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DEATH OF LORD CLARENDON

After a I,rief illness the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, died on Monday morning.
For some little while the deceased peer had been ailing ;
but no high importance was attached to the symptoms,
nor did they greatly interfere with the performance of
:his duty. Only last' Thursday the Earl was examined
before the Select Committee on the diplomatic ser-
vice. On the following day, however, he was seized
with a complaint which is described as diarrhoea. Sunday
chewed a great change for the better ; and on Monday
the Times published a confident assurance of speedy re-
covery. Immediately after the publication of that jour-
nal—at six o'clock the same morning—the statesman died.
His family is illustrious ; its name stretches far back
into the annals of England. The late representative,
George William Frederick Villiers, K. G. , G. C. B. , P. C. ,
and D.C.L., was the fourth earl of the title, and was the
son of the Hon. George Villiers, himself the third son of
the first earl. "The late statesman's predecessor was John
Charles, third Earl of Clarendon, who succeeded his
brother in 1824, the late representative taking the peerage
in 1838. The subject of this notice was born on January
12th, 1800, and therefore dies at the age of seventy. In
1839 he married Lady Katherine Grimston, eldest
sdaughter of the iirstTarl of Verulam. By her he
had three sons, Edward, Lord Hyde, born in 1846 ; George
Patrick Hyde, bornin 1847 ; and Francis Hyde, born in
1852. Three daughters, all older than the sons, complete
the family. They are Constance, born in 1840, and mar
ried in 1864 ; Alice, born in 1841, and married to Lord
Skelmersdale in 1860 ; and Emily Theresa, born in 1843.
One brother of the late Earl is the well-known Eight
Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, the advocate of Free
Trade.

The late Foreign Secretary entered the diplomatic ser-
vice early in life, and this act determined the character of
his career as a politician. To the last he was rather a
diplomatist than a statesman. After completing his edu
cation at Cambridge, he took a commissionership of
Excise at Dublin, and in this office displayed
considerable abilities. After the regulation amount of
waiting, he obtained higher employment. In
IS3I he arranged a commercial treaty with France, and
in 1833 became Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid.
This post he retained until 1839, returning to England
and taking his seat in the House of Lords after the title
devolved upon him. Work was soon found for him in
England. In 1840 he became Lord Privy Seal in the
Melbourne Administration ; and before the end of the
same year he took the Chancellorship of the Duchy of
Lancaster. In 1841 Sir Robert Peel came into power,
but in 1846 Lord John Russell's turn arrived, and Lord
Clarendon was made President of the Board of Trade.
A higher dignity soon awaited him. Shortly after his
accession to the Board of Trade he was offered the Lord-
Lieutenancy of Ireland, and commenced his period of
office early in 1847. Needless to say how arduous
were his labours. He governed the island until
1852—the time of the famine, and the most trying term,
perhaps, in the recent history of Ireland. He was re-
lieved of his thankless office by the resignation of the
Ministry, and the succession to power of the Earl of

Eglinton. Soon Lord Clarendon returned to a more
familiar sphere of labour. In 1853 he was invited to take
the Foreign Office. Here very exceptional and remark-
able testimony to his services was borne by the Cabinets
of the day. When Lord Aberdeen's Ministry fell in
February 1855, the Earl of Derby, being sent for by the
Queen, expressed a desire to retain his assistance at the

Foreign Office; and when Lord Derby failed to form a

Cabinet and Lord Palmerston acquired power, the Whig
leader followed the example of the Tory. Lord Clarendon

remained Foreign Minister until 1858. Great responsi-
bility fell upon him during that period. The Russian
War involved the most difficult points of foreign policy

that have arisen since 'Waterloo. Lord Clarendon's course

during this period laid him open to some stricture.
Befoie the contest it was complained that he

displayed some disposition to yield to the Emperor of
Russia, and there can be little doubt that he viewed the

