of their votes had no material effect
upon the issue. But with the humbler classes of em-
ployed, the plan was to engage the services of
the son or daughter, or of some relative
or friend of the voter, who worked gratuitously,
the relative receiving the wages. The House knew
this, and, prudently deeming that it is better
to sanction that which cannot be prevented, has
resolved to leave the law as it is, the election
committee adjudging whether the employment
of agents was colourable or bona fide ; reasonable
or unreasonable in its extent. Why not at once
acknowledge, what everybody well knows, that
no law that human wit could devise will put down
bribery ; and content ourselves with doing all that
can be done to make it as difficult and dangerous
as possible ?

concealing ,he birth.
The prisoner now, as previously, was accoupanied by her
parents, but on this occasion had the Advantage of profes-
sional advice from a gentleman whose name did not reach
the r,p ea's ear. She is an interesting Looking person,
and was attired in a silk or barege dress, a grey seal-skirl
cloak, and a white straw hat with black ribborm.
At the former examination it was shown that an infant
had been found in a waterclosit attached to the Wesleyan:.
Schools in Mintern-street, New North-road, on the after-
noon of the 4th inst., by a girl scholar there, a staylace
being twice round the throat and tightly secured behind,
the envelope c nsisting of a coloured barege scarf, one
I corner of which was also tied round the throat ; that Inspec-
tor Webster, N division, who had charge of the case, found
the prisoner had been seen passing .trom the direction of the
closet a few minutes before the discovery of the body, and
that when he apprehended her beneath her parents' reef
she did not deny that. fact ; also that a personal examina-
tion by Drs. Clown, Griffiths, and Atkins, fully showed she
had given birth to a child very recently, but the parents
denied ail knowledge of her having been enciente.
Serjeant M. Veety, N division, now said—l searched the
prisoner's bed-room and found a petticoat very much
stained with blood. Also two night-dresses saturated with
blood. They were in a bag that hung on a bed-post,
could not discover any preparations for a birth.
Dr. Griffiths—l examined the dead body of a male infant
on the 4th inst. There was the impress of a finger and
thumb upon the throat and the deep mark of a double
ligature round it. Marks of the former might have been
caused by an attempt at self-delivery. It was a full
grown child, and healthy. The umbilical cord was torn.
across. The ligature could not accidentally get round the
throat. I have since made a post morfem examination. The
lungs had been inflated,
By the Magistrate—Strangulation appeared to have been
the cause of death, but that might have happened before
the entire birth. The umbilical cord being torn might

ATTEMPTBD MURDER AND SUICIDE.

have caused great loss of blood, but there were not any
marks of such about the body, and it had not been washed.
There is not any decided test of an infant having been born
alive, except by the lungs, as mentioned.
Magistrate—And that test is almost exploded.
Witness—Medical testimony can go no further.
Cross-examined—The bruises on the side of the windpipe
could have been occasioned by self-delivery--certainly not
sufficient to account for death—the body was not decom-
posed, and I consider had been horn about a week.
Dr. Atkins, a physician of Edinburgh, confirmed this
evidence in all points.
Elizabeth Diyer, nine years of age, was called to show
that prisoner was seen by her in the playground on the 4th
instant, but she persistedin stating that it was on the Wed-
nesday following, and her evidence certainly did not clearly
go to identify the prisoner at any time ; but it appeared that
access could be gained to the playground from the road by
any one; and
Elizabeth:Ford, a pupil-teacher at the school, swore that
she niet and spoke to the prisoner in the playground on the
altet noon of the 4th, at which time she appear.d extremely
ill, also that she had three years since been a pupil at the
echo. )1.

