The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

She never saw him again till she visited him in a
dying state at the Northern Hospital, on the
Bth of August, the day of his death. Carlisle,
after his wife's desertion, continued to lodge at
Rooney's, indulging in his old course of drunken-
ness, and persuaded Rooney's wife to drink with
him at various publichouses. On the morning of
Friday, July 15, the prisoner Rooney came home to
dinner from his work, and, finding his wife out, he
sought her in a neighbouring publichouse and
brought her home ; at 6 o'clock, on his return to
tea, she was again absent, and on this occasion he
discovered her once more in a publichouse in com-
pany with Carlisle and some other women, and
much intoxicated. In this state he led her home to
the cellar of his house, in which they lived, and
having fastened the doof commenced beating her,
and some neighbours, on hearing her screams,
came to the house, among others Carlisle, who first
knocked at the front door, which led by a distinct
passage to his own apartqient, and then knocked at
the cellar door and called out to Rooney, who told
him he should not enter, but that if he did so it
would be at his peril. Upon this Carlisle burst open
the door, and Rooney, who had in the meantime
armed himself with a dagger and pair of tongs,
struck him two orthree severe blows upon the head,
and he fell on the ground, after which a scuffle took
place, and when down Rooney again beat the de-
ceased about the legs, causing, among other wounds
a compound fracture of one leg, which resulted in
Carlisle's death on Auust Bth. Mrs. Rooney was
found lying on the floor, very tipsy, and in a state
of nudity, with her clothes torn from her, and her
body covered with her chemise slightly thrown over
her. Carlisle was in a very weak condition, bleed.
ing, and was at once taken to the Northern Hospi-
tal, where the wounds on his head and legs were
attended to.

A son of Rooney, who was present during the
quarrel, explained that the entrance into Carlisle's
room was from the front door, and that the cellar
door led into Rooney's chamber only. He also said
that his father had several children and had been
twice married. The deceased was a powerful man.
After the surgeon had been examined,
Mr, Fenwick, addressing his lordship, said he
felt it hopeless to struggle further against the evi-
dence which had been offered, and after urging the
great provocation which the prisoner had experi-
enced and his natural jealousy and resentment at
the conduct and interference of the deceased man,
who had forced himself into the cellar, said that he
could not, under any circumstances, hope to reduce
the case below the crime of manslaughter. He also
reminded his lordship of the good character which
prisoner had previously maintained in the neigh-
bourhood.

His Lordship having directed the jury as to their
verdict, they accompanied it with a recommen-
dation to mercy, upon the ground of the very great
provocation the prisoner had experienced.
The learned Judge said in such a serious case he
must take time to consider the sentence, and that
the recommendation of the jury should have its pro-
per weight.

CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
Bridget M'lntyre and Sabina Whaling, mother
and daughter, were indictedfor having on the Ist of
December unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grie-
vous bodily harm on Elizabeth M'lntyre, the step-
daughter of the first prisoner. They were charged
in various other counts with the same offence com-
mitted on other days down to the 19th of March on
Elizabeth M'lntyre.
Mr. Leofrie Temple and Mr. Deighton appeared
for the prosecution, and Mr. Sinion for the defence.
It appeared that the prisoner Bridget M'lntyre
is the wife of a sailor now away at sea, and that his
child, Elizabeth M'lntyre, by a former wife, aged
six years, lived with the prisoner and Sabina Whal-
ing, her mother, at a house in No. 19 Court, Robert-
street, Toxteth-park, Liverpool. From the evidence
of Mary Hewson, it appeared that cn the 19th of
March she went to a petty in that court, and there
found Elizabeth M'lntyre, the stepdaughter of the
prisoner, crouched up in a corner. She gave her a
piece of bread. Between 6 and 7 o'clock next morn-
ing she found the child sitting there in the same
position in a dirty state. On the Monday before this
she had seen the prisoner M'lntyre take the child
by the kair of the head and knock its head against
the wall and kick it twice. She was finding
fault with her being late on a message. She
knocked the child down and kicked her up the
court, and did this a second time within five mi-
nutes. In the middle of last month she saw the
prisoner M'lntyre lift the child out of a tub of
water by the hair of the head, and on another occa-
sion saw the child with two black eyes. Another
witness, Esther M'Cormick, proved that the pri-
soners formerly lived at her house, 73, Mann-street,
and left it on the 2d January last. She had seen the
prisoner Whaling beat the child in December last on
the face with her hand until she made the child's
lips swell out, and when doing this on one occasion
she heard Whaling say " You young fairy of blazes,
will you ever tell les again of your mammy ?" The
witness waited in the room some time, and saw
Whaling take the child up by the arm, and repeating
the same expression to her, she put the child's face
to the bars of the fire. Witness interfered, and was
told to mind her own business, and Whaling then
attempted to place the child on the fire, but witness
caught hold of her and dragged her away. The
tire was in a small grate, but at the time red and
blazing at top. On the 18th March the child came
to her house, and Mrs. Whaling came for her and
said to her, " Are you coming home, Lizzy ?" The
child said she would rather stop with Mrs. M'Cor-
mick. Mrs. Whaling then called the child a " young
fairy of blazes," and said she would cut Mrs.
M'Cormick's throat for all she was there with her
then. She then took held of the child by the arm
and threw it on the floor, and when it was down she
kicked it twice between the legs behind, and the last
kick raised the child off the ground, and the child
cried out and was taken away by the prisoner.
Another witness, Jane Rooney, stated that on the
19th March she had seen the prisoner Bridget
M'lntyre kick the child up the yard. Other wit-
nesses proved similar acts of violence and cruelty to
the child on other occasions. A witness named.
Alice Harding proved that on one occasion in De-
cember last she saw Bridget M'lntyre, the step-
mother, beat the child with a strap and buckle,
striking her with the buckle end of the strap, the
grandmother, Whaling, being present. The child's
clothes were stripped off. It had dirtied itself.
She struck it on its body and little legs, and made
it bleed. The child cried very much. On the fol-
lowing morning she saw the prisoner Whaling beat
the child with the same strap and buckle on its
naked body till the blood came. Mr. Wall, the
surgeon to the workhouse in Toxteth-park, proved
that on the 20th March the child was taken there
by a policeman, and he examined her and found
her in au extremely emaciated and neglected condi-
tion. On examining her person he found nearly a
score of wounds and contusions upon her. Some of
the wounds were the result of violence, some were