war with small favour. Much, however, is owing to him
on account of his conduct of the difficult negotiations be-
tween England, France, Sardinia, Austria, and Turkey.
When peace was under consideration Lord Clarendon
went to Paris, and represented England at the con-
ference in conjunction with Earl Cowley. On
this occasion he acted with firmness in exacting due
conditions from Russia, and especially in respect of her
right to the Isle of Serpents. After the defeat of the
Palmerston Ministry on the Conspiracy Bill, Lord Claren-
don did not again take office, his post—to the disadvantage
of the country in the opinion of many people—being filled
up by Lord John Russell. For six years the Earl of
Clarendon took no active part in politics. In 1862 he
was named by the Queen one of a committee to carry out
the project for erecting a memorial to Prince Albert, the
other members being the late Earl of Derby, Sir Charles
Eastlake, and Mr. Cubitt, then Lord Mayor of London.
In 1864 Lord Clarendon again came to the front as Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In the Cabinet
formed by Earl Russell, after the death of Lord Palmer-
ston, the Earl of Clarendon took his old post as Foreign
Secretary. When the Gladstone Ministry acceded to
power he resumed the old familiar office, and was Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs when he died.
Lord Clarendon's later policy is matter of recent con-
temporary history. It was in the main a policy of peace,
but he did not push the doctrine of non-interference
very far, and in the recent Greek affair he took
a prominent part in arranging the conference which
resulted in the humiliation of the little kingdom.
In this affair England supported Austria in discounte-
nancing the discreditable practices by which the Greeks
kept up the insurrection in Crete, that insurrection being
entirely fomented by Greek aid ; and notwithstanding
the resistance of Russia, the terms agreed upon at the
conference were so favourable to Turkey as to give that
State a new lease of life. In the quarrel between the
Porte and the Khedive of Egypt, Lord Cla-
rendon also interfered, though with much less
reason, in the interests of Turkey. In the ne-
gotiations which are still unsettled between Eng-
land and America, touching the Alabama claims, Lord
Clarendon was fully at one with his predecessor, the pre-
sent Earl of Derby. He was willing to consent to a
settlement, but not to such a settlement as would com-
promise the honour of England. A short time ago the
deceased earl returned from a visit to the continent, and
expressed the cpinion that the relations between the
various States were never before in a condition so favour-
able to peace. Every body knows what was the last
melancholy affair which engaged his. lordship's attention.
The inquiry into the wretched brigandage muddle was on
the way when the statesman died.
This loss places a vacant garter in the hands of her
Majesty, and deprives the Queen's University of its Chan-
cellor. Lord Clarendon will be succeeded in his title by
his son, Lord Hyde, whose removal from the House of
Commons to the House of Perrs will create a vacancy in
the representation of Brecon.

Mr. Howes, M.P., continues rather seriously indis-
posed. The honourable ..gentleman is ordered to remaln
strictly quiet.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—
On Saturday morning an attempt at murder, followed
by an attempt to commit suicide, took place at the Great
Seal Patent Office, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane. Mr. Tomlinson, a clerk, was taking his lunch in
his office, when he suddenly received a severe blow on the
head, and on turning round perceived his assailant to ba a
man named Jerman, employed about the building in
carrying coals, &c. He was armed with a special con-
stable's staff, which was split in half by the force of the blow.
Mr. Tomlinson immediately grappled with him, but the
man ultimately escaped by means of the window and slid
down the gutter pipe into the yard, where he entered a
watercloset and endeavoured to commit suicide by cutting
his throat. Hearing the disturbance, a clerk, occupiedin
an adjoining room, entered Mr. Tomlinson's office, and on
seeing Jerman escape, proceeded to the closet which he
had entered, and found him bleeding from a wound in the
throat. On further assistance arriving he was removed
to King's College Hospital, where the wound was stated
not to be of a serious nature. Mr. Tomlinson was fortu-
nately so little injured that he was able to return home
shortly after the occurrence. Upon making inquiries
yesterday morning, it was ascertained that Jermyn was
in a very dangerous state. He was still lying in King's
College Hospital, and up to that time he had not been
able to speak. He was, however, conscious. The wound
which he had made with a penknife across his throat had
completely severed the windpipe and the jugular vein.
Mr. Tomlinson, although still suffering from the effects of
the blows inflicted upon his head, was progressing favour
ably, and it is now thought that he is out of danger.

J UNE 28, 1870

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.

SUNDAY EVENING.

The municipal difficulty has aroused all the energies
of our orators. M. Jules Favre's speech in favour of the
nomination of the mayors by the municipal councils is gene-
rally regarded as one of his best efforts. The amend-
ment was, notwithstanding rejected by the Chamber,
but we all know how much importance to attach to its
expression of the popular sentiments. M. 011ivier, of
course, opposed the amendment in question, and I under-
stand he intends to offer the sathe uncompromising opposi-
tionto the return of the Orleanist princes to France. It is
rumoured that the Emperor will regard as a personal
affront every vote given in favour of the petition.

