The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1860.

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Illustrations of American, Indian, Emigrant, and Negro Life,
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at 3 and 8 o'cleek.—Stalls, 3s. ; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. - St.
James's Hall, Piccadilly.

kRGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Picca-
dilly.—Open every Evening, with the celebrated Band
!ondueted by Mona. Lamotte (chef d'orchestra to the Em-
perm Napoleon). A magnificent SMOKING SALOON
added to this Establishment. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Ad-
mission, is.
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament.

JULLIEN FESTIVAL, ON TUESDAY, 31st
JULY, at the ROYAL SURREY GAR D ENQ, for the
Benefit of MADAME JULLIEN. On which occasion the
Proprietors of the Royal eurrey Gardens have in the most
generous manner placed the entire establishment and the pro-
ceeds at the disposal of Madame Jullien. The following cele-
brated artists have also most kit/illy volunteered their valu
able services, gratuitously, for this occasion. Vocalists—
Madame Alboui (her last appearance this season), Mdlle. Marie
Brunetti (of .her Majesty s Theatre,- by kind- permission of
E. 'l'. b.rnith, Esq.), Madame Louisa Vinniiig Madame Weiss,
Madlle. Enrichetta Camille, miss Pocle. Miss Palmer, Miss
Laura Baxter, the Misses Brougham, Miss Kate Ranoe, and
Parepa. Mons. Gassier (by kind permission ,of E. T.
Smith, IC-q.), Mr. Weiss, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, Mr. Leonard,
Mr. Patey, and Mr. -ims Reeves. Instrumentalist—Miss
Arabella Goddard. The Choir of the Vocal Association, con-
sisting of Two Hundred Voices, under the direction of Mr.
Benedict. The Orchestra will include the principal members
of the Bands of her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian
Opera, and the Soloists of the late M. Jullien's orchestra ;
the Band of the Grenadier Guards (by kind permission of
Colonel Lambert), under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey ; the
Band of the Coldstream Guards (by kind permission of Colo-
nel Lord F. Paulett, C. 8.), under the direction of Mr. Godfrey;
the Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards (by kind permission of
Colonel Dalrymple), under the direction of Mr. Charilie God-
frey, junr. Conductors —Mr. Alfred Mellon, conductor of the
Orchestral Union ; Dr. James Peck ; Air. Emile Berger ; and
M. Benedict. Prince George G ali t sin will conduct his favourite
Walls and Polka. The programme will include Jullien's cele-
brated British Army Quadrilles, English Quadrilles, and' his
Last Waltz (first time of Performance). Admission —One
Shilling. Dress Circle, 35., Second Circle, '28., Gallery, is.
extra. Places can be secured at Messrs. Chappells', 50, New
Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', 1, St. James's-street ; Messrs.
Keith and Prowse7s, 48, Cheapside ; and Pigott's, Kenning-
ton
Common. Concert commence at Half-past Six.

CONTRACT FOR WHEAT.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset-house, 27th July, 1860.
I 11HE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-1- OFFICE of LORD lIIGII ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on MONDAY, the 6th
August next, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to
treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Storks at DEPTFORD, the undermentioned Articles, viz.:—

WHEAT 4 OOO quarters.
When to be delivered.—Half thereof in Three Weeks, and
the remainder in Three Weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering,
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Wheat.
Their Pordships reserve to themselves the power, when the
Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole or for
such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater
quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited
power of selection.
Samples of the Wheat (not less than two quarts) must be
Falwell by the parties tendering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not
atelyacceted. r
the are requested to be taken away by them immedi-
afte
No Tender will be reeeived unless made on the Printed Form
provided for the purpose ; and which may be obtained on ap-
plication at the said Office, or to the officer conducting the
Packet service at Liverpool, or the collector of Customs at
Bristol.
particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions a the Contract, which may be seen at the
said Office, and at Liverpool and Bristol.
No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty; and it will not be required that the party
tendering,, or a* agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from ea/3h person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Sonterset-
house.

