The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-15 00:00:00

witnes; had iu Septembee seen all the meat brought
every day, and if she Lad Lever seen any legs of
mutton. She answered that she had not• seen all
the meat every day, as, besides being cook, she had
assist in the laundry, and the legs she had seen she had
roasted fir his table. She could swear that the legs
of mutton were not cooked for the sick. She knew
that the master, the matron, the porter, the master's
five children, witness's child,. and.the two servants
of the master were all supplied from his table. Some
of the sick, too, bad meat from the master's table.
When persons in the infirmary were unable to cat
the infirmary food, said by Sargent to be ordered
by the doctor, they had meat from the master's
table. She did not know that the doctor had or-
dered " No. 2" diot with the understanding that the
patients so ordered should have any little " tid-bits"
from the master's table. Witness's child was sup-
plied by the master from his table, because she was
too ill to eat the house food. In answer to further
questions put by the last master she said she had
been turned out of the
,infirmary, where she was
" helper," and she and, lier child left the work-
house. The witness allowed that she had quarrelled
with the late paid nurse, who, she. said, used to get
drank, and after resigning one week was re-elected
with £5, a year more salary. Soon after this the
late nurse went out on the Saturday and came back
on the Monday drunk. Witness complained to the
late matron of ,the nurse's ribose, and-tbe-nurse was
discharged. Witness paid -34., never sold any of the
patients' food or bought any ; but she hal been
accused of doing so by Dr. Powell, who had dis-
charged her from the infirmary on that account.
She had, she said, called the attention of her ques-
tioner, the late master, to the filthy state of the
larder, the floor of which only had been cleaved some
days before.
Dr. W. E. Powell, the medicalofficer of the work-
house, was then called. He said he took office June
3, 1864. His salary was £55 per annum, with the
usual extra fees. He found all the drugs, except
quinine, disinfecting fluid, cod-liver oil, and hydro-
chloric acid. In March last he received a gratuity
from the guardians of £l5 in consideration of the
increase of patients, there having been an increase
of 26 per cent. The greatest number of patients he
had bad under his charge at one time was, he
thought, between 70 and 80 ; the average was 55.
He was in the house, visiting it daily for between an
hour and a half and two hours, when the Lancet
commissioners came, and he went over the house with
them. He was in utter ignorance of its being con-
templated to pay such a visit to this house, and he
had never written a line or taken any steps what-
ever to get them down. When they sent their cards
in to the master that 'official was going to serve din-
ner, and as that was the case witness went round
with the Commissioners. The first place visited was
the female upper syphilitic ward, where there were
seven patients. He had had 12 syphilitic patients in
the upper ward, 10 in the lower, and 7 in the fever
wards, besides three infants. The wards he described
were lighted and ventilated as stated in the Lancet.
The witness went on generally to confirm the truth
of this picture, but he said the water-closet to the
upper ward was inside instead of outside, and he
could not define the lavatory as " miserable," but it
was generally dirty. The paupers, he allowed, had
to " do for" each other in the matter of attendance.
He had known ill effects from the nurse not being
in the wards, and he went on to narrate an instance

A girl was in a dying state, and a pauper inmate
had to wait upon her. A hot brick was placed in the
bed to warm the girl's feet, and the hat of the brick
was such that the bed and bedding were, sot on fire,
and the girl died from the shock before the nurse
got there. The other inmates did not notice the
girl's dying ; but they were attracted by the
smell of the fire, and they found her dead. Her
feet were Lund to be scorched. There was no inquest
by the Coroner, but a Poor Law inquiry was held
on the cause, and the guardians in Feb., 1866, made
a minute that they were of opinionlre sick wards
should not be left so long without the presence of
a nurse.

After the inquiry had lasted nearly eight hours ,
the proceedings were again adjourned, and will be
continued this morning (Friday) at half-past 9 a.m.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 14.

The prisoner Augustine Costello was again placed
at the bar in the Commission Court yesterday, and
indicted on the charge of treason-felony. He was
represented by the same counsel who defended him
after his first trial, and has no reason to regret that
he did not follow the course taken by some of his
confederates in attempting to conduct his own de-