Yesterday there was something like a scene among the
deputies, the mayors being, of course, like Queveda's model
woman, at the bottom of allthe mischief. M. Prax-Paradol
was holding forth on the right of Government to nominate
the mayors direct. Being a mayor himself, the deputy
for Montauban has, of course, good reason to appreciate
-the enlightenment and sagacity of the official selection !
To withhold this right from the Government.
says M. Prax • Paradol, would be to disarm
the Crown !—(a phrase for which the Siecle, by the
bye, ridicules him unsparingly.) M. Granier de Cassagnac
and others followed, and the rival parties VeTame excited.
" There is no law against the right," cried M. Ernest
Picard ; " only materialists and courtiers deny
the existence of a primeval right superior to
all your projects of law !" Upon this there ,
arose a commotion, which M. Schneider endeavoured to
quell. Let these irritating subjects, he said, be reserved
for outside. M. Arago thereupon changed the excite
ment into laughter by quietly remarking to
-the Government, " You see it will be neces-
sary for you to provide us with arenas !"
The Government would have given him anything in
reason, I dare say, at that moment, so grateful were they
for the lucky snot which averted the storm. Nothing dis-
arms an angry assembly like a fit of laughter, and the
deputies, conscious they had been looking and speaking
like so many gladiators, were content to resume
their discussions with more calmness, and to leave
" fighting it out " till another opportunity.
Monetary matters will be our next trouble when we
have laid the ghosts of M.M. les Maires. The Consti-
tutional Left has held a meeting, at which it was decided
that particular attention should be given to matters con-
nected with the Budget, and that M. Picard should be
the first to speak on the 4th of July, the day for opening

the discussion on the Budget.
The heat is still great. At Lyons there is an absolute
scarcity of water, and the murmurs of the public
are growing so loud that the town authorities will
be forced to take fresh measures to procure a systematic
supply as Paris has done. We have not, however, much
to boast of even in the eapital. The Prefect of the Seine
has just sent round a circular to the traders of Paris de-
siring them to use as little water as possible. Figaro
learns that the watering of the town has been sensibly
diminished of late. Happily, better accounts have lately
been received of the harvest, and the good effects have
already exhibited themselves on the Bourse. Bread made
from this year's wheat, grown in Algeria, is now selling in
some of the baker's shops.
One of our elegantes, yesterday, parodied a mot of
Madame de Stael, who sent her compliments to the sun-
shine, by a gentleman leaving England for France.
In the same way a member of the court, on leaving
France for a good long voyage, bade farewell to a lady
who bade him if ever he should meet the rain tell it how
much it was needed in Paris.
Great excitement has been occasioned in the religious
and political world by Cardinal Guid's speech at the
Council. It has been looked upon as an event, and it
may yet have an important influence on the ultimate
decisions of the august assembly. The Cardinal is one of
the most notable prelates of Italy, and he was sup-
posed to favour the dogma of infallibility,
but it is now thought that his discourse against
it will arrest the course of the Ultramontanes with respect
to the closing of the deliberations. The Univers has main-
tained a complete silence regarding the Cardinal's
manifestation of opinion. Another distinguished visitorwill
shortly arrive in France, Marshal Prim having announced
his intention of trying the waters of Vichy. When he retums
to Madrid a general amnesty will be proclaimed. It was
reported that Prince Charles, of Roumania, had been
assassinated, but on inquiry the rumour turns out to be
unfounded. The Turkish police are seeking for the origin
of this report, which caused great consternation at first.
Yesterday the abdication of Queen Isabella took place.
The partizans of her cause attach great importance to this
act of abdication, to which, after long hesitation,
she has consented, but it is difficult to see
what difference it can make. The chances of a restoration
are about equal as regards Isabella the Second and
Alphonso the Twelfth. There is no likelihood of Madrid
concerning itself with the affair of the Hotel asilewski,
and the Cortes have already given themselves four months
holiday.
A strange story is afloat concerning the withdrawal of
the troops from Rome. It is said that some of the deputies
of the Right became alarmed at the risk which the Holy
See might incur in the event of the withdrawal of the
French troops during the recess. They informed the Duke
de Gramont of their fears, and he assured them that the
Government would in its constitutional spirit call the
Chambers together, rather than take upon itself the
sole responsibility of such an act.
We shall never hear the last of strikes. The last news
is that the carpenters of Marseilles have struck work, and
ask for an hour's diminution of work without any reduc-
tion of wages. The Rouen carpenters are about to follow
their example. At Orleans some unpleasant consequences
have ensued from the strike of the ironfounders. Several
inhabitants are anxious to procure water from the town,
but in the absence of the ironfounders it has been impossi-
ble to procure turn-cocks for turning on the water.

