The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1863,

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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXXV.,
will be Published on WEDNESDAY NEXT.

CONTENTS.

I. Travels in Peru.
11. Institutes for Working- Men.
111. Constitutional Government in Russia.
IV. Editions of the Greek Testament.
V. The Ticket-of-Leave System.
VI. The Art Loan Exhibition. •
VII. Life of Christopher North.
VIII. The Stanhope Miscell nies.
IX. Three Years of a Reform Administration.
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Charge of Manslaughter against a Midwife.

Yesterday Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the deputy coroner
for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the Maid and Magpie
Tavern, Wellington-place, Stepney, respecting the death of
Elizabeth Sullivan, aged 20 years, a married woman, lately
residing at 19, Wellesley-street, near Arbour-square Police
Court, who, it was alleged, had died from the improper
treatment of a midwife named Batcock, of Charlotte-street,
New-road, Whitechapel.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had en-
gaged a midwife to attend her in her confinement, for which
she was to pay 7s. 6d. The deceased was delivered of a fine
child on Saturday week, but soon afterwards her mother and
lodgers found her suffering great pain, and groaning. They
asked Mrs. Batcock if they should send for a doctor, but she
replied " Oh no, she is going on comfortably." The placenta
came away from the deceased piecemeal, and was destroyed
by the midwife, excepting one portion which the lodger se-
cured and showed to a surgeon (Mr. Rose), whom the mo-
ther subsequently sent for. The deceased was found to be
in a very dangerous condition, and Mr. Rose gave very
slight hopes of her recovery. The deceased, however, never
'allied, and died at a late hour on the next night.
Elizabeth Blackburn said that she lodged in the same
house, and frequently asked Mrs. Batcock if she should
call in a surgeon, but she said " No; there is no occasion
for it." At the same time deceased was screaming with
pain. Witness was certain there was something wrong in
the delivery.

Mrs. Batcock, the midwife, was called, and (after being
duly cautioned by the Coroner) said that what she had de-
stroyed was by the knowledge of the parties present.
The evidence at this stage of the proceedings was en-
tirely of a character only suitable for a medical publi •
cation.

By the Coroner—Had attended three lectures on mid-
wifery about 40 years ago, and for the last 18 years she
had practised as a midwife. Never hoard the deceased
pray to relieve her from pain.
The mother of the deceased was re•examined by the
Coroner, and contradicted in several instances the evidence
of Mrs. Bateock.

Other witnesses also contradicted the testimony of the
midwife in many essential points.
Mr. Charles Rose, surgeon, of the Mile-end-road, was
examined, and said that he found the deceased in a very
dangerous condition, She was sinking at that time from
exhaustion. Upon feeling the pulse of the deceased he
had, his suspicion that something was wrong. He pre-
scribed for her, and on the following day, when out on his
rounds, he met Mrs. Batcock, and asked her some questions
as to the state of the deceased, when she made a reply
which immediately satisfied him that the deceased re-
quired more scientific aid. He adopted means to allay the
inflammation, and relieve her of the acute pain she was
suffering. He loft her, and about six o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning he was called in great haste. Upon
reaching the house, he found such appearances that satis-
fied him that the placenta had not been removed. The
whole of the umbilical cord had been torn away from the
placenta. He took possession of it, and told the pet-bons
present to show the midwife when she called. The placenta
was in a state of putridity. He had no hops of the de-
ceased, as the condition he found her in, ho believed, would
pt.,• ve fatal. He warned the friends to that effect. He had
since made a post-mortem examination of the body, and he
found that death arose from the want of skill in the
deliverk of the deceased. The various organs of the body
were generally healthy, excepting the heart, which was
hard and flabby.
By tlx Coroner—He believed that the deceased's life
might have been saved with proper medical assistance.
•

The Deputy-Coroner then read over the voluminous evi-
dence.

The. Jury, after considerable discussion, agreed to the
following verdict :—" That the deceased died from inflam-
mation produced by the non-removal of the chief portion of
the placenta, and the jurors were of opinion that Mrs. Bat-
cock was guilty of gross ignorance in attempting to deliver
the deceased, she being not qualified ; that the raid Mrs.
Batcock's conduct was highly censurable."

