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* "Labois' Law of Real Property of the State of New
York, p. 120."
t Section 15. " The absolute power of alienation shall
not be suspended by any limitation or condition whateve:
for a longer period than during the continuance of not more
than two lives in being at the creation of the estate, except
in the single case mentioned in the next section." Section
16. "A pnitingent remainder in fee may be created in a
Prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the
persons to whom the first remainder is limited, shall die
under the age of 20 years, or upon any other contingency,
by which the estate of such persons may be determined
fore they attain their full age."—Revised Statutes of the
State of New York.—An Act Concerning the Acquisition,
&c., of Proporty, real and personal, &c., tit. 11, art. 1,
sections 15 and 16.
" On the occasion of an intimation that an edition of
Sugden's Treatise on Powers' would be required in
America, Lord St. Leonards writes, I regretted at the time
that a new State should embarrass itself with our forms of
conveyancing, springing out of the doctrine of uses, ".—Let-
ten, to J, liwupbxeys, p. 66.

* let Report National Reformatory Neetiug, 1856, p, 115,

I find it stated that the Reformatory Act has been
more extensively applied in Liverpool than else-
where, and that juvenile delinquency has in this
town been effectually diminished. This result is
attributed in a great degree to the exertions of the
Rev. Mr. Carter, Chaplain to the Borough Gaol of
Liverpool, who has been successful in calling upon
the parents of criminal children to contribute their
quota. There can be no doubt that this is one of
the best provisions of the act. In Scotland, by Mr.
Dunlop's Act, vagrant children are removed by the
magistrates to industrial schools, and it is stated
that in the town of Aberdeen especially the ab-
sence from the streets and -lanes of disorderly and
neglected children is very striking. There are two
observations on this subject which I wish to
make before passing to a different field. The first is
that those who have charge of the reformatories
ought to try various methods of awakening the
moral sense, and applying the physical energies and
buoyant animal spirits of the boys committed to
their charge. Uniformity, regularity, silence may
constrain permanently the minds of men ; these
methods in the case of young boys may be only
pressing down a spring which will rebound with
the more force when that pressure is removed. I
remember upon a visit which I paid to Mr. Fellen-
berg, at Hofw-yl, that he carried me some miles into
the hills to see what he called his little Robinson
Crusoes. This was a large field, in which 10 or 12
boys were digging and preparing the ground for
seed; before this they had constructed for themselves
a wooden hut, where they had their meals and their
sleeping place. These boys, indeed, were not crimi-
nals, but the task set them was a good illustration
of the importance, in the eyes of their benevolent
and sagacious instructor, of some occupation that
shall rouse the invention at the same time that it
fatigues the body. I remember, also, at the juvenile
prison at Parkhurst, Captain oolcombe, the first
governor of that establishment, showed me a boy
upon whom he said all instruction and exhortation
were thrown away until he perceived that the boy
was moved by music. This faculty was cultivated
and developed, and thence a way was found to soften
and mould his obdurate disposition. These instances
lead me to the other remark I have to make. Every
one must have observed the new influence which is
not being asserted or sought, but is falling to the
lot of women in swaying the destinies of the world.
It is not a share in directing the patronage of mi-
nisters, or guiding the councils of kings, as in for-
mer times, but a portion in the formation and-the
moulding of public opinion. For.a great part of
our periodical literature, for much of that world of
fiction in which many live and nearly all take de-
light, we are indebted to the ethereal fancy, the
delicate perception, and the grace of expression
possessed by woman. It seems to me, and I am
confirmed in this opinion by the bright examples
of heroic benevolence we have seen of late years,
that if the young generation are to be an im-
provement upon their fathers—if sin is to have less
dominion and religion more power—if vice is to be
abashed and virtue to be honoured, it is to woman
that we must look for such a regeneration. I pass
to the subject of education. I will not waste your
time in examining and refuting the objections which
have been made to the general education of the
people. It may suffice for me to say that it is edu-
cation which enables the Scotch labourer's son to
compete with the most favoured of his contempora-
ries, to rise to the highest posts of dignity and
power, and to scale the loftiest eminences of science.
It is education which enables the United States of
America to proceed in their wonderful career, up-
held by the most popular institutions, without
serious disturbance of law and order. It is educa-
tion which in England has mainly prevented such
tumults as 40 years ago broke the peace and alarmed
the minds of this country. It is education which
has bound the mass of the people to the Throne by
the links of an enlightened loyalty. On the sub-
ject of education there appears to me to have been
a change somewhat similar to that which took place
many years ago on the subject of geology. At that
period geologists were divided into Neptunians or
Vulcanians, Wernerians or Hattonians, and hot
was the dispute regarding the best theory of the
formation of the crust of the world. Some wise
men said, however, " Let us first investigate the
facts without troubling ourselves what theory they
may confirm or invalidate." This has now been
done for many years, and assuredly while contro-
versy has diminished, science has gained by the
change. In like manner popular qr national edu-
cation has been a matter of warm contention among
sects and parties till the present year. Sir J. Pak-
ington, who presided in the Department of Educa-
tion last year, and who deserves the highest credit
for his labours on this subject, proposed in the late
session of Parliament, with the concurrence of the
best friends of the cause, that an address should be
presented to the Queen in favour of the appoint-
ment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the
present state of the education of all classes in Eng-
land and Wales. The late Government acceded to
this proposal, and the present has named commis-
sioners of high reputation and weight in-the coun-
try, of whom the Duke of Newcastle is the presi-
dent. From this Commission we look for a fair
and impartial display of facts, upon the bearing of
which Parliament and the nation can decide. Opi-
nion is still in the gristle upon this subject. For
my own part, I confess that, anxious as I am for
the progress of education, I am quite willing to re-
nounce any desire to establish in this country the
system of France, Austria, or Prussia. The free-
dom of choice in our modes of popular instruction,
the noble fountains of literature, sacred and secular,
which are open to the youth thirsting for know-
ledge, the power to range over the writings of
Bacon and Shakspeare, and Milton and Addison,
seem to me to make our national education,
imperfect and incomplete as it is, still far su-
perior to those continental models. I must not
omit to mention the great efforts which have
been recently made to improve the education of the
middle classes. The examinations instituted by.
the University of Oxford do honour to that vene-
rable body. Nor ought we to pronounce hastily on
the result of the first of these examinations. It
seems to me apparent that at a time when not only
degrees and honours are attached to successful com-
petition, but the very entrance to the civil service
and the scientific part of the military service in
India is guarded by examiners, it is of the utmost
importance to understand rightly what the nature
of the prescribed inquiry is to be. I hope that
while all honour is paid to attainments, while
quickness and self-possession on the day of trial
have their due reward, the qualities of diligence,
and fidelity, and steadiness in a clerk, of a ready
perception and a prompt judgment in a soldier,
will not escape the judging eye of our chief exami-
ners. Even in awarding a degree much discrimina-
tion is required, and a failure in one branch of know-
ledge may be balanced by excellence in another.
Some severity at the commencement of such a system
is both to be expected and desired; but I repeat,
the system itself must be carefully watched, and
the experiment must be often repeated before it
can be said that the strength of our new machinery
has been fully tested. On the question of public
health I find this statement in the Registrar-
General's report of the quarter ending the 30th of
June, 1858 :