we go through a herd of ex-policemen, all huddled
up together and fearing an attack from the mob,
until we arrive at a dark cell where those said
policemen had probably thrust many a poor devil.
" A light, a light !" and so we groped about this
dark, damp, and filthy place, where stood in the
corner a large white vase, the common place of relief
for six or seven persons, and which was removed
once a-day. Oh, the vile stench which was in this
room ! We returned through the corridor now oc-
cupied by policemen, took a breath of air, went down
some more steps, and, preceded by our light, stum-
bled over heaps of books which had been seized in
domiciliary visits. There was a dark room, and a
stone bed in the corner and a stone pillow ; all was
stone, and all was damp and dark, and this room
opened into another, where in one-third part
of it no human being could stand upright. Opening
there was none for either light or air. God only
helped those who have been confined there, and
some of my friends have been there. We heaved a
long and heavy breath as we came out, and then
went to visit another chamber which I had not yet
seen, to which the others were palaces. At the very
entrance was a commodite, and the whole of the cor-
tile close to it was used for the several natural neces-
sities of all the subalterns of the offices. This place,
therefore, was constantly damp, running with urine,
and so offensive that breathing was difficult. We
paddle through the filth,and pass by a doorway into
the dungeon beyond, dark and damp like the others.
There is a stone seat erected here and there against
the wall, one foot square, on which the prisoners
sat. I shoeld have been choked in half an hour had
I remained there, so horrible was tile stench. In the
middle was a loose stone, and belay it a hole into
which all the dirt uf the 'room was emptied. Chil-
lon was as dark but .not so filthy. I could not have
imagined the existence of suchlthl places; for the
respect I have for our coalmen uatuse I could not,
have believed it possible that man *Old bite so
martyrised his brother.
I have two observations to make—tliese deirl3,are
in the very centre of the capital of theilivro'Sicilies,
not a stone's throw from the Royal Palace, in a
country where priests congregate in herds;
secondly, they have been seen, and the fact can be
attested by four other English gentlemen who
accompanied me. Let no Englishman, therefore,
for very shame, henceforward dare to defend, as
they have defended, a state ofthings which has been
a curse to humanity and a reflection on the civilisa-
tion and Christian spirit of the age. - It is against
a system of which these prisons form a part that I
have been writing for years, and the weak and
superficial and the criminally interested have un-
ceasingly condemned as exaggerations my state-
ments, because, forsooth, they did not care to have
their repose disturbed.

death itself is better than a life under arms. If the
Emperor of the French has seen things in this
light, and invites us to assist in laying the founda-,
lions of peace, we shall do what he does, and even
more, for in this path we are willing to lead as
well as follow. We are made to act together if we
could but see our true destiny. France Olti the
land, and England by sea, are equal to all the rest
of the world together, whether for peace or for
war. But what else than peace can be the proper
object of so great a rest,onsibility ?—rimes.

THE LIVERPOOL POISONING CASE.

The proceedings in this inquiry were resumed
yesterday morning before Mr. Raffles, the legal
gentleman and others engaged for the prosecution
and defence being the same as on the previous days.
Mr. Aspinall said, before going on with the evi-
dence, he wished to state that, as three persons, all
inmates of Mrs. James's house, had died prior to the
death of that person, tho bodies of these three per-
sons had been exhumed, under the authority of a
Secretary of State's warrant, and in each of them
antimony had been found—differing, no doubt, in
degree from the quantity which had been found on
Mrs. James; but that might be accounted for by the
circumstance that Mrs. James had died in the hos-
pital, where no means of administering antimony
existed. He wished to know whether the evidence
connected with those cases would be admitted in the
present inquiry ?
The Magistrate declined to receive the evidence
in these cases.

Peter Downs, house surgeon in the Southern
Hospital, proved that, on Sunday, tien 10th June,
the deceased Mrs. James was received at the hospi-
tal as a patient specially under Dr. Cameron's care,
and was not placed in a ward, Int in the room
,of
Elizabbth Tihgtin, One ,of the nurses. The des:leased
was much emaciated, e.and., was sufferingXrom
vomiting and purig;ing, By directions of witness,
as Initructed "by Br. Cameron, the evacuations of
the deceased were carefully preserved. These were
kept in bottles which, had • been supplied for the
purpose, and the witness saw the different contents,
such as urine, &c., put into the bottles. Similar bot-
tles were supplied day by day, and these bottles when
filled, or partly filled, he received from Hughes, the
nurse, and labelled them. On Wednesday morning
he received such bottles, but whether there were
two or three he could not tell. On Friday a simi-
lar occurrence took place. These bottles were all
delivered to a person named Dickens. After the
pest mortetn examination witness assisted in making
up different parts of the body and putting them
into bottles and jars, which also he delivered to
Dickens. During the whole time of her residence
in the hospital she was much prostrated, but occa-
sionally gave slight indications of a revival; at
times the symptoms became much more aggravated
and urgent. From Wednesday, the 13th, the symp-
toms were purely those of 'exhaustion, up to the
Friday before her death) when there was a sudden
accession of abdominal tenderness. The prisoner
came to visit her frequently while she was in the
hospital. Sometimes witness permitted hits to go
up stairs, and sometimes he was not ail Awed, He
was on all these occasions very much excited, and
seemed to be tipsy on all except one. The only other
person admitted to see the deceased was Mrs. Oaf-
feratta.

