The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1869.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
(HEAVY) MAILS.

MALTA, Feb. 17.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Bangalore, arrived from Alexandria at 5 and left
fur Southampton at 10 yesterday evening, where she
may be looked for early on the morning of the
26th inst.

OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
The Massilia, from Southampton on the 6th inst.,
reached Malta at midnight, and left for Alexandria
at five this morning.

BOURSE, Feb. i7.—Three o'clock.—The mark:
closed as follows :
41 per Cent. ...... 103 Dank Shares 3025
Eud of month... —, Itsls.an Loan
3 per Cent ......... 71 80' End of month., —
End of mouth... 71 4i. Mexican Loan
Credit Mobilier ... 286 .25 Do. Bonds
End of month... 287 50 Spanish Threes
Credit Foucier —.1620 —li Home Debt —
Ead of mouth.., Deferred —
RAILWAYS.
..... Cash.
Orleans ...... 91,74
Northern JI9S
Lyons and _Mediterranean
Southern..... 625
Western.
Eastern ............ .. 585
Sardinian
Austrian Mk
....--__
.01

lORRESPONDENCZ FRO (PA

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, February 17.
The Luxemburg railway uproar was too violent to last
long, and there is much likelihood that the furyof journal-
istic rage, having spent itself upon a silent adversary, will
die out. It has been well kept up for the time. All shades
of opinion joined in the assault ; Imperial, Legitimist, and
Liberal papers alike vented their wrath upon the meek
head of Belgium, but the storm Is subsiding. The Opposi-
tion papers, headed by the indefatigable Liberte, keep up
the excitement, but the Government journals betray an in-
clination to withdraw from the strife. It is evident, however,
that the Government was greatly annoyed at this measure,
or otherwise the official and semi-official prints would not
have been let loose upon it so unanimously. Nor is this
manifestation of feeling greatly to be wondered at. It is
true that the Belgian Government is justified in bringing
forward such a bill: it is natural that it should grow
alarmed at foreign railway companies farming so much of
the iron roads of its little territory. Equally true
is it that the principle is one upon which other
Governments would be ready to act. France,
for instance, would be very unlikely to allow
a railway to be farmed by a Prussian company. But, on
the other hand, it must be remembered that nations do
not always act upon logical principles. It is natural that
people here should be indignant, for the railway bill is
but one of a long series of rebuffs which France
experiences in every quarter. It is with profound morti-
fication that Frenchmen witness their nation baffled
in all, even the smallest, details of foreign policy.
Moreover they cannot get rid of the idea that Prussia
is at the bottom of the affair. The North German Gazette
assures them that such is not the case, but the Gazette is
hated and disbelieved in Paris. It has been amongst
the foremost of the Prussian papers in their recent
attacks upon France. The feeling against Prussia is
undoubtedly reviving. It is even affirmed that M. de
Girardin, ever foremost with his everlasting Rhine
frontier question, is endeavouring to bring about a union
of all the chief Paris papers for a grand and joint attack
upon Prussia. The German Power has withstood so much
abuse already that it must now be well prepared for any-
thing. But, with the elections in view, it is likely that
the French Government will seek to produce quiet rather
than irritation.

Thereo
is
People andtiht
eorfdse:
pmaetcimportance in circula-
tion.
the French Government, again calling attention in the
most courteous terms to the Hanoverian refugees. The
ePeotaeltliCeo r
f onan
report needs confirmation, but I am positively informed
that great surveillance is exercised at Strasbourg. Every
passenger between Germany and France is carefully
watched.

A serious disagreement exists between Marshal Niel
and the budget committee. Over a small matter—the
indemnity allowed to captains of the Guard Mobile—the
War Minister and the committee have quarrelled to such
purpose that reconciliation respecting other and more
important items of war expenditure is hardly probable.
M. Jablonski, French Consul at Zanzibar, has just died
there. He was a well-known Polish refugee. At the age
of 18 he joined the Hungarian Revolution, and after
taking part in several battles he was captured by the
Russians. He was then compelled to serve as a privato
in the Russian army, in which position he remained
until the Crimean war. When the allies arrived
before Sebastopol, he went over to the French.

and was employed on the French staff as a translator.

After the war he got his consulship, and remained on the
African coast during the remaining eleven years of his life.
Such is the fortune of politics. M. Jablonski was one of
the ablest men that Poland has lately produced, and
yet he was destined to end his days on the shores of
Africa.

