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At Edinburgh, and within Gibb'a Royal Hotel there, the
Second day of May, Eighteen Hundrel and Fifty-three,
at two o'clock afternoon,
AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE-
HOLDERS of the GLASGOW HARBOUR MINERAL
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of the circular of 1847. Their promotion- was a great
injustice to labourers who had done duty as sawyers,
and who, having been displaced, were, according to the
practice of the yard, entitled to expect the vacancies.
It was in consequence of these appointments that be
wrote to Sir Baldwin Walker the letter of the 27th .of
April, an extract of which had been read, and the rest
of which was as follows :

"-Devoßort, April 27, 1852.

" A wholesale notnination to vacancies has this morning
come, I fear without strict reference to necessity. I bannot
forbear expressing a hope that the discouragements so pe-
culiarly attaching to your important position may not only
not disturb you, but rather lead to a determination to wea.
ther a storm that cannot continue, arising, as I yet chari-
tably hope, out of an inability to understand the disastrous
professional consequences that inevitably belong to the
sacrifice of your great department to the emergencies of a
political struggle. I should be indeed happy to find my
apprehension ill-grounded, and still more so that we have
the certainty of your continuance in a post so universally
approved.—Believe me always yours most truly,
" G. A. SEYMOUR."
The vacancies thus filled up had been reported by him.
but not as requiring to be supplied. If that was wanted
the surveyor would make a representation to the effect
that it was so.

At this point in Commodore Seymour's examination
the committee adjourned till to-day, at 11 o'clock.

THE CASE OF ABORTION AT CLAPHAM.

Yesterday, Chas. Cunningham, alias Smith, de-
scribing himself as a surgeon, of Slough, and Tames
Thompson Currie, of Norfolk-street, Fitzroy-square,
also describing himself as a surgeon, were charged,
with George Thomas, a chemist, of Leather-lane,
Holborn, at the' Lambeth Police-court, with being
concerned in various degrees in an attempt to procure
abortion. In justice to the profession, it should be

stated that neither of the two first-mentioned defendants

is connected with any one of the corporation of legally
qualified practitioners of medicine in England.
The former examinations of the prisoners have been
reported in our columns. On this occasion the victim of
the practices charged upon the prisoners was in attend-
ance to give her -
The first witness pilled was, ' -
Mrs. Ann Morden, of Ely-place, Holborn, who stated
that she was the mother of Eliza Morden, the prosecu-
Ws. She did not know that her daughter was enciente
until after the proccedino out of which this charge
arose. The Rev. George Campbell Gordon came to
lodge at her house in the month of March, 1851, and
remained there a lodger until last Saturday week, when
he left, and he had not taken away any of his things.
Mr. Gordon is about fifty-five years old, an unmarried
man, and a curate of the parish church of St. Andrew's,
Holborn.