Austria,Tuß the latter
COURTEOUS.—In the wordy war
amongst otehe
now
Waging between the Courts of Berlin and
maintaining a Ministearuswn
recent occasion Count Bismark-Schon-
related that on :rrhas by no means the worst of it. It is
hausen,
agri.evances, made the complaint that
Austria was guilty of
and
affront towards Prussia, in
answered
drrelot an Ambassador at Berlin.
" What can I do ?"
Count Rechberg, in other
onlyhvoted a salary for a Mi-
nister, the unfortu-
nate a"ntdhienßAustria
a tthh
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of the Chamber of
habit of abiding by the decialasOna
Deputies on financial questicn.i.o

SPORTING INTELLII

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The following are the complete Entri
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Acrobat Colt 3
Adventurer 4
A gag
Alcestis
Alice
*Alvediston
Amelia
Anfield
Asteroid
Attaman 4
Avalanche
Balham
Bally Edmond 5
Barbadoes
Barchottina
Bathildo
*Ben Webster.. 6
Bernice ...... 5
Bonny Lad.... 3
Bro. to Spring-
bok
Brown Duchess 5
Beachy Head 4
Bellman
Benjamin
Berkeley 4
Black Deer 3
Blue Peter 3
Bohemia 3
Bosh
Breechloader 4
Brewer, The
Brighton .. 4
Brilliant 5
Buckstone
Cairncastle
Caller Ou
•Camerino i 6
Cobbler
Count Cavour 3
Canace 3
Canzonette 3
Carisbrook
Catch-'em-Alive 4
Chaff
Charles Fox
Chere Arnie
Columbine 3
Conical
Contralto 3
Costa
Cowley
Croagh Patrick 5
Cygnet
Dalesman 4
Damascus

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Doefoot
Donnybrook
Dualla 3
Dulcibella ..• • 6
Du.nkeld 3
Dusk
Earl of Surrey 4
East Lancashire 3

