The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-10 00:00:00

left the room, and as he passed out he suggested to the

nuns that they had better leave also, but they de-
clined. He returned and asked them a second time, but
they still refused to leave. The weather was most incle-
ment. The plaintiff was most insufficiently clothed. She
complained of extreme weakness, nausea, want of appetite,
great coldness, and that she was getting very thin. She
appeared emaciated. I questioned her. She told me she
could not eat, and on pressing her she said that the
quality of her food was bad. Her circulation was feeble
and cold, and her hands were almost blue. She was in a
very weak condition, but not suffering from disease. She
appeared to be under constraint.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hawkins: There was no
physical restraint, was there, to prevent her giving infor-
mation?

Witness : No.
The Lord Chief Juatice : There might be moral con-
straint quite as efficacious as physical restraint.

Fitness : I never thought it necessary to see plaintiff
alone. I was consulted as to her removal. I advised het
removal. She was five or six weeks under my care. Her
manner was quiet and earnest.

By the Lord Chief Justice : I formed my opinions from
her statement. I had no reason to doubt it. She got into
tolerably good health by June.
Mr. Roberts, plaintiff's attorney, deposed that he took
every means to subpcena Dr. O'Hanlan and Father Saurin,
but without effect.

Mr. Hawkins : I shall make no remarks on their
absence. (Laughter).
The Solicitor-General: My learned friend's candour is
touching. (Renewed laughter).
The Lord Chief Justice: The gravity of Mr. Hawkins's
remark was enough to make me smile. (Loud laughter).
A large number of letters were put in and read, but
from one of Mrs. Starr's the following passage was
expunged :—" When at confession a few days ago, I
mentioned my trouble about Sister Mary Scholastics to
Canon Mottler for the first time, and told him of my
fear of a coming scandal. He told me I was
bound in conscience to make it known to your lordship,
and he very kindly offered to make it known to you for
me if I would allow him to do so ; but I thought I had
better do it myself, for fear it might come to the know-
ledge of other priests if mentioned out of confession."

After some further evidence the court again adjourned,

THE PROSPECTS OP E.NGINEERS.

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The Engineer, in discussing the prospects of the engineer
ing profession, thinks that the amount of engineering to
he done just now is wofully in an inverse ratio to
the number of engineers eager to do it. Not very long ago
every young engineer expected to rival Mr. Stephenson,
and consequently, now that they find their prospects less
brilliant than they anticipated, they are eagerly looking out
for places under Go.vernment. The appointment of Mr.
Bright to the head of the Board of Trade has encouraged
all the youths of Cottonopolis to look for comfortable
appointments, varying in value from £3OO to £l,OOO per
annum. The Engineer• has received a good many
inquiries respecting such posts, and, by way of
reply, directs the inquirers to its advertising
columns where the " official notices" skew very
placidly what is required from Government engineers.
A surveyor of passenger steamships, for instance, under
the Board of Trade has to survey passenger vessels, to
examine whether their hulls, boilers, engines, &c., are of
good workman,hip, and fit to carry passengers. A Board
of Trade surveyor has also to conduct the examinations
of engineers for certificates of competency in the
management of marine engines. He must prove that he
has served an apprenticeship, and has a practical know-
ledge of the construction and repairs of steamers and
ma finery, an 1 that he has actually worked at sea in the
engine-room. There are about forty of these surveyors at
the ports of the United Kingdom, their salaries varying
from £250 to £3OO per annum. But it is quite
clear that no young man just leaving his apprenticeship
would be eligible for such a post. The number of candi-
dates is always large. The last vacancy in November
produced between thirty and forty applications. A
surveyor's office is no sinecure, for in case of a boiler
examined by him exploding before the expiration
of the certified time, he is liable to impri-
sonment for manslaughter. It is one of our legislative
anomalies that only passenger vessels are surveyed ;
ordinary vessels can go to sea in any state, but it is to be
feared that at present we shall not have an extension of
the Act: The engineer surveyorships are almost the
only situations of the kind under the Board of Trade as the
inspectors of mines are under the Home Office. The inspec-
tors of railways are indeed in Mr. Bright's department, but
there are only three of these gentlemen, and they are all
selected from the army. The engineer holds this to be a
mistake, as they are necessarily without practical engi-
neering. training. In other branches of the service there
might be considerable improvements, but it is quite plain
that ambitious and inexperienced youths had better turn
their attention elsewhere.

