The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-07 00:00:00

THE WICKLOW PEERAGE CLAIM.

The hearing of this case was resumed this morn-
ing before the Lord Chancellor and the Committee
of Privileges in the House of Lords.
Sir Roundell Palmer expressed his willingness to
call Mrs. Howard.

Sir John Coleridge submitted to the Lord Chan-
cellor whether this was the right course to pursue.
He apprehended the charge against Mrs. Howard
was one of perjury and conspiracy, and he urged
that she ought to be treated in the ordinary way.
The Lord Chancellor thought the Solicitor-
General bad not put his case in the ordinary light.
Mrs. Howard alleged that the chill was her son and
was the real Earl. If Sir Roundell Palmer had been
in possession of the evidence which he now alleged
he had, he would have had an opportunity of cross-
examining her. He did not think that, her evidence
having been given, the case could be said to be
closed, and he thought that the ordinary course
would be for Mrs. Howard to be cross• examined
only on those points on which evidence had not pre-
viously existed.

Mrs. Howard refused to make any statement
whatever until the other side had made out their
case against her.
Notwithstanding her repeated refusals, she was
ultimately induced to retire with her counsel for
consultation.

On her return, Sir John Coleridge said that he
regretted to inform their lordships that after doing
his best to peruade his client, she still refused to be
sworn.

His lordship then put the question that Ellen
Howard, who had been guilty of gross contempt in
refusing to be sworn, be placed in the custody of the
Black Rod.

The motion was agreed to, and Mrs. Howard
was removed to one of the committee-rooms in cud-
tody of the Black Rod.
Mary Bent was examined by Sir John Karslake,
and said at the age of 15 she went out to service to
earn her own livelihood ; and was now about 28. She
was in service at St. Ann-street, Liverpool, in 1863.
She there became acquainted with a man called
Jones. In 1864 she went into the Liverpool Work-
house in the month of July, where she remained
for six weeks. She was confined there on Aug. 16,
1864, of a boy in the lying-in ward. Ellen Hig-
ginson, the official over the ward, attended witness
from time to time, as also did a nurse named Stewart.
The child was registered under the name of William.
Shortly after the confinement, on the 23d, about
noon, she saw a lady in the ward. There was a
lady with her. Mrs. Higginson came with them.
They looked all round the room to see if there was
any child they would like. There were many
women and children in the ward. The lady and
Mrs. Higginson tried to induce witness to part with
her child. Last Friday week witness saw the same
lady in one of the outer rooms of the House of
Lords.

Sir John Coleridge submitted that before any
evidence as to what took place should be given Mrs.
Howard should be identified.

Mrs. Howard then entered the box, and witness
positively swore to ber, and then proceeded :—The
lady said that the child should be brought up as
a gentleman and should have a first-class educa-
tion. She gave me from Monday to Friday
to consider. She was with me about half
an hour. I promised to consider about it. I saw
her again on the Friday, and there was no one with
her as a companion. Mrs. Higginson came with her
to the bed. She then said I was not to own it after
she had taken it. After this the child was taken
away to be dressed, and I don't remember seeing it
again.

Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and attended by the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, will, it is understood,
leave Windsor Castle to-morrow for Buckingham Palace.
The Queen will remain in London for a day or two, and
then return to Windsor Castle.

DEATH OF A MARCHIONESS.—The Marchioness
of Tweeddale suddenly on Saturday moaning, at half-past
ten o'clock, at Edinburgh.

The condition of the Marquis of Ailsa, though
still considered critical, was slightly improved on Satur-
day. His injuries are believed to be chiefly internal.
The second meeting of the Fox Club this season
took place at Brooks's, on Saturday. Among those pre-
sent were - the Marquises of Normanby and Hartington ;
the Earls of Albemarle, Charlernont, and Stair; Viscount
Eversley, Lord Methuen, Lord Castletown of Upper
Ossory, Sir Montague J. Cholmeley, Bart., M.P., Right
Hon. Stephen Lushington, Hon. Fitzpatrick IL Vernon,
Hon. Col. William Edwardes, M.P., Col. Thomas C. B.
Challoner, Lieut.-Col. Hambleton F. Custance, Edward A.
Sanford, Esq., Augustus K. Stephenson, Esq., Henry A.
Herbert, Esq., M.P., George Ridley, Esq., Robert Gur-
don, Esq., John Charles Dundas, Esq.
TIIE KENSAL- GREEN TRAGEDY.—James Camkin,
the young man charged with the murder of his stepfather
at the Western gas works, was apprehended yesterday in
the street by Detectives Jones, 18 X, and Frewen, 266 X.
Ho was in a half• starved condition, and said he had not
tasted food for 26 hours. Upon being charged ho said,
" I certainly did it."

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Mesas. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their flue old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."

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