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had been delivered of a child. From the cross-examination of the
witness it appeared that the prisoner bore an excellent character,
and that she (the witness) could say, as the mother of children, that
the period of accouchement is apt to cores on quite suddenly, and
under circumstances when the mother might be wholly unprepared

for it.
The next witness, who lived next door, deposed that she heard the
cry of an infant in the adjoining water-closet.
♦nother witness deposed that the prisoner said in her presence,
" It is true, I have had a baby."
Police-constable S 15 deposed that he found the body of a female
infant in the soil of the water closet on the day in question, about
four feet below the surface. Found seine baby clothes in the pri-
soner's box.
Cross-examined—Did she say to you that she Was very Sorry ibr
what had happened, and that it was an accident ?—Witness's deposi-
tion was here read, and it was found that he did depose that she used
these words. He then said that he did not now recollect the prisoner
using these word...
Police-constable 205 S, deposed that he tried to put the body of tke
child through the hole in the bottom of the pan, but it would not pass;
for this purpose he had placed the pan in a horizontal position,instead
of a perpendicular one.
Mr. Delany, surgeon, examined the prisoner, and found she had
been delivered of a child. Examined the child, and found a mark en
the head and knee, and is of opinion that the child was born alive ;
but it might have died from loss of blood. The head of a child at the
birth elongates, and then assumes its natural form.
Mr. Cooper, surgeon, was next examined, but his evidence was not
material.—Here the case closed.
The prisoner stood in front of the dock for a short time, bnt she
became so faint that she was accommodated with a seat ; and during
the speech of the Learned Counsel who defended her, and the charge
of the Learned Judge, ►he wept bitterly.
The jury, without a moment's hesitation, Acquitted her.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
CORE AND WATERFORD.

The Committee met at eleven o'clock, when
Mr. HawHELL opened the case of the petitioners (the Earl of
Shannon, D. Callaghan, M.P., Archdeacon Ryder, and otk' re), who
complained of private injuries to their demesnes and lands by the
route of the llne.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP VIII.
This Committee, consisting of Mr. Benjamin Hawes (chairman),
Mr. W. Entwisle, Major Beresford, Colonel Paget, and Captain Vyse,
reassembled at twelve o'clock this morning in the Court of QUCCR'S
Bench.
The first business before the Committee was the discussion of the
clauses in the Bill to construct the
EDINBURGII AND PEEBLES,
all of which were agreed to an passed, with slight amendments,
save that which would have enabled the promoters to lease to the
North British, which was struck out.

EAST LOTHIAN CENTRAL, OR TYNE

VA.1.1.31Y.

Mr. Sergeant Bzussii, on behalf of the promoters of this project,
applies to have the Bill referred to the Committee up stairs, on the
groand that all the opposition with which they had been threatened
had been withdrawn.
the Committee acceded to the application.

GROUP XII.