The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

LONDON, T UES DAY EVENIN Gr, SEPTEMBER 28, 1847.

surgeon ; but the latter upon his arrival, pronounced
it then to be dead.

Josephs corroborated the preceding witness's state-
ment; and Mrs. Frances Nathan, a lodger in the
same house as the prisoner, deposed, that while in her
own apartment, below that occupied by the prisoner
and his daughter, who lived together in one room, and
the latter of whom she had noticsd lately to be
very far advanced in pregnancy, she heard a noise
of great confusion in the room overhead between
6 and 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, and hearing
the male prisoner shortly after going up and down
stairs, as if procuring something for his daughter,
she went to her window, and on looking out saw
the prisoner cross the yard to the vvatercloset
with a pail in his hand, and in a few minutes re-
turn with the pail empty. As soon as he had gone to his
own room the witness also went into the yard, and
distinctly traced spots of blood all the way down the
stairs and along the passage and yard to the water-
closet, the seat of which N% as much stained in a
similar manner. Upon the alarm Leing afterwards
raised of the child's body having been discovered, the
witness directed the attention of the prisoner's daugh-
ter, who was looking out of window, to the stains of
blood in the yard, when she rapidly withdrew her
head, without making any observation, and pulled
down the sash. _ _

Two witnesses deposed to an interview with the
prisoner's daughter, in which she avowed her own
criminality, and declared her father's ignorance of
her condition ; but Sergeant Price, through whose
intelligence and perseverance the circumstances in-
volved in the case were brought to light, and who
caused the prisoner's daughter to be removed, in
nominal custody, to the infirmary of the White-
chapel Union until she has recovered, informed the
magistrate that at the next examination he should be
able to produce several witnesses who would conclu-
sively establish the case against both the prisoner and
his daughter.
Mr. Meares, the divisional surgeon, stated that he
had ascertained upon examination that the prisoner's
daughter had given birth to a child within the last
two or three days, and, having since seen the infant
discovered in the water-closet, was perfectly satisfied
that it was of mature age and growth, and had not
been long deposited in the place where it was found;
but whether it was born alive or not, he was incapable
of stating until he had performed a post mortenz exa-
mination of the body.
The prisoner, who did not offer any defence, and
maintained an obdurate silence throughout the pro-
ceedings, was ordered by Mr. HAmmILL to be re-
manded for a week, to afford time fur the completion
of the evidence.

PORTSMOUTH, PORTSEA, AND

GOSPORT HOSPI PAL

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The foundation-stone of
this institution was laid this afternoon, between 4 and
5 o'clock, by the Prince Consort. His Royal Eigh--
ness arrived in the harbour at a cluarter to 4 o'clock,
under the customary salutes and ceremonies, and ,
landed at the Albert-pier, Portsea, where a guard of I
honour of the 52,1 Regiment, under the command of
Major Davies, Lord George Lennox, Mr. Grant,
chairman of the committee of management of the
hospital ; the directors of the pier, and the heads of
the naval, military and civil, departments, re-
ceived him, and conducted him in Sir Charles
Ogle's carriage to the site of the new charity,
near All Saints' Church, and close--very much too
close perhaps—to the tallow-melting and candle
manufactory of Messrs. Doudney. On arriving
on the ground, his Royal Highness was re-
ceived by the local authorities, the Warden of Win-
chester College, the Vicar of ortsmouth, the Rev. J.
P. M`Ghie ; and a large body of the clergy. Three
cheers were given on the Prince ascending the plat-
form, which having subsided, the Mayor read an ap-
propriate address to the illustrious mason, to which
his Royal Highness replied as follows :
" I hare received with much pleasure your address.
I very willingly consented to lay the first stone of
the hospital in your borough, for nothing can be
more gratifying to my feelings than to be able to pro-
mote and encourage the useful and charitable insti-
tutions of the country ; and no undertakings can be
more deserving of such a description than those that
provide refuge, assistance, and medical skill for suf-
ferers under the combined misfortunes of poverty and
sickness."

The Warden of Winchester College then offered
up a suitable prayer, and the stone was laid with the
usual formalities ; and, after another prayer, his
Royal Highness, with his cortege, left the ground
and embarked for Osborne in the Fire Queen steam-
yacht.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
WATERFORD AND LIMERICK.
A special meeting of this company was held on
Wednesday, at Waterford ; Mr. T. Meagher, M.P.,
in the chair.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that
the directors had examined the reports and estimates
of the engineer for a deviation line from a point a
short distance above Carrick, passing on the south
side of the river Suir, and also one on the north,
between Grannagh and the Kilkenny side of the
bridge at Waterford, with the estimates of the ori-
ginal line between Grannagh and the Game point
above Carrick. That there was no decided advantage
in favour of one side or the other. Taking into con-
sideration the general state of monetary affairs, they
consider that the operations of the company should
be confined, in the first instance, to the completion
and opening of the line from Limerick to Tipperary,
so as to have an early return upon the capital ex-
pended, which will require for the present all the
means of the company ; and secondly, the purchase
of the land and the prosecution of the works in ex-
tension to Clonmel, to ensure an uninterrupted traffic
of fifty miles. They strongly recommend the share-
holders to defer any decision upon the approach to '
Waterford until the next half-yearly meeting, being
of opinion that the bridge formerly contemplated at
Grannagh is impracticable, and therefore recommend
the proprietors to confirm its abandonment. That,
being within 8,0001. of having half the capital paid
up, the directors requested authority t.? borrow any
portion of the sum the Act entitled them to raise.
On the motion being made that the report be
adopted, a discussion arose as to the necessity of
coming to a decision with respect to a north or south
line from Carrick.
Lord GLENGALL said, there were advantages and
disadvantages at both sides, which left the subject
perfectly doubtful to his mind. He saw much dif-
ficulty in going to Parliament for either of these
lines ; there was a movement in England opposed to
the passing of railway Bills. He did not think it
wise, in the present state of the money market, to
employ the engineers and staff to go to Parliament
at a time when their services would be wanted on the
line between Limerick and Clonmel.
Resolutions were passed adopting the report; aban-
doning the proposed bridge at Grannagh, and autho-
rising the directors to borrow 250,000/.
Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
separated.