On Friday evening last the locality of Winshill
and Newton Mount, near Burton- on• Trent, was
thrown into excitement by the report that a mur-
der had been committed, and that the murderer had
committed suicide, under the most painful circum-
stances. On inquiry, it was discovered that a young
woman named Mary Tomlinson. a domestic servant
at J. Drewry's, Esq., solicitor, Newton Mount, bad
been the object of an attempted assassination by a
young man named Joseph Simpsonovit h whom she
had been on terms of the closest intimacy for some
time. It appears that she had been wounded on the
right side.of the head, directly below the ear, and,
although very severely injured, she still survives.
It seem that directly after aiming
her the deadly shot
at his sweetheart, and hearing screams, Simp-
son ran act oss two fi' Ida, and discharged the con.
tents of the remaining barrel into his own head.
As far beck as last Whitsuntide they were engaged
to be married, and consequently they went in com-
pany to the festivities of Lfct field Bower, and there,
during their stay, he purchased a wedding ring.
On Tuesday last—on the occasion of the rejoic-
ings at the Prince of Wales's marriage—they went
to Burton, and there entered into th. enjoyments
provided. At the conclusion of the day's festivi-
ties she left the company of Simpson and joined
another young man, which had the effect of ir-
ritating his temper. He went on Thursday to
Mr. Barrett's, at Burton, and purchased a double-
barrelled rifle pistol, with a quantity of powder and
shot, and on Friday morning Simpson went to the
residence of Mr. Drewry, where tie asked a boy,
named Rice, to tell the young woman that he
wihed to see her. The boy told her, and she went
to see him, when they had a short interview in
what is called " the boot-house." During their
conversation there it appears that she gave back to
him the ring he had purchased for their wedding.
This interview was the last they held together, at
about half-past four o'clock in the evening. The
report of firearms was heard at this time, and on
inquiry being made into the cause, she was found
lying on ,the coal-heap in a state of insensibility.
She was picked up, when it was found that she had
been shot. Simpson was then loitering about the
premises of Mr. Drewry during the greater part of
Friday, bat from his manner no suspicion was
aroused as to the object he had in view. After
shooting the girl he ran some distance, and shot
himself through the mouth. Several went in pur-
suit of Simpson, but were unable to find him. He
was, however, ultimately discovered by a man,
named Orme, lying on his belly in a ditch, with
blood streaming from the wound be had inflicted by
the pistol shot. He was not dead when found, but
life was extinct before medical aid could be pro-
cured. By his side, close to his right hand, was
found a double-barrelled pistol, which had the
appearance of having been recently discharged, each
nipple bearing an exploded cap. The body of the
young man was conveyed to Mr. Cooper's, the
Traveller's Rest, Winshill, at which house Mr.
Sale, coroner for the district, held an inquest on
Saturday, when evidence corroborative of the
above facts was given, and a verdict in accordance
returned.

Elirkbrth Donovan, searcher at the Kinzsland station-
twuse, was next called, and the attorney for the defence ob-
jected to her evidence being received, as it had been of such
a character as to call forth the animadversion of the coroner.
The Magistrate remarked that this court had not any-
thing to do with the coroner, and witness was therefore
sworn.

The Alleged Robbery by an Officer's Wife at
Preston.

On Friday Mrs. Jessie Black, wife of Capt. Black,
and daughter of a Leicester physician of high
standing, was brought up at the House of Correc-
tion, Preston, on tho charge of stealing a quantity
et jewellery from Fuiwood Barracks, the property
of Capt. Bluett and Mrs. Crofton, widow of the late
Col. Crofton, who was murdered with another offi-
cer in the barrack-yard in September, 1861.
After the case had been opened for the prosecution,
Capt. Bluett, of the 10th regiment, was examined
—H' gave evidence to the uffeet, that in J 7./;;„, !r.st
he missed four valuable gold rings from his quarters
at Ful w,)od Barracks. Mrs. Block had occasionally
visited his quarters, and Wss there about the time
when the rings were missing. On the 2d inst. he
aceompanied one of the police superintendents of
Preston to Leicester, where Mrs. Black was residing
with her family, and after making several inquiries,
the rings were found at the office of Mr. Haxley,
solicitor, of that place. Some of them had been
altered, the stones having been reset.
Margaret Toughey said that she had been a ser-
vant to Capt. Bluett, and that she saw Mrs. Black
and Mrs. Bluett two or three times together in one
of the bedrooms, where the rings were kept.
Thomas Blyth, jeweller, Leicester, deposed that he
altered a serpent ring for Mrs. Black in December
last.