Upon dividing the population into two por-
tionsl(l) the 8,247,117 people living in rather close
proximity to each other, and (2) the 9,680,592
living much further apart, the result is that the
mortality in the dense districts was at the rate of
24.73, nearly 25 in 1,000 ; while in the other dis-
tricts, over which small towns and villages are
distributed, the mortality was at the rate of 19.68,
nearly 20 in 1,000 of the population."

Thus it appears that five persons more die every
year in every 1,000 of the 8,000,090 people living in
large towns than of the 9,500,000 people living in
the country. In other words, the excess of deaths
in the large towns is 40,000 a-year. When
we add to this result the fact that tempta-
tions to intoxication and to vice of every kind are
far more common in towns than in the country,
that the means of education are likewise in large
towns either less complete or less used, it is alarm-
ing to find by another statement of the Registrar-
General that in England and Wales the town popu-
lation is increasing much more rapidly than the
population of the rest of the country. I suppose
every one will agreee that the tide of population
cannot be checked or diverted from its channel%
Yet we cannot deny the importance or the urgency
of the following questions :—Now in England and
Wales the town population is increasing much fas-
ter than the population of the rest of the country ;
and the question is, therefore, becoming every
day graver, how is the health of the nation to
be sustained in the midst of the new dangers
which millions of its people are encounter-
ing P This question doubtless does not admit
of a perfectly satisfactory answer. Yet it is
encouraging to observe how on extraordinary
occasions vigilance in science has been re-
warded. I will take as my first example the instance
of Tynemouth during the visitation of cholera
in 1853. During the epidemic of 1848-9 Tyne-
mouth had lost from cholera and diarrhwa no less
than 463 persons ; but in the summer of 1851, on
the petition of the Town Council, the Public Health
Act was put in force ; regulations for common lodg-
ing-houses and slaughter-houses were immediately
adopted ; new streets and houva were built in con-
formity with prescribed rules. In the autumn of
1852, when the return of cholera was considered
probable, an active inspection of the town was com-
menced by the Public Health Committee, the bye
courts and laneg cleansed, the gully grates trapped,
and local nuisances removed. On the report of the
first death from cholera at Newcastle in 1853 all
these measures were renewed and further precau-
tions adopted. 1,500 cartloads of manure were re-