fence. Already counsel for the Crown experiences
the difficulty of pushing up a case which has once
been rolled back upon them by the failure to reach
a verdict. Before a jury was sworn to try the pri-
soner, Mr. Heron handed in a plea on his behalf,
which raised two questions. One of these may give
some trouble to a court of appeal. It raised the
question that the jury on the first trial was im-
properly discharged. The other point was that one
of the jurors, who is a Q taker, had not been sworn
on the Holy Evangelists, but only declared and
affirmed. The Attorney-General urged that the plea
should not be received. As regarded the swearing
of the juror, he thought the objection wholly unten-
able, and one which should not have been brougbt
before the Court at all. With respect to the dis-
charge of the jury, he submitted that it was a matter
within the discretion of the Court. The fact was
upon the record, and he thought that was sufficient
in case of appeal. He citied authorities. Mr. Heron
referred to the ruling of the judge in the case of the
" Queen v. Newton," which was tried three times
at the Shropshire assizes in 1819, to the effect that
the plea was a good one, and that the proper time
to raise the objection was before a second jury was
sworn. Mr. Justice Keogh said the Chief Baron
concurred with him in opinion that the case was
directly in point, and that the plea ought to be
received. The Attorney-General demurred, and
after argument the Court gave judgment for the
Crown. A jury was then sworn and the trial pro-
ceeded. The Attorney-General, in stating the case
.for the prosecution, narrated the facts of
the Jacknell expedition, and submitted that
of the jury believed the story there was but one
issue to try—viz., whether the prisoner took part in
it. Corydon repeated the evidence which ho gave
on the first trial. He was cross-examined as to some
additional circumstances which he now mentioned,
but did not state before. In answer to one question
ho said he had lost £lBO by the Fenian organisation.
Ile had saved that sum while in the American army,
and gave it to Col. Kelly, at his lodgings opposite
Philsborough Chapel, in presence of John Nolan
and Col. Burke, who is not yet arrested, and of
Gen. Halpin, the last prisoner tried. He got a re- •
ceipt for it, signed " T. J. Kelly, for Jag. Stephens."
Ile forgot to mention Kelly at the last trial. He
lately met by accident a man in London who took
him to a Fenian meeting, where money was raised
for the defence of the Manchester prisoners. Never
saw the man before. At this stay of the trial the
Court was adjourned until this morning.
An amusing incident occurred yesterday in the
head police-office. A boy, named Convill, an ap-
prentice to a chimney sweeper, was charged with
attempting to commit a felonious assault on his
master's daughter. The charged was proved, and he
was sentenced to be imprisoned for 14 days and
kept to bard labour. While awaiting the arrival of
the police van which was to bring him to gaol ho
was placed in a room at the basement story of the
court, which is used as a lock up, and there left in
company with other prisoners, it was supposed, in
safe custody. Scarcely, however, had the key been
turned in the door, when, turning to account his
professional skill, he plunged into the chimney,
ascended the flue with amazing agility, and getting
across the roof descended another chimney and made

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. good his escape. His fellow prisoners gazed in
envious admiration, and bore without a murmur the
murky shower which came down en theduriag hiii-3
flight. The expression of disappointment in the face
of the constable in charge when he found that his
vigilance had been baffled would have formed an
interesting study for an artist.
The half-yearly meeting of the City of Dublin
Steam Packet Company was held yesterday at their
offices, Eden-quay, Mr. W. Watson in the chair.
The report of the directors, which was inn tiiimously
adopted, stated that the new steamer liillare, which
had been built by the Messrs. Laird fur the Liver-
pool traffic, was of f ,riling the utalost s itisfac:i in.
Another vessel, which is to be canc.! the Mullingar,
is in course of construction by Al ,ssrs. Walpole,
Webb, and Bewley, of-this city, and will be launched
in a few days. The Dublin Port and Docks Board,
in the c )nstitution of which the company li ts- taken
an active interest, will commence its Iltuies in,
January next. The directors anticipate that it
will fully recognise t11:3 importance of the :Amu in-
terest. A •protracted correspondence has taken
place with the Mersey Docks and harbour 13oara
respecting an increased tariff of rates sought to be
levied on goods conveyed in the company's vessels.
The directors object to the scale, but aro willing .
to submit to an equitable arrangement. A para-
graph of special importance in the report recom-
mended the repurchase of the re leemable shares of
the Steam Shipbuilding Company, the rate of in-
terest on which is quite beyond the present value of
money. The directors suggest that, if it be neces-
sary to apply to Parliament for a new Act, power
might be taken to limit the number of directors.
The mail service has been maintained with undi-
minished speed and regularity, and the Lords of the
Treasury have at length acceded to the application
of the company for increased accommodation at
Holyheacl,,to enithle them 4.1) keep- the hill% of the
vessels properly cleaned. - -fili: dividend-was declared
at the rate of 3 per cent., free of income-tax, out of
the profits of the company for the half-year, after
an allocation-of 1 per cent. to augment the Parlia,
mentary contingency fund. .
An explosion of gas took place this morning at 9
o'clock in the Clerk of the Peace's office, situate in
a part of the Court-house, in Green-street, occu-
pied by jurors and Crown witnesses. 'rhe gas had
accumulated during the night, and exploded when a
woman came to light the fire. The roof was shat...
terod, windows blown out, and furniture smashed
in an adjoining room where jurors had slept. They
were then at breakfast, and no one was injured.
The occurrence was accidental.
Costello's trial has not yet finished.

The following telegram has been received at the
Irish-office :

" Sir Thomas Larcom, Dublin, to the Earl of

Mayo, London.