The next witness called was Eliza Morden. She
looked younger than the 22 years which were assigned
as her age, and gave her evidence with much clearness.
She stated that she was at present staying at the house
of Mr. Holcomb, 4, Stockwell-road, Private-road,
Clapham. She knew the Rev. George Campbell Gordon,
who was curate of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and who
lodged at her mother's house in Ely-place. In the
month of September last, said the witness, an improper
intimacy took place between Mr. Gordon and myself.
In consequence of my state a lodging was taken for
me at Hackney in the month of December, and a
medical man (Dr. Gillett) was called in to see me. At
that time I was not conscious I was in the family
way. Afterwards I sent Griffin, an old servant of
my mother's, to Mr. Muffins, a chemist in Leather-lane,
Holborn, to get some pills, describing to her my irregu-
larities. When I sent Griffin out I not tell her to
go to Mullins's shop in particular. I did not mention
any shop, nor did I suggest the name of the prisoner
Thomas. At that time I had not heard it. The next
night, in consequence of what the witness Griffin told
me, I went to Muffins' shop myself, and there I saw the
prisoner Thomas. I asked him if he was the gentle.
man that a female had been to see about a young per-
son. He said "yes," and asked me to walk into the
surgery behind the shop. He felt my body and my
stomach, and told me I was in the family way. He said
that he had got a friend who would put me all right. I
asked him what I should have to pay, and his reply was
"10/." At that time nothing was said as to whether I
was married or single. I did not say to him that I was
in the family way. I did. not believe it till he told me.
I said 101. was a great deal of money to give, and I did
not know whether I should be able to get it or not. He
said he should see his friend, and desired me to call
again.
- Mr. Norton—You have stated that the first time you
had improper intimacy with Mr. Gordon was in Septem-
ber. Can you state the last time when this occurred.
Witness—Not for a month before I left home, and
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from my home I have been three weeks.
Witness (in continuation)—On the following Monday,
or two or three days afterwards, in the evening I think,
I saw the prisoner Thomas at the shop in Leather-lane
He told me had seen the gentleman, and " he would de
the job for the 101." He did not say what he was to do.
That was all that liaised. He did not mention the name
of his friend at that time. I was Wet° call ; and,
though no time was mentioned, I did call again in a day
or two afterwards. I tllihk it was in the evening. I
told the prisoner Thomas that I was not quite right.
He asked me if I lived at home. I told him I lived
with my mother. He did not ask me my name, but he
gave me a bit of paper with Dr. Smith's (Cunningham's)
address upon it. That paper I have lost, but it stated_
that Dr. Smith could be seen from ten to twelve o'clock.
at Dr. Currie's, No. 10, Norfolk-street, Tuttenhaan-
court-road, near the Middlesex Hospital. I went
to Mr. Smith's address and asked for him. On doing
so I saw the prisoner Cunningham, who came out from
behind the counter. The shop was a chemist's shop,
and the prisoner Cunningham asked me if I was the
young person Mr. Thomas had been speaking to hilu
about. I said yes. At this time I think Mr. Currie
was in the shop, but I can't say that he heard me ask
for Dr. Smith, nor whether he was near enough to hear
what had been said. The prisoner Cunningham—alias
Smith—said to me, "Go into the surgery,' and I went.
He pulled down the blind and was going to examine
me, but he would not do it without the money down.
I told him I had but two pounds, which I took out of
my purse and placed on the table. He said he could not
give his advice until he had the 10/. down. I said I had
not got it with me, but that I had got it at home, and I
asked him if he could arrange to come down to my lodg-
ings at four o'clock the next day. Before this I had
asked Mr. Gordon for the money, and Mr. Gordon gave
me the 10/. I called again at the prisoner Currie's, and
saw a female, and asked if Mr. Smith was at home. The
female said no, but called Dr. Currie. I asked him if
Dr. Smith was at home. He replied in the negative,
but that any message that I left he would deliver to
him. Accordingly I left a message for Dr. Smith to
call on me at my lodgings. He came, and I gave him
the 101. He told me to lie on my left side on a sofa in
the room, and I did so. He used some instrument
under my clothes. .A full quarter of an hour elapsed
during the operation ; but during the operation, in which
both the prisoner's hands were engaged, I felt something
going round like a worm or a corkscrew. There was
not any particular pain. He told me to bear it patiently,
and after half an hour I got up. He asked me how I
felt. I said pretty well, and then he left. He came again
every day for about a week. I never saw the instrument,
but I believe be used it every time he came. On each
occasion that he came the operation was the same. I
lay on my side every time, and felt a pain, a short pain,
when the instrument was used. At the end of the week
he said he was quite satisfied that everything was done
that he could do. A week after this I went home to my
mother's, where I remained about two months. In that
time I frequently saw Mr. Gordon. I told him I was
not in the way I should wish to be. He said he would
write and ascertain if Mr. Smith would see me again. I
called two or three times at the prisoner Thomas's, and
he said he should forward any letter or message to Mr.
Smith, and eventually I wrote a letter to Mr. Smith,
and gave it to Mr. Thomas, making an appoint.
ment with the former to meet him at No. 24, Essex-
street. Strand, a lawyer's. There I went to an empty
room at the top of the house, in company with a Mrs.
Cornelius, who is sister to Mrs. Holcomb, in whose
house I now live. The prisoner Smith came to us te, the
empty room, and then again performed another opera-
tion on me the same as before, and with an instrument.
I felt a similar pain.
Mr. Norton—What perform an operation in an empty
room ! Was there no furniture of any sort in it'?
Witness—Only a carpet and a sort of couch, or
sofa bedstead. I lay on the latter, with my face to
the wall. He then told me it was "polypus," and
used the instrument as before. He told me I must
get away from home for a week, and desired me
to take a lodging, and in consequence I got the lodgings
where lam now staying. It was en the 11th of April
that I was in the empty room in Essex-street, and on
the Tuesday following I went to Stockwell. After get-
ting my mother's consent to go to Mrs. Holcoinb's I
wrote to the prisoner Smith requesting him to call on
me at my new lodgings, and left the letter at Thomas's,
requesting him to forward it. Thomas inquired what
Mr. Smith had said about me, and I said " a polypus,."
Smith called on me on the day I removed to Stock•ovell,
and he then used the instrument in the back parlour at
Mrs. Holcomb's, while I was in the same pos=ition as
before, with my face to the wall. By his des4,,re I had
first locked the door and pulled down the .olind. He
came again on the Wednesday and Thursday, and ap-
plied the instrument as before. On Friday and
werem e s ovi
enrey
nasty
PGwcj'ers'
to the
They were of a greyish colour, and gave me great
pain in my stomach, and so I told Mr. Smith,
which
palate. were
takenSatur d inay ho t
e w brought
ollag anddt
On the Tuesday or the Wednesday he used the instru-
ment again, but did not say anything about the pow-
ders. On the Saturday I felt very ill indeed, and sent
for him to the lodgings he had taken at Stockwell. He
came between seven and eight on the Sunday morning,and inquired how I was, and I said, "Very ill." He
replied that the "pains were coming on." He came
middle of the day, when I told him I
felt much worse, and ho said, "It will be soon over."
He came a
third time in the afternoon, and again in the
re-
mained sitting at my bedside two or three hours.
On Friday and Saturday he wished me to get up, but
the pains were so great that I could not do so. On the
Sunday evening, when my mother arriyed, Mr. Smith