The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.—SCANDALOUS NEGLECT
OF A MOTHER.—A young woman named Charlotte Jack-
son, the wife of a sailor, was brought before Mr. Woolryoh
charged with causing the death of her child, aged 18 months,
by neglecting to take proper care of it, and also with being
drunk in the workhouse of St. George's-in-the-East.
Mr. Wm. Ralston, one of the relieving officers of St.
Georeg's, said theprisoner:came to the workhouse on Satur-
day evening with her female child, and presented an order
from Dr. Turtle, one of the medical officers of the parish,
directing the admission of the prisoner into the workhouse.
The prisoner was intoxicated, and very abusive and noisy.
He looked at the child and saw that it was very ill. He
called a police-contable and gave the prisoner into custody.
The child was admitted into the workhouse under the care
of a nurse. The child died this morning.
Mr. Woolrych—From what cause ?

Mr. Ralston—From neglect. The child has been
grossly neglected.

Mr. \Voolrych—l suppose a coroner's inquest will beheld
on the body of the child.
Mr. Ralston.—Yes, sir. I believe that will be done,
notice has been sent to the coroner.

Mr. Woolrych—Was the prisoner in a condition to pro-
vide for the child ?

Mr. Ralston—Yes, sir. She is the wife of a sailor,
who allows her £2 5 per month, which she has been in the
practice of receiving at Duncan Dunbar's offices in Lime-
house. Her husband has been away some time.

Mr. woolrych—There must be a full investigation, and
you must collect the necessary evidence. I shall remand
the prit.oner fora week.

Mr. Ralston offered to read a medical certificate of death,
on which Mr. Woolrych said he must have oral evidence of
the cause of death. rho certificate could not be received.

DANGER OF GOSSIP IN CONSTANTINOPLE.-
About seventy individuals have been arrested by the police
of Constantinople for circulating false reports as to the
health of the Sultan. As a sharp look-out is being kept for
babblers on this subject, critics of his Majesty's condition
have to be guarded in their remarks.
WRECK OF A FRENCH VESSEL.-PALLING, NOR-
FOLK, Saturday Night.—At 5.15 a.m. this morning, during
a strong wind from the N.N.E., and in a heavy sea, the.
French schooner Josephine, of Dunkerque, coal laden, came
on shore about a mile to the northward of Palling. The
crew of the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution on
this station was immediately assembled, and horses having
been attached to the carriage of the lifeboat, she proceeded
along the beach a distance of three quarters of a mile. At
daylight it was observed that the vessel was a derelict,
having been abandoned before she caine to the beach. The
lifeboat was consequently taken back and placed in the
boat-house. From the strong wind blotwo:nag there is every
appearance of the vessel becoming A lWk T
in
his
valuable lifeboat was instrumental, March last,
rescuing a crew of ten men of the wrecked brig Ann, -of

Shields. TERRING BODIES AT ROCII-
CHARGE OF
DISINTERRING
rumours have been afloat in
DALE.—For the
last
fetwthat the registrar of the cemetery
Rochdale to
ovt hi
/le thegienif ec
bodies of paupers out of their graves,
other parts of the cemetery. On Fri-
Placing them Superintendent Pickering made an application to
hanadd beenrem
day Mr. a summons against Norris Taylor, the
the
of the cemetery, for disinterring bodies of paupers,
registrar
understand that the summons was granted, and the
and u_
t* ated on Mo d
charge is to be investigated 1. ay. The application
magistrates for
was heard with closed doors, and the press was not per-
mitted to be present, but, notwithstanding this, the follow-
ing information has oozed out. It has been customary to
bury the bodies of paupers in a vault in one part of the
cemetery, and it is rumoured that after the bodies had been
interred, some one has removed no fewer than 19 bodies,
and placed them in other parts of the cemetery, at the depth
of 20 feet, and the upper portion of this ground has been
let afterwards for private graves.—Manchester Examiner.
The following is the reply of the Emperor
of Austria to a petition from a large body of
persons residing in Transylvania :—" I am
much gratified at the patriotic language
of your petition, which is a fresh pledge of your
attachment to my dynasty and the Consti-
tution. In demanding the convocation of a Tran-
sylvanian Diet, you meet my most earnest de-
tires, which are directed to seeing the affairs of
the monarchy settled in a 'manner satisfactory to
all the nationalities ; and, conformably to the con-
ditions of power and unity of the Empire, I have
given instructions for all the measures for the assem-
bling of that Diet to be taken without delay, and
the Chaucer 3 of the Court of Transylvania is
charged to examine your propositions a
And.report to me prouiptlY. and demands,

NEWS FROM THE GORILLA COUNTRY.