"Explosion of gas in Court-house, Green-street,
Some injury to the building. No person injured.
You may hear this attributed to other causes, for
which there is no foundation."

FURTHER ADVEA77'URES OP THE

FEMALE BARMAN.

In the early part of September last a person who
gave the name of Charles Arnold applied to Mr.
Durdle, superintendent of police on the Great Wes-
tern Railway, Paddington, for a situation as super-
numerary porter, and as business was brisk at the
time, and the credentials produced of a first class
character, the person was at once set to work to
assist in unloading waggons at the goods station,
and remained at this employment until Wednesday
last, when the person complained of being taken
seriously ill, and was in consequence allowed to go
home, and was put to bed. The landlady of the
house was under the impression that a mustard
plaster on the chest would benefit her lodger, pre-
pared one, and took it to her lodger's bedroom, and
finding that the lodger was fast asleep, she unbut-
toned the shirt front to enable her to put on the
plaster, when to her wonderment she discovered
that the railway porter was a woman. The lodger
was awakened, and, after a hurried explanation had
been given the landlady was induced to give a pro-
mise not •.o divulge sex of her lo•lger, the latter
having decamped at an early hour on Thursday
morning, t..kin,Avith_tier a pass-ticket and several
articles of clothing belonging to other railway por.
ters lodging in the same house. Since then in-
quiries have been made respecting the antecedents
of this pseudo Charles Arnold, and it is found that
she is no other than the notorious Mary Ann Walker,
" the female barman," who figured in a police-court
a few months ago on a charge of purloining money
from her master's till, and on being convicted was
sentenced to a term of hard labour at the House of
Correction, and subsequently sent to the Elizabeth
Fry Refuge, Hackney,
where
she appears to have
caused great excitement among the inmates by re-
presenting herself to be a man, and she was ejected
from the establishment as being incorrigible. After
leaving there she found her way to a Mrs. Saint,
who keeps a wardrobe shop at 59, Carlisle-street,
Lisson-grove, telling her she had run away from the
above institution in consequence of the ill-treatment
she had experienced there, and a few days
in she obtained the situation of porter n the
manner above referred to, but it is not known from
whom she got the testimonials as to character.
During the period of her employment on the Great
Western Railway it is said she was always the first
iu the gang of porters to begin work, and the last
to leave off. She was invariably civil and obliging,
and always conducted herself with propriety. She
evinced a great antipathy to practical joking, and
frequently threatened her fellow-porters to report
them for misconduct if they ventured to
larking with her. The following are some parti-
culars of her history :
Her father had been a publican, but was now
dead. Shortly after leaving boarding-school she
took to wearing male habiliments. Soon afterwards
she left home, and the next that was heard of her
was her fulfilling the situation of porter at Jesus
College, Cambridge, where her sex was discovered,
and from which place she absconded. She then
turned up as a " booking-clerk," employed by the
Loudon and North-Western Railway Company, at
their station at Birmingham ; and from which situ-
ation she was discharged on account of her getting
drunk. After an interval of several months, during
which she was employed in a very subordinate posi-
tion on one of the Cunard line of steamers, she
appeared as an engine-cleaner on the Great Nor-
thern Railway, at King's-cross, and this situation
she abruptly left on account of her behaviour
having excited the suspicion of her companions. She
next appeared as the "Female Barman." Both
her parents are dead, but she has two sisters living,
both holding responsible situations, one as house-
keeper in a nobleman's establishment, the other as
governess in a gentleman's family at Cambridge.
Her aunt, who is a highly-respectable lady, residing
in Chapel-street, Belgravia, has made repeated but
ineffectual attempts to reclaim her. To those who
are acquainted with her secret she is fond of relat-
ing her many adventures, but to others she adopts
a reticence amountiug, to moroseness. Nothing is
yet known of her present whereabouts, but In-
spector Acason, of the Great Western Railway.
Company's police, is on her track, and if he suc-
ceeds in apprehending her she will be charged with
felony, and also with obtaining a situation under
false pretences.

WOLF HUNTING IN FRANCE.—Acccunts from
Kergouet, in the Morbihan, state that wolves had been
lately committing great ravages ou the farms in that
neighbourhood, and that in consequence several battues
were ordered. The first day a she wolf and two cubs were
killed by the peasants armed with pitchforks, but an old
male, known to have committed great destruction in the
commune, escaped. Two days later a farmer going out
early in the morning noticed a fresh track, and immediately
gave an alarm. All the young men in the village imme-
diately gave chase, and surrounding a thicket iu which they
supposed the animal to be, succeeded in killing what turned
out to be the old wolf which they had lost on the former
occasion. Shortly after six cubs fell into the hands of the
huntsmen, four of which were instantly despatched, and
the other two preserved with the intention of training them
for the chase. Wild boars are also numerous in the same
district, and hunting has already commenced. Six have
been killed, but ono of them managed to severely wound
one of the huntsmen, ripping up his thigh and breast. The
man's life, however, is not in danger.