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Mainstay
Manrico . . 4
Marmion .. 3
Merry Maid .. 4
Middlewatch .. 8
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Emily di Lona. 4M. Philippe
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Ernest 3 My Mary 4
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Flexmore
Forester
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Guiding Star
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Gelert
Glenochty colt 3 I Plover
Gorse
Haddington
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His Excellency 3 Rhcebus .. ,
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Ivanhoff ...... 5 Royal Stag 3
Jack of Hearts. 3 Sandford 3
Jack o'Newbury 3 Silkstone 4
Jealousy a Socrates
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Joey Jones.... 5 Springbok,Br to 3
Jacqueline colt. 3 Sister to Sage 3
Keane 4 Serf
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King of Kent.. 5 I Stradella 4
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Knutsford ... . 5 Tommy Jones.. 4
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Liston ........ 3 *Warminster
Lady Evelyn c. 4 Watford
Lizzie ........ 3 Weatherspy . • 3
Lord Clyde.... 4 1 Welcome 4
Lufra ........ 3 Zetland
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LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.
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National Steeplechase
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declared, 100 added. About four miles and a
quarter.
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Jealousy ...... a
Jerusalem .... a
*Joe Maley ..
Killigrew a
Leighton ...... a
Light of Other
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Lincoln ...... a
Master Bagot.. a
Mauchline .... a
Medora ...... a
Merryman .... 6
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Orphan, The
Penarth
Prophet, The 6
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Remedium a
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St. James 6
Satellite
Sepoy
Sinking Fund a
Sir Bobby 6
Shropshire
Sly Fox
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Brewer, The
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Bridegroom
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Brownie, The 5
Bueephalus
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Chester
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The letter from an eyewitness, which
will be found in this morning's impression, throws
doubt on the heroic courage which has been so
loudly claimed and so readily ceded to the Army of
the North at the battle of Fredericksburg. The
number of the Federal army, stated in the letter at
200,000, is, doubtless, considerably exaggerated,
and the number of the killed and wounded, put
as low as 6,000, is probably in no slight degree
diminished. But nevertheless there is much pro-
bability in the statement that the position was
not so difficult nor the attack so gallant and
desperate as was at first believed. It is
scarcely credible that a general, possessed even
of the intelligence of the Northern commander,
should continue a whole day to expend division
after division in the attack of a position perfectly
hopeless ; nor is it likely that an army, formed,
trained, and handled as the United States army has
been for the last year, should suddenly evince all the
highest virtues of the soldier under a situation the
most trying. These are not the men whose courage
and endurance in the retreat to James River ex-
torted the admiration of the Prince de Joinville.
Their bones are bleaching on half-a-dozen disastrous
battlefields, and they have been succeeded by raw
Volunteers, by substitutes to whom war is a trade,
and by men dispirited by enduring mans hardships
and confronting many dangers, without a symptom
of ability in their Generals, or a ray of success to
give them confidence in their leaders or themselves.
/f this account be the true one, if the Army of the
Potomac, instead of performing prodigies of valour,
has exhibited, we will not say a " Carnival of
cowardice," but such qualities as its defective com-
position and indifferent officers and commanders
might not unreasonably lead us to expect, its posi-
tion must be regarded as exceedingly critical. It is
quite evident that after the severe check received at
Fredericksburg a much less force than that under
the orders of General Lee on the day of the battle
will be safficient to hold the lines which forbid the
advance of the Federals upon Richmond, and conse-
quently that a portion of the Cenfederate force is
set free for any service that may be required of it.
This, together with the announcement that the Con-
federates have evacuated Winchester, in the valley
of:the Shenandoah, may lead to the suspicion that
some movement is intended against General Burn-
, side's communications, and that the winter cam-
paign, closed on the part of the Federalists, may
possibly be opened again by some movement of the
Confederates on the flank or rear of the checked
and dispirited army. With affairs thus threatening
in the State of New York, and uncertain on the
banks of the Rappahannock, President Lincoln
has little consolation at present to look for from
his operations in the West. The same ill fortune
which would seem to have connected itself
inseparably with the Federal cause has begun to
show itself there also. The Confederates have re-
eaptured the town of Holly Springs, and destroyed
stores, munitions, and waggons to the value of half
a million of dollars. They are advancing on alum-
bus and on Nashville, the capital of the State of
Tennessee, while the condition of Gen. Grant, the
Federal commander, is becoming exceedingly pre-
carious. The expedition of Gen. Foster in North
Carolina has, after a heavy loss in four hard-fought
battles, succeeded in demolishing part of a railway
by no means of primary importance, and in destroying
a great deal of private pro jerty , the loss'of which is
more likely to irritate than to subdue its former pos-
sessors. Meanwhile the President finds himself in-
volved in a constitutional difficulty. The Western
part of the State of Virginia, on the banks of the Ohio
River, inhabited by a race of iron-workers and agri-
culturists, has always stood aloof from the rest of
the State on the question of slavery. Congress had
passed a bill erecting Western Virginia into a sepa-
rate State, and the question is, shall the President
give his consent to this bill or no. Now, the bill
is flagrantly illegal and utterly beyond the powers
of Congress, which has no power to dismember any
of the States of the Union, of which it is the agent,
with limited powers, much less Virginia, the Old
Sovereignty, the mother of States, out of the
vast dominion of which have been carved so
many thriving communities east and north of
the Ohio. The measure is as impolitic as it is ille-
gal. The claim of the North is that a Federal Union
once entered into is always binding, and by way of
enforcing that principle it assumes to break in pieces,
not a Federation, but an individual State, which
has subsisted as a political unit for 250 years. The
Republicans, who seem to have identified their
party with every scheme for the destruction of the
present Constitution except that which would re-
store peace and prosperity to the country, are loud
in their assertions that the President will give his
assent to this bill ; indeed, after his claim to destroy
the laws and institutions of the Slave States at a
single blow, this seems no very incredible stretch of
authority. On the other hand, the Democratic
party loudly assert that the President will with-
hold his consent, and thus, between the solicitations
of his friends and the threats of his enemies, the
unhappy President was left in a state of doubt and
uncertainty such as weak men invested by accident
with authority to which they are unequal can alone
fully feel. As a finishing touch to this gloomy
picture we have a Proclamation by the Southern
President, written, as it would seem, in letters of
blood. Whether elated by success, or goaded by
the sense of intolerable wrong, the President at
Richmond seems to have lost all patience with the
proceedings of Gen. Butler and his myrmidons at
New Orleans. In what is called a retaliatory Pro-
clamation Mr. Davis announces that Gen. Butler
and his officers, if taken, shall be hanged, and a like
punishment is to be inflicted on all negroes taken
in arms and all Federal officers found with them.
We are not acquainted with the precise acts that
called forth this retaliation, though we cannot affect
to be surprised at any violence which the proceed-
ings of such a man as Butler may have called forth.
The latter clauses seem intended by way of counter-
blast to Mr. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
The execution of these threats will produce repri-
sals, and if this frightful war continue we may look
forward to seeing every conflict in the field fol-
lowed by massacres of helpless and unarmed pri-
soners. Any one who contemplates the prepara-
tions obviously making for a civil conflict within
the limits of the Northern Confederacy, the con-
tempt of law, the disorganisation of Government,
the anarchy that is springing up all around, incom-
petence and cowardice in the field, and the inaugu-
ration of a new year by the proclamation of a ser-
vile war on the one side, and of a policy of ruthless
extermination on the other, may well ask himself,
can this be the America of two years ago, where life
and property and law were as sacred as they are to-
day among ourselves, and where the great mass of
the people had no more idea than we have of the ac-
cumulated evils that have fallen upon them, Have
they not done enough to atone for the wantonness
of a too exuberant prosperity, and has not the time
come when they might, without imputation on their
manhood, put a stop to the monstrous evils ofi
which they are reciprocally the authors ?