he result of burns. There were several livid con

tusions. The child was in a very dangerous condi-
tion. He attributed her condition to want of food
and proper clothing, and to the bad treatment he
had heard described. In the course of this witness's
evidence the child, carried by a nurse, was brought
into court for the purpose of identification. It was
pale and emaciated to a dreadful degree, and though
six years of age, looked no bigger than an infant of
three years old. The sight of its poor little wasted
arms and hands excited a thrill of horror through
the court, coupled with the evidence which had just
been given.
Mr. Simon, without attempting to extenuate the
cruelty which had been proved, attempted to show
that the beatings, though cruel and in excess, were
administered to the child as correction for being a
dirty child, and without any malice, and amounted

only to a common assault.
His lordship having carefully summed up the
evidence,f
The jury found both prisoners guilty of the
graver charge.

- His lordship, in passing sentence, said the jury
had very properly convicted them. The evidence,
to his mind, brought the charge home conclusively
against them both. He could hardly restrain him-
self to express an opinion of their conduct in mode-
rate terms, it had been so brutal, so inhuman, and
so destitute of every spark of humanity. He should
feel it his duty to pass on them a very severe sen-
tence as a warning to all others that children were
not to be so treated with impunity. The sentence
of the Court was, that they be each imprisoned for
two years with hard labour.

CANTON. The acres of unkept, overgrown
wilderness, with its rotting pavilions, tumble-down temples,
dried-up lakes, crumbling rockwork, and broken seats and
table,s, formed the spring of all the impressions I afterwards
received in and about Canton. Nothing so dreary—not
even Vauxhall on a wet Christmas Day—ever could be
imagined. It was not the breakdown of acute organic lesion,
but the decay of long, long-continued atrophy: and I formed
a theory at the moment, which the appearance of every other
yaniun, or temple, strengthened, Its,- the Chinese tied fi r
ages so jealously shut up their vaunted city, not from tusy
terror of the barbarians becoming acquainted with their
secrets of trade, government, or manufacture, but from a
positive idea of shame that any one should see the moul-
dering neglected "lions" of their southern capital. True
to the estimated value of their curios, everything was in a
state of " crackle." Combine all you can call to mind of
d reary places—Miss Linwood's old room in Leicester-square,
and the present aspect of the square itself ; the gaunt,
cheerless show-rooms of palaces generally; the " bloated
Graue-e" and " Haunted House;" the old pavilion on
Monkey Island, and indeed " pavilions" generally, from
that in Bans-place to any damp ceiling-stained summer-
house, dedicated to friendship or nature, that you know of
—mix them together, and extract their essence, and then
you will have not the least idea of the general rot and ruin
that is spreading, like an ulcer, throughout Canton.—
ConthiU Ifergqzme for itpril.