To the Bench—She complained of great thirst,
but not of constriction of the throat. Her tongue
became apthous a few days after admission.
Cross-examined by Mr. Cobb—Witness has not
seen a case of cancer of the bowels, but knows the
symptoms. Purging is one of them. Ulceration of
the stomach would ,produce sickness, but that of
the bowels seldom does. In the deceased's ease
the cancer was low down. Irritation somewhat
akix% to that exhibited by the deceased might
exist from natural, causes, Exhaustion might' be
produced by malignant disease of the stomach,
and might terminate 'in death. Knowing the cause
of death, witness should attribute the increase of
tenderness in the abdomen to ulcerated perforation
of the bowels. Witness did not see any convtilSions
in the .deceased. Had been informed that deceased
was afflicted with cancer of the oceourn, and:by ex-
amination ascertained that fact before her, death.,
All the symptoms She exhibited are quite conSistent
with the presenCe of cancer of the Caeenm. and ul
ceration of the stomach. When thoprisour was
in the room, if he looked out at the wi4,dovr, his
face could not be seen by'Mrs. jamee dr by the
; nurse.. t.
Archibald Tapper received -the bottles spoken of
-b3r-tho prpobding Nritnt4o-1: tirtd-tank thew:. to Des
Edwards' place, in Seal-street, where he gave them
to Dickens, that gentleman's assistant.
Benjamin Dickens, assistant to Dr. Edwards,
proved receipt of the bottles from the last witness,
and also one on the 6th of June from Weir. All of
these he took charge of, and gave them to Dr. Ed-
wards.
The evidence as to the transfer of the bottles was
completed by Thomas Scott, an errand-boy with
Dr. Edwards.

John Cameron, M.D., honorary physician to the
Southern Hospital, and lecturer on medical juris-
prudence, said the prisoner called on him on the
sth of February, and told him that Mrs. James was
very ill, and as he (Winslow) had been formerly a
patient in the Southern Hospital, where he was
attended by the witness, he had requested Mrs.
James to call in witness as her medical attendant.
Witness on calling on deceased found her in bed
and seemingly having been for a considerable time
in ill health. She had severe vomitings. On
examination he distinguished a tumour on the
right side of the abdomen, and, connecting
that with the symptoms, he considered it to be a
cancerous tumour of the lower bowels. She said
that for some time she had been subject to attacks
of diarrhea, and also for several years, she said, she
had been subject to occasional looseness of the
bowels. These symptoms had become much aggra-
vated since the previous Christmas. Witness pre-
scribed for her and left, leaving directions for his
being sent for if wanted. In two or three days
Winslow called for witness, and said Mrs. James
was much better. On the 29th of March, Winslow
called again, and said she was much worse and
wished to see witness. On seeing her he found she
was in a condition much similar to that in which he
had first found her. The prescription on the sth
of February was chiefly morphia, and a small quan-
tity of hydrocyanic acid. One of the prescriptions
had been lost, but witness produced an exact copy
of it ;it was given on his second visit. On the
second visit he asked how she had been after his
former visit, and was told she had improved rapidly,
yet had never been perfectly well, and had been
subject less or more to purging. On this as the
previous occasion, the purging was the most urgent
symptom. On the Bth of May was again called,
and found the deceased's symptoms similar to what
they had previously been, and again he was in-
formed by her that she had been so much relieved
by what witness had given her that it had been
unnecessary to send for him. On the Bth of May
she was much worse, and her case then seemed dan-
gerous. On this account he requested Mrs. Cafferatta
to come and see him, when he told her that her aunt
was very ill and must be regularly attended by
witness or some other medical man. His attendance
was continued, and on that occasion he had sim-
ply continued the previous treatment. Under this
she improved, and on the 11th he prescribed a
modification as to the proportion of the ingredients.
She was so much better en the 19th that he dis-
continued his visits, and was again sent for on the
25th, when, finding her still worse, he added nitric
acid and tincture of opium, directing also that the
morphi prescription should be continued. On the
31st he substituted tanic acid for nitric, and con-
tinued his attendance to the 6th of June, when she
was once more much relieved, and he left off atten-
dance on her. On this day he carried away some
of the deceased's urine, which he obtained from
Mrs. Cafferatta, and gave to Dr. Edwards. He
adopted this proceeding in consequence of having
observed the sudden attacks of vomiting and purg-
ing occurring in a state of comparative health,
which induced him to think she was labouring
under the effects of poison. He was strengthened
in this belief by finding that these attacks were
most violent at first, and rapidly subsided under the
influence of medicine, which had an unusually
good effect in relieving the symptoms. He could
not account for the symptoms, nor their appear-
ance and progress, by the natural disease under
which she was labouring. On the 9th of June
witness took a couple of bottles with him, and in
them took away some of the matters which had
been rejected from the stomach and passed by the
bowels. These he took to Dr. Edwards at his
laboratory. Iu consequence of the information he
received from Dr. Edwards witness communi-
cated with Major Greig (the head constable) and
she was that morning removed to the Southern
Hospital. Before her removal witness told
Mrs. James that she was suffering from the effects
of poison, and that it was absolutely necessary
for her safety that she should be removed from the
house. She was dressed, and soon afterwards taken
away in a car. In the room there was a basin con-
taining vomit which she had 'rejected, and a night
chair containing what she had passed during the