THE WEA7'ILER TABLE-THIS -DAY'

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Lit g 17,

' not naturally.
The Solicitor-Cencral : By an effort of nature?
Witness : I don't say that. There was no shade of
difference in my feelings towards her. Miss Saurin could
not teach. All my efforts to instruct her in the method of
teaching were useless. She did not teach the alphabet.
The Solicitor-General : Then she was incorrigible?
The Lord Chief Justice complained of the word
"incorrigible " being put to the witness.
The Solicitor-General : Then I will withdraw it.
Witness : Incorrigible is too strong a word. She did
not seem to take advantage of my instruction as others
had done. The children who did not wish to learn
tried to get into her class, but I would not let
them. I was never at Clifford with Miss Saurin.
• I don't mean to say when Miss Saurin met the twenty or
thirty children who brought very nice dinners, that she
took so many dinners daily. She used to look at them ;
she knew what the children had, and I infer from the
complaints that were made that she selected those
'dinners to take from which she considered the best. I
suppose she did a little private refection after
I had left the school-room. In 1865, Mrs.
O'Brien had sent to say Miss Saurin had taken her
child's dinner, and eaten it, and that she should take him
away from the school. I promised it should not occur
again, and I took the child under my care. The O'Brieus
and the servant have left Hull. That is the only name I
can particularise. I mentioned the circumstance to Mrs.
Starr, but not to Miss Saurin ; but I took his dinners
more than once from Miss Saurin and gave it to the
child. I was placed over her in the school, because I was
a certificated teacher. I think Miss Saurin's mark at
one time was three nails and a cross. I knew my hand-
kerchief without the mark. Miss Saurin was under no re.
straint. She had a sister with her.
The Lord Chief Justice : She was at perfect liberty to
go where she pleased with the sister.
The Solicitor-General : I opened the case as not that the
plaintiff could not get out, but that she whated to remain
n.

The Lord Chief Justice : But when you tell her to walk
out and she will not, I don't think that is false imprison-
ment. The plaintiff could have gone out as soon as she
liked, but she would not ; and the having a person to
watch her is not false imprisonment. I shall hold that the
moral restraint in this case was not false imprisonment.
The plaintiff has first to slim that she bad any right to be
in the convent at all at this particular time.
Mr. Mellish : I shall submit she had no right to be
there.

The Lord Chief Justice : The case is stronger when
there is a visitor who has the right to remove and who
exercises that power.
Mr. Mellish : That will be another question. It is
important with regard to the commission. If the rule of
law is that the plaintiff had no right in the convent, and
that the visitor exercised his authority, then it is a question
for the Court of Chancery, and not for a court of
law. It is a pure matter of trust.
The Lord Chief Justice: I am desirous of hearing the
whole of the evidence, and of reserving any questions of
law that might arise. There are some difficult and com-
plicated questions behind. The plaintiff's great point
in the case is the conspiracy, and that divides into two
branches. First, did the defendants conspire by illtreatment
to drive the plaintiff out of the convent, and, secondly,
having so conspired, did they make false accusations to in-
duce the bishop to expel her? Toprove the second branch it
is necessary to go into the evidence laid before the bishop
and the commission. I entertain the clearest view that if
their statement to the bishop was honestly made, they are
not responsible for the miscarriage of the commission. If,
honestly, though injudiciously made, they are not liable
or the conduct of the commission.
Witness was further cross-examined on the numerous
facts and circumstances in the case, but nothing material
was elicited. She said she should have been glad to have
wished the plantiff good-bye.
The Lord Chief justice : That seems to have been the
general feeling of the community.
Witness : Yes it was. (Laughter).
Mrs. Elizabeth Hewitson (lay sister), said: After Sister
Mary Catherine's death, I and the plaintiff were ordered
to prepare her body for burial. They are buried in the
habit as they receive it at the time of their reception. I
got, at Miss Saurin's request, a better one out, and,
as she desired, I took out one of the
inside sleeves, whilst she took out the other,
to put on the deceased sister. I think she put them on
the deceased, but I afterwards saw her take them off, and
!apt with other clothing apparel that belonged to Sister
Mary Catherine. A short time before the coffin
was screwed down the coffin at this time was
in the • chapel—Miss Saurin took off the out-
side sleeves and gave them to me, telling me
at the same time to put them out of sight
behind the stalls in the chapel. I afterwards saw Miss
Saurin wear the sleeves, and six months later I saw them
in her cell. On such occasions a church cloak, which is
very large, is put over the deceased, and Miss Saurin drew
it over the body of the deceased so that it could not
be seen. The night when Sister Mary Catherine
died, . Miss Saurin told me to get some coifs
and guimps, intending to put one on each of the deceased.
I bought her three of the first and four of the latter. I
was going to put the remainder away, but Miss Saurin
said, " Leave them there, and I will wear them out."
afterwards collected the deceased's clothing, but very
little remained. When plaintiff went hurriedly to Hull
I found between her mattress and• the bed a pocket-
handkerchief, night veil, and coif, which I recognised as
part of Sister Mary Catherine's wearing apparel. About
a month after I saw her wearing a pair of shoes and stock-
ings that also belonged to the deceased sister.
The Lord Chief Justice : As I understand you, a nun is
buried in her full canonical dress.
Witness : Yes ,• a few days before her death she asked
me to sew on a silver devotional medal on her scapulas, as
she wished it and the scapulas to be buried with her.
I put the ribbon on her neck whilst she was still alive,
and placed the scapulas arid medal on her breast. When
in her coffin I looked for awn, but found the medal was
gone. It could not have dropped off. I could see it
was cut off. Miss Saurin and myself were the only
persons who had anything to do with the deceased, . I did
not take the silver medal. This occurred at Hull,
The Solicitor-General: Your lordehip will remember
that not a word of this was put to Miss Saurin, except as
to the medal.