THE GREEK MURDERS.— The
he
Independancng-e
Italienne denies t rumour that a int note from
land and Italy on the subject of thejo Greek massacreE will
shortly be addressed to the Greek Government.
REPORTED BATTLE IN LA PLATA.—The Memo-
morirl Diplomatique of Saturday evening publishes news,
without date, from La Plata, announcing that a battle
has taken place between the Argentine forces under •
General Conesa, and the insurgents under General Lopez
Jordan. At the first shock of cavalry General Jordan
scattered the right wing of General Conesa's army, but
the Argentine infantry afterwards routed General Jor-
dan's corps, which was compelled to retreat.
PRUSSIA AND THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY.—The
The Berlin Correspondent of the Agence Havas says that
much suprised hasbeen expressedatthe suppression by the
Moniteur Prussien of the passage in the Duke de Gram-
mart's speech relative to Count Bismarck, and adds that
the suppression was not confined to the Moniteur Prus-
sien. The passage was omitted in the telegram sent from
Paris to all the Prussian papers, and in the accounts given
of the sitting of the Corps L4gislatiff the same paragraph
in the speech was so altered as to be scarcely recognisable.
THE PROCLAMATION OF INFALLIBILITY.—The
Roman correspondent of the Memorial Diplomatique says
that the Pope will not be able to fulfil his intention of
proclaiming the Dogma of Infallibilty on St. Peter's
Day, on account of the long debates which have taken
place. At the last date more than seventy Fathers had
their names down to speak on the fourth article of the Schema
relative to the Dogma. Certain bishops, believing that the
cause had been sufficiently argued, proposed to close the
discussion, after the fashion adopted on the third of the
month, but Pius IX, having been informed of their
intention, forbade them to carry it out. He advised the
Cardinal Legates to accord liberty of speech to all those
whose names were down. It is, therefore, uncertain when
the debates on the Council will ,be closed, or when the
solemn proclamation will take place.
M. DE LESSEP'S VISIT TO LIVERPOOL.—Satur-
day was occupied by M. de Lesseys in visiting the chief
objects of commercial and general interest connected with
the town and port of Liverpool, including the St. George's
Hall, Free Public Library and Museum, the warehouses
recently completed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board, and the principal docks. The steam tender Alert
having been placed by the dock board at M. de Lesseps'
disposal for a cruise on the river, he had a good oppor-
tunity of appreciating not only the great extent of the
dock range, but the massive and handsome character of
the masonry of the walls, locks' and towers. He was
greatly interested and gratified. M. de Lesseps was ac-
comp tilled by Mr. D. A. Lange, and by a number of the
leading commercial men of the town. Yesterday ad-
dresses from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and the
East India and China Association were presented to him
at the Town Hall. The mayor invited the members of
the Town Council and the Mersey Dock Board to be
present on the occasion.