moved in 14 days from the neighbourhood of human
habitations. The consequence was that while New-
cast) Gateshead lost nearly 2,000 of their peo-
ple, ,re occurred at Tynemouth, eight miles dis-
tant, only fatal indigenous cases. This result was
accomplished at a cost of little more than £2OO.
While such has been the benefit of extra vigilance
and precaution, adopted for an emergency and
stimulated by fear of sudden calamity, there are
continually at work causes of pestilence destroying
their thousands and their ten thousands, which a
vigilant and intelligent local administration might
remove in many cases and mitigate in all. I will
now proceed to give another instance of the effect
of sanitary measures :—A London water company
distributed in 1848 very foul water. In the cholera
epidemic of 1848-9 there died 1,925 of those who
received their supplies of water from this company.
Between 1848 and 1853 the company improved the
quality of their water. In the cholera epidemic of
1853-4 the number of their customers who died
was reduced to 611, or less than one-third of the
former mortality. In the meantime another water
company supplied water still fouler than at the
former period, and the mortality of those who used
their water was increased from 2,880 in 1848 to
3,476 in 1853 ; so that while the proportions in.
10,000 persons in 1848 were 118 and 125 respec-
tively, those proportions were changed in 1853, the
former rose from 118 to 130, and the latter sunk
from 125 to 37. Nor can it be doubted that while
such are the consequences in cases of increased and
unusual mortality, the evils which occur daily and
yearly from the, same causes are no less remarkable
though less remarked. Let us fix our attention,
therefore, a few moments on this permanent
action upon our population. The inhabitants of
the towns increase much faster than the inha-
bitants of the country, yet the mortality in towns
is so much greater than the whole mortality of
tie country, that while the deaths-rate in Eng-
land and Wales is 22.06 in 1,000, and the births-
rate is 34.82 in 1,000, the mortality in great
towns would, if not compensated from other
sources, speedily reduce the population of our
most flourishing cities. In London, which is the
healthiest of our large towns the average rate
of deaths in seven years, ending with 1857, was
24.07 in 1,000. In Birmingham it was 26.79 ; in
Manchester, 31.48 ; in Liverpool, 32-73. In this
town of Liverpool the population, if unsupplied
from elsewhere, would in a single generation be
considerably reduced. Yet the deaths-rates show
some improvement ; in ten years, from 1841 to
1850, it was 36 per 1,000 ; it is stated for the last
seven. years to have been under 33 per 1,000.
While this great mortality has been proceeding
almost unchecked, it has been ascertained that there
are means, simple in their nature, practicable in
application, moderate in their cost, which would
very much lessen this frightful evil. By an Act of
last session (the Local Government Bill) towns and
corporations have it in their power to use these
means. Undue prejudice and false economy have
long delayed the adoption of the remedies pre-
scribed ; these are—good supply of air and water,
cleanliness, prohibition of • over .crowding, removal
of noxious matter from the streets and houses. Pub-
lic taxes which interfered with these objects—the
tax on windows, the taxes on coals, on candles, and
on soap—have of late years been removed. Heavy in-
deed will be the responsibility of those who, having
the power to procure for themselves and their chil-
dren the conditions of health and strength, in place
of those of disease and death, refuse or hesitate to
adopt the remedies within their reach.- I have
spoken of the different rates of mortality in town
and country. But this is only a part, and not the
strongest part of the case. Feebleness, chronic
disease, want of energy, mental and physical, re-
duce the tone, and I may say deprave the moral
character of our town population. The exciteinent
of drams, the stupor of intoxication, are sought
as a relief from the low spirits engendered in an
Unhealthy atmosphere. Hence quarrelling, strife,
assaults, poverty, and neglect of education for the
ffspring of this degenerate race:' Instead of healthy
parents and robust children fitted' to continue from
generation to generation a- 'mighty governing
people, we may see what Milton has so well
described,—

"All. maladies
Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms
Of heart-sick agony,. all feverous kinds,
COnvulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs."
And we may end with his sublime words—

" Despair
Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch
And over them triumphant Death his dart
Shook, but delayed to strike, tho' oft invoked
With vows, as their chief god and final hope."