THE NORWICH MURDER.—Since the committal
of the prisoner Sheward for trial—and, indeed, since his
removal to .Norwich—he has become very taciturn, and
has not given the slightest additional clue to the murder
so strangely confessed by him at the Lambeth Police-
court early in January. In fact, he .is evidently deter.
mined now to struggle for existence. He will be brought
to trial at Norwich about the 26th or 27th of March.
ADDRESS TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR. —A deputa-
tion, composed of the mayor, aldermen, and members of
the Common Council of the city of Oxford, who were also
accompanied by the city members, has just waited
upon
the Lord Chancellor, at Oxford, and presented him with
a congratulatory address. His lordship, in the course of
his reply, alluded to his first connection with the city, and
expressed his deep appreciation of the uniform kindness
which had been extended towards him. The deputation,
at the close of the ceremony, was entertained by the Lord
Chancellor at a dejetiner.
THE DOCTOR AND THE SICK CHlLD.—Cultivate
a look of mystery. Every mother of a sick child studies
the doctor's face. Come in softly, but with the air of a
mild conqueror. Look Piercingly at the patient. Then
look from one to another of the persons present. Say to
the nurse, in a low tone, " I think you have a right view
of the case ;" and, before you leave, say to the mother,
"I could not have done ,better for the case myself than
you have done." If the child gets well, as it will nine
times in ten if you let it alone, you will have the credit in
that family of extraordinary skill.--Henry Ward Beecher.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—Last week the rate of
mortality in London was 27 per 1,000, a rate lower than
that which prevailed in Edinburgh, Dublin, Bristol,
Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Bradford, Newcastle.
upon-Tyne, and Glasgow, but higher than that recorded
in Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and Hull. The
deaths in the metropolis were 1,631, or six below
the average for the fifth week in the year, and 10G
less than the number registered in the previous
week. The mortality from scarlet fever continues to
decline. The Registrar-General remarks that the deaths
from fever and other zymotic diseases would be consi•
derably'diminished if public vehicles were not used to
convey infected persons ; under the present system they
become the means of propagating disease amongst persons
who would otherwise escape the malady. The mean tem-
perature of the week was 49 2, while on one day it was as
high as 61'6.

INTERESTING DISCOVERY. —The excavations of

the Temple of Bacchus at Athens are just now attracting
the attention of antiquar:ei. M. riot, a French gentle.
man, writes from that city that he has just discovered the
remains (trunk and head) of a colossal Faun. His letter
is accompanied by a photograph and by precise indica-
tions of the proportions of the statue. What renders this
discovery the more interesting is that M. de Longperier,
after comparison of the measures given by M. Piot, has
found that the proportions and forms of the Faun are just
those of the four caryatides in the Louvre. These last
were known to come from the Villa Albani, but the place
of their first origin has not been ascertained ; the fifth is
at the museum at Stockholm. There is now every reason
to suppose that it is the sixth of these statues which has
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was a cloud on the general spirit of the community, and
she was a dangerous example to the younger sisters.
She was troublesome and exacting. She stated, further,
that she made a reasonable concession in Mr. Saurin's
case. He came after hours ; but, as he bad been travelling
all day, she made no difficulty in her seeing her brother,
and gave her half an hour, which was double the time
usually allowed ; and at the same time she Was told that
she could not see him again until the end of the month.]
The Solicitor-General: I should like to see the
original letter I have just been reading.
A document was handed in by the defendants. -
The Solicitor-General : This is marked " copy extract.'
Mr. Mellish : We have not got the original, but' an ex-
tract or draft of what Mrs. Starr wrote to the bishop.
The Solicitor-General : I should like to see the original.
An extract is something taken out of a whole. I should
like to see what it is taken out of. Copy implies an
original, and extract a whole.
Mr. Mellish : I cannot explain it. It may be that Mrs.
Starr only took copies of niateiial parts of her letter to
the bishop.
The Lord Chief Justice : It seems, Mr. Solicitor-General,
this is all you are likely to get.
Sir Henry Cooper (physician, of Hull) was then
called : On the Ist of May I went with Mr.
M. Saurin to the convent, and saw his sister.
I waited for about a quarter of an hour, when plaintiff
was introduced by two nuns. The nuns sat sufficiently
near to us to hear all that passed. Mr. Saurin asked if
they should leave, and I said it did not matter. Mr. Saurin