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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1865.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vole,

VIOLET OSBORNE
By the Lady EMILY PONSONBY.

-VOW IS THE TIME TO VISIT THE
.111 CRYSTAL PALACE. Wet orDry. Delightful Summer
appearance of Gardens and Park. Nature in fullest beauty.
Refreshed by the receut rain, the park acd gardens truly
delightfuL The shrubs and plants in flower around the lakes
have never been so charmingly fresh. Alone worth a special
'flat •

WORK and 50 other PAINTINGS, by FORD
MADOX BROWN, NOW EXHIBITING at 191,
Piccadilly. Admission, la. Anotated Catalogue, 6d. Daily
from 9 till dusk.

"A pleasant, instrt.ctive, and wholesome novel. The great
charm of the book lies in its portrayal of the heroine's cha-
racter. Lady Emily Ponsonby does not rely for effect on
melo-dramatic villains, but sees in love and truth and
earnestness of purpose the soul of human life."—Examiner.

Hurst and 131ackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

TO-MORROW.—Performances by the Company's cele-
brated Orchestral Band at 12.30 and 4.30, and on the Great
Orvo•an. Shakspere louse, Vine Arts Courts, Picture Gallery,
Chinese Collection, Skating Hall, Chimpanzee, Archery,
Bowls, Cricket, Boats, &o.
Admission by New Guinea Season Tickets, or One Shil-
ling, from Mon, ay to Friday. Saturday. Great Flower Show,
Seven Shillings and Sixpence; or by Tickets had before the
day, Five Shillings.

_R.O COMMERCIAL TRAVELLE RS. -A
profitable Commission, which would not interfere with
existing Engagements, is offered to any Genteman travelling
on business.

Address, stating the ground taken, to Mr. G. C. YOUNG
30, Great Bt. Helen's, B.C.

The Case of Richard Gibson,

EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE THE
CRYSTAL PALACE NEW SEASON TICKET.
Unparalleled Attractions for One Guinea only. See Pro-
gramme. •

The Poor-law Board has addressed the following letter
in reference to this case to the vestry of St. Giles :
"Poor-law Board, Whitehall, S.W., May 10.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Poor-law Board to inform
you that they have received from their inspector, Mr.
Farnall, his report on the inquiry which he recently
held into the circumstances connected with the death of
Richard Gibson on the 10th of February last in the work-
house of the united parishes of St. Gilei-in-the-Fields and
St. George, BloOmsbury, on whom a coroner's inquest was
held, and whose death the jury found by their verdict to
have been owing to serum on the brain accelerated by
neglect.' The board have also received from Mr.
Farnall the depositions of the witnesses examined at
his inquiry.
" It appears from the evidence that Richard Gibson was
admitted into the workhouse on the 9th of June, 1864, and
as he was suffering from a sore leg he was placed in a
ward set apart for the reception of men with complaints of
that kind. On the 29th of October, as the ulcerated state
of his leg had become offensive to other occupants of this
ward, Richard Gibson was removed to Ward No. 47. On
the 16th December, in consequence of the illness of Mr.
Bennett, the medical officer of the workhouse, Dr. Craig,
the assistant medical officer,was appointed by the directors
to act as medical officer in chief, and Richard Gibson came
under his care at that time, and continued to be so until
his death, on the 10th of February following.
" The circumstances under which this case formed the
subject of investigation are as follows :

CRYSTAL PALACE.- FLOWER SHOW
NEXT SATURDAY,
NOTE.—The unusually fine season and othercauses, already
give promise that. high as the Crystal Palace Flower Shows
have hitherto stood in public estimation, the coming exhibi-
tion will be one of the very finest on record.
Five Shilling Tickets should be taken at once. The price
on the day will be Seven Shillings and Sixpence.
te I ""

GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.-
CRYSTAL PALACE.—REHEARSAL, FRIDAY,
June 23; MESSIAH, MONDAY, June 26; SELECTION,
WEDNESDAY, June 28 ; ISRAEL IN EGYPT, FRIDAY,
June 30.