DAILY NEWS.—There is not a child in our Sun
day-schools but can remember precepts of 1101 Y
Scripture which are utterly and eternally opposed
to slavery. But the Lord did more to destroy that
and every other form of social evil than could be
yt 0 i
ln o oak
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d man
done by issuing any number of precepts by pro-
claiming Divine truths about humanity which placed
the enormous wickedness of slavery
light. Christianity has taught us
1 as an immortal being, and his moral and spiritual
nature as of an incalculable dignity and worth.
Such a being cannot become the " property" of
another. Slavery says that this nature goes for
nothing if the man can be seized and made useful
on a sugar plantation. " A slave," says the Loui-
siana Code,",is in the power of the master to whom

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he belongs. The master may sell him ; dispose of
his person, his industry his labour; he can do
nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but
which must, belong to his master." Natural justice
teaches that the pretensions thus set forth are
monstrous usurpation. Nobody in the world ever
believed that any slave owed it as a duty to his
master not to gain his freedom, by any means in
his power, even to the employment of force against
his detainer. But our religion, by what it
teaches of the nature of mall, makes slavery
nothing less than impiety. It declares that man,
created in the image of God, is in the highest sense
His child, created to unfold godlike faculties, and
govern himself by a diN ine law written on his heart,
and republished in God's Word. To seize a crea-
ture with such a nature and such capablities is to
insult the Creator as well as to inflict social wrong.
He may be ignorant and depraved, but the capa-
city of improvement allies him to the instructed and
refined. His mind can entertain the great ideas
of God, Law, Duty, Truth. Such a being was
made to be an end in himself, made for his own
happiness and virtue. lie cannot rightfully be
a thing, a mere instrument, a chattel. No human
laws can repeal or override this first ordinance,
which comes direct from the Divine Throne.
The rights of every individual man are laid
deep in the foundations of his nature. It is
because he is such a creature, and not a lower one,
that he has a right to exercise and invigorate his
intellect by acquiring knowledge ; to use means for
bettering his condition ; to be protected by impar-
tial laws; to be exempt from punishment while he
respects the rights of others ; to have an equivalent
for his labour ; to sustain domestic relations, and
enjoy the happiness which flows from them. The
duty of society to the individual is to protect these
rights, and develop them by repressing all wrong.
But, where slavery is upheld by law, Government,
instead of protecting these rights, makes them its
prey. Slavery violates them all ; not incidentally,
or now and then, but necessarily, systematically,
and from its very nature. It denies to its victim
the right of developing his best faculties ; and, what
is worse, takes means, generally too effectually,
while young, to prevent his ever desiring to culti-
vate his intellectual powers. He cannot form plans
for his own good, for his time and strength belong
to another. The right to acquire position by honest
industry is denied him. He has no right to wife
and children of which he may not be stripped at
any moment at his master's pleasure. And this,
wo are told, is a state of things against which the
Bible has not a single text. Have those who affirm
this ever asked themselves what would he gained for
the cause of order, religion, and morality if their
assertion were generally believed ?
It may be hoped that this last manifesto of the
pro-slavery party among us has not been made in
vain. There must be many Christian men who,
although unwilling to involve themselves without
need in a judgment upon all the complicated issues
of the American strife, must feel that they owe
duties to their religion when its character is auda-
ciously attacked. Especially, the Christian churches
of this country must now either speak out in plain
language, or be held to acquiesce in a representa-
tion which will be loudly echoed from the plat-
forms of unbelief. We have a right to expect of
them that they will not see the morality of the
Holy Scripture publicly impugned with less con-
cern than they have shown for the spread of specu-
lative error.

