The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-23 00:00:00

LORD MALMESBURY'S STEWARD,

In returning a verdict that the deceased Nl.'
Elliott was "found drowned, but there was no 071'
dente to show how he came into the water," the
coroner's jury at Christchurch certainly followed to
the letter the usual instructions of the corunerto as'
miss all previous ideas from their minds. There was I 0
evidence whatever that the deceased steward in"
his death by unfair means, and so it would seem ne
if the occurrence must be accounted for by" his hav-
ing either committed suicide or fallen
accidentally into the water. With regard
to this affair there is only one thing more
to be said. That a report should have been circn"
lated respecting the late Mr. Elliott's pecuniary cir-
cumstances in connection with his employer, Lord
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11.Ialmesbury, is much to be regretted; but the fan"'
lies with the local paper which originated it. Thns?,
journals which copied the report naturally conclude."
that a paper published on the spot would not err in
such a matter.

" THE " PARISH.

There is now some little reason to hope that the St.
Pancras dirt-heap will be shot into the dust-hole of
oblivion. The charges against Dr. Ellis have, with
s, very trifling exception, broken down. The public
zan scarcely have forgotten the heinous crimes which
the St. Pancras guardians so liberally and gratuit-
ously laid to the account of that unfortunate medical
man. Certain authorities having reported that the
state of St. Pancras workhouse infirmary was bad,
the guardians first asserted that it was not bad, and
afterwards declared that Dr. Ellis ha",
made it bad for the express purpose el
bringing the guardians into discredit. The Poet-
law Board had the matter investigated, and decide,
that these accusations are groundless. Dr. Ellis did
not "arrange" ventilators. lie did not wilfully over-
crowd, neither did he designedly put cases of costa'
gious fever into the general wards, in order t°
produce an epidemic. The only offence of
which the Board finds Dr. Ellis guilty is that o!
causing three inquests to be held without suflicien,l
cause—an error to which most men who had dor
ings with the St. Pancras guardians would be
ceedingly prone. It is idle to comment upon the
spirit in which these detestable charges were pre'
ferred. • But one point remains to be dcided.
state of the workhouse was beyond dispute a's"
gracefully bad. The guardians alleged that pr.
Ellis had purposely caused it to be bad. The Poor"
law Board decide to the contrary. With Wileult
then, does the blame lie?

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.
The contest between the eights of Oxford an
Cambridge may be in theory a private affair, but see
matter of fact it is a public event. It is desirab
that every opportunity should be given to spectatl
to witness this exciting struggle ; but
is 1.
not desirable that such facilities should interfere
with the chances of the rowers. The Thames Con'
servancy have justly decided to once more enforce
the regulations which proved so effective in securing
a fair race between the Oxford and Harvard crews
last autumn. The umpire boat and the press boat vvi."
alone be allowed to followlhe race. Allothersteani.ers
will be detained at Putney-bridge, and no exception
will be made, even in favour of the Conservators ova
boat. The banks also will be kept clear from horse-
horsemen
men. Thus the enemies of the public—the steam-
boat owners who annoy the crews, and the
who annoy the foot spectators— Will each be kept in
)rder,
THE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE.
The state of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian's
widow becomes mere and more hopeless. ITel
insanity, which sonaehttle while
ago was not despaired
of, is now unintermittent. She is strictly watched et
the Palace of Tervueren, where her sister-in-law, the
Queen of the Belgians, frequently visits her. To the
mental alienation so long existing there is now added
:ritense fever, which confines the patient to her bed*
T i here s too much reason to fear that Mexico
have another victim.

MORTALITY OF NURSLINGS.
Doctor Berthillon has made a series of calculati°,ll3,
in each of the departments of France on
question of the mortality of nurslings, which r 711,1
shortly come before the French Chamber. He fount'
ments round the capital, where out .of 1,000
that the greatest mortality exists in the seven depar'''
under a year old, 298 perish in the
Marne, 295 Oise, 307 in Seine et Marue2
313 in Yonne, 318 in Seine Inferical
319 in Eure, and in the famous department Burs ea
Loire dedicated "aux petits Parisiens," 378. Thole
departments, says the doctor, form a girds
of mourning round Paris, and he '",s
given them a very black tint in I'l,
map. For children who have survived the first Yo,"".
children
the seven departments, he says, are no longor fata,ll!
while for children between 1 and 5 years old, the
black tints which surrounded Paris are trany;
ferred to the Mediterranean ends of the A-11,),
and Pyrenees, where in a dozen department'
the mortality is 70 per 1,000, whilst ormana.Y,
Maine, and Anjou, to the west. of Paris, and Chain-
pagne and Lorraine to the east, are the most health"
The result of the mortality between the ages of
and seven is a black band crossing France diagonal!,
starting from Bretagne and terminating where
Alps and Mediterranean meet.

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