ThP
Athenreuni ei the following Ictter
irozn .51e. Ile,

"Loan 4, Sept. 7.
"Having spent five active months in the Gorilla country,'
I am in a potation to state that M, du Ch2illu has shot
neither leopards, buffaloes, nor gorillas; that the gorilla
does not beat his breast like a drum ; that the kulu-kamba
does not utter the cry of kooloo,' or anything like it ; that
the young gorilla in captivity is• not savage; and that
while M. du Chaillu affects to have been ' a. poor fever-
stricken wretch' at. Catania (June 1, 1559), he was really
residing in rolaut health at the Gaboon,

" Mongilomba, who is not a native hunter at all, and who
was in my service three months as steward ond natural-
history assistant, duped Mr. R. B. Walker in asserting that
M. du Chaillu had killed two gorillas; nor did he ever
accompany that gentleman except in the above capa,-ity.
" From the Balengi of the Muni, from the Shekani and
Fans of Gaboon, from the Commi Bakele, &c., of the
Fernand Vaz, upon the banks of which rivers I have hunted
(always umuce,ssfully) gorillas, examining those only who
were bunters, and reserving alone such evidence as was ci ,r-
-roborative, I have gleaned the following facts respecting this
ape of contention. The gorilla dwells only in the dt,u..e.,:t
parts of the forests; he feeds exclusively on vegetable
and one kind of grass is a sure indication of his proximity; at
noon and eve he approaches the village plantations for the.
sake of the plantains, occasionally uttering a wild cry, but
which in rage (as imitated by Etia) becomes a quick sharp
bark. By day he moves along the ground on all fours (as
having crawled for hours on their track, I can testify), some-
times ascending the trees. By night he chooses a large tree
wary and keen of scent.two shleenepthine.
fe
mllaeleisis
epxrceegendainntg,lyhe builds a nest (as do also
the kulu-kamba and the chimpanzee), where she is delivered,
and which is then &band-med. These nests, several of which
I have seen, are simply rude layers of dry sticks, and :mall
branches evidently torn off the live trees by the hand. • Ws; h
regard to his ferocity, as a rule, when missed or wounde,,
he will charge. His charge, from which the natives often
escape, being themselves nimble as apes, is made on all-
fours. Etia,- whose left band has been severely crippled,
informed me that the gorilla seized his wrist with his hind
foot, and dragged his hand into his month as he would have
done a bunch of plantains, rwo things are at least certain,
that the gorilla is less feared than the leopard ; and tha
story of a man killed by a .gorilla at Camma is a complete
fabrication. Traditional accounts of such an incident exist,
but nothing of the kind has happened within the memory
of man. the tale of thegorilla assuming a boxingattitude,
and beating his breast like a drum, originated from Quen-
gueza, and was unanimously refuted by all hunters from
the Mukinn the north, to the Fernand Vaz on the south.
Thus in an obscure African village an old savage could tell
a lie, which has blazed through Europe.
" The Apingi country, which is the Ultima Vitae of 31.
du Chaillu's explorations, is distant from Gumbi (Ngumbi)
four foot-days's journey, in a southerly direction. In
tracing the course of the Rembo, however, he adopted a
longer route.

" His description of the Fans (Bafanh), whom he visited
in company with Mr. Mackey, of Corisco, is very good. In
ascending the Gaboon to its rapids in the bosom of the
Sierra der Crystal, I advanced some distance into their
country, and found them gentle, hospitable, 'but cannibals
undoubtedly, as one or them confessed to me. Even the
account of their ghoul-like propensities is in one case sup-
ported by evidence which I find it impossible to disbelieve.
" This book, so strange a melange of truth and fiction
was prepared by a gentleman well known in the New York
literary world, from copious notes made by M. du Chaillu
when engaged in these expeditions. And I must do the
latter the justice to confess, that from the same sources which
afforded me proofs of his impostures, I learn that he is a
good marksman ; possessed of no common courage and
endurance ; that he has suffered many privations and mis-
fortunes of which he has said nothing ; that his character as
a trader has been unjustly blemished ; that his labours as a
naturalist have been very remarkable; and that during his
residence in Africa he won the affection of the natives and
the esteem of those who most merit to be esteemed—the
missionaries_ And a fellow-labourer, though an burnt te one,
limy be permitted to regret thSt, actuated by a foolis vanity
or by ill-advice, he should have attempted to add artificial
flowers to wreaths of laurels which he had fairZy and hardly
earned, " W. WIN WOOD REIDE."