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young woman who knew her, an ha : e I:t 1 a
sked her where it was, when she replied
that it was dead, and had been for two months. In
the mean time, late on Thursday evening, two me
were at the old well at Ipsden, one being a stranger
and wishing to sec it. While there, they out of curi-
osity
threw some stones down the well, and iname,
diately heard the cry of a child proceeding from it,,
Having procured ropes and a rail, they let a 13•Jy,
down with a lantern, and he found the child, and
brought it up in his arms. It was alive, but cold,
and bleeding from wounds on the head. Owing-
to
the great and prompt attention which was paid to
it, it ultimately recovered. It was produced in
court, and looked well and full of animation. The
prisoner was taken into custody on Friday,
the 20th of April, when she admitted that she had
stumbled over a stump near, and that the child had
fallen out of her arms into the well ; that she re-
mained there two hours, heard the child cry, and
then left.

The Judge summed up with great care, remark-
ing on the different accounts which the prisoner
had given of her child, and on her extraordinary
conduct, if the child had fallen by accident down
the well, in not obtaining assistance, but allowing
it to remain there for two days without saying a
word about it.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of the capital
charge, and the Judge ordered sentence of death to
be recorded against her, but said he should take
time to consider what punishment he should award
her.

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CON-
GRESS.

The fourth session of the Congress will be for-
mally opened on Monday next under the presidency
of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who
will on that occasion deliver an inaugural address
in explanation of the objects of the Congress and
of its past labours at the previous sessions in
Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, and containing an
outline of the most important questions to be dis
cussed in the present session. The organization is
now complete, the subjects being grouped under
six principal heads or sections, each under the
charge of a special committee.
A preliminary meeting 'of the first_section, that
of Judicial Statistics, took place on Wednesday at
Somerset-home, under the presidency of Lord
Brougham, who has for years given much attention
to this important branch of statistical inquiry. To
facilitate the labours of the Congress, a programme
has been prepared for each section of the questions
to be submitted for discussion, and for the section
of Judicial Statistics it consists of two parts—viz.,
1. Judicial Statistics, properly so called—i.c., the
statistics of civil and criminal justice in different
countries; 2. Statistics of real property and its
burdens.

Professor LEoNI LEVI, one of the secretaries of
the session, who has prepared the first part of the
programme, briefly explained the purpose and
objects of the inquiry, and recommended the collec-
tion and publication of all the facts connected with
civil and criminal statistics for all countries in such
a methodical and comparative manner as to enable
the legislator to study with greater profit the laws
and institutions of which they arc in some sort
the results and exponents.
The PRESIDENT observed that, owing to the
absence of authentic collections of facts, legislation
remained open to the reproach of being empiric in
its character, and that it could scarcely be ranked
among the sciences until it should have adopted,
like them, the inductive method of investigation.
After an interesting discussion, in which several
of the foreign official delegates took part, the section
agreed to submit to Congress certain general pro-
positions, of which the two following appeared to
be the most important :-
1. That the systematic collection and publication
of facts relating to the operation of the law and
the administration of justice, or a complete system
of judicial statistics, will afford most valuable
materials whereby to institute wise and permanent
legal reforms, and furnish information of great im-•
portance illustrative of the social and moral wants
of the people.
2. That a uniform classification, and a comparable,
nomenclature of crimes, offences, and punishments
are a great desideratum in criminal law, and that
with a view to that object it is desirable to consult
the laws of various nations, and to ascertain how
far the different crimes and offences have their
equivalents in different countries.
The other resolutions set forth in detail the in-
quiries proposed to be recommended relative to or-
ganisation and labours of the various courts of
justice, the number and character of crimes, offences,
and punishments, the statistics of reformatory
schools, &c.
Mr. HILL WILLIAMS, one of the secretaries of the
section, then read his note upon the second subject
confided to this section—viz., the statistics of real
property and its burdens. He explained that at
former meetings the Congress had expressed itself
strongly in favour of the registration of landed
property and of the systematic collection of facts
connected with it, and regretted that, from the
absence of a general national map and book of re-
ference, England was not in a position to contribute
the materials necessary for a general scheme of
statistical inquiries applicable to this question, as
specially recommended by the Vienna Congress.
He stated the objects of registration to be to in-
crease the security of titles and the value of real
property by facilitating its transfer and encourag-
ing its improvement, and proposed the following
general propositions as worthy of support—viz. :-
1. That the establishment of a general land regis-
ter in every State is highly expedient.
2. That it should be based upon a general survey
and map, accompanied by a book of reference, giv-
ing for each parcel or close of land the names of
owner and occupier, the state of cultivation, and
contents.