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DEATH OF THE EARL OF HADDINOTON.
The death of the Earl of Haddington is announced.
The melancholy event occurred on Saturday, after a short
illness. The deceased nobleman, George Bailie Hamilton,
eldest son of the late Mr. George Baillie, of Jerviswoode,
by Mary, youngest daughter of the late Sir J. Pringle,
Bart., was born at Mallerston, near Kelso, on the 14th of
April, 1802, and was brother of the late Marchioness of
Breadalbane,the Countess of Aberdeen, Lady Polwarth, and
the Countess Ashburnham. He married, 16th September, -
1824, Georgiana, daughter of the Yen. Archdeacon
Robert Markham. The late earl succeeded to the-
peerage in 1858, on the death of his cousin,. Thomas
Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, who died sane prole.
He was appointed a lord in waiting to the Queen in Sep-
tember, 1867, having previously, in April, 1859, been a
representative peer for Scotland, and his lordship
was High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland from-
May 1867 till the resignation of Lord Derby. His lord-
ship was also appointed a deputy-lieutenant-of Roxburgh-
shire in 1831, and of Haddingtonshire in 1851, and was a
deputy-lieutenant of Berwickshire. In 1861 he was
appointed colonel-commandant of the East Lothian
Yeomanry Cavalry. The first peer of the family, an
eminent Scotch advocate, was ennobled in 1562. He
became first Earl of Melrose, a title he subsequently
changed for that of Earl of Haddington. The Earls of
Haddington were the heriditary keepers of Holyrood-park
from the reign of Charles 11. till 1843, when the late earl's
kinsman compromised the family interest for a pecuniary
compensation of £40,000, and the office is consequently
now abolished.- The dece...l peer is- succeeded in the

family honours by his son, Geo'ro-e, Loru Binning, born
26th July, 1827, and married 17th October, 1854, to Helen,
second daughter of Sir John Warrender, Bart., by the
Hon. Frances Henrietta Arden, by whom there is a
youthful family.

REVISION OF THE AUTHORISED- VERSION.
It maybe interesting to recall a scene which was briefly
noticed in the columns of the Times as having occurred
during the past week, and which gives a pleasing augury
for a- better feeling between the contending factions of
Church and State. We refer to the participation in the
Holy Communion by the Company of the Revisers
of the Authorised Version of the New Testament,
which occurred in Henry Vll.'s Chapel in Westminster
Abbey, preparatory to their entrance an...their important
work. A notice had been issued to each of the body, to
the effect that the Sacrement would be administered there,
on the day of their first meeting, to such of the body as
should feel disposed to attand. Some few were prevented
from appearing ; but at the hour named as many astwenty
presented themselves, and were placed .in the ancient
stalls of the chapel. No one else assisted. The Dean
read the service from the Communion table at the
head of Henry Vll.'s tomb. It so happened that
this table thus received its first use. It had within
a few days past replaced a temporary table, having
as the inscription round it records, been erected in the
place of the ancient altar which once indicated the spot
where Edward VI. was buried, probably to meet the
wishes of his sister Mary, and had been destroyed by the
Puritans in the civil war. On the marble slab which
covers its top is placed the fragment of the beautifully-
carved frieze of the lost altar, found unexpectedly last
year in Edward Vl.'s grave, together with other frag-
ments of ruined altars which happened to be at hand
for a like purpose. In front of this table, thus itself
F monument of extinct strifes of. former days, and round
the grave of the youthful Protestant King, in whose reign.
the English Bible first received its acknowledged place
in the coronation of the Sovereign; as well as its free
and general circulation throughout the people, knelt
together the band of scholars and divines, con-
sisting of representatives of almost every form of
Christian belief in England. There were bishops of the
Established Church, two of them by their venerable
years connected with the past generation ; there were the
representatives of our historic Cathedrals and Collegiate
Churches, of our learned Universities, of our laborious
parochial charges, and of our chief ecclesiastical Convoca-
tion ; and with these, intermingled without distinction,
were ministers of the Established and of the Free Church
of Scotland, and of almost every Nonconformist Church
in England—lndependent, Baptist, Wesleyan, Uni-
tarian. It is not to be supposed that each one of those
present entered with equal agreement into every part
of the service ; but it is surely not without a hopeful
significance that neither on the side of the Church nor of
Nonconformity was there any " religious difficulty " raised
as to a joint participation on such an occasion in the most
venerable and sacred ordinance of the Christian religion.
The chapel of Henry VII. has witnessed many famous
sights, more august and more stirring—the funerals of
kings and princes, of nobles, generals, and statesmen ;
the debates of the Westminster Assembly and of the
Convocations of the English Church ; the installation
of the Knights of the Bath, whose banners wave from
the roof, and whose swords were deposited beneath the
altar raised on that spot. But it may be doubted
whether it has ever been the scene of an event so fraught,
if rightly considered, with possibilities of kindly inter-
course between jarring factions, and pacific solution of
warring problems, as that which happened, silent and
unobserved, on the 22nd of June.

THE PROSPECTS OF THE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND.