There are some general considerations which may
here find their place. We can never expect to raise
Birmingham and Manchester to the conditions -of
life attained by the -healthy parts of Northumber-
land or Sussex. If we enable the population of the
great towns to keep up their numbers, we shall
have done much. The increase must be supplied
by our healthy country villages. The higher
wages of the towns will always attract young men
astlabourers and young women as servants or fac-
tory workers, to supply the demands of increasing
trade and commerce. Emigration at the same time
will drain off the more adventurous parts of our
people. Nor are there wanting in the New World
and at the Antipodes communities where industry
finds its reward, where the hearty meal and the
cordial welcome renew the hospitality, while a
representative assembly and a free press reflect the
liberty of the old country. Proceeding to the fifth
and last department, that of Social Economy, I
recommend to your consideration the important
subject of emigration. The conditions upon which
it can be successfully undertaken, the influence
which it has on the present, and is likely to have
on the future state of this nation, are topics which
require and will obtain the earliest inquiry of my
right hon. friend Sir S. Stephen, the able president
of the department. There is another subject con-
nected with emigratisn and other parts of social
economy which deserves the attention of this de-
partment. The conditions of industral success `in
nations appear to vary from time to time, and to be
subject to periodical changes of great importance
for good or for evil. Thus we find in the " Utopia"
of Sir Thomas More, and other works of his con-
temporaries, that the extension of trade and the
demand for meat in England produced a change of
cultivation which drove many families from their
dwellings. A similar change seems to have taken
place in the same century in Spain. In Scotland
the cessation of the religious disturbances caused by
the Studrts, and the union with England, led to a
complete revolution between the days of Fletcher of
Saltoun, and those of Robertson, the historian.
Lastly, in Ireland the social and political evils which
afflicted that country for a century seem to have
reached a crisis in 1848. The famine of 1847 was a
dispensation of Providence which the care of Govern-
ment could not avert, and could only partially miti-
gate. There have been, however, measures of social
economy adopted by the Legislature, the effects
of which deserve impartial inquiry. One of these
measures was the introduction of a Poor Law, or,
in other words, provision for the starving and
punishment for the professional mendicant. An-
other measure,was the Encumbered Estates Act
introduced by the present Master of the Rolls.
Both thest measures naturally raised a good deal
of opposition at the time of their introduction.
My belief is, however, that, taken together, and
accompanied as they ought to be, and no doubt will
be, by a strict administration of justice, as great a
change *for the better will take place in Ireland as
took place in Scotland between the accession of
William 111. and the close of the following century.
Of one thing we may be confident, that in natural
talents of all kinds, whether for poetry, eloquence,
and the arts of peace, or for the eventful vicissitudes
of war, no people exceed the natives of Ireland.
Happy would it be if that which has hitherto been
the reproach of the empire should become her pride
and her glory. A few words before I have done
on the general objects of our association. Our first
meeting took place under the presidency of Lord
Brougham, who unites in a singular degree the
largest views of political and social science with
the most laborious practical attention to all its de-
tails. While he can survey the whole field of
knowledge with the quick and pervading glance of
a master, he can work at the task before him with
the patient industry of an apprentice. I wish that
we may be able to imitate the spirit, if not attain
to this ability. We are not like some philosophers
of the last century, enamoured of an age of reason
which will never come to pass. Nor do we share
in the dreams of the philanthropists who ten years
ago imagined that if property, and capital, and
competition were put down by authority, the human
race might sit down in happiness and contentment.
Our task is more humble, but, as we conceive, more
in accordance with the decrees of our Divine Crea-
tor. To mankind is allotted labour as its portion
and perpetual inheritance. If any think that he
has nothing to do but to eat, drink, and be merry,
in that very night as fearful a doom may fall upon
upon him as upon the tyrant of old. If any sup-
pose, like the masters of the Roman empire, that
the sword has done its work, and that nothing re-
mains for them but luxurious enjoyment, that very
luxury may revenge the conquered. world. If any
imagine that to them belongs dominion, and that
they may indulge in contempt of the unlettered and
ill-fed multitude, that very multitude may overwhelm
them in bloody and merciless retribution. It is
for us to work as truly as the man who forges the
iron bar, or the woman who works at the factory-
loom. It is for us to endeavour to improve the
laws by which the community is governed. It is
for us to show how education may be extended arid
diffused. It is for us to examine and record what
has been done for the reformation and punishment
of offender% A J. for us to =firm and animate