She said—On the sth instant, when the prisoner was
brought to the station house, I searched her. I found two
brooches and a gold watch u?on her. I asked her what she
was charged with. She replied, "It is about a child ; I de-
livered myself and put it down a closet, or the closet. I had
spoken to a chemist-to recommend me a medical gentleman.
I thought that I was not near my confinement, or I should
have mentioned it to my mamma." On the following
morning her mother questioned her closely with regard to
time, and she replied, " I thought that I was not near the
full time, or I should have had preparations for what was
requisite."
Cross-examined--I did not invite her to make these ad-
missions. I did not say they should be confidential and
should go no further. I told her to be cautious, for that I
should not have anything to say to her after she left the
station-house. I certainly said this after she had made the
statement. I did not suppose my evidence would be re-
quired, and, therefore, was not so particular as I might
have otherwise been. I did not ask the prisoner whether
the child was born alive, but her mother did, and the
answer was, "My pains were such that I did not knout
whether it was or not."
This being the whole evidence against the prisoner, the
depositions were fully completed by Mr. Safford, the clerk,
and she was fully committed for trial at the ensuing Old
Bailey sessions, on the capital charge of murder, and also of
concealing the birth; her attorney assuring the magistrate
that he should be able to prove ultimately that medical
assistance had been solicited, and also that preparations
were in course of making for childbirth.
The wretched girl sat during the entire hearing with her
face concealed by her hands, which rested on the dock rail;
she was manifestly in extreme prostration, mentally and
bodily, and by desire of the magistrate, was removed to the
waiting-room of Bendall, the gaoler, until a cab could b°
procured, in which he then conveyed her to Newgate.

This ring was identified by Capt. Bluett_
Mr. Jones, jeweller, Leicester, proved that he had
altered one of the rings tor Mrs. Black, and that
afterwards she had offered at his shop a diamond
ring for sale. She refused the price he offered her.
Mr. Halley, solicitor, of Leicester, here made a
statement to the effect that the prisoner and her
husband had lived unhappily, and separated ; that
some time ago arrangements were made with the
view of reconciling them; that she had pawned her
husband's plate and a quantity of jewellery in Lon-
don ; that, at her earnest solicitation, he agreed to
redeem the articles for her, and to receive back the
money out of the sum to be realised by the sale of
her husband's commission ; that the property was so
redeemed, and that he had charge of it when Capt.
Bluett and the police officer went to Leicester to
make inquiries respecting the missing property, and
that the rings were amongst the articles redeemed.
Mrs. Crofton, widow of Col. Crofton, said that
she lost a valuable diamond ring in September,
1861; that the ring produced, and found at the
office of Mr. Halley, was her property ; and that
the prisoner had been a frequent visitor of hers.
Mr. W. Stephens, pawnbroker, of Brewer-street,
Golden-square, London, said that the prisoner had
pawned the diamond ring named three times at his
shop, having sent it by letter; and that she pawned
the other articles in a similar manner.

She-was fully committed to the forthcoming Liver-
pool assizes for trial. The prisoner, who is a rather
handsome, well dressed lady, was remarkably cool
daring the whole examination. The defence was
reserved.

ICE-BRIDGE AT NIAGARA.—For the third time in
the history of Canada the Niagara river at itsjune-
tion with Lake Ontario has been bridged with ice. The first
occasion was before the war of 1812; the second in the
spring of 1845. In this latter instartee the river, with lie
exception of very- rare and insignificant spots, was bridged
over from its mouth to within a shunt distance of the Fells,
and at the wharf at Niagara the boulders of ice were packed
on the top of each other to the height of 40 or 50 feet, com-
pletely shutting out the view of the opposite shore. The
third bridging of the river commenced at 2 o'clock on Mon-
day ofternoon, Feb. 16th, and at 4 o'clock some persons
crossed. On Tuesday morning a party of 17 or 18, halt of
whom were ladies, came over from Youngstown to Niagara.
The river is bridged with ice from its mouth upwards for a
worth a
of
distance of about 2,4 miles. The sight is reported as being
one of surpassing beauty and grandehr;satuhde prevalence well
journey to see, The cause of the "jam"
south winds for a few days, and then a sudden change to
the north—the first forcing the ice down the upper lakes
into the river, which is prevented by the north winds from
getting into Lake Ontario.—fit. Cathertne's Journal.