Dr. Fraser, the Bishop of Manchester, in addressing a
demonstration of upwards of 15,000 Church of England
Sunday-school scholars at Blackburn Corporation-park
on Saturday, said he never saw in his life such a spectacle
as then met his eyes ; he never saw before him so large a
congregation, and the sight of so many thousand Church
of England Sunday-school scholars filled his heart with
mingled feelings, partly of encouragement and partly of
depression and anxiety. The depression on his mind was that
of his own weakness and incapacity in attempting to be
he Bishop of such a large population as that oeLanca-
shire, and he feared that he should prove unequal to the
mighty task which lay before him. There was a time
when Bishops were seldom seen in popular assemblies of
that kind—when they stood upon the dignity of their
Order. He believed the Bishops of the present
generation had found that their strength was in comity,
into the most immediate and direct contract with the'
people. A friend of his who lived in old times and
ancient memories, and looked doubtfully upon the
changes that he saw going on all round about him,
once told him that he thought the days of the
Church of England were numbered when the Bishops
left off wearing their wigs. He sometimes went into
circles where he heard a very croaking tone about the pros-
pects of the Church of England. Looking round that
great gathering, he confessed to his mind being very much
lifted up, not only regarding the present of the Church of
England, but still more regarding thefuture of the Church
of England. He believed there never was a greater
opportunity for usefulness, and a greater scope
for putting forth all her energies, than is now laid out
before the Church of England, if she would only rise
to the occasion, and prove herself worthy of the oppor-
tunity. The Church of England must not simply be
the church of the nobility, or of the aristocracy, or
of the wealth of the land, but of the whole people ;
and she must be tolerant, catholic, evangelical, com-
prehensive, and conciliatory. Her strength lay not in
her Bishops, though they no doubt were of use in their
places, not even in their clergy, though they did a thousand
times more to strengthen her than the body of the
Bishops ; but the strength of the Church of England
lay in a staunch, faithful, and consistent laity. They
must take their stand upon the ancient principles that
had characterised our constitution in Church and State,
be loyal to their own principles, yet temperate and
moderate towards the principles of those who differed from
them—not in a spirit of compromise, which he understood
to be a watering down of principles till they become
so weak that thy could not distinguish them from the
similarly watered down opinions of those who differed
from them—not in a spirit of " toleration," because that
was almost insulting to men who lived on the free soil of
England, but of broad sympathy and mutual conciliation.
There was a time when it was believed by rulers in high
places that the strength of the Church of England
depended upon Acts of Parliament and upon
repressive laws prohibiting meeting-houses to be
opened there and conventicles there, but all those
things were relics of the dark ages when men did not
understand the temper of the English people or the true
temper of their own Church. The Church was now
standing forth in her strength and spreading out her arms
wider and wider, and gathering more and more into her
fold, by teaching the better lesson of Christian charity
and mutual conciliation. He ventured to prophesy that fifty
years hence Englishmen who would be living then would
be living on a soil which would be inhabited by a race
still more happy, still more educated, still more civilised,
still more united, and in the highest sense still more
religious than the race which treads the English soil now.

SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.—TWO proposals have been
presented to the Chamber of Deputies of Rio Janeiro
which pronounce the freedom of all children who shall be
born of slave parents. These plans are as yet imperfect,
but they are an indication of the state of things, and afford
promise of future improvement. They have been referred
to the examination of a special commission.

A LADY KILLED IN THE LONDON STREETS.—On
Saturday Mr. Payne, the deputy coroner held two in-
quests respecting the death of Miss Maria Gleadow, aged
sixty-four years, at Guy's Hospital, and the other on
Maria Sanson, aged two years, at St. Bartholomew's.
Miss Gleadow was a sister of Mr. Gleadow, a professor of
music, living at 8, Doctor-street, Walworth, and she was
single lady. Mr. G. Hanson,llo,New North- road, Islington,
stated that at six o'clock on Monday evening, while he was
driving a pony and trap through High-street, Borough, he
saw the deceased crossing the road in front of his pony's
head. He called out to her, and she then ran against a
three-horse omnibus that was going to Camberwell. The
horses struck her and she fell into the roadway. The
wheels passed over her body. The driver of the omnibus
called out to her, but he was not able to pull up in time to
prevent the accident. The police carried the lady to Guy's
Hospital, where she expired on Thursday from the effects
of her injuries. A verdiat of " Accidental death " was
recorded.