POST.—The news published in last night's
Gazette challenges interest more from its official
clothing than from its novelty. It is now some time
since our readers were placed in possession of the
intentions of this country towards the lonian
Islands, and of the main objects of Mr. Elliot's mis-
sion to Athens. Of the many unjust suppositions
hatched in the active imaginations of Continental
diplomatists none was ever more unfair than that
which attributed to this country the desire of hold-
ing fast upon an unwilling people, and of occupying
the territories of the Septinsular Republic for our
own ends and in virtue of our overpowering strength.
The islands were committed to us as a public trust.
We could resign this to no other Power, unless we
could fairly guarantee the safety and validity of
the conditions of our trust. It has hitherto been im-
possible for us to yield to the wishes expressed by
the lonian Parliament for annexation to Greece, be-
cause Greece under King Otho was the worst go-
verned country in Europe, and was a standing
menace to the peace and welfare of the East. The
revolution has created a new aspect of affairs. We
have no selfish interests to serve, no object save that
of the general good. We are now informed on the
one hand that Greece absolutely needs an increase
of territory to enable her to place her finances on a
sound bases. These islands are to her a great fiscal
requirement. On the other hand, we have in but
too recent memory the repeatedly-expressed long-
ings for annexation of the lonian Legislature. 11'e
wish, for our part, not to place ourselves as an in-
surmountable barrier to the necessities of Greece or
the aspirations of the Islanders. We therefore pro-
pose to accomplish what we presume to be best for
the welfare of the one and the happiness of the others
on the fulfilment of a few easy stipulations. Ist. The
Greeks must maintain constitutional monarchy, and
must choose a King to whom they can entrust their
future with the approval of Europe. 2d. The Greeks
must undertake to pursue a pacific policy in their
external relations, and specially to refrain from all
attempts at aggression upon Turkey. If these condi-
tions be not complied with, we shall withdraw our
offer ; but, if they are frankly accepted, we shall then
free, if
proceed to inform the lonians that they
are
it shall so please them, to give a renewed expression
to their desire for annexation to Greece ; and if that
wish is once more formally renewed we shall make
it our duty to obtain the assent of the Powers, sig-
nataries of the Treaties of 1815, to the final surren-
der of the English protectorate. Our course is
therefore clearly traced out, and is free from all the
egotistical views which have so often been ascribed
to us. The only doubt remaining in the matter is
whether the parties principally concerned will be
as innocent of selfish motives. We are credi-
bly informed that the step now taken by this
country by no means determines the final issue of
the arrangement. The Greek politicians are said
to be jealous of the superior wealth and talent of
the lonian aristocracy, and to be by no means dis-
posed to welcome with open arms the accession of
new and formidable rivals for place and power. We
have also yet to learn whether the Septinsular
great
Re-
public is really and truly willing to abandon the
protection of the British flag. The islands,
of self
our sway, have enjoyed al, the blessintegso
annexation to Greece
government. They have risen tnosatsteaf
prosperity. The retirement of the English., signifies
immediate
ih lac we have I
the withdrawal also of large BUMS
expended in the islands, whilst
aea h
simplest for
Innn
in its first and sie3Pl.
farheavier the republic
imposition of a taxation
Another consideration which is of
has yet known.
very large and important signification i
cls that every
lonian has share the immense advantage in the
Levant of being a British subject, and the islands
have derived the full benefit of our treaties. Their
trade will therefore ff suer by relinquishing this,
and passing under
the protection of Greece, whilst
every individual I • ontan who has hitherto enjoyed
the great p • rivi •1
eges of the "civic Romanus" will
find himself reduced to the comparatively insignifi-
cant position of a Greek citizen. This is, however,
their own affair. We cannot see how it can be to
their advantage to leave us. If, nevertheless,
they choose to immolate the direct in-
junctions of self-interest upon the altar of
" nationality," and to sacrifice the tangible
benefits of the present for a prospective idea, they
are at full liberty so to do. If, then, the parties
principally concerned urge the cession, and if Europe
sanction it, we shall surrender a trust which we
have fulfilled for many years at a cost of much
Mr Glad-
money and no little unmerited obloquy. •