Witness: I don't know if Miss Saurin had a silver
medal of her own, but on her return to Hull
in 1860 Miss Saurin asked me if I had
found a silver medal which she lost when she left
Bull for Clifford. In 1863 I was sent to Miss Saurin,
who was in her cell at Clifford, with water to bathe her
feet. I noticed round her heal a piece of flannel, of very
fine texture, similar to Sister Mary o.ttherine's petticoatsi.
She had finer flannel than any other sister in the convent.
In that year I asked the I,ermission of the superior .'
at Clifford to mend my habit with some pieces of black
material that were in the attic. She did so in Miss
Saurin's presence. On the following morning she went
there. I knew it was the plaintiff by the way she ran
down stairs. She usually ran down stairs more
hurriedly than the others. In the course of the
morning, and before the sisters had come back from
sthool, I went up for the pieces of black material, but I
found they were gone. After the commission, but before
the plaintiff left, I was ripping Miss Saurin's habit, and
in it I found what I believed to be the black woollen
material I required. They were sown in the habit, where
It was unnecessary to repair a hole.
Evidence the effect was gives till the close of
the

On the resumption yesterday of the case of "Saurin v.
Starr and Kennedy," Mrs. Milligan's examination in
chief was continued by Mr. C. Russell. She said : After
the plaintiff was expelled there were no complaints what-
ever about the children's dinners. One day in 1805 I saw
Miss Saurin attempt to pull the strings out of her coif,
and, failing to do so, she cut them out. She denied it when
Mrs. Kennedy reproved her for it. At one of the redistri-
butions of clothes Miss Saurin had a petticoat with six
layers of material ; enough had been used to make
three petticoats—the outer covering was of very fine mate-
rial—the layers were not necessary to cover the holes in
the garment. .It was taken to pieces, and I got one petti-
coat out of it, and material was left fur other purposes.
She took articles of mine without leave. She had a
pocket handkerchief of mine, from which had been taken
the " three nails" worked on it in silk. Miss Saurin's
penances were not unusual. I have frequently had to
wear things on my head. It was a general penance for not
marking things sent to the wash to be worn during
spiritual lecture. I have frequently had to hold my
boots and cloak in my hand, at the end of the community
table, for leaving them about. Mrs. Starr never asked
me to divulge my confessions. I was a great deal with
Miss Saurin after her sentence of expulsion. I was with
her from the 12th February until the end of March. I
had sprained my knee, and it only required rest
and cold water applications. There were no sisters
with her with bad legs, who used linaments.
There were none there, and no linaments. There
was no offensive smell, and the windows of the room were
always opened when she went to mass, and frequently at
other times. It is untrue that she was not permitted to
leave her room for any purpose. She left it on an average
ten times a' day. There were chairs within her reach in
the bath-room, for sitting on. One she kept her books on,
and she seemed to prefer sitting on the floor. She
sometimes sat on the chairs, and then she sat
with her feet on them, as if she were sitting
on the floor. She sometimes sat on her bed.
I never prohibited her from sitting on the chair. No
instructions of that kind were given to me. After the
order of dismissal, she appeared to try to make herself ill.
She sat up in bed with only her night-dress on, and at
other times she got out of bed early and put her feet into
cold water. She abstained from food. It was not
always mutton, but generally so. The boots described
by Miss Saurin as being badly broken are
in existence now, and in use, I believe, by Mrs. King.
Miss Saurin complained that vermin was in the blanket in
the attic. I examined the sheets and blankets very care-
fully, but there was no sign of any such thing about
them. She said she bad been given the blankets of the
pupil teachers on which they had combed their hair ; but it
was untrue. I took her bedclothes up from the bath-room,
and I had also the charge of the pupil-teachers',bedclothes.
They could not have been carried up without my know-
ledge. She had every facility for washing—soap, nail-
brush, tooth-brush, tooth-brush mug, water, &c. I fre-
quently saw her use them.
Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General: Miss Saurin
was a great cloud upon us. I never had the slightest ill-
feeling for Miss Saurin. I liked her, but she was not an
amiable person. I liked her for the love of God.
The Solicitor-General : In the way a Christian loves his
enemies?
Witness : I don't say that. I had not naturally such
an affection for her as for Mrs. Starr. I liked her.
The Solicitor-General : As a matter of duty ?
Witness : I liked her as much as I liked the others, but