3. That the map and reference should be revised
periodically, so as to represent, as nearly as possible
the actual state of the land itself.

These three propositions met with approval.
Other propositions recommending the registration
of all transfer of land and mortgages were post-
poned.
A preliminary meeting of the sixth section was
held on Thursday at the rooms of the Geological
Society, Somerset-house, in order to consider that
part of the programme which referred to subjects
for discussion in this section--• Mr. l-fev wood in the
chair. Among the delegates from foreign Govn-
ments who have already arrived, and were present
at the meeting, were M. Quetelet, from Belgium,
to whom is due in a great measure the credit of
having originated the first of these Congresses held
in Brussels ; M. le Baron de Czoernig, from Aus-
tria ; Dr. Berg, from Sweden; M. Hopf, from Saxe
Coburg Gotha; M.M. Baumpauer and Ackersdyke,
from the Netherlands; M. David, from Denmark;
M. Engel, from Saxony; ])r. Asher, from Ham-
burg, &e.
The paper upon the units of money weights and
measures, in which it was proposed, in all inter-
national statistical tables, to add a column contain:

ing their reduction into the terms of the metrical
system, gave rise to an animated discussion.
Sir T. BOWRING opposed the franc as a unit of
value, and would substitute the pound sterling,
which, after an elaborate Parliamentary report, had
been adopted as the best for general use, if deci-
mally subdivided. The extensive use of the pound
sterling in commerce, well known as it was in all
foreign countries, he considered gave it the first
place; and next to it he should prefer the dollar.
After his long absence from England, he much re-
gretted to see the little advance that had been made
in the decimal question.
General Sir C. PASLEY also opposed a discussion
on the metrical system altogether.
The meeting decided that the propositions in the
paper should stand for discussion in the section
when the Congress began.

Guernsey,
Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Judd Harding, K.C.B.,
died on the sth inst., at Belmontr Lodge,Lieut.-Governor.
yliis commission as
of which island he was formerly
The deceased General obtained,iEn
gineers in 1802. Ire
Second Lieut. in the
Sicily in 1812, and the
the forces in the Peninsula,
active service. In 1815 he
served with the
joined
following year join
Comn►anding Engineer with the Prussian
served as Comma
where he saw
Augustus of
Prince Prussia, at the
army, underaubeuge, Landrecies., Ma cienburg, Phi-
much
91feMand Recroy, and continued with the army
iippevi t .
till 1818. For ,
of occupation several years he
sieges
filled
the office of Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey.
Major-General Godfrey Charles Mundy, Lieut.-
Governor of Jersey, also died on Tuesday last, after
a few days' illness. He had seen service in India,
and was aide-de-camp to General Viscount Comber-
mere, when that venerable officer was Commander-
in-Chief, and was present at the siege and storming
of Bhurtpore in 1825-26. For some years he was
Under Secretary of State for War, under the Duke
Of Newcastle and Lord Panmure. On General Sir
Frederick Love being appointed Inspecting General
of Infantry the deceased general was selected as his
successor as Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.

In reply to an application recently forwarded by
the. clerks employed in her Majesty's naval service,
soliciting the indulgence of 28 days' leave of ab-
sence as an annual relaxation from duty, a circular
memorandum was yesterday received at liroelwich
dockyard from the Board of Admiralty, announcing
that their Lordships were pleased to accede to the
request.