Stalls, Plans, and Programmes at the Crystal Palace, and
at 2, Exeter Hall. Rehearsal Stalls and admissions should
be taken without delay.
NOTE. —A Photoe,rai h, carte de visite size, of the Orchestra
of Four Thousand Performers, will be sent free by post on
receipt of two postage stamps at the Crystal Palace, or at No.
2, Exeter Hall.

STODARE I STODARE ! ! STODAIRE! I!
The NEW and EXTRAORDINARY ILLU •lONS
which Colonel Stodare performs EVERY NIGHT, at Eight,
and Saturday Afternoons, at Three, continue to attract
erowdedAnd brillant audiences. Early application for the
stalls Is solicited. THEATRE OF MYSTERY,
EGYPTIAN HALL. The great Indian basket feat termi-
nates each representation. " This is most decidedly the
sensation for the season."
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Admission, is.; area, 2s. ; stalls, 35., which may be ob-
tained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street,
and at the Box-office.

A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

" The day before Richard Gibson's death Felix Magee,
an inmates of the workhouse, occupying the same ward
with Gibson, wrote to Sir Thomas Henry, the chief magis-
trate at Bow-street, informing him that Gibson was
cruelly and inhumanely neglected in the workhouse, and
that ho was dying. Sir Thomas Henry immediately sent
George Manners, a police constable, to the workhouse, and
on the 9th of February he saw Gibson in Ward No. 47 of

the workhouse. George Manners in his affidavit says :
' When I saw Gibson he was in a most dreadful state. I
never saw a human being in so dreadful a condition—he
was delirious, he had a large wound in his back, his brown
skin was marked with red spots like marks from itch or
vermin, his person was in a filthy condition ; his shirt was
soiled with excrement, and his sheets were slightly soiled

in the same way ; there was a most nauseous smell about
him ; his hair was very much matted.'
"In the evidence given by Mr. Bennett, the medical
officer of the workhouse, who saw the deceased the day
before he died, he states that he considers the evidence
given by George Manners is substantially correct.

" Mary Gibson, the niece of Richard Gibson, deposes
that she visited him about once in three weeks ; that ho

frequently complained to her of want of nourishment and
attention ; and that the patients who were in the same ward
with the deceased told her that he required more nourish-
ment and more attention.

" The Board have very carefully considered the deposi-
tions of the several witnesses who gave evidence at the

investigation, and they consider that it has been clearly
established that the deceased was left in a disgraceful state
of neglect as regards his personal cleanliness for some time
before his death. It appears that in addition to being ne-
glected in this respect he was kept in a ward intended for
convalescents, which is not provided with the conveniences
necessary for bed-ridden patients ; and it is further to be
inferred that he was not supplied with suitable and suffi-
cient nourishment and stimulants.

" For the neglect of the deceased's personal condition

the Board consider that the paid nurse, Mrs. Elson, who is
responsible for the conduct of the pauper nurses acting
under her directions, is principally to blame ; and that Dr.
Craig, being responsible for the medical treatment of the
deceased, is properly chargeable with the neglect to obtain
for him the stimulants and extra diet which his state ren-
dered necessary.
" The board find that it is alleged in extenuation of the
neglect of duty on the part both of Dr. Craig and Mrs. El-
son that no complaint was made to them or the master of

the workhouse either by the deceased himself or by any
other inmate on his behalf. It also appears that Dr. Craig,
a week before the death of Richard Gibson, was himself
suffering under premonitory symptoms of typhus, by which
he was laid up two or three days after Gibson's death.

" Dr. Craig alleges that ho visits every patient daily—
that he went to the bed of Richard Gibson every day, but
did not speak to or examine hini so often ; that he exa-
mined his leg once a week and ordered dressings for it, but
did not see that the dressings were applied. Dr. Craig
further states that he thinks that the diet allowed to the
deceased was sufficient; but it appears that he was not
allowed meat every day until about a fortnight, nor any
beer until four days before his death; and that no food was
supplied to him between 4 o'clock in the afternoon and 8
o'clock the following morning. The board hare not failed
to observe that, in the evidence given before the coroner by
Mr. Beale, who made the post mortem examination of the
deceased, he states that ' the cause of his death was inde-
pendent of the filth on his body, and that death was owing
to ' the effusion of serum on the brain.' It appears, more-
over, that the ulcer on his leg, for which the deceased had
been principally under medical treatment, was better, and
had been reduced to a small size.