the efforts which are being made to sustain the
public health, and thereby preserve for this country
her eminence as the home of a vigorous and inde-
pendent race. It is for us to investigate the condi-
tions of the great problems of political economy,
which may often admit of exceptions, but never of
refutations. In so doing we shall but consult the
welfare of the present and future generations; in
so- doipg we shall follow the path traced out for us
by Almighty Benevolence and Almighty Wisdom.
At the conclusion of this address, Lord J. Russell
moved, and Sir J. Pakington seconded, a vote of
thanks to Lord Brougham for his presidency dur-
ing the past year.

MURDER NEAR ROTHERBAM.-EX-
TRAORDINARY STATEMENT BY THE
PRISONER.

On Saturday the inquest on the body of Sally
Hare, who had been murdered by her sweetheart,
John Taylor Whitworth, was held at St. John's,
Laughton-en-le-Morthen, near Rotherham, before
Thomas Badger, Esq., coroner.
The first witness was the mother of the deceased,
who said that her daughter " Sally would have
been 18 years of age this very day."
Mrs. Cuthbert, wife of George Cuthbert, farmer,
St. John's, said the deceased was her servant. The
prisoner (Whitworth) came to her house on the
evening of the 30th of September to see the deceased.
At nine o'clock at night the prisoner and the de-
ceased were together in the brewhouse, and witness
went and asked her if she had nearly done. In a
short time the deceased came into the house, and
witness asked her if the prisoner was going home.
Deceased said she did not wish him to go home, it
was so late, and then asked witness's permission to
sit with him till he was ready to start for home.
Witness said she did not like that, but she would
allow it for once. The deceased and the prisoner
sat by the kitchen fire and took their suppers
together. Witness went to bed about half-past
ten o'clock, and heard nothing more till about two
o'clock on the following morning, when the de-
ceased came running and screaming upstairs, say-
ing, "Oh master, Will has cut my throat ; I'm
dying!" Witness got out of bed, and on getting near
deceased found her covered with blood, which was
streaming from her hands and a wound in the neck.
Witness's husband went for a policeman, and the
manservant was sent for a surgeon. The deceased
said that the prisoner had cut her throat. She was
without bonnet when she came in and her hair was
in great disorder.
Mr. George Cuthbert (husband to the last wit-
ness) corroborated the latter part of her evidence.
He had gone to bed at eight o'clock on the night in
question. He went, along with some of his neigh-
bours, to look for her bonnet, and found it and a
cap and other articles on the common, about 240
yards from the house. He traced blood all the way,
and near where the bonnet was found there were
marks of struggling. _ _

Emanuel Turner corroborated Mr. Cuthbert's
evidence. _ _ _

Henry Sarg_ent, blacksmith, said he found a knife
on Sunday morning last, in John Hibert's field,
about five -yards from the marks of blood and
struggling: It was open, and had some marks of
blood upon it. There was also some hair sticking
to it. _ . _