"Although the board think that, in justice to the medical
officer and the nurse, this statement of Mr. Beale should be
borne in mind, they still are of opinion that Dr. Craig, by
failing to ascertain the personal condition of the deceased,
and neglecting to order for him such articles of nourish-
ment as he required, and that Mrs. Elson, by omitting to
insure proper attention to his personal comforts and clean-
liness have so gravely neglected their duties that the board
would not be justified in permitting either of them to con-
tinue in the offices which they at present hold. The board
therefore request that the directors will communicate this
decision to Dr. Craig and Mrs. Elson, and require them at
once to resign their respective offices as assistant medical
officer and nurse at the workhouse.

"On perusing the deposition of Mr. Rankley, the master
of the workhouse, the board observe that he stated as fol-
lows The infirmary has always been considered to be
under the special care of the medical officer of the work-
house and the nurses.' The board consider it necessary
that it should be distinctly pointed out to Mr. Rankley that
as the chief officer of the workhouse the infirmary as well
as all other parts of the establishment are under his general
superintendence, and that he is responsible for the good
management of the sick wards equally with the other por-
tions of the workhouse.

" The board therefore cannot absolve him from blame for
the neglect which has occurred in this case, and will in
future hold him strictly responsible for the state and man-
agement of tho infirmary.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) "ENFIELD, Secretary.
" To T. D. Robinson, Esq., Vestry Clerk,
Broad-street, St. Giles's, W.C."

ESTIMATES FOR LAW AND JUSTICE.—This class of
the Civil Service Estimates has been printed. The
amount last year was £2,859,945, and this year the vote
proposed is £2,897,515—an increase of £37,570 ; but nearly
half the increase is made up of sums required to make good
deficiencies in last year's vote. There aro further charges
for courts of justice not voted annually, but paid out of the
Consolidated Fund, amounting to £671,978 ; but, on the
other hand, there aro largo sums paid into the Exchequer
for fees received. It would be tedious to go over the 47
votes comprised in this class of the estimates, and it will be
more convenient to state them thus :—The votes proposed
for police and constabulary amount to £1,200,439 ; for
criminal proceedings the charges amount to £379,716 ; for
courts of justice, £459,252; and for prison and convict ser-
vices, £858,108. The estimate for convict prisons at home
is for 10,903 prisoners in convict prisons (almost exactly
the same number as last year), and for 900 convicts under
probationary discipline in county gaols until otherwise dis-
posed of, and 770 criminal lunatics in lunatic asylums, in-
cluding 500 " patients" at Broadmoor. Provision is made
for the expenses of the transportation of 540 male convicts
to Australia and 250 to Gibraltar, and for the maintenance
of 900 convicts at Gibraltar, of 90 in New South Wales,
780 in Tasmania, and 1,450 in Western Australia, being 9
less than last year in Now South Wales, 25 less in Tas-
mania, and 156 more in Western Australia. There is, as
before, an item of £5,000 for promoting tho emigration and
settlement of free persons in places which receive convicts.

A Paris letter in the /nde'pendance of Brussels
states that M. ellais-Bizoin, member of the Legislative
Body, has recently written and read to his friends a new
three-act drama entitled "La Jeunesse do Byron."

TIIE COTTON TRADE AT PRESTON.—TweIve mills
which have been stopped during periods varying
from 18 months to 4 years have just been opened for work,
and several which have been running short time for
many mouths are commencing to run longer hours. Messrs
Ilorrockses, Miller, and Co., who employ between 3,000
and 4,000 operatives, have just extended their time of
working from four and a half to fivo days per week, and in
a few days it is expected that all their mills will be running
full time. A new mill, built by Mr. Calvert during the
cotton panic, has been started, and another, erected by
Messrs. Birley, Beaumont, and Co., has likewise bewail
opened within the past few bye.