Thomas Clarke, shepherd in the service of John
Gateford (in whose service
Vesey'lqachin, Esq., of
the prisoner was) said—On Friday the Ist instant,
I met the prisoner in a field belonging to 'my
master. I said to him, "Now, Jack, whre hast
thou been to ?" He said, " I believe I don't know
where I've been." I said, " What hast thou been
doing ?" and he replied, " I don't, know, Clarke,
what I've been -doing." I said, "What do these
police want thee. for '?" and he asked, "Do they
want me ?" I said, " They were inquiring for
thee. What hast thou been doing? Thou has cut
thy throat." He replied, " Yes, and the girl's too."
Witness took him to the farm, and as they were going
the prisoner asked him if he had seen the girl. I
replied, " I have not ;'' and he said, " Clarke' what
am Itodo ?" When witness met with him he was
without a cap, afid his hair was hanging over his
eyes ; his clothes- were very wet, and. there was
blood upon his breast, which appeared to have come
from his own throat. His right jacket sleeve ap-
peared to have been washed up to the shoulder, and
the left one up to the elbow. About eight or nine
days before this the pHs-eller asked witness if sheep
salve and the stuff with which they "dipped" the
sheep were poison, and on being told that they
were he asked how much it would take to poison
anyone. On the morning of the 30th ult. the salve
tin and some salve were missing, as was also some
of the " dip." "
John Copley, coachman, and William Holmes, in
the service of Mr. Machin, said the cap produced
was very like the one .the prisoner usually wore.
Superintendent Cheadle received the prisoner in
charge at the Worksop police station, on the Ist
inst. He charged him "With cutting and wounding,
with intent to murder (at that time the deceased
was alive), Sally Hare. He replied, "Ha ! I know
there is such a girl." The next day witness asked
him if the knife which was taken from him was
his, and he replied, " Yes; but that's not the knife.
She got the knife away from me."
Superintendent Gillett—l accompanied the Hon.
and Rev. Wm. Howard, resident magistrate, on
the Ist inst., from Rotherham to the house of George
Cuthbert. We saw the deceased in bed in a room
there. She appeared to be very ill. Mr. Howard
spoke to her, told her that she was in great danger,
and that she might die in a few hours. He desired
her to tell the truth about her throat being cut,
then swore her, and took down the deposition
which I hold in my hand. He took her statement
down in writing, and attached her mark to the
document, as she was unable to write in conse-
quence of the injuries on her fingers. Her statement
contained the following facts :—" The prisoner and
I have kept company for about three years. Last
night, the 30th of September, he came to see
me. My. mistress went to bed, and left -us up
together in the kitchen. My master went to bed
about eight o'clock. The prisoner and I sat quietly
together till about one o'clock, and no angry words
passed between us. About one he left the
house to start for home, and asked me to accompany
him a short distance. It was a beautiful starlight
night, and I consented. We left the house to-
gether, and got as far as the little common. He
then accused me of going with another young man,
whose name,he did not mention. We had some
words about it, and he asked me to take poison.
He said, "If you will take some I will take some
too, and we can die together." I said I would not.
He said, "If you don't, I will kill you." I said,
" Though you do kill me I won't take any." Im-
mediately on leaving the house, and before he ac-
cused me of infidelity, he had attempted to take
improper liberties with me. I would not accede to
his proposals, and he then accused me of going with
another man. After I refused to take poison, he
got hold of me, threw me on the ground, put his
knee upon me, pulled out his knife, opened it, and
cut my throat. Before he cut me I implored him
not to kill me; but he put one hand on my mouth,
and with the other cut my throat. I got the knife
out of his hand, and managed to get up, but in the
struggle I cut my hands and fingers very much.
When I had got up he stabbed me in the throat
with the knife, and I got hold of his hair, threw
him backwards, and so managed to escape. When
I was on the ground, and endeavouring to rise, he
stamped upon my head with his foot two or three
times. I ran home ,bleeding all the way, and went
straight to my mistress's bedroom. I said that
Whitworth had murdered me. My mistress got
up, and endeavoured to stop the bleeding with some
cloths ; and I was put to bed, where I have been
ever since. This morning, continued the witness,
I went to the prisoner in the cell, at Rotherham,
and told him he must get washed, as he would have
to go with me to Laughton to attend the inquest on
Sally Hare, whose throat he was charged with
cuttmg. He made no reply ; but, on his way to
Laughton, said he should like to see her. I took
him, and he kissed her three times, and he wanted
to be ]eft with her. He seemed to be very much
affected.
Mr. Latimer, of South Anston, surgeon, said that
he had attended the deceased. She had had her
throat cut, a cut on the chin, cuts on the thumb
and three fingers on the left hand, and also on the
forefinger of the right hand. The left side of her
head and face was swollen. He attended her up
to Wednesday last, and on the following day
(Thursday) she died. Her throat was cut through
the windpipe, and also through the passage leading
into the stomach. The instrument by which the
injury had been inflicted had penetrated to the
vertebrae. He had no doubt death had resulted
from the wound in the throat. He thought that
the wound was a stab wound.
The prisoner, having been duly cautioned by the
coroner, said—The girl went out with me from the
house, and we went together as far as we had often
gone before, and then we stopped for a short time.
She asked me when I was going with her to the
feast at Tattershall Thorpe, and I said I thought
there was no good in my going there and that she
did not want me. She said if I did not care for
her she did not care for me. I said we have not
been long together, but I hope to be comfortable.
We got to further words, and I told her I thought
she went with another man. She said before she
would tell me she would lose her life. I said I did
not wish her to go with any one else while she
went with me. I then asked her if she would go
any further, and she said she would not. She said,
"We will part as we have always done before."
She then told me to sit down, and she would sit on
my. knee. I sat down, with my feet in the hollow
of the ground, and she sat on any knee. When she